WEBVTT 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,