The Paul Molitors of Poker

by , Jun 17, 2009 | 7:16 am

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:

NAME    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


5 Comments to “The Paul Molitors of Poker”


  1. Pauly
    says:

    Title of the year so far…


  2. Poker Shrink
    says:

    I have Phil Hellmuth at 19 events entered including the Champions Invitational and Daniel Negreanu at 18.


  3. Poker Shrink
    says:

    Ah, through event 28 . . . nevermind.


  4. Kevin Mathers
    says:

    Can you do a post on the Bob Buhl’s of the WSOP?


  5. Jim Geary
    says:

    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.