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This February ClubWPT™ is giving you not one, but TWO (2) chances to win your way into the 2020 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Main Event, running May 1–5, 2020 at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida (between Miami and Fort Lauderdale).

This televised WPT® Main Tour event has over the years become one of the more popular tournaments on the WPT® schedule. In addition to fun in the springtime Florida sun, you can bet this tournament will be packed with all the fun, exciting high stakes action you’ve come to expect from the World Poker Tour®.

WPT® Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Package Tournament Dates & Start Times:

• Sunday, February 16, 2020 at 4:00 PM ET**
• Sunday, February 23, 2020 at 4:00 PM ET**

1. Seminole Casino Coconut Creek Coconut Creek, Florida $100 Buy-in (Re-Entry) $5,000 Guaranteed Entries: 70 Prize Pool: $5,460 Sunday, November 22, 2020.
2. World Series of Poker will run the 2020 WSOP Circuit Tournament at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tampa from 6 to 17 February. The tournament features over 15 events with events to look out for being the No Limit Hold’em Double Stack with a guaranteed $500,000, NLH Monster Stack with a guaranteed $200,000 and the Main Event with a guaranteed $1,000,000 in prize pool money.
3. November Deep Stack Special Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood, Florida $360 No-Limit Hold’em (Single Re-Entry) Entries: 284 Prize Pool: $85,200.

Prize Details:

The winner of the WPT® Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Package tournament will receive a VIP package to the 2020 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Main Event running Friday, May 1, to Tuesday, May 5, 2020 at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida.

The total value of each package will be $6,000 and includes:

• $3,500 WPT® Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Event Seat.
• $2,500 in spending money (hotel & travel).
• ClubWPT Swag.

In addition, $500 in cash prizes will be awarded among the remaining final table finishers, from 2nd to 9th place. See 'Payouts' in the game lobby for individual award amounts.

NOTE: THIS PRIZE IS NON-TRANSFERRABLE AND CAN ONLY BE USED FOR THE SEASON XVIII WPT® SEMINOLE HARD ROCK POKER SHOWDOWN EVENT.

ClubWPT $1,000,000 Bonus Eligible

BONUS TIME: Now we're sweetening the pot with ONE MILLION more reasons to be a ClubWPT VIP member and play in the WPT® Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Main Event seat VIP package qualifier.

That's right! Throughout 2020, any ClubWPT VIP member who qualifies for a World Poker Tour® Main Tour Event on ClubWPT and then goes on to win the live WPT® Main Tour event, will win the ClubWPT $1,000,000 Bonus.

WPT® Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Package Online Satellite Schedule:

• All times are Eastern Time (ET).
• *Satellites open to eligible ClubWPT VIP members in good standing only.
• **Dates and times of ClubWPT online tournaments are subject to change without further notice. Please check the poker lobby for the most up-to-date information.

Table Of Contents

It was a stacked final table in the WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown held at the Luxor HyperX Esports Arena in Las Vegas on Thursday, May 30 with WPT Champions Club member James Carroll and Maria Ho coming in as the frontrunners, the only two players to start with over 100 big blinds.

Ho with over $3 million in live earnings was still looking for her first major title while Carroll already had a WPT title from winning the 2014 $7,500 Bay 101 Shooting Star for seven figures. Ho's bid for her first major career title would end in a third-place finish, while in the end, it would be the only two former WPT champs left to battle for another title in the $3,500 World Poker Tour Showdown Championship.

$3,500 World Poker Tour Showdown Championship Final Table Results

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*_{Includes entry to $15,000 Baccarat Crystal WPT Tournament of Champions}

WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Final Table Action

One of the shorter stacks to start the day was former November Niner Jerry Wong, who found a lucky queen on the river to double early through Carroll with ace-queen versus ace-king., according to the WPT live updates.

Another short stack to start the day, two-time WPT champ Eric Afriat had to find some doubles in the early levels of play to avoid being the first player eliminated. He did so first when his ace-jack suited bested Ho's king-queen and after losing a flip to double up Chad Eveslage, Afriat was at risk again. This time he was behind, but he found an ace on the river with ace-queen to pull ahead of Carroll's pocket kings and stay alive.

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'The first one felt good, but I’ve been through some super tough times for the past five years, so this feels good.”

The well-known Circuit grinder Eveslage rode the short stack for nearly 70 hands before losing a flip to Ho to hit the rail in sixth place for his largest career score at $148,380. Soon after, the only non-American finalist, Canada's Ami Alibay got his last 11 big blinds in with pocket nines and was at risk against Wong's pocket eights after Afriat folded jacks. The board ran out with four hearts though to give Wong a flush and end Alibay's tournament run in fifth.

Four-handed, the short stacks fought for their lives, Wong first doubling through Ho, who then doubled through Carroll both in blind versus blind confrontations. As Carroll's stack continued to swell as he applied pressure on his opponents, Wong slipped to eight big blinds and got them in flipping with ace-nine against Afriat's pocket fours, which held up.

The Hunt for the Title

The three-handed battle commenced with Ho trailing, but she found a double through Afriat by winning a big flip with pocket tens versus ace-queen. They couldn't shake Afriat, who found a call for his tournament life against Carroll's triple-barrel queen-high bluff with second pair to soar back into contention and close the gap for the chip lead.

As Afriat chipped up further, Ho treaded water and got her last 16 big blinds in with ace-five. Carroll looked her up with king-queen and made two pair on the turn to take down Ho's flopped pair of aces. She adds $344,960 to the $277k she earned in March for taking down the $25k LAPC High Roller. Ho now has over $3.7 million in earnings and more shots at a major title right around the corner with the WSOP freshly kicked off.

Afriat started the heads-up battle with a two-to-one chip lead over Carroll and the match went back and forth, with both players taking the lead multiple times. The third time Carroll took the lead from Afriat would be the last as he would close it out, winning a flip in the final hand by flopping trip kings with king-eight against Afriat's pocket sixes.

After just missing out on the televised WPT LAPC Main Event final table in March with a seventh-place finish, Carroll got to more than make up for it in this one. Compared to his first WPT victory which brought an even bigger payday, Carroll told WPT reporters: “This one is actually somewhat sweeter. The first one felt good, but I’ve been through some super tough times for the past five years, so this feels good.”

Carroll's win put him third in the WPT POY race and he'll have the chance to carry his momentum into the $15,000 WPT Tournament of Champions that kicks off Saturday, June 1, entry for which was included in his prize money.

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