$3,500 WPT Poker Showdown Championship
$2,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 8:  600/1,200 with a 1,200 ante
Day 1B Entries:  1,204

The player in the hijack is all in from the small blind for 24,700 with , and needed to improve to stay alive against the of Mateusz Sikorski in the hijack.

The board came , and Sikorski flopped a set of nines and rivered a full house to win the pot and eliminate his opponent.

Mateusz Sikorski  –  170,000  (142 bb)

Registration remains open with a single re-entry per starting flight until the start of Level 9, around 9:20 pm. There were 1,048 entries on Day 1A, and the total field size is currently up to 2,251, with a prizepool worth about $7.2 million.

Action is scheduled to continue tonight until the end of Level 10, around 11:20 pm.