WSOP Fantasy Poker (Signup NOW, WSOP begins 6/1)

[SirFozzie]

I see this starts this week (6/1 to 7/17), so I figured to get it going.

Rules:

Pick 8 Poker Players (no restrictions), 1 Woman, and 1 Player who has not yet won a bracelet at the WSOP.

Designate one player as your "Money Man". That person scores double points for you.

Designate one player as your "Main Event Champion". if he or she wins the Main Event, you automatically win the game. This can be the same player as your "money man"

Here's mine

1. Phil Ivey (money man)
2. Doyle Brunson
3. Barry Greenstein
4. JC Tran
5. David Pham
6. Joseph Hachem
7. Gavin Griffin
8. Ted Forrest

Woman
1. Clonie Gowen

Non Bracelet Winner
1. Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi (Main Event Winner)

[rockboy70]

Allen Cunningham (money man)
Phil Ivey (main event winner)
Paul Wasicka
Carlos Mortensen
Ted Forrest
Daniel Negreanu
JC Tran
Phil Helmuth
Eric Lindgren (Non Bracelet)
Jennifer Harman (Woman)

[larrymcg421]

Thanks for starting it up this year. I was lax and completely forgot the WSOP was coming up...

[timmynausea]

Going with almost the same exact group as last year. After how poorly I fared, most of these guys are due:

Erik Seidel (ME winner) (Money Man)
Mark Seif
Chris Ferguson
Jennifer Tilly (Woman)
Freddie Deeb
Minh Nguyen
Mike Matusow
Phil Gordon (Non-bracelet)
Howard Lederer
Johnny Chan

[Jas_lov]

Michael Mizrachi(ME Winner)
Allen Cunningham(Money Man)
Phil Ivey
Daniel Negreanu
JC Tran
Patrick Antonious(non bracelet)
David Williams
John Juanda
Jeff Madsen
Jennifer Harman(woman)

[SirFozzie]

Thanks for starting it up this year. I was lax and completely forgot the WSOP was coming up...

No prob, I was surprised how early in the year it was.. we'll need someone to keep track of scoring :)

[QuikSand]

John Juanda (main event)
Daniel Negreanu (money)
Jennifer Harman (woman)
Darrel Dicken (no bracelet)
Huck Seed
Layne Flack
Carlos Mortensen
Nam Le
Phil Ivey
Phil Hellmuth

[SirFozzie]

Wow, I'm surprised at the folks tipping Negreanu. After reading his columns over at cardplayer (can't link because I can't get there at work), he sounded pretty much burned out on poker, and I didn't select him

[Jas_lov]

Wow, I'm surprised at the folks tipping Negreanu. After reading his columns over at cardplayer (can't link because I can't get there at work), he sounded pretty much burned out on poker, and I didn't select him

Sounds like he just needs some time off which he is doing. Hopefully he'll prove valuable in the $50,000 HORSE Event which is actually HORSE all the way through this year. He's made 2 WPT final tables this year so it's not like he's playing bad, just needs some rest from poker for a little while.

[Lathum]

This has been fun the last few years


Allen Cunningham
Joe Hachem
Gus Hansen ( Main Event)
Phil Gordon ( non braclet winner)
Chad Brown
Cindy Violette ( Woman)
Phil Ivey
Dan Harrington
Chris Ferguson
Jordon Morgan ( Money Man)

[SackAttack]

So, uh, if the main event winner automatically wins you the contest, and two people tab the same guy as the main event winner, are they co-champions?

[MollyMurphy]

Me and Lathum did our team together last year but I am gonna go on my own this year.

Daniel Negreanu- main event
Mike Matasow
Phil Ivey
Patrick Antounious- no braclet
Annie Duke
David Williams
Chris Ferguson- Money Man
Phil Laak
Jennifer Harmon
Joe Hachem

[larrymcg421]

So, uh, if the main event winner automatically wins you the contest, and two people tab the same guy as the main event winner, are they co-champions?

Exactly.

[larrymcg421]

Phil Ivey (ME Winner, Money Man)
Phil Hellmuth
Michael Mizrachi (non-bracelet)
Allen Cunningham
Humberto Brenes
Mike Matusow
John Juanda
Jennifer Harman (female)

[MIJB#19]

Theo Jorgensen (money, main event)
Phil Ivey
Ram Vaswani
Joseph Hachem
Luca Pagano
Isabelle Mercier (woman)
Noah Boeken (no bracelet)
Rob Hollink
Mark Boudewijn
Marcel Luske

[CleBrownsfan]

Woman
Kathy Liebert

Non-Bracelet
Michael Mizrachi

Money man
J.C. Tran

Shannon Shorr
Paul Wasicka
Allen Cunningham
Gavin Smith
John Juanda
Barry Greenstein
Ted Forrest

[TroyF]

1) Phil Hellmuth (moneyman)
2) Scott Fischman
3) Mark Seif
4) Paul Wasicka
5) Phil Ivey
6) David Williams
7) John Juanda
8) Alex Jacob

Non Bracelet - Erick Lindgren (main event)

Woman - Jennifer Harmon

[SirFozzie]

A couple of you have posted ones with Money Man, but not ME winner, I'll assume that your Money Man is your ME winner :)

[Honolulu Blue]

I took a stand against all the 22-year-olds who cut their teeth in the Moneymaker Era. I think the group of them will do well, but I don't think I'm qualified to pick out which one(s) will do the best this time around. So I won't.

I was on top for two whole days midway through last year. Let's see if we can't finish the job:

* Mike Matusow
* Chris Ferguson (money man)
* Kathy Liebert (still a woman)
* Gus Hansen (Main Event winner - sure)
* Joe Hachem
* Sam Farha
* Barry Greenstein
* Ted Forrest
* Phil Hellmuth
* Marcel Luske (non-bracelet winner)

[albionmoonlight]

Jennifer Harman (woman)
Michael Mizrachi (non bracelet)
Chris Ferguson (Money Man)
Phil Hellmuth (ME Winner)
Scottie Nguyen
Phil Ivey
Barry Greenstein
Mike Matusow
Johnnie Chan
Erik Seidel

[hoopsguy]

I wanted to take some shots with people who would be on less lists this year. So no Ivey, no Negreanu, no Grinder, no Ferguson. Of course, I see that my list is fairly similar to QuikSand's, with same ME winner and four shared players. Oh well, guess I know who I'll be rooting to finish in second place.

JC Tran (money man)
Phil Hellmuth
Patrik Antonius (non-bracelet)
John D'Agostino
Erik Seidel
Darrell Dicken
John Juanda (main event)
Jennifer Harman (woman)
Eric Lynch
Chip Reese

[Barkeep49]

Let's see if we can repeat:
Greg Raymer (ME)
Phil Hellmuth (money man)
Phil Gordon (non-bracelet)
Erick Lindgren
Darrell Dicken
Justin Bonomo
Ted Forrest
JC Tran
David Williams
Cindy Violette

[marshall881]

Jennifer Harman (woman)
Michael Mizrachi (non bracelet)
Phil Hellmuth
Phil Ivey
Barry Greenstein(ME)(money man)
Mike Matusow
Gavin Griffin
Scott Fischman
Alex Jacob
John Juanda

[TroyF]

Evidently the new cards have not went over so well. They have already died a painful death.

[kingfc22]

Allen Cunningham
Doyle Brunson
Phil Ivey
Carlos Mortensen
Ted Forrest
JC Tran (money man)
Phil Helmuth
David Williams
Michael Mizrachi (Non Bracelet)
Jennifer Tilly(Woman)

[kingfc22]

Just read that the "F-bomb" does not automatically give you a 10 minute penalty anymore. Only if it is used maliciously or directed at another player or dealer.

[SirFozzie]

Just read that the "F-bomb" does not automatically give you a 10 minute penalty anymore. Only if it is used maliciously or directed at another player or dealer.

Wow.. Common Sense broke out. Who'da guessed?

[SirFozzie]

By the way, the traditional "Casino Employees" Tournament is not the leadoff tournament this year, although it will start (and end) tonight.

Instead, Event #1 is the World Championship Mixed Hold'em, alternating rounds of No Limit with Limit Poker.

451 players entered, this tournament will pay the top 45, and at the end of Level 6, 270 players remained. This is a 3 day tournament, so the first pay day will be Monday

[SirFozzie]

Late in day 1 of the first cash event, here's some selected names who are still in with 126 left in the tourney (I might miss a couple of players on lists, but I'll double check when they hit the money tommorrow)


Barry Greenstein (39,000 Chips)
Isabelle Mercier (33,000)
Johnny Chan (31,000)

[cthomer5000]

Im curious, have TV ratings indicated that the poker phenomenon hit its peak and is on the way down?

Im amazed at how out of it I am versus 1 or 2 years ago. A lot of that had to do with a combo of real life and the slow strangulation of online play for me. I think it's been literally 1 year since I played poker of any variety, in real life or online. It makes me wonder if there were a lot of people like me who were totally on board and then dropped off or if there have been way more new viewers/players there to take my place.

I thought Negreanu was a fascinating read a couple years back, i couldn't believe how honest he was about a shitload of horrible personal decisions he'd made. That and his likeable persona really make me root for the guy overall. I hope he does well this year.

[Lathum]

Other name players still alive

Violette in 17th $44,500
Jeff Madsen in 40th $27,500
Arieh in 41st $27,500

[Jas_lov]

Im curious, have TV ratings indicated that the poker phenomenon hit its peak and is on the way down?

WPT and NBC Heads have been going down every year. I think the WSOP has been about the same the past couple years. The tv broadcasts must not be expensive to produce and that's why poker is still on. In fact, ESPN is enhancing its WSOP package this year to include:

- Increase from 26 to 40 cameras for better coverage
- Plan to broadcast in HD for the first time
- 32 one-hour episodes in total (10 bracelet events, 16 Main Event episodes, and 6 $50K HORSE episodes... in that order)
- Player chip counts during hands (About damn time)
- Some sort of new 3-D graphic that displays holecards, community cards, and players' actions


And here are the events they plan to cover and when they're on tv:

* July 10 at 8 and 9 pm: Event 1, World Championship Mixed hold 'em (limit/no-limit, 3 day event), $5,000 buyin
* July 17 at noon: Live pay-per-view of the final table of Event 55, No-limit hold 'em (the Main Event), $10,000 buyin
* July 17 at 8 pm: Event 3, No-limit hold 'em (3 day event), $1,500 buyin
* July 17 at 9 pm: Event 4, Pot-limit hold 'em (3 day event), $1,500 buyin
* or
* July 17 at 9 pm: Event 7, Pot-limit Omaha w/rebuys (2 day event), $5,000 buyin
* July 31 at 8 pm: Event 8, No-limit hold 'em w/rebuys (3 day event), $1,000 buyin
* July 31 at 9 pm: Event 13, World Championship pot-limit hold 'em (3 day event), $5,000 buyin
* August 7 at 8 pm: Event 28, No-limit hold 'em (3 day event), $3,000 buyin
* August 7 at 9 pm: Event 30, No-limit hold 'em - 6 handed (3 day event), $2,500 buyin
* August 14 at 8 pm, Event 31, World Championship Heads Up no-limit hold 'em (3 day event), $5,000 buyin
* or
* August 14 at 8 pm: Event 33, Pot-limit Omaha w/rebuys (2 day event), $1,500 buyin
* August 14 at 9 pm: Event 50, World Championship pot-limit Omaha (2 day event), $10,000 buyin
* August 21 to October 9, Tuesday nights at 8 and 9 pm: Event 55, No-limit hold 'em (the Main Event), $10,000 buyin
* October 16 to October 30, Tuesday nights at 8 and 9 pm: Event 39, World Championship HORSE (5 day event), $50,000 buyin


It's good they're going to start airing these in about a month. I like the HORSE tourney expanded coverage and the Heads Up tournament should be a better format than NBC's. I don't know why they have 3 events listed to air on July 17 and Aug 14. Maybe they'll see which has the best tables and air 2 of the 3.

[Lathum]

I'm looking forward to getting the final table pay per view

[Lathum]

Alex Jacob is chipleader at the final table of the first $1500 NL event

[Atocep]

Im curious, have TV ratings indicated that the poker phenomenon hit its peak and is on the way down?



My disclaimer is this comes from a very casual poker fan.

IMO, TV really botched the way they handled the poker boom. You went from not seeing much of it on TV, if any at all, to having it force-fed to you. It was great for the hard-core poker fans, but not much explaination as to what event means what or really any explaination of the poker tour schedule for the more casual fans. It was more of a "here's poker, watch it". I think this is a big reason there's been a dip in the casual fan's interest.

I will give ESPN credit, their poker coverage is generally excellent and the backstory they do on the players is fascinating.

[Lathum]

SirFozie asked me to post results for the first event. If I missed anyones players lemme know.

Cyndy Violette $11,658
Todd Brunson $11,658 ( not sure if anyone has him)
Johnny Chan $13,778
David Grey $15,898

[SirFozzie]

People who scored in Event 1

Lathum
Cindy Violette - $11,658

Barkeep49
Cindy Violette - $11,658

timmynausea
Johnny Chan - $13,778

albionmoonlight
Johnny Chan - $13,778

[Barkeep49]

Well I'm excited. I feel a repeat coming on.

[SirFozzie]

Doesn't look like anyone cashed in Event 3

[Lathum]

Well I'm excited. I feel a repeat coming on.

I feel like coming on your repeat

[Lathum]

Doesn't look like anyone cashed in Event 3

Alex Jacob?

[SirFozzie]

Oops! Should have said "Doesn't look like anyone cashed SO FAR in Event 3" :)

[Lathum]

no braclet for Jacob

[hoopsguy]

Huh, didn't think I was going to see multiple people with Jacob in one of my pools. Rizen (Lynch) is going to get me some points in Event 4. Gavin Smith is still alive in that event as well as they are down to 13 players.

Event 5 has a bunch of name players still going at it. Jesus, Duke, and Violette are definitely people I expect are on lists here. Benyamine, Arieh, Scotty Nguyen, and John Phan are also still in the mix. 23 left, so they are into the money in this event.

[SirFozzie]

Alex Jacob scores $282,367 for the following folks

Marshall881
TroyF

[hoopsguy]

Yikes, that 282K for third in Event 3 is worth more than the title for Event 4.

[CleBrownsfan]

Is it me or the pros that are playing the majority of the WSOP events are getting their chips in real early in the tournament. Looking at the results you'll see a lot of the top pros finishing in the bottom 90% of the field. To me it looks like they're playing an all or nothing in the 1st couple levels...

[Lathum]

Is it me or the pros that are playing the majority of the WSOP events are getting their chips in real early in the tournament. Looking at the results you'll see a lot of the top pros finishing in the bottom 90% of the field. To me it looks like they're playing an all or nothing in the 1st couple levels...

I think they are probably taking some bad beats because everyone at the table is gunning for them. I would think probably 70% of amatures would get their money in bad hopiong to at least have a story to take home with them.

[Jas_lov]

Is it me or the pros that are playing the majority of the WSOP events are getting their chips in real early in the tournament. Looking at the results you'll see a lot of the top pros finishing in the bottom 90% of the field. To me it looks like they're playing an all or nothing in the 1st couple levels...

Also, remember to look at how many players actually entered the event and how many are listed in the results. Often times websites like Cardplayer will only list the players that cashed and players that are somewhat known, so pure amatuers that no one has ever heard of won't be in the results. Like Event #1, it says 451 players entered, but only 240 are listed.

[SirFozzie]

I will try to update events 4 and 5 tonight.

[hoopsguy]

Here are some of the people - don't have a complete spreadsheet of names that people picked so going from memory here.

Event #4:
Gavin Smith: $155,645
Eric Lynch: 27,718

Event #5:
Annie Duke: $75,210
Chris Ferguson: $50,391
Scotty Nguyen: $11,658
Cindy Violette: $8,723

Event #6:
None

Event #7:
Chip Reese: 41,229
Humberto Brenes and John Juanda are at the final table

[Jas_lov]

Damn, Phil Ivey just missed bracelet #6 in Event #11, $5,000 Seven Card Stud, coming in 2nd to Chris Reslock.

[CleBrownsfan]

Cunningham Adds One for the Thumb to his Collection after Winning the $5,000 Pot-Limit Hold'em World Championship

hxxp://cardplayer.com/poker-news/article/9022

[hoopsguy]

And Hellmuth is 2nd in chips at the final table for - you guessed it - a NLHE event (Event 15, $1500).

[Lathum]

And Hellmuth is 2nd in chips at the final table for - you guessed it - a NLHE event (Event 15, $1500).

always a good time

[Lathum]

Hellmuth is heads up for the 1500 NL braclet

[larrymcg421]

Hellmuth won his 11th bracelet. He now has more bracelets than anyone else, which means I'm sure everyone on Earth will hear about it by morning.

[Lathum]

so I hate to be the jackass but is anyone keeping track of the scoring?

[larrymcg421]

I should probably have some time tomorrow to update the scores. I was planning on updating the other Poker pool scores then anyways.

[Lathum]

cool, thx. We all apreciate it...

[rockboy70]

Negreanu & Lindgren are at the final table for event #21 ($1,500 NLHE Shootout)

[larrymcg421]

Scoring will probably take an extra day. Sorry about that. I'll get it done, though.

[Lathum]

Scoring will probably take an extra day. Sorry about that. I'll get it done, though.

no worries, looks like Lindgren is out. Negranue is still alive

[CleBrownsfan]

no worries, looks like Lindgren is out. Negranue is still alive

Daniel Negreanu Takes 3rd ($101,351)
Don Baruch Wins Event #21 ($264,107)

Negreanu limped and Davis pushed all-in. Negreanu went into the tank for a while, pondering a call for his tournament life with A 8. Eventually, he did call, and Davis' revealed the 55. The flop brought the 6 4 2. Negreanu needed running clubs, running straight cards, an eight or an ace. The 7 gave Negreanu an inside straight draw, but he was still in pretty bad shape. The river brought the 7 and Negreanu's run at the bracelet was over, just hours after holding a large chip lead. Negreanu came in 3rd, and received $101,351, but at this point his mind is surely stuck on the fact that he didn't win, despite playing well.

[larrymcg421]

Event #7

John Juanda - 107.196
Humberto Brenes - 79.710
Chip Reese - 41.229

[larrymcg421]

Event #8

Shannon Shorr - 8.232

Event #9

Jordan Morgan - 25.430
Todd Brunson - 6.263

Event # 10

Clonie Gowen - 6.966
Phil Hellmuth - 3.901

[larrymcg421]

Event # 11

Phil Ivey - 143.820
Johnny Chan - 8.460

Event # 12

JC Tran - 14.804
Erik Seidel - 5.844
John Cernuto - 4.772

Event #13

Allen Cunningham - 487.287
Humbrto Brenes - 197.348
Joe Sebok - 21.512
Chris Ferguson - 19.641
Erick Lynch - 19.641
Scott Fischman - 17.771

Event # 14

Barry Greenstein - 33.698
Greg Raymer - 19.680
Ted Forrest - 6.201

Event #15

Phil Hellmuth - 637.254

[larrymcg421]

Event 16

Darrell Dicken - 12.181
Cyndy Violette - 6.923
John D'Agostino - 6.923
David Williams - 6.923

Event 17

None

Event 18

None

Event 19

Humberto Brenes - 55.918
Mike Matusow - 21.435

[larrymcg421]

Event 20

Greg Raymer - 41.460
Ted Forrest - 9.591
John Juanda - 5.879
Jeff Madsen - 4.950

Event 21

Daniel Negreanu - 101.351
Erick Lindgren - 12.899
Erik Seidel - 6.757
Michael Binger - 6.757
Barry Greenstein - 6.757

[larrymcg421]

And the current leaderboard (with Money Man points figured in...)

rockboy70 1904.395
larrymcg421 1883.568
TroyF 1563.899
jaslov 1359.497
kingfc22 1324.585
Quiksand 1112.933
marshall81 1093.302
AlbionMoonlight 1033.426
hoopsguy 951.623
Honolulu Blue 858.901
barkeep49 840.439
CleBrownsFan 820.486
Lathum 779.303
MollyMurphy 488.803
SirFozzie 440.793
Shorty 440.793
MIJB 143.82
timmynausea 138.907

[Lathum]

And the current leaderboard (with Money Man points figured in...)

rockboy70 1904.395
larrymcg421 1883.568
TroyF 1563.899
jaslov 1359.497
kingfc22 1324.585
AlbionMoonlight 1033.426
marshall81 1018.166
hoopsguy 951.623
Honolulu Blue 858.901
barkeep49 840.439
CleBrownsFan 820.486
Lathum 779.303
Shorty 365.657
Quiksand 143.82
timmynausea 138.907

mollymurphy?

[larrymcg421]

Sorry about that. Added Molly and MIJB to the list.

[SirFozzie]

Wot about me? :)

[larrymcg421]

OK, we should finally be completely updated. I've also added points for Gavin Griffin who scored 16.212 in Event 8 and 58.924 in Event 13.

I'm doing pretty good considering I only picked 8 players. Not sure why I did that. Doh!

[QuikSand]

For those of you watching the results of the various WSOP events, I'm entered in tomorrow's (well, today's) Event #27, a $1500 NLHE tournament. Very likely will be nothing to see here, but if things get interesting, I'll try to post something here while on a break.

[larrymcg421]

Edited leaderboard once more to fix a mistake with Quiksand's total...

[Honolulu Blue]

Middle of the road... yeah!

We still haven't gotten to the events that count yet - Big HORSE and the ME. Those two events figure to separate the men from, well, me. I remain hopeful.

For those of you watching the results of the various WSOP events, I'm entered in tomorrow's (well, today's) Event #27, a $1500 NLHE tournament. Very likely will be nothing to see here, but if things get interesting, I'll try to post something here while on a break.

Good luck to you. Bring home the bracelet for us.

[MIJB#19]

For those of you watching the results of the various WSOP events, I'm entered in tomorrow's (well, today's) Event #27, a $1500 NLHE tournament. Very likely will be nothing to see here, but if things get interesting, I'll try to post something here while on a break.
Good luck!

[CleBrownsfan]

Norm McDonald cashes... I would love to be at a table with him ;)

NORM MCDONALD OF LOS ANGELES, CA
Lifetime Winnings: $14,608 *
2007 POY Rank: Not Ranked
Most Recent Cash: $14,608 : Event 28 - No-Limit Hold'em (finished 20th)

[Jas_lov]

Barry Greenstein, Greg Raymer, Mike Matusow, Freddy Deeb, Tim Phan, and Gabe Kaplan all cashed in HORSE which is down to the final 16. Also, Dewey Tomko and David Singer who made the final table last year are still in. Amnon Filippi is chip leader with more than twice as many chips as 2nd place.

[larrymcg421]

I'll do a scoring update for this later tonight.

[QuikSand]

The HORSE event is already the darling of the "poker insiders," who have been even quicker than I might have imagined to pretty much dismiss the main event as a lottery, and that the big HORSE event is the true "championship." A lot of people felt this would happen, but I didn't expect it to become conventional wisdom so quickly.

Having a widely respected cash game player win it last year probably helped, rather than some dope off the street. This year's final table which will clearly include a number of name players will likely solidify that impression.

[twothree]

I know I will be more interested in watching the HORSE event instead of the "main" event on ESPN. Especially with Deeb, and his humor, lasting all the way until the end.

[Jas_lov]

I know I will be more interested in watching the HORSE event instead of the "main" event on ESPN. Especially with Deeb, and his humor, lasting all the way until the end.

Deeb usually makes for good tv. He made an unbelievable comeback last night. At one point 3 handed it was:

Bruno Fitoussi: 10,085,000
John Hanson: 2,280,000
Freddy Deeb: 1,715,000

I hope this come off well on tv even though it's limit poker the whole way. A lot of entertaining pros made it deep in the tourney like Negreanu, Matusow, Raymer, and Hellmuth so that should help. I agree that it should be better than the main event though.

[larrymcg421]

Event 22

Phil Laak - 29.073
Kathy Liebert -

[larrymcg421]

Event 22

Phil Laak - 29.073
Kathy Liebert - 26.060
TJ Cloutier - 20.034
Allen Cunningham - 12.653

Event 23

Eric Lynch - 119.508
Johnny Chan - 5.504

Event 24

Scotty Nguyen - 110.731
Dutch Boyd - 71.650
Marcel Luske - 8.468

Event 25

Jordan Morgan - 17.816

Event 26

Phil Ivey - 65.424
Gavin Smith - 9.024
Doyle Brunson - 9.024

Event 27

Nam Le - 4.108
Minh Nguyen - 3.792

Event 28

Phil Hellmuth - 76.464
Evellyn Ng - 14.608
Phil Laak - 7.418

Will get some more done tonight...

[MIJB#19]

Marcel Luske - 8.468Yay!

[larrymcg421]

Event 29

Jennifer Harman - 4.422

Event 30

Erick Lindgren - 12.468
Erik Seidel - 6.429
Barry Greenstein - 5.260
Nam Le - 4.675
John Juanda - 4.091

Event 31

Shannon Shorr - 46.060
Paul Wasicka - 23.030
Scotty Nguyen - 16.582
Jennifer Tilly - 9.212
Gavin Griffin - 9.212
Joe Sebok - 9.212
Layne Flack - 9.212
Eric Lynch - 9.212
Chad Brown - 9.212

Event 32

Daniel Negreanu - 21.321
Howard Lederer - 6.203
Marcel Luske - 3.877
Cyndy Violette - 3.877

Event 33

Erick Lindgren - 21.054
Allen Cunningham - 17.685
David Williams - 16.001

Event 34

David Pham - 62.906
Chad Brown - 10.212
Phil Hellmuth - 7.761

Event 35

Nam Le - 239.230
Phil Gordon - 16.989
John Juanda - 9.708
Joe Sebok - 4.854
Clonie Gowen - 4.334
Kathy Liebert - 4.334
Chris Ferguson - 3.294

Event 36

Annie Duke - 15.134
Mike Matusow - 15.134

Event 37

None

[MIJB#19]

Event 31

Shannon Shorr - 46.060
Paul Wasicka - 23.030
Scotty Nguyen - 16.582
Jennifer Tilly - 9.212
Gavin Griffin - 9.212
Joe Sebok - 9.212
Layne Flack - 9.212
Eric Lynch - 9.212
Chad Brown - 9.212I think you missed Rob Hollink (9.212) here.

[larrymcg421]

Noted the Rob Hollink addition. Thanks MIJB!

Event 38

Marcel Luske - 18.581
Men Nguyen - 15.547
Eric Lynch - 15.547
Kathy Liebert - 12.893
Chris Ferguson - 4.740
Minh Nguyen - 3.982

Event 39

Freddy Deeb - 2276.832
Barry Greenstein - 259.296
Greg Raymer - 103.008
Mike Matusow - 88.800

Event 40

JC Tran - 7.309
Phil Gordon - 7.309
Paul Darden - 4.816

Event 41

None

Event 42

Chad Brown - 43.606
William Chen - 5.345
Tony G - 5.345
Jeff Madsen - 3.235

Event 43

Joe Sebok - 8.161

Event 44

Marcel Luske - 64.630
John Juanda - 9.719
Todd Brunson - 4.957

Event 45

Dutch Boyd - 169.369
Ram Vaswami - 27.031
Phil Hellmuth - 13.344
Men Nguyen - 9.238
Allen Cunningham - 8.212
Tobey Maguire - 6.159 (just for fyi purposes)

Event 46

Scotty Nguyen - 31.610
Chad Brown - 3.890

Event 47

TJ Cloutier - 25.593
Jennifer Tilly - 18.546
Noah Boeken - 15.578
Jordan Morgan - 7.233
Michael Mizrachi - 4.451

Event 48

Chris Ferguson - 6.496

[larrymcg421]

timmynausea 2623.02
larrymcg421 2286.86
rockboy70 2234.092
TroyF 1937.853
marshall81 1930.944
AlbionMoonlight 1773.698
Quiksand 1603.733
kingfc22 1602.402
jaslov 1582.278
Honolulu Blue 1492.863
CleBrownsFan 1317.188
hoopsguy 1242.446
barkeep49 1241.93
Lathum 1043
Shorty 933.433
SirFozzie 924.409
MollyMurphy 780.59
MIJB 356.621

[MIJB#19]

Ugh, last. Dead last. Lesson learned here, don't gamble on the Dutchmen...

[Barkeep49]

Well I think I'm pretty much finished, unless I get real lucky with my players in the ME.

[Barkeep49]

DOLA:

I also feel stupid that I didn't pick Allen Cunnigham. I regretted it last year and vowed to pick him up this year. This wouldn't have made a huge difference for me, but still frustrated with myself.

[timmynausea]

I was doing awful until Deeb bailed me out.

[larrymcg421]

Event 49

Michael Mizrachi - 11.828
Shannon Shorr - 7.957
Michael Gracz - 5.161

Event 50

Patrick Antonious - 311.394
Doyle Brunson - 123.967
Scotty Nguyen - 30.992
Annie Duke - 28.040
Joe Beevers - 22.137

Event 51

Chip Jett - 55.801
Pat Poels - 11.957
Erik Seidel - 1.528

Event 52

David Williams - 40.333
Phil Hellmuth - 4.840
Joe Hachem - 4.840

Event 53

Ram Vaswami - 217.438
Victor Ramdin - 6.634
Noah Boeken - 6.634
Isabelle Mercier - 6.634
Joe Tehan - 6.634

Event 54

Erik Seidel - 538.835
Chad Brown - 324.777
Freddy Deeb - 73.813
Todd Brunson - 51.669

Now that we're nearing the end, I did some checking on players that don't have any cashes. Sorry I missed these, but they were unfamiliar names so I skipped them when going down the results list.

Alex Jacob

Event 3 - 282.367
Event 22 - 10.394
Event 38 - 5.309

Mark Boudewijn

Event 19 - 8.854

Theo Jorgensen

Event 11 - 46.530
Event 46 - 3.283

[larrymcg421]

timmynausea 3777.559
AlbionMoonlight 2361.721
larrymcg421 2303.528
TroyF 2285.936
rockboy70 2238.932
marshall81 2245.682
hoopsguy 2099.043
jaslov 1945.833
kingfc22 1783.37
Quiksand 1608.573
Honolulu Blue 1502.543
Lathum 1372.617
CleBrownsFan 1336.973
barkeep49 1287.103
Shorty 1074.068
SirFozzie 941.077
MollyMurphy 1165.197
MIJB 700.647

[Lathum]

yeah Chad Brown giving me some love

[larrymcg421]

About to hit the money at the Main Event, here are some notable people still left...

<TABLE style="WIDTH: 125pt; BORDER-COLLAPSE: collapse" cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=166 border=0 x:str=""><TBODY><TR style="HEIGHT: 12.75pt" height=17><TD style="WIDTH: 72pt; HEIGHT: 12.75pt" width=96 height=17> Cliff Josephy</TD><TD class=xl22 style="WIDTH: 53pt" align=right width=70 x:num="346400">346,400</TD></TR><TR style="HEIGHT: 12.75pt" height=17><TD style="HEIGHT: 12.75pt" height=17> Kirk Morrison</TD><TD class=xl22 align=right x:num="370000">370,000</TD></TR><TR style="HEIGHT: 12.75pt" height=17><TD style="HEIGHT: 12.75pt" height=17> Hasan Habib</TD><TD class=xl22 align=right x:num="325000">325,000</TD></TR><TR style="HEIGHT: 12.75pt" height=17><TD style="HEIGHT: 12.75pt" height=17> Thor Hansen</TD><TD class=xl22 align=right x:num="310000">310,000</TD></TR><TR style="HEIGHT: 12.75pt" height=17><TD style="HEIGHT: 12.75pt" height=17> Chad Brown</TD><TD class=xl22 align=right x:num="270000">270,000</TD></TR><TR style="HEIGHT: 12.75pt" height=17><TD style="HEIGHT: 12.75pt" height=17> Daniel Alaei</TD><TD class=xl22 align=right x:num="260000">260,000</TD></TR><TR style="HEIGHT: 12.75pt" height=17><TD style="HEIGHT: 12.75pt" height=17> Chip Jett</TD><TD class=xl22 align=right x:num="210000">210,000</TD></TR><TR style="HEIGHT: 12.75pt" height=17><TD style="HEIGHT: 12.75pt" height=17> Robert Mizrachi</TD><TD class=xl22 align=right x:num="179000">179,000</TD></TR><TR style="HEIGHT: 12.75pt" height=17><TD style="HEIGHT: 12.75pt" height=17> Tobey Maguire</TD><TD class=xl22 align=right x:num="130000">130,000</TD></TR><TR style="HEIGHT: 12.75pt" height=17><TD style="HEIGHT: 12.75pt" height=17> Todd Brunson</TD><TD class=xl22 align=right x:num="122000">122,000</TD></TR><TR style="HEIGHT: 12.75pt" height=17><TD style="HEIGHT: 12.75pt" height=17> Jason Lester</TD><TD class=xl22 align=right x:num="107000">107,000</TD></TR><TR style="HEIGHT: 12.75pt" height=17><TD style="HEIGHT: 12.75pt" height=17> Ted Forrest</TD><TD class=xl22 align=right x:num="95000">95,000</TD></TR><TR style="HEIGHT: 12.75pt" height=17><TD style="HEIGHT: 12.75pt" height=17> Tony Hachem</TD><TD class=xl22 align=right x:num="83000">83,000</TD></TR><TR style="HEIGHT: 12.75pt" height=17><TD style="HEIGHT: 12.75pt" height=17> Gavin Smith</TD><TD class=xl22 align=right x:num="80000">80,000</TD></TR><TR style="HEIGHT: 12.75pt" height=17><TD style="HEIGHT: 12.75pt" height=17> Scotty Nguyen</TD><TD class=xl22 align=right x:num="68000">68,000</TD></TR><TR style="HEIGHT: 12.75pt" height=17><TD style="HEIGHT: 12.75pt" height=17> Amnon Filippi</TD><TD class=xl22 align=right x:num="68000">68,000</TD></TR><TR style="HEIGHT: 12.75pt" height=17><TD style="HEIGHT: 12.75pt" height=17> Humberto Brenes</TD><TD class=xl22 align=right x:num="61000">61,000</TD></TR><TR style="HEIGHT: 12.75pt" height=17><TD style="HEIGHT: 12.75pt" height=17> J.C. Tran</TD><TD class=xl22 align=right x:num="50000">50,000</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>

[larrymcg421]

Oh, and Gus Hansen is not on that list but was the chip leader with $622,000 at the start of the day. There haven't been any updates on him so far, so I'm sure he's still sitting pretty.

[Honolulu Blue]

Go Gus go!

[larrymcg421]

Ok, here's what we're down to. Gus Hansen and Humberto Brenes are both out. The only name player left is Scotty Nguyen, who was amazingly only picked by one participant, and that is current #2 AlbionMoonlight.

timmynausea has a huge lead, but if Scotty makes the final table it can easily evaporate. There are currently 55 left, and Scotty has a pretty big stack ($3 million last I read.)

It's pretty cool that this is the 2nd year in a row where one player (last year it was Allen Cunningham) made a run deep into the tourney that put 1st place in the pool in jeopardy.

[Lathum]

there are quiet a few name players left this late.

[larrymcg421]

there are quiet a few name players left this late.

Well, there are a few players left that could be considered names, but unlesss I'm missing someone, not any that were picked in the pool other than Scotty.

Gus Hansen, Humberto Brenes, and Huck Seed are all out.

[Lathum]

I wasn't refering to the pool, just in general

[QuikSand]

there are quiet a few name players left this late.

Hmmm... maybe you were including a few late busts from last night (Hansen, Seed?) but as of today's starting lineup of 36 players, I'm only counting Scottie Nguyen, Lee Watkinson, and Daniel Alaei. I guess 3 of 36 "name" players isn't bad, but it seems hard to look at the field as stocked with big names. (Alex Kravchenko has had a hell of a WSOP, but I don't know how well known he is/was) Looks like the usual lottery style to me, mostly.


Here's the field starting today:

2 1 Daniel Alaei 1,995,800
2 2 David Tran 10,280,000
2 3 Ray Henson 8,250,000
2 4 Philip Hilm 9,950,000
2 5 Lee Watkinson 3,500,000
2 6 Bob Slezak 2,115,000
2 7 Jason Welch 2,115,000
2 8 Jeff Bryan 2,100,000
2 9 Ryan Elson 1,785,000


3 1 Steven Garfinkle 2,115,000
3 2 Peter Darvill 2,430,000
3 3 Robin Bergren 520,000
3 4 Hevad Khan 7,585,000
3 5 Allan King 1,000,000
3 6 Mikkel Madsen 2,080,000
3 7 Roy Winston 1,071,000
3 8 Paulo Loureiro 1,645,000
3 9 Kevin Kim 610,000


4 1 Jason Koshi 1,175,000
4 2 Lee Childs 6,520,000
4 3 Jon Kalmar 2,665,000
4 4 Stefan Mattsson 3,260,000
4 5 Christian Togsverd 2,030,000
4 6 Jerry Yang 5,090,000
4 7 Kenny Tran 4,955,000
4 8 Tuan Lam 3,600,000
4 9 Hoa Nguyen 2,205,000


5 1 Ron Kluber 3,070,000
5 2 William Spadea 4,575,000
5 3 Bill Edler 2,680,000
5 4 John Armbrust 2,600,000
5 5 Scott Freeman 7,360,000
5 6 Kevin Farry 7,400,000
5 7 Scotty Nguyen 1,960,000
5 8 Alex Kravchenko 1,555,000
5 9 Raymond Rahme 3,100,000

[Lathum]

I would count Edler in the group. 4/36 isn't bad.

Cardplayer is making this Khan guy out to be a real ass.

I hope at least one "name" player makes the final table for the pay per view.

[larrymcg421]

Down to 28 players right now, but Scotty has a below average stack. He needs to finish 4th or better to give AlbionMoonlight the victory.

[larrymcg421]

Scotty is on a roll. I'm sure ESPN is cheering him on. This is from cardplayer:

Ryan Elson had gotten into the habit of making several large preflop raises in the last few hours and usually it would provoke the desired outcome from his opponents, a fold. Elson raised to $375,000 from the button before the flop and Scotty Nguyen, seated directly to his left, reraised all in for $1,525,000. Elson went into the tank and Nguyen stood up from the table smiling. Nguyen looked over his shoulder at Johnny Chan on the rail and said, "This All-In drink made me do it baby!", referring to the energy drink that Johnny Chan is the spokesman for. Nguyen sipped on his energy drink and finally Elson asked Nguyen, "You wanna party? I call!" Nguyen turned over Ahttp://www.cardplayer.com/images/common/suits/spade.gif Qhttp://www.cardplayer.com/images/common/suits/heart.gif and Elson was ahead with 10http://www.cardplayer.com/images/common/suits/club.gif 10http://www.cardplayer.com/images/common/suits/heart.gif. The dealer laid out Ahttp://www.cardplayer.com/images/common/suits/heart.gif Jhttp://www.cardplayer.com/images/common/suits/club.gif 8http://www.cardplayer.com/images/common/suits/spade.gif on the flop and Nguyen jumped into the driver's seat. The turn was the 5http://www.cardplayer.com/images/common/suits/heart.gif and Nguyen needed to only dodge one of two tens left in the deck. The river brought the 6http://www.cardplayer.com/images/common/suits/heart.gif and Nguyen doubled up to more than $4,000,000 in chips. After the hand, the always happy Elson and Nguyen got into a conversation that attracted attention and laughter from both the rail and ESPN camera crews.

Elson: I've gotta call my wife now and tell her that Scotty took all my chips!
Nguyen: Call your wife baby, she come out here I buy her dinner.
Elson: She's eight months pregnant Scotty!
Nguyen: Ok, then you, your wife and the newborn come out here I buy you all dinner.
Elson: It better be at a nice restaurant, I only eat nice food.
Nguyen: Don't worry baby. I fly you to Paris for dinner and fly you right back.
Elson: I'm gonna hold you to that, It's on camera now.
Nguyen: If I win this whole thing, you come back and I promise I fly you all to Paris for dinner baby.

Nguyen continued to ham it up for the ESPN cameras for the better part of the last hour and tried to get almost everyone at his table involved in some way. "What about you! (seat nine) You from Manchester right?" asked Nguyen. "Uh, I'm from New York Scotty." answered Kevin Farry. "Oh, I got you confused with someone else. All white people look alike" joked Nguyen with a huge smile on his face. This brought laughter from everyone within earshot and Nguyen cleared things up by saying, "You guys know I'm kidding. I love white people!"

Just a few hands later Nguyen added to his chip stack again, this time at the expense of Tuan Lam. Nguyen raised to $280,000 before the flop and Lam was the only caller from the button. The flop came Khttp://www.cardplayer.com/images/common/suits/diamond.gif 4http://www.cardplayer.com/images/common/suits/spade.gif 2http://www.cardplayer.com/images/common/suits/spade.gif and Nguyen checked. Lam bet out $350,000 and Nguyen smooth called. The turn was the 10http://www.cardplayer.com/images/common/suits/club.gif and Nguyen fired out a bet of $470,000. "If you call this you don't like money man" said Nguyen. Lam apparently does like money and folded his hand.

[Jas_lov]

Well, with the elimination of Daniel Alaei in 25th and Bill Edler in 23rd I can only see 2 pros left that I actually know-Scotty Ngyuen in 13th and Lee Watkinson in 14th. I'd like to see these two make it to the final table and Kenny Tran who is making a name for himself having already finished 5th in the HORSE tournament this year, he's currently 5th in chips in the Main Event.

[QuikSand]

One of the guys near the top of the chip stacks now, Ray Henson, was at my table in one of the Venetian deep stack events a couple weeks ago. Solid player, seemed like a nice guy... I guess I have someone to root for now.

[larrymcg421]

17 players left. Here they are...

Lee Childs 16.5 million
Tuan Lam 14.9 million
Lee Watkinson 13 million
Ray Henson 10.4 million
Jon Kalmar 9.7 million
Kenny Tran 9.1 million
Philip Hilm 8.6 million
Jerry Yang 8.2 million
Raymond Rahme 6.1 million
Scotty Nguyen 6 million
Hevad 'Rain' Khan 4.7 million
Steven Garfinkle 4.7 million
David Tran 4.5 million
Billy Spadea 3.7 million
Bob Slezak 3.6 million
Alex Kravchenko 2.1 million
Kevin Farry 1.6 million

[Jas_lov]

Scotty Ngyuen essentially just doubled up and knocked out Ray Henson to put him in good shape with 11 to go.

Jon Kalmar 22,800,000
Tuan Lam 20,300,000
Lee Childs 17,585,000
Scotty Nguyen 15,500,000
Hevad "Rain" Khan 12,740,000
Raymond Rahme 11,225,000
Lee Watkinson 9,845,000
Alex Kravchenko 5,500,000
Philip Hilm 5,140,000
Steven Garfinkle 3,125,000
Jerry Yang 1,700,000

[Jas_lov]

Damn, the PPV is no where near as attractive now with Scotty Ngyuen out in 11th place. He lost 2 big hands, one worth about 6 million trying to raise on the river with 43 on a K54KJ board and his opponent thought for a while before calling the raise with 1010. Then one worth about 7 million when he had AQ and his opponent had 55. Flop is Q45. Scotty bets out the flop and his opponent calls. Turn is a K. Scotty checks, opponent bets, Scotty moves all in and opponent insta calls. This crippled him and he busted out soon after. Can't really blame him I guess since he is playing to win and not just make the FT, and was the aggressor in both situations. Would have been nice to see him try and join Moss, Brunson, Chan, and Ungar as multiple main event winners.

[Lathum]

And Scotty is out.

Watkinson is the only "name" player left and he speaks about 2 words per hour.

[Simms]

From the sounds of things, "Rain" Khan may make the final table worth watching all by himself.


Hevad "Rain" Khan is one interesting dude. I first read about him on PokerStars Blog. Actually, what caught my eye were the deranged look on his face on multiple photos that were captured by Stars photographer Neil Stoddart. I heard rumors that Stars froze his account because they thought he was a bot. Why? Because he was playing 40 SNGs at once. He videotaped him doing that and sent a copy to Stars support. They quickly unfroze his account.

<center>http://bp2.blogger.com/_vv2IGE5obwk/Rptbd8P6FLI/AAAAAAAAA94/7CQVg5eaAYA/s320/rainkhan.jpg (http://bp2.blogger.com/_vv2IGE5obwk/Rptbd8P6FLI/AAAAAAAAA94/7CQVg5eaAYA/s1600-h/rainkhan.jpg)
Rain Khan</center>
Khan has been screaming a lot, almost always at the top of his lungs. On Day 4, he kept yelling, "Bulldozer!" as he ran over his table.

I caught one hand that might have been one of the biggest hands for Khan thus far in the WSOP. Jerry Yang limped and Hevad Khan raised 500K. Yang called. The flop was Ad-Ks-Qd. Yang checked. Khan counted out his chips and gently pushed out a 650K bet. Khan had been deliberate about how he bet the entire time. Most online players have a big flaw and that's how they handle their chips. Seasoned pros will pick up on the slightest variation on how you bet when you have a strong hand, a weak hand, a drawing hand, or a stone cold bluff.

Khan had been unusually quiet for most of Day 6. He sat in dead silence as Yang counted down his chips then announced a raise to 1.65M. Khan looked at Yang, then looked at the board, before he moved all in for 1.825M more. Yang stood up as Khan sat in silence looking down at his cards. He avoided eye contact and sat still holding his breath as Yang went into the tank for a few minutes and stared at Khan.

"Get a read yet?" shouted someone from the rail.

Yang sat down before he said that he'd call.

"I got two pair," said Khan as he flipped over Kc-Qs

Yang shook his head as he sheepishly turned over Ac-6c for just top pair. Then Khan unleashed his inner monster.

"Hold. Hold. Hold!" screamed Khan as the volume of his voice increased as Laurie the dealer burned and then dealt the 5d. Yang was praying to the poker gods for help as Khan prayed that he would avoid elimination and double up. The 8h fell on the river and Khan went berserk. He jumped up and down and ran over to his friends on the rail. He looked like a player at Lambeau Field who just scored a touch down and dove into the stands at the end of the endzone. Khan looked as though he was ready to dive into the spectators and start crowd surfing like Kurt Cobain at a Nirvana concert circa 1992. Khan jumped up and down several times before he returned to the table.

"Thank God!" he screamed as he looked into ESPN's camera. "I play this game to win, not to lose!"

That hand pushed Khan over the 7 million. After being card dead for most of the afternoon, Khan woke up. He made the final table and when his name was announced he stood up and let loose with a few spastic moves and loads of screaming.

"I bet that guy Rain is amazing in bed. I hope he doesn't live in an apartment," joked Tom Sexton.

(From http://taopoker.blogspot.com)

[CleBrownsfan]

hxxp://www.cardplayer.com/poker-news/article/9288

Sites Release Betting Odds for WSOP Final Table
Both Bodog and PaddyPower Weigh In
It didn’t take long for online betting sites to release the betting odds for the final nine players still standing in this year’s World Series of Poker’s $10,000 main event.

First, the final nine, their seat positions and their chip counts going into the final day of play:

Seat 1: Raymond Rahme – $16,320,000
Seat 2: Alex Kravchenko – $6,570,000
Seat 3: Lee Childs – $13,240,000
Seat 4: Jerry Yang – $8,450,000
Seat 5: Lee Watkinson – $9,925,000
Seat 6: Tuan Lam – $21,315,000
Seat 7: Philip Hilm – $22,070,000
Seat 8: Jon Kalmar – $20,320,000
Seat 9: Hevad "RainKhan" Khan – $9,205,000

With more than $22 million in chips, Bodog made Hilm of Denmark the favorite to win tomorrow. He’s listed at 14/5.

Lam and the most successful player at the table, Watkinson, are both listed close behind at 7/2.

Next is Kalmar at 4/1. Rahme and Khan follow at 7/1, Childs at 8/1, and both Yang and Kravchenko are listed at 9/1.

Click here to take advantage of a deposit bonus offered through CardPlayer.com.

The Irish sports book and online poker site PaddyPower.com has a slightly different take on the final table. It’s offering punters changing odds during the final table, but opens the betting with the following odds:

Kalmar – 7/2
Hilm – 4/1
Lam – 9/2
Rahme – 6/1
Watkinson – 7/1
Childs – 8/1
Khan – 11/1
Kravchenko – 12/1
Yang – 14/1