Day 4 began with 44 players taking seats in their quest to win the last major poker tournament of the year, The WPT’s Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic. When time was called for the day 18 players had chips and one of them is going home with the $2,482,605 first place money in a couple of days.Daniel Negreanu, chip leader with 2,279,000, appears to have the inside track with three quarters of a million more in play money than Matthew Casterella, second on the chip list with 1,686,000; but, there’s a lot of poker to be played yet and there are some big names with chips on the short list returning Monday at Noon for Day 5 today.
Select players and chip counts after the jump…