Event 40 - $10,000 World Championship Pot Limit Omaha Day 1 | 2009 World Series of Poker

06-20-2009 12:32 UTC-12

Quuuuaaaaaaaaddddsssssss!

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Not a good start today for the Italian Dario Minieri. With the board reading {7-Clubs}

, he called a 5,000 bet on the river from his opponent, only to be shown {8-Diamonds}

for quads.

06-20-2009 12:31 UTC-12

The World Championship events always bring the cream of the crop to the felt and today's field is no exception.

Many tables are starting off short-handed, but during our first pass of the nearby tables we spotted John Juanda, Tom McEvoy, Berry Johnson, Humberto Brenes, Erik Seidel, Noah Boeken, David Benyamine, Nikolay Edvakov, Dario Minieri and Sam Khouiss (who are seated together on a table which is currently four-handed), and duel-bracelet winner Brock Parker.

06-20-2009 12:25 UTC-12

Triple Chance

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Today's tournament is a triple chance tournament. Each player gets 10,000 chips with two second chance chips worth 10,000 each, which can be taken at any time, but must be taken by the end of level three.

It remains to be seen whether players will take them all at once or decide to wait for now.

06-20-2009 12:25 UTC-12

Shuffle Up and Deal!

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The players have taken their seats with the board currently displaying 226 entrants, but we expect that number to climb until registrations close.

The immortal words have been spoken and the cards are in the air!

Level: 1

Blinds: 50/100

Ante: 0

06-20-2009 12:11 UTC-12

Slight Delay

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The players are slowly taking their seats for today's $10,000 Pot Limit Omaha World Championship. It looks like the start time has been bumped back a few minutes to allow the late-comers a chance to register, so we're about ten minutes away from a start.

06-20-2009 10:38 UTC-12

$10,000 Pot Limit Omaha World Championship

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Welcome back to our continued live coverage of the 2009 World Series of Poker. Incredibly, after a blur of events over the past four weeks, we've now reached Event #40 of the series, and it's a biggie - the $10,000 Pot Limit Omaha World Championship.

Outside of the Main Event and the $50k HORSE, this event is one that excites the pros more than any the others. PLO is an action game, with plenty of big pots and big names set to hit the felt in around 90 minutes -- 5pm local time.

Last year, 381 players participated in this event with Marty Smyth capturing the title and a whopping $859,532 in prize money.

With another huge prize pool expected and another bracelet up for grabs, we should be in for an entertaining three days of poker! We hope you'll stick around!