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

06-12-2009 12:39 UTC-12

Down to 80

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That's how many players are still contending this Omaha/Stud hi-lo $2,500 event. Exactly half of them will make the money. Average chips now just over 35k...here are a selection of counts from the last 15 mins:

Mel Judah - 39k
David Bach - 11k
Can Hua - 27k
Toto Leonidas - 35k
Chip Jett - 14k
Blake Cahail - 29k
Jon Turner - 50k
Thomas Bihl - 45k
Shirley Rosario - 37k
Carol Kline - 24k
Chad Brown - 67k
Jennifer Harman - 36k

06-12-2009 12:29 UTC-12

Ivey Leads From The Front

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The pots are just getting bigger and bigger! Another big multi-way pot has seen Phil Ivey chip up after the pot was chopped.

Ivey tabled {7-Spades}

(

) for two pair for the high to chop with an opponent showing {7-Clubs}

(

) for the low.

Ivey moves up 85,000 chips.

Tags: Phil Ivey

06-12-2009 12:29 UTC-12

Clements Goes from Grain to Bowl of Rice, then Back to Grain

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Scott Clements was in 'wait for it...wait for it...all-in as soon as possible in limit format' mode with just 4,600. Fortunately for him, the game had just switched to Omaha hi-lo and the antes weren't eroding his stack at every hand for a short while. He bided his time for two hands, then raised preflop over utg limper who was probably Stuart Spivack, if my seating plan can still be relied upon.

Clements raised by throwing his remaining stack over the line - but this being limit it actually took until the turn for him to get the full call out of Spivack.

Clements: {3-Hearts}

Spivack:

The board: {5-Hearts}

At this point Clements had the low already, but two little pair were beating his Kings with flush and straight draws. The {K-Clubs}

on the river cemented his scoop, though, and he was back to 11k.

Almost immediately thereafter, Carol Kline all but busted him in a Stud hand, making a straight and a six-low and leaving him with an-all-but-felted 100! What a day.

Tags: Carol Kline Scott Clements

06-12-2009 12:20 UTC-12

Going Dutch

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Carlos Mortensen has taken a hit in an interesting multi-way Omaha-8 hand that went the way of Dutch Boyd.

With raises preflop and on the flop, the turn was checked as three players saw the river fall to produce a board of {10-Hearts}

.

The action checked to Mortensen who fired a bet with just Boyd making the call. Mortensen rolled over {A-?}

for a busted low draw as Boyd scooped with {A-Spades}

for a pair of aces.

Boyd is up to 80,000 with Mortensen back to 30,000.

Tags: Carlos Mortensen Dutch Boyd

Level: 12

Blinds: 0/0

Ante: 0

06-12-2009 12:07 UTC-12

Chau Did He Miss With That?!

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Giang, pictured running better in the prior PLO8 tournament

Chau Giang, with a chunky stack over 60k, just got himself in a great position against not one but two all-in short stacks on fourth street. He flipped his whole hand so that they could see what they were up against: {A-Diamonds}

. Winces all round from the both of them whose hands were nowhere near as promising.

Fifth for Giang: {5-Spades}

Sixth:

Seventh:

Amazingly a pair of eights from one of the short stacks scooped this pot, busting the other one. "What are the odds of that?" asked an incredulous tablemate. Giang just smiled and shook his head.

Tags: Chau Giang

06-12-2009 12:06 UTC-12

Prize Pool and Payout Information

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The prize pool and payouts have now been entered with the top 40 players set to go home with a profit while 1st place will collect the coveted WSOP bracelet and a very tidy $220,538.

06-12-2009 12:00 UTC-12

Harman Chips Up

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Jennifer Harman and Gavin Smith have just chopped a pot of Stud-8 with Harman collecting the high with two pair as Smith made an eight-low. After the hand there was some confusion by the dealer as to who should get the extra chip in the pot. It was tossed to Smith, but then corrected to be given to Harman.

"See how many chips he has...I need every chip I can get!" laughed Harman, as the dealer still seemed confused.

However Harman didn't have to worry about needing chips a few minutes later as she scooped a pot to eliminate a short-stacked player. The action folded around to Harman who attacked the bring-in. Her opponent raised and led the betting on fourth street before being all in on fifth.

Harman: ( {9-Diamonds}

)

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)
Opponent: ( {10-Diamonds}

)

(X)

Harman improved dramatically to make a full house and leave her opponent headed for the rail. She's now up to about 28,000 chips.

Tags: Jennifer Harman

06-12-2009 11:53 UTC-12

Ivey Loses Pot

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Yes, that's news today seeing as he's looked unstoppable since play resumed. He's suffered a knock back from 83k to 74k after getting to the river in Stud hi-lo showing [XXX] {10-Hearts}

vs. Mr. Opponent's shown down [ {A-Spades}

]

which was enough to get a muck from the erstwhile chip leader.

Tags: Phil Ivey

06-12-2009 11:45 UTC-12

Can Hua-lves Stack

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Start of day chip leader Can Hua is down to just 26k after levels 9 and 10 didn't go his way at all. The start of level 11 saw him lose a 16k pot to Mark Scott, too, with Scott check-raising him on the river on a board of {5-Spades}

. Hua paused for a while before calling the final 2,400 - only to be shown {A-Diamonds}

for Aces and a six-low. That was good for the whole pot.

Other counts from that table and the neighbouring ones:

Alexandra Vuong - 17,000
Joe Serock - 44,000
Blair Rodman - 34,000
Jon Turner - 30,600
Ron Winkelvoss - 23,200
Frank Debus - 46,600
Barry Gassen - 22,300
Mel Judah - 13,000
Mark Scott - 42,000
Chip Jett - 17,000
Toto Leonidas - 51,000
Steve Wong - 60,000
William Buckley - 39,000
Desmond Portano - 15,800
Tad Jurgens - 60,000
Jeff Duvall - 67,000

Tags: Can Hua