How Card Players Deal
Level 16
Jerrod Ankenman, Ben Yu, and Nikolai Yakovenko are currently engaged in conversation about how losing hands in our two games, Omaha 8 & Stud 8, causes different types of pain. And creates different challenges for those attempting to move on.
"People are resigned to their fate in stud," opined Yakovenko. "But in Omaha, people can't get over it."
We're nearing the end of Level 24, during which time our remaining 36 players will have one last 20-minute break during which to try to rid themselves of the memories of hands gone wrong.
-- kings up for high and no low. Kearney had 
and wanted to squeeze a non-pairing low card, a five, or an ace. But he was dealt the 
and hits the rail in 37th place.![[user76023]](/img/avatars/avatar.svg){kind=avatar}
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for a Jack-high flush and a 8-7-6-3-2 low but unbelievably Gelencser had him pipped both ways. The Hungarian turned over 
for an Ace-high flush and an 8-7-5-3-A low to scoop.
fitting perfectly with a board of 
for the nut-nut. Robert Mangino and Kyle Burnside were already in by the turn and Francesco Barbaro paid off a bet on the river as well getting crippled as a result.
, and Kessler soon had the last of his chips in versus Bohlman.
, which meant there was no low and Bohlman's trip queens made the best high hand. Karandeyev goes out in 47th, Kessler in 46th, and Bohlman now has about 85,000.
