$3,500 WPT LHPO Championship
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 17:  3,000/6,000 with a 6,000 ante
Players Remaining:  227 of 1,573

A player raised from the cutoff to 11,000, The player on the button moved all in for 91,000, and Femi Fashakin thought for a while before he called from the big blind. The player in the cutoff showed one card as he folded — the .

The button showed , but he needed to improve to stay alive against Fashakin’s .

The board came — the short stack flopped a gutshot straight draw, but improved no further. Fashakin won the pot with his pocket eights to eliminate his opponent from the tournament.

Femi Fashakin  –  450,000  (75 bb)

With 227 players remaining, the average chip stack is about 277,000 (46 big blinds), and the final 197 players will finish in the money, guaranteed at least $6,150 each.

There will be a 90-minute dinner break after Level 17 (about 6:45 pm), and action is scheduled to continue tonight until the end of Level 21, around 12:30 am.