$1,700 Winter Poker Open Championship
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 12: 1,500/3,000 with a 3,000 ante
Day 1A Players Remaining:  32 of 95

Flight A is quickly down to the last four tables of the day as some tough players took some tough beats. Perhaps none as hard as Terri-Anne Crawford when she got her stack in the middle with against Justin Jones’s only for a ten to hit the flop to sent her out late.

Angela Jordison was also a recent elimination, going out against Dion Jagroo who stacked up to 239,000.

$1,700 Winter Poker Open Championship
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 11: 1,500/2,500 with a 2,500 ante
Day 1A Players Remaining:  41 of 95

Registration closed for Flight A of the 2022 Tampa Winter Poker Open Championship with 95 entries and a big weekend coming up. Flight B starts tomorrow at 11 am with Flight C on Saturday at the same time.

Flight A will play through 14 full levels and survivors will bag their chips for a Day 2 return on Sunday at noon.

$1,700 Winter Poker Open Championship
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 10: 1,000/2,000 with a 2,000 ante
Day 1A Entries:  95

Players are back in their seats following the dinner break and we locked down registration for Flight A with an unofficial 95 entries. We will post the official numbers as soon as the accounting is complete.

Ken McAdams continues to lead with 185,000 followed by Justin Jones with 161,000 and Tarun Gulati’s 144,000. Below you can find some random counts from around the room during the dinner break.

Ken McAdams – 185,000 (93 bb)
Justin Jones – 161,000 (81 bb)
Tarun Gulati – 144,000 (72 bb)
John Dolan – 138,500 (69 bb)
Angela Jordison – 137,500 (69 bb)
Alex Ivan – 130,500 (65 bb)
Kevin Ragusa – 112,000 (56 bb)
RJ Sullivan – 103,000 (52 bb)
Raminder Singh – 96,500 (48 bb)
Joseph Presho – 87,500 (44 bb)
Cody Hernandez – 76,500 (38 bb)
Clyde Maliauka – 66,000 (33 bb)
Wilmer Chavira – 59,500 (30 bb)
Terri-Anne Crawford – 56,000 (28 bb)
Fillip Khavin – 54,500 (27 bb)
Chris Hyden – 51,000 (26 bb)
David DiBernadi – 50,500 (25 bb)
Adam Jaffe – 50,000 (25 bb)
Tony March – 48,500 (24 bb)
Bryce McVay – 44,500 (22 bb)
Doug Marro – 38,000 (19 bb)

$1,700 Winter Poker Open Championship
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 9: 800/1,600 with a 1,600 ante
Day 1A Entries:  91

We are winding down Level 9 and it’s almost time for the dinner break. They will get 60 minutes to enjoy the amenities around the casino and return to close registration for Flight B.

They will return at 6:30 pm and play five more levels with a break in between before survivors bag up their chips.

$1,700 Winter Poker Open Championship
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 9: 800/1,600 with a 1,600 ante
Day 1A Entries:  88

Mark Wiser made a move for his stack of 17,500 with but ran into Ken McAdams’s . The flop was not help, Wiser picked up a club draw on the turn, but could not find a save on the river.

He was sent out while McAdams built a bigger stack.

Ken McAdams – 165,000 (103 bb)

$1,700 Winter Poker Open Championship
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 8: 600/1,200 with a 1,200 ante
Day 1A Entries:  87

The entry count is moving up and some players are as well. Tarun Gulati and RJ Sullivan are making a bid to hold the chip lead at dinner break in an hour and doing well.

Gulati is up to 134,100 and among the leaders while Sullivan built his stack up to 115,000 with a nice recent run.

$1,700 Winter Poker Open Championship
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 7: 500/1,000 with a 1,000 ante
Day 1A Entries:  82

The second break has come and gone and players are back in their seats to play three more levels before the dinner break.

Ken McAdams is the big stack in the room with 129,000 with Alex Ivan not far behind with 124,600. McAdams made a big splash last year when he finished 18th out of 1,566 in the 2021 WPT Rock ‘n’ Roll Poker Open Championship in Hollywood for $33K.

$1,700 Winter Poker Open Championship
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 6: 400/800 with a 800 ante
Day 1A Entries:  80

Level 6 is winding down so that means another break is coming up. They hit 80 entries before that point and there’s still more than three hours to put more in the game.

$1,700 Winter Poker Open Championship
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 6: 400/800 with a 800 ante
Day 1A Entries:  79

We didn’t see how the chips got in the middle but walked up to the table with stacks all over the place and two all-in buttons. Raminder Singh was thinking through his option with two 5K chips already bet and two players already all in.

The small blind was all in for 65,500 and Alex Ivan reshipped for 77,000. Singh worked his way to a decision to fold his hand.

Ivan:
Small Blind:

Ivan had a monster and the small blind player could not catch up on the board. He was sent out before the second break while it looks like Ivan now leads with 152,000.

$1,700 Winter Poker Open Championship
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 5: 300/600 with a 600 ante
Day 1A Entries:  74

We jumped over 70 entries for Flight A and cruising along with a happy vibe at the tables. With deep stacks and slow structure, no one is any hurry to get fancy.’

More familiar faces include Clyde Maliauka, Tarun Gulati, and John Dolan, along with three WPO champs from this year in Julio Delgado, Jack Sumner, and Raminder Singh.