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Hello everyone, Welcome back to a
brand new episode of the poker Go Podcast.

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My name is Donnie Peters. I
am joined by Tim Duckworth. It

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is Thursday, April eighteenth. We
just wrapped up the twenty twenty four US

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Poker Open, so we're going to
talk about that. We're also going to

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talk about generally the PGT that kind
of like standings. But the first thing

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that we're going to get into today, the hot topic coming out of or

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the hot news I should say coming
out of the poker Go office, is

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the poker gosp streaming plan. So
that's gonna be the first thing we're going

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to get into today. As always, please like and subscribe to this podcast.

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think of some raffle prizes for the
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up with some good stuff, so
let's try and put that together. This

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is kind of a out loud mental
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plans. I know we've been hard
at work trying to put this together.

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Tim has been, you know,
probably chief among a lot of people trying

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to get this, get this all
tidied up, fit the puzzle together,

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all that sort of stuff. So
so let's get into it, because if

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people missed it, we did announce
earlier this week our streaming plans. Now

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I call it the streaming plan.
I don't I wouldn't really call it a

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schedule because it remains it's a schedule
man, its schedule. It remains extremely

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fluid. Okay, extremely fluid.
No, it's perfect. We aren't going

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to flex at one point. The
times they're locked in, days they're lucked

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in, they're definitely not youven.
You even said it on our internal call

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that you guessed at the times.
Okay, so yeah, they don't even

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give me that. They're perfect.
They're perfect guesses. Don't even forgive me

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that, all right. So the
the big headlining aspect of it all is

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that we are planning to do three
hundred plus hours of live streaming this summer.

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We should come in at our largest
summer ever. That's the goal there.

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I have no idea what the actual
number will come in at, but

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it should be well over three hundred. More than thirty different events from the

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twenty twenty four World Series of Poker
will make it onto poker Go and be

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live streamed. Now that does,
of course include the w s a p

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main event, and then there's a
whole bunch of other events that are that

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are going to be live streamed.
If you want to see the schedule quote

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unquote flexible schedule, head on over
to pokerg dot com. Now, head

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on over to pokerg dot com slash
schedule to check it out to see what's

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being offered. I do. I
do have to say it, even though

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Tim is joking over there, it's
subject to chain. We don't like to

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change it, but stuff happens.
The World Series of Poker is obviously an

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absolutely beast of a poker festival.
Things happen, different people make final tables,

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schedules change, change, et cetera. So just keep that in mind

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that you know, if you're penciled
in on let's say June fourth to watch

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the one K Mystery Millions events,
something happens and that's not on or for

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whatever reason, Daniel Legrondian fiel halp
me to make the same final table with

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some other event, we swap it
out. Just just be aware, Okay,

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so you know you can't really just
don't get upset at us. We're

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doing We're doing our best. Yeah, we are doing our best. A

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lot of I would say, a
lot of internal debate. I wouldn't necessarily

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struggle bickering for sure. Yeah,
I mean, listen, it's the schedules

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out there, the plans are out
there. So three hundred plus hours hours

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of live streaming thirty plus different events, I think on the schedule that we

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have, there's thirty five events.
I think that's what I counted, but

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I could be off by it.
One. It's kind of underwhelming though when

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you say thirty events, why,
Like it's not because obviously the main event

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is what is it eighteen days or
something. I'm said, it's just when

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you say thirty events, I don't
know, I feel like so underwhelmed by

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that. Well, listen, this
is kind of what I actually we're just

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streaming every day. This is kind
of what I want to get into.

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Okay, I mean, yeah,
the first thing that I want to ask

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you, you know, I know
you're big on this stuff, but like,

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what are you most looking forward to
now? Now? I want I'm

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asking you, Tim Duckworth, the
poker fan, like, what are you

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most looking forward to? You see
this announcement, you go to poker gro

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dot com, slash schedule, you
see everything that's laid out there. What

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is like? Okay, this is
cool. I'm into this. As a

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poker fan, I'm always going to
be interested in probably things we haven't seen

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before. I'm the WSOP, so
things that stand out pretty immediately for me.

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There would be say the Big O
Championship, new event we've also got

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the no Lemon hold in PLO double
Ward Bompard Tournament. That's a new event

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for this here, something obviously never
been on the WSP and never been on

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Poker Go. So from a poker
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want to see these new events,
but I also want to see you know,

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my heroes playing, right or I
want to see stuff that's interesting.

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So we've put events on the schedule
that gives us the best chance to get

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the big names at the final table, but we've also done a bunch of

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you know, day one, day
two, day three day like pre final

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table coverage that can you know,
be a bit more interesting, a bit

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more dynamic from the viewing standpoint,
but also just coming off the USBO,

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it's something that the players have been
a big fan of too, so kind

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of I think that's that's kind of
what I'm looking forward to on both kind

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of spectrums as a poker fan.
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one coverage that we're doing outside of
the domin eventin event is kind of a

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separate, you know, bucket within
in this big giant stream plans. Plans

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are to stream from Day one a
all the way to there is a champion

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crown in the WSP main events,
so you'll get daily streaming there, but

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outside of that, you know,
the focus has always really been Final Table,

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so I'm excited to see that we
were able to push through. Looks

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like we're going to get three days
at least right now, the plan is

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three days of the one hundred k
High Roller, so from day one till

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the end, which is cool,
two days of the two hundred and fifty

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k Super high Roller, so day
two coverage will be available, and then

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what from day two on of the
fifty k PPC is planned as well,

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So I'm excited to see that that
early day coverage, you know, like

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you mentioned, coming off of US
Poker Open, where we did additional day

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one coverage for the first time ever
for a series like that. It was

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very well received, both on the
audience side and on the player side,

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So that's something that I hope we
can lean into a bit more. I'm

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excited to see that we are offering
some of that for the twenty twenty four

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WSP. I wish we would be
doing a little bit more of it,

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but you know, I'll take what
i can get at this point. So

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that's the biggest thing for me.
Other than that, I mean, nothing

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like jumps off the page. I
mean, I mean, I'll be honest,

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and that's not necessarily a bad thing. You know. It sounds like

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you're a hater. No, I'm
not a hater. I mean, listen,

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we're going to talk about The next
question that I have on this rundown

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is what are some things that are
maybe missing? And we can certainly go

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into that. It's not that I'm
hating on it. It's just that like

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I'm just kind of used to it
by now, right, Like it's not

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like there's nothing that I'm very happy
that we are able to do a little

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bit more every year. I think
that that is like the biggest win personally,

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Like you just try and do a
little bit more every single year.

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Now. I would love to just
come out and be like, yeah,

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we're live stream I mean eighty events. I mean, I get it,

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Like there's obviously a lot of stuff
that we can't control in that regard or

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we don't make decisions on whatever.
That said, like it's it's good.

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It's like it's kind of like I
view, you know, the w SIP

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schedule, Like as long as it's
not a disaster, then it's probably just

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a win, like if that makes
sense, you know, like it's just

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you kind of know what you're gonna
get every single year. It's funny because

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you know, everyone is always asking
us, Like once they announced the WSIP

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schedule, then everyone's always asking us, where's the streaming schedule? Where's the

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streaming schedule? I mean, why
does it matter? I guess is like

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kind of my first question to a
lot of people, Like, I don't

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understand why it matters. You know, it's like, you know, you

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know kind of what you kind of
you you should know if you're a viewer

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and you're you know, paying attention, which I think a lot of the

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people that are asking that question are. I mean, you you know the

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floor pretty much. I mean,
give or take a little bit, right,

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I mean, so, why why
do you, like, are you

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like scheduling out what you're going to
be doing on June seventeenth if you're going

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to be watching I don't know,
the Double Board Bomb Part tournament like that

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sort of stuff. You know,
I just think that I think it's I

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think it's that people put to you
know, the series comes out, sorry,

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the schedule comes out, you start
putting together your little package of events

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and then you know, I'm looking
here, Oh, I'm going to play

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the eight hundred deep Stack on you
know, June fourth, and then we

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release our schedule and you see,
oh, the eight hundred deep Stacks one

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of the final tables. Now,
obviously, you know, making the file

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table is an easy thing, but
it gives you that little little extra like

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carrot that hey, I'm going to
if I make this file table, I

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can be on TV. I think
a lot of amateurs, like you know,

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not the pros, not the high
roller players we're accustomed to, they

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think like that. They see the
events that they're playing, is they look

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we're also streaming, and there's that
little like, oh, there's a chance

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like I could play for a bracelet
and play for a bracelet on TV,

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and that's still pretty cool for the
for those people out there. Yeah,

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I think I disagree with that idea, but whatever, But you you're withered

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all. No, I'm just saying, like the people that are asking that

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question, I don't think are probably
coming out to play poker in the summer.

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I just think that's my point that
they're coming out for a couple of

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times I don't think that they're coming
out for any of those events. I

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think the large majority of the people
that are that are doing that, that

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are asking like where's the schedule,
where's the schedule? Are never showing up

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with the World Series of Poker.
They're they're strictly viewers. No, I'm

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not not knocking them. I'm just
saying they're strictly viewers and they just want

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this our schedule to come out,
which is which is fine. I just

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it's just it's not that it's a
bad thing. I'm not trying to sound

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like it's a bad thing, and
I understand that I'm fully trying. I'm

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fully sounding like a hater. I'm
not trying to hate, but I'm sounding

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like what I get it. But
I'm just saying, it's just interesting to

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me that like it's like, where's
the schedule, where's your where's your schedule?

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Where's your schedule? Type of thing, And it's like it doesn't really

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matter if we announce it on April
sixteenth or if we announce it on you

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know, May twenty sixth. What's
the difference type of thing? Well,

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for the public, yes, internally, amadins it a lot, but yeah,

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could, honestly just we could just
release this schedule ready May thirtieth,

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WSP twenty twenty four racelet event day
one, like we technically, you're right,

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we don't need to list the events, we don't need to list times.

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We just show that, Hey,
we're streaming every day. Come back

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a day day before or even on
the day, and you'll find out what

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we're doing. But this is a
you know, it just kind of helps

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people discuss. It helps people like
plan, it helps us obviously logistically wise

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figure out our stuff. I think
those discussions are only they only result negatively.

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That's why I am always team like, don't put events on a team

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team vague. Yeah, like just
say like we're streaming, like you know,

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WSP on this day. This is
like you know, like you said,

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May thirtieth, day one day,
two days, like you et cetera.

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Like, don't put stuff out there
because the only thing I've never once

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like read a comment on social media
or it's an article from the media or

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whatever about the schedule, the streaming
schedule I'm talking about that says Oh it's

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cool they're doing this. It's always
like, oh, they missed this,

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Oh they're not doing this. Oh
this isn't this didn't make the cut.

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Oh poker Go is leaving this out. It's always negative, it's never positive.

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Maybe, but you know, is
that that terrible that we're in the

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news cycle. Well, no,
all news is good news. But I'm

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just saying exactly yeah, but the
news is still the news. If you

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just come out and you say,
we're streaming every single day, but is

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it? Will they say something?
This is let down. They don't organize

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that. That Aussie bloke at poker
Go, what's he what's he doing?

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Can't even give us a schedule anyway? Three hundred plus hours of live streaming

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three forty one and exactly to be
exactly three forty one? Got a guess,

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No, that's what it is.
I'm gonna just stop Final tables.

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Sorry, we're over. I'm going
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hit three forty one thirty plus some
different events, including of course the World

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Series of Poker main events. I
mean, listen, what are some of

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the things you think we're missing from
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more events, that's that's that's a
bit of a you know, cup out,

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that's the answer. Look, look
I'm gonna just throw WSPN on the

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bus here. If if certain events
were just in a day early. Hold

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on, hold on, I need
I need a sed hold on, I

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need it on record. This is
Tim Duckworth speaking. You can tell by

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the accent, okay, Like I
mean, because I feel like you throw

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them. You throw more people under
the bus than I do. But I

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always get in trouble for some reason. Okay, I just want that to

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point it out here. I had
Tim Duckworth of Las Vegas, Nevada are

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saying that if the schedule was a
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I mean is that certain events started
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little changes, we could have some
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really good. Like, you know, one thing are missing. We're missing

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the seniors event because you know,
it overlaps like the fifty K I think

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it is, So you know,
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means we could have done the seniors. So there's just little things like that

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where we're missing some really cool events. Where there's like there's some days with

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four awesome final tables on and that's
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Personally looking at this. You know, I'm a mixed game Homer.

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Would have loved to see in the
Badougie on the schedule, but we aren't,

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or we all know I'm probably going
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it. But yeah, that's my
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it's look, the WSP added more
bracelet events is here. It's hard to

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configure ninety nine bracelet events in what
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It's not an easy task. So
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to be perfect. So yeah,
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be perfect. I mean, I
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me, is like that we try
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offering from the extreaming schedule. I
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final tables on the weekend. I
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I think that would be cool,
like Saturday Sunday or the final tables for

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the main event. I think that
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on Saturday and Sunday in the middle
of the summer. No one, what

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do you mean? People don't watch
stuff and people in the summer in America

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are on lakes and shit, man, no people aren't around TVs. So

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what we should just move the WSP
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like you, I'm just saying Saturday
and Sunday I don't think are good

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viewing days. No they're not.
But I'm saying me personally, Yeah,

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you think I would have liked to
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that's correct, you know, But
like I think, what are we on

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Tuesday? Wednesday? So it's a
little it's just maybe we should do Thursday

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Friday. Whatever you think the best
viewing days are is what we should put

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the final table on. Yeah,
I'm not sure. Tuesday. I think.

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I'm not sure how good Tuesday Wednesday
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Saturday or Thursday Friday. I'm not
sure also how much that matters. But

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yeah, I mean I wish that. I mean, ultimately, I always

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wish that we could do more,
you know, I mean you saw what

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I put together then it got chopped
chopped in half. We we you know,

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we did one hundred and twenty bracelet
events and there's only ninety nine on

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the schedule. You just added twenty
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So yeah. So the one thing
that I think that we're missing, which

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I wish that we could do,
but I also understand that it's extremely tricky,

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is that I wish we could cover
more things. I wish we would

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cover more events during the time.
We also cover the World Ties Booker main

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event, which it's just that there's
so much going on at that time.

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But I also understand that like the
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right, so you can't you can't
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That has to be like the number
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that in the goal of telling the
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anything outside of that for two weeks
is something that I wish we could do

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better at, and I don't exactly
know how to do that. I mean,

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obviously the easiest suggestion would be,
well you just have two streams and

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you do like this final table over
here while you're doing you know, day

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two of the main event. Well, if they're going up against each other,

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do you really want that? So
can you stagger them in any sort

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of way? So it's just it's
tricky, but I do wish that,

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like during that time, we could
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because I think there's there's an appetite
there. There's kind of two appetites.

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One, there's an appetite for people
to I think watch like final tables

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versus watch like Day one d Right. While there are a lot of people

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that like early coverage in tournaments,
there are people that also like, you

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know, the end coverage in tournaments. And then I also think there's people

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who they like to double dip.
They'll fire up two streams at one you

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know, look, put one on
mute, or have one with the audio

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on that sort of thing. So
that's kind of they put both on mute.

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If Jeff platts on the coll no, Jeff Jeffson, can I can

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I throw a stat at you real
quick as you're talking about this particular man.

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Ninety nine we have ninety nine bracelet
events. The main event is event

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eighty one. I believe let's wind
that clock back ten years, just ten

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years, you know, no,
that far we had sixty five bracelet events.

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What event number? Do you think
the main event was sixty five?

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It was exactly so like you know, the last ten years, maybe even

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five years, there's been a really
strong shift to putting these events post World

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Series so that people do stick around. And that does make it hard from

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a streaming aspect, because you know, you and me agree. There's a

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couple of final tables late in the
day, late in the game that are

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like they're going to be good,
They're going to be so sexy for TV,

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and it's like, Okay, do
we want to take this fifty KPLO

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final table against day seven of the
main It's it's you know, like I

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can understand the yes arguments and I
can understand the no arguments. It's just

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a hot spot for us to kind
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and also to try and satisfy how
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No, for sure, I mean
I get it. I think ultimately

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at the end of the day,
I think we put together a pretty good

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schedule overall, or a pretty good
plan overall. I do think it's I

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think it's most important. I think
the number one thing that we need to

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achieve from as the as the streaming
company for the World Series of Poker is

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that you absolutely positively have to stream
every day. That that is like my

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number one thing. I don't care
what it is. You have to do

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it like that. That's shit.
You can't that. The times of the

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days of taking days off are just
you can't. No more like it,

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No more dark days. That just
can't happen. So so yeah, that's

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like the big thing. You know, you need to you need to showcase

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the World Series of Poker. It
runs for you know, fifty days,

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whatever, fifty one, whatever it
is. We start our streaming on May

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thirtieth, and we go every single
day. You never told us what your

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favorite event was just to watch you
mean to watch? That wasn't a question

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like, no, what's your favorite
event of the streaming schedule so far?

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The locked in streaming schedule, anything
that stands out to you? No,

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I mean the main event? Do
you what do you want me to say?

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Come on, why are you going
to be so boring? Spice it

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up a bit. This is like
when you ask people like what's their favorite

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poker hand? I usually say aces. I means yeah, I mean that's

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why you got ask them what six
diamonds? Second favorite hand? I mean

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I don't, I don't know.
I mean all these events like seem pretty

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good. I mean, all right, okay, let me let me.

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I don't like the Big O and
double board bomp Out. Not that I

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don't like them, I mean I
just I'm not not as into those games,

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so I just you know, they're
kind of they're more filler content for

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me. Then they're actually like you
know, I'm gonna be like, yeah,

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I need to watch this type of
thing. Got it? Okay,

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here's the new question ready, excluding
the main event. If you could only

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do commentary on one tournament on ask
streaming schedule, which would you choose?

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Uh, Day one of the ten
K six Max interesting? Even though when

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I was streaming that interesting. I
mean that's the Goats play that. That's

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the Goat tournament. Yeah, I
mean it's on day one when everyone's super

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deep four and five and six betting
everyone. Let's go that. That's the

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one I want to That's a tournament
I want to watch. I mean,

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also, I really like the I
love the Gladiators tournaments, like I all

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these like all the sub and it's
funny because listen, I used to be

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a guy that was like, you
know, it's silly to do all these

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low buy embracelet events like you know, back in my Poker News's changed,

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back of my Poker News podcast days. I mean, listen, there's yeah,

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I mean it's it's just it's a
different time. The BASIP seems like

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it's a different company. They got
different goals all that sort of stuff.

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So you know, I've come around
now like just essentially one like from from

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a streaming content company aspect, like
highlighting the everyman poker player I think is

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awesome, which that's what you get
in the three hund dollars Gladiators. You

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get you know, random guy from
Iowa, you know, random guy from

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Utah. Like you get just like
regular people like myself, like regular poker

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people that like poker. They come
to play. They found an affordable buy

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and they can win a crap ton
of money doing it. They just got

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through probably twenty thousand people, let's
go. That's awesome. Also, like

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I just I like it from like
a viewer perspective because it's more relatable,

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you know, like, yeah,
I listen, I love the super high

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buy and stuff, the elite players
because I really try and like study them

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and learn and all that sort of
stuff. That said, I also like

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the wackiness, the unorthodox play,
the you know of the the smaller buying

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stuff, because it's more like it's
more what you kind of see when you

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go out there in the world and
play poker. Like you go around town

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here in Vegas, you play some
six hundred dollars, some five hundred dollars,

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you play the South Point Night,
the et cetera. Like you get

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this type of like the Gladiators of
poker style of play. You know,

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you're not getting the two hundred and
fifty k super high roller style of play,

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you know. So it's just it's
it's more relatable, you know,

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being like, yeah, like this
is what I would do in that spot

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facing like the most random min four
bat from this guy who hasn't played a

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hand in three hours, like you
know, stuff like that. It's just

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it's it's funny, but in a
very entertaining way, and it's it's it's

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fun to see people living out their
dream under the relatable aspect that hey,

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that could be me, because I
mean I play at fair amount of poker,

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and yes I've played some bigger buy
ins, but like I'll probably never

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in my life play a twenty five
K or a fifty k or whatever.

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Right, never ever, But I
will sure as hell be able to play

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a three hundred dollars tournament or a
six hundred dollars tournament or an eight hundred

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dollars tournament or you know those sorts
of things. So I can be like,

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you have that relatable aspect of like
I could possibly be there, and

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then this is how I would maybe
act in this situation. Maybe I'm not

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acting super gto super high roller,
you know level stuff in this tournament because

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I got to be more exploitative.
But it's just a more relatable thing.

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And it's fun to see that,
and you get some different characters and they

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got to come from all these different
backgrounds and you know, all that sort

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of stuff. So I really like
that aspect of things. You got anything

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else on the schedule. We've talked
a long time about it, No,

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I think you coveted. Just remember, yeah, it is always object to

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change, regardless of how how much
I want to preach that it's locked in,

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and our subject to change is just
more of the fact that if this

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event gets a twenty five percent increase
in players, then yeah, we may

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have to move a final table or
something. But yeah, Hopefully we don't

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see too many changes, and hopefully
we get the big names at all these

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final tables and we can have a
pretty good streaming series for twenty twenty four.

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Yeah. I mean we're about five
and a half weeks out of the

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World Series of Poker now six weeks
out. Whatever it is, SOBSIP is

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certainly going to be top of mind. We'll probably be hitting on it in

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one way, shape or form on
this podcast every single week, so expect

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a bit more of it as we
go forward. I do have to mention

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gotta be a company man for a
second, but there is a promo currently

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out there. You can save twenty dollars

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Then with that twenty dollars off,
send me seventy nine to ninety nine

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for the year, which is I
think right around six or seven bucks a

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month. So I mean, that's
very very good, uh bargain. I

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you know, I know I say
that as the you know, the company

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person on this podcast, but I
really do believe that it's it's well worth

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it with all the value that you
can get from watching all this stuff that's

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on there. All right. Moving
on US Poker Open, aram Zobian is

407
00:27:37.519 --> 00:27:44.480
the twenty twenty four US Poker Open
champion. Zobian cashed four times, six

408
00:27:44.559 --> 00:27:49.519
hundred and sixteen PGT points, almost
two hundred points ahead of anyone else on

409
00:27:49.559 --> 00:27:56.160
the leaderboard. Stephen Chidwick finished in
second place. Zobian one event number six,

410
00:27:56.359 --> 00:28:00.599
fifteen thousand dollars buy and Nolan would
hold them for two hundred sixty four

411
00:28:00.640 --> 00:28:04.160
thousand dollars after he made a deal
heads up. He had a first,

412
00:28:04.440 --> 00:28:10.759
a second, a third, and
a sixth across the eight event series,

413
00:28:10.759 --> 00:28:15.599
so he cashed in half of the
events, finished finished on the podium in

414
00:28:15.680 --> 00:28:19.240
three of his four cashes, and
then in the twenty five K finale he

415
00:28:19.319 --> 00:28:26.880
took sixth place Zobeian cash for a
total of six hundred and thirteen thousand dollars.

416
00:28:26.519 --> 00:28:33.480
So good on Aram Zobian. The
performance allowed him to climb up up

417
00:28:33.519 --> 00:28:37.680
over a thousand points PGT points for
the entire season, moved him into third

418
00:28:37.720 --> 00:28:41.880
place. So yeah, he I
mean, he showed out extremely well.

419
00:28:42.279 --> 00:28:47.559
Aram is a very very good player. Made the WSB Main Event final table

420
00:28:48.680 --> 00:28:55.160
went twenty and eighteen seventeen sixteen,
so something like that pre pandemic, I

421
00:28:55.200 --> 00:29:00.400
guess if you want to classify it
as that. But was then he was

422
00:29:00.279 --> 00:29:04.359
twenty eighteen, then he was Would
he gets sixth or seventh or something for

423
00:29:04.400 --> 00:29:08.039
like one point six million or something, I can't remember one point eight what

424
00:29:08.400 --> 00:29:12.319
place did he get? Sixth six? Yeah, yeah, he was,

425
00:29:12.480 --> 00:29:19.119
I mean a total unknown, I'll
say back then, and now he's enjoying

426
00:29:19.359 --> 00:29:22.759
a bit more success, a bit
more time in the spotlight, you know,

427
00:29:22.799 --> 00:29:26.240
playing on these streams, that sort
of stuff. So, you know,

428
00:29:26.359 --> 00:29:32.559
good for Aramazobian In a way,
it's like it's kind of Jeremy Osmas

429
00:29:32.720 --> 00:29:36.920
esque. Jeremy Osmas played poker for
a while, but was you know,

430
00:29:37.640 --> 00:29:41.039
always just like a quiet grinder that
no one knew about. Then he makes

431
00:29:41.079 --> 00:29:45.160
the ws Main Event final table,
and then you know, eventually starts playing

432
00:29:45.240 --> 00:29:48.039
high rollers, has success there and
goes on to have what is you know,

433
00:29:48.240 --> 00:29:52.680
still a very very good career,
but like it was that main event

434
00:29:52.799 --> 00:29:56.680
that allowed for that jumping off point. I guess to play a lot bigger

435
00:29:56.720 --> 00:29:59.799
buy and stuff, and you don't. I mean, you don't see a

436
00:29:59.839 --> 00:30:04.319
lot lot of guys like make the
WSP Main Event final table and then just

437
00:30:04.359 --> 00:30:08.079
like start getting into more and more
high rollers. Like I feel like a

438
00:30:08.079 --> 00:30:14.400
lot of WSITY Main Event final tablests
just don't play a lot of high rollers.

439
00:30:14.480 --> 00:30:18.519
I mean, maybe they're just they
don't care about Maybe they have too

440
00:30:18.599 --> 00:30:19.720
much money now, but that's part
of it, and they're just like I

441
00:30:19.759 --> 00:30:22.759
don't need to play as much poker. Why should I, you know,

442
00:30:22.839 --> 00:30:26.119
spend ten K, fifteen K,
twenty five K, fifty K, one

443
00:30:26.160 --> 00:30:29.559
hunter k whatever it is on on
buyings when I have millions of dollars in

444
00:30:29.559 --> 00:30:32.960
the bank now and I can just
kind of chill and play more recreationally and

445
00:30:33.000 --> 00:30:34.599
have fun and be set up for
life. Part of it is maybe they

446
00:30:34.680 --> 00:30:38.119
just are fearful the competition, right, I mean, who knows. I

447
00:30:38.119 --> 00:30:41.400
mean the ws main Event, even
though it is a big buy in ten

448
00:30:41.440 --> 00:30:45.200
thousand dollars, I mean it's a
different type of tournament than coming out and

449
00:30:45.240 --> 00:30:48.279
playing you know, the us PO
Grope when or playing a Triton Poker Series

450
00:30:48.400 --> 00:30:52.000
or whatever it may be. Like
these, you know, these are like

451
00:30:52.160 --> 00:30:55.880
the best players in the world playing
in you know, these types of tournaments

452
00:30:55.880 --> 00:31:00.440
that the PGT and others like it
offer. So maybe there's just that kind

453
00:31:00.440 --> 00:31:06.319
of unwillingness to want to get into
that arena. I don't know, but

454
00:31:06.319 --> 00:31:08.680
but it is good to see Aramzobian, you know, come out play a

455
00:31:08.720 --> 00:31:11.759
lot of these events. He's always
a regular in the series that we do

456
00:31:11.799 --> 00:31:17.920
on the PGT and then ultimately come
out on top here with a US Poker

457
00:31:18.200 --> 00:31:22.799
Open victory. Just running through the
event winners eight events at this year's US

458
00:31:22.839 --> 00:31:26.920
Poker Open, Eric Sidel won the
opener five thousand dollars. Nolan held him

459
00:31:26.960 --> 00:31:30.720
Event four one hundred and forty five
thousand dollars. Jesse Lonis won the second

460
00:31:30.720 --> 00:31:34.279
event. Dan Smith won the third
event. David Coleman a lot of success

461
00:31:34.319 --> 00:31:38.400
this year on the PGT. He
won event number four, Matthew Wantman won

462
00:31:38.440 --> 00:31:44.079
event number five. He denied Daniel
mcgranu a title there. Aramzobian, as

463
00:31:44.079 --> 00:31:47.640
I mentioned, he won the event
number six. Eric Afriat won event number

464
00:31:47.640 --> 00:31:52.400
seven, and then Steven Chidwick won
the twenty five K finale Chidwick one four

465
00:31:52.680 --> 00:31:56.640
twenty nine thousand dollars in that event. Let me ask you kind of your

466
00:31:56.720 --> 00:32:02.680
initial thoughts on I guess a Ramzobian
on the series the winners, et cetera,

467
00:32:02.720 --> 00:32:06.960
and then we'll get into some other
stuff about the USPL. Yeah,

468
00:32:07.000 --> 00:32:12.119
pretty deserving winner. Results spoke one, you know, first, a second,

469
00:32:12.119 --> 00:32:16.960
and a third heading into the twenty
five K finale before he finished sixth.

470
00:32:17.599 --> 00:32:22.039
So yeah, that's all I have
to earn him. Really, been

471
00:32:22.039 --> 00:32:28.839
playing our events since the start of
the PGT very consistent. You know,

472
00:32:29.119 --> 00:32:31.519
normally sticks to just the tens,
but you know, the last year or

473
00:32:31.559 --> 00:32:36.200
so he's been branching out, running
a little better. And now he has

474
00:32:36.240 --> 00:32:40.039
a was it one hundred and seven
pound Golden Eagle trophy to take home fifty

475
00:32:40.039 --> 00:32:45.640
three pounds. It's actually a pretty
like there. We did a photo shoot

476
00:32:45.640 --> 00:32:47.759
with him and he's said, oh
man, this is heavy, Like how

477
00:32:47.799 --> 00:32:52.599
am I supposed to take this home? And like what was funny was the

478
00:32:52.720 --> 00:32:57.640
night before he used like a bunch
of his gift cards and he ordered like

479
00:32:57.960 --> 00:33:02.720
twenty coconuts from lemongrass, like unopened, but he left him there overnight because

480
00:33:02.720 --> 00:33:06.039
you know, they finished at three
am. So he had a bag full

481
00:33:06.079 --> 00:33:09.440
of twenty coconuts you know that probably
weighed twenty five thirty pounds. He had

482
00:33:09.440 --> 00:33:14.279
this, you know, one hundred
and eighty seven pound Golden Eagle trophy.

483
00:33:14.440 --> 00:33:15.680
He's like, how am I supposed
to take this home? And I'm like,

484
00:33:15.759 --> 00:33:20.240
you just gotta do the farmer carry
and walk up back to your car.

485
00:33:20.759 --> 00:33:22.599
So we have a photo of him
walking that out, which is pretty

486
00:33:22.640 --> 00:33:29.160
funny. So Ramzobian is obviously the
headliner winning the twenty twenty four US poke

487
00:33:29.200 --> 00:33:35.079
Er Open. He joins David Peters, Steven Chidwick, Sean Winter, Martin

488
00:33:35.200 --> 00:33:40.240
Zemani. I believe that's it right, as US Poke gre Open champions David

489
00:33:40.240 --> 00:33:44.480
Peters did win it twice, went
back to back twenty eight nineteen, excuse

490
00:33:44.519 --> 00:33:47.279
me, twenty nineteen and twenty twenty
one. There was no USPO on twenty

491
00:33:47.319 --> 00:33:52.279
twenty due to the pandemic. But
I have written down here some page two

492
00:33:52.319 --> 00:33:54.640
headlines. I mean, obviously the
headliner is Aramzobian, right, but the

493
00:33:54.680 --> 00:34:00.000
page two headlines things that I have
written down that that stuck out to me

494
00:34:00.119 --> 00:34:01.440
that I think, you know,
you could like you could do like a

495
00:34:01.480 --> 00:34:07.920
secondary like story on or secondary you
know, news headline on Steven Chidwick is

496
00:34:07.960 --> 00:34:12.599
back. You know, he's had
a pretty quiet PGT for Steven Chidwick's standards

497
00:34:12.639 --> 00:34:15.119
so far. Don't think we saw
him at the Kickoff, had a very

498
00:34:15.280 --> 00:34:20.519
lackluster poker gro cup. Did we
see him at mixed games in PLO?

499
00:34:20.800 --> 00:34:23.599
We did? He barely did anything. I think he played a couple of

500
00:34:23.639 --> 00:34:28.440
the paylo events. Yeah, so
he hasn't done much on the PGT this

501
00:34:28.559 --> 00:34:32.159
season, but now he seems like
he's back to being Steven Chidwick. He

502
00:34:32.239 --> 00:34:37.559
won that twenty five K finale he's
got, He had four cashes overall,

503
00:34:37.599 --> 00:34:42.400
he finished second to Aramzovian on the
leader board. So it seems like Steven

504
00:34:42.440 --> 00:34:45.880
Chidwick is kind of just starting to
heat up to be back to the Stephen

505
00:34:45.920 --> 00:34:51.280
Childwick that we know. Interestingly that
I was going through some of the US

506
00:34:51.320 --> 00:34:57.840
Poker Open stats, Chidwick now leads
all time USPO. So going back to

507
00:34:58.639 --> 00:35:01.599
twenty eighteen, he lea he's in
money one at the USPO. He leads

508
00:35:01.599 --> 00:35:05.880
in cashes. He is nineteen,
which I believe is three more than anyone

509
00:35:05.880 --> 00:35:08.960
else carry Kats is second with sixteen, and then he's also tied for the

510
00:35:09.039 --> 00:35:15.000
lead for titles, so he's those
three categories. Steven Chidwick is at the

511
00:35:15.000 --> 00:35:17.719
top of all three of them.
That's pretty impressive. Yeah, so another

512
00:35:17.960 --> 00:35:22.559
headline here. Daniel mcgrano continues as
hot. Twenty twenty four, he had

513
00:35:22.559 --> 00:35:25.760
two cases. Notably, he got
second to Matthew Wantman in event number five.

514
00:35:25.880 --> 00:35:30.719
Mcgrowney took one hundred and fifty one
eight hundred dollars for that second place

515
00:35:30.719 --> 00:35:34.320
finish. So mcgron, you's still
hot here in twenty twenty four. Eric

516
00:35:34.400 --> 00:35:38.400
Sidell still doing it. That's another
little subheader here. He won event number

517
00:35:38.400 --> 00:35:42.760
one, he got third in event
number five. That that event was Matthew

518
00:35:42.800 --> 00:35:46.960
Waman first, Mgarany second, Sidel
third. So Eric Sidell been around forever,

519
00:35:47.000 --> 00:35:51.360
an absolute legend of Poker Hall of
Famer, now a ten time bracelet

520
00:35:51.400 --> 00:35:55.440
winner after winning his tenth bracelet down
in the Bahamas for the WSP Paradise.

521
00:35:55.480 --> 00:35:59.960
He's still doing it. Won that
that five k opener here at the US

522
00:36:00.400 --> 00:36:06.719
Roger Johnson cashed five times. He
cashed all five of the first five events

523
00:36:07.039 --> 00:36:13.679
in the eight events series. Victoria
Liftschitz also cashed five times, so you

524
00:36:13.719 --> 00:36:16.679
know, crazy runs from both of
those players, Johnson and Liftshits. And

525
00:36:16.719 --> 00:36:21.440
then David Coleman back on top of
the PGT leaderboard, mentioned that he won

526
00:36:22.280 --> 00:36:24.119
an event. He won event number
four ten thousand dollars. Nolan would hold

527
00:36:24.159 --> 00:36:29.440
them for just over two hundred thousand
dollars there, So David Coleman back up

528
00:36:29.440 --> 00:36:34.360
on top of the PGT leaderboard.
After the PLO series, it was Dylan

529
00:36:34.400 --> 00:36:38.000
Wiseman who had taken the top spot
from David Coleman, but now David Coleman

530
00:36:38.039 --> 00:36:42.599
has come back and he is back
up on top. So those are kind

531
00:36:42.599 --> 00:36:47.079
of my page two headlines from the
USPO. Do you have anything to add

532
00:36:47.119 --> 00:36:51.800
anything that stuck out to you that
you think is kind of headline worthy but

533
00:36:51.880 --> 00:36:55.639
obviously not overtaking around zobim Be in
the series Champ you touched on it earlier.

534
00:36:57.000 --> 00:37:00.320
Something that we did on the Poker
Got Side is we debuted our day

535
00:37:00.320 --> 00:37:04.760
one coverage. Remco and I were
doing commentary. We called ourselves the Bonus

536
00:37:04.800 --> 00:37:08.800
Boys because we were calling this bonus
coverage. So first time we did this

537
00:37:08.840 --> 00:37:15.480
across a major series like this,
where you know we did the final tables.

538
00:37:15.880 --> 00:37:19.000
Not really, that's not that true. Why is it not true?

539
00:37:20.360 --> 00:37:24.639
We used we did early action of
the pokemas Is back in twenty nineteen or

540
00:37:24.679 --> 00:37:29.079
something, well whatever. It was
called an early action, not bonus coverage,

541
00:37:29.119 --> 00:37:32.400
but that predates me, so it
doesn't matter. Did we really do

542
00:37:32.480 --> 00:37:37.239
that? I can't remember, Yeah, whatever, but it was. I

543
00:37:37.280 --> 00:37:40.000
believe it might have been no,
no graphics. Actually, why would it

544
00:37:40.000 --> 00:37:44.559
be, no, Yeah, this
is slightly better anyway, would it be?

545
00:37:44.559 --> 00:37:47.679
Because who knows? The final tables
would wrap up and then you know,

546
00:37:47.760 --> 00:37:50.880
there'd be an hour or two break
or whatever it would be, and

547
00:37:50.920 --> 00:37:55.480
then we'd fire up a feature table
from whatever. The day one of the

548
00:37:55.639 --> 00:37:59.719
next tournament was running. We took
that down to as close to the bubble

549
00:37:59.760 --> 00:38:04.440
as we were allowed by the Aria
Poker staff, and then you know,

550
00:38:04.639 --> 00:38:07.119
those players finished up for the day. We finished up usually around what ten

551
00:38:07.159 --> 00:38:10.840
thirty or eleven, something like that, and the next day people would come

552
00:38:10.880 --> 00:38:19.559
back pretty rave reviews from the audience
and the players. You know, everyone

553
00:38:19.599 --> 00:38:23.679
seemed to be loving it. I
loved it being in the commentary with because

554
00:38:23.719 --> 00:38:28.360
it was a bit of a different
feel, you know. I liked it

555
00:38:28.400 --> 00:38:35.000
because one you get to see early
to middle tournament stage play and approaching the

556
00:38:35.039 --> 00:38:37.280
bubble, not just like you know, your run of the mill twenty to

557
00:38:37.360 --> 00:38:42.239
thirty big blind final table stuff,
which we see all the time, not

558
00:38:42.320 --> 00:38:45.760
only on the PGT, but like
that's the majority of tournament livestream coverage,

559
00:38:45.840 --> 00:38:51.880
right is, It's largely final table
stuff. That said, you know,

560
00:38:51.960 --> 00:38:55.559
this was this was great to see
the early stuff and see how some of

561
00:38:55.800 --> 00:39:02.679
the top tournament players in the world
maneuver at different stacked depths and mostly much

562
00:39:02.800 --> 00:39:06.880
deeper stacked depths, and then as
things get closer to the bubble, how

563
00:39:06.920 --> 00:39:10.280
the tournament kind of shakes out and
people adjust their play and whatnot. So

564
00:39:10.960 --> 00:39:17.119
that was very cool. The players
themselves seemed way more laid back, chatty,

565
00:39:17.519 --> 00:39:21.840
outgoing, you know, not just
like hyper focus. Okay, this

566
00:39:21.880 --> 00:39:23.920
is the final table. There's five
people left. Got to worry about this

567
00:39:24.000 --> 00:39:29.000
pay jump. This guy's got four
big blinds, this guy's got twenty seven.

568
00:39:29.079 --> 00:39:31.159
I'm over here with eighteen. What's
my range? What's my shoving range?

569
00:39:31.199 --> 00:39:35.000
Should I be three bet jamming this? You know, like all the

570
00:39:35.119 --> 00:39:39.119
hyper focused final table stuff like this
was kind of like much more in a

571
00:39:39.159 --> 00:39:43.039
way, kind of like a home
game, which is kind of the feel

572
00:39:43.440 --> 00:39:45.159
from the studio most times. I
mean, we see it all the time,

573
00:39:45.239 --> 00:39:50.159
right because we're in there, but
we didn't show it to the public,

574
00:39:50.199 --> 00:39:52.079
and this was the first time that
we did that. I mean,

575
00:39:52.480 --> 00:39:54.440
how do you think it went or
what are you hearing from the players?

576
00:39:54.480 --> 00:39:59.639
Most importantly, I think from the
players, they definitely enjoyed it. They

577
00:39:59.639 --> 00:40:05.400
got to see a different side of
things that we normally do content wise,

578
00:40:06.320 --> 00:40:09.679
and yeah, you touched on it. They were much more relaxed, much

579
00:40:09.679 --> 00:40:15.559
more jovial up on the feature table, and it was just different. It

580
00:40:15.599 --> 00:40:19.920
was different poker. It was fun. Even the players were trying to get

581
00:40:19.960 --> 00:40:22.280
involved, like, oh, what
table are you going to choose? Like

582
00:40:22.440 --> 00:40:24.519
next, I think you should choose
this one and then you know, or

583
00:40:24.599 --> 00:40:29.039
no, maybe you shoul choose our
one, et cetera. So they enjoyed

584
00:40:29.079 --> 00:40:30.320
it that. You know, we
also had players come back and tell us,

585
00:40:30.360 --> 00:40:34.840
you know, they would bust and
go home watch the bonus coverage if

586
00:40:34.840 --> 00:40:37.480
they want to watch any of the
Final Table stuff. You know, they

587
00:40:37.679 --> 00:40:40.679
they I think these guys that play, you know, the PGT events regularly,

588
00:40:42.400 --> 00:40:45.599
they know they know all the Final
Table stuff. They know the Rangers,

589
00:40:45.639 --> 00:40:49.679
they know the ICM place. But
it's like, I think there's more

590
00:40:49.719 --> 00:40:52.840
interesting playing a lot during the final
tables. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

591
00:40:53.039 --> 00:40:58.800
I think they're just more interested in
seeing the varying styles of play when the

592
00:40:58.880 --> 00:41:01.800
average is you know, ffty big
lines as opposed to you know, twenty

593
00:41:01.800 --> 00:41:07.039
five or fifteen whatever it might be, and they can learn I think they

594
00:41:07.039 --> 00:41:12.679
can learn a little bit more that
actually helps them get to the final table.

595
00:41:13.079 --> 00:41:16.199
You know, they can learn more
from players, build their notes when

596
00:41:16.239 --> 00:41:22.039
it matters most actually getting to the
final table. So I have a question

597
00:41:22.119 --> 00:41:27.639
down here, what is one thing
you would do to make the USPO better.

598
00:41:28.440 --> 00:41:31.239
You're giving current launch. You can
do whatever you want, one thing

599
00:41:31.480 --> 00:41:36.079
and one thing only. What are
you doing, I mean to make the

600
00:41:36.199 --> 00:41:40.280
USPO better as in the series,
I think it's more about getting more people

601
00:41:40.280 --> 00:41:45.000
playing the event. A couple of
players float to the ideas of million dollar

602
00:41:45.079 --> 00:41:51.840
guarantees on the ten ks, you
know, that would help expand the field

603
00:41:51.840 --> 00:41:55.960
size, get more players, get
some new players, also more satellites,

604
00:41:55.960 --> 00:42:00.519
that would help get some fresh blood
in there. You could technically say that

605
00:42:00.800 --> 00:42:06.800
doing more five k's would make the
series better because you'd get a lot of

606
00:42:06.840 --> 00:42:13.360
new faces making the money and potentially
parlaying that into the bigger buyings From the

607
00:42:13.400 --> 00:42:15.599
content aspect. I think we just
need to do more with the bonus coverage.

608
00:42:16.000 --> 00:42:21.400
I think we can take this down
to the final you know, Final

609
00:42:21.440 --> 00:42:25.840
seven, final six. There's a
lot more staffing on our part. It's

610
00:42:25.880 --> 00:42:30.119
a more staffing on arius part.
It's it's going to be late nights for

611
00:42:30.159 --> 00:42:35.599
you and Remico on commentary. I
don't think I think it would make our

612
00:42:35.679 --> 00:42:39.639
content more dynamic, more interesting.
Maybe it's something we only do for a

613
00:42:39.679 --> 00:42:45.559
certain series, like maybe we build
a certain series around a streaming aspect more

614
00:42:45.559 --> 00:42:49.639
than a poker playing aspect. But
yeah, I think we can definitely do

615
00:42:49.760 --> 00:42:53.239
a bit more as we start looking
you know, to the latter end of

616
00:42:53.239 --> 00:42:59.159
this season and also you know,
next season. I would I want a

617
00:42:59.599 --> 00:43:04.800
two starting flight opening event that this
is what I want, Like, can

618
00:43:05.079 --> 00:43:07.360
you make this happen? You're you're
the commissioner, but I'm just worried about

619
00:43:07.400 --> 00:43:13.239
how what are you playing down to? Like what do you I I want

620
00:43:13.280 --> 00:43:20.119
to do like a a five k
opener, two or three starting flights,

621
00:43:20.800 --> 00:43:23.400
like like just a multi day event
to kick off the series. Like I

622
00:43:23.440 --> 00:43:27.760
think with a guarantee by the way, like this is all like one package

623
00:43:28.119 --> 00:43:30.280
at the front of a series,
just because I feel like that's more what

624
00:43:32.440 --> 00:43:39.880
people in the let's say two K
to five K price point would would be

625
00:43:39.960 --> 00:43:44.800
willing to play. You know,
Like I understand we can't come out like

626
00:43:45.480 --> 00:43:47.000
or I just don't think that it
would ever be okay that we could be

627
00:43:47.039 --> 00:43:50.480
like let's do a three million dollar
guarantee. I mean, obviously that would

628
00:43:50.480 --> 00:43:52.360
be great, but trying to be
kind of realistic here, but like,

629
00:43:52.400 --> 00:43:57.480
what why couldn't you do just like
a one point five million dollar guarantee or

630
00:43:57.480 --> 00:44:01.760
something something that's extremely doable to hit
right, but can can draw a good

631
00:44:01.760 --> 00:44:07.000
amount of people and then hopefully you
get them to parlay into like the rest

632
00:44:07.039 --> 00:44:08.280
of the series, or at least
start playing, you know, some of

633
00:44:08.320 --> 00:44:12.760
the ten k's after they have some
success. Like I think that would be

634
00:44:12.800 --> 00:44:16.360
a great way to kick off the
US Poker Open. I think it would

635
00:44:16.400 --> 00:44:22.280
catch on and spread like wildfire in
terms of like how popular it would be.

636
00:44:22.960 --> 00:44:25.840
So that's what I really think.
That's like the evolution we need to

637
00:44:25.880 --> 00:44:30.599
have with these majors. So yeah, I mean, at least as far

638
00:44:30.639 --> 00:44:35.760
as I'm concerned, I definitely want
to keep trying to push that initiative overall.

639
00:44:36.360 --> 00:44:37.840
But like what I mean, you
sound concerned. Why are you concerned?

640
00:44:38.119 --> 00:44:40.559
What do you mean? Play down
to play down to whatever? Have

641
00:44:40.960 --> 00:44:44.639
have it be the day two and
then a day three. I just don't

642
00:44:44.679 --> 00:44:51.320
know if the the appetite the player
pool is big enough of that in our

643
00:44:51.360 --> 00:44:58.760
events. I think there's still a
bit of a a public viewpoint that the

644
00:44:58.800 --> 00:45:02.840
studio is a private place used to
play and they're not welcome obviously once you

645
00:45:02.840 --> 00:45:05.760
know, people step in there and
play, they're like, oh, this

646
00:45:05.840 --> 00:45:10.079
place is great, you know,
discounted rake. I don't understand how that's

647
00:45:10.079 --> 00:45:15.000
like forgotten to be a thing.
The studio is a public it was.

648
00:45:15.079 --> 00:45:19.000
It was brought up during this series, I understand. But like the US

649
00:45:19.000 --> 00:45:22.880
poke rope in is a tournament series, you know, and it's it's never

650
00:45:22.960 --> 00:45:27.360
really like mentioned in the headlines.
It's obviously mentioned like later on, or

651
00:45:27.400 --> 00:45:30.920
it's in the structure sheet or whatever
that like it's played at the Poker Gro

652
00:45:30.039 --> 00:45:34.079
Studio, but like it's never like
the US poke up and at the Poker

653
00:45:34.119 --> 00:45:37.559
Gro Studio, the US poke up
in inside the poker gro studio. So

654
00:45:37.639 --> 00:45:43.800
like when when the US poke up
in itself is being promoted, like people

655
00:45:43.960 --> 00:45:46.840
just I don't understand why people can't
think that the US poke rope and can

656
00:45:46.840 --> 00:45:50.920
be played by anyone like I,
you know, I don't like It's not

657
00:45:50.960 --> 00:45:52.239
like I see like the win millions, Oh my god, Like I can't

658
00:45:52.239 --> 00:45:54.880
play that. I'm not a millionaire. Like no, I just say,

659
00:45:54.920 --> 00:45:57.599
like, oh, okay, let
me look at the schedule, what are

660
00:45:57.639 --> 00:46:00.239
the buyings? Can I play?
Okay? Cool, I'm gonna go play.

661
00:46:00.400 --> 00:46:04.039
Like I don't know why people think
it probably goes to when I was

662
00:46:04.119 --> 00:46:10.000
launched and it just had a initial, an initial bad rap or bad viewpoint,

663
00:46:10.039 --> 00:46:14.320
and it's you just have to slowly
convince people that this is not the

664
00:46:14.360 --> 00:46:17.079
case, that it is an open
venue. And the more the merrier.

665
00:46:19.599 --> 00:46:22.440
Yeah, I mean, yeah,
I don't fully understand that side of things.

666
00:46:22.480 --> 00:46:28.079
But but yeah, I mean listen, if you did a one point

667
00:46:28.159 --> 00:46:31.519
five million dollar guaranteed five k opener, you only three hundred entries. I

668
00:46:31.559 --> 00:46:37.239
mean, I think we can get
that. Come on, why can't we

669
00:46:37.599 --> 00:46:40.440
maybe why can't we? We can
do it? People want to play in

670
00:46:40.440 --> 00:46:44.519
the studio. Let's go let's make
it happen. That would be my one

671
00:46:44.599 --> 00:46:47.719
change before we move on to the
general PGT leaderboard. I got to say

672
00:46:47.719 --> 00:46:52.519
that I think I won the fantasy
by the way, it's it's it's it's

673
00:46:52.800 --> 00:46:57.719
I'm calling. I need I need
to bring in a judge, a jury

674
00:46:58.159 --> 00:47:01.000
to make a decision on this result, because I don't think it's fair.

675
00:47:02.039 --> 00:47:09.719
Why don't you think that Alex Foxon
took five events off to get surgery.

676
00:47:10.159 --> 00:47:15.000
I didn't know he was getting surgery, So I would like to cancel the

677
00:47:15.000 --> 00:47:19.920
bet that series. You're already messing
up your argument. Okay, your argument

678
00:47:20.000 --> 00:47:23.480
is this, and I listened back
to the last podcast earlier today. You

679
00:47:23.519 --> 00:47:30.000
never picked a third person. I
didn't need it. I have the Foxes.

680
00:47:30.039 --> 00:47:32.119
Well, yeah, the Foxes scored
a combined thirty five points. I

681
00:47:32.199 --> 00:47:39.800
scored five because my team was goat
and Jeremy Osmina's Jeremy Osmas did nothing at

682
00:47:39.840 --> 00:47:44.880
the USBRO Grog, David Coleman won
an event, and I should get to

683
00:47:44.920 --> 00:47:49.280
pick I should get to pick a
third person right now. Well, you

684
00:47:49.320 --> 00:47:53.440
would have never picked a Ramzobian,
So go ahead, you can have yeah,

685
00:47:53.480 --> 00:47:57.519
and you still would be like,
yeah, yeah, I would have

686
00:47:57.519 --> 00:48:00.039
said lose, But come on,
Alex, why gift to go get surgery?

687
00:48:00.079 --> 00:48:05.119
He could have just gone another another
week with the ton peck. You

688
00:48:05.199 --> 00:48:12.719
know, doesn't matter. As for
the season long PGT leaderboard, David Coleman

689
00:48:12.800 --> 00:48:15.480
is backup on top. As I
mentioned, he had some success at the

690
00:48:15.559 --> 00:48:21.079
US Poker Open, which included winning
in event he's now He now has four

691
00:48:21.440 --> 00:48:27.679
victories on the PGT this season.
He's up to twelve hundred and fifty nine

692
00:48:27.719 --> 00:48:30.920
points. Coleman has four wins,
nine cashes, nine hundred and fifty four

693
00:48:30.960 --> 00:48:36.760
thousand dollars in winnings. Dylan Wiseman
is second on the leaderboard eleven hundred and

694
00:48:36.760 --> 00:48:39.360
twenty six points. He's got three
wins, ten cashes, and he's the

695
00:48:39.400 --> 00:48:45.800
only player over one million dollars in
winnings on the PGT this season. He's

696
00:48:45.840 --> 00:48:49.079
got one million, one hundred and
fifty five thousand. Then it's a ram

697
00:48:49.159 --> 00:48:52.320
Zobian, the US Poker Open champion, who's up to one thousand and forty

698
00:48:52.360 --> 00:48:57.280
eight points. He's got one victory, eight cashes, nine hundred and seventeen

699
00:48:57.320 --> 00:49:01.199
thousand dollars in winnings. Fourth place
belongs to player everyone knows. Daniel Legrond

700
00:49:01.239 --> 00:49:07.360
new eight hundred and ninety six points, one win, eleven cases, which

701
00:49:07.440 --> 00:49:10.840
leads the way for every PGT player, and seven hundred and seventy six thousand

702
00:49:10.880 --> 00:49:15.079
dollars in winnings, and then running
out the top five is Sammy Cippola,

703
00:49:15.159 --> 00:49:20.880
who was the PGTPLO Series champion.
He still has seven hundred and forty nine

704
00:49:20.920 --> 00:49:23.480
points, two wins, four cashes, seven hundred and seven hundred and seventy

705
00:49:23.480 --> 00:49:28.360
six thousand dollars in winnings. But
Steven Chidwick's coming up quick. So Steven

706
00:49:28.400 --> 00:49:32.920
Chidwick's coming up quick. He's now
in sixth place after doing very well at

707
00:49:32.960 --> 00:49:38.559
the USPO. Jesse Lonis is moving
up nicely. He's up to eighth place.

708
00:49:38.679 --> 00:49:44.159
Kristen Foxon has kind of fallen down
or slid down. I mean,

709
00:49:44.199 --> 00:49:45.840
she still has six hundred and seventy
eight points, she has one win,

710
00:49:45.960 --> 00:49:51.400
she's got five cashes. She's currently
in seventh place, but she was up

711
00:49:51.440 --> 00:49:54.440
to what second place behind David Coleman. You know, since the PGT Kickoff

712
00:49:54.480 --> 00:49:59.880
Series hasn't done a ton, she's
been out there, she's been bad ling.

713
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:02.280
He's been playing a lot. But
she hasn't put up the results.

714
00:50:02.360 --> 00:50:07.239
That said, it's obviously a very
long season, so I would expect her

715
00:50:07.320 --> 00:50:08.719
to, you know, get back
into form, you know, climb back

716
00:50:08.760 --> 00:50:12.159
up the leader boarder, you know, do what she needs to just stay

717
00:50:12.159 --> 00:50:15.079
in the top ten or whatever,
et cetera. Jonathan Little won the Poker

718
00:50:15.119 --> 00:50:21.440
ro Cup but hasn't done much since, still sitting, you know, on

719
00:50:21.760 --> 00:50:23.920
five hundred and ninety one points.
He's got two wins, five cashes,

720
00:50:23.960 --> 00:50:28.159
seven hundred and seventy one thousand dollars
in winnings. He made one final table

721
00:50:28.239 --> 00:50:34.159
at the USPO. I think that's
it. So yeah, gonna be an

722
00:50:34.159 --> 00:50:39.320
interesting season. I'm kind of surprised
with where. I'm surprised with where two

723
00:50:39.400 --> 00:50:45.840
people are. One is Jeremy Osmas. He hasn't really done much. I

724
00:50:45.880 --> 00:50:50.559
mean, he has eight cashes,
five hundred and or sorry, four hundred

725
00:50:50.559 --> 00:50:55.119
and eleven thousand dollars in prize money
one. But I'm getting the sense that

726
00:50:55.320 --> 00:51:00.920
his year is starting out like negron
News year was last year on the PGT

727
00:51:00.159 --> 00:51:06.960
where it was like a lot of
smaller caches but void of like the big

728
00:51:07.000 --> 00:51:09.440
wins of the top three finishes,
where where obviously the big prize money is

729
00:51:09.440 --> 00:51:13.199
where obviously a lot of the points
are because the points are tied to the

730
00:51:13.199 --> 00:51:16.159
prize money. He does have eight
cases, you know, so that's you

731
00:51:16.199 --> 00:51:20.119
know up there. You know,
that's like in what that's in the top

732
00:51:20.239 --> 00:51:24.280
five or six in terms of number
of cases that he's had. But yeah,

733
00:51:24.320 --> 00:51:28.920
I feel like Jeremy Osmas is lost
here. He had twenty cashes,

734
00:51:29.920 --> 00:51:34.360
zero wins. Yeah, but how
many points he I thought he did?

735
00:51:34.639 --> 00:51:37.039
He had some final tables and stuff
in there. Yeah, he had,

736
00:51:37.159 --> 00:51:45.000
you know or something something like that. He just he just just get a

737
00:51:45.039 --> 00:51:47.079
victory being a while No, that's
that's what I'm saying. Like he I

738
00:51:47.079 --> 00:51:52.440
mean, he's obviously been playing a
lot on the PGT this year, but

739
00:51:52.679 --> 00:51:57.199
you know, he's just he hasn't
really like pushed through, you know,

740
00:51:57.320 --> 00:52:00.239
like he has when Steven should kind
of started out that way. But you

741
00:52:00.239 --> 00:52:04.159
know, and but now Steven Chidwick's
kind of rounding into form. So it's

742
00:52:04.159 --> 00:52:08.760
probably just a matter of time before
before Jeremy Osmas rounds into form and then

743
00:52:08.760 --> 00:52:14.679
somebody else that I'm just surprised with
is Andrew Lucky Chewie Lichtenberger because I feel

744
00:52:14.679 --> 00:52:17.840
like I see him every single day, Like every time we have a Nolan

745
00:52:17.920 --> 00:52:22.800
Hole tournament, I feel like he's
there. I also know how good he

746
00:52:22.920 --> 00:52:27.840
is, right, so I'm just
like kind of surprised that he only has

747
00:52:27.960 --> 00:52:30.360
three cashes for three hundred nine thousand
dollars on the PGT this season. I

748
00:52:30.360 --> 00:52:36.679
mean, seems kind of shocking to
me. Yeah, I feel like he

749
00:52:36.760 --> 00:52:39.760
needs to he needs to go on
up to pipoker and uh like getting the

750
00:52:39.840 --> 00:52:43.840
lab. But there was like a
betting market, you know, is lucky

751
00:52:43.960 --> 00:52:46.119
you we're gonna finish in the top
forty. I would like snap say yes,

752
00:52:46.960 --> 00:52:52.000
like yes, has to be the
favorite. Now well he's in fifty

753
00:52:52.000 --> 00:52:54.639
second place. Like I don't know, I feel like he's just it's not

754
00:52:54.800 --> 00:52:58.320
it's not clicking, it's not working, he's not getting the results. But

755
00:52:58.400 --> 00:53:00.239
whatever it may be, you know, it's just it's just interesting to me

756
00:53:00.320 --> 00:53:05.519
that that's how things are are kind
of shaken out there. So but obviously,

757
00:53:05.519 --> 00:53:07.760
you know, long season, we
haven't even hit the World Series of

758
00:53:07.800 --> 00:53:10.519
Poker stuff. There's what twenty eight
PGT qualifying events as part of the wispy

759
00:53:10.599 --> 00:53:15.280
schedule, so a lot to be
had there. There's also, of course,

760
00:53:15.360 --> 00:53:20.639
you know, fifteen Aria High rollers
nine plo what six no them to

761
00:53:20.679 --> 00:53:22.880
hold them. So you know,
there's there's still a lot of tame Aria

762
00:53:23.000 --> 00:53:30.239
high close enough, a lot of
stuff that that still needs to be you

763
00:53:30.239 --> 00:53:31.880
know, fleshed out over the course
of the season. But but yeah,

764
00:53:31.880 --> 00:53:36.679
those are kind of just my thoughts
on the PGT leaderboard and of course running

765
00:53:36.719 --> 00:53:38.280
down that top five there. Do
you have any thoughts on the leaderboard,

766
00:53:38.280 --> 00:53:42.639
like anything that sticks out to you, like my Osmas and Lichtenberger things.

767
00:53:43.480 --> 00:53:45.960
No, not really, I think
you touched on a lot of this stuff.

768
00:53:45.000 --> 00:53:49.679
Obviously, we have to remember that
David Coleman picked up a lot of

769
00:53:49.679 --> 00:53:52.079
points during the kickoff where that was
you know, double points. Same with

770
00:53:52.159 --> 00:53:57.599
Weiseman. He scored a title during
kickoff, so he got double points for

771
00:53:57.639 --> 00:54:02.039
that. And obviously these those two
in particular, huge starts of the year

772
00:54:02.039 --> 00:54:07.039
were only you know, four months
in. They have eleven hundred and twenty

773
00:54:07.119 --> 00:54:13.519
six points and thirteen hundred points respectively, which you know puts them basically nearly

774
00:54:13.519 --> 00:54:16.559
a lock for the PGT championship.
So I think that kickoff definitely helped,

775
00:54:16.679 --> 00:54:22.119
you know, kind of push them
to play more, which saw you know,

776
00:54:22.159 --> 00:54:25.159
Weisman playing a lot more no limit
hold them. We saw Coleman jumping

777
00:54:25.159 --> 00:54:29.760
in the PLO series. So you
know, if we take a review of

778
00:54:29.800 --> 00:54:34.119
what we did this year, I
think the Kickoff was a great way to

779
00:54:34.199 --> 00:54:37.639
kick off the season, you know, with the double points. I have

780
00:54:38.039 --> 00:54:45.480
a working thought on the Kickoff.
How many events was it? By the

781
00:54:45.519 --> 00:54:50.559
way, five it was? It
was four or five? Four five ks

782
00:54:50.599 --> 00:54:55.000
and one ten K. So I
think it needs a PLO and I think

783
00:54:55.039 --> 00:55:00.639
it needs a mixed game event in
there, because I think it's only fair

784
00:55:00.719 --> 00:55:06.320
to those players to offer an event
that is also double points. It just

785
00:55:06.400 --> 00:55:12.079
might be hard to get the K
five K a game and a five K

786
00:55:12.159 --> 00:55:16.239
poo they're double points. Yeah,
we could do that, and I think

787
00:55:16.320 --> 00:55:20.599
like and you could probably Yeah,
I would. I would do that.

788
00:55:20.960 --> 00:55:23.920
I think they would. They would
draw, all right. I mean that.

789
00:55:24.079 --> 00:55:27.159
I don't think they're going to be
gang puzzlers or anything like that,

790
00:55:27.280 --> 00:55:31.119
but I think it's just a little
bit more fair to the like PGT,

791
00:55:31.880 --> 00:55:37.519
PLO and uh, mixed game players
you know, who really just focus on

792
00:55:37.159 --> 00:55:40.079
that stuff. You know, I'm
not talking about like the mcgrowney's, the

793
00:55:40.079 --> 00:55:43.679
Osma's, is the Shulman's, you
know, the guys that play everything no

794
00:55:43.679 --> 00:55:47.079
matter what. But yeah, I
think that would be fair going forward.

795
00:55:47.599 --> 00:55:52.599
That's my only real take there.
I I do really like a wishless item

796
00:55:52.639 --> 00:55:58.199
of me and and I don't know, hopefully producer rich Ryan is actually listening,

797
00:55:58.480 --> 00:56:00.519
because I think he might like idea
or he'll tell me I'm stupid one

798
00:56:00.559 --> 00:56:05.000
of the other. I want an
end season tournament like I want, like,

799
00:56:05.119 --> 00:56:07.800
you know, right before the w
s AP in May, like the

800
00:56:07.840 --> 00:56:15.800
top thirty two players get invited to
a heads up tournament where they can buy

801
00:56:15.840 --> 00:56:19.840
in, and you know, this
is my idea. I already pitched this

802
00:56:19.920 --> 00:56:22.719
idea. Don't know your idea.
This is definitely my idea. We have

803
00:56:22.760 --> 00:56:25.639
for sure talked about I know that, but I'm pretty sure I'm the originator

804
00:56:25.679 --> 00:56:30.000
of this. No, it was
it was one v thirty two or one

805
00:56:30.119 --> 00:56:35.559
v sixteen whatever we decided. If
sixteen didn't want to play, seventeenth came

806
00:56:35.599 --> 00:56:38.280
in, so the bracket was set. It was worth like bonus points.

807
00:56:38.599 --> 00:56:43.960
You know, you got points just
for playing with my idea, one hundred

808
00:56:43.960 --> 00:56:46.679
percent my idea. No, it
was definitely not your idea. It was

809
00:56:46.760 --> 00:56:52.239
my idea that I think you then
fleshed out, you know what I mean,

810
00:56:52.360 --> 00:56:54.559
made made perfect. I mean I
took it from like you know,

811
00:56:57.239 --> 00:57:00.920
European soccer leagues who have like the
the season kind of cups or tournaments or

812
00:57:00.960 --> 00:57:05.400
whatever. Like. But yeah,
like you know, if you if you

813
00:57:05.440 --> 00:57:08.480
start out like the first you know, four months essentially the first half in

814
00:57:08.519 --> 00:57:13.199
a way of the PGT, and
you're and you're performing really well, then

815
00:57:13.239 --> 00:57:16.800
you get a special invite to this
tournament. I think probably top sixteen is

816
00:57:17.159 --> 00:57:22.639
is maybe best, just because if
it's thirty two, then then thirty two

817
00:57:22.719 --> 00:57:25.559
people can like get in there and
get bonus points and like kind of really

818
00:57:25.559 --> 00:57:30.199
separate themselves from people on the outside. But if it's if it's just select

819
00:57:30.239 --> 00:57:36.239
for the top sixteen, it motivates
people maybe to push early on. There

820
00:57:36.280 --> 00:57:38.239
are some bonus points up for grabs, but I wouldn't make it crazy with

821
00:57:38.320 --> 00:57:43.280
the bonus points. There would be
a buying element towards it. You know,

822
00:57:43.320 --> 00:57:45.639
it's you have, like you have
the option if you want to buy

823
00:57:45.639 --> 00:57:47.480
in or if you don't, and
if you buy in gray, if you

824
00:57:47.519 --> 00:57:50.760
don't, as you said, you
know, you kind of roll to the

825
00:57:50.800 --> 00:57:52.960
next place and then yeah, you
know, one place sixteen. You know,

826
00:57:53.000 --> 00:58:00.280
two pays for everyone outside of the
top forty. No, the out

827
00:58:00.280 --> 00:58:04.119
of the way you should you should
be rewarded for doing well in the early

828
00:58:04.199 --> 00:58:07.400
portion. And it's like a made
for TV heads up event, very very

829
00:58:07.440 --> 00:58:09.519
simple. It would only take a
couple of days to do. I don't

830
00:58:09.519 --> 00:58:13.400
know. I think it could be
cool. Maybe it's one of those ideas

831
00:58:13.400 --> 00:58:15.960
that might just be cool in my
mind and would never actually work. I

832
00:58:15.960 --> 00:58:17.320
have no idea. That could also
certainly be the case. I have a

833
00:58:17.320 --> 00:58:22.679
lot of wacky ideas like that.
But yeah, but yeah, all right,

834
00:58:22.719 --> 00:58:24.719
that's enough for the PGT talk.
I do want to touch on this

835
00:58:24.800 --> 00:58:30.039
Robert Khon bet because you know,
we talked about it on the Pod an

836
00:58:30.039 --> 00:58:35.519
episode or two ago, where he
was getting a he was going to do

837
00:58:35.559 --> 00:58:40.039
a thirty day water fast. He
could drink water, coffee, he could

838
00:58:40.039 --> 00:58:44.719
have electrolyte, salt, vitamins for
thirty days. That's it. No food,

839
00:58:45.239 --> 00:58:46.960
nothing else to drink. He bet
against Sean Deeve. He was getting

840
00:58:47.000 --> 00:58:51.760
twenty to one on three thousand dollars, so he stood to win sixty thousand

841
00:58:51.800 --> 00:58:57.239
dollars. Robert Cohon let Sewn dee
buy out for twenty five k. Saw

842
00:58:57.280 --> 00:59:01.360
a video on social media from Coon
talking about his decision to accept the buyouts,

843
00:59:01.400 --> 00:59:07.039
you know, kind of saying that, and if I remember correctly,

844
00:59:07.400 --> 00:59:13.159
you know he wants to do the
weight loss thing the right way, so,

845
00:59:14.639 --> 00:59:17.119
you know, getting pushed by Deeb
and Deeb's wife Ashley, you know,

846
00:59:19.639 --> 00:59:22.800
they were fine, you know,
settling at twenty five thousand dollars,

847
00:59:24.599 --> 00:59:30.559
giving Robert Koon that money and then
you know, offering I guess their services

848
00:59:30.559 --> 00:59:36.119
are offering, you know, to
help Robert Koon kind of get on the

849
00:59:36.239 --> 00:59:39.840
right path instead of doing like this
thirty day waterfast where if he comes off

850
00:59:39.880 --> 00:59:43.760
it, you know, who knows
where he's going to be at health wise,

851
00:59:44.679 --> 00:59:46.840
who knows what if he's just going
to fall back into his behavior that

852
00:59:46.840 --> 00:59:49.880
that might have got him to where
he didn't want to be, whatever it

853
00:59:49.920 --> 00:59:52.880
may be. So it sounds like, you know, Sean Deeb is gonna

854
00:59:53.559 --> 00:59:58.119
work with Robert Koon, give access
to his trainer, his nutritionness, whatever

855
00:59:58.119 --> 01:00:00.760
it may be, to help him
kind of really get on the right path.

856
01:00:00.800 --> 01:00:04.000
Obviously, Sean Deeve, with that
bet with Bill Perkins, has made

857
01:00:04.280 --> 01:00:08.039
a big push towards getting a lot
healthier. So he's now gonna you know,

858
01:00:09.159 --> 01:00:12.840
I guess kind of bring Robert koon
On, you know, under his

859
01:00:12.920 --> 01:00:15.440
wing, so to speak, and
to help him along that way. So

860
01:00:15.920 --> 01:00:19.400
I'm just an update on that.
That prop bet is that Robert Kuhn did

861
01:00:19.400 --> 01:00:22.760
accept the buyout from Sean Deep for
twenty five thousand dollars, So you know,

862
01:00:22.960 --> 01:00:24.960
I think he was seventeen days into
when he when he accepted the buyout,

863
01:00:25.039 --> 01:00:28.239
So as far as I'm concerned,
like there was no way he was

864
01:00:28.280 --> 01:00:30.800
going to lose it once you get
to that point, I think, you

865
01:00:30.840 --> 01:00:34.920
know, Robert Cuon also said the
same sort of thing. But but yeah,

866
01:00:35.519 --> 01:00:37.960
so that's the update there. We
got Texas Poker Open coming up.

867
01:00:38.079 --> 01:00:40.119
I know you're going to be getting
on a plane. When are you going

868
01:00:40.119 --> 01:00:46.800
down there? Tuesday? Tuesday.
So we're doing what coverage every day,

869
01:00:46.840 --> 01:00:53.360
live coverage, both live reporting and
live streaming, and the live streaming will

870
01:00:53.360 --> 01:00:59.360
be handled by Champions Club Texas,
but Jeff Platt and Brent Hanks will be

871
01:00:59.360 --> 01:01:04.440
in the commentary booth. The streams
themselves will be available. They're actually going

872
01:01:04.480 --> 01:01:07.480
to be available for free on poker
Go and the Poker Go YouTube channel,

873
01:01:07.880 --> 01:01:13.320
so you guys can watch them that
way, streaming every single day of the

874
01:01:13.360 --> 01:01:15.760
Texas Poker Open main event. That
main event, of course, has a

875
01:01:15.840 --> 01:01:20.159
thirty three dollars buying two million dollar
guarantee, and then there's a bunch of

876
01:01:20.239 --> 01:01:24.320
high rollers that happen after the main
event that will also be covering. Tim's

877
01:01:24.360 --> 01:01:29.239
going to be there on site providing
a bunch of live reporting coverage, so

878
01:01:29.840 --> 01:01:34.960
you know, Texas Poker Open will
be front of mine. Hopefully for a

879
01:01:34.960 --> 01:01:37.239
lot of you guys out there who
are following along with everything that's done here

880
01:01:37.280 --> 01:01:42.679
on at Poker Goro and the PGT. Maybe we'll be able to check in

881
01:01:42.760 --> 01:01:45.000
with you. I'm not going,
so we'll have to just check in with

882
01:01:45.039 --> 01:01:49.280
you at some point, do a
podcast halfway through or something like that.

883
01:01:49.320 --> 01:01:52.599
Maybe when the main event wraps up, whatever it may be. I think

884
01:01:52.599 --> 01:01:54.679
that would be cool to do.
So, Yeah, are you staying right

885
01:01:54.719 --> 01:02:00.320
at Champions Yeah, we're else signing
that. Wow, they just they just

886
01:02:00.360 --> 01:02:05.760
give you guys the best life.
Huh yeah on real. All right,

887
01:02:05.800 --> 01:02:09.679
that's going to wrap it up here
on the Poker Girl Podcast. Hopefully we'll

888
01:02:09.719 --> 01:02:14.400
talk in a week or so.
Tim will be coming to us from Texas.

889
01:02:14.440 --> 01:02:17.280
Hopefully that's the plan. I'm still
here in Las Vegas. Oh,

890
01:02:17.599 --> 01:02:21.440
another thing I need to put on
the map. So I put on our

891
01:02:22.000 --> 01:02:24.360
mental notes that we need to do. Figure out prizes for the summer for

892
01:02:24.880 --> 01:02:30.039
whatever podcast stuff. You and I
got to figure out the hat situation.

893
01:02:30.360 --> 01:02:34.239
That's another thing. And then we
get a plan. Like our next takeover

894
01:02:34.280 --> 01:02:38.079
tournament. We did the South Point. We wanted to the South Point again.

895
01:02:38.320 --> 01:02:42.280
Do we want to go somewhere else? Maybe we go to the wind

896
01:02:42.960 --> 01:02:49.559
you know, maybe we take over
an Aria Toney take over a Yeah,

897
01:02:49.760 --> 01:02:52.840
yeah, they have the will We
love the South Point? I know we

898
01:02:52.920 --> 01:02:54.760
love the south We always talk about
it, you know, because we always

899
01:02:54.760 --> 01:02:58.840
play there. They're going to release
their streaming schedule soon. They would definitely

900
01:02:58.840 --> 01:03:02.440
want to come on the podcast.
Be ready for that. The area of

901
01:03:02.480 --> 01:03:07.119
people, Ryan and Paul, they
want to come on the podcast. They

902
01:03:07.119 --> 01:03:10.400
want to talk about the bed MGM
Championship and the Arias Summer Classic. But

903
01:03:10.960 --> 01:03:15.440
let's see when that comes out and
it's official. Maybe they have an event

904
01:03:15.480 --> 01:03:19.880
that uh is it? No,
no, it's not. But like then

905
01:03:19.920 --> 01:03:24.280
maybe they started. Man, what
are they waiting for? Who knows?

906
01:03:24.519 --> 01:03:29.599
We're giving them too much work.
Probably hasn't it hasn't pretty much either way.

907
01:03:29.639 --> 01:03:31.320
We could just take over to daily. We could just take over the

908
01:03:31.440 --> 01:03:36.800
daily on the you know, the
the twenty eighth or something at the area.

909
01:03:37.599 --> 01:03:39.719
Yeah, I mean, listen,
I'm in. Obviously has to be

910
01:03:39.719 --> 01:03:46.280
before, you know, a couple
of days before the w s P starts,

911
01:03:46.280 --> 01:03:50.800
because once starts, you know,
we are we're not We're not leaving

912
01:03:50.800 --> 01:03:53.920
that place. Probably gonna sleep there. So so yeah, so just putting

913
01:03:53.920 --> 01:03:57.719
that out there, mental note,
you and I. We got to figure

914
01:03:57.719 --> 01:04:01.079
out the next takeover tournaments. Definitely
want to get Jeff and Brent back out

915
01:04:01.079 --> 01:04:04.400
there playing. We'll see who we
can get out there. We should.

916
01:04:04.400 --> 01:04:09.199
We gotta get morey got you gotta
get Maury. Come on, I mean,

917
01:04:09.719 --> 01:04:12.920
how can we not? All right, So that's gonna do it for

918
01:04:13.039 --> 01:04:15.960
us. On this episode of the
Poker Girl Podcast. My name is Donnie

919
01:04:15.960 --> 01:04:24.760
Peters. His name is Tim Duckworth, and we'll talk to you guys soon. Peace Express