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2017 WSOP Fantasy Poker "Steve Ball challenge".. Staker game
Curlarge:
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--- Quote from: MintTrav on July 07, 2017, 12:29:36 PM ---STAKER
The Main Event starts tomorrow!
Remember there are Goliath seats for the TEN most profitable stakers - calculated just on the Main.
Don't miss the chance of a free entry.
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Still cant select a player, tried loads of times
It doesn't seem to be working. Can select players but cant confirm stake.
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Just tried doing it myself - didn't have any problem. Maybe try again and let us know how it goes?
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Been trying all day and still cant select a player
As it's only for a ticket, I want $5k on James Obst and $5k on John Racener.
Is this OK????
Dont worry it just came back on, all done.
MintTrav:
Event 62: $50,000 Poker Players Championship (6-handed)Winner Elior SionRunners 100Paid 15Final Table 6
Player Position Points Daniel Negreanu 5 10 Paul Volpe 6 8 Shaun Deeb 7 1 Ian Johns 10 1 James Obst 15 1
Selector PointsAdam 20English Tom 20Jo 19Chris H 18Glenn 18Luca 18Paul R 18Paxo 18Richard 18Barrie 11Debbie 11Simon B 11Vince 11Craig 10Gareth 10Karen 10Leigh 10Scottish Tom 10Simon L 10Stephen 10Carl 8Chris B 8John 1
Well, that was something. This event was more like a soap opera than a poker tournament. Wall-to-wall big-name players, plus the best mixed-game players and a selection of less-well-known but highly successful online players for this high-profile event, next only to the Main (before the Main in some eyes). This is the event that tests players' breadth of skill more than any - 8-Game deep-stacked across five days.
The occasion got to some of the players more than you would expect. Maybe it was the prestige of the event or the pressure staying on for so long. Hellmuth tweeted at the start "Hold it together for 5 gruelling days, through exhaustion & adversity", which seemed ridiculously OTT, but some players visibly struggled to stay in control in the final couple of days. As his tournament was falling apart, Matusow threatened Becker, who had delivered a bad beat (not even to him) "You do that to me, you won't be walkin' outta here." Negreanu's emotions were on show throughout, as he soared high but then crashed, and he let it out on Twitter, particularly his views on the POY points. Ike Haxton cast himself as a baddie, saying he wsan't interested in the title, bracelet etc - he was only here for the money. Shut up Haxton, if you have so little respect for the event and the other players - no-one believes you anyway when you say that.
The evil Isaac Haxton - no child-catching today
Though it wasn't in the script, the most memorable player for me was Johannes Becker. I can't remember seeing a player ship so much open criticism of his play from the other pro players so deep in a tournament. He made a series of horrible decisions that got lucky on Day 4. Matusow, in particular, laid into him several times "I'll lay 200-to-one he doesn't make the final table. I've got 200,000 chips [Becker had 1.4m] and I've probably got the same odds as him.". He was mocked by Seiver for saying his A987956 was a pair of nines and a low. He called a Turn bet with A943 on on 6KT4 board in O8 and won with two pair with a rivered 9, leading to Johns expressing exasperation and Matusow issuing his threat. Negreanu also criticised his Stud play on the FT, after another hand that Becker ended up winning from behind, while Donev told him "Seven-stud is not your game". There were several other suck-outs, though the most valuable - AIPF in NLHE with TT v Seiver's JJ, which lifted him from mid-pack to a big lead when a T came, was probably the least questionable play. Throughout, he sat there and weathered the storm of criticism, piling up chips while looking thorouhly miserable the whole time.
When the tournament got to three-handed, Sion was the only experienced mixed-games player remaining (he was ninth in this last year), though he was third in chips. Haxton had the lead, having dominated the FT, and looked the likely winner, but lost most of his stack with KK against Becker's AA. It is interesting that, out of that field, it was two high-stakes onliners who went head-to-head. Becker had a big lead at the start but the chips swung violently between them several times until Sion clinched another British victory.
MintTrav:
Event 63: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'emWinner Rulah DivineRunners 1750Paid 263Final Table 9
Player Position Points John Monnette 6 8 Joao Vieira 104 1 Ismael Bojang 158 1
Selector PointsBarrie 8Carl 8Jo 8John 8Paul R 8Stephen 8Craig 1Karen 1Leigh 1
Rulah Devine - the man who has everything. Not only does he have a bracelet, he is married to Egypt Divine, a hot chick who runs sex seminars, wrote a blog called 'Bang Em Like Becky' and says she "dabbles in the lifestyle".
This really is his wife: https://www.facebook.com/afroo.blu.9/videos/1501992189863888/
If you feel like hitting her up in her inbox next time you're in Vegas, this is her company:
MintTrav:
Event 64: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em/Pot-Limit Omaha (8-handed)Winner Sebastian LangrockRunners 1058Paid 159Final Table 8
Player Position Points Ryan Laplante 2 18 Chris Moorman 17 1 Naoya Kihara 120 1
Selector PointsKaren 18Chris B 1Leigh 1
Sebastian Langrock is a winner.
Here he is winning some poker tournaments:
And here he is winning €1m on "Wer wird Millionär":
The million Euro question - "Who should know the twenty-to-four position?"
• A Driving instructor • B: Karate Master • C: Waiter • D: Landscape Architect
The €16k question seems much harder: Which two states agreed on the establishment of a border crossing at the end of 2012?
• A: Germany and Australia • B: Poland and South Africa • C: Denmark and Canada • D: Austria and Japan
C is the correct answer to both questions.
Now he has won a WSOP bracelet.
What next?
MintTrav:
Event 65: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'emWinner Shai ZurrRunners 1413Paid 211Final Table 9
Player Position Points Thomas Taylor 15 1 Konstantin Puchkov 42 1 Daniel Laming 64 1 Mike Leah 158 1 Will Kassouf 161 1
Selector PointsLeigh 3Glenn 2Karen 2Chris H 1Craig 1Gareth 1Irish Tom 1Jo 1
This was a tournament in a hurry. Half-hour blinds meant that it reduced from 27 players to a winner in five hours.
The winner, Shai Zurr, runs the Israeli Poker Academy in a country where poker is illegal and which is not known for turning a blind eye to illegality, but he seems to get away with it. This is the fourth year in a row he has had a major cash at the Series, twice reaching the final table of the Little One for One Drop (in 2014 and 2016), between which he came 38th in the 2015 Main Event.
Note to future winners - Don't assume the runner-up wants to be part of your victory celebration
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