Event #66: $50,000 Poker Players Championship
Day 1 Started
2025 World Series of Poker
Event #66: $50,000 Poker Players Championship
Day: 1
Event Info
2025 World Series of Poker
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Players Info - Day 1
Buy-in
$50,000
Prize Pool
$5,082,500
Entries
107
Level
26
Limits
0 / 0
Ante
0
Entries
88
Players Left
68
Players Left 1 / 107
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Welcome back to PokerNews, the official media partner of the 2025 World Series of Poker and home of live updates from all bracelet events.
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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Level: 1
Limit Flop/Draw: 1,500-2,500, 2,500-5,000 Limits
Stud Games: 500 Ante, 1,000 Bring-In, 2,500 Completion, 2,500-5,000 Limits
Pot-Limit & No-Limit: 1,500/2,000 Ante, 500-1,500 Blinds
Level 1
Limit Flop/Draw: 1,500-2,500, 2,500-5,000 Limits
Stud Games: 500 Ante, 1,000 Bring-In, 2,500 Completion, 2,500-5,000 Limits
Pot-Limit & No-Limit: 1,500/2,000 Ante, 500-1,500 Blinds
Stud Games: 500 Ante, 1,000 Bring-In, 2,500 Completion, 2,500-5,000 Limits
Pot-Limit & No-Limit: 1,500/2,000 Ante, 500-1,500 Blinds
WSOP VP Jack Effel introduced the new Chip Reese Trophy and announced "Shuffle Up and Deal" as the first 11 entries have taken their seats to begin Day 1.
Level 1
Limit Flop/Draw: 1,500-2,500, 2,500-5,000 Limits
Stud Games: 500 Ante, 1,000 Bring-In, 2,500 Completion, 2,500-5,000 Limits
Pot-Limit & No-Limit: 1,500/2,000 Ante, 500-1,500 Blinds
Stud Games: 500 Ante, 1,000 Bring-In, 2,500 Completion, 2,500-5,000 Limits
Pot-Limit & No-Limit: 1,500/2,000 Ante, 500-1,500 Blinds
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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300,000
300,000
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300,000 |
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300,000
300,000
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300,000 |
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300,000
300,000
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300,000 |
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300,000
300,000
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300,000 |
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300,000
300,000
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300,000 |
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300,000
300,000
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300,000 |
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300,000
300,000
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300,000 |
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300,000
300,000
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300,000 |
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300,000
300,000
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300,000 |
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300,000
300,000
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300,000 |
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300,000
300,000
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300,000 |
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Level 1
Limit Flop/Draw: 1,500-2,500, 2,500-5,000 Limits
Stud Games: 500 Ante, 1,000 Bring-In, 2,500 Completion, 2,500-5,000 Limits
Pot-Limit & No-Limit: 1,500/2,000 Ante, 500-1,500 Blinds
Stud Games: 500 Ante, 1,000 Bring-In, 2,500 Completion, 2,500-5,000 Limits
Pot-Limit & No-Limit: 1,500/2,000 Ante, 500-1,500 Blinds
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Level 1
Limit Flop/Draw: 1,500-2,500, 2,500-5,000 Limits
Stud Games: 500 Ante, 1,000 Bring-In, 2,500 Completion, 2,500-5,000 Limits
Pot-Limit & No-Limit: 1,500/2,000 Ante, 500-1,500 Blinds
Stud Games: 500 Ante, 1,000 Bring-In, 2,500 Completion, 2,500-5,000 Limits
Pot-Limit & No-Limit: 1,500/2,000 Ante, 500-1,500 Blinds
Level 1
Limit Flop/Draw: 1,500-2,500, 2,500-5,000 Limits
Stud Games: 500 Ante, 1,000 Bring-In, 2,500 Completion, 2,500-5,000 Limits
Pot-Limit & No-Limit: 1,500/2,000 Ante, 500-1,500 Blinds
Stud Games: 500 Ante, 1,000 Bring-In, 2,500 Completion, 2,500-5,000 Limits
Pot-Limit & No-Limit: 1,500/2,000 Ante, 500-1,500 Blinds
Pot-Limit Omaha
Defending champion Daniel Negreanu opened to 5,000 and Christian Roberts defended his big blind.
Both players checked on the flop of 8♣9♦8♥ and Roberts led for 3,500 on the 4♠ turn. Negreanu called. Roberts then sized up to 28,000 on the K♦ river and the 2024 PPC champion folded.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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308,000
8,000
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8,000 |
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292,000
8,000
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8,000 |
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Level 1
Limit Flop/Draw: 1,500-2,500, 2,500-5,000 Limits
Stud Games: 500 Ante, 1,000 Bring-In, 2,500 Completion, 2,500-5,000 Limits
Pot-Limit & No-Limit: 1,500/2,000 Ante, 500-1,500 Blinds
Stud Games: 500 Ante, 1,000 Bring-In, 2,500 Completion, 2,500-5,000 Limits
Pot-Limit & No-Limit: 1,500/2,000 Ante, 500-1,500 Blinds
Pot-Limit Omaha
Dario Alioto opened the cutoff to 3,500 and was called by Ryan Hoenig in the small blind and Maximilian Schindler in the big blind.
The Q♥5♦2♥ flop checked through to the J♣ turn which saw Hoenig check for a second time. Schindler then fired out a bet of 9,000 and only Alioto called.
On the Q♠ river, Schindler took a moment before he announced pot, a bet of 30,000, and Alioto gave it up without much resistance.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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318,000
18,000
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18,000 |
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291,000
9,000
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9,000 |
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287,000 | |
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Level 1
Limit Flop/Draw: 1,500-2,500, 2,500-5,000 Limits
Stud Games: 500 Ante, 1,000 Bring-In, 2,500 Completion, 2,500-5,000 Limits
Pot-Limit & No-Limit: 1,500/2,000 Ante, 500-1,500 Blinds
Stud Games: 500 Ante, 1,000 Bring-In, 2,500 Completion, 2,500-5,000 Limits
Pot-Limit & No-Limit: 1,500/2,000 Ante, 500-1,500 Blinds
Pot-Limit Omaha
Mike Gorodinsky opened to 3,000 from the button and Erick Lindgren defended from the big blind.
The flop came Q♦A♣7♣ and Lindgren check-called a 3,000 bet from Gorodinsky.
Both players checked the 8♣ turn leading to the 9♥ river. Lindgren bet 6,000 and Gorodinsky folded.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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315,000
15,000
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15,000 |
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290,000
10,000
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10,000 |
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