Joe “Bobo” Cappello: Borgata Deep Stack Poker Tournament Champion

Joseph “Bobo” Cappello of New Rochelle, New York was the last man standing in the recently concluded Borgata Deep Stack Poker Tournament, which took place over a five-day period, gathering some 172 poker players from around the country. The Borgata Deep Stack Poker Tournament kicked off on November 11 with 172 players paying the buy-in of $5,200 to generate a poker prize-pool of around $860,000.

After 5 days of No Limit Hold’em Poker, Joe “Bobo” Cappello had all the chips and was crowned as the ultimate champion of the Borgata Deep Stack tournament, also nabbing a $238,000 first place share of the prize pool.

The Borgata Deep Stack tournament final table included 2nd placer Aaron Been of Tallahassee, Florida, who won $150,500; 3rd placer Emad Alabsi of Wickliffe, Ohio, who won $86,000; 4th placer Leonard Green of Huntingdon Vyal, Pennsylvania, who won $64,000; 5th placer Ira Razmjou of Mclean, Virginia, who won $47,300; 6th placer Gregory Myers of Decatur, Georgia, who won $38,700; 7th placer Thomas Mayroudis of Fresh Meadows, New York, who won $30,100; 8th placer Feming Chan of West Windsor, New Jersey, who won $25,800; and 9th placer Bruce Klein of Arlington, Virginia, who won $17,200.

Although this was Joe “Bobo” Cappello’s largest cash-out to date, this big guy has had other numerous accomplishments in the poker tournament scene. Joe Cappello got two first place finishes in the 2007 Wynn Classic, winning $125,839 in the Event 11 No Limit Hold’Em Poker Tournament and winning $50,313 in the Event 6 Limit Hold’em Poker Tournament. He also made an impressive second place finish in Event 13 of the 2007 World Poker Finals and cashed $120,854.

Joe Cappello’s lifetime winnings reach almost $1 million, and his 2007 Player of the Year ranking with Card Player Magazine is a very respectable 44.

Other major poker tournaments are coming up with millions of dollars at stake for a variety of poker games like No Limit Texas Hold’em, Pot Limit Omaha or Seven Card Stud. To find out more about these poker tournaments, you can visit some of the best on-line poker sites in order to qualify with cheap buy-ins to several poker tournament satellites.

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