The Dragon could take POY lead?
 

Just curious to know what place would David Pham have to come in at Legends to overtake JC Tran?

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lol donkaments.

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I posted this in the Cardplayer updates thread:

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This final table has 2 candidates for POY at the FT with decent chipstacks:

David Pham is in 2nd in the POY standings trailing J.C. Tran by 748 points. It is his 10th FT of the year

Tom Schneider is in 12th in the POY standings after having 2 wins and 1 4th at WSOP. He is 1,626 points behind Tran.

If I read the formulas correctly, first place will be 1,920 points, 2nd 1,600 points, 3rd 1,280 points, 4th 960, 5th 800, 6th 640, 7th 480, 8th 320, 9th 160.

so if David finishes 5th or better of Tom wins there will be a new POY leader.

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This was before anyone got eliminated yesterday. David is the shortstack in 6th and Tom has a huge stack in 1st. If David finishes 4th or 5th he will overtake JC, however if Tom finishes 1st he overtakes both JC and David (as the spread between 1st and 4th/5th is greater than the 878 separating Tom and David). If David finishes 3rd he is guaranteed 1st regardless of what Tom does.

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Even if Tom wins, there is no way he wins POY. JC and David play too many tournaments. Those crazy viet people.

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Blinds will be 20/40K(5K) to start off
Chip counts for the final table tonight:

Seat 1 - Shi jia Liu - 1,305,000
Seat 2 - Dan Harrington - 2,230,000
Seat 3 - Tom Schneider - 3,495,000
Seat 4 - Thu Nguyen - 1,475,000
Seat 5 - David 'The Dragon' Pham - 470,000
Seat 6 - Mike McClain - 725,000

gl surviving, he needs 2 doubles to have a shot at it.

Oh and 1st is $1.6mill

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I love this. 3 viet guys and a chinese guy at final table.

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How sick is the Dragon? He's the chip leader now. Is it his reading ability or just crazy aggressiveness is paying off?

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Schneider's out in 4th . Harrington now has chip lead, Pham 2nd and Nguyen 3rd. Pham will be the new CP POY leader.

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Spoke too soon Nguyen out in 3rd. Phan has $5.4M to $4.0M chip lead over Harrington.

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he does seem aggressive...just not crazy aggressive.

Thing is he does have good reads...he's been known to call and win with ace high.

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O Snap! Am I bout to eat my lil sarcasm? The guy is like a tick that won't die, but keeps sucking up that blood.

If I ever get first pick in a pick'em for last-longers, David Pham is always gonna be in the conversation. Every single time he gets chips he goes far.

What a terrible beat for J.C. Tran. After that amazing run the first half of the year, he actually has to go out and win something else to reclaim the top spot (if he even cares, the over $2mill he's won soothes a lotta pain)

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Tran missed out on a ton of pts. by just missing out on like three WSOP finals.

Tran is still playing well and running decent, he had a final at the Legends. It will be close, as usual, come down the stretch.

I'm looking for Danny Wong and Scott Clements to make runs in the second half of the year.

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Dragon plays super good heads up. I got to play against him in the $5000 hu tournament at Mirage in the top 4 and he pwned me hard. It was like I couldnt do anything right against him. I have also played with him early and late in mtts and I think he is a big crazy early but plays fairly solid late, but might be a bit weak playing the short stack. All in all though, I dont like him at my table even though he makes for a pleasant time, as he is very nice.

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O Snap! Am I bout to eat my lil sarcasm? The guy is like a tick that won't die, but keeps sucking up that blood.

If I ever get first pick in a pick'em for last-longers, David Pham is always gonna be in the conversation. Every single time he gets chips he goes far.

What a terrible beat for J.C. Tran. After that amazing run the first half of the year, he actually has to go out and win something else to reclaim the top spot (if he even cares, the over $2mill he's won soothes a lotta pain)

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Reminds me of a couple year back when John Phan had a great run early only to have Men catch up and pass him.

The grinder almost had that happen to him last year too with a bunch of guys coming on strong at the end.