He's got it going on. Kimmy's coming hot. You got the new mustache,
took the tear of, and you got the jacket. And he's doing
the solo podcast because his partner's like dying of fucking sars or whatever. He's
alive. Okay, Hello everyone, welcome back to a new episode of the
Poker Go Podcast. And we are back. I am back, Tim,
I am back in the h air. What's up, buddy? Great?
Great to have you back. Donny. I know you missed me. I
know you missed me, but you held it down. Thank you very much.
Welcome. You did your best. I know solo shows are not easy.
Okay, I do not envy you, but we're back. We are
back, and what a day it is to be back. Because phil Ivy,
the living freaking Legend, wins his eleventh WSP Gold bracelet. That is,
of course, the lead story of this podcast. Who wait, it's
not me busting the horse in now definitely not the horse. That is like
the thirty fifth story on this podcast. We got a bunch of bracelet winners
to talk about. Not only are we gonna talk about the goat phil Ivey,
We're gonna talk about Richard ashby winning a bracelet. Evan Benton took one
down. Alan Bakovic won one as well. Nick Seward also gotta win.
I mean there's like seventeen Bracelet's talk about We've got a stacked field playing down
in the twenty five hundred dollars Nolavan hold him freeze out. That's gonna be
live streamed down poker Go, so we'll preview that one. You got a
defending champ URI's e Alevsky aka Ury Nerd guy is trying to go back to
back in the fifte horse and then after all that we can talk about your
horse nonsense. Let's go your issues with Sean Deep What is all this sort
of stuff that's going on. Oh yeah, you guys are real best friends.
So yeah, we're gonna hit on all that stuff on this episode of
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Ivy, what's up, bro? What about Ivy? It's about time.
It's been ten years, almost ten years to the day. Remco said it
on the call, three thousand something crazy days. I don't know. I
didn't do that math. All right, Let's see if I can catch it,
and Ivy makes a wheel. Ivy writes history app to nearly ten years,
three thousand, six thirty nine days. Phil Ivy back in the winner
circle at the World Series at Poker. He breaks the tie for ten bracelets
with none other than Eric Sidell, Johnny Chan, and Dora Brunson. As
phil Ivy wins his first ten K championship events at the World Series of Poker,
gets his eleventh bracelet, and ladies and gentlemen, the legend has done
it again. Phil Ivy gets number eleven. He topps the ten thousand dollars
limit Duce to seven triple Draw Championship. They needed a fourth day to finish
this thing. Thankfully they did because I was able to come back, get
my ass up off the ir finally out of bed. Was in bed for
five straight days. Flew from hell. Okay, but Ivy Ivy, Ivy
is the QA to deathbed Donny. That's what the headline is. That's true,
That is very true. Ivy is the freaking cure or IVY is the
cure for anything. Okay, you got something going on, Just get some
IVY in your veins. Let's go. One hundred and forty nine entries in
the field. Ivy takes home three hundred and forty seven four hundred and forty
dollars for the win, did it in pretty dramatic fashion over the course of
two days. The live streams both days, Part one one of the Final
Table and Part two of the Final Table are available on demand on poker Go,
So head on over to PokerGO dot com. You can navigate to the
on demand section. You can find the twenty twenty four w Soop Bracelet Events
section, and you can find Part one and Part two of this Final Table.
Part one took place yesterday, started with four players, ended with three
at who the heck knows what time I had already gone to bed. Part
two continue today. I was on the call alongside Rimcrinkima, and we were
joined by the great Philip Sternheimer. Who did an awesome job in the booth
with us. You know, he plays he plays this game Duce to seven
Triple Job regularly, so he's very well versed. Provided a lot of great
insight. He also plays with these players Jason Mercer who finished in third place.
He plays with Phil. I ve a lot in the big mix game
out of Bobby Zoom, which is actually being played now out of some Bacarat
high limit lounge at Bellagio. But they played like you know, three K,
six K, four KAK, all that crazy stuff. So a lot
of really good stuff from Stern Hibert. Yesterday on the call it was Jesse
Silvia, Brent Hanks, and then they were joined by Chris Vich. Chris
Fitch one of the best draw players and mixed game players in the world.
So a lot of great insight there as well. Again pokergroa dot com if
you guys want to relive the action if you did miss it. But yeah,
two parter Ivy takes it down dramatic fashion, as I mentioned because at
the one hundred and sixty thousand Big Bet level, Ivy was down to one
hundred and twenty k, but he spun it back up ends up getting heads
up with Danny Wong. Danny Wong has been heads up in this event before,
back in twenty twenty one, but once again Danny Wong is denied,
this time by the living legend phil Ivey. Again, he grabs his eleventh
WSOP Gold bracelet three hundred and forty seven thousand dollars for him, Danny Wong
a second for two hundred and twenty five k Jasey Mercy your third one hundred
and fifty one thousand. Benny Glausser, the defending champion, also a five
time goal bracelet, winn one hundred and four thousand dollars for him in four
place. Jonathan Cohen took fifth for seventy five thousand dollars, and then the
man that was in the commentary both alongside Remco and I, Philip Sternhiver,
took sixth place in this event for fifty five thousand dollars after Ivy secured the
gold bracelet in pretty dominating fashion and heads up play. I mean he it's
like he was playing good, of course throughout the entire final table, Yes,
and probably the entire tournament. You know what we saw on the two
days of live streams played incredibly well. For some of the first live stream,
the part one, he was kind of an autopilot because him and Jason
Mercer were watching the Dallas Mavericks and the Boston Celtics play, and Ivy had
a bet that he was trying to middle. He had the Mavericks minus one
and a half and the Celtics plus three, so he was trying to get
the Mavericks to win by two. Ended up being the Celtics winning by seven
or whatever, So he lost some juice. Not a big deal. He
still has a Celtics series bet. He's looking very good there as they are
up three to zero in the finals. But anyway, back to the poker,
Yeah, got to heads up play and then it was like I'm just
gonna step on this kid's throat, Danny Wong, Sorry, man, but
you're not winning this one. And he absolutely steamrolled him. Made a wheel
on the final hand. The goat makes the goat hand in this game to
win it all. I means what I mean, did he not pull the
deuce? I mean, it was amazing, but that's what it was like.
It was just so perfect, you know, it was like boom,
like he you know, he's drawing on the end, he draws to the
he gets the deuce, he makes the wheel and it's just like boom.
Of course, of course, Ivy he made like seven wheels of his final
title. He made like I can for sure remember four off the top of
my head. I mean, he won the one yesterday very early against Benny
Glaser, I believe was against Benny Glaser, and Benny had a good hand,
and it's like every time he pretty much he was up against like another
good hand pretty much, so he got paid off. So so yeah,
I mean, listen, you gotta run well in spots to win tournaments.
I mean that's the name of the game. You know, you gotta play
well, you gotta run well. That's just how it is. After Ivy
grabbed that eleventh piece of WSP jewelry, he spoke with Poker Grows Drea Rena.
So let's play that quick interview for you right now, and then we'll
come on back and talk some more. All right, Phil, congratulations bracelet
number eleven. A lot's changed. You got your daughter now and Nellie's in
the crowd. Tell me why this is so special to you. Any time
I'm winning a World Series a poker event is always special. I've been playing
a world series of poker for twenty five years. Twenty five years, what
I mean? So yeah, yeah, it's really nice to wait. Do
you still feel excited when you come to the events? Yeah? I mean,
I know I'd love to play, you know, I'd like to play
as many as I can. I mean, I had to take a lot
of years off, but it's good to be back playing again. Hopefully more
to come, more to come. And Phil, you're looking very stylish these
days. Are the bucket pets here to stay? It's bringing these lights bother
me, you know, like all these lights or whatever. So I try
to like stay low and stay out of the lights because they kind of tire
me down right, you know what I mean. So that's why I'm wearing
the bucket. Will you look good though? All right? Thank you man.
Congratulations Andrea poker out. I thought you were going to get in there,
buddy, Come on, okay, I'm gonna tell you what happened.
First of all, Phil, he goes, I need some gum for this
interview. Drea is like, I need gum. I run and got some.
Give it to him. That's what he was mashing on in the video
if any one of you get to watch it. He did Drea, he
did some photos and then the whole circus of media went up there and I'm
just baiting my time. Maury was going to help me, and I could
tell he was just not giving the vibe. It's Ivy right, he doesn't
want to talk to anyone. He wasn't really giving the many thing, pretty
short answers. He started to walk away. More's like, come on,
let's just go get him. Now. He was with his you know,
he's entourage, with his bodyguards. I'm pretty sure his mom was there,
his wife of fiance whatever she is, some friends, and then Pokenes went
up again, got some things and he was just short answers, and it
come on, let's just pull him to the side. And I was like,
he ain't interested. Maybe we try him on a day where he's not
just we got it. We gotta get Maury to flex his muscle the questions
to bring him in here. We'll sit here. It's a private area.
No one can bother Phil. Not a big deal. We can walk him
through the fucking back door for all I care. He doesn't have to talk
to a goddamn soul he can wear that enormously large bucket at anymore, so
no one knows who the heck he is on day. If you guys didn't
see that because Dre asked him about the bucket at, the bucket hat today
was not even close to the bucket hat he would today for sure looked like
and it was. It was the bucket hat yesterday, the oversized bucket heead
It was basically an umbrella on his head combined with the like bright blue camo
style pullover that he had on. He looked like he looked like an athlete
in the off season going on a fishing trip. Like that's what he's doing.
He's just like he's got like he goes out to like his Montana farm,
he's got you got a lake or whatever. You don't wear a bucket
hat in Montana, but when its outside, you know, you wear a
cowboy hat. It's Montana whatever. I'm gonna tell you a sorry about the
bucket hat. I think it was during the twenty five K we put him
up on the stream one of his h his entrage came over with four different
bucket hats, maybe three, but at least three, maybe four. One
was black, one was gray, one was charcoal, and I think one
was blue. And he kind of he's like he was standing there. I
could tell he was trying to give it to Phil, and I said,
is this for Phil? He goes, yeah, can you give it to
him? I said, just come in? So he comes in under them.
He's like standing under the Jym. He like waves the Phil feels like
yeah, and he's like just kind of gesturing. You can probably watch it
on the stream, like get me the hat, and the guys like I
have four colors here, which one do you want? And like he's just
like, just get me one basically, and then he just the you know,
his buddy guy just gives us one and we give it to Phil and
that's the That's the birth of the bucket hat. That's not the first time
that something like that has happened with that. I've seen with Phil Ivey at
a feature table or a final table, just not involving a bucket hat.
I've seen that exact thing with headphones. For him, his utarage has shown
up with multiple headphones on and he's been like, yeah, I want these
ones. I'm like picked like the fucking bows ones. Or whatever. I
think that was in Monte Carlo maybe, but he was like trying them on,
very weird. And then another time he did they did it with like
a water, four different waters or something, and like, you know,
like so it's basically like he probably texts his people and says, I want
you know this, get me this, and then they go and get it.
And in case it's they don't want to get the wrong thing, you
know. I mean I would do the same thing. You just get a
bunch of different stuff, right, and then you bring it all and you
say, hey, you pick okay, give me a gatorade okay. Instead
of going back and forth what flavor this and that, blah blah blah,
you just go buy six gtorides and then you come back and say what flavor
you want and then he tells you and that's it. So so yeah,
very very little interesting insight. There a good thing you caught that you should
have brought him four pieces of gum and I can have one type of gum.
He's not getting four pieces of gum, won I mean, hey whatever,
I mean last year I bought him pillows, I brought him tissues,
I bought him hot water, whatever, this guy wants he seems to get
around here. Yeah. Yeah, well he he wanted to play the tournament
out yesterday and he didn't get that coss what no surprise that you know?
Did you hear that story? What story? He goes, Okay, so
he goes to Maury like after the thing and he goes He's like holding the
side of his face and he's like, Mario, tomorrow morning, I have
a seven am fly at private jet to LA I got a dentist appointment and
more. He's like, okay, well just make sure you back in time.
And he's like, I know I have a and more. He's like,
I would believe you, but you use this story before with me,
So I'm sorry. I I'll see you at a I'll see you at four
pm. Yeah, he didn't have no, he didn't have no dentist.
Ivey gets his eleventh gold bracelet. He had been on number ten for nearly
ten years. Last gold bracelet was in twenty fourteen, so getting to number
eleventh breaks the tie that he had behind Phil Hamm Youth Phil Hamm, but
of course still leads in the bracelet count was seventeen. Ivy was tied with
Doyle Brunson, Johnny Chan and Eric's Idell Eric Sidell getting number ten at WSP
Paradise recently at the end of last year. So Ivy breaks that moves into
sole possession of second place on the all time Bracelet list leaderboard. So he
is now six behind Phil Helmuth. You are, mister Phil Helmuth over here,
you are the number one fan? Is is Phil nervous? Oh?
Would that would be a good interview? Phil is not nervous. We should
go. We should go try and find Phil Hellmuth and ask him about Phil
Ivy winning. Lovis Phil's not nervous. I'm just he's winning twenty four.
I'm just swinning eighteen. Number next. Ivy might get twelve and thirteen this
series. No chance, no shot Helmuth. He's winning eighteen. Didn't he
finish? Didn't he just finish in eleventh place in another tournament. Now he's
got this win. I mean he's he's knocking at the door man listen twenty
seventh. Helmouth is winning number eighteen June twenty seventh. It doesn't matter.
That's that's the day I'm going with. Look, Phil Helmy has more arrogance
than Sean, Dave and helm With he's gonna get to twenty four Ivy maybe
maybe needs to stop putting in some volume, playing some events, closing you
know, all these all these tournaments he gets close in and he'll have a
chance right now for helm With is not nervous. I don't know, man,
I don't know. I haven't really seen much of Helmeth this year.
I know he got like forty eighth or fortieth or something in some fifteen hundred
dollars tournament. I saw some video by Poker News where he was like going
crazy because some lady called him with Queen ten or some something. I mean,
whatever, you got out played, phil that that's just how it is.
You know who didn't get out played? Phil Ivey played his ass off
and one gold bracelet number eleven. Curious to see what sort of performance we
see of phil Ivey going forward. You know, of course, gonna imagine
that he's going to be playing a fairly hefty schedule. You know, maybe
not balls out and playing all the fifteen hundreds and all this crazy stuff,
but he'll certainly be in all the high roller events. He'll be in all
the big buy in ten K championship events like this one that he won a
bracelet number eleven in any play a goddamn event in our studio. That's all
I want. I mean maybe, I don't know. I feel like we
got to kind of buddy up with him. I don't know. We got
Maury, we do have Moury, but Morey obviously hasn't been able to steal
the deal with getting Ivy in the studio. You know, does Ivy push
towards Player of the Year, right, I mean that that'd be very interesting.
You know, we have some we have some pretty goat players that are
like in contention for it. You got Johnny World, John Hennigan won his
seventh goal bracelet earlier. Nick Shulman just won his fifth goal bracelets, so
he's certainly gonna be in the running. Robert Mssrocky is up there as well.
You know, he got number five finally, so he's gonna be pushing
for it. Now You've got Ivy. I mean, like, these are
some really, really, really great players that are winning bracelets now, and
they're doing so early in the series. Scott Receiver, Let's not forget about
Scott Seever, cannot forget about Scott's sever my fault there, But I mean
come on, this is pretty it's pretty sick that these that this caliber of
players. Now, we just need Dnax to get the goddamn Winter Circle help
our twenty five K fantasy team. Although the only thing he seems to be
running deep in is every six or our deep stack onto the side man these
I know, I mean, it'd be great, but like you know,
we needed to happen some other things about phil Ivy here, he's still he
has eleven gold bracelets. Still no bracelets in no limit texas hold them the
Cadillac of poker, which is pretty crazy in terms of obviously, there are
very few that it can even challenge the amount of bracelets that phil Ivy has.
Right, there's only a couple of people three people two living with ten.
There's one ahead with seventeen. Phil Ivy has all these different variants.
You have more like info on this, like what are all the variants?
I know he has? Obviously this news to seven to one. He has
two plos. He has two eight game. Yeah, I referenced his last
bracelet before this one, number ten was twenty fourteen fifteen dollars eight game.
He has another eight game from Australia, which is like the funniest racelet whenever,
because he won fifty one thousand Aussie dollars to beat a fields a lot
of that's a lot of dollar. It's just funny. It's just funny,
you know. Well, he also has a no limit douce to seven single
draw. He has oe Omaha high low seven CAUs start high low Horse,
he has shoe and then he has Stud high Stud high Low and that is
that's that's all of them. And he I mean he almost won to hold
him Nolan hold Him bracelet two years ago. Two years ago he finished second
to Alex Ponokov's. At the time, you know, Ponokovs was much more
up and coming than he is now. We obviously know how good of a
young player he is. When it comes to Nolan Holdham and when it comes
to those super elite high rollers, you know, Ponokovs is in there with
the best of them all the time. He defeated Philive denied him the eleventh
gold bracelet at the time, you know, but he Ivy was close and
that would have been that would have been wild to win that one because it
was one hundred k buying, right, This was Phil Ivey's first ten thousand
dollars quote unquote championship bracelet win they started these championship events. I believe it
was two thousand and eight, which was my first year working in the industry,
working for Poker News at the time. Believe your first year was the
year before, right, two thousand and seven. Yeah, yep, so
his first one. His his largest buy in gold bracelet in before this one
was five thousand dollars. I think that was two thousand and six, five
thousand dollars PLO. I believe it was. I mentioned last bracelet. Twenty
fourteen, he surpassed ten million dollars in WSOP winnings. He also moved past
forty five million, three hundred thousand dollars in lifetime earnings. According to hendonmob
dot com. I mentioned that he was down to seventy five percent of a
big bet on when Wednesday stormed all the way back, spun it back up,
and then of course you know, he drew the wheel to beat Danny
Wong. Danny Wong finished second DA in this event. In twenty twenty one,
Danny Wong was was going for his second WSP gold bracelet, but like
Nick Waghini did. Earlier in the series, Danny Wong was going for his
first live gold bracelet. Danny Wong is a draw legend, like he plays
some of the biggest draw games, plays it live out of LA used to
play it online back in the day. All that sort of stuff. Would
have been great to see him, you know, get this, but he
was denied by the legendary phil Ivey And there's really no shame in that.
So yeah, phil Ivey, man the freaking go what was that? Go
ahead? This is his first everduced to seven Trooper draw cash. I mean,
that's pretty cool. It's also he's soccer. Earlier in the series he
got his first Dealer's Choice obviously that's a fairly new event, but got his
first cash ever in that. So do you think he gets another one this
series? I mean, he's got a deep run in the twenty five K,
he's got this win. He's in form. If you're gonna say someone's
he's screwed or cooler. In the twenty five K, he doesn't like I
think it was King's Ices to Kings whatever it was. But look, I
have been basically off the grid, like I don't know anything other than Nick
Shulman winning. That was it which Nick Shulman winning was a freaking masterful performance.
That was amazing. The takeover took the f over. That was awesome.
Let's talk about the three k Nolan hold them six max tournament. I
refuse to call it six handed. What are your thoughts on six handed versus
six max for real six max? Like, is there is there is there
a technical difference? I mean, no, the same thing I mean,
And it's just like I think I know that why they changed it, Like,
what is it like the last couple of years we've born just been like
eight handed or six handed. I think it's obviously the final title read Jaws
at seven. Do you think that's the only reason. No, I mean,
I don't know. Six sounds cool, six max six sounds cool.
I agree with you. It's shorter and just easier. And everything is called
six max and poker no one calls anything six handed, eight handed, nine
handed. He's just six max, four max, you know, five max,
whatever the heck they play on Poker Stars these days and gig Poker and
all that sort of stuff, and it just it just fits into a headline.
Also, I personally would put six Max before the game. But that's
just me. That's too nitpicky. I don't like that at all. Six
Max whatever. Either way, six man buy in game, tied and twist.
So Nick Seward wins this event. I have some experience playing with Nick
around town. I mean at the win because that's where I'll play. But
very very good player, young up and coming player, always a giant pain
in the ass to have at your table. So you know, it's really
good to see him get this victory. He takes home five hundred and sixteen
thousand dollar his first gold bracelet, right, his first one. I don't
think he has an online one. Correct, not to overshadow Nick Seward,
but I'm going to overshadow Nick Seward is that this was about David Coleman losing
this one. Now, David Coleman really didn't do anything wrong. I mean
he he did he No, he didn't, he didn't do it do anything
wrong. David Coleman, the current front runner on the PGC leaderboard, having
an incredible year, former top ranked online player out of New Jersey, has
now relocated to Las Vegas, has taken the PGT by storm. Don't forget
Tim that I picked him as PGT breakout player of the Year, and he
is proving true on my prediction. So I just want to put that out
there once again. David Coleman comes into this Chipley with come to the final
table, I should say, with sixty one big blinds. This tournament was
also livestream today on Poker Gross, so you can find that in the on
demand archive section if you want to relive this one and the action that was
happening. I was doing commentary on the Duce's said, so I didn't get
to watch this one, but I am excited to go back and watch it
because I was reading through some of the updates and the hands were crazy.
If you watched what Nick Shulman did the other day one he won that massive,
massive hand quickly. By the way, you needed to ask him about
that hand. I know we don't ask people about hands, but that hand,
that hand was was a supreme outlier and Nick got up, Yeah.
But like the ICM implications at that moment, those two chip sacks, with
what was going on at the table at a twenty five k biggest twenty five
ks, theubas should be that much money on the line, one point seven
million dollars up top was insane. You think, like you think Nick Schulman
cares about ice? Did you watch it he reacted because when the money went
in, Nick stood up and like shook, like like a fucking ghost went
through his body, Like you could tell Nick, like and Noel Rodriguez like
he seemed to like much more calm in the situation. Nick was like,
in a way, you could kind of tell that, like, and and
I think you if you if you want to read into things, and I
do want to read it into things, because that's what we're gonna do here.
But like your interview with Nick, you know, he talked a lot
about like legacy and what this means to him and all that sort of stuff.
And I feel like that sort of stuff started in this moment because if
he doesn't win that flip, if that doesn't hold, none of that legacy
stuff comes to play. And like in a way he might be like,
I'm really gonna f and lose this, like because like it's just a fucking
massive flip. It's an insane situation right now, this is unbelievable. Obviously,
he wins the flip with Queens, he goes on to then just a
clinic with what you should do with a chip lead, like this steamroll is
the final table. Now, to bring it back to what I was getting
at is David Coleman had a huge chip lead at this six max final table.
Tried to do a similar sort of thing right rightly, so, you
know, just basically jamming all the time, putting his opponents at risk.
But David Coleman just kept losing and losing and losing. Now he didn't always
have the best hand, yes, but like when you're the big leader,
you just put people at risk. That's what you do. He loses ten
to seven to Ace eight for four big blinds. He loses Ace five to
Ace King for seven big blindes. He loses Pocket fives to Ace King for
seven big blindes. He loses nine three suited to Ace Queen for seven point
five big blinds. He loses seven to five to ten six on Ace seven
to six for seven big lines. The guy rivers is six. He loses
Queen nine to seven six for two big blinds. Trying to take a guy
out. He loses Ace Queen to Jack ten for twelve big blinds. Then
he ultimately busts with seven to seven to King five for sixteen big blinds.
I mean, I know a lot of those hands. He didn't have the
quote unquote best of it going in, but still you gotta win some of
that stuff. I mean, it's just outrageous how bad it went for David
Coleman. And it's very juxtapositioning to how well he's been running all year.
So in a way, it was like everything decided to just pile on him
in this moment, at this final table, and he's ultimately denied. I
finishes in fourth place. I need add some stuff. Look, he final
table with the champions, and he wasn't like chip leader or anything. He
borrowed my jacket, one of my horseshoe jackets. He wore it, he
took it off. Was a little heart, he said, and he busted
in sixth place. Then I get an Instagram message from me this morning,
Hey, can't borrow one of those jackets again. Hopefully it's not too hot.
I'm like, no problems. He gets here. I bring up five
jackets excluding the y one, because look, we've got some run bad in
that. Let's put that aside. I give him five jackets and he goes,
oh yeah, I don't know he goes over to his girlfriend, He's
like, which one should I wear? And then he just put him on
the rail instide of playing, and then he busts should have put a jacket
on. You got to put the jacket on, David. So this is
your fault. It's not about the card distribution. It's about you're not putting
on my jacket. You you're just graping with all the poker players this year.
That's that's just that's what's wrong with it. That's your thing. I
mean, I don't know they come for me. I'm going to come for
them. When did they come for you? I don't know their exactly all
right. So Nick Seward tops the field in the three thousand dollars Nolan hold
him six Max event, winning five hundred and sixteen thousand dollars, Constantine Hulski
taking second place, Akenobu Maida took third, David Coleman, as we mentioned,
took fourth, Nicholas Angelou took fifth, and Stevenell took sixth. What
did you write here that I didn't read? He wrote, is Donnie's love
affair for Coleman? Over? After he blew it? No, I don't
fucking David Coleman's the best. What are you talking? All right? Just
what I just had to David Coleman is the best. Sometimes shit happens and
you just don't run good. I mean it sucks because he he's this is
the year of David Coleman, and he deserves to have this bracelet. I
ain't going to be the much longer if you don't put on that jackets.
He's he's still crushing it. So he's doing all right, what are you?
Yeah? Great? That's yeah, that's Richard Ashby Shofti Chufftee wins his
second gold bracelet and one hundred and thirteen thousand, seven and twenty five dollars
was in the fifteen hundred dollars seven card Stud event. He won the fifteen
hundred dollars seven card Stud event in twenty ten for one hundred and forty thousand
dollars, So he gets his second goal bracelet second in this game. We
drafted him once on Fantasy really yeah, and I don't think he did.
What do you mean? He's in and this was back in like his like
full blast pace, yeah peak, full till days in every tournament, playing
every single hand like an absolute maniac just like running up in Saint Chip stacks
but then busting like soon after registration, like you know, just the crazy
stuff. But that's the type of guy I want on my team, you
know, for for cheat money. So so yeah, Ashby defeated Adam Owen
in heads up play. Michael Nori took third place, men Key Chen took
fourth, Brandon Shack Harris could to see him back at a final table took
fifth, Jason Cross took sixth, Aaron Coopen took seventh. Thing he was
drafted as well. Hal Rowthols also drafted twenty five K took eighth in that
event. Fifteen hundred dollars Nolanman Hold Him Freeze Out? Was this yesterday?
This is yes, yeah, yeah, because we didn't. You didn't pod
because you were playing, which is a good good reason not to because you're
back chips. Evan Benton winning the fifteen hundred dollars Nolan at Hold Him Freeze
Out. This was streamed from the Horseshoe secondary table, another one that you
can find on Poker gro on the PokerGO YouTube channel as well. Benton took
home four hundred and twelve four hundred and eighty four dollars He topped the field
of two thousand, three hundred and seventeen entries, so pretty good field size
there. Looks like a really good tournament. Michael Pahusa taking fifth place,
Nick Memon seventh place, Blake Bone fourteenth, Evany Kenny took sixteenth place in
that one. We have the six hundred dollars Nolan mat hold them slash PLO
Half and Half tournament. Still wish they had the five K one for this?
Did you okay? So look you've been in your death bet right,
Yeah? I literally know nothing. So yeah. So the other day on
it could have been today's part. No, it was yesterday's Daniel Grinder vlog.
He was talking about the half and half and he's like, oh,
this would be great as a big buying event, and I said him a
text message. I was like, oh, they had it last year five
K first week, five hundred sixty sixty eight entrance five hundred k to Michael
Munchik. And they also had a fifteen hundred half and a half with two
thousand entrants won by David Simon for four hundred K that was streamed on poker
Go. So they've had some big ones. The Grinder also says a twenty
five k would be epic, ten K would be epic. Bring the five
K back added twenty five or ten whatever. I think. I think half
Enough is a great and very popular event that I mean, it's it's the
two most popular formats of poker. Yeah, Like, no matter how you
slice it, and you're putting them together in one thing, you're getting the
best of both worlds. I think it's awesome, right. You know,
the PLO guys can all play hold them that they may not to play hold
them, you know, it may not be their best variant, but they
can get in there and dabble. I think a lot of the no limic
guys in a way, it's kind of a gateway to start playing more PLO.
You know, you're not just getting in there with straight poo all the
time. You get half, you get half. Like it's just a very
good tournament. So I agree with Daniel. I think they should have more
of these on the schedule. You know, I like having a low price
point like this. You know, it helps introduce people to a different format
of poker if they're more no limit, you know, instead of just beying
like okay, I'm just gonna go play the six hundred dollars PLO. I'll
play the half and half first. I'll dip my toes in the water that
way. Love having like a fifteen hundred love having a five K. You
could probably just have that five k be a ten K or twenty five K
like Daniel seven and a half championship. Yeah, yeah, I mean you
could make it. You should. They should have a twenty five K half
and half six max. I'm off and half six max. These guys don't
want to play eight handed nine handed, No six max twenty five k.
I'm going to disagree with you. A hand seven handed like the PGT events,
the sure PA seven hand is the best because it's PGT. But here's
the problem when you have when you mix these two games, you're going to
obviously lose some no limit hold them only plays, and you're also going to
lose some plow only players when you what you are attracting is the ones that
want to dabble. Like you said, when you make a six handed you
actually, if you're a weaker player, like a week of PLO player,
you're going to kind of be picked on more than no limit hold them.
So I think they would actually pay in twenty five K. I don't think
they care. Okay, twenty five k' is a different price point to a
ten k's just yeah, but like you're still definitely going to lose some people.
So ten k eight handed having a full max half and half full max,
well, that would just would be a crack, right, that would
be out of control. That would be you know, with rebut gasoline on
the flat, that would be awesome. I mean, but yeah, they
should they should have a You can probably fit comfortably three half and a half
on the schedule, you know, if you want to do that, that's
six hundred one the sub the sub one K level, the fifteen hundred dollars
one and then you know, if you're only doing three, I mean pick
your poison five K, ten K, twenty five k, whatever, but
you could probably do six hundred and fifteen five K, and then you can
pick between ten and twenty five and do whatever you want there. At this
point in poker, I think you can certainly have more exposure to potlam and
Omaha on your schedule. I mean that that's that's just the hottest game right
now. People absolutely love it, so I know they have a lot of
potlam and omaha, but this is another way to introduce that. And you
know, hey, it's more rake for them, and more rake is better,
so why not? Right, all right, So back to the event,
the six hundred dollars half and half nolanman HoldEm slash Plo Alan Bakovic,
the Canadian winning two hundred and seven thousand dollars. Notable finishes were had by
Joey Coudin seventh place, Alex Livingston fifty fifth, Nikkwa Ghenty another cash for
him, you know you won a second gold bracelet earlier this summer, niicquag
Ghenty taking sixty third, Matt Glance eighty first, Sean Troja, who actually
won his third gold bracelet a couple of days ago he took eighty third,
and Daniel Legranu getting in there, and another six hundred dollars Deep Stack one
hundred and seventh place for Negronu losing Flush over Flush to bust out In.
I think it was hold him. He had like jack six diamonds against whatever,
the heck the better flush. But yeah, so mcgrowney's you know,
he's he's making some runs. It seems like he's putting a lot of stuff
together. He's he's trying to make it happen. It's just not breaking his
way. I'm still a believer this, uh this tournament today. That IVY
one was event twenty nine, and I'm referencing that one just because that's the
one up on my screen right now, so I can see the event number.
So about the third of the way a little over the third of the
way through the World Series ninety nine Live Gold Bracelet events, So in terms
of like bracelet events that have happened right around with third or done, so
there's still plenty of time for Daniel to score stig bucks. Like I said,
he's had a lot of deep runs, several deep runs, some cashes
so far, so he's getting there. You know, things just got to
break his way in the end. But I still think, I don't know.
I feel like this year's schedule on you and I talked a little bit
about it on one of our recent walks, is a little bit different than
last year's. Like I don't know, last years, I felt like there
was more big buy and stuff at the beginning. I just get that sense,
or maybe it was they had the big twenty five K six Marx just
to kick it off. Yeah, and that was a little bit later five
K, like the second big event. Just see, it just seems like
things are building a little bit slower this year, which just means we're gonna
get to more big stuff coming up, which is fine, you know.
So it's it's like, don't freak out just yet. That's kind of what
I'm trying to think about when it comes to twenty five K fantasy, because
our team is absolutely doing nothing so far. But you know, a lot
of really cool stuff on the horizon and we'll see how things go. But
congratulations to Alan Bakovich for winning the six hundred dollars half and half Nolan hold
Them Slash p L the twenty five hundred dollars Nolan and Holdham freeze out.
That is of ven number thirty four on the twenty twenty four WSB schedule.
They are down to eighteen players. It looks like Antonio Galliana is leading the
way. Romaine Lewis and Patrick Leonard aka Pads are tied for second. You
got Yoha Helpy out there. You got bracelet winner Brett Apter out here.
You got Johann Gilbert is out there, Jeremy Osmas is still in the field.
Josh Reicher is also out there. Oh and O d is also out
there. I mean, this field is pretty pretty sick, pretty pretty sick.
Plan here is to play down to what seven handed because it's going to
be streamed tomorrow, or at least get as close to seven handed as possible,
and then deal with the rest of it tomorrow. But this one is
planning to be streamed on Friday, June fourteenth on poker Go. So for
all the Poker Gross subscribers out there, we got a good one coming for
you here. This one should be very fun. Almost four hundred and forty
thousand dollars up top. The final eighteen players with some of whom I just
mentioned, are guaranteed a little bit more than fifteen thousand dollars. Again,
this was a twenty five hundred dollars buying Nolman Holdam freeze out tournament. It
had twelve hundred and sixty seven entries. Six tables remain in the fifteen hundred
dollars Horse Tournament. That is the tournament that Tim bagged up chips. Bag
Big. You did not bag that big, correct bagged chips. That's kind
of all that matters, survive in advance and then go from there. But
you bombed out on day two. Couldn't make it happen. You had your
grim reaper Sean deep sweat your final hand with you and it didn't work out
so well. He definitely what happened, Well, I don't want to tell
any bad best stories, but we're gonna well, I had six stud bringings
in one orbit and that's a I'm pretty sure though she dealt ten hands,
but whatever, I'm not going to complain about moving anyway. On my last
hand, I was I had to bring in with a five. I's completed
another call. I had five five four deuce and we just put my two
bests in. I made Jackson five's on six. My opponent made fives and
threes on six, but he also had an ace and a king. So
I called Sean diebo if. I was like, Sean, do you want
to sweat this? He walks over. The guy reveals his card versus three,
so he now has threes full of fives. I only have a jack.
I go, Sean, do you want to sweat the river? He
goes sure. I throw the card to Sean. He starts squeezing. He
goes, oh, it's paint. So I only I have a jack.
I need a jack of diamonds or a jack of clubs. I believe.
He starts squeezing, go, oh it's paint. I go, okay,
what what suit. He's like, oh, it's diamond some I'm thirty percent
to win, and then he slams down the ten of hearts. I mean
so it was always slower. Yeah, you know what, I didn't think
always did. I think he was doing it. But look, you got
me good. I asked him, a wee even now for everything that's happened.
He goes, no, get the hell away from me. You're dead
to me, and that is it. Yeah, it was fine. It
was It was it's hard playing poker for a whole day. It is hard.
Like I said when I was bagging up, actually had a pretty fun
table to end. It was Daniel Strelitz, it was Todd Brunson, it
was grapes. Uh, you know, we're having a little bit of fun.
And I just thought, I was like, how do you guys do
this? Like eleven hours bag some chips I made. I end up bagging
like literally half a bit of a starting stack. I'm like this is like
brutal. Well, the fifteen hundred dollars mixed tournaments seem like the absolute worst
tournaments in the universe to pol just because you don't get in the money on
day one. Yeah, it's a freaking grind like they just doesn't. It
doesn't draw me in from an excitement level. Now I get it. Everyone's
got their own cup of tea. So there are plenty of people that love
those tournaments. It's just not for me personally. You know. If I'm
going to play a buy in that is let's say sub three K, I'm
full, fully happy, and I fully want to finish in the money on
day one. That's what I want to happen. I don't want to have
to wait multiple days. Shout out napt Resorts World when that was like the
most insane sixteen hundred dollars buying or whatever the heck it was structure in the
history of mankind. It was like the slowest thing playing double levels, and
I'm like, what do we do it? Like, can't we just speed
this up? But yeah, like you finished what one hundred and eighty thirty
approximately something like that. There was there was what two and twenty five that
came back and one hundred and what one hundred and twenty six make the money.
So it's like you're not even really close to the money. I mean,
I know there's a lot of short stacks and things are gonna move fairly
quickly, but like it's not even like you're coming back and you're like,
Okay, we're gonna be in the money in like twenty minutes type of thing.
No, it's just you got a grind for a little It's like it's
just exactly, it's kind of just weird, Like I just I don't know.
I think those tournaments are just finishing the money on day one and and
go from that. I think it's hard when it's when it's mixed though,
Like you know that means you probably have to fight on day one. The
heck with this nonsense, we don't need these Alan Kessler structures. Alan Kesler
can figure it out, okay. I mean what, it's just either way
and if you're if you're the operator, if you're a WSP, then you're
you're churning and burning. You're getting more butts and seats in and out.
Let's go back to the buyouts. Let's go back to the cage and buy
in and buy out. Let's you know, let's make it happen. We
got money to make, we got bracelets to award. Let's go, let's
do, let's do, let's go. I did find it weird, and
I brought this up, I think with already baby, I thought there was
a rebuy. I'm not saying I was rebuying. I got really short at
the start and I had to just forty minute levels on day one with a
re entry. Let's go the day are forty minute levels the whole day one?
Yeah, well, what's taken so long? Thirty minute levels? Limit
limit mixed games. But something I was surprised there was no I was surprised
there was no rebuys. There's sixty you lose what sixty percent of the field,
seventy percent of the field on day one? Right, you could add
a rebuy. You could for sure have those, yeah said in these ones.
There's no rebuy with games with big bet, like a game there's a
single rebay. So I didn't know that, so, but yeah, I
would have. I feel like you could add that little twist why not?
Why not? So it looks like there's forty players remaining, give or take
Daniel Mayo looks to be leading the way. That's your boy, South the
ARA Australia boy. Okay, I guess so didn't he just win a bracelet?
I've never heard of that guy. Oh no, he was the Sorry,
he was the chip leader coming into today. That's where I read the
headline. My fault is my fault. He was the chip leader of the
horse coming into today. He is the chip leader right now. According to
the updates by POGRAM News on wsp dot com, Andrew Gay looks like he's
doing well. Miami. John Cernudo is out there battling Phil Hue. Who
else we got? Daniel Strelitz you mentioned him, looks like he's still in
there. I don't know, because he was fifty sixth place. I know
that for a fact. Calvin Anderson, we saw him out there. I
think Euryzebelevsky, the defending champion, is still in so we'll see if your's
Euryzeblisky can go back to back. Would be quite defeat to go back to
back. I know it's a you know, smaller buying tournament fifteen hundred dollars,
but the fifteen dollar horse is always one of the bigger mixed game fields
of the summer. You know, it's eight hundred and thirty five entries this
year. You know, it's always right up there. It's like the fifte
eight, then the fifte hundred horse, you know, like the one two.
So really a really you know, prestigious tournament to win there, and
we'll see if you'rey can get it done for a second year in a row.
Starting today, we had an eight hundred dollars Nolanman hold Them Deep Stack
tournament. Almost forty three hundred entries, three hundred and forty two thousand,
five hundred and fifty one dollars for first place in that one. It's supposed
to be a two day event finishing tomorrow. Don't foresee that happening, but
I've also seen crazier things happen, so we'll see. This one was originally
planned to be streamed by poker Go, but we're currently putting it into the
flexible category. You know, it might be might be moving it around.
Maybe we'll do it on Saturday, not on Friday. But you guys can
pay attention to poker Go on social media and we'll let you know what our
plans. We are definitely again streaming the twenty five hundred dollars Nolman, hold
them freeze out tomorrow so there will be something streaming, and then pay attention
to to what happens with this deep stack. Maybe we end up canning it
completely for something else, and maybe we move it, but you know that'll
be coming. Looks like Martin Zemani is chip leader or one of the chip
leaders. Greg Ramer former wis he made him a champion. Greg Ramer is
crushing. That would be pretty cool to see good old fossil Man making a
run in this tournament, especially with four and seventy eight entries out there?
Are there not even the money? No, they've got to be close.
I mean, what's what? No way, I was reading your thing,
but that's obviously jug a little bit out dating seventh in Chips, Adam Hendricks,
eighth in Chips, Chris Brewer play in the eight hundred deep stack eleven.
I mean, what's going on? This? Name Bryan Reese, So
why are these twenty five K fantasy we're playing this? A lot of these
guys just just blast into these and then if you run up a stack,
you go from there. So you know, I totally get it. Alan
conningham Brock, Wilson, Christian Harder. I mean these players might also be
out. It's kind of tricky with the field size this large. But yeah,
we'll obviously see how things go, and we'll follow up with this one
as it plays out. The ten thousand dollars Big Oh Championship. Is this
a new event or did it happen last year? Roughly three hundred entries so
far. Retation is two hundred, but that's not right. We were over
there. It's a two eighty. I thought, didn't it didn't how many
entries in this one. Championship events should be none, right, I think
championship events another re entrance, which is silly when it's like a big,
big bet game, But yeah, I feel like it. It'd be fine
to have single rancher, I think is good. You know, yeah,
this is not no re entry on this Okay, that's whatever, you know.
I don't I don't totally mind that, so so it's just whatever.
I'm just I mean, I just I don't care either way. But bottom
line, you're gonna make more money, yeah, you know, gives bigger
numbers all that sort of stuff. So whatever, who we got in the
field free Jatton leading the way, Ren Lynn second and Chips. It's always
Ren Lynn. Don't understand. Michael Rodrigue is making some noise for us.
Come on, mikey baby, do it for me. He was rocking the
full on uh Portugal, the like warm up, head to toe. He's
ready for the Euros. He's ready to go. When does that stop?
Like soon? Like a sap. I see David Williams, I see Matt
Lance, I see IAOI Kiara, I see Mike Madisow, I see Freddie
Dee, Ken Aldridge aka teach uh, Nathan Gamble, Bryce, Jacky,
Sean Winter also in there for us, Rob Holland China, Rene phil Ivey
fresh off number eleven, hopping right in there. I mean, how else
is the goat can celebrate. He's gonna go play some freaking big o man,
that's what That's what he's gonna do. David David O dB Baker is
out there, Dario Alioto, we have three. I've got undressed, con
I have no idea. Where's Daniel Probably? Yeah, no, he said
he said he was gonna play the eight hundred. I mean he's the king
of the eight hundreds and the six hundreds. So I mean, you know,
oh, he's gonna no he I think he was thinking about taking a
day off because tomorrow is the fifty k. Oh, that makes a lot
of sense. Perfect. I'm in for that big deal. That was.
I don't need this this stupid big o tournament. Todd Brunson can win it.
Okay, that's what can happen. So yeah, that that one will
be a lot of fun. We're not streaming this one, right, are
we streaming this one? The big guy? Yeah? We are? Yeah.
Oh sweet. I mean that's a good tournament. You know, it's
got a pretty big field, should obviously have a lot of prize money up
for grabs with it being a ten thousand dollars buying So I just riffed through,
you know, a whole bunch of big names. You know. I'm
assuming things will continue that way as as we go forward. Registration. It's
one of those day two registration events, so you know there's gonna be a
handful of people that come in late. I didn't see our guy Stephen Chidwick
in the mix, but he's been doing some of the day two late reds
for these ten K championship events, so I would think that Steven Schidwick would
be in there tomorrow. So if that's true, good sign for us,
if we can get some of these guys bagging chips, bagging big chips and
making a run and starting comeback in twenty five K Fantasy Let go alright?
Is that it? Nothing else kicked off today? Yeah? Nothing else,
just those two events. Yeah, we got we got some big events coming
up this week. Yeah, what what's on tap? You mentioned the fifty
K high roll up. We've got the fifteen hundred dollars RAS, the mixed
game Guys and Monster And speaking of months, speaking of months of the real
one of the fifteen hundred dollars Monster Stack starts on Friday. Yeah, that's
always such a getting in. That's no, that's always such a I mean,
I wasn't playing on playing it. I'm definitely not playing it given my
current health state that I was just in for a week. Death beed.
Donnie. Really need to figure out my life and where my head's at,
because I feel like everything's spinning a million miles an hour. How many entries
did the Monster Stack have the last year. I think it had like eight
thousand or something, freaking I'll say eighty three hundred and fifty four, but
I have no idea eight three one seven Is that real? Yeah, I'm
looking at it right now. I was like dead on, yeah, you're
the best. Yeah. So this one's gonna have what another seventy five hundred
nine K, give or take, it depends what happens. I'm looking forward
to that one. Always a massive tournament, really really good player friendly structure
in that one will be a fun one. We are planning to live stream
in the final table that one happens in like, you know, three weeks
time. But that's what it is, what it is, you know,
the Monster Stack is really like that. I know, it's I know there's
another tournament called the Mini Main Event that happens right for the main event,
but this is like the mini main Event, right, This is like the
you know, if you got if you don't have ten K, but you
want to save up and splurge a little bit, and you want something that
that offers a lot of bang for your buck. You know, the fifty
Monster Stack is perfect for everyone, you know, So this one will be
a really really big one. It's one of the most fun tournaments every single
year that happens with the world series of poker. So once again, very
much looking forward to seeing how the Monster stack plays out develops, and we'll
be tracking it's the entire way. What else we got? Fifty k?
High Roller mentioned that already. Yeah, that's the first fifty k, right,
Yes, how many did that one have last year? Which one?
I think it was two fifty case? Well, this one says it was
won by Leon Stern for one point five. It was one also won by
Alex Koulev that had one hundred and seventy six entrance that was very late in
the series. The one that Stern won was very early in the series one
hundred and twenty four, so pretty significant difference in I'll say, didn't so
the twenty five k that Nick Shulman won was the largest twenty five k evert
wow at the World Series apartment. Yeah, okay, well how many did
it get? I just heard them say that it was the largest one forty
nine or it has to be more math, it has to be over two
hundred No, no, yeah, that was sorry. The one forty nine
was the ten K seven. Yeah, twenty five k got way bigger.
It had a three hundred and eighteen players, three hundred and eighty players.
Good lord, God, this fifty k is gonna have, it's gonna have
two hundred and twenty seven players. I'll take under. No, settle a
different line. No, you have to say shut the line. He'll get
to set the line of like two twenty three if I line I took under,
So I literally have to hit my ceiling and you have to everything under.
That doesn't make any sense as the time you said a new line,
then I said a nelne two twenty onders. Okay, over, keep going
bad. I'll keep taking on that. I'll light hedge my bet. Yeah
whatever, you're on, bullish on everything. Yeah, but okay, one
twenty four last year and then one seventy six. Do you think we're going
from one twenty four to two twenty. I mean, I don't give a
shit whatever. These people are fucking crazy. I just it's twenty bad line.
I said a bad line. Whatever said a bad line. I think
you just said a very ambitious line. Oh yeah, but that means it's
bad. No, not necessarily what that means. It's ambitious whatever. Think
that the vitamin sees getting me? You ahead the medicine haven't had any vitamins.
See but it probably should. That's why you DEATHBT doney. I'll I'll
say it gets over two hundred. I think you could get over two hundred.
But I mean that's not that far off from what I said. The
way you were talking, you were like one fifty. So look, if
you set the line at like one seventy five, I still may lean on
this. I just think that's a lot. I don't know if it didn't
one of them get over one s anybody one twenty four and then one seventy
six at the end of the series, like during the main event. During
the main event, when people eighteen entries, if you just cut that in
half, it's one sixty. It's it's not just cutting it in half because
you got the three entries. You can't just do simple fifty to fifty math
on this. I'm just saying, if you cut it in half and then
you add what I think, there's gonna be a host I'm wrong two undred.
Let's go. I want to be wrong. I just all right,
baby, we'll be wrong, because I'm never all right. That's all we
got. Don't have anything. I'se talk about, right, No, good
to have you back. It's good, so much better than happy to be
back. I love being here at the World Series of Poker. I didn't
know how it was gonna go for me today, having like literally Friday.
I woke up Friday, did did a stream Thursday with Remco's It's probably Remco's
fault that I got to I mean, that was the only thing that changed.
Everything was fine, did the stream on Thursday, and then wake up
on Friday, and I'm like fucking debt, Like literally debt. Didn't leave
my bed. I dropped the kids off at school on Friday, and then
I got back into bed and I did not leave my bed till Tuesday.
When sorry, I left my bed later on Friday to go to the doctor.
They gave me two shots. One was like an oral like squirt thing
in my mouth. The second one was a shot in my ass. Okay,
what yeah? So I had these two things? What was the shut
on you up? I don't know start with an R and the other one
was started with a D, so I don't know steroids. So that happens.
That was an urgent care because I couldn't get into my primary on short
notice like that, So like a doctor that just you know, drives to
your house you're pretty rich. No primary like your primary physician, like your
primary care physician. They're like, yeah, they should clear up, you
know, and whatever you have like some sort of bacterial infection or the flu
or whatever. You don't have COVID blah blah blah, Okay, fine and
not like I've been like sick, sick for like a day, but like
it with me, it usually clears up twenty four to forty eight hours like
always, and I'm fine, Like even when I had COVID the one the
time I had COVID, like I mean, it was like it was really
really bad for like three days, but it was fine after that, you
know. I mean I was still a little bit sick, but you know,
functional this one was like just every day like got worse. The only
thing that cleared up after those first shots was my sore throat. But I
had I had no energy, like to the point where my body just hurt,
like it was just sore and achy, and I couldn't move, I
couldn't sleep, I couldn't do anything. I didn't want to watch TV.
I just saw is literally just laid in bed, didn't really eat anything because
like I just didn't have an appetite. Like, the whole thing just sucked.
So I was in bed till Tuesday. Finally, when got in with
my primary on Tuesday, went there. He put me on like six fucking
different medications that I have. Now he's like, listen, we're just gonnattack
this from all angles. I'm like, all right, let's go, let's
give it something. So I have like six different things that I'm taking.
One of them like the insurance like won't even give me. So I'm like
supposed to be taking an extra thing but I'm not. But whatever, and
pay for it I have. I have no idea. I mean, it
isn't insurance supposed to pay for that. The whole point of him because something
is on co well, I don't care giving me no, but they were
like, it's an insurance thing. We got to call your doctor again.
I don't know, it's just the whole thing. So I was like,
whatever, I have all these other pills. I'm sure I'll be fine.
And I was literally just in bed till Wednesday, like night, and then
finally I like got out of bed on Wednesday last night, made it down
to the couch, watched the Celtics game, watch some of the stream with
with Ivy and Mercier and Minny Glauser and Danny Wong and then you know,
went to bed again and and finally last night, I like had like a
decent night's sleep, but it wasn't the greatest. But if you feel a
lot better today, I think most like the symptoms and what not have subsided,
you know, just kind of kind of get my energy back and build
back up. But I will say that you walk back into the damn WSP
and it's like boom, adrenaline, let's f and go like it's WSP time.
So feeling great. Obviously watching the freaking goat Ivy winning number eleven just
get you jazzed up. So I'm ready, I'm back. I think it's
great, let's go. Your excitement is just not there at all. You
left me high and dry for like four days. But yeah, I'm sorry.
Long hours here by myself doing all the work for everyone. Anyone knows
me and you obviously know me, like it kills me to have to miss
the WSP, Like I would show up like half sick. I literally could.
I felt like I know, and like you know, that's also part
of it is that you don't you don't want to come, like I don't
want to come. We're working in close quarters. You're already around a million
fucking people, which God knows what sicknesses and whatever in germs and blah blah
blah. Like you know, it's you have to just like you have to
dodge getting sick in general. I usually get sick every summer, and it
usually happens right before the WSP main event. That's like when like my immune
system just says, as you know, what's good enough. Yeah, you
haven't slept a lot all summer. I'm over it. You're out for two
days, okay, but you still show up because you're kind of like fine.
I mean this, I was literally dead, and you also again you
don't want to come in and like get everyone else sick and the whole thing,
so you just stay home. But like I couldn't even stay home and
work, Like I couldn't open my laptop, I couldn't look at my phone,
like I just couldn't. I didn't have contact with anyone, like it
was just it was so bad, and you were literally out on all the
group chats. Yeah, I just wasn't responding to anyone, no, because
I couldn't like I couldn't even like read it. Everything hurt like I was
like, I'm I can't like whatever. Like it was. It was so
bad. It was so so bad. But we're back now. So yeah,
a little bit of an early night tonight. It's almost eleven o'clock here,
so per WSOP standard. That's that's pretty good. Hopefully get home,
get into bed by midnight, you know, get another good you know,
six seven hours of sleep under my belt, and just continue to get better
and we'll keep charging on because it's the twenty twenty four WSOP and we got
to get the news out to people. We gotta do these podcasts. It's
gonna be a great f in summer. Let's go. Yeah, all right,
my name is Donny Peters, his name is Tim Duckworth, and we're
gonna talk to you guys next time. Jenny,