1 00:00:11,560 --> 00:00:17,480 Hello, everyone, Welcome back to another episode of The Poker Go Podcast, 2 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:23,640 the number one poker podcast in the land. What's going on, Tim, 3 00:00:23,679 --> 00:00:26,719 How are you? I'm good, I'm very good. How about you? 4 00:00:27,039 --> 00:00:30,440 I mean, I'm good. I guess I should introduce myself, although I'm 5 00:00:30,440 --> 00:00:33,600 not sure that matters. My name is Donny Peters. I got Tim Duckworth 6 00:00:33,920 --> 00:00:38,759 on the line with me. Apologize if his audio is a little less than 7 00:00:38,799 --> 00:00:42,880 high quality this time around. He's on the What are you on a phone? 8 00:00:42,880 --> 00:00:45,399 I don't even know what you're doing. I'm on my laptop, but 9 00:00:45,880 --> 00:00:51,039 I don't have the normal MIC. I'm just using the whatever whatever microphone these 10 00:00:51,280 --> 00:00:55,240 MacBook pros give us nowadays. I'm sure, I'm sure you sound all right 11 00:00:55,280 --> 00:00:58,679 to me. Producer Rich Ryan's probably gonna yell at us in the morning. 12 00:01:00,600 --> 00:01:06,319 Find the person that stole our little dongle, a little USB a USBC connector 13 00:01:06,400 --> 00:01:11,920 that is disappeared, completely disappeared. Yeah, I mean, that's just sad, 14 00:01:11,079 --> 00:01:17,599 that's unfortunate. All Right, We're gonna hit on the PGT Championship a 15 00:01:17,640 --> 00:01:22,040 little bit of a combination of wrapping up PGT Last Chance, what just happened, 16 00:01:22,519 --> 00:01:26,599 rolling into PGT Championship. We are recording this on Monday night pretty late, 17 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:32,239 I mean really late nine pm, late for non WSP season, but 18 00:01:32,879 --> 00:01:40,719 not late during WSP season. And then the championship kicks off tomorrow or kicks 19 00:01:40,760 --> 00:01:42,439 off on a Tuesday, I should say, which is probably today by the 20 00:01:42,439 --> 00:01:48,480 time you're listening to this starts at noon. We'll have live stream that goes 21 00:01:48,519 --> 00:01:53,040 live at two o'clock Las Vegas time. Two days of coverage pretty much from 22 00:01:53,040 --> 00:01:57,400 start to finish, missing the first couple levels, but other than that, 23 00:01:57,959 --> 00:02:02,120 we'll be covering the entire thing. As somebody will become the PGT Championship, 24 00:02:02,120 --> 00:02:06,680 they will walk away with five hundred thousand dollars in prize money. It is 25 00:02:06,680 --> 00:02:12,560 a million dollar free role. So the PGT Last Chance. For those that 26 00:02:12,680 --> 00:02:15,360 are unaware or may have missed what just happened, First of all, shame 27 00:02:15,400 --> 00:02:19,520 on you. Where the heck were you? Okay? I had to drag 28 00:02:19,599 --> 00:02:25,240 my ass down to the studio at eleven thirty at night, stream till three 29 00:02:25,319 --> 00:02:30,479 am, do the commentary, and then drive my ass home, so you 30 00:02:30,520 --> 00:02:35,120 could have at least joined us. Remcon No, I kid, I kid. 31 00:02:36,039 --> 00:02:40,520 But PGT Last Chance was exactly as the name suggests the last chance for 32 00:02:40,680 --> 00:02:49,400 players to get into the PGT Championship event, last chance to earn some extra 33 00:02:49,520 --> 00:02:53,479 chips via points, last chance to win some extra money. All that sort 34 00:02:53,479 --> 00:02:58,000 of stuff was at play during the PGT Last Chance Series six events. Every 35 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:01,599 event had a ten k buy in. Pretty good turnout overall. I mean, 36 00:03:01,639 --> 00:03:05,919 how do you feel about the turnout? I thought it was excellent. 37 00:03:05,960 --> 00:03:10,360 You know, we went into this not really having a read on it. 38 00:03:10,479 --> 00:03:14,280 I thought it was going to be a good series. I was very bullish. 39 00:03:14,719 --> 00:03:19,520 I talked it up a lot, and thankfully the players supported me. 40 00:03:19,719 --> 00:03:23,879 Showed up. We had great numbers, and unlike our normal events, the 41 00:03:23,919 --> 00:03:28,039 ten k's we normally see, you know, the best number in event one 42 00:03:28,080 --> 00:03:30,400 and then it drops off, you know, by five ten percent every time, 43 00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:35,439 and trickles down this one, you know a little bit of a jump, 44 00:03:35,439 --> 00:03:38,919 a little bit of a drop, and then it just stayed the same. 45 00:03:38,439 --> 00:03:43,840 So it showed that people kind of cared about the dream seats. You 46 00:03:43,879 --> 00:03:46,479 know, they wanted to play, they wanted to gamble, they wanted to 47 00:03:46,840 --> 00:03:50,719 win money, get more chips, everything. So the concept was great. 48 00:03:51,599 --> 00:03:54,360 Looking forward already to figuring out how to make this bigger and better for the 49 00:03:54,360 --> 00:03:58,560 next season. Yeah, I thought the concept was a lot of fun. 50 00:03:58,919 --> 00:04:01,319 I thought the players really took to it. Just hearing a lot of them 51 00:04:02,080 --> 00:04:08,280 talk about the series and the fact that they understood it. They knew, 52 00:04:08,560 --> 00:04:11,479 you know, all the different things that were up for grabs, both the 53 00:04:11,759 --> 00:04:14,560 leaderboard, you know, the points with the chips, and then also the 54 00:04:14,639 --> 00:04:18,160 dream seats for the top two people that weren't necessarily in contention to get into 55 00:04:18,199 --> 00:04:23,079 the top forty. Heard many of the players, you know, very well 56 00:04:23,079 --> 00:04:27,639 aware of everything that was going on and what this series meant, which which 57 00:04:27,720 --> 00:04:31,959 you know, felt pretty good. I mean, it feels like we're building 58 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:36,759 something pretty good if the players are really caring to like learn it and become 59 00:04:36,800 --> 00:04:40,639 aware of it. You know, Oftentimes, you know, you and I've 60 00:04:40,720 --> 00:04:44,560 joked on this podcast before, like, you know, players complain about how 61 00:04:45,240 --> 00:04:47,199 a structure is missing a blind level, or the anthe is too big and 62 00:04:47,279 --> 00:04:49,959 whatever, and we're always like, you know, you guys can read the 63 00:04:49,959 --> 00:04:53,680 structure of sheets ahead of time, and you just never seem to do it. 64 00:04:54,199 --> 00:04:56,920 In this case, I feel like they all did their due diligence and 65 00:04:56,959 --> 00:05:00,360 they all knew what was happening. Even on some of the streams or final 66 00:05:00,360 --> 00:05:02,879 tables, you know, when one player might have had a question or about 67 00:05:02,920 --> 00:05:05,920 maybe how something was working, the players all seem to know, like yeah, 68 00:05:06,040 --> 00:05:09,160 like no, it's this this, I got to get this place or 69 00:05:09,160 --> 00:05:12,079 you got to get that place, or you know all the different scenarios that 70 00:05:12,079 --> 00:05:15,240 were I play, which was very cool. So I think I think the 71 00:05:15,680 --> 00:05:19,720 sweating part of this was was great. And also you know the anti sweating 72 00:05:19,800 --> 00:05:25,480 there's look, let's just be honest. Everyone any sweats someone in poker at 73 00:05:25,519 --> 00:05:30,199 one point in time. We don't tell anyone man. Look, everyone only 74 00:05:30,240 --> 00:05:33,439 anti sweat Tim when he texted me about the South Point nowt yeah, say 75 00:05:33,519 --> 00:05:38,879 look, but in this one, it was, I want to say, 76 00:05:38,879 --> 00:05:43,000 a little bit encouraged. And it was actually pretty funny, like you know, 77 00:05:43,199 --> 00:05:46,680 some player, you know, Chino knocked out some player and then like 78 00:05:47,279 --> 00:05:51,560 Arthur marrs like gave him a fist pump from the other table because like it 79 00:05:51,680 --> 00:05:56,439 meant that, you know, now, like Arthur only had one lesson, 80 00:05:56,519 --> 00:06:00,480 like he had one less scenario to think about, and it was actually and 81 00:06:00,519 --> 00:06:03,639 then the reverse of that is a lot of people you know that weren't in 82 00:06:03,680 --> 00:06:10,279 contention were cheering for Arta Mater Rozion to to keep doing well because that means 83 00:06:10,279 --> 00:06:13,560 he would have been in the top forty. And then that dream seat drops 84 00:06:13,600 --> 00:06:18,040 down. So there was like very open sweating and very open Andy sweating up 85 00:06:18,120 --> 00:06:23,120 until the final event when, which pretty funny. Jim callap he Bus said 86 00:06:23,160 --> 00:06:25,800 he was sitting at the bar, you know, we were just chatting friendly, 87 00:06:25,800 --> 00:06:27,639 and he's like, you know, He's like, yeah, I'm sorry, 88 00:06:27,639 --> 00:06:29,160 you know, I have to sit here and I'm just gonna wait, 89 00:06:29,360 --> 00:06:33,519 I need five people to bust. He goes out to the bar. From 90 00:06:33,560 --> 00:06:36,399 the bar, so back into the progress shot, he goes and he's like 91 00:06:36,800 --> 00:06:40,639 he's talking to Max Coleman, who he's like battling against. He's like, 92 00:06:40,720 --> 00:06:43,519 Max, he want you want to bottle of wine? You want a bear? 93 00:06:43,680 --> 00:06:45,879 Do you want some do you want some alcohol? Like you know, 94 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:50,240 basically trying to like heckle him drunks drunk. And then Adam Hendrix also in 95 00:06:50,279 --> 00:06:54,319 the same situation as Max, trying to get in. He went to the 96 00:06:54,319 --> 00:06:59,040 bathroom and Jim said something to him and Adam was just like, this is 97 00:06:59,079 --> 00:07:02,639 horrible because he knows that Adam, like Adam needs just the mincash to be 98 00:07:02,680 --> 00:07:06,199 in the top forty, but he was shot in chips. He was battling 99 00:07:06,279 --> 00:07:10,360 four other guys that were trying to get in the top forty in that final 100 00:07:10,399 --> 00:07:14,120 event, like right down to the wire, it mattered, and I think 101 00:07:14,160 --> 00:07:17,759 that was like the best part of this Hall series. Yeah, I mean, 102 00:07:17,839 --> 00:07:25,040 I love the entertainment that the sweating of the of the leaderboards really provided. 103 00:07:25,120 --> 00:07:29,720 So you know, I think that you know, if you just run 104 00:07:29,759 --> 00:07:33,480 it back as is next year, it'll probably grow a little bit because I 105 00:07:33,480 --> 00:07:38,160 think a lot of people kind of got word of how good and fun it 106 00:07:38,399 --> 00:07:42,399 was, you know, I think those are additional two dream seats that rub 107 00:07:42,439 --> 00:07:46,399 for grabs really pushed a lot of people to get in there and get involved, 108 00:07:46,120 --> 00:07:50,279 which is great to see. One of the players that you know needed 109 00:07:50,319 --> 00:07:56,439 to at least, you know, based on tim andized estimations, probably needed 110 00:07:56,600 --> 00:07:59,879 some sort of result like cash or something in order to stay within the top 111 00:08:00,319 --> 00:08:03,319 and that was Daniel Legrandu. And he just comes out and rips off the 112 00:08:03,360 --> 00:08:07,160 victory and event number one. I mean, it was just it was kind 113 00:08:07,199 --> 00:08:13,120 of funny timing with everything because he had just put out a YouTube video going 114 00:08:13,160 --> 00:08:16,720 over his twenty twenty three stats where he had lost two point two or two 115 00:08:16,759 --> 00:08:20,079 point three million, like his second losing year ever since like twenty thirteen or 116 00:08:20,120 --> 00:08:24,560 something like that, lost a crap ton of money. You know, did 117 00:08:24,560 --> 00:08:28,759 this whole thing about how like he kind of ran bad in a lot of 118 00:08:28,759 --> 00:08:31,040 spots, and if you watched his vlogs, yeah, I mean when he 119 00:08:31,079 --> 00:08:33,840 got his money, and he ran pretty horrible in a ton of really big 120 00:08:33,879 --> 00:08:39,000 spots and really big tournaments, didn't really cash for a lot or have any 121 00:08:39,039 --> 00:08:41,360 big scores. You know, I think his biggest score of the year was 122 00:08:41,360 --> 00:08:45,639 like one hundred and twenty k stuff like that. Anytime he did go deep 123 00:08:45,639 --> 00:08:48,320 at the WSP, it was like in a fifteen hundred dollars tournament or that 124 00:08:48,360 --> 00:08:52,120 three hundred dollars Gladiators like stuff that was just like so small and took up 125 00:08:52,159 --> 00:08:56,399 so much time that it was kind of crazy that Negranu even bothered to play 126 00:08:56,440 --> 00:09:01,240 it. So there was that aspect, But then you know, he the 127 00:09:01,279 --> 00:09:05,039 whole like the kind of the ending of the video that he put out was, 128 00:09:05,080 --> 00:09:09,240 you know, twenty twenty four, I'm gonna kind of pull things back 129 00:09:09,240 --> 00:09:13,000 a little bit in terms of the volume, and I'm gonna go quality over 130 00:09:13,080 --> 00:09:16,799 quantity comes out and event number one of the last chance any sort of like 131 00:09:16,919 --> 00:09:20,639 in the money result would be good for him to solidify his spot in the 132 00:09:20,639 --> 00:09:24,360 top forty and feel a lot more comfortable. And he just rips off the 133 00:09:24,360 --> 00:09:28,559 event the wind and event number one tops ninety one entries, beats Daniel Smilkovic 134 00:09:28,600 --> 00:09:31,639 and heads up play gets lucky on the final hand too, so like after 135 00:09:31,720 --> 00:09:35,639 a little bit of you know, having some fun with the whole bad luck 136 00:09:35,639 --> 00:09:39,679 thing on it. On his video he smikes spikes a four outer getting his 137 00:09:39,720 --> 00:09:43,919 money in pretty bad on the turn. He had Ace King on a what 138 00:09:43,039 --> 00:09:48,759 a jack jack ten xport jack x ten four I think it was. He 139 00:09:48,799 --> 00:09:52,840 gets it all in on the turn. Schmilkovitch has jack juice for Trips River 140 00:09:52,039 --> 00:09:56,679 just you know, lovely lovely lady Mamasita, Queen Boom and the grand he's 141 00:09:56,679 --> 00:10:00,559 there, wins two hundred and eighteen K. So you know that was just 142 00:10:00,639 --> 00:10:05,080 right out of the gate that happens. You had the Arthur Martirosian you know, 143 00:10:05,279 --> 00:10:07,960 story throughout because he wanted two events. You had, you know, 144 00:10:09,240 --> 00:10:13,039 the two dream seat winners, Samuel Laskowitz and Dylan DeStefano, you know, 145 00:10:13,879 --> 00:10:18,720 doing very well throughout ended up getting those two dream seats, which are going 146 00:10:18,799 --> 00:10:22,320 to give them the right of passage to come compete in the PGT Championship Million 147 00:10:22,320 --> 00:10:26,240 dollar free Roll. You had Chino Reem who was in the top forty, 148 00:10:26,279 --> 00:10:28,840 then outside the top forty, then back in the top forty, so you 149 00:10:28,879 --> 00:10:33,559 had that whole thing. You had a bunch of people like you mentioned Arthur 150 00:10:33,600 --> 00:10:35,000 Morris. Arthur Morris didn't show up for like the first event or two, 151 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:37,080 and then he's like texted you and it is like I'm coming, I'm getting 152 00:10:37,080 --> 00:10:39,840 on a plane, like so then he comes. Then he has to finish 153 00:10:39,840 --> 00:10:43,000 in like ninth place or better in the final event. He does it like 154 00:10:43,159 --> 00:10:46,360 you know, like all this sort of stuff is just happening. So the 155 00:10:46,399 --> 00:10:50,039 sweat was a lot of fun going into the final event. There was like 156 00:10:50,080 --> 00:10:54,679 a whole different bunch of scenarios that could have happened the two dream seats, 157 00:10:54,879 --> 00:10:56,440 Like it could have been anywhere up to like twenty five players could have been 158 00:10:56,480 --> 00:11:00,759 eligible to win one of those final two dream seats. You had like I 159 00:11:00,799 --> 00:11:03,879 don't know, ten players that were either going to be in or out of 160 00:11:03,919 --> 00:11:09,080 the top forty and then obviously people were jockeying for possession within the top forty 161 00:11:09,120 --> 00:11:11,240 because the more points you earn over the course of the season, that has 162 00:11:11,240 --> 00:11:15,759 to do with the number of chips that you start the PGT Championship with. 163 00:11:15,840 --> 00:11:20,000 So all in all, it was a lot of fun from where I sat 164 00:11:20,120 --> 00:11:22,279 every single night in the commentary Ruth alongside Remco Rinking. I mean, it 165 00:11:22,360 --> 00:11:26,879 was just a ton of entertainment, you know, trying to break down all 166 00:11:26,919 --> 00:11:31,320 the scenarios and see what was happening. I guess my only if I were 167 00:11:31,360 --> 00:11:35,159 to change things right now, the only thing that I would change, and 168 00:11:35,159 --> 00:11:37,120 it's not even like a change, it's more of like a In addition, 169 00:11:39,639 --> 00:11:43,399 I would stream more of the final day because ultimately we got down to the 170 00:11:43,399 --> 00:11:48,360 final table and we streamed seven handed, and like everything was locked in so 171 00:11:48,679 --> 00:11:54,279 on that while that day itself was a big sweat overall and like that, 172 00:11:54,480 --> 00:11:56,919 you know, we were talking in our whatsap chat and whatever, like, 173 00:11:56,960 --> 00:11:58,600 there was a lot of stuff going on. People were going moving all over 174 00:11:58,639 --> 00:12:01,399 the place, you know, people were in, people were out, all 175 00:12:01,440 --> 00:12:05,320 this sort of stuff. But when we got down to the final seven, 176 00:12:05,440 --> 00:12:07,840 all that had you know, gone away and it was just you know, 177 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:11,840 just played out and no big deal. So the one thing I would change, 178 00:12:13,480 --> 00:12:20,080 uh is I want to next time add two plos. Maybe it's five 179 00:12:20,159 --> 00:12:24,159 hold them and two plos. Just you know, there's some PLO guys on 180 00:12:24,200 --> 00:12:28,039 the fringe, you know, they'll put everything they can into that. Maybe 181 00:12:28,080 --> 00:12:31,720 you get some of these no limit guys like, okay, I really need 182 00:12:31,759 --> 00:12:35,639 the points. I'm going to gamble and just try and run like the sun 183 00:12:35,639 --> 00:12:37,960 in this game. I have no idea what I'm doing, you know, 184 00:12:37,039 --> 00:12:41,360 and back and forth with the PLO. I think that would even make it 185 00:12:41,440 --> 00:12:43,919 a little more you know, a little more fun that final you know, 186 00:12:45,039 --> 00:12:48,919 few events. Yeah, I don't. I don't hate that. I think 187 00:12:48,960 --> 00:12:52,159 that can work. I mean, overall though, I think you know, 188 00:12:52,200 --> 00:12:54,639 you and I both agree that it was. It was a really good series 189 00:12:54,799 --> 00:12:58,759 to wrap things up. It was a lot of fun. Obviously, the 190 00:13:00,039 --> 00:13:03,600 sweats were incredible throughout, so you know, hoping that's not just the one 191 00:13:03,600 --> 00:13:07,559 time thing. Hopefully we get sweats like that, you know, going forward 192 00:13:07,960 --> 00:13:11,360 when we do run this thing again. So so yeah, very cool. 193 00:13:11,440 --> 00:13:15,320 There As it pertains to the top forty, it's locked in. Things are 194 00:13:15,360 --> 00:13:18,120 set you got Isaac Hackson on the top. Isaac Hackson, by the way, 195 00:13:18,159 --> 00:13:22,480 we talked about him when we kind of gave our predictions, you know 196 00:13:24,240 --> 00:13:26,000 how like he doesn't really need to show up because he's so far ahead. 197 00:13:26,279 --> 00:13:30,559 I mean he played everything. I mean he was he was in there, 198 00:13:30,600 --> 00:13:33,159 he was in there, and he was battling. He had two cashes. 199 00:13:33,159 --> 00:13:35,159 He cashed for just about one hundred and eighty five K from these series. 200 00:13:35,159 --> 00:13:39,120 I mean it's like it's like very much just like still the year of Isaac 201 00:13:39,159 --> 00:13:43,840 Hackson. After all the success he had in twenty twenty three, you know, 202 00:13:43,919 --> 00:13:48,960 he's started off twenty twenty four very much in the right direction again. 203 00:13:48,960 --> 00:13:52,279 He finished a top the leader board with twenty eight hundred and forty seven points, 204 00:13:52,320 --> 00:13:58,240 almost a full four hundred points ahead of Chris Brewer. Isaac Hackson's PGT 205 00:13:58,360 --> 00:14:03,519 season was four victories and being Super high roller Bowl, four victories, fourteen 206 00:14:03,559 --> 00:14:07,879 cashes, more than seven point two million dollars in earnings. He's gonna start 207 00:14:07,919 --> 00:14:13,879 with the most chips because points equal starting chips for the PGT Championship. So 208 00:14:13,879 --> 00:14:18,799 on Tuesday, he's gonna have what two hundred and eighty four thousand or two 209 00:14:18,840 --> 00:14:22,759 hundred eighty five thousand in chips to start big line. Yeah, big blind 210 00:14:22,799 --> 00:14:24,399 will be one k, so he's got two hundred and eighty five big blinds. 211 00:14:26,440 --> 00:14:28,840 The top three are Isaac Axston, then it's Chris Brewer, then it's 212 00:14:28,879 --> 00:14:33,159 Steven Childwick. Steven Childwick had a pretty good series for PGT Last Chance, 213 00:14:33,200 --> 00:14:37,440 actually jumped from third or from fourth to third with some of the results that 214 00:14:37,480 --> 00:14:41,600 he had. Daniel Weinman in fourth. You got Alex Fox in fifth, 215 00:14:43,159 --> 00:14:46,120 Renland six, Sam Severall seventh, Nick Shulman eighth. I think Nick Shulman 216 00:14:46,159 --> 00:14:52,240 moved up a bunch of spots as well. Stephen Jones another WSP main event 217 00:14:52,320 --> 00:14:54,240 final table list. He came in second to Daniel Wyman. He's in ninth, 218 00:14:54,279 --> 00:15:00,639 and then Jeremy Osmas rounds out the top ten. I got some notable 219 00:15:00,720 --> 00:15:05,159 names. You got Eric Saidell in eleventh. You have Daniel Legrandu, who 220 00:15:05,919 --> 00:15:09,320 I think he came in in what thirty fifth place and the win that he 221 00:15:09,399 --> 00:15:15,159 got in event number one jumped him up to seventeenth place, So nice little 222 00:15:15,159 --> 00:15:18,840 boost there. Phil Helmuth only played the final event, you know, kind 223 00:15:18,840 --> 00:15:24,120 of max late reds like Phil Hellmuth always does. He dipped back a little 224 00:15:24,159 --> 00:15:30,360 bit from where he was. He'll come in twenty first place overall or tied 225 00:15:30,399 --> 00:15:33,759 for twentieth. What however, you want to consider that same thing. So 226 00:15:33,879 --> 00:15:37,240 yeah, bottom of the leaderboard, the you know, the forty to get 227 00:15:37,240 --> 00:15:41,200 in. So let's start with I'll start with thirty fourth because you have a 228 00:15:41,240 --> 00:15:46,360 tie there, a three way tie. Alexander Reared, Toby Lewis and Juan 229 00:15:46,440 --> 00:15:50,039 Monsierras all have twelve hundred points. Then you have Arthur Morris who got in 230 00:15:50,320 --> 00:15:54,799 via his run in the final event, thirty eighth place. Opening Casseetchi Coglu. 231 00:15:56,159 --> 00:15:58,399 Thirty ninth place was kind of a sweat, at least for me. 232 00:15:58,480 --> 00:16:04,120 I wanted the defending PGG championship in this year's championship event, and that was 233 00:16:04,200 --> 00:16:08,440 Jason Kuhn. But it was a sweat. He finished in thirty ninth place, 234 00:16:08,440 --> 00:16:11,399 so it was a little bit of a sweat. But ultimately Jason Kuhn 235 00:16:11,440 --> 00:16:15,600 held on. He did play some events no results though. Look that's the 236 00:16:15,639 --> 00:16:18,840 thing. He played some events, you know, because he was on that 237 00:16:18,960 --> 00:16:26,200 fringe, and we never see Jason Kern play a ten gay. So if 238 00:16:26,200 --> 00:16:29,480 you want to gain the success of his series. I'm putting that as my 239 00:16:29,600 --> 00:16:34,559 lead bulletpoint. And Jason Kern plays ten k no limit Holdham Tournament, and 240 00:16:34,639 --> 00:16:42,320 then Max Coleman is the last player to get in via the top forty and 241 00:16:42,399 --> 00:16:48,360 thirty seven points, so that in the final event it was Max Coleman and 242 00:16:48,399 --> 00:16:52,960 it was Arthur Morris who moved from outside the top forty into the top forty. 243 00:16:52,279 --> 00:16:57,399 And then they knocked out Jim Colliby and Ben Lamb out of the top 244 00:16:57,480 --> 00:17:00,919 forty. So and then some of the players to you know, you had 245 00:17:00,919 --> 00:17:03,960 you had call up in, you had Land Bubbling, Adam Hendrix, Andrew 246 00:17:03,039 --> 00:17:08,680 Lucky, Chewie Lichtenberger, John's Arns, Jonas Cronwitter, Nachre Barbaro aram Aganian 247 00:17:08,799 --> 00:17:15,119 and Dance Smith and then fiftieth place also outside justin Bonomo. So I mean, 248 00:17:15,279 --> 00:17:22,039 listen, I think the field is pretty sick overall. Yeah, I 249 00:17:22,039 --> 00:17:25,839 think we're going to bat like ninety seven percent in terms of people showing up. 250 00:17:26,160 --> 00:17:29,720 Wow, that's that's pretty true. I mean, who's not showing up? 251 00:17:29,799 --> 00:17:33,519 Ruslin Priedric, Yeah for sure. I mean unless he shows up, 252 00:17:33,519 --> 00:17:38,279 but no one's been able to contact him. So Andretaos is not. He 253 00:17:38,400 --> 00:17:44,200 is not he is what? Yep, it was the whole point of Adrian 254 00:17:44,200 --> 00:17:48,319 Mitayo's playing the entire PGT season. Adrian, bro, what are you doing? 255 00:17:48,079 --> 00:17:56,559 He is getting married? He didn't want to travel to Vegas again after 256 00:17:56,599 --> 00:18:00,640 being here just you know ten days ago fall. Well you know what, 257 00:18:00,720 --> 00:18:06,200 he could have been like Schmilkovich march Erosian and not left, okay because they 258 00:18:06,240 --> 00:18:10,759 all stayed. Yeah, he could have come to my house for Christmas for 259 00:18:10,799 --> 00:18:14,599 all I care. What's what? You know, what's he doing? Yeah, 260 00:18:14,640 --> 00:18:17,000 well, I mean that's a that's a bummer. I thought for sure 261 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:18,519 we were going to see him. Same. Well, when we didn't see 262 00:18:18,559 --> 00:18:22,599 him for the first couple of events, I was a little wired and I 263 00:18:22,640 --> 00:18:25,119 sent him a text message and that's where he said, now I'm not coming. 264 00:18:25,519 --> 00:18:27,759 So yeah, so I I thought the same. You know, we 265 00:18:27,799 --> 00:18:30,640 didn't see him, I was like, oh, he's not coming. Then 266 00:18:30,680 --> 00:18:32,480 I looked at his standing and I was like, oh, he doesn't really 267 00:18:32,519 --> 00:18:34,279 need to come whatever. He can just you know, show up for the 268 00:18:34,799 --> 00:18:40,480 for the event. Not a big deal. But yeah, that's a big 269 00:18:40,519 --> 00:18:42,960 surprise to me. That's a bummer. Like someone else we didn't say like 270 00:18:44,119 --> 00:18:47,960 Isaac Kempton, who we would have expected in every one of these events. 271 00:18:47,960 --> 00:18:49,920 I was unsure and I sent him a message and he was like, no, 272 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:53,160 I'm just taking time off. He's taking time off, he's sweating the 273 00:18:53,160 --> 00:18:57,920 bitcoin price. He's he's good to go. I don't know about Alex Koulev. 274 00:19:00,279 --> 00:19:03,519 I talked to him at the wind He knew about it, understood everything. 275 00:19:04,440 --> 00:19:07,119 Well, uh, we'll just have to see what happens. I guess 276 00:19:07,240 --> 00:19:11,480 see if he flies back out here. I mean, I guess These other 277 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:18,400 w SPE main event final table players are interesting. So Daniel Wineman thinks coming 278 00:19:18,480 --> 00:19:19,759 right, Yeah, yeah, he was flying in with josh I believe. 279 00:19:19,799 --> 00:19:22,279 Okay, yeah, yeah, okay, they're here. Josh Aria is who 280 00:19:22,400 --> 00:19:26,240 Tim has mentioned. He's in the top forty as well. Stephen Jones is 281 00:19:26,599 --> 00:19:30,839 playing a Ballys Poker stream tonight, so he's in town. I checked on 282 00:19:30,920 --> 00:19:36,400 that actually to make sure he was fine. Adam Walton lives in Vegas, 283 00:19:36,519 --> 00:19:40,200 right, lives in Vegas. Has been playing some events around town, so 284 00:19:40,240 --> 00:19:45,759 I'm assuming he's gonna be in this one. What about your boy Jan Peter 285 00:19:45,839 --> 00:19:48,880 Yatman, he's here one of the raiderst Broncos game. Let's go there, 286 00:19:48,920 --> 00:19:55,200 you go, h Leon stem is a he's a n here yep emails from 287 00:19:55,240 --> 00:19:57,079 him. Okay, Sewn Winter is going to be here. Of course, 288 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:03,400 Max Newsbauer he said he's flying out here too. Yeah, I mean he's 289 00:20:03,559 --> 00:20:06,640 like after he won WSP Europe main event, he was basically on the phone 290 00:20:06,680 --> 00:20:07,839 with you being like, Hey, what's this free role? How do I 291 00:20:07,839 --> 00:20:12,000 get in? How do I get there? I mean Dean Hutchinson, I 292 00:20:12,680 --> 00:20:15,680 mean we have no he's he put him in the in the camp of Ruslim 293 00:20:15,680 --> 00:20:19,079 Priedrick. We have no idea where they are or what they're doing. You 294 00:20:19,119 --> 00:20:22,720 know, best efforts to contact them have just not worked. So what are 295 00:20:22,759 --> 00:20:27,880 you gonna do? I would expect lou Garza to be there. Uh worried 296 00:20:27,880 --> 00:20:32,759 about sweet I don't know why. I've just got this. I've got this. 297 00:20:32,960 --> 00:20:36,880 I've got the heavy GBS about the sweet Lie. Darren Olias has been 298 00:20:36,880 --> 00:20:38,480 here playing Last Chance. Of course. Masashi, Oh, he has been 299 00:20:38,519 --> 00:20:42,319 here. He's been battling Masashi. I mean he wasn't really anywhere near the 300 00:20:42,359 --> 00:20:47,599 top forty until December. Yeah, when he had a big WSP Paradise won 301 00:20:47,640 --> 00:20:51,920 the Hunter k Ultra high Roller down there for his first w spgle bracelet, 302 00:20:52,039 --> 00:20:55,240 so uh, Masashi, oh yeah, kind of coming in late, but 303 00:20:56,000 --> 00:20:59,680 coming in there. Nonetheless, Archer Martirosian is gonna get in there as well. 304 00:20:59,759 --> 00:21:03,400 Arch Marchin Rosine was pretty fun to sweat throughout because he was like in 305 00:21:03,480 --> 00:21:07,640 sixty second place coming into the Last Chance Series. I think he also had 306 00:21:07,640 --> 00:21:12,039 a pretty big December down in the Bahamas, and it was interesting because he 307 00:21:12,279 --> 00:21:18,240 was really close to the top forty and like had some results. I think 308 00:21:18,240 --> 00:21:21,240 he won at number two, so it gets even closer. But then he's 309 00:21:21,240 --> 00:21:25,119 also the top guy on the series leaderboard, so like he wasn't like the 310 00:21:25,160 --> 00:21:27,880 best spot out of anyone, because no matter what happened, even if people 311 00:21:27,920 --> 00:21:32,920 overtook him on the series leaderboard, he could possibly get in via the top 312 00:21:32,960 --> 00:21:34,599 forty. Like even if he got in the top forty, then he's already 313 00:21:34,599 --> 00:21:37,000 locked in. He doesn't worry about serious. It was just a really great 314 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:42,359 spot for him. Ultimately, he wins two events, played extremely well and 315 00:21:42,440 --> 00:21:45,640 it's kind of a treat, to be honest, to have him in here 316 00:21:45,680 --> 00:21:51,039 because Archer Martin Rosin is one of the best high stakes tournament players in the 317 00:21:51,079 --> 00:21:55,000 world. If you watch Triton Poker, the live students that they do, 318 00:21:55,400 --> 00:21:59,440 you'll be familiar with march Rosian on the PGT Because he's from Europe. We 319 00:21:59,440 --> 00:22:03,039 don't get this see him a lot outside of WSP stuff. But he was 320 00:22:03,079 --> 00:22:07,960 here for Last Chance and he was playing it incredibly and I would expect more 321 00:22:07,960 --> 00:22:11,319 of that for the championship event. So a bit of a treat there to 322 00:22:11,359 --> 00:22:15,599 have him here. Josh Ari, as you mentioned, came in with Daniel 323 00:22:15,599 --> 00:22:18,440 Weinman, so we'll see him. Alexander Riaired I mean you sat with him 324 00:22:18,440 --> 00:22:22,759 at the wind with him, yeah, I mean so so he knows about 325 00:22:22,799 --> 00:22:26,480 it, told him everything about it. I just got this, you know, 326 00:22:27,440 --> 00:22:33,200 vote of no confidence from him, so uh yeah, I would probably 327 00:22:33,240 --> 00:22:37,000 put him in the probably once c category. Uh. Toby Lewis was sweating 328 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:41,480 the leaderboard. Didn't play Last Chance, but lives here in Vegas and was 329 00:22:41,519 --> 00:22:44,359 sweating the positioning, you know, kind of feeling like do I have to 330 00:22:44,400 --> 00:22:48,759 come down type of thing. He made it in Juan massierras is he coming? 331 00:22:48,440 --> 00:22:52,640 Uh yeah, he was. He was a little wired as well. 332 00:22:52,680 --> 00:22:56,920 He was he was unsure if you know, if he would make it, 333 00:22:57,319 --> 00:23:00,759 and he was asking me for my opinion in I go, Look, if 334 00:23:00,759 --> 00:23:03,720 I was, if I was honest with you, I would book a just 335 00:23:03,799 --> 00:23:07,960 if you book a flight and make sure it's a refundable one, and just 336 00:23:07,119 --> 00:23:12,839 monitor, you know, monitor the leaderboard. So yeah, I think he'll 337 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:19,799 I think we'll see him. Who else Arthur Morris? Of course, you 338 00:23:19,799 --> 00:23:23,960 know he's been here. He got in orpint such a collglue. I don't 339 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:30,599 know the I heard. When I was speaking to defending champion mister Kuhn, 340 00:23:30,720 --> 00:23:33,839 I asked, you know, do you know if Orpen's coming? He said, 341 00:23:33,880 --> 00:23:37,240 let me check, and then his next text message was don't think so 342 00:23:37,359 --> 00:23:45,240 dang bump. He's also he's too rich for a million dollar for he is, 343 00:23:45,319 --> 00:23:49,359 he doesn't care, Jason Kuhn, he'll be there for sure. He's 344 00:23:49,359 --> 00:23:52,559 got to defend his title. And then we got Max Coleman in there as 345 00:23:52,599 --> 00:23:57,160 well, so he so yeah, I mean, listen, it's a it's 346 00:23:57,200 --> 00:24:02,200 a really good feel overall. I mean, you know, I think it's 347 00:24:02,519 --> 00:24:07,960 pretty stacked all things considered. I mean, I guess I'll use the word 348 00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:11,079 wild card, but it's not really wild card. I mean, like the 349 00:24:11,119 --> 00:24:14,319 wild cards are kind of like the players that don't play on the PGT but 350 00:24:14,519 --> 00:24:15,960 got in via some other big results, you know, mostly the guys who 351 00:24:15,960 --> 00:24:19,039 made the WACP main Event, final table stuff like that. So they're kind 352 00:24:19,039 --> 00:24:23,319 of I guess wild cards in a way, but they still make for a 353 00:24:23,359 --> 00:24:30,400 good field. Is there anyone that you're like bummed that didn't make it or 354 00:24:32,079 --> 00:24:36,720 didn't come out for last chance to try and get in, because there's there's 355 00:24:36,759 --> 00:24:41,480 for sure one person that I'm bummed I didn't see for last chance, and 356 00:24:41,519 --> 00:24:47,119 that's Alex Livingston. Yeah. So he was like talking about the leaderboard every 357 00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:48,559 series. Every time he's like, I'm trying to get in the top forty, 358 00:24:48,599 --> 00:24:51,279 trying to get in the top forty. I'm running back, but I'm 359 00:24:51,319 --> 00:24:52,000 still trying to get in the top forty. But you know, and then 360 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:56,079 he doesn't come for this, and he was close exactly some of the names 361 00:24:56,160 --> 00:25:00,960 that didn't play that we thought we were locks, Nacho Barbera, Brian Rass 362 00:25:00,960 --> 00:25:07,359 already mentioned Alex Livingston. Yeah, Brian Rass, same sort of thing. 363 00:25:07,440 --> 00:25:11,240 He like, he kept he kept showing up late. Brian Ress kept showing 364 00:25:11,319 --> 00:25:14,799 up late to tournaments and like talking about making the top forty. Yeah, 365 00:25:15,119 --> 00:25:15,920 I'm like, well, what what are you doing? Who was the last 366 00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:21,200 one you mentioned, Bucky Matthew Wantman, Yeah he was, he was at 367 00:25:21,200 --> 00:25:25,119 Borgata. Yeah, well you know, how about stay here? And I 368 00:25:25,119 --> 00:25:27,119 mean, listen, I'm with you. There were there were a couple guys 369 00:25:29,160 --> 00:25:33,400 I saw. I think I counted like three names that we lost from Borgatta. 370 00:25:34,039 --> 00:25:37,559 The guy was kind of surprised to see Ben Wang not here just because 371 00:25:37,599 --> 00:25:41,359 he's been so hot, so like, why not try and win the last 372 00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:42,759 chance? Right? I mean I feel like if Ben Wang shows up, 373 00:25:42,759 --> 00:25:45,720 he was gonna win one of the dream seats. I mean that's just how 374 00:25:45,720 --> 00:25:51,400 it is. Obviously a lot of these these these like PLO guys we didn't 375 00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:55,599 really expect to get in there. And I feel, you know what, 376 00:25:55,680 --> 00:25:59,079 I honestly, obviously there's people that have got in that, you know, 377 00:25:59,160 --> 00:26:02,599 haven't played that that much volume in the studio. Look, I do feel 378 00:26:02,680 --> 00:26:06,880 bad for like Jim Callapy, Adam Hendricks, Lucky Chewy, you know, 379 00:26:06,960 --> 00:26:11,440 even like Arama Again. Yet they were playing every event they were fighting for 380 00:26:11,559 --> 00:26:14,640 trying to get in the leader board. They knew every scenario, Like you 381 00:26:14,680 --> 00:26:17,720 could really see that they were wearing their like emotions on their sleeves, just 382 00:26:17,759 --> 00:26:23,039 like wanting to make it and like how every decision was like so painful because 383 00:26:23,039 --> 00:26:26,680 it meant so much to them, But just try and qualify for this like 384 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:30,839 PGT Championship. Yeah, no, for sure, I mean it was it 385 00:26:30,880 --> 00:26:34,640 was a sweat till the end. So yeah, I mean it's gonna be. 386 00:26:34,920 --> 00:26:37,200 It's gonna be a fun tournament, you know, going forward. There's 387 00:26:37,240 --> 00:26:41,799 there's also of course that you know, there's the top forty from the leader 388 00:26:41,799 --> 00:26:45,240 board, which I you know, I think Tim and I could probably say 389 00:26:45,240 --> 00:26:49,480 we're gonna get thirty five ish, you know about there, which is good. 390 00:26:51,680 --> 00:26:55,920 Then you have the two dream See winners from the Last Chance Series that 391 00:26:56,079 --> 00:27:03,319 is Samuel Laskowitz and Dylan De'stefano. Now, Lasko Witch is interesting. He 392 00:27:03,359 --> 00:27:07,960 played a lot of our events, didn't didn't have like a ton of success. 393 00:27:08,839 --> 00:27:12,400 Five hundred and two points one win which came in event three during the 394 00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:15,400 Last Chance Series, seven cashes overall, five hundred and twenty seven k in 395 00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:18,799 winnings. If you just want to take everything based on where he is on 396 00:27:18,799 --> 00:27:25,240 the leaderboard, one hundred and eighth place, and then DeStefano is pretty far 397 00:27:25,240 --> 00:27:27,599 down as well one hundred and seventeenth place, but he also won an event 398 00:27:27,720 --> 00:27:33,119 during the PGT Last Chance Series. Both of them put in a decent amount 399 00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:37,720 of volume throughout the season, especially in like the ten K events just didn't 400 00:27:37,759 --> 00:27:42,079 have a ton of results. DeStefano has been around for a bit now. 401 00:27:42,319 --> 00:27:48,079 I feel like I've I've seen more of him Lasko, which is interesting because 402 00:27:48,119 --> 00:27:49,440 you know, we first kind of got word of him. Twenty twenty two 403 00:27:49,559 --> 00:27:55,119 WSP he makes the Colossus Final table, finish his second place. I think 404 00:27:55,119 --> 00:27:59,799 there was thirteen thousand, five hundred entries in that one. He finishes in 405 00:27:59,799 --> 00:28:02,680 sec in place to Paul Heiser, gets like a two hundred and sixty K 406 00:28:02,799 --> 00:28:07,960 score, has some other scores since then that that score from the Colossus remains 407 00:28:07,079 --> 00:28:12,319 his largest of his live tournament career, but has been playing a lot more 408 00:28:12,359 --> 00:28:17,839 high Rollers recently made the found table of the five k NPT high Rollers had 409 00:28:17,839 --> 00:28:21,799 some other cashes, cashes in PGT events, et cetera. So it's kind 410 00:28:21,799 --> 00:28:23,519 of like a little bit of a new kid on the block type of story, 411 00:28:23,599 --> 00:28:26,920 which I like. So it's good to see him get in there. 412 00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:32,119 And then you know, Dylan DeStefano. I mean, he feels like one 413 00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:37,599 of those guys who constantly shows up but just didn't have results. So it 414 00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:41,359 all came in this this last Chance series. But you know, still good 415 00:28:41,359 --> 00:28:44,960 for him, very good player, so it's good to have him in there 416 00:28:45,039 --> 00:28:48,720 overall. So yeah, I mean I thought, I think it's gonna be 417 00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:51,400 great. And then there's you know, so that gives us forty two where 418 00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:53,279 a max of forty two if everyone shows up, but then there's like twelve 419 00:28:53,279 --> 00:28:57,359 other dream See winners. Do you have those names Handy? Of course I 420 00:28:57,400 --> 00:29:00,799 have that. Of course you have him Handy. I know, I know. 421 00:29:00,799 --> 00:29:06,279 We gave away three via annual subscriber giveaways, and we talked about that 422 00:29:06,319 --> 00:29:10,839 ad nauseum last year. You know. So the three annual subscriber giveaways, 423 00:29:10,839 --> 00:29:15,960 we got Albert hot he is from Colorado or somewhere in somewhere in near Denver, 424 00:29:17,079 --> 00:29:21,839 Julio Clavell from I think New Jersey, and then Steve Kearney from California. 425 00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:26,440 They each won the subscriber drawing. They all have a little bit of 426 00:29:26,440 --> 00:29:30,759 poker chops. Well, you you reached out to Albert and like he was 427 00:29:30,799 --> 00:29:34,359 like, I'm gonna be in Vegas. Next week or something. So we 428 00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:37,880 met up and we chatted a little bit and uh, he has like a 429 00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:42,559 an MSPT win or something, no Hortland Poker Tour win. I think back 430 00:29:42,599 --> 00:29:48,599 in the day, Solo gets here and he's like make bagging chips at the 431 00:29:48,680 --> 00:29:52,880 Venetian for like the card Yeah, I think he like put on his I 432 00:29:52,880 --> 00:29:56,440 think I saw a video where he was like played the card player event at 433 00:29:56,480 --> 00:29:59,720 the Venetians, like he made day two or something. He's just like ready 434 00:29:59,759 --> 00:30:02,880 to go. He's ready, He's ready to go. Yeah, Steve Kearney. 435 00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:07,119 And then we did a social media drawing on the Glean platform and Caleb 436 00:30:07,119 --> 00:30:11,880 Hancock won. That funny story about KAYLEB Hancock. I've got a phone call 437 00:30:11,920 --> 00:30:15,359 today from Aria front desk. They're like, hello, is this Tim Duckwerds. 438 00:30:15,559 --> 00:30:19,440 Yes, we have your client here, Caleb Hancock. And here's a 439 00:30:19,519 --> 00:30:25,559 balanced on his Aria hotel. He's trying to check in. I'm like it 440 00:30:25,559 --> 00:30:27,480 should we all paid for already? And I'm like how much is it? 441 00:30:27,519 --> 00:30:30,720 Like I was thinking, is it like you know the tax or the you 442 00:30:30,759 --> 00:30:36,160 know the what's it called the resort fee? It's it's twenty one hundred dollars. 443 00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:38,640 I'm like, what twenty one hundred and I go, okay, it 444 00:30:38,680 --> 00:30:41,720 should be covered. What do I need to do? And you know, 445 00:30:41,720 --> 00:30:45,039 we talk a little bit. I then I literally hand the phone off to 446 00:30:45,119 --> 00:30:48,799 the Aria poker host who booked the rooms. They sorted out. It was 447 00:30:48,839 --> 00:30:55,759 just a completely like technical mishap where you know whatever, like the rooms were 448 00:30:56,079 --> 00:30:59,839 mixed around, but we got him sorted anyway. So they're the four ones 449 00:30:59,880 --> 00:31:03,359 we we did through Pocago. We have Jeff Lennon who has played a couple 450 00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:08,599 of PGT events before. He won the Run Good Dream Seat Invitational that was 451 00:31:08,640 --> 00:31:14,839 open to all Run Good Ring winners throughout the season. They played off for 452 00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:19,559 you know, the dream scene and some cash, and Jeff Lennon took that 453 00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:26,119 down. We did two seats through our Partner's GT Wizard. We had one 454 00:31:26,119 --> 00:31:30,119 winner, Ryan Bell. The other winner our boy, our twenty five K 455 00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:36,279 fantasy hero Ian Steinman. Let's go, he's in there. Does he know 456 00:31:36,680 --> 00:31:38,160 these guys all know? Have you been in touch with them? Have people 457 00:31:38,839 --> 00:31:44,759 I have not been in touch with the gto guys. That's Brent Hanks issue. 458 00:31:44,799 --> 00:31:48,599 I hope that's all stted. And then we have basically five sponsor exemptions. 459 00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:55,480 So these guys have been putting through our key sponsors of pocago and the 460 00:31:55,519 --> 00:32:00,839 PGT. We have representatives from Monkey Till, eat MESKLA, True Classic t 461 00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:07,240 Shirts, PokerGO Play, ad Switch. So in total, fourteen dream seats 462 00:32:07,359 --> 00:32:10,480 along with the top forty on the PGT later board. It's it's going to 463 00:32:10,559 --> 00:32:15,480 be a fun two days. It is. I mean, I'm very much 464 00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:22,839 looking forward to it. Action starts noon on Tuesday, play from up to 465 00:32:22,880 --> 00:32:28,359 fifty four down to the final table of six. It's five hundred thousand dollars 466 00:32:28,359 --> 00:32:31,440 for first place, and Tim put together some additional payouts for the final table. 467 00:32:31,480 --> 00:32:37,039 Do you have those handy as well? Two hundred k for second second, 468 00:32:37,519 --> 00:32:40,240 an nice big jump, let's go. I think it's one tory one 469 00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:44,799 last year was winner take All. Jason Cohon won five hundred k winner take 470 00:32:44,839 --> 00:32:50,039 All, which which if you watched last year you might have heard the players 471 00:32:50,079 --> 00:32:53,160 talking about how a winner take all tournament creates a little bit different of a 472 00:32:53,240 --> 00:32:58,000 dynamic because there is no ICM, like you're just playing to win the tournament 473 00:32:58,119 --> 00:33:00,599 the whole time. Now we're going to revert that kind of more towards a 474 00:33:00,720 --> 00:33:05,920 normal the payout structure in a way. Yeah, So five hundred k for 475 00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:09,240 first, two hundred k for second, one hundred and twenty thousand for third, 476 00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:15,039 Fourth is eighty K, fifth, sixty k, sixth place forty thousand 477 00:33:15,079 --> 00:33:20,279 dollars. Pretty pretty sick. I mean, it's going to be fun. 478 00:33:20,279 --> 00:33:23,400 As I said, tomorrow or sorry, Tuesday at noon. I keep saying 479 00:33:23,400 --> 00:33:25,799 tomorrow, but then I realize people are going to listen to it, probably 480 00:33:25,799 --> 00:33:32,119 today. So Tuesday noon is when the tournament starts noon Vegas time. The 481 00:33:32,160 --> 00:33:37,480 live stream starts at two pm four Las Vegas time, four pm last wegast 482 00:33:37,519 --> 00:33:39,759 time. Yeah, they moved it a little bit, just like they moved 483 00:33:39,759 --> 00:33:43,880 it a little bit, a little bit two hours. Well, okay, 484 00:33:43,920 --> 00:33:45,799 first of all, it was supposed to be three pm, not two pm. 485 00:33:45,920 --> 00:33:51,920 But I'm going to look at the social media post. I would ride 486 00:33:52,039 --> 00:33:57,920 see you at time. This. No, this is ridiculous. You should 487 00:33:57,920 --> 00:34:00,519 be streaming from hand number one. Agree with that, and if we did, 488 00:34:00,519 --> 00:34:05,720 it would probably still be one o'clock or two o'clock. Yeah, but 489 00:34:06,319 --> 00:34:10,760 social media posts pinned five pm Eastern two pm Pacific time. I might have 490 00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:15,239 to air that post. Why are they changing it to four. We're not 491 00:34:15,360 --> 00:34:21,360 in charge of these decisions. This is about in the world, way above 492 00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:24,239 our pay grade. I mean, that's silly. You're missing the whole, 493 00:34:24,559 --> 00:34:31,119 the half the tournament. You're missing three levels. They're streaming from level four 494 00:34:31,519 --> 00:34:36,239 after the first break, they're on a two hour They're on like an hour 495 00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:37,840 and a half delay. They think because we cut the bread speed it up. 496 00:34:37,920 --> 00:34:45,599 Yes, still silly streamer hand number one. I agree, stream from 497 00:34:45,719 --> 00:34:50,519 what happens on Toronto and helm with Battle and Explode firsthand, and we miss 498 00:34:50,519 --> 00:34:54,199 it exactly, you know what I mean. We should be streaming this one 499 00:34:54,280 --> 00:35:00,320 from like a half hour before. Talk about yeah, we should have made 500 00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:02,719 a show out of the seat draw, like you've done a whole thing, 501 00:35:02,880 --> 00:35:06,559 like you know, it should have been an event, man, I mean 502 00:35:06,559 --> 00:35:07,599 it is an event, but it should have been a bigger event. Like, 503 00:35:08,119 --> 00:35:10,800 well, yeah, I haven't seen you in like a week, but 504 00:35:10,840 --> 00:35:14,000 when you come in, you're gotta say, it looks like I've been there 505 00:35:14,119 --> 00:35:16,840 every day. I've been here every day. We just on different schedules. 506 00:35:19,119 --> 00:35:22,440 Oh, and then the final table will be on Wednesday, and come back 507 00:35:22,840 --> 00:35:24,880 put the final table on Wednesday. A lot of streaming for this. It's 508 00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:28,280 gonna be on Poker Go, it's gonna be on the Poker YouTube channel, 509 00:35:28,320 --> 00:35:32,639 it's going to be on you know, Pluto wherever else. There's like ninety 510 00:35:32,800 --> 00:35:37,599 different AVA channels that were on YouTube, Premium, et cetera. So if 511 00:35:37,639 --> 00:35:40,400 you want to watch this event, I'm sure it's gonna be a lot of 512 00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:45,760 fun. Everyone starts with at least one hundred big blinds. That's the stone 513 00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:50,559 minimum that you can get in with. Mentioned it earlier, but Isaac Hackson, 514 00:35:50,760 --> 00:35:52,559 he'll be the guy who starts with the most chips. Isaac Hackston, 515 00:35:52,599 --> 00:35:54,840 by the way, you know, kind of buried this a little bit, 516 00:35:54,840 --> 00:36:00,480 and that's my fault. But PGT Player of the Year for twenty three and 517 00:36:00,559 --> 00:36:06,960 with that he gets a fifty thousand dollars bonus, so good on him. 518 00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:09,880 You know, we kind of took that from I guess fantasy football leagues in 519 00:36:09,920 --> 00:36:13,280 a way. You know, everyone gets to the playoffs and then it's just 520 00:36:13,360 --> 00:36:15,400 kind of a crap shoot and you can lose. Well, the person who 521 00:36:15,639 --> 00:36:20,239 earns the most points during the regular season should be awarded, right, Yes, 522 00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:23,559 they are rewarded in the way that they they start with the most chips, 523 00:36:23,599 --> 00:36:27,239 but you know they should also get a little bit of a reward. 524 00:36:27,480 --> 00:36:30,000 If you remember last year Steven Shouldwick won and then I think he made the 525 00:36:30,039 --> 00:36:34,440 foun table what ultimately fell or evenish stopped the Leader award, made the found 526 00:36:34,440 --> 00:36:37,079 table that ultimately fell short to the prize. So in a way, a 527 00:36:37,119 --> 00:36:44,719 little bit of a kick in the nuts there overall. But but yeah, 528 00:36:44,760 --> 00:36:46,440 who you got, like? Who give mes? Like some predictions? Who 529 00:36:46,480 --> 00:36:49,760 who's gonna run deep in this thing? Who do you think is gonna win? 530 00:36:50,199 --> 00:36:54,480 Who do you think is gonna absolutely do nothing? Well? I do 531 00:36:54,559 --> 00:37:00,800 have some inside of information. Phil, how much light light he's registering? 532 00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:06,440 Is the worst? Turning up late? Yeah? Does he know he has 533 00:37:06,599 --> 00:37:09,079 By the way, does he know the rules? He does, because if 534 00:37:09,079 --> 00:37:13,280 you don't show up by a certain time, you're not in. He knows 535 00:37:13,280 --> 00:37:15,480 all the rules. He knows he can lose a max of twenty three thousand 536 00:37:15,519 --> 00:37:20,800 chips. He's only starting with one hundred and thirty one k, so that's 537 00:37:20,840 --> 00:37:23,679 a that's a pretty decent chunk to lose. By time he comes in, 538 00:37:23,719 --> 00:37:28,519 he's gonna have like what forty bigs? Yeah, that's the Phil Homer suite. 539 00:37:28,559 --> 00:37:30,800 I mean that's way too deep for film. Look for the Lulls. 540 00:37:31,239 --> 00:37:37,599 I feel like this has got Daniel Wineman all over it. But if we're 541 00:37:37,639 --> 00:37:43,559 playing, if we're gonna, if we're gonna bed on form, it's hard 542 00:37:43,599 --> 00:37:49,639 to look past, you know, to me, Hackston and Chidwick, they're 543 00:37:49,639 --> 00:37:53,760 here. They did pretty well during Last Chance. They have that superhead start 544 00:37:53,800 --> 00:37:57,679 of you know, two hundred and forty Big Blinds and two hundred and eighty 545 00:37:57,679 --> 00:38:00,559 five Big Blinds. You know, you combine that with running pretty good. 546 00:38:01,480 --> 00:38:05,920 I feel like they're my two picks if I was to pick anyone. I 547 00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:07,840 mean, Hackson has to be the favorite, obviously, starting with the most 548 00:38:07,880 --> 00:38:15,079 chips, playing just unreal for the past year. Chidwick as well, playing 549 00:38:15,119 --> 00:38:20,159 really good starts third in chips. Chris Brewer had a really good twenty twenty 550 00:38:20,159 --> 00:38:23,360 three, but like if you're gonna go on, like the last handful of 551 00:38:23,360 --> 00:38:27,880 weeks, a little bit out of form compared to Hackson and Chidwick. Not 552 00:38:27,920 --> 00:38:31,079 that that necessarily is gonna matter at all. I think it's gonna be interesting 553 00:38:31,119 --> 00:38:35,719 what you see from like the people that are just coming in like Stone Cold. 554 00:38:36,159 --> 00:38:37,679 I mean, you saw like we saw Alex Foxon, we saw Ren 555 00:38:37,719 --> 00:38:40,360 Linn, we saw Sam Silver, we saw Nick Shulman, we saw Jeremy 556 00:38:40,360 --> 00:38:44,760 Osmas, like, you know other than Jeremy Osmas. That those first four 557 00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:49,320 guys like all had results during the PGT Last Chance, So you would think 558 00:38:49,320 --> 00:38:52,000 that they're very much like in form. But then you have people like you 559 00:38:52,039 --> 00:38:54,239 know, Phil Hammuth for example, Yeah he played the last event, but 560 00:38:54,400 --> 00:38:58,559 like, okay, Phil, I mean, I don't know what that's gonna 561 00:38:58,559 --> 00:39:02,480 mean. Carrie Katz, I have no idea when when is the last Actually, 562 00:39:02,519 --> 00:39:05,880 for me, the last time that I saw Carrie play a poker tournament 563 00:39:05,880 --> 00:39:08,000 was the WPT World Championship, Because when was the last play one of our 564 00:39:08,039 --> 00:39:10,119 events? That's what I mean, Like, yeah, I mean this is 565 00:39:10,119 --> 00:39:15,000 a different it's a different These are high roller robot solver guys. I mean, 566 00:39:15,119 --> 00:39:17,760 you know, these aren't like, you know, a general population of 567 00:39:17,760 --> 00:39:24,239 poker players. So there we were, we were building me and Paul Campbell, 568 00:39:24,239 --> 00:39:28,880 We're building the chip stacks today for everyone. I'm bagging them up and 569 00:39:28,920 --> 00:39:32,000 we're making them and we get to carry and I was like, we should 570 00:39:32,039 --> 00:39:37,199 give Carrie like all big chips, like literally four chips as punishment for not 571 00:39:37,280 --> 00:39:43,719 showing up. But like that. I kind of wanted to do that. 572 00:39:44,639 --> 00:39:50,840 Chance Corneth and Isaac Kempton good players, but I haven't seen them. Well 573 00:39:50,920 --> 00:39:52,880 yeah, I mean that'd be fine, Like we touched them. I'm just 574 00:39:52,880 --> 00:39:55,719 talking about like, you know, who's who's going to be kind of in 575 00:39:55,840 --> 00:40:01,000 form Yeah, I feel like China was to say, China Raymonds and another 576 00:40:01,039 --> 00:40:04,760 one. I mean we already talked about him. But Arthur Marturosian like, 577 00:40:05,280 --> 00:40:07,599 I mean, he feels like he's going to be in this for sure. 578 00:40:07,639 --> 00:40:12,280 And here's the thing. If he gets a table jaw always say with Isaac 579 00:40:12,320 --> 00:40:15,440 Hackson and doubles through Isaac in the first level, he's now the chip leader, 580 00:40:16,199 --> 00:40:21,880 right although Ike is starting with that's kind of why I wish we had 581 00:40:21,880 --> 00:40:23,960 the table draw because then we'll be talking about it right now. Yeah, 582 00:40:24,199 --> 00:40:27,480 next year, I mean next year, for sure, we have to have 583 00:40:27,519 --> 00:40:29,760 the table Like, we need to do the table draw. Like the night 584 00:40:29,800 --> 00:40:32,400 of that they make the last event ends or whatever. Yeah, okay, 585 00:40:32,760 --> 00:40:36,199 which the last event ending, by the way, was an absolute shit show. 586 00:40:36,239 --> 00:40:38,000 I don't know if you saw it. I did. But it's also 587 00:40:38,039 --> 00:40:42,760 funny that, like I I texted you earlier in the day asking you about 588 00:40:42,800 --> 00:40:45,800 a deal. And the reason why I texted you about the deal stuff is 589 00:40:45,840 --> 00:40:52,119 because I knew Nick Schulman Fox in like these like Green Chino, we're out 590 00:40:52,159 --> 00:40:54,920 of the we're making the final table, and I was like, these guys 591 00:40:55,440 --> 00:40:59,880 are very friendly and have chopped an event of ours before, So I was 592 00:40:59,880 --> 00:41:01,960 like, maybe they just and they're all like everyone's locked into the top forty 593 00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:05,079 like whatever. You know, they're probably just gonna want to get out of 594 00:41:05,079 --> 00:41:07,519 there if it's two am, so they're probably just gonna chop it. So 595 00:41:07,519 --> 00:41:09,360 I messaged you, and then it just turns on to just be they end 596 00:41:09,480 --> 00:41:14,280 up chopping it Chino Rheim and Nick Schulman and then just do like seventeen flips 597 00:41:14,320 --> 00:41:16,280 to get get the victory. I mean, it was just the whole thing 598 00:41:16,400 --> 00:41:21,519 was a freaking mess, but it was fun. They were like weren't even 599 00:41:21,559 --> 00:41:23,360 county chips. They were just like passing the chips back and forth. I 600 00:41:23,360 --> 00:41:28,679 mean, it was it was quite comical at that point. So so yeah, 601 00:41:28,760 --> 00:41:30,400 I mean, yeah, I think we I hope we get some runs 602 00:41:30,400 --> 00:41:34,519 out of you know, some of these dream See winners. I think that 603 00:41:34,559 --> 00:41:36,800 would just be fun to have them kind of in the mix. You know, 604 00:41:36,880 --> 00:41:40,320 as as like the true wild cards getting out there. So yeah, 605 00:41:40,400 --> 00:41:45,800 overall, I'm looking forward to a really really fun PGT Championship event closing out 606 00:41:45,800 --> 00:41:49,719 the season, and then we go right into the kickoff event, which I 607 00:41:49,760 --> 00:41:52,400 don't know if you heard on the stream, the guys are all aware of 608 00:41:52,400 --> 00:41:55,679 the PGG kickoff, like they're they're ready to go, double points, like, 609 00:41:57,000 --> 00:42:00,440 let's go. So that starts. What a day after days two days 610 00:42:00,440 --> 00:42:02,440 after, I don't remember what you told me. The day after, I 611 00:42:02,480 --> 00:42:08,639 think, yeah, so that's gonna be available all told. You know, 612 00:42:08,679 --> 00:42:14,679 we were already streamed six days or five days, but I think total we're 613 00:42:14,719 --> 00:42:20,320 streaming like nineteen days in January total, which is pretty wild. So yeah, 614 00:42:20,480 --> 00:42:22,440 tune into poker, go, subscribe to the YouTube channel, all that 615 00:42:22,480 --> 00:42:27,840 sort of stuff, because it's gonna be fun from start to finish. I 616 00:42:27,840 --> 00:42:31,719 gotta give up like a couple of predictions. I'm gonna go with, I 617 00:42:31,719 --> 00:42:36,119 mean, you picked the the chalk, I mean, I'm so sure, 618 00:42:36,199 --> 00:42:42,360 of course, of course, what else I'm gonna go with. I'm gonna 619 00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:51,000 go with Phil Hommy does horrible. I'm gonna go with Alex Foxen does very 620 00:42:51,039 --> 00:42:54,199 well. I'm gonna go with Jason Kohn even though he's starting. I mean, 621 00:42:55,440 --> 00:43:00,119 I can't say short on Chip. It's shorter than everyone else. I'm 622 00:43:00,119 --> 00:43:04,280 gonna say Jason Kuon makes a run to the final table and almost defends the 623 00:43:04,760 --> 00:43:09,280 championship but doesn't. All falls a little bit short, and I'm going with 624 00:43:09,360 --> 00:43:13,280 I'm going with Archi Marcerosi and winning the whole thing. Yeah, it's a 625 00:43:13,280 --> 00:43:15,559 good one. You know, if we're talking about what we would like to 626 00:43:15,599 --> 00:43:19,599 see, it would be actually for the tour's sake, pretty good to see 627 00:43:19,599 --> 00:43:23,880 one of these dream seat winners from Lost Chance. So Sam and Dylan make 628 00:43:23,920 --> 00:43:29,119 a run, maybe even cash so it really shows that, Hey, look, 629 00:43:29,199 --> 00:43:31,639 this dream seat is a dream seat. You know, you come play 630 00:43:31,639 --> 00:43:37,559 this last series. Ron good for like six events, polay that into the 631 00:43:37,639 --> 00:43:43,079 championship and there you go. You can potentially hit a five hundred k scool 632 00:43:44,440 --> 00:43:46,840 sweet, I love it. All Right, that's enough talking about this this 633 00:43:46,920 --> 00:43:51,320 event. We had a lot of work to tomorrow. Tim's gonna be on. 634 00:43:51,440 --> 00:43:53,559 You're gonna be doing live reporting, right, Yeah, why not live 635 00:43:53,599 --> 00:43:58,199 reporting on PGT dot com. You guys can check that out. I guess 636 00:43:58,199 --> 00:44:05,840 we have a new time for the stream four pm Eastern time. No one 637 00:44:05,840 --> 00:44:08,760 has told me about the time, and I'm supposed to commentate on the thing 638 00:44:08,760 --> 00:44:13,000 tomorrow, so somebody please tell me, I mean, please let me know 639 00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:15,000 when I have to show up to work. I would love to know you 640 00:44:15,239 --> 00:44:16,960 show up at twelve o'clock. I'm gonna show up at twelve o'clock. I 641 00:44:17,159 --> 00:44:20,360 would like to know what the heck's going on in my life, like you 642 00:44:20,400 --> 00:44:23,920 know, I mean, just let me know, please. Anyway, that's 643 00:44:23,960 --> 00:44:25,960 that all right, We're gonna get out of here. My name is Donny 644 00:44:27,000 --> 00:44:30,199 Peters. His name is Tim Duckworth, and we will talk to you guys 645 00:44:30,239 --> 00:44:30,239 soon. Ge