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One of our pledgers has convinced me to just drop BONUS or 2ndBONUS picks if they do not qualify (instead of disqualifying the entry).
So be it.

Here's our 15th entry - from Deron (BARGE member who has submitted a BARGE themed entry) - don't know his charity yet

Daniel Negreanu (2016 speaker)
Greg Raymer (2004 speaker)
David Kluchman
Paul McMullin
Pete Segal
Rich Bremer
Russell Fox
Phil Hellmuth (2001 speaker)
Jeanne David
Dean Kerl

Deron says his charity is Bicycle Colorado.

I've come up with another themed entry. Here's "O Canada Eh?" with the charity Nature Conservancy Of Canada.

Alexander Livingston (Nova Scotia)
Jaspal Brar (Alberta)
Eric Afriat (Quebec)
Matthew Wilkins (Prince Edward Island)
Kevin Mcdonald (New Brunswick)
Shawn Buchanan (British Columbia)
Alan Engel (Ontario)
Mike Watson (Newfoundland)
BONUS: Ryan Smith (Saskatchewan)
#2BONUS: Clayton Mozdzen (Manitoba)

Homegame today - I got requests for 2nd quickpicks from Zahida & Josephine

Here Zahida's entry for the Terry Fox Foundation

#1 -David Larson
#2 - Adam Kipnis
#3 - Levi Klump
#4 - Ronald Katz
#5 - Craig Chait
#6 - Andrew Brown
#7 - Joe Cada
#8 - Daniel Negreanu
BONUS: Evangeline Ayed
#2BONUS: Tyler Cormey

Here's Josephine's entry for the BC Cancer Foundation

#1 - Thu Nguyen
#2 - Joel Baker
#3 - Dejuante Alexander
#4 - Ryan Wolfson
#5 - Steve Zolotow
#6 - Philip Sternheimer
#7 - Danny Wong
#8 - Arthur Morris
BONUS: Joseph Ricardo
#2BONUS: Shawn Van Asdale

My latest entry is "Vegas Geezers" - all winners of tournaments in Vegas before 1990. Charity is Heart & Stroke foundation.

John Cernuto (1988 Caesar's Palace)
Mel Judah (1989 Horseshoe)
Phil Hellmuth (1989 Horseshoe)
Walter Smiley (1976 Horseshoe)
Billy Baxter (1975 Horseshoe)
Tom McEvoy (1982 Caesar's Palace)
Robert Turner (1983 Stardust)
John Esposito (1985 Stardust)
Cyndy Violette (1985 Stardust)
Barbara Enright (1986 Horseshoe)

all the players picked so far:

19th entry players from the top 10 lists @ Binion's Horseshoe Casino with money going to Feed The Children

Greg Raymer
Phil Hellmuth
Josh Arieh
Erik Seidel
Chris Moneymaker
Johnny Chan
Dan Harrington
David Williams
BONUS: Men Nguyen
#2BONUS: Humberto Brenes

Entries are slowing down so here's an entry from The Crown Casino , Melbourne - playing for Citizens Foundation

Erik Seidel
Patrik Antonius
Isaac Haxton
Dan Shak
Phil Ivey
Toby Lewis
Mike McDonald
Daniel Negreanu
BONUS: Dean Blatt
#2BONUS: Gary Benson

and here's an entry from PokerGo Studio playing for Foodgrains Bank

Stephen Chidwick
David Peters
Isaac Haxton
Sam Soverel
Erik Seidel
Daniel Negreanu
Nick Petrangelo
Jason Koon
BONUS: Cary Katz
#2BONUS: Almedin Imsirovic

added a team from Commerce Casino playing for Reporters Without Borders

got a quick-pick from Shari @ BARGE - now 23 entries

Just wrote the code for scoring.
The problem is: while I'm in Vegas the code will be back on my PC at home. There will be a couple of gaps in the scoring before I can catch up on my return.

However, the scoring is available on the 25K Fantasy website so you can keep score at home if you like.

Since I have my scoring code done I figured I'd test it out by combining last year's ARIA HIGH ROLLER with BARGE.
Here's what the points look like.

another entry, this one from Nolan @ BARGE - his charity is Maui Strong Fund.
looks like BARGE is putting in the most entries......more entries coming from 2+2?

#1 - Michael Berk
#2 - Dwayne Evans
#3 - Elvyn Santos
#4 - Randy Holland
#5 - Jake Schwartz
#6 - Dan Zack
#7 - David "Bakes" Baker
#8 - David "ODB" Baker
BONUS: Alan Myerson
#2BONUS: Ryan Brown

Back to the casino entries. This time it's Hawaiian Gardens in L.A.
Their winnings will go to Concern (another feed the hungry charity).

Jake Schindler
Shannon Shorr
Chance Kornuth
Ky Nguyen
Massoud Eskandari
Markus Gonsalves
Tuan Phan
Roger Teska
BONUS: Phuoc Nguyen
#2BONUS: Walter Smiley

Another entry from a BARGEr (Jeff). His team is playing for Native Renewables.

Landon Brown
Francis Alegado
Bobby Lupo
Alec Gould
Martin Zamani
Justin Bonomo
Johanes Becker
Josh Arieh
BONUS: Reynaldo Salunga
#2BONUS: Richard Solomon

Another BARGEr with an entry (Ellis).
This team plays for Cancer Support Community Los Angeles.

Clemen Deng
Sean Yu
Brandon Mueller
Anthony Danna
Max Pescatori
Philip Sternheimer
Adam Hendrix
Yuval Bronshtein
BONUS: Massoud Eskandari
#2BONUS: David "ODB" Baker

BTW, Phat Mack/Keith (both a BARGEr and a 2+2er) has entered 4 teams!

I think we're over 30 entries!

I now count 31 entries. Have a look at the complete rosters to make sure I haven't missed yours.

After checking I realize I missed the All Canadian team - we have 32 entries. Also fixed up a few spelling errors.

Keeping with the casino theme, here's a longshot: Beau Rivage casino in Biloxi playing for World Central Kitchen

John Dolan
Hoyt Corkins
Tyler Smith
Luther Tran
Jeremy Eyer
Joseph Hebert
William Souther
Tom Franklin
BONUS: Mark Rose
#2BONUS: Billy McBrayer

Another casino: Rio (Las Vegas) playing for World Wildlife Fund

Justin Bonomo
Joe Cada
Martin Jacobson
Roland Israelashvili
Benjamin Yu
Yuequ Zhu
Shaun Deeb
John Racener
BONUS: Barry Greenstein
#2BONUS: Jamie Gold

Added teams for Hard Rock (Cincinnati), Hard Rock (Tampa) and Hard Rock (Hollywood)
They play for World Renew, Seva Canada and Ryan's Well.

Total entries: 37

Wrote the 2nd part of the code: moving the player's scores over to the list of drafted players and then total them.
Here is what it looks like with just the 2023 BARGE + ARIA HIGH ROLLERS used as data.

and here's what it looks like with the first 10 WSOP (2023) tournaments added: