2016 WSOP Fantasy Game & Staker

[madsteve]

i have Mercier, Hastings & Hellmuth so I think my total should be 31.

[cuzza23]

i have Mercier, Hastings & Hellmuth so I think my total should be 31.

I"m exactly the same John.  31 points

[MintTrav]

I accidentally gave one point for Hastings instead of twelve.

I"ve given him back the twelve now, reluctantly.

How can you choose someone like him for your team?

[MintTrav]

Event 21: $3,000 Six-Handed No Limit Hold'em

Runners	1029
Paid	155
Final Table	6

Player	Position	Points
Doug Polk	15	1
Daniel Negreanu	19	1
Fedor Holz	47	1
Dan Kelly	80	1
Brock Parker	124	1
Jeremy Ausmus	141	1
Mark Radoja	143	1
Paul Volpe	145	1

Selector	Points
Craig	4
Richard	3
Barrie	3
Paxo	3
Chris	3
Paul	2
Tom F	2
Simon B	2
Luca	2
Neil	2
IrishTom	2
Simon L	2
Steve	2
Adam	2
Carl	1
Karen	1
Dann	1
Glenn	1
John	1

#21 is down to five players, but none of them are ours.
Points for everyone in this event, apart from one.
I won"t embarrass Suzanne by identifying who struck out.

[madsteve]

I accidentally gave one point for Hastings instead of twelve.

I"ve given him back the twelve now, reluctantly.

How can you choose someone like him for your team?

I always like to have a famous detective"s sidekick in my team & couldn"t find a suitable Watson, Lewis or Pascoe.

[MintTrav]

STAKER - WSOP #21 $3,000 Six-Handed No Limit Hold'em

Staker	Stake	Winnings	Profit
Barrie Cullen	£2,088	£13,537	£11,449
Shirley Cole	£2,088	£13,537	£11,449
Szymon Szczupak	£2,088	£  6,484	£  4,396
Graeme Morl	£2,088	£  6,066	£  3,978
Richard Prew	£2,088	£  6,066	£  3,978
Richard Baker	£2,088	£  6,066	£  3,978
Sandy Drennan	£2,088	£  4,203	£  2,115
Iain Ayre	£1,588	£  3,235	£  1,647
Christopher Kelly	£2,088	£  3,585	£  1,497
Simon Young	£   500	£     756	£     256
Jon Camsell	£   400	£     582	£     182

Lots more wins for the stakers.

Shirley gave her all to Negreanu again and didn"t regret doing so. Barrie decided to do the same and Daniel didn"t disappoint him either.

Szymon and Iain didn"t commit to Daniel and kept their options open elsewhere, but he still did his best for them.

Graeme, the Richards and Sandy staked Fedor Holz, all except Sandy for 100%, and it worked out well for them all.

Chris had part of his stake on David Vamplew, who also returned a profit for him.

[MintTrav]

Event 22: $1,500 Limit Hold'em

Runners	665
Paid	100
Final Table	9

Player	Position	Points
Daniel Idema	12	1
Aleksandr Denisov	15	1
Stephen Chidwick	20	1
Michael Mizrachi	24	1
Joe McKeehan	43	1
Anthony Zinno	47	1

Selector	Points
Carl	3
Richard	3
Paul	2
Karen	2
Barrie	2
Luca	2
IrishTom	2
John	2
Tom F	1
Simon B	1
Neil	1
Simon L	1
Chris	1
Craig	1
Steve	1
Adam	1

Won by Danny Le.  The runner-up, Scott Farnsworth, thought he entered a No Limit tournament and had to learn the rules of Limit on the go.

[MintTrav]

Mercier is crushing again. 1st and 2nd in his last two tournaments, he is chip-leader in #24 HORSE, with 14 left.

Almost everyone still in the event is a major star of mixed games, but Mercier is in incredible form. After a slow start, in the last week, he has become the dominant player of the Series.

[MintTrav]

It"s the Seniors!

This is where our guys come into their own!

[PokerPax]

Event 23 looking quite interesting.....

[MintTrav]

Linda Iwaniak Scoops One

Linda Iwaniak raises to 300 preflop from middle position and the player next to her calls. Everyone else folds and action is heads up.

The flop is   and Iwaniak bets 400. Her opponent thinks for a short time before calling. While that is happening, a discussion breaks out around the table about how players are seated, as a new player joins the table in Seat 1.

The turn is the and Iwaniak bets 600, and her opponent instantly folds. As Iwaniak is stacking her chips, she turns to the new player and says, "You spend all that time building an image, and then they break your table!". Thankfully for Iwaniak, this is unlikely to happen to her today, as players are breaking into the Brasilia Room, not out of it.

Linda Iwaniak - 7,000

[MintTrav]

Ger Smyth Stacking Chips

With both the small blind and the big blind not at the table, action folds to a player in middle position, who limps in. Ger Smyth debates raising but elects to just limp behind from the cutoff. The button folds, and action is heads up to the flop.

The flop is and both players quickly check. The turn is the and the other player bets. Smyth quickly calls, and the pair see the arrive on the river. Again, both players quickly check, and Smyth, a player who has traveled from Ellesmere Port in the United Kingdom, shows , enough for his opponent to muck his hand and send the pot in the direction of Smyth.

Ger Smyth - 6,500

[MintTrav]

Simon Lawlor Back to Starting Stack

In a blind-on-blind hand, there is 650 in the pot and the board reads . Simon Lawlor is in the big blind and faces a bet from the small blind. He calls, and the pair then both check the on the turn.

The river is the and the small-blind player bets 700. Lawlor tanks, commenting, "I have three jacks...," before sighing and calling. His opponent taps the table in defeat, and Lawlor shows to take the pot, putting him back to today"s starting stack of 5,000.

Simon Lawlor - 5,000

[PokerPax]

Event 23 STILL looking quite interesting....

[MintTrav]

As Dave points out, Craig McCorkell is chip-leader of #23 with 20 left, having been 26/27 overnight.

Mercier"s event, #24, has just resumed, with 14 left, as has #25, the $2,500 Main Event Finalists Meet-up, featuring Ryan Reiss, Joe Cada, Jonathan Duhamel and Dennis Phillips, as well as near-missers Daniel Negreanu, Justin Schwartz and Yevgeniy Timoshenko, all in the top fifty.