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Hello, everyone, Welcome back to
another episode of The Poker Go Podcast,

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the number one poker podcast in the
land. What's going on, Tim,

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How are you? I'm good,
I'm very good. How about you?

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I mean, I'm good. I
guess I should introduce myself, although I'm

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not sure that matters. My name
is Donny Peters. I got Tim Duckworth

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on the line with me. Apologize
if his audio is a little less than

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high quality this time around. He's
on the What are you on a phone?

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I don't even know what you're doing. I'm on my laptop, but

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I don't have the normal MIC.
I'm just using the whatever whatever microphone these

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MacBook pros give us nowadays. I'm
sure, I'm sure you sound all right

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to me. Producer Rich Ryan's probably
gonna yell at us in the morning.

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Find the person that stole our little
dongle, a little USB a USBC connector

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that is disappeared, completely disappeared.
Yeah, I mean, that's just sad,

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that's unfortunate. All Right, We're
gonna hit on the PGT Championship a

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little bit of a combination of wrapping
up PGT Last Chance, what just happened,

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rolling into PGT Championship. We are
recording this on Monday night pretty late,

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I mean really late nine pm,
late for non WSP season, but

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not late during WSP season. And
then the championship kicks off tomorrow or kicks

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off on a Tuesday, I should
say, which is probably today by the

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time you're listening to this starts at
noon. We'll have live stream that goes

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live at two o'clock Las Vegas time. Two days of coverage pretty much from

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start to finish, missing the first
couple levels, but other than that,

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we'll be covering the entire thing.
As somebody will become the PGT Championship,

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they will walk away with five hundred
thousand dollars in prize money. It is

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a million dollar free role. So
the PGT Last Chance. For those that

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are unaware or may have missed what
just happened, First of all, shame

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on you. Where the heck were
you? Okay? I had to drag

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my ass down to the studio at
eleven thirty at night, stream till three

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am, do the commentary, and
then drive my ass home, so you

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could have at least joined us.
Remcon No, I kid, I kid.

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But PGT Last Chance was exactly as
the name suggests the last chance for

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players to get into the PGT Championship
event, last chance to earn some extra

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chips via points, last chance to
win some extra money. All that sort

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of stuff was at play during the
PGT Last Chance Series six events. Every

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event had a ten k buy in. Pretty good turnout overall. I mean,

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how do you feel about the turnout? I thought it was excellent.

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You know, we went into this
not really having a read on it.

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I thought it was going to be
a good series. I was very bullish.

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I talked it up a lot,
and thankfully the players supported me.

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Showed up. We had great numbers, and unlike our normal events, the

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ten k's we normally see, you
know, the best number in event one

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and then it drops off, you
know, by five ten percent every time,

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and trickles down this one, you
know a little bit of a jump,

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a little bit of a drop,
and then it just stayed the same.

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So it showed that people kind of
cared about the dream seats. You

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know, they wanted to play,
they wanted to gamble, they wanted to

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win money, get more chips,
everything. So the concept was great.

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Looking forward already to figuring out how
to make this bigger and better for the

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next season. Yeah, I thought
the concept was a lot of fun.

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I thought the players really took to
it. Just hearing a lot of them

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talk about the series and the fact
that they understood it. They knew,

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you know, all the different things
that were up for grabs, both the

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leaderboard, you know, the points
with the chips, and then also the

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dream seats for the top two people
that weren't necessarily in contention to get into

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the top forty. Heard many of
the players, you know, very well

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aware of everything that was going on
and what this series meant, which which

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you know, felt pretty good.
I mean, it feels like we're building

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something pretty good if the players are
really caring to like learn it and become

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aware of it. You know,
Oftentimes, you know, you and I've

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joked on this podcast before, like, you know, players complain about how

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a structure is missing a blind level, or the anthe is too big and

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whatever, and we're always like,
you know, you guys can read the

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structure of sheets ahead of time,
and you just never seem to do it.

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In this case, I feel like
they all did their due diligence and

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they all knew what was happening.
Even on some of the streams or final

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tables, you know, when one
player might have had a question or about

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maybe how something was working, the
players all seem to know, like yeah,

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like no, it's this this,
I got to get this place or

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you got to get that place,
or you know all the different scenarios that

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were I play, which was very
cool. So I think I think the

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sweating part of this was was great. And also you know the anti sweating

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there's look, let's just be honest. Everyone any sweats someone in poker at

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one point in time. We don't
tell anyone man. Look, everyone only

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anti sweat Tim when he texted me
about the South Point nowt yeah, say

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look, but in this one,
it was, I want to say,

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a little bit encouraged. And it
was actually pretty funny, like you know,

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some player, you know, Chino
knocked out some player and then like

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Arthur marrs like gave him a fist
pump from the other table because like it

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meant that, you know, now, like Arthur only had one lesson,

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like he had one less scenario to
think about, and it was actually and

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then the reverse of that is a
lot of people you know that weren't in

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contention were cheering for Arta Mater Rozion
to to keep doing well because that means

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he would have been in the top
forty. And then that dream seat drops

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down. So there was like very
open sweating and very open Andy sweating up

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until the final event when, which
pretty funny. Jim callap he Bus said

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he was sitting at the bar,
you know, we were just chatting friendly,

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and he's like, you know,
He's like, yeah, I'm sorry,

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you know, I have to sit
here and I'm just gonna wait,

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I need five people to bust.
He goes out to the bar. From

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the bar, so back into the
progress shot, he goes and he's like

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he's talking to Max Coleman, who
he's like battling against. He's like,

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Max, he want you want to
bottle of wine? You want a bear?

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Do you want some do you want
some alcohol? Like you know,

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basically trying to like heckle him drunks
drunk. And then Adam Hendrix also in

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the same situation as Max, trying
to get in. He went to the

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bathroom and Jim said something to him
and Adam was just like, this is

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horrible because he knows that Adam,
like Adam needs just the mincash to be

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in the top forty, but he
was shot in chips. He was battling

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four other guys that were trying to
get in the top forty in that final

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event, like right down to the
wire, it mattered, and I think

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that was like the best part of
this Hall series. Yeah, I mean,

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I love the entertainment that the sweating
of the of the leaderboards really provided.

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So you know, I think that
you know, if you just run

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it back as is next year,
it'll probably grow a little bit because I

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think a lot of people kind of
got word of how good and fun it

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was, you know, I think
those are additional two dream seats that rub

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for grabs really pushed a lot of
people to get in there and get involved,

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which is great to see. One
of the players that you know needed

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to at least, you know,
based on tim andized estimations, probably needed

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some sort of result like cash or
something in order to stay within the top

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and that was Daniel Legrandu. And
he just comes out and rips off the

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victory and event number one. I
mean, it was just it was kind

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of funny timing with everything because he
had just put out a YouTube video going

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over his twenty twenty three stats where
he had lost two point two or two

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point three million, like his second
losing year ever since like twenty thirteen or

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something like that, lost a crap
ton of money. You know, did

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this whole thing about how like he
kind of ran bad in a lot of

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spots, and if you watched his
vlogs, yeah, I mean when he

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got his money, and he ran
pretty horrible in a ton of really big

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spots and really big tournaments, didn't
really cash for a lot or have any

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big scores. You know, I
think his biggest score of the year was

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like one hundred and twenty k stuff
like that. Anytime he did go deep

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at the WSP, it was like
in a fifteen hundred dollars tournament or that

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three hundred dollars Gladiators like stuff that
was just like so small and took up

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so much time that it was kind
of crazy that Negranu even bothered to play

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it. So there was that aspect, But then you know, he the

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whole like the kind of the ending
of the video that he put out was,

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you know, twenty twenty four,
I'm gonna kind of pull things back

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a little bit in terms of the
volume, and I'm gonna go quality over

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quantity comes out and event number one
of the last chance any sort of like

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in the money result would be good
for him to solidify his spot in the

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top forty and feel a lot more
comfortable. And he just rips off the

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event the wind and event number one
tops ninety one entries, beats Daniel Smilkovic

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and heads up play gets lucky on
the final hand too, so like after

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a little bit of you know,
having some fun with the whole bad luck

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thing on it. On his video
he smikes spikes a four outer getting his

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money in pretty bad on the turn. He had Ace King on a what

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a jack jack ten xport jack x
ten four I think it was. He

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gets it all in on the turn. Schmilkovitch has jack juice for Trips River

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just you know, lovely lovely lady
Mamasita, Queen Boom and the grand he's

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there, wins two hundred and eighteen
K. So you know that was just

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right out of the gate that happens. You had the Arthur Martirosian you know,

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story throughout because he wanted two events. You had, you know,

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the two dream seat winners, Samuel
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doing very well throughout ended up getting
those two dream seats, which are going

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to give them the right of passage
to come compete in the PGT Championship Million

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dollar free Roll. You had Chino
Reem who was in the top forty,

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then outside the top forty, then
back in the top forty, so you

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had that whole thing. You had
a bunch of people like you mentioned Arthur

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Morris. Arthur Morris didn't show up
for like the first event or two,

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and then he's like texted you and
it is like I'm coming, I'm getting

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on a plane, like so then
he comes. Then he has to finish

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in like ninth place or better in
the final event. He does it like

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you know, like all this sort
of stuff is just happening. So the

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sweat was a lot of fun going
into the final event. There was like

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a whole different bunch of scenarios that
could have happened the two dream seats,

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Like it could have been anywhere up
to like twenty five players could have been

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eligible to win one of those final
two dream seats. You had like I

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don't know, ten players that were
either going to be in or out of

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the top forty and then obviously people
were jockeying for possession within the top forty

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because the more points you earn over
the course of the season, that has

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to do with the number of chips
that you start the PGT Championship with.

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So all in all, it was
a lot of fun from where I sat

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every single night in the commentary Ruth
alongside Remco Rinking. I mean, it

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was just a ton of entertainment,
you know, trying to break down all

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the scenarios and see what was happening. I guess my only if I were

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to change things right now, the
only thing that I would change, and

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it's not even like a change,
it's more of like a In addition,

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I would stream more of the final
day because ultimately we got down to the

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final table and we streamed seven handed, and like everything was locked in so

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on that while that day itself was
a big sweat overall and like that,

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you know, we were talking in
our whatsap chat and whatever, like,

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there was a lot of stuff going
on. People were going moving all over

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the place, you know, people
were in, people were out, all

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this sort of stuff. But when
we got down to the final seven,

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all that had you know, gone
away and it was just you know,

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just played out and no big deal. So the one thing I would change,

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uh is I want to next time
add two plos. Maybe it's five

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hold them and two plos. Just
you know, there's some PLO guys on

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the fringe, you know, they'll
put everything they can into that. Maybe

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you get some of these no limit
guys like, okay, I really need

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the points. I'm going to gamble
and just try and run like the sun

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in this game. I have no
idea what I'm doing, you know,

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and back and forth with the PLO. I think that would even make it

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a little more you know, a
little more fun that final you know,

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few events. Yeah, I don't. I don't hate that. I think

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that can work. I mean,
overall though, I think you know,

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you and I both agree that it
was. It was a really good series

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to wrap things up. It was
a lot of fun. Obviously, the

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sweats were incredible throughout, so you
know, hoping that's not just the one

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time thing. Hopefully we get sweats
like that, you know, going forward

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when we do run this thing again. So so yeah, very cool.

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There As it pertains to the top
forty, it's locked in. Things are

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set you got Isaac Hackson on the
top. Isaac Hackson, by the way,

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we talked about him when we kind
of gave our predictions, you know

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how like he doesn't really need to
show up because he's so far ahead.

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I mean he played everything. I
mean he was he was in there,

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he was in there, and he
was battling. He had two cashes.

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He cashed for just about one hundred
and eighty five K from these series.

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I mean it's like it's like very
much just like still the year of Isaac

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Hackson. After all the success he
had in twenty twenty three, you know,

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he's started off twenty twenty four very
much in the right direction again.

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He finished a top the leader board
with twenty eight hundred and forty seven points,

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almost a full four hundred points ahead
of Chris Brewer. Isaac Hackson's PGT

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season was four victories and being Super
high roller Bowl, four victories, fourteen

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cashes, more than seven point two
million dollars in earnings. He's gonna start

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with the most chips because points equal
starting chips for the PGT Championship. So

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on Tuesday, he's gonna have what
two hundred and eighty four thousand or two

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hundred eighty five thousand in chips to
start big line. Yeah, big blind

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will be one k, so he's
got two hundred and eighty five big blinds.

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The top three are Isaac Axston,
then it's Chris Brewer, then it's

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Steven Childwick. Steven Childwick had a
pretty good series for PGT Last Chance,

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actually jumped from third or from fourth
to third with some of the results that

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he had. Daniel Weinman in fourth. You got Alex Fox in fifth,

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Renland six, Sam Severall seventh,
Nick Shulman eighth. I think Nick Shulman

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moved up a bunch of spots as
well. Stephen Jones another WSP main event

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final table list. He came in
second to Daniel Wyman. He's in ninth,

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and then Jeremy Osmas rounds out the
top ten. I got some notable

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names. You got Eric Saidell in
eleventh. You have Daniel Legrandu, who

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I think he came in in what
thirty fifth place and the win that he

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got in event number one jumped him
up to seventeenth place, So nice little

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boost there. Phil Helmuth only played
the final event, you know, kind

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of max late reds like Phil Hellmuth
always does. He dipped back a little

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bit from where he was. He'll
come in twenty first place overall or tied

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for twentieth. What however, you
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yeah, bottom of the leaderboard,
the you know, the forty to get

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in. So let's start with I'll
start with thirty fourth because you have a

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tie there, a three way tie. Alexander Reared, Toby Lewis and Juan

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Monsierras all have twelve hundred points.
Then you have Arthur Morris who got in

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via his run in the final event, thirty eighth place. Opening Casseetchi Coglu.

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Thirty ninth place was kind of a
sweat, at least for me.

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I wanted the defending PGG championship in
this year's championship event, and that was

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Jason Kuhn. But it was a
sweat. He finished in thirty ninth place,

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so it was a little bit of
a sweat. But ultimately Jason Kuhn

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held on. He did play some
events no results though. Look that's the

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thing. He played some events,
you know, because he was on that

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fringe, and we never see Jason
Kern play a ten gay. So if

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you want to gain the success of
his series. I'm putting that as my

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lead bulletpoint. And Jason Kern plays
ten k no limit Holdham Tournament, and

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then Max Coleman is the last player
to get in via the top forty and

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thirty seven points, so that in
the final event it was Max Coleman and

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it was Arthur Morris who moved from
outside the top forty into the top forty.

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And then they knocked out Jim Colliby
and Ben Lamb out of the top

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forty. So and then some of
the players to you know, you had

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you had call up in, you
had Land Bubbling, Adam Hendrix, Andrew

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Lucky, Chewie Lichtenberger, John's Arns, Jonas Cronwitter, Nachre Barbaro aram Aganian

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and Dance Smith and then fiftieth place
also outside justin Bonomo. So I mean,

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listen, I think the field is
pretty sick overall. Yeah, I

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think we're going to bat like ninety
seven percent in terms of people showing up.

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Wow, that's that's pretty true.
I mean, who's not showing up?

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Ruslin Priedric, Yeah for sure.
I mean unless he shows up,

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but no one's been able to contact
him. So Andretaos is not. He

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is not he is what? Yep, it was the whole point of Adrian

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Mitayo's playing the entire PGT season.
Adrian, bro, what are you doing?

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He is getting married? He didn't
want to travel to Vegas again after

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being here just you know ten days
ago fall. Well you know what,

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he could have been like Schmilkovich march
Erosian and not left, okay because they

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all stayed. Yeah, he could
have come to my house for Christmas for

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all I care. What's what?
You know, what's he doing? Yeah,

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well, I mean that's a that's
a bummer. I thought for sure

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we were going to see him.
Same. Well, when we didn't see

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him for the first couple of events, I was a little wired and I

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sent him a text message and that's
where he said, now I'm not coming.

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So yeah, so I I thought
the same. You know, we

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didn't see him, I was like, oh, he's not coming. Then

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I looked at his standing and I
was like, oh, he doesn't really

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need to come whatever. He can
just you know, show up for the

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for the event. Not a big
deal. But yeah, that's a big

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surprise to me. That's a bummer. Like someone else we didn't say like

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Isaac Kempton, who we would have
expected in every one of these events.

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I was unsure and I sent him
a message and he was like, no,

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I'm just taking time off. He's
taking time off, he's sweating the

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bitcoin price. He's he's good to
go. I don't know about Alex Koulev.

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I talked to him at the wind
He knew about it, understood everything.

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Well, uh, we'll just have
to see what happens. I guess

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see if he flies back out here. I mean, I guess These other

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w SPE main event final table players
are interesting. So Daniel Wineman thinks coming

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right, Yeah, yeah, he
was flying in with josh I believe.

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Okay, yeah, yeah, okay, they're here. Josh Aria is who

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Tim has mentioned. He's in the
top forty as well. Stephen Jones is

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playing a Ballys Poker stream tonight,
so he's in town. I checked on

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that actually to make sure he was
fine. Adam Walton lives in Vegas,

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right, lives in Vegas. Has
been playing some events around town, so

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I'm assuming he's gonna be in this
one. What about your boy Jan Peter

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Yatman, he's here one of the
raiderst Broncos game. Let's go there,

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you go, h Leon stem is
a he's a n here yep emails from

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him. Okay, Sewn Winter is
going to be here. Of course,

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Max Newsbauer he said he's flying out
here too. Yeah, I mean he's

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like after he won WSP Europe main
event, he was basically on the phone

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with you being like, Hey,
what's this free role? How do I

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get in? How do I get
there? I mean Dean Hutchinson, I

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mean we have no he's he put
him in the in the camp of Ruslim

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Priedrick. We have no idea where
they are or what they're doing. You

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know, best efforts to contact them
have just not worked. So what are

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you gonna do? I would expect
lou Garza to be there. Uh worried

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about sweet I don't know why.
I've just got this. I've got this.

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I've got the heavy GBS about the
sweet Lie. Darren Olias has been

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here playing Last Chance. Of course. Masashi, Oh, he has been

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here. He's been battling Masashi.
I mean he wasn't really anywhere near the

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top forty until December. Yeah,
when he had a big WSP Paradise won

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the Hunter k Ultra high Roller down
there for his first w spgle bracelet,

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so uh, Masashi, oh yeah, kind of coming in late, but

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coming in there. Nonetheless, Archer
Martirosian is gonna get in there as well.

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Arch Marchin Rosine was pretty fun to
sweat throughout because he was like in

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sixty second place coming into the Last
Chance Series. I think he also had

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a pretty big December down in the
Bahamas, and it was interesting because he

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was really close to the top forty
and like had some results. I think

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he won at number two, so
it gets even closer. But then he's

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also the top guy on the series
leaderboard, so like he wasn't like the

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best spot out of anyone, because
no matter what happened, even if people

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overtook him on the series leaderboard,
he could possibly get in via the top

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forty. Like even if he got
in the top forty, then he's already

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locked in. He doesn't worry about
serious. It was just a really great

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spot for him. Ultimately, he
wins two events, played extremely well and

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it's kind of a treat, to
be honest, to have him in here

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because Archer Martin Rosin is one of
the best high stakes tournament players in the

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world. If you watch Triton Poker, the live students that they do,

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you'll be familiar with march Rosian on
the PGT Because he's from Europe. We

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don't get this see him a lot
outside of WSP stuff. But he was

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here for Last Chance and he was
playing it incredibly and I would expect more

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of that for the championship event.
So a bit of a treat there to

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have him here. Josh Ari,
as you mentioned, came in with Daniel

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Weinman, so we'll see him.
Alexander Riaired I mean you sat with him

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at the wind with him, yeah, I mean so so he knows about

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it, told him everything about it. I just got this, you know,

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vote of no confidence from him,
so uh yeah, I would probably

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put him in the probably once c
category. Uh. Toby Lewis was sweating

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the leaderboard. Didn't play Last Chance, but lives here in Vegas and was

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sweating the positioning, you know,
kind of feeling like do I have to

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come down type of thing. He
made it in Juan massierras is he coming?

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Uh yeah, he was. He
was a little wired as well.

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He was he was unsure if you
know, if he would make it,

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and he was asking me for my
opinion in I go, Look, if

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I was, if I was honest
with you, I would book a just

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if you book a flight and make
sure it's a refundable one, and just

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monitor, you know, monitor the
leaderboard. So yeah, I think he'll

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I think we'll see him. Who
else Arthur Morris? Of course, you

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know he's been here. He got
in orpint such a collglue. I don't

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know the I heard. When I
was speaking to defending champion mister Kuhn,

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I asked, you know, do
you know if Orpen's coming? He said,

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let me check, and then his
next text message was don't think so

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dang bump. He's also he's too
rich for a million dollar for he is,

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he doesn't care, Jason Kuhn,
he'll be there for sure. He's

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got to defend his title. And
then we got Max Coleman in there as

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well, so he so yeah,
I mean, listen, it's a it's

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a really good feel overall. I
mean, you know, I think it's

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pretty stacked all things considered. I
mean, I guess I'll use the word

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wild card, but it's not really
wild card. I mean, like the

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wild cards are kind of like the
players that don't play on the PGT but

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got in via some other big results, you know, mostly the guys who

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made the WACP main Event, final
table stuff like that. So they're kind

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of I guess wild cards in a
way, but they still make for a

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good field. Is there anyone that
you're like bummed that didn't make it or

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didn't come out for last chance to
try and get in, because there's there's

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for sure one person that I'm bummed
I didn't see for last chance, and

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that's Alex Livingston. Yeah. So
he was like talking about the leaderboard every

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series. Every time he's like,
I'm trying to get in the top forty,

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trying to get in the top forty. I'm running back, but I'm

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still trying to get in the top
forty. But you know, and then

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he doesn't come for this, and
he was close exactly some of the names

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that didn't play that we thought we
were locks, Nacho Barbera, Brian Rass

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already mentioned Alex Livingston. Yeah,
Brian Rass, same sort of thing.

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He like, he kept he kept
showing up late. Brian Ress kept showing

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up late to tournaments and like talking
about making the top forty. Yeah,

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I'm like, well, what what
are you doing? Who was the last

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one you mentioned, Bucky Matthew Wantman, Yeah he was, he was at

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Borgata. Yeah, well you know, how about stay here? And I

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mean, listen, I'm with you. There were there were a couple guys

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I saw. I think I counted
like three names that we lost from Borgatta.

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The guy was kind of surprised to
see Ben Wang not here just because

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he's been so hot, so like, why not try and win the last

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chance? Right? I mean I
feel like if Ben Wang shows up,

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he was gonna win one of the
dream seats. I mean that's just how

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it is. Obviously a lot of
these these these like PLO guys we didn't

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really expect to get in there.
And I feel, you know what,

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I honestly, obviously there's people that
have got in that, you know,

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haven't played that that much volume in
the studio. Look, I do feel

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bad for like Jim Callapy, Adam
Hendricks, Lucky Chewy, you know,

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even like Arama Again. Yet they
were playing every event they were fighting for

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trying to get in the leader board. They knew every scenario, Like you

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could really see that they were wearing
their like emotions on their sleeves, just

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like wanting to make it and like
how every decision was like so painful because

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it meant so much to them,
But just try and qualify for this like

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PGT Championship. Yeah, no,
for sure, I mean it was it

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was a sweat till the end.
So yeah, I mean it's gonna be.

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It's gonna be a fun tournament,
you know, going forward. There's

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there's also of course that you know, there's the top forty from the leader

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board, which I you know,
I think Tim and I could probably say

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we're gonna get thirty five ish,
you know about there, which is good.

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Then you have the two dream See
winners from the Last Chance Series that

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is Samuel Laskowitz and Dylan De'stefano.
Now, Lasko Witch is interesting. He

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played a lot of our events,
didn't didn't have like a ton of success.

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Five hundred and two points one win
which came in event three during the

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Last Chance Series, seven cashes overall, five hundred and twenty seven k in

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winnings. If you just want to
take everything based on where he is on

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the leaderboard, one hundred and eighth
place, and then DeStefano is pretty far

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down as well one hundred and seventeenth
place, but he also won an event

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during the PGT Last Chance Series.
Both of them put in a decent amount

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of volume throughout the season, especially
in like the ten K events just didn't

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have a ton of results. DeStefano
has been around for a bit now.

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I feel like I've I've seen more
of him Lasko, which is interesting because

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you know, we first kind of
got word of him. Twenty twenty two

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WSP he makes the Colossus Final table, finish his second place. I think

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there was thirteen thousand, five hundred
entries in that one. He finishes in

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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
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the PGG kickoff, like they're they're
ready to go, double points, like,

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let's go. So that starts.
What a day after days two days

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after, I don't remember what you
told me. The day after, I

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think, yeah, so that's gonna
be available all told. You know,

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we were already streamed six days or
five days, but I think total we're

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streaming like nineteen days in January total, which is pretty wild. So yeah,

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tune into poker, go, subscribe
to the YouTube channel, all that

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sort of stuff, because it's gonna
be fun from start to finish. I

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gotta give up like a couple of
predictions. I'm gonna go with, I

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mean, you picked the the chalk, I mean, I'm so sure,

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of course, of course, what
else I'm gonna go with. I'm gonna

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go with Phil Hommy does horrible.
I'm gonna go with Alex Foxen does very

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well. I'm gonna go with Jason
Kohn even though he's starting. I mean,

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I can't say short on Chip.
It's shorter than everyone else. I'm

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gonna say Jason Kuon makes a run
to the final table and almost defends the

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championship but doesn't. All falls a
little bit short, and I'm going with

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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

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a run, maybe even cash so
it really shows that, Hey, look,

629
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this dream seat is a dream seat. You know, you come play

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00:43:31.639 --> 00:43:37.559
this last series. Ron good for
like six events, polay that into the

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championship and there you go. You
can potentially hit a five hundred k scool

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sweet, I love it. All
Right, that's enough talking about this this

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event. We had a lot of
work to tomorrow. Tim's gonna be on.

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00:43:51.440 --> 00:43:53.559
You're gonna be doing live reporting,
right, Yeah, why not live

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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

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00:44:05.840 --> 00:44:08.760
has told me about the time,
and I'm supposed to commentate on the thing

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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

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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

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00:44:23.960 --> 00:44:25.960
that all right, We're gonna get
out of here. My name is Donny

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00:44:27.000 --> 00:44:30.199
Peters. His name is Tim Duckworth, and we will talk to you guys

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soon. Ge