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2011 World Series of Poker
Event #42: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Championship

Currently down to 6

Two Brits going strong

Top Chip Counts
1    Dario Alioto    2,425,000
2    Ben Lamb    2,250,000
3    John Shipley    1,600,000
4    John Kabbaj    1,515,000
5    Sami Kelopuro    1,470,000
6    Christopher King    1,450,000


1          814,436
2          503,173
3          369,575
4          273,575
5          204,113
6          153,517

Gogogogogogo John

John Kabbaj Eliminated in 6th Place ($153,517)

(http://pnimg.net/lrep/1801/62/b23914955b3.jpg)



Top Chip Counts
1    Ben Lamb    3,800,000
2    John Shipley    3,000,000
3    Sami Kelopuro    2,800,000
4    Christopher King    1,625,000

Ben Lamb is a sicko, but gogogogogogogo brits

2011 World Series of Poker
Event #42: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Championship

Day 3 Ends Without a Champion

Ben Lamb Starts and Finishes Day 3 as the Chip Leader

Day 3 started as just the first event of the 2011 World Series of Poker to not hit the money within two days. Two players played through two grueling days of poker but left today empty-handed. Team PokerStars Pro Humberto Brenes was the first to fall, followed shortly after by Jyri Merivirta who was unlucky enough to land squarely on the money bubble.

However, what started as a race to make anything at all quickly became a race to get a nice big stack of chips. Ben Lamb and Sami Kelopuro began to emerge as the big stacks as player after player hit the rail. Notable after notable fell including Justin Scwartz, Mike McDonald, David Kitai and Joao Barbosa. Eventually, even Sam Stein, who had already won a bracelet this year in an Omaha event, fell to the talented field in a massive three-way all in won by Matt Glantz.

Glantz, however, would find his own string of hard luck. While he made it to the ESPN set, he bubbled the official final table when his {k-Diamonds}{k-Clubs}{6-Hearts}{2-Clubs} couldn't hold on against the {a-Clubs}{q-Spades}{9-Spades}{8-Clubs} of Kelopuro. That pot was only the beginning of a very active and very swingy final table for Kelopuro. Up and down most of the night, Kelopuro was able to hang on until the end of the day along with Christopher King, John Shipley and our current chip leader, Ben Lamb.

Lamb has seemingly controlled this event the entire day. Just a week removed from his second place finish to Stein, he has had his opponents on lock-down once again. He entered the day with the chip lead and has been one of the top stacks at virtually every stage of the tournament on Day 3. He even had to battle back from losing to a three-outter at the final table for about an average sized stack at the time. Exiting the day as the chip leader, he will certainly have redemption on his mind when he goes to sleep (if he can).

The tournament is scheduled to pick back up again tomorrow at 3 p.m. local time so make sure you come right back to PokerNews where we will bring you all of the action from the Rio.

Chip Counts
   Ben Lamb       4,335,000    
   John Shipley    2,705,000
   Sami Kelopuro    2,155,000
   Christopher King 1,645,000

Shipley got to be one of the longest omaha grinders around.

He has played 25/50ish on stars for maybe 6 years?

nic?

saphire1

Yeah its saphire1

Pretty sure he buys in short and plays tighter than alot of players , not saying he is great as i dont know much. Looks like he has stood the test of time though.

whilst I don't know John personally he is on blonde as "saphire1". His claim to "fame" on here is starting the "Deal or No deal" thread several years ago!!

From the West Midlands, he is veteran of the UK Tournament circuit too, used to play in a lot of Midlands spieler cash games with Colclough, Wernick etc

Dave Colclough in fact wrote his profile on blondepedia http://blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=217 

Won an EPT in the early days of that series, 2004

http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=215

Someone like tikay would be able to add a lot more, I am sure.

Found this on Shipley's hendonmob:

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They don't make structures like that any more.

They must have done a deal 5-handed as it was always 60%/30%/10% at The Rainbow.

John is a top man and player and I would love to see him win this.

Big commiserations to John K.    I know he will be gutted to have got so close but not to have won.   Top bloke

Shipley is a legendary old school gambler that goes back years- before my time but apparently he was the punter and Micky Wernick the bookie at dog tracks from what ive heard. Plus heard stories of him having chunks on football back in the day

Yeah he is a tight shortstacker but that probably wins in most aggro 6max games, he is up on my tracker at 25-50 and 50-100 on bf

Didn't he buy his house with the winnings from one football bet?

John Shiply came 3rd for $370k.

Event #42: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Championship
Day 4 completed
Congratulations to Ben Lamb, Winner of Event #42: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Championship ($814,436)!

Boom! Ship it to Ben Lamb, winner of Event #42: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Championship, a whopping $814,436 and his first-ever World Series of Poker gold bracelet!

The field size in this championship event was 361 players and coming into Day 3, Ben Lamb was on the top of the pack with 38 players remaining. The money bubble was set at 36, which meant everyone was in for a long Day 3. After ten levels of play on Sunday, the returning field was whittled down to just four players and again it was Lamb on top of the pack. From there, Lamb was able to maneuver himself to victory and take down the title.

First, Lamb was able to eliminate Christopher King in fourth place. Lamb was able to flop a flush on King's aces and hold from there after all of the money went in preflop. King earned $273,575 for his finish while Lamb extended his lead even more.

The aggressive Finn Sami Kelopuro was then able to find a double through John Shipley when three-handed. After doubling through the Brit, Kelopuro then eliminated Shipley shortly thereafter. Shipley took home $369,575 for his finish and the heads-up battle was set between Kelopuro and Lamb.

When heads-up play began, Lamb held the lead with 6.65 million in chips to Kelopuro's 4.18 million. Right away, Lamb was able to extend his lead and move over seven million in chips. From there, Kelopuro battled back to nearly even. He then took the lead from Lamb, but not by much as the two were virtually deadlocked. Lamb rebounded well and stole the lead right back before the final hand came up.

Kelopuro held the {A-Clubs}{Q-Clubs}{K-Diamonds}{7-Diamonds} and Lamb the {6-Spades}{5-Hearts}{4-Spades}{2-Diamonds} on the {A-Spades}{9-Hearts}{3-Diamonds}{Q-Spades} board when all of the money went in. The river completed the board with the {5-Diamonds} and gave Lamb a straight to win the tournament. Kelopuro was eliminated in second place for $503,173.

Final Table Payouts
Place   Player   Prize
1   Ben Lamb   $814,436
2   Sami Kelopuro   $503,173
3   John Shipley   $369,575
4   Christopher King   $273,575
5   Dario Alioto   $204,113
6   John Kabbaj   $153,517
7   Cory Wood   $116,359
8   Josh Tieman   $88,873
9   Hans Winzeler   $68,410