$3,500 WPT Showdown Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
End of Level 25: 15,000/30,000 with 5,000 ante
Players Remaining: 14 of 1,309

After five, 90-minute levels, the 81 players that returned for Day 3 of the $3,500 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown was trimmed down to just 14 players with Scott Margereson leading the way.

Margereson bagged up a massive chip stack of 9,210,000, which more than double Joseph Couden, who finished the day second in chips with 4,060,000.

Tanner Millen (3,825,000), Brian Hastings (3,375,000) and Joseph Cheong (3,300,000) round out the top five chip stacks.

The final 14 players return on Tuesday at noon to play down to a televised final table of six. They will return to blinds of 20,000/40,000 with a 5,000 ante with everybody guaranteed a cash of at least $43,445.

Surviving Tuesday and making the final table would guarantee them at least $144,775 and keeping them alive for the $696,740 first place money.

Here is a look at the seat map for tomorrow’s action:

Table 1

Seat 1: Brian Hastings – 3,375,000
Seat 2: Faraz Jaka – 2,360,000
Seat 3: Tanner Millen – 3,825,000
Seat 4: Nicholas Schuman-Werb – 550,000
Seat 5: –empty–
Seat 6: AJ Gambino – 1,240,000
Seat 7: Joey Couden – 4,060,000
Seat 8: Jeff Fielder – 2,095,000

Table 2

Seat 1: Joseph Cheong – 3,300,000
Seat 2: Victor Ramdin – 775,000
Seat 3: –empty–
Seat 4: Brian England – 2,430,000
Seat 5: Scott Margereson – 9,210,000
Seat 6: Pedro Palacios – 1,590,000
Seat 7: Matt Stout – 1,790,000
Seat 8: Zachary Donovan – 2,765,000