$360 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$250,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 13:  1,500/3,000 with a 3,000 ante
Players Remaining:  131 of 1,010

Flight A ended with 0:43 remaining in Level 13. The starting Day 2 level will roll back to the earliest finishing flight.

Flight A: 74 Entries; 8 Advanced
Flight B: 116 Entries; 13 Advanced
Flight C: 99 Entries; 14 Advanced
Flight D: 173 Entries; 20 Advanced
Flight E: 185 Entries; 25 Advanced
Flight F: 363 Entries; 51 Advanced
Day 2: Sunday at 11 am

$360 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$250,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 14: 2,000/3,000 with a 3,000 ante
Flight F Players Remaining:  51 of 363

Flight F came to an end with 51 players advancing of the 363 starters putting a combined Day 2 field at 132. They will return on Sunday at 11 am and continue the march to the title.

Alan Ramkhalawan looked like he was going to take the overall but dropped the last pot to Vitor Coelho. His 397,000 was still good enough for the Flight F lead and will be in great shape coming back.

We will post the complete Day 2 chip counts and seat assignments as soon as they are available.

$360 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$250,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 13: 1,000/3,000 with a 3,000 ante
Flight F Players Remaining:  61 of 363

There were few massive stacks at the last break but a couple are starting to make a move. Charles Kahrs, fifth-place finisher in the 2018 WPTDeepStacks Tampa Main Event, is up to a very comfortable 338,000 with less than an hour remaining in the day.

His tablemate Robert Schmal is also doing well with 320,000 to put a lot of chips in play at Table 11.

$360 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$250,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 12: 1,000/2,000 with a 2,000 ante
Flight F Players Remaining:  99 of 363

The last break of the day is complete and we have some new players in contention for the Day 2 chip lead. At the top is Barbara Cardin, multiple Tampa final tablist, with her 186,000 leading the pack.

Maxwell Loveland (161,000) and Vincent Yenko (154,000) are also looking good with only three levels remaining today.

$360 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$250,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 11: 1,000/1,500 with a 1,500 ante
Flight F Players Remaining:  126 of 363

Flight F is flying along and only 126 players are still around of the starting 363 entries. That means some stacks must be building and we found a nice one in front of Bryce McVay.

The two-time Tampa Turbo winner is up to 133,500 with a little over four more levels to run it higher.

2019 Winter Poker Open
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Tampa, Florida
Event 2
$360 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$250,000 Guaranteed
Entries: 1,010
Prize Pool: $303,000
December 4-8, 2019

The accounting is complete and we have the official numbers for Winter Poker Open Event 2. The $360 buy-in tournament drew 1,010 entries to create a prize pool worth $303,000 and beat the $250,000 guarantee.

The last 102 spots will be paid out with a min-cash earning $612 and the Event 2 banks $53,902 along with the Winter Poker Open Guitar Trophy.

1st: $53,902 + Guitar Trophy
2nd: $37,799
3rd: $24,404
4th: $18,059
5th: $13,756
6th: $10,926
7th: $9,042
8th: $7,193
9th: $5,390
10th-12th: $4,427
13th-15th: $3,506
16th-18th: $2,909
19th-21st: $2,388
22nd-24th: $2,024
25th-27th: $1,676
28th-36th: $1,394
37th-45th: $1,212
46th-54th: $1,076
55th-63rd: $973
64th-72nd: $885
73rd-81st: $809
82nd-90th: $742
91st-99th: $676
100th-102nd: $612

$360 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$250,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 9: 500/1,000 with a 1,000 ante
Flight F Entries:  363

There was a late surge at the registration desk and Flight F hit 363 entries to push the combined total to 1,010 for a $303,000 prize pool. A great turnout for the first multi-flight tournament of the series.

Tournament staff are calculation the payouts and we will post them as soon as they are available.

Chip counts through Flight E

$360 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$250,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 8: 400/800 with a 800 ante
Flight F Entries:  338

Level 8 is here which means time is running out if you want to be a part of the big Event 2 field. They will take a 15-minute break when the level is complete and registration will close down for good for this tournament.

$360 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$250,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 6: 300/500 with a 500 ante
Flight F Entries:  315

Flight F hit 300 entries in Level 6 and showing no signs of slowing down. Recent arrivals including Wally Maddah, Rafael Reis, and James Calderaro.

“Caldo” is the most accomplished player in today’s field though he only has two recorded tournament wins. But they were big ones.

In 2014, Calderaro put his name on the WPT Champions Cup with a win in the WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open Championship in Hollywood and added a WSOP bracelet in 2017 for a win in the $25K Pot Limit Omaha High Roller.

$360 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$250,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 5: 200/400 with a 400 ante
Flight F Entries:  285

Players are back in their seats as we continue to see a surge in the entry count. Another 60 jumped in recently and the field is very close to pushing the prize pool over $300,000.

There were few huge stacks found during the break but there was at least one. SHR Tampa regular Abdelouahed Bouanani is stacked up to 81,100 going into Level 5, more than 4x his starting stack.

He has two wins here on property but his biggest score came at our sister room in Hollywood with a Poker Showdown $360 Deep Stack win in 2017.