Wednesday marks the play down day of the $50,000 buy-in Poker Player’s Championship at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. Twenty-five players remain and we’re still 10 places away from popping the money bubble. First place is scheduled to make $1.7 million and the top two will earn seven-figure paydays. There are still a few PocketFivers left.

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Don Nguyen leads the way entering the tournament’s play down day with a stack of just over 2.0 million. Among the final eliminations of Day 3 was former World Poker Tour Championship winner David Chiu, who went out during 2-7 Triple Draw play on Tuesday at the hands of Bryn BrynKenney Kenney. Chiu wound up with a 10 on the last draw, whereas Kenney found an eight, and Chiu was sent packing. Kenney ended the day in 11th place with a stack of 906,000.

Just before that hand, Kenney sent Erik Sagstrom to the rail during Limit Hold’em. All of the money went in before the flop, with Kenney holding K-2 of diamonds to Sagstrom’s 7-6 of hearts. Kenney hit bottom pair and a flush draw on the flop, but Sagstrom found a seven on the turn to take the lead. In a dramatic finish, Kenney spiked a flush on the river to send Sagstrom packing in the final 40 minutes of Tuesday’s play.

In a battle of former Main Event champions, Joe Hachem had all of his chips in pre-flop during No Limit Hold’em against PokerStarspro Jonathan Duhamel (pictured). Hachem held pocket queens and was ahead against Duhamel’s A-9. Duhamel found a nine on the flop, but wouldn’t get any closer and Hachem doubled. Duhamel ended the day in eighth place with a stack of 1.0 million, while Hachem is in 16th place with 425,000.

PocketFiver Mike goleafsgoehLeah (pictured at top of article) relegated Adam Friedman to the rail in the waning moments of Tuesday’s play to make the play down day with a top 10 stack. Leah hit a set of aces during Pot Limit Omaha, leaving Friedman out in the cold.

Here are the remaining players in the WSOP Poker Player’s Championship:

1. Don Nguyen – 2,059,000
2. Mike Gorodinsky – 1,650,000
3. Minh Ly – 1,458,000
4. Michael Glick – 1,130,000
5. John Hennigan – 1,085,000
6. David Benyamine – 1,052,000
7. Troy Burkholder – 1,047,000
8. Jonathan Duhamel – 1,038,000
9. Mike goleafsgoehLeah – 980,000
10. Matthew Ashton – 912,000
11. Bryn BrynKenneyKenney – 906,000
12. George Danzer – 779,000
13. Huck Seed – 690,000
14. Greg Mueller – 555,000
15. Tommy Hang – 450,000
16. Joe Hachem – 425,000
17. Kevin Song – 392,000
18. David Bach – 346,000
19. Gary Benson – 338,000
20. Joe Cassidy – 299,000
21. Stephen stevie444 Chidwick – 291,000
22. Max Pescatori – 246,000
23. Erick Lindgren – 165,000
24. Justin Boosted J Smith – 163,000
25. John Juanda – 89,000

The tournament resumes on Wednesday at 2:00pm Pacific Time and will continue until the final eight-handed table is set. Check out our WSOP coverageof online poker players for more details, sponsored by BetVictor.

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