2018 WSOP Fantasy poker league..

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The Points After 16 Events (excl the two Giant events that continue throughout the Series).

There is a familiar name at the top - 2016 winner Luca, the only person who selected both Volpe and Bonomo.

Selector	Points		Selector	Points
Luca 1	85		Vince 2	37
Derek	73		Barrie 1	36
Nathan	72		Richard	35
Carl 2	69		Jo 2	34
Jon	67		Chris H 2	32
Stephen 2	67		Jake	31
Jordan	66		Paxo 1	29
Vince 1	66		Paxo 2	29
Paul	61		Simon L	29
Craig 1	60		Chris H 1	26
Stuart	57		English Tom 2	26
Justin	56		Glenn 2	26
Debbie	54		Chris B	25
Nic 2	54		Jo 1	25
Simon B	53		James 2	24
Del	51		James 1	22
Chris K	49		Joe	20
Rob	49		Tommy	20
Stephen 1	48		Aneurin	16
Glenn 1	46		Craig 2	15
English Tom 1	45		Nic 1	15
Brian	44		Barrie 2	14
Gareth	43		John 1	12
Suzanne	42		Karen	12
Carl 1	39		John 2	11
Adam	37		Irish Tom 1	10
Dave	37		Irish Tom 2	9
Luca 2	37

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Essex Home Game player Stuart Rutter is in final 3 of #18 $10k DC. Coming back tomorrow for an unscheduled day 4

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No more bracelets decided, with six tournaments finishing unfinished, if you know what I mean. There will be lots of results to post later. The points race is starting to warm up and Luca looks like having another good day.

#17: $1.5k NLHE 6-Handed - This finished, er.....six-handed, with Nick Schulman still representing Luca's interests.

#18: $10k Dealers Choice 6-Handed - Just three left, and Stuart Rutter is one of them. Klodnicki, ODB and Marco Johnson all made the final table, so plenty of points to spread around here.

#19: $565 PLO - 10 left, including Duhamel.

#20: $5k NLHE Big Blind Antes - 24 left, with Shawn Buchanan well-placed in fifth and Peters, Chidwick and Bicknell hanging out the bottom of the list.

#21 $1.5k Millionaire Maker - We have a few survivors in this. No luck for our own Dave Stone, who didn't get through.

#22: $1.5k 8-Game - 134 left, including Bach, Soulier, Vornicu, Negreanu, Zinno, Obst, Yu in the top 20 and many others down the field. Jon Turner finished the day as chip-leader for the second day in a row, having recovered from less than one big blind in Day 1B of the Giant on Thursday to finish with a massive stack.

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Shirley Rosario shows what she has in the hole

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Haha loving these updates John..
Would be awesome to see Stuart Rutter snaffle a bracelet a very strong mixed games player who always seems to run deep silly me not for having him in my team after I messed up and picked 11 players.

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Scotty starts as he means to go on


Ivey gets ready to muck the winning hand


As you get older, wearing younger styles will help to keep you looking cool




No well-stacked jokes from me. Aylar and Vivian Saliba have plenty in front of them

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Reiner Kempe still has work to do on covering up his tells when he misses a draw

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The climax of the Colossus. 13,068 players have been eliminated and just two remain.

All the chips go in on the Flop and Sang Liu is ahead of Roberly Felicio. On the verge of becoming WSOP Champion, his poker mask starts to slip a little:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byE4wcuGPck

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Event 18: $10,000 Dealers Choice (6-handed) Championship

Winner	Adam Friedman
Runners	111
Paid	17
Final Table	6

Player	Position	Points
Stuart Rutter	2	18
Chris Klodnicki	4	12
David ODB Baker	5	10
Marco Johnson	6	8
Anthony Zinno	8	1

Selector	Points		Selector	Points
Stephen 1	21		Rob	12
Glenn 1	18		Barrie 1	11
Glenn 2	18		Carl 2	10
Joe	18		Chris B	10
Luca 2	18		Del	10
Vince 1	18		Luca 1	10
Vince 2	18		Paxo 2	10
Chris H 2	13		Craig 2	8
Barrie 2	12		Jo 1	1
Craig 1	12		Karen	1
James 1	12		Paxo 1	1
James 2	12		Richard	1

Rutter almost reached a final table earlier in the week, finishing 13th in #14. This time he made it all the way to heads-up. Lots of points for his supporters, but Luca matched them by having Baker and Johnson.

The final-tablists had a kind of punching thing going on when they got eliminated.





There was also an excess of singlets. It's high time the WSOP introduced a one-singlet-per-table policy.

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Event 17: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em (6-handed)

Winner	Ognyan Dimov
Runners	1663
Paid	250
Final Table	6

Player	Position	Points
Nick Schulman	3	15
Adrian Mateos	61	1
Martin Jacobson	64	1
Mark Radoja	72	1
Thomas Marchese	124	1
Andrey Zaichenko	139	1
Barry Greenstein	155	1

Selector	Points		Selector	Points
Luca 2	15		Justin	1
Jon	2		Nic 2	1
Aneurin	1		Paxo 2	1
Brian	1		Richard	1
Chris B	1		Suzanne	1
Dave	1		Vince 1	1
Jordan	1

Four of the six at the final table had bracelets at home, but it was the two who didn't who contested the heads-up, with an opportunity to avenge old national grudges in an Italy v Bulgaria showdown. This was runner-up Antonio Barbato's first WSOP cash - nice to start off on $234k!

In a key hand, four-handed, Dimov called a huge bluff by Ryan D'Angelo with    on  an board to move into a big lead, which he never lost thereafter.

Why are there so many Bulgarians in Dimov's victory photo? "I am a really nice and good guy, everybody loves me. No, I am kidding, it is because they are really bad at poker and busted the Millionaire Maker."



Only one person had Nick Schulman on their team. There's no stopping Luca right now.

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Event 19: $565 Pot-Limit Omaha

Winner	Craig Varnell
Runners	2419
Paid	350
Final Table	9

Player	Position	Points
Jonathan Duhamel	6	8
Ryan Laplante	20	1
John Racener	51	1
J C Tran	95	1
James Obst	99	1
Dan Heimiller	113	1
Jeff Gross	133	1
Chris Ferguson	249	1
Michael Mizrachi	254	1
Anthony Kendall	261
Reiner Kempe	268	1
Brandon Shack-Harris	271	1
Barry Greenstein	308	1
Ben Yu	322	1
Ismael Bojang	338	1

Selector	Points		Selector	Points
Karen	9		James 2	2
Jake	5		Joe	2
Jo 1	5		Nic 1	2
Tommy	5		Paul	2
Barrie 1	4		Rob	2
English Tom 1	4		Simon B	2
Simon L	4		Stuart	2
Adam	3		Vince 1	2
Chris H 1	3		Aneurin	1
Debbie	3		Carl 2	1
Glenn 1	3		Chris K	1
Jo 2	3		Craig 2	1
John 1	3		English Tom 2	1
John 2	3		Gareth	1
Jordan	3		Glenn 2	1
Luca 1	3		Irish Tom 1	1
Luca 2	3		James 1	1
Paxo 1	3		Jon	1
Barrie 2	2		Nathan	1
Carl 1	2		Nic 2	1
Chris B	2		Paxo 2	1
Chris H 2	2		Richard	1
Craig 1	2		Stephen 1	1
Dave	2		Stephen 2	1
Del	2		Suzanne	1
Irish Tom 2	2		Vince 2	1

Varnell took advantage of the final table bubble to chip up. He started Day 3 second in chips with 1.95m and put the screws on the players who were laddering to the FT so that, by the time the 10th player was knocked out and they had made the final, he had 3.45m and a big lead, which was never in danger thereafter. The only threat was Maxime Heroux, who finally went out 4th when the two biggest stacks clashed. Heroux and Varnell had avoided each other all day as they fed off the rest of the table, but the clash had to come sooner or later.

Varnell has an unorthodox attitude to PLO. "I'm not as educated in the game as a lot of people. I just kind of have a feeling for the game. I think it kind of gives me an advantage sometimes when people are so in their heads with math and GTO." Food for thought.

Tony Kendall, former Chairman of APAT, was 261st.

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Scores After 19 Events (excl #6 and #11)

Selector	Points		Selector	Points
Luca 1	98		Suzanne	44
Vince 1	87		Carl 1	41
Carl 2	80		Paxo 2	41
Craig 1	74		Adam	40
Derek	73		Dave	40
Luca 2	73		Joe	40
Nathan	73		Chris B	38
Jon	70		James 2	38
Jordan	70		Richard	38
Stephen 1	70		Jo 2	37
Stephen 2	68		Jake	36
Glenn 1	67		James 1	35
Del	63		Paxo 1	33
Paul	63		Simon L	33
Rob	63		Jo 1	31
Stuart	59		Chris H 1	29
Debbie	57		Barrie 2	28
Justin	57		English Tom 2	27
Nic 2	56		Tommy	25
Vince 2	56		Craig 2	24
Simon B	55		Karen	22
Barrie 1	51		Aneurin	18
Chris K	50		Nic 1	17
English Tom 1	49		John 1	15
Chris H 2	47		John 2	14
Brian	45		Irish Tom 1	11
Glenn 2	45		Irish Tom 2	11
Gareth	44

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Event 20: $5,000 Big Blind Antes No Limit Hold'em

Winner	Jeremy Wien
Runners	518
Paid	78
Final Table	9

Player	Position	Points
Jake Schindler	4	12
Shawn Buchanan	6	8
David Peters	7	6
Stephen Chidwick	12	1
Kristen Bicknell	13	1
Dominik Nitsche	16	1
Justin Bonomo	20	1
David Pham	22	1
Bryn Kenney	23	1

Selector	Points		Selector	Points
Barrie 2	12		Chris H 1	1
English Tom 2	8		Craig 1	1
Derek	3		Craig 2	1
Brian	2		Debbie	1
Dave	2		English Tom 1	1
Del	2		Glenn 2	1
Gareth	2		Irish Tom 2	1
Glenn 1	2		Jake	1
Jon	2		James 1	1
Jordan	2		James 2	1
Luca 1	2		Joe	1
Nathan	2		Justin	1
Nic 2	2		Karen	1
Rob	2		Luca 2	1
Simon B	2		Paul	1
Stephen 1	2		Richard	1
Suzanne	2		Simon L	1
Vince 1	2		Stephen 2	1
Aneurin	1		Stuart	1
Carl 1	1		Tommy	1
Chris B	1		Vince 2	1

It was a very odd heads-up, with horrendous play by Wien, who was only playing 'good' hands, giving a walk on nearly half of his buttons and folding to most of David Laka's pre-flop raises. He had the button 69 times and cold-folded 32 of them. Maybe he's not used to heads-up. Despite that, when he did have a hand he was willing to play, he managed to grab enough chips to keep himself going. Laka had run over the final table, particularly stepping up the pressure once it got to three-handed against Wien and third-placed Eric Blair. He tended to call all of Wien's pre-flop raises, but seemed to miss every time and had to fold when Wien c-bet or shoved the Flop. Towards the end, with stacks just 25BB deep, Wien was just open-shoving his good hands. On the final hand, with almost even stacks, Wien had AA against Laka's QQ and, there was no saving the superior player.

Several of the players were well wrapped up, though I'm not sure whether it was to avoid giving tells or to protect themselves from the Rio's air-conditioning. Probably both.


                 Shawn Buchanan - 6th                                Jeremy Wien - Winner


               Kenneth Smaron - 15th                                    Eric Blair - 3rd

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Event 22: $1,500 8-Game Mix

Winner	Philip Long
Runners	481
Paid	73
Final Table	6

Player	Position	Points
Daniel Negreanu	3	15
John Racener	4	12
Mike Matusow	12	1
Anthony Zinno	13	1
David Bach	16	1
James Obst	20	1
Ben Yu	22	1
Valentin Vornicu	23	1
Fabrice Soulier	30	1
Scott Seiver	34	1
Ian Johns	39	1
Benny Glaser	64	1

Selector	Points		Selector	Points
Adam	31		Glenn 2	16
Barrie 1	30		James 1	16
Chris H 1	30		James 2	16
Jo 1	30		Luca 2	16
Jake	29		Nic 1	16
Tommy	29		Rob	16
Craig 1	28		Simon B	16
Debbie	28		Stephen 1	16
Glenn 1	28		Stephen 2	16
Luca 1	28		Vince 1	16
Richard	28		Brian	15
Del	27		Carl 2	15
Chris H 2	19		Dave	15
John 1	19		English Tom 2	15
Paxo 1	19		Irish Tom 1	15
Chris B	18		Joe	15
Jo 2	18		Nathan	15
John 2	18		Stuart	15
Paul	18		English Tom 1	14
Simon L	18		Jon	12
Craig 2	17		Chris K	2
Karen	17		Jordan	2
Vince 2	17		Suzanne	2
Aneurin	16		Carl 1	1
Barrie 2	16		Irish Tom 2	1
Derek	16		Paxo 2	1
Gareth	16

This is gonna shake things up - Negreanu finally gets a cash, and it's a big one, finishing third in the 8-Game. With Racener in 4th, there are oodles of points, and several teams have both players. There are a few people with two or three other scorers as well, who might have thought they would top the points for this event, but Adam got six of his team into the points.

Philip Long has had a bigger cash than this - he was 29th in the Main Event a few years ago, but I think this will replace it as his favourite memory.

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Scores After 22 Events (excl #6, #11 & #21)

Selector	Points		Selector	Points
Luca 1	124		Barrie 2	56
Vince 1	101		Brian	56
Craig 1	99		Chris H 1	56
Carl 2	95		Glenn 2	56
Glenn 1	93		Joe	56
Derek	92		James 2	55
Luca 2	90		Jo 2	55
Del	88		Justin	54
Stephen 1	88		Nic 2	54
Debbie	82		James 1	52
Paul	82		Paxo 1	52
Nathan	78		Simon L	52
Barrie 1	77		Tommy	51
Jon	76		English Tom 2	50
Rob	75		Chris B	47
Stuart	75		Chris K	46
Jordan	74		Suzanne	44
Vince 2	74		Craig 2	42
Simon B	73		Karen	40
Stephen 2	73		Carl 1	37
Adam	67		Paxo 2	36
Chris H 2	66		John 1	34
Gareth	62		Nic 1	33
Jake	62		John 2	32
English Tom 1	60		Aneurin	31
Richard	59		Irish Tom 1	26
Dave	57		Irish Tom 2	13
Jo 1	57