2009 World Series of Poker

Event 3 - $1,500 Omaha Hi/Lo 8-or-better
Day: 2
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Event Info
2009 World Series of Poker
Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
q987
Prize
$263,135
Event Info
Buy-in
$1,500
Entries
918
Level Info
Level
27
Blinds
30,000 / 60,000
Ante
0
Players Left 1 / 918
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Big Stacks in Control

The play has been nice and steady since hitting the money. The bigger stacks at each table seem to be driving the action and winning most of their confrontations with the shorter stacks to send them to the rail. We're down to under 40 players left in the field and there's a bust out every couple of minutes.

Another reason things are going this way is that all the big stacks are spread out around the tournament room, so they can't really bother one another.

Sebastian Ruthenberg Keeps Rolling On

In another big hand, Sebastian Ruthenberg took down a nice pot in a three-way hand with Alex Michaels and Jim Geary.

On a board of {4-Hearts}{5-Hearts}{J-Hearts}{9-Diamonds}, Geary folded to Ruthenberg's bet, and Michaels went to the river where he called another bet after the {7-Spades} fell.

Michaels mucked his hand after Ruthenberg showed {A-Clubs}{2-Spades}{5-Clubs}{J-Clubs} to scoop the pot.

With that pot, Ruthenberg now has 260,000 chips

Level: 18

Blinds: 3,000/6,000

Ante: 0

Layne Flack Eliminated in 44th Place ($5,651)

We caught this hand in progress.

Layne Flack got all his chips in the middle on a board of jack-4-2-3 with two hearts. Flack was holding ace-3-jack-queen double suited for both a nut flush and a nut low draw, but failed to improve against Andreas Foulias who held ace-5-x-x for a wheel.

Flack took home $5,651 for his play

Four Fast Eliminations

It didn't take long for the action to heat up after the last break. In the first few minutes since play has resumed, the following players have hit the rail:

50 - Thomas Hunt
51 - Dale Kadota
52 - Dale Kunkle
53 - Chip Jett

Each player earned $4,925 for their efforts.