Amit “amak316″ Makhija’s table broke midway through Level 14 and quickly regretted even taking his seat. Just moments after getting his 32K chips stacked up, Makhija raised to 6K from under the gun and the button raised to 15K, leaving 17K behind. Amith moved all in and his opponent snap called. It was your typical K
K
versus A
A
situation and Makhija was on the short end of it. “This is a fun table,” Makhija said as he watched the board run out 4
4
3
J
J
. On his way out Amit told us he’d be playing Day 1d of the Main Event to give himself a break from poker and enjoy himself before the big show.
Vivek “psyduck” Rajkumar joined a table with Alexandre “allingomes” Gomes, Craig “MrCasino” Gray and Lauren “locoenlacabeza” Kling just before the dinner break and was there to witness Kling’s bustout. Down to her last 30K at 1.2K/2.4K, Kling raised to 10K on the button and the small blind moved all in, effectively putting Kling to a decison for her tournament life. Kling tanked for a minute before pushing her last 20K chips forward:
Kling: 6
5
Small Blind: A
A
The J
4
2
flop gave Kling some hope but the 4
turn and 9
river sent her to the rail. Also eliminated since the money bubble bursted were Kareck “K-Rock2525″ Terrell, Kyle “thetruth503″ Zartman, Bryan “bparis” Paris, Todd “NSXT2″ Arnold and Dean “StickyINC” Hamrick.
Andrew “tufat23″ Teng (pictured right) chipped up to 70K after knocking a player out in a button versus blind battle. The player moved all in for 22K on the button and Teng raised his arm and announced that he was all in some the small blind. The big blind folded and Teng’s A
9
was in a race situation against 4
4
. The 8
6
2
was dry for Teng but he took control when the A
landed on the turn. Teng is above the tournament average at the break.
Players have gone on a dinner break and will return at 7:30 p.m.
WSOP 2009 Event #56: $5K Six-handed NLHE
The players in the $5K NLHE six-max event have gone on dinner break. Here are the latest chip counts we have for the PocketFivers in the field:
Shannon Shorr – 95K
Sorel “Imper1um” Mizzi - 75K
Owen “ocrowe” Crowe – 65K
Tom “TitanTom32” Braband - 65K
Jonathan “FatalError” Aguiar - 60K
Steve “SteveyBallGame” Merrifield – 55K
Faraz “The-Toilet” Jaka – 55K (at right)
Shawn “sprstoner” Glines - 55K
David “Raptor517” Benefield – 50K
Jeff “ActionJeff” Garza – 50K
Shaun Deeb – 50K
David “DavidP18” Peters – 46K
Jon “apestyles” Van Fleet - 45K
Chad “lilholdem954″ Batista – 45K
Adam “Roothlus” Levy – 40K
Darryll “DFish” Fish – 40K
Yevgeniy “atimos” Timoshenko – 40K
Andy “BKiCe” Seth – 38K
Brent “BHanks11” Hanks – 37.5K
Allen “albari” Bari – 35K
Davidi “legrouzin” Kitai - 35K
Peter “Nordberg” Feldman – 33K
Blair “blur5f6” Hinkle – 33K
Nick “Grip” Grippo – 31K
Kevin “kice32″ Iacofano - 30K
Frank “Round42” Rusnak – 25K (at right)
Mohsin “chicagocards1” Charania – 25K
Shane “shaniac” Schleger - 25K
Lee “acumen53″ Childs – 24K
Tim “TMay420″ West – 24K
Steve “gboro780” Gross – 24K
Marco “CrazyMarco” Johnson – 22K
Seth “grtwhitehoop” Fischer - 19K
Jared “TheWacoKidd” Hamby – 18K
Christian “charder30” Harder – 17K
Craig “craigthedeac” Boyd – 9K
Eric “whitE_mAmbA” Ladny – 9K
- July 1, 2009 -- Jaka Gives and Jaka Takes Away
- July 2, 2009 -- Seth and Sheikh Silenced; Wheeler Gets 2nd
- July 2, 2009 -- Feldman Felts Foe with 2-7
- July 2, 2009 -- Brikdog Keeps Barking

