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Chips Reese wins $1.78 million in WSOP H.O.R.S.E
H.O.R.S.E stands for Hold’em, Omaha Hi/Lo, Razz, Stud, and Stud Eight or better. The games are played in rotation, with each game being played for around 40 minutes. This means competitors need to excel in all five forms of poker, meaning only highly skilled poker players can compete.
After playing for 19 hours straight on Thursday (from 2pm till 9am) the field of 143 was eventually whittled down to a final table of nine players. Together they comprised one of the strongest final tables in WSOP history.
Three of those players were regulars at “The Big Game”, the highest stakes open cash game in the world, where minimum bets are often $10,000 dollars. Chip Reese, Phil Ivey and Doyle Brunson are three of the most feared players in poker, regularly making single bets 20 times the size of the average American’s annual salary.
Between them the nine players at the final table had won 37 WSOP bracelets. In Doyle Brunson and Jim Bechtel there were two WSOP champions at the table and in Phil Ivey there was the man regarded by most as the strongest poker player alive today.
In the end it came down to Chip Reese versus Andy Bloch, an MIT & Harvard graduate who is currently a Full Tilt Poker sponsored pro.
The two players put on one of the greatest heads-up battles ever witnessed at the WSOP. In the longest recorded heads-up encounter in WSOP history Reese and Bloch fought it out for over seven hours before the title was finally decided on a coin flip.
With two diamonds on the table Reese was all-in with a draw to a flush, while Andy Bloch held top pair. With most of the chips in the middle Bloch was a 53/46 favourite, but a third diamond on the turn gave Reese the flush.
Although Bloch still had a handful of chips left the tournament was effectively over, and a few hands later he was finished, after his 9-8 failed to catch a pair against Reese’s A-Q.
With that perhaps the greatest poker tournament ever had come to an end, and Chip Reese had his first WSOP bracelet since 1982. Bloch received $1,029,600 for second place.
After playing for 19 hours straight on Thursday (from 2pm till 9am) the field of 143 was eventually whittled down to a final table of nine players. Together they comprised one of the strongest final tables in WSOP history.
Three of those players were regulars at “The Big Game”, the highest stakes open cash game in the world, where minimum bets are often $10,000 dollars. Chip Reese, Phil Ivey and Doyle Brunson are three of the most feared players in poker, regularly making single bets 20 times the size of the average American’s annual salary.
Between them the nine players at the final table had won 37 WSOP bracelets. In Doyle Brunson and Jim Bechtel there were two WSOP champions at the table and in Phil Ivey there was the man regarded by most as the strongest poker player alive today.
In the end it came down to Chip Reese versus Andy Bloch, an MIT & Harvard graduate who is currently a Full Tilt Poker sponsored pro.
The two players put on one of the greatest heads-up battles ever witnessed at the WSOP. In the longest recorded heads-up encounter in WSOP history Reese and Bloch fought it out for over seven hours before the title was finally decided on a coin flip.
With two diamonds on the table Reese was all-in with a draw to a flush, while Andy Bloch held top pair. With most of the chips in the middle Bloch was a 53/46 favourite, but a third diamond on the turn gave Reese the flush.
Although Bloch still had a handful of chips left the tournament was effectively over, and a few hands later he was finished, after his 9-8 failed to catch a pair against Reese’s A-Q.
With that perhaps the greatest poker tournament ever had come to an end, and Chip Reese had his first WSOP bracelet since 1982. Bloch received $1,029,600 for second place.
Submitted: 2006/07/17 at 16:10:23
