When we walked into the Miranda Room, we heard a lot of laughing coming from Table 268. This is standard when Joe Sebok (pictured left) is around, but a few drinks around the table have amplified the noise. Maria “Maridu” Mayrinck finds Table 268 distracting and tried to fight Sebok in the middle of the room. The two grappled, but Joe was too strong for Maria and hoisted her in the air. They then had this amusing spat:

Maria: I am Brazilian, I know jujitsu.
Joe: You’re not even American!
Maria: Floor! Give this man a 40 minute penalty. He is disrupting the entire tournament.

The situation calmed and both players eventually returned to their seats. Maria pulled us aside to comment on the mayhem. “Joe is being ridiculous,” she told us. “We are so close to cashing right now and he is sabotaging the entire room.”

Event #24 is currently in Level 5 and only about 1,300 spots from cashing.

We bumped into Darus “BejoMas” Suharto in the Brasilia Room and he is having some problems of his own. “I cannot beat Helen,” he told us. The entire table erupted in laughter. The aforementioned Helen is sitting in Seat 4 and has evidently taken quite a few chips from Suharto. “She has my whole stack,” Darus joked.

At a nearby table there is some poker being played. Faraz “The Toilet” Jaka limped in for 200 in the cutoff, the small blind completed and the big blind checked. The flop came QT6 and both blinds checked to Jaka who min-bet 200. The small blind folded and the big blind called. The turn card was the 4 and the big blind flipped a 500 chip into the pot. Faraz shoved all in for 3K more and the player in the big blind called. Jaka turned a set with 44, and his opponent was drawing dead with T3, but still called for a ten on the river. Instead of filling up with a ten, Faraz filled up with the Q and doubled up to 8K.

Jimmy “gobboboy” Fricke and Tracey “xtrACEy” Nguyen have been moved to the same table, and Jimmy just tweeted, “Xtracey is at my table and 3betting me. Stop 3betting me.”

Nguyen has chipped up to 8.6K whereas Fricke is floating around the starting stack.

The players are now on break and here are some notable chip counts:

David “The Maven” Chicotsky — 25K (pictured right)
Devin “TranquilChaos” Porter — 18K
Shaun Deeb — 17.5K
Anna “vietcutie” Wroblewski — 16K
Justin Bonomo — 12K
Dan “Wretchy” Martin — 12K
Ben “bfineman” Fineman — 11K
Thayer “THAY3R” Rasmussen
Maria “Maridu” Mayrinck — 5.5K

Some recent knockouts include Jon “sketchy1″ Eaton, Justin “fluffdog” Filtz, Jamie “TheChronic420″ Rosen and Carter “ckingusc” King.

WSOP 2009 Event #22: $1.5K NLHE Shootout

We’ve got out first chip count update from the $1.5K NLHE Shootout Event. John “JRD312″ Dolan, Matt “berkey11″ Berkey and David “Bakes” Baker have been eliminated but several P5ers are still in excellent shape to win their table and advance to tomorrow’s final round. Each table started with 10 players and everyone started the day with 45K in chips. Here’s a look:

Table 58
8-handed: Scott “SCTrojans” Freeman (56K), Mike “SowersUNCC” Sowers (17K), David “Bakes” Baker (OUT)

Table 59
9-handed: Matt “All In At 420″ Stout (47K), Mike “shipitthisway”McNeil (42K)

Table 60
8-handed: Tom “titantom32″ Braband (50K) (pictured right), JC “prtypsux” Alvarado (40.5K)

Table 61
8-handed: Nathan “darkcheck” Tuthill (27.5K)

Table 62
9-handed: Kyle “dumpingkgb” Brossia (59K), John “JRD312″ Dolan (OUT)

Table 63
10-handed: Brent “bhanks11″ Hanks (31K)

Table 64
9-handed: Steve “gboro780″ Gross (27.5K), Matt “berkey11″ Berkey (OUT)

Table 65
10-handed: Theo “pittrounder” Tran (62K)

Table 67
8-handed: Chris “SLOPPYKLOD” Klodnicki (54K), Jason “JCarver” Somerville (44K), Jared “TheWacoKidd” Hamby (38K)

WSOP 2009 Event #21: $3K HORSE

The final nine players are filling out their bio sheets as they prepare to begin the final table of the $3K HORSE event. Zac “Zacpacker” Fellows (590,000) and Stewart “StuMan23″ Yancik (374K) will attempt to become the sixth P5er to take down a bracelet at this year’s WSOP. James Van Alstyne is the current leader with 720,000.

• June 11, 2009 -- John Doles Out Most of His Stack
• June 10, 2009 -- Giddy Up!
• July 5, 2009 -- Koon Busted by Quads
• June 21, 2009 -- Liu, Veldhuis Eliminated From 10K PLO On Same Hand