Despite the World Series of Poker being underway, The Borgata Summer Open has brought some welcome action into Atlantic City and its championship event, which began Friday, has drawn a pretty respectable field.

The championship attracted 321 players and has a prize pool of $642,000, easily outdistancing the $500,000 guarantee. The event has a $2,000 + $200 buy in.

Still, The Borgata’s Spring Open championship event attracted 383 players for a higher buy-in of $3,300 and the summer open has not seen many name pros in the poker room.

But for local players and regional pros, the action has been pretty good.

Going into today’s Day 3 action, 48 players remain in the championship, competing for an about $180,000 top prize.

According to The Borgata, “The chip lead exchanged hands throughout Day 2 with no less than a half dozen players holding the top spot, but nobody finished with a monster stack. When the dust settled, it was Tyng Low (Queens, NY) leading the way with 567,900, as 13 players have more than 300k.” The top 36 players cash in the event. Play resumes at 11am today (June 28).

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Here are the chip leaders:

1. Tyng Low 567,900
2. Mike Melkerson 526,800
3. Jim Ostrander 474,800
4. Daniel Fischer 452,400
5. Jay Johnson 435,000
6. Dean Potashner 416,400
6. Todd Geddis 409,000
7. Ed Corrado 315,000
8. Josh Speigelman 379,100
9. Jia Liu 337,100
10. Sean Knitter 312,900

Tags: Atlantic City Poker Tournaments, The Borgata poker, The Borgata Summer Poker Open

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