2024 Winter Poker Open
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Tampa, Florida
Event 9
$250 Seniors 50+ (Re-Entry)
$10,000 Guaranteed
Entries:  245
Prize Pool:  $50,225
February 5, 2024

The last event on the 2024 WPO schedule was the popular $250 Seniors 50+ event with a $10,000 guarantee blasted times five for a prize pool over $50,000. It created a talented final table that ended up calling it a night with seven players remaining and Glyn Griffis holding a huge lead.

Griffis earned the title along with a cool $10,000 payout plus the last WPO trophy awarded for the series.

Congrats Glyn!

* results of a seven-way deal

2024 Winter Poker Open
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Tampa, Florida
$1,700 WPO Championship (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed
Entries:  529
Prize Pool:  $793,500
February 1 – 5, 2024

The 2024 Winter Poker Open Championship headlined the two-week festival and the $1,700 buy-in tournament drew a talented group of players. After a fun final table, Ross Corless earned the WPO Champion title and $130,230 in a heads-up deal.

The tournament featured three starting flights and a $300,000 guarantee. It drew 529 entries to create a prize pool worth $793,500 for a fantastic turnout. We had 65 players return for Day 2, in the money, and they wasted no time since the money bubble was in the rearview mirror.

They quickly reached the final table with nine players remaining and four were left when they finished Day 2. Diego Uez and former WPT Player of the Year Jake Ferror were the leaders returning for the last day, but Corless never lost a hand.

Gal Yafrich doubled up on the first hand of Day 3 with aces but then ran his big slick into Corless’s aces to go out in fourth. Then Ferro lost his stack to his good friend before Uez and Corless decided to chop up the remaining prize pool.

Uez earned $124,000 in the deal and Corless is your 2024 Tampa Winter Poker Open Champion, banking $130,230 and the trophy for his efforts.

Final table results:

1st: Ross Corless – $130,230 + WPO Trophy *
2nd: Diego Uez – $124,000 *
3rd: Jake Ferro – $74,890
4th: Gal Yafrich – $55,750
5th: Mo Alhalwani – $41,920
6th: Chad Kitchen – $31,840
7th: Mark Milburn – $24,420
8th: Ryan Hogan – $18,910
9th: Jared Ingles – $14,790
* – results of heads-up deal

• Complete WPO Championship results (PDF)

2024 Winter Poker Open
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Tampa, Florida
Event 9
$250 Seniors 50+ (Re-Entry)
$10,000 Guaranteed
Entries:  245
Prize Pool:  $50,225
February 5, 2024

Registration closed for the $250 Seniors 50+ tournament with 245 entries, quintupling the $10,000 guarantee into a prize pool worth $50,225. The last 31 spots will be paid with $460 for a min-cash and $11,145 up top for the last champ of the series.

1st: $11,145 + WPO Trophy
2nd: $7,390
3rd: $5,370
4th: $3,960
5th: $2,960
6th: $2,240
7th: $1,730
8th: $1,350
9th-10th: $1,060
11th-12th: $880
13th-14th: $740
15th-16th: $630
17th-20th: $560
21st-24th: $500
25th-31st: $460

$1,700 WPO Championship (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 30:  100,000/200,000 with a 200,000 ante

After Jake Ferro was eliminated in third place, Ross Corless and Diego Uez took some time to look at the numbers. After some negotiation for the trophy, the two agreed on a deal to divide up the remaining prize money.

Uez earned $124,000 for a runner-up result, while Corless earned $130,230 and the trophy as our 2024 WPO Champion.

Congrats both!

Ross Corless – 13,800,000 (69 bb)
Diego Uez – 7,275,000 (36 bb)

1st: Ross Corless – $130,230 + WPO Trophy
2nd: Diego Uez – $124,000

$1,700 WPO Championship (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 30:  100,000/200,000 with a 200,000 ante
Players Remaining:  2 of 529

Ross Corless opened to 475,000 from the small blind and Jake Ferro moved all in for 2,225,000 from the big. Corless called and Ferro was at risk.

Corless:
Ferro:

“You have clubs too?” Ferro laughed with his friend.

Ferro needed to catch something with two live cards to double back up but the board ran to send him out in third place.

Ross Corless – 13,800,000 (69 bb)
Jake Ferro – Eliminated in 3rd Place ($74,890)

$1,700 WPO Championship (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 30:  100,000/200,000 with a 200,000 ante
Players Remaining:  3 of 529

Gal Yifrach open-shipped for 3,400,000 and Diego Uez folded his button. Ross Corless quickly called in the small blind and Jake Ferro folded his big.

Yifrach:
Corless:

Yifrach ran his big slick into a monster, had a bit of a sweat on the board but did not catch enough and was eliminated in fourth place.

Ross Corless – 11,200,000 (56 bb)
Gal Yifrach – Eliminated in 4th Place ($55,750)

$1,700 WPO Championship (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 30:  100,000/200,000 with a 200,000 ante
Players Remaining:  4 of 529

One short orbit after Gal Yifrach doubled, Ross Corless shipped in for 2,200,000 from under the gun and Diego Uez called in the big blind with another chance to knock out a player.

Corless:
Uez:

It was a race and Corless needed his deuces to hold for his double. The dealer spread the board, Corless faded the over cards, and doubled up.

Ross Corless – 4,600,000 (23 bb)
Diego Uez – 6,900,000 (35 bb)

$1,700 WPO Championship (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 30:  100,000/200,000 with a 200,000 ante
Players Remaining:  4 of 529

On the first hand of the day, Gal Yifrach limped from the small blind, Diego Uez announced all in from the big, and Yifrach called as fast as actually possible.

Yifrach:
Uez:

Short-stacked and needing something to happen, Yifrach caught aces right out of the gate and they held on the board for a double.

Gal Yifrach – 3,550,000 (18 bb)
Diego Uez – 9,400,000 (47 bb)