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Players are back and full of dinner. We've lost about half our Day 2 starting field, and we're half way to the money.
2010 World Series of Poker
Event #46: $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-low Split-8 or Better
Day: 2
Event Info
2010 World Series of Poker
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
$1,500
Prize Pool
$1,334,800
Total Entries
284
Level
28
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
0
Players Left 1 / 284
Filter
Level: 13
Blinds: 1,000/2,000
Ante: 0
One hour of finding dinner, starting now.
Leif Force called the all-in bet of a shorter-stacked opponent with the board showing 
. "Nice hand," he said, when his opponent called a straight and opened 
. Everything changed when the turn came 
to give Force the best flush. With the river 
, one player was off to an early dinner and Force was up to 200,000.
Erik Seidel happened to stroll across from his table to Table 323.
"Wow, it's like you're in a completely different tournament," he said, as he admired the bulk of the chips in play which have all squashed together on this single table.
Everyone's favourite $50,000 eight-game runner up Vladimir Schemelev has been moved to the Table Of Death & Massive Stacks and has been rampaging all over it, Godzilla-stylee.
Just now we saw him pick up a relatively small but interesting pot.
It looked like Schemelev was the bettor on the 
flop; either way Allen Kessler came along and they both checked the 
turn. Come the 
river Schemelev bet 9,000 - and Kessler folded 
face up.
Things got a little crazy on a flop of 
. Six players were in the pot: Allen Kessler, Chris Bell, Mike Matusow, Vladimir Schemelev, Bruno Fitoussi and one other player. Kessler, sitting in the big blind, bet 5,000 after Bell checked. The sixth player raised all in for 24,500, inducing quick folds from Matusow, Schemelev and Fitoussi. That brought the action back to Bell in the small blind, who decided to fold. Kessler called with 
, a made straight with no low draw. His opponent showed down 
, the nut low draw and the nut heart draw. He improved to trip eights with the 
turn, but was bounced from the tournament when the board double-paired .
"I made quads," said Bell after the hand. He claimed to have folded two nines. His fold ensured that Kessler would drag the pot to climb back up to 135,000.
"Allen Kessler everyone!" said Mike Matusow.
"The Year of the Kessler," agreed Annie Duke.
...but some more than others.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
148,000
38,000
|
38,000 |
|
145,000
13,000
|
13,000 |
|
||
|
132,000
8,000
|
8,000 |
|
105,000
8,000
|
8,000 |
|
69,000
2,600
|
2,600 |
|
||
|
|
65,000
10,000
|
10,000 |
|
|
51,000
49,000
|
49,000 |
|
50,000
2,500
|
2,500 |
|
||
|
46,000
3,000
|
3,000 |
|
42,000
14,000
|
14,000 |
|
30,000
8,500
|
8,500 |
|
25,000
13,000
|
13,000 |
|
19,000
1,000
|
1,000 |
|
|
||
Annie Duke bet 6,000 on the 
flop and both Bruno Fitoussi and original checker Allen Kessler called. They saw an turn and Kessler checked again; this time Duke went all in for 20,300. Both her opponents folded, and she bumped her stack up to 42,000 - still the short stack at this amazingly chip-heavy table.
Fitoussi - 185,000
Kessler - 110,000
Everyone was standing up and a small crowd had formed to witness a preflop all-in showdown between Andy Black and Senovio Ramirez.
Black: 
Ramirez: 
Board: 
They chopped it up, and the crowd dispersed.
