Event #51: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship Day 1 | 2017 World Series of Poker

06-26-2017 21:03 UTC-7

Tehan and Arieh Make Big Moves Up

mnuwwarah

Level 6 : 300/600, 0 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Joe Tehan	108,000	66,000
Josh Arieh	91,300	63,300
Scott Clements	77,000	-5,000
Dario Sammartino	70,000	70,000
Ryan Laplante	66,000	6,000
Dan Shak	61,000	-3,000
Jon Turner	58,300	9,300
Davidi Kitai	57,000	57,000
Eugene Katchalov	54,000	-3,000
Darryll Fish	54,000	4,000
Roland Israelashvili	47,000	47,000
Tom Koral	47,000	3,000
Jared Bleznick	41,600	-9,400
Stephen Chidwick	32,000	-10,500
Mike Ross	30,000	20,000

06-26-2017 20:56 UTC-7

Player	Chips	Progress
Bryce Yockey	104,500	36,500
Lawrence Berg	92,000	38,000
Scott Clements	82,000	22,900
David Hunt	76,000	12,000
Mark Gregorich	59,800	7,800
Sasha Barrese	54,000	6,000
Perry Green	53,200	11,200
Scott Bohlman	47,000	-23,000
Yueqi Zhu	47,000	-21,500
Kyle Bowker	39,200	200
Cary Katz	34,000
Leif Force	20,800	-27,000
Shawn Nguyen	Busted
Matt Glantz	Busted

Top Set into the Muck

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Level 6 : 300/600, 0 ante

Daniel Negreanu bet 2,000 from the button after a flop, and Ray Henson called from middle position. On the turn, Henson came out betting 3,500.

"I'm gonna fold a good hand to you," Negreanu said after some thought. "You folded a good hand to me earlier."

Negreanu flicked into the middle and toward the muck.

"You weren't dead," Henson said.

Player	Chips	Progress
Ray Henson	105,000	5,000
Daniel Negreanu	26,400	4,400

Tags: Daniel Negreanu Ray Henson

06-26-2017 20:48 UTC-7

Eric Wasserson Eliminated by Tommy Chen

Valerie.Cross

Level 6 : 300/600, 0 ante

Eric Wasserson just tank-shoved for the rest of his chips against Tommy Chen and got scooped. Chen filled us in on the action.

According to Chen, he raised to 1,300 from the cutoff, and Wasserson three-bet to 4,200 on the button. The blinds folded, and Chen called. The flop came , and Chen checked. Wasserson bet 6,500, and Chen check-raised to 21,250.

Wasserson tanked for several minutes and then got the rest of his stack of around 74,000 into the middle. Chen quickly called, and Wasserson was at risk.

Chen:
Wasserson:

Chen's set of deuces was ahead, and he had a better low draw to go with it. The turn gave Chen the best low, and the river changed nothing. Chen scooped the pot, and Wasserson hit the rail.

Player	Chips	Progress
Tommy Chen	178,000	131,000
Eric Wasserson	Busted

Tags: Eric Wasserson Tommy Chen

06-26-2017 20:39 UTC-7

Tom Koral Bets the River

Brentharrington

Level 6 : 300/600, 0 ante

Tom Koral and Robert Mizrachi were heads-up on the river. The board read , and Mizrachi checked to Koral. He bet 7,000, and Mizrachi called.

Koral showed and scooped the pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Tom Koral	44,000	11,500
Robert Mizrachi	26,000	-19,400

Tags: Robert Mizrachi Tom Koral

Level: 6

Blinds: 300/600

Ante: 0

06-26-2017 20:32 UTC-7

Updated Chip Counts

mnuwwarah

Level 5 : 250/500, 0 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Chris King	148,000	23,000
Chase Steely	130,000	35,000
Viatcheslav Ortynskiy	67,300	-19,700
Damjan Radanov	67,000	17,000
Courtney Harrington	62,000	8,400
Assani Fisher	46,000	-4,000
Alan Sternberg	34,800	-15,200
Usman Siddique	31,400	-18,600
Konstantin Puchkov	Busted

06-26-2017 20:25 UTC-7

Gamble Doubles Through Shack-Harris

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Level 5 : 250/500, 0 ante

"Good game, guys. Been fun," Nathan Gamble said to his tablemates.

He was rolling over his cards, all in and at risk against Brandon-Shack Harris. The flop had come , and Gamble was all in with for a three-way low draw and a wheel draw. Shack-Harris had for top set.

The turn was an , a great card for Gamble.

"All right," he said. "Freerolling now."

The river was the , giving Gamble a wheel and a scoop. Shack-Harris sent him 18,200 chips.

Player	Chips	Progress
Nathan Gamble	37,000	-5,000
Brandon Shack-Harris	13,800	-2,800

Tags: Brandon Shack-Harris Nathan Gamble

06-26-2017 20:22 UTC-7

Some Updated Counts

Valerie.Cross

Level 5 : 250/500, 0 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Ray Henson	100,000	8,000
John Monnette	86,000	-4,000
Dan Shak	64,000	6,500
Sorel Mizzi	54,000	-2,000
Jon Turner	49,000	-2,000
Bart Hanson	44,000	17,000
Josh Arieh	28,000	-21,500
Daniel Negreanu	22,000	-7,000

06-26-2017 20:14 UTC-7

Phil Hui and Andrey Zaichenko Chop One

Valerie.Cross

Level 5 : 250/500, 0 ante

In a six-way limped pot, the flop came and it checked around. The turn was the and the blinds checked. Andrey Zaichenko checked under the gun and Phil Hui bet 2,500. Jon Turner folded in the next position, Kyle Bowker folded on the button, and the blinds folded. Zaichenko called and it was heads up.

The river was the and Zaichenko bet the pot, which was 8,000. Hui shook his head and called.