Level: 2
Blinds: 50/75
Ante:
2010 World Series of Poker
Event #31: $1,500 H.O.R.S.E.
Day: 1
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2010 World Series of Poker
Buy-in
$1,500
Prize Pool
$1,117,800
Entries
827
Level
30
Blinds
0 / 0
Ante
0
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The crush of players that late registered and started playing at the beginning of Level 2 have caused some logistical hurdles for tournament staff here. Six tables are set up in the White Section of the Pavilion Room. We spotted Victor Ramdin, Greg Pappas, Brandon Cantu, CK Hua, Oleg Shamardin, Gavin Smith and Sam Grizzle over there.
2005 Main Event winner Joe Hachem was also wandering around the White Section, looking for his starting table -- which is in the back of the OrangeSection in the Amazon Room. It took Hachem several minutes to make it over there and take his seat.
Seidel Off To Good Start
Stud 8/b
We arrived at Erik Seidel's table and found him involved in a hand with Steve Diano. Their boards read:
Seidel: {X}{X}/
Diano: {X}{X}/
Seidel bet on sixth street and Diano made the call. Both checked on seventh street and Seidel tabled 
for a pair of queens. Diano spent a good ten seconds staring at his own cards, before tossing them into the muck.
Seidel is up to 6,100.
Team PokerStars Looking for a Good H.O.R.S.E.
The $1,500 H.O.R.S.E. event, because it demands expertise in five different games, is perceived to be an excellent value by many pros. Almost definitely there are players in this field that have never played one or more of the games on offer. So it's no surprise that Team PokerStars is out in full force.
Victor Ramdin (Team USA), Katja Thater (Team Germany), Daniel Negreanu (Team Canada), Johannes Steindl (Team Austria), Lex Veldhuis (Team Netherlands), and George Lind III and Sebastien Sabic (Team Online) have all entered the field already. A few more late stragglers may make their way in before registration ends.
And in what has to be the weirdest quirk of random table draws that we've seen so far this WSOP, 2004 Main Event Winner and Team USA Pro Greg Raymer is seated at Orange 316, Seat 3 -- right next to 2005 Main Event Winner and Team Australia Pro Joe Hachem. The other players at the table had a good chuckle when Raymer and Hachem took their seats.
Logistics, Logistics
There's been a lot of confusion and calls for floors in the early levels of this tournament -- from problems with antes, to tables spread across multiple rooms, to even problems with chip counters.
The chip counters are what dealers use so that they know when to switch games. At the WSOP, the game switches every eight hands. Dealers have eight purple chips in their racks that they move from one side of the rack to the other every hand. When all eight chips have been moved from the left side of the rack to the right side of the rack, the game switches.
At Brandon Cantu's table, the dealer put the chip counters out into each stack. Nobody at the table knew why they had the extra purple chip until a floor was summoned to set matters straight.
At a table in Blue, a player was overheard to ask the dealer, "Do they have antes in the hold'em rounds later in the tournament?" Someone at the table replied that H.O.R.S.E. tournaments never have antes for hold'em.
The player who asked the question, perhaps in an effort to appear less ignorant, replied, "Well I've never posted a blind in a stud tournament before," referring to the early confusion over the button ante in the stud games for Level 1.
Wares Quick Out of the Blocks
Omaha 8/b
Ron Wares is off to a quick start in this H.O.R.S.E. event, increasing his count to more than 6,000 after a hand of Omaha Hi/Lo. Wares, in the cutoff, was heads-up to a flop of 
against the button player. Wares bet and was called.
The action was the same when the turn came 
. The river paired nines, 
, with no low on board. Both players checked, prompting Wares to table the winner, 
for two pair, aces and nines.
Photos from the Floor
Small Hit For Hachem
Stud:
Team PokerStars Pro Joe Hachem just took a minor hit in the latest stud round at his table.
Hachem: {X}{X}/
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Opponent: {X}{X}/
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Hachem's completion on third street was called by his opponent. Hachem stayed in the lead on fourth street and bet again, receiving a call from his opponent. On fifth street Hachem lost the lead on the board and his opponent bet his pair of threes. Hachem called and the same action took place on sixth street.
On seventh street his opponent bet Hachem raised. Unfortunately for Hachem, his opponent made it three bets and Hachem made the unhappy call, seeing his opponent table 
for threes full of tens to win the hand.
Hachem slipped to 3,675.
Break Time
Players are on their first break of the day. They'll return in 20 minutes.
Level: 3
Blinds: 50/100
Ante: