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Level 8
: 300/600, 0 ante
The players have stood to stretch for the last 20-minute break of the night.
2013 World Series of Poker
Event #22: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha
Day: 1
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2013 World Series of Poker
Buy-in
$1,500
Prize Pool
$1,378,350
Entries
1,021
Level
26
Blinds
15,000 / 30,000
Ante
0
Level 8
: 300/600, 0 ante
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Level 8
: 300/600, 0 ante
The buzz inside the walls of the Rio extends beyond just the tournaments on the 2013 World Series of Poker schedule. Online poker in Nevada is a very, very hot topic right now, and WSOP.com is making a lot of noise.
While the site has yet to launch, you can head to the Lambada Room of the Rio or look for one of the beautiful and friendly WSOP.com ladies walking the hallways to sign up for a free, personal WSOP.com online poker account. This is a great way to get a jump on the site's registration, and plenty of people have already taken this opportunity.
What's more is that the WSOP will be hosting daily raffles for everyone that has taken the time to register for WSOP.com at the Rio. What can you win? Plenty of fantastic prizes including 36 WSOP seats!
Players 21 years of age and older who sign up for a WSOP.com account will automatically be entered into the “36-Seat Giveaway” where a randomly-selected winner will win a seat into the next day’s first WSOP gold bracelet event. One of the events eligible in this promotion is the $111,111 One Drop High Roller No-Limit Hold’em tournament that is expected to feature a $10,000,000 prize pool and allow you to play poker with the biggest names in the game. In total, $182,333 in WSOP seats, including a seat to the WSOP Main Event, are being given away during this one-of-a-kind WSOP.com promotion.
In addition to the 36-Seat Giveaway, a “Hot Seat” promotion will allow any player who signs up for a WSOP.com online account and wears their WSOP.com patch on their chest at the table while playing an event to be randomly selected to receive 500 bonus dollars deposited directly into their WSOP.com online account once the site has received all regulatory approvals and launches.
With 62 WSOP gold bracelet events and three winners promised for the Main Event, this promotion includes $32,000 worth of value to those participating.
Level 8
: 300/600, 0 ante
German online beast and back-to-back WPT winner Marvin Rettenmaier has earned millions of dollars during his relatively short poker career, and today he is looking to add a WSOP bracelet to an already impressive résumé.
A veteran of prestigious high-roller events and the European tournament circuit, as well as the nosebleed stakes online games still raging in the Old Country, Rettenmaier is making his presence known here today. He has steadily built an above average stack, and after watching him play a recent hand, it is clear how he earned every one of those chips.
With the flop reading 
, and over 10,000 in the pot already, Rettenmaier was on the button against two other opponents. When both checked to Rettenmaier, he tossed out a bet of 4,800 and found one caller. The 
on the river completed several draws, and the danger card was checked down. Rettenmaier's opponent did not want to flip his hand up, and said "I missed" before revealing the 
, and the German pro's 
along with two cards we missed, were good enough to claim the pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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Level 8
: 300/600, 0 ante
Back in Level 7 during the Tollerene/Morgan mix up, Howard "Tahoe" Andrew was eliminated. Born in 1934, Andrew has the distinction of being the only player to have participated in the WSOP each year since 1974.
In his final hand, three players saw a flop of 
and Andrew bet all in for his last 2,300. Gary Long made the call from the hijack and Taylor Paur, who won a bracelet last night, folded from the cutoff.
Andrew: 
Long: 
Long was ahead with his aces, but Andrew took the lead when the 
turn gave him a set. Unfortunately for the elder statesman, the 
spiked on the river to give Long a winning flush.
Upon discovering that he'd lost the hand, Andrew deadpanned, "I'm never coming back here again." It got quite the laugh from the table, and needless to say, it was an empty threat.
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Level 8
: 300/600, 0 ante
Ben "Bttech86" Tollerene plays the biggest online cash games in the world, often exchanging pots worth hundreds of thousands with the likes of Alexander “PostFlopAction” Kostritsyn and Viktor "Isildur1" Blom, but right now he's testing his live skills at the World Series of Poker. Well, actually, he's waiting to test his skills as his chips have gone missing. Let us explain.
Tollerene and another player from Table 33, Jason Morgan, were late coming back from the dinner break. During that ten minutes or so that they were gone, Table 33 broke. In that instance, the tournament staff moves the unattended stacks to the new table and leave a note for the returning players. Apparently Morgan returned first and took his new seat. Minutes later Tollerene did the same thing. Seems simple enough until Tollerene discovered that there was only a stack of around 14,000 waiting for him when he went to dinner with 21,000.
Tollerene alerted the staff who set about trying to figure out exactly what happened by reviewing security footage. This took some time and all the while a calm and collected Tollerene waited patiently. He chatted with the likes of Jeremy Ausmus, Brett Richey and Jason Koon theorizing what could have happened.
Did someone take his chips, be it intentionally or by accident? He was seated in Seat 8 while the other unmanned stack was Seat 3, plus there was a discrepancy between the stacks, so how could the other player not notice?
Eventually that other player was identified as Morgan, who had been playing at the five seat on Table 11 since his return. However, his stack only had around 14,000, which added to the confusion. When asked about which seat he had come from and the stack he left behind, Morgan responded that it was Seat 3 on Table 33 but that he wasn't exactly sure of his stack as he had lost a massive pot in the last hand before the dinner break and left a bit tilted.
As the staff continued to work through the situation, Level 7 came to an end approximately 45 minutes after Tollerene's return. That is when the staff made the decision to take an impromptu break to figure things out. By this time, numerous tables had overheard discussions and began to speculate as to what could have happened and what would happen.
Upon returning from the break, the staff determined that Morgan had accidentally picked up the wrong seating assignment upon returning from the dinner break.
To correct the mistake the staff reseated Morgan to Table 13 Seat 8, which is where the stack of 14,000, minus blinds, awaited him. To make things right, they deducted it a further 7,000, the amount he had lost from Tollerene's stack. They then allowed Tollerene to take his seat at Table 11 and brought the stack there from 14,000 up to 20,400, which they reasoned was Tollerene's stack at the time of the mistake minus estimated blinds.
Tollerene, who kept his cool even after missing an entire level of play, sat right back down and got down to business. Morgan did the same, albeit with a much smaller stack.
{Update} Lynn Gilmartin spoke with Ben about the incident on the following break:
Level 8
: 300/600, 0 ante
Dan Nicewander has been forced to endure an incredible amount of tension during the last few hours, as he has tried to grind the short-stack in this Pot-Limit Omaha tournament, while simultaneously sweating his Chicago Blackhawks during their epic triple-overtime thriller in the NHL Finals.
We just heard Nicewander shout out "Yes!" in a passionate display of excitement, and naturally we assumed his Blackhawks had notched the a game winning goal. Instead, it was a bad angle shot by Nicewander that somehow managed to find the back of the net.
Holding 
, the man who proudly wore his #19 Jonathan Toews jersey to play in this event, got his last 4,000 or so chips into the middle. After a couple of preflop callers were scared off when Nicewander's opponent bet the 
flop, he turned over his pocket rockets and hoped to be in front of a drawing hand.
His opponent rolled over 
for top set, however, and when a third player at the table said he folded an ace, Nicewander was left hoping for a Miracle on Ice.
Turn:
Just like in hockey, a single shot from way out managed to decide things, and when the dropped on the river, Nicewander had secured the unlikely double. And of course, just moments later Nicewander celebrated a second time, when his Blackhawks went up 1-0 in the NHL Finals on a 3OT goal. Like they say, nothing beats run good.
Level 8
: 300/600, 0 ante
The players have been granted the luxury of an unscheduled 20-minute break, and when we find out the reason for this reprieve we will be sure to let you know.
Level: 8
Blinds: 300/600
Ante:
Level 7
: 200/400, 0 ante
While nearly all of the 200+ plus left in contention for this WSOP bracelet are focused entirely on the vexing game of Pot-Limit Omaha, at least one can't keep his eyes on the table.
Dan Nicewander came to today's Day 1 dressed to impress, with a bright green special edition Chicago Blackhawks jersey declaring his hockey allegiances with the NHL Finals beginning tonight, featuring those Blackhawks and the Boston Bruins.
As the game has progressed, Nicewander's gaze has become transfixed on the television screen just twenty feet away, which is conveniently showing the national broadcast of his beloved Blackhawks as they play the Bruins in a heated, sudeen-death double overtime contest.
In a game where even the blink of an eye can cause fans to miss milestone moments, there is no doubt Nicewander wants to see his team score the deciding goal, but with only 2,200 or so chips remaining in his stack, sudden death may come faster than he hoped.