Winter Poker Open Main Event
$1,650 Buy-In, $500,000 Guaranteed
Level 14: 1,200/2,400/400 | Payouts
Flight C Players Remaining: 81/318

For the second night in a row, two of the biggest stacks in the room share a table to end the night. Yesterday, chip leader Farid Jattin and Brett Bader sat side by side late. Fast forward 24 hours and Joe Skarzynski is seated just across the felt from Justin Harvell in Flight C. Harvell claims about 365,000 while Skarzynski is closer to 300,000.

Tournament staff just announced players will log two more hands before bagging and tagging and Skarzynski will look to bag big alongside his tablemate.

Winter Poker Open Main Event
$1,650 Buy-In, $500,000 Guaranteed
Level 14: 1,200/2,400/400 | Payouts
Flight C Players Remaining: 81/318

Justin Harvell has 375,000 chips in front of him late in Level 14. In a few short minutes, tournament staff will stop the clock and select a predetermined number of hands to play before Flight C wraps. Harvell looks to be the only player over the 300,000 threshold and is in position to top his flight.

Complete chip counts will be posted by 1:30am.

Winter Poker Open Main Event
$1,650 Buy-In, $500,000 Guaranteed
Level 14: 1,200/2,400/400 | Payouts
Flight C Players Remaining: 87/318

With the last level of the night underway, Mansoor Kader looks to sit toward the top of the counts with about 264,000. The leader, Joey Wideman, edges him out slightly with about 280,000.

Other notable stacks making moves here in Flight C belong to Seminole Hard Rock Poker team member Mike Laake, Filipp Khavin, Alan Schein and T.K. Miles.

Winter Poker Open Main Event
$1,650 Buy-In, $500,000 Guaranteed
Level 13: 1,000/2,000/300 | Payouts
Flight C Players Remaining: 101/318

T.K. Miles raised the button to 4,500 and Charlemagne Benjamin called from the big blind. Both players checked a flop. Benjamin lead 5,000 on the turn. Miles called. The river was the and Benjamin lead for 13,500. Miles called and Benjamin turned over . Miles’ pair was good.

The hand saw Benjamin’s stack shrink to around 200,000 while Miles sits just behind.

Winter Poker Open Main Event
$1,650 Buy-In, $500,000 Guaranteed
Level 13: 1,000/2,000/300 | Payouts
Flight C Players Remaining: 107/318

Cards are in the air for Level 13 and this marks the players’ final session of the evening. They’ll log two more levels before action wraps and those still in return for Day 2 tomorrow at 12pm.

Winter Poker Open Main Event
$1,650 Buy-In, $500,000 Guaranteed
Heading to Level 13: 1,000/2,000/300 | Payouts
Flight C Players Remaining: 107/318

Players are heading on their final break of the night. When they return, they’ll log two more levels of play before bagging, tagging and returning for Day 2 tomorrow at 12pm.

Winter Poker Open Main Event
$1,650 Buy-In, $500,000 Guaranteed
Level 12: 800/1,600/200 | Payouts
Flight C Players Remaining: 112/318

Joey Wideman saw a brutal end to his Flight B yesterday. He went broke holding on a board. He got it in on the river with Tom Nguyen who had the best of it with . Wideman sent a huge pot Nguyen’s way and was left bust.

Tonight he’s trending the other direction late in the game. He’s stacked some pots and has about 240,000 in front of him.

Winter Poker Open Main Event
$1,650 Buy-In, $500,000 Guaranteed
Level 11: 600/1,200/200 | Payouts
Flight C Players Remaining: 123/318

Board:

Jeremy Costa was out of position in a heads-up pot against Karl Manouchakian. Costa checked and Manouchakien bet 7,000. Costa snapped and flipped over for a flush. Manouchakian mucked and Costa took the pot growing his stack to a still-modest 50,000.

Winter Poker Open Main Event
$1,650 Buy-In, $500,000 Guaranteed
Level 11: 600/1,200/200 | Payouts
Flight C Players Remaining: 129/318

Alan Schein is going good with registration closed. The South Florida resident owns more than $1,300,000 including four tournament victories and is hitting his stride here in the Main Event. His stack currently totals about 230,000.

Winter Poker Open Main Event
$1,650 Buy-In, $500,000 Guaranteed
Level 10: 500/1,000/100 | Payouts
Flight C Players Remaining: 137/318

With registration closed and a prize pool of $1,006,500 up for grabs, defending Winter Poker Open Main Event champion David Bradshaw is back on the grind. He currently enjoys a stack of 230,000 good for one of the biggest in the room.

Players are set to log about three more hours of play before they’ll bag, tag and return tomorrow at 12pm for Day 2.