Tag Archives: 2019 Winter Poker Open

Main Event Day 1B: Brett Bader Eliminated by Brad Karns

$1,650 Winter Poker Open Main Event
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 12:  1,000/2,000 with a 2,000 ante
Flight B Players Remaining:  27 of 134

Brad Karns

Former Seminole Hard Rock Poker Players of the Year Brett Bader found himself short and put his stack in the middle from the cutoff. Brad Karns was on the button and called with the bigger stack.

Karns: KhQs
Bader: 8s5s

Bader was live for a double but found no love on the Ac7c7s flop. Karns paired the Qd turn and Bader was drawing dead to the Ah river.

That dropped Flight B down to the last three table with less than 90 minutes remaining.

Main Event Day 1B: Last Break

$1,650 Winter Poker Open Main Event
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 12:  1,000/2,000 with a 2,000 ante
Flight B Players Remaining:  34 of 134

Nick Mann

Flight B players are taking their final break of the day with 34 players remaining and three levels left in their day.

The chip leader carousel took another spin around and we have a new leader. Nick Mann has barrelled up and sitting with 265,000 in the last stages.

Main Event Day 1B: Mark Zhang Back on Top

$1,650 Winter Poker Open Main Event
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 12:  1,000/2,000 with a 2,000 ante
Flight B Players Remaining:  38 of 134

Mark Zhang

Flight B is close to dropping down to four tables and we have a familiar face back at the top of the counts. Mark Zhang is back up to 210,000 and a few chips ahead of Brian Stewart.

There are several others in the mix for the end-of-night lead with three more levels to go.

Main Event Day 1B: Justin Zaki Doubles Through Andrew Boccia

$1,650 Winter Poker Open Main Event
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 11:  1,000/1,500 with a 1,500 ante
Flight B Players Remaining:  43 of 134

Justin Zaki (left) and Andrew Boccia (right)

Justin Zaki had his 37,500 stack in the middle from the cutoff and Andrew Broccia had his 64,500 committed on the button. Neither of the blinds decided to come along.

Zaki: ThTs
Boccia: AsKc

Zaki was ahead and dodged the over cards as the dealer put out the Jd8d3h9d8s board for his double.

Justin Zaki – 79,000 (53 bb)
Andrew Boccia – 27,000 (18 bb)

Main Event Day 1B: Registration Closed with 134 Entries

$1,650 Winter Poker Open Main Event
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 11:  1,000/1,500 with a 1,500 ante
Flight B Players Remaining:  57 of 134

After a little number crunching, tournament staff announced the Flight B count locked in with 134 entries to push the combined total to 240 for the Main Event so far. That leaves the tournament on 94 away from hitting the $500,000 guaranteed prize pool and there will be a lot more than that tomorrow.

DayFlightEntriesAdvanced
Thursday at 11 amA10614
Friday at 11 amB134TBD
Saturday at 11amC
Totals24014

Main Event Day 1B: Back in Action; Brad Karns Leads

$1,650 Winter Poker Open Main Event
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 10:  500/1,500 with a 1,500 ante
Flight B Entries:  134

Brad Karns

Flight B of the Main Event is back underway and it looks like we have 134 entries to push the combined total to 240 on the dot with one more flight to go.

Brad Karns is the new leader in Flight B and returned to a stack worth 171,000. Brian Stewart is in second with 162,000 and former leader Mark Zhang is down to 110,000.

Main Event Day 1B: Recent Arrivals

$1,650 Winter Poker Open Main Event
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 9:  500/1,000 with a 1,000 ante
Flight B Entries:  130

Alex Rocha

Some new faces to the series showed up in the last few levels with the new credit. David Tuthill pick up an extra $150,000 in September when he won the Commerce Hold’em Series Main Event then came back to final table the Pinktober Poker Open Main Event.

Brett Bader is a former Seminole Hard Rock Poker Player of the Year and owns two WSOPC rings along with a SHRPO title from 2013. Alex Rocha has $2.4 million in career earnings, two WSOPC rings, and tournament wins in four different state.

Among those three, Rocha is having the better day and his stack is already over 95,000.

Brett Bader
David Tuthill

Main Event Day 1B: Andrew Boccia Sends One Out

$1,650 Winter Poker Open Main Event
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 8:  400/800 with a 800 ante
Flight B Entries:  127

Andrew Boccia

Andrew Boccia opened the action from early position and the button player three-bet shoved for his last 16,000. The blinds released and Boccia dropped in a call.

Boccia: 9d9s
Button: AsTh

The button player did not look happy with his race and the board ran out JcJs8s6dQh to end his day.

Boccia picked up two big scores here last February when he won the Tampa Poker Classic $360 No Limit Hold’em event and finished the series with a third-place finish in the Main Event.

Main Event Day 1B: Mark Zhang Continues to Lead; Brian Stewart in Second

$1,650 Winter Poker Open Main Event
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 7:  300/600 with a 600 ante
Flight B Entries:  122

Brian Stewart

The second break is complete and we had no change at the top of the counts. Mark Zhang continued to lead the field and increased his stack to 153,000. Brian Stewart owned the second-biggest stack with 120,8000 followed by Manny Minaya with 115,600.

Flight B players will work their way through three more levels before going on their 60-minute dinner break.