Championship: Upeshka De Silva Takes Massive Chip Lead to Day 4

$3,500 Seminole Hard Rock RRPO Championship
Level 25: 15,000/30,000 with a 5,000 ante
Players Remaining: 18 of 760

Upeshka De Silva
Upeshka De Silva

With Day 3 of the 2016 Rock n’ Roll Poker Open Main Event in the books, the final 18 players have bagged up chips for the day and Upeshka De Silva will take a very heavy bag into Day 4.

De Silva has a massive chip lead over the rest of the field and finished the day with 6,160,000, more than a quarter of the chips in play. He has more than three times his closest competitor, which is Matthew Zarcadoolas with 1,745,000.

When play started today, there were 48 players returning, hoping to make a run at a title, but after just over four levels of play, 30 players were eliminated and the final 18 players were reached.

Day 4 starts at noon on Tuesday with one hour and 23 minutes remaining in the level with blinds of 15,000/30,000 with a 5,000 ante.

Levels will be 90 minutes long and the field will play down to the final six players before bagging and tagging chips for the day. One of the two tables will be live streamed on a 30-minute delay with cards face-up throughout the day.

Here is a look at the seating arrangement and chip counts for Day 4:

Table 1 (Featured Table)

Seat 1: Will Failla – 280,000
Seat 2: Upeshka De Silva – 6,160,000
Seat 3: Matt Humphrey – 1,715,000
Seat 4: Ari Engel – 715,000
Seat 5: Gerald Karlic – 1,020,000
Seat 6: Mark Dube – 1,175,000
Seat 7: Neal Corcoran – 650,000
Seat 8: Matthew Zarcadoolas – 1,745,000
Seat 9: Jacobo Fernandez – 1,075,000

Table 2

Seat 1: John Curcuru – 610,000
Seat 2: Ben Keeline – 1,190,000
Seat 3: Fariborz Zojaji – 645,000
Seat 4: Zoltan Czinkota – 1,000,000
Seat 5: William Jennings – 965,000
Seat 6: Patrick Mahoney – 675,000
Seat 7: John Spadevecchia – 1,565,000
Seat 8: Billy Pilossoph – 1,075,000
Seat 9: Robert Womack – 360,000