Event 50 - $10,000 Pot Limit Omaha World Championship Day 1 | 2008 World Series of Poker

06-29-2008 14:26 UTC-7

Play Resumes

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Cards are in the air.

06-29-2008 14:02 UTC-7

Players Are on a Break

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Play will resume in twenty minutes.

06-29-2008 13:57 UTC-7

Victor Ramdin caught a much-needed double up when he flopped bottom set against one opponent who held an overpair to the board. The two got all their chips in and when the dust settled, Ramdin's set of deuces held up. He now has about 9,700 chips.

06-29-2008 13:54 UTC-7

Noah Boeken Takes One Out

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We pick up a flop between Noah Boeken and a short-stacked player. The board shows {J-Hearts}

and action is checked to Boeken. He bets the pot, and his opponent moves all in over the top. Boeken calls, showing down {A-Clubs}

. His opponent is at risk and drawing with his {A-Hearts}

. The turn and river brick off, coming down {2-Clubs}

,

, and Boeken sends his man to the rail.

06-29-2008 13:47 UTC-7

Greenstein Gets 75 Minutes Off

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A tough break for Barry Greenstein. After Jonas Entin raised preflop with {A-Spades}

, Greenstein reraised with {K-?}

XX. Entin made the call, then called again when the flop came {K-Spades}

to give Entin a set of queens and a royal draw.

The perfect trap card for Greenstein hit the turn -- the case queen, which gave Greenstein top full house but also made quads for Entin. By the river, Greenstein was all in and Entin made an easy call, relieving Greenstein of every single chip he held and bumping his own stack up to 50,000.

With that, Greenstein can spend the next hour and fifteen minutes focusing on the upcoming $50K HORSE final table.

Tags: Barry Greenstein Jonas Entin

06-29-2008 13:46 UTC-7

Table Talk

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Erick Lindgren and Barry Greenstein are getting in some last-minute Omaha practice before they begin the final table of the $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. event in just over an hour.

With tongue in cheek, Andy Bloch asked Lindgren, "Aren't you the chip leader in something?"

Lindgren replied, "Not this. What am I gonna do for three hours? I didn't set my alarm."

06-29-2008 13:40 UTC-7

So Long, E-Fro

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Another hand, another elimination. Eric Froehlich is out. He got all his chips in the middle on a {3-Clubs}

board with {A-?}

XX and was called by an opponent with {10-?}

XX. Froehlich's opponent's two pair held up through the turn and the river.

06-29-2008 13:37 UTC-7

Down in Front!

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Play near Blue #16 seems to have come to a halt as players on that entire side of the room are on their feet to watch the end of the Euro 2008 final between Germany and Spain. Germany looked poor most of the game, giving up a fairly soft goal to Spain near the end of the first half. That goal provided the decisive 1-0 margin of victory.

Scattered, half-hearted applause broke out in the room at the end of the game. With that, players returned to their seats for their regularly scheduled degeneracy.

06-29-2008 13:32 UTC-7

Jamie Gold Gone

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Jame Gold, Scott Clements, and a third party were recently involved in a big pot. There were a total of six limpers that went to the flop, and it came {10-Clubs}

. Action was checked to a player in middle position, and he bet out 700. Scott Clements called, and Jamie Gold raised it up to 3,150. The bettor called, and Clements came back with a reraise to 4,800 and all in. Next is Jamie Gold again, and he moves all in over the top himself. The original bettor calls both bets, completing the action for the hand. The turn and river run out {7-Diamonds}

and

respectively.

Jamie Gold turns over {Q-Diamonds}

, having missed his straight but finding bottom two pair. The original bettor flips over {A-Clubs}

, having flopped top two pair. Scott Clements turns over the winner though, showing {10-Spades}

for second set with triple tens. He rakes in a big pot and knocks Jamie Gold out of here early.

06-29-2008 13:29 UTC-7

Deeb Eliminated

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Pot-limit Omaha is a game of huge swings, a game made for action junkies. It's no surprise then, even with 100 big blinds in their starting stack and a rebuy chip worth another 100 big blinds, that some players have already been eliminated. Add Freddy Deeb's name to that list.

Deeb called a bet of 600 on a flop of {Q-Spades}