2014 World Series of Poker

Event #42: $5,000 Six-Handed Pot-Limit Omaha
Day: 1
Event Info

2014 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
8744
Prize
$541,747
Event Info
Buy-in
$5,000
Prize Pool
$2,124,400
Entries
452
Level Info
Level
29
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
0

Mizrachi Loses Some Ground But Still Has Heaps

Level 7 : 250/500, 0 ante

Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi has just lost a sizeable pot but still has 125,000 chips at his disposal so he is hardly down and out.

Mizrachi got into a raising war on the {A-Diamonds}{7-Hearts}{K-Hearts} flop that resulted in his opponent being all-in with {A-Clubs}{A-Spades}{J-Clubs}{8-Diamonds} for a set of aces and Mizrachi the {A-Hearts}{4-Hearts}{4-Diamonds}{3-Diamonds} for top pair and the nut flush draw. Mizrachi's flush outs were taken away — in fact all of his outs — when the {K-Spades} improved his opponent to a full house, and when the river bricked off Mizrachi handed over 20,700 of his colossal stack.

Player Chips Progress
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Michael Mizrachi
125,000
6,000
6,000
WSOP 5X Winner

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Obst Out

Level 7 : 250/500, 0 ante

On a flop of {J-Clubs}{5-Diamonds}{10-Spades} there was a bet of 3,300 before James Obst check-raised to 15,150 leaving himself roughly 2,100 behind. Cary Katz then check-shoved all in for roughly 34,000 as the flop better made the call.

Obst: {5-Clubs}{5-Hearts}{6-Hearts}{2-Clubs}
Katz: {Q-Clubs}{10-Hearts}{9-Diamonds}{8-Spades}
Opponent: {K-Spades}{Q-Hearts}{10-Diamonds}{9-Clubs}

The turn and river landed the {8-Hearts} and {K-Diamonds} to see Obst's set cracked as Katz and the other opponent chopped it up.

Player Chips Progress
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Cary Katz
43,500
8,100
8,100
$25K Fantasy
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James Obst
Busted
WSOP 2X Winner
Run It Once

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Kitai Flying High

Level 7 : 250/500, 0 ante

Davidi Kitai won his third World Series of Poker bracelet a couple of weeks ago and is now in the hunt for a fourth piece of poker jewellery here in the $5,000 buy-in pot limit Omaha event. Kitai is sat behind stacks of chips worth a combined 95,000 and is the man to catch as the first day's play enters level six.

Player Chips Progress
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Davidi Kitai
95,000
50,000
50,000
WSOP 3X Winner
Winamax
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Jeremy Ausmus
68,000
50,750
50,750
WSOP 6X Winner
Run It Once
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Marko Neumann
50,600
26,400
26,400
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Benjamin Pollak
37,000
23,600
23,600
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Greg Merson
33,000
-1,200
-1,200
WSOP Main Event Champion
WSOP 2X Winner
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Eoghan O'Dea
29,200
17,200
17,200
WSOP 1X Winner
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Brian Rast
29,000
3,400
3,400
WSOP 6X Winner
Poker Hall of Famer
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David "Bakes" Baker
29,000
-1,800
-1,800
WSOP 3X Winner
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Mike Watson
28,700
700
700
WSOP 1X Winner
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Yevgeniy Timoshenko
27,300
-17,700
-17,700
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Matt Giannetti
22,500
-100
-100
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Joe Ebanks
21,250
-2,750
-2,750
WSOP 1X Winner
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Sorel Mizzi
21,200
-20,800
-20,800
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Joe Tehan
15,700
-1,300
-1,300
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Philippe Boucher
13,100
4,000
4,000
WSOP 1X Winner
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Ronit Chamani
12,900
3,800
3,800
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Salman Behbehani
12,800
-1,700
-1,700
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Isaac Baron
12,800
WSOP 1X Winner
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Jonathan Little
12,400
-4,800
-4,800
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Jason Mercier
8,650
-22,350
-22,350
WSOP 6X Winner
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Jason Somerville
7,425
-7,575
-7,575
WSOP 1X Winner

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Chip Counts from the Silver Section

Level 7 : 250/500, 0 ante
Player Chips Progress
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Michael Mizrachi
102,000
4,375
4,375
WSOP 5X Winner
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Mike Gorodinsky
56,700
16,700
16,700
WSOP 4X Winner
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Andrey Zaichenko
55,500
3,500
3,500
WSOP 1X Winner
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Jared Bleznick
51,000
29,000
29,000
WSOP 1X Winner
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Martin Kozlov
47,000
21,000
21,000
WSOP 1X Winner
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Phil Galfond
46,000
-500
-500
WSOP 3X Winner
Run It Once
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Ashton Griffin
46,000
26,000
26,000
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Anthony Zinno
44,000
-7,500
-7,500
WSOP 4X Winner
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Kory Kilpatrick
43,000
-13,000
-13,000
WSOP 1X Winner
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Scotty Nguyen
42,000
3,000
3,000
WSOP Main Event Champion
WSOP 5X Winner
Poker Hall of Famer
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Andrey Pateychuk
42,000
25,300
25,300
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Tony Cousineau
41,000
1,500
1,500
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JC Tran
34,000
21,000
21,000
WSOP 2X Winner
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Seng Ung
33,000
13,000
13,000
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Robert Williamson
28,000
-9,000
-9,000
WSOP 1X Winner
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Christian Harder
22,000
8,000
8,000
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Hans Winzeler
22,000
-1,000
-1,000
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Humberto Brenes
22,000
9,000
9,000
WSOP 2X Winner
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Dave Ulliott
21,000
WSOP 1X Winner
Poker Hall of Famer
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Phil Laak
19,000
-5,800
-5,800
WSOP 1X Winner
Profile photo of Galen Hall us
Galen Hall
18,000
-5,400
-5,400
WSOP 1X Winner
Profile photo of Erik Seidel us
Erik Seidel
18,000
-3,000
-3,000
WSOP 10X Winner
Poker Hall of Famer
Profile photo of Tom Marchese us
Tom Marchese
17,000
3,000
3,000
WSOP 1X Winner
Profile photo of Florian Langmann de
Florian Langmann
16,000
-15,000
-15,000
WSOP 1X Winner
Profile photo of Trevor Pope us
Trevor Pope
16,000
3,000
3,000
WSOP 1X Winner

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Level: 7

Blinds: 250/500

Ante: 0

Dinner Break

Level 6 : 200/400, 0 ante

The remaining players are heading on a 90-minute dinner break.

See you back here at approximately 8:10 p.m. (PDT).

Mizrachi Mauls Schwartz; Ascends to Chip Lead

Level 6 : 200/400, 0 ante
Michael Mizrachi
Michael Mizrachi

10 minutes ago it didn't appear as though Michael Mizrachi was in this tournament.

Now he has nearly 100,000 in chips.

As our PokerNews reporter searched the room for hands and chip counts, he noticed that Noah Schwartz's seat was empty and Mizrachi was dragging a monster pot.

On the previous round of chip counts - when Mizrachi wasn't there - Schwartz was nestled behind a near-40,000 chip stack.

However in the span of just several minutes, Schwartz has been sent to the rail just shy of dinner break as Mizrachi sit atop the leaderboard with an impressive 97,625.

Player Chips Progress
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Michael Mizrachi
97,625
82,625
82,625
WSOP 5X Winner
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Noah Schwartz
Busted
WSOP 1X Winner

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Palarino Flops a Straight and Gets Paid

Level 6 : 200/400, 0 ante

The cutoff limped in for 400 and Jeffrey Palarino raised to 1,800 from the button. David "Bakes" Baker said, "I raise pot," and he made it 6,200 to play from his seat in the small blind. The big blind and initial limper folded, but Palarino called.

The {9-Clubs}{6-Diamonds}{8-Spades} flop was bet to the tune of 5,000 by Baker, Palarino moved all-in for a few thousand more and Baker called.

Baker: {A-Clubs}{K-Spades}{Q-Hearts}{J-Hearts}
Palarino: {J-Diamonds}{8-Clubs}{7-Diamonds}{5-Clubs}

Palarino had flopped a straight and Baker was left needing a ten in order to improve to a straight himself. The {3-Spades} turn was no help to Baker and neither was the {9-Spades} river, which sent the pot to Palarino.

Player Chips Progress
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David "Bakes" Baker
30,800
8,500
8,500
WSOP 3X Winner
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Jeffery Palarino
24,800
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Joe Ebanks
24,000
14,700
14,700
WSOP 1X Winner

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