One of the premier tournaments taking place this weekend in Las Vegas is the $5,300 buy-in, $1,500,000 guaranteed Wynn Winter Championship, which gets underway today at noon local time. It marks the first time Wynn has offered a Winter Classic to compliment their spring, summer and fall series.
The Winter Classic began back on December 2 with $2.8 million in guaranteed prize pools on top. The series culminates this week with this Championship Event, which will be live reported in full here on PokerNews. Fun Fact: this is the biggest buy-in held at Wynn in over five years!
“This is a great time of year to return to the larger buy-in tournament scene,” Ryan Beauregard, Executive Director of Poker Operations, said previously. “There are a handful of fantastic events in Las Vegas bookmarking this $5,300 Championship, and I would really love to see this December timeframe become an annual ‘must play’ on everyone’s tournament calendar.”
Tournament Director Ray Pulford added: “I am confident that this tournament will generate a multimillion-dollar prize-pool. We are consistently fielding player requests to run bigger buy-in events, and I’m excited to have the opportunity to grow our Wynn Classic offerings.”
Players will start with 50,000 in tournament chips and levels will last 60 minutes each with a 10-minute break every two levels. Registrations and re-entries are available until the start of Level 13 (approx. 2:10 p.m. on Day 2).
There will be a 75-minute dinner break at the end of Level 6 (approximately 6:30-7:45 p.m.). All players remaining in the event at that time can enjoy complimentary entry to the Wynn Buffet. A designated entry lane and reserved seating has already been arranged, meaning players can get in and out with ease.
Here's a look at the structure for Day 1, which will play through Level 10 (approx. 11:45 p.m.):
| Level | Small Blind | Big Blind | BBA |
|---|
| 1 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
| 2 | 100 | 200 | 200 |
| 3 | 200 | 300 | 300 |
| 4 | 200 | 400 | 400 |
| 5 | 300 | 500 | 500 |
| 6 | 300 | 600 | 600 |
| 7 | 400 | 800 | 800 |
| 8 | 500 | 1,000 | 1,000 |
| 9 | 600 | 1,200 | 1,200 |
| 10 | 1,000 | 1,500 | 1,500 |
flop before Jazayeri got the rest of his chips in on the turn, which was a third diamond, against Marko Pantelic.
on the river gave Jazayeri a set but it wasn't good enough and he headed for the exit.
