WSOP ME Daily Dose: 12th July

By Simon Hopper

12th July

Who is still gunning for the $9.1million?

We started Day 4 with 474 players and ended it with just 189. Everyone left in is guaranteed at least $38,600 for their efforts but the big stacks will be eyeing up that $9.1million first prize already with every passing double-up.

Jeremy Joseph leads the way with just over 2.1million chips but tucked in behind are a number of big names intent on landing the ultimate prize. Among those going very well are David ‘Raptor’ Benefield (1.3 million), Gus Hansen (1.3million), Allen Cunningham (1.1million), Jeff Kimber (980,000), Phil Hellmuth (580,000), Mike Matusow (450,000) & Ben Roberts (214,000).

Benefield has been moaning about his lack of luck in live tournaments but like Phil Galfond in the PLO re-buys he now has a chance to show the world just how good he really is.

But Hansen & Cunningham both know how to close out a tournament and the prospect of a mouth-watering final table may just be starting to take shape.

Among the big bustos today were Jon Turner, Thierry van den Berg, Evelyn Ng, Hevad Khan, Dag Martin Mikkelsen, Maya Antonius, Johnny Chan, Bertrand ‘ElkY’ Grospellier, Dave Colclough & Jean-Robert Bellande.

A chip count list of those returning for Day 5 is listed below:

Jeremy Joseph	2187000
Nikolay Losev	2110000
Cristian Dragomir	2065000
Brandon Cantu	1981000
Davor Lanini	1958000
David Rheem	1851000
Andrew Rosskamm	1764000
James McManus	1761000
Geoffrey Herzog	1695000
Albert Kim	1688000
Mark Ketteringham	1600000
Shawn Sheikhan	1516000
Phi Nguyen	1500000
Felix Osterland	1491000
Darus Suharto	1428000
Paul Snead	1411000
Nicholas Sliwinski	1408000
Alex Outhred	1377000
Mark Vos	1373000
David Benefield	1372000
Gus Hansen	1367000
Jason Su	1360000
Victor Ramdin	1322000
Jamal Sawaqdeh	1268000
Keith Ferrera	1268000
Jose Barbero	1255000
Robert Ford	1213000
Mao Qiu	1200000
Justin Sadauskas	1160000
Anthony Scherer	1157000
Allen Cunningham	1141000
Alexander Kostritsyn	1137000
Peter Neff	1127000
Matt Matros	1126000
Scott Montgomery	1117000
Jerry Martin	1112000
Owen Crowe	1100000
Judet Cristian	1096000
Craig Marquis	1080000
Karle Wilson	1070000
Santeri Valikoski	1069000
Cedric Kolstad	1032000
Jonathan Plens	1029000
Andrew Teng	1024000
William Purle	1022000
Clint Schafer	1017000
Jeff Kimber	987000
Robert Betts	969000
Jeremiah Smith	955000
Terry Stewart	946000
Ivan Demidov	942000
Joe Bishop	940000
Dean Hamrick	939000
Geert Jans	937000
Bob Whalen	927000
Brent Sheirbon	919000
Brian Tatum	919000
Tiffany Michelle	909000
Terry Lade	900000
Chris Crilly	896000
Dan Assor	888000
Robert Hwang	875000
Suresh Prabhu	871000
Ylon Schwartz	870000
Aditya Agarwal	861000
Tim Loecke	856000
Sean Davis	851000
Dale Hoy	850000
Vito Branciforte	845000
Jamal Kunbuz	837000
Joel Fischbein	836000
Larry Wright	826000
Mauro Lupo	821000
Dennis Phillips	801000
Markus Feurle	796000
Alfredo Fernandez	787000
David Saab	776000
Daniel Buzgon	775000
Jason Riesenberg	735000
Adam Levy	720000
Alan Gould	713000
Rafael Caiaffa	697000
Jeremy Gaubert	696000
Jeff Madsen	690300
Peter Eastgate	690000
Eric Bamer	689000
Andrew Brokos	678000
Barry Leventhal	675000
Reagan Silber	671000
Joshua Freeman	658000
Keoni Schwartz	651000
Lonnie Heimowitz	650000
Garth Paul	647000
Justin Scott	639000
Kelly Kim	637000
Pontus Khosravi	629000
Diren Yildiz	625000
Mikael Johansson	619000
Jens Klaning	611000
Niklas Flisberg	610000
Reggie Lyons	609000
Chris Overgard	607000
Chris Klodnicki	600000
Tri Nguyen	592000
Robin Larsson	590000
Phil Hellmuth	581000
Mark Owens	577000
Evan Jarvis	563000
Cory Albertson	556000
Justin St John	552000
Craig Stein	523000
Garrett Beckman	515000
Charalampos Tsaoussis	506000
Cornel Pazai	506000
Raja Kattamuri	499000
Anton Nikaj	496000
Stephen Kenna	495000
Aaron Gordon	493000
Jeffrey Papola	493000
Darren Grant	491000
Greg Byard	476000
Doug Ashmore	471000
Tim Taylor	470000
Mike Matusow	458000
Andy Schultz	454000
Michael Carroll	454000
Sarkis Akopyan	442000
Allen Kennedy	429000
Allen Carter	413000
Keith Hawkins	406000
Sylvain Coeur	405000
Kellen Hunter	399000
Tony Clark	397000
Deng Dong	388000
Chip Jett	386000
Yde van Deutekom	384000
Dwayne Stacey	372000
Marc Podell	369000
Andy Witek	367000
Aaron Keay	363000
Patrick Zamarian	357000
Jeffrey Anderson	355000
Brandon Becker	348000
Lisa Parsons	348000
Tommy Le	336000
Matthew Jensen	320000
Charles Dolan	319000
Kido Pham	317000
Nathan Hays	312000
Jesse McEuen	309000
Matt Lessinger	308000
Hoyt Corkins	305000
Bernie Koerner	300000
Will Brewin	285000
Nghia Le	279000
Gert Anderson	277000
Tom Cope	275000
Helge Pedersen	272000
Kyle Carlston	265000
Peter Traply	260000
Minna Ritakorpi	257000
Greg Debora	255000
Thomas Keller	251000
Graddus Terwiss Cha Van	249000
Kara Scott	247000
Mark Wilds	241000
Brad Johnson	237000
Cort Kibler-Melby	235000
Lou Esposito	233000
Petteri Pirinen	222000
Ben Roberts	214000
Joshua Norris	207000
Stephane Hornet	207000
Jason Glass	204000
Steve Pestal	200300
Chris Barrile	200000
Karen Manfrede	195000
Noah Kawashige	177000
Alex Tinsley	168000
James Mills	167000
Neil Sweeting	160000
Jerry Cusick	156000
Chad Layne	140000
Jon Friedberg	140000
Anthony Meeker	130000
George Rahme	128000
Chris Zapf	119000
Hai Bo Chu	100000
Adam York	95000