$3,500 WPT Poker Showdown Championship
$2,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 3:  200/400 with a 400 ante
Day 1B Entries:  740

Denys Shafikov raised under the gun to 1,000, Marle Cordeiro called UTG+1, and the player on the button reraised to 3,000. Shafikov four-bet it to 10,000, Cordeiro folded, and the button called.

The flop came , Shafikov checked, the button bet 6,000, and Shafikov thought for a while before he called. The turn card paired the board with the , Shafikov checked, the button bet 12,000, and Shafikov called.

The river card was the , and both players checked. Shafikov showed to win the pot with two pair, aces and tens, and the player on the button mucked.

Denys Shafikov  –  140,000  (350 bb)

And here are a handful of chip counts from around the world:

Lily Kiletto  –  48,000  (120 bb)
Jacquelyn Scott  –  44,000  (110 bb)
Steve Trizis  –  44,000  (110 bb)
Shankar Pillai  –  28,000  (70 bb)
Phil Rigby  –  24,000  (60 bb)

Registration remains open with a single re-entry per starting flight until the start of Level 9, around 9:20 pm. There were 1,048 entries on Day 1A, and the total field size is currently up to 1,787, with a prizepool worth more than $5.7 million.

There will be a 90-minute dinner break after Level 6, around 5:35 pm, and action is scheduled to continue tonight until the end of Level 10, around 11:20 pm.