Event #44: $50,000 Poker Players' Championship
Day 2 Completed
2015 World Series of Poker
Event #44: $50,000 Poker Players' Championship
Day: 2
Smallest $50K PPC in WSOP History; Seiver Leads for Second Day in a Row
Day 2 of Event #44: $50,000 Poker Players' Championship saw a handful of players take advantage of late registration (neither Doyle Brunson nor Phil Ivey made an appearance), which brought the total number of players up to 84, the tournament's lowest ever (previous low was 95 players in 2009). Still, a juicy $3,696,000 prize pool was created that will be distributed to the top 12 players, with the eventual winner taking home $1,270,086.
For the second day in a row, Scott Seiver bagged up the chip lead, though his 688,500 isn't too far ahead of Abe Mosseri and former champ Matthew Ashton, who finished with 657,400 and 607,900 respectively. Others who were among the 47 survivors were two other former champs, two-time winner Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi (361,500) and David Bach (258,400), online star Ben Sulsky (425,300), and Jason Mercier (212,400), who won a bracelet just a few days ago.
Of course not everyone was so lucky. Among those to fall were Phil Hellmuth, Huck Seed, Brian Hastings, Daniel Negreanu and defending champ John Hennigan.
According to updates from the event, Hennigan busted in Level 10 in a round of no-limit hold'em. It happened when Chau Giang opened for 5,000 and Jean-Robert Bellande called. A short-stacked Hennigan came along from the small blind and it was three-way action to the 
flop. Two checks saw Bellande bet 16,000, Hennigan call off his last 2,800, and Giang fold.
Bellande: 
Hennigan: 
Hennigan needed some help, but he failed to find it as the 
blanked on the turn followed by the 
on the river.
Top 10 Day 2 Chip Counts
| Place | Player | Stack |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scott Seiver | 688,500 |
| 2 | Abe Mosseri | 657,400 |
| 3 | Matthew Ashton | 607,900 |
| 4 | Dee Tiller | 602,400 |
| 5 | Mike Gorodinsky | 488,000 |
| 6 | Ben Sulsky | 425,300 |
| 7 | Michael Glick | 414,900 |
| 8 | David "ODB" Baker | 387,100 |
| 9 | Ben Yu | 375,500 |
| 10 | Joe Cassidy | 375,500 |
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Day 1 of Event #44: $50,000 Poker Players' Championship attracted 73 players, but that number is likely to go up a bit as registration is open until the start of play on Day 2. Neither Phil Ivey nor Doyle Brunson made an appearance, and the poker world is waiting with bated breath to see whether or not they'll show up.
One man who did show up was Scott Seiver, who bagged up a nice lead with 350,700. His next closest competition is David Oppenheim with 279,000, while Justin "BoostedJ" Smith sits close behind with 273,300.
This year is the 10th installment of the event that high-stakes poker players from across the globe deem as the most important event of the year, and the one they all want to win more than anything. With an average field size of 124 entries and an average first-place prize of just under $1.7 million over the years, the field will be small, but immensely skilled, and there will be plenty of money to be won.
Two new games have been added to the mix for 2015, but this isn't the first time that this tournament has seen a format change. The event originally started as a $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. tournament in 2006. It was played in this format up until 2010, when it was then changed to an eight-game format with the addition of no-limit hold'em, pot-limit Omaha, and 2-7 triple draw. This year, two more games have been added, with badugi and no-limit 2-7 single draw now being in play.
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Event #44: $50,000 Poker Players' Championship
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