David "ODB" Baker drew a tough table here in the $50,000 Poker Players' Championship. He talks about it on the first break of the day as well as selling action to such a big buy-in tournament.
One of the lesser-known players getting into the action in this event is Melissa Burr, but just because Burr may be a relatively unknown face to the common poker fan, it doesn't mean she lacks knowledge of these games or skill the can compete with the best of the best.
In fact, Burr has already showed great prowess here at the 2014 World Series of Poker in mixed games by earning the two largest tournament scores of her poker career. First, Burr took eighth in Event #10: $10,000 Limit Omaha Hi-Low Championship for $51,768. She followed that up with a fifth-place finish in Event #30: $1,500 Seven-Card Stud Hi-Low for $39,181. In addition, Burr took ninth in Event #41: $1,500 Six-Handed Dealer's Choice for $9,944.
No stranger to mixed games, Burr recently sat down with PokerNews' Marty Derbyshire to discuss her poker career, how she came about playing mixed games, and emerging as a force at the 2014 WSOP. You can read the feature article by clicking here.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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150,000 | |
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150,000 | |
|
150,000 | |
|
150,000 | |
|
150,000 | 150,000 |
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150,000 | 150,000 |
|
150,000 | 150,000 |
|
150,000 | 150,000 |
|
150,000 | 150,000 |
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150,000 |
Level: 2
Triple Draw 2-7 Hold’em - Omaha/8B - 400 800 800-1,600
Razz – Stud - Stud/8B 200 200 800 800-1,600
No-Limit Hold’em – PLO (No Ante) 100 200 400
That's one level in the books! Players are now on their first 15-minute break of the evening.
2-7 Triple Draw
Shaun Deeb and Brian Hastings each drew two on the first draw, while Eli Elezra drew one. Elezra bet and got two calls, and Deeb drew one, while Hastings drew two again and Elezra stood pat. Elezra once again bet and saw both opponents call, and draws went one, one, pat.
Everyone checked the last round, and Deeb announced a king. Elezra spread 
for a nine-low to take the pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
186,000 | 28,000 |
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129,200 | -20,800 |
2-7 Triple Draw
Elior Sion raised, Mike Leah reraised in position and Steve Billirakis called from the small blind. Sion called as well and on the first draw Billirakis took three cards while both Sion and Leah needed just one replacement card.
Billirakis checked to Sion, Leah raised and Billirakis folded right away. On the second draw the action was heads up as Sion called, and both players stood pat. Sion check-called a bet and on the third and final draw both players patted again. Sion checked to Leah who bet, Sion raised and Leah smiled as he put in the call.
Sion tabled 
but that was no good against Leah's 
.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
180,000 | 30,000 |
|
156,000 | -23,000 |
Before play started today, we asked Abe Mosseri, Daniel Negreanu, Matt Glantz, Brock Parker, Jonathan Duhamel, Mike Leah, and Phil Galfond what event they're looking forward to more all year; the $50,000 Poker Players' Championship, or the Main Event.
Here is a list of all the players who have ever cashed in this event complete with their total money earned from those cashes:
| Player | Money Earned |
|---|---|
| Michael Mizrachi | $3,010,573 |
| Freddy Deeb | $2,360,462 |
| Scotty Nguyen | $1,989,120 |
| Andy Bloch | $1,813,988 |
| Chip Reese | $1,784,640 |
| Matthew Ashton | $1,774,089 |
| Brian Rast | $1,720,328 |
| John Hanson | $1,641,679 |
| Bruno Fitoussi | $1,448,599 |
| David Bach | $1,436,646 |
| Michael DeMichele | $1,243,200 |
| Vladimir Schemelev | $1,131,904 |
| Don Nguyen | $1,096,254 |
| Phil Hellmuth | $1,063,034 |
| Minh Ly | $975,593 |
| Matt Glantz | $945,070 |
| Barry Greenstein | $928,919 |
| Chris Klodnicki | $896,935 |
| John Hennigan | $807,562 |
| Erick Lindgren | $781,440 |
| Phil Ivey | $777,600 |
| David Singer | $749,280 |
| David Oppenheim | $745,545 |
| Huck Seed | $708,651 |
| Amnon Filippi | $586,080 |
| Jim Bechtel | $549,120 |
| Erik Sagstrom | $522,393 |
| David Benyamine | $497,122 |
| Owais Ahmed | $482,058 |
| TJ Cloutier | $480,480 |
| Dewey Tomko | $474,624 |
| Mike Wattel | $467,046 |
| Kenny Tran | $444,000 |
| Lyle Berman | $444,000 |
| John Juanda | $436,865 |
| Luke Schwartz | $406,736 |
| Doyle Brunson | $398,880 |
| George Danzer | $388,523 |
| Vitaly Lunkin | $368,812 |
| Daniel Alaei | $342,099 |
| Robert Mizrachi | $341,429 |
| Roland Israelashvili | $317,882 |
| Ralph Perry | $314,880 |
| George Lind | $300,411 |
| David “Bakes” Baker | $272,275 |
| Stephen Chidwick | $253,497 |
| Jeff Lisandro | $248,635 |
| Scott Seiver | $243,978 |
| Patrick Bueno | $230,880 |
| Ville Wahlbeck | $219,655 |
| Jonathan Duhamel | $207,630 |
| Patrik Antonius | $205,920 |
| Robert Williamson III | $205,920 |
| Gavin Smith | $205,920 |
| Bill Chen | $205,856 |
| Brett Richey | $204,579 |
| Ben Lamb | $201,338 |
| Joe Cassidy | $193,227 |
| Thor Hansen | $188,256 |
| Chau Giang | $184,087 |
| Mikael Thuritz | $182,463 |
| Mike Gorodinsky | $173,796 |
| Michael Glick | $173,796 |
| Jason Lester | $168,529 |
| Erik Seidel | $162,381 |
| Nick Schulman | $152,730 |
| Alexander Kostritsyn | $152,730 |
| Bryn Kenney | $147,882 |
| Yan Chen | $143,400 |
| Joseph Michael | $142,320 |
| David “ODB” Baker | $142,197 |
| Daniel Negreanu | $142,080 |
| David Levi | $137,280 |
| Cong Do | $137,280 |
| Gabe Kaplan | $131,424 |
| Abe Mosseri | $129,957 |
| Lyle Berman | $129,957 |
| Tommy Hang | $128,620 |
| Kevin Song | $128,620 |
| Josh Arieh | $124,723 |
| Mike Binger | $124,723 |
| Gus Hansen | $123,895 |
| Mark Gregorich | $117,216 |
| Allen Bari | $113,030 |
| Troy Burkholder | $111,893 |
| Sebastian Ruthenberg | $108,503 |
| Viktor Blom | $105,235 |
| Tim Phan | $103,008 |
| Greg Raymer | $103,008 |
| Ray Dehkarghani | $99,590 |
| David Chiu | $99,590 |
| Ilya Bulychev | $98,330 |
| Chris Reslock | $88,800 |
| Mike Matusow | $88,800 |
| Tony G | $83,630 |
| Steve Billirakis | $72,914 |
| John Kabbaj | $72,914 |
| Gary Benson | $55,947 |
