World Series of Poker 2005 champion Joe Hachem and Day 2 and 3 chip leader Victor Ramdin made the eight person final table of the $5,000 buy-in Big Event main event at the Bicycle casino in Los Angeles, California. Jeremy Ausmus surged to the lead with over four million chips.

Final table chip counts
Jeremy Ausmus - 4,008,000
Victor Ramdin - 2,279,000
Taylor von Kriegenbergh - 1,810,000
Joe Hachem - 1,666,000
Brian Leskowitz - 1,087,000
Santiago Nadal - 943,000
Jose De Noronha - 568,000
Govert Metaal - 149,000

First player out takes home $35,327, while the winner will walk away with $500,000.

The final table will play out at 1:00 P.M. Thursday.

David Paredes was the final table bubble boy eliminated in 9th place for $27k. Alex "AJKHoosier1" Kamberis and Josh "JJProdigy" Field got into a verbal spat earlier in the day and both were eliminated as the day played on.

The 417 entrants created a $1,921,327 prize pool.