2011 World Series of Poker

Event #55: $50,000 Poker Player's Championship
Day: 4
Event Info

2011 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
kq
Prize
$1,720,328
Event Info
Buy-in
$50,000
Prize Pool
$6,144,000
Entries
128
Level Info
Level
27
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
30,000

Level: 16

Blinds: /

Ante:

Arieh, Rast Lead to Start Day 4

Josh Arieh
Josh Arieh

Welcome to Day 4 of Event No. 55, the $50,000 Poker Player's Championship! Just 29 of the 128 who entered this event remain with chips. Yet after fighting through three tough days and fifteen 100-minute levels, no one has won anything yet, as only the top 16 finishers make the money.

It was a day of wild swings yesterday, with many players bouncing back and forth from short-stacked status to the top of the counts. Josh Arieh finished Day 3 on the biggest upswing, ending atop the counts with more than 1.8 million.

Meanwhile Brian Rast -- all in and needing to hit early in the day in a 2-7 triple draw hand -- rebounded all of the way back to end the day in second place with a little over 1.63 million. George Lind III, Vladimir Shchemelev, Phil Hellmuth, and Scott Seiver will all be returning to million-plus chip stacks as well today.

The plan today is to continue the eight-game mix format all of the way down to a final table, at which point the game will switch to no-limit hold'em only for tomorrow's Day 5. Cards go in the air at 3 p.m. Vegas time. See you back here then for start-to-finish coverage of Day 4!

Day 4 Table and Seat Draw

TableSeatPlayerChips
2841Matt Glantz259,000
2842Phil Galfond47,000
2843Barry Greenstein440,000
2844David Baker277,000
2845--empty----
2846Phil Hellmuth1,174,000
2847Michael Binger274,000
2848Josh Arieh1,819,000
    
2861Scott Seiver1,137,000
2862Jon Turner948,000
2863Brian Rast1,633,000
2864Doug Booth158.000
2865Yan Chen887,000
2866Shaun Deeb876,000
2867Owais Ahmed156,000
2868Alexandre Luneau251,000
    
2961Jeffrey Lisandro330000
2962George Lind1,304,000
2963Gus Hansen774,000
2964--empty----
2965Robert Mizrachi500,000
2966Marco Johnson570,000
2967David Oppenheim159,000
2968Minh Ly715,000
    
2981Sebastien Sabic550,000
2982Ben Lamb582,000
2983Jason Lester948,000
2984Rami Boukai208,000
2985Sebastian Ruthenberg625,000
2986--empty----
2987Roman Yitzhaki429,000
2988Vladimir Shchemelev1,181,000

Event #55: $50,000 Poker Player's Championship

Day 4 Started