Event #25: $10,000 Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better Championship Day 1 | 2010 World Series of Poker

Day 1 of the $10,000 Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better Championship has come and gone with the first ten levels of play coming to a conclusion. As it looks right now, Eugene Katchalov with 123,200, David Benyamine with 102,300, Sammy Farha with 98,500 and Alexander Kostritsyn with 96,000 are sitting towards the top of the board with about 145 of the 212 entrants finishing out the day. Vladimir Schmelev also had a good day on the felt, continuing his hot streak with another solid finish round out the day. He finished with 88,300. Chino Rheem also closed out the day in the high eighties.

As expected, the event was filled with plenty of big names. Phil Ivey, Scotty Nguyen, Nick Schulman, Tony G, Mike Sexton and Jen Harman all made it through the day and will return tomorrow to action to keep the quest alive. Some of their peers that failed to make it were Daniel Negreanu, Jason Mercier, Hoyt Corkins, Doyle Brunson and Michael Mizrachi.

All of the remaining players will return tomorrow at 3:00 p.m. local time here in Las Vegas. PokerNews will be here to bring you all the coverage and don't forget to check out all of the other events throughout the day as well. We'll see you then!

Player	Chips	Progress
Eugene Katchalov	123,200

Sergey Altbregin	112,500
David Benyamine	102,500

Sam Farha	98,500

Alexander Kostritsyn	95,900
Tai Nguyen	94,600
George Danzer	91,700

Vladimir Shchemelev	88,300
Jeff Lisandro	87,200

Brock Parker	85,900
Phil Hellmuth	84,300

Eli Elezra	84,200

Tony Merksick	83,700
Chino Rheem	82,700

Jose De Paz	82,200
Daniel Fuhs	81,400

Perry Friedman	80,200

Barry Hartheimer	79,200
Alexander Kravchenko	78,100

Barry Shulman	76,200

Toto Leonidas	75,800
Andrew Yeh	73,600

John Cernuto	71,000

Mikael Thuritz	70,600
Harry	Busted

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