Kate Krickl Leads The Way Of Event #72 $1,500 Mixed Omaha Hi-Lo

Day 1 of Event #72 $1,500 Mixed Omaha Hi-Lo has concluded with Kate Krinkl the chip leader with 280,000. Krinkl was top of the standings for much of the latter part of the day.

The early stages of the tournament were dominated by Laurette Thurber who quickly assembled a six-figure stack and ended up bagging 199,000.

A total of 771 players entered the tournament generating a prize pool of $1,029,285 with a top prize of $195,565 along with a covetedWSOP Gold Bracelet. Tomorrow 223 players will return in the hope of making the top 116 players where the prizes will be awarded.

Event #72: $1,500 Mixed Omaha Hi-Low 8 or Better Top 10 Chip Counts

Place	Player	Country	Chips
1	Kate Krickl	United States	280,500
2	Mark Erickson	United States	262,000
3	David Prociak	United States	244,000
4	Giuseppe Liantonio	United States	243,000
5	James Chen	Taiwan	223,500
6	Lisa Ahumada	United States	220,500
7	Michael Hernke	United States	219,500
8	Rob Hollink	United States	219,000
9	Andres Korn	Argentina	208,000
10	Chance Kornuth	United States	207,500

Defending champion Dylan Linde was unable to defend his title due to putting together a deep run in the Main Event; Linde bagged 210,500 going into Day 3 of the most prestigious poker tournament in the world. However, three of players who were at Lunde's bracelet-winning final table last year have bagged for Day 2: Hernan Salazar with 32,000, Damjan Radanov with 192,000, and Scott Abrams with 139,000.

The British old-school was well represented in the field, with Hendon Mob's Barny Boatman bagging 135,500, Tony Kendall advanced to Day 2 with 31,000, while Stephen Morsechi ended the evening with 89,500.

The story of the night however was the prop bet between Shaun Deeb and Ari Oxman. After Oxman moved above 100,000 chips after taking a big pot off Deeb, the five-time bracelet winner Deeb bet Oxman $500 that he would not bag at the end of the night which Oxman accepted.

Oxman raced up the rankings with a high point of 190,000 chips, but soon he was sandwiched between Deeb to his right and Adam Friedman to his left and his chips soon dwindled. After a battle with Thomas Hunt, Oxman was quartered and was down to 18,000 chips.

In the second last hand of the night, Oxman was all in with Deeb but managed to hit a straight to double up and win the prop bet.

Place	Prize	Place	Prize
1	$195,565	21-27	$6,610
2	$120,881	28-34	$5,521
3	$83,050	35-41	$4,713
4	$58,089	42-48	$4,113
5	$41,377	49-55	$3,673
6	$30,026	56-62	$3,358
7	$22,205	63-69	$3,143
8-9	$16,740	70-76	$3,016
10-11	$12,871	77-96	$2,639
12-14	$10,097	97-116	$2,413
15-20	$8,085

Play will resume at 2 p.m. local time onFriday, July 8th in the white section of the Paris Ballroom. There will be ten 60-minute levels with a dinner break for an hour at 8.30 p.m. local time.

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