Event #2 of the 2021 WSOP is the $25,000 H.O.R.S.E. tournament. This event is new to the 2021 WSOP, and will rotate through five games: Limit Hold’em, Omaha Hi-Lo, Razz, Seven Card Stud, and Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo. This three-day tournament is set to begin on Thursday, September 30.
High-roller H.O.R.S.E. tournaments in the WSOP like this year’s H.O.R.S.E. event attract some of the toughest fields in the series. The expensive buy-in, added to the necessity to play five poker variants at a high level made this tournament a tough sell for non-professional tournament players. That was proven out by the small field of 78 entries. Jesse Klein was an exception. As a result, he now has a WSOP gold bracelet and a first-place prize of $552,182.
Klein had a total of five live cashes on his Hendon mob page prior to his victory Saturday night. All five of those came in No-Limit Hold’em tournaments, and all were in Atlantic City between 2008 and 2010, totaling just $23,100. It's obvious that this Pennsylvania native wouldn't have been favorite to score high in this event.
From 2006 through 2009, the WSOP ran a $50,000 World Championship H.O.R.S.E. tournament that has since been replaced by the eight-game $50,000 Poker Players Championship. The $25,000 H.O.R.S.E. event’s debut at the 2021 WSOP gives high rollers in the mixed-game scene and H.O.R.S.E. purists another gold bracelet to go after this summer.
Read about the 2021 WSOP Event #2 winner here
Event Info
| Game: | H.O.R.S.E. |
| Date: | Thursday, Sept 30, 3 PM |
| Buy-in: | $25,000 |
| Starting Stack: | 150000 |
| Level Duration: | 60 Min |
| Reigning Champion: | N/A |
| 2021 Total Entries: | 78 |
| 2021 Prize Pool: | $1,842,750 |
| 2021 Winner: | Jesse Klein |
Pay Outs
| Rank | Player | Nationality | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jesse Klein | United States | +552182 |
| 2 | Benny Glaser | United Kingdom | +341274 |
| 3 | David Benyamine | France | +236626 |
| 4 | Chad Eveslage | United States | +168218 |
| 5 | Philip Sternheimer | United States | +124935 |
| 6 | Phil Hellmuth | United States | +95329 |
| 7 | Ben Yu | United States | +75260 |
| 8 | DJ Buckley | United States | +61549 |
| 9 | Matt Glantz | United States | +52211 |
| 10 | Daniel Negreanu | Canada | +46002 |
