Day 5 Ends with 45 Players in Contention for the Gold...

And one of them really is Gold - Jamie Gold - sitting at the top of the chip count with 7.3million chips, a little less than 10% of the chips in play. Ironic when you know he was once a Hollywood Agent, representing Felicity Huffman and James Gandolfini, who lived his life for 10% of the "chips". Of course, this time, he's out to get it all. Incidentially, he learned to play poker from Johnny Chan when they worked together on a television series.

Humerto Brenes made a bit of a comeback but is only one of 9 players with less than 1million chips at 560K.

Allen Cunningham, the only other pro I am following, has 1.29million in chips.

Play resumes at Noon today and play will continue till only 27 players remain.