Event 37 - $10,000 Omaha Hi-Low World Championship | 2008 World Series of Poker

06-21-2008 17:23 UTC-7

Car! Game On!

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Players are now back from break.

Level: 20

Blinds: 10,000/20,000

Ante: 0

06-21-2008 17:25 UTC-7

Announcement on Balancing of Tables

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At present we are at 11 players. Six players are on one table and five are on the other. In the interest of fairness, the floor staff has announced that if we haven't lost a player in 20 minutes that they will move the big blind to the short handed table. This will continue every 20 minutes until we lose a player.

Chances are, with three stacks having five big bets or less, this will not occur more than once or twice.

06-21-2008 17:28 UTC-7

Clash Between Chip Leaders

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David Benyamine raised preflop from under the gun and Toto Leonidas three-bet from the button. The other players folded as Benyamine made the call.

The flop came {Q-Spades}

and Benyamine checked to Leonidas, who fired out a bet. Benyamine made the call.

The turn was the {Q-Diamonds}

and both players checked.

The river was the {3-Diamonds}

and again both players checked.

Benyamine showed {K-Clubs}

for kings and queens, which was apparently good, as Leonidas mucked his hand.

Tags: David Benyamine Toto Leonidas

06-21-2008 17:40 UTC-7

Shun Uchida Eliminated in 11th Place ($38,657)

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Shun Uchida raised it up from the button and David Benyamine reraised from the small blind. Ram Vaswani went into the tank from the big blind before eventually folding his hand. Uchida then reraised and Benyamine called.

The flop came {8-Spades}

and Benyamine bet out, with Uchida tossing the last of his remaining chips into the middle.

Benyamine: {K-Spades}

Uchida:

The turn brought the {2-Spades}

and the river {7-Spades}

, and Benyamine takes the pot with kings and eights to eliminate Uchida in 11th place for $38,657 in prize money.

Tags: David Benyamine Shun Uchida

06-21-2008 17:44 UTC-7

Table Redraw

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The players have just redrawn to form a single table of ten players.

Seat 1: Hieu 'Tony' Ma
Seat 2: Jason Gray
Seat 3: Ram Vaswani
Seat 4: Toto Leonidas
Seat 5: Berry Johnston
Seat 6: David Chiu
Seat 7: Mike Matusow
Seat 8: David Benyamine
Seat 9: Greg Jamison
Seat 10: Eugene Katchalov

Play will recommence in a few moments' time.

06-21-2008 17:50 UTC-7

Matusow Introduces The Table

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As the players were taking their seats Mike Matusow went around the entire table introducing each player to the fans on the rail in a tongue-in-cheek style that only "The Mouth" can deliver. He had no problems until he got around to Eugene Katchalov in seat ten - "This is the only guy who's name I don't even know!"

06-21-2008 17:52 UTC-7

Chip Count Update

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The chip counts for the last ten players have been updated with David Benyamine holding the lead, with Berry Johnston working with the short stack.

For full details and live updates please visit our Chip Counts page.

06-21-2008 17:54 UTC-7

David Chiu Strikes First

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David Chiu has claimed the first significant pot of this last table after scooping a pot against Tony Ma and David Benyamine. Chiu is now out in front on 840,000.

Tags: David Chiu