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2018 WSOP Fantasy poker league..
MintTrav:
Event 7: $565 Colossus No Limit Hold'emWinner Roberly FelicioRunners 13070Paid 1754Final Table 9
Player Position Points John Racener 8 4 Andrey Zaichenko 50 1 Alex Foxen 59 1 Valentin Vornicu 77 1 Joe Cada 97 1 David Bach 162 1 Kenny Hallaert 323 1 Matthew Stout 470 1 J C Tran 622 1 Eddie Blumenthal 625 1 Kristen Bicknell 631 1 Ismael Bojang 802 1 Ryan Riess 970 1 Joseph Cheong 999 1 Brock Parker 1012 1 Mohsin Charania 1015 1 Chris Moorman 1016 1 Niall Farrell 1047 1 Marc MacDonnell 1080 1 Scott Clements 1203 1 Matt Glantz 1224 1 Shaun Deeb 1418 1 Jeff Gross 1435 1 David Pham 1546 1 Gerald David 1618 Chris Ferguson 1638 1
Selector Points Selector PointsDebbie 7 Carl 2 2Jo 1 7 Derek 2Tommy 7 Gareth 2Adam 6 John 1 2Barrie 1 6 John 2 2English Tom 1 6 Luca 2 2Jake 6 Nathan 2Jon 6 Paxo 1 2Richard 6 Simon B 2Del 5 Suzanne 2Simon L 5 Vince 1 2Chris H 1 4 Barrie 2 1Craig 1 4 Chris B 1Glenn 1 4 Chris H 2 1Irish Tom 1 4 Chris K 1Irish Tom 2 4 Craig 2 1Luca 1 4 Dave 1English Tom 2 3 James 2 1Jo 2 3 Nic 2 1Joe 3 Paxo 2 1Jordan 3 Rob 1Nic 1 3 Stephen 1 1Stuart 3 Stephen 2 1Brian 2 Vince 2 1
Who would you expect to win Brazil's first bracelet of the year - Andre Akkari, Felipe Ramos, Bruno Politano? No, they were all on the sidelines cheering and taking photos while an amateur won gold.
The Professionals Railing the Amateur
It was a strange final table, with more amateurs than professionals. The pro's went out though and the top places were contested by three players with two WSOP cashes totalling less than $6k between them, and one of those was in the Casino Employees event nine years ago. Third-placed Joel Wurtzel has no previous recorded cashes of any kind. For reaching the podium from over 13,000 players, they received $1.8m between them.
Joel Wurtzel celebrates his first cash
It looked for a while like several of our players might score highly when we had several in the top dozen, but they almost all dropped away, so points scored are low. With 1,754 playing making the cash, it is likely I have missed some. Please let me know if your guy has been overlooked. I will check all the players near the end to pick up any misses, though they would be one pointers, so it shouldn't affect the outcome too much.
We had our first APAT cash in this event, that I'm aware of, with Gerald David cashing in 1,618th place. Please let me know of any APATers you know are playing and I'll highlight them.
MintTrav:
Meet Aylar Lie - Iranian/Norwegian Actress, Model, Singer, TV Personality, Poker Player.
Aylar was born in Iran but grew up in the foster system in Norway. On visiting her father in Iran as a teenager, she was prevented from leaving and kept there for two years until she escaped. She moved to the US to search for her mother and took up acting, starring in movies such as Throat Gaggers 3, Cum Dumpsters 3, 18 and Nasty Interracial 2, World Class Ass 4 and the classic Cock Smokers 49. Her work can be viewed on PornHub and other similar media outlets.
After a while, she gave up drugs and porn and moved back to Norway, where she managed to cross over into mainstream work. She reached the final ten of Miss Norway, but had to withdraw when her background became known. She featured in several music videos, including one with Sean Paul, and has appeared on Norwegian TV many times, both acting and as herself, including the Norwegian version of Big Brother and Strictly Come Dancing, where she was runner-up.
Here she is singing her six-times platinum hit record Boys Boys Boys https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKSbYZZHJ8U
If you liked that, here is Some People https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFiuHnQ5hJk
These days, Aylar is one of Europe's top poker players, building an impressive poker CV over the last two years http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/ranking/11/#390. Last year, she displaced Liv Boeree as No 1 on the GPI list of European Female players and yesterday she cashed in the Colossus, finishing 148th out of 13,070 players.
MintTrav:
Event 13: $1,500 Big Blind Antes No Limit Hold'emWinner Benjamin MoonRunners 1306Paid 196Final Table 9
Player Position Points Gerald David 12 Shaun Deeb 16 1 Jonathan Duhamel 126 1 Dominik Nitsche 149 1 Mike Leah 161 1 Chris Ferguson 170 1
Selector Points Selector PointsAdam 2 Dave 1Barrie 1 2 Debbie 1Chris H 2 2 English Tom 1 1Chris K 2 Gareth 1Del 2 Glenn 2 1Derek 2 Irish Tom 1 1English Tom 2 2 Irish Tom 2 1Jake 2 James 1 1Jo 1 2 James 2 1Jo 2 2 Joe 1Jordan 2 John 1 1Nathan 2 John 2 1Nic 1 2 Karen 1Paxo 1 2 Luca 2 1Simon L 2 Paul 1Tommy 2 Paxo 2 1Vince 1 2 Richard 1Barrie 2 1 Rob 1Carl 1 1 Simon B 1Carl 2 1 Stephen 1 1Chris B 1 Stuart 1Chris H 1 1 Vince 2 1
The other half of the Deeb attempt. Benjamin Moon started playing live tournaments five months ago and already has a WSOP bracelet. Prior to this, he only had three recorded live cashes, two of which were min-cashes of less than $1k, though he showed his ability by winning the other one for $12k. He came to the final table as chip-leader and ran over it, forcing players to fold and give up chips as they abandoned trying to win and tried to ladder up the cash. Six players returned for the final day and he polished them off in three hours. Formerly-scandalous Dutch Boyd made the final of this, finishing ninth.
Shaun Deeb playing two tournaments
Massive congratulations go to APAT player Gerald 'Skullman' David, who cashed again, this time almost reaching the final table, finishing 12th out of 1,306 players.
Skullman
MintTrav:
Event 16: $10,000 Heads-up No-Limit Hold'em ChampionshipWinner Justin BonomoRunners 114Paid 8Final Table 8
Player Position Points Justin Bonomo 1 25
Selector Points Selector PointsBrian 25 Luca 1 25Carl 1 25 Luca 2 25Debbie 25 Nathan 25Del 25 Nic 2 25Derek 25 Rob 25Gareth 25 Simon B 25Glenn 1 25 Stephen 1 25Jon 25 Stuart 25Jordan 25 Suzanne 25Justin 25 Vince 1 25
Justin Bonomo - What is going on? He has always had an amazing record but this year it has gone off the scale.
Since the beginning of December he has won 11 High-Roller tournaments, a streak that is surely unprecedented. Up til the start of May, he had clocked up an unbelievable run of results, picking up a bunch of titles and prizes, including almost $4.8m for one in Macau. Since then, it has become absurd.
He won two EPT events in three days on 1 May and 3 May in Monte Carlo for $457k and $311k. For the next couple of weeks he didn't play live much, mainly playing SCOOP without much success (just a 4th and a 5th), attending the EDC festival and moving into a new pad. He played the $25k Aria High Roller on 23 May, but was clearly rusty and only came fourth.
On 27 May he won his biggest prize ever - $5m for taking down the $300k Super High Roller Bowl. On the 31st, he won the Aria High Roller, along with $350k. On 3 June he went and won it again for yet another $310k. Now, with this result, he has won four tournaments in two weeks and six in just over a month! Where will it end? Will it ever end? He himself has tweeted that he doesn't understand what has been happening. I put it down to going back to a natural hair colour.
He has won over $14m this year already, which has shot him up the all-time winnings list into third place. In the last two weeks he has overtaken Ivey, Holz, Esfandiari and Colman. Negreanu is currently top, but I'll bet no-one can name who is the second-highest with looking it up, unless you happened to read it recently. There will almost certainly be a new leader after this Series - you won't find many betting against it being Bonomo.
The tournament saw an excellent slow-roll by Niall Farrell, holding AA, who tanked and asked for a count before calling the pre-Flop shove of his room-mate Michael Gagliano. If they can afford to pay six or seven figures in entry fees over the Series, why are these guys sharing accommodation?
Something I don't understand about the Heads-Up is how they treat the overflow entries. They had 114 entries and needed to get to 64 for the next round, so 14 went through and 100 played off for the other 50 places. So far, so normal but.........those 100 players were refunded half of their entry fee. I think this started when they had 65 entries a few years ago and hit on the idea of drawing two players who would, effectively, play a two-handed $5k satellite for the 64th spot. That seemed a clever solution but now they have ended up refunding almost half of the entry fees, and almost everyone playing a $5k event, reducing the prize-pool to just over half what it could have been. Maybe they should have a rethink.
MintTrav:
Event 15: $1,500 H.O.R.S.E.Winner Andrey ZhigalovRunners 731Paid 110Final Table 8
Player Position Points Scott Clements 7 6 Ismael Bojang 9 1 Brian Hastings 15 1 Rep Porter 46 1 Barry Greenstein 47 1 Calvin Anderson 49 1 Eddie Blumenthal 56 1 Brandon Shack-Harris 88 1
Selector Points Selector PointsRob 7 Gareth 1Nathan 6 Jake 1Stephen 2 6 James 1 1Carl 2 3 Jo 1 1James 2 2 Jo 2 1Luca 1 2 Jordan 1Luca 2 2 Simon B 1Barrie 2 1 Stephen 1 1Dave 1 Stuart 1English Tom 1 1
The first Russian bracelet this year. Zhigalov only likes limit games, and there aren't any in his part of Russia, so he only plays live every June. Despite that, he has been knocking on the door, with two 4th places, a 7th and a 9th in the last couple of years. We also found out that Kate Hoang can play other games, as she picked up her first non Hi-Lo cash in 39th place. I'm not sure that much else interesting happened in this tournament, so here are pics of some of the well-known players who took part instead.
Scott Clements taking time away from the gym
Barry - aging at a rate of five years every Summer
Bojang continues to avoid bracelets on his many deep runs
Carol Fuchs - who doesn't?
Dzmitry Urbanovich - not making three-bracelet claims any more after getting his ass spanked in 2016
Cyndy Violette - mmmmm!
Dangerous Dan Heimiller
Even More Dangerous John Monnette
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