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World Series of Poker Main Event Day 4 Ends with 464 Players Left
- 464 players remain in WSOP Main Event at end of Day 4
- Stephen Song and Adrian Mateos Bag Biggest Stacks
- All former WSOP Main Event Champions Elimiated
- Eighteen Brits Left Vying for the $10m First Prize
WSOP Main Event End of Day 4 (Photo by BRIDGET BENNETT/AFP via Getty Images)
Day 4 of the World Series of Poker Main Event Ends with 464 Players Left
The fourth day of the 55th annual World Series of Poker main event ended with 464 of the 10,112 starters left in contention for the $10 million first prize.
When the day started the 1540 players who returned were just 23 places, short of the prize money.
Sadly, for those few players, there was to be no payday, and it was a tragic bubble time exit for Lucas Reeves, who had been the largest stacked British player left in the field at the start of the day.
He ran his pocket kings into pocket aces and despite having a large stack just before the hand began, he was forced to make the walk of shame as the bubble boy.
Chip Leaders at the end of Day 4 of the 2024 WSOP Main Event
The two chip leaders at the end of the four are both previous World Series of poker bracelet winners. Stephen Song, the 2022 GPI POY leads the way with 4.745m chips with Spain’s Adrian Mateos in second place on 4.5m.
In total seven players surpassed the 4 million chip barrier on the deadliest day of the event, when 70% of the remaining players were eliminated.
| Rank | Player | Chip Count | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stephen Song | 4,745,000 | United States |
| 2 | Adrian Mateos | 4,500,000 | Spain |
| 3 | Will Berry | 4,465,000 | United States |
| 4 | Aloisio Dourado | 4,335,000 | Brazil |
| 5 | Biao Ding | 4,265,000 | United States |
| 6 | Malo Latinois | 4,130,000 | United States |
| 7 | Luis Vazquez | 4,055,000 | United States |
| 8 | Nazar Buhaiov | 3,875,000 | United Kingdom |
| 9 | Kevin Theodore | 3,760,000 | United States |
| 10 | Ryan Hoenig | 3,665,000 | United States |
Former WSOP Main Event Champions All Out!
Included in the Day 4 RIP list were all four remaining former WSOP Main Event Champions, ensuring that there will be a new winner this time round. That was basically a certainty anyway, but now it’s confirmed.
The last standing former champion was Joe McKeehan, exiting in 725th place, just minutes after Koray Aldemir busted in 732nd. Robert Varkonyi in 784th and Scott Blumstein in 1,400th were the other former winners who started the day.
Faces Left in the Field
There are still many well known and successful players left vying for the ultimate prize in poker. These include many former bracelet winners, such as Jesse Lonis (2,520,000), Brandon Cantu (2,320,000) and Alex Livingston (1,995,000) who has been one of the largest stacks for the last few days of the event.
Although Daniel Negreanu was elimiated soon after the bubble burst, another GG Poker Ambassador, Ren Lin is still going strong on 1,920,000, having been uo to almost 3m chips at one point in the day.
Also still running well is ACR Poker ambassador Nacho Barbero (1,620,000) who is just ahead of Brian Rast (1,605,000).
Tony Dunst is also still playing, commanding a stack of 1,335,000, which is just above the average for the remaining players.
Bye Bye Miss American Pie
Well, they might not need to take their Chevys to the levee, as they’ve all cashed for at least $15,000 but the following players are now ex-participants in the 2024 WSOP Main Event:
1,432nd - Daniel Negreanu - $1,500
1,391st - Max Pescatori - $1,500
1.349th - Allen Cunningham - $1,500
1,324th - Tony Ma - $1,500
1,183rd - Nick Gaugenti - $17,500
1,179th - Michael Wang - $17,500
1,177th - Wing Po Liu - $17,500
1,071st - Erik Seidel - $17,500
1,003rd - Anthony Zinno - $20,000
992nd - Santos Suvarna - $ 20,000
667th - John Hennigan - $ 27,500
565th - David “ODB” Baker - $32,500
561st - Brian Hastings - $32,500
512th - Todd Brunson - $35,000
British Bust Outs
t wasn’t a great day for British Players, with most of those who started Day 4 not making it any further in the competition.
Lucas Reeves definitely has the best bad beat story, but there were likely plenty of cruel exits for 46 of the 64 British players who started the day. Both Jacob Stone and John Duthie, who were among the top five British chip counts failed to progress.
Other British players who saw their tournament come to an end, albeit in the prize money:
1,511th - Andrew Wilson - $1,500
1,423rd - Jon Shoreman - $1,500
1,392nd - John Duthie - $1,500
1,335th - Jonathan Wong - $1,500
1.259th - Luke Porter - $1,500
1,184th - Roland Boothby - $17,500
1,039th - John Kabbaj - $1,7500
864th - Martins Adeniya - $22,500
724th - Rob Sherwood - $27,500
637th - Andrew Hedley - $30,000
British Big Stacks
Guillermo Sanchez Otero, who has been well stacked throughout most of the tournament so far, is the biggest stacked of the 18 British players left in the tournament.
He bagged up the 14th biggest stack of the day, 3,285,000 and lies in 14th place overall. He is almost 1m chips ahead of 66th placed Yaroslav Shkylar, the second placed Brit remaining in the field.
Christopher Brammer is the only UK bracelet winner left in contention, with an average stacked 1.3m, while the shortest stack of the last standing Brits belongs to Ian Bradley, on 340,000.
All remaining UK Player Chip counts
| Rank | Player | Chips |
|---|---|---|
| 14 | Guillermo Sanchez Otero | 3,285,000 |
| 66 | Yaroslav Shklyar | 2,300,000 |
| 130 | Hamid Toghyan | 1,650,000 |
| 146 | Joe Hindry | 1,580,000 |
| 185 | Joe Hamilton | 1,375,000 |
| 187 | Christopher Brammer | 1,360,000 |
| 205 | Roei Siman | 1,290,000 |
| 207 | Joseph Bold | 1,290,000 |
| 210 | Ben Collins | 1,280,000 |
| 211 | Abdullah Al-Shanti | 1,275,000 |
| 251 | Iaron Lightbourne | 1,050,000 |
| 319 | Jamie Dale | 705,000 |
| 335 | Ciaran McCullagh | 650,000 |
| 360 | Taras Sopotnytskyi | 555,000 |
| 385 | Robert Bickley | 465,000 |
| 393 | Haoran Cai | 430,000 |
| 425 | Abid Riaz | 345,000 |
| 428 | Ian Bradley | 340,000 |
Day Five takes place on Thursday 11th July, when another five two-hour-long levels will be played.
See also
- Largest Ever Main Event Starting Day at WSOP
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