Day by day, we follow the tournament of all tournaments, which has broken its historical records this year, but every day we bring you all the essentials about it. As you probably know, yesterday's day 4 bubble burst happened right at the beginning, after which over a thousand players claimed financial rewards by the end of the day.
At the start of day 5, there were 441 contenders for the most valuable title in the poker world, including many famous names and several former champions. One of them, namely the legendary Chris Moneymaker, also appeared on the TV table, from which he unfortunately had to leave after half an hour of play (time 45:23) in 403rd place for $40,000.
Coincidentally, right after him, the last former champion in the game, Joe Hachem, left the tournament in 402nd place for the same prize. For the long-term Australian number one, which won the title in 2005, a spot in which he called with KJ all-in of Mason Vieth with AQ on the AT25 turn became fatal. The rest was already taken care of by river 8, who definitively sealed that we will not recognize the two-time champion this year either.
Nicholas "Dirty Diaper" Rigby and Chance Kornuth played the biggest hand of the evening and the entire tournament so far on the TV table. Both of them with 100bb stacks found premiums, namely Rigby AA and Kornuth AK, but it didn't take long for both of them to burn their stacks before the flop. This game catapulted Rigby to a 6 million stack, and Kornuth to the cash register, where a reward of $44,700 awaited him for the 301st place.
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The number of survivors stood at 149 by the end of the day, with Zachary Hall leading the pack with a massive 16 million stack (204bb). Hall is no newcomer, he even coached Ethan "Rampage" Yau, who you can regularly watch on various cash game TV shows.
Still in play are Tony Dunst (8,285,000), Tim Van Loo (7,725,000), John Racener (7,676,000), Maurice Hawkins (6,145,000), Jan-Peter Jachtmann (5,465,000), Ludovic Geilich (4,955,000), Nicholas Rigby (1,650,000).
All participants in today's Day 6 will return to the tables again in the evening, when play will continue at blinds of 40k/80k/80k. Everyone already has a $67,700 prize in their pocket, but it's more than clear that no one cares about it now.
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