$1,650 Winter Poker Open Main Event
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 25:  20,000/40,000 with a 40,000 ante
Players Remaining:  8 of 479

Austin Buchanan was the shortest stack coming into the final table and found a spot he like. He moved all in for 360,000 from under the gun and Justin Zaki called next to act. Several other players thought about coming along but in the end it was only Zaki.

Zaki:
Buchanan:

Buchanan needed to win the race to double but the board ran to send him out in ninth place.

Justin Zaki – 2,915,000 (97 bb)
Austin Buchanan – Eliminated in 9th Place ($14,959)