Eight is Enough

That's it for Day 4 of the 2010 PokerStars.net NAPT Mohegan Sun Main Event. When we started today, Vanessa Selbst was the chip leader. She expanded her lead throughout the day but was edged at the last minute by Mike Beasley. He'll be the only player not capable of busting on the first hand of tomorrow's televised final table.

Selbst played her aggressive brand of poker throughout the day once again. She also made some tremendous calls. The most impressive had to be when Selbst called Alan Sternberg's all-in four-bet shove for 42 big blinds holding {A-Hearts}

. Sternberg's {6-Spades}

was dominated. A stunned Sternberg was sent to the rail five cards later.

Beasley ran bad for long stretches of the day but managed to chip up in a big way after the dinner break. He eliminated Vanessa Rousso (10th place) and Brandon Hall (9th place) in addition to getting a chunk of chips off of Selbst. That spot of run-good increased Beasley's count from 1.7 million to almost 5.0 million.

Tomorrow Beasley and Selbst will be joined by six other players at the TV final table. Here's how they'll be arrayed when the chips are unbagged:

Seat 1: Scott Seiver (1,125,000)
Seat 2: Cliff Josephy (1,940,000)
Seat 3: Vanessa Selbst (4,545,000)
Seat 4: Derek Raymond (1,545,000)
Seat 5: Mike Beasley (4,985,000)
Seat 6: Michael Woods (2,950,000)
Seat 7: Jonathan Aguiar (1,535,000)
Seat 8: Alistar Melville (2,940,000)

There will be 27 minutes remaining in Level 26 (25K / 50K / 5K) when play resumes at noon local time. Join us here at PokerNews to see who will take home the champion's trophy and $750,000 in cash!

Until then, you can find us at the bar.