Event 25 - $2,500 Omaha/Seven Card Stud Hi/Lo 8-or-better Day 1 | 2009 World Series of Poker

06-11-2009 16:24 UTC-12

Hollink Nowhere to Be Seen; Dutch Contingent Down 1/3

Luske - started poker's first ever reversed-accessory trend with his sunglasses

It looks like there were just three entrants from Holland in this event (thanks to some inside information from Dutch Pokernews) and one of the best known of them, Rob Hollink, is no longer in the seat he occupied earlier. Therefore I am going to suggest he's in fact busto. That leaves Marcel Luske and one other flying the Dutch hi-low flag. Poker is booming in Holland right now, and the European circuit doesn't seem to be able to host an event without a young Dutch player winning it. But how will they fare in the WSOP? Something tells me the $2,500 Omaha/Stud event might not be the best barometer, actually.

Tags: Marcel Luske Rob Hollink

06-11-2009 16:13 UTC-12

Show Me the Money (Even If It's Very Far Off)

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I suppose it's good to know what you're aiming for, and with the final number of players set at 376, we can tell you what prizes wait at the end of three days of hi-low Omaha and Stud...

1 $220,538
2 $136,292
3 $89,342
4 $61,919
5 $45,237
6 $34,747
7 $27,993
8 $23,600
9-10 $16,517
11-12 $13,274
13-14 $10,481
15-16 $8,198
17-24 $6,434
25-32 $5,197
33-40 $4,393

06-11-2009 16:06 UTC-12

Steve Wong Flushed With Success

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I'm sure you can now guess the hand which won him a 5k+ pot just now in hi-low Stud. Wong bet the river showing [XXX] {9-Clubs}

and was called by Davidson Matthew who held [XXX] {3-Diamonds}

. Matthew, who sounds like he's made of surnames, mucked when shown the {5-Clubs}

to finish off Wong's hand.

Tags: Davidson Matthews Steve Wong

06-11-2009 15:59 UTC-12

Slight Al-levy-ation of Short Stack

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David Levy's lustrous perm was looking like it may not make the second break just now as he had only 1k left to chip-riffle as a Stud hand drew to its conclusion. There was one bet on fourth and fifth streets (Levy check-called the latest), leaving the two players showing:

David Levy: {4-Diamonds}

Opponent:

Now the betting slowed, and Levy was left to show his two pair ( {4-?}

in the hole) which picked up a much needed pot and boosted him back to 2,425.

Tags: David Levy

06-11-2009 15:51 UTC-12

Annie Dukes It Out with Krause

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One for the Germans now, as Andreas Krause gets paid by Annie Duke on the river in Stud-8. I only know the very last action in the pot, a check-call from Duke holding [XXX] {5-Clubs}

vs. Krause's [XXX] {4-Diamonds}

. He showed his {K-Spades}

, and the kings up were enough to win him the pot. His stack up to 10,500.

Tags: Andreas Krause Annie Duke

Level: 4

Blinds: 0/0

Ante: 0

06-11-2009 15:35 UTC-12

Sonny Side Up

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A 2,200 Omaha hi-lo pot just went the way of UK player Sonny Osman. It was caught from the turn, where he was betting a {10-Diamonds}

board into Cyndy Violette. She made the call, and saw a {2-Diamonds}

river. He bet once more (300) and this time she thought for a while, but made the call.

He showed {A-Hearts}

which appeared to be good enough as the pot shipped his way. Just because these games aren't super popular across the pond, doesn't mean there aren't a few who've played them a good while and are prepared to take on a sea of Americans...

06-11-2009 15:03 UTC-12

Chess vs. Scrabble; Poker Wins

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Chris Ferguson, whom I somehow failed to notice on the first sweep despite his being one of the most distinctive people in poker, has been chatting away with his table. Passing by, you only get snippets of conversations, but this one seemed to be about the millions of combinations of moves in chess vs. those in scrabble. Perry Friedman was just commenting about the starting moves in Scrabble when he had to pay attention to an Omaha hand.

He raised under the gun (300), called by the big blind only. The bb check-called on the {Q-Diamonds}

flop.

The turn was the {6-Spades}

. Check to Friedman again, who bet and was quickly raised. He repopped it to 900 - call.

The river: {4-Clubs}

Now there was a quick double-check, as Friedman said, "I missed the diamonds."

"What diamonds did you have," said the bb, showing the second nut flush draw and Aces: {A-Hearts}

.

"Just the nut diamond draw," replied Friedman, showing {A-Diamonds}

for the low. Chop chop!

Tags: Chris Ferguson Perry Friedman

06-11-2009 14:56 UTC-12

A Couple of Counts, a Couple of Darios

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It looks like Dario Alioto and Dario Minieri are destined to share tables this summer. If they hadn't had enough of each other during day one of the $10k Deuce-to-seven yesterday, they've got more bonding time on the Omaha/Stud-8 starting day.

Dario Minieri - 8,600
Dario Alioto - 9,200

More chip counts:

James Mackey - 7,000
Michael Mizrachi - 7,000
Pat Pezzin - 6,800
Jennifer Harman - 9,000
Justin Young - 7,000
Mel Judah - 12,000
Shannon Elizabeth - 7,400
Todd Brunson - 7,500

Tags: Michael Mizrachi Shannon Elizabeth

06-11-2009 14:50 UTC-12

Chip Count Time

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This being a limit tournament, and a hi-low one at that, there have been no insta-bustouts or huge early pots. But the chips have been slowly but surely changing hands, and here are a few stacks to give you some idea into whose paws they've fallen (I have yet to see a stack beating Lisandro, though):

Perry Friedman - 6,300
Amnon Filippi - 11,350
Carol Kline - 9,400
Aurangzeb 'Ozzy87' Sheikh - 4,025
Vitaly Lunkin - 9,000
Sebastian Ruthenberg - 6,400
Allen Kessler - 7,150
Jeff Madsen - 7,050
Michael Keiner - 10,500
Thor Hansen - 7,000
Katja Thater - 6,100
Linda Johnson - 9,350
Chris Ferguson - 9,400
Joe Serock - 9,000
Jeff Lisandro - 14,200
Raymond Davis - 9,300
Gavin Smith - 15,000
Brett Richey - 6,500
Chad Brown - 6,000
Esther 'E-tay' Taylor - 5,500
Daniel Negreanu - 8,000
Jacob Fernandez - 8,000
Eli Elezra - 3,300
Brett Jungblut - 6,000
Layne Flack - 4,500
Cyndy Violette - 5,000
Hollywood Dave Stann - 9,000
Annie Duke - 9,000
Andy Bloch - 4,000
Sam Khouiss- 8,000
Jon Turner - 11,500
Chau Giang - 8,500
David Levy - 3,000
Phil Ivey - 7,800

Tags: Jeff Lisandro Perry Friedman Phil Ivey