$1,650 Winter Poker Open Championship
Level 20: 5,000/10,000/1,000 Ante

Table 1

Seat 1: Cory Waaland
Seat 2: Timothy Miles
Seat 3: Carl Carodenuto
Seat 4: Corey Thompson
Seat 5: Shawn Barnett
Seat 6: Sheddy Siddiqui
Seat 7: Jonathan Lagace-Bastien
Seat 8: John Holley
Seat 9: Antuan Bunkley

Table 2

Seat 1: Michael Raimon
Seat 2: John Duhig
Seat 3: Alex Ivan
Seat 4: Thomas Jackson
Seat 5: — empty —
Seat 6: Robert Georato
Seat 7: Steve Karp
Seat 8: John-Christian Templeton
Seat 9: Jon Graham

Table 3

Seat 1: Michael Ferrer
Seat 2: Eric Wilkinson
Seat 3: Craig Eshleman
Seat 4: Ron West
Seat 5: Steve Cohen
Seat 6: Robert Melo
Seat 7: Tony March
Seat 8: David Lappano
Seat 9: Paul Stanechewski

$1,650 Winter Poker Open Championship
Level 20: 5,000/10,000/1,000 Ante

With nine minutes remaining in Level 20, former WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown final table member Andre Crooks was sent out of the Championship in 28th place.

Tournament staff paused the clock for the three-table redraw but Todd Breyfogle wouldn’t be a part of it either. He moved in with but couldn’t catch up to to leave us with 26 after they all receive new seats.

Alex Ivan, Antuan Bunkley, Jonathan Lagace-Bastien, John Holley, and Seminole Hard Rock Poker ambassador Sheddy Siddiqui are still around.

$1,650 Winter Poker Open Championship
Level 20: 5,000/10,000/1,000 Ante

Sean Shah doubled fellow Florida pro John Holley to get short. A few hands later, he got his last 74,000 in from under the gun and David Lappano called from his direct left. It folded all the way around and Shah was at risk against a lone opponent.

Lappano:
Shah:

The dealer burned and turned a runout eliminating Shah 31st for $3,737.

Lappano’s stack, meanwhile, grew to roughly 630,000 chips.

$1,650 Winter Poker Open Championship
Level 20: 5,000/10,000/1,000 Ante

Alex Ivan had a top five chip stack coming into Day 2 but lost a few before he showed up. He’s pulled those back and added enough chips to put him at 1,250,000 as the field crawls down toward the three-table redraw.

With 31 players remaining, the redraw is racing with the dinner-break set for the end of the level in 20 minutes.

$1,650 Winter Poker Open Championship
Level 20: 5,000/10,000/1,000 Ante

James Smith is the latest victim of chip leader Jonathan Lagace-Bastien. The flop was out. Smith got the last of his chips in and Lagace-Bastien called.

Lagace-Bastien: for a set
Smith: for top pair

The turn and river completed the action and Smith busted 32nd earning $3,737.

Lagace-Bastien retains the chip lead with a stack of 1,300,000.

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

It didn’t take long for the Championship field to lose an entire table worth of players after getting in the money. They weren’t tearing things up after the first break but the quick bubble let a few shorter stacks slide into the money.

Seminole Hard Rock Poker Tampa ambassador was among those to cash in the Championship, his seventh of the series. He had to settle for a min-cash but he immediately jumped into the Turbo event to close out his Winter Poker Open

37th: Konstantinos Pantaridis – $3,398
38th: Aric Pluskat – $3,398
39th: Herbert Woodbery – $3,398
40th: Wally Maddah – $3,398
41st: William Burdick – $3,398
42nd: Saum Sharifi – $3,398
43rd: Chris Mitchell – $3,398
44th: David Dibernardi – $3,398
45th: Jimmy Dowda – $3,398

$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.