Day 1 of the $50,000 HORSE event had four players eliminated over six levels of play. When the 91 remaining players returned to the felt Saturday afternoon they treated things a little different. A total of 38 players were sent packing over the five levels of play.

Standing atop the leaderboard at the end of the night was Ray Dehkharghani with 643,000. He’s followed closely by Gus Hansen with 540,000 and Erik Sagstrom with 500,000. Hasan Habib, who had the chip lead after Day 1, sits fifth with 440,000.

With so many eliminations it should come as no surprise that some of the game’s biggest names were among the casualties. Daniel Negreanu, triple bracelet winner Jeff Lisandro, 2006 runner-up Andy Bloch, Mike Matusow and John Juanda were among the 38 players sent packing. The only two females to enter the tournament, Jennifer Harman and Annie Duke, were both ousted on Day 2.

Action will resume at 2 pm PT on Sunday afternoon as the remaining players are expected to play down to sixteen players. Those players, all of whom will be in the money, will return on Monday to play down to the final table of eight.

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