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"Official" chip counts show Jeff Sarwer in 402nd place (out of 762) with 37,775 chips (the chip leader has 228,200) in the Day 1a group.
In the Day 1b group, Antoine Berube is in 17th place (out of 1017) with 125,150 chips (chip leader has 201,050). GM Alexander Grischuk is in 540th place.
The Day 1c group has just started, and the Day 1d group tomorrow. The players still remaining after these first four days will continue Saturday or Sunday.
A careful search of the entries for Day 1c shows more chess players:
Matthew Closs (Ottawa) - 1800-rated player whom I played about 10-15 years ago.
Thomas Balla - might be the Montreal expert who played during the 1980's.
David Ottosen - Chesstalk poster.
None of the above show up on today's latest chip counts - but that list shows only 185 out of the 2314 players who entered today - so it doesn't mean that they have been eliminated - but it's also unlikely that they have large stacks of chips in front of them, since someone would have noticed and added them to the chip count list.
The "official" chip counts for Day 1c show Matthew Closs in 165th place with 77,025 chips; Thomas Balla in 594th place (46,000) - but no sign of David Ottosen (unless his name was spelt wrong?) on the list of 1642 players who still had chips at the end of the day.
Day 1d starts in a couple of hours. Total entry count (days 1a, 1b, 1c, and 1d) could be as high as 7000 - meaning a prize fund approaching $70,000,000 (!).
Antoine Berube finished 359th and won $36,463. That probably covers his entry fees from the other events which he entered.
Jeff Sarwer was eliminated on Day 3.
Matthew Closs made it to Day 4 (the top 1,203 players), but I can't find any placing for him. There are 747 prizes. He was not listed on those who made it to Day 5, so he probably won nothing.
Alexander Grischuk eliminated on day 3 of WSOP Main Event
The WSOP Non-Limit Texas Holdem Main Event 2010 features 7,319 players (4,973 of them are from the USA) who paid a $10K entry fee to participate in the great event with a staggering $68,798,600 prize fund.
A lot of poker legends have been eliminated on days 1 & 2: Doyle Brunson, Phil Helmuth, Chris Ferguson, Joe Hachem, Jamie Gold, Phil Ivey and many others. Some notable names still in the game are Chris Moneymaker, Daniel Negreanu, Allen Cunnigham and Johnny Chan.
Unfortunately, super grandmaster Alexander Grischuk (somehow not mentioned at the official website in the celebrity list) has also left the tournament on day 3. One of the critical hands for him went the following way: two players limped, Grischuk bet 11,500 with QQ. The big blind went all-in with 70,000; Grischuk called and saw only K6 suited. Then a king came...
After a couple more hands Grischuk (with only 25,000 chips left ) went all-in from the button. The big blind called with A10 vs Alexander's K6 suited and won when an ace came on the river.
Unfortunately - Antoine's buy-in fees for the various WSOP events in which he entered approached or exceeded his winnings. Hopefully - he did well in the unadvertised events or in cash games.
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