"spinach_kale" Wins Borgata Spring Poker Open Online Series Event #3: $15,000 GTD PLO 6-Max Rebuy
The 2020 Borgata Spring Poker Open Online Series saw its first high-stakes Omaha champion crowned in Event #3: $15,000 GTD PLO 6-Max Rebuy, where "spinach_kale" topped a field of 48 entries to take home the first-place prize of $6,300.
A late registration and rebuy period of more than two-and-a-half hours was available, ultimately closing with 60 rebuys that were punctuated by 22 add-ons from the 28 players still in contention when the add-on period closed.
From there, it took less than an hour for the tournament to reach two tables and under 90 minutes for the final table of six to be reached. However, only five paid and "tc_ownz" wound up becoming the sixth-place finisher after being eliminated by "MattEMenz" via straight-over-straight.
"Jaggyboy13" and "dhimp20" then fell in succession to Anthony "Flawlessbinkage" Maio, who took a sizeable chip lead into three-handed play. "spinach_kale" was third in chips but pulled even with "MattEMenz" and ultimately knocked him out after hitting the nut flush on the river against "MattEMenz's" set of queens.
Maio took the chip lead into the heads-up match and pulled away briefly, but then lost momentum as "spinach_kale" was able to claw back over the course of about 15 minutes, ultimately gaining the chip lead and never looking back from there.
"spinach_kale" is no stranger to the poker world, both online and live, with over $7 million in live winnings going back to 2006 and an online history predating that.
Event #1 Final Reuslts
Place | Player | Prize |
---|---|---|
1 | "spinach_kale" | $6,300 |
2 | Anthony "Flawlessbinkage" Maio | $3,600 |
3 | MattEMenz | $2,250 |
4 | dhimp20 | $1,612.50 |
5 | Jaggyboy13 | $1,237.50 |