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Phil He11muth
With the yellow counters signifying the hands left until game change (eight a round) moving at greatly varying rates on different tables, it's possible to see every game in the H.O.R.S.E catalogue being played at once in the Empire Casino card room. Andy Bloch, playing Stud, just scooped in a big pot peppered with orange 1k chips from Phil Hellmuth. I only saw the chips being shovelled towards Bloch, and rather than ask a spectator what had happened, it was only a matter of time before Hellmuth told the table all about it.
"You got lucky. You hit the miracle Six. What you gonna do?" he asked himself, continuing to mutter about how when he bets people always think he's on a draw. It appears that some Kings in the hole figured in this pot loss. No reply from tablemates Jennifer Harman, Jeff Madsen et al., but someone shouted from next door, "How many bracelets at that table?"
No reply from Phil Hellmuth, but Tony G offers, "Phil can count up to eleven, no more."
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All that time spent on the phone may have been his undoing, because Dan Shak is out. He fell at the hands of Vegard Nygaard who is now sitting on about 19,000.
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Tony G playing last night in the Ante Up for Africa charity event
Tony G was short stacked for most of the day. He was down to 1,500 and doubled up. He hovered around 3,000 in chips during the last level. He could not make up any ground and has been eliminated.
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Approaching the felt, Mike Mizrachi finally met it in a Stud hand against youngster Nicky Jedlicka. He ended up with a pair of Aces against Jedlicka's Queens up, which from the look on the Grinder's face only took the lead (and therefore him out) on the final card.
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There is an apparent H.O.R.S.E. rookie seated over on Robert Mizrachi's table. As a razz hand reached fourth street, the man looked a bit confused and looked to Mizrachi for a bit of assistance.
Rookie: So... this is eight or better?
Mizrachi: No, it's razz.
Rookie: How does that one go?
Various players: Low hand/make the worst hand possible/stud low...
[user24788]
Out of the 105 runners in today's event, 10 players have busted out including Dan Shak, Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi , Humberto Brenes, Tony G, Andy Black, and Marcel Luske.
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A battle of the English-speaking nations saw Ted Forrest (US), Richard Gryko (UK) and Donnacha O'Dea (Ireland) lock horns in a Razz hand.
A bet of 600 from Donnacha, a call from Forrest, and a re-raise to Gryko led to Donnacha moving virtually all- in and Forrest swiftly moving out of the way.
Naturally, Gryko called, and it was on their backs. By the end of the hand, it was the former Olympic swimmer and former bracelet winner who survived for a double through, his enough to fend off Gryko's .
As a result, the Irishman is as happy as Larry, whoever Larry might be.
[user46298]
A couple of nice pots for Elezra, including a strange three-way one with Farzad Bonyadi and Torstein Iversen which got to sixth street with the table like so:
Elezra (X-X)
Bonyadi (X-X)
Iversen (X-X)
A check round for the final card and when it was dealt one bet from Elezra was enough to see off the other two. "Show off a bluff!" encourages Bonyadi. Elezra adds the 9c to his visible cards...
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enough to fend off Gryko's 
