Event 33 - $1,500 Pot Limit Omaha w/ rebuys Day 1 | 2007 World Series of Poker

Level: 7

Blinds: 300/600

Ante: 0

06-20-2007 21:05 UTC-7

Players Return from Dinner Break

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Cards are in the air. There are still 16 minutes remaining in the 200-400 level.

06-20-2007 20:07 UTC-7

Prizepool and Payout Information

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293 players entered this event and made 880 rebuys, creating a prizepool of $1,684,305. First place will earn $464,867 and 27 places will be paid.

Click on the "Prizepool and Payouts" link to the right to get the full payout information.

06-20-2007 20:02 UTC-7

PokerNews Video: Joe Hachem - Just Arrived

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PokerNews grabbed Joe Hachem on dinner break from the $1,500 Pot-limit Omaha w/rebuys event to talk about the day’s event and Joe’s World Series schedule going forward.

Click here to check out the interview with Joe, along with all the other videos from this event.

Tags: Joe Hachem

06-20-2007 19:33 UTC-7

Mike Matusow Eliminated

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With the board reading {K-Spades}

, Eli Elezra bet 10,000 on the turn and Mike Matusow called. The river was the {7-Clubs}

. Elezra bet 15,000 and Matusow called all in. Elezra showed K-K-7-8 for the flopped boat and Matusow mucked as he headed to the rail.

Elezra was up to 80,000 after the hand.

Tags: Eli Elezra Mike Matusow

06-20-2007 19:31 UTC-7

Players on Dinner Break

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Play will resume at 9:00 p.m. PDT.

06-20-2007 19:06 UTC-7

Sonny Nijran Takes a Huge Pot from Andy Bloch

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The pot had already swelled to 17,000 on the turn with the board showing {J-Clubs}

. The river was the {5-Diamonds}

and Andy Bloch check-called a 5,000 bet from Sonny Nijran. Nijran showed {K-Diamonds}

for the nut straight and Bloch mucked.

Nijran was up to 52,500 after the hand while Bloch was down to 10,600.

Tags: Andy Bloch Sonny Nijran

06-20-2007 19:02 UTC-7

Chip Leaders

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Here's a brief list of the players at the top of the leaderboard:

Humberto Brenes: 85,000
Ram Vaswani: 82,000
Rick Ellerman: 74,000
David Williams: 49,000
Josh Arieh: 49,000

Tags: David Williams Humberto Brenes Josh Arieh Ram Vaswani Rick Ellerman

Level: 6

Blinds: 200/400

Ante: 0

06-20-2007 18:38 UTC-7

Prop Bet of the Day

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Earlier in the Series, we reported that Mike Matusow had made a $100,000 weight-loss bet with Ted Forrest. Matusow has one year to get down to 180 pounds to collect on the wager.

Matusow was eager to get Tony G in on the wager as well. 180 seemed too daunting a number to Tony and he invited Matusow to arm-wrestle him at an adjacent table for $100K instead.

"Only if you give me 5-1" was Matusow's condition. Needless to say, the match never went off.

Tags: Mike Matusow Tony G