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David "Gunslinger3" Bach is a stud. Not only is this Bach's second SCOOP victory, it's his second SCOOP victory in the same event. Back in 2010, Bach won the $2,100 Stud Hi/Lo and now he decided it was time for another SCOOP. While the field only had 95 players, it was as tough as you could get. There were several stud specialists including Team PokerStars Pro Nacho Barbero, George Danzer, ElkY -- who won the WSOP Stud Championship in 2011 -- Jonathan Duhamel, Eugene Katchalov, Sebastian Ruthenberg and Alexander Kravchenko. Team PokerStars Online Adrienne "talonchick" Rowsome and George "jorj95" Lind III were also in the field. While these players didn't make it to the final table, there was a whole other batch of Stud pros who made... The final table Seat 1: gunning4you -- 85,577 Seat 2: RZA4444 -- 10,848 Seat 3: BUMM73 -- 22,664 Seat 4: osten -- 58,571 Seat 5: jakz101 -- 80,288 Seat 6: buzzard1881 -- 96,336 Seat 7: Gunslinger -- 40,026 Seat 8: WhooooKidd -- 78,690 Players were cooped up a bit at the final table. Half of the players had previously won a PokerStars COOP event with two winning a SCOOP and another two winning a WCOOP. Whooookidd and Gunslinger3 both won SCOOPs before while osten and jakz101 were the WCOOP champions. Like Bach, Thor "osten" Hansen's victory came in a stud event, the $320 7-card stud. One down RZA4444 had been the short stack during the money bubble and the final table but managed to hang on. RZA4444 would also avoid being the first player out of the final table. Limits were 2.5K/5K with a 500 ante and jakz101 was chipped down to under 20,000. On jakz101's final hand, WhooooKidd brought it in with a [5d] and jakz101 raised. WhooooKidd called. Whooookidd: ([6d])([9d])[5d][9h][kd][4d]([6h]) jakz101: ([4s])([8c])[ad][8s][7s][qc]([4h]) jakz101 bet on fourth street and WhooooKidd called. jakz101 fired again on fifth street and WhooooKidd raised. jakz101 moved all-in for 12,637 and WhooooKidd called. jakz101 had a pair of eights and WhooooKidd had a flush draw. WhooooKidd hit the flush on 6th street and there was no low hand. jakz101 was our first final table elimination and took home $6,175.00 for 8th place. No double COOP Then our remaining WCOOP champion was eliminated. Thor "osten" Hansen was down to 13,382 by the time of jakz101's elimination and went all-in the following hand. It was a split plot so osten only chipped up to 16,632. Then he went all-in again. buzzard1881 brought it in with a [4d] and Gunslinger3 raised with a [7h]. BUMM73 and osten called showing a [6c] and [5c] respectively while buzzard1881 re-raised. Everyone called and we had a large pot. Gunslinger3: (X)(X)[7h][qs][6s] osten: (X)(X)[5c][10d][jh][ks](X) BUMM73: ([4h])([7s])[6c][ad][8s][js]([5h]) buzzard1881: ([2c])([7d]) [4d][kh][5d][3s]([kd]) BUMM73 bet fourth street and everyone called. BUMM73 fired again on fifth street and osten raised all-in for 9,132. buzzard1881 and BUMM73 called while Gunslinger3 folded. BUMM73 check-called a bet on sixth street and took the initiative on the river. buzzard1881 raised and BUMM73 called. Both players had straights but BUMM73's was higher. buzzard1881 took the low with [7d][5d][4d][3s][2c] osten was out in 7th, earning $8,075.00. Hanging on As we mentioned before, RZA4444 was the tournament short stack during a few key moments. RZA4444 had managed to stay alive each time and even managed to chip up some. Then the Canadian player lost a chunk. WhooooKidd brought it in with a [3d] and RZA4444 raised with a [3s]. Gunslinger3 re-raised with an [as] and RZA4444 called. RZA4444: (X)(X)[3s][5s][9d][jc](X) Gunslinger3: (X)(X)[as][qh][6d][ah](X) Gunslinger3 check-called on fourth street and then bet on fifth. RZA4444 called Gunslinger3's bet on fifth and sixth, but folded to the eventual champ's bet on the river. RZA444's stack was nearly halved to 21,692. RZA4444 lost a bit, doubled-up and lost some more before being eliminated. BUMM73 brought it in with a [4d

In a lot of poker games, particularly big-bet games, a chip lead doesn't necessarily mean a lot. It's not terribly uncommon to see incoming chip leaders exit a final table early when players have the opportunity to get all their chips in the middle in one big move. All other things being equal, though, in Stud Hi/Lo the chip lead is often a license to methodically dismantle the competition, particularly the deeper the tournament goes. Because the split pots make it harder to come from behind, a player who is willing to pressure the shorter stacks without pause can do some serious damage with a chip lead late in a Stud Hi/Lo tournament. Event #28-M, a $215 Stud Hi/Lo tournament, gave players the chance to pile up an unassailable advantage. Action kicked off at 2:00 p.m. ET and after 120 minutes of late registration the total starting field came to 463 players. That built a $92,600 prize pool, with $17,594 set aside for the eventual winner. Plenty of well-known players showed up to play, and several of them went deep. Team Online's Mickey "mement_mori" Petersen finished in 30th place ($601.90), earning the same prize as last year's SCOOP Player of the Series, Shaun Deeb, who finished 26th. (Deeb's performance was good enough to keep him in second place in the race for this year's Player of the Series award.) Team Pro's Jonathan Duhamel made it one pay jump further, finishing in 20th place ($810.25). The final table finally arrived with limits at 12K/24K and antes of 2.4K. These eight players were looking to scoop their way to victory: Seat 1: Wallyayay (404,067 in chips) Seat 2: ilushan (38,576 in chips) Seat 3: gnat777 (779,642 in chips) Seat 4: Jordan "iMsoLucky0" Morgan (352,943 in chips) Seat 5: culibrk1 (217,169 in chips) Seat 6: cyberkanguru (249,037 in chips) Seat 7: Irish Jack (163,696 in chips) Seat 8: Lyndon360 (109,870 in chips) The short stacks make their way to the rail The pace and order of play was mostly set by the chip stacks in play. Only the Ukraine's gnat777 was in a comfortable situation, sporting a stack worth just over 32 big bets. Nobody else had more than 17 big bets; Ireland's Irish Jack and New Zealand's Lyndon360 had four and seven, respectively, and short-stacked Russian player ilushan had just one and a half. Irish Jack managed to hold steady and ilushan managed to double up a few times in the first orbit. Lyndon360 was the first to suffer a major hit when the United Kingdom's Wallyayay hit a queen-high flush; Lyndon360 mucked with a pair of aces up and was left with just 5.4K. Six hands later the New Zealander was eliminated in 8th place ($1,852). The other incoming short stacks wouldn't stave off their own departures for too long. After the limits had gone up to 16K/32K with 3.2K antes, Irish Jack called Jordan "iMsoLucky0" Morgan's opening raise on Hand #35 while showing the [5h]. Morgan showed the [As] and continued to bet every street as his board fell [As]-[9c]-[Ts]-[4s]. Irish Jack called all-in on the river and showed down ([3h] [2s]) / [5h] [8s] [3c] [Ks] / ([Qh]) for a pair of treys, but that couldn't beat Morgan's pair of aces with ([2c] [Ad]) / [As] [9c] [Ts] [4s] / ([Kh]). Neither player had a low, sending Irish Jack to the rail in 7th place ($2,315). Four hands later the Czech Republic's culibrk1, who had come to the table sixth in chips, would be crippled in a pot against Germany's cyberkanguru. The German player ended up all-in after fifth street with a pair of kings to culibrk1's two pair, but a king on the river gave cyberkanguru three of a kind. With no low on either player's board, cyberkanguru scooped the 260K-chip pot and culibrk1 was left with just 49K. On Hand #44, culbrk1's last big bet went in the middle on third street with a split pair of eights, but gnat777 called with a split pair of kings. The Ukrainian player picked up another king for trips on sixth street and culibrk1 left in 6th place ($3,241). With almost all the other incoming short stacks gon

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Stud Hi/Lo may not be the sexiest poker game in the canon, but it still has enough fans to more than double the $25k guarantee on this $27 buy-in event. Whether they were specialists, adventurers, or seeking to fix a weak spot in their H.O.R.S.E. or 8-Game rotations, the 2,146 players who gathered for Event #28-L gave themselves a shot at more than $9,000 for first place. Although he arrived at the final table as the second-shortest stack, 2jokerSpb hit a rush with five to go and booked his first SCOOP win, earning $8,189.80 and a slick Movado watch after a three-way deal. A baker's dozen of Red Spades joined this field including Chris Moneymaker, ElkY, two-time SCOOP champ George Danzer, Shane "shaniac" Schleger and Sebastian Ruthenberg. Jonathan Duhamel was the only one to make the money, busting out in 125th place. Betting limits were 60,000/120,000 on the final table bubble and PROTENTIALmn was the shortest stack remaining with 438,000. With the [Ac] showing, PROTENTIALmn completed on third street and Leon_Javur called with the [7c] up. PROTENTIALmn ([Js][5c]) [Ac][Jh][2h][Ks] ([9h]) Leon_Javur ([4h][Ah]) [7c][6s][5h][7s] ([6h]) PROTENTIALmn led out on fourth street, Leon_Javur raised to 120,000 and PROTENTIALmn called. PROTENTIALmn check-called another 120,000 on fifth street and raised all-in on sixth, revealing a pair of jacks and no low draw. Leon_Javur turned over a pair of sevens and a 7-6-5-4-A low, but caught a six on the river to make two pair for high. PROTENTIALmn was eliminated in ninth place, setting the final table. Final table chip counts Seat 1: ACforKP (1,267,554 in chips) Seat 2: Pokerccini (1,876,303 in chips) Seat 3: 2jokerSpb (1,001,288 in chips) Seat 4: bigslikluck3 (1,507,740 in chips) Seat 5: late_entry (1,012,036 in chips) Seat 6: ironOne (640,138 in chips) Seat 7: Leon_Javur (1,149,430 in chips) Seat 8: A_Sh4dy_0ne (2,275,511 in chips) ironOne flattened IronOne arrived at the final table with only five big bets and didn't wait long to make a move. With the betting limits up to 80,000/160,000, ironOne completed on third street showing the [4h] and A_Sh4dy_0ne raised with the [2h] up. ACforKP called two bets cold and ironOne called as well. ACforKP (X-X) [Ah][Kh][9s] ironOne ([4c][8c]) [4h][6h][Ts][9c] ([Qd]) A_Sh4dy_0ne ([Jd][Js]) [2h][7s][9h][Ad] ([3h]) ACforKP made the high board on fourth street and checked to ironOne. He bet 80,000 and both opponents called. ACforKP checked again on fifth, ironOne bet, and A_Sh4dy_0ne raised to 320,000. ACforKP folded and ironOne called all-in, revealing a pair of fours and three to an eight low. A_Sha4dy_0ne turned up jacks in the hole and they held up at showdown to scoop, ending ironOne's run in eighth place. Pokerccini rolls over ACforKP IronOne's departure left ACforKP as the short stack. With 614,000 remaining and the [4h] up, ACforKP raised A_Sh4dy_0ne's third street completion to 160,000. Both Pokerccini and A_Sh4dy_0ne called. ACforKP bet fourth street then checked fifth, leaving Pokerccini to bet 160,000. A_Sha4dy_0ne folded, ACforKP raised, Pokerccini three-bet and ACforKP called all-in. ACforKP ([Ah][3s]) [4h][6d][Jd][3h] ([7s]) Pokerccini ([As][4c]) [3c][2h][5s][Qs] ([4s]) ACforKP turned up four to a six low and a pair of threes while Pokerccini had already made a wheel on fifth. ACforKP did not improve and went out in seventh place, earning $1,053.68. 2jokerSpb seizes the chip lead The limits rose to 100,000/200,000 and with the [Ad] up, 2jokerSpb completed. Late_entry raised to 200,000 with the [7d] and 2jokerSpb fired back with a three-bet. Late_entry called and they went to fourth street. 2jokerSpb led on fourth and fifth streets, late_entry calling him down. Late_entry bet the last of his chips on sixth and 2jokerSpb called. 2jokerSpb ([Ac][Jc]) [Ad][2h][5h][Jh] ([Ah]) late_entry ([6d][4s]) [7d][Jd][As][4c] ([4d]) Late_entry had a pair of fours and a 7-6 low draw while 2jokerSpb had made aces and

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This year's SCOOP series has produced numerous spectacular performances with many players collecting multiple cashes and making numerous deep runs. Event #27-H, the $2,100 buy-in fixed-limit Triple Draw 2-7 event, continued that trend, with several familiar usernames and avatars again turning up at tourney's end. This time it was Stephen "stevie444" Chidwick breaking through to earn his first SCOOP watch by topping a tough field to earn the $52,320 first prize. There were only about 20 players in their seats when the first hands were dealt on Tuesday afternoon, but by the time the two hours of late registration concluded a total of 96 players signed up. That added up to a $192,000 prize pool, nearly double the tourney's $100K guarantee, with only the top dozen finishers making the cash. By the five-hour mark the field had been whittled down to 32 players, with Team PokerStars Pro Jonathan Duhamel having just been sent railward in 33rd while GlassOfBeer, Femmeonfelt, and blanconegro occupied the top three spots on the leaderboard. A couple of Duhamel's teammates soon followed him to the exit in Eugene Katchalov (out in 30th) and Alex Kravchenko (in 28th), leaving just George Danzer with below average chips to sport the red spade as the tourney played down to five tables. It would take a couple more hours plus 15 minutes more to play down to 12 and the money, with Danzer continuing to nurse a short stack just about the entire way while Bryan "Brryann" Ruiter pushed to the top of the counts by building a stack of more than 80,000. Soon Danzer's run would come to an end in 12th place after losing the last of his chips in a hand versus Unkn0wn123. That equaled a $4,800 cash for Danzer as he came up short in an attempt to earn a second lowball title in this year's series after having won Event #12-H ($2,100 NL 2-7 Draw). GlassOfBeer (11th) and Mike "SirWatts" Watson (10th) followed Danzer to the rail, both also earning $4,800 for their finishes. Then by the nine-hour break Brian "$tinger 88" Hastings (9th), enrico.ita77 (8th), and Phil "Jackal69" Shaw (7th) were eliminated, each taking away $7,200 for their efforts. Just six remained, with Bryan "Brryann" Ruiter still leading the way, having moved up over the 160,000-chip mark. Seat 1: Rory "Mafews" Mathews (United Kingdom) -- 37,760 Seat 2: Unkn0wn123 (Uruguay) -- 29,606 Seat 3: Stephen "stevie444" Chidwick (United Kingdom) -- 125,205 Seat 4: Calvin "cal42688" Anderson (Mexico) -- 29,760 Seat 5: Bryan "Brryann" Ruiter (Netherlands) -- 167,636 Seat 6: 7Be/\eC7 (Belarus) -- 90,033 During the break the chip leader offered some advice to the rest of the table, with his nearest challenger, Stephen "stevie444" Chidwick, asking for further insight. Brryann: Ace is high guys stevie444: so nuts is 23456? Brryann: damn right stevie444: gotcha Final table funnies aside, these six represented a formidable bunch, all tourney regulars with numerous significant scores under their belts, and all clearly well aware of the rules for fixed-limit 2-7 triple draw. Mafews meets end in sixth One of those tough competitors was Rory "Mafews" Mathews who already had 10 cashes in this year's SCOOP before the start of this event, including one other final table in Event #14-H ($1,050 NLHE Big Antes) where he finished ninth. Mathews had a rocky start to this final table, however, and was down to 8,360 with the stakes at 1,400/2,800 when Calvin "cal42688" Anderson opened by raising from UTG. Mathews three-bet from the button, and when it folded back to Anderson he capped it and Mathews called. Both drew a single card on the first round and checked, then both drew one card again. This time when cal42688 checked, Mafews bet all in for 2,760, and Anderson called. cal42688 took one card one more time on the last draw while Mafews stood pat. Mafews turned over a 9-7 with [9][7][5][4][2], but Anderson had drawn better as he showed an 8-7 -- [8][7][6][4][3] -- and Mathews was out in

It was a lengthy heads-up match that required the nuts to win. zxz_ overcame a field of 1,668 players, several former SCOOP champions and a number of Team PokerStars Pro and Online players to achieve victory. zxz_'s first hurdle was making the money with the final 216 players. All cashers were guaranteed $42.99, but zxz_ ended up taking home $6,043.45. After that bubble, zxz_ reached another one. We got down to the final table bubble in about nine hours and quickly burst it. Limits were up to 35K/70K and mMagic_cards was battling with Megaheiner for the title of short stack. Both players were at different tables, trying to make the final one. mMagic_cards raised to 70,000 at his three-handed table and crack2 re-raised. mMagic_cards called all-in and patted the whole way. crack2 drew two, then one on the second and third draw. mMagic_cards was patting with [10c][9d][8s][5d][3c] and crack2 hit a [9s][7s][6h][4c][2c] to eliminate mMagic in 7th for $612.24. This brought us down to our... Final table Seat 1: VEVAT -- 1,004,112 Seat 2: crack2 -- 828,419 Seat 3: dexmorgan77 -- 751,936 Seat 4: Megaheiner -- 98,096 Seat 5: Ceegee87 -- 2,909,685 Seat 6: zxz_ -- 2,747,752 Your stack is so short... Megaheiner's stack was so short that he was still the final table short stack after winning a pot and then doubling up. VEVAT raised from under-the-gun and Megaheiner re-raised from the cutoff. Ceegee87 four-bet from the button, VEVAT folded and Megaheiner re-raised to 140,000. Ceegee87 called and both players drew two cards. Megaheiner moved all-in for 10,596 and Ceegee87 called. Megaheiner drew one, then stood pat while Ceegee87 drew one card both draws. Megaheiner showed [9s][5c][4c][3c][2s] to beat Ceegee87's pair of eights. Megaheiner then lost most of the new stack to zxz_. zxz_ raised from under-the-gun and crack2 re-raised from the cutoff. Megaheiner four-bet from the small blind and Ceegee87, zxz_ and crack2 called. crack2 and Megaheiner drew one card while Ceegee87 and zxz_ took two. Megaheiner bet and all three players called. Megaheiner stood pat, crack2 took one and Ceegee87 and zxz_ took two again. Megaheiner bet and everyone called. Megaheiner patted again and the remaining players drew one. Megaheiner bet after the final draw and only zxz_ called. Megaheiner turned over [8c][6s][5d][3d][2h] but zxz_ managed to hit a [7c][6c][5c][3s][2c]. zxz_ took the lead with 3.6 million while Megaheiner was down to 38,692. Megaheiner moved all-in on the button for 38,692 the following hand. Ceegee87 and zxz_ called from the blinds. zxz_ and Megaheiner drew three cards while Ceegee87 took one. Players checked and Ceegee87 took another card while zxz_ took three and Megaheiner discarded two. Ceegee87 patted, zxz_ took three again and Megaheiner took one. zxz_ and Megaheiner mucked when Ceegee87 showed [9d][7s][6h][5c][2h]. Megaheiner finished 6th for $1,023.73 and his countryman followed him soon after. Countryman dexmorgan77 and Megaheiner both hailed from the land of German engineering, Germany. dexmorgan77 was down to 500,000 after Megaheiner's elimination and wouldn't last long. Limits were up to 40K/80K and dexmorgan77 raised from under-the-gun. Ceegee87 called and the other players got out of the way. dexmorgan77 took one card and Ceegee87 discarded two. dexmorgan77 bet and stood pat on the second draw. Ceegee87 called and took one. dexmorgan77 bet again and Ceegee87 raised, prompting a re-raise from dexmorgan77 and a four-bet by Ceegee87. dexmorgan77 only had 9,436 behind and called all-in. Both players patted and dexmorgan77 turned over [8c][6h][5d][4c][3d], only to be beaten by Ceegee87's [7s][6c][5s][4h][2s]. dexmorgan77 earned $1,637.97 for finishing 5th and the tournament was Germanless. Straight crack zxz_ held 2.8 million and Ceegee87 had 3.7 million while both VEVAT and crack2 were around 800,000. With 10 big bets apiece, crack2 and VEVAT didn't have much space to maneuver. VEVAT was chipp

Check or bet. Call or fold. Break or pat. These are the relatively bifurcated decisions that are presented to fixed-limit poker players. That's what 376 players signed up for in SCOOP 2013 Event 27-M, $215 FL Triple Draw 2-7. Grinders one and all, aDrENalin710 proved the ultimate grinder by entering the final table as the short stack and going on to win the whole tournament. 48 players made the money in Event 27-M. None of them were Team PokerStars Pros or PokerStars Team Online players, although the ITM players did include some other notable faces. BrynKenney checked out at 43rd place; Ami "UhhMee" Barer put in yet another good SCOOP performance with a 26th-place finish; and James Obst did a bit better than Barer by coming in 23rd. Stephen "stevie444" Chidwick outshone them all. Chidwick faced a tough decision to break or pat on the bubble of the final table against Ig123456789, who patted the last draw. After dipping into his time bank for about 90 seconds, Chidwick opted to break his hand and draw one. It was the correct move against Ig123456789's 8-7-6-4-2, but Chidwick paired on the draw to be bounced in 7th place. Don't cry too much for stevie444; he was busy on the final table of Event 27-H (where he was still alive with three players remaining at the time of publishing this post) while the other six players collapsed to the Event 27-M final table. Seat 1: Ig123456789 (361414 in chips) Seat 2: Zackary "Thrash370" Koerper (384556 in chips) Seat 3: aDrENalin710 (77372 in chips) Seat 4: CandyJohnson (541250 in chips) Seat 5: Tamsusis (94248 in chips) Seat 6: kingkai (421160 in chips) Level 25: stakes 7k-14k Average: 313,333 (22.5 big bets) The final table started with an odd distribution of chips. Four players had stacks that were above the table average, while two players - Tamsusis and aDrENalin710 - were quite short. Things only got worse for the short stacks as, four minutes into the final table, the stakes rolled up to 8k-16k. CandyJohnson started as chip leader but soon relinquished that title to Ig123456789, a Ukrainian player who won a PL 5-Card Draw event during WCOOP 2010. With four streets of fixed-limit betting, the final table promised plenty of stomach-churning swings. Both short stacks proved that with numerous double-ups in the early stages of the final table. aDrENalin710, in fact, rose all the way up to the table average, mainly at Koerper's expense. The chips kept working their way around the table, never staying long in any one player's stack. Koerper was crippled in a hand against Tamsusis that Koerper had three-bet pre-draw. Koerper drew one to Tamsusis' two on the first draw and bet, then one to Tamsusis' two on the second draw as well. Tamsusis raised Koerper's bet on that street; Koerper called, drew one on the third draw ahead of Tamsusis' pat, then check-folded, preserving a stack of only 10k. Koerper doubled once to get back up to 25k, then doubled a second time with a 9 against Ig123456789's queen to climb up to 45k. That's where it ended. The third time Koerper's tried to double up aDrENalin710 made an inspired pat on the third draw after Koerper himself patted what turned out to be a 9-8. aDrENalin710 dragged the pot with a 9-7 and sent Koerper to the rail in 6th place. For the most part, Ig123456789, aDrENalin710 and CandyJohnson were the beneficiaries of the chip movement; kingkai and Tamsusis were victimized by it. kingkai caught a bad piece of luck against aDrENalin710 to hit the rail in 5th place: The other short stack, Tamsusis, wasn't far behind kingkai in reporting to the rail. aDrENalin710 did the honors once again. The pot was three-bet by Tamsusis pre-draw and called by both Ig123456789 (who opened with a raise) and aDrENalin710. On the first draw, Tamsusis drew 2, Ig123456789 drew 1, and aDrENalin710 drew 2. Ig123456789 led with a bet that both other plaeyrs called. The action was the same after the second draw, at which point Tamsusis was all in. Tamsusis pa

A member of the original November Nine in 2008 and a longtime pro, Rheem bagged up a towering 4,839,000 to take the overwhelming chip lead into Day 5 tomorrow. Even more impressively, Rheem came into the day almost last in the chip counts. Next closest to him is the embattled Erick Lindgren, the former Full Tilt pro tainted by heavy, unpaid sports betting debts over the last couple of years. One of the most popular pros in the world before Black Friday, Lindgren seems to have turned back the clock to a better time for him and, despite being a short stack for much of the day as well, finished in second with 2,518,000. One of Lindgren's old pals in Daniel Negreanu - himself turning the clock back to 2004-era Negreanu with a string of vintage performances recently - also made the final 8 although he'll start tomorrow as the short stack with just 545,000. Roy, Hyman, Peters Palumbo and Steven Along for Ride Joining the esteemed old guard in the final eight tomorrow is a quintet of very experienced pros all capable of taking down their own titles. Jonathan Roy, already a WPT champion earlier this season, sits third overall with 1,987,000. Roy can also snatch the WPT POY title away from Matt Salsberg with a win here. Major uptick for embattled Lindgren.   Well established pros in Matt Hyman (1,940,000), Brandon Steven (1,235,000), David Peters (858,000) and another former WPT champ, Rocco Palumbo (680,000), round out the remaining players. All told, five of the final eight have previous WPT victories including Rheem, Lindgren and Negrenau. Day 5 chip counts: 1. Chino Rheem 4,839,000 2. Erick Lindgren 2,518,000 3. Jonathan Roy 1,987,000 4. Matt Hyman 1,940,000 5. Brandon Steven 1,235,000 6. David Peters 858,000 7. Rocco Palumbo 680,000 8. Daniel Negreanu 545,000 For a full recap of the Day 4 action, check the WPT Live Updates. Action picks up tomorrow at noon local time and will see just two players eliminated to set the final TV table of six. An impressive $1.1 million awaits the winner. Each player is now assured of at least $101,935.Visit www.pokerlistings.com