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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PLAYER	HOLDEM$	OMAHA$	STUD$	DRAW$	MIXED$	OTHER$	#QUALIFICATIONS
Fedor Dedelov	2675	1221	0	0	0	1470	3
Fedor Holz	4235	0	0	0	0	0	1
Fedor Stadtrucker	0	0	0	0	899	0	1

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).

PLAYER	FINISH
Steven Jones Jr	2
Matthew Wantman	29
Allen Chang	56
Benjamin Grise	85
Sean Troha	104
Chris Lee	108
Ethan Bennett	150
Albert Calderon	175
Michael Duek	178
Nicholas Marchington	184
Rafael Moraes	196
Jesse Lonis	209
Jeff Gross	260
Jon Kyte	267
Nick Guagenti	291
Henry Lu	299
Arthur De Campos	304
Phillip Hui	380
Kenneth Baime	408
Jason Koon	440
William Foxen	456
Dylan Weisman	486
Sergio Aido	500
Jeremy Joseph	502
Danny Panagatos	518
Derek Schroeder	540
Andrew Ostapchenko	546
Rodrigo Insfran	651
Dylan Linde	691
Felipe Ketzer	704
Joe Kuether	737
Edward Mroczkowski	738
Anton Suarez	761
Joe Elpayaa	788
Adam Friedman	789
Grant Wang	824
Peter Ng	833
Bradley Coultas	905
George Wolff	925
Stephen Kehoe	928
Matthew Vengrin	935
Leonard August	986
Joseph Serock	1034
Daniel Barriocanal	1071
Kenneth Mapoy	1125
Charles Furey	1139
Bradley Smith	1261
Raymond Brint	1269
Aaron Pinson	1272
Richard Bai	1301
Jake Schwartz	1322
Matthew McEwan	1323
Allen Kessler	1381
Dale Roesel	1402
Anthony Pitesa	1408

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.

PLAYER	FINISH
Jorge Alba	1
Marshall Hall	6
Randy Holland	12
Stanislav Parkhomenko	16
David Shmuel	19

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.

Done.
You can also try for the $300 & $500 prizes too (costs nothing to try).

Here's the current Team Jeremy

PLAYER	HOLDEM$	OMAHA$	STUD$	DRAW$	MIXED$	OTHER$	#QUALIFICATIONS
Jeremy Ausmus	0	24139	0	0	0	0	1
Jeremy Hamey	2050	3740	0	0	0	0	1
Jeremy Joseph	51300	0	0	0	0	0	1
Jeremy Menard	45845	0	0	0	0	0	1
Jeremy Schofer	0	0	0	0	1416	0	1

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:

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	111	8
8 Anthony	86	6
9 Anton	17	5
10 Arthur	25	5
11 Austin	15	5
12 Ben	14	5
13 Benjamin	50	6
14 Bradley	22	6
15 Brandon	45	7
16 Brian	99	6
17 Bruno	44	6
18 Bryan	30	5
19 Carlos	54	6
20 Casey	10	5
21 Chad	24	5
22 Charles	57	5
23 Chris	25	6
24 Christian	33	6
25 Christopher	133	6
26 Corey	12	6
27 Craig	28	7
28 Dale	7	6
29 Dan	18	5
30 Daniel	177	6
31 Danny	17	6
32 Dave	12	5
33 David	292	8
34 Denis	17	6
35 Dennis	25	6
36 Derek	21	5
37 Donald	21	6
38 Dylan	22	6
39 Edward	28	5
40 Eric	84	8
41 Erik	18	5
42 Ethan	5	5
43 Fabio	35	6
44 Fedor	3	5
45 Felipe	51	5
46 Fernando	36	5
47 Frank	42	6
48 Frederic	11	5
49 Gabriel	57	6
50 Gary	41	6
51 George	48	6
52 Gordon	4	5
53 Grant	8	6
54 Greg	18	5
55 Gregory	37	6
56 Guilherme	38	5
57 Gustavo	32	5
58 Hal	3	5
59 Henry	12	5
60 Ian	25	6
61 Ilya	10	6
62 Jack	29	6
63 Jake	9	5
64 James	146	8
65 Jan	13	5
66 Jason	96	8
67 Jay	22	6
68 Jeff	19	7
69 Jeffrey	64	6
70 Jennifer	9	5
71 Jeremy	44	5
72 Jerry	15	6
73 Jesse	20	5
74 Joao	30	5
75 Joe	23	5
76 John	194	7
77 Jon	16	6
78 Jonathan	72	6
79 Jonathon	5	5
80 Jordan	35	6
81 Jorge	36	5
82 Jose	76	6
83 Joseph	149	7
84 Josh	11	5
85 Joshua	73	9
86 José	6	5
87 Jun	11	5
88 Keita	3	5
89 Kelly	12	5
90 Kenneth	42	7
91 Kevin	77	7
92 Kyle	33	7
93 Lasse	3	5
94 Lawrence	21	6
95 Leandro	20	5
96 Leonard	8	5
97 Luke	11	5
98 Maksim	15	5
99 Marc	34	5
100 Marcelo	37	6
101 Marco	26	5
102 Marcos	25	5
103 Marina	3	5
104 Mark	105	8
105 Marshall	5	5
106 Martin	40	6
107 Matheus	28	5
108 Matt	11	6
109 Matthew	125	8
110 Michael	356	9
111 Mike	27	6
112 Murilo	7	5
113 Nathan	22	6
114 Nicholas	65	8
115 Nick	14	6
116 Oleksandr	4	5
117 Pablo	15	5
118 Patrick	43	7
119 Paul	76	6
120 Paulo	27	5
121 Pedro	37	5
122 Peter	74	9
123 Philip	20	5
124 Phillip	18	6
125 Rafael	59	6
126 Randy	15	6
127 Raymond	20	6
128 Ricardo	43	5
129 Richard	103	6
130 Robert	172	8
131 Rodrigo	42	5
132 Roman	15	5
133 Ryan	75	8
134 Sam	13	5
135 Sami	5	5
136 Samuel	42	5
137 Sarah	5	6
138 Scott	78	7
139 Sean	37	6
140 Sergio	24	5
141 Siddharth	5	5
142 Stanislav	11	5
143 Stephanie	5	5
144 Stephen	52	6
145 Sterling	3	5
146 Steven	78	8
147 Ted	4	5
148 Thomas	121	6
149 Tiago	7	5
150 Timothy	43	5
151 Tobias	10	6
152 Todd	21	6
153 Tony	28	5
154 Tyler	28	5
155 Vegard	2	5
156 Victor	35	6
157 Vincent	35	6
158 Walter	19	6
159 Wayne	8	6
160 Wendy	8	6
161 William	105	8
162 Wing	4	5
163 Yosuke	3	5
164 Yuriy	6	5
165 Yuval	3	5
166 Zachary	28	6

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

Thanks rickroll.
I'd love to dump to an "Adam" but in Taipei Adams are few and far between.

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