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Re: 2018 WSOP Fantasy poker league..
« Reply #90 on: June 17, 2018, 03:46:43 AM »
Event 24: $2,620 The Marathon No-Limit Hold'em
Winner          Michael Addamo
Runners          1637
Paid          246
Final Table          9

Player          Position          Points         
Michael Adamo          1          25         
Martin Jacobson          5          10         
Chris Moorman          60          1         
Kristen Bicknell          102          1         
David Peters          108          1         
Andre Akkari          163          1         
Ryan Riess          182          1         

Selector    Points              Selector    Points
Aneurin    25               Del    1
Jon    11              Gareth    1
Brian    3              Joe    1
Suzanne    2              Justin    1
Barrie 2    1              Nic 1    1
Carl 1    1              Paxo 2    1
Chris K    1              Simon L    1
Craig 1    1              Stuart    1
Debbie    1              Tommy    1

Michael Addamo is Australia's No 1 player, both live and online, though he moved to Thailand last year, when Australia banned online poker. Imluckbox has won a SCOOP Hi-Roller and Patrick Leonard recently ranked him as the 5th best player online. He has also won and final-tabled a bunch of flagship live tournaments. He is 23, so this is just the third year he has been eligible to play the World Series. He cashed 16 times in his first two years, including a third place each year and now he has his first bracelet. It surely will not be his last.

Martin Jacobson weighed in for Jon's team. He seems to have matured a lot since he won the Main. I reckon I could have taken him in a fight at that time, but he looks fitter now.



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Re: 2018 WSOP Fantasy poker league..
« Reply #91 on: June 17, 2018, 15:10:07 PM »
Event 28: $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em (6-handed)
Winner          Gal Yifrach
Runners          868
Paid          131
Final Table          6

Player          Position          Points         
Jason Mercier          16          1         
Erik Seidel          29          1         
Cliff Josephy          34          1         
Ryan Riess          65          1         
John Racener          81          1         

Selector    Points               Selector    Points
Barrie 1    2               Jake    1
Chris H 1    2               James 1    1
Chris K    2               James 2    1
Debbie    2               Jo 1    1
Richard    2               Joe    1
Adam    1               Jon    1
Brian    1               Luca 1    1
Carl 1    1               Nic 1    1
Craig 1    1               Paxo 1    1
Dave    1               Rob    1
Del    1               Simon B    1
Derek    1               Stephen 1    1
English Tom 1    1               Stephen 2    1
English Tom 2    1               Stuart    1
Gareth    1               Tommy    1
Glenn 1    1               Vince 1    1
Irish Tom 2    1               Vince 2    1

The bracelets are getting sprayed around different countries now, with one for Israel this time.

Yifrach lives in Cali now, running his businesses, and only plays high-roller cash and tournaments. “I'm playing mainly bigger events so it's going to be worth my time.”

He wasn't happy that he had to waste his time hanging around for an extra day to win a bracelet. "I felt like I was going to win it that night. It didn't happen. When the floor announced that we only have 10 minutes left and we can't continue playing, I got a little upset because I was supposed to leave the next morning. I was supposed to be out of here.”

With a 10m-1.6m-1.2m dominating stack three-handed, he called both of the others light in the last hands of Day 3 to try to end it, but just doubled them both up. In the end, he won with a suckout, with stacks almost even, he called James Mackey's Turn shove with A8 on an 8-high board against Mackey's TT, and hit an 8 on the River.

Nice of Mercier to turn up.
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« Reply #92 on: June 17, 2018, 20:21:17 PM »
Event 29: $1,500 Limit 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball
Winner          Hanh Tran
Runners          356
Paid          54
Final Table          6

Player          Position          Points         
Cody Wagner          4                   
Brian Hastings          5          10         
Christopher Vitch          9          1         
David Pham          12          1         
Shaun Deeb          19          1         

Selector    Points               Selector    Points
Carl 2    11               Jo 2    1
Adam    1               Jordan    1
Barrie 1    1               Nathan    1
Chris H 2    1               Paxo 1    1
Chris K    1               Paxo 2    1
Debbie    1               Simon L    1
Derek    1               Tommy    1
English Tom 2    1               Vince 1    1
Irish Tom 2    1               Vince 2    1

Take a bow, Cody Wagner.

Cody has joined a very exclusive club of APAT players who have played on a WSOP final table, previously consisting of just Steve Bradbury, Liam Alcock and Dave Burt. Have I missed anyone? Unless I have, Cody becomes the fourth APAT player to accomplish this achievement. This was a smaller field than the mass numbers in Hold'em tournaments, but it was loaded with professionals - five of the top twelve had won bracelets previously. Like the other three, Cody won his trip to Vegas, so the $30,926 he won is virtually all profit.


Final Table


Cody also won a big tournament in DTD last year
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Re: 2018 WSOP Fantasy poker league..
« Reply #93 on: June 18, 2018, 02:02:29 AM »
Event 30: $1,500 Pot Limit Omaha
Winner          Ryan Bambrick
Runners          799
Paid          120
Final Table          9

Player          Position          Points         
Ryan Riess          34          1         
Ismael Bojang          64          1         
Jake Schindler          96          1         
Chris Ferguson          112          1         

Selector    Points               Selector    Points
Barrie 2    2               James 2    1
Jake    2               Jo 2    1
Jo 1    2               Joe    1
Luca 2    2               John 1    1
Barrie 1    1               John 2    1
Brian    1               Jordan    1
Carl 2    1               Nic 1    1
Chris B    1               Paxo 1    1
Del    1               Simon B    1
English Tom 1    1               Simon L    1
English Tom 2    1               Stephen 1    1
Irish Tom 1    1               Stuart    1
Irish Tom 2    1               Tommy    1

Lots of Ferguson fans. How times change.

Bambrick turned up an hour late on Day 2 and finished the day with the chip lead, with 13 players left. By the time he showed on Day 3, two players had been eliminated. "It's a long walk to the room and I like to sleep in sometimes", he explained. It's important to get your priorities right.
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« Reply #94 on: June 18, 2018, 18:00:47 PM »
Event 31: $1,500 Seven Card Stud
Winner          Steven Albini
Runners          310
Paid          47
Final Table          8

Player          Position          Points         
Jeff Lisandro          2          18         
Chris Ferguson          4          12         
Bertrand Grospellier          34          1         
Mark Radoja          64          1         
Dzmitry Urbanovich          96          1         
Ben Yu          112          1         

Selector    Points               Selector    Points
English Tom 2    30               Adam    1
Barrie 1    13               Aneurin    1
Jake    13               Chris H 1    1
Jo 1    13               Chris H 2    1
John 1    13               English Tom 1    1
John 2    13               Glenn 1    1
Nic 1    13               Glenn 2    1
Paxo 1    13               Jo 2    1
Simon L    13               Jordan    1
Tommy    13               Karen    1
Chris B    12               Paul    1
Del    12               Paxo 2    1
Irish Tom 1    12               Simon B    1
Irish Tom 2    12               Stephen 2    1
Joe    12               Suzanne    1
Luca 2    12               Vince 1    1
Stuart    12                  

Steve Albini of the band Shellac of North America was the unexpected winner of this tough event, which ended up with two previous Player of the Year winners in the top four. We haven't seen much from Lisandro for a while but winning three bracelets in one year means we are willing to give him a long-term pass, and he justified it by coming back to almost win another one.

It was a big result for Tom, who is the only selector with Lisandro, as well as having Ferguson.
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Re: 2018 WSOP Fantasy poker league..
« Reply #95 on: June 18, 2018, 18:09:47 PM »
Day 3 of the Players Championship completed with Michael Mizrachi leading the twelve remaining players. Almost all of those players are on our teams, so there is an untold number of ways the points could go in this - it could be very good or very bad for a lot of people. I wouldn't like to be the person with the task of working out the points for this one.

Robert Mizrachi finished Day 1 of #35 Mixed Omaha Hi-Lo in 3rd position, making it a very good day for the family. Eddie Blumenthal is in 4th, but we don't have anyone else in the 31 players remaining. Jon Turner, Carol Fuchs and Allyn Shulman are probably the best-known players still in this.

#32 and #36 are the Seniors and Super-Seniors. Not expecting many points in these, though there may be a couple of our players down the field.

Day 1B of #34 $1k Double Stack completed with Rulah Devine amongst the leaders. Rulah won a bracelet last year and those of you who were here then may remember that his wife Egypt has an unusual occupation - creating adult industry erotic fantasy experiences. Her website : http://www.lvgreyhouse.com/about-us/
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Re: 2018 WSOP Fantasy poker league..
« Reply #96 on: June 19, 2018, 07:58:08 AM »
Event#39 is under way.. so that makes it roughly half way through.. so plenty of time for you all to score masses of more points (maybe not Tom).
Huge thanks to John so far as he never lets us down with his legendary updates and added fun facts!
Time for some of the pros to start pulling their fingers out start scoring us some points then I guess.. I'm personally hoping for a Adam Owen heater he has had a awful series, but that could probably be said the same for a few others.

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Re: 2018 WSOP Fantasy poker league..
« Reply #97 on: June 19, 2018, 14:38:52 PM »
Event 32: $1,000 Seniors No-Limit Hold'em
Winner          Matthew Davis
Runners          5918
Paid          888
Final Table          9

Player          Position          Points          
Dan Heimiller          336          1          
Chris Bjorin          728          1          
Barry Greenstein          776          1          
Linda Iwaniak          501                    

Selector    Points                  
Dave    1                  
Joe    1                  
Paxo 1    1                  
Simon L    1                  


The field for the Seniors has grown massively. Some of our guys played it, but none of them made an impression.

The winner's card-protector reminded me of someone, Mark Lassman.

And congratulations to our own Linda Iwaniak.


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« Reply #98 on: June 19, 2018, 21:04:07 PM »
Scores After 32 Events (excl #6 & #11)

Selector    Points               Selector    Points
Craig 1    178               Tommy    78
Luca 1    130               Brian    76
Glenn 1    128               Nic 2    76
Del    114               Chris H 2    74
Jon    113               Chris B    73
Carl 2    112               Simon L    73
Vince 1    112               Richard    71
Derek    110               Suzanne    70
Luca 2    105               Barrie 2    68
Barrie 1    102               Carl 1    68
Jake    100               Glenn 2    68
Joe    99               Nic 1    68
Stuart    98               Justin    67
Debbie    95               Gareth    66
Nathan    94               Aneurin    65
Simon B    94               Chris H 1    65
Stephen 1    92               Dave    63
Stephen 2    91               Jo 2    62
English Tom 2    88               James 2    60
Paxo 1    88               James 1    54
Paul    87               Craig 2    52
English Tom 1    85               John 1    51
Rob    83               John 2    49
Jordan    82               Paxo 2    49
Jo 1    81               Karen    47
Chris K    80               Irish Tom 1    40
Vince 2    79               Irish Tom 2    30
Adam    78                  


Is it all over? Absolutely not. Craig has a decent lead, but we are less than halfway through and most of the big buy-ins tournaments, where lots of points fly around, are still to come. Anyone could still win. Well, almost anyone.
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« Reply #99 on: June 20, 2018, 01:04:46 AM »
Event 35: $1,500 Mixed Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Lo/Big O
Winner          Yeuqi Zhu
Runners          773
Paid          116
Final Table          9

Player          Position          Points         
Robert Mizrachi          14          1         
Eddie Blumenthal          16          1         
Phil Hellmuth          35          1         
Igor Sharashkin          38          1         
Erik Seidel          43          1         
Barry Greenstein          53          1         
Stuart Rutter          56          1         

Selector    Points               Selector    Points
Chris B    2               Glenn 1    1
Chris K    2               Glenn 2    1
Dave    2               Irish Tom 2    1
English Tom 2    2               James 1    1
Paxo 2    2               Joe    1
Stephen 2    2               John 1    1
Vince 2    2               John 2    1
Aneurin    1               Nic 1    1
Barrie 2    1               Paul    1
Brian    1               Richard    1
Carl 1    1               Rob    1
Debbie    1               Stuart    1
Del    1               Tommy    1
Gareth    1               Vince 1    1



We can't begrudge Zhu his first bracelet - he has previously been 2nd (twice), 3rd (four times), 4th, 6th (twice, including last year in this tournament) and 9th.

Our friend Carol Fuchs was a bit unlucky when she was knocked out in 3rd place, having a six-low and a six-high straight and losing with both.

Lots of single points, mainly due to Hellmuth, so there was no real effect on the league.



Online beast Pearljammer (Jon Turner) reached yet another final table but will have to wait longer to try on a bracelet.


Kate Hoang in Failure-to-Reach-Hi/Lo-Final-Table Shock
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Re: 2018 WSOP Fantasy poker league..
« Reply #100 on: June 20, 2018, 03:01:27 AM »
Our own Linda Iwaniak has reached the Super Seniors final table.

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« Reply #101 on: June 20, 2018, 13:35:20 PM »
Event 33: $50,000 Poker Players Championship
Winner          Michael Mizrachi
Runners          87
Paid          14
Final Table          6

Player          Position          Points         
Michael Mizrachi          1          25         
John Hennigan          2          18         
Dan Smith          3          15         
Mike Leah          4          12         
Benny Glaser          5          10         
Brian Rast          8          1         
Phil Ivey          9          1         
Shaun Deeb          10          1         
Christopher Vitch          11          1         
Randy Ohel          12          1         

Selector    Points               Selector    Points
Nathan    39               English Tom 1    12
Carl 1    37               Gareth    12
Chris K    28               Jake    12
Debbie    26               Jo 1    12
Irish Tom 2    25               Nic 1    12
Chris H 2    24               Richard    12
Adam    23               Rob    12
James 2    23               Simon B    12
Jo 2    23               Stephen 1    12
Barrie 2    22               Tommy    12
Chris H 1    22               Craig 2    11
James 1    22               Paxo 1    11
Paul    22               Suzanne    11
Craig 1    20               Vince 2    11
Carl 2    16               Chris B    10
Justin    16               John 1    10
Jon    15               English Tom 2    2
Stuart    15               Barrie 1    1
Glenn 2    13               Derek    1
Jordan    13               Glenn 1    1
Paxo 2    13               Joe    1
Vince 1    13               Karen    1
Del    12               Simon L    1

By far the scoringest event so far, with many selectors having more than one player on the final table. Nathan topped the list, closely followed by Carl, both of them having Mizrachi and Leah on their teams.

The various permutations and high scoring all round meant that this event could have had a huge effect on the league in numerous possible ways. While not coming out on top, Craig extended his lead, with his team putting up a decent score, while his closest rivals mainly didn't score so highly. With many more high buy-in events to come, this tournament shows that big swings are possible and this competition still has a long way to run.
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Re: 2018 WSOP Fantasy poker league..
« Reply #102 on: June 20, 2018, 19:57:36 PM »


Gorodinsky & Leah - If they can pay $50k to enter a poker tournament, you'd think they could afford some decent clothes



Ben Yu feeling the cold



At my local Grosvenor they complain if you put a cup of coffee on the table.
I don't think Jean-Robert Bellande would enjoy it there.
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« Reply #103 on: June 21, 2018, 03:13:36 AM »
Event 36: $1,000 Super Seniors No-Limit Hold'em
Winner          Farhintaj Bonyadi
Runners          2191
Paid          329
Final Table          9

Player          Position          Points          
Linda Iwaniak         4                    
Chris Bjorin          263          1          

Selector    Points              Selector    Points
Joe    1                  
Paxo 1    1                  

Take that WSOP!

Linda gave the WSOP the 1-2 last night, finishing in 4th place hot on the heels of cashing in the Seniors, smashing Vegas just like she smashes it over here. Linda had the most chips at one point on the final table, so a few cards running out differently might have meant her picking up the bracelet, but 4th in the World Series is a super result.

Bonyadi's win is quite a landmark. Coming at the age of 83, it makes her the oldest-ever bracelet-winner, beating the record of none other than Johnny Moss, who won the 1988 $1,500 Limit A-5 Draw on his 81st birthday. She also takes Paul "Cigar” McKinney's record as the oldest person to win their first bracelet (2005 Seniors, aged 80). Another remarkable aspect is that she is the mother of three-times champion Farzad Bonyadi, making them the only mother-son bracelet-winning combination. She is also the only woman to win a bracelet so far this year.

But we don't care about that. This one was about Linda! The UK Ladies Champion and first-ever captain of the APAT England team is now a WSOP final-tablist.

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Re: 2018 WSOP Fantasy poker league..
« Reply #104 on: June 22, 2018, 23:35:06 PM »
Event 34: $1,000 Double Stack No Limit Hold'em
Winner          Robert Peacock
Runners          5700
Paid          856
Final Table          9

Player          Position          Points         
Andrey Zaichenko          18          1         
Steven Morris          59          1         
Mohsin Charania          209          1         
David Peters          227          1         
Calvin Anderson          247          1         
David Pham          297          1         
Kenny Hallaert          336          1         
Dan Heimiller          352          1         
David Bach          415          1         
Andre Akkari          425          1         
Connor Drinan          585          1         
Chris Moorman          638          1         
Niall Farrell          776          1         

Selector    Points               Selector    Points
Irish Tom 2    3               Debbie    1
Brian    2               Del    1
Irish Tom 1    2               Gareth    1
Jon    2               Joe    1
Justin    2               John 1    1
Nic 1    2               Jordan    1
Tommy    2               Luca 1    1
Adam    1               Paxo 2    1
Aneurin    1               Richard    1
Barrie 2    1               Simon L    1
Carl 1    1               Stuart    1
Chris K    1               Suzanne    1
Craig 1    1                  

A shock result. IrishTom smashes it out of the park with top score for this tournament. Now that he has turned it around, I have a feeling he is going to run over the competition. Watch out Craig!



5th place - Portsmouth Snooker Club £10 rebuy

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