Event 1: Quads First Hand of the Day

$500 + $60 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)

Level 2: Blinds 50/100

Volper Vanquishes Two

Nickola Volper (Astoria, NY) is hoping he didn't waste his "run good" on the first hand of the tournament as part of a three-way all in.

Flop: J 9 8

Nickola Volper: JJ (set of Jacks)
Michael Mastrostefano: Q 10 (nut straight)
Scott Jackson: Q 10 (nut straight)

Turn: X

River: J

Volper hits a one outer on the river for quad jacks and a double knockout.

"There was no cursing," says Associate Blogger Pierre Deissler (Mt. Laurel, NJ), who provides the first hand report.  "They both took it like men."

At the time, Volper was the chip leader with a triple-up to 60k and is now holding steady.

Volper has a couple of deep runs at Borgata, including a second place finish ($46,000) behind Gregg Fishberg (Willow Grove, PA) in the 2010 Borgata Summer Poker Open.  Coincidentally that too was a $560 event.