The $3,000 Winter Poker Open Championship is down to the final 172 players over at Borgata, just 72 spots from the money. A total of 710 had survived both starting days and despite the extremely deep stacks (50,000) and long, slow structures (75-minutes) in play, the field managed to whittle itself down to a manageable size anyway.
There are a number of notables still in contention, including "Captain" Tom Franklin (64,500), John Myung (125,000), Esther Taylor (167,500), Jason Young (173,500), James "jcamby33" Campbell (185,500), Chris Bell (187,000), Matt Brady (221,000), Paul Spitzberg (235,500), Gordon Eng (242,000), Bill Edler (276,000), John Racener (318,500), Charles Marchese (393,500), David "dpeters17" Peters (449,000), Ryan "ryanbluf" Karp (521,500), Steven Levy (528,500), Mark "Dipthr0ng" Herm (595,500), and Joe "hoodini10" Udine (605,500).
Play will resume today at 11 a.m. EST and continue until only 27 remain.
Here are the top 10 stacks:
- Frankie Flowers — 847,500
- Evan Kochav — 799,000
- David "bakes" Baker — 798,000
- Anthony Villani — 770,500
- Stephen Barbella — 727,000
- Daniel Sparacino — 715,000
- Logan Raskin — 704,500
- Mohamed Elkerdawy — 648,500
- Grant Coombs — 644,500
- Eric Seigel — 633,500
