2024 Champions Club Winter Poker Open

$1,500 Main Event
Day: 1f
Event Info

2024 Champions Club Winter Poker Open

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
a5
Prize
$209,730
Event Info
Buy-in
$1,500
Prize Pool
$1,363,560
Entries
1,033
Level Info
Level
38
Blinds
600,000 / 1,200,000
Ante
1,200,000
Players Info - Day 1f
Entries
418
Players Left
50

Adam Hendrix Leads Final Flight of Main Event!

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

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

PlacePlayerChipsBig Blinds
1Adam Hendrix1,563,000195
2Charles Dawson1,154,000144
3Michael Kuney1,077,000135
4Andrew Esposito1,054,000132
5Dejuante Alexander827,000103
6Alberto Martinez782,00098
7Thomas Zhang756,00095
8Jacob Daniels738,00092
9Warren Simon722,00090
10Salman Lakhani719,00090

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

PlacePrizePlacePrize
1$234,73022-24$8,050
2$164,43025-27$6,830
3$106,54028-36$6,000
4$78,75037-45$5,180
5$59,91046-54$4,640
6$48,18055-63$4,230
7$40,00064-72$3,900
8$31,92073-81$3,600
9$24,02082-90$3,300
10-12$18,29091-99$3,010
13-15$14,250100-108$2,730
16-18$11,660110-117$2,450
19-21$9,680118-125$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.

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Tags: Adam HendrixAdrian MartinezAndrew EspositoAshley FrankCharles DawsonCharles SinnJerry YenKarim BevansKassim PanjwaniMichael ArellanoMichael Kuny