January 29 2013, by Jennifer Newell
WPT Borgata Main Begins; Ivey Adds Another
WPT Borgata Main Event in Motion
After a series of preliminary events, the Borgata Winter Open partnered with the World Poker Tour to host the Main Event. The $3,500 buy-in with reentries guaranteed a $2 million prize pool and kicked off with the first of two starting days on January 27.
Day 1A brought 397 players into action, though only 209 survived the day. Luis Vasquez was in the chip lead with 182,075 chips, and players like Jason Koon and Matt Matros were also included in the top five.
Day 1B added another 645 entries, making for a total of 1,042 and prize pool of $3,335,442. That was enough to set up payouts for the top 100 players and set aside more than $730K for the ultimate winner.
Information courtesy of the World Poker Tour live updates.
IveyPoker Adds Yet Another
The roster of instructional pros at IveyPoker continues to grow as another professional player has been added. Aaron Jones, formerly of LeggoPoker, joins other new recruits like Dan Smith and Andrew Lichtenberger on the site owned by Phil Ivey.
No new launch date for the site has been announced.
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Jennifer Newell fell in love with poker while working for the World Poker Tour in Los Angeles. She left the company to live as a freelance writer with a heavy concentration on the poker world. It is not often that she travels to poker tournaments and less often that she plays the game, but she can always be found reading and writing about poker. You can find her on her FreelanceWriterJen Facebook page or @WriterJen on Twitter.
