$3,500 WPT Poker Showdown Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 8: 400/800 with an 800 ante
Day 1B Entries: 598 (Total: 1,310)
With 598 entries thus far on Day 1B, there are now a total of 1,310 entries which tops last year’s 1,309.
$3,500 WPT Poker Showdown Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 8: 400/800 with an 800 ante
Day 1B Entries: 598 (Total: 1,310)
With 598 entries thus far on Day 1B, there are now a total of 1,310 entries which tops last year’s 1,309.
$3,500 WPT Poker Showdown Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 8: 400/800 with an 800 ante
Day 1B Entries: 588 (Total: 1,300)
The player under the gun raised to 1,800, Mohsin Charania called from the cutoff and Joe McKeehen called from the big blind.
The flop was and action checked to Charania who bet 2,000. McKeehen check-raises all in for 12,200, the UTG player folded and Charania folded as well.
Joe McKeehen – 21,000
Mohsin Charania – 33,000
$3,500 WPT Poker Showdown Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 7: 300/600 with a 600 ante
Day 1B Entries: 586 (Total: 1,298)
Arriving in the midst of the preflop raises, Joseph Cheong reraised to 17,400 from the hijack and Chris Dombrowski (with 7,000 already committed) called from the small blind.
The flop was and Dombrowski check-called 11,500 from Cheong.
Both players proceeded to check the turn and river.
Dombrowski showed for tens and nines, Cheong mucked and Dombrowski won the pot.
Chris Dombrowski – 134,000
Joseph Cheong – 51,000
$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.
Pat Lyons – 88,400
$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
Rank | First Name | Last Name | Chip Count |
---|---|---|---|
1 | DAVIAN | SANTANA | 318,000 |
2 | FRANK | RUSSO | 304,000 |
3 | PAUL | SNEAD | 276,500 |
4 | JAVIER | ZARCO | 276,500 |
5 | DANIEL | CHALIFOUR | 257,000 |
6 | DANIEL | STRELITZ | 252,000 |
7 | TYLER | PATTERSON | 248,500 |
8 | SAMUEL | BERNABEU | 239,000 |
9 | PHILLIP | HUI | 234,000 |
10 | CLIFF | JOSEPHY | 228,500 |
11 | LISA | TEEBAGY | 227,000 |
12 | ASHER | CONNIFF | 224,500 |
13 | ELIA | AHMADIAN | 212,500 |
14 | RANDY | GORDON | 209,500 |
15 | BRETT | APTER | 208,500 |
16 | DAVID | BAKER | 206,500 |
17 | JUSTIN | ADAMS | 203,500 |
18 | STEVEN | FORMAN | 203,000 |
19 | MUKUL | PAHUJA | 196,000 |
20 | JOELLE | GUARINO | 195,500 |
21 | FARAZ | JAKA | 195,500 |
22 | JARED | GRIENER | 194,500 |
23 | JOSHUA | GORDON | 188,500 |
24 | MICHAEL | NEWMAN | 188,000 |
25 | JACOB | TOOLE | 186,500 |
26 | GLENN | FISHBEIN | 183,000 |
27 | PETER | NIGH | 178,000 |
28 | VITTORIO | MARAONE | 176,500 |
29 | MICHAEL | HOLCROFT | 174,500 |
30 | ROBERT | BANKS | 173,500 |
31 | MARTIN | RAUS | 173,000 |
32 | DONALD | MALONEY JR | 172,500 |
33 | LOKESH | GARG | 171,500 |
34 | KENNETH | FAGIOLI | 171,000 |
35 | ERACLES | PANAYLOTOU | 171,000 |
36 | JOSE | REYES | 169,500 |
37 | KELLY | MINKIN | 168,000 |
38 | GREGORY | BAIRD | 167,500 |
39 | DAVID | FARBER | 166,500 |
40 | Rainer | Kempe | 166,000 |
41 | VLADIMIR | VASILYEV | 163,500 |
42 | BENJAMIN | ZAMANI | 163,000 |
43 | MARIO | DE LA PUENTE | 161,000 |
44 | NIALL | FARRELL | 161,000 |
45 | JOSEPH | KUETHER | 160,500 |
46 | JUSTIN | YOUNG | 160,500 |
47 | JASON | MARSHMAN | 159,000 |
48 | MICHAEL | DYER | 158,500 |
49 | ANDREW | CROOKSTON | 158,000 |
50 | BRETT | BADER | 155,000 |
51 | YURY | PARAD | 150,000 |
52 | MICHAEL | VELA | 150,000 |
53 | ANDRE | AKKARI | 149,500 |
54 | MICHAEL | JAGROO | 149,500 |
55 | PATRICK | CLARKE | 148,500 |
56 | GIL | ABOODI | 147,000 |
57 | KHALIL | HASHIR | 146,000 |
58 | TONY | MILES | 146,000 |
59 | MARC | MACDONNELL | 143,500 |
60 | DAVID | AKER | 142,500 |
61 | DAVID | FARAH | 142,000 |
62 | KEITH | FERRERA | 142,000 |
63 | SAMUEL | PANZICA II | 141,000 |
64 | ARAM | ZOBIAN | 140,500 |
65 | JORGE | MORALES REBELLON | 140,000 |
66 | BRANDON DOMINICK | CAPUTO | 139,500 |
67 | JUAN | OBERHAUSER PAZ | 139,000 |
68 | ANTHONY | KESHISH | 138,500 |
69 | BRENT | ROBERTS | 137,500 |
70 | STEVEN | KARP | 136,500 |
71 | JOHN | GRAVAGNA | 135,500 |
72 | MARK | DUBE | 132,500 |
73 | IRA | MARCUS | 132,500 |
74 | THEODORE | PRYSTAL III | 132,500 |
75 | RYAN | OLISAR | 131,500 |
76 | WALTER | BRAVO | 130,000 |
77 | AARON | DUCZAK | 129,000 |
78 | ESTHER | TAYLOR | 129,000 |
79 | KEVIN | CHOE | 126,500 |
80 | KEVIN | GAROSSHEN | 126,500 |
81 | RICHARD | BAI | 123,500 |
82 | RYAN | JONES | 123,500 |
83 | NOLAN | KING | 123,500 |
84 | NIPUN | JAVA | 122,500 |
85 | AARON | MASSEY | 122,000 |
86 | NELSON | RESENDIZ | 122,000 |
87 | JEFFREY | GROSS | 121,000 |
88 | JONATHAN | AKIBA I | 120,500 |
89 | RICHARD | LEGER | 120,500 |
90 | ROMAN | SOYBELMAN | 120,000 |
91 | JASON | WANDLING | 120,000 |
92 | JEFFREY | SILVERSTEIN | 119,500 |
93 | ANTHONY | COUSINEAU | 117,500 |
94 | KEVIN | ANDRIAMAHEFA | 117,000 |
95 | JAMES | KRAMER | 117,000 |
96 | AHMED | NIMER | 116,500 |
97 | DONYS | AGNELLI | 115,500 |
98 | JAMES | SOWERS | 115,500 |
99 | ERIC | AFRIAT | 115,100 |
100 | RYAN | D'ANGELO | 115,000 |
101 | PATRICK | SERDA | 115,000 |
102 | DARREN | RABINOWITZ | 114,500 |
103 | MARCUS | STEIN | 114,500 |
104 | VICTOR | FIGUEROA | 114,000 |
105 | PAUL | BALZANO | 113,500 |
106 | TIMOTHY | MILES | 113,500 |
107 | ANTHONY | ZINNO | 112,000 |
108 | KENNETH | BRUNO | 108,000 |
109 | JAMES | CALDERARO | 108,000 |
110 | KYLE | CHANG | 106,000 |
111 | ARTEM | ZVERKHOVSKYY | 105,500 |
112 | MICHAEL | MARESCA | 105,000 |
113 | ADRIAN | TURNER | 105,000 |
114 | ARON | DERMER | 104,500 |
115 | JORGE | GOMEZ | 104,500 |
116 | DAVID | SHMUEL | 103,500 |
117 | OLIVIER | BUSQUET | 103,000 |
118 | Emanuel | Failla | 103,000 |
119 | QUINN | BRUNO | 102,500 |
120 | JORDAN | CRISTOS | 102,500 |
121 | DANTONIO | BROWN | 101,000 |
122 | DANIEL | WOJCIK | 100,500 |
123 | HENRY | ROGERS | 100,000 |
124 | KARIM | BARUQUE | 99,500 |
125 | OFIR | MOR | 99,500 |
126 | DYLAN | WILKERSON | 99,500 |
127 | ELIO | FOX | 98,500 |
128 | IAN | O HARA | 98,500 |
129 | BRANDON | SHANE | 98,500 |
130 | MICHAEL | TURENIEC | 98,500 |
131 | IRA | FRIEDMAN | 98,000 |
132 | ANTHONY | HU | 98,000 |
133 | KEITH | NASSETTA | 98,000 |
134 | CAMERON | MITCHELL | 97,000 |
135 | VESELIN | KATRANDZHIEV | 95,500 |
136 | BRIAN | GREEN | 95,000 |
137 | RICHARD | SEYMOUR | 95,000 |
138 | NIEL | MITTELMAN | 91,500 |
139 | LANCE | GARCIA | 90,500 |
140 | JAMES | GILBERT | 90,500 |
141 | BROCK | WILSON | 89,500 |
142 | TELEMACO | GENOVESI JUNIOR | 89,000 |
143 | JOSHUA | MARVIN | 88,500 |
144 | MATTHEW | WAXMAN | 88,500 |
145 | KURT | LICHTMAN | 88,000 |
146 | BRETT | MURRAY | 88,000 |
147 | ANTHONY | UTNAGE | 88,000 |
148 | VICTOR | ADAMS | 87,000 |
149 | CHARLES | ODENZ | 87,000 |
150 | GARETH | WALKER | 87,000 |
151 | DYLAN | LINDE | 86,500 |
152 | DANI | DAYAN | 85,500 |
153 | PETER | FELLOWS | 85,000 |
154 | MANIG | LOESER | 85,000 |
155 | FRANK | STEPUCHIN | 84,500 |
156 | THAI | HA | 84,000 |
157 | JASON | BRIN | 83,000 |
158 | WILLIAM | MICAL | 82,500 |
159 | NIR | PELEG | 82,500 |
160 | DAVID | HAUSMANN | 82,000 |
161 | ATHANASIOS | POLYCHRONOPOULOS | 81,500 |
162 | TODD | IVENS | 81,000 |
163 | YOSSI | BEN | 80,000 |
164 | KYLE | CARINO | 79,500 |
165 | JULIO | RODRIGUEZ | 79,500 |
166 | ARKADIY | TSINIS | 79,000 |
167 | PETER | EICHHARDT | 78,500 |
168 | ANTHONY | NEWMAN | 78,500 |
169 | GEORGE | WOLFF | 77,500 |
170 | JOSEPH | DI ROSA ROJAS | 76,500 |
171 | ALEJANDRO | FUNES | 75,500 |
172 | JARED | JAFFEE | 75,000 |
173 | TRUONG | NGUYEN | 75,000 |
174 | DAVID | RHEEM | 73,500 |
175 | VIET | VO | 73,500 |
176 | STEVEN | WOLANSKY | 73,000 |
177 | JEFFREY | CHANG | 72,000 |
178 | QASEM | JAMHOUR | 71,000 |
179 | ROBERT | MIZRACHI | 71,000 |
180 | PREECHA | TAEPAKDEE | 71,000 |
181 | Christopher | Back | 70,500 |
182 | HAROLD | EVANS | 70,500 |
183 | NADEEM | HIRANI | 70,500 |
184 | IAN | MATAKIS | 70,500 |
185 | ERIC | VALLEE | 70,000 |
186 | DEJUANTE | ALEXANDER | 69,500 |
187 | SOLANGE | LUCAS | 69,500 |
188 | MOHAMMED | JAAFAR | 69,000 |
189 | KAREEM | MARSHALL | 69,000 |
190 | SCOTT | BAUMSTEIN | 68,000 |
191 | JASON | MERCIER | 67,500 |
192 | MOHAMMAD | SIDDIQUI | 66,500 |
193 | BARRY | PEVNER | 66,000 |
194 | DAVID | LIU | 64,500 |
195 | BRIAN | YOON | 64,500 |
196 | ANDREW | PEPLINSKI | 64,000 |
197 | JUSTIN | LIBERTO | 63,500 |
198 | DAVID | GUNAS | 63,000 |
199 | JEFFREY | BANGHART | 61,500 |
200 | ROBERT | JONSSON | 61,000 |
201 | VLADISLAV | MEZHERITSKY | 61,000 |
202 | SCOTT | ROBBINS | 60,500 |
203 | WARREN | SHEAVES | 60,500 |
204 | ARTHUR | TAMASI | 60,500 |
205 | SPENCER | CHAMPLIN | 59,500 |
206 | MARKUS | GONSALVES | 59,500 |
207 | SCOTT | MANZI | 59,500 |
208 | HARPREET | PADDA | 59,000 |
209 | NANCY | BIRNBAUM | 58,500 |
210 | CHRISTOPHER | GILKEY | 58,500 |
211 | KEVIN | JOHNSON | 58,000 |
212 | MICHAEL | CHIAPPETTA | 56,500 |
213 | JOSEPH | GIULINO | 56,000 |
214 | MILLARD | HALE | 56,000 |
215 | DAVID | INSELBERG | 56,000 |
216 | TONY | DUNST | 55,500 |
217 | RICHARD | LOWE | 55,500 |
218 | DONNY | RUBINSTEIN | 55,500 |
219 | SCOTT | BOHLMAN | 54,500 |
220 | ALEXANDRE | SAKO | 53,500 |
221 | BARBARO | DIAZ | 53,000 |
222 | EDWARD | HISLOP | 53,000 |
223 | MICHAEL | GARAVUSO | 52,500 |
224 | KYLE | BOWKER | 52,000 |
225 | SAMM | WIGGINS | 50,500 |
226 | CARLOS | CHADHA-VILLAMARIN | 50,000 |
227 | VLAD | REVNIAGA | 50,000 |
228 | SCOTT | ZAKHEIM | 49,000 |
229 | BRYAN | PICCIOLI | 48,500 |
230 | JACOB | SCHINDLER | 48,500 |
231 | JOHN | RACENER JR | 48,000 |
232 | CHARLES | GOMEZ | 47,000 |
233 | JAKE | SCHWARTZ | 47,000 |
234 | JERRY | WONG | 47,000 |
235 | BENJAMIN | PALMER | 46,500 |
236 | HARRISON | GIMBEL | 46,000 |
237 | GAVIN | O ROURKE | 46,000 |
238 | TAYLOR | BLACK | 45,000 |
239 | CANGIR | ELCIN | 45,000 |
240 | PIERCE | MCKELLAR | 45,000 |
241 | THEOBALD | TRAN | 44,500 |
242 | YVONNE | MCQUILLAN | 44,000 |
243 | NADEZHDA | MAGNUS | 43,000 |
244 | JOHN | KRPAN | 41,500 |
245 | JON | HOELLEIN | 41,000 |
246 | VADIMS | IVANOVS | 40,000 |
247 | KHARLIN | SUED | 40,000 |
248 | RICHARD | ALATI | 39,500 |
249 | FILIPP | KHAVIN | 39,000 |
250 | BENJAMIN | YU | 39,000 |
251 | DAVID | DIAZ | 38,500 |
252 | GIL | MORGENSZTERN | 38,500 |
253 | JAMES | CARROLL | 38,000 |
254 | ERIK | CHRISTENSEN | 38,000 |
255 | ADAM | GREENBERG | 38,000 |
256 | JOSEPH | FREZZA | 36,500 |
257 | JAMES | HAMBURGER | 36,000 |
258 | STEPHEN | JOHNSON | 34,500 |
259 | KENNETH | O'DONNELL | 34,500 |
260 | PATRICIA | BEDFORD | 33,000 |
261 | JEFF | RODRIGUEZ | 32,500 |
262 | BOBBY | POE | 31,000 |
263 | JONAS | WEXLER | 30,500 |
264 | JARED | HEMINGWAY | 30,000 |
265 | ELIAS | NASSIF | 30,000 |
266 | DENNIS | STEVERMER | 29,500 |
267 | PAUL | FISHER | 28,500 |
268 | ESTHER | FOLEY | 28,500 |
269 | DAVID | MOCK | 28,000 |
270 | NOAH | SCHWARTZ | 27,500 |
271 | ALMEDIN | IMSIROVIC | 26,500 |
272 | JEFFREY | TOMLINSON | 26,000 |
273 | RYAN | RIVERS | 24,500 |
274 | KENNETH | EINIGER | 21,000 |
275 | RYAN | MCKNIGHT | 19,500 |
276 | LONI | HARWOOD | 18,000 |
277 | MOHSIN | CHARANIA | 12,500 |
278 | JUSTIN | CAREY | 10,000 |
279 | SCOTT | STEWART | 5,000 |
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
*denotes three-handed chop
$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.
Here are the current chip counts:
Kevin McGillicuddy – 2,200,000 (11 bb)
Paul Gold – 1,550,000 (8 bb)
Earl Barron – 1,525,000 (8 bb)
Mirco Scharen – 1,350,000 (7 bb)
$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)