WSOP Day 3 & 4
- Filed under: Tournaments
- Date: Jul 15,2008
Day 3
The WSOP continues to be fiercely fought and it is still unclear what will happen, but one thing is for sure. Many players will succumb to the contest and drop out. Now we are into Day 3 everything just gets fiercer and fiercer, and it seems like the numbers are dropping considerably.
This is day 42 of 47 days total and today sees 1308 players enter the fold. Remarkably, of those 1308 players, a great many were from different countries. This is a major increase over last year – and it can prove only one thing: the popularity of online poker.
666 is the number of people who will take home prize money. This means 642 players will not take any winnings home today and leave empty handed until next year.
But how did they perform? Of them all Chris Moneymaker lost his form and was seen exiting after just 6 minutes of play. For the former champion, this must be a real disappointment but for many others I’m sure it is a relief.
Today was a fierce brawl for many poker players, and the remaining field is only 474. This is down from 6844 entrants and just goes to show how fierce this tournament is.
Day 4.
Today sees the 474 players from yesterday compete for the grand prize. Starting nice and late to give our fierce warriors a rest after yesterday’s very gruelling and tiring day, today seems set to be a little bit easier in terms of number of players, but far more intense because we are now getting down to the final few. Prize money is in and anyone that goes home at this stage will be leaving with at least $21,000 dollars. Which is not bad for a $10,000 buy-in?
However, we know one lucky person will collect over $9 million in prize money. The question is: who will it be?
Today’s most popular players are the infamous Phil Hellmuth and Johnny Chan. After maybe two hours into the game, the former champion succumbed to a bad beat. This will be his fifth "cash-in" at the main event, and his first finish in which he didn’t reach the final table.
40% of the field survived, and 189 players will continue to tomorrow.
Today’s leader is Jeremy Joseph – 23 years old and currently holding over 2.1 million chips
Second and third place are held by Nikolay Losev and Cristian Draogmir respectively.
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