03 July 2025
Last night, Day 3 of Event # 55 ($50,000 Poker Players' Championship) was played. This tournament is reserved for the best, and there still are 26 players in play. The prize pool of $6,336,000 only has 16 paid places, so the bubble will only burst on Day 4. Still in play are David Benyamine, Huck Seed, Joe Hachem, George Danzer and Jonathan Duhamel.
Day 3 of Event #55 started with 78 players and ended with 26. During the 6 game levels many renowned players were eliminated: Paul Volpe, Justin Bonomo, David Oppenheim, the Team PokerStars Jason Mercier and Bertrand Grospellier, and even Doyle Brunson.
Texas Dolly expected to, at the very least, guarantee a paid position - he had a total of 28 pending bets on his tournament participation, the only that he took part in the WSOP 2013.
With $ 1,774,089 reserved for the winner, these are the players still contending for the prize:
- Don Nguyen - 2,059,000
- Mike Gorodinsky - 1,650,000
- Minh Ly - 1,458,000
- Michael Glick - 1,130,000
- John Hennigan - 1,085,000
- David Benyamine - 1,052,000
- Troy Burkholder - 1,047,000
- Jonathan Duhamel - 1,038,000
- Mike Leah - 980,000
- Matthew Ashton - 912,000
- Bryn Kenney - 906 000
- George Danzer - 779,000
- Huck Seed - 690,000
- Greg Mueller - 555,000
- Tommy Hang - 450,000
- Joe Hachem - 425,000
- Kevin Song - 392,000
- David Bach - 346,000
- Gary Benson - 338,000
- Joe Cassidy - 299,000
- Stephen Chidwick - 291,000
- Max Pescatori - 246,000
- Erick Lindgren - 165,000
- Justin Smith - 163,000
- John Juanda - 89,000
