2009 WSOP Main Event Day 4

Day 4 started with 800 players left in the field, by the end of the day that field would be cut in half. It ended up being one of the shortest days WSOP history as play ended at around 7:30 PT. Just over 7 hours of play on Day 4 because the field is shrinking at a rapid pace and tournament directors felt it was appropriate to stay on schedule and give the remaining players a chance to get a good night sleep. With that being said, shuffle up and deal on Day 4.

It was a bad start to Day 4 for Phil Hellmuth, he got caught bluffing in back-to-back hands and lost 250K right off the start, more on him later....
Phil Ivey started the day by doubling up his already big stack. After the double up, Ivey would be sitting on about 800,000 for most of the afternoon. Ivey would increase that stack by knocking out 5-8 guys who had short stacks. The constant accumulation of short stacks worth about 70-80K moved Ivey up to the one million chip mark late in the day!

Back to Mr. Hellmuth, he found himself a little below average chips when the following hand occurred.... Hellmuth and his opponent got most of the money all-in on a board of J-J-3-7-5, Hellmuth had just 100,000 left when he called his opponents river bet. Hellmuth saw he was up against his opponent's A-J. Hellmuth mucked and jumped up from his seat and went into basic Phil mode.
" IM GONNA VOMIT ON THE FLOOR. THERE GOES MY WORLD SERIES TO AN ABSOLUTE MANIAC," said Phil.
He turned his rant towards the dealer for dealing out trip jacks to the other guy.

With just 100,000 left, Phil had to make a move and took his last stand with A-A.

Hellmuth ended up all in against two opponents, Kevin Jenkins and Kenny Hsiung, with the board showing J T 5.

Jenkins showed 8 9, while Hsiung turned over J T, both hideous discoveries for Hellmuth as Hsiung had top two pair and Jenkins an open-ended straight draw.

The 7 hit on the turn, giving Jenkins the straight to all but end Hellmuth’s tournament hopes.

A huge crowd of camera, reporters and spectators had gathered around by the time a 3 hit on the river to watch Hellmuth stand up and stare at the table for several minutes after the best.

Hellmuth stood around for at least five minutes before giving an ESPN interview while still standing in the same spot.

Day 4 has ended but Hellmuth still might be in the Amazon Room staring at the table.

At the end of Day 4, only 407 players remain, ive gone through the chip counts and have pulled out the 9 pros still alive in this thing. Most of them have pretty healthy stacks. (Chip Average: 480,000 going into Day 5)

Phil Ivey- 1,270,000

Dan Harrington- 659,000

Kara Scott- 580,000

Joe Sebok- 502,000

Antonio Esfandiari- 496,000

Joe Hachem- 490,000

Kenny Tran- 415,000

Dennis Phillips- 414,000

Peter Eastgate- 397,000

Cya for Day 5, BASIC KNOWLEDGE.............