Primary Event Schedule

12PM: Final Table – $3,500 WPT RRPO Championship (Re-Entry)

• Championship Final Table Counts and Seats
• Championship Payouts

2PM: Event 15 Day 12 – $150 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)

• Event 15 Day 2 Chip Counts
• Event 15 Day 2 Table/Seat Assignments
• Event 15 Payouts

$150 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guarantee | Structure
Returning to Level 15: 2,000/4,000 with a 4,000 BB ante
Players Remaining: 143 of 1,297

Flight A: 134 Entries; 16 Advanced
Flight B: 194 Entries, 22 Advanced
Flight C: 208 Entries, 19 Advanced
Flight D: 207 Entries, 25 Advanced
Flight E: 260 Entries, 28 Advanced
Flight F: 294 Entries, 33 Advanced
Day 2: Wednesday at 2pm

$150 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guarantee | Structure
Returning to Level 15: 2,000/4,000 with a 4,000 BB ante
Players Remaining: 143 of 1,297

Flight A: 134 Entries; 16 Advanced
Flight B: 194 Entries, 22 Advanced
Flight C: 208 Entries, 19 Advanced
Flight D: 207 Entries, 25 Advanced
Flight E: 260 Entries, 28 Advanced
Flight F: 294 Entries, 33 Advanced
Day 2: Wednesday at 2pm

2018 Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open 
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino 
Hollywood, Florida
Event 19
$1,100 No-Limit Hold’em Turbo       
Entries: 88
Prize Pool: $88,000
November 27, 2018

Yesterday, Will Givens had a healthy stack at the final table of the $5,000 no-limit hold’em single-day final table. He busted in eighth after David Peters took most of his stack, picking off Givens’ triple barrel bluff with just second pair.

Less than 24 hours later, Givens redeemed himself. He took down the $1,100 no-limit hold’em turbo event to earn the trophy and $28,380. He defeated Alexander Gofman heads-up to topple the 88-entry field.

From the moment cards got in the air, it seemed like Givens was destined to take it down.

“I ran hot most of the day,” said Givens. “The second hand of the day I doubled up and I was just like ‘Alright, if you get there again, don’t mess it up.’ And it feels good that I got there again because usually when you mess up, you don’t get that opportunity. So it just feels amazing.”

Despite missing out on a six-figure score in yesterday’s event, Givens is just happy that he plugged a leak in his game after one of the world’s best exposed it.

“It’s a big difference with the $143,000 yesterday, but still, I’m just happy that I learned my lesson,” said Givens.

Having ran so hot early in the day, Givens came into the final table with a huge chip lead. And with everybody else so short, it wasn’t long before Givens was heads-up with Gofman for all of the proverbial marbles.

“Literally no joke. I sit down, play a few hands, looked up and we were four-handed,” joked Givens. “It was just a turbo that went fast. It was meant to be.”

With a faster structures, the average stack size shrank quickly and made for mostly preflop push/fold spots. With Givens’ extensive online poker background, the push/fold part of his game is one of his strong suits.

“I just know my shove ranges and call ranges,” said the Denver native. “I made a huge laydown against one person who jammed for 35 percent of my stack. Normally, people will call there, but it just wasn’t worth it because more chips saved are better than chips earned.”

Despite playing the tournament in the Hard Rock ballroom, Givens had flashbacks of his online tournament grind.

“Actually, back in the day, I used to ship a lot of turbos,” said Givens. “It was like I was back at home online back in the day.”

The 88-entry field paid out the top 11 spots, but a double knockout on the bubble allowed Marc MacDonnell and Paul Domb to chop the 11th place payout.

Results:

1st: Will Givens – $28,380
2nd: Alexander Gofman – $17,160
3rd: Patrick Quinn – $10,670
4th: Stephen Song – $7,216
5th: Anthony Utnage – $5,500
6th: Jake Embres – $4,400
7th: James Baune – $3,652
8th: Alberto Rodriguez – $3,080
9th: Darryll Fish – $2,838
10th: Maria Feshchenko – $2,640
11th: Marc MacDonnell – $1,232
12th: Paul Domb – $1,232

$150 No-Limit Hold’em Re-Entry
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 8: 400/800
Flight F Entries: 294

There were 294 entries in the sixth and final flight of the $150 no-limit hold’em, which brought the total field size to 1,297 entries and well surpassed the $100,000 guaranteed prize pool. It generated a prize pool of $155,640 and the top 81 spots will finish in the money. A min-cash is worth $389, while the winner will walk away with $36,687 on Wednesday night.

Full Details:

2018 Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open 
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino 
Hollywood, Florida
Event 15
$150 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Entries: 1,297
Prize Pool: $155,640
November 27, 2018

1st: $36,687
2nd: $22,412
3rd: $14,864
4th: $9,961
5th: $6,926
6th: $5,370
7th: $4,124
8th: $3,035
9th: $2,117
10th-12th: $1,525
13th-15th: $1,214
16th-18th: $1,027
19th-27th: $872
28th-36th: $747
37th-45th: $623
46th-54th: $545
55th-63rd: $482
64th-72nd: $436
73rd-81st: $389

2018 Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open 
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino 
Hollywood, Florida
Event 18
$360 Seniors No-Limit Hold’em      
Entries: 122
Prize Pool: $36,600 
November 27, 2018

Sergio Grosso claimed the second of three Hard Rock trophies being awarded on Tuesday. Grosso earned his trophy from the Seminole Hard Rock by taking down the 122-entry $360 seniors no-limit hold’em event.

Grosso defeated Marvin Brantley heads-up to earn the title and $10,615.

“It feels great,” said Grosso after his win. “I’ve been at this a long time and it’s nice to win my first seniors event.”

Grosso has scored a couple other wins in his career, including a victory in a Rio Daily Deepstack event during the 2017 World Series of Poker for just shy of $28,000, but it’s the first time he’s earned a title in the senior division.

According to Grosso, he is retired and just enjoying life. He currently resides just outside of Toronto, but traveled down to Florida to play in the $3,500 RRPO WPT Championship event. He’s taking poker as a serious hobby in his life after work, and will be taking more shots at WPT events in the short-term.

He is leaving South Florida tomorrow morning and heading straight to Las Vegas for the next WPT stop at Bellagio.

He’ll get there riding high, going nearly wire-to-wire with the chip lead at the final table. Grosso came into the final table with the chip lead, lost it briefly to David Albertson before regaining it for good.

“I was playing pretty solid the whole time,” said Grosso. “I just kind of popped up for like 15-20 minutes and they just kind of ran into me.”

Grosso won a massive pot to eliminate Albertson in fourth place when he flopped trip queens and got it all in on the turn against Albertson’s pocket sevens. He faded a two-outer on the river and had two-thirds of the chips in play with three players remaining.

Jerome Hyafil busted in third to Brantley before Brantley went heads-up against Grosso.

Brantley put a small dent in Grosso’s heads-up chip lead, but then he rivered a flush after Grosso turned a full house. All the chips got into the middle and Grosso left with the trophy.

Results:

1st: Sergio Grosso – $10,615
2nd: Marvin Brantley – $6,588
3rd: Jerome Hyafil – $3,935
4th: David Albertson – $2,471
5th: Fariborz Zojaji – $1,830
6th: Juan Carlos Diaz – $1,574
7th: Orlando Maldonado – $1,363
8th: Bruce Freedman – $1,208
9th: Nir Peleg – $1,061
10th: Robert Williamson – $933
11th: Alexander Orlov – $933
12th: Tony Guglietti – $933
13th: Neil Blumenfield – $814
14th: Truyen Nguyen – $814
15th: Brian Wilson – $814
16th: Gregory Anda – $714

$1,100 Turbo No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Structure | Payouts
Level 20: 10,000/20,000/20,000
Players Remaining: 1 of 88

Will Givens was all in from the button for 200,000 effective and Aleksandr Gofman called all in.

Gofman was in the lead for the moment with against Givens’s .

The board came and Givens flopped a pair of jacks to eliminate Gofman in second place and win Event 19.

Will Givens – Event 19 Champion ($28,380)
Aleksandr Gofman – Eliminated in 2nd Place ($17,160)

$1,100 Turbo No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Structure | Payouts
Level 20: 10,000/20,000/20,000
Players Remaining: 2 of 88

Pat Quinn was all in with against Will Givens’s .

The board ran out and Givens wound up with  a pair of aces to eliminate Quinn in third place.

Givens and Aleksandr Gofman are now heads up for the trophy with Givens having a significant lead.

Will Givens – 1,200,000 (60 bb)
Pat Quinn – Eliminated in 3rd Place ($10,670)

$1,100 Turbo No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Structure | Payouts
Level 20: 10,000/20,000/20,000
Players Remaining: 4 of 88

Shortly after Tony Untage’s fifth place elimination, Stephen Song was all in with against Will Givens’s .

The flop came and sealed Song’s fate. The meaningless , came on the turn and river and Song was eliminated in fourth place.

Will Givens – 950,000 (48 bb)
Stephen Song – Eliminated in 4th Place ($7,216)
Tony Utnage – Eliminated in 5th Place ($5,500)

$1,100 Turbo No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Structure | Payouts
Level 19: 8,000/16,000/16,000
Players Remaining: 4 of 88

Stephen Song shoved and Aleksandr Gofman called all in for 265,000. It was a coin flip as Song tabled against Gofman’s .

The board ran out and Gofman wound up with two pair to avoid elimination.

Aleksandr Gofman – 580,000 (36 bb)
Stephen Song – 115,000 (7 bb)