Championship: Day 3 Ends with Mark Davis and Darren Elias Leading the Final 16 Players

$3,500 WPT Poker Showdown Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 27:  50,000/100,000 with a 100,000 ante
Players Remaining:  16 of 2,010

Mark Davis
Chipleader Mark Davis has 14.4 million in chips.

After the elimination of Adam Hendrix in 17th place, the final 16 players bagged up their chips for Day 4, which begins tomorrow at 12:00 noon EDT.

There is 24:52 left in Level 27, with blinds at 50,000-100,000 with a 100,000 big blind ante.

There was a full redraw for the final two tables, and here are the official chip counts and seating positions:

TABLE 7
Seat 1.  Benjamin Miner  –  4,800,000  (48 bb)
Seat 2.  Dave Moore  –  2,500,000  (25 bb)
Seat 3.  Robert Lofaso  –  6,450,000  (65 bb)
Seat 4.  Andrew Davidson  –  5,200,000  (52 bb)
Seat 5.  Christian Harder  –  2,350,000  (24 bb)
Seat 6.  James Kousouros  –  2,725,000  (27 bb)
Seat 7.  Andrew Barfield  –  8,775,000  (88 bb)
Seat 8.  James Calderaro  –  9,675,000  (97 bb)

TABLE 8
Seat 1.  Mark Davis  –  14,400,000  (144 bb)
Seat 2.  Michael Laufer  –  9,300,000  (93 bb)
Seat 3.  Vinny Pahuja  –  1,725,000  (17 bb)
Seat 4.  Viet Vo  –  5,500,000  (55 bb)
Seat 5.  Robert Georato  –  6,100,000  (61 bb)
Seat 6.  Marcos Exterkotter  –  1,100,000  (11 bb)
Seat 7.  Darren Elias  –  13,775,000  (138 bb)
Seat 8.  Carlos Dorca  –  6,800,000  (68 bb)

Darren Elias
Darren Elias has 13.78 million in chips — and a record four WPT titles.

With 16 players remaining from a field of 2,010, the average chip stack is about 6,275,000 (63 big blinds). Here are the remaining payouts at stake:

1st:  $1,000,300
2nd:  $660,000
3rd:  $490,000
4th:  $370,000
5th:  $280,000
6th:  $215,000
7th:  $165,000
8th:  $125,000
9th-10th:  $100,000
11th-12th:  $79,000
13th-14th:  $63,000
15th-16th:  $51,000

Our coverage here at SHRPO.com will soon turn tonight’s focus to the $25,500 High Roller (Event #44), as they play down to their final table tonight.