On the other hand, Bryan Devonshire has been eliminated from today's event.
2009 World Series of Poker
Event 3 - $1,500 Omaha Hi/Lo 8-or-better
Day: 1
Event Info
2009 World Series of Poker
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
$1,500
Entries
918
Level
27
Blinds
30,000 / 60,000
Ante
0
Players Left 1 / 918
Filter
(1)
On the other hand, Bryan Devonshire has been eliminated from today's event.
There are 801 players remaining.
Level: 5
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 0
Mike, who still has a stack in the $40K event, which is also running here in the Amazon Room. At last count, Mike is near the bottom of the pack in that tourney, with 165,000 chips. While he tries to rebuild his stack in the $40K event, his chips here in the Omaha field are slowly being blinded off. He's got about 2,150 remaining with blinds at 100/200.
While reporting from here in the Amazon Room, Allen Cunningham twittered the following from the Brasilia Room: "New personal best for this year's World Series. Lasted 4 hours."
Thanks Allen. And good game.
Michael Binger raised from under the gun and action folded back to the blinds, who each called. On a flop of
, both blinds check-called Binger's bet. Action checked to Binger again on the turn, which brought the 
. This time, the big blind called while the small blind folded.Binger led out again when the
hit the river, and chopped the pot when the big blind tabled 
for the low, while Binger showed 
for the high. The hand brought Binger's chip stack to 8,500.
and Annie Duke led out. The first player, in middle position, called and then Phil Hellmuth made the call as well.The turn brought the
and Duke checked first action. The middle-position player bet and Hellmuth called before Duke called, too.After the river fell the
, pairing the board, the first two players checked to Hellmuth. He fired out a bet and Duke thought about things for a few moments. Finally, she made the call as did the middle-position player.Showdown:
Duke: (mucks)
MP Player:
Hellmuth:
Hellmuth scooped the low half of the pot with a nut low and the middle-position player scooped the high half with aces up. Duke could beat neither and mucked her hand. She is now down to around 2,000 chips with Hellmuth moving up to over 9,000.
The flop came down
and the small blind bet. Elezra made the call and the turn brought the . The small blind bet again and Elezra again called.After the river came the
, the small blind checked and then Elezra fired. His opponent called and then mucked when Eli showed him 
for two pair and a live four as a low.Scooping that pot put Elezra over 15,000 chips.
Chip Jett - 8,600
David "Chino" Rheem - 8,200
Layne Flack - 8,000
Shaun Deeb - 6,500
John Kabbaj - 6,200
Dutch Boyd - 6,000
Ted Lawson - 6,000
Andy Bloch - 5,700
Kristy Gazes - 5,000
Paul Darden - 4,200
Jonathan "FatalError" Aguiar - 1,750
before two more players checked as well. The button bet, Phan raised, the next player folded, and the following player called.Action would be three ways to the turn and the card was the
. Phan led with a bet and the next player folded. The button called, though.The river was the
and both Phan and his opponent checked. Phan turned up 
to best his opponent's 
with two pair. Neither player held a low hand and Phan scooped the pot. Phan now has approximately 13,000.
