Hello everyone, Welcome back to a new episode of the Poker Go Podcast.
My name is Donny Peters. I am joined by Tim Duckworth. Day seven
of the World, who is a poker main event. Just wrapped up here
at the Horseshoe, Las Vegas, down on the fabulous Las Vegas Strip.
Rainy, wit yeah, rainy way, kind of dust, stormy, foggy,
overcast, all that sort of stuff. Some lightning out there as well,
So storms are coming. I joked with a friend that came into town,
storms are coming. It's called the main of NFL. Sable baby.
I had a friend coming to town today. She's British and I said,
it's British you. I say something like, you British girls brought in all
the bad weather. We haven't had rain here in three hundred dice. I'm
not a fan of British girls. I'm not a fan of British accents.
I love what yep. The British accent is maybe the worst in the top
accent, the worst, number one, It could be number one. I
mean, I'm just saying, give me a British accent any day of the
week. I'm all in, like strong, Yeah, I'm all in on
British accent. I'm not. I'm for sure not. Ok We are down
to eighteen players in the twenty twenty four World Series of Poker Main Event,
the record breaking World Series of Poker Main Events, the greatest poker tournament in
the world. Okay, right, no, no, just just in the
world, man, just in the world. The players, the remaining eighteen
players are all guaranteed three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. We're going to recap
the action today, everything that went down, very very very exciting day on
the felt I guess we also got to talk about some other stuff that happened
here. Even though I only want to talk about the main event, only
the main Event, I almost feel like we need two different podcasts, two
different eppisodes quickly. That's what I do. If you notice, I do
the main event mostly, and I say, and then take it over and
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rules for official terms. WSOP main event down to eighteen players. Everyone is
guaranteed three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. But they're gonna come back and they
immediately have a six figure pay jump, the first six figure pay jump of
the tournament, because seventeenth place four hundred and fifty thousand dollars wowsers a lot
of money. There's a lot of money. They came back today with fifty
nine players. Our guy Stevensong was not able to spin it up Team DPMC,
but he didn't get us the field bonus. So I'm not going to
complain at all. I'm not gonna say win some other events that is very
true. That is very true. I heard he hopped into I think the
ten K six Max. But Stevensong went out in fifty seventh place. He
jammed all in with Ace nine. He ran into Ace Queen. Believe it
was Jonathan Tomayo who had the Ace Queen and that was all she wrote for
Stephen Song. Now we also lost Alex Keating in fifty fifth place. We
lost Jesse Capps, the fun Jesse Capps in fifty first place. Now in
forty eighth place, we lost Kevin Davis, who came into the day as
the chip leader. So I'm a bit puzzled as to what the heck happened?
Is the lost is the hand in the blog? I hope? So
yeah, but I know that that's a from type of C. So maybe
not is what you're gonna say. Yeah, the Table Sea stuff is just
I mean, if I were to grade it, I would give it a
C. I mean, had someone tell me that the coverage was fantastic,
and all I could picture was your face getting upset the stuff that we would
like to add to it to make even better. Yeah, I mean,
it's oh, Kevin Davis here, so he so he wasn't eliminated on the
kings versus Ace's hand. Hes like left with the couple big bonds. Maybe.
So here's what happened over on Table C, which is essentially the third
feature table. We have three feature tables. You have the main one up
on the main set. You have the secondary one, which you know is
one of the there's two outer ones. The secondary one has it has card
graphics, and then there's a third one that we cut over to every once
in a while, but it doesn't have actual card graphics. So really the
only time that you see the cards is when there's an all on a call.
This happened to be one of them. So Kevin Davis, who started
the day as the chip leader, six time WSB circuit ring winner Kevin Davis
out of Kentucky, he battled with Gerardo Hernandez, who is actually the Mexican
player that Ali made the cherill comment about later on in the broadcast. They're
playing one twenty five, two hundred and fifty thousand. Davis makes it six
hundred thousand from under the Hernandez three bets to two million in the cutoff seat.
Davis comes back with a four bet to six point one million, Hernandez
jams for nineteen point six million. At the time, Davis had a little
bit more, not too much more. I think he came into the day
with a little bit over twenty six maybe twenty seven million, but he had
a little bit over twenty million. He snaps off the jam from Hernandez with
two kings, only to see that Hernandez has the rockets. Baby. Nothing
comes for Davis on the flop and he's left with fewer than five hundred thousand
chips, and then he was eliminated shortly thereafter. So I mean, just
a bit of unfortunate on Day seven four. Kevin Davis, You know,
you can't really say that he blew up like some of the some of the
Day seven chip leaders that we've seen kind of blow up or punt their sacks
in the past. Didn't really wouldn't wouldn't certainly wouldn't call it a meltdown.
I mean, you have kings, Dasis, I mean, what are you
going to do. It's just a brutal spot a cooler, and Kevin Days
was eventually out the door in forty eighth place. Who else did we lose
after that? That's of note. We lost Russell Rosenbloom in forty sixth place.
So I saw a statistic on Twitter, mister statman. Oh, people
were questioning if he's the only player to I think it was make the final
table in like the two thousands of the WSP MADEVN when did he make the
found table? Look this up? But it was but it was make the
final table in like some year and then finished top fifty like later on something
like that. Two thousand and two he finished sixth and yeah, six yeah,
and then he came forty six forty six this year. So basically they're
just, you know, they're saying, like, listen, very good you
know, two runs like this for Russell Rosenbloom, which it was a very
good run. So someone's saying it was said again what they said they said,
like, is there anyone else who did he also make? Did he
make the found table twice? Two thousand and nine and then two thousand and
yeah, twenty one, I would I would have to look up. It
was like a random account that said it, or maybe Greg Ramer said it.
There It is. This is like when Sports Center says Lebron James is
the first thirty eight year old just scored twelve points, fourteen rebounds and six
blocks on January fifth, nine, twenty twenty four. It's one of those
things. It's like if you had to manipulate the stats of the okay,
how you qualify? Here's what I found it on social Greg Ramer. Greg
Ramer said, no, he didn't actually come. He didn't actually come with
a stat that's water. How did it explode? Okay? He said,
a huge congratulation, congratulate, congratudolences, congratulate adolences. I can't even say
graduate. Yeah. Whatever. To Russell Rosenboom on his forty six place finished
in the dest Be Maine event. Although he made the final table and finished
sixth in twenty two, he actually beat a much higher percentage of the field
this time. See you next year when we both make the final table and
then at heads Exploding responded and said, has any other poker player final table
the main event in the two thousands and finished in the top fifty in the
twenty twenties? As anyone responded, there's one response, and it was Andy
Block who said, I believe you are correct, but he asked a question,
So that's not really I'm going in answer you're going in here, I'm
going in. I'm just gonna double check Jock codd a right, without even
doing any research, I'm pretty sure. But the in the twenty twenties,
twenty twenty one, didn't he finish? I don't. I don't remember if
it was like twenty nineteen or what wasn't twenty nineteen. I can't remember the
eighteen fifth. Yeah, so that doesn't count, damn it. See so
it's closed, but it doesn't count. But I mean it's still like I
think that would twenty eighteen is closer to the twenty twenties than it is to
like two thousand and five, right, I mean it's just a different era
of poker for sure. Yeah, you know so so yeah, I can
definitely find it definitely financeer this, Yeah, I mean I think you could
for sure. It's top twenty to fifty. I was looking just file tables,
top fifty. Yeah, no, he says, top fifty. Has
any other poker table poker player, excuse me? Final table the main event
in the two thousands, and finished in the top fifty in the twenty twenties.
An incredibly impressive performance by Russ Rose Rosenboom. I mean, listen,
very very good performance. From Russell Rosenbum and great to pair those two things
back to back. I mean, one of the players, Jason Segel finished
twenty third in two thousand and four. He's still in in the final eighteen,
so I mean that's pretty incredible if you ask me. I mean,
how about Brian Kim as well twenty twenty two finished twenty third. I believe
it was, and he's still in. I mean that's pretty wild, right.
I know it's not final table, but a final table in twenty twenty
in two thousand and two versus a top twenty five finish or a final three
table finish in two thousand and twenty two. It's kind of comparable, right,
I mean, just given the way that the fields are, the difficulty
in poker and all that sort of stuff. All right, So Kevin Davis
forty eighth, Russell Rosenbloom forty six. Then we lost bracelet winner Nick Chivkov
and forty third, Brandon Cantu, Philamy's best friend out in thirty ninth,
Alex Shilkoh in thirty six place. So Sheilkoh won the PSPC. I don't
remember if it was the last one or the one before that. You can
possibly look that up. I don't know what you're doing. We don't need
to do that right now, Come on, stay on top of that.
I already found it. Well, we need to find Alexander Schilko. He
won the PSBC in twenty twenty three for three point one two million buckeroos,
had a deep run here in this event, thirty sixth place for two hundred
and fifty thousand dollars. I played with him last year or maybe the year
before, for almost a full day. Very very tough player, very very
tough player. What am I looking for? Nothing? I already figured it
out. Arthur Morris Poker podcast pro Arthur Morris finally had his rock luck excuse
me run out in thirty fourth place. He took three hundred thousand dollars home
for his finish. You know he was, I believe it was pretty grateful,
appreciative of the opportunity. After he busted out, he did speak with
Jeff Platt, So let's play that interview for you right now. What a
run in the main for Arthur Morris. What's it like to go through the
ups and the downs this tournament? Man, it's just the most incredible tournament
in the world. There's moments where you feel total euphoria, you feel invincible,
and then there's moments where you're back at two big lines, you know,
praying, trying to figure out how many hands you have before you're blinded
out. I mean, I was under two bigs on four different occasions.
To get this far. Took an incredible amount of good fortune and you know,
a will power. I guess it's like a test of endurance. It's
an awesome tournament. I heard you tell somebody, how could I be unhappy
with this run? Is that a good way to sum it up for you?
Yeah? I mean, like, I don't think I made a critical
mistake, which I just wanted to come out and play as well as I
think I'm capable of playing. And you know, Brian opened, I had
ten bigs with tens and like I found a spot, and you know,
he's a friend, and I'm glad. I'm glought it was him. I
he was gonna lose, and I'm kind of proud of myself. I feel
like I put I'll good fight out, all right. That was Arthur Morris,
three hundred k in the bank for him just skipping the rest of the
series. Really, I mean yeah, I don't know how you can make
day seven and the maniment knock on, I'd be like, I'm out of
here, see you guys the f later. Who else we got? Mentioned
canto? Right? I did mention Kantuo? So who's that my arrest?
Yeah, well I haven't got there yet. Shunden Chiao one of two women
remaining. She ultimately goes out in twenty eighth place. She made a i'll
say ambitious play with two tens against I forget who it was who had ace
deuce and flopped two pair. I think it was Ace four duce or Ace
three duce, one of those, but Xiao lost a chunk of chips there.
She ultimately goes out I don't know an hour or so later. She
finished in twenty eighth place for three hundre k. But listen in extremely impressive
showing from her. She hasn't been around poker for too long, but everything
that I've seen shows me that she might be around for quite a bit of
time, you know, just reading through her bio. She is a software
engineer by trade. She has a resume that includes working for I believe it
was Google, Amazon, and LinkedIn. I mean, those are some heavy
hitter companies, and when you have those companies on your resume alongside software engineer,
tells me you're probably pretty successful. So that combined with the fact that
she cashed for three hundred k in this event, you know, I think
she's probably going to have a decent sized bankroll to be able to continue forging
forward in poker. And that's great. You know, I thought she played
really well. Shout out to Shundan Chiao. I'm sure this won't be the
last time we hear from her. Orson young popular player pro been around a
long time, finished in twenty sixth place, and then Brian Rast the poker
legend, he goes out in twenty fourth place. Rass never really seemed to
like like play like massive pots or anything. It was always kind of just
like steady, kind of chipping away at stuff, you know, not getting
too like like like some of these people, like I mean Arthur Morris.
Going back to him, right, it wasn't until I think day five that
he at least he said he hadn't gotten his money in and was like all
in and at risk until day five. But then after that, I mean
Arthur Morris, because he got short in a couple of spots that he was
all in a lot, right, and he survived a bunch, But Brian
Rass, like I really don't think was all in at all until his final
hand and then ultimately, you know, busts out. But listen, he
did an interview a bust out an interview with Jeff Platt, and you could
feel it, man, because you just got the sense, you know,
the energy that that I know, Brian Rass has had an incredibly successful career.
He's got sixsop goal right, so he's got god knows how much money
in UH tournament winnings. Obviously a high stakes crusher. He was inducted into
the Hall of Fame last year. Like, I mean, he's he's got
everything as a poker player, right, but you're still so close, yeah,
to poker's pinnacle, that being the wast main event, final table and
then ultimately the winner circle in the greatest tournament in the world. And you
could tell that he felt it, you know, even though that he's seen
almost everything in this game, probably has seen everything in this game, right,
So yeah, I mean he said, you know, even though like
someone like him, you know, you come into this event, you sign
up every single year you play, You're gonna play it next year and every
other year that you can, you know, but it still feels impossible that
you're gonna make it this far, you're gonna make it to the final table.
But you make it to day seven. You know, you're looking around,
there's three tables left. You're like, I can, like I can,
I can touch it, Like it's there, Like you know, I
just got to do a couple things right, A couple things break my way,
and like boom, I'm in the final nine and we're dancing right.
Ultimately, Brian Rask goes out in twenty fourth place. The Poker Hall of
Famer takes home three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. And we'll play that interview
for you right now. And this has been one up and down tournament for
you. What's it been like to battle through the swings of the main event.
I mean, man, it's been an incredible journey. Like I thought
the PPC was a grueling tournament like five days like this, but like here
we are on day seven. I am fucking exhausted right now. And I
mean, like I just have such like mixed emotions because it's like feels impossible
to go this far in this tournament, and I'm like, like I'm never
gonna do this again, you know, like seven days. But at the
same time, I'm just like it sucks, but like I'm really kind of
grateful, Like this was a cool experience. I want some money, I
got to have a lot of fun playing. It just hurts. And finally
you said it was impossible. But with that said, was there a point
in this journey where you allow yourself to think I could really win this thing?
Man? I know that was that just wasn't the way I was letting
my mind operate this. I just think like when you start attaching to specially
future outcomes, but like even just what happened in the past while you're still
playing, it's just a recipe for suboptimal performance. So I was just trying
to go into every day going like I'm just gonna try to play one handed
poker at a time and get through the day and we see what happens,
you know, the next day, and just like kind of break break it
down and compartmentalize it like that, because I think there's just no other way
to approach this. Like if you start thinking like, oh, what if
I win and this, like, I don't think like anybody's mind is gonna
let them handle that and perform well at the table, right because it's just
too much like ten million dollars like main event champion banner on the thing,
like you're like you're gonna think about that and like play good poker at the
table. There's just no way. So again, I think you could really
feel it, you know, through the interview, through his emotion, what
he felt there. And I think he even put on Twitter not too long
ago basically like he's gonna go get wasted or something like you know, what
do you do right now? I'm gonna go get wasted. I mean,
don't blame you, Brian great run. So twenty second place a player probably
not a lot of people know about, but Luis Vasquez out of the Northeast
has been playing poker since like two thousand and seven, two thousand and eight,
something like that. Good friends with a good friend of mine, Ronnie
Barta. So you know, I was introduced to Luis a while ago.
I've you know, known him, like don't don't know him super well,
but know him. But the reason why I bring this one is because what
ultimately led to Vasquez's demise. In twenty second place was a massive pot with
Brian Kim where it went raised from Hernandez from I think either the hijack or
maybe the lowjack, but a raise Brian Kim three bets on the button.
Luis Vasquez puts in the cold four bet out of the big blind, folds
the back over to Hernandez. He gets out of the way. Brian Kim
moves all in for around twenty million or so, maybe maybe a little bit
less, maybe nineteen and change. I forget exactly. This was the last
hand before break and Vasquez goes into the tank forever like just tank tank tank,
tank tank, you know. He asked the dealer to like pull on
the four bet amount. He asked for an exact count and the extra chips.
He's got the he's got the amount, like kind of pulled to the
side. He's going back and forth. He's trying to study Brian Kim.
It's a whole thing. It's going on for or you know, several minutes.
Eventually he makes the call with two queens. He's up against the ast
king for Brian Kim. King hits the flop and a forty million chip pot
is sent over to Brian Kim, who two years ago took twenty third in
this very event, Luis Vasquez was left with I think two maybe three big
blinds busted to I believe it was Mora the Brazilian not too long after,
so Luis Vasquez taking three hundred and fifty thousand dollars for his twenty second place
finish. After Vasquez went out, you had Kayasuki Nagami out of Japan finishing
in twenty first. You had Yaqui Wu finishing in twentieth place, and then
you had Charles Russell busting in nineteenth. And Russell was the final player to
go on the day before the final eighteen bagged and tagged. But we do
have to rewind a little bit because after dinner it was the Kristen Foxton Show.
I mean it was just NonStop. So she came into the day with
I think fourteen million chips. Yeah, I think that's it about and she
immediately like started losing, like things just weren't going her way. She was
losing pots, you know, every time she kind of tried to enter her
pot just wasn't going her way. Next thing, you know, she's just
below seven and a half million. Day goes on, she kind of chips
back up, but then she gets chipped. She chips back down, like
you know, she could never really like truly find the momentum. And then
you have the fact that there's obviously the whole a woman making the final table
and that hasn't happened in so long, and are we finally gonna get it?
And we got two chances, and it looks like things are going well
because they got chips. Shundan Jiao. She came into the day second in
chips, behind Kevin Davis. Obviously, Kevin Davis goes out very early on
the day. Shi Ou lasts a bit longer, but she's ultimately out the
door. So now, if you're out there rooting for a woman to make
a final table, it's down to Chris and Foxing. Now, listen,
that's a good person for it to be down to, because she can carry
the load. She's pretty damn good at poker, right, But poker can
be crazy, Variants can bite you in the ass, and things weren't just
weren't going her way. Go to dinner, come back, she gets a
double up, She gets it all in with East five versus Queen's we got
to wait till a river, Barry Greenstein, Let's go ace on the river.
Three outs, and missus Fox sinner. It is the age. Oh
my god, it is the A's going Chrissy, sit, sit right back
down that then stack that six point three, oh bye, and then she's
just boom boom boom like woo. In every pot that she played, she
pulled a great bluff with two nines, getting jacks to fold on board that
had a four flush, even though neither player had the spade that would have
made the flush. I mean, she was just cruising. She ultimately finishes
the day on more than forty seven million. I think she's fifth in chips.
It's the Kristen Foxen Show, and we're all just here. I think
everyone's here for it. I mean, how can you not be here for
the Kristen Foxon Show. Actually, before I get to the interview, because
we have an interview with Kristen Foxen, but Alex was on the rail Alex
Fox and her husband for quite a bit of time. So I think she
said on stream earlier in the day that you know, he was playing like
whatever he was playing. Maybe the three K, maybe the ten K,
six max whatever it might have been, maybe even the fifty K. I
don't know who he was playing. I doubt he was playing the tripletop.
I mean on a normal day maybe, but you know, when you know
Kristen's going deep, he's probably like, yeah, I'll skip that one.
But he ended up popping up on the rail, so he either bagged in
something or he probably busted out. I think it was the latter, unfortunately,
but fortunately for the fox and family, Kristen is still in the main
event and he was on the rail, and it was It was interesting because
you know, she was all in a couple times. She got all in
with the ace five versus the queens. She got all in with kings versus
sevens. Both times she was the player at risk being the shorter stack,
and like she couldn't even watch, like back turned to the table, just
like basically staring at Alex saying like, hey, tell me what's happening.
You know, she did double up both times. Obviously, there's a lot
of people in the poker world rooting for her because of what it would mean.
First and foremost, Kristin Foxen is a crusher and absolutely deserves to make
this final table. You know, she's put in the time, she's put
in the effort, she has the experience, she has the resume, all
of that sort of stuff, and then on top of that, there's the
whole woman back at a final table storyline that is that is very very much
like I wouldn't even say it's lurking. It's here. I mean, she's
in the final eighteen, she's got a good stack. It's here, right,
So there's all that that's happening. And yeah, afterwards after play,
after she bagged up the forty seven point four million, fifth largest stack of
the final eighteen players, I spoke with Kristin fox and so here's that interview
for you. Now, all right, Kristin Foxen, pretty crazy surge at
the end of the nights. So you've played a lot of poker over the
years, right when you're rushing like that, Like, what's it feel like?
I mean, it was just crazy. The The key thing for me
today was just like stay super calm as much as I can and just like,
you know, figure out each spot I have. Honestly, like the
most the toughest parts of the day were like the ace King fold versus the
Ace queen and then seeing that this guy three met me with Jack six suited
when I opened ACE nine like in a spot that's kind of ridiculous and like
never should really happen. And then it was at hand and that was,
yeah, super frustrating, and obviously they get down to like five big lines
sucks. And then yeah, it just felt incredible to like get some momentum.
And after I won the five suited all in was what was that?
Like, I mean, yeah, last cart honestly, like it's just so
surreal, Like it's all starting to feel very surreal and dream like and like
I'm just trying to stay super locked into like the poker moment, and I
think it's like this is just such a fun spot because you can really see
everybody's emotions heightening, even like you know, some of the pros who probably
are like pretty calm, but especially like the not as experienced players like you
can it's just a fun spot. I love playing with all the pressure.
When you had the nines and yeah, Igora ended up folding, you kind
of let out like a big sigh. I mean, are you are you
not worried about like showing emotion like I mean it looked like in a way
like it's got a bluffer. Yeah, I mean, he's gonna see it
anyway. And I think it was just kind of like the excitement of getting
a stack back. It was just you know, because I was like,
man, if I get chips back, like, I feel so good in
this tournament. So it just felt really yeah, I was, you know,
and it's the main event. Everyone's showing emotions, and I think,
like, let's just embrace that. I don't think it's an issue. And
then last question here, how do you not get scared of the moment.
It's obviously massive, the money's now extremely meaningful. You how do you just
stay grounded through it all? Honestly, I'm just reminding myself, like the
thing to focus on is like how many big blinds do I have? What
do I do in this spot in any other tournament? Because that's all this
is at the end of the day, is another tournament. So that's kind
of like just going back to like fundamentals of like, Okay, I've played
this spot a million times? What do I do here? All? Right?
That was Kristen Fox, And while I was doing that, I got
tim over here went out and talked to the husband. I did, how'd
that go? It was good? I uh, I like a pretty calm
man, very chilled, very was ave. And you'll probably hear in his
responses in the interview, but you could just physically see I felt like he
was like nervous or jittery, like there was a little bit more maybe,
and so the heart ray was up more than normal and very obviously understandable why
he'd be feeling like that with, you know, his wife, Chrissy in
a pretty great position heading into day eight of the main event. Standing here
with Alex Fox and his wife just made the final eighteen of the WSP Main
Event. I want to know, from your perspective, what's it like being
on the rail watching her, supporting her, not just any tournament, like
probably the biggest tournament in the world. Yeah, it's it's a fucking awesome
experience. Honestly, part of my language, but it's it's it's so much
fun. It's weird to be on this side, honestly, Like railing is
a strange experience when I'm so like emotionally invested because it's not just the money.
It's like I wanted it well and I want to see her wins,
so like there's more than just that to it, whereas normally, like sweating
anything is just that. And like when I'm playing for myself, you know,
like when I'm out there, it's just like nothing's in my mind other
than the hands and then you know, but like I'm on the rail and
just like you know, trying to figure out what she has, if she's
strong or it's just it's a very different emotional experience. It's you feel,
like, do you feel like you're more nervous being on the rail than if
you actually in how city right now? Definitely? I Mean I I don't
really feel much when I'm playing, but like I've you know, have like
a pit in my stomach every time she opens a pot, like not a
way of like obviously I trust there's hall of her decisions, but it's just,
you know, it's so much more nerve wracking on the rail being a
hook a pal couple. Maybe, as you might call it, tonight,
you're gonna go home obviously it's pretty late already, two I am. Yeah,
what do you guys do to prepare for the next day? We breaking
down some hands? Are we just trying to get a sleep and we do
it in the morning. Yeah, I mean, there's probably not time for
anything in the morning, so I'll probably watch the like she might, you
know, have a bath, get ready for bed, and I'll watch the
stream and relay anything worthwhile. That's kind of we've been doing the last couple
of nights where I've watched most of the stream while she's playing, and then
kind of like note hands and things that I see, and then we talk
about it a little bit before bed and in the morning and yeah, so
there, so we might go back and watch a little bit. It kind
of depends on how easily how easily she thinks she'll be able to fall asleep,
you know, like she can't sleep, that's a pretty good opportunity to
watch a little bit and talk about it. But yeah, no, I
mean she's just super well prepared for this from you know, playing everything,
and just yeah, I got to keep the A lot of the focus is
just just keep the the energy like positive and calm and focus on making the
right decisions and treat it kind of just like any other tournament as much as
you can. It's interesting because I mean, I know, you you know,
knowing your family, myself as well, like, you know, our
significant others aren't in the same industry, so you you know, you wouldn't
have this sort of thing. I guess you can root them on in whatever
industry they're in, right, But it's it obviously must feel like a closer
attachment, you know, when you're also in that industry and you know you're
so you're not only are in it, you're you're so deep in it,
like both the Foxes are, right, so it must just be crazy.
And then I'm also sure it's you know, it's like when you watch your
kids or whatever, when you you're almost more nervous for them. Yeah,
in a lot of ways, right, I'm sure Alex is like in a
way he obviously he's he's rooting for her of course, and supportive and he
wants her to crush and everything, but like he almost wants to be like
I wish I could take her seat. Not not because I don't mean that,
because like he wishes he could take her seat, And I'm probably putting
words in his mouth, so I'm probably just being an idiot, But you
almost wish that you could just like, okay, not take the seat.
But how about this take the pressure off of them. That's what you wish,
right, you don't. You don't want them to stress out. You
want you to stress out, like you want to take all the tough stuff
off of that person and let them just be free in the moment. So
that that's probably there's probably some of that there as well. And that's where
like that kind of you know, that nervousness that I think you can kind
of get from what Alex was saying, and that you know, end of
the day, that's great. That's love and that's what it's about. And
it's pretty crazy that you know, it could happen to a lot of poker
couples. There are poker couples out there, But are there any poker couples
bigger than the Fox's. I mean, I would say probably the Gaphons bigger
in well why like more known. No, I don't think the Gaphons,
Like it could happen to just like you know, to a husband and a
wife, but it's not. It's not the it's and they're both poker players,
but this is the Fox. The only couple I would say would be
the Negranus and man is not a poker players. But that's what I mean.
Like not like I'm talking poker player wise. I mean the closest one
I think is probably phil and fair Galfon because she plays a bit right,
so that that could be something. So you know, this is Poker's aless
couple and it's front center. I mean, it's it's the headlining story as
far as I'm concerned. You know, obviously Christen's run is incredible, so
you know, let's see if she can make it. Let's see if she
can close it out. The minimum is so interesting because you come so far.
You know, ten and twelve players started this thing. We're down to
eighteen. We still have so much to go to get to a champion.
Like if you just if you think about it in hours that it's gonna take.
I mean, what do you think, how long is it gonna take
from here to get to a winter? How many hours of play? Tomorrow's
gonna be white six eighteen hours, like six hours a day, because we
have three days left. I think tomorrow could be no, yeah, six
hours tomorrow is gonna be I mean on average, because like if tomorrow is
short, okay, well with the final tables, we know those cools forever
sixt sixty six basically will go off. Yeah, so we still have eighteen
hours of play three days. I mean it's like it's a lot can happen
in that in that time. You know, things can come crumbling down if
you're short stacked and you're kind of limping through today eight like things can just
spin up the other way. You've got Boris Angelov and Jordan griff both on
eight point three million in chips coming back to I believe they're still going to
be playing four hundred thousand and eight hundred thousand, so just over ten big
linds for each of them. But you can spin it up. We saw
Kristen foxon Spin it Up today, right, you know it can happen.
So yeah, why don't you go over the leaderboard? Who do we got?
You mean the chip counts? Oh yeah, the leaderboard? Who's who's
leading the way? Maloy? How do we say letting out? Let her
know us Latino wall. That's how I would say it, Although it's has
to be that commeddation from Texas. I don't believe he is a chip lay
at a sixty one point three million Diogo Coela from Portugal fifty one point five
Canada's adjacent Sego fifty one point four. Nicholas hous to that Sego quickly is
the one who finished into the and four in twenty third place for one hundred
and twenty thousand dollars, so another deep run for him. Nicholas fifty million.
Even you mentioned Chrissy forty seven point four, that is the top five,
Joe Sirok forty six point three, Malcolm Frenzi forty five, nine Canadian
Jason James forty five point eight, Brian Kim forty two point four. Now
here is a big drop off. That's basically the top nine players the bottom
nine players. We start with twenty seven zero point six million, so it's
basically fifteen million less than Brian Kim in ninth place. But Jesse Bryant,
Gabriel Mura, Gleamo Sanchez, Otero, Jaego, Moroles, Jonathan Tomayo,
the've all got those mid twenties. Jonathan he drops down at eighteen point four,
Andres Gonzalez fourteen point nine, Geraldo Hernandez thirteen point four, and then
Jordan Griff Baris Angelo. They round out the foun table eight point three million
each. That is the final eighteen w it really is interesting to see that
gap. You know, we have Brian Kim is that ninth place person forty
two point four million, and then the tenth place person is twenty seven point
six So that's like the clear divide. And then of course you have the
two shorter stacks, which given the fact that we're going to be on a
one hundred thousand dollars pay jump to start the day, eighteenth place three hundred
and fifty thousand dollars, seventeenth place four hundred and fifty thousand, four hundred
dollars, so could create some interesting ICM dynamics there. And then of course,
you know throughout the day, you know, we're starting to get into
the point where the payout or sorry, the pay jumps become more often.
So three point fifty right now, three hundred ten thousand is what the players
are guaranteed with eighteen left, sevent fourteenth through seventeenth place four hundred and fifty
thousand, four hundred dollars, then twelfth and thirteenth six hundred k, tenth
and eleventh eight hundred k, and then of course ninth is one million dollars,
and of course ninth is not only a million dollars. Yes, that's
awesome, but it's also making the ws AB Maine Event Final Table, getting
the day off, coming back front and center, the biggest stage in poker,
like all of that sort of stuff coming together. So a bunch of
pay jumps are going to be happening tomorrow, Sunday, July fourteenth. The
eighteen players are going to play down to nine. It doesn't matter how long
it takes them. It doesn't matter if it takes twenty seven hours, doesn't
matter if it takes two hours. We're getting to nine. They're going to
combine at ten, right they still we still combined in at ten. I
don't like that, but we're going to combine at ten. I like it.
I know you like it because you're a knit and like ten handed poker.
No incorrect. I don't like it for the main and it's like,
don't make it, don't I don't mask. Don't mask your knittiness with some
other reason. But for the main event, I like the ten handed.
For every other one I want I don't want it. I want to Why
do you like the ten handed because you're in the history. I like the
history of the ten handed, the history. What does the history matter.
I like it that way, But what does the history matter? It might
have no idea how many players are at the table in nineteen seventy three,
mister history, you literally have no idea. It could have been twelve,
that'd been awesome. You have no idea. I mean, you have no
idea what was happening. But the history of the modern era, the era
that we have been around for. I like ten in the modern era,
where no one plays ten handed poker, it's the silliest thing in the world.
Should not be playing ten. We should be five and five and that's
how it should work. And both the tables should be up in the middle
of the main set. We should figure that out. We should figure that
out. They should both be up there. From the guy did he yesterday
said, I don't understand how quet production works. Look, this is very
obviously you don't understand that production works. How are you gonna why the graphics?
If you want to spend the money, you will get it. The
way to spend the money, you will get it. To the tables is
fine? Table a table like we have? Nope, nope, nope.
So yeah, they're gonna get down to ten hands. They're going to join
at one table and they're gonna go from there. Two hundred thousand dollars pay
jump at that point. All right, so what are the top three storylines
for you, sir? Let's uh, let's throw out Kristen Foxing because she's
obviously the snap number one pick. So let's let's find let's it's not that
we're gonna throw her out, We're gonna pick. We're just gonna focus on
the two other. Okay, well, obviously number one is Kristen fox I'm
gonna go with Gabrielle Mora being the villain. I knew you were gonna do
this. I mean, he is the villain. I mean, I can
give you the I'm just trying to just trying to mix up a little bit.
He is the villain, for sure. We need a villain. You
need a villain, You need a villain. I mean, Chrissy is the
hero, yes, you know, yes, and then I think to a
different degree, yeah, but he listen, he's just not the hero right
now? What's that Batman quote? The hero we deserve, but the hero
we need? The faous Batman line. You know what I'm talking about.
Have you seen you? Please tell me you've seen Batman, right, I've
seen pretty much all the Batman Okay, but yeah, but Gabriel Murrow with
his his constant tanking, you know, the kind of weird, kind of
pump faky type of things with his chips. He talks to you like,
which is you know that might rub people the wrong way. He also does
a lot of yelling and screaming. You know when he wins bake hands huh
U must have portantly he's barefoot, He's walking around barefoot. That's and other
things. I just feel like the reason why we're saying that he's a villain
is because we feel like if if he makes the final table, like the
public is gonna view him as the villain, that that's our view just with
the way that he acts like he it was very interesting that he he's a
very methodical player, plays pretty slow with everything. And then he complained that
the all ins took long because production does them a certain way for the dramatic
effect. I mean that just seemed like very long. Does he take each
on each street forever? So so yeah, I just thought that that was
interesting. But yeah, it's gonna be it's listen if he makes it and
he continues to play that he's playing, and listen, it's also not just
him. There's some others that are doing the same sort of thing. The
number one topic on social media is gonna be clocks. We need clocks in
the Mallion event. We need clocks. That's gonna be the number one thing,
right we do. Leena nine hundred. He's over there playing hands in
three seconds. Incredible stuff, you know, because he's probably seen ten billion
hands of pokes and knows everything's happening. Sposed to play. He's out there
to play. So that's your story, the villains one of them. I
can give you seven stories. I said top one Christmas Box, and you
come with Gabrielle Mora. I can't decide anything that happens all day, or
do you just show up on the podcast and like spitting at three thirteen am
to three thirteen yeah, ship, speed it up, kid, Oh my
god. My other story is Jason Segel and Brian Kim and their return.
That's the answer. I told you top headlines. Okay. When I say
top it doesn't mean go digging for the things that no one cares about.
It means pick the top most popular one. To me, it's chalky.
No, you're just trying to play a bit. Okay, is what you
Your whole summer has been a bit. Your whole summer has been a bit
from the start. How the whole thing, the thing with Sean deeb Dylan
Wiseman, like, it's the whole summer's been a bit. Okay, summer
bits, got it? No, you're a bit. I'm a bit.
Maybe you're a knit bit bit. You are a nit bit, Tim the
nitbit Duckworth. Yes, I think I have to go. I mean this
is like kind of a combination one as well. But no, Actually,
Nicholas A. Stet Leana nine hundred, I mean that's the story. I
mean, he's he's the goat. He's the freaking MJ of tournament poker in
a lot of ways, even even though you don't think he is. It's
Kristen Fox and is the leading story, the leading lady. I like the
Jason Sego and Brian Kim return also Brian Kim. You know you can kind
of loop him in with the Nicholas Ostet thing where he's just incredibly good at
poker. Yeah, but then you have Nicholas Ostet who's just the absolute crusher
that he is, and he's possibly gonna break through on the biggest stage.
Another one, little honorable mention here Joe sah Rock and Jonathan Tamile, long
time professionals, longtime grinders, finally getting their shot right. So there's that.
We also have a pretty international field, which I like to see.
You got Boris Angelov out of Bulgaria, You got Gerardo Hernandez out of Mexico,
Andres Gonzalez is Spain. You got Guillermo Otero is Li says uk.
I hope that's right. Jason James Canada, Jason Sego Canada, Christen Fox
and is Canada. Know she lives here now, Diego Coelo, Portugal.
So and then I think Malo Latinois is French. But Malcolm Franchie that is
French. Huh. Franchie is also from France. Who's from Friends? Malcolm
Francie, Oh he is from Friends? Yeah, Sorry, sorry I skipped
that one. So yeah, you know, pretty international group here, so
you know, hopefully we kind of get that international group at the final table.
Are we gonna draft? Yeah? I mean we got to go number
one. I gotta pull up the last one who cares, cares we're doing
a new draft. Okay, I need it right down. Go ahead,
you want me to go first. I mean, uh, we're of the
same number one. Well, actually we probably make the same. We might
have the same. You're gonna take Gabrielle Mora. He's definitely getting drops it.
I'm opening with Chrissy and Nicholas. Yeah you agree, Yes, I
have the same too. Okay, I told you that I wanted a final
table of the killer. You want. You want the killers. I don't
want the killer. I still want the killer completely different. I'm still gonna
keep Diego. He's staying on my list. He's been on it now for
three days. This Jason Segal story is kind of cool. I'm gonna I'm
gonna promote him. He's kind of my old guy too in a way.
So Jason the oldest one left. We would have to check, but we
have to check. Yeah, he might be. I'm gonna bring in Brian
Kim. He's gonna get the upgrade. He's gonna make my squad. Brian
Kim and welcome to the team. I gotta do it. I gotta do
my boy, Laura. I mean he's gonna be in mind too. Yeah.
Whatever, I mean because like we said, you gotta have the villain,
and he's the villain. He's a villain. And then for the rail
we need we need Yeager, right, I mean, yeah, rails bananas,
he's there? How many is that? One? Two, three,
four, five, six seven? Let's to rock like Spain? Is Spain
gonna be any good? Is Spain gonna be they they gotta bring just dump
it on the whole country of Spain. Are they gonna bring them? Going
to be any good? To the rail? I want to know what's the
rail passion? Probably not no, because I feel like you would have seen
the passion already. Jason. You know what, Jason James and he's interview
with Jeff had a little bit of villainous to So if we lose more,
maybe Jason James can take your spot. Didn't he win the tag team?
He did? I thought that was going to actually be one of your stories.
You got that in there too, and that is another thing. So
he's gonna make it. And then I go one more spot you can go
to you know what this is? This is a pretty like behind inside Baseball
kind of thing. But let me give it to Jonathan Tomato only because we
have a mutual friend that has a little piece of him, and it'd be
pretty cool, like kind of you know, seeing how that plays out,
so that I don't care about any of that when I stuck him ninth.
Ninth is just the weak spot. Huh, I'm ready. Nicholas Kristen,
Gabrielle Moro, Oh yes, Brian Kim Yegor, I think Boris Angelov six,
Okay, shout stock but Joseph Rock seven, Diogo Coelo malo in wall
is that it great? Perfect? I'm in there so yeah, WSP main
event. We are rocking and rolling into day eight, the added day eight,
by the way, love it love the added day. Did you factor
that in when you were like, we're on pace, we're off past type
of thing. Oh, what's the chop value? Oh? Yes, the
thing that matters eighteen white chopped value. Right. No, this has become
such a good thing that they put it on the broadcast. Now they put
the Yeah, I mean it's two million. I would never put it on
the broadcast. By the way, I'm not trying to promote chops to the
world. That's that we don't want chops in poker. We want chops.
Huh. Well, Tonto chops, it's like kissing your sister. What we're
just not having chops, Like, we're out here to play. We're playing
for blood blood two million eleven dollars. I think Jesus truck now, let's
fucking do it. That's that then that's insane. In sixth place, yeah,
that's insane. Yeah, ten million dollars up top six place is two
million dollars. So, as Tim mentioned, the chop value right now is
better than six place money. Do it mars Angelo has already It would be
very hard, Yes, bosuck on the client WSFV clib Well, they're never
just going to do a straight chop. You'd have to do like an ICM
chuck of course. Of course. All right, cool. So that's the
main event marching into Day eight, Sunday, July fourteenth. You guys can
watch it on PokerGO dot com. Two parter broken up by the dinner break.
Play will not stop until the final nine is reached, Okay, so
don't miss it. It's one of the most exciting days in poker. Obviously,
it's super exciting when the w who made him and kicks off. It's
super exciting when the money bubble breaks on Bubble Day and then it's super We're
exciting when the final table is made, and that is going to happen on
Sunday. All right, sir, tell me what's happening. We're going quick.
You ready ready for this series. Calvin Anderson wins his fifth w s
a Very bracelet, came back, heads up Boom five ws A Very Bracelets,
fifteen hundred STUT eight ten k ras online online and now he wins the
ten K eight game a normal event. Joseph Sanders PGT PLO Series regular wins
his first bracelet in the fifteen hundred PLO six Max two hundred and sixty nine
K in his pocket. Mike Lear fifth place. Good job, John Raser,
Gary Bolden heads up in the three K horse. They're bagged up for
the still heads up. Yeah, they bagged up Racer ten million and fifty
thousand versus Gary Bolden's four zero point twenty seven five million. Both players guaranteed
one thirty five all eyes on the two hundred and six thousand first place price.
John Raser already won a bracelet this year, shooting for his third overall.
ODB Baker congrats on sixth place. Jeremy Osmus, congrats seventh place in
that one fifty K Highroller. I think that seventh place finish for Jeremy Osmas
temporarily put him in the lead in the Player of the yearies. But we
know that Scott sever made an online final table. Yeah. Still to come
are the changes, but at least for the time being, Jeremy Osmus should
have that top spot in the Poyra fifty K and no limit hold them hi
roller down to five. Christoph Voegel sang chip leader, followed by Jard Blesnik
and Jesse Lones, Nacho Barbero and Justin Saliba. At least five have locked
up basically five hundred K first price a little bit over two million dollars in
that one three K in SATs Championship they combined today they now down one hundred
and forty seven players. Chip leader is Michael McNeil. No, sorry,
is Takyo Shimuzu who's holding the chip leader in that one U two events kicked
off today Day one dy of the seven seven seven Lucky Sevens, that is
down to sixty nine players from nearly fifteen hundred entrance. What yeah, jeez,
that's what the thing says. That seemed like a lot to me too.
Ten K six hundred Championship started with four hundred and eighteen down to one
fifty two. Let me read you the chip counts. The top five,
this event is always awesome. Chip leader is Patrick Yarras whatever. Seven?
Did I see somebody else on the top it's I got the counts. Yeah,
I'm going to read you the top few, James Chen, Taiwan,
Scott Ball, Daniel Nielsen, Alejandro the Coco, Adrian Mittaos, Paulias plus
Sniatis, Sergei, rycheks Hussan ensaying. Andrew Marino fourteen, top ten.
That's what I'm saying. Right right there, still is Andrew Marino a bow
ding. Yeah. You keep looking at Strava is like it just keeps going.
This is like the most insane event. But that is a quick looks
like two minute update. I did you up to date? Is that it?
Yeah? We done? It's three twenty four am ut. Yeah,
we're done. We are definitely done. Sunday, July fourteenth, Day eight
of the World Series of Poker Main Event. We will see you guys on
PokerGO dot Com. My name is Donnie Peters. His name is Tim Duckworth.
Talk to you on the next episode. There you go, Jenny Express