$3,500 WPT LHPO Championship
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 17:  3,000/6,000 with a 6,000 ante
Players Remaining:  205 of 1,573

After a flop of , Fares Santana checked the small blind, Ron Tate bet 32,000 from the big blind, and Santana check-raised to 115,000. Tate moved all in for 270,000, and Santana asked for an exact count.

Santana went into the tank for a very long time — more than four minutes. Eventually, somebody at the table called for a clock, and just as the countdown was reaching zero, Santana folded face up — top pair, top kicker.

Tate let Santana off the hook by showing his own cards — . Tate took the pot.

Ron Tate  –  415,000  (69 bb)
Fares Santana  –  245,000  (41 bb)

With 205 players remaining, the average chip stack is about 307,000 (51 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.