$3,500 WPT Poker Showdown Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 7:  500/1,000 with a 1,000 ante
Day 1B Entries:  967

Kunal Patel raised from middle position to 2,500, the player in the cutoff called, Frank Stepuchin called from the small blind, and the player in the big blind moved all in for 22,400.

Patel moved all in over the top for roughly 85,000, and everyone else folds.

The big blind showed , but Patel turned over . The big blind needed to improve to stay alive.

The board came , and the pocket eights held up for Patel to win the pot and eliminate the big blind.

Kunal Patel  –  115,000  (96 bb)

The tournament clock shows 967 entries here on Day 1B, for a tournament total of 1,934 and counting. The prizepool is worth more than $6.04 million, absolutely crushing the $3 million guarantee.

Registration remains open with unlimited re-entries until the start of Level 9, around 9:15 pm. Action should continue tonight until the end of Level 10, around 11:15 pm.