Rock ‘N’ Roll

Championship: Joe McKeehen Doubles Through Adam Hendrix

$3,500 WPT RRPO Championship
Prize Pool:  $4,592,000  |  Structure  |  Payouts  |  Results
Level 25:  30,000/60,000 with a 60,000 ante
Players Remaining:  29 of 1,435

Joe McKeehen

Joe McKeehen was all in for 690,000 from the cutoff and Adam Hendrix had him at risk from the small blind.

McKeehen: Ah6h
Hendrix: KhQh

McKeehen was ahead but needed to dodge the two live cards of Hendrix. He improved when he paired his ace on the As5h3s flop and held on the 6c turn and Jc to double.

Joe McKeehen  –  1,500,000  (25 bb)
Adam Hendrix  –  1,500,000  (25 bb)

Championship: Results 32nd Through 39th

$3,500 WPT RRPO Championship
Prize Pool:  $4,592,000  |  Structure  |  Payouts  |  Results
Level 25:  30,000/60,000 with a 60,000 ante
Players Remaining:  31 of 1,435

Christian Harder finished in 33rd place

32nd: Curtis King – $23,000
33rd: Christian Harder – $23,000
34th: Yoseph Yehudai – $23,000
35th: David McGowan – $23,000
36th: Timothy Faro – $23,000
37th: Brian Arbaugh – $23,000
38th: Aaron Gao – $23,000
39th: Fred Goldberg – $23,000

Championship: Alexandre Reard Leads After Another Break

$3,500 WPT RRPO Championship
Prize Pool:  $4,592,000  |  Structure  |  Payouts  |  Results
Level 25:  30,000/60,000 with a 60,000 ante
Players Remaining:  34 of 1,435

Alexandre Reard

Cards are back in the air after another break and Alexandre Reard is the new big stack in the Championship. He leads the field with 4,700,000 with Eusebiu Jalba in second with 4,505,000.

Blinds levels now last 90 minutes until returning to 60 when six players remain.

1.  Alexandre Reard  –  4,700,000  (78 bb)
2.  Eusebiu Jalba  –  4,505,000  (75 bb)
3.  Iulian Blebea  –  3,880,000  (65 bb)
4.  Ren Lin  –  3,685,000  (61 bb)
5.  Benjamin Jones  –  3,030,000  (51 bb)
6.  Matthew Wantman  –  2,990,000  (50 bb)
7.  Landon Tice  –  2,870,000  (48 bb)
8.  Dylan Smith  –  2,715,000  (45 bb)
9.  Matthew Beinner  –  2,695,000  (45 bb)
10.  Ben Warrington  –  2,640,000  (44 bb)

Championship: Results 40th Through 47th

$3,500 WPT RRPO Championship
Prize Pool:  $4,592,000  |  Structure  |  Payouts  |  Results
Level 24:  25,000/50,000 with a 50,000 ante
Players Remaining:  39 of 1,435

Reigning SHRPO Champ Paul Snead finished in 42nd

40th: Frank Russo – $19,400
41st: Andrew MacDonald $19,400
42nd: Paul Snead – $19,400
43rd: Joey Couden – $19,400
44th: Mathew Frankland – $19,400
45th: Stephen Song – $19,400
46th: Matias Gabrenja – $19,400
47th: George Rakitzis – $19,400

Event 37: Phillip Krnyaich Leads Faraz Jaka Heads-Up

$10,000 No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Prize Pool:  $1,045,000  |  Structure  |  Payouts
Level 20:  75,000/125,000 with a 125,000 ante
Players Remaining:  2 of 110

Phillip Krnyaich

The $10K event is down to the last two players, tough opponents battling heads-up with $313,495 awaiting the winner. Phillip Krnyaich leads Farak Jaka but there are plenty of chips in play.

Seat 2: Faraz Jaka – 5,775,000 (46 bb)
Seat 8: Phillip Krnyaich – 7,975,000 (64 bb)

1st: $313,495 + RRPO Trophy
2nd: $193,325

3rd: Viet Vo – $115,995
4th: Kamel Mokhammad – $75,765
5th: Thomas Mühlöcker – $58,520
6th: Ben Grise – $48,075
7th: Brian Luo – $40,755
8th: Vladas Tamasauskas – $35,530
9th: Shannon Shorr – $31,350

Faraz Jaka

Championship: Results 47th Through 55th

$3,500 WPT RRPO Championship
Prize Pool:  $4,592,000  |  Structure  |  Payouts  |  Results
Level 24:  25,000/50,000 with a 50,000 ante
Players Remaining:  46 of 1,435

Tarun Gulati finished in 53rd place

47th: George Rakitzis – $19,400
48th: Al-Farouk Obe – $16,300
49th: Seth Fischer – $16,300
50th: Seth Katish – $16,300
51st: Alexander Kimpel – $16,300
52nd: Jonathan Lewis – $16,300
53rd: Tarun Gulati – $16,300
54th: Deividas Daubaris – $16,300
55th: Tanupat Punjarojanakul – $16,300

Championship: Frank Russo Triples Up

$3,500 WPT RRPO Championship
Prize Pool:  $4,592,000  |  Structure  |  Payouts  |  Results
Level 23:  20,000/40,000 with a 40,000 ante
Players Remaining:  48 of 1,435

Frank Russo

Aaron Gao opened to 80,000 from the hijack and Matthew Beinner three-bet to 215,000 from button. Frank Russo called at risk from the big blind for the full 215,000 and Gao called as well.

“I’m not going to look,” Russo said and kept his head down.

Both live players checked down the 7h4d3sAs2c board and the cards were tabled.

Russo showed 5h5c for a pair of fives that turned into a wheel and he tripled against Gao’s KdQs and Beinner’s Ks8s.

Frank Russo  –  725,000  (18 bb)
Aaron Gao  –  2,300,000  (58 bb)
Matthew Beinner  –  2,180,000  (55 bb)

Frank Russo

High Roller: Nearing the Guarantee

$25,500 High Roller No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 4:  1,000/2,000 with a 2,000 ante
Entries:  37

Darren Elias

The $25K High Roller returned from its first break, and it’s a talented group of players having fun at the tables. The field is a few new entries away from topping the $1,000,000 guarantee and it should get there with no problem since reg is open until 8 pm.

A few early friends include Darren Elias, Jonathan Jaffe, Jeremy Ausmus, Chance Kornuth, Brock Wilson, Cherish Andrews, Brian Altman, and Frank Funaro.

Jonathan Jaffe

Championship: Ben Warrington Leads at Break

$3,500 WPT RRPO Championship
Prize Pool:  $4,592,000  |  Structure  |  Payouts  |  Results
Level 23:  20,000/40,000 with a 40,000 ante
Players Remaining:  55 of 1,435

Ben Warrington

1.  Ben Warrington  –  2,745,000  (69 bb)
2.  Dylan Smith  –  2,650,000  (66 bb)
3.  Iulian Blebea  –  2,640,000  (66 bb)
4.  Aaron Gao  –  2,505,000  (63 bb)
5.  Eugene Kotlyarevskiy  –  2,415,000  (60 bb)
6.  Andrew Voor  –  2,390,000  (60 bb)
7.  Eusebiu Jalba  –  2,390,000  (60 bb)

Recent results:

56th: Daniel Vranich – $13,800
57th: Andrew Bodensiek – $13,800
58th: Nitis Udornpim – $13,800
59th: Eric Zheng – $13,800
60th: Rob Brown – $13,800
61st: Jason Mercier – $13,800
62nd: David Nathaniel Jr – $13,800
63rd: Jaroslaw Osinski – $13,800