Hello, everyone, Welcome back to a brand new episode of the Poker Go
Podcast, the final episode from the Horseshoe Down on the Las Vegas Strip for
twenty twenty four. That is because the World Series of Poker is done and
dusted. July seventeenth, coming to a close, day fifty one of being
inside these walls. It was an incredible summer and it is capped off by
Jonathan Tomyo winning the record setting WSP main event. He was the last player
standing from a record breaking field of ten thousand, one hundred and twelve entries.
Tomyo takes home a mammoth payday of ten million dollars, defeating Jordan griff
in second place. Tim and I are going to talk all about it,
or maybe Tim won't talk because the guy's dead. Last day, he's had
enough. Here's the thing. If you guys know about the Bible, Samson
from the Bible, No, you don't know about Samson from the Bible.
But he cut his hair. He was like the super strong guy and then
he cut his hair and he lost all his powers. You cut your mustache
off and now you are dying. I've lost all your powers. You're dying.
You're gonna be sick for a week, like, that's what happens.
It's your own fault. Now. I felt bad about Tim until he just
told me right before we hit the record button that he was out till like
four am last night, partying and playing poker and doing all this sort of
stuff. So I don't know what his idea was doing that dumbest thing I've
ever heard. He's got all he's ad the next two months to do any
of that, and he decided to do it before the biggest day of the
year. Pottying is a strong word. I was not pottying well, but
I played some CODs, then I had some food. I'll tell you what,
you know, he's gonna be partying. Jonathan Freaking Tomayo is gonna be
partying. He's probably up in that suite. Wow, looks the fountains.
Yeah, the sweets here are pretty nice. They're not as big as the
ones the villas over at the Rio were, but they're still super nice.
I liked that they're high up. They got a nice like, you know,
a nice view balcony, all that sort of stuff. I went up
there last year. That's where I did the Dan WindMan interview after he won.
We're gonna talk about Jonathan Tomorow winning the main event. Of course,
as always, please like and subscribe to the podcast. It's been a great
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close with a bang. Give me some numbers. Let's go. You gotta
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Oh, he's probably this guy's probably already got one, Chad mcven, but
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into it. Jonathan Freaking Tomayo wins again record breaking twenty twenty four WSOP Main
event. Just quickly on Tomayo thirty eight years old, out of Humble,
Texas Cornell University grad. He majored in hotel management. He might be to
buy a hotel now with that ten million dollars that he won. He is
a pro poker player. He got twenty first in the two thousand and nine
WSP Main Event for three hundred and fifty two thousand dollars. His first main
event was just a year before that, two thousand and eight, So second
year he makes a deep run to the final three tables. Pretty impressive there.
He has played every single main event since then since two thousand and eight
except for the twenty twenty COVID year, but every other one he's played.
He began playing poker in high school. This is his first gold bracelet.
You know, many players chase a gold bracelet for their entire careers. Tomaio
gets his first by winning the biggest event in poker, the WSP Main Event.
He does have four WSP circuit rings. He forged his game in the
online poker streets, specializing in tournaments. He also played quite a bit at
Turning Stone up in New York while attending college. Nowadays, you know,
we don't see tomaiw All that much outside of the WSP. He lives in
Texas. He kind of plays around that region down there, but he does
travel for the World Ties of Poker every summer, and we do see plenty
of him out here in Las Vegas outside of poker. Frequent DFS player,
I know he's had a lot of success there, including winning the DraftKings Fantasy
Hockey Championship back in twenty nineteen. He also enjoys golf, which I'm sure
we're going to see him on the golf course plenty. Now that he got
his retirement money, he can go do whatever he wants. Doesn't he really
need to play poker anymore? So Tomayo tops the record setting field. He
came into the final table yesterday kind of on the shorter side, you know,
kind of ran it up a little bit early, enters the second day
in good chip position. He ultimately finds his way to the winner circle.
It was a very very long heads up match, I think sixty five hands,
I believe, between him and Jordan Griff. And before we get into
a little bit more, let's just kick it right to the Jeff interview with
Jonathan Tomio to get kind of those initial thoughts from the New World champion,
Jonathan Tomayo World Series of Poker Main Event Champion, How does that sound to
you? Well, I didn't make Day eleven. You always, we always
take our shot here, but it's just a numbers game. We never ever
ever think this is reality. And I'm just like soaking it in right now.
This perspective is kind of nice, actually. I mean it's everybody plays
this tournament, everybody who's great at poker plays this tournament, and I somehow
want it and I still can't believe it. You've been on the grind for
a long time. What does this World Championship bracelet mean to you all?
It's a lot of things in your mind. See grind, grind, grind,
grind, grind. You know, we play a lot of us start
playing it for the money, and then when we get good, we can
start playing for the prestige. And then this is both He's best friends with
Joe McKeon. You probably saw Joe on the rail and Joe actually presented him
with the bracelet. Yeah, that was very very cool. You know,
I thought it was great just watching it play out. The winning hand happens,
Jack Effel, VP of the WSP goes over to McKean, and it
says, hey, you know you want to come around and kind of do
this little ceremony. Joe did comes around, and Joe gave a really good
speech as well, which was which was awesome. You know, just talked
about, you know, what it meant to him and what the friendship with
Jonathan Tomorow means to him. So let's just play that interview for you now,
because they did hand the mike to McKeon and he did have some words
to say before handing over that World Championship bracelet. Yeah, this guy,
this guy has been on the grind for you know, twenty years now.
He's always been there for me. I'd like to be there for him as
well. A great friend, a great guy, and now he's going to
share a banner with me up there with all the other main event winners.
And let me tell you this was incredible being able to watch it from the
other side too. He was there for me when I won, and I'm
going to be there for him when he wins. And I'm very happy to
present him with this twenty twenty four World Series of Poker Main Event champion bracelet.
All right, So, as I said, Tomayo came in to the
final table kind of on the lower side of things. He was seven out
of nine with nine players remaining. Of course, we all know about the
fold that he made with Pockey Queens with ten players left. So after he
comes in seven out of nine, he then makes it to the second day
of the final table two out of three sandwich between Nicholas Ostett, Akaleena nine
hundred, who was the chip leader, and Jordan Griff who was right behind
him, but everyone was pretty close overall. How did you think, entering
today like it was going to go, Like, knowing how the stacks were
distributed, but also knowing that Ostet was up on top. I thought it
was going to be a grind. I thought these guys, you know,
for Nicholas and Jonathan being the professionals, were going to you know, take
their spots and try and chip away at Griff, and we kind of saw,
I would say, maybe the direct opposite to that, with such a
massive clash early, so I was expecting a long grind, small pots,
small ball, but it feels like straight out of the gate, we didn't
get that, no, and we got it between Ostet and Griff. So
it was interesting because Tomayo. You know, he had that kind of conservative
approach, most notably when he folded the queens right and he talked about like
the lattering up and all that sort of stuff. Here, he's like just
kind of sitting on the sidelines watching Ostedt and Griff just like go blow for
blow with each other, which I thought was surprising from Griff's standpoint initially,
but then I guess the more I thought about it, I was like,
you know, what, good for him osted I definitely thought, would you
know, want to lean on his experience. He's played a bazillion tournaments online,
widely regarded as the best online tournament player ever, an extremely good capable
player, highly skillful, also had the most chips when this three handed battle
started. So I just thought that he would try and play a lot of
pots with his opponents, play small ball and not really go too crazy.
But Griff fought against that by just going at him in a lot of ways.
So they exchanged a lot of blows back and forth, and then like
out of nowhere, they get all the money in in this wild hand,
and next thing you know, Nicholas Ostt is out, and it was just
crazy. The hand was. It was pretty early in the second part of
the final table, maybe, like I don't know, a half hour in
or so. Ostet raises on the button two big lindes. Griff makes it
seven big lines from the small blind. Ostet had king jack off, Griff
had pocket nines. Ostet makes the call in position. You know, this
is totally standard by now comes ten nine three with two diamonds, ten of
clubs, nine of diamonds, three of diamonds. Griff comes with a little
bit less than half pot. Ostett calls. Don't expect him to fold the
two overs. He's got that straight draw as well. He can also possibly
play position, you know, should things play out a certain way. After
the flop the turn comes the jack of clubs. Now it's there was two
diamonds on the flop. Now there's two diamonds with the club on the sorry,
two clubs with the club on the turn, and Griff just rips it
in fairly quickly. It was an overbet. I think he jammed one fifty
nine into one twenty, so like one thirty one thirty five percent pot something
like that. And Ostet goes into the tank for a long time and Griff
these two were very very very close and chips. So if Ostet ended up
making the call, he was going to be eliminated from the tournament. He
tanks for I don't know, a couple of minutes, maybe two minutes,
something like that, three minutes, I don't know exactly the time he ultimately
makes the call. Griff tables a set of nines that he flopped, and
Ostet's got the turned top pair with the jack, also the gutter with that
king to a queen, the Swedish raal, the friends and family of Ostet,
they start chanting like crazy, they're looking for a queen on the river,
but it is not. It is a king, and like an absolute
shocker, somewhat deflating for like a lot of people in the room, a
lot of the viewers, a lot of people on social media who were really
just like, the goat's gonna do it. He's gonna win the main event,
no out and fourth or sorry, out and third for four million dollars.
Is Nicholas austed? And that was just that was just crazy. So
let's just let's just throw it now to the interview with Jeff that Nicholas Ousta
did on his way out, because I know so much can go through your
mind in a complex spot like that. Can you give us just the very
basic bullet points that weigh into your thought process there on the turn? Yeah,
it's a tough one. I didn't think he necessarily would have like an
overpay there. He should be trapping most of his good hands on the turn.
I don't know, man, that was that was a tough one.
He's a bit of a vild one. So and also, you know,
like pretty top heavy structure. So yeah, not sure still if I like
it, But I mean it's a tough one, tough fun. Yeah,
you mentioned the atmosphere. It's kind of like playing in a football game.
When you look back on this run, what will you remember the most?
Yeah, that's probably that everyone flew in supported the rate yesterday was amazing,
like being all in and having all your friends behind a mason. Yeah,
this this is gonna sting for a while, but I'm happy about how I
played in general. And yeah that's it. What'd you think, buddy?
I was sad, to be honest, I really wanted Nicholas to win.
We're not supposed to have no but you can't. You can have story interest
then fine, Well, there's a sort there was a story for all three
there is, I just preferred the Nicholas story. Yeah, I get you.
Yeah, so I aside from that, I thought, like I mentioned
just previously, I thought we're gonna have a grueling three handred battle and we're
kind of denied of that. So that was kind of more of the unfortunate
neutral side of things to me. It never works out like you think.
I thought it would be kind of grueling, but I also thought it would
just result in basically Nicholas asked that like slowly chipping away at his opponents,
but of course it didn't result like that. Would you think of the hand
what would you have done? Felt the King Jack, the beautiful the three
bed for sure, I don't think so. But the turn Look, I
ain't no Leana nine hundred, so my credibility on this hand ANALYSI is pretty
bad. But I feel like the turn play he's gonna review. I don't
think anything else is really out of line. I mean, that was a
massive shot in a spot where Nicholas has to know he's better than he probably
thinks he's better than both players, not just Griff. So is that a
spot he wants to take with you know, a pair and a gut shut
does is he really putting Griff on air or worse holdings. I don't know.
It's just a big it's a big high variant spot there for Nicholas.
I mean I definitely thought about that. What I'll say is that on this
and specifically, you know, it's an overbet. On the turn, the
way that it played out, you know, it feels like Griff probably has
two pairs, probably some sets in there. Of course, you know,
even like he could even have a set of threes because the way that he
was playing small pocket pairs, like he had already three bed deuces earlier in
the final on this day, so like he could have threes, you know,
and then you just come with that over bet for max value, you
know, just charge all the draws that are out there, et cetera.
Really make your opponent make like an uncomfortable call with with a one pair hand
like like us that had so yeah, like you know, the pairs of
the sets, et cetera. But then like he can probably have some draws
too. I think the ones that stick out to me the most are Ace
King of Diamonds or clubs and then he's Queen of diamonds or clubs. Yeah.
Also maybe some queen jack Queen ten in there. Two just because you
know, you flop a pair with the Queen ten, you turn a straight
draw, you flop open ended with the Queen jack, you turn top pair,
the turn plus your open ended, so stuff like that. But listen,
it's first of all, it's always hard. I feel like it's hard
to comment when you see the cars because like it just naturally kind of messes
with your thought process. I feel like now I think I would have folded,
but I also can't say for sure. You know, one, I'm
not in that spot playing with Griff, having played with him for many many
days in this event, the biggest event in the world. I'm also in
no way like you said, Tim, I'm no way Leana nine hundred,
not in a million years, you know. And I think what Lena said
in his bust Out interview, you know, sometimes it just comes down to
a guess, like you have to make a decision one way or the other,
and sometimes you're right and sometimes you're wrong. And in this case,
Ustat was wrong, and he was wrong to the extent that it cost him
his tournament life. He really is an extraordinary player. Certainly he would have
had his reasons for doing what he did. And you know, it happens.
It happened with Kristen Foxen, and you know everyone talked about it.
It happened with Brian Kim on the first day of the final table, everyone
talked about that, And now it happened with Nicholas Ostet. You know,
sometimes you get got and that's poker. Sometimes you get got by just your
opponent having a better hand. Sometimes you get got by the fact that you
make a bad decision. Sometimes you're like kind of walking that thin line between
one decision or the other and you just happen to pick wrong and that's just
how it is. And then just quickly I guess on the point because you
brought it up about the edge, like I in a way kind of think
that that's a almost incorrect default, Meaning, yeah, Nicholas had an edge.
I think we would all agree he had an edge. He also had
the chip lead coming into the day, but at this time, you know,
Griff had chipped up just more than him. And like I said,
Osted is an absolutely incredible, tremendous player. But everyone was constantly referring to
griff as you know, the amateur or the recreational, which he also referred
to it. He mentioned that on the interview we did him on the previous
episode. And while that can be true, and he doesn't have the experience
that Nicholas has, it's not like he was just out there blasting away like
some total fish. Like he clearly was playing very very well in that arena
that he was battling with two experienced pros Jonathan Tomayo and Nicholas Ostet, Like
he played very well. So I would say that the while I still think
Ostet had an edge, I don't think the edge was as big as everyone
else seems to just imply. They say, oh, recreational, Oh,
best online tournament player ever, Oh online tournament player has massive infinite edge,
when it was probably much smaller than infinite. Of course. Yeah, and
in that case, you can you can take a thinner edge, like it
becomes more acceptable to take a thin edge in a spot like that. And
like I said, you know, I think Ostet probably had his reasons,
of course, yes, and ultimately guessed like he said, and he guessed
wrong. So so what are you gonna do? Heads up? Play.
Griff has a big lead because he did bust Ostet. He's got about a
two and a half to one lead. But right in the first few hands,
Jonathan to Miles, Storm's back and he takes the lead and he ends
up working Grift down to under two hundred million. There were six hundred million
chips in play, I think six hundred and six million chips in play.
But then Griff doubles back. They get it all in on Queen six y
five jack. Griff's got Jack six for two pair, Tomiles got Ace Jack.
It was funny on this hand because to Miles Rail was yelling for or
sorry Griff's Rail I think said no Ace, not also knowing that a queen
could counter his two pair like that was. So that was just funny.
So like if it came a queen, they might have thought that they won,
and then to Miles Rail would have celebrated. Of course, So he
doubles back into the lead, does Griff On that hand, he works Tomaile
under two hundred million. Then Tomile doubles back into the lead. He four
bet jams with King ten off. Griff calls it off with two sevens.
Tomaio just flops the straight. Not only does he flop a straight with King
ten, it comes Queen Jack nine all hearts. He has the King hearts
so like it's just you know, extra brutal. He holds from there.
Of course he was, you know, Griff was dead on the turn.
And then he starts extending his lead. Tomio does. He pushes Griff below
two hundred million. Griff fights back, then he doubles up. He gets
it all in. And this was like a theme for Griff small pocket pairs.
He always like what would win? Yeah, this time he gets it
all in with sixes versus the ace eight off he flops the set of sixes.
This guy has flopped like infinite sets with like sixes and lower. He
flops a set of sixes, holds from there and doubles up. And then
Tomile's the shortest that he's been heads up. I believe think he was down
to around like one hundred and thirty one hundred and thirty five million, which
during heads up play was the shortest that he was if I remember correctly.
But then he doubles back. He had eight seven on seven, four to
three. He gets it all in. Griff's got five to four for second
pair on the gutter. Tomio holds, but he's still trailing. They're close,
but he's still trailing. Then Tomio slowly works his way back into the
lead, gets up over four hundred million, again six hundred million in play,
and then finally at the two and a half million, five million level
on the sixty fifth hand of heads up play, Tomayo wins it all.
He makes it two point five big blinds on the button. Griff calls Tomayo
has eight three off and Griff has nine six off. It comes nine to
eight three with two diamonds. Griff checks. Tomaiyo comes with the continuation bet
one third pot. Griff makes it four x his bet. I believe he
bet ten million into thirty. Griff makes it forty million. Tomayo jams,
Griff calls it off. He's got top pair with nine to six. Tomaio,
of course has the bottom two pair turns an ace. So now Griff
needs a six an ace or he needs a nine on the river. But
the river is a five and Tomayo wins it all. So let's just throw
it right to the scrum interview that we did. Hopefully you can hear the
Scrum interview. There's a bunch of questions in there, a bunch of media
surrounding Jonathan Tomyo. Here's that interview for you. Now, said one,
you know you have one chance. Maybe you thought you already had that chance
and maybe this was the second chance. Did you feel like like that was
sort of the case. Yeah, And I can't believe how lucky I was
to get that chance. There's only so many main events you could run in
a lifetime, so if you get one deep run, chances are that's the
one deep run. And somehow I can't believe, I say able to get
to a second chance and actually close it. Go ahead, guess John Donald,
when the main eventyone, the largest main event ever intern of field size,
I can talk about that specific accomplishment of what that means to you.
Joey Keynan told me that this tournament's impossible to win, and then when the
field times is bigger, you feel like it's even more impossible it'll win.
But I mean, you just sit down day one, You're just like,
Okay, eventually I'm going to bust this tournament. It's not going to be
pretty. I'm not going to feel great, and I'm going to go on
for your life and you kind of mentally prepare yourself for it. And I
just can't believe I did not bust the main event coming into three handed play.
Obviously all three of you are pretty even and fairly deep, but it
seemed like from the first hand everything was kind of like there are a lot
of chips flying around. Was that sort of your expectation? Is that something
that you planned for? And can you tell me through a little bit about
the sort of the swings that happened during three hund a play? That was
one of the scenarios. I was discussed overnight what could happen, and we
had a game plan for that if if that ended up happening, if if
Leela and I wanted to go to war. It was kind of sit back,
watch it happen, and then went your head's up, deal with the
problem. Then they my parents actually were supposed to be here. They scheduled
this trip around February or March, not knowing anything is going to happen.
And you know they they run, they run, they run a business while
retired. So then I final table tomain that they canceled all their business meetings.
So it just by chance, they're here. They're always going to be
here even if I didn't win the main But somehow those two things collided perfectly.
Every boker player dreams of winning the main event for their whole career.
How does reality compare to the dream? Uh, both of them are still
not real. Standing here does not feel like real life in that one of
my and also that one of my good friends also won the main. So
now we have a circle of our friends that have two main event winners,
which you would never ever ever think. Whatever happened, and now we get
and it's kind of good. It's gonna be kind of fun that we can
making fun of all of our friends at the same time. Speaking of what
do you say to the haters about the Queen's now holding the Queen's Four queens
play eight to three off? One more question, guys, how much had
Jo been around and you going through that help you at all during this run?
Joe and Tom actually helped. If they weren't here, I'd likely do
not win this tournament. I might be out eight, I might be out
seven. I might win this tournament, but a whole other bunch of good
things would actually have to happen for that to happen the way it went,
it wasn't gonna like it wasn't gonna happen like that. So that was Jonathan
Tomayo beaming from year to year understandably. So Griff took home six million dollars
for his second place finish. The quote unquote amateur, the quote unquote recreational
at the table who battled with eight professional poker players comes out on top.
Six million dollars for him, I'm curious to see if he quits his job,
his nine to five job, and becomes a poker player who knows that's
left to be seen, and then tomorrow the world champion ten million dollars.
Longtime grinder, like the culmination of just the grind, grind, grind,
grind, grind, finally does it kind of in a way similar to a
Dan Weinman last year. Yep, you know, just just always around,
always grinding, like always there in the biggest events, et cetera. You
know, has some scores here and there, but of course nothing is like
the WSP main event. Nothing is like winning the wasp Man event. The
money is not the same. And Jonathan Tomayo does it. He is the
champion of the twenty twenty four WSP main event. I would love to sit
down with Tomorow at some point do like a one on one interview. So
we'll see if we can set that up in the coming days or coming weeks
or whatever it is. I'm sure he's gonna be bombarded with the bazilion things
right now, so we'll see if we can square that away. But yeah,
what are your what are your thoughts on Tomayow as champion. Originally I
was a little skeptical as how he would approach, you know, being you
know, we always tap these guys as you need to be an ambassador for
poke a bit seeing the interviews he did, listening to him, he had
all the time. It felt like he had all the time in the world
for everyone. So that's a good starting sign that maybe he will be a
good ambassador for the game. But like you said, just a grinder for
so many years is kind of very deserving to break through, to win your
first race, to break through in the biggest event possible, So that's that's
kind of pretty cool. Yeah, I mean it's always I know you said
breakthrough, I mean it is a breakthrough. I mean, I know we've
known Tomorow for a long time. He's a notable player. If we're out
there covering a tournament, you know, he's somebody we pick up, we
cover from, you know the first time we see him. Yes, but
for sure breakout or breakthrough, I should say, you know, you do
it for so long and you're just like praying that one day you can have
this sort of opportunity, and he got it. He took advantage of it.
I think it's hilarious that he's just full on leaning into the Queen Queen
fold as you guys heard him say, they're fold Queen Queen play eight three
off, Like that's his new thing. We should have the that meme where
the guy's holding hands with one girl the other girl, but we need not
a T shirt is what we need, you know what I mean? Like
that's a version. Yeah, I mean it's just great. Right. So
yeah, Jonathan Tomayo up on top. I think he'll be a good champ.
I mean I don't personally care about the whole ambassador thing one way or
the other. I guess just don't be a dick at the end of the
day. And Jonathan Tomyow is in no way ever going to do that,
which you know, all of our champions in recent years I don't think have
So that's fine, you know, I don't I don't really expect you to
have to go parade around and do all the interviews under the sun. In
a lot of ways, I think the game can just sell itself. So
I think the ambassador thing is kind of a little bit overblown at times.
But you know, of course, I expect Tomayo to be out there lasting.
He'll probably even take again drawing similarities to Dan Weinman, probably take kind
of a similar approach where maybe he's on the golf course quite a bit,
and then we just see him next summer come out for you know, some
WSP events. Maybe it's even more selective next summer and he's not playing everything.
Who knows. When you have a score like this, when you have
a breakthrough victory like this, ten million dollars, I mean yeah, you
can kind of just chill out right. This is what you dream of doing.
So really really, really incredible stuff from Tomayo. And then again we'll
see what happens with Jordan Griff Nicholas Asted, I'm guessing will be back.
He'll probably be fucking playing the one or nine on stars like this weekend.
Who the heck knows, God bless him. He's just a true grinder.
It's awesome. So yeah, that's the main event overall. Another great was
Apmian event. Obviously the record setter. I have no idea what's going to
happen next year, but I'm just gonna go ahead and say that they're probably
gonna break the record next year ten two hundred, let's go. I mean,
why wouldn't they? Yes, I mean you have to kind of bet
on that side, So yeah, you can't. I don't think you can.
I don't think you can be on the other side of it anymore.
Like the WICIP is just the biggest and best thing that we have in poker.
Yeah, people absolutely love it. And that's not to say that other
stuff isn't great too, because it is. You saw the stuff all summer
around town, and like on a on an upcoming episode, I kind of
want to just go through, like maybe we look at everything else that happened
around town and maybe highlights the winners, you know, stuff that happened at
Aria or at Win or wherever else. You know, just pick kind of
the bigges stuff because there was a lot of really really big stuff that happened,
and a lot of really really big fields and a lot of awesome scores
by a lot of people. So overall, poker I think is incredibly healthy
right now. I know everyone's kind of like in a way over it,
but like in a good way. You know, you just put so much
into the WICIP you know, both from the working side of things, the
media side of things, is the player side of things, and then you
just want to like take a vacation afterwards, you know, or just chill
out at home, veg out on the couch, et cetera. I think
we capped off a really good summer with this WSB main event finish. Jonathan
Tomaiow coming out on top. You know, you had a great story in
griff Running, you know, ultimately fell short, but you come second in
the Wspmen event. I don't think you should be in any way sad.
You know, maybe in the moment, of course, because you were so
close, But you wake up in the next couple of days you got six
more, six million more dollars in your bank account. That's pretty damn awesome.
And then you know, we probably haven't heard the last of Nicholas asted
at the WSFP. The guy's just an incredible player. Got a great boost
to his bankroll with four million dollars for him, So overall a lot of
fun. I loved it. I think Tim loved it, even though he's
half dead right now. We need it fifty Days of the World, SERI,
he's not fifty one. Yeah, you could. You almost did it.
I know, almost made it. You almost made it. As for
us, probably to have another episode in the coming days if Tim is there
a couple of events that are still wrapping up or we're not gonna talk about
them. There was some big news that came out from the w s P
today. We'll hit on that. I know we have to hit on the
Hall of Fame induction as well, so we do have some things that we
want to talk about. Of course, I want to do that episode where
we kind of look around town and see some of the other event winners,
the other series that happened and wrapped up. So maybe we'll do that next
week something maybe in a two part or something like that. What Able,
Where are you going Australia. They don't have computers and internet and stuff in
Australia I'm not even gonna take my computer. Wow, that's obviously take entirely
off the grid, Jesus Lord off the Grid solo pod. I'm just gonna
list the best SERI. I'm gonna list the best winners in the best series
around town that wasn't the w CP. That's my first list. Well,
the first song should be summing up the then you move on to Yeah,
we gotta like in a way where you know, we're still kind of like
in it and we haven't collected our thoughts. You know, we have our
thoughts on the main event as it just happened, but we're gonna have to
kind of sit back and take a look at everything see how things shake out.
I believe Scott's ever one do wasby Player of the Year. I believe
he locked it up unless something happened that I don't know. John Race is
making a run in the wait. Braisner can win if he wins the event.
He's like fourth and chips in then wins the There's like an online event
this weekend or something. Oh so it's still going. I mean I thought
everything was done today. Okay, I guess check in on that too.
All right, Well, cool, you got any party thoughts. No,
not yet, in a couple of days, in a couple of events time.
What I mean, when everything's wrapped up complete, we put a bow
on Player of the Year. We put a bow on you know, Mike
Madison could win a brain, John Race could win's a lot of people.
They still have some there's still some untold stories. And we're on the founday
of the World Series of book. Great, well, that's gonna do it
for us. As I said earlier, very very very much appreciate all of
our listeners out there, especially all the ones that we met here at the
World Series of Poker in person. If we didn't meet you this summer,
hopefully we'll get to meet you next summer. We are nothing without the listeners
out there, so we very we are very appreciative, very grateful of all
of you guys, because we couldn't do this otherwise, and we wouldn't do
it otherwise. So that's gonna do it for us. From the twenty twenty
four World Series Poker, as we said, we'll have a couple more episodes
that kind of put a bow on everything, but we're not going to be
doing it from on site at the WSP our time here is done. My
name is Donnie Peters, his name is Tim Duckworth. And we'll talk to
you guys next time. Jennie