Anderson's 2.38M Stack Towers the $10K H.O.R.S.E. Final Table

Nine players left in the $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. Championship, and Calvin Anderson is sitting behind 2,380,000 chips.

The five-time bracelet winner from Mexico has nearly three times the stack of his closest pursuer. David Bach (855,000) and Joshua Arieh (805,000) — three and seven bracelets respectively — are bunched in a distant second tier. Robert Mizrachi, himself a five-time bracelet winner with $6.5M in lifetime cashes, sits fifth among the named stacks at 415,000.

That's roughly five-to-one in chips between Anderson and Mizrachi. In a No-Limit Hold'em final table, a gap like that can close in a single hand. In H.O.R.S.E., the fixed-limit and split-pot rounds act as a brake — chip leads erode through sustained pressure over dozens of pots, not one shove.

In H.O.R.S.E., the fixed-limit and split-pot rounds act as a brake — chip leads erode through sustained pressure over dozens of pots, not one shove.

The Stack That Matters

Anderson's 2.38M isn't just a number. It's a weapon that plays differently in each rotation. In the Stud Hi-Lo and Omaha Hi-Lo rounds, that stack lets him contest every pot to sixth street or the river without risking tournament life — forcing shorter stacks into exactly the spots where scooping is survival and splitting is death.

Arieh, with $12.98M in lifetime earnings and 48 career final tables, has the deepest résumé at the table. But 805,000 against Anderson's mountain means he needs to pick his rounds. Bach, a three-time bracelet winner, is in the same bind at 855,000.

The Outlier

The most interesting stack might belong to Nicolas Milgrom. The Frenchman has 1,265,000 — second at the table — with zero bracelets and $463K in lifetime earnings against a field where the other four named players carry 20 bracelets between them. Milgrom is the only player at this final table without a gold bracelet, and he has more chips than three players who own multiple.

What to Watch

Mizrachi at 415,000 is the named player most likely to feel the rotation squeeze first. His five bracelets and 31 career final tables mean he's navigated short-stack H.O.R.S.E. before — but doing it against Anderson's pile, with Arieh and Bach also hunting, is a different kind of pressure.

The rotation decides everything here. Anderson built this lead somewhere on Day 3. The question is whether the next pass through Razz and Stud Hi-Lo protects it or bleeds it flat.