Daniel Negreanu suffers massive losses.
Let's talk about the freakin' WSOP Fantasy Draft lair – Daniel Negreanu's $25K madhouse this year:
Jerry Wong and Josh Kay's team crafted the most epic victory in the WSOP Fantasy Draft history, leaving jaw-dropping results since 2011 in the dust. Surprisingly, this domination was achieved with a team of almost seven people, with Wong being the weakest link. The victory could have slid by with the top four alone.
Josh Kay expressed joy, "Thanks to fantasy, the World Series is interesting again." The organizers announced the results, and Kay couldn't resist the urge to chime in, "I didn't have any desire to grind for 7 weeks myself, but I still kept an eye on the tournaments. Winning with Jerry and the others was especially enjoyable 😀 Thanks to Daniel Negreanu, David Baker, PokerNews, and everyone else involved."
The winners walked away with a whopping $225,000.
Jeremy Osmus scored an astonishing 388 points, more than half of Mike Numi's team result. This impressive showing wasn't enough to make the podium. However, Numi's main bad beat happened on draft day when he was paired with Michael Rocco.
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Daniel Negreanu ended up a pathetic 16th out of 19 participants and lost all his side bets. The exact amount of Negreanu's loss remains a mystery, but six-figures are likely.
Sergey Rybachenko cashed in on three of Daniel's bets. He bet on The Dinkers and Sepiol, both of whom made it to the podium, with the victory in these side bets becoming apparent mid-series. Gipsy's, by the way, third choice was Sean DiBaggio's team, Team Lucky. In the final standings, they were one spot above Negreanu's team, with a difference of just 11 points. The race went down to the wire, with Adrian Mateos' 5th place in the $10k 6-max tournament helping them pull ahead.
Sean Deeb admitted to Gipsy that his team had suffered some serious bad luck throughout the Series. One of the main reasons for the poor result was Dylan Lindquist, on whom high hopes were pinned. Just before the World Series, he found a new love that took his focus away from poker.
The champions of the main draft of Team The Dinkers finished a close second in our website's freeroll. Typically, leaders of drafts where teams are assembled at known prices score many more points.
Alibasy won the freeroll.
Here's something interesting – there's no overlap between the teams of the champion and second place NobelLaureate. Both teams were boosted by players who made it to the bonus zone in the main tournament, but they made different picks – Kristen Foxen and Brian Rast. Both teams essentially played with six players.
The MVP, Jeremy Osmus, was one of the rarest picks in our fantasy – he was chosen by only 12 out of 923 teams. Among the winners, only Unabomber238 believed in him. He also picked John Reiser (2nd in points in the entire draft), Phil Hellmuth (6th), and Robert Mizrachi (15th), but couldn't go higher than 5th as four of his players scored less than 60 points.
Pavel Plesuv finished 4th, held back from higher places by the fickle Dylan Lindquist, who scored only 11 points. Jayser1337 finished 8th. Minthon narrowly missed the prizes, his faith in veterans – Eric Seidel, Phil Hellmuth, and David Baker – preventing him from going higher than 15th. Ilya Gorodetskiy finished in the top 100, with Michael Gordonsky being the weakest link in his team.
A fierce battle unfolded for the last place, which comes with a special prize from GT+. Only two teams managed to score less than 200 points.
VaBANK30 assembled a truly unique team, with Scott Ball being the most valuable player.
Alexander managed to "beat" the team of pannylanny by 15 points, where the leader was Mike Matosov (45 points).
The winners will be contacted by our website's support service soon.
This year's ODB draft saw a record 709 teams participate.
The fight here went on until the very end. In the end, Matthew Vaxman snatched victory with a minimal lead in the final moment.
Massive thanks to the legends – Brian Rast, Sean Buchanan, and Ari Engel for securing us the first place in the ODB draft with a one-point lead with their epic performances in the final stretch! My friends didn't go to WSOP, but they kept updating the reports to check on our players' progress!
Two teams from Gipsy and Alexander Elenksy's three – GT2 and GT3 (Shoutout to the editorial staff of our website for the brilliant performance in fantasy this year!) – made it to the top 10. The first one kept its chances for the championship until the final day of the Series. To win, Sean Deeb had to reach the final table in the $3k PLO tournament and finish a few places higher than Engel. Sean led most of the tournament but ended up 13th, while Engel, who was at the bottom of the chip count for most of the time, managed to finish 8th.
Michael Semin entered six teams, one of which made it to the prizes and finished 9th.
The last team in the ODB draft received a substantial consolation prize of $2,500 (5 buy-ins!) The 709th place with a score of 319 points was taken by a decently named team Bonus Player Carries!
Keep it chill and remember, gambling can be a mental health hazard – play responsibly!
I'm not sure if Jared would congratulate the winners of the WSOP Fantasy Draft, as he won a bracelet in a different tournament. However, he might appreciate the victory in the sports-betting aspect, given his involvement in casino-and-gambling activities. In the staff picks for the ODB draft, Jared was one of the legends who helped secure a first-place finish, according to the statement. Nevertheless, sports-betting outcomes might not be entirely under his control, and he might have had some ups and downs, like everyone else in the gambling world.
