

Six Brazilian Players Remain in 2017 WSOP Main Event
Six Brazilian poker players remain in the Main Event of the 2017 World Series of Poker (WSOP), with one dream: to win the most important tournament of the year. After Day 4, 297 players remain out of the 7,221 who started the tournament.
Rodrigo Garrido, a professional player for Betmotion, is the highest-ranked Brazilian with 2,040,000 chips, placing him in 43rd position. The other Brazilian players still in the tournament are:
- Fabio Sousa with 1,476,000 chips
- Renato Bauru with 910,000 chips
- Camillo Baggiani with 720,000 chips
- Gustavo Lopes, known as Vascão, with 448,000 chips
- Leonardo Tobias with 432,000 chips
The chip leader is Damian Salas from Argentina, with 4,678,000 chips, followed by Sebastien Comel from France with 4,198,000 chips, and Kenny Hallaert from Belgium with 4,145,000 chips. The winner of the 2017 WSOP Main Event will receive $8,150,000.
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