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The final table for Event 4 at the 2008 WSOP, a $5,000 buy-in Mixed Hold’em tournament, has been determined.  David Rheem will be coming in to the final table with the chip lead at $885,000.  In second is the The Blingiest Man in Poker, David Williams, holding $678,500 in chips.  Justin Bonomo is third with $517,500, Erick Lindgren is in fourth with $345,000, Howard Lederer holds fifth place with $324,500 in chips.  The bottom four includes Roland de Wolfe ($194,000), Andrew Robl ($162,000), Isaac Haxton ($115,500) and Pat Pezzin ($108,500).

Event 4 started with 332 entrants and players are competing for the $375,617 first place prize.  Chip leader David Rheem has cashed four times in previous WSOP events with a 2nd place finish in the 2006 WSOP $1,000 buy-in No-limit Hold’em as his highest previous finish.  Of the contestants seated at the final table, only David Williams and Howard Lederer have WSOP bracelets to their name.

David Williams received his only WSOP bracelet in the 2006 WSOP $1,500 buy-in Seven Card Stud Tournament.  Lederer owns two bracelets and has WSOP and WSOP circuit earnings of over $1 million.  Lederer first cashed in the 1987 WSOP taking 13th place in the $1,500 Limit Hold’em event.

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