2016 WSOP Fantasy Game & Staker

[MintTrav]

Event 28: $10,000 Limit Hold'em Championship

Runners	110
Paid	17
Final Table	9

Player	Position	Points
Brock Parker	7	6
Brian Rast	8	4
Mark Radoja	11	1

Selector	Points
Paxo	6
Carl	4
Craig	1
John	1

He"s done it. Ian Johns won his second bracelet of this year, and could soon be challenging Mercier for Player of the Year. Or maybe not - Johns isn"t planning to play many more events. The guy is a Limit specialist “I used to play a lot of No-Limit. But these guys, they passed me by eons ago. I get in the game and I don"t know what I"m doing. They"re so advanced now. I feel lost in hands, so I chose not to play, which seems like a reasonable thing to do. When I"m not playing these limit tournaments, I"m playing in cash games, which are limit.”

Makes a lot of sense.


Ian Johns

[MintTrav]

STAKER NEWS

The following events have been added to Staker:

Event #39: $10k No Limit Hold'em 6-Handed Championship

Event #41: $1.5k No Limit Hold'em MONSTER Stack (NO re-entry)

Event #43: $10k Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo Split-8 or Better Championship

Event #44: $1k No Limit Hold'em


Remember - Staking ahead means not having to worry about deadlines.

[fandango]

Think you need to adjust scoring John.. I only had Brian Rast so only 4 points!

[MintTrav]

Think you need to adjust scoring John.. I only had Brian Rast so only 4 points!

Okay, adjusted, ta.

[MintTrav]

Event 30: $3,000 Six-Handed Pot Limit Omaha

Runners	580
Paid	87
Final Table	6

Player	Position	Points
Aleksandr Denisov	14	1
Mike Watson	22	1
Paul Volpe	37	1
Dzmitry Urbanovich	51	1

Selector	Points
John	2
Suzanne	1
Glenn	1
Tom F	1
Simon B	1
Dann	1
IrishTom	1
Neil	1
Adam	1
Craig	1
Richard	1
Barrie	1
Carl	1
Luca	1

Urbanovich finally makes a cash. More than overdue.

The event was won by Viatcheslav Ortynskiy from Russia.

Randu Ohiel cashed for the fourth time this year, all of them 10th place or better. Yet this was only his second final table. That"s what you get if you specialise in six-max! His 3rd place comes on top of previous 8th, 4th and 10th place finishes.

[MintTrav]

STAKER - WSOP #30 PLO Six Handed

Staker	Stake	Winnings	Profit
Szymon Szczupak	£2,088	£3,664	£1,576
Graeme Morl	£2,088	£2,317	£   229

Szymon backed Dzmitry for the lot and made a profit, while Morlspin made a return through his investment in Volpe.

Entries for #35 $5k Six-Handed No Limit Hold'em close at 9pm tonight!

[fandango]

Think you need to adjust scoring John.. I only had Brian Rast so only 4 points!

Okay, adjusted, ta.

Is there a link at all to the excell/spreadsheet available please John

[MintTrav]

#29 reached heads-up, play continued for another four hours and 200 hands and remained heads-up. Jens Grieme and Alexander Ziskin will be back today for a few more hours. I suspect they"ll be moved off the feature final table.

Grieme actually went down to one big blind at one stage in the HU grind, but ended the session 7.8m v 5.7m.


Grieme with his whole stack between his fingers

There are 14 left in #31 Super Seniors and 16 in #32 $10k Omaha Hi-Low. Mercier is 8th, but the field is loaded - Glantz in the lead, Alaei, Brunson, Elezra, Glaser, Ramos, Deeb. Also Matthew Kelly is there in 11th place. I hadn"t realised he is a poker player.

[MintTrav]

Event 29: $1,500 No Limit Hold'em

Runners	1796
Paid	270
Final Table	9

Player	Position	Points
Shaun Buchanan	106	1

Selector	Points
Luca	1

The comeback story nearly happened. From one BB, Grieme worked his way back and into a sizeable lead, before it was snatched away. Yesterday, after slightly less than 5 hours play and 151 hands into the final table, they reached heads-up. They then played heads-up for four more hours and reached hand 367. Today they played for another hour and a half and reached hand 460. That"s over 300 hands head-up, more than twice as many hands it took to reduce from nine players to two.

At hand 457, Grieme had accumulated a 10.5m to 3m advantage and looked like winning. Then, after playing all that time, they managed to get all-in pre-flop three hands in a row, Ziskin won all three hands, and it was over in a flash.

David Vamplew finished 20th and Vinny Pahuja 29th, both racking up their sixth cash so far this year. My favourite, Lutz Klinkhammer, was 39th.


After 309 hands heads-up, the champion celebrates

[MintTrav]

Event 31: $1,000 Super Seniors No Limit Hold'em

Runners	1476
Paid	223
Final Table	9

Player	Position	Points
-	-	-

Selector	Points
-	-

[Zozzy]

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[MintTrav]

Event 32: $10,000 Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better Championship

Runners	163
Paid	25
Final Table	9

Player	Position	Points
Todd Brunson	7	6
Jason Mercier	8	4
Daniel Alei	12	1
Shaun Deeb	13	1
Ismael Bojang	19	1

Selector	Points
Karen	10
Simon B	5
Carl	4
Paul	4
Barrie	4
Dann	4
Tom F	4
Glenn	4
Suzanne	4
Paxo	4
Luca	4
Neil	4
Craig	4
Steve	4
John	4
Richard	1
Simon L	1
Chris	1
Adam	1

Benny Glaser from Southampton has won his second bracelet. A shocker from Mercier, trailing in down the field in
eighth place.

[MintTrav]

STAKER - WSOP #32 Omaha Hi Low Championship

Staker	Profit
Barrie Cullen	£20,371
Graeme Morl	£  8,755
Barbara Press	£  6,907
Ross Warren	£  6,788
Dann Williams	£  4,820
Sandy Drennan	£  1,497
John Murray	£     884

Although he didn"t snag another bracelet, backing Mercier was the source of the winnings of everyone who turned a profit, Barrie doing best by lumping his whole stake on him. Barbara combined Mercier with Deeb for a nice result.

[MintTrav]

Event #34: $1500 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball (Limit)

Runners	358
Paid	54
Final Table	9

Player	Position	Points
Mike Watson	18	1
Vanessa Selbst	20	1
Adam Owen	32	1
Erik Seidel	35	1
Matt Waxman	42	1

Selector	Points
Tom F	3
Dann	2
Simon B	1
Paul	1
Suzanne	1
Neil	1
John	1

Mike Watson cashed for me in both #30 and #34, but one point for each isn"t going to win the competition. Five cashes, just the one second place and the rest single points. Okay, I"ll give him the benefit of the doubt.

[MintTrav]

STAKER - WSOP #34 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball

Staker	Profit
Dann Williams	£891
Barbara Press	£104

Although many of the final table had lots of previous cashes and multiple finals, there were no household names. Unsurprisingly, the stakers didn"t hit hard, when most of the scorers weren"t very well known. I will ask Des if he can ensure that only well-known players reach the finals in future.

Some stakers still managed to find the mark, though. Dann backed Adam Owen and Barbara had a piece of Selbst and Raymer.