Time to Crown a H.O.R.S.E Champion
Welcome back ladies and gentlemen, for the final day's coverage of Event 32: $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. By the end of the day we will have a new gold bracelet winner and a champion of one of the most respected poker formats the World Series of Poker has to offer.
Heading into the day with the largest chip stack and recent form that would have most players shaking in their boots is John Monnette. A late surge yesterday saw Monnette amass a stack of 825,000 and with a victory already coming in this year's Event 10: $5,000 Seven Card Stud, Monnette will be one to watch.
If there is one field that perhaps won't be scared of Monnette, it's this one, as some of the most successful poker players in the world will join Monnette to make up the 15 players at the felt today. Trailing Monnette with 645,000 in chips is David Bach. With Bach already holding a WSOP gold bracelet in the $50,000 World Championship H.O.R.S.E event in 2009, Bach can not be overlooked today.
There are some players who return today who simply don't need an introduction, but we will give them a small one anyone. Phil Ivey will be looking to cement is place at the top of the WSOP Player of the Year board, but will have his work cut out for him, starting the day as one of the short stacks. One other Phil will also start the day, albeit with a much healthier chip stack, and that is Phil Hellmuth. Of course Hellmuth recently won his 12th WSOP gold bracelet and will desperately be looking to make it 13 today.
With the likes of David Bakes Baker, Dan Kelly, Brandon Shack-Harris, Scott Clements, Matt Waxman, John Hennigan and Abe Mosseri also still in contention, we have ourselves a very big day of mixed-game action. Here's how they start the day.
Table 445
Seat | Player | Chip Count |
---|---|---|
1 | Matt Waxman | 458,000 |
3 | David Bach | 645,000 |
4 | Phil Hellmuth | 571,000 |
5 | Scott Clements | 229,000 |
6 | Dan Kelly | 243,000 |
7 | Abe Mosseri | 384,000 |
8 | David "Bakes" Baker | 574,000 |
Table 451
Seat | Player | Chip Count |
---|---|---|
1 | Andrew Brown | 79,000 |
2 | Paul Sokoloff | 157,000 |
3 | Brandon Shack-Harris | 500,000 |
4 | Ralph Perry | 41,000 |
5 | Mori Eskandani | 171,000 |
6 | John Monnette | 825,000 |
7 | Phil Ivey | 102,000 |
8 | John Hennigan | 344,000 |
Will Monnette take his chip lead all the way to winning his second bracelet of the summer? Will this be lucky number 13 for Hellmuth? Can Ivey finally win a bracelet after getting so close just last week? Tune into PokerNews all day long to find out. It kicks off at 2.00 PM, so don't miss it!