2012 World Series of Poker › Event 32: $10,000 H.O.R.S.E.

Day 1 completed

Posted 2012-06-17 GMT-6

Soulier Looking to go Back-to-Back

Posted 2012-06-17 GMT-6 • Level 8

Fabrice Soulier won this event last year - can he do it again?

Day 1 of Event 32: $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. has come to an end, and our chip leader is Fabrice Soulier, who won this event last year. Soulier amassed a large stack before the thirty-minute “dinner break,” and never looked back. He heads to Day 2 as the leader of the pack with 146,300 chips, and is looking to make his sixth final table in his WSOP career.

Other players who were able to amass a large stack on Day 1 include Allen Bari (96,300), Brandon Shack-Harris (93,900), Michael Binger (92,600), David Bach (91,700), and Steve Zolotow (86,000).

A total of 178 players signed up for Event 32, generating a total prize pool of $1,673,200. Twenty-four players are guaranteed at least $16,246, everyone who makes the final table will earn a minimum of $45,360, and the winner will bank $451,779, along with the prestigious gold bracelet.

There were plenty of notables who were unable to make it out of Day 1 unfortunately, and the list includes Xuan Liu, Shannon Shorr, David Benyamine, Vladimir Shchmelev, Barry Greenstein, Brendan Taylor, Annie Duke, Jonathan Duhamel, and Luke Schwartz.

Among the leaders is - you guessed it - Phil Ivey. Ivey, who’s already made three final tables this week, scooped a big pot in a Stud 8 hand towards the end of the night. We picked up the action on sixth street, where Ivey’s board read , and he fired a bet into Dan Shak and Josh Arieh. Both players called. Ivey fired another bet on seventh, only Arieh called, and Ivey tabled for a full house. His opponents mucked, and Ivey scooped the pot.

Day 2 will begin tomorrow at 2 p.m. local time, and we’ll play ten levels unless we reach a final table – which is unlikely. Stay locked into PokerNews for this and every event at the 2012 World Series of Poker.

For now, good night from Las Vegas!

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Official End-of-Day Chip Counts

Posted 2012-06-17 GMT-6

Chip Counts
Fabrice Soulier			146,300
Abe Mosseri			99,900	13,900
Allen Bari			96,300
Brandon Shack-Harris			93,900	22,900
Michael Binger			92,600
David Bach			91,300
Steve Zolotow			86,000
Bertrand Grospellier	PokerStars Team Pro		82,500	12,500
John Monnette			80,800	800
Scott Fischman			80,500
Mori Eskandani			79,800
Cory Zeidman			79,600	4,600
Sean Snyder			78,400
David Oppenheim			77,200	50,200
Steven Sobel			74,700
Ognjen Sekularac			73,500	-11,500
Phil Ivey			72,600	600
Ylon Schwartz			71,900	-8,100
Justin Young			68,500	5,500
Eugene Katchalov	PokerStars Team Pro		68,100
John Hennigan			67,400	-8,600
Daniel Negreanu	PokerStars Team Pro		65,100
Robert Mizrachi			64,300	10,300
Alexander Kuzmin			62,800	9,800
Andrew Brown			62,400	18,400

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More Chip Counts

Posted 2012-06-17 GMT-6

Chip Counts
Allen Bari			90,000
John Monnette			80,000	-1,000
Phil Ivey			80,000
Cory Zeidman			75,000	-9,000
Bertrand Grospellier	PokerStars Team Pro		70,000	21,000
Phil Hellmuth			55,000	-15,000
Mike Matusow			40,000	-500
David Chiu			37,000	28,000
Brett Richey		US	34,000	-1,000
Chris Bell			20,000	-12,000
Eli Elezra			Busted

Updated Chip Counts

Posted 2012-06-17 GMT-6

Chip Counts
Fabrice Soulier			148,000	18,000
Scott Fischman			99,000	45,000
Brandon Shack-Harris			94,000	23,000
Steve Zolotow			93,000	7,000
Allen Bari			90,000	6,000
David Bach			87,000	23,000
Abe Mosseri			86,000	26,000
Ognjen Sekularac			85,000	42,000
Mori Eskandandi			84,000	12,000
Cory Zeidman			84,000	35,000
John Monnette			81,000	57,000
Phil Ivey			80,000	6,500
Ylon Schwartz			80,000	38,000
Daniel Negreanu	PokerStars Team Pro		68,000
Huck Seed			58,000	13,500
Eli Elezra			Busted
David Baker			Busted

More Bustouts

Posted 2012-06-17 GMT-6

Some old, some new.

Singer Sinks a Bit

Posted 2012-06-17 GMT-6

Limit Hold'em

David Singer and an opponent took a flop of . Singer check-called a bet, and the turn brought the . Singer led out, and his opponent called.

Another seven - the - completed the board, and Singer led again. His opponent called.

"Ace," Singer announced.

"Which one?" his opponent asked.

Singer showed , but his opponent had , and won the pot.

Chip Counts
David Singer			43,000	-18,000

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More Chip Counts

Posted 2012-06-17 GMT-6

Chip Counts
John Hennigan			76,000	48,000
Justin Young			63,000	18,000
Joe Tehan			62,000	-6,000
Tommy Vedes			61,000	23,000
Abe Mosseri			60,000
Scott Clements			57,000	17,000
Robert Mizrachi			54,000	22,000
Alexander Kuzmin			53,000	18,000
Stephen Chidwick			52,000	26,000
Viktor Blom	PokerStars Team Pro		51,000	7,000
Todd Brunson			43,000	13,000
Bruno Fitoussi			35,000	-12,000
Shaun Deeb			30,000	-1,000
John Monnette			24,000	-31,000
Kyle Bowker			18,000
George Lind	PokerStars Team Online		13,000	-22,000
Fabrizio Gonzalez			13,000
Nick Schulman			10,000	-12,000

Level 8 started

Posted 2012-06-17 GMT-6

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Posted 2012-06-17 GMT-6 • Level 7

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