World Series of Poker: $50,000 Poker Players Championship Draws 85 Players And CountingMatt Glantz Leads After First Day Of Play |
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Day 1 of the World Series of Poker $50,000 Poker Players Championship drew a field of just 85 runners, a far cry from the 132-player tournament won by British pro Matthew Ashton in 2013. However, late registration will be available for another level on day 2, meaning the event has a chance to break the 100-player mark.
Starting with 150,000 in chips and only playing five, 100-minute levels, there were only five casualties during the day including Phil Galfond, Dan Shak and Vanessa Selbst, who was won of just two women to register for the tournament. The other, Melissa Burr, is still alive with a below average stack. No woman has ever cashed in this event.
Selbst gave the majority of her stack to overnight chip leader Matt Glantz during a hand of no-limit hold’em. Glantz four-bet preflop and Selbst made the call. Both players saw a flop of K
J8. Glantz bet and Selbst called. The turn was the 10 and Glantz checked. Selbst moved all in and Glantz immediately called tabling A
Q for the second nut flush. Selbst was left drawing dead with her Q
Q and was the first player to bust.
Glantz finished the day with 324,700 in chips. The former stock trader from Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania is a regular in the high-stakes mixed games in the northeast and is looking to improve upon the fifth-place finish he earned in this event back in 2011.
Other notables near the top of the leaderboard include the aforementioned Ashton, Michael Mizrachi, David Benyamine, Dan Heimiller and Shaun Deeb.
This event is played eight-handed and features an eight-game rotation including both limit and no-limit hold’em, pot-limit Omaha, stud and stud eight-or-better, triple draw, razz and Omaha eight-or-better. The tournament was introduced in 2006 as a H.O.R.S.E event but was switched to an eight-game format in 2010.
The five-day event will return at 2 p.m. to play an additional five levels.
Here is a full look at the overnight chip counts.
| Rank | Player | Chip Count |
| 1 | Matt Glantz | 324,700 |
| 2 | Dylan Linde | 303,700 |
| 3 | Richard Ashby | 300,000 |
| 4 | Shaun Deeb | 282,600 |
| 5 | Ismael Bojang | 271,400 |
| 6 | Matthew Ashton | 263,800 |
| 7 | Michael Mizrachi | 254,900 |
| 8 | Steve Billirakis | 252,000 |
| 9 | David Benyamine | 246,300 |
| 10 | Dan Heimiller | 245,800 |
| 11 | Scott Clements | 243,100 |
| 12 | Kevin Song | 240,000 |
| 13 | Eli Elezra | 239,300 |
| 14 | Jonathan Duhamel | 237,200 |
| 15 | Gary Benson | 232,600 |
| 16 | Frank Kassela | 230,100 |
| 17 | John Hennigan | 225,000 |
| 18 | Talal Shakerchi | 224,000 |
| 19 | Alexandre Luneau | 218,000 |
| 20 | Jason Mercier | 217,000 |
| 21 | Marco Johnson | 216,500 |
| 22 | David Chiu | 215,000 |
| 23 | Brock Parker | 213,000 |
| 24 | Joe Hachem | 208,500 |
| 25 | Allen Kessler | 204,000 |
| 26 | Josh Arieh | 201,700 |
| 27 | Ola Amundsgaard | 200,000 |
| 28 | Jesse Martin | 190,000 |
| 29 | Brian Hastings | 187,300 |
| 30 | David Bach | 185,000 |
| 31 | James Obst | 184,200 |
| 32 | Jared Bleznick | 175,000 |
| 33 | Todd Brunson | 169,900 |
| 34 | Paul Volpe | 166,200 |
| 35 | David Oppenheim | 165,000 |
| 36 | Brian Rast | 164,400 |
| 37 | Randy Ohel | 163,000 |
| 38 | Chun Lei Zhou | 161,000 |
| 39 | Ben Yu | 155,000 |
| 40 | Philip Sternheimer | 155,000 |
| 41 | Sergey Rybachenko | 153,000 |
| 42 | Robert Mizrachi | 151,000 |
| 43 | Chris Klodnicki | 150,000 |
| 44 | Ofi Mor | 150,000 |
| 45 | Abe Mosseri | 146,700 |
| 46 | Scott Seiver | 146,000 |
| 47 | Alexander Kostritsyn | 144,500 |
| 48 | Andy Bloch | 143,000 |
| 49 | Stephen Chidwick | 138,000 |
| 50 | George Danzer | 137,400 |
| 51 | Bryce Yockey | 136,000 |
| 52 | Brandon Shack-Harris | 127,500 |
| 53 | Melissa Burr | 127,200 |
| 54 | Jeremy Ausmus | 126,000 |
| 55 | Erick Lindgren | 125,600 |
| 56 | Bruno Fitoussi | 125,300 |
| 57 | Justin Smith | 125,000 |
| 58 | Bertrand Grospellier | 121,500 |
| 59 | Chris Bell | 120,000 |
| 60 | Phil Hellmuth | 116,800 |
| 61 | Mike Leah | 115,300 |
| 62 | Elior Sion | 115,000 |
| 63 | Don Nguyen | 112,000 |
| 64 | Daniel Negreanu | 108,500 |
| 65 | Bryn Kenney | 105,000 |
| 66 | Brian Tate | 103,600 |
| 67 | Bill Chen | 100,000 |
| 68 | David “ODB” Baker | 99,000 |
| 69 | Mike Wattel | 92,000 |
| 70 | Calvin Anderson | 89,300 |
| 71 | John Monnette | 85,100 |
| 72 | Tommy Hang | 74,000 |
| 73 | David Singer | 74,000 |
| 74 | Jeff Lisandro | 71,000 |
| 75 | Phil Ivey | 68,000 |
| 76 | Daniel Alaei | 63,000 |
| 77 | Luis Velador | 57,000 |
| 78 | John Racener | 56,000 |
| 79 | Nick Schulman | 39,600 |
| 80 | Mike Gorodinsky | 11,500 |
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