Professional Darkhorses for the Main Event

FGators · #1 07-20-2006, 02:28 PM

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.

mlagoo · #2 07-20-2006, 02:35 PM

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).

FGators · #3 07-20-2006, 02:40 PM

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.

mlagoo · #4 07-20-2006, 02:41 PM

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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.

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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!

FGators · #5 07-20-2006, 02:50 PM

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.

mlagoo · #6 07-20-2006, 02:52 PM

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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.

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JJ = nuts

PartySNGer · #7 07-20-2006, 05:07 PM

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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.

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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.

Whitewash · #8 07-21-2006, 12:09 AM

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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.

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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.

benza13 · #9 07-20-2006, 02:59 PM

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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).

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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.

betgo · #10 07-20-2006, 03:18 PM

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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).

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I think people had heard of Harrington and Matusow before the last two years' final tables.