Event #13: $2,500 Omaha Hi-Low/Seven-Card Stud Hi-Low
Day 3 Completed
2015 World Series of Poker
Event #13: $2,500 Omaha Hi-Low/Seven-Card Stud Hi-Low
Day: 3
Konstantin Maslak has now reached the pinnacle of two games.
In 2008, the avid chess player from Russia rose to the rank of Grandmaster. On Saturday, Maslak took down Event #13: $2,500 Omaha/Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo. He took a first-place prize of $269,612.
The split-pot combo tournament drew 474 runners for a prize pool of $1,078,350. Just three of those advanced to the unscheduled Day 4, with Maslak in third holding just six big bets. Maslak was able to turn things around quickly with betting limits so high relative to stacks, and he busted both Benjamin Dobson (third) and Hani Awad (second) en route to his win.
The cash was Maslak's third of the series already, as he also took 103rd in Event #3: $1,500 Omaha Hi-Lo for $2,354 and 884th in Event #5: The Colossus $565 No-Limit Hold'em for $3,635.
Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Hometown | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Konstantin Maslak | Volgograd, Russia | $269,612 |
| 2 | Hani Awad | Las Vegas, NV | $166,583 |
| 3 | Benjamin Dobson | Poole, Dorset UK | $105,893 |
| 4 | Viacheslav Zhukov | Stary Oskol, Russia | $76,357 |
| 5 | Tuan Vo | Pleasantville, NJ | $55,923 |
| 6 | Brandon Paster | Arlington, VA | $41,581 |
| 7 | Chris Birchby | Bonsall, CA | $31,379 |
| 8 | Jose Paz-Gutierrez | Santa Cruz, Bolivia | $24,036 |
| 9 | Glenn Engelbert | Sicklerville, NJ | $18,677 |
Forty players came back for Day 3 of Event #13: $2,500 Omaha/Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo. The event was scheduled to play down to a victor, but it didn't quite happen as three players remain. Hani Awad leads the way with 3.3 million in chips, while Benjamin Dobson (1.645 million) and Konstantin Maslak (975,000) also remain in the hunt.
Viacheslav Zhukov made the final table in pursuit of his third bracelet but busted out in fourth when Maslak and Dobson chopped a Stud Hi-Lo pot to take the last of his chips.
Scotty Nguyen (39th), John Racener (37th), James Obst (34th), Brian Rast (33rd), Vladimir Shchemelev (24th), Aditya Prasetyo (21st), Eric Wasserson (19th), Barry Shulman (17th), and Eric Buchman (10th) hit the rail over the course of Day 3 play.
The remaining runners will battle it out on Saturday as Level 31 begins with limits of 80,000/160,000. With stacks relatively short, expect a winner to be crowned in relatively short order.
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Event #13: $2,500 Omaha Hi-Low/Seven-Card Stud Hi-Low
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