WSOP Main Event Picks and Fantasy Pool

PatrickMcIrish · Jul 9, 2007

Railbird said:
regarding Andy Beal vs the "Corporation" Ivey had to bail everyone out. Andy Beal beat Lederer. And made his sister look like a retard, also he crushed Harmon. The Corporation was stuck 10 Million at 1 point.

I remember them talking about this once on Poker After Dark when I was watching it. He had the corp stuck big time and they sent Ivey in. Don't quote me as I don't follow this stuff closely but thought they said Ivey beat him out of 36 million that day.

BTW I didn't know Howard was a regular in the big game. I knew he pooled his money when Beal came around but didn't know he played on a regular basis with the big boys. If so does he hold his own with the Chip Reece's of the world? Either way frankly I'm not overly impressed with Howard or little sisters' game.

WVU · Jul 9, 2007

playersonly69 said:
One of my biggest wins was a $1000 buyin tournament where we started with 10,000 chips. Well I arrived late by about 45 minutes on purpose. I was playing live action and was up around $1400. But I thought that I would still have around 9500 chips. Well to my dismay, I only had 8700 chips after that 45 minutes. I believe that the blinds started at 50/100. The problem was that there were 3 players not at the table for 20 and one guy NEVER showed up for the tournament after paying or qualifying to play. I wasnt counting on more than 1 person to not be at the table. But I won that tournament anyway. There were 435 players and it paid $134,000 for first. So every tournament since then I arrive late, but usually only 25 minutes late or so.

I mention this story, in case you are wondering why some of the pros arrive 1-2 hours late to the main event. They want to conserve their strength and not be tired early into the day

do you really believe they think arriving 45 minutes late will "conserve strength"? Arriving late is stupid, brash, and giving up possible big EV situations. Most pros will tell you they arrive late so they do not get involved in early tournament frenzy which results in poor play.

PO69 · Jul 9, 2007

WVU, well Phil Hellmuth has said in the past that he would arrive 3 hours late so he would be FRESHER later in the day when the chips start to fly.

Texas Dolly arrived 1 hour late this year as did Johnny Chan, of course they both got busted

I only do it now because ever since arriving late by 45 minutes and losing 13% of my stack, I won the whole damn tournament. Sort of my ONLY superstition that I have now.

But I do think that in WSOP with online qualifiers, you might be missing out on some good pots with poor players. But I was not playing in tournaments with online qualifiers. Maybe a few won seats with sit-n-go satellites, but not that many.

WVU · Jul 9, 2007

Helmuth is full of himself as well as shit. He does that for attention and for the reason I stated. While you need to be fresh and alert to play poker, it is not tough to do when you are only playing one table. Why sit out when you might be getting dealt aa or kk. It is free to see the cards. Anyone who purposely loses out on seeing his cards is an idiot, full of himself, or both.

royalfan · Jul 9, 2007

playersonly69 said:
One of my biggest wins was a $1000 buyin tournament where we started with 10,000 chips. Well I arrived late by about 45 minutes on purpose. I was playing live action and was up around $1400. But I thought that I would still have around 9500 chips. Well to my dismay, I only had 8700 chips after that 45 minutes. I believe that the blinds started at 50/100. The problem was that there were 3 players not at the table for 20 and one guy NEVER showed up for the tournament after paying or qualifying to play. I wasnt counting on more than 1 person to not be at the table. But I won that tournament anyway. There were 435 players and it paid $134,000 for first. So every tournament since then I arrive late, but usually only 25 minutes late or so.

I mention this story, in case you are wondering why some of the pros arrive 1-2 hours late to the main event. They want to conserve their strength and not be tired early into the day

If you are mentioning truly for that reason, then you are clearly wrong as WVU said. Just brash and stupid. If mentioning it for other reason, to show what a great player you are, which is more likely. Then that is fine for those that believe you.

GreenDoberman · Jul 9, 2007

The final day of day 1's is here, 1d.
Among the notables starting today:
Flack
Reese
Murphy
Friberg
Gracz
Benyamine
Gavin Smith
Hansen
Binger
Vinh
Sheikhan
Jamie Gold
Chip and Karina Jett
Alan Boston
John Phan
Hellmuth
Violette
Negreanu
Prahlad
Forrest

PO69 · Jul 9, 2007

Not very good reporting of the tourney on the normal sites so far today

GreenDoberman · Jul 9, 2007

Eric Lynch is sent packing.

GreenDoberman · Jul 9, 2007

Final numbers are 6358 entrants in this year's main event.

Hellmuth gone as well.

GreenDoberman · Jul 10, 2007

More notable eliminations:

Violette
DeKnijff
Stevie Z
Darden
Jamie Gold

GreenDoberman · Jul 10, 2007

Tuan Le is eliminated.

In a continuing sad tale, Vinny Vinh played today and made it to the dinner break. He had yet to make it back from that break and is being blinded off.

GreenDoberman · Jul 10, 2007

Late day 1d eliminations:

Chip Reese
Dutch Boyd
Froehlich
Alan Boston
Lindgren
Tom Vu
Benyamine
Gracz
Danzer

cadillacman · Jul 10, 2007

GreenDoberman said:
Notables still alive after 1b:

Fezzik made it through the day, but is relatively short-stacked.

Is Fezzik playing under his real name in the tourney???

PO69 · Jul 10, 2007

Here is a list of major known pros and their chip stacks from 1D.

Josh Evans 240,000
Cindy Longoria 166,000
Ted Forrest 150,000
Chip Jett 123,000
Thor Hanson 114,000
Julian Powell 110,000
Chris Gregorian 96,000
MIcheal Binger 94,000
Carlos Mortenson 85,000
Gus Hanson 65,000
Gavin Smith 58,000
daniel negraneu 50,000 Daniel has them just where he wans them
Layne Flack 49,000
Leif Force 44,000 I played with this guy in Tunica, he is fucking weird
Prahlad Friedman 32,000
John Murphy 30,700
Mimi Tran 26,000
Bob Stupak 13,000
Eric Friberg 9,000

Notable Eliminations

Brian Haveson
Antonio Esfandiari This is a suprise
Chris McCormack
Erick Lindgren
Freddy Deeb
Dutch Boyd Never liked this guy
Eric Froelich
David Benyamine Was a pick to win by some people not here anyway
Chip Reese
Nam Lee damnit this was my guy! Still has had a great year
Jamie Gold
Paul Darden WAYYYYYY OVERRATED!!!
Bryan Micon I knocked this guy out of the HORSE tourney in Tunica, wears same hat everywhere
Cyndy Violette
The Brat
Fred Goldberg
Eric Lynch
Micheal Gracz
William Thorson
Chip Reese

NOW KEEP IN IN MIND, that these totals above are not exact. Also, around 600 players were eliminated yesterday and my site only showed names of maybe 100. Same thing for chip stack. Your favorite internet player could still be alive and just not shown on the websites.

GreenDoberman · Jul 10, 2007

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Notables still alive after 1b:

Fezzik made it through the day, but is relatively short-stacked.
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Yes he is, but in the interest of privacy we will keep him anonymous for now.

GreenDoberman · Jul 10, 2007

Been updating my list here, trying to get some info on a few players that I'm not sure are alive. Any help would be appreciated.

H. Demetriou
N. Van Newkirk
B. Cantu
P. Friedman
G. Kaplan
B. Simmons
C. Savage
E. Brenes
P. Phillips
D. Bokesch
D. Ryan
M. Graham
J. VanDuyen
R. McDow
J. Bonetti
R. Sklar
R. Turner
M. Seif
J. Shulman
C. Bjorin
C. Drozdowski
TA/SPV

GreenDoberman · Jul 10, 2007

The first of two day 2's is underway.

Early eliminations are:
Montell Williams
Hoyt Corkins
Joe Hachem

GreenDoberman · Jul 10, 2007

Matt24 has built up some more chips. He's playing at a tough table with Joe Sebok and Evelyn Ng.

GreenDoberman · Jul 10, 2007

Also, I believe the following are still alive but can't find their chip counts.
It's tough when you peruse through a list of a couple thousand names.

A. Cunningham
P. Antonius
A. Goehring
S. Luman
C. Brown

max1234 · Jul 10, 2007

GD,

The following players are out so you can start grading your contest:

Of course, the list is ever expanding (the tournament is just in the middle of its first group of players who made it through their Day 1’s), but here’s a list of many of the popular players and celebrities who have already been knocked out of the main event:

J.C. Alvarado
Patrick Antonius
Mickey Appleman
Josh Arieh
Hank Azaria
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Joe Bartholdi
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David Benyamine
Chris Bigler
Steve Billirakis
Andy Black
Andy Bloch
Barny Boatman
Noah Boeken
Justin Bonomo
Brad Booth
Alan Boston
Burt Boutin
Dutch Boyd
Richard Brodie
Doyle Brunson
Jose Canseco
Joe Cassidy
Johnny Chan
Terrence Chan
William Chen
Robert Cheung
Scott Clements
T.J. Cloutier
Hoyt Corkins
Peter Costa
Michael Craig
John D'Agostino
Paul Darden
Martin de Knijff
Freddy Deeb
Annie Duke
Eli Elezra
Shannon Elizabeth
Wendeen Eolis
Antonio Esfandiari
Ali Eslami
Sam Farha
Bob Feduniak
Scott Fischman
Captain Tom Franklin
Perry Friedman
Eric Froelich
Tony G
John Gale
Brad Garrett
Kristy Gazes
Chau Giang
Fred Goldberg
Clonie Gowen
Michael Gracz
David Grey
Gavin Griffin
John Grinzivich
Sam Grizzle
Jamie Gold
Jennifer Harman
Dan Harrington
Brian Haveson
Brandi Hawbaker
Phil Hellmuth
Juha Helpi
Phil Ivey
Kenna James
Mary Jones
John Juana
Aaron Kanter
Marc Karam
Doug Kim
Phil Laak
Ted Lawson
Pete Lawson
Scott Lazar
Tuan Le
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Howard Lederer
Kathy Liebert
Liz Lieu
Erick Lindgren
Jeffrey Lisandro
Jonathan Little
Marcel Luske
Eric Lynch
Norm MacDonald
Mike Matusow
Isabelle Mercier
Bryan Micon
Michael Mizrachi
Dan Nassif
Nelly
Steve Paul-Ambrose
Rehne Pedersen
Scott Pendergrass
Max Pescatori
Young Phan
Devin Porter
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Greg Raymer
Chip Reese
Shawn Rice
Ray Romano
Vanessa Rousso
Kevin Saul
Shane "Shaniac" Schleger
Nick Schulman
Erik Seidel
Mark Seif
Vanessa Selbst
Mike Sexton
Beth Shak
Shawn Sheikhan
Shannon Shoor
Allyn Jaffrey Shulman
Barry Shulman
Jeff Shulman
David Sklansky
Alan Smurfit
Surinder Sunar
Katja Thater
Jennifer Tilly
Dewey Tomko
An Tran
Marco Traniello
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Amir Vahedi
Vince Van Patten
Ram Vaswani
Cyndy Violette
Mark Vos
Tommy Vu
Paul Wasicka
Mike Wattel
David Williams
Montel Williams
Robert Williamson III
Todd Witteles
Steve Wong
Danny Wong
James Worth
Steve Zolotow