As play moves into the 4th level of the day Adam “Roothlus” Levy has been able to win a few pots to chip up while other players have seen their tournaments come to an end. Both Chris “cdbr3799″ Dombrowski (pictured) and Jamie “TheCronic420″ Rosen have been sent to the rail in recent action.

Levy has recently been moved to a new table and is now on the left on Mike “inissint” Glasser. Before the move Levy was able to pick up some chips in a pot where a player opened for 800 and Levy raised to 2,250. After he was called the flop came J65 and Adam bet 2,950 after it was checked to him. The other player called and withe the 2 on the turn Levy was able to take the pot with a bet of 5,800 once it was checked over to him.

After that Adam eliminated a player when his AK outran pocket tens. A player had opened for 1,600 and Adam raised to 5,500. A third player then moved all in for over 15k and once it folded to Levy he made the call. An ace on the turn gave Roothlus the pot and built his stack to around the 85k he currently has.

Chip Counts:
Adam “Roothlus” Levy - 85k
Jason “JCarver” Somerville - 45k
Mike “inissint” Glasser - 38k
Amit “Amak316″ Makhija - 31k
Kyle “kwob20″ Bowker - 22k
Don “dbase22″ Yucius - 9k

• July 10, 2008 -- Levy’s Ruthless Pursuit of Chips
• June 27, 2008 -- Stud Players in the Money
• June 27, 2008 -- Sweating the Bubble
• November 6, 2008 -- Katz Out, Day 1B Complete

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

Chris “LUHMAN” Martin learned a costly lesson early in Day 2b: Never get your chips in with the best hand against Gus Hansen. Martin, who began the day with just 7,250, moved all in from the cutoff. Hansen considered folding from the button but then decided to make the call with A8 and found out he was way behind Martin’s A9. That is until the 8 came in the door and Martin was unable to improve. His seat has now been filled by Hansen’s cell phone and BlackBerry.

A few Pocketfivers have more than doubled up their short stacks in the first hour of play. Chris “cbdr3799″ Dombrowski won a few pots early and then busted a player with a slightly smaller stack when they played a hand all-in preflop, with Dombrowski’s queens holding up against pocket tens. After starting the day with 13k, Dombrowksi currently sits with 32k.

Gary “GB2005″ Bogdanski recently scooped a big pot out of a limped hand on his small blind. Bogdanski completed the blind after an under-the-gun limp with the T3 and the big blind checked. A flop of 589 got checked through and Bogdanski led for 1300 when the A peeled on the turn. The big blind raised Bogdanski to 4k and Bogdanski went all-in for an additional 10k and got called. Another ace peeled on the river and Bogdanski’s flush bested his opponents turned pair of aces with a smaller club draw. Bogdanski currently sits with 44k.

Some others we’ve seen hit the rail early were Brian “sbrugby” Townsend and Jeremy” Chipsteela” Menard.

• July 9, 2008 -- Dreams Dashed or Doubled Up?
• July 10, 2008 -- Steury’s Stack Slips
• July 6, 2008 -- BadBeatNinja Disappears Into the Night
• November 6, 2008 -- Dombrowski and Rosen Sidelined, Roothlus Chipping Up

Chris ‘cmoney3′ Kline came into Day 2 of the $5K No Limit Hold Em 6-max with only 16K in chips.  Chris informed us he came in 95th in chips out of the 96 players who made it to the second day of play and, with the blinds starting at 800/1,600 with a 200 ante, he knew he had his work cut out with him to make it to the money.

Now there are 30 players left in the event, Kline is guaranteed $20,430 and his stack is beginning to grow.  Chris nursed his short stack for some time and finally found a good spot to double up.  With the blinds at 3K/6K ante 500 a player in early position raised to 16.5K and Kline moved all-in for around 70K total.  The other player thought for a minute or so before making a crying call with AT.  Chris was in a race situation with 88.  The board came K7793 and his pocket eights held and increased his chip stack to nearly 150K.

Other players who failed in their attempts to double up include Chris “cdbr3799″ Dombrowski, who reraised all-in for 70K with 44 after a player under the gun raised.  The other player made the call with KJ and, when the board ran out AAJJ6, Dombrowski was eliminated in 34th place.

Ryan “Daut44″ Daut took a big hit to his already dwindling stack when he moved all-in from the cut-off for just shy of 80K.  The player in the big blind made the call with TT and Daut was in bad shape with his 88.  The cards ran out 733K2 and Ryan was left with only 5K. 

Two hands later, Daut was all-in in the big blind for his remaining chips and the same player who held pocket tens earlier raised on the button.  The small blind folded and the other player again turned over pocket tens.  Daut was in even worse shape the second time around with 39.  His hand failed to improve and he was eliminated in 31st place.

Here are some selected chip counts of a few of the remaining players:
Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier - 590K
Steven “CornellFiji” Ware - 420K
Jason Gray - 420K
Shannon Shorr - 187K
Alex Jacob - 135K

Over in the $2K No Limit Hold Em Event, David “ComptonMasta” Barter was on red alert with a short stack when he picked up A-Q in the hijack and shoved it in preflop.  One opponent with pocket tens called Barter down, but he managed to flop an ace to double up.  Moved recently to a new table, he sat much more comfortably with 21K.

Daniel “voff” Deveau (pictured at right) was sitting pretty with about 65K when we caught up to his table, though he reported he’s been moved four times in the last level. His newest table had more chips, but he was still feeling them out. Under the gun, after a short-stacked player in the big blind raised, Daniel called. The flop came 963 and Daniel bet out, forcing him to make a decision for all his chips. The short-stacked player called and showed 10-9 to Daniel’s 9-2. The turn and river came 64 and was no help to Daniel, who looked up and said “Oops!” before laughing. His stack took the hit and was down to 50K, still double the average.

Meanwhile, Tristan “Cre8ive” Wade won several more small pots over the last level, which he reported has been his strategy all day.  In  a hand that exemplified this no-showdown policy, he reraised 10K more against a player raising under the gun and one caller.  The other players folded and he was up to 35K.

John Wein has also chipped up to healthy 30K, though he previously held a larger stack that he spewed through the following hand: There was a late limper and Wein checked in the big blind.  The flop came AQ8 and he held A-T with no hearts.  His opponent bet 2.5K after the flop, which Wein called.  A blank came on the turn, and his opponent shoved for 13K more.  Wein called with his pair of aces, but the A on the river caught up his opponent’s J9 for an ace-high flush.  Later on, however, Wein looked down at pocket aces and raised 3K on the button.    An early player shoved for 13K and Wein called.  He won the hand and caught himself back up to 30K.

• June 28, 2008 -- Mo’ Money, No Problem
• June 27, 2008 -- Stud Players in the Money
• June 28, 2008 -- No Way, Jose!
• June 28, 2008 -- Basebaldy Bullies Bubble and Whiffs

The bubble burst in event #47, the $1.5k Stud h/l and the remaining players are all guaranteed at least $2,450. Brett “Gank” Jungblut and Craig “MrCasino” Gray have both survived the day so far. Brett currently has around 18k while Craig has been hovering around the 12k mark for a majority of the day. Phil Hellmuth has made his 66th WSOP cash in this event and Men “The Master” Nguyen has now cashed in 61 WSOP events.

Many notable players are still alive in the $5k NLHE six-handed event with the field down to 47. Steven “Cornell Fiji” Ware went on a killer run after the bubble burst. He started play after the bubble with 35k in chips and an hour later held over 350k. PocketFives asked Ware if he had proposed marriage to Frank (the dealer who dealt him all those monster hands) and Ware laughed and said he probably should have.

Players who have been knocked out recently include Glen “choron” Chorny (69th, $8,323), Mike “inissint” Glasser (66th, $9,080), Jason “tresfull21″ Mercier (51st, $10,972), and Jonathan “FatalError” Aguiar (49th, $10,972). Below are the unoffical chip counts of the remaining players.

Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier (pictured right)- 470k
Steven “Cornell Fiji” Ware - 370k
Jason Gray - 210k
Chris “cdbr3799″ Dombrowski - 200k
Ryan “Daut44″ Daut - 170k
Chris “cmoney3″ Kline - 150k
Shannon Shorr - 130k
Alex Jacob - 50k

• June 27, 2008 -- Sweating the Bubble
• June 27, 2008 -- A Player Makes a “FatalError”
• June 27, 2008 -- Feelin’ Good
• June 28, 2008 -- Making ‘Cmoney’