The field of 1,156 entries at the WPT Borgata Poker Open is down to just 145 players, who are all in the money entering Day 3. WPT Champions Club member Jonathan Jaffe (pictured) is out in front with 1.035 million. Jaffe made Day 2 with a little over the 40,000 starting stack but was forced to re-enter early in the day. After that point, little stood in Jaffe’s way as he climbed to the top of the leaderboard to edge out fellow WPT Champion Victor Ramdin (1.016 million).
“It feels good. It was a good day, I’m definitely [lucky] to have run good all day and run it up,” Jaffe said after bagging.
The day went a little later than expected thanks to an extended bubble that lasted for close to an hour. Eventually, Philip Chin went out on the bubble and the final 145 players locked up at least $5,797.
Joining Jaffe and Ramdin from the WPT Champions Club member side on Day 3 are Andy Frankenberger (566,000), Aaron Mermelstein (411,000), Ryan Van Sanford (365,000), Season XIV WPT Borgata Poker Open winner David Paredes (350,000), Mike Linster (366,000), Asher Conniff (309,000), Season XVI WPT Borgata Poker Open champ Guo Liang Chen (286,000), Jonathan Little (280,000), and Ravi Raghavan (128,000).
WPT Commentator and Champions Club member Tony Dunst (pictured) is on the board in Season XVIII and looking to run up his stack of 314,000.
Other top stacks who advanced are Jean Gaspard (835,00), who made back-to-back top-10s at Borgata in Season XIII and XIV, WPTDeepStacks champion and Season XIII WPT final tablist Justin Liberto (818,000), Season XVII HyperX Esports Arena WPT final tablists Nick Pupillo (782,000) and Ami Alibay (720,000), Season XVII WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open runner-up Dave Farah (670,000), and WPTDeepStacks Player of the Year Scott Baumstein (567,000).
The full list of chip counts can be found here.
Play starts at 12:00 pm local time from Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa in Atlantic City, NJ and is scheduled to play down to the final three tables. All players have their eye set on the first-place prize of $616,186 but there are three more days of poker before that time.
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