50k horse.

Event 39- 50K horse has started.
Who do you think is gonna win?
Can chip defend his title?
Do you think it should become the official championship of poker instead of the ME?

Ivey.

I'd like to see either Ivey or Greenstein win it, and they are both more than capable of doing so. My darkhorse is Greg Mueller who has been playing really well during the Series so far. I know his Limit/NL games are very good, not sure about the others though, but I'd like to see him go far.

148 players this year.
$7,104,000 prize pool. First place will be an astonishing $2,276,832.

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Who do you think is gonna win?Alan Cunningham
Can chip defend his title? Could, odds are against it
Do you think it should become the official championship of poker instead of the ME? Who says the ME is the "offivial" championship of poker?

The ME Champ is almost always recognized as the "World Poker Champion" in most media outlets.

The HORSE Champion should be considered the World Champ. I'm glad that the final table will continue to be HORSE this year than TV Hold 'Em.

127 players remain of the original 148.
Eli eleza is chip leader with 561,000.

he's kinda laggy, dont think eli will win it.

Reese again, Greenstein or Ivey.

That would be my dream event to play in. I won't even venture a guess at the eventual winner, though I'd love to see Annie Duke take it down.

Remind me to play Razz against Sammy Farha if ever given the opportunity. From Card Player coverage: "Sammy Farha was eliminated during the Razz level, when his 10-8-5-2-A couldn't beat David Oppenheim's 7-6-5-2-A."

Razz is where eli eleza won most his chips. I think there are only 6 or 7 women in the event.

Even better check out pokernews's play by play on this hand. Farha raised with 55xx showing on 6th into David who had 652A showing. LOL

End of day 2.

Top 10 Chip Counts
John Hanson - 641,000
Toto Leonidas - 621,000
Eli Elezra - 568,000
Allen Cunningham - 549,000
Kenny Tran - 544,000
Justin Bonomo - 508,000
David Oppenheim - 469,000
Mike Matusow - 456,000
Phil Ivey - 436,000
Amnon Filippi - 429,000

Toto is from the Gus Hansen, Gavin Smith school of any 2 (or 4 i suppose lol) cards.
Allen Cunningham 10/10 player
Eli Elezra another agressive player, cant wait to see his HU with Scotty Nguyen in the 7card Stud Hi/Lo - sounds a laugh.
Mike Matusow - a heck of a lot better player than people think i believe.
Phil Ivey - Mr Grumpy but all round Poker machine

Who's going to win - no idea

I'm too lazy to check. Taking the day off.

Is this a limit game? If so I think that the chips stacks shown above say this is still wide open.

Yes.

I'm rooting for Allen Cunningham, Barry Greenstein and Annie Duke.

My darkhorse is out.

21 players left. Ivey and Chip are out.
Im rooting for Greenstein!

Where are you updating from?

Good to see Gabe Kaplan hangin tuff! Go Mr Kotter.

Daniel Negreanu Eliminated in 21st Place

(7 Card Stud) Daniel Negreanu and Bruno Fitoussi are heads up, and Daniel Negreanu is all in on fifth street. Here's how the hands look:

Bruno Fitoussi:
Daniel Negreanu:

Negreanu has the lead with two pair, jacks and eights, but Fitoussi has an overpair with a pair of aces, and if he pairs any of his cards he'll take the lead.

Negreanu receives the on sixth street, and Fitoussi catches the . Negreanu is still in the lead.

Negreanu's last card doesn't improve his hand, and Fitoussi glances at his final card before revealing -- the . Fitoussi makes his second pair, and wins the hand with aces and threes.

Fan favorite Daniel Negreanu is eliminated in 21st place, and the crowd gives him a hearty round of applause. As a professional poker player, Negreanu has faced defeat many times with great poise, but today, he seems a bit frustrated by this loss.

that is less than 6th place got in the main event last year. 1st got 12million.

this is also a 50k buy in and not a 10k buy in, and this field is a little tougher to get through, you are not sitting with 9 unknowns, or maybe 8 and 1 known, here you most likely will be sitting with 8 known players if you play.

for this kinda buy in 2 mil is very good.

I have read he has some money troubles, and he got pissy with someone congratulating him for coming in 3rd or so in an event last year and he replied something along the line of "I didnt win $130,000, I lost $165,000, you don't congratulate somebody for losing $165,000" or whatever the difference was between 1st and what ever place he finished. It seemed a little out of character for him.

I just cant belive he went form chip leader with over 1,000,000 in chips to out in 21st.

He also may have been commenting on losing a prop bet. There was a good article on ESPN's Poker Club about how Eli Elezra stands to win around $750,000 from 13 pros as long as they don't win a bracelet. Ironicly, Eli won his first bracelet about a week ago.

no, he said you dont congratulate anyone for coming in anything but first. it is on his video blog but it was a while back

Greenstein is second in chips going into final table. Would you believe Gabe "Welcome Back Kotter" is fifth. I predict that it will be between Filippi and Greenstein. They both have the bottom five stacks doubled. In a limit tournament that is huge.

The final table is 8 not 9 and they are still playing until another player is out. So the information in the previous post may have changed. SBT

Certainly I believe it. Kaplan is no joke; he can play. He has kind of a quirky, LAG style, but he's a wiz at limit games.

I'm glad you mentioned that. I looked up his record at the WSOP and he goes back to the 1980's in cashes with a lot of final tables. Just also noticed that he went out on the bubble. I would have liked to have seen him at the final table.

Kaplan out in ninth to Freddy Deeb's quad 6's on 7th street. I'm rooting for Deeb and Greenstein.

Final Table Seating & Chip Counts

The final table for Event #39 ($50,000 H.O.R.S.E.) is scheduled to begin at 2:00 p.m. PDT on Thursday.

Here are the official chip counts for the final table:

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