$150 No-Limit Hold’em (Double Re-Entry per Day) $50,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 22: 10,000/20,000 with a 20,000 ante Players Remaining: 16 of 787
17th: Nestor Caraballo – $760 18th: Paul Prager – $760 19th: Adam Barnett – $760 20th: Sandra Brown – $760
21st: Alain Candales Falcon – $660 22nd: Steven McKoy – $660 23rd: Israel De La Cerda – $660 24th: Hector Pacheco – $660
$2,200 Deep Stack PLO (Re-Entry) Structure | Payouts Level 18: 8,000/16,000 Players Remaining: 6 of 168
Ivaylo Sivinov
After some preflop action, Ivaylo Sivinov reraised preflop from the big blind to 64,000, and Zeevy Malik called from middle position.
The flop came , Sivinov moved all in for about 70,000, and Malik called.
Zeevy Malik: (pair of sevens, club flush draw) Ivaylo Sivinov: (pair of jacks, pair of tens, open-ended straight draw)
The turn card was the , the river card was the , and Malik’s club flush outranks Sivinov’s king-high straight to win the pot and eliminate Sivinov in seventh place.
Zeevy Malik – 1,165,000 (73 bb) Ivaylo Sivinov – Eliminated in 7th Place ($12,640)
With six players remaining from a field of 168, the average chip stack is about 560,000 (35 big blinds). The next player to bust will earn $16,255.
$150 No-Limit Hold’em (Double Re-Entry per Day) $50,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 21: 10,000/15,000 with a 15,000 ante Players Remaining: 24 of 787
25th: Sebastiaan De Jonge – $590 26th: Carlos Torres Vasquez – $590 27th: Humberto Valdez – $590 28th: Trent Smith – $590 29th: Jean Deromedi Delplanque- $590 30th: Steven Flacco – $590 31st: Christopher Underwood – $590 32nd: Omar Sader – $590
The record-setting 2021 WPT Poker Showdown Championship celebrated our 10th anniversary with the World Poker Tour and the tournament is down to its final table; we had 2,482 entries but only six of them remain. They will head to Las Vegas to play it out in the PokerGo Studio on May 18 and one of them will walk away with $1,261,095.
We have a diverse group of players vying for the title with four of the six guaranteed to bank the biggest cash of their year no matter where they finish. Ken “Teach” Aldridge is the only WSOP bracelet winner at the final table and Sonny Franco is a former WPTDeepStacks Paris champ.
Here are the six players with a chance to put their name on the Mike Sexton WPT Champions Cup and take home more than $1.2 million.
Seat 1. Brek Schutten – 31,350,000
From Grand Rapids, MI, he has nearly $400,000 in earnings and this will be the biggest cash of his career no matter where he finished. Schutten has two WSOP Circuit final table appearances and this is his first SHRP Hollywood cash.
Seat 2. Ken Aldridge – 10,600,000
From Pleasants Gardens, NC, the man they call “Teach” will cross over $2 million in career earnings with his results from this final table. He won a WSOP bracelet in 2009, has five WSOP final tables, and this is his second WPT final table. Aldridge also owns an SHRP trophy from winning the LHPO Six-Max PLO title in 2020.
Seat 3. Steven Snyder – 15,975,000
From Charlotte, NC, his earnings will top $1,000,000 following the final table and this will also be the biggest cash of his career. Snyder owns three WSOP Circuit rings and this is his second WPT cash.
Seat 4. Viet Vo – 4,150,000
From Pearland, TX, just like “Teach” in Seat 2, Vo will push his career earning over $2 million regardless of where he finishes at the final table. Vo has two WSOP Circuit ring, one other WPT final table, and an SHRP trophy from winning the 2015 LHPO Purple Chip Bounty event.
Seat 5. Albert Calderon – 5,350,000
From Chandler, AZ, this is his first WPT cash and another player booking their biggest career payout from this final table. Calderon won the $1K Arizona State Championship event in 2019 for $237,000.
Seat 6. Sonny Franco – 31,900,000
From Morocco via France, Franco has more than $2 million in career earnings but this will still be his biggest cash as well. He won the WPTDeepStacks Paris title in 2020 and has three WSOP Circuit rings including a win in the WSOP Circuit Marrakech Main Event.
$150 No-Limit Hold’em (Double Re-Entry per Day) $50,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 20: 5,000/15,000 with a 15,000 ante Players Remaining: 32 of 787
33rd: Shamica Lamar – $530 34th: Paul Hernandez – $530 35th: Francis Garcia – $530 36th: Jonathan Orbegozo – $530 37th: Alexander Borukhovich – $530 38th: Arkadiy Pervyy Bakhtin – $530 39th: Gabriel Shtern – $530 40th: Ruben Coto – $530
$150 No-Limit Hold’em (Double Re-Entry per Day) $50,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 20: 5,000/15,000 with a 15,000 ante Players Remaining: 40 of 787
41st: Richard Collier – $480 42nd: Jeffrey Keiser – $480 43rd: Lawrence Klur – $480 44th: Ivan Felipe – $480 45th: Antonio Colon – $480 46th: Shimon Trakhtenberg – $480 47th: Vincent Arnone Scrima – $480 48th: Elisha Greenwood – $480
With eight players remaining from a field of 168, the average chip stack is about 420,000 (35 big blinds). The remaining players are all guaranteed at least $9,080 each.