World Series of Poker Main Event Day 4 Ends with 464 Players Left

The two chip leaders at the end of the four are both previous World Series of poker bracelet winners. Stephen Song, the 2022 GPI POY leads the way with 4.745m chips with Spain’s Adrian Mateos in second place on 4.5m.

In total seven players surpassed the 4 million chip barrier on the deadliest day of the event, when 70% of the remaining players were eliminated.

Included in the Day 4 RIP list were all four remaining former WSOP Main Event Champions, ensuring that there will be a new winner this time round. That was basically a certainty anyway, but now it’s confirmed.

The last standing former champion was Joe McKeehan, exiting in 725th place, just minutes after Koray Aldemir busted in 732nd. Robert Varkonyi in 784th and Scott Blumstein in 1,400th were the other former winners who started the day.

There are still many well known and successful players left vying for the ultimate prize in poker. These include many former bracelet winners, such as Jesse Lonis (2,520,000), Brandon Cantu (2,320,000) and Alex Livingston (1,995,000) who has been one of the largest stacks for the last few days of the event.

Although Daniel Negreanu was elimiated soon after the bubble burst, another GG Poker Ambassador,  Ren Lin is still going strong on 1,920,000, having been uo to almost 3m chips at one point in the day.

Also still running well is ACR Poker ambassador Nacho Barbero (1,620,000) who is just ahead of Brian Rast (1,605,000).

World Poker Tour Host Tony Dunst is also still playing, commanding a stack of 1,335,000, which is just above the average for the remaining players.

Well, they might not need to take their Chevys to the levee, as they’ve all cashed for at least $15,000 but the following players are now ex-participants in the 2024 WSOP Main Event:

1,432nd - Daniel Negreanu - $1,500

1,391st - Max Pescatori -  $1,500

1.349th - Allen Cunningham - $1,500

1,324th - Tony Ma - $1,500

1,183rd - Nick Gaugenti - $17,500

1,179th - Michael Wang - $17,500

1,177th - Wing Po Liu - $17,500

1,071st - Erik Seidel - $17,500

1,003rd - Anthony Zinno - $20,000

992nd - Santos Suvarna - $ 20,000

667th - John Hennigan - $ 27,500

565th - David “ODB” Baker - $32,500

561st - Brian Hastings - $32,500

512th - Todd Brunson - $35,000

t wasn’t a great day for British Players, with most of those who started Day 4 not making it any further in the competition.

Lucas Reeves definitely has the best bad beat story, but there were likely plenty of cruel exits for 46 of the 64 British players who started the day. Both Jacob Stone and John Duthie, who were among the top five British chip counts failed to progress.

Other British players who saw their tournament come to an end, albeit in the prize money:

1,511th - Andrew Wilson - $1,500

1,423rd - Jon Shoreman - $1,500

1,392nd - John Duthie - $1,500

1,335th - Jonathan Wong - $1,500

1.259th - Luke Porter - $1,500

1,184th - Roland Boothby - $17,500

1,039th - John Kabbaj - $1,7500

864th - Martins Adeniya - $22,500

724th - Rob Sherwood - $27,500

637th - Andrew Hedley - $30,000

Guillermo Sanchez Otero, who has been well stacked throughout most of the tournament so far, is the biggest stacked of the 18 British players left in the tournament.

He bagged up the 14th biggest stack of the day,  3,285,000 and lies in 14th place overall. He is almost 1m chips ahead of 66th placed Yaroslav Shkylar, the second placed Brit remaining in the field.

Christopher Brammer is the only UK bracelet winner left in contention, with an average stacked 1.3m, while the shortest stack of the last standing Brits belongs to Ian Bradley, on 340,000.

Day Five takes place on Thursday 11th July, when another five two-hour-long levels will be played.