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Hello, everyone, Welcome back to
a new episode of the Poker Go Podcast.

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My name is Donnie Peters. His
name on the other microphone is Tim

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Duckworth. Is that is that still
your name? Are you? Like?

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Are you like cowboy Tim? Are
you? I mean, like, are

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you like, you know, Tim
Leatherworth? Like? How does like?

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What is this? You know?
I saw you drop the album right the

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country, you know, like whatever
Bogan album or I don't know the Outback

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album. I don't know what you're
calling it. I don't know what you're

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doing. I don't know if you're
leaving me going on to you know,

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greener pastures here. But I mean, what's going on? Are you a

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cowboy? Now? I'm officially a
cowboy, so you can call me cowboy

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Tim. Yeah. The albums album's
doing great, horrible. It's just a

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horrible nickname. It's it's not a
nickname. That's just what I am,

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a cowboy Tim. The album is
down on luck in the Outback. We're

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trying to, you know, basically
raise some funds rescuing the Kangaroo's illegally imported

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into the USA. So please go
download that from Spotify or you know,

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go to wherever you buy music from
nowadays, it's not online. But yeah,

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man, Texas was fine. I
think we should. I think we

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should enlist producer rich to Who's who
has You know he wants put out a

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rap album. I don't know if
you know that, but he did once

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to put out a rap album.
But he should take your voice from this

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podcast. He should. I'll get
into one of those AI things and he

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should create some country songs. Well, someone already wrote one of the songs.

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If you go to the tweet.
Hucks who used to work for us,

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wrote like three verses probably probably we
can use those verses, but they're

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excellent. They're excellent versus we need
to actually put it in. You know

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how they have like the fake Drake
songs that are coming out like stuff like

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yeah, like let's go like I'm
fine, Like I'll push it, I'll

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promote it. I'll be a spot
if I am artists, I'll be all

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in on the cowboy look. Texas
was great for people that don't realize.

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I shaved my patchi patchy beard off
and left the handlebar mustache that I had

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last year, and then I bought
a cowboy hat and I was rocking the

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cowboy hat. For a long time, wasn't quite dressed appropriately. I only

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took like my short not shorts and
oversized T shirts, so it didn't really

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make any sense. But what you
no, no, no, no,

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hold were for sure an urban cowboy. Like That's how the is an urbanoy,

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modern the modern cowboy, the modern
like person who liked country music.

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Like I'm assuming people that all want
to stagecoach recently, they were all kind

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of dressed like that. They just
wear their kind of normal stuff, you

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know, baggy tea, you know, some short short whatever, and then

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they throw on a cowboy hat and
they're they're ready to go. Look.

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I was very skeptical of the cowboy
hat, and then I put it on.

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I really liked it. The girls
selling it to me obviously said no,

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it looks actually pretty good. I
don't believe her. Guy I was

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with he liked it, So I
was like, whatever, we're in Texas,

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I'm gonna buy this. Everyone everyone
was like, oh my god,

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that it suits you perfectly. Honestly, I think it's only because of the

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handlebib masks slash I have, so
whenever I shave that during the World series,

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the cowboy hat's going to have to, you know, be put in

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the closet for a while. You
need to keep this up because it's hard.

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Man. I hate it for the
same reason, for the same reason,

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and I'm gonna I'm gonna bring this
up again. I'm gonna bring it

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up every single time until it happens, so I might be bringing up for

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the rest of my life. When
they bring out the money at the World

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Series of Poker main event, they
need to bring it out via horseback.

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Okay, they have that ramp that
goes up the side of the main horseshoe

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room. They have the big doors
that horses can easily come walking on.

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In a couple of horses, they
like move on from the guys with the

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shotguns carrying, you know, like
that that is that. I mean,

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you can still have guys with shotguns. They can just be on horseback,

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you know. But like let's go
full on, like you know, Benny

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Binyon era, like guys on horses, cash, hanging on bags on the

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sides of the horses. Let's walk
it up to the stage, let's drop

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it off. That's what we need
to happen. I do have a plan

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for the twenty five K Fantasy Drift
that involves the cowboy hat and some other

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items of clothing. I think it'd
be a bit of fun. So I'm

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gonna do a little bit of shopping
over the next couple of weeks. Is

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that put together an outfit? Is
the money presentation? Is that an US

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thing? Or does that's that's that's
ws. Actually last year we helped because

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we got the brief question team,
right, I mean, so don't we

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like kind of do the do something? Sure? If horses are in the

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budget, Oh, come on,
it's a Nevada. How how much can

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it cost to rent a horse for
a couple hours? I mean, let's

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be probably it's probably not cheap.
You probably like, what are you talking

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about? Like one thousand dollars?
That's cheap? No, I want to

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say more. You have to get
a couple of horses, a couple of

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people. Then you have to explain
how to it could be like a ten

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thousand dollars spend worth it one hundred
percent? I think it is. Do

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you think they get the stuff that
they have now? Stock guns? They

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got people? The real shotguns?
Those are okay, I don't think those

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are real. Those are definitely real
shotguns. There is some security to the

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money regardless of what you think,
Like those are actually, you know,

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fairly real security gods, like nothing's
gonna happen, and like there's like that,

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like just like we'd have a horse, we have a real cowboy.

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I mean, yeah, I'm the
cowboy cowboy Tim. I'm just saying I

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think we need to. We need
to if you if we can get promise

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here's the thing, Okay, listen, if we can get promised horses,

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I will keep the cowboy look through
the whole world series. I'll wear a

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cowboy hat every day and I'll get
my cowboy boots. I thought it looked

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good on you. You. Okay, we need to actually talk about some

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poker and some stuff that's happened.
We are going to talk about Texas stuff.

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Texas poker ope, and of course
that is where Tim is returning from.

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Was down there for what a week, week and a half, I

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don't even know, Yeah, long
time, it seems like forever. The

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other big thing we're gonna talk about
is ept money Carlo that wrapped up yesterday.

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It's a Sunday May fifth, that
is Sinco de Mayo for all of

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you, part of yours drinkers out
there enjoy Margarita please. So yeah,

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that's pretty much all we're gonna hit
on today. And then Tim and I

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talked in our little pre show meeting
that we're gonna try and ramp up these

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podcasts a little bit more hit on, some more WSP stuff going forward,

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you know, get everyone's juices flowing
because we are now less than a month

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away from the start of the World
Series of Poker and of course we all

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love that so goddamn much. So
yeah, let's get into this episode.

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get you entered into our giveaway. Tim,

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I'm officially putting you in charge of
the giveaways for the summer. Great

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like, just give me to do
Yeah, you know, why not?

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I mean, you've just been in
Texas eating steaks and messing around all day.

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From you in Texas? Is you
you had steak twice a day.

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It looked like it was a hundred
to one hundred fifty dollars. Steak okay

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delivered salmon for lunch, salmon at
arcade bars all night, so like,

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what were you doing there? We
were live reporting and then when live reporting

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ended, we celebrated and it was
a salmon for lunch, steak for dinner.

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sir, mister Cowboy Texas Poker Open.

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Renlan wins the Texas Poker Open main
event. You spoke with him? Yeah,

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afterwards, and I gut I guess
interview first and then we'll talk about

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it. So let's just stick to
the interview. This is Tim talking to

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Renlin after RIN one the Texas Poker
Open Main Event. I'm here with renlinn,

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the inaugural Texas Poker Open Main Event
champion. You flew in light directly

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from China, directly from Vegas,
and you've come here and you've won the

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main event. How do you feel
right now after winning this seven hundred and

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thirty five entrant tournament. I feel
great. I just just so lucky today

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end I got a lot of good
hands, So yeah, I feel great.

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Last time we saw you it was
the PGT Championship Million dollar free Role,

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and we haven't seen you for a
couple of months. Tell us where

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have you been? Uh? I
take a break and I travel a lot,

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and they of China like over thirty
five day and take a break.

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So this is your first time to
Champions Club for T here. How have

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you felt to enjoyed the venue so
far? It's great here. I have

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come Vegas soon, I have a
conveg again is great. Everything is good

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and everybody is nice. Hellove here. This was our first time on the

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PGT doing a low buying three thousand
dollars. You know, you earn four

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hundred PGT points, So after a
hot start, what do you think of

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the PGT having these lower buyings for
players? I think it's a pg school

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for the low buying because it'd be
more player like if over a tank is

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you know, I think it's a
lot of player level pray the PGD tournament.

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But I just if if it like
an over tank is a little too

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much for the most prayer. So
if a low buying is good, he's

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like a more player coming like this
one three three three k It was perfect

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all right. That was Renland with
Tim down at Champions Club in Texas.

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In Houston, Texas. Renland topped
the the seven hundred and thirty five entry

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field in this event. Who win
four hundred thousand dollars? You heard Ren

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and Tim talked about it a little
bit there on the podcast bro or sorry

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on the interview, but this event
had a thirty three hundred dollars buying.

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I gotta say you were a bit
rusty. Yes, I was very y.

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The holy hell, oh my god, yes, I've not done that.

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I'm out of the gate. With
the how are you feeling? Question

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is like the worst question, this
is, Jim, I know I we

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should have We should because you and
I do the interviews over the summer.

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We should have like a bet if
you start an interview with the how you're

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feeling, you like, oh,
the person like a week of coffee.

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I was trying to go on a
different route and I couldn't get the words

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out. I just was, yeah, you're exactly right. I had a

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long off season from interviews that was
pre season. Didn't do too well.

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So we're going to start warming up
soon. Yeah, promise it's good to

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start warming up so we can hit
that first World Series of Poker events,

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you know, in full swing.
As I said. Red Land top of

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the Texas Poker Open main event,
four hundred thousand dollars score for him in

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terms of PGT stuff, his first
cash of the season, you heard Tim

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asking where the heck he's been.
He's been traveling essentially. Yeah, so

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yeah, he beat Daniel Moran and
heads up play. Daniel Moran is a

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young like mid twenties, I think, a British kid, really really good

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player. If you are unfamiliar with
Dan Moran, I would expec I would

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urge you to get familiar with him, because I think he's gonna be somebody

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who makes some noise in these recent
years. He took second place for two

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nd seventy five k just one hand, a single hand of heads up play

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in this event. Sure rigged.
Yeah, they deal Moran two tens.

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They deal Red Linn too. Jack's
money goes in See you later. Ren

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Linn's the champion. Jonathan Tomayo one
hundred and eighty thousand for third place,

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Yunk You Song one hundred and thirty
three thousand for fourth place, Daniel Holmes

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one hundred and three thousand for fifth
place, and our guy Brent Hanks shout

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out Brent Hanks eighty three thousand dollars
for a sixth place finish. There,

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great run by him. I've said
it before and I'll say it here on

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this podcast. If I haven't already, but listening to Brent Hanks talk,

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you know, doing commentary alongside Jeff
Platt in the booth so often, I'm

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always like, Brent, man,
why don't you play more poker? Like

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you clearly understand the game still very
much. You are clearly in tune with,

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you know, the modern poker,
the way that it's being played,

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the strategies, et cetera. He's
probably got a lot of reps within him

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just in terms of watching the high
rollers all the time play, So why

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don't you just get out there and
play a little bit more? Thought Brent

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played pretty well overall. His bust
out hand a little bit questionable, very

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questionable. Well, yeah, you
for sure would have never done that,

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but you lose whatever I mean it
was. I don't mind the line that

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he took, which he basically punted
off with a flush and straitch on the

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turn. But I think against the
player who was Jonathan Tomayo, I think

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Jonathan tomow is going to be prone
to call pretty light there and not be

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able to fold some a decent hand. So I wouldn't have picked that spot,

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probably just because of who it was
up against. But the general thought

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that that Brent was going for you
know, I didn't totally hate also at

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that point, you know, I
mean it's like you start with nine players,

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you get down to the final six, like at some point you when

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do you want to start like playing
to win. I think that's probably what

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Brent decided there, like I'm going
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here, use the equity that I
have and try and pick up some chips,

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and you know, if it works, it works. If it doesn't,

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well I'm out, and you know, shit happens. But whatever.

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Tyler Brown seventh place, sixty six
thousand dollars. Tyler Brown absolutely got wrecked

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at the final table. I mean, this guy just kept getting his money

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in good I think it was three
massive hands where he was a huge favorite

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in all of them and just lost. And it was just brutal to watch.

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Tyler Brown, extremely good player,
won the what do you win?

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The Mystery Millions events? It was
a million maker. He won a million

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dollars, that's all I remember.
Yeah, I think it was the Mystery

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Millions event at the World Series of
Poker in twenty twenty two, I believe,

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or maybe it was last year.
I can't remember. But he won

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a million dollars for that. I
remember that event. Tyler Brown made a

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sick call. Yeah with Ace high
high when that one Ryan Rece we all

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know Ryan Rees former ws AP made
him and champion. He got eighth place

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for fifty two thousand dollars. Miguel
Hussey, uh ninth place excuse me?

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For forty thousand dollars. So seven
hundred and thirty five entries. Do you

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remember what the prize pool came in
at. It was It was two two

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five two two o five two million, two hundred and five thousand dollars in

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the prize school guarantee was two hundred
thousand dollars two million dollars, sorry,

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two million dollars. Excuse me,
you were there, you're the CGT commissioner.

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I mean, what are your thoughts? We are your takeaways from this

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this tournament for right now, let's
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Personally, I felt it was a
success, mainly because my thinking is,

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you know, if we hit the
guarantee, it sets up us to do

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this again. Now, if we
have fallen short of the guarantee, it's

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like, do we really want to
try this again? It didn't work so

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from that aspect, I did really
I was very happy that we made it

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because it sets up what we can
do next. It also sets up taking

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this idea to potentially other places around
the country. As for the actual number,

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I feel like we definitely fell short
because of certain reasons. Obviously,

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there was we had a small window
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a lot of players, you know, a lot of players skipped ours and

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basically went Seminal Choctaw or they went
win Choctaw, which is fine. I'm

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not judging Adam Hendrix, but you
know, if we had more no,

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no, no, no, it's
it's what I'm saying is WPT Chalcter updates

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and these there are plenty of players
that should have done the Texas Swing chalk

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to I mean, I don't know
why you would, just that just makes

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sense to me. So then then
if you're like, oh, it's too

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much, too little bit of a
window, Like you know, I need

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time off, there's a whole crap
ton of time off from now to dub

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is a b There's three and a
half weeks off, so that's your time

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off. Look, I'm not gonna
I'm not really going to judge anyone.

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I'm gonna just say that's fine.
They made that choice. Now we're already

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talking next year. This was a
success, so we can kind of basically

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try and own a window. We
can own say February or March, whatever

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we decide, which is going to
help. But yes, like I said,

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we were missing players. We also
had, you know, a big

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online tournament that a lot of the
players were in the hotel playing and not

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firing the main event, so you
lose a couple entrants there. We also

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canceled the first turbo flight. The
turbo flights were way too early. We

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had to make that. We had
to make them much later, and you

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know, to be honest, Champions
was a little scared that, you know,

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it would get nine players and it
would finish in an hour and we

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would have to roll back the clock
on day two. To that point,

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they completely forgot that in the structure
sheet that says turbo flights do not count

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the clock rollback yeahs do not apply. Yeah, so little I reckon we

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left. We could have you know, in the second turbo five, we

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were like sixty, we'd probably get
like, let's say we get thirty there.

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Let's say we get those ten people
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Let's say they play, there's forty
there. You know, there's like just

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some little numbers, like little tweaks
where we also had a monster stack playing

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out on day one day, we
hurt our numbers, so maybe we steal,

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say twenty people from that, So
maybe we were more closer to eight

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hundred than the seven thirty five we
finished with. But that's okay. We're

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going to learn from those lessons.
We're going to you know, when we

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do next years, we're going to
make it, you know, be all

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in on this main event and make
sure we do things on the front end

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and the back end to maximize the
numbers. Now, they want to already

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up the guarantee. We know how
it is with guarantees. You don't want

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them to just go to three million. That would be kind of silly.

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But yeah, bump it up a
little, set the biggest prize pool guarantee

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in Texas history, and like try
and slowly inch up and make this like

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a long term recurring thing. So
I agree with you on not going too

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crazy with the guarantee. I would
suggest two and a half million seems like

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a nice clean number. Let's go
there, let's reevaluate after that one's done,

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and then you know, possibly go
higher after that. I think that

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that's great one thing that I would
like to start pushing for now. Hopefully

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you're on my side with this,
but I mean there will be When you

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say that, I immediately get scared. I'm just letting you know, so

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I understand that it doesn't matter.
I'm still gonna say it. I'm still

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going to suggest it. I'm just
prefacing everything with that. That's I understand.

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Let's let's do like some sort of
satellite here in Vegas in the studio.

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I'm down, you know, like
maybe like maybe like two days of

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satellites. Pick a weekend when it's
kind of a dead time for us,

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you know, affordable buy in something
where, something where it can be like

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you know, you and I and
and Brent and Jeff and like you know,

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the poker go people in Vegas can
can also go play and and you

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know, we get you want to
come et some steak and salmon with us?

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I know you, yeah, And
I want to do having my way

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paid for essentially. Yeah, But
but like I think that that would be

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the cool. It gives people an
opportunity to obviously, you know, qualify

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for a PGT event, which is
cool. I think it also gives people,

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you know, an opportunity to play
inside the studio, which is you

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know, kind of cool as well. So you know, I think we

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could do something where it's like,
I don't know, five hundred dollars buy

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and win, like a you know, each thing is like a five K

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package type of thing, because you
know, Champions does have the hotel on

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property. You know, you got
to have travel that sort of thing,

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which I think could you know,
could draw you know, fairly well,

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especially if it's like something we kind
of like put out there and market it

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and you know whatever. So yeah, that's something that I would like to

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see us do. And you know, even if you qualify I don't know,

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five to ten people, let's say. I mean, that's still like

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a good amount of people that you
know, creates that that story of you

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know, people qualified here they're able
to text play, So I think that

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that would be be cool. I
also think that, like I mean to

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me, it would be something that
I think Champions would want to be on

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board with, you know, helping
out because ultimately it's getting more people to

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come down and experience what they have
to offer. It seems Listen, I've

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never been to Champions. You obviously
have been there, but like seeing what

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the players talked about, even what
Renland said in the interview you did with

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him, seeing some other players,
I mean, it seems like everyone loves

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this. Yeah, I mean it's
great that the you know, I talked

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to Josh are about this. It's
great that the hotel is like directly above

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you because it's kind of like it's
very similar to like WPT voyage, where

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everyone's in one spot and they're all
playing cash or they're all eating together,

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they're working out together, they're playing
Chinese poker, they're playing super satellites.

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They're all kind of in one spot
and it's a lot of fun. I

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don't think anyone's like really complained about, you know, being you know,

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on site. They do have a
small hotel, but I think next year

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we've already discussed how we can kind
of own more of the hotel for just

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PGT players. But yeah, that's
that's great. The food is unbelievable,

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as we've already kind of touched on, not just like you know, the

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there's a wide array of options.
It tastes great. It's very well priced.

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The service is excellent. I had
I was going to ask you about

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the food. So I'm happy you're
getting into us, and i just want

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to say that, like it's it's
easy for like I'm on the outside because

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I didn't go to this right so
I'm looking and I'm like, Okay,

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it seems like everyone's raving about the
food. And everyone has raved about the

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food even before this series, like
Jeff and Brent have always toold about it

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and everything. And I'm like,
like, is everyone just saying that,

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because like, you know, everyone's
kind of partnered here, and you know,

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you say the nice things versus your
partners. There are people, you

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know, calling it like they see
it and giving their honest opinion. You're

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telling me it's honest. You're telling
me the food's great. Yeah. Look,

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look you already kind of mentioned it
the first day. I had the

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fil a. Then I moved to
the strip, and then I moved to

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the te Bone, and then I
went back. I didn't like the t

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bone of the strip. I went
back to the pil a. The whole

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futful thing. Yeah, so you
know there's things you're gonna like there's things

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you're not going to like. I
will say here's the negative. They're very

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like strict on when the I think
last call for the main menu is ten

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pm, and I think it at
least three times I tried to order dessert

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at like ten oh five. Two
times I got completely showered. One time

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the waitress brought me chocolate cake and
ice cream, so loved her for that.

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But yes, that's probably the downside
to the food is the strictness on

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the menu and kind of some of
the options. I feel like, maybe

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it's a little small of a menu, but I don't think you're going to

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find anyone that's going to really complain
about the food. It was sensational so

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and like, look, if you
don't really want to eat that stuff,

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hey man, Uber eats whatever.
Walk somewhere else, go to the grocery

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store. There's a lot of options. It's Texas. You walk to places

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like where what's the look? You
know? Well, they like it's I

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think it's I would say it's kind
of like in things in between Chinatown and

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Koreatown. I walked every day to
Starbucks ten minute walk, and then on

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one day I walked to get donuts. It was a forty minute walk.

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So and I also say, like, don't walk in Houston because it's like

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it's nothing's like really close. But
like so it's like Vegas people think that

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they can walk from the winter to
Vlajio and then they've been walking, but

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like you can because that's a nice
walk. This is like, Okay,

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when I walked from the hotel to
the donut shop right, which was forty

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minutes away, it was like I
was walking down Flamingo like like it was

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just lots of cars and very like
industrial in a way, so like it's

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not like that area. Yeah,
but it lifts us extremely cheap or I

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mean there's people who will be eating
and Amazon priming food all the time,

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but at the end that you don't
have to like the steak is fifty bucks,

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like it's you know, everything's dirt
cheap. So yes, there's a

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little bit of maybe like blowing wind
up people's butts, but I've literally tried

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everything on the menu. Do you
think the like the PGT regulars liked it,

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Like what's the feedback there? I
mean, I know you're regularly in

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conversation with these, so to be
honest, a lot of these guys lost

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their hosses, so they'll probably ended
up losing rolls, you know, so

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I think they're a little tilted at
that. But what were they what were

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they? Were they like German cash
games? Like guys, you saw the

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thing that Pokenese put out. Seande
was in for thirteen buyings in one day

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in the main event or whatever it
was. These guys, these guys were

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firing. There's a one you remember
thirteen. I think Chino put on his

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his Instagram stories that he's in for
like at least nine, if not ten

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that I saw, and it could
have been maybe more. These guys are

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are firing bullets NonStop. The action
is in. I saw three people bust

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firsthand in level one or two.
I mean, listen, speaking of the

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speaking of the action, you know, we we so we did live streams

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every single day of the main event. Then we did other live streams of

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some of the other high roll or
final tables. Now, I mean,

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I feel like I have to get
down to Texas to play these times.

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I mean, the stuff that I
was seeing is out of control, and

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I like, I have I have
like multiple group chats with different poker friends

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of mine and whatnot. I'm like
all of them, you know that we're

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watching, or like we need to
go down there, like we need to

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like make our trip. I mean, it seemed like it was if you're

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like any sort of poker player that
like thinks you're reasonably decent that would play,

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you know, let's say for the
main amount of thirty three hundred dollars

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buying, or you would sell and
get in there and take your shot there

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Like this seems like a it seems
like a must attend stop just with with

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the action that was being played.
I'm gonna I'm gonna give you a heads

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00:26:23,920 --> 00:26:27,880
up, breaking news kind of thing. I'm already talking about the next one.

408
00:26:29,359 --> 00:26:33,839
And just for the record, Houston
has a pretty big rodeo in February,

409
00:26:33,519 --> 00:26:38,839
so my plan is to bring it
up more to February. So let's

410
00:26:38,839 --> 00:26:41,680
say if we inserted in February this
year, maybe we just kick out the

411
00:26:41,680 --> 00:26:45,160
mixed game series. No, actually, the mixgame series is going to be

412
00:26:45,160 --> 00:26:48,240
earlier next year. We'll go mixed
games Texas Poker, Open Pogo a Cup

413
00:26:48,480 --> 00:26:52,359
Poker A Cup would be more like
the March window, and then we do

414
00:26:52,359 --> 00:26:56,039
a PLO series and then you do
the USPO I feel like close to the

415
00:26:56,160 --> 00:27:00,920
rodeo would help numbers but also give
more activit it is for people to do

416
00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:04,599
outside of going to an Astros game
or you know, just going shopping for

417
00:27:04,759 --> 00:27:10,359
cowboy boos and coverle hats. So
yeah, look, we're going to improve

418
00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:14,200
it. The one thing we did
that I really am going to like toot

419
00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:15,680
my own haunt a little bit is
that, you know, we had one

420
00:27:15,759 --> 00:27:18,640
hundred I know we're going to touch
on the results, but we had one

421
00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:22,599
hundred and five players in the first
five k p alot. Immediately the players

422
00:27:22,599 --> 00:27:26,599
were like, can we cancel the
no limit, you know, because ten

423
00:27:26,680 --> 00:27:27,440
k might be too be I was
like, I'm not going to cancel an

424
00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:30,799
event, but like we can add
an event. So we like, within

425
00:27:30,920 --> 00:27:36,160
like thirty forty minutes of talking to
you know, everyone at Champions that make

426
00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:38,079
sure we had staff, made sure
we had dealers, you know, everything,

427
00:27:38,359 --> 00:27:41,640
we put on another event. And
I love that we have in a

428
00:27:41,759 --> 00:27:45,319
place like this, we do have
some flexibility to kind of I would say,

429
00:27:45,359 --> 00:27:48,359
do what we want, but do
what is best for the players that

430
00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:53,240
are there on site spending money playing
all the events. Yeah, I mean,

431
00:27:53,319 --> 00:28:00,160
listen, my I guess my one
question to you or like pushback on

432
00:28:00,519 --> 00:28:03,480
moving the tournament up is like,
doesn't it fit in the window with right

433
00:28:03,519 --> 00:28:07,000
before wpg chalk T. I mean, isn't that ideal in a lot of

434
00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:11,000
ways? So, yes, that
was the plan, right, but speaking

435
00:28:11,039 --> 00:28:15,039
to players like it's like, well, it's just a stop, Like it's

436
00:28:15,039 --> 00:28:17,519
more about the value of the stop, and we can make the stop more

437
00:28:17,599 --> 00:28:19,960
valuable by owning a window. So
if we can own say February for three

438
00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:23,200
weeks, not three weeks of PGT
events, just like say a three week

439
00:28:23,279 --> 00:28:27,200
schedule with the five hundreds, they
whatever they want to do that builds into

440
00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:33,720
the Texas Poker Open instead of trying
to sandwich this in between the two series.

441
00:28:33,720 --> 00:28:37,400
So we're basically having to force players
to do that. We do it

442
00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:41,279
in February, Like now it's just
two separate chips trips to Texas, Oklahoma

443
00:28:41,319 --> 00:28:45,599
area, So it's not yeah,
like we were kind of all in on

444
00:28:45,599 --> 00:28:48,119
the Texas swing. But you can
see if you look through Choctaw and then

445
00:28:48,119 --> 00:28:51,559
look through our updates, you can
see, yes, there is a lot

446
00:28:51,599 --> 00:28:56,079
of overlap, but there's also a
lot of people that skipped ours all will

447
00:28:56,079 --> 00:29:00,799
skip Choctaw. So I think the
best chance to maximize is also isolate them

448
00:29:00,799 --> 00:29:04,079
because there's also a large series on
right now, so we can just isolate

449
00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:10,480
that area's events. I think it's
more like it's actually probably better for each

450
00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:15,200
of those stops. Well, there
are a lot of cash games running all

451
00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:18,559
the tournaments, Like during the tournament
series that yeah cash, the cash games

452
00:29:18,599 --> 00:29:23,359
were popping like it's like they do
round of each they do like deal dealer,

453
00:29:23,480 --> 00:29:27,519
change bomb parts. I mean,
I can't speak for how much Brandan

454
00:29:27,559 --> 00:29:33,240
Hanks last, but I'm not sure
if he came home with any money after

455
00:29:33,279 --> 00:29:38,599
finishing six. So the games are
pretty insane. A lot of if you

456
00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:45,000
if you're a PLO player, this
is probably the place to come if you're

457
00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:48,279
not playing in Vegas or you want
some action instead of you know, the

458
00:29:48,359 --> 00:29:53,079
knits waiting for double suited ases.
And that's the think of me saying that

459
00:29:56,680 --> 00:29:59,839
there was a bunch of other events
that qualified for the PGT as part of

460
00:29:59,880 --> 00:30:03,200
the Texas Poker Open, a bunch
of high roller events. I'm just gonna

461
00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:06,920
run through the winners of those events. So the first high Roller was won

462
00:30:06,920 --> 00:30:11,400
by Victoria Liftshitz forty five, five
hundred dollars for her in that win.

463
00:30:11,519 --> 00:30:17,240
Aram Zobian, the reigning US Pokero
Open champion, He won the second high

464
00:30:17,279 --> 00:30:21,680
roller for forty eight six hundred dollars. Then it was Daniel Sepiel. You

465
00:30:21,680 --> 00:30:25,519
guys all know him from winning the
WPT World Championship event in December. He

466
00:30:25,559 --> 00:30:27,759
won the third high roller for fifty
two, seven hundred and forty dollars.

467
00:30:27,839 --> 00:30:30,759
Actually made a deal heads up with
Josh Carier. Ari took a little bit

468
00:30:30,839 --> 00:30:36,480
more money fifty four five hundred dollars, But they really wanted that that belt

469
00:30:36,519 --> 00:30:38,720
buckle trophy. It's the best trophy
I've seen in a long time. It's

470
00:30:38,759 --> 00:30:44,440
so good. I like, I
was actually hoping the final high roller would

471
00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:48,799
be canceled so I could buy the
belt off Isaac and wear it. But

472
00:30:48,920 --> 00:30:52,079
then I went digging to who designed
it, and he has a local shop

473
00:30:52,160 --> 00:30:55,680
in Texas. I think I'm getting
one made for next time, Like I

474
00:30:55,759 --> 00:31:00,680
says PGT on it something like epic. Isaac is Isaac Trumbo, the president

475
00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:04,480
of the Champions Club down in Texas. That's so Tim's referencing there. The

476
00:31:04,640 --> 00:31:08,559
fourth high roller. Clement Dang won
that one for eighty five thousand seven and

477
00:31:08,559 --> 00:31:14,200
fifty dollars and then high Roller at
number five Bradley Rubin topped that one for

478
00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:18,640
one hundred and fifteen two hundred and
fifty dollars had it made a deal with

479
00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:21,640
Fred Norman, who took one hundred
and five thousand dollars. This was the

480
00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:26,319
tournament's you kind of quickly touched on
it earlier, but record biggest prize school

481
00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:30,359
in Texas for a PLO tournament,
which I think messaging me at the time

482
00:31:30,519 --> 00:31:33,039
that you were kind of surprised.
Yeah, but I think like double the

483
00:31:33,039 --> 00:31:40,160
previous record. I think it just
speaks to the fact that Texas and poker

484
00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:44,720
like it is right now, is
still very new, like it's it's still

485
00:31:44,759 --> 00:31:49,240
a very young industry, very young
region in terms of having like these you

486
00:31:49,279 --> 00:31:53,240
know, these these legalized card rooms
that they have there now, right.

487
00:31:53,319 --> 00:31:57,880
So one thing that's interesting is,
you know, I think that you obviously

488
00:31:57,880 --> 00:32:00,480
be in the PGG commission, need
to keep in mind, but once you

489
00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:02,440
put it out there that you said
a record, people are going to be

490
00:32:02,440 --> 00:32:07,079
gunning for that record. So you
put it get on to hit that hit

491
00:32:07,119 --> 00:32:13,759
that record next time. High Roller
number six Joey Weisman won that one.

492
00:32:13,759 --> 00:32:16,400
For one hundred and sixteen thousand dollars
high Roller number seven. This was the

493
00:32:16,440 --> 00:32:22,480
added event, a turbo event.
David Masruloff, I hope I pronounced that

494
00:32:22,480 --> 00:32:27,200
correctly, Sorry if I didn't.
David sixty four hundred dollars there. Mazrule

495
00:32:27,240 --> 00:32:31,359
Off kind of was like a breakout
performer in a way. There there were

496
00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:36,240
people in the in the chats of
the live stream saying that he might be

497
00:32:36,279 --> 00:32:39,000
the best player. That's like on
the verge of coming out of Texas.

498
00:32:39,039 --> 00:32:44,039
So when they were saying that,
I'm assuming that he's a local player there.

499
00:32:44,640 --> 00:32:49,519
He finished the PGT Texas poke Ropen
series with five cashes. He had

500
00:32:49,519 --> 00:32:52,680
this victory, he had a third
or fourth a six, and then he

501
00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:55,000
also came twelfth in the main event, twelve in the main event of course,

502
00:32:55,039 --> 00:32:59,000
from seven hundred and thirty five entries, and then the final event,

503
00:32:59,359 --> 00:33:02,759
Isaac kemp In won that one eighty
six thousand, four hundred dollars. My

504
00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:07,759
takeaway before I ask your thoughts on
these high roller events is I I feel

505
00:33:07,839 --> 00:33:12,680
like the five K price point is
the price point. Yes, ten K

506
00:33:13,160 --> 00:33:15,880
you could definitely see like a big
drop off. And then also you know

507
00:33:15,880 --> 00:33:20,359
we probably just want to work on
scheduling a little bit in terms of like

508
00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:23,920
when we're having these. But you
know, I think the five k's were

509
00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:28,519
pretty awesome, but then there was
kind of a big drop off to the

510
00:33:28,519 --> 00:33:31,680
ten case. So, you know, our first time going there for this

511
00:33:31,759 --> 00:33:35,880
sort of thing in this region in
Texas, and I think that that's kind

512
00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:37,279
of one thing that we're going to
be coming away with saying like, Okay,

513
00:33:37,319 --> 00:33:40,079
you know, five k's they work
pretty well there, so let's focus

514
00:33:40,119 --> 00:33:45,480
a little bit more on those for
the next time around. No, yeah,

515
00:33:45,519 --> 00:33:50,640
one hundred percent. I already had
the suspicion that the tens might be

516
00:33:50,960 --> 00:33:54,519
difficult because I've never really done that
kind of buying in the PLO especially well,

517
00:33:54,519 --> 00:33:59,079
I thought I thought the ten when
I saw the five k PLO numbers,

518
00:33:59,119 --> 00:34:00,920
I was like, Oh, the
ten k'll it'll just be like half

519
00:34:01,039 --> 00:34:04,920
essentially, Yeah, in terms of
entries, it'll it'll meet the price bool.

520
00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:07,039
So I was thinking like, oh, you're going to send me another

521
00:34:07,079 --> 00:34:09,320
text saying like, oh, we
said another record. Yeah. The problem

522
00:34:09,360 --> 00:34:13,920
with the tank k was looking at
the uniques. We lost a lot of

523
00:34:13,960 --> 00:34:20,199
the locals. That was the biggest
drop off, Like I'm talking like twenty

524
00:34:20,599 --> 00:34:23,320
you know, twenty locals didn't play
that. And the other part was that

525
00:34:23,599 --> 00:34:28,599
a couple of the guys that were, you know, a little stuck on

526
00:34:28,639 --> 00:34:32,960
the trip just had to skip that
event and start their drive to chuck to

527
00:34:34,840 --> 00:34:39,639
So that really hurt the overall numbers
for that final ten KPLO. But yeah,

528
00:34:39,679 --> 00:34:43,360
I think we learned a lot.
You know, there's a little talk

529
00:34:43,400 --> 00:34:47,400
of a mini maybe PLO series later
in the year to be like the lead

530
00:34:47,480 --> 00:34:52,880
into our to our major PLO series, try and like, you know,

531
00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:57,519
promote get some of these Texas guys
to come at you know, the lower

532
00:34:57,559 --> 00:35:00,880
price points. So I think I
think you should look to target like a

533
00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:07,599
mini PGT PLO series that takes place
in Texas, but that has kind of

534
00:35:07,639 --> 00:35:10,559
the same structure as what was done
for the Texas Poke Open. And what

535
00:35:10,599 --> 00:35:14,880
I mean by that is do like
a big main event. You know,

536
00:35:14,920 --> 00:35:16,440
I already have written the schedule.
Yeah, like, you know, thirty

537
00:35:16,639 --> 00:35:19,519
hundred dollars buying. I mean,
I'm just throwing this out there. I

538
00:35:19,559 --> 00:35:22,119
have no idea what she wrote down
the buying, Like, I don't know,

539
00:35:22,119 --> 00:35:24,480
a million dollar guarantee yourself. That's
exactly what I have and I have

540
00:35:27,079 --> 00:35:30,519
we ch I don't think anyone's really
doing that for PLO. Well they're not,

541
00:35:30,599 --> 00:35:34,000
so we're gonna do it. We're
going to do the same turbo flight

542
00:35:34,079 --> 00:35:36,400
on day two. But I mean, with with the way they with the

543
00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:40,119
way they hold them, I mean, I can't imagine shorter levels in the

544
00:35:40,159 --> 00:35:44,920
turbo. I think I had two
less flights because I don't think we need

545
00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:50,559
that many flights, and then we'll
just sprinkle a couple of five K one

546
00:35:50,639 --> 00:35:53,679
day high rollers in there. So
I already have a plan. I really

547
00:35:53,719 --> 00:35:58,360
have to wait to see, like
what starts dropping. Hypothetically, if our

548
00:35:58,719 --> 00:36:01,719
PGT PLO series is say the end
of October, I feel like this should

549
00:36:01,760 --> 00:36:07,320
be the start of October, so
there's enough gap in between you don't have

550
00:36:07,320 --> 00:36:13,599
to go back to back. But
also it gives enough of a push for

551
00:36:13,719 --> 00:36:15,679
these local guys that have maybe have
never come to our PLO series, So

552
00:36:15,719 --> 00:36:20,079
now come and play the PLO series. And maybe we can figure out a

553
00:36:20,079 --> 00:36:25,119
way to reward players with some like
PGT passports or something. Maybe we can

554
00:36:25,559 --> 00:36:30,800
do something like that to kind of
incentivize them to come to Vegas. Yeah,

555
00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:35,159
I mean overall, I think that
I think that this is the start

556
00:36:35,280 --> 00:36:40,280
of some sort of evolution for the
PGT. I don't exactly know how big

557
00:36:40,320 --> 00:36:45,320
of an evolution that that ends up
being. You know, I've always said

558
00:36:45,320 --> 00:36:49,880
to you, not on this podcast, but like you know that I think

559
00:36:49,920 --> 00:36:52,280
the PGT needs to branch out a
little bit more. It needs to have

560
00:36:52,360 --> 00:36:55,719
more of like what we did here
for the Texas bourk g open elsewhere around

561
00:36:55,760 --> 00:37:00,239
around the US. You know,
maybe like three to four stops like this.

562
00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:05,400
So maybe, so hopefully this is
a jumping off point in that regard.

563
00:37:05,519 --> 00:37:08,880
So that's my hope coming out of
it all. So Yeah, as

564
00:37:08,920 --> 00:37:14,639
for the PGT leaderboard, it's David
Coleman still up on top, thirteen hundred

565
00:37:14,639 --> 00:37:17,199
and four points for him, Aramzobian
in second, Dylan Wiseman third, Dan

566
00:37:17,280 --> 00:37:22,400
mcgrowney fourth, Sammy Cippola in fifth, Stephen Chidwick is in sixth, Kristen

567
00:37:22,480 --> 00:37:27,320
Fox and in seventh, Joey Wiseman
in eighth, Jesse Lownis ninth, Jonathan

568
00:37:27,360 --> 00:37:31,039
Little rounds out the top ten.
So Coleman again still up on top.

569
00:37:31,719 --> 00:37:37,199
He had two cases down in Texas, so he was able to climb up

570
00:37:37,199 --> 00:37:42,840
over the thirteen hundred point mark.
He has four wins eleven cashes total on

571
00:37:43,039 --> 00:37:46,360
the season. There are three players
that are tied with the most caches of

572
00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:51,199
eleven, Coleman being one of them. The other two are Aramzobian and Daniel

573
00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:54,639
mcgran and. Mcgronney did not make
the trip down to Texas, but you

574
00:37:54,639 --> 00:37:59,599
know that was that was expected with
the whole quality over quantity approach. Doesn't

575
00:37:59,599 --> 00:38:01,400
really try. He's not good enough
to beat these guys. So it's okay.

576
00:38:01,559 --> 00:38:05,679
He's just he's just he's just locked
down. I've got to tell your

577
00:38:05,719 --> 00:38:07,760
story. I got to tell your
story. Hold on, let me finish

578
00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:09,079
this and you can tell me the
story I'm saying. Negronk is just locked

579
00:38:09,119 --> 00:38:13,480
down in Vegas playing some golf,
I guess, according to his Twitter,

580
00:38:13,559 --> 00:38:16,119
probably working out whatever he's doing,
getting ready for the World Series of Poker

581
00:38:16,159 --> 00:38:19,639
Ground's king to come in three weeks. All right, go with your finish,

582
00:38:19,719 --> 00:38:22,079
to finish the rundown and then we'll
uh, I'll tell you my story,

583
00:38:22,119 --> 00:38:27,519
all right. Two players have on
the PGT leaderboard have more than one

584
00:38:27,559 --> 00:38:30,840
million dollars in winnings, and Ramzobian
and Dylan Wiseman. Wiseman was the first

585
00:38:31,199 --> 00:38:36,719
to eclipse the million mark, a
Ramzobian second, and then David Coleman is

586
00:38:36,719 --> 00:38:38,559
like eight hundred dollars short or some
something like that, so he'll get there

587
00:38:38,719 --> 00:38:42,360
pretty soon. You want to do
your story now or keep going, keep

588
00:38:42,360 --> 00:38:45,760
going, finish it off overall on
the on the PGT leaderboard, or at

589
00:38:45,840 --> 00:38:50,280
least focusing on the top forty.
Of course, the top forty that is

590
00:38:50,280 --> 00:38:52,800
what qualifies for the PGT Championship million
dollar free role. At the end of

591
00:38:52,800 --> 00:38:58,800
the season, notable movements are we
have a Ramzobian jumped from third to second,

592
00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:04,119
so he knocked on Wiseman down one
spot. Joey Wiseman no relation to

593
00:39:04,159 --> 00:39:08,239
Dylan Wiseman. Joey Wiseman jumped from
thirteenth up to eighth. That knocked out

594
00:39:08,320 --> 00:39:13,559
Seth Davies from the top ten.
Not a lot of success for Jeremy Osmas

595
00:39:13,559 --> 00:39:16,639
and Eric Sidell down in Texas,
but both did move up one spot each.

596
00:39:16,880 --> 00:39:22,480
Osma's went from sixteenth to fifteenth,
Sidell went from nineteenth to eighteenth.

597
00:39:22,519 --> 00:39:25,119
I think Sidell ducked out early.
Hey, ye go wherever he's going.

598
00:39:27,400 --> 00:39:31,000
But Osmas was like building chips early
and everything yeah, and then just like

599
00:39:31,280 --> 00:39:34,960
he bubbled a lot of stuff,
he kind of just fizzled out. But

600
00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:37,599
I was like, oh, like, Austin is gonna have a huge series

601
00:39:37,639 --> 00:39:40,639
with the way these stacks, and
then it ultimately didn't didn't work out too

602
00:39:40,639 --> 00:39:45,679
well for him. There. Renlin's
main event win, we already talked about

603
00:39:45,679 --> 00:39:49,199
it a little bit, but he
had that win. He had another cash

604
00:39:49,440 --> 00:39:52,639
put him twentieth on the leaderboard.
He had zero points coming in to the

605
00:39:52,679 --> 00:39:57,719
Texas Pro Grogan, so this is
his first foray into the PGT this season.

606
00:39:58,280 --> 00:40:01,199
Victoria liveshits good series. Her continues
to be a good year for her.

607
00:40:01,320 --> 00:40:06,239
She had three cases, She went
from thirty fifth up to twenty fifth

608
00:40:06,639 --> 00:40:09,719
on the leader boards. She has
I believe ten cases on the PGT this

609
00:40:09,840 --> 00:40:15,039
season. And then a few newcomers
into the top forty. Of course we

610
00:40:15,119 --> 00:40:19,159
mentioned Ren Lynn, Isaac Kempton moved
up into thirty third, Andrew Lichtenberger thirty

611
00:40:19,159 --> 00:40:22,000
fourth, and then Daniel Moran up
to thirty ninth. And with those four

612
00:40:22,079 --> 00:40:27,119
additions into the top forty, we
had some people getting knocked out. Daniel

613
00:40:27,159 --> 00:40:30,599
Smilkovich, who was the PGT champion, a PGT championship winner last year.

614
00:40:30,639 --> 00:40:37,360
He's knocked out Jerry Wong, Dylan
DiStefano, and Bruno Firth all knocked outside

615
00:40:37,400 --> 00:40:42,000
of the top forty. And then
I guess, just quickly knocking at the

616
00:40:42,119 --> 00:40:45,519
door of the top forty is Jeremy
Becker, who's in like forty second or

617
00:40:45,559 --> 00:40:47,719
something like that. So I know
there's a lot of buzz around Jeremy Becker.

618
00:40:49,199 --> 00:40:53,239
He's very much engulfed in playing the
high roller tournaments that we are having

619
00:40:53,280 --> 00:40:58,559
on the PGT continues to have some
success, so we'll see if he can

620
00:40:58,559 --> 00:41:01,719
continue to make some noise as we
head into the World Series of Poker for

621
00:41:01,840 --> 00:41:06,079
the summer. All right, what's
your story. I've got two stories,

622
00:41:06,079 --> 00:41:08,280
and they're very connected. First of
all, people know that I like to

623
00:41:08,280 --> 00:41:12,719
speak my mouth. Whatever I'm thinking, I'm just going to say to these

624
00:41:12,760 --> 00:41:15,480
players, I'm honest. There was
one incident with Jim call Up. He's

625
00:41:15,480 --> 00:41:19,679
like, why don't we you know, shouldn't we be combining at eight?

626
00:41:20,199 --> 00:41:22,679
And I said, I said,
Jim, and that's been a long time

627
00:41:22,719 --> 00:41:24,920
since you made a final table.
But for this season, PGT combines a

628
00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:29,239
seven and Joey Weisman just like laughed
his head off and he's like, I

629
00:41:29,320 --> 00:41:31,039
just I just love how you say
whatever you want to him. The second

630
00:41:31,119 --> 00:41:35,960
story relates to Sean deep. Now, I've just said a lot of things

631
00:41:35,960 --> 00:41:39,239
about Sean and how he is not
good enough to compete in the studio.

632
00:41:39,360 --> 00:41:44,360
He is nowhere near the best all
round player anymore. That title belongs to

633
00:41:44,440 --> 00:41:49,280
Dylan Weisman, and I will stick
with that statement that he you know,

634
00:41:49,360 --> 00:41:52,840
he cashed in the three k Maine, that's it. He can't win in

635
00:41:52,920 --> 00:41:57,159
the studio. And I see him, he comes up, he starts talking,

636
00:41:57,360 --> 00:42:00,159
yapping at me. I'm like,
it's just true. I'm so sorry.

637
00:42:00,199 --> 00:42:00,639
What do you want me to say? And he goes, well,

638
00:42:00,719 --> 00:42:04,639
yeah, I mean my roy in
the studio is like eleven percent. Why

639
00:42:04,639 --> 00:42:07,119
would I do that or something?
I go, I know you're not good

640
00:42:07,239 --> 00:42:09,800
enough. Dylan Weisman's ROI is like
sixty percent, and that's why he's the

641
00:42:09,800 --> 00:42:15,840
best allround player. Sean gets up, very thin and strong. Sean now

642
00:42:16,559 --> 00:42:22,280
puts me in a headlock on the
floor in Champions Club, you know,

643
00:42:22,400 --> 00:42:25,880
jokingly, obviously, and then he
says something about like I'm going to I'm

644
00:42:25,880 --> 00:42:30,679
going to tell Carry to do this. I go carry Harry might be my

645
00:42:30,719 --> 00:42:35,000
boss, but you know, he's
not gonna tell me anything. And then

646
00:42:35,679 --> 00:42:38,199
Sean and Kerry were playing together.
At one point he said something about it

647
00:42:38,280 --> 00:42:42,320
and like carry goes. Yeah,
Tim doesn't listen to me. Tim does

648
00:42:42,320 --> 00:42:45,119
his own thing, So good luck. I thought it was funny. But

649
00:42:45,199 --> 00:42:46,840
yeah, I'm going to stick to
my statement about Sean not being the best

650
00:42:47,039 --> 00:42:52,840
around poker player until he turns back
up in the studio. I mean,

651
00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:58,480
he's clearly one of the soft wsp
fields, only that he doesn't show up.

652
00:42:58,719 --> 00:43:02,599
He's not Josh Arieh shows up,
Daniel o'gano shows up, John Hannigan

653
00:43:02,920 --> 00:43:07,360
shows up. You don't know what's
happening online, doesn't matter. The only

654
00:43:07,400 --> 00:43:12,119
thing that matters in this world is
the p G T. Okay in your

655
00:43:12,159 --> 00:43:15,840
world, Yes, the world the
like you know Capital t H. The

656
00:43:16,039 --> 00:43:21,360
world is the pg T. Is
that your only story? I got?

657
00:43:21,519 --> 00:43:25,440
I got so many stories I haven't
we need a not for work hour.

658
00:43:25,840 --> 00:43:29,440
First, you're beef beefing with by
the way, this like made it to

659
00:43:29,519 --> 00:43:34,960
the stream, Yeah, exactly,
yelling about you. Yeah, yeah,

660
00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:39,239
that's my point. First, you're
beefing with Jim Collie. Now you're now

661
00:43:39,280 --> 00:43:43,840
you're beefing with Sean Deeve. I
mean, are you just going to be

662
00:43:43,840 --> 00:43:47,280
beefing with everyone on the on the
whoever's gonna happen. You have to understand

663
00:43:49,000 --> 00:43:52,239
then, I'm a cowboy now and
I don't give a ship about what you

664
00:43:52,280 --> 00:43:57,719
think I'm coming for you. You're
laying down the law. Yeah, I'm

665
00:43:57,719 --> 00:44:01,639
the sheriff of this town. Oh
yeah, yeah, all right, Well,

666
00:44:02,000 --> 00:44:07,880
okay, moving on, I'm gonna
hit on EPT Monte Carlo wrapped up

667
00:44:07,039 --> 00:44:13,800
yesterday, Dirk van Luke won the
EPT Monte Carlo main event, a record

668
00:44:13,880 --> 00:44:19,400
setting Monte Carlo main events. He
won one million euros, which is about

669
00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:23,599
one million and seventy thousand dollars.
Second was Boris Angelo for six hundred and

670
00:44:23,599 --> 00:44:28,760
twenty thousand euros, and then Rhanayah
Nazardine got third for four hundred and forty

671
00:44:28,800 --> 00:44:32,280
two thousand dollars. Van Luke,
forty three years old. He is a

672
00:44:34,039 --> 00:44:37,519
calls himself an investor, also a
semi pro poker player, has had some

673
00:44:37,639 --> 00:44:40,360
success elsewhere in the world. It's
not like he just came out won this

674
00:44:40,400 --> 00:44:45,920
event out of nowhere, but out
of nowhere he was all in with with

675
00:44:46,000 --> 00:44:50,760
eight people left with ace jack.
I think it was ace Jack clubs against

676
00:44:50,880 --> 00:44:57,360
aces Flopp was two clubs and he
went jack jack to stay alive. So

677
00:44:57,360 --> 00:45:00,079
so Van Luke getting quite lucky there, just alive, and then of course

678
00:45:00,159 --> 00:45:07,280
goes on to win EPT Monte Carlo
six hour heads up match. The heads

679
00:45:07,320 --> 00:45:12,280
up match was so long that they
had to stop the stream on YouTube because

680
00:45:12,280 --> 00:45:15,480
they hit the limit and start a
new stream. That's how long the final

681
00:45:15,559 --> 00:45:21,920
day went, because the heads up
match between Van Luke and Angelov was six

682
00:45:22,199 --> 00:45:25,559
hours long. Van Luke is,
he's Dutch and he is expecting a third

683
00:45:25,679 --> 00:45:30,480
kid. His his wife or his
partner was on the rail while he won

684
00:45:30,079 --> 00:45:34,519
there, so he's expecting a third
child there, so a bit of some

685
00:45:34,599 --> 00:45:37,480
baby run good overall, so so
good on him. I mean, it's

686
00:45:37,639 --> 00:45:42,199
it's awesome to see EPT Monte Carlo
have a record setting field. I think

687
00:45:42,239 --> 00:45:45,360
this is now the second consecutive year
that's had a record setting field, and

688
00:45:45,400 --> 00:45:47,920
then three years ago it had i
think one than ninety eight entries, which

689
00:45:49,000 --> 00:45:53,519
tied the previous record from several years
ago. So EPT is back. EPT

690
00:45:53,679 --> 00:45:59,119
Monte Carlo is back. Like I
watched this stop, I watched the Poker

691
00:45:59,159 --> 00:46:02,840
Stars EPT live coverage. You know
when they open the roof of the casino

692
00:46:02,920 --> 00:46:07,480
in the morning, I mean it
just it gives me chills. Still.

693
00:46:07,760 --> 00:46:12,360
I went to this event many times, absolutely loved it there on the French

694
00:46:12,440 --> 00:46:15,079
Riviera. I mean, it's just
it's so cool. The one thing that

695
00:46:15,159 --> 00:46:19,440
I just don't like is I still
wish it was a ten K. I

696
00:46:19,519 --> 00:46:23,119
just feel like, because it's Monaco, this one can be the ten K,

697
00:46:23,599 --> 00:46:27,360
you know. I think you're still
going to get people coming out in

698
00:46:27,519 --> 00:46:32,280
droves for this one. So so
yeah. Patrick Antonius won the one hundred

699
00:46:32,320 --> 00:46:37,480
thousand euro Super high Roller. Another
record field here. Seventy two entries in

700
00:46:37,519 --> 00:46:42,239
this one. He won just under
two million euros or just over two point

701
00:46:42,239 --> 00:46:46,920
one million dollars. Christoph Vogel saying
second, one Pardo third, Byron Caveman,

702
00:46:46,960 --> 00:46:51,480
fourth, Ben he fifth, Steven
Chidwick got eighth in this one.

703
00:46:51,519 --> 00:46:54,880
Alex Kola mentioning him in ninth two
hundred and eighteen thousand euros he won.

704
00:46:57,039 --> 00:46:59,920
I think it was called the twenty
five k warm up for like six hundred

705
00:47:00,119 --> 00:47:04,920
something thousand euros earlier in the series, So so yeah, big turnout here.

706
00:47:05,360 --> 00:47:08,559
Obviously, the headliner Patrick Antonius.
To me, it's like it's like

707
00:47:08,639 --> 00:47:10,920
kind of a shame. I feel
like that he's not in the Poker Hall

708
00:47:10,920 --> 00:47:14,840
of Fame already. I know,
the Hall of Fame. We obviously have

709
00:47:15,519 --> 00:47:21,280
our gripes with it overall, but
I mean, like, what, what

710
00:47:21,280 --> 00:47:22,599
what does this guy have to do? I mean, I understand, like

711
00:47:22,679 --> 00:47:28,039
he doesn't have the he doesn't have
the tournament resume that that a lot of

712
00:47:28,039 --> 00:47:30,880
other people have that get into the
Poker Hall of Fame. He doesn't have

713
00:47:31,000 --> 00:47:35,800
the World Series of Poker resume,
you know, specifically. I know people

714
00:47:35,800 --> 00:47:37,280
out there do comment that, you
know, it's not really the Poker Hall

715
00:47:37,280 --> 00:47:42,000
of Fame. It's more than WASP
Hall of Fame, you know. Yeah,

716
00:47:42,039 --> 00:47:45,480
but David Oppenheim, isn't it right? I understand. I mean,

717
00:47:46,480 --> 00:47:51,639
I think Patrick Antonius is just as
much deserving, if not, I mean,

718
00:47:51,639 --> 00:47:55,199
listen, I would have probably put
Antonius in before Oppenheim. He has

719
00:47:55,800 --> 00:48:00,159
the winnings these Finland's all the time
money list. He's obviously a cash game

720
00:48:00,199 --> 00:48:07,280
crusha. He's still playing big tournaments. Yeah, he may not be winning

721
00:48:07,320 --> 00:48:08,840
bracelets, but he definitely should be
in there. Yeah, I mean,

722
00:48:08,920 --> 00:48:13,280
right now, he's he really does
just really focus on high roller tournaments.

723
00:48:13,280 --> 00:48:16,000
You know, he frequents all the
Triton stuff, you know, the the

724
00:48:16,039 --> 00:48:20,559
biggest buying tournaments in the world.
Is really his focus, and he doesn't

725
00:48:20,559 --> 00:48:22,360
really do anything else. And then
of course plays the massive cash games.

726
00:48:23,559 --> 00:48:28,840
I mean he's also someone who's been
he's been doing it forever. I mean,

727
00:48:28,880 --> 00:48:31,400
he's been at the top of the
food chain for so so so long.

728
00:48:31,440 --> 00:48:35,000
I mean when it was you know, back in the full till poker

729
00:48:35,079 --> 00:48:39,320
days, those those those Lbird Heaven
games, you know, those those absolutely

730
00:48:39,320 --> 00:48:45,239
astronomical steaks nosebleeds. I mean,
Antonius was a fixture in there and and

731
00:48:45,480 --> 00:48:47,920
doing pretty well. You know,
he was always battling at the highest stakes.

732
00:48:47,920 --> 00:48:52,920
He was often battling Victor islder Blom
you know, in the in the

733
00:48:52,000 --> 00:48:57,480
huge PLO games heads up. So
I mean, I think he checks all

734
00:48:57,519 --> 00:49:00,159
of the boxes. To me,
he would he would have been should have

735
00:49:00,239 --> 00:49:05,960
been a first ballot Hall of Famer, you know. So yeah, he

736
00:49:06,079 --> 00:49:12,840
is. He is having his best
year in terms of tournaments this year.

737
00:49:13,400 --> 00:49:17,079
Obviously, big boost with this event
winning you know, two million dollars in

738
00:49:17,119 --> 00:49:21,880
this super high roller, but he's
up over five million dollars on the year

739
00:49:21,960 --> 00:49:23,800
so far, and there's still a
bit to go. He's going to be

740
00:49:23,840 --> 00:49:28,280
traveling to Triton, Montenegro, which
is coming up before the World Series of

741
00:49:28,280 --> 00:49:30,079
Poker. I'm assuming he'll be out
at the World Series of Poker to play

742
00:49:30,119 --> 00:49:34,280
cash games during the summer, and
then maybe we see him dip into like

743
00:49:34,320 --> 00:49:37,239
the two fifty K or stuff like
that, and then you know, there's

744
00:49:37,239 --> 00:49:42,679
obviously a bunch of other trading events, EBTs, et cetera coming up through

745
00:49:42,719 --> 00:49:45,719
this year, so I would expect
him to put up some more results.

746
00:49:46,880 --> 00:49:50,360
Yeah, I mean, I mean, what do you think is he a

747
00:49:50,400 --> 00:49:52,480
Hall of Famer? To you?
Should he be in? Is he gonna

748
00:49:52,480 --> 00:49:54,280
get in next time? You know, we always talk about the backlog and

749
00:49:54,280 --> 00:49:58,480
all that sort of stuff. So
no matter what's your temperature on Patrick into,

750
00:50:00,079 --> 00:50:04,320
I think he should be in.
Will he get in is a completely

751
00:50:05,280 --> 00:50:12,159
different debate. Uh. I would
probably bet he doesn't get in, to

752
00:50:12,239 --> 00:50:16,519
be honest, with the current criteria
and the and the amount of players that

753
00:50:16,559 --> 00:50:21,119
are also deserving, you know,
maybe slightly more than Patrick. So unless

754
00:50:21,119 --> 00:50:23,880
they expand or you know, maybe
someone re you know, takes over the

755
00:50:24,159 --> 00:50:28,760
Hall of Fame and kind of rejigs
it. I think it will be hard

756
00:50:28,760 --> 00:50:30,840
for him to get in, but
yeah, he deserves it. I mean

757
00:50:30,880 --> 00:50:35,320
he also helps like if you're if
you're like on the Poker Hall of Fame

758
00:50:35,360 --> 00:50:37,440
side, you know, one of
the things that that it draws some criticism

759
00:50:37,559 --> 00:50:43,199
for at times is like there's not
enough European people or old people in there,

760
00:50:43,280 --> 00:50:45,840
right, so this would help check
that box too. Patrick is finished,

761
00:50:45,920 --> 00:50:49,920
you know, so, and it's
not like you're just being like,

762
00:50:49,960 --> 00:50:52,039
hey, let's put this guy in
here for the token of having another European

763
00:50:52,039 --> 00:50:54,920
in there. No, Like,
he's very much deserving to be in there,

764
00:50:55,079 --> 00:50:59,639
like, you know, so for
me, he's in there, like

765
00:50:59,679 --> 00:51:01,760
he's he's obviously one of the greatest
of all times. You know, he's

766
00:51:01,840 --> 00:51:08,000
an absolute legend. You know,
just continues to play astronomical stakes and perform

767
00:51:08,000 --> 00:51:14,599
it at a pretty high level.
So yeah, I mean I also feel

768
00:51:14,599 --> 00:51:19,440
like, you know, he has
the respect of the biggest players in the

769
00:51:19,480 --> 00:51:23,239
world. You know, maybe he's
not like the A plus A plus type

770
00:51:23,239 --> 00:51:28,079
of like player, but I think
he's right there with with everyone else.

771
00:51:28,159 --> 00:51:31,199
You know, I think a lot
of guys respect his game. You know,

772
00:51:31,199 --> 00:51:34,199
don't want to see him at the
table, that sort of stuff.

773
00:51:34,239 --> 00:51:37,079
So for him to get this win, you know, I think it's it's

774
00:51:37,199 --> 00:51:40,760
very cool. Patrick is a very
deserving player, I feel like, so

775
00:51:40,760 --> 00:51:43,880
so yeah, I mean, I
just feel like we got to kind of

776
00:51:43,880 --> 00:51:46,239
give him his flowers. You know. I feel like, because he is

777
00:51:46,280 --> 00:51:52,000
someone who focuses on high stakes cash
games, he kind of gets lost in

778
00:51:52,079 --> 00:51:55,360
like the best player conversation at times, right, and you know, understandably,

779
00:51:55,400 --> 00:51:59,320
so again he's more out of the
spotlight. But this win, a

780
00:51:59,360 --> 00:52:01,360
win like this on a stage like
this, being at EPT Monty Carlo puts

781
00:52:01,440 --> 00:52:05,239
him very much back into that spott
and allows us to talk about it.

782
00:52:05,280 --> 00:52:08,960
So I'm team Patrick Antonius. I'll
never forget when they made him eat a

783
00:52:08,960 --> 00:52:15,800
ham or cheeseburger, remember that at
Ouzie millions years ago. But yeah,

784
00:52:15,199 --> 00:52:19,079
let's go Patrick Antonio's for the Hall
of Fame. Let's start the campaign and

785
00:52:19,119 --> 00:52:22,199
then just wrapping it up with twenty
five k EPT high Roller. There are

786
00:52:22,280 --> 00:52:25,599
several like high roller events. I
think Nacho Barbaro won a fifty K high

787
00:52:25,679 --> 00:52:29,920
roller. There's a bunch of other
twenty five k' is. Alex Kolev I

788
00:52:29,920 --> 00:52:32,760
mentioned already won one of those,
but like the official like quote unquote EPT

789
00:52:32,840 --> 00:52:37,960
Monicle high Roller is the twenty five
k EPT high Roller. Luca Maierki won

790
00:52:38,000 --> 00:52:44,599
that one for just under one point
one million euros one point or sorry,

791
00:52:44,599 --> 00:52:47,239
one million, one hundred and sixty
thousand dollars two hundred and forty seven entries

792
00:52:47,280 --> 00:52:52,280
there, which I think is also
a record. So yeah, I mean,

793
00:52:52,320 --> 00:52:58,320
EBT Monty Carlo is crushing. The
EPT is crushing. Probably my favorite

794
00:52:58,320 --> 00:53:02,280
tournament series outside of the un US
by far. We love the the EPT,

795
00:53:02,519 --> 00:53:06,280
love everything they do from a branding
perspective. You know, Porker Stars

796
00:53:06,360 --> 00:53:09,719
is obviously top of the top.
So so yeah, that that's that's EPT

797
00:53:09,960 --> 00:53:13,599
Monte Carlo and that's what happened there. They did a lot of live stream

798
00:53:13,639 --> 00:53:17,880
coverage. Been been watching it over
the couple of days. Sam Grafton and

799
00:53:17,960 --> 00:53:23,400
Griffin Banger do a lot of the
analyst duties. I think those guys have

800
00:53:23,519 --> 00:53:29,840
really solid minds. So if you're
interested in like learning more about poker,

801
00:53:29,880 --> 00:53:34,360
hearings come some you know, strategy
analytical talk alongside tournament play. You know,

802
00:53:34,400 --> 00:53:37,360
I would encourage you guys to check
it out because it's it's good stuff

803
00:53:37,400 --> 00:53:43,159
there. So so yeah, and
I guess that's the podcast. I mean,

804
00:53:43,239 --> 00:53:45,719
unless you have something else to talk
about over there, Cowboy, that's

805
00:53:45,760 --> 00:53:50,440
that's right, you remember that.
No, that's it. That's all I

806
00:53:50,480 --> 00:53:54,360
got just to get to live in
and lit on fire by now. We

807
00:53:55,400 --> 00:53:58,760
got nothing to do for three weeks. What do you mean? We have

808
00:53:58,920 --> 00:54:02,159
plenty of things today I'm talking about
just for the podcast. We got stuff

809
00:54:02,199 --> 00:54:06,039
we'll figure out, and we'll figure
it out. Yeah, I mean,

810
00:54:06,480 --> 00:54:09,639
let's try and hit out some WASP
topics coming up, Okay, a little

811
00:54:09,639 --> 00:54:15,880
bit more shows. I've been very
much gearing up for twenty five K Fantasy.

812
00:54:15,639 --> 00:54:20,920
I feel like last year we won. This year I got to prepare

813
00:54:21,000 --> 00:54:24,159
even harder to try and win again. Start the dynasty, need to make

814
00:54:24,199 --> 00:54:29,360
it happen. So have been in
the lab very much pretty much every single

815
00:54:29,440 --> 00:54:34,199
day, trying to just get all
of my research honed out before I start

816
00:54:34,280 --> 00:54:38,280
finalizing where we're going to go with
that. The draft is May twenty seven,

817
00:54:39,280 --> 00:54:42,639
I believe, Is that correct?
You would you would know you're the

818
00:54:42,639 --> 00:54:44,840
study. I mean, I don't
know. I'm not sure if I'm officially

819
00:54:44,840 --> 00:54:50,880
booked yet officially booked for what oh
for the auctioneer. Yeah, Daniel has

820
00:54:50,920 --> 00:54:54,880
to send me an email at Tim
at Cowboy dot com and I'll let him

821
00:54:54,880 --> 00:54:59,239
know if I'm available. I get
the radio that day. Who knows.

822
00:54:59,519 --> 00:55:01,920
No, I think you're definitely available
and you should for sure be there with

823
00:55:02,000 --> 00:55:07,320
the cowboy hat on. And that's
right. So yeah, I think it's

824
00:55:07,360 --> 00:55:13,719
I think it's May twenty seventh in
the studio will be the draft were streaming

825
00:55:13,760 --> 00:55:15,880
it, That's what I say.
I'm assuming we're streaming it again. I

826
00:55:15,880 --> 00:55:19,320
would, I would hope, so, you know, and a lot of

827
00:55:19,320 --> 00:55:22,559
people the same reason. I'll get
dressed up if I'm even auctioneering. Otherwise

828
00:55:22,559 --> 00:55:23,559
it is on a point. I'm
trying to do it for the fans,

829
00:55:24,119 --> 00:55:30,880
you know, So look forward to
that. In terms of our team,

830
00:55:30,079 --> 00:55:35,760
we will be listing on poker Steak
in the near future, so you guys

831
00:55:35,760 --> 00:55:40,119
can follow me on social media Donnie
Underscore Peters on Twitter slash x to be

832
00:55:40,239 --> 00:55:45,519
known when we'll be dropping that.
I think it's poker steak com is there

833
00:55:46,519 --> 00:55:52,159
Twitter. Hopefully I'm not wrong there, but if I am, forgive me.

834
00:55:52,320 --> 00:55:57,679
But yeah, poker steak dot com
is will be listing some action for

835
00:55:58,760 --> 00:56:01,119
the upcoming twenty five K fantasy.
It's always it's always a really fun sweat

836
00:56:01,119 --> 00:56:07,920
to get in there. There are
going to be no online events this time

837
00:56:07,960 --> 00:56:12,079
around, just makes it easier overall. And I know Daniel put that out

838
00:56:12,079 --> 00:56:15,119
there already on social media that the
online events will not count this year.

839
00:56:15,239 --> 00:56:22,519
So we will have to re restructure
our strategy a little bit because we did,

840
00:56:22,639 --> 00:56:24,280
you know, always include the online
stuff, like hey, let's draft

841
00:56:24,320 --> 00:56:29,079
this guy. We're going to be
getting a pretty good schedule or pretty good

842
00:56:29,119 --> 00:56:31,360
volume in terms of what he's going
to be doing at the at the World

843
00:56:31,360 --> 00:56:35,280
Series of Poker, but then we're
also likely going to get this person blasting

844
00:56:35,280 --> 00:56:37,960
away in the online stuff. And
deep's an interesting case now, I guess,

845
00:56:38,000 --> 00:56:43,440
because he obviously puts in an insane
volume at the World Series, but

846
00:56:43,519 --> 00:56:47,719
he's also going to be playing everything
online. Now is that going to be

847
00:56:47,840 --> 00:56:54,320
a detraction because it doesn't count for
twenty five K? So any sort of

848
00:56:54,360 --> 00:56:59,159
mental energy you're giving to that and
then not focusing on the live stuff,

849
00:56:59,599 --> 00:57:02,440
you know, how does that shake
out? So I think that's a that's

850
00:57:02,519 --> 00:57:07,360
one talking point that we're gonna need
to think about. We obviously had deeb

851
00:57:07,440 --> 00:57:12,000
on our team last year and and
you know he's one of the top dogs

852
00:57:12,000 --> 00:57:15,119
in this competition. So so we'll
see how that goes. But I'm interested.

853
00:57:15,199 --> 00:57:17,519
Daniel thinks we're going to get it
right around the same team, same

854
00:57:17,920 --> 00:57:22,159
number of teams this year, eighteen
to twenty. So so yeah, so

855
00:57:22,239 --> 00:57:23,880
let's go, let's make it happen, let's run it back, let's start

856
00:57:23,920 --> 00:57:29,880
the dynasty, and let's go from
there. So all right, stay tuned

857
00:57:29,920 --> 00:57:34,159
to this podcast. You guys can
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858
00:57:34,239 --> 00:57:37,480
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859
00:57:37,559 --> 00:57:40,719
Underscore Underscore Duckworth. He didn't change
it to Cowboy right, it's I'm going

860
00:57:40,760 --> 00:57:47,559
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on the score Tim Tim Underscore Underscore Duckworth

861
00:57:49,199 --> 00:57:53,239
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862
00:57:53,320 --> 00:57:58,320
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863
00:57:58,320 --> 00:58:07,559
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