WSOP Main Event Day 7 complete – Joseph Cheong leads
Saturday, 17 July 2010
78 players returned to the Rio yesterday, full of dreams of a November return and a massive payday. 51 of those dreamers will have to wait enough year for Main Event glory though as the field was whittled down to just 27 in a surprisingly frenetic day.
Leading the way at the close of play was Joseph Cheong on almost 25m chips followed by Cuong Nguyen on 23.1m and Pascal LeFrancois on 15.78m. Despite the field now being small in number there are still some big names knocking around though, notably Michael 'The Grinder' Mizrachi, Scandie favourite William Thorson and online phenom David Baker.
Long time chip leader Theo Jorgensen hit the rail yesterday as did David Benyamine, Jean-Robert Bellande and Peter Jetten.
Redmond Lee keeps up hope of a British winner. He'll have his work cut out if he's going to make the November Nine though, returning as one of the short stacks tomorrow. We wish him well.
The remaining chip counts are as follows:
Joseph Cheong 24,490,000
Cuong Nguyen 23,100,000
Pascal LeFrancois 15,780,000
Jason Senti 13,550,000
Matthew Jarvis 13,300,000
Matt Affleck 12,515,000
Jonathan Duhamel 10,520,000
John Racener 10,470,000
Filippo Candio 10,020,000
Benjamin Statz 9,885,000
Robert Pisano 8,060,000
Michiel Sijpkens 7,765,000
Duy Le 7,255,000
Scott Clements 7,250,000
David Baker 6,825,000
Michael Mizrachi 6,300,000
Brandon Steven 6,045,000
Adam Levy 4,745,000
William Thorson 3,680,000
Redmond Lee 3,315,000
Mads Wissing 3,070,000
Ronnie Bardah 2,525,000
Matthew Bucaric 2,270,000
John Dolan 2,175,000
Patrick Eskandar 1,655,000
Johnny Lodden 1,560,000
Hasan Habib 1,510,000
The action resumes at 8pm tonight UK time when 27 will become nine. Join us tomorrow to see who'll be back in November.
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