$3,500 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Championship
Level 23: 10,000/20,000/3,000 Ante

Players are on their third break of the day with only five tables in action. We’ll return with the most recent official list of paid positions.

$3,500 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Championship
Level 23: 10,000/20,000/3,000 Ante

Rayan Chamas opened to 51,000 and it was folded to Travis Northrope who made it 120,000 to go. Chamas thought briefly and then re-raised to 220,000. Northrope made the call.

The flop came and Chamas took nearly a minute before announcing that he was all in for roughly 575,000. Northrope spent several minutes in the tank, at one point muttering to himself “think we have the same hand.” He would look back at his cards several times and eventually the WPT television cameras would make their way over to the table.

That seemed to be enough for Northrope who folded. Chamas showed the without revealing what his second card was.

$3,500 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Championship
Level 23: 10,000/20,000/3,000 Ante

Jared Jaffee looked like he would be in contention for another WPT title but he came up short. He was sitting with a comfortable 787,000 at the start of the day but not much went well.

Jaffee open-shoved for 220,000 and Hans Winzeler was the only one to come along. Jaffee needed to improve his against . The flop gave him even more problems but he picked up the first part of a possible runner-runner save on the turn.

Jaffee couldn’t find a miracle on the river and was gone in 50th.

$3,500 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Championship
Level 23: 10,000/20,000/3,000 Ante

We got to the table with a flop of and Steven McKoy facing a bet of 65,000 from Muhamad Abdel-Rahim. McKoy made the call and the dealer put out the on the turn. This time Abdel-Rahim led out for 80,000 and McKoy made the call.

The river was the and Abdel-Rahim fired a third bullet, this time for 150,000. McKoy took some time, then carefully counted out the chips to make the call, and then moved them forward.

“Nice call,” said Abdel-Rahim.

Neither player wanted to show their hand and McKoy waited and then said “muck it so I don’t have to show.” Abdel-Rahim did, and McKoy followed suit, winning the nice pot without having to show his hand.

$3,500 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Championship
Level 23: 10,000/20,000/3,000 Ante

Faraz Jaka was in the midst of writing a great comeback story but he came up short. Earlier he was down to one big blind before the bubble on Day 2 but built it back over 400,000 to safely slide into the money. Jaka had another drop to five big blinds before rebounding to bag 431,000 by the end of the night.

His final hand came when Mohsin Charania open shoved for 395,000 and Jaka had just 30,000 behind in the small blind. He called with against Charania’s and needed help.

The did nothing to improve his situation but he added an open-ended straight draw on the turn. No love for the Jaka-comeback story when on the river to send the popular out in 52nd.

Got knocked out of @shrpo #SHRPO Main event in 52nd QQ > AK for 850k pot. Cashed for $13.5k …relax for a few days then @WPT $15k borgata

— Faraz Jaka (@FarazJaka) April 20, 2015

$3,500 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Championship
Level 23: 10,000/20,000/3,000 Ante

With approximately 175,000 in the pot and a flop of a short-stacked Dan Heimiller moved all in facing two opponents, one of them being Joe Ebanks. The second player thought long and hard before letting his hand go and Ebanks snap-folded.

“Whew,” said a relieved Heimiller, as he continues to hang on.

$1,650 Eight-Max No Limit Hold’Em (Re-Entry)
Level 13: 800/1,600/200 Ante

While most eyes are on the Championship, Day 2 of the $1,650 8-Max tournament was underway with a lot of interesting names in the last 11.

2006 WSOP Main Event Champion Jamie Gold was still around with a chance for another title but fell short in 10th place after Richard Leger went out in 11th. They are now gathered on one table to find a winner.

Seat 1: Eracles Panayitou
Seat 2: Long Nguyen
Seat 3: Sean Giesbrecht
Seat 4: Daren Stabinski
Seat 5: Chino Rheem
Seat 6: Ray Qartomy
Seat 7: Robert Black
Seat 8: Rachel Kranz
Seat 9: Dan DiZenzo

Payouts
1st: $44,827
2nd: $26,400
3rd: $19,635
4th: $13,860
5th: $10,478
6th: $8,003
7th: $6,435
8th: $5,198
9th: $4,125

$3,500 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Championship
Level 23: 10,000/20,000/3,000 Ante

Top ten stacks during the second break:

Vladimir Dobrovolskiy – 2,200,000
Joe Ebanks – 2,000,000
John Thrower – 1,850,000
David Peters – 1,690,000
Ely Levy – 1,650,000
Muhammad Abdel-Rahim – 1,601,000
Shankar Pillai – 1,580,000
Raj Vohra – 1,520,000
Scott Efron – 1,400,000
Robert Campbell – 1,344,000

$3,500 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Championship
Level 22: 8,000/16,000/2,000 Ante

In a battle of Seminole Hard Rock Poker regulars, Nancy Birnbaum and Scott Efron went to battle with the three-time WSOP Circuit champ Birnbaum on the bad end.

She three-bet shoved for 280,000 and Efron quickly called with . Birnbaum needed a lot of help with but couldn’t find the miracle when the board ran out . Birnbaum had a nice run but was eliminated while Efron continues to hover around the leaders.

$3,500 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Championship
Level 22: 8,000/16,000/2,000 Ante

After what seemed like single-person focused coverage, the Noah Schwartz coaster ride came to an end.

Most of the damage came when he was against Shawn Nguyen with the better against . Nguyen added a gutshot wheel draw on the flop before hitting the turn. The river finished things off to knock Schwartz down to just 90,000.

He was gone soon after, much sooner than he wished.