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2018 WSOP Fantasy poker league..
MintTrav:
Event 4: $1,500 Omaha Hi-Lo 8/bWinner Julien MartiniRunners 911Paid 137Final Table 9
Player Position Points Chris Bjorin 17 1 Mike Leah 30 1 Shaun Deeb 44 1 Benny Glaser 63 1 John Monnette 67 1 John Racener 86 1 Robert Mizrachi 90 1 Maria Ho 111 1 Ryan Laplante 133 1
Selector Points Selector Points Selector PointsAdam 4 Paxo 1 2 Chris B 1Chris H 1 4 Paxo 2 3 Craig 1 1Chris H 2 4 Vince 2 3 English Tom 2 1Jo 2 4 Carl 1 2 Gareth 1Barrie 1 3 Craig 2 2 Glenn 2 1Barrie 2 3 Debbie 2 Joe 1Chris K 3 Derek 2 John 2 1Del 3 Glenn 1 2 John 3 1English Tom 1 3 John 1 2 Luca 2 1Jake 3 Jon 2 Nic 1 1James 1 3 Luca 1 2 Rob 1James 2 3 Richard 2 Simon B 1Jo 1 3 Stephen 1 2 Simon L 1Jordan 3 Tommy 2 Stephen 2 1Nathan 3 Vince 1 2 Suzanne 1Paul 3 Carl 2 1
Not that many points for us as we didn't get anyone onto the final table. There are poker specialists and then there is Kate Hoang, who reached a final table for the third year in a row and finished runner-up for the second time. It was her seventh WSOP cash in total, starting in 2015, and her Hendonmob only shows three other cashes away from the Series. And every one of those ten cashes came in Omaha Hi-Lo. She is known for being immaculately dressed, but stepped it up another level for the final session.
MintTrav:
Event 5: $100,000 No Limit Hold'em High RollerWinner Nick PetrangeloRunners 105Paid 16Final Table 9
Player Position Points Nick Petrangelo 1 25 Bryn Kenney 5 10 Stephen Chidwick 6 8 Jason Koon 7 6 Adrian Mateos 8 4 Fedor Holz 9 2 Jason Mercier 14 1 Paul Volpe 15 1
Selector Points Selector Points Selector PointsJustin 31 Craig 1 9 English Tom 1 8Stuart 26 Dave 9 Glenn 1 8Glenn 2 16 Derek 9 Jake 8Brian 14 Gareth 9 Jordan 8Jon 14 James 1 9 Karen 8Nathan 14 James 2 9 Suzanne 4Richard 13 Joe 9 Barrie 1 1Vince 1 13 Luca 1 9 Carl 1 1Aneurin 12 Paul 9 Carl 2 1Chris B 12 Rob 9 Debbie 1Nic 2 12 Simon B 9 Irish Tom 2 1Vince 2 11 Stephen 1 9 Nic 1 1Stephen 2 10 Craig 2 8 Paxo 1 1Chris H 1 9 Del 8
Another heavily-loaded tournament, with five bracelet-holders on the final table.
We are five tournaments in and Elio Fox is unlucky not to have won two of them. He should have won this to add to his victory in #2. He started heads-up 40m-13m behind, but dominated the one-on-one, winning ten and chopping one of the next fifteen pots to take a 37m-16m lead and looked like he would win by continuing to crush. It wasn't to be, though, as Petrangelo then sucked out for full stacks two hands in a row to snatch the win, first getting all-in pre-flop in desperation with J3 and then calling a raise on an AA2 flop with Q8 to land a bigger two pair than Fox already had. Fox just needed his pair to hold in the J3 hand to ake a second bracelet, but he is already dominating the Player of the Year table. Just a pity none of us have him.
Justin and Stuart led the way for points, with both fielding Nick 'Lucky' Petrangelo. Justin boosted his points by having three players on the FT, and the rest of us breathed a sigh of relief that Mateos and Holz didn't reach the podium too, which would have given him a big lead at this stage.
Chidwick extends his record for being in the most bracelet photos in WSOP history
MintTrav:
Event 8: $2,500 Mixed Triple Draw LowballWinner Johannes BeckerRunners 321Paid 49Final Table 6
Player Position Points Scott Seiver 2 18 Christopher Vitch 4 12 Mike Leah 9 1 Brian Hastings 14 1 John Monnette 21 1 John Hennigan 28 1 Shaun Deeb 37 1 Randy Ohel 38 1 Ismael Bojang 47 1 Chris Ferguson 48 1
Selector Points Selector Points Selector PointsChris K 20 Barrie 2 2 Vince 2 2Paxo 2 13 Chris H 1 2 Carl 1 1Jake 4 Craig 1 2 Chris B 1Jo 1 4 Craig 2 2 Debbie 1Jo 2 4 Derek 2 Gareth 1Jordan 4 English Tom 2 2 Glenn 2 1Adam 3 James 1 2 Irish Tom 1 1Barrie 1 3 John 1 2 Irish Tom 2 1Carl 2 3 John 2 2 Joe 1Chris H 2 3 Nic 1 2 Jon 1Del 3 Paul 2 Luca 1 1English Tom 1 3 Paxo 1 2 Richard 1James 2 3 Simon B 2 Rob 1Luca 2 3 Simon L 2 Stuart 1Nathan 3 Tommy 2 Stephen 1 3 Vince 1 2
Johannes Becker has won a mixed-game bracelet. That's no surprise if you're familiar with his online play but it might be a huge surprise to some of those who disparaged his play last year when he lucked and sucked to a second place in the Players Championship.
http://www.apat.com/forum/index.php/topic,20051.msg255389.html#msg255389
He may have been lucky then, but coming back to win here shows that his game must have improved. And his heads-up was against Scott Seiver, one of his main tormentors last year, who will have been keen to avenge his multiple suck-out losses to Becker that time. Seiver held a 2.8m - 800k - 400k lead three-way, with Becker on the 400k, but it all went Becker's way from there on and he ran out the winner without too many dramas.
Chris and Paxo are the only ones with Seiver and Vitch, and took most of the points.
MintTrav:
Event 10: $365 WSOP.com Online No Limit Hold'emWinner William ReymondRunners 2972Paid 333Final Table 9
Player Position Points Ryan Riess 13 1 Chris Klodnicki 103 1 Matthew Stout 107 1 Ben Yu 213 1 Chris Ferguson 228 1 Ryan Laplante 249 1
Selector Points Selector Points Selector PointsBarrie 1 2 Adam 1 Jo 2 1Barrie 2 2 Aneurin 1 Joe 1Chris H 2 2 Brian 1 Jordan 1English Tom 1 2 Chris B 1 Karen 1Glenn 1 2 Chris H 1 1 Luca 2 1Jake 2 Craig 1 1 Paul 1Jo 1 2 Del 1 Paxo 2 1John 1 2 English Tom 2 1 Rob 1John 2 2 Glenn 2 1 Simon B 1Nic 1 2 Irish Tom 1 1 Stephen 1 1Paxo 1 2 Irish Tom 2 1 Stuart 1Simon L 2 James 1 1 Suzanne 1Tommy 2 James 2 1 Vince 1 1
Not many points from the first of four online tournaments. It's hard to get more than one point when there are almost 3,000 entrants. This is one aspect of our scoring that I think we should review. Ryan Reiss finished 13th out of 2,972 and gets the same reward as Ryan Laplante, who was 249th.
MintTrav:
Wow! I've got to hand it to you lot. This year's selections have been outstanding. Day 2 of #7 The Colossus commenced with 'only' 539 players remaining from the 13,070 who tried their luck through all the Day 1s. They are now down to 176 players and we have three of the top six! Vornicu, Foxen and Racener are all showing their class, with Bach and Cada right there in 11th and 25th places. At some point, I will have to work through the 1,754 players who made the cash, God help me. On the bright side, Safiya Umerova is going strong in 50th place. Last year I was remiss in not posting a picture of Safiya until halfway through the Series, an error I don't intend to repeat.
That's not all. #12 resumed with John Hennigan in the lead, where he remains, and he has been joined in the top five by Klodnicki and Lisandro. Leah, Yu, Monnette and Vitch are also well-placed.
And there's more. #9 $10k O8 is playing down from 22 to 6 today. There are twelve left at this stage and we have three of them - Volpe, Robert Mizrachi and Matusow. Yes, Matusow. He managed to hold himself together through last year's Series and he has done well again so far, as he invariably seems to whenever he is on the straight and narrow. Bjorin, Gorodinsky, Zinno and Rutter also cashed but were eliminated.
#14 2-7 NL started today and guess what, your picks are doing well here too, with Reiss, Greenstein, Glaser and Akkari in the top eight. Bach seems to also be playing this somehow.
Another experimental event, the eagerly awaited #13 the Big Blind Antes is up-and-running. There may be downsides to this format, but let's see how it goes. Farrell is currently sitting in 3rd place.
Outstanding picking guys. Millions of points on the way.
Safiya
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