Event #75: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship Day 1 | 2023 World Series of Poker

Event #75: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship

Day 1 Completed

07-03-2023 01:17 UTC-8

Michael Banducci Bags the Lead on Day 1 of Event #75: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship

Cottrell van Wingerden

Level 10 : Blinds 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante

Day 1 of Event #75: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship at the 2023 World Series of Poker (WSOP) at the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas attracted a total of 247 runners, short of last year's record mark of 284. However, with late registration open until the start of Day 2, there is still every chance that the record will be broken.

After ten 60-minute levels of play, 116 players were able to navigate their way through the day. Of those, Michael Banducci bagged the biggest stack after accumulating 387,500. Other big stacks include two-time bracelet winner Taylor Paur (361,500), Dutch pro Rob Hollink (353,000) andthird place finisher at the 2016 WSOP Main Event Cliff Josephy (296,000), who told PokerNews that this is his first bag of the summer.

End of Day 1 Top Ten Chip Counts

Rank	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
1	Michael Banducci	United States	387,500	155
2	Michael Wang	United States	364,500	146
3	Taylor Paur	United States	361,500	145
4	Rob Hollink	Netherlands	353,000	141
5	Cliff Josephy	United States	296,000	118
6	Dylan Weisman	United States	276,000	110
7	Sterling Lopez	United States	261,000	104
8	Dzmitry Urbanovich	Poland	253,000	101
9	Vladimir Belekhov	Russia	249,500	100
10	Quentin Krueger	Canada	240,000	96

Given the $10,000 buy-in, it was not surprising that the tournament attracted a plethora of notable players. Among those to make it through the day's play are Poland's all time money leader Dzmitry Urbanovich (253,000), 2023 Poker Players Championship fourth place finisher James Obst (185,000) and Poker Hall of Famer Daniel Negreanu (93,000).

Many other familiar faces took their seat at some point during the day but were unable to survive until the end of the night. Those unfortunate individuals include defending champion Eli Elezra, nine time bracelet winner Erik Seidel and one of the best Limit Hold'em players of all time, Jen Harman. As this event is a freezeout, they will all have to wait until next year to take another shot.

Day 2 resumes at 1:00 p.m. on July 3rd in the Paris Purple section with play starting in Level 11 with blinds of 1,000/2,500 with a 2,500 ante at which point late registration will be closed. Play will then continue for a further ten 60-minute levels and at some point during the day, the money bubble will burst.

Be sure to stay tuned to PokerNews as its live reporting team continues to provide updates from Event #75: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship.

Tags: Cliff Josephy Daniel Negreanu Dylan Weisman Dzmitry Urbanovich Eli Elezra Erik Seidel James Obst Jen Harman Michael Banducci Michael Wang Paris Las Vegas Paris Purple Quentin Krueger Rob Hollink Sterling Lopez

07-03-2023 01:06 UTC-8

Seat Draw for Day 2

Matthew Pitt

Level 10 : Blinds 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante

Casino	Table	Seat	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
Paris	125	2	Yingui Li	China	140,000	56
Paris	125	4	Matthew Beinner	United States	24,500	10
Paris	125	5	Gregory Kolo	United States	69,000	28
Paris	125	6	Alex Foxen	United States	42,000	17
Paris	125	7	Randen Honigman	United States	132,000	53
Paris	125	8	Jeff Madsen	United States	129,500	52

Paris	126	1	Anton Smirnov	Russia	62,500	25
Paris	126	3	Charles Coultas	United States	83,000	33
Paris	126	4	Maxx Coleman	United States	233,500	93
Paris	126	5	Ryan Hoenig	United States	189,000	76
Paris	126	6	Stephen Deutsch	United States	83,000	33
Paris	126	8	Patrice Biton	France	113,000	45

Paris	127	1	Scott Eskenazi	United States	168,000	67
Paris	127	2	Tom Koral	United States	153,500	61
Paris	127	4	John Racener	United States	110,500	44
Paris	127	6	Edward Han	United States	136,000	54
Paris	127	7	Christian Harder	United States	137,500	55
Paris	127	8	Jeffrie Rine	United States	149,000	60

Paris	128	2	Dylan Wilkerson	United States	145,000	58
Paris	128	3	Alfred Atamian	United States	30,500	12
Paris	128	5	Ravee Sundara	United States	110,000	44
Paris	128	6	Chino Rheem	United States	83,000	33
Paris	128	7	George Wolff	United States	38,500	15

Paris	129	1	Ali Abduljabbar	United States	56,500	23
Paris	129	2	Jeff Gross	United States	146,500	59
Paris	129	3	Renan Bruschi	Brazil	19,500	8
Paris	129	5	Viktor Blom	Sweden	12,000	5
Paris	129	7	David Williams	United States	61,000	24

Paris	130	2	Quentin Krueger	Canada	240,000	96
Paris	130	4	Tony Cousineau	United States	26,000	10
Paris	130	5	Dylan Linde	United States	47,000	19
Paris	130	6	Julien Martini	France	168,000	67
Paris	130	7	Fabian Scherle	Germany	60,000	24
Paris	130	8	Brian Hastings	United States	31,500	13

Paris	131	3	Owais Ahmed	United States	117,000	47
Paris	131	4	Senovio Ramirez III	United States	159,500	64
Paris	131	5	PJ Cha	United States	181,500	73
Paris	131	6	Scott Baumstein	United States	159,500	64
Paris	131	7	Allen Kessler	United States	63,000	25
Paris	131	8	Ryan Rapaski	United States	197,000	79

Paris	132	1	Steven Loube	United States	154,000	62
Paris	132	2	Allan Le	United States	115,000	46
Paris	132	3	James Obst	Australia	123,000	49
Paris	132	6	Yueqi Zhu	China	61,000	24
Paris	132	7	Phillip Hui	United States	168,000	67
Paris	132	8	Eoghan O'Dea	Ireland	37,000	15

Paris	133	3	Trevor Reader	United States	67,500	27
Paris	133	4	Ky Nguyen	United States	120,000	48
Paris	133	5	Mike Wattel	United States	94,000	38
Paris	133	6	Daniel Negreanu	Canada	93,000	37
Paris	133	7	Lee Armstrong	Australia	125,500	50
Paris	133	8	Sterling Savill	United States	88,000	35

Paris	134	1	Hassan Kamel	New Zealand	168,500	67
Paris	134	2	Kyle Montgomery	United States	70,000	28
Paris	134	3	Warren Sheaves	United States	168,000	67
Paris	134	4	Scott Bohlman	United States	219,000	88
Paris	134	5	Matt Glantz	United States	135,000	54
Paris	134	6	Joao Simao Peres	Brazil	138,000	55
Paris	134	7	Taylor Paur	United States	361,500	145

Paris	135	1	Dan Shak	United States	111,000	44
Paris	135	2	Christopher Vitch	United States	227,500	91
Paris	135	3	Bart Hanson	United States	66,000	26
Paris	135	4	Jordan Siegel	United States	40,500	16
Paris	135	7	Nital Jethalal	Canada	47,500	19
Paris	135	8	Dzmitry Urbanovich	Poland	253,000	101

Paris	136	1	John Holley	United States	139,000	56
Paris	136	3	Dylan Weisman	United States	276,000	110
Paris	136	4	Naoya Kihara	Japan	106,000	42
Paris	136	5	Vladimir Belekhov	Russia	249,500	100
Paris	136	7	Brian Kelley	United States	61,500	25
Paris	136	8	Kosei Ichinose	Japan	168,500	67

Paris	137	2	Gregory Jamison	United States	76,000	30
Paris	137	4	Thiago Macedo	Brazil	217,000	87
Paris	137	5	Paul Volpe	United States	173,500	69
Paris	137	6	Michael Banducci	United States	387,500	155
Paris	137	7	Calen McNeil	Canada	101,000	40
Paris	137	8	Luis Velador	United States	69,000	28

Paris	138	1	Rob Hollink	Netherlands	353,000	141
Paris	138	2	Kyle Cartwright	United States	55,500	22
Paris	138	3	John Esposito	United States	85,000	34
Paris	138	4	Chris Lee	United States	102,500	41
Paris	138	6	Joe Hachem	Australia	10,000	4

Paris	138	7	Anatolii Zyrin	Russia	53,500	21
Paris	139	1	Patrick Leonard	United Kingdom	66,500	27
Paris	139	2	Marco Johnson	United States	84,000	34
Paris	139	4	Ren Lin	United States	72,500	29
Paris	139	7	Shawn Johnston	United States	57,000	23
Paris	139	8	Damjan Radanov	United States	136,500	55

Paris	140	2	Paul Hoefer	Germany	84,000	34
Paris	140	3	Carlos Guerrero	United States	170,000	68
Paris	140	4	Omar Saeed	United States	115,000	46
Paris	140	5	Louis Werman	United States	105,500	42
Paris	140	6	Jared Jaffee	United States	161,000	64
Paris	140	7	Kane Kalas	United States	112,000	45

Paris	141	3	Michael Wang	United States	364,500	146
Paris	141	5	Scott Abrams	United States	130,500	52
Paris	141	7	George Wang	United States	124,000	50
Paris	141	8	Paul Francois Tedeschi	France	145,500	58

Paris	142	1	Ben Grundy	United Kingdom	99,000	40
Paris	142	2	Dustin Pattinson	United States	56,500	23
Paris	142	3	Filippos Stavrakis	United States	74,500	30
Paris	142	4	Angela Jordison	United States	91,500	37
Paris	142	5	Long Tran	United States	211,500	85
Paris	142	8	Jake Liebeskind	United States	156,000	62

Paris	143	1	Barry Grime	United Kingdom	99,000	40
Paris	143	3	Mihails Morozovs	Latvia	71,000	28
Paris	143	4	Mike Matusow	United States	121,000	48
Paris	143	5	David Prociak	United States	131,500	53
Paris	143	6	Cliff Josephy	United States	296,000	118
Paris	143	8	Igor Zektser	United States	185,000	74

Paris	144	1	John Monnette	United States	113,500	45
Paris	144	2	Sterling Lopez	United States	261,000	104
Paris	144	4	Gary Bolden	United States	128,000	51
Paris	144	5	Yuval Bronshtein	Israel	134,000	54
Paris	144	7	Felipe Ramos	Brazil	118,000	47
Paris	144	8	Stanislav Ivanov	Bulgaria	154,500	62

07-03-2023 00:24 UTC-8

Official End of Day Chip Counts (full)

Cottrell van Wingerden

Level 10 : Blinds 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Michael Banducci	387,500 387,500	387,500

Michael Wang	364,500 364,500	364,500

Taylor Paur	361,500 361,500	361,500

Rob Hollink	353,000 255,000	255,000

Cliff Josephy	296,000 88,000	88,000

Dylan Weisman	276,000 -2,000	-2,000

Sterling Lopez	261,000 261,000	261,000
Dzmitry Urbanovich	253,000 253,000	253,000
Vladimir Belekhov	249,500
Quentin Krueger	240,000 60,000	60,000
Maxx Coleman	233,500 7,500	7,500

Christopher Vitch	227,500 53,500	53,500

Scott Bohlman	219,000 21,000	21,000

Thiago Macedo	217,000 217,000	217,000
Long Tran	211,500 211,500	211,500
Ryan Rapaski	197,000 197,000	197,000
Ryan Hoenig	189,000
Igor Zektser	185,000 185,000	185,000
PJ Cha	181,500 181,500	181,500
Paul Volpe	173,500 36,500	36,500

Carlos Guerrero	170,000 170,000	170,000
Hassan Kamel	168,500 168,500	168,500

Kosei Ichinose	168,500 168,500	168,500
Julien Martini	168,000 101,000	101,000

Warren Sheaves	168,000 168,000	168,000

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07-03-2023 00:18 UTC-8

Day 1 Concludes

Josh Noy

Level 10 : Blinds 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante

Play has finished for the night, with players bagging for Day 2.

A full recap of the action will be posted shortly.

07-02-2023 23:56 UTC-8

Five More Hands

Josh Noy

Level 10 : Blinds 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante

Players will finish the night with five more hands before bagging for Day 2.

Alex Foxen was the last entry of the night, bringing the field to 247 total entries with late registration open until the start of Day 2.

Player	Chips	Progress
Alex Foxen	60,000 60,000	60,000

07-02-2023 23:50 UTC-8

Tedeschi Building Stack

Cottrell van Wingerden

Level 10 : Blinds 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante

Paul Tedeschi opened to 5,000 from under the gun and received calls from the small blind as well as John Monnette in the big blind.

All three players checked through the 5♠4♥7♥ flop to the 2♠ turn. The small blind and Monnette then checked for a second time but Tedeschi was not content with such a high level of passivity and so pushed 12,000 into the middle. That bet convinced both of his opponents to wave the white flag and send more chips over to Tedeschi.

Player	Chips	Progress
Paul Tedeschi	145,000 25,000	25,000
John Monnette	83,000 15,000	15,000

Tags: John Monnette Paul Tedeschi

07-02-2023 23:43 UTC-8

Negreanu Recovering Chips

Josh Noy

Level 10 : Blinds 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante

After seeing his stack dwindle over the last couple of levels, Daniel Negreanu called a button raise to 4,000 in the big blind.

The flop of 9♣9♥8♠ saw Negreanu check-raise to 9,000 and get called to the 8♣ turn.

This time Negreanu led out for 12,000, producing a fold to his right to recover some lost chips.

Player	Chips	Progress
Daniel Negreanu	104,000 -42,500	-42,500

Tags: Daniel Negreanu

07-02-2023 23:34 UTC-8

Matusow, Harman Lose Some

Cottrell van Wingerden

Level 10 : Blinds 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante

Jen Harman limped from under the gun as did Mike Matusow in the small blind. The player in the big blind then checked to send action three-way to the flop.

Matusow led out for 5,000 after the flop came 6♣9♣Q♥, receiving calls from both of his opponents.

All three players checked through the A♦ turn to the 3♦ river at which point they each checked once more. The big blind showed down A♣3♥2♦2♣ which was strong enough to take down the pot, putting a dent in Matusow's stack and leaving Harman very short.

Player	Chips	Progress
Mike Matusow	110,000 38,000	38,000

Jen Harman	16,000 -68,000	-68,000

Tags: Jen Harman Mike Matusow

07-02-2023 23:25 UTC-8

Coleman Continues to Build

Josh Noy

Level 10 : Blinds 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante

Scott Bohlman and Maxx Coleman were in the blinds and heads-up on the turn after two other players had folded.

Bohlman bet 5,000 on the 3♥5♣4♥7♠ board with Coleman making the call.

The 3♦ river saw Bohlman check to Coleman, who fired a bet of 17,000. Bohlman took a moment before making the fold, as Coleman added a new pile of chips to his stack.

On nearby tables, Yuri Dzivielevski and Ryan Laplante were eliminated on the last level of the night.