Welcome back to the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino and the 2014 World Series of Poker for Day 2 of Event #10: $10,000 Limit Omaha Hi-Low Championship!
Yesterday afternoon 178 players took to the felt to build a prize pool of $1,673,200 in the first Omaha Hi-Low tournament of the series, with the final 18 players scheduled to receive shares of that money. Ten levels was yesterday's plan, and once the call to bag and tag was announced, only 111 players would remain as the likes of Phil Ivey, Mike Matusow, David Benyamine, Gary Benson, Jeff Madsen, and Shawn Buchanan were just a handful of the players finding themselves on the rail throughout the day.
Leading the field into Day 2 is WSOP bracelet winner Dan Kelly who amassed an impressive 146,700-chip stack to sit just ahead of Jeff Williams who was the only other player above 140,000. Being one of the Championships for the series, the field is still stacked with notables as the likes of Daniel Negreanu (99,100), Nick Schulman (90,200), Scott Clements (83,800), Erik Seidel (65,200), Matthew Ashton (64,600), Jason Mercier (46,800), and Michael Mizrachi (35,200). Meanwhile Andy Bloch, Chris Bell, Barry Greenstein and Brian Hastings are all peddling short stacks.
Top Five Chip Counts
Rank
Player
Country
Chip Count
1st
Dan Kelly
USA
146,700
2nd
Jeff Williams
USA
144,700
3rd
Abdyl Konjuhi
USA
137,100
4th
Ismael Bojang
Denmark
135,100
5th
Eli Elezra
USA
123,100
The PokerNews Live Reporting Team will be providing continuous live updates from 2:00 p.m. (PDT) as we look to play down to potentially the money, if not to the final table, of Event #10: $10,000 Limit Omaha Hi-Low Championship!
On a flop of we found Andy Bloch all in against Marco Johnson.
Bloch:
Johnson:
With Bloch drawing to running cards for the high and a draw to a low, the turn and river landed the and to see Johnson's nut flush and second nut low scoop the pot and send Bloch to the rail.
Perry Friedman limped under the gun and Robert Campbell, Andrew Brown, and Gary Bolden each called before Mike Gorodinsky checked his option in the big blind.
The flop fell and Gorodinsky led for 1,200 with Friedman folding before Campbell raised to 2,400. Brown and Bolden mucked, then Gorodinsky committed his last 2,000 total.
Campbell:
Gorodinsky:
With Gorodinsky needing to improve on the high and drawing live for the low, the turn and river landed the and to see the WSOP bracelet winner eliminated while Campbell scooped the pot to move to over 40,000 in chips.
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Josh Arieh raised to 3,000 and Phillip Hui three-bet to 4,500. With the action on Frankie O'Dell on the button, he made it four bets and both Arieh and Hui called.
The dealer spread a flop and Hui fired out 1,500 with both O'Dell and Arieh calling. The then landed on the turn. Hui tossed in another 3,000. This time, only O'Dell made the call as the river landed the and Hui fired in another 3,000.
O'Dell made the call, but then mucked when Hui tabled his for the third-nut flush.
Layne Flack found himself all in for his last 7,300 with Tom Koral making the call.
Flack:
Koral:
The board ran out and Flack announced, "Give it to the skinny kid, sunshine!"
The dealer pushed the pot to Flack who doubled to roughly 16,000, although his announcement of "skinny kid" may be misinterpreted, as it can easily be argued that Koral is skinnier than back-to-back Flack!
Five players entered the pot for 2,500 as the dealer fanned a flop with the action checking to Nick Schulman who bet out 2,500 with Mike Leah and the button player calling before Vanessa Selbst check-raised from the big blind to 5,000.
Schulman then made it three bets to go with Leah and the button calling before Selbst called all in for 6,800 total. The turn landed the and Leah took the lead with a 5,000-chip bet as only Schulman called before he led for 5,000 when the river landed the .
Leah called and tabled his , but it would be Schulman's for a straight that would see him scoop the pot as Selbst flashed her and headed to the rail.
Vanessa Selbst, winner of Event #2: $25,000 Mixed-Max No-Limit Hold'em and her third World Series of Poker gold bracelet, joins the show to talk about her heads-up matches, the Twitter beef with Jason Mo, and her two small dogs. Rich, Donnie, and Jason then take a look at all of the recent bracelet winners and dissect the idea of a $20 million guarantee tournament.
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we found Andy Bloch all in against Marco Johnson.
and 
to see Johnson's nut flush and second nut low scoop the pot and send Bloch to the rail.
and Gorodinsky led for 1,200 with Friedman folding before Campbell raised to 2,400. Brown and Bolden mucked, then Gorodinsky committed his last 2,000 total.
flop and Hui fired out 1,500 with both O'Dell and Arieh calling. The 
and Hui fired in another 3,000.
and Flack announced, "Give it to the skinny kid, sunshine!"
and Leah took the lead with a 5,000-chip bet as only Schulman called before he led for 5,000 when the river landed the 
, but it would be Schulman's 
and headed to the rail.
