Final Table In Wsop 50K Event Reached

As Day 4 comes to a close the elimination of Alex Kostritsyn seats the final 9 One of the biggest events in this year's World Series of Poker - the $50 000 buy-in Player's Championship - has reached a table of nine after four days of action involving 116 of the game's best players. Just before midnight Monday Vegas time the departure of Alexander Kostritsyn in tenth place after a clash with John Juanda decided the 9 survivors in the truly big money. The structure of this year's tournament, requires that the nine remaining players will continue to play all eight games until one more elimination has been made. At that point, the tournament will break for the night and the final eight will be officially recognised as the final table participants, where the mixed games regime ends and NLHE will be the deciding poker genre. This is what the chip counts looked like as InfoPowa went to press. David Baker 3,400,000 Vladimir Schmelev 2,780,000 Robert Mizrachi 2,700,000 Daniel Alaei 2,200,000 John Juanda 2,200,000 Michael Mizrachi 2,160,000 Mikael Thuritz 1,500,000 David Oppenheim 950,000 Nick Schulman 230,000 The average stack has now reached $1,933,334. On the $1 000 buy-in NLHE event tables the competition had reached level 17 when InfoPowa went to press, with 105 players still battling for supremacy. Blinds were at 3,000/6,000 with a 500 ante, and the top ten chip counts were: Men Nguyen 280,000 Marc Goldman 265,000 Drew Crawford 230,000 Jae Hwang 220,000 Andrew Youngblood 215,000 James Erickson 200,000 Horst Eilers 195,000 Matthew Kay 175,000 Jeremiah Degreef 170,000 Nancy Todd Tyner 161,000 Average stack had reached $124,143 In Event #4 - the $1 500 buy-in Omaha hi-lo 8 or better - 820 hopefls registered, and after a day's action the field was down to 297, with Oleg Shamardin heading the leader board, well ahead of Scott Epstein on 45,400, and Daniel Klein on 39,900. 81 players will cash from a prize pool of $1 104 300 in the competition. Some of the better known names still in action are Jimmy Fricke, Jeff Madsen, Erick Lindgren and Todd Brunson, but among those falling by the wayside were Jason Mercier, Daniel Negreanu, Bill Chen, Matt Savage and Tony G.
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