$3,500 WPT Poker Showdown Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 18: 6,000/12,000 with a 12,000 ante
Players Remaining: 184 of 2,290
After a flop of , Thomas Taylor was all in for about 120,000, Masoud Shoja was all in for 207,000, and a third player covered them both.
Big Stack: (heart flush draw, open-ended straight draw)
Masoud Shoja: (pair of nines)
Thomas Taylor: (pair of sixes, open-ended straight draw)
The turn card paired the board with the , the river card was the , and Shoja won the entire pot with two pair nines and sevens, to double thru the big stack and eliminate Taylor in 185th place.
Masoud Shoja – 595,000 (50 bb)
Thomas Taylor – Eliminated in 185th Place ($6,300)
With 184 players remaining from a field of 2,290, the average chip stack is around 622,000 (52 big blinds). The remaining players are guaranteed at least $6,600 each.
Action will continue tonight until the end of Level 20 (around 12:35 am).