RE: November Nine Picks

by , Jul 15, 2009 | 12:37 pm

As you know, Poker Shrink put together a little pool amongst a handful of media making our picks for the final table with 64 players left. Here’s the complete list of who picked whom, and who stands to win the $320 winner-take-all:


Jessica Welman (Pocket Fives)
Billy Kopp
Cada
Ivey
Lacay
Moon
Maimone
Soulier
Lichtenberg
Robbins

Dan Michalski (Pokerati, Soccerati)
Phil Ivey
Tom Schneider
Tommy Vedes
Antonio Esfandiari (Go Iran!)
Lacay Ludovic
Eugene Katchalov
Ben Lamb
Andrew Lichetenberger
James Akenhead

Lance Bradley (WSOP.com, Bluff)
Charlie Elias
Antonio Esfandiari
Phil Ivey
Billy Kopp
Eugene Katchalov
Nick Maimone
Joe Cada
Andrew Lichtenberger
Jeff Duvall

Change100 (PokerNews.com, Pot Committed)
Phil Ivey
Adam Bilzerian
Eugene Katchalov
Ludovic Lacay
Adam York
Ben Lamb
Antoine Saout
James Akenhead
Steven Begleiter

Pauly (Tao of Poker)
Darvin Moon
Ludovic Lacay
Tommy Vedes
Ben Lamb
Jeff Duvall
Leo Margets
Marco Mattes
Eugene Katchalov
Andrew Chewey Lichtenberger

Brad Willis (PokerStarsBlog.com, RER)
Antonio Esfandiari
Nick Maimone

Phil Ivey
Fabrice Soulier
Jeff Duvall
Marco Mattes
Andrew Lichtenberger

Adam York
Ben Lamb

Gene Bromberg (UB Blog, Mean Gene)
Eugene Katchalov (represent!)
Tom Schneider
Ludovic Lacay
Fabrice Soulier
Andrew Lichtenberger
Joseph Ward
Miika Puumalainen
Antonio Esfandiari
Phil (deleted) Ivey

Al Can’t Hang (Full Tilt Blog, AlCantHang)
Phil Ivey
Antonio Esfandiari
Fabrice Soulier
Lacay Ludovic
Joe Sebok
Darvin Moon
Tom Schneider
Steve Sanders
Leo Margets

Aaron Hendrix (PokerWorks.com)
Adam Bilzerian
Thai Tran
Tommy Vedes
Nick Maimone

Bradley Craig
Steven Begleiter
Phil Ivey
Leo Margets
Tom Schneider

Haley Hintze (PokerNews.com)
Darvin Moon
Billy Kopp
Phil Ivey
Ludovic Lacay
Ben Lamb
Nick Maimome
Adam Bilzerian
Miika Puumalainen
Dennis Phillips

Lana Maier (CardRunners)
ivey
lichtenberger
kopp
katchalov
maimone
rodman
akenhead
shulman
moon

Kevin Mathers (Pokerati, PokerNews.com, 2+2)
Billy Kopp
Phil Ivey
Jeff Shulman
Eugene Katchalov
Tom Schneider
Andrew Lichtenberger
Jeff Duvall
Nick Maimone
Ludovic Lacay

Matthew Parvis (Bluff)
Phil Ivey
Antonio Esfandiari
Darvin Moon
Ludovic Lacay
Tommy Vedes
Nick Maimone

Antoine Saout
Hieu Luu
James Akenhead

Poker Shrink (PokerNews.com, Keeping Your Head in the Game)
Darvin Moon
Billy Kopp
Phil Ivey
Steve Begleiter
Ludovic Lacay
Antonio Esfandiari
Tommy Vedes

Antone Saout
Ben Lamb

BJ Nemeth (PokerRoad)
Joe Sebok
Phil Ivey
Dennis Phillips
Tom Schneider
Leo Margets
Antonio Esfandiari
Fabrice Soulier
Eugene Katchalov
Billy Kopp

Benjo (Winamax, Las Vegas off the record)
Ludovic Lacay
Antoine Saout
Phil Ivey
Ben Lamb
Billy Kopp
Jeff Duvall
Eugene Katchalov
Tom Schneider
Hieu Luu

Jen Newell (Pokerati, PokerWorks.com, Bluff)
Dennis Phillips
Phil Ivey
Billy Kopp
Ben Lamb
Ludovic Lacay
Leo Margets
Tom Schneider
Nick Maimone
Andrew Lichtenberger


12 Comments to “RE: November Nine Picks”


  1. Poker Shrink
    says:

    Hey! Steven Begleiter 27,260,000

    (and I emailed you the picks for Benjo)


  2. Poker Shrink
    says:

    With 10 players remaining and 1 more to eliminate, there are four contenders for the dough.

    Change100, Matthew, Lana and yes, the Poker Shrink each have four players still in contention.
    (ignore Dan’s crossouts, Steven Begleiter lives!)


  3. Poker Shrink
    says:

    ….. and it finishes with a four-way tie, which we agreed would be settled by the the previous bust-out order. Calculating now.


  4. Poker Shrink
    says:

    None of the four contenders had Smith in 10th or Robbins in 11th.
    Both Lana and I had Kopp in 12th, eliminating Matthew and Change100.
    Neither of us had Calderaro in 13th.
    I had Ben Lamb in 14th.

    So after BJ and other eagle-eyed participants check my bust-out math…… it appears that I have scammed my own prop bet by picking the top nine chipleaders at 64 players.


  5. DanM
    says:

    Crossouts duly corrected, Shrink. I must say, overall, the media picked very poorly.


  6. DanM
    says:

    media prop-betting is rigged.


  7. Poker Shrink
    says:

    You know Dan, I have to agree this was not our finest hour, however, drinks are on me!


  8. DanM
    says:

    Of our 16 “experts”, no one picked:

    Eric Buchman
    Kevin Schaffel

    What are the odds?


  9. BJ Nemeth
    says:

    I’ll sign off on Poker Shrink’s math — he is the winner of the media pool!

    Thankfully, nobody got seven out of nine, saving me $20.


  10. BJ Nemeth
    says:

    Unlike Dan, I think the media did quite well. Four people got four out of nine players — that’s pretty damn strong, when they were picking with 64 players remaining.

    Especially when you factor in people like me, who were picking dream final tables rather than realistic final tables.

    Clearly, many of us would have had an 0-fer if it weren’t for Phil Ivey, who was the most obvious pick in the field. Which is, of course, why Pauly didn’t choose him, because that’s how he rolls. But Pauly did hedge his bets by picking the unknown chipleader, which kept Pauly from getting an 0-fer.


  11. TimB
    says:

    Testing comment posting from android. I think I used my entire bandwidth alotment trying to load the home page… good lord, you need to put the site on a diet 🙂


  12. TimB
    says:

    Testing again with plugin