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
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First things first, WPT forty million dollar guarantee. Tim and I heard
from the underground that forty million was the number, at least for me.
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