WSOP Fantasy League (Free, Lots of Prizes)

Talking Poker · #1 06-27-06, 12:45 PM

Blibbity found this league, being run by . (If you don't have a Full Tilt account yet, please join through my link in the first sentence). Here is the URL to their Fantasy League:

They have individual prizes for each WSOP event, plus overall prizes - Full Tilt gear, freeroll entries, and eventually even a seat to the 2007 WSOP. It's free and only takes seconds to join and then as long as you want to make your picks.

You can make picks for EVERY event, but you certainly don't have to, as they are scored individually... so even if you don't get in in time for today's event, you can still play along for the rest of the WSOP.

BB also made a TPF League for each of us to enter:
League Name - TPF Forum
Password - TPF101TPF202

So hurry up and join and get your picks in for today's event. This should be fun.

Nikita · #2 06-27-06, 01:56 PM

Well, I'm in. I can handle a free WSOP league.

X-Longshot-X · #3 06-27-06, 02:16 PM

I feel that i should point out that there are two, TPF forum and TPF league, which is ours

Robbie Robb · #4 06-27-06, 02:37 PM

Hmm...I joined the TPF Forum one - the TPF League wasn't there before.

Talking Poker · #5 06-27-06, 03:05 PM

Agreed. I joined the original. Not sure who made us another one...?

X-Longshot-X · #6 06-27-06, 03:42 PM

IDK but the league is the one with people from here i think...idk what the forum is...

BlibbityBlabbity · #7 06-27-06, 05:41 PM

TPF Forum is the one. There are 6 of us all from the forum in it.

The other one has a TON of people in it and it has the SAME password??? Weird, It was simple but that is strange. There is another "TPF" League theat has events on PokerStars. Perhaps that is their fantasy group as well.

Talking Poker · #8 06-27-06, 05:51 PM

You really should have named our league "Talking Poker" - are you able to change it now?

BlibbityBlabbity · #9 06-27-06, 07:37 PM

tried - no dice....

Talking Poker · #10 06-28-06, 12:13 PM

The biggest problem with this league, IMO, is the fact that not all players will be playing in all events. With some many overlapping events, it;s going to be a real pain to try to make good picks. Oh well.

Just a reminder that even though we started yesterday, you can still join now (or later), as this is scored on a Event by Event basis, in addition to overall.

lightfungus · #11 06-28-06, 01:38 PM

Guess I have to get around to getting full tilt. Will do once I have access to it from home.

Reel Deal · #12 06-27-06, 05:52 PM

In.

thrash1294 · #13 06-27-06, 06:12 PM

So I need to reload full tilt to play in this?

Talking Poker · #14 06-27-06, 06:25 PM

Um, no.

"Free" = no money needed to play. You just have to have an account.

Reel Deal · #15 07-04-06, 07:49 AM

Results to date:

Group Rank Everyone Rank Contestant Event Earnings View Picks
1 436 kgb81 $150,668
2 490 johnpmaniac $146,876
3 570 robbie robb $142,140
4 753 n1kita $126,032
5 808 reeldeal07 $124,134
6 1069 rogue23 $93,812
7 1148 tp_longshot $81,492
8 1673 left68wing $17,056

Sorry that it's hard to read. Here's the actual page:

Robbie Robb · #16 07-04-06, 08:16 AM

Hey RD,

That's just for event #5 - that doesn't include the previous events. For others, go to that link RD provided and change the dropdown to 'Overall Fantasy Dollars'.

Here's the list:
So, as you can see, Blib is kickin' our asses but one event can turn that around...

Talking Poker · #17 07-05-06, 02:55 AM

One of the things I find most interesting about this is how many pros don't cash. I mean, I knew this, but it's actually kind of reassuring to see that when picking 15 of the best poker players in the world, it's quite common for 12, 14, or even all 15 of them to not even CASH, let alone go deep.

Robbie Robb · #18 07-05-06, 07:11 AM

I think that part of that reason is simply that whatever table they land at, EVERYONE is automatically gunning for them. Sure, the idea is to knock everyone out, but I bet that there are more people willing to take risks by pushing when someone like Raymer or Hellmuth (especially Hellmuth) makes a proper-sized raised. It really seems to limit the number of hands that the big names can actually play in. I think this is detrimental to people like Negreanu and Farha who play pretty much anything.

Sure, it would be great to make the money in any event, but think of the story you have (once you embellish it a bit) if you send Hellmuth to the rail and start him off on one his trademark tantrums.

Talking Poker · #19 07-05-06, 01:18 PM

Maybe... but what about the flop side? There are people who are intimidated by the big name players and who will be more likely to lay down a pretty big hand against them. Not only that, but what you are suggesting means it's MORE likely that they will get paid off when they have the goods.

I'm confident that this goes both ways, and pretty much evens out in the end.

Reel Deal · #20 07-05-06, 08:21 AM

Doh. Thanks RR.

Robbie Robb · #21 07-07-06, 05:49 PM

Hellmuth's 2nd place clobbered us thanks to her having him as one of 'A' players. I had him as a 'C' player and Isabelle as a 'B' player. Too bad I didn't have both of them as 'A' players....

Talking Poker · #22 07-07-06, 11:51 PM

And I aparently didn't have either of them on my team. Whoops.

Reel Deal · #23 07-08-06, 10:00 AM

Just noticed that for event #5 I had 6 of my players cash... can anyone beat that?

Robbie Robb · #24 07-15-06, 02:25 PM

TP got over $8,000,000 for Event 20!!!1!!1 ZOMG!!!!

Nice score there boss! That was worth 12th out of everyone registered. Don't forget about the freeroll: $5K freeroll for this one! Monday night @ 9:15pm. Longshot & Blib also qualified for the freeroll! (I missed by 34...boo...)

Nikita · #25 07-15-06, 04:06 PM

Well, my pickings were crap. Oh well, I've been doing better at this league than I expected.