It's a noon kickoff for Event #19 on Tuesday at the 2008 WSOP, $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha. This popular event should draw a field equal to or slightly larger than last year's 578 entrants, from which Scott Clements emerged to claim the bracelet and $194,206 winner's prize.
Our crack 'Live Reporting' crew will be here right fro the start with biggest hands from the day's action. Check in early... and often.
We're a little under ten minutes away from the first hand being dealt in today's $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha event. Staff has 70 tables ready to accommodate today's tourney, and it appears we have over 600 entrants registered already.
Back soon with some names of those entered in today's event.
We've also spotted Lee Watkinson, Chris Reslock, Shawn Rice, Vanessa Rousso, Allyn Jaffrey Shulman, David Benyamine, David Sklansky, Jordan Morgan, Amnon Filippi, and Jac Arama.
Scotty Nguyen and J.C. Tran are sitting at different tables back-to-back. Nguyen has been getting up and talking to Tran frequently here during the opening hands.
After taking an early hit to her stack, Katja Thater found herself all in before the flop with . The flop came , and her hand held up. She is now back to her starting stack of 3,000.