Play slowed to a crawl for awhile in Event #17 after some early fireworks, but action has picked back up now in Round 4. Early on, Casey “ccmuney” Coleman took a huge hit during the first level of the day when his top-pair top-kicker was rivered by Sergey Rybachenko’s straight. Coleman was left with 115K at the 5K/10K level after the hand and later got his money in with AQ against the 88 of Mike Schwartz. Coleman was unable to catch up and exited in tenth place for $7,507.

Alex Triner was then taken out in ninth place by Ryan Young when his pocket jacks ran into pocket queens, but play basically came to a halt for two rounds after his elimination. Matt “hazards21″ Giannetti was able to chip back up to his orginal starting stack (players started with 1 million) by three-betting chip leader Sergey Ryabachenko a few times, but that was the extent of the action. John “Ihave3pair” Strzemp was even seen taking shots of tequila in between hands.

Then Tom “SBRounder” West, short stacked for most of the day, shoved his last 400K into the pot with AQ right into the AK of Ryan Young and the board came up empty for West, who earned $12,421 for his eighth-place finish.

Just minutes later, Kyle “kwob20″ Bowker (pictured right) doubled his short stack back to around 650K when he reshoved Matthew Giannetti’s button raise with KJ and outflipped Giannetti’s A6 on a board of QT697. Bowker, as well as Giannetti and Strzemp, are the remaining P5ers at the table.

• June 10, 2008 -- Sit and Go Shangri-la
• June 10, 2008 -- Second West
• June 10, 2008 -- Shootout Field Narrows
• June 10, 2008 -- AK Good

The $1.5K NLHE Shootout final table will be crowded with P5ers as it gets kicked off at 2:00 PT today. Kyle “kwob20″ Bowker, Tom “SBRounder” West, Matthew “hazards21″ Giannetti, Casey “ccmuney” Coleman and John “Ihave3pair” Strzemp will battle for the bracelet and first-place prize of $335,565. Each will start with 300K chips, and after the long day of play we saw in the event yesterday, it could make for one of the lengthier final tables of the World Series.

The final two tables of the $2K Omaha Hi/Lo Event will get underway at 3:00 PT. Scott “BigRiskky” Clements and Jimmy “gobboboy” Fricke will be seated side-by-side at table 15. Clements (228K) is third in chips and Fricke is short with 33K. Clements, who has already made an Omaha final table this year, is searching for his third bracelet in as many years.

Also concluding today will be the $1K ladies event at 2:00 PT. Meanwhile, the $1.5K Pot-Limit Omaha Event (#19) just began and the $2K Limit Hold’em (Event #20) is set to start at 5:00 PT. Good luck to everyone playing today!

• June 10, 2008 -- Three down at $1.5K Shootout Final Table
• June 11, 2008 -- Nothing But Net
• June 10, 2008 -- Second West
• June 10, 2008 -- AK Good

Just a couple of days after his brother, Tim, reached the final table of the first shootout event of the 2008 WSOP Tom “SBRounder” West has reached the final table of the second one.  As we noted earlier, Tom had a 2-1 chip advantage over his opponent.  The two maintained a casual conversation throughout the match as they exchanged chips back and forth in smaller pots.  On the last hand, West’s opponent raised on the button and Tom reraised enough to put him all in.  The player quickly made the call with A-K and Tom looked to be in bad shape until a jack came on the flop, sealing the victory for him.

After he wrapped up things at his table, West wandered over to check on Garrett “GBecks” Beckman whose table, which includes P5er Sarvesh “Serbie” Pershad, is still playing 4-handed.  Craig “MrCasino” Gray managed to double up his short stack 3-handed at his table only to get it all in with K-J against his opponent’s A-J.  Matthew “Hazards21″ Giannetti’s table has been playing 5-handed for quite a while and looks to be one of the tables that still has quite a bit of play to go.

One table that doesn’t have any more play left is Casey “ccmuney” Coleman, who just claimed one of the spots at the final table.  After knocking out the third player when he got it all in with A-10 to Casey’s pocket queens, Coleman chipped away at his heads up opponent, eventually winning the table and advancing to play again tomorrow.

In the $2K Omaha we have yet to reach the final table, but the remaining players, which still include Jimmy Fricke and Scott Clements, will be stopping play at 3am and returning tomorrow afternoon to play down to a winner. 

• June 10, 2008 -- Sit and Go Shangri-la
• June 10, 2008 -- AK Good
• June 10, 2008 -- Three down at $1.5K Shootout Final Table
• June 10, 2008 -- Shootout Field Narrows

Casey “ccmuney” Coleman has been keeping himself busy at his table these past two levels.  First, with the blinds at 600/1,200, he made a big call for 16K on the river with a board reading 7-6-3-4-4 board with A3and his opponent showed KQ.  However, he then lost a 100K pot when he and another player got it all in on a 5-6-7 board with Coleman holding pocket eights to his opponent’s 7-10.  Unfortunately, the other player rivered a 10, dropping his chip stack back down again.  After doubling up, Coleman went on what his friends railing him called “the standard Casey Coleman” card rush.  During this rush of cards, he managed to dispatch of a couple of players and now his table is 3-handed going into the break.

Craig “MrCasino” Gray is also playing 3-handed, but unlike Casey, he is nursing a short stack and looking for a good place to double up.  A few tables away, Tom “SBRounder” West is heads up with his opponent with just over a 2-1 chip advantage.

The $2K Omaha 8OB event continues with 3 tables remaining.  The players, which still include Scott Clements and Jimmy Fricke, will be playing down to the final table tonight.

• June 10, 2008 -- Sit and Go Shangri-la
• June 10, 2008 -- Second West
• June 10, 2008 -- AK Good
• June 9, 2008 -- For Whom the Bell Tolls

As players begin to drop at a quicker rate in the $1.5K shootout a couple of P5ers survived key double ups with AK.  First Craig “MrCasino” Gray (pictured at right), who got as high as 100K before losing a good chunk of it bluffing into David Redlin’s quads, got it all in with AK versus Thor Hansen’s 44.  The board came K73AJ and Gray doubled up to 35K.

A few hands later, while the blinds were at 600/1200 ante 200 Casey “ccumney” Coleman raised under the gun to 3K and the player in the big blind (who had one of the larger stacks at the table) made the call.  The flop came out AQ3 and the big blind checked.  Casey then bet out 3.8K and his opponent check-raised to 10K total.  Casey quickly moved all in for 17.2K more and the player thought for a few moments before making the call with A6.  The turn and river came T7 and Casey now sits with just over 60K.

Recent eliminations include Richard “Lee Nickel” Fohrenbach and Brian “Like7″ Lamanna.

Over in Event #16, the $2K Omaha Hi/Lo, Scott “BigRiskky” Clements remains towards the top of the leaderboard despite losing a big pot shortly before the last break.  Jimmy “gobboboy” Fricke remains in the event, but has slipped down the chip counts substantially.

Finally, the $5K 2-7 single draw with rebuys event has lost just over 30 of the original 85 players and play has settled down substantially now that the rebuy period is over.  Currently Tom “durrrr” Dwan, who confessed to never playing 2-7 single draw before today, sits atop the chip counts.

• June 11, 2008 -- Riskky Business
• June 27, 2008 -- Stud Players Wanting Tang
• June 11, 2008 -- Nothing But Net
• June 10, 2008 -- Sit and Go Shangri-la