WSOP Day 5 & 6

• Author: Ed
• Filed under: Tournaments
• Date: Jul 17,2008

Following on from Day four, day five sees 189 players enter the game ready to see who will be the next WSOP poker champion.  Popular players remaining in the contest include Allen Cunningham and Phil Hellmuth to name a few. 

Players started today with a rough average of 760,000 chips and today saw Phil Hellmuth survive ready for day six.  At the end of the day only 79 players managed to survive, and all will claim prize money. 

Today’s top players include

Mark Ketteringham 5,800,000 chips
Jeremy Joseph – 3,100,000 chips
Nikolay Losev 4,058,000
everyone who entered the contest today was guaranteed a minimum of $38,600 dollars in prize money.  The loser fund is significantly rising, so no one will go away empty handed.  Tomorrow this figure will rise to approximately $77,200.
Today saw three female players eliminated, and it looks like two will survive on over until day six.  Tiffany Michelle and Lisa Parsons are carrying on into day six.  We wish them the best of luck and hope to see them at the final table.

WSOP Day 6

Today’s entrants are down to 79 and this is the last day until the main event.  Undoubtedly day 6 is to be the fiercest yet, and today will see a large number of players drop out and go home with at least some amount of winnings.

ESPN as usual are selecting ‘feature’ tables, and today every table is being filmed for the chance to air it on television later.  If you’re playing today -chances are you’ve already been featured on TV. If not – you may very well be today. 

Today finally saw Phil Hellmuth eliminated, and we are very pleased.  You can maybe tell we aren’t a big fan, but he finished in 45th place which is a great achievement, and it does prove us wrong.  He is a good poker player.  Last year however, he took 27th place so maybe this is a decline for the poker-pro?

Surviving players today are 27, and today saw both Mark Ketteringham and Jeremy Joseph eliminated.  Today’s leader is now Dennis Phillips and now has a staggering 11,910,000 chips.  Second place falls to Craig Marquis with 11,460,000 chips.  Of our female players from yesterday, Lisa Parsons was eliminated in 79th place, and Tiffany Michelle currently survives with over 9,755,000 chips.