The numbers are in. This year's $2,500 Omaha/Seven-Card Stud Hi-Low tournament attracted 470 runners — up 96 players from last year — and created a prize pool of $1,069,250. That will be distributed to the top 48 players as follows:
Ismael Bojang had a short stack at risk when they got it in after fifth street, Bojang betting all the way showing . The opponent called with .
Bojang drew the on sixth with as down cards and the on seventh for a set of sevens, but the opponent made the on seventh with rolled up nines and a thus higher set.
Stud Hi-Low
We arrived at the table of Thomas Butzhammer and Adam Friedman with the German losing some ground on the first hand. He had the showing on third and made it three bets before calling down each street. The opponent started with the .
Opponent: / /
Butzhammer: / mucked
Only one hand later a short stack got his stack in until fourth and Butzhammer had three bet the third once again. Friedman didn't go anywhere and called all bets down to seventh.
Short stack: / mucked
Butzhammer: /
Friedman: / /
The shortie could not beat hi nor low and was sent to the rail, Butzhammer recovered some losses from the previous hands.
A short-stacked David Williams got his last chips in on third street and was up against former November Niner Ylon Schwartz.
Williams: / /
Schwartz: / /
Williams failed to improve upon his kings, while Schwartz ended up with two pair. Williams rapped the table after the hand and then headed toward the exit.
Justin Bonomo got the last of his chips in on the turn with a board reading . There was about a 16,000 side pot and a 1,000 or so in the side between the two active players. When the completed the board on the river, Sammy Farha bet 800 and the other player in the hand called.
Farha tabled the for a straight, and his opponent held the nut low with . The two chopped the side pot, and then Bonomo tabled the for a better straight and half the main pot.
The seats of Ami Barer and Simon Trumper are both empty, they had been short stacked and have been eliminated. Phil Ivey doesn't have many more big bets either, and Lupe Soto as well as Michel Abecassis have even less. The Frenchman is down to 200 chips and all in on third street, showing the . He got called by an opponent with .
Opponent: / /
Abecassis: / /
The table cheered when Abecassis chopped the pot, with his opponent saying that it would have been sad to lose him. "You are the friendliest Frenchman I have ever met."
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. The opponent called with 
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on sixth with 
as down cards and the 
on seventh for a set of sevens, but the opponent made the 
on seventh with rolled up nines and a thus higher set.
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/ mucked
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completed the board on the river, Sammy Farha bet 800 and the other player in the hand called.
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