WPT Update

For anyone else that is as interested in this as I am, I've been following the WPT Championship (A NLHE $25k buyin event at the Bellagio) quite closely. Players yesterday completed a marathon Day 3, and are primed for Day 4.

This was an interesting format as 337 players paid the $25k to buy in, and everyone received $100k to start, with blinds at $25/50 on Level 1. Now THAT's deepstack poker.

Anyway, as Day 4 begins, 62 players remain. Blinds are at $4k-8k with $1k ante on level 15. Here are the chip counts and seat assignments.

Table 53
Quinn Do 211,000
Will Failla 305,000
Hyon Kim 338,000
Steve Billirakis 1,722,000
Eric Liu 688,000
Ron Levi 204,000
Jeff Madsen 712,000
Boris Becker 306,000
Steven Brecher 318,000

Table 54
Blake Cahail 1,059,000
Christian Harder 728,000
Philip Gurian 475,000
Owen Crowe 177,000
Phil Ivey 1,036,000
David Benyamine 268,000
Jimmy Fricke 259,000
Matthew Glantz 214,000
Michael Demichele 789,000

Table 55
Justin Young 732,000
Kathy Liebert 290,000
Andy Miller 604,000
Scotty Nguyen 557,000
Bertrand Grospellier 378,000
Shannon Shorr 120,000
Javed Abrahams 760,000
Mike Matusow 272,000
Matthew Hyman 1,663,000

Table 56
Markus Gonsalves 405,000
Eugene Katchalov 764,000
Steve Sung 392,000
Dutch Boyd 253,000
Sam Farha 90,000
Mark Seif 1,315,000
Jennifer Harman 828,000
Steven Fung 135,000
David Singer 1,116,000

Table 59
Jonathan Aguiar 489,000
Yevgeniy Timoshenko 464,000
Ulises Roman 622,000
Jimmy Ngoc Tran 177,000
Nenad Medic 1,306,000
David Grey 406,000
Cody Slaubaugh 377,000
Ran Azor 388,000
Barny Boatman 534,000

Table 60
Ross Boatman 456,000
Sinan Yoyen 323,000
Fred Bonyadi 208,000
David Baker 952,000
Chris Ferguson 338,000
Naseem Salem 296,000
Andrew Lichtenberger 664,000
John Martin 418,000

Table 62
Chad Batista 515,000
Marco Johnson 553,000
Freddy Deeb 932,000
Chris Bell 604,000
Liv Boeree 299,000
Nick Binger 1,036,000
Bryan Rast 365,000
Evan Mcniff 234,000
Bruno Fitoussi 286,000