Event 33, Pot Limit Omaha W/Re-Buys - Live Updates

Alan Smurfit has about $1.4 million in chips; Qushqar Morad has about $2 million.

We have seen very few complete boards. Both players are consistently folding to bets and picking at each other's stacks.

 

Can you believe it? We can't. This is what happened on numero 150:

The flop was A♠ T♣ 3♥. Qushqar bet $150K, Alan called. The turn was 6♣, Alan checked. Qushqar bet $300K, and Alan folded.

Blinds are at $80,000/$160,000, which is beyond a level we can name.

Please, do stay tuned. This is history you are witnessing - perhaps one of the longest Pot-Limit Omaha heads-up plays ever.

This is going very slow, as the players try to whittle away at the stack.

We've now played more hands heads-up, to get to the final table heads-up. This is the longest heads-up match of the 2007 World Series so far.

Here's the new chip counts:

Qushqar Morad - $900K

Alan Smurfit $2.4 million

Here are some choice hands:

Pot Commitment - Not An Issue

Qushqar raised it to $200K pre-flop, and Alan called. The flop was 5♠ Q♠ 9♣. Alan checked and Qushqar bet $300K. Alan then re-raised it to $1.1 million! Reluctantly, Qushqar folded.

 

Check-Raise Action

Both players just called pre-flop. The flop came out: 9♣ 7♠ 6♦

Both players checked. The turn was the 8♣, and Alan checked; Qushqar bet $200K, and Alan check-raised it another $600K. Qushqar called, and the river was the K♣. Alan bet $280K, and Qushqar called.

Alan took the pot with a 6-high flush, holding A♣ 2♣.

The two heads-up players have just come back from a break, and the blinds are at $50,000/$100,000.

It's a close chip count at this point, but Smurfit is taking the lead with $1,935,000. Qushqar Murah has $1,558,000

Like a scene from EuroRounders, Alan Smurfit and Qushqar Morad raise the pot repeatedly until both players are all-in preflop, with Smurfit contesting for his tournament life with A♥ 5♦ 5♣ 3♠ to Morad's A♠ K♣ K♦ 8♣. The flop comes T♠ 8♣ 4♠ and the turn is the 9♦, keeping Morad in the lead and in line for his second WSOP bracelet. The river card is the 5♥ and Smurfit rivers a full house to double through Morad and keep his own bejeweled dreams alive.

Despite the double-up, Smurfit is still way behind Morad in terms of chips and overall sexiness, the former $1,000,000 to $2,515,000. Sexiness, unfortunately, cannot be quantified. Play on!

Qushqar Morad raises to $105,000 from the cutoff and Brandon Adams raises to the pot. Morad calls and the flop comes J♦ J♥ 9♣ and Morad checks to Adams, who gets all-in for his last $100,000 and change. Morad makes the call and shows Q♥ Q♦ 3♦ 3♣ to Adams' A♣ A♦ 8♠ 6♦. The board ends up 3♠ 9♥ and Morad turns a full house to send Adams back to the family, a sixth place finisher with $75,795 to take back to Lurch & Co.

Chau Giang raises to $70,000 and Robert Fellner pushes all-in from the button for $210,000 total. Giang makes the call and shows Q♠ J♠ 9♦ 8♠ to Fellner's Q♣ T♦ 9♣ 8♣, and the board comes A♦ K♠ 2♣ T♣ 4♦, giving Giang a flush and shipping Fellner to the rail in seventh place, the beneficiary of a $57,226 payday.

Sunny Nijran raises to $60,000 from the cut-off and Qushqar Morad makes the call in the big blind. We're heads-up going to the flop, which comes K♦ 6♥ 4♣. Morad bets the pot, and Nijran moves all-in over the top, showing K♥ K♠ J♦ 7♣ to Morad's A♠ 5♥ 5♦ 3♠ for the open-ended straight draw. The board finishes out 9♥ 2♣, giving Morad the straight and sending Nijran to the rail in eighth place for $42,108.

World Series of Poker Circuit Event All-Star Hilbert Shirey raises to $70,000 from under the gun and is called by Qushqar Morad. The flop comes K♠ 6♣ 3♥ and Shirey pots it, betting more or less enough to go all-in. Morad makes the call, and both players turn over their cards - except Shirey is not yet technically all-in. The floor is called for a ruling, and it's decided that both players are now all-in since they both want to be.

Shirey turns over A♠ A♥ J♥ 8♦ to Morad's K♥ K♦ J♦ 3♣, and after the board finishes out 8♠ 7♣, Morad gets the check mark with a set of kings. Shirey, a bona fide PokerListings.com fave, takes ninth place for a $30,317 payday.

It's final table time from the Pot Limit Omaha tournament, with the final nine players returning to play down to a bracelet tonight. PokerListings.com will be on scene starting more or less immediately to provide you with comprehensive coverage that's guaranteed 100% sucka-free.

Here are the chip counts as we get ready to fly:

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Chip counts courtesy www.worldseriesofpoker.com

Sucka-free coverage courtesy www.pokerlistings.com