$1,650 Purple Chip Bounty NLH (Re-Entry) $100,000 Guaranteed | Payouts Level 18: 4,000/8,000 with a 8,000 ante Players Remaining: 10 of 153
After Kurt Lichtman’s elimination in 11th place the ten remaining players redrew for the final table. After busting Frank Logodich, WSOP bracelet winner Pablo Mariz leads the pack.
Here’s how they stack up:
Seat 1: Peter Mancini – 260,000 Seat 2: Aleksandr Gofman – 662,000 Seat 3: Pablo Mariz – 740,000 Seat 4: Mathieu Selides – 133,000 Seat 5: David Levi – 134,000 Seat 6: Michael Stashin – 461,000 Seat 7: Brian Hastings – 107,000 Seat 8: Daniel Pearlman – 234,000 Seat 9: Myles German – 223,000 Seat 10: Paula Alibrandi – 101,000
$1,650 Purple Chip Bounty NLH (Re-Entry) $100,000 Guaranteed | Payouts Level 18: 4,000/8,000 with a 8,000 ante Players Remaining: 12 of 153
Peter Mancini
Aleksandr Gofman opened to 18,000 and Kurt Lichtman shoved from the small blind. Peter Mancini called all in and Gofman got out of the way.
Lichtman tabled and needed to get lucky against Mancini’s .
The board came and Mancini’s pocket aces held. The stacks were close to even, the dealer counted them down and Lichtman had Mancini’s 126,000 slightly covered.
$1,650 Purple Chip Bounty NLH (Re-Entry) $100,000 Guaranteed | Payouts Level 18: 4,000/8,000 with a 8,000 ante Players Remaining: 12 of 153
Aleksandr Gofman
The popular Purple Chip Bounty tournament drew 153 entries to easily surpass the $100,000 Guarantee between the regular and bounty prize pools. Of those 153, only 12 were able to survive the day and return today at 2pm to play it out.
Aleksandr Gofman returns with a massive chip lead, his 627,000 well ahead of Michael Stashin’s 357,000. Four-time WSOP bracelet winner Brian Hastings, former SHRP champ David Levi, and local regular Daniel Pearlman are also in contention as the play for the $41,120 top prize.
Table 1 Seat 1: Mathieu Selides – 237,000 Seat 2: Brian Hastings – 101,000 Seat 3: Pablo Mariz – 348,000 Seat 4: Paula Alibrandi – 124,000 Seat 5: Daniel Pearlman – 201,000 Seat 6: Frank Logodich – 312,000
Table 2 Seat 1: Aleksandr Gofman – 627,000 Seat 2: Myles German – 331,000 Seat 3: Michael Stashin – 357,000 Seat 4: Kurt Lichtman – 135,000 Seat 5: Peter Mancini – 134,000 Seat 6: David Levi – 154,000
$1,650 Purple Chip Bounty NLH (Re-Entry) $100,000 Guaranteed | Payouts End of Level 17: 3,000/6,000 with a 6,000 ante Players Remaining: 12 of 153
Aleksandr Gofman
After 17 levels of play, the 153-entry $1,650 no-limit hold’em purple chip bounty is down to its final 12 players and is led by Aleksandr Gofman, who finished the day with 627,000 in chips.
He holds a massive chip lead over the rest of the field with his closest competitors nearly 300,000 chips behind him. Michael Stashin (357,000), Pablo Mariz (348,000) and Myles German (331,000) are the only other players above the 300,000-chip mark.
Four-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner Brian Hastings comes into the second and final day as the short stack with 101,000, while Mathieu Selides is on the verge of his second final table of the series. He finished runner-up to Dragos Iosub in the $570 no-limit hold’em last Wednesday.
They burst the bubble late in the day and the top 20 spots earned at least $2,142. The final 12 players are all guaranteed a cash of at least $3,596 and $500 for every player they knockout, but the eventual winner will walk away $41,120 and one of the last Hard Rock trophies to be awarded this series.
Cards will get back in the air on Monday at 2 p.m. Here is a look at the seating arrangement of the final 12 players:
Table 1
Seat 1: Mathieu Selides – 237,000 Seat 2: Brian Hastings – 101,000 Seat 3: Pablo Mariz – 348,000 Seat 4: Paula Alibrandi – 124,000 Seat 5: Daniel Pearlman – 201,000 Seat 6: Frank Logodich – 312,000
Table 2
Seat 1: Aleksandr Gofman – 627,000 Seat 2: Myles German – 331,000 Seat 3: Michael Stashin – 357,000 Seat 4: Kurt Lichtman – 135,000 Seat 5: Peter Mancini – 134,000 Seat 6: David Levi – 154,000
Here are the payouts thus far:
13th: Randall Emmett – $3,098 14th: Jose Reyes – $3,098 15th: Kenneth Ray – $3,098 16th: Daria Feshchenko – $2,616 17th: Franklin LaCava – $2,616 18th: Lawrence L’Hommedieu – $2,616 19th: Jason Tedeschi – $2,142 20th: Julio Marines – $2,142
$1,650 No-Limit Hold’em Purple Chip Bounty Level 9: 500/1,000 with a 1,000 BB ante Players Remaining: 51 of 153
Level 9 is underway, which closed registration on the $1,650 no-limit hold’em purple chip bounty. There are 153 entries in the field, which generated a prize pool of $153,000 and another $76,500 up for grabs in bounties.
The top 20 spots will finish in the money. A min-cash is worth $2,142 and the winner will take home $41,120 when play wraps up tomorrow.
Day 2 of the RRPO Championship is moving right along and we have a popular game for those who missed out. Event 14 is a $1,650 Purple Chip Bounty event with a $100,000 guaranteed prize pools and a $500 cash casino chip waiting for those who knock someone out.
They’ll start with 20,000 stacks out front and the first eight levels will last 30 minutes. Late registration and unlimited re-entries are available until the start of Level 9 and levels will increase to 40 minutes for the duration. They will continue through the grind it out and knock players out until Day 1 comes to an end after Level 17. Those still with chips will return tomorrow at 2pm.
$100,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
Players begin with 20,000 in chips
Single ante will be paid from the big blind for the entire table
Levels 1-8 last 30 minutes; Levels 9+ last 40 minutes
Late registration/re-entry available until start of Level 9
Day 1 will end after Level 17 or Tournament Director discretion
and David Levi’s 
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and Mancini’s kings held to knock out both of his opponents.
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with around 200,000 in the pot Pablo Mariz moved all in for 225,000 effective.
for the winning full house to eliminate Logodich in twelfth place.
and Mancini’s pocket aces held. The stacks were close to even, the dealer counted them down and Lichtman had Mancini’s 126,000 slightly covered.
