 In day 2 of the prestigious $50.000 World Championship H.O.R.S.E-event, we had our second day (of a total of 5). With 8 eliminations yesterday, there had to be more today, at the end we got down to 67 of the 140 starting the day. Fortunenately, James "Mig" Mackey is still amongst them, tho he wasnt doing as well as yesterday, when he finished as chipleader. His stack dropped to a little below average (he started with 214k, but dropped to 175k with about 220k average). Tom "durrrr" Dwan had about the same experience, early in the day he got the chiplead, but ended with 195k chips, so just below average as well.
Today seemed to be a day for the elderly, Doyle Brunson was running hot, also sending David Benyamine to the rail and he ended at the 10th chipstack. Minh Ly was doing even better, in 4th place, just behind Barry Greenstein.
Unfortunately, we won't be seing a back-to-back-to-back final table appearance from David Singer, he got into both final tables on 2 previous editions, but when he couldn't beat Rob Hollink's 2 pair in Stud-8 he was out of there. We also saw last year's winner (Freddy Deeb) and runner-up (Bruno Fitoussi) go out, as well as Chris Ferguson, Eli Elezra, Howard Lederer, Gus Hansen, Patrik Antonius, Dewey Tomko, Tom Schneider, Mike Matusow, Todd Brunson, Michael Binger, Ted Forrest, Johnny Chan, John Juanda, Jennifer Harman and Annie Duke.
Tony G and Ralph Perry have some history between them (Tony G said something bad when Perry made a questionable call in the Intercontinental Poker Championship once), and that was still noticable when they got moved to the same table. Obviously this resulted in a verbal fight and the exit of Tony G, when he got knocked out by Bill Chen.
That can leave only one chipleader, today it's Lyle Berman (who shows a stunning resemblance to Waldorf from the Waldorf and Statler-duo in The Muppets)
Chipcounts at the end of day 2:
1. Lyle Berman 507,000
2. Patrick Bueno 485,500
3. Barry Greenstein 473,000
4. Minh Ly 451,000
5. Chris Reslock 435,500
6. Joseph Michael 401,000
7. Erick Lindgren 397,500
8. Justin Bonomo 384,000
9. Daniel Negreanu 374,500
10. Doyle Brunson 366,000
At the end of the day, Mig's table looked like this:
Andy Bloch $362,500
Gabe Kaplan $278,500
James Mackey $175,500
Isabelle Mercier $146,000
Robert Williamson III $104,000
Scotty Nguyen $101,000
Alex Kostritsyn $71,500
By: Pindarots
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