ESPN.com Fantasizing about the WSOP
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.
15 Comments to “ESPN.com Fantasizing about the WSOP”
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SoCalBMac says:
May 24th, 2010 at 6:12pm
Not liking Mark Seif’s team at all. Tom Dwan with the 1st pick? I guess if he doesn’t play the side games. Questionable with Doyle Brunson, How many tourney’s will he play? I’m not even gonna mention Johnny Chan….. Strong team Wolfman
son of sue says:
May 25th, 2010 at 7:19am
So Dan had the first pick in the ESPN draft and just blew it off? Go Batfaces!!
Andrew says:
May 25th, 2010 at 7:34am
SoCal – Dwan has big bracelet bets…expect him to be playing everything…
SCOTT DIAMOND says:
May 25th, 2010 at 8:13am
Everyone has proclaimed 2010 the “Year of the Women” in Poker yet only 2 were chosen Annette and Jennifer Harmen. David Pham is a player who has been MIA this year here in LA. I have not seen him much. NO ONE picked the “Poker Brat” 🙂
Kevin Mathers says:
May 25th, 2010 at 8:14am
Scroll to the bottom, Holloway picked Hellmuth in round 1.
SCOTT DIAMOND says:
May 25th, 2010 at 9:00am
Thanks Kev…1 out of 12 still sad though for Hellmuth dont you think?
Kevin Mathers says:
May 25th, 2010 at 9:01am
It was a fantasy draft, so everyone can’t pick Hellmuth.
Andrew says:
May 25th, 2010 at 11:23am
Scott – didn’t know that about Pham…I wonder if he’ll show up.
DanM says:
May 25th, 2010 at 1:10pm
@zach my picks are all still available … moneymaker, farha, jason lester dutch boyd, tomer benvenitsi … who else am i missing?
son of sue says:
May 25th, 2010 at 10:00pm
TBR, Lou Diamond, and Clonie.
Harris says:
May 26th, 2010 at 1:43am
Dan has Team Pokerati, who else would he possibly need?
DanM says:
May 26th, 2010 at 1:51am
Oh, right, I probably should start introducing the rest of the Team players. can’t expect you to carry the whole load on your back, Harris.
DanM says:
May 26th, 2010 at 8:00am
p.s. zach, i will bet you that at least one time during the series, the media will have a day of fawning over LDP. and you know, maybe i should invite clonie to play for the team. our patch is probably a better deal for her than Full Tilt’s.
Kevin Mathers says:
May 26th, 2010 at 8:27am
Can that be extended to any low-level celebrity who happens to play poker?
DanM says:
May 26th, 2010 at 11:18pm
Dude, LDP was in La Bamba!