2023 WSOP Update – Phil Ivey In the Top 5 At The $50,000 Poker Players Championship

The $50,000 Poker Players Championship is the most prestigious tournament of the World Series of Poker and the G.O.A.T. Phil Ivey was chip leader for a long time before finishing in the Top 5 with only 12 players left. 2009 WSOP Main Event Champion Joe Cada made the final table in the Monster Stack.

Phil Ivey Crushing In The $50,000 Poker Players Championship 

Phil Ivey, the G.O.A.T. in Poker, has definitely arrived at the 2023 WSOP. Ivey is chip leader in the $50,000 Poker Players Championship, the most prestigious event at the World Series of Poker.

2023 WSOP Update - Phil Ivey Chip Leader After Day 3 Of The $50,000 Poker Players Championship (2)

Watch Phil Hellmuth making crazy folds in the $50K PPC here:

Folding  Pocket Tens to a single raise in Texas Hold’em and Kings Full in Pot-Limit Hold’em looks absolutely crazy and it fired back as Phil Hellmuth busted in 14th place.

Further big names, who are still in include Brian “trarrast” Rast, James “Andy McLEOD” Obst, Josh Arieh, Talal  “raidalot” Shakerchi, Matthew “MUSTAPHABET” Ashton and Johannes Becker.

Chip Counts after Day 3 of the $50,000 Poker Players Championship:

Matthew Ashton4,450,000
Hal Rotholz3,900,000
Talal Shakerchi3,430,000
Brian Rast3,365,000
Phil Ivey3,135,000
Josh Arieh2,360,000
Ray Dehkharghani2,285,000
Daniel Alaei1,885,000
James Obst1,805,000
Johannes Becker1,520,000
Kristopher Tong1,190,000
Marco Johnson375,000

Former WSOP Main Event Winner Joe Cada makes Monster Stack Final Table

There is another big name, who is making the headlights and it is 2009 WSOP Main Event Champion Joe Cada by making the final table in the Monster Stack.

2023 WSOP Update - Phil Ivey Chip Leader After Day 3 Of The $50,000 Poker Players Championship (3)

Cada has some work to do though as he is entering today’s final table as the short stack.

Chip leader is US poker pro Nicholas Gerrity with 112,300,000 chips, followed by fellow countryman Jesse Rockowitz.

The seven remaining players have already secured at least $186,149, but they are all gunning for the bracelet and the staggering $1,162,681 up top.

Monster Stack Final Table Chip Counts:

SeatPlayerCountryChipsBig Blinds
2Jesse RockowitzUnited States94,500,00047
4Nicholas GerrityUnited States112,300,00056
5Loic DobrignaFrance47,100,00024
6Colin RobinsonUnited States47,400,00024
7Joshua AdcockUnited States43,200,00022
8Braxton DunawayUnited States54,900,00027
10Joe CadaUnited States16,600,0008
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