2012 World Series of Poker

Event 8: $1,500 Omaha Hi-Low Split 8-or-Better
Day: 3
Event Info

2012 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
q1074
Prize
$264,400
Event Info
Buy-in
$1,500
Entries
967
Level Info
Level
31
Blinds
50,000 / 100,000
Ante
0

Level: 22

Blinds: 6,000/12,000

Ante: 0

News in Brief

  • Herbert Trapscott has gotten his stack going in the right direction after he made the nut flush with {a-Hearts}{10-Hearts}{8-Clubs}{a-Spades}. The final board {q-Diamonds}{2-Spades}{9-Hearts}{j-Hearts}{4-Hearts} and Trapscott three-bet from the big blind pre flop and bet every street.
  • Brian Lives Scooped a nice pot off Ashly Butler. He called an under the gun raise whilst in the big blind and then led on the flop and turn of a {j-Diamonds}{4-Hearts}{4-Hearts}{2-Clubs}{q-Diamonds} board. He opened {a-Clubs}{a-Hearts}{2-Diamonds}{4-Spades}, beating his opponent's {a-}{2-}{k-}{k-}. We'd also like to say hi to Lives' wife Amy who's following the coverage.
Player Chips Progress
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Ashly Butler
325,000
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Brian Lives
320,000
Profile photo of Herbert Tapscott us
Herbert Tapscott
226,000
WSOP 1X Winner

Bari Hurting Bad

Allen Bari
Allen Bari

Allen Bari is finding the cards, hitting the boards but not holding up against his opponents so far. He just lost two big pots knocking him all the way down to 190,000 chips.

First Wes Self raised to 20,000, Can Kim Hua called from the cutoff and Bari called from the small blind. The flop came down {A-Hearts}{5-Clubs}{4-Spades} and Bari checked to Self who bet 10,000, Hua called and Bari followed his lead. The turn was the {3-Diamonds} and Bari lead out for 20,000. Both Self and Hua made the call. The river was the {5-Hearts} and Bari bet another 20,000 and both his opponents made the call. "Wheel and three-six," Bari announced right away stating he had made the nut low and a six high straight.

Bari tabled his {2-Diamonds}{3-Hearts}{6-Hearts}{8-Diamonds} and was disgusted to see that Can Kim Hua had {A-Diamonds}{4-Clubs}{5-Spades}{6-Clubs} rivering a full house to beat Bari's straight but he also had the nut low. Self showed {A-Spades}{2-Hearts}{8-Spades}{7-Clubs} for the same low as the two other players making sure the dealer had his work cut out for him. Hua got half the pot for the high and all three players got their portion of the low pot.

Just a few hands later Bari raised to 20,000 from the cutoff and Tyler Schwecke called from the button. Gavin Griffin called from the big blind giving us three-way action. The flop was {K-Clubs}{8-Hearts}{3-Clubs} and Griffin was the only player to fold to Bari's bet. The turn was the {A-Diamonds} and Bari bet another 20,000, Schwecke called. The river was the {9-Hearts} and Bari put out 20,000 right away. Schwecke hesitated and then put in a raise to 40,000. Bari snapped him off but had to muck when Schwecke showed {K-Spades}{K-Hearts}{J-Clubs}{10-Clubs} for a set of kings.

Bari started the day second in chips but he's in serious trouble right now after losing a couple of very important hands.

Player Chips Progress
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Tyler Schwecke
430,000
-22,000
-22,000
Profile photo of Wes Self us
Wes Self
390,000
121,000
121,000
Profile photo of Allen Bari us
Allen Bari
190,000
-105,000
-105,000
WSOP 1X Winner
Profile photo of Can Kim Hua us
Can Kim Hua
90,000
-113,000
-113,000

Tags: Allen BariCan Kim Hua

Daniel Weinman Eliminated in 19th Place ($7,989)

Daniel Weinman
Daniel Weinman

Daniel Weinman lost a three-way pot to drop to 40,000 chips, and busted soon after that. He was up against Thayer Rasmussen and Herbert Tapscott, and was the aggressor pre flop before he went into check-call mode on the {q-Spades}{8-Clubs}{7-Hearts}{4-Hearts}{a-Spades}.

Tapscott called Rasmussen's bet but ducked out on the river to continue his awful start to the day. Rasmussen opened {a-Diamonds}{3-Diamonds}{8-Hearts}{7-Spades} and scooped as Weinman mucked.

Momemts later Weinman got the last of his chips in on a {j-}{5-}{5-} flop versus Bryan Jolly. The board ran out {a-}{a-} and Weinman's {a-}{k-}{k-}{6-} was no match for his opponent's {a-}{j-}{7-}{9-}.

Player Chips Progress
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Bryan Jolly
360,000
115,000
115,000
Profile photo of Thayer Rasmussen us
Thayer Rasmussen
260,000
88,000
88,000
Profile photo of Herbert Tapscott us
Herbert Tapscott
110,000
-18,000
-18,000
WSOP 1X Winner
Profile photo of Daniel Weinman us
Daniel Weinman
Busted
WSOP Main Event Champion
Team Lucky
WSOP 2X Winner

Tags: Bryan JollyDaniel WeinmanHerbert TapscottThayer Rasmussen

Wellington Draper Eliminated in 20th Place $7,989

Wellington Draper
Wellington Draper

Wellington Draper was all in for his tournament life for the fourth time, but this time he couldn't find a way to chop or scoop the pot. Draper raised to 20,000 from the cutoff after which Spanne three-bet from the button to 30,000. Mascio was in the big blind and he made it 40,000. Draper called all in for less and Spanne called as well with little chips behind.

The flop came down {2-Clubs}{Q-Hearts}{8-Spades} and Mascio got all his chips into the pot as well. Spanne had him covered by just a few chips and we had two all-in players.

Wellington Draper{A-Spades}{10-Clubs}{4-Clubs}{5-Clubs}
Joey Spanne{K-Clubs}{9-Hearts}{A-Hearts}{3-Clubs}
Greg Mascio{A-Diamonds}{2-Spades}{7-Diamonds}{8-Diamonds}

The turn was the {9-Clubs} and the river the {5-Hearts} giving Spanne the nut low and Mascio took down the high with two pair, eights and deuces. Draper was left empty handed and he started making his way over to the payout desk. For his 20th place finish Draper will collect $7,989.

Player Chips Progress
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Joey Spanne
83,000
8,000
8,000
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Greg Mascio
70,000
-72,000
-72,000
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Wellington Draper
Busted

Tags: Greg MascioJoey SpanneWellington Draper

Bad Start for Bari

Allen Bari and Ashly Butler's chip stacks have almost swapped places. There must've been a bigger pot between the two that we missed but we did catch the following:

Bari raised from early position and Butler called to see a {k-Diamonds}{9-Diamonds}{k-Spades} flop appear. He check-called a 10,000 c-bet before both players checked down the {5-Spades}{5-Hearts} turn and river.

Butler opened up {k-Hearts}{j-Hearts}{10-Spades}{7-Clubs}. Bari angrily mucked.

"You have the nut down draw?" asked Butler.

"And aces!" replied Bari.

Player Chips Progress
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Allen Bari
295,000
-122,000
-122,000
WSOP 1X Winner
Profile photo of Ashly Butler us
Ashly Butler
44,000
-211,000
-211,000

Tags: Allen BariAshly Butler

Lives Gets Tapscott to Fold

We caught the action on the flop with {2-Diamonds}{4-Diamonds}{6-Clubs} showing and the action got checked to Herbert Tapscott who was on the button. Tapscott threw out a 10,000 bet and after Bryan Jolly folded it was Lives who check-raised. Tapscott made the call and the turn was the {A-Hearts}. Lives fired out 20,000 and Tapscott called after quite some hesitation. The river was the {10-Diamonds} and Tapscott folded to a 20,000 bet knocking him down to around six big bets.

Player Chips Progress
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Brian Lives
345,000
83,000
83,000
Profile photo of Herbert Tapscott us
Herbert Tapscott
128,000
-54,000
-54,000
WSOP 1X Winner

Tags: Brian LivesHerbert Tapscott

Level: 21

Blinds: 5,000/10,000

Ante: 0

Event 8: $1,500 Omaha Hi-Low Split 8-or-Better. Twenty to a Winner

Dutch Boyd chasing his third bracelet
Dutch Boyd chasing his third bracelet

Ten levels of play yesterday wasn't enough to shrink our field to a final table. We only managed to get down to the final 20 players. A lot of yesterday belonged to the emergence of Allen Bari who dominated the many tables he was at at. Tyler Schwecke pipped him to post and and comes back today as chips leader with 452,000 chips.

Bracelet holders Dutch Boyd and Gavin Griffin are still in the hunt along with former November Niner John Racener. We're based in the blue section of the Amazon room until we reach our final table of nine. From there we'll move onto the stage in the Pavillion room and set up on the secondary feature table where we'll play to a winner.

Play will get under way at 1pm. Here's how they line up today:

SeatNameChip Count
1Gavin Griffin346,000
2Ryan Turner257,000
3John Racener264,000
4Empty-
5Empty-
6Can Kim Hua203,000
7Empty-
8Raymond Davis105,000
9David Self269,000
   
1Daniel Ratigan106,000
2Empty-
3Michael Kleist290,000
4Wellington Draper91,000
5Spanne Joey75,000
6Empty-
7Ashly Butler255,000
8Greg Mascio142,000
9Allen Bari417,000
   
1Tyler Schwecke452,000
2Herbert Trapscott182,000
3Dutch Boyd149,000
4Bryan Jolly245,000
5Daniel Weinman74,000
6Brian Lives262,000
7Empty-
8Thayer Rasmussen172,000
9Empty-