On the first hand of play, Darren Grant limped into the pot from early position and Felix Osterland raised to 50,000 from middle position. Peter Traply called from the button and when action was back to Grant, he pushed all in for a total of 485,000.
Osterland threw his hand away, but Traply called for his whole stack of about 160,000. The players showed:
Traply:
Grant:
Traply got no help from the community cards as the board ran out and he was eliminated. Darren Grant chipped up to just over 820,000 on the hand.
George Rahme moved all in for 128,000 from middle position and Greg Debora moved in his last 255,000 as well. Debora's had Rahme's dominated and after the flop Debora turned the , making the that fell on the river a moot point. Rahme has been eliminated and Debora is up to around 400,000.
As usual, we have two featured tables today-- the ESPN TV featured table on the main stage and a secondary feature just outside the Milwaukee's Best Light Lounge. Here are the lineups that will start off today under the spotlight:
Table Blue 3 - ESPN TV Featured Table
Seat 1: Sean Davis – 851,000
Seat 2: Daniel Buzgon – 775,000
Seat 3: Cristian Dragomir – 2,065,000
Seat 4: Kara Scott – 247,000
Seat 5: David Rheem – 1,851,000
Seat 6: Owen Crowe – 1,100,000
Seat 7: Mike Matusow – 458,000
Seat 8: Jeffrey Anderson – 355,000
Seat 9: Phi Nguyen – 1,500,000
Jack Effel has informed the players that the schedule for the day is to play out the rest of Level 19 (about 38 minutes), take a quick fifteen-minute break, and then play five more levels, with the dinner break occurring after the end of Level 22. He stressed that the tournament staff (and ESPN, presumably) will be evaluating the situation throughout the day to see what makes most sense.
The seating assignments for Day 5 of the 2008 WSOP $10,000 NLHE World Championship have now been announced. The 189 players are led overnight by Jeremy Joseph (2,187,000 in chips), with several other players close behind. The players will be distributed across 21 tables in the now-spacious Amazon Room. Here's the complete lineup for the start of Day 5, which begins at noon PDT on Saturday (table leaders in boldface):
(All tables in Amazon Room)
Table Blue 1
Seat 1: Tri Nguyen – 592,000
Seat 2: Dwayne Stacey – 372,000
Seat 3: Ylon Schwartz – 870,000
Seat 4: Jason Riesenberg – 735,000
Seat 5: Kyle Carlston – 265,000
Seat 6: Mark Wilds – 241,000
Seat 7: Nathan Hays – 312,000 Seat 8: Robert Hwang – 875,000
Seat 9: Nhan Le – 336,000
Table Blue 3
Seat 1: Sean Davis – 851,000
Seat 2: Daniel Buzgon – 775,000 Seat 3: Cristian Dragomir – 2,065,000
Seat 4: Kara Scott – 247,000
Seat 5: David Rheem – 1,851,000
Seat 6: Owen Crowe – 1,100,000
Seat 7: Mike Matusow – 458,000
Seat 8: Jeffrey Anderson – 355,000
Seat 9: Phi Nguyen – 1,500,000
Table Blue 5
Seat 1: Michael Carroll – 454,000
Seat 2: Alex Outhred – 1,377,000
Seat 3: Cory Albertson – 556,000
Seat 4: Robin Larsson – 590,000
Seat 5: Allen Cunningham – 1,141,000 Seat 6: Darus Suharto – 1,428,000
Seat 7: Tiffany Michelle – 909,000
Seat 8: Tim Loecke – 856,000
Seat 9: Lonnie Heimowitz – 650,000
Table Blue 11
Seat 1: Garrett Beckman – 515,000
Seat 2: Allen Carter – 413,000
Seat 3: Brad Johnson – 237,000
Seat 4: Reagan Silber – 671,000
Seat 5: Brent Sheirbon – 919,000
Seat 6: Pontus Khosravi – 629,000 Seat 7: Alexander Kostritsyn – 1,137,000
Seat 8: Andrew Brokos – 678,000
Seat 9: Anthony Clark – 397,000
Table Blue 13
Seat 1: Andy Witek – 367,000
Seat 2: Vito Branciforte – 845,000
Seat 3: Joshua Freeman – 658,000
Seat 4: David Benefield – 1,372,000
Seat 5: Dale Hoy – 850,000
Seat 6: Jamal Sawaqdeh – 1,268,000
Seat 7: Paul Snead – 1,411,000
Seat 8: William Purle – 1,022,000 Seat 9: Mark Ketteringham – 1,600,000
Table Blue 15
Seat 1: Jeremy Gaubert – 696,000
Seat 2: Jason Glass – 204,000
Seat 3: Mikael Johansson – 619,000
Seat 4: Aaron Keay – 363,000
Seat 5: Chris Zapf – 119,000
Seat 6: Joshua Norris – 207,000
Seat 7: Doug Ashmore – 471,000 Seat 8: Jonathan Plens – 1,029,000
Seat 9: Dean Hamrick – 939,000
Table Blue 21
Seat 1: Hai Bo Chu – 100,000 Seat 2: Geoffrey Herzog – 1,695,000
Seat 3: Anton Nikaj – 496,000
Seat 4: Nghia Le – 279,000
Seat 5: Adam York – 95,000
Seat 6: Markus Feurle – 796,000
Seat 7: Bob Whalen – 927,000
Seat 8: Chris Overgard – 607,000
Seat 9: Clint Schafer – 1,017,000