Summer In Vegas: Entries Are Now Open!!!
The 1st post will be a short summary for those who want to enter but don't want to think too much.
The 2nd post will be a more detailed description for those who want to scratch their head for awhile before making their picks.
This summer teams will descend on Las Vegas to duke it out for supremacy at the poker tables.
Team will consist of players with the same given name - Team John, Team Mary, Team Jose etc.
Teams score by being the "last longer" in summer Las Vegas tournaments (WSOP, Aria, Wynn, Golden Nugget etc etc).
Your job is to tell me which team will come out on top (for $100 or 10% of my winnings this summer).
Or for more money ($300 or 30% or my summer winnings) name the winning team and the MVP.
Or for more money ($500 or 50% of my summer winnings) name the winning team, the MVP and the Women's MVP)
Enter 1, 2, 3 or all 3 or any combination of the 3.
No duplicate guesses (example: once someone picks Team Jose, nobody else can pick Team Jose).
You are allowed to change your mind in March, April and May (just one change per month).
Entries are open now and close when "cards are in the air" this summer in Vegas.
For a more complete description of these rules, you can read the next post.
All but 1 tournament from Kaliningrad has been added.
One more tournament from Los Angeles has been added.
Welcome Team Fedor and Team Roman.
I really didn't think there would be a Team Fedor but we found a Fedor cashing in Pineapple Open Face Chinese in Kaliningrad.
a Fedor who will be playing "Summer In Vegas" (not the Pineapple Open Face Chinese one)
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We've found a picture of the other Fedor (the Pineapple Open Face Chinese cashing one).
An impressive resume on HM but he has never cashed in the USA - unlikely to be much help to Herr Holz.
I decided to use the 2024 Summer In Vegas rosters to illustrate the "last longer" concept using 2023 data.
Quite meaningless but good as an example.
This would be the result of the 2023 WSOP Main Event using 2024 rosters.
55 players on Summer In Vegas rosters cashed in this event.
As you can see, TEAM STEVEN would have gotten the win here.
Steven Jones Jr is on Team Steven but the actual winner (Daniel Weinman) has not made Team Daniel (yet).
I tried to get an example for tournaments with fewer entrants.
I came up empty on 2 tries but the MGM HORSE tournament that had 19 cashers had 5 Summer In Vegas players.
In this case, the actual winner (Jorge Alba) was also the last longer because he's on Team Jorge.
Results finally coming in from Seoul.
Welcome Team Hal (Hal Rotholz cashes in 2).
We now have 160 teams.
More results from Seoul.
We're now up to 163 teams.
1 Aaron 49 5
2 Adam 62 8
3 Alan 42 9
4 Albert 16 5
5 Alexander 57 7
6 Allen 9 5
7 Andrew 110 8
8 Anthony 86 6
9 Anton 17 5
10 Arthur 24 5
11 Austin 15 5
12 Ben 14 5
13 Benjamin 50 6
14 Bradley 22 6
15 Brandon 45 7
16 Brian 97 6
17 Bruno 43 6
18 Bryan 30 5
19 Carlos 54 6
20 Chad 24 5
21 Charles 57 5
22 Chris 25 6
23 Christian 33 6
24 Christopher 132 6
25 Corey 12 6
26 Craig 28 7
27 Dale 7 6
28 Dan 18 5
29 Daniel 177 6
30 Danny 15 5
31 Dave 12 5
32 David 292 8
33 Denis 17 6
34 Dennis 25 6
35 Derek 21 5
36 Donald 20 6
37 Dylan 22 6
38 Edward 28 5
39 Eric 84 8
40 Erik 18 5
41 Ethan 5 5
42 Fabio 35 6
43 Fedor 3 5
44 Felipe 51 5
45 Fernando 36 5
46 Frank 42 6
47 Frederic 11 5
48 Gabriel 57 6
49 Gary 41 6
50 George 47 6
51 Gordon 4 5
52 Grant 8 6
53 Greg 17 5
54 Gregory 37 6
55 Guilherme 38 5
56 Gustavo 32 5
57 Hal 3 5
58 Henry 12 5
59 Ian 25 6
60 Ilya 10 6
61 Jack 29 6
62 Jake 9 5
63 James 145 8
64 Jan 13 6
65 Jason 95 8
66 Jay 21 5
67 Jeff 18 6
68 Jeffrey 63 6
69 Jennifer 9 5
70 Jeremy 44 6
71 Jerry 15 6
72 Jesse 20 5
73 Joao 30 5
74 Joe 23 5
75 John 193 7
76 Jon 16 6
77 Jonathan 72 6
78 Jonathon 5 5
79 Jordan 35 6
80 Jorge 36 5
81 Jose 76 6
82 Joseph 149 7
83 Josh 11 5
84 Joshua 73 9
85 José 6 5
86 Jun 11 5
87 Keita 3 5
88 Kelly 12 5
89 Kenneth 42 7
90 Kevin 76 7
91 Kyle 33 7
92 Lasse 3 5
93 Lawrence 20 6
94 Leandro 20 5
95 Leonard 8 5
96 Luke 11 5
97 Maksim 15 5
98 Marc 34 5
99 Marcelo 37 6
100 Marco 26 5
101 Marcos 25 5
102 Mark 105 8
103 Marshall 5 5
104 Martin 40 6
105 Matheus 28 5
106 Matt 11 6
107 Matthew 124 8
108 Michael 353 9
109 Mike 27 6
110 Murilo 7 5
111 Nathan 22 6
112 Nicholas 65 8
113 Nick 14 6
114 Oleksandr 4 5
115 Pablo 13 5
116 Patrick 43 7
117 Paul 76 6
118 Paulo 27 5
119 Pedro 37 5
120 Peter 74 9
121 Philip 20 5
122 Phillip 18 6
123 Rafael 59 6
124 Randy 15 6
125 Raymond 20 6
126 Ricardo 43 5
127 Richard 103 6
128 Robert 171 8
129 Rodrigo 42 5
130 Roman 15 5
131 Ryan 75 8
132 Sam 13 5
133 Sami 5 5
134 Samuel 41 5
135 Sarah 5 6
136 Scott 78 7
137 Sean 37 6
138 Sergio 24 5
139 Siddharth 5 5
140 Stanislav 11 5
141 Stephanie 5 5
142 Stephen 52 6
143 Sterling 3 5
144 Steven 78 8
145 Ted 4 5
146 Thomas 119 6
147 Tiago 7 5
148 Timothy 43 5
149 Tobias 10 6
150 Todd 20 6
151 Tyler 28 5
152 Vegard 2 5
153 Victor 35 6
154 Vincent 35 6
155 Walter 19 6
156 Wayne 8 6
157 Wendy 8 6
158 William 105 8
159 Wing 4 5
160 Yosuke 3 5
161 Yuriy 6 5
162 Yuval 3 5
163 Zachary 28 6
Only 5 days until I fly to Taipei for the APT.
I'm trying to secure my place on Team Dave for the greatest fantasy competition ever: Summer In Vegas.
Not only is Summer in Vegas a fantasy competition: it's a reality competition too.
Don't just enter the pool, play your way onto a team and then run "Godlike" or "Glaserlike" in Vegas this summer.
I'm got my entry in the pool: Team Nick. Now I need my place on Team Dave.
Currently, I'm Team Dave's #2 Mixed Game player. I'm hanging on by a thread.
Need more cashes to solidity myself on the team.
And I looked over my teammates on Team Dave: what a bunch of losers!
There are 5 of us and our combined cashes during last summer in Vegas was ZERO!
So, I'm trying to make a team that has no chance at all on winning.
Oh well, we're in our rebuilding phase. Wait til '25!
BTW, Team Dave is a disaster but not Team David. Those guys have a powerhouse.
Just noticed that YouTube had a broadcast of a qualifying event: the Main Event of the Champion's Club in Houston.
And....they don't say who the players are!!!
Who would want to watch a poker video if you don't know who is playing?
Idiotic.
The great thing about this fantasy pool is that it doesn't need to be a fantasy.
Insert yourself into the action and get a spot on one of the teams.
I'm doing that by heading to Taipei to play the APT.
You can too or play in any of the running/upcoming series that qualify for Summer In Vegas pre-season.
15 - 27 Feb 2024 United States Moneymaker Poker Tour - Palm Beach, West Palm Beach
19 Feb - 24 Mar 2024 United States Wynn Millions Poker Series, Las Vegas
20 Feb - 4 Mar 2024 United States Leap into Spring Series - Los Colinas, Irving
21 Feb - 16 Mar 2024 United States Bally's Colorado Poker Championship, Black Hawk
21 - 25 Feb 2024 England European Championship of Amateur Poker (ECOAP), London
23 Feb - 3 Mar 2024 Estonia Kings of Tallinn 2024, Tallinn
25 - 29 Feb 2024 United States Cardplayer Lifestyle Mixed Game Festival VII, Las Vegas
26 Feb - 3 Mar 2024 Romania Vamos Poker Tour - VPT Bucharest 2024, Bucharest
28 Feb - 10 Mar 2024 Taiwan APT Asian Poker Tour - APT Taipei, Taipei City
28 Feb - 8 Mar 2024 United States PKRGO PokerGO Tour - 2024 PGT Mixed Games, Las Vegas
4 - 26 Mar 2024 United States WPT World Poker Tour - WPT Rolling Thunder, Lincoln
7 - 18 Mar 2024 United States PokerAtlas Tour - Las Vegas, Las Vegas
11 - 15 Mar 2024 Slovakia European Mixed Poker Championship, Bratislava
11 - 24 Mar 2024 Slovakia Poker North Masters & Norwegian Championship 2024, Bratislava
12 - 25 Mar 2024 United States 2024 Cincinnati Poker Open, Cincinnati
13 - 20 Mar 2024 Brazil WSOP International Circuit - WSOPC Brazil, Sao Paulo (Rio?)
13 - 25 Mar 2024 United States SHR Tampa Poker Classic, Tampa
21 Mar - 1 Apr 2024 United States WSOPC World Series of Circuit - WSOPC Las Vegas, Las Vegas
Team Jeremy for me please.
Surprised Jeremy becker is not on there?
Jeremy 44 6
Is one missing?
All the Jeremys are there but I did have Jeremy Hamey down as having cashed in a Mixed Game. This wasn't correct and I fixed it.
Despite losing 1 qualifier, this actually helps your team. Hamey is still on your team as an Omaha player and it opens up another spot for a Mixed Game player.
Jeremy Becker currently has 10 Holdem cashes for $37,505 in qualifying tournaments. His cashes at the Venetian (all flop games) and the recurring tournaments (must be part of a series) don't qualify. However, a new set of tournaments have just started at the Wynn so I would expect Becker will make your roster soon.
The bad news is that if Becker gets on the roster then Jeremy Menard will be gone (only 2 holdem players per team).
I hear there is a lot of money bet on how Becker will do this summer. That's good news/bad news. That bet is only on the WSOP and last summer Becker got a lot of his cashes at the Venetian.
The bet might get him to play more WSOP events but less Venetian events.
Then there is Jeremy Ausmus. You are very lucky that he is qualified as Omaha only. However, he is quite capable of scoring big at Holdem which would deprive you of one of your Holdem players.
The pre-season is quite confusing so that some times you have to cheer AGAINST one of your players. However, in the summer it's just "last longer" only so that will not be a problem.
Also, in the summer all the series in Vegas running concurrently with the WSOP count (even if they are all flop) so the Venetian tournaments will qualify for the "last longer"s.
Jeremy Ausmus (one of Team Jeremy's Omaha players)
CORRECTION:
There are 2 Leap Into Spring series that started on the 20th in Texas.
It's the one in Dallas that qualifies - not the one in Irving.
I'm off to Taipei to play the APT and try to lock up a position on Team Dave.
No updates until I'm back on March 11th.
Here are the 166 teams that have qualified:
And here are the entries so far. Feel free to enter while I'm away.
Also, the complete rosters for the 166 teams are here.
$100 entries
Team Aaron (aaronk56)
Team Adam (rickroll)
Team Alan (Doctors Without Borders)
Team Brandon (housenuts)
Team Dan (Nolan Hee)
Team Daniel (Reporters Without Borders)
Team David (D1iabol1cal)
Team Jeremy (Mixedgamelover)
Team John (Canada-Ukraine Foundation)
Team Jonathan (sixfour)
Team Mark (marknfw)
Team Matt (iraisetoomuch)
Team Matthew (master3004)
Team Michael (Booker Wolfbox)
Team Nick (FerencL)
Team Phillip (xander biscuits)
Team William (Phat Mack)
$300 entries
Team Adam/Adam Friedman (Canada-Ukraine Foundation)
Team Adam/Adam Hendrix (rickroll)
Team Alan/Alan Engel (Doctors Without Borders)
Team Dan/Shaun Deeb (Nolan Hee)
Team Daniel/Daniel Negreanu (Reporters Without Borders)
Team Nick/Nick Pupillo (FerencL)
Team William/Bill Chen (Phat Mack)
$500 entries
Team Adam/Adam Friedman/Kathy Chang (Canada-Ukraine Foundation)
Team Adam/Adam Hendrix/Maria Ho (rickroll)
Team Alan/Alan Engel/Angela Jordison (Doctors Without Borders)
Team Dan/Shaun Deeb/Maria Ho (Nolan Hee)
Team Daniel/Daniel Negreanu/Kathy Chang (Reporters Without Borders)
Team Nick/Nick Pupillo/Kathy Chang (FerencL)
Team William/Bill Chen/Hui Chen Quo (Phat Mack)
glgl in taiwan
eat some soup dumplings, download tinder and bang away, and feel free to chip dump to any adams if you think you can get away with it
for real though, the food there is really good, it's a less gritty and more westernized version of china, you'll have a lot of fun there
for real though, the food there is really good, it's a less gritty and more westernized version of china, you'll have a lot of fun there
What a great place. Due to jet lag up and about at 5AM. No problem, 3 7-11s within a block! Went for two of their specialties: sweet potato and tea eggs. Great breakfast.
It didn't take Daniel Negreanu long to join Team Daniel.
In his first qualifying tournament ($5K PokerGo HORSE) of this contest he made the final table.
The tournament finishes up tomorrow but any final table finish should be good enough to get Negreanu onto the team.
It's great news for Reporters Without Borders who have Team Daniel for $100 and Team Daniel/Daniel Negreanu for an additional $300.
Meanwhile, Daniel Heimiller stays hot with 2 more cashes at the Wynn.
the other Daniel
And how about the other superstar at the final table of the 5K PokerGo HORSE: Benny Glaser?
Benny's most recent cashes were in non-qualifying tournaments.
He has just holdem + omaha and will get the mixed game qualifier because of this final table.
There is only one other Benny that has qualified so far: Benny Chen in Holdem.
That gives Team Benny 4 qualifiers of the 5 they need to be accepted into the Summer In Vegas.
So, all sights will be on the one non-mixed game in the PokerGo Mixed Game Series: the 2-7 Single Draw that closes out the series.
A cash in that tournament will qualify Team Benny.
BTW, there was an 8-game that Benny cashed in in Rio - I didn't have that series on my qualifying list - I better recheck it
PokerGo is streaming the final table of the 5K HORSE on YouTube. Check it out.
Whomever wins makes no difference. Daniel is in, Benny still needs to cash in the NL27.
News from event #2: David Baker & David Baker are currently running #10 & #11 in the chip counts.
I think "Bakes" is currently on Team David and a cash for ODB would get him on the team.
YouTube will have this final table tomorrow.
I'm now in a better position to make the dreadful Team Dave.
3rd place in the 8-game for 26K Taiwan dollars (aprox US$882).
go go go
