Hello, everyone, Welcome back to a brand new episode of the Poker Go
Podcast. My name is Donny Peters. His name is Tim Duckworth. How
you doing, sir, freezing? Tim has a poker table felt wrapped around
him like a blanket. Looks it's absolutely ridiculous. Well maybe if you didn't
wear shorts with a four inch in seam. Okay, first of all,
they're five inch in seams. Yeah, that's all you're dress. You're dressed
like you're vacationing on an island. Okay, yeah, the island of the
World Series of Melca. You are not vacationing on an island. We are
here at the twenty twenty four World Series of Poker at Horseshoe and Paris on
the Las Vegas Strip. A lot of action to get through today. Hasher
Khoniff one gold, Daniel Negron you one no almost, he is heating up
early here at the twenty twenty four doubsip NBA Jamstyle. Yeah, the Mystery
Millions kicked off, twenty five k heads up kicked off, the casino employees
wrapped up and found a winner. And then a couple other tournaments that we'll
touch on, and some fun stuff towards the end of the episode. As
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right, let's get into the news, Sir Asher Koniff. Yeah, a
WPT champion, a w SOOP Circuit main event champion, now a World Series
of Poker gold bracelet crown, not the triple crown. Canniff won the five
thousand dollars Champions Reunion, his first gold bracelet. He topped the field of
four hundred and ninety three entries to take home four hundred and eight thousand dollars
in prize money. This was the first live streamed final table, first live
streamed event by poker go at the twenty twenty four WSOP kicks off our live
stream coverage. We are now going to be going every single day, but
one because the WSP manament has a day off. Yeah, I mean,
maybe we'll do something on that day. Maybe maybe we won't, but we'll
see. That's what fifteenth of July long way ago. Three hundred plus hours
of live stream broadcasts are going to be coming your way all summer. But
this was the first one on the way to the winner circle. Caniff made
two very very big important hero calls to get the job done. The first
one came against Uzau Yin, where I guess I'll just recap the action quickly
because because I'm looking at it right now. Yin raised on the button to
four hundred thousand. Blinds were one thousand, two hundred thousand. Caniff defended
from the big blind. Caniff had King eight, Yin had King ten.
Flop came down Ace eight five rainbow. Canniff check called a bet of two
hundred thousand, so minimum bet there what quarter pot a little less than quarter
pot? Three on the turn brought a second diamond. Caniff checked. Yin
went for another bet to three hundred and fifty thousand, this time keeping it
small. Kniff made the call Ace of diamonds comes on the river, so
pairs the board with an ace again. It's Ace eight five three ace,
and it brought in backdoor diamonds. Caniff checks he's got one point two million
behind when he checked. Yin puts them all in Coniff tanks for quite a
long time. Eventually finds the call with two pair. Yin is bluffing,
of course, with the King ten. The King high and that was a
big, big double up, a very important double up for Asher Canniff.
And then during heads up play, Caniff was up against Khalil Tests Eurak and
he made a big call on the ten to five deuce two spades. On
that flop ten five deuce six three, Canniff checks the river tests Yourek bets
one point eight million. Caniff tanks for several minutes, eventually makes the call
with just Ace high Ace jack high Test each showed eight seven of spades,
so missed draws for the Turk and Canniff took the chip lead in the heads
up match. Canniff started the heads up match at a pretty pretty big chip
disadvantage. Test Eurich had twenty point nine million, Caniff had three point seventy
five million. They battled it out. Eventually Kindiff took the chip lead.
Eventually he finished it off if the final hand were or sorry was his tens
holding up against Testsirix jack nine of diamonds and that got the job done for
Asher Canniff. After it was all said and done, big rail for Asher,
by the way, a lot of people on his rail, twenty maybe
thirty people were on his rail. Tim got in there and talked with Asher,
so let's play that interview for you right now. Asher, congratulations,
first WSFP bracelet, I want to talk to you about a few big scores
you've had in your career. Let's start with a WPT Bold Championship nine to
seventy three k WSB circuit win here at Bally's when it was called. And
then of course the tenth place finish in the main event. And now we
have this bracelet of those full, you know, fairly iconic results of yours.
Does it stand out the most? Now, I'd say the main event
in a sense probably stands out the most, just because that was like,
that felt like a dream the whole way through this was this was awesome,
but it felt like a like a regular tournament. But obviously getting the race
that is just so awesome. And yeah, I'm so thankful. Twenty twenty
two main event, you did finish tenth place, six hundred and seventy five
k I believe it was. You know, it's it's been a little while
now, but can you remember that the emotion that you were feeling when you
were eliminated them? Oh? Yeah, yeah, I mean it's it's no
as emotional as you know a game could make me very intense. It was.
It's a beautiful experience, but yeah, it was. It was tough
at the end, but I appreciated the ride. Yeah, it was exciting
though I loved it that year. You had two cashes, last year,
seven cashes at the WSB this year first event. Gotta win. What does
this mean for your series going forward? I mean, just the fact that
I get to have a winning summer by a lot, no matter what,
is awesome. Obviously it feels really good. Yeah, it gets just kind
of chill. I mean, I'm still gonna play a lot, but just
not have to worry about how my summer is gonna go. And I'm very
appreciative of the fact that, you know, most people are gonna have losing
summers and I'm not one. I don't take that for granted. And I
know there's a ton of luck involved, and I'm just happy about it.
You say you're gonna be pretty chilled going forward, But does a win like
this kind of drive you to want to, you know, work a bit,
how to play a bit more? Maybe hey here, why do something
like that? Totally I'm more I mean, not even the validation of self,
right, to like prove, you know, because we're constantly trying to
prove that we can get it done and we still know how to play almost.
But yeah, it definitely is gonna push me to want to keep playing
and get more results and see where I can go with it for sure.
Final question for me. We had a pretty big rail for you guys.
Yeah, a bunch of well known high stakes poker places. What is it?
How does that feel? Winning in front of your friends and you know,
it's super cool? Man, It's yeah, it's exciting having them all
here. They were all just screaming ridiculous shit the whole time. I'm playing,
trying my best to stay focused. But I loved it. And another
thing I take for granted, having all the sport and all the friends here
and yeah, talking to awesome. It kind of feels good to see someone
who had I guess what would what I would best classify it as heartbreak.
Tenth place in the WSP main events, you know when his pocket tens.
Interesting that he won this tournament with pockets, by the way, because he
had pocket tens up against I believe it was Mickey Dueck if I remember correctly,
who had Ace King and the flop, just king, King, King,
Yes, you're just dead. See you later, Like what are you
gonna do? So very interesting that Asher Koniff ends up winning this tournament with
pocket tens after he went out in tenth place with pocket tens to very interesting
that he said that, you know, he's the you know, big victories
that you mentioned, you know, World Championship, second Maine, w p
T World Championship, w T World championshiry uh this Bras and then the tenth
place that you know, that tenth place still you know, staying there.
He got a million bucks, right, six seventy five. Six, that's
it. I thought you got a million. That's it. I'll take six
to seventy five right now. But I don't know why I thought he got
a million for it six seventy five. I mean it's good, of course,
but I was just under the impression he got a million. I don't
know why. But anyway, continue on that. Yeah, the main event,
heartbreak, as some may say, stands out as being a bit more
memorable to him over these big victories that he's you know, had in his
career. Yeah, I mean I can only imagine you get to that point
going through such a large field in such a grueling event, over so many
days, it just has to take so much out of you. But then
ultimately, you know, you're just you're on this adrenaline high the entire time,
for essentially two weeks straight. You get to this point where the final
table is within reach, and then it just all comes crumbling down. So
you know, that's where I sort of describe it as heartbreak. I mean,
poker players dream every single day of their lives of making the main event,
final table, you know, winning that event. I mean, in
order to win it, you have to get to the final table. Of
course, that's that's a winning in and of itself in a lot of ways.
And Asher Koniff was so close. Made up for it here, you
know, maybe not the twelve million that he could have won in that event
or whatever it was. Was it twelve, no? Ten? Ten million?
That was espens here, Yeah, four hundred and eight thousand dollars.
He got the bracelets. It's very early in the summer too. This is
you know, this is event number one on the schedule. We're only a
couple of days in, so there are still plenty of poker left to be
played, and we'll see if Asher can make any more noise. Speaking of
noise, a player who is certainly not one to hold back when it comes
to talking. You can often hear him chatting and laughing from across the room.
But he's also making noise on the felt that is Daniel on the ground,
that is kid poker. He's two for two, where he was two
for two until he went and injured the fifteen hundred dollars dealer's choice, and
then he busted out of that one, so he's two for three. Still,
that's pretty damn good when it comes to poker tournaments. In the event
that Asher won, Neigranny finished in forty ninth place for ninety one dollars,
and then he hopped into the five hundred dollars kickoff tournament that drew three thousand,
four hundred and eighty five entries. Negron, you busted in sixteenth place
for eighty five hundred dollars. You know, not the biggest score dollar wise,
especially for Daniel, but seventeen times the buy in, which is pretty
damn good. You know, sixteenth place out of a massive field of nearly
thirty five hundred runners got us the field bonus. In twenty five K Fantasy,
Lets go Daniel, so that allows us to you know, move up
the leader boarder. But I think we're sitting in third place right now in
twenty five K Fantasy, so feeling good early on, he did have to
skip the twenty five K heads up. He called Tim and I in Saye
Knuckleheads that we even thought that he would entertain multi tabling, but he was.
He was highly focused in the five hundred dollars kickoff and made a really
good run at it, you know, ultimately falling short of a seventh w
SP Goald bracelet. But still very early, as I mentioned when I was
talking about Asher kind of you know, it's still very early here in the
twenty twenty four World Series of Poker, and I think Daniel's going to do
it. I think he's getting number seven at some point. I think he's
getting seven and eight. And I mean he's doing it, man, Like
listen, he's feeling good, he's playing well, he's running well in spots
when he needs, he's going deep. So he's basically knocking at the door.
So I'm looking at Daniel Legrando and I'm going to say, yeah,
he's going to get the job. Done at some point this summer. I
don't really know what event it's going to be, but you know, he's
getting there and being two out of three, you know, so far,
so good. I would imagine taking the night off tonight, going to come
back to for the five thousand dollars PLO the start of that one limit.
Yeah, No, I think he's I think he's kind of just avoiding those
terms. I mean, what he's told you, he's gonna avoid the fifteen
better. Yeah, and he did. I mean, he did fire into
the Dealer's Choice, but he was here. It's got some big bets in
there, I know, and he loves dealers Choice, he has talked about
it plenty of times. But but I would imagine he skips there, or
I mean, at least for the time being, as long as he's in
the PLO, I think. I don't. I don't get the sense that
Daniel is known as a PLO player, but I think he's extremely good at
it, you know, for whatever reason. I think a lot of people
look at Daniel and they obviously know his success playing hold them, and then
I think they think of him as kind of like a mixed game guy,
and they don't think of him as a PLO guy. So I mean,
for me, every time I see him play pot lim in Omaha, I've
seen him have a lot of success at it. I'm not a PLO expert,
but it seems to me like he very much understands like what to do
and how to play that game, especially in the tournament format. You know,
we've seen a lot. We've seen a lot of him play PLO at
the World Series of Poker and then also at the PGT PLO series. So
you know, don't don't sleep on Daniel mcgroney with with how well he's coming
out of the gate. Here at the twenty twenty four World Series of Poker
in that five thousand dollars pot limit Omaha event, just quickly on the five
hundred dollars kickoff that Negron you ended up busting in sixteenth place. They are
down to the final eight. They have stopped play for the day. They
will be coming back tomorrow one pm start time is it? And then in
the one pm streams dots at three pm PO Yes, we are streaming this
one Poker gro and the Poker Goro YouTube channel. Sean Smith is up on
top of the leaderboard with sixteen point one five million, thirty two big blinds.
Biggest name remaining at the finals. I would say Michael Wang. Michael
Wang a bracelet winner. I have to correct you. Then Daniel Willis is
the chip let twenty three seven million. Oh sorry, Daniel Willis is the
chip leat I was gonna say the sixty million that I was reading. It's
because I thought this was in chip order, and it's in seed order on
the updates, so that's my fault. Yes, Daniel Willis from the UK
twenty three point seven two five million, forty seven big lines. And then
Sean Smith is in second place, Michael Wang bracelet winner twelve point six two
five million, he's doing it twenty five big lines for him. So these
players are all guaranteed just over twenty two thousand dollars in prize money they will
be playing for. Of course they coveted gold bracelet, and then there is
one hundred and seventy five thousand, five hundred dollars that comes along with its.
Again, as we said, three pm tomorrow, Vegas time for the
live stream two hour delay, extended delay so that we can chop out those
breaks as we go and just can keep this stream continuous throughout the one thousand
dollars Mystery Millions kicked off, as did the twenty five thousand dollars Heads up
here at the twenty twenty four WASB Mystery Millions. Looks like it's gonna get
more than last year, at least judging by what happened here on Day one
A. So last year, day one A of the Mystery Millions drew twenty
and twenty three entries. This year it's up two hundred and twenty three with
two and forty six entries, So that's a very good sign. Tim and
I walked through that field not too long ago. Who do we see over
there? So Andrew Marino for sure saw who is the chip leader? Wing
Po Lou. Suppose one of one of Team Lady Gagay's people has the chip
leader. So Danny Seppiel. Danny Seppiel was over there, you know,
WPT World Championship winner. I can't even remember who else I saw. I
saw Alex Foxen over there. He's got a new haircut, by the way,
like she buzzes his head. Oh yeah, it was a hat,
so wouldn't I. Yeah, he buzzes his head. We'll be tracking that
one. Of course, as we go tomorrow would expect the field to grow
even larger. They did play down into the money and then they're continuing to
play through to a bag today. Day one b will be tomorrow. Can
only imagine they get what three thousand entries in that one, and then we'll
see how it matches up with last year. But looking like it's up,
you know, about ten percent or so a year over year, which if
that holds up, that'll be a nice boost to that field. Last year,
believe he got eighteen thousand was the number, so absolutely enormous field.
It does have starting flights tomorrow, Saturday and Sunday, So I can only
imagine what Saturday and Sunday are gonna look like in here. It's gonna be
a freaking madhouse. So yeah, looking forward to seeing how that one plays
out. Of course, you know we'll be talking about, you know,
who pulls the million dollar bounty, Maybe two of them if they do that
again, maybe three maybe that would be pretty how many how many answers that
they need to get? Three? Like twenty four thousand? Probably? Yeah,
I think so, I do kind of like you know what you were
saying, you know, just have one big prize and then have other bigger
ones, you know. Second. So yeah, so yeah, twenty five
k heads up that kicked off sixty four entries, which is the cap.
I believe, as mentioned Daniel Legrand, you did skip it. You know
who else skipped it? And you know what, I have not looked at
anyone but the current list. I couldn't tell you. Well, phil Ivey
wasn't in there. He's rushed up. I mean heaby Jason Kun's champion.
He should have played, right, did he? I Mean? The thing
is those two guys that you mentioned, Sean Winter who's on our team,
he didn't play did so those three players all went to Trenton Montenegro. So
I don't know if they're back or not. So they could still be like
they could have done the thing where like hey we'll stay a few extra days
kind of vacation. Yeah right, you know before the summer grind because Tridon
Montenegro was like, you know, two weeks of pretty intense poker. I
get it could have done that. They could also be back and the whole
like travel Jet Lake stuff. You know, they're just like, you know
what, I'm just gonna chill out, not a big deal and not kind
of jump into you know, the super intense heads up battle where you know,
heads of poker is different than anything else. You're focused on every single
hand. You can't just like you know, fold from middle position and chill
out for like three minutes. No, you're You're in every single hand on
every street. You are battling, especially at the twenty five k price point,
especially against the experts that you see in that field. But those sixty
four entries are down to sixteen. So tomorrow when they return, that first
match for everyone will be the bubble match. I think it's eighty six thousand
dollars for getting into the money and then five hundred thousand dollars up top.
Let me run through the names who are still in it right now. Marco
Gruccic, Archer, March Rosian, Matthew Wantman, Owen Massiri, Patrick Kennedy,
Joseph Miller, James Gorum, Darius, Samuel Faraz, Jaka Kane Kallus
SAMs Overall, Weston, Mizumo, Tu, Michael Steele, Nikolai Mamout,
Carrie katz l Fa himself, and then I left this one last because of
course the one the only John freakin' Smith. I mean, come on,
this guy the best, This guy and the wzippy Heads Up Tournament is just
like the most impressive thing. Can you look up here? I'm right,
look alright, ready, here we go. It's just wild. Twenty seventeenth
runner up finished two hundred thousand dollars, twenty sixteenth second place, one hundred
and ninety eight thousand dollars. It's enough. I don't even need to go
through anymore. But twenty fourteenth, eleventh place, twenty six thousand dollars,
Like, come on, eleven second second, He's the He's the best.
He is the best. Everyone loves John Smith. In the twenty five thousand
dollars Heads Up Championship. We'll see if he can finally get the job done.
It would be, you know, great, it would be that nice
little feather in the cap of all his success in this tournament to finally go
on to win it. You know, we don't see much of John Smith
at all outside of this tournament, so it was actually I think he plays
a comas all the back a bit. He made one of those final tables
a few years ago, one of the lay WBT final tables. I believe.
I mean, I hope he wins the check out. I hope he
does well. It would be great casino employees event wrapped up. That was
actually the first bracelet one of this summer. It wrapped up second. What
do you mean WSPC TC that doesn't count? Why you said of the summer.
I don't even think it's four days ago. I don't think it's summer
yet. I first saw then you should have said someone you know what I
mean? Okay. Jose Garcia, a poker dealer, won the event for
just under eighty thousand dollars seventy nine thousand, one hundred and thirty four dollars.
Good on him was eleven hundred and I believe eighty nine entries in that
one. Garcia beat Richard roth Meyer, who took fifty two, seven hundred
dollars for second place. We talked about the dealer Ginger. I did look
on his Instagram, No mad chronicles. It did say Ginger on his name
tag. Christopher Keem. He busted an eighth place for eighty one and seventy
one dollars in that tournament. Good tournament. It's good to see the uptick
there. Looks like we're going to see in uptick overall a lease if things
continue on the trend that they are in the Mystery million, So you know,
good good sign overall, which is uh, which is good. Event
number four, the fifteen hundred dollars Omaha high Low. Tim and I talked
about that one actually declining in numbers. I believe it got over eleven hundred
last year nine to twenty eight. This year, at the time of recording,
it's eleven forty five PM on Thursday, May thirtieth, twenty eight.
Remain, as a reminder, just about two hundred and nine thousand dollars up
top. At one point, I looked at the chip counts right before we
came on to record this podcast, and I saw James Chen and James Chen
co leaders, James ten Us, James ten Taiwan. So yeah, it
looks like James ten Us is still doing well. Alexi Philotov also doing well,
Jamie, James, Ashton Griffin's out there. No, no, so
many times. Actually, wait, I now that now that he's been sitting
around this area. But now that I see that we walked by him in
the hallway, I know Ashton Griffin has a certain walk to him, and
when when walking by him, I was like, I recognized that walk,
but I didn't recognize him, but he kind of looked at me like he
knew that I kind of recognized him. But yeah, anyway, so yeah,
Ashton Griffin here, what else is going on? How that? How?
What's that? That's what? That's not? That doesn't finish today?
That place, Well, it's supposed to play onto a foul table today,
have the Dealer's Choice. That's not going to happen. Ah. Yeah,
Dealer's Choice kicked off today, you know, is it? I mean,
I don't know, you're the numbers going to have nine? You know?
You know, I pull up the updates, first thing I see is Deep
gets scooped. So you're gonna like you're gonna like that one. We went
over to the Dealer's Choice today and I thought Sean d was going to fight
Tim like legit, he said fire, Yeah, he was changing him to
a fight. That would be funny, he would probably. I mean,
he's he's crushing this, he's crushing this tournament. Okay, there are some
people playing in this tournament. I saw some people playing in the Omaha eight
that I didn't think had any idea how to play these games, which is
interesting to me. I mean, people are out there blasting. I would
have never guessed that Justin Saliva is going to play a Dealer's Choice event yep,
never in a million years. But there he is. I didn't think
Eric Baldmon played Omaha eight. There he did not know. I didn't think
Upeshka Da Silva played Omaha eight. But there he is, Like, you
know, just like stuff like that. I'm just like, I don't know
any of these guys did any of this stuff, but hey, here we
are. Oh, it looks like the prize pool was confirmed. Five hundred
and thirty entries. Would they get last year? Look? Get up?
I have no idea. I think off on my head, Dyl's choice the
fifteen hundred. Who knows Adam Friedman, Chad Evesledge, Come on, I
thought he won the fifteen hundred, but Duke or something? That was Michael
Rodriguez. That was Michael Rodriguez last he was four fifty six. Oh so
big uptick. Five hundred and thirty entries mixed, samsy, Hey, buddy,
let's go, baby, let's go. It's going to be a great
f in Summer Price Pool seven hundred and seven thousand dollars. Top eighty places
are going to pay out three thousand dollars and a little bit of change to
get into the money. Champions are going to take home more than one hundred
and thirty eight thousand dollars. So a couple of days still to go in
that one. So, I mean, I guess that's pretty much the news
so far and anything specific you want to talk about as it relates to the
WSITV news wise. No, No, I mean, how you on about
today? Like it was good to turn the cameras on. It was good
to turn the cameras on. I had some issues. I wish we would
have turned them on early. What were the issues? We didn't have a
shuffle We forgot forgot a shuffler. I had to run to the back.
We don't have a dealer. Dealers, Well, the whole tournament's you shuffle
machines. Yeah, but it's one table. Who cares, well, you
shuffle the cart. That's what the TV was like, It doesn't matter,
but you know, I felt that we needed to do it, so I
ran and got it. The you know what, the box that holds the
shuffler in brought it out, We got some lifestyle wives. We cleaned it
up, we put the shuffle on, we made sure we plugged it with
to lift the table up, which is a little scary when there's chips on
the table, but lifted it up to slide the power cord underneath. But
we kicked off that. You guys are all running around on Yeah, I
was like, what the hell is? What is going on? Stuff happens
that you forget about and you just solve it, You just figure it out.
But well, I did a one hour preview today that I didn't know
I was doing until an hour or two beforehand on what I think was like
a thirty dollars USB headset microphone. I honestly thought that it was gonna break
if I touched it. It was very weird. Where are the good headphones?
They weren't set up for today anyway. Something interesting that David Coleman,
who made the final table busted six six. He was like, he was
mentioning, how they don't I'm just so used to what we do in the
studio on the PGT that like it got to the end of the level and
he's like, so weird. They don't draw her hands, which is a
thing that like we just do. They had no shot clock. It was
soft hand for hand at ten. It was so much stoling yesterday, it
was fucking unbelievable. Why them? I mean, what we do on the
PGT is what should be done everywhere. I'm sorry, I have a ride
it's yeah, but it's other places like Triton does stuff very well, you
know. Yeah, Like I'm assuming the EBT does a lot of stuff very
well as well. I don't know about the BPT. I would have to
see Matt Savage's PowerPoint, but I saw part of it and I don't want
to see any more of it. But yeah, I mean, if we
got to get a Savage dig in at some point, don't we Sure,
Yeah, we'll get one into my I'm just annoyed that they're not live streaming
these final tables that's going on. Some results from those I have, Like
I feel like I feel like these events are just non existent. They don't
exist. Yeah, I mean it's like why, I don't know why,
Like speaking of turning the cameras on, turn the damn cameras on, Savage,
they have them on. You just did not pressing send to YouTube button.
Yeah, I was like, I was like, legit pumped to watch
those final tables. Yeah, you know, the first one seminal, massive
field, huge paydays, if you could see if Josh Reicher could go on
to to finally get a title. And the second one, you know you
got Eric Afriott, you got Eric Lingren. I mean it's like, you
know, that's great, Like, but I got no idea what's going on?
You can watch them on TV in nine months with the channels we don't
have. With the channels we don't have. What else we got to talk
about? You put some like here, we gotta do a segment, producer
Rich Yeah, I mean if you only came here for the news, you
can probably just turn off the podcast right now. So Tim wrote as like
the subheader here, what random poker player did you see today? And I
guess we have a jingle. Oh yeah, that's why we've named it.
All right, So here's the jingle. I got no idea what's coming.
It's time for another segment. Tim came up with that. Donnie will try
to ignore it as much as possible. It's what random poker player did you
see today? All right, this is your segment, so please leave the
way, sir. We started this the day before and we're gonna, we're
gonna, we're gonna see this through. Which random poker player did you see
today? While we walked the halls of the Horseshoe in Paris. My first
one was but when I walked by myself, I saw Richard Ashby Chuffty.
I was like, oh, that's a little random, but I got none
and not I can top that. I remember we drafted him once in twenty
five game, didn't show up, and then all of a sudden he showed
up. Thank god. I I'm going to nominate three people as my random
poker player. I'll tell you, I'll tell you if they qualify. It's
random because of where we saw him. We already touched onone, Justin Saliba
in the Dealer's Choice. I'm going to throw two more names. Justine Saliba
is not random here, but he's not random for that event. Yes,
this this is specific to this event. Michael Duek and Jesse Loners playing the
fifteen hundred Dealers. I don't think Yuek has played anything but four cards since
he finished third in the main event, and Jesse Loaners I'm pretty sure doesn't
know what Stard highlow the rules are. So when I saw them playing and
then you throw in Saliba, they topped my my random you know, seeing
of Richard Ashby in the whole way, not even playing poker, just sitting
in the hall way at the you know, one of those promo boosts.
But then my, then my three random poker players that I saw today,
I was sent an image a photo of the stunning one, the who Bill
Edler. Supposedly he's over at speaking of the WPT over at Luxor at the
Hyperex Arena. I think he's friends with Eric Lingren so sweating Eric Lingran's run
was Bill Edler last? I haven't seen that name in four ever, I
would say his last cash on Hendon. I mean, who knows if he
has like some random cash but like it two thousand got this is random ten
yeah? So yes, Sidlau was January twenty eleven, Yeah, twenty six
hundred dollars now live hold him heads up Tournament Southern Poker Championship Biloxi, fourth
and seventy five dollars. So when when I got word of this whole poker
industry craziness that we are now, you know, fully entrenched in and like
I remember. I remember I was playing on full tilt someone that I was
playing and somehow we started talking. In the chat. I shared with him
my poker vlog. He said, hey, you should email this guy at
Poker News, John Caldwell, So I did emailed him. John Caldwell,
who was running Poker News at the time, passed me over to Gary Gates,
who was heading up the live reporting efforts, and I had an interview
with Gary Gates, who is now one of my best friends, and on
the or during the interview, I remember sitting up in my room going like
I remember exactly where I was, I remember how it all went down.
One of the questions was, if you flop an open ended straight draw,
how many outs do you have? I remember that one. Seven, Yes,
that's correct, eleven, Both of those are correct. And but then
he gave me he gave me nicknames of poker players, and I had to
name the poker player he gave me Jesus. I can't remember who else,
but I know he gave me the stunning one. And I didn't know.
I didn't know. I was like, I have no idea who. I
was like, I don't know who you're talking about man like I think he
gave me. The professor was Howard Letter, Like, I mean, yeah,
I didn't get it, and he's like Bill Edler. I was like,
oh okay, like you know, acting like I was just blanked.
But no, I had no fn idea what was going on? Anyway.
That's my only Bill Edler story for no reason whatsoever. What is Bill Edgat
Bill Edlas's biggest skull, biggest score eight hundred k, pretty close enough?
What is it? Nine hundred and four thousand? He won the five k
and no themen hold him six macs. In two thousand and seven. A
couple months later, he won the Dumble VPT Golf Coast Poker Championship in Biloxi
for seven hundred and fifty K. Yeah, I mean he was. He
was a He was a notable face, a big name back in the day,
during during the Pom Poker boom days. I mean for sure. So
it was interesting that that, you know, I got that photo sent to
me. I mean I didn't The photo was from far away, so I
didn't, you know, fully recognize it. At first, I was,
are you sure that it's him? Positive? It's I mean, I think
so I mean, I don't know why you would would help you would send
that to me if it wasn't him, Like, why would you send me
a photo and be like, I think this is Bill Idler? Like,
I'm just assuming that that it is. And if it's not, well screw
it. I'm sticking to the story because we've had a fun chat about it.
All right, enough of that nonsense. Let's get into get into more
nonsense, which is the Community Cards segment. Attention Attension, Good morning,
good afternoon, and good evenings of the Poker Radio audience near and far.
It is now time for a brand spanking, spiffy and new shout out to
some of our most loyal listeners who likely got a bit too lucky on the
way to the spotlight. You're listening to the number one poker show in the
land, and it's time for a new edition of the Poker Gough Podcast Community
Cards. All right, what do you got from me? Here? Are
we gonna have the community cards every day? Hell? Yes, Well there's
a poker of course we have to. Well we'll see, we'll see what
happens. But our first thing, Eugene, Paul and Bubble the Omaha High
Lower he was wearing his hat, but he did take a photo with Jeff
Platt and post it on Twitter, so maybe the hat is still lucky.
But the Jeff Plat curse continues. I just want to I think nothing in
poker is stupider than the Jeff Platt curse thing. I hate this damn thing
with the passion. Okay, I can't stand it. I think it's beyond
silly and dumb. I don't think it's beyond the silliness yet, No,
I think it's so incredibly dumb and stupid, and I think it undermines Jeff
trying to do his job. I don't even care how Jeff thinks about this.
I don't care if Jeff thinks it's like a cool, fun thing.
I hate it. I think it's stupid. And whenever I see people talking
about the Jeff Platt curse, I want to punch them in the face.
I can't stand Please don't punch me. But okay, let's move on next
one. You know, we mentioned this guy, Andy Gold, We got
his name. He was on the rail for a majority of the day for
the kickoff. His friend end up making the Kickoff final table. Andy was
wearing his hat the whole time, and I feel like there's a little bit
of lucky Hat by Osmosis here, So I'm going to count this as at
first WSSP final table of twenty twenty four. David. I don't really know
how to pronounce your last name Night ring House. Maybe David, that's coming
in eighth of eighth at the kickoff final table, but lucky hat one WSP
final table. I'm going to count it. I'm counting it, Okay,
Okay, I mean, I guess we might as well hit on this twenty
five k fantasy stuff. I just pulled up the standings here so we can
go over this quickly. You know we did mention earlier. Daniel Negroan,
you scored the field bonus in the five hundred dollars kickoff for our team.
We are currently in third place. The Dinkers are up on top with fifty
seven points. That is thanks to David Coleman making the final table of the
five thousand dollars Champions Reunion. Coleman scored forty two points there. He has
a he hit a price of three dollars, so pretty good score for Coleman.
The Year of David Coleman continues. Guys absolutely crushing it. Team Lady
Gaga second with forty points and then Team DPMC third with thirty nine points.
That's us. Last year it was us and Lady Gaga, back and forth
and back and forth and back and forth. And it looks like it's setting
up like it could be that again. Let's go RENLN bring it on.
Did Rent did he draft himself? No, he didn't even draft himself.
We're a loser. Wow, what a baby. I would draft myself if
I played a high volume schedule. Daniel tried to draft himself. We walked
through the field and all people do is talk shit to me. That's all
they do. Oh well, you paid one hundred and thirty two dollars.
You pay what's through the one hundred and thirty dollars. Okay, number one.
If you want to talk shit, put up your money and get in
the damn fantasy league. Rich Ryan and I talked shit sitting on a couch
in the hallway at the Rio on the Poker News podcast back in the day.
And you know what, we were challenged by Daniel Legrander to get in
there, and we got in there, and we've been in there okay,
and then we won the damn thing last year. Okay, So if you're
gonna sit out there and talk your shit, get in there. Okay,
you can get in there. You don't have to put up the full twenty
five k do what we do, sell action, Get in there. I
don't want to hear this nonsense. Okay. And second of all, I
don't think any of these people understand fantasy strategy and stars and scrubs and all
that sort of nonsense. Because everyone gets scared, they back off. They
probably don't do a lot of research and have a bunch of cheap players and
whatever. But yeah, people just be talking smack NonStop. It's great,
Daniel, if you're listening, I want you to know that we believe in
you. I told you, I believe you're gonna win three bracelets this summer,
so let's go. I know you're heating up. But I also want
you to know that all these idiots out there, they think that one hundred
and thirty two dollars for you is too expensive. I was gonna go to
a buck ninety three. I was gonna max out the salary for one player.
I was doing it. This is Daniel's year. Okay. This is
when he says, you know what, I haven't won a bracelet since twenty
thirteen. I haven't won one in Vegas since two thousand and seven. I'm
getting all that crap off my back. We are doing it. Kid Poker
is back. Okay. He is more focused than ever. He's already passed
a million dollars in earnings on the year. He's crushing it on the PGT.
He's writing all the wrongs that happened to him last year where he lost
more than two point two million dollars. Daniel Legrandy is back. He's probably
gonna win WSP Player of the Year. Eat at Sean deeb kid poker all
day. Let's go listen you like, no, you you can't. You
can't. I get riled up when these people like they talk smack these people
NonStop. It's part of the game. No, you know, you can't
talk smack. You can't talk smack like it's just not it's just not possible.
I think there was even an article about this. I know I'm pulling
this up right now. Yeah maybe, oh no, most over valued pick
TJ. Reid. I love Daniel Legrandu. He's consistently a top performer in
fantasy, but at one hundred and thirty two dollars that just too much in
an auction format. Team DPMC was handcuffed after spending most of their money on
one pick. That is, that could not be further from the truth.
We were not handcuffed in any way, shape or form. Okay, we
were not handcuffed. In fact, I think we left twenty dollars on the
table like we weren't handcuffed. They still got Steven Shadwick. We still got
Sean Winter. But he thinks the variance is too high. After spending sixty
six percent of their money was locked up on DX. I was willing to
spend basically ninety six percent of my money on d NEX. Okay, if
leave me alone, if you win again this year, If if I win,
you need a bro I am. I will be the receipts king screenshots
on Twitter everywhere, Okay, all over the place. You doubted us,
You doubted us, you doubted us. Let's go. We are on the
d NEX, ride all way back to the winner circle. Let's f and
go, and then I might just quit the league, take my two belts
and go the f home three, Pep baby, Jordan, No, I
know it's just you gotta walk away. You gotta get in on a wind
to walk away. Maybe just win it twice and get out of there.
You never Yeah, but people just be talking smack. I mean whatever,
A bunch of haters out there. You guys can all you guys can all
get in there. Does it show on on ODB? I don't think it
shows. You know, they don't have everything populated. I think it shows
like ownership. Doesn't it show that? Yeah? Yeah, we should see
the ownership percentage for Daniel Legrando. Let's see what happened exactly. All those
people are sharp, that's what they're doing. Go Daniel, go all right.
Tomorrow on deck, we got day one B of the one thousand dollars
Mystery Millions Again. That event kicked off today. It had two hundred and
twenty three more entries in the opening flight than it did last year, so
very very good sign for that event. We also have event number eight,
five thousand dollars pot Limit Omaha. We are planning on streaming that one starting
on Sunday. We are planning on streaming day three and the final table.
This is a scheduled as a four day event, right, No, but
we're gonna push it. Its scheduled is a three day. We've looked at
some numbers and some previous events, and we think it's gonna need a I
think this I think this event. Have they had a five K plow?
Yeah, this one's gonna blow down. I mean, listen, six we
were wildly off on our predictions for the kickoff. I think this one crushes.
I hope. So. I mean it's a five K pot limit.
Omaha is the hottest thing in the planet right now, right, and this
is a five K I mean this essentially placed the five K half and half
right, the five K half and half k last year. Well, because
they don't have the five K half, they don't have the five K half,
correct, I think it replaces the three K plot they don't have that.
I believe they should have both of those. Maybe they do, but
this is structure wise very similar to the three K. So I'll say this
gets six hundred. What do you think five point fifty? Okay? Yeah,
I mean I haven't thought about it at all. That's the same the
same guess as me. Yeah, I hope we're not wildly wrong again,
or we're just gonna have to maybe one of them wildly wrong so that at
least one of us is great, I should say, like nine hundred,
well three hundred, no, don't, don't do that. We also have
day one of the fifteen hundred dollars limit hold Them, the min Bet Mini
Championship. The min Bet Championship is the ten K limit hold Them. I
believe they also have the three K limit hold Them six Max on the schedule
this year, so three straight limit hold them tournaments. Obviously. You know,
the poker community is a pretty small community in the grand scheme of things,
but the limit community, the limit hold them community within the poker community,
is even smaller. So yeah, you know we'll get all the all
the limit hold them specialists. We'll be out there for that one, of
course, but that one usually draws pretty well, so you know, looking
forward to it. All right, that's gonna do it for us. My
name is Donnie Peters, his name is Tim Duckworth, and we will talk
to you guys tomorrow face Express