$3,500 WPT RRPO Championship
$2,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 11:  1,500/2,500 with a 2,500 ante
Day 18 Players Remaining:  293 of 877

Day 1B of the WPT RRPO Championship drew 877 entries, setting the total field size at 1,451. There were 293 players who bagged on Day 1B, and along with the 220 from yesterday, there will be 513 players returning for Day 2 at 12:00 noon on Sunday.

Nohad “Nu” Teliani leads the way after Day 1B, bagging 485,500.

Here is the unofficial top nine of the Day 1B leaderboard:

1.  Nohad “Nu” Teliani  –  485,500  (194 bb)
2.  Anastasios Kotsaris  –  477,500  (191 bb)
3.  John Gilliam  –  442,500  (177 bb)
4.  Eric Bonin  –  421,500  (169 bb)
5.  Badr Imejjane  –  416,500  (167 bb)
6.  Adil Khan  –  406,500  (163 bb)
7.  Constantinos Psallidas  –  383,000  (153 bb)
8.  Josh Kay  –  382,500  (153 bb)
9.  George Dolofan  –  373,500  (149 bb)

Full chip counts, along with the Day 2 table and seat draw, will be posted in a few hours.

$3,500 WPT RRPO Championship
$2,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 10:  1,000/2,000 with a 2,000 ante
Day 1B Players Remaining:  306 of 877

Paul Balzano opened to 4,000 from the hijack, Kurt Jewell called on the button, and Byron Kaverman three-bet to 19,000 from the small blind. Balzano folded, Jewell four-bet to effectively 68,000 and Kaverman tanked for a bit before he called all in.

Jewell: 
Kaverman: 

The board ran out , giving Kaverman queens and fives to double through Jewell.

Byron Kaverman  –  144,000  (72 bb)
Kurt Jewell  –  98,000  (49 bb)

2022 Seminole Hard Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Hollywood, Florida
$3,500 WPT RRPO Championship
$2,000,000 Guaranteed
Entries:  1,541
Prize Pool: $4,931,200
November 25-30, 2022

Registration closed for the 2022 WPT Rock ‘n’ Roll Poker Open Championship with 1,541 entries to crush the $2,000,000 guarantee. They combined to create a prize pool worth $4,931,200
and the last 193 players will make the money.

Both the entry count and the prize pool number represent the second biggest for the RRPO Championship, trailing only the huge field that turned out last year.

A min-cash is worth $5,600 and the last eight players in the tournament will earn at least $100,000. The six players at the official WPT live-streamed final table will have $167,000 locked up and the 2022 WPT RRPO Champion will earn their $785,800 payday plus a seat in the WPT World Championship.

Another fantastic turnout; we can’t thank our players enough!

1st: $785,800 + $10,400 WPT World Championship seat
2nd: $525,000
3rd: $390,000
4th: $290,000
5th: $219,000
6th: $167,000
7th: $129,000
8th: $100,000
9th-10th: $78,500
11th-12th: $62,500
13th-14th: $50,000
15th-16th: $40,500
17th-20th: $33,100
21st-24th: $27,400
25th-32nd: $22,900
33rd-40th: $19,300
41st-48th: $16,500
49th-56th: $14,200
57th-64th: $12,450
65th-72nd: $11,000
73rd-80th: $9,800
81st-88th: $8,850
89th-104th: $8,000
105th-120th: $7,300
121st-136th: $6,750
137th-152nd: $6,300
153rd-168th: $5,950
169th-180th: $5,700
181st-193rd: $5,600

$3,500 WPT RRPO Championship
$2,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 10:  1,000/2,000 with a 2,000 ante
Players Remaining:  315 of 877

A player in middle position limped for 2,000, and the cutoff moved all in for 31,000. Ricardo Tavares called from the big blind, and the original limper folded.

The cutoff turned over , and needed to improve to stay alive against the of Tavares.

The board came , and the pocket jacks held up for Tavares to win the pot and eliminate his opponent from the tournament.

Ricardo Tavares  –  195,000  (98 bb)

With about 315 players remaining from a Day 1B field of 877, the average chip stack is around 139,000 (70 big blinds). Action will continue tonight until the end of this level (around 11:15 pm), and Day 2 begins tomorrow at 12:00 noon.

$600 Mixed Pot-Limit Omaha (Re-Entry)
Structure | Payouts
Level 17:  4,000/8,000 with an 8,000 ante
Players Remaining:  8 of 62

Day 1 of Event 28, the $600 Mixed Pot-Limit Omaha (Re-Entry), wrapped up with eight players remaining from the starting field of 62. Everyone left is guaranteed $1,170, while up top for the winner is $11,705.

Thomas Currey leads, while Matty Bretzfield is second in chips and looking to win the Mixed PLO event for a third consecutive series.

The final table begins Sunday at 1 p.m. Here is the lineup:

Seat 1:  Zack Milchman  –  150,000  (19 bb)
Seat 2:  Thomas Currey  –  293,000  (37 bb)
Seat 3:  Floyd Scott  –  167,000  (21 bb)
Seat 4:  Michael Soroka  –  60,000  (8 bb)
Seat 5:  Matt Kaplan  –  144,000  (18 bb)
Seat 6:  Georgio Patsovrakis  –  74,000  (9 bb)
Seat 7:  Joel Harwood  –  149,000  (19 bb)
Seat 8:  Matty Bretzfield  –  205,000  (26 bb)

1st: $11,705 + RRPO trophy
2nd: $6,885
3rd: $4,325
4th: $2,930
5th: $2,280
6th: $1,790
7th: $1,465
8th: $1,170

$3,500 WPT RRPO Championship
$2,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 9:  1,000/2,000 with a 2,000 ante
Players Remaining:  365 of 877

After a flop of , the UTG+1 player got it all in for about 25,000 with for a pair of tens, but needed to improve to stay alive against the of Rob Wazwaz in the big blind.

The turn card was the , the river card was the , and the aces held up for Wazwaz to win the pot and eliminate his opponent from the tournament.

Rob Wazwaz  –  265,000  (133 bb)

With about 370 players remaining from a field of 877, the average chip stack is around 120,000 (60 big blinds). Action will continue tonight until the end of this level (around 11:15 pm), and Day 2 begins tomorrow at 12:00 noon.

$3,500 WPT RRPO Championship
$2,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 9:  1,000/1,500 with a 1,500 ante
Day 1B Players Remaining:  387 of 877

Corey Hochman raised to 3,000 from the cutoff, Claudio Piedrabuena called from the button, the player in the small blind called, and Kristen Foxen called in the big blind.

The flop was and action checked to Hochman who continued for 4,000. Only Foxen called.

The turn was the , Foxen checked, Hochman bet 8,000, Foxen check-raised all in for about 23,000, and Hochman called.

Hochman: 
Foxen: 

Foxen was ahead with two pair and held through the river to double up.

Kristen Foxen  –  68,000  (34 bb)
Corey Hochman  –  100,000  (50 bb)

$3,500 WPT RRPO Championship
$2,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 9:  1,000/1,500 with a 1,500 ante
Day 1B Entries:  877

On the river of a board with roughly 38,000 in the pot, Chance Kornuth bet effectively 37,000 from middle position and Ryan Eriquezzo tanked from the button for a little while before he called all in.

Kornuth tabled for jacks and fives, besting Eriquezzo’s holdings to win the pot.

Chance Kornuth  –  260,000  (173 bb)
Ryan Eriquezzo  –  Eliminated

$3,500 WPT RRPO Championship
$2,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 9:  1,000/1,500 with a 1,500 ante
Day 1B Entries:  877

Will Givens raised to 3,000 from the hijack, the player on the button called, and David Miscikowski three-bet all in for about 60,000 from the small blind. Givens called all in for about 55,000 and the button folded.

Givens: 
Miscikowski: 

The board ran out , no help to Givens, giving Miscikowski the pot.

David Miscikowski  –  120,000  (80 bb)
Will Givens  –  Eliminated

$3,500 WPT RRPO Championship
$2,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 9:  1,000/1,500 with a 1,500 ante
Day 1B Entries:  877

The players have returned from break to begin Level 9, with in creased blinds of 1,000-1,500 with a 1,500 ante.

Registration is now closed. The tournament clock shows an unofficial field size of 877, which would make a tournament total of 1,541. If that number holds up, the prizepool will be worth more than $4.93 million. As soon as we get official numbers, we will post them here.

A scan of the field during the break turned up five players with at least 300K in chips, creating an unofficial leaderboard:

1.  George Dolofan  –  447,000  (298 bb)
2.  Alex Keating  –  330,500  (220 bb)
3.  Isaac Kempton  –  323,600  (216 bb)
4.  Nick Pupillo  –  322,500  (215 bb)
5.  Armando Romero  –  305,500  (204 bb)

Action will continue tonight until the end of Level 10 (around 11:15 pm).