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2021 APAT WSOP Fantasy League
MintTrav:
Event 58: $1,000 Super Seniors No Limit Hold'emWinner Jean-Luc AdamRunners 1893Paid 285Final Table 9
Player Position Points - - - Selector Points - -
There is the Seniors, and then there is the Super Seniors, which is a whole different thing, with its own style of play, and dress, and finding your way back to your table after the toilet break.
Barry Greenstein, Ken Aldridge, Bill Klein and Jack McClelland all played, but the unquestioned star of the show was Doyle Brunson, who showed up for another last tournament. There weren't many well-known names in the cashes, though Sammy Farha and Dan Shak both finished in the top 100.
Jean-Luc Adam, who won the tournament, was late to the game of poker, being taught by his son a couple of years ago. He taught him too well, as they went to St. Maarten for a WSOP Circuit Series in 2019 and Jean-Luc won an event and a WSOP Circuit ring. His son Cedric won one as well less than a week later, but he was still beaten to it by Jean-Luc. Cedric finished 10th out of 2,778 in #33 (the Ran-Ran event) but Jean-Luc has outshone him once again.
We had no-one in the points.
Jean-Luc Adam and his nipper
MintTrav:
Sammy Farha finished Day 1 as one of the leaders, and ended up 66th, so clearly he can still play.
He wan't looking like the stereotypical Sammy we know though. He has changed hugely in appearance in just a few years.
MintTrav:
Also cashing in the Super Seniors was David Dao, the doctor who was assisted in leaving a plane a few years ago, after refusing to leave an overbooked flight as he was scheduled to open a hospital. He ended up with concussion, a broken nose, missing teeth and an undisclosed settlement rumoured to be nine figures. I'm planning to fly United Airlines whenever possible in the hope of a repeat incident.
MintTrav:
Event 59: $1,000 Tag Team No Limit Hold'emWinner Mike Ruter & Samy DighlawiRunners 641Paid 97Final Table 9
Player Position Points Daniel Buzgon 73 1
Selector Points Aneurin 1
It was interesting to see Nipun Java and Nikita Luther, 2017 and 2018 winners of the Tag Team, both from India, finishing near the top once again with new partners, with Nikita getting really close in 15th place.
Pro's were scarce in the results of this event, the most notable being the Xuan Liu / Melanie Weisner team that finished 18th.
Most interest in this event centred around the team that finished third, the father-daughter combo of David & Amanda Botfeld, the amateurs with no WSOP cashes who stole the show. While that much is true, Amanda is far from the poker innocent she has been painted. She has written a poker book A Girl's Guide to Poker, as well as several articles about poker on CardsChat https://www.cardschat.com/news/author/abotfeld/.
She is Senior Instructor & Curriculum Coordinator at Poker Power (aka Poker Powher) https://pokerpower.com/, "a community led by women for women with the primary goal of utilizing the game of poker to build confidence, challenge the status quo, learn strategy and assess risk". “It's really about teaching capital allocation, strategy, risk and giving women the practice and the time to build confidence at the table, because the poker table is like the boardroom table.” Poker Power's Advisory Board consists of Jennifer Shahade and none other than Xuan Liu and Melanie Weisner, so this event was a triumph for Poker Power and gave them all a chance to catch up and discuss fashion and hairstyles and stuff girls like.
MintTrav:
Event 60: $50,000 Poker Players ChampionshipWinner Daniel CatesRunners 63Paid 10Final Table 6
Player Position Points Paul Volpe 3 15 Eli Elezra 4 12 Christopher Brewer 5 10 Matt Glantz 7 1 Nick Schulman 8 1 Daniel Negreanu 9 1
Selector Points Luca 1 16 Stephen 1 16 Simon A 15 Barrie 2 13 Luca 2 2 Nic 2 Rob 2 Aneurin 1 Barrie 1 1 Carl 2 1 Chris 1 David 1 Del 1 Derek 1 Gareth 1 Jo 1 1 Jo 2 1 John 1 1 Jon 1 Karen 1 Richard 1 Simon L 1 Stephen 2 1 Stu 1 Tom 1
The most prestigious event of the Series started with four players. It's a good job they showed up. 43 players had entered by the end of Day 1 and 39 went through, with Jake Schwartz and previous PPC Champion Matthew Ashton amongst the four casualties. Another 20 joined on Day 2 to make one of the smallest fields of the Series. A few players signed into their first event of the year, but reigning champ Phillip Hui wasn't amongst them and remains absent this year.
The biggest talking point was a fold made by Ryan Leng when the game was three-handed. He had check-called a bet on the Flop after hitting his A. He bet 600k on the river and then folded when Cates moved in for 300k more. Leng had the biggest stack at the time and was getting 11-1 on the call, but put Cates on two pair and folded. In fact, it seems that Cates didn't put Leng on an A, and was value-betting his K. Leng has been severely criticised, and has admitted that it was a mistake to fold, putting it down to tiredness caused by lack of physical fitness.
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