Overview
- The tournament’s hand-for-hand bubble ended with three eliminations, including former world champion Chris Moneymaker, and the three knocked out split the smallest cash positions and a $25,000 WSOP Paradise seat prize.
- Play finished with 533 players remaining and Sam Sweilem atop the counts with about 3.8 million in chips while a published top-10 list showed several other players clustered in the 3-million-chip range.
- Alex Foxen hit a royal flush during the day and left with roughly 1.695 million in chips, illustrating the sharp swings that marked play.
- Defending champion Michael Mizrachi had a volatile late run that left him short at the end of Day Four and he was eliminated next on Day Five in 241st place for $50,000.
- The Main Event drew more than 9,000 entries to create an approximately $85 million prize pool, a structure that magnified pressure on short stacks and raised the stakes for the next day of play.