Wattel Doubles Through Fernandez
Mike Wattel just doubled through Jacobo Fernandez on a board of 
. Fernandez held the 
and Wattel the 
.
2010 World Series of Poker
Event #41: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-low Split-8 or Better
Day: 1
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2010 World Series of Poker
Buy-in
$1,500
Prize Pool
$1,143,450
Entries
847
Level
30
Blinds
50,000 / 100,000
Ante
0
Oh Hey, a Double Through O'Shea
We saw each player's hand turned up with John O'Shea holding the 
against his opponent's 
. The board read 
.
O'Shea lost the pot, unable to best his opponent's high hand or make a low and was forced to ship over the chips. After it was all said and done, O'Shea was left with just 3,000 chips.
Madsen Chips Up
With 1,900 chips in the pot, Jeff Madsen saw the flop of 
with two other players. The first player to act was Madsen and he checked. Both players after him followed suit.
After the 
fell on the turn, Madsen seized an opportunity to fire and made it 1,275 to go. Each of his opponents folded and Madsen chipped up a little bit to 7,500.
Recent Eliminations
Jon Friedberg, George Lind III, Jason Mercier and Phil Ivey have all exited the tournament.
Even the Mighty Dwan Can Make a Mistake
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This is going to be a long post.
We came to Tom Dwan's new table, White 7, to see no chips in front of his seat, but durrrr was still sitting in it, protesting that he should have gotten part of a pot that had already been pushed two seats to his right.
According to David Drozen, a player at the table, there was a three-way all in. The shortest stack showed a set of queens, but Dwan, with 
was in the lead for the much larger side pot with just a pair of fours against the other player's 
. Both Dwan and the other player had a wheel draw, which came in when a 5 hit the river. The other player also made a straight-six with that card to overtake the set of queens for the main pot high half and Dwan's wheel for the side pot high half. He and Dwan were supposed to quarter the low half of both pots.
Dwan, not realizing he was getting a quarter, then apparently killed his own hand, pushed all of his chips into the center of the table and stood up. As the pot was being pushed, he suddenly realized that he should have gotten one-quarter with his low. A floor was summoned and it was decided to try to re-construct the pot out of the stack of the player to whom it had been pushed. While all this was going on, Dwan's seat card had already been picked up and distributed out to Charlie Hartsfield. He showed up to the table, saw Dwan sitting at Table 7, Seat 6 (the assignment on his card) and was confused and amused.
Eventually, the pot was more or less re-constructed, with Dwan getting 5,000. He figures he might have been short-changed about 1,000 chips but it was the quickest and best solution for the table so he let it go. Justin Smith, watching everything play out, said, "Learn how to read hands, man."
"I was so tilted," Dwan replied. "I got 5-outered for a side pot I was going to scoop with one pair. That's so sick. How did everyone miss it?"
Barry Greenstein wandered by the table to check in on the commotion. When he realized what had happened, he said to Dwan, "Now that I know you're able to read your hand we have to come up with a bet. Before I felt like I was taking advantage of you."
"I've never done that before in my life," said Dwan. "Ivey tilted me."
Emergency Low for Seiver
Scott Seiver bet the pot on the board of 
. His opponent though for a moment before moving all in. Seiver quickly called.
Seiver held the 
and his opponent the 
.
The 
rolled off on the river to back Seiver into an emergency low and give him half the pot.
Level: 6
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 0
Sands Potting Away
After Jason Mercier folded from under the gun, David "Doc" Sands raised to 400. The button and the small blind came along to see the flop come . The small blind checked and then Sands fired the pot for 1,350. The small blind folded out of turn while the player on the button tanked. Eventually, the button made the call.
The turn brought the 
and Sands fired the pot again, this time for 4,050. His opponent mucked and Sands increased his stack to 9,400.
Makowsky Takes a Small Hit
When you have more than 18,000 chips, you n afford to lose a few small 1,000-chip pots. Action folded to Daniel Makowsky in the small blind, who opened for pot. The big blind player, with only 1,325 total, re-raised all in. Makowsky called, saying, "You have the best hand." He tabled 
and was up against single-suited aces, 
. Makowskoy didn't make anything better than deuces on a board of 
. He's down to about 18,000 now.
Prizepool Information
A total of 847 entrants signed up for today's $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-low Split-8 or Better event. That's 85 more players than last year when Brandon Cantu won this event, making for an increase greater than 11%. Last year, Cantu topped the field and took home $228,867. This year's first-place prize is worth over $17,000 more than that at $245,871. And who said poker was dying off?
For a complete list of the payouts, check out the payouts page.