2014 WSOP | PREVIEW
BIGGER ISN’T ALWAYS
BETTER AT THE WSOP
Unless you’re Phil Hellmuth it’s not easy to navigate huge
fields. You might be better off looking to the leftfield…
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Q Which former WSOP
Main Event champion
would you pick to repeat as
World Champion now?
DUNST: Moneymaker, because
he’s a really nice guy and it’s
definitely the best story in
poker. After him I’d take
Duhamel because he’d have
the most fun with the money.
Ole Schemion, Vanessa
Selbst, Scott Seiver, Jason
Mercier, Marvin Rettenmaier or
the field. Who will be ranked #1
on the GPI when the final hand
is dealt on July 14?
MERCIER: Greg Merson, because
he’s one of the best poker
players who has ever won
the WSOP Main Event.
RYAN: Mercier.
DAVY: Selbst.
RINKEMA: Mercier.
DANIS: Selbst.
MERCIER: Schemion.
Who wins the Big
One for One Drop;
who wins the $50k Poker
Players Championship
and who makes this
year’s November Nine?
Q
RYAN: Ole
Schemion,
Mike Leah
and Jennifer
Shahade.
DAVY: Philipp
Gruissem,
Stephen
Chidwick
and Blair
Hinkle.
Q
RYAN: Jason Mercier.
It’s a complete gut
call though.
DAVY: I think Selbst
will take it.
RINKEMA: I think Jason
Mercier will play the
biggest slate of
tournaments in
this group and
he’s the best
mixed game
player on the
list. This gives
him an edge
for me,
albeit a
small one.
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2014 WSOP
RYAN: Greg Merson.
DAVY: Jonathan Duhamel.
DUNST: Chris Moneymaker.
RINKEMA: Jonathan Duhamel.
DANIS: Jonathan Duhamel.
MERCIER: Greg Merson.
DUNST: Philipp
Gruissem, Philipp
Gruissem and Philipp
Gruissem. He wins everything!
RINKEMA: Jason Mercier, Daniel
Negreanu and Matt Affleck.
DANIS: Philipp Gruissem, Mike
Leah and Vanessa Selbst.
MERCIER: Philipp Gruissem,
Jason Mercier and Mohsin
Charania.
inning a World Series of Poker bracelet is a dream nearly
every poker player shares. Whether they’re amateur
players frequenting a home game or pros dedicated
to the live tournament grind, any player that spends
enough time around the game almost inevitably begins
to set their hopes towards glory at the WSOP
.
Most take their shot at the WSOP’s largest fields – the Main
Event and (relatively) low buy-in no-limit hold’em events – to
chase glory. But for those with a more eclectic poker background
(and the right bankroll) there are dozens of tournament options
every year where gold bracelet glory lies at the end of a field of
hundreds rather than thousands of competito