Peter “number1pen” Neff’s (pictured at right) tournament life ended shortly before the 90-minute dinner break which began at 7:15pm PST. In the hand that knocked him to the rail, the player on the button made it 135K to go preflop. Peter, in the small blind, shoved all-in for his remaining 850K short stack. The big blind called and button folded. Peter showed A9, which couldn’t get any help from the board to improve his hand. His opponent’s AJ held and Peter was eliminated in 36th place and receives $193,000 for his efforts.

Meanwhile, Chris “SLOPPYKLOD” Klodnicki ran into another player, whom he had covered, in a huge 2M all-in preflop pot. Though Chris was ahead with 99 to his opponent’s 55 on a flop of T64, the 5 spiked on the turn to counterfeit Chris’ hand. He doubled his opponent up and fell to around 3.8M.

Later, Chris engaged in another huge pot when he raised preflop, and was called by Scott “r_a_y” Montgomery. The dealer laid out 7K6 on the flop and both players checked. When the 7 on the turn came, Scott check-called Chris’ 200K bet and both players saw the 3 on the river. Scott checked, Chris bet 300K, and Scott raised him to 1M chips. After thinking for more than three minutes, Chris called and flipped over TT to win the hand. Scott tapped the table and said, “You’re good,” before shipping more than 1.5M Chris’ way. Chris was back up to more than 5M chips at the dinner break and looking good.

Here are the most recent unofficial chip counts prior to the dinner break:

Chris “SLOPPYKLOD” Klodnicki - 5.2M
Scott “r_a_y” Montgomery - 4M
Owen “ocrowe” Crowe - 2.7M
Andrew “foucault” Brokos - 1.85M
Garrett “GBecks” Beckman - 960K

• July 14, 2008 -- P5ers In the Hunt for “November Nine”
• July 15, 2008 -- P5ers Collide, Klodnicki Sent Home in 12th
• July 14, 2008 -- Montgomery Making Moves, Crowe Flies Away
• July 14, 2008 -- A Little Less Estrogen in the Room…