25K Fantasy Draft 2024

Ray Henson was a $2 buy for Team Livingston, leaving them two roster spots to fill and $9 to do it, and that led to a nomination of Poker Hall of Famer Erik Seidel.

The 10-time gold bracelet winner sold for $14 to Team Lucky, who have $34 remaining to fill their last two roster spots.

Rob Mizrachi was nominated by The Dinkers and sold to them for $1, and then Adam Hendrix, who is Alaska's all-time money leader, went to Team Wilson for $33, who exhausted their budget to become the first team to complete their eight-man roster.

Player	Chips	Progress
Team Lucky	34 -26	-26
The Dinkers	23 -1	-1
Team Livingston	9 -2	-2
Team Wilson	Busted

Tags: Adam HendrixErik Seidel

Stephen Chidwick, who some consider the best tournament player in the world, sold to the defending champs Team DPMC for $20 and was the 76th pick, marking the halfway point of the draft.

Marco Johnson then sold for Team Sternheimer for $37, and then Aram Zobian went for $7 to Team Wilson, leaving them just one roster spot to fill and $33 left to spend.

Ryan Leng was a $9 pick for Team Sepiol, and then Daniel Negreanu nominated Andrew "Lucky Chewy" Lichtenberger for $1, but Jeff Platt of Team NGNF went to $2. Negreanu counted for $3 and Platt made it $5, the max his team could bid. Negreanu noticed that fact and bid $6 to claim Lucky Chewy.

Cary Katz (AKA "El Jefe") then went to Team Sternheimer before Wisconsin's Josh Reichard sold for $5 to Team Oz.

Player	Chips	Progress
Team Oz	98 -5	-5
Team Negreanu	35 -6	-6
Team Wilson	33 -7	-7
Team DPMC	31 -20	-20
Team Sepiol	25 -54	-54
Team Sternheimer	24 -48	-48

Tyler Brown was the 69th player (of 152) to be nominated, and he sold to Team Livingston for $29, leaving them just three open roster spots, and then Aaron Kupin went to Team Chingas for $25.

From there it was a flurry of picks including...

• Brian Hastings to Team Oz for $5
• Joey Couden to Team Baker for $9
• Scott Seiver had an opening bid of $20 and sold to Team AJ's Eagles for $37
• Kane Kalas, an owner of a team tonight, bought himself for $33
• Maria Ho, who won this league two years ago, sold to Team Noori for $6

Player	Chips	Progress
Team Oz	103 -5	-5
Team AJ's Eagles	49 -37	-37
Team Baker	39 -9	-9
Team Noori	29 -6	-6
Team Livingston	11 -29	-29

Tags: Kane Kalas

Former WSOP POY Robert Campbell sold for just $1, the first one-dollar player, to Team Oz, and then Toby Lewis sold for $2 to Team Chingas.

Former WSOP Main Event champ Koray Aldemir, who two years ago was the highest-point performer and helped propel Team Maria Ho to victory, was nominated next. While he sold for $2 the year he crushed, this year teams were onto him and bid accordingly. A series of back-and-forth bids saw the 2021 Main Event champ sell for $75 to Team Kalas joining Philip Sternheimer and Paul Volpe on the roster.

Bryce Yockey sold to The Dinkers for $13, as did Jerry Wong for $30.

Justin Saliba, fresh off a big runner-up score at the Triton Montenegro, was nominated next and went to Team Livingston for $40.

Player	Chips	Progress
Team Oz	108 17	17
Team Kalas	56 -75	-75
Team Chingas	40 -2	-2
Team Livingston	40 -40	-40
The Dinkers	24 -43	-43

Tags: Koray AldemirJustin Saliba

"Angry" John Monnette is the fifth-highest point earned in the history of the $25K Fantasy Draft, but he sat on the shelf for a couple of hours before becoming the 60th player nominated and selling to Team Sepiol for $45.

Scott Ball followed and sold to Team Lucky for $12, leaving them with just a trio of roster spots to fill.

"Allen 'F***ing' Kessler," was the next nominee and sold to Team NGNF for $2, joining their ranks for the second year in a row.

"Let's go," an exuberant Brent Hanks and Jeff Platt shouted.

Tags: John MonnetteScott Ball

Arthur Morris went to Team AJ's Eagles for $47, and then Phil Ivey became the 56th player nominated in the 2024 $25K Fantasy Draft.

The bids went dollar-by-dollar with Team Negreanu driving up the price before bowing out when Team Sepiol bid $16, enough to get the 10-time bracelet winner. Ivey joined Adam Friedman and Alex Foxen on the roster of the team manned by Dan Sepiol and Jesse Lonis.

2022 WSOP champ Espen Jorstad was the next nominee and sold to Team Sternheimer for $11 joining Benny Glaser and Chris Vitch on the roster.

Argentina's Nacho Barbero was up next and commanded a $53 price tag from Team Negreanu.

"It's Nacho F***ing Barbero," Negreanu said in an accent.

Team Lucky then nabbed Mike Noori for a mere $3,

Player	Chips	Progress
Team AJ's Eagles	86 -47	-47
Team Sepiol	79 -16	-16
Team Sternheimer	72 -11	-11
Team Lucky	60 -3	-3
Team Negreanu	41 -53	-53

Tags: Arthur MorrisEspen JorstadPhil Ivey

Steve Wolansky went to Team AJ's Eagles for $9, joining David Peters on the roster. AJ Kelsall's team currently has $178 remaining in its budget, which is the most at this point in the draft.

However, Kelsall spent $45 of that on the next pick adding Max Coleman to the team.

Yuval Bronshtein was nominated next and went dollar-by-dollar to $7 until a team took a big bid jump to $25. His price continued to increase from there all the way up to $54 going to Team Wilson, leaving them with just two open roster spots.

Team Wilson

Player	Chips	Progress
Team AJ's Eagles	133 -54	-54
Team Wilson	40 -54	-54

Tags: Max ColemanSteve WolanskyYuval Bronshtein