Event 9: David Prociak Active Near the Bubble

$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 18: 3,000/6,000 with a 1,000 ante
Players Remaining: 258 of 2,923

Jon Borenstein (left) versus David Prociak (right)

Reigning Seminole Hard Rock Poker Player of the Year David Prociak wasn’t sitting back and nursing a stack as the money bubble got closer. He was mixing it up in a lot of hands, dropping Wally Maddah down to a short stack before aiming at neighbor Jon Borenstein.

Maddah was on the button when he dropped some chips after Prociak check/called with the board reading JdTh6c7c then fired for 38,000 after the 3d river. Maddah thought for a while before he called with AdJd but top/top was no good against Prociak’s flopped set 6d6h.

Soon after, Prociak was in a battle of the blinds with Borenstein and called bets down to the turn on the 7c5c4d8c board. Borenstein slowed down after the Kd river and released to a bet from Prociak.

On the next hand, Borenstein raised from the button to 15,000 and Prociak three-bet to 42,000 from the small blind. Borenstein counted out chips before four-betting to 100,000. Snap and crackle and all the chips were in the middle in a hurry with Borenstein at risk.

But it was an anti-climatic hand after all when Borenstein tabled AhKs against AsKh to chop up the pot.

David Prociak – 690,000 (115 bb)
Jon Borenstein – 200,000 (33 bb)
Wally Maddah – 56,000 (9 bb)