Event 37 - $10,000 Omaha Hi-Low World Championship Day 2 | 2008 World Series of Poker

06-20-2008 06:51 UTC-7

Day 2 Seat Assignments Announced

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Erick Lindgren starts Day 2 third in chips

Slightly more than half the field (123 of 235 players) remains alive after the first day's play in Event 37, $10,000 Omaha Hi-Low World Championship. The field is led overnight by Soheil Shamseddin, who finished Day 1 action with 115,000 in chips.

(Table 27)
Seat 1: David Sklansky – 22,300
Seat 2: Dan Harmetz – 55,500
Seat 3: Ray Dehkharghani – 65,300
Seat 4: Chris Ferguson – 3,300
Seat 5: Andrew Brown – 47,900
Seat 6: Matt Lefkowitz – 29,700
Seat 7: Samuel Hapak – 42,000
Seat 8: Roland DeWolfe – 69,400

(Table 28)
Seat 1: Mike Matusow – 47,000
Seat 2: Brad Booth – 79,900
Seat 3: Mark Roland – 30,100
Seat 5: Ben Sprengers – 50,600
Seat 6: Robert Stevanovski – 49,000
Seat 7: Tom Love – 25,800
Seat 8: David Benyamine – 30,200
Seat 9: Jeff Madsen – 67,200

(Table 29)
Seat 1: Daniel Alaei – 17,500
Seat 2: Stephen Ladowsky – 43,300
Seat 4: Robert Williamson III – 65,800
Seat 5: Steve Zolotow – 33,400
Seat 6: Antony Lellouche – 47,200
Seat 7: Danny Dang – 56,600
Seat 8: Stephen Pearce – 21,700
Seat 9: Chris Viox – 29,400

(Table 30)
Seat 1: Hoyt Corkins – 7,600
Seat 2: Thor Hansen – 44,000
Seat 3: Bart Hanson – 48,100
Seat 4: Martin Corpuz – 4,300
Seat 5: Bill Gazes – 17,900
Seat 6: Gabe Kaplan – 17,400
Seat 7: Mark Tenner – 7,300
Seat 8: Jay Heimowitz – 29,700
Seat 9: Andreas Krause – 26,600

(Table 31)
Seat 1: Gavin Smith – 50,100
Seat 2: Toto Leonidas – 37,900
Seat 3: Loi Tran – 20,000
Seat 4: Thang Nguyen – 30,700
Seat 5: Mark Dickstein – 15,300
Seat 6: Lonnie Heimowitz – 13,500
Seat 7: Erick Lindgren – 91,700
Seat 8: Hieu 'Tony' Ma – 79,400
Seat 9: Yueqi Zhu – 6,000

(Table 32)
Seat 1: Meng La – 76,800
Seat 2: Alex Kravchenko – 49,300
Seat 3: Danny Smith – 48,400
Seat 4: DR Kegel – 82,000
Seat 5: Dutch Boyd – 45,300
Seat 6: Scott Bohlman – 74,100
Seat 7: Tom Schneider – 4,400
Seat 8: Barry Greenstein – 23,500
Seat 9: Dustin Sitar – 27,800

(Table 33)
Seat 1: Carlos Mortensen – 7,400
Seat 2: Shirley Rosario – 42,400
Seat 3: Jeff Burdsall – 74,800
Seat 4: David Chiu – 57,800
Seat 5: Mike Baxter – 21,500
Seat 6: Greg Raymer – 10,700
Seat 7: Eugene Katchalov – 44,500
Seat 8: Marcel Bedard – 29,100
Seat 9: Pat Pezzin – 5,600

(Table 34)
Seat 1: Jim Grove – 63,800
Seat 2: Cap Wan – 20,400
Seat 3: Justin Phillips – 13,500
Seat 4: Matt Graham – 37,800
Seat 5: Doyle Brunson – 26,900
Seat 6: Steven Ware – 34,300
Seat 7: Gary Lent – 38,800
Seat 8: Bruno Fitoussi – 84,600
Seat 9: Dan Shak – 16,200

(Table 35)
Seat 1: Brett Jungblut – 30,800
Seat 2: James Van Alstyne – 30,200
Seat 3: Shannon Elizabeth – 34,900
Seat 4: William McMahon – 52,400
Seat 5: Jamie Pickering – 50,000
Seat 6: Berry Johnston – 32,300
Seat 7: John Hanson – 37,300
Seat 8: John Hennigan – 19,100
Seat 9: Chris Reslock – 55,400

(Table 36)
Seat 1: Kirill Gerasimov – 17,200
Seat 2: Max Pescatori – 25,800
Seat 3: Ralph Perry – 21,700
Seat 4: Erik Seidel – 36,400
Seat 5: Farzad Bonyadi – 28,000
Seat 6: John Juanda – 20,400
Seat 7: Soheil Shamseddin – 115,000
Seat 8: Chris Bjorin – 37,400
Seat 9: Greg Jamison – 53,900

(Table 37)
Seat 1: Annie Duke – 83,700
Seat 2: James DiGiorgio – 92,800
Seat 3: Jason Gray – 69,300
Seat 4: Ram Vaswani – 46,300
Seat 5: Marc Goodwin – 6,700
Seat 6: Van Marcus – 45,800
Seat 7: Patrick Rao – 63,800
Seat 8: Nikolay Evdakov – 26,000
Seat 9: Jared Davis – 28,300

(Table 38)
Seat 1: Karen Longfellow – 52,100
Seat 2: Daniel Negreanu – 14,900
Seat 3: Johnny Chan – 8,600
Seat 4: Spencer Lawrence – 15,400
Seat 5: Hasan Habib – 8,300
Seat 6: Men Nguyen – 29,300
Seat 7: Jennifer Harman – 35,000
Seat 8: Mel Judah – 42,800
Seat 9: John Monnette – 16,500

(Table 39)
Seat 1: Brent Carter – 39,900
Seat 2: John Guth – 30,000
Seat 3: Shun Uchida – 51,500
Seat 4: Chau Giang – 84,700
Seat 5: Stuart Paterson – 35,900
Seat 6: Joe Cassidy – 33,400
Seat 7: Tony Cousineau – 5,000
Seat 8: Ted Lawson – 47,100
Seat 9: Brian Haack – 22,600

(Table 40)
Seat 1: Markus Golser – 21,600
Seat 2: Chris Falconer – 28,600
Seat 3: Bob Slezak – 65,400
Seat 4: Alexander Kostritsyn – 30,700
Seat 5: Rafi Amit – 23,200
Seat 6: Mike Henrich – 30,500
Seat 7: Vegard Nygaard – 14,400
Seat 8: Huck Seed – 57,500
Seat 9: Senovio Ramirez – 47,500

Play resumes at 3pm today at the Rio Convention Center. PokerNews will be on hand with the latest updates.

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06-20-2008 14:54 UTC-7

Players Taking Their Seats

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The players are currently taking their seats and unbagging their chips in preparation for the day's play. We'll be underway in a few moments time.

Level: 9

Blinds: 800/1,500

Ante: 0

06-20-2008 15:03 UTC-7

Shuffle Up and Deal

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Cards are in the air, doing the acrobatic dances that cards in the air do.

06-20-2008 15:16 UTC-7

Daniel Negreanu Eliminated

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Daniel Negreanu chopped an early pot with Jennifer Harman before getting his short stack in preflop against Hasan Habib and Men "The Master" Nguyen.

The board ran out {10-Clubs}

as Nguyen showed {2-Clubs}

for a small flush to collect the high while Habib showed {5-Clubs}

for the nut low. Negreanu mucked his cards and headed to the exit.

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06-20-2008 15:17 UTC-7

Matusow Ribbing Ferguson

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The following conversation just occurred between Mike Matusow, Jeff Madsen, and Chris Ferguson.

Matusow: "Chris, we're a bit worried that you are losing your luster. I mean a 2nd and a 3rd?"

Madsen: "The old Chris Ferguson would have won both."

Ferguson: "Don't lose faith yet."

Matusow: "I haven't. I know I'll have to win another because you'll at least have another 2nd."

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06-20-2008 15:20 UTC-7

Greg Raymer Eliminated

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Greg Raymer has been eliminated from today's event.

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06-20-2008 15:24 UTC-7

Reslock Moves Up in Chips

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Chris Reslock was involved in a three way pot that included Berry Johnston. Johnston raised from the button preflop and was called by Reslock and an under the gun opponent. On a flop of {A-Spades}

, Reslock bet out and was called by both opponents. When the turn card of the {2-Spades}

hit, Reslock bet out again and only the under the gun opponent called. On the river of the {2-Diamonds}

, Reslock bet out and was called. Reslock showed {Q-Clubs}

for deuces full and his opponent mucked.

After the hand, Reslock is up to 72,000 in chips.

Tags: Chris Reslock

06-20-2008 15:30 UTC-7

The Resurrection of Jesus

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Roland de Wolfe opened with a limp and Dan Harmetz limped along on the button. Ray Dehkharghani completed from the small blind before Chris Ferguson raised it up from the big blind. His three opponents all made the call.

They took a flop of {7-Hearts}