$700 Deep Stack Challenge (Re-Entry)
$50,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 21:  15,000/25,000 with a 25,000 ante
Players Remaining:  8 of 292

$700 Deep Stack Challenge (Re-Entry)
$50,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 21:  15,000/25,000 with a 25,000 ante
Players Remaining:  9 of 292

The $700 Deep Stack Challenge final table is set with nine players remaining, Ross Corless leading, and $37,870 up top.

Seat 1: Teresa Ramsey – 950,000 (38 bb)
Seat 2: Fred Paradis – 1,300,000 (52 bb)
Seat 3: Alexander Ziskin – 700,000 (28 bb)
Seat 4: Maroun Akiki – 1,300,000 (52 bb)
Seat 5: Michael Wang – 1,085,000 (43 bb)
Seat 6: Ross Corless – 1,875,000 (75 bb)
Seat 7: Evan Pantano – 575,000 (23 bb)
Seat 8: Chad Lipton – 675,000 (27 bb)
Seat 9: Travis Gentile – 325,000 (13 bb)

10th: Joshua Hertz – $3,650
11th: Jason Block – $2,980
12th: Jared Penney – $2,980
13th: Christopher Cochran – $2,480
14th: Marcus Gurley – $2,480
15th: Justin Horne – $2,110
16th: Ray Mancini – $2,110

Remaining payouts:

1st: $37,870 + WPO Trophy
2nd: $25,210
3rd: $18,370
4th: $13,560
5th: $10,150
6th: $7,700
7th: $5,920
8th: $4,620
9th: $3,650

The Winter Poker Open Championship gets underway tomorrow with a $1,700 buy-in and healthy $300,000 guaranteed prize pool. The tournament features three starting flights, one each on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at 11 am.

This will be a great, fun way to wrap up the series, and we expect a lot of new and old friends in the crowd throughout the weekend.

• $300,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
• Players begin with 40,000 in chips
• Day 1 and 2 levels last 40 minutes; Day 3 levels last 60 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

$700 Deep Stack Challenge (Re-Entry)
$50,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 19:  10,000/15,000 with a 15,000 ante
Players Remaining:  16 of 292

Two minutes before the next break, Nicholas Costa was eliminated in 17th place to drop the field to the last two tables. Here’s a look at the lineups and chip counts as we get deeper into the tournament.

Rod Corless is the new leader with Evan Pantano not far behind (and one 5K short of a million).

Table 21
Seat 1: Jared Penney – 455,000 (30 bb)
Seat 2: Evan Pantano – 995,000 (66 bb)
Seat 3: Maroun Akiki – 275,000 (18 bb)
Seat 4: Alexander Ziskin – 675,000 (45 bb)
Seat 5: Ross Corless – 1,175,000 (78 bb)
Seat 6: Joshua Hertz – 380,000 (25 bb)
Seat 7: Jason Block – 655,000 (44 bb)
Seat 8: Travis Gentile – 470,000 (31 bb)

Table 22
Seat 1: Ray Mancini – 360,000 (24 bb)
Seat 2: Justin Horne – 230,000 (15 bb)
Seat 3: Chad Lipton – 540,000 (36 bb)
Seat 4: Christopher Cochran – 405,000 (27 bb)
Seat 5: Fred Paradis – 700,000 (47 bb)
Seat 6: Marcus Gurley – 260,000 (17 bb)
Seat 7: Teresa Ramsey – 440,000 (29 bb)
Seat 8: Michael Wang – 740,000 (49 bb)

17th: Nicholas Costa – $1,830
18th: Edwin Vasconcelos – $1,830
19th: Ryan Luppino – $1,830
20th: Hristos Tsironis – $1,830

Remaining payouts:

1st: $37,870 + WPO Trophy
2nd: $25,210
3rd: $18,370
4th: $13,560
5th: $10,150
6th: $7,700
7th: $5,920
8th: $4,620
9th-10th: $3,650
11th-12th: $2,980
13th-14th: $2,480
15th-16th: $2,110

2024 Winter Poker Open
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Tampa, Florida
Event 6
$400 Pot-Limit Omaha (Re-Entry)
Entries:  103
Prize Pool:  $34,505
January 31, 2024

Registration closed for the $400 Pot-Limit Omaha tournament with 103 entries creating a prize pool worth $34,505. The last 13 players will make the money with $850 for a min-cash and $9,665 to the Event 6 champ.

1st: $9,665 + WPO Trophy
2nd: $6,450
3rd: $4,380
4th: $3,080
5th: $2,250
6th: $1,710
7th: $1,360
8th: $1,120
9th-10th: $970
11th-13th: $850

$700 Deep Stack Challenge (Re-Entry)
$50,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 18:  6,000/12,000 with a 12,000 ante
Players Remaining:  20 of 292

The field is down to the last 20 with the elimination of Andrew Phillips, who picked up a nice score after earning his seat in a satellite the other evening.

Everyone is now guaranteed at least $1,830 with a lot of money still on the line.

21st: Andrew Phillips – $1,620
22nd: Yunkyu Song – $1,620
23rd: Kevin Dilk – $1,620
24th: Matthew Ball – $1,620

2024 Winter Poker Open
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Tampa, Florida
Event 5
$400 Triple Stud (Re-Entry)
Entries:  48
Prize Pool:  $16,080
January 30, 2024

$700 Deep Stack Challenge (Re-Entry)
$50,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 17:  5,000/10,000 with a 10,000 ante
Players Remaining:  24 of 292

With the elimination of William Greenfield in 25th place, another table was broken down, and its players were distributed among the last three tables.

Table 11
Seat 1: Christopher Cochran
Seat 2: Ryan Luppino
Seat 3: Andrew Phillips
Seat 4: Ross Corless
Seat 5: Nicholas Costa
Seat 6: Kevin Dilk
Seat 7: Hristos Tsironis
Seat 8: Michael Wang

Table 21
Seat 1: Jared Penney
Seat 2: Evan Pantano
Seat 3: Maroun Akiki
Seat 4: Alexander Ziskin
Seat 5: Matthew Ball
Seat 6: Joshua Hertz
Seat 7: Jason Block
Seat 8: Teresa Ramsey

Table 22
Seat 1: Ray Mancini
Seat 2: Justin Horne
Seat 3: Chad Lipton
Seat 4: Travis Gentile
Seat 5: Fred Paradis
Seat 6: Marcus Gurley
Seat 7: Edwin Vasconcelos
Seat 8: Yunkyu Song

1st: $37,870 + WPO Trophy
2nd: $25,210
3rd: $18,370
4th: $13,560
5th: $10,150
6th: $7,700
7th: $5,920
8th: $4,620
9th-10th: $3,650
11th-12th: $2,980
13th-14th: $2,480
15th-16th: $2,110
17th-20th: $1,830
21st-24th: $1,620

25th: William Greenfield – $1,460
26th: Ryan Hogan – $1,460
27th: Erickson Zschunke – $1,460
28th: Ronald Lane – $1,460
29th: Felipe Koury – $1,460

$700 Deep Stack Challenge (Re-Entry)
$50,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 16:  4,000/8,000 with a 8,000 ante
Players Remaining:  29 of 292

Players were sent on a 15-minute break with 29 players remaining and a three-table redraw coming when 24 are still in the game.

Evan Pantano is the big stack in the room with 750,000 and Chad Lipton is not far behind with 659,000.

Blinds are up to 4,000/8,000 with a 8,000 ante and the average stack is about 302,000 (38 bb).

Table 10
Seat 1: — Empty —
Seat 2: Ryan Hogan – 195,000 (24 bb)
Seat 3: Maroun Akiki – 250,000 (31 bb)
Seat 4: Teresa Ramsey – 448,000 (56 bb)
Seat 5: Alexander Ziskin – 600,000 (75 bb)
Seat 6: Ronald Lane – 156,000 (20 bb)
Seat 7: Christopher Cochran – 86,000 (11 bb)
Seat 8: Ray Mancini – 335,000 (42 bb)

Table 11
Seat 1: Erickson Zschunke – 93,000 (12 bb)
Seat 2: Ryan Luppino – 128,000 (16 bb)
Seat 3: Andrew Phillips – 139,000 (17 bb)
Seat 4: Ross Corless – 641,000 (80 bb)
Seat 5: Nicholas Costa – 394,000 (49 bb)
Seat 6: Felipe Koury – 191,000 (24 bb)
Seat 7: Hristos Tsironis – 155,000 (19 bb)
Seat 8: Michael Wang – 456,000 (57 bb)

Table 21
Seat 1: Jared Penney – 307,000 (38 bb)
Seat 2: Evan Pantano – 750,000 (94 bb)
Seat 3: — Empty —
Seat 4: Kevin Dilk – 382,000 (48 bb)
Seat 5: Matthew Ball – 112,000 (14 bb)
Seat 6: Joshua Hertz – 270,000 (34 bb)
Seat 7: Jason Block – 405,000 (51 bb)
Seat 8: William Greenfield – 267,000 (33 bb)

Table 22
Seat 1: — Empty —
Seat 2: Justin Horne – 297,000 (37 bb)
Seat 3: Chad Lipton – 659,000 (82 bb)
Seat 4: Travis Gentile – 236,000 (30 bb)
Seat 5: Fred Paradis – 74,000 (9 bb)
Seat 6: Marcus Gurley – 119,000 (15 bb)
Seat 7: Edwin Vasconcelos – 223,000 (28 bb)
Seat 8: Yunkyu Song – 389,000 (49 bb)

30th: Peter Walsworth – $1,460
31st: Randy Levin – $1,460
32nd: Isaac Ali – $1,460

$700 Deep Stack Challenge (Re-Entry)
$50,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 14:  3,000/5,000 with a 5,000 ante
Players Remaining:  32 of 292

With both starting flights playing into the money, the short stacks had to wait until this afternoon to make their moves. That meant a few quick eliminations to get the field down to the last four tables.

33rd: Brian Brookshire – $1,360
34th: Sanjib Acharya – $1,360
35th: James McKinnon – $1,360
36th: Cuinn Griffin – $1,360
37th: Sihao Zhang – $1,360