We’re down to 237 players in the 2015 World Series of Poker Main Event. If you’re a regular reader of PocketFives, then you’ll recognize the name Joseph McKeehen (pictured), who is known as dude904 on our site. He has the chip lead in the tournament entering Day 5 with 3.1 million and is one of only two players to have more than 3 million.

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McKeehen entered Saturday’s play as one of the chip leaders and needed all of two levels to move to the top of the pack. Towards the end of the day, he relegated former November Niner and fellow PocketFiver Scott r_a_y Montgomery to the rail.

Coverage on WSOP.com narrated, “After a series of bets and raises, Montgomery found himself all-in and at risk for approximately 550,000 on a jack-high flop with three diamonds. The Canadian held two black queens, while McKeehen rolled over ace-jack with the ace of diamonds. An ace on the river would give McKeehen the knockout.”

Just behind the PocketFiver on the leaderboard is Upeshka De Silva, who shipped a chunk of his chips to Yuri Dzivielevski, who shoved on a board of 5-K-9-8-3. De Silva tanked for a whopping 15 minutes before finally folding. Despite the setback, he ended the day at a little over 3 million in chips.

Then there’s Brian Stinger885Hastings (pictured), who has already won two WSOP bracelets this year and is gunning for a third in the Main Event. Hastings has been at or near the top of the leaderboard for the majority of the Main Event and sits in fourth place with 2.4 million.

Here’s a look at the number of eliminations by level during four of the levels of play on Saturday. You’ll notice the vastly slower pace of bustouts as the tournament creeps on:

Level 16: 130 eliminations
Level 17: 90 eliminations
Level 18: 92 eliminations
Level 19: 63 eliminations

About six hours into Saturday’s action, 14-time bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth was knocked out of the Main Event by none other than Daniel Negreanu. Hellmuth’s Main Event run ended in a race with pocket queens against A-K. Negreanu spiked a king on the flop to knock out Hellmuth in 417th place. We’re pretty sure that hand will make ESPN’s coverage of the tournament this year.

Busting at almost the exact same time as Hellmuth was former Main Event winner Ryan Riess(pictured), who ran pocket sevens into pocket queens. Shortly thereafter, 2005 Main Event winner Joe Hachem exited in similar fashion with jacks against aces.

Play resumes on Sunday at Noon PT. We’re scheduled to play down to the November Nine on Tuesday. Here’s how the top 10 in chips looks right now. Incredibly, players from New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania make up seven of the top 10:

1. Joseph dude904McKeehen – 3,122,000
2. Upeshka De Silva – 3,067,000
3. Erasmus Morfe – 2,502,000
4. Brian Stinger885Hastings – 2,464,000
5. Thomas Cannuli – 2,271,000
6. Charles Chattha – 2,157,000
7. Jewook Oh – 2,153,000
8. Jay Sharon – 2,118,000
9. Jake Toole – 2,106,000
10. Mozheng Guan – 2,034,000

Click here for the full leaderboard.

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