$3,500 WPT Showdown Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
End of Level 10: 500/1,000 with 100 ante
Flight A Players Remaining: 227 of 646

At the end of 10, one-hour levels, the 646-entry Day 1A field was trimmed down to 227. Robert Transue was atop the chip counts for most of the day, but Uri Kadosh finished the dya with the chip lead, edging out Transue.

Kadosh finished the day with 245,500 and Transue finished just behind with 239,500. Nguyet Kim Dao (237,300), Josh Rittenberg (235,800) and Paul Snead (220,000) round out the top five. They are also the only five players with more than 200,000 in chips.

Other notables to survive the day include Matt Glantz, Joe McKeehen, Zachary Smiley, Joe McKeehen, Brian Hastings, Scott Clements, Jeff Gross, Jon Borenstein, Jason Mercier, Athanasios Polychronopoulos, Tony Dunst, Kathy Liebert, Jerry Wong, Bob Bounahra and Justin Liberto.

The players who survived Day 1A will return on Sunday for Day 2. Anybody who busted today’s action is able to take another shot on Saturday at 11 a.m. for Day 1B.

Complete chip counts will be posted shortly.