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Wednesday, June 6, 2007 12:21 AM Local Time
In his interview with Jay Newnum, Tom Schneider admits to basically accidentally winning a bracelet. He claims to not be great at either game and also not originally planning to play in the event.
[url=http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/video-gallery/tom-schneider-2-500-omaha-7-card-stud-hi-lo-winner-266.htm]Click here[/url] to check out the interview.
Tuesday, June 5, 2007 9:49 PM Local Time
Tom Schneider wins WSOP Event #5 Omaha8/Stud8.
Tuesday, June 5, 2007 9:41 PM Local Time
Ed Tonnellier has 27K
Tuesday, June 5, 2007 9:37 PM Local Time
Ed Tonnellier has 10K
Tuesday, June 5, 2007 9:34 PM Local Time
Ed Tonnellier wins 3/4 of the last pot and is up to 5K.
Tom Schneider has 1,630,000.
Tuesday, June 5, 2007 9:29 PM Local Time
Ed Tonnellier is down to 3,000 after a hand where he could not hit a low nor outdraw a bigger pair.
One chopped hand but we are moments away from a bracelet for Tom Schneider.
Tuesday, June 5, 2007 9:18 PM Local Time
Tuesday, June 5, 2007 9:15 PM Local Time
The table is slanted one way right now and these hands are being folded on the turn or river. We are not seeing costly showdowns
Tuesday, June 5, 2007 9:13 PM Local Time
We have seen one river card and that moved about 235K from Ed Tonnellier to Tom Schneider.
Tuesday, June 5, 2007 9:09 PM Local Time
Tuesday, June 5, 2007 8:47 PM Local Time
With both final tables heads up and on dinner break, we seem to be very slow in calling the players back to either table.
We will be back when they are.
Tuesday, June 5, 2007 8:11 PM Local Time
The players are on a dinner break until 8:45 p.m. PDT.
Tuesday, June 5, 2007 7:21 PM Local Time
Tom Schneider 989,000
Edmond Tonnellier 679,000
Tuesday, June 5, 2007 7:19 PM Local Time
Annie ran into A-A-2-3 in Ed Tonnellier's hand and finished 3rd. Two prior hands hurt Annie, when she had to make laydowns to terrible 4th streets.
Tuesday, June 5, 2007 7:05 PM Local Time
20K/40K blinds
Tuesday, June 5, 2007 6:57 PM Local Time
Tuesday, June 5, 2007 6:53 PM Local Time
Tom Schneider 1,050,000
Annie Duke 355,000
Edmond "Omaha Ed" Tonnellier 165,000
Tuesday, June 5, 2007 6:48 PM Local Time
Once again the short stack goes up against the big stack and takes the worst of it.
By the way, Chris did a brief ESPN interview at the table and then headed directly to the Omaha8 Event that started just under two hours ago.
Tuesday, June 5, 2007 6:46 PM Local Time
Someone might make a comeback here but Tom Schneider has been playing a great big-stack game all day.
Tuesday, June 5, 2007 6:44 PM Local Time
Tom Schneider 1,055,000
Annie Duke 305,000
Edmond "Omaha Ed" Tonnellier 185,000
Chris Ferguson 90,000