$3,500 WPT RRPO Championship
Prize Pool:  $4,592,000  |  Structure  |  Payouts  |  Results
Level 26:  50,000/75,000 with a 75,000 ante
Players Remaining:  21 of 1,435

With 30 minutes left in Level 26, tournament staff sent the 21 Championship players on a 60-minute dinner break. They will return around 8:15 pm and continue until 16 remain to advance to Day 4.

$3,500 WPT RRPO Championship
Prize Pool:  $4,592,000  |  Structure  |  Payouts  |  Results
Level 26:  50,000/75,000 with a 75,000 ante
Players Remaining:  24 of 1,435

TABLE 7
Seat 1.  Darryll Fish  –  2,700,000  (36 bb)
Seat 2.  Eugene Kotlyarevskiy  –  1,900,000  (25 bb)
Seat 3.  David Sathue  –  2,025,000  (27 bb)
Seat 4.  Ben Warrington  –  4,450,000  (59 bb)
Seat 5.  Richard Alsup  –  1,100,000  (15 bb)
Seat 6.  Adam Hendrix  –  950,000  (13 bb)
Seat 7.  Eusebiu Jalba  –  4,600,000  (61 bb)
Seat 8.  Matthew Wantman  –  5,250,000  (70 bb)

TABLE 8
Seat 1.  Andrew Voor  –  2,400,000  (32 bb)
Seat 2.  Iulian Blebea  –  3,375,000  (45 bb)
Seat 3.  Matthew Beinner  –  4,050,000  (54 bb)
Seat 4.  Dylan Smith  –  2,650,000  (35 bb)
Seat 5.  Drew O’Connell  –  1,525,000  (20 bb)
Seat 6.  Alexandre Reard  –  7,825,000  (104 bb)
Seat 7.  Landon Tice  –  3,950,000  (53 bb)
Seat 8.  Brandon Hamlet  –  3,650,000  (49 bb)

TABLE 16
Seat 1.  Francis Anderson  –  2,700,000  (36 bb)
Seat 2.  Ren Lin  –  1,700,000  (23 bb)
Seat 3.  Artem Metalidi  –  1,850,000  (25 bb)
Seat 4.  Roman Korenev  –  2,175,000  (29 bb)
Seat 5.  Benjamin Jones  –  6,925,000  (92 bb)
Seat 6.  Paul Domb  –  2,450,000  (33 bb)
Seat 7.  Florian Ribouchon  –  725,000  (10 bb)
Seat 8.  Mica Lamar  –  775,000  (10 bb)

25th:  Jayden Krnyaich  –  $27,500
26th:  Joe McKeehen  –  $27,500
27th:  Dung Nguyen  –  $27,500
28th:  Ya Yun Liu  –  $27,500
29th:  Jesse Lonis  –  $27,500
30th:  Morgan Petro  –  $27,500
31st:  Robert Hover  –  $27,500

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

McKeehen:
Hendrix:

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

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

$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

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

$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

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)

$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

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

$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

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

$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

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 board and the cards were tabled.

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

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

$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

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

$3,500 WPT RRPO Championship
Prize Pool:  $4,592,000  |  Structure  |  Payouts  |  Results
Level 22:  15,000/30,000 with a 30,000 ante
Players Remaining:  56 of 1,435

Ren Lin open-shipped for 120,000 from under the gun and begged for calls all the way around the table. It reached Iulian Blebea in the big blind and he shrug-called.

Lin:
Blebea:

Lin was in great shape for a double, faded the flop, but had a heart sweat after the turn. The river finished the board, Lin finally saw the third heart on the board, but survived to double his short stack into a less-short stack.

Ren Lin – 285,000 (9 bb)
Iulian Blebea – 2,440,000 (81 bb)