The money is starting to get serious now that the $10,400 buy-in WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas has advanced to Day 5, which kicks off at noon PT on Friday.
No player will return to action with a bigger stack than Jeremy Becker, who spun it up late, and he's doing it in the same casino he dominated the low-stakes daily tournaments for years.
"JBex," however, didn't spend much of the day atop the chip counts. Soheb Porbandarwala, who at one point had a 2:1 chip lead over the second biggest stack, led for most of the day.