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2016 WSOP Fantasy Game & Staker
MintTrav:
Event 69: $1,000 + 111 Little One for One Drop No Limit Hold'em
Runners 4360Paid 654Final Table 9
Player Position Points Calvin Anderson 2 18 Jeremy Ausmus 247 1 Mark Radoja 371 1 Daniel Negreanu 401 1 Brian Hastings 536 1 Max Pescatori 564 1
Selector Chris 20IrishTom 19Craig 2Barrie 2Carl 2John 2Steve 2Tom F 2Adam 2Paxo 1Glenn 1Luca 1Richard 1Karen 1Simon L 1Neil 1Simon B 1Paul 1
I just skimmed through. If I have missed anyone, they didn"t make the final table, so it won"t affect the outcome.
MintTrav:
Event 68: $10,000 Main Event No Limit Hold'em Championship
Runners 6737Paid 1011Final Table 9
Player Position Points Paul Volpe 29 1 Daniel Colman 31 1 Mike Gorodinsky 87 1 Don Zewin 135 1 Dan Heimiller 137 1 Todd Brunson 154 1 Shaun Deeb 221 1 Maria Ho 242 1 Jason Somerville 320 1 Matthew Ashton 406 1 Antonio Esfandiari 449 1 Simon Deadman 547 1 Dan Kelly 577 1 Scott Clements 1007 1
Selector Barrie 4Richard 3Karen 3Simon L 3Chris 2Craig 2Carl 2John 2Steve 2Adam 2Paxo 2Luca 2IrishTom 1Simon B 1Paul 1Dann 1
Our final two players, Colman and Volpe, fell just before the 27 mark, so we have no-one left as the Main Event goes into its final day before it breaks til November. Last year we had all kinds of possibilities at this stage, but not this time.
I really think the WSOP needs to organise itself better so that the right players get onto the final table. Lots of the coolest players were knocked out yesterday, when there could have been a way found to see them through. We needed to see more of these players.
For a start, we lost a couple of the best beards in the competition - surely the final table would have benefitted from the presence of Alex Keating and Jesse Cohen:
Alex Keating 35th Jesse Cohen 51st
We also lost the chance of seeing more of awesome movie star dude Paul Hoefer:
Paul Hoefer 43rd
And I really wanted to see more of Jasthi Kumar, seen below during the tournament and then celebrating afterwards with his family:
Jasthi Kumar 58th
But, most of all, I was looking forward to a final table appearance from self-hypnotist Adi Abugazal, who put himself into a trance at the start of Day 1A and successfully convinced himself he was the greatest poker player in the world:
Adi Abugazal 54th
We know they do it online all the time so, next year, the WSOP needs to stack those decks so we see the players we want in the November Nine.
MintTrav:
The Final Table:
Selector PointsLuca 287Carl 267Steve 249Barrie 225Glenn 206Craig 205Simon B 192Tom F 189Chris 186Paxo 183Neil 179Suzanne 178Adam 171Paul 170Richard 170John 165Karen 157Dann 154Simon L 135IrishTom 127
Player Points Wins FT CashesJason Mercier 78 2 4 10Justin Bonomo 68 0 4 6Paul Volpe 44 1 2 9George Danzer 42 1 2 4Dan Smith 34 0 2 3Shaun Deeb 33 1 2 6Niall Farrell 33 0 3 6Brian Rast 31 1 2 4Calvin Anderson 29 0 3 6Fedor Holz 28 1 1 4Doug Polk 26 1 1 2Mike Watson 25 0 1 8Max Pescatori 24 0 2 7Joe McKeehan 23 0 2 5Dan Kelly 23 0 1 12Michael Mizrachi 21 0 1 10Brian Hastings 20 0 1 9Daniel Negreanu 20 0 1 9Todd Brunson 19 0 2 5David Kitai 19 0 1 2Ismael Bojang 18 0 1 9Maria Ho 17 0 1 6Stephen Chidwick 16 0 2 8Adam Owen 16 0 1 9John Myung 16 0 1 2Scott Clements 15 0 2 7Dominik Nitsche 15 0 1 4Olivier Busquet 14 0 1 3Craig McCorkell 13 0 1 6Brock Parker 10 0 1 5Mike Leah 9 0 0 9Anthony Zinno 8 0 1 5Rhys Jones 8 0 1 5Matt Waxman 8 0 0 8Jeremy Ausmus 7 0 0 7Jonathan Little 6 0 1 5Phil Hellmuth 6 0 1 3Allen Kessler 6 0 0 6Daniel Idema 6 0 0 6David "ODB" Baker 6 0 0 6Erik Seidel 6 0 0 6Antonio Esfandiari 6 0 0 6Simon Deadman 6 0 0 6Bryn Kenney 5 0 1 2Dutch Boyd 5 0 0 5Mark Radoja 5 0 0 5Jason Somerville 5 0 0 5Scott Seiver 4 0 1 3Daniel Laming 4 0 0 4Jonathan Duhamel 4 0 0 4Stuart Rutter 4 0 0 4Vanessa Selbst 4 0 0 4Aleksandr Denisov 3 0 0 3Chris Moorman 3 0 0 3Dan Shak 3 0 0 3Daniel Alaei 3 0 0 3Dzmitry Urbanovich 3 0 0 3Mike Wattel 3 0 0 3Patrick Leonard 3 0 0 3Dan Heimiller 3 0 0 3Matthew Ashton 3 0 0 3Kevin McPhee 2 0 0 2Shaun Buchanan 2 0 0 2Mike Gorodinsky 2 0 0 2Igor Kurganov 1 0 0 1Talal Shakerchi 1 0 0 1Daniel Colman 1 0 0 1Don Zewin 1 0 0 1Chris Moneymaker 0 0 0 0Daniel Cates 0 0 0 0Mustapha Kanit 0 0 0 0Ole Schemion 0 0 0 0Sam Razavi 0 0 0 0Sam Trickett 0 0 0 0Steve O"Dwyer 0 0 0 0
So which players did well? Who flopped?
After a slow start, Mercier obviously tore it up with two 1sts and a 2nd (and an 8th), winning Player of the Year.
Some of the other best performances overall:
Benny Glaser - 1stx2, 5th, 6th
Ian Johns - 1stx2
Michael Gathy - 1st, 2ndx2
Brandon Shack-Harris - 1st, 2nd, 5th
Ryan D"Angelo - 1st, 3rd, 4th
Rep Porter - 1st, 9th, 10th
Justin Bonomo - 2ndx2, 3rdx2
John Monette - 2nd, 3rdx2, 7th, 9thx2
Randy Ohel - 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 8th, 10th
For me, though, the best performance throughout the Series came from this man:
Only one final table (4th), and a few near misses, but he plugged away, cashing in ten events, to finish ninth in the Player of the Year. That was an extraordinary achievement after several years of not playing live, all the time facing people who were resentful of him and willing him to fail.
And who flopped? Obviously, you were let down by the ones who scored zero or very little on the list above, some of whom didn"t turn up. Gorodinsky went from Player of the Year last time to two pathetic cashes and Ashton just had three, all low-placed ones. Moorman was also poor. For me, the biggest disappointment was Urbanovich, who was taking bets beforehand on winning three bracelets and just managed three cashes, with no final tables.
Next time, ignore some of the no-hopers above, and put your money on these players, who did APAT / LPPL proud:
Lee Mulligan
James Edwards
Brian Yates
Tod Wood
David Stones
Sean Byrne
Ben Murray
ashhen:
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Staker Main Event £250 Prize.
Looks like theres now 4 players staked still in:
Tom Middleton 2 stakers for £2000 in total (presumably 14.35% each) currently 59th/80
James Obst 2 stakers for £8700 total (100% plus 25%?) 29th/80
Max Silver 2 stakers for £4000 (28.7% x 2) 39th/80
Paul Volpe 1 staker who has £1500 on (21.5%) 13th/80
I haven"t include anyone who has cashed already.
I know Carl has 28.7% of Silver. Whoever backed James Obst looks in pole position due to the %s taken.
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Tom Feilding has 100% on Obst.
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I did? Wooo! So does this mean I"ve binked the Main Event prize whilst sitting 120th from 122 on the main leaderboard?
suzanne:
Thanks John for all the work involved in making this happen. It was fun :)
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