$3,500 WPT Showdown Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
End of Level 20: 5,000/10,000 with 1,000 ante
Players Remaining: 81 of 1,309

$3,500 WPT Showdown Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
End of Level 20: 5,000/10,000 with 1,000 ante
Players Remaining: 81 of 1,309

After another 10 levels of play, Day 2 of 2018 Seminole Hard Rock Showdown main event played into the money and finished with just 81 players remaining.

Joseph Cheong bagged the heaviest bag of all the survivors with 1,864,000 in chips. He holds a sizable chip lead over the rest of the field with Brian Hastings being his closest competitor with 1,474,000.

Scott Margereson (1,215,000), Emrah Cakmak (1,182,000) and Brian England (1,181,000) round out the top five chip counts. Jeff Fielder and Scott Stewart are the only two other players with seven-figure chip counts with 1,158,000 and 1,011,000, respectively.

Faraz Jaka, Jake Bazeley, Aaron Mermelstein, Victor Ramdin, Natasha Mercier, Damjan Radanov, Matt Stout, Justin Liberto and Dylan Wilkerson are just a handful of notables that made it through the star-studded field that’s left.

The day started with 480 players coming back and hoping to make the money. The money bubble burst at the end of level 17, when Louis Leveque was eliminated by AJ Gambino. The top 164 players were all in the money and guaranteed a cash of at least $5,860.

TK Miles, Dean Baranowski, Jessica Dawley, Darren Rabinowitz, Art Papazyan, Blake Bohn, Ryan Olisar, Zachary Smiley, Joe Elpayaa, Wendy Freedman, Jason Mercier, Loni Harwood and Michael Wang were a few of the notables eliminated today, but survived long enough to finish in the money.

Cards get back in the air on Monday at noon for Day 3 action. The blinds will be 6,000/12,000 with a 2,000 ante and they will play five, 90-minute levels before bagging up chips for the day. Everybody remaining is guaranteed a cash of at least $7,949.

Complete chip counts will be posted shortly.

$25,500 High Roller (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 14: 4,000/8,000 with a 8,000 ante
Players Remaining: 7 of 40

Brandon Adams opened to 18,000 from under the gun and picked up calls from Ajay Chabra in the small blind and Shaun Deeb in the big. The flop came followed by checks from Chabra and Deeb. Brandon Adams bet 42,000 and only Deeb stayed in the hand.

Both players checked the turn and river. Deeb tabled and it was good enough to top Adams’ for the pot.

Shaun Deeb – 370,000 (46 bb)
Brandon Adams – 1,375,000 (172 bb)

$25,500 High Roller (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 14: 4,000/8,000 with a 8,000 ante
Players Remaining: 7 of 40

Mark Fisher opened to 16,000 and Brandon Adams called in the small blind. Pablo Fernandez moved all in for 250,000 from the big blind and Fisher called all in for his last 212,000.

Fisher:
Fernandez:

Fisher was dominating for the double and the flop seemed to cause little harm. Fernandez made trip deuces on the turn and the bad beat was complete on the river to send Fisher out in eighth place.

They are now on the money bubble with six getting paid.

Pablo Fernandez – 460,000 (58 bb)
Mark Fisher – Eliminated

$2,200 Deep Stack Pot Limit Omaha (Re-Entry)
Level 11: 2,000/4,000 | Payouts | Structure
Players Remaining: 10 of 80

The $2,200 pot-limit Omaha event burst the bubble and with 10 players remaining, they are all in the money and have redrawn for seats at the unofficial final table.

With one more elimination, the final nine players will be at the official final table.

Here is a look at the seat draw and chip counts:

Seat 1: Jordan Dhanani – 23,000
Seat 2: Eddie Ochana – 64,500
Seat 3: Mike Shin – 146,500
Seat 4: David Prociak – 150,000
Seat 5: Zhen Cai – 64,500
Seat 6: Jeffrey Higgins – 169,000
Seat 7: Raj Vohra – 56,000
Seat 8: Botab Ayev – 363,500
Seat 9: Kris Tate – 72,000
Seat 10: Mike Dentale – 475,000

$3,500 WPT Showdown Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 20: 5,000/10,000 with 1,000 ante
Players Remaining: 99 of 1,309

With 10 minutes left on the clock, the tournament staff has paused the clock and the remaining players will play three more hands before bagging and tagging chips for the night.

A recap and chip counts will be posted at the completion of the night.

$25,500 High Roller (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 13: 3,000/6,000 with a 6,000 ante
Players Remaining: 8 of 40

Action folded around to Jonathan Little in the small blind and he moved all in for 53,000. After confirming the count, Pablo Fernandez called in the big blind.

Little:
Fernandez:

“That’s the best I could have hoped for,” Little laughed. “A coin flip.”

Little took the lead on the flop but Fernandez added a wheel draw on the turn that got there on the river.

Pablo Fernandez – 248,000 (41 bb)
Jonathan Little – Eliminated

$3,500 WPT Showdown Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 20: 5,000/10,000 with 1,000 ante
Players Remaining: 99 of 1,309

Loni Harwood moved all in for 157,000 from under the gun, it folded around to Jake Bazeley who reshoved from the small blind. The blinds folded and it was heads up.

Harwood tabled and needed to get lucky against Bazeley’s .

The flop came and both players flopped a set. The turn and river were no help to Harwood as she was eliminated.

Jake Bazeley – 910,000 (91 bb)
Loni Harwood – Eliminated

$25,500 High Roller (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 13: 3,000/6,000 with a 6,000 ante
Players Remaining: 9 of 40

Justin Young’s hot ran continued and he sent Lance Steinberg out in tenth place to set up the nine-handed final table. Brandon Adams and Ajah Chabra are the two huge stacks while Jonathan Little needs to do some work to get back in the game.

Seat 1: Mark Fisher – 210,000 (35 bb)
Seat 2: Barry Hutter – 440,000 (73 bb)
Seat 3: Ajay Chabra – 998,000 (166 bb)
Seat 4: Shaun Deeb – 305,000 (51 bb)
Seat 5: Brandon Adams – 1,050,000 (175 bb)
Seat 6: Jonathan Little – 65,000 (11 bb)
Seat 7: Pablo Fernandez – 180,000 (30 bb)
Seat 8: Larry Greenberg – 350,000 (58 bb)
Seat 9: Darren Elias – 405,000 (68 bb)

$25,500 High Roller (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 13: 3,000/6,000 with a 6,000 ante
Players Remaining: 10 of 40

It was three-ways to a flop and Justin Young checked from the big blind. Larry Greenberg was under the gun and checked as well before Brandon Adam bet 18,000.

Young called, Greenberg folded, and the turn came . Young checked, Adams bet 48,000 and Young check-raised to 130,000. Adams called and the river was .

Young quickly moved all in for 231,000 and Adams took his time. He cut out the calling chips, thought some more, and finally called.

Adams:
Young:

Adams was good with kings and eights while Youngs busted flush draw sent him to the rail in tenth place.

Brandon Adams – 1,100,000 (183 bb)
Justin Young – Eliminated