Event 1 Champion: Will "the Thrill" Failla

$500 +$60 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)

Will Failla (Smithtown, NY)
  $165,053

Just 5 months after his WPT win in Los Angeles, local legend and East Coast tournament veteran Will "the Thrill" Failla finds himself in the Winner's Circle once again.

"He dodged the land mines and got value when he had the best hand," said one of his tablemates.

Failla, one of the poker good guys, takes home $165,053 and the Borgata trophy for winning the first event of the Borgata Winter Poker Open.