Event #27: $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. Championship Day 2 | 2018 World Series of Poker

06-14-2018 02:10 UTC-7

Seat	Table 424	Country	Chip Count	Table 425	Country	Chip Count
1	Jake Schwartz	United States	450,000	Iraj Parvizi	United Kingdom	875,000
2	Albert Daher	Lebanon	680,000	"David ""Bakes"" Baker"	United States	605,000
3	Robert Mizrachi	United States	230,000	Robert Campbell	Australia	225,000
4	Jean Gaspard	United States	550,000	John Hennigan	United States	700,000
5	Randy Ohel	United States	530,000	Daniel Zack	United States	630,000
6	Anthony Zinno	United States	415,000	Carol Fuchs	United States	410,000
7	Katherine Fleck	United States	395,000	Laith Salem	United States	1,200,000
8	Illya Trincher	United States	65,000	Michael Noori	United States	325,000

Player	Chips	Progress
Lee Salem	1,200,000 100,000	100,000

Iraj Parvizi	875,000
John Hennigan	700,000 -150,000	-150,000

Albert Daher	680,000 370,000	370,000
Daniel Zack	630,000 10,000	10,000

David "Bakes" Baker	605,000 -110,000	-110,000

Jean Gaspard	550,000 -125,000	-125,000

Randy Ohel	530,000

Jake Schwartz	450,000 40,000	40,000
Anthony Zinno	415,000 30,000	30,000

Carol Fuchs	410,000 10,000	10,000

Katherine Fleck	395,000 -105,000	-105,000
Michael Noori	325,000 60,000	60,000

Robert Mizrachi	230,000 -25,000	-25,000

Robert Campbell	225,000 -15,000	-15,000

Illya Trincher	65,000 15,000	15,000

Salem Extends His Lead Late

Mickey Doft

Level 20 : 10,000/20,000, 0 ante

Seven Card Stud

John Hennigan: / - fold
Laith Salem: / /
Michael Noori: / /

Michael Noori was the bring-in, John Hennigan completed, Laith Salem called and Noori called. On fourth street Salem bet with his on-board lead, Noori raised, Hennigan folded, Salem reraised and Noori called.

Noori called another Salem bet on fifth street and then check-called a Salem bet of sixth street.

It was more of the same on seventh street as Noori check-called a bet from Salem again.

Salem tabled for a flush, Noori mucked and Salem won the pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Lee Salem	1,430,000 230,000	230,000

Michael Noori	285,000 -40,000	-40,000

Tags: Laith Salem Michael Noori

06-14-2018 02:23 UTC-7

Daher Jumps Above a Million

Christian Zetzsche

Level 20 : 10,000/20,000, 0 ante

Seven Card Stud

Illya Trincher tripled up his stack since the redraw took place and Albert Daher just now scooped a big three-way pot to become a second player with more than one million in chips.

Anthony Zinno: / /
Albert Daher: / /
Randy Ohel: / /

Anthony Zinno completed with a deuce and Daher made it three bets with a trey showing. Randy Ohel asked "we are playing Stud high?" and then called the three-bet, as did Zinno. Ohel picked up an ace and checked first to act on fourth, Zinno checked and Daher bet, picking up two calls. The same action repeated itself on fifth street and Daher then paired his nine on sixth to take the lead, he bet and was called two ways.

After seventh street, Daher bet once more and both opponents called. Daher rolled over for kings full of nines and raked in a massive pot just before the end of the day.

Player	Chips	Progress
Albert Daher	1,150,000 470,000	470,000
Randy Ohel	570,000 40,000	40,000

Anthony Zinno	335,000 -80,000	-80,000

Illya Trincher	170,000 105,000	105,000

Tags: Albert Daher Anthony Zinno Illya Trincher Randy Ohel

06-14-2018 02:33 UTC-7

End of Day 2 Chip Counts (full)

Mickey Doft

Level 20 : 10,000/20,000, 0 ante

Day 2 action has concluded with 16 players remaining. Laith Salem (1,456,000) and Albert Daher (1,300,000) are well ahead of the field as the overwhelming chip leaders.

A full recap will be posted later tonight.

Player	Chips	Progress
Lee Salem	1,456,000 26,000	26,000

Albert Daher	1,300,000 150,000	150,000
John Hennigan	687,000 -13,000	-13,000

Iraj Parvizi	620,000 -255,000	-255,000
Randy Ohel	571,000 1,000	1,000

Carol Fuchs	562,000 152,000	152,000

David "Bakes" Baker	559,000 -46,000	-46,000

Daniel Zack	546,000 -84,000	-84,000

Jean Gaspard	405,000 -145,000	-145,000

Jake Schwartz	357,000 -93,000	-93,000
Michael Noori	343,000 58,000	58,000

Anthony Zinno	237,000 -98,000	-98,000

Robert Campbell	210,000 -15,000	-15,000

Katherine Fleck	186,000 -209,000	-209,000
Illya Trincher	159,000 -11,000	-11,000
Robert Mizrachi	111,000 -119,000	-119,000

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06-14-2018 03:00 UTC-7

Day 3 Seating and Chip Counts

Yori Epskamp

Level 20 : 10,000/20,000, 0 ante

Room	Table	Seat	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
Amazon	1	1	Jake Schwartz	United States	357,000	30
Amazon	1	2	Albert Daher	Lebanon	1,300,000	108
Amazon	1	3	Robert Mizrachi	United States	111,000	9
Amazon	1	4	Jean Gaspard	United States	40,500	3
Amazon	1	5	Randy Ohel	United States	571,000	48
Amazon	1	6	Anthony Zinno	United States	237,000	20
Amazon	1	7	Katherine Fleck	United States	186,000	16
Amazon	1	8	Illya Trincher	United States	159,000	13

Amazon	2	1	Iraj Parvizi	United Kingdom	620,000	52
Amazon	2	2	David "Bakes" Baker	United States	559,000	47
Amazon	2	3	Robert Campbell	Australia	210,000	18
Amazon	2	4	John Hennigan	United States	687,000	57
Amazon	2	5	Daniel Zack	United States	546,000	46
Amazon	2	6	Carol Fuchs	United States	562,000	47
Amazon	2	7	Laith Salem	United States	1,456,000	121
Amazon	2	8	Michael Noori	United States	343,000	29

06-14-2018 03:20 UTC-7

16 Remain in $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. Championship; Salem and Daher Dominate

Christian Zetzsche

Level 20 : 10,000/20,000, 0 ante

Day 2 of the 2018 World Series of Poker Event #27: $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. Championship has come to an end after ten hours of play and 16 hopefuls remain in the hunt for the elusive gold bracelet and payday of $414,692 that comes along with it. Before the cards got back in the air, another nine players opted to enter the competition to create a field of 166 entries, which resulted in a prize pool of $1,560,400 that was shared among the top 25 spots.

A duo with more than one million in chips sits at the top of the leaderboard after Day 2 in Laith Salem (1,456,000) and Albert Daher (1,300,000). Their combined stack sizes represent 33% of the chips in play, nearly double as many as third-placed John Hennigan (687,000) and Iraj Parvizi (620,000).

Salem's best result at the WSOP is a 5th place in the 1998 Main Event for a payday of $190,000, while Daher has already racked up more than $3 million in cashes at the live poker tables. The third in Lebanon's all-time money list comes fresh off a career-best score of $716,211 in May 2018.

Other notables still in contention in a field filled with some of the biggest names in poker are the WSOP bracelet winners Randy Ohel (571,000), Carol Fuchs (562,000), David "Bakes" Baker (559,000), Jean Gaspard (405,000), Anthony Zinno (237,000) and Robert Mizrachi (111,000). A second woman has reached Day 3 in Katherine Fleck, who will return with a stack of 186,000.

John Hennigan sits in third place after Day 2 of the $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. Championship

Day 2 at a Glance

Among the nine new entries before the start of play were such big names as Brian Rast, Phil Ivey, Stephen Chidwick, Luke Schwartz and 14-time WSOP bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth. However, of all late entrants, only Mike Gorodinsky reached the money and bowed out in 19th place for $15,229 in the penultimate level of the day.

Other big names that busted without anything to show for include Daniel Negreanu, David "ODB" Baker, Marco Johnson, Cliff Josephy, Jeff Lisandro, Chris Ferguson, Shaun Deeb,Benny Glaser, John Monnette, 2016 champion Jason Mercier, and Ian Johns. Josephy got it in with a ninety-eight in a Razz hand against Stuart Rutter and the Brit had an eighty-seven already. Josephy failed to improve and hit the rail.

David Benyamine's stack was chopped up by Andrew Barber's full house and Michael Noori's nut low in an Omaha Hi-Lo hand and John Monnette's eight-seven draw in Razz failed to get there against the made nine-eight of eventual chip leader Salem. Soon after, Mercier and Ivey busted shy of the money and Salem's rise to the top started in the last four levels of the night.

On the money bubble it took 15 hands to determine the last player to leave empty-handed and it was Scott Cole that ended up as the bubble boy. After a series of hits to his stack in quick succession, Cole called it off drawing dead on sixth in a Razz hand against the made seven-five of Robert Campbell.

In the remaining three and a half hours of play, big names as Jean-Robert Bellande (26th place, $15,229), Andrew Barber (25th place, $15,229), Stuart Rutter (21st place, $15,229) and Joey Couden (18th place, $15,229) ran out of chips. Ryan Miller became the last casualty of the night to redraw to the last two tables and that set up the remaining field of hopefuls for Day 3. All 16 remaining contenders have $17,677 locked up for their efforts.

The action will recommence on Thursday, June 14th, 2018, as of 2 p.m local time with blinds of 6,000/12,000 in Hold'em and Omaha games, the limits will be 12,000/24,000. All Stud games will feature an ante of 3,000 and a bring-in of 3,000 with the same limits.

The PokerNews live reporting team will be on the floor to provide all the action and PokerGO will also host a live stream for one of the summer's flagship events as the 2018 World Series of Poker continues.

Tags: Albert Daher Carol Fuchs Iraj Parvizi John Hennigan Katherine Fleck Laith Salem Scott Cole

Event #27: $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. Championship

Day 2 Completed