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Day 4 action of the World Series of Poker Main Event concluded around midnight local time in Las Vegas, with over a dozen PocketFivers still in the hunt for a November final table appearance and $9,119,517 first place prize.  As the players bagged their chips and prepared for more poker over the weekend, P5'ers Keith damurdera3 Ferrera (pictured), Peter number1pen Neff, and Owen ocrowe Crowe were among the chip leaders with over 1 million chips.

The play on Day 4 began with participants already cashing in the 2008 WSOP Main Event, as longtime fan favorite Devin TranquilChaos Porter (pictured) was among the first PocketFivers to be eliminated.  Devin entered play on Day 4 with a short stack but was eliminated in 360th place when his short-stacked preflop shove with AT was called down by AQ.  Top ranked players Cliff JohnnyBax Josephy and Hunter the_Hunt_D Frey were both eliminated early on in Day 4 as well.  In a cooler situation, Hunter got his remaining chips in the middle with top 2 pair on the flop, only to face a set when the cards were turned over.

Thayer THAY3R Rasmussen was involved in an emotional rollercoaster ride during Day 4; becoming short-stacked, then tripling up, and then being eliminated from the tournament.  Thayer is known to have one of the calmest personalities at the poker tables, and needed all of that calm to rebound from losing a race with AK versus QQ.  A short while later, Thayer was able to triple up when his AQ was good enough to win the pot at showdown, but was ousted from the Main Event when his pocket aces were no good against his opponent's pocket tens when the board gave his opponent a runner-runner straight.  Dag dmmikkel Mikkelssen was also the victim of a cooler situation on Friday; running his pocket kings into pocket aces and collecting over $35,000 for 281st place.

Adam Roothlus Levy (pictured), who has impressive results in online poker Sunday major tournaments, ended Day 4 with over 700k chips.  He played an interesting hand with fellow P5'er damurdera3 in which his pocket kings were good enough to win at showdown on a board of 44294.  Roothlus is currently ranked #58 in the world at online play, and recently placed 3rd in the PokerStars 2X $1k Super Tuesday for $54,000.  For readers who would enjoy a first-hand account of how a ranked online tournament player appraoches the most prestigious live event of the year, visit Roothlus' Blog here on PocketFives.

Play was paused with 39 minutes remaining in Level 19 of the WSOP Main Event, and will resume today (Saturday) at 12:00 noon Pacific Time/3:00pm Eastern.  Following is a list of PocketFivers who will be competing today for a chance to move one step closer to a WSOP Main Event final table appearance in November:

Keith damurdera3 Ferrera - 1.26M
Peter number1pen Neff - 1.16M
Owen ocrowe Crowe - 1.05M
Jonathan therookieqq9 Plens - 1M
Dan wildman75 Buzgon - 775K
Adam Roothlus Levy - 720k
Rafael rcaiaffa Caiaffa - 700k
Jeremy thechemist83 Gaubert - 700K
Chris SLOPPYKLOD Klodnicki - 615k
Garrett GBecks Beckman - 515k
Jeff jpapola Papola - 480K
Allen AawwNutz Carter - 460K
Andy BadgerPro Schultz - 450k
Jeff HB_HITMAN Anderson - 355k
Cort thecortster Kibler-Melby - 250K
Joshua theNorfman Norris - 212k
Jon pokertrip Friedberg - 140K


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