Tuesday, June 14, 2016 12:51 PM Local Time
The Final Stretch for $3,000 H.O.R.S.E.
Jared Talarico
It's the last day on the schedule for Event #18: $3,000 H.O.R.S.E. There are 16 players remaining from the 400 who started the tournament (144 came back for Day 2). Two full tables of mixed game specialists are contending for a top prize of $259,730 and a gold bracelet. Second place receives $160,522. Everyone entering Day 3 has at least $8,576 locked up.
Jared Talarico took and maintained the lead for much of the latter part of Day 2, ending the night with 825,000 in chips. Bracelet winner Gerald Ringe (626,000) and Chino Rheem (620,000, and looking for his first bracelet) also spent much of the day near the top of the chip counts. On their tails are Glenn Engelbert (548,000 and three WSOP final tables in limit events), Todd Ickow (459,000), and bracelet winner Marco Johnson (399,000). Other players with bracelets remaining from a field that was full of highly-accomplished contenders are Michael Gathy (360,000), Frankie O'Dell (312,000), and Eli Elezra (199,000).
Day 3 begins with Level 21, limits will be 15,000/30,000. Play resumes at 2 p.m. There are 15-minute breaks scheduled after every two levels, with a 60-minute break after Level 26 (about 8:30 p.m.) Play picks up where the night ended on each table, with the same game and number of hands in that game round remaining.
Continue following WSOP.com for updates throughout the day, as a new H.O.R.S.E. champion breaks out of the pack.