$3,500 WPT Poker Showdown Championship
$2,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 19:  10,000/15,000 with a 15,000 ante
Players Remaining:  152 of 2,482

Daniel Blum and Donald Maloney played an interesting hand that extended pretty deep into the last break.

Daniel Blum min-raised from the small blind to 12,000, Donald Maloney reraised from the big blind to 42,000, and Blum called.

The flop came , Blum checked, Maloney bet 25,000, and Blum check-raised to 65,000. Maloney quickly called.

The turn card was the , Blum checked, and Maloney bet 75,000, leaving himself just 64,000 behind. Blum check-raised for the second street in a row, this time moving all in. Maloney went into the tank.

Maloney used six of his 10 Time Chips to tank for more than three minutes before he folded, and Blum took the pot, going into the break third in chips on the leaderboard.

Daniel Blum  –  1,780,000  (119 bb)
Donald Maloney  –  64,000  (4 bb)

With 152 players remaining from a field of 2,482, the average chip stack is about 655,000 (44 bb). The field is in the money, with the remaining players guaranteed at least $7,940 each.

Action is scheduled to continue tonight until the end of Level 20, around 12:45 am.