Event #31: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-low 8-or-Better Day 1 | 2013 World Series of Poker

06-17-2013 23:18 UTC-7

Player	Chips	Progress
Mark Radoja	Busted

Joe Hachem	Busted

Justin Young	Busted
Robert Mizrachi	Busted

Scotty Nguyen	Busted

Layne Flack	Busted

Chad Brown	Busted

Bryan Devonshire	Busted
Alex Kravchenko	Busted
Shawn Buchanan	Busted

David Steicke	Busted
George Danzer	Busted

Jesse Martin	Busted

Player	Chips	Progress
Eric Rodawig	75,000 10,000	10,000

David Dille	64,000 64,000	64,000
Josh Pollock	62,000 26,000	26,000
Roland Isra	56,000 56,000	56,000
Barry Greenstein	52,000 22,000	22,000

Perry Green	52,000

Allan Le	48,000 29,000	29,000

Yuval Bronshtein	45,000 35,500	35,500

Owais Ahmed	40,000 1,500	1,500

Jeff Lisandro	38,000 30,500	30,500

Daniel Strelitz	29,000 5,000	5,000

Jonathan Little	27,500 18,200	18,200
Allen Cunningham	23,000 -2,000	-2,000

Leif Force	22,000 12,700	12,700

Mel Judah	18,000 10,500	10,500

Scott Baumstein	18,000 8,000	8,000
Nick Binger	12,500 9,800	9,800

Ryan Lenaghan	11,000 -700	-700

We didn't catch the hand as it was happening, but we noticed that Jason Mercier's stack had seen quite an increase since the last time we saw it. We took to twitter, and he reviewed the hand that got him a ton of chips.

Jason Mercier @JasonMercier

Stacked a guy in massive pot right before break. QQ43 on Q62A board #plo8face have 36k going to 4/800June 17 2013

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Player	Chips	Progress
Jason Mercier	36,000 24,000	24,000

Tags: Jason Mercier

06-17-2013 22:47 UTC-7

Kirill Gerasimov Has a Big Stack

tayke2

Level 9 : 400/800, 0 ante

One player has been slowly building up his chip stack throughout the day, and by our estimation is our current chip leader with 76,000. That player is Kirill Gerasimov, who has seven WSOP final tables on his resume, including three runner-up finishes.

Player	Chips	Progress
Kirill Gerasimov	76,000 76,000	76,000

Tags: Kirill Gerasimov

06-17-2013 22:42 UTC-7

Back At It

tayke2

Level 9 : 400/800, 0 ante

We have two more levels to play tonight and then the players will bag and tag for the night.

Level: 9

Blinds: 400/800

Ante: 0

06-17-2013 22:22 UTC-7

Last Break of the Night

tayke2

Level 8 : 300/600, 0 ante

Title says it all. Players are taking a 20 minute break, then after two more levels, we will be done for the night.

06-17-2013 22:19 UTC-7

Harwood Misses Everything

tayke2

Level 8 : 300/600, 0 ante

We walked up to Loni Harwood's table to see her and another short stack get all his money in preflop.

Harwood:
Opponent:

Both players had monster hands that were suited and well connected, but it didn't look good for Harwood after the flop came down . Both players had heart draws, but Harwood's was inferior to her opponent's. However, she picked up her gin card on the turn, the . This gave her a ton of straight draw outs, as a queen, ten, or nine would complete her straight, and a king would give her winning trips. However, the didn't complete any of those outs, and she shipped the pot over to her opponent.

Player	Chips	Progress
Loni Harwood	10,000 -7,000	-7,000

Tags: Loni Harwood

06-17-2013 22:02 UTC-7

Sands Picks Up Three Quarters

tayke2

Level 8 : 300/600, 0 ante

David "Doc" Sands was part of a three way flop that read . The first opponent checked to the second, who fired out 3,000. Sands tanked for a bit before stacking up a big raise of about 12,000, and sliding it in. The first player quickly folded, and the second called off the rest of his stack, which was about 8,000.

Sands:
Opponent:

The set for Sands was dominating his opponent, and he was in great shape to pick up most of the pot. The on the turn gave his opponent flush draw outs to go along with the case ace, but nietherme came on the river, as that card was the . Sands ended up picking up three quarters of the pot, as both players shared the same low.

After picking up that one, Sands is up to 34,000.

Player	Chips	Progress
David Sands	34,000 16,000	16,000

Tags: David Sands

06-17-2013 21:46 UTC-7

Matusow Looking for Another Bracelet

tayke2

Level 8 : 300/600, 0 ante

Mike Matusow has had a resurgence of sorts this year. After laying low for the past few years, Matusow came roaring back earlier this year when he won the NBC Heads Up Championship, beating his good friend Phil Hellmuth in the finals. He rode that to a bracelet win in Event #13 $5,000 Seven-Card-Stud Hi-Low Eight-or-better just two weeks ago, and has three top 18 finishes total. Well Omaha-8 is Matusow's best game according to him, and he's certainly showing that today, as he has amassed an impressive stack of 33,000, which is one of the biggest ones in the room at the moment.