20 Oct 11

WSOPE ME Final Table- Cody, Moorman, Kranich, and Buchanan All Alive

The WSOPE Main Event has reached its final table, and it includes a few of poker's best players. Find out more about the players at the table, and how Patrik Antonius bubbled it thanks to a bad beat.

Jake Cody Photo Courtesy of PokerNews.com

593 players paid €10,400 for a seat in the WSOPE Main Event and a chance to win life-changing money. All of them had their eyes on the €1,400,000 first place prize, but after 4 days of play just 8 players can still potentially win it.

Here's a brief description of those 8 players, followed by each one's chip count and home country:

• Elio Fox- 2011 Bellagio Cup winner known as "smokrokflok" online. (3,990,000 - USA)
• Jake Cody- Triple Crown winning poker pro with over $2.6 million in career earnings. (2,685,000 - Great Britain)
• Dermot Blain- 2009 APPT Macau winner. (2,405,000 - Ireland)
• Chris Moorman- Online legend known as 'Moorman1' with $7.4 million in online earnings. (2,230,000 - Great Britain)
• Brian Roberts- $165K in live earnings since 2006. (2,000,000 - USA)
• Max Silver- $367K in earnings since 2010, including 4th place in the shootout at this WSOPE. (1,825,000 - Great Britain)
• Moritz Kranich- Pro with WPT and EPT wins and over $2 million in earnings; a victory in this tournament would complete his Triple Crown. (1,660,000 - Germany)
• Shawn Buchanan- Pro with a WPT win and three WSOP 2nd place finishes for over $3 million in earnings. (1,015,000 - Canada)

Patrik's Unlucky Ending

Patrik Antonius bubbled the final table in a very unfortunate manner. Preflop, Chris Moorman went all-in on a 4-bet, and Antonius snap-called him with . Moorman showed . There were about 1.9 million chips in the pot.

The board ran , giving Moorman the winning 2 pair. Antonius was annoyed when the turn made a split pot likely, and disgusted when he saw the river. Patrik lost his remaining 3 big blinds almost immediately after, and went home with €90,000.

Check out the table below to find out where the rest of the top 25 players finished.

The final table of the WSOPE Main Event will begin today at 12:00 CET, and most regions can watch the live stream at WSOP.com.

Caesar's Cup Outcome: Team America (Phil Hellmuth, Johnny Chan, Daniel Negreanu, Jason Mercier, and Ben Lamb) defeated Team Europe (Bertrand 'ElkY' Grospellier, Tony G, Jake Cody, Gus Hansen, and Max Lykov) in a short series of matches with interesting formats. Phil Hellmuth beat Max Lykov in the final heads-up match to give his team the Caesar's Cup victory.

World Series of Poker Europe Live Updates

World Series of Poker Europe Event #7 €10,400 Main Event Championship - Day 4
Place	Name	Chips
1st	Elio Fox	3,990,000
2nd	Jake Cody	2,685,000
3rd	Dermot Blain	2,405,000
4th	Chris Moorman	2,230,000
5th	Brian Roberts	2,000,000
6th	Max Silver	1,825,000
7th	Moritz Kranich	1,660,000
8th	Shawn Buchanan	1,015,000
-	Patrik Antonius	€90,000
-	Arnaud Mattern	€90,000
-	Alex Dovzhenko	€67,500
-	Thibaud Guenegou	€67,500
-	Andy Moseley	€53,000
-	Steven Moreau	€53,000
-	Amir Lehavot	€43,000
-	Michael Drummond	€43,000
-	Dario Dammartino	€37,000
-	John Duthie	€37,000
-	Jeremy Kottler	€37,000
-	John Eames	€37,000
-	Erik Seidel	€37,000
-	James Schafer	€37,000
-	Ricardo Tavares	€37,000
-	Tony G	€37,000
-	Philippe Ktorza	€32,000
Blinds: 15,000/30,000/5,000   |   Players: 8 (25)   |   Prize pool: €5,692,800

Check out some pictures from Day 4 of the World Series of Poker Europe Main Event:

Chip leader Elio Fox.
At the final table, Jake Cody is 2nd in chips and 1st in career major tournament wins.
Online legend Chris Moorman can actually win WSOP POY with both a victory here and a poor Ben Lamb performance in November.

Patrik Antonius rarely shows his emotions, but he was visibly mad at the way he lost his chips.

Shawn Buchanan's WSOP POY hopes are still alive if he finishes in the top 2.

Moritz Kranich will look to complete his Triple Crown today.

The final table.

Above photos courtesy of PokerNews.com

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