WEBVTT 1 00:00:10.960 --> 00:00:15.560 Hello, everyone, Welcome back to a brand new episode of the Poker Goat 2 00:00:15.720 --> 00:00:20.440 Podcast. My name is Donna Peters. His name is Tim Duckworth. The 3 00:00:20.559 --> 00:00:27.079 final table of the twenty twenty four World Series of Poker Main Event has been 4 00:00:27.559 --> 00:00:35.280 reached ten thousand, one hundred and twelve hopefuls, dreamers, players, amateurs, 5 00:00:35.280 --> 00:00:38.560 pros rex whatever you want to call them, however you want to classify 6 00:00:38.600 --> 00:00:43.200 them. That's how many started a record breaking field and we have nine players 7 00:00:43.560 --> 00:00:50.159 remaining. What a day it was. Jordan griff is up on top of 8 00:00:50.200 --> 00:00:54.200 them. All boy, did he have a day. We'll tell you about 9 00:00:54.240 --> 00:00:59.399 that. We're going to get into kind of everything that happened on day eight, 10 00:01:00.039 --> 00:01:07.120 eating into the final nine. Everyone left guaranteed one million big old buckeroos 11 00:01:07.480 --> 00:01:11.439 ten million dollars up top? What are you doing? I had to sniff 12 00:01:11.840 --> 00:01:15.159 so so you instead of sniffing away from the microphone, Tim's Tim was away 13 00:01:15.159 --> 00:01:19.599 from the microphone, moved to the microphone like he was about to speak, 14 00:01:19.599 --> 00:01:23.359 and then did nothing but sniff. Incredible stuff. Rich Ryan is somewhere throwing 15 00:01:23.439 --> 00:01:26.920 things. I mean he's not He's sick right now, God bless him. 16 00:01:27.200 --> 00:01:30.480 You might not even edit this podcast he's gonna edit this podcast. Rich. 17 00:01:30.760 --> 00:01:33.879 Yeah, you know, I want to know why, because Rich has more 18 00:01:33.879 --> 00:01:37.840 heart for them than you do. And Rich is out of poker and he 19 00:01:37.879 --> 00:01:41.519 has more heart for it than you. No. I recorded our little intro 20 00:01:41.599 --> 00:01:44.480 and I'm gonna send it into the group chat to tell to show people what 21 00:01:44.519 --> 00:01:48.519 I have to deal with every single day. Listen, just match half my 22 00:01:48.719 --> 00:01:53.599 energy, please half you don't jesus, Yeah, the best part of the 23 00:01:53.680 --> 00:01:57.680 day, The part of the day. Where is this energy? The best 24 00:01:57.680 --> 00:02:01.040 part of the day. My energy bounces between really pissed off at everything and 25 00:02:01.439 --> 00:02:07.200 super pumped up that this is happening. Also right now, also right now, 26 00:02:07.560 --> 00:02:09.560 somewhat depressed that it's all kind of ending because we only got a few 27 00:02:09.599 --> 00:02:14.960 days left and the military is the poker is the best. So anyway down 28 00:02:15.000 --> 00:02:17.919 to the WSP main Event final table, that's what we're going to be hitting 29 00:02:17.960 --> 00:02:21.560 on during this episode. We got a few different interviews that we're gonna play 30 00:02:21.599 --> 00:02:23.199 with your combination of some of the stuff that I got at the end of 31 00:02:23.199 --> 00:02:28.039 the day because Tim didn't get anything, of course, and nothing. I'm 32 00:02:28.080 --> 00:02:30.560 just standing there watching you get interviews. I guess. Listen, there are 33 00:02:30.680 --> 00:02:35.800 nine thousand other people that can count chips here, okay and write them on 34 00:02:35.840 --> 00:02:38.159 a piece of paper. There is one other person besides me who can go 35 00:02:38.240 --> 00:02:42.599 up there and interview someone, and that is you. Okay, So prioritize 36 00:02:42.599 --> 00:02:47.159 correctly. Okay, that's what you gotta do. I'm just saying. I'm 37 00:02:47.159 --> 00:02:50.520 just saying I had to do commentary, yet I was still out there doing 38 00:02:50.560 --> 00:02:53.360 interviews. You sometimes you got a double dip. Okay, that's just the 39 00:02:53.479 --> 00:02:58.199 job, all right. Today is when you guys are listening to This is 40 00:02:58.240 --> 00:03:01.080 Monday, July fifteenth. It's gonna be the day off of the WSP Made 41 00:03:01.080 --> 00:03:05.280 event. There will be other tournaments going on, So Tim and I will 42 00:03:05.280 --> 00:03:07.080 be here working. We'll have a pot at the end of the night, 43 00:03:07.120 --> 00:03:09.159 all that good stuff. Look, he's giving me a face. Now I'll 44 00:03:09.479 --> 00:03:12.639 do it myself. Then I don't do it. Last year, I was 45 00:03:12.719 --> 00:03:15.159 mad. You remember what happened last year. I was like, are you 46 00:03:15.199 --> 00:03:16.159 gonna go in? You like probably not, will say, well, let 47 00:03:16.199 --> 00:03:19.680 me know, come in, we'll do some interviews and then we'll record. 48 00:03:19.960 --> 00:03:22.280 And then you just went and did it yourself and didn't tell me. I 49 00:03:22.319 --> 00:03:23.599 went to the movies that day. That would mean actually one of the movies 50 00:03:23.599 --> 00:03:28.120 that came in light. I mean, listen playing for a bracelet for some 51 00:03:28.280 --> 00:03:31.840 For people like me, okay, it's it's just it's in my blood. 52 00:03:31.960 --> 00:03:38.360 It just ago, it's in there. It's in there before, before, 53 00:03:39.840 --> 00:03:45.120 before everyone, before everyone. It's just it's in my blood. Okay, 54 00:03:45.319 --> 00:03:47.080 it's absolutely in my blood. When you guys are listening to this, Monday, 55 00:03:47.120 --> 00:03:51.199 July fifteenth is likely when you're listening to it, we're gonna be doing 56 00:03:51.240 --> 00:03:55.159 the drawing for the annual subscriber giveaway to give away three seats to next year's 57 00:03:55.560 --> 00:03:59.599 WSP Made event. Two of the drawings, two of the winners are gonna 58 00:03:59.599 --> 00:04:02.439 be drawn to. So get in there. You know. We're gonna draw 59 00:04:02.479 --> 00:04:06.960 them at let's say four pm Vegas time. Tim and I will do the 60 00:04:08.039 --> 00:04:11.439 drawing. Really, I'll do the drawing because it's my thing in touch. 61 00:04:11.479 --> 00:04:13.719 I'm not help. But then I'm gonna ask him how to do it. 62 00:04:13.960 --> 00:04:15.720 I'm gonna ask him what I need to do, all this sort of stuff. 63 00:04:17.120 --> 00:04:20.240 So yeah, so we're gonna do that drawing. So if you listen 64 00:04:20.279 --> 00:04:24.000 to this soon enough, you know we've been telling you about this giveaway for 65 00:04:24.000 --> 00:04:27.399 a couple of days, but you've probably got a couple hours to get in 66 00:04:27.439 --> 00:04:30.120 there. So get in there because if you are an annual subscriber on the 67 00:04:30.199 --> 00:04:33.600 drawing dates, which is today, then you are eligible to win as long 68 00:04:33.639 --> 00:04:38.600 as you're in an area where it applies. Head on over to PokerGO dot 69 00:04:38.639 --> 00:04:41.279 com pick up an annual subscription. If you're a monthly or a quarterly, 70 00:04:41.480 --> 00:04:46.199 upgrade to an annual subscription, use the promo code WSP twenty four win because 71 00:04:46.240 --> 00:04:48.839 that'll get you in and it'll save you twenty dollars on your first year. 72 00:04:49.319 --> 00:04:53.439 We have high stakes poker coming up Monday, July twenty ninth. We got 73 00:04:53.480 --> 00:04:56.519 no Gamble in the Future coming up. Of course, the WSB Main Event 74 00:04:56.680 --> 00:05:00.120 Final Table is happening over the next two days, so listen, you got 75 00:05:00.120 --> 00:05:04.079 to get in there. It's a great opportunity. As always, no purchase 76 00:05:04.079 --> 00:05:10.639 necessary void we're prohibited. Visit poker gro dot com slash rules for official terms. 77 00:05:11.439 --> 00:05:14.199 We need winners. Pull it up, Pull up the sheet, buddy, 78 00:05:15.000 --> 00:05:17.560 what are we giving away? You know we're gonna give away two more 79 00:05:17.600 --> 00:05:21.399 night shift t shirts. Anyone to know why is because rip night shift for 80 00:05:21.439 --> 00:05:26.360 the rest of the summer. So in honor of the night shift. We're 81 00:05:26.360 --> 00:05:30.399 going out on top two night shift T shirts. You don't make it three? 82 00:05:30.439 --> 00:05:34.639 Fuck it, make it three, giving away the bomb to the pavement. 83 00:05:34.639 --> 00:05:38.360 I mean, yeah, I am. The nightshift is like the best 84 00:05:38.360 --> 00:05:40.639 thing that we got going, and we're just not going to operate it for 85 00:05:40.680 --> 00:05:44.000 the rest of the summer. And it's depressing. It's also depressing when a 86 00:05:44.800 --> 00:05:49.120 yesterday said we tried to stick a churro in him or something. I was 87 00:05:49.480 --> 00:05:54.680 I was dying, dying, dying, dying, and excited about the mess 88 00:05:54.920 --> 00:06:00.480 Mexican player, which made it? Let's do six to sixty guy picking number 89 00:06:00.519 --> 00:06:06.439 fifty nine. Fifty nine is a horrible name, Justin But yep, true 90 00:06:06.519 --> 00:06:11.199 name Justin. But first T shirt. Fifty nine is a horrible number. 91 00:06:11.279 --> 00:06:15.199 Why it just it just sounds like a horrible number. Fifty nine. It's 92 00:06:15.240 --> 00:06:19.680 a dumb number. Okay, Let's go sixty one to ninety four eighty eight. 93 00:06:21.040 --> 00:06:26.279 Is that a lucky number? Wow, you're talking to an Asian man, 94 00:06:26.319 --> 00:06:28.720 That's what I mean. Is it lucky? Danny? Of course it 95 00:06:28.759 --> 00:06:32.680 is good. Danny Malaya, you are a winner the night shift shirt. 96 00:06:32.680 --> 00:06:35.879 Now we're gonna it's gonna go deep. Yeah, we're gonna go ninety five 97 00:06:38.079 --> 00:06:46.319 to one thirty three one one one very unlucky number there too. Why is 98 00:06:46.319 --> 00:06:49.120 that unluck It's an unlucky British number and like British sports. The hell with 99 00:06:49.160 --> 00:06:53.759 the Brits? Who cares? What? Yeah? Yeah, good with you 100 00:06:54.360 --> 00:06:57.600 got lucky? Now that must be the half that I don't like. You 101 00:06:57.639 --> 00:07:04.079 don't like both us Shashank dol Mia winner. Okay, T shirt there you 102 00:07:04.120 --> 00:07:10.120 go, handle that. Get it out to them. We still have a 103 00:07:10.160 --> 00:07:12.959 few more days left of the World Series of Poker, which means a few 104 00:07:12.959 --> 00:07:16.639 more podcasts episodes left. So like and subscribe to the podcast. Lead a 105 00:07:16.720 --> 00:07:19.079 review, get it on in, take a screen shot out and take a 106 00:07:19.079 --> 00:07:23.399 photo of it. Send it on into podcasts at poker gro dot com because 107 00:07:23.399 --> 00:07:27.160 we have a few more drawings to go. All right, all right, 108 00:07:27.240 --> 00:07:31.240 let's get into the episode. How do you want to do this? How 109 00:07:31.240 --> 00:07:35.120 are we gonna get Should we start with the I don't know you watched them? 110 00:07:35.199 --> 00:07:39.439 Okay, let's start with from the top, working way through to get 111 00:07:39.439 --> 00:07:41.680 down to nine. Yeah, I'm just kind of giving me a feeling. 112 00:07:41.879 --> 00:07:44.399 I be pretty busy today. Do I feel like whatever? I decide to 113 00:07:44.439 --> 00:07:46.959 do right now, I'm gonna get a message from Rich and he's gonna tell 114 00:07:46.959 --> 00:07:51.360 me that the wrong way. Should we start with the seven seven seven lucky 115 00:07:51.399 --> 00:07:57.000 seven dis Rica, No, no, Helm, We're definitely not doing that, 116 00:07:57.000 --> 00:08:01.439 bro. We started the day with eighteen players remaining. They were all 117 00:08:01.480 --> 00:08:07.319 guaranteed three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Oh wow, I made the Poker 118 00:08:07.399 --> 00:08:11.399 News blog my tweet. I tweet this every single year, every single year. 119 00:08:11.639 --> 00:08:16.279 Around every single year, like at some point either right before like the 120 00:08:16.319 --> 00:08:18.319 day before. Yeah, it's the final video and the guy's in the cab. 121 00:08:18.319 --> 00:08:22.439 He's like we're you're headed and he's like Las Vegas and he's like, 122 00:08:22.720 --> 00:08:26.319 good luck, you know, and then they then the monologue. Yeah yeah, 123 00:08:26.680 --> 00:08:28.759 it's like they still think it's luck. That should be pretty cool, 124 00:08:28.759 --> 00:08:31.759 you known. Have there's like a TV like they kind of set up the 125 00:08:31.759 --> 00:08:35.039 stage out here with all the chairs and the projection. Tomorrow would be a 126 00:08:35.120 --> 00:08:37.960 cool round this day. Put rounda is on the big screen. Everyone sits 127 00:08:37.960 --> 00:08:41.639 here and watches it. No Lucky year instead, Sure, do whatever you 128 00:08:41.720 --> 00:08:46.720 want. I'll set it up two pm. So eighteen players remain. They're 129 00:08:46.720 --> 00:08:50.399 all guaranteed three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. There's one hundred thousand dollars pay 130 00:08:50.480 --> 00:08:56.559 jump for the first elimination. Seventeenth players got four hundred and fifty four hundred 131 00:08:56.559 --> 00:09:01.000 dollars. So Jordan Griff, if you remember what I said, I said 132 00:09:01.080 --> 00:09:03.639 Jordan Griff was leading the way. Okay, pretty big, Chipley too. 133 00:09:05.200 --> 00:09:07.240 We'll go over that when we get to it, but we're gonna kind of 134 00:09:07.240 --> 00:09:13.360 take us through the day. On the first hand of the day, he 135 00:09:13.399 --> 00:09:20.559 doubles up in a wild fashion, so he raised to six point three million. 136 00:09:20.759 --> 00:09:24.159 With the big blind at eight hundred k they were playing four eight hundred 137 00:09:24.200 --> 00:09:26.679 thousand, so he makes it six point three million. From early position. 138 00:09:26.840 --> 00:09:33.480 He has two million behind first hand of the day. Okay, Jesse Bryant, 139 00:09:33.799 --> 00:09:37.240 the man in the gilly suit, the sniper outfit, who you know 140 00:09:37.519 --> 00:09:41.039 half the time, let's go a gilly suit. I'm pretty sure yes, 141 00:09:41.639 --> 00:09:43.519 half the time. I couldn't see him. Half the time I could, 142 00:09:43.519 --> 00:09:46.679 depending on whether he was wearing it or not. He called from the next 143 00:09:46.720 --> 00:09:52.960 seat. Everyone else folds. The flop comes ace ten to three. The 144 00:09:52.000 --> 00:09:56.480 final chips get into the middle. Griff is the player at risk Brian has 145 00:09:56.519 --> 00:10:01.519 him covered. Griff has two queens again, Ace ten three, Bryant has 146 00:10:01.600 --> 00:10:11.480 pocket threes flopped bottom set, Turn eight River Queen out of absolutely nowhere, 147 00:10:11.240 --> 00:10:18.440 a queen from the heavens above spikes down and gives Griff the double up. 148 00:10:20.720 --> 00:10:26.159 So there was that. So that that took Jesse Bryant from I think about 149 00:10:26.159 --> 00:10:33.360 twenty seven million down to nineteen. Then so there's that big hand with Griff. 150 00:10:33.399 --> 00:10:37.279 You know obviously that that like obviously keeps him in the tournament. Throughout 151 00:10:37.320 --> 00:10:39.960 the day he continues to just like run it up. But then there was 152 00:10:39.000 --> 00:10:46.960 a big hand with Boris Anglov and Jesse Bryant. Now this is I don't 153 00:10:46.679 --> 00:10:52.840 I don't exactly know exactly what Bryant was doing on these two hands. So 154 00:10:52.879 --> 00:10:56.159 that is what it is. Like the threes, I think I probably just 155 00:10:56.200 --> 00:10:58.120 put that in the bin. I mean, I know it's I know, 156 00:10:58.200 --> 00:11:01.639 he's got just over ten big blinds. It's like ten and a half big 157 00:11:01.679 --> 00:11:07.960 lines. But if the positions are correct, and Griff is an early position 158 00:11:07.000 --> 00:11:09.919 and then Brian was the seat next to him, I mean, there's still 159 00:11:09.919 --> 00:11:13.799 a lot of action behind you. You only have threes, I mean, 160 00:11:13.279 --> 00:11:20.279 I'm probably just putting threes in the muck. So shortly thereafter, Mallow Latinois 161 00:11:20.480 --> 00:11:24.320 raised to one point six million, still playing the same level four thousand and 162 00:11:24.360 --> 00:11:28.200 eight hundred thousand. So Latinoah makes it one point six from early position. 163 00:11:28.840 --> 00:11:35.919 Gabrielle Mora three bets to four point five action full. What is this? 164 00:11:35.039 --> 00:11:37.200 No, this is the wrong hand. Why do they do this to me? 165 00:11:39.440 --> 00:11:43.080 Whoever? I'm not going to get into it. I'm just calm down, 166 00:11:43.159 --> 00:11:46.679 Donnie, calm down. So Latin Woah, I just want to go 167 00:11:46.720 --> 00:11:50.960 off on these updates all the time. Latin Wah makes it one point six 168 00:11:50.960 --> 00:11:56.399 from under the gun. Jesse Bryant three bets to five millions. All right, 169 00:11:56.360 --> 00:12:01.360 I'm trying to read this and it's just it's it's a disaster, Jesse 170 00:12:01.000 --> 00:12:07.840 Jesse Bryant makes it five million on the button. Boris Angelov Bulgarian four bets 171 00:12:07.879 --> 00:12:15.399 all in from the small blind for eight point seven million. Latin wall Fold 172 00:12:15.519 --> 00:12:20.559 is the original raiser. Bryant calls, Brian has deuces. What is happening? 173 00:12:22.360 --> 00:12:28.639 Three betting the deuces explosions, Angelov has kings. The board runs out 174 00:12:28.639 --> 00:12:33.960 clean for Angelov's kings, and then he gets a double up, which now 175 00:12:33.039 --> 00:12:37.799 this leaves Brian with ten big lionds. I mean he's just like crushed. 176 00:12:37.320 --> 00:12:41.600 Then it ends up being Gerardo Hernandez. They finally stuck the churro in him 177 00:12:41.840 --> 00:12:46.720 shout out. I mean that's what all John said on the on the night 178 00:12:46.720 --> 00:12:48.320 Shift. You heard it like it was the most wild. It was the 179 00:12:48.360 --> 00:12:54.559 wildest shit I've ever heard me on a T shirt, Theckatura, theicatural. 180 00:12:54.960 --> 00:12:58.200 It should just be like night Shift and then like have like sane like no 181 00:12:58.399 --> 00:13:01.720 like different sayings that happen. Okay, yes, I agree, I mean 182 00:13:01.720 --> 00:13:07.720 it's just wild. Hernandez open jammed for eleven point four million, and he 183 00:13:07.759 --> 00:13:11.200 gets called by Andros Gonzales, so it's Spain versus Mexico here or sorry, 184 00:13:11.320 --> 00:13:16.759 well Gondalas rejammed. Hernandez has sixes, Gonzalez has ace king. The board 185 00:13:16.840 --> 00:13:22.639 runs out jack jack seven to five seven, so extra painful because it's a 186 00:13:22.679 --> 00:13:26.799 counterfeit, right, yes, I mean you wouldn't you just rather just have 187 00:13:26.840 --> 00:13:28.559 them hit the ace or the king. So like it comes jack jack seven 188 00:13:28.559 --> 00:13:35.039 and then Queen ten. Yes, like the counterfeit is just lame. But 189 00:13:35.120 --> 00:13:39.519 anyway, Hernandez goes out in eighteenth place three hundred and fifty k. Everyone 190 00:13:39.600 --> 00:13:46.279 else gets a pay jump of one one hundred thousand dollars. After that, 191 00:13:46.600 --> 00:13:52.919 Jason Segel was able to move into the chip lead. Then not too long 192 00:13:54.000 --> 00:13:56.879 after we signed, we finally say goodbye to our sniper, Jesse Bryant. 193 00:13:58.000 --> 00:14:03.200 He goes out in seventeenth foots. He opened to another interesting hand played by 194 00:14:03.240 --> 00:14:07.279 him. He opens to two point three million at four eight hundred thousand, 195 00:14:07.279 --> 00:14:13.639 from middle positions to almost three acts. It folds over to Guillermo O'taro in 196 00:14:13.679 --> 00:14:18.039 the big blind. He moves all in. Brian calls all in for eight 197 00:14:18.080 --> 00:14:22.799 point six million total, so ten point what what is his ten point seventy 198 00:14:22.799 --> 00:14:28.480 five big blinds? Briant has Queen Jack off, Otaro has Ace King. 199 00:14:28.720 --> 00:14:33.120 It comes ace high, and Brian is dead on the turn and out the 200 00:14:33.159 --> 00:14:41.039 door in seventeenth place. Then not long after that, Joe Sarraq up on 201 00:14:41.159 --> 00:14:43.600 the main feature table. I believe he was playing. He won a pot 202 00:14:43.639 --> 00:14:50.279 to take the chip lead. After that, Jonathan Tomayo found a couple of 203 00:14:50.320 --> 00:14:56.519 aces, he doubled up off Otero. Then it was Sarak extending his lead. 204 00:14:56.159 --> 00:15:01.279 Are you surprised that they didn't do hand for hand coverage. Yes, 205 00:15:01.799 --> 00:15:05.080 am I oh sorry, am I surprised. No, they didn't do it. 206 00:15:07.320 --> 00:15:13.039 So it was basically the day was like I felt like the main feature 207 00:15:13.039 --> 00:15:16.639 table like had all the chips, and then the outer table had a lot 208 00:15:16.639 --> 00:15:20.159 of chips, but there was also people with like shorter chips. Yeah, 209 00:15:20.159 --> 00:15:22.960 Like at the main feature table was like everyone had like forty five except for 210 00:15:24.039 --> 00:15:26.080 like one or two people and they had like thirty. So it wasn't even 211 00:15:26.120 --> 00:15:30.120 that big of a deal. But up on the main feature table, like 212 00:15:30.159 --> 00:15:33.600 you had Nicholas Ostet, like he took the chip lead, then Kristen Fox 213 00:15:33.759 --> 00:15:37.840 and had the chip lead up there, so so you know that was like 214 00:15:37.240 --> 00:15:41.240 that was like the table where like the big action was happening, and then 215 00:15:41.240 --> 00:15:46.559 we lose Otero in sixteenth place, he busted out in I mean kind of 216 00:15:46.559 --> 00:15:50.960 wild fashion where he pushed all in for under the Gun for seven point six 217 00:15:50.000 --> 00:15:54.120 million. The blinds had gone up to five hundred thousand and a million. 218 00:15:56.200 --> 00:16:00.960 Jason Segel calls out of the Big bline with nine to seven trunk and rivers 219 00:16:00.960 --> 00:16:04.200 of seven against Ace Queen. So that's so that's one way to go, 220 00:16:06.759 --> 00:16:10.799 so that you know, some pretty brutal suckouts there. You saw the counterfeit 221 00:16:10.840 --> 00:16:14.200 one, then you see that one with Otero. He gets that seven on 222 00:16:14.240 --> 00:16:18.320 the River, missed the hand with Coela Vessels Fox. What was that just 223 00:16:18.320 --> 00:16:22.320 before the bust out where Fox and took the chip lead. I said, 224 00:16:22.320 --> 00:16:25.600 well, I said Fox and took the I didn't rate the hand out. 225 00:16:25.639 --> 00:16:26.960 You know, I'm just I'm kind of skimming through what happened on the day. 226 00:16:27.000 --> 00:16:30.679 You know, we're not going to go through everything specifically. If you 227 00:16:30.720 --> 00:16:33.000 want everything specifically, you can go to popagot dot com and watch the on 228 00:16:33.120 --> 00:16:48.200 demand replay right how it did. Then we lost Jaegor Moreau's in fifteenth place, 229 00:16:48.279 --> 00:16:51.159 and boy, this was a banger of a pot. So him and 230 00:16:51.200 --> 00:16:53.279 Brian Kim were up on the feature table sitting right next to each other. 231 00:16:55.399 --> 00:16:59.759 I saw some people commenting on social media how they were basically having a stairfest 232 00:17:00.120 --> 00:17:03.320 NonStop, sitting literally right next to each other, foot away, just staring 233 00:17:03.360 --> 00:17:07.440 at each other NonStop. On this hand, blinds are now six hundred thousand 234 00:17:07.440 --> 00:17:11.400 and one point two million moros makes it two point five from early position. 235 00:17:11.680 --> 00:17:15.160 Next to act is Brian Kim. He three bets to six point five action 236 00:17:15.279 --> 00:17:19.000 folds back to Moro's He moves all in for thirty three point eight million. 237 00:17:19.880 --> 00:17:25.640 He gets snapped off by Kim, who's got kings. Moros has Jackson. 238 00:17:25.759 --> 00:17:30.680 Here we go seventy million chip pot and the dubsb made event with fifteen players 239 00:17:30.680 --> 00:17:34.480 remain. No jack comes for Moro's nothing else out there to help him, 240 00:17:34.519 --> 00:17:40.640 and he's out the door in fifteenth place, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars 241 00:17:40.680 --> 00:17:45.240 for him and Brian Kim shot up to the chip lead. Eighty eight million 242 00:17:45.359 --> 00:17:48.599 is what he was on. I mean, not only do we lose Moros, 243 00:17:48.960 --> 00:17:53.759 we lost Israel, which is a bummer. That was a good thing. 244 00:17:53.960 --> 00:17:56.599 Was one of the best rails we've had in the lost few years. 245 00:17:56.640 --> 00:18:02.799 I think it was a very strong Yeah, I think so. I just 246 00:18:03.200 --> 00:18:07.279 I'm trying to kind of remember, so yeah, I agree. Look, 247 00:18:07.319 --> 00:18:10.160 yeah, maybe it's recentcy bias. Well it's not. I don't think it's 248 00:18:10.200 --> 00:18:15.079 recency bias. I think it's that there were no other rails really, so 249 00:18:15.160 --> 00:18:17.839 they just stood out. You know what. That's a good point. Yeah, 250 00:18:18.079 --> 00:18:19.119 I do agree with you. Obviously, once we got to the ten, 251 00:18:19.759 --> 00:18:23.480 you know, we had a few more people rolling. But yeah, 252 00:18:23.559 --> 00:18:29.160 his rail was deep uneven. I'm trying to remember if we had some day 253 00:18:29.200 --> 00:18:30.519 six from him. I think we did, bro we might have had day 254 00:18:30.559 --> 00:18:36.160 five. Yeah, I mean him and Jesse caps hands out number one rail 255 00:18:36.880 --> 00:18:38.839 from the twenty twenty four and they're also friends, so it kind of makes 256 00:18:38.880 --> 00:18:44.039 sense, right, Yeah, But they were different rails too, because you 257 00:18:44.039 --> 00:18:45.920 went out here, you were tucked away having a nap in the commentary booth. 258 00:18:47.480 --> 00:18:52.200 Yea in the Yego's rail was on you know, not today, this 259 00:18:52.319 --> 00:18:55.319 was yesterday and the day before on that side of the area of with the 260 00:18:55.319 --> 00:18:57.599 gold section. Jesse's rail was on that side. But definitely you split up 261 00:18:57.680 --> 00:19:03.119 rails, so they were very you know, unique and individualized. Yeah, 262 00:19:03.160 --> 00:19:07.519 so we lose Moros and then so that that gives Brian Kim the chip lead. 263 00:19:07.599 --> 00:19:12.279 Then he extends the chip lead with a pot off Kristin Foxen. Then 264 00:19:12.480 --> 00:19:15.079 there's a bit of a cooler that takes place, you know, to be 265 00:19:15.160 --> 00:19:22.559 honest with Diogo Coello, the Portuguese player against Kristin Foxen. And you know, 266 00:19:22.640 --> 00:19:29.359 this is one of those hands where the invention of whole cards like really 267 00:19:30.200 --> 00:19:34.880 puts some twists and turns into it because so you see the cards and you 268 00:19:34.960 --> 00:19:41.319 see Coelo has aces, and then you know, the next people pick up 269 00:19:41.359 --> 00:19:45.319 their cards, and then you see Kristen Foxen picks up Kings, and you're 270 00:19:45.359 --> 00:19:48.039 just like, oh shit, Like if you're at home, and we know, 271 00:19:48.680 --> 00:19:52.799 I think ninety eight percent of the people watching, we're rooting for Kristen 272 00:19:52.839 --> 00:19:55.880 Foxen. Yeah, you know, just just in this tournament in general. 273 00:19:56.720 --> 00:20:00.519 So you're like, uh, oh, here comes disaster. She's about to 274 00:20:00.559 --> 00:20:04.720 double this guy up. He raises to two point four so a min raise 275 00:20:06.079 --> 00:20:10.880 in the cutoff with aces. She defends her big blind with Kings. You 276 00:20:10.880 --> 00:20:15.119 know they could have just got the money in comes Ace ten to five check 277 00:20:15.680 --> 00:20:19.240 bet. The minimum she calls turn is an eight, so ace ten five 278 00:20:19.400 --> 00:20:25.359 eight, she checks, He bets three million, She calls three on the 279 00:20:25.440 --> 00:20:29.759 river, she checks again. Koela moves all in for six point seven million, 280 00:20:29.839 --> 00:20:33.240 and she folded pretty quickly. But you know, she could have lost 281 00:20:33.480 --> 00:20:37.160 that remaining six point seven million, so she saved a little bit there on 282 00:20:37.279 --> 00:20:40.720 the end. So it just seemed immediately like, oh, she's gonna lose 283 00:20:40.720 --> 00:20:44.839 it all, But then you know she's ultimately saved almost seven million by just 284 00:20:44.920 --> 00:20:47.440 flatting and then you know the way that the board ran out. Of course, 285 00:20:48.400 --> 00:20:52.799 then we lose Jason James in fourteenth place. Jason James the winner of 286 00:20:52.960 --> 00:20:57.319 the tag team events close to Espen George Dad type of run. Yeah, 287 00:20:57.319 --> 00:21:03.039 it was because he won the tag team event before he went on to win 288 00:21:03.119 --> 00:21:07.319 the WSP Maine event. And Jason James went out with a couple of tens 289 00:21:07.400 --> 00:21:12.960 up against Joe sih Rock's Ace Queen board ran out East Queen six eight six, 290 00:21:14.200 --> 00:21:18.839 and we lost James fourteenth place, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars. 291 00:21:19.400 --> 00:21:27.640 And then it happened we lose Kristen Foxin in thirteenth place. She did earn 292 00:21:29.160 --> 00:21:33.960 two pay jumps up to six hundred thousand dollars, but man for me, 293 00:21:34.079 --> 00:21:40.839 so I got done with We had to do commentary today on the online to 294 00:21:40.960 --> 00:21:42.720 live final tables. There were two of them today. Remco and I were 295 00:21:42.720 --> 00:21:47.519 in the booth doing commentary on those events. When the first one ended, 296 00:21:47.920 --> 00:21:52.440 I walked out, and it was right when Kristin got eliminated, and it 297 00:21:52.640 --> 00:21:59.400 was very reminiscent, not as much, but I'm gonna I'm gonna rank the 298 00:21:59.440 --> 00:22:06.119 things about what I'm talking about of some of the most deflating moments that I've 299 00:22:06.160 --> 00:22:10.200 been around and seen at the World Series of Pover in the main event the 300 00:22:10.319 --> 00:22:15.480 number one deflating moment for me, Nigraniu eleventh place. Yes, were you 301 00:22:15.519 --> 00:22:22.160 in the building for that? I mean, that was that was unreal deflating 302 00:22:22.400 --> 00:22:27.200 in the Amazon room at the Rio. He literally collapses to the ground when 303 00:22:27.200 --> 00:22:33.039 that river hit against Joe McKeon. Like the place. There was probably six 304 00:22:33.119 --> 00:22:37.279 hundred people packed into that stage. It was very likely a fire hazard had 305 00:22:37.279 --> 00:22:45.640 to be and he goes down and the entire like the wind was just sucked 306 00:22:45.680 --> 00:22:48.920 out of that room so goddamn fast. It was unreal. The second most 307 00:22:48.920 --> 00:22:53.519 deflating moment, And honestly, this one and Negraniu were pretty close, but 308 00:22:53.599 --> 00:22:57.720 I think mcgroney's might have been bigger. When Ivy made the main event final 309 00:22:57.720 --> 00:23:03.440 table in two thousand and nine and he busted out. I mean, I 310 00:23:03.559 --> 00:23:07.160 was in the pent and Teller Theater and I was actually we had a couple 311 00:23:07.240 --> 00:23:11.799 setups for Poker News. We had some people up on stage, we had 312 00:23:11.799 --> 00:23:18.000 some people down like halfway up into the audience in like a little media row 313 00:23:18.079 --> 00:23:21.839 or whatever. And then I was like way up top, like way up 314 00:23:21.920 --> 00:23:26.599 top, and like this perch that was like overlooking the entire arena. You 315 00:23:26.640 --> 00:23:30.519 could see down half the fucking arena cleared out, maybe more maybe seventy percent 316 00:23:30.559 --> 00:23:34.480 of the whole arena when Ivy busted out, I mean half the stage, 317 00:23:34.559 --> 00:23:38.720 like everything. I remember. I think they even had to like put the 318 00:23:38.720 --> 00:23:41.880 tournament on break to like put people back on stage, like get people on 319 00:23:41.920 --> 00:23:45.680 stage, you know, I mean everyone cleared out of there. You obviously 320 00:23:45.720 --> 00:23:48.759 each player at the table had their own little group of people, yes, 321 00:23:48.799 --> 00:23:52.799 but the common people that came just to watch the main and men final table 322 00:23:52.839 --> 00:23:57.839 were there to watch Ivy go on to win, and he didn't win, 323 00:23:59.319 --> 00:24:03.200 And man, that was unreal, the way it sucked everything out of that 324 00:24:03.279 --> 00:24:07.160 theater. So I felt a bit of that here when Kristen Foxing goes out 325 00:24:07.319 --> 00:24:14.759 in thirteenth place. Maybe not as much in the building deflation, but you 326 00:24:14.920 --> 00:24:18.400 certainly also felt it, coupled with the social media response, you know, 327 00:24:18.599 --> 00:24:25.519 just everyone just being like really, like, really this really happened? What 328 00:24:25.640 --> 00:24:27.759 was your You were here? I was not, but you weren't. Oh 329 00:24:27.839 --> 00:24:33.440 Jesus Christ, of course you weren't even fucking here. It's this is people, 330 00:24:33.519 --> 00:24:36.000 This is what I deal with. This is what I do. Do 331 00:24:36.039 --> 00:24:38.480 you know what I had to do today? Obviously go to dinner. I 332 00:24:38.480 --> 00:24:41.480 mean it's only day eight of the ws be Made event. I had to 333 00:24:41.880 --> 00:24:45.759 set up these online events. No one knew without playing, No one knew 334 00:24:45.759 --> 00:24:48.599 that chip counts one those seat. I had to do that. I do 335 00:24:48.759 --> 00:24:52.160 both. It was a non stop all morning. I play is coming to 336 00:24:52.200 --> 00:24:56.119 me to complain, that was asking me the questions left fronds and how do 337 00:24:56.160 --> 00:24:57.599 I get paid? Blah blah blah blah blah. It was a mess for 338 00:24:57.640 --> 00:25:00.640 like five hours. I didn't have no idea was going on in the main 339 00:25:00.720 --> 00:25:03.960 event. And then dinner break was coming. I was like, I'm gonna 340 00:25:03.000 --> 00:25:06.880 go, and I went. I had a stick anyway, so it was 341 00:25:06.880 --> 00:25:07.480 not ham. When I came back, I was like, oh she's out. 342 00:25:07.799 --> 00:25:14.559 Yeah, brutal her hand the big topic of conversation. So handing WSP 343 00:25:14.759 --> 00:25:19.319 main event history definitely not I'm for sure up there in that one. So 344 00:25:19.440 --> 00:25:25.039 yeah, I mean, but to be honest, like an interesting hand, 345 00:25:25.279 --> 00:25:26.119 yeah, I mean, let me let me just tell the hand and then 346 00:25:26.119 --> 00:25:29.119 I'm gonna give my thought on it. You can give your thought on it 347 00:25:29.200 --> 00:25:33.519 if you want. So they're playing six hundred thousand and one point two million. 348 00:25:33.880 --> 00:25:37.559 Joe Sarraq under the gun makes it two point four, so that's a 349 00:25:37.599 --> 00:25:42.039 min raise. Kristin Foxen calls in the big blind. Kristin Foxen has King 350 00:25:42.279 --> 00:25:48.960 Queen off. That's a great hand, just kidding. Joe Sarrac has Ace 351 00:25:48.319 --> 00:25:56.880 King off the flop comes Ace King, Jack Ace King of Hearts, Jack 352 00:25:56.920 --> 00:26:00.640 of Spades, Fox and checks out of the big BLINDQ comes with four million, 353 00:26:02.400 --> 00:26:06.160 Fox and makes the call. Turn is the five of spades, So 354 00:26:06.240 --> 00:26:08.640 now there's two spades on board in addition to the two hearts that were on 355 00:26:08.680 --> 00:26:14.480 the flop. Fox and checks. Sarraq sizes up a little bit to eleven 356 00:26:14.680 --> 00:26:19.240 point six million, Fox and tanks for a bit. You know, she 357 00:26:19.240 --> 00:26:22.400 she clearly is like sizing up her stack, seeing where she's at. She's 358 00:26:22.440 --> 00:26:26.359 looking at Sarah stack, all this sort of stuff, and then she goes 359 00:26:26.400 --> 00:26:30.400 all in for thirty six point nine million. Saraq picks up his cards, 360 00:26:30.440 --> 00:26:34.720 takes off his glasses and he says like oh, and he turns over top 361 00:26:34.759 --> 00:26:40.680 two pair Ace King, and she's got King Queen. And she immediately knows 362 00:26:40.720 --> 00:26:42.799 she stands up. She looks over to her rail, where her husband Alex 363 00:26:42.880 --> 00:26:45.680 is, and she says, I need a ten, and she starts walking 364 00:26:45.720 --> 00:26:49.319 over there. As Kristen has been during her big Allians in the past couple 365 00:26:49.359 --> 00:26:52.960 of days deep in this event, she stands on the rail, She looks 366 00:26:52.960 --> 00:26:56.119 at Alex and she can't even watch what's happening behind her. She just lets 367 00:26:56.119 --> 00:27:00.240 Alex tell her how it goes. She knows that she needs ten. It 368 00:27:00.319 --> 00:27:04.680 does not come. Six of hearts falls on the river and we lose Kristin 369 00:27:04.920 --> 00:27:08.279 Foxin. I mean, listen, if I'm being honest, a bit of 370 00:27:08.279 --> 00:27:15.799 a punt, yeah, But as I said about my insanely stupid bust out 371 00:27:15.799 --> 00:27:22.079 hand, as I think you have to do in poker, I think you 372 00:27:22.200 --> 00:27:26.680 have to trust yourself. I think you have to go with what you believe 373 00:27:26.799 --> 00:27:30.640 is the right play. And if Kristin believed this is the right play, 374 00:27:30.799 --> 00:27:36.160 we all know how good of a player Kristen is. Then I like that 375 00:27:36.240 --> 00:27:40.640 she went with it. Now, is it right or wrong? That's what 376 00:27:40.680 --> 00:27:45.000 we can debate, right, But I still like the fact that she trusted 377 00:27:45.000 --> 00:27:48.960 it and went for it, you know, Like that's what I kind of 378 00:27:48.960 --> 00:27:52.240 get behind and that's what I take away. And she did it on day 379 00:27:52.279 --> 00:27:56.039 eight, a few spots away from the final table, on the biggest stage, 380 00:27:56.559 --> 00:28:00.119 when she could have I mean, she could have just checked full to 381 00:28:00.200 --> 00:28:03.759 turn facing two barrels from Sarrock. She could have just checked called and then 382 00:28:03.000 --> 00:28:06.920 you know, seeing what would happened on the river. It's a bit of 383 00:28:06.960 --> 00:28:10.839 a punt, Yes, I think you have to have punts in you to 384 00:28:10.960 --> 00:28:14.960 get to the highest levels of tournaments, to run deep, you just have 385 00:28:15.119 --> 00:28:17.720 you have to be able to have that gear. Like that's why I don't 386 00:28:17.759 --> 00:28:19.759 get there exactly because you got a fucking punt. You have to just be 387 00:28:19.799 --> 00:28:22.400 able to go for it. Like in a lot of ways, you kind 388 00:28:22.400 --> 00:28:26.319 of have to throw caution to the wind at times, not always, but 389 00:28:26.400 --> 00:28:30.440 at times. Now was this mistimed? You know, yes it was, 390 00:28:30.640 --> 00:28:34.240 and shit happened. I mean, shit happens, it blows up in your 391 00:28:34.240 --> 00:28:37.640 face. I mean that that's how it is. You know. She also 392 00:28:37.720 --> 00:28:41.759 pulled some bluffs earlier on earlier days. You know, she had the kings. 393 00:28:42.119 --> 00:28:48.480 She had the kings when she got both Montoya and Ostett off ace jack 394 00:28:48.599 --> 00:28:52.279 when there was an ace on the board. She had the nines against the 395 00:28:52.359 --> 00:28:56.759 jacks, you know, another time, like she has pulled some bluffs and 396 00:28:56.799 --> 00:29:00.519 they worked. If those bluffs go wrong in those moments and she doesn't like 397 00:29:00.799 --> 00:29:04.960 go as far as she did, maybe we're looking at those and saying like, 398 00:29:06.000 --> 00:29:07.759 well, why did she do that? Why did she do that? 399 00:29:07.839 --> 00:29:11.279 You know, like that sort of thing, right, So, you know, 400 00:29:11.599 --> 00:29:15.359 it can be a kind of a thin line that you walk with this 401 00:29:15.400 --> 00:29:18.640 sort of thing. Like a lot of times you're gonna look like a genius 402 00:29:18.640 --> 00:29:21.920 like Kenny Tran. Other times you might look like a stone idiot like Donnie 403 00:29:21.920 --> 00:29:26.640 Peters. That's just how it is, okay, And Kristen did what she 404 00:29:26.680 --> 00:29:32.319 thought was right. She was wrong on this occasion and it obviously totally backfired. 405 00:29:33.279 --> 00:29:34.920 But you know, shout out for her for going for it. You 406 00:29:34.920 --> 00:29:40.000 know, she said afterwards when she spoke with Jeff that she was happy with 407 00:29:40.039 --> 00:29:41.960 it, and she was happy with she thinks all the hands she plays. 408 00:29:42.599 --> 00:29:45.799 Yeah, I mean it sucks, you know, in the overall grand scheme 409 00:29:45.839 --> 00:29:49.319 of things. You know, again, pretty deflating moment for everyone, everyone's 410 00:29:49.400 --> 00:29:55.039 rooting interest, because it was clear that everyone was behind kristin Fox and everyone 411 00:29:55.119 --> 00:29:57.799 was on the Fox and train, but she ultimately goes out in thirteenth place, 412 00:29:57.799 --> 00:30:00.880 and then, speaking of her interview Jeff Platt, we're going to play 413 00:30:00.920 --> 00:30:04.559 that for you guys right now Vox. And this has been along and I'm 414 00:30:04.559 --> 00:30:08.480 sure grueling run. Do you allow yourself at this point to take pride and 415 00:30:10.000 --> 00:30:12.599 how you played throughout the main? Yeah, for sure. I mean it 416 00:30:12.640 --> 00:30:15.440 was I don't even know how many hours of poker, and I feel pretty 417 00:30:15.480 --> 00:30:21.640 happy even my best out hands, like you know, I feel fine with 418 00:30:21.720 --> 00:30:25.680 it, honestly, like kind of a close spot, but I think that 419 00:30:25.920 --> 00:30:30.200 whatever, just yeah, I feel okay with like every hand I feel pretty 420 00:30:30.200 --> 00:30:33.640 good about. And yeah, you've dreamed of being the woman that wins the 421 00:30:33.640 --> 00:30:37.079 Main. What was it like to live out such a huge part of that 422 00:30:37.160 --> 00:30:41.440 dream? Yeah, more than anything, like just so so thankful for all 423 00:30:41.440 --> 00:30:48.880 the support that I had and like overwhelmed with messages and love from everybody. 424 00:30:48.920 --> 00:30:53.160 I'm gonna take these off, and uh, yeah, it was like overwhelming, 425 00:30:53.599 --> 00:30:57.119 really really sweet, and it just feels like it was a really cool 426 00:30:57.160 --> 00:31:03.079 tournament where it felt like, you know, I felt very prepared for the 427 00:31:03.119 --> 00:31:06.839 spot in the run, and I'm yeah, just really happy with how I 428 00:31:06.920 --> 00:31:10.200 played and I feel like, comparing it to how I played, you know, 429 00:31:10.279 --> 00:31:12.440 ten years ago or something, I'm just yeah, I'm proud of myself. 430 00:31:12.799 --> 00:31:15.240 And finally, I know it's the obvious question on the board, but 431 00:31:15.240 --> 00:31:18.240 it's an important one. Do you feel like this run will serve as as 432 00:31:18.319 --> 00:31:22.599 motivation as inspiration to women watching out there? I hope so, I mean, 433 00:31:22.640 --> 00:31:26.839 I hope it just shows, like, you know, don't be afraid 434 00:31:26.880 --> 00:31:30.240 to sit down and play with guys. You know, what does that do 435 00:31:30.279 --> 00:31:33.720 for her in terms of PGT points? Because she wasn't she up there already? 436 00:31:34.160 --> 00:31:37.759 She was. I haven't input it, of course, because you're too 437 00:31:37.759 --> 00:31:41.119 busy. I just don't do it all at once. But you're too busy 438 00:31:41.119 --> 00:31:42.640 at dinner. I get it. I understand. She catched for how much? 439 00:31:44.319 --> 00:31:47.920 Six hundred thousand? She actually moved to thirteen thirty six, which is 440 00:31:48.000 --> 00:31:52.759 good for six penning some other obviously model title results. I guess, just 441 00:31:52.839 --> 00:32:05.160 back up six places or something. Then going out in twelfth place, we 442 00:32:05.279 --> 00:32:09.279 lose our villain, your buddy, my boy, your buddy barefoot boy. 443 00:32:09.599 --> 00:32:16.079 Yeah, the fucking pair feet man. Gabrielle Mora busted in twelfth place six 444 00:32:16.160 --> 00:32:22.599 hundred thousand for him. He goes out to Jason Sagal Jason Sagle, so 445 00:32:22.599 --> 00:32:24.240 it folded to Sago in the small blind. He's moved all in to put 446 00:32:24.279 --> 00:32:28.279 Mora all into the big blind. Sorry, he raised to ten point eight 447 00:32:28.279 --> 00:32:30.559 million, so I'm assuming he just slid out a stack of chips. Moro 448 00:32:30.680 --> 00:32:34.880 goes all in for twelve point four. Sago calls for the extra a little 449 00:32:34.920 --> 00:32:37.079 bit more, has got Queen nine off, Sagle's got six y five off. 450 00:32:38.079 --> 00:32:43.079 It comes, I mean, what is his hand? It comes Jack 451 00:32:43.640 --> 00:32:51.400 nine to eight seven five. So Segal ends up making a straight and he 452 00:32:51.480 --> 00:32:55.200 delivers the I mean, yeah, the bad beat, the blow to Mora, 453 00:32:55.359 --> 00:33:00.799 the ending blow kind of similar fashion to how he busted ot Row earlier. 454 00:33:00.920 --> 00:33:04.319 So we lose more of And he was the one, you know, 455 00:33:04.359 --> 00:33:07.519 we talked about like if he makes the final table, he's like clearly the 456 00:33:07.599 --> 00:33:10.079 villain. So now I guess I should bring it up. Here is what 457 00:33:10.119 --> 00:33:14.400 I was going to ask you. But now I'm a little bit concerned because 458 00:33:14.400 --> 00:33:17.279 you're telling me you weren't even here. I saw some stuff on social media 459 00:33:17.599 --> 00:33:22.000 that the outer table was playing much slower than the main table. I have 460 00:33:22.039 --> 00:33:24.039 confirmation of that yet, Yeah, so were they were? They were they? 461 00:33:24.079 --> 00:33:30.119 At one point there were like sixteen hands behind us something sixteen Jesus Christ, 462 00:33:30.440 --> 00:33:32.279 What the why did they slow it down? Why did they say, 463 00:33:32.279 --> 00:33:36.519 like, hey, pause, we're gonna let these people catch up. They've 464 00:33:36.519 --> 00:33:40.279 done in the past, remember then any tea Machinko year when when Charlie came 465 00:33:40.319 --> 00:33:44.839 to us and was because remember we were hand for handing with twenty seven players 466 00:33:44.920 --> 00:33:46.920 left. We were hand for handing all three tables. Yeah, shout out 467 00:33:46.920 --> 00:33:51.279 to our coverage. Hand for handing. That was the badass coverage. And 468 00:33:51.720 --> 00:33:54.519 Charlie was like, you know, asked us to like tally it up. 469 00:33:54.519 --> 00:33:57.799 So I quickly tallied it up what it was and gave it to him and 470 00:33:57.799 --> 00:33:59.519 he's like, oh, yeah, you know, they're like twelve behind. 471 00:33:59.559 --> 00:34:01.119 So then he like basically was he like, but first he talked to the 472 00:34:01.119 --> 00:34:04.480 one table and said you need to speed it out, and then it didn't 473 00:34:04.480 --> 00:34:06.440 speed up, and then he started like being like, okay, like you 474 00:34:06.440 --> 00:34:09.119 guys gotta pause. We're gonna let these players play a couple hands, catch 475 00:34:09.199 --> 00:34:13.159 up and then go from there. So yeah, I don't think there's a 476 00:34:14.119 --> 00:34:17.159 I haven't witnessed this world series much of a you know, soft hand for 477 00:34:17.239 --> 00:34:21.239 hand at all, like we do, you know at Puger Studio in PGT 478 00:34:21.360 --> 00:34:24.000 events. But do you have a message here from someone that was very close 479 00:34:24.039 --> 00:34:28.639 to the action. He said, the two tables are now sixteen hands apart. 480 00:34:28.760 --> 00:34:31.159 Quite ridiculous. I think he was watching the stat screen and it says, 481 00:34:31.199 --> 00:34:34.800 you know, this is hand fifty five, this table beat this is 482 00:34:34.800 --> 00:34:37.119 a hand sixty eight or whatever. So obviously that number could be wrong. 483 00:34:37.280 --> 00:34:42.280 He could be over exaggerating. That's the message I received. I obviously am 484 00:34:42.400 --> 00:34:45.199 not kind of do anything about it. It's not my place to say anything. 485 00:34:45.440 --> 00:34:49.880 But yeah, I guess that's more up to the players or WSP themselves 486 00:34:49.920 --> 00:34:52.960 implementing some kind of you know, soft hand for hand rule it, you 487 00:34:52.960 --> 00:34:57.039 know, especially this deep in the main event with such big prize pool and 488 00:34:58.159 --> 00:35:00.920 ICM implications. Yeah, I'm curios is if the players were aware. So 489 00:35:02.360 --> 00:35:06.920 when when I was watching the coverage today and they were bouncing back and forth 490 00:35:06.960 --> 00:35:10.000 between the two tables, especially early on when there was eighteen left and they 491 00:35:10.000 --> 00:35:14.920 had that one hundred thousand dollars pay jump right away, I don't know. 492 00:35:15.079 --> 00:35:20.039 I kind of got the sense that the players on like each table weren't really 493 00:35:20.400 --> 00:35:23.320 aware of what was happening on the other table, which in years past, 494 00:35:23.360 --> 00:35:25.719 I feel like players, you know, they would kind of play their hand 495 00:35:27.000 --> 00:35:30.960 and then they would like like walk over to the other table, look see 496 00:35:30.000 --> 00:35:34.079 what's happening. Maybe walk back, you know, Like I felt like there 497 00:35:34.119 --> 00:35:37.519 was more of that in recent years than there was this year, you know, 498 00:35:37.599 --> 00:35:40.000 because I think, yeah, I think given the pay jumps, you 499 00:35:40.280 --> 00:35:43.679 got to kind of know. But I felt like they were just like these 500 00:35:43.679 --> 00:35:46.039 two tables were just playing right and they were just you know, doing their 501 00:35:46.079 --> 00:35:52.000 own thing. So I was I was a little bit, I guess surprised 502 00:35:52.039 --> 00:35:53.440 by that that they weren't kind of paying attention, because then if you're not 503 00:35:53.440 --> 00:35:58.079 paying attention to that sort of stuff, it's understandable that one table, if 504 00:35:58.079 --> 00:36:00.719 it ended up going much lower than the other table, that you're just unaware. 505 00:36:00.800 --> 00:36:02.679 Yeah, because I'm like, I mean, this is going way back, 506 00:36:02.719 --> 00:36:07.320 but you remember Daniel's year because that's when they had that wacky pay jump 507 00:36:07.199 --> 00:36:10.639 from like eleventh to tenth or whatever it was, or maybe eleventh to ninth 508 00:36:10.719 --> 00:36:15.039 or whatever. But anyway, but yeah, but Daniel was like, we 509 00:36:15.199 --> 00:36:17.039 like, it's so like this table's going way faster than that table is, 510 00:36:17.280 --> 00:36:20.639 like you know he was, he was aware of it, right, and 511 00:36:20.719 --> 00:36:22.719 there's been other years when the players have been aware of it. So surprise 512 00:36:22.840 --> 00:36:27.119 no one said anything. But maybe they could have just not been paying attention 513 00:36:27.159 --> 00:36:30.000 at all. Busting in eleventh place, Malcolm. Oh but anyway, but 514 00:36:30.039 --> 00:36:32.400 some people were saying that, you know, the one table that was playing 515 00:36:32.400 --> 00:36:36.000 a bit slower was because of Mora, And we know that he was playing 516 00:36:36.039 --> 00:36:38.760 extremely slow the day before we watched it. He was extremely deliberate with all 517 00:36:38.840 --> 00:36:43.239 his actions, So that could have been the case, is that he was 518 00:36:43.280 --> 00:36:45.920 playing so because even on the feature table earlier in the day, you know, 519 00:36:45.960 --> 00:36:50.159 before Moreau's busted, if him and Kim were in a pot, it 520 00:36:50.199 --> 00:36:53.159 was a fucking eight minute here. So all right, busting in eleventh place, 521 00:36:53.599 --> 00:36:59.320 Malcolm Frankie out of France. He got all in with Ace Queen up 522 00:36:59.360 --> 00:37:05.280 against the Ace King for Jordan Griff. Griff opened to three point two million 523 00:37:05.639 --> 00:37:10.400 on the button. Malcolm Frankie three bet jammed for thirty four point seven million 524 00:37:10.519 --> 00:37:15.159 or the big blind. Griff called it off. Here we go another seventy 525 00:37:15.199 --> 00:37:19.960 million chip pot. The Ace King holds for Griff and all of a sudden 526 00:37:20.440 --> 00:37:24.880 he's got eighty two million. Remember he was all in for like eight million, 527 00:37:24.880 --> 00:37:29.480 three hundred thousand on the first hand, needed a two hour on the 528 00:37:29.559 --> 00:37:32.239 river, hit it, and next thing you know, he's like, you 529 00:37:32.280 --> 00:37:36.320 know, second in chips, third and chips or whatever it was. So 530 00:37:36.440 --> 00:37:39.880 yeah, so there was that, and kind of along the way here Joseh 531 00:37:39.960 --> 00:37:44.880 Rock was basically dominating the feature table, you know, not like not like 532 00:37:44.960 --> 00:37:46.519 a big, huge all in hand like you saw. I mean, yes, 533 00:37:46.760 --> 00:37:50.880 the hand with Kristen Foxen. But other than that, you know, 534 00:37:51.039 --> 00:37:54.639 just just crushing basically. So Frankie goes out in eleventh place. We get 535 00:37:54.679 --> 00:38:00.840 down to ten handed play, which I'm again, but they go to one 536 00:38:00.880 --> 00:38:06.440 table. I know your your pro ten handed play because you are you are 537 00:38:06.519 --> 00:38:09.719 captain knit over here. You would have you would want them to go to 538 00:38:09.719 --> 00:38:13.079 ten handed play if sorry, you would want to go to twelve hand to 539 00:38:13.079 --> 00:38:15.000 play if they could, that's what you would have enough cards? Yeah, 540 00:38:15.039 --> 00:38:17.400 for sure, we have enough cards. For sure. I think you can 541 00:38:17.440 --> 00:38:20.960 go fourteen handed and hold them, can't you. We should do that. 542 00:38:21.400 --> 00:38:24.840 Yeah, yeah, that's right up your alley. So we get down to 543 00:38:25.000 --> 00:38:29.559 the ten handed table. Joe Siroki is the chip leader. He's the only 544 00:38:29.559 --> 00:38:31.440 player with over one hundred million. He's actually got one hundred and forty one 545 00:38:31.480 --> 00:38:37.760 point nine million massive chip. Brian Kim is second ninety eight point six, 546 00:38:37.880 --> 00:38:43.039 and then it's Jordan Griff in third, seventy eight point seven. The short 547 00:38:43.079 --> 00:38:45.800 stack. Of course, that's important now because that's the person everyone's looking at 548 00:38:45.880 --> 00:38:52.039 to go out next and set the official final table. That was Portugal's Diego 549 00:38:52.119 --> 00:38:57.840 Coelo. He had eleven point seven million, so they get played back underway. 550 00:38:57.960 --> 00:39:00.840 Blinds are eight hundred thousand, one point six million. A couple of 551 00:39:00.880 --> 00:39:06.039 shoves get through from some players. Gonzalez got to shove through Latin wall. 552 00:39:06.119 --> 00:39:12.639 Gotta shove through. Then Griff wins a massive pot. He makes quads. 553 00:39:14.079 --> 00:39:21.360 This hand was freaking wild. Jordan Griff min raised under the gun. Ostet 554 00:39:21.360 --> 00:39:27.400 makes the call and Sarraq makes the call nine to six' five. Griff 555 00:39:27.480 --> 00:39:30.440 has pocket fives by the way. He flops the bottom set. Si Rak 556 00:39:30.519 --> 00:39:36.599 has seven to eight flops a straight and I forget what Ostet had, but 557 00:39:36.679 --> 00:39:39.199 he had he had a big hand too. Ousted ops to lead out for 558 00:39:39.679 --> 00:39:45.199 three point five million. Sarak calls and Griff also calls turn as a queen. 559 00:39:45.280 --> 00:39:51.360 Ostet slows down, he checks. Sarraq bets eleven million, Griff calls 560 00:39:52.320 --> 00:39:55.840 Osted, gets out of the way river five, pairing the board. Sarraq 561 00:39:57.239 --> 00:40:05.800 bets thirty five million, and Griff moves all in and si Raki is like, 562 00:40:05.920 --> 00:40:10.440 what in the f in hell is happening? Looks like he was just 563 00:40:10.559 --> 00:40:15.280 possessed, like the way he kind of like reacted. The all in was 564 00:40:15.320 --> 00:40:20.599 for sixty one million. Remember Sarak bett thirty five million. I mean, 565 00:40:20.639 --> 00:40:23.920 this is an insane hand. And I told you what that what the players 566 00:40:23.920 --> 00:40:29.960 had. But Sirak had seven eight flopped a straight. Griff had pocket fives 567 00:40:30.039 --> 00:40:36.119 for quads. Eventually, Sarrak folds and he gets shown the quads. I 568 00:40:36.119 --> 00:40:38.079 mean, you gotta show the quads, right, Sarah says, he has 569 00:40:38.519 --> 00:40:44.000 seven eights obviously folding a straight there and just an absolutely wild hand. And 570 00:40:44.000 --> 00:40:51.440 that's the hand that propelled Jordan Griff, the supply chain manager, out of 571 00:40:51.719 --> 00:40:57.159 I believe California, maybe Arizona. I forget exactly up into the chip lead. 572 00:40:57.599 --> 00:41:00.760 I mean, good lord one hundred and forty four million for him or 573 00:41:00.800 --> 00:41:07.280 one hundred and forty million whatever it is. Then we lose Portugal's Diego Diego 574 00:41:07.519 --> 00:41:10.079 Coelo. In tenth place, he gets it all in with ace jack up 575 00:41:10.119 --> 00:41:15.039 against the ace king for Nicholas, austedt. No help for Coelo, and 576 00:41:15.119 --> 00:41:20.920 he's out the door. In tenth place, he gets eight hundred thousand dollars 577 00:41:20.920 --> 00:41:28.199 in prize money and the day is over. So chip counts are I'll go, 578 00:41:28.400 --> 00:41:30.280 you want to do table or you want to do chip count order. 579 00:41:30.760 --> 00:41:36.039 I like table. Tell me, well, how do we get? But 580 00:41:36.840 --> 00:41:38.679 I did it on purpose because I saw you weren't looking at the table. 581 00:41:39.199 --> 00:41:42.280 I was looking at that. I know, I know I got you. 582 00:41:42.440 --> 00:41:45.360 Boris Angelov say one thirty three big blinds. I'm gonna do big blinds because 583 00:41:45.400 --> 00:41:52.079 you know it makes more sense. Yeah, that's malo malo sixteen big blinds. 584 00:41:52.199 --> 00:41:57.360 Brian cam in the state say three fifty nine big binds. By the 585 00:41:57.400 --> 00:41:59.960 way, Brian cam West c in the on the table, one hundred percent 586 00:42:00.159 --> 00:42:01.239 has to be the worst sealing table. This is one hundred percent of the 587 00:42:01.280 --> 00:42:05.400 worst, and that's before Griff runted up. But Nicholas asked that he has 588 00:42:05.440 --> 00:42:08.039 fifty nine big lines as well. See four. Joseh Rock down to fifty 589 00:42:08.079 --> 00:42:14.400 two bigs. Jordan Griff Chip Leader, ninety big lines, Jonathan Tomayo folding 590 00:42:14.440 --> 00:42:16.239 pocket queens to a raise. Oh, we're gonna talk about that. Well, 591 00:42:16.320 --> 00:42:21.360 let me finish this. Seventy big Linds in cea seven Andres Gonzalez eleven 592 00:42:21.360 --> 00:42:24.559 bigs. He is the final table Shots Sag, Jason Segal in the nine 593 00:42:24.639 --> 00:42:29.360 seat, forty two big lines. Yeah, let's go. Yeah. So 594 00:42:29.400 --> 00:42:34.239 they make the ten handed final tables. The first hand right, it was 595 00:42:34.280 --> 00:42:37.239 one of the first hands, but Joseph Rock raises under the gun a six 596 00:42:37.880 --> 00:42:44.920 and yeah he has a six off and under the gun plus two is Tomayo 597 00:42:45.960 --> 00:42:50.239 takes about four seconds and just two queens in the muck. Yeah. Raised 598 00:42:50.239 --> 00:42:53.079 the three point two million early position to Mayo folded queens. Jason Saga called 599 00:42:53.119 --> 00:43:00.840 in the hijack was ten douce three struck check, Segal bet and strapholder the 600 00:43:00.880 --> 00:43:05.000 ice six. I'm not really nice seven I six, I seven, but 601 00:43:05.079 --> 00:43:07.400 that could have been potential. You know, it's good spot there for tomay 602 00:43:07.440 --> 00:43:14.679 How to double up? Yeah, you think, oh, but I'm surprised 603 00:43:14.679 --> 00:43:19.800 you're saying this and you're like, not good full tapping the table. Let's 604 00:43:19.840 --> 00:43:22.920 okay, let's wind it back. The guys have wind it back. What 605 00:43:22.079 --> 00:43:25.280 he's got seventeen bigs, get the money in. Other guy has eight bigs, 606 00:43:25.320 --> 00:43:28.920 and then the other one has eleven bigs. It's such a nice cm 607 00:43:28.960 --> 00:43:30.960 phault, isn't it. I mean, yeah, but it seems nitty. 608 00:43:31.840 --> 00:43:35.280 Yeah, it's kinda nit, buddy. That's how we do it. That's 609 00:43:35.280 --> 00:43:38.079 how we roll. The main event is such. It has to be such 610 00:43:38.360 --> 00:43:45.559 a mind f because you honestly think you're shoving in that spot. Listen, 611 00:43:45.599 --> 00:43:49.840 listen to what I'm gonna say. I mean, I I think I do. 612 00:43:49.960 --> 00:43:53.159 Just get the money in. I mean, but the mind f is 613 00:43:54.360 --> 00:44:00.199 you you have these enormous pay jumps. Him is on Instagram. I don't 614 00:44:00.199 --> 00:44:04.000 know if any I don't know. Yeah, he's mutiay because he doesn't want 615 00:44:04.000 --> 00:44:06.760 me to know he's on Instagram. But I heard the sound. He's for 616 00:44:06.880 --> 00:44:10.679 sure on Instagram. Yeah it was. You have these massive pay jumps when 617 00:44:10.719 --> 00:44:15.079 you're the steep right, so on one side you you, yes, you 618 00:44:15.119 --> 00:44:17.840 want to ladder up to like secure these payge jumps because they are so large. 619 00:44:17.920 --> 00:44:22.400 I mean, every paye jump is like what first place in many tournaments 620 00:44:22.400 --> 00:44:25.480 are, right, you know, two hundred thousand, three hundred thousand, 621 00:44:25.519 --> 00:44:30.639 four hundred thousands, like just massive pay jumps. The other side is that 622 00:44:32.760 --> 00:44:40.480 this tournament is so damn top heavy still, it's like weirdly flat but also 623 00:44:42.159 --> 00:44:45.400 crazy top heavy, just because the top three are so insane four million, 624 00:44:45.480 --> 00:44:51.000 six million, ten million. I mean what like play heads up for four 625 00:44:51.000 --> 00:44:53.840 million dollars. I mean that's out of control. Yeah, I mean that's 626 00:44:53.840 --> 00:44:57.440 what, you know, a point of just getting it in. That's my 627 00:44:57.519 --> 00:45:00.880 point of like, if you want to ultimately set yourself up to win in 628 00:45:01.039 --> 00:45:04.559 the tournament that, out of all tournaments in the world, is the most 629 00:45:04.559 --> 00:45:09.400 top heavy, then isn't this the one? Yes, like, and I 630 00:45:09.760 --> 00:45:15.119 so part of the reason why. And listen, I could be I could 631 00:45:15.159 --> 00:45:21.280 be wrong here, but I could also be like kind of going down the 632 00:45:21.360 --> 00:45:24.199 road of ICM is for poor people. Although I'm a poor person, but 633 00:45:24.199 --> 00:45:27.360 I'm still kind of going down this road. And what I mean is that, 634 00:45:27.400 --> 00:45:31.280 like, listen, if Tomayo were to go with that hand and bust 635 00:45:31.280 --> 00:45:37.360 out, you still collect eight hundred thousand dollars. It's not like first place 636 00:45:37.440 --> 00:45:44.079 is ten million, and if you bust you're collecting one hunter k. Yes, 637 00:45:44.639 --> 00:45:49.239 so the eight hundred k is a massive amount of money that you've already 638 00:45:49.280 --> 00:45:54.360 secured, so that it's like a safety blanket in a weird way to me, 639 00:45:55.199 --> 00:45:58.440 you know, like, yeah, want to like you want to try 640 00:45:58.480 --> 00:46:01.199 and position yourself to get top three in any tournament when when you get this 641 00:46:01.280 --> 00:46:05.280 deep because that's you know, I've said it before, like the money's always 642 00:46:05.320 --> 00:46:08.719 in the top three, especially in the Wspumine event. The top three here 643 00:46:08.719 --> 00:46:15.000 there's twenty million dollars, I know, but it's also crazy, so like 644 00:46:15.079 --> 00:46:19.480 you want to, like, if you're into mile shoes and you take the 645 00:46:19.559 --> 00:46:22.199 queen's right, you look down and you see the queens like you have a 646 00:46:22.320 --> 00:46:27.280 chance at retirement money. And if you don't get it, you still got 647 00:46:27.280 --> 00:46:30.559 a massive bankrell boost waiting for you if you ultimately bust out. So it's 648 00:46:30.599 --> 00:46:34.559 not the end of the world. So I don't know, that's why I 649 00:46:34.719 --> 00:46:40.480 lean to to go for it versus just you know, leaning on the side 650 00:46:40.519 --> 00:46:46.440 of ultimate knittery and folded like that. I mean, right, I mean 651 00:46:46.559 --> 00:46:51.000 that that's how I think about the situation. And I know, like maybe 652 00:46:51.199 --> 00:46:53.320 icm yes, based on the stacks and where the other guys were behind you 653 00:46:53.360 --> 00:46:58.519 and shorter than you. Yes, maybe you should fold icm wise, but 654 00:46:59.559 --> 00:47:02.119 I don't know. I feel like you can deviate good fun. Jonathan, 655 00:47:04.320 --> 00:47:07.599 Yeah, I mean listen, why don't we just we'll play the interview right 656 00:47:07.639 --> 00:47:09.639 now. I saw I talked with Jonathan Tomahow afterwards, and I asked him, 657 00:47:09.639 --> 00:47:13.800 flat up, you did you fold queens? Because when it happens, 658 00:47:13.840 --> 00:47:15.639 the first thing we think, being on the production side, Oh, was 659 00:47:15.679 --> 00:47:19.480 that a graphics air exactly? Because maybe it happened, you don't know, 660 00:47:19.519 --> 00:47:22.000 there has been some graphics airs before. He did tweet he's chip bag and 661 00:47:22.000 --> 00:47:24.000 said, yes, I did folk queens. I mean he told me, 662 00:47:24.119 --> 00:47:27.119 you know, he said I fold the queens, and then he said, 663 00:47:27.320 --> 00:47:28.960 you know, we'll play in a second, but yeah, he said I 664 00:47:29.000 --> 00:47:31.039 folded queens. Chance Corneth was on Twitter, which I thought was interesting, 665 00:47:31.159 --> 00:47:35.719 Like he said, clearly it was a graphics air and Jonathan Tomiow is wearing 666 00:47:35.760 --> 00:47:38.320 a chip Leader coaching patch, which is Chances company, So that was kind 667 00:47:38.360 --> 00:47:42.519 of interesting to me, you know, like Chance to like if he's like 668 00:47:42.639 --> 00:47:45.639 in that circle or whatever. He didn't just like text him and say, 669 00:47:45.679 --> 00:47:47.119 hey, was that really queens? And Tomorow's like, yeah, whatever, 670 00:47:47.519 --> 00:47:52.159 So anyway, here's a troll who knows. Here's the interview right now with 671 00:47:52.239 --> 00:47:54.519 Jonathan Tomiow where he talks about the fact that he did full queens. All 672 00:47:54.559 --> 00:47:59.960 right, Jonathan Tomiow ws be main event final sable. Did you ever think 673 00:48:00.079 --> 00:48:06.079 you would be here? Never? Never? It's a pipe dream. It's 674 00:48:06.079 --> 00:48:09.599 impossible to make this final table. I mean every poker player dreams of making 675 00:48:09.599 --> 00:48:13.719 this final table. Right, You have obviously now experienced the run to the 676 00:48:13.719 --> 00:48:16.880 final table. Is that experience in line with what you've dreamt or is it 677 00:48:16.920 --> 00:48:23.119 better? It's better, especially since I should have been gone on day four. 678 00:48:24.840 --> 00:48:31.199 I jammed ten bigs day four with Ace Queen. Somebody rejammed Jacks. 679 00:48:32.239 --> 00:48:37.119 There's a cutoff who had thirty five bigs folded Ace King because he was afraid 680 00:48:37.480 --> 00:48:42.119 of running five cards for his tournament life. But one guy at the table 681 00:48:42.199 --> 00:48:45.400 fold Day's King. The big mind folds Jacks and I bang an Ace on 682 00:48:45.440 --> 00:48:50.519 the turn. That sequence events doesn't happen. I'm not here, so you 683 00:48:50.519 --> 00:48:52.280 feel like you're on a bit of a free roll. Of course, after 684 00:48:52.320 --> 00:48:54.440 that, I said, it's all free now, and Mario Jo had a 685 00:48:54.480 --> 00:48:59.440 front row seat to it coming in. I think with twenty six million, 686 00:48:59.480 --> 00:49:01.199 I think you put in the bag so kind of towards like the bottom portion 687 00:49:01.239 --> 00:49:04.760 of the chip counts. What your approach going to be? Is it more 688 00:49:04.800 --> 00:49:07.360 like ICM specific? Are you just going to go in and be like I'm 689 00:49:07.360 --> 00:49:08.119 going to take it one hand to the time, you're going to play for 690 00:49:08.159 --> 00:49:14.079 the win? Just play the spots because I'm less likely to win than anybody 691 00:49:14.159 --> 00:49:15.519 has one hundred million. So like, if it happens, it happens. 692 00:49:15.519 --> 00:49:19.360 If not, well, it's been great, it's been great. It's been 693 00:49:19.400 --> 00:49:22.719 great seeing everybody. I do have to ask you about one hand and you 694 00:49:22.760 --> 00:49:24.159 can tell me if it was correct or not? Did you fold queens? 695 00:49:24.320 --> 00:49:30.480 I did? And what was the reasoning there? Uh, there's math behind 696 00:49:30.519 --> 00:49:37.000 it. After talking with a couple good high roller gregs and they can hand 697 00:49:37.079 --> 00:49:42.679 poke, you know, and and they like it. So whether it's actually 698 00:49:42.719 --> 00:49:45.719 corrected, I don't know. But at the time like that was the executable 699 00:49:45.719 --> 00:49:52.119 plan. So I did it right or wrong at this point hopefully I wasn't 700 00:49:52.119 --> 00:49:54.079 If it was wrong, hopefully I wasn't too wrong. What's the next day 701 00:49:54.079 --> 00:49:58.039 and a half or so, look like for you obviously some rest of course 702 00:49:58.079 --> 00:50:00.840 after these long days of playing. But is it studying talking with friends some 703 00:50:00.880 --> 00:50:04.480 of those high rollers that you mentioned, There will be some studying with those 704 00:50:04.760 --> 00:50:10.119 high roller friends. Get a plan going, you know. I may may 705 00:50:10.119 --> 00:50:14.239 not be around long at the final table, maybe around a long time, 706 00:50:14.360 --> 00:50:19.320 so that would be something formulated for sure, But that's tomorrow, you know. 707 00:50:20.239 --> 00:50:22.400 Actually I think one of them is already working on it for me. 708 00:50:22.719 --> 00:50:24.719 Well, great, And then last question here, I have something that I 709 00:50:24.800 --> 00:50:29.840 ask everyone during this run. You having fun? It's fun now because I'm 710 00:50:29.840 --> 00:50:31.760 not playing. It's stressful when plan you can't think about it, but when 711 00:50:31.800 --> 00:50:40.039 you on Brakes's like, all right, this is kind of fun. I 712 00:50:40.039 --> 00:50:45.760 do want to run through the bios quickly and kind of talk about who these 713 00:50:45.760 --> 00:50:49.760 players are, So we'll go through that pretty quickly. Right now. I'll 714 00:50:49.760 --> 00:50:52.280 just hit on some of the kind of the kind of the big things to 715 00:50:52.320 --> 00:50:58.599 pull from each things or the important stuff or whatever. First up, seat 716 00:50:58.639 --> 00:51:02.920 one, you got Tis Angelov out of Bulgaria, forty two years old, 717 00:51:05.360 --> 00:51:07.639 professional poker player, which, by the way, we're gonna you're gonna hear 718 00:51:07.639 --> 00:51:10.360 that a lot professional poker player. This is I feel like this is the 719 00:51:10.400 --> 00:51:15.400 most professional poker player field we've had a the wspman I'll table, although I 720 00:51:15.400 --> 00:51:19.599 could be wrong. He enjoyed spending time with friends and family. He enjoys 721 00:51:19.639 --> 00:51:23.119 his social life. His biggest score came earlier this year, second place in 722 00:51:23.360 --> 00:51:29.400 EPT Monte Carlo in the main event five thousand euro by In there he got 723 00:51:29.400 --> 00:51:34.320 six hundred and sixty four thousand dollars. This is his thirteenth WSP cash. 724 00:51:34.360 --> 00:51:39.440 He's played poker professionally since two thoy and sixteen. Ahead of coming or sorry, 725 00:51:39.440 --> 00:51:44.280 coming into this event, he was number thirty on Bulgaria's all time moneyless 726 00:51:44.320 --> 00:51:47.719 I'm guessing he's going to have a good chance to climb that ranking system. 727 00:51:49.119 --> 00:51:52.320 Malo Latinois is out of France. Well it doesn't say his age. Oh 728 00:51:52.400 --> 00:51:58.239 yeah, there is twenty eight years old out of France entering the WSPE main 729 00:51:58.280 --> 00:52:02.559 event this year ninety six dollars in live tournament earnings. Doesn't have any WSP 730 00:52:02.639 --> 00:52:06.840 cashes outside of this one. This is a pretty good one to stop your 731 00:52:06.920 --> 00:52:09.719 charity with. Right, he is a professional poker player now, but he 732 00:52:09.800 --> 00:52:15.400 wasn't always. He was a former energy consultant. He came from the Grenoble 733 00:52:15.480 --> 00:52:22.880 Institute of Technology for Engineering and Energy before embarking on his poker career. Built 734 00:52:22.920 --> 00:52:30.400 a strong foundation for his future through academics. He earned an engineering degree specializing 735 00:52:30.440 --> 00:52:36.199 in energy systems and markets. He has a master's degree and he also spent 736 00:52:36.280 --> 00:52:40.119 time as an exchange student at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. So 737 00:52:42.159 --> 00:52:46.920 pretty smart guy, I feel. Says. He started playing poker about four 738 00:52:47.000 --> 00:52:52.920 years ago watching his friends play some very small one euro tournaments online. He 739 00:52:52.000 --> 00:52:57.039 became passionate about started loving it and then to start doing everything that he could 740 00:52:57.159 --> 00:53:02.280 to get better. And here he is poker biggest stage. Brian Kim aged 741 00:53:02.320 --> 00:53:08.639 thirty four, originally from California but now lives in Sydney with his wife Emma, 742 00:53:09.000 --> 00:53:14.320 attended the University of Can we claim him? What can I claim him? 743 00:53:14.400 --> 00:53:19.159 Kangaroo crew member? You can claim his wife for sure? What it's 744 00:53:19.159 --> 00:53:22.360 listen, you can't be in the Kangaroo crew unless you have the accent. 745 00:53:22.480 --> 00:53:25.679 It's just not and BK doesn't have the accent, so people say I don't 746 00:53:25.679 --> 00:53:29.840 have an accent. He went to UNLV played hockey there. He also played 747 00:53:29.880 --> 00:53:32.400 in some Australian Hockey league which I didn't even know Australia had hockey, but 748 00:53:32.440 --> 00:53:36.199 he was like the number one draft pick because he's pretty good. Used to 749 00:53:36.239 --> 00:53:38.960 be a cash game player, played a lot of pretty big cash games out 750 00:53:39.000 --> 00:53:43.480 in LA high stakes cash. Has since transitioned into tournaments. Has been playing 751 00:53:43.519 --> 00:53:47.440 tournaments seriously for I don't know two to three years now plays really high plays 752 00:53:47.480 --> 00:53:51.360 a lot of the Triton stuff, plays in the studio, plays all the 753 00:53:51.360 --> 00:53:53.280 big stuff here at the World Series of Poker. Has had a couple of 754 00:53:53.400 --> 00:53:58.599 very big scores, but this is his first million dollar score. He had 755 00:53:58.639 --> 00:54:02.159 a third place finish in a Triton event this year for nine hundred and fifty 756 00:54:02.159 --> 00:54:07.159 four thousand dollars. Last year in a Triton event he got second place in 757 00:54:07.480 --> 00:54:10.440 second place for nine hundred and twenty thousand dollars, So some big scores for 758 00:54:10.519 --> 00:54:15.519 him. He does have a bracelet in online versusly Yeah, a five thousand 759 00:54:15.559 --> 00:54:20.199 dollars Nolanan hold him high roller one hundred and twenty k there, and then 760 00:54:20.239 --> 00:54:25.920 in twenty twenty two he finished twenty third in this very event, taking home 761 00:54:25.960 --> 00:54:30.199 I think three hundred and thirty thousand dollars or something like that. He lists 762 00:54:30.199 --> 00:54:36.119 here One of his coolest poker moments was playing heads up with a celebrity who 763 00:54:36.119 --> 00:54:42.280 he prefers not to name and winning. Interesting, I know the celebrity. 764 00:54:42.639 --> 00:54:45.760 You know the celebrity. Yep, so do I. He was in the 765 00:54:45.760 --> 00:54:49.199 movie. No, you're not going to say it. I'll have Rich Ryan 766 00:54:49.320 --> 00:54:52.639 edited out, I think, but I will say that I had a piece 767 00:54:52.679 --> 00:54:57.239 of the action. I didn't remember that. So I also beat the celebrity 768 00:54:57.599 --> 00:55:00.360 celebrity. I beat the celebrity heads up by proxy proxy. Okay, that's 769 00:55:00.360 --> 00:55:05.320 how it happened. So yeah, Brian Kim, he's in there. I 770 00:55:05.320 --> 00:55:07.559 mean, he's a good friend of mine. You know, I've spoken with 771 00:55:07.639 --> 00:55:10.280 him. He feels a lot, a lot more ready this time around than 772 00:55:10.280 --> 00:55:14.159 he was a couple of years. Speak to him tonight, Oh yeah, 773 00:55:14.159 --> 00:55:15.320 I did. I did, actually, so we should throw that interview. 774 00:55:15.320 --> 00:55:20.679 I did speak with Brian Kim afterwards. You could definitely tell he was at 775 00:55:20.679 --> 00:55:24.239 the point of this run when like all the adrenaline was dumping. I'm sure 776 00:55:24.239 --> 00:55:29.000 you're just freaking hyped up. I can't even imagine I'm hyped up on day 777 00:55:29.000 --> 00:55:30.280 two, so I don't even know what the hell happens on day eight. 778 00:55:30.679 --> 00:55:34.719 Like, I almost feel like you would have to like take some sort of 779 00:55:34.800 --> 00:55:37.599 drugs to go the other way because you're like too hyped up. But if 780 00:55:37.599 --> 00:55:39.039 you listen to him speaking of hyped up, I asked him about the scarf 781 00:55:39.079 --> 00:55:43.519 thing, and he said it was basically like he's like kind of all out 782 00:55:43.559 --> 00:55:45.960 of whack with sleeping stuff, that his fucking heart rate is just like going 783 00:55:45.960 --> 00:55:49.519 crazy, like no matter what. So he's just like I just want to, 784 00:55:49.559 --> 00:55:51.719 like, you know, cover that. But he talked about in the 785 00:55:51.760 --> 00:55:53.880 interview, And here's that interview for you right now. All right, Brian 786 00:55:54.000 --> 00:56:00.000 Kim, Are you more prepared this time than last time? Yeah? Absolutely 787 00:56:00.360 --> 00:56:05.079 worked a lot on my game and I'm ready to try to make a good 788 00:56:05.119 --> 00:56:10.760 showing describe what this ride's been like in comparison to the last one. Yeah, 789 00:56:10.760 --> 00:56:14.800 I think with this run, if I was the player that I was 790 00:56:14.920 --> 00:56:19.679 in twenty twenty two, there's a chance that I would definitely not be here. 791 00:56:20.480 --> 00:56:24.000 I feel like my best poker played this tournament was when I was short, 792 00:56:25.519 --> 00:56:30.639 and yeah, I think I was just more dialed in this time around, 793 00:56:30.960 --> 00:56:37.159 more focused, and just more prepared in general. You gotta talk to 794 00:56:37.159 --> 00:56:40.039 me about the scarf what's up with the scarf? You just said? You 795 00:56:40.079 --> 00:56:46.960 hide in the tells. Surprisingly, nobody has texted me about the scarf yet. 796 00:56:47.480 --> 00:56:51.880 I thought that I would get at least forty messages saying, what the 797 00:56:51.880 --> 00:56:55.039 hell are you wearing? But where did you get it? The scarf thing? 798 00:56:58.639 --> 00:57:06.639 I am kind of sleep deprived and my heart rates just been going insane, 799 00:57:06.760 --> 00:57:12.199 regardless of if I have a value hand or a bluff or if I'm 800 00:57:12.239 --> 00:57:15.960 all in. So I thought I needed to cover that up, and I 801 00:57:16.000 --> 00:57:21.559 asked my friend Arden Show if she could hop into a couple of stores because 802 00:57:21.639 --> 00:57:25.079 we're both staying at Bolaggio and check for me. But she said she didn't, 803 00:57:25.119 --> 00:57:31.760 but she's there with a friend who's a famous creat actress who who let 804 00:57:31.800 --> 00:57:36.039 me borrow this scarf. I'm definitely gonna try and buy it from her. 805 00:57:37.760 --> 00:57:40.320 What's it been like with the competition? Obviously it tends to all kind of 806 00:57:40.360 --> 00:57:44.119 converge, you know, the better players kind of rise to the top. 807 00:57:44.719 --> 00:57:47.679 Is everyone playing pretty well? Do you still feel pretty good against the field 808 00:57:47.760 --> 00:57:55.039 that's left? Yeah, it's hard to say what these fields are normally like. 809 00:57:55.119 --> 00:57:58.920 Towards the end, I feel like they're always just all over the place, 810 00:57:58.960 --> 00:58:04.440 and for me, some days I had a lot of recreational players at 811 00:58:04.440 --> 00:58:07.400 the table, and sometimes randomly I had very tough tables. I think my 812 00:58:07.480 --> 00:58:13.639 toughest table was on Day two, and I just played super tight on that 813 00:58:13.639 --> 00:58:16.280 table because I knew we were breaking soon. But yeah, with this final 814 00:58:16.320 --> 00:58:22.119 table, I think it's I think it's relatively tough for our main event final 815 00:58:22.119 --> 00:58:27.840 table actually, and yeah, it should be a fun final table to watch. 816 00:58:28.840 --> 00:58:32.199 Last question, I always ask everyone, are you having fun? Yeah, 817 00:58:32.280 --> 00:58:38.239 I'm having a blast. It really is a dream come true. And 818 00:58:39.119 --> 00:58:45.320 yeah, I never thought I would actually be here doing these interviews because I've 819 00:58:45.320 --> 00:58:52.400 made the final table. I've always just, yeah, kind of worshiped the 820 00:58:52.760 --> 00:58:57.840 main event as the super Bowl of poker, and I knew that I would 821 00:58:57.840 --> 00:59:01.639 have another maybe sixteen tries at it or maybe more. I don't know what 822 00:59:01.639 --> 00:59:07.519 I'm gonna quit poker about. To actually be here, I think in my 823 00:59:07.599 --> 00:59:12.480 prime is is amazing. All Right, So that was Brian Kim. You 824 00:59:12.519 --> 00:59:15.239 said he has the worst seat at the table, and that's probably because next 825 00:59:15.239 --> 00:59:21.440 to him, it starts with Nicholas ostett Leana nine hundred is what he's better 826 00:59:21.480 --> 00:59:25.519 known as probably the greatest online tournament poker player in history, even though Tim 827 00:59:25.679 --> 00:59:31.440 doesn't think. So, that's not let's move on. That's not what we 828 00:59:31.480 --> 00:59:35.159 can play. I was trying to make we can play the tape. You're 829 00:59:35.159 --> 00:59:38.440 out here trying to say Tom Dwan not okay, where in this main event? 830 00:59:38.519 --> 00:59:42.800 Huh? Where is he? He's gone? He cashed, right, 831 00:59:43.679 --> 00:59:45.760 I think he cash? Yeah, he cashed. Yeah, you me. 832 00:59:45.000 --> 00:59:50.719 I was trying to make a point about notoriety, not about the actual. 833 00:59:50.800 --> 00:59:53.079 No one cares about notoriety. No one cares about that was the point I 834 00:59:53.119 --> 01:00:00.480 was trying to make, though. So Ostets long time no. Number One 835 01:00:00.639 --> 01:00:04.840 ranked online poker player over on pocketfives dot com. He's thirty three years old 836 01:00:04.880 --> 01:00:09.559 out of Sweden. He dropped out of school to pursue poker full time, 837 01:00:09.599 --> 01:00:13.760 and it's worked out for him, I would say. Although he only has 838 01:00:14.360 --> 01:00:19.159 right around three million dollars in live tournament earnings online, more than forty eight 839 01:00:19.360 --> 01:00:22.239 million dollars in earnings, a lot of money. He's been married for three 840 01:00:22.320 --> 01:00:29.199 years. He's had a bunch of basippy caches, but none of course as 841 01:00:29.280 --> 01:00:32.880 good as this one. He started playing poker in the early two thousands during 842 01:00:32.960 --> 01:00:37.360 the Poker Broom, as so many of us did. He quit school two 843 01:00:37.440 --> 01:00:43.079 years before graduating and just started playing poker. Got better at he started playing 844 01:00:43.119 --> 01:00:46.719 free roll tournaments. He actually transitioned to cash games. He played cash games. 845 01:00:46.719 --> 01:00:51.840 Then he kind of, you know, switched back over to tournament poker 846 01:00:52.159 --> 01:00:55.039 when he was twenty four years old, and he has never looked back since. 847 01:00:55.440 --> 01:01:00.400 Joe Sirock the bad seat draw that you referenced for Brian, him gets 848 01:01:00.400 --> 01:01:02.679 harder because now he's got Joe sarrac uh, you know, two to his 849 01:01:02.760 --> 01:01:06.360 left, thirty six Joe I Rock. I feel like he's been in the 850 01:01:06.360 --> 01:01:08.400 industry forever, right, I mean he's he was in the industry. He 851 01:01:08.440 --> 01:01:12.599 was one of those guys when I remember two thousand and eight, my first 852 01:01:12.639 --> 01:01:15.840 World Series of Poker, my first time in the industry, walking through the 853 01:01:15.840 --> 01:01:17.239 field, you know, my boss is like, Oh, that's Joe so 854 01:01:17.320 --> 01:01:21.320 Rock. You know, you gotta look at that guy. He has a 855 01:01:21.360 --> 01:01:25.239 bracelet. Also in online event something in Europe, No, he got second? 856 01:01:25.360 --> 01:01:30.760 Who Jos Rock? He took second in like the Mix Max in Europe? 857 01:01:30.880 --> 01:01:36.880 Or did he win the Mix? No? His bracelets online last year 858 01:01:37.000 --> 01:01:43.039 five hundred dollars online PLO event he won ninety three thousand dollars. Started playing 859 01:01:43.119 --> 01:01:46.440 poker in two thousand and four, after you know, kind of similar to 860 01:01:46.840 --> 01:01:53.079 other people that we mentioned and ourselves watching televised poker on TV or televised poker 861 01:01:53.079 --> 01:01:58.239 of the WSP, I should say, because televised poker on TV is quite 862 01:01:58.239 --> 01:02:04.840 redundant. Now he is the televised poker Yes, I mean right, kind 863 01:02:04.840 --> 01:02:07.960 of just comes full circle. Started playing poker with his friends, as so 864 01:02:08.039 --> 01:02:12.960 many of us have. He says that he was quite depressed during his high 865 01:02:13.000 --> 01:02:16.440 school years and discovering poker was a bit of a revelation for him. So 866 01:02:17.079 --> 01:02:21.239 good on Joe Sarrock. I feel like he's in every tournament all over the 867 01:02:21.280 --> 01:02:27.039 place. Another professional poker player. He did attend some college community college for 868 01:02:27.119 --> 01:02:30.199 a couple of months, but dropped out to play poker. Now resides in 869 01:02:30.320 --> 01:02:38.800 San Diego, Calalifornia. Now we have Jordan Griff the chip leader again. 870 01:02:38.840 --> 01:02:45.119 Remember Jordan Griff came from ten big Linds all the way up to ninety big 871 01:02:45.119 --> 01:02:47.760 lines, where he finished the day after hitting a two outer on the river 872 01:02:49.400 --> 01:02:53.320 to stay alive on the very first hand of day eight. Griff is thirty 873 01:02:53.400 --> 01:02:59.440 years old originally from New City, New York. I wonder if that's supposed 874 01:02:59.440 --> 01:03:01.639 to be New York York City and they just left that out so they run 875 01:03:01.679 --> 01:03:07.840 on Bio resides in Scottsdale, Arizona. He went to Arizona State University. 876 01:03:07.039 --> 01:03:12.239 He is a He lists his profession as a supply chain manager. Curious if 877 01:03:12.239 --> 01:03:15.199 that is going to change due to the fact that he's going to be winning 878 01:03:15.280 --> 01:03:20.039 at least one million dollars, if not more. He's married. He's got 879 01:03:20.079 --> 01:03:22.679 a baby on the way. A sun is due later this year, so 880 01:03:22.800 --> 01:03:28.079 baby run good is a thing for mister griff. He enjoys sports betting, 881 01:03:28.320 --> 01:03:32.400 daily Fantasy Sports. Prior to this, WSP made events just forty seven thousand 882 01:03:32.440 --> 01:03:37.480 dollars in career live tournament earnings. Eleven thousand of that is from the WSFP. 883 01:03:38.880 --> 01:03:43.960 He does have three WSP cashes. He began playing poker in twenty fifteen, 884 01:03:44.119 --> 01:03:49.480 started playing one two Nolan Holdham cash games while in college. Lists his 885 01:03:49.559 --> 01:03:54.719 strengths at the table as understanding his table image and also playing off table dynamics. 886 01:03:55.280 --> 01:04:01.320 Jonathan Tomayo is next up. Tomayo another person who's been around forever. 887 01:04:01.719 --> 01:04:06.119 I can remember him I feel like again going back to my first weeks or 888 01:04:06.159 --> 01:04:11.480 whatever it was, covering poker. Thirty eight years old out of Texas. 889 01:04:11.519 --> 01:04:15.760 Went to Cornell University for hotel management. But he's a pro poker player, 890 01:04:15.400 --> 01:04:20.920 enjoys golf, fancy hockey, sports, betting. So back in two thousand 891 01:04:20.920 --> 01:04:26.599 and nine, Tomayo finished twenty first in the wsp Man Event for three hundred 892 01:04:26.599 --> 01:04:31.199 and fifty two thousand dollars. Good score there. He does have four WSB 893 01:04:31.320 --> 01:04:35.559 circuit rings, no bracelets yet, but sixty three cashes. This is his 894 01:04:35.639 --> 01:04:42.119 sixty fourth cash at the World Series of Poker two point three million dollars in 895 01:04:42.239 --> 01:04:45.920 live tournament earnings. Ahead of this one used to play a lot of Turningstone 896 01:04:45.960 --> 01:04:50.400 casino, I guess when he was attending Cornell University. Mostly now he plays 897 01:04:50.440 --> 01:04:55.920 down around where he lives in Houston, but he does travel up to the 898 01:04:55.920 --> 01:04:59.679 World Series of Poker of course, as so many people do to battle out 899 01:04:59.679 --> 01:05:03.519 here. And yeah, now he's on poker's biggest stage. Andres Gonzales out 900 01:05:03.519 --> 01:05:10.840 of Spain attended Madrid University. Guess what another professional poker player. Wow, 901 01:05:11.000 --> 01:05:13.599 there's all pro poker players, all of them, all of them except for 902 01:05:13.599 --> 01:05:15.920 the chip leader so far two hundred ninety four thousand dollars in career life tournament 903 01:05:15.960 --> 01:05:21.440 earnings. Began playing poker in twenty fourteen. Began playing with friends. His 904 01:05:21.480 --> 01:05:28.920 strength is patience. His weakness is something we all battle with tilt. Funny 905 01:05:28.920 --> 01:05:31.239 little piece of advice here. They asked him, what piece of advice would 906 01:05:31.239 --> 01:05:33.119 you give someone playing in the main event? What do you think? He 907 01:05:33.159 --> 01:05:38.119 said, Ron, good, go all in with ace, Ace and hold. 908 01:05:38.320 --> 01:05:42.000 Oh that's a good one. That's a good one, right. Any 909 01:05:42.000 --> 01:05:46.239 thing about King Queen? No, Okay, Yeah, it's just it's very 910 01:05:46.280 --> 01:05:49.280 tricky hand to play. Sometimes you get it right, sometimes you get it 911 01:05:49.280 --> 01:05:56.039 wrong. All right, Moving on. Jason Segal oldest player at this final 912 01:05:56.079 --> 01:06:00.599 table. I believe forty eight years old out of Ontario, can now. 913 01:06:00.599 --> 01:06:04.559 He did study law and justice in school, but didn't graduate. Moved on 914 01:06:04.679 --> 01:06:08.360 and guess what. He's a professional vocal player. He's married, He's got 915 01:06:08.400 --> 01:06:12.239 three kids, ages twenty four, twenty two, and nineteen. Outside of 916 01:06:12.280 --> 01:06:16.400 poker, he enjoys sports and golf, so he also, like Kim, 917 01:06:16.960 --> 01:06:23.360 like Tomaio, had a deep run in the w SPMNE events in twenty or 918 01:06:23.360 --> 01:06:27.440 sorry in two thousand and four the year who won? Who won that year? 919 01:06:28.159 --> 01:06:30.880 Four four? Yeah, that was mister Raymond. There you go, 920 01:06:30.440 --> 01:06:33.920 twenty third for mister Segel, one hundred, twenty thousand dollars for him. 921 01:06:34.559 --> 01:06:39.920 He grew up with a lifelong dream of becoming a police officer, but after 922 01:06:39.960 --> 01:06:45.280 a few different career paths, found himself making a good living playing poker. 923 01:06:45.639 --> 01:06:49.440 I believe he started playing with his grandmother growing up and said that he guesses 924 01:06:49.519 --> 01:06:54.519 that poker is just in his blood. So been around for quite some time. 925 01:06:54.920 --> 01:06:58.480 After the final table wrapped up, and you know they did all the 926 01:06:58.519 --> 01:07:01.360 bagging of chips and all that sort of stuff, Yef Platte or guy caught 927 01:07:01.440 --> 01:07:05.239 up with Jason Segel to talk with him. So we're gonna pull that interview 928 01:07:05.239 --> 01:07:11.079 for you right now and play it. It's pretty incredible. Obviously the fields 929 01:07:11.159 --> 01:07:13.960 is a little bit bigger, a lot taught, for a lot more educated. 930 01:07:14.360 --> 01:07:18.039 I'm just happy I can still compete. How do you utilize your experience 931 01:07:18.320 --> 01:07:25.239 to your advantage? Oh, I'm definitely. I guess I would say I'm 932 01:07:25.239 --> 01:07:28.280 like pretty calm and collected. I don't think nothing's gonna phase me. It's 933 01:07:28.280 --> 01:07:30.280 going to be a pretty normal day. I'm treating it like any other tournament. 934 01:07:30.400 --> 01:07:33.679 Just try to play my best. It just happens to be worth more, 935 01:07:33.760 --> 01:07:36.840 you know. And you don't think anything's gonna phase your wife, Jennifer, 936 01:07:36.880 --> 01:07:41.079 do you She's gonna be a little more phased than I am. She's 937 01:07:41.159 --> 01:07:45.039 probably happier than I am, too, Like she's just she just like she 938 01:07:45.119 --> 01:07:47.679 says, I, you know, I'm always on the even feel. I 939 01:07:47.719 --> 01:07:50.280 learned that with poker you get used to losing, you know, you just 940 01:07:51.280 --> 01:07:54.840 so I try not to get too high, trying not to get too low, 941 01:07:54.920 --> 01:07:58.119 but if I win, I'll probably get a little high. All right. 942 01:07:58.199 --> 01:08:02.000 That was Jason Segel. I say this in as nice of a way 943 01:08:02.000 --> 01:08:08.719 as I can. Seems boring, but but like in a good way, 944 01:08:08.760 --> 01:08:11.880 Like he's just not you can tell he's you can tell he's a professional poke 945 01:08:11.920 --> 01:08:14.400 play and he's been around for a long time and he's probably seen it all. 946 01:08:14.639 --> 01:08:16.680 He's not gonna let himself get too high and get ahead of things. 947 01:08:17.199 --> 01:08:20.159 He's also just going to be like, listen, I know this game. 948 01:08:20.640 --> 01:08:25.159 I've been there before. I can lose. Shit can happen, right, 949 01:08:26.079 --> 01:08:29.880 I mean you heard him kind of reference that there, Yeah, which to 950 01:08:29.960 --> 01:08:34.239 some people is boring because you just you want color and you want animation. 951 01:08:34.720 --> 01:08:39.239 But he listen, He's not the only quote unquote boring person at this final 952 01:08:39.279 --> 01:08:45.039 table. All the professional poke players are probably boring. Now. Us nerds, 953 01:08:45.159 --> 01:08:48.479 us diehards love it because these guys are all very, very good. 954 01:08:48.520 --> 01:08:51.119 So this is going to make for a fun final table and good competition. 955 01:08:51.680 --> 01:08:55.640 But if you're on the outside, if you're a fringe poker fan, you 956 01:08:55.720 --> 01:08:59.960 might turn it on on Tuesday or Wednesday and say this is kind of boring, 957 01:09:00.680 --> 01:09:02.359 right, you know, That's what I'm getting at. But that's professional 958 01:09:02.439 --> 01:09:05.680 poker. We love it. Not everyone does. It's not everyone's cup of 959 01:09:05.680 --> 01:09:12.319 tea. We didn't play the Jordan Griff interview, correct. I think I 960 01:09:12.359 --> 01:09:15.800 was saving that one for the last. He also spoke with well he's about 961 01:09:15.800 --> 01:09:18.319 with Jeff Platt actually multiple times throughout the day. I actually think three times 962 01:09:18.319 --> 01:09:21.680 throughout the day, because they tried to do the first interview twice. They 963 01:09:21.720 --> 01:09:27.199 started doing it. Then Griff kind of like was talking, but then he 964 01:09:27.239 --> 01:09:29.680 got a hand, so Jeff was like, go play your hand. And 965 01:09:29.720 --> 01:09:31.800 then Jeff came back a little while later and like they finished the interview. 966 01:09:32.239 --> 01:09:35.960 I think he started kind of like telling the hand history and he like got 967 01:09:35.960 --> 01:09:39.039 to the flop or something, and then Jeff caught him off. I was 968 01:09:39.079 --> 01:09:40.760 like, you have a hand, and then Jeff came back and was like, 969 01:09:40.880 --> 01:09:43.920 so we made it through the flop, and then they continued on whatever. 970 01:09:44.000 --> 01:09:45.600 But at the end of the day, Jeff caught off with Griff and 971 01:09:45.640 --> 01:09:48.680 you could definitely tell that, like, I think everything was hitting him and 972 01:09:48.800 --> 01:09:54.399 understandably. So here's that interview for you right now. Earlier today, two 973 01:09:54.439 --> 01:09:57.840 outs with one car to come, he spiked the Queen on the River. 974 01:09:57.960 --> 01:10:01.439 You end the day with the chi leed going into the World Series of Poker 975 01:10:01.600 --> 01:10:06.720 main event. I can see you shaking. How's it hitting you right now? 976 01:10:08.399 --> 01:10:13.359 It's tons of emotions. It's it's insane, it's a dream, it's 977 01:10:13.479 --> 01:10:15.920 it's it's it's more than I ever wished for. And like, I mean, 978 01:10:16.399 --> 01:10:19.000 it's gonna be a crazy day Tuesday. I'm excited for it. But 979 01:10:19.199 --> 01:10:24.880 like, wow, Wow, you're becoming a dad soon. Is there some 980 01:10:25.479 --> 01:10:28.760 already some baby run good in the works? Oh my god, Yeah, 981 01:10:28.760 --> 01:10:31.760 that's my wife, is Sammy. It's a real thing. Yeah, hopefully 982 01:10:31.840 --> 01:10:35.479 that's the thing. And hopefully I can continue it on Tuesday and hopefully in 983 01:10:35.520 --> 01:10:40.560 the Wednesday, and I'm going to get some sleep tomorrow. And wow, 984 01:10:40.720 --> 01:10:43.000 I mean, I'm just I'm at a loss for words right now. You 985 01:10:43.079 --> 01:10:45.600 mentioned tomorrow. How in the world are you going to get some sleep tonight? 986 01:10:45.520 --> 01:10:49.960 That's I'm really hoping that I can get some I mean, it's been 987 01:10:49.960 --> 01:10:54.000 a long grind, so I think I'm worn down a bit. Hopefully the 988 01:10:54.039 --> 01:10:58.279 adrenaline wears off at some point, but I mean, oh my god, 989 01:10:58.800 --> 01:11:02.319 this is just saying the emotions are at an all time high. It's it's 990 01:11:02.359 --> 01:11:06.439 been a roller coaster all day today. I mean, third day, six, 991 01:11:06.520 --> 01:11:12.479 day seven, and today it's just been incredible highs lows. And I 992 01:11:12.520 --> 01:11:15.880 mean, I'm here now. We can't do a draft of our final table 993 01:11:15.920 --> 01:11:20.000 because the final table's done. So who do you want in your final three? 994 01:11:20.239 --> 01:11:24.800 Oh? That's good because the plan right now, and this is obviously 995 01:11:24.840 --> 01:11:29.039 subject changes, it always is, is go from nine to three on the 996 01:11:29.039 --> 01:11:30.960 first day. You know, sometimes we go nine to four. Sometimes you'll 997 01:11:31.000 --> 01:11:34.359 go nine to five, and maybe it just it depends how long that takes. 998 01:11:34.520 --> 01:11:40.640 Right, Who's in your who's your fantasy final three? Sir Brian Kim 999 01:11:40.840 --> 01:11:45.960 Nicholas has to Joseph Sak. You've got to be a pretty intense three handed 1000 01:11:45.960 --> 01:11:51.119 battle right there. But like with aggression, Yeah, I mean I like 1001 01:11:51.399 --> 01:11:56.479 Brian Kim Nicholas Austet and I'm not sure on the other one yet. I 1002 01:11:56.479 --> 01:12:00.520 mean, Joe Soarrock would be great. I think Jason's could be cool. 1003 01:12:01.000 --> 01:12:06.239 You know, like then you got the you got the same sort of storyline 1004 01:12:06.239 --> 01:12:09.720 of you know, he was this, he was deep like this before, 1005 01:12:09.840 --> 01:12:12.880 but he's coming back. He's also the older guy at the table battling with 1006 01:12:12.920 --> 01:12:16.039 the younger guys. So I think I'm gonna go Jason Segel there, so 1007 01:12:16.039 --> 01:12:20.600 I'm gonna go Ostett Kim Segel. So two of the three the similar ones. 1008 01:12:21.319 --> 01:12:26.079 I'm excited for this found table. Like the nerd in me, I've 1009 01:12:26.119 --> 01:12:28.760 been saying it all along. I want the good players, I want the 1010 01:12:28.800 --> 01:12:32.399 killers at the final table. I think I think we got a really good 1011 01:12:32.399 --> 01:12:35.319 final table. Yeah, I mean obviously, I think you know, we 1012 01:12:35.359 --> 01:12:39.680 would have all loved to have seen Kristen Fox and make it. It's kind 1013 01:12:39.720 --> 01:12:44.119 of a weird benchmark in a way, because you know, we go through 1014 01:12:44.119 --> 01:12:48.840 this every year with a woman or women making a run, and then we 1015 01:12:48.880 --> 01:12:53.760 start talking about this sort of thing, you know, are they going to 1016 01:12:53.800 --> 01:12:56.159 make the found table. We haven't had a woman at the fil table since 1017 01:12:56.239 --> 01:13:00.439 nineteen ninety five, but in nineteen ninety five, can you look it up 1018 01:13:01.079 --> 01:13:04.000 when Barbara Enwright made the final table? How many players were in the event? 1019 01:13:04.600 --> 01:13:11.119 Bro to Google? How many? Two hundred and ten that's my guess. 1020 01:13:11.199 --> 01:13:16.479 I'll say one seventy one to seventy three, two seventy three. So 1021 01:13:16.600 --> 01:13:20.159 what's better Barbara and right making the final table then, or Kristen Fox and 1022 01:13:20.199 --> 01:13:26.520 finishing in thirteenth place from ten thousand and one hundred and twelve players? Better 1023 01:13:26.840 --> 01:13:29.720 in what way? Though? And like, what's what's harder to do? 1024 01:13:29.920 --> 01:13:31.840 Well? Obviously Kristen? Yeah, I know, But that that's kind of 1025 01:13:31.840 --> 01:13:38.239 what I'm getting at, is that the celebration runs flat because she didn't make 1026 01:13:38.359 --> 01:13:42.039 this this checkpoint of the final table. That's the whole thing about the main 1027 01:13:42.079 --> 01:13:45.960 of whine is checkpoints. It's making day two, making day three, making 1028 01:13:45.000 --> 01:13:49.279 the money, you know, but it's that should still be incredibly celebrated that 1029 01:13:49.399 --> 01:13:53.920 she made it as far as she did. It is I think, But 1030 01:13:54.800 --> 01:13:58.720 he says like, I don't I mean, she's just an incredible poker player 1031 01:13:58.720 --> 01:14:02.520 all around. Yeah, you know, so it's I don't know, I 1032 01:14:02.720 --> 01:14:06.520 just get the sense that it's not a male female thing. It's just she's 1033 01:14:06.680 --> 01:14:10.479 just flat out incredible. And she even said in her interview, you know 1034 01:14:11.039 --> 01:14:15.800 that she hopes that this kind of just shows women that you can play with 1035 01:14:15.880 --> 01:14:18.439 men, the women can play with the men attendees. To see about the 1036 01:14:18.439 --> 01:14:21.920 way, huh decreasing women attendees. I remember, well we talked about those 1037 01:14:21.960 --> 01:14:28.680 numbers. It went down from Lassia. Yeah, I mean that's a I 1038 01:14:28.680 --> 01:14:30.840 guess the topic for a different day. You know, it went down. 1039 01:14:31.000 --> 01:14:34.279 But but it's also like it's one of those things where we only we're only 1040 01:14:34.319 --> 01:14:39.560 looking at this one event and and like this is the one we put into 1041 01:14:39.600 --> 01:14:43.159 the microscope and analyze and try, and then we try and then take that 1042 01:14:43.600 --> 01:14:45.239 and say like, oh, well it's down in the ws BE made events, 1043 01:14:45.239 --> 01:14:48.880 so maybe it's down everywhere. What if the numbers were up across the 1044 01:14:48.880 --> 01:14:54.359 world series, right then we could be like, yeah, female participation is 1045 01:14:54.399 --> 01:14:57.159 better, but but just specific to this one event. I mean that's very 1046 01:14:57.199 --> 01:14:59.800 hard to do. I think you have to look on a much much bigger 1047 01:14:59.800 --> 01:15:05.039 pick. Sure, my just quickly my sense on and I haven't like run 1048 01:15:05.079 --> 01:15:10.520 any numbers. I'm just basically speaking anecdotally what I see, what I hear. 1049 01:15:11.399 --> 01:15:15.840 It seems like women in poker, that that thing is healthy. Like 1050 01:15:15.880 --> 01:15:21.520 you have a lot more like women's events or series or Women's Week or whatever 1051 01:15:21.560 --> 01:15:24.880 it may be. Like you have the stuff that goes on in December with 1052 01:15:24.920 --> 01:15:28.279 the wind doing stuff, you know, in other places around town. You 1053 01:15:28.399 --> 01:15:30.359 got stuff that happened here at the summer. Like I feel like it's healthier 1054 01:15:30.399 --> 01:15:34.159 than it's ever been. I mean, maybe I'm wrong there, and I'm 1055 01:15:34.199 --> 01:15:39.560 just like I'm just seeing the wrong things, but I do feel like it's 1056 01:15:39.600 --> 01:15:44.039 it's healthier and it's out there more, which which is a good sign overall 1057 01:15:44.079 --> 01:15:46.239 for the direction that I think everyone wants it to go in. What do 1058 01:15:46.279 --> 01:15:48.840 you got thoughts on the final table? Give me like your three big picture 1059 01:15:48.920 --> 01:15:54.439 thoughts. They can be whatever you want. I think you've kind of just 1060 01:15:54.520 --> 01:15:58.800 touched on the Christy Fox and stuff, that thing. You know, people 1061 01:15:58.800 --> 01:16:00.560 are gonna think it's a little bit of a dis appointment in the final table 1062 01:16:01.119 --> 01:16:05.640 not having her there. She's the big storyline the whole way. That's that's 1063 01:16:05.680 --> 01:16:10.239 the first thing I think of. Second part. I look at that little 1064 01:16:10.279 --> 01:16:14.239 murderous row of players, you know, Brian Kim, Nicholas as that, 1065 01:16:14.399 --> 01:16:18.560 and Joseph Rock, And if you look at it a little deeper, you 1066 01:16:18.680 --> 01:16:25.079 got some absolute crushes at this table, you know, Brian and Nicholas right 1067 01:16:25.119 --> 01:16:28.840 next to each other. And if we get those guys among the final three, 1068 01:16:28.920 --> 01:16:33.960 it's gonna be an intense, intense three handed battle and hopefully you know, 1069 01:16:34.079 --> 01:16:36.920 heads up match. Third. Don't really have a third one off the 1070 01:16:36.960 --> 01:16:40.319 top of my head, so you should you go to you do someth I 1071 01:16:40.319 --> 01:16:43.640 mean I already talked about it with like quote unquote killers. I mean you 1072 01:16:43.720 --> 01:16:46.680 got Brian Caim, you got Nicholas Ostet, you know, throw throw jose 1073 01:16:46.800 --> 01:16:51.359 Rock in there. I think everyone's played pretty well overall. I know it's 1074 01:16:51.399 --> 01:16:55.119 easy to just default with Jason Sega and be like, oh, he's the 1075 01:16:55.159 --> 01:16:58.840 old guy whatever, But it's been a round forever, yeah, you know, 1076 01:16:59.119 --> 01:17:01.159 grinding, making a living at this game. So yeah, he might 1077 01:17:01.199 --> 01:17:08.560 not play quote unquote gto you know, but I think he's gonna have a 1078 01:17:08.600 --> 01:17:13.479 good feel for things out there, and maybe could throw these these younger guys, 1079 01:17:13.560 --> 01:17:15.319 these more theory based guys for a little bit of a loop, which 1080 01:17:15.359 --> 01:17:18.840 will be interesting to see. So so you know that that kind of thing, 1081 01:17:18.960 --> 01:17:21.359 you know, what I wanted, I think I got. So that's 1082 01:17:21.439 --> 01:17:26.079 kind of my first storyline. I think Joe so I rock. Well, 1083 01:17:26.119 --> 01:17:30.520 I'll pair Joe so Iroc with Jonathan Tomayo in terms of just the pro who's 1084 01:17:30.520 --> 01:17:34.720 been around forever in a lot of ways, paid their dues and almost like 1085 01:17:34.840 --> 01:17:38.760 deserve to break through and get this. You know, you see this a 1086 01:17:38.760 --> 01:17:42.920 lot in sports where people just play play, play, play play, and 1087 01:17:42.920 --> 01:17:45.399 like they never get a championship, and then they finally get one, you 1088 01:17:45.439 --> 01:17:47.640 know, and it's like, yeah, they deserve to get one in a 1089 01:17:47.640 --> 01:17:50.840 lot of ways, Like they've put in their time, they've gone through it, 1090 01:17:50.880 --> 01:17:55.760 like they've experienced the ups and downs and everything in between. And I 1091 01:17:55.760 --> 01:17:59.359 think, you know, Joe so Irac and Jonathan Tomiow have experienced that. 1092 01:17:59.399 --> 01:18:03.039 You know, they've played countless tournaments who the heck knows for many many years. 1093 01:18:03.039 --> 01:18:08.359 They've been all over battling these things, and yeah they're getting the breakout. 1094 01:18:09.119 --> 01:18:14.439 It's not a breakout in the most common sense where like you're emerging onto 1095 01:18:14.439 --> 01:18:17.279 the scene. But it's like this is a thing that like you play for 1096 01:18:17.359 --> 01:18:24.399 your entire career to make this tournament, this final table and hopefully gets your 1097 01:18:24.439 --> 01:18:27.960 retirement fun. Like that's what you try and do. So yeah, so 1098 01:18:28.039 --> 01:18:30.039 shout out to them. I mean, I guess the other thing is is 1099 01:18:30.039 --> 01:18:33.960 is Griff where he's like, he's so far ahead, do you think he 1100 01:18:34.039 --> 01:18:39.600 can ride it to the final three? Everyone else is a professional poker player, 1101 01:18:39.640 --> 01:18:45.159 correct, He's the only one that didn't list professional poker player. Even 1102 01:18:45.319 --> 01:18:49.640 I think it was Malo Latinois said professional poker player and then like formerly whatever, 1103 01:18:49.680 --> 01:18:54.439 he was software engineer or something, you know, so he wasn't always 1104 01:18:54.479 --> 01:18:57.960 a professional poker player, but did make the change more recently. All these 1105 01:18:58.000 --> 01:19:01.199 other guys are professional poker players. Griff listed on his thing, you know, 1106 01:19:01.279 --> 01:19:05.039 supply chain manager, and I think you can kind of tell by the 1107 01:19:05.079 --> 01:19:09.920 way he plays his mannerisms at the table even off the table, the stuff 1108 01:19:10.079 --> 01:19:13.439 you know in the interview with Jeff, like getting worked up like he's the 1109 01:19:13.520 --> 01:19:15.680 amateur. If there's an amateur, he's the amateur. Or he's more of 1110 01:19:15.680 --> 01:19:18.920 a recreational than the others. Let's say, not that I'm saying that in 1111 01:19:18.960 --> 01:19:26.119 a bad thing, but he's probably closer to the everyman in some sort of 1112 01:19:26.159 --> 01:19:30.319 ways than these other players, so maybe that can resonate with people. And 1113 01:19:30.359 --> 01:19:32.560 he comes in with a huge chip lead, right, So he's in pole 1114 01:19:32.600 --> 01:19:38.720 position to try and close this thing down. And it's hard because you know, 1115 01:19:38.920 --> 01:19:45.000 you you might want like random players, not killers, not really good 1116 01:19:45.039 --> 01:19:48.079 players, not known names, to win this thing, because then it keeps 1117 01:19:48.119 --> 01:19:54.960 that dream alive. And if that's your thing, then I think you're gonna 1118 01:19:55.000 --> 01:19:58.800 cling to Jordan Griff and be like he's the one that keeps that dream alive. 1119 01:19:59.520 --> 01:20:01.119 Value real quick, Yeah, we gotta died the chop value. Let's 1120 01:20:01.159 --> 01:20:05.319 go hold on, let me guess. Okay, three point nine little less 1121 01:20:05.359 --> 01:20:11.319 three point four seven to two, Oh so you know more than fourth place 1122 01:20:11.560 --> 01:20:16.800 money. I'm always curious what happens at this stage, Like do these guys 1123 01:20:16.840 --> 01:20:19.720 talk to each other? Do they all try and get age the number being 1124 01:20:19.760 --> 01:20:23.199 like, hey, let's let's do a save, let's do this, let's 1125 01:20:23.199 --> 01:20:25.319 do that. Like I don't know, I feel like they kind of don't 1126 01:20:25.520 --> 01:20:29.760 maybe three handed, Yeah, yeah, I don't know. I don't know. 1127 01:20:29.800 --> 01:20:31.880 I don't know. We do some digging. Huh, we'll do some 1128 01:20:32.000 --> 01:20:34.680 digging. I'll try and do some digging. You never know. Do we 1129 01:20:34.720 --> 01:20:38.239 have other stuff to talk about? I think we should save some of that 1130 01:20:38.279 --> 01:20:41.920 stuff with tomorrow. Yes, let's let's do all the other stuff tomorrow. 1131 01:20:42.479 --> 01:20:47.319 Thankfully, you are, you're coming around, coming around, You're coming around, 1132 01:20:47.399 --> 01:20:50.359 sir. All right, that's gonna do it. On wrapping up the 1133 01:20:51.000 --> 01:20:56.199 making of the twenty twenty four w SIP Main Event Final Table, it was 1134 01:20:56.199 --> 01:20:58.479 a super fun day, by the way. It also it went much faster 1135 01:20:58.520 --> 01:21:01.119 than I thought, way faster. It went exactly the amount of time I 1136 01:21:01.119 --> 01:21:03.479 thought, Wow, okay, I don't know. I just thought, you 1137 01:21:03.479 --> 01:21:08.039 know, it would take a little while, especially with all these I said 1138 01:21:08.079 --> 01:21:11.319 seven hours. I think it was about seven. Yeah, okay, I 1139 01:21:11.399 --> 01:21:14.000 mean you're better at that than I am, for sure. So the plan 1140 01:21:14.199 --> 01:21:19.800 is for the Final Table players day off on Monday. I'm sure many of 1141 01:21:19.840 --> 01:21:25.720 them will be sleeping long, long hours. Some of them will also be 1142 01:21:25.760 --> 01:21:30.279 doing some studying and whatnot. We'll see how that all goes. Two pm 1143 01:21:30.319 --> 01:21:35.600 start time, Vegas time on Tuesday, July sixteenth. Again, the Final 1144 01:21:35.640 --> 01:21:41.720 Table will be played in two parts. The first day on Tuesday. The 1145 01:21:41.760 --> 01:21:46.359 tentative plan right now is to play from nine down to three. Those three 1146 01:21:46.439 --> 01:21:50.119 will go home for the night, rest up, come back the next day, 1147 01:21:50.399 --> 01:21:56.800 and finish it off to a ten million dollar world champion. Again. 1148 01:21:56.840 --> 01:22:00.760 Everyone left guaranteed one million dollars. Live streaming of the final table will take 1149 01:22:00.800 --> 01:22:05.600 place on poker Go, so head on over to pokerg dot com and grab 1150 01:22:05.640 --> 01:22:11.880 yourself a subscription if you haven't already. It's gonna be fun. It's gonna 1151 01:22:11.880 --> 01:22:15.880 be a banger. This is the greatest final table in the world and I 1152 01:22:15.960 --> 01:22:19.319 can't wait to watch it play out. For me, for him. My 1153 01:22:19.399 --> 01:22:23.279 name is Donny Peters. His name is Tim Duckworth. And we'll talk to 1154 01:22:23.319 --> 01:22:36.600 you guys next time. So you expla