$3,500 WPT RRPO Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 7:  500/1,000 with a 1,000 ante
Day 1B Entries:  693

Peter Fellows  –  210,000  (210 bb)
Jesse Lonis  –  138,000  (138 bb)
Gabriel Abusada  –  135,000  (135 bb)
Rogen Chhabra  –  135,000  (135 bb)
Sandy Sanchez  –  135,000  (135 bb)
Alex Foxen  –  130,000  (130 bb)
Aaron Massey  –  115,000  (115 bb)
Jerry Wong  –  114,000  (114 bb)
Lily Kiletto  –  97,000  (97 bb)
Steve Olivier  –  96,000  (96 bb)
Nancy Birnbaum  –  76,000  (76 bb)
Solange Lucas  –  75,000  (75 bb)
Danny Wong  –  62,000  (62 bb)
Matt Bond  –  60,000  (60 bb)
Tony Burns  –  54,000  (54 bb)
Brock Wilson  –  50,000  (50 bb)
Debbie Lee  –  49,000  (49 bb)
Richard Rice  –  48,000  (48 bb)
Taylor Wilson  –  45,000  (45 bb)
Pat Lyons  –  42,000  (42 bb)
Carlos Loving  –  35,000  (35 bb)
Andjelko Andrejevic  –  24,000  (24 bb)
Pasquale Caiazza  –  9,000  (9 bb)
James Carroll  –  4,000  (4 bb)

$3,500 WPT RRPO Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 7:  500/1,000 with a 1,000 ante
Day 1B Entries:  675

The players have returned from dinner break to begin Level 7 with blinds of 500-1,000 with a 1,000 big blind ante.

The biggest stacks at the dinner break belonged to James Pillon with 297,200 (297 bb) and Michael Stashin with 264,000 (264 bb).

$3,500 WPT RRPO Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 6:  400/800 with a 800 ante
Day 1B Entries:  648

Level 6 came to an end and tournament staff sent the Championship players on a 90-minute dinner break—time to enjoy one of the numerous top-shelf restaurants in the casino to fill their belly and soul.

$3,500 WPT RRPO Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 6:  400/800 with a 800 ante
Day 1B Entries:  620

Blinds are up in the RRPO Championship with 620 entries in the field and the prize pool officially crossed over $4,000,000 with a lot of time to run it up. They will play out Level 6, take a 90-minute dinner break, and return for two more levels before registration closes at 9:15 pm.

$3,500 WPT RRPO Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 5:  300/600 with a 600 ante
Day 1B Entries:  575

The second break ended and players returned to action with 575 entries and 20 away from creating a $4,000,000 prize pool. They will cross that next milestone easily and push for more.

James Pillon continued to lead the field with 293,600 while Robert Kennedy moved up to second with 207,400. David Kozma, Steve Olivier, and Srikanth Gundela round out the top five with a lot of talent trying to chase them down.

1.  James Pillon  –  293,600  (489 bb)
2.  Robert Kennedy  –  207,400  (346 bb)
3.  David Kozma  –  186,800  (311 bb)
4.  Steve Olivier  –  175,200  (292 bb)
5.  Srikanth Gundela  –  169,200  (282 bb)
6.  Maksim Lebedev  –  165,900  (277 bb)
7.  Balakrishna Patur  –  158,000  (263 bb)
8.  Gabriel Abusada  –  154,400  (257 bb)
9.  Wasim Assaf  –  153,000  (255 bb)
10.  Min Zhang  –  151,700  (253 bb)

They will play two more levels before enjoying a 90-minute dinner break.

$3,500 WPT RRPO Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 4:  300/500 with a 500 ante
Day 1B Entries:  531

More players are taking seats in the RRPO Championship and the entry count has the prize pool moving up towards $4,000,000. We are looking at some big paydays in the next few days.

A few more familiar faces in the crowd include Brian Altman, Fred Paradis, Nick Palma, Tony Burns, Mike Dentale, Jonathan Jaffe, Dietrich Fast, Eric Siegel, and Jeff Meyers

$3,500 WPT RRPO Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 3:  200/400 with a 400 ante
Day 1B Entries:  464

One of the great parts of these huge Championship fields is watching some of our local players and Florida grinders mix it up with visiting poker pros like Chance Kornuth and Alex Foxen.

Some of those include Caleb Piderit, Marsha Wolak, Raminder Singh, Wagner Wysotchanski, Johnny Bromberg, Carlos Bermudez, Marc Sacheli, and Julio Delgado among many others.

$3,500 WPT RRPO Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 3:  200/400 with a 400 ante
Day 1B Entries:  407

Players returned to their seats after the first break with the entry count over 400 and our first big leader.

James Pillon is the top stack in the room and the only players over 200K with his 211,800. Kenny Han, Balakrishna Patur, Marsha Wolak, and Maksim Lebedev round out the top five.

1.  James Pillon  –  211,800  (530 bb)
2.  Kenny Han  –  157,400  (394 bb)
3.  Balakrishna Patur  –  131,300  (328 bb)
4.  Marsha Wolak  –  127,900  (320 bb)
5.  Maksim Lebedev  –  127,700  (319 bb)

$3,500 WPT RRPO Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 2:  200/300 with a 300 ante
Day 1B Entries:  370

Flight B of the Championship is about to hit the first break of the day with two milestones already in the rearview mirror. We’ll take our first look at the stacks and see who’s having a really good Saturday.

$3,500 WPT RRPO Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 2:  200/300 with a 300 ante
Day 1B Entries:  345

Flight B hit another milestone before the first break, clicking the total entry count up to 1,000 for the third biggest RRPO Championship field and some time to grow.

Some familiar faces in today’s crowd include Steve Buckner, Debbie Lee and Ryan Brown (our favorite poker power couple), Gave Abusada, Aaron Massey, Alex Foxen, Matt Glantz, and Alec Torelli.