Notable Absences

We've told you who's here. Then we got curious about who decided to skip this year's $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. event and found ourselves scribbling down three entire pages of names. Here's a look at a few of the pros who did not buy in to this event:

Michael DeMichele (2008 Runner-Up), Lyle Berman (2008 5th Place), James Mackey (2008 Day 1 chip leader), Phil Hellmuth, T.J. Cloutier, Chris Reslock, Tad Jurgens, Mark Gregorich, Phil "OMGClayAiken" Galfond, Tom "durrrr" Dwan, Minh Ly, Rafi Amit, John D'Agostino, Mike Sexton, Katja Thater, Layne Flack, Brian "tsarrast" Rast, Dario Minieri, Tom Schneider, Michael Binger, Dan Harmetz, Brandon Adams, Keith Sexton, George Lind III, Robert Mizrachi, Michael Mizrachi, Lee Markholt, Kirill Gerasimov, Ram Vaswani, Hoyt Corkins, Dewey Tomko, Toto Leonidas, Phillipe Rouas, Amnon Filippi, David Williams, Isabelle Mercier, Raymond Davis (2008 10th Place), Ted Forrest, Kenny Tran, Tim Phan, Billy "The Croc" Argyros, Allen Cunningham, Marcel Luske, Shawn Sheikhan, Mickey Appleman, Robert Williamson III, Jan Von Halle and Markus Golser.