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$50k Players’ Championship – final table set
Posted by: James Carter. - Tue, 2010-06-01 11:20
The monster $50k Players’ Championship, the winner of which will take home the Chip Reese memorial trophy on top of the top prize and the bracelet, is slowly but surely winding down. The 4th day of the ultra deep stacked event saw the final table reached. At the pace players were dropping out during the first two days of action, this seems pretty incredible, but day 3 and day 4 caught up with the planned flow and now everything is on schedule.
Michael Mizrachi was at the top of the chip counts at the end of day 3 and he hung on. He made it to the final table on a stack of 2,175,00 chips. The real story of day 4 was the emergence of his brother at the top of the provisional chip leader-board, threatening to turn one of the biggest buy-in
WSOP events into a family affair.
Robert Mizrachi shot to the lead, having built up a stack of 3,125,000 chips. That stack will obviously make him the favorite for the title, but all 8 payers who made the final table stand a legit chance.
Besides the two Mizrachis, David baker also made it to the final stretch, in possession of a 3,095,000 stack no less.
Sweden’s Mikael Thuritz will be there at the final table as well, starting Day 5 behind a stack of 2.3 million chips. John Juanda is another notorious presence. He will have 2.6 million chips at his disposal. Daniel Alaei completes the list of the “name” pros, with a stack of 1.7 million.
Russia’s Vladimir Schmelev will bring 1.92 million chips to the table on the final day of action.
David Oppenheim is the short-stack, with 460k chips, his chances looking the slimmest for the $1.56 million top prize. Still, he is guaranteed a more than handsome payday: the first of the final table participants to hit the rail will still take home $182,463.
The runner up of the poker tournament will get $963,375.
The final table action will shift from the mixed game format to
NL Holdem only, something which may offer an advantage to Michael Mizrachi. The older of the two Mizrachis already has 2 WPT titles under his belt, and he will undoubtedly look forward to rounding that number up to 3 with a WSOP bracelet on day 5.
