russ wrote:Tomorrow, steve, is the $1500 Omaha Hi-Lo event. It's limit. Interestingly, after looking through the schedule of events, they don't have a pot-limit omaha 8 event.

Unortunately, I have to go to a conference tomorrow, so I won't be playing.

Ba-doom pish!

(My 400th post)

steve wrote:

russ wrote:Tomorrow, steve, is the $1500 Omaha Hi-Lo event. It's limit. Interestingly, after looking through the schedule of events, they don't have a pot-limit omaha 8 event.

Unortunately, I have to go to a conference tomorrow, so I won't be playing.

i can't remember where, but i think i either heard or read that when it comes to Omaha, you quote "love this fucking game". or was it "fucking love this game"? hrm. this must be a real hearthbreaker, having to miss out on the OHL like that.

Allen Cunningham, 28, wins the $1500 NLHE event, and takes home $725k!



Scott Fischman, 25, last year's champion of this event, takes second and $352k. Just don't go to his website.

Final hand: "Scott checks the bb. T 6 3 on the flop. Scott bets and Allen raises. Scott calls. The turn is the 4d. Scott checks to Allen, and Allen bets 250,000 followed by Scott moving all in. Now Allen is between a rock and a hard place. He answers with a call and a push of his chips. Scott has a pair of fours and open end straight draw. Allen has 36 for two pair. The river comes an A and Allen takes home the bacon."

David "Devilfish" Ulliot takes third, and predator woman, Liz Lieu takes 5th.

Well, so much for all the pros not making it into the money and into final tables.

Right now, Layne Flack is running over the final 5 players of the PLHE event. Update: Layne has lost the chip lead, but is still second in chips.

AND... Phill Hellmuth breaks yet another WSOP of record. He becomes the player to cash the most times, 48, in the history of the WSOP as he is in the money in the Limit Hold'em event which is down to less than 100 players.

While this isn't WSOP news, can I just comment about how strange poker can be? I started playing this evening around 9:00 and all night I'm losing money. I played all night with this guy directly to my left. He basically got all of my money any time I was in a hand. I semi-reloaded a couple of times, and I could only occasionally win a small pot. Problem was, I would have to check the nuts to him, he was so aggressive, and I knew he would bet, which was good, but then he was smart enough to know that if I check-raised him, he would shut down. So, I would just call and only win the min. It really blew. So, I'm about to finish for the night and my other table which I'm breaking even on breaks up, so I hunt for any juicy tables. There's one, and I jump on. In only 6 orbits, I win 3 or 4 hands, including one really huge, 24 big bets, hand and I make 40 big bets in that time, ending the night up 10 big bets. So weird. It seems that playing poker is just this total waiting game where you play these really meaningless pots for not much, only waiting and trying to keep your head above water, waiting for those really huge hands where you make all the money. And you never have the nuts in those hands it seems. No, you always have a lame two pair or you back into something nice. Well, I'm definitely not complaining after the fortunate U-turn tonight.

russ wrote:While this isn't WSOP news, can I just comment about how strange poker can be?

Okay, as long as we're sharing:

I had an eventful weekend on the internet poker. Saturday I made quite a bit playing 7-stud Hi/Low. On one hand alone I won 30 big bets. On one hand, worth 13 bets, I started with 4c 5c 6c -- a nearly perfect starting hand. Two hands with bad cards showing called. I then caught 7h, raised a bet and it was down to me and another guy who had unconnected, unsuited big cards showing. Probably drunk. Fifth street I caught Kc, and the guy was continuing to raise, so I continued to call. On my last two cards, I would have made a cinch low hand (straight 7, straight 8, 8-low or 7-low) or high hand (straight or flush) with any of 20 cards, and I had two shots at them. If I made a straight or a low flush I was sure to take the whole pot. I catch bad on 6th street, but with my draw I have to call his bet. On the river, guess what -- no pair, King-high, no flush and no low hand. I check. Then the guy folds! He folded to a check. I win about a billion bets from him by not making my hand. So crazy.

Tonight, same game, I lose about 40 big bets over the course of the evening, even though my opponents are playing terribly -- raising on the first round with bad cards showing then dropping out on 6th street when their obviously terrible hands don't improve. I continue to play like I'm supposed to, so I'm never in the pot when it can be won on the river by a pair of fours -- which I saw happen twice. I am bled dry by the ante and force bets.

So, my bankroll is not hurt overall, and I got to play poker for hours and hours and I enjoyed it. And I like 7-stud Hi/Low.

Thom Werthmann from Bloomfield Hills, MI beats Layne Flack and 1069 other players to win Event #3, the $1500 buy-in Pot-Limit Hold'em.

Today is Event #5, the $1500 buy-in Omaha Hi-Lo Split event. Last year's winner was Curtis Bibb ($160,000). There were 374 entries.

Event #4, the Limit Hold'em event, played down to 27 players last night.

This year is already being dubbed: "WSOP 2005 - Revenge of the Pros".

hi russ. i appreciate all of this info on the wsop. i find it fascinating to watch on espn. you seem to be really affiliated with the poker world. is it part of your job or just something you follow?

I follow it. Just like a lot of people here follow baseball. The reasons I keep posting about it are because I think that it doesn't get enough real-time coverage and the World Series of Poker is one of the biggest sporting events in the world.

that’s cool. i love it! keep it coming!

690 players in the $1500 buy-in Omaha Hi-Lo event! Phil Hellmuth is already out. The largest live Omaha 8 tourney ever.

They are down to 13 in the Limit Hold'em event. Annie Duke went out in 16th. Some guy named Wing Wong is among the chip leaders. Peter Costa is the only big name left.

Other tidbits:

The water and Red Bull are free to tourney players (you still have to tip your waitress).
There aren't enough bathrooms for all the people.
Daniel Negreanu "saved time" and just bought in for all of the events yesterday.
There are rumors that Gus Hansen isn't there because he owes $4 million in debts and doesn't want to pay. He was spotted playing online yesterday at PokerStars. Probably from the comfort of his home in Monte Carlo.
If Daniel N. busts out of the Omaha 8 tourney early, he's going to play Barry G. again tonight for another half-mil.

Tomorrow is the $2500 buy-in Short Handed (6 per table) NLHE event.