Justin “looshle” Pechie (pictured at left) managed to double up shortly before the last break of the evening.  With the blinds at 500/1,000 ante 100 a player raised to 2.5K preflop and Pechie called on the button with pocket tens.  The flop came 322 and the initial raiser checked to Justin who bet 6K, which the initial raiser called.  After the J hit on the turn, Pechie’s opponent bet 7K and Justin raised to 16K total leaving 24K behind.  The other player then pushed all-in and Pechie thought for some time before making the call.  It turned out to be a great call as the other player held AT for just ace high.  The river was the K and Justin doubled up to 100K.

Eric “jakz101″ Crain had been one of the bigger stacks throughout the day, but got as low as 100K during Level 9 of play.  He told us he was able to steal enough chips to get back up to 150K and then he got involved in a big hand that put all of his chips at risk. 

A player raised to 3K under the gun and Eric made the call on the button.  Kido Pham reraised to 15K and both players made the call.  The flop came 10-7-6 with two hearts and Pham checked.  The initial raiser bet 28K and Crain raised to 82.3K total.  Kido folded and the other player shoved all-in for 30K more.  Crain made the call and showed A5 while the other player had pocket jacks.  The K came on the turn and the board paired on the river.  Pham appeared rather distraut after the hand and claimed he folded pocket kings, meaning he would have filled up on the river and scoop the massive pot.  Instead Crain took the hand down and now has 350K.

The Table of Doom we reported on in the earlier part of the day, but some of its players have been reunited in the Blue section.  Dani “Ansky451″ Stern and Chris “SLOPPYKLOD” Klodnicki (pictured at right) are playing at the same table once again and will likely not move before the end of the day.  Klodnicki was sitting with over 200K, but took a bit of a hit when, with the blinds at 600/1,200 ante 200 the player in the cut off open raised to 14K leaving just over 15K behind.  Klodnicki was on the button and reraised enough to put the other player all-in.  She quickly made the call with pocket kings, which had Chris’ A-K in bad shape.  A king on the flop left Klodnicki with very few outs and the turn and river failed to help him.  After the hand he was down to 187K.

Josh “Squintngo” Goldstein is now seated next to Jeff “yellowsub” Williams and they were chumming it up when we approached the table.  After Jeff took down a huge pot when he hit runner-runner for a king-high flush, he said he’s rather be lucky than good any day of the week.  Trying to keep up with his neighbor, Josh attempted to take down a pot preflop when he raised to 4,200 in early position.  It folded to the button who moved in for 20K more.  After thinking awhile, Josh folded and the button showed AK.  He said he made a good laydown and it wasn’t the right spot to gamble for his chips.

In other news, Joe “LatestLines2″ Ward managed to donate a large part of his stack to his tablemate this level.  When prodded for more information about what happened, Joe kindly requested that PocketFives report the following: “I got stupid.”  …we guess that’s just one of his latest lines.

Here are some of the most recent chip counts with around an hour left to play in Day 2A:
Eric “jakz101″ Crain - 355K
Chris “SLOPPYKLOD” Klodnicki - 185K
Jeff “yellowsub” Williams - 165K
Derek “arods33″ Buanomo - 140K
Jason Gray - 140K
Josh “Squintngo” Goldstein - 118K
Andy “BadgerPro” Schultz - 113K
Joe “LatestLines2″ Ward - 100K
Jeff “YoungSupremacy” Hakim - 165K
Owen “ocrowe” Crowe - 130K
Jeff “yellowsub” Williams - 165K
Jon “Pearljammer” Turner - 100K
Bobby “gettin deep” Hodson - 74K
Rami “arbianight” Boukai - 38K
Noah “Exclusive” Boeken - 45K
Mark “sideshowgil” Gilbert - 45K
Louis “MrBeeks” Werman - 39K

• July 8, 2008 -- Cox Loses Prop Bet, Then His Stack
• July 9, 2008 -- Lost & Found
• July 4, 2008 -- 2008 WSOP Main Event, Day 1A Concludes
• July 9, 2008 -- Hustle and Heartbreak