11am: $1,650 Main Event ($500,000 guaranteed), Flight C
That’s a wrap on Friday at the Winter Poker Open. Below is a look at what’s in store for Saturday as the Main Event continues at 11am with the third and final starting flight:
2017 Winter Poker Open Tournament Schedule
Goodnight and see you in the morning!
Winter Poker Open Main Event
$1,650 Buy-In, $500,000 Guaranteed
Day 2 Blinds: 1,500/3,000/500 | Structure
Players Remaining: 79/353
Flight A: 164 Entries, 38 Advanced
Flight B: 189 Entries, 41 Advanced
Flight C: Saturday at 11am
Day 2: Sunday at 12pm
Day 3: Monday at 2pm
Day 2 chip counts through Flight B:
| RANK | FIRST NAME | LAST NAME | CHIP COUNT | TABLE | SEAT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | FARID | JATTIN | 435,500 | 14 | 8 |
| 2 | JUAN | MARTINEZ | 377,500 | 12 | 1 |
| 3 | BRETT | BADER | 371,500 | 3 | 8 |
| 4 | TOM | NGUYEN | 364,000 | 15 | 1 |
| 5 | BRANDON | TJHANG | 305,000 | 6 | 3 |
| 6 | RICARDO | EYZAGUIRRE | 271,500 | 5 | 8 |
| 7 | RUSSELL | JAICKS | 233,000 | 10 | 4 |
| 8 | CHAD | DEBERRY | 230,000 | 14 | 2 |
| 9 | ANTHONY | ASTARITA | 219,000 | 6 | 6 |
| 10 | LEONARD | DEMCHAK | 216,500 | 13 | 4 |
| 11 | RAFAEL | FERNANDES | 213,000 | 10 | 2 |
| 12 | GARTH | FUDENS | 211,000 | 13 | 3 |
| 13 | SCOTT | CARACCIOLO | 204,000 | 13 | 2 |
| 14 | NGHIA | LE | 200,000 | 3 | 4 |
| 15 | JOHN CHRISTIAN | TEMPLETON | 199,000 | 6 | 2 |
| 16 | KYLE | UPPER | 195,000 | 3 | 6 |
| 17 | CHRISTOPHER | MCLEAN | 192,500 | 14 | 4 |
| 18 | SHADRACH SAMUEL | TERCY | 183,000 | 16 | 1 |
| 19 | KENNETH | O'DONNELL | 172,000 | 15 | 6 |
| 20 | JOHN | RICHARDS | 168,500 | 2 | 4 |
| 21 | GLORIA | JACKSON | 167,500 | 10 | 7 |
| 22 | WILLIAM | MUNIZ | 160,500 | 9 | 2 |
| 23 | HAIM | TOORGEMAN | 157,000 | 12 | 2 |
| 24 | JOSEPH | DE LUCIA | 156,500 | 5 | 6 |
| 25 | JEFFREY | TRUDEAU JR | 150,500 | 13 | 1 |
| 26 | Kevin | Dunlap | 148,500 | 16 | 2 |
| 27 | MICHAEL | NEWMAN | 147,500 | 1 | 6 |
| 28 | MARK | WISER | 138,500 | 7 | 3 |
| 29 | KEVIN | GREENE | 138,000 | 10 | 1 |
| 30 | Lawrence | Dowling | 136,000 | 8 | 2 |
| 31 | TROY | BERCOT | 135,000 | 2 | 7 |
| 32 | JOHN | RACENER JR | 131,500 | 6 | 1 |
| 33 | GERALD | SILVA | 130,000 | 10 | 6 |
| 34 | JOSEPH | ORSINO | 128,000 | 12 | 6 |
| 35 | JAMES | RUMPTZ | 127,500 | 1 | 4 |
| 36 | BENJAMIN | VAN KLINK | 125,500 | 8 | 4 |
| 37 | BRANDON | CAPUTO | 123,500 | 4 | 4 |
| 38 | LANCE | GARCIA | 119,000 | 6 | 8 |
| 39 | ABDELOUAHED | BOUANANI | 118,000 | 5 | 2 |
| 40 | DERRICK | CUTLER | 116,500 | 5 | 7 |
| 41 | ORY | HEN | 113,000 | 4 | 3 |
| 42 | BRIAN | LARRIS | 105,500 | 7 | 7 |
| 43 | RAY | PRIETO | 104,000 | 4 | 6 |
| 44 | JIM | SARCA | 101,000 | 5 | 1 |
| 45 | AMELIO | AMATO | 101,000 | 16 | 6 |
| 46 | NIKOLAOS | COSTARELIS | 98,000 | 12 | 3 |
| 47 | STANLEY | TAVANESE | 97,000 | 12 | 4 |
| 48 | DENNIS | BOBBY | 96,500 | 7 | 4 |
| 49 | JAMES | SALMON III | 90,000 | 10 | 3 |
| 50 | JOSEPH | MOLE | 90,000 | 14 | 6 |
| 51 | JOSIAS | CARDOSO DOS SANTOS | 87,500 | 7 | 1 |
| 52 | DAVID | HEINEN | 87,000 | 9 | 6 |
| 53 | MARIO | DE LA PUENTE | 86,000 | 8 | 6 |
| 54 | ERIK | CHRISTENSEN | 85,000 | 8 | 8 |
| 55 | MICHAEL | COLLINS | 81,500 | 5 | 4 |
| 56 | LANCE | HOWARD | 81,000 | 7 | 6 |
| 57 | AUSTIN | BUCHANAN | 78,000 | 8 | 1 |
| 58 | ELILTON | GOUVEIA | 77,500 | 12 | 7 |
| 59 | ROBERT | LASETER | 77,500 | 3 | 2 |
| 60 | ADEM | ARBUCKLE | 75,500 | 7 | 2 |
| 61 | JACOB | SNIDER | 75,500 | 9 | 7 |
| 62 | RANDOLPH | SPAIN | 75,000 | 9 | 4 |
| 63 | HUYEN | VO | 73,000 | 2 | 2 |
| 64 | WILLIAM | MCKOWN | 72,500 | 16 | 4 |
| 65 | TERRI-ANNE | CRAWFORD | 72,000 | 13 | 6 |
| 66 | ISMAEL | CABRERA | 69,000 | 4 | 1 |
| 67 | JANET | FITZGERALD | 67,500 | 15 | 3 |
| 68 | TIMOTHY | SHORTELL | 63,500 | 2 | 1 |
| 69 | BRETT | APTER | 61,500 | 3 | 3 |
| 70 | NICHOLAS | MANN | 61,000 | 5 | 3 |
| 71 | JOHN | GORDON | 46,500 | 2 | 3 |
| 72 | Jared | Grey | 45,000 | 9 | 1 |
| 73 | MICHAEL | TURTON | 45,000 | 8 | 3 |
| 74 | ROBERT | CORNETTE | 45,000 | 14 | 7 |
| 75 | BRANDON | BYARS | 43,500 | 6 | 4 |
| 76 | JOHN | O'NEAL | 40,000 | 1 | 3 |
| 77 | RICHARD | ALSUP | 39,000 | 15 | 2 |
| 78 | CHARLES | KAPETANAKOS | 38,000 | 4 | 2 |
| 79 | CHAD | ANZALONE | 32,500 | 9 | 3 |
Winter Poker Open Main Event
$1,650 Buy-In, $500,000 Guaranteed
Level 14: 1,000/2,000/300 | Structure
Flight B Players Remaining: 42/189
Flight B is a wrap and it’s official. Farid Jattin bagged the top spot and the overall lead with 435,500 chips. Next up in the Flight B counts is Brett Bader with 371,000 followed by Tom Nguyen with 364,000.
Complete chip counts through Flight B will be posted by 2am.
Winter Poker Open Main Event
$1,650 Buy-In, $500,000 Guaranteed
Level 14: 1,000/2,000/300 | Structure
Flight B Players Remaining: 42/189
Tournament staff just announced they’ll log two more hands before Flight B wraps. At present, it’s Farid Jattin that’s in command with a stack of more than 400,000. His tablemate, Brett Bader, also has healthy holdings and will go home toward the top of the counts. The clock shows 42 players remaining, but that will likely tick down a few.
Winter Poker Open Main Event
$1,650 Buy-In, $500,000 Guaranteed
Level 14: 1,000/2,000/300 | Structure
Flight B Players Remaining: 49/189
Tampa’s Tom Nguyen’s roller-coaster day continued as he and Joey Wideman played a massive pot. As recounted to us by the table, the board was 
. Wideman owned about 100,000 chips and he got them in the middle and Nguyen called.
Nguyen: for tens full of queens
Wideman: for tens full of eights
Wideman was no good and hit the rail courtesy of Nguyen. The massive hand saw Nguyen stack about 430,000 chips.
Just a couple hands later, Nguyen picked up and had an opponent’s 90,000 chips at risk preflop. The opponent held 
and Nguyen was in great shape to reach uncharted territory. The flop was unkind, though, as it fell ace high and Nguyen sent a double up next door.
Even still, Nguyen’s stack totaled 330,000.
Winter Poker Open Main Event
$1,650 Buy-In, $500,000 Guaranteed
Level 13: 1,000/2,000/300 | Structure
Flight B Players Remaining: 53/189
With a late-position raise already in the middle, Brett Bader was in the small blind and three-bet to 15,800. It was back on the original raiser and he four-bet to 41,000. Bader was up again and he reached into his stack for an all-in bet having the opponent well covered. Were he to get a call and win the pot, Bader would have been the chip leader. The opponent folded after a bit in the tank and Bader took the pot.
With the hand, Bader owned about 280,000 and contended with Farid Jattin for the chip lead — who just so happened to be sitting to Bader’s direct right.
Winter Poker Open Main Event
$1,650 Buy-In, $500,000 Guaranteed
Level 13: 1,000/2,000/300 | Structure
Flight B Players Remaining: 58/189
Fresh off a cash in the Bellagio’s WPT Five Diamond, Farid Jattin is a big chip leader here in the Winter Poker Open Main Event. Jattin has turned his 30,000 starting chips in to better than 370,000 and has a stranglehold on the Flight B field. If the flight were to end right now, he’d bag second in chips overall (just behind Flight A’s Juan Martinez). With two more levels to play, Jattin is a favorite to overtake the chip lead through Flight B.
The final break wrapped moments ago and the clock shows 57 players remaining. They’ll log two more levels before the Flight B action concludes.
Winter Poker Open Main Event
$1,650 Buy-In, $500,000 Guaranteed
Level 12: 800/1,600/200 | Structure
Flight B Players Remaining: 64/189
With registration closed and blinds climbing, there have been a number of players going bust as of late. Among those to find the rail are David Prociak, T.K. Miles and Filipp Khavin.
Winter Poker Open Main Event
$1,650 Buy-In, $500,000 Guaranteed
Level 12: 800/1,600/200 | Structure
Flight B Players Remaining: 64/189
Cord Garcia kicked it off with a raise to 4,100. It was on Tom Nguyen who three-bet to 10,300. It folded back to Garcia and he called.
The pair saw a flop of 
. Garcia checked and Nguyen bet 13,000. Garcia called.
The turn fell the 
and both players checked.
The river completed the action with the 
. Garcia checked a third time. Nguyen bet 21,000. Garcia broke down his remaining stack and eventually found a call.
Nguyen: 
for top pair
Garcia’s hand hit the muck and Nguyen took a nice pot growing his stack. Garcia was knocked down to about average.