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General Discussion / Re: 2021 APAT WSOP Fantasy League
« Last post by MintTrav on November 15, 2021, 08:21:54 AM »
Event 71: $1,500 Bounty Pot Limit Omaha 8-Handed
Winner          Mourad Amokrane
Runners          860
Paid          129
Final Table          8

Player          Position          Points         
Jeff Gross          7          6         
Joao Vieira          74          1         
Dario Sammartino          89          1         
Calvin Anderson          95          1         
Shannon Shorr          99          1         

Selector    Points                  
Chris    6                  
Luca 2    2                  
Luca 1    1                  
Rob    1                  
Stu    1                  

Mourad Amokrane is a French optician who played this because he failed to satellite into the Main. Matt Mamiya, an architectural designer from Seattle, had an opportunity for a glorious comeback, starting heads-up with 350,000 chips against Amokrane's 21,150,000, ie a 60-1 deficit. He failed to give us a dramatic story, however, losing the rest in the first hand.
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General Discussion / Re: 2021 APAT WSOP Fantasy League
« Last post by MintTrav on November 14, 2021, 18:49:53 PM »
Scott Ball, who has now won two bracelets, used to be Global Head of Poker Partnerships at Twitch, and left to follow his own vision. He is now President of End Game Talent, which "connects content creators, brands, game developers and publishers with communities through creative and strategic live media campaigns". If you know what any of that means, let me know.
https://www.endgametalent.com/

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General Discussion / Re: 2021 APAT WSOP Fantasy League
« Last post by MintTrav on November 14, 2021, 18:07:34 PM »
Event 68: $1,111 Little One for One Drop No Limit Hold'em
Winner          Scott Ball
Runners          3797
Paid          568
Final Table          9

Player          Position          Points         
Joseph Cheong          101          1         
Daniel Buzgon          246          1         
Landon Tice          429          1         
Ismael Bojang          463          1         
Harry Lodge          467          1         
Shannon Shorr          521          1         

Selector    Points                  
Aneurin    1                  
Carl 2    1                  
John 1    1                  
Michael    1                  
Rob    1                  
Simon A    1                  
Stu    1                  

Scott Ball joins the growing group who have won two bracelets here, having already won the $5k 6-max. There were 604 entrants in that and almost 3,797 in this, which adds up to...er...a lot of players he has beaten.

This puts Scott at the top of the NLHE Leaderboard and second on the overall POY, though he believes he can't win that as a Hold'em-only player.

Third-placed Sorel Mizzi used to get a few picks from our selectors, but not any more due to non-delivery. He would have scored for you here, though.

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General Discussion / Re: 2021 APAT WSOP Fantasy League
« Last post by MintTrav on November 14, 2021, 13:10:41 PM »
Event 69: $1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better
Winner          Jermaine Reid
Runners          372
Paid          56
Final Table          8

Player          Position          Points         
John Monnette          4          12         
John Racener          8          4         
Shaun Deeb          22          1         

Selector    Points                  
Jo 1    13                  
Stephen 1    13                  
Barrie 2    5                  
Jo 2    5                  
Carl 2    4                  
Luca 1    4                  
Barrie 1    1                  
Carl 1    1                  
Chris    1                  
David    1                  
Del    1                  
Derek    1                  
Gareth    1                  
John 1    1                  
Jon    1                  
Karen    1                  
Michael    1                  
Richard    1                  
Rob    1                  
Simon A    1                  
Simon L    1                  
Stu    1                  
Tom    1                  

There was controversy on the final table in a big hand between John Monnette and Esther Taylor. Taylor's final card hit her chips and flipped over, showing a 3, which would have given her a low and a chop, and Monnette asked for her card to be replaced, though she said she was going to flip it anyway. After a delay, the ruling went Monnette's way and she was given a new card, which didn't help and left her on fumes. This looked terrible by Monnette, possibly even an angle-shoot. On the other hand, it could be argued that a replacement card is standard. Eventual runner-up Peder Berge knew what he thought: "That's as bad a ruling as I've ever seen." Monnette, who has always been a nasty piece of work, known as "Angry John" for always berating dealers and loudly informing the whole room about his bad luck, has tried to improve his image in recent years, but this won't help.

With Carol Fuchs and Taylor reaching the final table, this was the best chance we've seen for a female winner, but it wasn't to be, and there still hasn't been one this year outside the women-only event.


E-Tay on the FT
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General Discussion / Re: 2021 APAT WSOP Fantasy League
« Last post by MintTrav on November 14, 2021, 01:33:24 AM »
Event 66: $10,000 Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship
Winner          Josh Arieh
Runners          194
Paid          32
Final Table          8

Player          Position          Points         
Jeff Gross          5          10         
Adam Owen          6          8         
Benjamin Yu          14          1         
Marco Johnson          15          1         
Brian Hastings          20          1         
Nick Schulman          28          1         
Robert Mizrachi          29          1         

Selector    Points                  
Carl 2    10                  
Chris    10                  
Jo 1    10                  
Stephen 2    9                  
Simon L    8                  
Del    3                  
John 1    2                  
Rob    2                  
Barrie 1    1                  
Gareth    1                  
Jo 2    1                  
Jon    1                  
Karen    1                  
Luca 2    1                  
Stephen 1    1                  

Nice couple of weeks for Arieh, winning the $1,500 PLO, coming 6th in the Players Championship and winning the $10k PLO8 for combined winnings of $850k. He's more of a PLO player, but can turn his hand to Hi-Lo when needed. The PPC was the one he really wanted, having been runner-up last time, but that will have to wait. He can console himself with the four bracelets he has now won. He said he wants to get into the Hall of Fame and this might be what he needed, though I'm not so sure it's enough any more, with so many third/fourth/fifth bracelets now being won.

The last three players had all already had big results this year, with third-placed Anatolii Zyrinas having beaten close to 10,000 players to win the Colossus and runner-up Danny Chang coming third in the Casino Employees tournament, so there was going to be a good story no matter who won.


Did Josh Arieh get confused in the heat of the moment?
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General Discussion / Re: 2021 APAT WSOP Fantasy League
« Last post by MintTrav on November 13, 2021, 15:01:06 PM »
The Main Event is getting to the business end now.

Notable players still in include Chidders riding high in 4th place, Chance Kornuth, Keith Lehr, Matt Berkey, Eric Blair, Hye Park, Nick Petrangelo, Pete Chen, Jason Koon, Ken Aldridge, Justin Liberto, Matt Waxman and Jeremy Joseph, and two former champions, Qui Nguyen and Chris Moneymaker.

The dream debut continues for Cole Ferraro, top of the NLHE League with a 1st and a 2nd under his belt already, sitting nicely in 12th place.

Well known UK/Ireland players Alex Goulder, Toby Lewis, Jack Oliver, Rory Brown and David Lappin are also still there.


The Main Event bubble can be a stressful time. Not for everyone, it seems.
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General Discussion / Re: 2021 APAT WSOP Fantasy League
« Last post by MintTrav on November 13, 2021, 12:54:15 PM »
Event 65: $1,000 Mini Main Event No Limit Hold'em
Winner          Georgios Sotiropoulos
Runners          3823
Paid          574
Final Table          9

Player          Position          Points         
Ismael Bojang          106          1         
Daniel Buzgon          156          1         

Selector    Points                  
Aneurin    1                  
Carl 2    1                  

This was a third bracelet for Sotiropoulos, but a first "proper" one, with the others being for a WSOPE and an online.
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General Discussion / Re: 2021 APAT WSOP Fantasy League
« Last post by MintTrav on November 13, 2021, 12:29:36 PM »
Event 64: $5,000 Mixed No Limit Hold'em/Pot Limit Omaha
Winner          Eelis Pärssinen
Runners          579
Paid          87
Final Table          8

Player          Position          Points         
Dan Smith          15          1         
Daniel Zack          18          1         
John Racener          46          1         
Yuri Martins Dzivielevski          57          1         
AP Louis Garza          62          1         
Yueqi Zhu          66          1         
Erik Seidel          70          1         

Selector    Points                  
Barrie 1    2                  
Carl 2    2                  
David    2                  
Jo 2    2                  
Aneurin    1                  
Barrie 2    1                  
Carl 1    1                  
Derek    1                  
Gareth    1                  
Jo 1    1                  
John 1    1                  
John 2    1                  
Karen    1                  
Luca 1    1                  
Michael    1                  
Nic    1                  
Stu    1                  

This was a rare visit to live poker for Eelis Pärssinen. All you high-stakes online PLO regs will know that EEE27 is a two-time Supernova Elite who has been hugely successful at the highest stakes and was the biggest winner in PLO cash games on PokerStars in 2018-2019. In 2020, he won the online EPT Super High Roller for $540k and recorded five top-3 finishes in five days in Party's PLO Poker Masters, including winning the Super High Holler for $440k. He also has plenty of NLHE results, including taking down the FTOPS Main Event. We probably won't see him again for a while.

His heads-up opponent, Noah Bronstein, has been 4th three times and 3rd three times in bracelet events, but never higher, so it was a step forward to record his first 2nd place. It's nice to see a player making progress.

You can tell the Main Event was coming up after this, with previous ME stars, who haven't been around much this year, showing up in the cashes, including Hossein Ensan, Cliff Josephy and Chino Rheem.
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General Discussion / Re: 2021 APAT WSOP Fantasy League
« Last post by MintTrav on November 13, 2021, 01:41:59 AM »
Event 63: $500 Salute to Warriors No Limit Hold'em
Winner          Eric Zhang
Runners          1738
Paid          261
Final Table          9

Player          Position          Points         
Jeff Sluzinski          81          1         

Selector    Points                  
Chris    1                  

Another first-Series player wins a bracelet.
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General Discussion / Re: 2021 APAT WSOP Fantasy League
« Last post by MintTrav on November 13, 2021, 01:15:46 AM »
Event 62: $1,500 Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better
Winner          Kevin Gerhart
Runners          725
Paid          109
Final Table          8

Player          Position          Points         
Mike Matusow          25          1         
Adam Owen          58          1         
Robert Mizrachi          64          1         

Selector    Points                  
Stephen 2    2                  
Carl 2    1                  
Chris    1                  
Del    1                  
Jo 1    1                  
Jon    1                  
Karen    1                  
Michael    1                  
Nic    1                  
Simon L    1                  

A second bracelet of the Series for Kevin Gerhart, bringing him up to four in total. He has won at both ends, a $10k and a $1,500. This guy has more bracelets in him.

This was another close one for runner-up Dustin Dirksen, who was 4th in #49, the $10k NL2-7. In the past, he has been 2nd, 4th, 5th and 6th and now he's had two more top-four results, but the bracelet is still getting away. Surely he'll get there sooner or later.
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