Hello, everyone, Welcome back to a new episode of the Poker Go Podcast,
the number one poker podcast in the land. Don't let anyone hell's out
there tell you any different. My name is Donny Peters. His name is
Tim Duckworth. I hope you guys are doing well. Fun show today.
Gonna run down a lot of stuff that went down here at the Debisipee day
off yesterday for the pod. So welcome us back into your ears. That
was my phone. I went, yeah, I didn't know where you were.
I texted you like, I'm on my way home, Like what huh?
What's going on? I busted up shoop it online bracelet event. I
was tilted, there's nothing for me to do, and I said, I'm
gonna go home and say my family was still. At the time, I
thought it worked out because I was like, I'm gonna play tomorrow, so
I'll go home early as well. I'll get some sleep. But it's so
weird how my body adjusts for the world series where if I have a early
night and I go to sleep and sleep for a long time, I always
it's one hundred percent of the time I will almost over sleep or or I
will oversleep and I almost overslept this morning and missed the start of the tournament,
which I should have done because I lost the first hand and whatever during
the World Series. I will try and sleep, Ellie. Like last time,
I went to bed at ten, No, I sid only got six
hours of sleep, Like, it's not late. I went home. I
don't even know what time I went home yesterday. I think I got home
around nine, maybe nine thirty ten, I don't remember. But I was
up until midnight sweating our fantasy team. I had too how could I not?
And then they were doing well. When I was sweating, I was
like, you know what, it's midnight, I'm done going to bed.
I went to bed and they didn't get any more points. So I mean
I feel I should have stayed up and kept sweating them. Um all right.
On today's show, Mike Gardinski wins his third WSB Gold bracelets. Billy
Baster falls short of winning his eighth, but an epic epic run, an
epic final table in that one, it was the Millionaire Maker is down to
five tables, forty two entries. I believe two players left. Yeah about
forty. Mike Mattis how is currently heads up in the center of the room
here inside the Horseshoe Event Center. He's in the fifteen stud High Low tournament.
The PLO high Roller twenty five thousand dollars buy in this fin tournament,
I mean, is like the most amazing thing I've ever seen. What's all
the money coming from. I don't no idea, but that thing. It
burst the bubble there in the money. We'll talk about how big the field
size is, because it is absolutely wild, how big it is the salute
to warriors. Are they done for the night? I think they're redrawing to
three tables, absolutely flying in that tournament. Um, so we'll check in
on that. We got the three K limit hold him six max. We'll
do an update on that. There are two events that kicked off today.
One of them I played and busted in one of them. Tim and I
both busted tournaments today. We're doing very well for the for the team,
for the home team. So you know, that's how we liked. We
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Podium. He was in the stream chat while he was driving there and
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back into the commentary booth. He got the podium, finished behind two pros.
One of the guys was had previously entered the tour to France, so
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wins the ten thousand dollar Horse Championship. Mike Gordinsky took down more than four
hundred and twenty two thousand dollars. It was his third WSP goal Bracelet's been
a little bit of time since he's been in the Winter circle here at the
World's a Poker. He won his first goal bracelet in twenty thirteen when he
won the twenty five d oe event that is Omaha Eighter better and Stud Highlow
eight or better. He took home just about two hundred and seventeen thousand dollars
for that one, and then in two fifteen he won the fifty thousand dollars
Poker Players Championship for one million, two hundred and seventy thousand dollars. That
is also the year that Mike Gordonski was crowned WSP Player of the Year.
Oh yeah, I forgot about it. Yeah, So it's been a few
years since uh Gordo has been in the WSP Winter Circle. Not a massive
tournament grinder, you know, it plays a lot of high stakes cash games
obviously, dabbles in, you know, a lot of these bigger buying mixed
tournaments here at THEBESP. But it's been you know, what is it eight
years? Seven or eight years since he's gotten into the WP winner circle.
Feeling good about it. We spoke with him afterwards, so let's play that
interview for you now. All right, Mike Gordinsky, chip leader coming into
the today, it seemed like it was pretty easy for you today. Everything
kind of went your way. How did it go in your eyes? Yeah,
the cards made are kind of easy. I felt like I didn't really
need to think about it much, honestly, if the cards just kind of
fell in and then um, the sacks got to a point where I was
able to maneuver kind of easily. Does the feeling of winning a tournament get
old it's been a little while since twenty No, it is great. Definitely,
we'll never get old, Mike. You know, obviously we're past the
halfway point here. It can be a grind to the World Series. Can
you tell me, do you feel relief or something else? In terms of
you know, playing through that much of the series and then you know,
coming through and winning this race. Yeah, I definitely feel relief. I
um, I mean especially this year. I had kind of a rocky starts
my summer and um and yeah, Michael, my plan actually was if I
didn't cash or go find this tournament, I was gonna fly home for a
week and a half to recharge, spence some time with my wife. So
yeah, this run was kind of like an unexpected, really cool way to
wrap up a otherwise like long, kind of tough month. You reference it.
I don't know if you could tell us anymore, if there's any more
clarity with what happened at the start of this appellagio. Um So I'm still
kind of waiting from a quote unquote official word, but basically, they ran
a security process and according to them, I'm the only person that access to
it. So compensation at this point is looking unlikely, but I'm hoping to
have further conversations with something socks at MGM. So that's yeah, two through
bracelets, you win a PPC and another one. Where where does this rank
in the war? Um? I think this one would rank second. I
you know, the PPC kind of stands alone as a cool career achievement,
but yeah, this one was great. It's been in quite a few years,
so I feel it's kind of good to, you know, brush to
the dust off and do something, do something fun. How tough is it
to get through a field like this with so many killers, similar to a
PPC where it's just you know, do you leap the whole way? I
mean, you had such a tough field to get through, especially in the
last couple of days, and you just kind of ran away with it today.
Um yeah. I mean basically every ten k plus is a similar kind
of field, right where when you get down to it, it's all good
players and you've seen to get the right card in maneuver, and yeah,
I was just able to do it. I don't know, was there point
through yesterday or today where you kind of knew that, you know, you
were taking control and it kind of felt like he was coming to you.
Uh yeah, like wrapping up last night, it kind of felt like I
was getting momentum and I felt pretty confident going into today, and um yeah,
obviously today was really fast and I felt pretty comfortable and confident the whole
way. Any change in your mentality early in the day when Brad got the
chip lead from me early in the day. And then yeah, that first
hand was not ideal. Um No, just because everything kind of rolled in
right after that. There wasn't any kind of further setback, So yeah,
it was pretty pretty easy from that point on. From this point on,
Dad rise a little more focused on the Poy movie. No, you know,
Sean just grinding so hard for it. But it just it like still
feels out of each a spot. Like I know, I'm probably like within
you know, first place finish or something, but I just know he's gonna
play everything, and like, I don't know, I missed my wife,
I missed my dog. Like I want to go home and spend some time
at home before I come back out here. Obviously pretty happy to get in
the Winter circle. Of course, Tim Furrevanti from the World Pope had to
slide in there with the question about his Bellagio box situation. I feel like
everyone's kind of forgotten about it. Yes, I had forgotten about so at
the beginning of the summer. If you if you guys recall or if you're
following um Mike Ardenski on social media, but he tweeted, went to Belagio
today. This was on June first, so Smack dab at the start of
the w went to Beolagio today to access my box and my key was stuck,
Slash not opening. They wind up having to drill it join the box
and when they lift the box out, it's empty. Extremely fed up situation.
If anyone has any insight on best steps Slash, who to contact from
here, please reach out. That was after we had already drafted him in
twenty five. Yeah, so this comes out and it's like, oh,
here we go. Haven't really heard anything since. Mike Roardinski's not massive on
social media. You know, he did tweet some stuff since then. One
of the things he did tweet afterwards was, you know, thanks to everyone
who reached out to help me with this situation is still ongoing. You know.
He tweeted about how he made the horse Final table, but not big
on social media. So he was asked about it in that interview and you
heard it there, like, it doesn't really sound like he has an answer
that is a super positive one. Sounds like he's still kind of waiting to
hear officially from the Blagio. But when he says that, according to Blagio,
he was the only one to access his box. But then if he's
under the impression that there was a lot of money in the box, or
money in the box in general, Like, I mean, I don't know,
it sounds like a really kind of messed up situation. But I guess
good for him that things are able to come around because that happens and start
your summer off. Maybe you're not making some deep runs and tournaments, it's
all kind of you know, snowballing, but you do rip off the foreigner
and twenty two k win in the ten thousand dollar horse Championships. So what
would you do if that happened to you? Let's say we had I mean,
I have no idea what would happen half your bank rolling there? Yeah,
I mean I would I would freak out. I mean, I don't
know what I would tell you, Like I would, I'd probably freak out.
I'd probably try and like talk to some lawyers or like what can you
I mean, I don't know. I feel like this is one of those
spots where I mean, the casino has a lot of leverage. Yeah,
I mean, how can you prove anything. Are they gonna show you security
tapes? Do they even have security tapes from like whenever it was like the
last time you went till then? Like what if it's been like six months?
I mean Mike Rodonski doesn't live in Las Vegas. I mean what if
he hadn't been in Las Vegas since that stuff happened? Or like what if
you know, he comes out for like the wind stuff right like that that
time in Las Vegas. There's a lot of stuff here. Maybe there's some
high stakes cash games. So let's say he comes out in December. This
is all I'm just you know, hypothetical situation here. He comes out in
December, but it's been six months okay, since he's had money or since
he's seen his box. Yeah, so like do they have six months of
tapes every single day that they can verify? Know? Like how long is
it gonna take to go through that? Like it's all like it's a whole,
big, giant WTF and like I have no idea what you do.
Honestly, I would freak out. I mean obvious, the last time he
was probably in there was February during the Mix game series. But yeah,
this is a pretty pretty tough kind of situation for him. But you know,
you say he wasn't running that well. Had seven cashes this year in
yeah, like you know, but he's had some, He's had some,
Like I'm saying, he still had some deep runs. He had you know,
seventh in the Dealer's Choice, a tenth in the uh, the one
KPL. So he's still putting in the work. And like, if this
was me, I think I would have been I would have packed my car
up and hit a home. Yeah, I mean, he didn't mention there
that he was pretty much about to head home and still might head home to
take some time off before he comes back. Um, there are some big
tending to leave his money at the I think if that ever happens to you,
you're you're gonna be very timid to leave your money at any casino box.
I mean, or if you do, you're going to make sure that
you do do due diligence ahead of time, Like, Hey, this happened
to me before. What happens if this happens at this venue or at Balagio
again or whatever, you know, it might be Like I need to want
I want to know, like what's going on? The whole thing. It's
a shitty situation, you know, and hopefully it gets rectified. I don't
know what's going to happen, but maybe, you know, we'll see Mike
in a couple weeks or so and we'll fallow up again and see what goes
on there. But that was the update on the Blagio situation from Mike Gordonski
himself. And congratulations to Mike Gordonsky for winning the ten K Horse Championship because
he's on our fantasy's about to say, most importantly down the twenty five K
fantasy team. Yeah, so basically twenty five K fantasy. Just as a
quick little tangent here right now, HiT's our team and Team Lady Gaga,
which is ren Lyn's team, who are battling for the lead. You know,
we're kind of going back and forth. We held the lead for a
little bit. Ren Lynn's team has been absolutely crushing it, mostly because of
Chance Corneth, but they have a lot of high scores on their team,
but Chance Cornth is absolutely crushing it for them. And then Alex Livingston believe
it was his second final table the summer, and then he comes in second
place to Mike Gordinsky. So we're only closed the gap by ten points there,
but we'll take it. Okay, long way to go. As I've
said, you know, I'm still not feeling very confident. I just want
to be able to keep pace with wren Land's team. As much as they
are absolutely crushing it, I hope that we can continue to crush it.
We met with our captain today, Sean Deeb. We had a talk with
him because he was feeling super bummed out about messing up the twenty five kpolo.
That's what he said. He missed. He missed the field bonus in
the fifty study eight last night by one spot. Finished in nineteenth. Field
bonus is eighteen, so that happens. He had a big stack kind of
deep in the four hundred all online event last night, as did Stephens Song.
They both missed the field bonus in that um. Sean Deeb probably his
favorite tournament the summer, if not one of the twenty five kpolo, especially
with the numbers. Yeah, he was like, I ran it up the
seven hundred K then I just you know, kind of messed up whatever.
But he's basically been like effort, you know, I gotta focus tunnel vision,
let's go. I think he's gonna win two more bracelets the summer because
he is ready to go. Well, you know what's going to motivate him.
Player of the Year and his biggest rival right now Iam and Taucas is
putting up some points in the Millie Maker, and I think that's what we're
gonna talk about next. Hold on, we're gonna talk about the seniors first.
Then we're gonna get all well, come on, the seniors was it
was incredible. So this one thousand dollars Seniors championship eight thousand, one hundred
and eighty entries a record, okay, and it beat the previous record,
which was last year by what about a thousand, just about a thousand entries
nine nine yeah us um. Lonnie Hallett aka the Avenger is what he wrote
down as his nickname, A farmer from Canada, from Alberta, Canada.
He wins it all seven hundred and sixty five thousand, seven hundred and third
one dollars. Billy Baxter, the Legend, gets second. Dan high Miller,
another legend, he gets third. I mean this was and if you
guys didn't watch these the past two days of live stream. So remco and
I did day four coverage yesterday on the poker Go YouTube channel four free,
so that's where you can find that one. We streamed from when they got
down to three tables, so the final twenty seven down to the final what
six was it six or seven? Seven? Okay? And then today we
come back and we finished out the live stream also on the poker Goo YouTube
channel from seven down to a winner, that winner of course being Lonnie Hallett.
But the play was electric, it was wild. There was a yeah
going into it. Listen, you guys need to thank me. The entire
production staff needs to thank me. All right, come on, you guys
were fighting. You guys were fighting the seniors, and I said, the
play is going to be out of control. We have to stream it.
The stacks are shallow. These guys do some weird stuff. Okay. We
had Dan High Miller is like the weirdest player in poker. Like if the
fact that he had a big stack, you gotta put it on stream.
And Billy Baxter's in there going for number eight, like it was just the
whole thing was just wild. Okay. I was like, we have to
stream it. It's gonna be nuts, and it turned out it turned out
to be way more nuts than I would have ever expected. There was a
hand yesterday on day four between Dan High Miller and Ron Fesh that was the
most bananas thing I've ever seen, turn card eight of clubs, Himular's hand
getting that much stronger, and if Fesh is willing to call on the flop,
the forward pairing there doesn't really change the dynamics of this board. So
I expect he's gonna put more money in. I did not expect him to
lead, but here we go. Wow. If you're Himuler her, Donny,
your only option really is to call righten, Wow, he makes it
thirteen million, does fetch thing? He have aces and he's slow playing it.
How do you like him Miller's raise here, Donnie. I think he's
just trying to, you know, possibly get some value from hands like Jack's.
Maybe some tens also deny some equity. He does have that Queen of
diamonds in his hand, so a hand like an ace Queen of diamonds is
blocked. Oh my god, on him? Is this the craziest hand of
the entire summer? Oh my gosh. And Himler has to fade in Ace
or a king here on the river, more than fifty million in the pot.
Fetch has six outs to bust Dan high Miller and Shannon Fay. He's
scratching her head. Let's see the river card. I'm nervous for Dan high
Miller. It's a queen Dan High Miller with an enormous double up. Fetch
just has like the naked Ace High and it was like a bet and a
raise and a reraise. All the whole thing was he just watched the stream
because it was wild. There was a bunch of banger hands. There was
Oh book, who's coming your boy? There he is, he's he's coming
to rail. Mikey there he is. Look at him, Look at him.
He's pumped. And Phil Halmuth he's ready. Phil Hallmath is in the
building. He is here. Get him on the pot to rail. We're
not getting I'm not getting him on the body. He wants to watch his
buddy anyway. But Phil Holmeath is here. He has walked in the building.
According to Tim, Mike Matiso is down in chips right now. Yeah,
but Superman has just walked in the room just like oh look, he
walks right up onto the stage. I mean, this guy does not give
the camera is on. I can see he looks like he's gonna sit down
next to Do you want to play his cards for him? Phil? I
mean what, that's probably the best chance. That's his phone. He has
his phone in his face right now. Look at him. He's on the
in the middle of the stage. He hasn't one yet, Phil. No
one is allowed to go up there other than credentialed media tournaments down and of
course the player credential media isn't even allowed behind that spot because it gets into
cameras. But you know whatever, It's hell. He just reached across the
table to give a fist bump to the other player who's playing Mike heads up.
He just shrugged Mike Masso's hand to look like Masson Rickie is his opponent.
I mean, he gave it a little fist bump because he's like,
you know, I know I'm interrupting this whole thing because I'm Phil Halmy,
so I'll give you a little fist Yeah. So, I mean, but
anyway, back to the seniors, we'll kind of pay attention to what's going
on over there. But is he going to just stand inside the rail wall,
plays on the rail. He has a banner. When you have a
banner hanging in the horseshoe, he can do whatever the rules. Yeah,
I mean, yeah you can. I mean he's just do you over that
time when I think it was like two thousand and eight World Series and players
in the main event all had wristbands and you can only come in I don't
remember that you can only come into the to the Amazon room during the main
event if you had a wristband. Less insane, right, And I really
want to say it was it was Joe Hasham, but I'm pretty sure the
security got stopped him. He goes, where's your wristband? He goes,
I don't have one, and he goes, I can't let you in.
He goes, do you know who I am? I goes no, and
I go that's my banner. I'm pointed to his band. I swear this
was a Joe Hasham storry, but maybe it's my Australian Joe Hasham. I
think is here by the way. I saw something on his Instagram. I
think yesterday the day before, I wondered he played twenty five kilo. He
loves plo, he loves for a lot, but I don't know. I
mean, how do you pass up? You know that that field Phil Henry
I think is still on the stage, which is just like I don't even
know what's happening over there. I don't at all. I don't know whatever.
Let's just kind of pay attention. If anything happened crazy over there,
maybe we'll figure some out. Um. So the seniors event, so that
hand between Ron Fesh and Dan him Milner was absolute bananas yesterday, So you
can find that on the PokerGO social media accounts, you can find it on
the live stream from yesterday which is archived on the Pokego YouTube channel. And
then today you got another crazy and when it's Lonnie Hallett versus Dan high Miller,
I mean shades of Joseph Chong verse Jonathan Duhamel at the WSP main Event
Foul Table in twenty ten, when Duhamel and Joe Chong get it all in
three handed, as like the two biggest stacks. Duhamel has Chong covered John
Raisner sitting there short stacked on the sidelines, just like, what the heck
is happening. I'm just gonna make a whole bunch of money millions of dollars
in equity because Joe Chong decided to go nuts with a six. Was it
a six or a seven? I can't remember one of those same thing.
Duhamel's got two queens end of the line for Joe Chong because he's out in
third in this event. It was it was I think I think there was
like one hundred and like fifty million chips in the pot and Billy Baxter had
eighteen million, yeah and nothing. These two just get it all in on
a Queen jack four all heart flop with Dan high Miller has ace jack so
second pair, but he has the ace of hearts. He has a flush
draw um Lonnie Hallett has Queen four for top and bottom pair. It went
I think it went raise from Hallett, re raised from high Miller call,
then it went bet from high Miller raise all in call, and it's just
like what is going on? Billy Baxter looks like he's like in absolute shock
sitting on the sidelines because he's gonna get hundreds of thousands of dollars if this,
if this hand holds, the hand holds, High Miller's out and Billy
Baxter's just like all of a sudden heads up, like out of nowhere.
I mean, he had no chips comparative to the other two, and he's
just heads up out of nowhere. The whole thing was just out of control.
Billy Baxter. Of course, you know I said he had no chips.
He wasn't really able to mount to come back. This was Lonnie Hallett's
tournament to lose today and a lot of yesterday. He was yesterday for the
most of the day. He was on the outer table absolutely crushing it.
But then when he got out to the feature table, crushed at some more.
Is he the one that won the big the big aces King's hand right?
He had was yes here, he had his aces cracked by kings.
Then on the next hand he got kings to queens on the very next hand.
That's like this whole tournament was out of control. I'm telling you,
guys, And and the live streams aren't that long because the play went so
fast. I'm telling you if you want to watch some poker, rewatch this
stuff because it was absolutely bananas. Of course, Tim had to catch up
with the legend Billy Baxter, who was oh so close. Apologies to Lommy
hollow to an eighth goal brace well, Lommie hallowed. Afterwards, he kept
running around saying like, can you f and believe it? Can you?
What the f just happened? Like he couldn't believe it? Yeah, he
couldn't believe it. So, but afterwards Tim caught up with Billy Baxter to
talk about his running this event, coming close to number eight, all that
sort of stuff. His family was nearby watching him get heads up. His
third big it's his third biggest ASPI score, No, it's his biggest got
it? I mean, yeah, that makes sense. That makes sense because
a lot of his pretty much all of his goal bracelets were super or whole
right. Yeah, he hasn't won won forever. So and then the fact
that he was making a run in this heads up in eight thousand and one
hundred. Can I tell you how he sapped before we get in an interview,
how he sawted his career. You're ready? First second, first,
first, first, six eighth first second second. I mean, that's just
wild, all before the nineteen ninety The whole thing is crazy. And one
of the things a fun fact about Billy Baxter is that if you are a
professional gambler, he is the one who in the eighties won the court case
against the US government or whatever to allow a professional gambling to be considered an
actual job and like you can do your taxes accordingly and all that sort of
stuff. He was he was the one that went to court for that and
won that. Yeah, that was Billy Baxter. Everyone has a lot to
thank Yeah, of course, so he yeah, he, I mean,
he's proud of that as well. So here's the interview with Billy Baxter after
his run in the seniors event. Billy, congratulations on second place. Not
very often you get three interviews when you finished second, but here we are
with you. Yeah, you're right. Second don't rule me much. Usually
it doesn't. This is the eleventh time he actually heads up for a wa
pretty bracelet. And I want to say, it's probably the first time that
your wife here, you had your son here, you had grandkids. Right,
that must be a pretty good experience by itself. Well it was.
Wouldn't it be a Billy Bax interview without talking a little bit about lowball?
And I want to know, what do you love about lowballs so much?
But you know what I tell you the truth, there's a reason I never
entered the main event of the World Series. I lived here for twenty something
years from seventy five. I finally played in ninety seven when when Stewart won
the main event, I staked him. But I also finished fourteenth a little
bit in that particular main event. My first time I ever played, I
finished fourteenth. And the reason I never played was because when I first came
here, they were playing five hundred dollars any thousand and two blind, no
limit deuced to seven, no cap. Had the dunes which is where the
blad Joe is in with the two owners. There was Major Riddle, sid
Wyman, the two guys, and they were both in their seventies. And
I had never played, and I saw all those old guys over there playing
big like that. I mean, they wouldn't to lose a million on a
day, and it was the biggest poker game ever. Anyway, to make
a long story short, I said, well, Sherla and played with those
old guys. I was thirty five then, and so I started playing that.
Of course, Dole was in the game, another Hall of Fame of
Fred Farris, Bobby Ballwin played with us and me, and then we had
Major Riddle and sid and for dessert, we had a guy named Jimmy Shagra
who was the biggest drug deal in the United States at the time. He
lost about thirty million in the game in about three months. That's how big
the game was. And I don't know if you know who Jimmy Charger is,
but he's the guy that had the federal judge in Dallas, Texas shot
dead on his front porch. And Woody Harrells and the movie stars Daddy was
the hit man that they both did Life in President and so we were put
that was the poker game most unbelievable thing you ever saw. I mean,
like a typical win was a million. This is in nineteen seventy six and
seventy seven, And so I started playing that and Dole always wanted to push
hold of them, which was for his best game. So I boycotted hold
them. I would never even go to the horse shoe. I don't know.
I might have won the main eventable a few times maybe if I had.
I didn't play for twenty five years when I was at my best.
Yeah, but because I didn't want to get it started. Because the guy
I'm playing with, the owners of the dunes, why would want to encourage
hold them. So I wouldn't even go to the horse Shoe doing the World
Series for the main event. I only to go down for the low ball
game. Talking about praceles, you two have seven. Your wife mentioned your
first one was a stark silver plate. Now I'm wondering. You touched on
a little bit about you know, taking some time off and I'll play and
hold them. Do you ever look back and think, man if I played
more, if I played hold them back in the eighties nineties, maybe I'd
have ten fifteen races. Who honest, I don't want ever say that,
but I often thought exactly what you said. Other words, I never played.
I mean, and that's when I was thirty five in playing my very
best, but I wouldn't play the main event. But finally, when the
first time I ever played, it was ninety four, now I was fifty
something. Yeah, I came in fourteenth then, So who knows what would
have happened. It's not easy to win, but you might be right.
I might have want to call. I want to get your thoughts on the
Hall of Fame. You're inducted with TJ. A few years ago now,
when they were doing two. Now they're just putting one a year in.
Do you think maybe we need to go back to putting two people in the
Hall of Fame each, Yell, you know, if you had more people
that were qualified for it, I would say, as it was as if
the ones that are really qualified, yeah, they should get in. If
it takes putting into who at the time, I'm not against that, but
I like to go buy Dolls Old saying, a lot of people sometimes they
get put up because they won a few tournaments. Doll always, when people
like yourself ask him that same question, he always had the same as they
came around, asked him about phil Ivy, and we know he's a great
player. They said, this new kid come around and phil Ivey, what
do you think about him? Doll And he says, well, they say
he's pretty good, he says, but check back with me in twenty years
and I we'll see how he passes the test of time. Yeah, so
that would be pretty much. You know, there's a different criteria, Dolls.
The idea, which I thought was good, was like you played high,
you're won, and your last a long time, and so a lot
of people that are put up for it never played high and I don't know
the rest. Yeah, last question for me, just coming back to the
loveball real quick. I think he won the second. Earl Limitt used to
five love ball pray. Next year they introduced a jarko tell me about Can
you tell me why the drucker came in? I don't know, but I
don't like the joker, but it just kind of puts a little too much
value on a card with whoever happens to get that. So but I mean
it's okay, everybody's got the same chance to catch it. I don't even
think they have the draw ace to five anymore, do I went you know,
that was the only game in California at one time. It was called
California lowbo and the state law was you could only play ace to the five
because it was the only game of skill. That was the law in California
for many many years. If you were playing something else, they might take
you to jail. Now, I don't know what's happening. Mike Mouse.
I was flying on on his scooter, camera running. Phil Helmy is running
behind him. This guy guy is running next to Helmuth to get a selfie.
I mean, this is just it's just wild. Where does Helmy stay
when he's out here? Did you stay here? The nine iri? I'm
guessing. I mean just he has a he has a room, you're not
he has one on this side. Yeah, of course, I mean that
makes sense, all right. Fifty hundred all millionaire maker looks like forty players,
forty one something like that. Forty one players from a field. We
talked about this before, a field of ten thousand, four hundred and sixteen
entries. The largest millionaire maker in dubsp history, the largest fifteen hundred dollar
buy in poker tournament in dubesp history. The payouts are a little bit wacky.
Okay, we haven't talked about this yet, but the payouts are for
sure whacky. So first place is one point two million, second place is
one million. It's one million, two hundred and one thousand for first place,
it's one million, three thousand for second place, and then third place
is six hundred and fifty thousand. I mean, I don't know where they
got these payouts from, but this is whack the magic the magic payouts.
Man. Yeah, but like I think I think our guy Sam Cosby like
put this into chat GPT and it's spit out amazing, except that everyone just
got that money back for the lower pays. Yeah, well we could adjust
that. I mean, we can fix that. I mean, but this
is just this is this is wackiness. And then if you look at I
mean, that's that's the top of the payout ladder board. If you look
at the bottom, it's wacky too, because it goes like it's like a
jump of like two hundred dollars, then a jump of like three forty,
then a jump of like two forty. Like it's like goes, I don't
know what's happening. They're down to forty one players. There's a whole crap
ton of chips all over the place in this thing. The chip leader Andreas
Knep aka Ryo, Yeah, is what he goes by. Nineteen point six
million champion Douglas is still in what is this field? He's got sixteen point
six million Pavel Pavel PLUSOV champion, Yeah, and I think he crushes online
as well, thirteen point nine million. Benny Chen's in there. Eric Lingren
is still in you already mentioned earlier. Ian Mataukas is already is still front
runner now maybe ye Roberto Romanello like just decided to like appear in the tournament.
Harn my turn is back and crushing a former EPT channel. Yeah he
did. Yeah, I mean I saw like I last year, but you
know, I hadn't seen him in a while when I saw him last year,
and now he's back this year crushing again in another massive field. Blair
Hankel, Yeah, is out there, David Odb Baker is out there.
Odb Baker last night got a bit of good fortune um when he got when
he had Ace King and I forget what the other guy had, but he
hit Broadway on the River to win a big pot um and then you know
has done well today making day four I believe it is in this event.
So what are they guaranteed? The imprizement has to be like forty thousand,
right, I mean this is like massive, ten thousand, four hundred runners
in this tournam forty thousand and thirty six five seven, six thirty six.
Yeah, I mean that's just wild. So because of this tournament being so
great, we made some adjustments to the Poker Grow streaming schedule. Yeah.
So on Tuesday, June twenty seven, and you guys are listening to this,
we will be streaming day five of the Millionaire Maker. Is it Day
five? Day no? Day four? Day four of the Millionaire Maker.
We'll be picking up the action starting at two pm Vegas time, and we'll
take it all the way down till there's a final table of I don't know,
seven, six, five, whatever the heck they decided to stop at,
and then they'll come back the next day and play it out. Yeah,
okay, so we're gonna give you both of that stuff on the Poker
Go YouTube channel. I mean, this event ten thood runners, two seven
figure prizes up top. I mean, it's just absolutely wild, super good
field as well. I'm sure the play is going to be a lot of
fun in this one, so I'm really looking forward to it. Happy that
we were able to move those puzzle pieces around mostly Tim over there, he's
the one who does all the puzzle piece moving and get this done. So
two pm on Tuesday on the poker Go YouTube channel, Ramco and I are
going to be on the call for Day four of the Millionaire Maker, and
then Wednesday we'll also have the Millionaire Maker. We'll have the inclusion of it.
Time is tbd. We'll figure it out depending on how long they played
tomorrow and then we'll adjust things accordingly. But next two days on the Pokegrow
YouTube channel you can check out the Millionaire Maker conclusion fifteen hundred dollars seven card
stud Hillo. This is the one that we've been, you know, yelling
about with Mike Madisow up against marsin Hereki heads up for the one hundred and
fifty five thousand dollars first place prize and of course the World Series of Poke
Gugi bracelet. So I guess if you were nominated for the Hall of Fame,
you're just gonna win a bracelet? Is that how this is kind of
going? Jeremy Osmas did it, Brian Rast did it? Now it looks
like Mike Madisow, at least he's heads up, has a chance to do
it. If Mike Madisow, you know, comes from behind, he's currently
you know, a little bit of a four to one chip disadvantage. I
think that means Norman Chad's gonna win a bracelet as well, and Mass Savage.
Can we really leave in a world when Norman Chad and Mats Savage of
WSP bracelets? I don't think I can. I mean, but if we
follow what's going on this year, then they're a lot. No, Norman,
she has not gonna win Embrace. It's just not happening. Sorry,
I mean, I don't know what they want me to tell you this fifteen
hundred dollars seven card stud Highlow Event, five hundred and sixty six entries.
Is that a record has to be It feels like I feel like it has
to be a record. I mean, I've not done research on that one.
I mean, just it's twenty twenty three. Yet some of these low
limit mixed games are more popular than ever, which is just absolutely wild.
Oh it's great, of course, but yeah, Brian Rast made the final
table in this event. Speaking of Brian Rast makes the final table, he
goes out in seventh place, Chris George finished eighth, and Coo Sachow like
a flex took ninth place in this one. Um again, that's a Mike
mattisou is currently heads up versus Marson he Reki. They're on break right now,
so we're likely not going to finish this while it's on the podcast,
and then we'll talk about it Haunt the next show, the twenty five thousand
dollars pot limon Omaha High Roller. I got a lot of stuff to say
about this event. I mean an event four hundred and forty nine entries.
To put that into context, last year this tournament had two hundred and sixty
four that is in insane number. And then what did the what did the
twenty five K no limit hold them twenty five k higher? So this is
this is a twenty five K PLO eight handed. The twenty five K no
limit hold him eight handed? That was the one that was won by Isaac
Haxton Um kind of towards the beginning of the No. Three hundred and one
entries total, that's the six handed one. Yeah, I'm looking at the
one that's more apples to apples, three hundred one entries. The PLO twenty
five K got four forty nine, one hundred and forty eight more entries than
that no limit hold them one. I mean that is just freaking wild.
Comparing it to last year's twenty five kpolo event, same structure. You know,
some people were asking me earlier today when we were talking about the numbers,
they said, well, was last year also two re entries? Yes,
it was, okay, So that's you know, closer to the comparison.
Now, the twenty five K Nolan hold them eight hand that we just
referenced the one that Isaac Haxton one was only one reentry. Okay, so
a little bit different there because those guys likely to fire a couple more rantries
in there and at least close the gap, if not surpassed what we saw
in the high roller. But nevertheless, I mean this freaking twenty five KPL
high roller is just out of control. Okay. Two point two nine four
almost two point three million dollars for first place in this tournament, if you
can believe it, that is wild. Second place is what also a million
some one point four yeah, and then third place is like just shy of
a million. It's like nine hundred and eighty five k or something, So
just absolutely wild. Danny hannahwa eliminated on the money bubble. The money bubble
was pretty wild over there. Um. A lot of people were all on
on kind of different tables. The money bubble took a while. Chance Corner
said that he was loving it because he was the chip leader, and if
not one of you know, the summer of chance just continues. You got
Ben Lamb is over there crushing it as one of the big stacks. Dylan
Wiseman, Dan Zach Chance Corneth who we just mentioned, Isaac Haxton, who
we've just talked about because he won the twenty five Kate Noleman hold him high
roll or eight handed. He's also still there. Sam's overall doing it for
our fantasy team. Is over there, Kakwan law Yury Zebleski, Yannie yukiman
In, Jeremy Osmas, Brandon Adams. I mean the names are just wild.
I think was over there one part the money, yeah, I mean
yeah, there's lots of crushes. I mean the whole thing. It's just
Dash Dudley was in there to carry kats, make it into the money.
I'm guessing it kids carry he's making well, he was all he was.
He moved his chips in. What did he have he had acess this carry
cat. Yes, So I mean this thing is gonna be wild. So
the plan is to stream the final table of this one on Wednesday. Stay
tuned to schedule changes because with how big this field is, maybe it gets
bumped today. I don't know, it's down to forty nine, okay,
so then we finish with low forties, get down at seventh. That's that's
news because this you know, I mean, so such your timers or schedules,
calendars, whatever it is for Wednesday, because this one will be streaming
on Poker Growl and it is absolutely wild. I mean the PLO stuff.
I mean, I think that this this event is like I also look at
it kind of bigger picture. We obviously did the first ever PGTPLO Series um
in what March February? I can't remember one of those one of those months.
It was awesome at the studio. Okay, um, we have the
second one is gonna be coming up in October and I think it's October eighteenth
through twenty eighth. It's ten events. There will be a twenty five thousand
dollars championship bonus, just like there was last time. That was the championship
bonus that Lataro Guerra won for he won three events, he had seven hundred
and seventy four points, blew everyone else out of the water to become the
PLO Series champion. So we're gonna be running it back a lot of fun
stuff. Of course, there is the twenty five k PLO Championship event as
part of that series. If you're interested in that series, PGT dot Com
will have the details. Okay. Now, one of the reasons why I
think, you know, these PLO tournaments always seem to draw really well,
it's just that there's the PLO players. They don't have a lot all year
round correctly, you know, like they have obviously, you know a handful
of events at the World Series of Poker, Like they just had the ten
KPLO Championship, which had a record setting field seven thirty one entries, incredible
turn out there. They have this tournament absolutely massive, four and forty nine
entries. They still have a fifty k PLO high Roller coming up. I'm
guessing that's just gonna be insane, right, I mean it's probably gonna it's
probably gonna be a three million dollars first place prize, I mean, isn't
it at this right? Yeah, I mean it's gonna be wild. I
mean it's gonna be bananas like. And I feel like everyone everyone that was
like, you know what, I'm gonna sell to play the twenty five k,
I feel like, are now gonna be like, I gotta sell to
play the fifty k. Let's they see those numbers stop going out. Yeah,
yeah, I think it's absolutely wild, you know, I think it's
time that, you know, someone like a World Poker Tour comes out and
does a WPT main Tour event as PLO. I think it's idea why the
WPT has a good long twenty year history of it's more than twenty year.
Oh yes, it is more than twenty. My math is a record of
non limit holed in main events. Who cares? I just keep it that
way. You can do some fun stuff. Yeah, just added to the
series. Doesn't need to be part of the main too. The WPT PLO
Championship, that's what needs to happen. Unlike it. It has to be
a ten k buying that yes, you likely do it at the win in
December as part of that you know, behemoth of a series. Okay,
and then that's that's your one every single year. And if it's a ten
k, you could probably even make it a fifteen k just because that's another
thing about the PLO guys. They like higher buying, like the bigger the
better, like that, like these these guys that play like obviously you get
a lot of the guys that, like we just mentioned, you know,
the Ben Lambs, Dylan Wiseman, Chance Corneth, Sam Silbrol you know,
et cetera, et cetera. The fins are all all out all that sort
of stuff. You know you're gonna get those guys. But then like the
unknowns that are in the field, you can tell are just like high stakes
PLO cash game guys you know that come out for like their shot and like
a ten k, twenty five K or k or all of them, you
know. So that's why I think if you're like a World Poker tour,
you look at this and you say, yes, like it's time, let's
do it, and they could do I think they could do a ten k,
and I think they could probably get three fifty to five hundred runners easy
easy, easy, slap a nice fat guarantee on that thing and here we
go. But I also think that come pgt PO series who might need a
bigger studio because these numbers are absolutely out. I know, it's awesome.
Though it's awesome, I think the loud cheers that we're hearing are mattis how
they have to be. They're coming from that side of the table. Maybe
he just scooped a pot. Maybe he took a scoop a pot. So
that's the twenty five PLO high roller that is of course going to be streamed
on Poker Go on Wednesday. All right. The five hundred dollars salute to
Warriors. Another absolutely gigantic field here at the World Series of Poker. This
one had a five hundred dollar buying, had four thousand and three one hundred
and three entries, almost two hundred and eighteen thousand dollars for first place.
They are getting close to two tables remaining. They just had the three table
rejaw. Looks like there's about nineteen or twenty players left, so yeah,
this one's playing out very nicely. More than one hundred and seventy two thousand
dollars was donated to the United States sorry, the United Service Organizations, so
the USO and other veteran organizations. That is absolutely incredible. So you know,
good on the WSP for partnering with the USO and other veteran organizations for
that one. A boatload of money is going to those causes. The three
thousand dollars limit hold them six handed, two hundred and sixty three entries.
There's about twenty three remaining, or so four tables. More than one hundred
and sixty five thousand dollars for first place, three timesp goal Obracter winner.
David Bach the gun Slinger. He's on our fantasy team, Babe, Let's
go. He's second in chips. Let's go, David, Let's go.
Saw him walk into his room the other night. He had two pizza boxes
in his hand. My kind of man, my cat. He's fueled up.
He is fueled up and ready to go. David. If you're listening,
you need a pizza recommendation, let me know, Okay, let me
know. He's definitely not listening. I don't know, man, he wears
headphones. The funniest thing, The funniest thing like watching David Bock play,
but also like if I was at the table specific most specifically right next to
him, what would tilt the living half out of me? Is he has
his chips like a whole footy, like to his left, like basically in
the other person's space. Like it works in this tournament because it's six handed.
Whatever doesn't matter. But like, if you're at a nine handed tables
playing like stot high something, bro, get this crap? I wonder what
are you doing? Yeah? If he was sitting in the five state of
the full state, good luck, but yeah, you know. I had
a guy today in my three K table who was to my left. We
were like shorthanded. To start, we were six somebody somebody busted we got
down to five. Then you know, the table starts filling up or seven,
we're eight. The five seat was open when we were eight handed,
five seat comes okay, so now we're nine handed. So I'm in the
sixth seats, so I adjust myself probably two inches to the left because the
five seats got to get in and sit down. Yeah, and I Angela
Jordanson was in the four seat and she was like, we were kind of
close to the five seat because there was no one in the five seats,
so we both moved. The guy to my left like a smaller gentleman,
not big in it by any means, Like it's like, what are you
doing. I'm like, what do you? What do you? I'm like,
he's got to sit down, Like he's like make them square up,
and he's like pointing to the one in the two seat, and I'm like
this guy, mind you. Tim is like sprawled the f out of the
table, like he's like leaning over the table elbows out, foot is all.
I'm like, dude, if you just sat up straight. You're like
half my size. Just sit up straight and we'll be fine. Like,
I'm what what it was wrong with these people? Anyway? Event of the
day right there, Huh, that's Donnie's event of the day. Well,
the guy who took the five seat was beyond tilting. Beyond tilting. I
mean this guy was like he immediately sat down and started talking about how he's
optimized his sleep and this and that, and like how he eats now and
he's gone vegan and like you know, all this sort of stuff and how
he wants the World Series of Poker to go on as long as possible because
he believes the longer goes on, the more his edge just goes up and
up and up. And I was like, oh my, can you just
feel no. He he like was kind of just talking to himself, like
he he wasn't prompted in any of this. Like he knew one guy at
the table kind of because they had played before, so he like said hello
to him or whatever, and then he would just launch into these things and
I'm like, what are you even talking about? And then he would like,
you know, somebody would play a hand. He would start commenting on
the hand and like this whole thing. I'm like, oh my, leave
me alone. Three thousand dollars, lemon hold him? Uh six handed?
David Box second and chips. As we talked about, Tommy Coral's over there,
still kicking Nick Pepillo, who just want a bracelet? Not too long
ago, this this summer, he's over there still Dan Shack. Also the
summer of Dan Shack. He's doing well over there as well. Oh he's
in the top time PGT hat and the polka goes him in the hallway absolutely
bull rushing people, is running them over. Knocked that lady right over.
Oh man, he didn't really knock, right, I mean something out of
a hand, Yeah, I mean it was just he's just Dan Shack.
He's on his phone, he's not paying attention. You're trying to put in
some trading. Yeah, probably he's trying. You know, he's gotta get
things ready for the market to open tomorrow. Yeah, um, all right,
and underway today the three thousand dollars, no woman, hold him,
freeze out. I played that. I busted that. That was not fun.
I played like an absolute baby. The first hand lost my chips handle
a. Joryson got me. Then I rana bluff against some guy who,
like I was pretty sure that like everything was correct on my end. I
think I might have got the river sizing wrong. I probably should have been
all in, but whatever, Um that didn't work out because he had two
pair and it was just a really dumb spot. Um. So yeah,
the whole thing was just a little bit frustrating, just one of those days.
And then I get it all on button versus small on ace jack for
me, nines for that guy, the guy who you know was sprawled out
all over the table. Obviously there's no justice in the world. He just
wins and eliminates me so he can get more space at the table because he
wasn't taking any you know exactly the bus. That's just that's how it goes.
But big Field over there almost sixteen hundred entries more than six hundred and
seventy five thousand dollars for first place. They're getting close to the money.
I think it's like two forty two fifty right around there. Something like that
got Daniel Lazarus, Matt Burkey, Robert Coon, Robbie Ja Lou probably playing
in the Jack four. Ran Lynn of course, of course ran Lynn somewhere
runs. I mean, the guy just doesn't. Jeff Platt was over there,
Tony Dunce was over there. Ian Steinman was over there. He had
a lot of chips and he had a beer. So I think things are
going well Leicester Stemon, Let's go Ian Steiman. Of course, on our
fantasy team, you had the fifteen hundred dollar no limit deuce to seven single
draw kicked off today. They're over five hundred entries in that tournament. Really
fun tournament. I wish I didn't have to miss it, but I told
myself, I need to be disciplined. While I'm focusing on Nolaman hold him
can't be playing the Nolmitt Douce. He won't even jump into two fifty horse
with me. I won't focus. I'm too focused. I'm too focused,
trying to just stay focused, focused, focused. Michael Trivette and Alan Kessler
appeared to be among the chip leaders at the time of recording. Of course,
you guys can check out WSAP dot com for further updates on those events,
and we'll be talking about them as they progress. What's coming up?
So on Tuesday, we have the one thousand dollars Super Seniors this is sixty
years or older. The Seniors Championship was fifty years or older. How many
entries is this gonna get? I think last year was like twenty four The
way things are gone, yeah, I mean the way things are going,
I think three four thousands probably in play. Who the heck knows? UM.
I still think Seniors High Rollerbysically, let's go fifteen hundred dollars half and
half. That's a fun tournament. I should be able to play half of
that. They should have a half and a half tag team eventum half and
half um. That kicks off on Tuesday. Also on Tuesday, ten thousand
dollars Stud High Low Championship. Honestly, probably my most disliked tournament or something
of the ten case. Why it's just Stud split Pot East Coast. You
should be love. I like playing Stud Highlo. I'm just saying from like
watching my past reporting, I'm just like, yeah, Stud Hilo, I
could you know, I'm but obviously it deserves be on schedule. I'm not
saying that. I'm just saying, like, you know, let me know
when the final day will happens. You have the six hundred dollar Deep Stack
Championship on Wednesday, Tim says he's playing man Imanda Darai. Are you gonna
max late Redge? You should max late reg Um. I haven't looked at
the structure for this one, so I'm just in. This might be my
last WSP event of the summer. Bro. You should just max late Redge.
It's probably better for your EV. I don't know what's happening. Somebody's
winning something. An update mattis I was down five to one in chips,
so I'm not sure what that sharing is fall probably the other guy. Do
you have the five thousand dollars Nolan and hold him six max? That's where
all the killers will be on Wednesday, So Tim's gonna be playing the non
killer tournament, the Deep Stack Championship, a great tournament. Can I get
in that? Yeah? Of course jump in. Actually, now you don't
commentary of the Millimacro final. Yeah, I gotta do the comments first,
pretending how quick that goes? You could max late Redge. I could,
Yeah, that'd be good. We'll see how that quickly that goes. Five
thousand dollars Nolan hold him six max is also on Wednesday, and then the
fifteen hundred our pot limit Omaha High Low is also on Wednesday, so a
lot of stuff coming up. Of course, we're gonna have all that stuff
kind of finishing out that we've already talked about. You shared a tune into
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are with us all summer long and watching as history unfolds once again. What
is your updated number? I have two questions for you. These are like,
not on the rundown at all, but whatever. One's easy. One's
going to be a conversation. What is your updated number? On the Dusty
main event. I feel like we have to do it daily now, just
like with these turnouts, definitely more than anything before. I think we're gonna
go of a nine thousand. I'm just wondering if five digits are in play,
if I'm being honest, honestly, I kind of feel like they are.
I mean, I don't even know what to say. I mean,
why na if why I get something insane where we should will be like fearful
because one he's always the smallest. That's gonna be the indication of how the
rest of the flights go. Yeah, I mean, I'm I'm gonna try
and play and play Day one. See I'm gonna say this right now,
if you're thinking about playing, I don't see how you can play Day one
D. It's probably gonna be ten handed. They're probably gonna be all I
mean like and that that usually happens, or it gets close to happening every
year because everyone waits till Day one D. Yep, Like I would say,
try and play a different starting flight. And also you could also say
that day to day will most likely be and then you can register on the
day twos as well. So yeah, it's gonna be wild. I think
it's gonna I mean, I'm my number coming into the summer was nine.
I think I'm at like ninety six right now, you know, I mean,
a lot of it's gonna be They still have a lot of satellites coming
up. Um, they obviously have the twenty five seat scramble that's that's taking
place are gonna take place upcoming on WSP dot com. So they got that
they have all those live satellites, those megas that happened here at the World
Series of Poker. So I mean, I don't know last okay, the
biggest year ever, right, two thousand and six. Yeah, we had
eighty seven hundred players. Yeah, first day one this is the first time
ever. But Day one A two thousand, one hundred and thirty eight players.
Then the next three days it was four flights literally the same number.
You know, every other year, there's always a massive difference. So you
know, we look at last year when espine Day one A less than nine
hundred, Day one D four thousand, three hundred and seventy entrants. Yeah,
and I remember, and I remember I played Day one C last year,
and I remember a lot of people were they were like warning people ahead
of time, like Day one D is gonna sell out, it's gonna be
packed, like all this sort of stuff, like you know, you can
adjust your starting So a lot of people switched to Day one C because of
that, and there was a lot of talk around about people that were planning
to play Day one D. They ended up playing Day one C, which
I think I think you'll probably see a bit of as well. So it
kicks off on July three, So then July fourth would be obviously Independence Day
here in the US, so it's when all the Europeans will play. Yeah,
so if you're gonna play that day, I just want to know when
the Brazilians are going to play. And I don't want to play that flight
because the Brazilians are a bunch of animals out here, and they continue to
eat me a light every time I sit down, So I would like to
avoid the Brazilians as much as possible. I only have starts going back to
two thousand and six, and that actually excludes oh seven and the online year.
But every year but three day one A has been the smallest, and
every year the last flight, whether it's one s or one day, has
always been the biggest. So take that data and do what you want with
it. You know, maybe that means you want to play one A.
Maybe that means you want to play one day. If we're talking about day
two entrants, don't have them right currently for last year, but still getting
a decent amount of you know, Day one like day two entrant. So
yeah, you know, I mean it's gonna be It's gonna be wild,
it really is. I mean, I can't imagine it's not a record setter,
like I just can't see that happening. And then it's from there,
it's you know, how big is it going to be? If one I
has, you know, anywhere around twelve hundred, I think it's it's we're
gonna be flooding with ten thousand. Yeah, and then I just want to
quickly touch on one thing before I ask you my next question. But we
did have, jesse Porter wrote in. He asked a question. Oh yes,
so, he said. Jesse Porter wrote into podcast app poker grow dot
com. If you have any questions that are burning up, you can send
him in. We'll answer them, maybe we'll read them on the show,
and you know, we can help out some people. But Jesse said,
this year will be my first time playing the main event. Let's go,
Jesse. He said, I'm curious what time play usually stops every day.
That might be some valuable info for other listeners as well. Tim responded said,
if there are no delays, the schedule calls for a twelve fifteen am
finished time. But once you add the shuffle up and deal, you know,
especially on the day, once you know they'd like to do, like
Lisa vander Pomp, or this person or you know that sort of stuff,
so they make a big thing of it, understandably so and then the final
few hands countdown can take a little bit. So twelve thirty, twelve forty
five in that range. Um, I would guess you're for sure out of
here by one am, Like that's probably safe, just to say. I
mean, there might be some delays here and there that kick things forward,
but you know, overall between twelve and one, give or take a little
bit, you know, so that's what you should plan for. So,
UM, I would say, bring a water bottle for sure. There are
like water dispensers jugs around the rooms, so bring a water bottle so you
can stay hydrated. Probably bring a like a power pack or a charger for
your phone, a portable one that you can have. And then bring a
sweatshirt because it gets kind of cold in here at times. If you're getting
the most important thing, what's that Bring the Lucky podcast if you have.
I don't, I mean, we're we're already out of him, so I
can't, you know, I mean, I don't know how many more people
can have any hats by the time we're done. At least fifty people that
are lucky out man. Yeah, okay, all right, So Jesse,
thank you for writing in. Um. I know Tim responded to you via
email, but you know, we wanted to share that with the people out
there. And my next question to you, Tim, it's something we've talked
about off the air, but we're gonna bring it on the air. Here
is I'm playing the three Kid today Anthony who walks by and he says,
so, are you gonna quit if you win? Yeah? I'll start laughing.
He's like, what do you mean it's gonna be seven hundred ky for
first place? It's six hundred seventy five thousand, you know, so yeah,
he was pretty much right. I said, what am I gonna do
with that? No? Nothing? That is like no, I mean listen,
that's a crap ton of money that isn't quit my job and like go
set on a beach money. Yeah, I mean that's like, yeah,
I'm gonna pay off my investors, you know what. That's like twenty percent
then the other money. So then I sam, then I have eighty percent
of myself, of which thirty percent of that is going to taxes. Okay,
then like what pay off my house? Like take care of like some
bills or like you know, put a new fireplace in the house. I
don't fucking know, like stuff like that. And it's like then I have
no money back to zero, you know, put some money away for like
my kids and like you know, like a money and like their college phone
or something I don't know, And the next thing, you know, it's
like I got nothing. So like, no, I'm not gonna quit.
He's like, yeah, you know, quit and play full time. Listen,
Anthony. You're probably not listening, but if you are, there was
nothing I would like to do less than play poker full time. I love
poker, I absolutely eff and love playing it. I love studying it,
but doing it every single day as your job seems like it seems so miserable,
and it's like, yeah, stressful, because like part of the reason
why I'm able to play poker and have so much faun and not feel so
much pressure is because it's not the job. Yeah, it's the side job,
you know. Like, yes, I still treat it, you know,
very disciplined, and I try to stick to a bankroll and like study
a lot and all this sort of stuff that said, like I can still
lose and I still know that. Okay, I'm gonna get a paycheck,
I'm gonna go to work, and I'm gonna be you know, I have
my money coming in. Like yeah, I mean, listen, kudos to
Anthony who because he always seems super happy, Like you see a lot of
these players and they look so miserable playing every single day, especially now you're
getting to that point of the summer when it's like people probably brick thirty five
tournaments and they're probably like, what the hell am I doing out here?
Type of stuff. Um, Anthony, for whatever reason, he's always seemed
to smiling like he and he I don't think he's had a ton of results
this summer, so I mean, yeah, so he just is always in
good spirits. But I would not be quitting. So but my question is,
like what would it take, like what sort of win? And I
pretty much settled on I would have to win the dustan event, like not
even second place, like no, I'd have to win it to just quit.
I mean working first of all, I don't even know well, I
mean, he phrases like you quit your current jobs, like you know,
would you quit your job? Basically? Like I mean, to be honest,
I don't even know if winning the main event, I would quit my
job. And the reason is is because if I'm playing the event me currently
in my current state, I'm not gonna have a one hundred percent of myself.
Even if I were to like win a satellite on club GG. Yeah,
but which is like basically free because I pay the fifty dollars a month
and do that whole thing, right, Like, even if I did that,
I would still sell action into the main event, you know, like
I would sell half myself. So let's say I have half myself. First
place in the main event is what ten million? We'll go off last year
spine, so ten million, I get five? Okay, then what one
and a half is going to Texas? So now I got three and a
half million. I mean, yeah, that's a lot of money. But
like I like my job. Yeah, I like being in poker. I
like the community, I like the people. I like what I do.
I think that like getting up going to work like gives me a purpose.
You know, maybe i'd go more to let me work four days a week
instead of five. But other than that, like I might just play a
little bit more. But yeah, you could play a little bit more and
you're more comfortable when you're playing. But like you start doing things like you
pay off your house. You maybe you get a new car, like you
do this, you do that with what we finish your pool in the backyard,
like you know, stuff like that, and it's like it's like there
goes half the way. You know what would be nothing would be more fun
than you know, let's say we win the main event this year, one
of us, and then down the road and a couple of months Pocka mosses
there Anthony who's playing a hand, you know, he bluffs the river and
loses to Sam Savrol. You're wearing the main event bracelet and field reporting like
doing live reporting. You got to Anthony, guys anything, and I think
that was the right play there, and then you just shake your bracelet in
front of it. Like doing stuff like that would be kind of fun.
Well, I would not be wearing the bracelet problem. But yeah, I'm
saying, like I think it would just take a lot to quit my job.
You know, I don't know, maybe I'm just being a knit to
be honest. I just thought it was an interesting question because I started thinking
about it. I remember when I was making that run in the WPT World
Championship. Morey texted me and said, if you win or you're gonna quit
your job. I was like, no, I mean or. He said,
if you finished top three, you're gonna quit your job, And I'm
like, I probably wouldn't quit my job if I want, so, yeah,
I mean, and that was four million or whatever it was for first
place, you know. So, I think the difference is both for you
and me, is we like our jobs. Yeah. We like working with
each other. I mean I do. I like working with you. Yeah.
Yeah, we like what we do. We like our job, and
we're also kind of in a way responsible adults where we like the paycheck.
We like it. But also like we've also seen how a lot of players
who do this every single day, ye are miserable because specific to tournament poker,
it can be a grind, it can be brutal with the variants,
like you can be playing your best poker in the world and you can just
be losing, losing, losing over and over again. On the other side,
you can play your worst poker and you can just be winning, winning,
winning. You know that That's what variance is, and it it takes
a lot out of you, you know, so it's hard. You know,
I would probably play a lot more if I had a big score,
but I probably wouldn't quit my job as well. You know, it would
allow me a little bit more flexibility and stuff. Of course, you know,
the vacations would get a little bit nicer that sort of stuff. You
know. But you're probably dB I a few more events, yeah, I
mean, you'd have more pieces of yourself, you know. Also also like
I mean, listen, I have no reason not to be transparent, but
like when Anthony asked me that question, like I know, I don't have
one hundred percent of myself. I mean I have a good amount, you
know, but I don't have a hundred. So and if I played the
main event, as I just said, like I'm not gonna have a hundred
ever, like I'm just not because it's just not for me. Like the
best the the way that I would have the most in the main event is
if I like somehow one like some crazy satellite. Yeah yeah. And then
but then even then I would like because you can sell, you sell,
you take some money, and you would do I would do a lot of
swaps because I mean, we know, tournaments especially big ones that go on
for basically two weeks. It's like there's a lot you have to get through
a lot of obstacles, you have to avoid all that sort of stuff.
Crazy stuff can happen. So if you're able to do a bunch of different
swaps, you know, you have a bunch more bullets in the chamber type
of thing. So anyway, I just wanted to like bring that on the
air because we have been kind of talking about it, you know, recently,
you know, playing our events and all that sort of stuff. Yeah,
it's great to like think, yeah, if I win seven or k
I'll quit my job. But then it's like when when you break it down,
like it's a lot of money, but it also can go fast,
is basically what I'm saying. And I don't want to like take away from
the the glory of winning stuff and how much it can do to you to
do for you to win all that money and all that sort of stuff.
It's all great. I just want to kind of like bring it back to
earth type of thing, you know, and kind of think about it rationally.
And maybe Tim and I are just being knits, who knows. I'm
sure we'll get some messages from people telling us we're being way too nitty,
but yeah, I can go all right, Well, that's gonna do it
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