Championship Day 1C: Ivan Builds Stack; Calls It a Night

$1,650 Winter Poker Open Championship
Level 14: 1,000/2,000/300 Ante

Alex Ivan's stack
Alex Ivan’s abandoned stack

You don’t see a player walk away from a big tournament with an hour left and a big stack. Seminole Hard Rock Tampa regular Alex Ivan did just that.

Tournament staff was breaking another table as Ivan was putting together a stack a few chips shy of 400,000 and Carl Carodenuto took a seat to his right.

“This is as good a time to leave as any,” Ivan said to a tournament supervisor. He left his player’s card for someone else to bag up his big stack at the end of Level 14.