H.O.R.S.E. Events sind für die Pros interessanter als die kleinen No Limit Hold’em Events und so durfte sich auch Event # 31 über ein prominentes Teilnehmerfeld freuen. Auch die deutschsprachigen Spieler waren gut vertreten und sicher ist, dass PokerStars Pro Johannes Steindl an Tag 2 wiederkommt.
Die Deutschen waren mit PokerStars Pro Katja Thater, Alexander Burkart, Marko Hartman und Fabian Spangenberg vertreten, die Schweizer hatten Severin Walser im Rennen und die Österreicher setzten ihre Hoffnungen auf PokerStars Pro Johannes Steindl, Full Tilt Pro Stefan Rapp, Ivo Donev und Erwin Rohrer.
Auf internationaler Seite gab es viele Mitglieder der PokerStars Pros wie Lex Veldhuis, Jason Mercier, Nacho Barbero, Alex Kravchenko, Marcel Luske, Greg Raymer, Chad Brown, Vanessa Rousso, Joe Hachem und Daniel Negreanu. Sonst gab es noch die Full Tilt Pros mit Phil Ivey, Tom Dwan, Chris Ferguson, Howard Lederer und anderen und auch sonst waren viele Pros an den Tischen zu sehen.
Insgesamt waren es 828 Starter, 80 Plätze werden bezahlt und auf den Sieger warten $257.134. Doch noch ist es ein langer Weg ins Geld, denn rund 280 Spieler blieben an Tag 1 übrig. Nicht mehr dabei sind unter anderem Daniel Negreanu, Greg Raymer, Chris Ferguson, Joe Hachem, Marcel Luske, Annie Duke, Jeff Lisandro, Noah Boeken und viele andere mehr.
Von den deutschsprachigen Spielern hat in jedem Fall Johannes Steindl den ersten Tag heil überstanden, auch Stefan Rapp, Severin Walser und Marko Hartmann kommen wieder.
| 1 | Ming Reslock | 50.000 |
| 2 | Jesse Rios | 47.100 |
| 3 | Robert Rasmussen | 44.600 |
| 4 | James Van Alstyne | 40.900 |
| 5 | Maria Ho | 38.000 |
| 6 | Brian McKain | 38.000 |
| 7 | Jay Hong | 38.000 |
| 8 | Dennis Seagle | 37.400 |
| 9 | Derek Boundy | 37.100 |
| 10 | Allen Kessler | 36.900 |
| 11 | Tom Dwan | 34.900 |
| 12 | Clayton Mozdzen | 33.600 |
| 13 | Robert Campbell | 30.700 |
| 14 | James Schaaf | 30.700 |
| 15 | Vasili Lazarou | 30.500 |
| 16 | Lex Veldhuis | 30.100 |
| 17 | Richard Sallustro | 29.800 |
| 18 | Sirous Jamshidi | 29.500 |
| 19 | Candace Liu | 29.400 |
| 20 | Oleg Shamardin | 29.400 |
| 21 | Cynthia Violette | 29.200 |
| 22 | Brandon Cantu | 29.100 |
| 23 | Konstantin Puchkov | 28.200 |
| 24 | Bruce Hoyt | 28.200 |
| 25 | Jeff Shulman | 28.000 |
| 26 | Mikko Pispala | 28.000 |
| 27 | Colin Maneval | 27.600 |
| 28 | Jon Turner | 27.400 |
| 29 | Chris Back | 27.400 |
| 30 | Edward Im | 27.100 |
| 31 | Andy Bloch | 26.800 |
| 32 | Michael Craig | 25.900 |
| 33 | Brandon Leeds | 25.600 |
| 34 | Franck Stepler | 25.000 |
| 35 | Russ Salzer | 24.800 |
| 36 | Todd Thuan Bui | 24.400 |
| 37 | John Cernuto | 24.100 |
| 38 | Mark Zuffi | 23.900 |
| 39 | Jason Yano | 23.700 |
| 40 | Daniel Huseman | 23.600 |
| 41 | Jonathan Aguiar | 23.400 |
| 42 | Blake Cahail | 23.300 |
| 43 | Michael Binger | 23.300 |
| 44 | Todd Keikoan | 23.300 |
| 45 | Dustin Leary | 23.200 |
| 46 | Mike Wattel | 23.000 |
| 47 | Linda Johnson | 23.000 |
| 48 | Thomas Weideman | 22.700 |
| 49 | Scott Laurie | 22.500 |
| 50 | Steven Sample | 22.200 |
| 51 | Brandon Hawkins | 21.800 |
| 52 | Frank Russomanno | 21.800 |
| 53 | Ryon Nicholson | 21.700 |
| 54 | Brian Saltus | 21.600 |
| 55 | Steven Sauser | 21.500 |
| 56 | Chip Jett | 21.300 |
| 57 | Stephen Su | 21.300 |
| 58 | Nicholas Derke | 21.100 |
| 59 | Nathaniel Wiesner | 21.100 |
| 60 | John Regan | 21.000 |
| 61 | Joseph Bolnick | 20.900 |
| 62 | Jon Friedberg | 20.900 |
| 63 | Jack Rosenfeldt | 20.700 |
| 64 | Cliff Josephy | 20.600 |
| 65 | Daniel Ospina | 20.500 |
| 66 | Al Barbieri | 20.500 |
| 67 | Mary Jones | 20.500 |
| 68 | Johannes Steindl | 19.900 |
| 69 | Ryan Caskey | 19.700 |
| 70 | Paul Dewald | 19.700 |
| 71 | Brian Brubaker | 19.700 |
| 72 | Shannon Petluck | 19.500 |
| 73 | Annand Ramdin | 19.100 |
| 74 | Hani Awad | 19.100 |
| 75 | Kenneth Aldridge | 19.000 |
| 76 | Wesley Huff | 19.000 |
| 77 | Bonnie Damiano Leinhos | 18.900 |
| 78 | Gary Clark | 18.900 |
| 79 | Daniel Didech | 18.900 |
| 80 | Svetlana Gromenkova | 18.700 |
| 81 | Manuel Labandeira | 18.500 |
| 82 | Mathew Barreira | 18.500 |
| 83 | Sasha Rosewood | 18.400 |
| 84 | Keith Sexton | 18.400 |
| 85 | Gary Margolis | 17.900 |
| 86 | Yuval Bronshtein | 17.900 |
| 87 | Marlon Milne | 17.500 |
| 88 | Michael Cole | 17.500 |
| 89 | Eric Conti | 17.400 |
| 90 | Thomas Hunt | 17.200 |
| 91 | Laurent Lefrancq | 17.000 |
| 92 | Desmond Portano | 16.900 |
| 93 | Ken Lennaard | 16.800 |
| 94 | Bryan Anderson | 16.700 |
| 95 | Shihping Sun | 16.600 |
| 96 | Jose Barbero | 16.400 |
| 97 | Eric Schwartz | 16.400 |
| 98 | Paul Evans | 16.400 |
| 99 | Andrew Revesz | 16.400 |
| 100 | Robert Turner | 16.300 |
| 101 | Edmond Vartughian | 16.200 |
| 102 | Severin Walser | 16.100 |
| 103 | Mark Sykes | 16.100 |
| 104 | Paolo Grossi | 16.000 |
| 105 | Jason Mercier | 16.000 |
| 106 | Robert Courtney | 15.900 |
| 107 | Robert Bryan | 15.900 |
| 108 | Katherine Baxter | 15.800 |
| 109 | Gary Mcgee | 15.500 |
| 110 | Kendall Fukumoto | 15.500 |
| 111 | Gregory Browder | 15.400 |
| 112 | George Lind | 15.000 |
| 113 | Ward Crane | 14.900 |
| 114 | Pawel Andrzejewski | 14.900 |
| 115 | Francisco Lopez | 14.800 |
| 116 | Daniel Cossette | 14.700 |
| 117 | Ylon Schwartz | 14.600 |
| 118 | Steve Schulman | 14.600 |
| 119 | Jim Geary | 14.600 |
| 120 | Jeanmarc Thomas | 14.500 |
| 121 | Jose Razocabrera | 14.500 |
| 122 | Lupi Massimiliano | 14.300 |
| 123 | Rob Amereno | 14.000 |
| 124 | Chris Viox | 14.000 |
| 125 | Allyn Marshall | 14.000 |
| 126 | Daniel Nicewander | 13.900 |
| 127 | Christopher Nelligan | 13.300 |
| 128 | Stefan Rapp | 13.200 |
| 129 | Stewart Yancik | 13.200 |
| 130 | Guillermo Abdel Musik | 13.100 |
| 131 | Ed Tonnellier | 12.700 |
| 132 | Dorman Atchison | 12.600 |
| 133 | Dennis Thorn | 12.500 |
| 134 | Miguel Gutierrez | 12.500 |
| 135 | Jason Puglisi | 12.400 |
| 136 | Daniel Medeiros | 12.400 |
| 137 | Kyung Han | 12.400 |
| 138 | Max Stern | 12.400 |
| 139 | Danny Kalpakis | 12.300 |
| 140 | David Margolis | 12.300 |
| 141 | Howard Lederer | 12.200 |
| 142 | Pat Pezzin | 12.200 |
| 143 | Gail Malec | 12.100 |
| 144 | Barbara Lewis | 12.100 |
| 145 | Ming Lee | 12.100 |
| 146 | Nils-Ake Gustafsson | 12.000 |
| 147 | Scott Horowitz | 11.700 |
| 148 | Phillip Campbell | 11.700 |
| 149 | Ben Tang | 11.500 |
| 150 | Aaron Duczak | 11.400 |
| 151 | James Rubenstein | 11.300 |
| 152 | John Juanda | 11.200 |
| 153 | Daniel Hofer | 11.100 |
| 154 | David Funkhouser | 11.000 |
| 155 | Charles Townsend | 11.000 |
| 156 | Joseph Paz | 10.900 |
| 157 | Alan Morgan | 10.800 |
| 158 | Phil Ivey | 10.800 |
| 159 | Greg Monaldi | 10.700 |
| 160 | Richard Grafstein | 10.700 |
| 161 | David Fried | 10.100 |
| 162 | Jeffrey Tunkel | 10.100 |
| 163 | Erik Seidel | 9.800 |
| 164 | Roman Rypma | 9.800 |
| 165 | Dale Pinchot | 9.700 |
| 166 | Robert Toft | 9.500 |
| 167 | Brendan Taylor | 9.500 |
| 168 | David Mitchell | 9.400 |
| 169 | David Singer | 9.300 |
| 170 | Tom McCormick | 9.300 |
| 171 | Susan Joseph | 9.200 |
| 172 | Brian Schwartz | 9.200 |
| 173 | Jeffrey Barron | 9.100 |
| 174 | James Neden | 9.100 |
| 175 | Ronald Terrill | 9.000 |
| 176 | Kerry Stead | 8.900 |
| 177 | Mike Puskarich | 8.800 |
| 178 | David Brooker | 8.700 |
| 179 | Mickey Appleman | 8.400 |
| 180 | Richard Hartert | 8.300 |
| 181 | Joe Ritzie | 8.300 |
| 182 | Ben Yu | 8.100 |
| 183 | James Darnaby | 8.000 |
| 184 | Massoud Nikjouian | 8.000 |
| 185 | Loren Rice | 8.000 |
| 186 | Paul Gamblin | 7.900 |
| 187 | Robert Williamson III | 7.900 |
| 188 | Nina Tovish | 7.900 |
| 189 | Joseph Romano | 7.600 |
| 190 | Lonnie Heimowitz | 7.300 |
| 191 | Jason Lanzillotta | 7.200 |
| 192 | Regis Burlot | 7.200 |
| 193 | Yuebin Guo | 7.000 |
| 194 | Deborah Hickok | 7.000 |
| 195 | Henry Porcaro | 6.800 |
| 196 | Don Zewin | 6.600 |
| 197 | Lawrence Birk | 6.500 |
| 198 | David Moskowitz | 6.300 |
| 199 | Jarrod Brogdon | 6.300 |
| 200 | Michael Miccio | 6.200 |
| 201 | Matthew Kursar | 6.200 |
| 202 | John Hoang | 6.100 |
| 203 | Chiori Gannon | 6.100 |
| 204 | Richard Atkinson | 5.900 |
| 205 | Meikle Partin | 5.800 |
| 206 | Zachary Gilbert | 5.800 |
| 207 | Adam Schoenfeld | 5.800 |
| 208 | Gary Bernson | 5.800 |
| 209 | Owais Ahmed | 5.500 |
| 210 | Richard Chiovari | 5.500 |
| 211 | Mitar Kalezic | 5.500 |
| 212 | John D’Agostino | 5.400 |
| 213 | Kenneth Nay | 5.400 |
| 214 | Mark Provenzano | 5.200 |
| 215 | John Mcsweeney | 5.100 |
| 216 | Marco Hartmann | 5.100 |
| 217 | Rod Pardey | 4.900 |
| 218 | Kevin Mcguinness | 4.900 |
| 219 | Dana Kellstrom | 4.700 |
| 220 | Richard Tatalovich | 4.400 |
| 221 | Suzan Landrum | 4.400 |
| 222 | Adam Spiegelberg | 4.300 |
| 223 | Byron Scott | 3.800 |
| 224 | Timothy Elsholz | 3.700 |
| 225 | Robert Mizrachi | 3.200 |
| 226 | Andrew Latto | 3.200 |
| 227 | Charles Polk | 3.000 |
| 228 | Marc Ferguson | 2.900 |
| 229 | Chris Reslock | 2.900 |
| 230 | Doug Carli | 2.900 |
| 231 | Jorge Crespo | 2.800 |
| 232 | David Fernandez | 2.700 |
| 233 | Matthew Kozlowski | 2.600 |
| 234 | Jason Dollinger | 2.500 |
| 235 | Charles Butler | 2.400 |
| 236 | Mark Gregorich | 2.400 |
| 237 | Justin Iovanne | 2.400 |
| 238 | Gerald Luckhaupt | 2.000 |
| 239 | Jonathan Lynn | 1.800 |
| 240 | Jay Zimmet | 1.600 |
| 241 | Joseph Aronesty | 1.400 |
| 242 | Brian James | 1.000 |
| 243 | Ryan Davis | 500 |
| 244 | Ronnie Hofman | 500 |
| 245 | Shawn Van Asdale | 19 |
| 246 | Richard Monroe | 1 |