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2010 WSOP day 4 – events #3 and #4
Posted by: Mark Baldwing - Tue, 2010-06-01 14:54
Day 4 of the WSOP saw day 3 of the $1,000 NL Holdem event (Event#3) and day 2 of the $1,500 Omaha Hi/Lo 8 or better event (event #4) go down.
Day 3 of the $1,000 NL Holdem event was a true blood-bath for players. The field got decimated once again, and at the end of it all, only 41 players had their chips bagged to return to action again on day 4. Drew Crawford was the lucky player who finished the day with the biggest stack of chips. He accumulated no less than 800k chips to secure pole position for the following day.
The day saw thousands of hands logged, some pretty freakish bad beats among them.
Nancy Todd Tyner was on the receiving end of one such nasty beat. She picked up A,A and shoved all-in on it. Robert Scott found the lack of inspiration to call her with Q,9o. The board fell A,4,J, all diamond and Tyner looked like she was going to pocket the goods without any sort of problems. The Kd on the turn was the herald of misfortune for her though, and the 9d on the river filled up a flush on the board to chop the pot between the two players.
Event #4, the $1,500 Omaha Hi/Lo 8 or better tournament saw the previous day’s chip leader, Oleg Shamardin head to the rail tail between legs in 59th spot. The lime-light was overtaken by Sasha Rosewood who accumulated a stack of 400k chips to secure the lead. Jeff Madsen fared pretty well too. He finished up the day in 2nd spot with a stack of 148k chips to his name. David Bach completed the top 3 with 107k chips.
Huck Seed, one of the top “name” players involved in the poker tournament survived the day too, albeit on a short-ish stack of 57k chips.
This event saw its fair share of weird hands too. On one occasion, a player failed to show all 4 of his pocket cards to claim the pot as required by the rules, and thus almost ended up laying an egg on that hand.
Event #5, the $1,500
NL Holdem one attracted a starting field of about 2,000 players – a rather disappointing yield after the massive player exodus that Event #3 had produced. 223 players survived the first day of action, with Stephen Foutty leading the way.
