Yes. He's here. We don't even have to introduce him, but for the record, Phil Ivey just sat down. He's probably the last player to sit down in this event as registration closed about 30 minutes ago.
Ivey is playing against, among others, David Chiu, Leo Margets and Derek Raymond and their day just got a whole lot tougher.
Over in the Amazon Orange section we just spotted a very interesting looking table. We recognized all but one player, and he'll be in for a treat since some of these really like to talk. Gavin Smith is sipping on a drink while Marsha Waggoner is very talkative. It sure is fun to play some split pot games!
We just overheard Daniel Negreanu and David Williams talk a bit about the $50,000 Players Championship that will start this Sunday. Negreanu said that he thought the event was gonna get 93 players, a drop of 35 compared to last year. This is what the $50,000 Players Championship has looked like over the years.
Year
Entrants
Winner
First Prize
2006
143
David 'Chip' Reese
$1,784,640
2007
148
Freddy Deeb
$2,276,832
2008
148
Scotty Nguyen
$1,989,120
2009
95
David Bach
$1,276,806
2010
116
Michael Mizrachi
$1,559,046
2011
128
Brian Rast
$1,720,328
2012
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We will have to wait and see what the event will have in story for us, but PokerNews will be there with five days of live coverage on the most prestigious event of the World Series of Poker.