Main Event: Prize Pool and Payouts Posted Shortly

Winter Poker Open Main Event
$1,650 Buy-In, $500,000 Guaranteed
Level 10: 500/1,000/100 | Structure
Flight C Entries: 318 | Total Entries: 671

Cards are back in the air and registration is closed in the Winter Poker Open Main Event. As is, the field sits at an unofficial 671 entries generating a total prize pool of $1,006,500. Stay tuned for official payouts.

Main Event: Dinner Break with a $1M Prize Pool Around the Corner

Winter Poker Open Main Event
$1,650 Buy-In, $500,000 Guaranteed
Heading to Level 10: 500/1,000/100 | Structure
Flight C Entries: 309 | Total Entries: 662

Players in the Main Event are on a one-hour dinner break and the Flight C clock reads 309 in the game. They pair with the 353 from Flight A and B to make a combined field of 662. That puts the unofficial prize pool at $993,000 — just five entries shy of $1,000,000.

Stay tuned! Cards go back in the air at about 7:15pm.

Main Event: Traction in Flight C for Karl Manouchakian

Winter Poker Open Main Event
$1,650 Buy-In, $500,000 Guaranteed
Level 9: 400/800/100 | Structure
Flight C Entries: 304 | Total Entries: 657

Karl Manouchakian

After a few blanks, Karl Manouchakian is catching traction here in Flight C. With the clock showing an impressive 304 entries late in Level 9, Manouchakian is sitting on about 120,000 chips. That figure is just shy of the Day 2 average to this point and has Manouchakian in decent shape as he looks to find a bag.

With 304 entries, the combined field is 657, just 10 players shy of the $1,000,000 prize pool mark.

Main Event: Almog Biton Building a Stack

Winter Poker Open Main Event
$1,650 Buy-In, $500,000 Guaranteed
Level 8: 300/600/75 | Structure
Flight C Entries: 291 | Total Entries: 644

Almog Biton

Almog Biton recently surrendered a small pot when when raised the button to 2,000 and the small blind called. The duo saw a flop of 8h7c4c and both players checked. The turn was the Qh and the small blind checked. Biton bet 2,000 and the small blind called. The river was the 3s. The small blind checked again and Biton bet 5,000. The small blind called and Biton insta-folded face down.

Despite the lost pot, Biton owns a stack of about 120,000.

Main Event: Henry Greenberg Sends Rex Clinkscales to the Rail

Winter Poker Open Main Event
$1,650 Buy-In, $500,000 Guaranteed
Level 7: 250/500/50 | Structure
Flight C Entries: 272 | Total Entries: 625

Henry Greenberg

Defending WPTDeepStacks-Tampa Main Event champion Rex Clinkscales got just a hair over 12,500 in the pot preflop over Henry Greenberg’s late-position raise. Greenberg called putting Clinkscales at risk.

Greenberg: AsKd
Clinkscales: Ad3c

Runout: 9h6d2hTs8s

Greenberg’s ace-king high held and he eliminated Clinkscales. Greenberg grew his stack to about 90,000

Main Event: Level 7 Begins with $900K+ Prize Pool

Winter Poker Open Main Event
$1,650 Buy-In, $500,000 Guaranteed
Level 7: 250/500/50 | Structure
Flight C Entries: 259 | Total Entries: 612

Level 7 begins with the Flight C clocking showing 258 entries. That puts the combined field at 612 with an unofficial prize pool of $918,000. Remarkably, as is, this marks a year-over-year attendance increase of 25 percent.

Main Event: James Calderaro Makes the Trip to Tampa

Winter Poker Open Main Event
$1,650 Buy-In, $500,000 Guaranteed
Level 6: 200/400/50 | Structure
Flight C Entries: 247 | Total Entries: 600

James Calderaro

James Calderaro got to town last night and played some cash prior to today’s Flight C. Unsurprisingly, we arrived at his table to see him mixing it up early. On an Ad4d2d flop, a player lead into Calderaro for 6,000. Calderaro put 27,000 in the middle and the opponent backed down. Calderaro took the pot.

With that, Calderaro owns about 55,000 chips late in Level 6.

Main Event: Who They’re Chasing

Winter Poker Open Main Event
$1,650 Buy-In, $500,000 Guaranteed
Level 6: 200/400/50 | Structure
Flight C Entries: 237 | Total Entries: 590

With the Flight C field continuing to grow, we figured now was a good time to take a look at who the masses are chasing.

Farid Jattin

Poker pro Farid Jattin, fresh off a cash in the WPT Five Diamond, beat up Flight B bagging an impressive 435,500. Jattin took the lead shortly after dinner break and only added to his impressive stack over the day’s last few levels. Impressively, Flight B’s second biggest stack, that of Brett Bader, was seated on Jattin’s direct left.

Farid Jattin (left) and Brett Bader (right)

Bader bagged second in his respective flight, putting 371,500 away, but sits third overall. Juan Martinez owned Flight A and will start Day 2 behind Jattin.

Flight A chip leader Juan Martinez

Here’s a look at the top 10 stacks heading to Day 2:

1. Farid Jattin – 435,500
2. Juan Martinez – 377,500
3. Brett Bader – 371,500
4. Tom Nguyen – 364,000
5. Brandon Tjhang – 305,000
6. Ricardo Eyzaguirre – 271,500
7. Russell Jaicks – 233,000
8. Chad Deberry – 230,000
9. Anthony Astarita – 219,000
10. Leonard Demchak – 216,500

Complete Day 2 Chip Counts through Flight B

Main Event: David Prociak Back after $40K Score

Winter Poker Open Main Event
$1,650 Buy-In, $500,000 Guaranteed
Level 5: 150/300/50 | Structure
Flight C Entries: 225 | Total Entries: 578

David Prociak

2016 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Player of the Year David Prociak scored his seventh SHRP trophy during the early morning hours of Thursday. He bested a big field of 546 entries in a $350 buy-in ultimately scoring $40,787. With a pocket full of cash, Prociak has taken a couple shots here in the Main Event and is in the Flight C game. It’s been a basic start as he sits with just over starting stack.

Main Event: Staffan Lind Climbing

Winter Poker Open Main Event
$1,650 Buy-In, $500,000 Guaranteed
Level 4: 100/200/25 | Structure
Flight C Entries: 211 | Total Entries: 546

Staffan Lind

Staffan Lind recently opened a pot in late position and got a lone caller in the small blind. Lind C-bet the flop and the opponent called. Both checked the turn. The river fell and the opponent lead for a healthy bet. Lind called a bit reluctantly and saw his opponent had flopped the wheel. He surrendered a small pot, but remained near the top of the counts with over 120,000.