Event #62: $50,000 Poker Players Championship (6-Handed) Dia 2 | 2017 World Series of Poker

2017-07-04 01:17 UTC-7

Arieh Wins a Big Pot in Stud/8; Owen Departs

Jan_Kores

Nível 12 : 10,000/20,000, 0 ante

Stud Hi-Lo

Three-way to sixth street, Josh Arieh bet into a large pot, earning calls from both Adam Owen and Talal Shakerchi. All players checked the river.

Adam Owen: / /
Talal Shakerchi: / /
Josh Arieh: / /

Nobody made a low, so the full 300,000 pot went to the highest hand shown. Josh Arieh rolled over his for kings up, which was enough to beat both of his opponents.

Owen was left with shrapnel. He posted the ante for the next hand and then completed with for all his remaining chips. Shakerchi called and Matthew Ashton raised it up with a queen. Shakerchi called but folded on fourth when Ashton paired his queen.

Talal Shakerchi: / - fold
Adam Owen: / /
Matthew Ashton:

Owen had aces in the hole but Ashton made a flush on the way to the river. Owen could still chop with a low card on seventh street, but he didn't find any and mucked.

Jogador	Fichas	Oscilação
Talal Shakerchi	1,350,000 490,000	490,000
Josh Arieh	520,000 80,000	80,000

Adam Owen	Eliminado

Tags: Adam Owen Josh Arieh Matthew Ashton Talal Shakerchi

2017-07-04 01:39 UTC-7

Mercier Surprises Sexton

KaleGozer

Nível 12 : 10,000/20,000, 0 ante

Stud Hi-Lo

Mercier: / /
Sexton: / /

On fourth street, Jason Mercier bet with ace-five showing, and Mike Sexton called. Mercier checked fifth street to Sexton, who bet. Mercier called and also check-called on sixth street.

Mercier bet out on seventh street and Sexton called. Much to everyone's surprise, Mercier flipped up for a Broadway straight. Sexton showed for trip eights, which was second best, and had to surrender the pot to Mercier.

"Starts with ace-five, comes up with Broadway," chuckled Mike Matusow.

Jogador	Fichas	Oscilação
Jason Mercier	600,000 35,000	35,000

Mike Sexton	290,000 -75,000	-75,000

Tags: Jason Mercier Mike Sexton

2017-07-04 02:17 UTC-7

Michael Mizrachi Ready to Challenge for Third PPC Title After Bagging Big

Nível 12 : 10,000/20,000, 0 ante

Michael Mizrachi built his poker legend largely on the back of two victories in the $50,000 Poker Players Championship. That record was tied last year when Brian Rast claimed his second title, but could "The Grinder" one up Rast again and claim an unprecedented third Chip Reese Trophy?

It's still far too early to speculate too heavily on such a possibility, but Mizrachi has at least gotten the ball rolling in that direction after a strong second day here at the 2017 PPC. Mizrachi finished the day with 1,087,000, leaving him in third place out of 44 remaining players.

The only players finishing above Mizrachi were Aaron Katz (1,642,000) and Talal Shakerchi (1,480,500).

The Grinder experienced an early slide, losing more than half of the chips he came in with. He sat with a below-average stack for much of the day, but the last couple of levels were good to him, as he utilized his unpredictable no-limit style to chip up in some of the big-bet rounds.

In addition to those big stacks already listed, some players living to see Day 3 included another former champ, Matthew Ashton, as well as Shaun Deeb, Jason Mercier, Mike Matusow, Phil Galfond, Daniel Negreanu and Mike Sexton.

Negreanu put together a wild charge during the final two levels of the night after being down to about 40,000. Much to the delight of a crowd of railbirds cheering him on, the Canadian superstar doubled up and then tripled up in pot-limit Omaha.

That still only left him with 170,000, about 10 big bets, but he turned that into 500,000 in under an hour after doubling up with a set in no-limit hold'em against Harry Madoff's overpair. Negreanu finished with 678,000.

Madoff was among those failing to see bagging time. Others eliminated on Day 2 included Dzmitry Urbanovich, Johnny Chan, Phil Hellmuth, Mike Gorodinsky, Rast and Gus Hansen.

The remaining players return at 2 p.m. Tuesday for Day 3 with limits of 12,000/24,000 on limit games and blinds of 3,000/6,000 in big-bet games. Tune in to PokerNews for further coverage at that time.

Tags: Daniel Negreanu Michael Mizrachi