Today marks the second day of the 2008 PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) Main Event. Play on Sunday night stopped when there were 60 people remaining. Perched atop the leader board at the end of Day 1 was august35, who held 3.8 million chips. Right behind him is PocketFiver Cobra234, who is in second place with 2.38 million chips. The number two ranked player on PocketFives.com, Alex AJKHoosier1 Kamberis, is fifth in chips with 2.18 million. All told, there are 25 PocketFivers among the 60 players remaining in the field, which means that members of the online poker community make up 42% of the players left in the WCOOP Main Event. Play resumes at 4:30pm ET today.

Cobra234 hails from Denmark. He’s fresh off a third place in the Super Tuesday on PokerStars in July. In that tournament, he cashed for $40,170. Last month, he finished 12th in the Sunday Warm-Up for $4,800. Also in July, he made the final table of the $100 rebuy on PokerStars, finishing fifth and cashing for $3,581. Cobra234 logged a cash in the seventh event of the 2008 WCOOP, a $215 Pot Limit Omaha Six-Max tournament with a $300,000 guarantee. He enters the final table holding 2.38 million chips, trailing the chip leader by about 1.4 million.

Alex AJKHoosier1 Kamberis is ranked second in the PocketFives Online Poker Rankings and is first in the Pro Poll. In July, he placed second in the Full Tilt Poker $1 Million Guaranteed, cashing for $135,000. He won the $150K Weekly on Absolute Poker in the same month for $37,500. Two weeks ago, Kamberis won the $150 buy-in $40,000 Guaranteed on Full Tilt Poker, pocketing $31,000. In tournaments that are tracked for the PocketFives.com Rankings, he banked $86,000 in August. During the 2008 World Series of Poker, Kamberis finished 34th in a $5,000 No Limit Hold’em event, taking home $16,147.

Here’s how PocketFivers stand headed into the WCOOP’s final day:
2nd Place: cobra234, 2.38 million
5th Place: AJKHoosier1, 2.18 million
7th Place: klslcz, 1.82 million
10th Place: Cool_Mo_Dee, 1.38 million
12th Place: Sumpas, 1.16 million
13th Place: CastorTr0y, 1.14 million
16th Place: cpfactor, 1.04 million
19th Place: Ship Happens, 978,000
21st Place: lucky_aces08, 952,000
22nd Place: austinlewis, 910,000
23rd Place: charder, 902,000
28th Place: daut44, 793,000
29th Place: ckingusc, 789,000
32nd Place: Michnak, 708,000
35th Place: whitE_mAmbA, 642,000
36th Place: Panamatony, 637,000
37th Place: Hixx, 608,000
43rd Place: ElkY, 482,000
44th Place: sandler1860, 475,000
46th Place: therobbob20 446,000
47th Place: JoeBlazenyc, 431,000
49th Place, kudos1017, 427,000
53rd Place: Dr.Greentumb, 399,000
54th Place: anonymous_fish, 372,000
56th Place: kovi99, 344,000

Besides Kamberis, the only other ranked PocketFiver left in the WCOOP Main Event is charder, who sits at #50 on PocketFives. He won the Pot Limit Omaha WCOOP Second Chance tournament for $23,000 and then finished as the runner up in the No Limit Hold’em Six-Handed WCOOP Second Chance for another $18,500. He finished second in the UltimateBet $200,000 Guaranteed last week for $27,000. In May, he won the $100 rebuy on PokerStars for $33,990. In tournaments that count for the PocketFives Rankings, he banked $65,000 last month.

Bertrand ElkY Grospellier and Ryan Daut44 Daut are two former PokerStars Caribbean Adventure winners and PocketFivers left in the field. Grospellier won the 2008 PCA for $2 million and is a proud member of Team PokerStars Pro. He’s coming off a tournament in Macau and has been busy competing in the World Series of Poker Europe in addition to the virtual felts of PokerStars. Daut won the 2007 PCA for $1.5 million, defeating Isaac Haxton heads-up.

Here are the expected payouts for the final nine players:
1st Place: $1,775,312
2nd Place: $1,311,000
3rd Place: $941,735
4th Place: $633,650
5th Place: $524,400
6th Place: $415,150
7th Place: $305,900
8th Place: $196,650
9th Place: $121,267

Come rail your fellow PocketFivers today on PokerStars. They’ll need your support. Good luck to the 25 members of the community competing.