$3,500 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Championship
Level 11: 600/1,200/200 Ante

Three starting flights came to an end around midnight last night and today will have the entire field in the same room for the first time. The WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Championship drew 1,476 entrants with 554 making it through to Day 2.

They will be playing for a piece of the $5,000,000 prize pool with the winner set to take home a cool $1,000,000 top payout. The last 150 players standing will also take home some of the prize money with a min-cash worth $6,900.

Barry Hutter (pictured below) leads at the start of play as the only player over 300,000 with Ryan Rivers, Brian Green, Dan Shiff,  and Brian Hastings rounding out the top five. Other big names near the top of the list include Jared Jaffee, Chris Moorman, Tyler Reiman, Shannon Shorr, and Kevin Eyster.

Players are unbagging their chips and cards are about to fly. They will play 10 more levels today with the survivors returning for Day 3 tomorrow at noon.