 So, the big pressure of not finishing in the money gone, we had a wonderful day to look forward to. 474 players were trying to survive, 189 succeeded. There were still 4 Liquidpoker-players at the beginning of the day, unfortunately for Evan McNiff (FrinkX), Hevad Khan (RainKhan) and Bertrand Grospellier (ElkY), it just didn't happen for them. FrinkX was the first to go out, but I've got no info on how he busted unfortunately. His 373th place earned him $28,950 . Elky got busted just a few minutes after that, on 370th place with KK vs AQo, the  on the flop ended his Main Event also earned him $28,950 . I'm not sure how it happened, but RainKhan got knocked out 240th, giving him $35,383 . Unfortunately we won't be seeing them back tomorrow, but still, well done for finishing in the money!
So, 4 LP-players started, that leaves 1, right? Yes it does, Justin St John, aka NMcNasty, is still in with 552.000 chips, which is about 200k below average, but still more than enough to take a shot at the big money (blinds are 5k/10k, so over 50 big blinds left to play with). So, who else is still playing? Just a few of the notable players, listed in order of stacksize, from 1.5mln chips to 300k: Shawn Sheikhan, Mark Vos, Gus Hansen, Victor Ramdin, Allen Cunningham, Jeff Madsen, Phil Hellmuth, Mike Matusow, Kido Pham and Hoyt Corkins. Phil Hellmuth is the only former Main Event-winner still in.
We still have the same chipleader as yesterday, Jeremy Joseph (see picture above) who expanded is lead from 1.45mln to 2.18 million chips. Out of yesterday's top 5, only Dag Martin Mikkelsen got knocked out.
Chipcounts:
1. Jeremy Joseph 2,187,000
2. Nikolay Losev 2,110,000
3. Cristian Dragomir 2,065,000
4. Brandon Cantu 1,981,000
5. Davor Lanini 1,958,000
6. David Rheem 1,851,000
7. Andrew Rosskamm 1,764,000
8. James McManus 1,761,000
9. Geoffrey Herzog 1,695,000
10. Albert Kim 1,688,000
 NMcNasty is on a tough table for day 5. Having the bigstack to your right is quite nice, but not being on the same table as the tournaments chipleader (Jeremy Joseph) and one of the best players still in the tournament (Gus Hansen) and starting with the 2nd shortest stack at the table isn't really what you hoped for. But there's still enough room to play, and we wish John the best of luck.
He'll be playing at Table Green 6:
Jeremy Joseph 2,187,000
Justin St John 552,000
Robert Betts 969,000
Mauro Lupo 821,000
Gus Hansen (see picture) 1,367,000
Craig Stein 523,000
Chris Crilly 896,000
Reggie Lyons 609,000
Suresh Prabhu 871,000
Day 5 will start around noon, after which we'll play the remainder of blindslevel 19 (which is 39 minutes). After that they'll play about 5 levels, which is 10 hours of poker, so they'll start with 5k/10k blinds and end with about 15k/30k blinds. Live updates can be found here. There's also a WSOP Main Event thread at the forums.
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Netherlands. Jul 12 2008 11:53. Posts 7080
