A total of 139 players returned for the second day of the $2,500 Omaha/Seven-Card Stud Hi-Low and it would be Erik Seidel who accumulated the most chips after ten one-hour levels of play with 444,000 in chips.
Those to fall before the money included such familiar names as Phil Galfond, John Racener, Chau Giang, Adam Friedman, Matt Savage and Dan Shak. Ismael Bojang bowed out three spots before the money and Thomas Beckstead survived at least four all-in showdowns on the bubble after being down to as low as a single grey T100 chip.
Bubble play carried on for an hour and in the very last hand of level 16, Chris Klodnicki and Dustin Leary busted at the same time to split the min cash of $4,694. Michael Chow and Thomas Butzhammer were eliminated in the first payout step, 2014 bracelet winners Georg Danzer and Vanessa Selbst followed shortly thereafter. Humberto Brenes scored his sixth cash of the 2014 WSOP and eventually bowed out in 32nd place.
Mike Matusow was short most of the day and then scooped a massive pot against Cameron Tahmasebi and Jeet Shetty on the final three tables; however, his celebration earned him a one-round penalty. Five further players would hit the rail in the final level and that did include Matusow in 19th place after losing two big pots before heading to the payout desk. It seems he was never able to get over what he deemed an unjust penalty.
Notables that made it through include Mike Leah (374,000), John Kabbaj (326,000), Joe Tehan (152,000), Tom Schneider (124,000), Robert Mizrachi (110,000), Allyn Jaffrey Shulman (106,000) and Matt Glantz (66,000). Glantz will be the shortest stack due in part from walking into the royal flush of Andrey "gigaloff" Zhigalov in Level 20.
Play resumes tomorrow at 2 p.m. local time when the final 18 players will play down to a winner. Seidel turned 20,000 at the start of the day into more than 20 times that, but will he be able spin it into a gold bracelet? Check back then to find out who scoops the most pots and earns the next WSOP title.
After the previous big pot, Mike Matusow lost another hand and was down to only 2,000 that he scooped up to 16,000 with two pair, tens over deuces. Only one hand later he was all in again on third and got called by Terrence Hastoo with rolled up kings.
Hastoo: / /
Matusow: /
The pair of queens was no good for "The Mouth" and he waved goodbye, wishing all opponents good luck still.
A short stacked Matt Lefkowitz got the remainder of his stack in until fifth against Tom Schneider and the latter was going for a low and spade flush draw. Lefkowitz had jacks on fourth but could not hold up.
Jeet Shetty opened for 16,000 from the hijack and Christopher McHugh called from the button. Fu Wong came along from the big blind and three players saw a flop of . Wong checked, Shetty bet 8,000, and McHugh raised to 16,000. Wong thought for awhile before making the call, Shetty moved in for 24,000 total, and McHugh popped it to 32,000. Two more raises saw Wong get all in for 42,000 total and all the hands were turned up.
Shetty:
McHugh:
Wong:
The turn and river have Wong the improbably win with trips, which was good enough to scoop the pot. Shetty was eliminated on the hand and will take home $7,784 for his 21st-place finish.
Cameron Tahmasebi raised to 12,000 and Jeet Sketty clicked it to 18,000. Mike Matusow called and so did Fu Wong. Tahmasebi was now all in for 13,500 on third and the three players proceeded to fourth. Matusow bet 6,000, Wong called, Sketty made it 12,000 and Matusow three bet to 18,000. Wong was skeptical and folded.
Matusow said, "If I win this pot, everybody will be playing for second."
Until sixth, Matusow was betting and had another 4,500 behind, Sketty put him to the test and all turned over their cards.
"Come on, I deserve this," yelled Matusow, almost losing his voice. The dealer delivered seventh and Matusow started cheering loudly, running away from the tournament area and everybody in the rather silent Amazon room could hear him. Matusow pounded the table in celebration as he continued to laud the hand. He raked in the massive pot with the straight and low and was then given a one round penalty for his "outrageous behavior."
"Is this for real? I didn't do anything. You get a penalty for getting excited? I didn't even swear." The tournament staff claimed they were only doing their job.
Matusow was visibly upset by the ruling almost to the point of tears. Some players, such as Joe Tehan and Owais Ahmed came to his defense, while others like Robert Mizrachi and Matt Lefkowitz tried their best to calm Matusow down and get him refocused.
In the meanwhile, Tahmasebi went to the payout desk to collect $7,784 for his 24th place finish.
Konstantin Puchkov raised to 10,000 from early position and Humberto Brenes defended from the big blind. When the flop came down , Brenes led out for 5,000 and then called off his last 4,000 when Puchkov raised.
Brenes:
Puchkov:
Puchkov was ahead with two pair and an ace-three low draw, but Brenes held a wrap. The Costa Rican was on his feet with his shark card protector telling the dealer to deliver him the right card (in broken English of course).
The dealer did not oblige on the turn, nor on the river, which improved Puchkov to a full house with no qualifying low.
Brenes' 32nd-place finish marks his sixth cash of the 2014 WSOP, which is an impressive feat in and of itself.
It took nearly an hour for the bubble to burst, and it's only fitting in a tournament played with split-spot game that two players would fall in the last hand before the dinner break and have to split 48th-place money,
Omaha Hi-Low
In one hand, we arrived at the table with a board reading . A short-stacked Dustin Leary was already all in from the big blind, while action was complete between Tyson Marks and Mike Roeseler.
Marks:
Roeseler:
Leary:
Marks had the wheel to scoop the pot, which eliminated Leary on the bubble. However, two tables down there was another all-in pot.
Stud Hi-Low
Chris Klodnicki was all in after third and got three callers, Tom Schneider got out of the way on fifth and then the action was capped between Julie Schneider and Christopher McHugh on sixth. On seventh there was just single bet and call.
Schneider won the high with a seven high straight, while McHugh took the low with a wheel. That sent Klodnicki out as the co-bubble boy. Klodnicki and Leary will split the $4,694.
"This is the pot for this table," we heard Mike "The Mouth" Matusow shout. We made our way over to discover a big three-way stud hi-low pot in progress. There was about 60,000 in the middle as the three players went to seventh street. Dutch Boyd checked, as did Michael Chow, and Robert Mizrachi bet 5,000. Boyd called off his last 2,000 while Chow opted to preserve the 3,000 he had behind.
Chow : / / fold
Mizrachi: /
Boyd: / / muck
"Queens up," Mizrachi said and tabled queens and fives.
"Queens up is good," a crestfallen Boyd said before sending his cards to the dealer and bowing out in 54th place.
In the previous hand, Allen Kessler walked by and asked "Hey Chau, didn't you say no more tournaments?" Chau Giang replied "This will be my last one," before calling a raise in the big blind and then folding the flop. He had next to no chips left and moved all in for 2,100 one hand later when Greg Mascio raised from middle position.
The small blind called as well and Giang tossed in his last few chips. On the flop, Giang said "I hope I have spades" and Mascio bet. The small blind check-folded and Mascio asked "You don't know what you have?" "1-2-3-7 black," Giang replied. Both turned over their cards.
Mascio:
Giang:
The on the turn saw him drawing dead and he left the table after the dealer spread the river. Mascio is back where he started the day.
Matt Waxman joins the PokerNews Podcast at the top of the show to talk about winning a bracelet in 2013, debate whether or not the National Championship is a closed event, and tell the story of his first big heater in poker. The crew then gives play-by-play of a spat between Nick Schulman and the phone vendors outside of the Amazon Room, breaks down the recent bracelet winners, and more.
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