Michael Schwartz is the short stack at the moment with 109,000.
2008 World Series of Poker
Event 34 - $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha w/Rebuys
Day: 2
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Michael Schwartz is the short stack at the moment with 109,000.
Hagens bet the turn and Forrest called. Hagens bet the river too and normally this would cause Forrest to stop and think if his opponent had the nut flush but seeing as Hagen only had about 8,000 back, this wasn't a worry.
Forrest duly put him all-in and was happy with the results.
Having rebought 20-plus times, he was in for over $30,000, but the $36,106 that awaits the 12th-place winner means he's guaranteed to end this one in the black.
Level: 17
Blinds: 6,000/12,000
Ante: 0
"I mean, think about this," said Ted Forrest to Nathan Hagens, wishing to draw a distinction. "The Siegfried and Roy show... They carry a 300-lb. tiger on their back. You're not gonna carry a grizzly bear on your back...."
"No fun the first time I did it!" yelled Layne Flack from the other table.
Flack showed
.Azares showed
.The flop came
to which Flack commented 'Wow, what a flop for me. Top set and open-ended straight draw'.The turn
and river
sealed the deal and we lose another player, ever creeping closer to the final table.Flack then jumped about celebrating, having burst his own private bubble. He finally reached a payout level greater than the amount of his outlayed rebuys.
On a flop of


, Michael Guzzardi bet the pot, Wahlroos reraised with his entire 163,000, and Guzzardi called.Guzzardi held



-- he'd flopped the nut flush. Wahlroos had 


-- he'd flopped top set. The turn brought the
and the river the
, and Wahlroos was done. "There was so much money in the pot, I had to gamble," he said afterwards.Guzzardi is now up to 810,000. He and Kyle Kloeckner are at the top of the leaderboard at the moment.
Lechich:




Wahlroos:




Azares:




Aces don't fare too well versus two others in PLO. But this time, the board ran out




, and Wahlroos held on to win the pot.Lechich is out, Wahlroos is up to 193,000, and Azares is down to 90,000.