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Hello, everyone, Welcome back to
a brand new episode of the Poker Go

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Podcast, the final episode from the
Horseshoe Down on the Las Vegas Strip for

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twenty twenty four. That is because
the World Series of Poker is done and

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dusted. July seventeenth, coming to
a close, day fifty one of being

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inside these walls. It was an
incredible summer and it is capped off by

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Jonathan Tomyo winning the record setting WSP
main event. He was the last player

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standing from a record breaking field of
ten thousand, one hundred and twelve entries.

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Tomyo takes home a mammoth payday of
ten million dollars, defeating Jordan griff

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in second place. Tim and I
are going to talk all about it,

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or maybe Tim won't talk because the
guy's dead. Last day, he's had

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enough. Here's the thing. If
you guys know about the Bible, Samson

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from the Bible, No, you
don't know about Samson from the Bible.

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But he cut his hair. He
was like the super strong guy and then

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he cut his hair and he lost
all his powers. You cut your mustache

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off and now you are dying.
I've lost all your powers. You're dying.

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You're gonna be sick for a week, like, that's what happens.

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It's your own fault. Now.
I felt bad about Tim until he just

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told me right before we hit the
record button that he was out till like

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four am last night, partying and
playing poker and doing all this sort of

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stuff. So I don't know what
his idea was doing that dumbest thing I've

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ever heard. He's got all he's
ad the next two months to do any

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of that, and he decided to
do it before the biggest day of the

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year. Pottying is a strong word. I was not pottying well, but

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I played some CODs, then I
had some food. I'll tell you what,

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you know, he's gonna be partying. Jonathan Freaking Tomayo is gonna be

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partying. He's probably up in that
suite. Wow, looks the fountains.

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Yeah, the sweets here are pretty
nice. They're not as big as the

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ones the villas over at the Rio
were, but they're still super nice.

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I liked that they're high up.
They got a nice like, you know,

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a nice view balcony, all that
sort of stuff. I went up

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there last year. That's where I
did the Dan WindMan interview after he won.

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We're gonna talk about Jonathan Tomorow winning
the main event. Of course,

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as always, please like and subscribe
to the podcast. It's been a great

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summer of podcasts, other than the
fact that I had to miss a week

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and Tim you know, rallied loss
on a list of nonsense. But other

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than that, other than that,
great summer of podcasts, very very thrilled,

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excited. It warms my heart to
have all of you guys along for

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the ride all summer long. Can't
wait to do it again next year.

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We're, of course gonna keep up
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or twice a week, so stay
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We got to cap it off with
a giveaway for the reviews. Okay,

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giving away two annual plans subscriptions to
Poker Go. Probably gonna get yelled at

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by the bosses, but you know, no big deal. We got to

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close with a bang. Give me
some numbers. Let's go. You gotta

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give me the range. Oh yeah, okay, let's go. We're gonna

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go three two. I'll say eighty
three because tomayow one with eight three.

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Oh, he's probably this guy's probably
already got one, Chad mcven, but

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he might give it that. We'll
figure it out, Chad mcven. Okay,

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and then the other one, let's
go with. I mean, let's

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go with nine ninety six. Nine
six. That was a losing hand in

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the main event, so yeah,
let's go with nine six. Macio grimers

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into it. Jonathan Freaking Tomayo wins
again record breaking twenty twenty four WSOP Main

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event. Just quickly on Tomayo thirty
eight years old, out of Humble,

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Texas Cornell University grad. He majored
in hotel management. He might be to

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buy a hotel now with that ten
million dollars that he won. He is

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a pro poker player. He got
twenty first in the two thousand and nine

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WSP Main Event for three hundred and
fifty two thousand dollars. His first main

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event was just a year before that, two thousand and eight, So second

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year he makes a deep run to
the final three tables. Pretty impressive there.

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He has played every single main event
since then since two thousand and eight

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except for the twenty twenty COVID year, but every other one he's played.

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He began playing poker in high school. This is his first gold bracelet.

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You know, many players chase a
gold bracelet for their entire careers. Tomaio

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gets his first by winning the biggest
event in poker, the WSP Main Event.

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He does have four WSP circuit rings. He forged his game in the

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online poker streets, specializing in tournaments. He also played quite a bit at

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Turning Stone up in New York while
attending college. Nowadays, you know,

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we don't see tomaiw All that much
outside of the WSP. He lives in

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Texas. He kind of plays around
that region down there, but he does

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travel for the World Ties of Poker
every summer, and we do see plenty

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of him out here in Las Vegas
outside of poker. Frequent DFS player,

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I know he's had a lot of
success there, including winning the DraftKings Fantasy

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Hockey Championship back in twenty nineteen.
He also enjoys golf, which I'm sure

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we're going to see him on the
golf course plenty. Now that he got

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his retirement money, he can go
do whatever he wants. Doesn't he really

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need to play poker anymore? So
Tomayo tops the record setting field. He

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came into the final table yesterday kind
of on the shorter side, you know,

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kind of ran it up a little
bit early, enters the second day

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in good chip position. He ultimately
finds his way to the winner circle.

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It was a very very long heads
up match, I think sixty five hands,

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I believe, between him and Jordan
Griff. And before we get into

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a little bit more, let's just
kick it right to the Jeff interview with

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Jonathan Tomio to get kind of those
initial thoughts from the New World champion,

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Jonathan Tomayo World Series of Poker Main
Event Champion, How does that sound to

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you? Well, I didn't make
Day eleven. You always, we always

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take our shot here, but it's
just a numbers game. We never ever

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ever think this is reality. And
I'm just like soaking it in right now.

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This perspective is kind of nice,
actually. I mean it's everybody plays

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this tournament, everybody who's great at
poker plays this tournament, and I somehow

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want it and I still can't believe
it. You've been on the grind for

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a long time. What does this
World Championship bracelet mean to you all?

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It's a lot of things in your
mind. See grind, grind, grind,

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grind, grind. You know,
we play a lot of us start

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playing it for the money, and
then when we get good, we can

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start playing for the prestige. And
then this is both He's best friends with

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Joe McKeon. You probably saw Joe
on the rail and Joe actually presented him

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with the bracelet. Yeah, that
was very very cool. You know,

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I thought it was great just watching
it play out. The winning hand happens,

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Jack Effel, VP of the WSP
goes over to McKean, and it

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says, hey, you know you
want to come around and kind of do

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this little ceremony. Joe did comes
around, and Joe gave a really good

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speech as well, which was which
was awesome. You know, just talked

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about, you know, what it
meant to him and what the friendship with

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Jonathan Tomorow means to him. So
let's just play that interview for you now,

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because they did hand the mike to
McKeon and he did have some words

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to say before handing over that World
Championship bracelet. Yeah, this guy,

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this guy has been on the grind
for you know, twenty years now.

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He's always been there for me.
I'd like to be there for him as

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well. A great friend, a
great guy, and now he's going to

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share a banner with me up there
with all the other main event winners.

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And let me tell you this was
incredible being able to watch it from the

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other side too. He was there
for me when I won, and I'm

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going to be there for him when
he wins. And I'm very happy to

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present him with this twenty twenty four
World Series of Poker Main Event champion bracelet.

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All right, So, as I
said, Tomayo came in to the

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final table kind of on the lower
side of things. He was seven out

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of nine with nine players remaining.
Of course, we all know about the

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fold that he made with Pockey Queens
with ten players left. So after he

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comes in seven out of nine,
he then makes it to the second day

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of the final table two out of
three sandwich between Nicholas Ostett, Akaleena nine

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hundred, who was the chip leader, and Jordan Griff who was right behind

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him, but everyone was pretty close
overall. How did you think, entering

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today like it was going to go, Like, knowing how the stacks were

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distributed, but also knowing that Ostet
was up on top. I thought it

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was going to be a grind.
I thought these guys, you know,

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for Nicholas and Jonathan being the professionals, were going to you know, take

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their spots and try and chip away
at Griff, and we kind of saw,

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I would say, maybe the direct
opposite to that, with such a

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massive clash early, so I was
expecting a long grind, small pots,

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small ball, but it feels like
straight out of the gate, we didn't

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get that, no, and we
got it between Ostet and Griff. So

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it was interesting because Tomayo. You
know, he had that kind of conservative

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approach, most notably when he folded
the queens right and he talked about like

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the lattering up and all that sort
of stuff. Here, he's like just

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kind of sitting on the sidelines watching
Ostedt and Griff just like go blow for

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blow with each other, which I
thought was surprising from Griff's standpoint initially,

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but then I guess the more I
thought about it, I was like,

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you know, what, good for
him osted I definitely thought, would you

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know, want to lean on his
experience. He's played a bazillion tournaments online,

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widely regarded as the best online tournament
player ever, an extremely good capable

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player, highly skillful, also had
the most chips when this three handed battle

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started. So I just thought that
he would try and play a lot of

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pots with his opponents, play small
ball and not really go too crazy.

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But Griff fought against that by just
going at him in a lot of ways.

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So they exchanged a lot of blows
back and forth, and then like

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out of nowhere, they get all
the money in in this wild hand,

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and next thing you know, Nicholas
Ostt is out, and it was just

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crazy. The hand was. It
was pretty early in the second part of

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the final table, maybe, like
I don't know, a half hour in

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or so. Ostet raises on the
button two big lindes. Griff makes it

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seven big lines from the small blind. Ostet had king jack off, Griff

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had pocket nines. Ostet makes the
call in position. You know, this

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is totally standard by now comes ten
nine three with two diamonds, ten of

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clubs, nine of diamonds, three
of diamonds. Griff comes with a little

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bit less than half pot. Ostett
calls. Don't expect him to fold the

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two overs. He's got that straight
draw as well. He can also possibly

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play position, you know, should
things play out a certain way. After

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the flop the turn comes the jack
of clubs. Now it's there was two

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diamonds on the flop. Now there's
two diamonds with the club on the sorry,

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two clubs with the club on the
turn, and Griff just rips it

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in fairly quickly. It was an
overbet. I think he jammed one fifty

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nine into one twenty, so like
one thirty one thirty five percent pot something

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like that. And Ostet goes into
the tank for a long time and Griff

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these two were very very very close
and chips. So if Ostet ended up

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making the call, he was going
to be eliminated from the tournament. He

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tanks for I don't know, a
couple of minutes, maybe two minutes,

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something like that, three minutes,
I don't know exactly the time he ultimately

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makes the call. Griff tables a
set of nines that he flopped, and

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Ostet's got the turned top pair with
the jack, also the gutter with that

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king to a queen, the Swedish
raal, the friends and family of Ostet,

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they start chanting like crazy, they're
looking for a queen on the river,

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but it is not. It is
a king, and like an absolute

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shocker, somewhat deflating for like a
lot of people in the room, a

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lot of the viewers, a lot
of people on social media who were really

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just like, the goat's gonna do
it. He's gonna win the main event,

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no out and fourth or sorry,
out and third for four million dollars.

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Is Nicholas austed? And that was
just that was just crazy. So

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let's just let's just throw it now
to the interview with Jeff that Nicholas Ousta

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did on his way out, because
I know so much can go through your

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mind in a complex spot like that. Can you give us just the very

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basic bullet points that weigh into your
thought process there on the turn? Yeah,

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it's a tough one. I didn't
think he necessarily would have like an

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overpay there. He should be trapping
most of his good hands on the turn.

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I don't know, man, that
was that was a tough one.

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He's a bit of a vild one. So and also, you know,

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like pretty top heavy structure. So
yeah, not sure still if I like

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it, But I mean it's a
tough one, tough fun. Yeah,

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you mentioned the atmosphere. It's kind
of like playing in a football game.

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When you look back on this run, what will you remember the most?

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Yeah, that's probably that everyone flew
in supported the rate yesterday was amazing,

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like being all in and having all
your friends behind a mason. Yeah,

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this this is gonna sting for a
while, but I'm happy about how I

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played in general. And yeah that's
it. What'd you think, buddy?

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I was sad, to be honest, I really wanted Nicholas to win.

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We're not supposed to have no but
you can't. You can have story interest

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then fine, Well, there's a
sort there was a story for all three

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there is, I just preferred the
Nicholas story. Yeah, I get you.

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Yeah, so I aside from that, I thought, like I mentioned

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just previously, I thought we're gonna
have a grueling three handred battle and we're

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kind of denied of that. So
that was kind of more of the unfortunate

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neutral side of things to me.
It never works out like you think.

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I thought it would be kind of
grueling, but I also thought it would

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just result in basically Nicholas asked that
like slowly chipping away at his opponents,

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but of course it didn't result like
that. Would you think of the hand

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what would you have done? Felt
the King Jack, the beautiful the three

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bed for sure, I don't think
so. But the turn Look, I

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ain't no Leana nine hundred, so
my credibility on this hand ANALYSI is pretty

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bad. But I feel like the
turn play he's gonna review. I don't

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think anything else is really out of
line. I mean, that was a

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massive shot in a spot where Nicholas
has to know he's better than he probably

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thinks he's better than both players,
not just Griff. So is that a

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spot he wants to take with you
know, a pair and a gut shut

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does is he really putting Griff on
air or worse holdings. I don't know.

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It's just a big it's a big
high variant spot there for Nicholas.

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I mean I definitely thought about that. What I'll say is that on this

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and specifically, you know, it's
an overbet. On the turn, the

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way that it played out, you
know, it feels like Griff probably has

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two pairs, probably some sets in
there. Of course, you know,

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even like he could even have a
set of threes because the way that he

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was playing small pocket pairs, like
he had already three bed deuces earlier in

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the final on this day, so
like he could have threes, you know,

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and then you just come with that
over bet for max value, you

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know, just charge all the draws
that are out there, et cetera.

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Really make your opponent make like an
uncomfortable call with with a one pair hand

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like like us that had so yeah, like you know, the pairs of

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the sets, et cetera. But
then like he can probably have some draws

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too. I think the ones that
stick out to me the most are Ace

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King of Diamonds or clubs and then
he's Queen of diamonds or clubs. Yeah.

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Also maybe some queen jack Queen ten
in there. Two just because you

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know, you flop a pair with
the Queen ten, you turn a straight

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draw, you flop open ended with
the Queen jack, you turn top pair,

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the turn plus your open ended,
so stuff like that. But listen,

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it's first of all, it's always
hard. I feel like it's hard

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to comment when you see the cars
because like it just naturally kind of messes

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with your thought process. I feel
like now I think I would have folded,

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but I also can't say for sure. You know, one, I'm

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not in that spot playing with Griff, having played with him for many many

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days in this event, the biggest
event in the world. I'm also in

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no way like you said, Tim, I'm no way Leana nine hundred,

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not in a million years, you
know. And I think what Lena said

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in his bust Out interview, you
know, sometimes it just comes down to

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a guess, like you have to
make a decision one way or the other,

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and sometimes you're right and sometimes you're
wrong. And in this case,

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Ustat was wrong, and he was
wrong to the extent that it cost him

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his tournament life. He really is
an extraordinary player. Certainly he would have

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had his reasons for doing what he
did. And you know, it happens.

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It happened with Kristen Foxen, and
you know everyone talked about it.

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It happened with Brian Kim on the
first day of the final table, everyone

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talked about that, And now it
happened with Nicholas Ostet. You know,

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sometimes you get got and that's poker. Sometimes you get got by just your

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opponent having a better hand. Sometimes
you get got by the fact that you

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make a bad decision. Sometimes you're
like kind of walking that thin line between

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one decision or the other and you
just happen to pick wrong and that's just

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how it is. And then just
quickly I guess on the point because you

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brought it up about the edge,
like I in a way kind of think

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that that's a almost incorrect default,
Meaning, yeah, Nicholas had an edge.

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I think we would all agree he
had an edge. He also had

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the chip lead coming into the day, but at this time, you know,

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Griff had chipped up just more than
him. And like I said,

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Osted is an absolutely incredible, tremendous
player. But everyone was constantly referring to

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griff as you know, the amateur
or the recreational, which he also referred

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to it. He mentioned that on
the interview we did him on the previous

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episode. And while that can be
true, and he doesn't have the experience

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that Nicholas has, it's not like
he was just out there blasting away like

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some total fish. Like he clearly
was playing very very well in that arena

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that he was battling with two experienced
pros Jonathan Tomayo and Nicholas Ostet, Like

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he played very well. So I
would say that the while I still think

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Ostet had an edge, I don't
think the edge was as big as everyone

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else seems to just imply. They
say, oh, recreational, Oh,

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best online tournament player ever, Oh
online tournament player has massive infinite edge,

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when it was probably much smaller than
infinite. Of course. Yeah, and

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in that case, you can you
can take a thinner edge, like it

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becomes more acceptable to take a thin
edge in a spot like that. And

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like I said, you know,
I think Ostet probably had his reasons,

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of course, yes, and ultimately
guessed like he said, and he guessed

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wrong. So so what are you
gonna do? Heads up? Play.

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Griff has a big lead because he
did bust Ostet. He's got about a

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two and a half to one lead. But right in the first few hands,

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Jonathan to Miles, Storm's back and
he takes the lead and he ends

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up working Grift down to under two
hundred million. There were six hundred million

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chips in play, I think six
hundred and six million chips in play.

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But then Griff doubles back. They
get it all in on Queen six y

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five jack. Griff's got Jack six
for two pair, Tomiles got Ace Jack.

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It was funny on this hand because
to Miles Rail was yelling for or

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sorry Griff's Rail I think said no
Ace, not also knowing that a queen

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could counter his two pair like that
was. So that was just funny.

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So like if it came a queen, they might have thought that they won,

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and then to Miles Rail would have
celebrated. Of course, So he

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doubles back into the lead, does
Griff On that hand, he works Tomaile

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under two hundred million. Then Tomile
doubles back into the lead. He four

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bet jams with King ten off.
Griff calls it off with two sevens.

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Tomaio just flops the straight. Not
only does he flop a straight with King

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ten, it comes Queen Jack nine
all hearts. He has the King hearts

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so like it's just you know,
extra brutal. He holds from there.

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Of course he was, you know, Griff was dead on the turn.

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And then he starts extending his lead. Tomio does. He pushes Griff below

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two hundred million. Griff fights back, then he doubles up. He gets

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it all in. And this was
like a theme for Griff small pocket pairs.

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He always like what would win?
Yeah, this time he gets it

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all in with sixes versus the ace
eight off he flops the set of sixes.

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This guy has flopped like infinite sets
with like sixes and lower. He

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flops a set of sixes, holds
from there and doubles up. And then

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Tomile's the shortest that he's been heads
up. I believe think he was down

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to around like one hundred and thirty
one hundred and thirty five million, which

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during heads up play was the shortest
that he was if I remember correctly.

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But then he doubles back. He
had eight seven on seven, four to

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three. He gets it all in. Griff's got five to four for second

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pair on the gutter. Tomio holds, but he's still trailing. They're close,

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but he's still trailing. Then Tomio
slowly works his way back into the

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lead, gets up over four hundred
million, again six hundred million in play,

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and then finally at the two and
a half million, five million level

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on the sixty fifth hand of heads
up play, Tomayo wins it all.

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He makes it two point five big
blinds on the button. Griff calls Tomayo

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has eight three off and Griff has
nine six off. It comes nine to

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eight three with two diamonds. Griff
checks. Tomaiyo comes with the continuation bet

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one third pot. Griff makes it
four x his bet. I believe he

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bet ten million into thirty. Griff
makes it forty million. Tomayo jams,

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Griff calls it off. He's got
top pair with nine to six. Tomaio,

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of course has the bottom two pair
turns an ace. So now Griff

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needs a six an ace or he
needs a nine on the river. But

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the river is a five and Tomayo
wins it all. So let's just throw

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it right to the scrum interview that
we did. Hopefully you can hear the

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Scrum interview. There's a bunch of
questions in there, a bunch of media

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surrounding Jonathan Tomyo. Here's that interview
for you. Now, said one,

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you know you have one chance.
Maybe you thought you already had that chance

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and maybe this was the second chance. Did you feel like like that was

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sort of the case. Yeah,
And I can't believe how lucky I was

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to get that chance. There's only
so many main events you could run in

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a lifetime, so if you get
one deep run, chances are that's the

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one deep run. And somehow I
can't believe, I say able to get

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to a second chance and actually close
it. Go ahead, guess John Donald,

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when the main eventyone, the largest
main event ever intern of field size,

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I can talk about that specific accomplishment
of what that means to you.

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Joey Keynan told me that this tournament's
impossible to win, and then when the

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field times is bigger, you feel
like it's even more impossible it'll win.

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But I mean, you just sit
down day one, You're just like,

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Okay, eventually I'm going to bust
this tournament. It's not going to be

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pretty. I'm not going to feel
great, and I'm going to go on

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for your life and you kind of
mentally prepare yourself for it. And I

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just can't believe I did not bust
the main event coming into three handed play.

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Obviously all three of you are pretty
even and fairly deep, but it

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seemed like from the first hand everything
was kind of like there are a lot

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of chips flying around. Was that
sort of your expectation? Is that something

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that you planned for? And can
you tell me through a little bit about

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the sort of the swings that happened
during three hund a play? That was

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one of the scenarios. I was
discussed overnight what could happen, and we

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had a game plan for that if
if that ended up happening, if if

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Leela and I wanted to go to
war. It was kind of sit back,

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watch it happen, and then went
your head's up, deal with the

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problem. Then they my parents actually
were supposed to be here. They scheduled

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this trip around February or March,
not knowing anything is going to happen.

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And you know they they run,
they run, they run a business while

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retired. So then I final table
tomain that they canceled all their business meetings.

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So it just by chance, they're
here. They're always going to be

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here even if I didn't win the
main But somehow those two things collided perfectly.

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Every boker player dreams of winning the
main event for their whole career.

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How does reality compare to the dream? Uh, both of them are still

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not real. Standing here does not
feel like real life in that one of

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my and also that one of my
good friends also won the main. So

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now we have a circle of our
friends that have two main event winners,

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which you would never ever ever think. Whatever happened, and now we get

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and it's kind of good. It's
gonna be kind of fun that we can

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making fun of all of our friends
at the same time. Speaking of what

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do you say to the haters about
the Queen's now holding the Queen's Four queens

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play eight to three off? One
more question, guys, how much had

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Jo been around and you going through
that help you at all during this run?

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Joe and Tom actually helped. If
they weren't here, I'd likely do

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not win this tournament. I might
be out eight, I might be out

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seven. I might win this tournament, but a whole other bunch of good

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things would actually have to happen for
that to happen the way it went,

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it wasn't gonna like it wasn't gonna
happen like that. So that was Jonathan

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Tomayo beaming from year to year understandably. So Griff took home six million dollars

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for his second place finish. The
quote unquote amateur, the quote unquote recreational

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at the table who battled with eight
professional poker players comes out on top.

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Six million dollars for him, I'm
curious to see if he quits his job,

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his nine to five job, and
becomes a poker player who knows that's

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left to be seen, and then
tomorrow the world champion ten million dollars.

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Longtime grinder, like the culmination of
just the grind, grind, grind,

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grind, grind, finally does it
kind of in a way similar to a

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Dan Weinman last year. Yep,
you know, just just always around,

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always grinding, like always there in
the biggest events, et cetera. You

407
00:29:27.160 --> 00:29:30.720
know, has some scores here and
there, but of course nothing is like

408
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the WSP main event. Nothing is
like winning the wasp Man event. The

409
00:29:33.559 --> 00:29:37.480
money is not the same. And
Jonathan Tomayo does it. He is the

410
00:29:37.599 --> 00:29:42.200
champion of the twenty twenty four WSP
main event. I would love to sit

411
00:29:42.279 --> 00:29:45.960
down with Tomorow at some point do
like a one on one interview. So

412
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we'll see if we can set that
up in the coming days or coming weeks

413
00:29:48.200 --> 00:29:52.839
or whatever it is. I'm sure
he's gonna be bombarded with the bazilion things

414
00:29:52.559 --> 00:29:56.839
right now, so we'll see if
we can square that away. But yeah,

415
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what are your what are your thoughts
on Tomayow as champion. Originally I

416
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was a little skeptical as how he
would approach, you know, being you

417
00:30:07.440 --> 00:30:11.039
know, we always tap these guys
as you need to be an ambassador for

418
00:30:11.079 --> 00:30:15.400
poke a bit seeing the interviews he
did, listening to him, he had

419
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all the time. It felt like
he had all the time in the world

420
00:30:17.039 --> 00:30:21.200
for everyone. So that's a good
starting sign that maybe he will be a

421
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good ambassador for the game. But
like you said, just a grinder for

422
00:30:25.839 --> 00:30:29.839
so many years is kind of very
deserving to break through, to win your

423
00:30:29.839 --> 00:30:33.680
first race, to break through in
the biggest event possible, So that's that's

424
00:30:33.759 --> 00:30:37.519
kind of pretty cool. Yeah,
I mean it's always I know you said

425
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breakthrough, I mean it is a
breakthrough. I mean, I know we've

426
00:30:40.799 --> 00:30:42.720
known Tomorow for a long time.
He's a notable player. If we're out

427
00:30:42.720 --> 00:30:45.559
there covering a tournament, you know, he's somebody we pick up, we

428
00:30:45.640 --> 00:30:49.599
cover from, you know the first
time we see him. Yes, but

429
00:30:49.759 --> 00:30:52.720
for sure breakout or breakthrough, I
should say, you know, you do

430
00:30:52.799 --> 00:30:56.799
it for so long and you're just
like praying that one day you can have

431
00:30:56.839 --> 00:31:02.160
this sort of opportunity, and he
got it. He took advantage of it.

432
00:31:02.839 --> 00:31:06.279
I think it's hilarious that he's just
full on leaning into the Queen Queen

433
00:31:06.319 --> 00:31:10.319
fold as you guys heard him say, they're fold Queen Queen play eight three

434
00:31:10.359 --> 00:31:15.039
off, Like that's his new thing. We should have the that meme where

435
00:31:15.039 --> 00:31:18.400
the guy's holding hands with one girl
the other girl, but we need not

436
00:31:18.400 --> 00:31:19.599
a T shirt is what we need, you know what I mean? Like

437
00:31:19.640 --> 00:31:25.559
that's a version. Yeah, I
mean it's just great. Right. So

438
00:31:25.680 --> 00:31:29.960
yeah, Jonathan Tomayo up on top. I think he'll be a good champ.

439
00:31:30.119 --> 00:31:33.400
I mean I don't personally care about
the whole ambassador thing one way or

440
00:31:33.440 --> 00:31:36.720
the other. I guess just don't
be a dick at the end of the

441
00:31:36.799 --> 00:31:38.160
day. And Jonathan Tomyow is in
no way ever going to do that,

442
00:31:38.599 --> 00:31:42.200
which you know, all of our
champions in recent years I don't think have

443
00:31:42.359 --> 00:31:45.440
So that's fine, you know,
I don't I don't really expect you to

444
00:31:45.480 --> 00:31:48.799
have to go parade around and do
all the interviews under the sun. In

445
00:31:48.839 --> 00:31:52.079
a lot of ways, I think
the game can just sell itself. So

446
00:31:52.200 --> 00:31:55.880
I think the ambassador thing is kind
of a little bit overblown at times.

447
00:31:56.480 --> 00:32:00.559
But you know, of course,
I expect Tomayo to be out there lasting.

448
00:32:00.480 --> 00:32:05.480
He'll probably even take again drawing similarities
to Dan Weinman, probably take kind

449
00:32:05.480 --> 00:32:10.440
of a similar approach where maybe he's
on the golf course quite a bit,

450
00:32:10.519 --> 00:32:14.720
and then we just see him next
summer come out for you know, some

451
00:32:14.920 --> 00:32:17.160
WSP events. Maybe it's even more
selective next summer and he's not playing everything.

452
00:32:17.200 --> 00:32:20.559
Who knows. When you have a
score like this, when you have

453
00:32:20.640 --> 00:32:23.880
a breakthrough victory like this, ten
million dollars, I mean yeah, you

454
00:32:23.880 --> 00:32:27.920
can kind of just chill out right. This is what you dream of doing.

455
00:32:28.000 --> 00:32:31.119
So really really, really incredible stuff
from Tomayo. And then again we'll

456
00:32:31.119 --> 00:32:36.400
see what happens with Jordan Griff Nicholas
Asted, I'm guessing will be back.

457
00:32:36.480 --> 00:32:38.839
He'll probably be fucking playing the one
or nine on stars like this weekend.

458
00:32:38.880 --> 00:32:43.920
Who the heck knows, God bless
him. He's just a true grinder.

459
00:32:44.000 --> 00:32:50.599
It's awesome. So yeah, that's
the main event overall. Another great was

460
00:32:50.599 --> 00:32:54.240
Apmian event. Obviously the record setter. I have no idea what's going to

461
00:32:54.279 --> 00:32:57.599
happen next year, but I'm just
gonna go ahead and say that they're probably

462
00:32:57.599 --> 00:33:00.839
gonna break the record next year ten
two hundred, let's go. I mean,

463
00:33:00.880 --> 00:33:05.160
why wouldn't they? Yes, I
mean you have to kind of bet

464
00:33:05.200 --> 00:33:07.640
on that side, So yeah,
you can't. I don't think you can.

465
00:33:08.119 --> 00:33:10.480
I don't think you can be on
the other side of it anymore.

466
00:33:10.680 --> 00:33:15.519
Like the WICIP is just the biggest
and best thing that we have in poker.

467
00:33:15.680 --> 00:33:20.039
Yeah, people absolutely love it.
And that's not to say that other

468
00:33:20.079 --> 00:33:22.880
stuff isn't great too, because it
is. You saw the stuff all summer

469
00:33:22.960 --> 00:33:25.880
around town, and like on a
on an upcoming episode, I kind of

470
00:33:25.880 --> 00:33:29.640
want to just go through, like
maybe we look at everything else that happened

471
00:33:29.640 --> 00:33:32.640
around town and maybe highlights the winners, you know, stuff that happened at

472
00:33:32.640 --> 00:33:36.480
Aria or at Win or wherever else. You know, just pick kind of

473
00:33:36.480 --> 00:33:38.640
the bigges stuff because there was a
lot of really really big stuff that happened,

474
00:33:38.880 --> 00:33:42.799
and a lot of really really big
fields and a lot of awesome scores

475
00:33:43.079 --> 00:33:46.359
by a lot of people. So
overall, poker I think is incredibly healthy

476
00:33:46.559 --> 00:33:52.799
right now. I know everyone's kind
of like in a way over it,

477
00:33:52.839 --> 00:33:54.200
but like in a good way.
You know, you just put so much

478
00:33:54.240 --> 00:33:59.039
into the WICIP you know, both
from the working side of things, the

479
00:33:59.079 --> 00:34:00.599
media side of things, is the
player side of things, and then you

480
00:34:00.720 --> 00:34:05.240
just want to like take a vacation
afterwards, you know, or just chill

481
00:34:05.279 --> 00:34:07.440
out at home, veg out on
the couch, et cetera. I think

482
00:34:07.480 --> 00:34:13.800
we capped off a really good summer
with this WSB main event finish. Jonathan

483
00:34:13.800 --> 00:34:16.679
Tomaiow coming out on top. You
know, you had a great story in

484
00:34:16.760 --> 00:34:21.480
griff Running, you know, ultimately
fell short, but you come second in

485
00:34:21.480 --> 00:34:23.639
the Wspmen event. I don't think
you should be in any way sad.

486
00:34:23.719 --> 00:34:25.679
You know, maybe in the moment, of course, because you were so

487
00:34:25.800 --> 00:34:29.719
close, But you wake up in
the next couple of days you got six

488
00:34:30.000 --> 00:34:34.079
more, six million more dollars in
your bank account. That's pretty damn awesome.

489
00:34:35.280 --> 00:34:37.119
And then you know, we probably
haven't heard the last of Nicholas asted

490
00:34:37.280 --> 00:34:42.679
at the WSFP. The guy's just
an incredible player. Got a great boost

491
00:34:42.719 --> 00:34:45.280
to his bankroll with four million dollars
for him, So overall a lot of

492
00:34:45.280 --> 00:34:49.360
fun. I loved it. I
think Tim loved it, even though he's

493
00:34:49.480 --> 00:34:52.599
half dead right now. We need
it fifty Days of the World, SERI,

494
00:34:52.599 --> 00:34:54.480
he's not fifty one. Yeah,
you could. You almost did it.

495
00:34:54.480 --> 00:34:58.519
I know, almost made it.
You almost made it. As for

496
00:34:58.639 --> 00:35:05.079
us, probably to have another episode
in the coming days if Tim is there

497
00:35:05.079 --> 00:35:07.960
a couple of events that are still
wrapping up or we're not gonna talk about

498
00:35:07.960 --> 00:35:10.360
them. There was some big news
that came out from the w s P

499
00:35:10.480 --> 00:35:13.800
today. We'll hit on that.
I know we have to hit on the

500
00:35:13.800 --> 00:35:16.000
Hall of Fame induction as well,
so we do have some things that we

501
00:35:16.039 --> 00:35:19.199
want to talk about. Of course, I want to do that episode where

502
00:35:19.199 --> 00:35:22.280
we kind of look around town and
see some of the other event winners,

503
00:35:22.280 --> 00:35:24.880
the other series that happened and wrapped
up. So maybe we'll do that next

504
00:35:24.960 --> 00:35:30.800
week something maybe in a two part
or something like that. What Able,

505
00:35:30.880 --> 00:35:35.840
Where are you going Australia. They
don't have computers and internet and stuff in

506
00:35:35.880 --> 00:35:39.239
Australia I'm not even gonna take my
computer. Wow, that's obviously take entirely

507
00:35:39.280 --> 00:35:44.440
off the grid, Jesus Lord off
the Grid solo pod. I'm just gonna

508
00:35:44.440 --> 00:35:46.320
list the best SERI. I'm gonna
list the best winners in the best series

509
00:35:46.360 --> 00:35:50.599
around town that wasn't the w CP. That's my first list. Well,

510
00:35:50.639 --> 00:35:53.679
the first song should be summing up
the then you move on to Yeah,

511
00:35:53.880 --> 00:35:59.800
we gotta like in a way where
you know, we're still kind of like

512
00:35:59.800 --> 00:36:01.000
in it and we haven't collected our
thoughts. You know, we have our

513
00:36:01.039 --> 00:36:05.199
thoughts on the main event as it
just happened, but we're gonna have to

514
00:36:05.840 --> 00:36:09.519
kind of sit back and take a
look at everything see how things shake out.

515
00:36:09.840 --> 00:36:14.159
I believe Scott's ever one do wasby
Player of the Year. I believe

516
00:36:14.159 --> 00:36:16.400
he locked it up unless something happened
that I don't know. John Race is

517
00:36:16.440 --> 00:36:20.760
making a run in the wait.
Braisner can win if he wins the event.

518
00:36:20.840 --> 00:36:22.840
He's like fourth and chips in then
wins the There's like an online event

519
00:36:22.840 --> 00:36:28.159
this weekend or something. Oh so
it's still going. I mean I thought

520
00:36:28.199 --> 00:36:30.159
everything was done today. Okay,
I guess check in on that too.

521
00:36:30.239 --> 00:36:36.000
All right, Well, cool,
you got any party thoughts. No,

522
00:36:37.440 --> 00:36:40.039
not yet, in a couple of
days, in a couple of events time.

523
00:36:40.719 --> 00:36:44.599
What I mean, when everything's wrapped
up complete, we put a bow

524
00:36:44.639 --> 00:36:46.559
on Player of the Year. We
put a bow on you know, Mike

525
00:36:46.599 --> 00:36:50.159
Madison could win a brain, John
Race could win's a lot of people.

526
00:36:50.159 --> 00:36:53.880
They still have some there's still some
untold stories. And we're on the founday

527
00:36:53.880 --> 00:36:58.440
of the World Series of book.
Great, well, that's gonna do it

528
00:36:58.440 --> 00:37:02.400
for us. As I said earlier, very very very much appreciate all of

529
00:37:02.440 --> 00:37:07.199
our listeners out there, especially all
the ones that we met here at the

530
00:37:07.199 --> 00:37:10.159
World Series of Poker in person.
If we didn't meet you this summer,

531
00:37:10.199 --> 00:37:15.119
hopefully we'll get to meet you next
summer. We are nothing without the listeners

532
00:37:15.119 --> 00:37:19.400
out there, so we very we
are very appreciative, very grateful of all

533
00:37:19.440 --> 00:37:22.679
of you guys, because we couldn't
do this otherwise, and we wouldn't do

534
00:37:22.719 --> 00:37:25.280
it otherwise. So that's gonna do
it for us. From the twenty twenty

535
00:37:25.320 --> 00:37:28.679
four World Series Poker, as we
said, we'll have a couple more episodes

536
00:37:28.719 --> 00:37:30.280
that kind of put a bow on
everything, but we're not going to be

537
00:37:30.280 --> 00:37:35.840
doing it from on site at the
WSP our time here is done. My

538
00:37:35.920 --> 00:37:38.440
name is Donnie Peters, his name
is Tim Duckworth. And we'll talk to

539
00:37:38.440 --> 00:37:44.559
you guys next time. Jennie