Event 40 - $10,000 World Championship Pot Limit Omaha Day 2 | 2009 World Series of Poker

06-21-2009 09:50 UTC-12

Nam Le Running Between PLO and NLHE

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It's pretty standard around here for players to enter two events in one day. What's not so standard is for a player to survive both Day 1s of a tournament, but that's exactly what Nam Le has done.

So far, Nam has not showed up in his seat for Day 2 of this $10,000 PLO tournament. He started the day with just over 94,000, so he's not in immediate danger of being blinded out.

Instead, Nam is grinding away at Day 2 of event 39 - $1,500 NLHE. Over at that tournament, he is currently at 35,000 in chips where the average stack is 44,000.

We'll keep you posted on his progress in both tournaments and see how he decides to manage his time.

Tags: Nam Le

06-21-2009 10:02 UTC-12

Pierson Punished by the Professor

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Stephen Pierson has been sent to the rail after committing his last chips on a flop of {A-Clubs}

. His opponent was Howard Lederer, who tabled {A-Spades}

. Lederer held the lead but Pierson had plenty of cards to catch to improve with his {K-Spades}

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The turn was the {4-Spades}

and the river bricked the {7-Hearts}

to give Lederer the pot and eliminate Pierson from the tournament. "The Professor" moves up to 110,000 chips.

Tags: Howard Lederer Stephen Pierson

06-21-2009 10:03 UTC-12

Matthew Greenwood Eliminated

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On a board of {5-Hearts}

, Stefan Mattsson bet 20,000, enough to put Matthew Greenwood all in. Greenwood made the call.

Mattsson: {7-Hearts}

Greenwood: {A-Hearts}

The river bricked out with the {2-Clubs}

and Mattsson eliminated Greenwood with the nut straight.

Stefan Mattsson - 202,000

Tags: Matthew Greenwood Stefan Mattsson

Level: 10

Blinds: 800/1,600

Ante: 0

06-21-2009 10:10 UTC-12

Musical Chairs

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While balancing and breaking of tables is pretty standard in tournament poker, one of the rare sights is the moving of an entire table. Well we've seen it twice already today.

One table was relocated earlier today because it was "too cold" due to an air conditioner which definitely projects its frozen goodness directly onto that particular table.

Another table has just been moved entirely after one of the players spilled a bottle of water all over the table. While they are now on dry ground, the bad news is they've been moved to the above mentioned "cold table".

06-21-2009 10:21 UTC-12

Deeb Dented

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Freddy Deeb opened the action with a raise to 4,200 with Ferit Gabriellson calling in the small blind, before Hans Varsi popped it up to 16,800 from the big blind. Both opponents called and they took a flop of {9-Hearts}

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The three players all checked and the free card on the turn was the {5-Spades}

. Gabriellson led out at the pot with a bet of 40,000. Varsi folded but Deeb made the call.

On the {K-Hearts}

river, both players slowed down and checked. Gabriellson tabled {K-Diamonds}

for top two pair to collect the pot as Deeb mucked. Gabriellson climbs to 155,000 with Deeb back to 57,000.

Tags: Ferit Gabriellson Freddy Deeb

06-21-2009 10:26 UTC-12

Nam Le Arrives

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As reported earlier, Nam Le is splitting his time between this event and Day 2 of the $1,500 NLHE.

He has only been blinded down to 87,000, which is about the average at this point in the tournament.

He sits at table 69, joined by fellow pros Mikael Thuritz, Richard Austin, Ilari Sahamies,and Simon Trumper.

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After only about 10 minutes at the table he is gone once again.

Tags: Nam Le

06-21-2009 10:27 UTC-12

Fricke Recovers

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After leading for large periods of play yesterday, Jimmy Fricke has struggled to get going today, but he's just found a nice double up that may get the momentum back in his direction.

The flop was {J-Diamonds}

with Fricke clashing with Ben Lamb. Fricke was all in and tabled {J-Hearts}

for top set as Lamb would need to find some help with {K-Diamonds}

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The turn was the {10-Clubs}

to give Fricke a full house and the river the {6-Diamonds}

and Fricke doubles to about 94,000.

Tags: Ben Lamb Jimmy Fricke

06-21-2009 10:32 UTC-12

Khouiss Rivered and Eliminated

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Sam Khouiss has been recently eliminated from the tournament. We didn't catch the action but overheard Khouiss mutter "I got rivered..." as he walked past our desk and out the door.

Tags: Sam Khouiss

06-21-2009 10:40 UTC-12

Barry Greenstein Pushed Out of a Pot

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Barry Greenstein raised to 5,000 before the flop and was called by the big blind. The flop came {j-Hearts}

. The big blind checked and Greenstein made a continuation bet of 7,500.

The big blind made a check-raise to 17,500 and Greenstein threw his hand away.

Barry Greenstein - 199,000

Tags: Barry Greenstein