Event 50 - $10,000 Pot Limit Omaha World Championship Day 1 | 2008 World Series of Poker

06-29-2008 17:27 UTC-7

Pescatori Chews on Rahmn

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Mats Rahmn and Max Pescatori both called a preflop raise. Pescatori opened the betting on a flop of {5-Diamonds}

and only Rahmn called.

Rahmn check-called both the turn {8-Spades}

and the river {2-Spades}

. Pescatori showed {8-Clubs}

for a full house, eights full of fives. Rahmn mucked his hand.

After the hand, Pescatori had about 71,000 in chips, while Rahmn dropped to about 40,000.

06-29-2008 17:47 UTC-7

Fricke, Boatman in the Same Boat

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We caught up with this hand on a flop of {Q-Diamonds}

. Three players got all their chips in the middle: Jimmy "gobboboy" Fricke; Barny Boatman; and Guillaume Patry. Patry had both other players covered.

Fricke: {K-Clubs}

Boatmen:

Patry:

Fricke and Patry both had overpairs; Boatman had bottom pair and a partial wrap draw. The turn and river bricked out {10-Spades}

, making Patry's aces the best hand. He busted Fricke and Boatman both and is now near the top of the leaderboard with 108,000.

Level: 6

Blinds: 300/600

Ante: 0

06-29-2008 17:54 UTC-7

Hogbom Catches his Card

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We pick up the action on a four-handed flop with 31,250 chips in the pot and the board showing {A-Spades}

. The player in the big blind makes a full-pot bet. One opponent folds, and Toto Leonidas makes the call all in. Mikael Hogbom tries to raise, but he fails to put in enough chips, and with no verbal declaration, he is only allowed to call.

The turn comes the {2-Spades}

. The big blind bets out again, this time all in for just 3,500. Hogbom quickly calls, and the hands are turned up:

Big Blind: {5-Spades}

Leonidas:

Hogbom:

The river brings the {6-Diamonds}

. Hogbom makes the winning straight on the river, knocking out both of his opponents, and chipping his way up to 95,000.

06-29-2008 18:09 UTC-7

The Gentleman Heads for the Exit

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"The Gentleman" John Gale is out of today's tournament. Short-stacked, he took a shot at raising all in preflop after three other players came into the pot. Only one folded to his all-in raise. The other two called.

Those two players checked a flop of {8-Clubs}

, but when the turn came {3-Hearts}

, one of them bet, folding the other. The remaining player opened {7-Spades}

for trip threes. Gale showed unimproved aces. The {2-Clubs}

on the river changed nothing.

06-29-2008 18:13 UTC-7

The Cockroach

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Nikolay Evdakov has already set the record for most cashes in a single WSOP (nine), and he's looking to extend that record today. He check-raised an opponent's all-in on a flop of {9-Spades}

and was called.

Evdakov: {A-Spades}

Opponent:

Evdakov's flush draw came in on the turn {8-Spades}

. At that point, his opponent was drawing dead. Evdakov now has about 27,000 in chips.

06-29-2008 18:19 UTC-7

The Pirate Walks the Plank

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We pick up the action on the flop, in a three-way pot containing about 36,000. The board reads {9-Spades}

. Michel Leibgorin checks from the small blind, and another player checks behind him. Action is on Max Pescatori, and he bets out all in for a total of 33,200. Leibgorin calls, putting himself all in, and the third opponent gets out of the way. The hands are turned up:

Leibgorin: {K-Clubs}

Pescatori: {A-Diamonds}

Pescatori has his opponent in trouble and at risk of elimination. Salvation comes for Leibgorin though. The {K-Diamonds}

hits the turn, making the Frenchman a big set and leaving Pescatori in the dust. The river is a useless {3-Clubs}

, and the Italian Pirate is knocked all the way down to his last 275 chips. He was eliminated just moments later.

Tags: Max Pescatori

06-29-2008 18:27 UTC-7

Phil Put on Laak Down

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Phil Laak was crippled when he got all in on a flop reading {J-Clubs}

. Laak held {8-Hearts}

. The turn and river came {3-Hearts}

and

, and Laak lost to his opponent who held {K-Diamonds}

. This sent him tumbling down to just 175 chips.

On the next hand he played, he moved those chips into the center holding {A-Hearts}

. He ended up making the nuts with a Broadway straight, and quadrupled back up to 700.

Those 700 chips went into the pot shortly thereafter, with Laak holding {K-Spades}

. His opponent held {9-Hearts}

. Trouble found Laak on the flop though, as it came out {4-Clubs}

. His opponent flopped a boat, and Laak's inability to improve his hand sends him out the door.

06-29-2008 18:36 UTC-7

A Curious Ruling

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We've seen several head-scratcher rulings during the course of the WSOP. Add this one to the list.

Two players saw a flop of {J-Clubs}

. The player in Seat 2 bet pot, which was 21,000. His opponent in Seat 4, Genci Shehu, who was somewhat short, said, "OK. If you've got me, you've got me," and turned up his hand -- {J-Hearts}

. Seat 2 opened {J-Spades}

for a set-over-set situation. The dealer ran out the board {6-Spades}

, with Seat 2 declared the winner.

However, when the stacks were counted down, it was determined that the pot bet of 21,000 on the flop did not actually put Shehu all in. He still had some chips behind. A floor was called, who ruled that Shehu had called the bet on the flop, so the turn {6-Spades}

should stay on the board. The river {Q-Spades}

should be shuffled back into the deck and action should commence from the turn.

Seat 2 bet the turn, with all of the cards open, and Shehu, on the wrong end of the set-over-set situation, made the obvious fold. However, Shehu was not given a penalty for exposing his hand. Previously in the WSOP, any intentionally exposed cards, no matter the situation, have resulted in a one-orbit penalty.

Shehu won a large pot shortly thereafter, and then tripled after that. Rather than being out of the tournament, he now has an average stack of about 40,000 chips.

06-29-2008 18:40 UTC-7

Kessler Clinging to Life

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Allen Kessler has been short-stacked all day. He just pulled off a double-up when he flopped top set of queens and they held up through the river, but is still well below par with just 10,000 chips.