With 5 gamers remaining within the World Collection of Poker $50,000 Gamers Championship, Daniel Negreanu is seeking to finish an 11-year bracelet drought and put his title on the Chip Reese memorial trophy. However Chris Brewer, the most effective and most profitable excessive stakes match gamers on the earth, is standing in his manner.
And Brewer has a lot of the chips.
“It’s thrilling. I’ve simply been actually lucky and had numerous good runouts. I’m not going to attempt to consider it an excessive amount of, both manner and simply hope that retains taking place,” Brewer informed WSOP reporters on the shut of play. “It will be a cool one. It’s not one thing I attempt to consider an excessive amount of till after. The one factor I care about is the subsequent hand I’m going to play tomorrow. I’ll fear about anything when the match is completed.”
Brewer leads the final 5 gamers with 26 huge blinds, however Negreanu is true behind him with 19. The opposite three gamers, Dylan Smith (10 bigs), Bryce Yockey (9 bigs), and David Benyamine (2 bigs) have loads of work to do to get into title rivalry.
The tourney resumes at 2 p.m. Las Vegas time. Play ended somewhat after 3 a.m. this morning.
Negreanu hasn’t received a WSOP bracelet since 2013, and he hasn’t received one in Las Vegas since 2008. It’s a drought that noticed him end second six occasions, third six occasions, fourth thrice, fifth 4 occasions, six 5 occasions, seventh as soon as, eighth 4 occasions, and ninth one other six occasions.
Brewer received each of his WSOP bracelets final 12 months, his first coming within the $250,000 buy-in occasion for $5,293,556. He additionally received the $10,000 2-7 Lowball championship for $367,599. Most of his $23 million in lifetime winnings got here by taking down high-roller occasions.
Negreanu ended the evening second in chips after rivering a straight flush in opposition to Yockey’s made full home throughout a spherical of Pot Restrict Omaha, whereas Brewer vaulted to the highest after knocking out Johannes Becker.
The ultimate 5 gamers have been a part of a dozen who made it by means of to Day 4. They have been a number of the finest and most embellished gamers who’re at present enjoying and included current bracelet winner Phil Ivey, three-time Gamers Champion Michael Mizrachi, excessive stakes champion Jeremy Ausmus, and Portuguese celebrity Joao Vieira.
This occasion started in 2006 because the $50,000 HORSE championship and was received by Chip Reese, a legendary participant who was inducted into the Poker Corridor of Fame in 1991 on the age of 40. He handed away in December of 2007, and in 2008, the WSOP honored his reminiscence by making a trophy in his title that goes to the winner of this occasion.
The title of the occasion was modified to The Gamers Championship in 2008, and the variety of poker varieties used was expanded to eight. In 2010, it went to a ten sport mixture of restrict 2–7 triple draw lowball, restrict Texas maintain’em, Pot Restrict Omaha 8OB, Razz, seven-card stud, seven card stud 8OB, no-limit Texas maintain’em, Pot Restrict Omaha, badugi, and a pair of–7 no-limit draw lowball.
This 12 months’s occasion introduced in 89 entries.
