In other tournaments…

While the talk of the day was the $50k H.O.R.S.E. tournament, once could not overlook the bracelet that was won by Abe Mosseri in the Triple Chance No Limit Hold’em Event.  Once the event went to heads-up, he used timely aggression again and again on Masayoshi Tanaka and continued to grind away at his stack.  By the time the last hand was dealt, Tanaka had the equivalent of a bb gun in the middle if Iraq.  He can console himself with the $102,313 he takes home for second place.  Abe fattens his bank account with a healthy $166,151.

There will be one more bracelet awarded tonight in Event 54.  This one will go until late (or early depending upon how you look at it) in the morning as there are still 6 players holding onto chips and each and every one of them has over 1,000,000.  Sergey Konkin holds the chip lead with 3,500,000.

The last event that is going on is Event 56.  Lots of action in this one as it is a 6 handed tournament.  A fat $1,003,218 first place prize awaits the winner and the way it looks now, we just may have a big name pro sneak through and snatch one.  David Chiu, Shaun Deeb and Phil Hellmuth are all still alive.  The overall chip leader is Matthew Waxman with 1,150,000 in chips.

Erik Sagstrom – 3,675,000
Vitaly Lunkin – 2,490,000
David Bach – 2,345,000
John Hanson – 1,700,000
Huck Seed – 1,380,000
Chau Giang – 1,075,000
Erik Seidel – 965,000
Ville Wahlbeck – 645,000

Lunkin has been having a marvelous WSOP and you would have to think that he will continue to remain among the leaders of this tournament. He is a pretty well rounded player and has shown little weakness this year. Sagstrom is an interesting player and his name has been popping up quite a bit this year. This will be his first cash in a WSOP Event and it will be interesting to see if he can hold up to the pressure. We also have a few specialty players in here who excel at one or two of the variations. Don’t be fooled by the big chip lead, this is still anyone’s tournament.

In other tournaments…

The Triple Chance Tournament heads into day 3 with 16 players fighting it out for the bracelet. This is the second of 3 bracelet tournaments that we are going to see on Tuesday. Early on it appeared that this tournament was going to be dominated by some of the pro’s, but they have fallen by the wayside in day 2 and it is pretty much an unknown field that is left alive. An Tran is the only bracelet winner left and Eric Lynch is the only other player of note. The current leader is Jason DeWitt with 1,599,000.

The third bracelet will be given out in the Seven Card Stud Hi Low 8 or Better Event. They are down to 14 players and for once, Jeff Lisandro nowhere to be seen on a 7 Stud final table. Lots of fresh meat in this tourney and it would appear as though we will get a first time winner here. Brian Swinford will start the day off as the chip leader with 292,000.

Events 54 and 55 finished off their days way short of where they needed to be to get to a final table by the end of day 2. Event 54 started with 2818 and still has almost 400 players sitting down when they start the next session. Event 55 did not do any better as they started the day with 258 players and now have 75 left. Lots of big names hit the rail early in this one including Todd Brunson, Greg Raymer, Erick Lindgren and Barry Greenstein. These guys have to be wearing down as you see their names in almost every tournament at the start. Main Event kicks off in 3 days!