2022 Showdown Live Updates

Event 1 Flight E: Like Father Like Son

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$400 Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 3:  100/200 with a 200 ante
Flight E Entries:  487

Jeff Kessler

We’ve had some notable father/son duos in our poker games, most recently Eric and Caleb Piderit (and mom Tamra), but today we have the OG pair playing together for the first time in a few years.

Jeff and Zach Kessler picked up their first Hollywood tournament cashes nearly a decade ago back in the two-story Seminole Paradise Poker Room. Both have some big scores with us but Jeff is the only one with a trophy as the RRPO Seniors Event champ in 2013.

We’ve seen father Jeff in some recent tournament action but Zach is making his return after taking some time away from the tables.

Zach Kessler (right) with fellow “old schooler” Steven McKoy (left)
Jeff Kessler (foreground) and Zach Kessler (background) playing in the 2014 RRPO in the old Seminole Paradise Poker Room