Post by jdaddy on Jan 18, 2008 13:54:58 GMT -4
Borgata Winter Open Sees 1,649 In First Event
BY: KRISTY ARNETT | kristy.arnett@cardplayer.com
PUBLISHED: Thursday Jan 17, 2008 10:58 AM
First Place in Main Event Gets a Harley-Davidson Street Glide Motorcycle
The first event of the Borgata Winter Open followed the trend of opening tournaments attracting huge fields, as it has for the past few years. Event No. 1, a $300 buy-in no-limit hold’em tournament, had a prize pool of almost $495,000 from 1,649 entrants.
Justin Peckholdt from Babylon, New York, won more than $93,000 for first place after defeating Alexander Cukar heads up. Cukar took home just under $70,000 for his efforts.
The Borgata also announced a unique addition to the first-place prize in the $10,000 buy-in World Poker Tour main event, which begins Jan. 27. On top of the prize-money and coveted WPT title, the winner will receive a custom-built Harley-Davison Street Glide motorcycle from Harley-Davidson Millville/Wildwood.
BY: KRISTY ARNETT | kristy.arnett@cardplayer.com
PUBLISHED: Thursday Jan 17, 2008 10:58 AM
First Place in Main Event Gets a Harley-Davidson Street Glide Motorcycle
The first event of the Borgata Winter Open followed the trend of opening tournaments attracting huge fields, as it has for the past few years. Event No. 1, a $300 buy-in no-limit hold’em tournament, had a prize pool of almost $495,000 from 1,649 entrants.
Justin Peckholdt from Babylon, New York, won more than $93,000 for first place after defeating Alexander Cukar heads up. Cukar took home just under $70,000 for his efforts.
The Borgata also announced a unique addition to the first-place prize in the $10,000 buy-in World Poker Tour main event, which begins Jan. 27. On top of the prize-money and coveted WPT title, the winner will receive a custom-built Harley-Davison Street Glide motorcycle from Harley-Davidson Millville/Wildwood.