Event 48 - $1,500 Pot Limit Omaha Hi/Lo 8-or-better Day 1 | 2009 World Series of Poker

06-25-2009 12:41 UTC-12

Hellmuth Rivers Nuts

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Phil Hellmuth led out for 700 on a board reading {8-Hearts}

and found two callers.

The river fell the {10-Clubs}

and once it was checked to him, Hellmuth fired 1,000 into the pot, leaving himself 700 behind.

One player folded, but one made the call to see Hellmuth announce "Nuts!" and table {Q-Hearts}

for a full house as he raked in the pot to push back to 5,500 in chips.

06-25-2009 13:05 UTC-12

Men Fought The Law, And The Law Won.

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With a few raises back and forth Men 'The Master' Nguyen found himself all in for about 9,500 against amateur poker player and Larry Zieper, Attorney at Law.

Nguyen: {A-Hearts}

Zieper:

The board ran out {6-Spades}

to see Zieper river a queen-high straight and move to over 20,000 as Nguyen slips to just 1,700.

06-25-2009 13:10 UTC-12

With 762 players taking to the felt in Event 48, a prizepool of $1,040,130 has been formed with the following payouts.

1st - $228,867
2nd - $141,873
3rd - $92,946
4th - $64,727
5th - $47,617
6th - $36,893
7th - $30,028
8th - $25,618
9th - $22,862
10-12th - $15,664
13-15th - $11,347
16-18th - $8,570
19-27th - $6,604
28-36th - $5,398
37-45th - $4,566
46-54th - $3,931
55-64th - $3,432
64-72th - $2,953

Level: 6

Blinds: 200/400

Ante: 0

06-25-2009 13:19 UTC-12

Fricke Eliminated

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On a flop of {2-Hearts}

, the action was checked round to Jimmy Fricke who bet out 800 before being check-raised to 4,200.

Fricke made the call for his tournament life with the following hands being tabled.

Fricke: {K-Clubs}

Opponent:

The turn and river fell the {8-Hearts}

and

to see Fricke head to the rail.

06-25-2009 13:30 UTC-12

Some Notable Chip Counts

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Brandon Cantu - 35,500
Phil Hellmuth - 27,400
Noah Boeken - 25,500
Layne Flack - 19,500
Jeff Lisandro - 15,400
Kathy Liebert - 15,100
Lee Watkinson - 14,500
Matthew Burgoine - 12,100
Tom Koral - 8,100
Men Nguyen - 8,000
Mickey Appleman - 7,500
Chris Reslock - 7,100
Nick Binger - 5,300
Perry Friedman - 2,700
David Levi - 1,400

06-25-2009 13:49 UTC-12

Jungblut Eliminated

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One of our PokerNews reporters bumped into Brett Jungblut as he was walking away from the tournament floor.

Junglbut informed us that he had been knocked out of the tournament, and decided to impart us with what had happened.

The first hand saw him flop a wheel and then get quartered on the river. A few hands later, he was all in with {A-?}

against an opponent holding {A-?}

.

His opponent would made Broadway on the river and Jungblut was sent packing.

06-25-2009 14:06 UTC-12

Flank Sent Packing

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Layne Flack has gone from one-time chip leader to a railbird in the space of a level.

Wondering over we first saw Flack doubling an opponent up before losing to another player holding {A-Hearts}

on a final board reading {A-Diamonds}