WSOP $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. - Day 4 - At A Glance

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Barry Greenstein and Amnon Filipi clash on the feature table.

Barry = (?)(?)

Amnon = (?)(?)

Barry bets 30k, Amnon calls.

Barry = (?)(?)

Amnon = (?)(?)

Barry bets 60k, Amnon calls.

Barry = (?)(?)

Amnon = (?)(?)

Barry bets 60k, Amnon folds.

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1st  Amnon Filippi -- $2,212,000
2nd  Kenny Tran -- $1,857,000
3rd  David Singer -- $1,790,000
4th  Freddy Deeb -- $1,330,000
5th  Bruno Fitoussi -- $1,295,000
6th  Tim Phan -- $1,195,000
7th  Barry Greenstein -- $970,000
8th  Greg Raymer -- $850,000
9th  Gabe Kaplan -- $810,000
10th Mark Gregorich -- $810,000

Tomko, Wolff, Hansen & Hanson bringing up the rear.

[Djinn]

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A good 15 minutes of cagey Razz/Stud play on the not-so-featured table.  Just now we got to fourth street with Greg Raymer calling Freddy Deeb.  Showing X X he then passed, however, with Deeb lamenting, "Where are you going?" as he flipped the to go with his showing .

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Sandwiched in between two hands where Dave Singer took the pot uncontested by sliding his 30k across the line, a three-way pot emerged involving Singer, Kenny Tran and Amnon Filipi.

Singer is in for 5k, Tran 30k, Amnon and Singer match the 30k.

Singer = (?)(?)
Amnon = (?)(?)
Kenny = (?)(?)

Kenny bets 30k, Amnon and David call.

Singer = (?)(?)
Amnon = (?)(?)
Kenny = (?)(?)

Kenny bets 60k, Amnon calls, David folds.

Amnon = (?)(?)
Kenny = (?)(?)

Amnon bets 60k, Kenny calls.

Amnon = (?)(?) (?)
Kenny = (?)(?) (?)

Both players check.

Amnon shows an Ace in the hole and wins the pot.

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Barry comes in for 10k with the showing, Singer puts in 30k with the and Steve Wolff calls.

David = (?)(?)
Stephen = (?)(?)

David bets 30k, Stephen calls.

David = (?)(?)
Stephen = (?)(?)

Stephen bets 60k, David raises to 120k, Stephen calls.

David = (?)(?)
Stephen = (?)(?)

David bets 60k, Stephen calls.

David = (?)(?) (?)
Stephen = (?)(?) (?)

David bets 60k, Stephen calls.

David wins with two pair, Eights and Threes.

[Djinn]

Pictured is Greg Raymer, still holding his own although dwindling in chips (I estimate him on 370k).  He just lost quite a few to Gabe Kaplan:

On fifth street they went from threeway to heads up, with Raymer (who on the first round of betting was the raiser) calling Kaplan's 60k bet.
Raymer:  X X
Kaplan:  X X
Sixth street brought a for Raymer, who checked to Kaplan who'd received a and bet it without hesitation a second time.  Quite a bit of hesitation from the former Main Event Champion, before a call of the 60k and a reluctant pass when the river brought him whatever unhelpful card it brought him.

Note that his Pokerstars-covered getup is of the .net rather than .com variety over here...

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1st  Amnon Filippi -- $2,575,000
2nd  Bruno Fitoussi -- $1,315,000
3rd  Kenny Tran -- $1,305,000
4th  Barry Greenstein -- $1,220,000
5th  Freddy Deeb -- $1,120,000
6th  David Singer -- $1,093,000
7th  Thor Hansen -- $1,050,000
8th  John Hanson -- $930,000
9th  Stephen Wolff -- $909,000
10th Gabe Kaplan -- $770,000

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Greg Raymer is OUT.

[Djinn]

H  blinds 20k/40k

Bruno Fitoussi raises Kenny Tran's big blind, getting a call.  Flop:  Double check.  Turn: and the Frenchman, seemingly in disguise, foregoing his usual suave look for a red T-shirt and a fisherman's hat (why not go the whole hog, I say, and add the fake nose and glasses), takes it with an 80k bet. 
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David Singer raises on the button to 80k.  Small blind Kenny Tran calls. 
Flop:  .  Tran checks, Singer bets 40k and gets instacalled.
Turn:    Tran bets out 80k now, and Singer calls after some brief deliberation.
River:    Check-check
Kenny Tran shows the
David Singer shows the , which pair of fours takes it down.  The double check on the river was very quick - I wonder if David Singer could have called a second bet on the end from the persistent small blind...

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For a slight change, I decided to go watch several hands of Omaha Hi-Lo at the feature table.

Not too much action (in fact, the most exciting moment was a deck change), but there a few swords clashing, the most eye-opening of which being a hand between Barry Greenstein, Dewey Tomko and Dave Singer, Dewey's pre-flop raise receiving two callers.

With the Flop bringing an , Barry check-raised Dave Singer's 40k bet, only for both Dave AND Dewey to make the call.

The Turn came a , and Barry bet again, once again receiving action from both players.

The River was the , and everyone checked, Barry taking the hand with a rather paltry A-J, although it took Dewey an absolute age to eventually muck his cards.

Still, A-J, didn't take much, I guess there were a few A-2s out there.

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Apart from Dewi, Bruno and David Singer taking the blinds, not too much happened on the feature table, so I quickly glanced down at the other table, where I saw Freddie Deeb (or Mini Deeb as he has been referred to - well, once, and it was me), re-raising John Hanson's flop bet on a board of , thus leaving the unknown with a painful look of despair and befuddlement on his face.

Eventually, Hanson did indeed fold and live to fight another day, but he appeared very eager indeed to learn what Deeb was playing. Deeb offered the showing of his hand for a grand, but, unsurprisingly, there were no takers.

Boy, that Mini Deeb don't half drive a hard bargain.

[Djinn]

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Bruno Fitoussi gets moved off the Major TV Table - in the process of changing mics he's dealt a hand in the big blind.  They kindly let him play it.  Thor Hansen has raised, and Gabe Kaplan callled in front of him.  He calls the extra 40k and they see the flop.  It checks round and on the turn, which was a paint-y card (let's guess the ) Bruno bet out 80k and both his opponents folded.  Then he got back up and let them re-wire him. 

He lost back what he'd gained in that hand, however, in the next one he played (having raised from the button) against callers Freddy Deeb and Gabe Kaplan.  This time Bruno bet the flop, took the free-card option when it was checked to him on the turn, but laid it down when Freddy bet the river (the board perhaps something like 3-8-6-Q-9).

[Djinn]

We have now hit the DINNER BREAK.  Restart at 9pm (5am UK time).

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After Bruno and Freddie Deeb took the antes, we suddenly lost Mark Gregorich who had let himself get quite short again. "I wanted to be the one making the move," he said prior to the hand.

Couldn't see the full hand, but I know he re-raised John Hanson's 50k. (10k antes, 50k/100k limits), before shoving the rest in soon after.

Both player has a two showing at the start, but Hanson's obviously transformed into a winning hand, as Gregorich was soon tapping the table and shaking hands with his opponents.


The chip counts just prior to that exit were...

1st  Amnon Filippi -- $2,945,000
2nd  Barry Greenstein -- $2,300,000
3rd  Freddy Deeb -- $1,710,000
4th  David Singer -- $1,650,000
5th  Gabe Kaplan -- $1,185,000
6th  John Hanson -- $1,175,000
7th  Thor Hansen -- $1,175,000
8th  Kenny Tran -- $1,100,000
9th  Bruno Fitoussi -- $940,000
10th  Dewey Tomko -- $280,000

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[Djinn]

Dewey Tomko is OUT in 10th place, winning $131,424

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He was all in in the Razz on third street with a 9 showing - Amnon Filippi was his opponent.  The cards (until the last) were dealt face up, and it looked right up until the river that there might be a double up, but no - his made 8-low on sixth street was beaten by Amnon on the river and there is just one more player to be eliminated before the H.O.R.S.E. final table is decided.

[Djinn]

Prior to this exit, there was some very cagey Razz being played indeed - but with the limits getting a little steep (ante 10k, bring-in 15k, complete 50k, big bet 100k) it's not surprising.  Amnon Filippi seemed to win more than his share of these hands, picking up two in a row before the hand progressed past third street.  Then Barry Greenstein made it 50k and picked up the antes, showing a pair of Nines.  The hand after that, Amnon took down another one on fourth street from David Singer, showing 5-5-5... we are wondering if they changed the little sign to the correct game.