$1,650 Winter Poker Open Championship
Level 19: 4,000/8,000/1,000 Ante

Jonathan Lagace-Bastien is your Championship chip leader following a pot against previous leader Antuan Bunkley. The board laid . Bunkley lead for 100,000 and Lagace-Bastien called. Bunkley flipped over and was second best to Lagace-Bastien’s for two pair.

The pot put Lagace-Bastien at 1,350,000 chips while Bunkley claimed 690,000.

$1,650 Winter Poker Open Championship
Level 18: 3,000/6,000/1,000 Ante

Shortly after he was moved to the table with “all the chips”, Cory Waaland played a big pot against some of those chips — Jonathan Lagace-Bastien.

The flop was and Lagace-Bastien lead for 20,000. Waaland made it 75,000 and Lagace-Bastien called.

The turn was the . Lagace-Bastien checked and Waaland bet 20,000. Lagace-Bastien called and they were off to the river.

The board completed with the and Lagace-Bastien checked again. Waaland counted down his stack, then bet out 50,000. Lagace-Bastien called. Waaland flipped over and took the pot over Lagace-Bastien’s queens.

Waaland now claims about 430,000 chips while Lagace-Bastien remains among the big stacks in the room.

$1,650 Winter Poker Open Championship
Level 18: 3,000/6,000/1,000 Ante

Event 3 winner John Duhig got things started when he busted a player 47th. That player had jammed from middle position and it folded all the way around to Duhig in the big blind. He asked for a count before he called.

At-risk player:
Duhig:

The runout came improving Duhig to a pair of aces and busting the at-risk player 47th.

Simultaneously, Corey Thompson was in the process of eliminating an unknown player 46th and bursting the money bubble. Thompson held against the of the unknown bubble boy. The board was and Thompson burst the bubble following a total of zero minutes of hand-for-hand play.

With that, each of the remaining 45 players are assured a payday. Notables still alive include Cory Waaland, Jonathan Lagace-Bastien, Wally Maddah and Sheddy Siddiqui.

Here’s a look at what they’ve locked up and what’s up top:

1st – $173,607
2nd – $100,226
3rd – $61,155
4th – $49,264
5th – $38,732
6th – $32,276
7th – $25,821
8th – $19,706
9th – $13,590
10th-12th – $8,834
13th-15th – $6,795
16th-18th – $5,368
19th-27th – $4,213
28th-36th – $3,737
37th-45th – $3,398

$1,650 Winter Poker Open Championship
Level 18: 3,000/6,000/1,000 Ante

Andre Crooks held against the of chip leader Carl Carodenuto and of another player in the hand. The money got all in preflop with Crooks risking his last 230,000 against the third player in the hand and Carodenuto who had both players covered.

The runout came and Crooks tripled to over 800,000 while Carodenuto and the third player in the hand split the side pot with sixes and tens with an ace.

Crooks holds roughly 825,000 while Carodenuto has 850,000.

$1,650 Winter Poker Open Championship
End of Level 17: 2,500/5,000/500 Ante

Players are on the first break of Day 2 with 52 players remaining and 45 getting paid. The chip average is hovering around 50 big blinds but that number is skewed thanks to the big stacks of Carl Carodenuto, Antuan Bunkley, and Ron West.

Carodenuto continues to lead with 1,100,000 over Bunkley’s 821,000 with West not far behind with 775,000.

Other notable players still around include John Holley (296,000), Tony March (109,000), and Seminole Hard Rock Poker ambassador Sheddy Siddiqui (310,000).

$1,650 Winter Poker Open Championship
Level 17: 2,500/5,000/500 Ante

The clock shows 54 players remaining toward the end of Level 17. That’s good for six full tables with only the final five tables — 45 players — finishing in the money.

Here’s a look at what’s on the line:

1st – $173,607
2nd – $100,226
3rd – $61,155
4th – $49,264
5th – $38,732
6th – $32,276
7th – $25,821
8th – $19,706
9th – $13,590
10th-12th – $8,834
13th-15th – $6,795
16th-18th – $5,368
19th-27th – $4,213
28th-36th – $3,737
37th-45th – $3,398

$1,650 Winter Poker Open Championship
Level 17: 2,500/5,000/500 Ante

Ron West suddenly holds one of the biggest stacks in the room after eliminating arguably the hottest player of the series, Daniel Ramirez. According to the table, Ramirez opened for 13,000 and another player called. Ron West three-bet to 41,000 and it folded to Ramirez who shoved for about 400,000. The other player in the hand folded and West called. Ramirez was the at-risk player.

Ramirez:
Ron West:

The flop came with one diamond. The turn was the giving West a flush draw to go with his straight possibilities and two overs. The river fell the pairing West’s ace and sending Ramirez to the rail.

The hand put West at 810,000 chips.

For Ramirez, the Winter Poker Open was a success no matter what happened in the Championship. He kicked the series off with a runner-up finish in Event 1 worth $24,528. From there, he finished 49th in Event 4, 39th in Event 7 and 3rd in Event 10.

$1,650 Winter Poker Open Championship
Level 17: 2,500/5,000/500 Ante

Carl Carodenuto, fresh off an MSPT title at Canterbury Park, spent much of yesterday’s Flight C toward the top of the counts before being bested by Antuan Bunkley’s uncanny heater. Carodenuto’s, like Bunkley’s, hot play has continued here on Day 2. After starting with 448,500 chips, he’s up over 900,000 and flirting with the 1,000,000 mark.

In addition to just being pretty darn impressive, that figure is good enough to put him at the top of the counts for now.

The clock shows 60 players remaining toward the end of Level 17 meaning the tournament is just a couple tables away from the money.

Below is an example of how someone moves their leading chip stack, food, drink, and sundries when your table breaks.

$150 Deep Stack Turbo No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 1: 25/50

The last of the Winter Poker Open primary events is underway at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Tampa. The $150 deep stack turbo no limit hold’em tournament is the third of its kind on the series schedule. The other two drew fields of just under and just over 200 players and finished in about seven hours a piece.

Players take their seats to starting stacks of 25,000 and will play 15-minute levels. Registration/re-entry remains open until the start of start of Level 13 and players have until then to help the tournament best its $15,000 guarantee.

EVENT 14 STRUCTURE SHEET

We will touch base with you again when the prize pool is finalized. Good luck players!

$1,650 Winter Poker Open Championship
Level 17: 2,500/5,000/500 Ante

Antuan Bunkley was on a heater to end Day 1 and, so far, riding it into the start of Day 2. He began the day with the lead and moved it up to 740,000 as they transitioned to Level 17. Seminole Hard Rock Poker regular Erik Christensen was one of his recent conquests when Bunkley flopped quad Sevens to send him out.

Bunkley doesn’t need to worry about racking up his huge castle of chips for a seat change. His starting Day 2 seat draw was the table which will eventually become the final table, all he needs to sweat is getting there and the three-table redraw.

Aq<77 all in on a77a turn to @BigCityBunk. #deathbyquads. Out. @SHRTPoker

— EC (@MiamiErikC) December 20, 2015