Event 3 - $1,500 Omaha Hi/Lo 8-or-better Day 2 | 2009 World Series of Poker

05-30-2009 17:54 UTC-12

Play Has Resumed

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Players are back from the break and cards are in the air.

Level: 17

Blinds: 3,000/5,000

Ante: 0

05-30-2009 17:28 UTC-12

Break Time

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The players are on a 20-minute break. We'll be at 4,000/8,000 when we return.

05-30-2009 17:26 UTC-12

Sebastian Ruthenberg won the $5,000 Seven-Card Stud Hi/Lo World Championship last year here at the WSOP and also won EPT Barcelona. He has stormed his way to the top of the leaderboard with over 180,000 chips. Mind you, Ruthenberg has been reading the Omaha 8-or-better section of Doyle Brunson's Super/System 2 all day long. Must be working.

Tags: Sebastian Ruthenberg

05-30-2009 17:10 UTC-12

Story Time With Layne Flack

donpeters

Over at table #60, Layne Flack recenetly told a story about how he may have cheated once in poker when he was younger. "In fact, this may be the one and only time I've ever cheated in poker, but it wasn't really my fault." he said.

According to Layne, the story goes that he was about 20 years old playing a $20-40 game with almost all of his money on the table. The dealer dealt Flack two cards, both deuces. Flack looked at the back of the cards and realized one was brown and one was green, meaning he had a hand from two mixed decks. Figuring he had a better chance of flopping a set, Flack played the hand and covered up the wrong color card. He did in fact flop a set and got paid with a good amount of action.

Revealing his hand at the end was easy because the two deuces weren't off the same suit. But when he had to flip them back over to go into the muck, Layne made sure to do so extremely quickly and then fling them hard into the pile of mucked cards.

Layne went on to say, "I looked at the dealer and said, 'Hey, you've got a brown card in the deck.'"

Tags: Layne Flack

05-30-2009 17:10 UTC-12

Sebastian Ruthenberg Pads His Stack

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On a flop of {J-Clubs}

, Micah Brooks check-called a bet put in by Sebastian Ruthenberg. Brooks also check-called the {6-Clubs}

on the turn and {7-Spades}

on the river.

When the betting was done, Ruthenberg turned over {A-Hearts}

for the nut low and three 7s for the high. After Brooks mucked, his stack fell to 68,000 while Ruthenberg is now sitting on 152,000.

05-30-2009 17:02 UTC-12

Julie Schneider Eliminated in 58th Place ($4,361)

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Julie Schneider (wife of two-time bracelet winner Tom Schneider) was eliminated after running into the full house of Layne Flack. She is eliminated in 58th place, collecting $4,361.

Layne Flack is now up to 122,000.

Tags: Julie Schneider Layne Flack

05-30-2009 17:01 UTC-12

More Eliminations

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Six more players have hit the rail.

58 - Julie Schneider
59 - Casey Kay
60 - Matt Savage
61 - Delmiro Toledo
62 - Kristopher Young
63 - Clinton Steelman

Each of the eliminated players earned $4,361 for their efforts.

05-30-2009 17:01 UTC-12

Toledo Torpedoed

donpeters

Delmiro Toledo was all in preflop against Micah Brooks and Morten Holm. The flop came down {A-Clubs}

and Brooks checked. Holm bet and Brooks called. The turn brought the {10-Clubs}

and Brooks checked. Holm bet again and Holm called again.

The river was the {Q-Spades}

and Brooks checked. Holm bet and Brooks made the call.

To determine the winner of the side pot first, Holm showed {7-Spades}

. Brooks couldn't beat tens full of sevens and mucked his hand.

Toledo showed {A-Spades}

and couldn't win either. He was eliminated from the tournament while Holm moved atop the leaderboard to 175,000 chips.

Brooks dropped to about 100,000.

Tags: Delmiro Toledo Micah Brooks Morten Holm

05-30-2009 16:51 UTC-12

Matt Savage Eliminated in 60th ($4,361)

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After nursing a short stack for most of the day, Matt Savage got chopped up and knocked out of the tournament by Freddy Deeb and Jordan Rich.

Savage earned $4,361 for his play.