A Separated at Birth We Didn’t See Coming
Orel Hersheiser and Minh Ly:
Hersheiser, of course, is proving to be the Gonzaga of the 2008 National Heads-Up Poker Championship. The final 8 tomorrow:
Jonathan Little vs. Chris Ferguson
Gus Hansen vs. Phil Ivey
Andy Bloch vs. Orel Hershisher
Huck Seed vs. David Benyamine
All of the above are guaranteed $75k. The final four make $125k, 2nd place gets $250k, and first is still $500,000.
Just about everyone’s brackets have fallen apart — though Gavin Smith is still throwing around the $2,000 wagers on the outcome of each game, and considering that I have no one left alive in my bracket, I gotta pretty much surrender my $20:
Rank Predictor Score Predicted Final Winner Completed
1 Taylor Larkin - 42 Huck Seed 2/29/2008 2:20pm
2 don essinger - 41 Allen Cunningham 2/29/2008 1:05pm
3 Scott - 38 Daniel Negreanu 2/29/2008 1:20pm
4 champsampson - 29 Ted Forrest 2/29/2008 1:39pm
5 Randy Brown - 24 Phil Hellmuth 2/29/2008 12:12pm
6 Kevin Mathers - 24 Daniel Negreanu 2/29/2008 12:32pm
7 California Jen - 23 Scott Clements 2/29/2008 9:43am
8 dan michalski - 21 Howard Lederer 2/29/2008 3:41am
Taylor, Don, and Scott seem to have quite a battle brewing … though it appears they may have made their picks after it got started? Floor!?!
6 Comments to “A Separated at Birth We Didn’t See Coming”
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California Jen Says:
March 1st, 2008 at 10:57 pm
I never win bets. Ship it!
Lisa Says:
March 1st, 2008 at 11:09 pm
How long will Gonzaga be the word to use in this instance? Wasn’t that seven years ago, or close to it?
We need a new underdog.
DanM Says:
March 2nd, 2008 at 12:14 am
Um, TBR?
Short-Stacked Shamus Says:
March 2nd, 2008 at 4:33 am
If Hershiser makes the final four, you can refer to him as the George Mason of poker. Start a trend.
California Jen Says:
March 2nd, 2008 at 8:43 am
Damn, that’s right. TBR won it. Doh!
DanM Says:
March 2nd, 2008 at 12:49 pm
Not sure I get the George Mason reference. Don’t get me wrong, I am a big fan of the co-father of the Bill of Rights and one of the earliest advocates for slavery abolition … He also kept the Federalists in their place, but what does that have to do with poker?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Mason
Oh, wait, they must’ve been a March Madness cinderella story, too?