button in Safari"It's Nice To Get a Win At The Beginning Of The Summer,"; Jason Daly Wins Third Bracelet in $1,500 Omaha Hi-Lo
The first mixed game of the summer has come to its conclusion as the starting field of Event #4: $1,500 Omaha Hi-Lo Eight or Better was reduced to 17 contenders at the beginning of the day. Each of them locked up a sizable chunk of the $1,099,170 prize pool, but after nearly eleven hours of play, just one player survived.
It was three years ago that Texas poker player Jason Daly took down his first WSOP bracelet in the $3,000 Limit Hold’em for $165,250. Now he joins the ranks of players who hold 3 live WSOP bracelets as he defeated Dorian Rios heads up to take down a prize of $191,362, his third-best live score.
“Three years ago was the first summer that I came out and said I’m going to win a bracelet. So I played 30 or 40 events, won one, then I said I’m going to keep doing it. So I just focused on getting better at tournaments. I’ve been playing cash twice a week for a long time with the same people. Some came out here today. So I’ve been trying to get better, trying not to get too flustered.”
Daly came into the day with a chip lead, but he would lose it in the early goings of the final table to Rios, who would hold nearly half of the chips with five players left. He would regain the lead later with three players remaining, then he would battle for Rios' heads-up for a couple of hours. Both players swung back and forth with the chip lead, with many of the biggest pots in the match being split.
“This game is one of the worst. You can get it dead four or five times and still survive,” Daly joked before changing to a more affectionate tone about the game. “I love this game. People do make a lot of mistakes, like playing for half of the pot when you should be having half of the pot locked up. You can notice a lot of mistakes in others doing that."
For as long as he was in the tournament today, Daly was at the table and playing with Perry Green, whose first WSOP bracelet came in 1976, long before Jason played a hand of poker.
“That was really cool,” Daly said about playing with fellow 3-time WSOP bracelet champion. “A couple of guys in my hometown know him. Talked about him being an old-school legend. I did talk to Perry about it. It was great to see him play. We all hope that we can still be doing what he was doing at 80 or 90 years old.”
It wasn’t just his experience of playing with Green that Daly had good things to say about.
“Normally, O8 is very persnickety, but the tables I had were great. Per (Hildebrand) and I were talking about just how much fun it all was. Amnon (Filippi) and I were joking about stuff from four years ago. It was a lot of fun, obviously money makes it a lot better, but it was still a good time.”
With this being one of the first events of the series, the Texas poker player is looking forward to a summer different from his previous ones.
“It is nice to get a win at the beginning of the summer, rather than spending $100k chasing the losses. I’ve been fortunate enough to get back those losses the last two summers, so at least this time we’re starting out ahead. I’m going to be firing away.”
Event #4: $1,500 Omaha Hi-Low Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jason Daly | United States | $191,362 |
| 2 | Dorian Rios | Venezuela | $127,528 |
| 3 | Per Hildebrand | Sweden | $87,038 |
| 4 | Amnon Filippi | United States | $60,517 |
| 5 | Andrew Voor | United States | $42,879 |
| 6 | Perry Green | United States | $30,973 |
| 7 | Joseph Hallock | United States | $22,817 |
Day 3 Action
Yuhong Liu (17th - $8,245) and Nolan Guagenti (16th - $8,245) were eliminated within seconds of each other on separate tables, with 14-time WSOPC ring winner Valentin Vornicu (15th - $8,245) falling shortly after to Andrew Voor.
Brazil’s Renan Bruschi (14th - $10,304) fell just before the final two tables were set, and he was followed by one of the start-of-day big stacks, Kelly Vande Mheen (13th - $10,304), who was unable to maintain his podium status from the start of the day. It was another very closely timed pair of bustouts as Michael Krescanko Jr (12th - $10,304) and Tyler Phillips (11th - $13,165) both found themselves falling before the final table.
Last year’s $10k Omaha Hi-Lo Champion Ryan Bambrick (11th - $13,155) found his chips going over to Dorian Rios’ turned wheel, with his hopes of winning a second bracelet resting on the other events of the year. The final casualty before the final table came as three-time WSOP bracelet winner Vanessa Selbst got in her pair of kings in preflop against Per Hildebrand’s aces. The last woman standing collected $17,149 for her finish while the final table of eight was set.
Final Table Action
It would be over an hour of final table action before the first casualty fell. Despite starting the final table with one of the biggest stacks, the first one to hit the rail would be Benjamin Gold in eighth place. Not many pots went his way, but what pushed him down to the shortest stack was when he clashed with Amnon Filippi and ended up doubling him up when his hand went from getting quartered to getting scooped. His final hand was also against Filippi as he found himself with ace-queen and low cards against ace-king and low cards. The board came all high to give Filippi a full house, and Gold collected $17,149 for his efforts.
A few hands went by before Joseph Hallock would become the next casualty in a three-way confrontation between himself, Andrew Voor, and Hildebrand. As all the chips got in on the flop, Hallock held a flush draw and straight draw combination against Voor’s three fives and nut low draw, and Hildebrand’s queens up with the same nut low draw. Nothing changed on the river for anyone to see. Voor climbed up the counts, while Voor would collect a career best score of $22,817 for his seventh place finish.
Fifty years after winning his first WSOP bracelet, Alaska’s Perry Green found himself hunting for his fourth WSOP bracelet today at Paris Hotel and Casino. Eventually, the 90-year-old poker player would get in his final chips drawing to backdoor low with eight-high up against Jason Daly’s set. Nothing improved for Green, and the 1981 WSOP Main Event runner-up shook each of their hands and wished his opponents luck, finishing in sixth place for $30,973.
Voor would be next to go in fifth place despite the sizable boost to his stack early in the final table. It would be during his downfall that Rios would end up taking a large chunk of his chips to separate himself from the rest of the pack. He would not be the one to do Voor in, as it would be a combination of Filippi and Daly chopping him up. Filippi would triple up with three threes, with Daly winning the side holding queens up to beat Voor’s threes and twos. The WSOP bracelet winners would chip in while Voor would collect $42,879 for his efforts.
Filippi would be the next one on the chopping block as he lost a sizable chunk to Rios before getting short enough to put himself at risk. Filippi got in his last chips with ace-queen to flop queens and sevens while Rios held kings and sevens for the better hand. It would be Daly who would river fours full to eliminate the WSOP bracelet winner from the tournament and send Filippi fourth for $60,517.
Shortly after, it was Per Hildebrand who started the three-handed match of poker with just five percent of the chips in play. He would get in his chips against Daly holding Queen-Jack high with a seven low draw up against Daly’s aces. Daly made an unneeded low on the runout, and the Swedish poker player took $87,038 home for his third-place finish.
Starting the heads-up match, the stacks were near even, with Rios holding a slight chip lead. It was a lengthy back-and-forth match between the two of them, with Daly pulling ahead quite significantly as the hands progressed. By the time the dinner break started, Daly had Rios nearly 6:1.
Rios came roaring back after the dinner break to pull back to even and nearly ahead at a few points, with many of the biggest hands getting chopped up between the two of them. This continued for just shy of four hours before Daly eventually pulled ahead to around the spot he was at before the dinner break. He continued to press Rios for a little bit longer, and eventually the players got their chips in on a king-high flop with Rios flopping top two against Daly’s bottom pair. That would turn into top and bottom on the turn ace with the river bricking off, and the Venezuelan 3-time WSOPC ring winner would finish in second place for $127,528.
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