Championship: Final Table Begins with Rafael Farah Jarufe in the Lead

$3,500 WPT Poker Showdown Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 30:  100,000/200,000 with a 200,000 ante
Players Remaining:  9 of 2,290

2023 Showdown Champ final table

After the elimination of Clemen Deng in 10th place, the final nine players drew for random seats at the final table. Here is the lineup with updated chip counts:

Seat 1.  Isaac Kempton  –  12,700,000  (64 bb)
Seat 2.  James Anderson  –  18,675,000  (93 bb)
Seat 3.  Mitch Garshofsky  –  7,400,000  (37 bb)
Seat 4.  David Mzareulov  –  5,500,000  (28 bb)
Seat 5.  Rafael Farah Jarufe  –  23,200,000  (116 bb)
Seat 6.  Sridhar Sangannagari  –  10,400,000  (52 bb)
Seat 7.  Gal Yifrach  –  1,375,000  (7 bb)
Seat 8.  Bin Weng  –  18,025,000  (90 bb)
Seat 9.  Naing Thu  –  16,250,000  (81 bb)

And here are the payouts for the final 16 players who started today:

1st:  $1,128,250* + Showdown Trophy + WPT Trophy
2nd:  $745,000
3rd:  $550,000
4th:  $413,000
5th:  $312,000
6th:  $238,000
7th:  $183,000
8th:  $142,000
9th:  $111,500

10th:  Clemen Dang  –  $111,500
11th:  Dorian Rios  –  $88,500
12th:  Dylan Smith  –  $88,500
13th:  Andrew Ostapchenko  –  $70,500
14th:  Champie Douglas  –  $70,500
15th:  Andrew Moreno  –  $56,800
16th:  Jeff Madsen  –  $56,800

With nine players remaining from a field of 2,290, the average chip stack is around 12,725,000 (64 big blinds). Action will continue until they are down to the six-handed televised WPT Final Table, which will be filmed in Las Vegas on Thursday, May 25th.

* First prize amount includes the winner’s $10,400 seat into the 2023 WPT World Championship.