Busy Day...

If you look below you'll see a few recent posts which are basically some stories I've come across that I thought you might want to read. I am extremely busy with work this week, and today is a short day for me, so I just thought I would post some good stuff to read.

The "Fearsome Fivesome" of horse bloggers (Railbird, Left at the Gate, Pulling Hair/Betting Horses, Athlone, and myself) is serving as the base to what will become a large on-line community bridging the gap between old and young; past, present, and future horseplayers. We are basically the answer to Mr. Crist's current column (see below).

For those of you interested in the WSOP (if you don't want to know who's been eleminated STOP READNIG NOW!!) below is the list of chip leaders as of this morning:(thanks to Taopoker.blogspot.com)

Top 10
1 Greg "Fossilman"Raymer $ 1,064,000
2 Rodney Pardey Jr. $ 1,041,000
3 Brad Kondracki $ 962,500
4 Johnny Howard $ 910,500
5 Bob Larsen $ 796,500
6 Tim Phan $ 746,000
7 Phil Ivey $ 722,500
8 Steve Marx $ 679,500
9 S Bartholomew $ 659,000
10 Gabe Wells $ 655,500

11 Bryan Stelbuger $ 648,500
12 Oskar Silow $ 638,000
13 Bob Hotchandani $ 627,500
14 Raymi Sanchez Thorn $ 595,500
15 Manelic Minaya $ 594,500
16 Tex Barch $ 590,000
17 Jon Lane $ 585,000
18 James Ocson $ 583,000
19 David Bergsdorf $ 579,500
20 Tom Sartori $ 574,500

21 James Pollack $ 557,500
22 Karlo Lopez $ 556,500
23 Terry Burt $ 550,500
24 Joe Berry $ 542,500
25 James Butt $ 542,500
26 Minh Ly $ 530,250
27 Casper Christensen $ 525,500
28 Thomas A Roupe $ 525,000
29 Gregory Rice $ 523,000
30 Aaron Kanter $ 503,500

31 Howard Lederer $ 496,500
32 Matt Fitzpatrick $ 490,500
33 Randal Brooks $ 490,000
34 Jon Kalmar $ 469,500
35 Hung La $ 467,000
36 Nick Gibson $ 466,000
37 Nani Awad $ 460,500
38 Hunter Pappas $ 455,500
39 Mike Matusow $ 454,000
40 Sean Daulat $ 452,500

41 John McGrane $ 452,500
42 Nani Dollison $ 448,500
43 Tiffany Williamson $ 441,000
44 Mark Forrester $ 440,000
45 Yomtov Shabot $ 427,000
46 Samir Shakhtoor $ 414,000
47 Russell Salzer $ 412,500
48 Chris Short $ 411,500
49 Can Kim Hua $ 404,000
50 Krystal Nelson $ 395,000

51 Espen Saltnes $ 388,000
52 Marcello Del Grosso $ 386,500
53 Kevin Kim $ 384,500
54 George Kelly Dickson $ 377,000
55 Scott Numoto $ 376,500
56 Larry Prugh $ 372,500
57 Carmen Menechella $ 370,000
58 Russ Hamilton $ 365,000
59 John Juanda $ 354,000
60 Jose M Rodriguez $ 352,500

61 Nick Camarts $ 348,500
62 Ron Ware $ 345,000
63 David Plastik $ 342,500
64 Franklin Caldwell $ 339,000
65 Alex Morales $ 337,500
66 Sarah Bilney $ 332,500
67 Bobby Law $ 325,500
68 Jarl Lindholt Joergensen $ 320,500
69 Yakov Hirsch $ 316,500
70 Tuan Vu $ 316,500

71 Chris Drozdowski $ 315,000
72 Tom Shaneberger $ 309,000
73 Michael Kessler $ 297,500
74 Roland Israelashvizi $ 289,000
75 Kenna James $ 287,500
76 Michael Cribb $ 282,500
77 Rafael $ 282,000
78 Daniel Shak $ 280,500
79 Jason Lester $ 280,000
80 Jason Kaplan $ 274,500

81 Bing Wang $ 272,500
82 Gen Watamabe $ 271,000
83 David Richardson $ 269,500
84 Terry Myers $ 269,000
85 Bjorn Lindenberg $ 265,500
86 Tony Pirone $ 265,500
87 Patrick Madden $ 265,000
88 Paul Vicary $ 265,000
89 Scott Lazar $ 264,500
90 Niklas Flisberg $ 260,000

91 Robert Turner $ 260,000
92 Darryl Tennefos $ 259,500
93 JC Tran $ 259,500
94 Andrew Black $ 257,000
95 Bryant King $ 253,500
96 Kevin McCarthy $ 251,000
97 Joe Stillman $ 249,500
98 Joe Simmons $ 245,000
99 Shahram Sheikhan $ 243,000
100 Paul Mannetta $ 240,000

101 Tony Abesamis $ 237,500
102 Francis W O'Brien $ 234,000
103 Patrick Hayden $ 233,000
104 Joseph Hachem $ 231,000
105 Erick Richardson $ 227,000
106 Josh Prager $ 225,000
107 Mark Cole $ 224,500
108 Joe Connor $ 224,000
109 Mitchell Klein $ 219,500
110 Daniel Alaei $ 219,000

111 Alan Singer $ 217,000
112 Jack Ward $ 207,500
113 Webber Kang $ 206,300
114 Kevin Wright $ 202,000
115 Richard Lapwood $ 202,000
116 Richard Kirsch $ 200,500
117 Conor Tate $ 200,000
118 Dennis Savelkoul $ 197,500
119 Anthony Laughing, Jr $ 192,500
120 Kelly Zoudo $ 192,500

121 Dmitriy Eidelman $ 189,500
122 David Steirman $ 181,500
123 Lee Watkinson $ 181,000
124 Joe Toth $ 180,500
125 Stephen Deetz $ 180,000
126 Derek Dix $ 178,500
127 Joseph Chiosie $ 178,000
128 Anthony Hill $ 173,000
129 Joe Beevers $ 173,000
130 Louie Calvo $ 170,500

131 Vadim Shlez $ 170,500
132 Louis Lo $ 169,500
133 Michaey Leahy $ 169,000
134 Adam Friedman $ 166,000
135 Dietrich Alex $ 159,500
136 Cliff Cantor $ 159,000
137 Radu Butan $ 158,500
138 Mark Graves $ 154,000
139 Mike May $ 153,500
140 Kit Phaphon $ 150,500

141 Jake Minter $ 146,500
142 Glyn Banks $ 144,500
143 Bernard Lee $ 143,000
144 Peter Hedlund $ 141,500
145 Mehrdad Yousefzadeh $ 136,500
146 Kevin O'Brien $ 136,500
147 Tom Koral $ 132,000
148 Steven Dannenmann, CPA $ 131,000
149 Per Hildebrand $ 131,000
150 Farzad Bonyadi $ 129,500

151 Dustin "Neverwin" Woolf $ 127,000
152 Tom Pniak $ 126,500
153 Alejandro Pachero $ 126,500
154 Chris Podlewski $ 126,000
155 Babak Rozi $ 123,000
156 Kevin Kaikko $ 122,000
157 Mark Tenner $ 112,000
158 Paul Fisher $ 110,000
159 Ayhan Alsancak $ 109,500
160 Mark Bryan $ 109,000

161 Amit Sander $ 109,000
162 Michael P Mollay $ 104,500
163 Kjetil Praesttun $ 102,000
164 Tom Clark $ 94,500
165 Dutch Boyd $ 92,000
166 Joe Leibman $ 88,000
167 Sean Blanton $ 87,000
168 Adam Brosius $ 86,500
169 John R $ 85,500
170 Joseph Vannata $ 84,500

171 Matt Fitzgerald $ 81,500
172 Michael Capener $ 80,000
173 George Thomas Huber $ 73,000
174 Doug Gehring $ 73,000
175 Martin Cedercrantz $ 71,500
176 Frank Hernandez $ 67,000
177 Jon Hoellein $ 63,500
178 Mike Wattel $ 62,500
179 Paul L Darden, Jr. $ 60,000
180 Jeffrey Geiger $ 48,000

181 Tom Drotleff $ 41,500
182 Brett Wiesner $ 36,000
183 Ed Pellegrini $ 23,500
184 John McLaughlin $ 16,500
185 Imad Samouna $ 7,400