Phil Hellmuth won't win his twelfth bracelet this year. Jamie Gold won't repeat as the main event champion. Doyle Brunson, Eli Elezra, Josh Arieh, Marcel Luske, David Benyamine, and Johnny Chan have all made the long walk from the main event tables through the exit doors.
Yes, the main event can be cruel even to the world's best and the list of eliminated pros is astounding.
With 6,358 entries, it can get tricky following the players who are still in and who are long gone, but this should help poker fans know who didn't make it deep into what is officially called by Harrah's the $10,000 World Championship No Limit Hold'em event.
Of course, it's ever expanding (the tournament is just in the middle of its first group of players who made it through their day ones), but here's a list of many of the popular players and celebrities who have already been knocked out of the main event:
- J.C. Alvarado
- Patrik Antonius
- Mickey Appleman
- Josh Arieh
- Hank Azaria
- Tex Barch
- Joe Bartholdi
- Chad Batista
- David Benyamine
- Chris Bigler
- Steve Billirakis
- Andy Black
- Andy Bloch
- Barny Boatman
- Noah Boeken
- Justin Bonomo
- Brad Booth
- Alan Boston
- Burt Boutin
- Dutch Boyd
- Richard Brodie
- Doyle Brunson
- Jose Canseco
- Joe Cassidy
- Johnny Chan
- Terrence Chan
- William Chen
- Robert Cheung
- Scott Clements
- T.J. Cloutier
- Hoyt Corkins
- Peter Costa
- Michael Craig
- John D'Agostino
- Paul Darden
- Martin de Knijff
- Freddy Deeb
- Annie Duke
- Eli Elezra
- Shannon Elizabeth
- Wendeen Eolis
- Antonio Esfandiari
- Ali Eslami
- Sam Farha
- Bob Feduniak
- Scott Fischman
- Captain Tom Franklin
- Perry Friedman
- Eric Froelich
- Tony G
- John Gale
- Brad Garrett
- Kristy Gazes
- Chau Giang
- Fred Goldberg
- Clonie Gowen
- Michael Gracz
- David Grey
- Gavin Griffin
- John Grinzivich
- Sam Grizzle
- Jamie Gold
- Jennifer Harman
- Dan Harrington
- Brian Haveson
- Brandi Hawbaker
- Phil Hellmuth
- Juha Helpi
- Phil Ivey
- Kenna James
- Mary Jones
- John Juana
- Aaron Kanter
- Marc Karam
- Doug Kim
- Phil Laak
- Ted Lawson
- Pete Lawson
- Scott Lazar
- Tuan Le
- Nam Le
- Howard Lederer
- Kathy Liebert
- Liz Lieu
- Erick Lindgren
- Jeffrey Lisandro
- Jonathan Little
- Marcel Luske
- Eric Lynch
- Norm MacDonald
- Mike Matusow
- Isabelle Mercier
- Bryan Micon
- Michael Mizrachi
- Dan Nassif
- Nelly
- Steve Paul-Ambrose
- Rehne Pedersen
- Scott Pendergrass
- Max Pescatori
- Young Phan
- Devin Porter
- "Amarillo Slim" Preston
- Greg Raymer
- Chip Reese
- Shawn Rice
- Ray Romano
- Vanessa Rousso
- Kevin Saul
- Shane "Shaniac" Schleger
- Nick Schulman
- Erik Seidel
- Mark Seif
- Vanessa Selbst
- Mike Sexton
- Beth Shak
- Shawn Sheikhan
- Shannon Shoor
- Allyn Jaffrey Shulman
- Barry Shulman
- Jeff Shulman
- David Sklansky
- Alan Smurfit
- Surinder Sunar
- Katja Thater
- Jennifer Tilly
- Dewey Tomko
- An Tran
- Marco Traniello
- David Ulliiot
- Amir Vahedi
- Vince Van Patten
- Ram Vaswani
- Cyndy Violette
- Mark Vos
- Tommy Vu
- Paul Wasicka
- Mike Wattel
- David Williams
- Montel Williams
- Robert Williamson III
- Todd Witteles
- Steve Wong
- Danny Wong
- James Worth
- Steve Zolotow
John Grinzivich contributed to this report.
