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2017 Winter Poker Open

Winter Poker Open Day 2 Schedule

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11am: $570 Deep Stack NLH Re-Entry, Flight C

  • $570 buy-in and $300,000 guaranteed
  • 20,000 chips and 30-/40-minute levels
  • Registration and unlimited re-entry available until the start of Level 9 (~3:30pm)
  • Play concludes following Level 14 (~6:45pm)
  • Day 2 begins Sunday, December 10 at noon
  • Structure sheet

2pm: $250 Pot Limit Omaha Re-Entry

  • $250 buy-in and $20,000 guaranteed
  • 15,000 chips and 30-minute levels
  • Registration and unlimited re-entry available until the start of Level 9 (~6:30pm)
  • Structure sheet

6pm: $570 Deep Stack NLH Re-Entry, Flight D

  • $570 buy-in and $300,000 guaranteed
  • 20,000 chips and 30-/40-minute levels
  • Registration and unlimited re-entry available until the start of Level 9 (~10:30pm)
  • Play concludes following Level 14 (~1:45am)
  • Day 2 begins Sunday, December 10 at noon
  • Structure sheet

2017 Winter Poker Open Tournament Schedule

WPTDeepStacks

Event 2: Bryce McVay Wins Third Guitar Trophy, Claims Title in WPTDeepStacks $250 Turbo

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2017 WPTDeepStacks
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Tampa, Florida
Event #2
$250 Turbo
No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Entries: 194
Prize Pool: $40,740
June 11, 2017

(Tampa, Fla.) — Bryce McVay is a three-time Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino tournament champion following a victorious performance in Event 2 of the property’s WPTDeepStacks series. McVay maneuvered through a tough field of 194 entries in the $250 No Limit Hold’em Turbo tournament ultimately needing just eight hours to secure the outright win. In addition to his third Seminole Hard Rock Tampa guitar trophy, McVay earned $12,222.

The tournament’s 194-entry field marked a year-over-year attendance increase of nearly 20 percent. It ran alongside the restart of the WPTDeepStacks $570 opener and soaked up many of that event’s bustouts. Seminole Hard Rock Tampa ambassador Wally Maddah and Jordan Chizick were among those who busted the restart and promptly entered the turbo. Unfortunately, neither finished in the money.

Joining McVay at the turbo final table was Joey Alegria. Alegria primarily plays cash, but caught the tournament bug recording his first cash here last August. In the months since, he’s recorded four more cashes including an eighth-place finish and $21,272 score in December’s Winter Poker Open Championship. He finished seventh in the turbo earning $1,630.

McVay is 30 years old and resides in Jupiter, Florida. His first guitar trophy came during a $350 that ran as part of the property’s Deep Stack Series in 2014. His next trophy came during last year’s Winter Poker Open, also in a $250 turbo. He now claims nearly $215,000 in reported tournament earnings.

Final results:

1st: Bryce McVay – $12,222 + Trophy
2nd: Sanjib Acharya – $6,722
3rd: Raymond Kalmbach – $3,870
4th: Adam Hoffman – $3,259
5th: Ying Lin – $2,444
6th: Wilson Alemany – $2,037
7th: Joey Alegria – $1,630
8th: Christopher Hyden – $1,222
9th: Oren Segev – $917
10th: Roberto Polanco – $815
11th: Hai Ly – $815
12th: Jonathan Buck – $815
13th: William McKown – $713
14th: Charlie Riley – $713
15th: John Burdin – $713
16th: Tam Nguyen – $611
17th: Michael Micelli – $611
18th: Ryan Fiveland – $611

The WPTDeepStacks-Tampa runs now through June 19th. The $1,100 buy-in Main Event features a $300,000 guarantee and live streamed final table. That tournament begins June 15th.

WPTDeepStacks

Event 2: Registration Final with 194 Entries

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$250 Deep Stack Turbo
$20,000 Guaranteed | Structure Sheet
Level 14: 1,200/2,400/400
Players Remaining: 72/194

WPTDeepStacks Event 2 trophy

Today’s 2pm $250 Turbo is final with 194 entries. That marks a notable increase over last year’s event — which drew 163 — and saw the prize pool easily eclipse its $20,000 guarantee. In all, the top 18 finishers are paid a share of $40,740 with a min-cash worth $611. In addition to $12,222, the tournament’s champion earns a guitar trophy.

Full prize pool and payout information:

2017 WPTDeepStacks
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Tampa, Florida
Event #2
$250 Turbo
No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Entries: 194
Prize Pool: $40,740
June 11, 2017

1st – $12,222 + Trophy
2nd – $6,722
3rd – $3,870
4th – $3,259
5th – $2,444
6th – $2,037
7th – $1,630
8th – $1,222
9th – $917
10th-12th – $815
13th-15th – $713
16th-18th – $611

Toward the start of Level 14, the clock reads 72 players remaining. Among them are Seminole Hard Rock Tampa ambassador Wally Maddah, Joey Alegria, Martin Markov, Anthony Hobbs and Bruce Snell.

A winner photo and the final tournament results will be posted after the event concludes.

WPTDeepStacks

Event 2: Turbo Event Underway with $20K and a Guitar Trophy Up for Grabs

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$250 Deep Stack Turbo
$20,000 Guaranteed | Structure Sheet
Level 1: 25/50

It’s 2pm at Seminole Hard Rock Tampa and Event 2 of the WPTDeepStacks series is underway. The tournament is a $250 buy-in turbo. In addition to $20,000 guaranteed, it boasts a guitar trophy set to go to the champ.

Here are the details:

2pm: Event 2 ($250 Deep Stack Turbo) — One-Day Event

  • $20,000 guaranteed
  • 20,000 chips and 15-minute levels
  • Late registration and re-entry available until the start of Level 13 (~5:15pm)
  • Structure Sheet

With the $570 playing down toward the final table, much of our live reporting efforts will concentrate on that. We’ll pop in and provide a look at the $250 turbo a couple of times throughout the day as well as post the winner photo and final results after it concludes.

2016 Winter Poker Open

Ladies Event: Kirsten Olieberg Dominates to Win Ladies Event

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2016 Seminole Hard Rock Tampa Winter Poker Open
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino
Tampa, FL 
Event 2: $150 Ladies Event Re-Entry 
Entries: 40
Prize Pool: $4,800
December 1, 2016

Kirsten Olieberg, Ladies Event champion
Kirsten Olieberg, Ladies Event champion

(Tampa, FL) – The second day of the 2016 Seminole Hard Rock Tampa Winter Poker Open brought out the Ladies Event and a nice crowd on a Friday evening. The $150 buy-in tournament drew 40 entrants to the field and Kirstin Olieberg dominated late to earn the title.

Those 40 entries into the tournament matched the 2015 number and created a prize pool worth $4,800. In addition to the prize money, Seminole Hard Rock Tampa poker added a $1,650 Championship seat for the winner.

The tournament quickly played down and they were at the final table after less than seven hours of action. Olieberg was the leader at the start of the final table along with Seminole Hard Rock Tampa regular Cheri Beatty and Anna Tran.

With only five of the ten final table players getting paid, they still had some work to do. They traded chips for an hour before breaking things open. They fell in quick succession until Tran and Diana Rossi were eliminated by Beatty to put them in the money.

Olieberg continued to run her stack up while Beatty lost two big coolers to end her run in fourth place. The three remaining players began a deal discussion with both Olieberg and Edie Jo Norman very interested in both the guitar trophy and Championship seat.

They finally worked things out and Olieberg was declared the champion courtesy of her huge chip lead.

“My husband told me I better bring home the guitar,” Olieberg laughed. “He’ll be happy now.”

She’ll also be happy to be playing the WPO Championship in less than two weeks. Olieberg is no stranger to success here with her biggest cash coming in the 2014 WPO. She made the final table and cashed out more than $4,700 for finishing tenth out of 469 in the $350 Deep Stack opening tournament.

Ladies Event results:

1st: Kirsten Olieberg – $1,920 + $1,650 Seat and Guitar
2nd: Edie Jo Norman – $1,200
3rd: Amy Myers – $720
4th: Cheri Beatty – $528
5th: Sophia Pettis – $432

2016 Winter Poker Open

Ladies Event: Kirsten Olieberg Wins in Three-Way Deal

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$150 Ladies No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) — $1,650 Seat Added
Level 19: 4,000/8,000 with a 1,000 ante
Players Remaining: 3 of 40

Kirsten Olieberg
Kirsten Olieberg

After the elimination of Cheri Beatty, the three remaining players began discussing a deal to divide up the remaining prize pool. It took several minutes to work it out but they finally hammered it out with massive chip leader Kirsten Olieberg taking home the trophy, big money, and the Seminole Hard Rock Tampa Championship seat.

Details to come shortly.

2016 Winter Poker Open

Ladies Event: Cheri Beatty – 4th Place ($528)

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$150 Ladies No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) — $1,650 Seat Added
Level 19: 4,000/8,000 with a 1,000 ante
Players Remaining: 3 of 40

Cheri Beatty
Cheri Beatty

Cheri Beatty was doing well against the rest of the table but had no luck against Edie Jo Norman. In the early stages of the final table, Beatty ran her big slick straight into Norman’s pocket kings to lose a big pot. She built her stack back up with four remaining and got into another battle with Norman.

It was blind versus blind again and this time it was Beatty’s AsQs dominated by Norman’s AdKs. The board ran 8h8s8cKh2s to leave her with a few big blinds heading into the break and she was gone on the first hand back.

Edie Jo Norman – 290,000 (36 bb)
Cheri Beatty – Eliminated in 4th place ($528)

2016 Winter Poker Open

Ladies Event: Sophia Pettis – 5th Place ($423)

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$150 Ladies No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) — $1,650 Seat Added
Level 18: 3,000/6,000 with a 500 ante
Players Remaining: 4 of 40

Sophia Pettis
Sophia Pettis

Sophia Pettis was one of the shorter stacks at the start of the final table but battled throughout to get past half of the table to get into the money.

She took a stab after the bubble in a blind-versus-blind hand against Kirsten Olieberg. Pettis’ Kc7c was dominated by AhKh and never caught up to send her out in fifth place.

Kirsten Olieberg – 360,000 (60 bb)
Sophia Pettis – Eliminated in 5th place ($423)

2016 Winter Poker Open

Ladies Event: Seven Remain at Break

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$150 Ladies No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) — $1,650 Seat Added
Level 14: 1,200/2,400 with a 400 ante
Players Remaining: 7 of 40

Ginger Switzer
Ginger Switzer

The Ladies Event is on another break with seven remaining and five getting paid. Cheri Beatty and Kirsten Olieberg are pushing their stacks higher while Ginger Switzer and Jennifer Frankenstein was eliminated from the final table.

Frankenstein went out when she got her chips in ahead, her AdKs against Anna Tran’s QcJc. The Td5c3d flop was safe but the Jd turn was unkind. She couldn’t find a save on the 5d river to go out in eighth place.