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The record shattering twenty twenty three World Series of Poker Main Event is down to
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We're gonna get into everything that happened on the first day of the final
table. They played from nine players down to three today. Steven Jones is
leading the way. The other two players. You got Daniel Weinman in second
place, then you have Adam Walton in third place. Walton started the final
table as the chip leader rode that all the way to the final three.
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get into what happened today on the first day of the twenty twenty three World
Series of Poker Main Event Final Table. It was a fun day. It
was an exciting day. We lost six players en route to Day two.
Action kicked off the cards were in the air at two pm Las Vegas time.
The live stream got underway an hour later at three pm Los Vegas time.
Falling first was Daniel Holsner in ninth place, taking home nine hundred thousand
dollars. Holsner wasn't the short step coming into play. That was Toby Lewis,
but Toby Lewis chipped up a little bit early. Daniel Holsner lost a
big hand against Jan Peter Yatman when his aces were cracked by by Jan Peter
Yatman's pocket tens. I believe it went raise from Holsner. Yachtman called out
of the big blind or maybe the small blind flop top set, proceeded to
make a full house by the river and was able to get some value on
the river. Yachtman with that full house bet right around half of Holsner stack.
Holsner's thought about it for a while, made the call, saw the
bad news, and then he was short. Thereafter he did get one double
up through Daniel Weinman, but he was still left short. And then he
ultimately gets his money in with ace jack off versus the pocket tens once again
tens hurting Holsner, and this one would be the ultimate blow. Those tens
belong to Stephen Jones. The ace jack off did not hit for Holsner,
and the apple farmer from Italy was out in ninth place. And we do
have audio of Holsner's elimination interview with Kara Scott, so we will play that
for you right now. I would in ninth place here from our final table,
Daniel Holtner, you've done this as a shorter stack for so many of
the last few days, and now in front of all friends and your family,
What has the experience been like for you? It was obviously an amazing
experience. Like we said, it was a present from my family, from
my friends, so I hope I did work for them. I'm just glad
that I got to do the final table. Like we said, that was
so short so many times, so I did my best, I guess,
and yeah, that's how poper works. Lost the coin flip and so I'm
okay with that. I'm still happy. How does your life change after a
huge experience like this? Does poker become a bigger part of your life now?
I don't think so, because I have a lot of work at home.
My father is God, is getting older, so I have to do
that stuff for him and the next two or three years, So I don't
think it's gonna become a bigger part of mine. But I will still continue
to play some tournis and that's it. He received his main event buying a
gift from his family on his thirtieth birthday. If you watched the live stream
today, you saw video of that gifting where Holsner was brought to tears for
the gift and then takes that buy and takes that present, rides it to
a ninth place, finished for nine hundred thousand dollars. Well done for Daniel
Holsner. All right, eight players remained Juan Mussras. He goes out next.
Now Massas had when they were playing down to the foun table had gotten
up over one hundred million ships, like well over one hundred million ships.
Then he proceeds to just you know, keep his foot on the gas.
He goes below one hundred million, he slips a little bit further. He
comes into this found table with sixty eight million. Some things don't go his
way. Early on, he got really frisky in a weird spot when he
three bed five three hearts and went open from plus one a flat call from
Jones. Then Um Massras has the five three hearts. He takes for a
while, puts in a three bet so what I think was eleven million at
the time. Behind him, Adam Walman wakes up with Ace King and makes
it twenty two million. So everyone folds, including Massiris, and that was
a huge chunk out of his stack at the time. Then he gets involved
with Stephen Jones. When Jones opens Jack's Massiris three bets ace King of Clubs,
Jones elects to just call. He flops the set of jacks on the
ace jack deuce flop. It actually goes check check. Jones had checked him
the dark on the flop. Um. Massias checked behind pretty quickly too.
Um the doc check. Yeah, Jones had dark checked a few times at
this win in a final table. A little bit weird, but hey,
it was working for him. Jones ends up getting value from mass Airis on
later streets, so that takes a big chunk out of Massias's stack. Then
he's short. Then he's just kind of trying to find and get his money
in. Eventually he's down to eleven big blinds. Heps from the hijack with
King nine off. Toby Lewis makes the call on the big blind with Ace
ten off. The Ace ten off holds up and that is the end of
the road for Masseres, who had You know, Massires has been around for
a while, long time blaster over on the EPT circuit, but for the
last five years he hadn't played any poker. Now he comes back finds himself
on this run Um still playing the same old style that he always played.
Makes it down to the final eight. Here goes out in eighth place for
one million, one hundred and twenty five thousand dollars, and we'll play his
elimination interview with Karascott, And out in eighth place is one Massiris. I
know we spoke yesterday and you had hundreds and hundreds of messages waiting for you
to be read. Do you go and do that now or do you take
some time to process this first? Of course, I wouldn't take some time
for the answer of the messages, just to lead. And that's it.
What does letting it go look like? What are you gonna be doing right
after this for tomorrow? I don't know. I don't know what's gonna happen
tomorrow. We'll see. I just tried to enjoy my best the Suspedians and
nothing I could little and just find out day all right. That was the
end of the road for Juan muss Airis. Then it was Toby Lewis's turn
to bust. Although he did ladder up a few spots, he did bust
muss Airis before hit before this in eighth place, Lewis finds himself in a
spot where Stephen Jones opens with the raised the pockets tends Adam Walton. Walton
flat called with the nine eight of clubs on the button. Lewis has twenty
one big blinds and he's in the big blind with King jack Off. He
elects to three bet jam. I think it's a good spot for him to
do this. Um, he had already laddered up a couple of spots,
so he's he's now making at least one million foreigner and twenty five thousand.
Jones I think was playing a little bit on the tighter side, so you
can probably get some get some three bet jams through there against hands like you
know, Bace Queen Off Ace Jack stuff like that. Maybe he folds smaller
pairs. He did have tens here, but maybe he folds like you know,
the sevens of the world, sixes, etc. And then Walton had
just been playing kind of his old wacky style. You know, he can
be flatting with a whole wide range of hands as he was with the nine
eight clubs here. So Lewis gets it in with the King jack Off.
Jones ends up making the call, Walton gets out of the way. Lewis
does not hit on the flop turner River and he's out in seventh place for
one million, four hundred and twenty five thousand, largest career scorer to date
for Toby Lewis, even though he has two prior seven figure scores. He
won the Azzi Millions before he finished third in the wind Millions. So good
on Toby Lewis for this run and laddering up a few spots after coming into
the final table as the short stack. And here is his elimination interview with
Kara Scott. Toby Lewis out in seventh place. So what does a run
like this mean to someone who's already done so much in their career? Wow?
I mean, in like a week or two will probably be pretty nice,
but a little bit sweet right now? How do you go away and
process this? What is it gonna take? Do you think? What do
you do tomorrow? Take my dog for a walk. How has it the
experience been kind of throughout being able to go this deep this many days in
the World Series of Poker main event. I mean it's pretty cool. Yeah,
it's obviously a marathon. It's just a lot of endurance, like mental
you gotta get through every day. But actually waking up after like five days
was easier than it was the second day. It kind of became normals,
all right. That was Toby Lewis and then there were six. Dean Hutchinson
is the next player to go. He didn't really get involved at all.
Yeah, I mean, it was like it was weird. I think it
was the second hand of the final table where it folded to him and I
believe was the low jack seat and he just flung two eights into the muck,
didn't raise, didn't do anything like, you know, and he kind
of yeah, I mean at that point, Yeah, nine players left,
I'm guessing that's what it was. You know, nine players left, You've
got Lewis, that's shorter. Um, you know, you're kind of in
that weird middle ground. So just trying to wait out a couple of spots,
I mean, unless the graphics are wrong, which can obviously be definitely
think too you know, but um, but yeah, m but he makes
it down to the final six. He eventually goes out when it folds to
him on the button he's got two fives. He raises to commit himself,
puts eighty percent of his stacking. Jan Peter yachtman wakes up with two sevens
and the big blind announces that he's all in. Hutcherson calls the sevens hold
up for yachtman and that is the end of the road for the Scott.
He takes home one million, eight hundred and fifty thousand, and afterwards he
spoke with Jeff plattin all right, catching up with Dean as we take a
walk towards the payout desk. I know you weren't feeling well at the beginning
of this tournament. How does it feel now after a six place finished from
US two million dollars. Paplets played the main event like eleven times, and
that's the first time of a cashed. So I'm just relieve. Actually,
okah, cash another my final table. You seem so relaxed out there,
so calm, cool, collected. Is that how you actually felt? Yeah?
Yeah, I'm just I don't know why. It was just relaxed,
just taking them like step to step. What was it like to have such
a wild rail behind you, chanting, singing, doing it all? Yeah,
it was good. It always helps, like spas and a little button,
like when you're like caled dead, then you're like feeling about like doing
like they're real helps you. What's next for you? Is it a deep
dive into the poker tournament scene or perhaps a little time off. No,
I'll just keep playing. I don't really like taking time off, but well,
going to have a few nights out and with my fans because I was
loaded them there, so like a few weeks off then back them again.
All right? That was Hutchinson with Jeff Platt. After that rustling pre Drick
goes out in fifth place. He didn't really get involved that much should haul
during this final table, but he did, you know, manage to make
his way all the way down to fifth place. Became the first player to
get up over two million in terms of a payout. He collected two point
four million for his fifth place finish. He was looking to become the first
Ukrainian WSP main event champion. We've never had that before in poker, but
he ultimately falls in fifth place. He did double up when they were down
to five. He got his money in eleven point five big blinds with Ace
jack Off and held against Stephen Jones's Ace aid Off. I thought that was
a kind of a speculative call from Jones. Predrick had shoved all in.
I believe him under the gun for the eleven and a half big lines with
the aceh jack off, and then Jones thought for a while from the small
one made the call with ace aid off. The ACEH jack off held for
Predrick. But then he gets back down to twelve big blinds. He moves
all in with Queen toown of clubs. He gets called by Daniel Wineman,
who has ace jack off. The ace jack off holds on the ace jack
deuce Queen eight board. In that pot. Not only did it knock out
Russell and prejec in fifth place for two point four million, it gave Dan
Wineman the chip lead. And then that's where we went from there. They
decided to keep playing. So we're down to four. The original plan was
to get down to four, but it's always like a soft plan. It's
like, get down to four, assess where we are. They had played
pretty fast at this point, the stacks are pretty deep. Things are moving
along, so the decision was made not to stop play immediately. They're gonna
play a little bit longer. Definitely, if they lost one more player,
they were gonna stop for sure, but you know, play out. Maybe
the level that they were in, maybe the next level as well, you
know, kind of see where they were make for you know, a better
showing for Monday when the second stage of the final table would take place.
You know, you don't want a really short day on one day and then
like a super long, like fifteen hour day on the next day. You
kind of want to balance them out. So that was the plan here.
During the four handed play, Jones took back the chip lead. He won
a big pot against yachtman when yachtman ran into Jones's full house and then it
ended up where on the river, Jones's got a full house. Yachtman bets
the river and then folds to Jones's rays, So that was a you know,
a chunk of chips removed from the German stack. He lost some more
chips here and there. He ultimately gets down to fifty six million or fifty
four million, I should say, when the big blind was two million.
And then the hand comes down where he goes out in fourth place. So
Jones comes in with a raise, he makes the minimum four million. Walton
decides to flat pocket aces. Now if Walton just three bets his hand,
this hand likely doesn't play out like this, and Yachtman is probably still in
the tournament. I believe Jones was raising with like Jack four so something just
raising because he was like the chip leader. So he raises to four million.
Walton flats the aces. Now it moves over. Daniel Wyeman folds in
the small blind and the big blind Jan Peter Yachtman has you know, fifty
four million, he's got twenty seven big blinds. He looks down, he
sees King Queen off. Now, if that goes raised in three bet in
front of him, he probably puts the King Queen off in the muck.
I mean, there's maybe a chance that he calls or you know, four
bet shoves because it is Walton, that's three betting. But I would say
the likelihood is that he puts that hand into the muck. So with the
way that the hand played out, though it goes open, it goes flat,
He's like, okay, this is a good spot, you know,
kind of similar earlier to when Tobey Lewis busted. Pretty good spot here for
a three bet jam from the big blind. That is exactly what Yatman does.
He puts his twenty seven big blinds and Joe quickly gets out of the
way, Walton snaps him off the aces hold four Walton and that is the
end of the road four Yachtman. He takes home four million dollars for his
fourth place finished, and then that is what signaled end of play for the
day before we talk about the final three players that made it on. Here
is the elimination interview that Yatman did with Kara Scott and I'm here with Jan
We have lost you off of this final table. Can you talk to us
and some of what the experience has been like having this particular tournament with so
many people watching. Yeah, of course was great experience. Um, I
did very well until the last I don't know half hour or maybe so I
had I tried some some bluffs against the ship leader and so now I had
think queen moved all in. I think that was it was fine, but
this Allan Allan tried to trap the other guy and he had aces, So
this was was a little bit luck. But yeah, I'm I'm happy.
I'm very happy about my tournament and and it's a respectable fourth place. Actually
I was. It was a little strange. I thought when we when we
played out to four, I was like little Oh yeah, I'm fine,
we're done. We have a dinner, we have tomorrow, it's come on.
And so I said, no, no, we keep on playing.
I don't know, maybe it was a little I don't know why, but
I lost a little my my I don't know, concentration not, but I
felt that I was little um exhausted somehow because I was just said, okay,
let's one more and then we're done for today. And maybe this was
a little mistake from in my in my brain to do that, and because
everybody said, yeah, yeah, we played down to fourth, but okay,
all right, that was yam Peter yatman. It feels pretty good,
I would say about his run. I don't think you can be sad about,
you know, winning four million. I know you're that close to winning.
But I'll tell you what, four games in Europe and I'm gonna be
lit. They're gonna be awesome. We weren't getting ready for the pillows.
I mean why not? I mean, what else is he gonna be?
All Right, So we got Steven Jones, Daniel Wineman, Adam Walton.
That is the order that they will be on the leaderboard. Stephen Jones is
the CHIP leader with two hundred and thirty eight million chips. That is a
heck of a lot of chips. Daniel Wineman is second on the leaderboard.
He has one hundred ninety nine million, and then Adam Walton is bringing up
the rear although he's still got a lot of chips. He has one hundred
and sixty five point five million. So I spoke to each of these players
afterwards, I'll just tell you a little bit about the three of them.
I tried to do a biopod last night by myself and I don't know,
my setup at home wasn't working. I pulled out my backup Yettie not working.
Nothing working. So I was like, you know, what the hell
with all this stuff? All right? So Stephen Jones thirty five years old
from Flint, Michigan, but he now splits his time between Scottsdale, Arizona,
and Las Vegas, Nevada. He is the owner and is also the
lead real estate broker for his own real estate company, JR. Jones Group.
He went to college at Arizona State University. He's a fan of the
Detroit Lions and the Phoenix Suns. The Detroit Lions, he says, are
his favorite sports team. Sorry about that, Stephen, you know, because
they're not that good. Steven's mom who was on the rail and spoke with
Jeff Platt at one point today. She taught him how to play poker at
a young age. She's been playing poker. She mostly plays cash games.
She was even on I think the front page of I think Jones said the
Detroit Free News Press maybe years ago, like fifteen years ago, talking about
how, you know, she wants to be an advocate for women and poker.
She wants to get more women in the game. Ever since he taught
her when he was much younger, he's been playing poker, and now here
he is at the absolute pinnacle of the game. You know, not only
is a w is he at the WC Man Event final table. He's the
chip leader three handed. I mean, that's just got to be absolutely wild.
He made the final table of the twenty eighteen w SIP Colossus and finished
in ninth place, taking fifty seven thousand, four hundred dollars. Back then,
I think John Raisner also made that final table. Um He says that
he went through a spiritual healing session with a Mayan shaman. I'm not sure
if this is like a Joe that he put down in his bio sheet,
or like, if he's actually serious, I will tell you this. Stephen
Jones is a he has talked about like positive energy and all that sort of
stuff. He's certainly a very positive guy. So I think it's sun.
Maybe he did go to a Miyan shaman. Yeah, pretty crazy event.
I'm gonna need the number for this shaman. Yeah, we're gonna have to
go. I'm with you, you know at this point, I'm with you.
Um. He loves movies, especially going to movies because he's a sucker,
sucker for movie theater, popcorn as am. I absolutely love it.
Um. He says his favorite movie is either Mario or Warrior. Um.
And then after play today I spoke with Stephen Jones. Year is that interview?
Now? Stephen Jones, We're at the end of the first part of
the Final Table, heading into the second part. You're the chip leader.
How do you think the day went for you? Overall? It went perfect.
I ended with the chip lead. You can't be mad about that.
It would have been nice. Uh, the wineman didn't have so many chips
too. Do you think he's a tough opponent? But but yeah, today
went well. I picked up some great hands and in some key spots,
which is good. Um, but yeah, I can't be more grateful than
this. Obviously, this tournament is super long poker. In general, poker
tournaments up and down, they're all over the place. But you've had a
pretty good energy about yourself. You've been very upbeat the whole time. Like,
how is it easy to just keep that positivity throughout? Yeah, I
mean that's I think that's how I stay comfortable. Um. I always try
to enjoy poker, and this is such a big spot and I'm just trying
to enjoy it even more so. Um. But yeah, I mean I'm
just not as nervous as as I thought I would be in the spot us
trying to have fun with it. At one point I walked off to the
side. I saw you on break with I'm guessing a coach now, Alex
Foxon, Yeah, what's going on in those little pow wows? That's well,
well, he's given me some secret song, a little bit of this,
a little bit of that, yeah, a little bit just trying to
pick up reads and and just making sure my my my shoving ranges or you
know, my my my spots um um are are correct, um and all
that it really helps, I mean tremendously. So how does it feel to
have just a big support group on the rail this whole time? It's it's
amazing. I mean, I have so many family and friends here, and
then the ones that can make it are still at home watching And obviously my
phone is just blown up like crazy. But it's just it's it's overwhelming,
but I'm so grateful for it. Every single day the dream probably gets a
little bit more real. Final three, you're the chip leader, locked up
four million, twelve million up top? How real is it right now?
It's it hasn't even sunk in in all the way that I just feel like
the job's not done. I'm going to study more today, I'm going to
go focus, um really, not going to spend any time with family.
I already thought I'm sorry, guys, this is too important, but um
yeah, I just haven't let it sink sink in yet because because I feel
like the job's not done. And then last question, A question I like
to ask you everyone when I interview them, are you having fun? Oh
my gosh, Yeah, this is the time of my life. Man,
I'm having a great time. It's awesome, all right. That was Steven
Jones again chip leader coming into the final three. He's got two hundred and
thirty eight million. I think the big blind will still be two million for
a little bit of time. So he's doing extremely well on chips. He's
got Alex foxon as his coach, so you know, we'll see how the
day and goes for him. We'll see if he takes a little bit of
a different approach on the second day of the final table. He was he
played a little bit closer to the vest on this first day and also throughout
you know, most of the terment that we've seen. But now that he
has the chip lead, now that he's locked up four million, you know,
is he gonna ramp up the pressure in the aggression a little bit.
We'll see what happens on Monday. Then we have Daniel Wineman one hundred ninety
nine million in his stack. Wineman is thirty five years old. He's out
of Atlanta, Georgia. He's a poker player and a software engineer. He
went to college. He starts as a software engineer, working as a tech
guy. He leaves that he goes and plays poker. He's been playing poker
ever since, but now in like the recent year or two, he's kind
of gotten back away from poker started a company called r F Labs, where
he's the founder and software engineer. R F Labs is a startup tech company
looking to bridge the gap between a physical and the digital worlds. If you
go to their website you can see that right now, they're emphasizing on live
gaming. They have a core product that is like reinvented live stream equipment,
livestream tables for poker. It allows people to like basically have their own home
games and stuff and like you get stats to your phone, you can easily
cast to the internet, all of that sort of stuff. He's a Spiegel
Bracelet winner. He's also a World Poker Tour Champion. He's a WPT Tournament
of Champions winner as well. He entered this event with more than three point
seven million dollars in career live tournament earnings, according to the hendemob dot com.
Now that he's guaranteed four million, he's gonna more than double that.
He also wanted the dubs AP Circuit Cherokee Main event back in twenty fifteen for
two hundred and eighty thousand dollars, So why why didn't you know? He's
a pro's pro. He's been around, yeah, for quite some time.
It also says that he created an advanced discord bought to monitor popular gaming service
and provide a more seamless gaming experience. This guy sounds way smarter than I
would ever be, obviously not. I mean, I've known Daniel Wyman for
a while being in poker. Um. Super nice guy, you know,
obviously super smart as well, very likable, great personality, all that sort
of stuff. Avid golfer, he wants golf with Donald Trump and John Smoltz.
I remember when he did the golf thing with Donald Trump. He got
an invite he's playing. I think he golfs with John Smolts a lot,
and then they went to play one day and they ended up playing with Donald
Trump. And I think he posted on Facebook or maybe it was another social
media platform. But how like, I can't wait to see how many friends
I lose after after posting the photo of like all of them lined up to
play golf with Donald Trump. Scratch golfer too is Daniel one. He's credited
with creating Fantasyland at least the current Fantasyland variation of open face Chinese poker.
You went to school at Georgia Tech where he was in a fraternity, and
then after play on this first day of the final table, I spoke with
Daniel one. All right, Daniel Wyman, We just wrapped up the first
card of the final table, down to three. How you feeling overall going
into tomorrow? Feel great going into tomorrow. Just a dream day to day,
picked up so many chips, just kind of uncontested. Maybe had one
spot the whole day where I thought I might get put to a tough decision,
and luckily Adam gave up with the bluff that he had or it would
have been a very long time in the tank. But just feeling great looking
forward tomorrow. I'm guessing you're alluding to the ace's hand when he had well,
which was two sixes, which I'm sure you found out later. I
want to know were you calling a shove on the river there? It really
depends on the card that came off. I know he likes a lot of
hands in position. You know, I'd seen from previous days he had had
some very wide flats on the button. I know in a freeway pot.
You know, he's going to be in there with a lot of eight nine
suiteds, a lot of maybe six eight suiteds which have straight draws. I
think the eight nine completing cards like the jack in the six I probably was
going to fold on, and I think almost everything else I would have called.
I kind of thought afterwards that an ace would have been a super interesting
card that if he had gone forward on the ace, you know, I
would have had the second nuts at the time, but Queen Jack suited would
have been in a hand that made so much sense for him to have.
It would have been kind of while to fold on an ace and call on
some cards where I just had one pair, But that was kind of my
thought. Locked up four million dollars, huge score. How's the night going
to go for you? You're gonna be able to sleep? Is it comfort
you knowing you locked up that much money? The money doesn't seem real at
this point. You know. I've played some big games in my life,
nothing really close to this. I haven't really thought about the money at all.
I don't think tonight is going to be much different, very relaxing.
Probably get some dinner with a couple of close friends and family, get a
good night's sleep and looking forward to coming back and battling to marm what's it
like playing against these two guys specifically, you mentioned Adam he's a little bit
more out of the box, unconventional. Stephen Jones has played, I guess
a little bit more conventional. So how are you gonna go against those two?
It's interesting, it's two completely different players. It's it feels like Stephen
is a guy that is really trying to play by the book. Maybe isn't
the most experienced, so I think he's a little bit out of his comfort
zone. Whereas Adam, I think it's played very tough, kind of he
has his own unique style, you know, it doesn't do the things you
would expect of a you know, no limit pro. He's kind of all
over the place with motions and it's kind of hard to pick up anything on
him because he is doing so much. All right, that was Daniel Wineman
has a lot of the U has a lot of pros in his corner.
Sean deeb is there, Josh Rya. You know, there's a lot of
guys that were in Toby Lewis's corner that might be switching to hop into Daniel
Wieman's corner golf golf corner. Yeah, the golf corner, you know.
So we'll see how that goes going forward. Should be a should be a
lot of fun. I think um Mark, Gregorich, David odb Baker like
those types of guys back glance as well. Yeah, so you know,
we'll see who's on the on his rail for the second day of the Final
Table on Monday, July seventeenth. Then we have Adam Walton. He came
into today as the chip leader with over one hundred and forty million and chips.
He ends up finishing the day with one hundred and sixty five point five
millions so profit on the day, but he is third on the leaderboard out
of these final three players. Walton is forty years old. He's out of
Tacoma, Washington. He's the oldest player remaining out of these three players.
The oldest player to make this final table, by the way, was Jan
Peter Yachtman at fifty five, and then Russell and Priedric was fifty and then
there was no player that was twenty one to twenty nine, which is like
the first time in forever I feel like that, that's happened. He used
to be all about the young guns. Actually, last night I rewatched the
final table of the two thousand and six to WSP main event. You know,
I was like, you know, I'm gonna watch something before the main
event final table, so I picked two thousand and six. That was Jamie
golds year. I remember. I remember they said on the broadcast that,
you know, I think there was three guys in their twenties, maybe four,
I can't remember, but there was a few, and they mentioned,
you know, this is kind of how poker is these days. The guys
keep getting younger, The young kids are super good from the online world,
all that sort of stuff, and you know, it's only inevitable that all
those players are now making big runs in live events and then of course,
of course, notably in the WSP main event. Well now it's kind of
shifted the other way because online poker isn't so prevalent and available within the US
it is elsewhere in the world. Yes, but you don't have all those
you know, rising stars out of the US ranks. So a little bit
of an older final table at least on average this year. But anyway,
back to Adam Walton forty years old born in Tacoma, washingtonbody now resides here
Henderson, Nevada. That's my neck of the woods. He's been playing poker
since two thousand and three, heading into this WSP main events, almost one
million dollars in career live tournament earnings. According to the hendemob dot com.
He's a trader for Citadel Sports Group, which he lists, Like, you
know, they do a lot of volume, you know, that's basically their
play of volume play. I feel like he plays poker like he trades sports.
It's like a volume thing. He's like always mixing it up with all
different types of hands, you know, and like hopefully at the end of
the day he just hopes to profit. Like it's not really like I'm gonna
be very selective and place my bets and then when I do place my bets,
I'm gonna go big with them. He's kind of all over the place,
you know. So I think it's more of like the you know,
I'm gonna jab here, jab there, jab here, jab there, you
know, try and chip up here and there. I might lose some,
I might win some, but at the end of the day, as long
as you know, the end of the graph is higher than the beginning of
the graph, then yes, I've won. He made a wager with fellow
poker player and we talked about this before. Tim Chang, whoever made two
hundred fifty thousand dollars first, would have to buy a boat. It's Walton
that's gonna be buying the boat. Even though Tim Chang did cash in the
event small cash um. Here, Walton is making at least four million dollars,
So this is gonna be one hell of a boat. I would imagine
how much do you dedicate to the boat? Do you think? Wow,
that's a good bug. I mean, I'm not saying I that's what I
would do. I would buy a tony K boat. I'm not buying,
but I'm saying, yea Walton seems like a guy who wants to blast on
a boat. I mean, that's half a million dollars. Get you with
a buck. I have no idea. I mean, isn't that an awesome
boat? I feel like it has also like are we buying the boat here
for like lake meat, or like were buying the boat for like the ocean.
I think they're buying it for like me, so they can go you
know, like water skiing or something like that, then you probably don't need
that expensive of Maybe it's about with some jet skis with all the equipment,
you know, I think they're gonna deck this thing out. Yeah you know
so um so yeah, the boat's on you. Adam Walton he enjoys pickleball.
He has a dog named Zoe um and then he used to be a
teacher, so come a long way from you know, tell school kids what
to do. He's here in the final three of the WSP Made event and
I spoke with him after play. All right, Adam Walton came into today
with the chip lead. Was this the goal to make it to this point?
The next day, final three, final four, whatever it would have
been. I mean, I think since I started, my goal is just
every day just to make the next day. So like even years past,
the goal is always just to make the next day. It's hard to put
too many goals in yourself because kind of however the card distribution turns out is
what happened, so you can't. Trying to have a goal ahead of time
isn't something I try to do. But obviously I'm thrilled to be here.
How'd you feel the day went for you overall. Overall, I think I
was pretty card dead. I wasn't overly happy with one of the bluffs that
I made, but on the whole, I think I played, like,
you know, my B plus game, So I was decently happy with that.
So you know, you got one more day to put playing my A
game, and you know, try and take this down. What's tonight?
Look for your preparation, relaxation. As soon as I'm done with this,
I'm gonna go grab one drink with friends, and then I'm gonna head home
and go to sleep. Now that you've locked up four million dollars, how
real is the dream that you could win twelve million? To be honest,
it sounds weird, but I haven't really even been thinking about the money.
I've been pretty fortunate in poker that the money doesn't have to be everything,
So I think when you think about the money too much, you're not concentrating
on the right thing. So obviously afterwards I will be thinking about what to
do with it and a great spot to be in, but I'm not really
thinking about it too much at this point. Last question, A question I'd
like to ask everyone that I interview are you having fun? I'm having a
blast, all right. So that was Adam Walton. That was Stephen Jones,
Dani and Wyman and Adam Walton the final three of the World Series of
Poker Main Event. Everyone is guaranteed four million dollars. What's the chop value
now, buddy, I put it in because it is twenty two and a
half. Twenty two point six million divided by three that would be bad.
Correct, It's seven point five million and some change, So take it.
They had they do the photo you know where they put everyone together. Right
right after the photo was done, they all exchanged numbers. I watched it.
Haven't interesting. I mean, I think you're insane to not do some
sort of save or something. At this point. The money is just so
big. I know, I'm I'm generally anti chop, but listen, it
goes four million to six and a half to twelve point one. I mean,
come on, that's out of control. The chips are too crazy like
separated. So maybe they do something. Maybe maybe these guys are just gonna
yolo it. I have no idea. Um no, come on, I
think you gotta do something where you're like, listen, let's lock up five
million. Maybe we'll let's lock up six million each and then we'll we'll go
from there. Um, you know, we'll kind of do something from from
there. I don't really know what you would do from there. Maybe it's
like you lock everyone locks up six million, and the remaining money it's like,
I don't know, seventy thirty you split it up something like that.
But I think it only benefits them. I mean, they're all they're all
deep enough, they're still gonna be playing one million, two million. So
Walton is the shortest stack, shortest in quotation marks. Um he still has
eighty two million or eighty two big blinds. Yeah, you know, so
there's a ton of play. This thing can swing either way. Um,
wouldn't be surprised if they do some sort of chop. I mean, it
really does only make sense. You can't chop the five in okay bracelet though,
you know I can't do that. But um, but yeah, which
they gave to me today. Why we're like starting the live stream. Yeah,
and they just come over and they're like, here, can you just
hold this for us right now? I'm like, who's they? Well?
Mori ah, he like didn't want it. He like didn't want. He
was see sits like right next to where we are. But he's like,
you guys, just hold on to this right now and gave it to rem
Corn. We're like, all right, whatever, I mean, okay,
a little bit of a security risk to chust YouTube bombs. I wouldn't let
anyone touch that. I wouldn't even let m que touch it. I haven't
touched it yet. I don't want touched it once, I said to me
he took a photo with Elasia. He did, and I've taken a photo
of it before. But I said, now that I'm started playing the main
event, I can't touch it anymore. I can't do It's not allowed.
So it's like the Stanley Cup. You know, it's just the thing.
But then you know Remco touched it and he said, so am I not
going to win? And I said, well, listen, I said,
it a little bit different than the Stanley Cup because the Stanley Cup is the
same Stanley Cup and they engrave it with new players. They changed the bracelet
every year. So I think you're fine for next year. That's what I
think. That's my read on the situation. One player that we're going to
be seen for a heck of a long time at the World Series of Poker
is Jason Clark. So, Jason Clark is a forty two year old real
estate agent out of Brampton, Ontario, Canada, and he is the winner
of the World Series of Poker Main Event seat. I think they called it
the main Event seat for life, but it's Main Events seat for thirty years.
Yeah. He so he won that promotion. So that promotion was if
this year's WSP Main Event set the record in terms of entries, So if
it got eight thousand, seven hundred and seventy four entries, then they would
draw one name out of everyone that played. That's the reason for really reason
why I played, just to be in the drawing. So and then the
person would win a buy in to THESP main event comped on the World Series
of Poker on Caesar's All you Gotta do is show up for the next thirty
years. You're buying has camped for thirty years. That's a freaking amazing deal.
I saw Poker News, by the way, put this article out today
that says would you rather get a WSP Main Event seat for life or two
hundred thousand dollars? I mean This isn't just an insane take. Who in
their right mind would ever take two hundred thousand dollars. I cannot believe you
played poker to in order to win this. You play poker no because this.
You know, there's some people that doesn't play the main event a year
or they want to satellite. Maybe they want a promotion to get in,
and they're not. They're not planning to play every year. What promotion did
you win to get in? The doubt doesn't involve playing poker. You maybe
you want to a seek giveaway or something like that. Oh, everything's been
everything. Everything that the Dubst does is playing poker. There's satellites online,
they're satellites live. But what I'm saying satellites you've you've said on this podcast.
So you're not missing the main event ever again, you know fingers crossed.
Yeah, I would love to free all myself. It's thirty. Don't
like that. Some people like, you know, I want to play this
year. I'm running good, my money's bad. I'm not playing this year.
So there's definitely people out there that if they won, they would take
that two hundred k Okay. First of all, even if that was an
option. You could still miss ten years and still play. Yeah, but
there's a difference with a seat every year for thirty years or two hundred k
cash. What are you going to do with two d pay off your house?
If you're you're out of your mind. You take the worst poker player.
That playerstely out of there. Yeah he if he won the main events
seat for life, do you think he's ROI is better on that or taking
the two hundred k and putting it in the spy it's one hundred percent.
Putting in no shot. Are you drunk? Are you drunk? For what?
Eight percent return year over year for thirty years? No, get out
of here. You get out of here. That is a slam dunk decision.
Take the two hundred k, do the math put it, put it
in one of those calculators. Those those things, the investment calculators. They
have those Google that put it in there. Two hundred thousand dollars eight percent
year over year. I want to see what it's at in thirty years.
You want to do thirty years? Yeah, thirty years eight percent year,
eight percent a lot? This is you said, spy that that it's like
the SPI is like ten percent. Okay, so I'm being conservative eight percent.
Well, what do you got one point one four a million? Exactly?
That's a lot of money. What do you mean that's yeah, so
that is a lot of money. You don't First of all, you don't
get that need to come seventh in the main event to win one point four
million. First of all, that yes, in one case, you could
also have like four deep runs for two hundred cage, right, you could
do that. And this is also like how you're outing this. What are
you talking about? You're in sad person. You take this opportunity every single
year, take the you know you can and notow some of this money.
Bro, you're one your point one four eight million out of your mind percent?
You know what, you're out of your mind. Let's make it eight
percent, right, let's make it eight percent two million dollars. What did
you make it before? It was six percent? Oh, you got to
make it. I went six percent because of conservative eight percent two million dollars.
You're ten excent your money in thirty years. Everyone should be taking that
no, yes, no shot. First of all, if you're taking that
and you're already not investing, then you're an idiot. Okay, and you're
never gonna get that money anyway, Like you're never gonna make it to there
to get two million, because if you were already investing, you're not gonna
all of a sudden get to take this two hundred k and do it.
Okay, snap, and then and then if you are already investing, like
say me, I'm already invest so I'm gonna take this free roll every single
year. You can also sell some action get some money back. You could
sell, like you know, you could sell, But I'm gonna take this
deal of putting two hundred straight in boom, give me my two million?
Literally absolutely, you know what. Actually I can believe it. You sold
a freaking salads point coin for one hundred dollars for winning the tournament. I
actually like you fold straights I get Have you want a sath point coin?
No, I don't care if you want one. What are you gonna do
with it? I'm gonna throw it in my little box of trinkets in my
close. But that's worth one hundred dollars. No, it's not worth a
hundred dollars. I don't care about that. You don't care about the trinket
though, You just said, I'm gonna put it in a box. Yeah,
but then, like you know, I'll I'll look at it in a
couple of years. I'll take my taking them, not taking the hundred dollars
anyway. You're out of your mind if you don't accept the two hundred cash
as long. This is not this is not like to put it in.
You have to invest it. If you're just gonna spend on stuff, it's
not the main events. No, you're saying no because there is no caveat.
There is no forced investment here. This is not like you know,
when you win the lottery, you win powerball for five hundred million, do
you want to take the five hundred million in you know, a dollar amount
every single year? Do you want to just take the lump sum? This
is not equivalent to that. If you're gonna spend two hundred acount about I
would advise you, what if you win the main event twice, then you're
just gonna win twenty four million dollars? Come on, what Mark Newhouse finished
ninth twice. Joe has been at the final table twice. It could happen
that it could happen. It could happen. I'm taking the shot. I'm
taking the gamble. I'm free rolling the main event for thirty years. You
can basically free roll the main event in about five years. Wait, let
me do that. Let me put it in for this. Wait, wait,
give me one sake five years. We invest it for five years.
Okay, it's not that much tin to make ninety K, but that's ten
years of main events seats. Right, Let's say we invest if we'll say
eight years. After eight years, we're gonna have one hundred and seventy thousand
dollars in profit. That's seventeen years of main events seats since invested for a
couple of years, and you'll be we'll be printing printing money. You can
take ten kt every year after that. I mean you also have to factor
in that you're gonna be saving that ten k, so you can just invest
that every single year. Hoppy, if you're not planning to play every year.
Wait a second, would you get tax on the two hundred k if
that was an option, Like they're giving you cash with hundred tall that changes
taxed. You're taking a prize. It's a gift. No, it's a
gift. I think you get taxed on gifts it's not a gift. If
you want a promotion, m I'm gonna have to call out my lawyer right
right, color and out of all the stuff that I've told you about,
all the sweepstakes and stuff like that. You you're not you don't think you're
gonna get taxed. This is America, buddy, Uncle Sam is gonna get
his Okay, Uncle Sam is gonna tax your ass on that two hundred K.
He's gonna tax your ass when you win twelve million. Speaking of Uncle
Sam, Uncle Sam's the big winner from this main event because there's three American
five, so he's about the Uncle Sam's about to get what there's twenty two
point six million up for grabs. Uncle Sam's about to get like six million.
It's a good day. What a life for Uncle Sam. Guy doesn't
have to Guy doesn't have to do anything. Guy doesn't have to be you
know, he doesn't have to see a raise in a three bet in front
of him sitting on the bubble with two jacks. No, he just he
just finishes in second place. That's what Uncle Sam does. Doesn't even need
to show up. Way to go, Uncle Sam away to let Jason Clark
roam. Yeah, we got way off here. Yeah. So Jason Clark,
forty two years old, real estate agent from Canada. Um he chopped
a nightly heads up on Day one C for twenty k and then bought into
Day one D. He busted on Day two. I didn't see that he
bagged. Yeah, he bagged sixty seven nine hundred. Well then I think
they had the wrong name. No, there was two on the thing.
Was he in the report? He just didn't do your research right? Well
for me, you want to bet me on this? Yes, okay,
let's better coffee that he's not in the reports. So he played Day one
D Monday. Okay, I'm gonna look this up. Okay, you wanted
to talk about him, let me continue anyway. Jason Clark. For the
next thirty years, he's going to donate five percent of his main event action
to the Ontario Brain Institute in honor of his brother who passed away eight years
ago. So that's a nice, very nice contribution there from Jason. And
can you want a coffee? Yeah, that's all right, ship it,
sorry, but I'll buy it with the gift code that you gave me for
it was his Actually I met Jason about half an hour before play starts,
and I asked Jack, as this Jason, He goes, yes, but
no one knows who it is. Can you be discreted? Obviously, we
took photos of it, and we took him on the stage, took photos,
and then I brought him back here to interview him. And we'll play
that interview right now. I'm standing here with Jason Clark, the lucky winner
of the thirty years seats in the main event. I have to know when
you found out the news, what what were you feeling that instant? It
was actually in disbelief. I would I thought it might have been a friend
playing a joke, but it wasn't. And I feel very blessed and honored,
and I look forward to the opportunity. I've been told that you actually
want a deep stack here and then pop light those winnings into a main event.
Sad. Is that is that true? Yes? So the day before
one d of the main event, I won just under twenty thousand two way
chop of the daily Deep Stack used that winnings to buy into the main event.
And now I'm here, Were you ever planning before that deep Stack ground
that chop? Were you ever planning on playing the main event or was that
that twenty k score just like you know what I'm gonna do it. I
was not planning on it. The twenty k is what made me play.
I've also been told that you're actually you know you're going to go up there
on stage so make an announcement, but that you'll be dedicating five percent of
charity. Yes, I will be. I'm going to be donateen five percent
for the next thirty years to the Ontario Brain Institute Foundation in memory of my
brother who passed about seventy eight years ago. So sorry to hear about your
brother, but I'm guessing you know, making this donation or this future donation,
it means a lot to you, especially with your brothers. Yes,
yes, Um, you know you've got twelve WSP cashes prior to this,
you're brought to win. You know, the value of three hundred thousand dollars
in main event equity. That's better than twenty seventh place in the main event.
That's kind of surreal that you've basically on a lock up in a way,
three hundred thousand. Yes, I feel truly blessed. Does this change
how you approach you know, coming to the WSP every year, or you
know, he's just going to be kind of on a whim. I come
to the WSP every year anyways, so nothing's changed. They'll be here every
year regardless. And now it's extra exciting because I know I'm guaranteed a seat
into the main event. But listen, good on him. Did you did
you ask him if he's going to take two nd k or the or the
seat. No, but he's a smart man. I think he would definitely
take the ridiculous You guys, absolutely, you are out of your mind,
like there's such a chim dusion. I mean, the math sps the math
says enough, math says in First of all, you if you specifically got
the two hundred k, you would not put it in an investment. You
would be spending on that pool you're putting in your backyard. Got the money
you've ever decided? This is no no, This is money on top of
the pool. This is moving on into moving on, moving on. I
know everyone out there listening will side with me. You guys can tweeted us
at downy underscore pers at tramp stoff with a zero and we can figure it
out fifty and hold him shoot out nine hundred and ninety seven entries for raz
Jaca finally gets a doub SP goldbrace that he takes home two hundred and thirty
seven thousand, three hundred and sixty seven dollars. Then we have the nineteen
hundred and seventy nine dollars Poker Hall of Fame Bounty Tournament, fourteen hundred and
seventeen entries. Diego Ventura comes out on top his first WSP goal bracelet.
He also wins four hundred and two thousand and fifty four dollars, the first
gold bracelet for the country of Peru, the sixty ninth country to secure WSOP
gold. Then in the twenty five hundred dollars Omaha High Low Slash Stud High
Low Split four hundred and sixty entries, there Bradley Smith comes out on top,
another first time gold bracelet winner two hundred and twenty one thousand, seven
hundred and thirty three dollars four Bradley Smith. And then we had Dong Manks
winning the one thousand dollars Flipping Go one thousand and twenty four entries. There,
Man takes home one hundred and sixty thousand, four hundred and ninety dollars,
and guess what first time gold bracelet winner as well the fifteen hundred dollars
noelmit hold him closer. Looks like it's down to five players from a field
of three thousand, five hundred and thirty one, six hundred and six thousand
dollars. Up top, Peter Nie is leading the way. I think they're
guaranteed one Drew sixty four. Look at that. Jack Duong is still in,
so we'll talk about the winner of that one. I think they're going
to finish out today. So let's talk about that one tomorrow, and then
we have the ten thousand dollars noelam and hold him six max. Six players
left. Five hundred and fifty entries were in this field. Huge field.
I think they got like three sixty or three eighty last year or so.
These numbers for these Nolan and Holding fields are bananas. I'm telling you they're
gonna need a bigger venue or more starting days or something next year, because
this is getting crazy. More than a million dollars for first place, one
million, fifty seven thousand. You've got Alexander Reared leading the way. Stephen
Chidwick is also in the mix. Phil Hellmuth came close ninth place in his
quest for bracelet number eighteen. It's also his birthday. It is Happy birthday,
Phil Hellmuth. He said on Twitter all he wanted to do on his
birthday was winning number eighteen, but he fell short. Three thousand dollars horse,
three hundred and thirty one entries there, fifty seven players remain, fifty
two on the bubble, fifty are in the money. It's ten pm on
day two. This is a seven day event. These gotta be low limit
mixed game events are out of control? How long they take? Absolutely out
of control? Two hundred and eight. I don't didn't see Kessler out there.
I mean he might stay. Oh he's still in him. Oh so
he's loving it. You know he's not loving it. The chip leader,
Nick wau Genty is probably on life tilled out there. Yes, you know,
he likes the he likes the PGT mix games. Two day tournaments played
on the final table on day one, you know, get him out of
there in two days. Forty middle levels like let's go in and out.
I did hear from Nick himself that he has not had a good couple of
days in the poker streets. I think he's been playing the cash games.
But Chip later of this and has a little little piece of mister Wymans,
look at the turn around. It's going to turn around from miss Nick.
Look at that. So Nick wau Genty is leading the way as they're on
the bubble. This three K horse. Yeah, Chad eve sledges out there,
Calvin Anderson, Kevin Gerhardt, Leonard august And Jr. Carry and Scott
Bollman will recap this one more as it plays out. Today. Kicking off,
you had the one thousand dollars Noelman holding freeze out seventeen hundred and ten
entries, two hundred and seventy one of them will be in the money two
hundred and thirty six thousand dollars. Up top. You also had the ten
thousand dollars short deck tournament kicking off, assuming that's going to have Day two
Redge that does have Day two Rage only has forty players right now, so
pretty small field. Already lost a few players, including Daniel mcgrono and ODB.
I'm just not sure a short deck is it in the US. It
just really seems like an Asian game and a European game. But you know,
I think it's not well placed on the schedule pick it needs to be
earlier when people are still here. And also maybe ten k is just not
the right price. The fifteen hundred was very popular. Maybe we just keep
how many. Yeah, I don't think it was three hundred and something,
But for an event that's not very popular here in America, I think that's
you know, that's a pretty good result. We had three hundred and sixty
three players and tai Ha one one hundred and eleven K. Yeah, that's
all right. I mean the ten K short deck could probably be a twenty
five K short deck, and it could probably be full of the main event.
Yeah, I mean, it's it's just tricky. I mean the game,
it's funny short deck came onto the scene a couple of years ago.
Everyone's like it's the game of the future. It never really caught on here
in the US for whatever reason, It's caught on elsewhere. You know,
it always does well in the Triton series, you know, they always have
like the back half of their series is all short deck stuff. It does
well there, but it just never really caught on here. So we'll see,
you know, what happens. With it. Maybe it's just with this
higher buying one. Maybe it's just a shift in buying. I don't know
if they'll go like lower, go to a five k. Maybe they go
higher, make it a fifteen or twenty five, something like that, you
know. I mean, the people that play the high buying short deck,
I think they like to play pretty high. So yeah, we'll see if
they do that. But yeah, I mean, we'll see what comes around
next year. I would expect, you know, they're still on the schedule,
but you know, you never know what's coming up. Well, the
headlining event, the WSM event down to three Steven Jones, Daniel Weinman,
Adam Walton. They're gonna play it out for a twelve point one million dollar
world champion on Monday, July seventeenth. The live stream will be on poker
Go. You can find it starting at two pm Loss Vegas time. Cards
will be in the air at one pm and then we have that one hour
delay. The live stream will kick off at two pm Vegas time. That's
five pm on the East Coast. There's a five thousand dollars, no limit
hold Them tournament, a two day event. There's also a one K Turbo
that takes place on Tuesday, right it's a Super Turbo or whatever one day
event. That's the final final event. So still a couple events left to
close out. There's also two online events running right now. There's A five
and A seven seven seven. Those are running online right now, So we'll
have updates on all that sort of stuff as we close things out here at
the record breaking twenty twenty three World Series of Poker. I don't think they've
sent out official numbers for like, you know, they always send out like
we had one hundred and fifty thousand total entries. They'll they'll probably send that
out at the end of the summer and it's gonna be wild. It's probably
gonna break two hundred thousand. It's just absolutely bananas. These fields, you
know, a bunch of fields set insane records. So yeah, so I'm
looking forward to kind of reading through those statsu. So yeah. So that's
gonna wrap up our talk of the World Series of Poker stuff. We're gonna
send it on down the street. I'm gonna let Tim talk about the the
Alpha eight for one job his baby by the way, I saw the winter
photo. We'll talk about who won it, but I saw the Winter four
three trophies again. I mean, it's just like it's out of control.
Why are we doing three trophies for one tournament? What are we doing here?
I don't know. Somebody help. I'm not sure the gloss bottle you
and I the trophy though, because when I was last night, I got
the water. I was given the one drop water bottle. They have a
water station with people on there. You can get sparkling water yet still water.
I got the sparkling I saw some video, but it has those blue
bottles there, so I think it's actually a like a like a vase,
like a display item, not the actual trophy. It might be the actual
trophy, but I'm assuming the winner gets it. It's in the winner photo.
I want it maybe, but maybe I can get off the winner,
but the winner. You know how much these trophies cost. I don't think
it's a trophy. I think it's like a saying in general the trophies,
like we do the PGT trop how much they spend, how much they spending
on these trophies. How the A trophies three feet tall? That was cool
though, it is cool, but it's what what are we doingphies. Trophies
are awesome, unless this is the south Point coin that you can sell for
a dollar one hundred dollar, hundred dollars w undred dollars trying to straight buy
one share of the spill. I put one hundred dollars in. You don't
need to just you just auto invest forty five entrance three hundred and fifteen thousand
dollars going to the one drop. That's a really good yeah, crushing a
lot of re entries, including our Lord and Savior carry cats um. The
winner, Jonathan Jaffee wins one point five million dollars, defeats fellow WT Champions
Club member Taylor von Kriegenberg heads up for he had just over a million bucks.
Dan Smith third place seven hundred k, Lexie Ponacobs four hundred and eighty
five k in fourth. Michael Limb Malaysian businessman that actually doesn't have the name
Michael Limb. That's he's what's it called pseudonym, so you call it he's
pseudonym, but he won three hundred and fifty k iron lightboard. They're just
putting fake names and the results what he wants to go by, Michael,
I can just do that. Can you just do that. Yeah. When
Yeah, I think when you're someone important and special and rich, I think
you can do what you want. Got it? So Iron Light Bond six
place, two hundred and seventy K, Isaac Hason seven place. He bubbled
the live stream final table, but he took home two hundred and twenty two
K. Late last night, I actually turned up. They've been kind of
taking a while to get down to that final six. Two eliminations in ten
minutes. So I was the other grim reaper. I was the Jeff Platt
of the WPT alphae for one job. I'm sure the staff and production liked
you that because Jueta I said, can you come back tomorrow? Can we
like wrap this up so I can come watch this final WSP final table.
That's right, all right, that's gonna do it for us. My name
is Donnie Peters. His name is Tim Duckwood. Don't forget guys. Monday,
July seventeenth, two pm, Las Vegas, time on Poker and Go
and dot Com. The live stream Final three. We're gonna play down to
whenere everyone's guaranteed four million. We got Stephen Jones, we got Daniel Weinman.
We have Adam Walton. Let's see who becomes the twelve point one million
dollars World champion, and uh can I put a bow on this really fun
world series of Poker. We'll talk to you guys tomorrow again. My name
is Donny Peters. His name is Tim Duck. Roar, see you face
tonight. Chanting spre