Wsop Event 50 : $5,000 buy-in Pot-Limit Omaha

6/29/10 – Event 50, the $5,000 buy-in Pot-Limit Omaha  attracted a field of 362 opponents in 2009, a field that was eclipsed this year with 460 entries, all geared up for a format of eight levels, with 20-minute breaks after the first two and before the last two and a 60-minute dinner break in the middle.
 
At stake is a prize pool of $2,162,000 which will see 45 player cashing and a minimum payday for them of $10 226. The victor in this event will collect a cool $508 090.
 
By the time play was completed Monday night over half the field had been eliminated, with famous players like Daniel Negreanu, Chad Brown, Vanessa Selbst, Marco Traniello and Erick Lindgren among the fallen.
 
207 players will be starting Day 2 Tuesday, including Phil Ivey, Tom Dwan, Jason Mercier, Lex Veldhuis, Phil Hellmuth, and Bertrand Grospellier, with Kevin Schaffel in the lead on 178,900. Day 2 just started.

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