1 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:15,839 Hello, everyone, Welcome back to a new episode of the Poker Go Podcast. 2 00:00:15,839 --> 00:00:20,199 My name is Donny Peters. I'm joined by PGG commissioner, the man 3 00:00:20,239 --> 00:00:24,440 who's been out there. Pitchforks are being held to his neck. People are 4 00:00:24,440 --> 00:00:28,160 coming for him. Tim Duckworth, how you doing. I'm good. I'm 5 00:00:28,160 --> 00:00:32,439 good. I'm currently trying on my stainless steel ama that I'm going to wear 6 00:00:32,520 --> 00:00:36,600 to the studio going forward. I need the protection from those pitchforks. They're 7 00:00:36,600 --> 00:00:40,399 coming for me. I've ordered a shield, I've ordered a sword. I'm 8 00:00:40,439 --> 00:00:44,280 ready to go. I mean, I don't think we need to, you 9 00:00:44,320 --> 00:00:48,159 know, ignore the elephant in the room. I mean, let's talk about 10 00:00:48,200 --> 00:00:51,039 it. You know, what do you got for me? I mean, 11 00:00:51,119 --> 00:00:56,799 listen, I've been going back and forth. If I'm being quite honest with 12 00:00:56,840 --> 00:01:00,280 you. So for those who aren't aware of what they're talking about, is 13 00:01:00,439 --> 00:01:04,920 you know, there's been some some player feedback, some criticism about the PGT 14 00:01:06,040 --> 00:01:14,799 Championship event in regards to the qualifiers, the dream seat entries that were granted, 15 00:01:15,920 --> 00:01:19,840 which you know, honestly was probably it's probably been emphasized more than it 16 00:01:19,879 --> 00:01:26,000 should be due to the Jeff Lennon effect, where he was pretty much blackout 17 00:01:26,040 --> 00:01:30,560 drunk on the on the stream. I mean, my thing is this, 18 00:01:30,920 --> 00:01:34,120 like I understand where the players are coming from. I get it. You 19 00:01:34,159 --> 00:01:38,799 know. My argument against it, I'm not saying that I'm making this argument. 20 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:42,120 I'm telling you I'm like currently on the fence, I think. But 21 00:01:42,319 --> 00:01:49,879 my argument against it is that Poker Gro the PGT is giving you an opportunity 22 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:53,079 at a one million dollar free roll. Last season on the PGT, we 23 00:01:53,159 --> 00:01:57,760 gave out what one million, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars in bonus money 24 00:01:57,840 --> 00:02:00,319 the million dollar free roll, fifty k champ ship bonuses for the majors, 25 00:02:00,359 --> 00:02:07,200 twenty five k's for the other ones. You get reduced rake, which I'm 26 00:02:07,239 --> 00:02:12,800 pretty sure the poker Gro Tour or the Poker Grow events pioneered and are the 27 00:02:12,800 --> 00:02:15,439 only ones that really do it on a regular basis. Some other high rollers 28 00:02:15,479 --> 00:02:20,639 have started doing it, but the PGT that applies for all of our events 29 00:02:22,080 --> 00:02:24,840 that are held within the studio. And then you also get to eat for 30 00:02:24,919 --> 00:02:35,159 free and play in arguably the most luxurious place to play poker, and that 31 00:02:35,240 --> 00:02:38,439 is the poker Gro Studio. So you know, and it's also listen, 32 00:02:38,199 --> 00:02:40,599 you play at the Poker Studio, you get the ARIA dealers, the ARIA 33 00:02:40,639 --> 00:02:43,719 staff, Paul Campbell, all that sort of stuff. I mean, it's 34 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:47,240 it's a plus top of the line. So you're not going to get any 35 00:02:47,280 --> 00:02:53,080 of that stuff all rolled into one bundle at another venue. You're just not 36 00:02:53,240 --> 00:02:58,800 going to I'm sorry, you're not. Like you can go to these other 37 00:02:58,879 --> 00:03:02,000 places and you can get maybe one, maybe two of those things, but 38 00:03:02,120 --> 00:03:07,759 like everything together, you're not. So that would be my argument against is 39 00:03:07,800 --> 00:03:15,879 like you can deal with playing against what at least was this year fourteen qualifiers 40 00:03:15,080 --> 00:03:22,759 because at the end of the day, we as a company have to try 41 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:24,960 and make money to give that money back to you like that. That's the 42 00:03:25,080 --> 00:03:28,319 reason for all of this, right, you know, the reason for the 43 00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:32,520 dream seats is we want to use them as a revenue driver. That way, 44 00:03:32,560 --> 00:03:36,599 we're able to give you a million dollar free We're able to put these 45 00:03:36,599 --> 00:03:38,919 events in the studio and have the championship bonuses. You know, We're able 46 00:03:38,960 --> 00:03:40,879 to do all this sort of stuff, right, I mean, so that 47 00:03:40,919 --> 00:03:45,280 would be my pushback on the other side. I get it, you're right, 48 00:03:45,360 --> 00:03:50,360 this is supposed to be like the pgt's most prestigious event, of course, 49 00:03:51,199 --> 00:03:53,360 we try and make it one of the most prestigious, meaningful events in 50 00:03:53,439 --> 00:03:57,879 all of poker. I get it. So you are going to run some 51 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:02,759 risk with the other side. You know, you're opening this up to some 52 00:04:02,800 --> 00:04:06,879 players that aren't the regulars, the high volume players on the PGT. So 53 00:04:08,360 --> 00:04:11,919 I don't know. I just I don't know if I know which way we're 54 00:04:11,919 --> 00:04:15,120 gonna ultimately go from this. And I'll let you say your stuff in a 55 00:04:15,159 --> 00:04:17,920 second, you know, I just ultimately, I think there needs to be 56 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:25,000 a compromise somewhere. Much like most things in life, whenever there are different 57 00:04:25,040 --> 00:04:29,959 opinions on things, the right answer tends to fall somewhere in the middle of 58 00:04:30,079 --> 00:04:34,240 the two competing sides. Again, I'm not saying I'm particularly on a side. 59 00:04:34,240 --> 00:04:38,079 I'm pretty much in the middle and believe that, like I believe that 60 00:04:38,079 --> 00:04:43,560 there's some sort of world where everything can work out. I thought we did 61 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:46,439 that for the past season. You know, I mean people, people aren't 62 00:04:46,439 --> 00:04:49,639 in our meetings internally, but you know we're constantly fighting for the players. 63 00:04:49,680 --> 00:04:51,920 I can you know, you can ask anyone in the company. Tim and 64 00:04:51,920 --> 00:04:57,639 I are generally screaming at people about fighting for the players all the time, 65 00:04:57,720 --> 00:05:00,879 you know, So we did try and together a tour that we thought was 66 00:05:01,879 --> 00:05:06,680 you know, a good compromise for all parties involved, and probably leaned more 67 00:05:06,759 --> 00:05:12,439 player friendly than you might think reading social media and some of the comments lately. 68 00:05:12,560 --> 00:05:16,279 So that said, I think there are certainly areas that you know, 69 00:05:16,399 --> 00:05:20,879 the PGT can't improve. And you know, Tim's already been out there talking 70 00:05:20,920 --> 00:05:26,240 with a bazillion players already, like you know, hearing their criticism, hearing 71 00:05:26,279 --> 00:05:29,879 their feedback, you know, giving our side of things, trying to find 72 00:05:29,879 --> 00:05:33,240 those compromises and whatnot. So yeah, I mean, listen, we're working 73 00:05:33,279 --> 00:05:38,120 through it, I guess is the situation right, you know, we we 74 00:05:38,160 --> 00:05:43,000 obviously understand the importance of our players and we love them dearly, you know, 75 00:05:43,120 --> 00:05:46,639 but we also have to put on a product that we believe we can 76 00:05:47,240 --> 00:05:50,279 put on in a way that we can continue to give back to you guys. 77 00:05:50,279 --> 00:05:53,160 And what I mean by that is we do have to, you know, 78 00:05:53,560 --> 00:05:56,199 work to drive some revenue and all that sort of stuff. So I 79 00:05:56,240 --> 00:05:59,360 don't know where that compromise is ultimately going to fall, but yeah, they're 80 00:05:59,399 --> 00:06:02,319 they're probably needs to be some sort of compromise within everything. Yeah, I 81 00:06:02,319 --> 00:06:06,720 think everything you said was pretty spot on. I've always told the line that 82 00:06:08,360 --> 00:06:15,439 we're very transparent with everything we're doing, and we actively, and I underline 83 00:06:15,480 --> 00:06:19,240 the word actively, are reaching out to players to get their advice on everything, 84 00:06:19,319 --> 00:06:25,439 whether it's you know, upcoming tournament structures or the series, have the 85 00:06:25,519 --> 00:06:28,720 events you know line up, even dates like we you know, we're just 86 00:06:29,079 --> 00:06:32,199 we're moving dates around to accommodate some players because they want to go on you 87 00:06:32,240 --> 00:06:35,759 know, the WBT voyage and they want to enjoy spring break with their families. 88 00:06:35,800 --> 00:06:41,680 So we have that flexibility to you know, do what is best for 89 00:06:41,720 --> 00:06:45,199 the players, because I believe personally, whether this is correct or not, 90 00:06:45,399 --> 00:06:48,600 that this tour is the player's tour and at the end of the day, 91 00:06:48,680 --> 00:06:53,800 they are the ones putting up the money to play the events. So let's 92 00:06:54,360 --> 00:06:58,519 create a product that's best for them. And obviously, yes, we are 93 00:06:58,560 --> 00:07:01,519 gaining out of it. We do gain content, whether it is editorial or 94 00:07:01,519 --> 00:07:08,680 written or video or photography content. One thing I want to stress, you 95 00:07:08,720 --> 00:07:11,439 know, this might be a bit behind the lens or whatever, is that 96 00:07:11,720 --> 00:07:15,000 a lot of players have said, hey, you know this rake back, 97 00:07:15,600 --> 00:07:17,040 you know, shouldn't be going to these dream Sea winners. It shouldn't be 98 00:07:17,079 --> 00:07:20,560 going to the Jeff Lennons or the Art and Chows. Well, there is 99 00:07:20,639 --> 00:07:26,439 no rake back. I think a lot of people don't quite understand the process. 100 00:07:26,480 --> 00:07:30,759 But that rake is not the rate they pay on these events, whether 101 00:07:30,800 --> 00:07:33,240 it's reduced or not reduced, is not going to the PGT. It's going 102 00:07:33,279 --> 00:07:35,759 to aria. We've got to pay the dealers, you got to pay for 103 00:07:35,800 --> 00:07:39,480 the food, you got to pay for the bar, you got to pay 104 00:07:39,519 --> 00:07:44,199 for security, cashiers, et cetera. So I think I've talked to a 105 00:07:44,240 --> 00:07:47,560 lot of players the last few days and that was their assumption that their rake 106 00:07:48,319 --> 00:07:51,480 is going to this free roll. But that's not the case. And once 107 00:07:51,519 --> 00:07:56,360 they understand that, they actually a lot of them flip sides. They're like, 108 00:07:56,399 --> 00:08:00,360 oh, so you just are giving us a million dollars of like, 109 00:08:00,480 --> 00:08:05,639 yeah, it's basically amodican. We could run a tour similar to other tours 110 00:08:05,680 --> 00:08:09,560 out there, where we have our events, we have our season, and 111 00:08:09,120 --> 00:08:16,040 it ultimately culminates in whatever right, like other than I mean other than the 112 00:08:16,120 --> 00:08:20,439 WSP circuit that does the million dollar free roll at the end, I mean, 113 00:08:22,120 --> 00:08:24,959 like the WPT doesn't conclude with with them giving a bunch of money back. 114 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:28,199 I mean they did this year because they missed the guarantee, right, 115 00:08:28,199 --> 00:08:31,679 But it's not like you know there it was different in years past when they 116 00:08:31,679 --> 00:08:35,080 had that Tournament of Champions right and they were putting like two hundred and fifty 117 00:08:35,120 --> 00:08:37,240 k, three hundre k into the prize pool like that. You know, 118 00:08:37,360 --> 00:08:39,399 like you know, these these are the tours and I listen, I'm not 119 00:08:39,440 --> 00:08:43,120 coming at the WPT. So please don't, you know, jump down my 120 00:08:43,159 --> 00:08:45,840 throat Mats Savage and others out there. You know, I'm just I'm just 121 00:08:45,919 --> 00:08:48,759 saying, like we could just run the PGT like it's it's all these events, 122 00:08:48,759 --> 00:08:52,720 it's it's this it culminates like you know, the leaderboard winner is the 123 00:08:52,759 --> 00:08:54,679 leader board winner in that. But we want to have like this big you 124 00:08:54,720 --> 00:08:58,960 know, crown jewel at the end, you know, and and we wanted 125 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:01,039 to give a lot of money towards it. And that was the million dollar 126 00:09:01,080 --> 00:09:07,120 free rolling. Yeah, so you know it's I'm not gonna say that it's 127 00:09:07,120 --> 00:09:09,840 perfect because it's not, you know, but we're trying to make it the 128 00:09:09,320 --> 00:09:11,879 best thing that it can be. So yeah, you know, we don't 129 00:09:11,879 --> 00:09:16,399 we don't get that Raake as Tim said, you know, it's a partnership 130 00:09:16,440 --> 00:09:18,759 with Aria, and we handle one side, they handled the other side, 131 00:09:18,759 --> 00:09:20,519 and you know that's how things work. I mean this very this money is 132 00:09:20,600 --> 00:09:26,320 very much coming out of poker grows pocket carry kats his pocket. So I 133 00:09:26,360 --> 00:09:28,320 mean, like what, you know, what you got to you gotta give 134 00:09:28,360 --> 00:09:31,799 a little bit there. That's where I come at from the compromise side of 135 00:09:31,840 --> 00:09:33,639 things. And like you said, I think the players, you know, 136 00:09:33,679 --> 00:09:37,559 once you kind of break it down for them a little bit further, they're 137 00:09:37,600 --> 00:09:39,159 like, oh, you know, I get it now, like it makes 138 00:09:39,159 --> 00:09:43,080 a little bit more sense. Like, you know, we're whatever I do 139 00:09:43,120 --> 00:09:48,960 wish. You know, some of the statements that were said publicly weren't said 140 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:52,200 publicly, you know, but I guess that's hindsight is twenty twenty. You 141 00:09:52,200 --> 00:09:54,159 know, you can wish things in the past or whatever, just only because 142 00:09:54,879 --> 00:09:58,799 as you've said, and as you've done, you know, we communicate so 143 00:09:58,879 --> 00:10:01,600 much much with the players, you more so than anyone, right, So 144 00:10:03,279 --> 00:10:05,279 can't people just talk to you? Can't they send a text to carry? 145 00:10:05,320 --> 00:10:07,759 Can't you know like that sort of stuff like that. They know enough people 146 00:10:07,799 --> 00:10:11,399 within the company that we don't need to be blasting things on social media all 147 00:10:11,399 --> 00:10:16,000 the time, right, so, and then and then if after our conversations 148 00:10:16,039 --> 00:10:18,559 they want to blast us on social media, fine, but like they don't 149 00:10:18,600 --> 00:10:24,679 even give us a chance to explain things. I won't say defend ourselves because 150 00:10:24,679 --> 00:10:26,159 I don't think there needs to be any sort of defense, but just explain 151 00:10:26,240 --> 00:10:30,879 how it is, because that explanation can then lead to them being as you 152 00:10:30,919 --> 00:10:33,000 said, you know, oh, okay, it's kind of different than I 153 00:10:33,039 --> 00:10:37,159 thought. Well, yeah it might be. So, I mean, it's 154 00:10:37,200 --> 00:10:41,039 a tricky spot, you know. And I don't mean to, like, 155 00:10:41,159 --> 00:10:43,279 you know, just talk about all this for you know, the first ten 156 00:10:43,320 --> 00:10:46,559 to fifteen minutes of the podcast, but yeah, it is what it is. 157 00:10:46,159 --> 00:10:50,039 It is fine, It's just yeah, it's it's better to be open, 158 00:10:50,120 --> 00:10:54,559 like I said. And I think, obviously the elephant in the room 159 00:10:54,639 --> 00:11:00,639 is the Alex foxhom thread, and I have I have nothing against Alex Fox 160 00:11:00,679 --> 00:11:03,279 and speaking up. I encourage players to speak up, not just about PGT 161 00:11:03,440 --> 00:11:09,519 but anything they want to. Uh. Hopefully we see Alex in the next 162 00:11:09,519 --> 00:11:13,679 few days playing PGT kickoff, and you know, I can happily answer any 163 00:11:13,759 --> 00:11:18,399 questions he wants. I've answered lots of questions via WhatsApp and text and Twitter 164 00:11:18,480 --> 00:11:24,200 dms the last few days, and I'm very willing to answer any questions anyone 165 00:11:24,679 --> 00:11:28,960 may have. So but hey, let's not uh, let's not bury the 166 00:11:30,039 --> 00:11:35,159 lead on the very successful season and uh any championship. Well no, let's 167 00:11:35,240 --> 00:11:39,200 let's let's let's now. What I'm saying is, hey, let's move on 168 00:11:39,279 --> 00:11:41,480 to the other the cool stuff. Yeah, I mean we're moving on for 169 00:11:41,559 --> 00:11:45,759 sure. But you know, as Tim mention, we always try and be 170 00:11:45,840 --> 00:11:48,519 transparent, especially on this podcast. 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Get on 179 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:26,440 into the game, Get on into the game if you want storm x dot 180 00:12:26,679 --> 00:12:31,000 io. All right, we talked about that stuff with the PGT Championship, 181 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:33,679 the quote unquote elephant in the room, and we're going to continue to talk 182 00:12:33,679 --> 00:12:39,840 about the PGT Championship. We have a winner. Daniel Smilkovich out of Germany. 183 00:12:39,559 --> 00:12:46,080 Took down the whole thing, five hundred thousand dollars half a milli in 184 00:12:46,240 --> 00:12:52,559 his pocket. He defeated arden Cho and heads up play top heavy structure. 185 00:12:52,639 --> 00:12:54,440 But you know, this special event kind of like it that way. Second 186 00:12:54,480 --> 00:12:58,960 place was two hundre k, first place five hundred, so nice jump there, 187 00:12:58,080 --> 00:13:03,639 three hundred k, Leon Stern third, Daniel Weinman fourth, Arthur Martirosian 188 00:13:05,279 --> 00:13:11,360 fifth, and Darren Elias rounds out the payouts in sixth place. Fifty of 189 00:13:11,399 --> 00:13:16,600 the fifty four players that were eligible for this event showed up, and yeah, 190 00:13:16,519 --> 00:13:26,240 who didn't show up? We had Adrian Matayosh Open Ruslin Pride deck from 191 00:13:26,399 --> 00:13:31,600 WSP Man and Alex Kolev boo. I'm booing everyone that didn't show up. 192 00:13:31,720 --> 00:13:33,440 That's fair, I mean, well, how can you not show up? 193 00:13:33,519 --> 00:13:37,480 I I would have bet that Adrian Motteo showed up. I would I would 194 00:13:37,480 --> 00:13:41,000 have lost a lot of money on that. If if you would have, 195 00:13:41,080 --> 00:13:43,080 like if there would have been a book, I would allaid whatever the price 196 00:13:43,320 --> 00:13:46,759 was to bet on Adrian Matteo showing up. The other ones, I do 197 00:13:46,879 --> 00:13:52,159 agree we're wild cards, but I will say that we got we got one 198 00:13:52,320 --> 00:13:56,039 person. Yeah, so who didn't you expect? There's there's for sure one 199 00:13:56,039 --> 00:14:00,320 that I didn't expect, and that's Dean Hutchison. But who else For the 200 00:14:00,360 --> 00:14:03,840 others? When I saw Dean Hutchinson walk in, I was like who is 201 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:07,120 First of all, I was like who is that? And I was like, 202 00:14:07,120 --> 00:14:11,240 oh my god, it's Dean Hutchinson. So he was one. And 203 00:14:11,279 --> 00:14:16,120 the reason why we say that is because through all of the outreach efforts he 204 00:14:16,399 --> 00:14:18,960 couldn't reach out to Dean Hutchson for whatever reason, they couldn't get a hold 205 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:22,279 of him whatnot. So yeah, you know, it was hard to gauge 206 00:14:22,279 --> 00:14:24,679 whether or not he was going to come or if he even knew about the 207 00:14:24,720 --> 00:14:30,320 thing. Yeah. The other one to me was also Alexander Riere, the 208 00:14:30,320 --> 00:14:33,720 Frenchman. You know, We've mentioned that I played poker with him, but 209 00:14:33,799 --> 00:14:39,639 he seemed very disinterested in you know, having to travel from probably France here 210 00:14:39,679 --> 00:14:41,279 for the win and then home. I just was like, he's probably not 211 00:14:41,320 --> 00:14:46,240 coming, and let alone I see him in the morning. I said, 212 00:14:46,440 --> 00:14:48,600 you know, I'm like, okay, maybe we're getting everyone. So he 213 00:14:48,759 --> 00:14:52,759 was the other one, and then pretty much, you know, everyone else 214 00:14:52,200 --> 00:14:58,000 we expected to show up or at least we had heard from in some capacity, 215 00:14:58,039 --> 00:15:01,720 so they weren't going to be surprises. As for Daniel Smilkovich, I 216 00:15:01,720 --> 00:15:05,960 mean he he he became a I would say, a favorite of a lot 217 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:09,919 of people. During the PGT Last Chance Series. He had some success there, 218 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:15,159 made some final tables, people got to see him on the live streams. 219 00:15:15,480 --> 00:15:18,840 It was a lot of fun. He came into this event sixteenth on 220 00:15:18,919 --> 00:15:22,799 the PGT leaderboard, so very much qualified in terms of the top forty. 221 00:15:22,840 --> 00:15:26,399 He had thirteen hundred and sixty six points. That was from six cashes for 222 00:15:26,440 --> 00:15:31,519 a little bit over two point one million dollars. You add in the five 223 00:15:31,600 --> 00:15:35,240 hundred K that he won from the PGT Championship, so two point six and 224 00:15:35,240 --> 00:15:41,679 a half million dollars in PGT prize money. The biggest results for him from 225 00:15:41,720 --> 00:15:46,080 the twenty twenty three season, where he had fourth place in the WSP fifty 226 00:15:46,080 --> 00:15:50,440 thousand dollars high roller for seven hundred and thirteen thousand dollars, and interestingly enough 227 00:15:50,480 --> 00:15:54,360 that was won by Leon Sterm who he battled with at this final table. 228 00:15:54,240 --> 00:15:58,399 And then he had third in the WSP Paradise twenty five thousand dollarg GG millions 229 00:15:58,480 --> 00:16:06,360 high roller for one ninety two thousand dollars. So Daniel Smilkovich, you know, 230 00:16:06,480 --> 00:16:11,080 very much a deserving winner. Plays a very fun, very aggressive, 231 00:16:11,200 --> 00:16:14,679 very creative style of poker. There's a lot of over betting, a lot 232 00:16:14,720 --> 00:16:18,639 of big bets in general involved with Smilkovich. So hopefully we get to see 233 00:16:18,679 --> 00:16:22,480 a bit more of him on the PGT, you know, coming out playing 234 00:16:22,480 --> 00:16:26,360 within our studio. We'll see if he sticks around for kickoff. You know, 235 00:16:26,399 --> 00:16:30,799 he could be one of those guys where he plays enough WSP and other 236 00:16:30,879 --> 00:16:33,399 stuff, you know, WSP Paradise, if that's back, et cetera, 237 00:16:33,600 --> 00:16:38,039 he could he could qualify again with a relatively low volume. That said, 238 00:16:38,159 --> 00:16:41,360 you know him already being in town, maybe we see him stick around for 239 00:16:41,399 --> 00:16:47,000 the kickoff, stick around for Poker Girl Cup and take that route. That's 240 00:16:47,080 --> 00:16:48,639 uh, I think that's what I would like to see from this overall. 241 00:16:49,200 --> 00:16:52,360 I think he's a really fun player to have in these events and you know, 242 00:16:52,399 --> 00:16:56,679 get onto the final tables and get onto these live streams, so so 243 00:16:56,759 --> 00:17:00,440 yeah, good for him. And then Arden Show she was one of those 244 00:17:00,720 --> 00:17:07,000 dream seat recipients. She was there on behalf of sponsor Mesklaw the me mescala 245 00:17:07,160 --> 00:17:12,160 is. I think it's puff crisp protein burs, very good. Eat mescal 246 00:17:12,279 --> 00:17:15,160 dot com. I think I had four or five of them during the days 247 00:17:15,160 --> 00:17:22,079 that I at least fifteen. Okay, don't look at me, don't look 248 00:17:22,119 --> 00:17:25,720 at me, Eric Saidel was eating one on stream. You know they're they're 249 00:17:25,799 --> 00:17:29,720 very good. Eat Meskla dot com. If you want to check those out. 250 00:17:30,119 --> 00:17:33,680 So ardenthow was there on behalf of them. She ultimately runs it too 251 00:17:33,680 --> 00:17:36,160 second place. It looked for a time that she was gonna win the damn 252 00:17:36,160 --> 00:17:38,720 thing. She was a ship leader during three handed, she was hip leader 253 00:17:38,799 --> 00:17:42,640 during heads of play. Ultimately, Daniel Smilkovich was able to you know, 254 00:17:42,720 --> 00:17:47,440 come back out on top and uh, you know, get the thing done. 255 00:17:48,359 --> 00:17:51,319 Ardenthow impressed a lot of people. You know, I don't think people 256 00:17:51,319 --> 00:17:55,079 really knew what to expect at first. And to start the final table, 257 00:17:55,160 --> 00:18:00,799 she played pretty conservative at times, but then it was like out of nowhere, 258 00:18:00,839 --> 00:18:03,759 she just started bluff raising people and it was like, oh, hold 259 00:18:03,799 --> 00:18:07,319 on, like what is happening here? And she showed us she has a 260 00:18:07,359 --> 00:18:11,839 lot of game. So it was a lot of fun to watch her battle 261 00:18:11,880 --> 00:18:15,799 with these other players. After Darren Elias went out in sixth place, you 262 00:18:15,839 --> 00:18:21,319 know, she was up against Spilkovich, Sterm, Daniel Weinman, and march 263 00:18:21,319 --> 00:18:26,039 Eurosian. I would say Wineman is probably less of a solver guy than Spilkovich, 264 00:18:26,079 --> 00:18:32,400 Sterm and march Erosian. But it seemed like kind of all these these 265 00:18:32,440 --> 00:18:37,759 guys didn't really know how to play against her. I felt like early on 266 00:18:37,839 --> 00:18:40,559 they were like, we're just going to play aggressive against her and she's just 267 00:18:40,640 --> 00:18:44,160 gonna overfold and stuff. Yeah, but then she started to fight back, 268 00:18:44,240 --> 00:18:47,519 and I don't think that they really caught on to what she was doing because 269 00:18:47,559 --> 00:18:52,559 she was making some pretty crazy plays, some some really good well timed bluffs, 270 00:18:52,599 --> 00:18:56,799 and they were all working. And it was probably Leon Stererm who like 271 00:18:56,680 --> 00:19:00,720 he got a big chip lead when he won a huge hand double through Daniel 272 00:19:00,759 --> 00:19:04,680 Smikovich. But then like it was like Arden chose to start to like wreck 273 00:19:04,759 --> 00:19:08,519 him and he just kind of like got deflated in a way, and so 274 00:19:10,799 --> 00:19:14,319 it was a really really good showing from her. Overall, I thought it 275 00:19:14,359 --> 00:19:18,039 was a really good event, you know, all things considered, Yeah, 276 00:19:18,079 --> 00:19:19,200 it was a lot of fun. It was cool to say the impact. 277 00:19:21,079 --> 00:19:25,440 You know, high stakes players, people from overseas, dream see winners, 278 00:19:25,519 --> 00:19:30,519 recipients, all battling out for that five hundred k first prize. I mean, 279 00:19:30,559 --> 00:19:33,680 I guess it's a good time now to mention or remention, you know, 280 00:19:33,720 --> 00:19:38,079 I guess the one change that we have for next year that does like 281 00:19:38,640 --> 00:19:44,400 this year this season. Sorry, yeah, I'm still like twenty twenty three 282 00:19:44,400 --> 00:19:48,359 PGT Championships. I'm still like in the twenty twenty three PGT season, right, 283 00:19:48,960 --> 00:19:52,720 But the biggest change is that you're going to have to have three cases, 284 00:19:53,160 --> 00:19:56,039 yeah, in order to qualify. So that's as it pertains like the 285 00:19:56,039 --> 00:20:00,279 top forty of the leader board and getting into this event. That that's going 286 00:20:00,359 --> 00:20:03,400 to be the biggest change, the one that's going to have the biggest effect 287 00:20:03,559 --> 00:20:07,799 on the season and the leaderboard. So you're gonna get people like we already 288 00:20:07,799 --> 00:20:10,720 mentioned him, Dean Hutchinson, somebody at this final table, Daniel Wineman, 289 00:20:10,880 --> 00:20:15,039 basically everyone that made the wiss AP Main Event final table. You can't just 290 00:20:15,359 --> 00:20:22,400 have that one cash on the PGT and then make it to the championship event. 291 00:20:22,400 --> 00:20:25,319 You're going to have to play some other stuff, get some cashes under 292 00:20:25,359 --> 00:20:29,240 your belt, and the PGT qualifying events have a minimum of three and then 293 00:20:29,279 --> 00:20:30,559 get in, which I think is good. You know, I think it's 294 00:20:30,599 --> 00:20:37,039 good for it's good for the player base in general. It was funny because 295 00:20:37,039 --> 00:20:38,200 a lot of the players were like, how the hell that help you get 296 00:20:38,200 --> 00:20:42,079 in? I'm like, well, help you actually qualify? Like, like 297 00:20:42,160 --> 00:20:45,920 you know, there's like he wants. That's pretty good. I know, 298 00:20:47,079 --> 00:20:49,680 like he actually had he finished like twentieth or something on the leaderboard, Like 299 00:20:49,720 --> 00:20:55,119 he actually had a decent year, right, I mean he probably had better. 300 00:20:56,720 --> 00:20:59,440 I can't. I think he finished lower than Spilkovic, but he had 301 00:20:59,480 --> 00:21:02,440 like a more results, right, Like at least they stuck out to me 302 00:21:02,519 --> 00:21:04,680 more. Well, Yeah, he had the two wins that was the USPO 303 00:21:04,920 --> 00:21:11,240 and he's seventeenth WSP bracelet. He had nine total cashes in PGT events one 304 00:21:11,240 --> 00:21:17,640 point four million dollars in winnings, so two victories alone is extremely good. 305 00:21:18,680 --> 00:21:21,319 Yeah, of course, And people were just kind of wondering how he because 306 00:21:21,359 --> 00:21:23,079 he doesn't play a ton of the stuff within the studio. He plays, 307 00:21:23,119 --> 00:21:26,960 yeah, very selectively. Obviously, he plays a high volume WSP schedule. 308 00:21:26,960 --> 00:21:30,839 He was down at ws P bhamas all that sort of stuff. So you 309 00:21:30,880 --> 00:21:33,559 know, there's that that said, as long as the w CIP keeps counting, 310 00:21:33,599 --> 00:21:36,960 you know we're going to be drawing people from there. But it kind 311 00:21:36,960 --> 00:21:41,279 of works out because Poker Grow is the official live broadcast partner of the DOUBSIP, 312 00:21:41,400 --> 00:21:44,559 so we get to showcase a lot of those events, so you know, 313 00:21:44,640 --> 00:21:48,079 you do become familiar with those players quite a bit. You know. 314 00:21:48,119 --> 00:21:51,799 But the players like the Daniel Lineman's, Stephen Jones, Adam Walton, et 315 00:21:51,880 --> 00:21:56,880 cetera. You know they're going to have to play a few more PGT events 316 00:21:56,920 --> 00:22:00,960 and hopefully get in, you know, with some cash. But listen, 317 00:22:00,839 --> 00:22:04,279 you make the Basbee Man event final table, you're cashing for a ton of 318 00:22:04,359 --> 00:22:08,200 money, right Hopefully then you can you know, play Poker Masters, you 319 00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:11,960 can fire in the Last Chance series that sort of stuff. You know, 320 00:22:11,119 --> 00:22:15,319 we we don't think that you have to come out and play a full schedule, 321 00:22:15,519 --> 00:22:18,680 but you just give a little bit, you know, to show that 322 00:22:18,759 --> 00:22:22,200 you belong. I guess, I guess the one outlier from this year's final 323 00:22:22,200 --> 00:22:26,160 table was Toby Lewis because we did see him in the studio at times. 324 00:22:26,200 --> 00:22:29,759 You know, he's like he'll play mixed games, he'll play some poo or 325 00:22:29,759 --> 00:22:32,440 whatever it might be. So we do see him pop in every every now 326 00:22:32,480 --> 00:22:36,359 and then. But of course you know he got in via the wisby Min 327 00:22:36,400 --> 00:22:38,720 event, So that that's the biggest change as it pertains here, which I 328 00:22:38,720 --> 00:22:42,480 think is a good change overall. Now, moving on twenty twenty three PGT 329 00:22:42,640 --> 00:22:45,119 season, even though it wrapped up in twenty twenty four, is over. 330 00:22:45,240 --> 00:22:49,160 It's done, it's dusted, see you later for a season of the tour. 331 00:22:49,319 --> 00:22:53,039 We have the million dollar PGT Championship is coming back. Okay, there 332 00:22:53,039 --> 00:22:57,920 will be opportunities to win some dream passes which are going to get you into 333 00:22:57,920 --> 00:23:03,960 an invitational to win a dream seat us. We should explain that a little 334 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:07,400 more. Yeah, Well, first I'll say stay tuned on details because we 335 00:23:07,440 --> 00:23:10,000 don't have all of them ironed out just yet, but they are coming. 336 00:23:10,039 --> 00:23:14,240 We're working through them with our team here. But one of the changes we're 337 00:23:14,279 --> 00:23:18,839 having this year is basically there's going to be what's it called the Dream Seat 338 00:23:18,880 --> 00:23:26,160 Invitation or Dream Pass the Championship Dream Seat Invitational. There's going to be a 339 00:23:26,200 --> 00:23:32,680 satellite tournament to win dream seats to get into the to the Championship, right 340 00:23:32,880 --> 00:23:34,279 as opposed to this year where we just gave some way. There will be 341 00:23:34,279 --> 00:23:37,440 some giveaways, I'm assuming you know, here and there throughout the season, 342 00:23:37,480 --> 00:23:44,400 but a lot of it will be you know, you'll have your you'll win 343 00:23:44,440 --> 00:23:47,720 into the Dream Pass event, right, You'll get a dream Pass, You'll 344 00:23:47,720 --> 00:23:51,000 win into the Dream Pass event, and then top X players that finish in 345 00:23:51,039 --> 00:23:53,799 that event will get a dream seat. So five five dream seats. Yeah, 346 00:23:53,799 --> 00:23:59,440 so a little bit of a different plan of attack from our end, 347 00:23:59,480 --> 00:24:02,079 you know, kind of going back to what we kicked off the beginning of 348 00:24:02,079 --> 00:24:07,440 the episode with you know, we try and leverage these to hopefully generate some 349 00:24:07,519 --> 00:24:10,279 revenue, generate some buzz, all that sort of stuff, because we do 350 00:24:10,359 --> 00:24:14,759 want to continue to be able to, you know, deliver seven figures plus 351 00:24:14,759 --> 00:24:17,839 in bonus money every single year, and if we do that, you know, 352 00:24:17,880 --> 00:24:21,160 we obviously have to generate some stuff on our end, and that's the 353 00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:23,920 the impetus behind all of this you know, and you know it gives people 354 00:24:23,960 --> 00:24:27,480 an additional shot. I would say, you know, you treat these like 355 00:24:27,559 --> 00:24:33,839 you treat them sponsor exemptions in a golf tournament, stuff like that. Right 356 00:24:33,920 --> 00:24:37,759 now, it's going to be hard probably for one of those sponsors to make 357 00:24:37,799 --> 00:24:41,440 a run. Now we did see it from arden Chow this year. It 358 00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:44,640 can happen. But you know that can be a good story as well, 359 00:24:44,759 --> 00:24:48,240 right So I don't think it's the worst thing at the end of the day. 360 00:24:48,279 --> 00:24:55,400 So I like it. I like the change, all right. So 361 00:24:55,480 --> 00:24:57,599 that's the dream Pass stream seat thing, whatever you want to call it. 362 00:24:57,640 --> 00:25:03,039 I'm sure Tim will be bugging me to share details as we come along. 363 00:25:03,440 --> 00:25:07,000 It's been, honestly, it's been a wild like start to the year, 364 00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:10,680 just with everything with Last Chance, with the championship, we have the kickoff 365 00:25:10,759 --> 00:25:12,720 kicking off today, which we're going to talk about next and then we have 366 00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:15,039 Poco a couple later this month. So it's just been go, go go. 367 00:25:17,799 --> 00:25:19,559 The PGT kickoff event. Why don't you tell us you know a little 368 00:25:19,559 --> 00:25:22,319 bit about that one. It's it's brand new for this season, so why 369 00:25:22,359 --> 00:25:25,680 don't you tell us a little bit about that what it is and you know 370 00:25:25,720 --> 00:25:29,599 why. It's I guess meaningful to the PGT. Yeah, it's as the 371 00:25:29,680 --> 00:25:33,799 name sounds. It's kicking off the twenty twenty four season inside the Pogo Studio. 372 00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:40,759 Starts today, which is Thursday, January eleventh. Five events, the 373 00:25:40,799 --> 00:25:44,519 first four or five K buyings. The final one is a ten K buying. 374 00:25:44,799 --> 00:25:47,599 Every event starts at one pm, plays down to the final seven. 375 00:25:48,039 --> 00:25:49,720 They're going to come back the next day. We're going to stream those final 376 00:25:49,759 --> 00:25:56,559 tables on poker Go. The niche the twist to this series little gimmicky, 377 00:25:56,640 --> 00:26:00,279 but we thought, hey, if you were going to get you're going to 378 00:26:00,319 --> 00:26:03,039 do something like this has to be at this side of the year. Double 379 00:26:03,119 --> 00:26:07,160 points for all cashes, so people that are going to play this going to 380 00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:11,119 grind, they can shoot up the leaderboard. You know, I even heard 381 00:26:11,359 --> 00:26:18,680 our poker Go commentator Jeff Platt is going to be playing today, so he 382 00:26:18,359 --> 00:26:22,640 could be on top of the PGT leaderboard tomorrow. That's kind of crazy, 383 00:26:22,839 --> 00:26:26,200 but yeah, you're gonna get a little head start on the players with the 384 00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:30,599 double points, and the goal is that, hey, you get off to 385 00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:34,720 a good start here in these slightly smaller buying events that maybe you come play 386 00:26:34,720 --> 00:26:37,839 with the big dougs next week at the Poker Go Cup. You come play 387 00:26:37,960 --> 00:26:41,920 uspo Plo series, you know, all our events because you got this little 388 00:26:41,920 --> 00:26:45,160 bit of a head start. It's a way to try and you know, 389 00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:49,880 boost the fields a little bit in the bigger buying events. And yeah, 390 00:26:49,920 --> 00:26:53,359 we'll see how it goes today. Yeah, I mean kind of. I 391 00:26:53,400 --> 00:27:00,559 guess a big picture plan of attack of ours for this PGC season PGT season. 392 00:27:00,559 --> 00:27:03,680 Excuse me, I'm by the way, I'm battling like the fucking colder 393 00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:08,680 flu and it's driving me up the fucking wall. Anyway, shout out Remco 394 00:27:08,759 --> 00:27:11,319 who like came into the commentary with the other day and was like I'm sick. 395 00:27:11,319 --> 00:27:14,920 I'm like, oh cool, amazing, love you hate you, get 396 00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:18,880 out of here. So but we want to make the PGT a little bit 397 00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:23,640 more accessible right now. Of course, we have to balance that, you 398 00:27:23,640 --> 00:27:26,680 know, going back to the whole like compromise thing. We have to balance 399 00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:30,119 that with the fact that, yes, this is a high stakes poker tour. 400 00:27:30,559 --> 00:27:33,880 You know, it's high rollers. That's what we want to feature, 401 00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:40,440 of course, but you know, having a select number of five k's a 402 00:27:40,519 --> 00:27:45,559 year is still pretty good overall. So we're gonna have these four We're gonna 403 00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:49,000 kick off Poker Girl Cup with a five K. There's always like five k's 404 00:27:49,079 --> 00:27:52,960 via the PLO series and stuff like that. So yeah, there's gonna be 405 00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:55,880 a handful of five k's, so maybe we'll see, you know, kind 406 00:27:55,880 --> 00:28:00,880 of some different faces rise up. You know, I really want to see 407 00:28:00,319 --> 00:28:07,319 some players that we don't always get to see via these like this PGT kickoff 408 00:28:07,359 --> 00:28:12,160 series, like have some success, parlay that into the Poke Girl Cup and 409 00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:15,240 go from there. Like that's what I'm looking forward to the most. I 410 00:28:15,240 --> 00:28:18,720 don't know if that's going to happen, right, but that's what I would 411 00:28:18,799 --> 00:28:21,720 like to see come out of this whole thing. So so yeah, that's 412 00:28:21,759 --> 00:28:26,720 my big I don't know my big hope. I guess my big wish for 413 00:28:26,759 --> 00:28:30,599 the twenty twenty four PGT season, we're going to kick off pork rol Cup, 414 00:28:30,640 --> 00:28:33,079 as I said, with the five K, which is also a lot 415 00:28:33,079 --> 00:28:37,759 of fun. Porker Cup has some some slight changes right to the schedule. 416 00:28:38,079 --> 00:28:41,240 What are they this year? Yeah, it's going to be starting with a 417 00:28:41,279 --> 00:28:45,519 five K. As you said, We've got a series of ten k's, 418 00:28:45,799 --> 00:28:49,640 two fifteen k's, and a twenty five K finale, basically making that finale 419 00:28:49,759 --> 00:28:55,559 you know, as we've just touched on more accessible to the wider playpool that 420 00:28:55,599 --> 00:28:59,559 are used to playing our events. So you know, instead of having this 421 00:28:59,599 --> 00:29:02,720 big job from tens all the way up to a fifty, now it's ten, 422 00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:07,599 fifteen to twenty five. Ideally you could play all eight events. You 423 00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:11,000 know that it hits that play pool a little stronger. And yeah, we'll 424 00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:14,640 see how the twenty five K FINALI goes first time. We're going to try 425 00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:19,480 that. Hopefully it gets a you know, super big turnout and definitely change 426 00:29:19,519 --> 00:29:26,000 the way the season kind of you know flows and dictates for these no Living 427 00:29:26,039 --> 00:29:29,839 hold them series. And then for all of you audience members out there, 428 00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:33,279 viewers out there, we are live streaming all the file tables from PGT Kickoff. 429 00:29:33,279 --> 00:29:37,960 We are live streaming all the file tables from Pork Yo Cup. So 430 00:29:37,119 --> 00:29:41,480 these PGT kickoff events are two day events, bring back the file table the 431 00:29:41,519 --> 00:29:45,039 next day, so kind of going back to our normal schedule. That means 432 00:29:45,039 --> 00:29:48,839 I don't have to go into do commentary at eleven thirty at night. So 433 00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:52,720 starting tomorrow, which is Friday, for five days in a row, we're 434 00:29:52,759 --> 00:29:57,119 going to be having the PGT Kickoff file Table live streams, which will be 435 00:29:57,160 --> 00:30:00,480 a lot of fun. Rimco and I will be in the booth for those, 436 00:30:00,039 --> 00:30:03,759 and then starting on the twenty six that'll be the first final table for 437 00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:07,480 the Poker Girl Cup, fourth edition of the Poke Girl Cup, Tim, 438 00:30:07,519 --> 00:30:11,559 can you name the winners? The previous winners? Yes, Carry Katz, 439 00:30:11,880 --> 00:30:15,519 Jeremy Osmas, Daniel Mgarana. Easy, Wow, I mean, of course, 440 00:30:15,559 --> 00:30:17,440 yeah. I mean that's just not that's not that hard. But I 441 00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:21,920 had to put you on the spot. All right. We're gonna do a 442 00:30:21,960 --> 00:30:27,960 couple of predictions here quickly for the twenty twenty four PGT season. We'll see 443 00:30:27,960 --> 00:30:30,440 how we do with these. We need to look back at how we did 444 00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:33,759 for the pg Poker Tour or the PGT Championship once. Maybe we'll do that 445 00:30:33,759 --> 00:30:36,920 on the next episode. I don't know, maybe we won't if we did 446 00:30:36,960 --> 00:30:41,359 really bad. Who knows? All right, who's going to be who is 447 00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:45,000 your twenty twenty four PGT Player of the Year, sir? I'm gonna go 448 00:30:45,119 --> 00:30:51,599 with Alex Foxen. And the reason is, like we've mentioned, some of 449 00:30:51,640 --> 00:30:55,119 the buyings have dropped, some of the points have changed a little bit, 450 00:30:56,039 --> 00:31:03,039 I think Alex is more likely to you know, why to scheduled then Steven 451 00:31:03,119 --> 00:31:07,119 Chidwick and Isaac Hackston and Daniel m'greanor, and obviously he's still very good. 452 00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:15,960 So that's my kind of who I'm leaning with right now. Okay, I 453 00:31:15,039 --> 00:31:21,039 went with Jeremy Osmas. Yeah, I think he's gonna just be in there 454 00:31:21,279 --> 00:31:23,079 battling in all these events, you know, five K, ten K, 455 00:31:23,160 --> 00:31:26,960 fifteen K, twenty five K, whatever it is. Maybe this is the 456 00:31:27,079 --> 00:31:30,759 year we see him take the leap to play super high rollable, you know, 457 00:31:30,799 --> 00:31:34,279 depending on what happens with that, which we haven't in the past. 458 00:31:34,279 --> 00:31:37,720 I know he was on the fence last season, so maybe you know, 459 00:31:37,759 --> 00:31:41,240 he gets over that fence this season. But you know, Jeremy always performs 460 00:31:41,440 --> 00:31:47,160 very well, you know. I I think that, you know, living 461 00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:49,119 here in Vegas, I think that that helps, right, you know, 462 00:31:49,160 --> 00:31:53,720 because you can just drive on down put together a high volume. So I'm 463 00:31:53,720 --> 00:32:00,680 gonna go with him. So yeah, uh, will Daniel Legrn you finish 464 00:32:00,839 --> 00:32:04,279 inside the top forty of the PGG season. And the reason why I bring 465 00:32:04,319 --> 00:32:07,759 this question up is because he's got a new plan of attack for twenty twenty 466 00:32:07,759 --> 00:32:13,160 four it's quality over quantity. So is he going to finish inside the top 467 00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:16,480 forty if despite the fact that he at least he says he's going to play 468 00:32:16,599 --> 00:32:22,039 a lower volume of a schedule. So this is a little bit of a 469 00:32:22,079 --> 00:32:30,119 trick question because the top forty might not necessarily mean that is slightly different to 470 00:32:30,240 --> 00:32:34,119 qualifying for the championship, which is the top forty eligible players. Right, 471 00:32:34,799 --> 00:32:39,400 So I would I would think he's not going to cash three times. No, 472 00:32:39,279 --> 00:32:42,160 no, no, no. What I'm saying is that, Okay, 473 00:32:42,559 --> 00:32:45,519 last year's leadable, Daniel Wyman, had his one cash, he was in 474 00:32:45,559 --> 00:32:50,720 the top forty, but he wouldn't take He wouldn't under these years, although 475 00:32:50,759 --> 00:32:53,119 he'd be finishing in this forty eligible man, come out, Okay, that's 476 00:32:53,160 --> 00:32:55,400 I just wanted to clear it up one hundred percent. Yes, he'll be 477 00:32:55,440 --> 00:33:00,559 in the top forty eligible for the PGT Championship. Yeah, and I'm with 478 00:33:00,599 --> 00:33:04,359 you. I agree. You know, even if he does play a lesser 479 00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:07,240 schedule. He already said, you know in that in that video he did, 480 00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:10,359 you know, reviewing his twenty twenty three stuff, and then you know, 481 00:33:10,359 --> 00:33:14,039 talk about what he's going to do for twenty twenty four. Maybe he 482 00:33:14,079 --> 00:33:16,240 doesn't come out for you know, these five k's as part of the PGT, 483 00:33:17,359 --> 00:33:22,440 but but most specifically his WSOP schedule. Right, if he's not going 484 00:33:22,519 --> 00:33:24,319 to play you know, the fifteen hundreds, the three k's, that sort 485 00:33:24,319 --> 00:33:28,160 of stuff, and he's only going to focus on the big stuff, then 486 00:33:28,279 --> 00:33:30,160 I really like his chances. You know, he can he can be better 487 00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:34,240 prepared for those, better focused, you know, better you know, a 488 00:33:34,240 --> 00:33:37,079 better mental state, all that sort of stuff. You know. Just again, 489 00:33:37,559 --> 00:33:42,279 the quantity quality sorry, the quality over quantity approach. I think I 490 00:33:42,359 --> 00:33:45,680 think could uh do very well for him. You know, I think it 491 00:33:45,759 --> 00:33:47,680 might be easy. I feel like every single year, because he hasn't won 492 00:33:47,759 --> 00:33:51,160 a bracelet in Vegas and so long, that we're always like, yeah, 493 00:33:51,160 --> 00:33:52,000 he's gonna win, when he's gonna win, when he's gonna win one, 494 00:33:52,240 --> 00:33:55,400 you know, So I feel like it might be easy to kind of back 495 00:33:55,480 --> 00:34:00,519 off that in a way, but maybe it actually works the other way, 496 00:34:00,640 --> 00:34:07,280 where just the fact that he's able to put forth better quality of play and 497 00:34:07,320 --> 00:34:13,559 not worry so much about the quantity of the tournaments that he's blasting in and 498 00:34:13,599 --> 00:34:16,320 then he does extremely well. So yeah, I think he's going to finish 499 00:34:16,559 --> 00:34:20,880 inside the top forty. I think he could do pretty well overall, probably 500 00:34:21,119 --> 00:34:24,039 you know, top fifteen, top ten, even with a lower volume, 501 00:34:24,039 --> 00:34:29,679 which is you know, of course great for everyone involved. Steven Chidwick. 502 00:34:29,840 --> 00:34:34,000 Okay, So Steven Chidwick has finished the first year of the PGT he finished 503 00:34:34,079 --> 00:34:37,559 eighth on the leader board. Second year he finished first, was the PGT 504 00:34:37,639 --> 00:34:40,400 Player of the Year, and then this past year he finished third. So 505 00:34:40,599 --> 00:34:45,679 is Stephen Chidwick going to finish inside the top ten once again for a fourth 506 00:34:45,920 --> 00:34:50,880 year in a row. I feel like we have to say yes to this. 507 00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:55,000 How can you not say yes? Yeah? I mean he he has 508 00:34:55,039 --> 00:34:58,800 to put in the most volume. You should have said top five when we 509 00:34:58,880 --> 00:35:01,719 finish in the top five. Well I was, I honestly thought he finished 510 00:35:01,719 --> 00:35:05,280 in the top five of the first year, but it was just outside eighth, 511 00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:07,559 so I was gonna go with that, so I'll say top ten. 512 00:35:07,760 --> 00:35:13,679 I mean, yeah, he's he puts in an insane amount of volume, 513 00:35:14,320 --> 00:35:21,239 right, plays everything PGT related. He plays a lot of the different games 514 00:35:21,280 --> 00:35:23,079 in terms of like PLO and Mixed, et cetera. So he you know, 515 00:35:23,119 --> 00:35:30,440 he's gonna be out there likely playing those series. I mean he's and 516 00:35:30,519 --> 00:35:34,760 he's a freaking robot man. Like nothing seems to affect this guy, Like 517 00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:38,039 it doesn't matter how good or bad he's running. He's just gonna play his 518 00:35:38,159 --> 00:35:43,480 game and play the best that he can and the results are gonna come from 519 00:35:43,519 --> 00:35:46,079 it. So yeah, I think that he's gonna do extremely well. And 520 00:35:46,119 --> 00:35:50,679 I think he's just a shoeing to be in the top ten every single year. 521 00:35:50,760 --> 00:35:53,079 Now there is a world where he just doesn't put the volume in, 522 00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:55,639 right, I don't know what that looks like. I don't know when that's 523 00:35:55,679 --> 00:36:00,559 ever gonna come, you know, does he just kind of to be like, 524 00:36:00,599 --> 00:36:01,840 hey, I'm just going to kind of back off this year in general? 525 00:36:02,559 --> 00:36:06,960 I just don't see it, right, you know, when when I 526 00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:10,000 hear Steven Chidwick on some live streams talking about how he basically lives out of 527 00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:14,440 a suitcase, right and just travels from stop to stop all over the world, 528 00:36:14,480 --> 00:36:17,039 I don't think this guy's ever slowing down. So I would expect very 529 00:36:17,079 --> 00:36:22,400 much the same for this next series. He played all the last Chance events, 530 00:36:22,480 --> 00:36:23,960 right, Yeah he did. Yeah, So whatever he's I mean, 531 00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:29,119 he's for sure gonna put in a huge volume I think, And then yeah, 532 00:36:29,159 --> 00:36:31,360 he's gonna vision in the top ten, probably top five. If anyone 533 00:36:31,480 --> 00:36:34,920 was a sure bet to do that, it's got to be Steven Chidwick for 534 00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:39,559 sure. All right? Who will be this season's breakout player on the PGT. 535 00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:44,840 I think it's very obvious. I will tell you that. I put 536 00:36:44,920 --> 00:36:47,960 down three names. Oh wow, I think it's obviously going to be Jeff 537 00:36:49,039 --> 00:36:54,199 Lennon. He is gonna, God help much give me a serious answer. 538 00:36:55,519 --> 00:37:01,000 I actually don not this about I will say this. I will say this 539 00:37:01,360 --> 00:37:07,360 for the listeners out there, is that we might say someone who might already 540 00:37:07,360 --> 00:37:12,320 have broken out in general poker, but this is specific to the PGT, 541 00:37:12,840 --> 00:37:16,679 Like you want to have a breakout on the PGT, right, so continue, 542 00:37:16,960 --> 00:37:21,480 Yeah, I'm looking at like, to be honest, I'm going back 543 00:37:21,480 --> 00:37:24,440 to PGT Sprint series we ran, which was our first kind of foray into 544 00:37:24,480 --> 00:37:28,400 the five k's. You know, we have these five ks. Now, 545 00:37:28,840 --> 00:37:34,000 two names that we played all those events that never really played our events, 546 00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:38,480 Mark Ioli and Jeremy Becker. Now, I mean these guys are known in 547 00:37:38,920 --> 00:37:44,559 the Vegas poker world. Obviously, Jeremy Becker wins every win tournament ever hosted, 548 00:37:45,239 --> 00:37:50,440 but that success outside of the PGT now we're doing some more five ks. 549 00:37:50,519 --> 00:37:53,159 We have this double points. Obviously they know what they're doing. Maybe 550 00:37:53,159 --> 00:37:59,360 we see someone like that kind of breakthrough, you know, win a couple 551 00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:01,559 of events, stop playing some more ten k's, do well there, you 552 00:38:01,599 --> 00:38:05,400 know, want to compete for the points race, et cetera. We see 553 00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:08,320 someone like that, some Las Vegas locals that you know, take a little 554 00:38:08,360 --> 00:38:15,760 step up and you know, run like the sun. I like your train 555 00:38:15,800 --> 00:38:21,440 of thoughts. My three are David Coleman, who played all the PGT last 556 00:38:21,519 --> 00:38:23,719 chance, maybe not the final one, but played the majority of them. 557 00:38:23,800 --> 00:38:29,440 He did not play them all because he won the cod Player pokatur at the 558 00:38:29,480 --> 00:38:31,519 Venetians, so you had to skip out on some events. Way to go, 559 00:38:31,599 --> 00:38:34,719 David Coleman, so boost to his bank. Well good, that's in 560 00:38:34,719 --> 00:38:37,800 my favor. Yeah, but he's played a lot of PGT events in the 561 00:38:37,840 --> 00:38:42,400 past. I think last season he finished the season with forty three points, 562 00:38:42,639 --> 00:38:45,519 so nowhere near like the top forty or anything. Yeah, but he's someone 563 00:38:45,559 --> 00:38:51,519 who I think can play a lot of these five k's. Very good player 564 00:38:51,559 --> 00:38:54,239 can have some success there. He always he usually would play like the ten 565 00:38:54,320 --> 00:38:57,320 k's and then kind of go from there. You know, if he had 566 00:38:57,320 --> 00:39:00,599 some success, maybe you play a little bit bigger, et cetera. So 567 00:39:00,679 --> 00:39:05,119 I'm kind of picking him to have some success via these these five k's and 568 00:39:05,360 --> 00:39:07,440 ten k's and then and then go from there. I also got Kristin Foxen. 569 00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:10,639 Of course, she's not a breakout player in terms of like the grand 570 00:39:10,639 --> 00:39:15,199 scheme of poker, but I think we can get her into the top forty. 571 00:39:15,320 --> 00:39:19,079 She was close this year, right, you know, so I think, 572 00:39:19,199 --> 00:39:22,079 you know, she can put in a lot more volume this year get 573 00:39:22,079 --> 00:39:24,840 her in there. And then I got Eric Baldwin. You know, we 574 00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:29,679 saw him, We saw him a lot more last season, right, specifically 575 00:39:29,760 --> 00:39:32,039 in the ten k events, and he did have some success there. I 576 00:39:32,079 --> 00:39:36,000 think we see him a lot more in these five k's and ten ks that 577 00:39:36,039 --> 00:39:38,679 we're going to be doing this year. Very good player, you know, 578 00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:44,039 lives here in Vegas. You know, he eats breeze and sleeps poker like 579 00:39:44,079 --> 00:39:49,440 that's all he does. So yeah, Eric Baldwin, you know, the 580 00:39:49,519 --> 00:39:52,800 King. Let's go. Those are my three. I like him. Yeah, 581 00:39:52,840 --> 00:39:55,760 So I think overall it's a it's a pretty good group of people. 582 00:39:57,440 --> 00:40:00,000 I mean, generally, I think you and I both agree it's it's these 583 00:40:00,280 --> 00:40:01,400 ks, like we got to see what we get from them, Yeah, 584 00:40:01,480 --> 00:40:05,960 and who comes out? So yeah, all right, I don't think we 585 00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:08,880 have anything else to talk about, now, Okay, good, all right, 586 00:40:08,880 --> 00:40:12,960 that's gonna do it for us. We will, I don't know, 587 00:40:13,039 --> 00:40:17,239 we'll regroup after the kickoff series. We'll talk about how that series went. 588 00:40:17,760 --> 00:40:23,280 Hopefully we have to talk about Jeff Platt number one on the the PGT kickof 589 00:40:23,280 --> 00:40:25,760 That would be cool, you know, I mean that's exact, like, 590 00:40:25,840 --> 00:40:30,559 that's exactly what this series is built for. You take a shot at that 591 00:40:30,599 --> 00:40:32,639 five K price point. Maybe you have some success in the first one. 592 00:40:32,679 --> 00:40:36,239 You take a shot in the second one, maybe you have some success again. 593 00:40:36,320 --> 00:40:38,679 Next thing you know, you're the next lattis Tomas Aalskis. You're playing 594 00:40:38,679 --> 00:40:43,239 all this sort of stuff and you're on the PGT. Let's go. So 595 00:40:43,360 --> 00:40:45,400 yeah, that's exactly what the PGT kickoff is built for. All right, 596 00:40:45,440 --> 00:40:50,719 that's gonna do it for Tim Duckworth and myself. My name is Donny Peters. 597 00:40:50,880 --> 00:40:55,119 Appreciate you guys as always tuning in. Let's go PGT Season twenty twenty 598 00:40:55,119 --> 00:40:58,639 four. Let's make it the biggest and the best yet, and we'll talk 599 00:40:58,679 --> 00:41:09,480 to you guys next time. See us night. The Chenny expressed, okay,