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Professional Darkhorses for the Main Event
Let's be mature and not name ourselves here (well I am not playing in it, but you get the point). This could be fun and cool to look back on if one of our darkhorses makes a run to the final 200. Lets keep this to 2-3.
I will lead off: Ram Vaswani. Has not had a succesful run in a while. He made a No limit final table two years ago. He can definitely move chips and has a strong reading ability. His weakness seems to be that he gets too aggressive and pushes too aggressively preflop with marginal hands (from what I have read on cardplayer blogs...multiple of them). I still like his hold'em experience and temperament. My second darkhorse is Joe Awada. Its been a pretty quiet World Series for him but I have always been impressed with his aggressiveness and reading ability as well. Awada is not afraid to take chances and with 8,000+ people he understands where he has to push edges. |
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Re: Professional Darkhorses for the Main Event
i just dont even get the point of speculating when there is this many people
i would say it's more likely than not that the final table is composed of 9 people we've never heard of before. but yeah, those people are probably more likely to go deep than the average joe (read: not joe hachem). |
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Re: Professional Darkhorses for the Main Event
I know its really hard to predict. I actually probably am posting this because I am so proud of selecting Matusow 3rd in my WSOP pool last year and taking it down. I also nabbed Lederer and Juanda as 3 of my first 8 picks.
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Re: Professional Darkhorses for the Main Event
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I know its really hard to predict. I actually probably am posting this because I am so proud of selecting Matusow 3rd in my WSOP pool last year and taking it down. I also nabbed Lederer and Juanda as 3 of my first 8 picks. [/ QUOTE ] oh i could see it being kinda fun for a fantasy type thing, where you get points for cashes, etc. in which event those are nice selections! |
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Re: Professional Darkhorses for the Main Event
These fantasy things are really fun actually. My friend grabbed Ivey #1 overall and really felt confident in him winning it and the overall bet of the pool with 27 people left. Unfortunately for him Phil Ivey decided to play like a $6 partypoker sit n go player with 3 tables left.
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Re: Professional Darkhorses for the Main Event
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These fantasy things are really fun actually. My friend grabbed Ivey #1 overall and really felt confident in him winning it and the overall bet of the pool with 27 people left. Unfortunately for him Phil Ivey decided to play like a $6 partypoker sit n go player with 3 tables left. [/ QUOTE ] JJ = nuts |
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Re: Professional Darkhorses for the Main Event
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These fantasy things are really fun actually. My friend grabbed Ivey #1 overall and really felt confident in him winning it and the overall bet of the pool with 27 people left. Unfortunately for him Phil Ivey decided to play like a $6 partypoker sit n go player with 3 tables left. [/ QUOTE ] I think Ivey was trying to employ his usual style late in tournies. When he ran into Andy Black who 4-bet A2o all in PF, Ivey was screwed b/c his gameplan was completely wrecked with a maniac to his left. |
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Re: Professional Darkhorses for the Main Event
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These fantasy things are really fun actually. My friend grabbed Ivey #1 overall and really felt confident in him winning it and the overall bet of the pool with 27 people left. Unfortunately for him Phil Ivey decided to play like a $6 partypoker sit n go player with 3 tables left. [/ QUOTE ] Can't blame Ivey for reading weakness on Andrew Black when Black had A2, but Black somehow pulls the trigger with it preflop following a raise, reraise, and re-reraise. |
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Re: Professional Darkhorses for the Main Event
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i just dont even get the point of speculating when there is this many people i would say it's more likely than not that the final table is composed of 9 people we've never heard of before. but yeah, those people are probably more likely to go deep than the average joe (read: not joe hachem). [/ QUOTE ] I think the final table will contain at least 1 person that people who follow poker have heard of, and up to 3 pro's when you include players who have only had success on the innanet thus far. |
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Re: Professional Darkhorses for the Main Event
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i just dont even get the point of speculating when there is this many people i would say it's more likely than not that the final table is composed of 9 people we've never heard of before. but yeah, those people are probably more likely to go deep than the average joe (read: not joe hachem). [/ QUOTE ] I think people had heard of Harrington and Matusow before the last two years' final tables. |
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