Event #66: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Championship (8-Handed)
Day 1 Started
2024 World Series of Poker
Event #66: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Championship (8-Handed)
Day: 1
Event Info
2024 World Series of Poker
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Players Info - Day 1
Buy-in
$10,000
Prize Pool
$7,542,300
Entries
811
Level
31
Blinds
150,000 / 300,000
Ante
300,000
Entries
726
Players Left
245
Players Left 1 / 811
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Welcome back to PokerNews, the official media partner of the 2024 World Series of Poker and home of live updates from all bracelet events.
Today sees the start of Event #66: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Championship (8-Handed), which will get underway here at Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas at 2 p.m. local time with starting stacks of 60,000 and blinds of 200/300/300. Levels will last for 60 minutes on all four days of the event.
Day 1 will play for ten levels with a 15-minute break every two levels. Day 2 will start up at 1 p.m. Thursday and play for ten levels with 15-minute breaks and a 60-minute dinner break after Level 16 around 7:30 p.m.
Day 3 will follow a similar structure and Day 4 will play down to a winner with 15-minute breaks every two levels and a to-be-determined dinner break.
Last summer, the $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Championship drew 731 runners for a prize pool of $6,798,300. Lou Garza won the event for $1,309,232 in a spectacular finish that saw him proposing to his girlfriend after defeating heads-up opponent Arthur Morris.
2023 Final Table Results Event #50: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Championship
| Place | Winner | Country | Prize (in USD) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lou Garza | United States | $1,309,232 |
| 2 | Arthur Morris | United States | $809,167 |
| 3 | Stanislav Halatenko | Ukraine | $570,307 |
| 4 | Travis Pearson | United States | $407,915 |
| 5 | Peng Shan | China | $296,154 |
| 6 | Sam Soverel | United States | $218,297 |
| 7 | Kosei Ichinose | Japan | $163,405 |
| 8 | Ren Lin | China | $124,243 |
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What Else is Happening at the 2024 WSOP?
- Martin Kabrhel is off to a flying start in the inaugural $600 PokerNews Deepstack Championship, bagging more than one million chips on Day 1.
- The $50,000 Poker Players Championship has reached its final 12. Chris Brewer leads an all-star cast, including 11-time WSOP bracelet winner [/b]Phil Ivey[/b].
- The Millionaire Maker is close to awarding two seven-figure scores despite it only costing $1,500 to enter. The penultimate day will see the returning 45 players reduced to only five.
Level: 1
Blinds: 200/300
Ante: 300
Level 1
: Blinds 200/300, 300 ante
Cards are in the air with over 160 entries to begin the day.
Level 1
: Blinds 200/300, 300 ante
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Level 1
: Blinds 200/300, 300 ante
There are nearly 180 players registered right from the start and below are a few of those already in contention.
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Level 1
: Blinds 200/300, 300 ante
John Dapkus opened to 1,000 in the hijack and Dylan Weisman made the call in the cutoff. Abteen Vaziri came along in the small blind, while Robert Tanita defended his big blind.
The 6♥7♥9♥ flop saw all four players check, with action repeating on the 10♠ turn.
Vaziri checked again after seeing the J♥ river, with Tanita firing 2,500 into the middle. Dapkus and Weisman got out of the way before Vaziri called.
Tanita showed A♥8♥5♣3♠ for a flush, taking down an early pot as Vaziri mucked.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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: Blinds 200/300, 300 ante
Aaron Pahlawani raised to 1,100 and Tim Grau three-bet the pot to 3,800 in the next seat for Pahlawani to call. He then checked the 6♥6♣5♠ flop and Grau made it 2,500 for Pahlawani to call.
Following the 7♦ turn, Pahlawani checked again and Grau's bet of 9,000 won the pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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: Blinds 200/300, 300 ante
