2007 World Series of Poker

Event 39 - $50,000 H.O.R.S.E.
Day: 3
Event Info

2007 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Prize
$2,276,832
Event Info
Buy-in
$50,000
Prize Pool
$7,104,000
Entries
148
Level Info
Level
75
Blinds
250,000 / 500,000
Ante
50,000

Amnon Filippi = New Chipleader

Amnon Filippi took down a massive pot in Razz. He got Rob Hollink to muck his hand on the river with a busted A-2-3-4 low draw. Filippi showed the bluff and exposed his down cards. He had trip 6s.

"As if this game isn't brutal enough," commented Matusow.

Filippi increased his stack to 1M and has taken over the chiplead with 38 players remaining.

Tags: Amnon FilippiRob Hollink

Isabelle Stands Alone

Seven women entered the $50K HORSE and Isabelle Mercier is the last female remaining in the event. She started today as the shortest stack in the tournament. She managed to run her count up past 300K. She outlasted 13 players already and is currently 24th out of 39.

Tags: Isabelle Mercier

Talking Chip Counts and Fantasy Pools

During break - Tim Phan, John Juanda, Tuan Le, and Phil Hellmuth were all exchanging chip counts and hands while it appears that Tim Phan is running some kind of fantasy pool for the event, as people kept coming up to him and asking how many people they had left and Tim was rifling some pieces of paper. One member of the pool was none too happy to learn that a short-stacked Phil Hellmuth was their only player left in the pool.

Tags: Fantasy PoolPhil HellmuthTim Phan

Game Change: Razz

Level 38 - Razz is the game. Limits are 15,000/30,000 with a 3,000 ante. Bring in is 5,000 and completion 15,000.

Mike Matusow commented, "This is the make-it-or-break-it level - whoever wins or loses two pots in Razz. This will seperate the field."

Tags: Mike Matusow

Level: 38

Blinds: 15,000/30,000

Ante: 3,000

Tran vs. Oppenheim

We pick the hand up on the river. On a board of {10-Clubs}{A-Clubs}{5-Hearts}{2-Hearts}{3-Hearts}, both players have multiple bets out in front of them. David Oppenheim faces a raise from Kenny Tran.

Oppenheim picks up his hand and flips through his cards. "What just happened?" he says. He then knocks over some of his chips, stands up and pauses his iPod. He flicks through his cards some more and shows them to the hole-cam again.

Kenny Tran is as calm as can be through the five-minute ordeal. Oppenheim finally folds to one additional raise from Tran.

Tran shows A-2-4-6 and collects the nearly 150k chip pot. Oppenheim tells the table what he had, seemingly implying he was either ahead for most of the hand or was drawing very strongly.

Kenny Tran is among the chip leaders.

Tags: David OppenheimKenny Tran

Thor Hansen Picks Up a Nice Pot

In the last hand of Omaha Hi/Lo, Thor Hansen just scooped a big pot that saw three-way action to the river. Here's how it went down..

Thor Hansen raised to 24K under the gun. Barry Greenstein re-raised to 36K from the cutoff seat. Allen Cunningham called from the small blind as did Hansen. The three players saw a flop of {7-Hearts}{9-Hearts}{8-Spades}. Cunningham and Hansen both check/called Greenstein's bet. The turn came a {K-Spades}. Again, Cunningham and Hansen checked, Greenstein bet, and they both called. The river brought the {7-Diamonds}. All three players checked. Barry looked a bit disgusted and turned up {A-Hearts}{J-Hearts}{2-Spades}(X). Thor tabled the 2 cards he was playing which were {A-Spades}{7-Spades} and Cunningham mucked. Thor Hansen scooped this pot as Greenstein lamented about missing all those outs.

Brooklyn...More Than Just a Borough

Singer Finished 6th in Last Year's H.O.R.S.E. Event
Singer Finished 6th in Last Year's H.O.R.S.E. Event
Last year's finalist David Singer was heard chatting it with tablemate Daniel Negreanu recently. "Ya...plus I'm from Brooklyn" replied Singer to an unknown comment. "Brooklyn?" said Daniel, "That's what they call it when you get a strike in bowling but you don't connect with the right side of the pocket." "Interesting..." replied Singer "I did not know that..."

Tags: Daniel NegreanuDavid Singer