2005 Borgata Poker Open | WPT Season 4 Tournament Results

2005 Borgata Poker Open
World Poker Tour Season 4
Tournament Results

World Poker Tour Season 4
2005 Borgata Poker Open
Main Event No Limit Hold'em
Final Results

September 22, 2005
Borgata Poker Open/WPT Season 4
Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa
Atlantic City, New Jersey

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Prize Pool:
Entries:

Al Ardebili

Place	Name	Prize
1	Al Ardebili (Jersey City, New Jersey)	$1,498,650
2	Ricardo Q. Festejo (Margate, New Jersey)	$799,280
3	Kathy Liebert (Las Vegas, Nevada)	$427,115
4	John D'Agostino (Seymour, Connecticut)	$349,685
5	Robert Hwang (Clark, New Jersey)	$299,370
6	David Singer (Mamaroneck, New York)	$249,775
7	JC Tran (Sacramento, California)	$199,820
8	Greg Fondacaro (Sewell, New Jersey)	$149,865
9	Sidney Miller (Wynecote, Pennsylvania)	$99,910
10	Ying Lin	$64,942
11	Evelyn Ng (Las Vegas, Nevada)	$64,942
12	Robert Chason	$64,942
13	Carmine Tirone	$49,995
14	Karlo Lopez (San Juan, Puerto Rico)	$49,995
15	Surinder Sunar (Wolverhampton, United Kingdom)	$49,995
16	David Pham (Cerritos, California)	$34,969
17	Tom Martelli (Sewell, New Jersey)	$34,969
18	Thomas Coan (Hauppauge, New York)	$34,969
19	Fran Caldwell (Lexington, Kentucky)	$24,978
20	Richard Kirsch (Ft. Lauderdale, Florida)	$24,978
21	Thomas Schreiber (Danielson, Connecticut)	$24,978
22	Steven Rosen (Armonk, New York)	$24,978
23	John Whiting	$24,978
24	Ari Abramowitz	$24,978
25	Luke Chung	$24,978
26	Steve Kingsley (New York, New York)	$24,978
27	John McCann (Boothwyn, Pennsylvania)	$24,978
28	Neal Gersony (Rocky Hill, Connecticut)	$14,987
29	Erick Lindgren (Las Vegas, Nevada)	$14,987
30	John "Tex" Barch (McKinney, Texas)	$14,987
31	Clonie Gowen (Garland, Texas)	$14,987
32	Herbert Cheng (New York, New York)	$14,987
33	Charles Furey (Bridgewater, New Jersey)	$14,987
34	Johnathan Gordon	$14,987
35	Mohamed Kamalzadeh	$14,987
36	Eric Haber (Syosset, New York)	$14,987
37	Edwin Ting	$12,489
38	Barry Greenstein (Rancho Palos Verde, California)	$12,489
39	Thomas Koral (Skokie, Illinois)	$12,489
40	Mike Stonehill (Stafford, Virginia)	$12,489
41	Josh Arieh (Atlanta, Georgia)	$12,489
42	Robert Winters	$12,489
43	Doug Johnson	$12,489
44	Mark Matheys	$12,489
45	David Levi (Las Vegas, Nevada)	$12,489

Notes: Winner receives $25,500 entry into WPT Championship

Tournament Report

Al Ardebili Captures World Poker Tour Title at Borgata Poker Open

ATLANTIC CITY, NJ (September 23, 2005) - Six players entered the Borgata
Event Center last night, one left a champion. The marquee event of the 2005
Borgata Poker Open lived up to its hype and supplied spectators with some
of the most intriguing poker play on the WPT to date.

Jersey City's Al Ardebili captured the title and first-place prize of $1,498,650
after he beat Margate, N.J.'s Richard Festejo in the final hand. Both New
Jersey natives won their buy-ins into the WPT finals via Borgata Super
Satellite tournaments earlier this month, after participating in $300 and
$1000 events respectively. Taking an enormous chance, Festejo risked his
chip stack on a bluff with only a seven and eight of hearts and was quickly
rebuffed when Ardebili called with his ace of hearts and nine of spades.
Unfortunately for Festejo, who had started the final table with the shortest
stack, neither the flop, turn, or river offered any help and Ardebili eliminated
him with only ace high. Festejo earned $799,280 for finishing second.

Kathy Liebert reached the highest spot for the ladies finishing third and
collecting a cool $427,115. She was joined in the money by fellow female
standouts Evelyn Ng, who finished 11, and Clonie Gowen, who finished 31.

Celebrities, poker stars, and local “home-game heros,” all saw action on a
level playing field at the 2005 Borgata Poker Open, as players came from all
over the world for a chance at the WPT title.

WPT announcer and star player in his own right, Mike Sexton, applauded
Borgata and explained that the property has the key ingredients to make the
perfect mix of atmosphere and great game play that has become the calling
card of Borgata.

“Borgata is the perfect fit for the WPT because a: it's a very classy and
elegant casino property, b: it's the finest property in Atlantic City, and c: the
WPT truly has the greatest venues in the game and its only fitting that our
east coast stop, here in Atlantic City is Borgata.”

With almost double the players of last year's series, the 2005 Borgata Poker
Open broke attendance records and rewarded more money than previous
Borgata Poker Open events. The WPT main event, featuring a prize pool of
over $5 million, was the biggest tournament in Atlantic City's history. The
series also featured a 500-player Ladies Only event.

Next year's Borgata Poker Open will be held in the casino-hotel's expanded
85-table poker room, part of a $200 million expansion project which will
provide guests more gaming space, dining options and entertainment
experiences, expected to debut in spring of 2006.

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