The 2012 World Series of Poker will continue today with the third and final day of Event #27 $1,500 H.O.R.S.E., which will see the final 18 of an 889-player field battle down to a champion. Leading the way is Ylon Schwartz, who sits on the big stack of 416,000 and has already improved upon last year’s 33rd-place finish in this tournament.
While Schwartz is the Day 3 favorite, others are still in contention for the $267,081 top prize and the gold bracelet including Brandon Guss, Bryce Yockey, Cliff Josephy, Stephen Chidwick, Zimnan Ziyard, Allen Cunningham, Rep Porter, and David Chiu.
Who will be the next to add their name to the list of H.O.R.S.E. winners?
Action is scheduled for 1:00 PM PST, which is less than an hour from now. Join us then as we play a full day of Limit Hold’em, Omaha Eight or Better, Razz, Seven Card Stud, and Seven Card Stud Eight or better on our way to a $1,500 H.O.R.S.E. champion.
Michael Chow and Marlon Milne both began with a six showing, and Chow went off to the board for his tournament life.
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Chow check-called bets on fourth, fifth, and sixth streets. The last one put him all in for 13,000, and he was in bad shape. Chow rolled over in the hole, and that was a mistake. "I thought I had a three!" he complained. Milne made a ten-low with, and Chow was eliminated.
Charlie Ng got his short stack in early during this Stud hand, and he managed to finish with just a pair of sevens. Stephen Chidwick had him drawing dead on sixth.
Chidwick's cards were scrambled when we walked up, but we did see among the six cards face-up. He didn't need his river, and he's sent Ng to the payout desk in 17th place.
Action folded to Allen Cunningham in the cutoff and he raised, which Robby Rasmussen three-bet from the cutoff. The button and small blind got out of the way, while a short-stacked Cliff Josephy opted to commit his stack from the big.
The flop saw Cunningham check-call and bet before both active players checked the turn. Cunningham then put out a bet on the river, which Rasmussen called.
"Wheel," Cunningham said as he rolled over .
"Payout," Josephy responded as both he and Rssmussen mucked. Since it was an all-in situation, the dealer had to expose the former's and the latter's .
JohnnyBaxPoker Cliff JosephyRedrew right into the BB of O8. Never had a chance. Busted 16th. Back for the Main.June 15 2012
Jason Brown limped in from early position, and Ylon Schwartz raised from the button. David Chiu called the extra bet from the big blind, and Brown came along for a three-way flop.
The dealer spread out , and Chiu led right out with a bet. Follow this action. Brown called, Schwartz raised, Chiu reraised, and Brown cold-called. Schwartz raised again, though, and now Chiu and Brown flatted with four bets in apiece. The pot was getting serious.
The paired the board on the turn, and now the table checked around to Schwartz. He bet, Chiu check-raised, Brown cold-called again, and Schwartz flatted. The latter was getting less and less thrilled with the situation as the hand progressed.
Chiu bet the river, and both opponents called. The hands, please.
Schwartz's busted flush draw cost him a huge pot, and he and Brown can only manage to get 1/6th of it apiece. The lion's share goes to Chiu, and he's worked himself all the way back up to 300,000.
Benjamin Lukas got himself all in on fifth street of a big multi-way Stud pot. By the time he committed his last 31,000, he was left battling with Jason Brown and David Rogers.
Rogers made the default bet on sixth street showing four to a Royal Flush. Brown could only chuckle. "Did you catch good?" he asked rhetorically. After some time, he tucked and mucked, and the cards were turned up.
"Do you have a flush?" Lukas wanted to know.
"Yep," Rogers admitted. He showed down / , then added the blank on seventh.
"How bad are you drawing?" one of Lukas' buddies on the rail asked.
"Dead," came the one-word answer. He opened up two more clubs in the hole, but his could not possibly improve to a better flush than Rogers'. He made trips with the , but it was far from enough.
Lukas has thusly been eliminated in 15th place, good for a paycheck of $8,641.
Rep Porter completed with the only to have David Chiu raise with the . Poter, who was fairly short, contemplated for about thirty second before making the call. Chiu proceeded to bet the turn, which Porter called before taking the lead and betting his last 23,000 on fifth. Chiu made the call and the cards were turned up:
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Chiu: / /
Porter made two pair and got his money in good, but Chiu spiked a deuce on sixth to snatch the lead right back. Chiu showed the right away on seventh, which means Porter was drawing dead. Nonetheless, he looked at his last card and then tossed the onto Chiu's pile, giving him bogus quads.
Bryce Yockey managed to get back up to 32,000 when he raised under the gun and cleared the field all the way around to Brandon Guss on the button. He put in a three-bet, Yockey four-bet all in, and Guss made the call.
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Yockey was in trouble and in need of some help. He managed to hit an ace on the flop, but unfortunately for him, Guss made a set. The turn kept Yockey drawing live to either an ace or seven on the river, but it was not in the cards as the appeared.
It's the end of a long and perilous road for Zimnan Ziyard. He's just been eliminated in 12th place after three days of roller-coaster poker in which he was down under 1 big bet or less several times.
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His final hand began with him open-raising his last 31,000 into the middle under the gun. David Rogers and Ylon Schwartz (big blind) came along with him, and they checked to the river on the board as Ziyard stood up in between them sweating his fate. On the river, Rogers made a bet, and Ziyard figured that might not be good news. When Schwartz folded, Rogers tabled for two pair.
Ziyard rolled over his — good, but second best by the river. He has been eliminated in 12th place, but he received a nice parting compliment from Ylon Schwartz.
"Great player," Schwartz acknowledged. "You'll make a lot of money."
This one's not really "a lot of money" for Ziyard, but the $13,000+ he'll pocket is a respectable consolation prize for his run.
Allen Cunningham's sixth gold bracelet will have to wait for now. It was the Razz orbit that did Cunningham in. We watched him drop a big pot to Elior Sion to reduce him to just a stub of a stack, and the rest of it got in a short while later. It was Marlon Milne who did the knocking out, and Cunningham gets a pay bump up to $17,150 for his efforts here this week.
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in the hole, and that was a mistake. "I thought I had a three!" he complained. Milne made a ten-low with, and Chow was eliminated.
among the six cards face-up. He didn't need his river, and he's sent Ng to the payout desk in 17th place.
flop saw Cunningham check-call and bet before both active players checked the 
turn. Cunningham then put out a bet on the 
river, which Rasmussen called.
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, and Chiu led right out with a bet. Follow this action. Brown called, Schwartz raised, Chiu reraised, and Brown cold-called. Schwartz raised again, though, and now Chiu and Brown flatted with four bets in apiece. The pot was getting serious.
paired the board on the turn, and now the table checked around to Schwartz. He bet, Chiu check-raised, Brown cold-called again, and Schwartz flatted. The latter was getting less and less thrilled with the situation as the hand progressed.
river, and both opponents called. The hands, please.
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flop, but unfortunately for him, Guss made a set. The 
turn kept Yockey drawing live to either an ace or seven on the river, but it was not in the cards as the 
appeared.
