Level: 9
Blinds: 300/600
Ante: 0
2010 World Series of Poker
Event #28: $2,500 Pot-Limit Omaha
Day: 1
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2010 World Series of Poker
Buy-in
$2,500
Prize Pool
$1,370,800
Entries
596
Level
28
Blinds
30,000 / 60,000
Ante
0
Players are enthusiatically taking their last 20 minute break of the night. What will they do during this time? Popular opinion suggests that they will use the restroom, grab a bite to eat, tell bad beat stories, and perhaps make a phone call.
Jose Barbero was all in preflop with 
against the 
of his opponent in Seat 7.
The board ran out 
, giving Seat 7 a full house. Barbero has been eliminated from the tournament late on Day 1.
David Baker, winner of Event No. 19, the $10,000 Deuce-to-Seven Lowball Draw Championship, just now limped in from early position, the player in the hijack seat limped behind, then the button raised to 1,500. The small blind called, the BB folded, and Baker and the other two called the raise as well.
Four players, then, to see the 
flop. It checked around to the hijack who bet 3,500, and only Baker stuck around. Both then checked the 
turn and 
flop.
"Flush," said Baker, tabling 
. His opponent studied his four again, then mucked. Baker is at about 24,000 at the moment, which is just a touch above the average with 189 players remaining.
Eric Baldwin, Mike Beasley, Ben Roberts, Vivek Rajkumar, Sigi Stockinger and Jason DeWitt are among the notables who have been recently eliminated.
Believe it or not, Phil Ivey is still alive in the tournament. He has been M.I.A. for the past few levels, slowly being blinded off, as he played in the $10,000 Limit Hold'em Championship.
Ivey is currently sitting with 7,225 and will need to get back soon if he wants to avoid elimination.
Sigi Stockinger was just now all in preflop, having chosen a fine PLO hand -- 
-- to which to assign his fate. Joe Hachem was his foe, going to battle with 
.
The community cards would decide it. The first four -- 
-- suggested all sorts of possibilities for Stockinger. But the 
came on the river. Hachem's set of queens proved best, and Stockinger is out.
Hachem is now at 40,000.
There was about 6,000 in the pot at the river with a board reading 
when Eric Baldwin bet 4,700. Bertrand Grospellier thought it over for a minute or so before raising all in for 6,625, which was enough to set Baldwin all in.
Baldwin mulled it over, reciting possible hands aloud, before finally mucking. He left himself with around 5,000 while Grospellier is up to 22,000.
When action folded to the player in the small blind, he raised the pot only to have Bertrand Grospellier reraise the pot from the big blind for 8,200 more.
The small blind mulled it over and then pushed all in for a total of 12,900. Grospellier called and they turned over their cards:
Grospellier: 
Small Blind:
Grospellier was in the lead preflop but was in trouble when the flop came 
. Grospellier picked up the nut flush draw, but that was nixed when the 
hit the turn and gave his opponent a full house. The river was the 
and Grospellier lost nearly half his chips in the hand. He is down to 15,200.
Level: 8
Blinds: 200/400
Ante: 0