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Championship 5th Place – Matt Stout ($308,501)

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$3,500 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Championship Event
Blinds 100k/200k/25k ante

Matt Stout $308,501
Matt Stout (Las Vegas, NV)
$308,501

Matt Stout moves all in from the button from 3.3 million (16 bb) from button and Mukul Pahjua tank calls.

Stout: Qd10s
Pahuja: As8h

Flop: Jc8d2c (Pahjua, pair of 8s – Stout, gutshot straight draw)

Turn: 4c (no change)

As Stout’s rail yells, “nine” to complete the straight, he looks back and laughs, “are you saying ‘no’ in German?”

River: 6s

Stout misses 10 outs on the river (any Queen, Ten or Nine) and is on the rail in 5th place, Pahuja with the winning pair of 8s.

“If you’re going to finish 5th this is a good one to do it at, I like the money,” says Stout after earning $309,501.

Stout adds to his $2.3 million in career recorded live tournament earnings, (with another $3.6 million earnings online), but is still looking for one big score.

“I’m happy with it, but definitely need a major title pretty soon.”

Stout is a 29 year-old originally from New Jersey who has two degrees from the college of New Jersey.