By the PokerStars blog team in Las Vegas

Wow. Seriously, wow.

We may have already used that word to start a previous post from today, but it becomes no less applicable in the duplicate. Wow. Seriously, wow.

Day four started an hour late after yesterday's extended bubble shenanigans, but we ended up unplugging our laptops a full level early tonight after the carnage of one of the fastest moving days in recent World Series memory. There were 474 players returning to the Amazon Room at the outset, with the idea of playing deep into the money. With 38 minutes still remaining in level 19, the tournament staff carried out a mercy killing on the day of slaughter. There were only 189 players remaining. It had been brutal.

Immovable and irresistible in that clutch of survivors is Team PokerStars Pro Victor Ramdin. Ramdin is the man in form and has cashed in the past four tournaments in which he has played, including a final table in the $1,500 HORSE event last week. He is now well chipped up going into day five of the biggest tournament of the year.

Team PokerStars Pro Victor Ramdin

Much of Ramdin's day took place under the studio lights of the ESPN feature table, and it'll be worth tuning in to the broadcast. Ramdin ended with 1,325,000 in chips and a reputation even further enhanced. It's going to be a pleasure to follow his progress tomorrow, and probably much further.

For the final hour of the night, Ramdin was joined on the television table by the PokerStars sponsored player Kara Scott, who continued her fairytale World Series.

Scott, from Brighton, England, is no stranger to the television cameras, and regularly wows poker audiences as the host of the television production of the PokerStars European Poker Tour. Now she's wowing American poker audiences for her play rather than her presenting skills and finished with 247,000 and the guaranteed largest payday of her career.

Expecting similar huge cheques to hit their bank accounts in the coming week are the regular list of PokerStars players that have owned this main event. As ever. PokerStars player Darus Suharto, from Toronto, Canada, cashed for a small amount in the main event in 2006, but is now staring at a much larger payday, provided he can translate his 1,428,000 chips into a similar amount of real money come Monday (or November).

PokerStars player Darus Suharto

Felix Osterland (1,470,000), another PokerStars player, this time from Germany, is neck and neck with Suharto's, alongside Alex Outhred (1,377,000) and Ylon Schwartz (820,000).

Of course, such is the nature of the game that one player's progression often means another's departure, and among those ending their World Series assaults today were the duo of Team PokerStars Pros with the most recognisable user-names in the business: ElkY and RaiNKhan. Bertrand and Hevad, as they are known to the Grospellier and Khan families, respectively, both perished today, but did not go home empty handed.

Team PokerStars Pro Bertrand 'ElkY' Grospellier

ElkY took $28,950 for his 370th place, but suffered a couple of coolers -- set versus straight, among them --to end his charge.

A few hours later, RaiNKhan's deep drive halted when he ran pocket nines into Tiffany Michelle's K-Q, a queen flopping.

Those two were joined in the cashiers' line by a whole host of PokerStars players, who have already made very good indeed on their meagre satellite entry fees.