The $1.5K No-Limit Hold’em event recently returned from break, bellies full and a little less ancy than when PocketFives last caught up with them calling the floor at every move. Several P5ers continued to look healthy as the field narrowed down even further, edging toward the final table for the evening.

Cody “thugmoneymakr” Slaubaugh continued to dominate his table; last we watched the tournament, Slaubaugh had over 300K in chips. Now, however, Slaubaugh is up to 460K after taking down a big pot and eliminating one of the players at his table. Engaged in a big hand preflop, Cody made it 21K. His opponent went all-in for 30K total. Slaubaugh insta-called and turned over aces against A-9. His opponent couldn’t catch up and Slaubaugh took down the pot.

Tom “titantom32″ Braband (pictured at right) chipped up after the dinner break, increasing his stack from 172K to over 200K. Both Owen “ocrowe” Crowe and Bryan Micon were hovering around 220K and were looking quite comfortable. Bryan “bparis” Paris, however, looked like he’d lost about half the stack he had before the break and was down to 80K.

Event#38, the $2K Pot-Limit Hold’em tournament, has returned from dinner break with the following stacks. PocketFives will continue to follow these players as they finish out Day 1:

Roy Winston - 45K
Noah “Exclusive” Boeken - 42K
Jason Lester - 28K
Amnon Filippi - 26K
Shane “shaniac” Schleger - 20K
Matthew Hilger - 20K
Clonie Gowen - 18K
Chad Brown - 18K
Chris Bell - 14K
Chris “cdbr3799″ Dombrowski - 11.5K
Vanessa Rousso - 3.5K
Eli Elezra - 3K

• June 21, 2008 -- He’s a Shaniac!
• June 21, 2008 -- Slaubaugh Not Afraid to Gamble
• June 21, 2008 -- Braband Wakes Up with Aces
• June 20, 2008 -- Pressure Setting In