The $10,000 buy-in World Series of Poker World Championship Omaha Eight-or-Better event (#18), wrapped up yesterday with Daniel Alaei taking the title and his second WSOP bracelet.

Alaei beat out a surprisingly star studded final 17 for an open event that included Scott Clements, Alex Kravchenko, John Monnette, Toto Leonidas and two PokerRoaders Annie Duke and Daniel Negreanu. 

Both Duke and Negreanu were dangerously short numerous times throughout the difficult final day of play, but remarkably were both still able to squeak their way onto the final table before finally being dispatched with.

For the first place finish Alaei pocketed $445,898.

The final table finish positions for Event #18, the $10,000 buy-in World Championship Omaha Hi/Lo were as follows:

1st.  Daniel Alaei- $445,898

2nd.  Scott Clements-  $275,946

3rd.  Ben Boyd- $182,730

4th.  Daniel Negreanu- $130,401

5th.  John Monnette- $97,422

6th.  Greg Jamison- $77,736

7th.  Thomas Koral- $65,453

8th.  Annie Duke-  $58,049

9th.  Yueqi (Rich) Zhu- $54,179

For further details on Event #18 visit www.worldseriesofpoker.com, powered by PokerNews.


Story by Mark Anderson

Sweet Tweets* final day of the 10K Omaha 8

Daniel Negreanu has been all in a half-dozen times today, and he refuses to leave. Short-stack guru!
-Eric Ramsey

Someone in the tourney is trying to get me a penalty for excessive celebration. It can only be one person.
-Daniel Negreanu

I've been roughing it out with the short stack all day but just made the final table if #wsop18 $10k Omaha 8 championship. Hour break now.
-Annie Duke

Up to a million just like that.. We are playing HUGE
-Daniel Alaei

Out 8th in #wsop18 cashed $60k. Annoyed cause I got crippled by a bizarre hand. Despite that i am happy cause I was short stack all day.
-Annie Duke

I had a great time in the Omaha! It was a blast. Now its back to the grind for day 9 in the 3k HORSE. I have 5800
-Daniel Negreanu

Winna winna!!!
-Daniel Alaei

*A samping of Twitter posts from Event #18, courtesy of the PokerRoad Nation.