Jamie “Chronic420″ Rosen (pictured right) took a page from Doyle Brunson’s book and it paid off.

He may have gotten lucky to reap the benefits but with the way Rosen has been running in the 1k NL rebuy WSOP Event #44, its hard to blame him.

After everyone folded to Rosen in the small blind, Rosen put his opponent all-in in the big blind for his 90k stack with blinds at 4k-8k-1k. Rosen said the big blind was extremely tight and was surprised when he snap called with A5, ahead of Rosen’s T2.

Rosen wasn’t trailing for long when he had his opponent drawing dead by the flop when it came all diamonds.

To quote one of the most common phrases thrown around from online players this summer, “It must be nice.”

Rosen is the current chip leader with 930k but most contend with Scott “SCTrojans” Freeman’s 720k stack at his table as well as Eric “E-Fro” Froehlich, who has 440k.

If not for a bad beat about earlier, Froehlich’s stack would likely be near the chip leaders.

Froehlich’s opponent raised to 24k and Froehlich re-reraised to 75k, only to have his opponent put Froehlich all-in for his last 300k. Froehlich called and tabled the AK, dominating his opponents AJ. To Froehlich’s dismay they chopped the pot when the board double paired, sending Froehlich from one of the chip leaders if he holds to an average stack.

Here’s some chip counts of other notable players left with the average stack at 390k.

Jesse Chinni - 875k

Alex Bolotin - 200k

Joe Tehan - 175k

Peter “Nordberg” Feldman - 140k

After patiently nursing a short stack for much of the evening, Jason Gray has been steadily building his chips since returning from dinner break from the 5k 6-max WSOP Event #46. 

With the blinds at 500/1,000 with a 100 ante, Jason open raised to 2.5K on the button and the player in the small blind quickly reraised to 7.5K total.  Gray thought briefly before putting in a third raise to 21.5K.  His opponent then moved all-in for around 15K more.  Jason, who had 30K to start the hand, made the call and was happy to see he was in better shape than he expected when he revealed A9 and the other player held A-8.  The flop came 974 and, after the J hit on the turn, Jason made his flush and had the other player drawing dead.  Jason had the other player covered and after the hand he was sitting in good shape with 60K.
 
Steve “MrTimCaum” O’Dwyer also got it all-in with a bigger ace than his opponent, but he was eliminated when the other player’s A-10 caught up to O’Dwyer’s A-J.  There are still a number of notable players remaining in the field though.  Here are our most recent unofficial chip counts:
 
Steven “CornellFiji” Ware - 280K
Shannon Shorr - 80K
Jason “treysfull21″ Mercier - 40K
Matt “mattg1983″ Graham - 40K
Vivek “psyduck” Rajkumar - 38K
Glen “choron” Chorny - 37K
Ryan “daut44″ Daut - 34K
Jason “JCarver” Somerville - 32K
Jimmy “gobboboy” Fricke - 21K

A few online players played in the 1.5k Stud Hi-Lo WSOP Event #47. With only a 544 player field and the small buy-in, the tournament provided a good opportunity for a deep run.

Among those still in contention with 280 players left are Scott “BigRiskky” Clements (875), Craig “MrCasino” Gray (6.5k), and Brian “Devo” Devonshire (9k) with the average stack at 6k.

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