Hello everyone, Welcome back to a new episode of the Poker Go Podcast. My name is Donny Peters. I am joined by Tim Uckworth, Tim Underscore Underscore Duckworth on X slash Twitter. Now, how you doing, buddy? You got a new name? I did, I got finally pulled the trigger by falseful way of you and Matt Savage. But new Twitter name. I still want to try and buy my actual Twitter name. So I'm gonna send I'm gonna send this guy a message on LinkedIn, see if you'll take. I don't know, maybe five hundred bucks that might get it done. I would start lower, but okay, okay, Well I think he works in finance in Hong Kong, so I think the flaw is already raised that five hundred might mean absolutely nothing to him. Yeah, I mean, who knows. It's my best and it's my best in final? Well you can come with the best in final. Maybe we'll start like a go fund me for our listeners to contribute to the Oh that's a good idea to the Tim Duckworth to get his X slash Twitter name back. I still don't want to fully call it x yet. I have to still call it Twitter. But I refuse to call it X, but listen, I welcome the change because trying to say tram stop with a zero in there, it's just it doesn't work. This is still confusing, though. He seems like, yeah, but I'm already Donnie underscore Peters, I can say, you know, yeah, we need a like what's the Aussie slang for double underscore? I'm because you guys like, you know double X blah blah blah, Like you know, you have you when you spell things out, you say them a certain way. Yeah, yeah, I don't have one double On the skull sounds we would probably say dash dash. Maybe it's not a dash, but that's what we might say. All right, Well, listen, it's been a minute since we've been on the Poker Girl podcast, but we are recording Friday, September eighth. A lot of things to talk about. There's been some some moving and shaken around the industry. I think chief among the headlines is the WPT World Championship announced. It's guarantee on the prize bool and it is a whopping forty million dollars. We're gonna talk about that. We got the napt Is back. It's been forever Poker Stars is bringing it back. They're bringing it to Las Vegas. We're gonna talk about that EPT Barcelona. Speaking of Pokers Stars, EPT Barcelona, wrapped up Across the Pond, High Stakes Poker Season eleven has been running. If you haven't been watching it, it's probably the best season of high stakes poker maybe ever. Definitely of like of the new age of the modern high stakes poker because it took that break. But I mean it's up there, and there's a fold from genre bearable on that happened that is just the most ridiculous fold I've ever seen. And then we're gonna just hit quickly on Sean Beebe because he posted a bet update. I don't know, it doesn't seem so good for mister deep as always like and subscribe to the podcast. Please leave a review because the reviews help us reach more people. 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I won't speak for Tim, he can speak for himself in a second, but for me it was always like that sounds insane. I'll believe it when I see it, because you oftentimes you hear a lot of stuff in the rumor mill going around the industry, you know, and sometimes it comes out, yes, sometimes it comes out different, very much different than what was planned. Hearing forty million was like, Wow, they're really going to go for it this year. Last year it was a fifteen million dollars guaranteed prize pool on the ten four hundred dollars World Championship. They ultimately got a smidge over twenty nine million in the prize pool. This year, they're way more than doubling the guarantee. This is just out of control. I'm super surprised, both pleasantly and kind of like, wow, they really did the damn thing. So, I mean, what was your kind of initial take on everything? My initial take was damn, that is a big number, and it's very obvious that it's game on WPT WSOP they're going to war. I actually wonder if if we wind it back to say, you know, July fifteenth, if WPT were planning on forty or they had a different number, like you know, twenty five or thirty million, something like, very achievable, and then with the news of WSP Paradise stepping on their turf of December, they were like, that's it, let's blow it up, let's go big, and then they decided to up it. I'd really like to have been a fly on the wall in California in the WPT officers to see, you know, to read the room when when that news kind of broke well. I feel like the WPT probably had a good idea that that w SP was coming with the Bahama stuff. So once they got their idea, I mean, they probably floated around some numbers. I mean, we don't know for sure. One thing that I definitely want to do is get our good friend Matt Savage, who is the executive tour director of the World Poker Tour, get him on the podcast in the coming weeks, likely get him on after Poker Masters wraps up, you know, that's going to kick off towards the end of next week, about a week from today, a little bit less. But once that all wraps up, maybe we'll get him on the podcast to talk about the WPT World Championships. Certainly want to get his voice on here. He is a listener of the podcast, good friend of ours, and somebody very much tapped into the industry, of course, and being so closely intertwined within the WPT family. It'll just be a good good person to have on where we can bounce some questions off of that. He did do a space did you shooting into that? Not live? But I listened afterwards, and I have many questions. Okay, I mean I took a whole bunch of notes, did my research, a bunch of stuff that I want to, uh, you know, pose to mister Savage if he's willing to come on, which I'm sure he is. He's already you know, expressed interest too. But yeah, listen, forty million dollars is bananas. Now, I will say this, it's and this is gonna sound like a slight. I hope it doesn't sound. I hope it's not like really taken like that, but like I don't know, I can't always help but think that, Like, to me, the WSP Main Event is still the biggest tournament in the world. Like the numbers clearly show that. Now the WPT World Championship, for whatever reason you want to pin it to, gets way more love than the basically main event. And like you got you got people coming out there that are saying, like, you know, WPT set set the record for the prize pool, which is not correct. They set the record for largest guarantee, yes, but they didn't set the record for the prize poolt gets eighty ninety million or sorry, WSP gets eighty ninety millions. So like, let's just not get too much of ahead of ourselves. I love the WPT World Championship. I think it is an incredible event. You know, outside of the World Series of Poker Main Event, there is nothing close to this in the poker world. And I can't even think something that's come even remotely close. Let me ask you one question real quick. Let's assume they hit forty million. Let's assume they hit We're going to hit him. Let's assume they hit fifty million. I don't think they'll hit fifty I mean, I could be wrong. I didn't think they would hit as high as they did last year. I thought they would hit the guarantee I thought. I think I thought that they would approach twenty million. When is the last time the WSAP didn't have more than fifty million in the prize fall for the main event? Yeah? Do you know this number? Yeah? Yeah, I have, I have the stats. Come on, I mean, two thousand five or so close. Two thousand and five was fifty two million, two thousand and four, twenty four. Men, I was gonna say one, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, so let's just let's, you know, let's hold the reins. I'm using the word biggest. I mean I don't think the biggest guarantee. Yes, just as a quick aside, I don't think the mean events. I mean maybe not ever, but the chances of them ever going back below fifty million is like the slimmest chance in the history of poker as far as i'm it's gonna take some sort of catastrophic event. So well, yeah, twenty twenty. It was thirteen, but that doesn't count. Twenty doesn't count. Yeah, I know, but yes, I agree, But still like it is a risk guaranteeing a prize pool like this obscene amount of money that both companies, The Win and obviously WPT are taking on a big chunk of risk because yeah, you just don't know what might happen. You don't know, you know, it's hard to predict. Are they really going to hit? What? Do they need? An insane amount of players? Right? Five thousand, you know, a bit over five thousand players, So I really hope they crush it. Yeah, I mean, just some some quick notes from listening to that space the other day, the one that was led by Matt Savage. He had Ryan Beauregard on Angelica Hall from the WPT side, a bunch of other people. They mentioned the tables. So last year Ryan Beauregard, who is who runs He's the director of Poker Operation, that believe is his title at the Win runs everything at the Win one hundred and seventy two players last year when you included the tables both in the poker room and then right in that space outside. This year, they're gonna bump it up to two hundred and fifty six tables. They're gonna have two additional ballrooms that are going to provide you know about in additional seventy tables, so they're going to have that available. If you've played poker at the Win then you know that. Oftentimes their tournaments take place in the area right outside the poker poker room. But for the WPT World Championship, they went and got actual ballroom space kind of on the other side of the Encore property. Tons of ballroom space. Super nice obviously, as you would expect from being at the Win, a very luxurious property. So they're gonna have two additional ballrooms over there, which is pretty wild. I mean, we know how big the ballrooms were that they were in last year, or at least the main ballroom and then they had some other stuff going on in the other side rooms, but two additional ballrooms is going to be pretty well. So two hundred and fifty six tables is what they're planning for. Satellites there are, so last year they guaranteed a little bit over three hundred satellites. They ended up with more than five hundred seat winners total, so nice good bump there. This year, the Win is going to have instead of having six satellites, which is what they had last year, they're going up to eleven and one is actually like this interesting package satellite where you kind of go when you win a packet announced how many seats are up for grabs? Right, Yeah, the schedules out there, like they have a I think a seventy five seat guarantee on December eleventh. It's all on the schedule, all on I think you can find it if you go to Winpoker dot com. They have a banner that you can click through and get there, or you can head it on over to WPT dot com, navigate to the main tour and you can find it there. But yeah, the full schedules out so ready to go, Ryan said. Ryan Beauregard said, if they can hit last year's average in terms of what they awarded from the satellites that they ran, then they should get about six to seven hundred satellite entries this year. That's just from the win satellites. That doesn't include Club WPT. I think Jeremy Lemons was on the call or on those space as well. He mentioned around a hundred qualifiers from Club WPT between WPT World Championship and WPT Prime. Don't know exactly what numbers are allotted to each but that's a good chunk of qualifiers there. You're obviously going to have a ton of qualifiers from WPT Global. You're gonna have various properties around the US that are going to be working with the WPT For example, I think Gardens out in LA was mentioned as one of them. You know, they're going to have a live satellite there that's going to be awarding people. So there's gonna be I mean, if you're going to get six to seven hundred just from the wind satellites, it's going to be well over a thousand satellite entries. And then you know the seventy five set guarantee on December eleventh, that's going to be bananas. So like you know, I mean, the satellites are going to be there, so they're definitely making the push to ensure that they hit this forty million dollars guarantee. My number, I think is like forty two million. That's where I'm going to come in at right now. That's my early estimate on the number. And then just some some nitty gritty details on the tournament itself. So forty million dollars is guaranteed for the price, well, the buying is ten thousand, four hundred dollars. Of that, ten thousand, four hundred ninety eight hundred goes into the prize pool. Six hundred dollars is for raking fees and all that other junk that as poker players we don't like so much. December twelfth through twenty first is the event. Four starting flights, which is one more than last year. Last year they had three starting flights. This year they're bumping it up to four. It is one entry per starting day. That is a freeze out per flight, so the maximum number of entries is four. That means if you play all four, you're going to be spending forty one six hundred dollars, which is a heck of a lot of money. We talked about before, I think on the podcast about day two registration and wondering if that would be a thing. No, yeah, it's not a thing. No, Day two to registration. Registration is going to be through six levels on the day ones and then again, as I mentioned earlier, last year, they had a fifteen million dollars guarantee for this event. They got just over twenty nine million dollars in the prize. More than four million dollars went to the winner. So I'm thinking this year first place is probably going to be you know, north of five million, probably pushing six million. I don't know if it'll go any bigger than that, but we'll see. I know last year they would have been cool if they also guaranteed first place, like five million for first forty million prize pool. Yeah, I mean yeah, I don't know if you necessarily need to do that, just because it's probably baked in. I mean, it's it might be good. Yeah, that's from a marketing thing, because I don't think many people might be like, how much is going to be for place type of thing. Yeah, I know last year that you know, after they announced the payoffs, they really pushed the fact that everyone that made the final six was guarantee get a million dollars, which is cool. I like that the WPT official final table is six handed. So I'm assuming with a much bigger prize will on offer this year, that's going to be in play once again. And then I think you touched on this on a recent episode, but we didn't fully have the details at the time, but so we can hit on them right now. So WSP Paradise is scheduled for December third through fourteenth, and players can swing plane in both events like basically the main events if if they play the WPT World Championship Day one d which is on December fifteenth. So even if you go all the way to the end and win WSUP Paradise, you could probably get on a plane that next morning super early and get over to Las Vegas and still get in before the registration deadline. So obviously not everyone is going to make the final table of the WISP Paradise main events, so there will be plenty of players that I think can double dip and do both. You can play that WSP Paradise main event if you want, and then head on over to play the WPT World Championship. The biggest clash that I see was the five million dollars guaranteed WPT Prime Championship. By the way, this this guarantee went up from I think it was two million last year, went up to five millions. Yeah, that's a really big jump there. It did hit five million though in the prize wild believe last year it did. I'm pretty sure. Yeah, yeah, crush it. I mean it's I mean, this event was bananas. So this is the biggest clash that I see because it runs December seventh through twelfth at WIN Las Vegas, So that's going to be the biggest clash, you know, I think I think plenty of people if if you want to play both, you can in terms of the main events, but then you know you're probably gonna have to miss out on some other stuff elsewhere. You know, if you go down to Paradise, you're gonna have to miss this Prime Championship. If you want to stick around and play the Prime Championship, well then you can't play the WSP Paradise events. So that's going to be kind of the decision point that some of the I would say the bigger buying players have to worry about because the Bisuy Paradise does have a lot of the high roller stuff down there. So we'll see. You know what people can do. I have one gripe with the WPT go ahead apart apart from the day to registration. That's fine if you don't want to do that. I don't have an issue. I guess I could complain about no re entries, but you know what, I'm okay with that too. I love this no no on the way that this is structure. No, no, no, I'm just saying that, like I don't I'm not. I'm not opposed to a single re entry. But that's fine. You don't want either of those two things, I'm okay with. I know you announced your dates early, and these two is, unlike us, are very They're going to stand behind their dates. Now they added a day one day, great, I just wish they move their main event it starts on the twelfth, if they just started on the third. Now, two reasons why. First reason, you could get more people that play Paradise to fly to Vegas because I'm not sure I'm not sure on the flight schedule, but I'm not sure how many flights are coming out of the Bahamas on that Friday for Day one D to get from what is a Bahamas Miami Miami Vegas. So just one more day for travel would be great. But also then you can have one D on Saturday. And now I know both you and me love a weekend flight to get the weekend Warriors. But also what the third thing we have to consider is school holidays. Last day of school for most people is Friday, right, that's Day one D. Now, if you're a teacher. If you're a parent like you and me, if you had day one D on Saturday when the kids an now and winter break, I think that just moving that World Championship one day later. I know you have to be flexible. I think it could have locked in hitting the forty million because I'm I'm just like Lasa with WSP. I'm on the unders until I can get persuaded to be on the ovis. So wait, you're on the unders for the forty million. I don't know. If it's four thousand and eighty two players, that's a lot of players, I understand. I mean, listen, it is. But they got what twenty nine hundred last year? I mean, yeah, they're they're ramping up the satellites. I think the fact that last year was such a success really plays into their favor. You know, a lot of people are like a lot of people last year. We know, even last year, a lot of people were on the fence about even coming out for that event in December. Right then they saw how big the price was. A lot of people booked late flights and we're like, I gotta get there right now. If you if you didn't make that trip, I think you planned on making this trip this year. You were like, I can't miss that event. Now you're already planning to come. Now you see it's coming with the forty million dollars guarantee. So now I think you're like, well, I mean, what are we doing here? Let's we gotta we gotta be there, right, So I get I think my number will change and I'll probably get back to being overs. But I want to see the satellites. I want to see how look I played a I think it was at fifty seat Milestone satellite and I had it doubled it. So stuff like that will really push me to move my number up. But also I want to see how their first few events of Paradise go. We've got a Mystery millions, we've got a mini main event, and we've got the twenty five k GG millions high rollers. If those numbers are slightly down to what we might have expected, then my numbers for WBT are going to go up. If that makes sense, I think people have made a decision. Stuff it. I don't want to go to Bahamas. I want to go to Vegas. I want to play the five million Prime. I want to play the three K six Max. You know, also we have EPT Prague. If Prague numbers are down too, which we probably probably won't happen, but some of those things will send my number through the roof of WPT. But I'm gonna hold back. I'm gonna wait see what happens in early December. Yeah, I mean, if I were to put kind of a prediction on it, all I would I would guess that EPT Prague catches the strays here in a lot of ways. I mean, it's it's the it's WPT, and it's it's WSP Paradise, and it's you know, people aren't really talking about EPT Prague. So you could look at that either way. You could say, you know, the numbers for ABT Progue might fall a little bit, or you could say, you know what everyone's going to be at these other two series and w or EBT Progue is going to be a little bit softer than I would expect. So we'll see how that goes. If you're in Prague or Germany or wherever and you're not a pro I feel like your incentive to travel to Vegas isn't there, so you might as well just stay kind of home. It's Christmas time I heard Prague's beautiful in December, it is, so maybe you just say, you know what, that's fine. Prague is still a good event. It's a Puka Stas event, It's run exceptionally well. Who knows what Bahamas is gonna be wins a mess. It's gonna be hard for me to get home into my family for Christmas. I'm just gonna play apt Prague. So I think they'll be fine. Yeah, I mean, all in all, I think all of these these stops will. I think they're gonna perform well individually. Now it's gonna be hard to say, like, well, would this one have been bigger if this one didn't happen or vice versa. So that's gonna be hard. But I think they're probably all going to hit their numbers. This WPT World Championship overall has fifty six million dollars guaranteed across the series. They open up with a six and are dollar opening event that has like nine thousand starting flights with a million dollars guarantee. It has one, two, three, four, six, seven, eight starting flights. One of those eight, the final one day one h is a turbo. They also have a two million dollars guaranteed mystery bounty. We already hit on the five million dollars guaranteed WPT Prime Championship. They have another event that I mean, this event alone could be like the main event on a lot of schedules. A three thousand dollars buying, three million dollars guarantee that's on there, and then they have a two million dollars one that starts on December seventeenth. It has two starting flights. Then they have a two million dollars guarantee sixteen hundred dollars buying that starts on December nineteenth. So I mean, it's just one big event after another on this thing. They also have they have a senior's high roller. They did it a ten thousand dollars buying seniors event fifteen years fifty years or older gets you into this one. Five hundred thousand dollars guaranteed, ten thousand dollars buying. I'm going to be certainly paying attention to that one. I'm really interesting who's already going to win that? Who's that? Mike Lang He wins every seniors event, Micha Lang, He just I'm pretty sure he won one like five days ago. Yeah, I mean maybe he did. He's the best. See a whole ton of stuff on this WPT World Championship schedule Again, as I mentioned earlier, win poker dot com or just head to WPT dot com and you can find the stuff on there. He won a thousand dollar win Senior's event, of course he did. I mean, maybe we need to start having a senior's PGT event and Mike Lang will just be in the winter circuit. Can I just read He's five wins go ahead, one hundred and twenty five dollars monthly seniors, a one case seniors high roller, a four hundred seniors, a four hundred seniors, and then was recently the sorry eleven hundred dollars. Seeing he's just crushed his seniors events. The NAPT is back. I've been waiting for the North American Poker Tour to come back forever. Last time that it was held was way back in twenty eleven. Of course, the whole Black Friday situation in the USA kind of killed, just kids killed the advancement of the North American progratur This is awesome. So it's coming back to Resorts World in Las Vegas November fourth through twelfth. We know a bit of the schedule, not the full thing just yet. Still gonna wait to see the full details of the schedule, but we know a lot of it. So we know that the NAPT main event is November sixth through eleventh. It has a sixteen hundred and fifty dollars buying. We're gonna hit on that in a second, or at least I am. There's an NAPT ten thousand, three hundre dollars super high Roller scheduled for November fifth through sixth. The NAPT five hundred fifty dollars Nolan Hold Him Cup is scheduled November ninth through twelfth. They have a fifty three hundred dollars high roller November tenth through twelfth, and then an eleven hundred dollar mystery bounty event November eleventh through twelfth. So first thought, Yes, it's back, let's go, and it's coming to Las Vegas where that that might not mean a lot to a lot of people, but it does for me. Because Poker Stars isn't in Nevada. They're in other states, but they're not in Nevada. So the fact that they're coming back to Las Vegas is I think awesome. Right now, My second thought is the sixteen hundred fifty a main event, Buyan seems a tad low. You know, these other events. You know, at least the old NAPT events were five k buyans for the main event. Then they had some bounty shootout events, they had some high rollers, et cetera. But the main events were kind of very similar to the epts, you know, so this one seems a little bit low. That said, I think my takeaway is that this is sort of a soft launch in a way. They're gonna kind of dip their toes back in the water with this event. They're going to pair it with the F one that is in Las Vegas, which they've already talked about. We know that Poker Stars is a sponsor of the Red Bull Racing team with you know Max Verstapping and all that he does and absolutely annihilating the competition in F one, So they're gonna pair some stuff there that That race in Las Vegas is November sixteenth through eighteenth, So I think that they've already put some stuff out where there's some goal passes that can be one which combined a poker and F one experience all into one, so that stuff's going to be out there as well. So a little bit of a twofold situation here where you have kind of a soft launch going into a bigger tour that I'm guessing they're gonna do for twenty twenty four, and then also being able to pair it with the f one stuff that they're going to be doing in Las Vegas. So I'm pretty pumped about this one. Hopefully I'll be able to get to play it. You know, I don't know if I'm gonna be exactly loving going down to the strip in the middle of November, But that said, you know, I think a sixteen hundred and fifty dollars main events is right up my alley. I'm also guessing they haven't announced anything yet in terms of guarantees. I'm guessing they're gonna anno some sort of guarantee on the main event. I don't think Poker Star is just going to come out here and you know, launch the napt just as a sixteen fifty just and hope that you know, it does really well. When there's a chance it could you know, get fifty runners. I mean, there's always a chance, right, but if you guarantee it, you obviously lessen that chance. So so yeah, I think that that stuff's kind of coming down the pipeline overall, but I'm happy to see it back. I can't wait for the n APT to be back. I think there's I think there's a big opening in the market for the NAPT to return, which is also why I was kind of like, hmm, the sixteen fifty price point does seem a little low for what I expected, but I think there's probably more coming. Yeah, I don't hate the sixteen fifty nine, to be honest. It's it's a bit more affordable for people like myself. I actually think that I think results will actually be okay in November, Like that end of the strip I think will be safe coming off, you know, from behind results world, So I don't think you hit too many traffics. I mean hopefully. I just have no idea, And then every time I go down to the strip, I'm like, you know, it'll be fine. They're mostly done with the paving and this and that, and then it's just it's a disaster. Yeah, it's it's awful. I do like what they've announced with the schedule. There's some variety there's a couple of high rollers. Like I said, I think, I mean, I'm a big fan of this five fifty cup event. I think it'll be big. It's a great price point. We can go in there and blast away, So that's a good one. I think Focus Stars is very much trying to get that brand back out there in the States, and having affordable events is a good step to achieving that. If you if you were just five k's and up for the main and high rollers, it'd be hard for people that don't really know what Pocus Stars is, don't don't know what the NAPT is to just jump in and play this. I think these affordable buy ins help with some brand exposure, help get the NAPT back back into people's minds for you know, like you said, it's a soft launch, it's gonna be a hod launch in twenty twenty four, and I think it helps those rights. The only pushback that I would have on that specific thing that you just mentioned is, you know, on the EPT, they often pair an EPT like they just did for Barcelona with the austrai As Poker Tour. You know, they pair EPT Progue with the Eureka Poker Tour stuff like that, which is their their lower buying series. So, you know, much like WPT does with WPT Prime in some instances, I think you could do that here with the NAPT. You know, you could still have like a one K to a fifteen hundred dollars in that price point, like smaller tiered thing, and then you have the thirty five hundred to the five k main event, right, so you kind of offer both. But that said, I think it's more of this is a starting point for for things to come, at least at least I'm hopeful in that regard, So we'll see how things play out. None the less, I'm happy to have Poker Stars back with the NAPT in the US because I just the way that Poker Stars does events is just the best. Now. Obviously, there are other events that do really great things. World Poker Tour does a great job. Triton Poker Series obviously does a great job. I think what we do on the PGT at the Poker Studio, we do a great job. But the NAPT, I think is going to take a lot from the EPT. I mean, it's all under the same umbrella, and it combines like that amazing experience with an event that is at scale because like Triton Poker Series, the PGT events, they're smaller. It's easier to do stuff when it's smaller, right, It's you're not you know, getting you know, hundreds, if not thousands of players in the mix. So I think Poker Stars is gonna roll out the bells and whistles for the start of this. I'm expecting kind of like a PCA type of feel at least like branding wise, when you walk into Resorts World. We obviously know Resorts World is a new or newer property down on the Las Vegas Strip, so you know it's going to be coupled with you know that that level of quality, that level of luxury. So I'm looking forward to it overall. I think I think it's gonna be fun. Looking forward to donating at least five hundred and fifty dollars, Yeah, I mean we got to get in this five fifty. Gonna take a shot hopefully in the sixteen fifty main event if I can swing it. Schedule wize, but yeah, it's gonna be a fun time for sure. And then speaking of Poker Stars or keeping it in the Poker Stars family, EPT Barcelona recently wrapped up. I mean, this stop every single year is just absolutely gangbusters. So we'll hit on a couple of the big events here. The fifty three hundred or fifty three hundred euro EPT main event hit two thousand, one hundred and twenty entries. Simon Whissiak from France one one point one three four million euros that's just over one point two million dollars. Andre Cary took fifth place for just under four hundred thousand euros, so another absolutely amazing turnout there. I watched a lot of the Poker Stars EPT live coverage, as I always try and do. I think it's just great quality contents. The eleven hundred euro Astraeus Poker tourmain events, so this one seven thousand, three hundred and ninety eight entries. Three thousand, two hundred ninety one of those entries were unique players. This is a record setting turnout for Poker Stars. It is the biggest live event in Poker Stars history. Lucien Cohen out of France, another Frenchman, winning this one for six hundred and seventy six thousand euros. That's seven hundred and thirty five thousand dollars. The twenty two hundred Astraeus Poker Tour high Roller. Another huge turnout here, twenty two hundred and fourteen entries. Goren Mandich out of Croatia won four hundred eighteen thousand, nine hundred euros. This was a three way chop. Antoine Labat got second place and actually got more money than Mandig did for winning. Labat took home a five hundred thousand, five hundred thousand euros even and then Yun Shang Son got third for three hundred and eighty five thousand euros. I believe, if I remember correctly, that they got down to three handed, they did an icmdal and then they just flipped for the trophy and that was that one hundred thousand euro EPT Super high Roller. I feel like this one was on the smaller side for a poker start super high roller. Eighteen entries, you know, I feel like these usually get a bit larger. But you know who knows Kahan Mockri. I probably butchered that name terribly, I'm sorry. Won the event for seven hundred and fifty thousand euros, and then you had the ten thousand, three hundred euro EPT high Roller. This event every single year, these high rollers at EPT Barcelona, all is perform extremely well. Four hundred and seventy five entries in this one. Quan Lao, a PLO expert Kuwana playing the two card game here, winning nine hundred and ten thousand euros. There, So massive turnouts from EPT Barcelona as we can expect. And the EPT, I mean the EBT what took some time off or whatever then came back. I mean, it's just it's it's going as good as ever. I mean, I love the epts. I think they're, you know, just the absolute pinnacle in you know, huge field live poker tournaments. I love everything Poker Stars does with them. So again, hopefully some of that EPT stuff transitions to the NAPT here in the States or in North America. All Right, so we gotta bring this one inside a little bit high stakes poker. We don't always try to talk about, you know, all the stuff that we're doing on Poker Go, just because we don't want to seem like a bunch of shills for our own stuff. That said, High Stakes Poker Season eleven has delivered. It's been awesome. I don't know what Tim thinks. I think it's been arguably the best season of high stakes poker. Ever, that's a very very strong thing. It's been so good, it's been so good. The stakes are astronomical. One thousand and two thousand are the blinds, and then they're putting on the four thousand dollars straddle every chance that they can get. So there's that. The the group of players. You have Andrew Robil, you have Jean Robert Blonde, you have Rick Solomon, Like, they all just work really well together. You know, they obviously have played a lot in the past, whether that be on you know, various televised or filmed games like this. Also you can definitely tell that they play have been a bunch of private games together. Eric Person made an appearance, dusted off a bunch of money, like lasted like twelve minutes and then was out. Rob Young's in the mix. So I think it's been a ton of fun overall this whole season. So yeah, I mean I love it. You know, I'm like, I've always been really partial to the old high stakes poker, which I think most people in poker have. You know, that's kind of for a lot of people. That was really like the door opener, you know, to get us into like the world of high stakes poker, right, and it was so so so good. Well, it's taking a little bit of time since there was that break, but I think season eleven, I think this is it, Like this is this is the new modern high stakes poker, and this is what it should be. I almost feel like going forward, high stakes pokers should not have blinds less than one thousand, two thousand. You just got to find guys to play. That's especially especially with with no gamble in the future sometimes playing the same stakes. So just high stakes poker, you know, stick to the name one thousand and two thousand. Let's go find guys that are going to play this big. But we gotta talk about this. On a recent episode, Jean Robert Blonde made a fold that I mean, tim is tight. I mean, but holy crap, what are we doing here? So it's one thousand, two thousand with the four thousand straddle. Rick Solomon, who if you've ever watched Rick Solomon play poker, he's both like good in a weird, out of the box, unorthodox way, but he can also like be really wacky and wild, like he's kind of all over the place. And Jean Robert Blond has a lot of experience playing with Rick Solomon, so he knows that and they often talk about it. You know, Rick can do whatever he wants. Rick isn't never going to be scared by the stakes all this sort of stuff. So it's one thousand, two thousand with the four thousand straddle. Rick Solomon finds the powerful four deuce off makes it fifteen k you know, so he's already in there, he's just splashing. Let's go now, Jean Robert blond isn't the small blind folds to him. He's got three hundred and sixty five thousand in his stack. He makes it fifty thousand with pocket queens three hundred and fifteen thousand behind, folds back over to Solomon. He just says, you know what, I'm all in, Yolo, let's go. Wellon, folds the two queens. I mean, what are we doing? Why are you three betting that hand if you're folding the two queens and Nick Schulman credit to Nick Schulman says, easily the worst fold in the history of the show. Yes, it was the worst fold in the history of the show. I mean, come on, I think it was a fine It was fine fold. What do you say, yeah, you're the captain of the Army of the Knits. Figure it out. I mean, this was so bad? What's he doing? Yes, it was not great. He did have what three hundred I mean it's a lot of money. Yeah, but I mean seven of his stacking preflopping. Come on, man, you have pocket queens, the third best hand in poker. Get it in from memory. I think Jib lost the first two days, this being the third day that he was playing, so that could definitely have some influence on his decision. So yeah, I mean, yeah, I don't know what to say. I didn't think it was it was a bad phone, I mean, coming from it does remind us of an old hand between brad Booth and phil Ivy, when brad Booth had the forties. It was suited, though it was the forty suited versus the pocket kings of phil Ivy. The difference there was that that one saw a flop. Okay, very different situation that one. They went to the flop, did brad Booth and phil Ivy, And the flop was seven six three with two diamonds, And I forget the action exactly, but brad Booth puts just stacks of cash in the middle, and it leads to the famous line of Ivy saying that cash just looks so sweet. I wish you could put the chips hand. That cash just looks so sweet as he's in the tank thinking about calling with the two kings. But you know, Brad Booth can have a ton of hands here, he can have seven six, he can have different two pairs, he can have he could have flopped a straight. You know, you could have set stuff like that. So different situation because you do see the flop here here, I mean, given the stack size three betting to fifty k, having three hundred fifteen K behind, given the fact that you have pocket queen's third best hand in poker preflop, given the fact that it's Rick Solomon out of all people, I mean, you just you gotta call, you gotta, you gotta beat him into the pot at Phil Hummy style. It's it's the Rick Solomon pop that makes it the bad phone. I mean, if this is like Rob Young, you've probably fold. I mean, yeah, it's Rick Solomon. Just put the chips in. Let's gory. I mean, this is that's just wild and the way they've been playing them on the season you know that you're probably gonna run it twice. So like if you're up against an ace king, like, yeah, you're flipping. You may not want to flip for that much money, but you know you're gonna be running it twice or whatever. I mean. Yeah, this was one of many fun, crazy moments from season eleven of High Stakes Poker. Again, I would highly incur you to watch it because I listen, I'm not joking. I think it's it's arguably the best season in high stakes poker history. It's just been so so so good. All right, last thing we're gonna talk about here, we got to hit on Shawn Deeve. Now he posted an update. So Shaun Deeve was supposed to get down to I believe seventeen percent body fat in a bet against Bill Perkins. He has to do it by the start of the twenty twenty four World Series of Poker. I think it's like May thirty at their May thirty first is when he's got to get his scan and get in down to seventeen percent body fat. He's posting one hundred thousand dollars to Bill Perkins's one million dollars. He got a dexa scan, which is a full body scan that gives you all sorts of measurements. Most importantly, as it pertains to this bet, it does give you probably the most accurate body fat percentage read out there. So he gets that on August twenty first, so a couple of weeks ago, it comes back at thirty six percent. I mean, is he is he jowing dead? No, not at all. Really, you don't think so? No. I mean that doesn't seem like it's that much progress. Like, so he's supposed to photos how he's having a cheap meal at his favorite restaurant. Looks like he's got nineteen chicken palms on the table, like, I mean, he probably shouldn't be doing that. But as you know, and hopefully some of our listeners, No, I used to be a larger man, and my first body scan I was too basically two fifty was Shawn is now thirty six percent body fat? What's he gotta get to? He's gotta get to seventeen exactly. I think it's seventeen, yeah, without without doing any like crazy fasting. When I was one eighty five, I was seventeen point seven percent body fat. Now I was not using a dex scan. It was one of those like in body ones, they have a lifetime, so it's it's very good, but I think a dexter scan is obviously better. So he has to try and get to one eighty five. Can he get to one eight five between now in the World Series of Poker next year? Yes, he can't be having cheat meals. He's gonna knuckle down. He's got to be locked on working out, running, cardio, eating well, doing everything, and he'll get that. So can he physically get to seventeen percent? Yes? Will he? I don't know if he's gonna have chicken palmers in a random August. We're gonna struggle. Yeah, this is I think my kind of stands on this whole thing was like, you know, you just need to somewhat maintain through the World Series of Poker, just knowing how much he likes to grind, and then once the World Series of Poker ends, you know it's you gotta get down to business. So so like you said, Tim, I mean, you're no, no, no cheat meals. I'm sorry, Like, I don't care what the nutritionist says, You're just you're twenty four seven from whatever. July eighteenth nineteenth till May thirty thirty first like that You're you're one hundred percent good, NonStop, Like that's just how you have to live. You have to be sucked. David sucks, yeah, I mean it sucks, but like he's got a million dollars to win. Yeah, it sucks less. I mean win a million dollars, I'll tell you that much. We were doing weight loss of bets for like, and we were winning several thousand, and we were making it. He's trying to win a million dollars, Like you should be have to crush this. Yeah, I mean yeah, I would say. You know, you just gotta you just gotta give up, you know, the next what eight nine months of your life basically, Like when I say give it up, not saying like give up your family time and all that sort stuff. I'm just saying, like you, you know, no cheap mills. I'm sorry, you gotta get dress up at eight am and work out some days two days, like you know, long workout. It's like everything, like you just you gotta commit yourself to it. Because seven figure paid at the end of the At the end of the red I think it took me eighteen months to lose eighty pounds. And I also didn't have a million dollars carrot over my head. I just had a few thousand dollars carrots in white luss beets. But yeah, you just have to be like real hardcore and it's it's not easy. But if he wants to do it, he'll get there. But like we said, like we said at the thought, it's does he want to get there? Yeah, that's the biggest thing. Yeah, it's gonna be interesting. I think I kind of flip plot before, you know, if he was gonna make it, if he wasn't gonna make it, I was pleasantly surprised at you know, once the beck out booked, you know, next day, he was like ready to go. He was trying. Now I don't know. Now, I think I leaned towards him not making it. At least it's gonna be much harder than I thought, just because you know, being at thirty six percent. Now, you know, at least he was thirty six percent in August twenty first, you know. But we'll see, you know, if he cuts out those chicken parm cheap meals and whatever else he's having, we'll see how it goes and uh, you know, we'll obviously be monitoring this situation because I think it's a I think it's interesting. All right, Well, that's gonna do it for Tim and I. Next week, Poker Masters probably gonna be doing some more frequent podcasts ten events as part of the Poker Master Series. It kicks off on September fourteenth. September fifteenth is the first live stream be live streams of every final table from the fifteenth through the twenty sixth, as the race for the Purple Jacket is on. As always, we appreciate you guys for tuning in. My name is Donnie Peters. His name is Tim Duckworth. He's got a new Twitter handle x handle. Everyone go hit him up. Tim Underscore Underscore Duckworth. Okay, go out there. Yeah, so because he's got to get his actual name back, which somebody is hijacked. All right, that's gonna do it for us. We'll talk to you guys later. Face