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

06-11-2009 19:33 UTC-12

20 Minute Race-off Break

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After one player per table briefly gets the pleasure of owning all the green chips on there, he gets them raced off. Everyone now on a break for 20 minutes.

Level: 7

Blinds: 0/0

Ante: 0

06-11-2009 20:00 UTC-12

The Lady and the Ivey

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Phil Ivey: Stack looked better pre-colour up

An unidentified as yet lady player just boosted a shortish Phil Ivey up to 7k in an Omaha hi-low hand...

She check-called all the way to the river, first off on the {A-Spades}

flop, then on the {8-Hearts}

turn, then finally on the {4-Hearts}

river.

She showed {A-Hearts}

Ivey showed {A-Clubs}

for the flush and the 6 low.

Tags: Phil Ivey

06-11-2009 20:08 UTC-12

Heart but No Hearts for Leonidas

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Toto Leonidas is up to 16k after winning an early level 7 pot. Threeway until the turn - the board {J-Hearts}

- the small blind checked, big blind Leonidas bet, and button Nikolay Evdakov only called. Now heads up, the {7-Hearts}

river brought another check from Leonidas, and another bet from Evdakov. Leonidas just called, despite having no low and a third heart having just hit, but his {Q-Clubs}

was good against Evdakov's at-it {7-Diamonds}

.

Tags: Nikolay Evdakov Toto Leonidas

06-11-2009 20:24 UTC-12

Chips Entering Final Stretch of Day One

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Carol Kline - 10k
Jon 'Pearljammer' Turner - 16k
Michael Mizrachi - 18k
Bryan Devonshire - 8.5k
CK Hua - 17.5k
Pat Pezzin - 9k
Andy Bloch - 3k
Thang Lu - 16k
Raymond Davis - 16k
Lee Childs - 4.5k
Carlos Mortensen - 21k
Jason Mercier - 15k
Shawn Sheikhan - 20k
Phil Ivey - 9k
Chip Jett - 23k
David Singer - 4k
Annie Duke - 5k
Allie Prescott - 29k
Steve Wong - 23k
Sonny Osman - 3k

Previously not mentioned but deserving of at least one today:

Jan Sjavik - 15k
Jeff Duvall - 17k
Alexander Kostritsyn - OUT

Tags: Phil Ivey Steve Wong

06-11-2009 20:37 UTC-12

Smith Trips Up Two Players

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Gavin Smith is doing pretty well at this stage, and just took down a pot which swelled threeway until sixth street and then fizzled out on the river (much to his scooping delight).

The three hands which made it pretty far were:

Jan Sjavik: [XX] {A-Hearts}

Gavin Smith: [XX] {3-Clubs}

Dutch Boyd: [XX] {A-Diamonds}

Sjavik had been betting up until fifth street, when he was raised by Smith. Both players made the call, but when Smith bet sixth, Sjavik folded and left it to the two of them. They received their final cards; Boyd checked to Smith, who bet yet again. Boyd thought for a long time, looked at his opponent's hand and then finally laid his own down.

Smith showed him {J-Diamonds}

anyway.

Tags: Gavin Smith

06-11-2009 20:42 UTC-12

Three Times the Charm?

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Allen Kessler is no more. After lingering about as shortstacked as it is possible to be for a whole level, he got it all in three times - once in Stud and twice preflop in Omaha. This being a hi-low split game, he won at least half of the first two pots, but the final time his {A-Hearts}

failed to hit against {A-Diamonds}

. The most vocal participant on a table which includes Dario Minieri thus exits the tournament area.

Tags: Allen Kessler

06-11-2009 20:48 UTC-12

Todd Brunson Straightens Low Into Scoop

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Todd Brunson (picture from HORSE) would understand

Big blind Todd Brunson bet out all the way (not sure about the flop, actually) until the board read {6-Diamonds}

. Diamond-heavy or not, his bet on the river secured him both halves of the pot as his {2-Diamonds}

turned out to be good.

It occurs to me sometimes that poker terminology might be well-nigh incomprehensible to the casual reader. I apologise if there are any of those at the minute - the title of this post is a case in point. It looks like what came out when we put the Dutch Pokernews through babelfish...

Tags: Todd Brunson