Poker Goes Off the Rails, Dario Sammartino Dodges the Mercier Name & Showers All Round

The World Series of Poker is in the can for another year. Sending the WSOP on its way, poker players have been celebrating its crazy final table rails, going all misty-eyed for the past two months…and handing out showers. It’s to get under the water and wash that Rio grime away.

OFF THE RAILS IS FINE

Some love them, some don’t. This poker fan is clearly a supporter of the raucous rails that punctuated the Main Event coverage.

THE BEST OF THE BEST

With the $25k Fantasy League finally complete, congratulations are in order to Team Riess, who, with their star man Dario Sammartino leading the way, overcame the fur-figure mark, the only team to do so.

Here are the top five players, and you can check out the full standings for the final league table right here.

Top Five Players:

Rank	Player	Team	Price	Points	Points per $
1	Dario Sammartino	Riess	34	376	11.06
2	Daniel Negreanu	Fleyshman	105	305	2.9
3	Shaun Deeb	Noori	102	297	2.91
4	Nick Schulman	Negreanu	10	247	24.7
5	Calvin Anderson	Fleyshman	26	246	9.46

Elsewhere, in the WSOP Player of the Year Race, players such as Robert Campbell, Daniel Negreanu, Dan Zack and Shaun Deeb have been left with a big choice. Do they play the WSOP Europe in October and November? If they want that banner enough they will!

Re-watch the final table of the WSOP Main Event on ESPN and PokerGO in non-ESPN affiliated regions. Read about ninth-place finisher Milos Skrbic’s story right here. Read the story of Timothy Su, who finished in eight-place, right here. Read about Kevin Maah’s elimination in fifth place right here. The story of Garry Gates’ fourth-place finish and Alex Livingston’s third place can be found in the links.