*POLL* Who do you stake for the 2007 WSOP Main Event?

[Zain Ali]

We passed up him and Reggie Bush because our GM and owner believed that a guy who did really, really awesome in the combines was worth passing up on two sickly talented players. Mario Williams, why????????????????????????????????????????????? [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

[Ace-Ex]

Ivey isn't particularly interested in his tournament game recently. Seems like Matusow has been the most consistent at the WSOP recently.

[nath]

Almost every poker question like this should be reworded to "If you couldn't pick Phil Ivey", because yes, it's that obvious

[kdubom]

I choose Brandi. DUCY?

[Aardhart]

Harrington, Raymer, and Chan deserve to be listed for their back to back feats. I'd still go with Ivey though.

[italianstang]

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Almost every poker question like this should be reworded to "If you couldn't pick Phil Ivey", because yes, it's that obvious

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Out of that group who cares about winning the tournament most?

More importantly, out of that group who cares LEAST about winning it?

[thehun69]

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Almost every poker question like this should be reworded to "If you couldn't pick Phil Ivey", because yes, it's that obvious

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Out of that group who cares about winning the tournament most?

More importantly, out of that group who cares LEAST about winning it?

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If you are basing your judgement on that alone, then the answers are obvious. Joe Hachem and Phil Hellmuth care about it the most. Joe, because he wants to show everyone that 2005 was not a fluke, and he did demonstrate that by going fairly deep in 2006. Joe would love to repeat. Phil, due to ego and showing the world that he's the best in the world at Hold 'Em is itching for another Main Event bracelet.

The man that cares about it the least- hands down -Doyle Brunson. It's that simple. The man has ZERO to prove, he is already established himself as the Muhammed Ali of poker, the greatest of all time, he has the respect of everyone in the poker community, and is probably the most well known and famous poker player of all time, so on an ego fulfillment basis, there is absolutely no motivation there. As far as cashola is concerned, since the explosion of popularity of poker, Doyle has become a one man cottage industry, no he's not a huge schill like Hellmuth is, but with the money he makes from the books and website and Doyle's Room etc etc, he's good for money and while, yes $12.5 mil in one shot is sweet and would be nice, the man is not outside with a tin cup on the street. Doyle's doing fine, so the MONEY motivation isn't there as much as it would for a guy like Matusow "Yeah, won the TOC, won the million, blew it in three days" Well played Mike. Well done.

THE HUN.