WSOP Event 5 $1500 Omaha High-Low Eight-or-Better - End of Day 1
A field of 699 players entered the $1500 buy-in Omaha High-Low event on June 6. When play ended at approximately 2:30am on June 7, 22 players remain in contention for the first prize of $270,100 and the coveted gold bracelet.
Chip Position Player Chips
1 John Lukas 142,000
2 Pascal Perrault 107,000
3 Bahram Kianfar 83,000
4 Darrell Dicken 80,000
5 'Minneapolis' Jim Meehan 65,300
6 Patrick Poels 63,000
7 Barny Boatman 55,000
8 Alfredo 'Toto' Leonidas 53,000
9 Dan Heimiller 51,000
10 Juan Carlos Mortensen 46,000
11 Minh Nguyen 45,000
12 Jeff Devall 45,000
13 Boris Shats 38,000
14 Lonnie Heimowitz 33,000
15 Xiamei Zuo 26,000
16 Robert Chappie 22,000
17 Jason Brown 19,000
18 Jerry McCoy 18,000
19 Yueqi Zhu 18,000
20 Alan Bernstein 17,000
21 Justin Sadauskas 15,000
22 Shae Drobugevich 9,000
Play will resume on June 7 at 2pm.
WSOP Event 5 $1500 buy-in Omaha High-Low Eight-or-Better - Day 1 money finishers:
Place Player Prize
23 James Calcagno $4,825
24 Thomas Gilles $4,825
25 Steve Hohn $4,825
26 Scott Buller $4,825
27 Robert Hume $4,825
28 David Lewis $3,375
29 Gene Timberlake $3,375
30 Berry Johnston $3,375
31 Kris Fields $3,375
32 Ben Tang $3,375
33 William Carl $3,375
34 Donald Webb $3,375
35 Michael Mizrachi $3,375
36 Keith Wax $3,375
37 Christopher Rowlan $2,895
38 Thor Hansen $2,895
39 Saundra Taylor $2,895
40 Avishy Schmidt $2,895
41 Lap Ki Wan $2,895
42 Torstein Iversen $2,895
43 Stanley Weiss $2,895
44 Jean Robert Bellande $2,895
45 Lowell Davis $2,895
46 Stan Schrier $2,410
47 Eamon Bobowski $2,410
48 Rafael Fuest $2,410
49 Robert Gerstenzang $2,410
50 John Monnette $2,410
51 Robert Hoffman $2,410
52 Craig Gray $2,410
53 Prince of Docness $2,410
54 Phil Ivey $2,410
55 Allen Goldstein $1,930
56 John Johnson $1,930
57 William Chavarria $1,930
58 Kevin Lewis $1,930
59 James Kitchell $1,930
60 Ray Dehkharghani $1,930
61 Dan Levinson $1,930
62 Arturo Diaz $1,930
63 Sirous Baghchehsaraie $1,930
