Event 24: $5,000 Omaha Hi-Low Split 8-or-Better
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2012 World Series of Poker
Event 24: $5,000 Omaha Hi-Low Split 8-or-Better
Day: 1
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2012 World Series of Poker
Buy-in
$5,000
Entries
256
Level
30
Limits
80,000 / 160,000
Ante
0
Event 24 Kicks Off at 5:00 PM
Welcome to today's evening event, Event 24: $5,000 Omaha Hi-Low Split 8-or-Better. Last year, Viacheslav Zhukov won the version of this event, Event 11: $10,000 Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better Championship, and took home $465,216. He defeated a field of 202 players to win the title.
A field size around the same amount should be in store for us today. As is often the case with the larger buy-in, 5:00 PM events, the field should be chalk full of notable faces. Once the players begin arriving, we'll be sure to let you know who's here.
The tournament is scheduled to kick off at 5:00 PM, so be sure to stick around for the live coverage right here on PokerNews. You can also browse our coverage of other World Series of Poker events by checking out our Live Reporting Page.
Level: 1-4
Limits: 200/400
Ante: 0
Shuffle Up And Deal!
Level 1
: 200/400, 0 ante
The cards are in the air for Event 24. The first four levels will all be the same, with blinds of 100/200 and limits of 200/400. Levels five and six will be the same, with blinds of 200/300 and limits of 300/600. Eight levels will be played tonight with a 15-minute break after Level 2, a 30-minute break after Level 4 and one final 15-minute break after Level 6.
New to Omaha? PokerNews Has You Covered
Today's 5:00 PM event is Event 24: $5,000 Omaha Hi-Low Split 8-or-Better. For those of you who may be unfamiliar with the game, you can refer to the PokerNews Poker Rules: Omaha Hi-Lo (8 or Better) page to check things out and get a feel for how the game is played. The page is complete with game rules, terms and also strategy links.
Omaha is similar to Hold'em in that it is a flop game, but instead of two hole cards, you receive four. The trick is that you must you two cards from your hole cards and only two cards, to make your best five-card hand at the end. This is the part that sometimes confuses people new to the game as they'll make the mistake of only using one card from their hand or trying to use three. Just like Hold'em, there is a betting round preflop followed a betting round after each of the flop, turn and river.
This event is a split-pot game, with half the pot going to the best high hand and half the pot going to the best low hand. In order to have a low hand, a player must be able to make a five-card hand with five separate cards eight or lower.
Who's Here So Far
Here's a list of some of the players in the field thus far. The board reads that 175 players are registered.
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Honorable Mention for Levy
Barry Levy kindly asked us if he could get honorable mention in our blog. Not only are we going to mention him, but we're going to let you know who he is so you can get familiar with him as we track him throughout this tournament.
Levy is from Brooklyn, New York and has just over $100,000 in live tournament earnings. He has many cashes on record and all of them come from a game other than Hold'em. Of those cashes, Levy's largest score was a win at the 2010 L.A. Poker Classic $545 Omaha-8 event for $21,840. He's also won four other tournaments. Two of those were in Omaha Hi-Low and the other two were H.O.R.S.E. events. Levy has never cashed in a World Series of Poker event, but he'll be looking to break that streak in this one.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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More Names
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Another Batch of Players
With registration open for the first four levels, the players just keep filing in and taking up seats. Here's another batch of names in the field. Right now, the tournament clock reads that 214 players are in the event, which is 12 more than last year's field.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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Friedman Down Early
Perry Friedman's tournament hasn't started off too well. He's all the way down to just 400 in chips, which is the amount of the big limit right now. We didn't catch all of the action that caused him to slip so far from what he began the night with, but here's one hand he played against Chris Bjorin.
On the button, Friedman raised and Bjorin reraised from the small blind. Friedman called and the flop came down 
. Bjorin bet and Friedman called.
The turn was the 
and Bjorin check-called a bet from Friedman to see the 
pair the board on the river. Bjorin bet and Friedman folded the 
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| Player | Chips | Progress |
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18,000 | 3,000 |
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400 | -14,600 |