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Event 43 $1,500 PL Omaha Hi/Lo. Eric Seidel aims at 9th bracelet
Posted by: James Carter. - Fri, 2008-06-27 05:10
Day 1 of the $1,500 PL Omaha Hi/Lo event was an eliminations-frenzy. At one time there were around 100 players busting out per blinds level.
Day two began on the dame note although this time, the eliminations trickle didn’t burst the dam.
Joe Hachem began the day well, busting players out starting with the very first hand. Ed Smith, who came into Day 2 as chip leader, found his match about midway through the day. His A,A,2,4 ran into Jon Maren’s A,9,6,5. Maren flopped the nut flush, and Smith failed to make even a low to split the pot and stay alive.
All 68 players who started in Day 2 were well within the money, so Smith didn’t have to go to the rail empty-handed either.
Another notable hand was the one that set Eric Seidel on fire. He had been one of the short-stacks but this doubled him up and ignited a run which made him the provisional chip leader at one time. He ended up second on the chip count eventually. The hand I’m talking about is the one in which Eric moved all-in pre-flop on A,10,9,3 and got called by Joseph Haddad on A,7,10,2. The board gave Seidel a full house (3s full of 9s) and doubled him up.
Jim Geary was Seidel’s next victim, and just before the break, Martin Klaser who’d been sitting in the chip leader’s position for a while. Seidel went all-in and scooped the pot against him on A,K,3,2 when Klaser called him with A,Q,6,2.
The board of K,8,7,10,K gave Seidel a set for the high hand and no qualifying low. Klaser didn’t make a low either though. When dinner break arrived there was only one more person who needed to go in order for the final table to be set.
That person turned out to be Daniel Klein, who was busted out by Jonathan Maren. That move gave Maren the chip lead over Seidel, with 377,000 chips against Eric’s 340,000. Martin Klaser finished the day in third with 337,000, followed by Michael Fetter with 288,000. The short stacks are Larry Wright and Chad Burum, with 117,000 chips each.
