Championship Day 1A: Registration Closed with 696 Entries

$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:  333 of 696

Registration closed for the first of two flights for the 2024 WPT Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open Championship with 696 entries. They put more than $2.2 million toward the $3,000,000 guarantee and it will get there early in Flight B starting tomorrow at 11 am.

Flight A will play through ten levels and survivors will bag their chips for a Day 2 return on Sunday at noon.

Day/TimeFlightEntriesAdvanced
Friday at 11 a.m.A696TBD
Saturday at 11 a.m.B
Total696TBD

Championship Day 1A: Chip Leaders from Break

$3,500 WPT RRPO Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 9:  1,000/1,500 with a 1,500 ante
Day 1A Entries:  696

1.  Gregory Back  –  299,000  (199 bb)
2.  Kevin Schulz  –  288,500  (192 bb)
3.  Ferenc Deak  –  282,000  (188 bb)
4.  Carlos Leiva  –  279,000  (186 bb)
5.  Josh Stewart  –  268,000  (179 bb)
6.  William Lamar-Boone  –  261,000  (174 bb)
7.  Anibal Pabon  –  248,000  (165 bb)

Championship Day 1A: And More Chip Counts from the Field

$3,500 WPT RRPO Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 8:  600/1,200 with a 1,200 ante
Day 1A Entries:  669

Sterling Savill  –  240,000  (200 bb)
Shannon Shorr  –  180,000  (150 bb)
Lily Kiletto  –  170,000  (142 bb)
Chad Roedersheimer  –  170,000  (142 bb)
David Nathaniel  –  143,000  (119 bb)
James Calderaro  –  140,000  (117 bb)
David Dongwoo Ko  –  140,000  (117 bb)
Yunkyu Song  –  135,000  (113 bb)
Joe Serock  –  135,000  (113 bb)
Jason Mercier  –  125,000  (104 bb)
Fred Goldberg  –  120,000  (100 bb)
Eugene Kotlyarevskiy  –  120,000  (100 bb)
Adam Hendrix  –  115,000  (96 bb)
Chance Kornuth  –  110,000  (92 bb)
Raminder Singh  –  100,000  (83 bb)
Martin Zamani  –  98,000  (82 bb)
Faraz Jaka  –  98,000  (82 bb)
T.K. Miles  –  95,000  (79 bb)
Dan Sepiol  –  93,000  (78 bb)
Jessica Cai  –  93,000  (78 bb)
Asher Neaman  –  85,000  (71 bb)
Taylor Wilson  –  70,000  (58 bb)
Jessica Dawley  –  60,000  (50 bb)
Nick Palma  –  58,000  (48 bb)
Ryan Hoenig  –  58,000  (48 bb)
David DiBernardi  –  53,000  (44 bb)
Josh Reichard  –  53,000  (44 bb)
Neal Corcoran  –  52,000  (43 bb)
Kristen Foxen  –  49,000  (41 bb)
Frank Lagodich  –  44,000  (37 bb)
Judy Bielan  –  43,000  (36 bb)
Kharlin Sued  –  37,000  (31 bb)
Shaun Deeb  –  35,000  (29 bb)
Francis Anderson  –  26,000  (22 bb)

Championship Day 1A: More Chip Counts from the Field

$3,500 WPT RRPO Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 7:  500/1,000 with a 1,000 ante
Day 1A Entries:  635

Phillip Krnyaich  –  145,000  (145 bb)
Shawn Cunix  –  135,000  (135 bb)
Jake Schwartz  –  133,000  (133 bb)
Bin Weng  –  120,000  (120 bb)
Anna Antimony  –  120,000  (120 bb)
Matt Lambrecht  –  102,000  (102 bb)
Matthew Waxman  –  97,000  (97 bb)
Howard Mash  –  95,000  (95 bb)
Jonathan Jaffe  –  90,000  (90 bb)
Viet Vo  –  79,000  (79 bb)
Matt Glantz  –  72,000  (72 bb)
Ren Lin  –  67,000  (67 bb)
Nadya Magnus  –  63,000  (63 bb)
Zachary Fischer  –  63,000  (63 bb)
Georges Boyadjian  –  57,000  (57 bb)
Johnny Bromberg  –  57,000  (57 bb)
Brad Owen  –  55,000  (55 bb)
Noah Schwartz  –  55,000  (55 bb)
Cherish Andrews  –  53,000  (53 bb)
Nick Funaro  –  46,000  (46 bb)
Aaron Kupin  –  46,000  (46 bb)
Natasha Mercier  –  46,000  (46 bb)
Scott Levitt  –  44,000  (44 bb)
David Uvaydov  –  43,000  (43 bb)
Brandon Wilson  –  36,000  (36 bb)
Jim Collopy  –  35,000  (35 bb)
Dominique Mosley  –  33,000  (33 bb)
Ayed Shweihat  –  32,000  (32 bb)
Christian Harder  –  32,000  (32 bb)
Georgios Sotiropoulos  –  9,000  (9 bb)

Championship Day 1A: A Few Chip Counts From the Field

$3,500 WPT RRPO Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 7:  500/1,000 with a 1,000 ante
Day 1A Entries:  614

Gregory Back  – 310,000  (310 bb)
Art Peacock  –  198,000  (198 bb)
Stephen Song  –  195,000  (195 bb)
Steve Buckner  –  124,000  (124 bb)
Matthew Wantman  –  115,000  (115 bb)
Ryan Riess  –  107,000  (107 bb)
Scott Zakheim  –  103,000  (103 bb)
Uri Kadosh  –  94,000  (94 bb)
Alex Foxen  –  93,000  (93 bb)
Frank Funaro  –  90,000  (90 bb)
Mica Lamar  –  89,000  (89 bb)
Michael Wang  –  76,000  (76 bb)
Paul Snead  –  70,000  (70 bb)
Michael Graffeo  –  68,000  (68 bb)
Joe McKeehen  –  60,000  (60 bb)
Brock Wilson  –  56,000 (56 bb)
Rob Brown  –  55,000  (55 bb)
Harrison Gimbel  –  53,000  (53 bb)
Steve Karp  –  52,000  (52 bb)
Mike Beasley  –  48,000  (48 bb)
Martins Adeniya  –  47,000  (47 bb)
A.J. Kelsall  –  47,000  (47 bb)
Peter Fellows  –  43,000  (43 bb)
James Carroll  –  38,000  (38 bb)
Darryll Fish  –  36,000  (36 bb)
Pasquale Caiazza  –  27,000  (27 bb)
Loni Hui  –  23,000  (23 bb)

Championship Day 1A: Chip Leaders from the Dinner Break

$3,500 WPT RRPO Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 7:  500/1,000 with a 1,000 ante
Day 1A Entries:  586

William Lamar-Boone

William Lamar-Boone  –  273,500  (274 bb)
Zak VanKeuren –  240,400  (240 bb)
Jesse Lonis  –  238,400  (238 bb)
Jarrett Mullins  –  225,200  (225 bb)
Scott Heiligman  –  212,600  (213 bb)
Wagner Wysotchanski  –  209,700  (210 bb)
Carlos Leiva  –  209,000  (209 bb)
Kevin Schulz  –  206,200  (206 bb)

Championship Day 1A: Back Underway

$3,500 WPT RRPO Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 7:  500/1,000 with a 1,000 ante
Day 1A Entries:  575

Cards are back in the air for Day 1A of the RRPO Championship with 575 entries on the clock and well on the way to topping the $3,000,000 guarantee with a huge day expected tomorrow.

They will play two more hour-long levels, take one last break, and registration will close at 9:15 pm.

Championship Day 1A: Tough Spots

$3,500 WPT RRPO Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 6:  400/800 with a 800 ante
Day 1A Entries:  506

Brian Altman

Blinds are up in the Championship, and the field is a little tougher. Some of the top favorite players are trying for the RRPO title.

Brian Altman has three WPT titles, all in Florida and two right here. He won the WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open Championship twice, and he is the only player in the tour’s history to win the same title twice.

Nadya Magnus is a former GPI Female Player of the Year with two WSOP Circuit rings and she finished fourth at the 2020 WPT LHPO Championship final table (with eventual champ Altman).

Viet Vo made back-to-back WPT Poker Showdown Championship final tables, two of the biggest fields in the tour’s history, and he owns a WSOPC Las Vegas Main Event ring.

Finally, local legend Raminder Singh brings the home team power to the RRPO Championship. He has a room full of trophies and his 13 major Hollywood titles are the most by anyone in our history.

Nadya Magnus
Viet Vo
Raminder Singh

Championship Day 1A: Shawn Cunix Doubles Through Ren Lin

$3,500 WPT RRPO Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 5:  300/600 with a 600 ante
Day 1A Entries:  487

Ren Lin (left) and Shawn Cunix (right)

With the flop reading 9h7h2d and about 11K in the pot, a player in middle position checked and Ren Lin bet 4,500 from the cutoff. Shawn Cunix raised to 11,000 from the button to get a fold from the middle position player and a three-bet shove from Lin.

Cunix called at risk for 26,000.

Cunix: Qh3h
Lin: Jh8h

Cunix was ahead with the bigger heart draw but had a small sweat with Lin’s gutshot straight draw and live cards. The board finished with the Ac turn and 7d river and Cunix won the pot with queen-high.

Shawn Cunix – 63,000 (105 bb)
Ren Lin – 62,000 (103 bb)