$250 Buy-In H.O.R.S.E.
Level 12: 1200/2400 Limits

Earlier we had mention a player chasing a draw and building the action.  As it turned out, she may have been actually trying to get knocked out of the tournament and it showed on this hand.

Hold pocket 9’s, she showed her cards prematurely but managed to win the hand and still hold around 4-5 bets.  The floor was called the the tournament director had no choice but to issue a one-round penalty which equated to about six hands.  After leaving the room angrily and the table shaking their heads in disbelief, she came back and asked the TD if she could forfeit her stack because she wanted to get into Flight 1F of Event 8.  He told her she could leave and be anted and blinded out so off she went.

Play continued on Table 66 with an empty seat and people asking to hop in and play the vacated stack.

$250 Buy-In H.O.R.S.E.
Level 12: 1200/2400 Limits

After some initial confusion on betting with two players all-in, action continued with three other players in the pot playing Stud Hi-Lo.

After all the cards were dealt, Nancy Cope turned over 7’s and 3’s which would not seem to be a hand to win a five-way Stud Hi-Lo hand.  But as the rest of the players turned their cards up, three players showed missed draws include one player who had been dealt a wheel draw on the first four cards and got all paint the rest of the way.

So Cope not only takes the high but scoops the pot and eliminates two more players taking us down to 25 players remaining.

$250 Buy-In H.O.R.S.E.
Level 11: 1000/2000 Limits

For anyone that plays split pot games, keeping your cool isn’t easy when someone is chasing a hand and helping to drive up a pot. This Stud Hi/Lo hand was no exception as Grady Yeager, Jr. was driving the action with kings showing while a second opponent and Anita Pearl were after a low. Pearl with 2-5-7-8 showing was clearly ahead of the second player’s 3-8-9-10 but the action keep flying to Pearl’s frustration. When 7th street came around the opponent sitting between Yeager and Pearl finally folded and they split the pot. Pearl was not clearly not happy about the chase nearly draining her chips and she stacked her share of the pot shaking her head.

$250 Buy-In H.O.R.S.E.
Level 11: 1000/2000 Limits

Kevin Mathers was essentially in for his tournament life with his table playing Razz. Mathers had vs his opponent’s . On the final card, Mathers confidently fired the rest of this his stack. His opponent said “There’s no way I can win this hand” and folded giving Mathers a de facto double-up to a little over 16,000.

Since the last post, five more players have hit the rail and we’re down to 31 remaining in Event 10.

$250 Buy-In H.O.R.S.E.

Level 10:  Limits 800/1,600

The HORSE players have returned from their dinner break and are back in action.

Kevin Mathers, John Holley, and Jack ‘Team Snake’ Deutsch are still in the field.

Only 38 remain and one of them is NOT Angel Vu.  She’s busted out and on to the next event:

Got a nice steak from the Hard Rock Cafe. Now I’m ready for the 8pm satellite to the main event 🙂 @shrpo pic.twitter.com/xRZhfVqMzU

— Angel Vu (@AngelVufl) August 23, 2014

250 Buy-In H.O.R.S.E.
Level 9: 600/1200 Limits

40 players have survived to the dinner break in the H.O.R.S.E. tournament and will be coming back on Level 9 facing 600/1200 limits in around a half-hour.

$250 Buy-In H.O.R.S.E.
Level 8: 500/1K Limits

57 players remain of the 74 grinders that started today’s H.O.R.S.E. tournament. They are currently at Level 8 500/1k limits, with an average chip stack of 13K.

Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open
Event 10: $250 Buy-In H.O.R.S.E.
August 23-24, 2014

Entries: 74
Prize Pool: $15,540

1st – $5,749
2nd – $3,077
3rd – $2,067
4th – $1,461
5th – $1,119
6th – $886
7th – $684
8th – $497

$250 Buy-In H.O.R.S.E.
Level 3: 100/200 Limits

The H.O.R.S.E. players is on their first break and one level remains to register or re-enter should someone bust out. There are currently 74 registered with a few more in line to get in the game.

One of those is current Seminole Hard Rock Poker Player of the Year front-runner Angel Vu. She is chasing points in every game she can enter, even if she doesn’t know how to play.

Vu commented last night that she was heading home to study up on the poker variations in H.O.R.S.E. since she’s never actually played them. Beginner’s luck seems to be doing well for Vu as she’s more than doubled her starting stack by the first break.