Kelopuro, Goya and Lau Among 35 in Field at End of Day 1 of WCOOP-92-H: $10,300 PLO [6-Max, PLO Main Event]
Finland's Sami "Lrslzk" Kelopuro, Dante "dantegoyaF" Goya of Brazil and Ka Kwan "kaju85" Lau of Hong Kong are among the 35 players left standing at the end of Day 1 in the WCOOP-92-H: $10,300 PLO [6-Max, PLO Main Event] as part of the World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP). The three-day tournament had a guaranteed prize pool of $1 million but already surpassed that at the end of Day 1, with 126 entrants and a prize pool of $1.3 million.
"yara777" of Ukraine walked away from Day 1 as the tournament chip leader with a stack of 2.3 million, followed closely by "Grus/Snus" of Sweden and "#Naktro91" of Andorra. Other players who made it through the first seven hours of action on Day 1 include "Ben_Apart" of the United Kingdom, Alexey "LuckyGump" Makarov of Russia and Brazil's Yuri "theNERDguy" Dzivielevski, who is fresh off of two WCOOP victories yesterday.
PokerStars ambassador Lex "L. Veldhuis" Veldhuis, who took second yesterday in the WCOOP-80-H: $10,300 NLHE [8-Max, Progressive KO, High Roller] for his biggest-ever MTT cash of $172,793, was also in the field but did make it to the end of Day 1.
Day 2 will commence on Sept. 13 at 5:10 p.m. GMT and will break when there are seven players remaining. Those players will return for Day 3 on Sept. 14 at 5:05 p.m. GMT.
Late registration will remain open until the beginning of Day 2. Only 14 places will be paid if there are less than 132 entrants in the tournament.
That wraps up Day 1 coverage of the WCOOP-92-H: $10,300 PLO [6-Max, PLO Main Event]. The PokerNews live reporting team will be back tomorrow to bring you Day 2 updates.
flop and his opponent called. 
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and they made sevens full of eights and took a commanding chip lead in the tournament
flop and Dzivielevski called. Nemeth bet 56,025 on the 
turn and Dzivielevski again called. Nemeth moved in for 182,625 on the 
river and Dzivielevski called with a slightly smaller stack. 
for a rivered full house and it was good against the smaller full house of Nemeth. Nemeth was left with just a few thousand chips and busted out the next hand before buying in on a second bullet.
and called off for 104,330 more when his opponent raised. 
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and the full pot went "Mr Juhlen" with aces and sixes. Dzivielevski was eliminated but bought back in on a second bullet.
to show he went runner-runner to hit quad eights.
on the river did not change the outcome of the hand.
