2014 World Series of Poker

Event #42: $5,000 Six-Handed Pot-Limit Omaha
Day: 1
Event Info

2014 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
8744
Prize
$541,747
Event Info
Buy-in
$5,000
Prize Pool
$2,124,400
Entries
452
Level Info
Level
29
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
0

Event #42: $5,000 Six-Handed Pot-Limit Omaha

Day 1 Completed

Davidi Kitai In Control Of Event #42

Level 10 : 500/1,000, 0 ante
Davidi Kitai
Davidi Kitai

A crowd of 452 players made their way to the Brasilia Room today for the $5,000 Six-Handed Pot-Limit Omaha event, and by the time 10 hour-long levels were completed only 96 of them had chips that needed bagging and tagging.

Some of those 96 survivors bagged up only a few big blinds, while others had to cram masses of chips into their overnight sacks.

One such big stack, the biggest stack in the room in fact, belongs to Belgium's Davidi Kitai, who turned his 15,000 starting stack into a colossal pile worth 308,300. Kitai won his third World Series of Poker gold bracelet this year and now looks set to make a run for a fourth if his Day 1 form is anything to go by.

Other players who had a great day at the felt were Brandon Crawford (202,900), recent bracelet winner Kory Kilpatrick (202,000), Brant Hale (189,200), and Mike Gorodinsky (186,600).

As you would expect from a tournament that costs the princely sum of $5,000 to enter, plenty of notable players punched their ticket for Day 2's action.

Players such as Brian Rast (147,900), Mike Watson (135,700), Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi (119,200), Scotty Nguyen (108,500), David "Bakes" Baker (108,200), Ashton Griffin (103,400), Phil Galfond (72,100), JC Tran (66,000), Jason Mercier (62,900), Calvin Anderson (48,900), and Sorel Mizzi (44,300) being a small but stellar selection of top talent to look out for when the tournament resumes.

Speaking of which, Day 2 commences at 1 p.m. local time on Saturday, and the plan is to play 10 hour-long levels and whittle the field down as close to the final table of six as possible. While the final table almost certainly won't be reached, the money places will be as they start at 48th place.

Keep your browsers locked to PokerNews to keep up to date with all of the action, as it happens, from this superb action-packed tournament.

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End-of-Day Chip Counts

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Player Chips Progress
Davidi Kitai be
Davidi Kitai
WSOP 3X Winner
Winamax
308,300 -6,750
Brandon Crawford us
Brandon Crawford
202,900 10,900
Kory Kilpatrick us
Kory Kilpatrick
WSOP 1X Winner
202,000
Brant Hale us
Brant Hale
189,200 110,700
Mike Gorodinsky us
Mike Gorodinsky
WSOP 3X Winner
186,600 19,100
Scott Bohlman us
Scott Bohlman
WSOP 1X Winner
171,500 17,450
Matthew Greenwood us
Matthew Greenwood
150,000
Attilio Donato it
Attilio Donato
149,100 13,100
Brian Rast us
Brian Rast
WSOP 6X Winner
Poker Hall of Famer
147,900 -32,100
Jose Obadia es
Jose Obadia
146,300 -38,700
Mathieu Jacqmin fr
Mathieu Jacqmin
139,100
Mike Watson ca
Mike Watson
135,700 5,700
John Patgorski us
John Patgorski
123,400
Michael Mizrachi us
Michael Mizrachi
WSOP 5X Winner
119,200 2,200
Matthew Mendez us
Matthew Mendez
118,400
Khiem Nguyen de
Khiem Nguyen
109,700
Scotty Nguyen us
Scotty Nguyen
WSOP 5X Winner
Poker Hall of Famer
108,500 18,500
David "Bakes" Baker us
David "Bakes" Baker
WSOP 3X Winner
108,200 82,200
Andrew Holland us
Andrew Holland
107,400
Michael Drummond us
Michael Drummond
WSOP 1X Winner
104,000
Ashton Griffin us
Ashton Griffin
103,400 13,400
Michael Shklover us
Michael Shklover
100,900
Joshua Ladines us
Joshua Ladines
98,700
Numit Agrawal us
Numit Agrawal
95,000
Sam Feinberg us
Sam Feinberg
90,400

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Final Three Hands

Level 10 : 500/1,000, 0 ante

The Tournament Director has now paused the clock and we will deal three more hands until play ends for the evening.

It's All About the Blue

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With the final table in the Silver section breaking, we are now down to just the 19 tables in the Blue section meaning just 114 players remain in the tournament.

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Final Level of Play

Level 10 : 500/1,000, 0 ante

We are now in the final level of play for the night.

With 120 players remaining, there is a chance we could sneak into double digits by the close of play in 60 minutes.

Level: 10

Blinds: 500/1,000

Ante: 0