Event 46 - $2,500 Omaha Hi/Lo 8-or-better Day 2 | 2009 World Series of Poker

06-24-2009 20:07 UTC-12

Zimmerman Doubles Up

[user46392]

Jason Zimmerman has doubled up after moving all in from the big blind to a raise from small blind Josh Schlein.

Zimmerman: {A-Spades}

Schlein:

Board:

Zimmerman's up to 42,000, while Schlein drops to 112,000.

06-24-2009 20:01 UTC-12

Danny Smith Falls to the Dank Position

[user75032]

Danny Smith might look back fondly on those moments a few hours ago when he was near the top of the counts. He's now in the Dank Position at the very bottom of the counts after a tangle with Jeff Tunkel. We only saw the board ( {K-Hearts}

) and Tunkel's hand, {A-Clubs}

. His nut flush and seven-ace low were good to scoop both halves of the pot.

Smith's stack was decimated to just 13,000 chips.

Tags: Danny Smith Jeff Tunkel

06-24-2009 20:00 UTC-12

No Siem-ese Win

[user46392]

Paul Siem is bust. No final table for him.

06-24-2009 19:49 UTC-12

Pescatori Checks the Nuts

[user46392]

Wow! There were five bets back and forth between Max Pescatori and CK Hua on the {K-Hearts}

flop. Pescatori just check-called a bet from Hua on the {Q-Spades}

turn, and both players checked the {10-Diamonds}

river.

Pescatori turned over {A-Clubs}

and Hua mucked.

"You check with that hand?" said Hua incredulously. Well, it's late.

Hua: 140,000
Pescatori: 131,000

06-24-2009 19:44 UTC-12

Randolph's Arm Broken, and His Hand Was No Good

[user46392]

Two bustouts for Mel Randolph -- not only does he have his arm in a cast (not a result of this tournament!), he's just lost the last of his chips to David Pacheco.

We didn't see Randolph's hand, but Pacheco was holding {A-?}

X for quads on a {7-Diamonds}

board.

06-24-2009 19:38 UTC-12

Count the Outs

[user75032]

Before the break, Mike Matusow was practically beside himself.

"Look at this flop," he said to the table at showdown. Matusow tabled {A-Spades}

in a pot played four-ways to the river. The board showed {K-Spades}

. After the flop, Matusow had outs to the nut flush, the nut straight and the nut low. He wound up with just the nut low after the {7-Clubs}

turn and

river. Sirous Jamshidi got the high half with a seven straight, {4-Clubs}

.

Matusow is up to 130,000.

Tags: Mike Matusow

Level: 17

Blinds: 3,000/5,000

Ante: 0

06-24-2009 19:34 UTC-12

Play Resumes

[user75032]

Cards are back in the air. 38 players remain. Given that the next 20-minute break will fall at 2:33am local time, these should be the last two levels of the night.

06-24-2009 19:05 UTC-12

Break Time

[user46392]

Here's hoping for some action when we come back.

06-24-2009 19:05 UTC-12

There Was to be No Math

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A three-way pot with two short stacks produced zero eliminations. Bill Coren was all in preflop and David Rabbi was all in after the {5-Clubs}

flop against Max Pescatori. Pescatori and Rabbi each flopped wheels: {A-Spades}

for Pescatori, {A-Hearts}

for Rabbi.

Coren, the shortest of the stacks in the hand, flopped two pair with {A-Diamonds}

. He called for a four and got one with the {4-Spades}

turn. The river {8-Clubs}

completed the board, leaving the dealer the unenviable task of separating the pots.

Rabbi got three-quarters of the side pot with his wheel low and straight six. That left Pescatori with one-quarter of the side pot. The high half of the main pot was awarded to Coren; Rabbi and Pescatori each got one-quarter of the main pot for their wheel lows.

Counts after the hand:

Coren - 23,000
Rabbi - 48,000
Pescatori - 85,000

Tags: Bill Coren David Rabbi Max Pescatori