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WSOP $5000 Omaha 6-handed. One sick SoB:

satriales wrote:I'm in the rake the rake $10k freeroll on Sunday so should be around for a cash game too.

I'd spied that too, do you wanna take some action again?

EDIT - Scratch that, I'm not eligible for a ticket - didn't realise. :fp:

Just dealt 3 handed at a $10 Rebuy on Stars for $4432 ish.

When you going pro?

(Can I come?)

Ecno wrote:Just dealt 3 handed at a $10 Rebuy on Stars for $4432 ish.

Yeah I was just about to tell Luw how you had gotten back to breakeven on Stars then I saw this. :lol:

Well done man, you are awesome.

Congratulations to Jason Mercier, Event #35 Champion ($619,575)!

The World Series of Poker heard the voice of the players and included a six-handed PLO event on this year’s schedule. Event #35 $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha/Six Handed was the first of its kind and appealed to an assorted mix of amateurs, professionals, and seasoned online players. When registration closed two days ago, 507 players had entered to create a prize pool of $2,382,900, with $619,575 of that reserved for first. It took three grueling days of intense play, but eventually it was Jason Mercier who defeated a stacked field to claim the prize and his second PLO WSOP gold bracelet.

Day 3 got off to a bang when the field of 15 that started the day was whittled down to just eight within the first two hours of play. The man making the most noise during that time seemed to be Mercier, who scored a double knockout to vault among the top stacks. In that hand, David "Devilfish" Ulliott raised to 25,000 from the button and Peter Jetten re-raised to 110,000 from the small blind. Mercier called from the big blind, while Ulliott called behind. The flop came down and Jetten open-shoved all in, Mercier instantly went all in, and Devilfish called off his stack.

Mercier:
Jetten:
Ulliott:

Ulliott was ahead with a set of jacks, but Mercier had both straight and flush draws and Jetten's aces weren't looking too good. The turn came to give Mercier the straight, leaving Devilfish looking to pair the board; however, the river was the and both Jetten and Devilfish hit the rail. Of course the ever-vocal Devilfish didn’t leave before calling Mercier "the luckiest f**king mother f**ker alive".

Early Eliminations
Place Player Prize
15 Shawn Bennani $23,519
14 Peter Jetten $23,519
13 David “Devilfish” Ulliott $23,519
12 Daniel Fuhs $30,024
11 Chris Moorman $30,024
10 Jared Bleznick $39,413
9 Robert Fellner $53,210
8 David Callaghan $39,413
7 Greg Brooks $53,210

Brooks’ elimination meant the official final table had been reached. It was there that WSOP rookie Michael "Timex" McDonald got his short-stack all in against four-time bracelet winner David Chiu.

Chiu:
McDonald:

Unfortunately the board ran out and Timex was eliminated in sixth place for $73,965. The next elimination came some time later and in excruciating fashion. It began when Joe Ressler raised to 80,000 from under the gun and the action folded to Steven Merrifield in the small blind. He called as did Mercier in the big blind to see the flop fall . Merrifield and Mercier checked to Ressler who bet 150,000, only to see Merrifield check-raise to 425,000. Mercier folded, Ressler snap-shoved and Merrifield insta-called.

Ressler:
Merrifield:

It was set-over-set as the dealer burned and turned the . Ressler was one card away from a double, but much to the shock of his supporters, the spiked on the river. Merrifield had hit a one outer to send Ressler home in fifth place ($105,967).

The next to go was Chiu, who grew extremely short stacked and couldn’t outflop Mercier. The four-time bracelet winner hit the rail in fourth place, worth $156,628. Three-handed play began with the chips essentially spread equally between the players. Merrifield held a small lead, but short-handed play did not go his way. He was chipped down considerably and eventually eliminated at the hands of Hans Winzeler. That left Mercier (3.49 million) to do heads-up battle against Winzeler (4.125 million). The heads-up match saw the chip lead change hands a couple of times, lasting almost two hours. In the end, Mercier hit a straight on the river to claim the title, his second in the PLO variation, with his previous victory coming back in the 2009 Event #5 $1,500 PLO after he cleared a field of 809 players to claim the $237,462 first-place prize. That means he has now won two PLO bracelets for a combined $857,037.

Final Table Results
Place Player Prize
1 Jason Mercier $619,575
2 Hans Winzeler $383,075
3 Steven Merrifield $239,100
4 David Chiu $156,628
5 Joe Ressler $105,967
6 Michael McDonald $73,965

He is so sick.

They've started a Omaha game in our league, and somewhat amazingly it creates even MORE illussions of grandeur then NLH. Most of the people there thought they were BETTER at Omaha.....jesus....

Last week I was fifth out of 14, but never had a hand better then a flush, so I actually thought that was quite good.

Is Stars busted for anyone else? When I open it I get the following message:

I can't seem to download the new version.

It's working now. Download the client from PS and install it then run the program and it should work.

Yeah I managed to get it fixed in the end. Waste of time though as I busted the $4.50 and the 2-7 single draw MTTs pretty quickly.

I had that error earlier on, but instead of redownloading Pokerstars, I just set my clock back a day and Stars updated itself, then I put the clock back again and it's been working fine.

My HU SNGs are still going badly. Clearly even without the runbad I've not been playing great, but I've been studying my game a bit and think I've found a couple of leaks I can fix, so from now on the graph will start going up :shifty:

Edit: Just played one of the worst players I've ever seen, but he still beat me.

He would literally never fold after the flop had been dealt. I was hitting nothing so tried a few bluffs on boards he obviously hadn't hit but he just called all the way down with queen high.

So I knew just wait for a good hand or to hit a flop and then it will be easy to get his money, but I hit nothing. A few times I had middle pair but he would just randomly over shove the river and there's no way I could call. Eventually I get dealt KK and put 2/3rd my stack in pre, he calls. Flop is 345 and I get the rest in, he has A2. :fp:

I was down to the final 100 from 4000 entrants in a $5 turbo MTT and then this happens:

The next hand I shove with A8s and same guy calls with JT and hits the jack to knock me out. I don't how he can call for all his chips with 95 though.

O_o

I just registered late to this PLO tournament. 4 hands in and this happens:

Then the very next hand...

Then, unbelievably, the very next hand:

Edit: Maybe he was right :shock:

Final hand:

Also deep in the $1 ( :lol:

) PLO tournament.

Great stuff

Well played.....

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