25K Fantasy 2024

On Day 22 of the 2024 WSOP, Event #43: $1,500 Mixed Omaha will see 22 players from an 853-entry field come back for Day 3 including a trio of $25K Fantasy players – Michael Rodrigues (Team DPMC), Phil Hellmuth (Team TheCoffeeBreakers), and Shaun Deeb (Team Lady Gaga).

Meanwhile, in Event #38: $1,500 Monster Stack, 416 players from an 8,704-entry field will return to action including 10 draftees from the $25K Fantasy league including Stephen Song (Team DPMC), Kristen Foxen (Team NGNF), Joao Simao (Team Sternheimer), Jake Schwartz (Team Oz), Shannon Shorr (Team Girl Dads), Ryan Leng (Team Sepiol), Toby Lewis (Team Chingas), Arthur Morris (Team AJ’s Eagles), Alex Foxen (Team Sepiol), and Brian Yoon (Team Chingas).

In Event #44: $2,000 NLH, a couple hundred players return for Day 2 including $25K Fantasy players James Chen (Team AJ’s Eagles), Ryan Riess (Team Girl Dads), Qiang Xu (Team Lady Gaga), Patrick Leonard (Team Lucky), Koray Aldemir (Team Kalas), Jeremy Becker (Team NGNF), and Wing Po Liu (Team Lady Gaga).

Finally, Event #45: $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. Championship attracted 152 players, but only 87 of them found a bag at the end of Day 1. They included dozens of $25K Fantasy players such as chip leader Maxx Coleman (Team AJ’s Eagles), Maria Ho (Team Noori), and Brad Ruben (Team Oz), just to name a few.

Remember, PokerNews has been tracking $25K Fantasy players in our live updates, and have even made it simple to follow the action by tagging all players with a $25K Fantasy badge. That allows you to utilize our chip count filter option to follow only those players (just tick the $25K Fantasy badge); what’s more, each blog will have a “$25K Fantasy” tab that if you click all you will see are hands played by $25K Fantasy players.

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The 2024 World Series of Poker (WSOP) has been running for 19 days, and right now in Daniel Negreanu’s $25K Fantasy league Team The Dinkers (Josh Kay & the Florida crew) sit atop the leaderboard with 536 points. However, Team Sternheimer (Philip Sternheimer) is hot on their heels with 518 points, while Team Lady Gaga (Ren Lin) is in third with 378 points.

Currently sitting in fourth place and within striking distance is Team Oz (Gary Benson), who is in the thick of it thanks to having the highest-performing player thus far – Wisconsin’s Josh Reichard.

Reichard is fresh off winning the WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown, which had its final table play out at the HyperX Arena at Luxor at the end of May right at the start of the WSOP. Not only did Reichard win $839,300 and etch his name on the Mike Sexton Champions Cup, but he finally got a big-time signature win for his poker resumé.

So far this summer at the WSOP, he notched three cashes including 21st in the massive Event #5: $1,000 Mystery Millions (101 points), 144th in Event #30: $600 Mixed NLH/PLO Deepstack (1 point), and most recently sixth place in Event #34: $2,500 NLH Freezeout (37 points).

Reichard was drafted for $5, which means he’s offered a valuable 27.9 points per dollar (Pts.$). A 15-time WSOP Circuit ring winner, an MSPT Hall of Famer, and now a WPT champion, Reichard is largely considered among the “Best Without a Bracelet.” He came close last summer when he finished runner-up to Bradley Gafford in Event #74: $1,000 Mini Main Event for $339,646.

Top 10 Point Earners as of 6/15/24

Harder & Mizrachi Best Value

While Reichard is the highest point earned in the $25K Fantasy up to this point, he isn’t the best value player. That distinction goes to Christian Harder, who was purchased by Team TheCoffeeBreakers for $1. He’s cashed six times thus far at the 2024 WSOP including a 155th-place finish in Event #5: $1,000 Mystery Millions, which was good for 101 points thanks to hitting the field bonus.

Similarly, $1 players Ash Gupta (Team Oz) and Dong Chen (Team Lady Gaga) both have 104 points for hitting the same field bonus, while Yingui Li (Team Lady Gaga), also a $1 pickup, has amassed an impressive 10 cashes so far totaling 65 point, including 43 points for finishing seventh in Event #26: $25,000 High Roller.

Finally, Robert Mizrachi was a $1 buy for Team The Dinkers, and he had a bit of a chip on his shoulder for going so low.

Mizrachi has been on firing winning his fifth gold bracelet by taking down Event #13: $10,000 Dealers Choice Championship, and he’s added four other cashes to his summer resumé.

Best Value Players as of 6/15/24

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