Event #57: $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-low Split-8 or Better Giorno 2 | 2011 World Series of Poker

2011-07-07 02:30 UTC

Giocatore	Chip	Avanzamento
Evan Sofer	101,000 69,700	69,700
Padraig Parkinson	75,000 -13,000	-13,000
Alexander Dovzhenko	75,000 34,000	34,000
David Bach	73,500 -1,500	-1,500

Mikhail Savinov	73,000 21,900	21,900
David Sands	66,000 -54,000	-54,000
Bill Gazes	53,000 17,000	17,000
Joseph Silverman	43,500 29,100	29,100
Mike Matusow	38,000 -26,800	-26,800

Peter Levine	32,700 4,600	4,600
Richard Talaber	32,500 17,700	17,700
Grayson Nichols	27,000 -9,200	-9,200
Meikle Partin	26,000 21,600	21,600
Michael Schwartz	22,000 -7,300	-7,300
Joseph Marchal	17,000 -10,000	-10,000
Tobias Hausen	16,000 -21,600	-21,600
Alexander Lukyanov	14,000 -18,300	-18,300
Tobias Reinkemeier	5,000 -50,000	-50,000

Dinner Break

Livello 12 : 800/1,600, 0 ante

Players are now on a one-hour dinner break. In the meantime, we'll be bringing you a bunch of chip counts.

2011-07-07 02:24 UTC

Giocatore	Chip	Avanzamento
Daniel Shak	142,500 34,500	34,500
Gary Bolden	120,000 -33,000	-33,000
Bobby Hempkins	70,000 46,000	46,000
John Hennigan	68,000 -16,000	-16,000

John Monnette	60,500 7,500	7,500

Igor Sharaskin	52,000 12,000	12,000
Adam Latimer	52,000 7,000	7,000
Brent Wheeler	47,000 11,300	11,300

Lee Watkinson	36,000 36,000	36,000

Dario Alioto	35,000 13,000	13,000

Ben Tang	34,500 10,500	10,500
Chris Wallace	31,500 31,499	31,499

Claudio Rinaldi	30,000 10,500	10,500

Trickett Hits the Rail

Livello 12 : 800/1,600, 0 ante

Erik Seidel raised to 4,000 preflop and Sam Trickett called in position, as did Eric Crain in the big blind.

The flop came {a-Spades} {q-Clubs} {9-Hearts} and Crain checked. Seidel bet 9,000 and Trickett moved all in for 24,500. Crain quickly mucked and Seidel made the call to put Trickett at risk.

Seidel: {a-Hearts} {q-Hearts} {q-Diamonds} {6-Hearts}
Trickett: {a-Diamonds} {9-Clubs} {7-Diamonds} {2-Spades}

The turn was the {4-Clubs} and the river was the {j-Clubs} . Just like that Trickett's day is done and Seidel moves up to 100,000 chips.

Tags: Erik Seidel Sam Trickett

2011-07-07 02:12 UTC

The race for the Player of the Year is only intensifying as the $50,000 Players' Championship final table gets settled in for the long haul. With his eighth-place exit, Ben Lamb added another 86.40 points to his tally, pushing his cumulative total out to 659.05 points. Even Mr. Phil Hellmuth found the heart to commend Lamb on his abilities as he exited today. Mind games, maybe? Hellmuth is the one chasing Lamb right now, and he's got a good chance at running him down. The Brat has already locked up another 136.80 points to bring his own total up to 595.05 and counting -- closing in on Lamb. Check out how the points will be divvied up for the remaining five players:

Place	Points
1st	360
2nd	252
3rd	180
4th	158.4
5th	136.8

Hellmuth can take the overall lead, but he'll need to run this chip stack all the way to heads-up play to do so. A win would make him nearly untouchable atop the rankings.

Owais Ahmed and Brian Rast can also close in on Lamb with a win today, but neither can catch fully up to him in this event.

Tags: Ben Lamb Phil Hellmuth

2011-07-07 02:08 UTC

Mizzi Scoops to Bust Force

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We caught up with the action on a {9-Spades} {4-Hearts} {8-Clubs} {8-Hearts} board where Leif Force moved all in for 24,000 total and Sorel Mizzi said, “I don’t see how I can fold” before he put in the chips for the call. Mizzi turned over {K-Clubs} {Q-Diamonds} {10-Hearts} {8-Diamonds} for trips but we didn’t catch Force’s hand. The river was the {Q-Hearts} which gave Mizzi a full house and Force was eliminated.

Giocatore	Chip	Avanzamento
Sorel Mizzi	55,000 11,900	11,900
Leif Force	Eliminato

Tags: Leif Force Sorel Mizzi

2011-07-07 01:54 UTC

Mizzi Gets 3/4

Livello 12 : 800/1,600, 0 ante

We came to the table as Sorel Mizzi and Surindar Sunar were heads up. The flop came {6-Hearts} {9-Diamonds} {4-Diamonds} , and after a series of raises, the two got the money in preflop, with Sunar having Mizzi slightly covered.

Mizzi: {5-Diamonds} {5-Clubs} {4-Spades} {2-Diamonds}
Sunar: {5-Hearts} {4-Hearts} {2-Hearts} {3-Diamonds}

Mizzi had a pair of fives, along with a low draw, straight draw, and flush draw. Sunar held a giant wrap, and also had a great low draw himself. Upon seeing the hands, fellow table mate Ali Eslami was surprised, and said jokingly, "Does anyone play aces anymore?". The turn came the {3-Spades} , giving both players an identical six high straight and six low. However, the {6-Diamonds} hit the river, giving Mizzi a flush, and three quarters of the pot. Mizzi is now sitting on 43,100.

Tags: Sorel Mizzi Surindar Sunar

2011-07-07 01:50 UTC

Cleaning Up the Chip Counts

Giocatore	Chip	Avanzamento
Padraig Parkinson	88,000 28,000	28,000
Ali Eslami	61,000 -3,000	-3,000

John Monnette	53,000 -10,000	-10,000

Mark Gregorich	34,000 5,300	5,300
Surindar Sunar	33,000 -7,000	-7,000
Frankie Odell	17,000 -32,000	-32,000
Richard Ashby	Eliminato

Chris Bjorin	Eliminato

Lee Watkinson	Eliminato

Darryll Fish	Eliminato
Marco Traniello	Eliminato

2011-07-07 01:47 UTC

Vaughan Wins Battle of Brazil

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We caught up with the action heads up on an {A-Clubs} {J-Hearts} {7-Spades} flop between two Brazilians. It appeared as though Jose Vaughan bet 6,600 but Alexandre Gomes certainly raised the pot. Vaughan called all in for his last 24,000 more or so.

Vaughan: {A-Diamonds} {8-Diamonds} {8-Hearts} {7-Clubs}
Gomes: {A-Spades} {9-Hearts} {3-Spades} {2-Diamonds}

Vaughan was ahead with top and bottom pair but Gomes had higher two pair outs to go along with his nut-low draw. The {K-Diamonds} on the turn gave Gomes some additional high hand outs but the {A-Hearts} filled Vaughan up who doubled.

Giocatore	Chip	Avanzamento
Jose Vaughan	65,000 41,000	41,000
Alexandre Gomes	29,000 -46,000	-46,000

Tags: Alexandre Gomes Jose Vaughan

2011-07-07 01:44 UTC

Talaber Doubles

Livello 12 : 800/1,600, 0 ante

On a {q-Spades} {2-Diamonds} {3-Diamonds} {k-Spades} {9-Diamonds} board, Mikhail Savinov was facing a decision to call the all in bet from Richard Talaber. After a couple of minutes, he decided to make the call and Talaber tabled {q-Clubs} {10-Diamonds} {6-Clubs} {4-Diamonds} for a flush that Savinov was unable to beat. Talaber now has 60,000 while Savinov falls to 20,000.