Final 12 months marked 11 years since PokerNews began publishing predictions forward of the World Collection of Poker (WSOP), and with three days to go they’re again once more forward of the 2023 WSOP.
With the WSOP shifting to its new residence on the Las Vegas Strip on the Horseshoe and Paris, we requested 9 members of the PokerNews crew for his or her ideas and predictions.
This 12 months we spoke to International Stay Occasions Supervisor Shirley Ang, US Government Editor and former WSOP bracelet winner Chad Holloway, Stay Reporting Government Matt Hansen, employees editors Matthew Pitt, Jon Sofen, Calum Grant and Connor Richards, and Group Supervisor Jesse Fullen.
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Which poker participant will win their first bracelet this 12 months?
Chad: Is there any participant in Vegas proper now hotter than Jeremy Becker? He’s received eight Wynn tournaments since March 25, so if he takes his expertise down the road to the Horseshoe, I feel he’s going to trip that momentum all the way in which to a no-limit maintain’em bracelet.
Calum: After coming shut on the 2022 WSOPE, I feel PokerStars ambassador Sam Grafton will get his first bracelet. He’s certainly one of many names on the ‘Greatest with out a Bracelet’ checklist, and I feel he scratches his identify off that checklist this time round. However it is also the 12 months for Dustin Dirksen, he’s completed because the runner-up in three bracelet occasions now, with two second locations coming from 2021 and 2022.
Connor: Adam Hendrix. After being the frontrunner within the 2022 GPI Participant of the 12 months race and being denied on the final minute, Hendrix will probably be enjoying with a vengeance this summer season and will certainly choose up a maiden bracelet.
Jesse: Jesse Fullen, clearly.
Matt Pitt: I went with Shannon Shorr final 12 months, and Shannon is my choose once more in 2023. He got here tremendous shut on the final WSOP, ending third within the $50Ok Excessive Curler.
Shirley: Seth Davies
Matt Hansen: Chris Brewer
Jon Sofen: I am going with Seth Davies.
What number of gamers will win two or extra bracelets on the 2023 WSOP and who?
Shirley: 4, Jeremy Ausmus, Adam Friedman, Adrian Mateos, and Michael Addamo.
Chad: There will probably be a trio of two-time bracelet winners this summer season. I can’t predict all three, however I’ll say that I feel it’s going to be a superb summer season for Phil Hellmuth, so let’s see bracelets No. 17 AND 18!
Jesse: Three. Hellmuth, Negreanu, and Matusow. I do know proper?
Matt Hansen: Three. Brewer, Deeb, and Ausmus.
Calum: Simply the one for now.
Jon Sofen: One.
Matt Pitt: Two will win a number of bracelets. Jeremy Ausmus received two in 2021 and once more in 2022. Why not go for a hat trick of two in 2023? I feel Shaun Deeb (who received two in 2018). Deeb is within the early levels of his large weight reduction wager, and his new outlook on well being and health may assist him on the tables.
Connor: Only one, and will probably be Shaun Deeb as he competes whereas in the very best form of his life.
What number of occasions will Phil Ivey play?
Connor: I’ll guess that we’ll see Ivey in 11 occasions as he chases an 11th bracelet.
Matt Pitt: Ivey cashed in 9 occasions final 12 months, however he’s not logged a single money in an MTT in 2023. I wouldn’t be stunned if he didn’t play any or put in a ton of quantity.
Matt Hansen: 5.
Jon Sofen: Ivey will play 18 occasions.
Jesse: Eight
Chad: I hear Phil Ivey not too long ago welcome a child into the world, and it’s not unusual for gamers to chop down on tournaments after they have a younger one working round. Ivey will nonetheless play, however I feel it’ll be lower than a dozen occasions. I’ll say eight tournaments is all he’ll play.
Shirley: 15
Calum: Phil Ivey cashed in 9 occasions final 12 months and got here near getting his 11th bracelet. I feel we’re going to see a number of Ivey once more like in 2022 so he’s going to be in at the very least 20-25 occasions.
What number of gamers will enter the 2023 WSOP Predominant Occasion?
Chad: This would be the largest WSOP Predominant Occasion in historical past. My guess is 9,170 gamers!
Matt Pitt: I used to be stunned to see the 8,663 attendance in 2022; I didn’t assume it could be anyplace close to as excessive. I really feel the identical method this 12 months as final, so I’ll go along with 7,500.
Calum: Certainly, it’s time the 2006 document will get damaged. I feel it’ll be a number of entrants shy of 9,000 so let’s go along with 8,942.
Connor: I predict there will probably be a record-breaking Predominant Occasion subject of 8,774 gamers.
Shirley: 8,833
Jesse: 9,000
Matt Hansen: 8,800
Jon Sofen: A document 8,999 gamers.
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What’s going to 2023 be “The 12 months Of?”
Calum: Shaun Deeb’s weight reduction prop wager.
Chad: It’s going to be the “12 months of the 20-Somethings.” I’ve seen an uptick of younger folks within the recreation, and now 20 years faraway from Moneymaker’s game-changing win, it truly is a brand new period. Look for lots of younger bracelet winners in 2023.
Jon Sofen: The 12 months of Hellmuth
“I feel Shaun Deeb’s physique fats prop wager with Invoice Perkins will encourage numerous different gamers to make life-style adjustments themselves.”
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Matt Hansen: The 12 months of F1 Avenue Paving Visitors
Shirley: The 12 months of a document variety of lesser-known gamers profitable their first bracelets.
Connor: The 12 months of Physicality. I feel Shaun Deeb’s physique fats prop wager with Invoice Perkins will encourage numerous different gamers to make life-style adjustments themselves. Even Chris Moneymaker has indicated he will probably be doing so.
Jesse: The 12 months of the damaged document. Large fields throughout all the large occasions!
Who do you assume will win a bracelet first – Daniel Negreanu or Phil Hellmuth?
Matt Pitt: The Poker Brat normally performs extra decrease stakes occasions so has a bonus. That mentioned, I’ve a sense Negreanu may take pleasure in a fruitful WSOP in 2023 so I’m selecting him.
Chad: Phil Hellmuth. I really like Negreanu and hope to see him win a bracelet, however I’ll by no means wager towards the Poker Brat on the WSOP.
Jon Sofen: I am predicting that Hellmuth will completely crush it this summer season like he did in 2021, so I am going to go along with him. However Negreanu’s going to finally shut one out.
Matt Hansen: Phil Hellmuth
Shirley: Negreanu
Jesse: Hellmuth
Calum: Hellmuth got here shut within the $3K final 12 months whereas Negreanu had a WSOP to neglect. I feel their fortunes swap for this 12 months and may see Negreanu having a really profitable summer season. I feel by regulation of averages, Hellmuth may need considered one of his worst WSOP’s to this point.
Connor: Whereas Negreanu seems on prime of his recreation after taking down the Tremendous Excessive Curler Bowl, there’s nobody hungrier for an additional bracelet than Hellmuth and I feel he’ll get it earlier than Negreanu.
Which former Predominant Occasion champion can have the very best efficiency on the 2023 WSOP?
Chad: It’d be nice if it was Moneymaker on the 20th anniversary of his win, however I don’t assume he’ll play a lot. As an alternative, I’m going to go along with Ryan Riess. It’s additionally the 10th anniversary of his large win in 2013 (the identical 12 months I received my bracelet), so I’m pulling for him!
Jesse: Chris Moneymaker. 20th anniversary and this man desires his second bracelet.
Calum: I don’t assume you’ll be able to look previous the final two winners in Koray Aldemir and Espen Jorstad. I anticipate them to carry out effectively once more.
Jon Sofen: Phil Hellmuth.
Matt Pitt: Koray Aldemir. He’s positively probably the most gifted Predominant Occasion champion previously decade or two, and reeled in cashes like they have been going out of trend final summer season. Es[en Jorstad is an effective shout too relying on what number of occasions he decides to become involved with this 12 months.
Connor: 2023 would be the 12 months of Joe Hachem. I can’t be elaborating at the moment.
Matt Hansen: Espen Jorstad
Shirley: Martin Jacobson
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Who will win the $50,000 Poker Participant’s Championship?
Chad: Todd Brunson in honor of his father.
Shirley: Michael Mizrachi
Connor: Jungleman Dan Cates. May it’s anybody else?
Matt Hansen: Ryan Leng
Jesse: Jungleman, clearly.
Calum: I’d love Jungleman to make it three in a row however that simply looks as if a close to impossibility. So, let’s go along with Ivey for this one, I feel that might be superior to see.
Jon Sofen: Brian Rast
Matt Pitt: Save everybody the effort and provides the title to Daniel Cates!
Who do you prefer to win the 2023 WSOP Participant of the 12 months?
Calum: I feel a sensible guess can be somebody like a Shaun Deeb or Daniel Negreanu however I’m going to take a punt on this one. 2023 WSOP POY will probably be Ethan ‘Rampage’ Yau. There actually appears to be nothing stopping him as of late.
Shirley: Joao Vieira
Chad: I’m predicting an enormous 12 months for Hellmuth, who has completed as WSOP POY runner-up 3 times. I feel he lastly captures that prestigious title this 12 months.
Matt Hansen: Shaun Deeb
Connor: Shannon Shorr. One of many nicest guys in poker, and one of many greats with out a bracelet, it could be nice to see Shorr have a robust summer season to select up POY. And, he’s contemporary of a WPT Excessive Curler victory on the Seminole Laborious Rock Poker Showdown.
Matt Pitt: Possibly a bit of leftfield however let’s say Adrian Mateos. He appears to be enjoying rather a lot recently and clearly has the flexibility.
Jon Sofen: Phil Hellmuth
Jesse: Shaun Deeb
What number of girls will get heads up, and what number of will win bracelets?
Chad: I feel girls will make it to heads-up play twice in open occasions, and so they’re going to seize gold on each events.
Shirley: 6 heads-up; three wins
Matt Hansen: They’ll go 2 for two.
Calum: Excluding the Girls occasion in fact, I feel there will probably be at the very least one girl to win a bracelet with two attending to heads-up.
Matt Pitt: There are some super-talented girls, however the lack of numbers limits girls’ possibilities of profitable some poker gold. I do assume we’ll see a feminine champion in an open occasion, so I’m going with 4 heads up and two bracelets together with on-line occasions.
Connor: Outdoors of the women’ occasion, I predict two girls will get heads up and each of them will win.
Jesse: Six girls heads up and 4 bracelets.
Jon Sofen: Three bracelets, three runners-up.
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Who would you prefer to see inducted into the Poker Corridor of Fame in 2023?
Chad: Man, oh man, that backlog goes to get messy if the development of just one particular person getting in annually. There are such a lot of deserving people – Antonio Esfandiari, Matt Savage, and Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi bounce to thoughts – nevertheless it needs to be Isai Scheinberg.
Jon Sofen: Matt Savage and Brian Rast are each deserving.
Matt Hansen: Mike Matusow
Calum: Maria Ho or Antonio Esfandiari
Shirley: Jack Effel
Matt Pitt: Isai Scheinberg or Matt Savage.
Connor: Michael Mizrachi. On the very least, “The Grinder” deserves to be within the Nickname Corridor of Fame.
Jesse: Norman Chad and Lon McEachern on 20th anniversary of the Moneymaker 12 months!
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Will a identified identify or a random participant draw the $1,000,000 Thriller Bounty?
Chad: This 12 months it’s going to be a random play, nevertheless it received’t take lengthy for them to turn out to be a identified identify after that!
Calum: I actually hope a non-name pulls the milly bounty.
Shirley: Thriller Bounty: identified participant, can be humorous if Matt Glantz does it once more
Matt Hansen: An unknown Las Vegas native will pull the million.
Jesse: It’s most likely gonna be Robbi Jade Lew. So, a identified participant.
Matt Pitt: I’d choose it to be a random participant that pulls out the $1M Thriller Bounty.
Connor: After Matt Glantz pulled the million-dollar bounty in 2022, it appears solely truthful that this 12 months’s bounty would go to an unknown participant.
Jon Sofen: Matt Glantz will win it once more.
What number of gamers will the $250,000 Tremendous Excessive Curler get?
Chad: 75
Calum: 50 if crypto portfolios are performing effectively, 40 if not.
Matt Pitt: It’ll get precisely 50.
Connor: 65 gamers.
Jesse: 75
Matt Hansen: 61
Shirley: 66
Jon Sofen: 69 can be a pleasant turnout.
Give us one final daring, distinctive prediction.
Chad: In honor of the late Doyle Brunson I anticipate an enormous uptick of gamers mixing it up with “The Brunson” (AKA Ten-Deuce). Anticipate a few gold bracelets to be received by gamers holding the famed hand.
Matt Pitt: Ali Imsirovic and Jake Schindler will contest a bracelet heads-up!
Connor: Allen Kessler will strive uncooked fish.
Shirley: A PokerNews crew member will make a remaining desk
Jesse: Phil Ivey makes the Predominant Occasion remaining desk with a mean stack.
Matt Hansen: A participant will win back-to-back occasions.
Government Editor U.S.
Government Editor US, PokerNews Podcast co-host & 2013 WSOP Bracelet Winner.
