Event #4: $1,500 Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better
Day 2 Started
2010 World Series of Poker
Event #4: $1,500 Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better
Day: 2
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2010 World Series of Poker
Buy-in
$1,500
Prize Pool
$1,104,300
Entries
818
Level
29
Blinds
50,000 / 100,000
Ante
0
Unbag the Chips and Let Loose Day 2
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Welcome back to the Amazon Room for Day 2 of Event #4 - $1,500 Omaha Hi-Lo Split. Yesterday 818 players were spread across the Blue and Red sections of the Amazon Room looking for wheels and scoops. Throughout the day the field trimmed down to a healthy 274 by play's end.
Today those 274 will be back in the Blue section (which, in an odd turn of events, is in the front corner of the Amazon Room for the first time in three years) to play another ten levels or until 9 remain. There's absolutely no way we'll make the final table tonight so bank on ten levels of play.
The overnight chip leader was Oleg Shamardin. Shamardin amassed an eye-popping 70,800 chips yesterday, 25,000 more than his closest competitor, Scott Epstein. Daniel Klein, David Bach and Clinton Steelman round out the Top Five.
Play kicks off at 3pm local time, in ten minutes. See you then!
Level: 9
Blinds: 300/600
Ante: 0
One Chip, Two Tournaments for Deeb
Shaun Deeb was one of the big stacks for most of yesterday, but thanks to a brutal last level, he finished a bit shorter. Ok, a lot shorter. He made Day 2 with the smallest stack possible - one T100 chip. It's unbagged and waiting at the moment. Deeb decided not to leave the $1,500 no-limit event that started at noon to test out the "chip and a chair" adage. Instead, he'll go out in a blaze of glory six hands in, when the big blind reaches said chair and consumes said chip. gg, sfd.
Interesting Tables
At the moment we don't have an overnight table draw, so we're wandering the room to see who's sitting with whom. So far the most interesting table we've spotted is Table 295, where Eric "E-Dog" Lindgren, Allen "Chainsaw" Kessler and Tom "DonkeyBomber" Schneider are all grouped together. Table 273 had Phil Hellmuth, Justin "BoostedJ" Smith and Jeff Madsen, but it was among the first tables to break.
River Chops Forrest
One of the pain unique to Omaha hi/lo is getting chopped on the river. Usually it's by a low coming in, and someone's second-best high making an emergency low. In Ted Forrest's recent hand, it was a second-best hand rivering the best high. Forrest was one of three players to take a raised flop of 
. Forrest check-raised, driving one player out of the hand and getting the pot heads-up to the 
turn. His opponent called one bet there, then called another on the 
river. Forrest showed down 
for the nut low and two pair. His opponent showed 
, having rivered a Broadway straight. Chop it up.
Paging Sammy Chauhan
Stop the presses. Phil Hellmuth is having a bad day. He raised, and another player at his table reraised. Then one of the blinds called, and Hellmuth tossed out the extra chips, growling, "Thank you for three-betting." The flop came 
, and the blind checked. Hellmuth bet, and both players called. Same story after the 
on the turn. The river was the 
, and all three checked. Hellmuth tabled 
, good for the low half the pot against the blinds' 
. The other player mucked, and Hellmuth said, "Well, one of us was gonna get unlucky because he calls every three-bet."
A few hands later, Hellmuth got involved with the "serial caller" again. He just mucked when his opponent showed down a straight on a board with no low. He then put on his sunglasses and sat back in his chair, telling himself, "Shut up, Phil."
Ivey Cruising
Phil Ivey bet out on the turn of a 
board. The two opponents behind him called. Ivey checked the 
river, and the next player bet. Their third opponent folded, and Ivey called. He turned over 
, and his trip fours were good enough to scoop the 7,500-chip pot.
Four Cards to Win
It's a time-honored requirement of Omaha Hi/Lo. You have to table all four of your cards to win any part of the pot. Even despite that, you still sometimes find people who don't understand that requirement -- even on Day 2 of a $1,500 tournament at the World Series of Poker.
At showdown at Michael Binger's table, Binger showed , the nut low and a six-high straight on a board of 
. His lone opponent only had the nut low, tabling 
, and was quartered.
As the dealer began to apportion the pot, Binger was confused. "Where are his other two cards?"
"I only have a low," the player said. "You get three-quarters, I got one-quarter."
"You need to show all four cards or your hand is dead," Binger replied. Binger's opponents other two cards, 
, were face-down just to the side of the muck. The dealer grabbed them and opened them. Binger made no further protest.
Tone It Down...?
Yesterday Tom "DonkeyBomber" Schneider was working blue and white checkered pants. His sartorial selection today is a little less "loud" but just as interesting. He's sporting vertical-striped shorts that are blue, green, black, yellow and red. Whatever he's wearing, it doesn't seem to be affecting Schneider's play.