Event #57: $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-low Split-8 or Better
Day 3 Started
2011 World Series of Poker
Event #57: $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-low Split-8 or Better
Day: 3
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2011 World Series of Poker
Buy-in
$5,000
Prize Pool
$1,654,400
Entries
352
Level
30
Blinds
50,000 / 100,000
Ante
0
| Table | Seat | Player | Chips |
|---|---|---|---|
| 130 | 1 | Nick Binger | 303,000 |
| 130 | 2 | Igor Sharaskin | 99,000 |
| 130 | 3 | Bjorn Verbakel | 26,000 |
| 130 | 4 | Peter Levine | 112,080 |
| 130 | 5 | Raymond Dehkarghani | 266,000 |
| 130 | 6 | Joseph Marchal | 15,000 |
| 130 | 7 | Bryce Yockey | 323,000 |
| 130 | 8 | Austin Marks | 230,000 |
| 135 | 1 | Nick Schulman | 772,000 |
| 135 | 2 | Padraig Parkinson | 36,000 |
| 135 | 3 | Kirill Rabtsov | 115,000 |
| 135 | 4 | Trevor Reader | 292,000 |
| 135 | 5 | Tobias Hausen | 139,000 |
| 135 | 6 | Brent Wheeler | 157,000 |
| 135 | 7 | Allen Kessler | 568,000 |
| 135 | 8 | David Sands | 110,000 |
| 135 | 9 | Phil Laak | 319,000 |
| 136 | 1 | Alexander Dovzhenko | 103,000 |
| 136 | 2 | Marcelo Costa | DNR |
| 136 | 3 | David Bach | 310,000 |
| 136 | 4 | Fabrizio Gonzalez | 100,000 |
| 136 | 6 | Anders Taylor | 135,000 |
| 136 | 7 | Grayson Nichols | 90,000 |
| 136 | 8 | Peter Charalambous | 134,000 |
| 136 | 9 | Lee Watkinson | 111,000 |
Welcome to Day 3 of Event #57: $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-low Split-8 or Better. What started as a field of 352 players is now down to the final 25, all gunning for $397,073 first-place prize. Leading the way as chip leader is none other than Nick Schulman, who bagged 772,000 chips late last night.
Schulman isn’t the only big name who’ll be returning today. Allen Kessler (568,000), Phil Laak (319,000), Nick Binger (303,000), David Bach (310,000), Lee Watkinson (111,000), and David Sands (110,000) are all still in contention for the last non-Main Event gold bracelet of the 2011 WSOP.
Action will resume at 3 p.m. PST, which is just over an hour away. The plan is to either play down to a winner or ten levels, whichever comes first. No doubt many eyes will be glued to our Main Event coverage, you’ll want to be sure to check out the live updates from our $5K PLO8 event as the last bracelet winner, at least until November, will likely be crowned.
Level: 19
Blinds: 4,000/8,000
Ante: 0
Level 19
: 4,000/8,000, 0 ante
The players have taken their seats and the cards are in the air!
Peter Levine raised to 25,000 from middle position and Joseph Marchal called off his extreme short stack of 13,000. The rest of the players got out of the way and the cards were turned up.
Marchal: 
Levine: 
Any and all suspense was dashed when the flop fell 
to give Levine a wheel. The 
turn left Marchal drawing dead, and after the 
was put out on the river for good measure, he made his way to the payout desk in 25th place.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
125,000
13,000
|
13,000 |
|
Busted |
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Level 19
: 4,000/8,000, 0 ante
First into the pot from early position, Padraig Parkinson opened to 28,000, and the table folded around to the big blind. There, Phil Laak craned his neck to see how many chips his opponent was playing, then potted to 88,000. Parkinson called all in for 76,000 total, and the cards were on their backs:
Parkinson: 
Laak: 
The board ran 
, and Parkinson could not catch up. He's out in 24th place, leaving with $12,623 as a consolation prize. With the knockout, Laak moves up to 400,000, maybe just a tick more.
Kirill Rabtsov raised to 25,000 from the hijack and received a call from Allen Kessler in the big blind. When the 
appeared on the flop, Kessler checked, Rabtsov bet 50,000, Kessler raised pot, and Rabtsov called off for 155,000 total.
Kessler: 
Rabtsov: 
Kessler had a pair of fours with both flush and low draws, while Rabtsov was in front with his aces and low draw. The turn changed nothing, but the case ace, , spiked on the river. It gave Kessler two pair, but Rabtsov a set; not only that, it meant that the latter's 7-3 low was best.
Rabtsov scooped the pot to double to 310,000 while Kessler was knocked down to 490,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
490,000
-78,000
|
-78,000 |
|
310,000
195,000
|
195,000 |
Marcelo Costa raised to 19,000 from early position and was quickly called by David Bach, who was the next player to act. The rest of the field cleared out and it was heads up to the 
flop. Costa thought for a minute before checking, opening the door for Bach to bet pot (50,000).
Costa released his hand, dropping to 150,000, while Bach raked in the pot and chipped up to around 420,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
420,000
110,000
|
110,000 |
|
||
|
150,000
-32,000
|
-32,000 |
Level 19
: 4,000/8,000, 0 ante
We missed the hand that sealed his fate, but Ray Dehkarghani is the latest victim of a serious heater that Doc Sands is on.
Sands came into the day with 110,000 chips, but he's worked that count all the way up to 445,000 here in the first level of the day. Like we said, we don't have many details on the hand other than to tell you that Dehkarghani was shaking his head and cursing the cards as he waited in line at the cashier's desk. He'll collect $12,623 for his work over the last three days.