Winter Poker Open Main Event
$1,650 Buy-In, $500,000 Guaranteed
Level 20: 5,000/10,000/1,000 | Payouts
Players Remaining: 41/671
Winter Poker Open Main Event
$1,650 Buy-In, $500,000 Guaranteed
Level 20: 5,000/10,000/1,000 | Payouts
Players Remaining: 42/671
Seminole Hard Rock Poker team member Mike Laake began Day 2 with a top-15 stack and only trended up in the hours that followed. Now, midway through the days sixth level, Laake enjoys a stack of 1,550,000.
Mike Laake – 1,550,000
Winter Poker Open Main Event
$1,650 Buy-In, $500,000 Guaranteed
Level 20: 5,000/10,000/1,000 | Payouts
Players Remaining: 43/671
In a raised pot, Thai Ha was in early position against Farid Jattin on the button.
Flop: 
Ha lead and Jattin called.
Turn: 
Ha checked. Jattin bet 64,000. Ha called.
River: 
Ha checked again. Jattin reached deep into his stack and came back out with a 303,000-chip bet. Ha thought for a bit before he called.
Jattin: 
for top set
Ha’s cards hit the muck and Jattin took a big pot.
Farid Jattin – 1,340,000
Thai Ha – 800,000
Winter Poker Open Main Event
$1,650 Buy-In, $500,000 Guaranteed
Level 20: 5,000/10,000/1,000 | Payouts
Players Remaining: 49/671
Rob Manjura was in a heads-up pot with Witold Wasik. On a board of 
, Manjura was out of position with Wasik on the button. According to the table, Wasik shoved about 388,000 out of turn into a roughly 250,000 pot. After a clarification on the ruling in this situation, Manjura checked, the all-in bet stood and Manjura called having Wasik covered.
Manjura: 
for a set of fives
Wasik: 
for top pair and a flush draw
River:
Wasik spiked his flush and he doubled through Manjura. Manjura busted a few hands later while Wasik enjoyed a stack of over 1,000,000.
Witold Wasik – 1,200,000
Rob Manjura – Eliminated in 50th place ($3,925)
Winter Poker Open Main Event
$1,650 Buy-In, $500,000 Guaranteed
Level 19: 4,000/8,000/1,000 | Payouts
Players Remaining: 54/671
55th: Terri-Anne Crawford – $3,422
56th: Amelio Amato – $3,422
57th: Chris McLean – $3,422
58th: Plamen Stoyanov – $3,422
59th: Elilton Gouveia – $3,422
60th: Paul Stanechewski – $3,422
61st: James Rumptz – $3,422
62nd: Joe De Lucia – $3,422
63rd: Myung Shin – $3,422
Winter Poker Open Main Event
$1,650 Buy-In, $500,000 Guaranteed
Level 19: 4,000/8,000/1,000 | Payouts
Players Remaining: 63/671
With 65 players left, shortstack Randy Spain limped the small blind and start-of-day chip leader Farid Jattin promptly piled in a stack of gray. Spain got the last of his roughly 120,000-chips stack in, too, and the hands were face up.
Jattin: 
Spain: 
Runout: 
Jattin’s deuces held and Spain busted 65th sending the tournament down to the final 64 players and the money bubble.
Before the hand could finish, though, Brandon Caputo and Chad DeBerry finished out a hand a few tables down that would burst the bubble.
The board laid 
and Caputo check-shoved having DeBerry covered. DeBerry called off and flipped over 
for a set. DeBerry’s 
pair and a flush draw was second best, but he had outs.
River:
Caputo’s flush draw came through and DeBerry was the bubble boy sending the last 63 into the money.
1st – $241,651 + Guitar Trophy
2nd – $135,878
3rd – $85,553
4th – $69,449
5th – $55,358
6th – $45,796
7th – $36,737
8th – $27,679
9th – $19,124
10th-12th – $13,085
13th-15th – $9,562
16th-18th – $7,046
19th-27th – $5,536
28th-36th – $4,932
37th-45th – $4,429
46th-54th – $3,925
55th-63rd – $3,422
Winter Poker Open Main Event
$1,650 Buy-In, $500,000 Guaranteed
Level 19: 4,000/8,000/1,000 | Payouts
Players Remaining: 66/671
2016 WPTDeepStacks-Tampa Main Event champion Anthony Astarita hit the rail shortly before the second break of the day. Players return to their seats in a few short minutes with the clock showing 66 still around and only the top 63 spots finishing in the money.
Anthony Astarita – Eliminated
Winter Poker Open Main Event
$1,650 Buy-In, $500,000 Guaranteed
Level 18: 3,000/6,000/1,000 | Payouts
Players Remaining: 67/671
John-Christian Templeton was in the cutoff and jammed his last 57,000. It was on Cedric Tercy on the button and he flatted. The small blind shoved for 109,000 total. After a couple minutes in the tank, Tercy folded. Templeton was at risk against a single player.
Small blind: 
Templeton: 
Runout: 
Templeton spiked a 10 on the river to stay alive with a triple up.
John-Christian Templeton – 189,000
Winter Poker Open Main Event
$1,650 Buy-In, $500,000 Guaranteed
Level 18: 3,000/6,000/1,000 | Payouts
Players Remaining: 69/671
According to the table, Thai Ha faced off against Alan Schein on an 
flop. Schein got about 200,000 in the middle and Ha called.
Schein: 
for top pair
Ha: 
for second pair
Ha was behind, but spiked his queen to take the lead in the hand. Schein was unable to recover and Ha took a huge pot.
Thai Ha – 1,000,000
Alan Schein – Eliminated
Winter Poker Open Main Event
$1,650 Buy-In, $500,000 Guaranteed
Level 18: 3,000/6,000/1,000 | Payouts
Players Remaining: 75/671
Joe Skarzynski claimed on a 
runout. He had 202,500 chips against his opponent’s . Skarzynski was best and he doubled through with queens.
Skarzynski began the day with a top 10 stack and the most-recent double up has him back over 400,000.
Joe Skarzynski – 423,000