$50k Players Championship underway at WSOP

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jul 03, 2011 Posted in Poker News | 1 Comment »

The 2011 running of the $50k Players Championship saw a dramatic increase in attendance for the second straight year, but still well below the tournaments heydays of the mid 2000’s when attendance often flirted with 150 players. With a total of 128 entrants –12 more than in 2010—the prize-pool swelled to over $6.1 million, with over $1.7 million going to the winner and 16 places making the money overall.

The slow structure saw just five players hit the rail on Saturday: Arturo Diaz, Eli Elezra, Phil Laak, Andrew Pantling, and Jani Sointula.

This is one tournament that may have taken a hit thanks to Black Friday as a number of online players with large bankrolls were noticeably absent, but thanks to the tournaments placement at the end of the WSOP there were also a few earlier WSOP bracelet winners added to the roster –I highly doubt Leonard Martin or Owais Ahmed would be playing had they not won six-figures earlier in the WSOP.

Here is a look at the top 10 chip counts heading into Day 2 of the tournament:

1. Doug Booth – 324,600

2. Greg Mueller – 322,700

3. Yan Chen – 317,200

4. Alexey Makarov – 266,200

5. David Bach – 249,500

6. Vladimir Shchemelev – 248,000

7. Jason Lester – 245,200

8. Steve Sung – 243,800

9. Steve Billirakis – 239,500

10. David Benyamine – 238,400

Results courtesy of wsop.com

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One Response to “$50k Players Championship underway at WSOP”

  1. Vaslily Petroff says:

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