WSOP $50,000 H.O.R.S.E Day 1 Live Update - At a Glance

[Djinn]

Here's your no-frills, no-chat thread - no replies allowed, just those numbers and histories if you're short on time, or don't feel like asking questions...

[Djinn]

Play starting in less than 15 minutes, and less than 10% of the players seem to be in the room... they can just sleep in, to be honest, as they'll lose about 200 chips an hour if they don't show up...

Just been on a quick tour (quick meaning 20 minutes just to walk the perimeter) and it's just like last year, with the wonderful exception of the quiet spaciousness in the press room, and the fact that there's a guy selling popcorn down the hall.  The smell is driving me bonkers.  Must go get some.

Bumped into Ram Vaswani, who's playing - he's never played Razz before, apparently.

Around 110 players, we hear - full list when we get it...

[Djinn]

Play has started - the T.D. announced "shuffle up and deal" and the pricey megatourney is underway.

Spotted:

Jennifer Harman
Tony G
Chris 'Jesus' Ferguson
Phil Ivey, John Juanda, Greg Raymer (same table)
Mel Judah
Christy Gazes (I think)
Ram Vaswani
Mike Matusow
Gus Hansen
Patrick Antonius
Scotty Nguyen
Marcel Luske
Dave 'Devilfish' Ulliott
David Benyamine
John D'Agostino

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http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=12460.msg259167#msg259167
http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=12460.msg259170#msg259170
http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=12460.msg259184#msg259184
http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=12460.msg259176#msg259176

Early player pics

[Djinn]

A few players sharing tables:

Doyle Brunson, Scott Fischman, & J Hennighan
Mike Matusow, Marcel Luske, & Mike Sexton
Ted Forrest, Tony Bloom, & Dutch Boyd
Michael Mizrachi, Ram Vaswani, & Dutch Boyd*
Phil Ivey, John Juanda, & Greg Raymer
Freddie Deeb, David Chui, & Huck Seed
Mike Caro & Johnny Chan
Gus Hanson, Allen Cunningham, & the Shiek
Barry Greenstein, Max Pescatori, Scotty Nguyen, Andy Bloch, & Chris Fersguson

At time of posting, unclear exactly who the second Mr. Boyd is meant to be (Snoopy got this information) >:?

[Djinn]

Oh, my little ears are always perked up - overhear that there are 143 players in the HORSE event (so far, I think late reg. is still a viable option).

[snoopy1239]

The players are now moving onto Razz.

[Djinn]

OK, here we are, the full list as of 15 minutes ago! 

Amit, Rafi                   Pescatori, Max
Antonius, Patrik          Phan, Thien
Appleman, Mickey       Phillips, Paul
Arieh, Josh                 Porter, Ralph
Awada, Yehia             Ramdin, Annand
Bechtel, James           Raymer, Greg
Benyamine, David        Reese, David
Berman, Lyle              Reslock, Chris
Bloch, Andy                Rheem, David
Bloom, Tony              Richey, Brett
Bonyadi, Farzad          Rodman, Blair
Boyd, Russell              Rudd, Ralph
Brown, Chad              Schulman, Nicholas
Browne, Walter          Seed, Huck
Brunson, Doyle           Seidel, Erik
Brunson, Todd            Sexton, Mike
Bucci, Rocco               Shak, Daniel
Burt, Timothy             Sheikhan, Shahram
Caro, Mike                  Singer, David
Cassidy, Joseph           Sklansky, David
Cernuto, John            Smith, Christopher
Chan, Jon                  Smith, Gavin
Chase, Ricky               Sofer, Evan
Chen, William              Sorensen, Jan
Chiu, David                 Talebi, Rodeen
Cloutier, Thomas (J)    Tenner, Mark
Cousineau, Anthony     Thung, Roy
Cunningham, Allen       Tomko, Dewey
D'Agostino, John          Traniello, Jennifer
Deeb, Kassem              Trincher, Illya
Dehkharghani, Raymond  Ulliott, Dave
Diano, Steve                 Vanalstyne, James
Diaz, Arturo                  Vaswani, Ram
Do, Cong                      Violette, Cyndy
Duke, Annie                 Wattel, Michael
Edler, William                Weideman, Thomas
Elezra, Eliahu                Williams, David
Eslami, Ali                     Williamson, Robert
Farha, Ihsan                 Wong, David
Farnood, Sherkhan         Zolotow, Stephen
Feduniak, Maureen
Ferguson, Chris
Fischman, Scott
Flack, Dee
Forrest, Ted
Franklin, Thomas
Freedman, Avraham
Freedman, Jeffrey
Friets, Neal
Gazes, Kristy
Giang, Chau
Glantz, Matthew
Gray, Jason
Greenstein, Barry
Gregorich, Mark
Grey, David
Guoga, Antanas
Habib, Hasan
Hansen, Gus
Hansen, Thor
Hanson, John
Harman, Jennifer
Harmetz, Daniel
Haveson, Brian
Hawrilenko, Matthew
Hellmuth, Phil
Hennigan, John
Hollink, Rob
Hufnagle, Thomas
Ivey, Phil
Jackson, Timothy
Jett, Charles
Juanda, John
Jungblut, Brett
Jurgens, Tad
Kaplan, Gabriel
Kassela, Frank
Katz, Aaron
Keikoan, Matthew
Kessler, Allen
Kim, Ki
King, Jeffrey
Lawson, Ted
Le, Tuan
Lederer, Howard
Leonidas, Alfredo
Levi, David
Lindgren, Erick
Lisandro, Jeffrey
Luske, Marcel
Ly, Minh
Mascio, Gregory
Matusow, Mike
McCrink, James
McDow, Roger
McKenna, Michael
Mizrachi, Michael
Mortensen, Juan
Mosseri, Abraham
Negreanu, Daniel
Nguyen, Scotty
Oppenheim, David
Perry, Rafael

[snoopy1239]

Daniel Negreanu has yet to arrive.

[snoopy1239]

Phil Ivey -- 53,900
Layne Flack -- 55,000
Johnny Chan -- 51,000
Daniel Negreanu -- 48,200

[snoopy1239]

I'm no Razz expert and it's very tricky to catch hands, but what I have seen is:

-- Phil Hellmuth scooping a decent sized pot off Annand 'Victor' Ramdin. Couldn't see Phil's cards, but Victor held

-- Dewey Tomko v Mike Caro

Caro =

Tomko =

Caro bets 600, Tomko folds.

[snoopy1239]

Elezra, Eliahu -- 47,200

[snoopy1239]

Joe Hachem is not playing today due to making it through to Day 2 of yesterday's Event.

[snoopy1239]

Players are now on a short break.

[Djinn]

Just in case you're still unsure of what this event entails (like Karabiner):

Rounds of Hold'em, Omaha 8/b, Razz, Stud, Stud 8/b - each level constitutes one round and lasts 40 minutes.

However, the Final Table will be No-Limit Hold'em. And levels will be 90 minutes.

Day One play will carry on until completion of level 15, Day Two will run from 2pm (10pm UK) until the final table, then Day Three is for the finalists.