Quasi als letzte Vorbereitung auf das H.O.R.S.E. Championship startete gestern auch ein $3.000 H.O.R.S.E. Event. Mit dabei natürlich auch die deutschsprachigen Spieler, die mit den PokerStars Pros Katja Thater, George Danzer, Johannes Steindl und Michael Keiner, Mark Bartlog, Ivo Donev, Erwin Rohrer und die beiden Schweizer Severin Walser und Claudio Rinaldi vertreten waren.
Wie immer gab es auch zahlreiche namhafte Pros wie Eli Elzra, Annie Duke, die PokerStars Pro Daniel Negreanu, Barry Greenstein, Greg Raymer, Dario Minieri, Andre Akkari, Alexandre Gomes, Joe Hachem, Jason Mercier, Marcel Luske und Noah Boeken, weiters Mike Matusow, Jennifer Harman, Phil Ivey, Jeff Lisandro und viele andere mehr.
Insgesamt gingen 478 Spieler an den Start, etwas mehr als die Hälfte hatte an Tag 1 Feierabend. Dazu gehörten auch George Danzer, Johannes Steindl und Michael Keiner, ebenso wie Ivo Donev und die beiden Schweizer.
Auch auf Seiten der Pros gab es natürlich Opfer zu beklagen. Greg Raymer, Barry Greenstein, John D’Agostino, Shaun Deeb, Jennifer Harman und Joe Hachem.
Mit 207 Spielern geht es heute in Tag 2, Katja Thater, Mark Bartlog und Erwin Rohrer sind noch mit dabei. Die beste Ausgangsposition hat Erwin Rohrer, der im Chipcount auf Rang 21 liegt.
| 1 | Jordan Siegel | 66.900 |
| 2 | Mark Johns | 60.400 |
| 3 | David Baker | 56.700 |
| 4 | Darus Suharto | 55.100 |
| 5 | Dan Heimiller | 52.100 |
| 6 | Daniel Makowsky | 50.600 |
| 7 | Phillip Wallace | 49.400 |
| 8 | Mojgan Stringham | 48.000 |
| 9 | Chad Brown | 47.500 |
| 10 | Robert Williamson III | 46.400 |
| 11 | Alexandre Luneau | 46.200 |
| 12 | Howard Lederer | 44.400 |
| 13 | Allen Bari | 42.900 |
| 14 | Greg Mueller | 41.800 |
| 15 | Cory Zeidman | 41.700 |
| 16 | Ken Lennaard | 41.400 |
| 17 | Michael Binger | 39.000 |
| 18 | Alan Myerson | 38.800 |
| 19 | Konstantin Puchkov | 37.400 |
| 20 | Chau Giang | 36.400 |
| 21 | Erwin Rohrer | 35.900 |
| 22 | Mikail Tulchinskiy | 35.800 |
| 23 | David Harth | 35.400 |
| 24 | Al Barbieri | 35.000 |
| 25 | Kenneth Aldridge | 35.000 |
| 26 | Toto Leonidas | 33.800 |
| 27 | Martin Corpuz | 33.000 |
| 28 | Fabrizio Gonzalez | 32.800 |
| 29 | Clayton Mozdzen | 32.500 |
| 30 | Sebastien Sabic | 32.400 |
| 31 | Ming Reslock | 32.300 |
| 32 | Yuebin Guo | 32.300 |
| 33 | Kyung Han | 31.900 |
| 34 | Phil Ivey | 31.800 |
| 35 | Nikolay Evdakov | 31.500 |
| 36 | George Trigeorgis | 30.800 |
| 37 | Jonas Mackoff | 30.800 |
| 38 | Paul Degiulio | 30.800 |
| 39 | Albert Hahn | 30.200 |
| 40 | Peter Brownstein | 30.000 |
| 41 | Eugene Katchalov | 29.900 |
| 42 | Sven Arntzen | 29.700 |
| 43 | Brent Wheeler | 29.600 |
| 44 | Daniel Negreanu | 29.400 |
| 45 | James Darnaby | 29.300 |
| 46 | Roy Thung | 29.000 |
| 47 | Richard Gryko | 28.700 |
| 48 | Mikko Pispala | 28.100 |
| 49 | Jason Young | 27.900 |
| 50 | Michael Greco | 27.700 |
| 51 | Alessandro Ponzio | 27.600 |
| 52 | Frank Kassela | 27.500 |
| 53 | Scott Seiver | 27.500 |
| 54 | Dennis Seagle | 27.500 |
| 55 | Todd Thuan Bui | 27.400 |
| 56 | Steve Sung | 27.300 |
| 57 | Hani Awad | 26.600 |
| 58 | Gordon Lamb | 26.600 |
| 59 | Jameson Painter | 26.500 |
| 60 | Charles Wey | 26.500 |
| 61 | Marcel Luske | 26.500 |
| 62 | Laurent Lefrancq | 25.900 |
| 63 | Don Mcnamara | 25.800 |
| 64 | Matthew Smith | 25.800 |
| 65 | David Benyamine | 25.600 |
| 66 | Justin Smith | 25.300 |
| 67 | Mark Bartlog | 25.200 |
| 68 | Mickey Appleman | 25.200 |
| 69 | Katja Thater | 25.100 |
| 70 | Michael Lemkin | 25.100 |
| 71 | Matthew Savage | 25.000 |
| 72 | Loi Tran | 24.800 |
| 73 | Yuval Bronshtein | 24.300 |
| 74 | Chris Klodnicki | 23.900 |
| 75 | Thor Hansen | 23.700 |
| 76 | Mitch Schock | 23.200 |
| 77 | Matthew Wood | 22.500 |
| 78 | Alexandra Vuong | 22.400 |
| 79 | Ugur Marangoz | 22.300 |
| 80 | Jonathan Green | 22.300 |
| 81 | Jon Turner | 22.000 |
| 82 | Erik Seidel | 21.900 |
| 83 | Kirk Morrison | 21.800 |
| 84 | Stephen Su | 21.800 |
| 85 | Alexandre Gomes | 21.800 |
| 86 | Mark Zajdner | 21.500 |
| 87 | Antoine Amourette | 21.500 |
| 88 | Farzad Bonyadi | 21.500 |
| 89 | Paul Sokoloff | 21.400 |
| 90 | Daniel Ospina | 21.300 |
| 91 | Jeffrey Lisandro | 21.000 |
| 92 | John Armbrust | 21.000 |
| 93 | Fred Koubi | 21.000 |
| 94 | Andrew Goetsch | 20.900 |
| 95 | Larry Stjean | 20.900 |
| 96 | Jan Fisher | 20.500 |
| 97 | Manuel Labandeira | 20.400 |
| 98 | Owais Ahmed | 20.400 |
| 99 | Joshua Mammon | 20.400 |
| 100 | Matthew Ashton | 20.000 |
| 101 | Bryan Micon | 19.900 |
| 102 | Donald Yucius | 19.900 |
| 103 | Terry Crowe | 19.600 |
| 104 | Armando Ruiz | 19.500 |
| 105 | Chris Reslock | 19.400 |
| 106 | Chris Bryant | 19.200 |
| 107 | Adam Hourani | 18.800 |
| 108 | Derek Raymond | 18.800 |
| 109 | Jason Walsh | 18.700 |
| 110 | Oleg Shamardin | 18.700 |
| 111 | Max Pescatori | 18.600 |
| 112 | John Monnette | 18.500 |
| 113 | Edward Nassif | 18.200 |
| 114 | Chip Jett | 18.200 |
| 115 | Zachary Milchman | 18.100 |
| 116 | Peter Donnelly | 18.000 |
| 117 | Dale Phillips | 17.900 |
| 118 | Corey Nakasone | 17.700 |
| 119 | Eli Elezra | 17.100 |
| 120 | James Mackey | 17.000 |
| 121 | Topias Wahlbeck | 16.900 |
| 122 | Steve Zolotow | 16.800 |
| 123 | Jesse Martin | 16.600 |
| 124 | Regis Burlot | 16.600 |
| 125 | Charles Babb | 16.400 |
| 126 | Maria Ho | 16.100 |
| 127 | Daniel Ratigan | 15.900 |
| 128 | Jamie Heitner | 15.700 |
| 129 | Zachary Fellows | 15.600 |
| 130 | Gerard Rechnitzer | 15.300 |
| 131 | Bill Chen | 15.000 |
| 132 | Todd Brunson | 14.700 |
| 133 | Colin Maneval | 14.600 |
| 134 | Steve Jelinek | 14.600 |
| 135 | Cesar Garrido | 14.600 |
| 136 | Jeffrey Mervis | 14.500 |
| 137 | Arthur Cobb | 14.100 |
| 138 | Steven Albini | 14.100 |
| 139 | Andy Bloch | 14.000 |
| 140 | Alexander Kravchenko | 13.900 |
| 141 | Yueqi Zhu | 13.600 |
| 142 | Doyle Brunson | 13.400 |
| 143 | Donn Johnson | 13.000 |
| 144 | Richard Brodie | 13.000 |
| 145 | Perry Friedman | 13.000 |
| 146 | Jason Potter | 12.900 |
| 147 | Sam Grizzle | 12.900 |
| 148 | Andre Akkari | 12.850 |
| 149 | Gregory Jamison | 12.600 |
| 150 | Nicholas Derke | 12.600 |
| 151 | John Juanda | 12.100 |
| 152 | Jonathan Aguiar | 12.100 |
| 153 | Cyndy Violette | 12.000 |
| 154 | Phillip Campbell | 11.700 |
| 155 | Charles Townsend | 11.700 |
| 156 | George Williams | 11.700 |
| 157 | Thomas Hunt | 11.600 |
| 158 | Bradley Helm | 11.200 |
| 159 | Mike Matusow | 11.100 |
| 160 | Ryan Hughes | 10.600 |
| 161 | David Singer | 10.300 |
| 162 | Bruno Fitoussi | 9.900 |
| 163 | Karen Longfellow | 9.700 |
| 164 | Linda Ryke Drucker | 9.500 |
| 165 | Devin Hanneman | 9.500 |
| 166 | Dario Alioto | 9.400 |
| 167 | Lonnie Heimowitz | 9.400 |
| 168 | Phil Hellmuth | 9.200 |
| 169 | Kyle Bowker | 9.100 |
| 170 | Mike Wattel | 9.000 |
| 171 | Fabio De Francesco | 8.700 |
| 172 | Thomas Koral | 8.700 |
| 173 | Tom McCormick | 8.700 |
| 174 | Jeffrey Duvall | 8.500 |
| 175 | Jeffrey King | 8.500 |
| 176 | Eric Brix | 8.500 |
| 177 | Clayton Newman | 8.400 |
| 178 | John Hoang | 8.000 |
| 179 | William Coren | 8.000 |
| 180 | Joe Serock | 7.900 |
| 181 | Pat Pezzin | 7.900 |
| 182 | John Pappas | 7.800 |
| 183 | Scott Clements | 7.700 |
| 184 | Anthony Cousineau | 7.500 |
| 185 | Kim Bye | 7.400 |
| 186 | Brian Schwartz | 7.300 |
| 187 | Antonio Walker | 6.800 |
| 188 | Kristy Gazes | 6.800 |
| 189 | Jake Abdalla | 6.600 |
| 190 | Donald Markwardt | 6.500 |
| 191 | Timothy Finne | 5.700 |
| 192 | Sorel Mizzi | 5.600 |
| 193 | Mark Walters | 5.500 |
| 194 | Annie Duke | 5.500 |
| 195 | John Cernuto | 4.800 |
| 196 | Dan O’Brien | 4.600 |
| 197 | Aaron Steury | 4.400 |
| 198 | David Kruger | 4.300 |
| 199 | Jan Sjavik | 4.100 |
| 200 | Benjamin Scholl | 3.700 |
| 201 | Amnon Filippi | 3.700 |
| 202 | Andrey Zaichenko | 3.400 |
| 203 | Desmond Portano | 3.400 |
| 204 | Joseph Baumgartner | 2.700 |
| 205 | Meikle Partin | 2.400 |
| 206 | James Newberry | 1.700 |
| 207 | Jason Glatzer | 1 |