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Hello, everyone, Welcome back to
a new episode of All the the Poker

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Go Podcast. My name is Donny
Peters. I'm joined by a man in

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a new hat, Tim Duckworth,
sporting that Denver Broncos orange. I don't

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really know why he should be proud
of his team, but it is new

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Christmas gift. It is. I'm
more proud of the quality of the beanie

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than the team that is on the
beanie, if that makes sense. Yeah,

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yeah, I can, I can. I can get behind that.

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I mean, you look like an
idiot, but whatever, Thank you,

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Matt. I appreciate the kind words. All right, not a whole ton

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of stuff, ton of stuff to
talk about today. It is Wednesday,

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December seventh, or we're gonna be
talking PGT stuff, last Chance and the

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championship. Tim and I will do
a little bit of an end of the

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year recap, which includes, you
know, some predictions, some forecasting,

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our favorite stuff from the year,
all all that, and then I guess

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we'll talk a family pot. We
haven't done it in a while. You

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know, we can hear about how
each other's Christmases were. I think I

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think I'm gonna have the same thought
as I did on a last year's family

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pot if I remember correctly, But
we'll get into that when the time comes

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First things first, Tim's baby or
baby's baby being the PGT Baby's being Last

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Chance and the championship one final series
left in the PGT season. That is

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the PGT Last Chance Series. The
first time we've ever done this. Tim's

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brainchild. I helped, but I'll
give Tim seventy five percent of the credit.

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I'll take twenty five percent of the
credit. I just hope that on

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the next meeting we have with the
team, he would stop saying I did

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this and I did that, and
says we did this and we did that.

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Anyway, because you have ideas,
and I always say Donnie's ideas.

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You know what's funny In the majority
of the idea, it's your right,

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I understand. But listen, I'll
say this. There are times when I

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go to you first with my ideas
because I consider you a very grounded,

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common sensical, intelligent individual, you
know, And I give my ideas to

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you because I respect your opinion and
I want you to tell me if I'm

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stupid or if it's a good idea. Okay, that's it's like me,

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it's a it's a vetting process.
I will also say that there are times

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when I tell you the idea and
then you just go say the idea correct

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I have? Yeah, I know, I mean, but whatever, it

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doesn't matter. As long as the
idea gets out there, it's fine.

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But you are usually my first like
point of contact to tell me if I'm

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crazy or not. So yeah,
anyway, back to the PGT Last Chance

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series. This series runs January twod
through seventh at the poker gro studio in

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Las Vegas. It's six one day, ten thousand dollars buy in poker tournaments.

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All final tables are going to be
live streamed on poker gro and the

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series is important because it's going to
determine a lot of different things for the

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PGT season, the PGT leaderboard and
then ultimately the PGT Championship. One thing

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that's going to determine is it's going
to determine the season long leaderboard winner.

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So the PGT season long leaderboard winner, player of the finish with the most

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points at the top of the leaderboard
is crowned the PGT Player of the Year.

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That player will also win a fifty
thousand dollars bonus. Right now,

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it's Isaac Haxton on top. I
think he's on top by like two hundred

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points, give or take. So
he's the favorite for sure. You know,

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Isaac's been crushing all this year,
done extremely well. He has a

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somewhat comfortable lead. You know,
it's it's not out of the realm of

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possibility that that someone can catch him. Chris Brewer would be the one that

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could, you know, is the
closest. He's in second place, but

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you know, Brewer could certainly perform. Well, he's had a hell of

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a year, hell of a season
himself, so he could. For me,

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it just really kind of comes down
to who plays the most between those

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two and we'll see. You know, Hackson hasn't always been someone to come

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play all the ten k events that
we have at the Poker Ro Studio,

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but you know, given his positioning
on the leaderboard, maybe he does so,

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so we'll see how that works.
That's that's the first thing that the

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PGT Last Chance is going to determine, is that PGT Player of the Year

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winner. The second thing that it's
going to be determined is it's gonna lock

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in the top forty of the leaderboard
and determine the starting chips for the players.

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So we've talked about it many times, but I will remind everyone the

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top forty players as ranked by the
PGT Leaderboard earn eligibility to compete in the

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season ending PGG Championship one million dollar
free role. And then, as Tim

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has installed within this leaderboard, your
starting chips equate to the points that you

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earned during the season. And what
is it It's one thousand points equal one

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chip or I can what the hell
it is points. Okay, yeah,

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one big blond got it, and
the minimum is going to be a hundred

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big blondes. So you know,
no one's gonna come in super short.

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What does what does Hackton have?
Like right now two and sixty has two

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hundred and sixty seven big blonds.
Yeah, so he's got a lead.

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You know, he's got a bigger
stack, of course, but it's not

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like he's coming in with a thousand
big lines and then somebody else comes in

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with one hundred. So it's pretty
fair and also rewards the players for how

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they do. So even if you're
kind of locked in, like let's say

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you're fifteenth, you're you know,
your twentieth, you know, there's a

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ninety nine percent chance you're not going
to fall outside the top forty. There's

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also a ninety nine percent chance you're
not going to win the lead award.

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That said, you can improve your
starting chip position in the PGT Championship,

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So you know, it's really important
for everyone that's within the top forty to

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come out and play. And also, you know, you get some reps

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in. You know a lot of
people probably had they're probably coming off the

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win series. Maybe they didn't play
the win they play dubis be Paradise,

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whatever it is. You know,
you got one or two weeks off where

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you haven't done anything other than stuff
your face like Tim and I have with

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all different kinds of food and whatnot. So coming in a little bit cold,

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you know, get some reps in
through these through these six tournaments,

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you know, also improve your standing, get ready to go for the PGT

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Championship. And then the third thing
that the PGT Last Chance Series is going

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to do is it's going to award
the final two dream seats to the PGT

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Championship. Tim, I'll let you
talk about exactly how that is going to

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work out. Well, pretty simple. Two highest ranked players on the PGT

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Last Chance lead aboard that do not
qualify for the top forty will win these

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final two dream seats. So you
may have never played an event in the

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studio, you may be on the
fringe, you just you both have equal

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chance to qualify for the PGT Championship. So basically, it's giving all our

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players an opportunity and also hopefully bringing
in some new blood that hey, million

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dollar free roll. I would like
to be a part of that. Let

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me see if I can run hot
for a few days. Yeah, I

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mean a couple people that kind of
stick out to me in that regard.

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Daniel Sepiel Chris Mormon, players who
have played in the Pokerro Studio before,

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played some of our events, but
aren't the highest volume grinders when it comes

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to the PGT, right, But
both of them just had really big scores

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coming off their success in the WPT
World Championship. Daniel Sepiel of course won

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the thing for you know, more
than five point two million dollars. Chris

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Mormon made the final table. So
maybe we see them come out compete in

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these series, you know, try
and make a run of winning one of

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those final two dream seeds, get
into that million dollar free roll and go

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from there. So really fun series. It's gonna be live streamed again.

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Like I said on Poker Go,
I think Remco and myself are doing the

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commentary very much looking forward to that
and how this thing all plays out as

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it pertains to you know, the
leaderboard and who gets into the top forty

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and who gets into the championship at
the end of the day, because that's

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what this is all about. Tim
and are gonna do some predictions you know,

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because it's always fun to do predictions
and see how well we can we

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can figure this stuff out. So, first things first, will Isaac Hackson

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maintain the top spot on the leaderboard
to become the PGT Player of the Year

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and win the fifty thousand dollars bonus? What do you think? Yes?

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I mean, yeah, I'm also
yes, It's it's such a big it's

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such a big lead. It's basically
going to be you're gonna have to win

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an event and do something else.
And that's just for Chris brul. So

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the fact that it's over like two
hundred points makes it, you know,

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pretty hard to catch. Yeah,
so I'm I'm totally with you. I

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mean, it's it's it's again,
it's boring to to just say yes and

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you know, not come in here
with some sort of like crazy hot take

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or or whatnot or bold prediction.
But I mean, as you mentioned,

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the only real contender, and it's
still a long shot, is is Chris

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Brewer. So Hackson is the big
favorite to to do it. You know,

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let's see what he does in terms
of like coming out to play and

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seeing if he wants to really solidify
his position. You know, he could

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just come out and like make the
final table at the first event or something

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and just be like all right,
like I did it. You know,

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I'm pretty much locked into the top
spot, so let's go. So we'll

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see how that plays out. But
it's you know, it's still gonna be

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interesting to follow along. I would
expect Brewer to be blasting all of it.

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So maybe, I mean, brew
has been hot this year, He's

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been playing extremely well, so we'll
see if you know, he can just

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just you know, make some noise
and really push that envelope. And then

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that's why it's Stephen Chidwick is in
third, but he's like four hundred points

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back or five hundred points something like
that. So Stephen Chidwick, you know,

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he's I mean, listen, shout
out to Steven Chidwick because he continues

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to just do it every single year. He's just one of the best ever

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in terms of tournaments. He's last
year's PGT Player of the Year. Now

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he's sitting third entering this Last Chance
series. I mean, if anyone can

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win like three events, it's probably
Stephen Chidwick. But you know, but

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still again that that is quite a
bit of a long shot. So Tim

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and I both think that, Yes, Isaac Hackston will be the PGT Player

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of the Year and win that fifty
thousand dollars bonus. All right, a

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little bit of a more fun exercise
here. Pick two players currently inside the

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top forty who won't finish inside the
top forty, and then if they don't,

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they're not going to qualify for the
PGG Championship. Who you got?

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I have two PLO players in Ben
Lamb currently goody six. We have the

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same players, and I have the
same players. It's it's okay. Atha

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Mars doesn't live in Vegas. I
have not really seen him play any too

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many no limit hold him events.
Obviously, Ben Lamb, he's run deep

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in the main event. He can
play hold him. But will he He

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doesn't really play our high rollers,
so I'm not sure if he's going to

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show up. But the advantage to
him is that he's obviously got a five

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place gap on forty first and he
lives in Vegas, so we may see

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him. But I wouldn't be surprised
if he just gambles and just hopes to

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make it in. Yeah, I
mean, it's it's tricky, you know.

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As you said again, my picks
are also Ben Lamb and Arthur Morris,

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you know, very similar sort of
thought process behind you. What I

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will say is I feel like I
feel like Arthur Morris cares more about it,

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So yes, I would agree with
that, so he might push to

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play hold him more like, even
if he doesn't live here, he lives

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in Texas, right, So I
mean he could make the trip for sure,

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you know. You know, I
think there's I don't know. I

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feel like there's a better chance that
Arthur Morris makes the trip from Texas and

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plays all these events, and then
Ben Lamb, who lives here, plays

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all the events. Now that doesn't
mean that they might play one or the

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other, but I don't know.
That said, you know, even if

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Arthur Morris does come, he makes
the trip, he's still got to put

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up results like that. It's not
just guaranteed. You come here and you

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gotta win, right, And there's
there's a lot of really good players behind

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him, like not too far off
on the on the top forty who are

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like gonna be out here, you
know, gonna be grinding, you know.

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Right behind him you have Jan's Urns, the Dutch player who you know

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we saw at the WPT World Championship. We know he's like being bugged by

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his friends to come out for this
sort of stuff, so we'll see if

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he comes. Gino Reim he's in
forty third. I would expect China Reim

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to be blasting everything. Notcho Barbaro
is probably a little bit more of a

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wild card, but he could be
there. I would expect Andrew Lucky Chewie

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Lichtenberger. He's in forty fifth place. I expect him Calapee to be there.

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I probably expect Dan Smith. I
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I mean it's gonna be it's gonna
be tricky, it's gonna be tight at

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the bottom of that leaderboard. So
Tim and I both have Ben Lamb and

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Arthur Morris as missing the top forty. Now we're gonna pick two players currently

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outside the top forty who will finish
inside the top forty and will qualify for

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the PGT Championship. Who you got? I got Chino Reem and I got

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Andrew Lucky Chewy Lichtenburger. Reem forty
third and twenty nine points. He's only

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twenty points from fortieth. Lucky Chewi
He's forty fifth. He is forty eight

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points out from fortieth, so let's
call it. I'm in cash for Chino,

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sixth place for Lucky Chewi. I
think those guys care. I know

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firsthand that they care. Depends if
Chino's in town. Maybe he's back in

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Florida, maybe he's I don't know, in Hawaiian on a holiday. Lucky

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Chewy, I feel like we could
count him paying every event on all in

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on this to try and qualify either
for the top forty or to win that

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dream seat. Yeah, but I
mean if they if they win the dream

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seat, then they're gonna have a
lot of points. They're probably gonna qualify

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for the top forty. Well,
it depends obviously on the results, but

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yeahah, I share one with you. I also have Andrew Littenberger. You

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know, I think he's playing extremely
well right now. I think is evidenced

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by his run at the WPG World
Championship. Ninety nine percent. Scherry's going

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to be there for all this sort
of stuff. I'm having talked to him,

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so you know, I expect him
to get in there. I'm also

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I think Jim Callipee, who's right
behind Lucky Chewie, he's forty, so

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chew he's forty six with one thousand
and one points, and then Jim Collipy

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is forty six, or sorry,
chew he's forty fifth, and then Jim

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Klopey's forty six with nine hundred and
eighty two points. I know you've talked

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to Jim a lot. I've talked
to him a bit as well. He

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cares as well. You know,
he's playing all the the PGT qualifying events

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that he can to try and get
into this free role. So I would

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very much expect him to be there. He has put up some decent results

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this season on the on the Poker
Tour, he won one event, He's

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got fourteen cashes. So I'm looking
at Jim Callipee to get into that top

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forty as well. All right,
give your two favorites to win the two

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dream seats that are being offered.
I mean, I should probably just double

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down and say Chino and Lucky Chewie, But for the sake of the content,

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I'm going to choose other people.
One you mentioned Jim Callipy, I'm

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going to go with, as you
said, nine hundred and eighty two points,

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a bit of a bigger gap.
He's gonna need a let's call it

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a podium finish to just overtake Arthur
Morris in fortieth And I am going to

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gamble and think Nacho Barbero is going
to be in town. He's gonna want

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to qualify for this free roll,
and he's going to put in some work

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and just fall short. But pick
up that dream, Saint. Okay.

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So I think you're looking too high
on the leaderboard, Oh okay, because

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I feel like I feel like the
leaderboard winner for this series is gonna have

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two hunderd points Soka. Therefore,
like I gotta, I gotta anyone that

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get like so doctor Barbaro for example, is like, what thirty five points

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off fortieth place, So he's just
gonna get into the top forty like if

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he gets two hundred points in my
opinion. So I had to look a

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bit lower. And then it gets
tricky because the lower you get, like

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one, they're lower for a reason, right, they probably don't put in

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the volume and all that sort of
stuff. And then if you're lower,

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do you do you care as much
like all that sort of stuff? So

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I looked a little bit lower.
The first name that popped out to me

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was Aramzobian eight hundred and sixteen points. But then I even thought with Aram,

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I was like, you know,
he could get two hundred and fifty

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points and then qualify for the top
four. So I went, I went

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even lower than that, if you
can believe it. So I had to

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go with my guy, Brian Kim, who's currently in eightieth place with six

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hundred and forty six points. You
and I both talked to him at the

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win said he's gonna said he's gonna
be here for the series. So you

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know, I know Brian's an extremely
good player and and you know is grinding

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the tournament scene. So I went
with him to do this. And then

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I went with Seth Davies. He's
he's one hundred and ninth on the leader

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board, He's got four hundred and
eighty nine points, so very very very

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likely not gonna make the top forty. That said, I could see Seth

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coming out playing all these events,
having a good run of it, and

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you know, winning one of those
two dream seats. So those are my

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two picks for this. I got
Brian Davies or sorry, Brian Kim and

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Seth Davies coming in for that one. So but listen, it's gonna be

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an interesting sweat, and you're gonna
have to be on top of the leader

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board because holy crap, there's a
lot, a lot of stuff that's gonna

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be going on throughout this whole thing. I guess just quickly, let's just

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touch on like the bottom of the
leaderboard. The people who well who do?

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Let me ask you first, what
do you think the cutoff is gonna

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be? Right now? The cutoff
if it were to end today is one

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thousand and forty eight points. That's
Arthur Morris, right, what do you

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think the cutoff is going to be
to get in? I have said since

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May fourteenth, at four pm Eastern
time, twelve hundred points is what you

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need to qualify and held pretty strong
on that, and it looks like I'm

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probably gonna be about around that.
Let me just quickly say that that if

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if it is twelve hundred, let's
say it's twelve hundred, then we're losing

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what eight players? Yeah, nine
players? I think one, two,

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three, four, nine. Nine
players are currently below the twelve hundred mark.

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Two players have twelve or sorry,
three players have twelve hundred exactly.

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That's Alexander Reared, Juan Massiras and
Toby Lewis right, had some big results

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at the World Series of Poker.
Of course they are twenty ninth, thirtieth

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and thirty first, or you know, tied for twenty nine. However,

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you want to look at that on
the leaderboard. So the players that have

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below twelve hundred but are in the
top forty right now, Orpin Cassatchi Cogloo,

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Jason Kuhn, Daniel Smilkovich, Daniel
Legran. You, that's a big

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one. Ben Lamb, Max Coleman, Adam Hendrix, Masashi Oya and Arthur

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Moore. So those players like this
is this is nutcut in time. Man

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like you like you, like you
gotta go. Like Daniel Legrand you is

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like he's been, He's played.
He's probably played every single PGT event,

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right, I mean like ninety five
percent. He has the most caches out

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of anyone this season. He's got
twenty four cashes. The only other person

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that's well, the closest person to
him would be there's two. There's you

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got, Chris Brewer's got twenty three. You have Sam Soiverll has twenty three

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as well. So they're close now
with Brewer and Sam Soverll. They've both

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won events. They've won two each. Nigranu hasn't won one, And to

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be honest, I can't really recall
any final tables that he's made. I

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mean, he's made, but like
I know, I know, I'm just

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saying that, Like it's been few
and far between for his for the very

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deep runs, it's been a lot
of like min cashing, right, and

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it's it's kind of the same thing, like he's he's kind of gotten out

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of the gates and all these tournaments, built some stacks, done well,

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and then the bubble breaks and it
kind of all just falls apart, and

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like that's just poker, right,
So what are you gonna do? I

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know he kind of feels that way
as well. He didn't really do too

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much down in the Bahamas for WISP
Paradise. Again, was building some stacks.

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If you guys watch watched his vlogs
from from the Bahamas, like Tim

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and I did, it was building
sacks, building stacks and then losing some

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ridiculous all in Like that's like how
it was every single time. So we'll

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see if that turns around for this
Last Chance series. Daniel cares about the

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PGT. He cares about the competition. He loves the whole like lead Award

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aspect of things, so I would
expect him to be out there firing every

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single one. So but he's gonna
need He's one of those guys where he's

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probably gonna need at least a result, maybe two, to get some points

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to like solidify his position. I
think it's it's you just gotta get.

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You gotta just overtake the guy ahead
of you. You gotta think that way.

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Regarding the twelve hundred, it's a
three way tie on twelve hundred points.

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And also josh Aria luckily in the
final event in Paradise, I think

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he finished six or seventh, got
to twelve hundred and one points. What

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is so important about that is obviously
he leaped over a bunch of people,

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especially that three way tie for twelve
hundred. So it's gonna come down to

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it. These guys are gonna need
a little bit of a boost. I've

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talked to Juan. He's not playing
any of the last chance. He's gambling,

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he's got family stuff, He's booked
a flight. I told him.

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He's like, tell me, if
I do you think I'm gonna make it,

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I go. I'll tell you what, I'm pretty sure twelve hundred going

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to be right on the cutoff.
If you're going to book a fly,

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please make sure it's refundable. And
he's like, yeah, I mean that's

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a little it's a little too close
for comfort for me. He has stuff

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on so he can't play. He's
scheduled to fly in on I think he

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said the seventh Alex I played next
to him in prime. I told him

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about it. Who knows if he's
showing up. Toby Lewis is probably sitting

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on a golf course right now,
not a single care in the world.

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But I think Toby might show up, but I'll text it. Yeah,

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being in Las Vegas as well,
like exactly, you know, like he

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can just he can just drive down
like he can he can do the whole

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thing that a lot of these guys
did during the PO series. They play

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golf in the morning and they come
to the studio, you know, like

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like that sort of thing. If
I go ahead, let me finish,

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if we keep going down orpen is
he going to fly back here to Vegas?

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Did he stay in Vegas? Off
to WPT Jason Kerne, we know

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he lives here. Ten thousand dollars
buyings. Not really his cup of tea,

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but hey, he is the defending
chair sampion. I expect him to

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maybe put in some work. Daniel
Smadjovic is extending his trip to play this.

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He's in. He wants to play. He wants to qualify Nigrano and

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the rest, Ben Lamb, Max
Coleman, Adam Hendrix, Masashi Arthur.

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I expect at least Max, Adam
and Masashi to play. We'll see about

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Ben and Arthur and Nigrano. You
get a roll out of bed, take

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that one hour commute from Lake Lake, Las Vegas, and put in some

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work. Yeah. I would expect
Coleman, Hendricks and Musashi Oya as well

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to play. I wouldn't have expected
oh Yah to play had he not had

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the result that he did in the
hundred k down in the Bahamas, winning

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that event, beating Jason Kuhn.
Right, so you know what I know

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he cares. I got forwarded an
email from his I don't know, I

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think he was manager that was emailed
to Aria trying to confirm the results of

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his points. There you go,
So he cares. Oh yeah, I'm

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saying, but he was he was
out of the running, Yes, yeah,

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he was. He was smashing retweet
and like on every tweet that mentioned

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the leaderboard and his name and he
knows you mentioned the other one that sticks

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out to me. I mean that's
Jason Kuhn, Like is he He's he's

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been. He's had a late surge
here. You know, he's had some

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big results during the Bahamas to come
into this stuff. You know, he

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also had a big result it didn't
count for PGT points, but still second

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place in the Alpha eight as part
of the WPT World Championship, second place

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to Renlan. Had a nice score
there. So Jason Kuhn, much like

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he did last year, closing out
the year with a lot of big scores.

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Now it's just gonna be you know, is is Jason kun going to

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show up for a ten K buying
or is he going to really just roll

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the dice and whatever? I think, you know, I think between us,

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I've already sent a message to Brent
Hanks being like, hey, can

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you just text him and be like, hey, man, you're the defending

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champ. Let's go like you know, I know ten K isn't necessarily your

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cup of tea these days, but
you know, let's make it happen,

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right, you know, it would
be great to have him back in there

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battling for this. And then there's
you know, there's not there's not much

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going on in this first week for
a lot of these high roller guys.

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There is some stuff going on,
but you know, for a lot of

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these guys that they would rather play
high rollers, and you know they I

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think they'd rather prefer playing. They
just spent a week with their family.

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They're sick of them for sure.
I mean, I'm play some high roller

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events as simple as that. This
is the perfect series. There's nothing on

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come play, Yeah, So it's
gonna be interesting for those ones. And

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then I mean we have to touch
on Daniel as well. We touched on

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him a little bit already, but
he's sitting in thirty fifth place. He's

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got seventeen points again, zero wins, but he has the most cases during

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the PGT season this year. He's
got he's got twenty four cashes, so

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you know, he just again hasn't
had the deep, deep runs. There's

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been a lot of mint cashes here
and there. You know, he's from

405
00:27:55,599 --> 00:27:59,359
PGT events. He's only cash for
one million, three hundred and thirty one

406
00:27:59,359 --> 00:28:03,599
thousand, dollars, So it's kind
of on the lower side of things for

407
00:28:03,680 --> 00:28:07,680
people within the top forty. So
we'll you know, we'll see Daniel Cares,

408
00:28:07,839 --> 00:28:11,200
he'll be there. We of course
would love to have a big name,

409
00:28:11,319 --> 00:28:17,319
arguably Poker's biggest name within the top
forty. But he's yeah, Seanperry,

410
00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:18,799
he's gonna have to do so,
he's gonna have to do some more.

411
00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:25,920
He's just gonna have to. Like, he's gonna need probably one cash

412
00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:29,640
if he gets one final table,
I think he's in, right. I

413
00:28:29,640 --> 00:28:33,440
think a lot of these guys is
literally one final table. Well yeah,

414
00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:34,839
but I mean that's hard, Like, I mean, these events are yeah,

415
00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:37,839
yeah, but like how many players
are we expecting? Are we expecting

416
00:28:37,920 --> 00:28:42,319
forty? You tell one, it's
gonna if that will matter the must not

417
00:28:42,799 --> 00:28:47,119
the making. These could be big, you know, with everything that's going

418
00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:49,279
on again, not a lot of
high roller stuff in this specific window,

419
00:28:49,559 --> 00:28:52,319
as you mentioned, I feel like
these guys are gonna be kind of itching

420
00:28:52,359 --> 00:28:56,279
to get back out there. You
know. There was a lot of buzz

421
00:28:56,319 --> 00:29:00,920
around Paradise, around the WPT stuff
at the wind like you know, yeah,

422
00:29:00,039 --> 00:29:03,960
but then it's like a week and
a half maybe two weeks off.

423
00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:06,799
You know, you're getting a little
stir crazy there. You want to get

424
00:29:06,799 --> 00:29:10,880
back out there kick off your year, So why not do this right And

425
00:29:11,559 --> 00:29:15,279
the added benefit of as you mentioned, people who aren't necessarily anywhere near the

426
00:29:15,279 --> 00:29:18,200
top forty could win into the million
dollar free role. So maybe that maybe

427
00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:22,640
that first event is like really big, right, because people kind of take

428
00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:25,799
their shots. They're like, hey, you know, I'm gonna I'm gonna

429
00:29:25,839 --> 00:29:27,359
take my shot if I make a
final table, make a deep run,

430
00:29:27,440 --> 00:29:30,039
maybe win the thing to start the
series, then I'm gonna, you know,

431
00:29:30,240 --> 00:29:33,279
try and parlay it into bigger stuff. So so we'll see. I

432
00:29:33,279 --> 00:29:37,160
mean, I'm excited for it.
I know you are as well. I

433
00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:38,759
think I think the players are,
you know, from talking to them.

434
00:29:40,079 --> 00:29:42,359
You've you've talked to a lot of
them and relayed the stuff to our team

435
00:29:42,359 --> 00:29:45,720
here, and it seems like a
lot of players are like, yeah,

436
00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:49,319
this is cool. So we'll see
how this PGT Last Chance Series goes,

437
00:29:49,559 --> 00:29:52,599
and then I'm guessing it's gonna be
a mainstay. Is kind of that last

438
00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:57,720
ditch effort to get into the PGT
Championship for you know, seasons in the

439
00:29:57,759 --> 00:30:04,519
future and then leading into that that
PGT Championship. So the PGT Championship is

440
00:30:04,559 --> 00:30:08,920
going to take place January ninth through
tenth at the Poker gro Studio live streaming

441
00:30:08,960 --> 00:30:15,759
on both days. I believe million
dollar free roll, five hundred thousand dollars

442
00:30:15,759 --> 00:30:19,359
first place prize. There's going to
be additional final table payouts as well.

443
00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:22,599
So unlike years pass where it's been
or at least last year it was a

444
00:30:22,599 --> 00:30:26,440
winner take all Jason Cohen won the
five hundred k winner take all prize,

445
00:30:27,039 --> 00:30:30,559
this time million dollars five hundre k
to first. There's going to be some

446
00:30:30,599 --> 00:30:36,279
other payouts in there. So really
really cool tournament, a lot of prize

447
00:30:36,279 --> 00:30:38,799
money up for grabs. Top forty
players, as we've been talking about already,

448
00:30:38,839 --> 00:30:42,119
are going to qualify. There might
be some ties at the bottom,

449
00:30:42,319 --> 00:30:45,519
and then if you're tied for fortieth
place. Let's say you're tired for fortieth

450
00:30:45,519 --> 00:30:48,799
place with these three guys that have
twelve hundred points. You know, if

451
00:30:48,799 --> 00:30:52,400
Tim thinks has to cutoff, Let's
just assume that that's fortieth place. All

452
00:30:52,440 --> 00:30:53,960
three guys get in. If you're
tied for fortieth, you're getting it,

453
00:30:55,119 --> 00:30:57,400
okay, So I'm kind of more
incentive to get in there and try and

454
00:30:57,400 --> 00:31:02,720
make it into that top forty.
There's also gonna be some select dream Sea

455
00:31:02,759 --> 00:31:07,160
winners we've got. We've got a
bunch already. We've of course have the

456
00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:08,839
two dream Sea winners that we don't
know yet those will be the final two.

457
00:31:10,720 --> 00:31:14,359
But there's some some select ones from
some sponsors. We ran some promotions

458
00:31:15,319 --> 00:31:19,519
through Poker Go through the annual subscribers. Run Good had one that they gave

459
00:31:19,559 --> 00:31:25,920
away to one of their ring winners. We had a one or two with

460
00:31:26,039 --> 00:31:30,240
gto Wizard that was given out.
So I don't know, maybe ten Dream

461
00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:32,960
Sea winners, like total is that? Is that the number? I don't

462
00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:36,519
even remember? Four? Are you
fourteen? I mean, well, okay,

463
00:31:36,519 --> 00:31:41,119
they all got to show up.
So if there's forty from the leader

464
00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:45,839
board and then there's fourteen, this
tournament's going to have fifty four players max.

465
00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:49,440
Unless there's ties on the leaderboard.
So still fifty four players shot at

466
00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:53,559
a five hundred k first place prize, million dollar prize pool. Seems pretty

467
00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:57,920
damn good, easy, Yeah,
I mean it's just it seems like a

468
00:31:57,920 --> 00:32:04,480
really good feel. So so yeah, well that's that's the that's the skinny

469
00:32:04,519 --> 00:32:07,599
on the BGT jam Ship. Uh
I mean, I guess quickly starting chips

470
00:32:07,599 --> 00:32:10,519
determined by the points earned during the
season, which we already talked about.

471
00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:15,160
Minimum starting stack hundred big blinds.
That includes dream seat winners. So,

472
00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:20,400
for example, the player that won
from the Run Good Poker Series, that

473
00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:22,359
person starts with the Hunter big blinds. Okay, so you know that's how

474
00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:27,640
that's all gonna work out. Really
excited for this event January ninth through tenth

475
00:32:27,640 --> 00:32:30,799
of the Poker Studio. Can't wait. Gonna be live streams, Gonna be

476
00:32:30,839 --> 00:32:35,440
a lot of fun, our season
ending event. So let's go all right,

477
00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:38,359
let's move on to our end of
year recap. Just gonna have some

478
00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:43,480
fun here, a little bit more
laid back. I put down a list

479
00:32:43,519 --> 00:32:45,440
of some of the stuff that Tim
and I are going to kind of run

480
00:32:45,480 --> 00:32:49,880
through. We're gonna give our three
favorite stories from the year, our three

481
00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:52,640
favorite events from the year, our
three favorite players from the year, and

482
00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:57,160
then three things we're looking forward to
in twenty twenty four. We're also going

483
00:32:57,240 --> 00:33:01,039
to talk about our yearly stacked.
Because we did it before, we got

484
00:33:01,079 --> 00:33:05,400
to do it again. Even though
the year's not over. With my stats

485
00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:07,640
at least might change at least a
tiny bit, because I'll place them online

486
00:33:07,640 --> 00:33:10,839
in these couple of days coming up. But for the most part they're pretty

487
00:33:10,839 --> 00:33:15,039
locked in. All right. First
things, First tim, what are your

488
00:33:15,039 --> 00:33:21,400
three favorite stories from twenty twenty three? My first story, number one,

489
00:33:21,759 --> 00:33:27,480
the goat, the legend Phil Hellmuth. Not only does he win his first

490
00:33:27,759 --> 00:33:31,920
owned and operate a PGT event at
the USPO with a straight flush, but

491
00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:39,799
he won his seventeenth record extending WSP
bracelet. Everyone knows my fondness for the

492
00:33:39,839 --> 00:33:49,319
great Phil Hellmuth and what a year
PGT victory WSP bracelet. That's my number

493
00:33:49,319 --> 00:33:52,480
one story. Yeah, and just
quickly on Phil Helmy. He is sitting

494
00:33:52,640 --> 00:33:58,480
nineteenth on the PGT lead Award thirteen
hundred and four points. He's actually tied

495
00:33:58,519 --> 00:34:02,359
with high Yeah, Isaac Kempton and
Leon stem All three of those players have

496
00:34:02,400 --> 00:34:07,159
thirteen hundred and four points. Phil
Hammuth has two wins on the PGT or

497
00:34:07,159 --> 00:34:13,320
in PGT qualifying events this season,
nine cashes one million, four and fifteen

498
00:34:13,360 --> 00:34:17,920
thousand dollars in prize money. One
of course. Yeah, so Phil Hammuth

499
00:34:19,239 --> 00:34:22,440
is likely going to get into the
championship. You know, I would hope

500
00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:27,280
that he would come out and play
some of these events. I think they

501
00:34:27,360 --> 00:34:29,960
kind of favor him, you know, one day events kind of a little

502
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:32,039
bit of a faster structure, Like
I feel like that's kind of in his

503
00:34:32,079 --> 00:34:37,960
wheelhouse for these these high roller type
stuff. So I would like to see

504
00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:40,480
him out there battling and try and
improve his standing. So that's a good

505
00:34:40,480 --> 00:34:45,880
one. That's a good story.
I will also say that, you know,

506
00:34:45,079 --> 00:34:51,719
I think going forward, like,
and I'm saying this from part of

507
00:34:51,760 --> 00:34:53,159
the production team, like, we
kind of got to do better to get

508
00:34:53,159 --> 00:34:57,159
the hellmuth bracelet wins all Like,
you know, you can't just have that,

509
00:34:57,599 --> 00:35:00,320
you know, happen out somewhere in
the forest and and you know,

510
00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:02,760
no one knows that the tree fell. So yeah, all right, My

511
00:35:02,960 --> 00:35:08,800
first story is I got the continued
comeback of Chino Reem. You know,

512
00:35:08,920 --> 00:35:13,480
he's been he's been out there,
you know, kind of got away from

513
00:35:13,519 --> 00:35:15,920
the game for a little bit really
just to work on himself. You know,

514
00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:19,920
he talks a lot, He's done
some interviews, He's talked a lot

515
00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:22,480
about people about you know, kind
of where he was at in terms of

516
00:35:22,519 --> 00:35:25,960
like dealing with substance abuse and all
that sort of stuff, but has really

517
00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:32,800
done a good job to turn his
life around, and with that has come

518
00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:38,079
a lot of newfound success within poker. Not that Chino hasn't had success before,

519
00:35:38,119 --> 00:35:42,840
because he's had plenty of it in
the poker world. But you know,

520
00:35:43,239 --> 00:35:45,079
I'm a sucker for a good comeback
story, and this is one of

521
00:35:45,159 --> 00:35:47,880
them. So the continued comeback of
Chino Reem. We'll see if he can

522
00:35:47,920 --> 00:35:52,519
continue that comeback to get into the
top forty here of the PGT lead aboard

523
00:35:52,599 --> 00:35:57,199
and and go on to uh,
you know, make the PGT Championship event.

524
00:35:57,280 --> 00:35:59,880
But you know, so far,
so good, and sort of this

525
00:36:00,039 --> 00:36:04,400
rebirth of Cheina Reem. I've always
said it. My twenty five K Fantasy

526
00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:07,119
partner Matt Clark agrees with me.
We've always said it in terms of like

527
00:36:08,159 --> 00:36:14,400
major like ten thousand dollars buy in
main event tournament players. China Riem is

528
00:36:14,440 --> 00:36:16,760
like one of the ghats, right, Like he's just he just performs and

529
00:36:16,840 --> 00:36:24,079
performs and performs every single time.
So that's my that's my first favorite story

530
00:36:24,159 --> 00:36:29,960
of twenty twenty three. What's your
second? Second one? Is? Sorry?

531
00:36:30,320 --> 00:36:36,960
Eric, saidel Now in a full
way tie for ten WSP Bracelets with

532
00:36:37,320 --> 00:36:43,440
Johnny Chan, Phil Ivey, and
the Light Doyle Brunson. I don't think

533
00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:47,039
anyone has said a bad word about
Eric Sidell in his entire career. He

534
00:36:47,199 --> 00:36:55,199
is just complete professional, completely loved
by I think players and media. Surprising

535
00:36:55,239 --> 00:36:59,599
for Eric. He won four bracelets
in the nineties, four in the two

536
00:36:59,639 --> 00:37:05,280
thousand, then had something like a
fourteen year gap until he won an online

537
00:37:05,320 --> 00:37:10,159
one in twenty twenty one, I
think, and then wins his tenth this

538
00:37:10,239 --> 00:37:16,639
year. Now I think it's I
guess between him and Phil Ivy to see

539
00:37:16,679 --> 00:37:22,519
who will you know, ascend to
be second old time by themselves. My

540
00:37:22,679 --> 00:37:27,760
bet is on side L. Yeah, I thought that was pretty cool.

541
00:37:27,920 --> 00:37:30,400
You're betting on Sidell. Yeah,
of course I'm betting on Do you want

542
00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:35,159
to know? Okay, I'll tell
you why. Sidel is probably going to

543
00:37:35,199 --> 00:37:42,679
play Vegas, Europe, Paradise,
Asia, Pacific, wherever WSP takes us.

544
00:37:42,920 --> 00:37:46,800
He also plays all the online events
while Phil maybe rolls out of bed

545
00:37:46,880 --> 00:37:51,519
for a ten K. He plays
like twelve events during the World Series.

546
00:37:51,559 --> 00:37:57,159
So that guy's dead to me,
removing him from my rushmore, he's gone.

547
00:37:57,360 --> 00:38:00,559
I think I gotta go with Ivy
just crazy. I think, just

548
00:38:00,599 --> 00:38:04,840
based on where I view them skill
wise, performance wise, the events that

549
00:38:04,880 --> 00:38:07,159
Ivy plays, I think he can
he has a better chance of winning some

550
00:38:07,199 --> 00:38:13,440
of these than Eric motivation. Yeah
sure, I mean Eric Sidel doesn't put

551
00:38:13,480 --> 00:38:15,599
in the biggest volume these days either. I know he travels to some stuff,

552
00:38:15,599 --> 00:38:23,559
but it's not like he's trumps Philip
Ivs. Eric Saidell another another player

553
00:38:24,079 --> 00:38:29,599
in the top forty of the PGT
leader wards, sitting eleventh, fourteen and

554
00:38:29,599 --> 00:38:32,480
seventy four points. He's got one
win in a PGT qualify and he's got

555
00:38:32,480 --> 00:38:37,480
eleven cashes just shive two point five
million dollars in earning. So we should

556
00:38:37,719 --> 00:38:45,800
very much see Eric Sidell in the
PGT Championship event. My second favorite story

557
00:38:45,199 --> 00:38:49,320
is kind of in the same vein
as as Tim's second favorite one. I

558
00:38:49,320 --> 00:38:52,719
got the WASB main event topping ten
thousand entries for the first time ever.

559
00:38:53,039 --> 00:39:00,519
I put in parentheses in my notes
live poker because I think that's good evidence

560
00:39:00,559 --> 00:39:05,639
of of where live poker is.
I think live poker is in a great

561
00:39:05,719 --> 00:39:10,000
place, you know, coming out
of an enormous twenty twenty three I would

562
00:39:10,039 --> 00:39:15,800
actually like if I mean, I
don't want to do this, So I'm

563
00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:17,920
going to ask someone else to do
this. I'm going to make a public

564
00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:24,360
request, like every year handed mobs
should put out stats on live poker,

565
00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:30,280
like live poker grew x percent or
it didn't grow. You know we had

566
00:39:30,559 --> 00:39:32,400
you know of the of the entries
in our database. You know we had

567
00:39:32,440 --> 00:39:35,719
this many. You know, this
is where live Poker's at, this is

568
00:39:35,719 --> 00:39:37,880
where it's not, this is the
s B, this is where it was

569
00:39:37,960 --> 00:39:40,360
last year. This is where the
World Poker Tour is. Like stuff like

570
00:39:40,360 --> 00:39:43,400
that. I think that would be
cool. You know, that'd be nice,

571
00:39:43,800 --> 00:39:46,159
a nice piece of content for the
hend and mob to put out there,

572
00:39:46,199 --> 00:39:49,320
to to lean on all the stats
that they have. I have no

573
00:39:49,400 --> 00:39:53,000
idea how hard that would be to
get from from their system. If it's

574
00:39:53,039 --> 00:39:55,719
easy, it'd be great to have. If it's not easy, I would

575
00:39:55,760 --> 00:39:58,800
love to have it. But I
understand if you're not going to do it,

576
00:39:59,400 --> 00:40:01,800
so you I get I get it. But anyway, w SPE main

577
00:40:01,840 --> 00:40:07,679
event topping ten thousand entries for the
first time ever. I mean I I

578
00:40:07,760 --> 00:40:12,519
have high hopes for twenty twenty four. I don't know where it's gonna go,

579
00:40:12,559 --> 00:40:16,440
how high it's gonna go. I
think they're gonna set another record.

580
00:40:16,639 --> 00:40:21,519
You know, it was what ten
thy forty three this year, so I

581
00:40:21,599 --> 00:40:25,679
think they're gonna get up over that
number next year. And it's just I

582
00:40:25,679 --> 00:40:30,280
mean, it really is incredible.
I mean, more than ten thousand entries

583
00:40:30,320 --> 00:40:34,280
and a ten thousand dollars buy and
freeze out. I mean just wild,

584
00:40:34,760 --> 00:40:38,920
absolutely wild. So yeah, I'm
I'm that's that's my favorite story. You

585
00:40:38,920 --> 00:40:42,559
know, it was it was crazy
for it to happen. I'm happy that

586
00:40:42,599 --> 00:40:45,480
it happened. You know, not
only did it smash that that two thousand

587
00:40:45,480 --> 00:40:47,039
and six record of eight thousand,
seven hundred and seventy three, you know,

588
00:40:47,079 --> 00:40:50,880
it blew it out of the water
and just went way over ten thousand.

589
00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:54,079
So the was AP is extremely healthy. Wa spe main event is extremely

590
00:40:54,119 --> 00:40:59,239
healthy, and in live poker in
general is very very healthy. Entering twenty

591
00:40:59,360 --> 00:41:02,639
twenty four, Third story, Third
favorite story for you? What do you

592
00:41:02,679 --> 00:41:08,199
got? I This will kind of
could be the fall into the next question.

593
00:41:08,360 --> 00:41:14,599
It also is linked to our last
discussion point, but the return of

594
00:41:14,639 --> 00:41:17,920
the NAPT to the US market,
return and Pocus Stars to the US market

595
00:41:17,960 --> 00:41:24,239
in a big way. Obviously we
both played it. We were there we

596
00:41:24,360 --> 00:41:29,960
enjoyed ourselves regardless of how much money
we lost. But it's good to see

597
00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:37,639
them return. It's also good to
see competition in that domestic market. Obviously,

598
00:41:37,639 --> 00:41:43,000
we're not sure what their price point
will be going forward, but I'm

599
00:41:43,039 --> 00:41:46,960
just team competition for those midstakes price
points. I think it's good for the

600
00:41:47,559 --> 00:41:53,639
industry. It's good for the ecosystem. It's good for giving players choice opportunities

601
00:41:53,679 --> 00:41:58,519
to play where they want when they
wont so. Yeah, returning the Return

602
00:41:58,559 --> 00:42:04,079
of the napt is my my third
favorite story for the year. Couldn't quite

603
00:42:04,119 --> 00:42:06,760
get there for me. I mean
I thought about it, but you know

604
00:42:06,760 --> 00:42:08,000
how I feel. Yeah, I
feel like it should be a five K,

605
00:42:08,199 --> 00:42:12,039
like they should have mirrored the EPT
a little bit better. I think

606
00:42:12,079 --> 00:42:14,719
we just got we have to give
them a little little bit of room.

607
00:42:14,880 --> 00:42:17,280
Let's see what happens. Given any
I'm not giving any room to what I

608
00:42:17,360 --> 00:42:22,440
considered, you know, like a
top three brand in poker. You know

609
00:42:22,519 --> 00:42:25,360
you don't get no room. You
know, it is no all right?

610
00:42:25,440 --> 00:42:30,079
My third one actually thought that we
might share this one, but we don't,

611
00:42:30,480 --> 00:42:32,199
which is good to have a lot
of differentiation here. I got Game

612
00:42:32,239 --> 00:42:37,199
of gold Man. I mean Oh, it was my alternate. Like it's

613
00:42:37,280 --> 00:42:39,599
just I know, there's we've we
talked about it a lot, and like

614
00:42:39,639 --> 00:42:45,400
there's a lot of a lot of
improvements that that we would make with things,

615
00:42:45,440 --> 00:42:49,159
you know, but they're kind of
small improvements, you know. Overall,

616
00:42:49,639 --> 00:42:52,719
I thought the product the Game of
Gold show was was very good.

617
00:42:52,559 --> 00:42:59,159
I thought it certainly paved the way
for this type of content having an avenue

618
00:42:59,159 --> 00:43:04,199
within poker, you know, to
be successful. I'm excited for them running

619
00:43:04,199 --> 00:43:07,920
it back with season two and seeing
where they take the show. So yeah,

620
00:43:08,079 --> 00:43:12,119
I thought it was very cool to
see that sort of content. You

621
00:43:12,119 --> 00:43:15,400
know, I listen, I'll be
the first to tell you that ninety eight

622
00:43:15,400 --> 00:43:19,159
percent of people out there within poker, they only want to watch poker,

623
00:43:19,400 --> 00:43:22,239
like that's what they want. But
this, you know, made me think

624
00:43:22,360 --> 00:43:27,320
otherwise that said, I wouldn't say
that, you know, every sort of

625
00:43:27,400 --> 00:43:31,360
like operator or content producer like Poker
Goth, etcetera, should go out there

626
00:43:31,360 --> 00:43:36,800
and like make some sort of survival
reality poker show because I don't think that

627
00:43:36,880 --> 00:43:40,000
there's an appetite for too much of
it. I think one within the industry

628
00:43:40,039 --> 00:43:44,920
is good. I'm happy that GG
Poker captured that with Game of Gold.

629
00:43:45,039 --> 00:43:49,360
I thought it was a lot of
fun to watch, you know, you

630
00:43:49,400 --> 00:43:52,840
and I talked about it several times. We watched every single episode pretty much

631
00:43:52,840 --> 00:43:55,559
the day that they came out.
So so yeah, I'm ready to see

632
00:43:55,599 --> 00:44:00,320
what happens with with Game of Gold
in the future. If GG Poker wants

633
00:44:00,360 --> 00:44:02,639
to give you know you or I
a call, I'm sure we could help

634
00:44:02,679 --> 00:44:06,679
them out, you know, for
a consultation fee, you know, but

635
00:44:06,679 --> 00:44:10,199
but it'll be an affordable one.
But but yeah, Game of Gold was

636
00:44:10,199 --> 00:44:15,679
was a very cool, a bit
of a a you know, a new

637
00:44:15,760 --> 00:44:20,719
take on poker content that still did
involve some poker play throughout. So yeah,

638
00:44:20,719 --> 00:44:22,400
a lot of fun. And if
you guys are out there, you

639
00:44:22,400 --> 00:44:25,800
know, Kaitlyn Kameski put out a
little funny video on social media like reenacting

640
00:44:25,840 --> 00:44:30,079
all the all the Game of Gold
characters. It's just incredible comedy. So

641
00:44:30,519 --> 00:44:36,199
shout out to Kaitln for that.
So those are our three favorite stories of

642
00:44:36,719 --> 00:44:39,840
twenty twenty three. You'll notice I
call them favorite stories because not necessarily the

643
00:44:39,880 --> 00:44:44,159
biggest, but you know, they're
they're the stories that stuck out to Tim

644
00:44:44,199 --> 00:44:47,599
and I the most. All Right, three favorite events from twenty twenty three,

645
00:44:47,599 --> 00:44:51,159
and I put here in our notes
that it can be from working,

646
00:44:51,239 --> 00:44:53,119
playing, or watching, so kind
of, however you want to tackle this

647
00:44:53,159 --> 00:44:57,519
one, you went first, and
the last one I'll go first. Here.

648
00:44:58,199 --> 00:45:01,960
I got the WPT World Championship is
is number one. These aren't any

649
00:45:01,960 --> 00:45:06,039
particular order for me. I just
wrote them down, I probably I think

650
00:45:06,039 --> 00:45:07,559
I wrote them down and then I
thought about reordering them later, but I

651
00:45:07,599 --> 00:45:12,239
never went back and reordered them.
So whatever. So you know, for

652
00:45:12,320 --> 00:45:14,719
all you people out there, don't
worry about the order on these. But

653
00:45:14,960 --> 00:45:20,360
WPG World Championship, you know,
is up there for me. I mean

654
00:45:20,400 --> 00:45:23,039
it's it's up there for me kind
of in all three aspects, working,

655
00:45:23,079 --> 00:45:27,119
playing, and watching. You know, had the opportunity to play again this

656
00:45:27,199 --> 00:45:30,599
year. Had a lot of fun
playing it. You know. I love

657
00:45:30,679 --> 00:45:35,440
playing at the WIN. It's my
go to place to play poker. Love

658
00:45:35,519 --> 00:45:38,039
the tournaments that they do there.
I'm a really big fan of the WPT

659
00:45:38,239 --> 00:45:42,920
brand. I was before I spent
some time working with them. I was

660
00:45:43,039 --> 00:45:45,519
during my time working with them.
I still am now. Of course.

661
00:45:45,800 --> 00:45:51,840
You know, it's great to have
the price points that they did, the

662
00:45:51,880 --> 00:45:53,679
guarantees that they did, the field
sizes that they did. All that sort

663
00:45:53,719 --> 00:46:00,239
of stuff was was incredible from a
player perspective, you know, into terms

664
00:46:00,280 --> 00:46:04,719
of working like like industry wise.
I love that event. I love that

665
00:46:04,760 --> 00:46:07,280
it's become as big as it has. I know they did miss by about

666
00:46:07,320 --> 00:46:10,559
two and a half million on the
forty million guarantee, but I thought they

667
00:46:10,559 --> 00:46:15,639
took it on the chin extremely well, you know, carried themselves extremely well

668
00:46:15,639 --> 00:46:19,440
throughout, and I'm very excited to
see what they run it back with next

669
00:46:19,519 --> 00:46:22,719
year. And then listen from watching
the event, the final table was,

670
00:46:23,719 --> 00:46:28,440
I mean, maybe the best final
table I've ever watched when when you consider

671
00:46:28,800 --> 00:46:30,719
all things. I know we talked
about this on the last episode, but

672
00:46:30,719 --> 00:46:35,320
I'm just gonna emphasize it once again, is that it was. It was

673
00:46:35,480 --> 00:46:39,400
just an absolutely incredible watch if you
are a poker nerd like I am.

674
00:46:39,480 --> 00:46:44,679
I mean, it was, it
was tremendous. The action was you know,

675
00:46:44,800 --> 00:46:46,639
it never seemed like there was like
a really long time. You know,

676
00:46:46,679 --> 00:46:50,159
you watch some of these final tables
and sometimes you'll go like a half

677
00:46:50,199 --> 00:46:52,960
hour and like nothing happens. Nothing. I mean this on when it seemed

678
00:46:52,960 --> 00:46:58,000
like something was always happening. You
know, the play was super high level.

679
00:46:58,039 --> 00:47:00,840
There was a lot of exciting moments. Obviously, production value was extremely

680
00:47:00,840 --> 00:47:02,840
good with the World Poker Tour.
So so yeah, that's a that's my

681
00:47:04,000 --> 00:47:07,639
first favorite event. Again, no
particular order, but WPT World Championship for

682
00:47:07,679 --> 00:47:15,199
me, What do you got Mine
is there's a word in the English language

683
00:47:15,239 --> 00:47:22,480
that I cannot think of right now. But my favorite event was WSP Paradise.

684
00:47:22,280 --> 00:47:30,719
And the reason it was my favorite
event is because it created. It

685
00:47:30,760 --> 00:47:35,440
created a lot of hate, created
some uproar, it was successful. Yeah,

686
00:47:35,480 --> 00:47:38,360
you just want to watch the f
and world burn me clearly, clearly,

687
00:47:39,559 --> 00:47:43,000
I like, Okay, I'll tell
you what I like. You would

688
00:47:43,000 --> 00:47:45,239
have a different you would have a
different take on this had you ever been

689
00:47:45,280 --> 00:47:47,400
to Atlantis. True, I know, but I know a lot of a

690
00:47:47,440 --> 00:47:51,599
lot about it, and I've heard
bad things. But I like the fact

691
00:47:51,679 --> 00:47:55,320
that w SP expanded. I didn't
like that they went to Atlantis, you

692
00:47:55,360 --> 00:47:59,840
know, I didn't like the dates
they chose. I like their schedule.

693
00:48:00,360 --> 00:48:05,599
You know, they streamed a lot. I like that the WSP plus app

694
00:48:05,840 --> 00:48:12,280
great. Lack of live reporting on
day ones of big buying events not good.

695
00:48:12,920 --> 00:48:15,760
So what I mean is that a
lot of people were talking about it.

696
00:48:15,880 --> 00:48:20,199
It had a lot of pros,
had a lot of cons. But

697
00:48:21,119 --> 00:48:24,199
like I said, I think it's
good to have some competition. I think

698
00:48:24,199 --> 00:48:29,880
it's good to have more options for
players. Obviously I didn't like where it

699
00:48:30,039 --> 00:48:31,960
was. We've discussed this a lot. Hey, just move it left or

700
00:48:32,000 --> 00:48:36,880
right of the win World Championship,
you'd be fine. But you know,

701
00:48:37,039 --> 00:48:40,920
I'm a soccer for the WSP.
I am a sucker for bracelets and giving

702
00:48:40,920 --> 00:48:45,000
out a million of them. So
it was my favorite event. Not because

703
00:48:45,000 --> 00:48:50,800
it was my favorite, but because
of what it created amongst media, amongst

704
00:48:50,800 --> 00:48:52,960
the industry, amongst the players.
If that kind of makes sense. Yeah,

705
00:48:53,039 --> 00:48:57,480
no, that makes sense. I
mean, listen, I'm a soccer

706
00:48:57,480 --> 00:49:00,079
for the WACAP as well. That's
why my second one is the main event.

707
00:49:00,880 --> 00:49:04,880
I mean I said it earlier when
I talked about my favorite stories.

708
00:49:04,920 --> 00:49:07,039
You know, wspam main event topping
ten thousand entries. I mean, come

709
00:49:07,079 --> 00:49:13,880
on, I mean, come on, if listen, I'm I can't get

710
00:49:13,920 --> 00:49:20,440
behind these poker awards anymore. I
just can't do it. But but if

711
00:49:20,440 --> 00:49:23,840
this doesn't win Event of the Year
next year, I mean I'm gonna I

712
00:49:23,920 --> 00:49:28,480
might throw a fit like I might. I might just like go crazy,

713
00:49:28,639 --> 00:49:31,000
like, I mean, come on, people, ten thousand entries in a

714
00:49:31,039 --> 00:49:36,760
freeze out the WSOP main events,
I mean, come on, shattered the

715
00:49:36,840 --> 00:49:40,800
record, you know, listen.
I mean this is like it's the bucket

716
00:49:40,800 --> 00:49:44,719
list event, you know, like
it's the event you like, if you're

717
00:49:44,719 --> 00:49:47,159
a poker player, just do whatever
you can to save ten k for a

718
00:49:47,239 --> 00:49:51,519
year and come out and fire on
this one, like it's the event.

719
00:49:52,239 --> 00:49:54,159
We saw a lot of excitement from
it from from watching it play out.

720
00:49:54,280 --> 00:50:00,519
You know, of course, the
crazy hand with the jacks for Daniel Wyman

721
00:50:00,559 --> 00:50:04,199
when he hit the jack on the
turn to win that three way all in,

722
00:50:04,320 --> 00:50:06,760
you know, then he goes on
to win the whole thing. So

723
00:50:06,840 --> 00:50:09,360
yeah, I mean there's nothing like
the WSP Main Event in poker. There's

724
00:50:09,400 --> 00:50:15,280
there's there's nothing like it in the
world there There really isn't. So yeah,

725
00:50:15,320 --> 00:50:19,280
it's it's my If we do this
every single year, our top three

726
00:50:19,320 --> 00:50:22,400
favorite events, it'll probably take a
lot for the WSP Main Event to not

727
00:50:22,480 --> 00:50:24,320
be on my list, Like they
would have to entirely screw the thing up,

728
00:50:24,360 --> 00:50:29,400
which you know, at this point
is is probably impossible. It's just

729
00:50:30,119 --> 00:50:32,519
a great tournament. It really is, you know, it's it's the dream

730
00:50:32,559 --> 00:50:36,480
for poker, you know, so
yeah, it's for sure on my list.

731
00:50:37,800 --> 00:50:42,119
Yeah, I agree there with the
whole favorite best Event. It has

732
00:50:42,199 --> 00:50:45,559
to always win. So when it
comes to you was unless unless it unless

733
00:50:45,559 --> 00:50:49,760
it falls off right, Like it's
just like but if they keep increasing every

734
00:50:49,760 --> 00:50:52,679
single year, like like this is
this is the event, you know,

735
00:50:52,920 --> 00:50:55,599
this is the event, and it's
to that extent, like that's why it's

736
00:50:55,679 --> 00:51:00,679
kind of a weird award to have
because this should be the one, you

737
00:51:00,719 --> 00:51:04,679
know, like it's yeah, so
so it's it's kind of it's kind of

738
00:51:04,719 --> 00:51:09,079
tricky. I actually met with Eric
from hand Them Up and I made a

739
00:51:09,119 --> 00:51:14,920
suggestion for an award and bringing or
I think you said that'd be bringing it

740
00:51:14,960 --> 00:51:16,679
back. I think we've done it
before. But like you basically have an

741
00:51:16,719 --> 00:51:25,119
industry award for like new events like
innovation, because you know, obviously we're

742
00:51:25,159 --> 00:51:29,360
doing new stuff, other people are
doing new stuff. That's never gonna win

743
00:51:29,519 --> 00:51:32,719
Best Event, but it should still
get recognized in some way and that leads.

744
00:51:32,840 --> 00:51:37,760
I would I would even I would
even would, I would be fine

745
00:51:37,760 --> 00:51:43,400
with it with a with a change
to the name of that award to favorite

746
00:51:43,400 --> 00:51:45,599
event of the year, meaning people
can vote for their favorite. That makes

747
00:51:45,840 --> 00:51:52,039
that's different than best because to me, the best event is the is the

748
00:51:52,079 --> 00:51:55,239
biggest event that wins the most money, that draws the most people in,

749
00:51:55,440 --> 00:51:59,599
and that's the World Tas of Poker
Main Event every single year. I'm sorry,

750
00:51:59,719 --> 00:52:02,000
it just is, you know,
and listen, I know we obviously

751
00:52:02,039 --> 00:52:07,800
have, you know, our complaints
about the w SP and whatever at times,

752
00:52:07,239 --> 00:52:12,920
that event is still run pretty damn
well, especially given the freaking size

753
00:52:12,920 --> 00:52:15,840
of the stupid thing. Like,
I mean, that's not easy, and

754
00:52:15,880 --> 00:52:19,880
they do it and they get it
done and it flows pretty damn smooth,

755
00:52:20,239 --> 00:52:23,519
right, Like, so all things
considered, that's still the best event for

756
00:52:23,599 --> 00:52:27,199
me. It just is, you
know, you know, for me,

757
00:52:27,519 --> 00:52:30,960
would it be my favorite event?
I mean maybe, but I also don't

758
00:52:30,960 --> 00:52:32,880
necessarily know. I've you know,
there are a lot of other great events.

759
00:52:32,880 --> 00:52:36,840
Maybe your favorite event is the NAPT
main event. Maybe mine's the WPT

760
00:52:36,960 --> 00:52:38,840
World Change. You know, I
don't know, but like favorite event I

761
00:52:38,840 --> 00:52:43,679
think is better in line with like
what they're trying to achieve from the voting

762
00:52:43,719 --> 00:52:49,920
process of that award. Yeah,
my second favorite event of the year was

763
00:52:50,679 --> 00:52:53,320
the one we, with the help
of players, put together and that was

764
00:52:53,360 --> 00:53:00,400
the super high Rollaball one hundred k
PLO, biggest buy and PLO event in

765
00:53:00,440 --> 00:53:06,679
the history of poker to all of
our knowledge. Got a pretty good turnout

766
00:53:06,679 --> 00:53:07,599
in my opinion. I know a
lot of people were like, oh,

767
00:53:07,599 --> 00:53:12,480
it's gonna get sixty or one hundred. I was pretty confident on forty and

768
00:53:12,519 --> 00:53:16,360
I got thirty eight, which was
won by Jared Blesnick. Obviously we had

769
00:53:16,400 --> 00:53:20,519
to do some schedule moves. We
probably could have got a few more players,

770
00:53:21,000 --> 00:53:25,840
but regardless, it's what the players
wanted. I think it's what the

771
00:53:25,840 --> 00:53:30,599
fans of PLO wanted, and it
was kind of cool to to run that

772
00:53:30,679 --> 00:53:36,719
inaugural buy in and that inural event
in the studio. Yeah, that was

773
00:53:36,760 --> 00:53:39,199
a That was a very cool event. You know, I really liked it

774
00:53:39,480 --> 00:53:43,920
and I'm happy that it was on
the schedule. As we've talked about before,

775
00:53:43,960 --> 00:53:45,960
it probably won't be the biggest buy
an event come twenty twenty four Peel

776
00:53:46,039 --> 00:53:50,280
event. You know, I just
think that there are some other operators,

777
00:53:50,519 --> 00:53:53,440
you know, cough dobysitp cough,
like you should definitely do a massive buying

778
00:53:53,719 --> 00:53:58,960
Peel event. The time is rate, I will say just quickly, and

779
00:53:59,000 --> 00:54:02,280
this is a little bit of a
aggression, but whatever, I still believe

780
00:54:02,320 --> 00:54:06,239
and I believe this for many years
now. World Poker Tour needs to add

781
00:54:06,280 --> 00:54:08,880
a PLO event for the main tour. I think it would. I think

782
00:54:08,880 --> 00:54:15,559
it would especially right now, like
it would blow doors like PLO is hot.

783
00:54:15,000 --> 00:54:17,440
Yeah, right, So if you're
gonna do it, now is the

784
00:54:17,519 --> 00:54:21,679
time. I mean it would have
been great to like you just throw it

785
00:54:21,719 --> 00:54:24,360
into the WPT World Championship schedule at
the win. I know there's like the

786
00:54:24,400 --> 00:54:29,079
whole like it doesn't do well on
TV and this and that and whatever.

787
00:54:29,159 --> 00:54:32,559
Well does it have to be TV, right, I mean it doesn't have

788
00:54:32,639 --> 00:54:35,960
to be like TV. It could
be streamed. Doesn't have to be TV,

789
00:54:36,239 --> 00:54:38,159
you know, and if you if
you price it right, if you

790
00:54:38,199 --> 00:54:42,440
get the field size that I'm sure
Tim would agree that. We think that

791
00:54:42,880 --> 00:54:45,159
it can get like it's gonna have
a huge first place prize, like it's

792
00:54:45,159 --> 00:54:47,920
gonna it's not gonna like you wouldn't
roll it out there, and it's gonna

793
00:54:47,960 --> 00:54:51,800
get like sixty players like no,
like it would like it would be a

794
00:54:51,840 --> 00:54:54,559
tournament, right, it would be
a thing. So I would I would

795
00:54:54,559 --> 00:54:58,840
push for that on the World Pop
Tour if if I was, if I

796
00:54:58,920 --> 00:55:02,119
was there in that room. Now
back to the topic, top top or

797
00:55:02,199 --> 00:55:06,480
sorry, three favorite events. I'm
sticking with the same brand, but I'm

798
00:55:06,480 --> 00:55:09,000
going with the regular super high rollerble. I know numbers are down a little

799
00:55:09,000 --> 00:55:15,280
bit, but this one, to
me is like from a work aspect,

800
00:55:15,320 --> 00:55:20,239
it's our like most premier event every
single year, all things considered. You

801
00:55:20,280 --> 00:55:23,480
know, such an incredible price point
three hundred thousand dollars, you get the

802
00:55:23,480 --> 00:55:28,079
best of the best playing in it, and just from from watching it.

803
00:55:28,440 --> 00:55:34,360
I know I did commentary throughout,
but being able to watch the best of

804
00:55:34,400 --> 00:55:38,239
the best at such a high buying
play for three straight days from start to

805
00:55:38,280 --> 00:55:44,239
finish is just absolutely incredible to me. I mean that is like that takes

806
00:55:44,280 --> 00:55:46,480
the cake over a lot of things. Like you know, I know Chris

807
00:55:46,519 --> 00:55:52,000
Brewer ultimately didn't cash in the event, but like he played lights out from

808
00:55:52,039 --> 00:55:57,480
start to finish, and you saw
a lot of super super high level plays

809
00:55:57,519 --> 00:56:00,119
from him throughout the whole thing,
and like you know, a lot of

810
00:56:00,119 --> 00:56:02,159
times when when you stream poker tournaments, like you know, we know that

811
00:56:02,239 --> 00:56:05,880
from from the poker rolf, stuff
from the PGT stuff. It's just the

812
00:56:05,920 --> 00:56:08,360
final table, right, you know, like when you can do an event

813
00:56:08,519 --> 00:56:13,960
from early on and you can really
see the story drawn out from start to

814
00:56:13,960 --> 00:56:16,320
finish. You can see how players
build stacks, how they took some beats,

815
00:56:16,320 --> 00:56:20,159
how they you know, maneuvered their
way all that sort of stuff.

816
00:56:20,559 --> 00:56:25,320
I'm a super big sucker for that. So yeah, I love when we

817
00:56:25,519 --> 00:56:30,199
do that for the Super High Rollable
and it's my favorite event to like watch,

818
00:56:30,239 --> 00:56:31,679
Like I I like like to sit
down and actually watch it. I

819
00:56:31,920 --> 00:56:36,159
rewatched it after after we you know, we did the event, we did

820
00:56:36,159 --> 00:56:37,559
the commentary. I sat down for
you know, a day and a half

821
00:56:37,639 --> 00:56:40,119
or so and like watched the whole
thing straight through, and it's it's just

822
00:56:40,159 --> 00:56:43,559
incredible to me. So I'm I'm
a sucker for that, you know.

823
00:56:43,719 --> 00:56:45,719
I I thought that, like that's
what was missing from like the Big One

824
00:56:45,719 --> 00:56:49,840
for One Drop returning. Like,
yeah, the final table is great,

825
00:56:49,880 --> 00:56:52,239
but a lot of times you get
to these final tables and it's it's more

826
00:56:53,519 --> 00:56:58,760
it's more cookie cutter because the stacks
aren't as deep. You know, there's

827
00:56:59,000 --> 00:57:01,000
ICM and the players kind kind of
just know what to do, right,

828
00:57:01,400 --> 00:57:05,199
But like, what are they doing
with two hundred big blinds and like level

829
00:57:05,239 --> 00:57:07,159
three when they just got five bet
pre flop, Like you know what,

830
00:57:07,159 --> 00:57:10,000
what's happening in that sort of stuff? Like in this year is we saw

831
00:57:10,159 --> 00:57:14,039
justin Bonham and Daniel Legrand You're getting
this crazy pow where I think the Granni

832
00:57:14,079 --> 00:57:16,320
folded Kings was that correctly or something
like like on the flop maybe or whatever?

833
00:57:16,360 --> 00:57:20,920
But like just like stuff like that, It's like I think Bonhama might

834
00:57:20,960 --> 00:57:22,559
have had like Ace King or something
or Ace Queen. I can't remember exactly

835
00:57:22,559 --> 00:57:24,400
how it played out, and I
could be totally wrong there, but like

836
00:57:24,400 --> 00:57:30,280
you see these very elaborate spots earlier
in the tournament where like I think like

837
00:57:30,320 --> 00:57:35,840
the big one for one drag million
dollar buying same player field as the super

838
00:57:35,880 --> 00:57:38,119
high roll level, like seeing them
play from start to finish, that would

839
00:57:38,159 --> 00:57:43,000
have been amazing, Like that would
have been incredible. Like how does Jason

840
00:57:43,079 --> 00:57:45,840
Coon and Mikiita bed Zyakowski go to
war and level two? Like you know

841
00:57:45,920 --> 00:57:50,599
how is like Adrian Mataeos and you
know whoever, like going to war and

842
00:57:50,679 --> 00:57:53,000
level five? Like what's happening there
versus like getting to the final table and

843
00:57:53,119 --> 00:57:57,639
like oh, okay, he jammed
twenty seven big blinds. I'm calling this

844
00:57:57,679 --> 00:58:00,880
percent okay, click call, like
you know, that's I like to see

845
00:58:00,880 --> 00:58:04,079
a lot of the earlier stuff now. So so yeah, that's like why

846
00:58:04,119 --> 00:58:07,000
I love Super High Rollable so much. It's just such an incredible event.

847
00:58:07,079 --> 00:58:10,159
So those my top three. I'll
let him give his third and a second,

848
00:58:10,239 --> 00:58:14,679
but I have WPG World Championship,
WSP main Event, and the Super

849
00:58:14,719 --> 00:58:21,599
High Rollable my final one. Keeping
it home on the PGT PGTAM mixed game

850
00:58:21,679 --> 00:58:25,679
series. The first one we did
in February. We never had a mixed

851
00:58:25,719 --> 00:58:31,360
game series done at this kind of
price point before. Players showed up,

852
00:58:32,199 --> 00:58:37,360
turned out, they battled, they
loved it. Obviously, we ran it

853
00:58:37,400 --> 00:58:39,280
back. We're gonna run it back
again this year. It was kind of

854
00:58:39,320 --> 00:58:43,840
cool to like with the help of
players, just like a lot of the

855
00:58:43,840 --> 00:58:47,599
stuff we do on the PGT is
just, hey, what works, Let's

856
00:58:47,639 --> 00:58:52,360
figure out this schedule, let's figure
out these dates. Let's as a team

857
00:58:52,440 --> 00:58:55,360
work together to create something that you
guys want to play. And I think

858
00:58:55,360 --> 00:59:00,079
it shows the support from the mixed
game players. At the numbers we had,

859
00:59:00,079 --> 00:59:06,880
we had some insane numbers in the
opening events where we trumped all out

860
00:59:06,920 --> 00:59:08,840
of our limit hold them events for
unique entrance. I think we had like

861
00:59:09,039 --> 00:59:14,159
sixty something unique entrants in the Horse
in the eight game, and it was

862
00:59:14,199 --> 00:59:16,239
just kind of cool to see all
these guys flying, you know, from

863
00:59:16,280 --> 00:59:22,920
international come in play this mixgame series. So that to me was obviously close

864
00:59:22,960 --> 00:59:27,039
to my heart being a mixed game
player as well. Yeah, I mean

865
00:59:27,079 --> 00:59:30,280
that's just a super cool series.
Same sort of thing for the PLO series

866
00:59:30,280 --> 00:59:32,960
as well. So I know we're
working on getting those back into the schedule

867
00:59:32,960 --> 00:59:37,239
and where they're going to be for
the twenty twenty four PGT season and you

868
00:59:37,280 --> 00:59:40,400
know that stuff will be announced in
due time. But yeah, great events

869
00:59:40,400 --> 00:59:44,519
so far, you know, great
kind of first runs at those those two

870
00:59:44,559 --> 00:59:46,639
series. All right, next next
thing, we're going to talk about our

871
00:59:46,679 --> 00:59:51,679
three favorite players from twenty twenty three
who stood out to us the most and

872
00:59:51,760 --> 00:59:54,559
why Tim you can go first,
because I just went first on the last

873
00:59:54,599 --> 01:00:00,920
one. Okay, my first player
Isaac Haxton. Okay, so you know

874
01:00:00,920 --> 01:00:06,039
we're talking about standing out the most. Come on, this guy won sixteen

875
01:00:06,280 --> 01:00:09,639
point nine million dollars this year,
seven wins, I think four of them

876
01:00:09,679 --> 01:00:15,280
with PGT events he's just crushing.
He won his second Super High Rollerball title.

877
01:00:15,639 --> 01:00:20,400
He could have won his third but
fell short to Jared Blessnik. He

878
01:00:20,559 --> 01:00:28,039
is having a top five poker year
of all time, without a doubt.

879
01:00:29,800 --> 01:00:32,840
That's all I gotta say on Isaac. Yeah, I think I think one

880
01:00:32,880 --> 01:00:36,719
of these, one of these episodes. This has always been kind of on

881
01:00:36,880 --> 01:00:39,199
my mind. We need to go
through and like do like the top five

882
01:00:39,320 --> 01:00:43,360
like poker years at least, like
how we think, you know, because

883
01:00:43,360 --> 01:00:46,360
there's a lot of like huge years
like this justin Monimo hand One, Dan

884
01:00:46,440 --> 01:00:50,079
Coleman, Fader Holes, like you
know, all these years pop out,

885
01:00:50,159 --> 01:00:53,599
So like how do we like kind
of rank them against each other? Yeah,

886
01:00:53,599 --> 01:00:55,760
you know, I think we can
probably we could probably do that at

887
01:00:55,800 --> 01:01:00,679
some some point. There's also some
of years in the mid two thousands where

888
01:01:00,840 --> 01:01:07,199
say Nigrander won two WPT events and
a bracelet and won one point nine million

889
01:01:07,239 --> 01:01:12,440
dollars, but it was probably probably
should be in the top five, but

890
01:01:12,440 --> 01:01:16,599
it's just like the money is so
different nowadays. No, for sure,

891
01:01:16,639 --> 01:01:20,159
I mean I totally agree. I
mean so that would just be kind of

892
01:01:20,159 --> 01:01:23,239
a fun little little podcast too.
All right, you went with Isaac Hackson.

893
01:01:23,239 --> 01:01:29,360
I'm gonna go someone who's also very
very high up on the yearly money

894
01:01:29,360 --> 01:01:32,480
list, and that's Chris Brewer.
I mean, crushed in twenty twenty three.

895
01:01:32,719 --> 01:01:37,079
You know, it finally finally felt
like he got his due after so

896
01:01:37,079 --> 01:01:42,360
so so many you know, close
calls that that Chris Brewer has had some

897
01:01:42,519 --> 01:01:45,760
in some enormous events. He even
had a close call this year again what

898
01:01:45,920 --> 01:01:49,199
he bubbled the Super Higher roller Bowl. Like, I mean, the guy

899
01:01:49,519 --> 01:01:54,599
just consistently shows up, plays his
ass off, like he's incredible at playing

900
01:01:54,599 --> 01:01:59,880
this stuff. And you know,
I know it's not technically a quote unquote

901
01:02:00,000 --> 01:02:02,599
breakout year, but like when you've
been so close for so long and you

902
01:02:02,639 --> 01:02:06,960
finally get all those big wins,
you know, winning two bracelets, you

903
01:02:06,960 --> 01:02:09,079
know, winning a lot of stuff
elsewhere, like good, good for Chris

904
01:02:09,159 --> 01:02:14,440
Brewer, Like honestly, and it's
been it's been a great pleasure to watch

905
01:02:14,519 --> 01:02:16,519
him play. You know, I
mentioned his run in Super High Rollable,

906
01:02:16,599 --> 01:02:21,159
ultimately short falling short of the money. But even in the wake of that

907
01:02:21,199 --> 01:02:23,559
event, him and I talked about
how much like his play stood out to

908
01:02:23,679 --> 01:02:28,239
us. You know, I'm a
sucker for an excellent tournament player, and

909
01:02:28,639 --> 01:02:31,360
Chris Brewer is that and and it's
you know, it's it's good to see

910
01:02:31,400 --> 01:02:36,119
a player of his caliber, you
know, finally have the success that's kind

911
01:02:36,159 --> 01:02:38,159
of been a long time coming with
so many, so many close calls.

912
01:02:38,199 --> 01:02:42,039
So he's the first person that's stood
out to me from twenty twenty three.

913
01:02:43,880 --> 01:02:52,719
My second player is one of the
funnest players to cover from the media side,

914
01:02:52,960 --> 01:02:57,719
and that is rad Trump Perry.
No, he's he's my third guy,

915
01:02:58,760 --> 01:03:02,840
Red Lynn. Some people might say, hey, flies and flew under

916
01:03:02,840 --> 01:03:07,440
the raider a little bit. This
year he won six point seven million dollars.

917
01:03:07,440 --> 01:03:10,719
He had three victories, including,
as you mentioned earlier in the show,

918
01:03:10,719 --> 01:03:17,679
defeating Jason Kuhn in the fifty k
Alpha not really eight. But this

919
01:03:17,760 --> 01:03:23,679
guy has played literally it's the beta, the beta, yeah, the Beta

920
01:03:23,719 --> 01:03:31,400
five, maybe the Beta five.
He has played everywhere this year PSPC Bahamas,

921
01:03:31,480 --> 01:03:37,760
went to France, came back for
USPO, WPT cashes, WSFP CASHES,

922
01:03:37,880 --> 01:03:42,559
WSP on the Lion, Cashes,
EPT Barcelona, EPT Cyprus, Tryon,

923
01:03:43,440 --> 01:03:47,840
WSP Europe, WSP Paradise, WPT
Vegas. This guy has been everywhere

924
01:03:49,320 --> 01:03:52,519
and you look at these results.
We'd mentioned the the Beata five victory,

925
01:03:52,880 --> 01:03:59,000
twentieth in the main event WPT for
two hundred and thirty six thousand. He

926
01:03:59,039 --> 01:04:02,920
had a second WSP Europe for four
hundred thousand euro hit, a third at

927
01:04:02,960 --> 01:04:08,719
Triton for four hundred and sixty eight
thousand. Pokemass has a second, a

928
01:04:08,719 --> 01:04:14,239
third, a seventh. He's he
just he's crushing the whole year. Obviously,

929
01:04:14,800 --> 01:04:20,679
three victories, maybe could have had
four or five. Playing everything plays

930
01:04:20,760 --> 01:04:27,000
everything except mix but plo no limit
looks like buying's don't matter. He's got

931
01:04:27,000 --> 01:04:31,639
cashes in you know, thousand dollars
events all the way up to fifty thousand

932
01:04:31,679 --> 01:04:38,880
dollars events. So ren Lynn,
you're my second favorite player that stood out,

933
01:04:38,880 --> 01:04:42,440
but you're also my favorite because you're
You've always got a smile on your

934
01:04:42,440 --> 01:04:47,519
face and I love that. Yeah, nons Rend's great for sure. I

935
01:04:47,559 --> 01:04:55,320
got Jesse Lonis as my second favorite
player. You know, the like just

936
01:04:55,440 --> 01:04:58,440
again you to use that word breakout. I mean his breakout was last year,

937
01:04:58,599 --> 01:05:01,760
you know, but but this year
is like the real come up right.

938
01:05:01,800 --> 01:05:03,360
It's like, you know, are
you a kind of a one hit

939
01:05:03,400 --> 01:05:05,599
wonder in a way? No,
I mean, Jesse Lonis won a million

940
01:05:05,639 --> 01:05:09,679
dollars last year in tournaments this year, I think he's up over four million,

941
01:05:10,000 --> 01:05:12,519
you know, So the come up
is real for Jesse Lonis. He

942
01:05:12,559 --> 01:05:15,079
went from I think he was a
construction worker. Then he like played cash

943
01:05:15,119 --> 01:05:18,079
games, limit hold him at Bollaggio
stuff like that. Now he's just a

944
01:05:18,079 --> 01:05:24,280
tournament crusher, you know, most
notably won the fifty k PLO at the

945
01:05:24,280 --> 01:05:29,360
World Series of Poker this year.
So so yeah, I just I'm again

946
01:05:29,400 --> 01:05:30,679
a sucker for a bit of a
success story, you know, somebody who

947
01:05:30,719 --> 01:05:34,199
kind of comes from like nothing in
poker or not having won anything, to

948
01:05:34,320 --> 01:05:39,320
like, you know, being a
star. And I certainly think Jesse Loanis

949
01:05:39,800 --> 01:05:42,760
is that, and you know,
it's good to have him the success.

950
01:05:42,800 --> 01:05:45,800
He's got a got a bit of
a gambler in him too, you know,

951
01:05:45,000 --> 01:05:47,519
likes to fire the sports bats,
likes to you know, take him

952
01:05:47,519 --> 01:05:50,840
to the streets on the felt stuff
like that. So so yeah, I

953
01:05:50,840 --> 01:05:59,079
got Jesse loanis good one. Uh
My third guy won five point six million

954
01:05:59,119 --> 01:06:04,519
dollars this year. Like Ren,
how Ren plays in every country, this

955
01:06:04,599 --> 01:06:10,559
guy stays pretty home, stays here
in Vegas, but plays every buying I'm

956
01:06:10,559 --> 01:06:13,199
looking at his hand on right now. He's got cashes in five hundred dollars

957
01:06:13,239 --> 01:06:18,079
online events, thousand dollars live events, all the way up to three hundred

958
01:06:18,159 --> 01:06:26,159
k buying events. And I'm talking
about Andrew Lucky chewey Liechtenberger. Like I

959
01:06:26,159 --> 01:06:30,679
said, he's just a crusher.
He's having a sensational year. Kicked it

960
01:06:30,719 --> 01:06:35,840
off with a tenth place WSP twenty
five K six Max. He won a

961
01:06:35,920 --> 01:06:41,159
Pokemas's event on his birthday, took
second to Isaac Hackson in Super High Roller

962
01:06:41,199 --> 01:06:45,480
Bowl, then topped it off third
place WBT World Championship. Just look at

963
01:06:45,519 --> 01:06:51,159
those results, you know, decent
sized field ten k, incredibly massive field

964
01:06:51,199 --> 01:06:55,800
sized ten k, one of maybe
the toughest events in the world, the

965
01:06:55,840 --> 01:07:00,559
twenty five K six max, and
then the biggest buying of the year until

966
01:07:00,559 --> 01:07:03,760
December, a three hundred k took
second place amongst the best players in the

967
01:07:03,760 --> 01:07:08,559
world. And then you mix it
in with these four hundred dollars online events,

968
01:07:08,599 --> 01:07:11,840
these one thousand dollars live events at
the win. He can do it

969
01:07:11,880 --> 01:07:16,719
all, and he's having a great
year. He's also, like Ran,

970
01:07:16,840 --> 01:07:20,239
one of the nicest guys you'll ever
talk to, one of the nicest guys

971
01:07:20,239 --> 01:07:26,360
on the table. So yeah,
Lucky Chewy, he's my third favorite player

972
01:07:26,519 --> 01:07:30,639
of twenty twenty three. All right, my last one is another extremely nice

973
01:07:30,679 --> 01:07:36,559
guy, at least I believe someone
I think many would agree Sean Perry in

974
01:07:36,679 --> 01:07:44,920
absolute crusher as well, but somebody
who I think just flies entirely under the

975
01:07:45,000 --> 01:07:50,199
radar, and that's Timothy Adams.
I mean, this guy every single year

976
01:07:50,679 --> 01:07:57,440
crushing, crushing, crushing. He's
very very quiet in terms of like a

977
01:07:57,480 --> 01:08:00,360
personality, so you know, he's
not going to be out there like a

978
01:08:00,360 --> 01:08:03,559
Sean Perry for example, you know, making a lot of headlines with with

979
01:08:04,719 --> 01:08:10,119
you know, being being a colorful
character. He doesn't play the stuff in

980
01:08:10,159 --> 01:08:13,519
the US, doesn't even come to
the World Series of Poker anymore, just

981
01:08:13,559 --> 01:08:15,720
because he's Canadian and the tax sort
of stuff. He's living in Finland all

982
01:08:15,760 --> 01:08:18,359
all that, you know, so
he mostly frequents, you know, the

983
01:08:18,680 --> 01:08:24,680
European poker scene a lot of that's
Triton. You know, he won the

984
01:08:24,680 --> 01:08:28,319
the Triton London main event for more
than four million dollars. You know,

985
01:08:28,359 --> 01:08:32,000
he had another big score in like
a two hundred k or whatever at a

986
01:08:32,000 --> 01:08:35,680
Triton event multiple you know, six
figure scores throughout the year. He's won

987
01:08:35,720 --> 01:08:39,600
more than eight and a half million
dollars this year, which you know,

988
01:08:39,680 --> 01:08:45,760
he's just every single year. Timothy
Adams is just crushing, absolutely crushing.

989
01:08:45,800 --> 01:08:48,319
As I said with with Chris Brewer. You know, I'm a sucker for

990
01:08:48,399 --> 01:08:54,000
an excellent tournament player and Timothy Adams
is that. So yeah, you know,

991
01:08:54,199 --> 01:08:57,920
just winning big, doing so quietly
like like Timothy Adams does you know,

992
01:08:58,000 --> 01:09:00,920
I'm I love that. The poker
nerve to me loves that. So

993
01:09:00,119 --> 01:09:03,119
you know, he's he's a favorite
player of mine and you know, one

994
01:09:03,159 --> 01:09:06,840
of my favorite players from twenty twenty
three given the success that he had so

995
01:09:09,199 --> 01:09:11,560
good list, you know, I
thought we hit on some some really good

996
01:09:11,600 --> 01:09:15,399
players overall. So that's that's a
lot of fun. Three things we're looking

997
01:09:15,399 --> 01:09:20,760
forward to in twenty twenty four,
I'll kick it off. I'm really looking

998
01:09:20,760 --> 01:09:25,479
forward to live poker and more growth
for live poker. You know, I've

999
01:09:25,520 --> 01:09:29,319
talked about it a few times already
on this episode. Ws P made event

1000
01:09:29,960 --> 01:09:34,239
crushed. WPT World Championship did extremely
well. It seems like live poker everywhere

1001
01:09:34,319 --> 01:09:42,560
is just freaking bananas, right,
So I'm very much looking forward to where

1002
01:09:42,680 --> 01:09:47,000
Live Poker goes next year. I
think there's a lot of a lot of

1003
01:09:47,119 --> 01:09:50,000
room for growth still to be had, you know, as big as these

1004
01:09:50,039 --> 01:09:54,840
events have gotten, like, I
think there's still a lot of potential to

1005
01:09:54,920 --> 01:09:59,880
go even higher if I want to
get a little bit more specifically, I'm

1006
01:10:00,159 --> 01:10:02,319
really looking forward to what the WSP
does in the summer, you know,

1007
01:10:02,520 --> 01:10:06,319
just kind of on all the success
the new competition that they have, you

1008
01:10:06,359 --> 01:10:11,680
know, go and blow for blow
with the WPT you know, So are

1009
01:10:11,760 --> 01:10:14,239
they gonna come out with a guarantee
on the main event? What are they

1010
01:10:14,319 --> 01:10:15,680
gonna do for the main event?
How are they going to push the envelope

1011
01:10:15,680 --> 01:10:19,319
in that regard? You know,
they've been running a lot of a lot

1012
01:10:19,319 --> 01:10:23,079
of promotions in recent years. Last
year, you know, they really made

1013
01:10:23,079 --> 01:10:26,479
an effort to break the record,
break that number from two thousand and six

1014
01:10:27,000 --> 01:10:30,560
seven hundred and seventy three entries.
So now what are they gonna do this

1015
01:10:30,680 --> 01:10:34,079
year? Right, Like, are
they gonna push the envelope even harder,

1016
01:10:34,159 --> 01:10:38,279
try and set a new record,
get at least ten thousand and forty four

1017
01:10:38,439 --> 01:10:40,640
entries in the field? You know, like, what are they going to

1018
01:10:40,680 --> 01:10:43,359
try and hit eleven thousand, Like, where where do they go from here?

1019
01:10:43,880 --> 01:10:46,159
What are they going to cook up? You know? So I think

1020
01:10:46,199 --> 01:10:50,119
also in this front you mentioned the
return of the NAPT. It's obviously good

1021
01:10:50,159 --> 01:10:55,319
to have pokersars in the NAPT back
in the US. We don't have their

1022
01:10:55,359 --> 01:10:59,359
schedule yet. I know we have
the Poker Stars EPT schedule for the entire

1023
01:10:59,439 --> 01:11:03,199
year. Super exciting. Let's see
what happens with the NAPT here in the

1024
01:11:03,239 --> 01:11:05,680
States where they go, how many
events that they have, all that sort

1025
01:11:05,720 --> 01:11:10,840
of stuff. Of course, you
can throw the WPT World Championship into this

1026
01:11:10,920 --> 01:11:14,159
bucket of live poker. What are
they gonna do next year at the win?

1027
01:11:14,439 --> 01:11:15,399
You know, are they going to
run it back with forty million?

1028
01:11:15,640 --> 01:11:18,560
Are they gonna get really crazy and
go even higher to fifty million? I

1029
01:11:18,600 --> 01:11:21,319
mean, at this point, I
have no idea what the world I would

1030
01:11:21,680 --> 01:11:28,439
I'm I would be more surprised if
they so they missed the they missed the

1031
01:11:28,479 --> 01:11:31,000
forty million guarantee by two and a
half million. I would be infinitely more

1032
01:11:31,000 --> 01:11:35,279
surprised if they did something like drop
it to thirty million versus go to fifty.

1033
01:11:38,039 --> 01:11:40,840
Like, out of those two things, fifty to me is the favorite.

1034
01:11:41,359 --> 01:11:45,199
Yeah, I guess is they probably
just run it back at forty,

1035
01:11:45,560 --> 01:11:48,239
you know. But but yeah,
I mean, everything that went on with

1036
01:11:48,279 --> 01:11:50,960
the World Poker two in the wt
World Championship I think was you know,

1037
01:11:51,039 --> 01:11:56,680
obviously very good. I mean,
listen, while I've said it before,

1038
01:11:57,319 --> 01:12:01,720
I don't agree with like how WSP
Paradise was done going head to head in

1039
01:12:01,760 --> 01:12:08,119
the same time slot as WPT World
Championship. Having that event on the schedule,

1040
01:12:08,479 --> 01:12:12,239
I think is a good thing.
So I know that, like technically,

1041
01:12:12,279 --> 01:12:14,880
if I were to get my way
and they were to put it in

1042
01:12:14,960 --> 01:12:17,960
January, it wouldn't be in twenty
twenty four, but it would be in

1043
01:12:18,000 --> 01:12:20,079
twenty twenty five. So I'll kind
of throw it out there as like,

1044
01:12:20,399 --> 01:12:23,680
you know, let's see what happens
with that as well, you know.

1045
01:12:23,800 --> 01:12:28,960
So so yeah, I'm I'm excited
and something that I think is like kind

1046
01:12:29,000 --> 01:12:31,520
of well, it's probably a very
big long shot. But there was some

1047
01:12:31,560 --> 01:12:36,520
recent news that I don't think we
talked about on on this podcast, but

1048
01:12:36,600 --> 01:12:40,840
we did, you know, toss
some messages back and forth about it.

1049
01:12:40,880 --> 01:12:46,199
But like Australia is getting back into
tournament poker and crowned specifically, So does

1050
01:12:46,239 --> 01:12:49,359
that mean We're gonna get Auzie millions
back at some point in the future.

1051
01:12:49,399 --> 01:12:54,960
I mean not for this January,
right, but like two three years down

1052
01:12:55,000 --> 01:12:59,119
the road, Like are we moving
in that direction? So, like I've

1053
01:12:59,119 --> 01:13:02,159
always thought the poker scene has been
amazing, right, Like it's it's been

1054
01:13:02,199 --> 01:13:04,760
awesome down there. There was a
lot of great events, not just the

1055
01:13:04,800 --> 01:13:09,439
Aussie Millions. There was a lot
of stuff that you know, the Poker

1056
01:13:09,479 --> 01:13:12,239
Stars APPT did a lot of stuff
down there. You had the a n

1057
01:13:12,359 --> 01:13:15,399
ZPT like stuff like that was just
incredible. So are we going to start

1058
01:13:15,399 --> 01:13:19,119
seeing more of that return? You
know, do we bring back the Australian

1059
01:13:19,159 --> 01:13:23,000
Poker Open, tim do we start
looking into that, you know, like

1060
01:13:23,000 --> 01:13:25,920
stuff like that. I mean,
like yeah, if they're going to be

1061
01:13:26,000 --> 01:13:30,359
allowing tournament poker back at Crown in
Melbourne, Like, is there a little

1062
01:13:30,399 --> 01:13:33,319
bit opening that door, Like come
on, let's go. We all love

1063
01:13:33,359 --> 01:13:36,359
it down there, Let's go.
So I'm I know it's not a twenty

1064
01:13:36,359 --> 01:13:40,920
twenty four looking forward to thing,
but that falls into the future of live

1065
01:13:40,960 --> 01:13:43,439
poker, is what I'm getting at
here. So that's you know, how

1066
01:13:43,479 --> 01:13:46,520
I'm looking forward to the future of
live poker in twenty twenty four. So

1067
01:13:46,680 --> 01:13:51,119
that's my first thing that I'm looking
forward to. Mine's in the same wheel

1068
01:13:51,159 --> 01:13:57,359
house. I already touched on this
competition. You know, we have NAPT,

1069
01:13:57,960 --> 01:14:02,319
we might be getting something with bet
MGM, is WPT ready to expand

1070
01:14:02,319 --> 01:14:06,720
their main tour expand prime here in
the US? Possibly PGT. What are

1071
01:14:06,720 --> 01:14:13,199
we doing? You know? Will
we see us all working together we're all

1072
01:14:13,239 --> 01:14:16,119
friends, or we're going to keep
this little war that's happening with the two

1073
01:14:16,119 --> 01:14:20,960
big dogs. And like something I've
touched on as well, innovation, We're

1074
01:14:20,960 --> 01:14:24,279
going to see some new stuff or
we're going to see some new events,

1075
01:14:24,640 --> 01:14:30,479
new series. Other companies, whether
it's NAPT or BET, MGM, WPT,

1076
01:14:30,039 --> 01:14:32,039
are they going to take some risks? Are they going to bring this

1077
01:14:32,680 --> 01:14:38,039
plo main tour stuff that you suggested? You know, is NAPT going to

1078
01:14:39,199 --> 01:14:43,239
you know up that buy and to
really challenge you know what WPT off is

1079
01:14:43,239 --> 01:14:46,399
what we offer, you know,
what's BETTERMGM going to do. So I

1080
01:14:46,439 --> 01:14:51,239
think there's just this year I'm looking
forward to to more opportunities for players to

1081
01:14:51,279 --> 01:14:57,439
play, more opportunities for some of
these tours to start expanding here in the

1082
01:14:57,520 --> 01:15:01,199
US. Because as you touched on
Live po car is ready and raring to

1083
01:15:01,239 --> 01:15:06,640
go. People want to play as
simple as that. Yeah, no,

1084
01:15:06,720 --> 01:15:11,800
I totally agree. I forgot about
I just spaced on the Bedom gym stuff

1085
01:15:11,800 --> 01:15:14,199
as well. You know that's supposed
to be coming, so you know what's

1086
01:15:14,199 --> 01:15:17,840
coming with that, all right.
Another thing I'm looking forward to is,

1087
01:15:17,920 --> 01:15:20,840
you know, this is a personal
thing of mine, but playing more,

1088
01:15:20,920 --> 01:15:24,840
trying to get better, you know, play more, study more, that

1089
01:15:24,880 --> 01:15:28,359
sort of thing. But then also
I really want to continue to do more

1090
01:15:28,399 --> 01:15:33,199
commentary, continue to improve in that
aspect. So I really love the commentary

1091
01:15:33,239 --> 01:15:35,359
side, you know, getting into
it. Like, yeah, I was

1092
01:15:35,399 --> 01:15:40,199
excited to do it when I started, but I didn't know how much I

1093
01:15:40,199 --> 01:15:43,960
would love it, And I love
it a ton, you knows. As

1094
01:15:43,960 --> 01:15:45,119
we mentioned earlier, I'm going to
be doing commentary for a lot of the

1095
01:15:45,119 --> 01:15:48,319
stuff that we have going on in
January, starting with the PGT Last Chance.

1096
01:15:48,399 --> 01:15:51,239
So the more that I can do
it, you know, the more

1097
01:15:51,279 --> 01:15:55,720
reps that I can get in,
I'm assuming I'll improve a bit. You

1098
01:15:55,720 --> 01:15:58,680
know, I'm certainly not going to
tell you that I'm one of the best

1099
01:15:58,680 --> 01:16:03,039
out there. I'm far from it. But I'm excited to continue to learn

1100
01:16:03,159 --> 01:16:08,720
that side of things, you know, and continue to I guess, increase

1101
01:16:08,760 --> 01:16:13,119
my portfolio you know in that regard, and uh do more of it.

1102
01:16:13,159 --> 01:16:16,319
You know, it's as a as
a poker fan, you know, that's

1103
01:16:16,319 --> 01:16:20,159
an easy way to watch poker.
Just just work it right, Like we're

1104
01:16:20,199 --> 01:16:24,039
like, you know, it's sometimes
you'll like you'll plan to watch a live

1105
01:16:24,039 --> 01:16:26,520
stream or whatever, and then you
know, life gets in the way.

1106
01:16:26,600 --> 01:16:28,600
You got to do things, kids, whatever, Like, you know,

1107
01:16:28,680 --> 01:16:30,279
that's hard. But if if it's
a work thing, you know, yeah,

1108
01:16:30,319 --> 01:16:33,319
you're commentating on it, you know, but you're also in a way

1109
01:16:33,359 --> 01:16:36,039
you're enjoying it. You're watching it, so it's a lot of fun.

1110
01:16:36,119 --> 01:16:39,720
So so those are the things that
I'm you know, I'm looking forward to

1111
01:16:39,880 --> 01:16:42,560
played played more this year than I
did the year before, So I want

1112
01:16:42,560 --> 01:16:45,560
to kind of continue to do that
as well and then try and improve overall.

1113
01:16:48,199 --> 01:16:54,399
Uh. My second one is bringing
it back to the PGT. You

1114
01:16:54,439 --> 01:16:58,399
know, we are going to implement
some changes for the upcoming season with you

1115
01:16:58,399 --> 01:17:00,279
know, the championship, the lead
aboard it, et cetera, which we'll

1116
01:17:00,319 --> 01:17:05,079
touch on probably maybe next podcast.
But what it's going to lead to is

1117
01:17:05,880 --> 01:17:13,600
a more competitive leaderboard, which in
turn results in a more competitive chase to

1118
01:17:13,720 --> 01:17:16,560
qualify for the PGT Championship. I
think there's a lot of excitement right now

1119
01:17:16,680 --> 01:17:23,039
about PGT Last Chance making this million
dollar free roll next season. I think

1120
01:17:23,039 --> 01:17:27,319
it's going to include more of our
players. More of our players will be

1121
01:17:27,399 --> 01:17:30,600
chasing, give them more opportunities.
The guys that are in there every month,

1122
01:17:30,960 --> 01:17:34,560
you know, playing our Aria high
rollers, playing our PGT sprint,

1123
01:17:34,880 --> 01:17:40,279
playing kind of everything, instead of
the guys that are just you know,

1124
01:17:40,800 --> 01:17:45,359
no offense to Daniel Wyman running like
god for two weeks of the World Series.

1125
01:17:45,439 --> 01:17:48,479
So that's what I'm looking forward to, just how the PGT kind of

1126
01:17:48,560 --> 01:17:57,600
starts changing and really doubling down on
our players. Yeah, I mean,

1127
01:17:57,640 --> 01:18:00,960
listen, my third one is huge
year for the p GT. You know,

1128
01:18:00,039 --> 01:18:03,720
we have we really have to to
make it work in a lot of

1129
01:18:03,720 --> 01:18:06,439
ways, you know, And what
I mean by that is we have to

1130
01:18:06,800 --> 01:18:12,039
take it to new heights. You
know, We've done I think, you

1131
01:18:12,079 --> 01:18:14,800
know, I know you think as
well, we've done extremely well in the

1132
01:18:14,840 --> 01:18:18,039
first three seasons with this thing,
you know, but we got to keep

1133
01:18:18,079 --> 01:18:21,119
we got to keep building, we
got to keep stacking every single year.

1134
01:18:23,279 --> 01:18:26,960
So yeah, I'm very excited for
that challenge. You know, from a

1135
01:18:27,000 --> 01:18:30,800
personal aspect, I know you are
as well. We've got some fun things

1136
01:18:30,800 --> 01:18:32,399
that we're cooking up. You know, we won't get into those just now,

1137
01:18:32,479 --> 01:18:35,520
but you know they're going to be
announced when the time is right.

1138
01:18:35,600 --> 01:18:39,640
But you know, I know Tim
is hard at work. It's maybe a

1139
01:18:39,640 --> 01:18:43,039
little bit of a different series or
two here there. You know, we

1140
01:18:43,119 --> 01:18:46,880
obviously got some of the changes to
the leaderboard, qualification and rules and scoring

1141
01:18:46,920 --> 01:18:48,680
and all that sort of stuff that
that Tim hit on. You know,

1142
01:18:48,720 --> 01:18:54,079
we're going to do that. I
think signs right now at least are pointing

1143
01:18:54,079 --> 01:18:57,159
to us a running back the PGT
championship in a similar sort of way.

1144
01:18:57,239 --> 01:19:00,199
So we got that. So yeah, it's a it's a it's a big

1145
01:19:00,239 --> 01:19:02,439
year for for the for the pg
T. You know, we're we're coming

1146
01:19:02,479 --> 01:19:06,119
off a very big season. But
we have to keep it going, right,

1147
01:19:06,239 --> 01:19:11,119
you know, we got to keep
keep driving things forward. So that's

1148
01:19:12,199 --> 01:19:14,239
it's gonna be a lot of work. It's gonna be a lot of hard

1149
01:19:14,239 --> 01:19:16,920
work, of course, you know, especially with as you touched upon just

1150
01:19:16,960 --> 01:19:21,319
a minute ago with with you know, more Live Poker options in the mix

1151
01:19:21,399 --> 01:19:25,680
now within the US, you know, the napt bet MGM like that sort

1152
01:19:25,680 --> 01:19:30,319
of stuff. Like, Yeah,
it's it's it's harder not to grab hold

1153
01:19:30,359 --> 01:19:33,520
of the players within this market.
But you know, hopefully we've carved out

1154
01:19:33,520 --> 01:19:38,199
a nice little niche for us in
terms of like the players that we're trying

1155
01:19:38,239 --> 01:19:40,239
to target, you know, kind
of like the players that are in like

1156
01:19:40,279 --> 01:19:44,000
the five K to the twenty five
slash fifty K range, you know,

1157
01:19:44,119 --> 01:19:47,399
the the high roller type guys.
So we'll see if we can continue to

1158
01:19:47,479 --> 01:19:51,560
build on that for for another year
and you know, and and push forward.

1159
01:19:51,600 --> 01:19:55,800
So you know, I'm I'm looking
forward to that. Again, not

1160
01:19:55,840 --> 01:19:58,359
gonna say that it's gonna be easy, because it's not, you know,

1161
01:19:58,439 --> 01:20:01,720
And and we have a lot of
internal arguments and in debates about the PGT,

1162
01:20:01,960 --> 01:20:03,880
where we want to go with it, what we want to do with

1163
01:20:03,960 --> 01:20:08,319
it. You know, it's it's
a constant tug of war. But you

1164
01:20:08,359 --> 01:20:12,079
know, the team is hard at
work at that challenge, you know,

1165
01:20:12,119 --> 01:20:15,479
and trying to to make it work
it as best they can. So let's

1166
01:20:15,479 --> 01:20:19,159
see what twenty twenty four brings for
the PGT. If I was a betting

1167
01:20:19,239 --> 01:20:23,279
man and I am. I would
bet on us, Okay, I would

1168
01:20:23,319 --> 01:20:26,600
bet on this team here to figure
it out. So you know, I

1169
01:20:27,079 --> 01:20:29,640
like where we're at, but you
know, let's get down, let's get

1170
01:20:29,640 --> 01:20:34,760
dirty, and let's make it happen. My final one is a personal one.

1171
01:20:35,199 --> 01:20:40,000
I think last year I said a
goal of mine this year was to

1172
01:20:40,039 --> 01:20:44,920
cross over one hundred K and winnings. I did that when I cash the

1173
01:20:45,439 --> 01:20:47,920
whatever it was the six hundred event
at Win a couple weeks ago. So

1174
01:20:48,000 --> 01:20:53,479
my next goal is, you know
when you look on Hendon and you have

1175
01:20:53,560 --> 01:20:57,520
like the WSP lugo, WPT lugo, you know you have the logos for

1176
01:20:57,560 --> 01:21:01,600
some events. I want to cash
an event that has a logo. The

1177
01:21:01,640 --> 01:21:04,399
reason I say that is because,
unlike you, and we're going to touch

1178
01:21:04,399 --> 01:21:09,319
on some stats, I don't play
that many events where there's a logo that

1179
01:21:09,439 --> 01:21:15,560
qualifies. The events I play the
most is probably World Series of Poker.

1180
01:21:15,159 --> 01:21:19,359
The last time I cash in a
WSP event there was not a daily deep

1181
01:21:19,399 --> 01:21:23,880
stack, a free role, or
an online event. Guess what year?

1182
01:21:27,279 --> 01:21:30,680
Wait, not online, non online, not a free roll, not a

1183
01:21:30,760 --> 01:21:35,079
daily deep stack. So a bracelet
event wins the line? Can I have

1184
01:21:35,119 --> 01:21:40,840
no idea twenty thirteen back in our
pokon, No, you weren't. So

1185
01:21:40,920 --> 01:21:45,159
my point is it could be a
WBT, could be a WSP. It's

1186
01:21:45,159 --> 01:21:49,520
just more likely to be a WSP
because I'll play like five of them during

1187
01:21:49,560 --> 01:21:54,680
the summer. I want to cash
an event with a little logo. Maybe

1188
01:21:54,720 --> 01:21:57,560
it's a PGT logo, it doesn't
matter. I just want a little logo

1189
01:21:58,560 --> 01:22:02,600
on my hand and the mob twenty
twenty four. I like it. I

1190
01:22:02,720 --> 01:22:05,720
like it. All right, Well, let's get into some of our stats,

1191
01:22:05,960 --> 01:22:09,760
you know, kind of just wrap
up the year with with how our

1192
01:22:09,920 --> 01:22:14,119
poker years went. You want to
go first? Or should I go for?

1193
01:22:14,960 --> 01:22:19,600
Okay, go ahead. I'm probably
playing one more tournament South Point ninially

1194
01:22:19,680 --> 01:22:26,600
this Saturday. Probably, So as
of today, I played thirty tournaments,

1195
01:22:27,800 --> 01:22:32,840
six cashes, one win. I
spent basically eleven K cash for sixty six

1196
01:22:32,960 --> 01:22:38,840
hundred. I bubbled three events,
so my stats should be better overall.

1197
01:22:38,880 --> 01:22:42,119
I lost forty five hundred dollars.
Has got bubble stats out here? Well?

1198
01:22:42,119 --> 01:22:44,840
I bubbled the South Point ninally on
Saturday because I texted you about I

1199
01:22:44,920 --> 01:22:49,039
was pissed. Lost forty five hundred
dollars cash games I played forty hours,

1200
01:22:49,079 --> 01:22:53,600
it doesn't matter lost money, but
it's only forty hours, so it's not

1201
01:22:53,600 --> 01:22:56,600
a real sample size. But yeah, could have done a little better.

1202
01:22:57,119 --> 01:23:00,439
I didn't run good in my bigger
buying events. I ran really good in

1203
01:23:00,560 --> 01:23:05,119
the smaller stuff, so hopefully we
can reverse that for twenty twenty four.

1204
01:23:08,680 --> 01:23:11,520
Listen, my dads are not anybody. I don't include online, by the

1205
01:23:11,520 --> 01:23:14,439
way, I know you check online. I don't have my online sets.

1206
01:23:14,560 --> 01:23:17,239
I have my online stuff here.
I'll go over it. I'll start with

1207
01:23:17,279 --> 01:23:25,239
live poker. Sixty two tournaments played
sixty four nine and fifty dollars in buyings.

1208
01:23:25,239 --> 01:23:29,479
Average buying just over one thousand dollars, lost forty five, six hundred

1209
01:23:29,520 --> 01:23:32,239
dollars. So absolutely got my face
kicked in. That's only one month of

1210
01:23:32,279 --> 01:23:35,039
your salary, right, that's fun. Yeah, you'll be right. Okay,

1211
01:23:36,479 --> 01:23:39,520
if that was one month of my
salary, I would be playing a

1212
01:23:39,520 --> 01:23:44,279
lot bigger buying than the average buying
one k only cashed six times, had

1213
01:23:44,319 --> 01:23:48,439
some very long stretches of not cashing. But you know, that's just the

1214
01:23:48,520 --> 01:23:51,560
game sometimes, I mean, it's
just is what it is, you know.

1215
01:23:51,640 --> 01:23:58,399
Talking to some of my friends who
are professional poker players and play a

1216
01:23:58,439 --> 01:24:00,079
lot higher than I do and all
and you know, are a lot better

1217
01:24:00,119 --> 01:24:02,279
than me, and all that sort
of stuff. You know, they said

1218
01:24:02,760 --> 01:24:06,279
a lot of times like they don't
even get worried in stretches of like thirty

1219
01:24:06,359 --> 01:24:11,439
or forty live events when they're not
cashing. If it gets to like sixty,

1220
01:24:11,760 --> 01:24:14,399
maybe they'll start to be like,
okay, like I should, maybe

1221
01:24:14,439 --> 01:24:16,359
I stually need to start looking at
like my play a little bit. But

1222
01:24:16,399 --> 01:24:20,960
they don't really get worried unless it's
like eighty to one hundred, which seems

1223
01:24:21,000 --> 01:24:25,840
wild to me. I mean,
I've obviously been around poker enough that I

1224
01:24:25,880 --> 01:24:30,000
can. I can. I've seen
players go on super long stretches where it's

1225
01:24:30,000 --> 01:24:32,479
like are they ever cashing? Type
of thing, so I know that it

1226
01:24:32,520 --> 01:24:39,119
can happen, but to sit through
it and endure it is another thing.

1227
01:24:39,800 --> 01:24:44,079
My best cash of the year was
ten thy seven hundred dollars forty seventh place

1228
01:24:44,119 --> 01:24:47,239
in the WA s W two K
had a good run there, ultimately ran

1229
01:24:47,279 --> 01:24:53,319
ace nine to Queen's Small Blind versus
Big Blind or small and verse button,

1230
01:24:53,359 --> 01:24:58,079
but whatever, it was a good
run in that tournament. So certainly want

1231
01:24:58,119 --> 01:25:01,119
to, you know, play more
I I set out, I think it

1232
01:25:01,199 --> 01:25:04,479
was fifty live tournaments was my goal
to play. So I played a bit

1233
01:25:04,479 --> 01:25:09,439
more than that. Yeah, I
mean it was. It's a lot of

1234
01:25:09,479 --> 01:25:13,760
fun to get out there. Certainly
feel like I improved. Part of improving

1235
01:25:13,920 --> 01:25:18,840
is you realize the mistakes that you're
making easier. You know, you see

1236
01:25:18,880 --> 01:25:23,439
them kind of in real time or
much shorter after, you know, so

1237
01:25:24,039 --> 01:25:27,800
obviously, like I think most poker
players, I have, you know,

1238
01:25:27,960 --> 01:25:31,079
holes I need to plug, but
whatever, continue to just work on it.

1239
01:25:31,880 --> 01:25:38,119
So yeah, that's live online poker. Two hundred and forty one tournaments

1240
01:25:38,159 --> 01:25:41,720
played short of what I planned to
play. I want to say I said

1241
01:25:41,720 --> 01:25:45,680
four or five hundred, but I
went some very long stretches with not playing

1242
01:25:45,720 --> 01:25:51,600
online. It's I prefer live poker. I just I like it way more

1243
01:25:51,800 --> 01:25:55,560
just being able to sit at the
table. It's it's such like a given

1244
01:25:55,640 --> 01:26:00,000
a take because I prefer live poker
so much. I feel much more comfortab

1245
01:26:00,079 --> 01:26:03,000
well playing live, like actually seeing
people playing with chips, all that sort

1246
01:26:03,039 --> 01:26:06,399
of stuff. It's just it's a
much more enjoyable environment overall, Right,

1247
01:26:06,439 --> 01:26:13,800
And I think I generally play better
live that said online is like that's where

1248
01:26:13,800 --> 01:26:16,079
you can get reps, that's where
you can get volume way more, right,

1249
01:26:16,199 --> 01:26:21,640
So you can also play a bit
lower stakes for kind of equivalent amounts

1250
01:26:21,640 --> 01:26:26,239
of money in a lot of spots. So, you know, I thought

1251
01:26:26,279 --> 01:26:29,079
I was going to play a lot
more online, but I ultimately didn't.

1252
01:26:29,159 --> 01:26:30,359
So you know, it is what
it is. But you know, things

1253
01:26:30,399 --> 01:26:33,560
to I guess work towards in the
next year. But two hundred and forty

1254
01:26:33,600 --> 01:26:39,680
one tournaments played average buying of one
hundred and eleven dollars just under twenty six

1255
01:26:40,359 --> 01:26:45,199
nine hundred dollars in buying's total lost
a staggering five hundred and fifteen dollars.

1256
01:26:45,279 --> 01:26:49,439
WHOA. So this online stuff might
change, you know, in these next

1257
01:26:49,439 --> 01:26:51,720
couple of days for the entire year, because I'll probably play a little bit

1258
01:26:51,760 --> 01:26:58,239
more online. Cashed fifty two times, so much better rate. That's the

1259
01:26:58,359 --> 01:27:02,840
twenty one point six percent cash rate, so fairly decent there. Overall best

1260
01:27:02,880 --> 01:27:06,079
cash was just over sixty three hundred
dollars. I got a fifth place in

1261
01:27:06,119 --> 01:27:11,399
a three hundred and twenty dollars online
circuit event, so that was a good

1262
01:27:11,479 --> 01:27:14,760
run there. Overall. You know, if you combine live and online,

1263
01:27:15,079 --> 01:27:19,159
three hundred and three tournaments played average
buying of just over three hundred dollars.

1264
01:27:20,119 --> 01:27:25,920
My total buyings was ninety one,
seven hundred and seventy dollars. I lost

1265
01:27:26,279 --> 01:27:30,199
forty six two hundred and nine dollars. I cashed fifty eight times, which

1266
01:27:30,239 --> 01:27:32,880
is, you know, just about
nineteen percent. I think a little bit

1267
01:27:32,920 --> 01:27:36,079
over so losing year. Had a
losing year last year, I have a

1268
01:27:36,079 --> 01:27:43,800
losing year this year again. But
I'm not I'm happy with where my game

1269
01:27:43,920 --> 01:27:48,800
is at. I feel like I'm
losing a lot of very important hands late

1270
01:27:48,960 --> 01:27:57,760
that are somewhat out of my control, which I think is fine. I'm

1271
01:27:57,800 --> 01:28:01,159
definitely making some mistakes still, I
get it, but a lot of my

1272
01:28:01,239 --> 01:28:10,199
mistakes have been minimized and certainly not
as important as they have been in years

1273
01:28:10,239 --> 01:28:12,880
past. And then just on the
losing, I mean, I think that

1274
01:28:12,880 --> 01:28:16,840
that's just kind of tournament poker.
I mean, you can just tournaments are

1275
01:28:16,840 --> 01:28:21,920
hard like cash games are very much
more static. You can kind of just

1276
01:28:23,000 --> 01:28:27,000
grind out, grind out, grind
out. Tournaments are much more dynamic.

1277
01:28:27,760 --> 01:28:30,399
I think variants plays a much bigger
role in tournaments than it does in cash

1278
01:28:30,399 --> 01:28:35,880
games. So yeah, I mean
I think if you probably took like every

1279
01:28:35,920 --> 01:28:42,119
tournament poker player out there and like
looked at their stats, everyone would be

1280
01:28:42,159 --> 01:28:44,880
getting crushed. I mean, it's
just it's really hard, you know,

1281
01:28:44,960 --> 01:28:48,960
especially with some of the the buy
ins and the volume that these guys put

1282
01:28:48,960 --> 01:28:50,680
in. I mean, I talk
to a lot of guys that play,

1283
01:28:51,000 --> 01:28:55,399
you know, one hundred times the
volume that I do, and ten times

1284
01:28:55,399 --> 01:28:58,079
the buyings and the amount of money
that they're down, even though they've had

1285
01:28:58,079 --> 01:29:01,119
some massive, massive score you know
that I can only dream about. It's

1286
01:29:01,199 --> 01:29:04,960
just it's crazy, you know.
It just really kind of grounds you and

1287
01:29:05,000 --> 01:29:10,560
brings you to earth. But yeah, I'm gonna keep trying. I'm gonna

1288
01:29:10,560 --> 01:29:14,720
try and increase my volume again next
year, get better, you know,

1289
01:29:14,920 --> 01:29:17,800
take some shots and and we'll see
how we go. But yeah, that's

1290
01:29:17,880 --> 01:29:20,760
those are my stats. So loser
again, But hey, what are you

1291
01:29:20,760 --> 01:29:25,800
gonna do? I'm still chasing climbing
over one hundred K and winnings on hand

1292
01:29:25,840 --> 01:29:29,119
to MOB. I don't know if
I would be there if they included the

1293
01:29:29,199 --> 01:29:31,880
online like they put the online stuff
like in the on the results spage,

1294
01:29:31,920 --> 01:29:35,199
but I don't think they included the
number. Yeah, so I don't know

1295
01:29:35,199 --> 01:29:39,920
if I would be there or not, who the heck knows. But yeah,

1296
01:29:40,319 --> 01:29:44,319
you know, I still want to
just like make a big final table,

1297
01:29:45,279 --> 01:29:47,000
win a trophy event, like hit
a big score, like all that

1298
01:29:47,000 --> 01:29:50,399
sort of stuff. You know.
I think I think I'm doing the work

1299
01:29:50,439 --> 01:29:57,199
correctly to kind of set myself up
to do that. I've been doing a

1300
01:29:57,199 --> 01:30:00,439
lot of stuff on my own,
but I I think I'm gonna explore getting

1301
01:30:00,600 --> 01:30:06,239
coaching. I think that's a next
step for me. But yeah, I've

1302
01:30:06,279 --> 01:30:11,119
I've kind of always wanted to like
try and prove to myself that I can

1303
01:30:11,159 --> 01:30:15,359
do it on my own before getting
coaching. You know, Like I feel

1304
01:30:15,399 --> 01:30:18,319
like I wanted to get to some
sort of level on my own and then

1305
01:30:18,680 --> 01:30:21,439
like put some gasoline on the fire
with coaching, Like that was kind of

1306
01:30:21,439 --> 01:30:26,600
always the plan. So I don't
know what I'm ultimately gonna do there,

1307
01:30:26,680 --> 01:30:29,760
but we'll see, We'll see what
happens, I guess. But but yeah,

1308
01:30:30,760 --> 01:30:33,119
those are our those are our stats. You know, we're not very

1309
01:30:33,119 --> 01:30:40,199
good. Huh, we're not very
good plays. I mean, we bought

1310
01:30:40,239 --> 01:30:45,800
loses on the well just say it. Listen. We we talked about some

1311
01:30:45,840 --> 01:30:49,640
hand histories, and yours are dreadful
don't look at me with me, Okay,

1312
01:30:50,119 --> 01:30:55,119
don't look at me. I'm busting
my ass and this is this ship

1313
01:30:55,199 --> 01:30:59,720
is fucking hard. I'll tell you
that much. So all right, what

1314
01:30:59,800 --> 01:31:02,359
else we got to talk about?
Family pot? You want to do a

1315
01:31:02,359 --> 01:31:04,479
family pot? Sure? I mean
we haven't. We haven't done one in

1316
01:31:04,520 --> 01:31:06,840
a while. I haven't. Let's
play the music, we haven't. Play

1317
01:31:06,880 --> 01:31:16,039
a little jingle and then we'll come
on back. It's term for a family

1318
01:31:15,079 --> 01:31:27,600
who. All right, Christmas?
How was it? What did you do?

1319
01:31:27,920 --> 01:31:30,279
You got a nice hat? A
Denver broadcast hat? Did I have

1320
01:31:30,399 --> 01:31:35,520
to replace my old beanie? I
got some poker books, some gift cards,

1321
01:31:36,479 --> 01:31:40,000
you know, just the usual stuff. No, I had a good

1322
01:31:40,039 --> 01:31:45,039
Christmas. We just went to uh
the wife's sister's house for some grub.

1323
01:31:45,319 --> 01:31:49,640
As always ate way too much food. But the kids had a great time.

1324
01:31:49,920 --> 01:31:54,520
Kids are sick. I think I
ate eighty thousand calories in like,

1325
01:31:54,720 --> 01:31:57,520
yeah, three days. That's how
I feel. It's not it's not healthy.

1326
01:31:58,239 --> 01:32:02,079
Yeah, kids are playing with that
toys. And daughter got everything Taylor

1327
01:32:02,119 --> 01:32:08,319
Swift imaginable. So she loves us
Swifty. Yeah, god, she's the

1328
01:32:08,359 --> 01:32:11,880
worst. She gone to a Taylor
Swift concert I think, yeah, she

1329
01:32:11,960 --> 01:32:16,520
has okay, but yeah, I
just felt like, I don't know,

1330
01:32:16,560 --> 01:32:19,600
I always get to this point in
the year and I'm just kind of wanted

1331
01:32:19,640 --> 01:32:25,079
to be over because I want to
kick into the next year, like I

1332
01:32:25,119 --> 01:32:28,720
just want to, Like Chris,
I don't know if your wife's the same

1333
01:32:28,760 --> 01:32:32,039
as this, But Christmas happened.
We actually open presents like the night before

1334
01:32:32,439 --> 01:32:40,640
some but on Christmas Day, like
the decorations were coming down. Tree wanted

1335
01:32:40,680 --> 01:32:44,079
to like Leanne wanted to pack away
the tree. And then by the next

1336
01:32:44,119 --> 01:32:47,800
day everything was done. All the
outside decorations I'd packed away. I wish

1337
01:32:48,159 --> 01:32:51,600
it could be like that. Are
you're the okay, I want to get

1338
01:32:53,560 --> 01:32:57,920
Let's move on. Yeah, what
haus is clean? There's no Christmas stuff

1339
01:32:58,000 --> 01:33:05,399
up? Ready to start twenty twenty
four's yeah, my my Christmas was good.

1340
01:33:05,800 --> 01:33:13,800
So this is a this is a
a funny little highlight of my Christmas.

1341
01:33:15,079 --> 01:33:17,680
And this is gonna sound like a
total flex but whatever, I don't

1342
01:33:17,720 --> 01:33:20,560
care. We we all go on
Christmas Eve, we all go over to

1343
01:33:20,720 --> 01:33:25,680
my brother in law's house, which
I have a complaint about. I think

1344
01:33:25,680 --> 01:33:28,920
I've shared this complaint before, but
every year it's the same thing. Everyone

1345
01:33:29,000 --> 01:33:30,520
goes there. It's like, you
do the whole thing at night. Then

1346
01:33:30,560 --> 01:33:36,479
we watch Christmas Vacation, but like, yep, I can't keep doing the

1347
01:33:36,479 --> 01:33:41,720
whole Christmas vacation thing. And my
reasoning this year is I have a two

1348
01:33:41,720 --> 01:33:45,760
and a half year old and a
four month old. They didn't start the

1349
01:33:45,800 --> 01:33:51,640
movie till I don't know, nine
pm. I'm like we I'm like,

1350
01:33:51,680 --> 01:33:56,479
babe, babe, we watching this
movie like we're She's like no, we're

1351
01:33:56,479 --> 01:34:00,600
watching I'm like, no, the
hell with this transit addition, Like we

1352
01:34:00,640 --> 01:34:03,920
gotta you gotta go, Like I'm
not are you gonna like are we dealing

1353
01:34:03,920 --> 01:34:06,560
with the two and a half years? It's gonna be up all night freaking

1354
01:34:06,560 --> 01:34:10,279
out because she hasn't slept, Like
no, like tomorrow, like what are

1355
01:34:10,319 --> 01:34:13,239
we doing here? Like we got
kids now? Like things change, Like

1356
01:34:13,319 --> 01:34:17,399
I'm sorry, but like things just
changed. So next year, I'm putting

1357
01:34:17,399 --> 01:34:20,880
my foot down. I'm saying,
listen, Christmas Vacation needs to start at

1358
01:34:20,920 --> 01:34:26,039
seven, and if it doesn't,
we're leaving. Okay, like end of

1359
01:34:26,159 --> 01:34:31,000
story. That's just how it has
to be. But the highlight slash flex

1360
01:34:31,119 --> 01:34:40,239
is that eighty five percent of the
family has teslas now, so so we

1361
01:34:40,239 --> 01:34:44,359
we all rearranged them in the driveway
and we turned the jingle light show on

1362
01:34:44,479 --> 01:34:47,640
at the same time. Like there's
seven teslas, and it was just it

1363
01:34:47,680 --> 01:34:50,960
was fun because like my daughter was
out there dancing to it the whole thing.

1364
01:34:51,039 --> 01:34:54,760
Like it was just it was fun. And I know that sounds like

1365
01:34:54,800 --> 01:34:59,000
a total like you know, flex
thing, but whatever, it's you know,

1366
01:34:59,399 --> 01:35:01,880
I haven't done that yet. It
was the first time that I actually

1367
01:35:01,920 --> 01:35:04,039
turned on the jingle as well,
you know, and you can you can

1368
01:35:04,039 --> 01:35:08,399
actually turn it on and like you
can schedule it at a time, so

1369
01:35:08,439 --> 01:35:11,520
like we all scheduled it at the
same time. I all turned on at

1370
01:35:11,520 --> 01:35:15,840
once, and the music's playing,
the lights are flashing all in unison with

1371
01:35:15,880 --> 01:35:17,560
like you know, seven tesla's all
lined up. I mean, it was

1372
01:35:17,600 --> 01:35:20,680
just it was it was the cool
little thing that'll probably be our little like

1373
01:35:21,039 --> 01:35:25,279
holiday thing. You know. We
have. We have I think one or

1374
01:35:25,279 --> 01:35:29,439
two new members of the family or
whatever that are. We're all trying to

1375
01:35:29,439 --> 01:35:31,479
push them to get a Tesla.
Yeah, you know, just like I

1376
01:35:31,520 --> 01:35:35,760
pushed him to get a Tesla.
But yeah, by the way, I

1377
01:35:35,800 --> 01:35:44,680
added the acceleration boost to my car
because I had credits from referring you,

1378
01:35:45,199 --> 01:35:46,039
and I was like, what am
I going to use these credits for?

1379
01:35:46,079 --> 01:35:48,720
And you know, you can use
them for like I don't know, they

1380
01:35:48,720 --> 01:35:53,279
have like Tesla apparel, Like you
can enter a sweepstakes for a Tesla,

1381
01:35:53,479 --> 01:35:57,600
like you can do you can get
supercharger miles, you know, but I

1382
01:35:57,600 --> 01:36:00,520
don't ever use the super charger because
I'm not like going any where I would

1383
01:36:00,560 --> 01:36:02,319
need one. And plus the supercharger
miles expire in a year, so I

1384
01:36:02,359 --> 01:36:08,039
was like, whatever, acceleration boost, let's go cars so much faster.

1385
01:36:08,199 --> 01:36:12,600
Oh my god. I mean it's
like it's outrageous. I mean it's the

1386
01:36:12,600 --> 01:36:16,760
best thing ever. So it's just
truly incredible. But yeah, Christmas is

1387
01:36:16,760 --> 01:36:24,880
good. Daughters, like you know, fully understands Christmas understands Santa. She

1388
01:36:25,000 --> 01:36:27,840
kept going around for like two weeks
saying like, Santa's gonna bring me a

1389
01:36:27,880 --> 01:36:30,159
doll, Dad, Santa's gonna bring
me a doll. Well, now she

1390
01:36:30,199 --> 01:36:32,720
has I think six dolls somehow,
I don't know how that happened. I

1391
01:36:32,760 --> 01:36:39,720
know we got her two. Then
she got a doll from like every relative

1392
01:36:39,760 --> 01:36:42,840
possible, which is just insane.
So now she has way too many dolls,

1393
01:36:42,840 --> 01:36:44,760
and she wants to, you know, every time she goes upstairs,

1394
01:36:44,840 --> 01:36:46,119
she has to bring every single doll. Every time she comes downstairs, she

1395
01:36:46,119 --> 01:36:48,520
wants to bring every single doll.
So it's like I carry three, she

1396
01:36:48,560 --> 01:36:51,399
carries two. Like, you know, it's this whole thing. She got

1397
01:36:51,399 --> 01:36:56,800
a tricycle, which I don't think
she's gotten off of period. It's a

1398
01:36:57,239 --> 01:37:02,000
legit like vintage radio flyer, red
try bicycle badass. So she's got that,

1399
01:37:02,199 --> 01:37:08,119
and I mean it still like baffles
me that she she's two and a

1400
01:37:08,159 --> 01:37:12,800
half and like she just like got
on the bike and like started pedaling,

1401
01:37:13,039 --> 01:37:15,399
like she just knows. I'm just
like that's pretty good. Like how do

1402
01:37:15,439 --> 01:37:18,600
you know this stuff? You know? Yeah? So so yeah, it's

1403
01:37:19,000 --> 01:37:23,680
it's great. The youngest one of
the sun, I mean he's four months.

1404
01:37:23,680 --> 01:37:25,479
He has, you know, no
idea what's going on. Still,

1405
01:37:26,000 --> 01:37:28,479
he just knows to laugh when his
sister tries to make him laugh, you

1406
01:37:28,560 --> 01:37:34,399
know. But overall things are things
are pretty pretty good. Speaking touching on

1407
01:37:34,439 --> 01:37:39,279
your movie thing, we actually normally
watch Christmas Vacation. This year we didn't,

1408
01:37:39,479 --> 01:37:45,159
but we put on a movie when
we start eating. I think we

1409
01:37:45,239 --> 01:37:49,000
put on Home Alone. So we
eight. We're watching half watching Home Alone,

1410
01:37:49,039 --> 01:37:54,199
half eating finished my third had some
pie. Came usat on the couch

1411
01:37:54,239 --> 01:37:58,239
to watch Home Alone. I already
seen him four times this month, so

1412
01:37:58,279 --> 01:38:00,640
I took a nap during Home Alone. Didn't want to watch it on the

1413
01:38:00,640 --> 01:38:03,399
couch. Then next movie started.
I kin't of remember what it was.

1414
01:38:03,439 --> 01:38:09,760
I think it was elf. Caleb
was reading his book, brought a book

1415
01:38:09,760 --> 01:38:13,600
with him and we were annoying him
on the couch while he was trying to

1416
01:38:13,600 --> 01:38:16,119
read. So he went into the
other living room to finish reading the book,

1417
01:38:16,319 --> 01:38:19,800
and then he fell asleep reading the
book. And then the third movie,

1418
01:38:21,399 --> 01:38:24,880
I can't remember what it was.
Third movie came on and my wife

1419
01:38:24,920 --> 01:38:30,000
had her nap on the ground,
So we put on three movies whatever.

1420
01:38:30,199 --> 01:38:32,960
We're kind of craving, and we
used that time to rotate the naps.

1421
01:38:33,520 --> 01:38:38,039
Yeah, where were you all?
We're all in the living room like my

1422
01:38:38,760 --> 01:38:41,640
no, no, my sister sister
in law's house. Yeah. See,

1423
01:38:41,640 --> 01:38:44,560
the big thing about me is like
you're just you're not at your own house

1424
01:38:44,720 --> 01:38:47,680
like I just I'd rather be in
my house. When you've had ham,

1425
01:38:48,159 --> 01:38:55,319
turkey, pot roast, potatoes,
pie, bread, it's very easy to

1426
01:38:55,399 --> 01:39:00,000
just fall asleep to the soothing sounds
of the home alone, the soothing sound

1427
01:39:00,159 --> 01:39:02,880
of you know, bricks being thrown
at guy's faces and stuff like that.

1428
01:39:02,960 --> 01:39:06,760
Yeah, I'm sure. All right, Well that's gonna do it for us.

1429
01:39:08,239 --> 01:39:12,039
We got nothing else to talk about. I think next time. I

1430
01:39:12,039 --> 01:39:14,960
don't even know when the next time
is going to be. Probably sometimes during

1431
01:39:15,000 --> 01:39:19,600
Last Chance. We're for sure doing
one before the PGT Championship, that's a

1432
01:39:19,640 --> 01:39:25,199
given. I don't know if that's
gonna happen the night of the seventh of

1433
01:39:25,359 --> 01:39:29,960
eight. Yeah, yeah, one
of those, one of those times.

1434
01:39:30,319 --> 01:39:32,119
Maybe we do one before, maybe
we don't. I don't know, but

1435
01:39:32,159 --> 01:39:35,439
we do have Last Chance coming up
January second through seventh, again live streaming

1436
01:39:35,439 --> 01:39:41,199
on poker gro So check that out. PGG Championship January ninth through tenth,

1437
01:39:41,319 --> 01:39:45,199
also live streaming on poker gro PGC
Kickoff that kicks off the new season January

1438
01:39:45,239 --> 01:39:48,600
eleventh through sixteenth, also streaming on
poker Grow, and then the Poker Girl

1439
01:39:48,600 --> 01:39:55,600
Cup kicks off January twenty fifth.
So absolutely jam freaking packed January for what

1440
01:39:55,600 --> 01:39:59,079
we're doing. Love to see it, I love it, Tim loves it.

1441
01:39:59,680 --> 01:40:02,079
But yeah, that's gonna do it. For us, enjoy the remainder

1442
01:40:02,239 --> 01:40:05,000
of I don't know, probably this
week off for a lot of people,

1443
01:40:05,079 --> 01:40:09,920
and have a happy, happy New
Year, and we will talk to you

1444
01:40:09,960 --> 01:40:23,920
guys all in twenty twenty four.
So yeah, Night Chan Express, Night

1445
01:40:26,319 --> 01:40:38,159
Chen Express.