$1,500 Main Event Day 1f | 2024 Champions Club Winter Poker Open

$1,500 Main Event

Day 1f Completed

02-18-2024 03:50 UTC-6

Adam Hendrix Leads Final Flight of Main Event!

Kirk Brown

Level 19 : Blinds 8,000/1,600, 1,600 ante

Yet another day has come to completion here at Champions Club in Houston, Texas as Day 1f of the WPO Event #15: $1,500 Main Event has come to a close. This was the sixth and final flight of this major event, and it sure didn’t disappoint as there were a whooping 418 entries as players desperately tried to find a bag for Day 2. With this outrageous amount of entries, 50 players put chips in a bag, with Adam Hendrix leading the day with an impressive stack of 1,563,000. In second place tonight is Charles Dawson who bagged 1,154,000 and in third is Michael Kuney with 1,077,000. Rounding out the top five is Andrew Esposito in fourth with 1,054,000 and Dejaunte ‘DJ’ Alexander in fifth with 828,000 after he busted Adrian Martinez on the bubble.

Day 1f Top Ten Chip Counts

Place	Player	Chips	Big Blinds
1	Adam Hendrix	1,563,000	195
2	Charles Dawson	1,154,000	144
3	Michael Kuney	1,077,000	135
4	Andrew Esposito	1,054,000	132
5	Dejuante Alexander	827,000	103
6	Alberto Martinez	782,000	98
7	Thomas Zhang	756,000	95
8	Jacob Daniels	738,000	92
9	Warren Simon	722,000	90
10	Salman Lakhani	719,000	90

As was expected, this final flight was by far the craziest and most action-packed of them all, with the $1 million guarantee hit only two hours in! As mentioned above, there were 418 shots taken today and the room was packed to the gills as every table in the building was full.

Although there was no shortage of action, as with Day 1f, it seemed to take a while before any players started pulling away from the pack. The first player to gain a stack early was Karim Bevans when he busted Ashley Frank with pocket aces versus her pocket kings. He rode that momentum throughout the day but ultimately busted later in the evening. Then along came Jerry Yen who scooped a monster four-way all in with bottom set to propel him into the chip lead with around 725,000 and wound up bagging 668,000 6 hours later.

The man of the night, Hendrix, acquired his stack by doing Adam Hendrix things. The biggest of which was when he called off a big bet from Michael Arellano in a 600,000 pot with just a pair of fives and was correct. That put him at over a million and he used his big stack to his advantage and began applying max pressure to his opponents. This stack will be good for third place on Day 2, behind only Kassim Panjwani (2,337,000) and Charles Sinn (1,870,000).

From the six opening flights, 125 players will return tomorrow with a guaranteed payout of $2,180 but all of them will be fighting for the chance to bag as one of the final nine for Day 3 on Monday, the live-streamed final table.

$1,500 Main Event Payouts

Place	Prize	Place	Prize
1	$234,730	22-24	$8,050
2	$164,430	25-27	$6,830
3	$106,540	28-36	$6,000
4	$78,750	37-45	$5,180
5	$59,910	46-54	$4,640
6	$48,180	55-63	$4,230
7	$40,000	64-72	$3,900
8	$31,920	73-81	$3,600
9	$24,020	82-90	$3,300
10-12	$18,290	91-99	$3,010
13-15	$14,250	100-108	$2,730
16-18	$11,660	110-117	$2,450
19-21	$9,680	118-125	$2,180

Play will resume at high noon tomorrow with 30:00 minutes remaining in Level 16. Blinds will be 4,000/8,000 with an 8,000 big blind ante.

PokerNews will be there from start to finish until the end, so make sure to keep up with all of the action!

Tags: Adam Hendrix Adrian Martinez Andrew Esposito Ashley Frank Charles Dawson Charles Sinn Jerry Yen Karim Bevans Kassim Panjwani Michael Arellano Michael Kuny

02-18-2024 03:50 UTC-6

Day 2 Seat Draw

Kirk Brown

Level 19 : Blinds 8,000/1,600, 1,600 ante

Table	Seat	Player	Chip Count	Big Blinds
1	1	Zachary Wolf	533,000	67
1	2	Tzu Yen	686,000	86
1	3	Jeffrey Nowling	325,000	41
1	4	Casey Brown	417,000	52
1	5	Michael Kuney	1,077,000	135
1	6	Danny Chang	291,000	36
1	7	Lance Garcia	586,000	73
1	8	Albert Chlouber	410,000	51
1	9	Chi Nguyen	538,000	67

2	1	William Smith	459,000	57
2	2	Tai Vo	1,190,000	149
2	3	Genc Govori	632,000	79
2	4	Aashir Aggarwal	710,000	89
2	5	Joshua Thibodaux	442,000	55
2	6	Bradley Ruben	483,000	60
2	7	Ravee Sundara	828,000	104
2	8	Thomas Tran	263,000	33
2	9	Isaac Trumbo	670,000	84

3	1	Ghadi Akari	391,000	49
3	2	Kristopher Burchfield	352,000	44
3	3	Andrew Moreno	408,000	51
3	4	Southisak Seunsom	219,000	27
3	5	[Removed:460]	530,000	66
3	6	Gabriel Andrade	760,000	95
3	7	Jason Daly	510,000	64
3	8	Brendon Kaufman	354,000	44
3	9	Andrew Rudnik	234,000	29

4	1	Jason Hickey	371,000	46
4	2	Spencer Champlin	470,000	59
4	3	David Valden	197,000	25
4	4	David Shaw	473,000	59
4	5	Tiffany Langston	246,000	31
4	6	Charles Sinn	1,870,000	234
4	7	Trung Tran	194,000	24
4	8	Cedrric Trevino	654,000	82
4	9	Christopher Chomenko	742,000	93

5	1	Venkat Chivukula	330,000	41
5	2	Moises Rivas	276,000	35
5	3	Barrett Threadgill	175,000	22
5	4	Warren Simon	722,000	90
5	5	Alberto Martinez	782,000	98
5	6	Jason Gooch	358,000	45
5	7	John Ross	172,000	22
5	8	Benjamin Rose	131,000	16
5	9	Kamoru Yusuf	288,000	36

6	1	Thomas Zhang	756,000	95
6	2	Tong Mu	816,000	102
6	3	Collin Calloway	128,000	16
6	4	Tony Lam	161,000	20
6	5	Phillip Bertram	600,090	75
6	6	Kassim Panjwani	2,337,000	292
6	7	Nicolas Trevino	242,000	30
6	8	Christian Vaca	392,000	49
6	9	Nicholas Toralba	211,000	26

7	1	Charles Dawson	1,154,000	144
7	2	Will Benson	269,000	34
7	3	Thai Ha	262,000	33
7	4	Lam Tran	642,000	80
7	5	Robert Valden	357,000	45
7	6	Brian Craft	310,000	39
7	7	William Novak	474,000	59
7	8	Joshua Bozarth	155,000	19
7	9	Philip Nguyen	315,000	39

8	1	Drake Roetker	405,000	51
8	2	Ryan Van	1,394,000	174
8	3	Andrew Esposito	1,054,000	132
8	4	Matthew Liu	193,000	24
8	5	Lawrence Lazar	934,000	117
8	6	Jack Corrigan	273,000	34
8	7	William Berry	459,000	57
8	8	Brennan Benglis	319,000	40
8	9	Salman Lakhani	719,000	90

9	1	Patrick Megna	42,000	5
9	2	Mark Davis	342,000	43
9	3	Abdul Al	311,000	39
9	4	James Rone	326,000	41
9	5	David Mzareulov	443,000	55
9	6	Kenneth Warner	715,000	89
9	7	Karthick Tamilselvam	231,000	29
9	8	Anastacio Baeza	358,000	45
9	9	Chezz Romero	536,000	67

10	1	Yunkyu Song	196,000	25
10	2	Michael Moyer	1,105,000	138
10	3	Dejuante Alexander	827,000	103
10	4	James Temple	144,000	18
10	5	Richard Fink	332,000	42
10	6	Daniel Fritsch	70,000	9
10	7	Phu Vo	362,000	45
10	8	David Lawson	660,000	83
10	9	Adam Hendrix	1,563,000	195

11	1	Sean Cha	751,000	94
11	2	Kyle Arora	521,000	65
11	3	Matthew Abell	551,000	69
11	4	Jason Faircloth	244,000	31
11	5	Jessica Richards	1,206,000	151
11	6	Anthony Quattrocchi	474,000	59
11	8	Lisa Fleishman	378,000	47
11	9	Vladyslav Shovkovyi	436,000	55

12	1	Kanishak Sethi	199,000	25
12	2	Sage Nutt	393,000	49
12	3	Ryan Griffiths	604,000	76
12	4	David Diaz	505,000	63
12	5	Tony Bunch	742,000	93
12	6	Mahdi Jalil	628,000	79
12	7	Andrew Watkins	67,000	8
12	8	Viet Vo	154,000	19
12	9	Joeseph Schneider	122,000	15

13	1	Julius Threadgill	513,000	64
13	2	Christopher Aguilar	761,000	95
13	3	Jacob Daniels	738,000	92
13	4	Raymond Henson	482,000	60
13	5	Philip Chow	257,000	32
13	6	Robert Burnett	501,000	63
13	7	Jonathan Tamayo	372,000	47
13	8	Ryan Freeman	536,000	67
13	9	Caitlin Comeskey	289,000	36

14	1	Greg Raymer	159,000	20
14	2	Allen Baker	271,000	34
14	3	Shawna Berger	184,000	23
14	4	Michael Arellano	318,000	40
14	5	Varadarajan Iyengar	471,000	59
14	6	Roger Franco	368,000	46
14	7	Randall Brooks	443,000	55
14	8	Jason Fitzpatrick	394,000	49
14	9	Christopher Staats	340,000	43

02-18-2024 03:47 UTC-6

End of Day Chip Counts (full)

Kirk Brown

Level 19 : Blinds 8,000/1,600, 1,600 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Adam Hendrix	1,563,000 313,000	313,000

Charles Dawson	1,154,000 1,154,000	1,154,000
Michael Kuney	1,077,000 417,000	417,000
Andrew Esposito	1,054,000 349,000	349,000
Dejuante Alexander	827,000 -3,000	-3,000

Alberto Martinez	782,000 782,000	782,000
Tommy Zhang	756,000 246,000	246,000
Jacob Daniels	738,000 738,000	738,000
Warren Simon	722,000 722,000	722,000
Salman Lakhani	719,000 719,000	719,000
Jerry Yen	686,000 -42,000	-42,000
Cedrric Trevino	654,000

Genc Govori	632,000 222,000	222,000
Mahdi Jalil	628,000 108,000	108,000
Ryan Griffiths	604,000 604,000	604,000
Cord Garcia	586,000 -42,000	-42,000
Chi Nguyen	538,000 457,000	457,000
Ryan Freeman	536,000 536,000	536,000
Kyle Arora	521,000 521,000	521,000
Anthony Quattrocchi	474,000 474,000	474,000
William Novak	474,000 474,000	474,000
William Smith	459,000 276,000	276,000
David Mzareulov	443,000 443,000	443,000

Randall Brooks	443,000 443,000	443,000
Joshua Thibodaux	442,000 314,000	314,000

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02-18-2024 02:28 UTC-6

End of Day; Players Bag

Kirk Brown

Level 19 : Blinds 8,000/1,600, 1,600 ante

With the elimination of Adrian Martinez, the surviving 50 players have bagged up to return tomorrow at high noon for Day 2.

A complete chip count and seat draw, and recap of the day will be uploaded shortly, so stay tuned!

02-18-2024 02:27 UTC-6

Alexander Cracks Martinez's Aces to Burst Bubble

Kirk Brown

Level 19 : Blinds 8,000/1,600, 1,600 ante

Dejaunte 'DJ' Alexander opened to 32,000 preflop and Adrian Martinez just called to see a flop of 9♣9♥4♥.

Alexander checked to Martinez, who just ripped in his stack of 300,000 and Alexander called to put him at risk.

"I know I got the best hand," Alexander announced as the table waited until the rest of the room's action was complete. When they were given the all-clear, the hands were on their backs.

Adrian Martinez: A♣A♠
Dejuante Alexander: 4♠4♦

Alexander did indeed have the best hand with his flopped full house, but he still had to fade two aces and two nines to keep it that way. Luckily for him, the runout was 7♣10♠ and he was awarded the pot while Martinez exited on the stone bubble of the Main Event.

Player	Chips	Progress
Dejuante Alexander	830,000

Adrian Martinez	Busted

02-18-2024 02:03 UTC-6

Bubble Time! Hand-for-Hand

Kirk Brown

Level 19 : Blinds 8,000/1,600, 1,600 ante

With the elimination of Aaron McEvoy, the remaining 51 players are now on the stone money/bag bubble and hand-for-hand is now in effect.

Level: 19

Blinds: 8,000/1,600

Ante: 1,600

02-18-2024 01:36 UTC-6

Break Time!

Kirk Brown

Level 18 : Blinds 6,000/12,000, 12,000 ante

The 54 remaining players are now on what will be their last 15-minute break of the night and will return to battle it out shortly.

02-18-2024 01:35 UTC-6

Prize Pool and Payouts; $234,730 for 1st!

Kirk Brown

Level 18 : Blinds 6,000/12,000, 12,000 ante

The numbers are in! With 1,033 total entries, this event greatly surpassed the $1 million guarantee and generated a whopping prize pool of $1.363,560! All players who make it to Day 2 have locked up a min-cash of $2,180 while the eventual winner will take home a staggering $234,730!

Place	Payout	Place	Payout
1	$234,730	22-24	$8,050
2	$164,430	25-27	$6,830
3	$106,540	28-36	$6,000
4	$78,750	37-45	$5,180
5	$59,910	46-54	$4,640
6	$48,180	55-63	$4,230
7	$40,000	64-72	$3,900
8	$31,920	73-81	$3,600
9	$24,020	82-90	$3,300
10-12	$18,290	91-99	$3,010
13-15	$14,250	100-108	$2,730
16-18	$11,660	110-117	$2,450
19-21	$9,680	118-125	$2,180