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Ross "Bluetang" Gottlieb raised to 4,000 under the gun, Daniel “centrfieldr” Lupo three-bet all in for 18,194 from late position and only Brett "furofakind" Shaffer called from the small blind.
Brett "furofakind" Shaffer:
Daniel “centrfieldr” Lupo:
Lupo was way behind needing an eight but none appeared on the runout and he was eliminated from the tournament.
Registration has closed on the 2021 WSOP Online Event #13: $1,000 NLH Freezeout with 561 players creating a $504.900 prize pool.
That will be paid out to the top 90 finishers with a min-cash being worth $1,413.72 and the eventual winner taking home $108,654.48 and the gold bracelet.
The WSOP.com Summer Online Circuit Event runs July 16–27. You’ll have a chance to win over $1 Million in guarantees, 12 WSOP Gold Rings, a chance to climb to the top spot on the $10k Series Leaderboard, and entry into the $25,000 Freeroll.
$10k Player of the Month Leaderboard
Pays in Tournament Tickets to the top 10 players in the Gold Ring events
First-place leaderboard finisher gains a seat into the $250,000 Year-End Championship event(which will award a WSOP Gold Bracelet)
$25,000 Freeroll – July 30 @ 4:30pm
Each ring event winner from the series as well as the top 10 finishers on the $10k Player of the Month are eligible to participate in freeroll.
Grinder’s Only Second Chance Freeroll – July 30 @ 5:00pm
The winner of this freeroll will earn a seat into the $250,000 Year-End Championship Event.
Players who played in at least 3 Gold Ring events will be eligible to participate.
Year-End Championships
This event will award $250,000 in prize money as well as a WSOP Gold Bracelet. Only eligible players are invited to participate in this event. To become an eligible player:
Win a WSOP Gold Ring Event during the 2021 season
Win a $10,000 Player of the Month Leaderboard
Win a Grinder’s Online Second Chance Freeroll
Be one of the top 50 players on the Cumulative Circuit Leaderboard
One player who has been doing quite well on playing online in recent years is bracelet winner Daniel “centrfieldr” Lupo, 37, of West Milford, New Jersey. You might recall in 2019, Lupo topped a 1,767-entry field to win the WSOP.com Online $500 NLH Turbo Deepstack for $145,274 and a gold bracelet. Last year, he added a ring to his résumé by taking down the WSOP.com Online Circuit Event #3: $320 NLH 6-Max for $32,595 and a month later won the WSOP.com $100,000 GTD Sunday for $50,715.
PokerNews caught up with Lupo, who went to NJIT for Architecture and baseball, to ask him about poker, which he squeezes in between working for an Architecture firm in Bridgewater specializing in single-family residential and smaller commercial projects and his family, which includes three kids ages 2-5 and his supportive wife Laura.
PokerNews: When and how did you learn to play poker?
Lupo: I started playing/learning in college during the Rounders and Moneymaker boom with a bunch of the baseball guys. Within a year I found myself hosting games at college, at home on breaks and basically anywhere I could find or make a game. I didn’t play much online early on, regrettably.
What sort of poker do you play these days?
Mostly online MTTs playing like three sessions per week on average with buy-ins typically from $50 to $1k with the occasional $2-$3k buy in for a big event. I average around 500-600 MTTs a month despite not playing full time, I tend to put in a lot of volume when I’m on. The games are mostly NLH and some PLO MTTs, but love when StarsNJ runs a series as they run a fun 8-Game MTT with a bunch of other mixed variants.
What’s it like to play poker while raising young children?
It’s been a constant evolution. I could probably write a book about all the highs and lows and life adjustments I’ve had or chose to make. It gives me a lot of inspiration to succeed while also adding some weight to my losses as it's like 'not only was I way from my kids for all of Sunday afternoon but I lost (insert obnoxious Sunday schedule cost here)'.
Daniel Lupo and his family. (Photo c/o Daniel Lupo)
What are some of your poker goals?
Try and win everything I play. Actually, my biggest current goal is trying to optimize my MTT game selection. Since quarantine began the schedules have been exploding site to site and while it's been great, with lots of new players and lots of live players playing online it has also drastically increased my average buy-ins and session costs as well as the field size which further increases variance.
I'm trying to optimize the balance of table quantity and expected value vs individual session costs and the variance that comes with it. Having an average buy-in of $250 adds up pretty quickly when it's spread across 60+ entries on a Sunday. My biggest ongoing and long-term goal is to win enough to help my family live comfortably.
Lupo is in action today looking to make a run at his second gold bracelet.
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