Jeff Dickerson Wins PokerOrg’s Pick 3 Contest
All three of his Main Event picks cashed, and the prize is a $5,000 Aruba package.
Jeff Dickerson won PokerOrg’s Pick 3 WSOP Main Event contest after choosing Josh Arieh, Brock Wilson and Shaun Deeb, and all three of his picks cashed. His prize was a $5,000 Moneymaker Tour Aruba package.
The contest let users pick three players, with each team’s score set by the combined prize money those players won. It was free for members of “The Org,” and registration stayed open until 11am PT on July 6, with teams editable right up to the deadline.
PokerOrg’s later winners post said the competition was over once no eligible player could add any more points. The race for first came down to Day 8, when Brock Wilson went out in 16th and Shaun Deeb became the last point-scoring player still alive.
Deeb then busted in 15th for $410,475, and PokerOrg said the next pay jump did not start until 13th, so the math was done. The outlet listed the top-scoring lineup as DeebsDoubleDs with 878,450 points, and said Deeb was on 48 teams while Wilson appeared on eight.
The winners post also said teams finishing 2-10 would get smaller prizes, including merch from PokerOrg and Faded Spade. When two teams, Iwinnow and Otoole’s Crew, tied for 10th with Big Al’s Locks, the tiebreaker was a guess on Main Event entries.
The actual field size was 9,208. Big Al’s Locks guessed 8,880, closer than Iwinnow’s 10,363 and Otoole’s Crew’s 9,655, so Big Al’s Locks claimed the last top-10 spot.
In PokerOrg’s profile of Dickerson, he said he found the site during a WSOP Circuit stop in Cherokee and that the Pick 3 contest caught his eye. He said Wilson had come through for him before, he had staked on Josh Arieh’s PokerStake site, and he rated Shaun Deeb as “probably the best in the world right now.”
Dickerson said he felt confident once all three players made the money, though he also said variance meant it was never a lock. Arieh bowed out earlier than he wanted, but Deeb and Wilson kept him in the hunt through seven full days of Main Event play, and Dickerson said he had a leg up because no other team owners had both of them on their roster.
He described himself as a recreational player who used to play Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars before Black Friday. After some of his children were out of the house, he started taking poker more seriously, signed up with PokerCoaching to sharpen his math, and later began working with Intuition Poker.
He planned to keep working with Intuition Poker into the WSOP Circuit stop in Cherokee in August and the Aruba trip, where the Moneymaker Poker Tour Main Event runs September 24-27 at The Casino Aruba in Oranjestad.
