$3,500 WPT Poker Showdown Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 23:  20,000/40,000 with a 40,000 ante
Players Remaining:  64 of 2,010

The players returned from break to begin Level 23, with increased blinds of 20,000-40,000 with a 40,000 ante.

A scan of the field during the break turned up only four players with at least three million in chips, and all of them had more than four million in chips. So there’s a pretty sizable gap between these chipleaders and the rest of the pack.

1.  Dan Bekavac  –  5,955,000  (149 bb)
2.  Darren Elias  –  5,515,000  (138 bb)
3.  Mark Davis  –  4,650,000  (116 bb)
4.  Dave Moore  –  4,015,000  (100 bb)

With 64 players remaining from a field of 2,010, the average chip stack is about 1,570,000 (39 big blinds). The field is in the money, with the remaining players guaranteed at least $15,000.

The 30-second Action Clock by Protection Poker is in use, and players have 30 seconds to make each decision. Each player has been given a limited number of non-transferable Time Chips that can be used to extend a decision by 30 seconds.