Event #4: $1,500 Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Day 2 | 2018 World Series of Poker

06-01-2018 14:28 UTC-7

The Next Batch of Knockouts

Christian Zetzsche

Level 11 : 500/1,000, 0 ante

With one big bet already at 1,000, many players made it to Day 2 with very little room for moves and it comes as no surprise that the early list of knockouts keeps on growing by the minute. According to the screens, there are just 270 players remaining.

One of the players out in the early stages is Randy Ohel.

Player	Chips	Progress
Jorge Leon	Busted
Mohammad Nassiri	Busted
Ihab Ali	Busted
Laurent Olive	Busted
Randy Ohel	Busted
Daryl Kermmoade	Busted
Daniel Zhu	Busted
Wayne Diep	Busted
Jason Riesenberg	Busted
Barry Marfleet	Busted
Daniel Brecht-Haddad	Busted
Richard Katzman	Busted
Dagang Wang	Busted

06-01-2018 14:25 UTC-7

Zewin Chopped Up

Christian Zetzsche

Level 11 : 500/1,000, 0 ante

The cards of Don Zewin were all but mucked already and he grabbed his belongings before departing from the tournament area.

The board still showed and the pot was chopped up between Benny Glaser and table neighbor Jonathan Cohen. Glaser had the nut low with while Cohen scooped the high portion of the pot with for a straight.

Player	Chips	Progress
Benny Glaser	31,000	3,800
Jonathan Cohen	20,000	1,000
Don Zewin	Busted

Tags: Benny Glaser Don Zewin Jonathan Cohen

06-01-2018 14:24 UTC-7

Early Eliminations

Yori Epskamp

Level 11 : 500/1,000, 0 ante

In the first 10 minutes of the day, over a dozen players already made their way to the exit. One of them was Jesse Hampton, who was all in on a board while two other players kept betting and calling. It was Perry Friedman who ultimately tabled the winner on the river with , and Hampton was eliminated.

Ilya Dyment was another player to bow out early, and he was joined on the rail by Gregory Kolo, Tom Love, and Andrey Zhigalov.

Player	Chips	Progress
Perry Friedman	48,000	20,300
Ilya Dyment	Busted
Jesse Hampton	Busted
Gregory Kolo	Busted
Tom Love	Busted

Tags: Gregory Kolo Ilya Dyment Jesse Hampton Perry Friedman Tom Love

06-01-2018 14:18 UTC-7

More Bustouts Incoming

Christian Zetzsche

Level 11 : 500/1,000, 0 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Joe Ford	Busted
PJ Cha	Busted
Michael Klatt	Busted
Joel Salman	Busted
James Hagan	Busted
Stephen Johnson	Busted

06-01-2018 14:14 UTC-7

Matsuzuki Quarters Sokoloff

Christian Zetzsche

Level 11 : 500/1,000, 0 ante

A short-stacked Paul Sokoloff got his chips in with as a board came and he was called by Dan Matsuzuki with the . Both players had the same low while Matsuzuki held the superior two pair to scoop three-quarters of the pot and leave Sokoloff even shorter.

Player	Chips	Progress
Dan Matsuzuki	42,000	5,600
Paul Sokoloff	4,000	-3,500

Tags: Dan Matsuzuki Paul Sokoloff

06-01-2018 14:09 UTC-7

The First Two Casualties

Christian Zetzsche

Level 11 : 500/1,000, 0 ante

Roderick Chin and Hope Williams were the first two players to run out of big bets and headed to the rail, as will many others in the hours to come. It is a long way to the money bubble though, as more than half of the hopefuls who advanced to Day 2 will leave empty-handed.

Player	Chips	Progress
Roderick Chin	Busted
Hope Williams	Busted

Tags: Hope Williams Roderick Chin

Level: 11

Blinds: 500/1,000

Ante: 0

06-01-2018 12:09 UTC-7

The Race to the Money on Day 2 of Event #4: $1,500 Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better

Christian Zetzsche

After 10 one-hour levels on Day 1 of Event #4: $1,500 Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better, the field of 911 entries was cut down to just 296 hopefuls still in contention to earn their share of the $1,229,850 prize pool. It's still a long way to go to secure a min-cash of $2,252, as only the top 137 spots get paid, and the winner can look forward to the elusive golden bracelet and top prize of $239,771 on Saturday.

Best positioned to engrave his name into poker history and heading into the chip leader for Day 2 is Dao Bac with 74,700, closely followed by Nick Guagenti (65,600) and Pamela McPeak (64,900). Other big stacks to start Day 2 belong to Frank Muir (61,300), Kate Hoang (58,400), and John Jenkins (58,200), while notables such as Matt Grapenthien (48,900), Peter Eichhardt (47,300), Matt Waxman (43,200), six-time WSOP bracelet winner Layne Flack (41,500) and Allen Kessler (39,600) all bagged up above-average stacks.

Several former bracelet winners remain in the hunt for yet another title as well, including Jeff Madsen (31,900), Sebastian Langrock (31,600), John Racener (31,300), Shaun Deeb (28,700), Benny Glaser (27,200), Ryan Laplante (24,500), Mike Leah (22,500), Frank Kassela (21,200), Christopher Vitch (20,800), Robert Mizrachi (17,400), Scott Clements (15,000), and Mike Matusow (14,800). Glaser won this very event two years ago and followed up his victory by taking down the $10,000 Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship a few days later.

The action is set to resume at 2 p.m. local time with blinds of 500/1,000 and 10 more one-hour levels scheduled for this penultimate tournament day. There will be a break every two levels and a dinner break after the end of the sixth level, with bagging and tagging expected to take place after 2 a.m. local time.

The PokerNews live reporting team will be on the floor to provide the action until a winner is crowned. Keep in mind as well that the final table of this event will be streamed live on the PokerCentral Twitch channel tomorrow.

Tags: Benny Glaser Dao Bac Nick Guagenti Pamela McPeak

06-01-2018 10:12 UTC-7

Day 2 Seat Draw

Yori Epskamp

Table	Seat	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Bets
497	1	Tom Love	United States	5,100	5
497	2	Prince Docnes	United States	21,900	22
497	3	Shaun Deeb	United States	28,700	29
497	4	Pojana Jenne	United States	9,200	9
497	5	Denny Axel	United States	46,400	46
497	7	Daniel Buzgon	United States	4,900	5
497	8	Mike Leah	Canada	22,500	23
497	9	Tamir Ilcafass	United States	16,700	17

498	1	Philip Long	United Kingdom	25,000	25
498	3	Matt Glantz	United States	12,200	12
498	4	Danny Mangra	United States	29,900	30
498	5	Jared Koppel	United States	38,200	38
498	6	Aaron Steury	United States	15,100	15
498	7	Mike Matusow	United States	14,800	15
498	8	Dao Bac	United States	74,700	75
498	9	Mallory Smith	United States	9,800	10

499	1	Ryan Laplante	United States	24,500	25
499	2	Joe Ford	United States	4,300	4
499	3	John Reiss	United States	30,300	30
499	4	Jeremy Ausmus	United States	12,700	13
499	5	Randy Ohel	United States	9,400	9
499	7	Jorge Leon	United States	8,000	8
499	8	Forrest Auel	United States	16,500	17

500	1	Nader Isahac	United States	1,300	1
500	2	Jerry Wong	United States	15,600	16
500	4	Chad Eveslage	United States	40,400	40
500	5	[Removed:321] Nassiri	United States	4,300	4
500	8	Victor Ramdin	United States	42,000	42
500	9	Robert Slezak	United States	29,600	30

504	1	Gregory Kolo	United States	7,600	8
504	2	Justin Liberto	United States	23,600	24
504	3	Chase Haugland	United States	22,400	22
504	4	Brian Saltus	United States	43,300	43
504	5	Aron Dermer	United States	22,100	22
504	6	Kathy Chang	United States	27,700	28
504	7	Cat Antoniuk	United States	6,400	6
504	8	Ihab Ali	United States	8,100	8
504	9	James Yoo	United States	51,000	51

505	1	Martin Corpuz	United States	45,600	46
505	2	Sebastian Langrock	Austria	31,600	32
505	3	Maria Ho	United States	8,400	8
505	4	Jason Lester	United States	9,500	10
505	5	Olaf Arneson	United States	25,700	26
505	6	Monty Dennis	United States	23,500	24
505	7	Jim Grove	United States	14,100	14
505	8	Pamela McPeak	United States	64,900	65
505	9	Tad Jurgens	United States	4,500	5

506	1	Corey Hochman	United States	27,400	27
506	2	James Chen	Taiwan	21,900	22
506	3	Craig Chait	United States	25,500	26
506	4	Vladislav Tinchev	Germany	28,900	29
506	5	Kal Raichura	Canada	20,500	21
506	6	Brandon Gerson	United States	18,800	19
506	8	Sergio Torrez	United States	7,200	7
506	9	Thomas Taylor	Canada	32,500	33

507	1	Jordan Zynda	United States	18,200	18
507	2	Julien Martini	France	30,400	30
507	3	Matt Vengrin	United States	18,600	19
507	5	Kate Hoang	United States	58,400	58
507	6	Colin Wickersheim	United States	20,900	21
507	7	John Roveto	United States	23,200	23
507	8	Jeff Shulman	United States	32,600	33
507	9	Randolph Jensen	United States	46,900	47

508	1	Frank Kassela	United States	21,200	21
508	2	Daniel Chio	United States	44,900	45
508	3	Sergey Zaporozhets	Russian Federation	19,700	20
508	4	Richard Katzman	United States	9,100	9
508	5	Douglas Exman	United States	31,000	31
508	7	David Self	United States	33,800	34
508	8	Allen Kessler	United States	39,600	40
508	9	Paul Honas	United States	20,500	21

509	1	Kevin Brewer	United States	42,000	42
509	2	Xunen Zheng	United Kingdom	29,900	30
509	3	Francis Whitaker	United States	23,800	24
509	4	Robert Campbell	United States	42,200	42
509	6	Laurent Olive	France	14,200	14
509	7	David "Bakes" Baker	United States	23,400	23
509	8	Justin Vold	United States	27,800	28
509	9	Jeff Madsen	United States	31,900	32

510	1	Chris Tryba	United States	14,200	14
510	2	John Urpsis	United States	24,800	25
510	3	John Wendell Robison	United States	18,800	19
510	4	Matt Waxman	United States	43,200	43
510	5	Hernan Salazar	United States	15,400	15
510	6	Patrick Gunn	United States	33,100	33
510	7	Lawrence Berg	United States	16,300	16
510	9	Joe Aronesty	United States	10,200	10

511	1	Cole Jackson	United States	36,100	36
511	2	Anton Morgenstern	Germany	18,700	19
511	3	Benjamin Dobson	United Kingdom	7,500	8
511	4	Scott Fitzhugh	United States	19,600	20
511	5	Mark Gregorich	United States	15,800	16
511	6	Anthony Frederick	United States	21,400	21
511	7	Denis Bilodeau	United States	16,100	16
511	8	J Smith	United States	7,600	8
511	9	Alan Sternberg	United States	13,300	13

512	1	Cornelio Mclean	United States	18,100	18
512	2	Adam Kipnis	United States	8,600	9
512	3	Gary Floyd	United States	15,100	15
512	4	Brett Jungblut	United States	48,300	48
512	5	David Levi	United States	19,500	20
512	6	Jacobo Fernandez	United States	36,300	36
512	8	Jose Paz-Gutierrez	Bolivia	14,000	14
512	9	Nick Polydoros	United States	24,200	24

513	1	Perry Friedman	United States	10,200	10
513	2	Barry Marfleet	United States	11,100	11
513	3	Michael Hinde	United States	41,300	41
513	4	Brian Schwartz	United States	7,200	7
513	5	Jose Razocabrera	United States	47,000	47
513	6	Jesse Hampton	United States	4,700	5
513	7	Dennis Napel	United States	10,100	10
513	8	Anthony Arvidson	United States	24,500	25
513	9	Timothy Foley	United States	11,200	11

514	1	Jason Gooch	United States	14,400	14
514	2	Brian Yee	United States	26,700	27
514	3	Jan Stein	United States	24,300	24
514	4	Mikhail Semin	Russian Federation	24,900	25
514	5	Dagang Wang	United States	7,500	8
514	6	Leo Fasen	United States	31,800	32
514	7	Alan Morgan	United States	12,700	13
514	8	Saige Ciarletta	United States	13,300	13
514	9	James Pursley	United States	45,300	45

515	1	Eric Judge	United States	23,700	24
515	2	Christopher Logue	United States	34,500	35
515	3	Lori Berumen	United States	18,500	19
515	4	Michael Zepek	United States	53,200	53
515	5	Nadezhda Magnus	United States	20,000	20
515	6	Ed Smith	United States	33,600	34
515	7	Robert Mizrachi	United States	17,400	17
515	8	Hal Rotholz	United States	9,600	10
515	9	Osama Aweida	United States	37,600	38

516	1	Anthony Malcein	United States	21,900	22
516	2	Benny Glaser	United Kingdom	27,200	27
516	3	Jonathan Cohen	United States	19,000	19
516	4	Raymond Davis	United States	41,700	42
516	5	Renan Bruschi	Brazil	14,800	15
516	6	Manelic Minaya	United States	17,000	17
516	7	Wing Wong	United States	12,900	13
516	8	Ashton Griffin	United States	26,500	27
516	9	Don Zewin	United States	6,400	6

517	1	Derek Raymond	United States	14,700	15
517	2	Chris Klodnicki	United States	21,800	22
517	3	Thayer Rasmussen	United States	3,000	3
517	4	David Martin	United States	800	1
517	5	Alex Visbisky	United States	51,000	51
517	6	Thomas Hunt	United States	12,000	12
517	7	David Brookshire	United States	26,700	27
517	8	Roland Israelashvili	United States	14,300	14
517	9	David Wonnenberg	United States	12,800	13

518	1	Matt Grapenthien	United States	48,900	49
518	2	William Brock	United States	36,400	36
518	3	Mack Lee	United States	44,500	45
518	4	Perry Green	United States	19,800	20
518	5	Peter Levine	United States	32,000	32
518	6	Michael Jacobs	United States	20,900	21
518	7	Christopher Schaler	United States	45,700	46
518	8	Ray Henson	United States	19,400	19
518	9	Scott Buller	United States	52,100	52

519	1	Peter Eichhardt	Sweden	47,300	47
519	2	Jake Schwartz	United States	10,200	10
519	3	Rylen Sanehisa	United States	5,800	6
519	4	Andrey Zhigalov	Russian Federation	3,900	4
519	5	Donald Spagnuolo	United States	19,400	19
519	6	Layne Flack	United States	41,500	42
519	7	John Monnette	United States	6,200	6
519	8	Pj Cha	United States	5,600	6
519	9	Lisa French	United States	15,600	16

520	1	Matthew Bathurst	United States	28,400	28
520	2	Nickolai Orlov	United States	11,800	12
520	3	Vinson Anenson	United States	13,900	14
520	4	Claudangelo Beaudouin	United States	15,700	16
520	5	Hope Williams	United States	2,900	3
520	6	Brayden Gazlay	United States	14,300	14
520	7	Jermaine Reid	United States	13,200	13
520	8	James Douglas	United States	27,400	27
520	9	John Racener	United States	31,300	31

521	1	Benjamin Scholl	United States	26,400	26
521	2	Ronan Nally	United Kingdom	16,500	17
521	3	Daniel Weinman	United States	28,700	29
521	4	Henry Chow	United States	31,100	31
521	5	Michael Noori	United States	25,500	26
521	6	Steve Lustig	United States	26,000	26
521	7	Micah Brooks	United States	21,500	22
521	8	Tom McCormick	United States	12,700	13
521	9	Ilya Dyment	United States	7,700	8

522	1	Tommy Chen	United States	61,400	61
522	2	Tony Ma	United States	22,900	23
522	3	Marsha Shutt	United States	43,200	43
522	4	Alex Christian	United States	45,800	46
522	5	Nick Guagenti	United States	65,600	66
522	6	Spencer Buzbee	United States	23,000	23
522	7	Jared Talarico	United States	3,300	3
522	8	Jeremy Privett	United States	4,700	5
522	9	Errol Massey	United States	24,100	24

523	1	Alan Bittikofer	United States	44,800	45
523	2	Jon Evans	United States	27,600	28
523	4	Terry Oltman	United States	23,700	24
523	5	Lloyd Fletcher	United States	18,900	19
523	6	Yuebin Guo	United States	25,500	26
523	7	Adam Haman	United States	29,000	29
523	8	Zachary Brooks	United States	5,200	5
523	9	Jason Gola	United States	17,800	18

524	1	Larry Colt	United States	6,700	7
524	2	Sean Eichendorf	Canada	1,800	2
524	3	Steven Lindlof	United States	37,500	38
524	4	Jason Rivkin	United States	15,700	16
524	5	Christopher Roth	United States	51,800	52
524	6	Danny Chang	United States	32,400	32
524	7	Sergey Kosach	Russian Federation	25,600	26
524	8	Robert Coates	United States	27,500	28
524	9	Daniel Spear	United States	16,200	16

525	1	Tuvya Felt	United States	24,900	25
525	2	Honesto Guiang	United States	24,800	25
525	3	Phuong Tran	United States	20,300	20
525	4	Michael Moore	United States	29,200	29
525	5	Ruben Vera	United States	20,700	21
525	6	Phu Tran	United States	13,100	13
525	7	Louis Cheffy	United States	17,500	18
525	8	Jeff Siegal	United States	14,700	15
525	9	Ricardo Rodriguez Ortega	United States	13,800	14

526	1	Daryl Kermmoade	United States	3,400	3
526	2	Wellington Draper	United States	38,000	38
526	3	Danny Wong	United States	43,300	43
526	4	James Hagan	United States	10,700	11
526	5	Ben Hammond	United States	4,900	5
526	6	Andrew Pillet	United States	39,100	39
526	7	Michael Eckstut	United States	24,300	24
526	8	Joe Brandenburg	United States	24,200	24
526	9	Jason Riesenberg	United States	12,300	12

527	1	Scott Kneeland	United States	50,800	51
527	2	Matthew Schreiber	United States	18,600	19
527	3	Chris Wallace	United States	20,000	20
527	4	Daniel Zhu	United States	10,500	11
527	5	Pete Rasmussen	United States	30,700	31
527	6	John Pinto	United States	14,200	14
527	7	Long Nguyen	United States	17,300	17
527	8	James Dedauw	United States	45,500	46
527	9	Brandon Ageloff	United States	35,500	36

528	1	Harry Bienenfeld	United States	24,000	24
528	2	Paul Edwards	United States	13,000	13
528	3	Gary Vick	United States	35,400	35
528	4	Eddie Blumenthal	United States	10,000	10
528	5	Steve Allen	United States	7,800	8
528	6	Matt Gregoire	United States	25,400	25
528	7	Itsuko Yoroi	Japan	34,900	35
528	8	Rod Chern	United States	44,800	45
528	9	Gregory Dinkin	United States	20,100	20

529	1	Natasha Mercier	United States	14,600	15
529	2	Paul Harvell	United States	9,600	10
529	3	Chris Bjorin	Sweden	31,900	32
529	4	Wayne Diep	United States	18,500	19
529	5	Dan Matsuzuki	United States	36,400	36
529	6	Anita Perl	United States	30,300	30
529	7	Rafael Concepcion	United States	32,400	32
529	8	Paul Sokoloff	Canada	7,500	8
529	9	Dennis Tymchak	Canada	7,900	8

530	1	Keith Ohara	United States	10,600	11
530	2	Rudolf Schwartz	Canada	22,400	22
530	3	Todd Witteles	United States	32,200	32
530	4	Glenn Cozen	United States	4,600	5
530	5	Heikki Piira	Finland	10,100	10
530	7	Roderick Chin	United States	4,300	4
530	8	Richard Weeks	United States	8,600	9
530	9	Christopher Vitch	United States	20,800	21

531	1	Matt Woodward	United States	37,900	38
531	2	Stephen Johnson	United States	6,600	7
531	3	Cody Scherer	United States	28,700	29
531	4	Jesse Simonelli	United States	29,000	29
531	5	Joseph Brodsky	United States	35,700	36
531	6	William Kopp	United States	19,400	19
531	7	Marc Farrar	United States	22,100	22
531	8	Amit Sander	United States	19,900	20
531	9	Brian Haack	United States	53,100	53

532	1	Brett Shaffer	United States	26,100	26
532	2	Christopher Dzoan	United States	21,600	22
532	3	Paul Zibits	United States	19,000	19
532	4	Eric Snyder	United States	16,200	16
532	5	Daniel Brecht-Haddad	United States	10,100	10
532	6	Scott Nickleach	United States	31,400	31
532	8	Doug Saab	United States	21,700	22
532	9	James Klimkoski	United States	29,600	30

533	1	John Lewis	United States	3,000	3
533	2	Joel Salman	United States	8,700	9
533	3	John Jenkins	United States	58,200	58
533	5	Tony Ruberto	United States	12,000	12
533	6	Scott Clements	United States	15,000	15
533	8	Michael Russell	United States	25,000	25
533	9	Jason Stockfish	United States	13,100	13

534	1	Frank Muir	United States	61,300	61
534	2	Jason Phamolivo	United States	36,600	37
534	3	Thang Tran	United States	9,700	10
534	4	Matthew Suelflow	United States	20,400	20
534	5	Orlando Romero	United States	25,400	25
534	6	Dale Phillips	United States	16,400	16
534	7	Mike Wattel	United States	33,500	34
534	9	Michael Klatt	United States	1,000	1

Event #4: $1,500 Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better

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