Hello everyone, Welcome to a brand new episode of the Poker Go Podcast.
My name is Donnie Peters. His name on the other side of the screen,
on the other side of the microphone, whatever you want to call it,
is Tim Duckworth. How are you doing, sir? I am fantastic.
How about you? I'm pretty good. I'm pretty pretty good. I'm
bagged some chips in the WPT World Championships. Got a couple days off here
before returning on Saturday, so yeah, feel good overall. It is Thursday,
December fourteenth. We're gonna be talking WPT World Championship, w SOP Paradise,
EPT Prague. There's a whole heck of a lot of poker going on.
We'll get into some Game of Gold thoughts because Game of Gold did wrap
up. If you are like my good friend Ronnie Barda and you haven't yet
finished Game of Gold, well turn this podcast off because we're gonna be talking
some spoilers. Okay, we're gonna be talking about who so so yeah.
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all right, First things first, we're gonna start with the WPT World
Championship Festival. That's closest to us. I guess you'll say that's that's how
I ranked him in terms of what we're talking about. So well, think
that like we're rating something higher than the other on this rundown. No,
it's it's in proximity to us. Tim and I are in Las Vegas.
WPT World Championship is closest. The next thing closest is the Bahamas. So
that's why we're gonna talk about Wisbye Paradise next, and then Prague is as
far away as humanly possible that will talk about third. So WPT World Championship
is very much underway. This entire festival, as we touched on in a
previous show, more than fifty million dollars guaranteed across this entire series. It
opened up with a six hundred dollars buying one million dollars guaranteed tournament four thousand,
nine hundred and fifty entries. I was several of those. Tim was
one of those two million, five hundred and fifty four thousand dollars in the
prize. Bool Michael Rosito wins three hundred and forty thousand dollars for taking it
down. Rosito is a crusher, an absolute crusher. Performs extremely well.
I believe he's previously won a WPT Deep Stacks one, some other stuff at
the win some other big tournaments. When it comes to large field MTTs,
Michael Rosito is, you know, always seems to be performing extremely well.
Uh, Tim played scored to cash well, you flopped a full house against
me in what was I think in a horrendously played hand. Completely disagree.
We will talk. Well, First of all, if you play the hand
like you should, you double f yi. Okay, So here's the hand
for how you're supposed to play it, or play how I normally would play
it well, because this is a big difference. Why would you ever play
the hand like this against me? Like that makes you? Let me talk
about the hand. You tell the hand and then I'll tell why this is.
This is day one, like g I think of of the it's the
let it's the second to last flight of the six hundred dollars opener, the
non turbo flight, the last non turbo flight the lines are four hundred and
eight or eight hundred chip big bind anti. There's nine people at the table.
I'm on the cut or in the cutoff. I make it eighteen hundred
with ace king off. Tim is in the small blind. He decides to
flat call. The flop comes queen ten ten rainbow. Tim checks, I
go small twelve hundred. Tim calls, turns the seven check check rivers of
four check check. Tim table's pocket queens for a full house. If you
just three bet pre flop, we get it in. You double up.
If you check raise the flop, you get more money out of me because
I never fold ever on that flop in a million years, calling a check
raise one hundred percent of the time. So, yeah, you played as
bad as humanly as possible. You won the stone men with queens against my
ace king. Okay, that that is true. Well, I want to
break this down into two parts. First, post flop, you play a
whole wide variety of junk and crap. You had played seven hands before I
even played two hands at our table, and you were you were there for
that's I'm point. So anyway, when I sat down, you texted me
you said like you were like forty five minutes, I finally played a hand
or something like that. I sat down, I peeled queen jack suit and
raise immediately like like, yeah, that's how you get it. It was
after chips. It was eighty minutes until I played a hand. I wasn't
playing tight. I literally had just seven four offsuit overy hand. But anyway,
when I flupped the stones, I honestly, the chance you have ace
king, it's more likely you have like seven three suited. Anyway, I
checked all that, and then the board ran out of small cards small card
I have to just try and let you hang yourself right. If you have
nothing, you're not giving me any chips. I thought about potting the river,
but I knew you would see straight through that if you had like pocket
nines, So I just took a risk going back to the pre flop.
I told my friend about this hand, and I was like, to be
honest, you know, whether I three bit that against another player, I'm
not sure because I'm pretty knity and tight out of the blinds. But I
also know that you're capable of just going like all in with ace nine.
I don't really want to just like stack you in this six hundred dollars buying
like away point. I don't even know your col it might be bad,
but that so that's what I thought of the time. You want to play,
just make it call it. You make an AK registration line that circled
to circus, circus whatever. Make it eight thousand, let's move cash And
I moved over one hundred k and winning, so cash. But you could
have I could have maybe went deeper if you had played this hand right,
all right? So that was that was the hand where Tim played it like
an idiot, But what are you gonna do? This is now the second
time we've now talked about a hand on this podcast that I've thoroughly disagreed with
you on that involves you with pocket queens. The other time was you folded
the queens like on the turn in the South Point Nightly like an overpair,
And I was like, oh, yeah, that was a yeah, that
was against That was against that dealer, dealer friend of ours whatever. Anyway,
unbelievable, all right. Next up at the WPT World Championship Festival,
sixteen hundred dollars Mystery Bounty. This one had a two million dollar guarantee prize.
School comes in it over three point two million dollars thanks to three thy
four hundred and twenty one entries. George Tamescue wins it All takes home five
hundred thousand, two hundred and two dollars. The final table of this one
ran till like seven thirty or eight in the morning, which is insane.
Why on earth you would ever have the players do that? First of all,
First of all, listen, last year, the same thing happened in
this tournament. It went forever. I had a friend of mine who I
think he finished ninth or whatever, and he busted in ninth at like twelve
thirty or one am, and then they played till like five in the mornings
or something crazy like. And then if you think all signs from what we
saw, I think all expectations from the WPT and the Wins front is that
this festival was going to be larger than last year. So you would think
it gets more players, you would think it would last longer, right,
So why wouldn't you just schedule in an extra day? I mean, what
is what what was stopping you from saying, like, okay, guys,
eight people left, we're going to bag it up at you know, two
am or whatever it is, we're gonna come back tomorrow and finish it out.
Well, I'm gonna get you. Just make that decision. Yeah,
from about I don't know, two tables out, you can probably see that,
hey, this is going to go long. Let's make a decision.
Now. Let's call Ryan or call Ray and be like, hey, you
know it's one am. There's eighteen people left. I think we should bag
them at eight eight players or nine players or whatever, and then make that
decision early. You know how these tournaments work, you know how they kind
of flow mauth wise, So make that decision earlier and then just hey,
be the good guys. Bring them back the next day two pm, who
cares, doesn't matter what time it is, and let them play for you
know, there was some big money still up for grabs, so better playing
the next day fresh than at seven am trying to win half a million dollars.
Yeah. Nonetheless, you know, crazy turnouts for these first two tournaments.
I guess my one suggestion with the six hundred dollars opener got to have
in the ballroom next year. Need need to have it in the ball for
sure, So get that ball them a couple of days earlier. Bangs a
cushout, make it a make it a two million dollar guarantee. You know
you're usually gonna smash that. You're probably gonna get three million in the prize
school for sure. So definitely, definitely would would push to do that if
I was in the room arguing, all right, WPT Prime Championship, this
mother effort. I mean, this thing was insane. Ten thousand, five
hundred and twelve entries for an eleven hundred dollars buying That is absurd when you
consider this is not a World Series of Poker event in the summer. You
know, there have been massive events like this at the World Series of Poker
in the summer. Despite what Phil Helmy's recent tweet says where he said this
was a world record for a one K buying, which is not true.
It is the large in one way well, but he made it seemed like
it was the largest ever one K buy and which is not true. It
is, though, the largest first place prize for a one K buying tournament,
or at least Matt Savage believes so on Matt Savage put that out there.
I trust Matt Savage out regard up top is what more than one point
three million dollars, which is just absolutely insane. So they had eight flights
for this. You could re enter one time per flight, so you could
fire a maximum of eight bullets in this thing. Five million dollar guarantee obviously
smashed ou out of the water. I think they made it on day one.
C ten million, one hundred and ninety six thousand dollars in the prize.
Well, I was in there, didn't make day two, fired three
bullets. Tim was in there once, didn't make day two, So we
suck first place. As I said, one million, three hundred and eighty
six thousand dollars. Tim put down here some of the other one thousand dollars
buying tournaments that topped this in terms of field size. So this this is
more of just a reference point, you know, not really trying to spark
any any sort of war or anything here. So the twenty twenty three WSP
one thousand dollars Mystery Millions tournament had four flights, eighteen thousand, one hundred
and eighteen entries, one million dollar first place prize in that one, Tyler
Brown won it. Believe Remco and I did coverage of that from the Horseshoe
feature table, which you can probably find on the Poker Goro YouTube channel.
Tyler Brown made a crazy call and heads up play to take that one down.
And the reason first place in that one was only a million dollars was
because, of course, there's the mystery bounty element that takes a chunk out
of the prize pool. So keep that in mind, you know, when
factoring or when thinking about, you know, well, why was the Prime
had a bigger first place prize? You know that's why. Same with twenty
twenty two WSP one thousand dollars, million dollar bounty, same tournament, but
it did change names. For the twenty twenty three WSP. This had four
flights, fourteen thy one hundred and twelve entries, seven hundred and fifty thousand
dollars for first place. Quincy Borland won that one, and that twenty twenty
two to one was the one. Where was it Mac Lance that one or
was it mac Lanson twenty twenty three? I can't remember Mac mac LANs won
a million dollar bounce there or whatever. So yeah, absolute insanity. So
now back to the WPT Prime Championship. This one also needed an extra day.
They were two days ago. They were supposed to play down to the
final table, which is going to be streamed on I believe December nineteenth,
so a bunch of days off, but they came back with like one hundred
and thirty players. They got down to what they get down to, like
two tables something like that. Uh, didn't they get down to ten?
Ten? Maybe they got down to ten or nine, you know, something
like that. But they ended up coming back. They played down to six
and then they paused, so there was an extra bonus day built in,
which is good. Of course, the final six that reached this final table
now are on a little bit of a hiatus. Here Calvin Anderson, Valerie
pack Aaron Pinson, Bob Buckenmeyer, who I believe is a WPT champion,
John Glenn Dinning, and Jay Lou. And the chip leader is Jay Lou
with one hundred and twenty three million. Calvin Anderson is second in chips with
ninety nine point five million, again one million, three hundred and eighty six
thousand dollars up top. And this one, this one is I mean,
this tournament was really good, structure, a lot of fun. I'm a
really big fan of the one re entry per day. I think it's great.
I'm kind of curious as to what they do for this tournament next year.
So as a reference point, last year when they had this tournament,
it was a two million dollar guarantee. Blew that out of the water.
Steven Soong wanted to think he won seven hundred, seven hundred and fifty k
something like that. So this year they guarantee five million. Blow it out
of the water, you know, get more than ten thousand, five hundred
entries, more than ten million dollars in the prize school. I mean,
it's just it's absolutely wild. So you know next year five that's the number
they should go to next year. Yeah, I mean I think I agree
ten would be the little little dicey. Yeah. Ten is like hmm,
yeah, seems a little bit too close for comfort. I mean, then
again, you know, they went from fifteen to forty when they only got
twenty nine I say, only got twenty nine in the World Championship. So
you know, it certainly seems like the WBT and WIN want to throw their
weight around in terms of these guarantees. So maybe they do, you know,
slap on ten million. I would say that if you do a ten
million dollar guarantee for this, you probably add another day, a starting day
where people can get in there and fire. You know, then you would
fire ten bullets to max, which I think is fine. I mean whatever,
I mean, what's the difference at this point between eight firing max eight
or firing max ten. I mean, it's the same thing. Might as
well just make it, make it a ten k in a way. So
I think you could do that. I like, you're seven and a half
number. Something that I've also kind of wondered about is so they have WPT
prime and it's the quote unquote mid major tour of the World Poker Tour,
right, and all their main events are eleven hundred dollar buyings. We why
wouldn't the championship event be a little bit pricier fifteen hundred two thousand, twenty
one? You know, I think you still have to be in this in
this range, right, Like I almost think twenty five hundred is too high,
which is kind of weird, Like I wouldn't want to go to twenty
five hundred, but maybe you just like this one is fifteen hundred. So
like all their main events all year eleven hundred, and this one's fifteen hundred.
I think maybe that's the change for next year. I like the eleven
hundred price point. I think it draws people like me up to one thousand.
It doesn't really rule out the guys that are you know, I well,
mall normally playing five ks ten case like the value there is the ten
million guarantee. If you go to fifteen hundred, I think you're gonna lose
the play is like may Fellow Rex Fellow Weekend Warriors, because you know,
jumping from five hundred buy into one thousand's okay, from five hundred to fifteen
is just it might be a little too much. So I think eleven hundred
is good. Just I think I don't think it needs to change, just
maybe increase the guarantee. Yeah, I mean the only reason that I brought
up that price point change, I generally agree with you is only is because
it's the it's the championship event, So like most times, the championship event
is a little bit higher in price point. But you know, other than
that, it's fine. But I am curious though, to see what they
do overall. And if you guys do want to tune in to watch the
final table of this event. December nineteenth. I believe it'll be on the
World Poker Tour YouTube channel and probably a whole bunch of other places because they
do have a lot of distribution. So check that out if you want.
All Right, the biggest and the best from this series, the WPT World
Championship forty million dollars guaranteed in this one. It started on Tuesday, the
first day. So let me say that for starting flights, you can only
enter once per day, so maximum four bullets. If you bust a day,
you can't get back in that day, you have to come back the
next day. So you hate it? I hate it? Why are we
reducing the prize pool? No, I would like it takes a shot in
this event. I will tell you that I very much prefer this, Like
I think one re entry would be okay. I think this is I think
this is this is good. I also think that in a way, it's
like if you hit this guarantee, you're like, yeah, we hit this
guarantee and we didn't have crazy entries every single day, Like it's it's like
another bolt in the chamber that you can fire out. In that regard.
Day one A draws six hundred and nine entries, two hundred and two players
advanced. Jeff Hakim bagged the chip lead from that flight, all players start
with one hundred thousand and chips. Hakim bagged nine hundred and ninety eight thousand.
As it turns out, entering in to Thursday's Day one, see Hakeem
is the overall chip leader so far. Day one B this is the day
that I played seven hundred and thirty entries, so a little bit of an
uptick there. Peter Nef bagged the chip lead eight hundred and ninety nine thousand,
so he'll be up there. Total, from day one A and one
B, you have one three hundred and thirty nine entries, four hundred and
sixty seven players advance. How many do they need to make the guarantee,
sir? How many more? Well, in total they need both more in
total, in total four and eighty two players, they'll be over the guarantee.
That's about twenty seven hundred more players. So I'm talking about thirteen seventy
a flight the next two days. It's a big number. Yeah, I
mean it is a big number. I mean the capacity is there like they
could fit it. You know, it's not a capacity thing. It's just,
you know, can people get out there. It's kind of hard to
look back at last year's. So last year they did this then had a
fifteen million dollar guarantee. They smashed it. They got over twenty nine million
dollars in the prize. School only had three starting flights, but I have
the numbers from what those starting flights did. First fight six hundred and fifteen
entries, Second flight one thy fifty two, Third flight twelve hundred and ninety
three. Okay, so that's what they did those years. It seems to
me like you probably lost I don't know, one hundred to one hundred and
fifty players from one A and one B because they were still down in the
Bahamas. Yeah, looking at all the social media that I've seen last night
in this morning, I feel like every plane out of the Bahamas is full
of poker players, absolutely full of poker players coming to the win. So
I know you talked to some of the representatives at the win who are like,
you know, there's a ton of people coming in. There's private jets
landing, like there's all this sort of stuff. I mean like when I
I played yesterday and when I parked in the parking garage. There was a
car in front of me who was had a California license plates. I can
only and it was an suv. I can only assume that they like drove
in kind of probably that morning or something. But like six guys got out
of the car and I'm like, oh, they just all they all came
like you know, it's like everyone's coming in coming, in coming in.
So so yeah, the number WIN bought a Boeing seven four seven, parked
it at Bahamas and said, anyone coming this they for sure yet like like
that not a chet. I'm talking Boeing seven fall seven. I wanted four
hundred to do that one year. I don't know. I think Party Poker
did that one year and like branded the outside of it and flew everyone down
to like Punta Connor or wherever. The That's what WIN should they everyone?
Because it's it's not an easy travel trip, right, It's what it's Bahamas,
Miami. Got to get some connection to Miami from Vegas. It's always
been yeah, you stop in Miami or somewhere. I saw a couple of
poker plays stuck in the airport overnight, so that hell yeah, So yeah,
today's number is one C. There's one C today, there's one D
tomorrow. I would expect they top a thousand today for sure. I know
there was some thoughts from like maybe WPT slash win camps that they might break
the guarantee today, knowing what we know now, Yeah, knowing what we
know now. That was like before the day started. So, you know,
knowing what we know now, with you know, thirteen hundred and thirty
nine entries through these first two days, I think that's hard to do.
I mean, they could do it. I mean it's there's a non zero
chance they do it, but I think it's going to be extremely hard to
break it today. I'm actually leaning hot take to them missing slightly. Just
yeah, if I have to pick a side, I'm going to pick the
side that they miss because I look at that number, two seven hundred and
forty three people they need. That's a that's a lot of people. Yeah,
I mean listen, yeah, and it's two thousand, seven undred four
three players for a ten thousand dollars buying you know, you know that said,
I mean, you're you're probably getting let's see what five hundred four,
So about nine hundred people busted out, So far. Let's say half of
those four fifty are going to be back in Okay, Yeah, you're getting
all these people coming from the Bahamas. I think, you know a lot
of people that were one bullet people, maybe two bullet people, are going
to be waiting for one C one D. I mean, I'm I'm I
took a shot in this one. I'm a one bullet person for this.
Just with my work schedule and everything that I have going on this week,
got family in town, et cetera. I chose one B to play.
It was a fairly decent field. In one B. There was a lot
of club WPT qualifiers. I think they all played yesterday, which was crazy.
I mean I had one at my table, the table behind me had
two, another table had two. Like there was a lot, and I
think they even they even out that, like, of the one hundred called
the club the WPT qualifiers, like twenty nine or thirty or something like that,
twenty or thirty of them made it through. So that would tell me
that they all played yesterday. So I like the fact that I, you
know, picked that day, not that I knew about it. I it
was just luck of the draw. But it did did work. Out that
way. So that's good. So yeah, I'm not I'm not ready to
say that they're they're gonna fall short of the guarantee, but i will say
this, I'm gonna get people in trouble for something that they haven't done yet,
and that's if they miss it. I'm gonna come on this podcast and
I'm gonna say going to forty million dollars was a mistake. I mean it,
like, but I've also talked with you, Tim, and like I've
said that and I've kind of felt it, like I just going fifteen to
forty they got why? Like, yeah, why you could have went fifteen.
You probably could have gotten away with going fifteen to twenty five, even
though last year got twenty nine. You know, if you wanted to push
the envelope, you would you come out and say, hey, this year,
last year, huge success. We guaranteed fifteen. We just about doubled
it. You know what, We're gonna guarantee that we double it thirty million.
Yeah, that's like, that's my concern is that, like we've seen
this before, right, So two instances that we've seen before stick out to
me. Semino hard Rock years ago, they ran that ten million dollar guarantee.
They ran it back and they missed horrifically, right, They've Seminole always
does very well with guarantees. They have big guarantees, but they have another
guarantee like the ten million that they had, right. I would say that
you even saw it a little bit with win Millions, ran it the first
year, smashed ran it back the second time, barely made the guarantee that
second time, and now they kind of restructured the Win millions, right,
So I would say that there's a little bit of it there. So if
they fall short here, I guess one question is like do they care?
How much do they care? And then what does it do for things going
forward? Like you can go fifteen first year, you go thirty that this
next year thirty five, forty, Like you know, then you're building up.
Like in a way, they've kind of set the precedent that, Okay,
fifteen four was the first year, forty the second year. If they
hit this, they go into fifty next year. Is that the plan?
I mean? But I also think that in a way, like I also
think that this is if you were to try and build a ten K event
that competes with the World Series of Poker in terms of like size, prize
money that gives out first place prize, that sort of stuff. This is
probably how you have to do it. You have to come out guns blazing,
like you have to make this big jump early. Because the WSOP Maine
event has what ninety three million dollars in the prize pool last year, the
way that we think it's going, there's a real chance at tops one hundred
million next year. So if you want to get there, you have to
be so so so aggressive with what you're doing on the guarantee front in this
event. Right, So if that is, I don't know if like that's
their target. If it is, then yeah, you probably have to do
this. So I mean, listen, I don't hate it. I just
don't want it to be detrimental going forward if they miss, Like if this
ends up like they get thirty four million and then next year they're like,
oh, okay, we're only doing twenty five, Well that's you know,
I don't want that to happen, right, You know, we wanted to
We want to at least maintain or go higher. So I don't really want
to get two inside baseball here, But you know, when it comes to
guarantees. Sometimes it's split, you know, fifty to fifty between say the
Win and WPT Global. Sometimes it might just be all it's not I'll say
that, it's not like you're speaking about that, but it's it's all it's
Sometimes it's split between casino online partner. Sometimes yeah, always online partner.
Sometimes it's only the casino. Like you know, my point is that let's
say it misses by ten million, but WPT we're handling the full guarantee.
Well, they might not care that it missed by ten million, is what
I mean. They might be like, okay, well yeah, no,
I like, how much like do they care? And how much do they
care? Because this is obviously a massive play for macco like WPT Global Club
WPT I'm sure saw massive boost trying to qualify a hundred people like club or
sorry, WPT Global qualified hundreds of people for this. You know. It's
it's also like they've had a lot of satellites for all their different live partners
like gardens casinos sent nine people, some people one in off like I think
thirty dollars they said stuff like that. So you know, it is a
big driver for everything that they're trying to do. So, yes, like
you said, do they care and how much do they care? Right?
You know, it's like do you just kind of eat the loss if if
it happens? You know. So I'm curious. I'm really curious. But
well, I mean, we'll see where it goes. I'm still not exactly
where you are. I know you're on, You're on. You're currently in
the camp of not hitting it, just just because of what we've had,
the loss to flights and what we need. I'm just less bullish and meloss
ya. I was completely against, like they've got no chance and they crushed
it. Right, I don't even remember that this year I was a team
that will make it. Now I'm just, oh, it's going to be
a little tight. Yeah, I mean, I I'm listen. I'm still
not ready to go there. I think I said forty four million is what
they would get. Maybe I'm a little bit less than that now forty two
million, so maybe. I mean, I think they lost a good chunk
of players just to the to the basop paradise stuff, you know, and
but looking at Paradise, you look at the people that are still there,
and you go down the chip counts, and I'm looking at these names and
I'm not sure how many people are there right now like that would be here
playing the win. I don't think it's one hundred percent. I've seen at
least one hundred people on social media between last night and today on a plane
from Bahamas. And all of those people that I've seen would fire, would
have fired one A and one B if they busted. And when people the
people that are still in the events today, it's going to be difficult for
them to get in for one D right. So I'm saying the people that
are still there playing the closer, playing the ten k plow the ten k
six max. Of those players remaining, there's not that many that I would
have expected to play all four flights, right, like Isaac Hackson, Shaw,
Jim Collopee, suaw Rise, Jacky. Sure, but some of the
other names are like they're Canadian, they're from they're from Asia. They might
not have ever come. So I don't know how many they are losing over
the next two days. I think everyone that's wanting to play is here.
We've seen mass exodus from Bahamas, you know, Sidel Livingston, Adam Hendrix,
Osmus Schulman. All these guys that would have fired every day and now
are now here for one A, one B, one C, one D.
So they may have missed prime, but they're here for the ten k
Maine. But there's still a lot of guys Ryan Reeves, China him,
like Christian Harder like like, there's a lot of people that are that would
have like fired all four flights of this. So there's a good chunk of
those people that that they're missing out on. And you know why they're missing
out PGT points. Oh, stop get out of here. That's it the
reason. First of all, the the WSP Paradise main event didn't count for
the PGT, so you can't say that, but the tan k PLO Championship
does. Just saying I mean, I think today they come in at what
do they need? They need two thousand, seven and forty three, So
today they're going to come in at I would say probably eleven hundred. I
shoulda say they need a break a thousand today to feel like it's within within,
within rage, that's all. Oh, if they had seven hundred,
they're probably doing dead. But like a thousand, you're under the you're under
the kind of trend, but you're right there. You could probably might be
out. I think I think I heard Matt Savage. He was lurking around
my table talking to some people. I think he said, last night there
was like another sixty seats given away in one of the live satellites, and
then another sixty or sorry, two nights ago ors and then there were sixty,
and then last night was going to be another sixty something like that.
So I mean he said, almost five hundred seat. This is a tweet
about an hour ago, almost five hundred seats already awarded in Milestone satellites,
and there's two more today at eleven am and six pm. So I mean,
milestones are bananas. Maybe I should could play one of those. No,
I'm done, I'm dust you only you only got to go from twenty
kid to two hundred and thirty. That's too I mean, I'm joined dead.
Yeah, if you're gonna play queens like you did earlier, then you're
for sure drawing dead. How bad? Okay, let's just how mad would
you be if I have three bet you four bet jam after playing seven minutes
at this table, I call I win, and you have to go line
up for two hours when are you being pissed off? No, I mean
that's just what happens. It is, but I don't really want to do
that to you anyone else. Fine, but like come on, okay,
you're an idiot, all right. So I still think they're gonna make this
guarantee. It's gonna be bananas. First place is going to be Last year,
first place was a little bit over four million. This year is probably
gonna be five six Just absolutely insane this tournament. So it's it's pretty wild.
So yeah, I think we talked about I mean, I have a
notes here, thoughts from us, you know, where we think it's kind
to fall for the guarantee. I mean we pretty much covered all this stuff.
So so yeah, and then and then you know, I know what
we kind of touched on, like what's what might happen in the future with
this event. I believe you had it that they had a three year deal
WPT in the wind, So that's what I told. Yeah, So so
we'll see, you know, but that's going to rely a lot on where
this number comes in. If they come in at like forty million, ninety
five thousand, I mean, let's keep going. Well, no, but
I'm saying it's gonna be hard to like want to up it again, right,
top it. It's good, it's good where it is. Let's just
don't get too crazy. Oh I get it, but but I'm saying you
are sometimes keeping a guarantee the same year after year like doesn't have the same
drawl, like you almost need to up it right. It's so it's it's
tricky. It's tricky, it really is. And then also listen, it
also depends on what's gonna happen with WASIP Paradise, which is what we're going
to talk about next. But like we we have no idea. Is WSIP
Paradise this year? And that's it. We haven't heard anything in the future,
Like is it is it going to happen in the future. If it
happens in the future, is it going to be the same time frame or
a these two series gonna go head to head? Is also EBT Progue gonna
be in the mix? We know for sure EPT Progue The dates are announced
for next year. Yeah that EPT and Poker Stars came out with those dates.
I think it's like December fifth through fourteenth. It's the same window like
the EBT Prog ain't moving. They're like whatever, you know, We're still
doing so so it really just comes down to, you know, this WPT
World Championship, which I'm pretty sure is gonna be here to stay in the
same window at least for one more year, is what we believe. And
then I guess what happens with dobsip paradise and how does WSP paradise that that
or feel that they did, which is what we'll talk about next. First
of that bunch is the sixteen hundred and fifty dollars Mystery Millions Tournament. It
had a five million dollar guarantee, five million, one hundred and sixty nine
thousand dollars in the prize school three thousand, four hundred and forty six entries.
Jinhun Lee took home top honors four hundred and twenty thousand dollars and the
coveted WSP Gold bracelet. Maria Hoe finished third. Maria hoey poker grow ambassador,
well liked, professional player, commentator, ambassador within the industry. Maria
was what was she chip leader on day one, Day two, like Day
three, like the whole way. Ultimately, the final table was kind of
crapshooting. I mean she had a big lead for the early part of it,
but lost some hands that you know, were basically flips, and there's
nothing you can do there because when the the blinds get high and people are
pretty short, I mean, you just got to win your all in,
so, you know, another close call on the w s apgald Bracelet front
for Marie Ho but I'm sure she'll, uh, she'll be all right with
ten in her pocket. Who she lost heads up to? Yeah, Alan
Barry five thousand dollars. Noloman hold him Allan won eight hundred something thousand dollars
and then left poker and started a restaurant franchise. Yeah or whatever. Yeah,
I remember that they had they had. They came back for an extra
day and Alan had a massive lead massively and finished her off. Okay,
next event from WSP Paradise, fifteen hundred dollars Millionaire Maker draws kind of a
similar field three four hundred and ninety six entries. Also a five million dollar
guarantee on this one. They also topped it five million, two hundred and
thirty three thousand dollars in the prize school Alan Demelo wins it all takes home
one million dollars from this one. Kind of my trend from these two events
is kind of barely making the guarantee here. You know, there was a
lot of online qualification stuff. Honestly, I still don't fully understand how it
all worked because it's the information like isn't readily available and not easy to find.
Like I think the Millionaire Maker was basically played online, but then only
the top one hundred traveled down to the Bahamas? Is that is that correct
with that one? Yep? Yeah. But then the Mystery Millions I think
had a whole bunch of online qualification as well. Like it was, it
was very tricky to to find out how this all worked, and all the
online qualification came from WSP partner GG Poker. Then you had the twenty six
thousand dollars GG Millions high Roller. Now, this one performed extremely well,
five hundred and thirty three entries in a twenty five K well twenty six because
it was twenty five plus one ten million dollar guarantee on this one, more
than thirteen million dollars in the prize pool. Samuel Mueller wins two million,
seven hundred and thirty six thousand dollars for taking home first place. In that
one of course, also the WSP Gold Brace. It's so very good turnout
here. Something that you and I both didn't know is this one also had
online qualification, which we found out on day two or whatever when it was
like, oh, hey, these people also qualified for the tournament. We
were looking at the numbers and like, I think pokernews and and WSP dot
com had like one number, but then the final number was like higher,
and we were like, well, where do these other numbers come from?
What's going on? And I was like, oh, hey, these group
of players qualified online. Oh okay, well send that out now. I
sent out a tweight and then I was either hackson or bottom or responded to
the tweight saying don't forget about me, and I'm like, what the hell
are you talking about? And then I go back to pucernews and WSP dot
com and the WSB plus app, and I say, oh, these online
qualifiers, it's thirteen of them, and one of those guys was part of
it. And I was like, okay, I did not know that was
happening. But little a little wrinkle to that event that we weren't really prepared
for. Yeah, So I mean, really good turnout for this one,
five hundred and thirty three entries in the twenty five k is is pretty gangbusters
there, so good on them for that. The twenty six thousand dollars PLO
high Roller drew one hundred and forty two million dollars guarantee here. Price school
comes in at more than three point four million dollars. Nicolas Lempropolas wins eight
hundred and seventy one thousand dollars. Really good first place price here, really
good turnout. I think this kind of further says that PLO tournaments are performing
extremely well wherever they're really held right now. You know, I think it's
good. I know, you know, we've had some conversations with some people
who are here in Vegas at the WIN polo players who are you know,
yeah, they're dabbling in the the WIN World Championship two card stuff, but
they're very much looking forward to the PGT PLO series and all of that.
So polo tournament players, they're out in full form, they're ready to go,
which you know, this twenty six k PLO high Roller, I think
certainly is another piece of evidence to that. I've said it before on this
show. I'll say it again. Basically is gonna have one hundred kplo.
Yeah, they're gonna steal it, steal our event. I mean whatever they
but they should like if they have it, like we'll give you the structure.
Hey, here take it. This is what you do. Whoa,
whoa, whoa? All right, thirty three hundred dollars, no limit,
hold him, six handed draws, seven hundred and fifty five entries, one
million dollar guarantee, two point twenty sixty five million dollars in the prize pool.
When was all said and done, Boris Kolov winning four hundred and twenty
four thousand dollars and the gold bracelet in that one. Do you want to
hear a cool stout about Boris Kolov. Well, so Boris Kolov, I
will say is that he was kind of ranked on the PGT leaderboard, but
this event didn't count. He was. I think he's like somewhere on there,
like top one hundred for sure, if you want to like effort and
like look that up. But no, he's got one cash. I know
you know who you're thinking. I think you're thinking Alex koulv Oh, I
am damage who's right? Well, now he's I mean my fault alex is
six, got it, I'm a stupid American. Yeah, won the lost
ever for now WSP Bracelet at the Rio. Well, that's just legendary.
That's amazing. They should they should have a satellite event at the Rio every
year. Fifty two thousand dollars Super high Roller at WSP Paradise, one hundred
and thirty seven entries, really really good turnout here. So so here's something
that that well, let me say this, two million dollars guarantee six point
seven million dollars in the prize school. Before I get to the winner of
this one. Here, here's my general takeaway from this series. The guarantee
and how this series I feel like was built and where I think they kind
of missed. I feel like this series was really positioned as almost as high
Roller series, right, but but and like but like the guarantees, I
think they kind of have backwards in a way, Like they have bigger guarantees
for the smaller stuff, and they barely made it on those guarantees, but
then the big buy in stuff they smashed all the guarantees out of the water,
right, So it's like they should have the way that they positioned this
from from everything that I kind of saw was like, this is a series
where like we're gonna draw on a lot of big names who can play all
these crazy high rollers, right, and then obviously the five K main event,
Like I feel like they like this tournament, like they could have guaranteed
five million easily, right, like and like, but all these big buying
tournaments, the twenty six KGG millions, ten million dollar guarantee, they got
more than thirteen the PLO twenty five K two million dollars three point five million,
the fifty two K or the fifth Yeah, the fifty two K two
million, six point seven million dollars in the prize school, like the one
hundred and three Ultra high Roller five million dollar prize school almost eleven million dollars.
Ultimately, Like, you know, I feel like they kind of did
it backwards there, so I don't know anyway, the fifty two thousand dollars
Super high Roller draws one hundred and thirty seven As I said, Eric Sidell,
the freaking goat man, one point seven million dollars for mister Eric Sidell.
He wins his tenth basically gold bracelet, joining the likes of who Tim
putting you on the spot, the late Doyle Brunson, the great Johnny Chan
and the mediocre Phil Ivy. The mediocre Phil also the Helme if you can't
forget for that. Yeah, I mean he's just lie, he's above like
he's got like I'm sour on Phil. I'm just soura on Phil Ivy.
Which one? Oh Ivy? Yeah, I'm just yeah, I'm over him.
Oh okay, I can look behind my wall. Right right here is
a signed betting slip of Phil Ivy and John Hennigan. Look at you,
Tom. It's a pride pride of place right there next Doyle. But yeah,
I'm just I'm a little yeah, I'm out of a phill. Eric
Saidell just continuing to crush show that he's, you know, one of the
best and been one of the best for a very very long time. Again.
One point seven million dollars in the bank for mister Saidel. The one
hundred and three thousand dollars Ultra high Roller draws one hundred and eleven entries set
a five million dollar price, will guarantee more than ten point eight million dollars
came in ultimately. Masashi oh yeah, Japanese sensation wins it all just under
three million dollars two point nine four million dollars for him beat Jason Kuhn in
heads up play. Jason Kuhn had a few big results from WISIP Paradise,
So shout out to Massashi Oyah you had a stat He is now number one
on what the Japanese all time money list according to the hand of the mob,
So very cool, congrats to Musashi. Very cool for Masashi Oya to
get that RASO there. And of course two point nine to four million dollars
ten thousand dollars PO Championship draws, one hundred and four entries, one million
dollar prize pool guarantee barely beat it one million, eight eight hundred dollars in
the prize pool at time of recording. There's what thirteen players are remaining,
Bryce Jockey, Jim Collifee, josh Aria, Isaac Hackson, Jeff Gross all
in the mix. This one does count for the PGT, So I think
what Bryce Yockey, Jim Callafee, josh Aria, Isaac Hackson are all kind
of in the mix for more PGT points. Isaac Ackson, of course the
PGT leader, so he's trying to he's trying to just lock up that top
spot. Because if you do lock up that top spot on the leaderboard going
into the PGT Championship one, you're going to start with the most chips in
the tournament. Two, you're going to win the fifty thousand dollars Player of
the Year prize for the PGT. So Isaac Hackson is certainly going to try
and you know, pad his lead in that regard. What were you going
to say, No, I was going to say that, Yeah, Hackson's
obviously on top. Josh Aria is already qualified, but if he can ladder
up a few spots, he'll get over that, you know, that threshold
we've been talking about of twelve hundred points, and I would say nearly lock
his spot. Bryce Yaki's pretty far out, doesn't play a whole lot of
hold him, so I don't think he'll, you know, make a run.
But Jim Klaps the big one. I'm kind of rooting for he can
win. He is in the top forty, which is something you know,
to be honest, he told us he played the six hundred with me.
He says, I decided to go to Bahamas just to try and qualify for
the championship, so I know it means a lot to him, and I
think he might be second in chips heading into today, so he's in pretty
good position to make a run at winning the bracelet and then ten thousand dollars
Nolan hold them at six macs through one hundred and sixty nine entries, one
million dollar guarantee in this one, just over one point six million dollars in
the price will four players remain. Mike Watson, Jean Noel, Thurrell dong
Chen and Thomas Santurn are battling for top honors in that one, and of
course the World Series of Poker Gold Bracelet overall. You know, I think
on the service the series was a success. I mean, I don't know
behind closed doors what went on with the bas Ap Paradise exactly. I mean,
heading into the series, it seemed like they were scrambling, right.
I mean, there was a lot of offers being thrown out in those last
one to two weeks leading up to the series. I mean all over the
place, you know, free stay, buy one, get one, free
tournament buy ins like everything, right, So that tells me that they were
maybe worried about attendance. But I mean it looks like they've hit every guarantee,
which I think you and I both said all along that like they're gonna
probably hit these guarantees. So so yeah, so I think overall, you
know, it's been a pretty good series. Again, we'll see if it
comes back. And you know, of course they have the ten They're sorry,
the ten thousand dollars five thousand dollars Main Event Championship. I mean this
is another one, like five thousand dollars buy in for this one. They
guaranteed fifteen million. What was the final number, fifteen million, fifty thousand.
It's kind of it's kind of tricky, like we don't really know all
the numbers, like the numbers. It's okay. So the thing I disliked
about Paradise is they do take this additional three percent out or whatever, which
is fine, it's part of the structure. But I understand, but a
lot of places do that, not the way that these guys do it.
They announced the price pool of fifteen point zero five million, then they take
the three pisce. A lot of places do that. I'm telling you,
a lot of places do that one hundred percent other places. This isn't like
the first time thing. This is the thing I've bet. I think this
is a I'll tell you this. I know because I've had an issue with
it before, Like, I don't think you should do it that way.
Like if you guarantee fifteen million, fifteen million dollars goes to the players and
end of story, that that's how this works. You guarantee a million a
million goes to the players, Like that's how this should work. They're guarantees
for a reason, like this this fine print crap that happens in poker tournaments.
And listen, it's not just the Wasity Paradise, it's all of these
tournaments. They do it all the time. There was a whole thing with
the MGM Grand Series here in Las Vegas where Tony Burns had to come out
on social media and say, listen, I'm not working with them anymore because
they decided to change their guarantees in mid series. Like, no, you
announce a series, it gets approved, it gets marketed. You need to
honor that. Like that, that's what needs to happen. Just like when
online sites they have a tournament up it's a fifty k guarantee and it gets
eight runners and they cancel it, like no, like this is not how
this works, and like the gaming regulators need to come down on these places,
like if you, if you, you can't just change this, like
you can't just put it in find print because it's just it's unfair to the
players. You need to be better with your business and figuring out the guarantees
and all that sort of stuff. Like that's what you need to be better
in. I agree. I mean that's also like that's partly what RAKE is
for Rake is, Yeah, it's to pay all the staff and everything and
then in worst case scenario, Rake is like your fallback to cover guarantees if
it has to be that way. So like that that's just how it is.
This is the business that these people got into. Like you have to
deal with it, right, you can't just be doing this stuff. If
you guarantee ten million dollars, ten million dollars should go in the player's pockets.
End of story. That's how it is. Like that that's a guarantee
to me, it's the definition of a guarantee. Anyway. The five thousand
dollars main Event Championship, it got three thousand and ten entries. There are
seven players remaining entering the final day. The biggest name remaining is Matt Glance.
He's got whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa. If you're going
to tell me you're blond, Daniel Nielsen is the biggest name remaining, then
you're crazy, Yes, get out of here. Australian legend Wow Listen has
been around for a while. Yes, has done a lot of a lot
of big things out of the Australian poker scene. That is Daniel Nielsen.
He is the chip leader with seven players remaining. He's got thirty seven point
four million, which represents sixty two big blinds. About what fifteen big blind
chip lead over the final table. The final table seven is Michael Skolinka out
of the Czech Republic. You have Mack Lance out of the US, you
have Stanislav ziegel A out of Germany, Gabrielle Schroeder out of Brazil, Montgomery
McQuaid out of the UK, Ruiy Sosa out of Portugal, and then Daniel
Nielsen out of Australia. Each player is guaranteed three hundred thousand dollars, but
they are are of course playing for a massive first place prize that is two
million buckeroos up top and dollary. Dudes, Daniel might say, dude.
Okay, So the final seven payouts are three hundred thousand dollars for seventh place,
four hundred thousand dollars for six, five hundred and ten thousand dollars for
fifth, six hundred and eighty five thousand for fourth, nine hundred thousand for
third. Second place gets seven figures one point two million, and then first
place is two million dollars and the first ever WSP Paradise Main Event gold bracelets.
I mean, this was it was a fun tournament to fall. You
guys can watch this one on the gg poker YouTube channel is where the live
streaming is happening for that. So so yeah, good uh. I think
good series overall. Again, I think we're still gonna just have to wait
and see what they do if they if they announce it for next year or
whatever. I mean, I think it. I feel like they don't know,
because wouldn't you want to announce it during this like, hey, we're
coming back like type of thing. Would it would make sense? Yeah,
maybe they want to just run the numbers and you know, give it some
time to see and you know, of course, the earlier you announced it,
the more you can start, like you know, qualifiers and putting everything
together so you don't have to do all that scrambling kind of last minute like
they did this first time around. So but yeah, but as we talked
about earlier, a lot of these people that were down there are on planes
right now trying to get back to Las Vegas to play the WPT over at
the Wind So a whole heck of a lot of poker going on tim A
lot of these events at Dobaispy Paradise qualified for the PGT. So who were
some like big movers on the leader board. Of course, we're down to
the to the to the end of it, right the only thing that's left
is PGT Last Chance in January January second through seventh, yep. And it's
all about qualifying for the PGT Championship million dollar free role. It's all about
getting in that top forty of the leaderboard. The top forty are the players
that will qualify. So who kind of put themselves in a better position to
make that happen. I'm going to run from top to bottom of people that
earned the most PGT points at Paradise. Number one name Jason Kuhne. He
is now thirty third on the leaderboard. He picked up eight hundred and fifty
three PGT points from his three cashes. Next up, Eric Sidell picked up
eight hundred and four points, one win, two cashes. He's now in
eleventh, pretty much locked his spot in the top forty. Daniel Smodjovic did
how I say it. He picked up seven hundred points for his third place
finish in the twenty five KGG millions. He's up to thirty fourth. He's
already emailed me asking about this free roll, so you know, there's some
conversation. Maybe we s him for the last chance. We'll see what happens.
Obviously we've talked about him already. Masashioya, the guy that I was
rooting for against Jason Kuhne because you know, I wanted more sweats on the
leaderboard than anything. But he picked up six hundred and thirty four points one
win in three cashes. He's now thirty ninth, right on that fringe.
I definitely expect him for PGT last chance up the Turk thirty second place right
now. He picked up just under five hundred points and we've discussed this lots.
You know, I've been asked by players, what is the minimum amount
of points you think will be needed for the to qualify. I've always said
twelve hundred. I think you need to get to twelve hundred, and you're
in. Three players have now pushed over that amount, and I would say
a near lucks for the championship. Nick Shulman fourteen hundred and fifty nine points,
Leon the Sturm thirteen hundred and four and Adrian Mataos twelve sixty two.
Reason I say twelve hundreds is important is that there's a logjam of three guys
on twelve hundred, so that matters. But also it just felt like the
riot number between twenty eighth place, which is twelve hundred points it minus two
hundred points is forty fifth. So that is a pretty cluster of you know,
basically eighteen players that's going to be competing for that bubble of those last
few spots to qualify. Pretty crazy. I mean, it's it's good,
you know, it's good. It's good that the race is heating up.
And then of course you know Last Chance January second through seventh at the Poker
Studio in Las Vegas is going to be a lot of fun. Yeah,
a lot of these people out there battling, and the additional dream seats that
are up for grabs just from that seat, that series leaderboard is going to
create a lot of competition. Heading over to Europe, EPT Prague really really
good turnouts out of Prague. So Prague is a are the ept's Eureka Series.
The Eureka Prague main event in a lot one hundred euro by him draws
four four hundred and three entries, which is a record for this event.
So, I mean, listen, last year in this event had foury seventeen,
so just about four hundred more. I mean, it's it's crazy just
how well live poker is doing everywhere. I mean, you know, the
WASB Paradise numbers were good, WPT World Championship excuse me, numbers are really
good here as well, and EPT Prog numbers are good. So yeah,
everywhere just seems to be crushing, which is kind of crazy, you know.
I mean it, I don't know if it's the best move to have
all three of these going on at once. I still don't know. Maybe
it works for like this year, and it's not sustainable going for I have
no idea that said. I mean, these numbers are great to see as
a you know, a poker purist. You know, just just how much
poker is being played on the live front is great. So in this Eureka
main event, two hundred and twenty six thousand euros in the prize school,
Alexander sat Chu wins five hundred and eleven thousand euros for taking that one down.
And then another record setter was had in the EPT Progue main event,
fifty three hundred eurobuy in. There twelve hundred and eighty five entries, topping
last year's twelve sixty seven. Last year was the record this year, said
it, eighteen entries, more more than six point one million euros in the
prize pool. What is that number there that you put, Is it one
point three million euros for first place? Yes, one point three million euros
for first place. There are eighty five players remaining, probably a little bit
less than that a time of recording, you know, but they're moving forward
with this one. We won't have a winner to talk about just yet.
But Marley Sprague was still in Omar l Jack, who won the twenty twenty
two at WSP Europe Made Event govar At, mattal Now Ferrell, Steve O
Dwyer, Roman Kalias Kakwan Lao, Leo Margetz, Max Nugebauer who is the
twenty twenty three WSP Europe Champions. So both SP Europe champions from the last
two years are out their battle and trying to become EPT Progue champion. Max
is also currently qualified for the PGT Championship Million dollar f There you go.
So we'll we'll wrap up EPT Prog in terms of the winners from the winner
of the main event, and then we'll also probably hit on I think they
had a bunch of high rollers and stuff there. We'll do that on probably
the next episode when we just have a little bit more information out of this
series. But yeah, I mean again, live poker is thriving. Man,
It's bananas. It's it's absolutely bananas. So if you are a live
poker player, if that's what you do, I'm sure there's a whole heck
of a lot of options for you out there. As you know, our
evidence by WPT World Championship, WSP Paradise, and EPT Progue all in this
month. All right, Game of Gold, sir, did you watch the
finale. Of course I watched the finale. I'm gonna say it again.
I said it at the top of the show. I'm gonna say it now.
There will be spoilers. We're gonna tell you who won. So if
you missed it at the top of the show and you're you're worried, now
it's gonna happen, so turn this off. That's that's your warning. Okay.
So all I thought it was more than twelve episodes. By the way,
for some reason, I don't know why, I thought it was like
eighteen. I think that's what we thought it was gonna be. Yeah.
Well, anyway, the the final episode was like was a two hour special
or whatever, basically double episode finale, and it wrapped up what about a
week ago last Friday, Maria Ho taking it down. She won four hundred
and fifty six thousand dollars. So the final round of Game of Gold was
a sit and go and you started with your chips based on like how you
had performed in previous rounds. There were what six players, Dan Kates,
Josh Aria, who Else, kind of England, Maria Hoe and Jo Viral
Johann Gilbert were the six players in that one, Maria won a massive hand
that was a three way hand against it went open from Fador Holtz, three
bet jam from kind of England. Maria ho calls with Ace king Off,
she had the King of Diamonds, Vader Holts, Alexa just call with queens
believe the flop. What was the flop Queen High? I can't remember,
what's so long ago. It was like Queen High with two diamonds, so
I can't remember exactly. But anyway, Maria got a lot of value or
got some additional value out of Fador Holts. She backed into a straight or
she she made a straight broadway straight on the river. It was interesting on
in the hands on the river. Maria puts out a bet, a fairly
healthy bet, and Fador goes in the tank forever, and he's like he's
talking out loud about like theos of the hands, and you know, he
mentioned Ace King of Diamonds, which would have been a flopped flushtraw two overs,
and then the straight draw as well. He never mentioned, like,
you know, like Ace king Off with either the Ace or the King of
Diamonds. I don't think he mentioned that, so I don't know if he
I don't know if he overlooked that possibility, and what I mean by overlooked
it is that would he have just assumed that she would have just jammed after
kind of jammed with Ace king Off, which I think is probably more of
a standard play. You know, I think Ace king suited you can maybe
be a little bit more inclined to flat because Ace king Suit is a little
bit more powerful than Ace king Off. Ace king Off. You just want
to kind of get fad or out of the hand. And if you you
know, if you take a if you take a race with queens, I
mean I guess you just take a race with queens, and or if possibly
like that was edited out, I mean because obviously we don't don't know what
goes into the editing. But anyway, she wins the hand. She has
a massive chip lead, so she takes home four hundred and fifty six thousand
dollars. She ends up beating Dan Kates and heads up play, I thought
Maria pretty much dominated not only this final sit and go, but pretty much
everything. She performed well early on in the opening sit and go, she
did well in the heads up stuff, I mean, she did well throughout,
So I thought she was a very deserving winner. Overall, Where did
this prize money come from? Do you have any idea? No idea?
Like did did the players didn't have to buy in, right, No.
I think it was like a you know, they'll probably paid to play and
given obviously a combination and travel. I think it was just if this money
is just put up, why is it four fifty six? It seems it's
just like a random numbers make it five hundred. Well, it's got to
do with squid game. The guy, the guy was I haven't watched a
good game, but the guy, the main character, he's he's uh,
he's number as he's player number is four five six. Oh well, I
mean, well that's just it's one hundred. The reason, yeah, I
mean you don't have to copy that exactly. No, that's someone asked the
grand or that, and the gronder literally responded with a gift of that guy
with the four five six on his chest. Okay, well, okay,
whatever what else were they gonna say? Oh, do you think there was
a deal? Did you see that? Like right right before heads up play,
like Maria and Dan Kates kind of come walking out of the back and
like they're finishing a conversation, like I think before the MIC's like get fully
turned on. So like I wonder if they were talking about making a deal.
I'm sure they're probably, you know, but what my question is like,
why would you show that part? Why would you not just edit that
part out? They're just coming back from the bathroom break, oh yeah together,
I mean, come on, I mean it's it seemed like they might
be trying to work out some sort of side. Maybe they did it on
purpose so that people that host podcasts can keep talking about maybe the show.
Maybe maybe I thought overall, Game of Gold was pretty good. You know,
we previously talked about a lot of things that we would we would offer
up as suggestions to improve it going forward. Now I don't know if I
would run it back exactly the same where you went sit and go for fourheaded
sit and go format as the first round, second round was heads up play,
third round was the Indian Poker, fourth and final round was the six
handed sit and go with the finalist. I think the I like having like
a different type of thing for all the rounds, right, I think the
round three the Indian Poker one. Not that I didn't like the Indian poker.
One it was it was a little it seemed a little bit weird at
first, but I liked it when I watched it. So I just don't
know if I would do the same thing again, right, Like, I
feel like you got to kind of mix that part up, because you know,
I think part of the fun that can come from this show is as
seasons go on, like you you don't know exactly what's gonna happen, Like
you don't go into it next year, like if you or I get invited,
for example, Okay, we're not like okay, first one is four
and it's sit and go. Second one is heads up, third one is
I got to study Indian poker, you know, like I don't want to
know, like you need to have that that surprise element, right, yeah,
so I don't know what it would be, what you would replace things
with, and you can change them all really, you know, I think
the final one was fine, of course, but yeah, you know,
of course all should be some some sort of poker variant element or whatever.
But but I wouldn't run it back exactly the same, you know, so
you can probably change up exactly how they're played, you know, just to
keep people on their toes. I think you know other uh, you know,
competitive reality shows like this, like Survivor for example. You know,
they do well in this regard where it's it's not a like cookie cutter every
single season, which is good. So that's that's one thing that that I
would like to see going forward. It seems like all the players from what
I've seen, there was you know, Jeff Platt down down in Bahamas at
the Bisbee Paradise did a lot of a lot of interviews with the contestants that
were on Game of Gold, and I think all of them were like,
yeah, I want to be invited back, Like I'm ready to be invited
back. So you should be completely new cost my like completely new, not
even Maria, and then we can maybe set up like four seasons in bring
back like the final six of each season or something. Yeah. Like,
I think it's good to have some people come back because you want to have
those repetitive characters and you want to build those up, right, But I
also agree with you, like you shouldn't just run back the same people,
and like just because you got on the first one doesn't mean you get on
the second one. Maybe you get on the first one, then you might
come back for like the fourth one for example, you know, like that
sort of stuff. But like, yeah, I think you definitely need some
new people in there, and then you can do what the other reality shows
do, Like you can have like a villain's one, a hero is one,
like a champions one, a first people out one, like all that
sort of stuff, right, you can you can do it as you build
this up, which I'm guessing is in the road map somewhere, I just
don't know where. So yeah, I wouldn't run it back with exactly this
same group, which is I mean, ultimately that's going to be a bummer
to both the people that don't get invited back and then also bummer to people
that you know, became fans of some of these contestants. But that's just
how it is. So I think it's going to be very interesting to see
how it goes forward. And overall I'm a fan, so I'm looking forward
to the next one already. Yeah. So all right, I think that's
all we got. You got anything else? No good luck on Day two
of the World Championship, It's on Saturday, so please save my Christmas.
I'm going to do my r. I'm very poor from all the Christmas presents,
all right, all right, well that's going to do it for us.
My name is Donny Peters. His name is Tim Duckworth. We'll talk
to you guys in a few days. A few days, excuse me,
Probably are next week, I would say so. So, yeah, take
care of the once thaks. Jenny Express nine Jenny Express