Event #55: The $50,000 Poker Players' Championship
Day 2 Started
Event #55: The $50,000 Poker Players' Championship
Day 2 Started
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Jonathan Duhamel | 401,300 | |
Jared Bleznick |
343,100
47,100
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47,100 |
Jason Mercier | 340,600 | |
Justin Smith | 336,600 | |
Brian Rast | 319,900 | |
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George Lind | 294,200 | |
Calvin Anderson | 290,500 | |
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Michael Mizrachi |
274,600
138,600
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138,600 |
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Greg Mueller | 261,300 | |
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Mike Leah | 248,000 | |
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Paul Volpe |
245,500
71,500
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71,500 |
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John D'Agostino |
245,400
15,400
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15,400 |
Michael Glick |
235,200
200
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200 |
Doyle Brunson | 232,000 | |
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Tom Koral |
231,000
-100
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-100 |
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Barry Greenstein |
227,600
6,600
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6,600 |
Tommy Hang |
225,000
-15,000
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-15,000 |
Mike Gorodinsky |
218,200
100,200
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100,200 |
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Robert Mizrachi | 211,900 | |
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Bertrand Grospellier |
209,000
47,000
|
47,000 |
Andrey Zaichenko | 208,200 | |
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Brian Tate |
206,400
206,400
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206,400 |
Artem Litvinov |
206,300
54,300
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54,300 |
Phil Hellmuth | 206,300 | |
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Cole South |
199,000
47,000
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47,000 |
Late registration is open until the start of Day 2, so there may be a few more filling seats to start play today.
Table | Seat | Player | Chips |
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347 | 1 | Jeff Lisandro | 183,700 |
347 | 2 | Calvin Anderson | 290,500 |
347 | 3 | Phil Hellmuth | 206,300 |
347 | 4 | Michael Glick | 235,200 |
347 | 5 | Ray Dehkarghani | 112,700 |
347 | 6 | Kevin Song | 182,300 |
347 | 7 | empty | |
347 | 8 | Bertrand Grospellier | 209,000 |
348 | 1 | Ben Yu | 182,200 |
348 | 2 | Sebastian Ruthenberg | 164,200 |
348 | 3 | Minh Ly | 112,800 |
348 | 4 | Daniel Negreanu | 127,900 |
348 | 5 | Eric Wasserson | 75,000 |
348 | 6 | empty | |
348 | 7 | Ram Vaswani | 93,900 |
348 | 8 | empty | |
349 | 1 | Dan Kelly | 116,700 |
349 | 2 | Todd Brunson | 86,600 |
349 | 3 | Robert Mizrachi | 211,900 |
349 | 4 | Bill Chen | 92,300 |
349 | 5 | Tom Schneider | 172,200 |
349 | 6 | Barry Greenstein | 227,600 |
349 | 7 | Harry Thomas | 150,000 |
349 | 8 | Matt Woodward | 166,500 |
350 | 1 | Nick Schulman | 178,600 |
350 | 2 | Andrew Brown | 136,000 |
350 | 3 | Tom Koral | 231,000 |
350 | 4 | Bryce Yockey | 117,200 |
350 | 5 | Tom McCormick | 157,000 |
350 | 6 | Owais Ahmed | 110,000 |
350 | 7 | Shawn Buchanan | 106,800 |
350 | 8 | Richard Ashby | 185,000 |
351 | 1 | empty | |
351 | 2 | Lamar Wilkinson | 118,400 |
351 | 3 | Mike Sexton | 44,000 |
351 | 4 | David Chiu | 174,300 |
351 | 5 | Allen Bari | 136,900 |
351 | 6 | George Lind | 294,200 |
351 | 7 | Joe Cassidy | 198,400 |
351 | 8 | Mike Leah | 248,000 |
352 | 1 | David "ODB" Baker | 4,000 |
352 | 2 | David "Bakes" Baker | 76,000 |
352 | 3 | empty | |
352 | 4 | Doyle Brunson | 232,000 |
352 | 5 | Phil Ivey | 31,800 |
352 | 6 | Brian Rast | 319,900 |
352 | 7 | Dee Tiller | 167,000 |
352 | 8 | Daniel Alaei | 160,000 |
353 | 1 | Andy Bloch | 170,500 |
353 | 2 | Artem Litvinov | 206,300 |
353 | 3 | Abe Mosseri | 51,900 |
353 | 4 | empty | |
353 | 5 | Jonathan Duhamel | 401,300 |
353 | 6 | Ismael Bojang | 142,700 |
353 | 7 | Scott Seiver | 119,400 |
353 | 8 | Talal Shakerchi | 129,700 |
354 | 1 | Scott Bohlman | 170,000 |
354 | 2 | Greg Mueller | 261,300 |
354 | 3 | Brian Tate | 206,400 |
354 | 4 | Joe Hachem | 140,600 |
354 | 5 | Ville Wahlbeck | 103,200 |
354 | 6 | Jared Bleznick | 343,100 |
354 | 7 | empty | |
354 | 8 | Ali Eslami | 179,200 |
355 | 1 | Andrey Zaichenko | 208,200 |
355 | 2 | empty | |
355 | 3 | Jennifer Harman | 141,500 |
355 | 4 | Paul Volpe | 245,500 |
355 | 5 | Nacho Barbero | 143,800 |
355 | 6 | Matthew Ashton | 148,400 |
355 | 7 | Allen Kessler | 143,700 |
355 | 8 | Ofir Mor | 193,500 |
356 | 1 | Cory Zeidman | 101,800 |
356 | 2 | Daniel Harmetz | 121,000 |
356 | 3 | Keith Gipson | 197,500 |
356 | 4 | Cole South | 199,000 |
356 | 5 | empty | |
356 | 6 | Rory Mathews | 160,000 |
356 | 7 | Randy Ohel | 62,800 |
356 | 8 | Max Pescatori | 134,100 |
357 | 1 | Adam Friedman | 181,500 |
357 | 2 | Alexey Marakov | 133,200 |
357 | 3 | Scott Clements | 80,000 |
357 | 4 | Brian Hastings | 113,300 |
357 | 5 | John Racener | 90,200 |
357 | 6 | empty | |
357 | 7 | Mike Matusow | 176,100 |
357 | 8 | Mike Wattel | 185,700 |
359 | 1 | Alexander Kostritsyn | 46,000 |
359 | 2 | Tam Hang | 225,000 |
359 | 3 | empty | |
359 | 4 | John Monnette | 101,700 |
359 | 5 | Erick Lindgren | 176,000 |
359 | 6 | Jason Lester | 130,400 |
359 | 7 | David Oppenheim | 122,700 |
359 | 8 | Brandon Cantu | 111,500 |
360 | 1 | Justin Bonomo | 135,200 |
360 | 2 | Cary Katz | 39,600 |
360 | 3 | Konstantin Puchkov | 99,700 |
360 | 4 | John D'Agostino | 245,400 |
360 | 5 | Eugene Katchalov | 116,400 |
360 | 6 | Gary Benson | 151,600 |
360 | 7 | empty | |
360 | 8 | Jesse Martin | 151,500 |
361 | 1 | Mike Gorodinsky | 218,200 |
361 | 2 | Yuval Bronshtein | 133,300 |
361 | 3 | empty | |
361 | 4 | David Singer | 170,000 |
361 | 5 | Jeremy Ausmus | 75,400 |
361 | 6 | David Bach | 198,800 |
361 | 7 | Luke Schwartz | 194,000 |
361 | 8 | John Juanda | 139,700 |
362 | 1 | Bryn Kenney | 167,000 |
362 | 2 | Huck Seed | 142,400 |
362 | 3 | Sergii Baranov | 151,200 |
362 | 4 | empty | |
362 | 5 | Marco Johnson | 28,100 |
362 | 6 | Chris Klodnicki | 103,500 |
362 | 7 | Jon Turner | 126,900 |
362 | 8 | David Benyamine | 172,900 |
363 | 1 | Justin Smith | 336,600 |
363 | 2 | Troy Burkholder | DNR |
363 | 3 | empty | |
363 | 4 | Jason Mercier | 340,600 |
363 | 5 | John Hennigan | 139,100 |
363 | 6 | Roman Yitzhaki | 126,000 |
363 | 7 | Michael Mizrachi | 274,600 |
363 | 8 | George Danzer | 177,700 |
Welcome to the second day of Event #55: The $50,000 Poker Players' Championship, the event that always brings out poker's elite to compete for one of the most coveted bracelets on the WSOP schedule.
Nearly all of the 123 players who entered the event yesterday made it through the first five 100-minute levels to return today, although some in much better shape than others. Jonathan Duhamel returns as the only player with more than 400,000 chips to begin Day 2, a large chunk of that earned in a pot-limit Omaha hand at the expense of Vanessa Selbst yesterday who ultimately became one of the few first-day casualties along with Ralph Perry, Matt Glantz, Johnny Chan, David Williams, and Josh Arieh.
Jared Bleznick, Jason Mercier, Justin Smith, and 2011 Poker Players' Championship winner Brian Rast are also returning to stacks of more than 300,000, with those four joining Duhamel as the only players to have more than doubled their starting stacks of 150k yesterday.
Meanwhile the shortest stacks to begin Day 2 belong to Alexander Kostritsyn, Mike Sexton, Cary Katz, Phil Ivey, Marco Johnson, and David "ODB" Baker, all of whom will return to less than 50,000.
Baker fell all of the way down to just 4,000 chips before play concluded last night, which will represent exactly one big bet in the limit games to start play today. But he returns with the same hopes of all the other survivors to make the most of what he has left.
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Play resumes at 2 p.m. PDT, with the plan once again being for players to play five more 100-minute levels. Late registration extends to the beginning play today as well, meaning we will likely see a few more additions to the field before the first hands of the day are dealt.
Come back to PokerNews then for continuing coverage of Event 55: The $50,000 Poker Players' Championship. Meanwhile, here's Kristy Arnett with Steve Sung, who last night won another tournament with an especially tough field, Event 52: $25,000 No-Limit Hold'em (Six-Handed).
Level: 6
Triple Draw 2-7 - Limit Hold'em - Omaha-8 - blinds 1,000-2,000; limits 2,000-4,000
Razz - Stud - Stud-8 - ante 500; bring-in 500; complete 2,000; limits 2,000-4,000
No-Limit Hold'em - Pot-Limit Omaha - ante (NLHE only) 300; blinds 500-1,000
Play has begun for Day 2 of Event #55: The $50,000 Poker Players' Championship. Tables will begin with razz.
Razz
The first hand on Table 352 saw significant four-way action between Brian Rast, David "Bakes" Baker, Phil Ivey, and Dee Tiller.
The betting was capped on third, Rast led on fourth and all called, then Tiller started leading on fifth and sixth with Baker dropping out on fifth. Seventh street saw the remaining players all check.
"Bakes": / — FOLDED
Ivey: / /
Rast: / /
Tiller: / /
"A nine," cried Tiller at showdown, turning over for a 9-6-4-2-A and the others mucked, with Ivey telling Baker he'd started "1-2-3" (i.e., ).
Tiller increases his stack by more than 50% on that one while Ivey is now in the danger zone.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Dee Tiller |
255,000
88,000
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88,000 |
Phil Ivey |
10,000
-21,800
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-21,800 |
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Razz
On the second hand of the day, Phil Ivey completed, Brian Rast raised, and it folded to David "ODB" Baker who checked his cards. Ivey began the hand with about 10,000, while Baker was down to about 3,000. Finally, Baker decided to call all in.
Ivey then had to think a moment, and when he looked up and saw Baker all in, he cracked a smile. "You have less than I do," he said, and the table chuckled.
With Rast's help, Ivey ended up getting the last of his chips on third as well. They tabled their hole cards and the hand was dealt through sixth:
"ODB": /
Ivey: /
Rast: /
Seventh street was dealt. Ivey pulled the last to make a seven, Rast caught a to make an eight, and "ODB" mucked his last card, his Event #55 run having ended.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Brian Rast |
235,000
-51,000
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-51,000 |
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Phil Ivey |
24,000
14,000
|
14,000 |
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David "ODB" Baker | Busted | |
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Registration was open up to the start of Day 2, and a number of well-known pros took advantage.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Alex Kravchenko | 150,000 | |
Gus Hansen |
150,000
150,000
|
150,000 |
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Jean Gaspard |
150,000
150,000
|
150,000 |
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Phil Galfond |
150,000
150,000
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150,000 |
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Shaun Deeb |
150,000
150,000
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150,000 |
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Pot-Limit Omaha
We happened upon Table 352 with 25,000 or so in the pot and a board reading . Brian Rast, who win this event back in 2011 for $1,720,328, checked from early position and Daniel Alaei, who was in the hijack, bet 19,000.
Rast proceeded to check-raise the size of the pot, which made it 83,500 total. Alaei hit the tank and spent several minutes in it until Dee Tiller opted to call a clock. A short time later Alaei relinquished his hand and Rast was pushed the pot.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Brian Rast |
300,000
65,000
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65,000 |
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Daniel Alaei |
150,000
-35,000
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-35,000 |
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