WSOP Updates: Day Five of the Main Event is a Sprint.
The Main Event of the WSOP was scheduled to give players plenty of play. Day four was designed to see 600 players play down to 300. Instead, day four saw 480 players start, and only 135 finish.
Day five was essentially a 'time freeroll', as the day was designed to go from 300 players down to 150. Since there were only 135 players to start the day, the tournament was a full day ahead of schedule. The chip counts were certainly big enough relative to the blinds for things to slow down.
No one told the players to slow down, however, and by the dinner break, we had lost over ½ the field, and sat at merely 65 players remaining.
After the dinner break, the players went into the usual 'food coma mania', and started busting out left and right. In the first level after dinner, we had lost another 15 players, and the field stood at only 50, or 10 less than the number that they were supposed to play down to on Tuesday.
The decision was made (reportedly by commissioner Jeffrey Pollack) to play down to 45 players, which they achieved with the elimination of Sean Johnson at about 11:30 last night.
Notables hitting the rail on day five included Annie Duke, Casey Kastle, early tournament chip leader Dmitri Nobles, and the last surviving woman in the field, Sabyl Cohen, who finished 56th.
Reportedly, the plan is to play from 45 to 27 today, and then take Tuesday off, resuming the originally planned schedule of playing from 27 to 9 on Wednesday, and then the final table on Thursday. Complete chip counts, and day five eliminations are below.
End of Day Five Chip Counts
Jamie Gold $7,330,000
Erik Friberg $5,905,000
William Thorson $3,545,000
Rhett Butler $3,210,000
Kevin Aaronson $3,190,000
Ricki Nielsen $3,120,000
Siddharth Jain $3,090,000
Michael Binger $3,045,000
Jeffrey Lisandro $2,995,000
David Einhorn $2,840,000
Jim Routos $2,775,000
Richard Lee $2,350,000
Robert Betts $2,235,000
Andrew Schreibman $2,200,000
Dan Schmiech $2,155,000
Paul Wasicka $2,055,000
Lee Kort $2,005,000
John Magill $1,955,000
Eric Lynch $1,940,000
Rob Roseman $1,845,000
Mark Garner $1,810,000
Mitch Schock $1,785,000
Kevin O'Donnell $1,600,000
Prahlad Friedman $1,600,000
Paul Raeburn $1,385,000
Eric Molina $1,360,000
Douglas Kim $1,335,000
Marc Friedmann $1,315,000
Weikai Chang $1,295,000
Allen Cunningham $1,290,000
Brian Hansen $1,230,000
Mikael Thuritz $1,185,000
Rob Berryman $1,150,000
Cuong Do $1,115,000
Dustin Holmes $1,100,000
Fred Goldberg $1,080,000
Dan Nassif $1,035,000
Kyle Bowker $885,000
Sirous Jamshidi $845,000
John Lee $805,000
Richard Wyrick $800,000
Humberto Brenes $565,000
Luke Chung $560,000
Leif Force $510,000
Lowell Kim $350,000
Players Eliminated on Day Five, and their payouts.
46th place Sean Johnson $164,932
47th Raphael Doromal $164,932
48th David Murray $164,932
49th Cheng Yu $164,932
50th Richard Gryko $164,932
51st Nicolai Vivet $164,932
52nd Michael Bower $164,932
53rd Ricardo Velasco $164,932
54th Scotty O'Reilly $164,932
55th John Ma $123,699
56th Sabyl Cohen $123,699
57th Stefan Mattsson $123,699
58th Aki Ruuskanen $123,699
59th Max Reele $123,699
60th Shannon Westbrook $123,699
61st Chris Damick $123,699
62nd Ken Jacobs $123,699
63rd Bryan Micon $123,699
64th Noah Siegel $90,713
65th Reuben Peters $90,713
66th Clint Brotherton $90,713
67th Brian Nadell $90,713
68th Vipul Kothani $90,713
69th Alan Resh $90,713
70th James Flick $90,713
71st Chris Kealy $90,713
72nd Marcello Delgrosso $90,713
73rd John Kim $65,973
74th Aaron Baltzell $65,973
75th Daniel Kreitzman $65,973
76th Dmitri Nobles $65,973
77th Anthony Fagan $65,973
78th Paramjit Gill $65,973
79th Scott Malone $65,973
80th Jean Houle $65,973
81st Sebastian Zavarshy $65,973
82nd Paul Greim $51,129
83rd Matthew Morgan $51,129
84th Shram Ravindran $51,129
85th Lasse Ubostad $51,129
86th Rick Mombourquette $51,129
87th Benjamin Logan $51,129
88th Annie Duke $51,129
89th Pat Dattilo $51,129
90th Mihail Simonsen $51,129
91st Thomas Wahlroos $51,129
92nd Barry Goren $51,129
93rd Hossein-Khodaband $51,129
94th Tony Moretina $51,129
95th Matt Woodward $51,129
96th Alan Schein $51,129
97th Davis Huynh $51,129
98th Sam Khoueis $51,129
99th Paul Coles $51,129
100th Alex Balandin $51,129
101st Iago Lopez Gonzalez $51,129
102nd Carlos Lopez $51,129
103rd Dan Abouaf $51,129
104th Walt Schafer $51,129
105th Brady Shepard $51,129
106th Mark Shanta $51,129
107th Mack Lee $51,129
108th Virgil Beddingfield $51,129
109th Steven Guodemote $51,129
110th Justin Diamond $51,129
111th Tyler Teague $51,129
112th Matt Wilson $51,129
113th Mark Petersen $51,129
114th Eric Buchman $51,129
115th David Simon $51,129
116th Steiner Karlsen $51,129
117th Debra Lalor $51,129
118th Per Erik Loeff $51,129
119th Casey Kastle $51,129
120th Kevin Daly $51,129
121st Robby Robertson $51,129
122nd Derek S. Callon $51,129
123rd Chris Back $51,129
124th Tyler Pendleton $51,129
125th Glenn Karlsen $51,129
126th Brian Kornfeld $51,129
127th Arturo Moelas $47,006
128th James Petrillo $47,006
129th Robert Taylor $47,006
130th Hakan Sahl $47,006
131st Kevin Nathan $47,006
132nd David Woo $47,006
133rd Theodore Park $47,006
134th Bart Gilliom $47,006
135th Cory Butler $47,006
