Event #49: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha 8-Handed Championship Day 2 | 2018 World Series of Poker

06-25-2018 00:39 UTC-7

Sammartino Wins a Monster Pot with Double Suited Aces

Jan_Kores

Level 19 : 6,000/12,000, 0 ante

Dario Sammartino was in a pot that brewed to gigantic dimensions. We picked up the action on the river where Sammartino shoved his 430,000 or so when Xuedong Li checked to him. Sammartino had him covered by almost 100,000 and a fairly quick call followed.

Sammartino had flopped the nut flush on the board, showing double suited aces with . Li turned up for an inferior flush and the big chunk of money went to Sammartino who now commands his table with a 1.25 million stack.

Player	Chips	Progress
Dario Sammartino	1,250,000 950,000	950,000

Xuedong Li	Busted

Tags: Dario Sammartino Xuedong Li

06-25-2018 00:43 UTC-7

Hughes Busts Flack in Most Massive Pot Yet

mnuwwarah

Level 19 : 6,000/12,000, 0 ante

Layne Flack opened for a raise early and got calls from his neighbors in the next two seats, Jerry Wong and Ryan Hughes. The flop came and Flack bet 100,000. Only Hughes continued. The turn came and Flack check-called 300,000. The river was the . Flack cut down one his stacks and then announced all in.

It looked to be about 300,000 but Hughes didn't even need a count as he announced an immediate call and tabled for tens full. Flack revealed a hand that included but the dealer whipped the others around and shuffled them into the muck forever before we could catch the other two.

Player	Chips	Progress
Ryan Hughes	2,200,000 1,575,000	1,575,000

Layne Flack	Busted

Tags: Layne Flack Ryan Hughes Jerry Wong

06-25-2018 01:47 UTC-7

Tsang Eliminates Wasserson in a Robust Pot

Jan_Kores

Level 20 : 8,000/16,000, 0 ante

Yan Shing Tsang raised to 42,000 in the cutoff and the action stopped at Eric Wasserson who raised the pot out of the big blind. Tsang matched the 134,000-raise and they went to the flop.

Wasserson potted again, making it 276,000 and Tsang pushed all in, covering Wasserson's 400,000 or so. Wasserson put in the rest of his chips.

Tsang:
Wasserson:

Tsang outflopped Wasserson as he hit two pair but Wasserson was still drawing very live. The gave Tsang even better two pair.

The river was the and that was Wasserson's swan song in the tournament as he lost the over a 1 million pot to Tsang who boosted his stack to 1.6 million. Wasserson tapped the felt and then headed for the payouts.

Player	Chips	Progress
Anson Tsang	1,585,000 865,000	865,000

Eric Wasserson	Busted

Tags: Eric Wasserson Yan Shing Tsang

06-25-2018 02:17 UTC-7

Swingy Day Sees Hughes Atop Counts Again With 37 Left

mnuwwarah

Level 20 : 8,000/16,000, 0 ante

When Day 2 of Event #49: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha 8-Handed Championship began at the World Series of Poker, Ryan Hughes sat atop the counts after a strong finish on Day 1. That's exactly where he wound up 12 hours later, but it wasn't exactly smooth sailing.

Hughes started the day with 475,400 and ended with 2,366,000. In between, though, he dipped all the way down to 38,000 at 2,000/4,000, at which point he had one of the shortest stacks in the room. That was after Joseph Liberta picked him off on a huge bluff with Hughes jamming the river holding top two but Liberta having trip nines.

However, Hughes recovered in a hurry. He had ten-times that number two hours later and then moved up to 800,000 after getting multiple streets of value from Richard Gryko with aces that turned into the nut flush.

The big hand that cemented his lead, however, took place in the penultimate level of the evening at 6,000/12,000. Six-time bracelet winner Layne Flack raised it up and got two callers. A ten-high flop saw Flack bet just under pot for 100,000 and Hughes continue. Flack check-called 300,000 on a brick turn and then front-jammed 300,000 when the board paired on the river. Hughes quickly called with top boat to send Flack to the rail and move over 2 million when his nearest rivals were barely cracking 1 million.

Along with Hughes, 36 others made it through, including second-place Rep Porter (1.7 million), Brandon Shack-Harris (1.2 million), Scotty Nguyen (897,000) and poker YouTube star Joey Ingram (749,000).

Joey Ingram will be back on Day 3 of the $10k PLO

All of them are well into the money as the bubble burst just under an hour after the dinner break. Shawn Buchanan and Randy Ohel went down at virtually the same time to let the rest of the field fade any hand-for-hand play.

Some of the players who busted and got paid included Connor Drinan, Joe Hachem, Robert Mizrachi, and Ben Lamb.

Hachem experienced a highly unlucky bustout when he flopped aces full against Brandon Shack-Harris, who flopped quad kings. All the money went in on the river and Hachem went to the rail.

The remaining 37 runners are all in contention for a hefty first-place prize of $1,018,336. They're scheduled to play down to a winner on Day 3 starting at 2 p.m., but it may be a tall order with such a number. Keep an eye on the live updates here on PokerNews to see if it happens.