Day 5 of the World Series of Poker Main Event was shortened following a major storm over Las Vegas which caused lighting and other technical hassles at the Rio around a half hour before play was scheduled to end Monday.
The field at the start of the day had numbered 310, but when the chips were bagged ahead of schedule just 109 (a 65 percent attrition rate) remained in contention,
Leading the survivors was Texas player Mike Dyer on 12,180,000 chips, comfortably ahead of his nearest rivals, two-bracelet holder Brian Yoon ( 8,395,000) and Jeff Trudeau (8,305,000).
The players are now in the big money, with the next elimination when play resumes Tuesday Las Vegas time taking home $57,010.
The eliminations during the day included names like Jake Schindler, Barbara Enright, Bruno Politano, Chris Moorman, Daniel Alaei, Ludovic Geilich, Chino Rheem, James Akenhead, Brian Altman, Adam Levy, Ben Yu, Paul Volpe, Ivan Demidov, Antonio Esfandiari, Scott Davies, and Cliff Josephy.
Those who survived included former WSOP Main Event champ Joe Cada, Kelly Minkin (the sole female still in action), Day 4 chip leader Barry Hutter, Eric Froehlich, Ivan Luca, Benjamin Pollak, Shannon Shorr, Shaun Deeb and James Obst.