Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Event 25 Recap

$350 + $50 + $100 Black Chip Bounty NLH

NY Police Officer Robert Boyko (Yonkers, NY) fires a silver bullet into Kardon "Wolf" Chatman's tournament life and confiscates $20,271 for his first place Event 25 victory.

"I got lucky a few times but I played steady, played the people, and waited for my right moments" explained Boyko of how he just beat out a field of Borgata bounty hunters.

One key to the win came during a three-way all in at the final table. Robert took down a 1.5 million chip pot after his A-4 of diamonds spiked a diamond on the river for the nut-flush ousting 4-4 and 9-8 off. That hand sent 2012 PCA Main Event Champion, John Dibella to the showers for 3rd.

Kardon claimed he had a party to go to so kept shoving all-in pre-flop blind. His insanity worked until it didn't work. Boyko even got into the blind shove act and managed to beat Wolf at his own game.

Robert and wife Suzy are on vacation and said they love Borgata which they call their "home away from home".

This event played side by side to the 2012 Borgata Winter Poker Open Championship in the Borgata Event Center. 199 players battled for the $69,650 Total Buy-In including Joe Boatright, Anthony Caruso, Brian Ali, Lee Kirsch, Gene Castro, and Ryan Eriquezzo.

WSOP bracelet winner Arkadiy Tsinis (Las Vegas, NV) cashed but just missed the final table.
Yorlan Millan flew in from Venezuela, collected six $100 bounty chips, and finished in 8th place for $2,027.

But once again the big winner was Robert Boyko who locked-up Event 25 to the tune of $20,271 along with the engraved trophy.

Final Table Results

Place-Name-Amount

1. Robert Boyko (Yonkers, NY)..................$20,271
2. Kardon "Wolf" Chatman (D.C.)...............$11,148
3. John Dibella (New Rochelle, NY)............$6,418
4. Yorlan Millan (Venezuela)........................$5,405
5. Rocco Ferraro (Brick, NJ).........................$4,054
6. Barbara Rogers (Lock Haven, PA)...........$3,378
7. Craig Stern (Garrison, NY)........................$2,702
8. Josh Supsak (New York, NY)....................$2,027
9. Chuck Ulrich (Cedar Grove, NJ)...............$1,520
10. Boris Genkin (Staten Island, NY)............$1,351

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