Championship Day 1A: Kornuth Wins Big One

$3,500 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Championship
Level 4: 100/200/25 Ante

Keven Stammen opened pre-flop and was called by two players, one of them being Chance Kornuth on the button. The flop came QsTc4c and it was checked to Kornuth who made a bet of 1,800. The player out of the blinds folded and Stammen made the call.

The turn was the Kh and Stammen led out for 5,000. Kornuth put out a raise of 10,500 and Stammen made a quick call. The river was the 8s and Stammen checked. Kornuth looked back at his cards, and after a moment or two, put out his stack of T5,000 chips — which was enough to set Stammen all in.

Stammen, the 2014 WPT Championship Event winner, shook his head slightly, giving Kornuth a somewhat skeptical look. He grabbed his remaining chips, slightly more than the 30,000 he started the tournament with, and placed them in his two hands. He studied the board for a second and then reluctantly placed those chips into the middle.

“I got it,” said Kornuth, tabling AcJc. “Ugh,” said Stammen as he nodded his head. “Good hand.”

Kornuth is among the chip leaders currently with 118,000 in chips.