$3,500 WPT Poker Showdown Championship
$2,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 7:  500/1,000 with a 1,000 ante
Day 1A Entries:  991

A player raised UTG+1 to 2,500, Melisa Singh called from middle position, and Jonathan Akiba reraised from the hijack to 8,500. The UTG+1 player tanked for a while before moving all in for about 20,000, and Singh quickly folded.

Akiba quickly called with , and the UTG+1 player turned over .

The board came , and the pocket kings held up for Akiba to win the pot and eliminate his opponent.

Jonathan Akiba  –  105,000  (105 bb)

A few hands later, another player got it all in from UTG+1, and once again, Akiba had , though this time he was in the big blind. His opponent showed , and needed to improve to stay alive.

The board came , and Akiba made an unnecessary set on the river to win the pot and eliminate his second opponent in the span of about five minutes.

Jonathan Akiba  –  150,000  (150 bb)

Registration remains open with a single re-entry per starting flight until the start of Level 9, around 9:20 pm, and action is scheduled to continue tonight until the end of Level 10, around 11:20 pm.