WSOP Main Event Down to 400 Players, paulgees81 Second

Dan · July 14, 2012

The 2012 World Series of Poker Main Event has fewer than 400 players. The money bubble has officially burst in poker’s most prestigious tournament with four players tying for 666th place and everyone’s eyes are set on the $8.5 million top prize. The Main Event is scheduled to play down to the final nine on Monday and, with about 380 players remaining at the time of writing, longtime PocketFives member Paul paulgees81 Volpe (pictured) stands with the second largest stack at 1.95 million.

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The top dog in the Main Event right now is Ben Greenberg, who at 2.14 million leads Volpe and the third place stack of Dave doubledave22D’Alesandro. Volpe is a former #1 player in the PocketFives Poker Rankings and has been a member of the site since 2009. The Canuck has $3 million in tracked cashes in his profile to go along with a current worldwide ranking of #103.

D’Alesandro has been a card-carrying member of PocketFives since the Bush administration and is at $1.9 million in tracked MTT winnings. D’Alesandro is in the New Jersey poker community and has contributed nearly 5,000 posts to PocketFives.

Ryan toetaguFair (pictured) was among those making waves on Day 4 of the WSOP Main Event on Friday. While this author was busy seeing Bob Saget, Fair called all-in after a 6bet from Benjamin Alcober, who tabled bullets. Fair turned over kings and was a 4:1 underdog until a king hit on the turn for a set. Fair dodged a straight draw on the river and doubled up to over 800,000.

At another table at the Rio, Mike timexMcDonald committed his stack with A-10 on a flop of 10-2-2 for tens-up. However, former November Niner Joseph subiime Cheong showed 6-2 for trips, which held when the board filled out Q-9. Cheong shot up to nearly 800,000 in chips.

David Davidp18Peters was relegated to the rail on Day 4 of the Main Event after running pocket tens into aces. Elsewhere in the Rio convention center, Gavin Smith was all-in with top set on a 10-9-8 flop and up against A-K. The WSOP bracelet winner held on for a double up to 270,000 in chips.

Here are the top 20 chip counts at the time of writing:

1. Ben Greenberg – 2,140,000
2. Paul paulgees81Volpe – 1,950,000
3. Dave doubledave22D’Alesandro – 1,780,000
4. A.J. Jejelowo – 1,650,000
5. Jonathan Seelbach – 1,650,000
6. Erik Hellman – 1,570,000
7. Richard Pyne – 1,485,000
8. Nghi Van Tran – 1,364,000
9. Shahriar Assareh – 1,300,000
10. Michael tourbound68 Shelton – 1,285,000
11. Vanessa Selbst – 1,282,000
12. Tom Tran – 1,200,000
13. Jamie TheNew Robbins – 1,200,000
14. Lasse Soerensen – 1,200,000
15. Ricky Markowitz – 1,155,000
16. Amit Zulkowitz – 1,140,000
17. Leo Superfluous Man Wolpert – 1,115,000
18. David “ODB” Baker – 1,100,000
19. Jacob Balsiger – 1,076,000
20. Kyle Keranen – 1,052,000