$3,500 WPT Poker Showdown Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 9:  1,000/1,500 with a 1,500 ante
Day 1B Entries:  1,155

The players have returned from break to begin Level 9, with increased blinds of 1,000-1,500 with a 1,500 ante.

Registration is now closed, and the tournament clock shows an unofficial field size of 1,155. As soon as we get confirmed numbers, we will post them here in the updates, but the total prizepool should be worth more than $7.3 million.

A scan of the field during the break turned up six players with at least 300K in chips, creating an unofficial leaderboard:

1.  Luke Brereton  –  534,000  (356 bb)
2.  Nick Palma  –  477,000  (318 bb)
3.  Naing Thu  –  386,000  (257 bb)
4.  Mark Koeln  –  332,500  (222 bb)
5.  Michael Nugent  –  325,500  (217 bb)
6.  Alex Cole-Gardner  –  313,500  (209 bb)

Action will continue tonight until the end of Level 10, around 11:15 pm.