Why is my script skipping "if PlayersInTable[player] do"?

I've asked tons of people to get up to this point (most of the answers didn't work)

This is my script now:

print("script started")


local part = script.Parent
local Amount = script.Parent.Parent.Space1.SurfaceGui.Amount
local TPService  = game:GetService("TeleportService")
print("locals 1 started")

local PlayerInTable = {}

local PlayersToTeleport = {PlayerInTable}

local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer

Amount.Text = "0/6"

local counter = 0

local debounce = false
print("all locals started")


part.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
    if hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") then
        local character = hit.Parent
        local players = game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(character)
        table.insert(PlayerInTable, players)
        print("player is in PlayerTable")
    end

    if PlayerInTable[player] then
        print("player table script running")
        counter = counter + 1
        Amount.Text = counter.. "/6"
        wait(1) --// debounce timeout
        debounce[player] = true
        print(player.Name.. " is in table")
    else
        debounce = false
        print("player not in table")
    end
     end)

But here is the problem:

if PlayerInTable[player] then
        print("player table script running")
        counter = counter + 1
        Amount.Text = counter.. "/6"
        wait(1) --// debounce timeout
        debounce[player] = true
        print(player.Name.. " is in table")
    else
        debounce = false
        print("player not in table")
    end
     end)

but goes right to the else and prints "player not in table" why?

(most people I ask just ignore me and they dont know either soo..)