Just shy of 3:30 a.m. Las Vegas time, the epic heads up battle between Shawn “sbuck21″ Buchanan and Craig “craigthedeac” Boyd finally ended, sending Buchanan to the second round of the $1.5K limit hold’em shoot and Boyd walking quickly toward the doors of the Brasillia Room.
At different points in the match each player was down [...]

Play has stopped for the evening in Event #49 and Steve “MrSmokey1″ Billirakis (pictured left) has one of the bigger stacks in the room.
Billirakis battled a tough table with players such as Greyg “fossilman” Raymer, Chris “Jesus” Ferguson, Brett Richey and fellow P5er Justin Bonomo. Steve ended the day with 223K in chips.
Bonomo did not [...]

Tables around the Brasillia Room are starting to empty as the winners are being determined in the first round of the $1.5K limit hold’em shootout event.
We haven’t seen any PocketFivers advance to the second round just yet (though we might have missed someone), but several players are closing in on tomorrow’s play and the money. [...]

At first it looked like Table 72 was breaking, which didn’t make sense. Only one player, Steve Zolotov, has been eliminated, and all the other tables are filled.
All the players, including Barry “barryg1″ Greenstein and Pat “TorontoToro” Pezzin (pictured left), proceeded to move to a different table near the back of the Orange Section. Greenstein [...]

We didn’t catch the progress of every PocketFiver still alive in the $1.5K limit hold’em shootout event before the players left on their one hour dinner break, but we did our best to provide as many updates as possible below.
One player who left before we could get back to their table was Shawn “sbuck21″ [...]