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Tuesday, July 15, 2008

WPT rolls into Vegas for Bellagio Cup IV

Hevad Khan
He couldn't win the Main Event, but Khan he do it in the Bellagio Cup IV?

By Sarah Polson

The World Series of Poker Main Event wasn't the only major tournament drawing players to Vegas over the weekend. The World Poker Tour rolled into town on Friday to start three Day 1's for the Bellagio Cup IV.

Last year the Bellagio Cup drew more than 500 players and made another WPT winner a millionaire. That newly minted millionaire was Kevin "BeLOWaBOVe" Saul. He follows Amnon Filippe and Shannon Shorr in the line of Bellagio Cup winners.

This year 446 players turned out for the event, and after three Day 1's there are plenty of big names still left in the field.

Hevad Khan is sitting with a pretty hefty stack of chips, and Joe Sebok, Lee Markholt, Barry Greenstein, Steve Zolotow, Gavin Smith, Tom Dwan, Isaac Haxton, David Chiu, Kirill Gerasimov, Darrell Dicken, Sammy Farha, Shawn Buchanan, Nenad Medic, Eric Froehlich, Ram Vaswani, David Levi, John Phan, Joe Tehan and Scotty Nguyen are all above the average in chips so far.

Sitting below average, but very much still in the game, are Allen Cunningham, Jennifer Tilly, Shane Schleger, Ted Forrest, David Pham, Raymond Davis, Phil Laak, Alex Bolotin, Phil Laak, J.C. Tran, Mark Newhouse, Billy Baxter, Freddy Deeb, Erik Seidel, David Benyamine, Howard Lederer, Todd Brunson, Bill Edler, Kristy Gazes, Justin Bonomo, Men "The Master" Nguyen, JJ Liu, Erick Lindgren, John Juanda and more.

There are plenty of big names who have already been cut from the playing field today as well. Playing in what is most definitely his home turf, Doyle Brunson busted today.

Joining him among the players at the rail are Michael Binger, Alan Smurfit, Scott Clemens, Jared Hamby and Blake Cahail.

The WPT Bellagio Cup IV is scheduled to play until Thursday when a winner will be found during the televised final table.

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