On one of the final hands of the night, Jason Mercier limped in before Ted Lawson raised it up. Scotty Nguyen was among one of the three callers. Mercier then moved all in putting his tournament life on the line at the very end of the night. Lawson then moved all in over the top. Nguyen and the others folded and the cards were on their backs.
Mercier:
Lawson:
The board came down . The river was meaningless as Lawson was drawing dead. Mercier's stack saw a growth to 38,000 while lawson dipped to 6,000.
The table was down to its very last hand of the night when its two biggest stacks got into a pot-repot war on a flop. Kevin Schaffel just had Scotty Nguyen's 80k covered when they got it all.
Schaffel: for top set
Nguyen: for the queen-high flush draw
Boom, baby. The on the turn made Scotty's flush. But uhoh! You don't get to the November Nine without hitting miracles. The on the river gave Schaffel a boat. He eliminated a stunned Scotty and jumped into a decisive chip lead with 178,900.
There were 460 players who entered Event #50: $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha. They filled the blue section in the Amazon Room and by the end of the night less than half remain. Daniel Negreanu, Chad Brown, Vanessa Selbst, Marco Traniello, Erick Lindgren, and JP Kelly (who was multi-tabling this event and Event #49: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em), among others all started the day with hopes of making the second day of this event, but those hopes were dashed as they all exited toward the rail throughout the eight levels of play.
A prize pool of $2,162,000 was generated and 45 players will make the money tomorrow, with 45th place taking home $10,226. First place, along with that coveted gold bracelet, will take home $508,090. Among the players that will see Day 2 are Phil Ivey, Tom Dwan, Jason Mercier, Lex Veldhuis, Phil Hellmuth, and Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier.
Our chip leader going into Day 2 is Kevin Schaffel with 178,900. Alex Freiberg is behind him with 138,900 and Kevin Boudreau is sitting with 137,300. We'll be back at 3:00 p.m. local time along with the just under 200 players left in this event, covering all the action of what is sure to be an action packed day. See you then!
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. The river was meaningless as Lawson was drawing dead. Mercier's stack saw a growth to 38,000 while lawson dipped to 6,000.
flop. Kevin Schaffel just had Scotty Nguyen's 80k covered when they got it all.
for the queen-high flush draw
on the turn made Scotty's flush. But uhoh! You don't get to the November Nine without hitting miracles. The 
on the river gave Schaffel a boat. He eliminated a stunned Scotty and jumped into a decisive chip lead with 178,900.
