Hello, everyone, Welcome back to a brand new episode of the Poker Go
Podcast. My name is Donny Peters. His name is Tim DUCKWORTHZ. A
little bit after midnight, July seventh, twenty twenty four, just wrapped up
which was day forty one at the twenty twenty four World Series of Poker.
We are going to talk about, Oh, there's a one K one K
Nolan and hold them is down to ten? Was that a freeze out or
a it is? And it's definitely less than nine and less than ten?
Now, okay, down to a final table. The fifte game mix got
underway, a six hundred do ultrastack got underway, and then we're going to
get into the main event. Of course, we'd like to leave the main
event for last, because it's the main course, you know, it's the
biggest thing of all. We'll rip through these other updates and then we'll get
to the meat of it all. We can can see who's on top of
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All right, how many are left in this one? K? Think of
a jigger over there? Well, it was down to nine when I was
just out there. Let's have a we've lost nine, so at least down
to eight down days. Ummm, looks like Frank Lagadashi, that's not I
don't think that's how I say it. Lagadi, No, that's not right.
You're Italian. You should be able to know where it is. Hold
on, I'm trying to find out who these people are. Well. Either
way, Frank named to be decided, Frank named to be decided. I
don't know how to pronounce it. Put a very Italian respect on his name,
Ladoshi. I think I know Frank. Hey, he's played in the
USPI. Oh he did? Oh that is Frank. I played with him
the other day in the three K. Maybe Frank lagger dish, laggodish,
laggo dish, That's how I would say it. Well, he is ship
leader, cruising along seven point eight million. They're in not eight left other
notables in the field. I teach Aga Wall. This is going to finish
today because, as we mentioned, Frank has a pretty decent stack on day
two D of the main event, so he'll want to get home, get
some sleep and get ready for Yeah, day to D. He's going to
want to rip through this. Yeah. One hundred and ninety K for the
first did restart a three pm today. This was the one that Bag was
another player at the table. I might be tanking just because you annoy him.
This Bag to four thirty am last night. Well this morning. That
so many people bagged big no bag day one d of the main event and
then went and played the one K freeze. Why not I think that this
was done Jen, I like this. I mean a whole bunch of djens
here. I mean, but that's the reason why I said, you know,
you should have all those high rollers, like every third day, you
should have all these one K turbos, Like, you know, people just
want to jen it up right. They probably could have done that freeze out
with faster levels too, thirty mint levels they probably could have done twenty just
made it a turbo the heck with it? Yeah, I wo'd agree with
that. Didn't Chance bag a big stack? Yeah? He finished thirty second?
I believe. Dimitri Nobles twenty fourth, Jim Callaby twenty seventh, Chance
Corneth thirty second. The fifteen dollars eight game mix is underway. That's where
like all the big names are, all the big names that busted the main
event are over there playing the fifteen hundred dollars eight game mix. How many
entries did it get for eighty lot? Big drop off from seven to eighty
nine in twenty twenty three, won by Sean Dave, Big Reason Why in
twenty twenty three. It was within the first couple of weeks this year,
very end of the series, So I think that is a big factor,
and that kind of shows that, uh, maybe a lot of these mixed
game guys played their events headed home, you know, that may not play
the main event. Just kind of that makes sense. Guessing who's yeah,
well that's down to one hundred and three places, one hundred and three players,
sorry, twenty eight players from the money, so it's pretty quick.
Marco Johnson, Chip Leeder three hundred and twenty five K also busted the main
today Victors second in chips two ninety six, Paklotta two ninety three, fifth
in chips. Any guesses if you if you were to predict someone to make
a running a bracelet event this year that's made many runs in a bracelet,
No, it's Scott Steve fifth and chips two hundred and fifty three K.
Yeah, a bunch of heroes still left. Jared Blesnick Matt Van Gren,
John RESTERA, Jeff Madison, you're esd Alan Lee the guy you should have
drafted. Have you listened to me? Sean deeb is out. Yes,
I actually went to see his table. He was sitting with Dylan Weisman took
a video perfect for you. You should have bought in, sat down right
there, I had a tweet and then Weisman eliminated deep wow. And then
Dave jumped in the ultra site. Wow. Okay, great day. Yeah
wow, that pass out almost two hundred kf top in this fifteen hundred eight
game. We'll check in on that as it goes. Day one A of
the six hundred dollars Ultra Stack had almost twenty six hundred entries. What's is
this number? Is this seventy two hundred total? The total from last year?
Yeah? It must be so. Last year at this event drew seventy
two hundred entries and was won by Joseph Roe for four hundred and one thousand
dollars. Twenty six hundred on one A. How many flights are there?
Two or three? Okay, so thinking two flights here? Boxer oddly Harrison
among the leaders early on. But yeah, I mean, we won't check
in too much on that. It's just I mean, that's a shit show
over there. What do we got main event stuff numbers? That's the thing
everyone wants to know. Yesterday in the booth with Joe hasher and he's like
asking us about the numbers because he had a bet on it. Yeah,
and he had the under And then while we were in the commentary booth,
I think his friend back home heard it and wanted to bet more so John
another five D, Joe, if you listen at home or at the Blaze,
because that's where you stay every year, you're going to have to pass
the sugar to your friend because it gets getting am I again I have I
don't see, I don't I I'm I've been bullish on the numbers. I've
been positive, you've been pessimistic. I've been very pessimistic. But I still
like, don't have a firm read. I got it because the read man.
I got the read like it does that number include? Day two D
already like, how does it all? Trust the standman? Why are you
down? The statman? The statman? The statman? Okay, listen to
this day one, A, one, B, one C about forty five
hundred players. Day one day about five thousand plays. That puts us to
how much I'm listening ninety nine? Yeah, yeah, Day one I wasn't.
I was listening and you can't do man. Day two ABC New entrance
still to be confirmed. About two hundred exactly, well, it's about two
hundred, so exactly what has the loss to use? I'm saying it's still
up. I C two o six and in the sheet was one ninety six
last year. Sure, fine, that's okay, it's up unconfirmed Day two
D I saw the number and I was immediately shocked. And how big it
was? That number a little bit onto two hundred now right now, right
now, yeah, twelve hours from any cars going in the air, right
now, right when we say, right now, for those listening on Monday,
July eighth, we're doing this. It's the clock just hit one am
on Monday, July a. So when we say right now, day to
ABC just wrapped up about ten minutes ago, and Tim went did his due
diligence looking at the clock. You know, if last okay, so twenty
twenty three, five oh seven, twenty twenty two, five eleven, If
we're already at basically two hundred right now, I feel like that is with
you know, obviously people are going to go to bed but four levels plus
two breaks registration tomorrow, people flying in from LA people four levels four hours
two What I say, oh, Yeah, hur four hours and two breaks,
two levels. Yeah, I messed it up. Yeah, you got
people coming from la Arizona, New York, Busts, and Australia. Who
knows Australia. I don't know if that's possible, but okay, no it's
not. But what I'm saying is that, you know, they see these
big numbers, people are going to be coming in. I think this we're
going to have a pretty big two D. The question is how big can
we you know, we need as of right now, what one hundred and
forty five players about to break the record. We'll cover, so one hundred
and forty five more so we should get that. Yeah, over, I
will see where we go from there. It's gonna be, it's going to
be. It's going to be interesting. I'll say when they break the record,
because it does seem like they're trending in that direction, because I don't
know. The buzz really hasn't been about the record this year. I mean
last year the buzz was Listen, we're setting out to set a new record,
That's that's the goal. And if we don't do it, you know,
we're going to feel like we failed in a way, you know,
that was pretty much the messaging that they had last year. Now, of
course, the record was a much smaller number than what it is now.
It was eighty seven hundred and seventy three. Going back to the two thousand
and six WSP Main Event that Jamie Gold won famously for twelve million dollars,
defeated Paul Wasica in heads up play with all the blueberries in his mouth.
So last year, they really, like they really that was the marketing message.
We're gonna break the record. We're gonna break the record, We're gonna
break the record. Right this year, I mean, I'm not sure there
has been a marketing message for the WSP Main Event. It's just been,
you know, very run of the mill. This is the WSP Main Event,
biggest event in the world, which is fine, don't don't get me
wrong. Last year, I mean they clearly were, you know, pushing
towards breaking that record, and this year it's just been like, yeah,
you know, the event's gonna run its course and wherever we land, we
land. So that said, if they're able to set a new record not
having really done the big marketing push that they did last year, that seems
incredible, right, I mean, how does it not? I mean,
what, what, like, are you locked in that they're going to break
it? I'm all in because you've been I'm all I'm all in. I
pushed my chips into the middle. How high is it going to get?
I mean, eleven thousand is not in play? Right? Come on?
Not even that. I remember last year people were like eleven thousand. I
would say, I think it will get out of a ten one hundred.
Man, that's so insane. I know, bucks, I might be one
of these people. I've got the major fund righty today, right now,
it's so weird. I've never had this much fun. Yeah, I mean,
man, what to think? You know that the World Series of Poker
main event has gotten so large that it's now attracting ten thousand player fields like
it, Like, yeah, it was of course, it was great to
have that event smash the record and get over ten thousand last year and this
year it was kind of like, you know, a lot of people myself
included, thought somewhere around ninety five hundred would probably be the end result.
Now it seems like that's you know, been beaten, and they're going to
surpass that and likely set a new record. So what I'm getting at is
that ten thousand entries. That's the new norm. I mean, what in
the world you said it earlier? Where are these people getting all this money?
You're the money guy, the other one watching all the finance videos every
day. What are people doing? My portfolio is looking pretty good this week.
Yeah, yeah, so you're going to get in, right, Is
that what you're thinking. I'm not touching my portfolio. That's the golled a
goose, that's that the nest that this could be. This could be a
golden ticket. That's fine, straight back in the spy. Once I win
the ten million, um, you got to buy the golden rocket car.
Come on, no, no, I'm pretty conservative. What are you talking
about? Conservative? What you were looking at buying bikes earlier? This is
a very trim I'm pretty conservative. Earlier today he was looking at buying a
bike. Buying a satin binions collector's jacket. I snapped off the matching hat.
The how was to the how was thirty five dollars. I think that's
ridiculous for a used hat you don't know the shape a vintage collector. They
got to crank the price. Honestly, thirty five dollars feels like a steal.
If I was running that store or whatever that is that that if I'm
in charge of that sale item, I mean sixty bucks. It's doublespe time,
you know, when that's thirty five dollars in November when nothing is happening.
Sure, okay, can we just climb it. This is a pretty
random augmented family pot segment. But it wasn't a bike. When you say
a bike, it sounds like I'm buying a motorbike. I was buying a
that was a point, I know, what's for the people. I was
buying a bike for my son. It was on July fourth sale, and
I thought, hey, I'm gonna get him a bike. It looked like
a girl's bike. Everyone just letting you guys know. It was six colors.
One of them was like a silver with like flora green on. I
thought it was kind of cool, like it's standout. He might not get
hit by car. And I was like, yeah, I'm gonna buy this
bike. Was on sale hundred dollars off, so I had to spend three
hundred thirty dollars. But like whatever click by clicked by, you buy figured
it out later what's going on in this in the main event well out side
of the record potentially being broken tomorrow in level one who knows Chip Leaders Anthony
Masikoll seven ninety seven, Christopher Vincent seven seven to Jang q Lee sixty six
y five, Demage Davenport, who I think goes by like trick time or
something on Hustle Casino Live. You've got six six hundred and fifteenk. Also
finished second in the ten K Mistry millions to Matthew Lambashet or Lambresh, Valentine
ober Hasha something six hundred thirty K and Day one. You guys not even
trying with these names, at least I try, you know, apologize for
butchering them. You're just like, yeah, whatever, moving on something.
So and so see you later, Like what what you was ripped those names
like it just didn't even matter. I mean, what one podcast? And
I'm gonna you know, we know we do top five, but we're in
the top six today as a Zaharia was the Day one a chip leader six
in chips on Day to ABC. I think that's pretty good. Six hundred
and one k some people with chips. Our friend of the pod, your
friend ex colleague, someone that's probably never going back to Roma, Deeli Monawara,
back to the healthy four hundred and something. Joe Tihan PokerGO podcast,
Pro first Pro Team. We have t pros not great. He's today,
Yeah, but I was not consulting it on this. It doesn't matter.
I am the I am the director of sponsorship, the director of player player
management, director of player management, play manager. Yeah. Arthur Morris,
John Dufty, Frank Fernardo, Justin, Zachi Naokihara hostline Ensign, one of
the several champs through beIN Weighing, Arden Shower excited. Adam Hendrix bakes,
Anthony Zeno, another champion, Kraai al Demia, another champion, Scott Bloomstein,
Bumpsy Yeah, Bump sing, Arthur Matrozion, a lot of people through
Man, Mike Madisaw Luke greenw Jesse Lonis, have me and Quast nearly random
Player of the Day qualification there new GROWNI bake chips. I'm I'm still scrolling
that you should have it like in the end of day. I haven't posted
that yet. Just go quick, quick, quick, quick, quick,
quick, quick Price j Hockey Stilling, Seth Davies, Whilip Ramos, Joey
Weissman, Jack celt Andrea cari Forraz, Jacoban Lamb, Todd Brunson. He's
not on that list. Maria Hope made it. That's not good. No.
Ninety five thousand must have skipped over there. You go there. So
that's some of the people stealing contention. Heading into day three of the WSP
main events. Some people on the rail, the blinds will be, uh,
twenty four or what do they round up? Do they do the fifteenth?
Well, they already took the one in its off, so they'll do
fifteen twenty five. I actually think they do it the other way here.
They do they do one twenty five because they don't want to price the small
blinding from playing pots and going bus because yeah, listen to I played some
events I think where they went like like one two to then one twenty five,
which is what they're going to do here. Okay, I think I
don't know, but let me look that up quickly. Some people on the
rail something Donny Peters is very familiar with, Julian Martini, Dominic Niche,
Welcome to the club, Julian Kenny Hallett, John Riordan King, John Riord
and Kevin Martin. Kevin Martin, do you see that tweet from him today?
He was like, he's like zero from nine or something. In the
main event he burned his one thousand, twenty five hundred. That's fine.
I don't like it, but Keen, he burned his main event outfit out
in the car park. I mean someone retweeted the same demons. Retweeting is
just the worst streak in WSB history. And then a lot of people started
like respunding with their streaks, like I'm o from like I think Ari angles
like oh from fourteen and then two sneaky comments here. I thought josh Aria
was like one from something since two thousand and five. I was like,
bluddy final Table, you don't go. Then Dan Wyman was like two from
nineteen or something. I was like, get You're no, you cannot,
you don't qualify. Chris money Maker hit the rail, Ryan de Paulo out,
Toby Lewis gone, Joe Hasham passing the sugar twice, Jamie God see
ya, Vanessa Selps little return random Player of the Day qualification saw she tweeted
and she was like I folded for seven hours. Fine, that's so,
that's the best thing I've forgot. Brian Olman gone, fan of the Pod,
Jeffrey Michael Platt eliminated. Is this real, Millie Michael? No?
And then here the last person on the list we're gonna have a eulogy for
right now, Donnie Peters. Oh yeah, I'm out. It was How
does it feel to it feels fucking horrible. Let's start from the top.
You sit down, you look at your table of nobody's and what was your
first impression? Table wasn't a table of Noah, wasn't was your first impression?
Then? Of those my table wasn't a table of nobody's. I mean,
it wasn't a table of superstars either, like big names, I mean
the ones he was I haar Soka high roller from Belarus, who I played
a very big and important hand with that we can talk about later. And
then two to my left was Nick Seward, younger kid plays around town here,
want to bracelet We think you want what the twenty five dollars six max
or something like that. So we have this group chat that we, you
know, giving updates in a couple of people playing especially you, you know,
a friend of the pod, Matt Clark with somebody ha he he got
a double. He's cooking. He's cooking. And then uh, we say
an update from you one hundred and thirty two eight hundred heading into the second
level today, what did you saw the day with one seventy point three with
the forty keka, Well, I lost some chips early, got to like
one sixty, I mean not a lot. Went to one sixty, No,
no big deal. Then I want some back to get up to one
eighty six. Played a hand against e Harsika. He opened hijack. I
three bet button with ace jack he called it came six five three, I
think with two spades. I had the jack of spades. He checked.
I bet, he called, Uh, turn was a jack check check?
River was the ace of spades? Check? I bet like one hundred percent
pot. He folded. But that was a decent pot there. And then
I lost lost a guy under the under the gun plus one jammed eighteen bigs
and I called the East Queen off and he had ace nine suited and he
had a nine. That's the correct shove. Mean, this seems like a
horrible shove. You know, I don't know what you're trying to accomplish there.
You can just raise yeah, I mean you still have nineteen bis.
Yeah, with that many people behind you, I mean ah, so that
was that was That was a dent. Then I tried to I called off
Nick Seward with ace high in a spot where he had he had two pair
of butter with I mean it was top pair on the flop. So there
was that. So yeah, the next up day from you a little bit
later, an hour later, forty two four. So I got back up
to like one forty five. And then it follows with when iha Asika wins
the main event, he can thank me. I just looked up how Sosika's
chipcun? What do you think if you finished the day with or what do
you think he's lost? Chipcunt was two ninety of clus to fifty Yeah,
I mean I got him to two hundred getting it all away. What happened
had you get to forty two full from one hundred? I mean it was
it was by far and away the biggest torch job I've ever done in poker.
Great? Great? Have the investors listening to this right now? I
mean probably, yeah, But this is what you get when you invested in
me. I'm gonna go for it in spots when I think it's right.
I mean, I've been walking around all day after busting thinking. Half of
me is like, I'm an idiot. Why did I do that? You
know? The other half of me is like, no, you got to
trust yourself. You had you had. I had my reasons. My reasons
were all fucking wrong, okay, but I had my reasons. I six
met all in with King Queen Off and he had aces. I wish you
guys could see Tim's face. I mean, what do you want me to
do? I'm done? So I open a plus one at the blinds are
five hundred, one thousand. Okay, he has he had ninety nine thousand,
five hundred. So I opened under the gun and I had three bet
him twice already. He three bet me once once or twice already. Yeah,
he three bet me twice already. So like we you know, and
I know he plays a lot of stuff, plays a lot around Europe.
He's one high rollers, like I know he's yeah, I know he's a
capable player, like he won like the twenty five k at EBT Barcelona years
ago. I covered that, Like you know, he plays a lot of
big stuck like I know, he's kind of capable. He makes it I
think it was ten six from the big Blind. I make it twenty three
thousand from well, not from I make it twenty three thousand. He thinks
for a little while, and then he makes it thirty seven thousand, which
is like a click, and this is when you fall. I mean,
yeah, I guess obviously, I mean, but my thinking is this.
And you know, for those out there listening, if you have an opinion,
I'm always open to feedback, so fire away. But I'll tell you
how I think and what I thought about. First thing is I thought at
some point he and I were going to have to tangle, Like I just
thought that it was going to happen. I thought that, you know,
he would try and kind of mess with me a little bit, you know,
given the fact that we were kind of we had some three betting going
on between us before that. So there's that. And then I thought,
listen, if so, if I have King Queen like King Queen suited,
I just call his three bet and play in position against him. King Queen
off is like, I don't really want to take a flop in position with
that, you know, I just whatever, I'll just I think that's a
better hand to just four bet And then when he when he sized it the
way he did, I was like, this seems really weird because I think
he's got to go a little bit larger with aces and kings, not not
like a ton larger, but a little bit like into the forty the low
forties. I think I don't think he sizes like that. If he has
Queens or Ace King, I think those hands probably just want to rip it
in, you know, just because Yeah, I just like if there's some
off chance that like I decide to if you like click it and I call
in position, you know, then if you're there with Ace King, like
you can just kind of get tricky on some flops, so you know,
you just put the money in. Same with queens. So yeah, I
think he would have done those with those hands. Plus I do block queens,
which is what I thought in regards to the kings. I block kings.
I also block Ace King, so I block those three hands to some
extent. The most unblocked hands that I felt I had are aces, of
course, and all the like ace juice A three, Ace four as five
suited combos, which are all his bluffs in this spot, So that's why
I was like thinking, And then I just thought with the sizing, I
thought he would probably make it a little bit larger with aces, like slightly
larger still give me room where I might be able to think that I can
shove, because if he makes it like let's say forty two, which is
only like five k more than he made it, but like he still has
fifty eight behind that they are fifty seven behind or whatever, So I,
you know, I could still think that I have some full equity there given
the way that the hand is played out. So yeah, it just seemed
it seemed really bluffy to me combination with the fact of the hand that I
had. And also I was like, I was like, listen, I
have to like just trust myself and go for this. I mean, I've
come this far in the hand and I kind of still don't believe this guy
and think he's messing with me. So yeah, I jammed, and he
did the fucking He looked at his hand, which and I knew, I
just knew he had fucking aces. When you do you only double check when
you have vases are kings you doubled, That's the only time you double check.
He looked right away and I said fuck at the table looked at me
like I was an insane person, which I was wasn't insane basically, So
yeah, yeah, so I mean I lost a hunter k on that hand,
I mean a hundred big, big seach. And then the next time
I say, you you walking up the stead but it's like but it's like,
I mean, I know it's people are probably listening to be like you're
an idiot, which, okay, fair point roasted me. I don't care.
I told you the reasons why I had. I did what I did.
I trusted my instincts in the situation, and listen, it was wrong
and it was a massive mistake and a huge punt. Yes, part of
me is proud that I'm at the point in the pubsby main event and I
am not scared to do that, which I think is to some degree good.
Now, my decision making for this particular situation could be bad, and
I could have picked a better situation to like do what I did. Yes,
but I still think you need somewhat reckless abandon to be able to win
big poker tournaments like this, you know, to some degree, I think
you know, really all the good players like have that to some extent.
Okay, so did I mess up? Yeah, of course I messed up.
I ran into aces and the guy just had it. They always have
it. I mean, I don't know why. I just didn't believe him
and whatever. So yeah, crush me, I mean, and the other
side of me is, yeah, I'm like, damn it. I didn't
need to do that. Like, I I know how good the tournament is
now. I've played it a few times that I know. I've also been
around it many times that I know, and I didn't need to do that.
So yeah. There was also one hand earlier before I did this,
when I should have bluffed a guy and I didn't pull the trigger, and
I was annoyed with myself afterwards. I don't I think he would have folded.
He had two pair on an ace jack ten two diamonds, and then
the king of diamonds came on the turn and the deuce on the river,
and he just kept checking me out of the big blind and like he can
have he can like just be trapping me there. Of course, but I
also thought, I mean, I had five's and I was like, the
only way I win this hand is if I just get this guy out of
the hand. I thought about just ripping the river for like probably would have
been about one hundred and twenty percent hot, and I ended up just checking
behind and not following through there. So like that's a that's a spot where
like I wish I trusted my gut because my gut said to put this guy
all in and I didn't. And then he just tables ace ten, which
he probably would have folded because there's a four liner and a flush out there,
but continue roasting me, grilling, yeah, doing whatever, forty k
And then I was on my way to the media tournament, which we'll talk
about later because you know, that's a pretty bad bait, you know,
for me to bust the media tournament today and I see you walking up the
stairs on your phone with your bad John, that can only mean one thing.
Means I'm back to work. Get back to work. So yeah,
I got out all in for my last like thirty two bigs with ace King
to tens, and that was lost. The flip did not hit an Ace
King or straight or anything to help me. I mean, you didn't want
to come play the media tournament with me. I never want to play the
media tournament. I don't ever want to be anywhere around that tournament. I
also think it's somewhat ridiculous that everyone plays it when the main events going on.
First of all, they scheduled it at six pm tonight. They didn't
break down start to like six point forty, so like like I would say,
maybe there were only six representatives from Poker News. Obviously the live reporters
were all working, so a little bit of a weird time just to schedule
it. But maybe it would have been better on those off days like the
day was a day one B when there was nothing else running in the in
the World Series except the main I've never said this to anyone. I don't
think any trouble, but when I used to run the Poker News team,
I used to hate when all you guys went and played that tournament. I
hated it, but I didn't say anything. I needed it. Yes,
I let you guys need I did it, but I absolutely positively hated it
with every piece of my body, my soul. I said, we should
be working. In my mind, you guys are all messing around on the
media tournament. Do you remember the old ones we used to do, Remember
the one like we would do it, and then we would go to the
Pokista's potty and watching them dog the poker news ones when you maybe sitting next
to each other and they weren't during working hours, they were on an off
day. Yeah, yeah, times. But yeah, I mean listen,
it was a monumental punch job by me. But I mean, what are
you gonna do? I mean, yeah, it's always next year. There
is always next year. And I've been right in in you know, spots
where I've gotten crazy like a lunatic before and then you feel like a genius.
And there's also gonna be times when you feel like a stone cold moron,
and this is the latter, and I feel like an absolute stone cold
moron the fact that he had aces, But in a weird, sort of
crazy way, I'm happy he had aces and he didn't have Queen's and he
didn't have Jack's and he didn't have kings, you know, not that he
couldn't have had those hands, yes, but I mean this really felt like
aces or a bluff to me, and I was wrong. So I messed
that up and that is what it is. So what are you gonna do?
Now? I'm here on the sidelines, wanting to punch myself in the
face for being an idiot, and walking around the field being like, man,
I should still be in this tournament, but I'm not, so I
have to wait till next year. And that I was talking with Remember Ryan
Brown, Yeah, I was talking with him. We've become, you know,
decent friends, and he's a good guy. And he busted on day
once. So I made it longer than him, but we lost it longer
than Sean deeb. I mean, so here's the thing is, like you
can that's like you can say, like, oh, like that's how you
can make yourself feel better. I feel like you lost longer than someone else.
Mean yeah, but like you can pick like really good players like Sean
Deep is a good example. Oh I lasted longer than Sean Deep. Yeah,
but Shawn Deep probably didn't come into Day two with two hundred big blinds
and torch it all like that that, you know what I mean. Like
not that Trundy might not torture. He might, But I'm just saying I
had a really good spot coming into today too. I took a very high
risk situation that I likely didn't need to take, and I fucking ate it.
And now I'm here on the sidelines and I need to take that and
try and learn from it. And whatever, did you bust off the registration
that closed? Yes? Right? Yeah, yeah, okay, busted in
the third level of the day before it like kind of a little bit before
dinner. But listen, it's funny because like this is this is the this
is the mental gymnastics that you go through when you bust a big poker tournament.
Like not I shouldn't say big, I should say meaningful because meaningful is
can can resonate a little bit more. Because there are like six or hours
tournaments that I think are extremely meaningful. I play in those, and you
know there's also the WPNIVA is extremely meaningful. Like you know, I'm not
talking about like the South Point Nightly. Here shout out the south Point Nightly.
I'm not trying to you know what I mean, But you know what
I mean, Like, it's just that you like the mental gymnastics that you
do are like you see these people over the years, like the the good
players that get chips, and they're not just sitting around being knits like that.
That's not how you do this. You have to take chances, and
you have to trust yourself and you have to put yourself out there. Like,
was I wrong and very stupid in this spot? Okay? Yes?
Likely? Were there some good things that I can take from it. I
mean the good things are is that I followed through and I trusted my instincts,
and I think I had decent reasons for everything. So I shouldn't be
upset with that. You know, if we want to go back to the
stuff we talked about, what John Jaffey said, what Pads you know kind
of re said is that like, listen, everyone's going to bust the poker
tournament, but the one person that wins, So do what you'd think is
right. Don't be scared to bust because inevitably that's gonna happen to ninety nine
point nine percent of people in the tournament. And if you have decent reasons
and you follow through with them and at backfires, I mean, so be
it. I don't know, maybe I took that too much to heart and
went nuts with it, you know, looking back on the first time I
played the main event, like, I don't think I played that that main
event as aggressively as I should have. Yeah, and last year, you
know, I thought I got much better at it, but I'm still not
where it was. This year. I thought I played very well on day
one and things also went my way, you know, And today I thought
I played all right. It wasn't my best effort. Not that I didn't
try to give my best effort. I just wasn't on point and I had
some mistakes, and also things didn't work out, like the Ace nine hand
to my Ace Queen to you know, losing the flip with the Ace king
at the at the end, and like stuff like that, like that's that's
just whatever. I don't necessarily care so much about losing the hands, like
when you get it in with Ace Queen to Ace nine you lose, or
you getting in a flip with Ace king to tens, because that stuff is
kind of just whatever. And you have good equity and the money went in
when you had good equity, So at the end of the day, it's
fine and you're just you know, it's up to luck at that point what
happens. And yes, poker is a skill game. Before you yell at
me out there, Poker is a skill yes, but there is luck involved.
Sure you know so now, But when you do something dumb or something
that you think you should do and then it doesn't work because you were all
wrong and your mistakes were wrong or your reads were wrong or whatever it may
be, like I did with the King Queen hand, Like, I get
so much more upset with that, Like that frustrates me to no end.
Like, and you know, it's hard and the hardest thing And this is
what I was talking with Ryan Brown about, is that the hardest thing about
this specific tournament is you have to wait a whole year. Like it's such
it's it is the best tournament in the world. It's it's the best on
like from multiple angles. It's the best to like work in cover, like
do all that sort of thing that we've been doing for so long. It's
the best to watch. I mean, it's the super Bowl of poker.
Like it's the best thing to watch if you're a poker fan, you like
that entertainment. Yeah, it's also the absolutely best tournament to play it,
Like, it is unbelievable out there. It's so good, it's so much
fun. The structure is insanely player friendly. The field if you get if
you run pretty well with table jaws, the field is very very good for
for decent players, and the prize money is out of control. So like
that's the frustrating part, you know, and it's like I can't even People
always say like why don't you, like, oh, are you gonna hop
in this or that? Or are you gonna play the closer? You're gonna
play this whatever, this three K midst and I'm like no, I like
the main event takes it all out of me, and I need like two
weeks to recover for sure, maybe maybe a little bit longer. I think
it's time for me to talk about some of the hands I played in the
free roll, so over them for six four I got the A six get
out of here. I made a good fold though two pair versus for the
river. No problems. Now, look, we've got four thousands or some
silly amount of players coming back for day two. D I tried to look.
We both tried to look through some tables. We it's slim pickens.
We need some tables to break, we need we need some things to fall
out way tomorrow. I could find three tables that peaked my interests a little
bit. Uh Paris ten Stephen Schidweck on hundred and twenty six K. Michael
Norri fifty three K, Jared Jaffe ninety seven K, Horseshoe five point thirty
one, Yarmpd Yutman fifty one, Jomie Becker eighty eight, Tom Connolly eleven.
Guys, this is this is struggle town. This is and then this
table here Paris twenty seven A RuSHA Ghani in fifty six K one. He's
a second WSB bracelet last week sixty three K. Convert to Brenners, who's
been sporting a boot. He's on the you know, on the WSP injury
report. I don't know what We've got to find out, maybe what's wrong
with him. He's got twenty nine K Nage Magnus sixty three K. This
is what we have tomorrow. We are struggling to find something stream worthy outside
of a loan phill Ivy table or a loan Daniel Weinman table kind of thing.
So we're gonna have a level, maybe two levels, for some fireworks
to happen and some players to break and redraw, you know, two tables
where we can you know, throw them one of the bright lights of the
main stage. He looked at it. What do you think just just it
was just weird that there's no like setup tables, Like, yeah, I
don't like the way we do this, so I had to have a grape
with it, you know, so matter tables, you mean us, the
streaming us, but we're always just like NEGRONI ivy helmets, like I mean,
I think, don't use the word we, Loui's a strong one to
use we as in the company. We that's we, we are all part
of this, that we are in this together. I think I think one
we could start by having more feature tables in action. I think we need
to leverage that capability, you know, I think we should have five at
least running and be able to go to those because listen, you never know
what you're gonna get in some of these. Like you look back at Day
one A for example, this is a good example the secondary feature, you
know, I mean it was picked because of Faz Jaka and Joseph Chung.
Okay, the star was Brent Barbie, Bobby, but like you can't find
a Brent Barbie. Yeah, I mean you can. But like if you
have two tables, yes, versus if you have five, you just have
a much better shot at finding the Brent Barbie, the exciting player, right.
So that's why I think we just need to give ourselves as many chances
as we can at finding stuff because you never know which table is gonna be
good and which table is going to be bad. You know, some tables
it may look like they're a bunch of star power, and then it's just
it's just it's just boring poker, which which is fine because sometimes that's what
it is in an early day of day one, yeah, I mean,
and in general poker is like some people would say, poker is boring,
like actual live poker every single hand is what I'm talking about. Like for
for those of us that are the nerds and the diehards, like we love
it, yes, but for the common fan, they want to see like
the big all in clashes, which is what you get when you watch an
edited episode, correct, right, But that's not what it's really like because
because there's I mean, you play for ten hours. There's ten hours of
play, and that gets edited down to like a one hour episode. So
obviously a lot of stuff is getting cut out, right, but all that
stuff stays in when it's done live. So I just think giving ourselves more
options is better with more tables. And then yeah, I mean, I
just I don't think we always need to go to a name. I think
you need to look at playing styles. I think that's how you should attack
things first. And and you know, I think between those of us here
at poker Go, we have enough experience seeing all of these different players for
so long over the years that we understand the playing styles, so we can,
you know, like one playing style, Parker Talbot, I would snap
put him up on he he plays very like wide open aggressive, He's kind
of chatty overall, He's got a big sack, He's got everything working for
right. But are you picking like a Parker Talbot over a Daniel Lagrond.
I mean, you're gonna go with the with the name value yet, but
like when you don't have a Daniel Lagron and you like, I mean,
I think Parker Talbot's a great pick for a future table. I think he'd
be up there doing work, so I think that would be a lot of
fun. We always I always also find when I when I go over the
tables, I probably miss thing and I have to like go over them like
two or three times to kind of like see what's actually happening, and then
also like listen, you we can just find like kind of tables here,
Like you can come in in the morning and like look around and be like,
oh, this table looks chatty and fun and they're slash were doing no
I know, but I'm just I'm telling the people like I'm not I'm not
saying it's it's not all just looking at a piece of paper. We're we're
basically looking at the piece of paper to see, Okay, oh look at
this, we got lucky, there's three notables, four notables here. We
should be this should be fine, but yeah, there is I think one
of the tables we picked on one of the day, one as was picked
solely because everyone was chatting a lot. It had had one player maybe that
was Lucky Chewi's one, but it had a bunch of people talking and chatty.
So I was like, oh, this looks pretty lively and fun.
Yeah. The same with Joecatta's table before they moved him up. They were
pretty chatty too, So yeah, my table was way too chatty. Yeah,
we look, we look at a bit of everything, but like obviously,
you know, you play the kind of the numbers game and try and
find you know tagle withstra full big names or you know the one big,
big big poka style like a Negron helmet. But yeah, it's it is
tough, and you know, looking already at tomorrow at the list is we're
gonna have to do it. But everyone played day one seat like the big
names they say day once they felt huge huge. Yeah, yeah, like
that's what I feel like. I mean, you had both Daniel and Phil
Helmeth in there, right, is that when Ivy played or I played,
I was one day okay, so we'll at least have Ivy, I mean.
And then there's other people that are just out of the tournament. I
mean, Sean Deeps out of the tournament, you know, Scott sever who's
having a great summaries, out of the tournament, like you know, Jason
Kuhn out of the tournament. Like you know, people are just out like
that. That's just you can't really control that. So Big Union's table could
be fun. Yeah, you know, I don't really know. It's probably
not. Brank. I think that there might be an argument to be made
at maybe for one of the so because we switch them out every level.
One level is Becker's table on one Tyson's table on the other and then we
just lean into the Tye Becker. You know, I mean I'm saying,
if we can't find much, I mean, that's a storyline, right,
and you can do that. Kristin Foxen, how did she bag up?
Can you look that up? She has one hundred and twenty two K she
is see it with due Katta, Well, that's that's the table. That's
I didn't even say that one. That's the table. I mean, my
reason, my reason alone with Kristin Foxen is if she has decent chips,
which she's does at one hundred and twenty two K. She plays a lot
of hands, she's aggressive and she gets in so she's she's fun to watch,
right And she played a lot of good, fun hands on the secondary
feature table when we had her on there on day one D. So you
know, I would continue to have Kristin Foxen on there. I think she's
good for that sort of stuff. And you know, as I said,
and if she can accumulate even more chips, I just always go back to
our early Poker News days and I just remember our boss at the time,
Gary Gates, telling us to you know, find the find Chris Moneymaker before
he is Chris Moneymaker. Like that's what we were always trying to do,
like find the guy who's gonna win the the guy or girl who's gonna win
the main event before, right, And that's why that's why like the Brent
Barbie thing, like you know, was so like kind of so standout as
to me. And I know it's super early, and I know the chances
are that not that he's gonna win the main event, but you start creating
those characters and creating those characters and going and going and going, and now
I mean for sure once we enter day three, I mean there's always a
case to be made that you just find the chip leader and put them up
there, because usually the chip leader is playing like a lunatic. Like I
mean, you like, if you're the chip leader on day three, you're
usually aggressive, Like you're not just waiting there and just getting aces NonStop.
I mean, you're making hands, you're playing. Remember remember Poker Hoe,
Mark Kruhn kindly a lunatic out there. It is the best, like you
know, that sort of stuff. So that's what you like to see,
you know, and then you can tell that person's story and and you know,
build them up and then if they bust, they bust, you know
whatever. But yeah, he started getting there. And I think Joe Kada
has decent chips, right, No thirty two K thirty two? Oh wow,
he must have got wrecked. He had a lot because he had he
had aces, I think three times in one level. What about Alex Foxhin
just checked it? Nothing nothing. I mean he's someone who also you know,
he like his's just his style. He plays a lot of hands,
He's involved a lot, like Ivy has col Ferra, but col Frera has
nine K so it's like that's dope, you know, Like Dan Wyman has
some people with chips, but like no one like super Night totally that stuff
is like just one name and like nothing else. What are you gonna do?
All right, what else we got? I think that's it. I
guess we could talk about what else? If you've busted the main event,
like Donny Peters and Jeff Platt, well I will be in nothing. Well
Jeff and I are back to work tomorrow. Oh today, Monday, July
eighth. You can register for Day one B the six hundred O, just
like oh day one of the one thousand dollars GG poker Flip and Go.
I don't know why I thought that the flipp and Go is not on the
schedule this year. I just don't know why, Like I missed that,
can I speaking of degenerate gambling, I want to make I think we're pretty
much done here, so I want to make a quick little story. During
the media tournament today, Tim Fiovanti from WPT, he gave it the biggest
scream I've ever heard in my life, Like he just won a part for
a million dollars and we're like, buddy, it's a fucking free roll.
Relax, and then he tells he's like, no, I'm in the mystery
bounding on WSP dot com. I just want a five thousand bounty. Wow.
Like I was like, well, all right, that does that.
Okay, we now you'll yell. Your scream of joy was justified. But
that was pretty cool, So shout out to him anyway. I just wanted
to cool, Well, that's gonna do it for us? Should I play
the man mentor? I mean yes, I mean it's I told you I'm
buying one percent. This might not be enough. You didn't buy any piece
of me. I forgot I thought I remember it didn't we do it on
the podcast? Did I have it? I'm pretty sure I had a piece
of you, and you're like, no, I think I did. It
was like the guy said, he for good. It's unbelievable. I just
bought a bike, man, I'm not sure going for don wake up.
I'm gonna work out. I'm gonna look at my bank accounts, see if
I even have ten thousand dollars in there, and look at my bank accounts.
I mean, what, how rich are you? What? You've never
looked at your bank accounts? I mean, just the way you said that?
How does that? I don't how was that weird? I gotta look
at my bank accounts and look at my bank accounts. Yeah, I have
money in there? What is happening? I have money in other accounts that
are not bank related, but but out of ten thousand, I can't play
right. So and then I couldn't forget about it. I don't understand how
this seat trot thing is working. There's just one person. There's one person
at this table one table two thirty four is one person? Which one is
that I clicked on this flight d by seat mine loaded to fine? What
table was that two thirty four Paris, Brian Hastings because I wanted to look
up you know, if Brian Hastings had anyone. It is very weird.
Yeah, but that you know they that happens with the slips, and then
when they see that, they'll just immediately break that table or break the tables
into that table because you know they're kind of guessing when they do the slips.
Yeah, I saw. I thought it was just like kind of full
shot. All right, cool, Well, that's gonna do it for us.
I'm unfortunately out of the main events, so i gotta wait till next
year. I'm out of the main event like a stone cold idiot. If
you think I was an idiot, please let me know. I'm happy to
on a on a scale of Danielgarten's oopsie meter. Oh, it's like a
forty seven oop as you make forty seven forty seven oopsies, he's a lot
easily. All Right, Cool, that's gonna do it for us. We
will talk to you guys on the next episode. So yeah,