$3,500 WPT Showdown Championship
Level 20: 5,000/10,000 with a 1,000 ante
Players Remaining: 68 of 1,207
Shanker Pillai opened to 23,000 in early position, and Iaron Lightbourne three-bet from the small blind. Pillai moved all in for about 400,000 total, and Lightbourne called, committing about 40 percent of his stack to put Pillai at risk.
Pillai:
Lightbourne:
The board ran out , and Pillai won the race with kings up to double up.
Shankar Pillai – 820,000 (82 bb)
Iaron Lightbourne – 570,000 (57 bb)