Primary Event Schedule

11AM: Day 1B – $3,500 WPT RRPO Championship (Re-Entry)

• $3,000,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
• Players begin with 50,000 in chips
• Levels last 60 minutes until 40 players remain, then increase to 90 minutes
• Late registration until start of Level 9 (9:00pm)
• Day 1 will end after Level 10
• Championship Structure Sheet

12PM: Event 35 – $600 10-Game Mix (Re-Entry)

• Players begin with 25,000 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 35 Structure Sheet

5PM: Event 36 – $300 Quad Stack NLH (Re-Entry)

• $30,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
• Players begin with 40,000 in chips
• Levels last 20 minutes
• Late registration until start of Level 10 (8:30pm)
• This is a one-day tournament and plays until completion
• Event 36 Structure Sheet

8PM: Event 37 – $1,100 Purple Chip Bounty Turbo NLH (Re-Entry)

• Players begin with 20,000 in chips
• Levels last 15 minutes
• Late registration until start of Level 9 (10:15pm)
• This is a one-day tournament and plays until completion
• Event 37 Structure Sheet

Secondary and Satellite Schedule

9AM: $400 WPT RRPO Championship Turbo Satellite (1-in-10)

• Two seats guaranteed into 2025 WPT RRPO Championship
• Players begin with 10,000 in chips
• Levels last 15 minutes
• Late registration until start of Level 9 (11:15am)
• Structure Sheet

11AM: $375 WPT RRPO Championship Super Turbo Satellite (1-in-10)

• Two seats guaranteed into 2025 WPT RRPO Championship
• Players begin with 10,000 in chips
• Levels last 10 minutes
• Late registration until start of Level 8 (12:20pm)
• Structure Sheet

8PM: $1,050 RRPO Event 40 Turbo Satellite (1-in-10)

• Players begin with 10,000 in chips
• Levels last 15 minutes
• Late registration until start of Level 9 (10:15pm)
• Structure Sheet

$3,500 WPT RRPO Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed  |  Structure
Level 11:  1,500/2,500 with a 2,500 ante
Day 1A Players Remaining:  201 of 586

Day 1A:  586 Entries;  201 Advanced
Day 1B:  Saturday at 11 a.m.
Day 2:  Sunday at 12 p.m.
Day 3:  Monday at 12 p.m.
Day 4:  Tuesday at 12 p.m.
Day 5: Wednesday at 2 p.m.

$3,500 WPT RRPO Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed  |  Structure
Level 11:  1,500/2,500 with a 2,500 ante
Day 1A Players Remaining:  201 of 586

Day 1A of the $3,500 WPT RRPO Championship is in the books and Natasha Mercier is far and away the chip leader with 679,500.

Here are the eight players who bagged more than 300,000.

1.  Natasha Mercier  –  679,500  (272 bb)
2.  Anatoly Nikitin  –  390,500  (156 bb)
3.  Cherish Andrews  –  380,000  (152 bb)
4,  Juan Montoya  –  369,000  (148 bb)
5.  Giuseppe Iadisernia  –  363,000  (145 bb)
6.  Mike Belov  –  344,000  (138 bb)
7.  Jake Schwartz  –  336,000  (134 bb)
8.  Jerry Wong  –  310,000  (124 bb)

Day 1B begins Saturday at 11 a.m.

Photo Credit:  Luther Redd/World Poker Tour

$3,500 WPT RRPO Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed  |  Structure
Level 10:  1,000/2,000 with a 2,000 ante
Day 1A Players Remaining:  225 of 586

Joe McKeehen raised to 4,500 from the cutoff, Scott Weidema three-bet to 10,500 in the small blind, McKeehen four-bet, and Weidema called all in for 31,000.

McKeehen: 
Weidema: 

The board came , no help to Weidema, securing the pot for McKeehen.

Joe McKeehen  –  244,000  (122 bb)
Scott Weidema  –  Eliminated

With about 225 players remaining from the Day 1A field of 586 entries, the average stack is about 130,000 (65 big blinds). Day 1A will conclude at the end of this level (about 11:15 p.m.)

$3,500 WPT RRPO Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed  |  Structure
Level 10:  1,000/2,000 with a 2,000 ante
Day 1A Players Remaining:  243 of 586

Nick Maimone raised all in for about 24,000 from under the gun and Dan Sepiol called UTG+1 with , racing with Maimone’s .

The board came , giving Sepiol queens and fives on the river to eliminate Maimone.

Dan Sepiol  –  114,000  (57 bb)
Nick Maimone  –  Eliminated

With about 243 players remaining from the Day 1A field of 586 entries, the average stack is about 121,000 (61 big blinds). Day 1A will conclude at the end of this level (about 11:15 p.m.)

$3,500 WPT RRPO Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed  |  Structure
Level 9:  1,000/1,500 with a 1,500 ante
Day 1A Players Remaining:  297 of 586

1.  Natasha Mercier  –  372,000  (248 bb)
2.  Juan Montoya  –  310,500  (207 bb)
3.  Jared Hemingway  –  297,500  (198 bb)
4.  Jhordy Sanchez  –  291,000  (0000 bb)
5.  Konstantin Volkov  –  254,000  (194 bb)
6.  Bin Weng  –  253,500  (169 bb)
7.  Peter Mugar  –  251,000  (167 bb)

$3,500 WPT RRPO Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed  |  Structure
Level 8:  600/1,200 with a 1,200 ante
Day 1A Entries:  561

A player in middle position raises to 3,000, the player in the cutoff calls, Natasha Mercier three-bets to 15,000 in the big blind, the initial raier folds, and the cutoff calls.

The flop is , Mercier continues for 15,000, and her opponent calls.

The turn is the , Mercier bets 30,000, and her opponent calls.

The river is the , Mercier moves all in with a covering stack, and her opponent thinks for a bit before he calls all in for about 60,000.

Mercier tables for a six-high straight, besting her opponent’s for a pair of of queens to score the elimination and increase her stack to what looks to be the biggest in the ballroom.

Natasha Mercier  –  380,000  (317 bb)

$3,500 WPT RRPO Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed  |  Structure
Level 8:  600/1,200 with a 1,200 ante
Day 1A Entries:  558

Adam Hendrix  –  190,000  (158 bb)
Anatoly Nikitin  –  155,000  (129 bb)
Jesse Lonis  –  140,000  (117 bb)
Eugene Katchalov  –  118,000  (98 bb)
James Carroll  –  116,000  (97 bb)
Pasquale Caiazza  –  112,000  (93 bb)
Landon Tice  –  94,000  (78 bb)
Ricardo Eyzaguirre  –  70,000  (58 bb)
Eliot Hudon  –  70,000  (58 bb)
Jeremy Ausmus  –  58,000  (48 bb)
Justin Zaki   – 45,000  (38 bb)
Nicholas Verderamo  –  40,000  (33 bb)
Justin Liberto  –  33,000  (28 bb)
Jason Mercier  –  32,000  (27 bb)
Shannon Shorr  –  25,000  (21 bb)

$3,500 WPT RRPO Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed  |  Structure
Level 7:  500/1,000 with a 1,000 ante
Day 1A Entries:  536

Natasha Mercier  –  250,000  (250 bb)
Tony Sinishtaj  –  220,000  (220 bb)
Trung Pham  –  215,000  (215 bb)
Joe McKeehen  –  170,000  (170 bb)
Martin Zamani  –  168,000  (168 bb)
Jake Schwartz  –  148,000  (148 bb)
Nicholas Seward  –  130,000  (130 bb)
James Calderaro  –  125,000  (125 bb)
Eric Yanovsky  –  108,000  (108 bb)
Brian Altman  –  108,000  (108 bb)
Aaron Gao  –  100,000  (100 bb)
Niall Costigan  –  93,000  (93 bb)
Cherish Andrews  –  93,000  (93 bb)
Ben Zamani  –  90,000  (90 bb)
Jerry Wong  –  75,000  (75 bb)
Joey Weissman  –  74,000  (74 bb)
Myles Mullaly  –  70,000  (70 bb)
Noah Schwartz  –  68,000  (68 bb)
Aram Zobian  –  67,000  (67 bb)
Brock Wilson  –  60,000  (60 bb)
Darren Rabinowitz  –  56,000  (56 bb)
Dan Sepiol  –  53,000  (53 bb)
Jonathan Jaffe  –  52,000  (52 bb)
Steve Karp  –  48,000  (48 bb)
Nicholas Palma  –  48,000  (48 bb)
Nitis Udornpim  –  47,000  (47 bb)
Asher Conniff  –  45,000  (45 bb)
Jon Turner  –  35,000  (35 bb)
Raj Vohra  –  30,000  (30 bb)
Michael Berk  –  27,000  (27 bb)

$3,500 WPT RRPO Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed  |  Structure
Level 7:  500/1,000 with a 1,000 ante
Day 1A Entries:  521

Michael Gathy  –  156,000  (156 bb)
Connor Rash  –  155,000  (155 bb)
Danny Wong  –  140,000  (140 bb)
Dylan Smith  –  140,000  (140 bb)
David Pham  –  130,000  (130 bb)
Uri Reichenstein  –  120,000  (120 bb)
Nenad Medic  –  113,000  (113 bb)
Kharlin Sued  –  110,000  (110 bb)
Jonathan Dokler  –  110,000  (110 bb)
Andrew Ostapchenko  –  104,000  (104 bb)
Zachary Fischer  –  102,000  (102 bb)
Michael Graffeo  –  90,000  (90 bb)
Frank Russo  –  86,000  (86 bb)
Elliott Kampen  –  81,000  (81 bb)
Richard Davis  –  80,000  (80 bb)
Chance Kornuth  –  78,000  (78 bb)
Mike Chiappetta  –  70,000  (70 bb)
Tyler Bentz  –  66,000  (66 bb)
Nadya Magnus  –  56,000  (56 bb)
Jessica Dawley  –  52,000  (52 bb)
Chad Eveslage  –  50,000  (50 bb)
Roberto Bendeck  –  48,000  (48 bb)
Marcos Exterkotter  –  47,000  (47 bb)
Faraz Jaka  –  47,000  (47 bb)
Frederic Normand  –  46,000  (46 bb)
Mike Linster  –  37,000  (37 bb)
Aaron Massey  –  34,000  (34 bb)
Francis Anderson  –  34,000  (34 bb)
Matt Salsberg  –  32,000  (32 bb)
Eric Siegel  –  31,000  (31 bb)
Eric Baldwin  –  24,000  (24 bb)
Matthew Lambrecht   –  22,000  (22 bb)