Championship Day 1B: Registration Closes with 541 Entries; Howard Mash Leads with 276,800

$3,500 WPT RRPO Championship (Re-Entry)
$2,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 9: 500/1,000 with a 1,000 ante
Day 1B Players Remaining:  297 of 541

Howard Mash
Chipleader Howard Mash

The players return from their final break to begin Level 9, with increased blinds of 500-1,000 and a 1,000 ante. With 297 players remaining from a field of 541, the average chip stack is about 70,500 (71 big blinds).

Registration has closed with 541 entries for Day 1B, creating a two-day total of 969 entries. The total prizepool should be worth about $3.1 million, and as soon as they payouts are released, we will post them here.

A scan of the field during the break turned up four players with at least 220K in chips, creating an unofficial leaderboard:

1.  Howard Mash  –  276,800  (277 bb)
2.  Wagner Wysotchanski  –  248,400  (248 bb)
3.  Isaiah Goldman  –  231,800  (232 bb)
4.  Pavlin Karakikov  –  227,000  (227 bb)