Day 4 update from the WPT Doyle Brunson Classic Championship

With a name suitable for a poker player, Benjamin Straate (pronounced “straight”) is the leader heading into day 5 of the World Poker Tour Doyle Brunson Classic Championship. The field started off with over 50 players and many big name professionals were still in the hunt when the cards hit the felt. One interesting match up earlier in the event saw just one seat separating Clonie Gowen and Howard Lederer at the same table. Since Clonie is suing Howard’s company, Full Tilt Poker, one may have expected fireworks. Fortunately, there were none as Howard hit the rail long before Clonie. In fact, Clonie is still very much in the hunt with just over a million chips.

Heading into Day 5 the chip counts are as follows:

1st: Benjamin Straate (Milwaukee, Wisconsin), 3,197,000
2nd: Brett Richey (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), 2,164,000
3rd: Justin Young (Morehead City, North Carolina), 1,807,000
4th: Evan McNiff (San Diego, California), 1,532,000
5th: Mike Matusow (Las Vegas, Nevada), 1,435,000
6th: Jack Wu (Palo Alto, California), 1,412,000
7th: Amnon Filippi (New York, New York), 1,374,000
8th: Steve Sung (Torrance, California), 1,359,000
9th: Robert Mizrachi (Las Vegas, Nevada), 1,266,000
10th: Hoyt Corkins (Glenwood, Alabama), 1,251,000
11th: Chino Rheem (Las Vegas, Nevada), 1,200,000
12th: Clonie Gowen (Dallas, Texas), 1,049,000
13th: Tom Pniak (Las Vegas, Nevada), 1,041,000
14th: Bill Klein (Laguna Hills, California), 999,000
15th: Ben Tollerene (Lubbock, Texas), 492,000
16th: Nick Schulman (Las Vegas, Nevada), 480,000
17th: Joe McGowan (Las Vegas, Nevada), 420,000
18th: Martin Deknijff (Las Vegas, Nevada), 298,000