Hello, everyone, Welcome back to it. I'm leaving this in there.
Welcome back to a new episode of the Poker Girl podcat just just I just
listened. My name is Donnie Peters. His name is Tim Duckworth. Hello,
getting the interests out of the way. First WSP podcast from what I've
now deemed the Poker Girl red Light District because the room that we are stationed
in for the podcast has a red light. This is what shines on us
in here. I feel like I am in the red light District. I
was laughing because I one of my fun things on podcasts, on all the
podcasts that I do and that I've done over the years, is I like
just screwing up on the fly and like leaving it in. You know,
Rich message us today, Rich Ryan, shout out producer Rich. He is
like, you know, if you guys ever mess up, just stay stylent
for like seconds, then count yourself back in and then go. That's what
Rich does on the Gridiron Gamble podcast that he hosts with Me Monore and Brett
Coulson. But here effort, We're just gonna roll it in. If it's
really bad, I'll obviously count us back in. But you know, this
is just you know, I don't know. Tim was laughing because I was
like, right every time I'm right before I go on the mic, I
like do weird things like move my neck, you know. I was like
whipping my head around, like yeah, I gotta get ready to go.
Like bringing in with the intro, let's go we are here World Series of
Poker twenty twenty three. Baby, Today's show First impressions of being here kind
of a kind of a slow ish day, only two events running casino employees
in the twenty five K six Max. We'll talk about that stuff. We're
gonna go over our first impressions of being here, walking around all that sort
of stuff. Tim's got a special family pot. We got a couple of
interviews later on. We spoke to defending the BISP minim and champion espen Jor's
dad Daniel Rozi and who did I talk to? All Bin Wink? Sorry
anyway forgetting what the heck would just happened? We'll talk, well, what's
coming up? And then I guess kind of some breaking news happened today.
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you go first because you were here way earlier than me, because I
overslept my alarm for the first time in like three years. That was a
disaster today and it's thrown my whole day off. All day. Everything is
just I was like walking around my house as when I set my alarm for
eleven thirty. I got home yesterday, I went to bed at two am
after the twenty five K draft, I set my alarm for seven thirty,
thinking I had to take my daughter to school. I wake up at ten
sixteen freaking out. Dogs are still in their crates going crazy. I'm like,
shit, where's my daughter? So I go into the room. She's
not there. Next time, my wife you took her right, like just
making sure that that's okay, and she didn't like climb out of her crib
and like go downstairs some crazy way. So yeah, so I'm like freaking
out. Then I was like I was walking around downstairs. I would like
go do something, and then like start doing something else and like forget about
the other thing that I was all over the place this morning at home.
It was so hard to contract. I was just I was totally effed up.
It messed up my whole day. Then I get the Starbucks. I
stopped at Starbucks by the office because I had to go to the office because
I left my badge there. Had to go get my badge. Do that.
Stop at Starbucks in the way, there's two people in the drive through
line, me and another guy, and he's in front of me. Tell
them my order. I pull on up. He's there, so first like
red flag is the woman inside is like trying to hand him back his card,
and she like has her hand out the window, and I can see
her because she's kind of leaning out the window. She's leaning out the window
for like a full minute and a half, like and he's like, I
don't know, I couldn't really see him, but he's like, mustn't not
been paying attention or whatever. So then he like then she like pulls the
card back. She's like sick and tired of like leaning out waiting for him,
and finally he turns back. She gives him in the cart. Then
he gets out of the car. I'm like, what the huh gets out
of the car. Yeah, he just gets out of the car. He
like kind of looks at me because I'm like looking and yeah, then he
just opens his back door and like goes into his back seat. For like
two minutes, the person is at the at the window with his drink and
he's just like rubbinging through his back seat. I'm like, what the hell
is happening? What you though, because you have to drive through window?
Right, No, that was part of That's part of the reason why she
was leaning so far out the window. He was like he was like two
feet away. So when he opened his door, at first, I thought
he was like opening his door. Some people open their door so they can
then like grab whatever they're reaching for. A lot of people do that when
they go to the atm blah blah blah. Yeah, he's just rummaging through
his back seat. Then he like he found you know, he found his
his EarPods once and he pulled them out, shuts his door, like gives
me this look. He gave me a look like yeah I was doing that.
I was slammed, and like the person's there with his drink. I
was like, what can you just freaking go? Like, what can we
just not with this stuff? So anyway, go ahead with your first impressions.
My first impression is that the WSAP is finally here, but that's not
finish. But it's not really here because this room was sitting in the horseshoe
mainstage were still building. It doesn't quite feel like we're ready. So my
first impression is but that's how it is every year, I know, but
like I just had higher hopes to see. We were in earlier. We
were so motivated to get stuff done. We had some issues, and we're
on track, which just I just really wish today the lights are on.
You know, it was a it was a full full steam ahead, but
we're not alas. I'm very happy, I'm very excited. The World Series
of Poker is on the way. There's already huge fields in the first two
events. I texted you and I woke up late and you were already here
and you're like, it's packed here whatever you said, because the lines were
like at the door. I'm assuming not just all for the the casino employees,
but I'm guessing a lot of people. You know, why the lines
are out the door. Because we've been telling people on the podcast specifically specifically
the fifty plus Questions podcast, is you know, this is when you registered
day before night, before you know, you do your Bravo count all that
sort of stuff. So it's it's it's because of us. It was jam
packed today. Um so I get here. My first impression first of all,
is the trailer is about half a football field further away than it was
last year. That's annoying because it's odd as hell out. Get the steps?
How many steps town? The steps? I'm all for the steps.
I don't have twenty thousand. I think I have eleven because you were sleeping
for half of the thing exactly, and I didn't go for my morning walkouts.
Everything was just a disaster. Like I said, Um, I'm all
for the steps, but I hate the day one steps and the final day
steps because I'm like walking in here with all the crap. I got a
podcast equipment, I got this, I got you know, because like we
put, we leave a lot of stuff like in here, like you know,
set up and whatever. So I have all that stuff with me,
like I'm with cameraman John from Anyone watched the vlogs last year. They know
cameraman John and he's got like six bags, like he's got a whole bunch
of stuff, and we've got to walk up that ramp. And I'm just
like, what's see? This is the way you guys are just not as
experience as me when it comes to us here as a poka, I came
in yesterday and set up, and as I'm a procrastinator, as a father
of two, I have one of those Costco little you know, the little
trolleys or whatever you get that you put the stuff in when you go to
the beach. Yes, I loaded that up. I dragged away too smart.
I dragged up the ramp backwards. I did my you know, my
knees over toes guy's exercise, walked it in, set up yesterday. So
today just came in with a backpack. Everything's ready to go, my screen,
everything. So after I get inside, I'm like, you know what.
I step into the horseshoe room. What's this room called the what's this
one called the horse ballroom? Yes? I think the ball run. First
thing, brand new carpet, and I'm so happy, like I'm the carpet.
Last year when you could tell it was there for probably twenty five years.
It felt like concrete because clearly a million people had walked over it for
so long. This carpet, this new carpet. You can tell it's fresh.
You can tell it probably doesn't smell super bad now that I got down
on my hands and knees and smelled the thing. But you can tell it's
it's like springy, so it's good on the joints. Like I'm happy to
start, you know, walking all over the place. Love it. We
started walking around. I mean it's much of the same, but also improved.
It's a little improvements. Like all the champions banners are fully like reprinted
and updated and look much cleaner. Like that's a great pictures of change of
players at you snartists, Yeah you go. They have that little shop that
Chad Holloway tweeted the other day. Um, they have the little shop out
there. They got even the kiosks look like the kiosks that are like or
refurbished or whatever. They have a potential mystery millions veal booth already they have
like a booth in the middle of the Paris room. I almost said pavilion
in the middle of the Pari in the middle of the Paris Ballroom and the
outside is like wrapped in like an led wall. So that looks like cool
and modern, Like the King's Room is is going through a little renovation.
They got some photos around that that it's pretty styling. That's great. Um
the back to the Horseshoe ballroom. They have the Horseshoe table, which had
two feature tables in it last year. This year it's got one the tables
like a little bit of a more robust table. It's a little bit bigger.
That's where Remco and I are going to be doing a lot of streaming
on YouTube from So yeah, So overall, like I'm pretty pumped about everything.
Feels good to be back. It's still a giant painting the ask to
walk through that casino with all that smoke. But other than that first impression
good. It seems like everyone is really gearing up to have an absolutely banger
of a Mystery Millions Mystery Bounty Tournament tomorrow. Yeah. Fourteen thousand, one
hundred twelve was the number last year. I think it's going to be bigger
this year. The good turnout in the twenty five K six Max the structure
sheet for that tournament because it all the structure sheet always has last year's champion
on it, so looking it up, it says this is a new event
for the twenty twenty three BISP. Yes and no, because that the twenty
five K six max was on the event previously, like Dan Kelly won it
that one year. Yeah, you know so, I think when Dan Kelly
wanted it had like one hundred and ninety players or so. The entry list
that I saw when we left the tournament room today one hundred and eighty seven,
so pretty good there. Casino employees tops one thousand entries in that tournament.
Um. I mentioned Chad Holloway heading into the last two levels of the
night, Chad Holloway still had chips. We know he was in the money,
and he was in the money. Yeah, we know Chad Holloway won
the tournament years ago, so he's looking to win it again. I think
that tournament had the largest field size it's ever had since two thousand and seven,
so very good turnout there. Two thousand and six was twelve thirty two.
Two thousand and seven as you just touched one thousand and thirty nine,
and previous best to that was nine hundred and thirty in two thousand and eight.
Okay, I like, yeah, what was what's the number for this
year thousand and fifteen? Like one twenty six K in the prize pool,
seventy five K to first. Good number. It's a very good number.
As I mentioned, the twenty five K high Roller six Max kicked off.
You know, the who's who of Polker is out there other than Phil Ivey
because he's for some reason down in Mexico playing some WPT event. I don't
really know what's happening. I went all the pacers he is. He was
playing like the five K ray Masterial Mystery Bounty tournament off the top rope.
I think it was honestly called like Bounty Mysterio. Yeah, you know,
so it's the ray Masterio Junior Invitation as far as I'm concerned, Husband,
George, Dad was in the field. High talk to Bin Wang, who's
been down an absolutely heater all years, heater this last month. And then
you talked to Daniel Rozzi. He finished as the chip leader was at one
point four just on the one point four million. Yeah, so absolutely crushed.
Throughout the day. We had four people in the field from twenty five
K Fantasy. I think only two hour left. Sam's Olvil I didn't see
him. Sean Dee looked like he busted right before the end of the night.
John reard and bagged. And I think Stephen's song just bite losing a
really big pot in the last level to Brock Wilson. I think double with
her kiddie Ku after that. Perfect, Let's go Stephen's song. And but
I think you can reintern this one, right, it's not a freeze out.
Yeah, you can register up until tomorrow. Daniel was in for two
bullets, so I'm assuming Shawn Deep will get back in there. Hopefully Sam's
Ovil gets back in there, just selfishly for the twenty five K Fantasy team.
But yeah, I know you spoke to Espen George ad kind of early
on in the day. So let's let's play that interview now and then we'll
come back and we will talk a little bit more about this event and then
get into the other interviews. Espen, welcome back to the Horseshoe, Paris,
Las Vegas, And I also want to say welcome home. I feel
like this might be your home away from home. Yeah, thank you.
No, it really feels kind of weird to be back. Actually, I
just landed one hour ago, took an Aubrey here and I'm straight than the
first tournament, and it feels really feels really nice actually to walk through the
holes again. It feels like no time has passed since last year. It's
been kind of a yeah, hectic year, so to say. So,
yeah, really nice to be back, excited to play. Let's talk about
that feeling. And when you walk back in here was a you know,
butterflies in the stomach. Was a sense of relief that you know, you're
back to where you've had so much success in you know, a year ago
to this date. Kind of butterflies, Yeah, kind of butterflies. I
just came off like a one month long online series Grind as well. So
I've been playing a lot for the last month, feeling really sharp and feeling
really good ready to play again, which which is a really nice feeling because
for the last year I haven't been playing and studying as much as I was
hoping too. I've been so busy with all kinds of other things. So
yeah, it feels really nice to actually be back in the form that I
wanted to be back. I was a bit like afraid a couple of months
ago that I was going to be here and I was like, not going
to feel sharp, not going to feel ready to play. But now I'm
ready. So yeah, I fel it's good. I've been sitting here when
I for you to, you know, finish that that level. I've been
watching this thrill team add on the TV up here, and yeah, and
I'm wondering it's a little bit more pressure on you to perform now that you're
part of this thrial team with some other you know, absolutely fantastic poker players.
Um, I don't think so it's not for me. Maybe I don't
feel it anyways, I feel a bit of pressure, just like in sense
of since I didn't win last year, it would be a shame if I
come back now and have a horrible summer and just break every tournament, because
like there is always that thing where you don't want to be seen as a
fluke like you there is like some ego and expectations in there. So I
guess I want to have a good summer in terms of that. But yeah,
I know it'll bit fun. So you do have two bracelets you just
talked about, you know, don't want him to be a fluke. Is
this, you know, winning a third bracelet, winning a fourth bracelet?
Is this something that you're really pushing hard for this year with a big schedule,
or you just trying to you know, play it as it comes.
I'm just gonna play it as it comes. I'm not going to hop into
a bunch of events. I don't feel like I have any business playing like.
I won't play like a bunch of the mixed game stuff just to chase
bracelets. Last year was my first World Series and I never really thought about
bracelets before that. Neither. I have a couple, and it feels like
I should be trying to get more. It's kind of like a fun thing
to try to get more. But I'm not like so um so worried about
it. And I'm gonna play like a bunch of stead events in eight game
and whatever. I'm just gonna play all the hold of events, probably play
yeah every reasonably sighest hold them events and then yeah, all right, that
was espin George had finished. I think we had like five hundred maybe I
think I saw him bag yeah, I think yeah, I think double Jason
Curree. I think four sixty three or five sixty and then I think you
want another part after that? Um, so the champions starting off in the
right direction. Um, at least so I thought it was a good tournament
field. To walk out there and then look around it seem like a whole
bunch of crushes every Well, of course, it's just the same. It's
the best, it's the best tournament. We've always wanted that tournament to come
back like it was so good. Um. Phil Halmith was out there,
daniel LECGRONI was out there. He busted at least one bullet and got back
in. Ben Lamb was out there. You know who was else was out
there? We got to talk about it, Jake Schindler. I thought you're
gonna say a different name, But yes, we didn't need to talk about
who was the other name? Stephen Chidwick, Stephen turning up guy everyone thought
wasn't turning up. And then you know, my teammate and Matt Clark texts
me that I just walked by Stephen Chitwick in the hall. Him, that's
like the best twelve dollars ever spent in the draft wherever the heck he went
for. But Jake Schindler, like it was a big question mark if he
was gonna play, if he wasn't gonna plays right now. On Jake Shindler
being in the twenty five k field, listen, Jake Schindler can obviously do
what he wants. Yeah, it's his right to come play if he wants.
I mean, I don't know the allegations that are still kind of hovering
over him, I mean the whole Holley and Jake, because you know they're
they're always said in tandem, like it's all always kind of just it's there.
People wonder like why they're still allowed to play certain places. I mean,
I don't know. I mean, they're obviously not banned from playing here,
so they're gonna be here. I don't believe Ali was playing today.
I didn't see him, don't see any of the chip counts or anything like
that. So speaking of the chip counts, Jake wasn't even in the chip
counts. And I'm pretty confident that the Pokiness Lab reporting team wouldn't know who
Jake is and they don't made the decision not to put him in. I
don't I don't fully agree with that. I don't like it. I mean,
I used to run the poker news team. So I feel like I
can speak with experience from the situation, but I mean, you just you
cover it. And also it's kind of good for clicks. I mean,
you know, people are gonna want to anti sweat the guy probably. I
mean, I don't know if I would go that far, but um,
I thought it was interesting that he was there. Um, he didn't have
headphones on, which when he played last year at sometimes he had the headphones
other than when he made a final table and then obviously one of the breast
he did have his headphones. He just you know, So I didn't see
anyone have any conversations with him. I didn't see anyone, you know,
come at him anything like that. I didn't really see too much stuff on
social media about it. But it's just interesting to me that it's the first
day of the World Series of Poker and Jake Schindler's here and he is playing,
so, um, that's interesting to me. It looked like he bagged
a somewhat decent stack of chips, So we'll see what happens from here on
out. So, you know, I think it's one of those situations where
people are going to be watching to see what happens, and that's kind of
my stance on it. So so I would personally like him to make the
money, and no, just because I want to see how the Twitter world
reacts to Jake. Because you and me can talk about what we think of
Jake or what we you know, our friends think of Jake, but I
want to see what this high roller community does if he makes a ron gets
in the money, are we gonna hear the and be quiet? And that
kind of means nothing, I will say. I will say kind of along
those lines that it's it's interesting that, you know, there's always a lot
of pushback that like you need to do this, you need to do that,
you need to restrict these guys from playing this or that or all this
sort of stuff. But then and all that stuff happens on social media,
but then they show up to play in events and no one says anything.
Nothing he happens, So you know, I don't I don't know. That
seems always kind of weird to me. But he's out there playing, so
you know, we'll see what happens with him, you know, going forward
in this event. And then I'm guessing, listen, if he's here for
day one of the twenty five K I'm assuming he's playing all the high roller
stuff. Like, I mean, I don't see why he wouldn't at this
point, especially I would I could maybe see if if he came out played
this event and like some people were kind of coming at him at the table
or stuff like that, then it's like, Okay, I'm just gonna go
back home and the heck with it. Maybe I'll come back off of the
main or something. Who knows. But he's there and he's playing, and
I didn't see anything happen. I don't think you saw anything happen or heard
of anything happening. So I'm assuming he's just going to continue to keep on
grinding. So and listen, think what you want of him. I still
think he's experienced and skillful in poker, right, so we might see some
pretty big results from him this year, So just be prepared for that would
be my kind of a suggestion to everyone, you know, don't be shocked
to see Jay Schindler's name out there running deep in some of these high rollers,
because he's out there day one playing this twenty five K six max high
roller, all right. One of the people that we spoke to Ben Wang
I spoke to him after play was over. Ben has been on an absolute
heater this entire year. Won a million dollars at the Borgada back in January,
won more than a million dollars when he took down the WPT seminal event
just earlier this month, just a few days ago, because the WPT delayed
that final table and they had it out here. He also was doing this
crazy thing where he was not only the chip leader heading into the seminal final
table, but also the WPT chalked out final table. I think he finished
fourth in that one for one hundred and seventy five K, hundred twenty five
K something like that. Um, so you know, another six figure score
there. That event was won by Jared Jaffee. So bins on an absolute
heater, and that's pretty much we talk about. All right, I'm here
with Ben Wing. First question for you, is the heater real? Yes?
One hundred percent? Yeah, I'm I'm I know I'm running soap here
even today. I hate one outer two outers. I had a pucket three
I ributing earlier with twenty men and Anthony who called I mean reached out with
the Kings and I hit my three on the front, of course, hold
up, and then come to this table, come to table twenty eight and
I down to sixteen big Brian's eighty one thousand, and I from hijack,
I just opened to uh fifty one thousand, almost all my chips with the
pocket fives bottom Hampton ice to Hampton reach Off on top one seventy five author
for he's uh last name he full bed reach off from a small brime and
of course I have to call I put most of my chips in and I
call the fives. They have a tense and Queen's the kind of the ace
King dues too. Hearts turned with a kind of eight of hearts, and
then I don't do one out in the river of course five over club one
outer And has it just been going that way all year for you start starting
back in j nine with the million dollars with amount of a time, Yeah,
this year, I would definitely say I try to play beastball, of
course, but I know a lot of big spot just gets super extremely lucky
for sure. Well, you know, a lot a lot of tournament players
will tell you that you have to get lucky in a lot of spots.
You know, you can play so well, but you can also get unlucky.
But right, I mean, I mean, I guess, what's what's
the feeling right now? Knowing you're running super pure, coming off the month
you just had, coming off the year you've had so far, coming into
the biggest time in poker, the World Series. Um, I honestly the
only with you. I just want to I just want to play my normal
game. But um, but but I will definitely try to play more a
little bigger buying because I really feel and I am. I'm I'm some kind
of hitter of course, night like um, you as a poker prayer,
Like everybody knows now, you have to try to play your best. But
sometimes if not your day, no matter how hard you try, you will
you are not winning a tournament. I mean everybody knows that. So by
being said, I know I'm super lucky this year so far, I'm winning
about three or four major events. I mean, I'm I'm super than for
so far. So hope last year last summer are doing really bad for the
summer WSP, So I hope this year kind to be doing a way better
than last year. You got any goals for this year? Final tables,
bracelets, everything. I hope I can get one bracelet because I get a
TOPPT title, I get a major event, the return, I got a
circuit, the best secuit ring, So I really really want to bracelet it.
That would be complete my one of my big dreams. What looks like
you're after a good start back just about a million chips here on day one.
Tough tournament overall, I mean, how things started for you in this
specific event. This is definitely one of the toughest event. I pray CCRE
so far because there's all the top pros in her Jason con Alice foxon,
um many of them, I says, I said, ums last name the
big name the I said, Isaac Haxton has him Yeah, and I the
many many of them feel him there then on the ground, all the top
ros. It's a very tough feel for sure. So I just try to
pray my best of best, try hard, composer focused. Do you feel
like you belong here? I've but do you know you can answer yes?
I feel and I I think I'm probably doing better than last year. All
right, that was Ben Wang. I think you guys can hear it kind
of like in his voice and what he was saying that he's pumped to be
here and he wants to win a race. It's so bad, So it
would be the perfect cherry on top of the most insane. Yeah, pretty
insane year on the tour. And I mean you guys heard him describe it
there. He basically hit a one outer you know, three way bodies running
hot, like he recognizes that, but that's what it takes. In poker
U he bagged just under a million chips, so he's one of the one
of the bigger stacks in the room. So you know, we'll see what
happens with Ben Wing going forward. He's gonna play a lot of the bigger
events. He thinks it's kind of his time. He wants to capitalize on
that good variance. You know, when things are running hot for you,
you want to be able to play as much stuff as possible to capitalize on
that that run of good luck. And that's what's Ben's gonna do this summer,
it sounds like, So you know, I would very much to expect
to see him running deep in a lot of stuff. I'm going to be
certainly one of those people to watch overall. And then you spoke to Daniel
Rozsi afterwards as well, the chip lead hip leader who had he had a
ton of chips. Yeah, just under one point four million, basically ten
x starting stack. Amazing. Yeah, So we'll play that interview for you
now and then we'll come on back here with Daniel ROSI looks like you're going
to be the chip leader here. Just a little bit under one point four
million. That's ten x starting stacks. So it walk me through your day
real quick. I mean I played like a three hundred big plan pot in
level one that just got like kind of a gift, and then afterwards I
didn't have to do a bunch honestly, I made just like very often the
nuds and got paid. It was like one of the smoothest days I actually
had. Let's see how I can handle that stack tomorrow and what I can
get with it. This is a new event for this year's World Series.
Some might say it's probably one of the tougher events. Twenty five K high
roller and a six max. What did you think about the players in the
field today and the competition. I mean it's like you like usually WIPE events
are very diversified, so you have like a recreationals and obviously the top pros.
I really like the event. I'm online players. I have like a
bunch of like six mix experience too, and I really like the event.
You play more hands, everything is faster, more space. It's definitely tougher
than the eight max last year. But hey, we got one eighty seven
entries and probably an out of thirty tomorrow. That's a great turnout, a
great event. Yeah, obviously you just touched one hundred and seventy eight one
hundred and eighty seven engines. Sorry in this event. What are your thoughts
on the whole World series? You think we're gonna have record breaking numbers throughout
the whole the whole summer. I'm pretty sure about that. Like last year
was already good and it was like just to comeback from COVID. People are
excited about the series. I mean, I'm playing since a while for a
living. I'm still get like excited and HiPE. Yesterday night, I was
like watching replays from your last year, just like exciting times. Going on,
the summer is like like a boot camp for everybody. Everybody tries to
play their best, do their best and get some touch on that gold bracelet.
You played in these events, you know, big mine events all around
the world. I have to ask this European ends of versus Americans, who's
better. It's honestly tough. It doesn't come so so like down to country,
like the Europeans were like way ahead, Like a couple of years ago,
we were like dominating everything. Now I have like a bunch of friends
here in America, the really good Rex that catched up. They even kicked
ours like the last twe or two years and high roll events. So it's
like some people coming up like me, some other friends who are all like
doing the putting the organ and try to like um, defend our name.
All right. That was chip leader Daniel Rosii. I mean, I'm pretty
confident saying chip lead. Sometimes it changes overnight. But I didn't see anyone
with nearly as many ChIL We did a good walk. There was a lot
of you know, one million chip stacks. It looks like, you know,
he pretty much ascended above that and claimed that Chiplate Sean winter had a
lot of chips. Looked like Daniel bagged fairly healthy stack. I don't think
he was close to a million, but I think he was with five hundred
K. Think Brock Wilson because he got that late double love through Stephen's song,
bagged a lot of chips um. I think es been doing pretty healthy.
I saw Jason Kuhn bag chips who was justin Leboto one point one million?
Shouldn't one point one million, shouldn't rocking the no gamble, no future
patch beautiful? Um. I think Wren Lynn bag chips. I mean he
was hanging around the end of the night. I don't know why you would
be hanging around at the end of the night if you didn't bag chips um,
So he was out there. I didn't see Dan Smith, didn't see
Scott sever I saw Scott Stever. He did into the room neither very end
of play and then walked out. You know who we didn't see. But
it is back in Vegas. Gussie Hansen, the Great Dane has returned.
He's back. He's probably only going to be in Bobby's room all summer,
would be my guests or Frost. However long he's here, we'll get him
for the PPC. Don't worry. Um. Who else was out there today
that you got the chip counts up? I didn't even Steven chide Wick.
That's the name we care. But did he bag chips that I cannot remember
exactly. That's why I told you chips, I don't pull them up,
Yeah, pull pull the chip counts up. Um. They played what eight
levels today? Levels today? Registration is still open till tomorrow before the side
of play. For those you were talking to. You were talking to Adam
Hendricks on the way out earlier when he busted. He said there's gonna probably
be a lot of people that that. I thought there might be a lot
of people. He was like, they might be, but they're probably all
going to be crushes. I don't know if I'm gonna re end. Yeah.
I don't think more casuals are waiting till last minute. I think casuals
kind of coming earlier and try and play a little bit deeper and try and
spin up a stack and you know, get some more you know, bang
for their buck. Yeah. In that regard, you know, late late
registrants like I could see Dan Smith late, Sam Silrol played today busted.
Maybe he comes back, you know, maybe Hendrix comes back. Who knows
Sean de busted super later. I would guess he probably jumps back in I
didn't see Jeremy Osmas there at the end of the night, so maybe coming
back a couple of other people that bag chips Philip Helm with Junior. Of
course, Philip pack chips Um one of my favorite players. A little bit
though. I'm a little bit upset with phil He didn't wear the white Gucci
suit. I thought that was the new suit. Yeah, that's his correct.
I thought that was the new the white magic like that's I thought that
was it. No, he's back to his black track suit that he's been
wearing for seven years. I thought he was gonna rock the white Gucci su
A big fan of that white Yeah, I love it hideous. I love
it is so bad. It is so bad. I would wear it every
day. Someone wants to buy that for me, I will wear it every
day. I think he said it costs four k. Was he was either
four k or seven K and Jason Calcannis bought it for him. Jason,
if you would like to buy me that, I will wear it every day
of the World Series, No questions asked um. Who else back chips Um
year of Nacho Nacho Barbero, we just made helmet. One of my favorite
players, Adrian mateos um you know you already touched on Stevens. So I'm
gonna throw a shout out to podcasts some pedro bronkman. I saw him in
this field. I'm like, what are you doing? And he's like,
you only get two cards, man, not five? And he told me
he's not. There's not only two. He told me. He basically doubled
up firsthand, wrote it, went down a little bit, wrote it back
up. But yeah, he's he's in, uh into day two today.
Chips. I did not see him back Chips, Kitty coded Coup. I
saw. I saw Alex Foxon standing around and he was just in Foxon playing
Christen Foxon. Bag Chips. Yeah. Um, Keith Leah the Jet,
the lear Jet, Yeah, he was in. He had a lot of
heady. Deep was in the Yeah. I mean it's just legendary. I
saw Nick Schulman. We saw him. We were we were loving his sunglass
choice for the day, Our Lord and Savior. He backed Chips Carycats.
I don't think Nick bag chips. Nick did not, That's what I was
gonna say. But so he might come back tomorrow. Um Lucky Chiwi was
in there. He bag Chips carry cats, as you said, our Lord
and Savior. He did bag chips, right, yeah, he do,
all right? Think just so the starting stack typical, beautiful carre. Did
you say to you about his raising the draft? He went for thirty five
dollars. I think he said that it was too expensive. I told him
it was too expensive to face and what did he say? I just laughed.
I'm surprised. I'm not five yet, but we were just having a
little jog back and forth. So um, but goodfield. Yeah, on
hundred I think you touched on it. One hundred and seventy four players you
know right now? Sixty five remaining. Dan Kelly topped a one hundred and
ninety one player field to win his twenty five k uh six handed bracelet.
Correct. Can you name anyone else on the fine tape? There's some very
random Daniel Legron you got eleven yep about that. Sam Trickett, he was
close, Well, you know what, probably technically yeah, seven. There's
there's two people, three people. I don't think you would get one.
We just one. We said his name when discussing Phil Sternheimer. Michael Turret
yep. Um. Other one didn't even know he played no limit hold him,
didn't know he played No previous Player of the Year. That's a lie.
I know he plays in the lemon hold him, but previous Player of
the Year has been in our studio recently. Jesus, it's not Tom Schneider.
Correct, but you're right there. That's exactly where you need to be.
What do you what does that even? You mean? Trust me?
This is horrible. Producer Richards listening to this, screaming, this is horrible
radio. I'll give you another one. He was recently on Poka nine in
America. Stream made a return. It feels like a return to poker in
a way, but not a return to I feel like it's a return.
You not see him that often. I'm too busy in the bedding streets.
No idea. You know him? Who? Jason Somerville, Oh guy,
I was talking about. Frank Casella finished third. Jason Somerville didn't win Player
of the Year. No, Frank Casella did. He was the one that
was right. Oh you said, I'll give you another one. I thought
one. And then rounding out the final table, Eugene catch Love six points,
Catchelove, Who's not coming this year? Correct? One one point three
one five millions, such a six final table. Yep, I think that
it'll get more than whatever. It's gonna smoke it. We're getting forty players
tomorrow. There's gonna be a lot a lot of these guys. We see
it every year now, they do this whole day two late ridge thing.
You know there's a line. There's gonna be a line people WSP is not
gonna be read because they're probably gonna think there's nothing, gonna be seven people
and then they're gonna see forty seven people in freak out, have to open
up all they have to redraw people and people around. They're not gonna know
where to go because it's it's rejoining it to the King's lounge. So I
beg you a lot of these high roller players line up for the Tournament of
Champions or something and they start freaking out. So I think we're gonna see
a delight start. That'll be fun Tomorrow. It's gonna be fun start.
They're starting at noon, so delight start won't be too bad. Not a
big deal. Um, you said we had a family pot. I did,
so we gotta we gotta like kind of rewind it and talk about the
family pots. Um is it worthy of the jingle. You know what,
I haven't heard the jingle in a while, all right, So that's the
rich This is when you should insert the jingle. Went to get lunch today
about three pm and started to go down the subway. It took the long
way, the long walk. I have no idea where this is going,
and I'm walking. I don't know, I didn't just trying to figure out
how this is going to turn into a family part because you're already here at
the ws B and your family is not here, so continue. I'm walking
down the whole way to a subway and then to the side, I look
and I see a goddamn dinosaur. A dinosaur, And I'm like, what
do you mean? You see it? Like a like A yeah, you'll
see it. WHA, You're gonna have to go check this out. And
I look in and they have a new exhibition downstairs at the Whole Shoe called
Dino Safari. It's a walk through adventure for kids. It's like twenty five
bucks a ticket. There's all these like, you know, realistic looking dinosaurs.
There's a whole bunch of like virtual reality off and fossils and learning,
and I'm you know, my son's huge into dinosaurs right now, and I
couldn't help, but I had to step in. I got a little brochure,
I asked some questions, kept walking. I saw I saw this little
bit of an arcade. I saw, did you pay it? If?
I don't know, I just I just like stepped into the fight. I
didn't actually attend. Why would I go without my son? You're talking about
like you're about to walk through the whole thing. I was just wonder what
was happening. And then I won't got subway. I was walking back and
I was just looking in again. I was like, this is cool.
I have to bring Caleb here. And then I thought there's probably a lot
of people out there that coming to Vegas, coming to the Horse Shoe that
have some kids, and you know, obviously we're here playing poker. But
I just wanted them to know that if you want to bring him to the
Horse Shoe, you want to go see you have a dinosaur afraid But I'm
going to throw some more things at you. Okay, there's an arcade here.
There isn't a being in that arcade. I've lost some money in that
arcade. And then there is a mini golf. I think it's like Twilight
Zone mini golf. Do you think there's a lot of money lost in that
arcade? Like betting wise during the world. Do you think like poker players
go down there and if they know about it, I'd ski ball for money.
I think it'd be a great place to relieve some like stress. There's
probably some like you know what those boxing games should have one of those um
those rooms, those like rooms smash smash room or wherever are you just going
you just destroy? It could be it could be here in this red light
district, could be in the red Light dish. But if you have some
kids, you're here, there's some stuff to do. You could maybe let
them go to the Ark and the Twilight Zone and then meet them for dinner,
break and then let them mom take them back to the room. But
there's some cool stuff. Yeah, And I'm gonna bring my son one day.
I'm gonna spend probably twenty five bucks on a ticket for each of us,
probably have to buy him some plush dinosaur and I'm gonna begin I'm gonna
have to gonna take them the RK. I'm probably gonna be buried two hundred
dollars on horseshoe exhibition stuff, and yeah, that's how they get my money.
Crazy, I'm gonna have to go down there and check out this,
dinosh. I think, all right, what's coming up on the schedule.
We already talked about day two of the twenty five K six Max. You're
gonna have day two of the Casino Employees event. The Tournament of Champions kicks
off tomorrow. You also have this start of the Mystery Millions, that is
the Mystery Bounty Tournament thousand dollars buying. They will have a guaranteed first place
prize of one million dollars and a top bounty prize of one million dollars.
I'm looking forward to. I'm looking forward to just kind of seeing the spectacle
play out of that event. They make a promise to you right now,
Yeah, go ahead, because I might play it. I hope. I
hope you do. If I pull that bounty. I'm buying us both the
Phil helmet Gucci track suits. I'm wearing it every goddamn day at this place.
I'm a promise, Okay. I like that. The first Poker Go
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because you know we're more more fun. Oh, we gotta talk about hustler
scene alive to it because you know, they just decided to set the record
for largest yeah, largest pot in live stream US poker history something like that.
I will say this, it is a pet peeve of mine when they
say or people say largest pot in televised poker history. This wasn't on TV.
It was on YouTube. Okay, so let's just be clear. Our
pot also was not on TV. It was on poker Rill and YouTube.
So this is just live stream, live stream pot. Like that's just I
feel like you're in the minority on this. I don't care. This is
how I stand. I'm pretty sure Jeff Platt agrees with me, and that's
all that I need. So the hand that happened, they're playing what were
they playing? What were the blinds five hundred thousand with the with the two
K they're playing the stand up game, but they don't stand up, so
it's kind of tricky. Yeah, Tom Dwan is the straddle. Okay,
so the two main figures in the pot, there's actually three main figures in
the pot. Should we wind it back a little bit and talk about the
other hand? Seven seven hand? That hand, I'd have no idea what
Tom and don Tom Dwan is doing. He's an alien to me. Tanking
the river with a full house there, like I don't for more than five
minutes. Yeah, the board was king seven deuce with two diamonds, and
then it came six six and on the river, Doug bet I think it
was four twenty into like three hundred. Yeah, and Dwan legit tanked for
more than five minutes. Eventually he had the clock called on him, and
then he called and like Doug shows five high five four suited Dwan. You
know, Dwan, I think I think he said something along the lines of
like I'm pretty sure I have the best hand or something like that, you
know, and then turns his hand over and like the whole table looked at
him like he had nine heads coming out of his neck. Yeah, like
that very very very weird. He was claiming that you know he was tanking,
shoving or just calling. I don't know. The hand was extremely weird.
So yeah, then this monster hand comes up. So when I say
there's three characters in the hand, there's two main characters and then there's a
secondary character. Two main characters are Tom Dwan and Wesley. And if you
watch Hustle, you know who Wesley is. I don't think he has a
last name. He just goes by Wesley. But then Doug Polk is in
the mix. Because so here's how the hand plays out. The dealer deals
the cards. Okay, now they start folding around the table. They fold
over to the guy LSG. Hank who's in the hijack. He raises to
seven thousand. Okay, he has ace of hearts, eight of clubs.
Now, Doug, who is in the small blind, says that he saw
Wesley's cards. Wesley is sitting directly to Doug's right. Doug is directly acrossing
the dealer. He's in the small blind. Wesley's on the button, he's
direct to Doug's right. He says that he saw his cards. Okay,
so the tables all everyone's kind of like, huh, what's happened you know,
like whatever. So after Hank raised it folds to Wesley. He then
three bets to thirty thousand, and Dougs like, you know, I saw
your cards whatever, But like Doug still like looks at his cards and then
goes, oh, I fold. And then after that happens, Wesley like
throws Doug his cards to then look at him, and Dougs like, I
know what you have at only need to look And Westley's like no, no,
look look look dog looks. He's like, yeah, I know,
you know, and then he gives them back to Wesley. So that happens
in the hand gets over to Tom Duan, who was the straddle. Wesley,
by the way, has Ace King. Okay, he's got the Ace
of Diamonds and the King of hearts Ace King off. So now it gets
over to Tom Duan and the straddle who I won't say what he have has
yet because you don't know the graphics don't show it. Yeah, and you
can kind of see his cards on the card box, but they're kind of
like only three quarters of the way in, so maybe the graphics antenna wasn't
picking him up correctly, but you don't see his cards and he four bets
to one hundred thousand. Okay, it folds back over to Wesley. Hank
folded with the ASA, folds to Wesley. You know, he's getting a
count on Dwan's stack. He's doing this, doing that. He then five
bets, makes it two hundred and seventy five K. Dwan thinks, makes
the call. Now we're going to the flow, and it's kind of like
funny because Doug knows what Wesley has and it's just it's weird. So there's
more than five hundred k in the middle already. It comes eight eight three
with two diamonds eight three of diamonds, then the eight of spades Tom Dwan's
first act. He checks Wesley bets one hundred and twenty five thousand into five
fifty or so. Dwan makes the call. Still you still don't know his
cards. Yeah, turn is the five of hearts. Dwan's got about one
point one million or so. He checks Wesley fires three hundred and fifty k.
M. I can't remember exactly if this is when you found his cards
or did we see him on the road. We didn't see him to the
end, okay, so well that they showed him finally on the graphics like
while he was in the tank, like right before, right before he called
I think. So Dwan calls the turn, so it's eight eight three five.
They went check one twenty five on the flop, check call one twenty
five, check call three fifty on the turn. River is the six of
clubs um so complete some straits, but I don't know if too many people
have straights here. Tom Dwan checks again. He's got seven hundred and eighty
six thousand dollars back. Wesley moves all in. Tom Dwan says did he
say all in? And Wesley didn't say anything after that, but the dealer
had thrown the all in chip in front of him. The dealer confirms that
yes, he is all in. Dwan immediately gets up from the table and
says, I'm gonna go get a water, which is very bad. So
he like walks five feet away to like some side tray, gets a water,
comes back and sits back down. You know, he's tanking for a
bit. You know, he's going through all this stuff, and he starts
saying things like he's gonna be crazy if you just flop trips, like if
you just have an eight. This is a weird fucking hands. Saw his
hand try to talk him out a free Bodings free bed anyway. I mean,
I guess he's just flopped in eight, but SI was very hard to
Floyd. It's going through all this stuff. So we don't know Dwan's cards
yet, but it seems pretty apparent that he probably has like Jackson queens or
yeah, Jackson queens, Yeah, probably doesn't have tens here aces. He
probably has already made the call kings. I think it probably plays differently pre
flop. I don't know, but queens or jack seemed the most likely.
Then eventually you see the graphics and he's got queens, and then he calls
Wesley, throws over the ace King, Dwan turns the pocket Queens over.
He wins. The pot is three point one million, the largest pot in
US poker live stream history. Happened on Hustle Ercasin Alive Tonight, Wild Stuff,
Absolutely why Stuff. I think at the time they had fifty one or
fifty two thousand people watching, so really good number in terms of viewers.
Sing Patrick Antonius and Eric Person played the what was a two point something million
pot? Yes? Was that? What it was? I can't remember exactly
what it was, but Hustler Casino Live now has that trophy. Um,
you know, kudos to those guys putting on absolutely banger shows. I can't
help but think that Wesley getting be rated and a lot of people calling him
out for being so nitty. The other night on the stream, he bought
him for three million dollars. It was it was day two of this like
four or five day action. He bought him for three million dollars and played
extremely tight. I think it was like something I think it was. It
was low and they were like making fun of him forward that the husk guy
was coming after him. There was kind of like some verbal altercation. They
were going back and forth, all this sort of stuff. So I can't
help but think that that played into Wesley's mind here and that's why he yolo
went for it with the five bet then bet bet shove like this is a
good theory, and I don't think I don't think what I think. Wesley
has been open that he's pretty new to poker and like the grand scheme of
things. You know, he hasn't been grinding for ten fifteen years. I
don't think, not not to like knock him, but just as as a
how to describe this in a bit away was kind of a rookie mistake that
he just wasn't experienced to drown out the noise of how people were calling him
a knit and he decided to go for it. Now, listen, it
still takes a lot of freaking balls to do what he did, right.
I mean the other day when Rampage pulled that bluff and made hands on the
the flop was queen jack ten and then the turn was what a blank in
the river? Was a blank? And uh, Rampage at check check raised
the flop bet the turn shoved the river um with just a seven of clubs,
he turned a backdoor club job but ultimately bricked out. Just had ace
high and hands had top set of queens and ultimately folded. That was a
million dollar bluff on the river. So and everyone is like, oh my
god, Rampage, so good, you have such balls whatever, Like,
I mean, Wesley had a lot of balls too in this spot. I
mean, it didn't work out for him. Tom Dwan made a good call,
a tough call, but it still takes a lot of balls to put
your money on the line in that regard. Um, But I still can't
help, but think that maybe he let the outside noise of being called a
nit get to him a little bit. Nick Airball was at the table and
he said, you know, if anyone calls Wesley and knit ever again,
I'm gonna fight them, you know, because I mean, he just went
went nuts with just Ace High here. And I don't know how close Tom
Zwan was to folding. I don't think we know. I think he made
some comments like, you know, I'm just gonna fold and you're just gonna
show me like you know, a seven. Maybe he was really close to
folding. Maybe maybe Wesley did almost pull this off, but it was a
wild wild hand. Tom's Wan wins the pot pocket queens three point one million
dollars. Insane shit, man, it's funny that you know Day one of
the world too his poke. We're talking about Hustle Seen Alive because this happened.
I think this is the last day of the game. Yes it is.
Yeah, poker world is in a frenzy, in a weird kind of
selfish angle to this. I feel like this does well for like poker go
streaming, because I feel like a lot of people are just wanting they want
to consume poker right now. Yeah, I think you know, we're twenty
four hours, thirty six hours away from the first UPSP live stream, so
like it's it's go time, you know. So it's good that Hustler has
us out there and they had such high viewership and they were able to set
this record because you know, competition in the space is a good thing.
Kudos to those guys for doing that. And you know, here we go.
This pot was freaking wild, like the whole thing with like Dougsy and
the cards, not knowing Tom's cards, the fact that Wesley had been getting
ripped apart by everyone for being a n it, like the whole thing.
How it kind of all came together was almost like too good to be true,
Like you couldn't script this sort of thing, but here we are.
M that was pretty incredible overall. What's that? Oh, you're waving the
hat because South Point Um, Tim and I are wearing our new Poker Girl
podcast hats. Okay, I love them. They're pretty good job with this.
They're pretty freaking sweet. I mean, shout out Patrick Knight, our
store guru. He uh, he was like, oh you know I have
these what did he call him? String? Hats ropats, and I was
like, yes, that's exactly what I want. They're great. We have
about fifty of them. That's the first fifty people that come to the South
Point takeover. Now, well yeah, whatever, but we can always get
two more. We can find two more or whatever that come to the South
Point Nightly one hundred and fifty dollars deep stack on Wednesday, May thirty first.
That is likely today when you're listening to this, it's gonna be at
six pm. So if you're at Vegas, come on, or if you're
in Vegas, come on over to South Point. Tim and I are going
to be playing the tournament. I know every ones all about the DIBSP we
are as well, but we want to kind of do this little uh get
together gamble fest whatever it may be. Um, the passport is family Pot.
If you come over to one of us, if you say family Pot,
if you're one of the first fifty, we'll give you a hat.
If you're after the first fifteen, we've run out of hats, We'll do
our best to get you on. We'll take your address, we'll ship you
on. Whatever we gotta do, we can we can make that happen.
That's not that big of a deal. Um, but yeah, come out
and have some fun with us. Um, maybe you have a few drinks.
I won't be having a few drinks, but maybe you can. The
South Point Nightly one hundred fifty dollars deep sac fifteen K guarantee is a good
tournament. It's a fun tournament. So you know, come out there and
let's enjoy ourselves. Starts at six pm Wednesday, May thirty first, and
then you know, we'll do a pod after and we'll talk about how we
possibly busted all you guys, we're not going to be doing at you know
why, because you're gonna win. I'm gonna win. You all already be
out by like six forty pm. And next there's literally no way I will
be out by six forty pm because I will be I will have re entered.
Okay, I I think late registrations to like nine o'clock. So yeah,
I'm a one bullem. I'm a won bullet man, so I'm probably
gonna spend a couple of bullets. I mean, hopefully I don't, but
you know, I'm usually good for two or three in this stupid thing.
But you know, we'll see how it goes bullet straight to victory, calling
it down bullets. All right, if you do that, I mean you're
better than Jamie Becker as far as I am concerned. Um, all right,
that's gonna do it for myself. Donnie Peters and him Tim Duckworth.
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