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Friday, July 6, 2007
Team vs. Team: Poker site pros post big numbers
Chris "Jesus" Ferguson brought in five cashes at the 2007 WSOP for Team Full Tilt Poker.
By Sarah Polson
Fifty-four events have come and gone at the 2007 World Series of Poker. Thousands of poker players from all over the world came out to try their hand at winning a gold bracelet this year, including the teams of pro players sent by some of the Web's top poker sites.
Aside from the many qualifiers each site sent to the WSOP and the other people they're sponsoring, PokerStars.com, Full Tilt Poker and Bodog Poker all have teams of players they send to various events year round.
PokerStars.com has 19 pros on its team while Full Tilt Poker has 13 and Bodog Poker only lays claim to three pros. So how did these site's teams fair this year before heading into the Main Event?
Bodog Poker Team
| Name | Cashes | Amount | Bracelets |
| Josh Arieh | 1 | $11,658 | 0 |
| Evelyn Ng | 1 | $14,608 | 0 |
| David Williams | 4 | $74,317 | 0 |
| Total: | 6 | $100,583 | 0 |
Though it's the smallest team, it still posted some good numbers. The players averaged two cashes each thanks to David Williams' bringing in four himself. They also averaged $16,763 per cash or $33,527 per player.
Team PokerStars.com
| Name | Cashes | Amount | Bracelets |
| Chris Moneymaker | 1 | $3,888 | 0 |
| Greg Raymer | 4 | $168,854 | 0 |
| Joe Hachem | 1 | $1,613 | 0 |
| Barry Greenstein | 4 | $305,011 | 0 |
| Isabelle Mercier | 1 | $6,634 | 0 |
| Daniel Negreanu | 2 | $122,672 | 0 |
| John Duthie | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Tom McEvoy | 4 | $20,553 | 0 |
| Steve Paul-Ambrose | 2 | $16,367 | 0 |
| Vanessa Rousso | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Luca Pagano | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Victor Ramdin | 1 | $6,634 | 0 |
| Lee Nelson | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Bertrand Grospellier | 3 | $56,896 | 0 |
| Humberto Brenes | 3 | $332,976 | 0 |
| Bill Chen | 4 | $22,348 | 0 |
| Katja Thater | 3 | $185,371 | 1 |
| Noah Boeken | 3 | $27,796 | 0 |
| Andre Akkari | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total: | 36 | $1,451,968 | 1 |
Size does have its advantages. Team PokerStars.com 19 members managed 1.89 cashes per player. That's also an average of $76,419 per player or $40,322 per cash.
Team Full Tilt Poker
| Name | Cashes | Amount | Bracelets |
| Howard Lederer | 1 | $6,203 | 0 |
| Phil Ivey | 2 | $209,244 | 0 |
| Chris "Jesus" Ferguson | 5 | $84,562 | 0 |
| John Juanda | 5 | $136,593 | 0 |
| Jennifer Harman | 1 | $4,422 | 0 |
| Phil Gordon | 2 | $24,298 | 0 |
| Erick Lindgren | 4 | $51,536 | 0 |
| Erik Seidel | 5 | $559,393 | 1 |
| Clonie Gowen | 2 | $11,300 | 0 |
| Andy Bloch | 2 | $53,432 | 0 |
| Mike Matusow | 3 | $125,369 | 0 |
| Gus Hansen | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Allen Cunningham | 4 | $525837 | 1 |
| Total: | 36 | $1,792,189 | 2 |
Full Tilt Poker tops the numbers put up by PokerStars.com's team, though they came out to the same number of cashes. Team Full Tilt Poker averaged 2.77 cashes per player, with an average of $137,860 per player. Plus they averaged $49,783 per cash.
Full Tilt Poker's team has definitely put in some quality work at this year's World Series, but the Main Event could drastically change those numbers for any of the poker site teams. There's big money to be had in the $10,000 event, and any of those poker pros making it deep will give the team a boost.
To keep an eye on your favorite players, stay tuned to PokerListings.com's Live Tournament Section where our team will be bringing you the best live updates, photos, interviews, reports, videos and more from the WSOP.
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