$1,700 Winter Poker Open Championship
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 23: 20,000/40,000 with a 40,000 ante
Players Remaining:  11 of 471

The 11 remaining players took their last break of the day and return to action. They will continue playing until nine players remain or the end of Level 24, whichever comes first.

Table 21
Seat 1: Jeffrey Yancek – 1,695,000 (42 bb)
Seat 2: Jamie Smith – 1,815,000 (45 bb)
Seat 5: Tom Nguyen – 1,255,000 (31 bb)
Seat 6: David DiBernardi – 1,030,000 (26 bb)
Seat 7: David Kozma – 2,255,000 (56 bb)
Seat 8: Tyler Kennedy – 815,000 (20 bb)

Table 22
Seat 1: Philip Jackson – 2,200,000 (55 bb)
Seat 2: Jordan Lowery – 965,000 (24 bb)
Seat 3: Mark Koeln – 1,710,000 (43 bb)
Seat 5: Jerry Silva – 1,840,000 (46 bb)
Seat 8: Ken McAdams – 3,260,000 (82 bb)

12th: T.K. Miles – $10,500
13th: James Rumptz – $8,700
14th: Karl Manouchakian – $8,700
15th: Steven Ogilvie – $7,200
16th: Sean Boland – $7,200

2022 Winter Poker Open
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Tampa, Florida
Event 9
$2,500 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
Entries:  13
Prize Pool:  $29,250
December 11, 2022

The $2,500 Winter Poker Open tournament drew a small but talented group of players to the biggest buy-in on the schedule. After Jeremy Becker caught an unfortunate bubble, Justin Jones took the top spot after a heads-up deal with Barry Remmel.

Both took home $14,625 but Jones won the trophy as the chip leader. This was a nice bounceback after Jones was eliminated from the WPO Championship on the bubble.

* – denotes results of a heads-up deal

$1,700 Winter Poker Open Championship
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 22: 15,000/30,000 with a 30,000 ante
Players Remaining:  13 of 471

We missed the final hand while capturing the previous elimination but found Karl Manouchakian making his way to the payout desk in 14th place.

This is his fourth cash of the series and his 100th documented cash in our room per HendonMob.

Congrats Karl!

$1,700 Winter Poker Open Championship
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 21: 15,000/25,000 with a 25,000 ante
Players Remaining:  14 of 471

With the board reading , Jordan Lowery was all in for 545,000 against Steven Ogilvie.

Lowery:
Ogilvie:

Lowery was ahead with the bigger pair, faded the turn, and made the overkill set on the river. Lowery doubled up, Ogilvie was left super short, and eliminated by Philip Jackson a few hands later.

Jordan Lowery – 1,355,000 (54 bb)
Steven Ogilvie – Eliminated in 15th Place ($7,200)

$1,700 Winter Poker Open Championship
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 21: 15,000/25,000 with a 25,000 ante
Players Remaining:  15 of 471

Sean Boland opened the action from middle position and Tom Nguye three-bet to 105,000 from the cutoff. The button and blinds folded, Boland moved all in for about 500,000 and Nguyen called.

Nguyen:
Boland:

It was a race and Boland was still ahead after the flop. Nguyen added a diamond draw to his over cards and the turn got him there. Boland was unable to boat up on the river and was eliminated in 16th place.

Tom Nguyen – 2,400,000 (96 bb)
Sean Boland – Eliminated in 16th Place ($7,200)

$1,700 Winter Poker Open Championship
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 21: 15,000/25,000 with a 25,000 ante
Players Remaining:  16 of 471

With the elimination of Jeevan Nomula in 17th place, tournament staff redrew seats at the last two tables and cards are back in the air. Here’s the line-up and we will update chip counts when things settle.

Table 21
Seat 1: Jeffrey Yancek
Seat 2: Jamie Smith
Seat 3: Sean Boland
Seat 4: James Rumptz
Seat 5: Tom Nguyen
Seat 6: David DiBernardi
Seat 7: David Kozma
Seat 8: Tyler Kennedy

Table 22
Seat 1: Philip Jackson
Seat 2: Jordan Lowery
Seat 3: Mark Koeln
Seat 4: Karl Manouchakian
Seat 5: Jerry Silva
Seat 6: T.K. Miles
Seat 7: Steven Ogilvie
Seat 8: Ken McAdams

Remaining payouts:

1st: $140,000
2nd: $90,000
3rd: $65,000
4th: $50,000
5th: $37,000
6th: $28,000
7th: $22,000
8th: $17,000
9th-10th: $13,500
11th-12th: $10,500
13th-14th: $8,700
15th-16th: $7,200

17th: Jeevan Nomula – $6,100
18th: Clayton Mullinax – $6,100
19th: Brian Ray – $6,100
20th: Charles Johnson – $6,100
21st: Bud Waggoner – $5,200
22nd: Aftab Patni – $5,200
23rd: Talesh Patel – $5,200
24th: Bryce McVay – $5,200

2022 Winter Poker Open
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Tampa, Florida
Event 9
$2,500 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
Entries:  13
Prize Pool:  $29,250
December 11, 2022

Registration closed for the $2,500 Deep Stack tournament with 13 taking a shot and they created a prize pool worth $29,250. We are paying the last two players with $10,240 for a runner-up finish and $19,010 to the winner.

1st: $19,010 + WPO trophy
2nd: $10,240

$1,700 Winter Poker Open Championship
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 21: 15,000/25,000 with a 25,000 ante
Players Remaining:  17 of 471

With the flop reading , Brian Ray and Tom Nguyen checked from early position and James Rumptz bet 55,000. Ray check-raised all in for 365,000 and Nguyen called. Rumptz thought for a minute before he folded.

Nguyen:
Ray:

Ray flopped top pair but Nguyen was ahead with middle pair of jacks. The board finished turn and river and Ray was eliminated in 19th place.

Tom Nguyen – 1,700,000 (68 bb)
Brian Ray – Eliminated in 19th Place ($6,100)

While that hand was going down, Clayton Mullinax was eliminated in 18th place to leave the field one knockout away from a two-table redraw.

Clayton Mullinax – Eliminated in 18th Place ($6,100)

$1,700 Winter Poker Open Championship
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 20: 10,000/20,000 with a 20,000 ante
Players Remaining:  19 of 471

Players returned to their seats with 19 remaining and the late stages underway. Ken McAdams continues to lead but Mark Koeln is not far behind, both playing more than two million.

Blinds are up to 15,000/25,000 with a 25,000 ante and the average stack is about 940,000 (38 bb).

Table 11
Seat 1: T.K. Miles – 1,695,000 (68 bb)
Seat 2: David DiBernardi – 945,000 (38 bb)
Seat 3: Jamie Smith – 895,000 (36 bb)
Seat 4: — Empty —
Seat 5: Ken McAdams – 2,125,000 (85 bb)
Seat 6: Philip Jackson – 1,160,000 (46 bb)
Seat 7: Sean Boland – 850,000 (34 bb)
Seat 8: — Empty —

Table 21
Seat 1: Jordan Lowery – 930,000 (37 bb)
Seat 2: — Empty —
Seat 3: Steven Ogilvie – 270,000 (11 bb)
Seat 4: James Rumptz – 760,000 (30 bb)
Seat 5: — Empty —
Seat 6: Jeffrey Yancek – 965,000 (39 bb)
Seat 7: Brian Ray – 665,000 (27 bb)
Seat 8: Tom Nguyen – 1,105,000 (44 bb)

Table 22
Seat 1: Mark Koeln – 2,080,000 (83 bb)
Seat 2: Jerry Silva – 1,555,000 (62 bb)
Seat 3: Clayton Mullinax – 185,000 (7 bb)
Seat 4: Karl Manouchakian – 410,000 (16 bb)
Seat 5: TBD – 880,000 (35 bb)
Seat 6: David Kozma – 875,000 (35 bb)
Seat 7: Jeevan Nomula – 340,000 (14 bb)
Seat 8: — Empty —

1st: $140,000
2nd: $90,000
3rd: $65,000
4th: $50,000
5th: $37,000
6th: $28,000
7th: $22,000
8th: $17,000
9th-10th: $13,500
11th-12th: $10,500
13th-14th: $8,700
15th-16th: $7,200
17th-19th: $6,100

$1,700 Winter Poker Open Championship
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 20: 10,000/20,000 with a 20,000 ante
Players Remaining:  20 of 471

Level 20 ended and tournament staff sent the 20 remaining players on a 60-minute dinner break.