WSOP $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. - Day 2 - At A Glance

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This will be your info-only, no pics thread illustrating the slow reduction of the field as they work through another day of H.O.R.S and E.  (For Interactive coverage try http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=25001.0)

Eli Elezra   561000
Bruno Fitoussi   358900
David Oppenheim   302300
Gavin Smith   260900
Phil Ivey   260400
Alex Kravchenko   218900
Barry Greenstein   211800
Erik Seidel   189700
Toto Leonidas   188100
Scotty Nguyen   186100
Abraham Mosseri   182200
Annie Duke   179200
Phil Laak   178900
Mike Matusow   178200
Matt Hawrilenko   178000
John Juanda   176400
Rafi Amit   171300
Tim Phan   171000
Erick Lindgren   168800
Darrell Dicken   165900
Amnon Filippi   161900
Pat Pezzin   161400
Chris Gentile   161000
Soheil Shamseddin   160200
Greg Mascio   159100
Allen Cunningham   159100
David Singer   158300
Phil Hellmuth   158100
Huck Seed   157600
Chip Reese   153700
Chris Reslock   152600
Keith Lehr   150200
Thor Hansen   149400
Neal Friets   148900
Greg Raymer   147700
Mark Gregorich   147000
Patrik Antonius   146600
Tom Franklin   140000
Greg Meuller   139700
Andy Bloch   137800
Justin Bonomo   135500
Daniel Negreanu   135400
Tony Cousineau   135000
Dewey Tomko   134300
Brad Helm   132600
Freddy Deeb   129600
Kristy Gazes   127200
Gabe Kaplan   124200
John Hanson   123200
Kenny Tran   123000
Bari Sklar   121700
Joe Cassidy   119800
Chris Ferguson   119800
David Sklansky   118800
Ted Forrest   118400
Nikolaus Frangos   118400
David Chiu   117900
Sam Grizzle   117800
MJ Partin   115800
Max Pescatori   115700
Matt Lefkowitz   115200
Robert Mizrachi   115100
Doyle Brunson   108100
Howard Lederer   107100
Bill Gazes   107100
Steve Zolotow   106900
Mark Tenner   106600
David Williams   106200
Allen Kessler   104400
Noah Jefferson   103200
CR Kaelin   102200
Robert Williamson III   101700
Farzad Bonyadi   100400
Marco Traniello   100000
Ray Dehkharghani   99100
John Hennigan   97600
Jason Lester   95500
David Grey   93600
Todd Brunson   93200
Chad Brown   92500
Rob Hollink   91600
Mike Wattel   88000
Harry Thomas Jr   87300
Cyndy Violette   87000
John L Cover   86800
Isabelle Mercier   85000
Sherkhan Farnood   83600
Luke Neely   83000
Stephen Wolff   80300
William Chen   80000
Mickey Appleman   79200
Hasan Habib   79000
Roy Thung   78600
Joe Tehan   78500
Daniel Shak   77100
Victor Ramdin   74200
Steve Sung   73800
Ralph Perry   73700
Tuan Le   73500
Ali Eslami   72700
Tony G   64200
Thomas Weideman   63200
Bill Edler   63200
David Levi   62200
John Duthie   55200
Jeff King   55200
Ted Lawson   55000
Carlos Mortensen   54300
Bart Hanson   54200
John D'Agostino   50700
John Phan   50200
Maureen Feduniak   44200
Jennifer Harman   40800
Kirk Morrison   39400
Jim Bechtel   36000
Ariel Schneller   35900
TJ Cloutier   35800
Michael Mizrachi   35500
Tom Schneider   34700
Bueno Patrick   25900
Mike Sexton   14600
Brandon Adams   13000
Benjamin Lin   11500
Vladimir Troyanovskiy   10200
Dan Harmetz   10100
Tad Jurgens   6500
Jesse Jones   2000

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Yes, we're ready for a much-more-action-packed-than-expected day of H.O.R.S.E. here in the Rio, which should be underway momentarily, with a star-studded field* of 127 players... It's Homer's first day of WSOP updating, so let's collectively hope that he's got his comfy shoes on! 


*This is the phrase required by the Press Office to be used at least once per 24 hour period, Benjo assures me.

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Welcome, one and all to the table of.................

Click to see full-size image.

Greg Raymer
Chad Brown
Tony G
Phil Hellmuth
Erik Seidel
Carlos Mortensen
Cyndy Violette
Eli Elezra

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Pictured as just a floating white cowboy hat below is Doyle Brunson, whom I saw in a hand with Gabe Kaplan and Sherkhan Fernoud.  Sitting between them, they were dealt:

Kaplan:  X X
Brunson:  X X
Farnoud:  X X      Check to Farnoud from both players, who bet, receiving two calls.   Then came a , and respectively - unsurprisingly Farnoud bet his three little spades when he got another double check.  Kaplan passed but Brunson took another card - the .  Farnoud bet his new , and now the behatted legend bowed out of the pot.

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Andy Bloch has knocked out Brandon Adams.

Andy held face up with concealed amongst his other three cards which beat Adam's with concealed.


A big four-way pot got to 7th street, Ivey bet 6th street and all three players called.

Erick Lindgren (?) (?) (?)

Phil Ivey (?) (?) (?)

David Singer (?) (?) (?)

Kirk Morrison (?) (?) (?)

River:

Ivey and Lindgren check, Singer bets 5k, Morrison makes it 10k and Ivey and Lindgren pass and Singer calls, shows for the boat which takes the pot. Morrison mucks

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Top Tens - courtesy of Worldseriesofpoker.com:

1. Eli Elezra -- 561,000
2. Bruno Fitoussi -- 358,900
3. David Oppenheim -- 302,300
4. Gavin Smith -- 260,900
5. Phil Ivey -- 250,000
6. Alexander Kravchenko -- 218,900
7. Barry Greenstein -- 211,800
8. Greg Raymer -- 200,000
9. Erik Seidel -- 189,700
10. Toto Leonidas -- 188,100

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Isabelle Mercier wins a chunk off Soheil Shamseddin, he bet all the way on his board and Isabelle called him down with before raising on the river and showing (not sure when she hit the third Queen) but Max Pescatori had the case queen as his up card, so I'm guessing she might have caught her 3rd queen on the river.

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I have found that if you go and stand by the empty rail in the break, then when it's over you're ringside and can see what's going on!  Here are the first few hands on a couple of tables I was watching as the newest Hold'em round (blinds 1,500/3,000 limit 3k/6k) kicked off:

Shortstack Tad Jurgens comes in preflop for a raise, and with Barry Greenstein re-raising it looks like this could be the start of a make-or-break pot for him.  A substantial portion of his stack is now in on the flop, and he bets, called by Greenstein.  The comes on the turn and it looks like the rest of his stack now fits in (i.e. is under 6k), but Barry doesn't knock him out, passing and giving it up right there.
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Eli Elezra raises to 6k preflop, and finds a re-raise behind him.  Call.  Flop:  and the chip leader check-folds to Mr. G's bet, showing A-x, where 'x' didn't look that painty.

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Jesus vs. Barry:

Chris Ferguson sees a flop in position against Barry Greenstein:    The 6 foot 5 guy in front of me moved to block my view of the flop betting, so let's skip past that to the turn.  That I know Ferguson bet, when it was checked to him, while Greenstein called.
River:    check-check and Chris Ferguson's were shown first, winning the pot.

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Any updates on Ed Pelligrini?


 

He's not on the list of players still in, I'm afraid.

This is an outrage, could he be under a pseudonym?

Mr Hornswaggle, I have to object to your latest unlikely hero. This man passed aces twice on the bubble of a WPT event. That is not a heroic act, but cowardly and a disgrace to poker. I would hate to see him on the bubble of a $50k HORSE event.Back to Ireland, on your bike.

Cheers for the updates guys, great as ever. Can we have updates on the captain, Tony G, who has been surprisingly quiet so far this year.

Er.... I strongly believe he's been eliminated.  As has Jennifer Harman, who slowly descended from cheerful to resigned over the course of the two days.  Homer saw her doing the Walk of Out just a moment ago during the Omaha round.

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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.

Now:

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

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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.

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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

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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 A-3-5-6-7 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.

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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.