2011 World Series of Poker

Event #11: $10,000 Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better Championship
Day: 2
Event Info

2011 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
aj73
Prize
$465,216
Event Info
Buy-in
$10,000
Prize Pool
$1,898,800
Entries
202
Level Info
Level
32
Blinds
130,000 / 250,000
Ante
0

"Seat Open!"

Level 9 : 600/1,200, 0 ante

We've heard that call at least a half-dozen times here in the first few minutes as the short stacks make their final stands.

The latest to fall was the shortest stack coming into Day 2, Sergey Altbregin. He had just 600 lonely chips, and they all went into a pot before the board ran out {A-Spades} {9-Clubs} {Q-Diamonds} {K-Spades} {2-Clubs}, and Luke Schwartz and Andy Bloch were involved in side action. Bloch bet the river and Schwartz called, and Bloch's {A-Hearts} {Q-Hearts} {3-Hearts} {8-Clubs} was good enough to win the full pot and the knockout.

Bloch is up to about 34,000 now.

Tags: Andy BlochLuke SchwartzSergey Altbregin

Bonomo, Lamb Bust

Level 9 : 600/1,200, 0 ante

Justin Bonomo's last few chips were just chopped by Eric Kurtzman and Luke Schwartz. The board read {7-Spades}{9-Clubs}{4-Clubs}{8-Hearts}{7-Clubs} when we reached the table. Kurtzman opened {a-Spades}{a-Diamonds}{9-Spades}{8-Clubs} for the high, Schwartz {2-Diamonds}{3-Spades}{j-Hearts}{k-Diamonds} for the low, and Bonomo mucked his hand before exiting.

Ben Lamb has also made an early exit on an adjacent table. We missed the hand, but we spotted him leaving the Amazon Room.

Tags: Ben LambJustin Bonomo

Level: 9

Blinds: 600/1,200

Ante: 0

It's Moving Day

Welcome back for Day 2 of Event #11, the $10,000 Omaha Hi-Lo Championship. Yesterday's 202 starters were reduced to 164 over the course of the opening eight levels, and we've been moved over to the cozier Amazon Room for the restart. It's still odd to call the Amazon Room "cozy". But we're tucked away over here in the Blue section, and players have just begun to trickle in.

Fabrizio Gonzalez snuck up on us at the end of the night, passing Eric Buchman for the top spot on the chip counts when the clock struck zero. Also near the top are Guillaume Rivet, Richard "Chufty" Ashby, Marco "CrazyMarco" Johnson, and Freddy Deeb.

Let's talk about short stacks, because they're littered with notables, too. Phil Tom has just 1,900 chips to begin the day, less than one big blind. Justin Bonomo survived Day 1 with just 5,500 chips, and Erik Seidel's 6,600 chips will likely be a mountain before long. Matt Savage is doing just a bit higher with 8,500, but he's been tweeting about plans to double up or go home early.

We're about twenty minutes away from our 3:00 P.M. start time, so don't wander off.

Day 2 Table and Seat Draw

TableSeatPlayerChips
2761Mikhail Savinov29,400
2762Daniel Negreanu51,800
2763Nick Schulman35,100
2764Oleg Shamardin24,300
2765Scott Clements44,700
2766Max Pescatori11,900
2767Shannon Shorr23,800
2768Vanessa Selbst40,200
2769Fabrizio Gonzalez117,300
    
2771John Hennigan54,200
2772Erik Seidel6,600
2773Jacobo Fernandez9,100
2774Humberto Brenes29,500
2775Jay Heimowitz47,100
2776Anthony Lellouche11,000
2777Daniel Klein35,600
2778Mack Lee63,400
2779Patrick Pezzin15,100
    
2781Robert Stevanovski72,900
2782Eric Buchman108,800
2783Jason Lester11,900
2784Tony Cousineau16,000
2785Ville Wahlbeck63,000
2786Ron Ware21,400
2787Mark Gregorich47,400
2788Par Alexande Hilderbrand10,700
2789Andrew Brown31,400
    
2791Kostas Kalathakis46,900
2792Darin Thomas16,000
2793Christopher Watson38,700
2794Jose Severino12,000
2795John Crisp68,700
2796Mikael Thuritz42,800
2797Gary Benson55,700
2798Daniel Smith12,600
2799Daniel KokeshDNR
    
2801Mike Watson15,600
2802Christopher Oliver25,600
2803Andrew Barber75,300
2804Frank Kassela48,600
2805Alexander Kostritsyn67,200
2806David Bach17,800
2807John Monnette14,800
2808Joe Cassidy20,000
2809Jason Steinberg32,200
    
2821Gary Bolden26,300
2822Benjamin Lamb6,600
2823Matt Glantz14,800
2824Prince of Docness44,100
2825Marco Johnson83,100
2826Ben Yu14,400
2827Matt Savage8,500
2829Allen Bari70,700
    
2831Richard Ashby85,000
2832Mike Sexton42,300
2833Brian Hastings20,300
2834Kassem Deeb82,800
2835Alexander Dovzhenko60,700
2836Jeffrey Lisandro19,100
2837Bjorn Verbajek38,400
2838Huck Seed16,800
2839Bart Hanson14,700
    
2841John Ma62,700
2842Vitaly Lunkin31,000
2843Matthew Woodward61,900
2844Michael Chow46,700
2845Men Nguyen23,300
2846Andrey Zaichenko68,500
2847Ken Lennaard42,000
2849David Bakes Baker45,400
    
2851Mikail Tulchinskiy47,700
2852James Dempsey68,700
2853Michael Binger41,300
2854Nathaniel Wiesner16,200
2855Mike Thorpe7,700
2856Tim Kahlmeyer37,400
2857Trai Dang20,000
2858Allen Cunningham21,600
2859Dan Heimiller11,100
    
2861Jerry Buss10,500
2862Jesse Klein35,900
2863Anton Allemann13,800
2864Jean-Robert Bellande28,600
2865David Baker26,900
2866Brendan Taylor39,600
2867Benjamin Boyd11,100
2868George Lind52,300
2869David Benyamine16,800
    
2878Perry Green56,700
    
2881Christopher George93,200
2882Matthew Hawrilenko13,800
2883Shawn Buchanan39,200
2884Ted Lawson21,000
2885Chau Giang49,900
2886Craig Fishman9,700
2887Alessio Isaia77,000
2888Eugene Katchalov64,000
2889Dario Alioto16,600
    
2891Eric Kurtzman39,400
2892Justin Bonomo5,500
2893Sergey Altbregin600
2894Lukas Schwartzorbach27,700
2895Jason Mercier29,700
2896Andy Bloch30,400
2897Raymond Dehkarghani50,900
2898Steve Zolotow30,900
2899Mikhail Smirnov86,500
    
2901Travis Kubota53,200
2902Barry Greenstein32,800
2903Mark Dickstein18,900
2904Paul Volpe9,000
2905Alexander Kuzmin2,200
2906Dale Phillips19,400
2907Robert Campbell3,700
2908Amnon Filippi12,500
2909Blair Rodman21,700
    
2911James Seely30,100
2912John Rogers20,700
2913Daniel Alaei51,700
2914Nikolai Yakovenko71,000
2915Guillaume Rivet95,900
2916Viacheslav Zhukov34,900
2918Scott Bohlman41,100
2919Ryan Miller16,500
    
2921Tom Dwan61,000
2922Shaun Deeb53,100
2923Todd Barlow63,400
2924JIm Grove16,200
2926Balazs Biri34,900
2927Stuart Rutter22,800
2928Michael Wattel46,800
2929Gregory Jamison11,300
    
2951John D'Agostino37,000
2952Philip Tom1,900
2953David Chiu31,900
2954Damjan Radanov77,000
2955Steve Sung61,000
2956Nikolay Evdakov16,100
2957Shunjiro Uchida31,000
2958Yuval Bronshtein65,100
2959Robert Mizrachi28,000
    
2961David Steicke43,300
2963Owais Ahmed34,300
2964Kirill Gerasimov65,300
2965Mike Matusow34,000
2967Bertrand Grospellier28,600
2968Marcelo Costa52,800
2969Thor Hansen37,500
    
2971Robert Deppe23,200
2972John Juanda42,300
2973Larry Etherington13,200
2974Erick Lindgren68,600
2976Erik Sagstrom49,400
2977Dan Kelly47,200
2978Todd Brunson34,900
2979Josh Arieh62,400
    
2981Steve Billirakis35,500
2982Chris Bjorin37,800
2983Scott Seiver13,800
2984Barry Hartheimer61,200
2985Daniel Ratigan40,400
2986Derek Raymond41,400
2988Allen Kessler45,300
2989Matt Lefkowitz42,800

Event #11: $10,000 Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better Championship

Day 2 Started