Who will make it to the money in 2005's World Series of Poker!?

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That's a question asked by Stan James (and others will sure follow as they try to get an angle e.g. Ladbrokes being Ladbrokes will give you the almost impossible question when it comes down to the final table of who's going to win it all unless you get a Greg Raymer who's sitting there with an almost impossible chip lead) and it's intriguing if you can work out the answer given the multitude of anonymous online and generally unknown folk who can play their way into getting their stake money back. It would be an almost insane bet but hell, I'm putting it up if only for reference purposes. ....all anybody will be relying on is surely the internet and world of mouth as regards what's happening (ESPN don't show it live and for some reason hold it back for months, cut it to shreds to make it just edited highlights (well obviously there's time constraints to consider) before they even bother showing it on TV). Last year, you would be betting and hoping on your chosen player to get to the last 225 (out of 2576 players). This year, well it could go fooking cuckoo crazy with well over 4000 players but it all depends on how the tournament's structured and they've anticipated up to 6600!! The event starts on Thursday July 7th and ends on Friday 15th July. Stan James's odds on 'who will make it to the money': Nguyen, Men (The Master) 2/1 Seidel, Erik 2/1 Appleman, Mickey 9/4 Chan, Johnny 9/4 Ferguson, Chris (Jesus) 9/4 Juanda, John 9/4 Lederer, Howard (The Professor) 9/4 Luske, Marcel (The Flying Dutchman) 9/4 De Knijff, Martin 3/1 Farha, Sam 3/1 Flack, Layne 3/1 Forrest, Ted 3/1 Greenstein, Barry 3/1 Habib, Hasan 3/1 Hansen, Gus 3/1 Hennigan, John (World) 3/1 Ivey, Phil 3/1 Jones, Jesse 3/1 Judah, Mel 3/1 Liebert, Kathy 3/1 Liffey, Rory 3/1 Lindgren, Erick 3/1 Magee, Mike 3/1 Mortensen, Carlos 3/1 Negreanu, Daniel 3/1 Nguyen, Scotty 3/1 Phillips, Paul 3/1 Rokach, Lucy (Golden Ovaries) 3/1 Seed, Huck 3/1 Shipley, John 3/1 Sjavik, Jan 3/1 Sunar, Surinder 3/1 Tann, Willie 3/1 Tatalovich, Richard 3/1 Tomko, Dewey 3/1 Ulliott, Dave (Devilfish) 3/1 Vaswani, Ram 3/1 Ibrahem, Mohammed 3/1 Oppenhiem, David 3/1 Larsson, Daniel 3/1 Beevers, Joe (The Elegance) 7/2 Boatman, Barny (Barmy) 7/2 Boatman, Ross 7/2 Cernuto, John (Miami) 7/2 Cloutier, T-J 7/2 Colclough, Dave (El Blondie) 7/2 Cunningham, Allen 7/2 Darden Jr, Paul 7/2 De Haas, Ed 7/2 Gardner, Julian 7/2 Kabbaj, John 7/2 Mcdonald, Tristan 7/2 O'Dea, Donnacha 7/2 Bigler, Chris 7/2 Arieh, Josh 4/1 Awanda, Joe 4/1 (I think they mean John Juanda here) Betson, Alan 4/1 Bjorin, Chris 4/1 Boyd, Dutch 4/1 Brenes, Alex 4/1 Brenes, Humberto 4/1 Brunson, Doyle (Dolly) 4/1 Channing, Neil (Badbeat) 4/1 Clarke, Paul (Eskimo) 4/1 Deeb, Kassem (Freddy) 4/1 Derei, Asher 4/1 Duke, Annie 4/1 Duvall, Jeff 4/1 Gazes, Bill 4/1 Gray, Scott 4/1 Harrington, Dan (The Man) 4/1 Hellmuth, Phil 4/1 Hinchcliffe, Chris 4/1 Holland, Randy 4/1 Hollink, Rob 4/1 Jones, Gary (The Choirboy) 4/1 Leonidas, Toto 4/1 Liu, Steven (Lucky) 4/1 Luong, Gioi 4/1 Mehrmand, David 4/1 Parkinson, Padraig 4/1 Raymer, Greg (Fossilman) 4/1 Rose, Ron 4/1 Scharf, Eddy 4/1 Song, Kevin 4/1 Storakers, Johan 4/1 Tran, An 4/1 Trumper, Simon (Aces) 4/1 Tsiprailidis, Chris 4/1 Vahedi, Amir 4/1 Williams, David 4/1 Williamson III, Robert 4/1 Zolotow, Steve 4/1 Haverson, Brian 4/1 Helppi, Juha 4/1 Vinh, Vinny 4/1 Katz, Aaron 4/1 Kastle, Casey 4/1 Friedman, Perry 4/1 Gregorich, Mark 4/1 Sousa, James 4/1 Cobb, Artie 4/1 Hansen, Thor 4/1 D'Agostino, John 4/1 Ngyuen, Phi 4/1 Brodie, Richard 4/1 Affleck, Ben 5/1 (?!?!?!?!) Alspach, Dan 5/1 Arama, Jac 5/1 Atkinson, Bruce (Elvis) 5/1 Baxter, Derek 5/1 Benyamine, David 5/1 Bloch, Andrew 5/1 Bloom, Tony (The Lizard) 5/1 Boston, Alan 5/1 Brenes, Eric 5/1 Brindley, Roy 'The Boy' 5/1 Brunson, Todd 5/1 Bush, Gary (The Wacker) 5/1 Carter, Brent 5/1 Dollison, Nani 5/1 Donev, Ivo 5/1 Esfandiari, Antonio (The Magician) 5/1 Esquerra, Mario 5/1 Fischman, Scott 5/1 Francisco, Noli 5/1 Gallagher, Patty 5/1 Gerasimov, Kirill 5/1 Giang, Chau 5/1 Goehring, Alan 5/1 Goldstein, Stan 5/1 Griffin, Gavin 5/1 Hawkins, Keith (The Camel) 5/1 Heimiller, Dan 5/1 James, Kenna 5/1 Jett, Chip 5/1 Johansson, Christer 5/1 Jones, Gareth 5/1 Laak, Phil 5/1 Lester, Jim 5/1 Levi, David 5/1 Lisandro, Jeff 5/1 Ma, Tony 5/1 Magriel, Paul 5/1 Marmorstein, Philippe 5/1 Maxfield, Paul 5/1 Mcdonald, Ian 5/1 Ng, Evelyn 5/1 Nirjan, Sonny 5/1 O'Connell, Kevin 5/1 Pescatori, Max 5/1 Pham, David 5/1 Pham, Xuyen (Bad Girl) 5/1 Plant, Howard 5/1 Plastik, David 5/1 Roberts, Ben 5/1 Roche, Peter 5/1 Sarkeshik, Ali 5/1 Schoenfeld, Adam 5/1 Shulman, Barry 5/1 Varkonyi, Robert 5/1 Violette, Cindy 5/1 Vladar, Steve (Smokin) 5/1 Vogl, James 5/1 Wilson, Mad (Marti) 5/1 Popejoy, Tony 5/1 Grey, David 5/1 Grimes, James 5/1 Mcmanus, Jim 5/1 Purle, Bill 'Miros' 5/1 Asmo, Louis 6/1 Badger, Steve 6/1 Berman, Lyle 6/1 Besnaimou, Angelo 6/1 Bonetti, John 6/1 Bonyadi, Farzad 6/1 Bortner, Joanne (J.J) 6/1 Brahmi, Charles 6/1 Bruel, Patrick 6/1 Burgio, Vince 6/1 Callaghan, Don 6/1 Callaghan, Frank 6/1 Chiu, David 6/1 Cordovez, Diego (Cowboy) 6/1 Coren, Victoria 6/1 (she's having a go is she?) Corkins, Hoyt 6/1 Costa, Peter (The Poet) 6/1 Cousineau, Tony 6/1 Dang, Danny 6/1 Daugherty, Brad 6/1 Demetriou, Harry 6/1 Earle, Phil 6/1 Esposito, John 6/1 Fitoussi, Bruno 6/1 Gazes, Kristy 6/1 Geary, George 6/1 Gordon, Phil 6/1 Grimes, Tommy 6/1 Grizzle, Sam 6/1 Hamilton, Rus 6/1 Harman, Jennifer 6/1 Hayden, Melissa 6/1 Heimowitz, Jay 6/1 Hopkins, Greg 6/1 Jacobs, Tom 6/1 Johnson, Linda 6/1 Johnston, Berry 6/1 Keston, Robin 6/1 Kim-Hua, Can 6/1 Kollman, Erich 6/1 La, Hung 6/1 La, Meng 6/1 Lee, Hon 6/1 Maguire, Tobey 6/1 (really?) McEvoy, Tom 6/1 Mckeever, George 6/1 McLean, Alan 6/1 Meehan, Jim 6/1 Moneymaker, Chris 6/1 Osman, Sonny 6/1 Perrault, Pascal 6/1 Phan, John 6/1 Posner, Jamie 6/1 Reese, Chip 6/1 Reyes, Cecelia 6/1 Rosenblum, Russell 6/1 Salem, Lee 6/1 Shoten, Charlie 6/1 Stern, Max 6/1 Tran, Mimi 6/1 Waggoner, Marsha 6/1 Watkinson, Lee 6/1 Wernick, Mickey 6/1 Mercier, Isabelle 6/1 Bibb, Curtis 6/1 Spadaveccia, John 6/1 Balas, Eli 8/1 Boubli, Jan 8/1 Chapman, Tony 8/1 Ciaffone, Bob 8/1 Cohen, Claude 8/1 Dobson, Ian 8/1 Enright, Barbara 8/1 Feduniak, Maureen 8/1 Franklin, Tom 8/1 Gosler, Marcus 8/1 Gowan, Clonie 8/1 Hall, Harley 8/1 Haller, Christophe 8/1 Isaacs, Susie 8/1 Laing, Mike 8/1 Meyers, Phyllis 8/1 Miller, Andy 8/1 Murphy, John 8/1 Sief, Mark 8/1 Stern, Maria 8/1 Graham, Ruth 8/1 Longston, Oneil 8/1 Kolberg, Kathy 8/1