$50,000 H.O.R.S.E Tournament underway

My favorite tournament of the World Series of Poker, the $50,000 buy-in H.O.R.S.E. tournament, is going on at the Rio. Only 95 people entered this year, and my bet is that some of the usual entrants blew their "big buy-in" at the $40,000 buy-in Hold'em event. Nevertheless, it's still a great gathering of the best of the best poker pros and crowns a champion who is great at not just one poker game, but five. There are 53 players left and leading the pack at this point is Gus Hansen, but former champs Scotty Nguyen is close behind and Freddy Deeb is still alive as well, so we could have our first repeat champion. Sadly both of the women who entered, Annie Duke and Jennifer Harman, have been eliminated, so we won't have a queen of H.O.R.S.E. this year.

Related Resources:

• H.O.R.S.E Tournaments 101
• 2008 Winner: Scotty Nguyen
• 2007 Winner: Freddy Deeb
• 2006 Winner: Chip Reese
• Photos from the 2006 H.O.R.S.E Event at the WSOP