Hello, everyone, Welcome back to another episode of the Poker gro Podcast.
My name is Donny Peters. I'm joined by Tim Duckworth. Sir, how
you doing. I'm upset that you're questioning already. Well let's let's just let's
just clear it up off the start. The stat man might need to have
the name removed of being the statman because he messed up the stat Yeah,
and I'm assuming you messed up the stat before too. Yeah. Exactly.
Tim gave an incorrect chop value because he just did the entire prize pool divided
by the players left, Yeah, instead of the remaining prize pool divided by
the players left. So the prize pool that we talked about yesterday, they're
the chop value. I think we said it was one point nine million.
It was really like one hundred thousand or something. Yeah, so just you
know, just off by a million, No big deal, way to go.
But listen, we're here. We're here to correct. We're here to
correct our wrongs. Okay, we will do that. We will admit when
we're wrong, because that's the type of men that we are. So Tim's
wrong, but I think when he gives the chop value. Later today,
he will be right. That's that's what I think. I hope. So
it is one forty eight in the morning on Friday, July fourteenth. We
just wrapped up Day seven of the record breaking twenty twenty three World Series of
Poker main event. Today saw the field go from forty nine players down to
fifteen. Spain's Juan Massierras leads the way in a pretty big way too.
It's got an absolutely enormous chip stack. We have experienced pros Toby Lewis and
Daniel Wineman remaining in the field. We're gonna go through all that sort of
stuff. We talked to a couple of players after it was all done.
I grabbed Massierras, Tim grabbed Lewis, So you'll hear from them later on.
We'll kind of run through the stuff that happened throughout the day. We'll
also hit on, of course, the other stuff that happened around Horseshoe and
Paris, down here on the Las Vegas trip and the Kittie game down the
street. The win Ian Matakas is a looking to really lock up Player of
the Year. Yeah, I mean, this guy is just crush. It's
awesome. It really is awesome to see him make such a splash this summer,
really, you know, put his stamp on everything that's going on here
at the World Trades of Poker and doing it pretty much out of nowhere.
You know. We'll talk about the fifty k high roller that is down to
the final table. They bagged up chips. There's more than two million dollars
up top in that one. You got. The six hundred dollar ultra stack
is playing out. The fifteen hundred dollars shootout is down to the final one
hundred and oh. Somebody very interesting decided to show up and play today and
one his table. We'll talk about that. The Hall of Fame inducted its
latest person. We got the skinny on that, and yeah, we'll get
into a few other things as well. Of course, Tim's everyone for One
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Day seven is in the books. As we mentioned earlier, fifteen players remaining.
You got Juan Masierras is the chip leader with a whopping one hundred and
eight million. Good Lord Sir one is an a legend. He's been around
for quite a while. Um Spanish player, UM, you know we used
to cover him. Rem Q and I were talking about covering him, you
know on the epts back in the day. He's the son of if if
you remember this name, viet Cong zero one player who won the Sunday Million
twice, first player to do so. I believe. I think his sister
also plays poker. The whole family plays poker. Um, So Juan Masiras
is now back in the game. We also looked at his hendemob. Last
cash reported on hendemob for Juan Masiris was in twenty and eighteen in a Rio
Daily Deep Sex tournament. So here he is poker's biggest stage. And listen,
this guy is incredibly fun to watch because he plays very aggressive. He
does not really slow down at all, and it's it's just tremendous theater,
especially when he has the chip stack that he does. Um, let's just
throw it right now to the interview that I did with one after play on
day seven. All right, one mass years day seven chip leader, how
you feeling? It feels good enough? You know, it's many event,
It's something that has dreamed off. So yeah, is it hard to not
let that that dream, that thought of winning slip into your mind? No?
No, no, no, no no, I'm actually I'm surprised with
myself because I'm feeling so golmed, so relaxed on the I don't know how,
but the feelings are not getting the power into me. You know,
I don't know about I'm playing so as I said, so relaxed and so
calm down. So hopefully I can keep going in this way. You're a
very fun player to watch. You play a little bit aggressive. Are you
going to keep up that aggressive play throughout? Really put the pressure on your
opponents. I mean, it depends on the stage of the tournament, but
I like to I like to put the person on the opponents and I will
see what happened in the next days. So the next objective is just to
make the final table and then we will see what happens. Any expectations going
forward, well, the expectations and I don't have expectations. My objective every
day since I register it on the day two of the tournament. We're just
getting through to the next day, getting through, getting through, and for
tomorrow is gonna be the same. He's sixteen places left. Its long fifteen
or you can see it's a long way to go, and I mean I
have done nothing yet. So and then last question, are you having fun?
Yeah? Man? I can join a lot, I haven't done a
lot. You heard it there. You know, he doesn't really feel like
anything is getting to him right now. You know, he obviously recognizes that
he is on a very big stage, the biggest stage in poker, with
a huge opportunity in front of him. But you know, he's not letting
his mind kind of get too far ahead of the task at hand. Is
trying to take it one day at a time, and you know, I
think that's kind of how you got to approach things in the end the main
event, and you heard him say, you know, every day the goal
is just to get to the end of the day, you know, and
that's a good goal to have because if you just constantly get to the end
of the day, well then you're here's going to be the winner of the
tournament eventually. So Wanama Sierras again one hundred and eight million, quite the
chip lead. The next closest doesn't even have eighty million, So he's got
a chip lead of more than twenty eight million. Next closest is Adam Walton
who has seventy nine million, fourner and seventy five thousand. Then you have
John Peter Yachtman with seventy million and seven hundred and seventy five thousand. Then
we got Stephen Jones sixty seven point seven million, and then Toby Lewis probably
the biggest name remaining. I would say, no, it's either him or
Daniel Win just just pips him. I don't know, man, It's it's
close. And Toby Lewis is listed as bagging up fifty million even seems like
a fake number, but very fair, but I mean close enough. I
guess you spoke with Toby after he had a really good day. You know,
he just felt like he just kept winning, win and winning, won
a big par with aces and you know, just kept every time he was
in a hand. It just seemed like the chips are growing Lewis's way.
And then Tim spoke with him after play on day seven. Congratulations Toby.
Day eight here of the WSP main event. It's been a nice steady climb
for you, you know, one point two million, four point and now
we're sitting here with about fifty million in the bag. Talk about your day
so far. I mean just ups and downs, but luckily it put fifty
in the back, so I mean I was down to like eight million on
that table for a second there, and I was down sure than that on
the outer table earlier. But just every all in n I keep winning,
so long mate that continue. I want to talk a little bit about your
rail. We got some Brits, we got some locals, we've got some
golf buddies. What's it like, you know, with such an amazing poker
he had sharing you on. Yeah, it's awesome. Obviously there'll be more
people coming out now, I think, but it's I told people not to
come, to be honest, to sell it because like unless it's the finals,
hey, I don't. I don't want everyone getting that hubs up.
I'm not trying to get mine up. We've got fifty million in the bag.
Is the floor of your performance now gonna be a final table or you're
just gonna, you know, kind of take it as it comes. I
just play every hand. Yeah, like I mean, it's cliche, but
just it can change on a dime, you know, so hopefully I just
keeping lucky, all right. That was Toby Lewis. A lot of pros
out there rooting for Toby Lewis. Yeah, you know, there was a
lot of a lot of pros on the Rail we're you know, kind of
trickling in. Towards end of the night, pretty big British contingent came in,
of course. Um, Toby does live here now, but you know,
obviously the British roots. Um, you have a lot of people,
um from I would say the high stakes like Vegas kind of cash game scene.
We're gonna say the high stakes Vegas golfs. Yeah, there's that too,
the high stakes Vegas golf scene. You know, they're all friendly with
Toby, they all know him. Um, he's been around in the game
for a while. Probably doesn't play as much poker these days as he once
did, but you know he's still out there battling in some of the biggest
events. Speaking to U, NBA top shot for a while, remember,
why wouldn't you be? I think everyone was big into was a big into
NBA top Shot. I think he made a lot of money from that and
just kind of that kind of occupied these times. He kind of stepped away
from poker, and now that that kind of has died, there goes my
top shot collection. Um, yeah, he's back and he's crushing. Okay,
I mean he's he's in a great spot too. He'll be a fun
one to have at the final table. We talked about it, you know,
throughout the summer, how we really haven't had the British rows anymore.
Maybe they're back, Maybe they're gonna come back. Let's put some beers in
some shoes. I saw Tom Milton out there. I saw Chris Mormon,
I saw Chris Rammer. You know, the Brits are probably gonna start coming
out further. Guy, So that'll be a lot of fun if it does
happen, because we know they like to get rowdy on the feature tables around
the final table. I mean, this one will be the biggest final table
of them all. Of course, let's run through some notable eliminations here and
then I'll let Tim talk about his chop value and hope that's correct. Starting
the day with forty nine players, first player to go Mitchell Halverson. He
went out in forty nine place hundred and eighty eight thousand, four hundred dollars.
He got it all in three ways against Juan Masierras and also Christopher Kimmel.
The flop was checked around between Massiras and Kimmel on a King Queen nine
two heart flop after a three hit, the turn a blank three, Massierras
folded to a Kimmel bet that left Halverson hull in with Ace eight, but
he was up against the jack ten of Kimmel and drawing dead river six and
Halverson is out. First player gone today. He made a run he cashed
last year. The year before that, twenty twenty one, he went very
deep. I think he got like twelve or thirteenth or some something pretty crazy.
So Howarson has done very well in recent years in the Man event,
and then this one he's going to add another hundred and eighty thousand dollars to
his bankroll. We lost Sam Stein, another fairly well known pro, been
around a while, very experienced. Sam Stein busted in forty sixth place,
also taking home one hundred and eighty thousand, four hundred dollars. He was
all in on the Ace nine deuce two heart flop with ace jack, but
he was up against Jean Peter Yachtman's pocket nines. The ace jack could not
find a miracle and Stein was out in forty sixth place. Then we lost
probably the person that everyone was rooting to make the final table. Massado Yoko
Sawa, the Japanese of logging sensation. He posted a vlog yesterday or that,
Yeah, I think it was yesterday, maybe it was to day,
I can't remember, but it had like five hundred thousand views in like ten
hours. Jesus, I mean, the guy is an absolute stunt good voga.
Um, I haven't, I don't. I don't know what he's saying,
but it looks super fun. It's in Japanese, I mean, massados.
He's like a cartoon character. It's amazing. Yes, he's just so,
he's just constantly fun, smiling. I talked about how he blew me
a kiss in the field the other day, like he's always given us,
Like you know, he's just he's just full of positive energy and it's just
great, great, great to see out there. Ultimately, things, you
know, fell a little bit short for what I'm guessing what he would have
liked to have done. He finished in forty a fifth place, also taking
home one hundred and eighty thousand, four hundred dollars. He was all in
with the Ace king Off up against Daniel Vampin's Ace Queen Off, so Yoko
Sawa gets it in in an awesome dominating spot, but the flop comes Queen
Jack three vampion takes the lead Turnduce Riverduce and that is the end of the
road for Japan's Yoka Sawa. Murice Hawkins thirty fifth place, two hundred and
eighty thousand, one hundred dollars. Hawkins gets set it all in with Ace
jack up against Joe Hio's pocket aces. He doesn't win either. See you
later, mister Hawkins off to the payout desk to collect two hundred and eighty
K. Matthew Woman aka Bucky twenty ninth place, also took home two hundred
and eighty thousand, one hundred dollars. He was all on with Queen ten
Off up against Jose Aguilera's Ace nine of diamonds. The Ace nine of diamond
so wins that hand. It come as Ace five four eight four and as
the end of the road. Four Wantman in twenty ninth place, another WPT
winner, Woman was one. Now the next one is one as well.
Yoka saw will also believe a WPT winner. A lot of WPT winners going
deep in this one. Yeah. I think Yokasawa one w specially something in
like twenty thirteen or something. I have no idea. I'm just pretty sure
he's a WPT champion, Ryan Taussick twenty fifth place, three hundred forty five
thousand dollars. He gets it all with pocket sixes, but he runs into
Jan Peter Yachman's pocket tens. The tens hold up and Ryan Tausig is out
the door in twenty fifth place. Daniel Vampin, who he just talked about
taking out Massada Yoko Sawa, then he fell in twenty fourth place, also
taking home three hundred and forty five thousand dollars, just like Ryan Tausig did
before him. Vampin was all in with pocket eights up against Rustlin Priedrick's Ace
Queen of Clubs. Ace hits the flop. No help from there for Vampin
and he is out the door in twenty fourth place. And then another WPT
champion and NEPT champion, Andre Patachuck five with a triple crown in this Yeah,
falls in seventeenth place, taking home four hundred and thirty thousand, two
hundred dollars. Patachuck is all in with pocket three's against Juan Masierz's pocket kings
the King's hold and that was the end of the line for Patachuck. A
couple more eliminations and or sorry, one more elimination and we're down to fifteen
and that's that. Here we are. So the final fifteen players are Juan
Massiris as the chip leader, one hundred and eight million. What's the what
blind are they going into? Is it forty eight? Can you look that
up? I think they played three six Yeah, they just finished three six
yeah. So that can give you an idea of how big, well how
big Massiers his stack is, but how big a lot of these stacks are,
to be honest. So Juan Mussiers one hundred and eight million, then
you have Adam Walton in second with seventy nine million, four er and seventy
five thousand, So really nice gap there from Assierras. It might be even
bigger gap because I got conflicting chip counts for three players, Walton being one
of them. You know, we have seventy nine seventy nine million on the
end of the day before we have seventy five million on the WSAP dot com
report. Sorry, I don't really show where we're going. We have no
idea how you can't get this right. It's only the biggest tournament. The
handwriting, it's kind of difficult people, that's sluppy. Final Final fifteen a
poker of main event should be should be treated similar to what they do when
it's the final table, where the staff counts the chips, the staff rights
the bags, the staff right, you know what I mean? Like then
it's official official right like that, it needs to be official official this one.
As soon as you can go official, official, official, that's when
it needs to happen. And fifteen players left, it's pretty easy to go
official official. Adam Waltman second, with what we have listed as seventy nine
million, fourgner and seventy five ten mentioned there might be a discrepancy there,
but nonetheless still a big gap between him and Massi Harrison first. Then you
have Jan Peter Yachtman seventy million and seventy seventy million, seven hundred and seventy
five thousand. Excuse me, Jan Peter Yatman very interesting because he just plays
high stakes pelo cash. That's all he plays, you know, event,
but he plays the main event every single year. But he like he travels
to stops and just plays high stakes pilo cash, Like he'll be at DPT
but he's always playing high stakes pilo cash. That's all he's ever doing.
Yeah, and here he is making an incredible run in the two card game
of Noelman hold him. Stephen Jones sitting in fourth sixty seven million, seven
hundred thousand for mister Jones. Jones has been a fun character. He's been
very talkative, you know, very entertaining. He's got personality. Always seems
to be happy and smiling. Of course that's easy when you're you know,
on day seven going into day eight of the DIVSP main event. So take
that for what you will, but he seems like he's got a really good
some really good energy about him, really good attitude for Steven Jones. Toby
Lewis, we talked about him already. Fifty million is what we have listed.
It might be another discrepancy there, but give or take it, you
know, it's right around fifty million. If it's not exactly fifty million.
For Toby Lewis also an EPT champion, Yes, didn't not know that?
Yes? Well I know is that he's an AUSI millions champion. Yeah,
which is more impressive? Is not that many of them? Yeah? I
figure which hept won um, but yeah, he want back in the day.
Rustland Preedric forty five million, seven hundred and fifty thousand for Russland,
Friedric Jose Aguilera thirty seven million, six hundred thousand. I think he won
the final pot, final hand of the night that was played. Joshua Paine,
he came into the day as the chip leader, was kind of up,
kind of down, you know, all over the place. It certainly
seemed like at times Paine had the capabilities to blow up, like not like
in like a tilt way, but like just play aggressively, right, And
he came out of the gate bluffing some hands and you know, one of
them work, one of them didn't. One was against Massada Yoga saw it
didn't work. One was against Obergone that did work. So I mean,
listen, josh Paine is fun. He's young, he's lively, he likes
to get in there, get creative, and the more chips he has,
the better. He's pretty much smack dab in the middle middle of this lead
award right now with thirty one million. But he's certainly somebody who will be
fun if they, you know, continue on or are able to play their
game, which is a more creative and aggressive style. Sachin Josie twenty seven
million, seven hundred and seventy five thousand. He won a big pot off
Alec Terrelli on one of the final hands, if not the final hand of
the night, I can't remember if it was the final one er right before.
That's Daniel Weinman twenty one million, seven hundred and fifty thousand, Dean
Hutchinson seventeen and a half million, Daniel Holzner fourteen million, seven hundred and
fifty thousand, Alec Terrelli fourteen million, two hundred and seventy five thousand,
Jack O'Neill eleven million, seven hundred thousand, and then the shortest stack remaining,
the only player with fewer than ten million hips, that is Kong Fam
with eight million, seven hundred thousand. He'll have just about eleven big blinds
to start day eight fifteen players remaining, so certainly short but definitely not out
is mister Fam, and we'll see if he can spin that stack back up
and runner running up. I mean it's gonna be fun, man. I'm
really looking forward mostly to Juan Massierras. I mean, the guy is just
in there blasting away. I mean it's just incredible. So well, he
could honestly like go into the final table with two hundred million. I'm not
joking. I mean, especially if there's like starts to be some weird dynamics
with how big these page jumps start to get. Now, you know,
and if play gets shorter, they're gonna be playing seven and eight. I
don't know which table he's on, They're gonna be playing seven and eight.
Then they're gonna be playing seven and seven, then six and six and sixty,
you know what I mean, Like it's gonna get pretty short. So
and then when it gets down to six and five, if he's still in
and he still has the stag that he does, I mean, I expect
him to just be you know, pedal to the floor the whole damn way.
If you could guess, maybe you can remember what Chipstack Espanol said he
was joined Chip late Lasia had at the side of the final table. Obviously
small slightly smaller field, but what the start of the final table. Yeah,
didn't you have like eighty one million? Eighty three point two million,
alright, but I knew that, And yeah, he's already got that kind
of COVID, so it's gonna be different. There was there was, you
know, a lot more people in the tournament, so there's a lot more
chips to be had in the tournament. But yeah, but he's also got
an extra day of play. He's one hundred and eight million, could be
one fifty. I just told you. I think he could have the chance
to go into the final table two hundred million. With the way that he
plays, I could also see see I could also see a world where he's
out. Yeah, and I'm not joking. I mean it's just like you
lose, like you know, let's say he does something where he let's say
he doubles up Daniel Heineman for example, Well there goes twenty two million,
you know, and then it's like, well what if there's twenty two million
there, a five million here or ten million here? You know, next
thing, you know, it's like, where'd all my chips go? Now
I have thirty million, what's going to happen? I mean, I think
that while Juan mussieris plays a very aggressive style, certainly gets in there,
certainly puts his opponents in a lot of high pressure situations. I think he
will also kind of rein it in at times, like I think he's experienced
enough, he's been around the game enough, he knows how big and important
this spot is that he might pull it back a little bit at times.
I mean, you heard him in the interview. He said it kind of
just depends on the situation, It depends on the day, all that sort
of stuff. So so we'll see how things go. I mean, I
definitely think he's going to look to put pressure on his opponents and really make
them make the right decision and tough decisions, and then also try and pick
up hands. You know, it's not easy to pick up hands. So
yeah, so we'll see how that goes. But I'm certainly looking forward to
it. You got anything else in the main event or are we gonna move
on? Maybe a chop value? Oh yeah, chop value. Shit,
I forgot that's the most important part. We gotta chop this up. Go
home. Two million, four hundred and forty two thousand and twenty seven dollars.
Okay, two million, four and forty two and twenty seven dollars.
That's just insane. I don't think I'm taking this one, do you.
I think taking it every time, but today, do you think ever in
the history of this tournament, they will chop heads up. No, they
will chop with let's say more than ten people, zero zero percent chance that
ever happens. I just want I'm just asking, you know, heads up
is like, you've got to think about it. I mean, you're insanely
stupid if you don't. If you got heads up, yeah, what are
you gonna do? I mean, you have to chime and it listen,
And I'm team anti chop. You're definitely team anti chop team. But like
pay the bubble, the payouts are so absurd at the top. Can't play
heads up for five point six million? You like, that's just let's take
nine million, eh and go home. I mean, if you want to
play heads up for the five bracelet, yeah, well you're gonna play heads
up for that. But if you want to play heads up for a million,
you know, something like that, then then yeah, I think it's
fine to do that. But I mean that's just that's so six million is
Yeah, it's absolutely insane. But I'm here to watch it happen, that's
for sure. I can't wait. All right, let's move on to what
else was happening around the WSF fifteen hundred dollars short deck three hundred and sixty
three entries. That's the tournament that absolutely flew on day one. I think
they got down to nine entries, came back today, finished it out.
Tai haa oh, I feel like we haven't seen in a while. Kind
of came onto the scene a couple of years ago, was making all these
deep runs, you know, making some waves, and then he just kind
of disappeared. Yeah, and then he came back and now here he is
and he's winning a braceist one hundred and eleven thousand, one hundred and seventy
dollars in the bank. Four tai haa over to the three thousand dollars pot
limit Omaha six max five players left. They did bag up with five remaining.
That is from a one thousand and thirteen entry field. Four hundred and
eighty thousand dollars up top for the winner. Matthew Perry is leading the way
with thirteen million, one hundred and fifty thousand. You got Dustin Gold clang
in there. Ian matakeus Ian would take is still in there. Yes,
Cuba, Levinberry, Lawrence Wayne are the other players remaining. But Ian Mataicus
so he's three out of five at this final Table Final Day, whatever you
want to call it, trying to just really put an absolute stranglehold on the
WSP Player of the Year race. I mean, if he wins, is
it a lock. I mean no, it's not gonna be a lock.
He's you know, we mentioned this the other day, but there are some
results pending from online. He's a I'm gonna approximately three hundred points ahead of
some combo of Seawan d Chris Brewer, Josh Rum. But if he can
win this, there's eleven hundred points off the top, So now he goes
fourteen hundred points ahead. It's gonna basically tip force you know, any one
of these contenders to not just win another bracelet, but probably you know,
come top three in another event. Yeah, the POY formula is extremely win
heavy, not even top heavy, it's win heavy because it's it's like Tim
just mentioned, what eleven hundred points for two first second, it's five sixty
six, it's it's it's always it's always like that. It's like more than
double yeah, between first and seconds. So you know, you really do
have to win. That's why you know these players that you know win too
bracelets usually just absolutely shoot out to the lead. In this thing. If
you can win a bracelet and then put up a ton of volume, um
like Seawande has been doing, then you know, all the more power to
you. But time is running out for someone like Sean deeb who you know
doesn't have two bracelets this summer yet. Um. There is still a handful
of events left. I don't know how many exactly are left. I know
there was a bunch today and he was firing left. Yeah, and a
few of them are online, so you know it's the one he can definitely
buy a cash in tomorrow. That's very true. Yeah, the flipping go,
Yeah, that is very true. I'm assuming we'll see him blasting away.
Just empty the bank accounts, empty the pool fund. It sounds very
dumb. Bring it here, just sucking get that, Just get that cash.
Just get on the board for twenty twenty three wsp Yeah, get on
the board. But still be negative. We don't even worry about those numbers.
Just you want to see the little the little entry on hand him up.
That's all that matters. Glory seems silly, No profit, just glory
seems silly. All right, fifty thousand dollars, no them, and hold
him high roller also bagging up. With five players remaining, this field shot
up to one hundred and seventy six. It was like one hundred and forty
yesterday, right, Yeah, hundred and seventy six, almost two point one
million dollars for first place. Alex Kulev is leading the way, Jake Schindler
is still in Gurglee Kolesar is also in Karai Aldemir we all know Karai former
World Series of Poker main event champion in twenty twenty one, and then Daniel
Smilkovich is the short stack. They're all guaranteed five hundred and thirty three thousand,
which is a pretty darn good pay. Former Manchester City striker Sergioguero was
in there cash cash Daniel McGrane and went pretty deep cash. Karry Chatz,
I'm pretty deep cash, so you know, of course, this is a
star studdard field, as you would expect in a fifty thousand dollars high roller
at the World Series of Poker. I'm also finishing in the money was David
Peters, Alejandro Lokoko, Jeremy Osmus, Nacho Barbaro, and Jason Koon.
So that one's gonna play out tomorrow. And then we'll talk about the winner
once. That is six hundred ultra stack, so this tournament had more than
seventy two hundred entries. There are how many players remaining? Five nine players
remaining. They're all guaranteed almost thirty eight thousand dollars. That's pretty insane.
Jeff fag leading the way. Ninety one million, Is that a real number?
I mean, obviously it is because so many chips, so many players.
I get it, but it's still always is funny when you see that
on a page and you're like, wait, hold on, these guys are
playing for four hundred and one thousand, two hundred and fifty dollars. And
then of course they coveted World Series of Poker goal bracelet, as we're gonna
do with these other events that aren't done yet. We'll also talk about this
one once it wraps up. Fifty hundred dollars Noelman hold Him Shootout kicked off
today. Nine hundred and ninety seven entries more than two hundred and thirty seven
thousand dollars for first place. There are one hundred players left. Winners so
far include Frank from Naro nominally who we love love normally. So the soft
spot in our heart just you know, one of the ogs of the tournament
poker scene for Oz Jocka Chino rem Yuris of Alevsky, Brian Hasty's Katie cop,
Jake Schwartz, Adam Friedman, and a player we weren't sure we would
see for sure this summer, if not for a few summers to come,
if ever again Ali am Sirovich. Yeah, return he did plays the shootout,
wins his table, wins it early too. I mean, I don't
know what to say. I tried to speak to him, I really,
like like like a microphone in y oh wow. Like I said, hey,
how are you? Would you any interesting to me? Some press?
I'm gonna keep pretty easy. He goes, no, I'm trying to keep
a low profile. I'm like, okay, no problems, understand that.
And then we just kind of, you know, shot the ship for a
little bit, and I just came out and asked him. I said,
why this event? You know, why did you pick this event or come
out and play? And he was, you know what, I wasn't planning
on playing a single event. But my fiance, I mean wife now was
like, I'm gonna go play the shoot out why don't you come play the
shoot out? And he was like sure, and he likes it and goes
he said, and hey, it worked out. He threw a day two.
You can take what he said with a grain of salt. I kind
of believed, you know, what he was saying to me was very truthful.
And some other things we talked about that you know, I'm not gonna
bring up right now, but yeah, it's interesting to seem here. Didn't
look like anyone was like really kind of getting in his face. I was.
I was there for like twenty thirty minutes, you know, waiting for
him to go and break and I'm surprised if he's going to come plain event
that he didn't just hop in this fifty k high roller. Yeah, you
know, or maybe he thought that, you know, he might get more
pushed back there, because those are players that might feel more affected by the
stuff that he allegedly did. You know, there are a lot of allegations
surrounding Aliam Sirovich. He came out with a video not too long ago,
maybe what a week two ago something like that, addressing everything, talking through
everything, saying that you know, he did do some things wrong. You
know, some other things he thought were not correct in what was said about
him. But um, you know, I don't I don't know if people
really view that as an apology, if they want to give him a clean
slate whatever. It doesn't seem like he has the queen clean slate from the
community that he might have hoped for after that video. Um so, I
just thought it was extremely interesting when we saw that message pop up in our
chats that he was out here playing so yeah and now here he is wins
his table, He's in the money and can go on to you know,
possibly win a gold brazlet here, which I'm sure would get the folk community
and quite a frenzy ruffles feathers. Oh yeah, I would bet him.
I would bet that it would all right. Moving on, the poker Haul
Hall of Fame has its sixty second inductee and it is six time dubist if
he gold braced the winner Brian Rast. Yes, so, Rast was announced
today as the newest inductee. Very story career, in my opinion, a
deserving entry. My biggest gripepo for all with everything is just that there's you
need to put more players in, is the thing? Right? You know?
Brian Rast certainly deserves to be in, in my opinion, and he's
been pushing for it too, Like he's been pretty vocal about the fact that,
you know, he wanted to get into the Hall of Fame, he
wanted to start tackling the World Series of Poker more in like these recent years,
because he wanted to start to kind of pile up the accolades so that
it would be a slam dunk that he gets in. Um. So,
yeah, you talked to him. I did. I did speak to him.
He gave a very long, very emotional speech in the Paris of n
Centau, thanked his parents, thanked his wife, you know, talked a
little a bit about everything, and then we actually headed to the Horseshoe Poker
Room. And I was not aware of this. I don't know if you
or any of our list as were, but they basically renovated the Horseshoe Poker
Room I think it was last year. And on the entrance what they did
was they kind of brought over the gallery of champions from Binians in a newer
format, and also on the other side of the wall is the Poker Hall
of Fame members, So everyone that's in the Poker for Hall of Fame as
a picture in a gold frame, you know, all the way, you
know Maury Nagran who held with all the way to Bryan Rass. So I
thought that was a great thing that I was not expecting because we've always think
a lot of people have griped about, hey, we need a physical hall
of Fame. That might be a little difficult getting some space to put some
stuff up. But this is a lease for poker, a step in the
right direction to honor you know, past main event champions and also the current
members of the Hall of Fame. Yeah, I think that that that works.
I didn't know that that was there. I haven't seen it yet,
but I'll make a stop on my way in tomorrow or one of these final
days here and check it out and see that. I do like what they
do with that newly renovated poker room over there, so you know I'll be
checking that out for sure. So yeah, so let's throw it to this
interview right now that you did with Brian Rast after he became the newest inductee
into the Poker Hall of Fame. Brian, congratulations, Poker Hall of Fame.
I know it's something you've aspired to for a long time. I want
to actually talk about the future for you. Six pricelets, three PPC titles.
You could just not play another cord and everyone would be pretty satisfied with
your career. But what do you want to achieve going forward? You know?
I mean listen. So in like the teens, I mean, I
was a monster. I played everything. There came a moment, like before
COVID and during COVID, where I was started sort of flirting with the idea
of not really playing that much poker. I was, you know, getting
into trading and maybe I'll do this. But it's like, one of the
things I kind of realized doing that is that I don't actually like that lifestyle
very much, like just that or like say running a business or anything like
that, where you just have these constant demands on you all the time of
like tracking this and following the news or like emailing people, and that just
gives me a lot of anxiety. And one of the things I've realized is
like, actually, you know, I love playing poker. I love being
on and competing and having like this pressure in the moment, but then when
you're away from the table, you're kind of just off, like I take
a week off, like I don't have to do anything. I could study
if I want, but if I don't, then I just have a week
off, two weeks off. So I really love that, and it's almost
made me realize, like, list, I'm never gonna play poker the way
I did in my twenties and thirties. Just I mean, like I said,
I was a monster. I was playing like a lot of hours everything
just like so consumed by it. And it's very doubtful it will be like
that going forward, but I'm always gonna play. It's always gonna be something
I do. Like kind of seriously, I enjoy the process. I had
some years where I was bitter about solvers. I'll be honest. I mean
I was just so good before solvers came out. I mean I don't know
what people think, but like I didn't need like solvers were bad for me,
and they came out and all these people were getting like annoyingly good studying
them, and like I said, I was, you know, I'm playing
mix a. You know, I'm becoming a cryptotrader, Like I don't need
this, but I've kind of like come back, and it's like anything in
life. You just have to accept reality. And now it's like, Okay,
I do some studying. I mean, part of the reason I'm doing
the Triton commentary is, you know, it's done wonders for my No One
to Hold Them game, Like in the last year and a half since I
started doing that, like I've started playing No One to Hold Them way better.
Why because it forces me to study. I'm just watching the best players.
I'm running spots and talk, you know, analyzing it in depth.
So what am I gonna do going forward? Like I'm gonna keep playing poker?
How's it going to happen? I know the main thing for me will
be the World Series. The World Series is just this awesome like six weeks
where it's like I get to go back in the mindset of like me when
I'm younger, I'm like in the trenches. I'm playing every day, long
hours for six weeks. The World Series, obviously, unlike any other tournament,
stop has all the games. I'm actually kind of excited. You know,
you're with Poker Go, Like you guys are now doing one or two
like mix game tournament series of year, which is like awesome for me.
So you know, I'm gonna be in Vegas. I'm gonna be in Brazil.
I don't play that much in Brazil. When I'm here, I'm gonna
try to catch like the Mix Game Tournament Series, the WSP some other stuff.
I'll still play cash games and you know, I'm just gonna play poker
as long as I can. Donny Pete has interviewed you back in twenty twenty
one after you Want your Price it and you said you're very adamant that to
be in the Hall of Fame, That's what you said. Now that you're
in there is there a sense of relief, like you know, a little
pressure of your shoulders and you can actually sit back even more than you may
have if you didn't get in this even you know, when people first asked
me about that, I kind of like, you know, I had that
mindset about it, like, man, I know, like I've played the
biggest games and like everything this and all that and that's the criteria. But
then it's like people asking me and giving my response and sitting on it,
and then you know, in twenty twenty two, Lane, Flat Gun and
Dog, it's like the whole process made me realize and it's why I said
the Serenity Prayer in my speech, it's like, man, you listen,
you just have to realize in life, like things out of your control,
you just gotta like not fixate on them, because that fixation and that attachment
really just like leads to suffering and it's and it's like things out of your
control, you just let it be. And I started to realize, and
that's why my attitude in the last year has just been you know, if
it happens, it happens. It's out of my control, but it'll be
great. And you know, it is something that I really appreciate. I
think is like one of the greatest honors I've received in my career. But
yeah, I feel like my attitude about it definitely changed as I started to
realize, like, man, just like let it go. You know,
the guys in the Hall of Fame are either gonna vote for you or not.
Like, they all have their own opinions, They all have their own
you know, friendships and network connections and all this because they've been in the
poker world for their entire lives themselves. And you know what, just just
like go to the tables, do what you love, focus on what you
can't control. Just play your best and chips will fall where they may.
Feeling pretty good, I would guess overall, you know, feeling pretty grateful
of everything. So congratulations to Brian Rass getting inducted into the Poker Hall of
Fame. Next up, who we got who's best positioned? Who do you
think, Well, this is obviously a question that I'm putting in pending no
angers to the selection process. Who do we think is going to be in
next? I think it's really between Josh Area and Jeremy Osmas, and I
have a feeling I'm kind of leaning towards Aria just because of the longevity compared
to Ozmas. Osmas you know, maybe we'll call it twelve years are a
first person that goes back to ninety ninety nine. That's you know, basically
twenty four years of being in this industry. In some way, I think
he has the slight advantage over not just Osmas, but all the other nominees
this year, you know, Matts Savage, line of Norm Mike mattisow m.
So right now today I'm leading to Josh interesting. He not my pick?
Okay, well, um for me, I mean it remains he'sa Sheinberg,
which I'm just gonna say till either he gets in or I die one
of those two things. The other one I think is Patrick Antonius. But
this is not the who we want, dam this is who we think will
be in next Oh you're saying who we think will yeah, yeah, sorry,
I was taking it from like who I mean? Then I think it'll
be Josh r Okay, No, I think we have both teams high.
It's just you know, I'm not sure it's going to happen. And then
I think Patrick Antonius. You know, I think he's very deserving and should
be in there. He's just an absolute legend, been crushing for super super
long time. I know he doesn't have the tournament resumes that some of these
guys do, but a lot of these guys aren't playing three K six K
every single day, that is true. So I do think Patrick Antonius is
very deserving and deserves that sort of recognition that comes with being inducted into the
Poker Hall of Fame. All right, Speaking of Poker Hall of Fame,
the nineteen hundred and seventy nine dollars Poker Hall of Fame Bounty kicked off today.
More than fourteen hundred entries, which means a first place prize of more
than four hundred thousand dollars. It's about one hundred and fifty players, meaning
you know, give take a little bit away for some Yeah, they are
in the money. You got any chip counts, anyone's like doing r like
we know more he played well more Esdi he did. He didn't last too
long. Look, I'm looking at the chip counts and there is someone on
the top that has an amount that is not possible, So I'm gonna exclude
him. But the next real count, well, hasn't it possible? Too
many zero a bunch of knights. He's got seven million chips. The next
best is one million. I mean, you never know, you never know,
but I'm gonna say that it's an extra zero. But he's also he
trend has also gone up six point two millions, So yeah, the trend
is the key thing. But Martin's of money one point two five eight million
in chips. He's up top. Some other notables, the guy that's done
nothing on the World Series, the guy we've called out Anthony who he's six
in chips, and then a bunch of you're gonna say damn Jen Rotten used,
damn Gen can't make a day to about him some hole of fantasy the
main event, Bro, he made day four cool win the oe that you're
supposed to win, Eliot Lezra twenty third in chips your boy Ran Lynn supposedly
on he's nine three buy he's in the field, Phil. We heard that.
We heard that um Rob Perlman aka v Rob, who works with us,
was playing this this event on his off day, played the event,
busted ren Lynn. Ren Lynn proceeded to re enter. What we were told
is nine times Rand told Rob, Rent told him nine times and then he
busted Rob. Seems unfair. It seems quite unfair. Yeah, yeah,
I don't think that that should be allowed. No, I shouldn't, especially
when we're trying to beat ren Lynn in fantasy. It should definitely not basically
buying a chip stack. Yeah, well, that explains how he got all
the other chip stacks and all his other terms. He's buying him clear Yeah,
twenty five Omaha High Low Slash Stud High Low aka the tenth. Yeah,
four hundred and sixty entries more than two hundred and twenty one thousand dollars
for first place. A little bit less than two hundred and fifty left to
sixty nine will be in the money. Patrick Leonard. It's a great day
to have a great day, or it's a beautiful day to have a beautiful
day. I don't know whatever he says in his Instagram stories. His Instagram
stories, by the way, are in crap notch. They're so so good
love pads for sure, he's leading the way. Two hundred and eleven thousand,
five hundred. You got ron Ware, Nick Pepito, Max PESCATORI also
doing very well with six figure stacks, so that one's going to be playing
out of the next couple of days and we'll track it as it goes.
Patrick Leonard, I don't think has had the success that many people thought he
would have a very good scoop coming into the World Series of Poker. He
was a couple days late because he was battling towards the end of Scoop um
of course, as over on Poker Stars. But then he came here and
you know, he's had some runs, but you know, ultimately hasn't had
like the really deep runs like final table bracelet wins, stuff like that.
But hey, summer still going, still plenty of events left and he could
be topping this one. Here he has the best start of the mall in
the twenty o E what's coming up? Of course? Day eight? World
Series of Poker Main Event, Baby, let's go. You got the first
starting day for the fifteen hundred dollar closer, You got the one thousand dollars
flipping Go, you got the ten thousand dollars six handed, no limit,
hold him championship. That one is going to be awesome. That's the one
we need. Steven Song or Shawn Deep Twin and Simon. I don't know
if Ian Steimon will play that one. He'll probably be in the closer.
He can win. Somebody win them all? How about that? Damn Jan
can win the flipping go? Yes? Please, let's go? All right?
What do you got for WPT? Everyone for one drop down to the
final table of six and the summer I've bin Wang continues. He's chip leader
twenty one million chips ahead of Nico Coup WPT dep Sex Champions Cup, Bomb
Scene, Freddie Hella, WPT Champions Club member Dominique Niche and previous November nine
at Tom Connolly. All six of these plays guaranteed just a little about half
a million dollars and they are chasing the whopping two point five six million dollars
first prize and no name on the WPT Champions Cup. I mean the turnout
over here crazy, Yes, almost seventeen hundred entries, So they smashed that
ten million dollars guarantee. As you mentioned previously on the show, three hundred
and thirty five thousand, two hundred dollars was raised for the One Drop Charity
through this event. Good on this partnership for raising money for a good cause.
And then we'll be tracking this one as it goes on. I know
we joke on it, but it is a fun tournament, is a big
tournament, and we certainly want to talk about it as continues to that two
and a half million dollar winner. Also starting on Friday is the WBT Alpha
eight for One Drop. Is this going to get? This is a tough
one. The seven thousand dollars to charity is big, and I think that
that could maybe prevent some players from playing, which is a little bit unfortunately.
There were so there were some players that were prevented from playing, like
the fifty k high Roller here at the WSV because they were stuck in this,
like Stephen Schiwick for example. Now, we have seen at times where,
um, when we're holding and event at our studio, sometimes players will
hop on over and play like a thirty five at the Winn or something like
that, because you know, the prize money can be about equal. Yeah,
you might have to play a couple extra days or whatever because our our
tournaments are usually just two day affairs, um, but the fields might be
a little bit softer, so you're value hunting in that sense. Now,
I'm curious how this play days as it pertains to the ten case six handed
nolem and hold Them Championship. I mean, if you're like Steven Chidwick,
which one are you playing? Are you going to go battle with literally thirty
really really good players for one hundred and eleven thousand dollars when you got to
pay a pretty good chunk of rake because of the charity element in it,
or are you going to come over here and play what is going to be
a massive ten thousand dollars six max championship. I would probably guess that you
would choose the ten case six max. So I'm really interested to see how
this one plays out. It's obviously you know it's sad to say this,
but these high roller events, it's a lot depending on how many Rex and
and you know fresh blood is in the field. Well, why is it
sad to say that? That's just because we're basically singling out you know,
Rex and why I was being bad a poker. But that's in these events
kind of the truth. Now, if you're gonna put up one hundred and
eleven thousand dollars to play you know, a three day high roller event,
oh, you can put up ten k and potentially you know, we're looking
at lass years ten K six Max Championship, nearly four hundred players, eight
hundred k for first I'm gonna guess that this year will be bigger than last
year. Yes, because because all these tournaments have been way bigger. I
mean, if this one tracks similar to like the ten K Super Turbo Bounty,
it's gonna have six hundred seve hundred player, That's what I'm thinking.
So it's gonna be banannas. It's gonna be a tough tough decision for some
of these guys like Jason Coonscy and should Wake Nick Petrangela. What are they
going to play? You do have day two registration for both events. This
event, to be honest, probably should have started a couple of days ago.
I think I should sat it today. Yeah, but you gotta get
all the people that once they bust out of the main event, they like,
give him a snap, give him another ten k to play likes.
Are you saying that the six max okay started like two days ago, started
on like day three of the main day. I mean it normally sits in
this window like day six seven of the main event. But anyway, I
like this ten K six max is I wonder if one of my favorite WSP
tournaments of the year every single year. I love it. It's huge,
Um, I expected to get a huge number, UM have a huge first
place prize. I could easily see it topping a million dollars first place prize
or you know, being just about there. You know all the big names
are going to play it. And then of course, you know, because
it's a little bit of a more affordable price point, um, you know,
it has that ap branding with it, so you know, are you
gonna get some more recreational players in this one, which then in turn attracts
the pros all that sort of stuff. I'm curious to see how it plays
out. Like I think someone like a Mikita Badzikowski is like for sure going
to go play one hundred and eleven K because he isn't play anything that's the
fifty K. But like Steven Chidwick is a good example, David Peters,
like, what are these guys gonna Are they really gonna go play a little
single between themselves? That's no, I know, that's that's what I'm saying.
So I'm just interested to see how it plays out. I think with
um the reentry or sorry, the regist entry in the in the alvad for
one drop hope until the start of day two, maybe you come fire off
in the ten K. Then you go over there and play the one hundred
and eleven kids. This is also registration. The six max is also registration
through's the day two. Yeah, but I'm guessing the ten day six max
is a little bit of a faster structure. It's also shorter handed, so
it might play a little bit quicker, so you can come kind of blast
that one off in away, have some more fun for cheaper dollars upfront,
maybe try to build a stack and then go from there. I mean day
two later registration is you got twenty five big blinds, which is decent.
I think the one drop should have started on day two of the six max.
I think that would have been a semided choice, so that you know,
people could play the six max and even if they play deep on day
two, like approaching a final table the next day, they can still jump
in. That would's probably been a better flex from the WPT's side of things.
So I mean, end of the day, it's going to be interesting
to see how it plays out. Obviously we're interested to watch it happened,
so we will watch it happened. I have no idea what to expect for
numbers for this alpha eight for one job. It could get fourteen, it
could get seventy. Well, I feel like there's like the range of outcomes
is extremely high. Yes, I mean these high rollers that have been happening
here at the World Series of Poker. I mean this fifty K high roller
that's down to five players head one hundred and seventy six entries. I mean
these high rollers here have been absolutely bananas. Yeah, but we have heard
some people complain about the rake possibly being too high with the charity element in
there, so I don't know. I don't really know what to expect from
it, but we'll see. Well, my name is Donny Peters. His
name is Tim Duckworth. Tomorrow day eight or today Friday July fourteenth, I
always get that messed up. But Friday July fourteenth, day eight of the
World Series of Poker may event the plan. Fifteen players were playing down to
nine. Let's go past, chanting spread