Essentially the most eventful day to date of the 2024 World Poker Tour (WPT) Seminole Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open Championship at Seminole Laborious Rock Hollywood wrapped up Monday evening with Darryll Fish main the 16 remaining gamers because the 2018 Fortunate Hearts Poker Open champion appears to be like for a second WPT title.
Fish could have his work lower out for him on Day 4 as he faces a desk that features Landon Tice and Dylan Smith, each of whom ran deep on this similar venue earlier this 12 months with ultimate desk finishes within the WPT Seminole Laborious Rock Poker Showdown.
On the subsequent desk over is two-time bracelet winner Alexandre Reard and Matthew Wantman, one other participant looking for a second WPT title after taking down the 2019 Aria Summer season Championship in Las Vegas for $443,475.
Different gamers among the many ultimate 16 embody Francis Anderson, Iulian Blebea, Eugene Kotlyarevskiy, Drew O’Connell and Florian Ribouchon.
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Day 3 Motion
Day 3 of the championship occasion started with 90 gamers and the sector rapidly dropped with all gamers already within the cash.
A number of the early eliminations, as documented by the WPT dwell reporting crew, included six-time bracelet winner Jason Mercier (61st – $13,800) 2022 GPI Participant of the 12 months Stephen Music (forty fifth – $19,400) and Jesse Lonis (twenty ninth – $27,500), the present GPI frontrunner.
There have been just a few notable casualties as soon as the occasion reached three tables. The “skilled brief stack” Ren Lin completed in twenty second for $32,500 earlier than the elimination of MSPT Corridor of Famer Wealthy Alsup in nineteenth place for Richard Alsup $39,000. After that, younger professionals Andrew Voor and Adam Hendrix had been respectively eradicated in 18th and seventeenth place to take dwelling the identical quantity to mark the tip of the day.
Hendrix completed third within the WPT Choctaw Championship earlier this 12 months for $175,000 and has had a number of current deep runs in Seminole primary occasions.
Throughout the room, poker coach and former WPT POY Faraz Jaka took down the $10,000 Deep Stack occasion for $313,495 after a grueling three-hour heads-up battle. PokerNews occurred to be round for the victory and grabbed Jaka for an impromptu winner’s interview, which might be examine right here.
Day 4 will kick off on Dec. 3 at midday native time because the 16 gamers return to Stage 28 with blinds of 75,000/125,000/125,000. There’ll nonetheless be one other day of motion earlier than the $662,200 high prize is claimed and the subsequent WPT champion is called.
Keep tuned as PokerNews shall be again on-site tomorrow to proceed bringing tales from the WPT RRPO pageant in South Florida.
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