$1,650 Winter Poker Open Main Event
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 21:  10,000/15,000 with a 15,000 ante
Players Remaining:  24 of 479

Catching up on some paperwork, below you can find the estimated counts of the 24 players remaining and the results that got them there.

Andrew Boccia, Filipp Khavin, Sara Hall, and Wasim Assaf went out to trigger the three-table redraw then Fabian Foster, Soe Lee, and Anthony Dianaty went out not long after.

Below are the counts with the blinds up and results:

Table 10
Seat 1: David Moses – 525,000 (35 bb)
Seat 2: Michael Cohen – 500,000 (33 bb)
Seat 3: John Dolan – 790,000 (53 bb)
Seat 4: Antonious Nashaat – 270,000 (18 bb)
Seat 5: Ken Fishman – 495,000 (33 bb)
Seat 6: Scott Riddell – 750,000 (50 bb)
Seat 7: — Empty —
Seat 8: Adam Templeman – 350,000 (23 bb)
Seat 9: Peter Vitantonio – 625,000 (42 bb)

Table 11
Seat 1: Rob Manjura – 440,000 (29 bb)
Seat 2: Duff Charette – 850,000 (57 bb)
Seat 3: Austin Buchanan – 1,200,000 (80 bb)
Seat 4: TK Miles – 720,000 (48 bb)
Seat 5: — Empty —
Seat 6: Manny Minaya – 330,000 (22 bb)
Seat 7: Reggie Bautista – 295,000 (20 bb)
Seat 8: Kevin Eyster – 350,000 (23 bb)
Seat 9: Justin Zaki – 1,350,000 (90 bb)

Table 21
Seat 1: Brian Stewart – 495,000 (33 bb)
Seat 2: Connor Rash – 470,000 (31 bb)
Seat 3: — Empty —
Seat 4: Joseph Mole – 490,000 (33 bb)
Seat 5: Terri-Anne Crawford – 510,000 (34 bb)
Seat 6: David DiBernardi – 480,000 (32 bb)
Seat 7: Alex Rocha – 810,000 (54 bb)
Seat 8: Mark Scacewater – 625,000 (42 bb)
Seat 9: Nick Mann – 470,000 (31 bb)

25th: Anthony Dianaty – $5,030
26th: Soe Lee – $5,030
27th: Fabian Foster – $5,030
28th: Wasim Assaf – $4,167
29th: Sara Hall – $4,167
30th: Filipp Khavin – $4,167
31st: Andrew Boccia – $4,167

$1,650 Winter Poker Open Main Event
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 20:  5,000/15,000 with a 15,000 ante
Players Remaining:  27 of 479

The Main Event is down to the last 27 players of the tournament and the clock was paused to perform a complete three table redraw. Here is the lineup with the remaining payouts, chip counts will be updated once everything settled.

Table 10
Seat 1: David Moses
Seat 2: Michael Cohen
Seat 3: John Dolan
Seat 4: Antonious Nashaat
Seat 5: Ken Fishman
Seat 6: Scott Riddell
Seat 7: Fabian Foster
Seat 8: Adam Templeman
Seat 9: Peter Vitantonio

Table 11
Seat 1: Rob Manjura
Seat 2: Duff Charette
Seat 3: Austin Buchanan
Seat 4: TK Miles
Seat 5: Joseph Mole
Seat 6: Manny Minaya
Seat 7: Reggie Bautista
Seat 8: Kevin Eyster
Seat 9: Justin Zaki

Table 21
Seat 1: Brian Stewart
Seat 2: Connor Rash
Seat 3: Anthony Dianaty
Seat 4: Soe Lee
Seat 5: Terri-Anne Crawford
Seat 6: David DiBernardi
Seat 7: Alex Rocha
Seat 8: Mark Scacewater
Seat 9: Nick Mann

Remaining payouts:

1st: $149,595
2nd: $104,750
3rd: $67,345
4th: $44,367
5th: $34,165
6th: $28,295
7th: $23,711
8th: $19,320
9th: $14,959
10th-12th: $12,516
13th-15th: $10,598
16th-18th: $8,679
19th-21st: $7,221
22nd-24th: $5,964
25th-27th: $5,030

$1,650 Winter Poker Open Main Event
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 20:  5,000/15,000 with a 15,000 ante
Players Remaining:  30 of 479

Antonious Nashaat was short and put his 110,000 stack in the middle from early position. Anthony Dianaty called next to act and the rest of the table folded.

Nashaat:
Dianaty:

It was a race and Nashaat faded the flop to stay in lead. The turn improved him to a set of eights and Dianaty was drawing dead to the river.

Antonious Nashaat – 255,000 (17 bb)
Anthony Dianaty – 225,000 (15 bb)

$1,650 Winter Poker Open Main Event
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 20:  5,000/15,000 with a 15,000 ante
Players Remaining:  31 of 479

Another round of results are here and includes former big stack Haitham Kaki who fell short of his intended goal today. Li Zhou, Barbara Cardin, and Mark Zhang were other former top stacks eliminated from the Main Event.

32nd: Barbara Cardin – $4,167
33rd: Charles Johnson Jr – $4,167
34th: Haitham Kaki – $4,167
35th: Mark Zhang – $4,167
36th: Li Zhou – $4,167

37th: Brandon Caputo – $3,779
38th: Mok Bsaiso – $3,779
39th: Barry Brown – $3,779
40th: Huicun Qiao – $3,779

$1,650 Winter Poker Open Main Event
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 20:  5,000/15,000 with a 15,000 ante
Players Remaining:  31 of 479

Players are back from their 15-minute color up break as the 1K chips come out of play and the 25K chips are introduced.

The blinds are now 5,000/15,000 with a 15,000 big blind ante. The average stack is 465,000 (31 bb) with 31 players remaining. They will play two more levels before enjoying an hour-long dinner break.

$1,650 Winter Poker Open Main Event
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 19:  5,000/10,000 with a 10,000 ante
Players Remaining:  32 of 479

Peter Vitantonio and Andrew Boccia were heads up to a flop. Vitantonio checked from the small blind, Boccia bet 36,000 and Vitantonio called.

The turn came , Vitanio checked, and Boccia bet 60,000. Vitantonio thought for a few minutes before he announced all-in and Boccia quickly called the 130,000.

Vitantonio:
Boccia:

Boccia flopped top pair and a spade draw but was drawing dead to the river against Vitantonio’s flopped nut flush.

Peter Vitantonio – 390,000 (39 bb)
Andrew Boccia – 204,000 (20 bb)

$1,650 Winter Poker Open Main Event
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 19:  5,000/10,000 with a 10,000 ante
Players Remaining:  36 of 479

It didn’t take that long after the new level to drop the field down to the last four tables.

While players were busting out, Justin Zaki was going in the other direction. The SHR Tampa favorite is up to 1,265,000 to sit among the leaders. Austin Buchanan is still the big stack in the room with 1,457,000.

$1,650 Winter Poker Open Main Event
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 19:  5,000/10,000 with a 10,000 ante
Players Remaining:  40 of 479

There was a quick run to the payout desk after the bubble burst. Notable among the first in the money we had Event 3 runner-up A.J. Kelsall, Stephen Brite, and second-biggest Day 2 starting stacker Ken O’Donnell plus our two micro cashers Raymond Sykes and Nicholas Carter.

41st: John Dobson – $3,779
42nd: Timothy Mulroy – $3,779
43rd: Jeffrey Russell – $3,779
44th: A.J. Kelsall – $3,779
45th: Ken O’Donnell – $3,779

46th: Stephen Brite – $3,485
47th: Nicholas Carter – $3,485
48th: Raymond Sykes – $3,485

$1,650 Winter Poker Open Main Event
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 19:  5,000/10,000 with a 10,000 ante
Players Remaining:  40 of 479

Levels are up in the Main Event with blinds now at 5,000/10,000 with a 10,000 big blind ante. The average stack is now 359,000 (36 bb) with 40 players remaining.

They will finish out this level and take another 15-minute break.

$1,650 Winter Poker Open Main Event
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 18:  4,000/8,000 with a 8,000 ante
Players Remaining:  48 of 479

After an early double up on the first hand of the bubble, the Main Event settled into a bit of a grind and it took seven more hands before we had another all-in called. Former WPTDeepStacks champ Vitor Coelho was down to only 7,000 and dropped that in the middle.

He picked up calls from Rob Manjura in the cutoff, Reggie Bautista in the small blind, and a check from Ken O’Donnell in the big.

The flop came , the blinds checked, Manjura bet 8,000 and only Bautista came along. The turn was , both players checked, and the river was . Bautista checked, Manjura bet 20,000 and Bautista folded.

“How did I not get there?” Bautista asked showing his busted nut flush draw . “Where are the hearts?”

Coelho showed for flopped top pair and turned two pair kings and nines but Manjura was best with for a bigger two pair, kings and tens. Coelho was sent out on the bubble and the rest of the field was in the money.

It was bad news for Coelho but good news for Raymond Sykes and Nicholas Carter when both slid into the money with 15K and 20K respectively and the blinds coming up.

Rob Manjura – 330,000 (41 bb)
Vitor Coelho – Eliminated