Event 42: $2,500 Omaha/Seven Card Stud Hi-Low 8-or-Better
Day 2 Started
2012 World Series of Poker
Event 42: $2,500 Omaha/Seven Card Stud Hi-Low 8-or-Better
Day: 2
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2012 World Series of Poker
Buy-in
$2,500
Entries
393
Level
28
Blinds
0 / 0
Ante
0
Shetty, Dickstein and Lisandro Headline into Day 2
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Welcome back to the Rio for continued coverage of Event 42: $2,500 Omaha/Seven Card Stud Hi-Low 8-or-better. It's time for Day 2 action, with 175 players returning to the felt with the hopes of making it through the night.
Starting the day with the largest chip stack is a player named Mark Dickstein. We have already seen Dickstein posting a great result this summer, with Dickstein finishing on the final table of Event 10: $5,000 Seven Card Stud.
One player who will also be at the tables today, and with the third largest chip stack overall, is none other than Jeff Lisandro. If there is one player who is feared in at least one half of today's games, it is Jeff Lisandro as he holds four World Series of Poker gold bracelets in stud variants of poker. Lisandro was also at the same final table as Dickstein just a couple of weeks ago.
Not far behind Lisandro and Dickstein is Jeet Shetty as he will be looking to capture his first gold bracelet here in Event 42. A few of the other notables starting the day with plenty of chips include Norman Chad, Perry Friedman, Scott Seiver, Richard Ashby and Daniel Negreanu. While they may not have as many chips, the likes of Eugene Katchalov, Chip Jett, Pat Pezzin and Barry Greenstein must not be over looked.
For your information, the first-place prize everyone is chasing is worth $228,014. The min-cash is worth $4,845 and it is the top 40 players who will slide into the money. We expect the bubble to burst some time late into the evening.
The above players only touch the surface of the star studded field that are still in contention to take down this event, so strap yourselves in and enjoy the live coverage as PokerNews will be here all day long. It begins at 2:00 PM!
Level: 9
Limits: 0/0
Ante: 0
Cards are in the Air
Level 9
The cards are in the air, and the first game is Omaha Hi-Low 8-or-Better.
Ashby Loses One
Omaha-8
A player opened from early position, Richard Ashby called in middle position, and Jim Grove defended his big blind. The flop came down 
, and the action checked to Ashby, who bet. Only the original raiser called.
The turn was another six - the 
- and Ashby's opponent check-called another bet. Both players checked after the 
completed the board, and Ashby's opponent rolled over 
for queens and jacks.
Ashby mucked, and his stack dropped to 25,000 chips.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
25,000 | -4,500 |
Perry Takes Small One Early
Level 9
Omaha-8
"And the first walk of the day, goes to!" Perry Friedman exclaimed out of the big blind, as the action folded around to the player in the small blind.
However, the small blind would not oblige, flicking in enough to make the call. The 
flop was spread on the felt and the small blind check-called a bet from Friedman. Both players then checked the turn and then do the same on the river.
Friedman tabled his 
, with his straight enough to scoop the pot. Readers may recall that Friedman finished in fourth place in Event 10: $5,000 Stud a couple of weeks ago.
Greenstein Slipping
Omaha-8
Barry Greenstein has already made two final tables during this year's World Series of Poker, but he will need to do some work in this event if he wants to make it a third.
We recently watched Greenstein open up the pot during a hand of Omaha 8. He then called the three-bet of the opponent directly on his left and a 
flop was dealt. Greenstein checked here and his opponent bet. Greenstein looked at his cards for a few moments and then decided to let his hand go, leaving himself with a stack of just 8,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
8,000 | -4,900 |
Chipleader Takes a Hit
Stud-8
Mark Dickstein entered out day as our chip leader, but just lost a sizable pot to Igor Sharaskin.
| Dickstein |  /    / |
| Sharaskin | /   / |
Dickstein check-called bets on fourth, fifth, sixth, and seven street, and Sharaskin tabled 
. Dickstein showed his hand, but it couldn't beat Sharaskin's and it quickly hit the muck.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
41,000 | -17,100 |
|
30,000 | 3,600 |
Eliminations
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
Busted | |
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Busted |
Jeet Chops Two
Omaha-8
We just watched Jeet Shetty chop two hands in a row. The first one was against Bryan Devonshire and saw Shetty the aggressor on every street of a 
board. Devonshire check-called every street and then took half the pot holding 
for the low. Shetty held 
for the full house and the high end of the pot.
The next hand Shetty and one opponent played it out on a 
board. It ended up being chopped up again as Shetty's stack remained unchanged over the course of the two hands. Despite these two chopped pots, Shetty's stack has seen a slight decrease since the start of the day.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
34,000 | -5,700 |