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Event 64: More Bounties

Event 64: More Bounties

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$300 Quad Stack Black Chip Bounty NLHStructureLevel 1:  100/100 Next up on the schedule is Showdown Event 64 at 6 pm, featuring big stacks and $100 bounties. This is a $300 Quad Stack Black Chip Bounty No-Limit Hold’em that will keep the action moving. Players start with 40K in…
Championship: Gustavo Motta Doubles Up

Championship: Gustavo Motta Doubles Up

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$3,500 WPT Poker Showdown ChampionshipPrizepool: $4,534,400  |  Structure  |  PayoutsLevel 15:  3,000/6,000 with a 6,000 antePlayers Remaining:  216 of 1,417 Gustavo Motta With the final board showing on the river, the player in the small blind moved all in, and Gustavo Motta snap-called from middle position with for the nuts —…
Championship: Matthew Zarcadoolas Flops Top Pair Against Trace Henderson

Championship: Matthew Zarcadoolas Flops Top Pair Against Trace Henderson

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$3,500 WPT Poker Showdown ChampionshipPrizepool: $4,534,400  |  Structure  |  PayoutsLevel 15:  3,000/6,000 with a 6,000 antePlayers Remaining:  234 of 1,417 Athanasios Polychronopoulos limped from the button for 6,000, Trace Henderson completed the small blind, and Matthew Zarcadoolas raised from the button to 36,000. Polychronopoulos used two Time Chips to tank for…
Championship: Justin Fawcett Leads the Field at the Break with 1,046,000

Championship: Justin Fawcett Leads the Field at the Break with 1,046,000

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$3,500 WPT Poker Showdown ChampionshipPrizepool: $4,534,400  |  Structure  |  PayoutsLevel 15:  3,000/6,000 with a 6,000 antePlayers Remaining:  240 of 1,417 Chipleader Justin Fawcett The players return from break to begin Level 15, with increased blinds of 3,000-6,000 and a big blind ante of 6,000. A scan of the field during the…
Championship: Sebastian Toro Henao Misses a River Bet Against Joey Weissman

Championship: Sebastian Toro Henao Misses a River Bet Against Joey Weissman

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$3,500 WPT Poker Showdown ChampionshipPrizepool: $4,534,400  |  Structure  |  PayoutsLevel 14:  3,000/5,000 with a 5,000 antePlayers Remaining:  250 of 1,417 With the board showing on the turn, Sebastian Toro Henao bet 14,000 from the big blind, and Joey Weissman thought for a while before he called from the cutoff. The river…
Championship: Andrew Ostapchenko Fills Up Against a Flush

Championship: Andrew Ostapchenko Fills Up Against a Flush

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$3,500 WPT Poker Showdown ChampionshipPrizepool: $4,534,400  |  Structure  |  PayoutsLevel 14:  3,000/5,000 with a 5,000 antePlayers Remaining:  279 of 1,417 Andrew Ostapchenko With the final board showing , the big blind checked, Andrew Ostapchenko bet about 125,000 (most of his opponent’s stack), and the big blind called with for a flopped…
Event 63: Final Mixed PLO

Event 63: Final Mixed PLO

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$1,100 Deep Stack Mixed Pot-Limit OmahaStructureLevel 1:  100/100 with a 100 ante The Mixed Pot-Limit Omaha tournaments are always a popular game with our four-card friends; they get to rotate between PLO, PLO8, and Big O all day long to keep things interesting. Event 63 has a $1,100 buy-in…
Championship: David Shaw Shoves the Turn with Queens Against Frank Funaro

Championship: David Shaw Shoves the Turn with Queens Against Frank Funaro

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$3,500 WPT Poker Showdown ChampionshipPrizepool: $4,534,400  |  Structure  |  PayoutsLevel 14:  3,000/5,000 with a 5,000 antePlayers Remaining:  279 of 1,417 David Shaw A player raised from middle position to 9,000, Frank Funaro called from the button, and David Shaw reraised from the small blind to 25,000. The original raiser folded, and…
Championship: Elvyn Bello Knocks Out a Player

Championship: Elvyn Bello Knocks Out a Player

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$3,500 WPT Poker Showdown ChampionshipPrizepool: $4,534,400  |  Structure  |  PayoutsLevel 13:  2,000/4,000 with a 4,000 antePlayers Remaining:  290 of 1,417 Elvyn Bello A player was all in from the big blind for roughly 75,000 with , and needed his hand to hold to stay alive against the of Elvyn Bello in…
Championship: Stefano Spataro Doubles Thru Abel Gebeyehu

Championship: Stefano Spataro Doubles Thru Abel Gebeyehu

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$3,500 WPT Poker Showdown ChampionshipPrizepool: $4,534,400  |  Structure  |  PayoutsLevel 13:  2,000/4,000 with a 4,000 antePlayers Remaining:  306 of 1,417 Stefano Spataro was all in for 62,000 with , and needed to improve to stay alive against Abel Gebeyehu’s . The board came , and Spataro paired his ace on the…