Championship: Day 3 Ends with Fabian Gumz Leading the Final 17 Players

$3,500 WPT RRPO Championship (Re-Entry)
$2,000,000 Guaranteed | StructurePayouts
Level 26:  25,000/50,000 with a 50,000 ante
Players Remaining:  17 of 988

Fabian Gumz
Chipleader Fabian Gumz

Level 25 came to an end, and the final 17 players have bagged up their chips for Day 4, which begins tomorrow (Tuesday) at 12:00 noon EST.

With 17 players remaining, the average chip stack is about 2,325,000 (47 big blinds), and the remaining players are all guaranteed at least $22,975 each.

Fabian Gumz bagged the biggest stack with 6,620,000, well ahead of Cesar Fuentes (4,075,000) who is currently second on the leaderboard.

Since the players have already redrawn for random seats at the final three tables, there will be no redraw tonight, and they will return to their same seats tomorrow. Here are their official chip counts:

TABLE 39
Seat 1.  Roman Korenev  –  1,425,000  (29 bb)
Seat 2.  David Novosel  –  3,055,000  (61 bb)
Seat 3.  Aaron Mermelstein  –  1,950,000  (39 bb)
Seat 4.  
Seat 5.  
Seat 6.  Jeff Blenkarn  –  2,215,000  (44 bb)
Seat 7.  Mitchell Smith  –  1,375,000  (28 bb)
Seat 8.  Antonio Mallol  –  1,585,000  (32 bb)

TABLE 40
Seat 1.  
Seat 2.  Arkadiy Tsinis  –  1,375,000  (28 bb)
Seat 3.  Cesar Fuentes  –  4,075,000  (82 bb)
Seat 4.  Jeffrey Colpitts  –  2,570,000  (51 bb)
Seat 5.  
Seat 6.  Jonathan Jaffe  –  790,000  (16 bb)
Seat 7.  Fabian Gumz  –  6,620,000  (132 bb)
Seat 8.  Toby Joyce  –  1,345,000  (27 bb)

TABLE 50
Seat 1.  
Seat 2.  Milen Stefanov  –  3,115,000  (62 bb)
Seat 3.  
Seat 4.  Hiroaki Harada  –  635,000  (13 bb)
Seat 5.  Bin Weng  –  2,185,000  (44 bb)
Seat 6.  
Seat 7.  Danny Fuhs  –  3,715,000  (74 bb)
Seat 8.  Francis Anderson  –  1,500,000  (30 bb)

And here is the remaining prizepool at stake:

1st:  $545,070* + RRPO Trophy
2nd:  $353,380
3rd:  $260,845
4th:  $194,605
5th:  $146,760
6th:  $111,895
7th:  $86,255
8th:  $67,240
9th:  $53,005
10th:  $53,005
11th:  $42,265
12th:  $42,265
13th:  $34,095
14th:  $34,095
15th:  $27,825
16th:  $27,825
17th:  $22,975

Day 4 begins tomorrow at 12:00 noon, and they will play as many 90-minute levels as it takes to reach the final six players for Wednesday’s WPT Final Table. Return to SHRPO.com for continuing coverage of the WPT Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open Championship.

* First prize amount includes the winner’s $15,000 seat into the season-ending WPT Tournament of Champions.