Event #62: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better
Day 2 Started
Event #62: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better
Day 2 Started
ROOM | TABLE | SEAT | Player | Country | Chips | Big Blinds |
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Amazon | 449 | 1 | Stephen Moreschi | United States | 150,000 | 25 |
Amazon | 449 | 3 | Filippos Stavrakis | United States | 53,000 | 9 |
Amazon | 449 | 5 | Thida Lin | United States | 101,000 | 17 |
Amazon | 449 | 6 | Robert Mizrachi | United States | 149,000 | 25 |
Amazon | 449 | 7 | Maury Barrett | United States | 373,000 | 62 |
Amazon | 450 | 1 | Benjamin Armstrong | United States | 68,000 | 11 |
Amazon | 450 | 2 | Tamon Nakamura | Japan | 90,000 | 15 |
Amazon | 450 | 3 | Steve Chanthabouasy | United States | 393,000 | 66 |
Amazon | 450 | 4 | Dorian Grant | United States | 52,000 | 9 |
Amazon | 450 | 5 | Brian Orrico | United States | 84,000 | 14 |
Amazon | 450 | 6 | Mike Matusow | United States | 227,000 | 38 |
Amazon | 450 | 8 | Noomis Jones | United States | 250,000 | 42 |
Amazon | 451 | 1 | Kathy Liebert | United States | 29,000 | 5 |
Amazon | 451 | 3 | Scott Stinson | United States | 156,000 | 26 |
Amazon | 451 | 4 | Colten Yamagishi | Canada | 40,000 | 7 |
Amazon | 451 | 5 | David Lolis | United States | 311,000 | 52 |
Amazon | 451 | 6 | James Hong | United States | 172,000 | 29 |
Amazon | 451 | 7 | Jesse David | United States | 90,000 | 15 |
Amazon | 451 | 8 | Christoph Csik | United States | 69,000 | 12 |
Amazon | 452 | 1 | Matthew Kaplan | United States | 112,000 | 19 |
Amazon | 452 | 2 | Wayne Mcgregor | United States | 154,000 | 26 |
Amazon | 452 | 3 | Damjan Radanov | United States | 156,000 | 26 |
Amazon | 452 | 4 | Nathaniel Wiesner | United States | 189,000 | 32 |
Amazon | 452 | 5 | Angela Jordison | United States | 187,000 | 31 |
Amazon | 452 | 7 | Kelly Kim | United States | 89,000 | 15 |
Amazon | 452 | 8 | Eric Stamey | United States | 110,000 | 18 |
Amazon | 453 | 1 | Lisa Ahumada | United States | 188,000 | 31 |
Amazon | 453 | 2 | Keshava Persad | United States | 65,000 | 11 |
Amazon | 453 | 3 | Roman Hrabec | Mexico | 158,000 | 26 |
Amazon | 453 | 4 | Ivan Zhechev | Bulgaria | 100,000 | 17 |
Amazon | 453 | 5 | Sergio Benso | Italy | 123,000 | 21 |
Amazon | 453 | 6 | Pin Jiang | United States | 140,000 | 23 |
Amazon | 453 | 7 | Donald Maloney | Canada | 142,000 | 24 |
Amazon | 453 | 8 | Cong Tran | United States | 89,000 | 15 |
Amazon | 454 | 1 | Jean-Philippe Piquette | Canada | 95,000 | 16 |
Amazon | 454 | 2 | Robert Mather | United States | 155,000 | 26 |
Amazon | 454 | 3 | Charles Coultas | United States | 254,000 | 42 |
Amazon | 454 | 5 | Edward Han | United States | 255,000 | 43 |
Amazon | 454 | 6 | Ben Tang | United States | 42,000 | 7 |
Amazon | 454 | 7 | Khalid Zoudo | United States | 98,000 | 16 |
Amazon | 454 | 8 | Richie Allen | United Kingdom | 126,000 | 21 |
Amazon | 455 | 1 | Andrew Yeh | United States | 318,000 | 53 |
Amazon | 455 | 2 | Danny Chang | United States | 127,000 | 21 |
Amazon | 455 | 3 | Ted Leva | United States | 103,000 | 17 |
Amazon | 455 | 4 | Jason Stern | United States | 67,000 | 11 |
Amazon | 455 | 5 | Barth Melius | United States | 213,000 | 36 |
Amazon | 455 | 6 | Sterling Lopez | United States | 173,000 | 29 |
Amazon | 455 | 7 | Michael Dreese | United States | 161,000 | 27 |
Amazon | 455 | 8 | Scott Fitzhugh | United States | 183,000 | 31 |
Amazon | 456 | 1 | Ari Oxman | United States | 246,000 | 41 |
Amazon | 456 | 3 | Andreas Hole | Norway | 118,000 | 20 |
Amazon | 456 | 4 | Thomas Doeh | United States | 174,000 | 29 |
Amazon | 456 | 6 | Daniel Weinman | United States | 168,000 | 28 |
Amazon | 456 | 7 | Wendy Wolf | United States | 95,000 | 16 |
Amazon | 456 | 8 | Yuebin Guo | United States | 105,000 | 18 |
Amazon | 457 | 1 | James Karamanis | United States | 100,000 | 17 |
Amazon | 457 | 2 | Pj Cha | United States | 100,000 | 17 |
Amazon | 457 | 3 | Peterpaul Shaker | United States | 209,000 | 35 |
Amazon | 457 | 4 | Hernan Salazar | United States | 181,000 | 30 |
Amazon | 457 | 5 | Paul Holder | United States | 380,000 | 63 |
Amazon | 457 | 6 | Scott Baumstein | United States | 145,000 | 24 |
Amazon | 457 | 7 | Rebecca Thompson | United States | 13,000 | 2 |
Amazon | 457 | 8 | Mark Birdsall | United States | 173,000 | 29 |
Amazon | 458 | 1 | Adrian Jimenez | United States | 131,000 | 22 |
Amazon | 458 | 2 | Jared Hemingway | United States | 58,000 | 10 |
Amazon | 458 | 3 | Geoffrey Tomes | United States | 150,000 | 25 |
Amazon | 458 | 4 | Zachary Gruneberg | United States | 109,000 | 18 |
Amazon | 458 | 5 | Jeffrey Kostyniuk | Canada | 128,000 | 21 |
Amazon | 458 | 6 | Kevin Gerhart | United States | 188,000 | 31 |
Amazon | 458 | 7 | Adam Stone | United States | 232,000 | 39 |
Amazon | 458 | 8 | Tsugunari Toma | Japan | 1,076,000 | 179 |
Amazon | 459 | 1 | Peter Levine | United States | 46,000 | 8 |
Amazon | 459 | 2 | Ari Engel | United States | 245,000 | 41 |
Amazon | 459 | 3 | John Reiss | United States | 97,000 | 16 |
Amazon | 459 | 4 | Joseph Haddad | United States | 120,000 | 20 |
Amazon | 459 | 5 | Michael Tannenbaum | United States | 76,000 | 13 |
Amazon | 459 | 6 | Artur Saakyants | Russia | 242,000 | 40 |
Amazon | 459 | 7 | Chip Jett | United States | 157,000 | 26 |
Amazon | 459 | 8 | Dustin Dirksen | United States | 314,000 | 52 |
Amazon | 460 | 1 | Adam Owen | United Kingdom | 186,000 | 31 |
Amazon | 460 | 2 | Jerry Wong | United States | 148,000 | 25 |
Amazon | 460 | 3 | John Fauver | United States | 199,000 | 33 |
Amazon | 460 | 4 | Raymond Henson | United States | 339,000 | 57 |
Amazon | 460 | 5 | Michael Trivett | United States | 342,000 | 57 |
Amazon | 460 | 6 | Jay Hong | United States | 157,000 | 26 |
Amazon | 460 | 7 | Sean Remz | United States | 333,000 | 56 |
Amazon | 460 | 8 | Calen McNeil | Canada | 150,000 | 25 |
Amazon | 461 | 1 | Leonard August | United States | 113,000 | 19 |
Amazon | 461 | 2 | Adam Farber | United States | 51,000 | 9 |
Amazon | 461 | 3 | Maxx Coleman | United States | 188,000 | 31 |
Amazon | 461 | 4 | James Mcwhorter | United States | 79,000 | 13 |
Amazon | 461 | 5 | Alexandr Orlov | Russia | 126,000 | 21 |
Amazon | 461 | 7 | Ariel Shefer | United Kingdom | 208,000 | 35 |
Amazon | 461 | 8 | Peter Ferderber | United States | 91,000 | 15 |
Amazon | 462 | 1 | Christian Harder | United States | 190,000 | 32 |
Amazon | 462 | 2 | Senovio Ramirez III | United States | 224,000 | 37 |
Amazon | 462 | 3 | Kuhn Keenan | United States | 40,000 | 7 |
Amazon | 462 | 4 | Andrew Kelsall | United States | 98,000 | 16 |
Amazon | 462 | 7 | Jeremy Sussman | United States | 60,000 | 10 |
Amazon | 462 | 8 | John Reading | United States | 107,000 | 18 |
Amazon | 463 | 1 | Derek McMaster | United States | 140,000 | 23 |
Amazon | 463 | 3 | James Tian | United States | 175,000 | 29 |
Amazon | 463 | 4 | Jorge Leon | United States | 227,000 | 38 |
Amazon | 463 | 5 | Nathan Gamble | United States | 328,000 | 55 |
Amazon | 463 | 7 | Jason Straziuso | United States | 91,000 | 15 |
Amazon | 463 | 8 | Dylan Wilkerson | United States | 91,000 | 15 |
Amazon | 464 | 1 | Michael Moed | United States | 212,000 | 35 |
Amazon | 464 | 2 | David Simpson | United States | 59,000 | 10 |
Amazon | 464 | 3 | Ngoc Nguyen (Long) | United States | 47,000 | 8 |
Amazon | 464 | 4 | Walter Rodriguez | Mexico | 116,000 | 19 |
Amazon | 464 | 5 | Bryant Bustamante | United States | 91,000 | 15 |
Amazon | 464 | 6 | Frankie O'Dell | United States | 205,000 | 34 |
Amazon | 464 | 8 | Mariia Levseieva | United States | 145,000 | 24 |
Welcome to the penultimate day of Event #62: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better. This event attracted 725 total entries, with 113 players returning for Day 2 which kicks off on Tuesday at 2:00 p.m. PT.
The returning players all will be chasing Japan's all-time money leader, Tsugunari Toma (1,076,000), who bagged up nearly three times that of his nearest opponent with a stack of over one million chips.
Although Toma has dominated the European Poker Tour in recent years, with his latest cash being a first-place finish in 2019 in the €10,300 EPT Prague High-Roller for €523,130 (~$605,908), he will be looking to add a coveted WSOP gold bracelet to his already impressive poker resume.
Ray Henson (339,000), Nathan Gamble (328,000; 2x WSOP Winner), Ari Engel (245,000; 2x WSOP Winner), and Mike Matusow (227,000; 4x WSOP Winner) round out the top twenty returning chip counts.
All players will be looking to position themselves at the final table of this is unique event which has a gold bracelet and $186,779 up for grabs for the victor.
When play resumes, the players will be four away from the money. There are 109 places paid with the min-cash worth $2,413. Day 2 will consist of ten 60-minute levels, with a 15-minute break at the end of each level. There's a 60-minute dinner break at the end of level 21 (~8:30 p.m. local (PST) time).
Please stay tuned to PokerNews for live updates of this event, or live here at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino where the cards will be back in the air at 2:00 p.m. PT.
Level: 16
Blinds: 3,000/6,000
Ante: 6,000
The cards are officially in the air for Day 2 of Event #62: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha 8 or Better.
Derek McMaster raised to 18,000 from middle position and Leonard August called from the small blind.
The flop came and August bet 42,000.
McMaster wasted no time and sent his hand into the muck.
"Top two," August said to McMaster.
"Good enough."
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Leonard August | 150,000 | 37,000 |
Derek McMaster
|
120,000 | -20,000 |
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Tsugunari Toma | 1,170,000 | 94,000 |
Adam Owen | 400,000 | 214,000 |
Ari Oxman | 330,000 | 84,000 |
Nathan Gamble
|
320,000 | -8,000 |
Michael Trivett | 285,000 | -57,000 |
Andrew Yeh
|
248,000 | -70,000 |
Kevin Gerhart
|
224,000 | 36,000 |
Mike Matusow
|
195,000 | -32,000 |
Frankie O'Dell
|
160,000 | -45,000 |
Chip Jett | 150,000 | -7,000 |
Derek McMaster
|
118,000 | -2,000 |
Scott Baumstein | 110,000 | -35,000 |
Kathy Liebert
|
17,000 | -12,000 |
The tournament director has instructed the dealers to hold up after the current hand as the tournament has reached 110 players and will begin hand-for-hand play until one more player is lost. At that point, the remaining 109 players will be in the money.
Just moments after the tournament director announced hand-for-hand, there was an elimination at table #462.
Kuhn Keenan was gathering his things and leaving the area, while Christian Harder was taking in the pot.
Keenan had gotten it all in with and an ace-high club flush draw. Harder had and was looking for hearts.
The board ran out with no pairs or flushes, and Harder's ace-queen held to send Keenan to the rail and burst the bubble.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Christian Harder | 257,000 | 67,000 |
Kuhn Keenan
|
Busted |
The hand was discovered on a flop of with Kelly Kim who had moved all-in and was called by Dylan Wilkerson and Matthew Kaplan.
The turn card was the and Kaplan and Wilkerson.
The river card was the and the action went the same way.
Two of the hands were tabled and it was the held by Kim that bested the held by Wilkerson and Kaplan mucked without showing.
With this hand, Kim secured a triple-up and chipped up to 200,000.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Matthew Kaplan
|
220,000 | 108,000 |
Kelly Kim | 200,000 | 111,000 |
Dylan Wilkerson | 105,000 | 14,000 |