Championship: Eric Afriat Makes a Straight Flush

$3,500 WPT Poker Showdown Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure Payouts
Level 29: 50,000/100,000 with a 100,000 ante
Players Remaining: 8 of 1,360

Eric Afriat

Ami Alibay raised to 225,000 from under the gun and James Carroll called from early position. Eric Afriat defended his big blind.

All three players checked the 4c3c2c flop.

The turn brought the 2d and Afriat led out 550,000.  Alibay called.

The river was the [6],  and both players checked.

Afriat turned over 6h5c for a straight flush to take the pot.

Eric Afriat – 3,200,000 (32 bb)
Ami Alibay – 9,100,000 (9 bb)