WEBVTT 1 00:00:10.960 --> 00:00:15.279 Hello everyone, Welcome back to a new episode of the Poker Go Podcast. 2 00:00:15.279 --> 00:00:19.399 My name is Donna Peters. I am joined by cowboy Tim Duckworth. He 3 00:00:19.519 --> 00:00:23.359 is full on cowboy. I walked into Aria today heading to the studio, 4 00:00:23.399 --> 00:00:28.440 which is where we are recording this episode, and I was like, there's 5 00:00:28.480 --> 00:00:33.880 a cowboy. There's a legit cowboy with the shortest shorts. Imagine Okay, 6 00:00:33.920 --> 00:00:37.359 they're only five inch long. Come on, I can Yeah, you are 7 00:00:37.560 --> 00:00:46.759 full like you should be at Stagecoach basically Coachella. Yeah, where is it 8 00:00:46.880 --> 00:00:50.520 Vegas? I have no idea it is. When is it? Does I 9 00:00:50.600 --> 00:00:55.560 care where it is? But yeah, as we recently talked about, Tim 10 00:00:55.560 --> 00:01:00.000 and I are going to hit on some kind of random I guess, uh 11 00:01:00.159 --> 00:01:07.280 WSP topics Today, we're going to focus on our top five favorite WSP tournament 12 00:01:07.319 --> 00:01:11.439 wins Las Vegas only, so focusing on the stuff that happened here in Las 13 00:01:11.560 --> 00:01:15.799 Vegas only. You just want to throw these this little wrinkle. I didn't 14 00:01:15.799 --> 00:01:18.200 put that in the thing I sent to you. I don't know, but 15 00:01:18.280 --> 00:01:19.879 I'm just saying it's very I mean, you weren't prepared for the podcast anyway. 16 00:01:21.359 --> 00:01:23.959 I don't expect you to don't need to tell the people at harm that 17 00:01:23.000 --> 00:01:26.840 I'm not. The people need to know who comes prepared and who doesn't. 18 00:01:26.920 --> 00:01:30.319 Now, speaking of coming prepared, yeah, one, two, three, 19 00:01:30.439 --> 00:01:34.560 four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, 20 00:01:34.599 --> 00:01:37.640 twelve, I wrote down thirteen one. I barely have five, so 21 00:01:38.879 --> 00:01:41.599 I'll make up for the fact that you probably won't have five. I'll come 22 00:01:41.640 --> 00:01:44.840 in with thirteen. You know. So, I know I told us we're 23 00:01:44.840 --> 00:01:47.359 going to do top five, but obviously we might hit on some more mine. 24 00:01:47.359 --> 00:01:49.879 I have definitely been that it was Its kind of an open ended topic 25 00:01:49.959 --> 00:01:53.319 in terms of like how you want to approach it, you know, just 26 00:01:53.400 --> 00:01:57.079 basically, I guess from your time in poker, like, what are the 27 00:01:57.280 --> 00:02:02.319 five favorite win yours that resonated with you the most in one way or another. 28 00:02:02.439 --> 00:02:07.920 Maybe that's because it was somebody you know that won. Maybe there was 29 00:02:07.959 --> 00:02:10.599 a cool story about somebody winning. Maybe it has something to do with your 30 00:02:10.680 --> 00:02:15.560 profession and working in the industry, whatever it may be. 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Five favorite tournament 40 00:02:54.560 --> 00:02:58.719 wins. I didn't put mine in any order, so I'm gonna bounce all 41 00:02:58.759 --> 00:03:02.039 over the place pretty much. I'll go first because I have more than you, 42 00:03:02.199 --> 00:03:07.039 so I'll go first. First. One that popped out to me Ronnie 43 00:03:07.080 --> 00:03:10.719 Barta twenty twelve, twenty five hundred dollars, six handed limit hold him. 44 00:03:10.919 --> 00:03:14.479 Ronnie is a very good friend of mine. He's been a very good friend 45 00:03:14.520 --> 00:03:22.800 of mine going back to our days grinding at Foxwoods in Connecticut. Not only 46 00:03:22.919 --> 00:03:27.159 is it a good friend of mine and seeing him win is just a very 47 00:03:27.199 --> 00:03:32.000 special thing for me. But I've always said that I like when people win 48 00:03:32.560 --> 00:03:38.680 tournaments in their specialty, and Ronnie's specialty is limit hold them, and I 49 00:03:38.719 --> 00:03:43.520 would even say that ronnie specialty is short handed limit hold them. So winning 50 00:03:43.639 --> 00:03:47.319 the six handed limit hold them event at the twenty twelve sp is great. 51 00:03:49.960 --> 00:03:53.680 I've told this story before in various places, but you know, you may 52 00:03:53.680 --> 00:03:54.919 not know about it. You may have heard it, so forgive me if 53 00:03:54.960 --> 00:03:59.919 I'm repeating myself. But Ronnie came into the final day ten out of ten 54 00:04:00.080 --> 00:04:03.000 on the leaderboard. I think he had six big bets if I remember correctly, 55 00:04:03.879 --> 00:04:08.879 bet on himself at the Rio Sportsbook. Whatever the max bet was, 56 00:04:08.919 --> 00:04:13.479 I think it was like fifty bucks or something, and ended up going on 57 00:04:13.680 --> 00:04:15.519 to win it. That was at the time when you could bet on the 58 00:04:15.560 --> 00:04:18.560 final the final day or the final table things at the real sportsbook, which 59 00:04:18.560 --> 00:04:23.199 was always fun to do, gave you horrible odds. All the odds were 60 00:04:23.240 --> 00:04:28.600 always atrocious. But Ronnie did bet on himself, ends up getting heads up 61 00:04:28.600 --> 00:04:32.560 with Marco Johnson, closes it out massive rail on the stage in pavilion over 62 00:04:32.639 --> 00:04:39.079 at the Rio, I don't know, probably thirty forty people there railing him, 63 00:04:39.120 --> 00:04:43.839 friends from all over. So that's something that's near and dear to my 64 00:04:43.959 --> 00:04:47.399 heart, is Ronnie's win in twenty twelve. So that's what I'm going to 65 00:04:47.519 --> 00:04:53.120 lead it off with my favorite, well, my number one, so that 66 00:04:53.519 --> 00:04:56.319 the time I won the Pulconese Free Row in twenty ten. No, I'm 67 00:04:56.319 --> 00:04:59.199 just kidding. I'm just messing with you. It's funny that you led with 68 00:04:59.279 --> 00:05:01.879 Ronnie someone it's a close friend. I had one in a similar you know, 69 00:05:02.040 --> 00:05:04.959 similar area. I was going to say till last, but I'm going 70 00:05:05.040 --> 00:05:09.079 to bring it up top. I think that's fair. One of my favorite 71 00:05:09.079 --> 00:05:17.000 wins Chad Holloway Casino Employees Bracelet Event winner, and this was twenty thirteen. 72 00:05:17.439 --> 00:05:20.319 And the reason this was a favorite win obviously you get to see a friend 73 00:05:20.480 --> 00:05:25.000 win a bracelet win eighty four thousand dollars. I got to be kind of 74 00:05:25.079 --> 00:05:27.240 part of the sweat, like you were saying, you know, you might 75 00:05:27.279 --> 00:05:30.759 have been part of running sweat on the rail a piece of Chad. No 76 00:05:31.000 --> 00:05:33.839 oh no, no, no, definitely not. You know you've also been 77 00:05:33.879 --> 00:05:39.040 on the rail for when our friend for when Gary ran deep in the main. 78 00:05:39.120 --> 00:05:40.839 I was working at time, so I'm going to be really on the 79 00:05:40.879 --> 00:05:44.439 rail. But whid win so I campaign, Yeah, but it's still it's 80 00:05:44.439 --> 00:05:46.399 a win in his mind but with Chad, we were on the rail, 81 00:05:46.480 --> 00:05:50.439 we were cheering, we were with every hand. There was discussions of chops. 82 00:05:50.639 --> 00:05:53.720 I remember, I still have a chop, Chad, no chop. 83 00:05:53.920 --> 00:05:57.959 I still have a photo somewhere on one of my old computers of the ICM 84 00:05:58.040 --> 00:06:01.000 calculator and the propose chop and that Chad turned out. So to me, 85 00:06:02.000 --> 00:06:05.680 that was a great way to kick off that World Series twenty thirteen, Close 86 00:06:05.720 --> 00:06:09.800 friend winning. We're on the Riyal, We're screaming, we're yelling, we're 87 00:06:09.879 --> 00:06:12.800 cheering, we're making I don't remember, we're making eagle sounds because he's wearing 88 00:06:12.839 --> 00:06:15.519 an eagle had the eagles, Yeah, somebody had. He had the bird 89 00:06:15.519 --> 00:06:19.079 shirt and somebody had the I think it was Ben Ludlow had like the CACA 90 00:06:19.519 --> 00:06:24.439 on on phone, yeah producer which Ryan Will put the call in put right, 91 00:06:24.480 --> 00:06:26.560 Yeah, yeah, well for sure. So to me, that's that 92 00:06:26.680 --> 00:06:29.120 was something that I really like. Treasure, you know, didn't have a 93 00:06:29.160 --> 00:06:30.639 pace. I was just saying a good friend win, but it was kind 94 00:06:30.639 --> 00:06:36.000 of pretty cool to like be part of someone's winning moment. So makes sense, 95 00:06:38.399 --> 00:06:42.519 all right. Second for me, this one going back to twenty ten, 96 00:06:42.920 --> 00:06:46.879 so my third World Series of poker. My first one we're working wise, 97 00:06:46.000 --> 00:06:53.480 was was two thousand and eight Simon Watt's Tom Dwan. Yes, in 98 00:06:54.639 --> 00:06:58.600 was it a fifteen hundred dollars Nolan Holden tournament? I think, I think 99 00:06:58.639 --> 00:07:00.319 so. It was like a small bind Nolan had hold Him tournament. It 100 00:07:00.360 --> 00:07:04.680 was when the Amazon room in the corner is where the main set was. 101 00:07:05.920 --> 00:07:11.680 I remember shout out producer Rich Ryan. He was working the event. Might 102 00:07:11.720 --> 00:07:14.480 have been his first event because this was very early in the series. It 103 00:07:14.519 --> 00:07:18.439 was event number eleven. Now what made this so crazy? Simon Watt comes 104 00:07:18.439 --> 00:07:26.240 out on top of Tom Dwan. Is Dwan had outrageous bracelet bets. Yeah, 105 00:07:26.279 --> 00:07:30.079 like from all accounts, he stood to win eight figures if he won 106 00:07:30.120 --> 00:07:33.279 a bracelet, like and it was. It was crazy. So you talk 107 00:07:33.360 --> 00:07:36.360 to some different high stakes players, you know, they say that he could 108 00:07:36.399 --> 00:07:41.600 have broke the high stakes world if he would were to win a bracelet. 109 00:07:41.720 --> 00:07:44.800 You know, all these people were betting against him to do it at the 110 00:07:44.839 --> 00:07:47.040 time. This was in the corner of the Amazon room and then right outside 111 00:07:47.319 --> 00:07:50.240 the feature table. If you've seen the feature table now, it's like three 112 00:07:50.279 --> 00:07:54.240 times as big as what it was, So imagine something a third of the 113 00:07:54.279 --> 00:07:59.480 side. So then right outside on like the backside of the bleachers where there's 114 00:07:59.519 --> 00:08:01.839 like you know, have a wall, but the wall only goes up to 115 00:08:01.839 --> 00:08:05.560 the top of the bleachers, but there's a ten k I believe it was 116 00:08:05.639 --> 00:08:09.759 ten K Study eight. I was covering that event, and there were so 117 00:08:09.879 --> 00:08:13.560 many high stakes players in there that were sweating what was happening in this like 118 00:08:13.639 --> 00:08:20.560 fifteen hundred dollars nolamit Holdham tournament between Simon Watt and Tom Dwan, and like 119 00:08:20.560 --> 00:08:24.120 they're all running back and forth, and there was obviously like kind of the 120 00:08:24.160 --> 00:08:26.800 main entrance to like that feature table air, but there was also like this 121 00:08:26.920 --> 00:08:30.959 back tunnel, and I just remember Mike Madis running back and forth, back 122 00:08:31.000 --> 00:08:33.600 and forth NonStop, like yelling to the to the people in the ten K 123 00:08:33.639 --> 00:08:39.200 stud tournament what was happening the update, Like people were losing their minds. 124 00:08:39.360 --> 00:08:43.240 That tournament was like basically not running because people were sweating what was happening with 125 00:08:43.279 --> 00:08:48.120 Tom Dwan so hard? All these people had action of it. If he 126 00:08:48.159 --> 00:08:50.840 would have won the tournament, I mean it would have people might have just 127 00:08:50.879 --> 00:08:54.480 like got up and left the ten K study tournament. I mean it was 128 00:08:54.519 --> 00:09:01.279 just an absolutely crazy spectacle there. We were working with poker at the time. 129 00:09:01.320 --> 00:09:03.559 Again, it was rich Ryan who was working the event. I want 130 00:09:03.600 --> 00:09:07.799 to say he was working with Martin Harris, but I could be wrong there, 131 00:09:07.879 --> 00:09:11.000 so forgive me if I get that wrong. But I mean, you 132 00:09:11.080 --> 00:09:15.399 know, just just like making sure that the site worked, making sure that 133 00:09:15.440 --> 00:09:18.600 you got everything correct, because like the pressure's on you from a reporting outlet 134 00:09:18.879 --> 00:09:22.279 trying to get this right because you know what's happening. This bet was public, 135 00:09:22.360 --> 00:09:26.480 you know, so many people were out there against Tom Dwan. Tom 136 00:09:26.559 --> 00:09:31.679 Dwan was very, very confident, probably cocky, you know, that he 137 00:09:31.759 --> 00:09:33.879 was going to win a brace with that everyone else was bad and he was 138 00:09:33.919 --> 00:09:37.240 really good. And of course this is also like Tom Dwan at the height 139 00:09:37.279 --> 00:09:41.120 of his superpowers, you know, like where he's on top of the world. 140 00:09:41.200 --> 00:09:43.720 He's destroying games left and right online live, all this sort of stuff. 141 00:09:45.000 --> 00:09:48.000 And now it's like but like all the tournament guys, the heisige tournament 142 00:09:48.000 --> 00:09:50.600 guys, like he's he doesn't have what it takes to win in a tournament. 143 00:09:50.679 --> 00:09:54.919 Yeah, and then he gets heads up with some random guy out of 144 00:09:54.960 --> 00:09:58.960 what was he out of New Zealand? Was it Simon Simon Watt. So 145 00:09:58.120 --> 00:10:01.480 it's like I'm and Watt's playing heads up against Tom Dwan. First of all, 146 00:10:01.480 --> 00:10:05.240 you're going against a star at the time, who's who's one of the 147 00:10:05.279 --> 00:10:07.320 biggest stars, if not the biggest, in the game at this time in 148 00:10:07.360 --> 00:10:11.080 twenty ten, and he's playing heads up for what two or three hundred thousand 149 00:10:11.080 --> 00:10:16.080 dollars. Dwan is playing for like ten million million somebody. Like it's just 150 00:10:16.399 --> 00:10:22.399 it's absolutely insane. What was happening in that moment. I just I remember 151 00:10:22.519 --> 00:10:26.840 so vividly, just Mike Madison, just the constant sprinting back and forth through 152 00:10:26.840 --> 00:10:31.559 that tunnel and just yelling, yelling, yell, And then like finally Simon 153 00:10:31.559 --> 00:10:33.759 Watt dies it does it, and and Mike Massow comes running back like he 154 00:10:33.840 --> 00:10:37.080 did it. He did it, like and everyone was so happy and so 155 00:10:37.279 --> 00:10:41.200 relieved that that they didn't have to pay this bet. But the thing was 156 00:10:41.320 --> 00:10:43.679 is that, like, yes, it was a big sigh of relief for 157 00:10:43.759 --> 00:10:48.559 all these players that had bet against Tom Dwan. This was only event eleven. 158 00:10:48.720 --> 00:10:50.600 Yeah, there was so many more events to go. There was like 159 00:10:50.639 --> 00:10:54.039 forty five events or whatever it is left that like Tom Dwan still could have 160 00:10:54.039 --> 00:10:56.240 done it, but like, you know, I think obviously people were like, 161 00:10:56.279 --> 00:11:00.840 Okay, like he's at least showed us that he probably can do this. 162 00:11:01.000 --> 00:11:05.080 Yeah, he's gonna But then also like there was the opposite of like, 163 00:11:05.159 --> 00:11:07.240 oh my god, we just faded this, you know, so like 164 00:11:07.279 --> 00:11:09.240 in a way we're kind of in the clear, but we're also not in 165 00:11:09.240 --> 00:11:13.200 the clear. So it was it was just such a crazy, crazy moment 166 00:11:13.600 --> 00:11:18.360 that event. Simon won six hundred and fourteen thousand dollars he won tournament? 167 00:11:18.440 --> 00:11:20.559 Was it fift fifteen hundred? No, they would hold him even eleven twenty 168 00:11:20.559 --> 00:11:24.399 ten World Series of Poker. Since then, he had two more cashes in 169 00:11:24.399 --> 00:11:28.200 twenty ten at the World Series and then two more in twenty eleven, and 170 00:11:28.240 --> 00:11:31.080 we haven't heard of from him since. I just remember, I think it 171 00:11:31.159 --> 00:11:33.840 was Mike Matisow that's the line came from, Like they should put a Yeah, 172 00:11:33.840 --> 00:11:39.480 they should put a poster of this boy and Bobby's you know, so 173 00:11:39.480 --> 00:11:43.000 so yeah they should yeah, one hundred percent my second one and go all 174 00:11:43.039 --> 00:11:50.559 the way back to my boy. Joseph hash him. Okay, two thousand 175 00:11:50.559 --> 00:11:56.639 and five World Series of Poker. I was nineteen at the time. Legally 176 00:11:56.639 --> 00:12:01.360 allowed to play poker in Australia, but obviously not legal to come here and 177 00:12:01.480 --> 00:12:07.200 uh playing in America. But I remember that time I was playing a lot 178 00:12:07.240 --> 00:12:11.600 at Crown Casino and during that time, it was you know in in I 179 00:12:11.639 --> 00:12:16.080 think it was early July back then. The one of the t ds, 180 00:12:16.120 --> 00:12:18.279 I don't know who it was. They were announcing the act, like not 181 00:12:18.360 --> 00:12:22.759 announcing the action, but announcing updates basically like reading live updates. This was 182 00:12:22.840 --> 00:12:24.639 before Twitter, this was before you know, poking you so, I don't 183 00:12:24.639 --> 00:12:28.279 know how they're getting updated before live stream before before live streams. It's probably 184 00:12:28.360 --> 00:12:33.559 Joe. It was probably you know, Tony Hasham messaging someone a Crown and 185 00:12:33.559 --> 00:12:37.039 then they relaying the information. They were like updating you know, Joe's you 186 00:12:37.039 --> 00:12:39.279 know, the six left, the five left, Joe's the chip leader, 187 00:12:39.399 --> 00:12:43.759 cetera. I remember the big announcement when you know he won. They announced 188 00:12:43.159 --> 00:12:46.639 Joe one, Joe one, and everyone in the room, you know you've 189 00:12:46.679 --> 00:12:52.519 been to the Crown poker room, poker room, I know, got the 190 00:12:52.600 --> 00:12:58.720 Vegas sign erupted in cheers, and I feel like that was pretty like monumental 191 00:12:58.799 --> 00:13:03.519 for my poker, well, my poker career as that really kickstarted things back 192 00:13:03.519 --> 00:13:05.759 home in Australia. People started playing. Well, he was obviously, you 193 00:13:05.759 --> 00:13:11.679 know, from the city. I was living in Melbourne, and poker just 194 00:13:11.840 --> 00:13:15.759 took you know, we talked about money makers, poker boom. Hashim was 195 00:13:15.799 --> 00:13:20.159 definitely a poker boom for not just Australia but that whole like Australasian region and 196 00:13:20.200 --> 00:13:24.120 that always. I just remember that the way we heard that he won, 197 00:13:24.559 --> 00:13:26.240 but also me being in the poker room at the time, and then what 198 00:13:26.799 --> 00:13:31.519 it led to, you know, in the years after that and where Australian 199 00:13:31.600 --> 00:13:35.600 poker kind of went crazy. Pass the Sugar Baby, Pass the Sugar My 200 00:13:35.759 --> 00:13:41.440 next one. Greg Merson twenty twelve WSP Main Event, Just I put this 201 00:13:41.480 --> 00:13:46.799 one in like the very cool story category because you know, Gregy had this 202 00:13:46.799 --> 00:13:50.279 this Greggy huh yeah, I mean that's what he's known as. Gregy has 203 00:13:50.320 --> 00:13:52.960 this. You know, he has like this deep battle with addiction, like 204 00:13:54.000 --> 00:13:56.639 and he fights through it all, you know, successful poker player online and 205 00:13:56.639 --> 00:14:00.879 stuff, but then falls into this addiction. There's that famous story when I 206 00:14:00.919 --> 00:14:03.480 think it was Christian Harder and Anthony. Greg like basically found him and needed 207 00:14:03.519 --> 00:14:07.440 to like, you know, help him get everything back together, and like 208 00:14:07.440 --> 00:14:09.200 there's that whole thing. So he you know, he beats the addiction. 209 00:14:11.080 --> 00:14:13.679 Then in the event itself he's down to two and a half big blinds. 210 00:14:13.840 --> 00:14:18.519 I think it was ten twenty thousand, he has fifty thousand with like one 211 00:14:18.600 --> 00:14:22.080 hundred and fifty players left. He ends up staying alive though, and then 212 00:14:22.120 --> 00:14:26.200 of course ultimately goes on to win the tournaments. So there's that aspect. 213 00:14:26.519 --> 00:14:30.840 Also, I feel like this part kind of gets forgotten. Is I forget 214 00:14:30.919 --> 00:14:33.840 exactly how long that WSP Main Event was during that time, but he won 215 00:14:35.000 --> 00:14:37.679 right before that, he won the ten K six Max, So he basically 216 00:14:37.720 --> 00:14:41.440 went two weeks or whatever was without winning losing a tournament, and he won 217 00:14:41.480 --> 00:14:45.399 two of the biggest and best tournaments of the year. He wins the ten 218 00:14:45.480 --> 00:14:48.039 K six Max for like one point three million dollars or whatever it is, 219 00:14:48.080 --> 00:14:50.840 and then wins THEWSP Main Event. So like, the guy just didn't lose 220 00:14:50.879 --> 00:14:54.120 for two weeks straight. So I mean, I can't imagine what like that 221 00:14:54.159 --> 00:14:56.919 sort of crazy feeling was, But you know, I'm a sucker for a 222 00:14:56.919 --> 00:15:01.120 good story. And like, if you remember twenty twelve when when Greg Merson 223 00:15:01.159 --> 00:15:05.399 won that, you know, he like he breaks down in tears after he 224 00:15:05.480 --> 00:15:07.320 wins. He just comes out on top of the biggest and best tournament of 225 00:15:07.320 --> 00:15:11.519 the world after everything that he's been through. So that's just a really cool 226 00:15:11.559 --> 00:15:13.720 story for me and I you know, I really love seeing that. I'll 227 00:15:13.759 --> 00:15:18.960 kind of always remember that one. My next one throwing it way back as 228 00:15:18.960 --> 00:15:22.360 well again two thousand and seven, well series of puck of my first wsp 229 00:15:22.600 --> 00:15:26.080 here in Las Vegas. Want a satellite for the main event, we won't 230 00:15:26.120 --> 00:15:30.799 need to talk about how I did in the main event, But Bubbled with 231 00:15:30.879 --> 00:15:33.759 Queen, I was out, you know, like I was. I was 232 00:15:33.799 --> 00:15:37.240 a tourist. I was also a fanboy. I was twenty one. I 233 00:15:37.360 --> 00:15:41.279 was, you know, doing whatever I could to kind of absorb everything that 234 00:15:41.360 --> 00:15:46.639 was at the Rio. And I remember it was it was I think day 235 00:15:46.639 --> 00:15:48.039 one A or one B of the main event. Walking around you know, 236 00:15:48.080 --> 00:15:52.320 I'm not playing today one. I think Day one C. But I remember 237 00:15:52.399 --> 00:15:56.080 just walking around the whole you know, I'm in the Amazon room. I 238 00:15:56.159 --> 00:15:58.000 walked to the very far end of the Amazon room, you know where like 239 00:15:58.039 --> 00:16:03.720 the waitresses come out that far end, and I see I see like a 240 00:16:03.759 --> 00:16:07.879 table just randomly in the middle. I'm just like watching from the rail like 241 00:16:07.919 --> 00:16:11.120 it's maybe, you know, two tables away, and I notice Eric Sidel 242 00:16:11.840 --> 00:16:15.240 is at that final table and a couple of people I recognized, but I 243 00:16:15.240 --> 00:16:18.440 wasn't sure, but I knew Eric's Sidel and I was like, I was 244 00:16:18.440 --> 00:16:22.559 trying to figure out, like what this event was, trying to find a 245 00:16:22.600 --> 00:16:26.679 clock ended up being the five K no limbit deuce, probably with Reeby's, 246 00:16:27.159 --> 00:16:30.519 which he ended up winning. I think it was, yeah, for his 247 00:16:30.600 --> 00:16:33.840 eighth bracelet. And I don't have any cool story about this, Like I 248 00:16:33.879 --> 00:16:37.039 wasn't there, I wasn't on the rail watching him win, but I remember 249 00:16:37.759 --> 00:16:42.759 he was the first person that I saw in Vegas that to me, I 250 00:16:42.840 --> 00:16:45.960 knew. And I was like, oh my god, that's Eric's side. 251 00:16:45.039 --> 00:16:49.200 L like he's literally two tables away from me. And you know, I 252 00:16:49.240 --> 00:16:52.759 watched for a little bit. You can't see anything because obviously we have the 253 00:16:52.840 --> 00:16:55.039 rail, but I was like, oh my god, this is so cool. 254 00:16:55.080 --> 00:16:56.440 Oh look he's four handed, Oh he's three handed, et cetera. 255 00:16:56.840 --> 00:17:00.399 I wasn't there for the end, but I just remember then I found out 256 00:17:00.440 --> 00:17:03.279 the next day because they used to have those newsletters that he won. He 257 00:17:03.319 --> 00:17:06.839 won that bracelet. I was like, oh my god, I just kind 258 00:17:06.839 --> 00:17:10.839 of saw Eric Sidell win his eighth brace and you know, eight bracelet at 259 00:17:10.880 --> 00:17:15.200 the time was pretty impressive because you know we only had you know, ten 260 00:17:15.319 --> 00:17:18.000 was the most I think right at that point in twenty seven, two thousand 261 00:17:18.000 --> 00:17:19.599 and seven. So yeah, no, no cool story, but I remember 262 00:17:19.599 --> 00:17:23.000 that just you know, it feels like, oh my god, Eric Sidell 263 00:17:23.119 --> 00:17:26.720 is literally two tables away from me. I just always remember that as my 264 00:17:26.759 --> 00:17:30.400 first time ever walking in the Amazon room, first time to Las Vegas. 265 00:17:30.680 --> 00:17:37.799 Yeah, I had I had kind of a similar feeling, and it involves 266 00:17:37.839 --> 00:17:41.039 one event on my list, so I'll kind of just jump to that one. 267 00:17:41.079 --> 00:17:45.799 But two thousand and eight my first World Series working out here. I 268 00:17:45.839 --> 00:17:51.240 was working for Poker News at the time, the ten thousand dollars World Championship 269 00:17:51.359 --> 00:17:56.119 pot limit hold Them. I remember covering the event alongside Change one hundred was 270 00:17:56.160 --> 00:18:00.480 her name on Poker News. But I remember walking through the yield and I 271 00:18:00.519 --> 00:18:07.400 saw Patrick Antonius and I was like that that I was like deer in headlights, 272 00:18:07.440 --> 00:18:08.480 like stopped, and I was like, no, compose yourself, like 273 00:18:08.519 --> 00:18:11.000 figure it out right, like you know what I mean. And I think 274 00:18:11.039 --> 00:18:14.519 like Mike Sexton like called me out for it, like he saw me like 275 00:18:14.599 --> 00:18:17.319 reacting, like called me out for it. So like that was that was 276 00:18:17.359 --> 00:18:22.680 funny. But working this event from start to finish was obviously a very prestigious 277 00:18:22.720 --> 00:18:25.960 event. There there isn't no longer Potlam and hold him as a standalone event 278 00:18:26.000 --> 00:18:29.119 at the World Series of Poker. But this one ten k Byen, you 279 00:18:29.160 --> 00:18:32.000 know, really stacked field. I mean, no, no medic goes on 280 00:18:32.039 --> 00:18:36.039 to win it for eight hundred K. But like this final table, Andy 281 00:18:36.079 --> 00:18:40.000 Block second, Kathy Liebert third, Mike Sexton gets fourth, I'm at mckisjah 282 00:18:40.160 --> 00:18:44.799 fifth, Chris Bell sixth, Patrick Antonius he got seventh, Mike Sours got 283 00:18:45.000 --> 00:18:48.319 eighth, ninth, Phil Locke tenth, John Cabaj, I mean, David 284 00:18:48.319 --> 00:18:55.880 Benefield's in the money here, Alexander KOs Stritzen, Ellie Elezra Vivid Raj Kumar, 285 00:18:56.039 --> 00:18:59.480 I mean, I haven't seen that Ted Ted Lawson, Like I mean, 286 00:18:59.519 --> 00:19:03.200 this this event is just absolutely crazy, and like I'm just a brand 287 00:19:03.240 --> 00:19:07.680 new kid out here working in the industry, fell in love with poker, 288 00:19:07.680 --> 00:19:11.480 and now here I am covering this event. So it was just super cool 289 00:19:11.400 --> 00:19:15.680 to be out here for the first event I covered, like having that same 290 00:19:15.720 --> 00:19:18.279 sort of thing he had with side doubt when I saw Patrick Antonius being like, 291 00:19:18.279 --> 00:19:22.519 oh my god, Like that's like because like at the time, like 292 00:19:22.000 --> 00:19:26.839 Patrick Antonius was kind of like an online like you knew him online. Yeah, 293 00:19:26.880 --> 00:19:29.720 obviously you followed him online and whatever, but like then you see someone 294 00:19:29.759 --> 00:19:33.680 in the flesh of that stature within the industry that you've fallen to love, 295 00:19:33.720 --> 00:19:37.279 and it was just like so crazy and so cool. I'm going to give 296 00:19:37.279 --> 00:19:40.359 another one before we go back to you just go there story, Yeah, 297 00:19:40.359 --> 00:19:42.279 go ahead. The best part of that story is the hole No Nod Medic 298 00:19:42.279 --> 00:19:47.519 Phil Ivy incident. Do you remember. Yeah, we're like he backed him 299 00:19:47.559 --> 00:19:51.440 because he was he was SERB online or SERB twenty seven or whatever it was, 300 00:19:51.720 --> 00:19:53.200 and like I think he just as the story goes, and we could 301 00:19:53.240 --> 00:19:56.960 be getting this totally wrong, but Ivy would battle with him online. Then 302 00:19:57.000 --> 00:20:02.119 asked him if he was playing the wsop you know, Nanad said yeah, 303 00:20:02.119 --> 00:20:04.400 you know, I'm gonna play whatever. He agreed to back him, and 304 00:20:04.480 --> 00:20:07.119 like then he just like, because you at the time, you could just 305 00:20:07.160 --> 00:20:10.200 transfer money on full too, so he sent them money. Nanad plays this 306 00:20:10.240 --> 00:20:12.839 event and then I guess after he wins, as the story goes, Nanad 307 00:20:12.880 --> 00:20:15.079 just like goes up to him and gives him all this cash and I's like, 308 00:20:15.079 --> 00:20:18.839 who are you? Yeah, And I believe it was Howard Letter that 309 00:20:18.920 --> 00:20:21.480 like told the story like yeah, where because he was at the table in 310 00:20:21.519 --> 00:20:25.640 some event and I's like who are you and he's like he didn't know who 311 00:20:25.680 --> 00:20:26.359 he was and he tried to tell him, but then he's like, I'm 312 00:20:26.359 --> 00:20:30.039 sir, and he's like, oh, you know that's picture. That's just 313 00:20:32.400 --> 00:20:37.319 wow. And Patrick Antonius age, you've aged a lost leave me a lot. 314 00:20:37.599 --> 00:20:41.640 But Antony, this looks exactly the same. It is scary two thousand 315 00:20:41.680 --> 00:20:51.519 and seven. That's great. Patrick is like Tom Brady and again all right, 316 00:20:51.559 --> 00:20:56.279 So my next one is Jason Kuhn twenty twenty one P twenty Heads Up 317 00:20:56.319 --> 00:21:00.680 Championship. Now I like this one because aas Kun' has always been widely regarded 318 00:21:00.680 --> 00:21:03.599 as one of the nicest guys in poker. Also one of the absolute best 319 00:21:03.640 --> 00:21:07.960 poker players, right, just a supreme no limit hold them player. So 320 00:21:07.720 --> 00:21:12.640 him finally getting that monkey off his back, finally winning his first bracelet after 321 00:21:12.680 --> 00:21:17.839 all of those stupid times. And I'm part of the part of this problem 322 00:21:17.880 --> 00:21:19.759 talking about you know, the best without a bracelet, best without a bracelet, 323 00:21:19.799 --> 00:21:22.839 and kun was always on that list, if not the first name on 324 00:21:22.880 --> 00:21:27.200 that list. Finally, finally, finally gets it done. Even after he 325 00:21:27.240 --> 00:21:30.440 won, he kind of like did the motion of like throwing the monkey off 326 00:21:30.480 --> 00:21:33.599 his back, and you could tell that like it meant a lot to him. 327 00:21:33.640 --> 00:21:38.200 He doesn't come out these days and play a super high volume like he 328 00:21:38.240 --> 00:21:41.440 once did anywhere, not not even just the w spe but anywhere. You 329 00:21:41.440 --> 00:21:45.000 know, he just doesn't play as big a volume. He focuses towards the 330 00:21:45.079 --> 00:21:48.279 high buy and stuff. So which is also like kind of part of this 331 00:21:48.359 --> 00:21:52.799 where the twenty five K Heads Up Championship is a highly specialized event, Like 332 00:21:52.799 --> 00:21:56.400 you get these guys coming out of the woodwork that are just no limit hold 333 00:21:56.480 --> 00:22:00.720 them heads up crushers out of Finland or wherever they're from. You know, 334 00:22:00.920 --> 00:22:04.599 Kuhn beats them all in this event premium price point twenty five K. Like 335 00:22:04.640 --> 00:22:08.359 the whole thing just was kind of like very Jason Kuhon, Like like if 336 00:22:08.359 --> 00:22:11.559 you were to pick a tournament for Jason Kuhn to win, it'd be like 337 00:22:11.880 --> 00:22:17.359 two hundred fifty K Super high Roller, Hunter K high Roller, twenty five 338 00:22:17.440 --> 00:22:22.160 K Heads Up Championship, Like it just fits Jason Kuhn So him finally getting 339 00:22:22.160 --> 00:22:23.640 that monkey off the back. I remember being there. I remember, you 340 00:22:23.680 --> 00:22:27.400 know, like the like the relief in a way obviously the excitement for winning 341 00:22:27.400 --> 00:22:30.559 his first base, but also like that relief like I finally did it get 342 00:22:30.599 --> 00:22:33.599 me off that stupid list. Let's go. You know, I really love 343 00:22:33.640 --> 00:22:37.000 that and I loved, you know, seeing that happen at the twenty twenty 344 00:22:37.000 --> 00:22:40.599 one dobasipy think I got two left, I'm trying to go which one I 345 00:22:40.599 --> 00:22:41.759 want to go to? Two left? I got like eighteen yeah, but 346 00:22:41.960 --> 00:22:45.400 come on, man, let's let's say something. All right, I'm gonna 347 00:22:45.519 --> 00:22:48.000 just kept going and I was like, man, there's a loup. That's 348 00:22:48.000 --> 00:22:49.240 why you said saw if I could come up with a million two, if 349 00:22:49.279 --> 00:22:55.839 I prepped like you, I'm gonna go to my other boy, my fellow 350 00:22:55.880 --> 00:23:00.960 Australian that really sometimes is Italian Jeffrey Assandra. You know what's funny. I 351 00:23:02.000 --> 00:23:03.599 thought of this. I thought of this, and I didn't put it on 352 00:23:03.640 --> 00:23:07.359 there. But I'm happy you did. We're going back to two thousand and 353 00:23:07.519 --> 00:23:11.799 nine World Series of Poker where he won three YEP bracelets within I'm gonna call 354 00:23:11.839 --> 00:23:15.599 it. We'll call it three weeks. He won the fifteen hundred and seven 355 00:23:15.640 --> 00:23:18.559 card Stud, he won the ten K seven card side high Low, and 356 00:23:18.599 --> 00:23:22.359 he won the twenty five hundred rights. He won the Triple Stud crown. 357 00:23:22.039 --> 00:23:26.799 Yeah is what he won. Yes, he's the Triple Stud Champion. At 358 00:23:26.799 --> 00:23:30.519 that time, I was pretty big into mixed games. I really enjoyed mixed 359 00:23:30.519 --> 00:23:37.119 games, and obviously, you know, Jeff has a cult kind of figure 360 00:23:37.160 --> 00:23:41.759 back home, a very intimidating person that if you rung him back, he's 361 00:23:41.759 --> 00:23:44.880 intimidating everything. If you wrung him, you maybe take your head off. 362 00:23:44.920 --> 00:23:48.079 Mate. I didn't want to say it. Yeah, true, you don't 363 00:23:48.119 --> 00:23:52.160 put your anthe in. Yeah, he's gonna take your head off. I 364 00:23:52.200 --> 00:23:55.079 mean that's just how it is. And at that time, winning three bracelets 365 00:23:55.079 --> 00:24:00.480 obviously incredibly impressive. Winning three bracelets in three different games within three weeks, 366 00:24:00.960 --> 00:24:03.640 all mixed games, all against the world's best, was incredible. Uh. 367 00:24:04.119 --> 00:24:07.440 That's something that always stood out to me. And you know, I remember 368 00:24:07.480 --> 00:24:10.240 they used to do the brig bracelet ceremonies in the Amazon room. They brought 369 00:24:10.279 --> 00:24:12.400 him up, take his photos. We play the Aussie anthem or maybe it 370 00:24:12.440 --> 00:24:15.799 was the Italian anthem at the time, who knows, maybe it was some 371 00:24:15.519 --> 00:24:21.000 techno remix of both. But yeah, you know that was what my second 372 00:24:21.119 --> 00:24:25.000 year working for Poconese that was kind of like, wow, this is this 373 00:24:25.079 --> 00:24:27.440 is impressive. This guy is legit. So yeah, that's one that really 374 00:24:27.440 --> 00:24:33.720 stands out for me. Next one for me phil Ivy winning his tenth bracelet 375 00:24:33.799 --> 00:24:38.440 twenty fourteen w SP fifteen dollars eight game. Now, it's obviously very cool 376 00:24:38.720 --> 00:24:44.279 Ivy getting number ten right now. In addition to that, this was in 377 00:24:44.319 --> 00:24:48.519 the in the thick of it for our Ivy Stories run. Yeah, like 378 00:24:48.519 --> 00:24:53.240 like Ivy remember notoriously doesn't want to do interviews, can't get the guy on 379 00:24:53.319 --> 00:24:56.279 camera, hates it like we'll turn it down, just doesn't like to do 380 00:24:56.319 --> 00:25:00.680 it right. So we came up with this idea at Poker News where let's 381 00:25:00.680 --> 00:25:07.200 interview other people telling their favorite stories about Ivy and we got some absolute bangers, 382 00:25:07.440 --> 00:25:11.799 right, and so this is all happening. The videos are doing awesome 383 00:25:11.839 --> 00:25:15.920 on social media. People are loving them like it's just it's it's great, 384 00:25:15.960 --> 00:25:19.960 great content. Ivy wins his tenth bracelet. In this we have to scramble 385 00:25:21.079 --> 00:25:25.480 to get someone to interview him. I end up getting Remco and Remco's freaking 386 00:25:25.519 --> 00:25:27.359 out. Sweat is dripping off his head. He's like, I gotta go 387 00:25:27.400 --> 00:25:30.240 interview Ivy. What do I say? Blah blah blah. Remco handled it 388 00:25:30.319 --> 00:25:34.599 like an absolute champion, is a great interviewer. He went right with Ivy 389 00:25:34.599 --> 00:25:38.960 and Ivy. Ivy even like calls him out in the interview. He says, 390 00:25:40.000 --> 00:25:41.920 like, I've seen those Ivy stories. Yea, not all of that's 391 00:25:41.920 --> 00:25:45.519 true, like something like that. I'm paraphrasing, but you know, he 392 00:25:45.559 --> 00:25:49.559 tries to downplay a lot of the stories with within the within the Ivy stories 393 00:25:51.119 --> 00:25:55.000 category that that were happening. So just kind of how that all came together. 394 00:25:55.079 --> 00:25:57.640 It's his tenth he Jones joins that pantheon of players that have ten gold 395 00:25:57.680 --> 00:26:00.720 bracelets, you know, in the thick of that run, like the whole 396 00:26:00.759 --> 00:26:04.240 thing was was pretty pretty crazy and pretty fun how it all came together. 397 00:26:04.319 --> 00:26:10.480 So yeah, phil Ivy winning his tenth gold bracelet. As some people know, 398 00:26:10.559 --> 00:26:15.440 I worked for pocon News up until twenty twenty nineteen, Well serious pokram. 399 00:26:15.440 --> 00:26:21.000 My specialty was mixed games coverage, and I covered the ten k Dealer's 400 00:26:21.079 --> 00:26:26.759 Choice, you know, each year it was on the schedule, and our 401 00:26:26.799 --> 00:26:29.920 specialty me and Mickey Duff, one of our listeners, one of our close 402 00:26:29.960 --> 00:26:33.960 friends, was we would track all the games two tables out and that was 403 00:26:33.039 --> 00:26:37.240 that was a fun part. So I loved covering the Dealer's Choice. Track 404 00:26:37.319 --> 00:26:40.599 games. You can see what everyone's choosing, you know, the final two 405 00:26:40.640 --> 00:26:44.640 tables, et cetera. Second year, I think twenty eighteen, Adam Friedman, 406 00:26:44.799 --> 00:26:48.599 when's his second bracelet? The next year, twenty nineteen, Adam Friedman, 407 00:26:48.839 --> 00:26:52.119 when's he's third bracelet? Another three hundred k in that pocket. Obviously 408 00:26:52.160 --> 00:26:53.880 we had a year off for you know what. Twenty twenty one, we 409 00:26:53.960 --> 00:26:59.200 come back. I'm no longer with poconws. I'm here at Pokgo and look 410 00:26:59.200 --> 00:27:04.240 at this Adam Friedman gunning for his third consecutive dealers Choice bracelet. And do 411 00:27:04.279 --> 00:27:10.119 you remember who else was on that that final table? Help me correct? 412 00:27:10.200 --> 00:27:14.599 Jake Swartz, Carol f Mike Madison, Andrew Kelsol Outside of the final table, 413 00:27:14.680 --> 00:27:18.799 Matt Glance, Goro Daniel Nagrano, Jara Via and I don't know if 414 00:27:18.839 --> 00:27:22.200 you remember this. They were playing on the feature table in the rio and 415 00:27:22.279 --> 00:27:25.400 one of the side tables, and we were like, we got to do 416 00:27:25.480 --> 00:27:30.920 something. Remember we turned the jib un. We made Sato ass live, 417 00:27:32.720 --> 00:27:37.000 So I mean it was better than nothing. Of course, it was like 418 00:27:37.039 --> 00:27:40.759 I was thrown up randomly. We had some split screen where you could see 419 00:27:40.799 --> 00:27:42.240 some players, you could see a flop. They were like four screens. 420 00:27:42.400 --> 00:27:45.799 Yeah, it was we were moving, We're moving the the jip around. 421 00:27:45.839 --> 00:27:48.279 Brent Hanks was on at at one point, Morey was on at a one 422 00:27:48.279 --> 00:27:53.359 point, and I remember was I was field reporting that event through the stream 423 00:27:53.400 --> 00:27:56.759 though, because we just had launched chat. It just had launched, like 424 00:27:56.839 --> 00:28:02.200 it was like infancy of all chats, and I was running up getting counts, 425 00:28:02.240 --> 00:28:03.720 putting him in the chat, people asking me questions like blah blah blah. 426 00:28:03.759 --> 00:28:07.839 I'd run up, get something, put it in, and you know. 427 00:28:07.839 --> 00:28:11.440 Obviously, Adam Friedman ended up defeeding Phil Hellm for two hundred and forty 428 00:28:11.480 --> 00:28:15.440 eight thousand dollars. He won his third consecutive Dealer's Choice. Basically he's fourth 429 00:28:15.480 --> 00:28:19.759 overall, obviously beating the best player in the world, Phil Helm with one 430 00:28:19.759 --> 00:28:23.279 of my favorite players too. So that was just like this kind of culmination 431 00:28:23.400 --> 00:28:27.119 of all these crazy moments of me being on the Dealer's choice my entire career, 432 00:28:27.359 --> 00:28:32.240 and now not with poconws but kind of still on it. Us rigging 433 00:28:32.240 --> 00:28:37.319 a stream together, getting to see Friedman Helm with and I think one of 434 00:28:37.400 --> 00:28:40.319 the best photos I've ever seen. I can't remember if it was our photographer 435 00:28:40.359 --> 00:28:44.720 Antonio that shot it or if it was you know, Enrique, but you 436 00:28:44.759 --> 00:28:48.279 know, on the final hand, I think Helm with Missus his draw. 437 00:28:48.799 --> 00:28:51.640 They're both sitting next to each other and Friedman just puts his hand up, 438 00:28:51.640 --> 00:28:56.160 fist pumping that he just won that third brace. It's just like an absolutely 439 00:28:56.240 --> 00:28:59.680 incredible kind of moment and culmination of all these things happening at once. And 440 00:28:59.680 --> 00:29:03.400 that's my final favorite WSP win. All Right, So I'll run through the 441 00:29:03.480 --> 00:29:07.640 remainder of my twenty so you got twenty seven more, right, Yeah, 442 00:29:07.759 --> 00:29:11.799 just talking about Antonio wes FONDII winning the first big one for one drop, 443 00:29:11.839 --> 00:29:15.119 I mean, this whole thing was just a spectacle, like it was. 444 00:29:15.240 --> 00:29:19.759 They brought out the Cirque de Sola performers, they had that whole section roped 445 00:29:19.799 --> 00:29:26.279 off for the special area. They had like two butlers that were serving special 446 00:29:26.359 --> 00:29:30.039 food and snacks for the place. The whole thing was just absolutely out of 447 00:29:30.079 --> 00:29:33.480 control. And then as FONDII gets to the final table, Gilile Liberty is 448 00:29:33.519 --> 00:29:37.400 there. They're putting clown noses on. They're having an absolute blast. As 449 00:29:37.440 --> 00:29:41.480 FONDII goes on to win the thing for eighteen million or whatever the heck the 450 00:29:41.519 --> 00:29:45.599 first place prize was, he's celebrating on the table with no shoes on. 451 00:29:45.720 --> 00:29:49.000 There's the massive pile of cash. His friends are hoisting him up and down, 452 00:29:49.359 --> 00:29:52.279 throwing him up in the air. I mean, that whole thing was 453 00:29:52.480 --> 00:29:59.079 just wild. There will there have been other big one for one drops. 454 00:29:59.119 --> 00:30:03.759 There will likely be more, you know, but there will never be one 455 00:30:03.880 --> 00:30:06.680 like the first one. There will never be one like that. It was. 456 00:30:07.039 --> 00:30:11.960 It was incredible. The whole thing was just absolutely wild. So Antonio 457 00:30:12.000 --> 00:30:18.160 Wes Fondiari wins that first big one for one drop another one. This one's 458 00:30:18.240 --> 00:30:22.359 kind of a I'm not sure anyone would would know about this. Maybe they 459 00:30:22.440 --> 00:30:25.480 do, maybe they don't, I don't know. But Matt Graham beating John 460 00:30:25.559 --> 00:30:30.279 Robert Balan two thousand and eight fifteen. Listen to this event fifteen hundred dollars 461 00:30:30.440 --> 00:30:37.920 limit hold them shootout, seventeen hour final day. I worked it alongside James 462 00:30:38.000 --> 00:30:45.480 quill Aka. Comping cards ended at seven thirty am seven. It was back 463 00:30:45.519 --> 00:30:48.119 then there's no hot stuff rule, there was no they play through. They 464 00:30:48.119 --> 00:30:52.720 didn't make the found table un till ten pm. They get to heads up 465 00:30:52.720 --> 00:30:57.119 play. Blond has an eight to one lead, blows it like it's just 466 00:30:57.359 --> 00:31:02.799 there's no one in the Amazon other than like these players, like a TD 467 00:31:03.400 --> 00:31:06.119 A couple of people on the round. Remember Chino Reem was like popping in 468 00:31:06.160 --> 00:31:07.599 and on the rail. I think he like came with some strippers. It 469 00:31:07.640 --> 00:31:14.519 was a whole thing. So so there was that blonde, like, you 470 00:31:14.519 --> 00:31:18.480 know, he blows the lead. He was devastated. Matt Graham comes all 471 00:31:18.480 --> 00:31:21.799 the way back wins it. So like then the next day we have that 472 00:31:21.960 --> 00:31:26.480 because we always used to have those predation And I'm like half asleep and Gary's 473 00:31:26.480 --> 00:31:29.799 like yelling at me. Our boss at the time. Gary Gates is like, 474 00:31:30.160 --> 00:31:32.480 you need to stay awake. What are you doing? And then and 475 00:31:32.519 --> 00:31:34.880 I had sent John Caldwell, who was in charge of the poker news team 476 00:31:34.880 --> 00:31:37.480 at the time. I had sent him a message saying like, hey, 477 00:31:37.480 --> 00:31:40.279 we just got done seven thirty you know, blah blah blah whatever, and 478 00:31:40.640 --> 00:31:41.759 he said, oh yeah, by the way, that they were working till 479 00:31:41.759 --> 00:31:45.680 seven thirty am, and then they ended up letting us go right away after 480 00:31:45.720 --> 00:31:48.319 the meeting. But that whole thing was just such a whirlwind, the ups 481 00:31:48.359 --> 00:31:53.119 and downs of Blond having the lead, losing it like he did the time, 482 00:31:53.160 --> 00:31:57.319 and it was like, it's one thing playing super long sessions and playing 483 00:31:57.400 --> 00:32:00.400 late and if you've played poker, you've probably the experiences at some point. 484 00:32:00.680 --> 00:32:06.279 But playing a massively long session when it's way past your bedtime the sun's coming 485 00:32:06.359 --> 00:32:09.480 up, doesn't matter where you are. But if you're winning, great adrenaline 486 00:32:09.519 --> 00:32:15.200 is pumping. You can play forever. When you're losing, it sucks like 487 00:32:15.240 --> 00:32:16.640 and when you're locked into a tournament, you can't just be like, all 488 00:32:16.720 --> 00:32:20.599 right, I'm cashing out, I'm going home like it probably sucks even more 489 00:32:20.680 --> 00:32:23.759 so. Can only feel for Jean Ribert Bealon there blowing that lead. So 490 00:32:23.799 --> 00:32:30.960 that one was crazy. Ryan Reese twenty thirteen w SIP main event. This 491 00:32:30.000 --> 00:32:34.400 one I got to give a shout out to Rich Ryan producer Rich Ryan, 492 00:32:34.440 --> 00:32:38.440 producer of the Poker Groat podcast, longtime friend of ours, because twenty twelve 493 00:32:39.079 --> 00:32:45.640 in October at the WSIP circuit stop in Hammond in Indiana, just outside Chicago, 494 00:32:46.279 --> 00:32:51.799 Ryan Reese comes second in that main event for like two hundred something thousand 495 00:32:51.839 --> 00:32:55.640 dollars. Rich aka Rich stradamis like, we watched this guy play, and 496 00:32:55.680 --> 00:32:59.559 I remember Rich coming to me and like, this guy is the next big 497 00:32:59.599 --> 00:33:01.000 thing in Poke. He's gonna win the WSP Man Event, Like he flat 498 00:33:01.000 --> 00:33:06.240 out said it to me and tournament director Charlie Serraci, like he's like this 499 00:33:06.279 --> 00:33:10.079 guy. Like everything Ryan did, like in the event was like kind of 500 00:33:10.160 --> 00:33:13.880 like when people talk about like Stu Hunger. It was like we were seeing 501 00:33:13.960 --> 00:33:15.799 our version of Stu Hunger in a way. Like it was just that everything 502 00:33:15.839 --> 00:33:20.759 he did worked. He always seemed to make the right decision, he always 503 00:33:20.759 --> 00:33:23.839 seemed to have the right read. Like it was just very weird to watch 504 00:33:23.880 --> 00:33:28.039 it happen. And then Rich is like, this guy's gonna win the Man 505 00:33:28.279 --> 00:33:30.799 and then he goes on to win the WSM Man Event. So that thing 506 00:33:30.839 --> 00:33:36.319 coming together was crazy. Another WASP main event winner the next year, Martin 507 00:33:36.440 --> 00:33:42.119 Jacobson. Now this one is bittersweets. I guess Martin great guy. Great 508 00:33:42.160 --> 00:33:45.559 to see him win. In twenty fourteen, when the Waspan event had a 509 00:33:45.640 --> 00:33:52.920 guarantee of ten million dollars for first place, Team Media drafted him in the 510 00:33:52.960 --> 00:33:57.519 twenty five K Fantasy. I think we got him for a dollar. I 511 00:33:57.559 --> 00:34:00.559 believe he played Day one A of the wap Man event finishes with the chip 512 00:34:00.640 --> 00:34:02.640 lead. He basically has the chip lead from start to finish. Then they 513 00:34:02.640 --> 00:34:06.519 get to ten handed. Now at the time, because they were doing the 514 00:34:06.559 --> 00:34:12.159 November nine, the twenty five K Fantasy rules locked in the finishing position of 515 00:34:12.159 --> 00:34:16.639 where you finished in chips for the final table, and Martin miss clicks. 516 00:34:16.880 --> 00:34:21.519 Remember with ace Jack, he meant to raise, he didn't raise. It 517 00:34:21.639 --> 00:34:23.320 ends up like messing up this whole situation. He loses this pot, he 518 00:34:23.360 --> 00:34:25.920 loses the chip lead, you know, he goes into the final table like 519 00:34:25.920 --> 00:34:30.239 something like six or whatever, So we don't get the points for him winning 520 00:34:30.559 --> 00:34:35.880 or finishing with the chip lead and ultimately would have allowed us to cash in 521 00:34:35.920 --> 00:34:38.800 twenty five K Fantasy that year. So that's kind of kind of messed up. 522 00:34:38.800 --> 00:34:42.679 Also, there was like the situation at the final table with the chips, 523 00:34:42.719 --> 00:34:45.199 where like I think he doubled up Felix Stevenson and he overpaid. So 524 00:34:45.280 --> 00:34:49.920 there was that whole situation, but nonetheless Martin still goes on to win it. 525 00:34:49.960 --> 00:34:52.159 I remember afterwards going up with him. I wrote down a team media 526 00:34:52.400 --> 00:34:54.199 on a piece of paper and I said, you got to hold this up 527 00:34:54.239 --> 00:34:58.280 with me for a photo because it's just a little little troll job that like 528 00:34:58.599 --> 00:35:01.679 we picked the wasb man in champion for twenty five K Fantasy didn't get credit 529 00:35:01.719 --> 00:35:06.559 for it and ultimately didn't cash. You know the best thing about mind Jacobson 530 00:35:06.599 --> 00:35:08.840 Winny, what's that we will you know now that I'm going to say this 531 00:35:08.880 --> 00:35:12.679 and put this out there, I bet you will change, but we will 532 00:35:12.719 --> 00:35:17.440 forever be immortalized on his winners man he can say out tough left, that 533 00:35:17.599 --> 00:35:22.880 is true. Jeff Madson two thousand and six, he won two tournaments that 534 00:35:23.039 --> 00:35:27.559 year. Now, that was like before I had started working in the street. 535 00:35:27.599 --> 00:35:30.599 I was very much a poker fan, watching it all the time, 536 00:35:30.639 --> 00:35:34.400 and like at the time he became he won his first bracelet and he became 537 00:35:34.440 --> 00:35:37.440 the youngest ever. He was like twenty one in something weeks, right, 538 00:35:37.480 --> 00:35:40.519 he beat Eric Frolick's record shout out Ephro, and then a couple of weeks 539 00:35:40.599 --> 00:35:44.559 later he wins his second bracelet. I think both of them were for like 540 00:35:44.559 --> 00:35:46.920 six hundred k or six hundred and fifty k big big Nolan Holden tournaments. 541 00:35:46.920 --> 00:35:50.880 He cashes a few more times, think he made another final table troop whatever, 542 00:35:51.119 --> 00:35:55.159 wins Player of the Year. But for me, a young person who 543 00:35:55.159 --> 00:35:59.679 had just gotten into poker in the recent years and like was very much into 544 00:35:59.679 --> 00:36:01.360 trying to play it and like the whole dream and all that sort of thing. 545 00:36:01.400 --> 00:36:05.360 I was like, if this twenty one year old can do it, 546 00:36:06.320 --> 00:36:07.440 I can do it, Like that's what it like. Kind of in a 547 00:36:07.440 --> 00:36:09.679 way, it was like, you know, it's not just like the Eric 548 00:36:09.760 --> 00:36:13.880 Sidels, the Johnny Chans, the Helmets, the Neigranis of the world, 549 00:36:14.079 --> 00:36:16.159 like kids can do it like this is in a way it was like a 550 00:36:16.199 --> 00:36:20.880 breakthrough, like you can be a good poker player. And like Jeff Madson 551 00:36:20.960 --> 00:36:24.760 was kind of like that first young gun out of absolutely nowhere to come in 552 00:36:24.880 --> 00:36:28.480 and do it, And I thought that that was just so cool. So 553 00:36:28.559 --> 00:36:35.880 that really resonated with me. Another one, uh Vitelli lunkin forty thousand dollars 554 00:36:35.960 --> 00:36:38.639 NOLM that hold them that like special event that happened, just the wild final 555 00:36:38.679 --> 00:36:44.000 table, Isaac Haxton saying like I don't ever use my one time, but 556 00:36:44.159 --> 00:36:45.880 one time, you know, you got Lex Veldaus at the final table, 557 00:36:45.960 --> 00:36:51.639 Greg Raimer at the final table. Just that event, that buying level at 558 00:36:51.639 --> 00:36:53.800 the time. Like I remember, I remember the Poker New Site crashed. 559 00:36:54.079 --> 00:36:57.840 It was a whole disaster because it kicked off the World Series of Poker. 560 00:36:57.960 --> 00:37:00.039 We like weren't ready for it from a volume perspective. It was a whole 561 00:37:00.079 --> 00:37:07.079 mess. But just like that buying happening on that scale, the players that 562 00:37:07.119 --> 00:37:09.039 it got, you know, and then Vitalia Lunkin going on to win it. 563 00:37:09.440 --> 00:37:15.039 I'll never forget that event. And then my last one here is chip 564 00:37:15.079 --> 00:37:19.880 Rees two thousand and six WSP fifty thousand dollars Horse Tournament, so the first 565 00:37:20.079 --> 00:37:22.079 time that this tournament was held. Of course, the fifty thousand dollars Horse 566 00:37:22.079 --> 00:37:27.760 Tournament has now evolved into the fifty thousand dollars Poker Players Championship, but chip 567 00:37:27.760 --> 00:37:31.239 Rees widely regarded as the best all around poker player in the world. The 568 00:37:31.280 --> 00:37:36.440 player that the trophy of the fifty k PPC is now named after the David 569 00:37:36.519 --> 00:37:39.960 Chipres Trophy. He wins the inaugural event, which is like, that's just 570 00:37:40.079 --> 00:37:43.840 very cool, right. I mean this was you know, before my time 571 00:37:43.880 --> 00:37:45.000 in terms of being out there, but I you know, I was aware 572 00:37:45.000 --> 00:37:47.159 of this event. I was aware of what it was supposed to be, 573 00:37:47.679 --> 00:37:52.639 and like the person that was supposed to win the first one won the first 574 00:37:52.639 --> 00:37:55.760 one, which was like crazy. You add in the fact that one of 575 00:37:55.840 --> 00:37:59.119 the longest, if not the longest. I don't know if the record still 576 00:37:59.159 --> 00:38:02.239 stands, but heads up against Andy Block took seven hours and ten minutes of 577 00:38:02.320 --> 00:38:05.760 heads up play. This is when they did didn't they do it? As 578 00:38:05.760 --> 00:38:09.239 the final table was Nolan HoldEm was that this year? That was the next 579 00:38:09.320 --> 00:38:13.960 year, the first televised one. But I mean this this event was crazy. 580 00:38:13.960 --> 00:38:17.360 Obviously just you know, massive names in this one, but just the 581 00:38:17.440 --> 00:38:22.800 idea of like the best all around player, the player that everyone talks about 582 00:38:22.920 --> 00:38:27.639 is the absolute best, who who largely focused on cash games for his career, 583 00:38:27.679 --> 00:38:30.800 you know, didn't bite that tournament bug that a lot of people had 584 00:38:30.840 --> 00:38:34.679 had gotten into. But chip Reese comes out, he wins the fifty k 585 00:38:34.800 --> 00:38:38.639 horse. That was certainly one of my favorites. I'll say honorable mention for 586 00:38:38.800 --> 00:38:45.719 me is Johnny Chan beating Eric Sidel in the WSP main event, just because 587 00:38:46.400 --> 00:38:50.800 it's the tournament that made it into Rounders and Rounders is my favorite movie. 588 00:38:50.800 --> 00:38:55.719 And like that moment is obviously remembered, it is iconicized within Rounders because of 589 00:38:55.760 --> 00:38:59.599 that. So like that win, even though I was obviously not anywhere near 590 00:38:59.639 --> 00:39:01.760 poker at the time, but like you know, it comes back when Rounders 591 00:39:01.920 --> 00:39:06.480 is released and getting all that popularity. So yeah, so those are those 592 00:39:06.480 --> 00:39:08.760 are my favorite moments. Those are Tim Tim's favorite moments. You know, 593 00:39:08.920 --> 00:39:12.920 a little bit of reminiscing. There are a lot of reminiscens missing there, 594 00:39:13.000 --> 00:39:15.920 some nostalgia. Hope it brought you guys back. If you guys have any 595 00:39:15.920 --> 00:39:21.559 favorite moments for for WSP wins, let us know. You Guys can email 596 00:39:21.639 --> 00:39:23.920 us of course podcast at pokergoa dot com. You can hit us up on 597 00:39:23.960 --> 00:39:29.000 social media. He's Tim under underscore Peters. That's a double underscore. Sorry, 598 00:39:30.079 --> 00:39:35.199 Tim underscore underscore Duckworth. My apologies, I'm blending us and I'm Donnie 599 00:39:35.239 --> 00:39:38.639 underscore Peters. We're gonna do some more fun stuff like this, just kind 600 00:39:38.639 --> 00:39:44.039 of getting, you know, revving up that engine. That's right. As 601 00:39:44.079 --> 00:39:46.880 we get into the World Series of Poker coming up, we're gonna do biggest 602 00:39:46.920 --> 00:39:52.519 what if moments in World Series of Poker history. We're gonna talk about the 603 00:39:52.559 --> 00:39:55.760 three storylines that we're most excited for to follow for this w s o P. 604 00:39:57.599 --> 00:39:59.559 Well, well, you know, to prepare for these ones, can 605 00:39:59.599 --> 00:40:00.719 I just w I mean you can do whatever you want. You look like 606 00:40:00.760 --> 00:40:04.519 an ass if you don't prepare. I mean I nailed my guest, I 607 00:40:04.639 --> 00:40:06.960 nailed it came with good ones. You know, you're like one of those 608 00:40:07.000 --> 00:40:08.679 guys who studies ten minutes before the examine gets an A and I don't know 609 00:40:08.719 --> 00:40:15.039 how because okay, I thought it was because you were Australian. Anyway, 610 00:40:15.280 --> 00:40:17.599 that's gonna do it for this podcast. Hopefully you guys enjoyed it. A 611 00:40:17.639 --> 00:40:22.639 little bit of a different twist there as we head into World Series of Poker 612 00:40:22.679 --> 00:40:24.199 season, but yeah, that's gonna be it, and we will talk to 613 00:40:24.239 --> 00:40:34.280 you guys soon. Jenny Express