WSOP 2015 Fantasy poker rules.. Pick your team

[Big Club]

Top work John and Carl... looking forward to next years.

[PokerPax]

Thanks to everyone involved in the running of this, especially that Mint fella, been great fun like other people have said. Hopefully will get closer next year.  

[Des]

Excellent work guys, was an enjoyable thread to browse and exciting for the players I"m sure.

On the Staker front, based on current positions as of today, ie if Negreanu and Bonomo were to exit in their current positions, then the entrants would fare as follows:-

Carl Pilgrim - Staked: $9999 - Won: $4126
Simon Lawlor - Staked: $10000 - Won: $0
Simon Brooke - Staked: $10000 - Won: $15723
Suzanne Hayward - Staked: $10000 - Won: $18420
Tom Feilding - Staked: $10000 - Won: $0
Steve Ball - Staked: $10000 - Won: $17233

[madsteve]

It has been great fun & thank you for organising.

Obviously winning helps but I enjoyed it last year when I think I finished about fifth.

[Big Club]

Excellent work guys, was an enjoyable thread to browse and exciting for the players I"m sure.

On the Staker front, based on current positions as of today, ie if Negreanu and Bonomo were to exit in their current positions, then the entrants would fare as follows:-

Carl Pilgrim - Staked: $9999 - Won: $4126
Simon Lawlor - Staked: $10000 - Won: $0
Simon Brooke - Staked: $10000 - Won: $15723
Suzanne Hayward - Staked: $10000 - Won: $18420
Tom Feilding - Staked: $10000 - Won: $0
Steve Ball - Staked: $10000 - Won: $17233

Where should I send my bank details for the profit?

[fandango]

Has been a fantastic game really enjoyed the bants!!

Congrats to Steve and Tom and whoever finishes third..

Huge thanks to John who has done another brilliant job of logging all the results and points, thanks to APAT for the added value.

Will contact the winners in due course and sort out the winnings, just need to double check on the Hendon Mob on all results so there are no discrepincies, as once the money is sent its final.

Looking forward to next years comp, hope we can get a few more involved and perhaps tweak the rules a little, maybe scrap categories and just have your top 8 or 10 picks..?

[MintTrav]

Aw shucks!

[MintTrav]

But hold on, this isn"t over. There are still three guys sweating over the all-important third place.

This is like the Americans running all over the Ryder Cup 18th green when there were still shots to play.

[MintTrav]

If Negreanu reaches the final table, third place won"t be resolved until November. A win for him would mean Richard and Barrie sharing third. A final table without a win would mean that Barrie is third on his own. Failing to reach the final table would hand third place to Carl.

At the other end, if Bonomo gets to the final table, Suzanne will overtake me, whether he wins or not. If he does win, she will draw level with Adam Sz above me.

Bonomo was around fifth place for a long time last night and actually lay in second position at the dinner-break. Then he lost his way, calling an all-in four-bet for over a million chips with TT and finding himself against KK and then dropped 1.2 million in another hand where he ended up folding, to finish down in 56th place. Mind you, Toby Lewis called 1.2m pre-flop with 88 in very similar circumstances to Bonomo"s TT, but won the hand (and went from 1.3m to 3.1m in another hand with 99 v AT and AQ), so maybe you just have to take chances at some point. Can"t imagine Hellmuth getting in with those hands, though, seeing as he three-bet 88 and then folded them face-up to a four-bet.

[MintTrav]

Justin Bonomo has been eliminated in 64th place,  which must be disappointing after vying for the lead late yesterday.

He"s American, apparently. I always thought he was Canadian.

[madsteve]

Maybe as a suggestion for next year, don"t count the winner of the ME so that the outcome can be decided in July.

As an alternative, award then ten points to the final table chip leader.

[suzanne]

Justin Bonomo has been eliminated in 64th place,  which must be disappointing after vying for the lead late yesterday.

He"s American, apparently. I always thought he was Canadian.

At least I had a wee sweat at the end.

Really enjoyed this and now I have an idea how to play I should do better next year

Many thanks Carl and John for the banter, it was fun  

Congrats to Steve, Tom and whoever comes third (it wont be me)

[MintTrav]

Down to thirty-six at dinner on Day 6.

That man Negreanu won"t go away, currently lying twelfth. He has increased his stack a lot today and, somewhat out of character, not just by relying on race-for-your-life double-ups.

There are twenty-six Americans, five Germans and one each from Canada, Belgium, Italy, Scotland and Israel.
Five Germans??

George McDonald from Glasgow is only a few eliminations away from becoming British.

[MintTrav]

One for the ladies.

Justin "Stealthmunk" Schwartz - currently in 16th place.



He has a heads-up match coming up against Negreanu with an unusual proposition. If he wins, Negreanu pays him $100k but he doesn"t collect unless he gets down to 22% body fat within a year. If he loses, he pays Negreanu $100k, but gets it back if he gets to 22%.

He previously made a bet with Bryn Kenney a few years ago that he wouldn"t have sex for ten years. He eventually bought himself out of that, but I gotta think he should have saved the money. I would have thought he had a good chance of winning that one.

[MintTrav]

Randall Clinger (yes really) gets all-in twice in 15 minutes and each time said "Sir, I would like to wager all of my betting units". In case that didn"t make him look idiotic enough, he then ran two laps around the table each time to make sure. Thankfully, he was eliminated the second time.

Ridiculous - Corporal Randall Clinger