WSOP $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. Day 2 Live Update - Interactive

[Gryff]

At the break:

1   Jim Bechtel   990,000
2   David Singer   743,000
3   Gavin Smith   650,000
4   Patrik Antonius   620,000
5   Chip Reese   468,000
6   T.J. Cloutier   435,000
7   Barry Greenstein   415,000
8   David Levi   407,000
9   Doyle Brunson   390,000
10   Robert Williamson III   375,000
11     Andy Bloch   360,000
12   Joe Cassidy   268,000
13   Cong Do   245,000
14     Phil Ivey   210,000
15   Dewey Tomko   190,000
16   Rafael Perry   180,000
17   Matt Hawrilenko   141,000
18   Allen Cunningham   90,000


Two from the bubble.

I genuinely think TJ Cloutier has a great shot at this.
He has a WSOP bracelet in Omaha eight or better, Omaha and Pot Limit Omaha, he genuinely is one of the better players in all those variants and is solid at limit holdem and stud ( unsure on stud eight or better ).

A lot of the players entering this event while they are great at LHE and NLHE are marginal in some of the other games - Gavin Smith is a giant fish at stud8 ( listen to the latest circuit show where he believes an open ended low+straight+flush draw on 6th is ahead of a high pair. ( In omaha sure, not in stud8 though ).

[Jon MW]

I think it'd depend on my situation.

In the likely event that I was perilously short stacked I'd just wait for a decent hand to go all-in and try to limp in after a double up. But if I had any sort of strength I'd be aiming for the big finish.

[snoopy1239]

Onto Razz now and the shortest stack, Allen Cunningham, doubles up courtesy of Cong Do.

Cunningham moves in 15k preflop, Do raises to 30k, Cunningham calls.

All the chips went in by the second exposed card.

(couldn't quite see all seven cards, but it was clear that Do had made a low by the penultimate card.

Cunningham =

Do =

Cunningham is now up to 120k.

[snoopy1239]

Toilet report from last loo run:

Urinals: Cassidy, Cunningham, and Greenstein (discussing size of their stacks - honest!)

Pots: Reese and Ivey

On their way in: Bloch, Smith, and Levi

Nobody at the sinks.

[Djinn]

Toilet report from last loo run:

Urinals: Cassidy, Cunningham, and Greenstein (discussing size of their stacks - honest!)

Pots: Reese and Ivey

On their way in: Bloch, Smith, and Levi

Nobody at the sinks.

Now I have to say that this is a part of the game that I am very very unlikely to experience.  I wonder whether people hassle them for autographs and stuff in there, or if that's considered rude...  So many questions arise when you've been up this long.

[Djinn]

I think it'd depend on my situation.

In the likely event that I was perilously short stacked I'd just wait for a decent hand to go all-in and try to limp in after a double up. But if I had any sort of strength I'd be aiming for the big finish.

Ah, but these are still limit games (until the final 9) so if you're considering the all-in you've got to be pretty perilously short i.e. it has to have become irrelevant what comes on the flop, you're just committing and that's that.  It's more of a pertinent question if you've got the average chips - do you sit on them or go for it?  (It looks like you side with the "go for it" camp)

[Djinn]

Dewey Tomko wins about a 50k pot from Joe Cassidy, who folds on fifth street in the Razz with a bit of an annoyed flourish - at exactly the same time as Phil Ivey takes down a bigger pot on the other side of the room.  The players no longer have the option they may once have had to just fold through their weaker variants - the $15,000/$30,000 limit on the stud rounds sees to that.

[snoopy1239]

Razz still

Allen Cunningham must be a Trekkie because I've never seen anyone clingon like him before.

In true Mickey Wernick style, he's allowed himself to near the felt without doing anything drastic. He was down to jus t1.3k in fact before he pushed in.

Action came in the form of Rafael Perry.

Perry =

Cunningham =

The bracelet winner survives.

[TightEnd]

Is it true that the final table will be hold em only for tv purposes? Heard this last night on PNL

if so, how lousy...surely the players must be mad!

p.s great stamina guys, you have my admiration!

[snoopy1239]

Is it true that the final table will be hold em only for tv purposes? Heard this last night on PNL

if so, how lousy...surely the players must be mad!

p.s great stamina guys, you have my admiration!

Yes, that is true.

Guess they just want 9 high profile names playing the Cadillac of poker on the box.

I agree, very poor.

[Jon MW]

I think it'd depend on my situation.

In the likely event that I was perilously short stacked I'd just wait for a decent hand to go all-in and try to limp in after a double up. But if I had any sort of strength I'd be aiming for the big finish.

Ah, but these are still limit games (until the final 9) so if you're considering the all-in you've got to be pretty perilously short i.e. it has to have become irrelevant what comes on the flop, you're just committing and that's that.  It's more of a pertinent question if you've got the average chips - do you sit on them or go for it?  (It looks like you side with the "go for it" camp)

That's pretty much what I meant - if you're low enough in chips to have to go all in or pass, then I'd try and double up with any decent hand because you probably wouldn't have enough chips to limp in to the money anyway.

If you're not that short stacked, I'd go for it. At least until I got to the super short stacked situation anyway. Either way I suspect I'd manage to find some way of going out on the bubble.

[Jon MW]

I like the consecutive headlines on CardPlayer

     Cunningham Doubles

     Cunningham Doubles Again

     Allen Cunningham Busts in 17th

Excellent comic timing from Mr Cunningham   

[snoopy1239]

I like the consecutive headlines on CardPlayer

     Cunningham Doubles

     Cunningham Doubles Again

     Allen Cunningham Busts in 17th

Excellent comic timing from Mr Cunningham   

Yep, that's pretty much what happened. It was just that he let himself get so low that when he did actually double up, he was still low. He dropped to 13k before the second double-up. I'm no expert, that seemed way too low.

[Djinn]

And we have the 18th finisher - Allen Cunningham who'd dwindled past the danger point and was all-in, with a stud hand of K 3 2 3 10 8 (which actually wouldn't have turned into a good hand in any of the Seven-carders) and he quietly stood up, saying, "Well, I guess that's the end of me..."  A very restrained exit, when Andy Bloch had just said a few minutes earlier in astonishment, "There are actually people here who aren't even getting paid!  Well, maybe they all have a piece of someone..."

In any case it's probably a very tired Allen Cunningham who relinquished the last of his chips with no obvious hard feelings.

[Djinn]

And we have the 18th finisher - Allen Cunningham who'd dwindled past the danger point and was all-in, with a stud hand of K 3 2 3 10 8 (which actually wouldn't have turned into a good hand in any of the Seven-carders) and he quietly stood up, saying, "Well, I guess that's the end of me..."  A very restrained exit, when Andy Bloch had just said a few minutes earlier in astonishment, "There are actually people here who aren't even getting paid!  Well, maybe they all have a piece of someone..."

In any case it's probably a very tired Allen Cunningham who relinquished the last of his chips with no obvious hard feelings.

Forgot to mention that Allen's final opponent was Cong Do.