Fantasy Poker Winner Announced!

Who has proven themselves a guru of poker by taking down the WSOP fantasy league and the prize of a WSOPE side event seat worth 1500 pounds?

By Lucy Kavanagh

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WSOPE 2008 Schedule

With the final table of the WSOP 2008 Main Event now decided, it is time to tally up the scores and see who picked the best fantasy poker team this year.

The Final Top Ten:

1. Greg 'marshall_gj' Marshall - 171
2. weirdrash - 164
3. James 'lendus' Morris - 157
4 = John 'RampantLion' Grout - 152
4 = Paul 'lionel hutz' Spillane - 152
6. Kevin 'CanadaKav' Malarek - 147
7. cagey75 - 141
8. Jim 'jimegg' MacLaughlin - 139
9. ryanaw - 138
10. Myles 'mylesfdo' Phago - 137

Greg bags himself a rather yummy Betfair WSOPE Side Event seat worth £1500. Check Poker Verdict in the build up to the WSOPE for an interview with Greg and throughout event 1 for the latest news on his progress. Good luck Greg!

For the rest of us, hope is still on the horizon to get involved in this year's WSOPE. Betfair Poker is setting aside $1.5 MILLION to send a team to WSOP Europe in September 2008. Check out the Betfair lobby for all the latest satellites.

Team PV Fantasy Team Results

As usual, Neil 'badbeat1' Channing flies above the rest of us and comes out on top, earning himself freedom from all possible ridicule resulting from poor performance in the Fantasy League. In the office however it looks like two people in particular will be suffering taunts on their non-performing choice of players...

Neil 'badbeat1' Channing

118 Points

Phil Hellmuth
Eric Seidel
Allen Cunningham
Johnny Chan
Neil Channing

David 'thekid08' Gross

78 Points

Phil Hellmuth
Neil Channing
Erik Seidel
Kirk Morrison
David Pham

Warren 'Golden Fish' Wooldridge

42 Points

Neil Channing
Warren Wooldridge
Gavin Smith
Roland De Wolfe
Michael Binger

Simon 'billybrimstone' Hopper

79 Points

Alex Kravchenko
John Juanda
Gavin Griffin
Patrik Antonius
Scotty Nguyen