Winter Poker Open Main Event $1,650 Buy-In, $500,000 Guaranteed Level 27: 25,000/50,000/5,000 | Payouts Players Remaining: 8/671
John Racener raised to 125,000 from late position. Joseph Skarzynski called from the button and short stack Scott Caracciolo followed along from the small blind.
Flop: — All three players checked
Turn: — Caracciolo open-shoved for 740,000. It was on Racener and he called. Skarzynski folded and Caracciolo was at risk, but ahead.
Caracciolo: for aces up Racener: for a pair of aces
River:
Caracciolo doubled through Racener and the table headed on break.
Scott Caracciolo – 1,900,000 John Racener – 1,925,000
Winter Poker Open Main Event $1,650 Buy-In, $500,000 Guaranteed Level 27: 25,000/50,000/5,000 | Payouts Players Remaining: 8/671
John Racener opened to 125,000. Joseph Skarzynski called from late position as did Satish Surapaneni from the button and Kenneth O’Donnell from the big blind.
The flop fell and O’Donnell checked. Racener followed suit and it was on Skarzynski. He bet 250,000. Surapapeni folded the button as did O’Donnell the big blind. Racener called.
They were heads up to the turn and both checked.
The river fell the and Racener lead for 675,000. Skarzynski called and Racener tabled for a set. Racener took the pot.
John Racener – 3,000,000 Joseph Skarzynski – 3,350,000
Winter Poker Open Main Event $1,650 Buy-In, $500,000 Guaranteed Level 27: 25,000/50,000/5,000 | Payouts Players Remaining: 8/671
Seminole Hard Rock Poker team member, Mike Laake
Farid Jattin opened under the gun for 120,000. It was on Mike Laake in the cutoff and he shoved for just more than 1,250,000. Jattin called and the hands were up.
Jattin: Laake:
Runout:
Jattin smacked the flop improving to trips and eliminating Laake in ninth place.
Farid Jattin – 6,500,000 Mike Laake – Eliminated in 9th place ($19,124)
Winter Poker Open Main Event $1,650 Buy-In, $500,000 Guaranteed Level 27: 25,000/50,000/5,000 | Payouts Players Remaining: 9/671
Farid Jattin had raised the button to 255,000 and Joseph Skarzynski was the only one who came along in the small blind.
They saw a flop of and Skarzynski checked. Jattin bet 300,0000 and Skarzynski called.
The turn was the and both players checked.
Fifth street fell the and Skarzynski lead for 400,000. Jattin called and Skarzynski turned over for the nut flush. Jattin mucked and Skarzynski took the pot.
Joseph Skarzynski – 5,000,000 Farid Jattin – 5,300,000
Winter Poker Open Main Event $1,650 Buy-In, $500,000 Guaranteed Level 26: 20,000/40,000/5,000 | Payouts Players Remaining: 10/671
Cards are in the air for Day 2 with just over 45 minutes remaining in the 20,000/40,000 with a 5,000 ante level. Updates will be available now through the crowning of a champion.
Winter Poker Open Main Event $1,650 Buy-In, $500,000 Guaranteed
Farid Jattin
The monster field in the Winter Poker Open Main Event is down to 10 and on to Day 3. Leading the action is international pro Farid Jattin. Jattin tops the field by a margin claiming 5,500,000 of the 20,130,000 chips in play. Next up in the counts is Joseph Skarzynski with 3,990,000 followed by 2010 World Series of Poker Main Event runner up John Racener with 3,270,000. Seminole Hard Rock Poker team member Mike Laake and poker pro Filipp Khavin are also in contention, both with medium stacks.
The WPO finale drew a huge number with 671 entries ponying up the $1,650 buy-in. That generated a prize pool worth $1,006,500 and reserved a top score of $241,651 for the champion.
Cards go in the air at 2pm ET and updates will begin at that time. Good luck, players!
Winter Poker Open Main Event $1,650 Buy-In, $500,000 Guaranteed Level 26: 20,000/40,000/5,000 | Payouts Players Remaining: 10/671
Chip leader Farid Jattin
From 671 starting, just 10 remain in the $1,650 buy-in Winter Poker Open. Poker pro Farid Jattin leads a talented crew of players that includes John Racener, Seminole Hard Rock Poker team member Mike Laake, Filipp Khavin and Tampa regular Tom Nguyen.
Each player has locked up $13,085 with the winner’s share totaling $241,651. Play resumes Monday at 2pm and updates will pick up again at that time. While you wait, here’s a look at the updated results to this point:
11th: Jake Snider – $13,085 12th: Alban Frasheri – $13,085 13th: Josias Santos – $9,562 14th: Kevin Chan – $9,562 15th: Justin Harvell – $9,562 16th: Brandon Caputo – $7,046 17th: Nicholas Mann – $7,046 18th: Ioannis Patsourakis – $7,046 19th: Austin Buchanan – $5,536 20th: Chris McNamara – $5,536 21st: Mark Scarcewater – $5,536 22nd: Cedric Tercy – $5,536 23rd: David McCord – $5,536 24th: Leonard Demchak – $5,536 25th: Riss Ward – $5,536 26th: Ben Van Klink – $5,536 27th: John O’Neal – $5,536 28th: Derrick Cutler – $4,932 29th: Tim Shortell – $4,932 30th: Rafael Fernandes – $4,932 31st: Chris Hyden – $4,932 32nd: Almog Biton – $4,932 33rd: Brett Bader – $4,932 34th: Thai Ha – $4,932 35th: Troy Bercot – $4,932 36th: John-Christian Templeton – $4,932 37th: Abdel Bouanani – $4,429 38th: Juan Martinez – $4,429 39th: Douglas Marro – $4,429 40th: Mark Wiser – $4,429 41st: Michael Turton – $4,429 42nd: Jeffrey Trudeau, Jr. – $4,429 43rd: Joseph Mole – $4,429 44th: Robert Cornette – $4,429 45th: Marcus Gurley – $4,429 46th: Robert Woodward – $3,925 47th: Nghia Le – $3,925 48th: Kevin Dunlap – $3,925 49th: Bradley Patton – $3,925 50th: Robert Manjura – $3,925 51st: Brandon Tjhang – $3,925 52nd: Glorida Jackson – $3,925 53rd: Santana Noronha – $3,925 54th: Bartley O’Connell– $3,925 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
Additional information is available in the posts below.
Winter Poker Open Main Event $1,650 Buy-In, $500,000 Guaranteed Level 26: 20,000/40,000/5,000 | Payouts Players Remaining: 10/671
Jake Snider
Joe Skarzynski raised under the gun and Jake Snider jammed for about 500,000. Skarzynski called and the hands were tabled.
Skarzynski: Snider:
Skarzynski, who had Snider covered, flopped a jack and that spelled the end for Snider. With that, the final 10 are bagging, tagging and heading home before returning Monday at 2pm to play to a champion.
Complete Day 2 chip counts will be posted shortly.
— All three players checked
— Caracciolo open-shoved for 740,000. It was on Racener and he called. Skarzynski folded and Caracciolo was at risk, but ahead.
for aces up
for a pair of aces
and O’Donnell checked. Racener followed suit and it was on Skarzynski. He bet 250,000. Surapapeni folded the button as did O’Donnell the big blind. Racener called.
and Racener lead for 675,000. Skarzynski called and Racener tabled 
for a set. Racener took the pot.
and Skarzynski checked. Jattin bet 300,0000 and Skarzynski called.
and both players checked.
and Skarzynski lead for 400,000. Jattin called and Skarzynski turned over 
— Surapaneni checked and Skarzynski bet 80,000. Surapaneni called.
for a straight
for a set
— Nguyen lead for 150,000 and Wasik called.
— Nguyen checked. Wasik bet 350,000 leaving himself 795,000 behind. Nguyen called.
