Level: 2
Limits: 75/150
Ante: 25
2012 World Series of Poker
Event 4: $1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Low 8-or-Better
Day: 1
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2012 World Series of Poker
Buy-in
$1,500
Prize Pool
$839,700
Entries
622
Level
29
Limits
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
15,000
Who Likes Pi?
Level 2
: 75/150, 25 ante
It took us a little while, but we've located the defending champion, Chris "PiMaster" Viox, who is seated at the same table as WSOP Circuit Caesars Main Event champ Kevin Calenzo. Rest assured we'll be keeping an eye on Viox to see if a title defense is in the cards.
Secondary Table of Death
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Level 2
: 75/150, 25 ante
Table 381 has filled in with players now, and it's a tough place to be:
Seat 1: Dan Shak
Seat 3: Ylon Schwartz
Seat 4: Tom Schneider
Seat 6: Bill Chen
Seat 8: Ray Hensen
We don't recognize the other three gents at the table, and we don't envy them.
Plastik's Kickers Can't Get the Job Done
Level 2
: 75/150, 25 ante
After a player had brought it in with the 
, action folded around to David Plastik and he completed to 75. The next player to act, who was in Seat 5, then raised to 150. The bring in folded and Plastik made the call.
Plastik: (x-x) / 
/ (x)
Seat 5: (x-x) / 
/ (x)
The player in Seat 5 proceeded to check call bets on every street, prompting Plastik to confidently turn over 
for a pair of aces. Seat 5 then rolled over 
for aces as well. Both players had a king, but it'd be Seat 5's ten that would edge out Plastik's nine. With that, Plastik dropped back down to around the starting stack.
We're a Fan of the Tan
Level 2
: 75/150, 25 ante
A few more tables have opened up in the Tan Section of the Amazon Room, and of course there are some notables among their inhabitants. Some of the faces we've spotted at that end of the room include:
Scotty Nguyen
Carlos Mortensen
Matt Hawrilenko
Michael Mizrachi
Chino Rheem
Doug "Rico "Carli
Blair Rodman
Scott Seiver
Justin Young
David Benyamine
Chris Bjorin
An Owais in the Desert
Level 2
: 75/150, 25 ante
We just found one Owais Ahmed, a member of the most recent class of Bracelet Winners.
Last summer, Ahmed put on quite a show in the $2,500 Omaha/Stud Hi/Lo event. His fourth cash of the summer culminated in his first tournament win, a gold bracelet, and a quarter-million dollar bonus. In return, he gave us a couple of the more memorable winners' photos of the year:
Ahmed wasn't done bracelet hunting, though. He took a hefty $50,000 chunk out of his new spending money and bought into the Poker Players Championship just days later. Riding quite the rush, Ahmed quickly proved that his mixed-game success was no fluke, picking his way through one of the toughest WSOP fields ever assembled to find himself at another final table. He outlasted everyone except three men, adding another almost half-million dollars to his pockets.
One year later, we find Ahmed back at it again, and those who've been paying attention might grant a little more respect this time around.
Men Down!
Level 2
: 75/150, 25 ante
We've just lost our first two players of Event #4. If you had the "Under" on two levels before the first elimination, please take your tickets to the window.
Tryba is a Stud
Level 2
: 75/150, 25 ante
Last year, Chris Tryba notched three WSOP cashes. One was a 57th-place finish in Event #6 $1,500 Limit Hold’em for a modest $2,961, while the other two were a bit more notable. You see, Tryba is an experience Stud player. On any given day, he can be seen tweeting a picture of a monster chip stack from a 7-Card Stud cash game table, but last year he proved to the world he could hold his own against the big boys playing tournaments.
In Event #21 $10,000 7-Card Stud Championship, Tryba navigated a field of 126 players to make his first major WSOP final table, ultimately finishing in eighth place for $38,812. Less than a week later, Tryba was at it again in Event #33 $10,000 7-Card Stud Hi-Low Split-8 or Better Championship, which saw 168 players enter and create a prize pool of $1,579,200. Tryba was in that event and managed to finish in 16th place for $27,888. Not too shabby considering his opponents included Erik Seidel, Phil Laak, David Benyamine, Ted Forrest and Phil Hellmuth.
The point is, Tryba is a stud. We’ve been told he is playing a full schedule of tournaments this summer, and we can’t imagine he’d rather start out any other way than a big cash in the first Stud event of 2012.
That Awkward Moment For Aguiar
Level 2
: 75/150, 25 ante
Jon Aguiar was leading the betting when we walked up to a pot on fourth street. Here's how the boards played out:
Aguiar: (x-x) / 
/ (x)
Player 1: (x-x) / 
/ (x)
Opponent 2: (x-x) / 
/ (x)
After a bet on fourth street, Player 1 raised. Opponent 2 and Aguiar both called, and Player 1 continued the betting the rest of the way through seventh. Opponent 2 called on the last street, while Aguiar tucked and mucked with a ruffle of the lips when his seventh card displeased him.
Player 1 wasn't as strong as he appeared, perhaps. He showed 
/ for two pair, and Aguiar slipped his headphones off to make sure he was seeing things correctly. He was. Opponent 2 took the low half, and Aguiar has been reduced to about 1,950 with that loss.
Break Time
Level 2
: 75/150, 25 ante
Players are now on their first 15-minute break of the day.