$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $100,000 Guaranteed | Structure Level 12: 1,500/2,500 with a 2,500 ante Day 1B Players Remaining: 62 of 271
Flight B is down to eight tables which means we are starting to see some big stack emerge, none bigger than Ivan Yatsuk at the moment.
He is up to 320,000 in the middle of the day and well above the rest of the field. But there’s still plenty of work and he could be caught since only 28 of these players will advance to Day 2.
$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $100,000 Guaranteed | Structure Level 10: 800/1,600 with a 1,600 ante Day 1B Players Remaining: 112 of 271
Tournament staff finished counting the numbers and Flight B officially drew 271 entries to put the combined total at 458. They pushed past the $100,000 this afternoon and the prize pool sits at $153,430 with one big flight to go tomorrow.
Flight B will continue to play until 28 players remain to advance to Day 2 on Sunday at noon in the money.
$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $100,000 Guaranteed | Structure Level 9: 600/1,200 with a 1,200 ante Day 1B Entries: 271
Players returned from the second break and we have a new chip leader. Dmitrijs Tarbejevs is now the big stack in the room and the Latvian is up to 163,400 as registration closed. Good enough for 136 big blinds at this level, not too bad.
Don’t feel too sad for former leader Ryan Hogan, he’s still up near the top with 126,000.
$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $100,000 Guaranteed | Structure Level 8: 500/1,000 with a 1,000 ante Day 1B Entries: 261
Time is running out if you want to join the big Flight B field this afternoon. They are playing out the last few minutes of Level 8 and they will take a break when it is done. Registration will close when they return and they’ve already pushed the prize pool over $150,000.
$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $100,000 Guaranteed | Structure Level 5: 300/500 with a 500 ante Day 1B Entries: 196
A quick walk through the tables on break found a familiar player with a big stack. Ryan Hogan is back today and already building big. He went on break with 87,100 then added more on the first hand back.
This time it was Karl Manouchakian open-shipped for 4,200 with and Hogan called with . The board ran out to give Hogan flopped top pair and a rivered overkill spade flush to send Manouchakian back to the registration desk.
Finally getting to head over to @SHRTPoker for WPO. Looking forward to battling today.
$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $100,000 Guaranteed | Structure Level 4: 200/400 with a 400 ante Day 1B Entries: 167
We didn’t expect it to take long to hit the magic number and that was correct. Flight B quickly pushed the prize pool over $100,000 and it’s nearing $120,000 before the first break.
Registration will remain open for Flight B until 3:30 pm with a huge day expected tomorrow for Flight C.
$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $100,000 Guaranteed | Structure Level 1: 100/200 with a 200 ante
We are heading into the first weekend of the Winter Poker Open and there are going to be some big numbers today. Event 3 is a $400 buy-in tournament with a $100,000 guarantee and Flight A put more than $60,000 towards that goal yesterday. Only 112 entries are needed to beat the guarantee and it will get here early this afternoon (if not before noon).
Players start with 20,000 stacks and the first 14 levels will last 30 minutes, going up to 40 minutes starting with Level 15. Late registration and unlimited re-entries are available until the start of Level 9 at 3:30 pm. Flight B will to continue to play until only 10% of the field remains and those players will advance to Day 2 on Sunday in the money.
Cards fly at 11 am and we will pick up the action at the first break.
$100,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
Players begin with 20,000 in chips
Levels 1-14 last 30 minutes; Levels 15+ last 40 minutes
Late registration/re-entry available until start of Level 9 (3:30pm)
$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $100,000 Guaranteed | Structure Level 15: 3,000/5,000 with a 5,000 ante Day 1A Players Remaining: 19 of 187
They got to the money bubble in no time but in no hurry to go anywhere what they go there. It took seven hands before we had an all in that was called, not counting one with big slick versus big slick to chop.
The final hand saw Randy Raji open the action and the small blind player shipped all in for 108,000. Raji called and they were off to the races.
Raji: Small Blind:
It was a fair race and Raji needed his tens to hold to burst the bubble. There were two face cards on the but neither paired the small blind player. The turn and river finished the board to send the short stack player out while putting the rest in the money.
MT Tawfik finished the day with the chip lead, his 477,000 topping the 350,000 of Raji.
Players are bagging their chips and we will post the chip counts when they are available.