Greg “okstate345″ Cox recently played in a $50 Heads Up sit-n-go tournament online and lost, and since a prop bet was part of the deal between he and the other player, Greg showed up today in a purple bathrobe, pink swim goggles and a blue wide-brimmed sun hat. In one hand where Greg had only 7k left in chips there was a raise and re-raise in front of him and he held pocket queens on the button. Greg decided to fold and was relieved to see the re-raiser show pocket aces. “He’s been a nit so far” Greg said in reference to the player with aces. Another gentleman at the table thought that “nit” was an insult and was shocked Greg said it but after a humorous conversation at the table they decided that “nit” actually wasn’t meant to be an insult in this case and Greg was off the hook.

His stack dwindled down to around 5k and when the player under the gun limped, Greg pushed all in. Everyone else folded but the under the gun player made the call with his 88 to find he was way behind Greg’s TT. The flop came Q76 and Greg’s opponent was drawing slim. The 4 on the turn gave him a few more options and the 5 fell on the river giving the other player an eight-high straight and sending Greg to the rail with a disgusted look on his face.

We caught up to Josh “Squintngo” Goldstein in the Blue section who had just called a bet of 2,500 on flop of J24.  He and one other player both checked the J turn to see the 5 river.  His opponent checked to him, and Josh bet out 7,025. After tanking awhile, his opponent made the call and Josh flipped over AJ to take down the pot and increase his stack to 74K.

As tables are broken in the Red section, more and more players are being moved into the orange and blue sections of the Amazon Room, resulting in some stacked tables.  We stumbled upon table Orange 12, which boasts a line-up of Dani “Ansky451″ Stern, Jamie “TheCronic420″ Rosen, and Chris “SLOPPYKLOD” Klodnicki.  The three players have been very active at their tables and we caught both Rosen and Ansky busting out players and increasing their chip counts in the process.
 
First, Rosen raised to 1,250 in early position with the blinds at 250/500 ante 50 and a player in middle position made the call.  After the flop came A92 Jamie bet 2,250 and the other player quickly called.  Rosen checked when the Q came on the turn and the other player bet 5K.  Rosen quickly check-raised to 15K total and the other player moved all-in for less than 5K on top of the 15K.  Jamie called and turned over AK and the other player revealed 9T.  The J on the river was no help to his opponent and Rosen scooped a pot that pushed him up to a 140K chip stack.
 
A few hands later a shortstacked player raised on the button and Dani Stern reraised out of the big blind.  The other player appeared to just call his raise, leaving only 5K behind.  He then announced “all-in in the dark” and Stern reminded him that he was not the first to act in the hand.  The flop came J73 and Dani appeared to take a quick peek at his hand to check for a club before throwing out a 5K chip.  The other player called with AK while Dani held QQ.  The turn and river came 6T and the other player was eliminated.  Stern now sits with 75K.

Oh, and if the table wasn’t crowded enough as it was, the seat of the player Rosen busted has just been filled by Peter “number1pen” Neff.
 
One player whose table in the Red section has yet to break is Bobby “gettindeep” Hodson.  He informed Pocketfives that he had been getting maximum value out of all of his hands and had worked his starting Day 2 stack of 28K all the way up to 60K.  However, he ran into a hand where he got it all in preflop with A-K into his opponent’s pocket aces.  The board bricked out and he was knocked down to just below where he started and has 26K.

Now for the good stuff! Chip counts galore!

Jeff “YoungSupremacy” Hakim - 145K
Paul “ComeonPhish” Lieu - 130K
Derek “arodss3″ Buonano - 120K
Joe “LatestLines2″ Ward - 107K
Jason Gray - 90K
Richard “Lee Nickel” Fohrenbach - 82K
Tim “TMay420″ West - 73K
Jon “PearlJammer” Turner - 72K
Doug “resilient” Smith - 69K
Chris “SLOPPYKLOD” Klodnicki - 66K
Jordan Morgan - 58K
Louis “MrBeeks” Werman - 56K
Eric “jakz101″ Crain - 55K
Paul “beanie” Nobles - 55K
Kevin “kice32″ Iacofano - 53K
Owen “ocrowe” Crowe - 51K
Brendan “moe86″ Mahoney - 48K
Mark “sideshowgil” Gilbert - 40K
Craig “MrCasino” Gray - 38K
Steve “McNallyville” McNally - 35K
Noah “Exclusive” Boeken - 35K
Terry “Asiandude77″ Eichens - 31K
Faraz “The Toliet-0″ Jaka - 29K
Carter “notashark” Gill - 28K
Aaron Been - 27K
Shaun Deeb - 25K
Rami “arbianight” Boukai - 25K
Justin “looshle” Pechie - 24K
TJ “Doubles00ted” Slifka - 15K
Jimmy “gobboboy” Fricke - 10K
Jeff “yellowsub” Williams - 7K
Barry Greenstein - 5K

Players eliminated since our last post include Jeff “jeffboski” Sluzinski, Kevin “ImaLuckSac” MacPhee, and Matt “SamENole” Smith.

• July 9, 2008 -- Lost & Found
• July 9, 2008 -- Justin Time for a Double Up
• July 8, 2008 -- Bottom Set Not Eneff for Stern
• July 15, 2008 -- P5ers Collide, Klodnicki Sent Home in 12th