$50k HORSE day 1: Mig doing great!

The biggest buy-in tournament of the WSOP has started. Yes, we are talking about the $50,000 World Championship H.O.R.S.E event! Only the very best (or richest) of poker players play this event, and when you see the list of players you can realize how prestigious it really is. 148 players registered and created the prizepool of $7,104,000. 1st prize is worth of $1,989,120.

Out of the 148 starting players, only 8 have been eliminated so far, Phil Hellmuth and Amnon Filippi (who finished 4th last year) being two of them.

James “Mig” Mackey has had an awesome day and finished it as chipleader. He was in one of the "tables of death" of the tournament, but still managed to do great and even leadered the board during the day. Take a look at his table: David Oppenheim, Andy Bloch, Lyle Berman, James "mig.com" Mackey, Jennifer Harman, David Singer. You don't have to think much to realize that two of the very best HORSE players are on his table: back-to-back final tablist David Singer and vice-champion Andy Bloch.

Funny to mention, because it was exactly against them that Mig had one of his nice pot-wins yesterday (quote from CardPlayer):

On a flop of James Mackey checked and David Singer bet. Both Andy Bloch and Mackey made the call. The came on the turn and Mackey checked again, allowing Singer to bet. Bloch made the call and Mackey said raise, then put in some more chips. Singer and Bloch both made the call. The players checked the river card and Mackey turned over for the nut straight. When he saw Mackey's hand Bloch laughed and mucked. Singer also mucked and Mackey won a nice three-way pot again two of the better H.O.R.S.E players in the tournament. At the end of the level he sat with around 185,000 in chips.

By the end of the day, Mig had 200,000 chips. Best of luck Mig!

Take a look at the current chipcount:

1. James Mackey 214,000
2. Chris Reslock 210,200
3. Pat Pezzin 200,400
4. Joe Cassidy 198,700
5. Ralph Perry 195,300
6. Stephen Wolff 192,700
7. Fu Wong 188,100
8. Douglas Ganger 183,200
9. Bill Chen 182,500
10. Tad Jurgens 172,700

You can check the full list of chipcounts at the WSOP website. Play resumes today at 3:00pm PDT

By: Raidern

GL GL GL GL

Havent posted that much,

But Raidern, I really enjoy your updates, keep up the good work!

very sweet!

(edited the OP because new chipcounts were released)

god mig is so sick

gl dude :D

I bet Hellmuth had a few choice words to say about his elimination. Good luck to mig, if he took out first it'd be amazing.

On June 26 2008 17:29 H_ wrote: I bet Hellmuth had a few choice words to say about his elimination. Good luck to mig, when he takes first it's going to be amazing.