Event #46: $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-low Split-8 or Better
Day 3 Started
2010 World Series of Poker
Event #46: $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-low Split-8 or Better
Day: 3
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2010 World Series of Poker
Buy-in
$1,500
Prize Pool
$1,334,800
Entries
284
Level
28
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
0
Day 3 Starts Around 4pm
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Good afternoon and welcome back to the Amazon Room, where once again we are here way too early.
Yesterday Sergey Altbregin finished in the lead on 486,000 but Dave "Devilfish" Uliiott and Perry "Three Bracelets and Went Heads Up With Stu Ungar in the 1981 Main Event" Green are hot on his heels. Erik Seidel is also in the running, although he may be distracted somewhat by the Tournament of Champions.
Either way, the restart has been pushed back to around 4.30pm according to Jack Effel, so watch this space and we'll let you know the second cards are in the air.
Delayed Still
Well, this is what we know.
Dealers are at their assigned tables in the Orange Section of the Amazon Room. Chip bags have been brought out. But because one of our 21 remaining players (Erik Seidel, who will start the day with six big blinds) is playing in the Tournament of Champions, our re-start is still delayed. We were originally told the scheduled 3pm restart was pushed back to "not before 4:10pm" but it's 4:22pm and we're clearly not close to starting.
We'll continue to monitor the situation but what promised to be an already-long day seems to be getting longer by the minute.
Aha!
An announcement was just made for the remaining PLO8 players to take their seats. A few of them are hanging around the tournament area, waiting to open chip bags. We might actually get started soon.
Here We Go
The TOC players are bagging up their chips for the day (huh?) so it seems we'll be underway momentarily. Again, this whole delay was because one player out the 21 remaining in our field -- Erik Seidel, with six big blinds left in his stack -- was playing in the TOC. We're not sure how the rest of the field feels about the delay, since it has made their day longer by at least an hour and a half, but it is what it is. The 21 Day 3 starters (most of them, anyway) are in their seats and cards will be in the air momentarily.
Level: 19
Blinds: 5,000/10,000
Ante: 0
Shuffle Up & Finally Deal
Indeed, a few players arrived rather late to this tournament as, basically, no-one had any idea when it was going to start. A lot of players arrived for the 3pm start time only to find themselves with nothing to do for almost two hours while Erik Seidel played a million dollar freeroll, and then owing to the vagueness of the few announcements that were made, wandered off and didn't get here for the very start.
Nevertheless it looks as though all the players have now taken their seats with varying amounts of grumbling, and cards are in the air. We are in for a very, very long night, and actually we wouldn't be surprised if this becomes a four day event in the course of time. If Erik Seidel makes it through to the final table, we could well see further scheduling problems tomorrow.
Vito Clemente Eliminated in 21st Place ($11,479)
While we were watching a large pot develop on Chris Bell's table (Bell wound up folding the river), Vito Clemente was silently all in on one of the other tables. He was taken on by Leif Force, whose 
connected best with a board of 
by making trip sixes. Clemente couldn't do any better than that and so just a few minutes after unbagging his chips he heads to the payout cage to collect $11,479 for 21st place.
Francis Lincoln Eliminated in 20th Place ($11,479)
Francis Lincoln got his whole stack in preflop and was up against Perry Green.
Lincoln: 
Green: 
Board: 
After both players and the dealer had spent a little while assessing the hands it was established that Green had made a straight and a 6-5-4-3-A low to scoop the pot. With a polite, "Good luck, guys," Lincoln headed to the payout desk to collect his min-cash.
Green moved up to 440,000, a little bit closer to winning a fourth bracelet.
Heimiller Can't Pull off the Fade
Dan Heimiller, sitting in late position, opened for pot (35,000) pre-flop. David Nowakowski was in the small blind and re-raised to 115,000, almost enough to put himself all in. Heimiller tanked for about two minutes before just calling the raise. That call prompted Nowakowski to throw his last 13,000 into the pot blind, before the flop came.
Heimiller called the bet on a flop of 
. "I do have a flush draw," he said.
"So do I," Nowakowski responded.
"That's not good." Heimiller showed 
. His pair of fours was temporarily best against Nowakowski's 
. The turn 
gave Nowakowski a second flush draw, which filled with the river 
.
"That would have been a sick fade," said Nowakowski, meaning if he had somehow lost both halves of the pot by not improving. Instead he dragged the whole thing and is up to 260,000. Heimiller is down to 195,000.