Event 1 Flight G: Last Level of the Night

$400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 14:  3,000/6,000 with a 6,000 ante
Flight G Players Remaining:  180 of 1,009

John Gorsuch

The last level of Flight G is here and time is running out for the 180 remaining players to build a big Day 2 stack. There are several players contending for the overall lead and we are keeping an eye on them.

One surprise entrant is the game and trying to advance his first shot. John Gorsuch wasn’t even in the country this morning. The 2019 WSOP Millionaire Maker bracelet winner went deep in the partypokerLive Main Event in Aruba yesterday and hopped a plane this morning for the last starting day of RRPO Event 1.

Event 6: Prize Pool and Payouts with $8,125 to the Big O Winner

$400 Big O (Re-Entry)
Structure | Payouts
Level 10:  500/1,000
Players Remaining:  32 of 78

We closed registration on the Big O tournament and it was another nice turnout for a non-Hold’em game. Event 6 drew 78 entries to create a prize pool worth $26,520.

The last 10 spots will be paid out with a min-cash taking home $815 and the Big O champ banking $8,125 plus the RRPO trophy and custom-framed winner’s photo courtesy of Image Masters.

2019 Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open 
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino 
Hollywood, Florida
Event 6

$400 Big O (Re-Entry)
Entries: 78
Prize Pool: $26,520
November 23, 2019 

1st: $8,125 + RRPO Trophy
2nd: $5,420
3rd: $3,610
4th: $2,510
5th: $1,820
6th: $1,385
7th: $1,100
8th: $920
9th: $815
10th: $815

Event 1 Flight G: Last Break

$400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 11:  800/1,600 with a 1,600 ante
Flight G Players Remaining:  324 of 1,009

Deryl Luong traveled from Tampa to play Event 1 this weekend

Time ran out on Level 11 and the 324 remaining Flight G players are taking the final break of their day. We expect to cut that field nearly in half by the time Flight G comes to an end after Level 14.

Event 1 Flight H: Last Chance to Enter

$400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 1:  100/100

The big Saturday in the Seminole Ballroom continues at 5 pm with the final flight of RRPO Event 1. The tournament reached its $1,000,000 guarantee before action kicked off this morning for Flight G and they’ve been pushing it higher ever since.

The prize pool currently sits a few dollars short of $1.3 million and they will surely put it over $1.5 million before registration closes for good.

Players will start with 20,000 deep stacks and all Day 1 levels last 30 minutes long. Late registration is available until the start of Level 9 at 9:30 pm with unlimited re-entries during that time. Flight H will come to end after Level 14 and survivors will return tomorrow at noon for Day 2.

  • $1,000,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
  • Players begin with 20,000 in chips
  • Day 1 levels last 30 minutes; Day 2 levels last 40 minutes
  • Late registration/re-entry available until start of Level 9
  • Day 1 will end after Level 14 or Tournament Director discretion
  • Event 1 Structure Sheet

Chip counts through Flight F

Event 1 Flight G: Robert Mizrachi On Top

$400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 10:  600/1,200 with a 1,200 ante
Flight G Entries: 1,009

Robert Mizrachi

We tracked down the top stacks in the room during the second break and the biggest belonged to Robert Mizrachi. The four-time WSOP bracelet was a late entrant and still spun his 20,000 starting stack up to 165,000 by the time registration closed.

Mizrachi’s tablemate Greg Spinder is second with 150,000 followed by Yaniv Meir (132,000), Eric Reilly (129,000), and Song O (126,600) rounding out the top five.

Event 1 Flight G: Registration Closed with 1,009 Entries

$400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 9:  500/1,000 with a 1,000 ante
Flight G Entries: 1,009

Registration closed on the seventh of eight starting flights for RRPO Event 1 and it was a big one. The accounting shows 1,009 entries this afternoon to make it the second biggest (non-Championship) starting flight in our history.

The combined total is up to 3,792 (good for sixth on the all-time list) with an entire flight remaining to push it higher.

Flight H kicks off at 5 pm with late registration available until 9:30 pm.

Day/TimeFlightEntriesAdvanced
Wednesday at 11amA40067
Wednesday at 5pmB33651
Thursday at 11amC43865
Thursday at 5pmD41973
Friday at 11amE59282
Friday at 5pmF59889
Saturday at 11amG1,009TBD
Saturday at 5pmH
Total 3,792427

Chip counts through Flight F

Event 1 Flight G: More Visitors

$400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 8:  400/800 with a 800 ante
Flight G Entries: 985

David Moses

The clock is ticking down to get a seat in Flight G, they will take a break in 15 minutes and registration will close when they return at 3:30 pm.

We found a few more travelers in the field who have success in the Sunshine State. David Moses comes to us from South Carolina and he picked up his first career WSOP Circuit ring last winter at our sister room in Coconut Creek.

JP Kolp hails from Lousiana and followed Moses’ suit this past September when he won the WSOPC Coco $400 Monster Stack for a $43K payout.

JP Kolb

Event 1 Flight E: Another Milestone

$400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 7:  300/600 with a 600 ante
Flight G Entries: 933

Marsha Wolak

The Flight G entry count continues to climb at an impressive pace and cruised right over 900 entries with an hour remaining to register. Both the flight count and the total tournament number are good enough to put Event 1 firmly on the all-time top 10 list with a lot of time to move it higher.

Some more familiar faces popped up in the room including former WSOP Ladies Champ Marsha Wolak, WSOP Circuit winner (and two-time Borgata Almighty Stack champ) Greg Fishberg, SHR Tampa regular Jordan Joeckel, and WPTDeepStacks champion Vitor Coelho.

Greg Fishberg
Jordan Joeckel
Vitor Coelho

ICYMI: Tommy Tran Wins PLO; Big Friday Fields for Event 1

Tommy Tran and Wife Magdalena Hernandez
Tommy Tran and Wife Magdalena Hernandez

Friday was another busy one in the Seminole Ballroom as the 2019 RRPO series made its way into the weekend. Event 1 nearly made the $1,000,000 guaranteed prize pool a day early and we awarded another RRPO trophy.

Pot Limit Omaha is a popular game in South Florida and 137 entries joined up trying to win a PLO trophy. The $400 buy-in tournament put nearly $45,000 in the prize pool with 18 getting paid. The final table included Gabriel Ramos going for his sixth SHRP trophy, former Hollywood champs Sean Shah and David Moreno, and 2019 LHPO PLO champ Hyndi Khomutetsky.

They all fell to the wayside as Tommy Tran took the outright win after defeating Khomutetsky heads-up. He earned $11,705 along with the RRPO trophy and custom-framed winner’s photo courtesy of Image Masters.

Event 5 results:

1st:  Tommy Tran  –  $11,705 + RRPO Trophy
2nd:  Hyndi Khomutetsky  –  $7,805
3rd:  David Moreno  –  $5,455
4th:  Iman Nikmaram  –  $3,915
5th:  Sean Shah  –  $2,895
6th:  Wilfor Marentes Pinto  –  $2,205
7th:  Kenny McCollough  –  $1,730
8th:  Steve Roth  –  $1,400
9th:  Gabriel Ramos  –  $1,170
10th:  Trenton Pippin  –  $1,170
11th:  Federico Herrera  –  $1,010
12th:  Brandon Sinawi  –  $1,010
13th:  Aaron Kupin  –  $905
14th:  Christopher Back  –  $905
15th:  David Carvara  –  $840
16th:  Hossein Ghodosi Fard  –  $840
17th:  Stewart Yancik  –  $810
18th:  Joshua Adkins  –  $810

Complete Event 5 updates

Hyndi Khomutetsky
Hyndi Khomutetsky
Seyed Vahid Hosseini and John Two-Bears
Seyed Vahid Hosseini (left) and John “Two-Bears” Hill

Event 1 ran Flights E and F in the Seminole Ballroom and the two combined to put nearly 1,200 new entries into the tournament. The two flights pushed the Event 1 total up to 2,783 leaving an easy $1,000,000 guarantee make Saturday morning.

Daniel Rambally and Nigel Murray were the two biggest stacks to bag from Flight E and they were separating but a single 1K chip in their counts. John “Two-Bears” Hill was the leader at the end of Flight F and his 400,000 puts him in second overall.

Another 171 players advanced to Day 2 to make it 427 set for a return on Sunday at noon.

Top 10 Event 1 stacks so far:

  1. Naing Thu – 409,500
  2. John Hill – 400,000
  3. Raminder Singh – 387,000
  4. Seyed Hosseini – 386,000
  5. Gilles Dalco – 381,500
  6. Alfredo Guevara – 379,000
  7. Daniel Rambally – 372,000
  8. Nigel Murray – 371,000
  9. Perla Ojeda – 363,500
  10. Jonathan Gordon – 357,500

Event 1 chip counts through Flight F

Images courtesy of Eric Harkins and Image Masters. If you would like to purchase any prints of your pictures, you can visit his booth in the hallway or visit the Image Masters website.

Event 1 Flight G: Carlos Bezara Leads

$400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 5:  200/400 with a 400 ante
Flight G Entries: 782

Carlos Bezara

The first break is complete and Flight G picked up another 60 entries during that time. The field will continue to snowball for the next four levels, only coming to a stop when registration closes at 3:30 pm.

We found our two biggest stacks in the room while they were gone. Carlos Bezara had 87,000 after four levels to lead then picked up another 11,000 on the first hand back when he sent an opponent out. Ira Schwartz looks like our second biggest with 81,000 with a handful of players behind him in the high 70Ks.

Ira Schwartz