Event #21 $2500 - Limit Omaha Hi/Lo - Another big field..but getting smaller..
1:45 Play resumes tomorrow at 3PM.
28 David Eltringham $3,305
29 Steven Ladowsky $3,305
1:30
We have 4 women left in the field and they are all doing quite well.
Kathy Kolberg
Sondra Taylor
Lisa Lee
Allyn Shulman
30 Ross Boatman $3,305
31 Michael Gambony $3,305
1:15
32 Chris Grigorian $3,305
Runner runner makes Chris lose.
33 Carlos Mortensen $3,305
As a last ditch effort, Carlos got all in and was pounded by a wheel against his pair.
1:10
34 Scotty Nguyen $3,305
35 William Chen $3,305
36 Hassan Kamoei $3,305
12:53
Mike Epstein has a boatload of chips and is looking very healthy.
12:51
With one bracelet under his belt already, Pat Poels fails to get to the money by being bubble boy tonight.
12:45
They will play hand for hand now until they hit paydirt.
Payout :
1. $255,945
2. 132,110
3. 66,055
4. 57,800
5. 49,540
6. 41,285
7. 33,030
8. 24,770
9. 16,515
10-13 9,910
14-16 8,255
17-19 6,605
20-27 4,955
28-36 3,305
The level has just increased to 11. The blinds are 1000/2000 with limits of 1500/3000. Watch this mass exodus!
12:41
Down to 39. Bonnie Rossi failed at this attempt, but that woman is one heck of a player. You WILL see her name again.
12;25
It seems that the Omaha tournament has a lot of professionals per capita. Although there are a lot of people still in that I dont know. We are very close to payout time. Huck Seed is out.
12:00
Down to 48 now. Sorry, Max Pescatori must have been gone, he is still in and has about 15K in chips.
11:30
Break. Time to chip up to the next flavor and play for a little higher limits. We'll move up to 500/1000 blinds and 1000/2000 limits.
11:20
Down to 6 tables, 54 players. Josh didnt seem to make it, so, no purse etc. for the dealer I reckon. These players are also missing in action:
Max Pescatori
Andy Kelsall
Kiril Gerasimov
11:00 Looks like about 65 left.
10:55
Josh Arieh was down to his final 500 and promised the dealer that IF he wins this tournament, he will give her $10,000. He is UTG and goes all in. He gets a caller and a raiser. There is a side pot to vie for now. The caller calls the raise and is also all in. The hands unfold like this:
Josh 8d 7c 9c 9s
Player B A 6 2 3
Player A A 4 9 7
The flop fills Josh's heart with delight as it comes 2s 9h Jd followed by a 2d and a 8s for a full house and he triples up. He asked the dealer if she had the $10 spent already and she said she was going to buy a purse. Josh screeched, A PURSE!!! well, if I win, Ill give you $10 AND a purse.
10:45
Sorry, I had a little technical difficulty, but, it is all groovy now. Looks like we have dropped Vince Burgio, Chris Tsiprailidis, Artie Cobb and Steve Zolotow.
10:15
Jean Robert Bellande didnt have much fire power left and is the latest casualty. The players on on break and we will go to the next level in 15 minutes. Level 9 will be 400/800 blinds with 800/1600 limits.
10PM
Chris is signing off now and going for dinner and a nice long nights sleep. So, Ill pick up where he left off. This is Sharla and I have some chip counts for you.
A J Kelsall 13K
Chris Tsiprailidis 1K
Steve Zolotow 600
James Van Alstyne 10K
Kathy Kolberg 13K
Allen Kessler 28K
Ross Boatman 5K
Josh Arieh 16K
Chris Bjorin 4K
Bonnie Rossi 19K
Sirous Baghchehsara 25K
Kiril Gerasimov 2K
Mike Epstein 20K
Artie Cobb 6K
Huck Seed 7K
Chris Grigorian 20K
Scotty Nguyen 3K
Carlos Mortensen 6K
Ted Forest 4K
Richard Askhby 22K
Can Kim Hua 8K
Meng La 16K
Max Pescatori 30K
Jean Robert Bellande 200
Vince Burgio 4K
Todd Brunson 10K
21:05 Now they are Falling
We drop rapidly to 12 tables and only 108 players left - 36 to be paid. It was announced that we will only play to the end of level 11 tonight , currently at the end of level 7.
The only well knowns to exit recently were:-
Berry Johnson
Barry Shulman
and John Juanda
Chip counts to follow.
18:45 Dinner
At the dinner break, down to 20 tables. This will be a long tournament.
Anyway several losses that you might know, during level 6
Phil Helmuth
Mel Judah
Ram Vaswani
Chris Ferguson
Mickey Appleman
Perry Friedman
Gavin Smith
Spring Cheong
The GRINDER
Daniel Negreanu
Bill Glazes
Barney Boatman
Simon Trumper
Dinner break one hour - some chip counts during next period.
16:20 Now we are off and Eliminating
At the second break, end of level 4, now. The following went missing during that level
JIm Meehan
Annie Duke
David Levi
Paul Philips
Mike Sexton
David Williams
Dan Heimiller
Vince Oliver
Raffe Furst
Kristy Gazes
and, not too officially, Barry Greenstein
Now I saw Josh Arieh 1 1/2 hours ago walking slowly away from the tournament area, all possesions in hand. OUT I said to myself from 15 meters ....sorry yards away. However there he was as large as life calling pre-flop in seat 6 on table 5 as I just passed it amoment ago. Back in then , I guess.
15:40:- VERY SLOW
The eliminations in this tournament are going very slowly. The original field of 359 were spread across 37 tables. Originally 10 handed the first outs were filled by a player from each of the ten handed tables. The first of the full tables have only just started to break. The one from each table makes it a bit difficult to track the survival of some players, so here is my definitely out list
Josh Arieh
Greg Raymer
Matt Savage ( he is playing the super satellite )
Maureen Feduniak
Steve Badger - just as i was coming to media room
I think Barry Greenstein - his chips might have been moved and as he now has gone to the PLHE final its a bit hard to tell - more later on that one
OK- The Sheet is out so as I said 359 players , 36 being paid
1. $255,945
2. 132,110
3. 66,055
4. 57,800
5. 49,540
6. 41,285
7. 33,030
8. 24,770
9. 16,515
10-13 9,910
14-16 8,255
17-19 6,605
20-27 4,955
28-36 3,305
14:20 Points Total
Here are the top points leaders as at the end of the 1,000 7 Card Stud H/L
285 Chris Ferguson
263 Cyndy Violette
252 EriK Seidel
248 Alan Cunningham
233 Scott Fischman
232 Jennifer Harman
225 Harry Demetriou
219 Tony Ma
218 J Steinhorn
200 Eric Froehlich
200 T Werthmann
13:55 Just to the break
The field has filled out a little more now
The following players are additions to the original ist
Sam Arzoin
Sirous Baghchehsara
Jean Robert Bellande
Vince Burgio
Brent Carter
Spring Cheong
Paul Darden
Asher Derei
John Esposito
Robert Feduniak
Chris Ferguson
Ted Forrest
Raffe Furst
Bill Gazes
Mark Gregorich
Chris Grigorian
Jay Heimowitz
Berry Johnston
John Juanda
Brett Jungblut
Allen Kessler
Meng La
Toto Leonidas
Erick Lindgren
Robert Mizrachi
Carlos Mortensen
Vince Oliver
Blair Rodman
Doug Saab
Mickey Seagle
Kevin Song
David Wattel
David Williams
We are just to the breakk at the end of the second level - I haven't noticed any departures yet but I'm sure this level will bring some.
12:20 Play Has Begun
On time ( not at 12:20 ) play commenced. There are 36 tables setup with most having seat 5 of 10 left empty. Right up front, this tournament does not have the depth of experience that yesterday's had but I'm pretty sure I wouldn't make the money just the same.
Those players I could recognise :-
Mickey Appleman
Richard Ashby
Steve Badger ( One of my favourite players)
Anders Berg
Chris Bjorin
Barny Boatman
Ross Boatman
John Cernuto
David Colclough
Peter Costa
John D'Agostino
Annie Duke
Maureen Feduniak
Scott Fischman
Tom Franklin
Perry Friedman
Kristy Gazes
Kirill Gerasimov
Barry Greenstein ( Yep in event 20 last 40 and starting here )
Chris Grigorian
Thor Hansen
Dan Heimiller
Mel Judah
Yevgeny Kafelekov
Kathy Kolberg
Mike Matusow
Daniel Negreanu
Men Nguyen
Pascal Perrault
Paul Philips
David Plastik
David Rabbi
Greg Raymer + Breakfast
Ram Vaswani
Matt Savage (one of my favourite Tournament Directors )
Huck Seed
Mike Sexton
Barry Shulman
Gavin Smith
Max Stern
Simon Trumper
Chris Tsiprailidis
Steve Zolotow
Shoes
11:40 - They Gather
A few final single table satellites are completing to add to what will be a record field. Good information tells me that 15 minutes ago over 225 people had entered. I'll go out and watch everyone taking their seats and tell you who is in shortly.
Play Starts 12:00pm
Lifetime Omaha Hi/Lo top 10 money winners:
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| 1 | Scotty Nguyen | $587,778 | (24) |
| 2 | Men "The Master" Nguyen | $416,136 | (15) |
| 3 | "Miami" John Cernuto | $407,711 | (25) |
| 4 | Chris "Jesus" Ferguson | $322,928 | (9) |
| 5 | Mike Matusow | $320,684 | (9) |
| 6 | Layne Flack | $305,298 | (8) |
| 7 | Pat Poels | $270,100 | (1) |
| 8 | Steve Badger | $255,307 | (18) |
| 9 | Dr Max Stern | $251,181 | (17) |
| 10 | Howard Lederer | $232,059 | (5) |
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