$150 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 28: 50,000/75,000 with a 75,000 ante
Players Remaining: 8 of 1,248

After a flop of , Alcides Gomez got it all in from the small blind for 800,000 with (top two pair), and he needed his hand to hold to stay alive against the of Salvatore Sollecito, who was under the gun.

The turn card was the , the river card was the , and the two queens on the board counterfeited Gomez’s two pair. Sollecito won the pot with a higher two pair, aces and queens, to eliminate Gomez in ninth place.

Salvatore Sollecito  –  4,950,000  (66 bb)
Alcides Gomez  –  Eliminated in 9th Place  ($2,097)

With eight players remaining, the average chip stack is about 2,340,000 (31 big blinds), and the next player to bust will receive $2,995.

$150 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 28: 50,000/75,000 with a 75,000 ante
Players Remaining: 9 of 1,248

After the elimination of Nils Rabe in 10th place, the final nine players redraw for random seats at the final table.

Here are their updated chip counts:

Seat 1.  Salvatore Sollecito  –  4,200,000  (56 bb)
Seat 2.  Daniel Le  –  1,150,000  (15 bb)
Seat 3.  Jose Avila  –  2,375,000  (32 bb)
Seat 4.  Juan Endara  –  3,650,000  (49 bb)
Seat 5.  Michael Tait  –  2,700,000  (36 bb)
Seat 6.  Ross Lebo  –  600,000  (8 bb)
Seat 7.  Brooks Long  –  875,000  (12 bb)
Seat 8.  Alcides Gomez  –  875,000  (12 bb)
Seat 9.  William Jennings  –  2,300,000  (31 bb)

Here is the remaining prizepool at stake

1st:  $37,828 + RRPO Trophy
2nd:  $21,940
3rd:  $14,377
4th:  $9,660
5th:  $6,739
6th:  $5,242
7th:  $4,044
8th:  Brooks Long  –  $2,995
9th:  Alcides Gomez  –  $2,097

And here are the most recent nine eliminations:

10th:  Nils Rabe  –  $1,498
11th:  Frederico Dabus  –  $1,498
12th:  Guy Naimi  –  $1,498
13th:  Don Flynn  –  $1,198
14th:  Oscar Marques  –  $1,198
15th:  Steve Olivier  –  $1,198
16th:  Ronald Campillo  –  $1,018
17th:  Ernesto Amengual  –  $1,018
18th:  Miguel McDonald  –  $1,018

$150 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 26: 25,000/50,000 with a 50,000 ante
Players Remaining: 16 of 1,248

Day 2 of the final trophy event of the Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open (Event 21) has been running in the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Room since 2:00 pm, when 138 players returned from six starting flights.

As Level 26 begins, the field is down to the final 16 players, and they will combine to a final table when there are nine players remaining.

Here’s a look at the remaining prizepool at stake, followed by all the players who have finished in the money so far:

1st:  $37,828 + RRPO Trophy
2nd:  $21,940
3rd:  $14,377
4th:  $9,660
5th:  $6,739
6th:  $5,242
7th:  $4,044
8th:  $2,995
9th:  $2,097
10th:  $1,498
11th:  $1,498
12th:  $1,498
13th:  $1,198
14th:  $1,198
15th:  $1,198
16th:  $1,018

17th:  Ernesto Amengual  –  $1,018
18th:  Miguel McDonald  –  $1,018

19th:  Bradford Corner  –  $884
20th:  Jordan Flaschner  –  $884
21st:  Gustavo Vazquez  –  $884
22nd:  Warren Irvine  –  $884
23rd:  Manuel Amaro Alvarez  –  $884
24th:  Theophilus Lawson  –  $884
25th:  Nabil Matta  –  $884
26th:  Nataliya Allard  –  $884
27th:  Rebecca Dellagloria  –  $884

28th:  Artur Tischchenko  –  $749
29th:  Wayne Hemming  –  $749
30th:  Evgeniy Catane  –  $749
31st:  Jonathan Marcu  –  $749
32nd:  Robert Tannenbaum  –  $749
33rd:  Devond Marshall  –  $749
34th:  Guillermo Hamilton  –  $749
35th:  Carlos Ardila  –  $749
36th:  Jason Kwartler  –  $749

37th:  Henry Billete  –  $629
38th:  Joseph Hernon  –  $629
39th:  Dejan Petkovic  –  $629
40th:  Mark Cannon  –  $629
41st:  Joseph Belviso  –  $629
42nd:  Renato Da Cruz  –  $629
43rd:  David Shmuel  –  $629
44th:  Richard De Carvalho Saunders  –  $629
45th:  Ricardo Alvarado  –  $629

46th:  Valery Litvak  –  $554
47th:  Matthew Vitale  –  $554
48th:  James Joyner IV  –  $554
49th:  Edgardo Rosario  –  $554
50th:  Carlos Torres Vazquez  –  $554
51st:  Udi Abutbul  –  $554
52nd:  Daniel Blum  –  $554
53rd:  Andres Salas  –  $554
54th:  Jorge Soto  –  $554

55th:  Scott Zakheim  –  $494
56th:  Rafael Rovira Soler  –  $494
57th:  Nancy Horsey  –  $494
58th:  Kerry Kicklighter  –  $494
59th:  Lukas Pribyl  –  $494
60th:  Yvonne McQuillan  –  $494
61st:  Larry Sullivan  –  $494
62nd:  James Topping  –  $494
63rd:  Michael Sanders  –  $494

64th:  Christopher Young  –  $434
65th:  Robert Transue  –  $434
66th:  Butchie Mitchell  –  $434
67th:  Tim Shane  –  $434
68th:  Yigal Hen  –  $434
69th:  John Nguyen  –  $434
70th:  Robert Hunka  –  $434
71st:  Oscar Arrieche Sierralta  –  $434
72nd:  Zachary Vuong  –  $434

$150 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Return to Level 15: 2,000/4,000 with a 4,000 ante
Players Remaining: 138 of 1,248

While the WPT Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open Championship is playing its final table in front of a worldwide live streaming audience, the final trophy event of the Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open will be playing down to a winner in the new Seminole Hard Rock Hollywood Poker Room.

Our live updates here at SHRPO.com will focus on the Championship until it reaches a winner, and then our coverage will switch over to provide updates on this final trophy event, which should be near a final table at that point.

After six starting flights, there are 138 players remaining, and they return for Day 2 at 2:00 pm in the Poker Room. The final 72 will finish in the money, guaranteed at least $434 each, while a first prize of $37,828 waits for the winner. (Not bad for a $150 buy-in!)

Event 21 Day 2 Chip Counts

Event 21 Day 2 Table and Seat Draw

Event 21 Payouts

The 2019 WPT Seminole Hard Rock “Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open” Championship Final Table is set with six players remaining, all vying for the top prize of $545,070 along with a seat in the WPT Tournament of Champions.

They will gather together on Wednesday afternoon to play it out for the title on the World Poker Tour live-stream stage and a chance to put their name on the WPT Champions Cup.

Here are the six remaining players:

Seat 1:  Cesar Fuentes
Chip Count  –  7,550,000

Cesar Fuentes is 35-year-old professional poker player originally from Venezuela, and he is a regular here at Seminole Hard Rock Hollywood, with 44 cashes and three tournament victories at this casino alone. This final table is already guaranteed to be his biggest, as even sixth-place money would be more than four times larger than the biggest cash of his career to this point.

Seat 2:  Milen Stefanov
Chip Count  –  8,925,000

Milen Stefanov is 25 years old and from Varna, Bulgaria. Stefanov has more than $129K in career tournaments earnings, and most of his cashes have come overseas, as this is just his third cash in the USA (and all three have come within the past two months here at Seminole Hard Rock Hollywood). This is already guaranteed to be the biggest cash of Stefanov’s career, and if he finishes fifth or better, he’ll double his career earnings.

Seat 3:  David Novosel
Chip Count  –  7,525,000

David Novosel is a 37-year-old former accountant-turned-entrepreneur from Cincinnati, Ohio, though he has played poker for most of his life (he has two tournament wins from more than a decade ago) and he has more than $254K in career tournament earnings, including four WSOP cashes.

This is Novosel’s first cash on the World Poker Tour, and his first cash at Seminole Hard Rock Hollywood, and it’s already guaranteed to be the biggest cash of his career.

Seat 4:  Francis Anderson
Chip Count  –  2,175,000

Francis Anderson is a 32-year-old professional poker player from New York with more than $518K in career tournament earnings. While this is his first cash on the World Poker Tour, Anderson has 23 WSOP cashes on his resume, along with 15 cashes here at Seminole Hard Rock Hollywood.

Coincidentally, the biggest score of Anderson’s tournament career was this past summer in the WSOP Marathon event, where he finished fourth to earn $149,605. The winner of that event? The player seated to Anderson’s left at this final table — Roman Korenev.

Seat 5:  Roman Korenev
Chip Count  –  8,175,000

Roman Korenev is a 31-year-old professional poker player from Russia, and he is arguably the most accomplished tournament player at this final table with $2.2 million in career earnings, 27 WSOP cashes, and a WSOP bracelet in the 2019 Marathon event where he won $477,401.

However, this is just the third WPT cash of Korenev’s career, following a 40th-place finish in this event last year and an 18th-place finish in the 2017 WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic at Bellagio in Las Vegas. But he has a chance tomorrow to join the elite list of players who have won both a WSOP bracelet and a WPT title.

Seat 6:  Fabian Gumz
Chip Count  –  5,150,000

Fabian Gumz is a 25-year-old professional poker player originally from Hamburg, Germany, and he is one of the most accomplished players at this final table, with 16 WSOP cashes for more than $240K in WSOP earnings, including an eighth-place finish in the 2019 WSOP Millionaire Maker for $157,565.

About two months ago, Gumz had another big score, final tabling the WPT’s Devilfish Cup (a special $5,300 buy-in event honoring the late David “Devilfish” Ulliott), where he finished third to earn $115,150. While Gumz has some impressive accomplishments on his poker resume, if he finishes fourth or higher here it will be the biggest cash of his career.

$3,500 WPT RRPO Championship (Re-Entry)
$2,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 32:  100,000/200,000 with a 200,000 ante
Players Remaining:  6 of 988

After the elimination of Jeff Blenkarn in seventh place, the final six players verified their chip stacks and filled out their bio sheets. The WPT Final Table begins tomorrow (Wednesday) at 2:00 pm EST, with the WPT Live Stream beginning on a 30-minute delay (with hole cards and expert commentary) at 2:30 pm EST.

Here are the official chip counts:

Seat 1.  Cesar Fuentes  –  7,550,000  (38 bb)
Seat 2.  Milen Stefanov  –  8,925,000  (45 bb)
Seat 3.  David Novosel  –  7,525,000  (38 bb)
Seat 4.  Francis Anderson  –  2,175,000  (11 bb)
Seat 5.  Roman Korenev  –  8,175,000  (41 bb)
Seat 6.  Fabian Gumz  –  5,150,000  (26 bb)

The stacks are very shallow because it took more than eight hours to knock out the final four players. Here is the remaining prizepool, followed by the players who busted today:

1st:  $545,070* + RRPO Trophy
2nd:  $353,380
3rd:  $260,845
4th:  $194,605
5th:  $146,760
6th:  $111,895

7th:  Jeff Blenkarn  –  $86,255
8th:  Antonio Mallol  –  $67,240
9th:  Bin Weng  –  $53,005
10th:  Danny Fuhs  –  $53,005
11th:  Arkadiy Tsinis  –  $42,265
12th:  Toby Joyce  –  $42,265
13th:  Mitchell Smith  –  $34,095
14th:  Jeffrey Colpitts  –  $34,095
15th:  Jonathan Jaffe  –  $27,825
16th:  Aaron Mermelstein  –  $27,825
17th:  Hiroaki Harada  –  $22,975

Stay tuned to SHRPO.com for player bios, which will be posted later tonight, and as always, we will be providing live updates for the final table tomorrow.

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

$3,500 WPT RRPO Championship (Re-Entry)
$2,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 32:  100,000/200,000 with a 200,000 ante
Players Remaining:  7 of 988

The players return from break to begin Level 32, with increased blinds of 100,000-200,000 and a 200,000 ante. With seven players remaining, the average chip stack is about 5,650,000 (28 big blinds).

Here are the official chip counts from the break:

Seat 1.  Cesar Fuentes  –  7,550,000  (38 bb)
Seat 2.  Milen Stefanov  –  8,925,000  (45 bb)
Seat 3.  David Novosel  –  7,525,000  (38 bb)
Seat 4.  Francis Anderson  –  2,175,000  (11 bb)
Seat 5.  Roman Korenev  –  5,125,000  (26 bb)
Seat 6.  Fabian Gumz  –  5,550,000  (28 bb)
Seat 7.  Jeff Blenkarn  –  2,650,000  (13 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

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

$3,500 WPT RRPO Championship (Re-Entry)
$2,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 31:  75,000/150,000 with a 150,000 ante
Players Remaining:  7 of 988

Fabian Gumz limped under the gun for 150,000, David Novosel limped from the button, and Roman Korenev checked his option in the big blind.

The flop came , and it checked to Novosel, who bet 250,000. Korenev called, and Gumz folded.

The turn card was the , Korenev checked, Novosel bet 575,000, and Korenev called.

The river card was the , and both players checked. Korenev showed to win the pot with two pair, kings and queens, and Novosel mucked.

Roman Korenev  –  5,900,000  (39 bb)
David Novosel  –  8,275,000  (55 bb)

With seven players remaining, the average chip stack is about 5,650,000 (38 big blinds), and the remaining players are guaranteed at least $86,255 each.

$3,500 WPT RRPO Championship (Re-Entry)
$2,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 31:  75,000/150,000 with a 150,000 ante
Players Remaining:  7 of 988

David Novosel raised under the gun to 325,000, Fabian Gumz called from the cutoff, and Milen Stefanov called from the big blind.

The flop came , Stefanov checked, and Novosel bet 425,000. Gumz called, and Stefanov thought for a while before he check-raised to 1,500,000.

Novosel thought for a while before he folded, and Gumz folded behind. Stefanov took the pot.

Milen Stefanov  –  9,250,000  (62 bb)
David Novosel  –  7,200,000  (48 bb)
Fabian Gumz  –  3,300,000  (22 bb)

With seven players remaining, the average chip stack is about 5,650,000 (38 big blinds), and the remaining players are guaranteed at least $86,255 each.

$3,500 WPT RRPO Championship (Re-Entry)
$2,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 31:  75,000/150,000 with a 150,000 ante
Players Remaining:  7 of 988

The players return from break to begin Level 31, with increased blinds of 75,000-150,000 and a 150,000 ante. With seven players remaining, the average chip stack is about 5,650,000 (38 big blinds).

Here are the official chip counts from the break:

Seat 1.  Cesar Fuentes  –  8,150,000  (54 bb)
Seat 2.  Milen Stefanov  –  5,700,000  (38 bb)
Seat 3.  David Novosel  –  10,125,000  (68 bb)
Seat 4.  Francis Anderson  –  3,575,000  (24 bb)
Seat 5.  Roman Korenev  –  5,175,000  (35 bb)
Seat 6.  Fabian Gumz  –  4,150,000  (28 bb)
Seat 7.  Jeff Blenkarn  –  2,525,000  (17 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

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