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General Discussion / Re: 2021 APAT WSOP Fantasy League
« Last post by MintTrav on November 21, 2021, 19:05:30 PM »
Event 78: $10,000 Razz Championship
Winner          Benny Glaser
Runners          109
Paid          17
Final Table          9

Player          Position          Points         
Benny Glaser          1          25         
Yuri Martins Dzivielevski          3          15         
John Monnette          5          10         
Erik Seidel          7          6         
Phil Hellmuth Jr          8          4         
John Racener          14          1         
David Benyamine          15          1         

Selector    Points                  
Stephen 1    39                  
Nic    35                  
Barrie 2    30                  
Jo 2    30                  
Aneurin    29                  
Del    29                  
Carl 1    25                  
Gareth    25                  
Stu    19                  
Jo 1    14                  
David    10                  
Karen    10                  
Michael    10                  
Derek    5                  
Chris    4                  
John 2    4                  
Jon    4                  
Luca 2    4                  
Richard    4                  
Rob    4                  
Simon L    4                  
Stephen 2    4                  
Tom    4                  
Carl 2    1                  
Luca 1    1                  

Benny sometimes seems to have an untouchable quality, as he frequently runs up a huge stack. He used to convert that into a win quite easily, though the ability to close seemed to have deserted him, and it was five years since his last bracelet, despite numerous finals and top three finishes. In this Series, he has clocked up 2nd, 3rd and 9th places, which were disappointments, as he had big leads in them all. Now he has done it, and collected his 4th bracelet.
The points are starting to flow now. Can Jo hold Stephen off?



Glaser's heads-up opponent, Everett Carlton, was taking Covid seriously.
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General Discussion / Re: 2021 APAT WSOP Fantasy League
« Last post by MintTrav on November 21, 2021, 17:58:58 PM »
Event 77: $1,500 Fifty Stack No Limit Hold'em
Winner          Paulo Joanello
Runners          1501
Paid          226
Final Table          9

Player          Position          Points         
Ismael Bojang          74          1         
Joao Vieira          224          1         

Selector    Points                  
Carl 2    1                  
Rob    1                  

Joanello's Brazilian rail was as noisy as the French one, but there weren't many points here for us.
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General Discussion / Re: 2021 APAT WSOP Fantasy League
« Last post by MintTrav on November 21, 2021, 17:21:37 PM »
Event 76: $10,000 Super Turbo Bounty No Limit Hold'em
Winner          Romain Lewis
Runners          307
Paid          47
Final Table          9

Player          Position          Points         
Stephen Chidwick          3          15         
Dario Sammartino          6          8         
Daniel Buzgon          16          1         
Almedin Imsirovic          22          1         

Selector    Points                  
Luca 2    23                  
Aneurin    16                  
Richard    16                  
Simon A    16                  
Barrie 1    15                  
Carl 2    15                  
David    15                  
Gareth    15                  
Jon    15                  
Stephen 1    15                  
Stephen 2    15                  
Tom    15                  
Luca 1    8                  
Del    1                  
Derek    1                  
Jo 1    1                  
John 1    1                  
Simon L    1                  
Stu    1                  

Romain Lewis finally gets his bracelet! In 2018 Romain was 2nd twice and 3rd twice, so it was extra sweet for him to nail this win against a top field. The French provided one of the noisiest rails so far for the 'Champion du Monde'.
2019 Main Event runner-up Dario finally kicked in a few points and it was good to see Yevgeniy Timoshenko, who has been quiet for a couple of years, back on a final table.
It was a miss for Jo as others picked up points. The beginning of the crumble?
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General Discussion / Re: 2021 APAT WSOP Fantasy League
« Last post by MintTrav on November 21, 2021, 03:13:38 AM »
Event 75: $1,500 Freezeout No Limit Hold'em
Winner          Chad Himmelspach
Runners          1191
Paid          177
Final Table          9

Player          Position          Points         
Joao Vieira          34          1         
Harry Lodge          146          1         

Selector    Points                  
Michael    1                  
Rob    1                  
Simon A    1                  

Chad Himmelspach had a bad time on Day 1 and was down to one BB near the end, though he managed to increase this to 9BB to finish the day 107th out of 118.
Day 2 was completely different, and he multiplied his stack from 89,000 to 4 million, to sit 4/8 going into the final day.
Day 3 was even better.
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General Discussion / Re: 2021 APAT WSOP Fantasy League
« Last post by MintTrav on November 20, 2021, 21:14:40 PM »
Event 74: $2,500 Mixed Big Bet Event
Winner          Denis Strebkov
Runners          212
Paid          32
Final Table          9

Player          Position          Points         
Jon Turner          10          1         
Yuri Martins Dzivielevski          20          1         
John Racener          24          1         
Max Pescatori          26          1         

Selector    Points                  
Aneurin    1                  
Barrie 2    1                  
Carl 2    1                  
Jo 2    1                  
John 2    1                  
Luca 1    1                  
Stu    1                  


Denis Strebkov is none other than aDrENalin710, the greatest player in WCOOP history with nine titles.  This is his second bracelet - he won Event #87 at the end of the 2019 Series and this is his first cash this year, so his record shows successive firsts. ME finalist Jerry Wong followed tenth in #72 with second in this.

Scott Bohlmann won this event in 2018, was 8th in it in 2019 and 9th this year, so it looks like he's on the slide.
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General Discussion / Re: 2021 APAT WSOP Fantasy League
« Last post by MintTrav on November 20, 2021, 18:18:15 PM »
Hastings is oblivious to almost impaling his hot AF wife, Miami-based ex poker dealer Sonya, at the WSOP.

"What was it that first attracted you to the millionaire Brian Hastings?"


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General Discussion / Re: 2021 APAT WSOP Fantasy League
« Last post by MintTrav on November 20, 2021, 17:50:32 PM »
Event 73: $10,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship
Winner          Brian Hastings
Runners          144
Paid          22
Final Table          7

Player          Position          Points         
Brian Hastings          1          25         
Scott Seiver          4          12         
Marco Johnson          5          10         
John Monnette          6          8         
Erik Seidel          7          6         
Shaun Deeb          13          1         
Adam Owen          19          1         
Eli Elezra          22          1         

Selector    Points                  
Karen    32                  
Carl 2    26                  
Del    26                  
Jo 1    20                  
Jon    13                  
Luca 1    12                  
Luca 2    12                  
Stephen 1    9                  
David    7                  
Michael    7                  
Nic    6                  
Barrie 2    2                  
Simon L    2                  
Barrie 1    1                  
Carl 1    1                  
Chris    1                  
Derek    1                  
Gareth    1                  
Jo 2    1                  
John 1    1                  
Richard    1                  
Rob    1                  
Simon A    1                  
Stephen 2    1                  
Stu    1                  
Tom    1                  

Brian Hastings has done nothing this Series - just a couple of small cashes. And then, Kazaam!, another bracelet. Like him or not, and a lot don't, he's got the goods when it comes to poker, and he joins the ever-expanding five-bracelet club by beating one of the strongest fields imaginable.Top points for Karen.
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General Discussion / Re: 2021 APAT WSOP Fantasy League
« Last post by MintTrav on November 20, 2021, 17:09:13 PM »
David (rUeTaMa) Moses became known as 'The Global Grinch' due to his unhappiness with the site, and then adopted the persona.



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General Discussion / Re: 2021 APAT WSOP Fantasy League
« Last post by MintTrav on November 20, 2021, 16:43:19 PM »
Event 70: $888 Crazy Eights No Limit Hold'em
Winner          David Moses
Runners          5252
Paid          735
Final Table          8

Player          Position          Points         
Ismael Bojang          101          1         
Landon Tice          130          1         
Vanessa Kade          296          1         
Benjamin Yu          402          1         
Daniel Buzgon          549          1         

Selector    Points                  
Carl 2    2                  
Aneurin    1                  
Barrie 1    1                  
Chris    1                  
Del    1                  
Gareth    1                  
Jo 1    1                  
Jo 2    1                  
John 1    1                  
Jon    1                  
Rob    1                  
Simon L    1                  
Stephen 1    1                  

David Moses isn't your typical amateur player. He is a big winner on Global Poker with a huge ROI. Yet he is playing on a site that he claims is severely rigged, but he knows the rigs and has posted them repeatedly on forums. Probably the worst one is that losing players will lose more slowly on that site, resulting in an increased amount of their loss going in rake, which should be going to winning players.

There are quite a few in-game rigs - one interesting one is to fold KK pre if it's within three hands before or after a break as AA is nearly always there. He also says to avoid playing there on Sunday as that's when they feed the fish. I've no idea whether what he says is true - he plays as rUeTaMa (spell it backwards), so you can check him out if you want.

Runner-up Sejin Park has the knack against big fields. In 2019 he beat a field of over 13,000 to win The Colossus, so getting to heads-up from a field of over 5,200 is nothing to him, but he couldn't close it out this time.

And what an achievement by Leonid Yanovski, who was 4th in #72 and 5th in this, despite them both starting on the same day. Leonid finished his business on the final day of #72 at 5.30pm, and jumped into the third Day 1 of this, which had begun at noon, and ended the day with the 4th largest stack of 100 survivors from the day's 2,241 entrants.
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General Discussion / Re: 2021 APAT WSOP Fantasy League
« Last post by MintTrav on November 19, 2021, 23:19:45 PM »
Event 72: $1,500 Mixed No Limit Hold'em/Pot Limit Omaha
Winner          Motoyoshi Okamura
Runners          846
Paid          126
Final Table          8

Player          Position          Points         
Ryan Laplante          35          1         
Manig Loeser          45          1         
Joao Vieira          50          1         
Daniel Buzgon          84          1         
Brandon Shack-Harris          86          1         
Robert Mizrachi          91          1         

Selector    Points                  
Carl 1    2                  
Jon    2                  
Aneurin    1                  
Carl 2    1                  
Chris    1                  
Del    1                  
Jo 2    1                  
John 2    1                  
Rob    1                  
Simon L    1                  
Stephen 2    1                  

Motoyoshi Okamura had no previous recorded live cashes, apart from a small score in the Colossus, so it seemed a bit odd to see that he had taken on the killers in the Aria High Rollers last week and came 2nd and 4th, beating the likes of Chidwick, Sam Soverel, Alex Foxen, Eelis Pärssinen and Juan Pardo Dominguez. It turns out that Okamura is none other than falcon8808, WPT Online title-winner.

Main Event finalist Jerry Wong had to be satisfied with being a November Tenner this time, falling just before the final table.
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