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Day 1 Completed
2008 World Series of Poker
Event 6 - $1,500 Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better
Day: 1
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Here's how the top ten shapes up entering Day 2 action:
James van Alstyne 39,200
Richard Ashby 38,800
Ben Tang 32,000
James Hinton 30,800
Bryan Devonshire 29,100
Carl Restifo 27,600
Rick Burke 26,200
Jimmy Fricke 25,700
Roland Isra 25,700
Yuebin Guo 25,100
Play resumes at 3 pm in the Amazon Room as the field will attempt to play down to a final table.
Around 200 players have made it through the day, with our chip leaders heading into Day 2 including James Van Alstyne, Richard Ashby and Scott Clements. We'll have the complete list of chip counts of the survivors for you here as soon as they come to hand.
Day 2 recommences at 3 p.m. tomorrow and we look forward to your company again then!
. Thater held 
for top two pair but trailed the 
of her opponent who had made a straight.The river landed the
to ensure that Thater would not return on day 2.
It looks like Wolfe will get the last laugh of the day as he'll bag up around 18,000 chips while Marcus will head into day 2 with only around 13,000.
, Jimmy Fricke bets and receives two callers. One of the callers is all in. On a turn of 
, Fricke bet 1,000 and received a call. On a river of 
, Fricke again bet 1,000 and received another call. Fricke turned over
for the nut low. The all-in player mucked her hand and Fricke's other opponent showed 
for the nut low and nut flush.Fricke sits around 19,000 in chips.
Nguyen and Allen Kessler took a flop of
and Kessler let out with a bet of 500. Nguyen raised to 1,000 and Kessler raised once again to put Nguyen all in. He made the call and the cards were flipped.Kessler:
Nguyen:
The turn arrived the
and river and Kessler made the wheel for the low and a six-high straight for the high hand to scoop the pot and eliminate a courageous Nguyen from the tournament.
and Kessler called. Kessler showed 
for a low and Nguyen showed 
for a set of eights.Apparently the dealer misread Nguyen's hand and went to try and muck it. Nguyen gets angry and stops the dealer and says "Don't touch my cards. You try to kill my hand. I have two pair."
Nguyen's issues with dealers in today's event continues.
, Shannon Elizabeth put in her last 1,000. She received one caller. Elizabeth turned over 
for the nut full house. Unfortunately for the guys in her section, her opponent held the only hand that could beat her when he turned over 
for quad fives.
