$1,700 WPO Championship (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 1:  100/200 with a 200 ante
Day 1A Entries:  19

At 11 am on the dot, tournament staff put cards in the air for the 2025 Winter Poker Open Championship. They will work their way through the first three 40-minute flights before grabbing a little break.

Registration is available until 5:45 pm with another flight tomorrow and the last on Saturday.

$1,700 WPO Championship (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 1:  100/200 with a 200 ante

The preliminaries are done and locked up their winners, so today we roll out the 2025 Winter Poker Open Championship with Flight A at 11 am. The $1,700 buy-in has a $300,000 guaranteed prize pool with three flights and plenty of play built into the structure.

Players sit down with huge 40K starting stacks and all levels last 40 minutes. Late registration is available until the start of Level 10 at 5:45 pm and player may re-enter as often as they wish during that time.

Each flight will play down to the last 12.5% of the field and survivors will return on Sunday at noon for Day 2.

• $300,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
• Players begin with 40,000 in chips
• Levels last 40 minutes
• Late registration/re-entry available until start of Level 10 (5:45pm)
• Day 1 will end when 12.5% of field remains
• Championship Structure Sheet

2025 Winter Poker Open
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Tampa, Florida
Event 4
$700 DeepStack Challenge (Re-Entry)
$50,000 Guaranteed
Entries:  216
Prize Pool:  $131,760
January 27-29, 2025

Event 4 was the perfect warmup for the WPO Championship, the $700 DeepStack Challenge drew 216 entries to crush the $50,000 guarantee. After a tough final table battle, Ken O’Donnell earned his third career Tampa title with an outright win for $30,190.

The final three in the tournament featured WSOP bracelets and Circuit rings and two-time Tampa Main Event champ TK Miles. A great setup for our headlining tournament and congrats to Ken for taking home another trophy.

2025 Winter Poker Open
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Tampa, Florida
Event 7
$400 Pot-Limit Omaha (Re-Entry)
Entries:  60
Prize Pool:  $20,100
January 29, 2025

WPO Event 7 was a $400 Pot-Limit Omaha tournament that drew 60 fans of the game. After a long battle, Josh Nicholson took the title outright for $6,580.

This is his second major Tampa title, adding this trophy to the one he earned during the 2023 Tampa Poker Classic.

Congrats Josh!

Primary Event Schedule

11AM: Day 1A – $1,700 WPO Championship (Re-Entry)

• $300,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
• Players begin with 40,000 in chips
• Levels last 40 minutes
• Late registration/re-entry available until start of Level 10 (5:45pm)
• Day 1 will end when 12.5% of field remains
• Championship Structure Sheet

Secondary and Satellite Schedule

6PM: $200 Championship Satellite (1-in-10)

• Two seats guaranteed into $1,700 WPO Championship
• Players begin with 20,000 in chips
• Levels last 20 minutes
• Late registration until start of Level 7 (8:15pm)
• Winners will be entered into Flight B of the Championship
• Structure Sheet

$700 DeepStack Challenge (Re-Entry)
$50,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 23:  20,000/40,000 with a 40,000 ante

In a heads-up battle of Tampa heavyweights, three-time trophy winner Ken O’Donnell defeated second all-time money earner TK Miles for the $700 DeepStack Challenge trophy.

1st: Ken O’Donnell – $30,190 + WPO Trophy
2nd: TK Miles – $20,040

$700 DeepStack Challenge (Re-Entry)
$50,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 23:  20,000/40,000 with a 40,000 ante
Players Remaining:  2 of 216

$700 DeepStack Challenge (Re-Entry)
$50,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 23:  20,000/40,000 with a 40,000 ante
Players Remaining:  3 of 216

$700 DeepStack Challenge (Re-Entry)
$50,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 23:  20,000/40,000 with a 40,000 ante
Players Remaining:  4 of 216