Edengren, Juvancic and Seidensticker Survive Into Day 4 of $1,500 Omaha 8 Mix
The 2024 World Series of Poker at Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas saw Event #43: Mixed Omaha Hi-Lo 8-or-Better tournament attract 853 entrants, creating a prize pool of $1,138,755. The final 128 were guaranteed a minimum of $3,021. This tournament drew big names from far and wide in the poker world, each looking for this prestigious title. At the beginning of the day, 22 players came back to play down to a winner.
As time was called on Day 3, three players survived, forcing an unschedule Day 4. They will return tomorrow to play down to a winner, with each one of them hunting their first WSOP bracelet.
Leading them is Magnus Edengren, who ended the day as the chip leader with 10,050,000. Edengren has been a force on the mixed Omaha Hi-Lo circuit for many years as his first WSOP cash dates back to 2008. Spending most of the day as one of the bigger stacks in the tournament, he ended the day as the chip leader after taking out multiple people and quartering Tim Seidensticker in a pot towards the end of the night. With the chip lead, he now looks to be the first winner from Sweden.
Day 4 Seat Draw
| Seat | Player | Country | Chip Count |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Magnus Edengren | Sweden | 10,500,000 |
| 2 | |||
| 3 | Tim Seidensticker | United States | 5,010,000 |
| 4 | |||
| 5 | |||
| 6 | James Juvancic | United States | 6,275,000 |
James Juvancic ended the day second in chips with 6,275,000. Juvancic actually spent most of the day at the final table as the chip leader before relinquishing his lead in the later hours of the night. The Westchester, Illinois, resident has a couple of WSOP Circuit rings to his name and will be looking to add another piece of WSOP jewelry. This is his first WSOP final table in nine years and he looks like he's making it a good one.
Finally, there is Seidensticker, who ended the day as the shortest stack with 5,010,000. The Omaha specialist who hails from Miami, Florida, will be looking to add his first WSOP bracelet to his already big resume. He spent most of the day as the extreme short stack, but time and time again, he found ways to double up and survive, securing himself a podium finish. Now, he is looking to bring a bracelet home for Florida to add to the 2024 WSOP winners from the Sunshine State.
Day 2 Action
The players began to drop throughout the day as many of the game's most decorated characters were eliminated from the tournament. Omaha Hi-Lo specialist Kate Hoang (22nd-$7,543) was first to go after being unable to spin up her short stack. Bracelet winners Michael Rodrigues (21st - $7,543), Filippos Stavrakis (18th - $7,543), and Derek Raymond (17th - $7,543) were all eliminated before the field reached two tables.
Shaun Deeb (16th - $7,543) was the first casualty of the final two tables. He was followed out the door by quite a few including Nathan Gamble (14th - $9,234), Aleksey Filatov (11th - $11,526), and Ben Landowski (10th - $11,526). The final player to be eliminated from the tournament prior to the combining of the two tables was Edward Jackson Spivack. He ended up getting his top pair in on a queen-high flop in Omaha Hi-Lo against James Juvancic’s flush draw for his last couple of bets. The turn was a blank, but the river brought the flush draw home to eliminate Jackson Spivack in ninth place, where he collected $14,664 for his efforts.
Final Table Action
The final table was an electric affair as crowds gathered from all around the Horseshoe to follow the action of this final table, an event that was streamed on PokerGO for the general public to see.
It took only a few minutes into the stream to see the first casualty of the final eight as short-stacked Stephen Hubbard was eliminated from the tournament in eighth place. He got his final chips in Omaha Hi-Lo with ace-eight-seven-two against Juvancic’s ace-king-three-two. Juvancic paired his three on the flop, and no running cards for a low or high came for Hubbard, leaving Juvancic to pad his chip lead, and Hubbard collected $19,009 for his efforts.
Ying Chu came into the final table as the shortest stack, but through some timely maneuvering, he did ladder and survived his first pay jump. Surviving seven-handed play was another battle altogether. His remaining chips were lost in Big O as he got into an all-in confrontation with Magnus Edengren holding ace-queen-jack-six-two against Edengren’s king-king-four-three-two. The ace on the flop seemed to push the advantage over to Chu, but the runout brought a flush to Edengren, who scooped the pot while Chu collected a career-best cash of $25,100.
After that, it was Utah player Dylan Lambe who was next on the chopping block, collecting $33,748 for his finish. For much of the final two tables, Lambe was the chip leader. A couple of confrontations with some of his tablemates saw his stack dwindle down to one of the shortest. In Big O, he defended his big blind with five-four-three-two-two against Seidensticker, who held ace-jack-ten-eight-seven. The flop contained a ten and a five and both players got in their remaining chips. Lambe found no improvement, leaving him to exit in sixth place.
The next of the all-in confrontations saw the first final table elimination in limit Omaha Hi-Lo. Joshua Adcock opened in the cutoff and in the big blind, Magnus Edengren three-bet to put Adcock all in for his last chips, and Adcock called. Edengren held ace-ace-king-eight against Adcock’s ace-seven-five-two. The king-high board did no favors for Adcock and the ace on the turn locked it up for Edengren, leaving the WSOP circuit ring winner to exit the tournament in fifth place for $46,187.
The 17-time WSOP bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth began four-handed play as the shortest of all the remaining stacks. A crowd of people surrounded the WSOP legend as they wanted to see one of the most famous poker players ever take down his 18th bracelet. Despite this deep run and his first WSOP final table of the summer, he was unable to win this tournament. He put in his last chips in Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo with ace-nine-two-two against Edengren’s ace-ace-king-ten. The flop provided Hellmuth a flush draw, while the turn added some low outs to chop. The river came out as another board-pairing card, however, and Hellmuth shook each of his opponents' hands. The Poker Hall of Famer exited the tournament while all of the rail gave him a round of applause. Hellmuth collected $64,324 for his fourth-place finish.
The three remaining players will come back on June 19 at 4 p.m. local time. The blinds in the limit game will be 100,000/200,000, with betting limits of 200,000/400,000. For the pot-limit games, the blinds will be 50,000/100,000. Players will continue to play 60-minute levels until the conclusion of the tournament.
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