Event #61:$10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha
Day 1 Started
Event #61:$10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha
Day 1 Started
Tomorrow the 2013 World Series of Poker $10,000 Main Event will kick off. The PokerNews Live Reporting Team certainly can't believe the premiere event is upon us, but before we devote our attention to that tournament, we have one more to kick off tonight—Event #61:$10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha.
Last year, this event drew 293 runners and saw Germany's Jan-Peter Jachtmann take down the title and $661,000 first-place prize. He defeated a final table that included Andrew Brown (2nd - $408,393), Steven Silverman (3rd - $299,960), Micah Smith (4th - $222,044), Andy Seth (5th - $165,665), Benjamin Sage (6th - $124,600), Nikolai Yakovenko (7th - $94,442) and Jason Mercier (8th - $72,132).
As you can tell, this event has been a favorite among top professional for years. Back in 2011, Ben Lamb topped a field of 361 players on his way to becoming the 2011 WSOP Player of the Year. The year before that, Daniel Alaei bested 345 other players to win the title and the $780,599 first-place prize. Other past champs include 2009's Matt Graham, who beat Vitaly Lunkin in heads-up play to win $679,379); and 2008's Marty Smyth, who bested 381 competitors to win his first gold bracelet and $859,532 in prize money.
Thanks to social media we already know some big-name players will be taking a shot today including David Williams, Ola Amundsgard, Joseph Cheong and Jason Mercier, just to name a few.
Action it set to kick off at 5 p.m. PDT, which is a few hours from now. Be sure to join us then as the PokerNews Live Reporting Team brings you all the action from Event #61:$10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha. In the meantime, follow what's happening in other tournaments by visiting out Live Reporting section.
Level: 1
Blinds: 50/100
Ante: 0
The cards are in the air for Event #61:$10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Jason Senti |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Jason Mercier |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Jan-Peter Jachtmann |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
|
||
David Benyamine |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
|
||
A.P. Phahurat
|
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Erick Lindgren |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
|
||
Tony Cousineau |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Perry Green |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
|
||
Alex Kravchenko |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Christian Harder |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Naoya Kihara |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Josh Arieh |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
|
||
Gabriel Nassif |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Juha Helppi |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
|
||
Barry Greenstein |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Ashly Butler |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Erik Seidel |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
|
||
Andrew Brown |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Don Nguyen |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Justin Schwartz | 30,000 | |
Tommy Le | 30,000 | |
|
||
Ramzi Jelassi | 30,000 | |
Tim O'Shea | 30,000 | |
Hans Winzeler | 30,000 | |
Ryan Fair | 30,000 | |
Chris Bell | 30,000 | |
Jeff Lisandro | 30,000 | |
|
||
Vanessa Selbst | 30,000 | |
Sam Stein | 30,000 | |
Justin Smith | 30,000 | |
Scott Clements | 30,000 | |
|
||
Alex Dovzhenko | 30,000 | |
Huck Seed | 30,000 | |
|
||
Marcel Luske | 30,000 | |
Hac Dang
|
30,000 |
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Daniel Weinman | 30,000 | |
|
||
Brock Parker | 30,000 | |
Ismael Bojang | 30,000 | |
|
||
Eric Cloutier | 30,000 | |
David Paredes | 30,000 | |
Antoine Saout | 30,000 | |
David Sands | 30,000 | |
Noah Schwartz | 30,000 | |
|
||
Jared Bleznick | 30,000 | |
|
||
Andy Seth | 30,000 | |
Scott Bohlman | 30,000 | |
|
||
Phil Ivey | 30,000 | |
|
||
Alan Le
|
30,000 | |
Ludovic Lacay | 30,000 | |
Randal Flowers | 30,000 | |
Michael Kamran | 30,000 | |
Dario Alioto | 30,000 | |
|
||
Jeremy Kottler | 30,000 | |
Dan Kelly | 30,000 | |
Mike Watson | 30,000 | |
|
||
Dermot Blain | 30,000 |
Vanessa Selbst led with a bet of 600 on the flop and one player called before the third player in the hand raised to 1,200. Selbst called, and the player in the middle folded.
The turn was the , and Selbst checked her option. Her opponent fired a bet of 1,800, to which Selbst responded by moving all in for around 8,000. Her opponent quickly called.
Selbst showed the for a straight. Her opponent had the same straight with the . The river was the , and the two chopped up the pot.
You always know you're playing a PLO tourney because it smells like the men's section of Sephora #feelslikeeuropealloveragainFollow @VanessaSelbst
Playing 10k plo. If I don't win this event. I lose a lot of money... So what though, @VanessaSelbst and I won the team pro beer pong tournyFollow @JasonMercier
Pot-limit Omaha is one of poker's most popular variants, but a lot of recreational players are a bit intimidated to try it. That's a shame because it's surprisingly simple to learn. For those who don't know how to play, we encourage you to check out the nuances in PokerNews' Rules Section.
Here's a sample on bluffing in PLO, which may come in handy when following today's coverage:
Because Omaha is so focused on the nuts, it seems like an easy game to bluff. A player can represent a wider range of hands in Omaha, and also open up their game a bit more with many more semi-bluffs available. The more you learn about the game, the easy it will become to pick up on these spots and determine how to proceed against various opponents.
It is in this regard that "blockers" also become much more prevalent in Omaha than in Texas hold'em. Blockers are those cards you hold in your hand that prevent an opponent from making a specific hand. For example, if a board reads and you hold the in your hand but no other spades, you may not have a flush, you you know your opponent cannot make the nut flush. This gives you added power in the hand being able to push your opponent off certain hands as he is guaranteed to not contain the nuts.