$3,500 WPT Showdown Championship (Re-Entry)
Level 5: 150/300 with a 50 Ante
Entries: 869

Players are back in their seats and two hours removed from hitting their 90-minute dinner break with more than five hours left to registration.

Championship players are split between the ballroom and meeting room across the hall, over there we found our most recent champion. Joe McKeehen’s biggest poker prize came with his 2015 World Series of Poker Main Event bracelet but he added a little more to the trophy case last night.

McKeehen was part of the $2,200 Eight-Handed Freezeout and defeated Sean Perry for the title in the early hours this morning. He can be excused if he’s a little tired today but he’s stacking chips, most recently at the expense of fellow Philly area player Allen “Chainsaw” Kessler.