$3,500 WPT Poker Showdown Championship $3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure Level 7: 300/600 with a 600 ante Day 1B Entries: 566 (Total: 1,276)
A player in early position raised to 2,000, Pat Lyons called from the hijack and the player in the cutoff three-bet to about 7,500. Both the initial raiser and Lyons called.
The flop was , the early-position player checked, Lyons shoved for 32,200 and the player in the cutoff isolated with a raise of his own.
Lyons showed for a pair of queens, trailing his opponent’s .
The turn and river completed the board, giving Lyons trip queens to double up.
$3,500 WPT Poker Showdown Championship $3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure Return of Level 11: 1,000/1,500 with a 1,500 ante Players Remaining: 279 of 712
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood, Florida Event 18 $150 Big Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $30,000 Guaranteed Entries: 441 Prize Pool: $52,920 April 12, 2019
Event 18 of the 2019 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown was a $150 Big Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) with a guaranteed prize pool of $30,000. A field of 441 entries easily surpassed that amount and generated a prize pool of $52,920.
After a long final table, the final three players agreed to an even chop. As the chip leader, Paul Gold was officially declared the winner. In addition to his first-place prize of $7,627, he also receives a $3,500 seat into the Championship event.
“I came here at 6 p.m. and in the first two hours I got knocked out on a flush draw that I didn’t hit,” Gold told us afterward. “I sat around and thought about it. I came from Palm Beach and I said you know what, I drove all the way down here – I’m going to buy a second bullet.”
That decision proved to be a good one for Gold.
“I was grinding the whole way with that second bullet. I never really had a big chip stack and was short-stacked the whole way through, and yeah, really long day. In the end, it was worth it.”
Final Table Results: *1st: Paul Gold – $7,627 + $3,500 Championship seat *2nd: Mirco Scharen – $7,627 *3rd: Kevin McGillicuddy -$7,626 4th: Earl Barron – $3,247 5th: Roberto Bendeck – $2,495 6th: Eric Ward – $2,072 7th: Mykel Comroe – $1,736 8th: Thomas Gari – $1,400 9th: Roberto Berrocal – $1,064 10th: Mike Zholendz – $902
$150 Big Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $30,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 32: 100,000/200,000 with a 200,000 ante Players Remaining: 3 of 441
The remaining three players agreed to an even chop.
Here were the chip counts at the time:
Paul Gold – 3,075,000 Mirco Scharen – 1,850,000 Kevin McGillicuddy – 1,700,000
Here were the payouts:
Paul Gold – $7,627 Mirco Scharen – $7,627 Kevin McGillicuddy – $7,626
As the chip leader, Gold is officially the winner of Event 18 for $7,627 and he receives a seat into the $3,500 Championship!
$150 Big Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $30,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 32: 100,000/200,000 with a 200,000 ante Players Remaining: 3 of 441
Earl Barron raised all in for 1,025,000 from under the gun and Paul Gold called from the big blind.
Barron: Gold:
The board ran out , giving Gold a pair of aces to eliminate Barron in fourth place.
Paul Gold – 3,075,000 Earl Barron – Eliminated in 4th Place ($3,247)
$150 Big Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $30,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 32: 100,000/200,000 with a 200,000 ante Players Remaining: 4 of 441
The previous two levels saw no all-in confrontations.
$150 Big Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $30,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 29: 50,000/100,000 with a 100,000 ante Players Remaining: 4 of 441
Roberto Bendeck raised all in from the cutoff for 350,000 and Mirco Scharen called from the big blind.
Bendeck: Scharen;
The board came down , no help to Bendeck, ending his tournament in fifth place.
Mirco Scharen – 1,450,000 Roberto Bendeck – Eliminated in 5th Place ($2,495)
$150 Big Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $30,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 28: 50,000/75,000 with a 75,000 ante Players Remaining: 5 of 441
Eric Ward raised all in for about 700,000 from under the gun and Kevin McGillicuddy called from the big blind.
Ward: McGillicuddy:
The board came down , not enough help to Ward, ending his run in sixth place.
Kevin McGillicuddy – 1,950,000 Eric Ward – Eliminated in 6th Place ($2,072)
$150 Big Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $30,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 28: 50,000/75,000 with a 75,000 ante Players Remaining: 6 of 441
Mykel Comroe raised all in from the small blind for about 575,000 and Earl Barron called from the big blind.
Comroe: Barron:
The board came down , giving Barron an ace-high straight to double up.
Earl Barron – 2,100,000 Mykel Comroe – Eliminated in 7th Place ($1,736)
$150 Big Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $30,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 27: 30,000/60,000 with a 60,000 ante Players Remaining: 7 of 441
Thomas Gari raised from middle position, Eric Ward called from the hijack and Earl Barron defended his big blind.
The flop was and action checked to Gari who shoved for 225,000. Ward folded and Barron called.
Gari: Barron:
Barron led with an ace-high straight and held up through the turn and river to eliminate Gari in eighth place.
Earl Barron – 1,350,000 Thomas Gari – Eliminated in 8th Place ($1,400)