Hello, everyone, Welcome back to a new episode of the Poker Girl Podcast.
As I dropped my phone all over the table a little bit excited because
we have a winner in the twenty twenty three World Series of Poker main event.
Oh baby, what a day. It was a fast day. Too
fast, it was. It was probably too fast. I'm sure production was
like, can we slow them down so we can actually make an episode out
of this day? But you know, I'm sure they'll work up some editing
magic. I mean there was a lot of action. Okay, it was
straight out of the gate. You know, you had Adam Wineman blasting away
a lot of action or sorry, Adam Wineman, I'm just merging players.
I'm Adam Adam. Adam Wyman would be Adam Walton blasting away. So yeah,
well we'll get into all the stuff that happened. Daniel Wineman is the
winner. Twelve point one millie in the bank for Daniel Wineman. We'll also
talk about some of the other stuff that has been happening at the World Series
of Poker today the second to last day, the penultimate day, as producer
Rich Ryan would say, loves that word, it's the best word. Also
got a pretty wild announcement from the w SUP today. We'll we'll talk about
that one as well. And uh yeah, I guess this is the second
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Ten thousand dollars WSP Main Event record setting ten thousand dollars WSP Main Event ten
thousand and forty three entries, a prize pool of ninety three million, three
hundred ninety nine thousand, nine hundred dollars, absolutely incredible, how large the
event was, how large that prize pool was already mentioned, the first place
prize twelve million, one hundred thousand, and of course, as Tim likes
to say, plus the five hundred thousand dollars gold, diamond, silver,
all the I mean, the blinged out bracelet. I mean, it's crazy.
That thing is absolutely crazy. The tournament starts today. Three players are
left. You have Stephen Jones in the chip lead, you have Daniel Wineman
in second place. You have Adam Walton in third place. Adam Walton came
out flying out of the gate, playing I think every hand for like the
first handful of hands, but his chips deck wasn't really going up. I
mean it kind of went down and went up. It was kind of just
just bouncing around right where he started the day with. He gets in this
crazy hand with Steven Jones, where Jones opened ace queen off Walton three bets
ace king. Jones takes a little bit of time, thinks, calls flop,
comes down. I think it was jack seven five with two diamonds on
it. Neither player has a diamond, they both have black cards. There's
a bet of I think eight million, maybe eight and a half million from
Walton. Jones takes a while and he delects to raise to twenty two million
with just his ace Queen high. I think it was almost snapped that Walton
announced that he was all in. It's like boom, all in, So
he goes all in. Jones finds his cards the balk and we're just like,
what the heck is going on? This is crazy. It definitely seemed
like early on when they were three handed, that Walton was clearly attacking Jones.
There was a lot of playing back at Jones, a lot of raising
and re raising, and then against Wineman he seemed to be a little bit
more cautious on how he was approaching that one, which kind of makes sense
because both Jones and Walton did express at times, you know that it's kind
of unfortunate to see Daniel Wyman with so many chips, So it seemed like
in a way they were they were worried about Daniel Wineman, the professional player
who's been doing this for a long time, has had a lot of success.
That said, you know, Wineman's no out there like totally blasting away.
He plays like a pretty safe style of poker. Of course he'll go
for it at times, but you know, I think he plays a little
bit closer to the vest in it. Then I got the sense that these
players thought he played so that was just interesting, and I thought that it
played out kind of that way to start. So then eventually Walton he picks
up two eights in just a crazy hand to bust. And there's been a
lot of talk on social media about this being like a punt. I don't
think it's really all that bad, given how Walton played. So they're playing
one point two five million, two point five million, and Jones makes it
six million on the button with I believe it was Queen six of diamonds.
Walton flats from the small blind with pocket eights. Wineman is in the big
blind and he makes it twenty seven million. He's got two aces. I
mean, what a time to pick up aases. Jones gets out of the
way. Walton like as soon as Jones folds, Walton says, I'm all
in for two hundred and nine point five million, which was I think eighty
four big blinds pocket eights. Wineman snaps him off with the aces and here
we go. Four million dollars is what these guys are getting paid guaranteed.
The jump is two and a half million to six and a half million.
I mean that's incredible. I know you're Wineman and you're have Aces and you're
snapping this off. But if Wineman loses this spot, he's left with like
fifteen or sixteen million, so he's absolutely crushed. I mean, I understand
the shove is like a very big shove eighty four big blind so maybe not
shove there. But I mean, listen, if Wineman's got I don't know,
Ace ten of diamonds Ace Jack suited, like, this play just works
right, But if he's got Pucket Jack's, I mean, good lord,
I don't know, I don't know. I know it's crazy, right,
Like do you want to take it up against like, you know, an
queen of king queen stuff like that. I mean, I'm assuming Wineman thinks
he's probably the best of the three players, and he might actually maybe followed
that. Yeah, I mean, I don't know, you know, it's
it's crazy, um, I mean I don't. I don't think the play
was that crazy given what we've seen from Walton, Like, I mean the
guy goes for it. Yeah, Like so that's why, you know,
I kind of expected him to go for it in this spot, and I
think that this money just kind of gets all in here. I mean,
maybe he can just call. Maybe he can if he does want to put
in the forebet, put it in the forebet. That's not all in,
you know. And then what does Wineman do? Does Wineman just flat being
able to play in position? Does Wyman put it all in hoping to get
called? I mean, yeah, so just crazy? The aces hold up.
Walton did turn a gut shot needing a six on the river. A
six or and eight would have given him the double up here, but the
aces hold up for Daniel Wineman, and with that pot, Walton goes out
in the third takes home four million dollars. And then afterwards, well,
well let's get into the interview. First, Walton's talked with Jeff Platt after
he busted, and then we'll come back and we'll talk about heads up play.
Adam Walton, third place in the World Series of Poker main event some
up for us. How you're feeling right now? I mean, it's been
an amazing experience. Obviously, you know you want to, you know,
finish it off, but it's been a great experience. Both guys have been
great. So we're gonna have a cool champion to make sure I give off
that rock. Yeah okay, but yeah, it's been a great experience.
Couldn't have asked for more. Rail is great And yeah, speaking of the
rail, I feel like you had a rail for the last four days of
this tournament. What does it mean to you to have that kind of support
from them? I got a great group of friends. I'm glad that everyone
I was able to come out and enjoy the experience with me. It's not
every year that this gets to happen, so yeah, it was a great
time. I know you said that it's not about the money. It's not
something that you're really thinking about. Will you allow yourself to think about it
now? I mean, four million dollars is a lot of money, but
like I'm not sure honestly how much like that changes like my life and whatnot.
So, like you know, I'm gonna go buy a boat. Other
than that, I don't really know what I'm what I'm gonna do. But
yeah, it's obviously like a very large amount of money that I'm thrilled to
have got. So is it gonna be a pretty sick boat. It's probably
gonna be a pretty sick boat. I mean, listen, you come into
the final table at the end of the day, you know, or at
the beginning of it, all nine players left you the chip leader of one
hundred and forty three million or whatever it was. You're able to make that
to three handed play. I think like when you come in as the chip
leader and a chip leader in the way that Walton came in, you know,
he had a pretty big lead. Making it too three handed is the
goal, yeah, I mean that's where where you ultimately want to end up.
If you bust before three handed or before four handed whatever whatever that second
day is, it can kind of feel like a failure in a way,
not that you totally failed, because you know, you're probably cashing for seven
figures unless you you know, somehow bomb out in ninth place, but you're
cashing for a ton of money, so it's not a total failure. But
like you, when you have that lead, you can see the opportunity at
ahead of you. You know, you really want to grab that and make
it to the second day. So Walton did that, and he's got four
million dollars in the bank. So I think it's great and he's going to
be getting a great boat. So then Daniel Wineman, because he knocks out
Walton in that massive pot. He takes four hundred and forty three million up
against Jones's stack of one hundred and fifty nine point five million, So just
an absolutely massive lead. Here the blinds are still one point two five million,
two point five million. There's a two point five million big blind anton
when heads up play begins, and I think heads up play lasted twenty four
hands, didn't really take that long that the two exchange some jabs back and
forth early on, but Wineman never dipped below four hundred million. I even
think he never dipped below four hundred and ten million. Yea, So just
kind of some small jabs here and there. And then the final hand was
I mean, personally, I don't like it. I mean, I just
I don't like the way that it was played on Jones's behalf. You know,
I know a lot of people are making a lot a big thing about
the eight hand from Walton. I mean, this hand to me seems probably
a little bit crazier. So this hand goes Jones is on the button,
he makes it seven millions. So I feel like that's a little bit of
a larger size to start given what you you often see in heads up play.
But they're on the deeper side. So whatever, Wineman makes the call
from the big blind. Jones has jack eight off, Wineman has king jack.
It comes jack five two with two spades. Neither player has a spade.
Wineman checks Jones bets six millions. A little bit of a down bed
there. Wineman goes a little bit more than three ax on a check raise.
He makes it eighteen point five million. So check six million. On
the jack five deuce two spade flop. Wineman makes it eighteen point five million.
Jones makes the call. Okay, now, Jones, when he makes
the call, he's got one hundred and forty six million behind. The turn
is a four and off suit four. Wineman puts out a wager of thirty
eight million. I think the pot was what fifty something million? Um,
so Wineman sizing up here. UM, I like it. You know,
I thought in the momentum I think this was still or sorry, this was
not on the stream with rem Quin. I. I was just talking and
chat with some people as we were watching, and I thought that he should
you know size up here. I think it'll put Jones in some really tough
spots, you know, if he's got some flush jaws, if he's got
you know, a pair in his hand, if he's got like I don't
know, the ACE five stuff like that that has second pair with a gutter,
Now obviously you can target some some worse jack stuff like that. So
he goes thirty eight million. Now, Jones goes into the tank for a
long time, and it was an interesting tank because like he's thinking for a
while, kind of in his normal pose, and then he starts puts his
hands onto the table and like kind of looks like he's breathing hard. Then
the hands come back on the table, then the hands go back under the
table, like like back and forth. I mean, I thought, I
don't know the exact time, but it felt like this was like two minutes
in the tank at least maybe a little bit longer. Eventually he says he's
all in, and I'm just like, whoa this is? Like, I
mean, I just don't I think you're gonna fold out like everything that's worse
and get called by better in this spot, Like I don't like what unless
he's trying to target this specific kind of king Jack Hardy's maybe, yeah,
but that's hard because that's hard to target the king Jackson, the queen jacks
because you have a jack, there's there's jack on the board. So how
many people can have Jackson this spot? You know, It's like that's a
little bit harder. Um, you know, So I don't know, I
think you just should call here and then take a river and go from there.
But so he moves all in U Wineman doesn't snap. Wineman, you
know, stands up from his chair kind of looks over. Jones says,
well, at least I faded the snap though, And then the dealer's counting
down the chips because Wineman wants an exact count that you know. Wineman gets
the count, he makes the call. He sees that Jones has just three
outs. He immediately goes over to his Rael, tells his Raley he's only
got three outs. So both the players over on their rails. They got
to sweat the river, the rivers in ace and that's it. That's all
she wrote for Jones. Now listen, Jones played his ass off and collected
six and a half million dollars, which is frigging Austin. I think he
gained some fans definitely, Yeah, of course. I mean, listen,
the guy played really well. His energy, his positivity was very good.
I'm sure we'll see plenty of him. Yeah, in the poker world.
You know, he's he went. He's an unknown player before this. I
know he had that final table to Classes years ago. I think it was
twenty and eighteen, but you know, still pretty unknown player. But it'll
be good to see a lot of him. I think that, you know,
a lot of people liked what they saw from Steven Jones, and we'll
play his elimination interview right now. He also spoke with Jeff Platt on his
way out Stephen Jones second place in the World Series of Poker main event.
How would you sum up this overall experience. I mean, obviously, right
now I'm a little upset. I think tomorrow I'm gonna wake up very happy
and be very grateful. I mean, obviously, you gotta get lucky to
get here too. Wasn't the way I wanted to turn out, but it's
pretty tough to fold there. Um. I think he's got a lot of
combo draws. I was like back and forth in my head so many times.
Such a tough decision, But kudos to him. Played a great game.
I had a great time. It was fun. Do you allow yourself
in this moment to take some pride in what you've just accomplished. Maybe not
for the next ten minutes, but hopefully in a couple hours. I will.
Yeah, once I go hang out with my rail and my family,
I think I'll be better. But it's a little tough right now. And
finally, you talked about waking up tomorrow, You're also going to wake up
tomorrow with a decent amount of cash. All that changed your life at all?
Of course. I mean, you know, I can do a lot
of things for that money, so start investing and set myself up nicely.
So that was Stephen Jones. I mean, I think you could get the
sense in that interview that I know, like, at the end of the
day, you win a ton of money when you get to this spot.
We've seen it time and time again. You finished, you know, second,
third, fourth, and you can make the manument foun table a ton
of money that you've won, But you're also so close then to the goal,
and the goal is to win, you know, It's like such a
it's such a weird thing. I can't imagine being in that spot. I
mean, hopefully I'm in that spot someday, but you know, you can't
imagine because you and you hear it from these guys all the time. Is
like, you never imagine yourself making the manuvent foul table, even though you
play as in every single year, you never imagine yourself winning the tournament.
Right then you get to that point and it's like, oh my gosh,
I only got to beat out eight peet people. I only got to beat
out a couple more people. If you're in Steven Jones's shoes, you only
got to be out one more person, and then you're the champion. You're
the one collecting twelve point one million dollars. So I think as the days
go on, you know, as Jones mentioned there, you know, as
he hangs out with his family and his rail and all that sort of stuff,
and that feeling of busting second place, being so close, will subside
and he'll be a bit happy that he finished in second place. He's got
six and a half million dollars in the bank now, you know, so
good for him. Our winner, Daniel Wineman believe he was oh for ten
in THESP main event before this. Yeah, never cashed. Can you believe
the guy plays it every single year? Never cashed. I mean, listen,
Wineman is a great guy. I know him, You know him.
Everyone out there that knows him says the same thing. I mean, he's
just always laughing, smiling, having a good time, very humble. Um.
I don't really expect too much to change from him. Um, you
know, going forward, maybe the bets will get a little bit larger on
the golf course, maybe he'll be in some bigger, bigger mix game stuff
like that. Um, but you know, Dan Weinman, I mean,
what an absolute crusher this this guy is. You know, he played so
so good. Have to mention also that the final three players that came back
today the were the three players that were the three largest stacks when they were
nine handed to start the final table. So all of those players carried over
and then ultimately Dan Wineman goes on to win. After Dan Weinman won,
Kara Scott hopped on the mic to talk to him. We'll play that winner
interview for you right now. Daniel. You came in with such a commanding
lead into the heads up, and then that moment there where you see the
river card and you go and your at your rail and everyone hugs you.
What's going through your mind? Then there's so much stuff. It's it's it
happened two minutes ago. There's a billion thoughts. It's it's really hard to
put into words. I've said it before. You play this tournament every year,
you never think you're gonna win, you never think you're gonna final table,
and for it to all come together so well, it just felt like
I played the best I've ever played in my life. Just it's incredible.
And you've done this in front of family and friends and so many of the
poker industry in the community here. What does it feel like to perform on
this stage in front of them. It's unbelievable. You know, my best
friends will tell you that I'm not the most confident guy in the world when
it comes to poker. You know, I'm fortunate to be friends with some
of the best in the world, and I've never considered myself one of them.
Maybe that'll change a little bit now. But to put on this performance
and really felt like I played my a game all the last two days,
it's awesome. When we spoke earlier, you said you love your job,
you love your life. That's not going to change. So how does your
life change after something like this. I still think my answer holds true.
I mean, there's more money in the bank. It's always nice. It
takes a lot of stress off of things in life. I still do really
enjoy what I do for a living. I still will be out on the
golf course very soon, and my boss can probably expect me in the office
this week. So something that wasn't asked there. Did they make a deal?
No, it was this confirmed. Well, listen, here's the deal.
I gotta give a shout out to Blake, Bourgeois from Hope Blake,
I'm saying your last name correctly, who had a scoop for poker dot org,
who said that he talked with Adam Walton. And because yesterday I said
that the players had all exchanged contact information, I saw that happen. Blake
talked to Adam Walton, said they couldn't come to an agreement, so they
decided to play it like normal. Then, if you're watching the live stream,
you'll know that when Wineman busts Walton in third place, I believe Wineman
is talking to Jason Mercier on Israel about like the possibility of now talking about
a deal, and I think Jason said something like no play for it all,
and Wineman was also, yeah, I have too many chips now,
like we're gonna play for it. I mean, listen, Wineman's a gambler
at the end of the day, like he's willing to gamble. Um,
So no deal. I mean I confirmed that with multiple sources that no deal
was made. Um. I think Wineman himself when I think Matt Burkey put
on social media, like you know, when they got to heads to play,
like, he made a comment that said like, so you know they
chopped it evenly or something like that, right, or did an equity chop
or whatever, and Dan Wineman later respond and said, no, we got
it all. So Dan Wineman one twelve point one million, I mean,
minus some swaps. We know a bunch of people that had had swaps of
him out there in the field. So Wineman got it all. Man,
I mean he probably had at least eighty percent of himself. I have no
idea. You know, well, we'll ask him when we get him on
the podcast in the next couple days or so. I'll grill him on the
exact numbers. I don't know if they'll tell us, but we'll grill him
on it. Funny note about Jason Mosier. He was tournament was on the
way. He was rushing in to enter on that side. He had a
trifle of coffees, a bag some other stuff. He's about walked through and
security he's like, no, you can't come through. So here's my friend's
playing. He's like, I can't you know you need a wristband. And
he's just like ah. He tries to call him. I'm walking up and
I'm like, I go to security, can't let him in. I think
there's no, he needs a wristband. Like he just flew in just now,
Like I'm just lying out of my ass. I was like, he
just flew in to watch this his friend, his best friend is right there.
I think he's no, he needs a wristband. So I was like,
all right, security, he's not gonna fall from my bullshit. And
Jason's like trying to call who knows who? Obviously I don't know. Maybe
he's even trying to call Wyman who knows. But hey, Bud, I
know you're busy, but can I get a risk band? Wait a minute,
anyway, I find him a wristband, get him a ristband. He
gets in and he's on the rail the whole day. But I thought that
was kind of funny. We tried, we both tried to bluff the security
gun and he called us down. That day's high. I mean, they
definitely need to somehow fix the whole wristband thing. Um, it's a little
bit of a mess. Um, not gonna lie. Listen, I've had
the opportunity. My good friend Gary Gates made the final table. I was,
I was on the rail. I was working for Pocket Fives at the
time. Lance Bradley said, listen, you're off, You're not. You're
not doing this anymore. We'll cover it from afar. No big deal,
Go enjoy the rail. And I mean, I know, so I know
what the wristband situation is like, and it's it's just a it's just a
disaster. I mean, just just especially when it's three hn. Just let
everyone up there who cares. It makes a good atmosphere, No big deal,
you know, especially like listen, I know you need wristbands, but
like if the guy's wearing the guy's shirt. I mean she's like he's in
the crew, right, he's literally day three, there's only three sections,
like I get at the day day two two? You said day three,
but day two, yeah, day there's any three sections? Right, fill
up that rail, especially like for production. We should push for it too,
because we want the rail to look full. We don't want any blank
areas, so we want to put people up. When I first got here
today, there was a gentleman that walked up, an older gentleman. Um
didn't have a wristband as well. Also, but he wasn't wearing a shirt.
Um, but I don't know. Did Stephen Jones have shirts? I
don't think Stephen Jones had shirts? Did Adam Waltman definitely had shirts. He
had the A and W logo on him. What is aw Well, it's
like root beer, it's a restaurant, it's all this different stuff. Um,
but so he had those. They were red shirts with those. Um,
the Wineman ones had the emotions of a wine glass and a man.
Terrible wineman. Yeah, I mean kind of terrible. So un had the
idea that we need a stockpile infantry. Yeah, so so listen, Adam
Waltman's crew. I thought they did all right, like their chance got better
over time. Their chances were good today, so that they clearly did some
preparation, some work and getting the chance better. But they had like blown
up cardboard of like emojis. They had a blender um, they had a
fire emoji like stuff like this. Like when they had the fire emoji,
they were like, he's heating up, you know, because Adam Walton was
playing a lot of pots, winning a lot of pots in a row,
so they like he's heating up, He's on fire, you know, the
old NBA jam thing. So I think we should just as the production team,
you know, make a bunch of these like blowing up emojis, give
them all out to the fans so they can do their thing, you know,
all that sort of stuff. I think it would be a lot of
fun. It would make for a more lively atmosphere. I'm also for noisemakers.
I don't know the exact rules for the noisemakers, but I'm talking like
Kyle. But listen, the one knock on Adam Walton's rail is every time
he won a pot, he did the truck horn pull thing with his hand,
did he have a truck horn. They needed to have a truck horns.
They needed to have a truck horn. Somebody bring the truck horn.
Like like when, like when when Garrett Listen, when Gary made the final
table his whole run. Every single day he put Mike Tyson punch out stuff
that. I went to the costume store, I bought gloves I bought I
showed up like a boxer. I was ready to go from my man,
that's what you gotta do. Okay. Yeah, And like Wineman's group,
the least they could have done was actually drink wine. No, there was
wine there. Okay, well I saw most I thought a lot of them
had beer, and so it was probably already finished. It was already gone.
Didn't even make it, make it to make it to the But the
rails were good. Okay, the rails were good. Um, I think
some noisemakers would be good. I think bring back the voboz als. Let's
go. I'm all for it. You know, we have a pokego vending
machine down there in the ground. We should just put We need a second
vending machine, just with noisemakers, whistles, cowbells, you name it,
we'll put it. In there. But back to my story, there was
an older gentleman that was trying to get in. He was talking to security
and I heard him because I was standing right out there, and he was
like, you know, I'm friends with Stephen Jones. I play with him
a lot of talking stick. I just want to get in there and get
on his rail. And they were like, no, you can't. And
I was like, I felt bad for the guy because like he just wants
to like trying to get him Ristam. No. I didn't try and get
him Ristman because I had to go do commentary. But I was like,
I felt bad, like you just let him in. There's not there's only
three rails. Let's go get him in there. Come on, you know
what, no big deal. I mean, they're they're monitoring that whole area,
so if anyone gets out of line or anything, you just throw them
out of it. Yeah. I didn't mean it was anything out of line
either. Well, at one point they showed on the stream. I don't
know what it was about, but they showed security talking to Sean Deep who
knows that Sean from this But yeah, but listen, I think Daniel Wineman
is great champ, a great Champ, a very deserving winner. We're gonna
see a lot from him. Um, you know, I think it'll be
really cool. He made a comment to Remco ringing my aff to words that
you know, all throughout the winner process, you know, afterwards, you're
doing the photos, you're doing the interviews, you know, all that sort
of stuff. He kept just like looking up to the rights of the room
from where he was standing at the final table and seeing all the banners,
but the banners ended with Espen Jr. Stads and being like, I can't
believe my banner is going to be next Espens next year, Like my face
is going to be up there. That it just has to be absolutely cool.
And then to walk in here next year see your banner up there as
the main event champ from the last year, that has to just be absolutely
epic and you know, probably makes you a bit emotional when it all happened.
So, as I said, you know, we heard from Wineman there
with Krascope. As I said earlier, we'll try and get a lengthier pod
with Dan Wineman in the coming days. Talk with him a little bit more,
talk with him about everything, you know, kind of let that adrenaline
come down so he can really put into words, you know, his his
run, his thoughts, all that sort of stuff. So stay tuned for
that. We do need to mention that with the wind twenty three PGT leaderboard
points, so he's up on top of the PGT leaderboard. I know he's
not like poker these days, but I'm guessing we'll see a little bit of
him in some PGT events here and there. I mean the Mixed Game series
coming up in October, the PLO series, you know, stuff that he
enjoys. Might see him out there battling in that stuff. And with him
moving into first, he knocks Chris Brewer into second, he knocks Isaac Hackson
into third. Um, you guys can check out the PGT leaderboard over at
PGT dot com slash leaderboard, and then all your PGT information over at PGT
dot com. All right, big announcement today happened before play yesterday. We
had one announcement. We had Jason Clark won the main event for thirty years
promotion. Okay, so he gets that, which actually a lot of people
seem to be agreeing with him on taking the two one hundred k. I
think you are all insane doesn't matter. Whatever, WSP Paradise. Yeah,
this is the actual name. That's the name WSB Bahamas. I was like,
no, that's not correct. So WSP Paradise December, December third.
You know, this is Paradise here too, Like this is technically whatever Paradise.
Wherever there's a game, it's Paradise. M December third through fourteenth,
twenty twenty three at the Atlantis in the Bahamas. Fifteen goal bracelet events,
fifty million dollars in guarantees. The main event of this stop is going to
be a five thousand dollars buy in main event, fifteen million dollars guaranteed.
They're also going to have a fifty hundred dollars mystery boundy event five million dollars
guaranteed. Um. They're gonna have one hundred thousand dollars high roller with five
million dollars guaranteed. They're gonna have a fifty K high roller with two million
dollars guaranteed. UM, they're gonna have some polo events. They're gonna have
a twenty five k gig millions. Um. They're gonna have a whole bunch
of stuff. They're partner the WSP is partnering with the Gig Poker on this,
and Gig Poker has pledged to send one thousand players to WSP Paradise.
And if those dates that I rallied off December third through fourteenth, ring a
bell, that's because this is smack dab on top of the WPT World Championships.
So there's been a lot of talk about that on social media. It
seems like it's war between these two companies. I don't know how else to
say it, Like you kind of stepped down our turf here, Like you
know, the WPT put on two events. They put on the Everyone for
One Drop that ten million dollars guarantee. They put on the one hundred and
eleven K one Drop Alpha eight tournament. So they put those two on during
the WSP main event. Now WSP said, okay, well we're gonna go
on top of your event in December, so also on top of APT product.
Yeah, also on top of EPT product, which I think people forget
because there was a lot of there was a lot of talk and listen,
rightfully, so WPTD Championship last December, the first one was amazing, right,
but at the same time, EPT PROC set records yeah, so,
like you know, it crushed. So now you have WSP Paradise in partnership
with gig Poker, going to Atlantis in the Bahamas Smack dab on top of
all of this. I mean, it just seems pretty wild to me.
Um, I don't really know what else to say. I don't I don't
know if the poker ecosystem can handle all of these events, but we're gonna
find out. I can handle it, just not at the same time.
But that's what I mean. I'm saying these three events at the same time.
And what I also find out that's interesting is what is WWPT gonna come
back with? Okay, because wp came out with this announcement today they listed
their guarantees. Now WPT has come out with the dates of their series in
December. They've come out with the dates for the specific big events you know,
WPT Prime, the World Championship Event, et cetera. They even announced
the million dollar One Drop Tournament, million Dollar Buying One Drop Tournament. I'm
the big one for one Drop in partnership with one Drop. They've announced all
those dates, they haven't announced the guarantees. Yeah, correct, So is
was is sorry it is WPT. You know, what was last year's guarantee
was fifteen million. It was a ten K buying fifteen million, ten thousand,
four hundred dollars buying fifteen million guarantee. So if they were planning to
run back the fifteen million guarantee, are they now thinking, you know what,
let's fight back, Let's go to twenty let's go crazy, let's go
to twenty five. They got twenty nine million in change in the in the
prize pool last year, so you would think that they would be able to
push that envelope. Are they going to I don't really know how this plays
out. I'm guessing as soon as this announcement came out, you know,
the WPT offices, the phones are ringing, the text messages were flying like
you know, so I can only imagine what's going on. I think,
you know, without this news, the guarantee was going to go up,
probably conservatively to twenty million something like that. We know most of these operators
split the guarantee with the TUA. But now with this news, I think
it's a lock to not just go up to twenty but maybe we see,
all right, we hit twenty nine, let's do something like WSPT this year,
how it was like, you know, let's break the record. Now,
let's go to thirty. What did they get over there? They got
sixteen million this for this everyone for one drop, Yes, like fifteen or
sixteen million in the prize will. They put a ten million dollars guarantee on
it. So we know WIN likes the swing big. Win has also not
just this is more WP. Yeah I'm getting into that, but you know
when in recent years, Win has really been like, you know what,
We're going to be the biggest tournament venue in Las Vegas and try and be
the most important biggest tournament venue year round in the US. They partner with
WPT. WPT's got WPT global. Now they're like, you know what,
we need to blow up to December thing. They blew it up. They
made it absolutely crazy. They got a lot of love for it. It
shattered all expectations, way more so than anyone even anticipated. Everyone thought that
it was going to do well. It did way better than doing well.
It absolutely crushed. We just mentioned the fifteen million guarantee. You got twenty
nine million in the prize pool. What was the prime event WPT prime had
it was I think it was a two million guarantee and I had like five
million, So you know, all this sort of crazy stuff. So now
that ws AP and GG Poker come out with this paradise thing, I mean,
what are you gonna do? Also, like, what are players going
to do? I mean, I just think now there's a lot of questions
and you've seen it on social media already, you know you've seen. I
think Jeremy Osma has put out a poll that said which one are you picking?
You know, because it's basically like for him, it's like, yeah,
these are a lot of guarantees. They're also bracelets, you know,
you can chase all that sort of stuff that is an ex ship qualifier actually
golden They played a video here right and on the video opening up the video
and talking to a lot of it was Daniel mcgroni, which would tell me
that Daniel's going. So if Daniel goes, he's just gonna skip out on
Vegas. He doesn't really travel anymore. I know, he doesn't really travel
anymore. He had that deep run last year in the WPT World Championship.
So is he just now going to go to the Bahamas? You saw Elkie
there? Is he gonna go Jason Kuhne and another ambassador. Is he gonna
go Jason Kuna has had a second kid like three weeks and make a tough
firn. You know, is he gonna now travel to the Bahamas for this
or is the great place for families? It's a great place for family.
Maybe you bring everyone. You still got to get there with your family.
I mean, listen as somebody who has one kid and has another kid that's
coming in a couple of weeks. I don't want to travel with my family
when they're that young unless I have to. It's just it's it's not hard,
it's not fun. But like going back to Jeremy Osmas, you know,
is he just is he gonna pick here or is he gonna pick there?
For someone like Jeremy and I feel like you and me both know him
pretty well. He does have two kids. It's basically Christmas time. I
would guess that he probably sticks to Vegas at this That would be my my
thoughts on him and very you know, and all this is similar to him
with kids, family base in Vegas, seeing you back yond fifteen minute drive
and then like you know, people from people from the Florida region. You
know, we saw a lot of people from Florida came to Vegas for that
December WPT World Championship last year. Well, the Bahamas is a forty minute
flight, thirty minute flight, So like, where are they going? You
know, because for them, it's much tough for them, it's it's you
know, you still have to play travel you still have to pay traveling accommodation
in both spots. So you know, for the people in Vegas, it's
a little bit different because you're at home. You can just drive to the
casino and drive home. But versus you know, flying to another country,
you know, having to pay for you know, the accommodations there, and
Atlantis isn't cheap, you know, especially in December when you know they're able
to raise the prices a little bit because the weather is nicer in the Bahamas
than it is in a lot of spots in the US. So that's a
little bit of a different equation. But for the people that are traveling from
let's say the Northeast, let's say you know, Florida, stuff like that,
where are they going to decide to go? I mean, it's just
it's very interesting. I think the I I really have an answer to this,
Maybe you do. I have any bane to the Bahamas once for for
a poker trip. How easy is it to get money into the Bahamas and
out versus you know, just flying a Vegas And I mean it's not you
Chase Bank and Poll. It's not if you're like one of the higher roller
guys and you're wiring the money in and out, it's not the It hasn't
seemed like it's been the end of the world. Every single year when when
PCA was going on, you always heard horror stories of people leaving because they
carried a whole bunch of cash on them. They didn't declare it, they
didn't tell people like all this sort of stuff. So that's always like been
a thing and been a HASP. So I more user error since Yeah,
I mean, you just have to be smart about everything. So I don't
know, I don't know how this is gonna end up. Um. I
think I would best describe my feeling towards WSP Paradise as popcorn dot if and
I'm just gonna I'm just gonna sit here and like watch these two fire at
each other, and then what's poker star is? Gonna do. Like they're
kind of like they're like not in the middle. Like everyone's clearly on social
media has been like, oh it's WSP versus WPT. I think look,
if you look at the APT Prague results and players from last year, it's
very very European heavy, and I don't think those people are We're going to
travel anyway, you know why. It's the same kind of constant you have
something in your backyard. It's a very big popularist stopping at what I've been
taught a fantastic city in December. Yeah, so I don't think is awesome
in December. But my question is if if you're from Europe and you know
Gigi Poker is qualifying at least a thousand players from the rest of the world,
right, are you then going to go to Bahamas because you're chasing the
qualifiers and that's quote unquote soft money. Like so it's just going to be
interesting to see what happens from all this. Well, I'm really I'm interested
to see what happens. I'm interested to see where the players go. I'm
interested to see the guarantees of the WPT eventually come out with. I mean,
this is like this is huge news right now in the poker world.
I think a lot depends, you know, w has to be haven't released
that schedule, and that's going to matter the most because I'll throw you some
dates right now. Wp T Prime Championship starts on December seventh, The EPT
Produe has a fifty K high roller on the tenth, then they have a
their five K main starts on the eleventh. World Championship starts the twelfth.
So depending where WSP puts their main event, you could, in a way,
maybe if you have a private jet, play all three main events.
Yeah, I mean, that would be definitely at least perfect. You could
definitely maybe play WSP and still play the World Championship, or play the WSP
play Prague. There's ways you can do it. It just really depends where
and how WSP structure their events in that December block. Yeah, I mean,
it's gonna be very interesting to see how this one plays out. I'm
not really sure, you know, kind of where I sit right now and
at all. I'm just going to kind of wait and see how it goes,
wait and see what these guarantees are for the WPT event. I mean,
maybe they pull back too maybe they don't go as big because they see
this as you know, a possible threat to the player pool. I don't
know. And then I want to say, you know, if the if
the poker economy or sorry, if the poker ecosystem, the poker community is
able to take these three massive events. We've also heard that, you know,
January is going to be wide open for poker um. I mean,
I think we're targeting poker masters. I think the Borgattes stuff is probably coming
back for the bet MGM poker stuff in the Northeast. But we've heard that
PCA isn't going to be coming back. So that's that's the room and nothink
confirmed ry Now, obviously January is normally out poker a cup window, and
we also there hasn't been allasy millions in quite some time now, and that's
never kind of its going from. Yeah, so it's like, would something
like this WSP paradise been better suited for January, you know, if,
especially if PCA's not coming back, because then you literally just replace them,
just replace it, you know, which is a stop that everyone always seemed
to want to go to, so you know, and then you could just
own all of January. You're the kickoff event for the entire poker calendar all
that sort of stuff. So I don't know, it's gonna be really fun
to see this all play out again popcorn dot gif watching from Afar. I
think selfishly for us, um, we have to stop thinking about, you
know, our PGT Championships right in the middle of everything. What are we
going to do? Should we maybe move that to early January? Yeah?
I don't know, man, I don't know. We have to take a
long look at it. And you know, the good thing. The good
thing about our stuff, and I know you'll agree because you're always doing this,
is we have a pretty small player pool that we draw from, and
we are able to talk to that player pool immediately because it's only so many
players, especially for the PGT Championship that'll ultimately would be forty players plus some
like Dreams winners, So you know, we'll be able to be like,
oh, hey, Jeremy Osmas, what do you think, Hey, Daniel
Garni, what do you think, hey Jason Kohen. You know, like
we'll be able to talk to those players directly and feel that stuff out,
you know, a little bit easier than trying to like gauge the masses and
make a big guess. So exactly, that's a little bit of a benefit
for us there. But you know, we've already planned this thing for December,
so we'll see a city in January, and thanks for making us move
it. We'll figure it out. Not to worry, all right. The
fifty hundred dollars Closer Event three thousand, five hundred and thirty one entries.
Pierre Schum wins it all six hundred and six thousand dollars four. Pierre,
you had the ten thousand dollars. Nolaman hold him six max five hundred and
fifty entries. Alexander reared, winning it all for one million, fifty seven
thousand and his second World Series of Poker gold bracelet. The three thousand dollar
Horse Tournament is still playing out. Um. They're up on the horseshoe table
in the middle of the room. Still five players remained from a field of
three hundred and thirty one, two hundred and eight thousand dollars. Up top,
Calvin Anderson looked like he had the biggest pile of chips I've ever seen.
I mean, it was so big. He's got nine million of the
we'll call it fourteen million, just crushing. Ryan Miller still out there.
Ryan Million won the ten case stud eight earlier this world series. Leonard august
Is in, Barbara n Right is the only woman to make the WS Main
Event final tables that nineteen ninety five, and then Andrew Yay is also out
there. And these final five players are guaranteed just under forty five thousand dollars
the one thousand dollars noem and hold him freeze out. Nine players remain from
a field of one one hundred and seventy more than two hundred and thirty six
thousand dollars up top for the winner. Kane Callis is leading the way,
Eric Msaki is still in, Asher Khanoff and Vanessa kade Ian Steinman made a
very very deep run yes in this one, finished in what eleventh place,
getting us I think twenty two points for twenty five K fantasy and that in
combination with Sam Silverril running deep in the ten K short deck, I believe
has put Team DPMC, my team alongside my captain Matt Clark, back on
top in the race with Team Lady Gaga. This thing is coming absolutely right
down to the wire. It's not good for my stress levels whatsoever. Still
a couple events left to play out. There are some players in some of
these events that are going on today, So I mean, this is just
gonna be a sweat to the absolute bitter end, just unbelievable. And then
speaking of that ten thousand dollars short deck, they're down to seven one hundred
and six players. One hundred and six players entered the field two hundred and
seventy thousand dollars up top. John Juwanda is leading, Eric Wasterson still in
as is Chris Brewer. Sam Silverl went out in ninth place, So what
does that get us? It's ninth place is what twenty points plus the field
bonus on once, so twenty No, he went on eighth place, right,
who went out in ninth? I think Martins of Money went out in
ninth. Yeah, Martins of Money went out in ninth. Sam Siverl went
out in eight, So that's thirty points for us. Field bonus is one,
so thirty one, so we got twenty two from Ian. We also
got a point from John Reardon King. John Reardon the third narrowly missed out
in the field bonus. Also in that one k frees out that Ian went
deep in. But hey, you know, we'll take the point. Let's
go John Reardon, he's over in the five K battling it out over there.
So we got one point from him, we got twenty two from me
and Steinmon, we got thirty one from samp AND's overall, let's go.
Now we have to fade everything else. We have to hold on for dear
life. Let's freaking the exact time when in tomorrow's one k's super turbo when
we would love some live reporting just to see who's out, who's drawing dead,
and who's gonna win it. Hopefully it's us, Yeah, hopefully it
is us. I mean, listen, Samasa, I was gonna I was
gonna go to the win tomorrow and play this casino employees. Now you're not.
Event Now I think I'm just gonna have to be here biting my nails
the whole time. Feels like you should do a live twenty five K.
It's just it's not gonna be good for my health to be able to have
to sweat this till the end. Um. But yeah, I mean,
listen, good luck to our guys out there rooting for you to do very
well. Get us this victory. Would be a lot of fun to take
this thing down. That is twenty five k fantasy after all these years that
we've been out there battling in it. Um the five thousand dollars noem and
hold him eight handed is over eight hundred entries. Just freaking bananas over there.
Two day tournament. Um, we'll finish out tomorrow. I think it's
got thirty minute levels, right, it might end up still being a three
day tournament, so there's gonna extend the entire So being by a day,
they would have to extend the entire it started today. Tomorrow's the final,
get to like five and we want to back with three am the like uh,
I mean, I don't know, I don't know. They'll probably finish
it out. I mean I just want that to be a SAT that'd be
awesome. Yeah, you guys can finish out, but you're gonna have to
go to the whole shoe pucker room and playing one twenty four with you.
That'd be kind of cool. Whatever. So yeah, so that's going on
and then tomorrow the final event on the schedule, one thousand dollar turbo.
It's probably more like a super turbo right because it's it's it's a one day
event. Yeah, so, um, the ultimate summer saver. I guess
we'll see. We'll see who's out here battling in that one trying to save
their summer, get some money, back break even all that good stuff.
Poy, what's going on with that? Well, he and his still ahead.
But okay, we've got Cris Brewer in the ten k short day.
If he wins, he takes the lead. However, his third bracelet.
I mean that feels like that should be the winner, you know, like
the but some online results. We've obviously got the five K that's playing.
Now, we've got the one K tomorrow. It's not over legitimately. I
think five people can win. I mean that's just Chris and and everyone.
I think everyone that wasn't in Daniel Wyman's rail is in that five k.
Like everyone's yeah, we already message the end, you know, to talk.
Hey, you know, we don't want to drink see blah blah blah,
but if you happen to win, we would like to speak to you,
et cetera. And he's like Ian motiguous, I'm playing the one K
so I can talk on break or if I bust, I'm like, hopefully
you win it and we'll talk to you after you win. Of course,
it's gonna come down to the wire. Um, you know you're sweating twenty
five K fantasy. I'm sweating Poy because I'm gonna have the interview whoever ends
up being the win whenever it's official. Um, So the main event might
be over, but our work continues for at least another twenty four ish plus.
Alice absolutely crazy. All right, well that's gonna do it for us.
Um again, we're gonna family pot No, no, let's say,
Um, I want to get out of here, that's what I want.
Gonna go set the five K with me. I mean, I'm gonna walk
to the field and see what's going on and then you know, possibly leave.
Um. But yeah, um, as I said earlier, we'll get
Daniel Heineman on the show for an extended pod at a later date, so
stay tuned for that. And my name is Donny Peters. His name is
Tim Duckworth, and we'll talk to you guys later face