Name your TOP 5 IPT Las Vegas players. Who's your dark horse?

[bandido]

For dark horses I'll take:
Orcullo
Alcano
Tademy
Van den Burg
Fu Jianbo
Except for Vanden Burg everyone else are newbies to the tour.

 

[rackmsuckr]

I am posting for Bernie here, who has asked me to put in his vote.

Please tell them that philip harrison of england is gonna take the pool world by storm, and that Bernie Friend told them so first,thanks.please post that for me.

 

[Grilled Cheese]

You make some good points, but I'm not so sure about this point. This is what I first thought but if you look at the prize money for the 4 tournaments you will see that they are pretty top heavy. Also given the fact that the first round group stage in each tournament are going to be seeded based on international ranking lists we are going to see alot of the card holders going out in the first round of each event leaving them stuck on 13k. Any open qualifier that wins through a couple of rounds in either of the two open event s is going to beat this amount and earn a card. I think even if a player makes it through the first stage in each of the two non open events I think they will only increase their winnings by a few thousand.

I predict that somewhere around $20k will be enough to earn a card after the 4 tournaments have finished, possibly slightly less. I didn't realise it at first but IMO this represents the easier of the two ways to earn a 2007 card.

I didn't know it would be seeded. That changes things quite a bit.


Given that, I need to slightly reanalyze my original assumptions.