Event #2: £5,250 Pot-Limit Omaha
Day 2 Started
World Series of Poker Europe 2010
Event #2: £5,250 Pot-Limit Omaha
Day: 2
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
World Series of Poker Europe 2010
Buy-in
£5,000
Prize Pool
£600,000
Entries
120
Level
24
Blinds
15,000 / 30,000
Ante
0
Day 2 Table and Seat Draw
Table 1
Seat 1: Karl Mahrenholz - 91000
Seat 2: Phil Laak - 25200
Seat 3: Frank Kassela - 52700
Seat 4: Barry Greenstein - 56500
Seat 5: Ross Boatman - 27900
Seat 6: Jan Jochtmann - 21700
Seat 7: Chris Bjorin - 54000
Seat 8: Roberto Romanello - 40100
Seat 9: Danny Wong - 8600
Table 2
Seat 1: Joe Serock - 60000
Seat 2: Andrew Miles - 32300
Seat 3: Sean Dempsey - 50500
Seat 4: Vitaly Lunkin - 12700
Seat 5: John Kabbaj - 42300
Seat 6: Richard Gryko - 42600
Seat 7: Paul Zimbler - 19200
Seat 8: Stuart Rutter - 20800
Seat 9: --empty--
Table 3
Seat 1: Samuel Stein - 112600
Seat 2: Steve Jelinek - 16900
Seat 3: Daniel Tafur - 4200
Seat 4: Michel Abecassis - 62300
Seat 5: Javed Abrahams - 41700
Seat 6: Yuval Bronshtein - 21400
Seat 7: Justin Smith - 43900
Seat 8: Toby Lewis - 28400
Seat 9: --empty--
Table 4
Seat 1: Robin Keston - 35900
Seat 2: Yasuhiro Waki - 45500
Seat 3: Felipe Ramos - 48000
Seat 4: John Racener - 17800
Seat 5: Christopher Chau - 12300
Seat 6: Scott Fischman - 71200
Seat 7: Rory Mathews - 44400
Seat 8: Erik Friberg - 53500
Seat 9: --empty--
Table 5
Seat 1: Alfonso Amendola - 40000
Seat 2: Chad Brown - 30500
Seat 3: Lieven Ketels - 18300
Seat 4: Tim Flanders - 9900
Seat 5: Brian Powell - 18400
Seat 6: Oskar Lind - 56000
Seat 7: Dan Shak - 21600
Seat 8: Paul Gardner - 46200
Seat 9: --empty--
Table 6
Seat 1: Jeff Madsen - 81300
Seat 2: Hoyt Corkins - 8500
Seat 3: Jeff Kimber - 30600
Seat 4: Michael Schwartz - 26300
Seat 5: Jeff Lisandro - 44400
Seat 6: Willie Tann - 27500
Seat 7: Raul Paez - 14000
Seat 8: Kivelio Aarno - 14300
Seat 9: --empty--
Day 2, For You
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Good afternoon, poker fans! We are back at the Empire Casino in the heart of London's West End, where, having chosen to eschew the many other temptations of Soho and Chinatown, we are about to get down to a second day of pot-limit Omaha.
120 players started this event yesterday but only 49 now remain. Our chip leader is Samuel Stein - after an extremely profitable day taking advantage of the succession of big name pros that passed through his table, he finished up on 112,600, the only player to break the century mark.
Still in contention though are a host of familiar faces including Frank Kassela, Justin "Boosted J" Smith and brand new bracelet winner Phil Laak.
Play is due to resume at 3pm or in around an hour. That's plenty of time to have a nice sit down and a cup of tea, as we do in the UK, so don't go anywhere.
Cards Are in the Air
Play has started down in the centre point of the Empire Casino. There is a quiet atmosphere amongst the players but this is PLO so the action and the chat that will follow that action will soon bubble-up.
Level: 9
Blinds: 400/800
Ante: 0
Value Town
Phil Laak managed to eke out a little bit of value against Barry Greenstein. The pair had reached the river with the board reading 
. Laak bet 2,200 into a 5,200 pot and after a tank Greenstein called but mucked upon seeing Laak's 
,
"Everyone Shows Up When the Buy-In's £5,000."
So speaks Jack Effel, quite correctly, of the extremely punctual returning field of players. Everyone, short or monster-stacked, was ready for the first hand dealt, and there's been a rather expectant atmosphere as the first few players leave Day Two for good. Among them is Daniel Tafur, the shortest stack with 4200, whose bid for a comeback with four cards (
) didn't get past Steve Jelinek.
Miles to Go
We thought that with so few players coming back today, and the inherently crazy and high-variance nature of PLO, that we would have lost a decent chunk of the field already.
This is not the case.
The clock has been running for around 15 minutes and not one player has been lost - given the pace towards the end of yesterday, this is most unexpected.
Just now we saw an attempt to get all the chips in but to the disappointment of John Kabbaj, at least, all the chips returned whence they came at the end of the hand.
We found Kabbaj betting out around 4,000 from the small blind posiiton on a 
flop. Andrew Miles thought about it for a long time, long enough for Kabbaj to get in an impressive yawn. Eventually Miles called.
They saw a 
turn and this time Kabbaj bet 12,400 which looked a lot like a pot-sized bet. Miles went all in, Kabbaj called, and the cards were on their backs.
Kabbaj: 
Miles: 
Both players had made a queen-high straight and following a harmless 
river they chopped it up.
Kimber Crushes Two Paez
Raul Paez is the most recent elimination, getting the rest of his 12k or so in on a flop of 
with top two and a gutshot: 
. Jeff Kimber gave him a spin with a flopped set of sevens: 
which held over the 
turn and river to drop another player and increase Kimber's stack to 42k.
Rumble in the Bronsh
Yuval Bronshtein came back today as one of the shorter stacks, and indeed he couldn't stay the course. He has just now become one of the unfortunates who will not be making it as far as the money.