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 |