So, excluding the obvious picks that everyone is going to choose, who else do you like?

On looks alone, Chad Batista gets as much action as he wants in real life... He seems to be made for events like the WSOP. Kinda burning up a pick on him since he may not play too many events other than NLHE, but I picked him anyway.

I take Bill Edler every year. He plays a lot of events and goes deep often.

Maybe it's a common pick after last year, but Michael Binger's hard to avoid picking.

Robert Mizrachi?

This year I went w/ guys who I thought were due for a breakout WSOP, even though they're probably somewhat standards. Hence, E-Dog high on the list (I have him winning a bracelet and barely missing a 2nd) and Todd Brunson (just a weird hunch).

You'd be a fool not to pick Paul Magriel

Being that the list isn't super heavy on Hold Em events, I tried to go with the best all around players. I guess my non-standard pick was JC Tran.

My list:

Seidel
Negreanu
Tran
Forrest
Hansen
Lindgren
Cunningham
Ivey
Benyamine
Greenstein

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I also went with Michael Binger.

I was very close to picking Gavin Smith as he is also due sometime soon.

Humberto Brenes or Chad Brown would'nt be bad picks as they have both been really consistent the last few years.

Gavin Griffin?

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I knew we had the same interests

IMO, you should go with non hold'em guys since the pool is geared towards the high buy in events. Also guys who will play a lot of those events. My short list as of now in no particular order:

Daniel Negreanu
David Chiu
Ted Forrest
John Hennigan
Phil Ivey
Barry Gnreenstien
Mike Matusow (Crazy I know :-)
Allen Cunnningham
John Juanda
Scotty Nguyen

Notice a trend with all these guys. These are all guys who've been around before the internet boom and have grinded in cash mixed games for years. All can play stud games, all can play flop games well. I'm predicting smaller fields in the bigger buy in events which suits this group well.

I've picked Hennigan in every single pool before this one but neglected to pick him this year. Bob, watch for a PM to alter my picks, if possible....Johnny World, ftw!

I based my list on frequent top finished, atleast in the televised events i've seen, and then its clearly going to be the big horse event that settles the score.



My list looks like this:

Daniel Negreanu

Mike Matusow

Dave Ulliot

Andy Bloch

Doyle Brunson

Ted Forrest

John Juanda

Minh Ly

Humberto Brenes

Gavin Griffin



Doyle, Mike and Andy is solely because of the horse event.

Then i went with Juanda because he plays lots of diff events.

Ulliot usually makes it deep in the omaha events

Humberto is clearly the NL hold'em money man, along with gavin griffin (who have been playing a lot of horse at PS)

Daniel, you gotta destroy the stud games! Well Ted too, but as far as i know you still owe little matt a finale table trip, so you have first prio

Minh Ly is my out of the pack pick, i think. He just seems to be everywhere without ever being noticed.

I always liked watching Juanda play just because his style is more pre-flop and different from a lot of the pro's, but I haven't seen much from him lately... has he been playing cash games or just hasn't had a big score in a while?

FWIW, my list:

Allen Cunningham
Erick Lindgren
Daniel Negreanu
David Pham
Chris Ferguson
Phil Ivey
Phil Hellmuth
Tom Dwan
Barry Greenstein
Todd Brunson

I dunno....the Hellmuth and Pham picks kinda worry me now that I realize there's not as many hold 'em events that are being scored. -shrug-

I think Chip Reese is a good sleeper pick.











































too soon?

Probably.

Matt Hawrilenko and Justin Bonomo FTW.

Dammit stop posting your picks until the deadline is over. You are going to stop everyone wasting their picks on NL "specialists"

Mike Matusow is on my list, I went on the amount of mixed games and tournies they played, Daniel had to go and give tips though.

a few wierd picks on my list and one crazy one, imo anyway

DN
David Chiu
Ted Forrest
John Hennigan
Phil Ivey
Barry Greenstien
Mike Matusow
Allen Cunningham
John Juanda
Scotty Nguyen


I guessing these guys would be the standard picks and anyone else would be considered a non standard pick.

Yang
Gold
Hachem
Raymer
Moneymaker
Varknoyi
Mortenson
Ferguson
Furlong
Nguyen

Is that your team or just a reference of standard picks? as you could have just quoted DN, thats his exact short list

Allen Cunningham
Chris Ferguson
Roland De Wolfe
Marcel Luske
David Benyamine
Daniel Negreanu
Andy Bloch
Scotty Nguyen
Kenny Tran
David Pham

Controversial?

A good strategy is to pick players like the ones DN has put forth, but not the same ones since most people participating will have
the same players. That said, I'm sure I'll include at least three or four from his list, but the others will probably be less big names, but still known to play mixed games at the WSOP.

This pick will not be allowed.

I havn't seen Kirk Morrison mentioned anywhere. He had 5 cashes last year in big fields.

Anyone besides me pick Hellmuth? I havn't seen him on anyone's list either.

Reference to DN's picks being the standard.

Not my team, I dont want to split first with 7 others.



Lots would pick Hellmuth but considering he has 11 NL HOLDEM braslets and this being mixed games his selection is a suckers choice.

I got:

Freddy Deeb
DN
Barry Greenstein
Erik Seidel
Andy Bloch
Huck Seed
Tom Dwan
Ted Forrest
Nick Schulman
Erick Lindgren

I think Schulman might be an unconventional pick. I have noticed he has been playing high stakes a lot on FTP, and I think he will play in a lot of the higher events.

Huck might be also, I know he plays the non-holdem games, but will he play all those events?

I was also thinking of Robert Williamson III because of his omaha results, but I'm not sure if he plays anything else.

That is why he is the biggest unconventional pick possible.

I've noticed Paul Wasicka lately expanding his game. I also chose Allen Cunningham and Anndy Bloch as non-conventional picks.

Hardly unconventional.

David Singer? Good stud player and has had decent results in the Horse event.

ssshhhhhhhhh

Jennifer Harman is a good pick for mixed games...

CRAP!!! forgot about him.

My list:

Lindgren
Hellmuth
Matusow
Antonius
Greenstein
Negreanu
Laak
Esfandiari
Traniello
Hansen

Here is who I picked:

-Daniel Negreanu
-Phil Hellmuth
-Phil Ivey
-Doyle Brunson
-Erik Seidel
-Allen Cunningham
-John Juanda
-Chris "Jesus" Ferguson
-Erick Lindgren-He's due
-Greg Raymer-He's done well in Stud Events since his WSOP win. He's not nearly as one-dimensional as the other recent WSOP Main Event winners seem to be.

I really don't know why people would point out little gems like David Singer etc before the draft is locked up, already 2 of my non-standard picks have been outed .
I went with the hardly anyone else will have them strategy, so I have 6 standardish and 4 not so obvious, hopefully my other 2 will stand a chance

Raymer's a great pick I didn't take.

On one hand I agree if someone thought of a great pick it benefits him/her to not tell everyone, on the other hand its a no stack game, so sharing at this forum is no surprise. If we were taking it seriously, I would try to give out bad pick ideas of accomplished players who will probably not be in the WSOP events, such as Chip Reese (RIP).

pfffttt.

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I think most people entering this draft can be divided into two pools. Those who checked who final tabled in the last two $50K horse events and those that didn't. Giving up a couple of names isn't going to matter much with this format.

If a couple more people take David Singer, whatever. They only get ten picks, which means they'll have to drop someone equally as good.

I could name off at least ten lesser knowns that would easily be on pair with Singer or better. A couple, like Bill Edler and the Grinder have already been mentioned. With a bit of research, I'm sure I could name off another 30 players.

I'd advise people to pick players they enjoy cheering for. This draft, while enjoyable and appreciated, is too simplistic to worry your head over it too much.

Enjoy your hat!

Any thoughts on Robert Williamson III?

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DAVID PHAM

Glad to see I'm not the only one who chose Clements. Here's mine for what it's worth:

Daniel Negreanu

Allen Cunningham

Scott Clements

Erick Lindgren

Phil Ivey

Kenny Tran

Phil Hellmuth

Kirk Morrison

David Singer

Ted Forrest

Really should've thought of Michael Binger. Marco Traniello's also a decent idea given his amount of cashes. Ah well, bit late now! I'm one of the suckers who's picked Phil Hellmuth. He might have won all his bracelets in hold 'em but he has like, 13 final tables in other events. I actually don't think he's as much of a one trick pony as people make him out to be.

I went for the usuals plus a few wildcards who I think might do well. Kirk Morrison's already been mentioned but I'm surprised no-one else (that I've seen) has said Kenny Tran yet. I've taken a risk as well with a couple of hold 'em guys who just might branch out into other events this year.

Daniel Negreanu

Ted Forrest

Mike Matusow

Barry Greenstein

Allen Cunningham

Tom Dwan

Jimmy Fricke

Chris Ferguson

J.C. Tran

Patrik Antonius

Gobbo and Durrr for my darkhorses

There is no way anyone can consider Hellmuth a Dark horse or unconvential, thats just non sensical.
I took some real long shots and some standard.
And Hey I would like a hat!!!
Good lcuk all

I took Hellmuth, but he is VERY unconventional. The guy really sucks in mixed games, and considering the list of games, he's probably not a good choice imo.