POY Update: The Homestretch

With a crowded two months and change to go:

Wolf

John Hoang - 576
Men Nguyen - 746
Allen Cunningham - 1440
Erick Lindgren - 490
Justin Bonomo - 804
Nenad Medic - 132
Victor Ramdin - 533
John Cernuto - 262
Gavin Smith - 1355
Max Pescatori - 624
Kenna James - 549
Kevin O'Donnell - 192
Marcel Luske - 480
Hung La - 0

Total - 8183

Simply put, nothing has worked out for the Wolf. His thoroughbreds have completely tanked, his up-and-comers have disappeared, his supposedly-solid later picks haven't done too much and his speculative picks have disintegrated. I thought this team was well-drafted but his players have disappointed - very similar to my fantasy football team.

Alex

Michael Mizrachi - 1540
John Phan - 2206
David Williams - 372
Scotty Nguyen - 1994
Joe Tehan - 763
Joe Sebok - 1356
Chris McCormack - 0
David Baker - 300
Anthony Reategui - 0
Steve Wong - 666
David Singer - 600
Eric Froehlich - 341
Shane Schleger - 1776
Jordan Morgan - 774

Total - 12658

The story of this team has been main event failures. Guys who can normally be counted on for WPT final tables (Grinder, John Phan, David Williams) have had disappointing years. Nguyen, Sebok, and Singer were all close to top finishes in major events but lost traction at the last minute. Speculative guys coming off big years in 06 (McCormack, Reategui, Wong) have been busts.

Gambler

Jeff Madsen - 358
Gioi Luong - 2517
Tom Franklin - 416
Kathy Liebert - 1282
Phil Ivey - 1502
Barry Greenstein - 1242
John D'Agostino - 74
Eugene Todd - 1953
Vanessa Rousso - 62
Darrell Dicken - 2084
Jason Sagle - 0
Michael Binger - 997
Paul Lui - 560
Joel Patchell - 0

Total - 13047

Joel's team was pitifully drafted, particularly in the early rounds. Vanessa Rousso's second place finish in the WCOOP doesn't count for POY points. However, expect big things from Paul Lui with the Turkey Shoot and Ho Ho Hold 'em just around the corner.

Bag

J.C. Tran - 4458
Shannon Shorr - 518
Thomas Fuller - 1152
Roland de Wolfe - 1831
Joe Hachem - 0
Daniel Negreanu - 2010
Alex Jacob - 800
Bill Edler - 4696
Al Barbieri - 662
Lance Allred - 1296
Tony Ma - 944
An Tran - 432
Daniel Quach - 0
Chris Reslock - 1031

Total - 19830

Bag's team has been hit and miss - lucky for him the hits are currently ranked #2 and #3 in the world.

Moon

Nam Le - 2217
David Pham - 5410
James Van Alstyne - 3480
David Daneshgar - 1474
CK Hua - 1356
John Juanda - 235
Cliff Josephy - 38
Minh Nguyen - 0
Erik Cajelais - 1338
Chad Brown - 1423
Scott Clements - 3218
Doug Carli - 922
Tim West - 1224
James English - 954

Total - 23289

With the exception of three mid-round busts, this team gets excellent production the whole way through. It will be tough to beat this team as most of its members can be counted on to be playing hard and often at the year-ending Bellagio tournaments.