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Re: 2021 APAT WSOP Fantasy League
« Reply #105 on: November 13, 2021, 15:01:06 PM »
The Main Event is getting to the business end now.

Notable players still in include Chidders riding high in 4th place, Chance Kornuth, Keith Lehr, Matt Berkey, Eric Blair, Hye Park, Nick Petrangelo, Pete Chen, Jason Koon, Ken Aldridge, Justin Liberto, Matt Waxman and Jeremy Joseph, and two former champions, Qui Nguyen and Chris Moneymaker.

The dream debut continues for Cole Ferraro, top of the NLHE League with a 1st and a 2nd under his belt already, sitting nicely in 12th place.

Well known UK/Ireland players Alex Goulder, Toby Lewis, Jack Oliver, Rory Brown and David Lappin are also still there.


The Main Event bubble can be a stressful time. Not for everyone, it seems.
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Re: 2021 APAT WSOP Fantasy League
« Reply #106 on: November 14, 2021, 01:33:24 AM »
Event 66: $10,000 Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship
Winner          Josh Arieh
Runners          194
Paid          32
Final Table          8

Player          Position          Points         
Jeff Gross          5          10         
Adam Owen          6          8         
Benjamin Yu          14          1         
Marco Johnson          15          1         
Brian Hastings          20          1         
Nick Schulman          28          1         
Robert Mizrachi          29          1         

Selector    Points                  
Carl 2    10                  
Chris    10                  
Jo 1    10                  
Stephen 2    9                  
Simon L    8                  
Del    3                  
John 1    2                  
Rob    2                  
Barrie 1    1                  
Gareth    1                  
Jo 2    1                  
Jon    1                  
Karen    1                  
Luca 2    1                  
Stephen 1    1                  

Nice couple of weeks for Arieh, winning the $1,500 PLO, coming 6th in the Players Championship and winning the $10k PLO8 for combined winnings of $850k. He's more of a PLO player, but can turn his hand to Hi-Lo when needed. The PPC was the one he really wanted, having been runner-up last time, but that will have to wait. He can console himself with the four bracelets he has now won. He said he wants to get into the Hall of Fame and this might be what he needed, though I'm not so sure it's enough any more, with so many third/fourth/fifth bracelets now being won.

The last three players had all already had big results this year, with third-placed Anatolii Zyrinas having beaten close to 10,000 players to win the Colossus and runner-up Danny Chang coming third in the Casino Employees tournament, so there was going to be a good story no matter who won.


Did Josh Arieh get confused in the heat of the moment?
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Re: 2021 APAT WSOP Fantasy League
« Reply #107 on: November 14, 2021, 13:10:41 PM »
Event 69: $1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better
Winner          Jermaine Reid
Runners          372
Paid          56
Final Table          8

Player          Position          Points         
John Monnette          4          12         
John Racener          8          4         
Shaun Deeb          22          1         

Selector    Points                  
Jo 1    13                  
Stephen 1    13                  
Barrie 2    5                  
Jo 2    5                  
Carl 2    4                  
Luca 1    4                  
Barrie 1    1                  
Carl 1    1                  
Chris    1                  
David    1                  
Del    1                  
Derek    1                  
Gareth    1                  
John 1    1                  
Jon    1                  
Karen    1                  
Michael    1                  
Richard    1                  
Rob    1                  
Simon A    1                  
Simon L    1                  
Stu    1                  
Tom    1                  

There was controversy on the final table in a big hand between John Monnette and Esther Taylor. Taylor's final card hit her chips and flipped over, showing a 3, which would have given her a low and a chop, and Monnette asked for her card to be replaced, though she said she was going to flip it anyway. After a delay, the ruling went Monnette's way and she was given a new card, which didn't help and left her on fumes. This looked terrible by Monnette, possibly even an angle-shoot. On the other hand, it could be argued that a replacement card is standard. Eventual runner-up Peder Berge knew what he thought: "That's as bad a ruling as I've ever seen." Monnette, who has always been a nasty piece of work, known as "Angry John" for always berating dealers and loudly informing the whole room about his bad luck, has tried to improve his image in recent years, but this won't help.

With Carol Fuchs and Taylor reaching the final table, this was the best chance we've seen for a female winner, but it wasn't to be, and there still hasn't been one this year outside the women-only event.


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Re: 2021 APAT WSOP Fantasy League
« Reply #108 on: November 14, 2021, 18:07:34 PM »
Event 68: $1,111 Little One for One Drop No Limit Hold'em
Winner          Scott Ball
Runners          3797
Paid          568
Final Table          9

Player          Position          Points         
Joseph Cheong          101          1         
Daniel Buzgon          246          1         
Landon Tice          429          1         
Ismael Bojang          463          1         
Harry Lodge          467          1         
Shannon Shorr          521          1         

Selector    Points                  
Aneurin    1                  
Carl 2    1                  
John 1    1                  
Michael    1                  
Rob    1                  
Simon A    1                  
Stu    1                  

Scott Ball joins the growing group who have won two bracelets here, having already won the $5k 6-max. There were 604 entrants in that and almost 3,797 in this, which adds up to...er...a lot of players he has beaten.

This puts Scott at the top of the NLHE Leaderboard and second on the overall POY, though he believes he can't win that as a Hold'em-only player.

Third-placed Sorel Mizzi used to get a few picks from our selectors, but not any more due to non-delivery. He would have scored for you here, though.

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Re: 2021 APAT WSOP Fantasy League
« Reply #109 on: November 14, 2021, 18:49:53 PM »
Scott Ball, who has now won two bracelets, used to be Global Head of Poker Partnerships at Twitch, and left to follow his own vision. He is now President of End Game Talent, which "connects content creators, brands, game developers and publishers with communities through creative and strategic live media campaigns". If you know what any of that means, let me know.
https://www.endgametalent.com/

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Re: 2021 APAT WSOP Fantasy League
« Reply #110 on: November 15, 2021, 08:21:54 AM »
Event 71: $1,500 Bounty Pot Limit Omaha 8-Handed
Winner          Mourad Amokrane
Runners          860
Paid          129
Final Table          8

Player          Position          Points         
Jeff Gross          7          6         
Joao Vieira          74          1         
Dario Sammartino          89          1         
Calvin Anderson          95          1         
Shannon Shorr          99          1         

Selector    Points                  
Chris    6                  
Luca 2    2                  
Luca 1    1                  
Rob    1                  
Stu    1                  

Mourad Amokrane is a French optician who played this because he failed to satellite into the Main. Matt Mamiya, an architectural designer from Seattle, had an opportunity for a glorious comeback, starting heads-up with 350,000 chips against Amokrane's 21,150,000, ie a 60-1 deficit. He failed to give us a dramatic story, however, losing the rest in the first hand.
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Re: 2021 APAT WSOP Fantasy League
« Reply #111 on: November 19, 2021, 23:19:45 PM »
Event 72: $1,500 Mixed No Limit Hold'em/Pot Limit Omaha
Winner          Motoyoshi Okamura
Runners          846
Paid          126
Final Table          8

Player          Position          Points         
Ryan Laplante          35          1         
Manig Loeser          45          1         
Joao Vieira          50          1         
Daniel Buzgon          84          1         
Brandon Shack-Harris          86          1         
Robert Mizrachi          91          1         

Selector    Points                  
Carl 1    2                  
Jon    2                  
Aneurin    1                  
Carl 2    1                  
Chris    1                  
Del    1                  
Jo 2    1                  
John 2    1                  
Rob    1                  
Simon L    1                  
Stephen 2    1                  

Motoyoshi Okamura had no previous recorded live cashes, apart from a small score in the Colossus, so it seemed a bit odd to see that he had taken on the killers in the Aria High Rollers last week and came 2nd and 4th, beating the likes of Chidwick, Sam Soverel, Alex Foxen, Eelis Pärssinen and Juan Pardo Dominguez. It turns out that Okamura is none other than falcon8808, WPT Online title-winner.

Main Event finalist Jerry Wong had to be satisfied with being a November Tenner this time, falling just before the final table.
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Re: 2021 APAT WSOP Fantasy League
« Reply #112 on: November 20, 2021, 16:43:19 PM »
Event 70: $888 Crazy Eights No Limit Hold'em
Winner          David Moses
Runners          5252
Paid          735
Final Table          8

Player          Position          Points         
Ismael Bojang          101          1         
Landon Tice          130          1         
Vanessa Kade          296          1         
Benjamin Yu          402          1         
Daniel Buzgon          549          1         

Selector    Points                  
Carl 2    2                  
Aneurin    1                  
Barrie 1    1                  
Chris    1                  
Del    1                  
Gareth    1                  
Jo 1    1                  
Jo 2    1                  
John 1    1                  
Jon    1                  
Rob    1                  
Simon L    1                  
Stephen 1    1                  

David Moses isn't your typical amateur player. He is a big winner on Global Poker with a huge ROI. Yet he is playing on a site that he claims is severely rigged, but he knows the rigs and has posted them repeatedly on forums. Probably the worst one is that losing players will lose more slowly on that site, resulting in an increased amount of their loss going in rake, which should be going to winning players.

There are quite a few in-game rigs - one interesting one is to fold KK pre if it's within three hands before or after a break as AA is nearly always there. He also says to avoid playing there on Sunday as that's when they feed the fish. I've no idea whether what he says is true - he plays as rUeTaMa (spell it backwards), so you can check him out if you want.

Runner-up Sejin Park has the knack against big fields. In 2019 he beat a field of over 13,000 to win The Colossus, so getting to heads-up from a field of over 5,200 is nothing to him, but he couldn't close it out this time.

And what an achievement by Leonid Yanovski, who was 4th in #72 and 5th in this, despite them both starting on the same day. Leonid finished his business on the final day of #72 at 5.30pm, and jumped into the third Day 1 of this, which had begun at noon, and ended the day with the 4th largest stack of 100 survivors from the day's 2,241 entrants.
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Re: 2021 APAT WSOP Fantasy League
« Reply #113 on: November 20, 2021, 17:09:13 PM »
David (rUeTaMa) Moses became known as 'The Global Grinch' due to his unhappiness with the site, and then adopted the persona.



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Re: 2021 APAT WSOP Fantasy League
« Reply #114 on: November 20, 2021, 17:50:32 PM »
Event 73: $10,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship
Winner          Brian Hastings
Runners          144
Paid          22
Final Table          7

Player          Position          Points         
Brian Hastings          1          25         
Scott Seiver          4          12         
Marco Johnson          5          10         
John Monnette          6          8         
Erik Seidel          7          6         
Shaun Deeb          13          1         
Adam Owen          19          1         
Eli Elezra          22          1         

Selector    Points                  
Karen    32                  
Carl 2    26                  
Del    26                  
Jo 1    20                  
Jon    13                  
Luca 1    12                  
Luca 2    12                  
Stephen 1    9                  
David    7                  
Michael    7                  
Nic    6                  
Barrie 2    2                  
Simon L    2                  
Barrie 1    1                  
Carl 1    1                  
Chris    1                  
Derek    1                  
Gareth    1                  
Jo 2    1                  
John 1    1                  
Richard    1                  
Rob    1                  
Simon A    1                  
Stephen 2    1                  
Stu    1                  
Tom    1                  

Brian Hastings has done nothing this Series - just a couple of small cashes. And then, Kazaam!, another bracelet. Like him or not, and a lot don't, he's got the goods when it comes to poker, and he joins the ever-expanding five-bracelet club by beating one of the strongest fields imaginable.Top points for Karen.
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Re: 2021 APAT WSOP Fantasy League
« Reply #115 on: November 20, 2021, 18:18:15 PM »
Hastings is oblivious to almost impaling his hot AF wife, Miami-based ex poker dealer Sonya, at the WSOP.

"What was it that first attracted you to the millionaire Brian Hastings?"


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Re: 2021 APAT WSOP Fantasy League
« Reply #116 on: November 20, 2021, 21:14:40 PM »
Event 74: $2,500 Mixed Big Bet Event
Winner          Denis Strebkov
Runners          212
Paid          32
Final Table          9

Player          Position          Points         
Jon Turner          10          1         
Yuri Martins Dzivielevski          20          1         
John Racener          24          1         
Max Pescatori          26          1         

Selector    Points                  
Aneurin    1                  
Barrie 2    1                  
Carl 2    1                  
Jo 2    1                  
John 2    1                  
Luca 1    1                  
Stu    1                  


Denis Strebkov is none other than aDrENalin710, the greatest player in WCOOP history with nine titles.  This is his second bracelet - he won Event #87 at the end of the 2019 Series and this is his first cash this year, so his record shows successive firsts. ME finalist Jerry Wong followed tenth in #72 with second in this.

Scott Bohlmann won this event in 2018, was 8th in it in 2019 and 9th this year, so it looks like he's on the slide.
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Re: 2021 APAT WSOP Fantasy League
« Reply #117 on: November 21, 2021, 03:13:38 AM »
Event 75: $1,500 Freezeout No Limit Hold'em
Winner          Chad Himmelspach
Runners          1191
Paid          177
Final Table          9

Player          Position          Points         
Joao Vieira          34          1         
Harry Lodge          146          1         

Selector    Points                  
Michael    1                  
Rob    1                  
Simon A    1                  

Chad Himmelspach had a bad time on Day 1 and was down to one BB near the end, though he managed to increase this to 9BB to finish the day 107th out of 118.
Day 2 was completely different, and he multiplied his stack from 89,000 to 4 million, to sit 4/8 going into the final day.
Day 3 was even better.
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« Reply #118 on: November 21, 2021, 17:21:37 PM »
Event 76: $10,000 Super Turbo Bounty No Limit Hold'em
Winner          Romain Lewis
Runners          307
Paid          47
Final Table          9

Player          Position          Points         
Stephen Chidwick          3          15         
Dario Sammartino          6          8         
Daniel Buzgon          16          1         
Almedin Imsirovic          22          1         

Selector    Points                  
Luca 2    23                  
Aneurin    16                  
Richard    16                  
Simon A    16                  
Barrie 1    15                  
Carl 2    15                  
David    15                  
Gareth    15                  
Jon    15                  
Stephen 1    15                  
Stephen 2    15                  
Tom    15                  
Luca 1    8                  
Del    1                  
Derek    1                  
Jo 1    1                  
John 1    1                  
Simon L    1                  
Stu    1                  

Romain Lewis finally gets his bracelet! In 2018 Romain was 2nd twice and 3rd twice, so it was extra sweet for him to nail this win against a top field. The French provided one of the noisiest rails so far for the 'Champion du Monde'.
2019 Main Event runner-up Dario finally kicked in a few points and it was good to see Yevgeniy Timoshenko, who has been quiet for a couple of years, back on a final table.
It was a miss for Jo as others picked up points. The beginning of the crumble?
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Re: 2021 APAT WSOP Fantasy League
« Reply #119 on: November 21, 2021, 17:58:58 PM »
Event 77: $1,500 Fifty Stack No Limit Hold'em
Winner          Paulo Joanello
Runners          1501
Paid          226
Final Table          9

Player          Position          Points         
Ismael Bojang          74          1         
Joao Vieira          224          1         

Selector    Points                  
Carl 2    1                  
Rob    1                  

Joanello's Brazilian rail was as noisy as the French one, but there weren't many points here for us.
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