Gavin Griffin(credit: World Poker Tour)
Gavin Griffin made history when he won the WPT Borgata Winter Open at the end of January. The pink-haired lad became the first player to hold a WSOP bracelet, a WPT championship and an EPT Main Event win. However, Griffin’s win wasn’t the end of the Borgata Winter Poker Open. Three events were still undecided as the WPT’s TV cameras headed out of the New Jersey casino.
We’ve got the results here for you.
224 entrants made it to Event #14 at the WPT Winter Poker Open at the Borgata. The final table was full of East Coast players, most of them hailing right across the George Washington Bridge in New York. Ronald Rhoads of Douglassvilla, Pennsylvania, took the title and the lion’s share of the $224,000 prize pool home with him.
Here are the results:
1) Ronald Rhoads - $67,200
2) Michael Cervone - $38,080
3) Michael Shammas - $20,944
4) Joseph Digiacomo - $15,680
5) David Rastelli - $13,440
6) Michael Huguenot - $11,200
7) Joanne Monteavaro - $8,960
8) Dave Davenport - $6,720
9) George Kempinski - $4,480
The Beast, aka Emad Alabsi, rose to the top of the heap in the fifteenth event at the World Poker Tour’s Borgata Winter Open. Alabsi, who emerged victorious in Event #12, claimed his second title of the tournament series, adding more than $50k to his ¾ of a million lifetime tournament earnings to date.
Alabsi defeated 376 other players en route to the title. Each put down their $500 to play in the No Limit Hold’em competition.
These are the final standings:
1) Emad Alabsi - $54,665
2) Namit Patel - $31,668
3) Eric Stephens - $15,645
4) Jovan Cooper - $13,195
5) Bobby Trinh - $11,310
6) Mark Tomasko - $9,425
7) Scott Jackson - $7,540
8) Daniel Fusco - $5,656
9) James Sivolella - $3,771
602 players came out to bid farewell to the Borgata Winter Poker Open on January 29, 2008. They put their $300 in to play Event #16, the last event of the successful tournament series. With a total prize pool of $180,600 up for grabs, it was no surprise to see Justin Peckholdt in the thick of things. Peckholdt, a resident of Babylon, New York, took the top spot in the first event of the series as well as the $93,000 plus that went along with it. This time, he finished in tenth place, narrowly missing the final table and adding $2,347 to his coffers.
Scott Permann of Tampa, Florida, in his first tournament outing, won the day and the $50,098 for first place.
These are the final standings:
1) Scott Permann - $50,098
2) Kerry Small - $27,090
3) Nicholas Jankowski - $13,996
4) Michael Caruso - $12,190
5) Damon Ferrante - $10,384
6) David McDonald - $8,578
7) Gina Saldino - $6,772
8) James Adam Matz - $4,967
9) Jason Min - $3,613