Poker: Wsop Event 49 Update: Horse

Big names continued to fall by the wayside as Day 3 of Event 49 - the $50 000 buy-in H.O.R.S.E. competition ended, and as we went to press late Monday night Las Vegas time the following were among the many who had been eliminated from an original starting field of 95 players: Alex Kravchenko, Barry Greenstein, Gus Hansen, Doyle Brunson, Tony G, Phil Ivey, Erick Lindgren, Chris “Jesus” Ferguson, Scotty Nguyen (lasy year's winner), Greg Raymer, Thor Hansen, Bill Chen, and Matt Glantz.

The final table had been decided by the end of Day 4 when Gus Hansen was eliminated in 9th place and consists of Erik Sagstrom, David Bach, Vitaly Lunkin, John Hanson, Huck Seed, Ville Wahlbeck, Erik Seidel and Chau Giang, all of whom will all return Tuesday at 2 p.m. Vegas time to play down to the next winner of the Chip Reese Memorial Trophy. Hey! World's largest poker site giving away $50 free. Visit Pokerstars to claim.

Swedish online pro Erik "Erik123" Sagstrom continued to hold the lead for most of day 3, and heads the final table in chip count on 3 675 000, over a million more than his closest competition, the Russian pro Vitaly Lunkin who holds 2 490 000. Finnish poker wizard Ville Wahlbeck, who along with Lunkin is already a bracelet winner this year, is the short stack with 645 000.

95 players entered for the event, generating a prize pool of $4 560 000, which translates to a whopping $1 276 606 main prize payday for the eventual winner.

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Utah : Online Gambling : HB108 - 02/08/2012 : An intrastate attempt by Utah politician Stephen Sandstrom to introduce state legislation banning any legalisation of internet gambling has failed at the start gate.

MORE U.S. DISCUSSION ON INTERNET GAMBLING DUE THIS WEEK - 02/08/2012 : Interest in online gambling in the United States is set to continue on Thursday this week when the US Senate Committee on Indian Affairs meets to hear the views of a wide cross section of interested parties on the possible impact of legalised internet gambling on tribal gaming.

Judge wont dismiss DoJ Black Friday charges - 02/08/2012 : Former Utah banker John Campos and e-processor Chad Elie, who face charges relating to the payment processing of online poker transactions, suffered a setback Tuesday when a Manhattan judge refused to allow their motion for dismissal of Black Friday indictments against them.

ANOTHER MAJOR INTERNET GAMBLING BUST IN MALAYSIA - 02/08/2012 : Police units in Malaysia raided a series of premises in a week long anti-online gambling operation, seizing 225 computers and detaining 47 men, according to reports from the Bernama news agency. All of the detained men were later released on bail.