Hello, everyone, Welcome back to another episode of The Poker Go Podcast,
the number one poker podcast in the land. What's going on, Tim,
How are you? I'm good, I'm very good. How about you?
I mean, I'm good. I guess I should introduce myself, although I'm
not sure that matters. My name is Donny Peters. I got Tim Duckworth
on the line with me. Apologize if his audio is a little less than
high quality this time around. He's on the What are you on a phone?
I don't even know what you're doing. I'm on my laptop, but
I don't have the normal MIC. I'm just using the whatever whatever microphone these
MacBook pros give us nowadays. I'm sure, I'm sure you sound all right
to me. Producer Rich Ryan's probably gonna yell at us in the morning.
Find the person that stole our little dongle, a little USB a USBC connector
that is disappeared, completely disappeared. Yeah, I mean, that's just sad,
that's unfortunate. All Right, We're gonna hit on the PGT Championship a
little bit of a combination of wrapping up PGT Last Chance, what just happened,
rolling into PGT Championship. We are recording this on Monday night pretty late,
I mean really late nine pm, late for non WSP season, but
not late during WSP season. And then the championship kicks off tomorrow or kicks
off on a Tuesday, I should say, which is probably today by the
time you're listening to this starts at noon. We'll have live stream that goes
live at two o'clock Las Vegas time. Two days of coverage pretty much from
start to finish, missing the first couple levels, but other than that,
we'll be covering the entire thing. As somebody will become the PGT Championship,
they will walk away with five hundred thousand dollars in prize money. It is
a million dollar free role. So the PGT Last Chance. For those that
are unaware or may have missed what just happened, First of all, shame
on you. Where the heck were you? Okay? I had to drag
my ass down to the studio at eleven thirty at night, stream till three
am, do the commentary, and then drive my ass home, so you
could have at least joined us. Remcon No, I kid, I kid.
But PGT Last Chance was exactly as the name suggests the last chance for
players to get into the PGT Championship event, last chance to earn some extra
chips via points, last chance to win some extra money. All that sort
of stuff was at play during the PGT Last Chance Series six events. Every
event had a ten k buy in. Pretty good turnout overall. I mean,
how do you feel about the turnout? I thought it was excellent.
You know, we went into this not really having a read on it.
I thought it was going to be a good series. I was very bullish.
I talked it up a lot, and thankfully the players supported me.
Showed up. We had great numbers, and unlike our normal events, the
ten k's we normally see, you know, the best number in event one
and then it drops off, you know, by five ten percent every time,
and trickles down this one, you know a little bit of a jump,
a little bit of a drop, and then it just stayed the same.
So it showed that people kind of cared about the dream seats. You
know, they wanted to play, they wanted to gamble, they wanted to
win money, get more chips, everything. So the concept was great.
Looking forward already to figuring out how to make this bigger and better for the
next season. Yeah, I thought the concept was a lot of fun.
I thought the players really took to it. Just hearing a lot of them
talk about the series and the fact that they understood it. They knew,
you know, all the different things that were up for grabs, both the
leaderboard, you know, the points with the chips, and then also the
dream seats for the top two people that weren't necessarily in contention to get into
the top forty. Heard many of the players, you know, very well
aware of everything that was going on and what this series meant, which which
you know, felt pretty good. I mean, it feels like we're building
something pretty good if the players are really caring to like learn it and become
aware of it. You know, Oftentimes, you know, you and I've
joked on this podcast before, like, you know, players complain about how
a structure is missing a blind level, or the anthe is too big and
whatever, and we're always like, you know, you guys can read the
structure of sheets ahead of time, and you just never seem to do it.
In this case, I feel like they all did their due diligence and
they all knew what was happening. Even on some of the streams or final
tables, you know, when one player might have had a question or about
maybe how something was working, the players all seem to know, like yeah,
like no, it's this this, I got to get this place or
you got to get that place, or you know all the different scenarios that
were I play, which was very cool. So I think I think the
sweating part of this was was great. And also you know the anti sweating
there's look, let's just be honest. Everyone any sweats someone in poker at
one point in time. We don't tell anyone man. Look, everyone only
anti sweat Tim when he texted me about the South Point nowt yeah, say
look, but in this one, it was, I want to say,
a little bit encouraged. And it was actually pretty funny, like you know,
some player, you know, Chino knocked out some player and then like
Arthur marrs like gave him a fist pump from the other table because like it
meant that, you know, now, like Arthur only had one lesson,
like he had one less scenario to think about, and it was actually and
then the reverse of that is a lot of people you know that weren't in
contention were cheering for Arta Mater Rozion to to keep doing well because that means
he would have been in the top forty. And then that dream seat drops
down. So there was like very open sweating and very open Andy sweating up
until the final event when, which pretty funny. Jim callap he Bus said
he was sitting at the bar, you know, we were just chatting friendly,
and he's like, you know, He's like, yeah, I'm sorry,
you know, I have to sit here and I'm just gonna wait,
I need five people to bust. He goes out to the bar. From
the bar, so back into the progress shot, he goes and he's like
he's talking to Max Coleman, who he's like battling against. He's like,
Max, he want you want to bottle of wine? You want a bear?
Do you want some do you want some alcohol? Like you know,
basically trying to like heckle him drunks drunk. And then Adam Hendrix also in
the same situation as Max, trying to get in. He went to the
bathroom and Jim said something to him and Adam was just like, this is
horrible because he knows that Adam, like Adam needs just the mincash to be
in the top forty, but he was shot in chips. He was battling
four other guys that were trying to get in the top forty in that final
event, like right down to the wire, it mattered, and I think
that was like the best part of this Hall series. Yeah, I mean,
I love the entertainment that the sweating of the of the leaderboards really provided.
So you know, I think that you know, if you just run
it back as is next year, it'll probably grow a little bit because I
think a lot of people kind of got word of how good and fun it
was, you know, I think those are additional two dream seats that rub
for grabs really pushed a lot of people to get in there and get involved,
which is great to see. One of the players that you know needed
to at least, you know, based on tim andized estimations, probably needed
some sort of result like cash or something in order to stay within the top
and that was Daniel Legrandu. And he just comes out and rips off the
victory and event number one. I mean, it was just it was kind
of funny timing with everything because he had just put out a YouTube video going
over his twenty twenty three stats where he had lost two point two or two
point three million, like his second losing year ever since like twenty thirteen or
something like that, lost a crap ton of money. You know, did
this whole thing about how like he kind of ran bad in a lot of
spots, and if you watched his vlogs, yeah, I mean when he
got his money, and he ran pretty horrible in a ton of really big
spots and really big tournaments, didn't really cash for a lot or have any
big scores. You know, I think his biggest score of the year was
like one hundred and twenty k stuff like that. Anytime he did go deep
at the WSP, it was like in a fifteen hundred dollars tournament or that
three hundred dollars Gladiators like stuff that was just like so small and took up
so much time that it was kind of crazy that Negranu even bothered to play
it. So there was that aspect, But then you know, he the
whole like the kind of the ending of the video that he put out was,
you know, twenty twenty four, I'm gonna kind of pull things back
a little bit in terms of the volume, and I'm gonna go quality over
quantity comes out and event number one of the last chance any sort of like
in the money result would be good for him to solidify his spot in the
top forty and feel a lot more comfortable. And he just rips off the
event the wind and event number one tops ninety one entries, beats Daniel Smilkovic
and heads up play gets lucky on the final hand too, so like after
a little bit of you know, having some fun with the whole bad luck
thing on it. On his video he smikes spikes a four outer getting his
money in pretty bad on the turn. He had Ace King on a what
a jack jack ten xport jack x ten four I think it was. He
gets it all in on the turn. Schmilkovitch has jack juice for Trips River
just you know, lovely lovely lady Mamasita, Queen Boom and the grand he's
there, wins two hundred and eighteen K. So you know that was just
right out of the gate that happens. You had the Arthur Martirosian you know,
story throughout because he wanted two events. You had, you know,
the two dream seat winners, Samuel Laskowitz and Dylan DeStefano, you know,
doing very well throughout ended up getting those two dream seats, which are going
to give them the right of passage to come compete in the PGT Championship Million
dollar free Roll. You had Chino Reem who was in the top forty,
then outside the top forty, then back in the top forty, so you
had that whole thing. You had a bunch of people like you mentioned Arthur
Morris. Arthur Morris didn't show up for like the first event or two,
and then he's like texted you and it is like I'm coming, I'm getting
on a plane, like so then he comes. Then he has to finish
in like ninth place or better in the final event. He does it like
you know, like all this sort of stuff is just happening. So the
sweat was a lot of fun going into the final event. There was like
a whole different bunch of scenarios that could have happened the two dream seats,
Like it could have been anywhere up to like twenty five players could have been
eligible to win one of those final two dream seats. You had like I
don't know, ten players that were either going to be in or out of
the top forty and then obviously people were jockeying for possession within the top forty
because the more points you earn over the course of the season, that has
to do with the number of chips that you start the PGT Championship with.
So all in all, it was a lot of fun from where I sat
every single night in the commentary Ruth alongside Remco Rinking. I mean, it
was just a ton of entertainment, you know, trying to break down all
the scenarios and see what was happening. I guess my only if I were
to change things right now, the only thing that I would change, and
it's not even like a change, it's more of like a In addition,
I would stream more of the final day because ultimately we got down to the
final table and we streamed seven handed, and like everything was locked in so
on that while that day itself was a big sweat overall and like that,
you know, we were talking in our whatsap chat and whatever, like,
there was a lot of stuff going on. People were going moving all over
the place, you know, people were in, people were out, all
this sort of stuff. But when we got down to the final seven,
all that had you know, gone away and it was just you know,
just played out and no big deal. So the one thing I would change,
uh is I want to next time add two plos. Maybe it's five
hold them and two plos. Just you know, there's some PLO guys on
the fringe, you know, they'll put everything they can into that. Maybe
you get some of these no limit guys like, okay, I really need
the points. I'm going to gamble and just try and run like the sun
in this game. I have no idea what I'm doing, you know,
and back and forth with the PLO. I think that would even make it
a little more you know, a little more fun that final you know,
few events. Yeah, I don't. I don't hate that. I think
that can work. I mean, overall though, I think you know,
you and I both agree that it was. It was a really good series
to wrap things up. It was a lot of fun. Obviously, the
sweats were incredible throughout, so you know, hoping that's not just the one
time thing. Hopefully we get sweats like that, you know, going forward
when we do run this thing again. So so yeah, very cool.
There As it pertains to the top forty, it's locked in. Things are
set you got Isaac Hackson on the top. Isaac Hackson, by the way,
we talked about him when we kind of gave our predictions, you know
how like he doesn't really need to show up because he's so far ahead.
I mean he played everything. I mean he was he was in there,
he was in there, and he was battling. He had two cashes.
He cashed for just about one hundred and eighty five K from these series.
I mean it's like it's like very much just like still the year of Isaac
Hackson. After all the success he had in twenty twenty three, you know,
he's started off twenty twenty four very much in the right direction again.
He finished a top the leader board with twenty eight hundred and forty seven points,
almost a full four hundred points ahead of Chris Brewer. Isaac Hackson's PGT
season was four victories and being Super high roller Bowl, four victories, fourteen
cashes, more than seven point two million dollars in earnings. He's gonna start
with the most chips because points equal starting chips for the PGT Championship. So
on Tuesday, he's gonna have what two hundred and eighty four thousand or two
hundred eighty five thousand in chips to start big line. Yeah, big blind
will be one k, so he's got two hundred and eighty five big blinds.
The top three are Isaac Axston, then it's Chris Brewer, then it's
Steven Childwick. Steven Childwick had a pretty good series for PGT Last Chance,
actually jumped from third or from fourth to third with some of the results that
he had. Daniel Weinman in fourth. You got Alex Fox in fifth,
Renland six, Sam Severall seventh, Nick Shulman eighth. I think Nick Shulman
moved up a bunch of spots as well. Stephen Jones another WSP main event
final table list. He came in second to Daniel Wyman. He's in ninth,
and then Jeremy Osmas rounds out the top ten. I got some notable
names. You got Eric Saidell in eleventh. You have Daniel Legrandu, who
I think he came in in what thirty fifth place and the win that he
got in event number one jumped him up to seventeenth place, So nice little
boost there. Phil Helmuth only played the final event, you know, kind
of max late reds like Phil Hellmuth always does. He dipped back a little
bit from where he was. He'll come in twenty first place overall or tied
for twentieth. What however, you want to consider that same thing. So
yeah, bottom of the leaderboard, the you know, the forty to get
in. So let's start with I'll start with thirty fourth because you have a
tie there, a three way tie. Alexander Reared, Toby Lewis and Juan
Monsierras all have twelve hundred points. Then you have Arthur Morris who got in
via his run in the final event, thirty eighth place. Opening Casseetchi Coglu.
Thirty ninth place was kind of a sweat, at least for me.
I wanted the defending PGG championship in this year's championship event, and that was
Jason Kuhn. But it was a sweat. He finished in thirty ninth place,
so it was a little bit of a sweat. But ultimately Jason Kuhn
held on. He did play some events no results though. Look that's the
thing. He played some events, you know, because he was on that
fringe, and we never see Jason Kern play a ten gay. So if
you want to gain the success of his series. I'm putting that as my
lead bulletpoint. And Jason Kern plays ten k no limit Holdham Tournament, and
then Max Coleman is the last player to get in via the top forty and
thirty seven points, so that in the final event it was Max Coleman and
it was Arthur Morris who moved from outside the top forty into the top forty.
And then they knocked out Jim Colliby and Ben Lamb out of the top
forty. So and then some of the players to you know, you had
you had call up in, you had Land Bubbling, Adam Hendrix, Andrew
Lucky, Chewie Lichtenberger, John's Arns, Jonas Cronwitter, Nachre Barbaro aram Aganian
and Dance Smith and then fiftieth place also outside justin Bonomo. So I mean,
listen, I think the field is pretty sick overall. Yeah, I
think we're going to bat like ninety seven percent in terms of people showing up.
Wow, that's that's pretty true. I mean, who's not showing up?
Ruslin Priedric, Yeah for sure. I mean unless he shows up,
but no one's been able to contact him. So Andretaos is not. He
is not he is what? Yep, it was the whole point of Adrian
Mitayo's playing the entire PGT season. Adrian, bro, what are you doing?
He is getting married? He didn't want to travel to Vegas again after
being here just you know ten days ago fall. Well you know what,
he could have been like Schmilkovich march Erosian and not left, okay because they
all stayed. Yeah, he could have come to my house for Christmas for
all I care. What's what? You know, what's he doing? Yeah,
well, I mean that's a that's a bummer. I thought for sure
we were going to see him. Same. Well, when we didn't see
him for the first couple of events, I was a little wired and I
sent him a text message and that's where he said, now I'm not coming.
So yeah, so I I thought the same. You know, we
didn't see him, I was like, oh, he's not coming. Then
I looked at his standing and I was like, oh, he doesn't really
need to come whatever. He can just you know, show up for the
for the event. Not a big deal. But yeah, that's a big
surprise to me. That's a bummer. Like someone else we didn't say like
Isaac Kempton, who we would have expected in every one of these events.
I was unsure and I sent him a message and he was like, no,
I'm just taking time off. He's taking time off, he's sweating the
bitcoin price. He's he's good to go. I don't know about Alex Koulev.
I talked to him at the wind He knew about it, understood everything.
Well, uh, we'll just have to see what happens. I guess
see if he flies back out here. I mean, I guess These other
w SPE main event final table players are interesting. So Daniel Wineman thinks coming
right, Yeah, yeah, he was flying in with josh I believe.
Okay, yeah, yeah, okay, they're here. Josh Aria is who
Tim has mentioned. He's in the top forty as well. Stephen Jones is
playing a Ballys Poker stream tonight, so he's in town. I checked on
that actually to make sure he was fine. Adam Walton lives in Vegas,
right, lives in Vegas. Has been playing some events around town, so
I'm assuming he's gonna be in this one. What about your boy Jan Peter
Yatman, he's here one of the raiderst Broncos game. Let's go there,
you go, h Leon stem is a he's a n here yep emails from
him. Okay, Sewn Winter is going to be here. Of course,
Max Newsbauer he said he's flying out here too. Yeah, I mean he's
like after he won WSP Europe main event, he was basically on the phone
with you being like, Hey, what's this free role? How do I
get in? How do I get there? I mean Dean Hutchinson, I
mean we have no he's he put him in the in the camp of Ruslim
Priedrick. We have no idea where they are or what they're doing. You
know, best efforts to contact them have just not worked. So what are
you gonna do? I would expect lou Garza to be there. Uh worried
about sweet I don't know why. I've just got this. I've got this.
I've got the heavy GBS about the sweet Lie. Darren Olias has been
here playing Last Chance. Of course. Masashi, Oh, he has been
here. He's been battling Masashi. I mean he wasn't really anywhere near the
top forty until December. Yeah, when he had a big WSP Paradise won
the Hunter k Ultra high Roller down there for his first w spgle bracelet,
so uh, Masashi, oh yeah, kind of coming in late, but
coming in there. Nonetheless, Archer Martirosian is gonna get in there as well.
Arch Marchin Rosine was pretty fun to sweat throughout because he was like in
sixty second place coming into the Last Chance Series. I think he also had
a pretty big December down in the Bahamas, and it was interesting because he
was really close to the top forty and like had some results. I think
he won at number two, so it gets even closer. But then he's
also the top guy on the series leaderboard, so like he wasn't like the
best spot out of anyone, because no matter what happened, even if people
overtook him on the series leaderboard, he could possibly get in via the top
forty. Like even if he got in the top forty, then he's already
locked in. He doesn't worry about serious. It was just a really great
spot for him. Ultimately, he wins two events, played extremely well and
it's kind of a treat, to be honest, to have him in here
because Archer Martin Rosin is one of the best high stakes tournament players in the
world. If you watch Triton Poker, the live students that they do,
you'll be familiar with march Rosian on the PGT Because he's from Europe. We
don't get this see him a lot outside of WSP stuff. But he was
here for Last Chance and he was playing it incredibly and I would expect more
of that for the championship event. So a bit of a treat there to
have him here. Josh Ari, as you mentioned, came in with Daniel
Weinman, so we'll see him. Alexander Riaired I mean you sat with him
at the wind with him, yeah, I mean so so he knows about
it, told him everything about it. I just got this, you know,
vote of no confidence from him, so uh yeah, I would probably
put him in the probably once c category. Uh. Toby Lewis was sweating
the leaderboard. Didn't play Last Chance, but lives here in Vegas and was
sweating the positioning, you know, kind of feeling like do I have to
come down type of thing. He made it in Juan massierras is he coming?
Uh yeah, he was. He was a little wired as well.
He was he was unsure if you know, if he would make it,
and he was asking me for my opinion in I go, Look, if
I was, if I was honest with you, I would book a just
if you book a flight and make sure it's a refundable one, and just
monitor, you know, monitor the leaderboard. So yeah, I think he'll
I think we'll see him. Who else Arthur Morris? Of course, you
know he's been here. He got in orpint such a collglue. I don't
know the I heard. When I was speaking to defending champion mister Kuhn,
I asked, you know, do you know if Orpen's coming? He said,
let me check, and then his next text message was don't think so
dang bump. He's also he's too rich for a million dollar for he is,
he doesn't care, Jason Kuhn, he'll be there for sure. He's
got to defend his title. And then we got Max Coleman in there as
well, so he so yeah, I mean, listen, it's a it's
a really good feel overall. I mean, you know, I think it's
pretty stacked all things considered. I mean, I guess I'll use the word
wild card, but it's not really wild card. I mean, like the
wild cards are kind of like the players that don't play on the PGT but
got in via some other big results, you know, mostly the guys who
made the WACP main Event, final table stuff like that. So they're kind
of I guess wild cards in a way, but they still make for a
good field. Is there anyone that you're like bummed that didn't make it or
didn't come out for last chance to try and get in, because there's there's
for sure one person that I'm bummed I didn't see for last chance, and
that's Alex Livingston. Yeah. So he was like talking about the leaderboard every
series. Every time he's like, I'm trying to get in the top forty,
trying to get in the top forty. I'm running back, but I'm
still trying to get in the top forty. But you know, and then
he doesn't come for this, and he was close exactly some of the names
that didn't play that we thought we were locks, Nacho Barbera, Brian Rass
already mentioned Alex Livingston. Yeah, Brian Rass, same sort of thing.
He like, he kept he kept showing up late. Brian Ress kept showing
up late to tournaments and like talking about making the top forty. Yeah,
I'm like, well, what what are you doing? Who was the last
one you mentioned, Bucky Matthew Wantman, Yeah he was, he was at
Borgata. Yeah, well you know, how about stay here? And I
mean, listen, I'm with you. There were there were a couple guys
I saw. I think I counted like three names that we lost from Borgatta.
The guy was kind of surprised to see Ben Wang not here just because
he's been so hot, so like, why not try and win the last
chance? Right? I mean I feel like if Ben Wang shows up,
he was gonna win one of the dream seats. I mean that's just how
it is. Obviously a lot of these these these like PLO guys we didn't
really expect to get in there. And I feel, you know what,
I honestly, obviously there's people that have got in that, you know,
haven't played that that much volume in the studio. Look, I do feel
bad for like Jim Callapy, Adam Hendricks, Lucky Chewy, you know,
even like Arama Again. Yet they were playing every event they were fighting for
trying to get in the leader board. They knew every scenario, Like you
could really see that they were wearing their like emotions on their sleeves, just
like wanting to make it and like how every decision was like so painful because
it meant so much to them, But just try and qualify for this like
PGT Championship. Yeah, no, for sure, I mean it was it
was a sweat till the end. So yeah, I mean it's gonna be.
It's gonna be a fun tournament, you know, going forward. There's
there's also of course that you know, there's the top forty from the leader
board, which I you know, I think Tim and I could probably say
we're gonna get thirty five ish, you know about there, which is good.
Then you have the two dream See winners from the Last Chance Series that
is Samuel Laskowitz and Dylan De'stefano. Now, Lasko Witch is interesting. He
played a lot of our events, didn't didn't have like a ton of success.
Five hundred and two points one win which came in event three during the
Last Chance Series, seven cashes overall, five hundred and twenty seven k in
winnings. If you just want to take everything based on where he is on
the leaderboard, one hundred and eighth place, and then DeStefano is pretty far
down as well one hundred and seventeenth place, but he also won an event
during the PGT Last Chance Series. Both of them put in a decent amount
of volume throughout the season, especially in like the ten K events just didn't
have a ton of results. DeStefano has been around for a bit now.
I feel like I've I've seen more of him Lasko, which is interesting because
you know, we first kind of got word of him. Twenty twenty two
WSP he makes the Colossus Final table, finish his second place. I think
there was thirteen thousand, five hundred entries in that one. He finishes in
sec in place to Paul Heiser, gets like a two hundred and sixty K
score, has some other scores since then that that score from the Colossus remains
his largest of his live tournament career, but has been playing a lot more
high Rollers recently made the found table of the five k NPT high Rollers had
some other cashes, cashes in PGT events, et cetera. So it's kind
of like a little bit of a new kid on the block type of story,
which I like. So it's good to see him get in there.
And then you know, Dylan DeStefano. I mean, he feels like one
of those guys who constantly shows up but just didn't have results. So it
all came in this this last Chance series. But you know, still good
for him, very good player, so it's good to have him in there
overall. So yeah, I mean I thought, I think it's gonna be
great. And then there's you know, so that gives us forty two where
a max of forty two if everyone shows up, but then there's like twelve
other dream See winners. Do you have those names Handy? Of course I
have that. Of course you have him Handy. I know, I know.
We gave away three via annual subscriber giveaways, and we talked about that
ad nauseum last year. You know. So the three annual subscriber giveaways,
we got Albert hot he is from Colorado or somewhere in somewhere in near Denver,
Julio Clavell from I think New Jersey, and then Steve Kearney from California.
They each won the subscriber drawing. They all have a little bit of
poker chops. Well, you you reached out to Albert and like he was
like, I'm gonna be in Vegas. Next week or something. So we
met up and we chatted a little bit and uh, he has like a
an MSPT win or something, no Hortland Poker Tour win. I think back
in the day, Solo gets here and he's like make bagging chips at the
Venetian for like the card Yeah, I think he like put on his I
think I saw a video where he was like played the card player event at
the Venetians, like he made day two or something. He's just like ready
to go. He's ready, He's ready to go. Yeah, Steve Kearney.
And then we did a social media drawing on the Glean platform and Caleb
Hancock won. That funny story about KAYLEB Hancock. I've got a phone call
today from Aria front desk. They're like, hello, is this Tim Duckwerds.
Yes, we have your client here, Caleb Hancock. And here's a
balanced on his Aria hotel. He's trying to check in. I'm like it
should we all paid for already? And I'm like how much is it?
Like I was thinking, is it like you know the tax or the you
know the what's it called the resort fee? It's it's twenty one hundred dollars.
I'm like, what twenty one hundred and I go, okay, it
should be covered. What do I need to do? And you know,
we talk a little bit. I then I literally hand the phone off to
the Aria poker host who booked the rooms. They sorted out. It was
just a completely like technical mishap where you know whatever, like the rooms were
mixed around, but we got him sorted anyway. So they're the four ones
we we did through Pocago. We have Jeff Lennon who has played a couple
of PGT events before. He won the Run Good Dream Seat Invitational that was
open to all Run Good Ring winners throughout the season. They played off for
you know, the dream scene and some cash, and Jeff Lennon took that
down. We did two seats through our Partner's GT Wizard. We had one
winner, Ryan Bell. The other winner our boy, our twenty five K
fantasy hero Ian Steinman. Let's go, he's in there. Does he know
these guys all know? Have you been in touch with them? Have people
I have not been in touch with the gto guys. That's Brent Hanks issue.
I hope that's all stted. And then we have basically five sponsor exemptions.
So these guys have been putting through our key sponsors of pocago and the
PGT. We have representatives from Monkey Till, eat MESKLA, True Classic t
Shirts, PokerGO Play, ad Switch. So in total, fourteen dream seats
along with the top forty on the PGT later board. It's it's going to
be a fun two days. It is. I mean, I'm very much
looking forward to it. Action starts noon on Tuesday, play from up to
fifty four down to the final table of six. It's five hundred thousand dollars
for first place, and Tim put together some additional payouts for the final table.
Do you have those handy as well? Two hundred k for second second,
an nice big jump, let's go. I think it's one tory one
last year was winner take All. Jason Cohon won five hundred k winner take
All, which which if you watched last year you might have heard the players
talking about how a winner take all tournament creates a little bit different of a
dynamic because there is no ICM, like you're just playing to win the tournament
the whole time. Now we're going to revert that kind of more towards a
normal the payout structure in a way. Yeah, So five hundred k for
first, two hundred k for second, one hundred and twenty thousand for third,
Fourth is eighty K, fifth, sixty k, sixth place forty thousand
dollars. Pretty pretty sick. I mean, it's going to be fun.
As I said, tomorrow or sorry, Tuesday at noon. I keep saying
tomorrow, but then I realize people are going to listen to it, probably
today. So Tuesday noon is when the tournament starts noon Vegas time. The
live stream starts at two pm four Las Vegas time, four pm last wegast
time. Yeah, they moved it a little bit, just like they moved
it a little bit, a little bit two hours. Well, okay,
first of all, it was supposed to be three pm, not two pm.
But I'm going to look at the social media post. I would ride
see you at time. This. No, this is ridiculous. You should
be streaming from hand number one. Agree with that, and if we did,
it would probably still be one o'clock or two o'clock. Yeah, but
social media posts pinned five pm Eastern two pm Pacific time. I might have
to air that post. Why are they changing it to four. We're not
in charge of these decisions. This is about in the world, way above
our pay grade. I mean, that's silly. You're missing the whole,
the half the tournament. You're missing three levels. They're streaming from level four
after the first break, they're on a two hour They're on like an hour
and a half delay. They think because we cut the bread speed it up.
Yes, still silly streamer hand number one. I agree, stream from
what happens on Toronto and helm with Battle and Explode firsthand, and we miss
it exactly, you know what I mean. We should be streaming this one
from like a half hour before. Talk about yeah, we should have made
a show out of the seat draw, like you've done a whole thing,
like you know, it should have been an event, man, I mean
it is an event, but it should have been a bigger event. Like,
well, yeah, I haven't seen you in like a week, but
when you come in, you're gotta say, it looks like I've been there
every day. I've been here every day. We just on different schedules.
Oh, and then the final table will be on Wednesday, and come back
put the final table on Wednesday. A lot of streaming for this. It's
gonna be on Poker Go, it's gonna be on the Poker YouTube channel,
it's going to be on you know, Pluto wherever else. There's like ninety
different AVA channels that were on YouTube, Premium, et cetera. So if
you want to watch this event, I'm sure it's gonna be a lot of
fun. Everyone starts with at least one hundred big blinds. That's the stone
minimum that you can get in with. Mentioned it earlier, but Isaac Hackson,
he'll be the guy who starts with the most chips. Isaac Hackston,
by the way, you know, kind of buried this a little bit,
and that's my fault. But PGT Player of the Year for twenty three and
with that he gets a fifty thousand dollars bonus, so good on him.
You know, we kind of took that from I guess fantasy football leagues in
a way. You know, everyone gets to the playoffs and then it's just
kind of a crap shoot and you can lose. Well, the person who
earns the most points during the regular season should be awarded, right, Yes,
they are rewarded in the way that they they start with the most chips,
but you know they should also get a little bit of a reward.
If you remember last year Steven Shouldwick won and then I think he made the
foun table what ultimately fell or evenish stopped the Leader award, made the found
table that ultimately fell short to the prize. So in a way, a
little bit of a kick in the nuts there overall. But but yeah,
who you got, like? Who give mes? Like some predictions? Who
who's gonna run deep in this thing? Who do you think is gonna win?
Who do you think is gonna absolutely do nothing? Well? I do
have some inside of information. Phil, how much light light he's registering?
Is the worst? Turning up late? Yeah? Does he know he has
By the way, does he know the rules? He does, because if
you don't show up by a certain time, you're not in. He knows
all the rules. He knows he can lose a max of twenty three thousand
chips. He's only starting with one hundred and thirty one k, so that's
a that's a pretty decent chunk to lose. By time he comes in,
he's gonna have like what forty bigs? Yeah, that's the Phil Homer suite.
I mean that's way too deep for film. Look for the Lulls.
I feel like this has got Daniel Wineman all over it. But if we're
playing, if we're gonna, if we're gonna bed on form, it's hard
to look past, you know, to me, Hackston and Chidwick, they're
here. They did pretty well during Last Chance. They have that superhead start
of you know, two hundred and forty Big Blinds and two hundred and eighty
five Big Blinds. You know, you combine that with running pretty good.
I feel like they're my two picks if I was to pick anyone. I
mean, Hackson has to be the favorite, obviously, starting with the most
chips, playing just unreal for the past year. Chidwick as well, playing
really good starts third in chips. Chris Brewer had a really good twenty twenty
three, but like if you're gonna go on, like the last handful of
weeks, a little bit out of form compared to Hackson and Chidwick. Not
that that necessarily is gonna matter at all. I think it's gonna be interesting
what you see from like the people that are just coming in like Stone Cold.
I mean, you saw like we saw Alex Foxon, we saw Ren
Linn, we saw Sam Silver, we saw Nick Shulman, we saw Jeremy
Osmas, like, you know other than Jeremy Osmas. That those first four
guys like all had results during the PGT Last Chance, So you would think
that they're very much like in form. But then you have people like you
know, Phil Hammuth for example, Yeah he played the last event, but
like, okay, Phil, I mean, I don't know what that's gonna
mean. Carrie Katz, I have no idea when when is the last Actually,
for me, the last time that I saw Carrie play a poker tournament
was the WPT World Championship, Because when was the last play one of our
events? That's what I mean, Like, yeah, I mean this is
a different it's a different These are high roller robot solver guys. I mean,
you know, these aren't like, you know, a general population of
poker players. So there we were, we were building me and Paul Campbell,
We're building the chip stacks today for everyone. I'm bagging them up and
we're making them and we get to carry and I was like, we should
give Carrie like all big chips, like literally four chips as punishment for not
showing up. But like that. I kind of wanted to do that.
Chance Corneth and Isaac Kempton good players, but I haven't seen them. Well
yeah, I mean that'd be fine, Like we touched them. I'm just
talking about like, you know, who's who's going to be kind of in
form Yeah, I feel like China was to say, China Raymonds and another
one. I mean we already talked about him. But Arthur Marturosian like,
I mean, he feels like he's going to be in this for sure.
And here's the thing. If he gets a table jaw always say with Isaac
Hackson and doubles through Isaac in the first level, he's now the chip leader,
right although Ike is starting with that's kind of why I wish we had
the table draw because then we'll be talking about it right now. Yeah,
next year, I mean next year, for sure, we have to have
the table Like, we need to do the table draw. Like the night
of that they make the last event ends or whatever. Yeah, okay,
which the last event ending, by the way, was an absolute shit show.
I don't know if you saw it. I did. But it's also
funny that, like I I texted you earlier in the day asking you about
a deal. And the reason why I texted you about the deal stuff is
because I knew Nick Schulman Fox in like these like Green Chino, we're out
of the we're making the final table, and I was like, these guys
are very friendly and have chopped an event of ours before, So I was
like, maybe they just and they're all like everyone's locked into the top forty
like whatever. You know, they're probably just gonna want to get out of
there if it's two am, so they're probably just gonna chop it. So
I messaged you, and then it just turns on to just be they end
up chopping it Chino Rheim and Nick Schulman and then just do like seventeen flips
to get get the victory. I mean, it was just the whole thing
was a freaking mess, but it was fun. They were like weren't even
county chips. They were just like passing the chips back and forth. I
mean, it was it was quite comical at that point. So so yeah,
I mean, yeah, I think we I hope we get some runs
out of you know, some of these dream See winners. I think that
would just be fun to have them kind of in the mix. You know,
as as like the true wild cards getting out there. So yeah,
overall, I'm looking forward to a really really fun PGT Championship event closing out
the season, and then we go right into the kickoff event, which I
don't know if you heard on the stream, the guys are all aware of
the PGG kickoff, like they're they're ready to go, double points, like,
let's go. So that starts. What a day after days two days
after, I don't remember what you told me. The day after, I
think, yeah, so that's gonna be available all told. You know,
we were already streamed six days or five days, but I think total we're
streaming like nineteen days in January total, which is pretty wild. So yeah,
tune into poker, go, subscribe to the YouTube channel, all that
sort of stuff, because it's gonna be fun from start to finish. I
gotta give up like a couple of predictions. I'm gonna go with, I
mean, you picked the the chalk, I mean, I'm so sure,
of course, of course, what else I'm gonna go with. I'm gonna
go with Phil Hommy does horrible. I'm gonna go with Alex Foxen does very
well. I'm gonna go with Jason Kohn even though he's starting. I mean,
I can't say short on Chip. It's shorter than everyone else. I'm
gonna say Jason Kuon makes a run to the final table and almost defends the
championship but doesn't. All falls a little bit short, and I'm going with
I'm going with Archi Marcerosi and winning the whole thing. Yeah, it's a
good one. You know, if we're talking about what we would like to
see, it would be actually for the tour's sake, pretty good to see
one of these dream seat winners from Lost Chance. So Sam and Dylan make
a run, maybe even cash so it really shows that, Hey, look,
this dream seat is a dream seat. You know, you come play
this last series. Ron good for like six events, polay that into the
championship and there you go. You can potentially hit a five hundred k scool
sweet, I love it. All Right, that's enough talking about this this
event. We had a lot of work to tomorrow. Tim's gonna be on.
You're gonna be doing live reporting, right, Yeah, why not live
reporting on PGT dot com. You guys can check that out. I guess
we have a new time for the stream four pm Eastern time. No one
has told me about the time, and I'm supposed to commentate on the thing
tomorrow, so somebody please tell me, I mean, please let me know
when I have to show up to work. I would love to know you
show up at twelve o'clock. I'm gonna show up at twelve o'clock. I
would like to know what the heck's going on in my life, like you
know, I mean, just let me know, please. Anyway, that's
that all right, We're gonna get out of here. My name is Donny
Peters. His name is Tim Duckworth, and we will talk to you guys
soon. Ge