Championship Day 1B: Michael Gonzalez Knocks Out a Player

$3,500 WPT Poker Showdown Championship
$2,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 7:  500/1,000 with a 1,000 ante
Day 1B Entries:  1,114

Michael Gonzalez
Michael Gonzalez

After a flop of AcQc10s, the UTG+1 player got it all in with 6c5c for a club flush draw, and he needed to improve to stay alive against the Ad10d (two pair, aces and tens) of Michael Gonzalez.

The turn card was the Kh, the river card was the 6s, and the two pair held up for Gonzalez to win the pot and eliminate his opponent.

Gonzalez is the player who lost the hand against Alcides Gomez, where Gomez assumed he had busted and left the tournament. But it’s good to know that while Gonzalez lost that pot, he’s still in the tourney, and has nearly as many chips as Gomez at this point.

Michael Gonzalez  –  100,000  (100 bb)

Registration remains open with a single re-entry per starting flight until the start of Level 9, around 9:20 pm. There were 1,048 entries on Day 1A, and the total field size is currently up to 2,161, with a prizepool worth more than $6.9 million.

Action is scheduled to continue tonight until the end of Level 10, around 11:20 pm.