Event #21: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Day 1 | 2025 World Series of Poker

06-04-2025 16:20 UTC-7

Some Big Stacks After Break

Tim Baker

Level 4 : Blinds 200/400, 400 ante

Limits: 400-1,400

Player	Chips	Progress
Paul Houvener	116,100 116,100	116,100
Brian Breck	109,800 109,800	109,800
Yoav Amit	94,800 58,200	58,200
Ramon Valdez	93,000 93,000	93,000
Stephen Hubbard	91,300 91,300	91,300
Steven Weiler	90,000 90,000	90,000
Aleksandr Yasnogorodsky	87,900 29,900	29,900
Colter Sanders	85,000 85,000	85,000
Chris Viox	83,000 83,000	83,000

Teresa Jasinski	76,700 76,700	76,700
Chris Conrad	75,000 75,000	75,000
Brian Jones	70,000 70,000	70,000
Brian Brunner	69,900 69,900	69,900
Dylan Weisman	69,000 44,000	44,000

William Leffingwell	67,000 67,000	67,000

Eduardo Lezcano	65,200 65,200	65,200
Shaun Deeb	62,000 62,000	62,000

Christopher Vitch	60,500 15,500	15,500

Igor Zektser	56,400 56,400	56,400

Andrey Zaichenko	56,000 56,000	56,000

Grant Hart	55,000 55,000	55,000
Joshua Mullins	55,000 55,000	55,000
Jonathan Greene	55,000 55,000	55,000
Anton Smirnov	52,000 52,000	52,000
Jay Kerbel	51,000 51,000	51,000

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Level: 4

Limits: 400-1,400

06-04-2025 16:10 UTC-7

Troy carpenter

28,300

Table 136Seat 4

06-04-2025 16:01 UTC-7

Break Time

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Tim Baker

Level 3 : Blinds 200/300, 300 ante

Limits: 300-1,100

Players are now on a 15-minute break.

06-04-2025 15:55 UTC-7

Choppity Chop, Chop, Chop

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Jerome Solomon

Level 3 : Blinds 200/300, 300 ante

Limits: 300-1,100

Yes, hi-lo games involve in a slew of chopped pots. Every now and then, it takes a while to determine where the chips belong.

Especially when there is a three-way all-in pot, a side pot, a split low, and a confused dealer.

So much for let the chips fall where they may.

After a flop of 5♣6♠7♦, three players shoved their entire stacks in rapid succession.

Jose Pazgutierrez: A♥7♠6♦3♣ All in
Matthew Valeo: A♠K♣4♠8♥ All in
Anthony Altemari: A♦A♣4♦3♦

Valeo had the best high hand with a straight. Pazgutierrez and Altemari each had an ace-three low.

"Leave the chips where they are and we'll figure it out later," someone at the table said. Yeah, much later.

Nothing changed after the turn-river runout of 5♥10♦, but the "action" was just beginning. After the dealer struggled to determine who owed how much and to what pot, players began debating who gets what.

Ten minutes after the hand started — after the dealer and a player rearranged the chips, getting the side pot and main pot wrong on a couple occasions each — the splits were finally made.

Valeo took half the side pot and half the main. Altemari took the other half of the side and a quarter of the main pot. Pazgutierrez got a quarter of the main.

Player	Chips	Progress
Matthew Valeo	38,000 3,000	3,000

Jose Pazgutierrez	18,000

Tags: Anthony Altemari Jose Pazgutierrez Matthew Valeo

06-04-2025 15:52 UTC-7

Michael Tannenbaum

35,000 10,800

Table 138Seat 2

06-04-2025 15:50 UTC-7

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Tim Baker

Level 3 : Blinds 200/300, 300 ante

Limits: 300-1,100

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Player	Chips	Progress
David "ODB" Baker	24,000 2,000	2,000

06-04-2025 15:39 UTC-7

Notable Counts in the Field

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Tim Baker

Level 3 : Blinds 200/300, 300 ante

Limits: 300-1,100

Player	Chips	Progress
Viktor Blom	60,000 32,500	32,500
Dylan Lambe	51,000 51,000	51,000
Christopher Vitch	45,000 20,000	20,000

Matthew Valeo	35,000 10,000	10,000

Kenneth Aldridge	30,000

Eddie Blumenthal	27,000
Jeff Madsen	25,000

Scott Clements	25,000

Dylan Weisman	25,000 25,000	25,000

Jonathan Shoreman	25,000

Tom Koral	25,000

Bryce Yockey	25,000

James Chen (US)	23,000 2,000	2,000

Anson Tsang	23,000
Andrew Yeh	23,000

David "ODB" Baker	22,000

Kathleen Liebert	19,000

06-04-2025 15:36 UTC-7

Michael Tannenbaum

24,200 21,400

Table 138Seat 2

06-04-2025 15:30 UTC-7

Sami Hamid

29,000