$400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 24:  15,000/30,000 with a 30,000 ante
Players Remaining:  118 of 4,699

The players return from dinner to begin Level 24, with blinds at 15,000-30,000 and a 30,000 ante. Here are some of the larger chip counts from the dinner break:

Victor Kovachev  –  2,970,000  (99 bb)
Leif Force  –  2,365,000  (79 bb)
Kharlin Sued  –  2,080,000  (69 bb)
Manny Tarich  –  1,775,000  (59 bb)
David Prociak  –  1,675,000  (56 bb)
Jordan Bialek  –  1,630,000  (54 bb)
Stuart Hankin  –  1,560,000  (52 bb)
Shay Montes  –  1,550,000  (52 bb)
Gilles Dalco  –  1,385,000  (46 bb)
Barry Sisselman  –  1,315,000  (44 bb)
Michael Monaco  –  1,300,000  (43 bb)
Jessica Dawley  –  1,250,000  (42 bb)
John Two-Bears  –  1,210,000  (40 bb)
Raufael Saliba  –  960,000  (32 bb)
Ben Boston  –  790,000  (26 bb)

$400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 24:  15,000/30,000 with a 30,000 ante
Players Remaining:  118 of 4,699

Level 23 comes to an end, and the players take a 40-minute dinner break. Action is scheduled to resume around 7:25 pm.

Here are some updates from late in Level 23:

A player moved all in under the gun for about 280,000, and Michael Larkin called all in from the button for 150,000 with . The UTG player turned over , and Larkin needed his hand to hold to stay alive.

The board came , and Larkin won the pot with his jack to double up in chips.

Michael Larkin  –  365,000  (15 bb)

At Table 17, Martins Ivanovs got it all in for 455,000 with , and he needed to improve to stay alive against his opponent’s .

The board came , and Ivanovs paired his king on the flop and his ace on the turn to win the pot with two pair and double up in chips.

Martins Ivanovs  –  960,000  (38 bb)

A few minutes later at the same table, Michael Landress was all in for about 90,000 with , and he needed to improve to stay alive against the of Michael Elbilia in the small blind.

The board came , and Elbilia won the pot with trip jacks to eliminate Landress in 120th place.

Michael Elbilia  –  1,440,000  (58 bb)
Michael Landress  –  Eliminated in 120th Place  ($2,075)

With 118 players remaining and the blinds about to increase to 15,000-30,000, the average chip stack is about 795,000 (27 big blinds).

$400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 23:  15,000/25,000 with a 25,000 ante
Players Remaining:  142 of 4,699

Michael Scoma was all in from middle position for about 180,000 with , and he needed his hand to hold to stay alive against the of Elliot Goldman in the big blind.

The board came , and Goldman flops trip kings to win the pot and eliminate Scoma in 143rd place.

Elliot Goldman  –  1,260,000  (50 bb)
Michael Scoma  –  Eliminated in 143rd Place  ($1,595)

The blinds have just increased to 15,000-25,000 with a 25,000 ante, and with 142 players remaining, the average chip stack is about 660,000 (26 big blinds). Here are some of the bigger stacks in the field:

Victor Kovachev  –  2,800,000  (112 bb)
Lief Force  –  2,100,000  (84 bb)
Kharlin Sued  –  1,625,000  (65 bb)
Michael Elbilia  –  1,475,000  (59 bb)
Michael Wang  –  1,250,000  (50 bb)

$400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 22:  10,000/20,000 with a 20,000 ante
Players Remaining: 162 of 4,699

If a lot of players are busting out, that means someone has to have those chips. We found two more bigs stacks heading up the counts.

Kharlin Sued has a fine castle in front of him worth 1,665,000 while Michael Elbilia’s stack is mostly made up of the 100K chips. He is up to 1,425,000 and set for a deep run.

Kharlin Sued – 1,665,000 (83 bb)
Michael Elbilia – 1,425,000 (71 bb)

$400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 22:  10,000/20,000 with a 20,000 ante
Players Remaining: 227 of 4,699

Josef Shertzer open-shoved from middle position for 290,000 and Leif Force called next to act. The rest of the table folded and Force showed another big hand.

Force:
Shertzer:

Shertzer was dominated and didn’t have suits for a miracle. The board ran out , Shertzer was eliminated and Force moved up to 1,550,000.

Leif Force – 1,550,000 (78 bb)
Josef Shertzer – Eliminated in 165th Place ($1,340)

$400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 21:  10,000/15,000 with a 15,000 ante
Players Remaining: 227 of 4,699

Players returned to their seats and we have a new leader, and he’s way up there. While Femi Fashakin was the first only one million, he dropped a bit while Victor Kovachev zoomed to the top.

He began the day with 149,500 but his stack is much higher now. It is all the way up to a whopping 1,865,000 for the big lead.

$400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$50,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 11:  800/1,600 with a 1,600 ante
Players Remaining: 117 of 263

While Event 1 was rolling along for Day 2, the one-day $400 Deep Stack tournament had a great turnout. Event 7 drew 263 entries to easily push past the $50,000 guaranteed prize pool and put $89,420 up for grabs.

The last 33 spots will be paid later this evening with a min-cash worth $614 and the Event 7 will bank $20,370 along with the RRPO trophy.

2019 Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open 
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino 
Hollywood, Florida
Event 7
$400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$50,000 Guaranteed
Entries: 263
Prize Pool: $89,420
November 24, 2019 

1st: $20,370 + RRPO Trophy
2nd: $14,328
3rd: $9,166
4th: $5,575
5th: $4,306
6th: $3,568
7th: $2,996
8th: $2,504
9th: $2,037
10th-12th: $1,721
13th-15th: $1,477
16th-18th: $1,243
19th-21st: $1,019
22nd-24th: $805
25th-27th: $697
28th-33rd: $614

$400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 20:  6,000/12,000 with a 12,000 ante
Players Remaining: 227 of 4,699

Tournament staff sent the 227 remaining players on another break as they color off the yellow 1K chips. The field continues to drop quickly and with the average stack at 415,000 (28 big blinds), it should continue that way for the foreseeable future.

$400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 20:  6,000/12,000 with a 12,000 ante
Players Remaining: 262 of 4,699

Leif Force opened to 25,000 from early position and Ali Mehraban shoved for 58,000 from the small blind to get a quick call from Force.

Force:
Mehraban:

It was a cooler for Mehraban and he called his friends over from the nearby payout line. He was drawing thin and blanked the entire board to exit in 263rd place.

Leif Force – 481,000 (40 bb)
Ali Mehraban – Eliminated in 263rd Place ($940)

$400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 19:  5,000/10,000 with a 10,000 ante
Players Remaining: 353 of 4,699

Players continue to roll through the payout line. They are being processed and sent to the cage to pick up their Event 1 money. Some of the notables going out recently include Tony Ruberto, David Bradshaw, Quyen Hoang, Victor Figueroa, David Poces, and Carlos Loving.

354th: Donal Maloney Jr – $800
355th: Manuel Soltero Luna – $800
356th: Harold O’Brien – $800
357th: Albert Rogers – $800
358th: David Bradshaw – $800
359th: Ronald Taylor – $800
360th: Richard Russ – $800
361st: Jordan Flaschner – $800
362nd: Jackson Martin – $800
363rd: Joshua Harrison – $800
364th: Quyen Hoang – $800
365th: DNR – $800
366th: Kyle Levassuer – $800
367th: Lucas Cominelli – $800
368th: Fredy Moreno – $800
369th: Carlos Bezara-Vivas – $800
370th: Euclid Zurbaran – $800
371st: DNR – $800
372nd: Victor Figueroa – $800
373rd: Robert Brown – $800
374th: Brian Stewart – $800
375th: Larry Sullivan – $800
376th: Carmine Floreno – $800
377th: Jonathan Hickman – $800
378th: Mateo Jimenez – $800
379th: Uriel Arnson – $800
380th: Myles German – $800
381st: David McLaren – $800
382nd: Michael Wetcher – $800
383rd: Kelly Slay – $800
384th: Deryl Luong – $800
385th: Wayne Edwards – $800
386th: Christopher Conyers – $800
387th: Marc Sacheli – $800
388th: Salomon Eskenazi – $800
389th: DNR – $800
390th: George Alberto – $800
391st: DNR – $800
392nd: Narimaan Ahmadi – $800
393rd: Claudel Joseph – $800
394th: Rodney Maclea – $800
395th: David Ciener – $800
396th: Michael Tait – $800
397th: Skyler White – $800
398th: Paul Gold – $800
399th: David Poces – $800
400th: Rodney Rodrigue – $800
401st: Aish Ayyash – $745
402nd: Douglas Lovelace – $745
403rd: Michael Krumenacker – $745
404th: Joseph Musa – $745
405th: Philip Wojtuniecki – $745
406th: Daniel Garcia – $745
407th: Francis Pasqualino – $745
408th: Matthew Zarcadoolas – $745
409th: DNR – $745
410th: Blaine McRae – $745
411th: David Castranova – $745
412th: Christopher Grove – $745
413th: Jonathan Dobson – $745
414th: Charles Lees – $745
415th: Carlos Loving – $745
416th: John Tobias – $745
417th: Moshe Tarich – $745
418th: Lascelle Peart – $745
419th: Yvonne McQuillan – $745
420th: Paul Louis – $745