The world of fantasy sports is no doubt\u00a0intoxicating as millions of people worldwide spend hours trying to think of every possible angle to improve their team. This being said, where does fantasy poker fit into this equation?<\/p>\n
While I love poker, it’s hard to see how one could get excited about fantasy poker since the game isn’t exactly something that you invite your buddies over to watch while downing a few beers. Instead, it is an activity that gains popularity from one thing – the fact that you can win major money doing it!<\/p>\n
Sure it’s fun to check out the latest poker news and crazy happenings that are currently going on, but aside from this, extracurricular things like WSOP fantasy leagues will never have a following outside of the diehard players who have deep ties to the game.\u00a0This being said, I can see how people like Daniel Negreanu can get into it as he and some other pros actually had a WSOP fantasy draft party at the Aria Casino, while they selected their dream lineups.<\/p>\n
Kid Poker recently blogged about the draft on FullContactPoker, and the rules are as follows:<\/p>\n
– League buy-in is $25,000
\n– Everybody gets 200 points to spend on players
\n– When players are announced, people bid on them with the points
\n– Every team must have 8 players<\/p>\n
Now that we’ve covered the rules, here is a look at who got who in the draft as according to Negreanu:<\/p>\n
Team #1 Joe Cassidy\/Huck Seed
\n1:\tTom Dwan\t62
\n2:\tVladimir Schemelev\t33
\n3:\tAlexander Kostritsyn\t58
\n4:\tJennifer Harman\t19
\n5:\tSam Trickett\t7
\n6:\tDavid Pham\t1
\n7:\tVitaly Lunkin\t10
\n8:\tDavid Bach\t1<\/p>\n
Team #2 Barry Greenstein
\n1: Barry Greenstein\t64
\n2:\tPhil Ivey\t108
\n3:\tChau Giang\t19
\n4:\tJohn Pham\t2
\n5:\tRalph Perry\t3
\n6:\tTed Forrest\t1
\n7:\tJoseph Serock\t1
\n8:\tJimmy Fricke\t1<\/p>\n
Team #3 Robert Mizrachi, Greg Meuller, Jared Bleznick, “Crazy” Mike
\n1. Daniel Alaei\t80
\n2:\tRobert Mizrachi\t51
\n3:\tJosh Arieh\t26
\n4:\tHoyt Corkins\t5
\n5:\tChad Brown\t24
\n6:\tMarco Trani\u00ebllo\t1
\n7:\tDavid Baker\t5
\n8:\tLee Goldman\t1<\/p>\n
Team #4 Justin “BoostedJ” Smith, Ashton Griffin
\n1. Justin “BoostedJ” Smith 64
\n2:\tHuck Seed\t50
\n3:\tAli Eslami\t35
\n4:\tDavid Chiu\t32
\n5:\tFarzad Bonyadi\t3
\n6:\tAmnon Filippi\t1
\n7:\tEli Elezra\t4
\n8:\tMike “SirWatts” Watson\t10<\/p>\n
Team #5 Eugene Katchalov, Danny Alaei
\n1: Eugene Katchalov\t72
\n2:\tSteve Sung\t6
\n3:\tMatt Hawrlenko\t32
\n4:\tNikolai Evdakov\t12
\n5:\tPat Pezzin\t14
\n6:\tMikael Thuritz\t28
\n7:\tVille Wallbeck\t15
\n8:\tAbe Mosseri\t21<\/p>\n
Team #6 Casey Katz
\n1: Erik Seidel\t43
\n2:\tJohn Juanda\t53
\n3:\tMichael Mizrachi\t50
\n4:\tCarlos Mortensen\t19
\n5:\tAnnette Obrestad\t1
\n6:\tJason Somerville\t1
\n7:\tDavid Singer\t20
\n8:\tEric Baldwin\t13<\/p>\n
Team #7 Scott Seiver, Justin Bonomo, Eric Froelich
\n1:\tMatt Glantz\t58
\n2:\tSorrel Mizzi\t40
\n3:\tJustin Bonomo\t43
\n4:\tChristian “charder30” Harder\t5
\n5:\tJon “PearlJammed” Turner\t13
\n6:\tAndrew Brown\t9
\n7:\tJohn Monnette\t11
\n8:\tGreg Mueller\t21<\/p>\n
Team #8 Jason Mercier, Jason Somerville
\n1: Michael Binger\t45
\n2:\tDan “djk123” Kelly\t36
\n3:\tBertrand “ElkY” Grospellier\t18
\n4:\tDavid Oppenheim\t6
\n5:\tAllen Bari\t36
\n6:\tDavid “Bakes” Baker\t40
\n7:\tBen Lamb\t15
\n8:\tBryn Kenney\t4<\/p>\n
Team #9 James Bord, Toby Lewis
\n1:\tNick Schulman\t64
\n2:\tScott Clements\t45
\n3:\tShaun Deeb\t38
\n4:\tLuke Schwartz\t1
\n5:\tRichard Ashby\t28
\n6:\tAndy Bloch\t 6
\n7:\tAnthony Lellouche\t1
\n8:\tJames Bord\t1<\/p>\n
Team #10 Daniel Negreanu
\n1:\tScott Seiver\t73
\n2:\tJason Mercier\t74
\n3:\tYuval Bronstein\t18
\n4:\tYueqi Zhu\t5
\n5:\tMike Matusow\t12
\n6:\tRoland De Wolfe\t1
\n7:\tGavin Smith\t1
\n8:\tSteve “MrSmokey1” Billirakis\t16<\/p>\n
Team #11 Frank Kassela, Shaun Deeb
\n1. Daniel Negreanu\t89
\n2:\tFrank Kassela\t41
\n3:\tDwyte Pilgrim\t10
\n4:\tAlan Cunningham\t25
\n5:\tVictor Ramdin\t1
\n6:\tRob Hollink\t17
\n7:\tThomas Koral\t1
\n8:\tDario Minieri\t16<\/p>\n
Team #12 Erick Lingdren, David Oppenhiem
\n1: Erick Lindgren\t61
\n2:\tDavid Benyamine\t58
\n3:\tShawn Buchanan\t63
\n4:\tEric Froehlich\t6
\n5:\tShannon Shorr\t1
\n6:\tKirill Gerasimov\t1
\n7:\tGeorge “Jorj95” Lind III\t9
\n8:\tBrian Hastings\t1<\/p>\n
Team #13 Todd Brunson
\n1. Todd Brunson\t40
\n2:\tScotty Nguyen\t35
\n3:\tPhil Hellmuth\t38
\n4:\tFreddy Deeb\t23
\n5:\tAllan Kessler\t41
\n6:\tChris Feguson\t4
\n7:\tMinh Ly\t1
\n8:\tShun Uchida\t1<\/p>\n
Team #14 Mori Eskandani
\n1: Jeffrey Lisandro\t50
\n2:\tChris Bjorin\t38
\n3:\tMen “The Master” Nguyen\t27
\n4:\tDan Heimiller\t21
\n5:\tTom Marchese\t10
\n6:\tDavid Williams\t14
\n7:\tVanessa Selbst\t5
\n8:\tPhil Galfond\t35<\/p>\n
Team #15 Vladimir Schmelev
\n1. Sebastien Sabic\t40
\n2:\tJoe Cassidy\t43
\n3:\tBrett Richey\t37
\n4:\tPatrik Antonius\t5
\n5:\tJared Bleznick\t8
\n6:\t“Crazy” Marco Johnson\t43
\n7:\tAlex Kravchenko\t21
\n8:\tSergey “gipsy74” Rybachenko\t1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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