Event 25 - $2,500 Omaha/Seven Card Stud Hi/Lo 8-or-better Day 1 | 2009 World Series of Poker

Level: 6

Blinds: 0/0

Ante: 0

06-11-2009 18:32 UTC-12

Flack Warns Opponent He's Hit, Still Wins Tidy Pot

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Layne Flack just won a few thousand in the Omaha hi-low. He saw a flop of {4-Clubs}

in position against one player, who check-called his bet which he made while saying, "That's a good flop."

The turn brought the {Q-Diamonds}

and the same check-bet-call combo.

On the {K-Clubs}

river once again Flack elicited one bet, but his opponent mucked when he saw his {A-Spades}

x x and therefore rivered second nuts.

Tags: Layne Flack

06-11-2009 18:28 UTC-12

Stud L-unkind to Vitaly

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Vitaly Lunkin - no more bracelets for him today

Vitaly Lunkin is busto after a 10k+ pot brewed between himself and two other players in Stud 8-or-better.

I was attracted to his table by the magic words, "Player all in," and found Lunkin with the rest of his pretty short stack in the middle and Eric Buchman on his immediate left contemplating a raise. He did so, and picked up a third player, creating a side pot. At this stage:

Lunkin: [XX] {3-Spades}

Buchman: [XX] {8-Diamonds}

Third Guy: [XX] {8-Spades}

Lunkin received the {8-Hearts}

on sixth, while Buchman picked up the {J-Hearts}

and the third player the {A-Spades}

. Buchman bet 600 into the side pot, and got a call.

At the river, Lunkin's two pair (he held {3-Clubs}

down) was no good against Buchman's straight and seven low (his hand in full [ {A-Clubs}

]

)and this was good, in fact, for this whole juicy pot. Buchman up to nearly 20k.

Tags: Eric Buchman Vitaly Lunkin

06-11-2009 18:19 UTC-12

Brown Green

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It looks like Chad Brown is having a bit of a rough time of it. He's just been moved table, but is sitting like a man with the weight of the world on his shoulders - or the weight of food poisoning with which he reckons he might have been struck. Very unlucky if this rumour is true, as they've got to make it until 3am if they want to continue their Omaha/Stud hi-low bracelet contention tomorrow...

Tags: Chad Brown

06-11-2009 18:11 UTC-12

Chi-no Fear of Negreanu

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Negreanu: Masseuse, pillow and water accessories sold separately

Daniel Negreanu and Chino Rheem together make a pretty railbird-friendly table. They clashed just now in Stud 8-or-better with Rheem making the final bet on the river which Negreanu called.

Rheem showed his hand: [ {K-Spades}

]

and Negreanu mucked his [XXX] {2-Clubs}

.

Negreanu is now on 9,000, while Rheem is comfortably over 11,000.

Tags: Chino Rheem Daniel Negreanu

06-11-2009 18:00 UTC-12

There Was Something in the Air That Night, Lisandro

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If he had to do the same again, he would, my friend, Lisandro

ABBA aside, there's definitely a lot of action involving Jeff Lisandro's stack. He was one of, if not the chip leader after two levels, but the pre-dinner break period pretty much halved his stack back to its starting level.

Undeterred, he's now receiving what looks like a pretty full-on elbow-based massage and continuing to play pots with no appearance of frustration. Just now he took one down on the river in Stud hi-low against Joe Serock. Lisandro check-called fourth and fifth streets and their hands looked like this:

Lisandro: [XX] {5-Spades}

Serock: [XX] {8-Hearts}

The betting ceased at this point, with both players checking sixth and after a brief pause, the final card. Serock seemed reluctant to turn his hand, and when Lisandro flipped over his {4-Diamonds}

it was enough to ship the whole pot his way.

Tags: Jeff Lisandro Joe Serock

06-11-2009 17:48 UTC-12

Chips and Who Has Them

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Hopefully including all requests, please find below a chip count selected from the remaining 335 participants in the Omaha/Stud hi low event:

David Singer - 10,000
Chip Jett - 6,500
Jennifer Harman - 13,000
Todd Brunson - 1,500
Brett Richey - 7,200
Esther Taylor - 10,500
Shawn Sheikhan - 15,000
Brett Jungblut - 2,000
Shannon Shorr - 7,000
Shannon Elizabeth - 2,700
Layne Flack - 7,500
Mike Matusow - 4,000
Justin Young - 7,300
Barry Greenstein - 3,000
Erick Lindgren - 4,000
Cyndy Violette - 7,500
Phil Ivey - 7,000
Bill Chen - 7,000
Sam Khouiss - 4,500
Linda Johnson - 2,200
Carol Kline - 11,625
Aurangzeb Sheikh - OUT
Jan Fisher - 5,800
Vitaly Lunkin - 8,800
Dario Minieri - 14,100
Sebastian Ruthenberg - 11,200
Allen Kessler - 5,975
Dario Alioto - 11,400
Jeff Madsen - 900
Michael Keiner - 11,300
Thor Hansen - 7,800
Katja Thater - 8,150
Joe Serock - 12,900
Jeff Lisandro - 7,900
Daniel Nicewander - 8,000
Michael Mizrachi - 24,000
Annie Duke - 12,000
Marcel Luske - 10,500
Amnon Filippi - OUT

Perry Friedman and Chris Ferguson were sharing table 245, but neither of them are at it now. I am assuming both are busto.

Level: 5

Blinds: 0/0

Ante: 0

06-11-2009 16:34 UTC-12

One Hour Dinner Break

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That's what it is right now. Back at 10:30pm local time to continue coverage of this most eclectic field, which will continue playing Omaha and Seven-card Stud eight-or-better all the way through until 3am.

06-11-2009 16:28 UTC-12

Reaching New Hoyt

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Hoyt Corkins just scooped a pot with queens up from an unknown opponent. He bet fourth and fifth street with his opponent calling until the boards looked like:

Corkins: [XX] {Q-Diamonds}

Opponent: [XX] {K-Spades}

At this point the betting sort of dried up, and it was checked along with the river. Corkins then showed {Q-Clubs}

and took the pot.

Tags: Hoyt Corkins