Adam “Roothlus” Levy advanced to Day 2 of the $5K NLHE Shootout when his pocket jacks held against pocket sevens. Leo “Superfluous Man” Wolpert (pictured right) and Joe Sebok are heads up with opponents as we put this post together and both have decent-sized chip advantages. Cliff “JohnnyBax” Josephy is still five-handed at his table and appears to be very short. He lost a big pot earlier to Beth Shak when he was forced to fold pocket kings on a board that read 983.

The remaining P5ers clashed with one another in the $1.5K short-handed event. First it was Tom “titantom32″ Braband eliminating Ben “bfineman” Fineman when Braband’s KQ got the best of Fineman’s TT with Fineman all-in for his last 30K preflop. Braband spiked a queen on the flop and built his stack to over 100K.

Then Devin “TranquilChaos” Porter (left) took out Antuan “bigboybunk” Bunkley with a two-outer, encapsulating what was a very tough day for Bunkley. With the blinds at 1.5K/3K, Porter called a 25K shove from Bunkley with pocket fives and cracked his QQ with the 5 on the river.

Things have since cooled down for both Braband and Porter. Braband lost a 120K pot when he called a reshove with 77 and ran into QQ. The queens held and Braband was left with around 50K. Tom has since been chipping up, however, utilizing an effective re-steal stack to pick up about 20K chips in a matter of minutes without having to show a hand down.

Porter lost 40K shortly after Braband’s big hit. He raised to 9K from under the gun at 1.5K/3K and the player to his left shoved for 32K more. Porter reluctantly called with pocket eights and wasn’t surprised to see the AA flipped up by his opponent. The board bricked for Porter and he was left with a little over 80K.

The tournament just went on a 20-minute break with 24 players vying for the top prize of $372,929.
 

• June 7, 2008 -- Porter Hopes for Tranquil Final Table
• June 7, 2008 -- Kickin’ It Old School
• June 7, 2008 -- Wolpert Doubles Then Loses It Back
• June 6, 2008 -- Phil Kills Phil