The penultimate day of Event #58: $50,000 Poker Players Championship has arrived and 12 players remain in one of the most prestigious events of the entire 2019 World Series of Poker.
It has taken over 30 hours of play across three days among the best players on the planet to reach this point. The tournament’s mixed game format was designed to test every participant’s overall poker prowess and it has not disappointed as the remaining 12 come back from what was a total field size of 74 this afternoon with players all in the money and their sights set on reaching the final table of six. Last night played until Chris Klodnicki was the unlucky 13th-placed player, missing out on the money.
Phil Ivey finds himself in a familiar situation entering Day 4 as chip leader with a massive stack of 4,775,000. Ivey was also the chip leader among the 38 players who returned for Day 3 yesterday, picking up where he left off and nearly quadrupling his chip total throughout the ten-plus hours of play.
Second in chips coming into the day is Josh Arieh, whose stack of 4,029,000 is the only other one within immediate reach of Ivey. The list of names does not stop there, with Shaun Deeb (2,450,000), Bryce Yockey (2,386,000), and David Oppenheim (2,108,000) rounding out the top five as the only ones over the two-million mark.
Oppenheim enters the day as one of only four players left in the tournament not to have won a WSOP bracelet in their careers. Joining him in pursuit of their first bracelet are Dario Sammartino, who took third place in the $10K H.O.R.S.E. earlier this year for $184,854, Talal Shakerchi (785,000), and “Jungleman” Dan Cates (319,000).
Here is the Day 4 Seating chart:
| Table | Seat | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds | Big Bets |
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| 1 | 1 | Bryce Yockey | United States | 2,386,000 | 48 | 24 |
| 1 | 2 | Andrew Brown | United States | 210,000 | 4 | 2 |
| 1 | 3 | Josh Arieh | United States | 4,029,000 | 81 | 40 |
| 1 | 4 | Chris Vitch | United States | 623,000 | 12 | 6 |
| 1 | 5 | David Oppenheim | United States | 2,108,000 | 42 | 21 |
| 1 | 6 | Dario Sammartino | Italy | 1,721,000 | 34 | 17 |
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| 2 | 1 | Dan Cates | United States | 319,000 | 6 | 3 |
| 2 | 2 | Phil Ivey | United States | 4,775,000 | 96 | 48 |
| 2 | 3 | Phillip Hui | United States | 1,540,000 | 31 | 15 |
| 2 | 4 | John Esposito | United States | 1,200,000 | 24 | 12 |
| 2 | 5 | Talal Shakerchi | United Kingdom | 785,000 | 16 | 8 |
| 2 | 6 | Shaun Deeb | United States | 2,450,000 | 49 | 25 |
Cards are scheduled to be in the air at 2 p.m. local time with the plan to play down to the final table of six. The tournament will be streamed live starting at 3 p.m. Stay connected to PokerNews for updates as all the action unfolds on the journey to the final table of the Poker Players Championship.
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and Arieh checked to Yockey who bet 290,000. Arieh took around a minute and then he decided to let his hand go.
