A crucial double up for Michael "Boonie" Kleist has given him a little breathing room. He committed his last chips on a board.
Kleist, who led the action with betting the entire way to that point, showed . Brian Hastings, his lone opponent past the turn, immediately mucked his hand. Raymond Davis stayed around until the turn, but folded and is now the shortest stack in the field.
The last level of the day is almost over, but we won't stop before the money has been reached. The level will not go up and that means that this could take a while! There are some short stacks, but in this form of poker that doesn't mean as much as in a No Limit game.
Mike Wattel raised to 10,000 from the under the gun position and Bart Hanson made the call. James Dempsey smiled and said, "Please no trips," as he looked down at his cards from the big blind. He put in the call and had just 2,500 chips left behind.
The flop came down and Dempsey put his last chips in. Wattel gave it some thought and folded after which Hanson called and said, "You're in trouble man".
Bart Hanson
James Dempsey
The board ran out giving Hanson the win and knocking out Dempsey on the money bubble. We will be right back with the official chip counts and seat draw for the final day!
Day 2 of Event 24, the $5,000 Omaha Hi-Low Split 8-or-Better, was a tense one. We began with 184 players left from the starting field of 256. By day's end, only the 27 players who made the money survived. Bubble play lasted for about an hour before James Dempsey departed in 28th place, guaranteeing a $10,348 pay day for the final 27. However, the chip leader couldn't care less about a min cash. Leading the way is none other than Phil Ivey.
Fresh off of two final tables in the last few days, Ivey is back at it again. He spent the beginning and middle portion of the day in the middle of the counts, but contunually increased his stack as player by player busted. When it came to bagging the chips, Ivey had a whopping stack of 446,500. Second in chips is young gun Dan Kelly with 297,000 and Mike Matusow is right behind him with 290,000.
Many big names took part in Day 2, but fell short of the money. Mizrachi brothers Michael and Rob, Allen Bari, John Racener, Phil Hellmuth, and Jason Mercier were among those who busted early on. They were followed out the door by David Bach, Justin Smith, Carlos Mortensen, Todd Brunson, and Mike Sexton in the middle stages of the day.
As play whittled down toward the money we lost Jean-Robert Bellande, Yuval Bronshtein, and Shannon Shorr. Raymond Davis and James Dempsey were both desperately short stacked with 28 players left. Davis found himself all in twice, but managed to chop the first time and scoop the second time to put the pressure on Dempsey.
Unfortunately for the bracelet winner, Dempsey had almost no chance of winning when he committed his chips. The board read and Bart Hanson held the in his hand. Dempsey found no miracle running low and exited in 28th place.
Here is the Day 3 table and seat draw:
Table
Seat
Player
Chips
447
1
Phil Ivey
446,500
447
2
Raymond Davis
18,000
447
3
Mike Matusow
290,000
447
4
Gregory Jamison
129,500
447
5
Joe Cassidy
166,500
447
6
Ryan Lenaghan
79,500
447
7
Elie Doft
69,500
447
8
Scotty Nguyen
212,500
447
9
Michael "Boonie" Kleist
35,500
453
1
Brian Hastings
251,000
453
2
John Guth
11,500
453
3
Jeremy Harkin
71,000
453
4
Mike Wattel
143,500
453
5
Alex Dovzhenko
60,000
453
6
Stephen Chidwick
109,000
453
7
Matt Lefkowitz
24,500
453
8
Viacheslav Zhukov
141,500
453
9
Robert Stevanovski
68,000
459
1
James Hoeppner
137,500
459
2
Matthew Wood
78,000
459
3
Brendan Taylor
270,500
459
4
Meng La
276,500
459
5
Dan Kelly
297,000
459
6
Andreas Krause
133,000
459
7
Ismael Bojang
51,500
459
8
Bart Hanson
231,500
459
9
Frank Russomanno
38,000
Play resumes Wednesday at 2:00pm local time and is scheduled to last until only one remains. Be sure to join us then!