Championship: Joe McKeehen Doubles Through Adam Hendrix

$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

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

McKeehen: Ah6h
Hendrix: KhQh

McKeehen was ahead but needed to dodge the two live cards of Hendrix. He improved when he paired his ace on the As5h3s flop and held on the 6c turn and Jc to double.

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

Championship: Results 32nd Through 39th

$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

Christian Harder finished in 33rd place

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

Championship: Alexandre Reard Leads After Another Break

$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

Alexandre Reard

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)

Championship: Results 40th Through 47th

$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

Reigning SHRPO Champ Paul Snead finished in 42nd

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

Championship: Results 47th Through 55th

$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

Tarun Gulati finished in 53rd place

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

Championship: Frank Russo Triples Up

$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

Frank Russo

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 7h4d3sAs2c board and the cards were tabled.

Russo showed 5h5c for a pair of fives that turned into a wheel and he tripled against Gao’s KdQs and Beinner’s Ks8s.

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

Frank Russo

Championship: Ben Warrington Leads at Break

$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

Ben Warrington

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

Championship: Ren Lin Doubles Through Iulian Blebea

$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 realizes how close he came to losing to a heart flush

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: AsQs
Blebea: Ah7c

Lin was in great shape for a double, faded the Jh4h4d flop, but had a heart sweat after the 3h turn. The 2c 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)

Championship: Jason Mercier Eliminated by Paul Domb

$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:  63 of 1,435

Jason Mercier

Jason Mercier was all in for 825,000 with QdQc but ran into the KsKc of Paul Domb.

Mercier needed a miracle to double up but blanked the Jh5h2hAs8d board to exit in 61st place.

Paul Domb  –  2,100,000  (70 bb)
Jason Mercier  –  Eliminated in 61st Place  ($13,800)

Championship: Results 64th Through 74th

$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:  63 of 1,435

Javier Zarco eliminated in 65th place

64th: Sterling Savill – $11,500
65th: Javier Zarco – $11,500
66th: Charles Johnson – $11,500
67th: Andy Andrejevic – $11,500
68th: Kevin Schulz – $11,500
69th: Robert-Andrei Burlacu – $11,500
70th: Daniel Neilson – $11,500
71st: Mohamed Mamouni – $11,500
72nd: Hugo Kahan – $11,500
73rd: Sang Ho – $11,500
74th: Peter Fellows – $11,500

Peter Fellows
Peter Fellows finished in 74th place