Jeff Madsen wins Borgata Winter Open Main Event (Photo courtesy of Borgata)

Nearly a year since his last tournament win Jeff Madsen won the Borgata Winter Open Championship Event. He took down the field of 766 players after securing the chip lead in day 2 and remained near the top of the leaderboard throughout the event. The win boosted his career earnings just over the $3 million mark.

“It feels good,” Madsen says. “It takes a while for it to set in, but in a few days I’ll look back on it. It was a really good tournament.”

Madsen defeated Sirous Jamshidi when play got down to heads up. “I’m happy, but frustrated I couldn’t get any cards” Jamshidi says. “I had no hands, I didn’t have a pocket pair the whole time we played (heads up). I had all low cards.”

Fighting with a short stack and on the wrong side of Lady Luck, Jamshidi committed the rest of his chips with Q 2. After a count Madsen called holding K T. The board ran J 7 6 K T and Madsen’s pair of Kings was good for a $625,006 payday.

The year between tournament wins, “shows me all my hard work is paying off when it comes to working on my game,” Madsen says. “I’ve had success in the past, but it feels good to get these big wins and to continue to prove myself in the poker world.

Madsen started the final table with the first elimination. He took out 9th place finisher Chan Pelton when Pelton’s A T couldn’t find any help against Madsen’s pocket 8 8.

Ross Mallor found his way to the rail when he shipped his short stack in holding K Q. Al Grimes called with A 10 and flopped two pair and eliminated Mallor in 8th place.

Grimes continued with his roll and tripled up in a three-way pot. Dave Fox shoved from UTG, Grimes pushed behind him and Jamshidi called Grimes’ all-in. Fox held Ace 7 offsuit, Grimes held K Q offsuit and Jamshidi tabled K 3. Grimes caught a King on the flop and Queen on the river to eliminate Fox.

Grimes roll wouldn’t last for long as he and Madsen tangled in a blind vs. blind pot. The flop came T 5 T and Grimes bet 300,000 and Madsen called. The turn brought the Q and Grimes check-raised all in after a 750,000 bet from Madsen. Grimes showed J 9 for a straight draw and Madsen was ahead holding 8 T with a set. The river boated Madsen with a 5 and Grimes’ tournament was over.

Nick Kamen’s day came to a close when his A 8 couldn’t outrun Barkley Hamilton’s wired K K and he was eliminated in 5th place.

Hamilton was all but eliminated by Madsen in a hand where Madsen rivered a set of 4s agains Hamilton’s flopped set of 3s. Left crippled he was eliminated on the very next hand when his Q J ran into Jamshidi’s K K.

On the first hand of three-handed play David Marchese opened from the button, Madsen three-bet him and Marchese shoved for 4.6 million. Madsen called with A Q against Marchese’s 9 9. The board ran 7 J Q A T giving Madsen two pair ending Marchese’s tournament.

Borgata Winter Open Championship Event Final Table Payouts

1. Jeff Madsen - $625,006
2. Sirous Jamshidi - $367,794
3. David Marchese - $190,027
4. Barkley Hamilton - $165,508
5. Nick Kamen - $140,988
6. Al Grimes - $116,468
7. David Fox - $91,949
8. Ross Mallor - $67,429
9. Chan Pelton - $49,039

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