Day 4, playing down to the TV table

Day 4 will being shortly as the 27 remaining players try for the nearly $1,500,000 first place prize. The field has earned a combined $29,000,000 in their tournament careers and 8 World Series of Poker bracelets led by the 5 held by Ted Forrest. Chip leader Dan Heimiller has cashed in 32 WSoP events including his 2002 bracelet in the Limit Hold'em/Stud mix game.

Tab the Tournament Director will be kicking things off shortly and we have a front row seat. They will start in the middle of Level 21, blinds at 10,000/20,000 2,000 ante. Average chip stack is 764,444.

Here are your final 27 players.

Dan Heimiller - 2,870,000 - Table 3 seat 6
WSoP bracelet winner in 2002. Cashed in 32 WSoP events. $1,497,039 career.

Vivek Rajkumar - 1,756,000 - Table 2 seat 4
8 WSoP cashes. Won 2008 LA Poker Classic Event #18. $457,530 career.

Thayer Rasmussen - 1,413,000 - Table 2 seat 7
7 WSoP cashes. Won 2007 Mandalay Poker Classic Event #1. $429,663 career.

Steven Levy - 1,317,000 - Table 3 seat 8
3 WSoP cashes. $61,478 career.

Jason Strochak - 1,266,000 - Table 1 seat 9
1 WSoP cash. $186,703 career.

Nicky Frangos - 1,140,000 - Table 1 seat 1
11 WSoP cashes. 4 WSoP Final Tables. $761,381 career.

Andrew Knee - 1,091,000 - Table 1 seat 3
$7,830 career.

Mark Seif - 1,087,000 - Table 2 seat 2
2 WSoP Bracelets (2005 Event #15 and 22). 8 WSoP cashes. $1,935,304 career.

Patrick Carney - 1,050,000 - Table 3 seat 4
$5,437 career.

Stephen Vanauken - 1,009,000 - Table 1 seat 5

John Myung - 946,000 - Table 3 seat 1
10 WSoP cashes. $1,706,796 career.

Michael Binger - 718,000 - Table 2 seat 6
14 WSoP cashes. $5,606,573 career.

Steve Dannenmann - 627,000 - Table 1 seat 4
3 WSoP cashes. 2nd in 2005 WSoP Main Event. $4,432,435 career.

Ted Forrest - 607,000 - Table 2 seat 3
5 WSoP Bracelets. 14 WSoP Final Tables. 22 WSoP cashes. $4,939,241 career.

Bobby Shasta - 606,000 - Table 1 seat 8

Ralph Villela - 345,000 - Table 2 seat 8
$7,702 career.

Christopher Baksh - 344,000 - Table 3 seat 2

Vinh Nguyen - 336,000 - Table 3 seat 9

Sang Kim - 316,000 - Table 2 seat 9

Mikiya Takitani - 301,000 - Table 3 seat 3
$36,915 career.

Randy Pfeifer - 288,000 - Table 3 seat 7
$100,798 career.

Robert Toft - 269,000 - Table 1 seat 7
6 WSoP cashes. $365,882 career.

Nam Le - 235,000 - Table 1 seat 6
14 WSoP cashes. $4,299,420 career.

Kevin Lang - 209,000 - Table 1 seat 2
$44,392 career.

Chris Arvanitis - 177,000 - Table 3 seat 5
$833 career.

Natale Kuey - 175,000 - Table 2 seat 5
$122,784 career.

Chris Bell - 165,000 - Table 2 seat 1
8 WSoP cashes. $1,611,048 career.