Tong Leads $50K Poker Players Championship Final Table

The $50,000 Poker Players Championship — widely considered the toughest bracelet event on the WSOP schedule — has set its final table at the Horseshoe, with one-time bracelet winner Kristopher Tong holding the chip lead at 2,428,000.

Tong, who has $1.07M in lifetime tournament earnings and five career final tables, leads a murderers' row. Right behind him: Benny Glaser (2,286,000), the British mixed-game specialist with $8.87M in lifetime cashes and 35 final tables. Two-time bracelet winner Maxx Coleman sits third at 1,917,000, followed by Matthew Glantz (1,480,000, $4.49M lifetime) and Christopher David Brewer (1,253,000), whose two bracelets and $15.5M in career earnings make him the highest-earning player at the table.

Event #57: $1,000 PLO

Day 1C of the $1,000 Pot-Limit Omaha (Event #57) ground down to 35 survivors overnight. Daniel Chan bagged the biggest stack among reported counts at 517,000, with Ali Lareybi (187,000) and Takumi Shimoda (64,000) also advancing. The remaining flights will merge for Day 2.

$250 Daily Deepstack

The $250 Daily Deepstack No-Limit Hold'em (Event #306) also reached its final nine. Steven Stillman commands the table with 6,290,000 in chips — nearly double second-place Kyungkeun Lee (3,800,000). Stillman has $29K in lifetime WSOP earnings; Lee has $14.9K. Neither has won a bracelet.