$3,500 WPT Showdown Championship
Level 16: 2,000/4,000 with a 500 ante
Players Remaining: 156 of 1,207

Jake Bazeley and Dermot Blain played a big pot in which Blain doubled through the 2015 Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open Champion. The stacks were very close, and Bazeley assumed he was eliminated, gathering his things and walking toward the exit.

Just before he hit the door, his table started yelling. “Baze. Baze!” Bazeley snapped his head around. “One chip!”

Bazeley hustled back to the table to find out what color chip he was working with. “A f***ing purple?!” he laughed when he arrived. That’s the lowest denomination in play, a T500 chip worth just a single ante at this level.

Not bothering to sit back down, Bazeley knelt on his chair, flicked his last chip into the pot, and was dealt .

He ended up winning that pot after flopping top pair, nontupling up to 4,500 chips which was enough to get him to sit all the way back down for a moment.

After paying the ante on the next hand, Bazeley moved all in for 4,000 with , and Alex Foxen isolated him with . The board ran out , and Foxen finally took the rest of Bazeley’s stack to send him to the exit. Again.

Alex Foxen – 102,000
Jake Bazeley – Eliminated