Statistical Notes Following MPT 2021 Event #4

Observations following the return of the Las Vegas Spectacular, the fourth event of the 2021 season, held at the Golden Gate Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, NV on Saturday, July 31, 2021

• This was the first in-person MPT poker event since December 27, 2019
• This was the 12th MPT tournament held in July (though, the first since 2017), trailing only December as the month when the most MPT tournaments have been played
• The Golden Gate is the 11th different venue to host more than one in-person MPT event
• The Golden Gate is the third venue to host more than one Las Vegas Spectacular, joining The Mirage and South Point
• Three of the last four venues for MPT in-person events have been "Golden" (Golden Gate Las Vegas and Golden Nugget Atlantic City have hosted events)
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• In going 2,407 days between playing MPT tournament, Betdponies trails only Scurvydog, Syrorange3042, and Dorianmac for the longest time between MPT events played, while his 23 MPT events missed in between appearances trails the same three players and Dave for the longest gap in terms on number of tournaments missed in between appearances anyone's MPT career
• Bowchislin and DickHowser were the 68th and 69th different players to appear in at least one MPT event
• Amazon tied TSS777 for 5th place on the all-time appearance list, each having played 34 different MPT tournaments
• Viceroy is the 24th player in MPT history to play in five or more MPT tournaments
• Viceroy and Solotrombone are the 21st and 22nd people to play in more than one Las Vegas Spectacular
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• At three hours 33 minutes, this was the fourth longest Las Vegas Spectacular
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• Betdponies became the 10th different person to win a Las Vegas Spectacular
• In winning for the first time since 2010, Betdponies was just short of Syrorange3042's records for most MPT tournaments between wins (41 vs. 43) and days between victories (3,913 vs.4,012). He did tie Syrorange3042 is going 7 tournaments played in between wins, but both are far short of the 17 events in a row Harv29 played from 2008-2011 when he did not win a tournament
• With his sixth career MPT win, Betdponies moved out of a tie with Sass into sole possession of fifth place on the all-time wins list
• Betdponies tied TSS777 and Harv29 for wins in the second most different venues, with 6, trailing only Bigfus' 8 different winning venues
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• Harv29 finished in second place two tournaments in a row for only the second time in his MPT career, something he also accomplished last season in events on August 9th and 16th
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• Betdponies moved into 4th place on the all-time player rating list, while Harv29 moved ahead of RowanB to stay in the top 5 in the category
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• Betdponies earned the most points he has ever earned in a single event in his MPT career, while tying Sionow's August 16, 2020 win for the sixth most points all-time in a single event
• Harv29 took over the top spot in the season long points race, moving ahead of Sass, while RowanB and Viceroy also moved in the top four in points, ahead of a group of four more players separated by on a single point
• RowanB moved to within half a point of Bigfus in the race behind Harv29 for second place on the all-time points list
• Viceroy moved into a tie for 20th place on the all-time points list
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• Betdponies earned the biggest cash of his MPT career
• Harv29 leapt to the top of the money list for the season, while Betdponies moved into second spot with the biggest cash of the season
• Harv29 extended his lead in all-time Las Vegas Spectacular cashes, finishing in the money for the 8th time in 12 Spectaculars
• RowanB tied Bigfus for the most all-time MPT cashes, with his 30th finish in the money in his MPT career
• RowanB tied Sionow for the second most all-time Las Vegas Spectacular cashes, finishing in the money for the 5th of the 10 Spectaculars that he has played
• RowanB cashed in consecutive Las Vegas Spectaculars for the second time in his MPT career, joining Harv29 as the only players to do so more than once
• Viceroy became the 22nd player in MPT history to cash in more than one event
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• With 7 knockouts, Betdponies tied Trojanrabbit and Noahcat for the second highest number of players eliminated in a single MPT event, all trailing the 9 players TSS777 knocked out of the 2010 Las Vegas Spectacular
• Betdponies moved back ahead of TSS777 into fourth place on the all-time knockout list
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• Bowchislin became the 18th different player in MPT history to finish on the bubble, while joining Harv29 and Big Jer as the only players to bubble in their first career MPT event
• Solotrombone failed to cash in three straight events for the first time in his MPT career
• Amazon finished in last place for only the third time in her MPT career
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• A player who has no nickname in the MPT database won the MPT putting competition for the third time in his career
• RowanB became the second player to record more than one hole-in-one during a round in MPT putting, joining New Norman, who had three in 2016
• RowanB rebounded from a 10 early in the event and finished the back 9 in 23 strokes, tying New Norman for the second best single nine score in MPT history, one shot behind a 22 in 2013 from another player with no nickname in the MPT database
• Betdponies won the MPT Bowling championship for the second time in his MPT career, a title he last won in 2009, the first time the MPT Bowling event was held

Statistical Notes Following MPT 2021 Event #3

Observations following another Virtual MPT, the third event of the 2021 season, played on Pokerstars.net on Sunday May 30, 2021.

• RowanB broke a tie with Harv29 to move into sole possession of third place on the all-time win list, with his eighth career victory, trailing only Bigfus and TSS777
• RowanB has held the 9 of spades on the last hand of the last three tournaments that he was won
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• Sass's consecutive cash streak ended at three
• The Sealy Cup race tightened up, with Sass's relatively early exit and formerly second place Skiteacher sitting out. Sass remains six points clear of the pack, but six players are within 15 points of second place Harv29
• RowanB closed back to within one cash of Bigfus on the all-time cash list, while Harv29 kept pace with his 28th career cash, one cash behind RowanB in third place
• RowanB finished in the money for the first time this season, continuing his streak as the only player to cash in each MPT season that has included more than one event
• Sionow failed to cash in three straight events in which he has played for the first time in his MPT career
• TSS777 failed to cash in three straight events in which he has played for only the second time in his MPT career
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• RowanB climbed into 4th place on the all-time player rating list, as Sionow's season struggles continued and with a rare early exit by Syrorange3042. Solotrombone's recent out of the money finishes also shrank his lead at the top of the standings, though TSS777 failed to make up ground.
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• With 17 points, RowanB tied his fourth highest point total for a single event in his MPT career
• Harv29 moved past TSS777 into fifth place on the all-time list of highest average points per MPT event
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• By eliminating Sass in this tournament, TSS777 moved past Betdponies into fourth place on the all-time knockout list
• With three knockouts, RowanB tied his second highest total for players eliminated in a single event (which he has done eight previous times)
• TSS777 knocked another player out of an MPT event for the first time since May, 2014 (in his fifth event played during that stretch)
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• Sionow became the 11th player in MPT history to finish in last place in more than one MPT event

Statistical Notes Following MPT 2021 Event #2

Observations following another Virtual MPT, the second event of the 2021 season, played on Pokerstars.net on Sunday, April 18, 2021.

• With 13 players, this tied with three other events (including the last tournament, earlier this year) for the sixth largest field in MPT history
• Skiteacher became the 11th player to win more than one tournament in his MPT career
• With Ah8s on the last hand, Skiteacher was the third straight MPT champion to hold the Ah in their hand and the fourth player in the last five events to do so
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• Syrorange3042 finished in second place for the first time in his MPT career, becoming the 23rd different player to finish as runner-up at least once in an MPT event
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• Sass cashed in her third consecutive MPT event, the second time in her career she has done so and the 15th time any player has cashed in three straight events in which they played
• Bigfus extended her lead over RowanB for the most all-time cashes to two, becoming the first player to cash in 30 different events in her MPT career
• dukegal76 became the 17th different player to cash in at least three different MPT events
• Skiteacher moved past JTinLV into the top ten on the all-time points list
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• Skiteacher tied his third highest point total for a single event, earning 22 points for the second time in his career, marking the fourth time he has earned 20 or more points in a single event, one time more than any other player (Harv29, Sass, RowanB, and Syrorange3042 have each done so three times in their careers)
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• By eliminating three players Syrorange3042 moved into the top ten on the all-time knockout list
• Syrorange3042 also moved past TSS777 into second place on the list of highest average knockouts per event played
• Bigfus eliminating exactly three opponents in a tournament for only the second time in her long MPT career (though, she has knocked out more than three opponents in three other occasions)
• This was the first time since July, 2016 that Harv29 eliminated exactly one opponent in an event (though, he has knocked out multiple players in five other events during that time)
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• Viceroy busted on the bubble for the first time in his MPT career, becoming the 17th different player to do so
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• ru47suited became the 31st different player to finish in last place in at least one MPT event

Statistical Notes Following MPT 2021 Event #1

Observations following another Virtual MPT, the first event of the 2021 season, played on Pokerstars.net on Saturday February 20, 2021.

• This was the first MPT event ever played in the month of February
• With twelve players, this was tied with the July 2017 and March 2019 Las Vegas Spectaculars for the largest field in a season opening event in MPT history
• Doohnut is the 67th person to play in an MPT event
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• Sass is fourth different player and first since 2012 to win back to back MPT tournaments, joining Betdponies, TSS777 (twice), Bigfus (twice). Amazon also won two consecutive events she played in 2008, though there was another tournament played in between those two events
• Sass moved into a tie for fifth place, with Betdponies, on the all-time win list
• Sass held the Ace of Hearts in her hand the last hand of each of the three virtual tournaments she has won
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• Sass became the fourth player in MPT history to cash in at least 20 events in their MPT careers, joining Bigfus, RowanB, and Harv29
• Viceroy earned the first cash of his MPT career, becoming the 40th player to finish in the money in at least one MPT event
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• Harv29 moved up two spots and into the top 5 on the all-time player ratings list 
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• Sass equaled her own personal best six knockouts in a single MPT event, which is tied with a large group of players for the fourth highest number of knockouts in a single event
• Viceroy recorded the first two knockouts of his MPT career, becoming the 36th person to eliminate more than one opponent during his MPT career
• Viceroy became the 29th different person to eliminate the first player in an MPT tournament
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• Sionow became the 13th different player to be eliminated on the bubble in more than one MPT event
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• Sass tied Harv29's 26 point performance at the Mirage Las Vegas in 2013 for the fifth highest single event point total in MPT history
• Harv29 became the first player to top 500 points in his MPT career
• Solotrombone moved past Sionow and closed in on Syrorange3042 for the highest career average points earned per MPT event
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• Doohnut is the 12th player to finish in last place in their first MPT event and the 30th different person to finish in last place in one or more MPT events

MPT Career Average Percent of Players Beat

 A complete list of the all-time average percent of players beat in MPT events, with the average percent of players beat and number of events played in parenthesis following each player's name. (Players must have played at least ten events to qualify)

Last Updated: January 11, 2022

1. Syrorange3042 (60.8%, 15)

2. Harv29 (57.7%, 70)

3. Solotrombone (57.6%, 26)

4. TSS777 (56.7%, 34)

5. RowanB (55.8%, 69)

6. Bigfus (55.5%, 68)

7. Sionow (55.3%, 22)

8. Skiteacher (50.2%, 19)

9. Sass (49.9%, 58)

10. Betdponies (48.1%, 31)

11. Amazon (46.7%, 35)

12. JTinLV (44.5%, 26)

13. Judykq (37.1%, 17)

14. Janek13 (31.3%, 10)

15. Baccarat King (13.9%, 10)

Solotrombone Wins 2020 Player of the Year Title

 

ALL OF YOUR HOMES, USA - For the second time in MPT history, a player came from behind in the last event of the season to win the Player of the Year race. After earning his second win of the season in late November Solotrombone trailed Syrorange3042 by seven points going into the Main Event, but a strong third place finish in the final event of the year catapulted Solotrombone to the top of the standings, holding off a surging RowanB, who finished the year with back to back second place finishes to fall just short of the top spot.

Both Solotrombone and RowanB eclipsed Bigfus' record for points in a single season, set in 2010, though RowanB played in two more tournaments than Bigfus did that year and Solotrombone benefited from larger fields throughout the 2020 season. Nonetheless, with two victories and two other cashes in seven events played en route to the third highest cash total in MPT history Solotrombone's season stands among the most successful in MPT history.

Here are the complete "Sealy Cup" point standings for the 2020 season.

1. Solotrombone (97.5)
2. RowanB (96)
3. Syrorange3042 (93)
4. Sionow (80)
5. Skiteacher (76)
6. dukegal76 (73)
7. Harv29 (71)
8. Sass (69.5)
9. JTinLV (57)
10. ru47suited (52)
11. Skyweb22 (44)
12. Bigfus (24)
13. Amazon (17)
14. Martin (12)
15. TSS777 (5)
16. Scurvydog (3)
17. Pehffff (2)

Solotrombone Tops 2020 MPT Money List

 

Following one of the few years when Solotrombone failed to cash in an MPT event, he rebounded to top the season-ending money list for the first time in his career. With a second place in the first event of the season and a third place cash in the Main Event bracketing two wins, in June and late November Solotrombone finished well ahead of RowanB, who finished second on the money list for the fifth time in his MPT career, two more runner-up finishes than Harv29, the only other player to finish second on the money list more than once in MPT history. The $92.50 winning margin was the fourth largest in MPT history, topped only by Bigfus over Harv29 in 2011, Sass over RowanB in 2009, and New Norman/Noahcat over RowanB in 2016.

Here is the complete list of money leaders for the 2020 season.

1. Solotrombone ($452.50)
2. RowanB ($360)
3. Sass ($352.50)
4. Sionow ($335)
5. Syrorange3042 ($260)
6. Harv29 ($255)
6. Skiteacher ($255)
8. dukegal76 ($220)
9. ru47suited ($125)
10. JTinLV ($115)
11. Skyweb22 ($60)
12. Martin ($30)
12. Bigfus ($30)