Event #57: $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-low Split-8 or Better Day 2 | 2011 World Series of Poker

07-06-2011 22:11 UTC

West Survives An Early All In

tayke2

Level 9 : 400/800, 0 ante

Tim West came into today with just 4,100, or equal to 5 big blinds, so we knew he would get involved early. We went over to his table, and saw that Daniel Alaei, Alex Freiberg, and Jean Said had all limped in preflop, and West checked in the big blind. The flop came out {j-Hearts} {10-Clubs} {k-Clubs} , and after checking his cards again, West threw in the rest of his chips. Alaei folded, but Freiberg annouced pot. Said got out of the way, and the players flipped their cards up.

West: {a-Hearts} {q-Hearts} {9-Hearts} {9-Diamonds}
Freiberg: {a-Clubs} {q-Clubs} {k-Spades} {7-Hearts}

"Of course" is all that West could say, as he saw that despite flopping the nuts, he would still have to dodge the flush draw. The turn came the {6-Spades} , and the river came the {k-Diamonds} . West made sure that his opponent didn't fill up on the river, and gladly took in the 1,000 chips he split with Freiberg.

Tags: Tim West Alex Freiberg

07-06-2011 22:01 UTC

Lets Get It Started

tayke2

Level 9 : 400/800, 0 ante

The call for shuffle up and deal has been made, and the cards are now in the air!

Level: 9

Blinds: 400/800

Ante: 0

07-06-2011 22:00 UTC

Floor!

stoffmakers

Play hasn't even started yet but the floor was just called over to one table. Turns out a player had forgotten his ID in his hotel room. Let this serve as a reminder to anyone playing in any of the tournaments still remaining, please bring your ID!

07-06-2011 21:23 UTC

Welcome to Day 2 of the $5K PLO8 Extravaganza!

Chad Holloway

Erik Seidel will be going after bracelet #9!

When play came to a halt at the end of Day 1, the tournament clock stated that 189 players remained; however, it was a bit off as only 173 players will be returning for Day 2 of Event #57 $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-low Split-8 or Better. They will all be looking to crack the top 36 and lay claim to their portion of a $1,654,400 prize pool, with $397,073 set aside for first.

Yesterday, 352 players entered our event, an increase of nearly 25% from 2010. Gary Bolden ended Day 1 as the chip leader with 98,300. Hot on his heels are Eric Crain (96,500), Austin Marks (89,500), John Caridad (78,500), Max Pescatori (72,000), Alexandre Gomes (70,400), Joe Tehan (69,500), Daniel Fuhs (66,400), Ali Eslami (64,600), and Dan Shak (62,600).

Joining the big stacks is a laundry list of notables including Mike “The Mouth” Matusow (20,700), Huck Seed (14,400), David “Doc” Sands (33,600), Erik Seidel (57,500), Allen Kessler (58,500), Chris Bjorin (53,400), David Bach (49,900), Phil Laak (39,400), and Nick Binger (48,400).

The tournament will resume at 3:00 p.m. PST, which is just over 40 minutes from right now. The plan for the day is to play ten levels, during which we’ll more than likely burst the money bubble. Join us shortly as we bring you all the hands, chip counts, and eliminations from the floor of the $5K PLO8.

Event #57: $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-low Split-8 or Better

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