The World Series of Poker starts on Friday, and the poker media (except for www.wsop.com) are getting ready with their various previews and other stuff to get their readers into the mood for six weeks of tournament action. Part of that is the fifth annual WSOP fantasy draft over at ESPN.com. Unfortunately, Pokerati\’s own Dan Michalski apparently missed the conference call (he had the #1 pick) so here were the twelve participants in this year\’s draft:
Eric Baldwin
Lance Bradley – Editor at Bluff Magazine
Andrew Feldman – Poker Editor at ESPN.com
Chad Holloway – Poker Pro Magazine
Howard Lederer
Bernard Lee
Daniel Negreanu – Defending champion
Dennis Phillips
Steve \”Chops\” Preiss – Wicked Chops Poker
Mark Seif
Gavin Smith
Gary Wise
Each participant made eight picks in the draft and the handy chart below displays their selections by round:
A detailed analysis from Feldman on the selections can be found at www.espn.com/poker
Page 2 features how points are earned and my selections:
Here\’s how points will be earned:
1st – 50
2nd – 40
3rd – 30
4th – 25
5th – 20
6th – 16
7th – 14
8th – 12
9th – 11
10th – 10
Top 20 – 5
Top 50 – 2
Cashing – 1
Bonus points:
Points are doubled for all $10k+ buy-in events
1 additional point awarded for every 100 players in the field, starting at 200
Last year I figured I could pick a better lineup than at least 6 of the \”experts\” out of players who weren\’t selected. I didn\’t do as well as hoped, but I\’ll surely give it another try.
Here\’s my 8 selections:
Christian Harder
Sam Stein
Andy Seth
Jon Turner
Gavin Griffin
David \”Bakes\” Baker
Noah Schwartz
Mike Sowers
I\’ll update the standings weekly here at Pokerati, or when I remember to do it, whichever comes first.