Event #58: $50,000 Poker Players Championship
Day 4 Started
Event #58: $50,000 Poker Players Championship
Day 4 Started
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 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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 |
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.
Level: 19
Limit Flop / Draw: 25,000/50,000
Stud Games: 10,000 (ante), 15,000 (bring-in), 50,000 (completion)
No-Limit & Pot-Limit: 12000/24,000/36,000 ante
Action is underway on Day 4 of the Poker Players Championship.
No-Limit Hold'em
"Alright, this is my spot!" Andrew Brown said before shoving for 210,000 from the hijack on the very first hand of Day 4. Everyone folded.
The very next hand, Brown shoved again for 282,000 from under the gun, and action folded to Bryce Yockey in the big blind.
"If it was 210,000 I would've called," Yockey told Brown.
"I will take it here...but I don't mind a call," Brown told Yockey. Yockey eventually folded. The next hand, Brown got a walk, and has already nearly doubled his short stack just three hands into today's play.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Andrew Brown | 366,000 | 156,000 |
No-Limit Hold'em
The main featured table saw zero flops in six hands of No-Limit Hold'em to start the day. In the fourth and fifth hands, Dan Cates shoved all in preflop from the button and cutoff and took the blinds both times to add to his stack.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Phil Ivey
|
4,800,000 | 25,000 |
Shaun Deeb
|
2,500,000 | 50,000 |
Phillip Hui
|
1,500,000 | -40,000 |
John Esposito
|
1,100,000 | -100,000 |
Talal Shakerchi | 773,000 | -12,000 |
Dan Cates
|
441,000 | 122,000 |
No-Limit Hold'em
Dario Sammartino made it 50,000 in the hijack and Bryce Yockey called on his left. Josh Arieh squeezed to 205,000 out of the big blind, forcing a fold from Sammartino. Yockey, however, matched the price.
The flop came and Arieh checked to Yockey who bet 290,000. Arieh took around a minute and then he decided to let his hand go.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Josh Arieh
|
3,764,000 | -265,000 |
Bryce Yockey
|
2,639,000 | 253,000 |
Stud
Talal Shakerchi: / /
Dan Cates: / /
Phil Ivey: /
Phillip Hui was the bring in with . Talal Shakerchi and Dan Cates called. Phil Ivey completed, Hui folded, and Shakerchi and Cates called. Ivey bet fourth street and both players called.
On fifth and sixth streets, action checked to Ivey who kept betting. Shakerchi and Cates both called. All three players checked the river.
Cates tabled for eights up and took down the pot, building his stack to over one million after starting the day as the second lowest stack.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Phil Ivey
|
4,500,000 | -300,000 |
Shaun Deeb
|
2,400,000 | -100,000 |
Phillip Hui
|
1,300,000 | -200,000 |
Dan Cates
|
1,100,000 | 659,000 |
John Esposito
|
1,100,000 | |
Talal Shakerchi | 693,000 | -80,000 |
Stud
Chris Vitch: /
David Oppenheim: / - folded on fourth street
Dario Sammartino: /
Josh Arieh brought it in with the , and Chris Vitch completed. David Oppenheim and Dario Sammartino both called, while Arieh folded. Vitch bet fourth street, Oppenheim folded and Sammartino called. Sammartino bet fifth street, and Vitch folded.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
David Oppenheim
|
1,910,000 | -198,000 |
Dario Sammartino | 1,900,000 | 179,000 |
Chris Vitch | 401,000 | -222,000 |
Stud
John Esposito brought in with the and he called when Phil Ivey completed with the .
Ivey hit an ace while Esposito hit a king. Ivey bet, Esposito raised and Ivey called.
Ivey called further bets from Esposito on fifth and sixth where Esposito's board showed a pair of fives.
They checked the river and Esposito took it down with kings up.
Esposito: /
Ivey: /
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Phil Ivey
|
4,200,000 | -300,000 |
John Esposito
|
1,500,000 | 400,000 |