Twenty-Seven Players Remain at the World Poker Tour World Championship

Even though he has been playing poker for more than a decade, Paul Lee remains a relatively unknown entity. Even winning the $2,000 buy-in event last week for $206,795 at the Bellagio Five Star World Poker Classic didn't put his name on everyone's lips, not with Anna Wrobleski and two-event winner Jared "TheWacoKidd" Hamby stealing the spotlight. However, after finishing Day 4 of the WPT World Championship yesterday with a commanding chip lead, he might finally have the attention of the poker world.

Lee started Day 4 with about an average poker chip stack of 540,000, but was able to double up through Loi Phan after the first redraw and continued to build his stack from there. Lee will begin Day 5 stacked at 3.6 million followed by Kirk Morrison who will start with 2.98 million.

Rounding out the top three and coming off an 11th place finish at the EPT Grand Final is Spaniard Carlos Mortensen, who is roughly 1 million chips off the lead.

Fourth place is occupied by the top online player in the world, Sorel "imper1um" Mizzi (2.26 million), and fifth place by Thomas "I Am The" Wahlroos (1.85 million).

Other notable poker pro survivors of the Day 4 action are the Day 3 chipleader Phil Hellmuth (738k), two-time WSOP bracelet winner Scott Fischman (1.27 million), Paul Wasicka (581k) and Roland de Wolfe (460k).

Play resumes today at noon PST and will end when the field has been narrowed down to the final six.