Chad “lilholdem954″ Batista has a reputation for speaking his mind, as hasn’t held back so far on Day 1c. Batista got involved in a pot with a player at his table, raising to 275 preflop with blinds at 50/100. A player in middle position called and the cutoff moved all in for almost 3K. Batista made the call and the other player folded:

Batista: A9
Cutoff: 88

The 8 in the door spelled disaster for Batista and he was unable to catch a miracle to drop his stack to 19K. Then came the comments, as Batista began calling the player a “fish” based on previous plays he had made and wasn’t afraid of using expletives to get his point across. The floor was called over and Chad was given a warning, but no penalty — to the dismay of his opponent.

Back to the poker side of things, Ladbrokes pros Jon Kalmar and Steve Davis are off to fast starts. Both cracked the 30K mark before the end of the first level. Kalmar has around 32K while Davis is up to 36K. Here’s a look at some other notable chip counts at the end of Level 1:

Mohsin “chicagocards1″ Charania - 36K
Bryan “badbeatninja” Devonshire - 33K
Jordan “Octavian_C” Rich - 32.5K
Gary “GB2005″ Bogdanski - 31K
Jon Wein - 25K
Sorel “Imper1um” Mizzi - 25K
Eric “Rizen” Lynch - 24K
Felipe “Improved” Montenegro - 22K
James “tobiasjosias” Johnson - 21.8K
Mark “PokerHo” Kroon - 21.5K
Jason “mkind0516″ Laso - 21K
Justin Bonomo - 20K
Amit “amak316″ Makhija - 18.5K
Court Harrington - 18K
Jared “TheWacoKidd” Hamby - 16.7K
Jason “JCarver” Somerville - 16.5K
Micahel “benvo123″ Benvenuti - 16.5K
Jordan “scarface_79″ Smith - 15.5K
Eric “basebaldy” Baldwin - 13K
Jamie “pokerjamers” Armstrong - 12K
Matt “mattg1983″ Graham - 10K

• July 6, 2008 -- Finally Friedberg’s Time
• July 6, 2008 -- Last Chance to Dance
• July 6, 2008 -- Chip Count Chocula
• July 6, 2008 -- BadBeatNinja Disappears Into the Night