Jared “TheWacoKidd” Hamby exited Day 1c at the beginning of Level 5. With five players seeing a flop of J-10-8, a player in early position led out for 3K and Hamby (pictured right) jammed his last 15K into the middle. It folded back around to the bettor, who called with the flopped straight (Q-9) and Hamby’s A-Q was drawing to four kings or three nines to chop the pot. They never appeared and Hamby was sent home.

Jason “mkind0516″ Laso was reseated in the Blue section after disappearing for awhile from PocketFives’ radar. We caught up to his table while he guarded a 34K stack and was involved in a hand with one other player. There was already a small pot brewing on a T47 board, when he raised the flop to 1,050 and his opponent check-raised him to 4,400 more. After thinking awhile, Jason folded and was down to 32K.

Mohsin “chicagocards1″ Charania got involved in a blind vs. blind battle at his table and continued to run hot. The small blind opened to 1200 at 200/400 and Charania raised to 4000 in the big blind. The small blind then four-bet all in for 22K and Charania quickly called with AK. The small blind flipped over JJ and yelled “Hold!” before the dealer prepared to reveal the board. The Q72 flop wasn’t promising for Charania, but he caught the A on the turn and rivered the A for good measure to eliminate the player and increase his stack to 115K.

Michael “benvo123″ Benvonuti (pictured left) and Gary “GB2005″ Bogdanski would also like us to send out a public service announcement for whoever stole their Everest Poker complimentary seat cushions to please bring them back. For those who are unaware, one of the goodies anyone who plays in the Main Even gets is a nice, green seat cushion bearing the Everest Poker seat logo. While Gary and Michael are not sentimentally attached to their cushions, they feel like the culprit should return them out of principle. They can offer no reward, but they wish bad beats and one outers on whoever stole their swag. We here at P5s Live don’t want to start any rumors, but we did see Jon Wein walking out with something like 10 seat cushions….not to point fingers or anything.

Here’s a look at how the other P5ers still alive are faring as the last level is coming to a close:

David “Bakes” Baker - 145K
David “Raptor517″ Benefield - 87K
Brian “tsarrast” Rast - 84K
Tony “tongni” Rivera - 70K
Sorel “Imper1um” Mizzi - 66K
Jason “JCarver” Somerville - 58k
David “DavidP18″ Peters - 46.5K
Russell “rdcrsn” Carson - 46K
Tom “werpennstate23″ Cummings - 44.5K
Matt “mattg1983″ Graham - 40K
Justin “truesyalose” Truesdell - 40K
Eric “basebaldy” Baldwin - 37K
Michael “benvo123″ Benvenuti - 37K
Jordan “Octavian_C” Rich - 36K
Jason “mkind0516″ Laso - 32K
Felipe “Improved” Montenegro - 29.5K
Jamie “pokerjamers” Armstrong - 28K
Gary “GB2005″ Bogdanski - 27K
Kyle “thetruth503″ Zartman - 25K
Scott “stsitron” Sitron - 25K
Keven “Stammdogg” Stammen - 23K
Patrik “Hoffs28″ Hoffman - 23K
Eric “Rizen” Lynch - 23K
Jonathan “driverseati” Tamayo - 22K
Aditya “Intervention” Agarwal - 20K
Hung “HQrespect” Nguyen - 20k
Hung Nguyen - 20K
Leo “Superfluous Man” Wolpert - 17.5K
Adam “Roothlus” Levy - 16K
Jerry “sandler1860″ Payne - 14K
Chris “cmoney3″ Kline - 9.5K

• July 6, 2008 -- BadBeatNinja Disappears Into the Night
• July 9, 2008 -- Dreams Dashed or Doubled Up?
• June 19, 2008 -- Bowker Goes Busto
• June 28, 2008 -- No Way, Jose!

Jordan “Octavian_C” Rich felt the excruciating pain of a one-outer in the past hour. At the 150/300 level, a player in early position limped and Rich (pictured left) raised to 1300 in middle position. It folded to the big blind, who reraised to 3,000 and Rich made the call after the limper folded. The flop brought AJ5 and both players checked. The turn was the 7 and the big blind checked to Rich, who bet 3,300. He was then check-raised all in for 6500 more and made the call with AQ, which had the big blind’s KK drawing to one card in the deck. Sure enough, the K appeared on the river and Rich leaped out of his seat in disgust. He was left with 14K after the hand.

 Justin “truesyalose” Trusdell, who had been sending chips over to David Singer earlier in the day, just shipped more to Steve Jelinek. Jelinek raised to 900 on the button and Truesdell called in the big blind. The flop brought 952 and Truesdell led out for 1,100. Jelinek called and saw the A fall on the turn. Bother players checked and the river was the K. Truesdell bet 1,500 and Jelinek raised to 6,500. Truesdell stared him down for a minute, asking the player if he had the nuts or nothing, and finally folded to cut his stack down to 13.5K.

Keven “Stammdogg” Stammen had quite a wild ride during this level; when we caught up with him before last break, his chip count had soared to 42K.  However, when we went back to the Brasilia Room to check on his play, he sat with only 3.5K in chips in front of him.  Though he was down, Keven was definitely not out as he played aggressively and was unafraid to put all his chips in the middle.  In one hand, from middle position, he pushed his whole stack in the middle and the action folded around to him.  The very next hand, Keven again pushed all his chips out and got a call from the small blind for all 4,350 of his chips.  Keven flipped KQ to his opponent’s JJ, but the board ran out K7629 and he doubled up to nearly 10K.  Still short, Keven was still looking to make a move, but a lot more comfortable in the meantime.

Ezra Galston got a double up at his table when he and another player got it all-in preflop with Galston holding AK to his opponent’s AJ.  The board ran out QT449 and shot Ezra’s stack up to 34K.  Adam “Roothlus” Levy (pictured right) also picked up a few chips without having to go to showdown in a hand where he picked up pocket kings. With the blinds at 100/200 a player raised to 700 and Adam flat called in the cut off and the big blind called as well.  The flop came 9-7-5 rainbow and it checked around to Levy who bet out 1.4K.  The big blind folded and the initial raiser flat called.  Adam told us after the fact that he was afraid his opponent may have flopped a set on him, but when the K hit on the turn his hand improved vastly, but also put two spades on the board.  The other player bet out 2.1K and Levy raised to 6K.  His opponent thought before folding what he claimed was pocket queens and Adam took down the pot.  He currently sits with 23K.

We also caught up with Matt “mattg1983″ Graham, who had a story for us. Graham raised to 750 with A-Q and a woman in seat one made the call. A player in seat 6 then moved all in for more than 11,000. Graham, fearing only the woman behind him, laid the hand down and the woman called with a pair of tens. The “idiot” who moved all in, as Graham referred to him, had K-Q and was eliminated when his hand failed to improve. Matt then said that if he had called he would have been sent packing, as the woman admitted she would have called Graham’s all in as well and would have made a set of tens to trump Graham’s pair of aces. Nice laydown, sir.

Here are the chip counts of some notable P5ers midway through Level 3:

Sorel “Imper1um” Mizzi - 67k
Brian Devonshire - 54k
Tom “werpennstate23″ Cummings - 50.5K
Darren Elias - 50K
Tony “tongni” Rivera - 50k
David “Bakes” Baker - 47.5K
David “Raptor517″ Benefield - 44k
Jason “JCarver” Somerville - 41k
Kyle “thetruth503″ Zartman - 38K
Carter “ckingusc” King - 35K
Jared “TheWacoKidd” Hamby - 33K
Justin “zeejustin” Bonomo - 29k
David “Davidp18″ Peters - 26k
Eric “basebaldy” Baldwin - 26k
Leo “SuperFluous Man” Wolpert - 23k
Joseph “WSOPJoe” May - 23K
Court Harrington - 22.5K
Jon Wein - 22K
Gary “GB2005″ Bogdanski - 18k
Jamie “pokerjamers” Armstrong - 17K
Scott “SCTrojans” Freeman - 12K
Amit “amak316″ Makhija - 12K

Out: Chad “lilholdem954″ Batista, Vivek “psyduck” Rajkumar, Scott “gunning4you” Seiver

• June 25, 2008 -- Pocket Fives No Good to Graham
• June 26, 2008 -- Treacherous Tables in Rebuy
• July 6, 2008 -- BadBeatNinja Disappears Into the Night
• July 5, 2008 -- Main Event Day 1c!