After the dinner break concluded, play resumed in the Brazillia room with several PocketFivers still in play in the $2K No-Limit Hold’em event. At Table #61, Jared “TheWacoKidd” Hamby (pictured at left) sat short-stacked, his chip count about 35K. Aggressively pursuing more from the cutoff with the blinds at 3K/6K, he moved all in and took down a preflop pot to improve his stack to 52K.

The next hand, however, Nick “gbmantis” Niergarth on the button eyed Hamby’s stack when Hamby moved all in once again. Niergarth moved all in to isolate Hamby from the early limper, who easily made the fold. When the two flipped their cards, Hamby held QQ to Niergarth’s A-J. The board ran out AJK7J, improving Niergarth’s hand and knocking an upset Hamby out of the tournament.

Scott “gunning4u” Seiver was just crowned the champion of Event #21, the $5k No-Limit Hold’Em tournament. Seiver came into the final table as the massive chip leader holding more than 2.5 million in chips, while second place held a little over 1 million.

Seiver dominated both the final table and an action packed heads-up match that lasted only a little over an hour. In the final hand, Seiver called Dave Seidman’s preflop raise and they saw the flop come 973. Seiver bet out, Seidman raised and Seiver then pushed all in. Seidman made the call with his A7 to find that he was behind to Seiver’s K9. The meaningless 5 on the turn and 3 on the river secured Seiver’s victory. He wins the gold bracelet and $755,891.

• June 13, 2008 -- Harrington on Helium
• June 22, 2008 -- Beckman Elimates Levy
• June 14, 2008 -- Niergarth Hits the Rail
• June 13, 2008 -- Titan Tom