Event #25: $10,000 Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better Championship
Day 2 Started
2010 World Series of Poker
Event #25: $10,000 Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better Championship
Day: 2
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2010 World Series of Poker
Buy-in
$10,000
Entries
212
Level
31
Blinds
90,000 / 180,000
Ante
0
Day 2 Table and Seat Draw
Table 356
Seat 1: Suzan Landrum - 7500
Seat 2: Jennifer Harman-Traniello - 66600
Seat 3: Dario Alioto - 69300
Seat 4: Colin Wickersheim - 8500
Seat 5: Nick Schulman - 42000
Seat 6: Todd Brunson - 18600
Seat 7: Perry Friedman - 80200
Seat 8: Scott Epstein - 10500
Seat 9: --empty--
Table 357
Seat 1: Kirill Gerasimov - 50200
Seat 2: James Dempsey - 28200
Seat 3: John Hoppmann - 20200
Seat 4: Eugene Katchalov - 123200
Seat 5: Ilya Bulychev - 20100
Seat 6: Hieu Ngoc - 3800
Seat 7: Lee Grove - 62600
Seat 8: Brandon Adams - 61300
Seat 9: Yuval Bronshtein - 64100
Table 358
Seat 1: Scotty Nguyen - 39000
Seat 2: Jordan Morgan - 63900
Seat 3: Martin Davis - 49100
Seat 4: Ihsan Farha - 98500
Seat 5: Pat Pezzin - 23600
Seat 6: Lyle Berman - 28900
Seat 7: Jay Heimowitz - 52300
Seat 8: Joe Cassidy - 37900
Seat 9: --empty--
Table 359
Seat 1: Eric Baldwin - 32900
Seat 2: Thomas Koral - 63000
Seat 3: Sergey Altbregin - 112500
Seat 4: Ugur Marangoz - 55800
Seat 5: Ted Lawson - 40000
Seat 6: Tom Schneider - 11700
Seat 7: Tai Nguyen - 94600
Seat 8: John Crisp - 66500
Seat 9: --empty--
Table 361
Seat 1: John Cernuto - 71000
Seat 2: Jeffrey King - 41300
Seat 3: Phil Ivey - 57600
Seat 4: Brett Richey - 19100
Seat 5: Michael Chow - 37400
Seat 6: Vladimir Shchemelev - 88300
Seat 7: Mikael Thuritz - 70600
Seat 8: Yueqi Zhu - 32300
Seat 9: Par Alexande - 26400
Table 362
Seat 1: Phil Hellmuth - 84300
Seat 2: Melissa Burr - 41200
Seat 3: Mel Judah - 9700
Seat 4: Derek Raymond - 38600
Seat 5: Andrew Brown - 28400
Seat 6: David Thomas - 20400
Seat 7: Chad Brown - 12900
Seat 8: Allen Kessler - 52000
Seat 9: --empty--
Table 363
Seat 1: Frank Kassela - 61300
Seat 2: Barry Shulman - 76200
Seat 3: Huck Seed - 20600
Seat 4: Dale Phillips - 49000
Seat 5: Toto Leonidas - 75800
Seat 6: Pasqual Rao - 15800
Seat 7: John Esposito - 7000
Seat 8: Steve Cowley - 47100
Seat 9: Jerry Buss - 8100
Table 364
Seat 1: Daniel Fuhs - 81400
Seat 2: Peter Gould - 49900
Seat 3: Jason Lester - 29500
Seat 4: Stephen Ladowsky - 51500
Seat 5: Tom Chambers - 30100
Seat 6: Matt Lefkowitz - 35200
Seat 7: Jared Bleznick - 11300
Seat 8: Stuart Rutter - 38300
Seat 9: David Baker - 62500
Table 366
Seat 1: Mike Watson - 67800
Seat 2: Meng La - 39500
Seat 3: John Monnette - 35200
Seat 4: Jeffrey Lisandro - 87200
Seat 5: Prince Of Docness - 33200
Seat 6: Brock Parker - 85900
Seat 7: Jean-Robert Bellande - 62100
Seat 8: Andrew Yeh - 73600
Seat 9: David Benyamine - 102500
Table 367
Seat 1: Max Pescatori - 12300
Seat 2: Jeremiah Degreef - 54300
Seat 3: Lonnie Heimowitz - 29700
Seat 4: James Van - 28000
Seat 5: Mike Matusow - 18800
Seat 6: Chris Ferguson - 36300
Seat 7: Erick Lindgren - 15900
Seat 8: Richard Ashby - 10500
Seat 9: Chino Rheem - 82700
Table 368
Seat 1: Timothy Flanders - 23300
Seat 3: Carlos Mortensen - 12600
Seat 4: Nikolay Evdakov - 47000
Seat 5: Dennis Seagle - 61100
Seat 6: Derek Kadota - 10300
Seat 7: Todd Ickow - 17600
Seat 8: Loi Tran - 14600
Seat 9: Gary Benson - 28200
Table 369
Seat 1: Neal Friets - 29200
Seat 2: Hasan Habib - 18400
Seat 3: James Bord - 33000
Seat 4: Anthony Hartmann - 13000
Seat 5: Michael Jarmark - 65400
Seat 7: Jordan Smith - 46400
Seat 8: Eric Dalby - 25300
Seat 9: Andy Bloch - 31000
Table 370
Seat 1: JIm Grove - 42200
Seat 2: Barry Hartheimer - 79200
Seat 3: Matt Glantz - 31400
Seat 4: Daniel Smith - 6200
Seat 5: --empty--
Seat 6: Tony Merksick - 83700
Seat 7: Annie Duke - 34500
Seat 8: Harrt Thomas Jr. - 19400
Seat 9: John Racener - 34400
Table 371
Seat 1: John Kabbaj - 45000
Seat 2: Robert Campbell - 21700
Seat 3: Steve Zolotow - 44700
Seat 4: David Chiu - 56700
Seat 5: Oleg Shamardin - 48200
Seat 6: David Steicke - 45500
Seat 7: Shannon Shorr - 9100
Seat 8: Edward Mccann - 18800
Seat 9: Barry Greenstein - 49800
Table 373
Seat 1: Daniel Didech - 51000
Seat 2: Anthony Cousineau - 30100
Seat 3: Steve Wong - 37200
Seat 4: Dan Heimiller - 40900
Seat 5: Jose DePaz - 82200
Seat 6: Abe Mosseri - 44000
Seat 7: Michael Sexton - 65000
Seat 8: Justin Smith - 31400
Seat 9: Daniel Alaei - 19000
Table 374
Seat 1: George Danzer - 91700
Seat 2: Eli Elezra - 84200
Seat 3: Jeffrey Duvall - 26000
Seat 4: Erik Seidel - 15500
Seat 5: John Dagostino - 9800
Seat 6: Alexander Kravchenko - 78100
Seat 7: Howard Lederer - 26700
Seat 8: Robert Mizrachi - 64600
Seat 9: Alexander Kostritsyn - 95900
Table 375
Seat 1: Sorel Mizzi - 61900
Seat 3: Tony Guoga - 61100
Seat 4: Nikolai Yakovenko - 59200
Seat 5: Matthew Woodward - 12400
Seat 6: Berry Johnston - 25500
Seat 7: Bart Hanson - 57400
Seat 8: Karen Longfellow - 35500
Seat 9: Lamar Johnston - 49000
The March Continues
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It's not deja vu in the Amazon Room -- it's just Day 2 of the $10,000 Omaha Hi/Lo World Championship.
Yesterday 212 players took a seat at a table in the Blue Section of the room, hoping to be the one who winds up half a million dollars richer tomorrow night. That was an impressive 18% increase over the 179 who entered this event last year. Lots of familiar faces were in the field, including the absolute newest bracelet winner, Richard Ashby, who barely finished posing for photos in his win in Event 21 - $1,500 Seven-Card Stud before joining the field in this event.
By the end of the night, Eugene Katchalov amassed the biggest chip stack and will start out as unbustable on the first hand of the day today. He's followed by Sergey Altbregin, 2008 champion David Benyamine, Sammy Farha and Alex Kostritsyn.
The bags are out on the tables and the dealers are in their seats. We'll be re-starting play promptly at 3pm local time. See you then.
Level: 9
Blinds: 800/1,500
Ante: 0
Late Arrvials and Missing in Action
Perhaps moreso than in a typical field, not all of the players returning for Day 2 showed up on time. Toto Leonidas, David Chiu and Alexander Kostritsyn all missed the first few hands at their tables. At least they're in their seats now. We still haven't seen Joe Cassidy, John Racener, Robert Mizrachi or Matt Woodward -- each of whom has chips to start the day.
Bleznick Sticks Around
On one of the first hand of the day, Jared Bleznick raised before recent bracelet winner David "Bakes" Baker reraised. Bleznick made the call, having about 7,000 chips behind.
The flop came down 
and Bleznick check-raised Baker to start a raising war in which the result was Bleznick all in with the 
. Baker held the 
.
The 
on the turn was a great card for Bleznick. It locked him up at least a low and gave him a wrap draw. The river card was the 
though and he couldn't hit a card to scoop. The two players chopped the pot and Bleznick stayed alive, for now at least.
Van Alstyne and Ferguson Trade Counts
Action folded to James Van Alstyne on the button. He opened with a raise that was called only by big blind Chris Ferguson. Ferguson check-called a single bet on a flop of 
. He checked again on the turn, prompting Van Alstyne to check behind. When the river came the 
, Ferguson checked one more time. Van Alstyne bet, then showed down 
for a jack-high straight after Ferguson called. It was good.
Ferguson is down to about 30,000. Van Alstyne has about 37,000.
Aces into Aces is the End for Habib
Hasan Habib was all in after a flop of 
against Sergey Altbregin. Habib turned up a pair of aces with a weak low draw, 
. Altbregin had a similar but far better hand. His 
made the nut flush on the flop and a better low draw than Habib. The low draws didn't matter as the board came running jacks, 
and 
, to end Habib's run in Event 25.
Baldwin Takes a Different Route
Eric Baldwin raised from middle position and then Mel Judah called. The player in the big blind, David Thomas, made the call as well and all three of them were off to a flop. The first three community cards were the 
and Thomas checked. Baldwin bet and Judah folded, having only a few thousand chips left. Thomas stuck around with a call though.
The turn added the to the board and paired it with jacks. Thomas check-called a second bet from Baldwin. The river card then completed the board with the 
. Thomas checked, Baldwin bet and Thomas called.
Baldwin announced that he had jacks full and tabled the 
. Indeed he did have jacks full of threes and Thomas mucked his hand.
"Well, that's a different hand, Eric," said Phil Hellmuth. "You must not play this game as well as you play no-limit, huh?"
"Or I play it as bad as I play no-limit," responded Baldwin, referencing the few times when Hellmuth has made remarks about how Baldwin plays no-limit.
Baldwin's up to 42,000 now.
Judah Hangs Around with a Wheel
Melissa Burr started things off with a raise and then Mel Judah called all in for his last 2,200 chips. Chad Brown also called from the big blind. Both Brown and Burr could still act post flop with Judah all in, but they opted to just check it down as the board ran out 
.
Burr tabled the 
to win the side pot from Brown, who mucked his hand, and then Judah scooped the main pot with the 
. He's back to 7,400 in chips.