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World Series of Poker Main Event Final table is down to three players. That's
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hundred and twelve entries. Nicholas Austet, Jonathan Tomayo, Jordan griff Those are
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We have up on top, Nicholas Ostet aka Leena nine hundred, two
hundred and twenty three million, which represents seventy four big blinds, Jonathan Tomayo
in second with one hundred and ninety seven million, sixty seven big blinds for
him, and then Jordan Griff who began today's final table or yesterday's final table,
I should say, because I know you're listening to this. On Wednesday,
July seventeenth, Griff began the final table with chip lead. He finished
in third third here one hundred and eighty seven million, sixty two big blinds
for him, but pretty condensed final three. Yeah, I mean it's pretty
close overall, which should make for some fun action tomorrow. Believe the blinds
will remain at one point five million, three million when these guys take to
the Felt again. Guaranteed four million dollars. Second places were six million,
First place is worth ten million. Just for a all the time sec.
Let's look at twenty twenty three really quick see even Jones. End of day
one of the final type was a chip leader two hundred and thirty eight million.
Daniel Wyman the eventual champion. He was second in one to ninety nine,
and then Adam Walton, who was the overnight chip leader, was third,
finished with one sixty five to five. So those three kind of spread
fairly evenly. This one, you know, clamp down the bottom also overnight
chip leader going from first to third kind of very similar. Ostet is the
favorite, you know, skill wise, experience, he has the chip lead.
I think everything favors him. He came into the final table today third
in chips, but was basically tied with Brian Kim second in chips. Just
a couple hundred thousand was separating those two behind Jordan Griff. But Asta had
a big day. We'll talk some about that. The biggest part of it
was a hand against Brian Kim, you know, when they were seven handed.
So we'll hit on that as we go through everything. But we got
to start things off with a double up early on from Andris Gonzalez. He
doubled early through Jordan Griff. Gonzalez the Spaniard came into the final table as
the short stack. Griff raised from the hijack seat to two big lines.
Gonzalez was in the cutoff, moved all in for nine big lines. Griff
called with pocket threes, Gonzalez had eight. Gonzalez flopped top set on the
eight five to four flop turned a full house, leaving Griff drawing dead.
I thought the d three to three was kind of interesting here, a little
wide. It feels close to me, yeah, I mean, found the
same on anything, Yeah, I haven't, but it feels close. It
feels close. I mean, I also think it probably benefits Griff that if
you make a more conservative fold here to just have the chip lead and be
able to push around your opponents if somebody's got you know, ten big blinds
at the table. But either way, he makes the call with threes,
loses to Gonzalez's eights, and the Spaniards off and running. I believe he
then shoved the next hand, if I remember correctly, and then got some
more action through and chipped up pretty nicely, so gave himself a little bit
of a comfort zone. Then we had another all in not long after the
Frenchman Mallow Latinois got all in against Brian Kim. Bold players had the same
hand ace Jack of diamonds for latinas Ace Jack of clubs for Kim. But
it was a sweat for the Frenchman because it came Ace nine to eight with
two clubs. Latin Wall was able to fade the flush from Brian Kim,
and these two chopped up the pot. I would say this was the start
of a little bit of run bad for Brian Kim. I just I don't
know. I felt like he just it wasn't his day for a couple of
different reasons. I mean, listen, going into this hand, ahjack verse
as jack, You're going to chop the majority of the time, you know,
but then you flop that free roll. You know, maybe you feel
like you know you could have won that one. That leads into Brian Kim
back dooring a flush against Jordan Griff. But Griff had turned a full house,
so you know, that's another another problem there for Brian Kim. Griff
raised in early position. Brian Kim called out of the small blind with a
s eight of clubs. Griff had a couple of fours. Griff loves those
small pairs he does flop came nine four three, two diamonds and one club.
Kim chuck called thirty percent, turn three of clubs, herring the board
bringing a second club. You can tell where I'm going with this one.
Kim check calls sixty two percent. The River is the jack of clubs.
So Kim with his a state of clubs makes the nut flush on the river.
He check calls eighty three percent. Griff's got the four to four tables
at full house and that was a big dent to Brian Kim, who came
in with it just over ninety six million something like that. Ninety four million,
I can't remember exactly, but he was second in chips and this took
him down into the fifties, So big, big hit here for Brian Kim.
And then this is the point when I came out of the commentary with
enjoying the rail yeap, with my scarf, with my sign, with my
mirrored sunglasses and scuff. I said, my scarf. That was the first
thing I said. I was ready to go, you will I was ready
to go the scars by the way on Brian kinsraw or my idea. Just
so everyone knows I am. You know, I had Gary Gates one time.
I showed up dressed like Mike Tyson's punch out, wearing boxing gloves and
stuff. Here I'm rocking exactly what Brian was wearing, the bohemian style scarf,
mirrored sunglasses. I'm just an elite railer. You didn't have the white
T shirt. Well, I didn't know what T shirt he was gonna wear.
Should have known that. You would know that. Yeah, but I
would never wear a white T shirt. Not a white T shirt. Nope,
don't like them. Don't like them. Yeah. So Brian Kim loses
that hand back dooring Jordan Griff's full house. Then we got Latin Woah getting
his money in six point eight five Big Blinds over a raise from Griff Latin
wah had Ace King of hearts. Griff, guess what he had? Tim,
Come on, I'm trying to think there's a theme here. Sixes small,
yes, the small pair. Remember he only plays threes and fours.
Okay, that's that's all he plays. So he's got threes here. Ace
ten nine flop puts the Frenchman in only three on the turn, bang bang
bang Ace on the river to make trips for Latin whall. But of course
that didn't matter, just a little bit of salt in the wound, as
we lose him in ninth place for a million buckeroos. Then Jonathan Tomayo doubled
up. Of course, Jonathan Tomyo folded Queen's during ten handed play, caught
a lot of flat on social media. My guy over here, Tim loves
it, right, love it? Hey, you love it? I see
him, baby, Yeah, I see him. I seem as for poor
people, well, Jonathan Tomayo might not be might be povo? Who do
we not not? Yeah? I mean I guess let's let's wind it back.
I would have folded. What would you honestly done? Let's be honest?
Yes, in that spot ten handed, I'm never several you can I
think you can just call three options. I think you can call. Yeah,
I think you can jam. I think you can three betting on all
in. I would have I would have probably jammed. I think I would
have probably called. I think faulting is even. I couldn't find faulting pretty
tough. I don't like to jam because I don't really want to go.
I want to make the final table. So yeah, I do have some
chip preservation, but I think I might call and try and assess go from
a I would have jammed. I think that. I think the idea of
ICM in this tournament is very interesting because the pay jumps are relatively flat early
on at the final table and even from you know, tenth to ninth,
like they're like two hundred k, two hundre k, two hundred and fifty
k, you know, even even the jump the first the five hundred K
jump like in real life, in real American dollars, cold hard cash,
Like a jump of two hundred and fifty k, that's a lot of money.
Yeah, okay, but going from like one million to one point twenty
five million when there's ten million dollars up top, like doesn't feel that big.
So I think that that's like that can sometimes like mess with people's minds,
where like you want to play to win, but then you also know
that it's a crap ton of money because you know, quarter of a million
dollars is a lot of money. Yeah, but like if you were at
a final table and it was one thousand dollars and the next next prize was
twelve hundred and fifty, I mean probably just yolo it in with the queens,
like I mean right, like I mean sure, but thinking of it
from a monetary aspect of very little to quite a lot, well, I'm
just I'm just thinking of just thinking of it. One is that I think
I think in this tournament people point to ICM, but also forget about how
top heavy this tournament is. Like I think the Kristin fox In hand and
her approach is a good example, which was before the final table. You
know, she busted out in thirteenth place, where I don't particularly care,
like think that Kristin Foxen cares about anything outside of like the top four,
the top three. So she's gonna play to win, go win that f
and retirement money. Yeah, agree, you know, and like I feel
like people just kind of become in a way prisoners of the moment where they're
like, oh, okay, I got to lock up like this quarter of
a million, this this next quarter of a million, or this five hundred
k, when it might be better off to play for the ten million up
top, or even like the six million second with kind of this weird security
blanket that if you do bust out ninth or tenth ninth, you still get
a million dollars. Yeah, that's still a crap ton of money. Tenth
you get what was eight hundred k, So like it's still a crap ton
of money. So it's not like you're going home with like nothing, you
know, but you have that chance to set yourself up to win. So
so that's just kind of my thoughts on you know, when everyone everyone is
always just default like ICMICM, ICM, Right. But I also feel like
you can in a way kind of not care so much about the ICM in
this specific spot because once you get to like the final two tables, I
mean you're already pretty much getting life changing money. I mean, once you
get half a million dollars, I mean that's a massive score. Like if
you fuck up going for it. You're still gonna land lend on land on
a giant pillow that is made up of a half of a million dollars of
money, So it's it's not the end of the world in a lot of
ways. Then Jonathan Tomayo finds a double up and he gets it in good
his ACE nine versus Griff's a seven. Griff is just involved in every single
all unimaginable Griff raised on the button two Biglindes. Tomayo was in the small
big blind and at this point had gotten down to six and a quarter big
blinds, so he moves all in with ACE nine off. Griff calls him
with a seven off board runs out clean for Tomayow. He actually hits a
nine on the river and he gets the double up. Then we lose Joe
Sarrac. Now I mentioned earlier that it really wasn't Brian Kim's day. It
also was not Joe Sarrack's day. I mean, it just seemed like,
kind of right out of the gate, every pot Joe Sirock tried to end
he lost yep, like nothing was going his way, so he didn't meditate
enough in the morning. That's what it was. I hurt. Yeah,
we'll explain that to the people. Well, what was he doing? I
saw a picture of Jose Rock laying on the floor. Looked like a dead
body. So we told players, you know, one point thirty, come
in. We'll get you miked up et ceta at two o'clock, everything starts.
Players are here at one o'clock eager to go, which is great because
we're so accustomed to poker place on up. Late. Finally we had a
few through and obviously you know, Joe Sarah was in there with I think
Jonathan Tomayo. He was in there with one other guy, and he didn't
have much to do. He decided to lie down, had his music on,
I believe, just lying on the ground in the Thunderdome. Looked like
he was napping. And then we were told later he was just meditating.
So either maybe too much meditating or not enough. Because it wasn't the best
of days for mister Sarah. No it was not. And then you know
he ultimately gets his money and runs into the pocket. Queeners for leaner nine
hundred and that's all she wrote for Sarah. He had hit just under twenty
big blinds. This was a small blind versus big blind ultimately, but Ostet
did get a little tricky with it. Griff raised under the gun. Ostet
calls small blind with queens. Do you like that play over there? Mister
Queen's Queens has a very cold spot in my heart in the wsp Man event
because that is how I bubbled. So there you go. It gives me
shifts, think queens. I wanted to be messed that hand up in the
tag team, so yeah, Griff raised under the gun, min raised two
big blinds. Ostett just calls in the small blind with queens. Sirac thinks
he's got a good squeeze spot, good hand as well. Nineteen point eight
big blinds into the middle from the big blind, Grif folds a couple of
sevens O'stet calls Queen's and that's all she wrote for Sarrak which I believe the
eighth place payout was one point twenty five million dollars. Then, going along
the lines of what I said earlier, with it not being Brian Kim's day,
he runs into the kings for Gonzalez. Gonzalez moved all in from early
position for eight and a half big blinds. Kim is in the cutoff seats
and makes the call with a couple of queens. Queen's just going everywhere around
the table. In this final ta Gonzalez has kings. No queen comes for
Kim. He has to give up the eight and a half big blinds,
giving a little bit of extra momentum over there to the Spaniard Gonzalez then probably
the hand of the final table, or actually on the second hand of the
final table, because there's another one coming up that we'll get to. That
was bigger and more son, even though you might not have known it if
you were listening to the broadcast that said Brian Kim goes out in seventh place.
I would say that it's probably disappointing for him because he comes in second
in chips, albeit you know, virtually tied with Nicholas ousted, but still
second in chips, and then busts in seventh. So Boris Angelov, the
Bulgarian raised on the button two point three big blinds. Now, I got
to ask you something about this hand in a second okay, So he makes
it two point three big blinds, which was big, bigger, yes,
but it was four point six million, okay right at because it was one
million, two million, okay, Kim is in the small blind re raises
to five point nine big binds eleven point eight million. Okay, so four
point six million to eleven point eight million, ostet according to the reporting on
Poker News and WSP dot com. According to our graphics, re raises to
nine big blinds eighteen million. Doesn't he have to make it? Nineteen million?
Four point six million to eleven point eight is the first raise? Is
this? Three bet four point six to eleven point eight okay? What's the
difference? What are the blinds seven point million? I'm just just do the
difference seven point two okay. The so what's seven point two plus eleven point
eight should be nineteen? Yeah? Nineteen? What are you making? Eighteen?
Be sure it wasn't just a type? Did you watch it on the
stream. I didn't watch the stream. The chips how much they cut down.
I didn't watch the stream for this one. I mean I did afterwards
because I was on the rail while this was happening. Yeah, angelov Folds
gets out of the way, Kim, thanks for a little while, and
then moves all in for almost fifty four million, So twenty seven big blinds
Ostet takes about five seconds, makes the call with pocket tens. Kim's got
King six of clubs, and baby, we're sweating because Kim's rail needs a
king or some clubs. It comes Queen ten to eight with one club turn
five of clubs, which does give Kim a sweat here with the back door
clubs, but of course Leaner nine hundred there with the middle set ten six
of spades on the river black but no good. Of course it was also
six, so it didn't matter. And Kim is out the door seventh place,
one point five million dollars for him, and that was a massive,
massive pot to Brian Kim, and I think we should talk. I think
we should throw to Jeff's interview with Brian Kim, his elimination interview, because
Brian Kim said something in the interview that I want to hit on. So
let's throw to Jeff Platt and Brian Kim right now. Bran, I'm sure
it's overwhelming in the moment. Can you at least give us a glimpse into
your thought process there at the King six student, Yeah, I felt like
the player on the button was just going to open all the stuff he's supposed
to and something happened where I kind of thought he might have been a little
lighter, and then I have a three bats sometimes sometimes sold. And then
my instinct was that Nicholas considered folding after he peeled his cards and then he
foro bet and just something about it didn't feel like he had the one one.
So yeah, I just thought I could clear out some of the acex
bluffs. So yeah, sometimes you go for it and it doesn't work out.
Obviously he did a great job adjusting and fore betting tens. Yeah,
it's just how it goes. You grew up watching the World Series of Poker
main event. Do you allow yourself to take some pride in the moment to
just go for it here at this final table? Well, honestly, I'm
a bit sad because it's like a bit of a punt, right, But
no, it's you in this lineup. You just kind of have to battle
and you can't just sit there and wait around. So I'm not I don't
think my play was completely tragic, but yeah, I feel good about it,
and I think it was a great run. I'm I'm I'm gonna be
happy tomorrow for sure. All Right, So that was Brian Kim with Jeff
Platt, and the thing that I wanted to hit on is when he said
that he saw Nicholas look at his cards and like almost looked like he was
about to fold and then come with a four beat. So I thought that
that was interesting. Maybe a little bit of some live reads going on with
Brian Kim there, and you know, ultimately live reads that went wrong because
you know, Lena had a hand that was a value hand and he was
not folding. So so yeah, I thought that was interesting. Could have
just been something where like Lena just looked at his hand like a slightly different
way, but it really it meant nothing, but you know, Brian Kim
read it as something, so yeah, yeah, you're you're right. He
made it eleven eleven eight, that's confirmed. BA can count the chips.
Lena did make it eighteen, so so that was off. So that was
Danie. Yeah, I mean, listen, I know it's one big blind,
but I also always wonder with how studied these guys are, like what
that would have ultimately done to anything, if anything, I've been most studied
for a clickback. It's just a click beat, right yeah, anyway,
I mean I don't think it ultimately matter. Whatever backfold, isn't that the
point of it. I'm not gonna speak on LANEA nine hundreds full bet range
from the big bline. But I thought that's like a clickback fold. I
mean when you do that, I don't Kim has A has a good hand
to five bet rip here if he thinks Austin is getting out of line at
all. You know, King blocks some premiums. You have that six,
so you know the bluffs six. The six is very important because if you
have let's say King five of clubs right, then you remove in ACE five
suited combo. But if you have a six, then all the ACE five,
Ace four, Ace three, Ace deuce combos are in there. But
if you have like King four suited, King three suited, King five suited,
and though you remove one combo from those other hands. See this is
why I stick with the south point about the four bet rangers and the King.
I got the six block the club the spect No, I'm not doing
that. I'm never going to get better. I just I cannot put myself
through this. No offense. Kudos to you for like understanding this. You
never find me outside King the King like the ace King, you know,
the Kings. Of course I get that, and maybe he just could have
also thought that he was just getting completely out of line here given the spot.
You know, if he seems like if he thinks Brian Kim is going
to be three betting the button opener light, then he can attack accordingly,
and then it's you know, just kind of a leveling war between these two
who are very good. So yeah, I also thought that it was interesting
that maybe this is a little too inside baseball, but whatever. I went
to dinner afterwards with Brian and a bunch of us. Dinner, right,
I don't do that around Donald. I did good at dinner. We stayed
here, I went with a celebrity. There was a did dinner as well,
Hard and show celebrity. We stay here and work. Every day I
was working. I was getting an intel in order to share on this podcast.
Was just what I'm about to share. Okay. Well, one of
our friends, who knows Nicholas very well, is good friends with him,
plays with them all the time, talks poker with them all the time,
said that Nicholas is extremely good, Like probably his best quality as a poker
player is that he's extremely good at doing something in order to basically manipulate his
opponent to doing what he wants them to do. So like here, you
know, essentially the click four bet on the cold four bet from the Big
Blind, you know, getting Brian Kim to essentially spaz out a little bit
here with that King six put it all in. I say a little bit
because I think, you know, Brian had some reasons why he did what
he did. So that's like kind of interesting that our friend who knows Nicholas
had that insight that, like, you know, this is this is what
Nicholas is very good at. This friend. Huh, But I also know
this friend, I think. So Okay, I don't know, maybe Rad
Pitt, that's what you're talking about. Were you at my wedding? I
can't remember he was at my wedding, so you probably know, all right,
Moving on next hand, So you sayeah, Brian Kim goes out there
a bit of a shock. But I'm also going to say this, and
if anyone's gonna punt, it would be Brian Kim, if anyone was gonna
I think, I mean even Kim said it was a bit of a punt,
So I don't think he would totally disagree with you, but it's not.
The thing is that when you say punt, it's it's not always like
the tragically worst thing in the world. Like you can have some punts and
sometimes the other person folds. Sometimes you get lucky and they work. Like
you know that it happens, right, I mean, it wasn't Vanessa Selps
a punt her all the time, you know, but like she had an
incredible career, Like you have to have that gear because then when you have
value, like Alan Kesler's never going to be a punter. Tim duckw never
gonna be a pun but Alan Casler is a better example because because he plays
a lot more than you do. And like when Alan Caster puts chips in
the pot, like you're never gonna pay him off just because he's never a
punter. Now, sure you know who's a bad punter in a way,
your boy Zoom zoom, Oh my god, because he'll just like randomly like
start like three and fourbating like Queen Deuce, like out of like out of
absolute nowhere, like just because like he doesn't believe this guy, or he
wants to lay the smack down Phil Helmets style and his opponents like and you
know, these kids, they don't know who they're doing, blah blah blah.
Just I'm gonna show him type of stuff. Like he goes into these
crazy things and just like almost absolutely just melts down and then just has like
these weird punts, and we all joke that it's like, oh, it's
just filling zoom zoom mode when you know, if we're gonna call for what
it is, it's an absolute punt, right. But what I was saying
is that, like, yes, you know, Kim probably punted to some
degree, but I like the same thing that I said about Kristin Foxen I'm
gonna say here about Brian Kim is that it takes a lot to go for
it on that stage. It took a lot for Kristen Foxen to go for
it and trust herself and stick the money in. Yeah. I think the
same thing for Brian Kim. You know, you're seven handed at the final
table at the main event, Yeah, you can just fucking fold the King
six. You know. He even said when I was talking to him about
the hand, like the three bet alone, like he can mix in some
three bets there, he can mix in some folds so even starting the hand,
he could have folded at times, you know, but if he randomized
in his head or did whatever he did, he opted to go three betah,
which then led to everything else. So maybe he just folds that sometimes
and then if we just move on to the next hand, or you know,
lean a three with the tens, or plays the hand with the tens
out of the big line and just wins it and like it's kind of an
inconsequential pot and we all just move on to the next hand, right,
or he folds to the forebat right. But I mean, he trusted himself,
you know, thought he had decent logic within the hand that he had,
and you know what, he put his opponent on the range. And
then also that live read thing that he mentioned, so you know, I
think that that was all just kind of interesting. So again, you know,
this was a very interesting and at the final table, there's one other
very interesting one that went down that we'll talk about in a little while.
Jonathan Tomile ends up doubling again, this time through Griff, which it was
Griff before he doubles through Griff again. Griff raised two big blinds. Tomayo
re raised to twelve and a quarter big Linds left himself with five big lines
behind. Griff moves all in. Tomile calls with a night Off loves that
A nine off. Doesn't love queens, but absolutely loves the A nine off.
Griff has a dominating ace king, But what's the river nine ball?
Come back? That's right and Tomaio gets the double up. There think he
also had a seven. He had a gutshot. I think I think he
had a gut shot of the nine. We had another come from behind to
double up. This time it was the Bulgarian Boris Angelov. He spiked a
five to double against Nicholas Ostet. This was small blind versus big blind,
folded to Angelov in the small blind, he moved all in for about ten
and a half big lines with ace five off. Ostet looks down and finds
ace. Jack Off makes the call nine to seven to five on the flop,
and Angeloff holds from there to get the double. Then we get probably
the most interesting hand or the biggest hand at the final table. This was
Jonathan Tomayo versus Nicholas Ostett, and it started with Ostet on the button min
raised to two big blinds. He had pocket tens again hit pocketens in the
other interesting hand with Brian Kim. This time he's got pocket ten's here raising
on the button. Tomayo defends from the big blind with King Queen. It
comes Ace jack ten. That's right, you heard me, Ace jack ten.
Couple of clubs out there. So Tomaio flops Broadway stone cold nuts here
and Ostet is feeling amazing, probably with the pocket tens for bottom set here,
also probably feeling extra good because you unblock the ace and the jack and
you have the best set to have in this situation. So Tomayo checks and
Ostet comes with fifty seven percent. A bit of some geometric bet sizing here
that we'll see from Ostet. Turn is the deuce after Tomaio calls just a
blank deuce. No club comes in again. There were two clubs on the
flop. Tomayo chuck calls again, this time for forty three percent of the
pots. River is a blank of three. Tomayo checks, Ostat puts them
all in for around fifty four percent pot, and Tomayo makes the call of
course with the nuts os that's tens go down in flames there and wow,
this was wild, because you know, Tomayo, I feel like probably just
wanted to ladder a couple spots at the final table. I think that was
ultimately, of course, what led to him folding those queens ten handed,
you know, and then given that he comes into this final table with I
think twenty six million, it was like basically him and Latin Wall were like
tied, and then Gonzalez was the short stack. So you know, Tomayo
is hoping he can outlast one of those two players. You know, ladder
up a spot or two, but this hand, he's like he's in it,
like he wins this hand. It's a massive pot. He gets up
to I think near one hundred million. I mean, now you have to
be feeling like, okay, the hell with laddering up. I got at
to make it to the second day of the final table and possibly go on
to win this damn thing, which is just absolutely wild. So this hand
was crazy, the biggest one at the final table for sure. But I
also have to give it to Nicholas Ostet because in a way this could kind
of really derail you can certainly take the wind out of your sales, but
probably just leans on the fact that he's been through this a bazillion times before.
Maybe if you know, not maybe, but of course not on this
stage, this level, with you know, this much money at play.
But the guy's played infinite poker tournaments where he's taken beats like this, where
he thinks he's got the best hand, he's beaten by the hand, you
know, a hand that beats him that can kind of come out of surprise
in the moments, but you know, just focuses and gets right back on
the horse and continues on. So then Gonzales goes out in sixth He four
bet jammed for twenty point five big lines with pocket jacks. Ostat had acequ
ace and the flop, and that was all she wrote for the Spaniard.
Then we lost the Bulgarian Angelov in fifth place. This was an interesting hand
here. So Angelov shoves for six big blinds. It was after Jason Segel
folded from under the gun, and I think Sego had like ten or eleven
big binds. Angelov has six big lines. He shoves with pocket sixes.
Tomile's in the big blind. It folds to him, thinks for a while,
makes the call with king six off, which feels close. I think
I lean fold here, but I think it's close too. Definitely, King
six suited call, but King six off is close, I think, And
I think Tomayow also recognized that just by the way that he was acting,
you know, it kind of seemed like he reluctantly called, which is generally
a good sign that the player understands that it's close, or at least they
feel that it's close. So so yeah, I would agree that with Tomayo
that that this one's close. And I actually talked with him later We're going
to play the interviews that I have with all three of these players later on,
but he said that he thought that this one was a mistake. So
either way, it doesn't matter. Because King five four king on the turn,
and because tomorrow has King six, that means his opponent is drawing dead
with that turn, Card ten completes the board on the river, and Angelov
is out in fifth place. By the way, I forgot to ask you,
how long did it take for six hand to play to last before we
lost Gonzales and sixth eighty six hands forever? It felt very, very very
long, and long enough for me to get a massage. I mean,
long enough for me to go to dinner. I walked to dinner. I
walked back. You didn't want to touch you. But like the other friend
said to these idiots, I go to dinner. We're like, we're going
to Spago at Blagio. You know, okay, fine, Richie, I
told you we were with a celebrity. Oh that's right, was it?
Yeah? And I walked there. It takes like what nine minutes to fifteen?
Most yeah, fifteen. I walked there very quickly. I get there.
No one else is there. Where are you guys? Because they said,
you know, six o'clock. Kim busted probably at like I don't know,
five five point fifteen. By time they do the interview, we all
stand around give him hugs. He goes up to check in at the payout
desk, et cetera. You know, it's like five point thirty. So
they're like, yeah, let's meet there at six. You know. I
come back here, charge my phone for a few minutes, walk over there.
Okay, fine, I'm like, where are you guys? Like we're
stuck in traffic? What do you mean you're stuck in traffic? They drove
like, what are you guys doing? Joe Biden, the president is in
town it's an absolute shit show outside. You cannot go on the strip.
You can't. Yeah, I mean, so what are these people doing?
Come on the strip and they're Vegas locals, So what the hell's what do
you guys? What are you guys doing? I was like, you know,
you guys can walk here. One of our friends like kind of ran
into the traffic and then just turned around and went back to the parking garage
and then walked which and then he beat the other people who were stuck in
traffic. That's the second smartest person in the group. Yeah, I mean,
I don't know what these people were doing. Six and Play lasted forever.
Tim got massage, I got dinner. It seemed like they were never
gonna go home. So then we lost Gonzales and six. We talked about
that. We talked about Angelov going out in fifth place, then fourth place.
Jason Segel aka Big Bird. Do also want to mention that Segal finished
was It twenty second in two thousand and four for one hundred and twenty thousand
dollars. Really good run from him there. So he makes the final three
tables again, and he's actually one of three players at this final table to
have previously made the final three tables in the was be Made event. You
had Segal, of course, back in two thousand and four. You had
Tomayo got twenty first in two thousand and nine for I think three hundred and
fifty thousand, and then you had Brian Kim who got twenty second or twenty
third in twenty and twenty two for three hundred and twenty three k or something
like that. So three players, Segal, Tomayo, and Kim had all
previously been to the final three tables of the dovasp Made event before, which
is pretty pretty wild. So Segle busting forth Nicholas Ostett raised under the gun
to two big blinds. It folds over to Segel in the big blind with
nine point three big blinds. He moves all in with two jacks. Ostet
tanks for a bit, ends up making the call with ace three of clubs.
It comes eight four three, and Segal like looks over at his rail
and kind of gives like the okay, a little bit of a sweat here
five on the turn, which means that Ostett now picks up a wheel draw
along with his pair of threes. Segel looks over at his reel again says,
oh, okay, a little more of a sweat. Now, deuce
on the river, baby, at least if you're a sweet if you're rooting
for Ostet, because he makes a wheel that sends Sagel out the door.
And I thought it was interesting that on the broadcast you could hear him when
he was shaking the hands with the other three players, and he basically he
said to each of them, I think you know, it wasn't my day.
It wasn't my day. It wasn't my day. So didn't feel that
it was his day overall, you know, didn't from what I saw checking
in on the broadcast. Didn't really have too many playable hands, So,
you know, an unfortunate bust out for Segel, but still gets what three
million dollars? Correct? I believe, yeah, three million dollars, so,
you know, really good score for him, all things considered, all
right, sir, Okay, what'd you think day one of the final table?
Like takeaways? What do you got for me? Thoughts? When I
throw it at me? It was very skeptical going in that it was going
to be a bit of a dud. And when I say dud, I
mean more the rail the reactions, the vibe of this final table. But
I was pleasantly surprised. I was actually very sad to lose, to see
Angelov go out. He had hands down the best rail of the final nine.
But even people that were composed, like Jonathan Toamayo, some people say
he's looks like an account dressing in Kacki's and Apolo, he got excited,
he celebrated some of those big double ups he scored with his rail. So
it surprised me in that way. You know, it was good to see
some action, Like you know, obviously sometimes you do want to see your
your favorite players or your friends, you know, with you with Brian Kim,
you know, just run over the table. But we we saw a
bit of everything. We saw these guys go up, you know. We
saw Griff go up to two hundred million back down. We saw Nicholas go
up to two hundred and something back down. We saw some suckers, We
saw some crazy turn cards, some crazy run around of beats, we saw
big plots. I think this kind of had everything without having everything, like
you know, if that kind of I don't know if that kind of makes
sense, But yeah, I didn't mind it I didn't mind it at all.
You know, of course would have liked to see Ryan Kim go a
little bit deeper, but you know, he still cast for one point five
million, made the File Table the biggest tournament in the world. So yeah,
that's like four by ins of trying. I know, it's great.
It's it's so crazy to think about, you know, even as an outsider.
And I know I thought about this before with my good friend Gary Gates,
Like you know that you buy into a ten thousand dollars poker tournament.
In every other poker tournament out there, that's ten thousand dollars and cashing for
one point five million or even two million, or you know, Gary Gates
cast for three million. I mentioned Jason Siegel cast for three million, Like
that's first place. Yeah, you won the tournament essentially. I mean WPT
World Championship and the w spman are the only ones that aren't like that.
Yeah, so it's great. But on the other side of things, you
get this far, like you really taste the victory, like you can you
can achieve that you can achieve the win, right, so I can only
imagine, like what sort of emotions are going through you when you make it
to the final table and then bust out because you've come so far and you've
already made so much money. But then you also like start to see the
finish line. So I have a thought on that, and I want to
ask you about it. You know Brian Kime better than me. I know
him a little a little bit. He's very tense when he plays poker,
right, would you say that tense? I think is a good word.
He's very focused. It's hyper focus, and he doesn't want to be deserved
once to do his own thing every day. So far, during this main
event run, he's bounced out of here. He's you know, you can't
really talk to him, can't do anything with him. He's gone. I
felt that when he busted, you know, I went over, I said,
hey, good run, gave him little fist pump. I felt this
like he was very like relieved maybe or calm, maybe, like the pressure
the weight of like this tournament was now off him, even though he had
busted in seventh, you know, only busting in seventh, only winning one
point five million dollars, but that pressure, that relief that had been building
up for you know, this is day nine for him of playing poker,
that he could just breathe a sigh of relief and probably I'd let you fill
us in on this at dinner, maybe he was calm and a normal Brian
and laughing and joking. I don't know what was your thoughts on. I
think he was like part sad, part not happy yet but recognize that he
would be happy probably tomorrow or the next day. Yeah, I mean,
I think that you just put so much into a tournament like this, and
we've seen it with not just Brian Kimball, with you know, everyone that
runs this deep in this thing, like you just it absolutely consumes you.
It takes you over and then once you're done, if you if you don't
win, because you know only one person can win. If you don't win,
like it just must be like I don't even know how to describe it
because I can't be in those that position. I've never been in that position.
I don't know. I just know that, like, as a friend
watching on, it's stressful as fuck watching your friends out there go through this
sort of thing, but at the same time, it's the most exciting thing
in the universe. So it's very weird to have that sensation and I can
only imagine that sensation is magnified by the players at the table. We got
some insight into that for these final three players because I did talk with each
of them, even though Tim didn't want to come help me with the interviews
because he was writing the recap, which is not as important as By the
way, yes, we have to do something about it is a It is
chaos out there. They're trying to do the three person photo and like media
is just grabbing the players for interviews. It's clearly photos first, Like it's
it's if production wants any sort of shots, sweeping cameras, take the jip,
whatever the heck it is. That's first. Photos are second. Then
the people go in Yeah, okay. I ran a point on that yesterday
with the tenth Well you need to get your ass out there and run point
again because I sat it was a disaster. My bad started interviewing people before
the photos are taken, and we're all kind of like standing around. Is
it is it abby for poker news? She like looks at me, She's
like, are we doing interviews now? I'm like, no, we shouldn't.
She's like I didn't think so, But like they're interviewing them. I'm
like, I don't want you know, there's no one out here next toye.
I'll be better. I promise I'll be buying next to you for you.
There just needs to be people out there like that are like, first
of all, it's not your job, like just somebody like coordinating, yeah,
figuring the stuff out because like you know, and I also it's also
weird because I know we're going to get to these interviews with these players.
But I think you might even agree because I know you always think like player
first, I almost don't want to interview these guys because first of all,
I want I want to interview people, and I know you and I have
talked about this. We want to do it on our own. We don't
want to do it in a scrum okay, And by time we do it,
if we go up first, the chances that like someone else sticks their
microphone in there and wants to scrum it are high. So we like to
wait till the end. You wait till the end. A player has probably
gone through three, four, maybe five interviews and they're over it, like
they're ready to go home, you know, especially in this tournament at this
stage, they want to go home, unwind, possibly study whatever they can
tonight, get to bed as early as they can, get some rest,
get up, study some more, cram for the final test, come back
and try and finish this thing out. So I almost feel bad, I
know, like I feel I feel like I have a responsibility and I really
want to do it, Like I want to bring interviews to this podcast and
talk to these players and all that sort of stuff, but also like part
of me wants to respect them and the time or lack thereof that they have
from one day to the next and not bother them. So you know,
I kind of just try and get in there and ask questions like pretty quickly,
and like come with two or three, get a good sound bite or
two maybe, and then get out of there, just because it must be
so like like you just want like you're done playing bag up the chips,
go home, like move on to the next day, you know. But
I also understand that, like on the other side is these players are the
biggest thing in poker right now. The Final nine was the biggest thing in
poker when they made the final table, right the Final three right now,
they're the biggest thing in poker until tomorrow comes, and then eventually the champion
is going to be the biggest thing in poker for you know, the next
year, maybe even longer. Yep. So I don't know if the players
having a duty is like that's the right way to phrase it. But it's
expected of them to have this duty. But I don't know, is it
a mistake that we expect that of the players, Like we just expect them
to bag up these final three and to just go through the car wash of
interviews. That's what we expect. But I also feel like, no,
because it's not it's I think it's different than sports just because that's salary driven
and they're getting paid so much money to show up and play, and you
know, they have contracts that might have media stuff in them where they have
to do certain things and this and that and whatever. You know, that's
not how poker is. And I I mean, I know they all sign
a waiver that says like, you know, you have to be on TV
and you have to do this and you have to do that. But like,
I don't know. I guess I'm very appreciative that they take their time
to fucking talk with us, but also I feel bad while doing it and
like pressing it on them. So anyway, huh, Rantov, Well,
I just it's not really a rant. It's just like how I feel,
you know, Like I can't just like go in there and jam a microphone
in someone's face when like I know that they, like these guys are locked
in. They want to get home and get down to business, get some
rest, and come back the next day, you know, and they're not
thinking about the other stuff. Thankfully, I think you and I are pretty
blessed in that we have good rapport with a lot of the players. So
they see us and they're like, Okay, I know him, I know
his face, he's been around, so I'm willing to talk with them.
But yeah, listen, I'm just trying to be honest about how I feel
about the situation, and I'd be lying to everyone out there if I said,
you know it. At times it makes me want to almost walk off
the stage and not bother these guys for more. And then tomorrow with the
winner, I mean, it's gonna be even worse. Yeah, right,
you know, there's gonna be three thousand people trying to get an interview with
him afterwards. That said, So first up, I talked with Nicholas Ostetz.
He actually said, hey, why don't you walk with me so that
I don't have to so that no one else stops. And I said,
yeah, let's go walk and talk. So we did a little walk and
talk with the chip leader entering the second day of the final table Nicholas Ostet
aka Lena nine hundred. All right, Nicholas, I really just want to
ask you about the one hand with Brian Kim the King six hand, because
I don't know if you notice that in his bust out interview he said that
when you peeled your cards to him, it looked like you were about to
fold, and then you came with the foe bed. Were you ever going
to fold or was that just maybe a mistake on his part. I was
never going to fold the hand. Now. I peeled my hand, looked
in my hand maybe a few times, which I normally probably don't do,
so maybe that was something he picked up. But no, I was never
folding the hand. The consideration was, yes, if I was gonna have
for bed or go all in. Basically, how you feeling overall? I
mean, I know this is a bit of a different setting than which you
might be used to playing online, you know, having ten twelve, however,
many tables up here, it's like kind of a rowdy, crazy atmosphere.
Do you still feel at home at the poker table? Before today and
after and in between? It's like when I get a little butterflies in my
stomach when I sit at the table there is nothing. Then It's just like
that caled me down every time. But leading up to today, everyone flying
in all the expectations. Of course, I was a bit you know,
I had butterflies in my stomach before starting, But as soon as cars were
in the air and I was playing, it was all good. Now,
chipleyed, entering the second three players left, are the expectations to basically win
or bust. No, I don't. I always just try to play my
best and whatever outcome happens happens, and I'm gonna be fine with it,
you know. But to not win wouldn't tilt me. To play bad would
tilt me. So I'm going to try not to play bad. That's it.
You heard it there, Ostet said. You know, he was never
folding the tens, but I did want to ask him because that, you
know, of what Brian Kim said in his exit interview that you heard earlier
with Jeff Platt where he thought he might have like saw something from Nicholas Osted
or possibly had a slight live read on him or whatever. So did want
to ask Nicholas Osted about that, and listen, this guy seems pretty locked
in. I would almost like start preparing that he's gonna be the next world
champion. It's not running him out. I mean, why not, right,
I mean, he's it in a way, it's kind of fitting that
the greatest tournament poker player ever wins the greatest poker tournament ever. Yeah,
that's just kind of that's just kind of awesome. I mean God wins God
tournament with something something. Yeah, I mean he's he's he's for sure one
of the goats. I know we throw that word around all over the place,
but I think also like you see it when you see other quote unquote
goats saying that he's the goat, that's when you know, you know,
that's when you know. Can you see that a lot on social media?
So, Nicholas ostedt Aka Leena nine hundred more than forty eight million dollars in
online tournament earnings. I wonder what that would translate to in live tournament earnings
probably like one hundred and seventy five million, because like when they say,
like when they say like okay, you play, you play, you go
play, you go play six tournament at the win the opener of the Win
series, it's like playing a four dollars tournament online. I think that's the
same type of rule, like a zero, like a fifty I used to
play when I used to, So you're just your forty four eight million,
No, because I used to when I used to be a online planner,
I would only the biggest buying on play was the fifty five on Stars,
but that was probably pretty tough. Yeah, it is very tough. I
mean except for this obviously, Stars is probably like a one k. Yeah,
yeah, like like a fifteen. I was going to say, it's
actually no, the fifty seven Stars, it's probably like the twenty five hundred
dollars n all of the series. It's not even if I think it's that
yes, because that's like hot I took second and that's to get like the
like the Christian Hearders of the World that are like twenty five would be like
a fifteen hundred deep Stacks or something. I think no way, No,
I don't think it's twenty five. No. If I can take second of
the two k, the two k and you find you can have the two
knl, I'll give you that. We'll middle it. Yeah, fifteen hundred
is like und like like a prime or something like that, not a random
fifteen hundred. The fifty five almost when we get back. But that's what
I'm saying is that the money is so different online to live now. Of
course the online stuff you can get a ship on a volume and you can
rack all. Yes, but still, I mean to eclipse that or to
get that high forty eight million online is fucking incredible. It's absolutely incredible.
So shout out to Nicholas Ostatt and he's the chip leader entering day two of
the Final Table. Second in chips we have Jonathan Tomayo also caught up with
him afterwards. He was nice enough to chat with me. All right,
Jonathan Tomo, you just made the second day of the Final Table Final three,
coming in, did you have expectations of reaching it this far? Like,
what was your mindset coming into the first day of the Final Table And
realistically I was going to finish sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth for a
lot like after that, it's kind of gravy, you know, And it's
one of those that if it happens, I'm in the spot and we'll do
that at this point, So and we're here. As the table progresses,
people start busting out. You know, when did it start to kind of
change your mindset? Saying okay, like I got a shot to make that
next day? Are you playing? Never really enters your head. Now.
I can think about it a little bit before, you know, dinner or
bed or whatever. But then there's still one more day at work, so
I can do whatever I want after tomorrow, but I can I can focus
for one more day, an they immediate aftermath? Are you happy with your
play? You think everything worked out how you expected it to. I didn't
play perfect, but it went better than unexpected? Is the King six was
probably a mistake, but I got away with it. So anytime you get
away with one, you're elated. And then what's the plan for tonight going
into tomorrow? Uh, dinner, some rests, think about some hands,
and then we back out tomorrow. Same same old thing, like, same
old thing like today. All right, that was tomorrow? You heard him
there say that you know, maybe the King six off call was probably a
mistake, but yeah, I just thought it was interesting with tomorrow where you
know, you got the sense from him that not only speaking to him yesterday
after play, but also after seeing the Queen Queen fold, that it was
very much in his mind to just start lattering up. So then at some
point it asked to be like, Okay, I have an actual shot here.
I got a lot more chips, there's fewer people at the table,
some people have busted out, and it hasn't been me like I'm going to
go for it now. So anyway, good to get some good insight there
from Tomaile and we'll see what he can make happen tomorrow on or sorry today
on day two of the final table. And then last Jordan Griff the only
amateur at this final table. Everyone else, as I said yesterday, had
listed themselves as a professional poker player except for Griff. He's one of nine
in that regard. He is a supply chain manager. He has a nine
to five job. You even hear him in this upcoming interview that I'm about
to play where he says I'm the amateur. Right, So anyway, I
thought he played really well at this final table so far. He came in
with the chip lead, he finished higher from where he started in terms of
chips. He's three of three. Yes, But also, as we talked
about earlier, these players are pretty close in stacks, so really anything can
happen on the second day of the final table. And here is Jordan Griff.
All right, Jordan Griff, you came in with the chip lead,
now you're in the final three. It did you really have expectations if I
need to make that second day? Well, it wasn't that I needed to
make the second day, but you know, first has always been the goal.
I'm trying to balance the decisions of page jumps versus going for the glory,
going for the goal, going for it all. And I know it
was always a possibility, but now it's it's becoming a reality, and I
still can't believe it. You say you still can't believe it is the is
the moment really, say? Possibly? Wane on you getting to you or
are you still like very focused in the moment with the task at hand.
I'm very focused, and it actually is surprising me myself. I remember his
Day seven was the first day I got put on a future table and I
remember seeing the lights being miked up and thinking, oh my god, I'm
gonna be so nervous. I'm gonna have so many tells. And I got
to the table and I was just in the zone, like I didn't feel
it at all. I was just very focused on every hand at play.
I think I chipped up like double in the first level that I was playing
under the lights. And it's been like that ever since. I felt very
calm, very at ease and at home playing on these tables, and it's
just it's the most amazing thing. You've had some pretty memorable hands throughout this
whole events. Is there is there one that sticks out better than all the
others? Wow? I mean I think there are two of them. For
sure. One is going into yesterday the Queens versus three is on the very
first hand, spiking the two outer on the river and then coming into ten
handed and getting the quads versus straight. Those two, for sure stick out
in my mind as just incredibly huge chance. There's now just two two players
between you and ten million dollars and the goal bracelet. How do you think
you stack up against the other two? I mean, I know for sure
that they are more studied, more experienced players. You can tell that from
the cases, and I'm sure people watching can even tell that. You know
they're tournament pros. But I'm going to try and use my image to my
advantage and understand what they think of me, Understand how I think I'm playing
and how they think I'm playing, and try to use that to my advantage.
I think there's a lot of spots I've taken over the last few days
that people wouldn't expect an amateur player like myself to make, and I've made
them just knowing that pro wouldn't think I'm capable of it. I think he
gives me the impression. It's a combination for him of recognizing who he is
and how he's viewed at the table, hence the amateur comment, and also
playing his game and doing what he thinks is right. And I think so
far it has worked out for him, of course, and I don't think
he should do anything different than he's already done. It's clearly working. So
just play your game. You know, Yeah, you might not be the
pro, but that doesn't mean anything because anything can happen at the table.
So many of us are equals as long as we have the buy and so
go get after it. Man, That's what i'd say to you. I
got one more thought. We need to go back to a theater for the
Final table. The theater setting is incredible. Now November nine I don't think
works. Okay, November nine, October nine, whatever the heck you want
to call it or do. I don't think that works, just because it's
just too long. And there's this I think there's this misconception that like,
if you delay it, you can really hype it up with mainstream media.
The mainstream media don't care. I'm sorry, they just don't. Okay,
unless it's Daniel Legrand you they ain't gonna care. I like how it's done
now, where you have that day off. I could even say at times
you could have two days off if you wanted to, just kind of depending
on you know, where it's sat in the schedule. I would just try
and align the Final Table with what I thought was the best days. I
know we've talked about him before, No, not Monday, Monday, Tuesday,
So that's what I would try and do. So if that that means
you have to have two days off before or one day off before whatever you
want to do. I think you can make that happen. I got multiple
issues with the theater though, hold on, okay, I'll hold on.
I think the theater is elite. I think it does. I think it
does two things. One, it's just an absolutely elite setup. Yep,
you can't. You can't watch poker when you're on the same plane as the
table. The theater with like the stadium seating that goes up and you can
look down flanking the stage. You can have big monitors. That is the
best set. Everyone can have their own little section. I think that is
so great. Also, we know that every single year on our production that
we can't use the mainset because they're setting it up for three or four days
for the full production. Well, if you're setting that up in a theater
that is somewhere else, you can then use this throughout. So that's another
benefit that I think. So that's what I got. Tell me, why
you tell me why it wouldn't work, Let me have it. Number one.
Production wise, that means we need to move set up. We need
a second setup in this theater of yours, this imaginary theater. Point two,
which theatre we're going to use the Jubilee one. Then we did the
Doyl Bronson Celebration of Life. I don't know. I'd have to see how
big it is. It would be tough to get what you're trying to achieve.
I get, but it's actually small and panetellism. Maybe it works.
Third, there was complaints today from multiple people and from WSP stuff, Polka
Go stuff. Where the hell was the ryo? Now you aren't here watching
because you're sitting in the commentry with but the rail was definitely not full.
You know, everyone was given that ten risk bands. That was not well,
that was one problem. Ten ristbands, that's one problem. Why there
wasn't a rail. No, no, I'm saying not. You only get
ten risks. It wasn't so it wasn't didn't have the ninety people in there,
didn't have that ninety. It happened at seventy. So we started giving
more act to Philly. I would bet that it had very close, if
not ninety, for sure, Okay to start to start. Of course,
my thing with that is that, okay, they give out ten wristbands per
player, ninety seats, okay, and then of course you know it's probably
the capacity of one hundred or one hundred and five or something like that,
and then you have ten to fifteen for like staff when there's camera crews that
want to go back there, stuff like that. Okay, they weren't even
letting media back, I know, which was weird, but okay, yeah
it was a fa Now when Daniel Legron you won the fifty k PPC,
there was six hundred people on that stage. You could not move on that
stage. They didn't care about it then, right, I mean, yeah,
I mean what I don't understand. I don't know, man, I
listen. I understand that the main event is bigger, you expect more people
to come out all that sort of stuff, But like when you get into
Granny or an Ivy or a Helmut final table, there's no wristbands. It's
just as a free for all is there's six hundred people on the stage,
climbing all over each other, standing on seats like. There was people literally
standing on seats at the top level of like the back row of seats when
the Granny's Final Table was happening, like, and no one seemed to care.
Like, I just don't understand. It's not as important as the main
event obviously. I mean I think you could have let more people up there.
Yes, I will definitely say that the rails were not as fun.
The Bulgarian rail was fucking lit that place. With that, those guys were
awesome. Siame Street could have been a lot better. That was a bit.
I thought that was gonna come with some hate. Yeah, and see
I don't I expected nothing from Brian came and Nicholas I said that so zero.
I mean I after I did my commentary stint for the first hour on
the preview, I hopped into the Brian Kim rail. They didn't have anything
prepared. I mean they just didn't. They didn't have any songs prepared,
any chance prepared, like they were trying to figure them out on the fly
and it just it wasn't working right. I mean it's hard. Thankfully,
if I ever make a big final table, I know I have people in
my life that are big soccer fans and big into this. Shout out producer
Rich Ryan, who will lead the chance. I would I would be willing
to bet that if I ever made the final table. Like let's say I
made a final It doesn't it doesn't have to be. It could be any
fucking w SP event. If I make the final table, Rich Ryan would
email song chance to everyone. The next day, he'd have them printed out,
ready to go with the American Outlaws due for the US men's national soccer
team. Like that's what would happen. We'd have the chance, we'd be
ready to go. Everything would be organized, like, yeah, can I
okay, let's let's be honest. I'm not gonna make it has to be
fun title I'm not good enough. I understand removal of the six o' clubs,
but if I did, I want to read this story from our boy,
our kangaroo cru lead manber Joe. He tweeted that one hour ago,
no better chance than Azzy Uzzy Uzzy. These guys got nothing on us.
That's if I make it. You didn't even need to plan any chance.
All you gotta do is just go. That's it. Yeah, I mean
that's good. That's good. I had no idea what the Bulgarians were saying,
but the chance sounded awesome. It was also just the reactions from them
too. They were very passion Yeah, of course, and and that can
also lead to, you know, some of the negative stuff that you see
about this Year's Final Table, you know, because you can kind of because
so much of it is the atmosphere. And if the atmosphere is crazy and
there's chanting back and forth and people are going nuts, then I think it
can be really good. One thing I will say about the Bulgarian rail and
I don't know if this is a bad thing towards them or a good thing
towards them. Maybe it's a little bit of both. But every time someone
else started chanting, another rail, they started chanting, and they were ten
times louder than that. How you do it? They But even if Boris
Angelov was not in the hand. But what I'm saying, okay, I
understand. But what I'm saying is that so that's the good part for them
is that, yes, it makes them the powerful rail. They are the
loudest voices. They can get behind their guy the best and provide the most
support. That way, yes, positive for them. The negative for them
is it's a negative for the Final Table atmosphere because no one else is able
to generate anything else. Like once once the Brian Kimrall heard them doing that,
that Brian Kimerraill would just give up on their chance and I'm well,
yeah, but that's what happens. But like I'm saying, I'm saying,
they didn't even let anyone else get going. And I think in almost in
like spirit of competition, you want to kind of let others get going because
then you can go back and forth and then it's like super fun. Right,
And we've seen plenty of the back and forth before, or not necessarily
back and forth going at each other, but like they each kind of take
turns. We've seen that before, and that's when it's the best, that
the worst, That's what I mean. The worst rail today was the Spaniards
rail Gonzales Israel. He had like six people. They're barely chanting. I
mean, he should be for a European yes, should be nuts. So
yeah, so I thought the rails, you know, weren't the best,
which you know can lead into the fact that it's like the lack of atmosphere
like all that sort of stuff. So what are those things that the the
Bozelas, we should just bring them for the right? Didn't they like outline
outlaw them here when the Brazilians happen everywhere, they'll be poplar production authorized so
people can use him. Yeah, I mean, I'll bring one of those
cool rail Yeah. I wish the rails were better this time around, and
maybe they'll get they'll get crazy tomorrow, who knows, you know, I
mean, Tomorrow's got a rail over there, Nicholas aust At. You know,
I think Israel started smaller and grew as we went. And I think
he's gonna have a few more people even coming in tomorrow. I mean,
I know because there was a few Swedes at dinner with us that are Brad
Pitt's coming. Yeah, Brad Pitt's coming. Is Brad Pitt even Swedish?
I mean he's American, but is he like, does he have Swedish descent?
Like he's the celebrity we talked about and then Griff had a very small
rail. But I think you often see that. I think you saw it
with George Holmes in that when the player is an amateur, then the fans
of that player are even more amateur, if that makes sense, Like they
don't like, they don't know how to root for poker, which is weird
for me to say, you know, because I just don't understand that because
I'm in poker and I you know, it's not their fault. Like whatever.
So you know, if you're if you're like a regular person who might
play poker here and there, you take a shot in the main vetter or
whatever, and then you invite all your friends, you're not inviting like a
ton of poker friends. Whereas if let's say I make the volent table,
I'm inviting my friends. They're all fucking poker people, you know, so
they understand the moment what's happening. So but we'll see. I expect tomorrow
for the Swedish rail for Leena nine hundred Nicholas Haste to be the biggest.
I think Jonathan tomorrow to Miles rail will be the second biggest, and then
Griff will come in third there. But yeah, I think the rails overall,
you know, weren't the best this year. But yeah, but I
I do really think we need a theater setting. I don't know, I
know what's available here at Horseshoe with that Jubilee theater. Is there a theater
at Paris? There has to be a theater at Paris. I'm actually not
sure. I mean, I feel like there should be a theater and it
should be in a theater. I think the theater setting is just so so
so good for this sort of thing. Just I know, the Pent and
Teller Theater was obviously the best. I mean, that was nice and big,
but that was so much fun. Man, that was so much fun
because then you can also pack a bunch of people in there, like you
don't have to worry about the wristband so much. Like it's just great.
The crowd shots of when the jib goes out into the crowd and up all
it's so awesome. It's so awesome. So anyway, that's gonna wrap it
up for the first day of the twenty twenty four WSP Main Event Final Table.
It was a fun day of poker. Hope you guys enjoyed it if
you watched it on Poker Go. If you haven't, I don't know what
the heck you're doing. Tune in on Wednesday, July seventeenth for part two.
Three players left Nicholas Asta up on top, Jonathan Tomaio second in Chips,
Jordan Griff third and chips guaranteed four million dollars playing for the ten million
dollar first place prize. My name is Donny Peters. His name is Tim
Duckworth. We'll talk to you guys on the next episode, n Express