$3,500 WPT RRPO Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 17:  5,000/10,000 with a 10,000 ante
Players Remaining:  166 of 1,447

167th:  Jesse Lonis  –  $5,700
168th:  Glenn Fishbein  –  $5,700
169th:  Leonard Maue  –  $5,700
170th:  Todd Miller  –  $5,700
171st:  Gediminas Uselis  –  $5,700
172nd:  Jordan Polk  –  $5,700
173rd:  Matthew Lambrecht  –  $5,700
174th:  Benjamin Grise  –  $5,700
175th:  Aleksejs Ponakovs  –  $5,700
176th:  Artem Metalidi  –  $5,700
177th:  Juan Mora Lasso  –  $5,700
178th:  Joseph Petrolino  –  $5,700
180th:  Jeremy Mintz  –  $5,700
181st:  Francis Anderson  –  $5,700

$3,500 WPT RRPO Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 17:  5,000/10,000 with a 10,000 ante
Players Remaining:  181 of 1,447

Josias Santos raised all in for 125,000 from middle position and Kyle Julius called on the button.

Santos: 
Julius: 

The board ran out , giving Julius tens full of deuces to eliminate Santos on the money bubble.

Kyle Julius  –  1,040,000  (104 bb)
Josias Santos  –  Eliminated on the Money Bubble 

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$3,500 WPT RRPO Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 17:  5,000/10,000 with a 10,000 ante
Players Remaining:  188 of 1,447

Sang Ho raised from the hijack, Darren Rabinowitz three-bet all in from the big blind for roughly 120,000, and Ho called.

Ho: 
Rabinowitz: 

The board ran out , giving Ho an ace-high flush to eliminate Rabinowitz.

Sang Ho  –  560,000  (56 bb)
Darren Rabinowitz –  Eliminated

$3,500 WPT RRPO Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 17:  5,000/10,000 with a 10,000 ante
Players Remaining:  193 of 1,447

The players have returned from dinner break. Play is close to the money bubble as only 181 will cash.

$3,500 WPT RRPO Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 17:  5,000/10,000 with a 10,000 ante
Players Remaining:  193 of 1,447

Play resumes at 8 p.m.

1.  Alejandro Gonzalez Olaechea  –  1,142,000  (114 bb)
2.  Brian Altman  –  1,112,000  (111 bb)
3. Dom Mosley  –  1,055,000  (106 bb)
4.  Mike Vanier  –  1,055,000  (106 bb)
5.  Kyle Julius  –  1,027,000  (103 bb)

$3,500 WPT RRPO Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 16:  4,000/8,000 with a 8,000 ante
Players Remaining:  193 of 1,447

Brian Altman was heads-up to a flop, and his opponent checked. Altman bet 25,000, and it was called. The turn was and his opponent check-called another 120,000.

The river was , one more check from his opponent before Altman said “400,000” while sliding out four barrels of yellow chips.

His opponent audibly sighed, thought for a minute, and folded to Altman. He moved over one million in his stack, a dangerous player with chips.

Brian Altman – 1,112,000 (185 bb)

A few hands later, tournament staff sent players on the 90-minute dinner break and they will return at 8 pm near the money bubble.

$3,500 WPT RRPO Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 16:  4,000/8,000 with a 8,000 ante
Players Remaining:  203 of 1,447

The blinds clicked up and the Championship is nearing the money bubble with 203 players remaining and 181 getting paid. It will be a race between the bubble and dinner and we’ll see which gets there first.

$3,500 WPT RRPO Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 15:  3,000/6,000 with a 6,000 ante
Players Remaining:  250 of 1,447

The second break ended and players returned to their seats with about 250 players remaining and Matt Bond is the new leader. He sits at the top with 905,000 and the closest to becoming the first to move over one million.

1.  Matt Bond  –  905,000  (151 bb)
2.  Nicholas Verderamo  –  831,000  (139 bb)
3.  Mike Vanier  –  812,000  (135 bb)
4.  Dominique Mosley  –  765,000  (128 bb)
5.  Peter Fellows  –  775,000  (129 bb)
6.  Chance Kornuth  –  771,000  (129 bb)
7.  Giuseppe Iadisernia  –  758,000  (126 bb)

Blinds are up to 3,000/6,000 with a 6,000 ante and the average stack is about 289,000 (48 bb).

$3,500 WPT RRPO Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 14:  3,000/5,000 with a 5,000 ante
Players Remaining:  250 of 1,447

The second break is on the near horizon with right around 250 players remaining. They will start sniffing at the money bubble over the two levels after the break and it will be a race between that and the dinner break at 6:30 pm.

$3,500 WPT RRPO Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 14:  3,000/5,000 with a 5,000 ante
Players Remaining:  306 of 1,447

Blinds are up and so is 2022 LHPO fourth-place finisher Nicholas Verderamo. He’s up to 767,000 and among the leaders as we near the day’s midpoint. Verderamo also went deep in this event last year, finishing in 16th for $40K.

Giuseppe Iadisernia is also having a nice day, spinning his 105,500 starting Day 2 stack up to 660,000.

Blinds are up to 3,000/5,000 with a 5,000 ante and the average stack is about 244,000 (49 bb).