With three players seeing a board of J♦4♥3♦, Patrick Leonard checked from the small blind, a player in the big blind checked and a player who was in position bet 5,000. Both Leonard and the big blind made the call.
All three players checked the 4♦ turn leading to the Q♦ river. Leonard checked, the big blind bet 6,000, the other player folded and Leonard made the call.
The big blind tabled A♠10♣7♦5♦ for a flush but Leonard turned over 8♦6♦6♣4♣ for a bigger flush to take the pot.
Mike Matusow opened to 7,000 from the cutoff and David DiCarlo shoved from the small blind for 31,500. Matusow made the call with a covering stack to put DiCarlo at risk.
David DiCarlo: A♣K♦K♠2♠
Mike Matusow: A♥J♦2♥2♦
The board ran out Q♥9♣3♥3♦3♠. DiCarlo was good at showdown with threes full of kings to double up through Matusow who was left with just under five big blinds.
Scott Clements limped in from under the gun and received calls from Mike Matusow in early position and a player in the small blind. The big blind checked.
All four players checked the 10♠9♦6♥ flop leading to the 9♠ turn. The small blind checked, the big blind bet 8,000 and only Clements called.
On the Q♦ river, the big blind checked, Clements bet 20,000 and the big blind quickly folded.
Day 1 of Event #24: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo Championship was quite the meeting of the minds at the 2024 World Series of Poker hosted by Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas. The total number of entries stands at 224 but new players have the option to enter through the first two levels of Day 2, so we can expect the field to swell.
Day 1 saw ten 60-minute levels whittle the 224 entrants down to nearly half of that.
Like most of the $10,000 Championships here at the Series, there were plenty of notable bracelet winners and Omaha specialists in the field. Some hefty-stacked competitors who made Day 2 include Sean Winter (378,000) who bagged massive.
Day 1 Top Ten Chip Counts
Seat
Player
Country
Chips
Big Blinds
1
Sean Winter
United States
378,000
126
2
Warwick Mirzikinian
Australia
361,000
120
3
Mathias Bayer
Germany
334,000
111
4
Kyle Cartwright
United States
329,000
110
5
Luis Velador
United States
326,500
109
6
Brad Ruben
United States
310,500
104
7
Yuri Dzivielevski
Brazil
304,500
102
8
James Obst
Australia
300,500
100
9
Yingui Li
China
285,000
95
10
Kyle Burnside
United States
277,500
93
Yuri Dzivielevski (304,500) was also well in control the entirety of the day and Jesse Lonis (248,500) remains in contention for his third bracelet. Ken Aldridge (238,000) sat down right at the start of the day and steadily maintained before finding a nice uptick at the end of the night.
Ben Lamb - Two-Time Bracelet Winner and Omaha Specialist
Ben Lamb (152,00) and Loni Hui (155,000) had a fun day sitting next to each other, finding quite a few laughs along the way.
David Williams (53,500) and Mike Matusow (20,500) will return to Day 2 with a short stack but with room to spin.
Plenty of notables took their shot at Day 1 but were felled along the way, including Robert Mizrachi and Eli Elezra, who are in a race to their sixth bracelet. Daniel Negreanu registered late but was unable to gain any traction either. Author of the Scoop Series, Greg Vail, was also in the field but was unable to get above starting stack.
Play will resume June 8 at 1:00 p.m. local time at Horseshoe Event Center Silver. Players will be returning to blinds of 1,500/3,000.
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