Event 49 - $50,000 World Championship H.O.R.S.E.
Day 3 Completed
2009 World Series of Poker
Event 49 - $50,000 World Championship H.O.R.S.E.
Day: 3
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2009 World Series of Poker
Buy-in
$50,000
Entries
95
Level
29
Blinds
0 / 0
Ante
0
Official End of Day 3 Chip Counts
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Erik Sagstrom 1,315,000
Freddy Deeb 1,300,000
David Bach 1,265,000
Ville Wahlbeck 842,000
John Hanson 815,000
Gus Hansen 801,000
Mike Wattel 779,000
John Kabbaj 678,000
Huck Seed 672,000
Brett Richey 671,000
Tony G 650,000
Chau Giang 616,000
Steve Billirakis 576,000
Frank Kassela 499,000
Erik Seidel 464,000
David Chiu 397,000
Ray Dehkharghani 262,000
Todd Brunson 145,000
Day Three In The Books - Lunkin Leads
The day started with 53 hopefuls but the big names dropped away quickly. Ivey, Kravchenko, Greenstein, Benyamine, Alaei, Brunson, Lindgren and Ferguson all arrived today with hopes but departed with dreams shattered. We also lost our defending champion Scotty Nguyen who fell late in the day.
We still have one previous H.O.R.S.E. champion in the field with Freddy Deeb performing strongly today to finish amongst the leaders. However it's the international invasion of Wahlbeck, Sagstrom and Lunkin who dominated play to lead the way heading into day four of play tomorrow.
Vitaly Lunkin is a likely overnight leader with over 1.5 million in chips, and will be looking to add to his impressive 2009 WSOP record tomorrow. We'll have the official chip counts for you very shortly.
Join us from 2 p.m. as we burst one of the biggest money bubbles in poker and then play down until our final table is formed! See you then!
Thor No More
Steve Billirakis (
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(
)Thor Hansen (
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(?)Steve Billirakis completed on third street, Thor Hansen raised and Billirakis called. Billirakis led out on fourth street with a bet, Hansen raised and Billirakis called. Billirakis bet again on fifth street, Hansen raised all in and Billirakis called.
Billirakis hit trip tens on fifth street, cracking Hansen's buried aces. Hansen couldn't improve and he hit the rail in 20th place.
Billirakis is up to 625,000.
Deeb Gets Quartered
Freddy Deeb fired on the flop of
and David Bach made the call before things got big on the 
turn. Bach checked, Deeb bet, Bach raised and Deeb reraised. Bach called and the hit the river. Bach bet again and Deeb raised once more. Bach made the call.Deeb tabled
for aces with the nut low, but found himself quartered as Bach had caught two pair on the river with the same low holding 
.
Lunkin Cripples Brunson
Brett Richey (X) (X)
Todd Brunson (X)(X)
(X)Vitaly Lunkin (X)(X)
(X)Brett Richey completed on third street, Todd Brunson raised, Vitaly Lunkin three-bet, Richey got out of the way and Brunson called. Both players checked fourth and fifth streets. Lunkin led out on sixth and Brunson called. Lunkin then checked dark on the river and Brunson checked behind.
Lunkin turned over
for a 8-6-4-3-2 low and raked in the pot. He's the current chip leader with 1,480,000 while Brunson was crippled to 76,000.
Full House Does it for Hanson
Tony G raised and found two callers in John Hanson and John Kabbaj.
They saw a flop of
and play checked to Hanson who fired a bet. Kabbaj folded but Guoga made the call. The turn was the 
and Guoga checked to Hanson who fired again. Guoga made the call. The river brought the 
and again Guoga check-called the bet from Hanson.Hanson tabled
for a full house to take it down.
Get Crunk Makes a Queen
Ray Dehkharghani (X)(X)
(X)Brett Richey (X)(X)
(X)Ray Dehkharghani completed, Brett Richey raised and Dehkharghani called. Richey led out on fourth street and Dehkharghani called. Dehkharghani took the lead and bet out on fifth street when Richey paired fives. Richey made the call. Both players checked on sixth and seventh streets.
"I've got a queen," said Richey a bit sheepishly. Dehkharghani mucked and Richey won the pot with Q-8-5-4-A, taking his stack up to 450,000.
Chen Out
Bill Chen was all in on third street in a hand of Razz against Ray Dehkharghani. The boards ran out:
Chen: (
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()Dehkharghani: (
) 
(
)Dehkharghani improved to a ten-seven low to just better the ten-nine low to eliminate Chen from the tournament in 21st place.
Chen Won't Quit
Bill Chen raised from the button and Vitaly Lunkin called from the big blind. The flop was
and Lunkin check-called a bet from Chen. Lunkin led out on the turn, which fell the and Chen called. The river was the and Lunkin fired again. Chen decided to save his last 16,000 in chips and made the fold. A couple of hands later, Brett Richey raised from UTG, Chen went all in for 16,000, Huck Seed called from the big blind and Richey called.
The flop was
. Seed checked, Richey bet and Seed folded. Chen
Richey
Both players had the nut low, but not a lot going on for the high half of the pot. The turn was the
, the river was the 
and Chen's A-T took the high half while they split the low. Chen is now on 42,000 in chips.