With only 5 levels of play scheduled for day 1 action, players are now at the halfway point of day 1B. Today’s larger field was expected to result in larger stacks, and the flurry of bust outs in the first level all at the same table seemed to make it even more likely a huge stack would emerge early.

So far at least it has not happened. Barry Greenstein is leading the way at the halfway mark with around 70k and a few other players are in the 50k - 60k range, but no stacks significantly larger than the leaders from day 1A were at this point yesterday. In fact, a large portion of the field is hanging right around the 30k starting stack.

Jason “JDN” Newitt was hanging on with around 5,500 but is now sitting in the staging area just outside the tournament room talking with WPT video interview host Amanda Leatherman after his elimination. Shane “Schaniac” Schleger is also outside the poker room, but he still has chips. The zero tolerance policy at the Bike earned Shane a penalty when one of his cards went off the table when he was mucking his hand. He will be back in the action shortly.

Here are some counts from around the room:
Barry Greenstein - 70k
Chad “M8kingmoves” Batista (right) - 42k
Jordan “iMsoLucky0″ Morgan - 32k
Mark Newhouse - 30k
Ari Engel - 29k
Matt “Mattg1983″ Graham - 28k
Justin “ZeeJustin” Bonomo - 28k
Josh “pbdrunks” VanDuyn - 27k
Scott “BigRiskky” Clements - 24k
Peter “Nordberg” Feldman - 23k
Peter “#1Pen” Neff - 21k
Jared “TheWacoKidd” Hamby - 19k
Shane “Schaniac” Schleger - 19k

• August 25, 2008 -- Legends of Poker Day 1B Complete
• August 24, 2008 -- Volleyball Gold
• June 30, 2008 -- Little and Jaka Moving Up
• June 21, 2008 -- He’s a Shaniac!