Championship Day 1A: Pocket Jacks Hold Up For Nadya Magnus To Knock Out Two Players

$3,500 WPT Poker Showdown Championship
$2,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 8: 600/1,200 with a 1,200 ante
Day 1A Entries: 1,026

There is a three-way all-in situation, with the UTG player all in for 15,400, another player in middle position with about 34,000, and both of them covered by Nadya Magnus in the cutoff with about 43,000.

Nadya Magnus:
Middle-Position Player:
UTG Player: 10c

The board came , and the pocket jacks held up for Magnus to win the pot, eliminating both of her opponents.

Magnus had been up to 100K earlier in the day, but she ran pocket queens into pocket aces to lose a large portion of her stack. This pot gets her back close to where she was.

Nadya Magnus – 95,400 (80 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.