Event #27: $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. Championship Day 2 | 2018 World Series of Poker

06-13-2018 13:46 UTC-8

A Few Early Day 2 Eliminations

Mickey Doft

Level 11 : 4,000/8,000, 0 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Max Kruse	Busted

Yuebin Guo	Busted
Tony Cousineau	Busted
Matt Glantz	Busted

Frank Kassela	Busted

Luke Schwartz	Busted

Brian Hastings	Busted

Owais Ahmed	Busted

06-13-2018 13:52 UTC-8

Bojang's Stack Gets Chopped Up

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 11 : 4,000/8,000, 0 ante

Seven-Card Stud Hi-Lo

Michael Gathy: / /
Ismael Bojang: / /
Anthony Zinno: / /

On fourth street, Michael Gathy checked and Ismael Bojang bet, Anthony Zinno made it two bets and was called by both opponents. Gathy paired his five and checked, as did Bojang. Zinno bet and was called. On sixth street, Gathy checked and so did Bojang. Zinno bet, Gathy made it two bets and Bojang called all in for 6,500, Zinno called made it three bets and Gathy called.

On seventh street, Zinno checked and called a bet by Gathy to see the Belgian roll over for jacks full. Zinnop had the and Bojang asked "what low do I have to beat?" before turning over his . He was sweating the final card, then rolled over the and was eliminated.

Player	Chips	Progress
Anthony Zinno	260,000 42,000	42,000

Michael Gathy	71,500 9,500	9,500

Ismael Bojang	Busted

Tags: Anthony Zinno Ismael Bojang Michael Gathy

06-13-2018 13:55 UTC-8

A Few Updated Chip Counts

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Mickey Doft

Level 11 : 4,000/8,000, 0 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Illya Trincher	185,000 52,500	52,500
Ryan Miller	185,000 35,000	35,000

James Obst	174,000 9,500	9,500

Andrew Kelsall	156,000 31,500	31,500

David "Bakes" Baker	146,000 13,000	13,000

Andrey Zhigalov	130,000 45,000	45,000

Stuart Rutter	124,000 98,000	98,000
Cliff Josephy	80,000 62,500	62,500

Randy Ohel	75,000 52,000	52,000

Matthew Ashton	70,000 7,000	7,000

David "ODB" Baker	Busted

Jared Talarico	Busted
Daniel Negreanu	Busted

Richard Sklar	Busted

06-13-2018 13:56 UTC-8

Payouts Announced

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 11 : 4,000/8,000, 0 ante

A total of 166 entries generated a prize pool of $1,560,400 and the top 25 spots will get paid at least $15,229 for their efforts, while the elusive gold bracelet and a payday of $414,692 are reserved for the champion. Below is a chart of all payouts:

Place	Prize (in USD)
1	414,692
2	256,297
3	179,216
4	127,724
5	92,808
6	68,783
7	52,016
8	40,155
9-10	31,656
11-12	25,498
13-14	20,993
15-16	17,677
17-25	15,229

06-13-2018 14:04 UTC-8

Kondo Takes from Johns

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 11 : 4,000/8,000, 0 ante

Limit Hold'em

Ian Johns defended his big blind against a raise by Motohiro Kondo in early position and bet the flop, Kondo called. Johns bet the turn to pick up another call by Kondo before checking the on the river. Kondo bet and Johns sent his cards into the muck.

Table chip leader is Benny Glaser ahead of Iraj Parvizi.

Player	Chips	Progress
Benny Glaser	255,000 153,500	153,500

Iraj Parvizi	230,000 38,000	38,000
Ian Johns	150,000 8,000	8,000

Motohiro Kondo	120,000 79,000	79,000

Tags: Benny Glaser Ian Johns Iraj Parvizi Motohiro Kondo

Level: 12

Hold’em / O8 - 2,000/4,000 4,0000/8,000
Razz/Stud/Stud 8 - 1,000 BI 1,000 4,000 4,000-8,000

06-13-2018 14:09 UTC-8

Feature Table Updates

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 12 : 4,000/8,000, 0 ante

The feature table is streamed on PokerGO on a delay of one hour and the early action include three eliminations with Matt Glantz, Tony Cousineau and Max Kruse. Robert Mizrachi jumped into the top spot while Phil Ivey and Brian Rast tripled and doubled their respective stacks after entering before the start of Day 2.

Player	Chips	Progress
Robert Mizrachi	350,000 137,500	137,500

Phil Ivey	155,000 105,000	105,000

Brian Rast	101,000 51,000	51,000

Tags: Phil Ivey Brian Rast Robert Mizrachi

06-13-2018 14:10 UTC-8

More Chip Counts

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Mickey Doft

Level 12 : 4,000/8,000, 0 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
David Benyamine	375,000 208,500	208,500

Anthony Zinno	330,000 70,000	70,000

Benny Glaser	260,000 5,000	5,000

Jason Mercier	200,000 121,000	121,000

Scott Seiver	130,000 104,500	104,500

Michael Noori	105,000 48,000	48,000

Phillip Wallace	95,000 43,000	43,000
Jean Gaspard	90,000 83,500	83,500

Michael Gathy	86,000 14,500	14,500

Suketu Patel	84,000 11,500	11,500
Calvin Anderson	58,000 13,000	13,000

Michael Lau	55,000 77,000	77,000
Andrew Barber	45,000 54,000	54,000

06-13-2018 14:11 UTC-8

A Few More Day 2 Eliminations

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Mickey Doft

Level 12 : 4,000/8,000, 0 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Matthew Ashton	Busted

Cory Zeidman	Busted

Shirley Rosario	Busted
Phil Hellmuth	Busted

Paul Sokoloff	Busted

06-13-2018 14:20 UTC-8

Bleznick Can't Beat Deuces

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 12 : 4,000/8,000, 0 ante

Omaha Hi-Lo

In the last hand of Omaha Hi-Lo, Jared Bleznick was all in for 6,000, half a bet, and John Monnette inquired if he can make it 10,000, which was confirmed by the dealer. Monnette tossed in two T-5,000 chips without announcing a raise, the floor was called, it was then deemed to be just a call instead. John Hennigan was in the hand as well and bet the flop to force out Monnette.

Bleznick showed his and Hennigan said "wow, I have you crushed?" before showing the . The deuces held up eventually on the turn and river run out and Bleznick headed to the rail.

Player	Chips	Progress
John Hennigan	230,000 55,000	55,000

John Monnette	140,000 2,000	2,000

Jared Bleznick	Busted

Tags: Jared Bleznick John Hennigan John Monnette