$1,650 Winter Poker Open Main Event
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 22:  10,000/20,000 with a 20,000 ante
Players Remaining:  18 of 479

Brian Stewart open-shoved his short stack from under the gun for barely a min-raise, Alex Rocha called in the small blind, and Mark Scacewater moved all in from the big to get a Rocha fold.

Scacewater:
Stewart:

Stewart needed some luck to double but there was no help on the run out.

Mark Scacewater – 720,000 (36 bb)
Brian Stewart – Eliminated in 20th Place ($7,221)

As Stewart was being eliminated on Table 21, Kevin Eyster was knocked out from Table 11 in 19th place for $7,221. Tournament staff are breaking Table 11 to create the last two, full tables.

$1,650 Winter Poker Open Main Event
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 22:  10,000/20,000 with a 20,000 ante
Players Remaining:  20 of 479

Duff Charette opened to 45,000 from the hijack and Austin Buchanan three-bet shoved from the cutoff for 625,000. TK Miles checked his cards on the button and moved all in. The blinds folded and Charette ended up releasing.

Buchanan:
Miles:

A race for a big pot. The flop took away two of Miles’ outs spade out, the turn changed nothing, and Buchanan overkilled it when the filled his flush.

Austin Buchanan – 1,345,000 (67 bb)
TK Miles – 315,000 (16 bb)

$1,650 Winter Poker Open Main Event
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 22:  10,000/20,000 with a 20,000 ante
Players Remaining:  20 of 479

Scott Riddell lost a big pot to Peter Vitantonio after dinner and was left with only 55,000. He put those in the middle under the gun and it folded to Michael Cohen in the cutoff. He reshipped to get folds from the button and blinds.

Cohen: ah]
Riddell:

Riddel had live cards but could not find a save on the after Cohen turned a queen-high straight.

Michael Cohen – 460,000 (23 bb)
Scott Riddell – Eliminated in 21st Place ($7,221)

$1,650 Winter Poker Open Main Event
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 22:  10,000/20,000 with a 20,000 ante
Players Remaining:  21 of 479

The 60-minute dinner break is complete and cards are back in the air. Blinds are at 10,000/20,000 with a 20,000 big blind and the average stack 685,000 (34 bb) with 21 players remaining.

$1,650 Winter Poker Open Main Event
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 22:  10,000/20,000 with a 20,000 ante
Players Remaining:  21 of 479

Table 10
Seat 1: David Moses – 520,000 (26 bb)
Seat 2: Michael Cohen – 320,000 (16 bb)
Seat 3: John Dolan – 765,000 (38 bb)
Seat 4: Antonious Nashaat – 530,000 (27 bb)
Seat 5: Ken Fishman – 1,050,000 (53 bb)
Seat 6: Scott Riddell – 650,000 (33 bb)
Seat 7: — Empty —
Seat 8: — Empty —
Seat 9: Peter Vitantonio – 495,000 (25 bb)

Table 11
Seat 1: — Empty —
Seat 2: Duff Charette – 1,585,000 (79 bb)
Seat 3: Austin Buchanan – 460,000 (23 bb)
Seat 4: TK Miles – 820,000 (41 bb)
Seat 5: — Empty —
Seat 6: Manny Minaya – 430,000 (22 bb)
Seat 7: Adam Templeman – 400,000 (20 bb)
Seat 8: Kevin Eyster – 570,000 (29 bb)
Seat 9: Justin Zaki – 1,195,000 (60 bb)

Table 21
Seat 1: Brian Stewart – 440,000 (22 bb)
Seat 2: Connor Rash – 595,000 (30 bb)
Seat 3: — Empty —
Seat 4: Joseph Mole – 395,000 (20 bb)
Seat 5: Terri-Anne Crawford – 670,000 (34 bb)
Seat 6: — Empty —
Seat 7: Alex Rocha – 860,000 (43 bb)
Seat 8: Mark Scacewater – 650,000 (33 bb)
Seat 9: Nick Mann – 1,000,000 (50 bb)

$1,650 Winter Poker Open Main Event
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 21:  10,000/15,000 with a 15,000 ante
Players Remaining:  21 of 479

While David DiBernardi was getting bad beat out of the Main Event, Rob Marjura was also eliminated to drop the field to 21 players. There were no major pots after that point and the remaining players are now on a 60-minute dinner break.

Updated counts to come while they are gone.

$1,650 Winter Poker Open Main Event
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 21:  10,000/15,000 with a 15,000 ante
Players Remaining:  22 of 479

With the flop reading , David DiBernardi had his last 260,000 in the middle and Connor Rash had him at risk.

DiBernardi:
Rash:

Rash caught a flush draw against DiBernardi’s aces, it missed the turn, but the beat was complete for DiBernardi on the river to send the former Tampa champ out.

Connor Rash – 815,000 (54 bb)
David DiBernardi – Eliminated in 23rd Place ($5,694)

$1,650 Winter Poker Open Main Event
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 21:  10,000/15,000 with a 15,000 ante
Players Remaining:  24 of 479

Catching up on some paperwork, below you can find the estimated counts of the 24 players remaining and the results that got them there.

Andrew Boccia, Filipp Khavin, Sara Hall, and Wasim Assaf went out to trigger the three-table redraw then Fabian Foster, Soe Lee, and Anthony Dianaty went out not long after.

Below are the counts with the blinds up and results:

Table 10
Seat 1: David Moses – 525,000 (35 bb)
Seat 2: Michael Cohen – 500,000 (33 bb)
Seat 3: John Dolan – 790,000 (53 bb)
Seat 4: Antonious Nashaat – 270,000 (18 bb)
Seat 5: Ken Fishman – 495,000 (33 bb)
Seat 6: Scott Riddell – 750,000 (50 bb)
Seat 7: — Empty —
Seat 8: Adam Templeman – 350,000 (23 bb)
Seat 9: Peter Vitantonio – 625,000 (42 bb)

Table 11
Seat 1: Rob Manjura – 440,000 (29 bb)
Seat 2: Duff Charette – 850,000 (57 bb)
Seat 3: Austin Buchanan – 1,200,000 (80 bb)
Seat 4: TK Miles – 720,000 (48 bb)
Seat 5: — Empty —
Seat 6: Manny Minaya – 330,000 (22 bb)
Seat 7: Reggie Bautista – 295,000 (20 bb)
Seat 8: Kevin Eyster – 350,000 (23 bb)
Seat 9: Justin Zaki – 1,350,000 (90 bb)

Table 21
Seat 1: Brian Stewart – 495,000 (33 bb)
Seat 2: Connor Rash – 470,000 (31 bb)
Seat 3: — Empty —
Seat 4: Joseph Mole – 490,000 (33 bb)
Seat 5: Terri-Anne Crawford – 510,000 (34 bb)
Seat 6: David DiBernardi – 480,000 (32 bb)
Seat 7: Alex Rocha – 810,000 (54 bb)
Seat 8: Mark Scacewater – 625,000 (42 bb)
Seat 9: Nick Mann – 470,000 (31 bb)

25th: Anthony Dianaty – $5,030
26th: Soe Lee – $5,030
27th: Fabian Foster – $5,030
28th: Wasim Assaf – $4,167
29th: Sara Hall – $4,167
30th: Filipp Khavin – $4,167
31st: Andrew Boccia – $4,167

$1,650 Winter Poker Open Main Event
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 20:  5,000/15,000 with a 15,000 ante
Players Remaining:  27 of 479

The Main Event is down to the last 27 players of the tournament and the clock was paused to perform a complete three table redraw. Here is the lineup with the remaining payouts, chip counts will be updated once everything settled.

Table 10
Seat 1: David Moses
Seat 2: Michael Cohen
Seat 3: John Dolan
Seat 4: Antonious Nashaat
Seat 5: Ken Fishman
Seat 6: Scott Riddell
Seat 7: Fabian Foster
Seat 8: Adam Templeman
Seat 9: Peter Vitantonio

Table 11
Seat 1: Rob Manjura
Seat 2: Duff Charette
Seat 3: Austin Buchanan
Seat 4: TK Miles
Seat 5: Joseph Mole
Seat 6: Manny Minaya
Seat 7: Reggie Bautista
Seat 8: Kevin Eyster
Seat 9: Justin Zaki

Table 21
Seat 1: Brian Stewart
Seat 2: Connor Rash
Seat 3: Anthony Dianaty
Seat 4: Soe Lee
Seat 5: Terri-Anne Crawford
Seat 6: David DiBernardi
Seat 7: Alex Rocha
Seat 8: Mark Scacewater
Seat 9: Nick Mann

Remaining payouts:

1st: $149,595
2nd: $104,750
3rd: $67,345
4th: $44,367
5th: $34,165
6th: $28,295
7th: $23,711
8th: $19,320
9th: $14,959
10th-12th: $12,516
13th-15th: $10,598
16th-18th: $8,679
19th-21st: $7,221
22nd-24th: $5,964
25th-27th: $5,030

$1,650 Winter Poker Open Main Event
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 20:  5,000/15,000 with a 15,000 ante
Players Remaining:  30 of 479

Antonious Nashaat was short and put his 110,000 stack in the middle from early position. Anthony Dianaty called next to act and the rest of the table folded.

Nashaat:
Dianaty:

It was a race and Nashaat faded the flop to stay in lead. The turn improved him to a set of eights and Dianaty was drawing dead to the river.

Antonious Nashaat – 255,000 (17 bb)
Anthony Dianaty – 225,000 (15 bb)