2016 WSOP Fantasy Game & Staker

[fandango]

Ok folks its that time of the year again.. WSOP is only a few weeks away and its time to get your picks sent to us.

There is some BIG changes this year, there will be NO catergories so you can pick 10 players of your own choice.

The scoring system will be the excellent choice of Rich Bakers where players who make deeper runs are more rewarded.

1st -  25 pts
2nd - 18 pts
3rd - 15 pts
4th - 12 pts
5th - 10 pts
6th -  8 pts
7th -  6 pts
8th - 4 pts
9th - 2 pts
cashing 1 pt

Six handed tables will be.. cash 1 point up to 7th, then top 6 will be rewarded as above.
8 handed tables the same.. cash 1 point up to 9th, then 8th as above
HU events.. winner 25 points, RU 18 points, SF all garunteed 15 points, Quarter finals garunteed 12 points and so on.

There will be no captains this year scoring double points, and no subs you have to stick with original 10 players, so do your homework!

We are allowing entries for teams up until Event#10.. after that no more entries will be allowed in.

Prizes.. will stick to the usual £10 entry fee which i will hold until conclusion .. 1-15 entries winner takes all. 20 players+ will be split 3 ways like other years .. e.g 20 entrants first £120, 2nd £50 3rd £30

Had no confirmation from Des/APAT about any added value for winner like in past years but im sure the powers who be will confirm or not if they are adding any  

John has indicated that he may have laptop issues this year/and may be in Vegas himself for a duration of WSOP.. so he has said if anyone would like to take over the task of doing the spreadsheet he could send them the necessary gubbings needed. ( i am terrible with anything techno otherwise i would offer to do ).

If players can PM me their picks and send me the cash before start of Event#10 (any late reg you start scoring from that date) then your in.

Good luck.. lets see who can knock Steve Ball of his podium #1 spot or can he regain his title?

[fandango]

First teams are in.. Some great picks !!

1... Dann Williams
2... Barry Cullen (paid)
3.. Richard Baker (paid)
4.. Carl Pilgrim (paid)
5.. Paul Haycock (paid)
6.. Karen Mead (paid)
7.. Tom Fielding (paid)
8.. Glenn Laming (paid)
9.. Simon Brooke (paid)
10.. Suzanne Hayward (paid)
11.. Luca Cannella (paid)
12.. Dave Paxton (paid)
13.. Neil Sillick (paid)
14.. Tom Brady (paid)
15.. John Murray (paid)
16.. Simon Lawlor (paid)
17.. Chris Hiam (paid)
18.. Craig Dawson (paid)
19.. Adam Szerlowski (paid)
20.. Steve Ball (paid)

[fandango]

Good to see some familiar names sending in their picks.. You guys have done your homework I see!! Some names of players I expect to do well are popping up in all teams  

Feel free to share link on FB and see if we can surpass last years entrants

[Des]

Guys - you should be using Staker for this!  Much the same principle, but we"ll do a lot of the heavy lifting on results, leaderboards etc.  Plus it would be great to get some volume through the game because we have big plans beyond it"s current free to play state...but we need to demonstrate volume and performance over the next three months.

We"ll add an APAT seat exclusively for the winner of this league, on that platform.  

[fandango]

Guys - you should be using Staker for this!  Much the same principle, but we"ll do a lot of the heavy lifting on results, leaderboards etc.  Plus it would be great to get some volume through the game because we have big plans beyond it"s current free to play state...but we need to demonstrate volume and performance over the next three months.

We"ll add an APAT seat exclusively for the winner of this league, on that platform.  

Will play the Staker game aswell boss no worries.. Does the staker game cover every single event played at WSOP?

[fandango]

We"ll add an APAT seat exclusively for the winner of this league, on that platform.  

That"s very kind thanks Des, I"m sure the guys will support Staker from this league and perhaps the sniff of a freebie will entice more people to join both!

[Des]

Excellent, appreciated Carl. 

We are running 37 WSOP events.  We have one or two every day, just avoiding ad hoc events on the really busy days.

[fandango]

Getting a late run of entrants now.. Still waiting for John Murray to pick his team always interesting, will it be all female? All Brits? Or will we be suprised and he picks a team with a chance?

[suzanne]

I shall be playing both  

[MintTrav]

Getting a late run of entrants now.. Still waiting for John Murray to pick his team always interesting, will it be all female? All Brits? Or will we be suprised and he picks a team with a chance?

Looking at it now, Carl. I was intending to go all-female again but I have decided to model the team on the Canadian cabinet and go for equal representation of both genders. I"ve also managed to find a Sikh and a disabled player, but I"m struggling on the astronaut.

[fandango]

Haha just had a stinking selection from Simon Lawlor  

Has gone down the "themed" route this year..

You will see what I mean when teams are shared by John.

[redsimon]

Haha just had a stinking selection from Simon Lawlor  

Has gone down the "themed" route this year..

You will see what I mean when teams are shared by John.

You mean stonking I hope

[fandango]

Haha just had a stinking selection from Simon Lawlor  

Has gone down the "themed" route this year..

You will see what I mean when teams are shared by John.

You mean stonking I hope

Haha maybe  

[MintTrav]

I"ll put up the teams and that later.

In the meantime, it seems that you can cash more than once in the Colossus, so we need to decide how we handle that points-wise.

Do we just award one set of points or do we addemalltogether?

[redsimon]

Id say one lot of points , Blonde are treating it that way.

Really looking forward to seeing the teams