The last time we talked at length about Scott “ssitron” Sitron he had just folded pocket queens after four players moved all in ahead of him only to find out they were way the best hand.  Scott may not have cashed in that event, but in today’s $1.5K No Limit Hold Em event he soared past the money bubble and appears to be in great shape going into Day 2.

Scott’s day got off to a quick start when he eliminated a player early in the day after his pocket queens held against his opponent’s A-K.  Sitron saw the hand as a good omen and told Pocket Fives, “there is no folding pocket queens this time”.  Ever since then, Sitron has been steadily building his stack and as play was winding down he ran into yet another altercation with the ladies.

With the blinds at 600/1200 with a 100 ante, Clayton “Clayton_27″ Newman raised to 3.2K in middle position and Sitron then re-raised to 8.3K total.  The big blind shoved for around 11K, Newman folded, and Sitron quickly called with his AA and the big blind showed…pocket queens.  The ladies were kind to Sitron once again and his aces held, sending his stack up over the 100K mark.  Scott will start Day 2 with 115K while the average chip stack is 41.5K.

Though Clayton Newman may have conceded that hand with Scott Sitron, the architectural battle between he and Court Harrington (pictured at left) continued.  As Court continued to build his chip stack to 94K, he elected to simply add depth and breadth to his tower of chips while Newman earned points for effort and creativity as he completely rearranged his chip stack approximately every fifteen minutes.  Unfortunately for Newman, he has dropped a bit since we last checked in with him and has around 60K in chips to put to use tomorrow.

After dropping as low as 11K after the dinner break Shawn “sbuck21″ Buchanan has rebounded quite nicely and now sits at 75K.  Andrew “tiltedjacks” Lee managed to nurse his small 10K stack past the money bubble, but busted quickly after the bubble burst when his 44 failed to crack his opponent’s KK.

Right as play was wrapping up in the $1.5K event, the $2.5K 6-handed set its final table when Scotty Nguyen (pictured at left) was eliminated by Seth “grtwhitehoop” Fischer in 7th place.  It folded around to Fischer in the small blind who then raised enough to put a short-stacked Nguyen all in for his remaining 160K with the blinds at 5K/10K and a 2K ante.  Scotty made the call with TT and Fischer showed 79.  The flop came Q65.  The J on the turn was no help to Fischer, but the 4 on the river made his flush and sent Scotty on his way.

 Tomorrow, Fischer and Justin “fluffdog” Flitz and will join chip leader Dario Minieri at the final table where they will play down to a champion.

• June 19, 2008 -- Super Dario Powers Up!
• June 18, 2008 -- Let the Belittling Begin
• June 18, 2008 -- BigRiskky Business as Usual
• June 18, 2008 -- The Sowers Taste of Defeat