Jeremy Joseph defends Chip Lead – Felix catches up – Gus bluffs Matusow

Published on 12 Jul 08 12:45 by Drakhor

Slowly but surely the field of participants of the Main Event thins out. 189 players survived Day 4. Jeremy Joseph was able to keep a narrow chip lead. PokerStrategist Felix Osterland caught up nicely and is with 1.491M chips on rank 19. Vito Branciforte also had a good day.

Monster Pot right before the End

Only a few minutes before the end, chip leader Jeremy Joseph had to submit a big pot. The flop showed . Jeremy Joseph checked to Cristian Dragomir, who bet 110,000 and Joseph called. The turn card was the and Jospeh check-called a 200,000 bet. On the river came the , Joseph checked, Dragomir bet 345,000 and Joseph called again. Dragomir flipped over for trips. Joseph mucked and said he had pocket aces. After this pot, Joseph had fallen to 2.175M. Dragomir held 2.065M chips and was thus able to position himself on the third place in the chip count.

Schaedlich out

An early finish came for the chip-leader-gone-short-stack Brian Schaedlich. With he pushed his remaining chips all-in. Darren Grant called with . The flop came with and put Schaedlich with 75% in the lead. But the turn brought the and Schaedlich only had about 7% left to win the pot. The on the river changed nothing anymore and the chip leader of Day 2 had to join the rails.

PokerStrategist Felix rocks the House

PokerStrategist Felix 'LawDoc' Osterland was able to extend his stack as well and lies on rank 19 in the chip count with 1,491,000 in chips. Felix is thus the currently best German in the Main Event. Amongst others, he was able to eliminate Tino Lechich.

Jon Turner raised pre-flop. Tino Lechich and Felix (BB) called. The flop came with . Lechich bet, Turner folded and Felix called. The turn card was the . Felix checked again and Lechich pushed his remaining chips across the line. Felix called instantly and showed for the straight. Lechich flipped over for the lower straight. The river changed nothing and Felix had eliminated Lechich.

The fourth day was also successful for our community member Vito 'Briatore' Branciforte. With 845,000 chips he still has every option for the following days and was able to position himself in the upper third of the chip count.

Pros catching up

Some pros were also able to increase their stacks. Brandon Cantu is with 1.58M chips on rank 12. Shawn Sheikhan (1,500,000) is on rank 14. Mark Vos (1,373,000) is on position 19. Immediately behind him are Gus Hansen (1,360,000) and Victor Ramdin (1,350,000) on ranks 20 and 21. Allen Cunningham gathered 1,270,000 chips and lies on rank 25.

Jeremiah Smith didn't have such a good day. He still has 890,000 chips and thus about 200,000 chips less than the day before. Phil Hellmuth is still in the upper third with 570,000 chips, where he is joined by Mike Matusow (550,000) and Cort Kibler-Melby (410,000). Still in the race as well are amongst others Kido Pham (317,000) and Hoyt Corkins (305,000).

"I just bluffed Mike Matusow"

After Gus Hansen's table was split up, the Dane was put on a table with Mike Matusow. Both of them probably won't become good friends anymore, at least not on the poker tables. From late position, Mike raised pre-flop and everybody folded to Hansen in the big blind, who begun one of his famous shows. But before it really started, Matusow said: "You get 30 seconds, then I'm calling the floor. We're not going through all the bullshit". Hansen re-raised Matusow almost instantly, who folded his hand as a result. Hansen, who still has his dictaphone with him to record his tournaments then commented the hand as follows: "I just bluffed Mike Matusow."