$1,650 Purple Chip Bounty NLH (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Payouts
Level 18: 4,000/8,000 with a 8,000 ante
Players Remaining: 8 of 153

In a three way all in preflop Peter Mancini had pocket kings against Mathieu Selides’s and David Levi’s .

The board ran out and Mancini’s kings held to knock out both of his opponents.

They had nearly identical stacks, 134,000 versus 133,000, with Levi covering Selides by a single 1,000 chip to get the pay jump.

Peter Mancini – 610,000 (76 bb)
David Levi – Eliminated in 9th place ($4,113)
Mathieu Selides – Eliminated in 10th place ($3,596)

$150 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guarantee | Structure
Level 1: 100/100

Continuing the last multi-flight of the series, Flight B of Event 15 starts at 3pm with a $150 buy-in and healthy $100,000 Guarantee.

Players will start out with 15,000 stacks and all levels will run 30 minutes from start to finish. Late registration is available until the start of Level 8 at 7pm and the flight will end after Level 14. Anyone remaining with chips will return on Wednesday for Day 2.

• $100,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
• Players begin with 15,000 in chips and 30-minute levels
• Single ante will be paid from the big blind for the entire table
• Late registration/re-entry available until start of Level 8
• Day 1 will end after Level 14 or Tournament Director discretion
• Event 15 Structure Sheet

$3,500 WPT RRPO Championship (Re-Entry)
$2,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 22: 10,000/20,000 with a 20,000 ante
Players Remaining: 31 of 898

Tom Gity open-shoved for 410,000 from under the gun and it made it around to Ofer Peleg in the cutoff. He called, the rest of the table folded, and it was off to the races.

Peleg:
Gity:

Peleg needed to catch to double and hit the flop. The turn and river completed the board and Gity was left with 65,000. He faded the next hand but was gone on the next.

Ofer Peleg – 740,000 (37 bb)

$1,650 Purple Chip Bounty NLH (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Payouts
Level 18: 4,000/8,000 with a 8,000 ante
Players Remaining: 10 of 153

After Kurt Lichtman’s elimination in 11th place the ten remaining players redrew for the final table.  After busting Frank Logodich, WSOP bracelet winner Pablo Mariz leads the pack.

Here’s how they stack up:

Seat 1: Peter Mancini – 260,000
Seat 2: Aleksandr Gofman – 662,000
Seat 3: Pablo Mariz – 740,000
Seat 4: Mathieu Selides – 133,000
Seat 5: David Levi – 134,000
Seat 6: Michael Stashin – 461,000
Seat 7: Brian Hastings – 107,000
Seat 8: Daniel Pearlman – 234,000
Seat 9: Myles German – 223,000
Seat 10: Paula Alibrandi – 101,000

$5,000 Eight-Handed No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$250,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 5: 200/400 with a 400 ante
Entrants: 54

It was the biggest buy-in on the 2018 Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open schedule and the players turned out early and often. Late in Level 5, the $5,000 buy-in eight-handed event cracked 53 entries busting the tournament’s $250,000 guarantee. As is, the field sits at 54 entries with a $256,500 prize pool. Registration and re-entry is available all the way until 6:10pm and the number will only grow between now and then.

This is a one-day event schedule to play to completion and we’ll pick up more of the action after the Championship and $1,650 Purple Chip Bounty tournaments wrap.

$1,650 Purple Chip Bounty NLH (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Payouts
Level 18: 4,000/8,000 with a 8,000 ante
Players Remaining: 10 of 153

After doubling through Aleksandr Gofman in an earlier hand Kurt Lichtman moved all in for around 80,000 with and got called by .

The board ran out and Gofman spiked a jack on the turn to eliminate Lichtman .

Aleksandr Gofman – 662,000 (83 bb)
Kurt Lichtman – Eliminated in 11th Place ($3,596)

$1,650 Purple Chip Bounty NLH (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Payouts
Level 18: 4,000/8,000 with a 8,000 ante
Players Remaining: 11 of 153

On a final board reading with around 200,000 in the pot Pablo Mariz moved all in for  225,000 effective.

Action is on Frank Logodich who went into the tank for a few minutes. After a lengthy consideration Logodich called all in.

Mariz flipped over for the winning full house to eliminate Logodich in twelfth place.

Pablo Mariz – 740,000
Frank Logodich – Eliminated in 12th Place ($3,596)

$3,500 WPT RRPO Championship (Re-Entry)
$2,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 22: 10,000/20,000 with a 20,000 ante
Players Remaining: 33 of 898

Action folded to Lexy Gavin in the cutoff and she open-shoved for 200,000 even. Michael Newman folded his button and Ofer Peleg called in the small blind.

Gavin:
Peleg:

Gavin was in great shape for the double and dodge an ace on the run out to double.

Lexy Gavin – 440,000 (22 bb)
Ofer Peleg – 400,000 (20 bb)

$1,650 Purple Chip Bounty NLH (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Payouts
Level 18: 4,000/8,000 with a 8,000 ante
Players Remaining: 12 of 153

Aleksandr Gofman opened to 18,000 and Kurt Lichtman shoved from the small blind. Peter Mancini called all in and Gofman got out of the way.

Lichtman tabled and needed to get lucky against Mancini’s .

The board came and Mancini’s pocket aces held. The stacks were close to even, the dealer counted them down and Lichtman had Mancini’s 126,000 slightly covered.

Peter Mancini – 270,000
Kurt Lichtman – 30,000

$1,650 Purple Chip Bounty NLH (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Payouts
Level 18: 4,000/8,000 with a 8,000 ante
Players Remaining: 12 of 153

The popular Purple Chip Bounty tournament drew 153 entries to easily surpass the $100,000 Guarantee between the regular and bounty prize pools. Of those 153, only 12 were able to survive the day and return today at 2pm to play it out.

Aleksandr Gofman returns with a massive chip lead, his 627,000 well ahead of Michael Stashin’s 357,000. Four-time WSOP bracelet winner Brian Hastings, former SHRP champ David Levi, and local regular Daniel Pearlman are also in contention as the play for the $41,120 top prize.

Table 1
Seat 1: Mathieu Selides – 237,000
Seat 2: Brian Hastings – 101,000
Seat 3: Pablo Mariz – 348,000
Seat 4: Paula Alibrandi – 124,000
Seat 5: Daniel Pearlman – 201,000
Seat 6: Frank Logodich – 312,000

Table 2
Seat 1: Aleksandr Gofman – 627,000
Seat 2: Myles German – 331,000
Seat 3: Michael Stashin – 357,000
Seat 4: Kurt Lichtman – 135,000
Seat 5: Peter Mancini – 134,000
Seat 6:  David Levi – 154,000

Remaining payouts:

1st: $41,120 + trophy
2nd: $26,676
3rd: $15,721
4th: $9,653
5th: $7,382
6th: $6,120
7th: $5,317
8th: $4,774
9th: $4,113
10th-12th: $3,596