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2024 RPT Montana State Poker Championship

$625 Main Event
Day: 1b
Event Info

2024 RPT Montana State Poker Championship

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
aj
Prize
$40,000
Event Info
Buy-in
$625
Prize Pool
$182,700
Entries
348
Level Info
Level
28
Blinds
200,000 / 400,000
Ante
200,000
Players Info - Day 1b
Entries
202
Players Left
35

The Final Flight of The RPT Montana State Poker Championship Begins at 2 pm

Arlie Brandvold
Arlie Brandvold

Welcome back to Billings, Montana where The Roughrider Poker Tour is hosting the Montana State Poker Championship for the eighth year in a row. Today sees the second of two flights kick off as the players will utilize their last chance of playing for the title. They will all congregate at The Billings Hotel and Convention center where the biggest tournament in the state of Montana will commence.

A total of 146 entrants fired yesterday and leading the way of the 25 survivors is Dave Ouellette, who ended the day with 803,000. Ouellette found his luck on the third bullet of the day as in the final three levels of the night, he rose from average stack to massive chip leader after a couple of big confrontations with RPT points leader Mike Fick. Others who survived included 2022 Montana State Poker Champion Frank Lucero (671,000), WSOP Bracelet Winner Chad Himmelspach (471,000), tournament crusher Miles Barnum (184,000), and form RPT player of the year Arlie Brandvold (92,000).

Day 1a Top Ten Chip Counts

RankPlayerChip Count
1Dave Ouellette803,000
2Donovan Thomas787,000
3Jacob Brouse736,000
4Frank Lucero671,000
5Merle Bierschenk545,000
6John Rohrbach534,000
7Lance Schuchard522,000
8Virgil Taylor442,000
9Chad Himmelspach416,000
10Whitney Bell403,000

This year sees the buy in increase to $625 with an estimated prizepool of $200,000. Players will sit down with 60,000 in chips with the levels starting at 100/200 with a 200 big blind ante. Levels will last 40 minutes each with a break occurring at the conclusion of every three levels. The 60-minute dinner break will occur at the conclusion of level 6 around 5:40 pm. After that, registration will continue until the beginning of Level 13, then players will play until either the conclusion of Level 15, or to 12.5% of the entrants remain.

All the players will have the ability to fire into this tournament a maximum of three times.The survivors of this flight will bag up and return on Sunday, April 14th at 11:00 am to play down to a winner while combining with the other 25 players. Players who bag up twice will receive a minimum cash for their efforts.

Stay tuned to PokerNews for all updates regarding The Roughrider Poker Tour.

Tags: Arlie BrandvoldChad HimmelspachDave OuelletteFrank LuceroMike FickMiles BarnumDonovan ThomasJacob BrouseJohn RohrbachLance SchuchardVirgil TaylorWhitney Bell