Carlos Chadha Turns Huge Lead Into Borgata Title
He beat Maxwell Young heads-up after taking a massive stack into the final table of the $2,700 Championship.
Carlos Chadha won the Borgata Summer Poker Open $2,700 Championship title, beating Maxwell Young heads-up for $242,385. The seven-handed finish came from a 565-player field and lasted just over three hours.
According to PokerNews, Chadha entered the final table with 9.52 million chips, more than 40% of the chips in play and nearly three times Young’s 3.45 million. Michael Renna started with 2.795 million, Nicholas Verderamo with 2.63 million, James Tedrow with 1.955 million, Russ Dunlevy with 1.055 million and Andrew Porter with 1.03 million. The seven finalists were already locked into at least $34,620 each from the tournament’s $1.356 million prize pool.
The final table started on Level 28 with blinds of 60,000/120,000 and a 120,000 big blind ante. Levels were set at 60 minutes and then dropped to 30 minutes once play got heads-up, and the updates were matched to a final-table stream on BetMGM’s official YouTube channel on a 30-minute delay.
Andrew Porter was the first player out after Young flopped a pair of eights and Porter missed his straight draw. Chadha then flopped top two pair to beat Russ Dunlevy and send him out in sixth place.
Young later grabbed the chip lead for the first time when he flopped two pair against Chadha’s top pair of kings. He widened that edge by rivering a straight to bust Tedrow in fourth.
Verderamo briefly pulled close after doubling twice on consecutive hands, but he shoved for the third straight hand and ran into Chadha’s kings, finishing third. That left Chadha and Young heads-up with Chadha ahead 15,525,000 to 7,000,000 after only eight hands.
The final hand came after Young limped on the button and Chadha raised to 675,000. Young called, bet 600,000 on the 5-high flop, and then fired 1.1 million on the turn before the river brought an eight. Young shoved 2,450,000, Chadha called with 8-4 for rivered two pair, and Young mucked fives and threes.
Young told his rail, “I got screwed on the river.” Chadha said the win felt like a culmination of four years of hard tournament work and 16 months of cash-game work, and that thousands of hours of studying had finally paid off. He also said he had come to Atlantic City after finishing 51st out of 9,200 in the WSOP Main Event, which he called his last bullet, and that he played one bullet in this event and won it.
