Event 12
$350+$50 Omaha/Stud High/Low Mix Re-Entry
Level 20: Limits 12,000/24,000
Total Entries: 82
Players Remaining: 11
Average Stack: 149,000
Mixed gamers are back in action following the break. Here’s what they’re stacking as they’re two from the redraw and three from the money:
Table 1
- Michael Cisco – 110,000
- Glenn Engelbert – 22,000
- Sang Shin – 254,000
- Walter Twardus – 73,000
- Mark Bowin – 188,000
- Warren Sharpe’s Empty Chair – 151,000
Table 2
- James Matz – 65,000
- Ishmael Kennedy – 465,000
- Marc Matz – 99,000
- Edward Fishman – 60,000
- Nicholas Marsico – 185,000
$350+$50 Omaha/Stud High/Low Mix Re-Entry
Returning to Level 20: Limits 12,000/24,000
Total Entries: 82
Players Remaining: 11
Average Stack: 149,000
Ishmael Kennedy
The chip leader, Ishmael Kennedy, has finally arrived, about 20 minutes late, and taken his seat. With his big stack, he could afford to arrive fashionably late.
Warren Sharpe has still not appeared and is being blinded off. Rumor is he was unable to return for Day 2, so we’ll watch his empty seat and see if he can make the money.
Jeffrey Bento was the second casualty of the day, leaving 11 players in action. They’re on a color-up break at the end of level 19.
Jeffrey Bento
$350+$50 Omaha/Stud High/Low Mix Re-Entry
Level 19: Limits 10,000/20,000
Total Entries: 82
Players Remaining: 12
Average Stack: 137,000
Jack Abramcyk
Soon after they put cards in the air, Jack Abramcyk was all-in against Sang Shin and Michael Cisco in a hand of Omaha/8. At the turn, Michael Cicso was also all-in and the hands were tabled:
Jack: 
Michael: 
Sang: 
Board: 
Michael had the nut-low with his A2 and Sang took the high with his pocket Kings. Jack was left out in the cold and hit the rail in 13th place while the other two players chopped up his short-stack.
$350+$50 Omaha/Stud High/Low Mix Re-Entry
Level 19: Limits 10,000/20,000
Total Entries: 82
Players Remaining: 13
Average Stack: 126,000
Day 2 of the Omaha/Stud High/Low mix event is underway with 13 returning players. Only the final eight will get paid, so five will leave with nothing. When they reach the final 9, they’ll redraw and move to a single table.
Ishmael Kennedy leads the field with 344,000. Still in the hunt, but short-stacked, is Glenn Engelbert, four-time Borgata Open Series winner (NLH, HOSE, Omaha/8, and Stud) with 32,500.
$350+$50 Omaha/Stud High/Low Mix Re-Entry
Total Entries: 82
Total Buy-In: $28,700
Prize Pool: $27,839
The final eight players in the Stud/Omaha mix event will earn a payday, as shown below:
| Place | Payout |
| 1 | $10,578 |
| 2 | $6,125 |
| 3 | $3,341 |
| 4 | $2,227 |
| 5 | $1,949 |
| 6 | $1,670 |
| 7 | $1,114 |
| 8 | $835 |
$350+$50 Omaha/Stud High/Low Mix Re-Entry
Level 19: Limits 10,000/20,000
Total Entries: 82
Players Remaining: 13
Average Stack: 126,000
Day 2 of the Omaha/Stud High/Low Mixed event begins at 12 noon in the Event Center. The remaining players are listed below with their seat assignments and chip counts.
| TABLE | SEAT | First | Last | City | State | CHIP COUNT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | JACK | ABRAMCYK | NEW YORK | NY | 20,000 |
| 1 | 2 | MICHAEL | CISCO | BEAVER | PA | 56,000 |
| 1 | 3 | GLENN | ENGELBERT | ERIAL | NJ | 32,500 |
| 1 | 4 | SANG | SHIN | DULUTH | GA | 271,200 |
| 1 | 5 | WALTER | TWARDUS | NEWARK | DE | 57,000 |
| 1 | 6 | MARK | BOWIN | SOMERSET | NJ | 138,500 |
| 1 | 7 | WARREN | SHARPE | BROOKLYN | NY | 199,000 |
| 2 | 1 | JEFFREY | BENTO | GLEN BURNIE | MD | 111,500 |
| 2 | 2 | JAMES | MATZ | BRIDGEPORT | PA | 48,000 |
| 2 | 3 | ISHMAEL | KENNEDY | GLEN ROCK | NJ | 344,000 |
| 2 | 4 | MARC | MATZ | KNG OF PRUSSAIA | PA | 141,000 |
| 2 | 5 | EDWARD | FISHMAN | EGG HARBOR TWP | NJ | 54,000 |
| 2 | 6 | NICHOLAS | MARSICO | MYRTLE BEACH | SC | 158,500 |
$350+$50 Omaha/Stud High/Low Mix Re-Entry
Level 15: 6,000/12,000 Limits
Total Entries: 82
Players Remaining: 11
Ishmael Kennedy is leading the pack with 359,000
Ishmael Kennedy – 359,000
Sang Shin – 289,000
Warren Sharpe – 199,000
Nicholas Marsico – 158,500
Marc Matz – 141,000
Mark Bowin – 138,500
Jeff Bento – 111,500
Walter Twardus – 57,000
Edward Fishman – 54,000
James Matz – 48,000
Glenn Engelbert – 32,500
Jack Abramcyk – 20,000
$350+$50 Omaha/Stud High/Low Mix Re-Entry
Level 15: 4000/8000 Limits
Total Entries: 82
Players Remaining: 36
Classic Stud Hi/lo action just went down on table six.
The bring in 
pushed in the 1,000, Michael Matz called, a 
completed, Bob Mcallister with a 
called, as did the bring in and Matz.
The drew well with an 
and led at the pot, while McCallister flatted with 
, the bring in dropped, and Matz called making a .
Mark Matz
Matz drew nicely with an 
and but McCallister even stronger, pairing his king and leading, which drew a call from Matz and a surprise fold from the 
with its two way hopes.
Heads up now, and Matz nearly all in, both players improbably paired, with McCallister drawing a 
, leaving him with a very strong high but no real low, while Matz was showing a more ambivalent 
, meaning he could be more than live here.
However, on the river, McCallister declared he was full, and when he turned over his last card, it was the final king! The high was locked.
Fortunately for the now all in Matz, as McCallister had correctly pressured him all the way, he now picked up a 
to go with the 
and in the hole, and Matz was still alive.
He turns up the saving six.
Quads no good, so to speak.
McCallister has over 75,000 and is one of the heavies, while Matz is healthy with 52,500.
Bob McCallister
$350+$50 Omaha/Stud High/Low Mix Re-Entry
Level 13: 1,000/2,000/400 ante
Total Entries: 82
Players Remaining: 56
Chris Reslock
While the main focus currently on the blog is the Monster Stack NLH event we took a minute to check in on the Omaha/Stud High Low event.
WSOP bracelet winner Chris Reslock is starting to chip up. Reslock’s poker resume reads more like a novel with 8 WSOP Circuit Rings, 2 Borgata titles, a Sands title and nearly $2,000,000 in earnings.
He is now up to over 50,000 as Day 1 play moves along with 56 players remaining in the front of the Event Center.
$350+$50 Omaha/Stud High/Low Mix Re-Entry
End of Level 8: Limits 600/1200
Entries: 82
No one is pulling away quite yet in the first period of day 1, with the top stacks bunching near 40,000.
One of the leaders: Alexis Filis is just north of 45,000.
Eric Thorin is doing excellently as well, at nearly the same.
Scoop in Stud8: key pot for Mike Cisco with most of his stack in the center, 64 low and Aces for high.
Our dinner break is now in session, and we return just before 8 PM.
Registration for our event ends when this break is over – still a little time to jump into the Mix.