Roy Winston Wins Borgata!!
 

Amateur Roy Winston, Los Angeles, just took down the Main Event at Borgata and over 1.5 million, besting a field of 560. Roy is the new High Limit, No-Limit Host at the Bicycle Casino in Bell Gardens, and this is his 2nd major cash, having won over $330,000 for a 26th place finish at WSOP Main Event. Congratulations Roy!

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Any idea if he bought in or won a seat? If it's the latter then he may have been the guy that busted me in the $1,000 super on Saturday night when he sucked out like a champ. I saw his pic on Cardplayer, looked a lot like him.


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As far as I know, he bought in, but I couldn't be positive. He has $$$$ so he doesn't usually play the sats, and is planning on playing all of the WPT events, one way or the other. I believe he flew in Sarturday so it would have been tough to hit the sats after an all day of travel.

After following the action on the final table and the whole of the 4th day, there were suck outs after suck outs, by everyone. Skill may get you there, it is luck that will carry you through. You can't always dodge the 2 or 3 outer.

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He won a seat in the $2000 Saturday's mega satellite. I was playing with him the majority of the satellite. I remember he commented to his friend that he had a good feeling for this tournament. I guess he was right on!

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was down at borgata the day they played down to the final table..the epic 7>6 bubble..roy was more composed than everyone else at the table and frankly i am not surprised he came out on top..surprised that the fella that came 2nd made it that far..credit to him for hanging in with great players

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I heard top 3 guys didnt tip anything. hahahha

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I heard top 3 guys didnt tip anything. hahahha

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kind of strange considering the juice was only 3 points

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No money was withheld for dealer tips, i tipped the dealers as well as the tourney directors seperately. Not sure what the top 2 guys did.

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He won a seat in the $2000 Saturday's mega satellite. I was playing with him the majority of the satellite. I remember he commented to his friend that he had a good feeling for this tournament. I guess he was right on!

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He also beat me HU in a $1k single table satellite. Seemed like a nice enough guy. Also, I'm pretty sure he was once married to poker beauty, Julie McQueen.

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I noticed this and thought I would answer. I won a seat in the $2,000 mega and two single table sats.

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I noticed this and thought I would answer. I won a seat in the $2,000 mega and two single table sats.

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Roy,
Can you comment on swirling rumors that you were married to Julie McQueen?

SS

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Did he say funny quotes from Sexy Beast afterwards?

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Here's Cardplayer's report on the FT.

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confirm you are actually roy??

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BTW, this is the same Roy Winston who was shown in the WSOP ME last night (ep. 11 or 12)? The anesthesiologist.

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This is sick: For a second I thought these were the payouts.

Seat No. 1: Heung “Scott” Yoon — $3,090,000

Seat No. 2: Roy Winston — $5,355,000

Seat No. 3: Haralabos Voulgaris — $1,465,000

Seat No. 4: Mark Weitzman — $1,750,000

Seat No. 5: Mike Matusow — $2,965,000

Seat No. 6: Eugene Todd — $2,190,000

They were just the starting stacks.

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BTW, this is the same Roy Winston who was shown in the WSOP ME last night (ep. 11 or 12)? The anesthesiologist.

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This is sick: For a second I thought these were the payouts.

Seat No. 1: Heung “Scott” Yoon — $3,090,000

Seat No. 2: Roy Winston — $5,355,000

Seat No. 3: Haralabos Voulgaris — $1,465,000

Seat No. 4: Mark Weitzman — $1,750,000

Seat No. 5: Mike Matusow — $2,965,000

Seat No. 6: Eugene Todd — $2,190,000

They were just the starting stacks.

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That's a big reason why chip counts should *NOT* include dollar signs.

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I was just over at the Borgata and was told by multiple dealers that the winner of the Main Event left no tip for the dealers. The dealers said that they only ended up making around $10 per hour for the entirety of the Borgata Poker Open.

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I was just over at the Borgata and was told by multiple dealers that the winner of the Main Event left no tip for the dealers. The dealers said that they only ended up making around $10 per hour for the entirety of the Borgata Poker Open.

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At the risk of being a jerk here, the dealers at the Borgata generally sucked, took no pride in their work, and therefore didn't deserve a good wage from what I saw at the BPO. It's only a shame because it will discourage the few good dealers from continuing there, making the problem worse. This is coming from someone who tips the dealers/staff pretty well if they do an even remotely decent job.

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I was just over at the Borgata and was told by multiple dealers that the winner of the Main Event left no tip for the dealers. The dealers said that they only ended up making around $10 per hour for the entirety of the Borgata Poker Open.

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At the risk of being a jerk here, the dealers at the Borgata generally sucked, took no pride in their work, and therefore didn't deserve a good wage from what I saw at the BPO. It's only a shame because it will discourage the few good dealers from continuing there, making the problem worse. This is coming from someone who tips the dealers/staff pretty well if they do an even remotely decent job.

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This was not my experience. I played 6 prelims and the main event, and logged over 60 hours at the tables (I did not play the $2500 or $5000 prelims). Most of the dealers were competent, a few definitely were bad (which I blame on the management, not them, since they obviously just didn't have enough experience to be dealing in events of significance), some were good. I left a decent tip in the one event in which I cashed. And I think I'd have to have dealers openly rooting for bad beats against me to leave $0 out of $1.5 million.