The shortstacks have been battling it out for survival with mixed results.

Joseph Haddad's chips have been in and out of the middle more often than a hokey cokey dancer, but so far his short stack ninja skills have been effective as he dodged elimination long enough to see this!

Wright Off (OUT - 8th)

Larry Wright  is the latest casualty of the fast paced opening. He moved his microstack of $17,000 in against Kastle but was way too short to ever make him fold and once Kastle had made the nut flush with A 4, there was little doubt Wright's number was up. 

Larry Wright is OUT, eliminated in 8th spot, winning $27,027. 

I've Haddad Enough! (OUT - 7th)

As explained Joseph Haddad had dodged the bullet multiple times, but his luck could only hold so long.

His exit hand was unfortunate however.

He got his stack in preflop with  A A 4 2 for a very strong two way hand, whilst the man who gave him action Martin Klaser could only table the weak looking A T 5 3.

He looked primed for a double up, until the dealer laid out a cruel 2 5 4 making Klaser the nuts. Klaser fist pumped in victory to the crowd at what was a very fortunate, but very dominant flopped wheel straight, good for the high and the low.

It wasn't all over yet for Haddad though as any two, four or ace would bring salvation in the form of a split, but there was to be no re-suck and instead we lose our 7th placed competitor.

Joseph Haddad is OUT, eliminated in 7th place, winning $34,389 for his hard work.

As the players head into a short 20 minute hiatus, here are the current chip counts , courtesy of worldseriesofpoker.com. They will return 6 handed.

Pot Limit O8 can be a slow game, but sometimes, in the right atmosphere, it can really be an aggressive supercharged game of cards and today, it seems like the ingredients are there for an all-action no holds barred face off.

We've already witnessed some exciting developments.

Here's the latest.

Chambers Of Horrors (OUT - 9th)

Tom Chambers popped it up to $35,000 preflop and Casey Kastle, who had already picked up a few small pots, made the call from the big blind.

The two players went heads up to the flop, which came A K Q.

Check, check was the exciting action precipated by this.

The turn was the 3 and now things really did kick off!

Now the fireworks really did start, Kastle lighting the fuse by counting out a pot size bet of $75,000, only to see Chambers put his fingers behind his remaining chips and push them over the line!

$138,000 more chips for Kastle to call, which would have left him short with $100,000 if he called and lost.

Eventually after much soul searching and finger gesturing...HE CALLED!

Cards on their backs, Chambers showed down a set of aces in A K A 9 whilst Kastle had the nut low draw, a gutshot wheel draw and a 7 high flush draw in 7 7 4 2.

A potentially crucial $450,000 pot was brewing and the oh so important river was ...the 6!

Kastle had made his low and also a flush to scoop the pot and propel him into the chip lead, meaning Tom Chambers is OUT, eliminated in 9th spot, winning $19,656.

As it stands there are several short stacks on the edge of elimination, and we will likely be facing elimination shortly barring some lucky double ups.

Here are the current standings, courtesy of worldseriesofpoker.com.