Event #11: $10,000 Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better Championship Giorno 1 | 2011 World Series of Poker

2011-06-07 08:40 UTC

Giocatore	Chip	Avanzamento
Freddy Deeb	79,000 28,000	28,000

Daniel Negreanu	66,000

Shaun Deeb	57,000 23,000	23,000

Dan Kelly	56,000 13,000	13,000
Todd Brunson	55,000 30,000	30,000

John Hennigan	55,000 10,000	10,000

Tom Dwan	54,000 9,000	9,000
John Juanda	54,000 28,000	28,000

Alessio Isaia	48,000 8,000	8,000
Eugene Katchalov	47,000 29,000	29,000

Steve Billirakis	47,000 2,000	2,000

Thor Hansen	47,000 23,000	23,000
Daniel Alaei	46,000 14,000	14,000

	46,000 3,000	3,000
Bertrand Grospellier	45,000 16,000	16,000

Chau Giang	44,000 9,000	9,000

Frank Kassela	40,000 -1,000	-1,000

Yuval Bronshtein	39,000

	38,000 3,000	3,000
Mike Sexton	37,000 11,000	11,000

Nick Schulman	37,000

Vanessa Selbst	37,000 -15,000	-15,000

Scott Seiver	36,000

David Benyamine	36,000 22,000	22,000

Michael Binger	35,000 5,000	5,000

Family Feud

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Livello 8 : 500/1,000, 0 ante

David "Bakes" Baker made it two bets from middle position, and the action folded to David "ODB" Baker who called in the big blind.

It's the battle we've all been waiting for.

The flop fell {a-Clubs} {q-Hearts} {6-Clubs} , and ODB check-called a bet from Bakes. ODB check-called another bet after the {6-Diamonds} paired the board on the turn, but led out after the {4-Spades} fell on the river. Bakes called.

"Just queens," ODB announced, tabling {q-Diamonds} {8-Diamonds} {3-Diamonds} {2-Diamonds} for the nut-low.

Bakes opened {8-Clubs} {7-Clubs} {6-Hearts} {2-Diamonds} for trip sixes, and the two split the pot. A bit anticlimactic. but that's O8 for ya.

Tags: David "Bakes" Baker David "ODB" Baker

2011-06-07 08:59 UTC

A Masterful Double

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Livello 8 : 500/1,000, 0 ante

Men "The Master" Nguyen and Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier, got three bets in preflop and then three more after the flop came {4-Diamonds} {10-Hearts} {j-Spades} to put Nguyen all in.

Nguyen: {a-Diamonds} {k-Hearts} {j-Hearts} {6-Clubs}
Grospellier: {k-Clubs} {3-Clubs} {9-} {x-}

The turn and river both bricked for Grospellier, and Nguyen doubled to 17,000.

Tags: Bertrand Grospellier Men Nguyen

2011-06-07 09:02 UTC

Four to Go

Livello 8 : 500/1,000, 0 ante

It's our very favorite time of the night.

The clock has been paused with ten minutes left in the level, and each table will play four more hands before bagging, tagging, and selling to the butcher in the store.

2011-06-07 09:15 UTC

Bad Beat on Cancer

Livello 8 : 500/1,000, 0 ante

Sarah Grant gets the details on the free seminar series and how you can participate.

Tags: phil gordon sarah grant

2011-06-07 09:16 UTC

Day 1 Big Stacks

2011-06-07 09:17 UTC

Chasing Eric Buchman

Livello 8 : 500/1,000, 0 ante

If not for the endless string of split pots, this $10,000 Omaha Hi-Lo Championship might be our very favorite event of the year to cover. Nowadays, only the big-buyin events feature intimate, highly skilled fields from top to near-bottom like this one.

Today's field was a strong one with 202 players -- nearly all of them faces you'd be familiar with -- turning up to the Rio with the buyin burning a hole in their pockets. Many of them torched through stacks in the early event in order to give this evening show their full attention. Like Tom Dwan, for example, who busted the $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em event just a few minutes before registration closed for this Championship. Dwan had a short and productive four levels over here on our side of the room, working his 30,000-chip stack to 61,000 by night's end.

Also in the mix were the likes of John Racener, Will Failla, Justin Smith, Ted Forrest, and Michael Mizrachi, but they were all cursed with a very short day and run out of the room within the first few levels. Also falling by the wayside was Francesco Barbero, one of the still-growing 2011 class of bracelet winners. Barbaro could easily justify the investment after taking down this event's little brother, the $1,500 Omaha Hi-Lo event of a few days ago. He had a miserable day, though, and his last big bet went into his final pot during the closing level of the night.

Barbaro wasn't the only 2011 bracelet winner in the room, either. Allen Bari won Event #4 yesterday, and Eugene Katchalov took down Event #5, too; both men survived the day with chips to spare. Bari, in particular, had a good day, finishing up with 70,700 tucked safely inside his chip bag for the overnight soak.

Joining those survivors in tomorrow's Day 2 will be a significant crowd of familiar faces. Erik Seidel, Dwan, John Juanda, Mike Matusow, Daniel Negreanu, Todd Brunson, Barry Greenstein and a pair of Deebs (Shaun and Freddy) will headline the restart at 3:00 P.M. on Tuesday. That's today, if you're scoring at home. A few of those guys have chips with which to do some damage, too. Negreanu was one of the last to register, but he managed to stack up 51,800 by the time the clock wound down, and Freddy Deeb is very near the top with 82,800 chips.

From the looks of it, though, everyone's chasing Eric Buchman right now. He had a quiet day as far as table talk went, electing instead to let his chips do the talking. Buchman had a taller stack every time we walked past his table, and his finishing count of 105,500 will set the pace for Day 2.

We'll be back here tomorrow afternoon to pick up the action and play down as close to a final table as we can muster. Thanks for joining us; we'll see you in about 13 hours!

Tags: Eric Buchman

2011-06-07 14:27 UTC

Official Day 1 Chip Counts (completo)

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Giocatore	Chip	Avanzamento
Fabrizio Gonzalez	117,300
Eric Buchman	108,800 3,300	3,300

Guillaume Rivet	95,900
Christopher George	93,200
Mikhail Smirnov	86,500
Richard Ashby	85,000 32,000	32,000

Marco Johnson	83,100

Freddy Deeb	82,800

Damjan Radanov	77,000
Alessio Isaia	77,000
Andrew Barber	75,300

Robert Stevanovski	72,900
Nikolai Yakovenko	71,000
Allen Bari	70,700

John Crisp	68,700
James Dempsey	68,700 17,700	17,700

Erick Lindgren	68,600 39,600	39,600

Andrey Zaichenko	68,500

Alexander Kostritsyn	67,200
Kirill Gerasimov	65,300 47,300	47,300
Yuval Bronshtein	65,100 26,100	26,100

Eugene Katchalov	64,000

Todd Barlow	63,400
Mack Lee	63,400
Ville Wahlbeck	63,000 32,000	32,000

Tags: Official Day 1 Chip Counts

Event #11: $10,000 Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better Championship

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