WSOP 2015 Fantasy poker rules.. Pick your team

[MintTrav]

The details are all here, so you can check why you didn"t win if you wish:

APAT WSOP

[MintTrav]

Monitoring the points for this league has meant that I have spent quite a bit of time looking at results lists, chip-counts and so on over the last few weeks. One thing I have noticed is the strange names of many poker players, so I started noting them. I have grouped them into categories (maybe these can be the categories for next year"s competition?). I think Ofir Mor and Hye Park are my favourites. This list could have been plenty longer, but these were some of the participants in this year"s WSOP:

Famous People
Steve Biko
Eric Blair
Bobby Moore
Antonio Costa
Garry Gates

Means Something
Grant Levy
Hye Park
Justin Gardenhire
Christian Harder
In Park
Frank Lin
Ki Lee / Rich Lee / Stan Lee

Parents Had No Imagination
Chou Chou
Wing Wong
Zu Zhou
Sergey Sergeev
Tom Thomas
Ly Le
Danny Dang
Arturo Ortuno

Parents Had Too Much Imagination
Jewook Oh
Carless Boatwright
Bradford Seagle
Ofir Mor
Ulises Roman
Frosty Gilliam

Just Odd
Rex Clinkscales
Ang Lin Lin Chen An
Mads Wissing
Loyal Sprague
Willy Ding

[hi_am_chris]

What was the final table for if Captains weren"t included?

I think i prefer that one ...

[Matt D]

Great post JM Carless Boatwright gets my vote, as he could span more than one category.

[fandango]

Monitoring the points for this league has meant that I have spent quite a bit of time looking at results lists, chip-counts and so on over the last few weeks. One thing I have noticed is the strange names of many poker players, so I started noting them. I have grouped them into categories (maybe these can be the categories for next year"s competition?). I think Ofir Mor and Hye Park are my favourites. This list could have been plenty longer, but these were some of the participants in this year"s WSOP:

Famous People
Steve Biko
Eric Blair
Bobby Moore
Antonio Costa
Garry Gates

Means Something
Grant Levy
Hye Park
Justin Gardenhire
Christian Harder
In Park
Frank Lin
Ki Lee / Rich Lee / Stan Lee

Parents Had No Imagination
Chou Chou
Wing Wong
Zu Zhou
Sergey Sergeev
Tom Thomas
Ly Le
Danny Dang
Arturo Ortuno

Parents Had Too Much Imagination
Jewook Oh
Carless Boatwright
Bradford Seagle
Ofir Mor
Ulises Roman
Frosty Gilliam

Just Odd
Rex Clinkscales
Ang Lin Lin Chen An
Mads Wissing
Loyal Sprague
Willy Ding

Haha yeah i was thinking the same as i trawled through the results every day.. Wing Wong was a good un as was Prince of docness Poker.. (prop bet maybe?)

[Des]

Liked this old Irish bookie advertisement for the 1992 WSOP that was doing the rounds on Twitter yesterday.



On the great names front, you just have to love Phil Hel"mouth".

[MintTrav]

What was the final table for if Captains weren"t included?

I think i prefer that one ...

If captains didn"t score double, the result would still have been very close, with numerous people in the shake-up. The sweat would have been similar, in that the winner would have been known, but we would have been waiting to see if Carl would be overtaken by the swarm of Negreanu-lovers just below. Suzanne would have tailed off even more.

Selector	Points
Chris	76
Carl	75
George	73
Steve	73
Richard	72
Barrie	72
Tom F	72
Debbie	67
Adam Sh	60
Paxo	60
Simon B	55
Tom B	54
Simon L	54
Dann	53
Gareth	53
Brian	49
Craig	46
Rob	46
Adam Sz	41
Paul	41
Del	35
John	32
Suzanne	17

[MintTrav]

Just to record the ideas suggested for next year so far, so we can pick them up for discussion:

- Don"t have categories - just choose 8 or 10 players

- Don"t include Main Event, so it definitely finishes in July

- Award Main Event points as per Nov 9 standings

- Don"t have captains (or reduce the weighting)

These are just thoughts - feedback welcome.

[fandango]

Just to record the ideas suggested for next year so far, so we can pick them up for discussion:

- Don"t have categories - just choose 8 or 10 players

- Don"t include Main Event, so it definitely finishes in July

- Award Main Event points as per Nov 9 standings

- Don"t have captains (or reduce the weighting)

These are just thoughts - feedback welcome.

What are your thoughts on allowing 1 substitution.. Say has to be made before Event 34 ( roughly half way).. Does this cause problems with your excell sheet etc?
Think I like the idea of not having captains score double etc..

[hi_am_chris]

Does this mean i can at least have bragging rights for picking the highest scoring team

[hi_am_chris]

Also would anybody be up for doing this something like this next time round?

http://www.25kfantasy.com/rules.php

[MintTrav]

Just to record the ideas suggested for next year so far, so we can pick them up for discussion:

- Don"t have categories - just choose 8 or 10 players

- Don"t include Main Event, so it definitely finishes in July

- Award Main Event points as per Nov 9 standings

- Don"t have captains (or reduce the weighting)

These are just thoughts - feedback welcome.

What are your thoughts on allowing 1 substitution.. Say has to be made before Event 34 ( roughly half way).. Does this cause problems with your excell sheet etc?
Think I like the idea of not having captains score double etc..

The model would need some reworking, but spreadsheets can do anything.

Personally, I don"t like the idea of substitutions, but others may.

Anyway, we have plenty of time to think about it. This is really just to collect ideas while it"s all still fresh. We can decide which to go with closer to the start of the next one.

[madsteve]

Also would anybody be up for doing this something like this next time round?

http://www.25kfantasy.com/rules.php

The scoring is fairer but is more complicated.

Maybe the awarding of points based on finishing positions on the final table is better than only the winner getting extra points.

It also uses chip stacks in the Main Event for the November Nine to determine points, which I like.

The ranking of events sounds like too much work for the organisers.

[madsteve]

Just to record the ideas suggested for next year so far, so we can pick them up for discussion:

- Don"t have categories - just choose 8 or 10 players

- Don"t include Main Event, so it definitely finishes in July

- Award Main Event points as per Nov 9 standings

- Don"t have captains (or reduce the weighting)

These are just thoughts - feedback welcome.

What are your thoughts on allowing 1 substitution.. Say has to be made before Event 34 ( roughly half way).. Does this cause problems with your excell sheet etc?
Think I like the idea of not having captains score double etc..

The model would need some reworking, but spreadsheets can do anything.

Personally, I don"t like the idea of substitutions, but others may.

Anyway, we have plenty of time to think about it. This is really just to collect ideas while it"s all still fresh. We can decide which to go with closer to the start of the next one.

Categories are good IMO

Use Chipstacks to determine points for ME

Like Captains double points

Not keen on substitutions

[Des]

What if the competition was Staker style and run through our new website.  So, say we give each entrant $50k to fantasy stake players across the series with the winner being the one who turns the most profit.  Would be ultra realistic and supported by leaderboards, prizes, etc.