Granted, he came in as the short stack with only 130K, but Justin “Boosted_J” Smith was one of the elite eight at the final table of the $10K Stud Hi/Lo Championship Event.  He busted out shortly after the official televised final table commenced and will receive $54,896 for his finish.

Smith was in some good company with Doyle Brunson, Jeffrey Lisandro, and Farzad Rouhani.  P5er Barry “barryg1″ Greenstein is on the rail of the event, likely watching his friend Lisandro.  Lisandro and Greenstein have a substantial prop bet against Erick Lindgren and Daniel Negreanu regarding which team will win the most Player of the Year points.  Considering Lisandro has won a bracelet and is at another final table, seems like Barry picked his teammate quite well.

WSOP 2009 Event #38: $2K LHE

One of Greenstein’s competitor’s, Daniel Negreanu is one of the 65 players left in the event as we draw closer to the money bubble. Our three P5ers are still hanging in there. Alex “Kadabra” Keating continues to build his stack and is sitting with 98K. David “Doc Sands” Sands is treading water with his 11K. Shannon Shorr was running quite low on chips before he doubled up in the following hand:

With the betting limits at 1.5K/3K it folded around to Shannon in the small blind and he cracked a smile as he announced, “raise”. He and the player in the big blind got the last of his 3.8K stack in preflop and flipped up their hands. Shorr held 9T while his opponent showed A6. The JJ8 flop gave Shorr some additional outs and the T on the turn didn’t hurt either. The river was a meaningless 2 and Shorr doubled up to 8K.

We saw Shannon playing in the $1.5K NLHE earlier. He is still in the event and sitting with close to the starting stack, which we can only assume is being blinded off at the present moment.

WSOP 2009 Event #39: $1.5K NLHE

Players recently returned from a 20-minute break, but one player gets to enjoy his time just a little bit longer. On one of the first hands back from break Tony “Bond18″ Dunst (pictured left) reraised the remainder of his dwindling stack all-in from the button for an addition 2K or so over the top of the initial raise. The initial raiser thought briefly and called with AK which had Dunst’s KJ in bad shape. The 754A9 board failed to help Tony and he was sent to the rail.

Justin Bonomo has chipped up since the players returned from break. With the blinds now at 100/200/25, a player in middle position raised to 550. Bonomo asked how much the player had behind before calling from the small blind and the big blind called too. The flop fell JT6 and all three players checked. The turn was the 5, and Bonomo led out for 1.6K. The big blind called and the original raiser folded. The river was the 6 and Justin led out again, this time for 4K. The player in the big blind thought for a bit before splashing four yellow 1K chips into the pot. Bonomo quickly tabled JJ and scooped the pot to put him at 26.5K

Here are some chip counts we spotted as players came and went from their most recent break:

Shawn “sprstoner” Glines (pictured right)- 28K
Chris “SLOPPYKLOD” Klodnicki — 26K
Scott “stsitron” Sitron - 14K
Jeff “yellowsub” Williams — 12.2K
Ben “bfineman” Fineman — 12K
Adam “Roothlus” Levy - 11K
Darryll “DFish” Fish - 9.8K
Mohsin “chicagocards1″ Charania — 9.3K
Matt “All In At 420″ Stout - 9K
Brett “gank” Jungblut — 8.8K
Aaron “NDGrinder53″ Steury — 8.8K
Shannon Shorr — 6.7K
Zachary “CrazyZachary” Clark - 6.5K
Amanda “Mandy B” Baker - 6K
Tracey “XTraCey” Nguyen — 4.8K
Blair “scnoodle” Tidmarsh - 4.5K

• June 20, 2009 -- Sweet Ride
• June 20, 2009 -- Shorr Nuff
• June 20, 2009 -- Eying the Final Table
• June 20, 2009 -- Dutch is On Fire