WSOP Pool 2012

[larrymcg421]

We are days away from the 2012 World Series of Poker, so it's time to start our annual pool.

Rules:

Pick 10 Poker Players

1 of the poker players must be female
1 of the poker players must not have a bracelet.
1 of your picks can be made "Money Man" and they will score double points for you.
1 of your picks can be made "Main Event Champion". If they win the Main Event, you win the pool by default. (This has never happened, but we've had deep runs by Allen Cunningham, Phil Ivey, and Michael Mizrachi).

Scoring is based on cash won by your players. You get 1 point for every $1,000 your picks earn.

This will be the 9th year of the contest. Previous winners...

2011 - Quiksand
2010 - jbergey22
2009 - Comey
2008 - MollyMurphy
2007 - timmynausea
2006 - Barkeep49
2005 - Chubby
2004 - albionmoonlight

Leaderboard (Before Main Event)

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[larrymcg421]

The first scoring event starts May 28th, so try to have your picks in by then. You can still enter after that, but will not get any points for events that have already started.

[larrymcg421]

Previous Winning Teams

2005 - Chubby

Annie Duke - F
Alex Brenes - NB
Howard Lederer
Gus Hansen - ME
Phil Ivey
Daniel Negreanu
Johnny Chan
Erik Seidel
Doyle Brunson
Al Krux
Gus Hansen

Longest lasting ME pick: John Juanda (Quiksand) - 31st
Entrants: 10

2006 - Barkeep49

Phil Ivey - ME
Daniel Negreanu
Phil Gordon - NB
Eric Lindgren
Ted Forrest
Allen Cunningham
Phil Hellmuth
Cyndy Violette - F
Chris Ferguson
Phil Laak

Longest lasting ME pick: Allen Cunningham (hoopsguy) - 4th
Entrants: 25

2007 - timmynausea

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

Longest lasting ME pick: Gus Hansen (Lathum, Honolulu Blue) - 61st
Entrants: 18

2008 - MollyMurphy

Jennifer Harmon
Chris Ferguson
Phil Laak ( no braclet)
Gus Hansen
Phil Hellmuth
Mike Matasow
Scotty Nyguen
David Williams- Main Event
Phil Ivey
Daniel Negranue- Money Man

Longest lasting ME pick: Phil Hellmuth (hoopsguy, St. Cronin) - 45th
Entrants: 13

2009 - Comey

Justin Bonomo (money man)
Theo Tran (bracelet)
Vanessa Rousso (woman)
Jeff Madsen (M/E)
Chris Ferguson
Tom Dwan
Elky Grospeller
Andrew Robl
Phil Ivey
Erick Lindgren

Longest lasting ME pick: Phil Ivey (jbergey22) - 7th
Entrants: 14

2010 - jbergey22

Phil Ivey
Mathew Hawrilenko(Main Event)
Jeffrey Lisandro
Daniel Negreanu
Greg Mueller
Barry Greenstein(Money Man)
JC Tran
Phil Hellmuth
Vanessa Rousso (Female)
Michael Mizrachi (No Bracelet)


Longest lasting ME pick: Jason Mercier (MIJB#19) - 463rd
Entrants: 13

2011 - Quiksand

John Juanda - ME
Phil Hellmuth
Phil Ivey
Daniel Negreanu - $
Jason Mercier
Bertrand Grospellier
Annette Obrestad - F
Tom Dwan - 0
Barry Greenstein
Ted Forrest

Longest lasting ME pick: None cashed.
Entrants: 6

[QuikSand]

John Juanda - ME
Phil Hellmuth
Phil Ivey
Daniel Negreanu - $
Jason Mercier
Bertrand Grospellier
Annette Obrestad - F
Tom Dwan - 0
Barry Greenstein
Ted Forrest

[digamma]

Daniel Negreanu ME
Eric Seidel
Tom Dwan
Faraz Jaka
Gavin Smith
Annette Obrestad F
Tom Dwan 0
Dan Kelly
Dan Smith ($)
Todd Brunson

[Subby]

Phil Hellmuth - $
Phil Ivey - ME
Vanessa Rousso - F
Tom Dwan - 0
Erik Seidel
Michael Mizrachi
Allen Cunningham
Andy Bloch
Carlos Mortensen
Annette Obrestad

[larrymcg421]

Phil Hellmuth - ME
Phil Ivey - $
John Juanda
Allen Cunningham
Mike Matusow
Tom Dwan - NB
Vanessa Rousso - F
Barry Greenstein
Erik Seidel
Jason Mercier

[Lathum]

Vanessa Selbst- Female (kind of)
Faraz jaka- non bracelet
Tom Dwan
Allen Cunningham- Money
Phil Helmuth
Ben Lamb
Brock Parker-Main Event
Josh Arieha
Daniel Negranue
Phil Ivey

[hoopsguy]

Negreanu
Grosspelier - $$$
Duhamel
Bonomo - ME
Shawn Buchanan
Mercier
Ivey (thought about leaving him off, but probably can't risk it)
Selbst - Female
Sam Trickett - no bracelet
Hellmuth (I know he'll do a ton of events)

[kingfc22]

Daniel Negreanu - $
Jonathan Duhamel
Phil Hellmuth
Dan Smith
Justin Bonomo - no bracelet
Faraz Jaka
Jason Mercier - ME
Allen Cunningham
Men Nguyen
Vanessa Rousso - F

[ntndeacon]

Phil Ivey $
Chau Giang
David Chui
Chris Bjorin
Phil Hellmuth
Huck Seed
Freddy Deeb- ME
Young Phan - no bracelets
Anette Obrestad- F
Thor Hanson

[rockboy70]

Phil Hellmuth - $
Tom Dwan - NB
Anette Obrestad- F
Phil Ivey-ME
Victor Blom
Daniel Negreanu
Jason Mercier
Erik Seidel
Ben Lamb
Jonathan Duhamel

[Lathum]

Selbts appears to be a good early pick

[hoopsguy]

Obrestad in final 8 for the heads-up tournament (Event #3)

[larrymcg421]

In the 3rd post, I added a list of player selections for previous winners. I couldn't find the 2004 thread.

[ntndeacon]

Let's go Bjorin!

[ntndeacon]

I have seen everyone mentioned on my team...except Thor Hanson!!

[larrymcg421]

Some good action going on today:

In Event 17 ($10k Pot Limit HE) they are down to 11 people and Ivey has 4th highest stack.
In Event 18 ($2.5k Razz), they are down to 15. Hellmuth is chip leader and Greenstein is 8th.

[Comey]

Ivey and Hellmuth leading their respective tournaments at the final table. ESPN has to be very happy about this.

[Lathum]

Helmuth chip leader in RAZZ with 5 left.

Question?

Are we counting the million dollar buy in event? Seems like it could really skew the scoring.

[Lathum]

The Poker Brat Refuses to Budge


Brandon Cantu, who is seated in the six seat, just asked Phil Hellmuth, who is in Seat 5, if he could scoot down a bit given the players in Seats 3 and 4 have been eliminated.

"No," said Hellmuth. "This is my lucky seat." Cantu seemed taken aback that such a simple request was denied and asked the floor if he'd request Hellmuth to move down a bit. "Even six inches," Cantu said.

The floor politely asked Hellmuth if he'd be willing to move down and again the "Poker Brat" refused. Cantu asked for a little help and the floor said he could check with his superiors, which prompted Hellmuth to say, "You better call Jack [Effel]."

Despite his unwillingness to budge, Hellmuth did say with sincerity, "I love Brandon Cantu." Hellmuth's stubbornness may just be a result of superstition, though it appears he has scooted down a bit.

haha, I love Hellmuth

[larrymcg421]

Helmuth chip leader in RAZZ with 5 left.

Question?

Are we counting the million dollar buy in event? Seems like it could really skew the scoring.

The precedent has always been to count any event that has a regular Event #, which leaves out the Bracelet Bounty and the Doubles event, but not the $1m buy-in which is listed as Event #55. Since it's a bracelet event, I think it should be counted.

[Lathum]

The precedent has always been to count any event that has a regular Event #, which leaves out the Bracelet Bounty and the Doubles event, but not the $1m buy-in which is listed as Event #55. Since it's a bracelet event, I think it should be counted.

ok. I was just looking back at last years winner, he has about 4200 points. Whoever wins the million dollar event will likely score more than that. Given the players that will be in this event are pretty big name players who are likely to be on someones team seems like the rest of the competition is rendered obsolete.

[larrymcg421]

ok. I was just looking back at last years winner, he has about 4200 points. Whoever wins the million dollar event will likely score more than that. Given the players that will be in this event are pretty big name players who are likely to be on someones team seems like the rest of the competition is rendered obsolete.

Ok, so we have a few options here:

1) We could not count the event at all.
2) We could put a cap on possible amount earned for the event.
3) Just count it under the normal rules.
4) If we end up with different winners based on counting it or not, we will have co-champions. Then next year we can come up with a rule before the WSOP starts.

I'm not opposed to any of these scenarios, but I'm not comfortable changing the way it's been done in the past unless there's a consensus from the participants. So speak up guys. What do you want to do?

[Lathum]

My vote is to just cancel it. Seems easiest. Or make the points count 1 per 100K since the buy in is 100X the main event buy in.

[larrymcg421]

Here's the list of confirmed entrants so far: 30 Players Confirmed Big One for One Drop; Estimated $12,266,668 to Winner | PokerNews (http://www.pokernews.com/news/2012/04/30-players-confirmed-big-one-for-one-drop-12435.htm)

It could change of course, but it looks like Negreanu and Elky are the two potential game changers since they've been picked as Money Men. The other pros that were picked have been picked by most of the participants.

[larrymcg421]

Added a 4th option.

[larrymcg421]

Meanwhile, the Razz is down to 4 players and Hellmuth has half the chips in play.

The Pot Limit is down to 5 players and Ivey has 3rd highest stack.

[hoopsguy]

For what it is worth, I cross-referenced that list and certainly factored it into my picks. I would be more in favor of a cap on points than eliminating the event entirely, since my picks would almost certainly been different if we had a ruling on skipping the event.

[Lathum]

Interesting article on the participants. Lots of dead money considering the buy in. Should be interesting. Surprised to see some of the names on there have that deep a roll, although I'm sure lots of them sold shares of themselves.

[larrymcg421]

For what it is worth, I cross-referenced that list and certainly factored it into my picks. I would be more in favor of a cap on points than eliminating the event entirely, since my picks would almost certainly been different if we had a ruling on skipping the event.

Yeah, I thought people had done this, which is why I don't think it's fair to eliminate it.

I'm fine with leaving this as is. If it makes the other events obsolete, then so be it. We'll learn and come up with a new rule next year before the WSOP starts.

[larrymcg421]

Both Phils with chip leads now. Would be pretty cool if they both win a bracelet in the same night.

Currently working on a scoring update.

[larrymcg421]

Event 2 - $1500 NLHE

Vanessa Selbst (Lathum, hoops) - 161.345
Phil Hellmuth $$ (Subby, Rockboy) - 14.408
Phil Hellmuth (Quik, King, Ntn, hoops, Larry, Lathum) - 7.204

Event 3 - $3000 Heads Up

Annette Obrestad (ntndeacon, rockboy, Subby, Quik, digamma) - 28.409
Josh Arieh (Lathum) - 9.644
David Chiu (ntndeacon) - 3.395
Justin Bonomo (hoopsguy, king) - 3.395

Event 4 - $1500 Stud Hilo

Chris Bjorin (ntndeacon) - 124.838
Michael Mizrachi (Subby) - 41.447

Event 5 - $1500 Pot Limit HE

Daniel Negreanu $$ (Quik, king) - 83.366
Daniel Negreanu (Lathum, rockboy, hoops, digamma) - 41.683
John Juanda (Quik, Larry) - 7.254

Event 6 - $5000 NLHE Mixed

Brock Parker (Lathum) - 24.390
Gavin Smith (digamma) - 10.984

Event 7 - $1500 Stud

Andy Bloch (subby) - 126.363
Barry Greenstein (Quik, Larry) - 78.038
Chau Giang (ntndeacon) - 5.717

Event 8 - $1500 Omaha HiLo

Daniel Negreanu $$ (Quik, king) - 11.278
Daniel Negreanu (Lathum, rockboy, hoops, digamma) - 5.639
Phil Hellmuth $$ (Subby, Rockboy) - 9.634
Phil Hellmuth (Quik, King, Ntn, hoops, Larry, Lathum) - 4.817
Todd Brunson (digamma) - 4.164
Men Nguyen (king) - 2.689

Event 9 - $1500 NLHE Re-entry

Jonathan Duhamel (hoops) - 22.885
John Juanda (Quik, Larry) - 12.315
Mike Matusow (Larry) - 3.584
Men Nguyen (king) - 3.216
Jason Mercier (Quik, Larry, rockboy, hoops, king) - 3.216

Event 10 - $5000 Stud

No cashes.

Event 11 - $1500 PL Omaha

No cashes.

Event 12 - $10k Heads Up NLHE

Brock Parker (Lathum) - 130.606
Vanessa Selbst (Lathum, hoops) - 20.674

Event 13 - $1500 Limit HE

Men Nguyen (king) - 2.453
Justin Bonomo (hoopsguy, king) - 2.453

Event 14 - $1500 NLHE Shootout

Gavin Smith (digamma) - 5.295
Erik Seidel (digamma, subby, rockboy, Larry) - 5.295
Phil Ivey $$ (Larry, ntndeacon) - 10.59
Phil Ivey (hoops, Quik, Lathum, subby, rockboy) - 5.295

Event 15 - $5000 Stud HiLo

Todd Brunson (digamma) - 166.269
Phil Ivey $$ (Larry, ntndeacon) - 69.19
Phil Ivey (hoops, Quik, Lathum, subby, rockboy) - 34.595
Phil Hellmuth $$ (Subby, Rockboy) - 23.274
Phil Hellmuth (Quik, King, Ntn, hoops, Larry, Lathum) - 11.637
Andy Bloch (subby) - 9.675
Viktor Blom (rockboy70) - 2.706

Event 16 - $1500 NLHE Six Handed

Mike Matusow (Larry) - 40.059
Viktor Blom (rockboy) - 2.706

[larrymcg421]

Leaderboard updated in the first post.

Lathum out to a good start, but alot of points will be scored tonight. Biggest beneficiaries seem to be subby and rockboy who have Hellmuth as Money Man, and larry and ntndeacon who have Ivey as Money Man.

digamma being hurt the most tonight as he has neither player.

[QuikSand]

thanks for staying on this, larry

[Lathum]

thanks for staying on this, larry

+1 always fun to follow along. This has been a good year for it also with a lot of big names being in the nix

[rockboy70]

Looks like you missed Duhamel for my team in event 9. Thanks for running the pool again, always a good time.

[digamma]

Count it all.

[larrymcg421]

Event 17 - $10k Pot Limit HE

Phil Ivey $$ (Larry, ntndeacon) - 551.118
Phil Ivey (hoops, Quik, Lathum, subby, rockboy) - 275.559
Elky Grospelier (hoopsguy) - 23.876

Event 18 - $2500 Razz

Phil Hellmuth $$ (Subby, Rockboy) - 365.586
Phil Hellmuth (Quik, King, Ntn, hoops, Larry, Lathum) - 182.793
Barry Greenstein (Quik, larry) - 30.150
Ted Forrest (Quik) - 4.885

Leaderboard has been updated. I have taken the lead, but it is still very close.

[larrymcg421]

Count it all.

Yep, since we don't have a consensus to change, this is what we're going to do. I will consider a cap for next year.

[ntndeacon]

I think a fedora would be better than the cap. or maybe a hoodie and sunglasses

[Lathum]

2 final tables today. Barry Shulman at one and Jeff Shulman at another. Pretty cool

[ntndeacon]

Event 17 - $10k Pot Limit HE

Phil Ivey $$ (Larry, ntndeacon) - 551.118
Phil Ivey (hoops, Quik, Lathum, subby, rockboy) - 275.559
Elky Grospelier (hoopsguy) - 23.876

Event 18 - $2500 Razz

Phil Hellmuth $$ (Subby, Rockboy) - 365.586
Phil Hellmuth (Quik, King, Ntn, hoops, Larry, Lathum) - 182.793
Barry Greenstein (Quik, larry) - 30.150
Ted Forrest (Quik) - 4.885

Leaderboard has been updated. I have taken the lead, but it is still very close.

Just a note.. Wasn't Elky hoops' money man?

[larrymcg421]

Just a note.. Wasn't Elky hoops' money man?

Good catch! Thanks. I will fix that and get a scoring update sometime tomorrow.

[larrymcg421]

Ivey going deep in another tourney. He's currently in the final 3 of Event 24 - $5k Omaha HiLo. His competitors are Joe Cassidy and Scotty Nguyen.

[larrymcg421]

Event 19 - $1500 NLHE

None

Event 20 - $5000 Limit HE

None

Event 21 - $1000 NLHE

Dan Smith $$ (digamma) - 50.734
Dan Smith (King) - 25.367

Event 22 - $2500 Deuce-Seven Triple Draw

Shawn Buchanan (hoopsguy) - 20.322
Josh Arieh (Lathum) - 10.97
Barry Greenstein (Quik, Larry) - 8.169

Event 23 - $3000 NLHE 6 Handed

Elky Grospelier $$ (hoopsguy) - 137.476
Elky Grospelier (Quik) - 68.738
Freddy Deeb (ntndeacon) - 36.198
Jason Mercier (Quik, Larry, rockboy, hoops, king) - 10.038

Event 24 - $5000 Omaha HiLo

Phil Ivey $$ (Larry, ntndeacon) - 272.092
Phil Ivey (hoops, Quik, Lathum, subby, rockboy) - 136.046
Mike Matusow (Larry) - 34.748
Dan Kelly (digamma) - 21.020

Event 25 - $1500 Limit HE Shootout

Brock Parker (Lathum) - 27.986
Justin Bonomo (hoopsguy, king) - 3.088

Event 26 - $3000 PL Omaha

Erik Seidel (digamma, subby, rockboy, Larry) - 13.282
Shawn Buchanan (hoopsguy) - 5.226

[larrymcg421]

Leaderboard updated through Event 26. ntndeacon and I gained a little bit thanks to Ivey's 3rd place showing.

[ntndeacon]

Event 23 Freddy Deeb was 10th

[Lathum]

Brock Parker finished fifth in event 25

[larrymcg421]

Sorry about that. I've added those scores in, plus these...

Event 27 - $1500 HORSE

David Chiu (ntndeacon) - 164.960
Allen Cunningham (subby, Larry, king, Lathum) - 17.150
Young Phan (ntndeacon) - 5.964
Huck Seed (ntndeacon) - 3.876

Event 28 - $2500 NLHE 4 Handed

Gavin Smith (digamma) - 5.169

Event 29 - $1000 Seniors NLHE

Chris Bjorin (ntndeacon) - 3.827

Event 30 - $1500 NL 2-7 Lowball

Michael Mizrachi (subby) - 28.198
Erik Seidel (digamma, subby, rockboy, Larry) - 4.682

Also of note, Event 32 is now down to 39 remaining and Ivey and Hellmuth both have healthy stacks.

David Chiu's showing helped ntndeacon gain ground on me and it's now incredibly close at the top.

[larrymcg421]

Both Hellmuth and Ivey at the final table of Event 32 - $10,000 HORSE

[Lathum]

My buddy Faraz playing really well in the current 1K NLH

[larrymcg421]

Wow, Hellmuth got rolled up queens in Stud8 and is now the chip leader.

[larrymcg421]

Latest update. As always, let me know if I'm missing something.

Event 31 - $1500 NLHE

Ted Forrest (quiksand) - 12.599
Dan Smith $$ (digamma) - 10.854
Dan Smith (kingfc22) - 5.427

Event 32 - $10000 HORSE

Phil Hellmuth $$ (Subby, Rockboy) - 268.112
Phil Hellmuth (Quik, King, Ntn, hoops, Larry, Lathum) - 134.056
Phil Ivey $$ (Larry, ntndeacon) - 199.478
Phil Ivey (hoops, Quik, Lathum, subby, rockboy) - 99.739
Elky Grospelier $$ (hoops) - 39.084
Elky Grospelier (Quik) - 19.542
Dan Kelly (digamma) - 45.360

Event 33 - $1000 NLHE

Faraz Jaka (digamma, king, Lathum) - 10.213
Erik Seidel (digamma, subby, Rockboy, Larry) - 2.465
Jonathan Duhamel (hoops, king, Rockboy) - 1.836

Event 34 - $5000 Pot Limit Omaha 6H

Brock Parker (Lathum) - 11.481

Event 35 - $2500 Mixed HE (Limit/NL)

Phil Ivey $$ (Larry, ntndeacon) - 43.398
Phil Ivey (hoops, Quik, Lathum, subby, rockboy) - 21.699

Event 36 - NLHE Shootout

Justin Bonomo (hoops, King) - 9.086

Event 37 - Eight Game Mix

Freddy Deeb (ntndeacon) - 7.900
Barry Greenstein (Quik, larry) - 7.900

Event 38 - $1500 NLHE

None

Event 39 - $5000 Pot Limit Omaha

Jason Mercier (Quik, Larry, rockboy, hoops, king) - 72.132

Event 40 - $2500 Limit HE Six Handed

None

Event 41 - $3000 NLHE

None

Event 42 - $2500 Omaha/7 Stud HiLo

None

Event 43 - $1500 NLHE

None

Event 44 - $1000 NLHE

Erik Seidel (digamma, subby, Rockboy, Larry) - 1.937

[larrymcg421]

I made some changes to the scoring, because I discovered I had missed some players who I was not looking for in the updates, such as Shawn Buchanan and Dan Kelly. The biggest change was Chris Bjorin whose 124 pt score in Event 4 vaults ntndeacon into 1st place.

We are in the money of the Poker Players Championship and Mizrachi (subby), Bloch (subby), and Blom (rockboy70) are still alive.

[larrymcg421]

Really cool event going on right now. A $1500 NLHE "Ante Only" event. No blinds at all. Moving pretty fast as theyve already gone from 939 to 268 today.

[ntndeacon]

woohoo! GO my folks!!

[larrymcg421]

Event 45 - $50,000 Poker Players Championship

Michael Mizrachi (subby) - 1451.527
Andy Bloch (subby) - 561.738
Viktor Blom (rockboy70) - 105.235

Event 46 - $2500 NLHE

Vanessa Selbst (Lathum, hoops) - 20.327

Event 47 - $1500 PL Omaha HiLo

Barry Greenstein (Quik, Larry) - 6.747

Event 48 - $3000 Limit HE

Jonathan Duhamel (king, rock) - 7.303
Justin Bonomo (king, hoops) - 5.799

Event 49 - $1500 Ante Only NLHE

Men Nguyen (king) - 5.476

[larrymcg421]

Subby takes a huge lead with two massive scores in the PPC.

The $1 million Big Drop tourney is starting now. Here's a list of picked players who are in it...

Jonathan Duhamel (king, rock)
Tom Dwan (digamma, Lathum, Quik, subby, Larry, rock)
Elky Grospelier (hoops $$, Quik)
Phil Ivey (Larry $$, ntndeacon $$, hoops, Quik, Lathum, subby, rockboy)
Ben Lamb (Lathum, rockboy)
Jason Mercier (quik, Larry, rock, hoops, king)
Michael Mizrachi (subby)
Daniel Negreanu (quik $$, king $$, Lathum, rock, hoops, digamma)
Erik Seidel (digamma, subby, Larry, rock)
Sam Trickett (hoops)
Phil Hellmuth (Subby $$, rockboy $$, Quik, King, Ntn, hoops, Larry, Lathum)

Rest of list at World Series of Poker - Official Tournament Coverage and Results (http://www.wsop.com/2012/thebigone/)

[hoopsguy]

Good news - my female player won a bracelet.
Bad news - my money player was among first out of Big Drop.

Time to pull for Trickett in this one the rest of the way.

[Subby]

Hellmuth 2nd in chips on Day 2!:

Tournament Chipcounts | Official World Series of Poker Online (http://www.wsop.com/tournaments/chipcounts.asp?grid=887&tid=12155)

[larrymcg421]

Dwan and Negreanu busted on the same hand.

Gus Hansen was the winner of the $25k mega satellite. The way it worked out, the winner got entry into the One Drop and 2nd place got $1 million. When it got to final 2, Shaun Deeb clearly threw the event to get the money instead of the ticket.

[larrymcg421]

It's been a brutal day for our picked players. Mercier was just eliminated with KK against AA for Esfandiari (who nobody picked). That leaves the only remaining picked players as:

Sam Trickett (hoops)
Phil Hellmuth (Subby $$, rockboy $$, Quik, King, Ntn, hoops, Larry, Lathum)

And Hellmuth is useless for those that didn't make him Money Man, so it's down to Subby, rockboy, and hoops who stand to benefit from this tourney.

[cartman]

In the $1 million buy in tourney, a guy folded quad 8s on a $3.4 million raise, because the thought the guy had a straight flush.

Most epic fold in history of poker? Man won’t call $3.4 million raise … even though he held four-of-a-kind | Off the Bench (http://offthebench.nbcsports.com/2012/07/02/most-epic-fold-in-history-of-poker-man-wont-call-3-4-million-raise-even-though-he-held-four-of-a-kind/)

[Comey]

His logic is sound, if not revisionist. Still an amazing hand.

[larrymcg421]

FYI, here's the payout structure...


1st
$18,346,673
2nd
$10,112,001
3rd
$4,352,000
4th
$2,645,333
5th
$1,834,666
6th
$1,621,333
7th
$1,408,000
8th
$1,237,333
9th
$1,109,333

[hoopsguy]

It's been a brutal day for our picked players. Mercier was just eliminated with KK against AA for Esfandiari (who nobody picked). That leaves the only remaining picked players as:

Sam Trickett (hoops)
Phil Hellmuth (Subby $$, rockboy $$, Quik, King, Ntn, hoops, Larry, Lathum)

And Hellmuth is useless for those that didn't make him Money Man, so it's down to Subby, rockboy, and hoops who stand to benefit from this tourney.

Trickett and Hellmuth both make it into the money. I think Trickett is the chip leader with 35 million or so after sending off the bubble boy (tough bubble, seven figues) and Hellmuth is somewhere in middle of pack around 10 million.

[hoopsguy]

Nice of Laliberte to put this thing together, then go out and make the money. He is 3rd in chips as of the bubble.

[hoopsguy]

Hmm, guess they played down to eight tonight. Antonio busts Mike Sexton, re-takes chip lead.

[cartman]

Wow, just reading the recap, and Smirnov made quads again yesterday! He knocked out Tom Dwan and Daniel Negreanu by getting a 4th nine on the river. But he ended up going out in 23rd place.

Tournament Updates | Official World Series of Poker Online (http://www.wsop.com/tournaments/updates.asp?grid=887&tid=12155&dayof=2535)

[larrymcg421]

Nice comeback for Hellmuth. He was drowning when I went to sleep.

[larrymcg421]

The money jumps in the final few spots are staggering. Just think when they get to the final four, each hand could potentially be worth $16 million.

[hoopsguy]

Is ESPN going to be airing any kind of streaming for this event?

[hoopsguy]

Is ESPN going to be airing any kind of streaming for this event?

Found it - not streaming, but on ESPN2 to start and then ESPN later in evening.

ESPN plans to televise the final table of nine players live on Tuesday. From 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., Pacific Time, the event will be shown on ESPN2. After 5 p.m., the action will be shown on ESPN until a winner is declared.

[Barkeep49]

Found it - not streaming, but on ESPN2 to start and then ESPN later in evening.
It'll be streaming also.

[larrymcg421]

Richard Yong out in 8th place.

[larrymcg421]

Hellmuth wins two hands and is now 3rd in chips.

[hoopsguy]

Love that Trickett answered the "who would you pick to play heads up" question and said "Hellmuth". I'm not sure if it is because he thinks Phil is weak, or if it is respect for his accomplishments, but just refreshing to see someone not stumble around trying to give a politically correct answer.

[Comey]

Holy internet hands, Batman.

[Comey]

Seriously...the AQ vs A10 hand for Hellmuth is *immense* poker TV.

[larrymcg421]

So the way things look now, if Trickett finishes 3rd, then Subby will maintain his lead, albeit slightly (by about 300 pts). If Trickett finishes higher than 3rd, then hoops has all but locked up the entire pool.

[larrymcg421]

Einhorn out in 3rd place. This means hoops is guaranteed a 10,000 point score for this tournament and something like a 5400 point lead on Subby.

[hoopsguy]

Calling Main Event winner still could swing the result, correct?

[larrymcg421]

Calling Main Event winner still could swing the result, correct?

Oh sure that's definitely a possibility or even a couple people getting to the final table of the main event could be worth enough points depending on what the payout structure is. It's not impossible, but you've got a bigger lead than I've ever seen in this competition.

[hoopsguy]

Sadly, it appears that the "Rocks and Rings" webpage is no more :)

[cartman]

Antonio Esfandiari wins the $1 million buy-in event. $18.3 mil. Not too bad for three day's work. :)

[larrymcg421]

Antonio Esfandiari just won $18 million dollars. Amazing.

[SirFozzie]

So many sick beats in that million dollar tourney

[larrymcg421]

All remaining scores before the main event...

Event 50 - $5000 NLHE

Dan Smith $$ (digamma) - 737.886
Dan Smith (king) - 368.943
Gavin Smith (digamma) - 17.360
Shawn Buchanan (hoops) - 13.173
Brock Parker (Lathum) - 11.715


Event 51 - $1000 Ladies NLHE

None


Event 52 - $2500 10 Game Mix

Vanessa Selbst (Lathum, hoops) - 244.259
Mike Matusow (larrymcg421) - 4.309


Event 53 - $1500 NLHE

Brock Parker (Lathum) - 5.856


Event 54 - $1000 NLHE

None


Event 55 - $1 million NLHE

Sam Trickett (hoops) - 10112.01
Phil Hellmuth $$ (subby, rockboy) - 5290.666
Phil Hellmuth (hoops, quik, king, ntndeacon, larry, Lathum) - 2645.333


Event 56 - $1500 NLHE

Daniel Negreanu $$ (quik, king) - 8.31
Daniel Negreanu (Lathum, rock, hoops, digamma) - 4.155


Event 57 - $10000 NLHE 6 Handed

Jason Mercier (quik, larry, rock, hoops, king) - 44.11
Jonathan Duhamel (king, rock) - 21.832


Event 58 - $3000 Pot Limit Omaha HiLo

None


Event 59 - $1000 NLHE

None


Event 60 - $10000 2-7 Draw Lowball

John Juanda (larry, quik) - 41.27
Erik Seidel (digamma, subby, larry, rock) - 22.386
Daniel Negreanu $$ (quik, king) - 38.544
Jason Mercier (quik, larry, rock, hoops, king) - 19.272
Daniel Negreanu (Lathum, rock, hoops, digamma) - 19.272

[hoopsguy]

Well, my money man won't be contributing any further points - Elky busto on Day 1(B).

[larrymcg421]

Picked players that are still alive with their chip counts and current rank:

6. Vanessa Selbst (hoops, Lathum) - $1,282,000
81. Daniel Negreanu (Quik $$, king $$, Lathum, rockboy, hoops, digamma) - $560,000
352. John Juanda (Quik, Larry)- $195,000

Assuming I'm not missing any remaining players, it looks like we only have one person with a chance left to unseat hoops and it's a very remote chance..

Quiksand - Has Negreanu as $$, but hoops has him as a regular pick so the difference wouldn't be enough even if Negreanu wins. But he could still win with Juanda as ME or if Negreanu and Juanda are 1-2. And he needs Selbst to implode soon.

[hoopsguy]

As far as I can tell, all three are still around during the final level of the evening. Down to 315 players now.

[larrymcg421]

Negreanu and Juanda both out. Selbst is the only one left and hoops has her, thus he clinches victory in this year's pool.

[Lathum]

When it is all said and done if possible I would love to see what the standings would have been without the one drop

[larrymcg421]

When it is all said and done if possible I would love to see what the standings would have been without the one drop

I'll do this later, but without the aid of my spreadsheet, it looks like Subby would be the leader with hoops hoping for a Selbst 5th place or higher finish.

[larrymcg421]

We haven't been counting the WSOPE events (maybe we should next year?), but the main event is down to 4 players and Hellmuth is still alive as the chip leader.

[larrymcg421]

Hellmuth won for his 13th bracelet and the only person to win the WSOP and WSOPE main events.

[SirFozzie]

Watching late night WSOP Final Table, down to the final 3. Holy shit what a fucking hand (when you consider the stakes) AK vs KK, 235 on the flop, blank on the turn, 4 on the river for the wheel and a new chip leader.. So sick.

[SirFozzie]

Crazy stat of the moment. AK has been dealt 20 times at the final table. It's won all 20 times, including the AK vs KK hand

[SirFozzie]

136 hands to go from 9 to 3, 126 hands three handed so far without an elimination

[PilotMan]

11.5 hours in and they are finally down to heads up play for the final.

[cuervo72]

Heh, good thing I didn't stay up any later to keep watching last night.

[kingfc22]

Heh, good thing I didn't stay up any later to keep watching last night.

You and me both.

[Butter]

I flipped on ESPN this morning for highlights and saw the final table still going...

so, that should be fun. I bet the announcers have about had it.

[PilotMan]

Heh, good thing I didn't stay up any later to keep watching last night.

Yep, that was my first thought when I turned it on and they were still playing.