Event 8: $1,500 Omaha Hi-Low Split 8-or-Better Day 1 | 2012 World Series of Poker

06-01-2012 14:38 UTC-6

Enter Xuan Liu

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Xuan Liu has just been spotted in the tournament area, fresh off of her final table run in Event 4: $1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Low 8-or-Better. Liu busted in sixth place last night, earning herself $29,985, while another female, Marsha Waggoner, reached the unofficial final table as well. Waggoner busted in ninth place, and Liu is the third female player to reach an official final table at the 2012 World Series of Poker; Patricia Baker (2nd in Event 1) and Vanessa Selbst (4th in Event 2) have also put together deep runs.

Liu's 2012 started off with a bang when she final tabled the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event, finishing in fouth place ($600,000). Liu also final tabled a side event at EPT San Remo towards the end of 2011, and recorded two cashes at the 2011 WSOP. She will look to continue to build her résumé in Event 8 today.

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06-01-2012 14:24 UTC-6

Glantz Grabs Three Quarters

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Three players saw a flop of {9-Spades} {8-Diamonds} {10-Clubs} , including Matt Glantz. Glantz tossed out a bet, and only one opponent called. The turn was the {4-Hearts} , and Glantz fired again. His opponent called, and the {5-Clubs} completed the board. Glantz bet a third time, and his opponent called.

Glantz turned over {a-Clubs} {2-Diamonds} {8-Hearts} {j-Clubs} for the nut-low and a pair of eights, while his opponent tabled {a-} {2-} {x-} {x-} for the nut-low.

The East Coast grinder pulled in three quarters of the pot, but is still below the starting stack of 4,500 chips.

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06-01-2012 14:18 UTC-6

Hey, I Know You!

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There are a plethora of notable players in the field, including...

Player	Chips	Progress
Matt Glantz	4,500
Jeff Madsen	4,500

Andy Seth	4,500
Dan Kelly	4,500
Ylon Schwartz	4,500

Tom Schneider	4,500

John Monnette	4,500

Stephen Chidwick	4,500

Brandon Cantu	4,500

David Benyamine	4,500

Justin Bonomo	4,500

Doug Carli	4,500
Scott Clements	4,500

Aaron Steury	4,500

Layne Flack	4,500

Matt Savage	4,500
Ari Engel	4,500

Frank Kassela	4,500

Andrew Yeh	4,500

Al Barbieri	4,500
Jeff Shulman	4,500
John Kim	4,500
Eric Baldwin	4,500

Erik Seidel	4,500

Bill Chen	4,500

06-01-2012 14:10 UTC-6

Over 800

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As we roll into the second level of the day, the field is now up to 812 players and still climbing.

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06-01-2012 14:08 UTC-6

Baldwin with an Early Wheel

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Three players including World Series of Poker bracelet winner Eric Baldwin put in two bets preflop before the {5-Clubs} {3-Hearts} {2-Clubs} flop came down. Baldwin led with a bet and the next player called. The third player raised and both Baldwin and the other player made the call.

The turn was the {10-Hearts} and everyone checked to see the {Q-Diamonds} land on the turn. Baldwin bet out and was called by both of his opponents.

Baldwin showed the {A-Diamonds} {9-Clubs} {8-Clubs} {4-Diamonds} for a wheel that was good enough to scoop the high and the low to win the entire pot.

Baldwin earned his WSOP gold bracelet in 2009 when he won a $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em for $521,991. He has two other WSOP final tables and also an 11th-place finish in the 2010 $10,000 Omaha Hi-Low Championship for $34,814.

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06-01-2012 14:04 UTC-6

New to Omaha? PokerNews Has You Covered

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Today's Event 8: $1,500 Omaha Hi-Low Split 8-or-Better is yet another tournament at the 2012 World Series of Poker that includes a game other than No-Limit Hold'em. The game we're talking about is Omaha Hi-Low.

For those of you who may be unfamiliar with the game, you can refer to the PokerNews Poker Rules: Omaha Poker page to check things out and get a feel for how the game is played. The page is complete with game rules, terms and also strategy links.

Omaha is similar to Hold'em in that it is a flop game, but instead of two hole cards, you receive four. The trick is that you must you two cards from your hole cards and only two cards, to make your best five-card hand at the end. This is the part that sometimes confuses people new to the game as they'll make the mistake of only using one card from their hand or trying to use three. This game is also a split-pot game with the high hand getting half of the pot and the low hand getting the other half of the pot. Just like Hold'em, there is a betting round preflop followed a betting round after each of the flop, turn and river.

06-01-2012 13:55 UTC-6

Field Growing

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The tournament board now reads that there are 784 entrants in the field with just about 10 minutes left in the first level.

06-01-2012 13:40 UTC-6

A Few Big Dogs of Omaha: Clements, Force and Stern

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With the tournament field increasing by the minute as more and more players buy in, we've been spotting more and more notable faces in the field. Three of the players we've seen particularly stick out to us for various reasons. Those three are Scott Clements, Max Stern and Leif Force.

Scott Clements from his win at the 2007 WSOP

Clements is the first of these three that we'll talk about as he holds numerous WSOP accolades in the game of Omaha including two World Series of Poker gold bracelets. In 2006, Clements won the $3,000 Omaha Hi-Low for $301,175. In 2007, he won the $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha. He also has a second, a third, a seventh and a ninth in other Omaha events.

If you take a look at the WSOP All-Time Omaha Hi-Low money list, Clements has $747,828 in earnings and is second to only Sammy Farha. He's 112th on the WSOP All-Time Omaha money list with $194,206 in earnings.

Leif Force from his bracelet victory last night

Force is right back in action after winning Event 3: $3,000 Heads-Up No-Limit Hold'em/Pot-Limit Omaha last night. He defeated Jason Koon heads up to win his first-ever WSOP gold bracelet for $207,708.

Along with his standout win last night, Force has several WSOP cashes to his name. In total, his record boasts seven of them, including a stellar 11th-place finish in the 2006 Main Event for a whopping $1,154,527. From those WSOP finishes and including his win last night, Force has a total of $312,644 in WSOP earnings in tournament that contain some variant of Omaha.

Max Stern from the 2011 WSOP

Stern has a gold bracelet of his own and it's in the game we're playing today, Omaha Hi-Low Split 8-or-Better. Back in 1995, Stern won the $1,500 Omaha 8-or-Better event for $140,400. He has two other bracelets coming from Seven Card Stud Split and No-Limit Hold'em, which shows he's versed in many different games.

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06-01-2012 13:17 UTC-6

A Few Faces

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The seats continue to fill in here, and we're ticking up over 700 players registered.

Our first walk through half the room turned up a decent list of notable faces. The first one we saw was Chris Bjorin, fresh off a runner-up finish in Event #4 last night. Late last night. Play finished up close to 4:00am, but Bjorin is back here this afternoon looking bright-eyed and ready to play some Omaha.

Also in the house, some other bracelet winners and notables. Frank Kassela, David Bach, John Monnette, Tom Schneider, Owais Ahmed, Amnon Filippi, "Miami" John Cernuto, Justin Bonomo, Ari Engel, David Paredes, and Dan O'Brien have all shown themselves in the Brasilia Room.