Carter “cswidler” Swidler spent the first couple hours of his day on the ESPN secondary feature table with WSOP bracelet winner Vitaly Lunkin. First, Lunkin took a chunk out of Swidler’s stack when his A-Q was able to outrace Carter’s pocket nines. Carter would have his revenge though. Lunkin raised to 22K under the gun with the blinds at 4K/8K ante 1K and Swidler reraised to 72K on the button. Vitaly called and the flop came down 952. Swidler led out and Lunkin raised all-in. Swidler quickly called, tabling 2-5 for bottom two pair while Lunkin held pocket aces with the A. The fives and deuces held as the board bricked out to eliminate Lunkin and boost Swidler up to 750K. Carter lost a little of that since moving away from the feature table, but he is still in good shape with 650K.

Nick “gbmantis” Niergarth made his exit from the tournament when a player opened for 26K with the blinds at 5K/10K ante 1K and Niergarth quickly moved all-in for around 200K. It folded around to Steve “19FMzadester” Levy in the big blind who announced he was calling. The initial raiser folded and Levy showed JJ while Niergarth held QJ. The T96 flop kept things interesting but the 2 on the turn and 4 on the river sealed Niergarth’s fate and he was sent to the rail. Joining him there is Patrick “BigRed0000″ Stemper. Meanwhile, Levy is sitting in good shape with 1.35 million.

Paul “ComeOnPhish” Lieu (pictured left) had been looking for a spot to double up this afternoon and finally found one at the expense of Craig “craigthedeac” Boyd. Lieu, sitting with a stack of around 130K, raised to 24K at 5K/10K blinds and action folded around to Boyd in the big blind. He paused for a moment before announcing all in. “Call,” Lieu quickly exclaimed as he flipped over A A and flew out of his seat. Boyd tabled 9 9 and was unable to improve as the board ran out KT727. Lieu doubled up to 260K while Boyd was left with around 950K.

Nick “fu_15″ Maimone lost almost 1/3 of his stack in the past hour after a button versus big blind confrontation cost him 440K. We missed the preflop action but Maimone had AK against KK. The QQ459 was no help to Maimone, who got a short pep talk from Lieu as he shipped the chips over to his opponent.

Here are some recent chip counts from some of the players still standing with 265 people left in the field:

Matt “mcmatto” Affleck (pictured right) - 2.37 million
Billy “Patrolman35″ Kopp - 1.595 million
Jordan “iMs0lucky0″ Morgan - 1.45 million
Owen “ocrowe” Crowe - 1.44 million
Steve “19FMzadester” Levy - 1.35 million
Joe “jcada99″ Cada - 1.3 million
Blair “blur5f6″ Hinkle - 1.23 million
Grayson “gray31″ Ramage - 1.22 million
Ludovic “Cutsss” Lacay - 1.2 million
Craig “craigthedeac” Boyd - 1.05 million
Jordan “scarface_79″ Smith - 1.03 million
Joe “LatestLines2″ Ward - 950K
Blair Rodman - 920K
Andrew “luckychewy” Lichtenberger - 850K
Frank “Round42″ Rusnak - 800K
Jamie “The New” Robbins - 775K
Jonathan “driverseati” Tamayo - 750K
Jeff Papola - 750K
Theo “pittrounder” Tran - 750K
Carter “cswidler” Swidler - 650K
Cole “cts” South - 630K
Bradley “FatsoFat6969″ Craig - 500K
Jordan “Octavian_C” Rich - 385K
Clayton “Clayton_27″ Newman - 345K
Mike “MikeSix” Minetti - 300K
Bolivar “ramux” Palacios (pictured right) - 270K
Ashley “actyper” Cheung - 255K
Joe Sebok - 250K
Paul “comeonphish” Lieu - 235K
Casey “sobizzle21″ Sobczewski - 194K
Kyle “kwob20″ Bowker - 117K

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• July 12, 2009 -- Sebok Surges to 750K