Doyle Brunson, Chip Reese, Phil Ivey, Andy Bloch, 1993 World Champion Jim Bechtel, TJ Cloutier Will play for the WSOP $50,000 buy in H.O.R.S.E. TV poker players want, and ESPN is on cloud nine!
When the starting line up for the 2006 WSOP first came out, one event stood high among all. The $50,000 buy-in HORSE.. The talks from the start was how many poker guys are going to pay $50,000 to enter a poker tournament'? Numbers as low as 50, and as high as 400 were thought, but all knew once it was time for the money to be put up, we would see!
The basics was told Wednesday, as 140 plus participants Win seats to the Poker Dome! payed up the highest WSOP buy in ever on record, $50,000. The structure was made extra slow for the event, and in fact only 10 or so players were deducted in the first day. Poker players knew this would make for a tough play-day, and they were not let down. Facts were flying that ESPN was going to push the final table, and make the event a four day event. That never came, and the players had to play a marathon 19 hour crazy day.
The chip count were:
'Chip" Reese: 1,756,000
Brunson: 1,227,000
Bloch: 934,000
Ivey 885,000
Bechtel 841,000
Singer 745,000
Tomko 438,000
Cloutier 351,000
Antonius - $13,000
As you see Patrick, who had the entire players took two times in chips at times in this event ran into tuff luck, and defines short stacked at 13,000 . You also have to know for top players Williamson III, Smith, Greenstein, and Cassidy, who were the last four players to get ousted
1st - $ 1,716,000
2nd - $ 1,029,600
3rd - $ 617,760
4th - $549,120
5th - $480,480
6th - $411,840
7th - $343,200
8th - $274,560
9th - $205,920
The poker guys get about 7 hours off, before the first of them have to for their ESPN inters about 7 pm. The last table is supposed to start at 10pm, and hopefully the players will be good enough to play great poker. |
