Event 18 - $10,000 World Championship Omaha Hi/Lo 8-or-better Day 2 | 2009 World Series of Poker

06-08-2009 11:08 UTC-12

Early Eliminations

[user66118]

As we tick down toward the first break, there is a veritable plethora of notables who've met their demise already today. They include:

Michael Binger
Thang Luu
Scotty Nguyen
Mike Sexton
Farzad Bonyadi
Erick Lindgren
Dan Shak
Lee Markholt
Doyle Brunson
Nick Schulman
Brandon Cantu
Max Pescatori
John Juanda
Perry Friedman
David Steicke
Bill Edler
Freddy Deeb

06-08-2009 11:10 UTC-12

Tom Tumbles

MarcC

Phil Tom raised from early position before Simon Kearney three bet and both he and Steve Zolotow called. On the {K-Hearts}

Tom lead out, Kearney raised it up, and Zolotow folded before Tom called all in.

Tom opened {A-Spades}

to Kearney's {A-Hearts}

. The turn came {J-Spades}

and river

and Tom is out of here.

Tags: Phil Tom

06-08-2009 11:10 UTC-12

Break It Up

[user66118]

We've reached the end of level 10, and the players are taking a 20-minute break.

Level: 11

Blinds: 1,300/2,500

Ante: 0

06-08-2009 11:27 UTC-12

Cards are Back in the Air

MarcC

06-08-2009 11:34 UTC-12

Table Talk

[user66118]

Mike Matusow and Mike Wattel.

Matusow: "Mikey, how you doing?"
Wattel: "Thirty-five."
Matusow: "Right in your wheelhouse."
Wattel: "Yeah."
Matusow: "I'm not in mine."
Wattel: "Ah, you've got some chippers?"
Matusow: "Yeah. Eighty-two."

Tags: Mike Matusow Mike Wattel

06-08-2009 11:44 UTC-12

"I'm drawing so thin"

MarcC

Linda Johnson and Daniel Negreanu just went heads-up which ended with the demise of one of them. The turn had been dealt before Johnson was all in with {A-Spades}

.

"Oh, I'm drawing so thin," Negeanu mused as he opened {A-Hearts}

after calling.

Not thin enough though for Johnson, as the river came down {10-Diamonds}

to eliminate the first lady of poker.

06-08-2009 11:45 UTC-12

Eliminations Await

[user66118]

Our Table of Doom has just been broken, scattering those players through the field like a toxic mist. Just glancing out across the tables, Table 89 might be the new front runner for toughest in the room.

Seat 1: Soheil Shamseddin
Seat 2: Matt Glantz
Seat 3: Scott Bohlman
Seat 4: Eric Crain
Seat 5: Phil Hellmuth
Seat 6: John Hennigan
Seat 7: Alex Kravchenko
Seat 8: Robert Mizrachi
Seat 9: Chino Rheem

06-08-2009 11:59 UTC-12

So Farha So Bad

MarcC

Jason Gray raised from mid-position and got calls from Allen Kessler, Jim Geary, and Sammy Farha in the SB. The flop came {K-Hearts}

before Farha bet and was called by all three opponents. Farha tried again on the {Q-Clubs}

turn and only Gray hung around for the {J-?}

river.

Farha led out for a third time and Gray raised him. Very surprisingly, Farha folded, leaving himself with just 4,400 chips. Gray up to 72,500.

Tags: Sammy Faha