$1,650 Winter Poker Open Main Event
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 18:  4,000/8,000 with a 8,000 ante
Players Remaining:  50 of 479

The Main Event made it to the first break before reaching the money bubble. They only need to lose one more before going into hand-for-hand play.

Austin Buchanan continued to lead the way with 1,187,000 while Alex Rocha jumped up to second place with 915,000 after a big hand against Ken O’Donnell when his was good on the board.

Duff Charette is also moving up on the outer table with 910,000.

Blinds went up to 4,000/8,000 with an 8,000 big blind ante and the average stack is 287,000 (36 bb).