With 10 minutes remaining in the third level of Day 4 tournament director Jack Effel announced that play would be halted for the day. The remaining players didn’t even reach their dinner break. That should give you an idea of how fast players were eliminated today.

The goal was to reach 400 players by the end of the night but with 407 left in the field the staff didn’t find it neceressary for players to take a dinner break and return to play part of another level. With that, we’ll be returning at Noon on Sunday for Day 5.

Several P5ers survived but Tom “sbrounder” West had an unfortunate end to his Day Four when a player raise to 16K with the blinds at 3K/6K ante 1K, Kara Scott called from middle position, and West moved all-in from the button for an additional 238K. The other player tanked over the decision for several minutes before calling.

“Jacks are good,” Tom said as he turned up TT. The other player didn’t have pocket jacks, but he did have AK for a classic race situation. The K62 was not kind to West, nor was the 2 and 9 on the river. He was eliminated on the last hand of the night and finished in 408th place.

Joining West on the rail is Julian “wh00sel” Parmann. We missed how he got it all-in with K3 to another player’s A-J, but needless to say the AJ held and Julian was eliminated just a couple hands before the day came to a close. Carter “ckingusc” King was also eliminated at the end of the day. We believe he and Owen “ocrowe” Crowe got it all-in for Carter’s tournament life on an A-7-X flop with Owen holding A-7 to Carter’s A-10. King failed to make a higher two pair and he was sent home just a little earlier than the rest of the crowd.

Victor “vcwhr666″ Greeley, Mike Sexton, Justin Bonomo and Karec “K-Rock2525″ Terrell were also sent home before the end of the day.

Now the good news. Dozens of Pocketfivers are still alive, some of which are among the chip leaders. We think Matt “mcmatto” Affleck ended the day as the overall chip leader but Ludovic “Cutsss” Lacay is right on his heels. Here’s a look at some of the chip counts we caight at the end of the night:

Matt “mcmatto” Affleck - 1.8 million
Ludovic “Cutsss” Lacay - 1.6 million
Billy “Patrolman35″ Kopp - 1.37 million
Blair “blur5f6″ Hinkle - 1.344 million
Joe “LatestLines2″ Ward - 1.13 million
Nick “fu_15″ Maimone - 1.1 million
Theo “pittrounder” Tran - 1.02 million
Olivier “livb112″ Busquet - 1 million
Grayson “gray31″ Ramage - 823K
Jonathan “driverseati” Tamayo - 805K
Joe “jcada99″ Cada - 898K
Tyson “POTTER” Marks - 777K
Jordan “Octavian_C” Rich - 760K
Owen “ocrowe” Crowe - 720K
Jamie “The New” Robbins - 716K
Blair Rodman - 708K
Jesse “thor” Haabak - 580K
Jeff “jpapola” Papola - 507K
Joe Sebok - 502K
Jordan “scarface_79″ Smith - 504K
Steve “19FMzadester” Levy - 433K
Kevin “BeL0WaB0Ve” Saul - 396K
Jon “sketchy1″ eaton - 320K
Markus “LURPED” Gonsalves - 317K
Sorel “Imper1um” Mizzi - 305K
Nick “gbmantis” Niergarth - 304K
Kirk “idareyouAA” Banks - 282K
Patrick “BigRed0000″ Stemper - 269K
Cole “cts” South - 257K
Becky “smileylsu” Campbell - 233K
Casey “sobizzle21″ Sobczewski - 229K
Ashley “actyper” Cheung - 220K
Bradley “FatsoFat6969″ Craig - 204K
Jeff “HB_Hitman” Anderson - 190K
Kyle “kwob20″ Bowker - 185K
Clayton “clayton27″ Newman - 114K
Thomas “TommyBoy83″ Koral - 77K

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