Event #66: $50,000 Poker Players Championship is the Event All the Pros Want to Win
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Today, Event #66: $50,000 Poker Players Championship will start at 2 p.m. local time here at Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas, with starting stacks of 300,000.
Day 1 will play for 6 levels with a 15-minute break following each 100-minute level. There will not be a dinner break.
Days 2 (June 25) and 3 (June 26) will have the same schedule of six 100-minute levels and 15-minute breaks following each level, except for the end of the third level of the day, which will have a 60-minute dinner break starting at around 6:30 p.m. Day 4 (June 27) will play down to five players with a dinner break after Level 21. June 28’s Day 5 session is the final table, and action starts at a TBD time.
Poker Hall of Famer Daniel Negreanu ended an 11-year bracelet drought by winning this prestigious event last summer. Negreanu took home $1,178,703 and his seventh bracelet, first since 2013.
$50,000 Poker Players Championship Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Daniel Negreanu | Canada | $1,178,703 |
| 2 | Bryce Yockey | United States | $768,467 |
| 3 | Chris Brewer | United States | $519,158 |
| 4 | Dylan Smith | United States | $363,914 |
| 5 | David Benyamine | France | $265,054 |
| 6 | Jeremy Ausmus | United States | $200,896 |
| 7 | Phil Ivey | United States | $158,719 |
Winner's Reaction
“A lot of relief, really. I have a lot of anxiety about coming heads-up because I’ve had so many seconds. And it was just nice for things to feel like they went my way at this final table,” Negreanu said after defeating Bryce Yockey heads-up.
Since this event was first introduced to the WSOP calendar in 2006, poker pros have regarded it as the ultimate test of skill and endurance. Negreanu played the first event and has come back every year since. It’s become his favorite event, and the fact that his bracelet drought came to an end here, with Negreanu back atop the poker world, was all the more meaningful.
“There is one event in the world I want to play more than any, and I wanted to win more than any, and it’s this one. This is the one,” Negreanu said. “Obviously, the Main Event is special in a different way. But this one is all the best players in the world, pro-heavy field, playing 100-minute levels, days and days of grind, 12 hours a day. So to come out on top, you can’t fluke that.”
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