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Live: $25,000 WPT World Championship
Upcoming: $100,000 WPT Super High Roller
| Earnings | $222,336 |
| Cashes | 1 |
| Final Tables | 1 |
| Titles | 0 |
| Tournaments Played | 2 |
Est. Current Chipcount
Est. Average Chipcount
31,260,000
Current Chipleader
-
Day 2
338,600
Day 3
883,000
Day 4
3,235,000
Day 4-
4th
Level 34: 100,000-200,000, 25,000 ante
Matt Haugen moves all in under the gun for 2,550,000, and James Anderson calls from the button with K
Q. Haugen turns over Q
J
, and he's dominated as he faces elimination.
The board comes 85228, and Anderson wins the pot with his king kicker to eliminate Matt Haugen in fourth place.
Matt Haugen - Out in 4th Place ($222,336)
Level 34: 100,000-200,000, 25,000 ante
Andy Hwang raises from the small blind to 450,000, and Matt Haugen calls from the big blind. The flop comes QJ2, Hwang checks, Haugen bets 900,000, and Hwang check-raises to 2,250,000.
Haugen moves all in, and Hwang calls all in for about 6.8 million with Q10 (pair of queens). Haugen turns over 104 for a flush draw.
The turn is the 6
, the river is the A, and Hwang wins the pot with his pair of queens to double up in chips.
Andy Hwang - 14,600,000 (73 bb)
Level 34: 100,000-200,000, 25,000 ante
Seat 3: MATT HAUGEN - 3,235,000 (32 bb)
Matt Haugen is a 27-year-old professional poker player from Ann Arbor, Michigan that currently lives in Chicago. He attended the University of Florida before getting into poker. Haugen has $169,485 in prize money and he will surely doubled that number with a cash today. Haugen begins in fourth chip position at the final table. This is his second WPT event and first cash on the tour.
Level 31: 50,000-100,000, 10,000 ante
Andy Hwang min-raises from the cutoff to 200,000, Jeremy Druckman calls from the button, and Matt Haugen reraises from the big blind to 725,000. Hwang folds, and Druckman calls.
The flop comes 874, Haugen bets 800,000, Druckman raises to 1,695,000, and Haugen calls. The turn is the 5, and both players check.
The river is the K, Haugen checks, Druckman bets 1,950,000, and Haugen calls. Druckman shows 99, but Haugen turns over QQ to win the largest pot of the tournament so far -- more than 9 million in chips.
Seat 1. Jeremy Druckman - 2,460,000 (24 bb)
Seat 2. Matthew Salsberg - 3,450,000 (34 bb)
Seat 3. Matt Haugen - 11,240,000 (112 bb)
Seat 4. James Anderson - 6,170,000 (61 bb)
Seat 5. Mike Gogliormella - 1,855,000 (18 bb)
Seat 6. Andy Hwang - 5,785,000 (57 bb)
Level 31: 50,000-100,000, 10,000 ante
Andy Hwang min-raises from the cutoff to 200,000, and Matt Haugen calls from the big blind. The flop comes 974, Haugen checks, Hwang bets 215,000, and Haugen calls. The turn is the 10, Haugen checks, Hwang bets 420,000, and Haugen calls.
The river is the 8, Haugen checks, Hwang bets 920,000, and Haugen calls. Hwang shows A3 for ace high, but Haugen turns over 87 to win the pot with two pairs, eights and sevens.
Level 31: 50,000-100,000, 10,000 ante
Seat 1: Jeremy Druckman - 6,170,000 (61 bb)
Jeremy Druckman is a 22-year-old professional poker player that is quite a long way from home. He is from Portland, Oregon originally, but attended the University of Pennsylvania to study Risk Management and Psychology. He has been playing poker for three years and he has two previous tournament cashes, which both came at the Borgata. The Borgata Winter Poker Open is his first World Poker Tour main event and he has made it a successful one (Druckman is guaranteed at least $147,671). Druckman will have his girlfriend in the crowd supporting him today as he enters the final table in third chip position.
Seat 2: Matthew Salsberg - 1,920,000 (19 bb)
Champions Club member Matthew Salsberg needs very little introduction. He won the WPT Grand Prix de Paris this past fall and he is in the running for WPT Season XI Player of the Year. This will be Salsberg's second WPT final table and his third cash on the tour. In addition to his win in Paris, Salsberg also took 42nd place at the Legends of Poker in Season X. Salsberg is also a Producer and Writer in Hollywood, where he formerly worked on the Showtime comedy Weeds. He has been playing in a lot more poker tournaments since the conclusion of that series and his success rate speaks for itself.
Seat 3: Matt Haugen - 3,235,000 (32 bb)
Matt Haugen is a 27-year-old professional poker player from Ann Arbor, Michigan that currently lives in Chicago. He attended the University of Florida before getting into poker. Haugen has $169,485 in prize money and he will surely double that number with a cash today. Haugen begins in fourth chip position at the final table. This is his second WPT event and first cash on the tour.
Seat 4: James Anderson - 7,830,000 (78 bb)
Jim Anderson enters today’s final table in second chip position. He is a 26-year-old poker professional who has been playing for six years. He is from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and grew up in Ohio. He has over $800,000 in career earnings and his largest previous cash was a first-place finish at a World Series of Poker Circuit regional championship event at the Horseshoe Hammond casino that was good for $525,449. This is his first WPT final table.
Seat 5: Mike Gogliormella - 2,225,000 (22 bb)
Mike Gogliormella is from the Bronx in New York City and he works in Brokerage Operations. Mike has been doing that for the past 14 years but he decided to enter his first World Poker Tour event here at the Borgata Winter Poker Open. He has turned $3,500 into a six-figure score in Atlantic City. He is in fifth chip position at the start of the final table. He is married with two children and earned a degree in Marketing from St. Johns University. The 39-year-old is an active player at the tables that describes his playing style as loose.
Seat 6: Yung "Andy" Hwang - 9,550,000 (95 bb)
Andy Hwang enters the final table with the chip lead, which is a title he has held in this tournament for quite some time. Hwang was a dominant chip leader throughout the play-down day on Thursday and if things go well he could claim the top prize in this tournament worth $730,053. That would top his largest previous cash, which was a fifth-place finish in the World Series of Poker Circuit National Championship in 2012 (good for $103,322). The 27-year-old poker professional from Houston, Texas has $247,099 in career earnings but this is his first WPT cash.
Level 31: 50,000-100,000, 10,000 ante
Hand #106 - Matt Haugen min-raises from UTG+1 to 200,000, Yung Hwang calls from the button, and Cuong Phung moves all in from the small blind for about 970,000. Haugen moves all in over the top, and Hwang folds.
Phung shows 1010, and he'll need it to hold to stay alive against Haugen's AK.
The board comes K4532, and Matt Haugen pairs his king on the flop to win the pot and eliminate Cuong Phung in seventh place on the WPT Final Table bubble.
Cuong Phung - Out in 7th Place ($117,805)
The remaining six players are filling out their WPT bio sheets and verifying their chip counts for tomorrow's WPT Final Table. Action will begin at 1:00 pm ET, and the WPT Live Stream will begin at 1:30 pm ET on a 30-minute delay, with hole cards and commentary.
Stay tuned for official chip counts.
Level 29: 30,000-60,000, 5,000 ante
Hand #40 - Matt Haugen min-raises from late position to 120,000, and Yung Hwang calls from the button. The flop comes A88, Haugen checks, Hwang bets 245,000, and Haugen calls.
The turn card double-pairs the board with the A, Haugen checks, Hwang bets 330,000, and Haugen check-raises to 660,000. Hwang calls.
The river card is the 9, Haugen checks, and Hwang bets 505,000. Haugen folds, and Yung Hwang takes the pot.
Level 28: 25,000-50,000, 4,000 ante
Hand #6 - Jeremy Stein raises from the hijack to 118,000, winning the blinds and antes.
Hand #7 - Matt Haugen raises from the button to 115,000, Jim Anderson reraises from the small blind to 275,000, and Haugen reraises to 500,000.
Anderson five-bets it to 875,000, and Haugen folds. Anderson wins the pot.
Jim Anderson - 2,950,000 (59 bb)
Matt Haugen - 2,295,000 (45 bb)
Hand #8 - Matt Haugen raises form the cutoff to 115,000, and Mike Gogliormella calls from the small blind. The flop comes 10108, Gogliormella checks, Haugen bets 150,000, and Gogliormella calls. The turn is the 4, and both players check.
The river is the Q, Gogliormella bets 600,000, and Haugen folds. Gogliormella takes the pot.
Mike Gogliormella - 3,600,000 (72 bb)
Matt Haugen - 2,025,000 (40 bb)
Hand #9 - Adam Cook moves all in for about 660,000, winning the blinds and antes.
Hand #10 - Yung Hwang min-raises from the button to 100,000, and Cuong Phung calls from the big blind. The flop comes 1085, Phung checks, Hwang bets 107,000, and Phung folds. Hwang takes the pot.
Level 27: 20,000-40,000, 4,000 ante
Mark Sykes raises to 85,000 under the gun and Joe Serock three-bets all in for 572,000 from UTG+1. Matt Haugen, in middle position, four-bet shoves and sucessfully isolates the action.
Serock: 88
Haugen: AK
The board runs out Q54J2 as Serock's eights hold up to win the pot.
Joe Serock - 1,315,000 (32 bb)
Matt Haugen - 2,130,000 (53 bb)
