Hello, everyone, Welcome back to a new episode of the Poker Go Podcast.
My name is Donni Peters. His name is Tim Duckworth. We'll see
if he can stay awake on this episode. He was already taking a nap
before you made me wait like twenty minutes because you wanted to watch a few
more Poker Hands while everything's ready for you. Because I I am much more
of a diehard fan than a right and much more honest. Donald Peters,
what time did you rock up to work today? What time did you step
in this building? Like nine to eighteen pm? Right? You act like
I wasn't. Did you get an email from Poker Roo this morning? Actually,
well, that's not my fault. I probably did. I just snapped
exactly because I know it's you and it's trash exactly, So nine pm,
slack, so whatever. We are entering day six of the w SOOP Main
Event July eleventh, twenty twenty four. Wrapped up day forty five of the
World Series of Poker, Tim writs MJ. Like no one cares about MJ's
number being forty five. Okay, his number was twenty three, Okay,
I'd bet so It's kind of like a troll one hundred and sixty players remain
teny one and twelve began this journey towards Poker's next World Champion and ten million
dollars. Stevens. Song looks to be the chip leader team DPMC making a
late surge at Fantasy Let's Go Song Baby. Carlos called us very very close
to Song on the leaderboard. We're gonna run through what happened in the main
event today, talk about some of these storylines that are developing. We have
some interviews coming up. I spoke with Nicholas Astet I believe it. I
mean I probably butchered it. I spoke with Leana nine hundred. How about
that. I also spoke with Daniel Anderson aka d Mongro. He spoke with
Arthur Morris, and then Jeff Platt caught up with Stephen Song. So we'll
play that interview for you as well. Fun day of poker. How many
How many players are left? One sixty they no no. At the beginning
of the day, how we started with four sixty four? Four sixty four,
Okay, seems like a pretty uh efficient day in terms of like thinning
the field. Yeah, tracking about the same as loss yeh yeah, yeah,
no, for sure. I think the big story of the day is
probably Adrian Matteo. So at least the big story of the early portion of
the day was Adrian Matteo. So we'll talk about that. Tim wants to
talk about these other events that are going on. I want to just touch
on. I know you do, but I'm like, so, I'm so
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Alrighty, we're deep. We're headed to day six. One hundred and sixty
players remain. It looks like Stevensong is the chip leader as long as all
these counts are in an official of a breaking music official councern. So his
song confirmed, Stephen Soong confirmed. Run down the top five. All right,
here we go. Stavin's Song twelve point three one million in chips.
Carlos Katas twelve point one one million, Diego Moros nine point four seven,
Diogo Coelo nine point four five, Manual Machada a point eight street. That
is the top five. If those names sound familiar. Three Portuguese players among
the top five. I was gonna say, yeah, that's pretty cool.
It looks like poker new slash WSP have you a but that's right. No,
but somebody has Diego Diego's Coelo's chip count wrongause on here it says nine
point nine five. That says nine point four five, ninees and fourst can
look the same depending on rate European rise. Yeah, so we're not sure
which one's right, but he's still in the top five no matter what.
You want me to run through some of the notables, Yeah, of course,
all right, boy, you touched on before and Nicholas astet Lina nine
hundred. He has seven point nine million, Mark will put Poka go podcast
listen to uh six point nine one five million. It's been a crazy summer
for him, just second place in the seniors for a boatload of money.
I forget exactly. I want to say foreigner k four under fifty k and
now he is here. Moving to day six of the main event, which
is pretty pretty well four and fifty one thousand dollars for that second place to
finish in the seniors Championship event. Wolfart is making his fourth cash the summer,
also cash in the or sorry third time best seniors events. No,
no, no, no, he cashed in I was reading a different year
by accident. His third cash this summer. He took second place in the
Seniors Championship for fourign and fifty one k, and then he cashed in the
Colossus for twelve thirty Uh so much. Chip Counts Brian Ross six point three
million. We have Iron Lightbawn five point nine, Ran Lynn five point six,
Jonathan Demaya five point four, Christy Fox and five point four as well.
Leonard Maoo five point one million. I like screamed about four point six.
There's a guy that's okay, because okay, so there's a guy in
the Chip counts. It says Bruno Potaro from Australia's four point five million.
It's not him, I know. It's Bruno always a Bruno Porta or Porero
or something. I saw that and I was thrown off too, So it
looks like wsps little thrown off. But yeah, they may need to correct
that one d. That's it, Yeah, Danny Tang two point Sammy the
Dealer two point six, Jacob farwoh WVT Player of the Year two point five
million, Arthur Morrows who we speak to, two point one. Brian Kim
just a tad under a million short of stuck heading in today six three hundred
and thirty five K. It's going to be well, that's what a little
over four big Lindes because the big line is going to be eighty k entering
the day. Yeah, Song crushed today he won a huge with two pair,
got a player to call him on with ace high, which was a
very good hand, and then kind of towards the end of the nights he
won a big hand with aces I believe it went raised call Song three abouts
small blind, the original raiser called. I believe it was ten seven to
five, Rainbow was the flop turn was a four. River was a seven.
On the turn, Song check raised his opponent and then Song jammed the
river. His opponent had Jack's and tanked forever, I mean multiple minutes.
Finally, I think it was Arthur Morris who came back to the table and
called the clock and the player an Rees Adam Cavisius. I probably totally butchered
that. I'm sorry. I believe he's from Good believe he's from Lithuania.
Eventually he calls, I mean, this is a sixth spot because it's Stephen
Song. Like he's in there with a lot of different hands a lot of
times. I mean, the guy is a very creative player, can certainly
open up the ranges, especially when he has a big stack like he has.
But here he happened to have the rockets. Eventually, Anars pays him
off, sees the bad news, and he's out the door, and that
vaults Song up over twelve million of chips. He then goes on to finish
out the day with twelve million, three hundred and ten thousand and the chip
lead. Entering day six of the WSP Made Event, I believe his best
finish is eighty third in the WSP Main Events, eighty fifth maybe something like
that. I think he said two prior cases in the World Series of Poker
Main event does Stephen Song And after the play wrapped up, Jeff Platt caught
up with him. So let's kick it to that interview right now. Stephen
Song entered day five as the chip leader ended day five as at least one
of the chip leaders. What is going so well for you in this an?
Honestly, everything's just working perfectly. I'm obviously getting a ton of really
good hands, and for some reason, I just like always get paid for
like the max. It's it's pretty sweet. I mean a lot of it's
just coolers too, So it's like nothing anyone can really do. But yeah,
sometimes when you're hot, you're hot, you know, do you think
you're Perhaps more aggressive playing style does lead to some people not believe in you
at certain spots. Perceived aggressive playing style, you know, that's uh perceived.
Yeah, yeah, so it's nice when I got a value him.
You know, when do the nerves start to creep in if they haven't already,
Yeah, I don't know, it hasn't yet. I've gotten like eighty
third before, so like approaching beating my old record. But I assume like
even as soon as it hits the top hundred, it's gonna start to feel
real, you know, like and then I mean if it has a hit
by like I mean I assume will hit before. But final three table redrop,
like that's that's just saying it and Finally, I know your parents have
come to your final tables before. Do they get the call out here or
not quite yet? Well not yet, We'll like give it a couple more
days, but this still a fuck with the days left of the tournament,
all right? That was Jeff Platt with Stephen Song Leana nine hundred crushing out
there. Nicholas asked that probably butchered that last name again, I'm sorry,
Nicholas. Sorry. Lena came into the day with I believe it was three
hundred and eighty thousand, ran it up to bag seven point nine million,
feeling good. Crushing. Nicholas is a long, long, long time online
player under the screen name Leana nine hundred. That's why we're saying. Leana
nine hundred was for many years on top of the pocketfives dot com rip pocketfive's
pocketfis dot com rankings for best online player in the world, won numerous titles
of bazillion dollars in earning just an absolute crusher. Nicholas is out of Sweden,
and then you know, in recent years he's been diving into live poker
a bit more, been playing some of the big buy and stuff. He's
been playing some of the stuff on the Trenton Poker Series. You know,
he hops in some European Poker Tour events and then of course he comes over
for the World Series of Poker as well. But yeah, he had a
very successful day on day five and he's entering day six with I believe a
top ten stack, so very good day for Nicholas and I spoke to him
briefly afterwards. All right, Nicholas, first things first, I mean,
how do you feel your day? Ones? Very bad, very bad.
I started every three hundred and eighty thousand, I have eight million, and
of course amazing, amazing day. How comfortable are you playing live poker these
days now? Very much so, especially in this type of field. Do
you feel like people know who you are, maybe played differently against you.
Are you still under the radar? It's hard to tell sometimes seeing Europe,
obviously everyone knows, but here's hard to tell us. I kind of need
to be on my toest. But yeah, most people know, not time
I without them. So one hundred and sixty players left in the main events.
How excited are you for this opportunity? Pretty excited? This is fun,
this is said, and everyone is so excited. It makes me excited,
So yeah, I like him. And then who would you talk to?
Poka Go podcast pro Athamas. He was abag two point one killing.
He was all the way down, it came all the way back up.
He doubled through. Our our buddy Stephen Song, our twenty five K player
Ace Queen for Arthur Morris Queen Jack for Stephen Song. I saw him afterwards
and he said, first time I was all in all tournament, first time,
like the helmis, you know, that's what that when people say it,
I mean, yeah, for sure, he said. He never said
I'm all in. You don't think during the whole tournament. No, but
like all in and cold, like actually at risk and you're the shortest stack,
et cetera. You know, like, yeah, you can move all
in, but if you're not called then you're not ultimately all in, right
and even if you do go all in, you know you're not at risk.
So like he means all in and at risk, right, which,
to be honest, I mean that happens a lot of times in tournaments.
I experienced that as well. You know, you know, sometimes it's like
it's just the last hand that's when you're all in and at risk. But
if you do kind of run deep or whatever in any sort of tournament.
Yeah, you know, you probably had some success. You probably ultimately were
never all in and at risk. But anyway, you spoke with him,
Yeah, I spoke to him, all right. So let's kick it to
that interview now, Tim and Arthur Morris sent me. He with Utha Mars.
He's through to day six of the WSB main event, bit over two
million. You got to tell us how it feels to be the first poker
Go podcast pro through the day six of a main event. It feels good,
man. It was a crazy day. I got down as shallow as
one hundred and thirty five k at sixty k, big bye. At the
end of the night, I actually had an absurd spot where I'm supposed to
jam. I have a say. They sayed a spade. I said,
the clubs one two, I can't remember. In the small blind and it's
opened Steven's Song's opening like every single hand I look over. In the Big
Wine, Big Wine is basically checked out of the pot. But I actually
think he's gonna call. If I call and I get laid a better price,
I think just bring him in and my tournament isn't on the line.
If I jam this hand, I go broke. Stephen bust me if you
like, told me later his hand Like, I just go broke. But
I have two blinds left and I was able to spend that to two point
one million at the end of the night. It's like home, youthy and
almost to it was bears. I don't know. It's like really nitty and
felt weird to be playing three blinds for so long. Yeah, it's pretty
cool. Day one. We put you on the feature table. I gave
you a hat, I gave you a hoodie. You haven't taken it off.
It's it's lucky bro' that's what he said. I taking this shit off.
It's going all the way. Like, as long as I'm in this
event, it's on. That's good to know. Dice six coming up,
you know, twelve hours time. How do you feel mentally just heading into
the intoday six? You know, M and y is I feel pretty good?
My mental I think, is in a good place too. Like I'm
gonna come in with like sixty percent average, which you know isn't isn't ideal,
But you're in and the blinds are high, and I'm very comfortable with
the big ones I do have. I feel really good. I've had some
tougher ish tables. I feel like on day four and five and looking around
the room, like, you know, maybe we get a lucky table,
drum me, we have some good things break our way, maybe we get
run above. You know, at standard deviations on hand distribution, things could
break positively in a lot of ways, and you know, one or two
things go right. You just you know, you got to put your chips
in a hurry. It's fast at these stages, so you know, you
kind of just take it. You take a step back and play hand by
hand. If you start thinking about big picture, how much the money you're
playing for is, or you know, I want to do this, I
want to do that. You can't play with ego. You got to just
sort of like come in, respect the players, and respect the game,
and pray and you hope things go right. Final question for me, a
legendary PLO playoff and you hear making it a deep run in a two cod
game is the reason you're running deep only to build a bankgroua to play me
heads up in every other game out of the planet. I can't fucking wait
to play some studden rats with you. Tim. It's gonna be a blood
bath for once for a year. It might be me, but it's going
to be awesome. So yeah. I mean, look that I play mostly
plow, but I do get in the streets and all the other games too.
And No Limit Hold Him was actually the first game I learned. It
just took a long break from it. I've always studied it and thought about
it and enjoy it. It's just in this kind of a platform, and
uh, you know, with this much audience and eyes onya, It's it's
a lot of fun. It's a snowball effect. I said this earlier at
our table. But the deeper you go in this tournament, the more fun
it is. There's no there's no tournament like that where it starts off kind
of lame and like dusty and like slow, and then every day it just
gets grows and grows and grows and gets like an avalanche of fun. Is
he ever going to take the hat off? Not? Never said he's not
taking off. He's good, take colder the lucky hut. It's the lucky
Hut. He did take the sweatshirt off for a little bit. I think
most because it was a little bit toasty up under those bright lights, which
I don't understand. We know the lights are hot. No, no,
no, it's not that this is a this is the thing with us production.
The lights are hot. Okay, I mean I know how high the
ceiling is in here. Can't you just have like ac way up top of
the ceiling just pumping air down like at those like at those tables that they
then moved and don't have tables there anymore, which are very cold, like,
So can't you have like that type of ventilation coming from above? Do
you think? I mean I don't because what what somebody will probably say to
me is, well, then it's too loud. Yeah, but they're so
high that I don't think it would matter. Okay, We've tried to get
those those cold tables redirected the air or turned down, and we haven't.
So do you really think we can get more air above the beach? I
don't know. No, the answer is not. We actually have discussion today
about getting spending some money to get the different lights that are not as hot.
Well, that's another thing, is it's you know, it's twenty twenty
four. I feel like they would have lights that aren't as hot. It's
also I also don't often sit at the feature table. I also know I
wouldn't like it either. I also don't understand why the feature tables are so
big. I don't. I don't get that. You mean like the physical
size. Yeah, the size of them, like none of the dealers can
reach any of the chips or definite conrad sha. Yeah, that that is
one. They're just they're massive. They're so big. It's mainly for you
know what. You know, why why are you asking this qu Why tell
me why? I know? Why? Go ahead? Because of the wiring
for the r F I d No, it's mainly for the angles. Well,
okay, get whatever, figure it out. You want to watch the
hustle stream, you see, I'm sitting around little jelly bean of a table.
They have the they have the Yeah, that's kind of the reason behind
the big a table is spacing the players, as you know, rubbing shoulders
and touching each other's legs. For the it's for the production. It's literally
for I feel like you could like where the dealer sits could be like cut
into the table. More that I agree with, you know, like like
like so then like in a way, like seats one in nine are almost
looking at each other behind the dealer like a background table. Yeah, backroad,
it's like a kind of a kidney. Kidney s for sure, because
like then, then the dealer can see everything, and I think I like
that. I think at least for the main event, we know there's enough
cameras that I think they could figure out the angles from there. I ask
a lot of questions about production stuff because you no, no, you don't
know. You don't come to what if you came to work at twelve o'clock.
We had a conversations about this all morning. I will be first to
tell you just sit at I'm watch him bluey oh fucking make I was actually
watching the stream. I will be the first to tell you definitely want working
out. I will be the first I was not working out because I feel
like shit and I'm not working out. I will be the first to tell
you that I don't know a lot about production stuff, but I will ask
questions because I'm curious and I want to know, and there are things that
I that don't make sense to me. That Yeah, the only thing I'm
ever gonna find out is if I have to ask a question. So I'm
gonna ask a question, but there are other things that even when you give
me an answer, I will just not agree with. Su I'm the main
event. I want to touch on three things real quick. We could see
a twenty four million chip part in the first minute on day six because Stephen
Sung chip leader is sitting with Carlos carl das the other chip leader. That's
the main feature table. Well no, not necessarily. This is one of
those things, but I know this is one of those things where I say,
I asked a question, why is this not the main feature table?
And then somebody gives me some silly answer, and that's wrong. Huh might
be the first to break? Who cares? Then figure it out? Like
what if it breaks? It breaks? So it breaks in literally one player?
Okay, two players? Wait? One sixty left breaks in two players.
So here here's the thing. It's the bottom table. I don't know
if they're hide a low. I don't know if they load to high.
We'll find out tomorrow. Break if they if you don't know the breaking order,
because okay, because I'm going to follow up with this one. The
other best table, Chris and Fox and Tony dance Brandon can two. That's
either the first to break or the last to break. They are the top
of the seat draw. It's tables six thirty or six forty nine. That's
the top and the bottom. I don't know which breaks first, but one
of them are gonna make it. Unless they do, I think, do
their own breaking up. I think this is not a production thing, but
I think when you get to this point in the main event, the table
breaking order should be random. They should draw a table let's. I agree.
You should not post the table breaking order beforehand. It should be entirely
random. Yeah, Like I think I think that it's it's it's important enough
in this tournament because if you know you're next to break, you can start
stalling and like and all that sort of stuff. Right, Like, So
in this tournament, when there's this much money on the line, I think
when you get down to whatever you deem as a manageable amount of tables,
you should just like high card. Right, We're just gonna high card for
the next table to break, and then you break it. And if that
happens to be a feature table, so be it. That's the breaks in
a tournament. Yeah, I mean, we're seven off a break that could
be ten minutes, could be one. Now you don't know, but yeah,
I doubt we'll we'll roll with both of them. But yes, that
is going to be pretty appealingly. Another one that that kind of stands out
to me that could be interesting, ren Lynn Jonathan to my Danny Tang Jesse
caps interesting for sure. I mean, and then there's just a couple that
have got something. Bro when you have samm Me the dealer and lean Jesse.
Oh, I didn't even see his name. I didn't mention him in
the he's how he's out, Well he ain't coming up and the seat joke.
You know what does a did not report? Could be him? I
mean, look at the look at the payoffs sign up to date. They
stop at one ninety too. I think when I last checked him. Come
on, Jesse didn't bus he had like six million. Well, so then
he must be the did not report. Well, how many chips that did
not report have six point nine million? That's the hunter vers on Jesse Long
he has zero people on his table. It doesn't matter. Jesse Lows is
a g He complained all day about me there, so he took him off
for the loss. Okay, what do you mean? He complained all day?
This is the kind of thing I have an issue off to the second
level of the day. Yeah, so we're going to be up there?
Are we going to be up here all day? And I said, we're
not sure. Play's the third level of the day up there? Yeah,
because that's unfair. One level and move the tables. You can't put people
up there for more than one level. I don't care. I don't care
if the table has phil Ivy Daniel and ground you and philmon you can't do
it. And we're unfair. And he's complaining about who is it? Who
are these It's unfair to the table And a part of our job as poker
go is to find the stories, cultivate these characters, and see who's going
to become the next world champion. That is our job. Okay, So
we need to go out there and find the tables and find the players and
build the storyline. And it's also an argument to have more than two or
three feature tables. We should have six or seven out there. Well,
we know the problems with that one. I think that we are actually doing
a better job at rotating than we have in the ears past. But I
don't have to go check every level. They should change because it's not fair.
Again, and if listen, if you're Jesse Lonis and you play,
I'm just using him as an example. You play the first level of the
day at the feature table, we move your table off, but then you
get drawn to the future table again. Well that's that's just yeah, the
breaks that that's how it happens, you know. But I think it's just
unfair. No, I mean, look, I'm all full rotating. I
think we're trying to pretty fail. When it's at one stuff you know,
here it's a little different. Understand what they're trying to do. They're trying
to get people on those features that people outside of our little bubb will know
because you know these are going to CBS, et cetera. But yeah,
I think Tooles is fine to be honest at this point of the main events,
every we should be yes, we should be trying to make everyone to
stop at when once and listen. This is gonna probably sound offensive. Maybe
some people get mad, but I'm gonna say it anyway. Once we lost
IVY, no one else in this tournament resonates with people outside. I mean,
I'm sorry that's how it is. But that said, that is why
is our job to tell people who these people are, to create them as
stars. You have no idea if there's two hun employers remaining, one of
them is world champion, Like we need to find that person. We need
to tell those stories as best we can, and I think I think we
do a pretty good job of it overall. But the potential is not being
reached, is my only thing. Yeah, points, we had a guy
who had a heart attack today. I don't know which. I don't even
really know if he had a heart attack because when he interviewed with Jeff Platt,
it didn't sound like he had a heart attack, like he's wearing his
thing is defibrillator or whatever, and it was like going off or going crazy,
and so he went to the hospital, but it didn't sound like he
had a heart attack, but like everyone made it seem like he had a
heart attack. I don't maybe I misunderstood all of that, but the way
he talked about it with Jeff Platt was like more like it was an issue
with his thing. Yeah, that made it seem like it was something that
it was not. And then that's ultimately why they were like, yeah,
go go like you can go play. I don't know. That was just
very interesting that story that much, to be honest. Oh wow, Okay,
I mean what I'm I'm trying to guys like is it really real?
I don't know because it just made up of TV. Like he's trying to
get some a the time, So like, I don't know, it was
just made up for TV. Yeah, I'm not only am, so I'm
just kind of ignoring it. So you got your tinfoil hat on like I
got. Yeah, I understand, it's half fun. It's just hal listen,
I fully understand tinfoil hats are a thing these days. I get it.
Oh. I interviewed uh Daniel Anderson d Moon Girl Moon. Afterwards she
bagged I think one point seven million. Can you find out how many tips
she backed? I think it was one point seven There's at least two women
left one point seven two five, one point seventy five. Kristen Foxen look
her up and then I think the five point four crushing, and I think
the other one was MA first time I saw with an L. I believe
formulae and fifty and then I'm not sure if when I got here today there
was five women left, so I'm not sure how many of them are left
or not. You know, I know those three are left for sure.
There might be one more, well, there's there's one or two more.
I mean, there could be one lady sitting next to lem I think she
bagged. Oh then she got moved there because she wasn't there earlier in the
day because there was two women on the other side of the room from where
she was sitting, or when I got here. That's obviously a topic of
conversation, you know, the women running deep in the main event, possible
woman making the final table, all thought of the last woman's standing to care
about that announcement? You care about that? That title not really okay.
I mean I just think it's I think all. I mean, maybe I'm
just not the right person to comment on it because I'm a man and I'm
not in that circle. But I mean I think it it's certainly like listen,
you're gonna hear it when we talked to Daniel Anderson. I mean,
she obviously thinks about it and cares about it, right. I think it's
more it's not like to me, it's just not the last woman's say anything.
To me, it's more about like just getting one of them to the
final table or multiple of them to the final table. Like that's that's the
bigger picture thing for me, because because you can get last women's standing and
it I mean it could be eight hundredth place, which is like, ye,
is that something we're trying to push for or not? You know,
I think it's great that we have at least three, if not a couple
more down to the final one sixty moving on to day six, so you
know, the chance is real. I think it's great. And you know,
I don't. I don't. I'm not familiar with the other women's play,
but I am familiar with Daniel Anderson and I am familiar with Kristin Vox,
and they are very good poker players. And Kristen specifically has the chips.
You know. D Moon has one point seven, Kristen has what five
point nine or almost six or whatever, So you know, they could certainly
make some noise going forward, which I think that's what we really want to
hear. I think that thing, you know, the woman making a final
table really gets legs when we break into double digits, when we get below
one hundred, that's when it like really like we're close, don't get me
wrong, but you know we're gonna need a couple hours tomorrow. Once that
clock hits ninety nine players left, and then you see how many are remaining,
and it's like, oh, okay, we got a shot, you
know, so we'll see if it happens. I hope it happens because I
think it would be good for poker. But anyway, we've gotten off of
this a little bit. But let's let's talk to Dean Moon Girl. I
spoke with her at length at the end of day five. Daniel Anderson bagging
at the end of day five. Heading to day six, you tweeted a
couple of days ago that you were too tired for words. Are you still
tired or is the adrenaline just keeping you going? I have a little bit
of a second win right now. I'm just kind of like, uh,
what the hellidays, It's crazy have been. I've had a lot more fun
to sday at my tables, talkative and less frustration, just kind of been
like a more of like a slow coast. So I'm feeling good right now,
but it is exhausting and I'm sure I'm probably gonna have a hard time
getting to sleep tonight because that's what happens. And then tomorrow morning's gonna come
to early, and so I don't know, we'll see how I feel it
tomorrow. Right now, I feel pretty good that I'm just doped. Good
good. You mentioned also on social media playing with a bunch of women at
your table earlier in the event, you got to play with Kristen Fox and
all day. How was that experience? Maybe not the best experience with her
being on your left, but how was it overall? Yeah, No,
it was great. I mean I had like such a small stack when she
came. I had maybe thirteen to fifteen bigs that it wasn't too bad having
around my left because it was like, well, it's just the card's going
to be what they're going to be. But no other was like I love
it. I love seeing Kristin. I would love to see her go deep
in this. I would love to see me and her go deep in this.
I like to see more women, and I don't know what the actual
percentages are for this year, but it certainly felt like there was more women
at the tables I was at throughout these five days, So I think that's
awesome. Is that something that you think about, like you being a woman
being deep in the main events, you know, there's always that conversation about
we going to kind of get one at the final table, Like is that
something that you think about during the play or maybe off the table. I
mean, I take this tournament one day at a time, so like,
yeah, you know, when I'm not actually in the tournament, Yeah,
it's like a daydream. That would be like super cool to be like the
female kind of ambassador that, you know, bring more women in and make
it not such an intimidating or you know, like outlier thing to be a
female in the booker world. And I do think it has like since I
have started, it's already kind of morphed a lot and it being more like
not unusual to see a woman at the table. But yeah, hell yeah,
I would love to final table this and reach the masses because I do
think, you know, even though it's gotten better, I still think the
female market is like hugely untapped and there's a ton of potential and women should
play. You're onto day six of the main events, n and sixty players
left. How do you stay grounded and not let the moment get too big.
This whole tournament, I've just been playing like one hand at a time.
And if I'm like proud of myself or any of this whole tournament,
it's been that because I feel like in the past have gotten low and then
gotten flustered and panicked and whatever, and this tournament I've just like stayed just
like full calm and collected. And that's just been to my plan the rest
of the tournament not worry about whatever else has, but worry about what I
have and what I can do with it. And that has worked to get
me to day six. So I don't know, we'll see, maybe I'll
maybe it'll make a Day seven and beyond. I'm just gonna take it one
hye at a time. Last question, here are you having fun? I
am having so much fun? Honestly, I could almost get a little choked
up because this is like a poker person Like the energy is just like palpable,
and like, you know, I know so many people who played this
so many times and not even cash much less made it to like day six.
It's just it feels like a privilege and I am soaking it in.
Obviously, I want to go very deep. I don't want to knock go.
But no matter what is going experience, I'll never ever forget it's been
awesome. Sounds like she's having fun going through this. I mean, I'm
sure it's I'm sure it's not easy. I mean, obviously the play is
probably not easy. But also, like, you know, something that I
don't think people maybe talk about too much. I don't know, I don't
get the sense that I hear it. Maybe you do, but the time
in between, the time when you're on the felt like how long it takes
you to go to bed, waking up in the morning, you know,
getting ready, Like is your life in order? Like Daniel Anderson is a
decent example because she's got a family and kids, and you know, like,
so is it just her husband Corey, Like he's figuring everything out for
her, which I mean, I'm guessing is probably the case when when you
make it to this point of the main events. But yeah, I mean,
it's a tricky situation when you have other life stuff. And then of
course, you know you want to study your opponents. You want to possibly
watch some of the stream. You want to look them up online and see
what results they have, or any hands that they played like, you know,
all that sort of stuff, and you got to you got to cram
it into a pretty small window of you know, about eleven twelve hours or
whatever it is, and then you have to do that while also trying to
get adequate sleep in there. So I'm sure that's not easy, and it
probably leans towards the players who are built for it better, who have experienced
it more. You know, they're just in a better position to go through
it. Did want to hit on Adrian Matteos and we tease it at the
top. But the Conquista Door, I mean, what the conquistador he's online?
Man, No, that's what Brent calls him, Brent Higgins, because
what's his name? Is the matter Door? They then they named are you
like just realizing this now? This has been a thing for like four years.
I don't watch the streams. I mean, I'm you know, why
don't you just tell us you just don't care? I'm working? Why don't
you just tell us what do you do when you're not working? Because I
grind poker, groat NonStop one because I don't want to notice be folding queens
on an eight high flop. It's a good fun reason to set, you
know, also because I like to know who these players are. None of
the players are, because I'm standing and talking to them and working alongside them
while a lot of rewording. Yeah but listen, I'm just saying you should
be grinding everything. You should be grinding it all. He came in as
one of the bigger stacks and just blew it. I mean, you can't
say say he punted it because he got kings versus aces and folded the turn.
Okay, good fold on a queen on a queen high board, which
I mean he lost a chunk there. Then he lost aces to Ace King.
When the guy made runner runner flush, I mean spade spades flush,
he said club No, I said runner run a flush. What the hell?
Yeah, it's just very very unlucky. I know. You see,
you obviously see beats like this in every tournament, you know, especially deep
in tournaments. You know, like I'm sure there was a fair share of
you know, nonsense that went on in the Colossus, for example. But
because the w SPOO main event is so so so magnified, like it just
it resonates so much more, it's so much more out there. So like,
yeah, I'm sure somebody might have lost with kings to aces or ran
kings into aces and then lost aces to ace king and the colossus for example,
like that that might have happened. You know, maybe it maybe it
was something even worse. Maybe they maybe they had aces and they got you
know, within five hands they had aces. Both times they got cracked and
then they were out. Like, yeah, that can happen. But what
makes it so crazy the w SPOM event are I think two things. One,
the magnification of this event specifically, everything is so much more blown up
and understandably so this is the biggest, most important poker tournament in the world,
know, and it's being filmed, there's social media, there's all these
media members out there in general like everything. And then also like if you're
using the Colossus as another example of when this could have happened, the Clausus
is basically a shit show. Everyone's got twenty big blinds at the end,
like the money's going in right, Yeah, this the structure is so damn
good. It's the best structured tournament in the world. So when it just
blows up on you, it's just like extra hurtful, you know, because
like, what are you gonna do. When you have aces and you just
get it in against as King, that's a dream spot. But like you
know, in the WSP main event, it's not always it's not always the
easiest to get the money in like like that, because the structure is so
good and the stacks are so deep. Whereas if you're playing something like a
Colossus or even the Monster Stack or any of those deep stack tournaments or whatever
it may be, you know, you get into the end. Everyone's got
twenty twenty five big blinds, thirty big blinds, So like getting the money
in is pretty easy overall. Just get two couple of good hands and get
the money in right here. I mean, the stacks are much deeper,
which means it's much harder to get the money in. And also people tend
to take kind of more conservative lines with things even when you have super premium
hands, because you know what can happen, so you navigate things accordingly.
You know, you're not just playing like this crazy preflop game. But you
know, in Mataosa's case, yeah, they got the money in and he
just ran bad. I mean, what are you gonna do? He played
super well when he had the kings and was able to get away from him
against the aces and then it just blows up on him when he's got the
aces and he has the guy with ace king ready to hand him a pile
of chips. But you know, what are you gonna do? That is
poker. I think he took it and stride. You know he talked with
Jeff Platt afterwards in the interview. Yeah, I mean maybe we should just
play that right now. Why don't we do that? So let's just play
interview with Jeff Plots so I don't have to summarize it. We'll just let
Adrian Mittaeos's words come through to you. Adrian Mitteos, you know the topic
of this first question already, the Aces versus the ace King suited you.
You've been through a lot in your career, all things considered. Does that
stand out to you? Is perhaps the worst bad that you've taken? Could
be in one of the words that I did for sure, especially in this
tournament. It's a special something that I went into. Phill Is the brand
them in a ben Today. Day five was close. It's still a lot
of people left. But yeah, I mean it's a huge pot and of
course, but I think I played the hand great and just unlucky. And
that's how Boger works. Do you think that's one that will perhaps stick with
you for a while. I mean, I will remember for sure. I
hope I will have more dear brands. Maybe next year or in the next
years. Let's see if I can finish in a better position. Just time,
you mentioned this tournament being special, Well sell the all of the kings
to the aces. Did you feel pretty locked in, pretty dialed in today?
Yeah? I feel like super focused. I think I probably played my
best tournament ever, if not the best, probably the best, and doing
all the days, all my rids going on point and everything going super smooth
and winning every hand. But that spoke at two hands like Kings against Aces
and then Aces against King, and the dream is over. The only thing
is to keep focus in the next tournaments, in the next hands and try
to play my best hand by hand, and I think it's the only thing
I can control. And that's my plan. And that's the game we all
know and love and even hate a little bit. I love it when we
run good, we love it when we run bad. It's a little bit
sad, but what it is, and this is why all the spectators in
myself included, loved this game all right. So that was Adrian Matteos on
his exit. Who else do we lose today? Who? Ivy real,
Ivy keep going our boy, mar Mo Noir and Josh Riker and Josh remember
Daniel Hasham. We lost Alejandrelec. We lost some star Power baby, uh,
Francis Anderson and Twine. So I can think of the top of my
head another three hundred other people that busted, but the first ones I kind
of mind. All right, Well before we move on to I got two
more things. Okay, no for the minutes as well. One hundred and
sixty play chup value is Oh yeah, I love it. Three fifty three
three d K. That's nice. Take it just kidding. Let's talk about
that team. We dropped the teams remember yesterday the Dream final time. Yeah.
I was going to say, the last thing I want to do is
draft another team. Well, let's just run through your draft, phil Ivy,
Kristen Fox, and Maria draft for like stream picking to go. Hum.
Yeah, I'm just saying there there who we had the same, Ivy
Fox said, Maria Mitaos. Obviously we lost all of those except Christen Fox,
and you had also Stephen Sung, Tony Duns, Redlin, Brian Kim,
and Mo Nowara. We lost Mo. I had Arthur Morris, Ren
Lynn, Lo Coco, Sammy the Dealer, Daniel Hashim. I lost the
Coco and Daniel Hashim. I already drafted my team. I'm ahead of you.
Would you like me to read it off mine? Yeah? Go ahead.
Okay, By the way, we both had Maria winning. So I
got Kristen Fox and winning right Lena nine hundred at the table. Nicholas asked
that Ren Lynn at the table, Brian rast is at the table for me.
Now this is where I'm gonna get a little funky. Okay, I
need an old guy. I need a podcast listener, I Mark Wolf,
but I need some fucking annoying. Mark doesn't even looked at all. No,
he doesn't, but he's we have to well we just know he's in
the seniors man. But that's that's your definition of an old guy. I
need someone annoy I'm ten years away from the series. Wait, okay,
I want someone annoying that can be a villain. Well, that's that's actually
pretty good. That's Arthur Morris and he's a podcast hat wear you hear that?
You hear that, Arthur, You're annoying. Now three more spots.
I gotta think, what do I want? Where do I want the fans
coming from? I want Portugal. I'm taking the two Portuguese guys, Carlos
Caldas, Diego Cola. I got one more spot. I'm going to keep
him on my team for my last Yesterday's draft or pick. I want Sammy
the Dealer because they get the l A people behind him. That's my team.
So from the top, Christen Fox and she's winning. Uh. Nicholas
asked that Ren Lynn, Mark Wolpert, Arthur Morris, Brian Rast, Carlos
Caldas, Diego Coiler, Sammy the Dealer. That's a good table. You're
all right? So I'm going with I gotta have Steven Song in there to
win. I'm just I'm just trying to write this. I mean, yeah,
Steve and Song to win. Wow, Okay, just because reason I
want to cash. So I got Stephen Song. I'll go with Kristen foxon
for sure. I'm rolling with the fact that the d n R is Jesse
Lonis, so I'm sticking him in there. Ren Lynn, yep, I
mean, that's just an incredible table right there. Tony Dunst, Yeah he
was. He was my tenth place finisher. Wow, Christ well, I
got Tony making it so I got that's five. You had b K on
your team yesterday he went back. Was he done? Push him out me?
Yeah? Why not? Let's put let's put Brian came back in there.
He was my eleventh place finishing. That's six, that is that is
six. Yes, you've just got crushes, man, just crushes. This
is like not cool. Daniel Anderson seven, she finished seventeenth time on which
you just u just ran out the simulation for the whole fucking tournament. You
need you need to. I mean, this will be what Joe t him.
Oh that's a good one. I mean, what a party that way.
That's a very good one. More. Yeah, I'm looking, I'm
looking. I'm looking and looking. You still got crushes. They're all crushes.
Of course, I got the crushers. Why would I have the crushers?
You want someone out another girl? I mean I'll go, I'll go
Brian rast Yeah, safe safe, very safe, okay, I mean not
now, Nicholas Lean and nine hundred, let's put him in there. Brian
rast can be tenth. He's got enough money, you know, Brian place
finish. Yeah, that's that's I got two things I want to say,
sure one Brian Kim, I get the sense is very well positioned. I
know he doesn't have a ton of chips. I think he comes back with
like fourteen bigs or something like that, fifteen bigs tomorrow. But just kind
of seeing him out there in the field and after seeing him make a deep
run two years ago, what place did he finished in two years ago?
Seventh, Yeah, like twenty second or something or something like that, twenty
third, twenty third. Yep. He was very green then in terms of
like live poker, and then of course like not live poker, like he's
played a lot of live poker, but like this type of stage like bright
lights, big tournaments, you know, streaming all that sort of stuff.
He has since then, he's gone on to have a lot of success.
He's played in our studio in a bit, He's been on streaming tables there,
He's played in trit and stuff, been on streaming tables there. So
just watching him, I can tell that he's much more comfortable now. I
just remember I think he did an interview with Kara Scott. I believe when
he made that run and he was you could tell uncomfortable, right, Like,
it's just this isn't my thing. I've never done this before. Now
I get the sense that it's like, been there, done that, I
know what I'm doing. Even though I don't have as many chips as I
had before, I'm still like I'm used to this in a way. And
then also I got to give a shout out to Casey Stewart. Is he
still in by the way, can you look that up? Also, I'm
a sucker for the end of day. Hold the bag up and have someone
take a picture of you. I'm gonna start doing that. Don't be that
good. No, no, I'm gonna be that f and guy. Okay,
especially if I'm running deep in the main event, I'm gonna be that
guy. And I don't care at one point five three five, so I'm
on, you know, I mean not super short, but on the shorter
side. But I want to give Casey Stewart a shout out because well two
things. One is he's married to the Las Vegas foodie on Instagram, who
is a food influencer out of Vegas has more than five hundred thousand followers on
be following him, follow her, I mean I follow her. They also
live by me. So yeah, if you if you're ever interested in food
stuff, I guess you can go over to Lindsay's Instagram page the Las Vegas.
But Casey Stewart to me, I know, he plays a ton online
cash game grinder online, plays against some of my friends regularly, very very
respected player, but very much under the radar, you know. They He's
got a wife, a couple of kids. I just get the sense that
he's kind of like he's Jeremy Osma's before Jeremy Osmas was Jeremy Osmas. Like
he's the he's the Jeremy Osmas pre wsp Man Event final table, just like
a quiet, kind of unassuming grinder. Yeah, some people know who he
is, but not a lot of people do. Right, family guy,
all that sort of stuff, plays cash games, et cetera. I mean
it seems like very parallel to Jeremy Osmas. So yeah, I could see
like something big coming from him and it being like kind of like that next
Jeremy Osma's kind of career arc in a weird way. Yeah, move on
to these other events that you don't like to talk about. Start with the
one K plow mister Bownie. They have bagged up for the night. They
have ten players left. Bryce Yocky chip leader, someone else to the final
table or it's actually two tables still Robert Cohens in the mix. Bryce Jacky
with a victory can move to thirty five hundred and thirty nine points for POY,
which is second to Scott Severs twenty seven nine to three, So he'll
need to pick up basically another two hundred and forty points. Bryce will if
he wins this and then has to try and overtake Scott tenth guarantee twenty K
first two hundred and eighty two thousand. They come back tomorrow ten K eight
game mix. New event for the year. An incredibly long bubble. They
broke through it. People flying. They're down to twenty three. Couple of
chip leaders. Bernard Gleisner from Germany one million, Gus Hansen seconding chips,
nine hundred k, kind of drying fifty, Danny Wong sixt eighty five,
Adam Friedman sixty sixty, Calvin Andison. Every one you would expect to have
chips in this, you know, you've heard everyone's names. They are currently
guaranteed twenty two K playing for four hundred and thirteen thousand three events started today.
Did you know that we talked about a little bit. Yeah, you
didn't walk over there. I did three K Midsekes Championship, three hundred and
seventeen players. Well, that was actually the last you know, there's no
there's no updates on this either. Is that just weirds? Don't get me
started on what they're doing? From a coverage three hundred and seventy players through
the day two of the eleven one hundred and sixty one starters. Jonathan Newmanship
leader, five hundred and seventy K. Couple players through the day two,
Floria and Druda, Frank Fernaro, Jeff Farns, Calee Burns, Alex Queen,
Adam Hendrix, Sam Lasquez, Michael Brinkinghoff, a lot of PGT players
on that list. Other round A Saturday fifteen hundred pot limit Omaha six Max
who was on the bubble quickly check? So I guess what's burst through the
bubble? Two more hands left in the night. David Shorre, chip leader,
who else is up there? Ludavig Gawich, no one else. Hikins
in John Reisner's in Brad Rubins, in King John Rear and in King John
two hundred and sixty nine thousand for first in the fifteen hundred PLO six Max.
The other event, three K Horse had three hundred and fifty seven players.
One hundred and forty ish left first place two hundred and six thousand.
There is fifty four in the money current chip leader Baker second in chips,
Paul Campbell third and chips John Rasner. Just just give it. I thought
was in the other event. Maybe he's in both. They're like literally next
to each other in the other room. Checking oneir one circ Well says he's
a stranger k how he may have bat Maybe they got him confused. I
mean they like I went to the Omaha Well, I say, I just
could just it's like last round of counts. He's in there. The chances
double dipping, I mean there is a chance he's double dipping. Yes,
the horse is done, so there is a chance he maybe dropped a stack.
Yeah, I'd be finished third in ships. Look to have chips in
both would be tough ivy either way. ODB Chipwaiter of the three K Horse
that is backed up for the night. They were the three events that kicked
off today and tomorrow another very busy day. We got Day one B of
the Mid six Championship, we have a fifty K no limit hold Him high
Roller, and then we have obviously Day two of the PLO and Day two
of the three k OSS. So Day six is the main event, but
there's also six other events going on. Pretty chaotic here at the Horseshoe and
Paris, forty six days of the World Series of Poker. I'm mostly looking
forward to the main event, of course, but a lot of stuff and
going on as we wrap it up. We're getting close, man. Yeah,
that three thousand dollars horse was event number ninety one, and there are
ninety nine live bracelet events, So coming down to the wire for a lot
of things, POY twenty five K, fantasy, ODB fantasy, you know,
all that sort of stuff. So we are very much at the tal
end of everything. But she still feels like we got a long way to
go, even though we only have less than a week left here at the
twenty twenty four ws oh PTE. All right, that's gonna do it for
us. My name is Donny Peters. His name is Tim Duckworth and we
will talk to you guys on the next episode, so you have rain to
night on the Canny expressed