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Poker.co.uk - Poker News Archive
Monday 2nd July 2007 Deeb Takes WSOP H.O.R.S.E. Title
Poker professional Freddy Deeb won one of the most coveted titles on Friday as the greatest all-around poker player by winning the $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. Championship at the 38th Annual World Series of Poker (WSOP) in Las Vegas.
Milwaukee’s Best Light is sponsoring the event and Deeb beat a record field of 148 high-stakes players to win more than two million dollars. He was also presented with an 18-carat gold bracelet studded with 91 black diamonds and a custom-designed wristwatch from luxury Swiss watchmaker CORUM.
The Championship demands players excel at five poker variations, Hold’em, Omaha, Razz, Seven Card Stud High and Seven Card Stud High-Low Eight or Better, and winning means that players can outplay top professionals in a wide range of game variations with high stakes on the line.
“When I won my first bracelet, I was mostly a cash game player so it didn’t really matter to me,” said Deeb, a native of Lebanon who moved to the US in the 1970s.
“But this one, it means everything to me. These are the toughest players in the world. It has the highest buy-in. Except for the $10,000 buy-in, this is the bracelet that means the most of any of them.”
The field included some of the world’s best players including Phil Ivey, Annie Duke, Daniel Negreanu, Howard Lederer, Phil Hellmuth Jr, Doyle Brunson, Johnny Chan, Jim Bechtel, Scotty Nguyen, Greg Raymer and Chris Ferguson.
The final table lasted over 14 hours, the fourth-longest final table in WSOP history, after beginning on the previous Monday with a field of some of the greatest professional players.
Poker ace Chip Reese won the inaugural H.O.R.S.E. World Championship last year by beating 143 other players to collect $1,784,640 and the top 16 finishers at this year’s event received a share of the $7,104,000 prize pool.
Source: OnlineCasinoNews
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