2009 World Series of Poker

Event 18 - $10,000 World Championship Omaha Hi/Lo 8-or-better
Day: 2
Event Info

2009 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Daniel Alaei
Winning Hand
akk4
Prize
$445,898
Event Info
Buy-in
$10,000
Entries
179
Level Info
Level
26
Blinds
30,000 / 60,000
Ante
0

Day 2 Dawns

Hello and welcome back to our continuing coverage of another World Championship event, the $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi/Lo. Yesterday's action began with 179 hopeful runners duking it out, and a full 50 of them bid farewell by the time the first eight levels were played.

Chris Bjorin surged to the chip lead as the clock ticked down, bagging up 134,400 checks. He just managed to pip Scott Clements, with BigRiskky's stack of 130,800 representing the only near challenger so far. After those top two stacks, it's a big step back to the rest of the field, with everyone else on the underside of 100,000. Those within striking distance of the leaders include Daid Benyamine, Phil Hellmuth, Josh Arieh, and Phil Ivey.

The chip bags are out on the tables, and the players are just beginning to take their seats. We expect to be underway promptly at 2:00pm, so sit tight, we'll be right back with the start of play.

Day 2 Starting Seat Assignments and Chip Counts

Action is scheduled to resume at 2:00 p.m. local time. These table numbers are the official draw, but with our event being moved into the Amazon room at the last minute, the numbers have changed.

(Table 236)
Seat 2: Todd Brunson - 51000
Seat 3: Ville Wahlbeck - 20900
Seat 4: Brent Carter - 18400
Seat 5: Farzad Bonyadi - 20200
Seat 6: Greg Mascio - 40800
Seat 8: Jay Heimowitz - 30100
Seat 9: Jose Paz - 35500

(Table 237)
Seat 1: Ted Lawson - 73000
Seat 2: Brandon Cantu - 21600
Seat 3: Vitaly Lunkin - 11400
Seat 4: Cameron McKinley - 90100
Seat 5: Daniel Shak - 24500
Seat 6: Ward Crane - 59700
Seat 7: Daniel Alaei - 45300
Seat 8: Michel Abecassis - 55000
Seat 9: Jeff Madsen - 55600

(Table 238)
Seat 1: Pat Pezzin - 15000
Seat 2: Perry Friedman - 1600
Seat 3: Justin Smith - 26600
Seat 4: Mel Judah - 44600
Seat 5: Ray Dehkharghani - 36000
Seat 7: David Chiu - 27000
Seat 8: Bill Gazes - 51600
Seat 9: Manny Minaya - 41900

(Table 239)
Seat 1: Tad Jurgens - 36000
Seat 2: Abraham Mosseri - 17500
Seat 3: Phil Tom - 56400
Seat 4: Matt Lefkowitz - 20100
Seat 5: David Steicke - 2500
Seat 6: Shirley Rosario - 1700
Seat 8: Freddy Deeb - 7200
Seat 9: Steve Zolotow - 54300

(Table 240)
Seat 1: Cong Do - 77900
Seat 2: John Juanda - 6200
Seat 3: Phil Ivey - 80000
Seat 4: Greg Jamison - 24400
Seat 5: Jamie Pickering - 59100
Seat 6: Todd Barlow - 16800
Seat 7: Josh Arieh - 82700
Seat 9: Toto Leonidas - 61600

(Table 241)
Seat 1: Rob Hollink - 31300
Seat 2: Matt Savage - 60100
Seat 3: Mark Gregorich - 39700
Seat 4: Mike Wattel - 22900
Seat 5: Doyle Brunson - 22200
Seat 6: Bryan Colin - 74000
Seat 7: Patrick Bueno - 98400
Seat 8: Barry Greenstein - 41600
Seat 9: Stephen Ladowsky - 11700

(Table 242)
Seat 1: Richard Ashby - 63100
Seat 2: Karen Longfellow - 5400
Seat 3: Jean-Robert Bellande - 39100
Seat 4: Jason Lester - 61700
Seat 5: Anthony Rivera - 41500
Seat 6: Chris Bjorin - 134400
Seat 7: Mike Sexton - 30000
Seat 8: Mike Henrich - 27500
Seat 9: Ben Gold - 43500

(Table 243)
Seat 1: Soheil Shamseddin - 74000
Seat 2: Matt Glantz - 37500
Seat 3: Scott Bohlman - 29600
Seat 4: Eric Crain - 25300
Seat 5: Phil Hellmuth - 83700
Seat 6: Jason Gray - 59300
Seat 7: Lamar Johnston - 21400
Seat 8: Richie Sklar - 20100
Seat 9: Nick Schulman - 2200

(Table 244)
Seat 1: Bill Chen - 19100
Seat 2: John Guth - 35400
Seat 3: John Monnette - 49400
Seat 4: Mack Lee - 49100
Seat 5: Ilia Bulichev - 10400
Seat 6: Antony Lellouche - 45300
Seat 7: Richard Toth - 56200
Seat 8: Robert Campbell - 54000
Seat 9: Greg Mueller - 46300

(Table 245)
Seat 1: Jim Grove - 17400
Seat 2: Mike Matusow - 50000
Seat 3: Danny Smith - 33800
Seat 4: Ben Boyd - 44700
Seat 5: Bill Edler - 9000
Seat 6: Jacobo Fernandez - 55500
Seat 7: Fuad Koubi - 18800
Seat 8: Max Reynaud - 70100
Seat 9: John Rogers - 68500

(Table 246)
Seat 1: David "Chino" Rheem - 52500
Seat 2: Phil Gordon - 43200
Seat 3: Simon Kearney - 50800
Seat 4: Annie Duke - 40700
Seat 5: Erick Lindgren - 15600
Seat 6: Bob Turco - 24400
Seat 7: Daniel Fuhs - 26700
Seat 8: Chau Giang - 32100
Seat 9: Ralph Perry - 38500

(Table 247)
Seat 1: Alex Kravchenko - 50000
Seat 2: Yao Shi - 26100
Seat 3: Lee Markholt - 7500
Seat 4: Alexander Kostritsyn - 67500
Seat 5: David Eller - 5100
Seat 6: Martin Corpuz - 10400
Seat 7: Bryan Devonshire - 16200
Seat 9: Kia Hooshmand - 20700

(Table 248)
Seat 1: Jim Geary - 63400
Seat 2: Sammy Farha - 57600
Seat 3: James Pritchard - 26600
Seat 4: Sam Khouiss - 69400
Seat 5: Barry Werthmann - 14100
Seat 6: Thang Luu - 63400
Seat 7: Allen Kessler - 42100
Seat 8: Tom Koral - 99700
Seat 9: Tom Chambers - 25100

(Table 249)
Seat 1: Linda Johnson - 40300
Seat 2: John D'Agostino - 48200
Seat 3: John Hennigan - 31800
Seat 4: James Van Alstyne - 80400
Seat 5: Michael Binger - 59500
Seat 6: Daniel Negreanu - 50000
Seat 7: Pat Rao - 89800
Seat 8: Max Pescatori - 24900
Seat 9: Scott Clements - 130800

(Table 250)
Seat 1: Kirill Gerasimov - 44800
Seat 2: Lonnie Heimowitz - 8300
Seat 3: Scotty Nguyen - 47200
Seat 4: Robert Mizrachi - 53500
Seat 5: Brian Haack - 50500
Seat 6: Brett Richey - 9800
Seat 7: Yueqi Zhu - 43000
Seat 8: David Benyamine - 94800
Seat 9: Bob Slezak - 19200