In one corner of the Amazon room, the guns were a-blazing between Tim “tmay420″ West (pictured at right) and John Juanda. As PocketFivesLive reported earlier, West was outchipped by Juanda 8:1 but managed to slowly build his stack. When we met up again with the heads-up match that determines the final seat of tomorrow’s shootout table, West was bullying Juanda through plenty of steals and re-raises. After three hours of heads-up play, the tournament director announced that they would be coloring up and taking a twenty-minute break. On the final hand before the break, West called a preflop bet by Juanda and the board flopped TJK. Juanda bet again and met a call from West. The turn card came the 9. Juanda checked to West, who bet 40K. Juanda folded and his stack slipped to 320K, while West increased his stack to 280K.

After the break, the blinds increased to 5K/10K with an ante of 1K. Only a few hands into the new level, Juanda raised to 25K from the small blind. West went all-in and Juanda called, showing A9. West flipped over the AT and the flop brought him two tens and he became a huge favorite. The turn was 5 and the river the A, improving his hand to a full house. The next hand was a coinflip all-in for Juanda and West flopped a pair of queens to win him the table. Plenty of PocketFivers were spotted railing West’s big win, including Adam “Roothlus” Levy, who is rumored to have more than a friendly interest in his West’s play. The tournament will continue tomorrow at 2PM PST, when West takes on Sirous Jamshidi, Greg “FBT” Mueller, Thomas Roupe, Phil Tom, and Leo “Superfluous Man” Wolpert.

Event #10’s $2.5K Omaha/Seven Card Stud Hi-Low 8 or Better challenge came to a close this evening when Farzad Rouhani won in a heads-up match against Tom Chambers. Rouhani takes home the bracelet, $232,911, and major bragging rights.

There are still notable online players as far as the eye can see in the Event #13 $2.5K NLHE field. This far-from-comprehensive list of chip counts gives you some idea of the players remaining in the field:

Scott “SCTrojans” Freeman - 50K
Brent “bhanks11″ Hanks - 40K
Court Harrington - 35K
Jared “TheWacoKidd” Hamby - 32.5K
Thayer Rasmussen - 30K
Craig “MrCasino” Gray - 28K
Phil “USCPhildo” Collins - 26K
Chad “lilholdem954″ Batista - 23K
Matt “Mattster24″ Sterling - 22K
Richard “Lee Nickel” Forhenbach - 21K
Bryan Micon - 16K
Jason Gray - 14K
Jason “jp osu” Potter - 14K

Carl “colson10″ Olson was recently eliminated when he was short stacked and moved all in under the gun with 66. He was called by the player in the small blind who held KK, the board was no help, and he was eliminated midway through Level 8.

Meanwhile, in Event #14, the $10K stud championship, Jordan “Octavian_C” Rich and Justin Bonomo are holding their own against some stiff competition. Bonomo and his fellow Bodog teammate, David Williams, are seated on either side of the dealer at their table, while Rich is playing with Daniel Negreanu, Phil Hellmuth, David Grey, and Ming Ly. Jordan’s headphones have come in particularly handy for the event.

• June 8, 2008 -- Bubble Bursts in $2.5K NLHE Event
• June 8, 2008 -- Babes in Pokerland
• October 1, 2008 -- One Level, 6 Players Down
• September 30, 2008 -- Juanda, Negreanu, Boosted J Lead The Way into Day 4