$3,500 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Championship
Level 8: 300/600/75 Ante

The outer tables here in our championship event sometimes don’t get all the attention the deserve but two players we found on the far side certainly deserve it.

First, the reigning WPT World Champion Keven Stammen has been next to the far wall of the ballroom rolling up chips.  Stammen has amassed an impressive 170,000 chips as he looks to be one of the chip leaders headed into Day 2.

Also drawing attention and the WPT cameras is Mike Sexton, the lead commentator for World Poker Tour.  Sexton is struggling today having fired a second bullet and is barely holding on with 30,000 chips.

Speaking of the commentary team, Vince Van Patten is still alive having just doubled up but still only sitting around 27,000.