Many PocketFivers are moving up the chip counts on Day 1C of the WSOP Main Event and look to be in position to make a strong run into the night. They all hope to accumulate a big stack for Day 2.

Sorel “Imper1um” Mizzi’s (pictured at right) stack just took a boost, thanks to scooping two straight solid pots. In Level 3 with blinds at 150-300, Mizzi’s opponent raised to 700 and Mizzi called. His opponent bet 1,200 on a A56 flop and Mizzi raised to 3,200; his opponent called. The turn was the 9 and Mizzi’s opponent checked. Mizzi bet 4,650 and his opponent called. The river was the 2 and action checked to Mizzi, who bet his opponent all-in for his remaining 12k. He called. Mizzi dragged the pot with the T8 for a turned flush.

The next hand, Mizzi called a 900 preflop raise from middle position and took the flop in position yet again. Mizzi’s opponent bet 1,650 on an AJ8 flop and Mizzi called. The turn was the 2 and his opponent bet 5,200; Mizzi called. The river was the 3 and both players checked with Mizzi’s AQ besting his opponents A9. Mizzi’s stack ballooned to 67K after dragging both pots.

Although he got about a two-minute stare down from his opponent on the river, Jason “JCarver” Somerville (pictured at left) was able to win a 20K pot on the river without a showdown. In a limped pot, Somerville’s opponent bet 1K on a T46 flop and Somerville raised to 3,100 and his opponent called. The turn was the 2 and his opponent checked. Somerville bet 5,575 and got called. The river was the A and Somerville put his opponent all-in for his last 10k. Somerville was sitting directly to the left of his opponent, and he put Somerville through the ringer, staring right at him for a few minutes before finally folding. Somerville later told P5’s he turned the nuts with what has become one of his most profitable/favorite hands lately with the 53. Somerville has won an additional 15k since that last pot and currently sits with 57k.

We caught up with Andy “BKice” Seth sitting at his table with 19K, but he told us he had gotten as high as 30K earlier in the day before he took a big hit. He got involved in a hand holding 67 and the flop came out K-10-7 with two spades. A short stack moved all-in for 1.8K into the 2.1K pot and Andy just called. Another player then reraised all-in for 9K more. Seth made the call and learned he was in worse shape than he expected against J9. The flush hit on the river and Seth was knocked back down under his starting stack.

Phil “USCPhildo” Collins also lost a piece of his chip stack recently, but it could have been much worse. On a flop of 865 the player to Phil’s right bet out 3K and Collins made the call. As soon as the J peeled off on the turn, the other player loudly announced his bet of 10K and Phil threw his hands up and flashed his hole cards to his opponent in the process. Phil asked the player if he had pocket jacks and thought momentarily before folding his pocket queens face up. Turns out Collins made a good read–his opponent showed the table his pocket kings as he scooped the pot.

Ladbrokes pros Jon Kalmar and Steve Davis continued their chip races in the last level. As we reported earlier, both cracked the 30K mark before the end of the first level. Now at the end of Level 3, Davis continued to accumulate chips and was up to 41K. Jonas Danielsson, also a Ladbrokes pro, was down to 18K at the break.

Here’s a look at some other notable chip counts:
Brian “tsarrast” Rast - 97K
Darren Elias - 77K
David “Bakes” Baker - 67K
Sorel “Imper1um” Mizzi - 65K
Bryan “badbeatninja” Devonshire - 54K
Tom “werpennstate23″ Cummings - 52K
Mohsin “chicagocards1″ Charania - 51K
David “raptor517″ Benefield - 41K
Kyle “thetruth503″ Zartman - 38K
Ezra Galston - 37K
Eric “Rizen” Lynch - 35K
Carter “ckingusc” King - 35K
Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier - 34K
Jared “TheWacoKidd” Hamby - 32K
Justin “truesyalose” Truesdell - 31K
David “davidp18″ Peters - 31K
Jordan “Octavian_C” Rich - 30.5K
Steve Paul Ambrose - 30K
Phil “USCPhildo” Collins - 27.5K
Scott “stsitron” Sitron - 26K
Patrik “Hoffs28″ Hoffman - 25.5K
Felipe “Improved” Montenegro - 23.5K
Hung “HQrespect” Nguyen - 23.5K
Eric “basebaldy” Baldwin - 22K
Matt “mattg1983″ Graham - 22K
Michael “benvo123″ Benvenuti - 22K
Jonathan “driverseati” Tamayo - 21.5K
Jamie “pokerjamers” Armstrong - 20K
Court Harrington - 19.5K
Andy “BKiCe” Seth - 19K
Russell “rdcrsn” Carson - 19K
Jerry “sandler1860″ Payne - 18.5K
Leo “Superfluous Man” Wolpert - 17K
Gary “GB2005″ Bogdanski - 17K
Chris “cmoney3″ Kline - 15K
Keven “Stamdogg” Stammen - 14.5K
Amit “amak316″ Makhija - 12K
Aditya “Intervention” Argawal - 8.5K
Jon Wein - 6.5K
Scott “SCTrojans” Freeman - 6K

Here were a few departures over the last level:
Derek “blackpipe” Blenman
Joseph “WSOPJoe” May
Justin “zeejustin” Bonomo
Jordan “scarface_79″ Smith
Brent “bhanks11″ Hanks (pictured at right)
Randy “randers” Haddox

• July 6, 2008 -- Main Event Madness!
• June 16, 2008 -- Strong Online Presence Deep in $3K NLHE
• June 12, 2008 -- Greenstein Cracks Competition, Somerville Sinking
• October 14, 2008 -- Mizzi and Sebok Hit the Road