2017 WSOP Fantasy Poker "Steve Ball challenge".. Staker game

[Zozzy]

Quote from the updates of the Super-Seniors, for players aged 65+. "Each time we have returned from break, at least one of the players has lost their seat. The floor calls out asking if anyone recognizes the player and a silence falls over the crowd until someone pipes up with their location."

[MintTrav]

STAKER

A bit of a catch-up coming up on Staker, where some very large wins have seen the stakers well in profit.

[MintTrav]

STAKER

Negreanu has been the biggest money-spinner for stakers so far, particularly for Shirley, who put her whole stake on him in #9. #30 was also highly successful for Daniel and his stakers, led by Dave Stones:

#9

Shirley Carpenter	100%	$240k
Dave Burt	50%	$120k
Glenn Laming	33%	$80k
Adam Szerlowski	15%	$36k
Luca Cannella	10%	$24k

#30

Dave Stones	100%	$62k
Craig Dawson	90%	$56k
Del Watson	60%	$37k
Charles Mason	50%	$31k
Dave Paxton	50%	$31k
Ian Szerlowski	50%	$31k
Simon Brooke	50%	$31k
Barrie Cullen	40%	$25k
Juan De Diego	40%	$25k
Adam Szerlowski	20%	$12k

[MintTrav]

STAKER

Another good result for the stakers was #15, where several stakers recognised an opportunity to cash in with a good Heads-Up player in Oliver Busquet:

Glenn Laming	50%	$28k
Barrie Cullen	50%	$28k
Paul Roper	50%	$28k
Del Watson	30%	$17k
Ross Freeman	25%	$14k
Vince Eley	20%	$11k
Hadyn Lyell	20%	$11k
Adam Szerlowski	15%	$8k
Luca Cannella	10%	$$6k

[MintTrav]

STAKER

#30 was the best tournament for the stakers, with several other good results other than Negreanu.

Dave Paxton and Ian Szerlowski put their other 50% on Mercier, winning another $42k, a total of $73k for the tournament.

Barrie, Simon B and Ross also had 20-30% on Mercier, winning $25k, $21k and $17k.

 Paul Roper put the lot on Rast, which gained him $23k.

[MintTrav]

STAKER

The biggest inividual win so far was by Glenn, who put 50% of his stake on Moorman in #27, for a return of $249k.

He really has been the stand-out picker so far, also winning $13k for putting the lot on Stuart Rutter in #13.

Another excellent swoop was Liam Coulthard putting his entire stake on Matusow in #17, resulting in him picking up a cool $30k.

[MintTrav]

STAKER

Who are the most profitable Stakers so far?

Staker	Profit
Glenn Laming	£336,234
Shirley Cole	£223,290
Dave Burt	£93,991
Ian Szerlowski	£59,541
Ross Freeman	£51,286
Simon Brooke	£40,937
Barrie Cullen	£39,473
Craig Dawson	£21,900
Dave Paxton	£19,422
Paul Roper	£13,893
Luca Cannella	£13,314
Juan De Diego	£11,667
Adam Szerlowski	£9,128
Charles Mason	£5,884

[MintTrav]

Event 31: $1,000 Seniors No-Limit Hold'em (ages 50+, 1 re-entry)

Winner	Frank Maggio
Runners	5389
Paid	807
Final Table	9

Player	Position	Points
Sean Byrne	19	1

Selector	Points
-	-

For the first three days this event was all about 2014 winner Dan Heimiller. He had a massive lead of 2-2½ times second place for a couple of days, and it seemed inevitable that he was destined for a second win. He always seemed to be dominating, holding AQ when someone shoved AJ and so on.  Stacks closed up a bit near the end and then came a KK v AA hand that knocked him right back. It seemed a big surprise that he 'only' finished ninth.

There aren't many big names on the results list. Ferguson and Hachem had a stab, while Greg Raymer, Cliff Josephy, Barny Boatman and Donnacha O'Dea all cashed, but we didn't have any of them.

Star of the show, though, was Sean Byrne, the 4-in-a-row hero.

[MintTrav]

Event 32: $1,500 Mixed Omaha Hi-Lo 8/b (3 variants)

Winner	Vladimir Shchemelev
Runners	688
Paid	104
Final Table	9

Player	Position	Points
Allen Kessler	18	1
John Racener	29	1
Paresh Doshi	71	1

Selector	Points
Craig	1
Luca	1
Simon L	1

Allyn Shulman is another former winner of the Seniors, here mixing it with the young'uns and besting almost all of them, coming in 15th.

Congrats to Paresh!

[MintTrav]

Event 33: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em

Winner	Christopher Frank
Runners	1698
Paid	258
Final Table	9

Player	Position	Points
Max Pescatori	8	4
Tom Hall	13	1
Sergio Aido	45	1
Allen Cunningham	141	1
Roland Israelashvili	157	1
Niall Farrell	224	1

Selector	Points
Carl	4
Craig	4
Del	4
Glenn	4
Paxo	4
Vince	4
Paul H	2
Scottish Tom	2
Barrie	1
Ian	1
Irish Tom	1

The winner has a string of final tables and cashes in EPTs and suchlike. He was 128th in last year's Main Event and warmed up for this by coming second in a PokerStars Championship in Monte Carlo.

What he doesn't have is friends. Not one person turned up to support him on the final table. "I guess the reason the Germans have all the money is because they are grinding and not watching," he joshed, almost convincingly.


Who needs friends when you're winning?

[TheHitDogAF]

Missed a couple from #33

13 Tom Hall
45 Sergio Aido
141 Alan Cunningham
157 Roland Israel

[MintTrav]

That's more than a couple. Flippin heck, what's going on?

I'll put it down to the time difference between Vegas and here.

Fixed them now.

[MintTrav]

Event 34: $10,000 Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw Championship

Winner	Ben Yu
Runners	80
Paid	12
Final Table	6

Player	Position	Points
Ben Yu	1	25
Shaun Deeb	2	18
Konstantin Puchkov	11	1
Adam Owen	12	1

Selector	Points
Irish Tom	26
Barrie	25
Adam	18
English Tom	18
Simon L	18
Vince	18
Karen	2
Leigh	1
Stephen	1

This has been coming. Seven or eight cashes every year for a few going back. Eleven last year. How many? Seems such an obvious pick now. This is Yu's second bracelet.

The end of the tournament was a Who's Who of mixed-game legends. Also a Who's Who of my picks from previous years who I sacked this time - Watson, Buchanan, Zinno.  Thre was Nick Schulman and Shaun Deeb. In fact, I could list everyone who cashed, cos every one of them has a plethora of previous final tables and cashes.

And what about Matusow? Admittedly this was yet another small-field event, but even so - a third final table.

Second-placed Deeb's congratultions to Yu oozed class. "You run the best," Deeb said, shaking Yu's hand.

Yu got his sentences in a tangle afterwards, telling us that Watson is someone he doesn't look up to - "I don't have people in poker that I look up to, but Mike Watson is definitely one of them."

[MintTrav]

STAKER NEWS

WSOP tournaments currently available on Staker:

21 June: #42 - $10,000 Six-Handed NLHE
22 June: #44 - $3,000 HORSE
23 June: #45 - $5,000 NLHE
24 June: #48 - $10,000 Seven Card Stud
25 June: #49 - $3,000 Six-Handed PLO
26 June: #51 - $10,000 PLO hI-lO

http://www.STAKER.co.uk/

[AlbusFawkes]

Nothing personal, but I would really like the last two winners of the $10k limit holdem event to bust early tonight. Benny looks tired to me