The New Jersey Online Poker Briefing: Michael Gagliano Still on Fire

As the summer months loom ahead, prize pools in online tournaments typically begin to drop with players spending more time outdoors. This past weekend was the first we witnessed a substantial drop in action with many major online tournaments failing to meet their posted guarantees.

The weather, however, is not the only thing getting hotter as BorgataPoker.com pro and Cardrunners instructor Michael Gagliano followed up his spectacular performance last week with another great weekend this week.

Gagliano, under the screenname “itWasThatOr0” was one of two players along with “MeanReversn” to win a World Series of Poker Main Event package valued at $13,000. This was the second time Gagliano won a package this year after winning his first package two weeks ago on April 24.

To add onto his great week, Gagliano also snagged fifth place in the WSOP NJ/888poker NJ $30,000 GTD Weekly Sunday to bank $1,830. Two other well-known players battled it out for the top two spots in this tournament with Hung “nowitsover” Truong ultimately winning the top prize of $8,250 and Anthony “l0lflawless” Maio securing $4,800 for second place.

The weekend’s only other five-digit winner came in the PokerStars NJ Sunday Special, $50,000 Gtd with “OceansO7” finishing on top of the 285 entrants to pony-up the $200 buy-in to win $10,841. New Jersey’s “Scooby-D0O” walked away with $7,952 after finishing in second place, while “BurntBagels” banked …

continue reading in source www.pokernews.com