The final four players are on dinner break.   Here are the current chip counts:

Jerry Yang - 71m
Raymon Rahme  - 33m
Alex Kravchenko - 12m
Tuan Lam - 11m

Pictured is Jerry Yang offering a slightly bigger "Rain" Khan a hug after busting him in 5th place.

Here are the updated chip counts:

Kevin Saul  3.877m
Shane Schleger  2.127m
Danny Wong  1.203m
The Mouth  819k
Gordon Eng  560k
Eric Panayioyou  396k
Chris Bonita  282k
Nam Le  183k
Richard Lee  172k
Konstantin Puchkov  154k

The updated chip counts are:

Kevin Saul  900k
Chris Bonita  820k
Eric Kesselman  750k
David Chiu  650k
Nam Le  580k

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Besides being the nicest guy left in the main event, Lee Watkinson has 4.6m chips and a crazy chimpanzee.  It’s a toss-up for which story-line carries more significance in the poker world:

1)    Lee going for an extra $10,000,000 if he wins the main event as an online qualifier for Full Tilt Poker, or

2)    Lee’s chimpanzee punching David Sklansky in the stomach

Since there’s dozens of online qualifiers playing the main event and only one Sklansky-punching monkey in existence, I guess #2 wins by default. Lee brought one of his two rescued chimpanzees to Steve Z’s annual WSOP party (hurting for a date, anyone?). In the middle of showing off for a crowd of ladies, Buddy decided he didn’t like Sklanksy putting a cramp in his style, so he socked him in the gut.¹  Awesome. 

Some more chimp counts:

The updated chip counts are:

Kevin Saul  700k
Steve Buckner  540k
Nam Le  480k
Mike Matusow  380k
David Benyamine  375k
Gino Yonan  325k
Burt Boutin  310k
Alex Bolotin  305k
David Oppenheim  300k

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The top chip counts are:

Kevin Saul  524.5k
Michael Cooney  437.5k
Konstantin Puchkov  373k
Nam Le  364k
David Benyamine  361.5k
Burt Boutin  343.5k
Mike Matusow  332.5k
Christopher Bonita  322.5k

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