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

Minutes ago, players ceased for their 90-minute dinner break in Event #43, the $1.5K Pot Limit Omaha 8 tournament. Prior to their refueling opportunity, several PocketFivers remained patient and waiting for the right opportunity to make a move.

We caught up with Chris “SKOAL” Falconer (pictured at left), who guarded a stack of 8,600 and reported that he’d had three times to move up the count to 20K but was rivered or had to fold. He explained that his earlier run in the tournament had him down to nearly fumes, but the key to his ongoing success in the WSOP has been patience, patience, patience. Though the average stack at the start of the break was a hair over 12K, Chris remained optimistic about his chances as he doubled up in the last level.

Meanwhile, Eric “Rizen” Lynch was checking down the river when we visited his table after what looked like some aggressive preflop action in the pot. His opponent was quite surprised when his hand held and Eric threw his cards to the dealer; Eric claimed to muck A-K, but didn’t hit a thing on the board. His patience was paying off as his stack rose to an above-average 13K.

Garrett “GBecks” Beckman, however, was not content to stay out of the line of fire and was getting nowhere fast. PocketFives found Garrett with a 9K stack, seated at a table across from a big-stacked Joe Hachem. When Garrett was in the big blind for 400, the cutoff limped and the player on the button made it 1,800. Garrett sighed as he folded. The next hand, from the small blind Garrett saw four players limp in, including Hachem. He completed the blind and the board came 3J8. Two early players checked, the third short stack moved in for almost all his chips, and Hachem called. Again, Garrett folded to the action and forfeited his blinds while the short stack chopped the pot with Hachem.

However, the next hand on the button, the same early short stack moved in, one opponent called, and Garrett raised to a total of 6,200. He flipped over AA79 to his opponent’s 2-3-8-6. The board ran out 34257 and Garrett doubled his opponent up. His stack was down to 5.5K — about the same as he held an hour ago.

Regardless of the loss, Garrett fared much better than other players of note who were recently eliminated: Rolf Slotboom and Stu “TheDonator” Patterson recently took their leave. As of the break, here are chip counts for those still fighting:

Matt “SamENole” Smith - 26K
Dan “Stainley88″ Adams - 20K
Matt “plattsburgh” Vengrin - 15K
Eric “Rizen” Lynch - 13K
Chris “SKOAL” Falconer - 8.6K
Shannon Shorr - 8.5K
Garrett “GBecks” Beckman - 5.5K

• June 25, 2008 -- Shorr Silences Minneapolis Meehan
• June 25, 2008 -- Bad Moon Rizen
• June 24, 2008 -- “You Know You Have a Good Table When…”
• June 28, 2008 -- CrazyMarco, Roothlus Chip Up

Todd “DanDruff” Witteles has been all in and doubled up a number of times in the $1.5K Mixed Limit Hold Em event since we last reported on him.  Most recently, Todd moved all-in for 6,475 with the blinds at 400/800 after a couple of players limped into the pot ahead of him.  One of the players who limped in elected to make the call with AT and Witteles was happy to see he had two live cards with his K9.  The flop came 966 and Todd flopped top pair to his opponent’s flush draw.  The turn and river came 82 and Witteles managed to increase his stack to 18K going into the break.

Play has been relatively slow in Day 2 of the Mixed Limit event with hand-for-hand play going for nearly an hour.  Several tables have expressed frustration about the limited number of hands they are seeing each level, especially considering how high the Limit Hold Em blinds are getting.  One player who is putting all his down time to use is Rolf Slotboom, who continues to build interesting sculptures out of his chips.  He has even gone so far as to start incorporating props.  His chips and his Tic Tacs are pictured at right.

Here are some recent chip counts going into the player’s 20 minute break:

Brock “t_soprano” Parker - 22K
Daniel “voff” Deveau - 18K
Todd “DanDruff” Witteles - 18K
Stu “thedonator” Paterson - 12K

The $1K Seniors Event field has been reduced by two-thirds as play ended for Level 5.  770 players remain and both Men “The Master” Nguyen and Tom McEvoy are towards the top of the leaderboard.

• June 25, 2008 -- Tamayo Runner-Up, SKOAL Survives Bubble Burst
• June 24, 2008 -- PLO Hi/Lo Underway
• June 24, 2008 -- So Close They Can Taste It
• June 24, 2008 -- DanDruff Doesn’t Flake Out

Many online titans survived the early stages of the 1.5k PLO WSOP Event #19, as roughly two thirds of the 759 player field has been elimated by the fourth level.

Jordan “iMsoLucky0″ Morgan is in positon to make a run with 16.5k with 100-200 blinds.

Gavin Smith busted out early in the level when he went all-on over a cut-off raiser for 1300 when his KK48 ran into AAK7.

Other notable chip counts.
Carter Gill - 70k
Jamie “The New” Robbins - 11.5K
Rafi Amit -
David “Raptor517″ Benefield - 8.5k
Tim “TMay420″ West - 7.5k
Nam Le - 20k
Rolf Slotboom - 9k
David Williams - 10k
Matt Brady - 8k
Danny “THE_D_RY” Ryan - 5.1k

• June 19, 2008 -- Patience Pays Off
• June 10, 2008 -- Robbins Busts Kravchenko, May Takes Hit
• July 4, 2008 -- Short Stacked Shorr Looking to Chip Up
• June 19, 2008 -- How To Remedy Boredom at the Poker Table