$3,500 WPT Poker Showdown Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 6:  400/800 with a 800 ante
Day 1A Entries:  832

With the final board showing on the river and about 27K already in the pot, T.K. Miles checked from the small blind, and Jesse Sylvia moved all in from the hijack for 45,000.

Miles tanked for a while before he called all in for 31,400. Sylvia showed , but Miles turned over to win the pot with a pair of kings and double up in chips.

T.K. Miles  –  90,000  (113 bb)
Jesse Sylvia  –  13,600  (17 bb)

The tournament clock shows 832 entries as play resumes, and the prizepool is already up over $2.66 million on its way to the $3 million guarantee.

Registration remains open with unlimited re-entries until the start of Level 9 (around 9:15 pm).

$3,500 WPT Poker Showdown Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 6:  400/800 with a 800 ante
Day 1A Entries:  800

Melanie Weisner raised from the small blind to 3,000, and Anthony Astarita called from the big blind.

The flop came , Weisner bet 3,500, and Astarita thought for a while before raising to 11,500. Weisner paused for a few moments before she moved all in for 40,600.

Astarita quickly called all in for 31,300 with for a gutshot straight draw with a spade flush draw. Weisner turned over for an open-ended straight draw, and Astarita actually had the high hand with nine high.

The turn card paired the board with the , the river card was the , and Astarita won the pot with his nine high to double up in chips.

Anthony Astarita  –  69,400  (87 bb)
Melanie Weisner  –  9,300  (12 bb)

The tournament clock shows 800 entries as play resumes, and the prizepool is already up over $2.56 million on its way to the $3 million guarantee.

Registration remains open with unlimited re-entries until the start of Level 9 (around 9:15 pm).

$3,500 WPT Poker Showdown Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 5:  300/600 with a 600 ante
Day 1A Entries:  784

The player in the small blind got it all in with a short stack and turned over , but needed to improve to stay alive against the of Andres Jeckeln in the big blind.

The board came , and Jeckeln won the pot with a pair of aces and his nine kicker to eliminate his opponent.

Andres Jeckeln  –  58,500  (98 bb)

The tournament clock shows 784 entries as play resumes, and the prizepool is already up over $2.5 million on its way to the $3 million guarantee.

Registration remains open with unlimited re-entries until the start of Level 9 (around 9:15 pm).

$3,500 WPT Poker Showdown Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 5:  300/600 with a 600 ante
Day 1A Entries:  762

Alvaro Puchol got it all in from the big blind for 18,200 with , and needed his hand to hold to stay alive against the of A.J. Kelsall in the hijack.

The board came , and the kings held up for Puchol to win the pot and double up in chips.

Alvaro Puchol  –  37,300  (62 bb)
A.J. Kelsall  –  80,000  (133 bb)

The tournament clock shows 762 entries as play resumes, and the prizepool is already up over $2.43 million on its way to the $3 million guarantee.

Registration remains open with unlimited re-entries until the start of Level 9 (around 9:15 pm).

$3,500 WPT Poker Showdown Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 5:  300/600 with a 600 ante
Day 1A Entries:  752

The players returned from break to begin Level 5, with increased blinds of 300-600 and a 600 ante.

A scan of the field during the break turned up four players with at least 200K in chips, creating an unofficial leaderboard:

1.  Joey Gargiulo  –  248,000  (413 bb)
2.  Brek Schutten  –  214,600  (358 bb)
3.  Jesse Lonis  –  209,900  (350 bb)
4.  Yung Lin  –  206,700  (345 bb)

Brek Schutten is the defending champion in this event. Last year he outlasted a Seminole Hard Rock record-setting field of 2,482 entries to win more than $1.26 million.

The tournament clock shows 752 entries as play resumes, and the prizepool is already up over $2.4 million on its way to the $3 million guarantee.

Registration remains open with unlimited re-entries until the start of Level 9 (around 9:15 pm).

$3,500 WPT Poker Showdown Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 4:  300/500 with a 500 ante
Day 1A Entries:  720

The player in the big blind was all in preflop against Kyle Cartwright (UTG) and Mark Davis (middle position). Any further betting would create a side pot between Cartwright and Davis.

The flop came , Cartwright bet 6,500, and Davis called.

The turn card was the , and both players checked.

The river card was the , and they checked again. All three players showed their cards:

Mark Davis:    (pair of queens)
Kyle Cartwright:    (pair of tens)
Big Blind:    (ace high)

Davis won the entire pot with his pair of queens to eliminate the player in the big blind.

Mark Davis  –  180,000  (360 bb)
Kyle Cartwright  –  47,000  (94 bb)

The tournament clock shows 720 entries as play resumes, and the prizepool is already up over $2.30 million on its way to the $3 million guarantee.

Registration remains open with unlimited re-entries until the start of Level 9 (around 9:15 pm).

$3,500 WPT Poker Showdown Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 4:  300/500 with a 500 ante
Day 1A Entries:  701

After a flop of , the player in the small blind checked, Alex Borukhovich bet 12,000, and the small blind called.

The turn card was the , and both players checked.

The river card was the , the small blind bet 20,000, Borukhovich moved all in for a little more than 50,000, and the small blind called with for a seven-high flush.

But Borukhovich turned over to win the pot with an ace-high flush and double up in chips.

Alex Borukhovich  –  140,000  (280 bb)

The next hand, Borukhovich ended up playing another sizable pot against two opponents on a board of .

Borukhovich bet 13,000 on the river, one opponent called, and the other folded. Borukhovich showed for a seven-high straight to win the pot, and his opponent mucked.

Alex Borukhovich  –  170,000  (340 bb)

The tournament clock shows 701 entries as play resumes, and the prizepool is already up over $2.24 million on its way to the $3 million guarantee.

Registration remains open with unlimited re-entries until the start of Level 9 (around 9:15 pm).

$3,500 WPT Poker Showdown Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 3:  200/400 with a 400 ante
Day 1A Entries:  651

We have a lot of travelers in town for the Championship including a big contingent from our friends in the Seminole Hard Rock Tampa Poker Room.

So far we found Tony March, Mario De La Puente, Karl Manouchakian, and former WPTDeepStacks Tampa Main Event champ Anthony Astarita.

Astarita, along with Jason Klapman and Harrison Brown, is playing in today’s flight courtesy of a WPT Poker Showdown Championship they ran for their players in the Poker Room.

$3,500 WPT Poker Showdown Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 3:  200/400 with a 400 ante
Day 1A Entries:  632

A player raised UTG+1 to 900, Mark Davis reraised from middle position to 2,700, and Shawn Lucas called from the hijack. The UTG+1 player reraised to 8,000, and Davis five-bet all in for roughly 70,000.

Lucas called all in for 23,800, and the UTG+1 player called all in for about 30,000.

Mark Davis:  
UTG+1 Player:  
Shawn Lucas:  

The board came , and Davis caught a runner-runner club flush to win the entire pot, eliminate both players, and catapult up the leaderboard.

Mark Davis  –  139,000  (348 bb)
Shawn Lucas  –  Eliminated

The tournament clock shows 632 entries as play resumes, and the prizepool is already up over $2.02 million on its way to the $3 million guarantee.

Registration remains open with unlimited re-entries until the start of Level 9 (around 9:15 pm).

$3,500 WPT Poker Showdown Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 3:  200/400 with a 400 ante
Day 1A Entries:  590

A scan of the field during the break turned up just two players with at least 130K in chips:

1.  Jesse Lonis  –  139,000  (348 bb)
2.  Uri Kadosh  –  136,200  (341 bb)

The tournament clock shows 590 entries as play resumes, and the prizepool is already up over $1.88 million.

Registration remains open with unlimited re-entries until the start of Level 9 (around 9:15 pm).