Poker: Wsop Event 46

Event #46 - the $2 500 buy-in Omaha Hi/Lo Split 8 or Better, was entered by 425 players, building a prize pool of $977 500. By Day 3 the field was down to started 23 players including 'names' like Mark Tenner, two-time Omaha hi/lo bracelet winner Frankie O’Dell, Mike Matusow, Pat Poels, David Rabbi, CK Hua, Mark Gregorich and John Monnette.

The winner was 24-year-old Georgetown University finance and business management grad Derek Raymond from Portland, Maine, who boosted his career earnings to $244 725 in 7 live tournament cashes, and collected his first WSOP bracelet by disciplined and controlled poker throughout a 3 day contest and a gruelling 14 hour final day.

Starting around the middle of the field on the final day, Raymond survived through to a final table that looked like this:

Seat 1: Mark Gregorich - 90 000
Seat 2: Josh Schlein - 740 000
Seat 3: Scott Bohlman - 120 000
Seat 4: Mark Tenner - 585 000
Seat 5: Michael Keiner - 400 000
Seat 6: Pat Poels - 90 000
Seat 7: Derek Raymond - 415 000
Seat 8: Sirous Jamshidi - 260 000
Seat 9: Fabio Coppola - 407 000

It all came down to a three hour endurance test of a heads up between Raymond and Mark Tenner, a slightly more experienced player from Northridge, California, with the latter looking strong but eventually overtaken in a series of hands where Raymond fully exploited some good cards and eventually sent his opponent to the exit. In addition to his first bracelet, Raymond collected a check for $229 192. Tenner received $141 647 for his second placing.

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