1.) Scotty Nguyen - 5,880,000
2.) Yevgeniy “Atimos” Timoshenko - 5,105,000
3.) Christian “charder” Harder - 4,650,000
4.) Justin Young - 4,220,000
5.) Shannon Shorr - 3,155,000
6.) Brian “tsarrast” Rast - 3,025,000
7.) Eugene Katchalov - 2,385,000
8.) Bertrand “Elky” Grospellier - 1,965,000
9.) Ran Azor - 1,810,000
10.) Bruno Fitoussi - 1,615,000

The fourth day of play at the WPT Championship turned out to be a short one.  The schedule was for 5 levels or down to 10 players, whichever came first.  With one minute left on the clock for the third level of play Jennifer Harman was eliminated in 11th place when her aces were cracked [...]

Tournament poker can be brutal, and Marco “CrazyMarco” Johnson (right) took a brutal beat deep in the WPT Championship to see his shot at the $2 million first prize ended with a 20th place finish for $65,370.  Johnson had moved all in after Jeff Madsen raised to 95k, Justin Young called and Brian “tsarrast” Rast [...]

With 21 players left the tournament was put into hand for hand play since the pay jump from 21st to 20th was a difference in $65,370 and $49,025 and the three remaining tables were all playing short handed with 7 players each.  Hand for hand play lasted for about 25 minutes until Matt Hyman ended [...]

Over half the players left in the field at the WPT Championship will make the money.  With 90 left and the top 50 making the money there are now more players that will make the money than won’t.  For the 40 that come up short getting close will be no consolation though.

Phil “USCPhildo” Collins (right) [...]