Daniel Negreanu’s 25K Fantasy Draft: What Player Went for the Most Money Ever?

The WSOP 25k Fantasy Draft happened Tuesday afternoon with a report 24 groups every bidding on eight gamers they hope will carry out effectively this summer time.

It took 5 hours to draft 192 gamers contained in the PokerGO Studio on the Las Vegas Strip. Every crew had a most of $200 to bid on gamers, and one squad — Crew DPMD — used $141 of it on Jeremy Ausmus, who has 5 World Sequence of Poker (WSOP) bracelets since 2021.

The expensive bid, albeit for the highest performer on the sequence the previous 4 years, left the crew with simply $59 to bid on seven different gamers, however they had been capable of finding what seems to be some strong worth with expert gamers similar to Seth Davies ($29) and Stephen Track ($17) among the many roster.

Different groups prevented the high-priced expertise and as a substitute sought worth. However all of them had one technique in thoughts: Benefit from a roster that prices $25,000 to enter.

Negreanu Chooses Himself

Daniel Negreanu has solely cashed within the 25k Fantasy Draft as soon as. He is trying to make that two instances this 12 months, however he’ll be closely relying on his personal efficiency on the WSOP.

The seven-time bracelet winner selected himself along with his first choose for $108. Negreanu additionally gambled with some low bids on some old-school poker legends — Erick Lindgren ($2) and Mike Matusow ($3).

Matusow felt snubbed by the remainder of the groups refusing to draft him. He vowed to reward Negreanu with an enormous summer time.

All the largest names within the sport, not less than these anticipated to play not less than a handful of WSOP occasions this 12 months, had been chosen. Some notable bids had been Phil Ivey ($95 to Crew Glue Manufacturing facility), Phil Hellmuth ($79 to Crew Cash Mondays), Nick Schulman ($107 to Crew Splash Sports activities), Scott Seiver ($125 to Crew Frog Poison), and Josh Arieh ($71 to Crew Jeremy’s).

There have been some noticeable absences on the draft. Shaun Deeb opted out of drafting a crew, however he did go for $99 to Crew Phenon. Allen Kessler wasn’t chosen by any crew, and he wasn’t thrilled with the snub.

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The 25k Fantasy Groups

Crew Negreanu (Proprietor: Daniel Negreanu)

AJ’s Eagles (Proprietor: AJ Kelsall)

Crew Woman Gaga (Proprietor: Ren Lin)

Crew Phenom (Proprietor: Matt Valeo)

Crew DPMD (Proprietor: Donnie Peters & Mickey Doft

Crew Frog Poison (Proprietor: Martin Zamani)

Crew Australia (Proprietor: Didier Guerin)

Crew Survivor Sweat (Proprietor: David “ODB” Baker)

Crew Noori (Proprietor: Mike Noori)

Crew Hoggers (Proprietor: Jake Schwartz & Chad Eveslege)

Crew Good-looking Horses (Proprietor: Patrick Leonard)

Crew Liaison (Proprietor: Andrew Ostapachenko)

Crew Woman Dads (Proprietor: Ryan Riess & Jesse Lonis)

Crew Glue Manufacturing facility (Proprietor: Dan Sepiol)

Crew Brown’s Cut price Bin (Proprietor: Andrew Brown)

Crew BTG (Proprietor: Bryce Yockey)

Crew NOVIG (Proprietor: Nick Verderamo

Crew Jeremy’s (Proprietor: Jeremy Becker)

Crew Splash Sports activities (Proprietor: Brent Hanks & Jeff Platt)

Crew Lang (Proprietor: Mike Lang)

Crew Wass (Proprietor: Eric Wasserson)

Crew Cash Mondays (Proprietor: Dan Fleyshman)

Crew Splashy Octopi (Proprietor: Ben Ludlow)

Crew Dinkers (Proprietor: Josh Kay)

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