2025. WSOP Final Table
Something has changed after many many years.
1, A female reached to Final table after 30 years.
2, As many as 8 out of 10 who made final table are professional poker players or semi professional. ( This definitely changed the course of many many years as in past years we have seen majority of recreational players among the finalists.)
So now I am thinking of the best Dream Team to be on final table next years.
I would love to see following 10 players at final table next year :
Player. WSOP. …. (1st place/# . Lifetime $$
.. …. .. bracelet……..of cashes)
1,Phil Hellmuth. 17. (72/463). 30.7Mil
2,Phil Ivey. 11. (40/252) 52 Mil
3,DN. 7. (54/550) 56 Mil
4,Johnny Chan. 10. (44/155). 8.7 Mil
5,Eric Seidel. 10 (35/448) 48 Mil
6,Brian Kenney. 1 (25/217). 78 Mil
7,Stephen Chadwick. 2 (41/308). 68 Mil
8,Jason Koon. 2 (31/243) 66 Mil
9,Justin Bonamo. 2 (36/240). 65 Mil
10, A recreational player like yourself!!
* I don’t mind if a qualified woman replace anyone from above list (But not 10th seat (:
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Before it started , I also thought it was one of the best final table in recent history.
I reality, it was one the most boring final table I have watched.
Particularly heads up was horrible.
Before it started , I also thought it was one of the best final table in recent history.
I reality, it was one the most boring final table I have watched.
Particularly heads up was horrible.
Couldn't agree more. Lots of noise about how dominant Mizrachi was, but all I saw was how incredibly lucky he was. Even the hand he bluffed with the worst no-pair was a painfully obvious play given his stack size, position, and the board pairing the deuce on the river. You'd have to be a pretty poor player to do anything but bluff at that pot with the big stack and hope that nobody had even a bluff catcher - which luckily for Grinder was the case.
Not taking anything away from Mizrachi, the guy's definitely deserving to be in the HoF, but we didn't get to see much interesting play at the FT because of the sun run he went on.
The stacks were not very deep by the time they got to the final 9. While Waz seems like a generally competent player, I also think he's near the bottom of the FT in terms of having any potential to outplay Grinder HU. I don't recall him running one meaningful bluff in the HU. He was playing cautiously and trying to cooler Mizrachi, but Mizrachi was going to win all the pots when nobody had a hand and just wait for a spot to call him off dead, which is exactly what happened. When you are the inferior player HU, you need to try to build pots and make the other guy gamble. You cannot play the waiting game.
In hindsight, key inflection points were Grinder outflipping Hendrix AK > JJ and turning two pair QT vs. Hallaert's KJ. Give either of those guys 100M+ to fight back with and it might have been a fun HU match. Instead it was the least dramatic finish I can remember since maybe McKeehen in 2015.
The stacks were not very deep by the time they got to the final 9. While Waz seems like a generally competent player, I also think he's near the bottom of the FT in terms of having any potential to outplay Grinder HU. I don't recall him running one meaningful bluff in the HU. He was playing cautiously and trying to cooler Mizrachi, but Mizrachi was going to win all the pots whe
I don't think that's entirely fair to Waz. Given how Grinder was getting big hands and smashing turns and rivers, I don't know that Waz had more than one or two hands where he could have successfully bluffed, and a couple of those would only have won him a few extra blinds which he'd still have lost in the couple big hands where they both ended up having something - Grinder of course having the better each time. Waz had one preflop fold that was too tight, but the other folds seemed pretty straightforward for the short stack. Look, it's not like I thought he was likely to win HU against a pro like Mizrachi, but given the huge chip disparity to start and the hands they ended up with, I really doubt anyone would have done much better. Honestly they didn't play all that many hands HU, and they connected with flops with a much greater frequency than you normally see in heads-up play.
I don't think that's entirely fair to Waz. Given how Grinder was getting big hands and smashing turns and rivers, I don't know that Waz had more than one or two hands where he could have successfully bluffed, and a couple of those would only have won him a few extra blinds which he'd still have lost in the couple big hands where they both ended up having something - Grinder of
I agree .
Yes Mizrachi is one of the top pro .
Currently 32nd in all time money list .
But he was 4th once.!!
On the other hand Wasnock has improved his position from place 25255th to 337th .
Wasnock finishing 2nd place is a great achievement.
On the other hand with chip lead and experience Mizrachi has to win the tournament, it was a gift from Poker God .
{ ** It was like when you are in a marathon race and you are only 100 yards away from finishing line while your nearest competitor is a mile away **}
2nd place would have been a biggest disappointment for any professional who were in top 175 .
{ ** It was like when you are in a marathon race and you are only 100 yards away from finishing line while your nearest competitor is a mile away **}
2nd place would have been a biggest disappointment for any professional who were in top 175 .
Not really sure why being a professional vs not being a professional matters in this instance. Wasnock got lucky to climb back from a big chip deficit HU. And then Grinder got lucky to win.
If anyone should be disappointed about not winning it all its Wasnock, since he had the chip lead headed into the final table. That, and luck are by far the biggest factors in determining who will win with such a relatively small sample size as the hands played at the final table of the WSOP. If that same exact final table were played 1000 times, it's pretty much a certainty Wasnock would win it all more times than any other player at the table.
