The Poker Players Championship is a $50,000
buy-in
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event at the
World Series of Poker
The World Series of Poker (WSOP) is a series of poker tournaments held annually in Paradise, Nevada and, since 2004, sponsored by Caesars Entertainment. It dates its origins to 1970, when Benny Binion invited seven of the best-known poker pla ...
(WSOP). Added in the
2010
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, it replaced the former $50,000
H.O.R.S.E. World Championship as the highest-stakes
mixed-games event.
It is considered among the most prestigious events on offer at the WSOP.
History
In 2006, the inaugural event was called the $50,000
H.O.R.S.E. World Championship and was the largest buy-in tournament at the World Series of Poker until the introduction of the $1,000,000
Big One for One Drop
The Big One for One Drop is a $1,000,000 buy-in No Limit Texas hold 'em tournament hosted at the World Series of Poker (WSOP). Added in 2012, it became the highest buy-in poker tournament in history as well as the largest single payout offered. T ...
in 2012.
Chip Reese
David Edward "Chip" Reese (March 28, 1951 – December 4, 2007) was an American professional poker player and gambler from Centerville, Ohio. He is widely regarded as having been the greatest cash game poker player.
Early life
Reese suff ...
defeated
Andy Bloch heads-up the in the 2006 H.O.R.S.E. World Championship to win $1,784,640 and the event's first title.
In 2007, professional poker player
Freddy Deeb
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Before poker
Deeb was attending Utah State University when civil war broke out in Lebanon in ...
defeated Bruno Fitoussi after 17 hours of final table play to win $2,276,832 and his second bracelet.
Chip Reese died in December 2007; efforts were made in 2008 to honor Reese by the WSOP which created the Chip Reese memorial trophy that each champion can hold for one year.
Scotty Nguyen
Thuận B. "Scotty" Nguyễn (born October 28, 1962) is a Vietnamese-American professional poker player who is a five-time World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner, most notably as the winner of the 1998 World Series of Poker Main Event and ...
won the 2008 tournament and received the trophy. Controversy ensued when Nguyen, intoxicated during the final table of the tournament, began berating other players, notably
Michael DeMichele
Michael DeMichele is a professional poker player from East Haven, Connecticut.
DeMichele's first major success in poker came in the 2006 United States Poker Championship Main Event, where he finished in 3rd place winning $215,194. Since then, D ...
, without receiving any penalty.
In 2010, $50,000
H.O.R.S.E. World Championship changed to the Poker Player's Championship and became the first 8-game mix version of the event. In 2015, the Poker Players Championship changed to a 10-game mix format. Unlike the previous five-game rotation of H.O.R.S.E. and the eight-game rotation that followed, the 10-game mix consisted of
limit
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2–7 triple draw
lowball, limit
Texas hold'em
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, limit
Omaha/8B, limit
razz, limit
seven-card stud
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, limit seven card stud/8B,
no-limit Texas hold'em with
antes,
pot-limit Omaha
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, badugi, and 2–7 no-limit draw lowball. The
final table
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was played out exclusively in no-limit Texas hold'em in 2010 and 2011 to appeal to television viewers.
[ The event has not televised since and has been played out in a mixed-game format for its entire duration. After declining turnout for the 10-game version in 2015, the tournament reverted to the previous 8-game format and remained that way until 2021. In 2021, no-limit 2-7 lowball draw was added back to make the tournament a 9-game mix.
]Michael Mizrachi
Michael David Mizrachi (born January 5, 1981) is an American professional poker player who won the 2010, 2012 and 2018 World Series of Poker $50,000 Players Championship. Mizrachi also has two World Poker Tour titles, and he finished 5th in the ...
became the first two-time champion after winning the event in 2010 and 2012, earning him $1,559,046 and $1,451,527 respectively. Brian Rast
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Early personal life
Rast was born in Denver, Colorado but raised in Poway, California, where he graduated as valedictorian from Poway High School in ...
became the second two-time champion after winning the event in 2011 and 2016, earning him $1,720,328 and $1,296,097 respectively. Daniel Cates
Daniel Cates (born November 14, 1989) also known as jungleman12 or w00ki3z. is a professional poker player from the United States, once considered to be one of the best heads-up No Limit Texas Hold 'em players in the world. As of 2014, his onli ...
became the third two-time champion, and first person to win the event in consecutive years after winning the event in 2021 and 2022, earning him $954,020 and $1,449,103 respectively.
At the 2018 WSOP
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, Mizrachi won the event for a record third time, defeating 2014
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champion John Hennigan heads up and winning $1,239,126.
Winners
References
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