$3,500 WPT RRPO Championship (Re-Entry)
$2,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 26:  25,000/50,000 with a 50,000 ante
Players Remaining:  15 of 988

Mitchell Smith moved all in from the small blind, and Aaron Mermelstein called all in from the big blind for 340,000 with .

Smith turned over , and Mermelstein needed his hand to hold to stay alive.

The board came , and Smith flopped two pair, aces and sevens, to win the pot and eliminate Mermelstein in 16th place.

Mitchell Smith  –  1,380,000  (28 bb)
Aaron Mermelstein  –  Eliminated in 16th Place  ($27,825)

With three hands to go back on Day 2 and 65 players still in the field, Mermelstein lost a big pot to get knocked down to just two big blinds. Mermelstein then went on to win those next three hands to end Day 2 with 20 big blinds, and then went on to survive Day 3 as well, passing many pay jumps along the way.

If Mermelstein had busted at the end of Day 2, he would have picked up $8,480, but instead his 16th place finish earned $27,825. Not a bad little comeback.