1 00:00:15,960 --> 00:00:21,039 One. Welcome back to a brand new episode of the Poker Go Podcast. 2 00:00:21,160 --> 00:00:26,359 My name is Donnie Peters. His name across the table from me is Timothy 3 00:00:26,440 --> 00:00:32,119 Duckworth. How are you, buddy. I'm doing great. That's good. 4 00:00:32,280 --> 00:00:36,320 I'm glad you're doing great. I'm doing pretty well myself. Thanks for asking, 5 00:00:36,560 --> 00:00:40,280 even though you didn't ask because you don't care about me. You're selfish. 6 00:00:40,280 --> 00:00:42,719 But yeah, you didn't even want to press the record button today. 7 00:00:42,759 --> 00:00:48,320 Let's um, so, don't make me throw you under the bush. Okay, 8 00:00:48,880 --> 00:00:50,840 I won't, I won't do it, but you can't. I'm just 9 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:54,079 really saying, don't you know, don't don't. Don't push me, man, 10 00:00:54,280 --> 00:00:58,280 don't push me. Um. Today on the episode of the Poker g 11 00:00:58,399 --> 00:01:02,640 Podcast, we're gonna talk about Airball and Burkey because they completed their match short 12 00:01:02,640 --> 00:01:04,280 of one hundred hours, but they completed it, and we'll get into all 13 00:01:04,319 --> 00:01:10,719 of that. There was another round of High Stakes Duel. High Stakes Duel 14 00:01:10,920 --> 00:01:15,120 returned. There was also a special undercard match. For the first time ever, 15 00:01:15,280 --> 00:01:21,560 WPT Choctaw reached a final table. In the recent days. We'll hit 16 00:01:21,599 --> 00:01:25,560 on that, probably touch on the event before that, WPT Seminal, because 17 00:01:26,040 --> 00:01:30,719 they do have something very important in common with one another, Maybe a family 18 00:01:30,760 --> 00:01:34,879 pot, maybe not. I don't really know. I'm sure Tim has something 19 00:01:34,920 --> 00:01:38,079 He's talking about gardens and flowers earlier. 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Is that what that take? 52 00:03:59,719 --> 00:04:00,759 Yes, he said he would like to be there. It was just 53 00:04:00,840 --> 00:04:03,000 kind of out of the blue, so I was confused. He was obviously 54 00:04:03,080 --> 00:04:05,199 listening to the podcast. Yeah, a couple of days late, but you 55 00:04:05,240 --> 00:04:10,240 know, it's busy man. He's been traveling. He was down in Florida, 56 00:04:10,280 --> 00:04:12,080 then he was up in Reno. I mean, the guys all over 57 00:04:12,080 --> 00:04:16,480 the places. Globetrotter for sure, he's a star. So the south Point 58 00:04:16,600 --> 00:04:20,800 Nightly Takeover coming up Wednesday, May thirty. First, they have one hundred 59 00:04:20,839 --> 00:04:27,120 and fifty dollars deep stack fifteen thousand dollars guaranteed prize Pool Nightly Tournament that day. 60 00:04:27,160 --> 00:04:30,639 It starts at six pm. Tim and I are going to be going 61 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:33,839 to be there playing. Um. Sounds like Jeff Platt might be joining us 62 00:04:33,839 --> 00:04:39,160 pending other things work out. We'll try and wrangle some other people from the 63 00:04:39,160 --> 00:04:43,279 Poker Grow family. But of course, most importantly, we really want anyone 64 00:04:43,319 --> 00:04:46,920 that's out here in town, from the Poker Grow podcast family, the extended 65 00:04:46,959 --> 00:04:50,319 family, the audience, the listeners come out there and join us. We'll 66 00:04:50,319 --> 00:04:55,319 have some fun with it, maybe give away some swag, have some other 67 00:04:55,319 --> 00:04:57,600 prizes. Who the heck knows. Maybe maybe Tim and I will put a 68 00:04:57,600 --> 00:05:01,160 bounty on our heads. It has to be like a bounty where like if 69 00:05:01,160 --> 00:05:04,560 there's a password, like when you bust us, because I'm not just giving 70 00:05:04,600 --> 00:05:08,600 the bounty to like Nancy and seat three when she busts me, and she's 71 00:05:08,639 --> 00:05:11,839 like a regular south Point person has no idea about the Hopefully they all turn 72 00:05:11,920 --> 00:05:15,279 up on time you have a little meet and greet, you know, I 73 00:05:15,360 --> 00:05:17,680 go from there. I mean, Who's Who's who? Sure? I mean 74 00:05:17,720 --> 00:05:20,759 I'm kind of in for that. I like it all right, let's uh 75 00:05:20,879 --> 00:05:24,959 get again, well just quickly on the date Wednesday, May thirty, first 76 00:05:25,480 --> 00:05:28,319 last day of the May. So get in there and come play with us 77 00:05:28,319 --> 00:05:31,959 over as he Point m News and happenings. So when when when did this 78 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:34,800 happen? A couple days ago? Last week? I can't remember exactly when 79 00:05:34,800 --> 00:05:40,839 it took place, but Nick Airball he called it quits against Matt Burkey. 80 00:05:41,079 --> 00:05:46,959 So obviously the heads up match that has basically taken the poker world by storm 81 00:05:46,959 --> 00:05:51,360 over the recent weeks. Nick Airball called out Matt Burkey, had some choice 82 00:05:51,360 --> 00:05:56,279 words to say about him. Um I think he called him a scumbag or 83 00:05:56,279 --> 00:05:59,600 a scammer or something like that, one of those s words. At one 84 00:05:59,639 --> 00:06:02,959 point, they end up playing two hundred four hundred heads up noelamant hold them. 85 00:06:02,959 --> 00:06:06,839 They played it over at Resorts World. It wasn't streamed. There was 86 00:06:06,920 --> 00:06:13,120 some updates on social media, landon Tice brown Ball or some of those guys 87 00:06:13,160 --> 00:06:16,800 were out there giving you updates. Matt Burkey was covering it on the Only 88 00:06:16,800 --> 00:06:20,120 Friends podcast on a regular basis. He would talk about what happened in the 89 00:06:20,160 --> 00:06:25,519 match, you know, various hands what not. Doug Polk was kind of 90 00:06:25,519 --> 00:06:28,439 working with Matt or sorry, not with Matt Burkey. Definitely not with Matt 91 00:06:28,439 --> 00:06:31,600 Burkey. Doug Bolk was kind of working with Nick Airball. Nick Airball being 92 00:06:31,680 --> 00:06:35,759 newer to heads up poker, and he was also doing some stuff out there 93 00:06:36,240 --> 00:06:41,480 on the hands that were played. So despite it not being streamed or like 94 00:06:41,560 --> 00:06:45,560 live apporting or anything like that. Still got a lot of coverage overall. 95 00:06:46,680 --> 00:06:49,360 So Airball he called it quits after just fifty eight hours of play. They 96 00:06:49,360 --> 00:06:54,800 had planned to play one hundred hours of two hundred four hundred heads up. 97 00:06:55,160 --> 00:06:59,360 Noelmant hold them. They played fifty eight hours. Airball was down more than 98 00:06:59,399 --> 00:07:01,519 a million dollars. I think it was like one million, twenty nine thousand, 99 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:06,040 seven hundred I think was the exact figure. Um, Airball just calls 100 00:07:06,040 --> 00:07:10,879 it quits. The people. They had a clause that if he got to 101 00:07:10,959 --> 00:07:14,040 a million, you could quit, and you could quit. Yeah, so 102 00:07:14,240 --> 00:07:15,279 I mean he called the quits. Yeah, he didn't. He's not like, 103 00:07:15,319 --> 00:07:18,120 you know, I'm gonna try and fight back, cut my losses over 104 00:07:18,160 --> 00:07:21,480 these next you know, forty two hours. Nope, I'm just calling it. 105 00:07:21,680 --> 00:07:26,360 Matt Burkey's clearly better than me, and that's that. Um. You 106 00:07:26,399 --> 00:07:30,360 know. Matt Burkey, he kind of went over like the last situation on 107 00:07:30,399 --> 00:07:34,439 a recent podcast episode of his, and he was talking about how when they 108 00:07:34,439 --> 00:07:39,920 first started, Um, they went into the match, I think I think 109 00:07:39,959 --> 00:07:43,399 air Ball was right around three hundred and thirty thousand dollars away from the million, 110 00:07:43,680 --> 00:07:46,680 and that's what he put into play that day. So Burkey kind of 111 00:07:46,680 --> 00:07:47,839 got the sense right away, is like, okay, this is kind of 112 00:07:47,839 --> 00:07:51,519 like the case money. If he loses this in front of him, it's 113 00:07:51,560 --> 00:07:56,720 likely gonna be game over. That's ended up. What happened the final hand 114 00:07:57,399 --> 00:08:03,000 where Burke stacked Airball. I think it was set over set tens versus threes, 115 00:08:03,639 --> 00:08:07,439 disgusting. I believe the board was nine eight three, and then the 116 00:08:07,480 --> 00:08:11,360 turn was a ten. They get all the money in. Obviously Airball doesn't 117 00:08:11,399 --> 00:08:16,560 hit the case three on the river, and that is that now. I 118 00:08:16,600 --> 00:08:20,439 mean, first of all, before we get into the nick Airball releasing a 119 00:08:20,519 --> 00:08:22,319 statement, I mean, what are your kind of your takeaways from the match? 120 00:08:22,519 --> 00:08:26,279 Overall? I wanted blood, and I think we got blood. I 121 00:08:26,319 --> 00:08:28,879 mean, we got seven figures of blood. What else do you one? 122 00:08:30,600 --> 00:08:33,559 You know, I started with I really wanted Airball to win, and then 123 00:08:33,600 --> 00:08:39,279 I slowly came around to the other side, so I was actually surprised it 124 00:08:39,360 --> 00:08:43,879 ended in whatever it was fifty hours. But hey, now we can move 125 00:08:43,919 --> 00:08:48,480 on and find something else controversial to talk about. I guess, yeah, 126 00:08:48,519 --> 00:08:52,279 I mean, I guess so. I the troll side of me was like, 127 00:08:52,320 --> 00:08:54,960 it'd be cool or not cool, it would be funny if air Ball 128 00:08:56,000 --> 00:09:00,919 won. You know, the troll side in me, the poker player, 129 00:09:01,159 --> 00:09:03,759 poker enthusiast, poker, die hard poker, trust, whatever you want to 130 00:09:03,799 --> 00:09:07,759 call it inside of me said, I want Matt Burkey to win. So, 131 00:09:07,919 --> 00:09:11,360 you know, I could kind of see both sides of it. I 132 00:09:11,399 --> 00:09:15,720 believe I said before that I kind of want what's best for headlines. Overall, 133 00:09:16,159 --> 00:09:20,360 I think it's still played out as it was really good for headlines. 134 00:09:20,399 --> 00:09:24,000 I think a seven figure loss of more than a million dollars, I think 135 00:09:26,200 --> 00:09:28,200 Airball calling it quits early. Now. I know they did have that clause 136 00:09:28,200 --> 00:09:31,559 in there that allowed him to call it quits, but still, you know, 137 00:09:31,600 --> 00:09:33,919 he did call it quits earlier than expected on one hundred hour match, 138 00:09:35,799 --> 00:09:37,519 losing him more than a million dollars. I mean, I don't I feel 139 00:09:37,559 --> 00:09:43,399 like we got pretty much all that we could ask for from this. Yeah, 140 00:09:43,480 --> 00:09:45,519 overall, I mean that's kind of how I feel I thought it was. 141 00:09:46,080 --> 00:09:50,279 You know, Burkey was the better player in this matchup for sure. 142 00:09:50,320 --> 00:09:52,399 You know. And Burkey, you know, he's talked about it several times 143 00:09:52,399 --> 00:09:56,559 on his own podcast. He's not a heads up player by any means. 144 00:09:58,360 --> 00:10:03,679 That said, I think he has a lot more experience in the high stakes 145 00:10:03,720 --> 00:10:09,440 streets, probably in some probably in some shorthanded, maybe some heads up scenarios. 146 00:10:09,440 --> 00:10:11,639 When you get you know, you're playing these games, the games get 147 00:10:11,679 --> 00:10:16,840 shorterhanded, whatever it. Maybe he's probably the better poker player overall, which 148 00:10:16,840 --> 00:10:22,120 I think Airball alluded to in his statement afterwards. So I'll just get into 149 00:10:22,159 --> 00:10:26,240 it now. In the statement, so first of all, Burkey beats Airball, 150 00:10:26,279 --> 00:10:28,519 Airball calls it quits. Airball basically says on Twitter like, you know, 151 00:10:28,559 --> 00:10:31,679 hey, I'm down one million, twenty nine thousand, whatever, I'll 152 00:10:31,720 --> 00:10:35,000 release a statement in a couple of days, that sort of thing. Burkey 153 00:10:35,120 --> 00:10:41,639 said on his podcast that Airball like extended his hand after the match, they 154 00:10:41,639 --> 00:10:46,320 shook hands and you know, went their own ways. And then now yesterday 155 00:10:46,360 --> 00:10:50,639 it's Wednesday, May ten, So on Tuesday May ninth is when Airball released 156 00:10:50,639 --> 00:10:52,000 a statement on Twitter. He said, first of all, I want to 157 00:10:52,039 --> 00:10:56,600 congratulate Matt Burkey on his victory. There was a lot of shit talking, 158 00:10:56,840 --> 00:11:00,200 most of it for fun and to add to the excitement of the match. 159 00:11:00,240 --> 00:11:01,480 But in the end, I have to give credit where credit is due. 160 00:11:01,519 --> 00:11:05,720 He played well, and he played better than I expected he would. He 161 00:11:05,799 --> 00:11:09,279 won fair and square, and he deserves to celebrate his win. What do 162 00:11:09,320 --> 00:11:11,879 you just quickly, what do you think his celebration is going to be like 163 00:11:13,360 --> 00:11:18,320 some protein shakes, some chicken bread. I don't think Burgie's going to be 164 00:11:18,559 --> 00:11:20,480 heading off to the club and popping bottles, although that would be a fun 165 00:11:20,519 --> 00:11:22,720 little twist in this whole thing. Yes, all right, back to the 166 00:11:22,759 --> 00:11:26,559 statement. I want to apologize for the comments I made about Matt being a 167 00:11:26,679 --> 00:11:31,639 scammer and the negative comments I made about his business that was out of line, 168 00:11:31,639 --> 00:11:35,840 and I regret making those contents. Got caught up emotionally in the heat 169 00:11:35,879 --> 00:11:39,679 of the moment and said some things I shouldn't have, and for that I 170 00:11:39,720 --> 00:11:43,919 apologize. Matt showed during this match that he is a true professional. I 171 00:11:43,919 --> 00:11:46,120 have a lot to learn as a poker player. I have a newfound respect 172 00:11:46,159 --> 00:11:50,399 for heads up poker. I didn't have any experience and heads up, but 173 00:11:50,440 --> 00:11:52,519 I learned a lot while studying and playing this match, and I have a 174 00:11:52,519 --> 00:11:58,639 lot more to learn. My experience is in live ring games, and that's 175 00:11:58,639 --> 00:12:01,840 where I feel most comfortable and have the most fun. I also have a 176 00:12:01,840 --> 00:12:05,320 lot to learn as a person and a public finger in the poker industry. 177 00:12:05,360 --> 00:12:07,960 My close friends know the type of person I really am in the character I 178 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:13,399 have, but in poker, I enjoy being an exuberant, polarizing character. 179 00:12:13,720 --> 00:12:16,440 I believe that poker needs characters, but sometimes I go too far with it, 180 00:12:16,879 --> 00:12:20,919 and that's something I need to work on. I'm never going to change 181 00:12:20,919 --> 00:12:26,639 how I really am. Fun, loud, social, sometimes obnoxious, but 182 00:12:26,720 --> 00:12:28,840 I can work on being a better and not making comments that can be hurtful. 183 00:12:28,879 --> 00:12:33,360 In the end, I just want to have fun and play some poker. 184 00:12:33,720 --> 00:12:35,639 Thanks to everyone who supported me throughout this match. It was a fun 185 00:12:35,759 --> 00:12:39,720 journey, even though I fell short, even to the haters, I appreciate 186 00:12:39,799 --> 00:12:43,360 all of you as well. Great statement, I mean, very good statement 187 00:12:43,399 --> 00:12:50,480 from him. Seems like he's possibly turning a new leaf. Kind of recognizes 188 00:12:50,519 --> 00:12:54,360 that he looked like you idioted at many points throughout this saga that was happening, 189 00:12:54,720 --> 00:12:58,080 you know, whether it was the scam or comments, whether it was 190 00:12:58,240 --> 00:13:03,639 the cons shit talking as he says, you know, the I mean the 191 00:13:03,840 --> 00:13:09,039 bathroom breaks like that sort of like funny, weird stuff. Then you get 192 00:13:09,080 --> 00:13:11,759 him on High Stakes Poker, the live stream, he's he starts off like 193 00:13:11,799 --> 00:13:15,600 it kind of looks like it's gonna get crazy, then it dies down. 194 00:13:15,759 --> 00:13:18,840 Then it's like the whole hymn and LNJI like laughing at everything fast. Then 195 00:13:18,879 --> 00:13:24,159 it turns into Airball just getting absolutely hammered off wine and then just going nuts 196 00:13:24,159 --> 00:13:28,799 in that last hand verse gentility, which you know, it seems like Airball 197 00:13:28,879 --> 00:13:31,759 kind of just like took a look in the mirror. And also, like 198 00:13:31,799 --> 00:13:37,200 I think the sentiment from the community, I think going into the whole thing 199 00:13:37,200 --> 00:13:41,200 with Burkey and air Ball and throughout the early stages of it, there was 200 00:13:41,320 --> 00:13:46,759 very much two camps. You were either for Airball or you were for Burkeyan 201 00:13:46,799 --> 00:13:48,320 and Tim and I have talked a few different times about like, well, 202 00:13:48,320 --> 00:13:52,679 you know why you might be on either side. I think the high stakes 203 00:13:52,679 --> 00:13:58,480 Poker live stream really pushed more people towards Burkey because Airball was like on full 204 00:13:58,519 --> 00:14:03,960 display for many hours being Airball. People were exposed to that and they said, 205 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:07,919 you know what, I don't like this guy. He's the villain, 206 00:14:07,320 --> 00:14:11,600 He's the heel. Burkie is the hero, right, And I think that's 207 00:14:11,600 --> 00:14:16,080 how it kind of played out. I think as a result of that, 208 00:14:16,320 --> 00:14:20,080 you know, and as Airball laid out in this statement, he doesn't really 209 00:14:20,080 --> 00:14:24,919 want to be that type of person in poker. Yeah, he might recognize, 210 00:14:24,960 --> 00:14:28,159 as he said that that poker does need its characters. I think Tim 211 00:14:28,159 --> 00:14:31,200 and I would be the first to tell you that poker needs its characters. 212 00:14:31,279 --> 00:14:35,480 But it doesn't sound like Airball wants to be at least as much of the 213 00:14:35,519 --> 00:14:41,399 bad character as he portrayed himself. So we'll see where he goes from here. 214 00:14:41,440 --> 00:14:46,480 We'll see how much of this statement is truthful going forward. You know, 215 00:14:46,679 --> 00:14:50,120 the statement looks great on paper, it reads super well. You know, 216 00:14:50,159 --> 00:14:52,679 it's getting a lot of love, all that sort of stuff. But 217 00:14:52,120 --> 00:14:56,080 at least me personally, I'm a firm believer of actions speak louder than words. 218 00:14:56,080 --> 00:15:00,720 So we're just gonna have to see how he plays out. I guess 219 00:15:00,720 --> 00:15:03,919 a recent example that I could point to in terms of like what I'm kind 220 00:15:03,919 --> 00:15:07,759 of getting at is there was a Twitter spaces recently where Doug Polk was on 221 00:15:07,799 --> 00:15:13,039 there kind of like holding his own feet to the fire and taking you know, 222 00:15:13,159 --> 00:15:16,240 questions and commentary from the mob, so to speak. He got into 223 00:15:16,240 --> 00:15:20,279 it with Daniel m'granny. They talked through a lot of their problems. Doug 224 00:15:20,360 --> 00:15:24,399 like basically broke down in a way talking about how he was bullied young and 225 00:15:24,480 --> 00:15:26,919 coming up. But then once him and Daniel got off, and like Matt 226 00:15:26,919 --> 00:15:30,480 Burkey got on, said some comments, and some other people got on. 227 00:15:30,720 --> 00:15:35,240 Phil Galfon later on, Phil Golfin obviously wrote the piece about Doug. Doug 228 00:15:35,279 --> 00:15:39,919 seemed to kind of revert back to like the old Doug. So like, 229 00:15:39,960 --> 00:15:43,240 are we gonna see Nick Airball revert back? I don't know. For now, 230 00:15:43,279 --> 00:15:46,600 we'll give him the benefit of the doubt and say that this statement is 231 00:15:46,639 --> 00:15:48,919 a very good statement, and it looks like he's going to turn a new 232 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:54,279 leaf. It'll be interesting also to listen to the Only Friends podcast see what 233 00:15:54,720 --> 00:15:58,480 Burkey has to say. I haven't listened to the recent I've been away, 234 00:15:58,399 --> 00:16:02,799 but what he has to say kind of in regards to this statement. But 235 00:16:02,840 --> 00:16:07,080 he did allude to on previous episodes that, um, you know, Airball 236 00:16:07,120 --> 00:16:11,519 seems not totally off the wall all the time. He was kind of, 237 00:16:11,600 --> 00:16:14,320 you know, playing a character in a lot of ways. So so we'll 238 00:16:14,360 --> 00:16:17,480 see we're going forward. But um, yeah, it does sound like like 239 00:16:17,559 --> 00:16:19,360 Aerall wants to like be around high stakes poker. He wants to be in 240 00:16:19,440 --> 00:16:22,000 at all, um, not high Stakes Poker the show, but high stakes 241 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:26,240 poker, like the community. He wants to play on Hustler high Stakes Poker, 242 00:16:26,279 --> 00:16:27,799 other shows around the industry. You know, he wants to get those 243 00:16:27,840 --> 00:16:32,679 invites, um, which I think he will. But if he would have 244 00:16:32,759 --> 00:16:36,360 kept going down the road that he kept going down, maybe some people were 245 00:16:36,399 --> 00:16:38,120 like, I don't know about that guy. You know, I don't know 246 00:16:38,200 --> 00:16:42,639 so much anymore. Um. So yeah, that's kind of my long takeaway 247 00:16:42,679 --> 00:16:45,399 from from the statement part of things. You got anything to add there? 248 00:16:45,919 --> 00:16:48,960 No, I think he na owed everything that I think we'll still say a 249 00:16:48,960 --> 00:16:53,559 little bit of a Nick Airbell bully kind of passing out. I mean, 250 00:16:53,559 --> 00:16:57,480 he can be like loud and yeah and borderline ob noxious at the table, 251 00:16:57,600 --> 00:17:02,840 but he got kind of crazy when he started drinking at high Stakes Poker, 252 00:17:03,240 --> 00:17:06,880 I want to say, and you can probably correct me here or you know 253 00:17:06,920 --> 00:17:10,599 if I'm wrong, but he got really drunk on like a Hustler Casino Live 254 00:17:10,680 --> 00:17:12,480 episode a couple of weeks ago, and like I think afterwards he was like 255 00:17:14,839 --> 00:17:17,839 might have tweeted something about how like I don't even know who I was last 256 00:17:17,920 --> 00:17:19,599 night, like that sort of thing. Like so you know, he's gotten 257 00:17:19,599 --> 00:17:23,240 a bit wild before, right, and I think it happens when you stopped 258 00:17:23,240 --> 00:17:26,480 pummeling them a lot, well, you know, yeah, of course, 259 00:17:26,640 --> 00:17:29,319 I mean, I'm sure it was good Merlau or you know, cabernet or 260 00:17:29,319 --> 00:17:33,759 whatever the heck he was drinking. But yeah, but anyway, it seems 261 00:17:33,799 --> 00:17:36,920 like it ties a bow on the on the air Ball Burkey stuff for now 262 00:17:37,519 --> 00:17:41,039 again. Air Ball loses over one million dollars to Matt Burkey, who, 263 00:17:41,079 --> 00:17:45,039 as we said, is going to be you know, celebrating with probably some 264 00:17:45,160 --> 00:17:48,519 protein chicks and chicken breasts over problem champagne bottles. He did say on the 265 00:17:48,640 --> 00:17:55,240 Only Friends podcasts that Aboll tweeted at He's not but he lost. Matt confirmed 266 00:17:55,279 --> 00:17:59,839 that they both paid basically eleven thousand dollars in reik and then the other bit 267 00:17:59,839 --> 00:18:03,960 of other portion, whether it was somebody twenty four thousand was what Nick spent 268 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:08,559 on massages, because he basically got massage just like you would, yes, 269 00:18:08,640 --> 00:18:11,839 exactly, like just like you would when you when you would play um. 270 00:18:11,880 --> 00:18:15,599 All right, so that's that high stakes duel four, so kind of a 271 00:18:15,640 --> 00:18:19,880 two parter here because we had the undercard that took place on Friday, May 272 00:18:19,880 --> 00:18:25,440 fifth. That was Mike Madisow versus Shawn deep Um, a one time match 273 00:18:25,599 --> 00:18:30,519 winner take all ten thousand dollars apiece. Going into it, I think Shaun 274 00:18:30,559 --> 00:18:34,720 d was the favorite. I think rightfully so, but the Mouth beat him. 275 00:18:36,440 --> 00:18:40,359 Mike did not expect that at all. Shaun Dy was up early and 276 00:18:40,400 --> 00:18:41,440 it looked like, okay, this is gonna play out kind of how we 277 00:18:41,480 --> 00:18:45,480 thought the better player is gonna win. Um, Madisow seemed a bit more 278 00:18:45,519 --> 00:18:51,279 of like a subdued Madisow. If you're tuning into poker these days, not 279 00:18:51,319 --> 00:18:52,799 only just this high stakes film match, but like poker as a whole, 280 00:18:52,799 --> 00:18:56,720 and you're expecting to see Mike the mouth of old, I don't. You're 281 00:18:56,720 --> 00:19:00,519 not gonna get that anymore. You know you're gonna get him. It's different 282 00:19:00,519 --> 00:19:03,960 Mike Madisow. Um, you know, I thought, okay, you know, 283 00:19:03,960 --> 00:19:06,359 Sean Deeves got him about two to one. I think he's gonna run 284 00:19:06,400 --> 00:19:08,359 away with this thing. Next thing, you know, Mike Madisow flips the 285 00:19:08,400 --> 00:19:11,200 scrib he's got Deep two to one, ends up closing out the match. 286 00:19:11,920 --> 00:19:15,559 Um, you know, he was very like, you know, Sean, 287 00:19:15,640 --> 00:19:18,160 you played great. You know all this sort of stuff. Maybe we'll run 288 00:19:18,200 --> 00:19:21,440 it back, etc. We're both too nice to each other, that's the 289 00:19:21,480 --> 00:19:23,240 way. Yeah, I mean, it's it's funny because you got you got 290 00:19:23,240 --> 00:19:27,400 a contrast of you got the whole airball Burkey thing, the whole Burkey Doug 291 00:19:27,400 --> 00:19:30,359 Polk thing happening kind of like over here on the left, and then over 292 00:19:30,400 --> 00:19:33,599 here on the right. You got what is supposed to be like a heads 293 00:19:33,680 --> 00:19:40,079 up mano imano battle and they're just being friendly. Yeah, you know, 294 00:19:40,279 --> 00:19:44,000 so, I mean it's kind of hard, but I hope people enjoyed it. 295 00:19:44,039 --> 00:19:47,039 You know, it's fun to to have those sort of matches out there. 296 00:19:47,759 --> 00:19:51,000 Um you know a little bit of a differing content offering, um, 297 00:19:51,079 --> 00:19:53,039 you know than a than a live ring game or you know a live tournament 298 00:19:53,079 --> 00:19:56,920 final table or something like that. Um so yeah, so Mike Madisow pocketed 299 00:19:57,000 --> 00:20:02,079 the twenty k, hopped on a scooter and got a body here, and 300 00:20:02,119 --> 00:20:04,240 that was both said they would like to play again. Yeah, so let's 301 00:20:04,240 --> 00:20:07,720 go, guys. Maybe we up the stakes a little bit double down. 302 00:20:07,920 --> 00:20:10,640 I don't know. I mean, this is it's like an unofficial high stakes 303 00:20:10,640 --> 00:20:12,000 tool, so I don't I don't know if it would have to fall under 304 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:15,319 that they could actually, they could do whatever they want. I feel like 305 00:20:15,559 --> 00:20:18,200 for the first time in high stakes duel history, except for I guess helme 306 00:20:18,240 --> 00:20:22,480 with no Grander, these two could play, you know, a variety of 307 00:20:22,480 --> 00:20:26,680 different games. Since it is an undica, we don't need to go too 308 00:20:26,680 --> 00:20:29,160 crazy, but you know, we could do a PLO one. We could 309 00:20:29,200 --> 00:20:32,160 do it. I'm definitely not gonna be out there for like seven cards stud 310 00:20:32,240 --> 00:20:34,559 high Stakes tool man. You can cover that all you want. I'm sure 311 00:20:34,559 --> 00:20:38,480 the production team will rip your head off for it. Um. So this 312 00:20:38,720 --> 00:20:44,079 was the little appetizer for High Stakes Tool four. High Stakes Tool four saw 313 00:20:44,279 --> 00:20:48,440 Daniel mcgran new against Eric Person Round one, fifty thousand dollars each. First 314 00:20:48,640 --> 00:20:55,759 or winner takes home one hundred thousand dollars. Daniel Legrandew basically cooked him. 315 00:20:55,920 --> 00:21:00,400 I mean Daniel I thought played better. Daniel had the better hands, you 316 00:21:00,440 --> 00:21:06,160 know. Finally, after a few different tries in the high Stakes Duel ring, 317 00:21:06,240 --> 00:21:11,880 Daniel was able to get a victory come out on top. And so 318 00:21:11,960 --> 00:21:15,359 before we get into you know, going forward and what happens with High Stakes 319 00:21:15,400 --> 00:21:18,759 Duel four, let's play the winner's interview with Daniel Legranu. I spoke with 320 00:21:18,839 --> 00:21:22,359 him after he won, after he took the crazy body suit off, you 321 00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:25,079 know, put the middle fingers away, all of all of that sort of 322 00:21:25,079 --> 00:21:29,480 stuff. All right, Daniel Legron, you it's about time you got one 323 00:21:29,480 --> 00:21:33,599 of these high stakes dual wins. How you're feeling it? Relieved more than 324 00:21:33,640 --> 00:21:34,759 anything. You know. We got an all in and I had Ace King 325 00:21:34,759 --> 00:21:37,759 and he ate Ace Queen suit and I'm like, all right, this is 326 00:21:37,759 --> 00:21:40,519 a flip. It's a flip. Let's see if I can hold, you 327 00:21:40,519 --> 00:21:41,599 know, and you know the turn, I was like, okay, chop, 328 00:21:41,680 --> 00:21:45,079 but no, I mean I just had all the hands right. It 329 00:21:45,119 --> 00:21:48,079 was like I had so many big hands, and he never really had much 330 00:21:48,079 --> 00:21:49,279 going on. He bluffed me a few times. I didn't really do anything 331 00:21:49,279 --> 00:21:52,319 special. I don't think, you know, I just ran better than he 332 00:21:52,359 --> 00:21:56,519 did. Any sort of preparation coming into this match, playing Eric for the 333 00:21:56,559 --> 00:22:00,279 first time, very little, Like I wasn't worried about like any sort of 334 00:22:00,319 --> 00:22:02,519 game theory anything like that. I watched some of the streams, some of 335 00:22:02,519 --> 00:22:04,279 his highlights and his table talk and stuff like that, and he really does 336 00:22:04,279 --> 00:22:07,279 a good job of balancing. Like he'll say things that you would say if 337 00:22:07,279 --> 00:22:11,519 you're bluffing when he has you know, he reverses it a lot, so 338 00:22:11,799 --> 00:22:14,799 you can't read too much into it, although you know, once in a 339 00:22:14,799 --> 00:22:17,359 while I was like, I sort of feel felt it. But the other 340 00:22:17,400 --> 00:22:19,359 thing issue too with when people do table talk. When you play with a 341 00:22:19,400 --> 00:22:22,079 shot clock, you don't have a lot of time to process. It's kind 342 00:22:22,079 --> 00:22:25,920 of have to make your decision. If I have like three minutes, sometimes 343 00:22:25,920 --> 00:22:27,200 I'll probably get to the bottom of it, but I don't know. I 344 00:22:27,200 --> 00:22:30,119 felt some time pressure a few times in that regard, which is fine. 345 00:22:30,160 --> 00:22:33,279 You know, it's better to have that than not. Yeah, I wanted 346 00:22:33,279 --> 00:22:37,559 to ask you specifically about kind of playing someone like Eric who's a little bit 347 00:22:37,640 --> 00:22:41,279 more willing to be out there character wise, and then you're someone who's, 348 00:22:41,519 --> 00:22:44,799 you know, throughout your whole career really been like I can really read people 349 00:22:44,799 --> 00:22:48,319 and that sort of thing. So did that play into today's match at all? 350 00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:49,960 Or I tell you what I feel like if I didn't do a lot 351 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:52,160 of work. If I did a lot more work, I feel like I 352 00:22:52,160 --> 00:22:57,119 would have I'd be like a lot more zoned into some of the stuff that 353 00:22:57,160 --> 00:23:00,519 he does. But I really didn't spend a lot of that time. It 354 00:23:00,559 --> 00:23:02,640 was sort of a last minute, not last minute. I've had time to 355 00:23:02,640 --> 00:23:03,880 do it, but I've been busy doing other stuff. I've been you know, 356 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:07,480 watching hockey and sports, and I've been on Twitter spaces eight hours a 357 00:23:07,599 --> 00:23:11,160 night, you know. So yeah, and then uh, you brought some 358 00:23:11,200 --> 00:23:15,119 props and a costume. Yeah, what was the idea behind that? I 359 00:23:15,160 --> 00:23:17,960 thought it was fun? Right, So this thing like, for me, 360 00:23:18,039 --> 00:23:19,559 it's like about the fun. Obviously, fifty thousand dollars doesn't mean anything to 361 00:23:19,640 --> 00:23:22,119 him and it's not going to change my life. So I'm trying to, 362 00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:26,039 you know, create some entertainment. I thought, like HARKing back to when 363 00:23:26,039 --> 00:23:27,359 I, you know, dressed up like Scotty Wynn, I thought, you 364 00:23:27,359 --> 00:23:30,000 know, he's got a unique look, you know. I was like, 365 00:23:30,039 --> 00:23:32,440 all right, let's have some fun with it, all good natured fun. 366 00:23:32,559 --> 00:23:33,160 Right. So, like I guess, you know, sort of the topic 367 00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:37,200 of jokes has come up, and I think like if you joke with people 368 00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:38,400 where they're not really the butt of the joke, they're in on the joke, 369 00:23:38,640 --> 00:23:41,839 you know. And I felt like with the hands and everything like that, 370 00:23:41,920 --> 00:23:44,480 like as long as I make the person that I'm you know, making 371 00:23:44,880 --> 00:23:47,240 they're laughing. I'm good with it. Like people saying, hey, you 372 00:23:47,240 --> 00:23:49,519 shouldn't talk like Scotti. You're taking Scott like Scotty loves it, like he 373 00:23:49,559 --> 00:23:52,839 loves it more than anybody. I'm like, so he's not offended. Why 374 00:23:52,880 --> 00:23:56,039 are you? You know? And then how you feeling going into the round 375 00:23:56,039 --> 00:23:59,440 two? You guys are obviously going to rematch it, So how you feeling? 376 00:23:59,759 --> 00:24:02,319 I feel good? I mean obviously, you know, I think he'll 377 00:24:02,319 --> 00:24:03,960 bring some a different game for the second one, or I think he's gonna 378 00:24:03,960 --> 00:24:07,359 do some different stuff. Right, we'll see, you know, like I'm 379 00:24:07,359 --> 00:24:10,720 prepared to play, you know, a few different ways and stuff like that 380 00:24:10,759 --> 00:24:12,319 and go with the flow. I didn't have to run any big bluffs because 381 00:24:12,359 --> 00:24:17,119 I had hands. But it's funny because there was one hand where he folded 382 00:24:17,119 --> 00:24:21,440 the turn and I had four high and I was one hundred percent going to 383 00:24:21,440 --> 00:24:23,119 bluff that pot, like I'd already made up my mind that I'm gonna call 384 00:24:23,160 --> 00:24:26,319 this turn if he bets him jamming, but he just folded down. I 385 00:24:26,359 --> 00:24:30,640 was like, okay, cool, I win four high, all right? 386 00:24:30,680 --> 00:24:36,119 So that was Daniel Legron. You post round one win against Eric Person. 387 00:24:36,160 --> 00:24:38,480 You guys heard him say there, he basically had the cards to get it 388 00:24:38,519 --> 00:24:44,200 done. Even the final hand Ace King verse as Queen Person had the ace 389 00:24:44,279 --> 00:24:45,839 Queen Nagran who dominated him with the Ace King. I mean it was just 390 00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:49,559 the grown us day. That's how it can be in this regard. And 391 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:56,079 yeah, I mean going forward, this was originally supposed to be two rounds 392 00:24:56,119 --> 00:24:59,839 between these two players. That's that's what they signed up for. But things 393 00:25:00,119 --> 00:25:03,240 change and Eric Person backed out kind of eleventh hour, last minute, but 394 00:25:03,319 --> 00:25:08,079 he backed out. So the rules we also change the rules for high stakes 395 00:25:08,079 --> 00:25:11,920 tool. It's that you just have to win two matches consecutively and then you 396 00:25:11,960 --> 00:25:15,799 can walk away with the title. So McGrane has one of those under his 397 00:25:15,839 --> 00:25:18,279 belt, one of the two wins. He has to win the next round 398 00:25:18,279 --> 00:25:22,680 and then he can take the money. If someone else comes in and beats 399 00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:25,000 him, you know, they have to win two in a row to cash 400 00:25:25,039 --> 00:25:29,640 out, etc. So right now where we are with this is there's thirty 401 00:25:29,680 --> 00:25:33,440 days or twenty nine or twenty eight days, however many days it is until 402 00:25:33,559 --> 00:25:37,119 someone challenges him. Yeah, there's been some people out there that have that 403 00:25:37,160 --> 00:25:41,799 have kind of stepped up to the plate mostly via social media, throw their 404 00:25:41,880 --> 00:25:47,279 names into the ring there to challenge Dan and legrand you and then I guess 405 00:25:47,279 --> 00:25:49,960 it's on us a slut who we wants in? We'll see who change share 406 00:25:51,119 --> 00:25:56,240 challenges Daniel, who you got? Who would you like? Who's the dream? 407 00:25:56,480 --> 00:26:00,720 Yeah? Your dream? Like you can pick anyone. Honestly, I 408 00:26:00,759 --> 00:26:03,240 think it would be pretty fun to see Doug Polk play him. They have 409 00:26:03,319 --> 00:26:07,000 their history and high sex feud. You know. I wouldn't mind saying someone 410 00:26:07,039 --> 00:26:11,839 like s Fandiari, you know, two losers to fill home with playing off 411 00:26:11,839 --> 00:26:15,960 against losers. Yeah, like come on swept by Phil, you know, 412 00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:18,920 and then maybe we see Phil come in and round five. I'm just happy 413 00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:22,400 you haven't said Phil home. That's what I'm happy about. No, we 414 00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:26,960 don't need to see that again. Yeah, I'm with you. I would 415 00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:33,440 like to see Jason Koon okay um just because he's the one who ultimately came 416 00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:37,079 out with the belt in High Stakes Dual three the heavyweight champ. He's the 417 00:26:37,079 --> 00:26:40,759 heavyweight champ. I would like to see him now get back in the ring 418 00:26:41,319 --> 00:26:44,519 facing the gron. I think that would be a fun, really high level 419 00:26:44,599 --> 00:26:48,559 poker match. But also two guys who have like enough personality that it would 420 00:26:48,599 --> 00:26:52,440 be fun and entertaining. But the personality isn't overbearing, Like they're not totally 421 00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:56,440 like in your face, non stop whatever. I know, these two like 422 00:26:56,440 --> 00:27:00,480 wouldn't really come at each other a whole ton. Yeah, but I still 423 00:27:00,480 --> 00:27:03,880 think it would be fun to like just see that level of poker between these 424 00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:07,359 two guys one hundred thousand dollars apiece, and then we go from there, 425 00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:10,599 and then like I think, going going forward from that, If Nigrani wins, 426 00:27:10,640 --> 00:27:12,160 great, he has the belt, Um that's that's a great story. 427 00:27:12,200 --> 00:27:15,240 If Kohon wins, you know, he goes on to the next round, 428 00:27:15,279 --> 00:27:21,240 which I think he's a very worthy continued to to go forward. Um, 429 00:27:21,359 --> 00:27:22,400 So yeah, I think that's who I would want to see. But it 430 00:27:22,440 --> 00:27:26,680 mostly comes back to what happened at the end of High Stakes Tool three and 431 00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:29,839 see him come back. I like your call of Antonio Spondiardo. I think 432 00:27:29,839 --> 00:27:33,400 that that would be fun. Um. So yeah, I think that's all 433 00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:36,039 I got for those for that one. I mean, I don't really know 434 00:27:36,079 --> 00:27:41,000 who else. Doug Polk, I just I don't know. I feel like 435 00:27:41,720 --> 00:27:45,640 I feel like it might be a little too like kumbaya, Like after what 436 00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:51,279 happened on the Twitter spaces, they might like, you know, and I'd 437 00:27:51,319 --> 00:27:56,519 kind of steer away from that and less kumbaya. But I don't know. 438 00:27:56,599 --> 00:27:59,680 I don't know. I like Jason Kohn, you know, That's what That's 439 00:27:59,680 --> 00:28:02,960 what I said. So yeah, I mean, I don't know. Do 440 00:28:02,960 --> 00:28:06,160 you think anyone's gonna come up? Jungle Man might be cool. I think 441 00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:08,920 they'll pay people will challenge obviously we have. The thing is is like Dan, 442 00:28:10,519 --> 00:28:14,319 and we experienced this when Jason Kohon won and he ultimately like didn't find 443 00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:18,599 a challenger for the next round, So that was one point. But that's 444 00:28:18,599 --> 00:28:22,440 what I'm getting at is that this Daniel is a very good player, right, 445 00:28:22,480 --> 00:28:23,960 So like if you were to play Daniel at one point six million, 446 00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:26,759 you might not want to do that, but you only have to put up 447 00:28:26,759 --> 00:28:30,839 one hundred k, So it's it's much more palatable for for challengers. It's 448 00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:34,079 much more easy for people to like raise money if they have to all that 449 00:28:34,119 --> 00:28:37,599 sort of stuff. So you know, the difference between playing someone for one 450 00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:41,079 hundred thousand dollars or playing there for one point six million is a very very 451 00:28:41,079 --> 00:28:45,000 big difference. Okay, So I think we're gonna see a lot of people 452 00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:48,160 throw throw their names out there. It's to get in there, and then 453 00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:51,599 we're gonna have a tough time challenging. We don't have a date for this 454 00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:52,759 yet. Again. We have to let the thirty days play out and then 455 00:28:52,759 --> 00:28:56,519 we'll go from there. Um so yeah, maybe you and I will you 456 00:28:56,559 --> 00:29:03,240 know, run it up, throw some money, steal four on four. 457 00:29:03,480 --> 00:29:07,880 I mean we can just start that like in our backyard.'s what we 458 00:29:07,880 --> 00:29:11,880 can do, all right, Moving away from all the poker girl stuff, 459 00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:17,359 We're gonna head on over to Oklahoma, if you can believe it. WPT 460 00:29:17,599 --> 00:29:21,640 Choctaw my first ever wt Evan. I've never been the Choctaw. Yeah, 461 00:29:21,799 --> 00:29:25,920 don't really care to go. It's great. Okay, I've heard the opposite, 462 00:29:25,920 --> 00:29:29,400 but okay, really from her, from everyone that goes there, don't 463 00:29:29,440 --> 00:29:32,480 you know what everyone that says that goes there, it's a place that once 464 00:29:32,519 --> 00:29:33,839 you go once, you don't ever have to go by. I love that 465 00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:38,240 place. The pool is awesome. The pool is awesome. Pool. Anytime 466 00:29:38,319 --> 00:29:41,519 somebody tells me that about a place, that means that means you don't even 467 00:29:41,559 --> 00:29:48,200 have to go once. I like ch so WPT Choctaw reaches its final table. 468 00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:55,039 beIN Wang is absolutely crushing. He is the chip leader of the WPT 469 00:29:55,200 --> 00:30:00,759 Choctaw final table, but he's also the chip leader of the wp T Seminal 470 00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:04,680 Hard Rock Poker Showdown final table that happened what like a week or two before 471 00:30:04,799 --> 00:30:11,680 Choctaw. Yeah, so Ben Wang is absolutely crushing. I think he started 472 00:30:11,720 --> 00:30:15,119 the year with a massive win at Borgata. If I'm not mistaken, in 473 00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:18,160 the in their Return event, I think he was the winner. He yes, 474 00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:21,359 he won the return for a million dollars. There you go. A 475 00:30:21,359 --> 00:30:26,759 couple of weeks later he won them. Yeah, the event you played the 476 00:30:26,799 --> 00:30:29,480 second main? Here? The event I played? Can you played the Horle 477 00:30:29,519 --> 00:30:32,559 Shop Main? No? I remember we went. We went to the horse. 478 00:30:33,160 --> 00:30:36,799 It was waymoky and crazy, and I was like, I'm not putting 479 00:30:36,799 --> 00:30:38,400 myself through this. The heck with this, I'm out. He won that 480 00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:42,400 for two hundred and twenty seven thousand. Had a bunch of little little cashes 481 00:30:44,680 --> 00:30:49,440 leading up until Seminal chip leader Choctaw y Seminal. I think he's got He's 482 00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:52,400 got like well like forty percent of the chips and player like something one hundred 483 00:30:52,480 --> 00:30:56,359 and fifty four big blinds playing for one point one million dollars. Yeah from 484 00:30:56,359 --> 00:31:02,279 a field of two thousand, two hundred and nine sounded seminal. Um. 485 00:31:02,359 --> 00:31:07,160 That final table is going to take place later on this month at the I 486 00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:11,319 hope they didn't change this name because I'm gonna say it, the hyper x 487 00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:14,440 E Sports Arena over at the lux Stor. I hope they didn't change the 488 00:31:14,519 --> 00:31:15,839 name. I know, like it used to be called like the Allied Esports 489 00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:21,079 Round. Yeah, I think that the current terminology. So anyway, Um, 490 00:31:21,079 --> 00:31:22,880 it also used to be a club that I went to a couple of 491 00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:27,960 times. It was a great Um. I forget exactly. I just think 492 00:31:27,960 --> 00:31:32,000 that I think they had hip hop nights on Wednesdays and that was like when 493 00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:40,079 we um so yeah, So Ben waging Is is crushing the WPT Seminal Final 494 00:31:40,119 --> 00:31:42,400 table and then he makes the WPT chalked off Final table. Just a little 495 00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:45,599 bit of a contrast in the first place prizes. Tim mentioned the one point 496 00:31:45,599 --> 00:31:49,599 one million dollars the more than one point one million dollars for Seminole Choctaws four 497 00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:52,759 hundred k. Still a great chunk of money, but um, you know, 498 00:31:52,839 --> 00:31:56,359 only about one third of the prize one a little bit more than one 499 00:31:56,400 --> 00:32:00,960 third or of first place prize there these chalked off field size is this is 500 00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:05,160 something that's stuck out to me, Like when I was watching the updates. 501 00:32:05,359 --> 00:32:09,000 I mean, they've kind of taken a dip recently, and I think it 502 00:32:09,039 --> 00:32:14,200 really just has to do with the time slot that it's put in. So 503 00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:20,319 Choctaw this year, the main event, the WPT Main Tour WPT Choctaw event 504 00:32:20,359 --> 00:32:22,000 had a two million dollars prize. School I saw that it got you know, 505 00:32:22,079 --> 00:32:24,200 two point one three million in the prize when I was like, that 506 00:32:24,240 --> 00:32:28,559 seems weird. I feel like they used to get like nine hundred two thousand 507 00:32:28,640 --> 00:32:31,839 runners. So I went back and looked. So last year they actually had 508 00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:35,799 seven eighty seven. This year they had six hundred and twelve, so pretty 509 00:32:35,839 --> 00:32:39,279 steep drop off there. Year before that twenty twenty one, nine sixty four. 510 00:32:39,759 --> 00:32:43,240 So let me just kind of run through these because I want to give 511 00:32:43,279 --> 00:32:46,519 them months also. So this year twenty twenty three, they ran WPT Choctaw 512 00:32:46,599 --> 00:32:51,880 in May six hundred and twelve entries. Last year also ran it in May 513 00:32:51,920 --> 00:32:55,079 seven hundred and eighty seven entries. Twenty twenty one they ran it in July 514 00:32:55,720 --> 00:33:00,640 nine hundred and sixty four entries. Now, there wasn't anything in twenty twenty 515 00:33:00,680 --> 00:33:04,880 due to the pandemic twenty nineteen, five hundred and seventy seven entries. Guess 516 00:33:04,960 --> 00:33:09,200 what it was in May twenty eighteen, seven fifty five, twenty seventeen, 517 00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:14,640 nine, twenty four, twenty sixteen, one thousand and sixty six, twenty 518 00:33:14,680 --> 00:33:17,559 fifteen, eleven hundred and seventy five. All four of those years eighteen, 519 00:33:17,599 --> 00:33:22,559 seventeen, sixteen, and fifteen, we're all in August twenty sixteen was end 520 00:33:22,599 --> 00:33:28,279 of July slash August. I don't know why you would see this data and 521 00:33:28,319 --> 00:33:30,640 have this in May. Ever, I think you have made a big big 522 00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:34,279 data people and we would see this and be like, yes, this is 523 00:33:34,319 --> 00:33:36,799 clearly you put this in August, right, Like, yeah, this is 524 00:33:36,839 --> 00:33:39,759 what you come like. Obviously, everyone focuses on the SUP in the summer, 525 00:33:39,880 --> 00:33:43,880 right, There's obviously stuff that goes around in Las Vegas, but it's 526 00:33:43,920 --> 00:33:50,440 it's mainly World Series of Poker focused. Then afterwards like boom into Chalktown something 527 00:33:50,559 --> 00:33:52,920 like middle of August, you know about you know, there's obviously going to 528 00:33:52,960 --> 00:33:57,440 be the Europeans that head on over. You know, usually like EPT Barcelona's 529 00:33:57,519 --> 00:34:00,680 kind of in that slot, but w PT Chalk Toss seems like it really 530 00:34:00,759 --> 00:34:06,359 thrived in that window. Um. So yeah, so I know there's uh 531 00:34:06,559 --> 00:34:10,280 some WPT people out here. They're listening. Our advice to you would be 532 00:34:10,880 --> 00:34:15,039 look at WPT Chalco back in August. Now I know what we're gonna get 533 00:34:15,039 --> 00:34:20,079 the text message that says it's because of production and we got to film the 534 00:34:20,119 --> 00:34:22,199 final tables at the end of May and blah blah blah and yah yah yah, 535 00:34:22,239 --> 00:34:25,719 yeah, okay whatever, figure it out. Okay, figure it out. 536 00:34:27,599 --> 00:34:30,119 Um. But overall, the story from this is Ben Wang, is 537 00:34:30,159 --> 00:34:32,800 he gonna do it? Is he gonna win both? Are these back to 538 00:34:32,880 --> 00:34:37,400 back? Because because they also have gardens which has start Maybe he'll make that 539 00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:43,639 foul table too. I'm gonna say he wins one and finishes second or third 540 00:34:43,639 --> 00:34:46,159 in another one. I'm not sure which. But you're Ben Wang, Yes, 541 00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:50,159 you make both these foul tables. You have the chip leads that he 542 00:34:50,199 --> 00:34:55,760 has. What is a failure to you? If you finish fourth in one 543 00:34:55,800 --> 00:34:59,639 and fifth in the other, where you are you like pissed? I think 544 00:35:00,559 --> 00:35:02,159 I feel like you have the top three bars. Yes, if you have 545 00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:06,440 fourth or worse in both, I think that's a failure. I mean, 546 00:35:06,440 --> 00:35:08,480 actually it's not a failure is the wrong word, you know, it's just 547 00:35:08,599 --> 00:35:13,920 disappointing. Disappointing. Seminal, he has double second and chin. He has 548 00:35:13,920 --> 00:35:15,760 so many chops toll. He's only got ten big blinds more than seconds, 549 00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:20,360 so it's a lot of a flatter, uh set of chip counts. I 550 00:35:20,360 --> 00:35:22,000 remember, Seminal, he has a big advantage. I remember when we first 551 00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:25,320 saw this guy, was that Seminole When we went down there for those high 552 00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:30,400 rollers in August the one year and I was like, who's this guy? 553 00:35:30,239 --> 00:35:31,280 Guy? You know, We're like, yeah, it's been wing. He 554 00:35:31,320 --> 00:35:35,320 was talking about how he like was playing home games and then he's like in 555 00:35:35,360 --> 00:35:37,599 the twenty five cows like, I don't even know what's happening any of the 556 00:35:37,679 --> 00:35:39,880 best. Clearly he is the best. It's having one hell of a year. 557 00:35:40,519 --> 00:35:43,639 Um, we'll see if he goes on to uh, you know, 558 00:35:43,760 --> 00:35:50,679 win these or you know, top three tables gardens. That would mean going 559 00:35:50,719 --> 00:35:53,159 into gardens which starts win next week. This week, I don't even know. 560 00:35:53,920 --> 00:35:55,960 Um, I mean it has to be all eyes on him. The 561 00:35:57,039 --> 00:35:59,400 return of the Gardens too. By the way, what do you mean a 562 00:35:59,440 --> 00:36:01,039 return of the guard Well, they had a couple of years off, oh 563 00:36:01,079 --> 00:36:05,239 they did. Gardens is a great place to play, you know, gotten 564 00:36:05,320 --> 00:36:08,639 stots on the twenty first. So okay, so they're gonna like lead right 565 00:36:08,679 --> 00:36:12,719 into the final table pretty much. Yeah, make the font within, fly 566 00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:15,480 to Vegas or drive or take an uber like nick eraball, whatever you want 567 00:36:15,480 --> 00:36:19,440 to do. Um. So yeah, that'll be a good way to kind 568 00:36:19,480 --> 00:36:22,559 of lead into the summer there um overall. Um. But yeah, as 569 00:36:22,599 --> 00:36:29,400 I said, all eyes on bin wank breakout player of the year. Did 570 00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:32,159 he break out before this? I'd have to look it up. But well 571 00:36:32,639 --> 00:36:36,679 you would say yes, No, I would say why would I say yes? 572 00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:42,119 He needs to like have like won something? Wow? He has, 573 00:36:42,199 --> 00:36:45,039 But what is your definition of how valuable that win? What is the wind? 574 00:36:45,159 --> 00:36:49,000 Tell me? Well, he wanted to win PGT High Roll of back 575 00:36:49,079 --> 00:36:52,800 in March last year for nearly two hundred thousand? What else anything else? 576 00:36:52,840 --> 00:36:58,079 Before? That's got a second place in a um WPT Lucky Hot steep Stack. 577 00:36:59,159 --> 00:37:00,960 No, he's got multiple six figure scals, is what I'm trying to 578 00:37:00,960 --> 00:37:07,639 say. I think he is a multiple four four if we five, he 579 00:37:07,719 --> 00:37:12,360 won the Bogada, fifth in the Bogada, he's definitely broken out. Does 580 00:37:12,440 --> 00:37:15,360 not quality, No, because I don't. He's got results back to twenty 581 00:37:15,400 --> 00:37:20,400 fifteen. Does not understand, but like he no, one remembers second through 582 00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:22,360 whatever place you want to put on it. They only remember the wins. 583 00:37:22,519 --> 00:37:25,599 Okay, like that, that's just how it is. You only got our 584 00:37:25,639 --> 00:37:29,199 wins. And then we're signing for a breakout. I mean, yeah, 585 00:37:29,199 --> 00:37:30,519 you have to like have won something, and it has to be a notable 586 00:37:30,559 --> 00:37:35,440 something. So like him winning a high roll or tournament, which generally are 587 00:37:35,559 --> 00:37:38,840 are side events respectful to the PGT. No, but I'm saying that one 588 00:37:39,239 --> 00:37:44,320 was probably a side event as part of a series. Like it wasn't like 589 00:37:44,320 --> 00:37:46,400 he won like a Poker Masters event. No. Yeah, he's got multiple 590 00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:52,039 wins, but no, and the your qualifications, Yeah he does not. 591 00:37:52,840 --> 00:37:58,480 This is his breakout year and started in January when he won their Return then 592 00:37:58,519 --> 00:38:01,599 a million bucks could likely win another million bucks at Seminal and then you know, 593 00:38:01,840 --> 00:38:07,639 had that bank roll a little more with four under k and then jump 594 00:38:07,719 --> 00:38:10,199 is PTV more actually played a couple sounds like if you're gonna bet on somebody 595 00:38:10,199 --> 00:38:14,559 to win a bracelet. It's probably been waning because he's just winning everything this 596 00:38:14,639 --> 00:38:20,320 year. Jeremy Bakley. Um, yes, yes, shout out that guy. 597 00:38:20,679 --> 00:38:22,920 That's his first name, right, je Jeremy Becker, Jeremie Becker. 598 00:38:23,519 --> 00:38:27,719 His one Like what four? I think it's win. No, I think 599 00:38:27,719 --> 00:38:31,039 it's four win daily tournaments. Yeah, in the last like two weeks. 600 00:38:31,039 --> 00:38:35,280 Every time, Win does a really good job with their social media. If 601 00:38:35,320 --> 00:38:39,519 you're part of like a poker room out there and you're looking to kind of 602 00:38:39,559 --> 00:38:43,719 do things on social media, I would look at at Win Poker on Twitter 603 00:38:43,760 --> 00:38:46,760 and do what they do, okay, which is like, take a nice 604 00:38:46,760 --> 00:38:51,400 winter photo, tweeted out, put it out there. South Point does a 605 00:38:51,400 --> 00:38:52,960 pretty good job of this as well, you know, constantly putting their stuff 606 00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:55,800 out there. Um, just just put your stuff out there. People are 607 00:38:57,000 --> 00:39:00,599 following, they want to know what's happening in the streets, and this guy, 608 00:39:00,760 --> 00:39:04,840 Jeremy Becker is out there winning everything. Six wins this year. But 609 00:39:04,880 --> 00:39:07,480 he said flick four in the last two weeks, he said four at the 610 00:39:07,480 --> 00:39:09,880 win one of the nation, one in Hollywood, Florida, and the fourth 611 00:39:09,960 --> 00:39:13,719 the winner Like in the last two weeks. He just wins all the dailies. 612 00:39:14,320 --> 00:39:17,079 He's yeah, twenty fourth of April, thirtieth of April, fourth of 613 00:39:17,119 --> 00:39:22,960 May just just crush. And yesterday yesterday or two that hasn't yet, yeah, 614 00:39:22,960 --> 00:39:25,559 but that's not yet. But yeah, yeah, he's just winning. 615 00:39:25,559 --> 00:39:30,280 He's seven and everything dropping for twenty five K, forty one dollars. I 616 00:39:30,360 --> 00:39:34,960 mean he's only he's only winning like four K in these in these nightlies, 617 00:39:35,039 --> 00:39:37,280 but you know he has eight hundred K winning yea. Yeah, No, 618 00:39:37,320 --> 00:39:40,840 he's a solid player. I've played with him sometimes in the in the win 619 00:39:40,880 --> 00:39:45,079 events. Um, he's good. Uh. And you know, it's always 620 00:39:45,079 --> 00:39:46,519 good to see these people go on these crazy heaters like this. I always 621 00:39:46,639 --> 00:39:49,639 like, I'm like a sucker for that, like the bin waning stuff, 622 00:39:50,039 --> 00:39:52,000 this stuff. Um, you had the what was it Georgie was the other 623 00:39:52,039 --> 00:39:57,000 guy George crushing everything. So yeah, um, I'm always a sucker for 624 00:39:57,079 --> 00:39:59,679 that sort of stuff, you know, partly because I'm just waiting for mine 625 00:39:59,719 --> 00:40:01,960 to have it's coming. Sit nowhere, that's right, Um, all right, 626 00:40:02,039 --> 00:40:07,199 let's head on over across the pond. Triton, North Cyprus kicked off 627 00:40:07,239 --> 00:40:10,599 today. Tim and I have been watching the live stream on the Triton YouTube 628 00:40:10,639 --> 00:40:15,440 channel. In the office today was what the twenty five k GG super millions 629 00:40:16,480 --> 00:40:22,159 as part of the series one hundred and fifty nine entries. Hello, well, 630 00:40:22,159 --> 00:40:23,519 by the way, this reminds me speaking of going across the pond, 631 00:40:23,679 --> 00:40:28,880 you left something off the rundown, EPT Monte Carlo. Hello, we'll get 632 00:40:28,880 --> 00:40:31,800 to We'll get to that next. Um. But yeah, uh so, 633 00:40:31,920 --> 00:40:35,639 yeah, so there's three point nine almost four million dollars in the price, 634 00:40:35,679 --> 00:40:38,400 well nine or eighteen thousand dollars. For first, there's people playing in the 635 00:40:38,400 --> 00:40:42,960 tournament I've never seen before. There's obviously a lot of notable names, right, 636 00:40:43,039 --> 00:40:45,320 you know, you got the Stephen Chidwick, Jason Kuhn's out there, 637 00:40:45,480 --> 00:40:49,960 Nacho Barbara, I saw Nick Petrangelo, Dancemoth, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. 638 00:40:50,239 --> 00:40:52,320 And then there's just people. I'm just like, who are these people? 639 00:40:52,960 --> 00:40:58,400 Yeah, I mean they're they're probably crushers from other countries. Yeah, 640 00:40:58,400 --> 00:41:00,920 a lot of them are from like Ciders, Russian guys. A lot of 641 00:41:00,960 --> 00:41:05,159 the Asian players that you haven't heard of just yet are out there playing. 642 00:41:05,199 --> 00:41:08,559 I mean, it looks like it's just going to be just for trying on 643 00:41:08,639 --> 00:41:14,119 like Gig or Poke King maybe, Yeah, I'm assuming there was. I 644 00:41:14,159 --> 00:41:19,239 think I think on Gig because Gig Gig Poker is UM like a sponsor official 645 00:41:19,280 --> 00:41:23,519 sponsor obviously with Gig Super Millions UM being a part of the series. So 646 00:41:23,519 --> 00:41:28,960 so yeah, Triton, I'm assuming they're live streaming everything from there, So 647 00:41:29,079 --> 00:41:31,320 tune on in for the next what two weeks UM. A lot of stuff 648 00:41:31,360 --> 00:41:37,480 going on. Chief among them is this luxe On Invitational, the luxe On 649 00:41:37,599 --> 00:41:40,840 Pay Invitational two hundred thousand dollars buying. That's one of those ones with a 650 00:41:40,920 --> 00:41:45,960 very unique format that you basically have to enter in pairs, although you're playing 651 00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:51,000 individually. And what I mean by that is a businessman or a VIP however 652 00:41:51,079 --> 00:41:53,599 you want to classify them. Can invite the pros. If you're a pro, 653 00:41:53,800 --> 00:41:58,239 you can just rock up and be like I'm in because my two hundred 654 00:41:58,280 --> 00:42:00,960 k I'm in. No, like Steven Chitwood can't show up, Jason Coon 655 00:42:00,039 --> 00:42:04,679 can't just show up. Those guys have to be paired with somebody. Um. 656 00:42:04,800 --> 00:42:07,880 We talked about this, uh couple episodes ago. We mentioned Carry Katz 657 00:42:07,920 --> 00:42:12,519 and Bryn Kenny were in there. They're now out now longer. Carrie said 658 00:42:12,519 --> 00:42:15,880 he's not gonna go. Um I I didn't see Brent on the updated list, 659 00:42:15,960 --> 00:42:19,079 so so yeah, um, I mean that's gonna be a fun one 660 00:42:19,119 --> 00:42:22,440 to fall of course. Um big. They still split the field, right, 661 00:42:22,639 --> 00:42:24,920 vps play one day? Honestly, I have no idea. I think 662 00:42:24,920 --> 00:42:30,119 they still split the field so they don't merge the VP and pro pool until 663 00:42:30,239 --> 00:42:32,119 day two. I mean that's that's smart. You know, that's smart. 664 00:42:32,280 --> 00:42:35,840 Yeah, I mean I think that's good. You wouldn't want to, you 665 00:42:35,840 --> 00:42:38,320 know, if you're just gonna show up as a VIP, get randomly drawn 666 00:42:38,360 --> 00:42:42,840 to a table before a bunch of killers, and it's like yeah, yeah, 667 00:42:42,880 --> 00:42:45,719 so, um, I didn't see Talal Shakirchi on there, winner of 668 00:42:45,760 --> 00:42:51,559 the last Triton Poker Series main event over in Vietnam. I would like to 669 00:42:51,559 --> 00:42:53,280 see him get in there. Um. So yeah. I think you can 670 00:42:53,320 --> 00:42:57,559 go to Triton Poker dot com. Uh, you know, click on the 671 00:42:57,559 --> 00:43:00,639 little link for the Luxon invitation and you can seek some of the pairings that 672 00:43:00,679 --> 00:43:04,480 are out there. The one that jumps out to me is the Puna Puncery 673 00:43:04,519 --> 00:43:09,320 and Danny Tang just because we're like Puna a VIP. I mean, definitely 674 00:43:10,760 --> 00:43:14,360 don't. It seems more like a poker player to me than a VIP. 675 00:43:14,639 --> 00:43:17,719 But that's gonna be a super super fun event to follow. Of course, 676 00:43:17,719 --> 00:43:21,559 they have a one hundred thousand dollars nolan At main event. They have a 677 00:43:21,559 --> 00:43:23,920 fifty thousand dollars Short Deck main event. If you haven't ever watched Short Deck, 678 00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:27,840 I know it like hasn't caught on like everyone said it would over here 679 00:43:27,840 --> 00:43:31,519 in the States, but it is super popular among the Triton crowd, and 680 00:43:31,559 --> 00:43:35,960 they're basically all on every hand because it's like you can't get dealt a bad 681 00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:38,119 hand and then they just somebody gets it in and it's just it's an all 682 00:43:38,199 --> 00:43:43,360 in fest NonStop. It's like kind of a more tame version of a Flipping 683 00:43:43,440 --> 00:43:46,440 going Away because every time I watched Short Deck on the Triton series, there's 684 00:43:46,440 --> 00:43:50,400 an all in every hand, eighty percent of the hands all in. It's 685 00:43:50,440 --> 00:43:52,960 crazy. So yeah, so that's gonna be going on. But we have 686 00:43:53,000 --> 00:43:58,639 to touch on EPT Monte Carlo because Tim decided to leave it off all of 687 00:43:58,679 --> 00:44:00,480 the rundown because he just doesn't know what he's doing. The guy has never 688 00:44:00,519 --> 00:44:02,920 been to an EPT, so He's just like, you know what, never, 689 00:44:04,000 --> 00:44:07,119 the hell with it? Have you really never been to one? That's 690 00:44:07,159 --> 00:44:10,039 not my fault that you lived in Australia. Okay, if you would have 691 00:44:10,119 --> 00:44:15,719 moved here sooner, you likely would have been over there. Yeah. UM 692 00:44:15,440 --> 00:44:21,719 believe it was a record center for the main events m one. They had 693 00:44:21,719 --> 00:44:28,320 more than a thousand entries. Mike Watson, Sir Wats becomes the third two 694 00:44:28,400 --> 00:44:32,719 time EPT champion. Um, Mike Watson won the PCA years ago, and 695 00:44:32,800 --> 00:44:37,960 the PCA was always counted as part of the EPT, I think, except 696 00:44:37,000 --> 00:44:40,159 for one year, was part of the NAPT. But we all know what 697 00:44:40,199 --> 00:44:44,920 happened to the NAPT. It went away. Um so yeah, so Mike 698 00:44:44,960 --> 00:44:49,760 Watson comes out on top. I thought Mike Watson did a great winners interview 699 00:44:49,800 --> 00:44:53,159 afterwards with Stapes up on stage, you know, just kind of talking about 700 00:44:53,159 --> 00:44:57,280 what the win meets to him in his career and all that sort of stuff, 701 00:44:57,320 --> 00:45:00,559 The pressure that was on him, you know, being ferience with the 702 00:45:00,599 --> 00:45:02,960 child at the final table, blah blah blah. Very well spoken interview. 703 00:45:04,079 --> 00:45:07,639 The media person in me watched the interview happened and I was like, that 704 00:45:07,760 --> 00:45:09,280 was really well done. Mike Watson. I'm very proud of you. Let's 705 00:45:09,320 --> 00:45:14,039 not forget who his wife is. Well, she's a pr pro. Yeah, 706 00:45:14,480 --> 00:45:16,440 I mean yeah, hell but they people jam a mic in front of 707 00:45:16,480 --> 00:45:20,559 your face with cameras on, like you know, you don't always articulate yourself. 708 00:45:20,880 --> 00:45:22,519 I'm chief among them. I say dumb shit all the time. It 709 00:45:22,559 --> 00:45:27,119 doesn't matter, And I talk on the podcasts and microphones and live streams and 710 00:45:27,480 --> 00:45:30,800 a lot, you know. I mean that's just how it is. You're 711 00:45:30,800 --> 00:45:32,280 pretty good at it. I don't really know how that happened, but you 712 00:45:32,320 --> 00:45:35,960 know, look, I heard your Daniel the Grinder interview. You asked him 713 00:45:36,000 --> 00:45:37,559 how are you feeling? Twice? And that's a big, big no no 714 00:45:37,679 --> 00:45:42,519 in our industry, asking how are you feeling? But I thought I phrased 715 00:45:42,559 --> 00:45:49,320 the first one like not It wasn't that. You gotta just look. I 716 00:45:49,320 --> 00:45:51,920 remember that, I remember, and I remember going in like, how am 717 00:45:51,920 --> 00:45:54,519 I gonna like ask this? Because we do hate we do hate the hart 718 00:45:54,519 --> 00:45:58,760 are you feeling? But with him, it was like you've been in here 719 00:45:58,840 --> 00:46:01,440 trying this many times, you haven't been able to beat anyone. Yeah, 720 00:46:01,559 --> 00:46:04,639 now finally you got one, so like, you know, how does it 721 00:46:04,639 --> 00:46:07,119 feel? To kind of get that monkey off your I mean, I know 722 00:46:07,159 --> 00:46:08,960 how I might have approached that question, but it is hot. Even from 723 00:46:08,960 --> 00:46:12,880 outside. It's hard to think of the right questions. And I mean I 724 00:46:12,960 --> 00:46:17,400 hate I hate the very the very generic. You just want how do you 725 00:46:17,440 --> 00:46:21,840 feel, you know, with the money, But it's I think I think 726 00:46:21,880 --> 00:46:23,719 you can kind of bend the rules a little bit there if there's some history, 727 00:46:23,800 --> 00:46:27,440 like with Daniel, it's like, you know, you've been in here 728 00:46:27,599 --> 00:46:30,880 multiple times, like how do you feel to get that monkey off your back 729 00:46:30,920 --> 00:46:32,320 in a way to finally get a win inside here? Not just like, 730 00:46:32,320 --> 00:46:36,559 hey, you want how do you feel? Like, No, that's that's 731 00:46:36,719 --> 00:46:39,880 dumb. What was the second time I said it out? I can't remember. 732 00:46:39,880 --> 00:46:43,760 It was later on it was something to do. I transcribed it for 733 00:46:43,840 --> 00:46:46,719 the winner story and I saw that I saw another Hey, yeah, sometimes 734 00:46:46,719 --> 00:46:51,239 my brain just doesn't work. That's just how it is. What are you 735 00:46:51,239 --> 00:46:54,599 gonna do? What are you gonna do? Um? Mike Watson did great 736 00:46:54,639 --> 00:47:00,679 though, as I said, um crush that tournament. He beat Leonard in 737 00:47:00,840 --> 00:47:05,559 heads up play. Mao has played a bunch of PGT events yes in the 738 00:47:05,599 --> 00:47:08,920 past, so um clearly two of the more experienced players. Um, you 739 00:47:08,960 --> 00:47:13,000 know deep in that field at the final table, et cetera. Um, 740 00:47:13,039 --> 00:47:15,960 I think uh, Mike Watson took home. They made a deal heads up, 741 00:47:15,960 --> 00:47:19,840 but then per the EPT, they always played for something on the side. 742 00:47:19,840 --> 00:47:23,360 He took home what seven euros, which is like eight hundred and twenty 743 00:47:23,400 --> 00:47:29,320 k USD. I remember them that used to be like seven million USD back 744 00:47:29,360 --> 00:47:31,039 in the day, right, I mean that's how it was, right, 745 00:47:32,119 --> 00:47:37,800 Um, one hundred thousand dollars super high roller over there. Mikita Badziakowski won 746 00:47:37,880 --> 00:47:42,960 that one. Um. So yeah, the EPT is just it's going strong. 747 00:47:43,199 --> 00:47:46,039 Yeah, I mean it seems like nothing ever happened with the EPT. 748 00:47:46,360 --> 00:47:49,679 We kind of went away for a little while and then it came back and 749 00:47:49,719 --> 00:47:52,000 it's just right back to where it started. I mean, poker is more 750 00:47:52,039 --> 00:47:57,320 popular than ever. The Europeans need something. Unless you know, unless you're 751 00:47:57,360 --> 00:48:00,440 in Choctaw than it's going the wrong way. We're gonna run the next takeover 752 00:48:00,559 --> 00:48:04,719 tournament and Choco they move it to if they just move it to August, 753 00:48:05,440 --> 00:48:07,960 Yes, they need to meet Augus. There's gonna be eight hundred entries in 754 00:48:07,000 --> 00:48:13,840 that tournament. UM so yeah, what else we gotta talk about no Gambino 755 00:48:13,920 --> 00:48:17,079 future is going strong on poker grow, high stakes, poking strong on poker 756 00:48:17,159 --> 00:48:22,960 grow. Um, you got a family pot? Do you want to get 757 00:48:22,000 --> 00:48:25,639 into that? Yeah, I'm hopefully you have one. Why would I have 758 00:48:25,840 --> 00:48:29,559 got a big troop this weekend? I did have a big trip. Let's 759 00:48:29,559 --> 00:48:32,360 play the music. I don't know what I'm really gonna talk about in regards 760 00:48:32,360 --> 00:48:35,559 to my big trip, So we're gonna play the music and then we'll just 761 00:48:35,559 --> 00:48:49,440 get into some stuff. It's time, all right, buddy, what do 762 00:48:49,480 --> 00:48:53,320 you got from me? You have something versus something small, So something's gonna 763 00:48:53,320 --> 00:48:58,159 be the size of the titan We did finish the Titanic. Yeah, it's 764 00:48:58,199 --> 00:49:01,000 about he was very scared of the people dying. But that's yeah, that's 765 00:49:01,239 --> 00:49:06,440 what it is. Um, he's he's got two wobbee teeth. One fell 766 00:49:06,480 --> 00:49:08,559 out, got ten dollars from a tooth ferry. He's had this other one 767 00:49:08,559 --> 00:49:13,400 that's just been just sitting there the front tooth just not falling out. Yank 768 00:49:13,400 --> 00:49:15,320 get out man. Yeah, Well, so he had to do the whole 769 00:49:15,360 --> 00:49:17,320 like, you know, tie a string and I put it on the door. 770 00:49:17,480 --> 00:49:22,519 I suggested that you'll what happened Sunday. He gets hit in the face 771 00:49:22,559 --> 00:49:24,760 of basketball training with the ball and it's bleeding a bit. I'm like, 772 00:49:24,800 --> 00:49:28,400 all right, it's fine, you'll be okay, you know. Do you 773 00:49:28,400 --> 00:49:30,079 want me to pull that out? He says no, no, no. 774 00:49:30,639 --> 00:49:34,079 As he's playing basketball, he's like flicking it with his tongue back and forth. 775 00:49:34,079 --> 00:49:36,800 And I'm like, this kid's gonna swallow his tooth anyway. We get 776 00:49:36,840 --> 00:49:39,039 home, like, let's pull it out. He's no, I'm too scared. 777 00:49:39,079 --> 00:49:40,599 I'm too scared. And then I joke with him. I get a 778 00:49:40,639 --> 00:49:44,800 pair of tweezers. It's like no, no, no, I get like 779 00:49:45,039 --> 00:49:46,000 some string. He's like no. He runs away. Then I'm like, 780 00:49:46,079 --> 00:49:49,519 all right, I know how and get him. I go to my garage. 781 00:49:49,559 --> 00:49:53,239 I get my wrench. Come out your wrench and you know, the 782 00:49:53,280 --> 00:49:58,559 adjustable wrench. Yeah, And I chase chase him on the house for like 783 00:49:58,599 --> 00:50:01,719 ten minutes. He's so quick. I finally get him. I put him 784 00:50:01,719 --> 00:50:05,280 on the couch and like climb on top of him and hold him down, 785 00:50:05,639 --> 00:50:08,079 and I put the wrench and I'm going to write out He's I'm not gonna 786 00:50:08,079 --> 00:50:10,480 do it, but he's just like freaking out, He's like, and then 787 00:50:10,559 --> 00:50:13,840 my wife's just like, you're gonna scar him for life. I was just 788 00:50:13,840 --> 00:50:16,320 gonna say you're gonna scar I'm like, I'm just messing around. So then 789 00:50:16,440 --> 00:50:21,760 he's never gonna want to go near a tool box every Then then he starts 790 00:50:21,760 --> 00:50:24,079 wrestling with me straight away, like there's no break. He just starts wrestling, 791 00:50:24,280 --> 00:50:29,079 jumping on me, and his tooth pops out. He's bleeding, but 792 00:50:29,199 --> 00:50:30,639 he's fine. Now he's too sad. He got his ten dollars from the 793 00:50:31,079 --> 00:50:36,800 tooth fairy and he's he's all good. I don't know what the rate is. 794 00:50:36,800 --> 00:50:39,480 We we were on shore and the first time we gave him ten, 795 00:50:39,800 --> 00:50:43,880 and now we've just got to stick to ten. I guess ten dollars. 796 00:50:43,719 --> 00:50:45,320 It seems like it's a lot. How many teeth you lose. The kids 797 00:50:45,480 --> 00:50:49,880 at a lot of money. He lose a lot, though. I think 798 00:50:49,920 --> 00:50:52,880 you lose all of them. I mean ten bucks, man, good lord, 799 00:50:52,800 --> 00:50:55,960 Yeah, my kids like getting ten bucks, that's for sure. Whatever 800 00:50:57,000 --> 00:51:00,719 you start with you have to continue with, So start low. We made 801 00:51:00,719 --> 00:51:04,800 the mistake starting with a quarter quarter. God. Well, times are tough, 802 00:51:04,800 --> 00:51:07,800 man. We just went to Disneyland. That's what Tim was talking about 803 00:51:07,840 --> 00:51:10,199 my big trip. We went to Disneyland. Big argument with my wife, 804 00:51:10,480 --> 00:51:13,599 going back and forth, should we go, should we not go? She 805 00:51:13,679 --> 00:51:16,119 wins, Happy wife, happy life, all that good stuff. We ended 806 00:51:16,199 --> 00:51:22,840 up going to Disneyland. Kid loved it. She's what twenty six months old 807 00:51:22,880 --> 00:51:25,119 now, um, so she loved it, had a lot of fun. 808 00:51:25,840 --> 00:51:30,760 She's still kind of scared of the actual characters. She's scared of like adults 809 00:51:30,760 --> 00:51:36,320 and costumes. She doesn't like that brother to Santa Claus freaked out, brought 810 00:51:36,320 --> 00:51:40,000 to the easter, Bunnie absolutely freaked out. The bigger costumes that came around 811 00:51:40,000 --> 00:51:45,159 on Halloween freaked out this one. She was like kind of because she watches 812 00:51:45,199 --> 00:51:46,480 you know, the Disney characters all time, Mini, Mickey, et cetera. 813 00:51:46,639 --> 00:51:52,079 So she was she was a little bit more willing to like interact with 814 00:51:52,159 --> 00:51:53,880 them, go near them, but like she wouldn't hug Mini. She would 815 00:51:53,880 --> 00:51:58,000 only go kind of near her, like give her a high five. So 816 00:51:58,159 --> 00:52:04,920 yeah, my big takeaway is that the food at Disneyland absolutely sucks. Okay, 817 00:52:05,199 --> 00:52:07,440 it's like a hot so no, it's why is that a hot? 818 00:52:07,480 --> 00:52:13,400 Take? It so bad? It's just I've never what you pay fourteen dollars 819 00:52:13,480 --> 00:52:17,360 for like dry ass chicken and some white rice. People talk about like the 820 00:52:19,119 --> 00:52:22,599 treats they have. It was like the special like Halloween treats, Christmas treats 821 00:52:22,639 --> 00:52:27,760 and stuff. The I've only I've been to Disneyland a few times, disney 822 00:52:27,760 --> 00:52:34,039 World as well. I've only found one thing that is like worth like what 823 00:52:34,159 --> 00:52:38,000 I think the money. That is they have these jumbo turkey legs. I 824 00:52:38,039 --> 00:52:42,920 mean they are like the size of your head. This is like a Thanksgiving 825 00:52:42,960 --> 00:52:45,880 I have no idea, but like they're amazing. Okay, they're so good, 826 00:52:46,280 --> 00:52:51,159 like they're just smoked turkey legs. They're awesome. That sounds pretty good. 827 00:52:51,519 --> 00:52:53,599 Um, That's the only thing that I think is worth it. Everything 828 00:52:53,639 --> 00:52:59,079 else I think stinks and is super overpriced. But like I feel like they 829 00:52:59,119 --> 00:53:04,280 should like really like do it up, like make the restaurants and the food 830 00:53:04,280 --> 00:53:09,079 option is better. They're just not there's not that good. They're not Okay, 831 00:53:09,320 --> 00:53:13,599 nothing is good. Not taking the family into Disneyland. It's so expensive 832 00:53:13,639 --> 00:53:17,239 for me. You're rich. You're giving out ten dollars tooth fairy gifts as 833 00:53:17,280 --> 00:53:22,400 I'm today, you're about to book our trip to Hawaii. But yeah, 834 00:53:22,480 --> 00:53:27,960 yeah, Ira eight fish Tacos on the beach there. Disney Disneyland was good. 835 00:53:28,079 --> 00:53:30,960 You know, ultimately I'm happy we went. Um it was good. 836 00:53:30,559 --> 00:53:34,440 Not gonna go for another seven years, I told my wife. But happy 837 00:53:35,000 --> 00:53:37,639 enough to go on rides? Was it rides for like young yeah? She, 838 00:53:38,679 --> 00:53:42,840 uh, my kid was. We measured her on like there's a lot 839 00:53:42,840 --> 00:53:45,639 of rides that don't require any heart requirement. Okay, then there's obviously something 840 00:53:45,639 --> 00:53:49,199 that require you to be like, you know, ninety inches tall or something. 841 00:53:49,719 --> 00:53:53,039 Um, But there was a few where she met the minimum requirement, 842 00:53:53,079 --> 00:53:57,880 which was thirty two inches. She was like exactly thirty two, which might 843 00:53:57,880 --> 00:54:00,239 have been because we you know, we did her hair a certain way made 844 00:54:00,280 --> 00:54:02,079 her a little bit taller, but anyway, it doesn't matter. Um. 845 00:54:02,119 --> 00:54:06,199 But yeah, so yeah, that was that was fun. We found out 846 00:54:06,239 --> 00:54:10,320 she doesn't like spiders because we went to um the what is it, the 847 00:54:10,360 --> 00:54:15,679 Avengers campus. UM. Spider Man not so into that. UM A little 848 00:54:15,719 --> 00:54:20,239 bit scared of uh, I would say, timid, not really scared timid 849 00:54:20,280 --> 00:54:23,199 of the um the darkness and a lot of the rides. But she liked 850 00:54:23,199 --> 00:54:27,199 it overall. So yeah, I thought it was good. It was a 851 00:54:27,199 --> 00:54:30,920 good trip. Quick four hour drive from Vegas. So yeah, quick four 852 00:54:30,960 --> 00:54:35,239 hour drive. I mean, yeah, it wasn't that bad. What I 853 00:54:35,360 --> 00:54:37,119 hate that drive? No, that drive is fine. You should try and 854 00:54:37,159 --> 00:54:40,320 do the drive to Tahoe and then I've done that one come back and we 855 00:54:40,719 --> 00:54:45,159 did that once for Gary. No not that one again yea. Um, 856 00:54:45,199 --> 00:54:47,559 but yeah, so that was my tribute was fun Disneyland. Um, if 857 00:54:47,599 --> 00:54:51,639 you guys have any different opinions out there, maybe you share the same sort 858 00:54:51,639 --> 00:54:54,079 of thing on the food, let us know on social media. Um at 859 00:54:54,119 --> 00:54:59,639 Doniana score Peters, that's me at tram Stoff with a zero for the O 860 00:55:00,760 --> 00:55:02,760 on him. And speaking of social media, I'm gonna give a shout out 861 00:55:02,800 --> 00:55:07,599 to Gary Gates. You guys know a friend of the Pod fourth place main 862 00:55:07,639 --> 00:55:12,960 event finisher a couple of years ago. He's been doing these AI mascots. 863 00:55:13,440 --> 00:55:19,119 Have you seen these? Scary as hell. Basically he's just been using artificial 864 00:55:19,159 --> 00:55:22,159 intelligence. Mid Journey is the AI tool that he's been using, and he 865 00:55:22,199 --> 00:55:29,239 goes in there and he prompts them to like recreate the mascots from the sports 866 00:55:29,280 --> 00:55:31,719 He started with the NFL. He put that out there. They spit out 867 00:55:31,760 --> 00:55:37,639 all thirty two NFL teams mascots, some of them are just out of control, 868 00:55:37,719 --> 00:55:40,320 hideous. Like again, social media gets in a frenzy, and then 869 00:55:40,360 --> 00:55:45,159 he did the NBA after that same sort of thing. Just total total whack 870 00:55:45,280 --> 00:55:47,320 job, you know, mascots come out of it, and then he did 871 00:55:47,320 --> 00:55:52,960 the NHL. But like all three of these tweets and each one is like 872 00:55:52,960 --> 00:55:55,039 a thread and you can find him. He's just at Gary Gates on social 873 00:55:55,079 --> 00:56:00,480 media. Gary is with two rs on social media on Twitter. Um, 874 00:56:00,559 --> 00:56:04,480 you can find these threads. But I think he was on like he was 875 00:56:04,480 --> 00:56:07,880 on a morning show today in Phoenix Talks, yeah, talking about it, 876 00:56:07,920 --> 00:56:12,000 like all these different websites have written about it. Yeah, a lot of 877 00:56:12,000 --> 00:56:14,800 the teams, a lot of the teams are like having fun with it, 878 00:56:14,880 --> 00:56:19,119 like like today the Washington Capitals are going on their thing. Um, the 879 00:56:19,199 --> 00:56:25,320 Detroit Pistons one has like its own subreddit now, like among the Detroit Pistons 880 00:56:25,360 --> 00:56:29,400 fans, they've like really taken a love to this guy. And it also 881 00:56:29,880 --> 00:56:32,440 so it uses like the team colors, but it like distorts the name and 882 00:56:32,480 --> 00:56:36,000 everything, like totally changes the name and a lot of them, so like 883 00:56:36,360 --> 00:56:38,719 the Pistons one, it's changed. I think peton is how you would say 884 00:56:38,719 --> 00:56:42,559 it, p t O n Okay, So like the subreddit is just like 885 00:56:42,639 --> 00:56:45,559 yeah, peton, peton, Like they're all about pton now. So it's 886 00:56:45,599 --> 00:56:47,559 just this whole it's this whole thing. Um. But you know, if 887 00:56:47,559 --> 00:56:52,159 you guys want some want some fun in social media, you can check out 888 00:56:52,199 --> 00:56:57,000 Gary's Twitter at Gary Yates and uh yeah, see what one is your favorite? 889 00:56:57,000 --> 00:57:00,440 It's pretty wacky and wild. We need to do some some sort of 890 00:57:00,480 --> 00:57:05,000 poker thing with AI at some point, but yeah, but anyway, that's 891 00:57:05,079 --> 00:57:08,480 that all right, that's gonna do it for Tim and myself. 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