Winter Poker Open Main Event
$1,650 Buy-In, $500,000 Guaranteed
Level 18: 3,000/6,000/1,000 | Payouts
Players Remaining: 77/671

Cord Garcia is a recent elimination in the Winter Poker Open Main Event. The 2015 World Series of Poker Colossus gold bracelet champion busted shy of the money as roughly 77 players remaining and 63 pay.

Cord Garcia – Eliminated

Winter Poker Open Main Event
$1,650 Buy-In, $500,000 Guaranteed
Level 17: 2,500/5,000/500 | Payouts
Players Remaining: 79/671

Play has moved along on Day 2 and the clock shows only 79 players remaining. Only the top 63 finish in the money meaning the tournament is less than two tables away from a pay day.

Stay tuned for hand-for-hand details.

Winter Poker Open Main Event
$1,650 Buy-In, $500,000 Guaranteed
Level 17: 2,500/5,000/500 | Payouts
Players Remaining: 84/671

Farid Jattin began the day at the top of the counts while Juan Martinez sat third. Now, less than three levels into the day, the duo shares Table 8. Martinez began the restart hot, but recently doubled up Terri-Anne Crawford shipping a sizable pot her way. Jattin, meanwhile, has chipped up a bit and holds over 600,000.

Other notables at Table 8 include Austin Buchanan and Rob Manjura, both with chips.

Farid Jattin – 620,000
Juan Martinez – 235,000

Winter Poker Open Main Event
$1,650 Buy-In, $500,000 Guaranteed
Level 17: 2,500/5,000/500 | Payouts
Players Remaining: 17/671

Huyen Vo had her last 74,000 at risk against Winter Poker Open $570 runner-up Cedric Tercy. Vo was in tough shape with versus Tercy’s .

The runout fell now help and Vo was eliminated while Tercy stacked her chips.

Cedric Tercy – 236,000
Huyen Vo – Eliminated

Winter Poker Open Main Event
$1,650 Buy-In, $500,000 Guaranteed
Level 16: 2,000/4,000/500 | Payouts
Players Remaining: 96/671

There was three-way action on a board. Brandon Byars was all-in from the small blind for about 25,000. Anthony Astarita was in early position and action was on him. He folded sending it around to Brandon Tjhang on the button. Tjhang called and the hands were up.

Tjhang: for top pair
Byars: for a pair of eights

Turn and river:

Byars was eliminated as the clock dipped below 100 players remaining.

Brandon Byars – Eliminated

Winter Poker Open Main Event
$1,650 Buy-In, $500,000 Guaranteed
Level 16: 2,000/4,000/500 | Payouts
Players Remaining: 102/671

Charlemagne Benjamin was eliminated by Satish Surapaneni moments ago in an all-in preflop confrontation.

Benjamin (small blind):
Surapaneni (big blind):

Runout:

Benjamin flopped a king, but the board ran out with four diamonds. Surapaneni claimed the and his flush was good. Benjamin surrendered the last of his 39,000 chips and hit the rail early on Day 2.

Satish Surapaneni – 450,000
Charlemagne Benjamin – Eliminated

Winter Poker Open Main Event
$1,650 Buy-In, $500,000 Guaranteed
Level 16: 2,000/4,000/500 | Payouts
Players Remaining: 112/671

We approached the tabled to find the board dealt and the action complete. Witold Wasik was an all-in player while Joey Wideman was on the wrong end of a double-up.

Board:

Wasik: for top set
Wideman: for a pair of jacks

Wideman shipped a double across the table to Wasik. The hand left Wideman, who started Day 2 with a top 10 stack, with only 32,000.

Witold Wasik – 280,000
Joey Wideman – 32,000

Winter Poker Open Main Event
$1,650 Buy-In, $500,000 Guaranteed
Level 15: 1,500/3,000/500 | Payouts
Players Remaining: 119/671

Defending Winter Poker Open Main Event champion David Bradshaw just hit the rail courtesy of Talesh Patel. Last year, Bradshaw defeated 489 entries earning better than $154,000.

With that, only 2015 champion John Christian Templeton remains in the game and drawing live for a two-time title.

Talesh Patel – 290,000
David Bradshaw – Eliminated

Winter Poker Open Main Event
$1,650 Buy-In, $500,000 Guaranteed
Level 15: 1,500/3,000/500 | Payouts
Players Remaining: 122/671

It’s been a quick exit to start Day 2 with nearly three tables breaking since cards when in the air less than 45 minutes ago. Among the early exits were John Dolan and Bill McKown.

John Dolan – Eliminated
Bill McKown – Eliminated

Winter Poker Open Main Event
$1,650 Buy-In, $500,000 Guaranteed
Level 15: 1,500/3,000/500 | Payouts
Players Remaining: 131/671

Juan Martinez built his holdings up to over 500,000 to take the chip lead from Farid Jattin early. Shortly after, we approached Martinez’s table to find him in the cutoff with 30,000 in front of him and Haim Toorgeman on the button with an all-in bet of 162,000 in front of him. Martinez debated for a bit before folding queens face up. Toorgeman flashed aces and the pair shared a laugh.

“That’s the shit that’s wins championships right there,” Martinez said of his laydown.

Juan Martinez – 525,000
Haim Toorgeman – 190,000