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2011 WSOP Main Event - Day 4 Wrap-Up
Posted by: Randy Williams - Mon, 2011-07-18 10:27
Patrick Poirier and Daryl Jace started the 4th day of the
2011 WSOP Main Event with the largest stacks.
Poirier started out on the wrong foot though. He lost a coin-flip with an A,K to a Q,Q to drop a quarter million chips to Yohan Zaoui. He later dropped another half million to Sam Barnhart, who put his chips to good use and made it all the way into second place at the end of the day. Poirier survived the day and he will return to battle on day 5, but he’ll only have a stack of 335k chips to make something happen.
Barnhart was moved to the televised feature table after he shot past the 1 million chip mark. He nearly doubled his stack there, reaching the 1.9 million mark. He eventually finished short of 2 million.
Manoj Viswanathan, the eventual chip leader of the day, started out on a stack 414k. Patrick Shepherd was one of the players who helped Viswanathan to become the first player of the Big Dance to move over the 2 million chip mark. Shepherd donated his entire stack to Viswanathan, when his two pair proved to be no match for the latter’s straight.
The actual hand which put Viswanathan over the 2 million mark was one in which he bullied Aaron Rupert out of a 300k pot, with a pot-size bet.
378 players remained in contention at the end of the day, which had been exactly four levels long. Lars Bonding was one of the notables who managed to finish within the top 10. He amassed 1.81 million chips, good enough for 7th place. JP Kelly and Bryan Devonshire made the top 20 too. After a rather disappointing day 3, Ben Lamb strung together an excellent day 4 run. He ended up with a stack of 1.26 million chips. Jean Robert Bellande, Joseph Cheong, Sorel Mizzi and
PokerStars’ Daniel Negreanu survived too.
