Fun $5 Main Event prop bet...
 

There are 337 players left in the Main Event - including very few well known players. The chances are very good that some unknown is going to win the whole thing again this year. So, which unknown is it going to be?

Here's what I'm thinking. For everyone who wants to play, ship $5 to Talking Poker on Stars. Then pick any of the remaining players in the field that no one has ever heard of (so no, you can't pick Gus), and post their name here. Whoever's pick goes the fartherst wins the entire pool.

What do you think? You can find a list of people still alive in the Main Event .

If you make a pick and someone else has heard of that player, they will say so, and you need to pick again.

If even one other person wants to do this, I'm in. So.... pick away!


(We'll need some sort of deadline on accepting picks - play resumes in an hour, but I don't know if that's enough time to get very many people in this. Thoughts?)

New Rules I just thought of:

1. Instead of picking ONE player, let's say players cost $1 each and you can pick as many as five. That way, if you only want to spend $1 on 1 guy, you can still play.

2. I say we accept picks until 7:30 PM ET - that's more than 5 hours from now, which should hopefully give people plenty of time to see this thread and make their picks. For those of us who pick sooner rather than later, if any of our guys bust by 7:30, we get to replace them, so long as we do so by 8:00. If you think about it, it could actually be advantageous to pick early and have a player or two bust.

3. When you post your pick, just copy and paste the guy's name and chip count from . That way, we can see who has the balls to go with the real longshots.

Winner take all.

Mao Qiu Scottsdale, AZ 675,000
Justin Rollo Boston, MA 661,000
Avi Cohen Boston, MA 390,000
Guang Pu Lu Vancouver, BC, Canada 236,000
Daniel Melan Somerset, NJ 263,000

I'll ship the $5 tonight after I get home.

Justin rollo is Jurollo the MTT mod from 2p2, nice try. :D

He also cashed In his first ever WSOP event for 400k after a 3 way even chop, but fnished 3rd.

Caught in the act!

Replaced the Boston guy with a Jersey guy

Ed Betlow Morris Plains, NJ 501,000

45 2 Ovenson Benoit Tamaral, FL 346,000

One pick cuz im bored. Crippler Crossface FTW!

My picks:

Robert Damiano Melbourne Beach, FL 582,000 - This guy lives just a few miles from here. Quick research tells me he owns .

Steven Jacobs Philadelphia, PA 1,127,000 - Philly boy with over a million chips (6th entering Day 4). He's had a few cashes in the past, but I doubt anyone has heard of him. If you have, I'll replace him.

Kristian Obbarius Härnösand, Sweden 704,000 - OMG! Would you look at that name??? I definitely need a Swede on my team, and with a name like that, how can he NOT be our next world champion? I mean, seriously.

Sven Abelsson Runing Gothenburg 703,000 - Very next player on the list. I'm not even sure where his name ends and his location begins, but why settle for one Swede when you can have 2???

Amanda Baker Las Vegas, NV 188,000 - I need a longshot in here for fun, so why not go with a (relatively short stacked) chick from Vegas?

OK, I just cut Sven from my team when I noticed this name:

Mickey "Mouse" Mills Ocean Beach, CA 545,000 - I played with this guy at the WSOP last year. Nice guy, so he's on my team.


Please note - there is not a single stinking Canadian on my team! ;)

Oh, come on you cheap bastards. It's a freaking $1 (or 5). Let's go.

Or are you all waiting til closer to the deadline to try to be sneaky and get someone who starts off well today? If so......... LAME!

Since my lone Swede has been eliminated, I get to put in a replacement... so I'm unstriking Sven!

According to , this happened one minutes later:

I think I'll replace her with:
Dagmartin Miikkelsen Norway 734,000

That way, I'll be able to make some ULTRA-lame "Dag, Martin!" joke at some point down the road.

New team, since this has gotten a bit messy:

Dagmartin Miikkelsen
Mickey "Mouse" Mills
Robert Damiano
Steven Jacobs
Sven Abelsson Runing

This sure seems like a lot of work to win Kurn and Mayhem's combined $6, but screw you all, it's still fun. :cheers:

Shipped
 

$5 sent to you on 'Stars

20 minutes left to get in on this, you no-fun-having, no-prop-bet-making, cheap, lazy bastards!

I am in for a buck, I will ship it later tonight or tomorrow.

72 6 Karim Vegas Brookline, NH 393,000

Clearly Karim Vegas is a nom de plume

OK, so we have a whopping $12 in the prizepool now. *licks lips*

What ever will I do with all that cash when I win?

I know, I know! LET IT RIDE, BABY!!!

I would of got in on this but I was at a def leppard concert last night...

nice pick with Dag Martin, he is the chip leader at the end of day 4.

BTW I picked Gus Hanson and Scotty Nguyen, Im sure nobody has heard of them :p

The Race is on
 

Looks like this is all that's left.

TP - Dag Martin Mikkelsen 3,740,000

Kurn - Avi Cohen 2,392,000

should be interesting...

both of your guys have nice chip stacks.

so is it whoever lasts the longest wins?

You got it.

In "I've heard of him, news," I'm keeping an eye on Kirk Morrison. I don't know if you guys caught his story, broadcast during the Event 3 coverage, but hge's good friends with the Negreanu, Cunningham, Juanda, et al group. I guess he got over his head in Vegas (sports betting, mostly), and just disappeared - for like 8 years. He went to New Zeleand or something. Well, he's back now, and WOW - imagine if he FT's the Main Event. That would be an awfully nice start to a comeback.

$1 shipped

Not fair - your guy is a card rack:

Looks like both of our guys may well make the final 3 tables... Would be way cool if they both made the final table.

42 Dag Mikkelsen $237,865 busted

43 Avi Cohen $237,865 busted


TP wins by one position.

Lol, TP cheats.

Yeah, cause I read 2+2. Sure I do.

That's cool about this kid though.... Just turned 21 during the series.

This is him:


I see he sold shares of his Main Event... you too could have owned a piece at $120 for 1%. Sick.

FWIW, I never assumed "noone else has heard of him" meant "nobody saw his stats on Sharkscope", (or OPR or whatever)

TP wins fair and square.

I was kidding. :rolleyes: