Several players in the $1.5K HORSE event decided to try to kill a couple of hours before Day 2 of play began by signing up for the $1.5K No Limit Hold Em event.  Unfortunately, the double dipping didn’t appear to work out well for most of them.  Shannon Shorr made early exits in both events while Bryan “badbeatninja” Devonshire (pictured at right) lasted a mere 3 hands in Day 2 of the HORSE event before returning to the $1.5K No Limit event.  Doug “Resilient” Smith, on the other hand, was too late to register for the Hold Em event, but remains in the HORSE event with 9K.  Meanwhile, Alex Jacob continues to alternate back and forth between the two events.

Luckily for Bryan, he has already built up a big stack to return to in the $1.5K event.  He was recently moved to the right of Ben “bfineman” Fineman and, when we caught up to Devonshire, he had raised to 550 under the gun with the blinds at 100/200 ante 25.  The player in the small blind reraised to 1750 and Bryan thought momentarily before making the call.  The flop came J86 and the player in the small blind bet out 2.5K.  Devonshire immediately moved all-in for his remaining 9K, which more than covered the other player’s chip stack.

The other player eventually folded and the table called for Devonshire to reveal his hand.  He declined, but did let Pocket Fives have a peek at his 89 before he tossed it in the muck.  After Bryan gave us permission to post it on Pocket Fives, but made us promise not to tell anyone on the floor, Fineman called out, “anyone have the internet on their phone?”

Another player making moves in the $1.5K Hold Em event is Andy “BKice” Seth (pictured at left), who recently doubled up when he moved all-in for his remaining 3.8K on a board reading Q6223 and his opponent thought momentarily before making the call.  Seth showed AQ for the nut flush and the other player mucked, sending the 16K pot Andy’s way.

Faraz “The Toliet-0″ Jaka’s table has been extremely active, with numerous all-ins on almost every hand.  While his tablemate TJ Cloutier is staying out of the all-in fests, Jaka recently got tangled in an enormous pot when he picked up pocket aces.  With the blinds at 100/200 Young Phan shoved all-in under the gun for 550 and a player in early position reraised to 1,100.  Faraz then shoved all-in for 2,875 with his aces, and the button moved all-in for 6K right behind him.  The player who reraised to 1,100 made the call and they all turned over their hands:

Phan: A-10
Early Position Player: Q-Q
Jaka: A-A
Button Player: A-K

The board ran out T82T5 and Phan took the main pot with trip tens, while Jaka scooped the side pot for 6,700.

Pocket Fives recently learned that Danny “THE_D_RY” Ryan and yesterday’s $2K No Limit Hold Em runner up Marco “CrazyMarco” Johnson (pictured at right) were also in today’s enormous field.  With registration maxed out, players were put in every corner of the Rio and Johnson and Ryan spent the first three levels of play outside of the seafood restaurant Buzio’s–nearly one-third of a mile away from the Amazon Room.  Ryan told us he was “happy to get out of the ghetto” and into the main room.  He is sitting in good shape with 8.5K while Johnson is holding steady at his 3K starting stack.

Here are some chip counts of some of the other 1,620 players still in the event:

Scott “gunning4you” Seiver - 14K
Ken “isuck123″ Goldin - 10.5K
Ben Fineman - 8.5K
Nick “fu_15″ Maimon - 6.5K
Vivek “psyduck” Rajkumar - 5K
Shaun “Cougars4444″ Hendrickson - 3.5K

• June 30, 2008 -- Monday, Monday
• August 27, 2008 -- Amit Doubles, Graham Crumbles
• July 1, 2008 -- Thugmoneymkr Makes Money (Ahem.)
• June 25, 2008 -- Pocket Fives No Good to Graham