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Pat Pezzin: 
for the high
Player 1: 
Player 2: 
We found Pat Pezzin all in for 3,225 on the 
flop with two callers who checked down the 
turn and 
river. Pezzin's set of tens were good for the high, and the player with got the low while the gent with just looked a bit unhappy.
Pezzin moved up to 5,300 plus all three rebuy chips.
In split-pot games, players are generally instructed to leave their bets in front of their cards once the action is heads-up. This makes it easier to split the pot later if it's a chop. Where confusion usually arises is if one player is quartered, or in multi-way pots where one player is all in on an early street.
These pot-splitting situations aren't easy for anyone (player or dealer), and everyone has a different way that they feel is the best way for splitting these pots. We recently saw Men Nguyn standing at Table 299, instructing a dealer how he should split a pot in which Allen Kessler had been quartered by another player. It produced a fair amount of confusion, both for the dealer and for Kessler.
To be fair, most dealers aren't used to dealing split-pot games, and certainly not a big-bet split-pot game like PLO8.
We now have 27 tables in operation in the Blue Section of the Amazon Room for this tournament, and there are a fair number of PokerStars Team Pros trying their hand at this split-pot game. Representing the team, in no particular order, are George Danzer (Germany), Daniel Negreanu (Canada), Johannes Steindl (Austria), Alex Kravchenko (Russia), Greg Raymer (USA), Michael Keiner (Germany), George Lind (Team Online), Ville Wahlbeck (Nordics), Dario Minieri (Italy), and Barry Greenstein (USA). We expect that the last wave of late registrations may drag in one or two more Team Pros.
To date in this WSOP, no Team Pro has won a bracelet, but they do have several final tables among them. It would seem to be only a matter of time before one cracks the winner's circle.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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3,000 | |
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3,000 | |
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3,000 | |
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3,000 | |
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3,000 | |
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3,000 | |
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3,000 | |
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3,000 | |
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3,000 | |
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3,000 | |
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3,000 | |
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3,000 | |
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3,000 | |
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3,000 | |
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3,000 | |
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3,000 |
The following chip counts are of players who have already cashed in all of their red rebuy chips. Their fortunes have been somewhat mixed so far.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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25,000
22,000
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22,000 |
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13,500
10,500
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10,500 |
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11,000
8,000
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8,000 |
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8,000
5,000
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5,000 |
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5,700
2,700
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2,700 |
When you register on time for a tournament, you're subject to the luck of the table draw. Sometimes you wind up with an easier table, and sometimes you wind up with a tougher table. When you register late, you're almost always guaranteed to be at a table of pros. Blue 282 is the prefect example. David Bach, Toto Leonidas, Michael Binger, Max Pescatori and Tom Dwan are all clustered around it, right on the rail in perfect view of the spectators. The lone bright spot for the players at the table is that they'll be among the first players to be roken to new seats -- asusuming they survive that long.
We understand that Mike Matusow and Perry Friedman got themselves involved in what must have been an extremely difficult challenge - a silence last-longer, with the first one to speak owing the other $5,000.
After not very long at all, though, Friedman allowed Matusow to buy out for $200 as he was clearly suffering. Friedman showed us the note that Matusow had passed him. It read (spelling mistakes corrected so as to make it intelligible to the casual reader):
"Let's off this bet, it's costing us equity at this table."
"I'm gambling, boys," said double-bracelet winner Frank Kassela. On a board of 
, Kassela was one of two players to check to Antony Lellouche. Lellouche bet 500 and was raised by a late-position player to 1,500. Kassela called before Lellouche re-raised to 4,000. The late-position player then moved all in for 8,075 and Kassela called again. Finally Lellouche, who has already burned his rebuy chips, moved in for about 14,000 and Kassela called that raise too. It was a three-way showdown with one card to come.
Kassela: 
Lellouche: 
Player 3: 
Kassela had nothing but a low draw, surprising some players at the table. Lellouche and the third player each had the nut straight, but Lellouche also had a heart re-draw. The low, but not the hearts, came with the 
river.
When all was said and done, Lellouche and the third player were each quartered, sharing the high half of the pot, while Kassela took the low half of the pot. That was only after a fair amount of dispute over exactly how the pot should be split, which seems to be a staple of split-pot games -- especially big-bet split-pot games.
Level: 2
Blinds: 50/75
Ante: 0
The Level 1 late registrants are now taking their seats, and they'll be permitted to play in approximately 30 seconds' time.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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3,000 | |
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3,000 | |
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3,000 | |
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3,000 | |
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3,000 | |
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3,000 | |
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3,000 | |
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3,000 | |
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3,000 | |
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3,000 |
