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[chrisjp]

From a =4 poster:

Of the 2,557 (of 7,319) remaining players (per Kevmath list), I count eleven at 300,000 or above, none of which are at 400,000 or above. The biggest name of the eleven is probably Cole South. After the group of eleven players with better than 300,000 chips, the biggest name is two-time Main Event champion Johnny Chan, who has 281,600 chips.

There are seven former WSOP ME champions remaining, including the defending ME champion Joe Cada:

281600 – Chan (2 Main Event bracelets)
200300 - Varkonyi
122400 - Cada
114500 - Harrington
104000 – Moneymaker
80000 - Bechtel
67800 - Nguyen

Nine non-champion final tablists from the last five MEs (including one, plus Cada, from 2009's final table) remain:

195000 – Kanter (2005)
170000 – Cunningham (2006)
145300 – Rahme (2007)
134200 – Buchman (2009)
96000 – Kalmar (2007)
81500 – Khan (2007)
65500 - K.Kim (2008)
32100 – Barch (2005)
31700 – Wasicka (2006)

An amazing twenty-six 2010 WSOP bracelet winners (covering 27 bracelet events) remain: (why would this be amazing....over 1/3 of the field is still alive, and you would expect them to be better than random. ITH has 6/8 alive)

258200 – Carter Phillips
226500 – Sammy Farha
217200 – Michael Mizrachi
196800 – Praz Bansi
194200 – Steve Jelinek
190400 – Matt Matros
180300 – Michael Chow
175500 – Ian Gordon
168300 – Jason DeWitt
153800 – Sigurd Eskeland
153300 – Matt Keikoan
146200 – Jeffrey Papola
134200 – Eric Buchman
127000 – Frank Kassela (2 bracelets)
112100 – Chris Bell
108700 – Tomer Berda
89200 – Simon Watt
84600 - Raymond Coburn
81900 – Valdemar Kwaysser
75400 – Gavin Smith
55400 – David Baker
50000 – Vanessa Hellebuyck
32100 – John “Tex” Barch
29000 – Miguel Proulx (who is at Matthew's table)
25600 – Mike Ellis
20600 – Dean Hamrick

Random addition. An article at Pokerstars, great article IMO about Darvin Moon, Darvin said that two poker players he has met and greatly admire are Paul Wasicka and Jeff Shulman. Wow, Jeff Shulman. Guess I'll have to reassess my impression of him big time.

Chris