Winter Poker Open Main Event
$1,650 Buy-In, $500,000 Guaranteed
Heading to Level 13: 1,000/2,000/300 | Payouts
Flight C Players Remaining: 107/318

Players are heading on their final break of the night. When they return, they’ll log two more levels of play before bagging, tagging and returning for Day 2 tomorrow at 12pm.

Winter Poker Open Main Event
$1,650 Buy-In, $500,000 Guaranteed
Level 12: 800/1,600/200 | Payouts
Flight C Players Remaining: 112/318

Joey Wideman saw a brutal end to his Flight B yesterday. He went broke holding on a board. He got it in on the river with Tom Nguyen who had the best of it with . Wideman sent a huge pot Nguyen’s way and was left bust.

Tonight he’s trending the other direction late in the game. He’s stacked some pots and has about 240,000 in front of him.

Winter Poker Open Main Event
$1,650 Buy-In, $500,000 Guaranteed
Level 11: 600/1,200/200 | Payouts
Flight C Players Remaining: 123/318

Board:

Jeremy Costa was out of position in a heads-up pot against Karl Manouchakian. Costa checked and Manouchakien bet 7,000. Costa snapped and flipped over for a flush. Manouchakian mucked and Costa took the pot growing his stack to a still-modest 50,000.

Winter Poker Open Main Event
$1,650 Buy-In, $500,000 Guaranteed
Level 11: 600/1,200/200 | Payouts
Flight C Players Remaining: 129/318

Alan Schein is going good with registration closed. The South Florida resident owns more than $1,300,000 including four tournament victories and is hitting his stride here in the Main Event. His stack currently totals about 230,000.

Winter Poker Open Main Event
$1,650 Buy-In, $500,000 Guaranteed
Level 10: 500/1,000/100 | Payouts
Flight C Players Remaining: 137/318

With registration closed and a prize pool of $1,006,500 up for grabs, defending Winter Poker Open Main Event champion David Bradshaw is back on the grind. He currently enjoys a stack of 230,000 good for one of the biggest in the room.

Players are set to log about three more hours of play before they’ll bag, tag and return tomorrow at 12pm for Day 2.

2017 Winter Poker Open
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Tampa, Florida
Event 5
$1,650 Main Event
Entries: 671
Prize Pool: $1,006,500
December 14-18, 2017

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 10: 500/1,000/100 | Structure
Flight C Entries: 318 | Total Entries: 671

Cards are back in the air and registration is closed in the Winter Poker Open Main Event. As is, the field sits at an unofficial 671 entries generating a total prize pool of $1,006,500. Stay tuned for official payouts.

Winter Poker Open Main Event
$1,650 Buy-In, $500,000 Guaranteed
Heading to Level 10: 500/1,000/100 | Structure
Flight C Entries: 309 | Total Entries: 662

Players in the Main Event are on a one-hour dinner break and the Flight C clock reads 309 in the game. They pair with the 353 from Flight A and B to make a combined field of 662. That puts the unofficial prize pool at $993,000 — just five entries shy of $1,000,000.

Stay tuned! Cards go back in the air at about 7:15pm.

Winter Poker Open Main Event
$1,650 Buy-In, $500,000 Guaranteed
Level 9: 400/800/100 | Structure
Flight C Entries: 304 | Total Entries: 657

After a few blanks, Karl Manouchakian is catching traction here in Flight C. With the clock showing an impressive 304 entries late in Level 9, Manouchakian is sitting on about 120,000 chips. That figure is just shy of the Day 2 average to this point and has Manouchakian in decent shape as he looks to find a bag.

With 304 entries, the combined field is 657, just 10 players shy of the $1,000,000 prize pool mark.

Winter Poker Open Main Event
$1,650 Buy-In, $500,000 Guaranteed
Level 8: 300/600/75 | Structure
Flight C Entries: 291 | Total Entries: 644

Almog Biton recently surrendered a small pot when when raised the button to 2,000 and the small blind called. The duo saw a flop of and both players checked. The turn was the and the small blind checked. Biton bet 2,000 and the small blind called. The river was the . The small blind checked again and Biton bet 5,000. The small blind called and Biton insta-folded face down.

Despite the lost pot, Biton owns a stack of about 120,000.