Jared “TheWacoKidd” Hamby exited Day 1c at the beginning of Level 5. With five players seeing a flop of J-10-8, a player in early position led out for 3K and Hamby (pictured right) jammed his last 15K into the middle. It folded back around to the bettor, who called with the flopped straight (Q-9) and Hamby’s A-Q was drawing to four kings or three nines to chop the pot. They never appeared and Hamby was sent home.

Jason “mkind0516″ Laso was reseated in the Blue section after disappearing for awhile from PocketFives’ radar. We caught up to his table while he guarded a 34K stack and was involved in a hand with one other player. There was already a small pot brewing on a T47 board, when he raised the flop to 1,050 and his opponent check-raised him to 4,400 more. After thinking awhile, Jason folded and was down to 32K.

Mohsin “chicagocards1″ Charania got involved in a blind vs. blind battle at his table and continued to run hot. The small blind opened to 1200 at 200/400 and Charania raised to 4000 in the big blind. The small blind then four-bet all in for 22K and Charania quickly called with AK. The small blind flipped over JJ and yelled “Hold!” before the dealer prepared to reveal the board. The Q72 flop wasn’t promising for Charania, but he caught the A on the turn and rivered the A for good measure to eliminate the player and increase his stack to 115K.

Michael “benvo123″ Benvonuti (pictured left) and Gary “GB2005″ Bogdanski would also like us to send out a public service announcement for whoever stole their Everest Poker complimentary seat cushions to please bring them back. For those who are unaware, one of the goodies anyone who plays in the Main Even gets is a nice, green seat cushion bearing the Everest Poker seat logo. While Gary and Michael are not sentimentally attached to their cushions, they feel like the culprit should return them out of principle. They can offer no reward, but they wish bad beats and one outers on whoever stole their swag. We here at P5s Live don’t want to start any rumors, but we did see Jon Wein walking out with something like 10 seat cushions….not to point fingers or anything.

Here’s a look at how the other P5ers still alive are faring as the last level is coming to a close:

David “Bakes” Baker - 145K
David “Raptor517″ Benefield - 87K
Brian “tsarrast” Rast - 84K
Tony “tongni” Rivera - 70K
Sorel “Imper1um” Mizzi - 66K
Jason “JCarver” Somerville - 58k
David “DavidP18″ Peters - 46.5K
Russell “rdcrsn” Carson - 46K
Tom “werpennstate23″ Cummings - 44.5K
Matt “mattg1983″ Graham - 40K
Justin “truesyalose” Truesdell - 40K
Eric “basebaldy” Baldwin - 37K
Michael “benvo123″ Benvenuti - 37K
Jordan “Octavian_C” Rich - 36K
Jason “mkind0516″ Laso - 32K
Felipe “Improved” Montenegro - 29.5K
Jamie “pokerjamers” Armstrong - 28K
Gary “GB2005″ Bogdanski - 27K
Kyle “thetruth503″ Zartman - 25K
Scott “stsitron” Sitron - 25K
Keven “Stammdogg” Stammen - 23K
Patrik “Hoffs28″ Hoffman - 23K
Eric “Rizen” Lynch - 23K
Jonathan “driverseati” Tamayo - 22K
Aditya “Intervention” Agarwal - 20K
Hung “HQrespect” Nguyen - 20k
Hung Nguyen - 20K
Leo “Superfluous Man” Wolpert - 17.5K
Adam “Roothlus” Levy - 16K
Jerry “sandler1860″ Payne - 14K
Chris “cmoney3″ Kline - 9.5K

• July 6, 2008 -- BadBeatNinja Disappears Into the Night
• July 9, 2008 -- Dreams Dashed or Doubled Up?
• June 19, 2008 -- Bowker Goes Busto
• June 28, 2008 -- No Way, Jose!

There are many players making moves in event #46, the $5k NLHE six-handed event. Glen “choron” Chorny was trying to get his short stack moving in the right direction when he raised to 600 preflop with the blinds at 100/200 until an opponent re-raised to 2.4k. Chorny (pictured left) looked disgusted and after thinking for a minute he mucked his cards, showing the A. His opponent said “That’s why I didn’t want to see the flop” as he flipped over his pocket kings and raked in the pot. Chorny is sitting with half his original stack so we expect to see him making more moves as the blinds increase.

Steve “MrTimCaum” O’Dwyer bet out with the board showing T53 and his opponent raised. After thinking for a minute O’Dwyer reraised enough to put him all in and the other player did indeed make the call with the KT only to find that O’Dwyer held the AA and was ahead in the hand. The turn and river came with the Q and 6 and O’Dwyer added to his stack as the other player exited the tournament.

Leo “Superfluous Man” Wolpert’s luck wasn’t quite as good. We caught up with the action on the river with the board reading T73TK and Wolpert making a bet of 850 into the small pot. He was called by his opponent and Wolpert appeared reluctant to flip over his hand. When he did he showed the AJ for ace high which had been good until the river, as his opponent held the KQ for a pair of kings which was enough to scoop the pot.

Players are just coming back from their second break of the day and the blinds will be 150/300 with a 25 ante when they return. Some unoffical chip counts of notable players left in the field are listed below.

Hevad “RainKhan” Khan - 35k
Blair “blur5f6″ Hinkle - 32k
Vivek “psyduck” Rajkumar - 32k
Alex Jacob - 25k
Shannon Shorr - 19k
Gavin Griffin - 19k
Steve “MrSmokey1″ Billirakis -19k
Amit “amak316″ Makhija -17k
Chad “lilholdem954″ Batista (pictured right)- 13k
Danny “THE_D_RY” Ryan - 12k
Anna Wroblewski - 12k
Sorel “Imper1um” Mizzi - 11k

Players that have been eliminated from the tournament so far include Joe Sebok, Jared “TheWacoKidd” Hamby, Jonathan “FieryJustice” Little, Carter “devinr12″ Gill, Rolf Slotboom, Jon “apestyles” Van Fleet, and Issac Haxton.

• June 13, 2008 -- Harrington on Helium
• June 13, 2008 -- Wolpert and Gray Get Coolered in 10k Heads-Up
• June 12, 2008 -- Greenstein Cracks Competition, Somerville Sinking
• June 27, 2008 -- Sweating the Bubble

Adam “Roothlus” Levy (pictured right) couldn’t fade the cards all day and was eliminated right before the dinner break of the 1.5k NL WSOP Event #39.

Levy had been all-in around 20 times according to his table, most of which didn’t get any callers. Once Levy would double up and appear to get near the chip average he’d loose a key hand and get down again well below the average. Levy was never able to string together the successive double ups necessary to be a factor and eventually fell victim to the chip magnet that has been Garrett “GBecks” Beckman.

Beckman raised from middle position to 11k and Levy went all-in for another 42k more out of the blind. Beckman called with AJ and ran down Levy’s pocket fives when the board ran out 8-9-9-9-J. Beckman is the current chip leader with 390k.

Former chip leader David “ComptonMasta” Barter missed out on an opportunity to have a ridiculous chip stack over 500k when his pocket jacks lost a 260k pot on a ten high flop when his opponent was all-in and clipped a flush with his gut-shot straight and flush draw. Barter is still second in chips with 290k.

Richard “Lee Nickel” Fohrenbach was eliminated when his late position all-in steal attempt with 92 was called by KQ in the big blind and his opponent flopped a queen that held.

Here’s a list of notable stacks left.

David “DavidP18″ Peters - 95k

Luke “JohnnyCashOut” Priour - 55k

The 1.5k Mixed Hold-em WSOP Event #41 is underway and a slew of online players were spotted playing in it throughout the Amazon Room, although many showed up after the 5pm start.

Glen “choron” Chorny (pictured right) has made an early exit from the mixed event.  After doubling up an opponent who flopped 2 pair with A-6 against Chorny’s A-Q, Chorny was short stacked going into the limit section of Level 2 with around 600.  With the blinds at 50/100 a player in middle position raised and Chorny 3-bet behind him.  It folded back around to the intial raiser who made the call.  The flop came AT8 and the initial raiser checked-called Chorny’s bet.  When the 5 came on the turn the first player checked again and Chorny bet 200, leaving only 75 behind.  The other player then raised to put Chorny all-in and Glen made the call with AQ.  The other player turned over K-J and a Q hit on the river, giving the player Broadway and sending Glen home for the night.

Barry “barryg1″ Greenstein quickly entered in the Mixed Hold Em event after busting out of Day 2 of the $1.5K No Limit Hold Em Event, but he has already been sent packing.  Other early departures include Scott “gunning4you” Seiver, Justin Bonomo, Jared “TheWacoKidd” Hamby, and Eric “Rizen” Lynch. 

Let’s hope that Richard “Lee Nickel” Fohrenbach, who immediately registered for Event #41 upon his elimination in the $1.5K NLHE event, doesn’t have a similar fate to Greenstein.

• June 22, 2008 -- Beckman and Leonard Shooting Skyward
• June 22, 2008 -- Barter and Beckman Bulldozing
• April 22, 2008 -- Around The Room
• June 28, 2008 -- Seat Open!

Amidst a field of star-studded live pros, Stu “thedonator” Patterson (pictured at right) continued to defend his chipstack in Event #37, the $10K Omaha 8 Championship. In the last level, Stu busted Jennifer Harman when his pocket jacks completed a 5-5-9-5-6 board for a boat. Patterson was maintaining his stack at about 75K with 48 players remaining of the original field of 235. The bubble is set to burst at 27 spots remaining, when each player will be guaranteed more than $22K and racing for the $535,687 grand prize and bracelet.

TWo events have come to a close this evening, crowning two new champions. Event #35, the $1.5K Seven Card Stud tournament, has come to a close with Mike Rocco taking down the final table for WSOP gold and $135,753 in earnings.

Layne Flack, meanwhile, won Event #34’s Pot-Limit Omaha with Rebuys contest in an aggressive race for the bracelet against heads-up opponent Daniel Makowsky. Flack takes home $577,725 in cash and some wrist candy.

Day 1 of Event #38 continued on with less than a tenth of today’s earlier field remaining; Noah Boeken, Shane “shaniac” Schleger, Matt Stout, and Jared “TheWacoKidd” Hamby continued to perform well as the levels marched on, despite a floor warning against Schleger for disruptive behavior in a table outcry.

• June 21, 2008 -- He’s a Shaniac!
• June 21, 2008 -- That’s the Way You Need It
• June 20, 2008 -- Omaha Field Shrinks
• June 30, 2008 -- Little and Jaka Moving Up

The first level of the $2,000 Pot-Limit Hold’em event is complete and most players have found their way into the Amazon Room. Some late arrivals today were Jared “TheWacoKidd” Hamby, Sorel “Imper1um” Mizzi, Adam “akat11″ Katz (pictured right) and John Phan. We’ve only seen a handful of players make their way to the rail but with the blinds now at 50/100 the action should pick up. Here are some interesting table draws we’ve seen early on:

Table 2: Carl “colson10″ Olson (Seat 1), Carter “ckingusc” King (Seat 5), John Murphy (Seat 6), Amnon Fillippi (Seat 7)
Table 3: Paul “ComeOnPhish” Lieu (Seat 1), Chris “moorman1″ Moorman (Seat 5), Andy “BKiCE” Seth (Seat 7)
Table 14: Ben “bfineman” Fineman (Seat 7), Matt “All In At 420″ Stout (Seat 9)
Table 36: Scott “BigRiskky” Clements (Seat 5), Dan “Wretchy” Martin (Seat 9)
Table 37: Tony Dunst (Seat 1), Eric Lynch (Seat 6), Justin Bonomo (Seat 7)
Table 1 (Green Section): Jeff “jeffboski” Sluzinski (Seat 2), Jeff “crzysavage” Gressard (Seat 4)

As of now, 575 players are registered and the top 54 places will earn money. Greg Hopkins returns as the defending champion of the event. He picked up $269,274 last year.

• June 26, 2008 -- Six-Handed Players Making Moves
• June 18, 2008 -- Omaha Madness!
• June 12, 2008 -- Greenstein Cracks Competition, Somerville Sinking
• June 25, 2008 -- Nit Watch 2008