Tournament Notes from Day Four:
- Eight days ago, the World Series of Poker Main Event began on Thursday,
July 3rd, 2008. Day Four was played on Thursday, July 11th.
- This is the 43rd of 47 total days which comprises the vast majority
of the 2008 WSOP schedule (not counting WSOP-Europe, which takes place September
19th through October 2nd and the Main Event final table to be played November
9-10).
- Day Four started at 1:15 pm PST. The tournament began one hour later
than the normal start time (noon), due to last night's play lasting until 2:30
am.
- The number of players who started Day Four was 474.
- There were at least 118 different nations and territories represented
by all players who entered the 2008 Main Event. By contrast, there were 87 different
countries present last year. This represents a 36 percent increase in international
participation.
- The 2008 WSOP Main Event winner will collect $9,119,517 in prize money.
The minimum payout is $21,230.
- ESPN designated two -feature- tables. The table on the main
stage included 1989 world champion Phil Hellmuth. The secondary feature table
was located off to the side and included five-time WSOP gold bracelet winner
Allen Cunningham. Tables were changed multiple times during the day.
- All seat assignments and re-draws at the WSOP are completely random.
However, ESPN selects -feature- tables each day, which are presumably
tables with the greatest public interest. Those two tables are then transferred
to the main and secondary stages.
- The average stack at the start of the day was 288,766 in chips.
- The day began with the traditional -Shuffle Up and Deal- announcement
from the tournament floor. The honor went to Jenna Phillips, who works as a
WSOP dealer. Phillips won this year's -WSOP Dealer of the Year- award.
She was presented with a special-edition ladies watch made by Corum, valued
at over $4,000. She will also be one of the six dealers selected to deal at
the Main Event final table in November.
- Only two former WSOP Main Event champions continued play on Day Four
-- Johnny Chan and Phil Hellmuth. Chan busted out. Therefore, Hellmuth remains
the only former champion still alive in the tournament.
- 1987 and 1988 world champion Johnny Chan was eliminated about two hours
into play. He ended up finishing in 329th place. This marked Chan's first time
since 1992 that he has cashed in the WSOP Main Event. He now has five lifetime
cashes in the world championship. All four of his previous finishes included
a final table appearance.
- 1989 world champion Phil Hellmuth survived the day. He currently ranks
in 106th place.
- Only one former Main Event runner-up played on this day - Glenn Cozen.
He finished second to Jim Bechtel in the 1993 WSOP. Cozen was eliminated and
finished in 200th place.
- The number of players remaining out of the initial 474 players who started
play on Day Four is 189. This means only 40 percent of the field survived from
the start of the day. Only 2.7 percent of the field remains among those who
started this tournament.
- Jeremy Joseph remains as the End of Day Four chip leader. He is 23-years-old
and plays poker professionally. Joseph is from Buffalo, New York. He was the
first player in the tournament to cross the 1M and 2M threshold. He currently
has 2,187,000 in chips, slightly ahead of two Eastern European players - Nikolay
Losev (Moscow, Russia) and Cristian Dragomir (Bucharest, Romania).
- The chip leader coming into the start of Day Four was Jeremy Joseph.
He approximately doubled his stack on this day.
- The chip leader coming into the start of Day Three was Brian Schaedlich,
from Cleveland, Ohio. He was eliminated on this day and settled for 456th place.
He collected $27,020.
- As Day Five begins, there are at least three female players remaining
in the Main Event. They are: Tiffany Michelle (Los Angeles, CA), Karen Manfrede
(Santa Monica, CA), and Lisa Parsons (Franklin, TN). It is estimated that 209
female players participated in the 2008 WSOP Main Event.
- Former WSOP gold bracelet winners who were eliminated on this day include
- Robert Mizrachi, Chris Bjorin, Mike Wattel, Frankie O'Dell, Cliff Josephy,
Jason Lester, Johnny Chan, Pat Poels, and Steve Billirakis.
- Eleven former WSOP gold bracelet winners are still in contention. This
list includes - Phi Nguyen, Brandon Cantu. Mark Vos, Gus Hansen, Allen Cunningham,
Jeff Madsen, Phil Hellmuth, Mike Matusow, Thomas Keller, Hoyt Corkins, and Jon
Friedberg.
- The last remaining player from last year's final table to be eliminated
was Hevad Khan, who settled for 240th place.
- With his 452nd-place finish in this tournament, two-time WSOP gold bracelet
winner Chris Bjorin now has 42 lifetime cashes, which ranks 13th on the all-time
list.
- All players who started play on Day Four were guaranteed at least $27,020
in prize money. All players who survived Day Four are now guaranteed at least
$38,600.
- With his guaranteed in-the-money finish in this event, 11-time gold
bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth extended his record for the most all-time cashes
in WSOP history - with 68.
- Coming into this year's WSOP, the current longest streak of cashes in
the Main Event was held by Theodore Park - with three. He cashed again this
year, taking 284th place. Park now has four consecutive cashes in the Main Event
- the longest current streak of anyone.
- WSOP Academy instructor Alex Outhred played on this day. He currently
ranks 18th in the chip count.
- There are 26 different nations represented among the Day Four survivors.
The most players from any nation aside from the United States come from England
- with 12 contenders still in the tournament. Nations still alive with players
include: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark,
England, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy, Monaco, Netherlands,
Panama, Romania, Russia, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Venezuela, and the
United States.
- There are 65 non-American players out of the remaining 189 in the field,
which means 34 percent of the players still in contention are international
players.
- Play was suspended with 38:47 remaining in Level 19. This was done because
play was ahead of schedule and players had played more than 14 hours the previous
day. Day Four concluded at 11:45 pm PST.
- Day Five begins Saturday, July 12th at 12:00 noon.
- When play resumes on Day Five, Level 21 will begin with blinds set at
8,000-16,000 and antes at 2,000.
- Day Five is expected to include five levels of play. Therefore, play
will most likely end following completion of Level 24.
- This is the largest World Series of Poker in history. A grand total
of 58,720 players entered into 55 gold bracelet events surpassed last year's
number of entries, which was 54,288. These figures represent an 8 percent increase
over 2007.
- This was the richest World Series of Poker in history. A grand total
of $180,676,248 in prize money awarded in 2008 makes this the richest event
in all of sports. Note: This figure does not include the upcoming four events
to be played at WSOP-Europe. These figures represent an increase of 13 percent
over 2007.
- This ranks as the second-largest live poker tournament in history. This
year's turnout surpassed 2007 attendance (6,358) by 7.4 percent. Only the 2006
WSOP Main Event was larger than this tournament -- with 8,773 entrants.
- This is the second-largest tournament prize pool in history. The total
prize pool amounts to $64,333,600. The top 666 finishers will collect prize
money.
- The full payout list for the Main Event (all places) is as follows:
$9,119,517 1st
$5,790,024 2nd
$4,503,352 3rd
$3,763,515 4th
$3,088,012 5th
$2,412,510 6th
$1,769,174 7th
$1,286,672 8th
$900,670 9th
$591,869 10th-12th
$463,201 13-15
$334,534 16-18
$257,334 19-27
$193,000 28-36
$154,400 37-45
$135,100 46-54
$115,800 55-63
$96,500 64-72
$77,200 73-81
$64,333 82-90
$51,466 91-99
$41,816 100-162
$38,600 163-225
$35,383 226-288
$32,166 289-351
$28,950 352-414
$27,020 415-477
$25,090 478-540
$23,160 541-603
$21,230 604-666
| First
Name |
Last Name |
Chip Count |
Table |
Seat |
| Jeremy |
Joseph |
2,187,000 |
G06 |
01 |
| Nikolay |
Losev |
2,110,000 |
B41 |
05 |
| Cristian |
Dragomir |
2,065,000 |
B03 |
03 |
| Brandon |
Cantu |
1,981,000 |
B33 |
02 |
| Lanini |
Davor |
1,958,000 |
G03 |
07 |
| David |
Rheem |
1,851,000 |
B03 |
05 |
| Andrew |
Rosskamm |
1,764,000 |
B31 |
05 |
| James |
McManus |
1,761,000 |
G05 |
05 |
| Geoffrey |
Herzog |
1,695,000 |
B21 |
02 |
| Albert |
Kim |
1,688,000 |
B45 |
03 |
| Mark |
Ketteringham |
1,600,000 |
B13 |
09 |
| Shahram |
Sheikhan |
1,516,000 |
B43 |
03 |
| Phi |
Nguyen |
1,500,000 |
B03 |
09 |
| Felix |
Osterland |
1,491,000 |
B33 |
07 |
| Darius |
Suharto |
1,428,000 |
B05 |
06 |
| Paul |
Snead |
1,411,000 |
B13 |
07 |
| Nicholas |
Sliwinski |
1,408,000 |
G05 |
04 |
| Alex |
Outhred |
1,377,000 |
B05 |
02 |
| Mark |
Vos |
1,373,000 |
B35 |
05 |
| David |
Benefield |
1,372,000 |
B13 |
04 |
| Gus |
Hansen |
1,367,000 |
G06 |
05 |
| Jason |
Su |
1,360,000 |
G03 |
05 |
| Victor |
Ramdin |
1,322,000 |
G04 |
09 |
| Keith |
Ferrera |
1,268,000 |
G08 |
03 |
| Jamal |
Sawaqdeh |
1,268,000 |
B13 |
06 |
| Jose |
Barbero |
1,255,000 |
B41 |
09 |
| Robert |
Ford |
1,213,000 |
G10 |
06 |
| Mao |
Qiu |
1,200,000 |
G05 |
01 |
| Justin |
Sadauskas |
1,160,000 |
B25 |
05 |
| Anthony |
Scherer |
1,157,000 |
B31 |
01 |
| Allen |
Cunningham |
1,141,000 |
B05 |
05 |
| Alexander |
Kostritsyn |
1,137,000 |
B11 |
07 |
| Peter |
Neff |
1,127,000 |
B43 |
06 |
| Matt |
Matros |
1,126,000 |
B31 |
04 |
| Scott |
Montgomery |
1,117,000 |
G04 |
04 |
| Jerry |
Martin |
1,112,000 |
B43 |
07 |
| Owen |
Crowe |
1,100,000 |
B03 |
06 |
| Judet |
Cristian |
1,096,000 |
B45 |
09 |
| Craig |
Marquis |
1,080,000 |
B45 |
02 |
| Karle |
Wilson |
1,070,000 |
B35 |
09 |
| Santeri |
Valikoski |
1,069,000 |
B23 |
04 |
| Cedric |
Kolstad |
1,032,000 |
B23 |
07 |
| Jonathan |
Plens |
1,029,000 |
B15 |
08 |
| Andrew |
Teng |
1,024,000 |
B25 |
02 |
| William |
Purle |
1,022,000 |
B13 |
08 |
| Clint |
Schafer |
1,017,000 |
B21 |
09 |
| Jeff |
Kimber |
987,000 |
B35 |
03 |
| Robert |
Betts |
969,000 |
G06 |
03 |
| Jeremiah |
Smith |
955,000 |
B23 |
06 |
| Terry |
Stewart |
946,000 |
G03 |
06 |
| Ivan |
Demidov |
942,000 |
G10 |
04 |
| Joe |
Bishop |
940,000 |
B41 |
06 |
| Dean |
Hamrick |
939,000 |
B15 |
09 |
| Geert |
Jans |
937,000 |
B23 |
08 |
| Bob |
Whalen |
927,000 |
B21 |
07 |
| Brent |
Sheirbon |
919,000 |
B11 |
05 |
| Brian |
Tatum |
919,000 |
B41 |
02 |
| Tiffany |
Michelle |
909,000 |
B05 |
07 |
| Terry |
Lade |
900,000 |
G03 |
01 |
| Chris |
Crilly |
896,000 |
G06 |
07 |
| Dan |
Assor |
888,000 |
G04 |
01 |
| Robert |
Hwang |
875,000 |
B01 |
08 |
| Suresh |
Prabhu |
871,000 |
G06 |
09 |
| Ylon |
Schwartz |
870,000 |
B01 |
03 |
| Aditya |
Agarwal |
861,000 |
B41 |
07 |
| Tim |
Loecke |
856,000 |
B05 |
08 |
| Sean |
Davis |
851,000 |
B03 |
01 |
| Dave |
Hoy |
850,000 |
B13 |
05 |
| Vito |
Branciforte |
845,000 |
B13 |
02 |
| Jamal |
Kunbuz |
837,000 |
G03 |
08 |
| Joel |
Fischbein |
836,000 |
B31 |
06 |
| Larry |
Wright |
826,000 |
G08 |
06 |
| Mauro |
Lupo |
821,000 |
G06 |
04 |
| Dennis |
Phillips |
801,000 |
G08 |
04 |
| Markus |
Feurie |
796,000 |
B21 |
06 |
| Alfredo |
Fernandez |
787,000 |
B23 |
09 |
| David |
Saab |
776,000 |
B33 |
08 |
| Daniel |
Buzgon |
775,000 |
B03 |
02 |
| Jason |
Riesenberg |
735,000 |
B01 |
04 |
| Adam |
Levy |
720,000 |
B45 |
07 |
| Alan |
Gould |
713,000 |
B23 |
01 |
| Rafael |
Caiaffa |
697,000 |
G08 |
05 |
| Jeremy |
Gaubert |
696,000 |
B15 |
01 |
| Jeff |
Madsen |
690,300 |
B25 |
03 |
| Peter |
Eastgate |
690,000 |
B33 |
06 |
| Eric |
Bamer |
689,000 |
B35 |
01 |
| Andrew |
Brooks |
678,000 |
B11 |
08 |
| Barry |
Leventhal |
675,000 |
B33 |
04 |
| Reagan |
Silber |
671,000 |
B11 |
04 |
| Joshua |
Freeman |
658,000 |
B13 |
03 |
| Keoni |
Schwartz |
651,000 |
G10 |
03 |
| Lonnie |
Heimowitz |
650,000 |
B05 |
09 |
| Garth |
Paul |
647,000 |
G05 |
02 |
| Justin |
Scott |
639,000 |
B31 |
03 |
| Kelly |
Kim |
637,000 |
G03 |
09 |
| Pontus |
Khosravi |
629,000 |
B11 |
06 |
| Diren |
Yildiz |
625,000 |
B45 |
04 |
| Mikael |
Johansson |
619,000 |
B15 |
03 |
| Jens |
Klaning |
611,000 |
G04 |
06 |
| Niklas |
Flisberg |
610,000 |
B25 |
08 |
| Reggie |
Lyons |
609,000 |
G06 |
08 |
| Chris |
Overgard |
607,000 |
B21 |
08 |
| Chris |
Klodnicki |
600,000 |
B41 |
04 |
| Tri |
Nguyen |
592,000 |
B01 |
01 |
| Robin |
Larsson |
590,000 |
B05 |
04 |
| Phil |
Hellmuth |
581,000 |
B33 |
03 |
| Mark |
Owens |
577,000 |
G05 |
03 |
| Evan |
Jarvis |
563,000 |
B31 |
02 |
| Cory |
Albertson |
556,000 |
B05 |
03 |
| Justin |
St. John |
552,000 |
G06 |
02 |
| Craig |
Stein |
523,000 |
G06 |
06 |
| Garrett |
Beckman |
515,000 |
B11 |
01 |
| Tsaoussis |
Charalampos |
506,000 |
B45 |
08 |
| Cornel |
Pazai |
506,000 |
B35 |
08 |
| Raja |
Kattamuri |
499,000 |
G05 |
08 |
| Anton |
Nikaj |
496,000 |
B21 |
03 |
| Stephen |
Kenna |
495,000 |
G05 |
06 |
| Aaron |
Gordon |
493,000 |
B33 |
01 |
| Jeffrey |
Papola |
493,000 |
B35 |
02 |
| Darrin |
Grant |
491,000 |
B33 |
05 |
| Greg |
Byard |
476,000 |
B31 |
08 |
| Doug |
Ashmore |
471,000 |
B15 |
07 |
| Tim |
Taylor |
470,000 |
B43 |
05 |
| Mike |
Matusow |
458,000 |
B03 |
07 |
| Michael |
Carroll |
454,000 |
B05 |
01 |
| Andy |
Schulte |
454,000 |
B31 |
09 |
| Sarkis |
Akopyan |
442,000 |
B43 |
01 |
| Allen |
Kennedy |
429,000 |
B41 |
03 |
| Allen |
Carter |
413,000 |
B11 |
02 |
| Keith |
Hawkins |
406,000 |
B35 |
04 |
| Sylvain |
Coeur |
405,000 |
B43 |
04 |
| Kellen |
Hunter |
399,000 |
G08 |
01 |
| Anthony |
Clark |
397,000 |
B11 |
09 |
| Deng |
Dong |
388,000 |
G04 |
07 |
| Chip |
Jett |
386,000 |
G08 |
02 |
| Yde |
van Deutekon |
384,000 |
G05 |
09 |
| Dwayne |
Stacey |
372,000 |
B01 |
02 |
| Marc |
Podell |
369,000 |
B25 |
09 |
| Andy |
Witek |
367,000 |
B13 |
01 |
| Aaron |
Keay |
363,000 |
B15 |
04 |
| Patrick |
Zamarian |
357,000 |
G10 |
09 |
| Jeffrey |
Anderson |
355,000 |
B03 |
08 |
| Brandon |
Becker |
348,000 |
B45 |
06 |
| Lisa |
Parsons |
348,000 |
G08 |
07 |
| Nhan |
Le |
336,000 |
B01 |
09 |
| Matthew |
Jensen |
320,000 |
B45 |
01 |
| Charles |
Dolan |
319,000 |
B41 |
08 |
| Kido |
Pham |
317,000 |
B41 |
01 |
| Nathan |
Hays |
312,000 |
B01 |
07 |
| Jesse |
McEuen |
309,000 |
B43 |
08 |
| Matt |
Lessinger |
308,000 |
G03 |
03 |
| Hoyt |
Corkins |
305,000 |
G10 |
01 |
| Bernie |
Koerner |
300,000 |
G10 |
07 |
| Will |
Brewin |
285,000 |
G04 |
03 |
| Nghia |
Le |
279,000 |
B21 |
04 |
| Gert |
Andersen |
277,000 |
B31 |
07 |
| Tom |
Cope |
275,000 |
B25 |
07 |
| Helge |
Pedersen |
272,000 |
B23 |
03 |
| Kyle |
Carlston |
265,000 |
B01 |
05 |
| Peter |
Traply |
260,000 |
B33 |
09 |
| Minna |
Ritakorpi |
257,000 |
B35 |
06 |
| Greg |
Debora |
255,000 |
G10 |
08 |
| Thomas |
Keller |
251,000 |
B23 |
02 |
| Graddus |
Terwiss Cha Van |
249,000 |
G04 |
02 |
| Kara |
Scott |
247,000 |
B03 |
04 |
| Mark |
Wilds |
241,000 |
B01 |
06 |
| Brad |
Johnson |
237,000 |
B11 |
03 |
| Cort |
Kibler-Melby |
235,000 |
B23 |
05 |
| Lou |
Esposito |
233,000 |
B43 |
09 |
| Petteri |
Pirinen |
222,000 |
G03 |
04 |
| Ben |
Roberts |
214,000 |
G04 |
05 |
| Stephane |
Hornet |
207,000 |
G08 |
09 |
| Joshua |
Norris |
207,000 |
B15 |
06 |
| Jason |
Glass |
204,000 |
B15 |
02 |
| Steve |
Pestal |
200,300 |
G08 |
08 |
| Chris |
Barrile |
200,000 |
B25 |
06 |
| Karen |
Manfrede |
195,000 |
G04 |
08 |
| Noah |
Kawashige |
177,000 |
B25 |
01 |
| Alex |
Tinsley |
168,000 |
G05 |
07 |
| James |
Mills |
167,000 |
B35 |
07 |
| Neil |
Sweeting |
160,000 |
G10 |
02 |
| Jerry |
Cusick |
156,000 |
B45 |
05 |
| Jonathan |
Friedberg |
140,000 |
B43 |
02 |
| Chad |
Layne |
140,000 |
G03 |
02 |
| Anthony |
Meeker |
130,000 |
B25 |
04 |
| George |
Rahme |
128,000 |
G10 |
05 |
| Christopher |
Zapf |
119,000 |
B15 |
05 |
| Hai Bo |
Chu |
100,000 |
B21 |
01 |
| Adam |
York |
95,000 |
B21 |
05 |
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