Team Bodog's Alper Sar Moves to Day 6 of 2009 WSOP Main Event

Team Bodog online poker player Alper Sar is moving into Day 6 of the 2009 WSOP. (Bodog Beat Image)"]

Things are really beginning to heat up here at the 2009 WSOP Main Event as the storylines develop with only 185 players remaining. For us, the major story is Team Bodog poker player Alper "thunderfx" Sar moving onto Day 6 of the tournament.

Sar enters the day with 691,000 in chips, and while the average chip stack right now is just a shade over $1 million, there will be quite a bit of movement as players look to solidify their positions and that makes for a lot of opportunities to cash on even the most minor of errors. One double-up and he's above average. Sounds easy, right?

Anyway, the Turkish investment banker actually won four WSOP Main Event seats through some other inferior poker room but chose to take Bodog Poker's $12,000 WSOP VIP package because of all that it came with. He will be seated with CardPlayer magazine's Jeff Shulman today, managing to avoid most of the big names left in the field.

Speaking of those big names, there are several storylines involving them. As usual, the perennial question as to whether or not a poker pro will make the final table or win the event revolves around Phil Ivey, David Benyamine, Tom Schneider, Blair Hinkle, Bertrand "elKy" Grospellier, Fabrice Soulier, Joe Sebok, Theo Tran, JC Tran, Antonio Esfandiari, Noah Boeken and Blair Rodman. Then there's Dennis Philips, can he make a back-to-back appearance in the Novermber Nine? Along those same lines, can Peter Eastage repeat as WSOP champion? Will Joe Hachem become a two-time WSOP champion?

As you can see, there's a lot going on, so look for the answers to all of these questions and more as we continue our 2009 WSOP Main Event live updates.