Marco “CrazyMarco” Johnson’s (pictured at left) tournament run also came to an end when he finished 2nd in the $2K No Limit Hold Em event.  Johnson and fellow Pocket Fiver Alexandre “allingomes” Gomes battled back and forth in their heads up match before Gomes gained the upper hand when he cracked Johnson’s pocket aces with AT after the board ran out KT3TJ. 

A few hands later, Marco moved in for the remainder of his chips with QJ and Alexandre quickly made the call with AK.  After a flop of 432 and an ace on the turn, Johnson was drawing dead to a 5 for a chop.  When the river came 4, Gomes scooped the pot and the victory, sending his large Brasilian contingent into a roar of applause.  Gomes earned $770,540 for his finish and Johnson took home $491,273 for 2nd.

Gerry “TheGatherer” Kane’s run in the $1.5K No Limit Hold Em event has come to an end.  Gerry was in the big blind when he and another player got it all-in on a board of 543K.  Kane flopped two pair with his 34, but he needed to fill up in order to best the other player’s 67 for a flopped straight.  The 2 on the river was no help to Kane and he was eliminated in 45th place, earning $10,759.  Taylor “tdomeski” Douglas was also eliminated recently.  He finished in 72nd place, good enough for $7,420.

The $50K HORSE event lost a couple of players before pausing the tournament to take a dinner break.  Huck Seed was eliminated in 7th place and Barry Greenstein was out shortly afterwards in 6th when his pair of aces in Stud 8 were no match for Scotty Nguyen’s full house.  Shortly after pocketing his $355,200 prize, Barry registered for his third tournament of the day and is now playing in the $1.5K HORSE event.

A handful of P5er’s are left in the 10k PLO WSOP Event #50. With a small 381 player field, not many tables featured players that were known from either live or online poker.   However, Tim “TMay420″ West had a below average stack of 23k at a table full of live pro’s with Tony Cousineau, Tony G, Dan Shak, and Joe “The Elegance” Beevers from the Hendon Mob.

Jason “JP OSU”  Potter just bricked out on a massive multiway 90k pot when his freeroll with pocket aces and a nut flush draw didn’t come to fruition. Potter’s 34k stack is below the 48k average.  Ryan “Daut44″ Daut also just lost a big pot when his opponent rivered a nut flush and Daut led for 8k on the river and called another 12k more when he got raised. Daut had 44k earlier in the level and currently has 14k.

Eric “Rizen” Lynch is nursing an extreme short stack at 13k with blinds at 400-800 but remains optimistic at a table that includes Noah “Exclusive” Boeken’s massive 105k stack and Chris Moneymaker.

“It can change in a hurry,” Lynch said. “It will in one way or another shortly.”

Here’s a list of other notable chip stacks left:
Shawn “buck21″ Buchanon - 120k
David “Raptor57″ Benefield - 110k
Scott “BigRiskky” Clements - 64k
Thayer “THAY3R” Rasmussen - 55k
Dario Minieri - 43k
Sorel “Imper1um” Mizzi - 19k

• June 29, 2008 -- To Reload or Not to Reload?
• June 30, 2008 -- Clements Holding Steady in 10k PLO
• June 30, 2008 -- Daut Busted in 10k PLO
• June 29, 2008 -- 36 Left in $2K Event