WSOP $50,000 H.O.R.S.E Day 1 - Interactive

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And after getting on for 12 hours, I witnessed my first all-in!  It was a big blind A-Q getting it all in on the fourth bet preflop against A-7 and doubling up.  I was still excited to see some cards on their backs and admit hung there like a vulture.  I think Charles Lehr was the doubler-upper with the cutoff rag-ish Ace, but he's probably not bothered about that now because he won an enormous pot soon thereafter.  It looks like this particular table may have been a bit dominated by Scotty Nguyen, however, who looks like he has over 180k. 

He is pictured below, in all his medallioned glory.  Always chatting in a good-natured sort of way too.

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Just been watching the effortlessly smooth Bruno Fitoussi get cheerfully involved in pot after pot of the Omaha 8/b, first getting Chip Reese to pass on the turn with the board reading , but showing him his hand after he passed - I glimpsed the A-A-3-x, then winning the next pot, also on the turn.  Not showing that one.  I wonder if that's his favourite H.O.R.S.E. game - I am sure they all have their preferred and least preferred rounds: does anyone actually like Razz?

I like Razz 


And I would go for S.H.O.E.H.O.R.N.

1 stud, 1 eight and over, 1 razz, 2 holdem rounds, 2 omaha rounds, and one no limit holdem round.
It's not as funny as H.O.R.S.E.S.H.I.T. or H.I.P.P.O.P.O.T.A.M.U.S. but I really wouldn't mind playing a game of S.H.O.E.H.O.R.N.

HIPPOPOTAMUS certainly has a future. It's the most flexible game around, If you're not accustomed with all the games, you can simply play HIPPO instead.

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I forgot to mention that before the most recent game change I was kind of resting my feet standing still in front of the Patrik Antonius table.  The statuesque Finn was coolly winning hand after hand of the game, the last one I watched being one where having bet until his board showed X X , against a showing of X X , at which point he check called.  A good thing clearly happened for him on the river, as he scooped that pot revealing his down ...

At which point a certain couple of young Dutch players on the rail shouted:  "You're our hero, Patrik!"  They received the same quiet treatment as everyone else, but I'm sure he was grinning inside, at least a little bit.

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Welcome to the aquarium, although, I have to confess, Mateyboy is one hell of a player.

(1) Kirk Morrison
(2) Mateyboy
(3) David Singer
(4) TJ Cloutier
(5) Mike Sexton
(6) Dewey Tomko
(7) Phil Ivey
(8) Todd Brunson

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The game is now turning to 2k/4k limit Omaha 8/b... after a brief break.  We are looking probably at another couple of hours of play tonight, but we're not sure of anything yet.  The last hold'em round I saw Thor Hansen take down a good couple of pots, once with a pocket paint pair (I tell you, my distance vision is really shaky).  Also Thien Phan re-raised from the small blind after Bill Chen raised in the cutoff, and proceeded to bet out every street, until with the board his river bet saw off his opponent without showdown.

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17 tables
136 of 148 remaining
Average Stack = 108,823

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Caught the end of a hand between Tim Phan and Ted Forrest. The board reading 7h-6s-5s-3s-4c, a split pot with Forest's 2s-7s-6d-7d taking the high and Phan's 2h-5d- Ah-Kh snapping up the low.

More importantly, is that this could be the new Table of Dooooooooooom:

(1) William Chen
(2) David Chui
(3) Max Pescatori
(4) Tim Phan
(5) Mark Gregorich
(6) Chad Brown
(7) Ted Forrest
(8) Andy Bloch

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Raisy daisy hand between Ade Mosseri and Erik Seidel.

Flop =

Abe bets 2k, MB calls, Erick raises to 4k, Abe re-raises to 6k, MB folds, Erik calls.

Turn =

Abe checks, Erik bets 4k, Abe makes it 8k, Erik calls.

River =

Abe check calls 4k, Erik scoops with .

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Courtesy of worldseriesofpoker.com

1st  Eli Elezra -- $427,000
2nd  Bruno Fitoussi -- $310,000
3rd  Gavin Smith -- $237,000
4th  Alexander Kravchenko -- $235,000
5th  Toto Leonidas -- $224,000
6th  Scotty Nguyen -- $215,000
7th  Allen Cunningham -- $198,000
8th  Phil Hellmuth Jr. -- $192,000
9th  David Oppenheim -- $191,000
10th  Matthew Hawrilenko -- $190,000

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Oh, and I was just about to stun everyone with my chip count coup that Bruno Fitoussi was probably chip leader, or close, with 300k.  Well, did you know he'd just moved tables as the second one of the evening was broken?  Next to John Juanda?  He has, giving a noncommital modest shrug when I gave him the stack-counting-thumbs-up. 

I was entirely wrong about the predicted finish of tonight - it's actually at the end of this level, which is Razz, in about 15 minutes' time...they don't make the $50k H.O.R.S.E.rs run a marathon, just a five-day jog.

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It's not often we get the chance to follow so many name players in such a concentrated area, so with that in mind, I've taken the opportunity to take a few more snaps before the end of today's play.

Kirk Morrison, Tuan Le & Jesse Jones

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Greg Raymer, Jason Lester & Phil Laak

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A couple of other counts from the vantage point allowed by the rail:

Erik Seidel   165k
Maureen Feduniak   28k

And a final few pictures:

Sam Farha
Jennifer Harman
Rob Hollink

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Cyndy Violette, Doyle Brunson & Marco Traniello

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Abe Mosseri, David Sklansky & Victor Ramdin