Event 34 - $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha w/Rebuys Day 1 | 2008 World Series of Poker

06-19-2008 00:46 UTC-7

Gavin Griffin Eliminated

Shamus

Tags: Gavin Griffin

06-19-2008 00:41 UTC-7

Moving Up, Holding Steady, Hitting the Rail

Shamus

Kyle Kloeckner has cracked the 300,000 mark.

Steven "Cornell Fiji" Ware is hanging on, having chipped up to 53,000.

Peter Gould has been eliminated.

Tags: Kyle Kloeckner Peter Gould Steven Ware

06-19-2008 00:36 UTC-7

Vizza Still Atop Leaderboard

Shamus

Frank Vizza has maintained his chip lead since winning those two huge pots back in Level 8. He currently sits with 351,000.

Tags: Frank Vizza

06-19-2008 00:34 UTC-7

Two Chips and a Chair

MarcC

Peter Gould went to war with a fellow short stack on a flop of {4-Diamonds}

Gould had

but was in bad shape against his opponent's {A-Diamonds}

.

The turn {A-Hearts}

and river

sealed the deal and Gould was down to two 100 chips.

Tags: Peter Gould

Level: 10

Blinds: 800/1,600

Ante: 0

06-19-2008 00:28 UTC-7

Seidel Busts Tran

Shamus

J.C. Tran pushed all in on a flop of {Q-Clubs}

, and Erik Seidel called.

Tran: {6-Hearts}

Seidel:

The turn and river didn't help Tran, and he is gone. Seidel now has 92,000.

Tags: Erik Seidel J.C. Tran

06-19-2008 00:27 UTC-7

Thomas Wahlroos took two hands to bust Scott Clements. The first hand saw Wahlroos make a set of kings on the river where he managed to get Clements to pay him off. That put Clements down to 16,000.

It wasn't long before Clements pushed all in preflop and it was Wahlroos who called him.

Clements had {K-Clubs}

.
Wahlroos had {A-Hearts}

.

The board didn't help Clements and he busted.

Wahlroos up to 168,000.

Tags: Scott Clements Thomas Wahlroos

06-19-2008 00:26 UTC-7

Makowsky Takes Chips from Giannetti

Shamus

On a flop of {J-Hearts}

, Matt Giannetti bet 11,700, Daniel Makowsky raised to 47,000 behind him, and Giannetti called.

The turn was the {6-Spades}

. Giannetti went all in with his last 105,000. Makowsky thought a moment and called.

Giannetti showed {J-Diamonds}

-x-x for top two. Makowsky had A-A-x-x with two hearts. A six on the river paired the board, giving Makowsky the hand. He's up to 260,000, while Giannetti has tumbled to 30,000.

Tags: Daniel Makowsky Matt Giannetti

06-19-2008 00:20 UTC-7

Griffin Takes a Tumble

Shamus

Gavin Griffin raised to 3,500 from under the gun, a late-position player reraised to 12,300, and Griffin called.

Griffin checked the {8-Spades}

flop, and the late-position player pushed the rest of his 13,000 chips forward. Griffin called, showing {K-Diamonds}

. His opponent held {A-Spades}

. The turn and river didn't help Griffin, and he was down a little to 128,000.

Soon after, Griffin found himself in a raising war with Jerrod Ankenman on a board of {J-Diamonds}

. The river brought the {9-Clubs}

and Ankenman pushed his last 53,000 all in.

"God, you didn't go runner-runner on me," said Griffin before making the call. He didn't -- he had 5-5-x-x for quad fives. Griffin mucked in disgust.

Griffin is suddenly down to 38,000. Ankenman has 198,500.

Tags: Gavin Griffin Jerrod Ankenman

06-19-2008 00:06 UTC-7

22 to Go Before Payday

MarcC

59 players remain here in the Amazon room and 36 get paid. No one expected it at the beginning of the day but we might actually reach the money in the last 80 minutes of play.

I'm not sure the floor staff are fully prepared to deal with paying the players!