Event #34 was down to 25 players when PocketFives caught up with the play in the Brasilia room after the dinner break. With the blinds at 4K/8K and the average stack at 192K, Jeff “yellowsub” Williams was looking for a spot to get his chips in since he guarded only a 72K stack. Players returned with full bellies recently, so the general mood at the tables was upbeat and Tim “tmay420″ West (pictured at right) was chumming it up at his table. West was faring better than Williams, looking extremely comfortable with his stack of 395K after a big double-up.

As PocketFives watched, West collected a few uncontested pots in position until he tangled in a pot with Thomas Wahlroos. West moved all in preflop and held K-K-T-6 to Wahlroos’ 9-8-7-6; the flop gave both players trip sixes, but West’s better kicker won him the pot and doubled him up.

The real sleeper of the $1.5K Pot-Limit Omaha with Rebuys event is chip leader Kyle Kloeckner, who has been playing solid deep-stacked Omaha, increasing his stack to 460K. P5s will continue to cover these players as they move deeper into the money; all players are guaranteed $19,257 with the next money jump at 18th place.

Annie Duke, working with a short stack at the $5,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Low event, has just met her demise in fifth place. Duke got all of her chips in with (TT)5 against the (KK)J of Chris Ferguson. Duke’s hand failed to improve and she sent her chips over to Ferguson before picking up $73,602. Jesus is now three-handed with a massive chip lead over Bob Lauria and Sebastian Ruthenberg.

The $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em event has just returned from break and Craig “MrCasino” Gray is still one of the chip leaders with 50K. Tom “titantom32″ Braband made a surge in the past level, increasing his stack to 43K. Shannon Shorr (27K) and Bryan Micon (25K) are also working with plenty of chips as the blind levels have moved to 300/600 and the average stack is close to 16K.

• June 19, 2008 -- How To Remedy Boredom at the Poker Table
• July 4, 2008 -- Short Stacked Shorr Looking to Chip Up
• June 21, 2008 -- He’s a Shaniac!
• June 19, 2008 -- Patience Pays Off

Scott “BigRiskky” Clements and Jared “TheWacoKidd” Hamby have been seated next to each other in the $1.5K PLO w/ rebuys event and the two have been exemplary tablemates so far. First, Clements gave Hamby (pictured left) some extra Full Tilt Poker patches from his bag when he learned Hamby was running low. Then, Clements offered up some calculations on pot sized raises when Jared got involved in a hand with recent bracelent winner Phil “OMGClayAiken” Galfond.
 
Galfond raised in early position and claimed he had only looked at three of his cards. When it was Jared’s turn to act, he called out “pot” before adding, “I looked at all four”. Phil politely said he would look at his 4th card before he made his decision. After peeking at the 4th card, Galfond deliberated momentarily before calling the raise. When the flop came out 10-7-3 with two diamonds Phil moved the rest of his chips in the middle and Jared nearly beat him into the pot making the call. Phil showed 7-8-9-10 for a flopped two pair while Jared had AKKX for the over pair and nut flush draw.  A 3 on the turn gave Hamby the better two pair and when the flush hit on the river, Galfond found himself reaching for his wallet to rebuy.
 
Hamby then continued the goodwill at the table by offering to go find a floor person, who were all stationed on the other side of the room, to bring Galfond more rebuy chips. 

The wacky play has continued at Sorel “Imper1um” Mizzi’s table. Eli Elezra joined the fun in the past hour, prompting Nenad Medic to walk over and say “how do I get moved to this table?” Three players at that table have more than 30K chips, including Mizzi.

As the players return from their first 20-minute break of the day, here’s a look at some chip stacks as Level 3 begins:

Jared “TheWacoKidd” Hamby - 21K
Jimmy “gobboboy” Fricke - 16K
Rami “arbianight” Boukai -15K
Carl “colson10″ Olson - 14K
Marco “CrazyMarco” Johnson -13K
Jamie “TheNew” Robbins - 13K
Kevin “BeL0WaB0Ve” Saul - 10K
Scott “BigRiskky” Clements - 7K
Eugene Todd - 6K

• June 13, 2008 -- Wolpert and Gray Get Coolered in 10k Heads-Up
• June 19, 2008 -- West Moving North in the 1.5k PLO Rebuy
• June 29, 2008 -- Omaha Stakes Rise
• June 29, 2008 -- To Reload or Not to Reload?

• June 20, 2008 -- Tusk Love for the Wahlroos
• June 21, 2008 -- TheDonator Not So Charitable, Busts Harman
• June 20, 2008 -- “Crzysavage” Beat
• June 20, 2008 -- TGIF