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Championship: Darryll Fish Versus Sandy Sanchez

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$3,500 WPT RRPO Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts | Results
Level 27:  50,000/100,000 with a 100,000 ante
Players Remaining:  13 of 1,447

Darryll Fish

Darryll Fish opened to 200,000 from under the gun and Sandy Sanchez three-bet to 600,000 from the hijack. Fish checked Sanchez’s stack, called, and the flop was Jc9h7d.

Fish checked, Sanchez bet 375,000 and Fish called. Both players checked the Jd turn and 3h river and Fish showed 8d8c.

Sanchez mucked and Fish picked up the nice pot.

Darryll Fish – 6,725,000 (67 bb)
Sandy Sanchez – 5,000,000 (50 bb)

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Championship: Jack McDonald Eliminated in 14th Place by Niko Koop

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$3,500 WPT RRPO Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts | Results
Level 27:  50,000/100,000 with a 100,000 ante
Players Remaining:  13 of 1,447

Jack McDonald

Action folded to Jack McDonald on the button and he opened to 200,000. Niko Koop three-bet to 550,000 from the big blind, McDonald moved all in, and Koop quickly called with the bigger stack.

Koop: AhAd
McDonald: QsQc

A big cooler and McDonald ran into a monster late the Championship. He picked up a small sweat on the KhJh9h flop but blanked the 2s turn and 3c river to exit in 14th place.

Niko Koop – 3,675,000 (37 bb)
Jack McDonald – Eliminated in 14th Place ($47,300)

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Championship: Gergely Kulcsár Eliminated in 15th Place by Rishi Makkar

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$3,500 WPT RRPO Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts | Results
Level 27:  50,000/100,000 with a 100,000 ante
Players Remaining:  14 of 1,447

Gergely Kulcsár

Action folded to Gergely Kulcsár in the small blind and he opened to 475,000 leaving a single 25K chip behind. Rishi Makkar raised from the big and Kulcsár called at risk.

Makkas: Ac7d
Kulcsár: Qh2d

Kulcsár had two live cards to double up but blanked the Jc8h8dKcJs to exit the Championship in 15th place.

Rishi Makkar – 2,700,000 (27 bb)
Gergely Kulcsár – Eliminated in 15th Place ($38,300)

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Championship: Cards in the Air

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$3,500 WPT RRPO Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts | Results
Level 26:  50,000/75,000 with a 75,000 ante
Players Remaining:  15 of 1,447

Cards are in the air for Day 4 of the WPT RRPO Championship with 15 players remaining and six trying to book a seat at the live-streamed final table.

Blinds are 50,000/75,000 with a 75,000 ante and the average stack is about 4,825,000 (64 bb).

Table 7
Seat 1:  Gergely Kulcsár  –  3,550,000  (47 bb)
Seat 2:  Rishi Makkar  –  2,450,000  (33 bb)
Seat 3:  Viktor Kovachev  –  2,675,000  (36 bb)
Seat 4:  Alejandro Gonzalez Olaechea  –  7,150,000  (95 bb)
Seat 5:  Luke Graham  –  825,000  (11 bb)
Seat 6:  Istvan Briski  –  11,875,000  (158 bb)
Seat 7:  Lucian Silveira  –  2,325,000  (31 bb)
Seat 8:

Table 8
Seat 1:  Jason Sagle  –  3,025,000  (40 bb)
Seat 2:  Matt Bond  –  7,575,000  (101 bb)
Seat 3:  Darryll Fish  – 3,650,000  (49 bb)
Seat 4:  Fred Goldberg  –  3,750,000  (50 bb)
Seat 5:  John McDonald  –  2,300,000  (31 bb)
Seat 6:  Sandy Sanchez  –  9,575,000  (128 bb)
Seat 7:  Niko Koop  –  3,475,000  (46 bb)
Seat 8:  Rayan Chamas  –  7,925,000  (106 bb)

1st: $752,500 – includes WPT World Championship seat
2nd: $494,800
3rd: $366,500
4th: $274,000
5th: $206,900
6th: $157,800
7th: $121,500
8th: $94,500
9th-10th: $74,300
11th-12th: $59,000
13th-14th: $47,300
15th: $38,300

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Championship: Finding the Final Table

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$3,500 WPT RRPO Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts | Results
Level 26:  50,000/75,000 with a 75,000 ante
Players Remaining:  15 of 1,447

Istvan Briski

The 2023 Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open Championship is down to 15 players with a shot at the title and they return at noon to play down to the WPT live-streamed final table of six.

Istvan Briski leads a tricky last two tables with a few locals still in contention, including two-time WPT final tablist Fred Goldberg and former WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open champ Darryll Fish.

Everyone is guaranteed at least $38,300 but they can lock up $157,800 if they make the live-streamed final table.

Table 7
Seat 1:  Gergely Kulcsár  –  3,550,000  (47 bb)
Seat 2:  Rishi Makkar  –  2,450,000  (33 bb)
Seat 3:  Viktor Kovachev  –  2,675,000  (36 bb)
Seat 4:  Alejandro Gonzalez Olaechea  –  7,150,000  (95 bb)
Seat 5:  Luke Graham  –  825,000  (11 bb)
Seat 6:  Istvan Briski  –  11,875,000  (158 bb)
Seat 7:  Lucian Silveira  –  2,325,000  (31 bb)
Seat 8:

Table 8
Seat 1:  Jason Sagle  –  3,025,000  (40 bb)
Seat 2:  Matt Bond  –  7,575,000  (101 bb)
Seat 3:  Darryll Fish  – 3,650,000  (49 bb)
Seat 4:  Fred Goldberg  –  3,750,000  (50 bb)
Seat 5:  Jack McDonald  –  2,500,000  (33 bb)
Seat 6:  Sandy Sanchez  –  9,575,000  (128 bb)
Seat 7:  Niko Koop  –  3,475,000  (46 bb)
Seat 8:  Rayan Chamas  –  7,925,000  (106 bb)

1st: $752,500 – includes WPT World Championship seat
2nd: $494,800
3rd: $366,500
4th: $274,000
5th: $206,900
6th: $157,800
7th: $121,500
8th: $94,500
9th-10th: $74,300
11th-12th: $59,000
13th-14th: $47,300
15th: $38,300

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RRPO Day 14 Schedule

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Primary Event Schedule

10AM: Event 46 – $400 Seniors 50+ NLH (Re-Entry)

  • Players begin with 20,000 in chips
  • Levels last 30 minutes
  • Late registration until start of Level 9 (2:30pm)
  • This is a one-day tournament and plays until completion
  • Event 46 Structure Sheet

12PM: Day 4 – $3,500 WPT RRPO Championship

12PM: Event 47 – $5,000 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)

  • $250,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
  • Players begin with 20,000 in chips
  • Levels last 30 minutes
  • Late registration until start of Level 9 (4:30pm)
  • This is a one-day tournament and plays until completion
  • Event 47 Structure Sheet

1PM: Event 39 Day 2 – $600 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)

1PM: Day 2 – $25,500 High Roller NLH (Re-Entry)

2PM: Event 48 – $1,100 Deep Stack Six-Max PLO (Re-Entry)

  • Players begin with 20,000 in chips
  • Levels last 30 minutes
  • Late registration until start of Level 9 (6:30pm)
  • This is a one-day tournament and plays until completion
  • Event 48 Structure Sheet

5PM: Event 49 – $300 Quad Stack Black Chip Bounty NLH (Re-Entry)

  • Players begin with 40,000 in chips
  • Levels 1-8 last 15 minutes; Levels 9+ last 20 minutes
  • Late registration until start of Level 12 (8:30pm)
  • This is a one-day tournament and plays until completion
  • Event 49 Structure Sheet

Secondary and Satellite Schedule

10AM: $550 Event 47 Turbo Satellite (1-in-10)

  • Two seats guaranteed into RRPO Event 47
  • Players begin with 10,000 in chips
  • Levels last 15 minutes
  • Late registration until start of Level 9 (12:15pm)
  • Structure Sheet

2PM: $1,250 WPT World Championship Satellite (1-in-10)

  • Players begin with 10,000 in chips
  • Levels last 20 minutes
  • Late registration until start of Level 9 (4:55pm)
  • Structure Sheet

2023 Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Schedule

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Championship: Final Two Tables Set with Istvan Briski Leading

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$3,500 WPT RRPO Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts | Results
Level 26:  50,000/75,000 with a 75,000 ante
Players Remaining:  15 of 1,447

Istvan Briski

The field will play down to the WPT Final Table of six players on Tuesday at noon.

Table 7
Seat 1:  Gergely Kulcsár  –  3,550,000  (47 bb)
Seat 2:  Rishi Makkar  –  2,450,000  (33 bb)
Seat 3:  Viktor Kovachev  –  2,675,000  (36 bb)
Seat 4:  Alejandro Gonzalez Olaechea  –  7,150,000  (95 bb)
Seat 5:  Luke Graham  –  825,000  (11 bb)
Seat 6:  Istvan Briski  –  11,875,000  (158 bb)
Seat 7:  Lucian Silveira  –  2,325,000  (31 bb)
Seat 8:

Table 8
Seat 1:  Jason Sagle  –  3,025,000  (40 bb)
Seat 2:  Matt Bond  –  7,575,000  (101 bb)
Seat 3:  Darryll Fish  – 3,650,000  (49 bb)
Seat 4:  Fred Goldberg  –  3,750,000  (50 bb)
Seat 5:  Jack McDonald  –  2,500,000  (31 bb)
Seat 6:  Sandy Sanchez  –  9,575,000  (128 bb)
Seat 7:  Niko Koop  –  3,475,000  (46 bb)
Seat 8:  Rayan Chamas  –  7,925,000  (106 bb)

1st: $752,500 – includes WPT World Championship seat
2nd: $494,800
3rd: $366,500
4th: $274,000
5th: $206,900
6th: $157,800
7th: $121,500
8th: $94,500
9th-10th: $74,300
11th-12th: $59,000
13th-14th: $47,300
15th: $38,300

Photo by Joe Giron / PokerPhotoArchive.com / Courtesy of World Poker Tour

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Championship: Results

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2023 Seminole Hard Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Hollywood, Florida
$3,500 WPT RRPO Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed
Entries:  1,447
Prize Pool:  $4,630,400
November 24 – 29, 2023

PlaceFirst NameLast NamePrize Amount
1IstvanBriski$647,300*
2RayanChamas$600,000*
3SandySanchez$366,500
4FredGoldberg$274,000
5MattBond$206,900
6DarryllFish$157,800
7LukeGraham$121,500
8JasonSagle$94,500
9RishiMakkar$74,300
10AlejandroGonzalez Olaechea$74,300
11ViktorKovachev$59,000
12LucianSilveira$59,000
13NikoKoop$47,300
14JackMcDonald$47,300
15GergelyKulcsár$38,300
16RobertKennedy$38,300
17AlessioIsaia$31,400
18DmitriiPerfilev$31,400
19ChadEveslage$31,400
20JoeReddick$31,400
21JustinZaki$26,000
22MartinStausholm$26,000
23SachaRymland$26,000
24JerryMaher$26,000
25MaksimPisarenko$21,800
26AleksDimitrov$21,800
27BryceMcVay$21,800
28KyleJulius$21,800
29ShawnNguyen$21,800
30ZiadAlameddine$21,800
31BrandonWittmeyer$21,800
32BlakeNapierala$21,800
33StefanJedlicka$18,400
34NazarBuhaiov$18,400
35GuyNaimi$18,400
36AristotlesNeto$18,400
37DavidNowling$18,400
38EricZheng$18,400
39FredParadis$18,400
40BorisKolev$18,400
41KharlinSued$15,800
42JohnDepersio$15,800
43BryanRosen$15,800
44DulanDuran$15,800
45MaheshwarManthani$15,800
46JerryWong$15,800
47AnthonyZinno$15,800
48ChengXu$15,800
49AlexLivingston$13,700
50NicholasVerderamo$13,700
51AlexNguyen$13,700
52PetkoTsakov$13,700
53VladasTamasauskas$13,700
54ElliotKampen$13,700
55AndrewMoreno$13,700
56HengZhang$13,700
57YuvalBronshtein$12,000
58JuanMembreno Orellana$12,000
59AlexFoxen$12,000
60KyleArora$12,000
61DiegoPaulo Uez$12,000
62NirCohen$12,000
63GalYifrach$12,000
64AdamHendrix$12,000
65LucianoNardi$10,600
66SangHo$10,600
67LyleDiamond$10,600
68BrianLuo$10,600
69ChanceKornuth$10,600
70JoshuaWang$10,600
71SamLaskowitz$10,600
72BrianAltman$10,600
73JaredHemingway$9,500
74JarodEinsohn$9,500
75BrianMurphy$9,500
76NorbertSzecsi$9,500
77MichaelLiang$9,500
78KrasimirYankov$9,500
79DavidUvaydov$9,500
80ZacharyBruch$9,500
81FemiFashakin$8,600
82ArmandMatti$8,600
83IgorHot$8,600
84AndrewOstapchenko$8,600
85DominiqueMosley$8,600
86DionJagroo$8,600
87OscarBlanco$8,600
88AaronThivyanathan$8,600
89ArunasSapitavicius$7,800
90NadeemHirani$7,800
91SenhaoCao$7,800
92RobBrown$7,800
93PeterFellows$7,800
94JoshRothberg$7,800
95BarryMcGovern$7,800
96SeanAstwood$7,800
97JasonRocha$7,800
98NancyBirnbaum$7,800
99AlexanderStewart$7,800
100Matthew M.Martin$7,800
101NicholasRichards$7,800
102ScottEskenazi$7,800
103FredericNormand$7,800
104JasonBullock$7,800
105NitisUdornpim$7,100
106JohnGrout$7,100
107ScottWeidema$7,100
108JakeOzyman$7,100
109JulioBelluscio$7,100
110AlejandroBurazco$7,100
111SandeepMathai$7,100
112BrandonWilson$7,100
113MikeVanier$7,100
114PeterMugar$7,100
115MichaelTait$7,100
116RafalMichalowski$7,100
117OmerRotman$7,100
118MaksimLebedev$7,100
119MichaelVinkour$7,100
120AndersonPremdas$7,100
121ThomasReynolds$6,600
122KamelMokhammad$6,600
123RyanBlank$6,600
124KennyHallaert$6,600
125BrianNerney$6,600
126JackCorrigan$6,600
127BrentHoover$6,600
128EricBonin$6,600
129MatthewZarcadoolas$6,600
130AliTurkan$6,600
131CarlCarodenuto$6,600
132GeoffreyHum$6,600
133JeremiahWheeler$6,600
134OlgaIermolcheva$6,600
135CraigVarnell$6,600
136KevinRines$6,600
137SteveBuckner$6,200
138AsherConniff$6,200
139JohnStevenson$6,200
140MichaelStashin$6,200
141ChristianHarder$6,200
142JonathanMattia$6,200
143StoykoKolev$6,200
144RonaldKatz$6,200
145KurtLichtman$6,200
146MichaelO'Malley$6,200
147DavidKozma$6,200
148FrankLagodich$6,200
149MichaelMcNicholas$6,200
150ScottBall$6,200
151HamedZia$6,200
152KevinDavis$6,200
153FranklinRojas$5,900
154RudyMamo$5,900
155DanielSmiljkovic$5,900
156ErkutYilmaz$5,900
157StephenGerber$5,900
158Ya YunLiu$5,900
159StephenKehoe$5,900
160JoseGonzalez$5,900
161AaronKupin$5,900
162BrandonNavarrete$5,900
163StephenSong$5,900
164YangLu$5,900
165T.K.Miles$5,900
166StevenPiper$5,900
167JesseLonis$5,700
168GlennFishbein$5,700
169LeonardMaue$5,700
170ToddMiller$5,700
171GediminasUselis$5,700
172JordanPolk$5,700
173MatthewLambrecht$5,700
174BenjaminGrise$5,700
175AleksejsPonakovs$5,700
176ArtemMetalidi$5,700
177JuanMora Lasso$5,700
178JosephPetrolino$5,700
179AnthonyHu$5,700
180JeremyMintz$5,700
181FrancisAnderson$5,700
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Championship: Robert Kennedy Eliminated in 16th Place by Istvan Briski

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$3,500 WPT RRPO Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts | Results
Level 26:  50,000/75,000 with a 75,000 ante
Players Remaining:  15 of 1,447

Robert Kennedy Eliminated in 16th Place

(This hand happened simultaneously with Alessio Isaia getting eliminated in 17th place, leading to the payouts being chopped $34,850 apiece)

Istvan Briski raised to 175,000 from the button, Robert Kennedy three-bet all in from the big blind for roughly 1,100,000, and Briski called.

Briski:  KdQd
Kennedy:  KcQc

The flop came Th8d4d giving Briski the freeroll with a flush draw.

The Ad turn gave Briski the winning flush, rendering the 5c river moot.

Istvan Briski  –  11,800,000  (157 bb)
Robert Kennedy  –  Eliminated in 16th Place  ($34,850)

Photo by Joe Giron / PokerPhotoArchive.com / Courtesy of World Poker Tour

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Championship: Alessio Isaia Eliminated in 17th Place by Alejandro Gonzalez Olaechea

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$3,500 WPT RRPO Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts | Results
Level 26:  50,000/75,000 with a 75,000 ante
Players Remaining:  16 of 1,447

Alessio Isaia

(This hand happened simultaneously with Robert Kennedy getting eliminated in 16th place, leading to the payouts being chopped $34,850 apiece)

Alessio Isaia raised from the small blind,  Alejandro Gonzalez Olaechea three-bet in the big blind, Isaia four-bet all in for about 3,200,000, and Olaechea called with AdQd, trailing Isaia’s AdKd.

The flop came 9d6d3d, giving Olaechea a flush right away to leave Isaia drawing dead and out in 17th place.

Alejandro Gonzalez Olaechea  –  7,150,000  (95 bb)
Alessio Isaia  –  Eliminated in 17th Place  ($34,850)