Event #55: The $50,000 Poker Players' Championship Day 1 | 2013 World Series of Poker

07-01-2013 02:32 UTC-7

Player	Chips	Progress
Brian Rast	275,000 -27,000	-27,000

Greg Mueller	258,000 40,000	40,000

Michael Glick	242,000 21,000	21,000
David Bach	164,000 -39,600	-39,600

Jeff Lisandro	160,000 -20,000	-20,000

Michael Mizrachi	136,000 -114,000	-114,000

Justin Bonomo	128,000 -27,000	-27,000

Daniel Negreanu	128,000 24,000	24,000

Erick Lindgren	120,000 10,000	10,000

Konstantin Puchkov	118,000 7,000	7,000

Dan Kelly	84,000 -36,000	-36,000
Jeremy Ausmus	80,000 -50,000	-50,000

Ville Wahlbeck	75,000 -40,000	-40,000

Ray Dehkharghani	75,000

Ismael Bojang	70,000 -22,000	-22,000

Player	Chips	Progress
John D'Agostino	230,000 3,000	3,000
Phil Hellmuth	195,000 -15,000	-15,000

Ben Yu	185,000 66,000	66,000

Richard Ashby	170,000 -4,000	-4,000

John Hennigan	163,000 -65,000	-65,000

Huck Seed	145,000 -15,000	-15,000

Jason Lester	138,000 -12,000	-12,000

Tom McCormick	130,000 18,000	18,000
Chris Klodnicki	115,000 -12,000	-12,000

Todd Brunson	82,000 -56,000	-56,000

Sergii Baranov	60,000 -13,000	-13,000

Player	Chips	Progress
Doyle Brunson	255,000 35,000	35,000

George Lind	245,000 119,000	119,000

Barry Greenstein	221,000 -28,000	-28,000

Justin Smith	218,000 -102,000	-102,000
Mike Wattel	170,000 52,000	52,000

Dee Tiller	162,000 2,000	2,000
Joe Hachem	156,000 42,000	42,000

Yuval Bronshtein	156,000 -59,000	-59,000

Cole South	152,000 -42,000	-42,000
Daniel Alaei	150,000 -15,000	-15,000

Owais Ahmed	145,000 -5,000	-5,000

Tom Schneider	140,000 26,000	26,000

Scott Bohlman	140,000 12,000	12,000

Allen Kessler	130,000 -30,000	-30,000
Scott Clements	95,000 7,000	7,000

Mike Sexton	88,000 -17,000	-17,000

David "Bakes" Baker	80,000 -22,000	-22,000

Abe Mosseri	61,000 -39,000	-39,000

Alexander Kostritsyn	28,000 -52,000	-52,000

Three More Hands

Josh_Cahlik

Level 5

Tournament staff has announced just three more hands before bagging and tagging for the night.

07-01-2013 03:03 UTC-7

Various End-of-Day Chip Counts

donpeters

Level 5

Player	Chips	Progress
Jonathan Duhamel	401,300 11,300	11,300

Jason Mercier	340,600 -9,400	-9,400

Justin Smith	336,600 118,600	118,600
Brian Rast	319,900

George Lind	294,200 49,200	49,200

Calvin Anderson	290,500 -33,500	-33,500

Greg Mueller	261,300 3,300	3,300

Mike Leah	248,000 -12,000	-12,000

Michael Glick	235,000 -7,000	-7,000
Doyle Brunson	232,000 -23,000	-23,000

Tom Koral	231,100 -900	-900

Robert Mizrachi	211,900 65,900	65,900

Andrey Zaichenko	208,200 3,200	3,200

Phil Hellmuth	206,300 11,300	11,300

David Bach	198,800 34,800	34,800

Joe Cassidy	198,400 400	400

George Danzer	177,700 -26,300	-26,300

Erick Lindgren	176,000 56,000	56,000

David Chiu	174,300 4,300	4,300

Dee Tiller	167,000 5,000	5,000
Daniel Alaei	160,000 10,000	10,000

Harry Thomas Jr.	150,000
Nacho Barbero	143,800 28,800	28,800

Allen Kessler	143,700 13,700	13,700
Allen Bari	136,900 18,900	18,900

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07-01-2013 03:15 UTC-7

Duhamel Leads Day 1 of The $50,000 Poker Players' Championship

Josh_Cahlik

Level 5

The first five levels of one of the most prestigious events offered at the World Series of Poker are officially in the books. This was the eighth time this event has been offered on the WSOP schedule and it remains a very vocal favorite of the top professional players who participate. With this unique tournament, players are offered the chance to participate in an eight-game mix with very deep stacks in order to get maximum play. After bagging and tagging at the end of the evening, it was none other than 2010 WSOP Main Event champion Jonathan Duhamel to emerge as the biggest stack in the room with 401,300 from the 150,000 starting stack.

Duhamel began his path to the big stack fairly early on in the day when he clashed with Vanessa Selbst in a pot-limit Omaha hand. Both players turned a straight and after getting all of the chips in Selbst quickly found out that Duhamel's was higher. She missed her re-draw outs and Duhamel ended up finishing the hand with a winning full house. This hand crippled Selbst and saw Duhamel vault into one of the top chip positions, which was a status that he never relented as the day progressed. Selbst, on the other hand, was not as fortunate and found herself without chips before the day concluded.

Bagging up the second biggest stack was Jared Bleznick, with two-time WSOP bracelet winner Jason Mercier sitting in third position to end the day. Pot-limit Omaha was also kind to Mercier fairly early on in the day, as a confrontation with Ralph Perry allowed Mercier to gain a very powerful double. The two got it all in after Mercier had flopped top two pair and he was able to hold against Perry's pocket aces. Perry busted soon after but Mercier thrived and finished the day with 340,600.

Last year the first day of play saw just one elimination but this year was a different story. Joining Selbst and Perry on the rail were 10-time WSOP champion Johnny Chan who fell at the hands of Barry Greenstein and Matt Glantz who was eliminated by Calvin Anderson.

Other big stacks returning for Day 2 include Justin Smith (336,600), Brian Rast (319,900), George Lind (294,400), Anderson (290,500), Greg Mueller (261,500), and Mike Leah (248,000). A small sample size of other notable players include Doyle Brunson (232,000) who is playing his first WSOP event of the year, Phil Hellmuth (206,300), Joe Cassidy (198,400) David Bach (198,800), Erick Lindgren (176,000), Daniel Negreanu (127,900), and Scott Seiver (119,400).

Play resumes on Monday at 2:00 p.m. PDT. Be sure to check back here on PokerNews for all of the latest updates from the tournament floor. Until tomorrow!

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Event #55: The $50,000 Poker Players' Championship

Day 1 Completed