After tournament registration closed for the $5k NLHE six-handed event, 805 players had entered the tournament, beating last years total by 77 entries. Even with 10k starting stacks and blinds starting at 25/50, the play has been fast and furious. There are so many notable online players in the field that we can’t even begin to list them all. One of our reporters counted more than 50 notable online players in the field at the start of the tournament so we wouldn’t be surprised if numerous P5ers ran deep in today’s event.

We caught up with Matt “mattg1983″ Graham in a hand with the board reading 632. It appeared that Matt had bet out on the flop only to be raised another 2.3k by his opponent. Matt was obviously stressed about his decision and then decided to fold his pocket tens face-up. Eric “Rizen” Lynch, Hevad “RainKhan” Khan, Sorel “Imper1um” Mizzi, Shane “Shaniac” Schleger (pictured right), and Alex Jacob are all doing well and have built their stacks up during the first two levels.

Jeff “yellowsub” Williams was seen walking through the field of six-handed players a little before 2 pm, but he isn’t playing in today’s event because he is in day 2 of the $1k NLHE w/Rebuys tourney. He is seated at table #13 along with Jordan “scarface_79″ Smith and Scott “SCTrojans” Freeman (pictured left). Another table with a few notable players is #15 with Scott “BigRiskky” Clements, Keven “Stamdogg” Stammen, and Eric “EFro” Froehlich all seated together. 81 of the 115 players that started today will make the money so short stacked players are going to have to make moves soon as the bubble isn’t too far away.

• June 25, 2008 -- Pocket Fives No Good to Graham
• June 29, 2008 -- Clements Takes an Early Lead
• June 26, 2008 -- “Whoa! Who Won that Pot?”
• June 26, 2008 -- Six-Handed Players Making Moves

After day 1 of the massive $50k HORSE event, James “mig.com” Mackey (pictured right) is the chip leader going into day two with 214k. In a field filled with big name pros, online players are definitely making their presence known such as recent bracelet winner Phil “OMGClayAiken” Galfond who starts today with 161k. Other players still in the hunt include Brian “tsarrast” Rast (132k), Tom “durrrr” Dwan (109k), Justin “zeejustin” Bonomo (80k), and Matt “Hoss_TBF” Hawrilenko (41k). Well known pros David Williams and Phil Hellmuth weren’t able to make it past day 1 and were among the few players eliminated last night. Play resumes at 2 pm today and we’re sure to see eliminations start coming at faster rate as the blinds and antes continue to rise.

Also restarting this afternoon is event #44, the $1k NLHE w/Rebuys tournament. Day 2 will begin with 115 players including Brent “bhanks11″ Hanks and Faraz “The Toilet-0″ Jaka who are near the top of the chip counts with 154k and 116k. Stu “TheDonator” Patterson had a good first day as he comes into day 2 with 95k and Keven “Stamdogg” Stammen will start the day with 80k.

Just getting started in the Amazon room is event #46 the $5k NLHE six-handed event with over 550 players registered so far. These short handed events have tended to play out fast and furious at this year’s WSOP and we expect this event to be no different. We’ve already spotted numerous P5ers in the field such as Danny “THE_D_RY” Ryan, Jimmy “Gobboboy” Fricke, and Ryan “Daut44″ Daut. We’ll keep you updated on their progress as the day moves forward.

• June 26, 2008 -- Top of the Chip Counts or Bust!
• June 26, 2008 -- Online Kids Get on Their HORSE
• June 27, 2008 -- A Player Makes a “FatalError”
• June 27, 2008 -- Stud Players Wanting Tang

We’re only a little more than an hour into the $1.5k NLHE event #36 and while the total number of entrants on the tournament clock screen continues to rise as a result of late entries, the room is filled with dealers calling out the words no player ever wants to hear in reference to them… “Seat open!”

It seems that in these $1.5k events some players choose to gamble a little more to try to build their stack early. While loose/agressive play can definitely get you a big stack early and make swimming through these huge fields a little easier, it can also lead to an early end to your tournament life and it seems we’ve already lost a couple P5ers in the mayhem.

Kevin “BeL0WaB0Ve” Saul has already busted out and Steve “MrTimCaum” O’Dwyer’s seat next to Hevad “RainKhan” Khan was empty when PocketFives wandered by. Billy Westom (pictured at left) also made an early exit when his AJ ran into JT on a JT4 flop.

We’ve spotted a lot more players out in the field including Eric “Rizen” Lynch, Mike “SowersUNCC” Sowers, Craig “MrCasino” Gray, Simon “PokerBrat13″ Charette, Alex “AJKHoosier1″ Kamberis, and Keven “stamdogg” Stammen.

As of now the number of entrants is 2,436 but with almost an hour until registration ends it will inevitably rise even higher as time passes.

• June 21, 2008 -- A Method to Their Madness
• June 11, 2008 -- Lieu Doubles, Saul Busts
• June 28, 2008 -- Seat Open!
• June 26, 2008 -- Six-Handed Players Making Moves

P5ers are holding strong as players continue to drop from the $2.5k NLHE six-handed event #31.

Jason “treysfull21″ Mercier won a huge pot when he got all his chips in preflop against another big stack. The AK that Jason held dominated the AT of his opponent and when the board ran out A8224 Jason doubled his stack to over 200k.

Not long after that hand a battle of the P5ers nearly took place on Jason’s table. Jason raised in the cutoff and was called by Billy Westom in the small blind. Frank “Round42″ Rusnak who was in the big blind played with his chips contemplating a call but instead decided to re-raise for another 14k on top. An exciting P5 filled hand might have been in store, but Jason and Billy both folded giving Frank the pot.

Keven “Stamdogg” Stammen has also been doing well. When the button on his table raised to 3.3k preflop Keven made the call from his sb. The flop came with the 883 and both players checked to see the Q come on the turn. They both checked again and when the 4 dropped on the river Keven bet out 6k and the button called. Keven tabled the QJ for a pair of queens and the button mucked.

There are currently 47 players remaining. Chris “cdbr3799″ Dombrowski, Aditya “intervention” Agarwal (pictured left), and Michael “slugo5″ Glasser have been eliminated from today’s event but many players are still active in the field. Unofficial chip counts are listed below.

Jason “treysfull21″ Mercier - 200k
Keven “Stamdogg” Stammen - 160k
Frank “Round42″ Rusnak - 140k
Billy Westom - 95k
Shannon Shorr - 85k
Todd “tbt4653″ Terry - 70k
Paul “uclabruinz” Smith - 62k
Ian “IanJ300″ Johns - 50k

• June 27, 2008 -- Stud Players in the Money
• June 27, 2008 -- Sweating the Bubble
• June 17, 2008 -- Mineri Looking to Run Deep
• June 17, 2008 -- Hanks Having a Drink on Scotty