Event 57 - $10,000 World Championship No Limit Hold'em Day 4 | 2009 World Series of Poker

07-11-2009 06:57 UTC-12

The Doors Open!

[user75032]

With about ten minutes left on the countdown clock to the start of Day 4, the doors have opened and players are streaming in. There's no Miranda Room any more; there's no Brasilia Room any more; and (thankfully) there are no tables near Buzio's seafood restaurant, a half mile down the hall. The last 789 players are all consolidated here in the Amazon Room.

141 of these players will go home with nothing more than a bad beat story and the satisfaction (and frustration) of having survived three days in the Main Event of the World Series of Poker. The other 648 players are guaranteed at least $21,365. Somewhere in this room are nine future millionaires.

Your overnight chip leader is a man well-known on the international poker circuit. Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier is the only player to end Day 3 with more than 1 million chips. He starts Day 4 in the pole position, with 1.3 million chips and a 400,000-chip lead on the player in second place, fellow Frenchman Ludovic Lacay.

Cards in the air in just a few minutes!

07-11-2009 07:02 UTC-12

Feature Table Fun

[user108095]

The main feature table may have the biggest name in the game, but it's the secondary feature table that's jam packed with talent today.

Phil Ivey, stacked at 371,000, is the only name player on ESPN's primary feature table as the day kicks off, and he'll be exciting to watch. But it's the table right next door we'll be paying close attention to, with Surindar Sunar, Burt Boutin, Bob Feduniak and defending champions Peter Eastgate and Joe Hachem all battling it out on the felt.

07-11-2009 07:04 UTC-12

Scheduling Notes

[user75032]

Tournament Director Jack Effel has given the players some notes for the day.

* We will play four levels or until the elimination of 400 players, whichever comes first.

* Hand-for-hand play will start on the basis of how quickly players are being eliminated. There is no set number of players at which hand-for-hand will start.

Level: 15

Blinds: 2,000/4,000

Ante: 500

07-11-2009 07:06 UTC-12

Let's Get it On!

[user66118]

The cards are in the air, and Day 4 is underway!

07-11-2009 07:11 UTC-12

Two Birds, One Stone

Shamus

And the bustouts begin. On the first hand of the day, we had two players all in and a call at one table.

Before the flop, Dean Schultz was all in for his last 22,000 with {Q-Hearts}

, Billy Adams was all in for his last 30,400 with {A-Diamonds}

, and Matthew Lubawski had both covered while holding {A-Spades}

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The board came {8-Spades}

, and Lubawski's hand was best. Schultz and Adams hit the rail, and Lubawski is up to 305,000.

Tags: Billy Adams Dean Shultz Matthew Lubawski

07-11-2009 07:13 UTC-12

Ivey In Action Early On

[user108095]

It didn't take Phil Ivey long to get started.

In the day's first hand, he called a preflop raise by Bernard Perner and went heads up to a flop of {10-Diamonds}