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"Hey Scotty, you gonna get drunk?" asked Flack.
"No, this is my first, baby. But it won't be the last!" exclaimed Nguyen with a smile
2008 World Series of Poker
Event 45 - $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. World Championship
Day: 1
Event Info
2008 World Series of Poker
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
$50,000
Prize Pool
$7,104,000
Total Entries
148
Level
28
Blinds
0 / 0
Ante
0
Players Left 1 / 148
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"Hey Scotty, you gonna get drunk?" asked Flack.
"No, this is my first, baby. But it won't be the last!" exclaimed Nguyen with a smile
David Benyamine just took down a decent-sized pot in a hand against Jamie Pickering. By seventh street, the players showed:
Pickering: (X) (X)
(X)Benyamine: (X) (X)
(X)Pickering bet through sixth street and Benyamine called the whole way. On the river, Pickering check-folded to Benyamine's bet. Benyamine showed (
) (
) as he mucked.After the hand, Pickering is down to just 15,500 in chips.
Bruno Fitoussi: (X-X)
(X)Ted Forrest: (X-X)
(X)Phil Hellmuth: (X-X)
(X)Bruno Fitoussi just emerged the victor in a 55,000-chip stud high pot involving Ted Forrest and Phil Hellmuth. Fitoussi turned up
at the end for a set of nines, while Forrest showed 
for two pair and Hellmuth mucked. Hellmuth and Forrest are down to 79,000 and 70,000 respectively, while last year's runner-up Fitoussi is up to 109,000.
His friend and fellow Full-Tilter Howard Lederer came over to check on him and when he saw the dwindling stack asked Gus, "What happened?"
"I'm bleeding," replied Hansen.
After a
flop Matt Glantz and George Lind traded four bets back and forth before seeing the 
on the turn. Glantz check-called Lind's bet, and did the same when the fell on the river.And that's when Lind turned over
to Glantz's 
. You only get pocket aces dealt to you once every 220 hands; you'd like to think when that happens you're actually ahead before the flop.
"They didn't know me at all, but they were buying," Williams said. "They didn't use me for anything."
And then Gus said, "We saved that for later."
On a flop of
Thor Hansen led out from the small blind, Joe Bunevith raised from the big blind and Hansen called. The turn was the 
. Hansen bet and Bunevith made the call. The river was the . Hansen checked, Bunevith bet and Hansen called. Bunevith showed
for quads and scooped the pot.
With in a win in this event, Phil Hellmuth, Allen Cunningham, or Daniel Negreanu would jump into the #1 spot on the all-time money list ahead of Jamie Gold. It would take a first-place finish to do so, no small task for even the greatest of players, but it might be a little something extra to think about should one of these three make the final table.
It should also be noted that Joe Hachem, had he played the event, would have also been in a position to pull off this epic feat.
As we mentioned earlier, 148 players (the same number as last year) entered this event. There will be a total of 16 places paid with 16th place taking home $124,320. The winner of the event will leave with $1,989,120.
It's worth noting that the distribution of the prize pool has changed a bit from last year. As we mentioned in the introduction post, Freddy Deeb took home $2,276,832 for his victory last year. This year the payouts have been flattened a bit, thereby spreading more money amongst the lower finishers.
