The Poker Lab Rat

Day five of the 2008 Main event at the World Series of Poker is now in the books, and 110 players were eliminated today, taking the field down to just 79 players.

Some of the biggest names were eliminated today with Gus Hansen, Allen Cunningham and Hoyt Corkins all taking the long walk after coming so close to the hugely awaited final table.

As is becoming commonplace with the main event - the leaderboard is dominated by players with little previous TV exposure :

Mark Ketteringham: 5,700,000
Andrew Brokos: 4,100,000
Tiffany Michelle: 3,800,000
Jamal Kunbuz: 3,500,000
Albert Kim: 3,400,000
Nikolay Losev: 3,400,000
Alfred Fernandez: 3,100,000
Steve Lade: 3,000,000
Judet Cristian: 2,900,000
Aaron Gordon: 2,900,000

Average Stack: 1,732,658

But there are still a couple of well known publicity seekers as Phil Hellmuth and Mike Matusow in the hunt for the final table.