$3,500 WPT Poker Showdown Championship
Prizepool: $4,534,400 |  Payouts  |  Results
Level 27:  50,000/100,000 with a 100,000 ante
Players Remaining:  15 of 1,417

John McDonald raised under the gun to 200,000, Raj Vohra reraised from the small blind to 750,000, and McDonald thought for a while before he four-bet all in for about 2,000,000.

Vohra quickly called with , and McDonald turned over . McDonald needed to improve to stay alive.

The board came — Vohra flopped a set of nines, the turn put a gutshot straight draw on the board for a possible chop, but the river card missed. Vohra won the pot with his set of nines to eliminate McDonald in 16th place.

Raj Vohra  –  12,400,000  (124 bb)
John McDonald  –  Eliminated in 16th Place  ($38,500)

With 15 players remaining from a field of 1,417, the average chip stack is around 4,725,000 (47 big blinds).

The field will play as many 90-minute levels as it takes to reach the final six players for tomorrow’s 12:00 noon WPT Final Table, which will also be live streamed.