WSOP H.O.R.S.E Players are in the $$
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- WSOP H.O.R.S.E nearing completion
Day 4 of the H.O.R.S.E World Championship started with 21 players and will complete when only 8 players remain. Champion will be crowned tomorrow at the completion of Day 5. Play started at 2 pm Vegas time and by 3:45 the bubble burst when Noah Jefferson was eliminated in 17th place. All remaining players will win at least $88,800. The H.O.R.S.E Champion will pocket $2,276.832 and of course the much coveted WSOP bracelet. Earlier on Day 4 Daniel Negreanu, Patrick Pezzin, Max Pescatori and Justin Bonomo were eliminated.
Here is how the final 2 tables and chip counts look: As provided by 
Final Two Tables
Official Chip Counts
Here are the official chip counts from the break:
ESPN’s FEATURED TABLE
Seat 1 - Chris Reslock - 185,000
Seat 2 - Amnon Filippi - 2,212,000
Seat 3 - Dewey Tomko - 762,000
Seat 4 - David Singer - 1,243,000
Seat 5 - Kenny Tran - 1,857,000
Seat 6 - Steve Wolff - 726,000
Seat 8 - Barry Greenstein - 938,000
TABLE 66
Seat 1 - Bruno Fitoussi - 2,300,000
Seat 2 - Mark Gregorich - 810,000
Seat 3 - Greg Raymer - 850,000
Seat 4 - Tim Phan - 1,195,000
Seat 5 - Thor Hansen - 610,000
Seat 6 - Gabe Kaplan - 810,000 You may know him as Mr. Kotter
Seat 7 - Freddy Deeb - 1,330,000
Seat 8 - John Hanson - 75,000
Glad to see Mr. Kotter had made it so far in the H.O.R.S.E. tournament. Think Horshack is happy? Your foolish blogger is certainly pulling for him. Too bad that Barbarino and Washington got eliminated so early!
Update at 11pm Vegas time.
Final Table is set with the elimination of Mr. Kotter in 9th place. Gabe Kaplan wins $131,424.
Here are the official chip counts for the final table As provided by
Seat 1 - Kenny Tran - 2,445,000
Seat 2 - David Singer - 1,330,000
Seat 3 - Bruno Fitoussi - 895,000
Seat 4 - John Hanson - 1,995,000
Seat 5 - Freddy Deeb - 3,500,000
Seat 6 - Thor Hansen - 40,000
Seat 7 - Amnon Filippi - 4,015,000
Seat 8 - Barry Greenstein - 750,000
Earlier eliminations leading to the final table included:
- 10th - Dewey Tomko - $131,424
- 11th - Mark Gregorich - $117,216
- 12th - Stephen Wolff - $117,216
- 13th - Tim Phan - $103,008
- 14th - Greg Raymer - $103,008
- 15th - Chris Reslock - $88,800
- 16th - Mike Matusow - $88,800
Another Just Poker Talk Poll:
WSOP, WSOP H.O.R.S.E, WSOP Main Event, WSOP Bracelet
June 27th, 2007 at 7:54 pm
How did Horshack do? I had him at 500 to 1 in the sports book for a dime.
June 28th, 2007 at 4:46 am
Glad to see that David Singer is doing so well. He seems to be an excellent player when I have seen him in previous televised tournaments.
June 28th, 2007 at 12:48 pm
Will we be able to use this site for up to the minute updates for the Main Event. Phil Ivey would be a nice champion this year………
June 28th, 2007 at 3:19 pm
While I am sure I will blog the Main Event and all its pagentry, the up to the minute blogging is handled very well by Poker News. Click the image in this post. Ivey is due after all the years of the experts picking him. Just Poker Talk will have a Poll before the start of the Main Event asking you to pick a winner.
June 28th, 2007 at 3:20 pm
Fillipi and Deebs both have a ton of chips and seem to be savey, although I haven’t seen their games in all facets of HORSE.
I’m pulling for Greenstien because of his charity donations for tournament wins.
Some of the other player names seem familiar, but I’m not recalling their games.
Interesting to see Raymer cashing again. He’s got some game.
June 28th, 2007 at 3:26 pm
OK - on the poll - When I think of World Champion, I think more of team oriented championships where a team wins their sport’s championship game or series.
However, for a lot of the pro individual sports, we don’t have that mentality. We don’t necessarily call Daytona 500 winner the World Champion; its the Nextel Cup winner we consider champion. In golf, we tend to think of the leading money winner on tour for the year as the current “World Champion”.
So maybe the poker World Champion should be more like the “Player of the Year” type award.
However, with all the hype/popularity of the WSOP Main Event, I still always think of that winner as the “World Champion”, even though I know Gold or Moneymaker are not really “pro” poker status.
June 28th, 2007 at 3:27 pm
Fupahead, Greenstien always seems to be at a lot of final tables and you are certainly correct about his charity work. Raymer, when I 1st saw him in 2004 Main event, it seemed like the hands that made ESPN he was always drawing out to win big pots. But after seeing more of his game and listening to him on some of the behind the scenes specials it is clear he is a great poker player. I hope you keep checking in Fupa.
June 28th, 2007 at 3:28 pm
Mike,
Is HORSE tournament limit or no-limit?
June 28th, 2007 at 3:46 pm
Fupa, all the levels thus far have been limit and that is the design. My recollection is last year towards the end of the tournament they changed to NL hold’em. Probably at the request of ESPN. I have not seen or heard they plan for that tonight. But I will be following.
June 28th, 2007 at 3:54 pm
Then I humbly submit that your full of crap if you think limit poker champions are consider world champions of poker, even if the HORSE event covers poker in a broader sense with 5 different game versions. As they say, limit is a science, but no-limit is an art.
I’d be interested in strategy and effect on the HORSE tournament if it was no-limit.
June 28th, 2007 at 4:27 pm
Fupa, it didn’t take you long to figure out the author was full of crap. Just don’t tell my wife and kids. On 2nd thought they already know. Probably my jugdement was cloudy by watching the HORSE players and knowing they all are good NLHE players and last year seeing them play NLHE as part of HORSE. Thanks for putting me in my place.