$570 Big Stack Pot Limit Omaha Six-Max (Single Re-Entry)
Level 17: 3,000/6,000
Action didn’t go crazy between Ricardo Nakamura and Charles until the dealer put out the 
flop. Then both players got the chips in the middle. Nakamura was ahead with bottom two 
against 
.
Nakamura improved his two pair on the 
turn but Sinn came behind for a straight thanks to the 
river. It took Nakamura a second to realize he tournament was down in 6th place for $2,480.
$570 Big Stack Pot Limit Omaha Six-Max (Single Re-Entry)
Level 17: 3,000/6,000
Now that the Championship has bagged up for the night, we can move to some coverage of the tournaments on the outer tables.
The $570 PLO 6-Max tournament quickly played down to a final table and there are six players around with a shot at a trophy.
Seat 1: Jeffery Palarino
Seat 2: Darius Studdard
Seat 3: Charles Sinn
Seat 4: Ricardo Nakamura
Seat 5: Dimitriy Vernitskiy
Seat 6: Joel Harwood
1st: $12,128
2nd: $8,217
3rd: $5,369
4th: $4,293
5th: $3,222
6th: $2,480
$3,500 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Championship
Level 27: 25,000/50,000/5,000 Ante
Eli Levy heads into the final two tables with the chip lead holding 6.285 million in chips. Levy has had recent success here having won Event #7 back on the 12th but the $3,945 he won for that victory will pale in comparison to what he’ll take home for his finish this week.
One seat to his left tomorrow will be Griffin Paul who is second in chips with 6.055 million. Rounding out the top three is Shawn Nguyen who has 4.19 million in chips. Play will resume at noon local time later today. Here’s the full seating assignments and chip counts:
Table 17
Seat 1: Brian Green – 1,750,000
Seat 2: Lenny Duvdivani – 310,000
Seat 3: Sean Shah – 3,065,000
Seat 4: Vladimir Dobrovolskii – 2,650,000
Seat 5: Dan Heimiller – 500,000
Seat 6: Harvey Vandeven – 1,355,000
Seat 7: John Thrower – 1,715,000
Seat 8: Eli Levy – 6,285,000
Seat 9: Griffin Paul – 6,055,000
Table 18
Seat 1: Andre Crooks – 2,105,000
Seat 2: Mohsin Charania – 1,435,000
Seat 3: Shawn Nguyen – 4,190,000
Seat 4: Ryan Rivers – 3,175,000
Seat 5: Travis Northrope – 640,000
Seat 6: Cornel Cimpan – 1,100,000
Seat 7: Joe Ebanks – 2,690,000
Seat 8: David Peters – 3,110,000
Seat 9: Gilbert Barrett – 1,375,000
$3,500 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Championship
Level 27: 25,000/50,000/5,000 Ante
Steven McKoy opened for 110,000 and Cornel Cimpan moved all in for 330,000. Vladimir Dobrovolskii re-shoved and the action was folded back to McKoy who took a moment before saying “I’m never folding this” and making the call, his tournament life at risk since Dobrovolskii had him covered.
McKay had 
, Cimpan 
, and Dobrovolskii 
. The board ran out 
and Cimpan tripled up while Dobrovolskii’s tens were enough to win the side pot.
Players are re-drawing for the final two tables and bagging and tagging. We’ll have the updated chip counts and new seating assignments momentarily.
$3,500 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Championship
Level 27: 25,000/50,000/5,000 Ante
The remaining 19 players are back from break. One more elimination is all it will take to end the night.
$3,500 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Championship
Level 26: 20,000/40,000/5,000 Ante
Players are now on a 15-minute break.
$3,500 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Championship
Level 26: 20,000/40,000/5,000 Ante
We didn’t catch the exact amounts but Uri Tenenboim opened pre-flop for a raise and would call the three-bet from Eli Levy. The flop came 
and Tenenboim checked. Levy casually waved his arms as he said “all in” and it was Tenenboim who was at risk as Levy was the biggest stack in the room.
Tenenboim didn’t think too long before calling and turning over 
for two overs with a flush draw with his . He was in all kinds of trouble though as Levy had 
. “Oh, he has that,” sighed Tenenboim, knowing his tournament was over unless some miracle came.
The turn was the and there would be no miracle. The dealer put out the meaningless on the river and Tenenboim was eliminated in 20th place. One more elimination and they will stop play for the evening.
$3,500 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Championship
Level 26: 20,000/40,000/5,000 Ante
Dan Heimiller moved all in from the button for 355,000 and was called by Shawn Nguyen out of the small blind. The big blind folded and Heimiller turned over 
and proclaimed “at least I have live cards” when he saw Nguyen’s .
The flop came 
to keep Nguyen in the lead. The turn was the and Heimiller stood up, ready to depart. The river though was the .
“Doh,” smiled Heimiller. “Jack on the end. That’s twice.”
Heimiller is still short with approximately 750,000 but he’s also still in so there’s something to be said for that.
$3,500 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Championship
Level 26: 20,000/40,000/5,000 Ante
Sean Shah may end up being a villain on the WPT TV broadcast of this event because he is knocking out all the cool kids.
This time his victim was Ravi Raghavan. Raghavan bet out 90,000 then Shah went over the top for 200,000. Raghavan went all-in for the last of his stack and Shah called.
Raghavan: 
Shah:
The race for Raghavan’s tournament life didn’t last long as Shah hit the 
on the flop and Raghavan could not catch up. Raghavan exits our championship event in 21st place leaving us only two eliminations until the end of play tonight.
$3,500 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Championship
Level 26: 20,000/40,000/5,000 Ante
One of Seminole Hard Rock’s top Omaha players and a WPT favorite have both fallen in a matter of mintues here at the WPT Poker Showdown.
Robert Campbell was the first to be eliminated. Campbell pushed his short stack in and was called by Steven McKoy. Campbell was sitting on 
but McKoy showed the pocket rockets with . McKoy all but shut down the hand on a 
flop and the board ran out 
knocking him out in 23rd place.
Raj Vorha was the next to go. After managing a double-up after a devastating hand, Raj was all-in preflop with his 210,000 chip stack with two callers. After a 
flop, Moshin Charania bet John Thrower out of the hand and showed Vorha he’d hit trips with 
. Vorha only had and was sent to the rail in 22nd.
We’re only three eliminations away from the end of the night here in the championship event with 21 remaining this evening.