With six eliminations needed until the players hit the money, here are just a few of the short-stacks that will be looking either to survive or find a much needed double, triple or quadruple-up so that they are a chance of collecting (at a minimum) a $21,905 payday.
In the last four hands of Omaha-8 at table 277, Erik Sagstrom and Frankie O'Dell have been getting into it with each other pretty hard. All but one quarter of one of those pots have gone to Sagstrom who is up 150,000 in those hands almost solely on O'Dell.
O'Dell now has 270,000 and Sagstrom is up to 390,000
By the time we got there, Tom Dwan and Robert Williamson III had put in enough bets on sixth street to have Williamson all in. They flipped over their hands before the river to find that Dwan had a wheel and a flush draw. Williamson already had the nut straight and needed to fade a spade.
Robert Williamson III:
Tom Dwan:
Dwan flipped his , and Williams was safe before he showed the irrelevant . He is up to 210,000. Dwan still has over 300,000.
John Monnette completed and Tommy Hang made the call. Monnette led fourth with Hang making the call before Hang led fifth and sixth with Monnette making the call. Hang checked seventh dark and then proceeded to call Monnette's 16,000-chip bet.
Monnette: (X)(X) / / (X)
Hang: (X)(X) / / (X)
Monnette tabled his to scoop the pot with his nine-seven low as he moved to 315,000 while Hang took a dip to 225,000.
Max Pescatori got it all in versus Matthew Ashton on fifth street and by the end his hand showed His eight-four low was enough to take down the pot and double up to 110,000
Fabrice Soulier has been on an absolute tear lately and just knocked out Huck Seed in Omaha-8.
The two got it all in on the turn with the board reading and Soulier showed for trip fours. Seed was drawing dead and mucked, but his hand had to be turned up per the rules and he showed, the river was the and Soulier now has 470,000 and is our chip leader.