WSOP $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. Final: Live Update - At A Glance

[Djinn]

Big pot for David Singer - I think he raised to 50k, and found a big raise from Doyle Brunson - 100k or so more.  He called and there was a flop:

Doyle wasn't backing off (or so it appeared) as he bet out 200k fairly sharpish, but found an equally swift "all-in" from Singer, and passed a pot to him which took the dealer three goes to sweep over.  There are properly unwieldy WSOP stacks on that final, look good from an overhead camera angle, but take ten minutes to stack per pot...

[snoopy1239]

Preflop action

Tomko v Ivey

Flop =

Ivey bets 200k

Tomko folds

[Djinn]

The blinds (remembering it's NLHE all the way now) are 10,000/20,000 with a 3,000 ante.  Hefty.  They go up every 90 minutes, with a break between each level.

[Djinn]

Doyle makes it 60k and gets a call from Andy Bloch in the small blind.
Flop:    Andy checks, Doyle checks.
Turn:    Andy bet out 100k, and Doyle called.
River:    Check-check

Doyle shows and Andy mucks - looked like that top pair check on the flop got Doyle paid a little bit there.

[snoopy1239]

Phil Ivey raises preflop, Tomko moves all-in, Ivey calls.

Tomko =

Ivey =

Board =

Phil Ivey returns the chips he took off Tomko earlier.

[Djinn]

Aside from the $2000 NLHE running simultaneously...

Found El Blondie at last - doing well in this event 

Also John Shipley  (top 10% in chips)
Skalie (Jon Kalmar)  probably chip leader over 50,000
George Danzer     Would have been chip leader if his KK hadn't been cracked by 10 10
Julian Gardner

And that's just on one row of tables... going to keep half an eye on them when there's nothing much going on on the Feature Table.

[snoopy1239]

Andy Bloch raises to 60k from under the gun

Chip Reese (button) and Jim Betchel (Big Blind) call.

They all check an flop.

Turn =

Jim checks, Andy bets 100k, and the other two fold.

Pot to Bloch.

[Djinn]

Been taking my tableside shift (well, set-side) and saw a whole bunch of preflop raise-pass stuff.  In case you're interested, it's one each to Singer, Ivey, Reese, Cloutier and Tomko.  So the blinds and antes are migrating.

But then - another hit for Doyle Brunson - he made it 60k to go preflop and was called by Chip Reese and David Singer.
Flop:  .  He bet out (first to act) a big old 220k, then after a bit of a think, Chip min-raised him!  David got out of the way and it was quite a dwell before Doyle gave his hand up facing another 220k.  This is the second big hand he's lost like this - betting out big out of position, and getting re-raised off it.  Would love to see the old hole card cams...

[snoopy1239]

Ivey raises, Reese reraises another 600k, Ivey folds after a few minutes of deep thought.

[Djinn]

News from the $2,000 NL

Down to just 153 players from 1572 or something ridiculous.  El Blondie still going strong (pictured) - glad I jumped the rope before they get down to fewer than 15 tables or you'd have even worse quality snaps...

[Djinn]

Action!  Dewey Tomko doubles up -

In early position he pushed his short stack in and patiently waited to see if he'd be called.  Eventually David Singer took the plunge, with , while Dewey didn't move a muscle as he flipped .
Flop:     and a bit of hope for Dewey...
Turn:     and a bit of hope for David... (I've watched a LOT of poker and I have to say this final is exciting)
River:     

[Djinn]

Just prior to this Big Hand, Doyle raised under the gun to 70k and was called by Andy Bloch and small blind Phil. 
Flop:    and it looks like Ivey might have capitalised on the ragginess, betting out a big old 150k and pushing the other two away.

[Djinn]

$2,000

Ran into Skalie having a break - they're all in the money now, by the way - and he said he's still right at the top of the pack with 65,000, although there are apparently two stacks over 80k.  Dave is still above average, from what I could see (table walk ban enforced) while Julian and John are there too.  They're doing "round for round" at the moment - like hand-for-hand but a round.  Kind of obvious, actually.  Anyway, that leads me to believe we're on some kind of money-up bubble over there.

[snoopy1239]

Andy Bloch raises preflop from the button, David Singer calls for 46k more from the blind.

Flop =

Both players check.

Turn =

Singer bets 115k, Bloch calls.

River =

Singer checks, Bloch bets 250k, and Singer calls.

Bloch turns over .

Singer mucks.

[snoopy1239]

We're on level 2 of this final day. The blinds are 12k/24k with antes of 4k. The next level will see the blinds rise to 15/30.