$3,500 WPT Showdown Championship
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Level 30: 50,000/100,000 with 15,000 ante
Players Remaining: 4 of 1,309

Brian Hastings opened to 300,000 from the button and Joey Couden defended his big blind.

The flop came , Couden checked, and Hastings bet 250,000 winning himself the pot.

$3,500 WPT Showdown Championship
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Level 30: 50,000/100,000 with 15,000 ante
Players Remaining: 4 of 1,309

Joey Couden opened to 280,000 from under the gun and Faraz Jaka defended his big blind.

The flop came , Jaka checked, and Couden bet 200,000. Jaka raised to 725,000.

Couden folded and Jaka scoops the pot.

$3,500 WPT Showdown Championship
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Level 30: 50,000/100,000 with 15,000 ante
Players Remaining: 4 of 1,309

Joey Couden opened to 280,000 from the button and Brian Hastings defended his big blind.

The flop came , Hastings checked and Couden bet 200,000 winning himself the pot.

$150 No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$50,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 17: 2,500/5,000 with a 500 ante
Players Remaining: 30 of 565

George Navarro raised to 15,000 on the button and Justin Molis moved all in out of the big blind for 32,000. Navarro called.

Molis showed and was in the lead against Navarro’s .

The board came . Navarro paired his seven and eliminated Molis in 31st place for $441. It was the last hand of the level before the players headed off on their 15-minute break.

George Navarro – 260,000
Justin Molis – Eliminated 

$3,500 WPT Showdown Championship
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Level 30: 50,000/100,000 with 15,000 ante
Players Remaining: 4 of 1,309

Matt Stout opened to 225,000 from under the gun and Faraz Jaka raised to 675,000 from the button,  Stout moved all in and Jaka called.

Stout turned over and needed to get lucky against Jaka’s .  They both had identical stacks

The board came and Jaka wound up with quad queens to eliminate Stout in fifth place ($189,880).

Faraz Jaka – 6,075,000 (61 bb)
Matt Stout – Eliminated in 5th place ($189,880)

$3,500 WPT Showdown Championship
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Level 30: 50,000/100,000 with 15,000 ante
Players Remaining: 5 of 1,309

Brian Hastings opened to 325,000 from the small blind and Faraz Jaka defended his big blind.

The flop came and Hastings bet 325,000. Jaka called.

The turn was the , Hastings bet 800,000 and Jaka let it go.

$3,500 WPT Showdown Championship
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Level 30: 50,000/100,000 with 15,000 ante
Players Remaining: 6 of 1,309

Faraz Jaka opened to 210,000 from under the gun and got three callers.

The flop came , Brian Hastings checked, and Jaka bet 325,000. Scott Margereson called and Jeff Fielder called as well.

The turn brought the , Jaka checked, and Margereson bet 1,350,000. Fielder used two of his time chips before calling. Jaka folded.

The river was the , Margereson moved all in and Fielder called all in.

Fielder tabled for a rivered flush but was no good against Margereson’s full house.

Scott Margereson – 12,350,000 (124 bb)
Jeff Fielder – Eliminated in 6th Place ($144,775)

$3,500 WPT Showdown Championship
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Level 30: 50,000/100,000 with 15,000 ante
Players Remaining: 6 of 1,309

Hastings opened to 240,000 from the button and Faraz Jaka raised to 800,000 from the small blind. Hastings called.

The flop came and Jaka bet 550,000 winning himself the pot.

$3,500 WPT Showdown Championship
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Level 31: 60,000/120,000 with 20,000 ante
Players Remaining: 4 of 1,309

Scott Margereson opened to 240,000 from the button and Brian Hastings raised to 1,000,000.

Margereson reraised to 2,600,000 and Hastings let it go.

$150 No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$50,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 17: 2,500/5,000 with a 500 ante
Players Remaining: 36 of 565

Mitsuru Sano was in the hijack and got into a preflop battle with the player in the big blind. The big blind got all in for about 100,000 and got action from Sano.

Sano’s was in great shape against the big blind’s .

The flop was , leaving the big blind drawing nearly dead. The turn was the and the river was the .

The big blind lost the pot to Sano’s full house and after breaking down both stacks, it was verified that Sano held the slightly bigger stack.

Sano won the pot, the big blind was eliminated and the final 36 players are all guaranteed a cash of at least $441.

Mitsuru Sano – 218,000