Winter Poker Open Main Event
$1,650 Buy-In, $500,000 Guaranteed
Level 2: 75/150 | Structure
Flight B Entries: 83 | Total Entries: 248

Brian Reinert followed a bit of yesterday’s Winter Poker Open Main Event Flight A from his home in Atlanta. When he saw on Twitter the opener drew 164 entries generating a $246,000 prize pool with two flights still to come, the gears started turning.

164 with two more flights to go? ???? ???? ???? ???? ???? ???? ???? ???? ???? ???? ????

— Brian Reinert (@BrianReinert1) December 15, 2017

He booked a flight, secured a room in downtown Tampa and less than 24 hours later found a seat in today’s Flight B. Reinert has five reported tournament victories along with more than $560,000 in earnings. He hopes to add to those figures in this Main Event.

Winter Poker Open Main Event
$1,650 Buy-In, $500,000 Guaranteed
Level 2: 75/150 | Structure
Flight B Entries: 83 | Total Entries: 248

Tampa regular Marie Harrell is out of town and unable to make the Winter Poker Open Main Event, but that’s not to say she doesn’t have any skin in the game. Her son, Trey, satellited in last night and is in the action here in Flight B. He took a brutal beat early when his aces were bested by Jake Snider’s pocket tens on a ten-high flop (reported below), but he stayed collected and is looking to chip back up here during the early stages of the event.

Winter Poker Open Main Event
$1,650 Buy-In, $500,000 Guaranteed
Level 1: 50/100 | Structure
Flight B Entries: 66 | Total Entries: 230

The board was complete — . Jake Snider was in the small blind facing off against Trey Harrell in middle position. Snider checked and Harrell bet 5,500. It was back on Snider and he check-raised making it 15,000 total. Harrell went into the tank for a few moments before he found a call.

Snider: for a boat
Harrell: for aces-up

It was a brutal beat for Harrell, but he lived to fight another day. Snider stacked a nice pot and got his Winter Poker Open Main Event started off in style.

Winter Poker Open Main Event
$1,650 Buy-In, $500,000 Guaranteed
Level 1: 50/100 | Structure
Flight B Entries: 46 | Total Entries: 210

It’s 11am and we’re a go for Flight B of the $500,000 guaranteed Winter Poker Open Main Event. Yesterday’s play saw a huge, 164-entry field pony up the $1,650 buy-in putting the unofficial prize pool at $246,000 and growing. With today’s Flight B and tomorrow’s Flight C still to come, players and staff alike are gearing up for what could be a huge series.

Here are the details on today’s play:

11am: $1,650 Main Event ($500,000 guaranteed), Flight B

• $1,650 buy-in, $500,000 guaranteed
• 30,000 chips and 45-/60-minute levels
• A one-hour dinner break occurs following Level 9 (~6:15pm)
• Registration and unlimited re-entry until the start of Level 10 (~7:15pm)
• Day 1 concludes following Level 14 (~11:15pm)
• Day 2 begins Sunday, December 17 at 12pm
• Day 3 begins Monday, December 18 at 2pm
• Structure sheet

Good luck, players!

11am: $1,650 Main Event ($500,000 guaranteed), Flight B

• $1,650 buy-in, $500,000 guaranteed
• 30,000 chips and 45-/60-minute levels
• A one-hour dinner break occurs following Level 9 (~6:15pm)
• Registration and unlimited re-entry until the start of Level 10 (~7:15pm)
• Day 1 concludes following Level 14 (~11:15pm)
• Day 2 begins Sunday, December 17 at 12pm
• Day 3 begins Monday, December 18 at 2pm
• Structure sheet

4pm: $200 Winter Poker Open Main Event Satellite (1-in-10)

• $200 buy-in and five seats guaranteed
• 10,000 chips and 20-minute levels
• Registration and unlimited re-entry available until the start of Level 9 (~7:10pm)
• Structure sheet

2017 Winter Poker Open Tournament Schedule

That’s a wrap on Thursday at the Winter Poker Open. Below is a look at what’s in store for Friday as the Main Event continues at 11am with Flight B:

• 11am: $1,650 Main Event ($500,000 guaranteed), Flight B
• 4pm: $200 Winter Poker Open Main Event Satellite (1-in-10)
  

2017 Winter Poker Open Tournament Schedule

Goodnight and see you in the morning!

Winter Poker Open Main Event
$1,650 Buy-In, $500,000 Guaranteed
Day 2 Blinds: 1,500/3,000/500 | Structure
Players Remaining: 38/164

Flight A: 164 Entries, 38 Advanced
Flight B: Friday at 11am
Flight C: Saturday at 11am
Day 2: Sunday at 12pm
Day 3: Monday at 2pm

Day 2 chip counts through Flight A:

Winter Poker Open Main Event
$1,650 Buy-In, $500,000 Guaranteed
End of Level 14: 1,200/2,400/400 | Structure
Players Remaining: 43/164

That’s a wrap on Flight A of the Winter Poker Open Main Event. It appears to be Juan Martinez that will bag the chip lead owning a stack of 377,500 and Brandon Tjhang that will go down second in the counts with 305,000.

Complete chip counts will be posted around 1am.

Winter Poker Open Main Event
$1,650 Buy-In, $500,000 Guaranteed
Level 14: 1,200/2,400/400 | Structure
Players Remaining: 55/164

The last level of the night is going and players are set to log less than 45 more minutes of action before bagging and tagging. Here’s a look at some of the names still in:

• Anthony Astarita
• Terri Ann Crawford
• Mark Wiser
• Brandon Byars
• Randy Spain
• John Racener
• Jeffrey Trudeau, Jr.
• Rafael Fernandes
• Josias Santos
• Austin Buchanan
• Nick Costarelis
• John Templeton
• Joe De Lucia
• Garth Fudens

Winter Poker Open Main Event
$1,650 Buy-In, $500,000 Guaranteed
Level 13: 1,000/2,000/300 | Structure
Players Remaining: 62/164

The board was dealt through the turn and it laid .

With a big pot already built, Juan Martinez and defending Winter Poker Open Main Event champion David Bradshaw got the last of Martinez’s 89,800 chips in the middle. Martinez was good with against Bradhshaw’s , but needed to fade the river.

River:

He faded the river indeed and a massive pot was sent the way Martinez. Bradshaw was crippled and busted soon after. Martinez, meanwhile, shot to the chip lead with 250,000.