[Removed:499] limped in as first to act, after which Ryan Hughes made it 18,000 to go in the cutoff. The action folded back to Slobodskoy, who called.
The flop fell 5♦4♦3♠, on which Hughes continued for 30,000 chips. Slobodskoy check-folded after some thinking time as Hughes won the first pot of the day,
In the 847th episode of the PokerNews Podcast, Chad Holloway, Mike Holtz, and Connor Richards come to you from Level 9 Studio to preview the 2024 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event final table. Who is at the final table of nine? How did they get there? And who do they think will win? Find out here.
Plus, hear how Kristen Foxen fell just short of becoming only the second woman in WSOP history to make the Main Event final table, including her much-discussed final hand. Speaking of big hands, Adrian Mateos suffered back-to-back big hands before bowing out on Day 5. Sometimes poker can be cruel, and his fate is evidence of that.
On a positive note, Patrik Antonius became the 2024 inductee into the Poker Hall of Fame. The online and cash game legend became just the fifth European to be inducted, and he was on-site at the WSOP to accept the honor. See pictures and a video of the Finnish pro accepting his Poker Hall of Fame trophy.
Finally, hear about recent WSOP gold bracelet winners including Jared Bleznick, Gary Bolden, Joseph Sanders, and Calvin Anderson; Jeremy Ausmus tying Phil Hellmuth's WSOP final table record; and other winners from Venetian and Wynn. Oh, and learn about recent WSOP Online bracelet winners such as Mike Watson, David Prociak, and Mo Nuwwarah.
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The final pot-limit Omaha tournament of the 2024 World Series of Poker, Event #97: $3,000 6-Handed Pot-Limit Omaha, saw 844 entries being made on Day 1, creating a prize pool of $2,253,480. Today, at 1 p.m. local time, 134 of them will return to the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas for the second day of the tournament.
With 127 paid spots, the event will recommence on the soft bubble. One of the players who might be looking forward to exerting some pressure on the bubble is six-time bracelet winner Shaun Deeb. Deeb turned his starting stack of 40,000 to a pile of 761,000 chips on Day 1, good for fourth place on the leaderboard and 190 big blinds when play resumes.
Leading the pack, however, is Scott Ball with 1,015,000 chips, being the only player to bring a seven-figure stack to Day 2. Ball already has two no-limit hold'em bracelets and is looking for his first final table in a WSOP pot-limit Omaha event.
Scott Ball
Also in the super-stacked top ten are 25K Fantasy picks Alex Livingston and Jesse Lonis, who will start Day 2 with 756,000 and 732,000 chips respectively, and Dutch Omaha expert Ronald Keijzer (677,000), who won this event in 2018 to capture his first bracelet.
Start of Day 2 Top Ten Chip Counts
Rank
Player
Country
Chips
Big Blinds
1
Scott Ball
United States
1,015,000
254
2
Stanislav Barshak
United States
779,000
195
3
Hokyiu Lee
Hong Kong
774,000
194
4
Shaun Deeb
United States
761,000
190
5
Alex Livingston
Canada
756,000
189
6
Jesse Lonis
United States
732,000
183
7
Ryan Hughes
United States
691,000
173
8
Ronald Keijzer
Netherlands
677,000
169
9
Elior Sion
United Kingdom
612,000
153
10
Mihail Andonov
Sweden
604,000
151
Other above-average stacks at the start of Day 2 include Chino Rheem (500,000), Renji Mao (485,000), Rob Hollink (482,000), Ian Matakis (405,000), and Alex Foxen (351,000). Player of the Year contender Jeremy Ausmus is also in contention and will be hunting for his record-breaking eighth final table of the series, starting with a stack of 158,000 chips.
Meanwhile, the likes of Dmitry Yurasov (89,000), Noah Boeken (72,000), Joseph Cheong (58,000), and Ray Fishman (51,000) ended up with less than 25 big blinds in their bags as they will try to avoid to become one of the seven players leaving the field without a return on their investment.
Once the field gets to the money, every player will be guaranteed a payday of $6,021. Everyone at the final table of six will see their bankroll padded with at least $45,892, while the eventual winner will walk away with a score of $390,621.
The tournament will resume at 1 p.m. local time in Level 13: 2,000/4,000 with a 4,000 big blind ante. The event is scheduled to play ten levels of 60 minutes each, with a 15-minute break after every two of them and a 60-minute dinner break after Level 16, around 7:30 p.m.
Stay tuned as PokerNews will provide live updates straight from the tournament floor throughout all ten levels, from the bubbling start of the day all the way until the late-night finish.
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