WSSOP ME Fantasy Team Update


Where my guys are after Days 1A and 1B and some of 1C

My fantasy challenge with Nick continues as the first few days of the Main Event have finished. First, a little background for those new to the WSOP ME. There are an estimate 6,000 people playing in this year's tournament (down a bit from last year's boom of over 8k entrants - disappointing, but still shockingly high levels compared to even a few years ago). Obviously, there's nowhere to sit that many people at poker tables, so they break it up into 4 days of playing - 1A, 1B, 1C, and 1D. Essentially, all of these are day 1, but they don't all happen on the same day. Then they do something similar with day two, having an A and a B. Finally after several people have been eliminated in all of that play, the field is small enough that they will all be playing at the same time, right up until one guy ends up with all the chips in the event.

So Days 1A and 1B have been played, and some of the reports have come in. And Day 1C is being played today, and some live updates are up as of this post. Of course, all of this at this point is totally unverified, so it's likely to be wrong on a few. So here's where we stand so far:

Nick's Guys:
1. Daniel - hasn't played yet (20,000)
2. Greg Raymer - hasn't played yet (20,000)
3. Freddy Deeb - hasn't played yet (20,000)
4. Paul Wasicka - made it to day 2 with 22,500
5. Jeffrey Lisandro - busted

My Guys:
1. Phil Ivey - currently playing Day 1C - 54,000
2. Dan Harrington - made it to Day 2 with 48,000
3. Phil Hellmuth - hasn't played yet (20,000)
4. Allen Cunningham - made it to Day 2 with 29,500
5. Nath Pizzolato - hasn't played yet (but judging from his blog, he will be)


In other news... I've added a link to my online tobacco cellar on the sidebar. That should be all of the tobacco I own... only 11 years worth of smoking left. I need to get some more. Oh, and I'm a huge geek, if I haven't mentioned that before.


UPDATE (8:50 PM, EDT): Ouch, a bittersweet update. I saw Allen Cunningham has surged up to 45.5k in chips, but Phil Ivey has busted out. However, the news doesn't get better for Nick either, as Greg Raymer also took the walk of shame. I'm a little surprised on both counts; I would have expected both to go much deeper than day 1. But both play an aggressive and sometimes risky style.

Posted: Sun - July 8, 2007 at 07:04 PM | | | | | | |

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