2011 World Series Of Poker Event 3

The third event in the 2011 WSOP is the first Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or better tournament. This tournament will kick off on June 1st, and it will be the first non-specialized tournament of the game. This multi-faceted tournament will require fairly low buy in, run on a short term, and probably bring in a many professional and amateur players alike. This event was event 4 last year, and saw 818 players enter the event. A total prize pool of $1,104,300 was collected, giving a top prize of $237,463 for their efforts. A total of 81 players were paid in the event, giving roughly 1/10th of all entrants a cut of the prize. This is probably one of the most exciting events in the beginning of the tournament series.

Lat year, Michael Chow earned $237,463 for winning this mixed game event. Dan Heimiller won second place, bringing in $146,684 for his effort. The event lasted three days, collecting a fairly significant amount of media attention. There is no posted limit as to how many people may join in on this event. Players will at least double up if they win. It is not likely that USA poker rooms will be hosting satellites to this particular event, so you will be buying into it on your own if you want to participate.

Tournament Updates
(New Updates Posted Daily During Event)

Day 1 Update - The third event of the day has brought players into the first open, inexpensive event of the 2011 World Series of Poker. The event, an Omaha hi-low split-8 or better event, brought out 925 players, which is seven more than the same event in 2009 and 107 more than last year. Many big names were involved, and many big names had been kicked out of the tournament. Tom Dwan, Phil Hellmuth and Michael Mizrachi have all been sent packing. Daniel Negreanu, Jeff Madsen, and Eugene Katchalov were also casualties early on in the event. A total of 210 players remain, but only 84 were listed on the structure list of the World Series of Poker.

Some big names are still in the running, even if barely. Eli Elezra is running out of chips, as is Barry Shulman. Jeff Lisandro is still out there, as is David Sklansky. Vladimir Shchemelev is still running for the bracelet, as is Men Nguyen, Sorel Mizzi, T.J. Cloutier, Erik Seidel and Barry Greenstein are all still in the game. The chip leader is Guillaume Rivet, who controls 71,200 of the chips remaining in the event. The prize pool is up to $1,248,750, and a total of $262,283 will go to the winner of this tournament.

Day 2 Update - At the end of the second day of the third event, an Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better tournament requiring a buy-in of $1,500, a few big names had maintained a chip stack going into the third day. Vladimir Shchemelev remained alive to confuse players with his aitches, as did Jimmy Frick, Humberto Brenes, and Scott Clements. The lack of big names remaining in the event stems from the large number of eliminations in the second day. Jeff Shulman, Andy Seth, John D'Agostino, Josh Arieh, James Bord, Barry Greenstein, James Dempsey, Erik Seidel, Men Nguyen and Allen Cunningham had all been sent away from the tables.

Vladimir Shchemelev seems to be the favorite going into the next day. He is partially responsible for the fall of Eric Cloutier, David Sindelar, Ralph Arpaio. Shchemelev entered the day with 110,000 chips, so he did manage to more than double up throughout the day.

One of the more exciting events of the day was in a hand between "Hollywood" Dave Stann and Men "The Master" Nguyen. In this hand, the whole pot was being given to Dave when he stopped the dealer and called over a floor manager. Both players realized that the pot was supposed to be chopped. Dave chopped the pot and gave half to Men. After the hand, Men made a reference to calling Dave a cheat for attempting to take the whole pot, even though Dave seemed to be giving Men his half. The controversy truly began when Dave began to stare down Men without even looking at his hand. The floor manager came down to the table, the two began to verbally berate one another. Penalties were threatened, the two calmed down, and play resumed as normal.

Day 3 Update - The first open, inexpensive event of the 2011 WSOP has come to an end. The Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better tournament that had attracted 925 entries has finalized, and only one player would go home with a bracelet. Francesco Barbaro had won his bracelet, as well as $262,283, besting his adversaries throughout three days of play. He survived through quite a few big names in poker, and his efforts have been well worth it. Many professional players had come to this event, though few of them survived to the final day.

Amongst the competition in the later stages of this event was such professional players as Jeff Shulman, Barry Greenstein, Eric Cloutier, Erik Seidel, Men Nguyen, and Vladimir Shchemelev. Shchemelev managed to make the final table, taking 8th place for his participation. Vlad brought home $25,174 from his $1,500 buy-in. Men "The Master" Nguyen won 27th place, While Erik Seidel and Eric Cloutier took 32nd and 33rd place respectively. Barry Greenstein was put out at 36th place, earning a modest sum of $6,868 for his efforts.

Francesco Barbaro ended up in heads up play against Kostas Kalathakis. Barbaro managed to enter the final day as the chip leader, and he would hold this lead until the end. The last hands of the day came with Barbaro holding 4,1000,000 chips to Kalathakis's 150,000 chips. Kalakathkis was put all in on their second hand of heads up play, and Kalakathkis showed Ac-Qd-10s-6d. Barbaro held 9c-5d-5h-4d, leaving him in a dominant position. The board came down 7c-6s-4s-7s-Qc, giving Kalakathkis a few more chips. Kalakathkis was then put all in once again, still before the flop, and he showed Jh-9d-8s-7h. Barbaro held Qh-Qd-3s-3c. The board dropped 9c-10s-Ks-5c-Kc, leaving Barbaro with the best two pair and the win.

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