Level: 2
Blinds: 50/100
Ante: 0
2017 World Series of Poker
Event #25: $1,000 Pot-Limit Omaha
Day: 1
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2017 World Series of Poker
Buy-in
$1,000
Prize Pool
$952,200
Entries
1,058
Level
29
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
0
Family Affair in the Pot-Limit Omaha
Level 2
: 50/100, 0 ante
Looking down the seating draw for Day 1 of Event #25: $1,000 Pot-Limit Omaha we caught a glimpse of two players with the same surname seated at neighbouring tables. It turns out that Desmond and Raymond Kearney are father and son, out here playing the World Series.
"This is my first time," said the son, Raymond, "But my father is out here almost every year."
"We've played together back home. He won and I came third," he continued. "I'm just playing this, but he's sticking around to play the Seniors event."
We'll have to stay tuned to see if the pair can go deep in this tournament together.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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5,000
5,000
|
5,000 |
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5,000
5,000
|
5,000 |
Short But Sweet for David "ODB" Baker
Level 2
: 50/100, 0 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
Busted | |
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Newest Additions to the Field
Level 2
: 50/100, 0 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
5,000 | |
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5,000 | |
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|
5,000 | |
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4,300 | |
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3,900 | |
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Updated Chip Counts
Level 2
: 50/100, 0 ante
Four-time bracelet winner Tom Schneider has joined the field looking for his first bracelet since his brace of H.O.R.S.E. titles in 2013. Meanwhile, Jared Bleznick has left proceedings. His tablemates tell us that he ran two pair into a straight and was eliminated.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
6,500
1,500
|
1,500 |
|
4,000
4,000
|
4,000 |
|
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|
3,500
-1,500
|
-1,500 |
|
3,500
-1,500
|
-1,500 |
|
3,400
-1,600
|
-1,600 |
|
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|
Busted | |
Selbst Starting Strong
Level 2
: 50/100, 0 ante
With about 1,000 chips already in the middle and the board reading 
, the player in the hijack bet 400 and Vanessa Selbst, in the cutoff, raised to 1,300. After a few moments of thought, the player in the hijack called, and Selbst tabled 
for a wheel. The hijack mucked and Selbst took the pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
6,600
2,300
|
2,300 |
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Jared Hamby Eliminates a Player
Level 2
: 50/100, 0 ante
On a 
board, a player checked to Jared Hamby who bet 400. His opponent then check-raised to 1,600. Hamby moved all in and his opponent called.
All-in player: 
Hamby: 
Hamby had top set, had his opponent drawing close to dead because if the board paired, Hamby would make a bigger full house. His opponent needed running sixes or threes, but the turn was the 
and the river was the 
and he was eliminated.
"It's been a summer of getting two-outed and bubbling every tournament I play," explained Hamby. "At least in this tournament you're not going to get two-outed. Maybe 15-outed.
"I can handle that!"
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
17,500
17,500
|
17,500 |
|
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Michael Sanders Building a Stack
Level 2
: 50/100, 0 ante
The hijack opened with a raise to 275, Michael Sanders called from the cutoff, the button called, and the big blind called as well.
The four players saw a flop of 
and the big blind checked. The preflop raiser checked as well and Sanders bet 600. The button folded, the big blind did the same, and after brief consideration, so did the preflop raiser, and Sanders took the pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
7,400
2,400
|
2,400 |
Some Updated Chip Counts
Level 2
: 50/100, 0 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
16,300
10,300
|
10,300 |
|
9,000
-4,800
|
-4,800 |
|
6,500 | |
|
|
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|
6,400
-1,100
|
-1,100 |
|
6,300
-100
|
-100 |
|
|
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|
5,000 | |
|
||
|
4,300
-800
|
-800 |
|
|
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|
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4,300 | |
|
4,200 | |
|
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Break Time
Level 2
: 50/100, 0 ante
Players are on their first 20-minute break of the day.