Jamie “Chronic420″ Rosen (pictured right) seemed to be on a path destined for a deep final table finish as he went to ten-handed play with one of the top stacks at little over one million after being in the top 3 stacks most of the day.

He’d been running good and playing well and was sitting to the left of chip leader Scott “SCTrojans” Freeman, who had 1.4 million.

Life was good for Rosen until he got dealt a hand he wouldn’t have even played had he not been in the blind and had it been raised.

Unfortunately for Rosen, in one of the few limped pots of the night, he saw a multiway flop out of the blind and hit what seemed to be a dream flop when his 43 connected to the 733 board.

Rosen led out for 42k and got raised to 100k by Phung Ngo and Jesse Chinni called. When it got back to Rosen, he moved all-in for around 700k more and Chinni called, tabling 77.

The board bricked out for Rosen and unlike a handful of players that would have bemoaned their fate numerous times in disgust, Rosen was rather unemotional in a very trying time. Rosen’s 10th place finish earned him 39k.

Before Rosen’s unlikely bustout, Freeman’s fall from grace had been the story of ten-handed play as his stack went from 1.4 million to 675k as play heads to the final table.

Freeman got crossed up on a 98855 board in a pot raised by his opponent under the gun. Freeman called all three streets in position when his opponent bet 40k-100k-210k in succession. Freeman’s opponent won revealing KK and Freeman claimed to have just been nipped with pocket queens but didn’t show.

Freeman lost a hand later when a short stack moved all-in from early position for 113k and he called with 88, ahead of his opponents AT. Freeman’s opponent turned broadway, capping off what had been a rough stretch of hands for Freeman where he didn’t drag one significant pot.

Here’s a list of chip counts of the final nine left.

Jesse Chinni - 2.16 million

Rene Mouritsen - 1 million

Albert Iversen - 912k

Max Greenwood - 728k

Scott Freeman - 675k

Phung Ngo - 556k

Alex Bolotin - 308k

Curtis Kohlberg - 209k

Aliaksandr Dzianisau - 186k

Day 2 of the $50K HORSE, WSOP Event #45 is in the books and a little over half the field has been eliminated.  Sixty-seven of the the original 148 players will return tomorrow to continue playing down to the prestigious bracelet.  Barry “barryg1″ Greenstein is towards the top of the leaderboard with over 400K in chips.  Greenstein made a remarkable comeback today after sitting on a short stack for a portion of Day 1.  Yesterday’s chip leader, James “mig.com” Mackey left today with less chips than he started with.  He ended play this evening with right around 180K after starting off with 214K at the beginning of play today. 
 
Other players climbing up the leaderboard include Justin Bonomo (325K), Daniel Negreanu (310K), and Tom “durrrr” Dwan (240K).  Meanwhile, some of the players who will not be returning for Day 3 include Patrik Antonius, Nick Schulman, Brian “tsarrast” Rast, and last year’s winner Freddy Deeb.

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• June 27, 2008 -- A Player Makes a “FatalError”