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Event #3: €5,300 Pot-Limit Omaha
Day 1 Completed
2012 World Series of Poker Europe
Event #3: €5,300 Pot-Limit Omaha
Day: 1
Event Info
2012 World Series of Poker Europe
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
€5,300
Prize Pool
€475,300
Total Entries
97
Level
22
Blinds
8,000 / 16,000
Ante
0
Players Left 1 / 97
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Level 8
: 300/600, 0 ante
A total of 97 players signed up for the big Pot-Limit Omaha event of this year's World Series of Poker Europe. After eight levels of play just 25 remain with Austrian Erich Kollmann in the lead. Kollmann amassed 127,500 chips and holds a big lead over Bruno Fitoussi who's in second place with 108,600.
The day started just like you would expect a Pot-Limit Omaha tournament to start. The action was fast paced and quickly we saw the likes of David Baker, Greg Merson and Brandon Adams hit the rail. Meanwhile Michael Mizrachi was building a castle of chips in the early levels.
It took the two-time $50,000 Players Championship winner just three levels to have six starting stacks in front of him. Mizrachi kept winning pots left and right, and his only challenger ended up being Ran Azor. In the following levels Mizrachi and Azor kept battling with big swings as a result. Both players ended up surviving the day, but their stacks weren't nearly as impressive as during the dinner break. Mizrachi bagged up 47,100 while Azor returns with 40,500.
The most successful Omaha player of this year's WSOP also managed to survive the day. German pro Jan-Peter Jachtmann did not have it easy, but he will return tomorrow with 42,200. Other notable pros that will try to make a run tomorrow are Jason Mercier (25,800), Vanessa Selbst (42,400), Sam Chartier (59,100) and Roger Hairabedian (59,800)
Play will resume tomorrow at 2:00 PM local time as we will play down to a final table of nine. Make sure to tune in to PokerNews as we bring you all the acton!
Michael Zowie was just allin for around 15,500 and up against Vanessa Selbst. Zowie showed 
, and he was trailing Selbst's 
.
The board ran out 
and Zowie was eliminated.
Level 8
: 300/600, 0 ante
Play is almost over and just six more hands need to be played before players get to go to bed.
Joe Hachem was just all in again against Jan-Peter Jachtmann as he doubled up once more. The 2005 WSOP Main Event champion showed 
against the $10,000 Pot Limit Omaha champion who held 
.
The board ran out 
and Hachem survived another all in.
Joe Hachem was just all in again against Jan-Peter Jachtmann as he doubled up once more. The 2005 WSOP Main Event champion showed against the $10,000 Pot Limit Omaha champion who held .
The board ran out and Hachem survived another all in.
Level 8
: 300/600, 0 ante
With just 27 players remaining there is a complete redraw. Play will resume shortly with just 13 minutes left on the clock.
Vanessa Selbst just raised under the gun plus one to 1,200 and three players called. Noah Schwartz was on the button and moved all in for 4,975. The action was back on Selbst who isolated with a raise to 11,000. The three other players folded.
"I've got a bad hand," Schwartz said.
"I've got a really bad hand," Selbst replied with a smile as they turned their cards over.
Showdown:
Vanessa Selbst:
Noah Schwartz: 
The board ran out 
, and Selbst took down the pot with trips. After the hand was over Michael Zowie asked if Selbst was double suited.
"No, triple suited," Selbst replied sarcastically.
"I had a hand," Zowie said, who folded after having called Selbst's initial raise.
"I have a stack," Selbst said with a smile while she was stacking her chips.
Over on the action table, Jan-Peter Jachtmann, Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi and Oleksii Kovalchuk were all in preflop in a three-way battle. Mizrachi had opened to 1,500, Kovalchuk reraised to 5,400, Jachtmann called, Mizrachi re-potted and both of his opponents called all in. Here's the hands:
Kovalchuk: 
Mizrachi: 
Jachtmann: 
The flop, turn and river ran out 
and Jachtmann made trip sevens to nearly triple up. Jachtmann was all in for 20,900 while Kovalchuk had the least chips at approximately 16,000.
