The Paul Molitors of Poker
Here are some interesting numbers, from WSOP statisticians:
In Baseball Terms: A .300 hitter in baseball is considered special. The below chart details those who are cashing at the WSOP at a similar clip:
NAME
CASHES
EVENTS ENTERED
CASH PERCENTAGE
Howard Boyd
4
12
0.333
Fabrice Soulier
4
12
0.333
Anthony Cousineau
4
12
0.333
Barry Greenstein
4
13
0.307
Roland DeWolfe
4
13
0.307
John Monnette
3
10
0.30
(Minimum 10 events; through Event #28)
Honorable Mentions: Ville Wahlbeck (cashes in 4 of 5 events entered; 80%), Darryl Fish (cashes in 5 of 8 events entered; 62.5%) and David Baker (cashes in 5 of 8 events entered; 62.5%) have all proven their mettle as well.
Click below to see who’s getting a lot of at-bats, but relatively few hits:
•   You Can’t Win Unless You Enter: These folks have entered the most events at the WSOP, through 28 events:
NAMEÂ Â Â EVENTS ENTERED
John Juanda   19
Nikolay Evdakov   18
Andrew Black   18
Sergey Rybachenko   18
Chris Ferguson   17
Michael Mizrachi   17
Roland Isra   17
George Lind   17
Andy Bloch   17
David Singer   17
Pauly says:
June 17th, 2009 at 9:35am
Title of the year so far…
Poker Shrink says:
June 17th, 2009 at 10:06am
I have Phil Hellmuth at 19 events entered including the Champions Invitational and Daniel Negreanu at 18.
Poker Shrink says:
June 17th, 2009 at 10:07am
Ah, through event 28 . . . nevermind.
Kevin Mathers says:
June 17th, 2009 at 10:10am
Can you do a post on the Bob Buhl’s of the WSOP?
Jim Geary says:
June 18th, 2009 at 11:22am
Kevin Mathers says:
June 17th, 2009 at 10:10 am
Can you do a post on the Bob Buhl’s of the WSOP?
George has yet to cash. He said a few days ago he was trying to break Gavin Smith’s record of (I believe) 41.