Event #31: $3,000 Pot-Limit Omaha

Jens Hansen was on the button, Tommy Le was in the small blind and Tex Barch was in the big blind. All three players went to a flop of       and Hansen and Le both moved in and Barch called both stacks.

Showdown
Barch:        
Hansen:        
Le:        

The board finished     and Barch made a club flush knocking out both Le and Hansen. Barch is up over a half million.

Tex Barch	587,000	330,000
Jens Hansen	0	-95,000
Tommy Le	0	-210,000

Tex Barch opened for 21,000 and Jeanphilippe Leandri moved in behind him. Barch called and tabled         and Leandri held        

The board ran           and Leandri start calling for cards in French and it quickly turned into a spew French curses. Barch pushed his stack up over the 250,000 mark and Leandri hit the rail.

Tex Barch	257,000	74,000
Jeanphilippe Leandri	0	0

Ben Lamb opened with a min-raise under the gun only to have Austin Scott three-bet the cutoff to 38,000. Lamb made the call before check-calling a 51,000-chip bet on the     flop.

Both players then proceeded to check down the   and   on the turn and river as Scott tabled his      for the nut-flush.

Jens Hansen got his short stack all in against Gabor Gyarmati preflop.

Gyarmati:        
Hansen:        

Board:          

Hansen's trip aces doubled him up to 95,000 and Gyarmati is at 160,000.

Dallas Wottlin pushed his last 21,000 in from the cutoff and both Brock Parker and Christian Harder made the call from the blinds.

Parker led out with a bet on the     flop as Harder quickly folded.

Parker:     
Wottlin:     

The turn of the   and the river of the   would see Wottlin snag a runner-runner flush to triple through to 63,000.

The 25 returning players for Day 3 of the $1,500 Pot Limit Omaha event are eyeing the final table and ultimately winning the gold bracelet. Sam Stein enters the day as the chipleader with 843,000, almost a full 200,000 ahead of Ben Lamb in second.

We have two returning bracelet winners hoping to add to their collection. Tex Barch won a bracelet in Pot Limit Omaha in 2010 and Brock Parker won two within a week in 2009. They'll plenty of competition with notables Christian Harder, Adam Junglen. Andrew Chen, Rami Boukai and Tommy Le still in the field.

Warren Fund proved with his play last night that he's not intimated by the pros, bringing just over 500,000 chips back today. There are six short stacked players all under 100,000 that may look to double up early or find something else to do today.

We'll play a full ten levels today, beginning at 4 p.m. PST and hope to have a winner by the end of the night. If not the remaining players from the final table will return for a Day 4. The three tables to start the day will begin in the Blue section of the Amazon Room and then move to a feature table once they hit ten players.

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