Two Plus Two Older Archives - How come there are so many short stacks in the 5DC?

Are they mostly Internet qualifiers just trying to hang around to cash?

Oh, I see from the other post that they are paying 100 places and there are 121 left, so that is exactly what is happening.

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Place Poker Player Chip Count
1 Patrik Antonius $ 644,700
2 Darrell Dicken $ 542,200
3 Alan Goehring $ 434,600
4 Doyle Brunson $ 418,000
5 Phil 'Unabomber' Laak $ 364,100
6 Barny Boatman $ 330,500
7 Ron Kirk $ 321,900
8 Jeff Littlefield $ 307,500
9 Don Zewin $ 305,300
10 Jeff Rine $ 299,000
11 Denis Ethier $ 293,400
12 Yukon 'Poker Assasin' Booth $ 287,300
13 Kermit Beasley $ 286,100
14 Terri Evanowski $ 285,000
15 Glynn Beebe $ 270,100
16 Chris Bell $ 263,100
17 Mads Andersen $ 251,700
18 Joanne 'J.J.' Liu $ 228,300
19 Joe Sebok $ 227,000
20 Brian Lamkin $ 224,800
21 Loi Phan $ 222,100
22 Woody Van Stratum $ 219,600
23 Eskimo Clark $ 211,900
24 Bruno Fitoussi $ 210,900
25 Marco Traniello $ 210,000
26 Bengt Sonnert $ 205,900
27 Alex Prendes Jr. $ 195,100
28 Frank Vizza $ 187,600
29 Can Kim Hua $ 184,000
30 Mike Gracz $ 178,000
31 John D'Agostino $ 173,400
32 Jesse Jones $ 173,000
33 Roland de Wolfe $ 169,900
34 David 'The Dragon' Pham $ 164,400
35 Dewey Tomko $ 161,900
36 Bill Corrigan $ 159,600
37 Barry Greenstein $ 158,800
38 Clonie Gowen $ 153,200
39 Greg Werbrich $ 150,700
40 Sam Rashid $ 150,300
41 Burt Boutin $ 146,700
42 Manny Syragakis $ 146,700
43 Kenny Levy $ 144,000
44 Dwayne Moyer $ 143,600
45 Peter Costa $ 143,000
46 Michael Tait $ 140,000
47 James McClendon $ 131,300
48 Dehne Pedersen $ 130,700
49 Yoshio Nakano $ 130,200
50 Joe Cassidy $ 127,900
51 Fabrice Soulier $ 127,500
52 Jason Song $ 120,600
53 David Levi $ 118,100
54 Jimmy Tran $ 116,300
55 Jeff King $ 116,300
56 Dale Slinkard $ 115,400
57 Jamie Ligator $ 114,200
58 Mike Epstein $ 110,900
59 Stan Strickland $ 110,900
60 Matt Smith $ 107,200
61 Scott Bohlman $ 105,200
62 Cliff Josephy $ 102,500
63 Mark Entwistle $ 102,000
64 Casey Kastle $ 101,300
65 Raja Kattamuri $ 99,600
66 Bob Slezak $ 99,200
67 Caner Kervankiran $ 98,300
68 Philip Gurian $ 96,600
69 Noah Jefferson $ 93,300
70 Tom McCormick $ 92,900
71 Farzad Arastoozad $ 92,100
72 Brian Hitt $ 89,700
73 Chris Eddy $ 86,900
74 Alex Brenes $ 86,900
75 Rod Hurlbut $ 84,500
76 Adam Friedman $ 81,600
77 Robert Stevanovski $ 77,700
78 Tim McDonald $ 77,300
79 Bill Edler $ 77,000
80 Dave Knauff $ 75,800
81 Stan Jablonski $ 72,900
82 Paul Lieu $ 72,300
83 Kevin Song $ 72,100
84 George Abdallah $ 71,200
85 Abraham Gray $ 69,200
86 Rayan Nathan $ 68,100
87 Ray Sanchez $ 67,000
88 David Plastik $ 63,200
89 Kenny Kafieh $ 60,100
90 Steve Rassi $ 60,000
91 Oliver Hudson $ 60,000
92 Malcolm Flett $ 59,400
93 Martin de Knijff $ 59,300
94 Ron Stanley $ 58,600
95 Sam Silverman $ 56,500
96 Marco Palacios $ 56,500
97 Jason Koshi $ 56,000
98 James Van Alstyne $ 55,200
99 Maureen Feduniak $ 54,600
100 Ben Sarnoff $ 54,300
101 John Gale $ 54,100
102 Stephen Gin $ 54,000
103 Allen Kessler $ 53,200
104 Davood Mehrmand $ 53,100
105 Dennis Waterman $ 52,700
106 Clint Brotherton $ 49,100
107 Bruce Buffer $ 44,400
108 Jason Berilgen $ 42,400
109 Michael Yoshino $ 40,100
110 Neil Channing $ 38,100
111 Shigeko Stein $ 36,100
112 Kenna James $ 36,000
113 Robert Goldfarb $ 35,000
114 Gabriel Thaler $ 28,800
115 Steve McQueen $ 27,400
116 Denny Amirault $ 26,600
117 Hedy Messabih $ 25,500
118 Jack Ward $ 24,900
119 Jeff Freedman $ 20,400
120 Brent Carter $ 17,800
121 Sammy Arzion $ 15,200

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