WSOP Event #36 - $5,000 Omaha Hi-Lo
Monday, June 25, 2007 | Adrian Milewski
Omaha Hi-Lo can be a notoriously slow game with lots of split pots meaning that eliminations and stack building are drawn out. After three long days of this event we were ready for the final table.
The final table lined up as follows:
- Seat 1: Max Reynaud - 529,000
- Seat 2: Bart Hanson - 191,000
- Seat 3: John Guth - 387,000
- Seat 4: Randy Jensen - 283,000
- Seat 5: Greg Jamison - 223,000
- Seat 6: Michael Pollowitz - 189,000
- Seat 7: David Flores - 450,000
- Seat 8: Robert Stevanovski - 384,000
- Seat 9: Jim Grove - 163,000
In timing with the pace of the tournament so far, we didn’t have any eliminations in the first hour of play at the final table.
Our first elimination was Jim Grove who was the shortstack going into the final table. He was eliminated when David Flores hit a straight on the turn and Grove only had a busted flush draw. Grove left in 9th place collecting $23,688.
In a very inexperienced final table only Bart Hanson had made a WSOP final table before, but his experience paid for nothing as he was the next to be eliminated in 8th place taking home $32,900.
The next two to get mixed up in a hand were Michael Pollowitz and Randy Jensen. It was Jensen who holding A-4-J-7 hit two pair on the flop of 
with a very good low draw also. Pollowitz holding A-Q-Q-10 was unable to catch up and he was eliminated in 7th place collecting $44,744.
Jensen’s luck didn’t continue however and after losing a number of pots he was the next to be eliminated. In Jensen’s final hand he came out worse in a three way pot with John Guth and Greg Jamison who checked the hand down and eliminated Jensen in 6th place good for $59,220.
Our 5th place finisher was Greg Jamison after getting involved in a hand with Robert Stevanovski. Jameson had been ahead throughout the hand when he hit a pair of sixes on the flop holding A-6 and Stevanovski called down his bet on the flop and turn holding just A-Q. When an Ace came on the river Stevanovski made two pair, but there was also a pair of 7’s on the board meaning Stevanovski’s had hit a higher two pair with the Queen kicker playing. Jamison finished in 5th and collected $75,012.
Max Reynard’s day came to an end next after a three way pot between him, Stevanovski and Guth. It was Stevanovski who took down both the hi and the lo pot when his 6-4-5-7 connected well with the board of 
meaning Reynard finished in 4th place and took home $101,332.
Down to three players and the chip positions looked like this:
- Robert Stevanovski — 1,250,000
- John Guth — 845,000
- David Flores — 700,000
The three players battled back and forth for the chip lead and it was John Guth who started to move ahead during a cluster of good hands for him. After losing most of his chips to Guth during this run, David Flores moved the rest of his chips in after picking up Q-Q-7-3 but came up against Stevanovski who was holding A-A-K-K. The board was no help to Guth and he was eliminated in 3rd place taking home a consolation of $148,708.
Heads up play went on for 3 hours with first Guth taking a massive chip lead only for Stevanovski to come and back and overtake the lead and then for Guth to stage his come back to pull it back even and then retake the chip lead and build up to a massive 6:1 chip lead.
The decisive hand came when Guth flopped a set of nines and then went on to make a full house on the turn which crushed Stevanovski’s hand and gave the bracelet and the 1st place prize of $363,216 to John Guth.
The final standings for Event #36 of WSOP 2007 were:
- John Guth — $363,216
- Robert Stevanovski — $218,456
- David Flores — $148,708
- Max Reynard — $101,332
- Greg Jameson — $75,012
- Randy Jensen — $59,220
- Michael Pollowitz — $44,744
- Bart Hanson — $32,900
- Jim Grove — $23,688
There’s still time to qualify for the WSOP main event by winning one of the many satellites taking place on Pokerstars.
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