Jonathan “therookieqq9″ Plens’ roller-coaster day has come to an end. With blinds at 25K/50K Plens raised to 135K in the cutoff and Anthony Scherer re-raised to 400K from the big blind. Plens moved in for his last 900K and Scherer made the call:

Plens: AK
Scherer: A8

Unfortunately for Plens, Scherer flopped top two pair and Jonathan couldn’t catch a king on the turn and river and he was eliminated in 42nd place for $154,400.

Andrew “foucault” Brokos has been very active at his table, which happens to include Chris “SLOPPYKLOD” Klodnicki, Peter “number1pen” Neff and Owen “ocrowe” Crowe.

He hasn’t tangled with any of them much but has found a nemesis in Scott “r_a_y” Montgomery, whom we just came to realize is a PocketFiver as well. On a board of A52K, Montgomery checked to Brokos, who bet 350K. Montgomery then raised to 950K and Brokos went into he tank for seven minutes. He eventually moved all in and Montgomery called instantly with K5, which had Brokos’ AT drawing thin. The 9 fell on the river and Montgomery doubled up.

We’re midway through Level 26 and the dinner break will come in one hour. With the average stack at 3.6 million, here’s a look at the chip counts of those still hanging on with 37 players remaining:

Scott “r_a_y” Montgomery - 5.65M
Team Ladbrokes player Peter Eastgate - 4M
Chris “SLOPPYKLOD” Klodnicki - 3M
Owen “ocrowe” Crowe - 2.3M
Andrew “foucault” Brokos - 1.5M
Peter “number1pen” Neff - 1.1M

• July 14, 2008 -- P5ers In the Hunt for “November Nine”
• July 13, 2008 -- KLOD Nicks More Chips
• July 13, 2008 -- Adam Out in Ruthless Hand
• July 16, 2008 -- So Long, Farewell