$1,700 WPO Championship
Prize Pool: $628,500 | Structure | Payouts
Level 14: 3,000/5,000 with a 5,000 ante
Players Remaining: 53 of 419
The 2026 Winter Poker Open Championship drew 419 entries over three starting flights and 53 players returned this morning at 11 am to play it out for the title. They more than doubled the $300,000 guarantee to a $628,500 prize pool, with $133K up top.
Ken O’Donnell went huge in the last flight and returns with a chip lead that is more than second-place John Two-Bears and third-place Joseph Orsino’s stack combined.
But there is a lot of poker to play and everyone is coming for O’Donnell.
Top ten returning stacks:
- Ken O ‘Donnell – 1,440,000 (288 bb)
- John Two-Bears – 628,000 (126 bb)
- Joseph Orsino – 627,000 (125 bb)
- Chris Dombrowski – 598,000 (120 bb)
- John O’Neal – 563,000 (113 bb)
- Kyle Sturgis – 556,000 (111 bb)
- Charlie Burns – 548,000 (110 bb)
- Brian Harris – 511,000 (102 bb)
- Curtis King – 507,000 (101 bb)
- Robert Lebeau – 494,000 (99 bb)