$3,500 WPT Poker Showdown Championship
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Level 26: 25,000/50,000 with a 50,000 ante
Players Remaining: 16 of 1,360

Victor Figueroa moved all in from the button for 445,000, and James Carroll called from the big blind.

Figueroa turns over and was racing against Carroll’s .

The flop came and Carroll flopped a set of sixes to take the lead.

The turn was the giving Figueroa a flush draw. The river, completed his flush to keep him alive.

Victor Figueroa  –  1,015,000  (20 bb)
James Carroll  –  5,150,000  (103 bb)

$3,500 WPT Poker Showdown Championship
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Level 26: 25,000/50,000 with a 50,000 ante
Players Remaining: 16 of 1,360

With Ari Dinov’s eliminations in seventeenth place, players have redrawn to the final two tables.

Here are their new seating positions, along with their updated chip counts:

TABLE 13
Seat 1.  Dan Chalifour  –  2,625,000  (53 bb)
Seat 2.  Jason Marshman  –  5,085,000  (102 bb)
Seat 3.  Chad Eveslage  –  7,775,000  (156 bb)
Seat 4.  Maria Ho  –  3,975,000  (80 bb)
Seat 5.  Richard Seymour  –  850,000  (17 bb)
Seat 6.  Jerry Robinson  –  4,250,000  (85 bb)
Seat 7.  Ami Alibay  –  2,350,000  (47 bb)
Seat 8.  Danny Qutami  –  4,890,000  (98 bb)

TABLE 14
Seat 1.  Taylor Black  –  655,000  (13 bb)
Seat 2.  Eric Afriat  –  3,380,000  (68 bb)
Seat 3.  Dien Le  –  2,380,000  (48 bb)
Seat 4.  Victor Figueroa  –  570,000  (11 bb)
Seat 5.  Ryan D’Angelo  –  4,875,000  (98 bb)
Seat 6.  James Carroll  –  5,900,000  (118 bb)
Seat 7.  Vladimir Vasilyev  –  2,750,000  (55 bb)
Seat 8.  Jerry Wong  –  2,020,000  (40 bb)

$3,500 WPT Poker Showdown Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 26: 25,000/50,000 with a 50,000 ante
Players Remaining: 16 of 1,360

Dien Le opened to 100,000 from under the gun, and Eric Afriat called on the button.

Ari Dinov moved all in for 725,000 from the button. Le elected to shove over the top for 1,550,000, and Afriat got out of the way.

Dinov tabled and needed to improve to stay alive against Le’s .

The board ran out and Dinov couldn’t catch up as he became the 17th place finisher.

Dien Le – 2,380,000
Ari Dinov – Eliminated in 17th Place ($29,690)

$3,500 WPT Poker Showdown Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 26: 25,000/50,000 with a 50,000 ante
Players Remaining: 17 of 1,360

Ari Dinov shoved all in from under the gun for 350,000 and Chad Eveslage called from the big blind.

Dinov turned up and needed to improve against chip leader Eveslage’s .

The board ran out and Dinov spiked a king on the turn to stay alive.

Ari Dinov – 775,000 (16 bb)
Chad Eveslage – 8,400,000 (168 bb)

$3,500 WPT Poker Showdown Championship
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Level 26: 25,000/50,000 with a 50,000 ante
Players Remaining: 17 of 1,360

Jerry Robinson raised from the button to 150,000 and Victor Figueroa moved all in from the small blind for 400,000.

Figueroa was in good shape as he turned over against Robinson’s .

The board came and Figueroa’s ace high holds to score the double.

Victor Figueroa  –  900,000  (18 bb)
Jerry Robinson  –  4,125,000  (83 bb)

$3,500 WPT Poker Showdown Championship
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Level 26: 25,000/50,000 with a 50,000 ante
Players Remaining: 17 of 1,360

Brett Murray moved all in under the gun for 410,000, and Dien Le moved all in over the top from the button for 710,000.  The rest of the table folded and it was heads up.

Murray turned over , and needed to get lucky against Le’s .

The flop came giving Murray a gunshot, but the board ran out , , bricks for Murray.

Dien Le  –  1,245,000  (25 bb)
Brett Murray  –  Eliminated in 18th Place  ($29,690)

$3,500 WPT Poker Showdown Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 26: 25,000/50,000 with a 50,000 ante
Players Remaining: 18 of 1,360

Dien Le moved all in from the small blind for 330,000, and Jason Marshman called from the big blind .

Le turned over [kq] and was in good shape against Marshman’s .

The board ran out and Le’s king high held to avoid elimination.

Dien Le  –  710,000  (14 bb)
Jason Marshman  –  5,200,000  (104 bb)

$3,500 WPT Poker Showdown Championship
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Level 26: 25,000/50,000 with a 50,000 ante
Players Remaining: 18 of 1,360

With the final board reading g  two-time WPT champion Eric Afriat bet 130,000 from the small blind into a pot of around 600,000. Brett Murray thought shortly before he called from the big blind.

Afriat showed  to win the pot with a pair of aces, and Murray mucked. Murray dropped down to about eight big blinds.

Eric Afriat  –  1,885,000  (38 bb)
Brett Murray  –  390,000  (8 bb)

$3,500 WPT Poker Showdown Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 26: 25,000/50,000 with a 50,000 ante
Players Remaining: 18 of 1,360

Cards are in the air for Day 4 of the Championship with 14 players remaining. They will continue their day until on six players are still in around to play the televised final table.

$3,500 WPT Poker Showdown Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 26: 25,000/50,000 with a 50,000 ante
Players Remaining: 18 of 1,360

Day 4 of the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Championship has a simple mission. Make it down from 18 players to the last six who will sit in front of the WPT television cameras to grind it out for the trophy on May 30th.

Chad Eveslage returns with a huge lead, more than double that of second place James Carroll.

Maria Ho, Ryan D’Angelo,  Eric Afriat,  former November Niner Jerry Wong, and three-time Super Bowl Champion Richard Seymour are some of the notables still in the hunt for the trophy.

Cards go back in the air at noon and we will bring you all the action.

Table 7
Seat 1: — empty —
Seat 2: James Carroll – 5,250,000
Seat 3: Jerry Robinson – 4,400,000
Seat 4: Victor Figueroa – 550,000
Seat 5: Ami Alibay – 2,720,000
Seat 6: Dan Chalifour – 2,935,000
Seat 7: — empty —
Seat 8: Richard Seymour – 660,000

Table 13
Seat 1: — empty —
Seat 2: Chad Eveslage – 10,760,000
Seat 3: Ari Dinov – 975,000
Seat 4: Dien Le – 680,000
Seat 5: Jason Marshman – 4,700,000
Seat 6: Eric Afriat – 1,040,000
Seat 7: Brett Murray – 845,000
Seat 8: — empty —

Table 14
Seat 1: Ryan D’Angelo – 3,900,000
Seat 2: Danny Qutami – 4,085,000
Seat 3: — empty —
Seat 4: Vladimir Vasilyev – 3,185,000
Seat 5: Jerry Wong – 2,045,000
Seat 6: Taylor Black – 1,460,000
Seat 7: — empty —
Seat 8: Maria Ho – 4,175,000