$7200 + $300 (NL)
Peters Hoping to Pick a ChampionshipDave Peters (Toledo, OH) and Miguel Borrero (Jersey City, NJ) are at opposite ends of the spectrum heading into the East Coast Championship final table. Peters is the chip leader with 419,500, while Borrero survived the bubble and is 8th out of 9 players with 112,000.
"It feels pretty good," says Peters. "It's a pretty tough field, but today (Wednesday) went pretty well." Peters' big play came midway through Day 2 when he took a 100k+ pot preflop against Scott Blackman (Egg Harbor Twp., NJ).
The hand helped propel Peters to the final table saying, "maybe play will loosen up a little more tomorrow (Thursday) now that no one's worried about cashing."
As for Borrero, he fought tooth and nail to hit the money, starting the day 38th out of 39 players. "I'm Cinderella," says Borrero, who returned for Day 2 with just 7,500. "Nobody gave me a chance, but I told everyone I was going to make the final table."
Other notables in the money include Gavin Smith (Las Vegas, NV) and Taha Maruf (Motijeeh, India). Smith began the day as the chip leader, but is going in the wrong direction with 123,300, 5k less than where he started. Maruf entered the tournament late after finishing 8th in Event 1 (Deep Stack).
The rest of the field is Philip Collins, Sorel Jay Mizzi, Chris Klodnicki and Lee Markholt. Play resumes Thursday at noon with the continuation of Level 13 (1,200/2,400/300 ante).
The average stack is 207k as the remaining players battle for the top prize of $170,313 and are guaranteed at least $14,598.
Borrero Burrows Along
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