Jordan “Octavian_C” Rich felt the excruciating pain of a one-outer in the past hour. At the 150/300 level, a player in early position limped and Rich (pictured left) raised to 1300 in middle position. It folded to the big blind, who reraised to 3,000 and Rich made the call after the limper folded. The flop brought AJ5 and both players checked. The turn was the 7 and the big blind checked to Rich, who bet 3,300. He was then check-raised all in for 6500 more and made the call with AQ, which had the big blind’s KK drawing to one card in the deck. Sure enough, the K appeared on the river and Rich leaped out of his seat in disgust. He was left with 14K after the hand.

 Justin “truesyalose” Trusdell, who had been sending chips over to David Singer earlier in the day, just shipped more to Steve Jelinek. Jelinek raised to 900 on the button and Truesdell called in the big blind. The flop brought 952 and Truesdell led out for 1,100. Jelinek called and saw the A fall on the turn. Bother players checked and the river was the K. Truesdell bet 1,500 and Jelinek raised to 6,500. Truesdell stared him down for a minute, asking the player if he had the nuts or nothing, and finally folded to cut his stack down to 13.5K.

Keven “Stammdogg” Stammen had quite a wild ride during this level; when we caught up with him before last break, his chip count had soared to 42K.  However, when we went back to the Brasilia Room to check on his play, he sat with only 3.5K in chips in front of him.  Though he was down, Keven was definitely not out as he played aggressively and was unafraid to put all his chips in the middle.  In one hand, from middle position, he pushed his whole stack in the middle and the action folded around to him.  The very next hand, Keven again pushed all his chips out and got a call from the small blind for all 4,350 of his chips.  Keven flipped KQ to his opponent’s JJ, but the board ran out K7629 and he doubled up to nearly 10K.  Still short, Keven was still looking to make a move, but a lot more comfortable in the meantime.

Ezra Galston got a double up at his table when he and another player got it all-in preflop with Galston holding AK to his opponent’s AJ.  The board ran out QT449 and shot Ezra’s stack up to 34K.  Adam “Roothlus” Levy (pictured right) also picked up a few chips without having to go to showdown in a hand where he picked up pocket kings. With the blinds at 100/200 a player raised to 700 and Adam flat called in the cut off and the big blind called as well.  The flop came 9-7-5 rainbow and it checked around to Levy who bet out 1.4K.  The big blind folded and the initial raiser flat called.  Adam told us after the fact that he was afraid his opponent may have flopped a set on him, but when the K hit on the turn his hand improved vastly, but also put two spades on the board.  The other player bet out 2.1K and Levy raised to 6K.  His opponent thought before folding what he claimed was pocket queens and Adam took down the pot.  He currently sits with 23K.

We also caught up with Matt “mattg1983″ Graham, who had a story for us. Graham raised to 750 with A-Q and a woman in seat one made the call. A player in seat 6 then moved all in for more than 11,000. Graham, fearing only the woman behind him, laid the hand down and the woman called with a pair of tens. The “idiot” who moved all in, as Graham referred to him, had K-Q and was eliminated when his hand failed to improve. Matt then said that if he had called he would have been sent packing, as the woman admitted she would have called Graham’s all in as well and would have made a set of tens to trump Graham’s pair of aces. Nice laydown, sir.

Here are the chip counts of some notable P5ers midway through Level 3:

Sorel “Imper1um” Mizzi - 67k
Brian Devonshire - 54k
Tom “werpennstate23″ Cummings - 50.5K
Darren Elias - 50K
Tony “tongni” Rivera - 50k
David “Bakes” Baker - 47.5K
David “Raptor517″ Benefield - 44k
Jason “JCarver” Somerville - 41k
Kyle “thetruth503″ Zartman - 38K
Carter “ckingusc” King - 35K
Jared “TheWacoKidd” Hamby - 33K
Justin “zeejustin” Bonomo - 29k
David “Davidp18″ Peters - 26k
Eric “basebaldy” Baldwin - 26k
Leo “SuperFluous Man” Wolpert - 23k
Joseph “WSOPJoe” May - 23K
Court Harrington - 22.5K
Jon Wein - 22K
Gary “GB2005″ Bogdanski - 18k
Jamie “pokerjamers” Armstrong - 17K
Scott “SCTrojans” Freeman - 12K
Amit “amak316″ Makhija - 12K

Out: Chad “lilholdem954″ Batista, Vivek “psyduck” Rajkumar, Scott “gunning4you” Seiver

• June 25, 2008 -- Pocket Fives No Good to Graham
• June 26, 2008 -- Treacherous Tables in Rebuy
• July 6, 2008 -- BadBeatNinja Disappears Into the Night
• July 5, 2008 -- Main Event Day 1c!