Ryan Lenaghan raised from middle position and Elie Doft re-raised from the hijack. Michael "Boonie" Kleist called from the button, Lenaghan called, and the flop came down .
The betting was capped on the flop with Kleist calling all in. The turn saw Lenaghan get his chips into the middle and Doft call.
Lenaghan:
Doft:
Kleist:
Lenaghan's flopped set and turned nut low scooped the pot when the river fell.
From the under the gun+1 position John Guth just raised all in for his final 11,500 chips. Alex Dovzhenko opted to re-raise getting the other players to fold. We got to see a heads up showdown after the remaining players tossed their cards into the muck.
John Guth
Alex Dovzhenko
The board ran out and with a smile and a "Good game guys," Guth left the tournament. We are down to 25 players.
Action folded to Scotty Nguyen in the cutoff and he put in a raise. Raymond Davis defended his big blind and bet his last 6,000 when the flop fell .
Nguyen called with for bottom pair with a 7-5 low. Davis held for a pair of eights, but his high hand didn't survive the turn and river as Nguyen made two pair to win the high portion as well.
Welcome to Day 3 of our coverage of Event 24, the $5,000 Omaha Hi-Low Split 8-or-Better. A starting field of 256 players is down to just 27, each with hopes of capturing the coveted World Series Of Poker gold bracelet, as well as the first-place prize of $294,777.
No stranger to deep runs this WSOP, Phil Ivey leads the way 446,500. With two final tables under his belt in the last week alone, Ivey is looking to capture that elusive ninth bracelet. On Sunday night he fell just short in Event #17, but he'll be looking to close the deal this time around.
He'll have plenty of stiff competition, though. Dan "djk123" Kelly is an online superstar and already has one WSOP bracelet on his résumé. He currently sits second in chips with 297,000. Mike Matusow has long claimed that Omaha Hi/Low Split 8-or-Better is his best game and he proved that yesterday. Despite being ill for the few hours of the day, Matusow persevered and made it through the day third in chips with 290,000.
Brian Hastings is fresh off of a bracelet win in Event #12, Scotty Nguyen is always a threat, Viacheslav Zhukov is the defending Omaha Hi/Low Split 8-or-Better champion, and Elie "what is 7x6" Doft is the only player left that has held the chip lead on both Day 1 and 2.
Play is set to resume at the top of the hour, about 20 minutes from now, so be sure to keep it here throughout the day to see who is crowned the next WSOP champion!