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

[Djinn]

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John Juanda (pictured) would be one of my tips for this, or any tournament in fact.  He just won a pretty chunky Razz pot too - this is what happened, from what I could see:

In order of acting, there were:
Juanda:  X X
David Grey:  X X
Rafi Amit:  X X  
Checks to Rafi Amit, and then following calls from brought Juanda the , Grey the and Amit the .  Now John Juanda bet out (8k) and received slightly slower calls from both of his opponents.  They all get dealt Tens on 6th street.

With just one card to come, the betting gets interesting - Juanda checks, Grey bets out (8k), call from Amit, then Juanda raises, with the third bet coming back from Grey.  Rafi Amit calls in the middle and they all get their final down cards.

Check to Rafi Amit, who bets - Juanda thinks for a while and calls, while David Grey must not have liked what he saw on the river as he folds.  As soon as he sees his opponent call his bet, Amit just chucks his hand away, handing the chunky pot to the last man standing - who flashes what looked like the and something else as he scooped it.

[NoflopsHomer]

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Phil Hellmuth was in every pot here I watched this level.

First he bet every street against Chip Reese and Raymer on a board, clearing Reese off the flop, but Raymer called him down but mucked when he was shown

Reese and Hellmuth continued to tangle, in a pot which Helmuth had 3-bet preflop and also involved Cyndy Violette.

Flop:



Reese bets 3k, Hellmuth makes it 6k, Violette folds, Reese calls.

Turn:



Reese bets 6k, Hellmuth calls.

River:



Reese checks, Hellmuth checks.

Hellmuth:

for an overpair but no low.

Reese:

for two pair and a A-2-3-7-8 low which scoops the pot.


A couple of hands and they're tangling again. This time Hellmuth is betting at the board the whole way and Chip Reese is check/calling him down.

Hellmuth:

for Nines and Eights with the nut-low (A-2-3-5-8)

Reese:

for Nines, with the nut-low (A-2-3-5-8)

Hellmuth takes three quarters.

[Djinn]

That left these three's chip counts:

John Juanda  270k
David Grey    105k
Rafi Amit       140k

[Djinn]

Whereas the Leaders (from worldseriesofpoker.com):

1. Eli Elezra -- 658,000
2. Bruno Fitoussi -- 332,000
3. David Oppenheim -- 325,000
4. Phil Ivey -- 312,000
5. John Juanda -- 285,000
6. Mike Matusow -- 280,000
7. Annie Duke -- 270,000
8. David Singer -- 265,000
9. Greg Raymer -- 263,000
10. Barry Greenstein -- 260,000

[NoflopsHomer]

You can guess who this is by the book beneath his chair...

Chip Reese, Phil Hellmuth and Erik Seidel.

Max Pescatori, Isabelle Mercier and Patrick Antonius.

[LeKnave]

Does the final change to NLHE again this year?

[NoflopsHomer]

Does the final change to NLHE again this year?

No, it's HORSE all the way.

[Djinn]

Also still gracing this most prestigious of events with his snappily dressed presence - Robert Williamson III.
Pictured below, a serious-looking Victor Ramdin, who has to be one of the nicest players I've mini-interviewed during the last season of the EPT.  Happy to talk to other players, press, random members of the public, he's one of the less widely-known Pokerstars players in Europe, but people seem to like him over here.

[LeKnave]

Does the final change to NLHE again this year?

No, it's HORSE all the way.

Thought so.

Is it televised?

[NoflopsHomer]

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The Omaha Hi/Lo is my favourite of these games, but to me, the Stud 8 looks the most challenging to play.

Steve Zolotow is OUT.

Howard Lederer was betting all the way and Zolotow and Laak were calling.

Lederer:

(?) (?) (?)

Zolotow:

(?) (?) (?)

Laak:

(?) (?) (?)

Lederer's back three were and giving him Tens full which takes the high half.

Zolotow had and the for a 7 high straight and a 7-6-5-4-3 for the low.

Phil Laak was holding and the , for Aces for the high and 7-6-5-3-A which pips Zolotow for the low.

Incidentally, it seems the dealers are having trouble with the similarly coloured chips, Howard Lederer was almost given a stack of 5k chips which included a couple of 500 chips.

[Djinn]

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The action is really starting to speed up now as there have been at least three eliminations in the past 20 minutes.  NoflopsHomer saw one, while Keith Lehr didn't make it through the Stud 8/b level either - Daniel Shak and John Hennigan splitting his remaining stack.  Also an Insider Informant tells me that it was David Singer who just knocked out Williamson, making my earlier picture post just in the nick of time...

Elsewhere short stack Tom Schneider had his all-in moment against David Williams, but managed to scoop, it looked like, on one of the final cards dealt keeping him in the tournament.  It looks weird to someone used to updating NLHE tournaments when someone gets it all-in, er, pre, in Stud, with three more cards being dealt to each player face up and then a 7th down card which is immediately flipped too.  So much to absorb... Stud not a game for those with dodgy short-term memories.

[Djinn]

Does the final change to NLHE again this year?

No, it's HORSE all the way.

Thought so.

Is it televised?

Er... I reckon so, but you'd have to look at ESPN's schedule for confirmation.  They've already announced what they're airing and when, I just can't remember any of that information.  Sorry.

[LeKnave]

Does the final change to NLHE again this year?

No, it's HORSE all the way.

Thought so.

Is it televised?

Er... I reckon so, but you'd have to look at ESPN's schedule for confirmation.  They've already announced what they're airing and when, I just can't remember any of that information.  Sorry.

You will notice that the $50,000 HORSE tournament is not on the summer schedule. This major event added last year is being properly played as both a great tournament and potentially great television. Scheduled to play out over five days late in June, the current broadcast schedule calls for the $50K HORSE tournament to be a fall special event shown over five weeks and ten hours in October.

You reckoned right. 

[NoflopsHomer]

I've just gotten the boot from the tournament area.There's a a class system here, (you won't have heard of this in Britain), and we are on the bottom rung.

"You can stand behind the rail, or two tables away from the action and report from there," I get told. With the rail being six people deep and the distance of two tables away being even further than that, it's sounds pretty damn difficult.

Anyway, they're now on the Limit Hold 'em section and I think Jen is trying to sneak in down the other side.

[totalise]

great updates team