$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:  48 of 479

After an early double up on the first hand of the bubble, the Main Event settled into a bit of a grind and it took seven more hands before we had another all-in called. Former WPTDeepStacks champ Vitor Coelho was down to only 7,000 and dropped that in the middle.

He picked up calls from Rob Manjura in the cutoff, Reggie Bautista in the small blind, and a check from Ken O’Donnell in the big.

The flop came , the blinds checked, Manjura bet 8,000 and only Bautista came along. The turn was , both players checked, and the river was . Bautista checked, Manjura bet 20,000 and Bautista folded.

“How did I not get there?” Bautista asked showing his busted nut flush draw . “Where are the hearts?”

Coelho showed for flopped top pair and turned two pair kings and nines but Manjura was best with for a bigger two pair, kings and tens. Coelho was sent out on the bubble and the rest of the field was in the money.

It was bad news for Coelho but good news for Raymond Sykes and Nicholas Carter when both slid into the money with 15K and 20K respectively and the blinds coming up.

Rob Manjura – 330,000 (41 bb)
Vitor Coelho – Eliminated