Event #60: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship Day 2 | 2018 World Series of Poker

06-30-2018 17:49 UTC-7

More Chip Counts

Mickey Doft

Level 14 : 2,000/4,000, 0 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Ari Engel	340,000 -20,000	-20,000

Chad Power	290,000 18,000	18,000
Galen Hall	230,000 46,000	46,000

Nathan Gamble	220,000 -5,000	-5,000

Marco Johnson	210,000 50,000	50,000

Phil Galfond	199,000 119,000	119,000

Jim Collopy	180,000 80,000	80,000

Chase Steely	170,000 113,000	113,000
Eoghan O'Dea	150,000 -16,500	-16,500
Yan Shing Tsang	140,000 -14,500	-14,500
Chris Ferguson	135,000 5,000	5,000

David Brookshire	118,000 -2,000	-2,000

Ali Abduljabbar	85,000 36,600	36,600
Nikolai Yakovenko	65,000
Barny Boatman	65,000 12,000	12,000

Joshua Pender	57,000 -26,100	-26,100
Bryce Yockey	50,000 -94,500	-94,500

David Levi	25,000 -65,000	-65,000

06-30-2018 18:01 UTC-7

Aces vs. Aces; Bohlman Goes From Winning it All to Chopping

Mickey Doft

Level 14 : 2,000/4,000, 0 ante

Scott Bohlman (small blind) and Dustin Dirksen (middle position) got it in after a series of bets and raises for roughly 195,000 each.

Bohlman:
Dirksen:

The flop came down , giving both the nut low draw while giving Bohlman a flush draw. The turn was the , giving Bohlman a flush, but the river was the to give both players deuces full of aces to chop the pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Scott Bohlman	200,000 20,000	20,000

Dustin Dirksen	200,000 -50,000	-50,000

Tags: Dustin Dirksen Scott Bohlman

06-30-2018 18:10 UTC-7

More Eliminations

Mickey Doft

Level 14 : 2,000/4,000, 0 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Talal Shakerchi	Busted
Robert Mizrachi	Busted

Craig Chait	Busted
Ryan Miller	Busted

Kyle Bowker	Busted

Eric Rodawig	Busted

Stuart Rutter	Busted
Connor Drinan	Busted

Peter Bercovich	Busted
Stephen Johnson	Busted
Tony Cousineau	Busted
Bryce Yockey	Busted

06-30-2018 18:16 UTC-7

Elezra Quarters Porter in a Big Pot

MrCleverFox

Level 14 : 2,000/4,000, 0 ante

Picking up the action on a flop of , Rep Porter had 18,000 out in front of him before Eli Elezra made a pot-size raise to 60,000. Porter mulled it over for a bit before calling.

The turn was the and, after a check from Porter, Elezra moved all in for 64,500. Porter dropped into the tank.

"I don't even know what I want," Elezra said after about a minute. "If you have jacks full..."

"If I had jacks full it'd already be in," Porter said.

"What about threes full?" Elezra asked. "I know what you got. You have ace-deuce of spades."

Porter smiled, then eventually decided to call.

Rep Porter:
Eli Elezra:

The river was the and that meant that Elezra would get three-quarters of the pot with his aces and ace-deuce.

Player	Chips	Progress
Rep Porter	195,000 30,000	30,000

Eli Elezra	185,000 10,000	10,000

Tags: Eli Elezra Rep Porter

06-30-2018 18:21 UTC-7

Break

Mickey Doft

Level 14 : 2,000/4,000, 0 ante

The players are on a 15-minute break.

Level: 15

Blinds: 2,500/5,000

Ante: 0

06-30-2018 18:45 UTC-7

Adjusted Prize Pool

Webjoker

Level 15 : 2,500/5,000, 0 ante

(This is an updated and edited post from earlier on Day 2. The payouts were initially done in a nine-handed format and have since been adjusted to eight-handed).

With 237 players ponying up the $10,000 buy-in, the prize pool has come to $2,227,800. Thirty-six players will finish in the money, taking home a minimum of $15,000 each. Making the final eight will result in a guaranteed $50,086 payday, and the champion will walk away with $567,788.

Position	Prize
1	$567,788
2	$350,922
3	$240,497
4	$168,275
5	$120,263
6	$87,830
7	$65,579
8	$50,086
9 - 10	$39,149
11 - 12	$31,334
13 - 14	$25,695
15 - 16	$21,602
17 - 24	$18,631
25 - 32	$16,494
33 - 36	$15,000

06-30-2018 18:49 UTC-7

Gamble Continues to Build Back

MrCleverFox

Level 15 : 2,500/5,000, 0 ante

There was a flop of out on the board and Nathan Gamble checked over to Phil Galfond who put out a bet of 16,000. Action was back on Gamble and he check-raised making it 68,000. Galfond thought it over for a while before he called.

The river was the and Gamble moved all in. Galfond quickly called.

Nathan Gamble:
Phil Galfond:

Gamble had nut-nut but Galfond also had the nut low so he would get a portion of the pot. After all the bets, Gamble was all in for 167,500 so Galfond was forced to send over 83,500 to Gamble for the final number.

Player	Chips	Progress
Nathan Gamble	255,000 35,000	35,000

Phil Galfond	130,000 -69,000	-69,000

Tags: Nathan Gamble Phil Galfond

06-30-2018 19:06 UTC-7

Gooch Takes From Berilgen

MrCleverFox

Level 15 : 2,500/5,000, 0 ante

Jason Berilgen opened with a raise to 115,000 from middle position and action folded around to Jason Gooch in the big blind who called.

The flop was and both players checked to see the on the turn. There, Gooch led out with a bet of 16,500 and Berilgen called.

The river was the and both players decided to check. Gooch showed down his and with his three nines and ace kicker, Gooch was able to take down the pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Jason Berilgen	394,000 19,000	19,000
Jason Gooch	145,000 70,000	70,000

Tags: Jason Berilgen Jason Gooch

06-30-2018 19:06 UTC-7

Elezra Doubles Through Simao

Mickey Doft

Level 15 : 2,500/5,000, 0 ante

Joao Simao raised to 13,000 from middle position, Eli Elezra three-bet the pot to 44,000 from the small blind, and Simao called.

The flop came down , Elezra bet 30,000, Simao called, and the turn was the . Elezra bet, Simao raised, and Elezra's stack of 186,500 ended up in the middle.

Elezra:
Simao:

Elezra was ahead with aces against Simao's jacks and held up through the river to give him the double.

Elezra, though, stood up immediately from the table and left. Tablemates Rep Porter and David "ODB" Baker called him back to tell Elezra that he doubled, although Elezra said he knew, and was just getting up to throw things out.

"I knew that I won against his piece of sh*t hand," said Elezra.

Player	Chips	Progress
Eli Elezra	461,000 276,000	276,000

Joao Simao	157,000 -113,000	-113,000

Tags: Eli Elezra Joao Simao