WSOP Event #2: H.O.R.S.E.

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Posted on: September 22, 2021 06:58 PDT

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From 2006 through 2009, the WSOP ran a $50,000 World Championship H.O.R.S.E. tournament that has since been replaced by the eight-game $50,000 Poker Players Championship.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

wsop 2021 25K HORSE final table
Image source: Haley Hintze
  • 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
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    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
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