With late registration now closed, the board reads that there are 212 players entered into this Event 15: $5,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Low Split 8-or-Better. We should be receiving a payout sheet shortly and we'll post all of the official numbers then. Stay tuned!
Level: 5
Limits: 250/500
Ante: 50
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The players are now on a 30-minute break.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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19,750 | 4,750 |
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16,500 | 1,500 |
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12,850 | -2,150 |
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12,200 | -2,800 |
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12,200 | 3,200 |
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11,825 | -3,175 |
Both Chris Tryba and Matt Lefkowitz are regulars at the World Series of Poker, especially when it comes to the bigger buy-in mixed events like this Event 15: $5,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Low Split 8-or-Better. Combined, the two have over $1.9 million in live tournament earnings and 33 WSOP cashes.
Tryba boasts the poker record with more earnings than Lefkowitz. He has $1,026,486 in winnings while Lefkowitz has $886,720. When it comes to WSOP cashes, though, it's Lefkowitz with the edge 24 to nine. Tryba's largest WSOP score came last year when he took eighth place in the $10,000 Seven Card Stud Championship for nearly $39,000. Lefkowitz's best WSOP score was when he finished runner-up to 1999 in the $3,000 Pot-Limit Hold'em event for $112,200. In total, Tryba has two WSOP final tables and Lefkowitz has five.
Both of them have already locked up cashes at the 2012 WSOP. Tryba has two coming from Event 4: $1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Low Split 8-or-Better (10th - $12,822) and Event 7: $1,500 Seven Card Stud (17th - $3,814). Lefkowitz finished in the money in Event 8: $1,500 Omaha Hi-Low Split 8-or-Better (44th - $5,639). Since 2008, Tryba has cashed every summer at the WSOP, while Lefkowitz has cashed each year since 2005 except for 2006 and 2008.
Right now, it looks as though both are above 20,000 in chips and working their stacks in the right direction. We'll be keeping an eye on these two to see how they fair here on Day 1.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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24,200 | |
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21,000 |
Shaun Deeb, who used to be sitting right in front of us, is gone. He recently tweeted this:
shaundeeb shaun deeb Out of stud 8 that was a joke of a few hours
June 06 2012
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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Busted |
| Jerrod Ankenman |  /     / |
| Jeffrey Lisandro | /     / |
| Opponent | /     / |
2009 WSOP bracelet winner Jerrod Ankenman brought it in with the . 2009 WSOP Player of the Year Jeffrey Lisandro completed with the , a third player called, and so too did Ankenman. The third player paired his eight on fourth street, and bet. Both Ankenman and Lisandro called.
The same occurred on fifth street, but on sixth, the action checked to Ankenman who bet. Both players called. On seventh, the action checked all the way to Lisandro, and it was his turn to bet. Ankenman and the third player called.
Lisandro turned over 
for the second-nut low, Ankenman tabled 
for tens and deuces, and the third player mucked.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
18,250 | 3,850 |
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16,150 | 1,350 |
Perry Friedman: /    / |
Allen Bari: /    / |
Joe Tehan: /    / |
On seventh street, Joe Tehan checked with his pair of fours showing and Perry Friedman also checked. Allen Bari, bracelet winner from 2011, fired a bet and Tehan called rather quickly. Friedman took a bit longer, but also made the call.
Bari announced that he had a low and showed the 
from the hole for an eight-six low. He also had a pair of fives, but those were no good against Tehan's 
from the hole for two pair, queens and fours. Friedman mucked his hand and the two others chopped up his money.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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26,000 | 1,000 |
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17,800 | 1,300 |
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16,500 | -1,500 |
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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15,000 | |
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15,000 | |
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15,000 | |
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15,000 | |
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15,000 | |
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15,000 | |
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15,000 | |
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15,000 | |
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15,000 |
| Allen Kessler | /   / |
| Opponent 1 | / / |
| Opponent 2 | /   / |
We reached the tabled on seventh, where there was a bet, a raise, and two calls. Kessler tabled 
for a straight and a deuce-to-seven low, and Opponent 1 fanned 
for a flush. The two scooped Opponent 2's chips, and Kessler is now over 20,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
21,500 | 2,500 |
