2008 POY Pool Update

Shaniac

JC Tran 777
Alexander Kravchenko 0
Tom Dwan 1650
David Singer 174
Cory Carroll 1440
Alex Jacob 0
Chad Brown 0
Steve Billirakis 72
Nick Schulman 0
Shane Schleger 0
Alex Bolotin 480
Haralabos Voulgaris 0
Eugene Katchalov 0
Marco Johnson 0

Total: 4593
Analysis: This might actually be the most talented collection of players, but very few of these guys log the hours necessary to compete for Player of the Year. All should be at the WSOP though, so there is some slight hope.
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PiMaster

David Pham 1390
Danny Wong 519
Robert Mizrachi 144
Scotty Nguyen 104
Anna Wroblewski 249
Jared Hamby 120
Eugene Todd 90
Randy Holland 876
Matt Brady 1266
Scott Fischman 0
Kevin Song 216
Jimmy Fricke 160
Alex Kamberis 42
Kido Pham 0

Total: 5176
Analysis: This is a solid team. They're just not producing. Be patient, Pi.
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MasterJ

Bill Edler 0
Scott Clements 528
Kevin Saul 0
Ryan Daut 0
Travis Rice 0
Ted Lawson 896
Kirk Morrison 0
David Baker 1304
Roy Winston 1218
David Fox 40
Mike Matusow 54
JC Alvarado 432
Dutch Boyd 836
Roland De Wolfe 0

Total: 5308
Analysis: Shrewd mid-late round picks are keeping the Master (barely) alive. He'll need a lot more from his drafted-too-high young guns.
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Gambler

James Van Alstyne 0
Michael Mizrachi 924
Jonathan Little 0
David Daneshgar 0
Theo Tran 456
CK Hua 0
John Cernuto 376
Gus Hansen 2400
Chris McCormack 0
Tony Ma 72
Nick Binger 622
David Levi 400
Alan Myerson 236
Steve Wong 0

Total: 5486
Analysis: Critical members of this team have completely vanished; Gus Hansen is currently responsible for almost half the team's points. This team is in a world of hurt.
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Moon

Gioi Luong 84
John Phan 877
Joe Sebok 0
Allen Cunningham 1584
Darrell Dicken 1068
Gavin Smith 240
Joe Cappello 1216
Joe Tehan 256
Chris Bjorin 748
Matthew Casterella 240
James Mackey 976
Matt Graham 294
Jeff Madsen 0
John Racener 732

Total: 8315
Analysis: Considering this team has gotten nothing in 10k+ events and nothing from first round pick Gioi Luong, they're in relatively good shape.
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Bag

Justin Bonomo 1088
Daniel Negreanu 0
Erik Cajelais 0
Barry Greenstein 78
Steve Sung 1900
Erick Lindgren 939
Sorel Mizzi 0
Phil Hellmuth 800
Lance Allred 460
Thomas Fuller 192
Jason Stern 646
Joe Hachem 177
Phil Ivey 2610
Chris Reslock 556

Total: 9446
Analysis: Considering this team is geared for the WSOP, Bag is in great shape.
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Wolf

Nam Le 1515
John Hoang 0
Men Nguyen 2798
Michael Binger 3040
Hevad Khan 696
Humberto Brenes 0
Nenad Medic 0
Max Pescatori 564
Francois Safieddine 45
Bertrand Grosspellier 140
Tom Schneider 144
Marcel Luske 60
Gavin Griffin 2400
Annette Obrestad 0

Total: 11,402
Analysis: I believe this team has been more lucky than good thus far. Wolf made some great picks that are really paying off but too many useless horses will eventually doom the current frontrunner.