$3,500 WPT Poker Showdown Championship
Prize Pool:  $5,980,800  | Structure | Payouts
Level 28:  75,000/125,000 with a 125,000 ante
Players Remaining:  15 of 1,869

Landon Tice opened to 275,000 from under the gun and John Thornton came along in the cutoff. The flop was , both players checked, and the turn was .

Tice bet 800K, Thornton moved all in for 2,600,000 and Tice called.

Tice:
Thornton:

Tice was ahead with his paired jack but Thornton had a ton of out with his heart draw and open-ended straight draw. The completed Thornton’s flush and he doubled up.

John Thornton  –  6,075,000  (49 bb)
Landon Tice  –  1,900,000  (15 bb)