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WSOP waffle, news, goss & Tweets - Day 3. Surprise winner of the $25,000 HORSE
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Event #2: H.O.R.S.E. ($25,000 entry)
1 Jesse Klein United States $552,182
2 Benny Glaser United Kingdom $341,274
3 David Benyamine France $236,626
4 Chad Eveslage United States $169,218
5 Philip Sternheimer United Kingdom $124,935
6 Phil Hellmuth United States $95,329
7 Ben Yu United States $75,260
8 DJ Buckley United States $61,549
9 Matt Glantz United States $52,211
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The Final Table had a combined 27 WSOP Bracelets but the winner was not amongst them (until now), he had not cashed in an MTT for 11 years, is not a pro, but is a reasonable sized cash game player.
"I just came out here to play this event and go home Sunday," said Klein, who according to The Hendon Mob had just $23,100 in lifetime earnings before the win. "I have a wife and two kids – a six-year-old girl and a three-year-old son. I came out here to play this event and that's it. Maybe I'll come back out here since I won this.
Klein continued: "I'm feeling great. It was a lot of fun. The players were awesome, it was an awesome structure. I'm feeling good. I play poker to win, but I don't play poker professionally. The H.O.R.S.E. event is what I wanted to play. I love all the different games. It's just fun."
Love it. Seems a decent sort, too.
GB's Benny Glaser, seen here congratulating the winner, was 2nd, not bad considering he only landed in Vegas on Day 1.
Event #4: The Reunion No-Limit Hold'em ($500 entry)
Today is still only the 3rd (of 3) opening flights, so I don't think we'll worry about this one yet.Days 1A & 1B attracted some 7,000 entries, of whom around 500 survive. Today should be a bigger field, so Day 2 will likely see not far shy of 1,000 players. Everyone who makes Day 2 will be in the money - even the late exits on the opening flights cashed actually.
Event #5: Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better ($1,500 entry)
Just 15 left in this, with the extraordinary Robert Mizrachi (pictured) well placed in 2nd. Unsurprisingly, there is no GB representation at the sharp end, it's not a game many Brits play.
1 Connor Drinan US 2,415,000 421 9
2 Robert Mizrachi US 1,410,000 421 5
3 Sandy Sanchez US 1,380,000 414 4
4 Pearce Arnold US 1,160,000 414 2
5 Carl Lijewski US 1,095,000 414 7
6 Curtis Phelps US 1,080,000 421 6
7 Kris Kwiatkowski US 1,045,000 414 3
8 Yehuda Buchalter US 1,020,000 421 7
9 Michael Moed US 965,000 421 1
10 Scott Baumstein US 900,000 414 6
11 Scott Veitzer US 885,000 414 1
12 Micah Brooks US 830,000 414 8
13 Evgeni Tourevski RU 435,000 421 8
14 Travis Pearson US 345,000 414 9
15 Khamar Xaythavone US 150,000 421 2
Amongst those playing was James Woods.
Event #6: High Roller No-Limit Hold'em 8-Handed ($25,000 entry)
54 remain in this.
1 Jake Daniels US 1,182,000 439 6
2 Michael Liang US 1,028,000 436 8
3 James Chen TW 835,000 448 2
4 Jake Schindler US 667,000 444 7
5 Clayton Kalisek US 610,000 435 2
6 Alexandros Theologis BG 594,000 437 2
7 Giuseppe Iadisernia US 577,000 444 6
8 Chance Kornuth US 570,000 447 1
9 Ankush Mandavia US 553,000 448 6
10 Brian Rast US 551,000 438 2
11 Carlos Chadha US 550,000 435 8
12 Mustapha Kanit GB 526,000 439 4
13 Erik Seidel US 512,000 447 6
14 Shannon Shorr US 502,000 445 3
15 Sean Perry US 486,000 446 8
16 Darren Elias US 481,000 438 5
17 Frank Funaro US 477,000 435 5
18 Jonathan Jaffe US 476,000 436 3
19 Paul Newey GB 473,000 439 5
20 Adrian Mateos ES 466,000 444 3
21 Galen Hall US 465,000 446 3
22 Jared Jaffe US 465,000 448 4
23 Adam Hendrix US 462,000 445 1
24 Tyler Cornell US 414,000 447 4
25 Stanley Tang US 405,000 438 4
26 Sergi Reixach GB 378,000 435 6
27 Scott Ball US 336,000 436 4
28 Eli Berg US 324,000 447 3
29 Mo Arani US 321,000 445 2
30 Dylan Linde US 321,000 446 5
31 Calvin Lee KR 320,000 436 1
32 Scott Eskenazi US 298,000 444 8
33 Cary Katz US 285,000 435 4
34 Joao Vieira PT 281,000 437 6
35 James Romero US 279,000 436 6
36 Johan Guilbert FR 270,000 439 3
37 Rok Gostisa SI 211,000 445 8
38 Joseph Mckeehen US 208,000 435 7
39 Nicholas Petrangelo US 200,000 447 7
40 Brock Wilson US 187,000 446 1
41 Daniel Zack US 178,000 437 4
42 Elio Fox US 169,000 439 7
43 Barry Hutter US 163,000 438 7
44 Thomas Boivin BE 151,000 438 1
45 Anthony Zinno US 142,000 445
46 Badziakouski Mikita SI 142,000 444
47 Daniel Shak US 126,000 448
48 Seth Davies US 121,000 437
49 Ali Imsirovic BA 114,000 448
50 Dimitar Danchev BG 112,000 437
51 David Peters US 111,000 446
52 Daniel Negreanu US 101,000 437
53 Jason Koon US 90,000 436
54 Chad Eveslage US 22,000 438
Amongst those still in is GB's Paul Newey who is a tax exile in Jersey these days.
Paul was the founder of Ocean Finance, the first big player in the "Payday Loans" business. He & his partners sold it for some £200 million, since when Paul has travelled the world playing Super High Rollers. He's had some success, including 7th in the $1 milly One Drop for $1,400,000. Overall his "winnings" amount to nearly $5,000,000 though I doubt he's made much if any profit.
He's also a high roller slots player. Yes, you read that right.
Likes a gamble does Paul. His Wiki page states;
Newey is an avid gambler. On 4 January 2005 Newey nearly broke the bank at Birmingham's Genting Casino Star City where he won £3 million and forced owner Stanley Leisure to issue a profit warning. The casino value declined by 12% as a result of Newey's win. Newey lost his winnings later that month.
Here's his full Wiki;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Newey
Poker players moaning & groaning. Who'd have thought?
sure would love sky poker to introduce mixed games. they are tha best!
100% agree that Mixed Game poker is the best, though I have to be honest & say it's highly unlikely we will see them on Sky Poker, at least not in the foreseeable future.