Official SJ.com 2007 WSOP Fantasy Pool

He called with what turned out to be Qs and 7s; he assumed he had the best hand, but he didn't. Of course, one card later, he did.

 

I need $1 to listen to your bad-beat story. Pay up.

 

Had the same thing happen to me in a limit ring game yesterday 7-8c in my hand, 7-8-8 on the flop. A nine of diamonds came off on the river, meaning I got paid off big by a straight and a flush.

 

That is the best thing. When you get paid off when a flop hits the other guy when you have a stone cold nuts hand. Had that happen the other day when I was in the big blind and had a 10-7. Got the boat on the turn and a flush draw hit on the river. Of course the guy I put out flopped a straight and the other guy got a straight on the river. I cleaned up but didn't make the final table because of my own fuckups.

 

The race is underway! We have a HORSE-like small field of 10 teams aiming for the prize of SportsJournalists.com WSOP champion. No more teams accepted.

Big_Dog, Jim Tom Pinch, The Good Doctor, Inky_Wretch, Ty Webb, Cape_Fear, CentralIllinoisan, GB-Hack, Tommy_Dreamer and pallister.

The 50K HORSE event is underway and there are 148 players this year .. fewer than I anticipated, considering the two major satellites the WSOP held for it. Check out worldseriesofpoker.com for updates ... there are some tables stacked with pros, obviously. Glad to see ESPN say it'll be devoting multiple days to airing this.

 

52 players remain in the 50K HORSE event heading into Day 3 ... our 10 teams have plenty of players still alive. Big_Dog and pallister each have seven, which is the most. Below are the 52 players, with asterisks besides the ones relevant to our pool. And, yes, Gabe Kaplan is still alive.

John Hanson 641,000
Toto Leonidas 621,000
*Eli Elezra 568,000
*Allen Cunningham 549,000
Kenny Tran 544,000
Justin Bonomo 508,000
David Oppenheim 469,000
*Mike Matusow 456,000
*Phil Ivey 436,000
Amnon Filippi 429,000
Andy Bloch 425,000
Matthew Hawrilenko 416,000
*Phil Hellmuth Jr 412,000
John Juanda 410,000
Max Pescatori 396,000
Freddy Deeb 357,000
Robert Mizrachi 338,000
Bruno Fitoussi 337,000
*Chip Reese 332,000
David Singer 332,000
Rob Hollink 321,000
*Daniel Negreanu 307,000
Tuan Le 295,000
Greg Mascio 290,000
*Greg Raymer 287,000
Huckleberry Seed 278,000
Thor Hansen 275,000
*Barry Greenstein 275,000
Stephen Wolff 251,000
Mike Wattel 250,000
Mark Gregorich 249,000
Neal Friets 246,000
Tim Phan 234,000
John Hennigan 204,000
David Williams 203,000
Erik Seidel 194,000
Gabe Kaplan 186,000
Joe Tehan 166,000
Annie Duke 165,000
Daniel Shak 156,000
Noah Jefferson 149,000
Thomas Weideman 127,000
Dewey Tomko 119,000
Steve Sung 119,000
*Erick Lindgren 99,000
Chris Reslock 98,000
Patrick Pezzin 94,000
Sam Grizzle 86,000
Scotty Nguyen 72,000
Cyndy Violette 60,000
David Sklansky 47,000
Isabelle Mercier 41,000

 

I won the SportsJournalists.com online tournament so I'm hoping for a fantasy bracelet to go with it.

 

Suggested team names....

"Sorry, we don't get to Steinbrenner until the third year."

"Fuck you and your never ending string of boats"

"Women are the rake, the fucking rake."

and (of course) my personal favorite....

"You know, Zagoshe, why don't you get a job before you try to become my fucking PO.."

 

will a friendship bracelet from TP work just as well?

 

The final 11 players in Event #39 ($50,000 H.O.R.S.E.) are on dinner break until 11:00 pm CDT. Play will continue into Wednesday night until they reach the final eight players.

ESPN's FEATURED TABLE

Seat 2 - Amnon Filippi - 2,945,000
Seat 3 - Dewey Tomko - 820,000
Seat 4 - David Singer - 1,775,000
Seat 5 - Kenny Tran - 1,620,000
Seat 8 - Barry Greenstein - 1,805,000

TABLE 66
Seat 1 - Bruno Fitoussi - 940,000
Seat 2 - Mark Gregorich - 220,000
Seat 5 - Thor Hansen - 1,175,000
Seat 6 - Gabe Kaplan - 1,185,000
Seat 7 - Freddy Deeb - 1,710,000
Seat 8 - John Hanson - 1,175,000

 

Geez, I'm doing terrible. Remind me never to mock Rounders names again.

 

STANDINGS THROUGH HORSE EVENT

1. CentralIllinoisan -- 516
2. The Good Doctor -- 458
3. Tommy_Dreamer -- 384
4. Big Dog -- 322
5. Cape_Fear -- 248
6. Ty Webb -- 238
7. Inky_Wretch -- 222
8. pallister -- 214
9. Jim Tom Pinch -- 32
10. GB-Hack -- 32