The World Series of Poker Main Event is the biggest poker tournament in the world. It's also the biggest televised poker tournament in the world. And on Day 4 of the Main Event Friday, both sides of the equation were on display.

Play began shortly after 1 p.m., as the 474 remaining players tried to put themselves in position to reach the final table. There was plenty of star power on display with the Phil Hellmuth roller coaster beginning the day at the ESPN featured table, Allen Cunningham gobbling up chips at ESPN's secondary table and Mike Matusow in one of the outer tables.

Cunningham made a strong move up the leaderboard Friday. He ended the day with 1.27 million in chips. But the real interesting interplay between TV and poker came as players were eliminated from the tournament.

During the first two hours the day, there was about one elimination every minute. And each bust out was carefully choreographed scene designed to ensure that the players were paid out the right amount of money and the television cameras could capture all dramatic moments.

Any time a player went all in and was called, a dealer yelled "all-in call" and waited for WSOP supervisor to reach the table. Once the WSOP supervisor was there, he would check with an ESPN producer to see if the television cameras wanted to film the hand.

Sweden's Stefan Mattsson, who had won over $457,000 at the last two WSOP Main Events, finished in 277th and said he was deeply disappointed. When Florida's Kevin Schaffel finished in 324th place, the disappointment was etched on his face. He managed to once reach 600,000 thousand before ending at around 400,000. This was the fourth Main Event for Schaffel, whose best finish was 42nd in 2004 Main Event.

 Browne earned his buy-in by finishing first in a poker league he formed with 25 friends. Three other players in the league qualified by winning the season-ending tournament, but none of them cashed. He will be taking home half of the $28,950 prize he received for finishing 375th. The other half will be divided up among his friends in the poker league.

Most notable eliminations are: Johnny Chan, Stefan Mattsson, Evelyn Ng, Hevad Kahn, Dag Martin Mikkelsen, Maya Geller-Antonius, Cliff Josephy, Jean-Robert Bellande and Brian Schaedlich.