Daniel Negreanu’s World Sequence of Poker (WSOP) $25ok Fantasy Draft, which is able to maintain its draft for the 2024 WSOP this Monday on the PokerGO Studio (it will be streamed and PokerNews may also be there to dwell report), was initially the creation of Howard Lederer, a as soon as distinguished poker professional who now not has many followers inside the group as a result of April 15, 2011 Black Friday scandal.
The previous Full Tilt Poker professional and government ran the fantasy league throughout its 2011 inception yr, however he handed the keys off to Negreanu the next summer season.
Every year, these keen to place up $25,000 on a fantasy poker competitors bid on the efficiency of varied poker gamers throughout that summer season’s WSOP. Groups should draft eight gamers with a $200 auction-style bidding price range, and the winner is the crew that accumulates probably the most factors all through the sequence. Participant factors are earned based mostly on cashes, ultimate tables, and bracelet wins.
Jason Mercier Holds a Report
In 2011, 15 groups signed up, however none may prime Crew Jason Somerville & Jason Mercier Ben Lamb, the WSOP Participant of the 12 months, carried the crew with a league-best 403 factors. One yr later, Jason Mercier went out on his personal and gained once more, and stays the one two-time winner in league historical past.
There’s been a unique winner every year since. Crew Matthew Waxman took it down in 2013 behind the WSOP success of David “Bakes” Baker. Crew Gypsy, because of the memorable summer season from George Danzer, beat a area of 12 groups in 2014. Crew Hastings, led by crew proprietor Brian Hastings, conquered the fantasy league in 2015.
Crew house owners will not be required to draft themselves. In actual fact, many keep away from doing so. Hastings is the one participant in league historical past to guide the crew he drafted to victory. John Monnette (2012 and 2016) and Ben Yu (2017 and 2018) are the one gamers to twice lead a profitable crew in factors.
Maybe a little bit of a shock, solely twice has the profitable crew drafted that yr’s WSOP Participant of the 12 months (2011 and 2014). And no Foremost Occasion champ from the identical yr has been most liable for a fantasy league crew profitable, though Koray Aldemir led Crew Maria Ho to the title in 2022, one yr after turning into world champion.
Crew DPMC took down the most important area ever — 20 groups — final yr, thanks largely to the efficiency of Shaun Deeb, who had his typical spectacular summer season. However Deeb was a little bit of an outlier a yr in the past in that he was the primary of 18 gamers in league historical past to go for $100 or extra within the draft and find yourself on a profitable crew.
Negreanu’s Fantasy League Struggles
There is a purpose we have not touched a lot on Negreanu, and that’s as a result of the pinnacle of the league hasn’t had a lot success drafting groups. The GGPoker ambassador has drafted a crew yearly, along with his finest end — second place — coming in 2022.
Previous to that yr, Negreanu’s highest end was fourth place in 2017, however solely a fantasy draft low eight groups competed. Exterior of these two years, he hasn’t outperformed sixth place, and his crew hit all-time low in 2018 with a 15th place end … out of 15 groups.
Negreanu as a participant has offered loads of worth to the crew’s which have drafted him. He gained WSOP Participant of the 12 months in 2013 and briefly gained it in 2019 earlier than a recalculation gave the award to Robert Campbell. However his fantasy crew drafting abilities have not appeared to catch as much as his poker abilities.
The 2024 $25ok Fantasy Draft takes place Might 27 on the PokerGO Studio in Las Vegas. PokerNews shall be on-site dwell reporting the occasion.
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$25ok Fantasy Draft Yearly Outcomes
*Denotes gained WSOP Participant of the 12 months.
