Ryan “youngluck” Young is sitting a little prettier than he was earlier. Young raised to 550 from under the gun and a player in late position called. The small blind raised to 2k and Young made the call but the other player folded. The flop came 852 and the small blind checked over to Young who bet 2.5k. The small blind then check-raised to 6k. Young thought for a little bit before he pushed all in and the small blind, who had Young covered, made the call. The small blind flipped over the AA but his aces were no match for Young’s flopped set with the 88. The turn and river were the K and the 7 and Young doubled up to a little more than 35k.

Ryan “Daut44″ Daut (pictured at left) was having a hot run of cards when we caught up to his table. Ryan held a 20K stack and had just shoved all his chips into the middle on a board of J-K-2-7-A when he was in the under the gun position; a player in late position with a similarly-sized stack called him and the All-In paddle flew up in the air. Ryan flipped over pocket jacks for a flopped set and his opponent mucked his cards, leaving a crippled stack behind.

The next hand from the big blind, Ryan did not use his option to check and instead made a 2K raise preflop. All players remarked on the huge raise, but the several limpers sent their chips his way. Two hands later, from the button, Ryan called down a 600 chip raise from a player in middle position and the flop came 66K. Both players remaining in the hand checked down the flop and the turn to see the board run out 2Q. His opponent checked to him on the river and he flipped over pocket eights, which were good enough to pick up the pot and increase his stack to 34K.

Though not a comprehensive list, here are some of the recent chip counts.

Jon “pokertrip” Friedberg - 39k
Hevad Khan - 35.5K
Michael “shipitthisway” McNeil - 35k
Ryan “youngluc” Young - 35K
Ryan “Daut44″ Daut - 34K
Mike “BraveJayhawk” Jensen - 33K
Aaron “NDGrinder59″ Steury - 32.5K
Ronald “jus2awsum” Lee - 32k
Adam “adamoos” Elpayaa - 29.5K
Mathew “dippydough” Diapoli - 28k
Russel “rcrane082985″ Crane - 26k
Tony “Bond18″ Dunst - 25k
Jeff “jpapola” Papola - 25k
Jonathan “BigChuck” Marshall - 23k
Jonathan “FatalError” Aguiar - 22k
Carl “colson10″ Olson - 22K
Tracey “xtrACEy” Nguyen - 21.5K
Grant “drossxyu” Hinkle - 21k
Frank “Round42″ Rusnak - 21K
Nicholas “snowman2k6″ Young - 19k
Tom “titantom32″ Braband - 17.5K
Brett “Gank” Jungblut - 14.5K
David “ComptonMasta” Barter - 14k
Mike “inissint” Glasser - 12.5K

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