The $10,000 buy-in World Championship of Pot Limit Omaha enters its final day of play at the 2009 World Series of Poker (WSOP). Plagued by color-up issues on Sunday, the event still has 25 players remaining out of the 295 that began play. At the top of the leaderboard is a familiar face, PocketFiver Noah fouruhaters Schwartz, who holds a healthy stack of 1.2 million entering today’s action, double the tally of his next closest competitor. It marks an impressive lead for the Miami native, who already final tabled the $40,000 buy-in No Limit Hold’em tournament commemorating the 40th running of the WSOP. PocketFivesLive.com, which provides WSOP coverage of online poker players, has been on the scene inside the Rio following every turn of the card.

The 25 players left are no slackers, either. Besides Schwartz being perched with a commanding chip lead, Event #40 also features poker pros Josh Arieh, Padraig Parkinson, Howard Lederer, Chau Giang, Vitaly Lunkin, and Nenad Medic. Schwartz built his lead in part by being aggressive and knocking out players left and right. One of his late victims was Edward Ochana, who was all-in holding A-Q-J-10 for top two pair on a flop of A-10-3. Schwartz, however, showed A-A-8-6 for trips. Schwartz’s hand held, sending the PocketFiver over the one million chip mark.

PocketFivesLive.com Tournament Reporter Rachel Crader, who has been on the scene in the Amazon Room to watch Schwartz’s Pot Limit Omaha domination, explained, “Schwartz got short-stacked early on Day One of the tournament, but he's been sporting a big stack and pushing people around ever since. ‘Pot’ is a word he's gotten familiar with and I'd expect that to continue as long as he's in the field.” Lederer, Lunkin, and Chang will all flank him at Table 154 to open play this afternoon. Other PocketFivers who remain in the hunt for the gold bracelet and $679,000 first place prize include Barry barryg1 Greenstein (467,000), Matt plattsburgh Vengrin (389,000, pictured at left), and Matt mattg1983 Graham (586,000).

In Event #39 of the 2009 WSOP, a $1,500 buy-in No Limit Hold’em tournament, Shawn sprstoner Glines (pictured at right) holds the seventh largest stack overall at 510,000. The entire field trails Michele Iacovone, who will come armed to Monday’s play with 1.6 million. Glines dropped a massive pot with pocket aces against Zac traction Gilbert, who held queens, and Kevin ImaLucSac MacPhee, who held A-Q of spades. The flop came king-high with two spades; another spade on the river gave MacPhee a flush. However, Glines’ wild ride continued when he doubled up with A-J against A-K after flopping a jack. Joining him at Table 150 today are Joe Bartholdi and PocketFiver Alex alexjacob Jacob. Also in the hunt is Mohsin chicagocards1 Charania, who owns a stack of 471,000.

In the $2,000 buy-in Limit Hold’em event (#38), Alex Kadabra Keating (pictured at left) earned $39,000 for his fifth place finish. He was ousted on the losing end of a race holding A-K against eventual tournament winner Marc Naalden’s pocket fives. The board ran out 8-7-Q-2-9, providing no help to the PocketFiver in his first WSOP final table appearance. PocketFivesLive.com Tournament Reporter Jessica Welman commented, “Keating claims he isn't much of a Limit player, but after watching him play over the past three days, it seems to me that he is either lying or has a good feel for the game. He managed to get hot at the right time in order to surge to his first WSOP final table and should be proud of his performance.”

Grabbing third place in Event #38 was PocketFiver Ian Ian J Johns (pictured at right), who raked in $77,000 for his efforts. Johns is a former WSOP bracelet winner, having taken down a $3,000 buy-in Limit Hold’em event during the 2006 WSOP for $291,000. Johns’ quest for a second gold bracelet came to an end when both Naalden and Steven Cowley called the PocketFiver’s all-in and checked down the action on an A-2-7-9-3 board with three clubs. Naalden’s 3-6 of clubs for a baby flush was enough to take down the pot. Welman noted, “After winning a bracelet in Limit in 2006 and making it to the final table once again this year, I think he is getting up there with Brock t soprano Parker and several other online Limit players in terms of his impressive track record and reputation.”

So far, members of the online poker community have earned $13.5 million and 10 WSOP bracelets. We’re a little more than one week out from Main Event, which kicks off on July 3rd with the first of four starting days. Visit PocketFivesLive.com for the latest from the 2009 WSOP.