$3,500 WPT RRPO Championship (Re-Entry)
$2,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
End of Level 10: 600/1,200 with a 1,200 ante
Flight A Players Remaining: 149 of 417

At the completion of the scheduled 10 levels of play, the 417-entry field for Day 1A of the $3,500 Rock N’ Roll Poker Open WPT Championship was trimmed down to 149 players, with Ajay Gnanasambanthan leading the pack.

He finished the day with 364,500 and was one of three players to bag more than 300,000. Tony Sinishtaj (318,500) and Lucas Braga (312,500) were the other two. Ryan Hughhes (278,500) and Erkut Yilmaz (266,000) rounded out the top five stacks for the day.

Other notables to finish the day with plenty of chips include Marc MacDonnell (215,500), Aaron Massey (206,500), Josh Kay (192,500), Ruslan Dykshteyn (176,000), Joe McKeehen (169,500), Joey Weissman (158,000), Jonathan Jaffe (147,000), Adam Hendrix (138,500), Michael Tureniec (136,500), Sorel Mizzi (131,500) and Ben Yu (123,000).

Ray Qartomy, Eric Afriat, Ronnie Bardah, Neil Blumenfield, Derek Bowers, Randall Emmett, Ari Engel, Chad Eveslage, Kevin Eyster, Jean Gaspard and Darryll Fish were among the notables that didn’t have lady luck on their side and busted before the final hand of the day.

Those that made it through the day will have Saturday off before Day 2 on Sunday. For the unlucky players that didn’t make it through the day’s action, they will have another chance at the event on Saturday’s Day 1B. Cards will get back in the air at noon and SHRPO.com will have complete coverage of the day’s action.

Complete chip counts will be posted shortly.