Full Tilt Pro Amanda “MandyB” Baker’s (pictured right) tear continues in the $1K NLHE event. She is continuing to chip up, knocking out players left and right in the process. Granted, the hand we caught involved a player who was left with only two big blinds at the start of the hand, but we’ll share it with you nonetheless: With the blinds at 4K/8K ante 1K it folded to Mandy on the button, more than enough to put the short stacked small blind all-in.  The big blind called the raise as well and the three players saw a flop of K84.  The big blind checked and Mandy’s 25K flop bet was enough to get him to fold.  She showed A-3 for ace high, which was actually behind the small blind’s 4-5 for bottom pair.  The turn was the T and Mandy managed to spike an A of the river to win the small pot and build her stack to 460K.

Jamie “pokerjamers” Armstrong and Dan Heimiller, who is seated on Armstrong’s immediate right, tangled in a big hand a little while ago in which both players displayed their penchant for preflop aggression.  Armstrong raised to 19K from late position and Heimiller reraised to 52K total.  Jamie deliberated for a bit before moving all-in for 140K more.  Heimiller tanked for what felt like several minutes as a crowd gathered around the table.

“I just don’t know how you play,” Heimiller said.  “There aren’t a lot of people I fold this hand to.”  He then turned up A-K off suit and Jamie raked the big pot, increasing his stack to 288K.

Justin “jurollo” Rollo also increases his stack during the past hour.  After getting as low as 70K, Rollo managed to double up to stay alive when he shoved all-in holding A-5.  He was called by a player holding A-K, but in Justin’s words he, “instabinked a 5 on the flop,” to take the pot and double up to 161K.

Steve “time4badbeat” Wagner (pictured at left) was less successful in his attempt to double up.  He got it all-in preflop with A-Q against A-K and failed to catch up.  Meanwhile, Mark “utterczar” Utterbach couldn’t get his hand to hold.  We missed the action on the hand, but he was eliminated when his pocket pair of nines were no match for his opponent’s flopped set of fives.  Brandon “bgitty” Garrity also busted out in the past hour after getting crippled in a hand and battling with a short stack.

Here are some other chip counts as the field shrinks to under 100 players.  Play will continue until 3AM PT and the remaining players will return tomorrow to play down to a champion:

Jack “doctor_fun” Powell - 190K
Russell “rcrane082985″ Crane - 180K
Jonathan “FatalError” Aguiar - 150K
Shaundle “CrAzYSiXeS66″ Pruitt - 90K

WSOP EVENT #5: $1.5K PLO

With 20 minutes left in the final level of the night, the floor manager announced that the tournament would be played down to the money rather than finish the day at the end of Level 10. Eighty-five players were still alive at that point, with the top 81 getting paid, and a handful were in crisis mode with less than 5K chips.

Eighteen minutes later the bubble burst and play was halted with a handful of P5ers making a guaranteed $2,761. Here’s a look at the official chip counts we got as players made their way out of the Amazon Room:

Jason Mercier (pictured right)- 227K
Matt “mattg1983″ Graham - 66K
Matt “All In At 420″ Stout - 19.5K
Darryl “GoPhish” Dauenhauer - 19.4K
Jeff “yellowsub” Williams - 14K
Tim “tmay420″ West - 12K

Players will return tomorrow at 2:00 and play down to the final nine. The winner of Wednesday’s final table will take home more than $237,000.

• June 2, 2009 -- Quad Aces Beat “treysfull”
• June 2, 2009 -- Luckless Level Nine
• June 5, 2009 -- Rollo, King eliminated from $2K NLHE event
• June 2, 2009 -- Stretch Armstrong