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 the chip cowns who was eliminated. As always, please like and subscribe to the podcast and leave a review and send that review in Take a screenshot of it, Take a photo of it. Podcast at pokerg dot com. And we will get you in to our giveaway. We're drawing two winners today. I don't see him on the sheet because I haven't picked him yet. Oh okay, what are we doing? What are we giving away something special today? Okay to celebrate Daniel o'grano. I think he batted chips. I do know he was short at the end to ABC. Let's give away two signed twenty twenty four coke pad cards by Daniel m'granner. Okay, okay, and you're going to pick the winners. No, I'm not now. I want to choose a number of between one and let's go have four to twenty first ten ten, good number winner is Jim Pearson. Okay, he's the first winner. Let me just make a note of that before I mess it up, Jim Pearson. Let's go from twenty seven. Will do a bigger range here, Let's go to eighty four, forty four forty four's forty four forty four for I mean this feels rigged. Billy Brown, Billy Brown, Billy brown, Billy brown, Billy, bron Gavn my hat still in the main, right, Yeah, I think he's still on. I think he's still in Gavin my hat running stuck up. He's doing pretty well. Billy Brown, you win the other Daniel Grander card. Love it. I will email both of the winners, Jim and you can just go find I can go find Billy tomorrow. Just give it to him because he made a day two d I've ever find him today, I should say today, sorry, correct today he probably know listen to this, but yes, Billy Brown. Jim Pearson signed Daniel mcgrano cut back cuts great. Need to give some shout outs. I met Mike playing in the main event today, had a hat on, made a full house, got paid, doubled up. I also met Gary, a gentleman who's here I believe he said for his daughter's volleyball tournament. 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Make sure you use promo code w twenty four win if you opt for the annual subscription, because that will save you twenty dollars off your first year of a new annual plan. For the giveaway, void were prohibited, No purchase necessary. Viewpobergro dot com slash rules for official terms. 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,