Hello, everyone, Welcome back to a new episode of the Poker Girl Podcast.
My name is Donny Peters. His name is Tim Duckworth. It's the
end of Day two d We're heading into Day three, when all of the
remaining players will be under one single roof Yes for the WSP Main Event,
the record setting WSP. Yeah, it really was a record smashing main event.
No need to bury the lead. We have the numbers, the official
numbers. We've been speculating, we've been listing them as unofficial for a few
days now, but we have the tally. The attendance is ten thousand and
forty three entries for the two thousand and twenty three World Series of Poker Main
Event. That is a prize pool of more than ninety three million dollars,
if you can believe it, that is unreal, twelve point one million dollars.
We'll be going to first place. That is the largest first place prize
in WSP main event history. That does eclipse the twelve million dollars at Jamie
Gold One back in two thousand and six. We're gonna talk about all about
it on this the show. How you doing, Buddy Good? I'm surprisingly
not very tired well, that'd be about that too many zero's coffee. You're
probably hyped up on all that caffeine. Yeah. The only thing I'm hyped
up on it is all the coffee that I've been winning from you. Goddamn.
That's right, baby. We might have a stack correction coming. M
I might have one one, but we'll see. Um Me. We'll talk
about the record. We'll talk about the payouts twelve point one million to first.
As I mentioned, day two D is in the bag we today.
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We got a community cards segment to kick things off here on the show.
We are recording this on Sunday, July nine. It's just about to
hit one am. What do we got for community cards here? Attention,
attention, good morning, good afternoon, and good evening to the poker Radio
audience near and far. It is now time for a brand spanking, spiffy
and new. Shout out to some of our most loyal listeners who likely got
a bit too lucky on the way to the spotlight. You're listening to the
number one poker show in the land, and it's time for a new edition
of the Poker Go podcast Community Cards. The first announcement, first section of
Community Cards is we have the hats. Oh my gosh, it's about time.
And we told you guys on yesterday's pod email us your name, your
address, and most importantly the past pass. What I'm not going to tell
you because if you're a loyal listener, you should already know what it is.
I've been hyping it up all World series. We've already claimed twenty people
have already emailed us and claimed the hats Kia that we've given them out already.
De fine, So guys, if you really want one, get the
emails in. Do you know how many we got? I mean it's two
boxes. I don't know. I didn't really count it. It just it
feels like I think I think it's the same order as the last time.
One hundred and fifty. Oh okay, okay, So I mean there's there's
two boxes and we got two boxes last time, so one hundred and twenty
five left. So if you want one, get that email in and it
leads the second part of Community cards. A man by the name of Kurt.
I can't say's last name Shusharrett. I don't know. I'm might a
butcher Sharrect. Yeah, we're not very good a name shush shrecked. I
don't know how you got shush sharrect. Kurt. If you see Tim,
God give him trouble for that. I mean, Kurt shush erect. I
can't wait till he tells you that you got it right and I got it
wrong. But anyway, continue on. So we sold Kurt earlier this week.
He's like, any has I'm like, no coming coming. Um He's
like, okay, I'm playing tomorrow or something. Came back today. It
was first break of the main event, Jos. The break just went started.
He comes over to our kind of area and he says, hey,
Tim, have you got those hats? And I say, oh, actually
they came in today. I'm gonna I can walk to the shop after this
break and get one, and he goes, please do I only have twenty
thousand? Break ended went to the shop, got the bucks, the hats,
brought it back, walked past his table. He told me, you
know I'm on this table, delivered him a hat. He puts it on
straight away, just puts it on, and someone of the table, as
I'm walking away says, is that the lucky hat? So he's obviously had
told them this stought some kind of story. So he had twenty thousand,
what do we start the day at? Well, the starting level in day
two, um, it was it's four hundred eight hundred. He had twenty
k, so he already lost half his stack. Gave him the hat.
This guy bagged two hundred and eighteen thousand. Every time I walked around,
the hat was on his head. He didn't take it off. From twenty
k to two hundred and eighteen thousand, that's a damn lucky hat. And
I spoke to Kurt, asked Hi about his day and and the whole hat
situation than the luckiness behind it. Now, Kurt, they say that a
lucky hat is worth a thousand dollars, But to you, I think it's
worth two hundred and eighteen thousand, because you just put two hundred and eighteen
thousand in your day. Two D chip bag. But I want to start
with You came over to me in first break. You said, I've already
seen you earlier this week, I believe. You said, have you got
any of the lucky hats? I said no, but it is break,
I'm going to run to the shop get some, and I gave you one.
And what did you tell me? How many chips did you have at
that point? I told you I was down to twenty thousand chips and I
needed the hat quickly before I ran out. So I went and got the
hat. I came over, I delivered a hand delivered to you, and
then I think I heard the table say something like, oh, is this
the lucky hat you've been talking about? So I'm assuming you've been talking about
it. Yeah, I was saying I needed the lucky hat, and it
showed up. You gave me the lucky hat. And in that first hour
and a half after I got the hat, I went from twenty to eighty
and then went back down to forty at some point later, but worked my
way all the way back up to one six and then um and then just
two minutes before the end of the session, I ended up getting all in
against somebody else ace King versus Queens, and the ace King came through for
one hundred K pots, so that got me to two hundred. I think
it's safe to say that this hat is very lucky. I'm gonna guess that
you are not taking it off when you come back tomorrow, and I'm wearing
the hat the rest of the series. Definitely. How else did everything go
for you today? You know, a pot from obviously those few hands you
discussed. But it's a long day. Just sit here and play poka.
You know, ten hours of poker play, It's it's tough on anyone.
Yeah, it was a long day. It was. It was the the
group was good that we had um. I think most people were playing pretty
straightforward. We didn't have anybody today that was like bombing pots left and right
and stuff. So it was mostly just if you had cards, and if
you had lucky cards that they came through for you, and most importantly a
lucky hat. If you had the lucky hat, well that brought you the
lucky cards. I mean, the hat's just the hat runs hot. I
don't know. I think I'm gonna have to wear it, wear it tomorrow
because I haven't been running hot for the first two days, but I think
I'm about to throw the hat on. Did you wear the other hat you
bought? I did on day one? How was your Day one? What
do you give the hat? Out of ten? That hat? I mean,
it was fine, it was fine. Well, you know the thing
is, remember your hat got stolen. It did get stolen. Now you
actually get a new hat. So maybe the new hat you get is the
new lucky hat. I think I'm gonna wear the hats im and we'll see.
We'll see. You could just you know, take them on and off.
Yeah, I'm definitely well. The Day one hat that I was wearing
it was a corduroy World Series of Poker hat with a cool logo. I
liked the hat. It did cost me forty six dollars, but whatever,
I kept flipping it frontwards and backwards, you know, I mean, listen,
I made it through and I'm moving on to day three. Basically you
can say it's lucky your bag chips, I know, so you know,
actually went to this kind to complain. I went to the store today because
you know, as you recall, I finished fifth in the WSP Media event
for one hundred and fifty dollars in rewards credit's amazing. But I remember the
remember the gentleman with the hoodie, I mean called him out on the podcasts.
Yeah, it's the same I wanted. I was like, oh,
I was in the tournament today. By the way, let's see how much
this hoodie is or whatever it's called a police Yeah, they only have double
XLS or triple XL so I was like, all right, that there goes
that dream. So how much was it? I didn't even look at the
price because they only had the triple xls, so they're kind of useless to
me. I was gonna waste my rewards credits that, but you know,
I'll find something else for him. So if you want a hat, you
know the Drill podcast at pokerg dot com. We need your name, your
malin addressed, and we need the password. Yeah, we're not going to
stay the password, but you know, as Tim said, if you're a
listener of this podcast, you know what the password should be right now,
or if you're here around the horse shoe still, um, you know you
can find us and hit us up with the password and we'll get you Hey
hats all right, um, News and happenings here the bulk it's going to
be, of course, the World Series of Poker main event, the record
center largest ever ten thousand and forty three entries. The previous record that stood
for seventeen years eight thousand, seven hundred and seventy three entries from two thousand
and six, the year that Jamie Gold won it, So it's been a
while. Last year I think was eight thousand, six hundred and sixty three,
so it was a right an it was one hundred off the record,
or right around one hundred off the record on hundred and ten, whatever it
is, so they got very close, ultimately didn't do it this year.
Absolutely ridiculous how big this thing has gotten. As I mentioned, more than
ninety three million dollars in the prize pool. It's pretty pretty ridiculous to think
how big this tournament has gotten. They also released the payouts. So ten
thousand and forty three entries I think it's ninety three hundred dollars goes into the
prize pool. Seven hundred all rake I think, yes, right, or
it's ninety four and six. I can't remember one way or the other.
That's what it is. So there was ninety three million, three hundred ninety
nine thousand, nine hundred dollars in the prize pool. The top one thousand,
five hundred and seven places will be paid first place twelve point one million
dollars, second place six point five million. How would you like to play
heads up for five point six million? Ten? As I keep putting in
a group, you do keep putting this. It's really a six point one
million heads so much because supposedly this bracelet is worth half a million dollars.
I'll say this, the bracelet is the best wistmin event bracelet I've ever seen.
It's the same as last the horseshoe element to it looks so awesome.
It looks so good. I mean, it's it just looks so sexy.
Can I have a quick quick tangent? Go ahead? Following on from yesterday's
podcast The Dinner the serving Plate, Well, I tried to tip away one
hundred dollars. I showed you. We found it, We found the serving
play it's fifty dollars. There you go. So you're gonna save yourself money
by just buying it online or whatever? Yeah, exact course, all right,
So let's let's go ruts run through the main event final table payouts.
As I mentioned at the top, fifteen hundred and seven are going to pay
out, so I'll go bottom to top, so ninth place, nine hundred
thousand, eighth place, one million, one hundred twenty five thousand, seventh
place, one million, four hundred and twenty five thousand, six place,
one million, eight hundred fifty thousand, fifth place is two point four million,
fourth place in even, three million, third place also in even number
four million per third, six point five million per second, and twelve point
one million buckaroos up top. There's been a lot of talk about the payouts.
I have some issues with it. Yeah, I mean you have some
issues with it. I mean, we're not going to really get into it.
It's it's whatever one easy is. It's it's obvious to see that this
right. They wanted to make first place more than the Jamie Gold year because
they want to double record basically, yeah, exactly, And there's been a
lot of pushback on that, to be honest. You can see it on
social media talking with some players throughout the tournament, talking with players around the
industry or people around the industry, that's where the biggest pushback seems to come.
That looks worse than it does compare to two thousand and six, is
because in two thousand and six, I think they paid ten percent. Yeah,
now they pay fifteen percent. Yeah, so you have to they're trying
to basically thread a needle here. They're trying to pay more to first place,
but then also pay way more spots, right, so it gets tricky.
You know a lot of things that people are pointing out is that you
make the found table, you're not getting a million dollars. That's something that
people are pointing out. But you know, whatever I mean, So it
is what it is to touch on your point. Eight hundred and seventy three
people cash and Jamie Galzia nearly double for this year fifteen hundred and seven.
So even it's not double to percent, no I know, but like don't
forget, we're going from eighty seven hundred plays for ten thousand, so that
five percent is very sufficient to you know, and we're only actually gaining and
eleven million dollars in the prize pool. Obviously, there's a lot of talk
about the million dollars, sorry, the not being a million dollars For ninth
easy Solution, you take twenty five KFF eighth and seventh and the fifty k
off six that gets you to a million. But then obviously all the payout
jumps below that are a little wonky. But yeah, it would have been
cool to have everyone makes the final table wins a million dollars. But we
talked about two thousand and six before. Yeah, I think it's the top
twelve made a million or more in two thousand and six. Of course,
listen, you're not paying out an additional five percent of the field, so
there's a lot of money that comes from that. When you add it all
up, the first six figure payout will be eightieth place I believe, one
hundred and nine thousand, four hundred dollars. I think it's in the in
the ninety thousand rained or ninety something thousand before that's um. And then you
hit into six figures and you get to the top haiti um. If you
bubble the final table seven day nine, Yeah, seven hundred K will be
the payout there. Um, if you make the final two tables, so
top eighteen, that'll be three hundred and forty five thousand dollars. A min
cash is worth fifteen thousand dollars, and then I think gets right around two
hundred and fifty spots before there's a pay jump. What yes, it's like
fifteen or seven. Then there's about two hundred fifty spots, twelve forty four
or something, twelve forty nine, something like that. They go up to
seventy thousand, five hundred. Okay, I'm reading the you're shaking my head.
No, because he said the milestone pay as a thousand and fourth was
twenty. They they skip the number. No, they skip the number and
there. But I will say that if you went min cash to that one
thousand and fourth place, so a min cash is like the top fifteen percent
of the field, and then if you just took that that five percent chunk
from fifteen percent to ten percent and just that was all one payout instead of
having an additional paoud in between. Um, I think you save like six
hundred and ten k M. You could put that in a few spots exactly.
Listen, the payouts are going to get a lot of conversation. Um,
there's been a lot of pushback on it, but you know ultimately that
this tournament, you know, agree or disagree with the payouts, it always
is a spectacle at all. It becomes a talking point, and you know
that's what we have here. We know what they're doing here. You know
the record with the twelve point one as well. But my thoughts are next
year, looking ahead, what happens next Listen. Well, first of all,
I think next year is I'm going to say bigger field size for sure,
you know, and then let's say it's let's say it's not bigger.
Let's say it's the same size, well like one player more do they have
to go like twelve point two million like themselves in a way, You're you're
setting that precedent. Yes, So Pandora's Box of payouts. I understand.
Listen, I'm with you. I mean, I think it's it's tricky.
You know, it's not you're you're gonna you're gonna miss on something. I
don't know what you're gonna miss on. You have to sacrifice something, That's
what I'm trying to say. So are you going to sacrifice that first place
prize not being the largest? Are you going to sacrifice you know, making
the players in the community of a little bit annoyed with this? Are you
going to sacrifice I don't know, payouts elsewhere on the payout table you're gonna
have to sacrifice something to make this all work. Right, Looking at it
to next year, I think the field tide gets bigger. So that'll make
it easier to do what they did this year again next year, is what
I'm saying, meaning if they want to again have a bigger first place prize,
because if they let's say they have ten two hundred players next year,
so about one hundred and fifty two hundred and sixty more players. Well,
with how they did it this year, they can carry it over next year
and it'll at least be the same as what they did this year, right,
so that that that would make sense, the trend would continue. But
I mean, listen, I mean twelve point one million for first place.
You know, if you guys have opinions, let us know. You can
email them in, you can tweet at us whatever. You know. We
love to listen. We love to hear what people are saying out there.
So so yeah, let us know what you think. You got some statistics
here. I saw you tweet some of this stuff out, which is cool.
I liked it. I mean, yeah, obviously I'm a nerd for
stats, a stat nerd with this inclusive of this main event. Over one
point three billion dollars in prize money awarded in the WSB main event. That's
just bananas. That total of seventeen thousand, three hundred and sixteen players have
cashed, not unique, just cashed. That's including some of those you know
times where they three people bubbled and they split, you know, they took
five k each, stuff like that, will include the times when they voted
for the winner. Well yes, because I'm joking, all the world champs
take all their money. You pull it together, one hundred and ninety four
million dollars have been awarded to the winners in the WSP main events. So
that's just kind of staggering numbers when you put it all together. Wild.
So next next year that's gonna e clipse two million dollars for sure. Two
million. Ye sorry, yeah, that's gonna be that's freaking wild. I
mean Jesus, that's kind of cool. You know, next year is going
to be a big year for some milestones at the WSP with all these like
numbers. But yeah, we'll save that for another day. Man, this
millivent is just absolutely crazy. I can't imagine playing heads up for five point
six million dollars I mean six point one. Um, here, you can
have the bracelet. I'll take the five point six million. How about that
deal? Deal? Okay, cool, because you seem to be all about
this bracelet. I like the bracelet too, but I want to wear it
as a belt buckle for the next with my cowboy hat and my boots,
So wheat the bracelet is absolutely no. I just think I just think the
bracelet, a bracelet like this being worth so much, you know, is
we have to consider it in these kind of discussions because the other bracelets are
worth nothing, nearest. Yeah, but I mean I understand what you're saying
to consider in the in the financial discussion, but I'm not sure you're ever
selling that bracelet ever, So I don't think it even matters I have this
discussion you. Let's say you in the main event in twelve days. Congrats
to you. You've just quit poker go. I'm left to do all your
emails. You know. Let's say you have sold twenty percent of your action.
Okay, so you don't have any percent of self. You have the
bracelet. I have two percent of you. I don't expect two percent of
the bracelet, right of course, it's yours where you can do it where
I can't wait to find out where this is going. No, but Daniel,
are going to ask for more money. Listen, let me finish.
You're gonna ask Let me cook. You're gonna ask for what hunter k Let
me cook. I'm not No, I'm not gonna ask for any of the
bracelet oviously se price you want a friends But now he said, I don't
want this thing. This thing is ugly. I'm gonna sell it. There's
no shots. Guy decides I'll give you two hundred K for it undemoket value.
But you know whatever, you're like, that's a good deal. You
sell the price of a two undrek Do I get two percent of two hundred
k? Now? No, No, I don't get two percent. I
do. I'll see your asmall claims called buddy, what if? What if
I can? What if I can? I mean No, We're not even
going down this world. This is just stupid. No, we're not doing
this. This is what we do. We talk about ship stuff. So
people were not doing well. All right, let's get into some of the
nitty gritty details of a day two D. So if the board is correct
that I'm staring at right now, it says that there's three thousand, five
hundred and seventy three chies remaining, which is combined across both of Day two's.
Okay, so that was to ABC that took place yesterday and then Day
two D that took place today. So there's you know, three thousand,
five hundred and seventy three. I'm not sure if that's exactive. It might
tick down a little bit, you know, overnight, but it's it's probably
pretty darn close, okay. I mean, they kept that that number pretty
dialed in at the end of the night because they're breaking tables, they're moving
people to other rooms, all the sort of off all the floor men and
women are on walkie talkies, you know, they got from runners all around
grabbing seat tickets like it's a It's a pretty efficient operation overall, so I'll
trust that that number is pretty darn close, if not accurate. Maurice Hawkins
leading the way nine hundred and forty one thousand. So last year, I
can't remember the gentleman's name, but he did bag over a million. There
was a chip leader with over a million heading into day three. So this
year, uh, Maurice Hawkins is the closest to a million, but not
quite there nine hundred forty one k second place. The Nicholas Rigby Show has
been on full display. Came into today with the chip lead with I think
four hundred and eight thousand more than doubled his stack, put nine twenty one
five hundred in the bag. An absolute animal at the table. This guy
plays I think eighty percent v Pip beautiful, maybe higher. It's out of
control. We all know about the diaper and the dirty diaper, the three
Duce and the three Duce offsuits. We also got to see him play against
Phil Hellmuth, which he ended up busting Phil Hellmuth in a pretty wild hand
early on in the day when they were on the Horseshoe feature table that was
on the YouTube stream where Remco and I were doing commentary alongside Kane Callus.
Helmuth and Rigby are talking to each other, you know. Helmuth asked him
how many times Rigby thought he would bluff Hellmuth, and Rigby said nine times.
I think he got up to four before he busted him. So there
was that. We met Ben Parent, who was interesting, who was I'm
going to say this with all the love in my heart, the most annoying
kid in the room. Wow. And I listen. I thought it was
great entertainment, But I know what the audience and what the viewers were sitting
in the chat, people on social media. I mean, it was this
kid Okay, I think he said he was twenty three years old, he's
in he's in school to be a dentist. Basically said that I just don't
want to. I just don't want to embarrass myself so much that I get
kicked out identist school. He did not stop talking for like thirty minutes,
like it was legit, not stop talking. It was unbelievable. And it
got to the point where they basically told him that he couldn't talk for a
certain period of time and then he could only ask Phil Hommy with a certain
number of questions, which I think was five questions. Helmy put his headphones
on. They literally started ignoring him at points, like just just flat out
of not answering his questions. People were people were on social media and in
the chat saying that they were saying, well, three things, one,
holy crap, this kid is annoying, or maybe they were saying four things.
Then they said you need to mute this guy's mic. Well, we're
not muting his mic, Like, I guess it's not happening. Why because
he's talking a lot. He was his his talk was innocent. He was
just literally talking all the time. The next thing that they were saying is
you need to move him off the table. Well, we don't have control
of that. That's random, so we're not. No one's gonna do that.
And then the fourth thing, which was the most insane thing was people
were people were legit telling us that he needs to get a penalty. Can
you get penalties from the commentator's booth? No, but they were saying,
like, he needs to get one. Like they weren't for that, they
weren't coming to us, but for what excessive took chatter. I mean,
it's happened before. He swore once. I think he said the word asshole
and he immediately apologized afterwards because he felt so bad and was like my mom's
watching him, sorry, like I didn't mean to swear, you know,
hexent blah blah blah blah. Like he was just like he was like your
annoying little brother that just like NonStop. Now do you pull on your shirt?
Asked you a billion question, what's that? What's that? What's that?
What's that? What's that? What's that? You know, like over
and over and he's like, my two and a half year old daughter,
like that's exactly what he was. So when he when he came to the
feature table today, and by the way, it was it was hilarious that
he was next to Helmuth because Helmuth is someone who obviously like he'll have his
moments, he can get annoyed, whatever, But Helmuth is also a dad,
so help me, probably very well knows what this type of personality is
like, having bid a dad. I mean his kids are much older now,
of course, but like, you know what it's like dealing with kids
like that. So it was just funny that it was Helmy next to him.
When he came up to the Whole Street table today, he asked,
the deal is this? He's like, I think I'm at this table and
the deal is like, is a six forty one? He's like yes,
He's like, yeah, you're a PSC three and he just canna ask you
a question that there's like show no problems. He goes, is it okay
if I shit my pants on stage? Because I'm about to be playing with
Phil helm With so I immediately thought this this kid was kind of like be
sucking up to fail and just being like no, I go an actual pretty
fun for the show. And then it went completely the other way that that
feature table was our best of the summer. You had that dynamic with Ben
Parent, then you had um Nick Rigby playing every f in hand. There
was a lot of fun hands at the table. Um, you had the
whole Helmew thing. There was also this guy Moden's at the table who was
like kind of going back and forth with Phil like all this sort of stuff,
like Phil got lucky in one hand hit the river and like it was
a smallish pot, nothing big, but like you know, they saw afterwards
that Phil got lucky and like they everyone was like, oh, you get
lucky too. And the film because like these idiots don't even understand like that,
you know, all it was all this, It was the film.
It's experience. It was great. Then they got then they go on break,
they get moved up to the main set because the main poker girl feed
is going to start. I don't know, six hands in Nick Rigby busts
Phil Helmy two pair to two pair on an ace ten nine douche board.
Um, So that happened, um, And I mean yeah, the whole
it was just the day was great, It really was. Nick Rigby runs
it up. He was a huge hand late of course, he gets it
in three ways. With the worst of it, he's got ten eight of
spades on a ten xx board flop against aces and Jack's he just rivers the
flush for to knock out two players. So there was that. Um.
Yeah, and Nick Rigby ends up going up to bag nine hundred. Nick
Nick Rigby twenty twenty one took I believe it was fifty second place, and
that's what really put him on the poker map. Guy from Pittsburgh comes out
here. You know, we got all his friends, both on the rail
and from afar Um are telling us that, like, you know, we
need to look out for this guy Rigby. You need to look out for
this guy Rigby. He gets on the main set and he did not disappoint.
He's playing the dirty diaper like just like an animal out there. He's
making all these crazy plays. He's doing everything. Ultimately, you know,
lived by the sword, Die by the sword type of thing. And he
got got in fifty second place. But it looks like he's setting himself up
for another run, and boy is it fun to watch Nick Rigby play some
other big stacks on Day two d Jeff Shapiro eight hundred and thirty two thousand,
Jacob Mitch six hundred and sixty thousand, We got Joe Palma five hundred
and six thousand, five hundred. Kathie Liebert had a successful day four hundred
and seventy seven thousand. Chance Corneth four in forty nine thousand, five hundred.
So the Year of Chance Corner, or the Summer of Chance Corneth continues.
Tom dwan Fourer twenty six five hundred, Yeah, Joseph Liberta four hundred
and eight thousand, five hundred, Daniel Lahi three hundred and fifty three thousand,
five hundred, Pouna Punt three three hundred fifty three thousand, Christian Harder
three hundred and forty nine thousand, Chris Moneymaker one of two champs back sacks
today. Who was the other one was Johnson day two inch and is okay?
Johnson and Chris Moneymaker bag three hundred and seventeen thousand. Looks like Barry
Greenstein two hundred and sixty three thousand, five hundred. George Holmes, Yeah,
second place to cry Aldemere a couple of years ago, two hundred and
seventy four thousand. UM. I see Johnson is at two hundred ninety seven
thousand, five hundred. JC Tran two thirty one five. Cliff Josephie one
hundred and ninety nine thousand. I spoke with Cliff Josephy after I was walking
this silver section, couldn't really find anyone to interview, and then I like
kind of turned around and like Cliff was like right there. I was like,
all right, let's go. You're already bag. Let's let's make it
happen. So I quickly talked to him afterwards. Of course, Cliff has
had some deep runs in this event, so he knows a thing or two
about him, and I asked him about it. All right, Cliff Joseph
the end of day two, d I heard you just now it was a
miracle that you put one hundred ninety nine k in the bag. Tell me
about it. I had. I had a decent start. I went from
twenty nine thousand. Day one was tough from twenty nine thousand to seventy five
thousand, and then I lost Ace King to Kings. It left me with
thirty five hundred. You want the details, so you want the details of
the spin up. Then I had I was under the gun, and I
stuck my thirty five hundred and with King two suited, bigline called Jack two
suited, I doubled. Then I doubled Jack ten suited versus Ace, queens
suited, And then I doubled Ace jack suited versus tens, And then I
got to play poker again, made some hands, had some hands busted a
couple of short stacks queens against four is a six suited against kings um and
just you know, and chipped up in general. But yeah, so it
was a miracle. But from thirty five hundred under the gun to one hundred
ninety nine thousand will take it. So I'm through the dubs re main event
is obviously much more of a marathon than it is a spring. You know
that more so than a lot of players. How four and his patience throughout
this whole thing when a couple of people who hadn't played it before or haven't
succeed haven't been successful in it. Asked me this week, you know,
heading into it, what the most important thing is I'm gonna just be patient.
Don't play like you're play in a cash game. You know, it's
all about the patience, and you don't have If you lose some chips,
you don't have to get them back right away. And it's very important and
the people with the best composure have the best chance. I think. You
know, obviously there's a lot more that go into the game, but yeah,
I think patience is very important. As good point for you. How
do you feel about the record breaking number? I haven't Today was the first
day I started looking at the poker news updates. No, no offense to
any any of the press or anything. I've been trying to just to focus
on my stuff. Yeah, I'm very I'm very happy. There seems to
be just a tremendous amount of money around and a tremendous amount of interest in
our game, and for that, I'm very very happy. Right, So,
yeah, it's awesome. The man formerly known as Johnny Backs, how
you interviewed him, I think at the Rio in twenty twenty one, maybe
before that, I can't remember, but he said, Johnny Backs is no
more, so we don't call him Johnny Backs anymore. But why I know
many people. You know, it's just retired. It's long. No more
online poker um. Brittany Stout another person to bag up chips two hundred and
twenty six thousand, five hundred. She actually had bagged less chips today than
she did on day one. I think she came in fourth or fifth and
chips overall with three hundred and something thousand, so she puts two twenty six
point five in the bag. Sam silverl bag in one hundred and ninety five
k that's our guy, Sammy baby, do it for the team. Kevin
Pollock famous actor, one hundred twenty eight thousand, five hundred, Matt Affleck
one hundred and twenty eight thousand, Jason Mercier's out there ninety nine thousand,
one more champion survivor who we got. He passed the sugar today many times.
Joe Hash him three twenty eight thousand. Okay, that's pretty good.
Famous boxer Ryan Garcia Ye put thirty six thousand, five hundred in the bag.
Now I'm looking towards like kind of the bottom of the chip counts.
M Carrie, that's the sixty two thousand, James Romo sixty thousand, so
starting sack, David Williams fifty eight thousand, Eric Misserraki fifty six thousand,
five hundred, Johnathan a Little forty eight thousand, five hundred, Francis Anderson,
who spent some time up on the feature table with Nick Rigby forty eight
thousand, Michael Missracki forty four thousand, five hundred, Andrew Nimi of course,
famous vlogger Donnie Missrahi bag as well, wow forty thousand for Andrew Nimi.
I mean, listen, you can be super short in this thing,
and you can grind your face off. You guys heard Cliff jose if we
talked about it. How you know it's not really like a technical poker thing.
But patience is so, so, so so important. I have found
way more ways to be patient in this tournament than I ever thought were imaginable
in poker. But you can just continue to do it. You know,
I just ratted off a bunch of chip sacks on the thirty forty and fifty
thousand. None of them are within ten big lines, because the big blind
on day three will be twenty five hundred. So you know, you can
have twenty five k and you got ten pigs. You know, twenty five
k feels like nothing, of course, but if you say ten bigs,
okay, it's you know, it's obviously down, but it certainly is not
out, you know, one, two doubles, and you are certainly right
back in this damn thing. So, yeah, three thousand, five hundred
and seventy or so remaining, trying to get down to fifteen h seven.
The big question today was are we going to hit the money at the end
of day three, which is something that we've become more accustomed to, something
that the players, you know, kind of know that happens. They get
kind of close to the end of the day, they say, okay,
we're gonna extend it, you know, we'll get into the money. I
don't know if we're going to get there tomorrow. Last year was last year
to coming into day three was two thousand, nine hundred ninety three entries in
the top thirteen hundred paid. So this year they got about six hundred more
players coming back, two hundred more spots get paid. It's about the similar
percentage though. Yeah, So I'm just I didn't know that short. I
didn't think we were anywhere near thirty five hundred, So that threw off my
my thoughts. I mean, you were trying to bet people on it.
Yeah, I thought we had four thousand people left. But yeah, obviously
I mean the clock and boom. Yeah, we'll see how they go.
Um, I hope not, because then we hit at four am, three
am. I don't really want to be here. And that's that's of course,
uh, pretty pretty crazy. Yeah, it's gonna be interesting to see
if they get there. I also think it. I think it'd be probably
just better just a plan to even if you have to cut tomorrow short by
like an hour or something like that, you know, and then come back
the next day. You know, you definitely don't and then I think the
w C always does a good job of this. You know, you don't
want to like go home for the night and come back fifteen people off the
money. I mean, that's just kind of shitty for the same people.
Might be no if I get it, but it's still like kind of crappy,
right for those fifteen people, Like you'd rather just get it over with
that night. But yeah, it's gonna be a fun day tomorrow, day
three. It's it's it's also crazy to think, you know, after all
the different types of tournaments that have been played throughout the summer that the Desman
Event is going on to day three and is really at least right now nowhere
near the money. Look, it's like, you still, you've come so
far. You've played two long ass days of poker. If you played Day
one and day two, you played ten hours of poker each day. You
know, it's what eleven twelve hours when you include all the breaks and stuff
like that. Yeah, you still got to play a whole another nine ten
hours to get in the money at least, if not longer. I mean,
that's just definitely longer. It's pretty it's pretty pretty wild how slow and
methodical this tournament is. But we're here for it, and we're gonna be
here the whole darn way. What is this like stack correction you're talking about
in refer in regards to the coffee bet, Well, day two ABC,
we were told one ninety six. I had the under on two ten.
I have now heard that it could be over two ten, wow, but
not I haven't received confirmation on that. So we still we've got to confirm
that. We've got to double checked. One day and then today I had
under four seventy one, so pending where the other stack corrections go, you
might win that one. So we've got three pending. We'll see what happens.
I'll don't worry. I'll buy you coffees from my tab. That's right,
baby. But I think that's it for coffee bets. I think what
would they get today? What was it? Sorry? I don't have today's
though. You don't have to. You know, we could work it out,
but we would need the other numbers first. It definitely is over four
seventy one, so you could have ceased coffees or we could have zero coffees.
We don't know. We'll find out, hopefully twelve hours time. Okay,
but I think that is that's it for the coffee bets. You are
seems like you're probably gonna smoke me in these, which kind of sucks.
We can bet on the bubble. What do you want to bet? You
name the bet. Listen, you're the one that's in the hole to me,
so you can name the bet and I'll just do whatever. I think.
I'm just gonna wave the wi fig. Oh wow, he's just kinda
yeah to surrender, all right. Moving on to the fifteen hundred dollar PLO
bounty will run through these relative coally. It looks like there's about seventeen players
left. Daniel mcgron, you had to run at this one but ultimately fell
short, hitting the rail in thirty first place. Satar how Sadoon is leading
the way. There's more than one hundred and seventy one thousand dollars for first
place. Twelve hundred and fourteen entries. We're in this field. Jeff Matson,
Noah Schwartz, Vincent MUSCOTTI, and Dash Dudley all still all live in
the seven hundred and seventy seven dollars Lucky sevens nolamit hold them? That has
a seven hundred and seventy seven thousand, seven hundred and seventy seven dollars first
place prize. That's a mouthful, But I did this tournament also plays seven
handed, yeah, which I think is amazing. I know a lot of
players were like this is awesome. Yeah, you know, space beautiful.
Yeah. It was taking place over in Paris um So this tournament had Day
one, A drew fourteen hundred and seventy entries. Sixty four advanced to Day
two. Thomas Blanton was the chip leader from that flight with two point two
six five million, Day one B two thousand, three hundred and eighty six
entries, one hundred advanced step In Vinokorov three point three one five million,
David Peters bagged a big stack two point two seventy five. Alex Livingston bagged
two point two million. There is still is it one or two more?
Storm one more starting flight of the That would actually be crazy. There should
be, but yes, that's so, yeah, there should be, and
it should be an accumulator while you're at it, right, how cool would
that be? That'd be badass, um for sure, because that's a way
to like, you know, there's all this other stuff going around town,
like you keep people here for sure, you don't just like you don't just
like bag one A and then you skip like whatever one F you know,
because you're already bagged. Like you play all of them because you want to
run stack simultaneously with the main event because at the buying point and the fact
that you have seven flies, well, I mean probably at that point it's
a space issue to make sure space, you know, But you start on
the day two yeah, correct, um, so yeah, they should do
that started at seven pm while they're at it seventy seven minute levels. No,
no, no, should be seven minute levels. I'm in for seven
middle of it was seventy seven thousand ships and side just super super deep stack
turbo seven minute levels. Now we're getting crazy seven blinds. So that's gonna
be going on day one. C Is there anything else? Yeah, that's
event and day one see the Lucky sevens and that's it, right. Let
me let me double check. I'm pretty sure I did the rundown correctly.
I would hope, so I did do it correctly. For once. We
have two events starting on Monday. Um ti limit hold him? Sounds like
that's right up your alley and the twenty five k horse. I will be
over sweating that one a bit. But yeah, we're about to hit events
seventy nine of ninety five. And it's like you when you say that number
that we're at seventy nine of ninety five, we still have sixteen more events
to go. I mean they're gonna go pretty quickly. Every everything kind of
gets swallowed up by the buzz of the WS main event. But it's there's
still so many events. It's crazy. I actually did miss an event,
and the fact that I'm gonna bring it up. Is gonna please one of
our loyal loyal listeners Tomorrow Sunday, July ninth, is the stought of the
WPT ten thousand dollars buying What's it called WPT everyone for wound I was,
I was referring to WSP event out here listening to WPT event. Come on,
let's we can still talk about them. I am curious though, to
see what that event draws. Ten thousand dollars? Is it ten thousand flat
or is it like ten thousand and five with a couple rake and a sort
of stuff? Ten million dollars guarantee? Yep um. I saw something the
other day, I think it was on WPT dot com about how them and
the win are expecting a massive turnout, saying like it could hit twenty million
in the prize pool, which just seems absurd, seems crazy. I mean,
judging by what we saw here at the WP main events, ten thousand
and forty three entries, I mean you could, yes, you definitely could
go on a fifth of the people go over there. I mean, yeah,
you could hit twenty million. You know, I love I love the
charity aspect. I think that's might Hinda the numbers, though, I think
there's enough people out there that'll be like, oh, I'm not so sure
on that. Um, obviously it's gonna be straked out, you know,
by one c rolls around probably you know, five hundred people that are still
in this event that com flight. So yeah, it'll be interesting to see
how that goes. I mean, poker in general is very alive, very
well crushing everywhere. Of course here at the World Series of Poke, where
the numbers are just absolutely freaking bananas. I still can't believe this guy over
ten thousand, Like I know, like my number coming in it was ninety
four hundred. You know, as we went throughout the summer, I know,
ten thousand got in play much more. I know, we talked in
recent days about the possibility of even like pushing towards eleven thousand, even though
we results in a number over ten thousand, and you know, I started
to think that ten thousand was in play. It's still a very pleasant surprise
that it got that big. I mean, it's just wild, you know.
And I think that we the main event probably would have gotten to this
size sooner had it not had to deal with a lot of bumps in the
road, which we've talked about previously. Two thousand and six, I think
it was Uiga towards the end of the year, after Jamie olds thing.
Later on that year, you have the UIGEA that kind of kills everything,
really hinders numbers going forward. Then you know, it's spent time building backup,
building back up. Then you have two eleven, Whack Black Friday.
You know, numbers take another hit, spends time, you know, building
back up, building back up, building back up. You know, online
poker isn't widely spread in the US. Finally it comes back, but it's
on a state by state basis, so you know, more so baby steps
than you know, taking big leaps forward. Then you have to deal with
the whole pandemic year. You know, it's really it was a pandemic year,
but it was more like a pandemic year and a half because they shifted
the twenty twenty one to to you know, much later in the year September
October in November. So the WISP has certainly had to deal with a lot
of wonky obstacles thrown in their path. But the fact that we're here twenty
years removed of you know, the poker boom starting when Chris Moneymaker won the
two thousand and three WIS main event, and we've eclipsed ten thousand entries.
I mean, that's just wild. And listen now going forward, I know
we're far from done from this WSP, from this main event, but you
know, just kind of you know, getting ahead of ourselves a little bit
looking towards next year. In future years, I expect the number to continue
to climb, especially if a couple things happen. One more states in the
US come on board for online poker. You know, one to two states
is still a decent boost, and I think it all just helps create that
kind of snowball effect. You know, the snowball isn't exactly flying down the
mountain, but it's moving along slowly but surely, and you can always,
you know, pick up a little bit of momentum here and there. I
think when you continue to ramp up your satellite promotions like the WSP did this
year, both the land based satellites and then also the ones that they do
online, mostly in partnership with Gigi Poker and Club Gig, I think that
that's a very big thing. So you know, if all that stuff continues
to happen. Live poker continues to do all right, and you know,
thrive around the world. Then it's only going to benefit the World Series of
Poker. And then they just have to fade some sort of crazy freak thing,
you know, some sort of law thing, some sort of pandemic thing
like you know, just that's what you like, a freak thing that they
can't control. Like, that's what you have to fade because this train right
now seems like it's going down the tracks at two hundred miles an hour and
ain't nothing stopping it. Yeah, agreed. I mean at this point they
might need a bigger freaking venue in three years because it's just not a control
here. But that's a very good thing overall. So that's it. Um,
we're gonna get out of here on that note. And uh yeah,
I'm gonna go try and spin up some chips on a day three. I
get eighty two thousand coming back, So you know what's at thirty two thirty
three big blinds something like that. It's plenty, that's all I'm gonna say.
Plenty. Yeah, of course, I mean it's it's obviously easy to
sit there and think oh, you know, I only have eighty two thousand,
you know, because um, you know, so many people had like
you got you got Nick Rabe and Maurice Hawkins. Are you know, approaching
a million like all? You know, I got friends back in five hundred
K, four and a k like all this sort of stuff. And I'm
still sub one hundred k, you know, obviously overstarting, but not by
that much. Like I've never been into one hundred thousand. The highest I
got was eighty six thousand. Then I had to pay the Big Blind on
their pay the yeah, the Big Blind and the ante on the final hand
of the night. So um. But when I say thirty two thirty three
big Blinds, you know, I think it's thirty two point eight exactly.
Um. Then that makes me feel really good because that there's a lot of
play and a lot of maneuverability in that sort of stack. Hopefully I get
a good table draw tomorrow and we'll go from there, one hand at a
time, one level at a time, all that sort of stuff. As
Cliff Joseph, he said, as my friends have constantly told me, and
you know, all of my friends that have made deep runs, I've I've
watched it firsthand from them is patient and this is really paramount, this this
thing, and uh yeah, I'm ready for the marathon, so let's go.
Um. My name is Donny Peters, his name is Tim Duckworth,
and we'll talk to you guys later. Face chanting spre