morlspin Posted June 25, 2008 Share Posted June 25, 2008 $50,000 World Championship H.O.R.S.E. Event Slated for 5pm PDT Start One of the World Series of Poker's marquee events gets underway at 5pm on Wednesday -- Event #45, the $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. World Championship. This mixed-games event returns for its third edition, with the winner receiving not only the special Corum bracelet created just for this event, but the Chip Reese Memorial Trophy, in commemoration of the event's late, inaugural winner. Last year's second edition of the H.O.R.S.E. World Championship was won by Freddy Deeb, who topped a 148-player field of poker's elite to claim a $2,276,832 winner's check. Deeb will be on hand in defense of his title, as will most others among poker's biggest names. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morlspin Posted June 26, 2008 Author Share Posted June 26, 2008 Re: WSOP $50,000 HORSE Day 1 Play To Begin Soon The players have all started to gather here in the Amazon Room. The orange quadrant of the room is where this prestigious event is being held and the staff here have spread the tables out to give the players and media a bit more room than normal. At this point, the scene here resembles more of a meet and greet or poker hall of fame reunion. The best of the best and walking around, mingling, doing interviews and surveying their table draws. There is currently 115 players registered with event and climbing by the minute. Jack Effell is making his announcements and the cards should be in the air soon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morlspin Posted June 26, 2008 Author Share Posted June 26, 2008 Re: WSOP $50,000 HORSE Day 1 Shuffle Up and Deal! With defending champion Freddy Deeb making the announcement, the cards are in the air. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morlspin Posted June 26, 2008 Author Share Posted June 26, 2008 Re: WSOP $50,000 HORSE Day 1 Round: 1 (H) Hold'em - SB: 300; BB: 600 (O) Omaha-8 - SB: 300; BB: 600 ® Razz - Ante: 100; Bring-in: 200; Completion: 600 (S) Stud - Ante: 100, Bring-in: 200; Completion: 600 (E) Stud-8 - Ante: 100, Bring-in: 200; Completion: 600 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morlspin Posted June 26, 2008 Author Share Posted June 26, 2008 Re: WSOP $50,000 HORSE Day 1 Brunson Bests Matusow in 13K Pot Hold'em: Matt Glantz opened for a raise from middle position, Mike Matusow three-bet from late position, Todd Brunson called on the button and Glantz called one more bet. The flop was . Glantz checked, Matusow bet, and both Brunson and Glantz called. The turn was the . Both Glantz and Matusow checked to Brunson, who bet. Glantz folded and Matusow called. The river was the . Matusow checked, Brunson bet and Matusow called. Brunson turned up and an unhappy Matusow mucked. Brunson dragged the nearly 13,000 chip pot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morlspin Posted June 26, 2008 Author Share Posted June 26, 2008 Re: WSOP $50,000 HORSE Day 1 Tables of Death Back by popular request, we bring you.... (drumroll please)... Today's Tables of Death! Now all these tables are deathly, mind you, but here are a few of the more choice lineups in the room: Table 2: Huckleberry Seed, Kirill Gerasimov, Annie Duke, Doyle Brunson, David Grey, Katja Thater. Table 4: John Monnette, Michael Mizrachi, David Benyamine, Jamie Pickering, Billy "The Croc" Argyros, Kenny Tran, Rob Hollink. Table 12: David Oppenheim, Andy Bloch, Lyle Berman, James "mig.com" Mackey, Jennifer Harman, David Singer. Table 13: Ralph Perry, Johnny "World" Hennigan, Robert Williamson III, Phil "OMGClayAiken" Galfond, Daniel Negreanu, Phil Ivey, Perry Friedman. Table 18: Bruno Fitoussi, Mike Sexton, Ted Forrest, Rafi Amit, Nick Schulman, Phil Hellmuth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morlspin Posted June 26, 2008 Author Share Posted June 26, 2008 Re: WSOP $50,000 HORSE Day 1 "We're on the Way" Apparently Allen Cunningham, Howard Lederer, Chris Ferguson, and Patrik Antonius were all running late because they were caught up playing a cash game at another casino. Apparently they phoned a member of the media to let them know they were on their way. Lederer and Ferguson have since arrived and we should expect Cunningham and Antonius at any time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morlspin Posted June 26, 2008 Author Share Posted June 26, 2008 Re: WSOP $50,000 HORSE Day 1 Rough Start for Tom Schneider Playing razz in a hand with Bryan Colin, Tom Schneider called Colin through sixth street with a board reading . Colin was showing , and when the final card was dealt Bryan check-called Schneider's bet. Colin showed for an 8-6-5-4-A and Schneider tossed his cards in the muck. He's down to 67,000 and after that hand he stood up and took a slow walk to the rail and back. Colin is up to 112,000. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morlspin Posted June 26, 2008 Author Share Posted June 26, 2008 Re: WSOP $50,000 HORSE Day 1 Gus Hansen Off to a Great Start Razz Gus Hansen is up to approximately 160,000 chips after making a wheel in Razz against Chris Reslock. There was at least one bet on every street and by the river the players showed: Hansen: () () () Reslock (X) (X) (X) Reslock mucked his hand and was left with about 79,000 chips while Hansen appears to be the early leader, now with just over 160,000. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morlspin Posted June 26, 2008 Author Share Posted June 26, 2008 Re: WSOP $50,000 HORSE Day 1 Table-Side Dining Some get massages at the table. Some listen to their iPods. Some go for the noise-cancelling headphones. Others... eat. While most of the field seems to have taken care of feeding themselves prior to the start of the tournament, a few prefer to fuel themselves while playing cards. One of those players is David Singer, who is currently enjoying a take-out container full of a very healthy-looking veggie stir-fry. Phil Hellmuth... we'll, he's not so much of a BYO kind of guy. We just spotted a Harrah's employee calling up one of the property's restaurants to request delivery of a meal for the Poker Brat. "It's for Phil Hellmuth... it's like, pasta with chicken and tomato sauce with veggies on the side. Same thing he got last time. Just tell the chef it's for Hellmuth and he'll know what I'm taking about." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morlspin Posted June 26, 2008 Author Share Posted June 26, 2008 Re: WSOP $50,000 HORSE Day 1 Benyamine Takes One From "The Grinder" Razz David Benyamine and Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi just played a heads up Razz hand that saw considerable action. Benyamine bet 3rd street and Mizrachi raised. Benyamine called and then bet every street through the river. Mizrachi called him down and the players showed: Mizrachi: (X) (X) (X) Benyamine: () () () Mizrachi mucked and Benyamine won the pot. He is now up to approximately 117,000 chips while Mizrachi slips to roughly 91,000. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morlspin Posted June 26, 2008 Author Share Posted June 26, 2008 Re: WSOP $50,000 HORSE Day 1 Alex Kravchenko Drags a Pot Hold'em Action folded around to Lee Markholt on the button and he raised. Alex Kravchenko called from the small blind as did Chuck Danielsson from the big blind. The flop came and Kravchenko bet. Danielsson passed but Markholt made the call. The turn came the and Kravchenko bet again. Markholt raised and Kravchenko reraised. Markholt called and the hit the river. Kravchenko bet and Markholt called. Kravchenko showed for the nut straight and Markholt mucked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morlspin Posted June 26, 2008 Author Share Posted June 26, 2008 Re: WSOP $50,000 HORSE Day 1 No Chop This Time Stud David Chiu and Minh Ly mixed it up in another pot, this time playing Stud. Chiu showed to Ly's and Chiu was betting all the way to sixth street, when he decided to check-call Ly's bet. Chiu chose to check-call again when the last card was dealt, and showed to win the pot with a higher two-pair (aces and threes) than Ly's for jacks and sevens. Chiu took the pot and he and Ly now sit with identical 90,000 stacks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morlspin Posted June 26, 2008 Author Share Posted June 26, 2008 Re: WSOP $50,000 HORSE Day 1 Prize Pool and Payout Information Released With registration closed, the official numbers are in. As we mentioned earlier, 148 players (the same number as last year) entered this event. There will be a total of 16 places paid with 16th place taking home $124,320. The winner of the event will leave with $1,989,120. It's worth noting that the distribution of the prize pool has changed a bit from last year. As we mentioned in the introduction post, Freddy Deeb took home $2,276,832 for his victory last year. This year the payouts have been flattened a bit, thereby spreading more money amongst the lower finishers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morlspin Posted June 26, 2008 Author Share Posted June 26, 2008 Re: WSOP $50,000 HORSE Day 1 Jamie Pickering Eliminated Hold'em: Action folded to Michael Mizrachi in middle position and he raised. Jamie Pickering made the call from the cutoff seat and the two went heads up to the flop. The flop came . Mizrachi bet and Pickering made the call. The hit the turn and the action was the same. The river came the and Mizrachi bet again. Pickering called all in for his tournament life and Mizrachi tabled . Pickering mucked and became our first elimination for the tournament as he headed for the rail Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morlspin Posted June 26, 2008 Author Share Posted June 26, 2008 Re: WSOP $50,000 HORSE Day 1 Aaron Katz Eliminated Hold'em: Aaron Katz raised all in from early position and Stephen Wolff called from early position. The rest of the table passed and the players showed: Katz: Wolff: Katz was in a decent spot to double up, but came up short when the board ran out . Wolff's two pair was best and Aaron Katz was just the second player eliminated from the event. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morlspin Posted June 26, 2008 Author Share Posted June 26, 2008 Re: WSOP $50,000 HORSE Day 1 Phil Hellmuth Eliminated Stud-8: Phil Hellmuth was just eliminated in a three-way pot with Rafi Amit and Bruno Fitoussi. Hellmuth was all in on fifth street and when the action was complete the players showed: Hellmuth: () () (X) Fitoussi: () () () Amit: (X) (X) (X) Amit mucked and Hellmuth showed his losing two pair as he stood up. Fitoussi stacked the pot and Hellmuth headed for the exit. Just a few hands prior to his elimination, Hellmuth was overheard saying, "Well I didn't think it was possible to go out of this (tournament) on Day One...I like to do things that are tough to do." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morlspin Posted June 26, 2008 Author Share Posted June 26, 2008 Re: WSOP $50,000 HORSE Day 1 Recent Eliminations David Williams was just eliminated at the hands of Chris Reslock. Bari Sklar was just sent home when his couldn't improve against Jose Luis Velador's (X) (X) in Omaha-8. Philippe Rouas got his walking papers during the stud-8 round when his three queens came up short against the full house of Greg Raymer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morlspin Posted June 26, 2008 Author Share Posted June 26, 2008 Re: WSOP $50,000 HORSE Day 1 Shunjiro Uchida Eliminated Omaha-8: On a board reading on the river, Mikhail Ustinov bet out, Shunjiro Uchida raised all in for the rest of his chips and Ustinov called. Ustinov rolled over for two pair and the nut low, and Uchida mucked as he hit the rail. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morlspin Posted June 26, 2008 Author Share Posted June 26, 2008 Re: WSOP $50,000 HORSE Day 1 Play Concludes for the Evening With 140 players remaining, play has concluded for the evening. The players are currently bagging their chips and redrawing for seats. Play resumes tomorrow at 3:00pm PDT. As always, official chip counts and seat assignments will be posted as soon as they become available. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morlspin Posted June 26, 2008 Author Share Posted June 26, 2008 Re: WSOP $50,000 HORSE Day 1 PlayerSponsorAmountTrendJames Mackey 214000 5000 Pat Pezzin 200400 15400 Joe Cassidy 198700 14700 Ralph Perry 195300 12300 Stephen Wolff 192700 17700 Fu Wong 188100 20100 Phil 'OMGClayAiken' Galfond 185000 25000 Raymond Dehkharghani 185000 5000 Douglas Ganger 183200 Bill Chen PokerStars 182500 11500 Tad Jurgens 172700 5700 Johnny Chan 172200 62200 Erick Lindgren Full Tilt Poker 170500 27500 Patrik Antonius Full Tilt Poker 169200 800 Ray Dehkharghani 167600 Greg Mascio 163500 23500 Mark Gregorich 162800 19800 Farzad Bonyadi Full Tilt Poker 162400 12400 Phil Galfond 161600 Minh Ly 161200 3800 Gene Fisher 159000 9000 Marc Goodwin Mansion Poker 157100 22100 Paul Fisher 156200 Doug Ganger 155000 45000 Barry Greenstein PokerStars 153700 13700 David Benyamine Full Tilt Poker 150500 13500 Rob Hollink Full Tilt Poker 149400 12400 Abraham Mosseri 148900 Rafi Amit 147900 100 Luis Velador 145200 John D'Agostino Full Tilt Poker 144700 34700 Mike Sexton Party Poker 141700 3300 Chuck Danielsson 141300 1700 Mike DeMichele 140200 Scotty Nguyen 138600 8600 Jose Luis Velador 138000 18000 Steve Zolotow Full Tilt Poker 137700 7300 Alexander Kostritsyn 137400 7400 Katja Thater PokerStars 137400 12400 Doyle Brunson Doyles Room 137000 7000 Layne Flack 136300 700 Joey 'bigjoe2003' Michael 136000 2000 Brian Rast 132100 32100 Dario Minieri PokerStars 131600 1600 Thor Hansen 130800 10800 Steve Sung 130600 600 T.J. Cloutier 130000 6000 Bill Gazes 128600 Greg Raymer PokerStars 125300 27300 John Monnette 124600 11600 Dario Alioto Full Tilt Poker 123400 5000 Abe Mosseri 122000 3000 Jason Gray T6Poker 121400 3400 Joseph Michael 120900 Mike Wattel 120600 18600 Jeffrey Lisandro T6Poker 118700 8700 Tom Schneider 117800 2800 Chad Brown PokerStars 116900 100 Greg Mueller 115700 Michael Binger 115500 11500 TJ Cloutier 115200 Allen Kessler 115000 10000 Bill Gazes Full Tilt Poker 115000 6000 Michael DeMichele 115000 55000 Dan Harmetz 113600 2200 Brandon Adams Full Tilt Poker 113400 19400 Keith Sexton Full Tilt Poker 113100 4900 Isabelle Mercier PokerStars 112300 2700 Todd Brunson Doyles Room 112200 12200 Freddy Deeb 111600 16400 David Bach 110400 400 Raymond Davis 110300 2700 Tom Dwan 109700 Thomas Weideman 107200 14200 Bryan Colin 106600 1600 Patrick Bueno 106300 51300 Sherkhan Farnood 106200 52200 Ted Forrest 105800 13800 Alex Kravchenko PokerStars 105100 16400 Gabe Kaplan 105100 24900 Kenny Tran Full Tilt Poker 104800 19800 Tim Phan 104800 5200 Mike Matusow Full Tilt Poker 103300 10300 Bruno Fitoussi 101600 45600 Andy Bloch Full Tilt Poker 101000 17000 Billy Argyros 99000 Allen Cunningham Full Tilt Poker 98300 16700 Billy 'The Croc' Argyros T6Poker 98000 19000 Tom McCormick 97300 Marcel Luske 97200 2800 Loi Tran 97100 1100 Brett Richey 96400 6400 Matt Glantz 96000 16000 Shahram Sheikhan 93700 Mickey Appleman 93400 Huck Seed 90600 George Lind 90000 Roy Thung 90000 3000 Greg 'FBT' Mueller Full Tilt Poker 89000 36000 Shawn 'Sheiky' Sheikhan 89000 7000 David Oppenheim Full Tilt Poker 88800 4200 Howard Lederer Full Tilt Poker 88800 19200 Robert Williamson III 88000 3000 Jennifer Harman Full Tilt Poker 87800 10200 Chris Ferguson Full Tilt Poker 87400 2400 Huckleberry Seed Full Tilt Poker 87000 1000 John Juanda Full Tilt Poker 85800 8800 Edwin Ting 85000 10000 Joe 'Tall' Bunevith 85000 25000 Hasan Habib 84200 200 Jan Von Halle 83000 Michael Mizrachi 82300 18700 Markus Golser Full Tilt Poker 82200 2200 Joe Bunevith 81600 Tom 'durrrr' Dwan 81000 16000 Justin Bonomo Bodog 80400 12400 Jim Bechtel 80000 13000 David Grey Full Tilt Poker 79900 25900 George Lind III 76900 David Woo 76100 6100 John Hennigan 73700 5700 Robert Mizrachi Full Tilt Poker 73000 10000 Perry Friedman Full Tilt Poker 72600 4400 David Chiu Full Tilt Poker 71700 4300 Bradley Helm 70000 5000 Soheil Shamseddin 67300 1700 Brad Helm 67200 John Cernuto 66900 Annie Duke Ultimate Bet 66700 5700 Tony G T6Poker 66700 2300 Lee Markholt 66300 4100 Kirill Gerasimov 64900 9100 John Hanson 62800 9200 Max Pescatori Full Tilt Poker 62700 25300 Ali Eslami 62300 300 Tom McCormack 62000 48000 Frank Kassela 60000 3000 Mike Fiorito 60000 13000 Ram Vaswani 59700 8300 Noah Jefferson 55700 39300 Chau Giang 54700 8300 Daniel Negreanu PokerStars 54200 20800 'Miami' John Cernuto Full Tilt Poker 50000 11000 Nick Schulman Full Tilt Poker 50000 22000 Diego Cordovez Full Tilt Poker 49600 10400 Gus Hansen Full Tilt Poker 49400 10600 Michael Fiorito 48100 Eli Elezra Full Tilt Poker 45100 1100 Phil Ivey Full Tilt Poker 45100 6100 Hoyt Corkins 44200 1800 Lyle Berman 42900 15100 Dewey Tomko 41200 2800 Matt Hawrilenko 41100 8100 Mikhail Ustinov 39700 9700 Ben Lin 31700 36300 David Levi 31100 16900 Andy Black Full Tilt Poker 30000 12000 Andrew Black 24300 Toto Leonidas Full Tilt Poker 22100 27900 Chris Reslock 21200 203800 David Singer Full Tilt Poker 17900 13100 Chris Bjorin 8600 3300 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ubermonkey1 Posted June 26, 2008 Share Posted June 26, 2008 Re: WSOP $50,000 HORSE Day 1 might go and watch a bit of this tonight:ok hopefully i might be able to get my cash off joe b as well as he said he'd be railing ram. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morlspin Posted June 26, 2008 Author Share Posted June 26, 2008 Re: WSOP $50,000 HORSE Day 1 Best get there quick then! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ubermonkey1 Posted June 26, 2008 Share Posted June 26, 2008 Re: WSOP $50,000 HORSE Day 1 Best get there quick then! :rollin:rollini'll tell him that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morlspin Posted June 26, 2008 Author Share Posted June 26, 2008 Re: WSOP $50,000 HORSE Days 1+2 35 minutes ago Round: 6 (H) Hold'em - SB: 900; BB: 1,800 (O) Omaha-8 - SB: 900; BB: 1,800 ® Razz - Ante: 400; Bring-in: 500; Completion: 1,800 (S) Stud - Ante: 400, Bring-in: 500; Completion: 1,800 (E) Stud-8 - Ante: 400, Bring-in: 500; Completion: 1,800 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morlspin Posted June 26, 2008 Author Share Posted June 26, 2008 Re: WSOP $50,000 HORSE Days 1+2 Diego Cordovez Eliminated Razz: Diego Cordovez was just eliminated when he came up short in a hand of Razz against Greg "FBT" Mueller. Cordovez was all in on 4th street but when it was all said and done, Cordovez's couldn't match the of Mueller and he was eliminated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morlspin Posted June 26, 2008 Author Share Posted June 26, 2008 Re: WSOP $50,000 HORSE Days 1+2 Woops! Over at table 3, on the first hand of Razz, after the 3rd street action was complete the dealer burned and began to put out a flop. Needless to say there were multiple shouts of "whoa!" and "stop!" from the various players. In the end, there was no harm done and the situation resulted in a good laugh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morlspin Posted June 26, 2008 Author Share Posted June 26, 2008 Re: WSOP $50,000 HORSE Days 1+2 Razz: Gus Hansen (X-X) (X) Allen Cunningham (X-X) (X) Allen Cunningham led out the whole way and Hansen called him down. Cunningham turned up on the end for 6-4-3-2-A and Hansen mucked. After the hand, Cunningham was up to 101,000 while Hansen was on fumes with only 14,000. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morlspin Posted June 27, 2008 Author Share Posted June 27, 2008 Re: WSOP $50,000 HORSE Days 1+2 Hansen Rebounds Hold'em: Down to only 14,000 after that razz hand with Allen Cunningham, Hansen began mounting a comeback during the last hold'em round. Ted Forrest opened for a raise from late position and Hansen called from the big blind. The flop was and both players checked. The turn was the . Hansen bet out, prompting a fold from Forrest. The hand got his stack back up to 26,000. On the next hand, Hansen raised from the small blind and Frank Kassela defended his big blind. The flop was . Hansen bet, Kassela raised and Hansen called. The turn was the and both players checked. The river was the . Hansen bet and Kassela called. Hansen rolled over . He had rivered a flush and took it down. He's now up to 39,500. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morlspin Posted June 27, 2008 Author Share Posted June 27, 2008 Re: WSOP $50,000 HORSE Days 1+2 Andy Black Eliminated Hold'em: Andy Black was the latest casualty of this event.. He took his up against the and came up short when Bonomo made three tens Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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