In a three way raised pot between Marco “CrazyMarco” Johnson, David Benyamine, and an unknown on a 989 flop, Johnson raised Benyamine’s flop bet and Benyamine went all-in and Johnson revealed 98 for full house besting Benyamine’s TT until a T turned and a meaningless 4 hit the river. Benyamine doubled up to about 80k in chips and Johnson, one of the chip leaders, dropped down to 122k.

Another bad beat elimated Ryan “Daut44″ Daut (right) when he reraised Phil Laak preflop and got reraised all in by Laak. Laak tabled the AT and Daut AK. After Laak’s flopped ten held up, Laak responded to his good fortune by saying “I was thinking he can’t have it everytime,” mentioning Daut had been habitually reraising him preflop.

Kevin “BeL0WaB0Ve” Saul was involved in two interesting hands. He raised pre-flop only to be re-raised by David Chiu. After thinking for a little while Saul pushed enough chips in the middle to put Chiu in and Chiu quickly called. Saul showed AJ to Chiu’s QQ. The board came 875T2 letting Chiu’s hand hold for him to double up. After the hand Eric “Rizen” Lynch and Shaun Deeb debated whether Saul’s move was +EV or -EV.

The very next hand Saul called the cutoff’s all-in bet pre-flop. Before Saul flipped over his cards he said, “I have to call!” Saul showed 64 while the other player held AQ. The board came K5543 allowing Saul’s pair of fours to knock the other player out. After the hand was over Saul said he recieves at least 3 e-mails a day about how to play 46 suited better.

Another notable hand came from Alex “AJKHoosier1″ Kamberis who called the small blind’s all-in preflop. Alex showed A3 while the small blind held AK. The flop came with good and bad news for Alex showing Q53 giving him a pair of 3’s but giving his opponent a flush draw. The 4 on the turn and 9 on the river allowed Alex to take the pot and knock out the other player.

Some recent chip counts:
Marco “CrazyMarco” Johnson - 122k
Amit “Amak316″ Makhija -111k (right)
Vivek “Psyduck” Rajkumar - 110k
Mike “SowersUNCC” Sowers - 85k
Jerimiah “Believer82″ Vinsant - 80k
Joe Sebok - 74k
Kevin “BeL0WaB0Ve” Saul - 52k
Sorel “Imper1um” Mizzi - 51k
Richard “Lee Nickel” Fohrenbach - 46k
JC “PrtyPSux” Alvarado - 41k
Jonathan “FieryJustice” Little - 38k
David “DavidP18″ Peters - 28k
Mario “Deuce2high” Silvestri - 27k
Alex “AKJHoosier1″ Kamberis - 26k
Chris “Genius28″ Lee - 26k
Peter “Nordberg” Feldman - 23k
Jason Gray - 21k
Eric “Rizen” Lynch - 19k
Shaun Deeb -16k
Matt “MattG1983″ Graham - 16k

• June 30, 2008 -- Gomes, Johnson Go 1 and 2 in $2K Event
• June 12, 2008 -- Robbins Takes 8th in PLO
• June 10, 2008 -- Submarine Crash
• June 4, 2008 -- Action Continues in Event #5