Championship Day 1B: Mike Chavez Leads the Field at the Break with 210K

$3,500 WPT Poker Showdown Championship
$2,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 5:  300/600 with a 600 ante
Day 1B Entries:  822

Mike Chavez
Mike Chavez

A scan of the field during the break turned up 12 players with at least 120K, and six players with at least 150K, creating an unofficial leaderboard:

1.  Mike Chavez  –  210,800  (351 bb)
2.  Adrian Buckley  –  174,600  (291 bb)
3.  Lan Vo  –  167,700  (280 bb)
4.  Denys Shafikov  –  166,600  (278 bb)
5.  Justin Zagar  –  162,400  (271 bb)
6.  Jack Hirschman  –  150,500  (251 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 1,869, with a prizepool worth more than $5.9 million.

There will be a 90-minute dinner break after Level 6, around 5:35 pm, and action is scheduled to continue tonight until the end of Level 10, around 11:20 pm.