Event 57 - $10,000 World Championship No Limit Hold'em Day 6 | 2009 World Series of Poker

It was a long day, relatively speaking, following the two shortened days at the 2009 World Series of Poker Main Event. Players played five full two-hour levels, and when play finally ended near 1 a.m., just 64 remained from the 185 who came to the Rio at noon still with chips and hopes for that $8,546,435 first prize.

Among those leaving us during the first levels of play were Cole South, Chris Bjorin, John Monnette, Joe Serock, Thierry van den Berg, Blair Hinkle, Theo Tran, and long-time chip leader in this tournament, Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier.

Sarne Lightman, J.C. Tran, 2005 Main Event champ Joe Hachem, and David Benyamine soon joined the parade of players marching to the rail, and when dinner time arrived just 101 players remained.

As Noah Boeken, Kenny Tran, and last year's champion Peter Eastgate were eliminated, Darvin Moon, Ludovic Lacay, and Antoine Stout began moving toward the top of the leaderboard. Nichoel Peppe would go out in 75th place, leaving Leo Margets as our last woman left remaining in the field.

Just before night's end, Fernando Gordo was eliminated in 65th place. Darvin Moon will be our overnight leader with nearly 10 million, followed by Billy Kopp in second and the player most everyone will be watching in third -- none other than Phil Ivey.

Antonio Esfandiari is also in the top ten with 64 left, and Jeff Shulman, Tom Schneider, Dennis Phillips, Blair Rodman, Joe Sebok, and Prahlad Friedman have chips as well.

Thanks for following our coverage today, and rejoin us tomorrow at noon local time when play resumes and, in the words of Tournament Director Robbie Thompson tonight when announcing our main feature table, "the dream continues."

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