DAY: 8 (Officially known as Day 4).

BIG NEWS: Players left in the World Series of Poker main event are guaranteed to win something after a 26-year-old part-time poker player was eliminated on the bubble in 649th place.
Kia Hamadani of Los Angeles was down to his last 3,000 chips and was forced to gamble them on Saturday because of minimum bets in the no-limit Texas Hold ’em tournament.
He bet the chips before flipping over his cards, a three and a four, which were pitted against an opponent’s nine-deuce.
Hamadani’s opponent made a full house with the community cards to finish out of the prize money. The rest of the players left in the field will win some piece of a $61 million prize pool.
Hamadani says he wasn’t in the tournament simply to cash — he wanted to win the $8.55 million top prize.
STUD OF THE DAY: Benjamin Jensen of Herning, Denmark, who started the day fourth in chips and convinced a player to fold pocket aces face up as the tournament approached the money bubble. Peter Kremenliev of Las Vegas raised Jensen’s bet on the flop to 108,000 chips, but folded when Jensen bet 225,000 chips more with the board showing an eight, nine and five. After Kremenliev folded, Jensen showed a four and three — a complete bluff.
BUSTED OUT: 2000 main event champion and five-time gold bracelet winner Chris “Jesus” Ferguson; online player Hevad Khan, who finished sixth in the main event in 2007; two-time gold bracelet winner Greg “FBT” Mueller; poker professional J.C. Alvarado.
UP NEXT: About 400 players play another five levels, 10 hours of poker on Sunday, with players trying to position themselves toward the final table.
POKER TALK: Steal: A common poker move in which players raise regardless of their cards in hopes that others will fold and award them the blinds and antes. As the money bubble approached in the tournament on Saturday, chip leader Bertrand “Elky” Grospellier began aggressively raising to take advantage of players who did not want to be eliminated from the tournament, stealing blinds and antes worth thousands of chips per play.
HE SAID WHAT?: “Oh my God, when I saw the flop I wanted to throw up. ... I’ve played checkers for $20 and I’ve celebrated like that.” — Brian Shapiro of Las Vegas, after he got a one-hand penalty for saying an opponent didn’t deserve to win because of his mohawk haircut. Shapiro and the opponent each went all in, Shapiro holding aces to his opponent’s kings. The flop put the opponent in the lead with a third king, but the turn and river made a straight for Shapiro and kept him in the tournament.