Aaron “NDGrinder59″ Steury’s (pictured left) perch near the top of the chip throne was short lived as he got tangled up in a massive pot after the dinner break. Steury defended his blind in a raised pot and flopped trips on a baby board and check-raised his opponent, who called. The turn brought another small card that completed the flush draw on the flop and Steury’s turn bet got raised. Steury ended up having his opponent all-in on the turn but his opponent turned the flush and Steury didn’t improve to a boat, shipping over a 200k pot away from Steury, who still has over 100K after the carnage.

Senovio “DorsalFin” Ramirez pulled PocketFives aside to report on the hand which allowed him to double up to 120K in the last level. Ramirez said that a player in middle position raised 3K preflop and the hijack called, so he felt compelled to call with his 98. The board came 922 and the player in middle position fired out an 8.4K bet which was called down by the hijack. Taking advantage of his pot odds, Ramirez decided to push all in for his remaining 20K. The player in middle position tanked for quite awhile before folding and then the hijack called, showing 53 for the flush draw. The turn and river brought the 69 and Ramirez’ full house pulled down the entire 110K pot. When asked what he did to get so lucky on his dinner break, he replied, “I got to talk to my daughters! That’s what it was!”

Brian “Like7″ Lamanna (pictured right) was able to double up upon returning from dinner break when a player raised in the hijack and Brian flat called in the cut off. The other player checked in the dark before the flop came out 8-6-5 rainbow. Lamanna bet out 10K and his opponent reraised all-in for 30K more. Brian made the call with pocket tens and the other player showed A-5. The turn and river were no help to the other player and Brian doubled up to 90K.

Chris “cdbr3799″ Dowbrowski was sent to the rail after reshoving a raise from the button for his last 20K and running his A6 into TT. The board ran out Q65K3 and Chris was eliminated.

Here are a whole heap of chip counts heading into the last break of the day:

Garrett “GBecks” Beckman - 230K

Mike “RunScreamin” Herder - 191K

Tom “titantom32″ Braband - 183K

Cliff “JohnnyBax” Josephy - 170K

Brandon Schaefer - 162K

Allen “abari” Bari - 150K

Tony “tongni” Rivera - 150K

Steve “MrSmokey1″ Billirakis - 145K

Darren “DABADESTCHIC” Nelson - 145K

David “DavidP18″ Peters - 138K

Jon “pokertrip” Friedberg - 125K

David “Raptor517″ Benefield - 123K

Leo “SuperfluousMan” Wolpert -120K

Spencer “spankybabes” Lawrence - 120K

Senovio “DorsalFin” Ramirez - 120K

David “Bakes” Baker - 120K

Aditya “intervention” Agarwal - 104K

Brian “snagglepuss” Powell - 101K

Frank “Round42″ Rusnak - 100K

David “HosniMubarak” Tazbaz - 100K

Devin “TranquilChaos” Porter - 96K

Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier - 95K

Russell “rdcrsn” Carson - 93K

Aaron “NDGrinder59″ Steury - 90K

Brian “Like7″ Lamanna - 90K

Matt “mattg1983″ Graham - 89K

Thayer Rasmussen - 85K

“BodogAri” Engel - 80K

Daniel “voff” Deveau - 78K

Dag Martin Mikkelsen - 76K

Darren Elias - 75K

Michael “benvo123″ Benvenuti - 73K

Brett “Gank” Jungblut - 67K

Mohsin “chicagocards1″ Charania - 67K

Tracey “xtrACEy” Nguyen - 66K

Ryan “Daut44″ Daut - 65K

Nachman “thelandlord” Berlin - 60K

Chris “cmoney3″ Kline - 60K

Eric “basebaldy” Baldwin - 53K

Justin “truesyalose” Truesdell - 51K

Jason “Mkind16″ Laso - 47K

Scott “BigRiskky” Clements - 45K

Michael “martine23″ Martin - 40.5K

Adam “Roothlus” Levy - 33K

Brian “tsarrast” Rast - 21K

Carter “ckingusc” King - 20K

Recent eliminations include Matt “plattsburgh” Vengrin, Scott “mindwise” Pendergrast and Aaron “gotcha55″ Kanter.

• July 11, 2008 -- Olly Olly Oxen Free!
• July 10, 2008 -- Strasser vs. Nguyen
• July 10, 2008 -- Levy’s Ruthless Pursuit of Chips
• July 10, 2008 -- Beckman Moves Up Leaderboard