The Poker Lab Rat

It was an eventful day four at the World Series of Poker main event - with only a third of the 337 players that started the day surviving until the end.

The new leader is Dag Martin Mikkelson - who was also the leader of Day 1b -  he finished the day with 3.7m chips and a large lead over second placed Charis Anastasiou on 2.6m chips.

There are still several big names left in including Gus Hansen on 1.5m chips, Jeff Banghart, Scotty Nguyen, and former main event winner Huckleberry Seed, as well as the over the top poker personality Humberto Brenes.

Former 2001 main event winner Carlos Mortensen was eliminated when his Jacks ran into Queens, and 2002 winner Robert Varkonyi went out after pushing with A5 into a K,J,10 flop and finding that his opponent was holding AQ.

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Day five is planned to whittle the remaining 112 players down to 27, beginning at noon PDT.