Championship Day 1B: Brian Krinsky Leads the Field at the Break with 260,300

$3,500 WPT RRPO Championship
$2,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 5: 300/600 with a 600 ante
Day 1B Entries: 673

The players return from break to begin Level 5, with increased blinds of 300-600 and a big blind ante of 600.

The Day 1B field is up to 673 entries, which means the total is up to 1,318, and the prizepool is worth more than $4.2 million. Registration remains open with unlimited re-entries until about 9:15 pm, and action will continue tonight until the end of Level 10, around 11:15 pm.

A scan of the field during the break turned up three players with at least 180K in chips, creating an unofficial leaderboard:

1. Brian Krinsky – 260,300 (434 bb)
2. Andy Endale – 198,800 (331 bb)
3. Danny Shiff – 180,200 (300 bb)

Andy Endale won a big pot leading into the break, getting it all in with against his opponent’s . The flop came 10x to give Endale a set of jacks to his opponent’s gutshot straight draw, and the queen never came. Endale won the pot to catapult near the top of the leaderboard.