$3,500 WPT Showdown Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
End of Level 6: 200/400 with a 50 ante
Flight B Entries: 548
The remaining players in the main event are taking a 90-minute dinner break. Cards will be back in the air at approximately 7:00 PM.
$3,500 WPT Showdown Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 6: 200/400 with a 50 ante
Flight B Entries: 548
On the turn with the board reading 
, Michael Tureniec bet 7,200 from middle position and a player in late position raised to 15,000.
Tureniec called and the river was the 
. Both players checked. Tureniec showed 
, but his opponent showed 
and won thepot with a set of jacks.
“Everything got there, huh?” asked another player at the table.
Tureniec is still above starting stack, but lost one of the last pots before the dinner break.
Michael Tureniec – 28,000
$3,500 WPT Showdown Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 6: 200/400 with a 50 ante
Flight B Entries: 544
Chance Kornuth – 100,000
Ravi Raghavan – 95,000
Stanley Lee – 65,000
Matt Waxman – 64,000
Michael Tureneic – 55,000
Cliff Joseph – 50,000
Nancy Birnbaum – 45,000
Jake Bazeley – 42,000
Andy Frankenberger – 40,000
Brett Murray – 43,000
Dan Heimiller – 38,000
Ness Reilly – 35,000
Ralph Massey – 30,000
Vinny Pahuja – 30,000
Darren Elias – 29,000
Nick Palma – 28,000
Aaron Mermelstein – 25,000
John Racener – 23,000
Ryan Olisar – 21,000
Guo Liang Chen – 18,000
John Dolan – 18,000
Tim Reilly – 17,000
Blair Hinkle – 8,000
$3,500 WPT Showdown Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 6: 200/400 with a 50 ante
Flight B Entries: 535
Vitor Coelho opened to 1,000 from early position and picked up one caller. It folded to Mike Dentale in the big blind and he three-bet to 5,000. Coelho went deep in his thoughts to make a decision.
“Go with your gut,” Dentale told him. “Punish me.”
“Can I say that?” Dentale then asked the dealer.
Coelho counted down his stack a few times, looked like he might shove, and finally released his hand. The other caller folded as well.
“I got one through,” Dentale laughed as he flipped up 
.
Dentale has had a rough level, he returned from last break with more than 90,000 but he’s down to 19,500.
$3,500 WPT Showdown Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 6: 200/400 with a 50 ante
Flight B Entries: 531
On a flop of 
, Sheddy Siddiqui checked from the hijack and Mike Shin bet 6,000 from the cutoff.
Ryan Hughes called on the button and Siddiqui check-raised all in for 20,700. Shin moved all in for about 25,000 and Hughes folded.
Siddiqui showed , giving him a gutshot straight draw and backdoor spades, against Shin’s 
.
The turn was the 
and the river was the 
. Siddiqui missed his straight draw and Shin won the pot, eliminating Siddiqui.
Mike Shin – 63,000
Sheddy Siddiqui – Eliminated
$3,500 WPT Showdown Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 5: 150/300 with a 50 ante
Flight B Entries: 516
Michael Newman raised to 800 on the button and the player in the small blind called. The flop was 
and the small blind checked.
Newman bet 2,200 and the small blind called. The turn was the and the small blind checked again. Newman bet 7,600 and the small blind called.
“Really?” asked Newman.
The small blind doesn’t respond and the river was the 
. Both players check and Newman won the pot with 
.
Michael Newman – 53,000
$3,500 WPT Showdown Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 5: 150/300 with a 25 ante
Flight B Entries: 516
Darren Elias was all in from the cutoff for his 5,150, the big blind called and Ricardo Tavares reshoved for 29,700 from middle position. The big blind called.
Ricardo Tavares: 
Darren Elias:
Big Blind: 
The board came 
ad Tavares spiked a seven to eliminate Elias and double up through the big blind.
Ricardo Tavares – 29,700
Darren Elias – Eliminated
$3,500 WPT Showdown Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 5: 150/300 with a 50 ante
Flight B Entries: 513
We had another player crossing over the 100,000-chip threshold and it was WSOP bracelet winner Chance Kornuth. The popular pro was close at the last break but he picked up a few more chips to hit 102,000 shortly after.
With the board reading 
, Kornuth bet 6,500 and his opponent went into deep think mode.
“You can let me have this one,” Kornuth joked. “I’ll let you have the next.”
He eventually picked up the pot when his opponent folded his hand and Kornuth gave him a peek.
“I’ll show you one,” he laughed as he flipped over the .
$3,500 WPT Showdown Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 5: 150/300 with a 50 ante
Flight B Entries: 482
The second break is complete and Philip Wojtuniecki increased his stack from the previous break. He sits with 124,525 and Rafael Bertani is the only other player with a six-digit stack. Poker pro Mike Dentale is making a move up the counts and returned 91,000.
Flight B will play two more levels before rolling out on a 90-minute dinner break.
Top five stacks:
$3,500 WPT Showdown Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 5: 150/300 with a 25 ante
Flight B Entries: 466
Aaron Mermelstein shoved for his last 925 and Joe Ebanks raised to 2,500 from the button and the rest of the table folded.
Mermelstein tabled and needed to get lucky against Ebanks’s .
The board ran out 
and Ebanks’s ace kicker played to eliminate Mermelstein.
Joe Ebanks – 16,500
Aaron Mermelstein – Eliminated