Winter Poker Open Main Event
$1,650 Buy-In, $500,000 Guaranteed
Level 18: 3,000/6,000/1,000 | Payouts
Players Remaining: 69/671
According to the table, Thai Ha faced off against Alan Schein on an 
flop. Schein got about 200,000 in the middle and Ha called.
Schein: 
for top pair
Ha: 
for second pair
Ha was behind, but spiked his queen to take the lead in the hand. Schein was unable to recover and Ha took a huge pot.
Thai Ha – 1,000,000
Alan Schein – Eliminated
Winter Poker Open Main Event
$1,650 Buy-In, $500,000 Guaranteed
Level 18: 3,000/6,000/1,000 | Payouts
Players Remaining: 75/671
Joe Skarzynski claimed 
on a 
runout. He had 202,500 chips against his opponent’s 
. Skarzynski was best and he doubled through with queens.
Skarzynski began the day with a top 10 stack and the most-recent double up has him back over 400,000.
Joe Skarzynski – 423,000
Winter Poker Open Main Event
$1,650 Buy-In, $500,000 Guaranteed
Level 18: 3,000/6,000/1,000 | Payouts
Players Remaining: 77/671
Cord Garcia is a recent elimination in the Winter Poker Open Main Event. The 2015 World Series of Poker Colossus gold bracelet champion busted shy of the money as roughly 77 players remaining and 63 pay.
Cord Garcia – Eliminated
Winter Poker Open Main Event
$1,650 Buy-In, $500,000 Guaranteed
Level 17: 2,500/5,000/500 | Payouts
Players Remaining: 79/671
Play has moved along on Day 2 and the clock shows only 79 players remaining. Only the top 63 finish in the money meaning the tournament is less than two tables away from a pay day.
Stay tuned for hand-for-hand details.
Winter Poker Open Main Event
$1,650 Buy-In, $500,000 Guaranteed
Level 17: 2,500/5,000/500 | Payouts
Players Remaining: 84/671
Farid Jattin began the day at the top of the counts while Juan Martinez sat third. Now, less than three levels into the day, the duo shares Table 8. Martinez began the restart hot, but recently doubled up Terri-Anne Crawford shipping a sizable pot her way. Jattin, meanwhile, has chipped up a bit and holds over 600,000.
Other notables at Table 8 include Austin Buchanan and Rob Manjura, both with chips.
Farid Jattin – 620,000
Juan Martinez – 235,000
Winter Poker Open Main Event
$1,650 Buy-In, $500,000 Guaranteed
Level 17: 2,500/5,000/500 | Payouts
Players Remaining: 17/671
Huyen Vo had her last 74,000 at risk against Winter Poker Open $570 runner-up Cedric Tercy. Vo was in tough shape with 
versus Tercy’s 
.
The runout fell now help and Vo was eliminated while Tercy stacked her chips.
Cedric Tercy – 236,000
Huyen Vo – Eliminated
$250 Deep Stack Turbo NLH Re-Entry
Level 1: 25/50
The Winter Poker Open’s last chance turbo is underway in the poker room at the Seminole Hard Rock. Players in the event take their seats to 20,000 chips and will play 15 minutes levels throughout. The tournament boasts a $20,000 guarantee and will see its champion earn one of the property’s token guitar trophies.
Details:
2pm: $250 Deep Stack Turbo NLH Re-Entry
We will provide a winner’s report and final results when the tournament concludes. Good luck, players!
Winter Poker Open Main Event
$1,650 Buy-In, $500,000 Guaranteed
Level 16: 2,000/4,000/500 | Payouts
Players Remaining: 96/671
There was three-way action on a 
board. Brandon Byars was all-in from the small blind for about 25,000. Anthony Astarita was in early position and action was on him. He folded sending it around to Brandon Tjhang on the button. Tjhang called and the hands were up.
Tjhang: 
for top pair
Byars: 
for a pair of eights
Turn and river: 
Byars was eliminated as the clock dipped below 100 players remaining.
Brandon Byars – Eliminated
Winter Poker Open Main Event
$1,650 Buy-In, $500,000 Guaranteed
Level 16: 2,000/4,000/500 | Payouts
Players Remaining: 102/671
Charlemagne Benjamin was eliminated by Satish Surapaneni moments ago in an all-in preflop confrontation.
Benjamin (small blind): 
Surapaneni (big blind):
Runout: 
Benjamin flopped a king, but the board ran out with four diamonds. Surapaneni claimed the and his flush was good. Benjamin surrendered the last of his 39,000 chips and hit the rail early on Day 2.
Satish Surapaneni – 450,000
Charlemagne Benjamin – Eliminated
Winter Poker Open Main Event
$1,650 Buy-In, $500,000 Guaranteed
Level 16: 2,000/4,000/500 | Payouts
Players Remaining: 112/671
We approached the tabled to find the board dealt and the action complete. Witold Wasik was an all-in player while Joey Wideman was on the wrong end of a double-up.
Board: 
Wasik: 
for top set
Wideman: for a pair of jacks
Wideman shipped a double across the table to Wasik. The hand left Wideman, who started Day 2 with a top 10 stack, with only 32,000.
Witold Wasik – 280,000
Joey Wideman – 32,000