91 of the 95 starters in the $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. event returned to the tables today and 53 of them survived to see Day 3. Though we lost 38 players today compared to four last night, a full 56% of this field is still in contention for the Chip Reese Memorial Trophy and a WSOP bracelet.
Gus Hansen (680,000) and Ray Dehkharghani (643,000) finished Day 2 atop the leaderboard with Erik "Erik123" Sagstrom (500,000) and last year's fourth place finisher Matt Glantz (475,000).
Day 2 saw the departure of number of poker's finest with Daniel Negreanu, Howard Lederer, Andy Bloch, Chad Brown, Johnny Chan, Eli Elezra, Jennifer Harman, Greg Raymer, and Max Pescatori all busting out.
Official chip counts and seating assignments will be posted as soon as they become available.
Join us again at 2 p.m. tomorrow as the $50K H.O.R.S.E. gallops on.
With ten minutes left in Level 11, the tournament clock has been paused and a card drawn to determine the number of hands that will be played on each table before players bag and tag their chips. Tonight, it was a four, therefore, four more hands.
There appears to be a little tension on the Freddy Deeb/Brett Richey table where Deeb has accused Richey of intentionally trying to look at his cards.
"What? I like to stand up a lot!" defended Richey.
The situation got so bad that Deeb actually called the floor over to complain. Richey then exaggerated his customary stance by walking a good twenty feet away from the table with Deeb eyeing him down the whole way!
The late-night antics of Scotty Nguyen appear to have kicked in as the drinks are flowing and the unmistakable laughter emanates across the room from table 64.
First, Scotty offered a bet of $100 that he could toss a bit of paper into a nearby rubbish bin. He nailed it and was disappointed to not get any takers.
He then grabbed a Kleenex and offered odds of 100 to 1 to anyone that he could throw the Kleenex into the bin.
One lucky punter stepped up and offer Scotty $1, and Scotty swiftly poured his beer all over the Kleenex, scrunched it up, nailed the shot and claimed his $1 prize to the roars from the rail.
After a few more similar challenges, Scotty took the $1 bills he'd accumulated, signed them and handed them out to the fans on the rail.
Mikhail Tulchinskiy opened for a raise, Vitaly Lunkin three-bet and Tulchinskiy called. Lunkin led out on the flop and Tulchinskiy called. The turn was the and Lunkin fired again. Tulchinskiy raised, Lunkin reraised, and Tulchinskiy called. Both players checked when the river fell the .
Abe Mosseri will have Razz nightmares this evening. After losing the big pot to Ferguson he found his last chips all in by fourth street in a Razz hand against Hasan Habib. The boards ran out:
Mosseri: () ()
Habib: () ()
As he squeezed the river Mosseri was disgusted to find a king, after the hand started so promising, and he hurled the card across the table and stormed out of the Amazon Room.
Chris Ferguson completed on third and Abe Mosseri made the call, before Mosseri led the betting on fourth and fifth.
On sixth, Ferguson led out but Mosseri raised. Ferguson made the call and then checked the river to Mosseri who bet. Ferguson check-raised and Mosseri called.
Ferguson tabled () for a seven-low to collect the pot and move up to 185,000 to leave Mosseri under pressure on the short stack.