$1,650 Winter Poker Open Main Event
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 28:  40,000/80,000 with a 80,000 ante
Players Remaining:  3 of 479

Duff Charette open-shoved from under the gun for 1,165,000 and David Moses reshipped from the button with his chip leading stack. Justin Zaki and TK Miles folded their blinds and they were heads up.

Moses:
Charette:

Charette ran into a bigger ace and he found no help on the flop to exit in fourth place for $44,367.

David Moses – 6,665,000 (83 bb)
Duff Charette – Eliminated in 4th Place ($44,367)

$1,650 Winter Poker Open Main Event
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 28:  40,000/80,000 with a 80,000 ante
Players Remaining:  4 of 479

David Moses opened the action under the gun with a big ship all in for his big stack. Justin Zaki folded, Manny Minaya called all in on the button and the blinds folded.

“You’re ahead,” Moses said before the cards were flipped up.

Moses:
Minaya:

Minaya was ahead but he needed to fade the over cards. Moses paired his ten on the flop and Minaya was out in fifth place after the board finished with the turn and river.

David Moses – 5,500,000 (69 bb)
Manny Minaya – Eliminated in 5th Place ($34,165)

$1,650 Winter Poker Open Main Event
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 28:  40,000/80,000 with a 80,000 ante
Players Remaining:  5 of 479

Nick Mann was the only player eliminated over the last two hours while Manny Minaya and David Moses found needed doubles. Blinds are going up to 40,000/80,000 with an 80,000 big blind ante and the average stack is 2,880,000 (36 bb).

Seat 2: TK Miles – 3,845,000 (48 bb)
Seat 4: Duff Charette – 1,350,000 (17 bb)
Seat 5: David Moses – 3,885,000 (49 bb)
Seat 8: Justin Zaki – 3,610,000 (45 bb)
Seat 9: Manny Minaya – 1,710,000 (21 bb)

Remaining payouts:

1st: $149,595
2nd: $104,750
3rd: $67,345
4th: $44,367
5th: $34,165

$1,650 Winter Poker Open Main Event
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 27:  30,000/60,000 with a 60,000 ante
Players Remaining:  5 of 479

David Moses and Justin Zaki were heads up in the blinds to a flop. Moses checked from the small blind, Zaki bet 275,000 from the big and Moses check-raised to 700,000.

Zaki looked at Moses’s stack, put in a big barrel of 100K chips and Moses called all in for 1,675,000.

Moses:
Zaki:

Zaki was ahead with top pair, top kicker and Moses had a diamond draw along with the ol’ double belly buster straight draw. The turn paired Moses’s six to give him 20 outs to the river. One of them was the to give him a seven-high straight and the double up.

David Moses – 3,650,000 (61 bb)
Justin Zaki – 3,725,000 (62 bb)

$1,650 Winter Poker Open Main Event
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 27:  30,000/60,000 with a 60,000 ante
Players Remaining:  5 of 479

Manny Minaya opened from the button and Duff Charette defended to the flop. Both players checked, the turn was , and Charette bet 170,000.

Minaya called, the river was and Charette bet enough to Minaya all in for his last 505,000. Minaya quickly called with for a pair of queens to top Charette’s .

Manny Minaya – 1,590,000 (27 bb)
Duff Charette – 1,895,000 (32 bb)

$1,650 Winter Poker Open Main Event
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 27:  30,000/60,000 with a 60,000 ante
Players Remaining:  5 of 479

Nick Mann opened to 135,000 from under the gun and picked up calls from Justin Zaki and Manny Minaya in the blinds. The flop was , Zaki checked from the small blind, Minaya checked in the big blind, and Mann bet 210,000.

Only Zaki came along and the turn was . Zaki checked, Mann bet 375,000 and Zaki check-raised to 925,000. Mann thought for a few minutes, announced all in, and Zaki quickly called.

Zaki:
Mann:

Zaki flopped a set of eights against Mann’s rockets and the river finished the board. Mann was all in for ~2,100,000 and Zaki it covered to send him out in sixth place.

Justin Zaki – 5,400,000 (90 bb)
Nick Mann – Eliminated in 6th Place ($28,295)

$1,650 Winter Poker Open Main Event
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 27:  30,000/60,000 with a 60,000 ante
Players Remaining:  6 of 479

With the deep stacks, there were no major pots after the Duff Charette/David Moses battle. The blinds are up to 30,000/60,000 with a 60,000 big blind ante and the average stack is 2,400,000 (40 bb).

Seat 1: Nick Mann – 2,350,000 (39 bb)
Seat 2: TK Miles – 3,325,000 (55 bb)
Seat 4: Duff Charette – 2,060,000 (34 bb)
Seat 5: David Moses – 1,875,000 (31 bb)
Seat 8: Justin Zaki – 3,075,000 (51 bb)
Seat 9: Manny Minaya – 1,715,000 (29 bb)

Remaining payouts:

1st: $149,595
2nd: $104,750
3rd: $67,345
4th: $44,367
5th: $34,165
6th: $28,295

$1,650 Winter Poker Open Main Event
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 26:  25,000/50,000 with a 50,000 ante
Players Remaining:  6 of 479

Duff Charette limped from the small blind, David Moses checked in the big, and the flop came . Charette bet 50,000 and Moses called. The turn was , Charette bet another 125,000 and Moses called.

The river was , Charette fired a final bullet of 300,000 and Moses called. Charette flipped up for two pair and Moses showed before mucking.

It was a continuing trend for Moses after the break, dropping down after several of his early raises and three-bets were shoved out of the way but opponents.

Duff Charette – 2,375,000 (48 bb)
David Moses – 1,175,000 (24 bb)

$1,650 Winter Poker Open Main Event
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 26:  25,000/50,000 with a 50,000 ante
Players Remaining:  6 of 479

The six remaining players were sent on the first break of the day. They return to blinds at 25,000/50,000 with a 50,000 big blind ante and the average stack at 2,400,000 (48 bb)

Seat 1: Nick Mann – 2,560,000 (51 bb)
Seat 2: TK Miles – 2,580,000 (52 bb)
Seat 4: Duff Charette – 1,760,000 (35 bb)
Seat 5: David Moses – 2,125,000 (43 bb)
Seat 8: Justin Zaki – 2,635,000 (53 bb)
Seat 9: Manny Minaya – 2,740,000 (55 bb)

Remaining payouts:

1st: $149,595
2nd: $104,750
3rd: $67,345
4th: $44,367
5th: $34,165
6th: $28,295

$1,650 Winter Poker Open Main Event
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 25:  20,000/40,000 with a 40,000 ante
Players Remaining:  6 of 479

Manny Minaya opened to 85,000 from the button and TK Miles defended his big blind to see the flop. Miles checked, Minaya bet 75,000 and Miles check-raised to 225,000.

Minaya called, the turn came and Miles continued for 350,000. Minaya stood up, checked out the stack of Miles, and called.

The river was and Miles moved all in for 820,000. Minaya thought for a minute before mucking the big pot to Miles.

TK Miles – 2,140,000 (54 bb)
Manny Minaya – 2,275,000 (57 bb)