WEBVTT 1 00:00:11.039 --> 00:00:16.480 Hello, everyone, Welcome back to a new episode of the Poker Go Podcast. 2 00:00:16.519 --> 00:00:19.760 My name is Donny Peters. His name is Tim Duckworth. It is 3 00:00:20.000 --> 00:00:26.079 day one of the twenty twenty four World Series of Poker. Tim and I 4 00:00:26.160 --> 00:00:32.000 are buried in the back of the Horseshoe Ballroom. There's no one event center. 5 00:00:32.079 --> 00:00:34.079 I don't know what this place is called. I never know what this 6 00:00:35.280 --> 00:00:38.520 is. That third you hear, you should know that already events center, 7 00:00:38.600 --> 00:00:45.079 Grand ball Room. It is probably if there was a list of the worst 8 00:00:45.359 --> 00:00:50.399 named poker, it's number one. It's number one by a country eyes bring 9 00:00:50.399 --> 00:00:54.159 back Brazilia. Yeah, they got to rename it. You know, they 10 00:00:54.240 --> 00:00:59.759 definitely got to rename it. They renamed those remodeled conference rooms in Horseshoe slash 11 00:01:00.000 --> 00:01:03.679 Paris. Maybe in Paris with a connected wall or something. I don't know 12 00:01:03.719 --> 00:01:07.239 what's happening over there. Anyway, it's day one. I would say that 13 00:01:08.280 --> 00:01:14.040 the buzz is growing. I wouldn't say it's fully there yet. I feel 14 00:01:14.040 --> 00:01:17.680 like tomorrow is going to be there, right, and we'll get into the 15 00:01:17.680 --> 00:01:21.519 reasons why. But Tim and I have been here for the majority of the 16 00:01:21.599 --> 00:01:25.480 day. It is Tuesday, May twenty eighth. It is the start of 17 00:01:25.560 --> 00:01:27.120 the twenty twenty four World Series of Pokers, so we're going to hit on 18 00:01:27.159 --> 00:01:34.000 that, the start of the WSP, the greatest tournament series in the world. 19 00:01:34.040 --> 00:01:38.879 We're going to recap and talk about twenty five K Fantasy because we had 20 00:01:38.920 --> 00:01:44.439 the draft last night. Jim tim was the auctioneer. He's saying yeeha because 21 00:01:44.439 --> 00:01:48.799 he was dressed in a cowboy get up head to toe, including his brand 22 00:01:49.000 --> 00:01:53.879 new cowboy boots that he is complaining that his feet hurt. Now I had 23 00:01:53.920 --> 00:02:00.519 a team alongside my co owner Matt Clark. I feel really good. We'll 24 00:02:00.560 --> 00:02:04.040 get into all that sort of stuff later as we try and defend our title. 25 00:02:04.640 --> 00:02:08.439 There were some I guess, eleventh hour announcements from the World Series of 26 00:02:08.439 --> 00:02:14.400 Poker over Memorial Day weekend heading into the start of the twenty twenty four World 27 00:02:14.439 --> 00:02:19.719 Series of Poker. What was it Friday? They announced the WSP online bracelets, 28 00:02:20.199 --> 00:02:23.199 So we can, you know, hit on that because it feels a 29 00:02:23.199 --> 00:02:27.879 little bit more beefed up than in years past. So there's that, There 30 00:02:28.000 --> 00:02:32.400 is changes to the World Series of Poker Player of the Year award, and 31 00:02:32.400 --> 00:02:38.400 then how that's going to be scored, which is I guess long time coming, 32 00:02:38.439 --> 00:02:39.479 and I know a lot of players have been talking about it. If 33 00:02:39.520 --> 00:02:44.639 you guys were with us last year, we talked with Sean Deep on one 34 00:02:44.680 --> 00:02:47.319 of the episodes from the World Series of Poker, and Sean Deep spoke pretty 35 00:02:47.400 --> 00:02:52.719 much at length and pretty honestly about how he would like to see the Player 36 00:02:52.759 --> 00:02:55.199 of the Year scoring formula change, you know, maybe get some prizes in 37 00:02:55.240 --> 00:02:59.039 there, all that sort of stuff. So there are some changes coming that 38 00:02:59.159 --> 00:03:02.800 way. We'll we'll hit on those. And then we got some new hats 39 00:03:02.840 --> 00:03:06.560 coming. They've been ordered, they're on the way. I don't know why 40 00:03:06.560 --> 00:03:08.199 they're gonna get here, but they're on the way. We have some old 41 00:03:08.199 --> 00:03:12.639 hats that are hopefully going to hold us over I don't know about tomorrow. 42 00:03:12.919 --> 00:03:15.360 Tomorrow, I feel like we're gonna go through two dozen of them, but 43 00:03:15.439 --> 00:03:17.159 whatever, well, we don't have two dozens. That's gonna be ahure and 44 00:03:17.159 --> 00:03:20.840 we're gonna have to have people fight over them. We have Todd protect us. 45 00:03:20.960 --> 00:03:23.479 So if you don't, if you're not a hat person, we do 46 00:03:23.520 --> 00:03:24.599 what we did last year. If you see us, you want a hat 47 00:03:24.759 --> 00:03:28.960 type of thing, just give us like your mail interest and we'll get one 48 00:03:28.960 --> 00:03:31.719 to you, and we have a new giveaway, new giveaway that we're gonna 49 00:03:31.759 --> 00:03:35.800 be doing for the summer. So yeah, I'm excited to be here. 50 00:03:35.840 --> 00:03:38.319 I know Tim is excited to be here. As we said, the buzzes 51 00:03:38.400 --> 00:03:43.680 is starting to build this the section of where we are in Horseshoe. You 52 00:03:43.680 --> 00:03:47.360 can't even get back here. You can't go past the elevators to the Horseshoe 53 00:03:49.120 --> 00:03:52.919 Tower if it's blocked off. You know, obviously we can come back here 54 00:03:52.960 --> 00:03:57.319 with the production passes and the access baby. The production team is still very 55 00:03:57.439 --> 00:04:03.960 much setting up the main feature table set, which has a I don't know 56 00:04:03.960 --> 00:04:09.000 what would you call it. It's not really like a full makeover. It's 57 00:04:09.039 --> 00:04:12.080 like a touch up in a way, you know that you know there's an 58 00:04:12.159 --> 00:04:16.120 update, Yeah, you know it's there's some some fresh new graphic LEDs that 59 00:04:16.160 --> 00:04:19.839 are taking the place of what were banners in the past. There's some new 60 00:04:20.240 --> 00:04:25.480 you know, signage around the outside of the tables within this room. If 61 00:04:25.519 --> 00:04:29.639 you remember the Horseshoe feature table set up, that's been pushed back and been 62 00:04:29.680 --> 00:04:33.480 expanded to be a little bit larger. I think generally that alone, the 63 00:04:33.519 --> 00:04:36.120 Horseshoe was like smack dab in the middle of the room. The horseshoe table 64 00:04:36.160 --> 00:04:40.600 is what we called it. That being pushed back really like opened up the 65 00:04:40.639 --> 00:04:45.720 space I feel like in here, So a bit more space in this horseshoe 66 00:04:46.120 --> 00:04:48.199 event center, is that what it's called. We need to come up with 67 00:04:48.240 --> 00:04:53.480 a name for this room. We are the greatest podcast, the greatest poker 68 00:04:53.519 --> 00:04:56.519 podcast in the world, so we need to put it on ourselves to come 69 00:04:56.600 --> 00:04:58.600 up with this. 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It is now time for 85 00:06:09.720 --> 00:06:13.079 a brand spanking, spiffy and new shout out to some of our most loyal 86 00:06:13.160 --> 00:06:15.920 listeners who likely got a bit too lucky on the way to the spotlight. 87 00:06:16.439 --> 00:06:20.079 You're listening to the number one poker show in the land, and it's time 88 00:06:20.120 --> 00:06:26.319 for a new edition of the poker Go podcast. Community Cards, All right, 89 00:06:26.319 --> 00:06:30.079 community cards starting off episode one at the WSP you're just hitting us with 90 00:06:30.160 --> 00:06:33.079 the community cards. Of course, what do you have? You know, 91 00:06:33.399 --> 00:06:36.040 I'm terrible in names, but I want to shout out the guy that was 92 00:06:36.040 --> 00:06:40.120 playing the car. I'm so bad at people introduced me all the time, 93 00:06:40.759 --> 00:06:43.600 like introduce themselves to me all the time, or like you just meet people 94 00:06:43.639 --> 00:06:46.519 you go to meetings for work, whatever you meet, but I never remember 95 00:06:46.560 --> 00:06:49.079 anyone's goddamn name. I'm so bad. And every time I come out of 96 00:06:49.240 --> 00:06:53.120 one of those interactions, I tell myself, I gotta get better. I 97 00:06:53.160 --> 00:06:56.680 do the thing where it's like, hey, my name's I repeat it. 98 00:06:57.120 --> 00:07:01.439 I'm just we must I'm just a scatter brained fuck. Okay, I'm all 99 00:07:01.480 --> 00:07:05.800 over the place. Continue please with It was a guy playing the casino employees 100 00:07:05.800 --> 00:07:09.079 event. He shouted out, as we're doing a little too. I was 101 00:07:09.079 --> 00:07:13.480 giving our new social media manager, Dylan little tour around you know the areas, 102 00:07:13.519 --> 00:07:15.040 and he said, hey man, it's in the podcast. I need 103 00:07:15.040 --> 00:07:17.639 one of these lucky hats. Well, I came back here, you know, 104 00:07:17.759 --> 00:07:19.920 like we touched on, we have a few hats. I grabbed a 105 00:07:19.959 --> 00:07:23.839 hat. I also grabbed one of these card protectors, went back for another 106 00:07:23.879 --> 00:07:26.879 walk. He was still there, still battoning. Gave him one of that, 107 00:07:27.759 --> 00:07:29.839 so shout out to him. I hope he's stilling the employees event. 108 00:07:29.879 --> 00:07:33.360 I hope he takes it down. If you see me again, please come 109 00:07:33.399 --> 00:07:36.199 back and tell me your name. Because I never even asked, so that 110 00:07:36.240 --> 00:07:39.759 I forgot. I just never asked which is worse. Actually, I think 111 00:07:39.879 --> 00:07:44.839 that's bad. Next shout out. We touched on this a couple of episodes 112 00:07:44.879 --> 00:07:48.639 ago. We gave a hat to a guy that was playing the Aria Daily. 113 00:07:49.160 --> 00:07:53.879 He ended up being in a photo if anyone goes to feel Homeless Twitter, 114 00:07:54.120 --> 00:07:57.519 I believe he has a photo with Brian Hastings and in the background there 115 00:07:57.560 --> 00:08:01.879 is a guy wearing a Pokego podcast. It's very hard to notice, but 116 00:08:01.120 --> 00:08:07.439 he's there. His name is Michael. He won the win one hundred and 117 00:08:07.439 --> 00:08:11.399 sixty dollars Nihily for thirty five hundred dollars and sir, that is the first 118 00:08:11.680 --> 00:08:18.240 Lucky Hat run good for the summer. It started come get these hats, 119 00:08:18.279 --> 00:08:22.160 guys. It started a new hats Whenever Donnie decides to tell us when the 120 00:08:22.199 --> 00:08:26.000 shipping is going to I don't know when they're coming. I just know that 121 00:08:26.040 --> 00:08:30.000 we paid for them, so I hope that they're here soon. We went 122 00:08:30.040 --> 00:08:33.200 with a new provider this year. Hopefully the hats turn out great. Usually 123 00:08:33.240 --> 00:08:37.120 everything that you order, you know through through you know companies that do custom 124 00:08:37.159 --> 00:08:41.440 stuff or whatever. It usually always turns out very nice. But I'm always 125 00:08:41.519 --> 00:08:45.399 like worried. You're just always worried, right, so yeah, anyway, 126 00:08:46.200 --> 00:08:50.519 Day one of the twenty twenty four World Series of Poker, getting things underway 127 00:08:50.559 --> 00:08:54.639 here at Horseshoe and Paris, Las Vegas. As I mentioned a little bit 128 00:08:54.639 --> 00:08:58.240 earlier off the top of the show, everything today is taking place over on 129 00:08:58.279 --> 00:09:01.840 the Paris side of things. The first event to kick off, event number 130 00:09:01.840 --> 00:09:07.639 one on the schedule, was the five thousand dollars Champions Reunion No Limit hold 131 00:09:07.679 --> 00:09:13.320 Them so kind of a fun new event. Did involve a gimmick, but 132 00:09:13.600 --> 00:09:16.559 you know, I like this one. Drew what about five hundred runners for 133 00:09:20.480 --> 00:09:24.679 Tim and I were just over there at the end of the final break before 134 00:09:24.720 --> 00:09:28.799 redg close, So we'll see if the numbers are currently up to date, 135 00:09:28.879 --> 00:09:31.440 but no change. But it was four we were, yeah, so good 136 00:09:31.559 --> 00:09:37.279 number for an opening five K. So what do you freeze out in this 137 00:09:37.320 --> 00:09:41.000 one? So what they did is, if you are a w SP Main 138 00:09:41.080 --> 00:09:45.000 event champion, you come out and you want to play this event, you 139 00:09:45.000 --> 00:09:48.320 play for free. Okay. That's part number one of the gimmick to this 140 00:09:48.399 --> 00:09:52.240 event. And I'm not saying gimmick in a negative way. It's just the 141 00:09:52.799 --> 00:09:56.320 stick that this event had. The second part is if you play and you 142 00:09:56.360 --> 00:10:01.519 are a main event champion, you have a bounty on your head. The 143 00:10:01.559 --> 00:10:07.159 player that knocks you out gets a ten thousand dollars seat into this year's WISIP 144 00:10:07.440 --> 00:10:11.360 main event. So fun little twist there. If you're a mainuman champion, 145 00:10:11.399 --> 00:10:15.720 I'm sure plenty of people are going to be gunning for you at the table. 146 00:10:16.440 --> 00:10:18.799 I was talking to Greg Merson on the recent break, you know, 147 00:10:18.840 --> 00:10:22.960 he was saying that somebody called in all In earlier going bounty hunting against him, 148 00:10:22.960 --> 00:10:26.840 which I'm sure was the case for many of those main event champions. 149 00:10:28.639 --> 00:10:33.440 Best dressed of those maineman champions was by far Tom McAvoy. What did you 150 00:10:33.480 --> 00:10:35.879 see what he was wearing? Did you see Hawk Seeds shot from nineteen seventies 151 00:10:35.919 --> 00:10:39.879 seed looked like he got that tight I shirt out of the garbage bit. 152 00:10:41.000 --> 00:10:45.080 Tom McAvoy looked incredible. He shape remember he used to rock a big beard 153 00:10:45.159 --> 00:10:50.759 right last few year. Looked he looked like I know in Antonio Brego had 154 00:10:50.799 --> 00:10:52.679 the photo team go over there and do some like portrait shots with him, 155 00:10:52.720 --> 00:10:56.919 and he's got to get those out on social media to here. Oh he 156 00:10:56.919 --> 00:11:01.080 does, okay, yeah, because I mean McAvoy looks like he looks old 157 00:11:01.080 --> 00:11:03.440 school Vegas in a lot of those photos, which is kind of fitting being 158 00:11:03.440 --> 00:11:05.960 here at the Horseshoe, you know, kind of in a way turning back 159 00:11:07.000 --> 00:11:11.200 time. Wies of poker. Yeah, pink cowboy hat, pink sure, 160 00:11:11.360 --> 00:11:16.559 I mean he's sink tie. Yeah, he's definitely coming to crush the The 161 00:11:16.559 --> 00:11:20.960 other player that was pretty decked out as a maniment champion, Queen win oh 162 00:11:22.720 --> 00:11:26.440 bling. I mean, I think he spent all of the money that he 163 00:11:26.480 --> 00:11:28.639 wanted the man have been on what he was jewel, I mean he there 164 00:11:28.720 --> 00:11:33.200 was. I mean it could be fake, like that jacket could be bedazzled, 165 00:11:33.200 --> 00:11:35.879 the watch could have been faked, but he was. He was shining. 166 00:11:35.000 --> 00:11:39.759 Let me me, I don't think fake. I don't think it's fake. 167 00:11:39.960 --> 00:11:43.159 It was. It was for sure shining. And then so that was 168 00:11:43.200 --> 00:11:48.279 the five thousand dollars Champions Reunion. I first place should be what about four 169 00:11:48.559 --> 00:11:52.159 K, three fifty. It's a little bit tricky because if you go to 170 00:11:52.279 --> 00:12:01.039 wip dot com and you just plug the numbers into the payout calculator, which 171 00:12:01.399 --> 00:12:03.200 Tim informed me about a half an hour ago, that is like this new 172 00:12:03.200 --> 00:12:09.320 addition to domizzabe dot com that you can check out. Not sure if they 173 00:12:09.639 --> 00:12:13.840 took the money out of the prize pool that is being taken out for the 174 00:12:15.519 --> 00:12:18.799 ten thousand dollars main event seats for the bounties. Actually, how many main 175 00:12:18.879 --> 00:12:22.320 event champs played? Do you think? No? Idea, let's say fifteen, 176 00:12:22.399 --> 00:12:26.320 So let's reduce the players by fifteen because I'll give us semi accurate no, 177 00:12:26.039 --> 00:12:28.759 by thirty. Yeah, we're going to put four sixty two in. 178 00:12:30.159 --> 00:12:33.480 I'm going to calculate that. It says first should be math live on the 179 00:12:33.480 --> 00:12:35.799 podcast. This is a disaster waiting to happen. Come on first should be 180 00:12:35.799 --> 00:12:39.519 about four to seventeen. Yeah, you know, four hundred times, so 181 00:12:39.679 --> 00:12:43.360 it'll be It's a good payday, good good way to kick off the summer. 182 00:12:43.000 --> 00:12:46.399 This is a three day tournament. This tournament event number one, the 183 00:12:46.399 --> 00:12:50.080 five thousand dollars Champions Reunion Nola man Holden will be the first live stream that 184 00:12:50.159 --> 00:12:56.399 poker Go does that is coming up on Thursday. So on Thursday, May 185 00:12:56.480 --> 00:13:01.320 thirtieth, poker Go will be live streaming the final table the five thousand dollars 186 00:13:01.600 --> 00:13:05.759 Champions Reunion. As always, you guys can use the promo Code podcast if 187 00:13:05.759 --> 00:13:09.679 you want to sign up to poker Go. That promo code will save you 188 00:13:09.759 --> 00:13:13.200 twenty dollars off your first year of a new annual subscription. If you are 189 00:13:13.240 --> 00:13:16.440 a monthly on a quarterly subscriber, you can't upgrade to annual. You can 190 00:13:16.559 --> 00:13:20.480 use the promo code when you upgrade, and that's how you can lock in 191 00:13:20.639 --> 00:13:24.879 the best price that we are currently offering. The other event that was running 192 00:13:26.600 --> 00:13:30.120 is the five hundred dollars Casino Employees Event. Do you know how many entries 193 00:13:30.240 --> 00:13:33.360 that got? I can tell you in a matter of seconds. That would 194 00:13:33.360 --> 00:13:37.919 be great. Now I can't because the website WSP dot com is not telling 195 00:13:37.960 --> 00:13:41.799 me. It says four hundred and seventy seven remained. So poker News says 196 00:13:43.080 --> 00:13:48.600 eleven ninety four. That seems very big. Last year was oney fifteen? 197 00:13:48.120 --> 00:13:50.799 Was that a record? I had no idea if it was a record last 198 00:13:50.879 --> 00:13:56.600 year, unprepared in that regard. But that's a pretty big uptick year over 199 00:13:56.679 --> 00:14:01.000 year, which is great to see. So yeah, that that's a really 200 00:14:01.039 --> 00:14:03.720 good sign. A lot of the just go quickly. Going back to the 201 00:14:03.759 --> 00:14:07.639 five thousand dollars Champions of Union, A lot of big names were out there 202 00:14:07.639 --> 00:14:09.519 in the mix, and you know, Daniel Mgaranney was out there. I 203 00:14:09.559 --> 00:14:13.120 didn't see Phil Helmuth, did you play? You played, okay? Phil 204 00:14:13.120 --> 00:14:18.440 Helmuth was out there, Daniel mcgranney, Jeremy osmas Sean Deeve, Tim's New 205 00:14:18.600 --> 00:14:20.879 you know, Mortal Enemy. Who else was out there, Daniel Weineman, 206 00:14:22.000 --> 00:14:26.919 Scott Blumstein, you already mentioned Tom McAvoy, Huck Seed was out there. 207 00:14:26.960 --> 00:14:31.120 Of course. I saw Greg Merson. Spindel said, cry out of me, 208 00:14:31.360 --> 00:14:35.159 Scott Bloomstein, John Sin, Jamie Goad, money Maker. Yeah, 209 00:14:35.159 --> 00:14:39.759 that was some of the champions. Ryan re non main event Champs, Ramzobian 210 00:14:39.799 --> 00:14:43.679 out there, Jean Riba, Balaan, Alex Livingston just looking over the chip 211 00:14:43.720 --> 00:14:48.279 counts of people that were Jeffrey Platt. Jeffrey Platt was out there and then 212 00:14:48.279 --> 00:14:50.879 out he busted. Yeah, well you rantens into. I think King's what 213 00:14:50.879 --> 00:14:56.000 are you gonna do? Cooler? Dan Shack, Ryan Lang, Tony Kuzano 214 00:14:56.080 --> 00:15:00.799 out there and his Trump shirt. David Williams is out there, Brad Owen, 215 00:15:00.879 --> 00:15:05.240 Frank Fernaro. I saw rampage A ka Ethan Yeao, he's out there 216 00:15:05.320 --> 00:15:09.279 as well. Oh. I see Dan Shack and Daniel Shack are in the 217 00:15:09.360 --> 00:15:13.480 chip counts. When is it from as off to a roaring start over there 218 00:15:13.480 --> 00:15:18.519 on the updates, Darren Elias out there, Jason Mercier's I feel like that'sho 219 00:15:18.519 --> 00:15:22.000 told kind of be headlining news. Jason, is he back? He walked 220 00:15:22.039 --> 00:15:26.960 into the draft yesterday, which is like he could just be out here, 221 00:15:26.000 --> 00:15:30.039 like, you know, playing some cash whatever, you know, But then 222 00:15:30.080 --> 00:15:31.879 he's here for the five K. I wanted to announce his name and him 223 00:15:31.919 --> 00:15:35.440 be in the room. I like doing that, but he had left by 224 00:15:35.440 --> 00:15:41.360 the time someone David Coleman's out there playing. I saw Kristen Fox and I 225 00:15:41.360 --> 00:15:45.519 didn't see Alex foxon. I did see him him, Maria Jes out there. 226 00:15:45.519 --> 00:15:48.879 I saw Victoria Liftschitz out there. I saw Maria Kannakova out there, 227 00:15:48.759 --> 00:15:52.159 Julian Martini. So you know, all all all the big name guys and 228 00:15:52.240 --> 00:15:58.360 gales are out there battling, getting things started early, and then you know 229 00:15:58.399 --> 00:16:03.399 all the casino employees are over there lasting in the five hour. No. 230 00:16:03.480 --> 00:16:07.679 I have not played any reason behind that. I don't care to. Yeah, 231 00:16:07.519 --> 00:16:12.200 okay, my real reason is that I like to go to be a 232 00:16:12.240 --> 00:16:15.279 hot take. I can already tell it's not a hot take. I mean 233 00:16:15.320 --> 00:16:21.559 part of it is I guess. I guess it's it's eighty percent that where 234 00:16:22.039 --> 00:16:26.480 the casino employees event falls in the schedule. It's always right at the beginning. 235 00:16:26.159 --> 00:16:30.600 And I've said it before, I've said it on this podcast. I'll 236 00:16:30.600 --> 00:16:37.759 say it again. I will always prioritize work above play when it comes to 237 00:16:37.799 --> 00:16:41.039 poker. I work in poker. I was always prioritize my job. I 238 00:16:41.200 --> 00:16:45.679 take my job very seriously. I like to try and do the best job 239 00:16:45.720 --> 00:16:48.039 that I can, and it helps me to be able to get into a 240 00:16:48.039 --> 00:16:53.960 good flow for the summer, not like doing anything, but working for like 241 00:16:55.000 --> 00:16:59.279 the first week or two, just like it's just you come here, there's 242 00:16:59.320 --> 00:17:02.840 a lot going on. We're working long hours. Like you gotta like spend 243 00:17:03.039 --> 00:17:04.839 a couple of days, like getting your feet wet again, Like where are 244 00:17:04.880 --> 00:17:07.240 we setting up? Can I set up my computer where I want? Can 245 00:17:07.279 --> 00:17:11.119 I do all this sort of stuff? You know? Like well walk around, 246 00:17:11.200 --> 00:17:12.640 see what's new from year to year? Like where do I go? 247 00:17:12.799 --> 00:17:15.799 How do I get there? Like you know, I know a lot of 248 00:17:15.799 --> 00:17:18.240 the stuff you know, and it comes back naturally. But you know, 249 00:17:18.519 --> 00:17:22.720 it's like I liking it too. Every year when I start watching football the 250 00:17:22.839 --> 00:17:27.759 NFL, because I'm a guy who watches multiple games like at one time, 251 00:17:27.920 --> 00:17:30.319 right, I have multiple screens up, right, like you know now on 252 00:17:30.359 --> 00:17:34.599 YouTube TV you can put the quad box up. And but like first week, 253 00:17:34.640 --> 00:17:37.519 I'm like, my my mind's going all over the place. My eyes 254 00:17:37.559 --> 00:17:40.039 are going all over the place, you know. But by like maybe halfway 255 00:17:40.039 --> 00:17:41.240 through week one, maybe week two, I'm like, okay, like I 256 00:17:41.279 --> 00:17:44.519 know, like out of the corner of my eye can see like, okay, 257 00:17:44.559 --> 00:17:45.680 there's a pass being thrown over here. But I can still watch over 258 00:17:45.680 --> 00:17:48.039 here, like you know, you pick that up. Yeah, So it's 259 00:17:48.079 --> 00:17:52.279 just like it's just coming out here getting your feedway. Which I think if 260 00:17:52.319 --> 00:17:55.839 I was a poker player, right, I don't think that I would just 261 00:17:56.559 --> 00:17:59.279 if that was my job. I don't think I would just come from wherever 262 00:17:59.279 --> 00:18:03.640 I would be coming from and just show up and like play the World Series. 263 00:18:03.680 --> 00:18:07.799 I would probably come a week early. I would, you know, 264 00:18:07.000 --> 00:18:11.799 play some events around town, even just go play some casts just to like 265 00:18:11.240 --> 00:18:15.720 sit down, feel chips, you know, like have other people look at 266 00:18:15.759 --> 00:18:18.960 you, you look at them, like all that sort of stuff, just 267 00:18:18.000 --> 00:18:22.359 to get in the feel of playing poker again. Like I wouldn't just show 268 00:18:22.440 --> 00:18:23.839 up. So that's how I take it as it comes to work. And 269 00:18:23.839 --> 00:18:26.680 then the other twenty percent is I just don't really care to play the hell 270 00:18:26.720 --> 00:18:30.480 with it? I look to be honest, I'm a big fan of the 271 00:18:30.480 --> 00:18:34.079 employees' event. I'm big fans of ladies events. I think it's a great 272 00:18:34.440 --> 00:18:38.720 event for these employees to come together play have fun. Personally, I've played 273 00:18:38.720 --> 00:18:42.640 it once. I'm kind of more in the way your twenty percent is more 274 00:18:42.720 --> 00:18:45.920 is my ninety five percent? Right? I don't really care to play it. 275 00:18:48.079 --> 00:18:48.880 Yeah, it's not that I do like that. I think it's a 276 00:18:48.880 --> 00:18:52.319 good event. I just I just don't like you know, I mean, 277 00:18:52.359 --> 00:18:56.119 it's it's a fast structure. It's kind of whatever. So you know, 278 00:18:56.119 --> 00:18:57.400 I do like that. It is the first time if I'm gonna play a 279 00:18:57.440 --> 00:19:03.480 fast structure, like I'll play the Colossus because then I can winning foreigner, 280 00:19:03.559 --> 00:19:08.279 K you know agree with that? That that sort of thing for the funny 281 00:19:10.000 --> 00:19:11.599 A funny thought I have. This is like kind of an a side thing. 282 00:19:11.920 --> 00:19:15.400 I always walk through the casino employees and I'm like, what casino are 283 00:19:15.440 --> 00:19:18.519 you an employee of? Like? What are you? Who do you work 284 00:19:18.559 --> 00:19:22.079 for? Well, that's funny. It's like very it's casino employee is very, 285 00:19:22.240 --> 00:19:26.519 very lenient. So yeah, when I was walking with Dylan and he 286 00:19:26.640 --> 00:19:29.839 was like, I'm like, I'm pretty sure you only play poker? What 287 00:19:29.920 --> 00:19:32.279 are you like? What are you doing? Well, I'm going to name 288 00:19:32.279 --> 00:19:37.160 some names. That don't name some names, but he was like, who 289 00:19:37.160 --> 00:19:37.759 gets to play this? And I was trying to explain, you know, 290 00:19:37.839 --> 00:19:44.640 it's casino employees, it's dealers, but they're a little leading media leaning on 291 00:19:44.680 --> 00:19:48.000 the definition this media, this ex employees. Basically, you just gotta provide 292 00:19:48.039 --> 00:19:52.240 a badge of some So there was multiple that who I would deem as poker 293 00:19:52.240 --> 00:19:56.279 players in this event, but they use a little cur like they used what 294 00:19:56.359 --> 00:20:00.200 is it? I don't know. They brought the ten ninety nine slips from 295 00:20:00.599 --> 00:20:03.240 they did a want off freelance gig for me. You're a professional poker player, 296 00:20:03.240 --> 00:20:07.759 but you're a prop. Can you play? I mean that's probably more 297 00:20:07.920 --> 00:20:12.000 that's yes, more a casino employee than like some of the people you're talking 298 00:20:12.039 --> 00:20:15.279 about that like just get some random badge to like be a vlogger at some 299 00:20:15.319 --> 00:20:18.160 stop. You're a casino employee if you play, I think, yeah, 300 00:20:18.200 --> 00:20:23.640 So that's that's interesting. Place still exists, No way, I think so. 301 00:20:23.839 --> 00:20:27.920 But I actually think that I even saw like an advertisement like a couple 302 00:20:27.920 --> 00:20:30.160 of weeks ago in Vegas. I don't know where it was, and might 303 00:20:30.200 --> 00:20:32.839 I don't think it was in Vegas. It might have been somewhere else. 304 00:20:33.200 --> 00:20:34.359 It might have even been Texas or so, I don't. I don't know, 305 00:20:34.400 --> 00:20:40.319 but but yeah, I either like I either saw an advertisement for it 306 00:20:40.400 --> 00:20:42.599 or somebody told me about it something or something. Yeah, I don't remember 307 00:20:42.640 --> 00:20:48.000 exactly, but they probably exist, not not certainly as much as they they 308 00:20:48.000 --> 00:20:49.720 once did, but they probably do exist to some extent. I mean, 309 00:20:49.759 --> 00:20:55.039 I think you you kind of need some people if you're you know, a 310 00:20:55.119 --> 00:20:59.359 lower volume room or you're an upstart room or anything like that. So so 311 00:20:59.480 --> 00:21:02.599 yeah, so that's the casino employees went, do we know first place in 312 00:21:02.640 --> 00:21:03.599 that one? That's a two day I haven't right that one's been a wrap 313 00:21:03.759 --> 00:21:07.359 up tomorrow. That one's event two on the schedule. But that one will 314 00:21:07.400 --> 00:21:12.200 be the first bracelet awarded at the twenty twenty four World Series of prober There 315 00:21:12.200 --> 00:21:18.000 are ninety nine of them, ninety nine live bracelets, and then there's thirty 316 00:21:18.160 --> 00:21:22.640 online on the big WSP dot com site, so that includes Nevada and New 317 00:21:22.720 --> 00:21:27.839 Jersey and now Michigan. That was the big news that came out on Friday, 318 00:21:27.920 --> 00:21:32.559 Michigan joining the player pool. And then Pennsylvania is going to have its 319 00:21:32.599 --> 00:21:37.359 own separate bracelets, although I don't recall how many they're having. It's probably 320 00:21:37.359 --> 00:21:41.920 like ten or something, who knows. I mean, Pennsylvania's a decent sized 321 00:21:41.880 --> 00:21:45.720 market. They don't have the payouts list that I don't see for the event 322 00:21:45.839 --> 00:21:53.920 number two bumber? What else? I mean, what is like your first 323 00:21:53.920 --> 00:22:00.759 impression of this year? I will say that I feel like I've never felt 324 00:22:00.960 --> 00:22:07.559 more so like we just left. I feel that more than every I honestly 325 00:22:07.559 --> 00:22:11.640 feel like the twenty twenty three WSP was last week. I don't know, 326 00:22:11.720 --> 00:22:15.039 I don't know. I definitely don't feel that, you know, so yeah, 327 00:22:15.559 --> 00:22:21.039 I mean, what are your first impressions? My first impressions is that 328 00:22:21.559 --> 00:22:25.160 I don't feel like it's here yet because we've only been in one room. 329 00:22:26.039 --> 00:22:29.079 You know, we haven't ventured over here to the horseshoe. We're still setting 330 00:22:29.119 --> 00:22:32.400 up the stage. When they turn the lights on in forty eight hours and 331 00:22:32.440 --> 00:22:34.480 the cameras are rolling and this room is full of players. That's when I 332 00:22:34.680 --> 00:22:37.839 kind of really feel like it's the WSP, and you know it will be 333 00:22:37.880 --> 00:22:41.279 the weekend coming up. We'll have the big you know, mystery millions coming 334 00:22:41.359 --> 00:22:45.079 up. That when I see the hallways full, when I see every room 335 00:22:45.119 --> 00:22:49.519 full, when I see you know, messuses everywhere, when I see absolute 336 00:22:49.599 --> 00:22:53.000 chaos, I know we're at the WSP and we're not there yet for me. 337 00:22:53.039 --> 00:22:56.400 So I'm still walking up. I'm warming up to the WSP right now. 338 00:22:57.200 --> 00:23:00.920 The most chaotic thing that I think I see saw today was somebody tweeted 339 00:23:00.920 --> 00:23:04.880 a photo about somebody at their table like four bet jammed all in and then 340 00:23:04.920 --> 00:23:08.119 went to the bathroom. I did say that, I mean, what are 341 00:23:08.119 --> 00:23:12.680 you doing? He's all in? I mean, so I don't think you 342 00:23:12.680 --> 00:23:15.920 can win the hand, Just chime in real quickly. Four hundred ninety three 343 00:23:17.000 --> 00:23:21.559 entrants in the Champions Reunion Prize FOROL two point zero four seven million, top 344 00:23:21.640 --> 00:23:25.400 seventy four players in the money, the winner four hundred and eight thousand, 345 00:23:26.119 --> 00:23:29.400 four hundred and sixty eight dollars a year. We were pretty spot on twenty 346 00:23:29.440 --> 00:23:32.000 two main event bounty, so that's probably better than I think a lot of 347 00:23:32.039 --> 00:23:33.559 people would have bet on Yeah, I would I would have I would have 348 00:23:33.559 --> 00:23:37.720 bet like seventeen if I had to pick a number. So twenty two is 349 00:23:37.720 --> 00:23:41.200 good. Yeah, you know, it's good to see them, see them 350 00:23:41.200 --> 00:23:45.440 out there battling as always. Did they do the prizepol for the casino employees 351 00:23:47.519 --> 00:23:51.759 checking that one at the same time. But yeah, that's my that's kind 352 00:23:51.759 --> 00:23:53.200 of my read on the the World Series. Right now. I'm a little 353 00:23:53.599 --> 00:23:57.680 I need a bit more. I need to see a bit more from everyone 354 00:23:57.799 --> 00:24:03.000 and everything, and I'll be right, well, I will say that you 355 00:24:03.039 --> 00:24:07.079 know, we are we are going to be getting a bit more because you 356 00:24:07.160 --> 00:24:11.480 and I have wandered over to the paraside of things with three or four times 357 00:24:11.480 --> 00:24:18.200 today at least, and we saw the registration line a vale for the what 358 00:24:18.279 --> 00:24:21.440 I can only guess is the five hundred dollars doubles would be Kickoff that is 359 00:24:21.680 --> 00:24:26.920 starting tomorrow, two day event five hundred dollars buying freeze out tournament, appropriately 360 00:24:26.920 --> 00:24:30.960 deemed the Kickoff. Doesn't doesn't have a guarantee on it, you know, 361 00:24:32.039 --> 00:24:37.559 but it is. It is that big public, low buy and opening event. 362 00:24:37.759 --> 00:24:41.640 In a way, it's sort of the it's sort of an appetizer for 363 00:24:41.680 --> 00:24:45.440 what is to come, which is the one thousand dollars buy in Mystery Millions, 364 00:24:45.880 --> 00:24:48.799 which is coming up this weekend. So, you know, I think 365 00:24:48.839 --> 00:24:53.119 a lot of people that are coming out, not all of them, but 366 00:24:53.200 --> 00:24:56.920 you know a lot of people that are probably coming out to fire that that 367 00:24:56.000 --> 00:25:00.759 Mystery Millions might come a day or two early and fire the five hundred dollar 368 00:25:00.839 --> 00:25:03.039 kickoff as well. You know, I do know some people who are coming 369 00:25:03.039 --> 00:25:07.400 out just for Mystery Millions and not coming out for the five hundred dollar kickoffs 370 00:25:07.480 --> 00:25:10.880 just because the kickoff, you know, starts on a Wednesday, So Wednesday 371 00:25:10.920 --> 00:25:14.759 Thursday might be hard to come out for for some people who are you know, 372 00:25:14.839 --> 00:25:18.279 of the of the working kind. But but yeah, I think a 373 00:25:18.279 --> 00:25:21.079 lot of people will kind of be double dipping into both of those events. 374 00:25:21.119 --> 00:25:23.680 So I would expect this five hundred dollars kickoff event, even though it is 375 00:25:23.680 --> 00:25:29.559 a freeze out no re entries, I would expect that it's quite quite large. 376 00:25:32.480 --> 00:25:33.839 I don't think there's any are there any plans to play it over here 377 00:25:33.880 --> 00:25:37.039 at all? Or is it just hitting it all fit over It should all 378 00:25:37.039 --> 00:25:40.839 fit over in Paish. One good thing this year that we should touch on 379 00:25:40.880 --> 00:25:44.519 it. I think we touched on it before when Dissip made the kind of 380 00:25:44.519 --> 00:25:48.200 their original announcement about the schedule is the daily deep sex tournaments are taking place 381 00:25:48.240 --> 00:25:55.079 in an entirely new part of the property. If you are aware of the 382 00:25:55.160 --> 00:26:00.720 Horseshoe Casino, you know that the the Horseshoe Poker Room, the Hall of 383 00:26:00.759 --> 00:26:04.119 Fame Poker Room as it is called, is not really near where the tournaments 384 00:26:04.160 --> 00:26:07.559 take place. The tournament takes takes place in the conference Center, Events Center, 385 00:26:07.599 --> 00:26:11.640 ballroom Center, whatever the heck this place is called. And then you 386 00:26:11.680 --> 00:26:15.119 know the poker room, which runs all year round, you know, takes 387 00:26:15.200 --> 00:26:19.240 place kind of on the other side of the casino floor. But if you 388 00:26:19.319 --> 00:26:23.039 are looking at the Hall of Fame Poker Room, to the right there is 389 00:26:23.079 --> 00:26:27.079 like a little cafe, and then right to the right of the cafe is 390 00:26:27.119 --> 00:26:34.160 an escalator which goes up to some additional conference space which they recently remodeled. 391 00:26:34.559 --> 00:26:41.440 That's where they played the recent WSP Circuit Las Vegas series was up there. 392 00:26:41.599 --> 00:26:48.200 The first room on the first floor of that upper level is called Paris Normandy, 393 00:26:48.279 --> 00:26:52.359 So that's where the deep sacks are taking place. So they're over there 394 00:26:52.480 --> 00:26:56.079 this year, so they're out of the way, so they have that. 395 00:26:56.079 --> 00:27:00.519 That also might be why it seems a little bit less buzzy and here then 396 00:27:00.680 --> 00:27:03.759 it would. You know, there's probably a few hundred people up there playing 397 00:27:03.799 --> 00:27:07.799 those tournaments, and they're not down in the regular tournament area of the ws 398 00:27:07.799 --> 00:27:11.519 APE Bracelet events, so there's not that less foot traffic in the hallways all 399 00:27:11.599 --> 00:27:18.400 that sort of stuff. But it does open up a lot more room in 400 00:27:18.680 --> 00:27:22.480 like the Paris Ballroom. It opens up room obviously here on the horseshoe side, 401 00:27:23.240 --> 00:27:26.759 which means that events like tomorrow's five hundred dollars kickoff, you know, 402 00:27:26.839 --> 00:27:32.599 have all that space. So I think they're just going to jam pack that 403 00:27:32.640 --> 00:27:36.200 ballroom day two of the shouldn't day two move over here? Of the five 404 00:27:36.279 --> 00:27:40.799 k or schedules to move over here. I spoke to some of the big 405 00:27:40.799 --> 00:27:44.440 dogs at WSP, and there may be a little concern that we're going to 406 00:27:44.480 --> 00:27:48.640 be banging and clanging here building as this set is nowhere near done, so 407 00:27:48.680 --> 00:27:52.039 we're going to be banging. They may not put them the day to residing 408 00:27:52.079 --> 00:27:53.839 here. They may keep it in deep cramped in here just to bang and 409 00:27:53.880 --> 00:27:57.079 clang and piss off the players. Why not that's a good phrase, banging 410 00:27:57.079 --> 00:28:07.400 and clanging, banging and playing And all right, yeah, did you do 411 00:28:07.400 --> 00:28:11.960 you have interviews? Buddy? Are we like inserting them? What are we 412 00:28:11.000 --> 00:28:14.720 doing? Come on, let's talk. You know we want to talk about 413 00:28:14.759 --> 00:28:17.359 the w S P p o Y. I'm going you need to talk about 414 00:28:17.359 --> 00:28:21.319 the WPPY, So why don't you tell us? So I'll set the table 415 00:28:21.359 --> 00:28:23.319 and then you can tell us about the change. The table setting I'll do 416 00:28:23.440 --> 00:28:29.079 is that you know, in prior years, the WSP hasn't really had any 417 00:28:29.160 --> 00:28:33.960 rules other than you score points for cashes. They all add up wherever as 418 00:28:33.000 --> 00:28:37.880 the most points at the end of it. Wins online counts, live counts. 419 00:28:37.000 --> 00:28:41.160 That's that there was a period of time when, like WSP, you're 420 00:28:41.319 --> 00:28:44.319 counted in the whole thing. You know some you know, some apac count 421 00:28:44.400 --> 00:28:48.640 you know, people were chasing the chasing the po I all over the world. 422 00:28:48.279 --> 00:28:52.960 It is just Vegas. But now there are some additional changes to the 423 00:28:52.000 --> 00:28:56.160 p o I, so why don't you get into those? They were announced 424 00:28:56.279 --> 00:29:00.720 over the weekend. The first big change is that you need a minimum of 425 00:29:00.759 --> 00:29:04.200 five results, so you win four bracelets. Do nothing else. Bad luck, 426 00:29:04.240 --> 00:29:10.160 bucco, you got no chance. Top ten points results is a new 427 00:29:10.160 --> 00:29:15.279 thing, So it's your top ten best points earning results will qualify for your 428 00:29:15.319 --> 00:29:22.240 total score for POY. And the final thing is that there is only one 429 00:29:22.279 --> 00:29:26.839 WSP online event that will count as part of your ten, so you know 430 00:29:26.839 --> 00:29:30.359 this thirty online bracelet events, but only one of those results will count. 431 00:29:30.039 --> 00:29:34.960 Excluded events as always casino employees, the three seniors events, ladies, and 432 00:29:36.039 --> 00:29:40.720 the tag team. So you know, we're basically going from you can be 433 00:29:40.839 --> 00:29:44.960 all in playing every event trying to get as many points as possible to now 434 00:29:45.000 --> 00:29:48.480 it's your best ten, which is very much you know, kind of follows 435 00:29:48.480 --> 00:29:52.920 in the way like the GPI does their kind of points scoring. They take 436 00:29:52.920 --> 00:29:56.960 the best results. Obviously, they have a lot more criteria such as waiting 437 00:29:57.079 --> 00:30:02.519 per you know, how the results, et cetera. But this is definitely 438 00:30:02.559 --> 00:30:07.359 a pretty big change. It's going to change a lot of people's plans to 439 00:30:07.480 --> 00:30:12.359 you know, chase POY or not chase Pero y now. And I think 440 00:30:12.359 --> 00:30:15.039 there's been a lot of debate, you know, whether it's online on Twitter, 441 00:30:15.319 --> 00:30:18.759 slash x, or just you know, talking to some players or just 442 00:30:18.799 --> 00:30:22.920 even overhearing things. A lot of players are discussing it and discussing what's good, 443 00:30:22.920 --> 00:30:26.599 what's bad, what does it mean for their schedules. And then you 444 00:30:26.640 --> 00:30:30.240 know, obviously, I think the big thing that is a little bit underrated 445 00:30:30.240 --> 00:30:33.200 here is all the POY prop bets. We're so accustomed to these kind of 446 00:30:33.200 --> 00:30:37.400 prop bets with even head to head or you know, I'm taking d versus 447 00:30:37.440 --> 00:30:41.720 Daniel, you know, whatever the action is. Some of that changes now 448 00:30:41.759 --> 00:30:47.400 because of this kind of cap that they're putting on the POY. I like 449 00:30:47.480 --> 00:30:49.039 the cap part of it, your ten best, you know, so, 450 00:30:49.200 --> 00:30:52.240 I mean even if you have ten, you can still go for eleven and 451 00:30:52.279 --> 00:30:56.400 hopefully do better than your worst one, right, So I don't mind that 452 00:30:56.480 --> 00:31:00.000 side of it. I do kind of mind the other side of it, 453 00:31:00.279 --> 00:31:03.279 the five minimum. I mean, what if you win three bracelets cash another 454 00:31:03.319 --> 00:31:07.039 time and said that's it. Yeah, I mean you're just not eligible to 455 00:31:07.079 --> 00:31:11.039 win. Maybe that wouldn't have got your win anyway. I mean, yeah, 456 00:31:11.079 --> 00:31:15.720 I understand, but I mean, yeah, well it could if you 457 00:31:15.799 --> 00:31:19.480 win the two fifty K, one hundred k and the fifty k PLO that 458 00:31:19.559 --> 00:31:25.000 probably deserves you know, maybe the POY. So yeah, that the five 459 00:31:25.119 --> 00:31:27.119 is a little off putting to me. That could have easily just been three 460 00:31:27.160 --> 00:31:32.559 results. I think that's fine, it satisfies everything. I'm okay with the 461 00:31:32.599 --> 00:31:37.440 ten best. Maybe that could have expanded. The one thing I very much 462 00:31:37.480 --> 00:31:41.759 dislike is the online You know, we're doing thirty bracelet events. For example, 463 00:31:41.559 --> 00:31:47.359 Greg Merson twenty twelve would not have been eligible and he won the penultimate 464 00:31:47.359 --> 00:31:51.640 event and event he won the ten K six Max and the WSB main event, 465 00:31:51.680 --> 00:31:53.079 but he only had four cashes that year. I'm sure if we go 466 00:31:53.240 --> 00:31:56.359 back to you on that, you know earlier, there's probably a lot of 467 00:31:56.440 --> 00:32:00.440 cases that I just think five is a lot. Obviously, this rule is 468 00:32:00.440 --> 00:32:02.920 in place, like you don't just want like player of the year is the 469 00:32:02.920 --> 00:32:06.480 guy who wins the main event, you know, like that that That's what 470 00:32:06.559 --> 00:32:08.880 I of course right, and we do the same thing. We do the 471 00:32:08.880 --> 00:32:13.200 same thing on the PGT, but ours is too obviously ours is a much 472 00:32:13.200 --> 00:32:16.960 smaller series. But five would be fine if you maybe expanded the online results, 473 00:32:17.759 --> 00:32:29.000 And I think that's I don't like. I don't like limiting the online 474 00:32:29.039 --> 00:32:37.480 to one. I mean, so they've they've always told us that all bracelets 475 00:32:37.480 --> 00:32:43.119 are equal. Correct, aren't you now saying that all bracelets aren't equal or 476 00:32:43.160 --> 00:32:45.880 all bracelet events aren't equal? Like, isn't that what you're saying? Because 477 00:32:45.920 --> 00:32:50.079 you can only have one of your ten counts. Also, I just think, 478 00:32:50.160 --> 00:32:54.279 like with what they've done with the CP online bracelet schedule this year, 479 00:32:54.319 --> 00:32:59.920 which I really like, they have a lot of really big buying events. 480 00:33:00.079 --> 00:33:05.160 They have one, two, three, four or five events that are lot 481 00:33:05.319 --> 00:33:09.359 online to live hybrids, you know, so like that it's it's really cool. 482 00:33:09.359 --> 00:33:13.920 I mean a thirty two hundred dollars, fifty three d fifty three hundred 483 00:33:13.920 --> 00:33:16.039 dollars ten K, and a thirty two hundred dollars those are the big buying 484 00:33:16.079 --> 00:33:19.440 price points. And they also have some one ks on there. I mean 485 00:33:19.960 --> 00:33:23.319 for online, that's huge. Yeah, that's huge. So like I mean, 486 00:33:23.839 --> 00:33:29.039 yeah, I guess you don't want like or not that you don't want 487 00:33:29.119 --> 00:33:34.599 it. It's less sexy if like, you know, Joe Smith playing out 488 00:33:34.599 --> 00:33:39.599 in New Jersey has a crap ton of BSIP success online only never steps foot 489 00:33:39.640 --> 00:33:44.359 in the horseshoot, right like, and then he wins POI yeah, you 490 00:33:44.400 --> 00:33:49.839 know, so it's it's kind of tricky, right, It could even be 491 00:33:49.960 --> 00:33:53.119 like, you know, maybe you just need in in a way. Maybe 492 00:33:53.160 --> 00:33:58.200 it should be the other way. Maybe you just need one live result, 493 00:33:58.559 --> 00:34:00.400 like you have to be here. Basically, you can't just sit at home 494 00:34:00.440 --> 00:34:05.200 in New Jersey. I don't know. I just I don't know. You'd 495 00:34:05.240 --> 00:34:07.559 have to look at the waiting of the cashes and break it down. I 496 00:34:07.640 --> 00:34:09.559 just think, Look, we've got ninety nine live bracelet events, right, 497 00:34:09.880 --> 00:34:15.119 technically nine of those cashs count for POY. That's ten percent essentially, right, 498 00:34:15.480 --> 00:34:20.599 we got thirty online braces. No, that's ninety percent nine of them 499 00:34:20.639 --> 00:34:27.599 counts. Nine of ninety nine is basically temper right, Sorry for employee, 500 00:34:27.800 --> 00:34:30.840 Sorry sorry for online. This thirty So if we take the same percentage of 501 00:34:30.880 --> 00:34:36.119 ten percent three it should be three, should be nine and three kind of 502 00:34:36.159 --> 00:34:37.400 thing. I think that would be, uh, you know, we just 503 00:34:37.400 --> 00:34:42.400 do top. It could be you need at least x number of live x 504 00:34:42.480 --> 00:34:45.800 number of you know, online maximum. I just I don't. I don't 505 00:34:45.840 --> 00:34:52.000 think there was any sort of issue with like last year, Ian metakusin winning 506 00:34:52.199 --> 00:34:54.360 or having all that success online, Like I don't, I mean he crushed 507 00:34:54.400 --> 00:34:58.280 online. He also had a lot of success live and yeah, giving it 508 00:34:58.519 --> 00:35:01.360 does matter he had one bracelet. He had twenty two cashes nine online best 509 00:35:01.400 --> 00:35:06.519 result was I believe a third place. Famous It wasn't one year Jesus Ferguson 510 00:35:06.599 --> 00:35:08.039 like just going back of the re entry line like over and over again, 511 00:35:08.079 --> 00:35:10.760 like you know, it's like, I mean, come on, you know, 512 00:35:10.920 --> 00:35:15.639 like what are we doing here? So I don't know, I just 513 00:35:15.639 --> 00:35:17.360 feel like it was. I feel like it's a little bit too much of 514 00:35:17.400 --> 00:35:21.719 an over correction, but I mean, overall, I still think there needs 515 00:35:21.840 --> 00:35:24.360 to there was. It's probably it's I think it is for sure better than 516 00:35:24.400 --> 00:35:28.760 what it was, right, Like, I just don't I think like the 517 00:35:28.840 --> 00:35:32.480 constant running around dropping stacks just to get min cash is that sort of stuff 518 00:35:32.519 --> 00:35:36.440 is kind of kind of silly, you know, And I think that's why 519 00:35:36.840 --> 00:35:43.159 there was such a vocalization to get this changed in one way. So I'm 520 00:35:43.239 --> 00:35:47.320 for it. I think the next change that I would like to see or 521 00:35:47.760 --> 00:35:51.840 update, I guess is a better word for the POI is to add some 522 00:35:51.880 --> 00:35:54.920 sort of like big prize to it. Yes, it's like it's it's weird 523 00:35:54.920 --> 00:36:00.679 that the way the way that it gets talked about and celebrate and the fact 524 00:36:00.679 --> 00:36:06.679 that it has like no prize at least in comparison to everything else, is 525 00:36:06.760 --> 00:36:08.920 well, let's okay, let's wind it back and it has technically no but 526 00:36:08.960 --> 00:36:13.639 i'm surprises, yeah, but but not what do you want a Ford Bronco? 527 00:36:14.559 --> 00:36:17.559 Why can't it be one hundred k? Are you paying? No? 528 00:36:17.679 --> 00:36:21.360 Well, like there's enough rate to give a back one hundred k? I 529 00:36:21.360 --> 00:36:25.320 mean come on right, is there not enough break? Probably? Yes, 530 00:36:25.360 --> 00:36:29.519 there's enough break, trust me, there's enough break. I saw those people 531 00:36:29.559 --> 00:36:31.599 over there online. There's enough break. Okay, competent in the kickoff, 532 00:36:31.679 --> 00:36:35.519 yeah, that's the yeah. I look, there's definitely things they could do. 533 00:36:35.760 --> 00:36:37.719 I'm when it comes it is things. I think a prize that like 534 00:36:37.800 --> 00:36:44.440 ten k twenty k is just like it's too small for where where how big 535 00:36:44.480 --> 00:36:46.719 of a prestige they make it? Okay? You know you always talk about 536 00:36:46.800 --> 00:36:51.960 you get a banner? Yeah, you know, cool, big banner. 537 00:36:52.480 --> 00:36:54.840 You know the only other people that have banners are WSB Main Event champions. 538 00:36:54.840 --> 00:36:59.360 It's Main Event champions. Then it's p O Y Yeah, like okay, 539 00:36:59.440 --> 00:37:02.000 well but there's there's no like big prize for POY. What do you get 540 00:37:02.039 --> 00:37:07.159 for main event ten million? Well? Yeah, you've won, you've won 541 00:37:07.280 --> 00:37:10.159 bracelets and millions of dollars winning p Y. But I'm saying even even winning 542 00:37:10.880 --> 00:37:15.960 even winning like the smallest bracelet event, who like you're getting a hunter k. 543 00:37:16.320 --> 00:37:19.519 It's kind of what I saw, man, That's all I'm gonna say. 544 00:37:19.840 --> 00:37:22.159 I'm saying. I feel like you could finago it. I feel like 545 00:37:22.199 --> 00:37:25.440 you could find sponsors something I don't know, but they've tried that before. 546 00:37:25.519 --> 00:37:30.599 Remember a couple of years ago that it was Vivo was the no Limit Player 547 00:37:30.599 --> 00:37:32.039 of the Year sponsor. Yeah, no Player of the Year is all around. 548 00:37:32.480 --> 00:37:35.679 That's how it is. Well, speaking of what you know, I 549 00:37:35.719 --> 00:37:37.320 did, like I did, like Sean Deeve's suggestion last year of like you 550 00:37:37.400 --> 00:37:40.880 just basically put up money to play the players do it? Like that'd be 551 00:37:40.920 --> 00:37:44.639 interesting, you know, you know you touched on some things there, and 552 00:37:44.679 --> 00:37:46.480 like you mentioned before, I did speak to some of the players. I 553 00:37:46.480 --> 00:37:50.599 spoke to Sean Dave, I spoke to Jeremy Osmus, and I spoke to 554 00:37:50.840 --> 00:37:53.920 Daniel mcgaran, who asked him a variety of questions about Player of the Year 555 00:37:53.920 --> 00:37:55.719 because you know, at the end of the day, these are the guys 556 00:37:55.840 --> 00:38:00.519 kind of chasing it. So like our opinion is just opinion, and really, 557 00:38:00.559 --> 00:38:04.000 you know, you've got previous Player of the Year winners. They you've 558 00:38:04.039 --> 00:38:06.960 got, you know, I think Jeremy would be, you know, a 559 00:38:07.000 --> 00:38:09.079 candidate for a Player of the Year if you know, he doesn't want to 560 00:38:09.119 --> 00:38:12.280 jump stacks, right, He's got a couple of kids at home, so 561 00:38:12.639 --> 00:38:15.679 this maybe I was thinking this these rule changes actually great for him. He 562 00:38:15.719 --> 00:38:19.599 may now chase it, so I think it will just you want to just 563 00:38:19.599 --> 00:38:22.480 play all three interviews and then yeah, let's just play all of them. 564 00:38:22.280 --> 00:38:25.519 We'll drop them in here and then we'll come on back and talk some more. 565 00:38:27.320 --> 00:38:30.239 Okay, Danielle. New rules for Player of the Year this year. 566 00:38:30.440 --> 00:38:34.599 Minimum cashs maximum cashes are ten one online. What are your overall thoughts on 567 00:38:34.639 --> 00:38:37.920 it? Well, listen, I wrote a blog in twenty seventeen for Full 568 00:38:37.920 --> 00:38:39.800 Contact Poker where I lined out some of the changes I'd like to see. 569 00:38:40.039 --> 00:38:44.079 One of them was limited the number of cashes to eight or ten, whatever 570 00:38:44.079 --> 00:38:45.599 it is. So I'm very happy to see that. I think it expands 571 00:38:45.639 --> 00:38:49.199 the number of people that can win, and it shouldn't be a situation where 572 00:38:49.639 --> 00:38:52.639 the guys willing to just burn equity, burn money have an advantage in Player 573 00:38:52.639 --> 00:38:55.280 of the Year, which is the case in the old system, like Shaunde 574 00:38:55.320 --> 00:38:59.800 will play three different tournaments, go all in blind. You shouldn't force people 575 00:39:00.079 --> 00:39:02.559 in the race to do that. With the limitation on numbers. Whatever your 576 00:39:02.559 --> 00:39:06.119 tenth cash looks like, it's probably going to be about a min cash, 577 00:39:06.360 --> 00:39:08.239 so there's not any incentive to min cash something to drop. It doesn't add 578 00:39:08.239 --> 00:39:12.280 anything to your total. So it's not just a question of quantity, it's 579 00:39:12.400 --> 00:39:15.559 question of quality, which I think is a great change. Does it change 580 00:39:15.639 --> 00:39:17.880 you all playing schedule a little? It's not going to change my playing schedule 581 00:39:17.880 --> 00:39:22.000 in terms of what I had going in so because I was already planning on 582 00:39:22.039 --> 00:39:24.599 playing all the big ones, the high value ones. I'll still play some 583 00:39:24.639 --> 00:39:28.639 small ones here and there. But it doesn't change for me. But it 584 00:39:28.679 --> 00:39:30.719 does make me feel like I have a much better chance for sure. Actually, 585 00:39:30.760 --> 00:39:35.079 only one cash from online counts, but the study bracelet events this year, 586 00:39:35.440 --> 00:39:37.119 do you think there is value? Maybe you know, maybe next year 587 00:39:37.119 --> 00:39:39.559 adding an online Player of the Year, Yeah, you could do that, 588 00:39:39.599 --> 00:39:43.639 but I think also I wasn't part of the change to make it only one. 589 00:39:43.880 --> 00:39:45.639 I think you could have made it like three to five is the cap 590 00:39:45.679 --> 00:39:49.320 you could use online. I think, you know, with Ian Matakas winning 591 00:39:49.320 --> 00:39:51.800 and he's you know, a very humble, very good guy. Like most 592 00:39:51.840 --> 00:39:54.239 of his wins came like under the radar online nobody knew. It's like, 593 00:39:54.280 --> 00:39:57.760 what the hell this guy's third, four or fifth? You know. So 594 00:39:58.639 --> 00:40:00.960 I think like a few more online cashs would have been fine because there are 595 00:40:00.960 --> 00:40:02.920 some big ones. There's a ten K on there, et cetera. But 596 00:40:04.880 --> 00:40:07.800 I mean, I get it. I think an online would be great. 597 00:40:07.840 --> 00:40:10.159 It's only thirty events though, and I wouldn't care about it. But I'm 598 00:40:10.199 --> 00:40:14.360 standing here with Sean Dave, my favorite person in the world, the best 599 00:40:14.360 --> 00:40:19.519 poker player you've ever met. Maybe there's no maybe. I mean, I'm 600 00:40:19.559 --> 00:40:21.840 the best player player in the world. You couldn't ma anyone better than me. 601 00:40:22.239 --> 00:40:25.239 Twenty five K Fantasy draft auction bids would say something else, but look, 602 00:40:25.239 --> 00:40:28.639 I don't. I mean that was rigged against me. I feel like 603 00:40:28.679 --> 00:40:31.800 there's been a lot of corruption lately. As the commissioner, I think you 604 00:40:31.840 --> 00:40:36.480 should check for the collusion of some teams running the bids up on some players 605 00:40:36.559 --> 00:40:37.880 just for their own vanity. I'll look into a finex yit. But I 606 00:40:37.880 --> 00:40:40.800 want to talk to you right now about Player of the Year. There's been 607 00:40:40.840 --> 00:40:44.400 some changes. I know this is something that you care about, it's something 608 00:40:44.440 --> 00:40:47.480 that you've won, you want to win multiple of these. What are your 609 00:40:47.519 --> 00:40:52.840 initial thoughts on the changes? Well, listen, I know people think I'm 610 00:40:52.880 --> 00:40:58.320 biased because it affects the changes dress effect my winning chances, But I think 611 00:40:58.400 --> 00:41:02.199 the whole the greatest value of POY is to get high stakes, well known 612 00:41:02.239 --> 00:41:07.280 players to play lower stakes tournaments, and by capping the total number of scores, 613 00:41:07.079 --> 00:41:13.440 that really disincentivize top players from playing the biggest field events because very unlikely 614 00:41:13.480 --> 00:41:15.480 you get enough points to be a useful score besides getting two hundred points. 615 00:41:15.880 --> 00:41:20.239 So in general, like if I was strictly going for POY, I would 616 00:41:20.239 --> 00:41:22.880 skip everything that's small, only play the highest buy ins. And I think 617 00:41:23.320 --> 00:41:27.760 for the players I've ran into, they love when I played the three hundred 618 00:41:27.760 --> 00:41:30.719 dollars Gladiator or a five hundred dollars opening tournament. I think that's such a 619 00:41:30.719 --> 00:41:36.079 great experience for the newer players and the lower stakes people to play with names 620 00:41:36.079 --> 00:41:38.920 they've seen on TV and people that you know they've cheered for for the multiple 621 00:41:38.920 --> 00:41:44.880 decades. So I really hate the changes, because I think that that hurts 622 00:41:44.920 --> 00:41:49.320 the player experience of the most important players, which are the first timers and 623 00:41:49.519 --> 00:41:52.440 the recreational players. Is the changes that they've made. Is that something that 624 00:41:52.480 --> 00:41:55.679 affects your schedule coming into this World series? Are you changing your schedule? 625 00:41:55.679 --> 00:42:00.639 You're doing the same thing. So it was going to change my schedule drastically. 626 00:42:00.880 --> 00:42:05.559 And then I made some Fantasy side bets as well as Player of the 627 00:42:05.639 --> 00:42:07.519 Year side bets. So in general, I'm still on a multi table and 628 00:42:07.559 --> 00:42:13.000 kind of treat like the old system because the bets are much larger eavy than 629 00:42:13.519 --> 00:42:15.320 anything else. So but if I was strictly going for Player of the Year 630 00:42:15.320 --> 00:42:19.800 and had no side bets, you would see me in thirty or forty events 631 00:42:19.920 --> 00:42:22.320 as opposed to seven or eighty that I usually play. So that fact alone, 632 00:42:22.360 --> 00:42:29.199 that's tens of thousands of rake less for the World Series. So unfortunately, 633 00:42:29.840 --> 00:42:34.159 some people had some influence and they wanted to give make the changes, 634 00:42:34.199 --> 00:42:37.679 and they went through and I couldn't stop it. There's thirty online bracelet events 635 00:42:37.719 --> 00:42:40.639 this year for this World Series. Only one score counts for the Player of 636 00:42:40.679 --> 00:42:45.360 the Year. There has been some talk on Twitter about maybe there should be 637 00:42:45.400 --> 00:42:47.239 an online Player of the Year. What are your thoughts on that. I 638 00:42:47.280 --> 00:42:52.119 think the more Player of the Year the better. I think there should be 639 00:42:52.519 --> 00:42:54.519 a no limit one. I think there should be a woman's one. I 640 00:42:54.519 --> 00:42:58.280 think should be a high roller one. I think there should be an Omaha 641 00:42:58.280 --> 00:43:00.679 one. I think there should be a low stakes one. I think there's 642 00:43:00.760 --> 00:43:04.079 no reason not to give more Player of the years, especially with the prize 643 00:43:04.159 --> 00:43:07.639 bool being only ten K I would love to just have a ton of them. 644 00:43:07.800 --> 00:43:10.320 How about the Player of the Year for seniors, for fifty plus in 645 00:43:10.400 --> 00:43:15.679 open events? Why not get more people involved? Why not motivate people to 646 00:43:15.719 --> 00:43:20.599 grind more. Why not celebrate different players and give the media more to talk 647 00:43:20.599 --> 00:43:22.360 about. There's seven weeks of the World Series. There's a lot of the 648 00:43:22.400 --> 00:43:25.519 same reporting over and over again. But Player of the Year always is that 649 00:43:25.599 --> 00:43:29.800 one thing that when the right battle goes on with the right players, it 650 00:43:29.840 --> 00:43:31.800 gets all the hype in the world, kind of like the land Entice and 651 00:43:32.000 --> 00:43:37.760 Jeremy Becker's story. So I just all them for content. I'm all for 652 00:43:37.920 --> 00:43:43.039 battling and drama and all the shit that could be there. So regardless of 653 00:43:43.039 --> 00:43:46.039 my own ev decisions or own vanity, I think that there could be a 654 00:43:46.039 --> 00:43:50.800 lot of improvements made to promote poker in a better way. Final question here, 655 00:43:50.840 --> 00:43:52.760 I want you to rule yourself out. I want you to rule a 656 00:43:52.840 --> 00:43:55.119 grondo app who would be your pick right now with the current rules to win 657 00:43:55.159 --> 00:43:58.760 this year? Is w a speak Player of the Year. I'm going with 658 00:43:58.760 --> 00:44:05.760 Scott sever I guess I'll blow up his spot. He made a large fantasy 659 00:44:05.800 --> 00:44:08.199 pohy bet with someone else who would have been my normal pick, because that's 660 00:44:08.199 --> 00:44:12.119 why I bet it. Me and him have a personal poy bet as well. 661 00:44:12.519 --> 00:44:15.159 But you'd like to reveal this name by any chance, Michael Munchik. 662 00:44:15.960 --> 00:44:19.840 So yeah, Munchak was one of the people I wanted to draft, and 663 00:44:19.920 --> 00:44:22.840 unfortunately I didn't have enough points. When he came up late in the draft, 664 00:44:22.159 --> 00:44:25.599 I couldn't get him. I'm super nice guy, enjoy my time with 665 00:44:25.679 --> 00:44:29.960 him. I literally side bit with him and coach him during the series. 666 00:44:30.400 --> 00:44:32.159 So when he makes a final table, I try to give him advice whatever 667 00:44:32.199 --> 00:44:37.000 game it is, and I respect you know the ability of him to take 668 00:44:37.039 --> 00:44:38.960 the worst of it and we will to just fucking out gamble people. I 669 00:44:39.000 --> 00:44:44.519 think that's very admirable. He is a super nice guy. I met. 670 00:44:44.599 --> 00:44:47.639 His brother is also a great guy, and I think poker players like that 671 00:44:47.760 --> 00:44:51.960 are few and far between. So when you get to know them and you 672 00:44:52.000 --> 00:44:53.880 get to enjoy their company, it's a lot of fun to watch them grow 673 00:44:53.920 --> 00:44:58.440 as a player year to year where he's not trying to make the most money, 674 00:44:58.480 --> 00:45:00.480 he's going for the accolades, and as a fellow DJN like that. 675 00:45:00.519 --> 00:45:04.679 I got respect for that style. I think I call you a bad time, 676 00:45:04.719 --> 00:45:07.800 Jeremy, maybe just busting the five K Champions Reunion event, but I 677 00:45:07.840 --> 00:45:12.400 do want to talk to you about WS top Player of the Year and the 678 00:45:12.480 --> 00:45:15.880 changes they've made. I feel like your name always comes up in a group 679 00:45:15.920 --> 00:45:19.360 of like maybe as a chance to win it, make a run add it, 680 00:45:19.400 --> 00:45:22.000 But I want to know what are your thoughts on the rule changes. 681 00:45:22.480 --> 00:45:28.480 I haven't really like analyzed it a ton. I do like the fact that 682 00:45:28.719 --> 00:45:34.719 I think it's changed in a way that multi tabling doesn't increase your chances of 683 00:45:34.719 --> 00:45:38.559 winning. I always thought that was bad, and I don't know it's kind 684 00:45:38.559 --> 00:45:43.280 of I think it's good to cap the online stuff, So I think overall, 685 00:45:43.719 --> 00:45:45.679 I like the changes. I just don't feel like someone who's multi tabling 686 00:45:46.320 --> 00:45:51.800 and doing all that, you know, when it increases their chances so much, 687 00:45:52.280 --> 00:45:54.119 because not everyone's willing to do that. I'm really not willing to do 688 00:45:54.159 --> 00:45:58.719 that, So I think it's a change for the better overall. Definitely, 689 00:45:58.800 --> 00:46:02.800 with this change kind of make you want to try and chase pier Wima a 690 00:46:02.800 --> 00:46:07.159 little bit. I mean, i'd say my chances have gone up, probably, 691 00:46:07.840 --> 00:46:10.239 although if they count all that, because yeah, some of the online 692 00:46:10.239 --> 00:46:15.559 I don't even play some I do, so definitely my my odds have gone 693 00:46:15.639 --> 00:46:17.239 up. I was just talking to Sean and he thinks his odds are half 694 00:46:17.360 --> 00:46:21.000 what they like. His percent to win is like half what it used to 695 00:46:21.079 --> 00:46:24.559 be. So pretty significant change there. So we got thirty online bracelet eventstance. 696 00:46:24.639 --> 00:46:28.920 Yeah, you know you have an online bracelet. Only one of those 697 00:46:28.920 --> 00:46:31.000 scores will count for the new Player of the Year. Do you think with 698 00:46:31.079 --> 00:46:36.679 this rule change there is a definite marriat to maybe add a online Player of 699 00:46:36.679 --> 00:46:40.960 the Year award? Maybe? I think it's someone was talking about that at 700 00:46:40.960 --> 00:46:46.599 the table earlier tonight, and I think it's worth considering. Yeah, I 701 00:46:47.719 --> 00:46:51.360 don't know. But then it's like you're gonna put up two banners, you 702 00:46:51.400 --> 00:46:53.840 know, and all this stuff, So I don't know, it's always been 703 00:46:53.920 --> 00:46:58.880 like the live tournament, So that's kind of what I wish it was. 704 00:46:58.880 --> 00:47:01.559 Was just that. I guess through in one online is good, but doing 705 00:47:01.599 --> 00:47:07.159 a whole online, I don't know. I'm not crazy about it. I 706 00:47:07.159 --> 00:47:15.960 guess I'm not. I don't have a super strong opinion. So it's good 707 00:47:15.000 --> 00:47:20.159 to hear from those guys. I mean, as you mentioned, all three 708 00:47:20.159 --> 00:47:24.679 of them are among the favorites, you know, to become Player of the 709 00:47:24.760 --> 00:47:30.360 Year. Jeremy Osmas might not get his due in that regard. Yeah, 710 00:47:30.400 --> 00:47:34.480 obviously Deep is like always there in the conversation with Granny too, But you 711 00:47:34.519 --> 00:47:37.280 know, Ozma's puts in a ton of volume and somethings break his way over 712 00:47:37.320 --> 00:47:42.360 the course of the summer. You know, you could certainly see Ozma's making 713 00:47:42.400 --> 00:47:45.400 a run at the POY title. I think would be a nice little feather 714 00:47:45.440 --> 00:47:47.639 in his cap for a very very good career that he's had so far, 715 00:47:47.719 --> 00:47:52.239 and I'm guessing we'll continue to have so So yeah, I mean, it's 716 00:47:52.280 --> 00:47:53.960 it's good to hear from those guys for sure. Yeah, I mean I 717 00:47:54.440 --> 00:48:00.159 really enjoyed, you know, when I asked Stabe about you know, to 718 00:48:00.280 --> 00:48:04.079 be an online Player of the Year, you know, and he was like, 719 00:48:04.360 --> 00:48:06.639 yeah, why not, maybe they should be a seniors player of the 720 00:48:06.719 --> 00:48:08.159 Year, Ladies player of the Year. Is like, he doesn't think there's 721 00:48:08.159 --> 00:48:13.599 a reason to cap the honas, especially with you know, kind of contrary 722 00:48:13.599 --> 00:48:16.000 to what you said, with such a small prize for Player of the year, 723 00:48:16.159 --> 00:48:22.679 why not add more player of the years to incentivize people partaking and chasing. 724 00:48:22.719 --> 00:48:24.400 And I don't mind as well, right, yeah, I don't mind 725 00:48:24.400 --> 00:48:29.440 that. I think along the content angle of things, you could you could 726 00:48:29.480 --> 00:48:31.639 turn it into kind of a ceremony, yeap, you know later on, 727 00:48:31.760 --> 00:48:37.679 like you have the Mixed Game Player of the Year, you have the PLO 728 00:48:37.719 --> 00:48:38.840 Player of the Year, the Nolan you know, all that sort of stuff, 729 00:48:38.880 --> 00:48:40.840 which I think is is fine and in a way, it's like, 730 00:48:40.920 --> 00:48:44.639 you know, the WS to be Award show, like in a weird kind 731 00:48:44.639 --> 00:48:46.800 of way, right, but I think that that would be be cool. 732 00:48:46.840 --> 00:48:51.639 And then of course, you know, above them all is you know, 733 00:48:52.159 --> 00:48:54.800 the overall WS Player of the Year, which is the biggest, the best 734 00:48:54.800 --> 00:48:58.760 one. Do you want do you want to hit on some of this WSP 735 00:48:58.880 --> 00:49:05.559 online stuff a little bit more so? They did announce that Nevada and New 736 00:49:05.639 --> 00:49:09.559 Jersey, which already had merged player pools, are now welcoming. In Michigan, 737 00:49:09.840 --> 00:49:14.880 the Wolverine State is going to be into the mix. So WSP dot 738 00:49:14.880 --> 00:49:20.719 com becomes the first online poker operator legal and regulated within the US to accept 739 00:49:20.840 --> 00:49:28.320 players from three states within one network, which is great me, you know, 740 00:49:28.920 --> 00:49:32.119 I mean tim as well being here in Nevada, you know, playing 741 00:49:32.159 --> 00:49:37.199 on WSP dot com. I think it's very welcome, and it's paired with 742 00:49:37.880 --> 00:49:44.199 a software upgrade that was a long, long long time coming. Been playing 743 00:49:44.199 --> 00:49:47.840 on pretty much the exact same software ever since it launched, So getting the 744 00:49:47.880 --> 00:49:54.159 new software involved is going to be awesome. And I'm like already very much 745 00:49:54.199 --> 00:49:59.239 looking forward to after the WSP just like grinding online on the new software, 746 00:49:59.239 --> 00:50:02.719 Like, I'm like pumped for it. With the new software, they're able 747 00:50:02.760 --> 00:50:08.840 to do mystery bounty tournaments. They're able to do multi day starting flights, 748 00:50:09.159 --> 00:50:14.639 which is great, I mean like stuff like that. It's just it's it's 749 00:50:14.679 --> 00:50:19.360 a really big upgrade for where it was. I think it's awesome. I 750 00:50:19.440 --> 00:50:22.519 think a lot of people are going to enjoy it. I think those of 751 00:50:22.599 --> 00:50:25.320 us that reside in the three states that are involved, Michigan, Nevada, 752 00:50:25.360 --> 00:50:30.360 and New Jersey are going to absolutely love the upgrade. So again, I 753 00:50:30.360 --> 00:50:34.280 can't wait to start playing on that. You know, with everything that's going 754 00:50:34.280 --> 00:50:36.719 on, probably going to have to wait till the end of the series. 755 00:50:36.960 --> 00:50:38.519 Unlet's the only thing that I would probably fire during the summer would be that 756 00:50:38.559 --> 00:50:44.719 twenty five seats scramble, which which they are bringing back twenty five seats guaranteed 757 00:50:44.760 --> 00:50:49.679 the WSB main event. Actually are they doing two of them because it says 758 00:50:49.760 --> 00:50:53.119 June thirtieth and July third, so maybe they're doing two. Yeah, so 759 00:50:53.159 --> 00:50:58.159 does that mean fifty seats? Well, damn, let's go okay, But 760 00:50:58.320 --> 00:51:02.000 on the schedule. So for the racelet schedule for the online stuff thirty gold 761 00:51:02.000 --> 00:51:07.079 Bracelet events, June first will be the first one. It is called the 762 00:51:07.119 --> 00:51:10.920 Nolanan Hold Them fifty to fifth Annual Kickoff has a five hundred and fifty five 763 00:51:10.960 --> 00:51:15.079 dollars buy in. They have buy ins on here that range as low as 764 00:51:16.079 --> 00:51:22.199 three thirty three and then all the way up to a ten thousand dollars buy 765 00:51:22.239 --> 00:51:27.559 in. The ten thousand dollars one is called WISIP Online Championship event. It 766 00:51:27.639 --> 00:51:34.239 takes place on July eleventh. That is one of five online to live hybrid 767 00:51:34.280 --> 00:51:37.519 events. It's not the first time that they've done the online to live hybrid 768 00:51:37.519 --> 00:51:39.119 stuff. They've done it before. They did it last year. Who won 769 00:51:39.159 --> 00:51:46.519 that event? Sam So Baby Samby Baby Team DPMC Let's go. But they're 770 00:51:46.519 --> 00:51:52.039 doing five of them this year. So the even number nine Nolanan Hold Them 771 00:51:52.079 --> 00:51:55.719 high Roller that takes place on June eighteenth, thirty two hundred dollars buy in 772 00:51:55.800 --> 00:52:00.519 that will have a live final table. I at number fourteen another high roll 773 00:52:00.599 --> 00:52:02.760 or this one the high Roller eight Max with the fifty three hundred dollars buying 774 00:52:04.320 --> 00:52:07.480 starts on June twenty ninth, that will also have a live final table. 775 00:52:08.519 --> 00:52:14.079 They have the high Roller Championship fifty three hundred dollars buying on July tenth. 776 00:52:14.280 --> 00:52:17.599 Live final table will be coming for that one. July eleventh is the WSP 777 00:52:17.719 --> 00:52:21.920 Online Championship event that I just mentioned that one has a ten k buy in. 778 00:52:22.000 --> 00:52:24.559 That one will have a live final table. And then the Nolman Hold 779 00:52:24.599 --> 00:52:29.480 Them high Roller of a number twenty six on the online schedule, thirty two 780 00:52:29.559 --> 00:52:34.360 hundred dollars buying will also have a live final table, So that's pretty cool, 781 00:52:35.280 --> 00:52:38.239 you know. I I think it gets good to do that sort of 782 00:52:38.239 --> 00:52:43.119 stuff, just because there's always, like so much questions of who's winning these 783 00:52:43.119 --> 00:52:45.119 bracelets? Are is it secure? Are people ghosting? And o this and 784 00:52:45.159 --> 00:52:50.280 that and the other thing. So the online to live I think is ultimately 785 00:52:50.320 --> 00:52:53.360 a good thing for this sort of stuff. So so I like to see 786 00:52:53.360 --> 00:52:57.599 that. Some other things to hit on on this online schedule. They have 787 00:52:57.719 --> 00:53:02.760 a PLO Mystery five hundred K guaranteed prize pool five hundred and fifty five dollars 788 00:53:02.800 --> 00:53:09.920 price point. They have a Colossus multi flight event has four day ones. 789 00:53:10.239 --> 00:53:15.719 Interesting, yeah, so that on my account might have to put some money 790 00:53:15.719 --> 00:53:19.679 on the ol WSP online. I don't think they have the buy in on 791 00:53:19.800 --> 00:53:22.599 here. I think they left the buying off the schedule. But okay, 792 00:53:23.280 --> 00:53:25.920 Oh it says buying for day two is four hundred dollars, So I'm assuming 793 00:53:25.960 --> 00:53:30.320 buying for day on it's four dollars. No, maybe it's like forty dollars. 794 00:53:30.360 --> 00:53:34.239 In well, it doesn't have anything in the buying column and I see 795 00:53:34.280 --> 00:53:37.199 the fire that I'm looking at it, but it does for the for day 796 00:53:37.239 --> 00:53:39.599 two. Why would they be the same as day one would day one be. 797 00:53:40.039 --> 00:53:44.519 I think they it might be a mistake having it for day two and 798 00:53:44.559 --> 00:53:47.039 not having it should be empty for day two, but it should be there 799 00:53:47.079 --> 00:53:53.280 for day ones. They also have a Nobleman Hold a Mystery Bounty five hundred 800 00:53:53.280 --> 00:54:00.280 dollars buying with a one million dollars guarantee. They have a no limit hold 801 00:54:00.280 --> 00:54:04.400 a Mystery Bounty Championship one k by. It looks like a million dollar guarantee 802 00:54:04.400 --> 00:54:07.280 in that one as well. So a lot of stuff happening online, of 803 00:54:07.320 --> 00:54:09.039 course, I'm sure they're going to be having a crap ton of other regular 804 00:54:09.079 --> 00:54:14.119 tournaments that are running all the time. So yeah, a lot of stuff 805 00:54:14.159 --> 00:54:16.880 happening on w P dot com. As I said, you know, I'm 806 00:54:16.920 --> 00:54:22.440 I'm pretty pumped up to h to get in there and play online. Something 807 00:54:22.480 --> 00:54:29.679 I wrote down here storylines. You're most excited for this? Are you prepared? 808 00:54:29.960 --> 00:54:31.320 Probably not? You just put it on the thing, Probably not. 809 00:54:31.519 --> 00:54:37.000 No, it's been on the rundown since I did the rundown seven minutes ago. 810 00:54:37.239 --> 00:54:39.440 No, no, no, what are you talking about. You can 811 00:54:39.440 --> 00:54:42.519 look at it's on a Google shot. You can look at the edits. 812 00:54:44.320 --> 00:54:46.239 I mean, what are some things that are you're looking forward to this this. 813 00:54:47.679 --> 00:54:52.360 I always cheer for a big name winning a bracelet, and the reason 814 00:54:52.480 --> 00:54:54.679 is I think it's happens every year. No, no, I'm going to 815 00:54:54.760 --> 00:55:00.320 clarify what I mean by a big name, because it ain't I mean Dylan 816 00:55:00.320 --> 00:55:05.119 Weismith. Yeah, No, I mean Phil Home with Phil Ivey a Johnny 817 00:55:05.199 --> 00:55:08.280 Chan and obviously the big one. Let's not rule out. Let's also add 818 00:55:08.360 --> 00:55:13.000 Eric Saide other but Daniel mcgrana. It's been a long time. The reason 819 00:55:13.159 --> 00:55:16.880 is, I think it's it just creates such a huge buzz, you know, 820 00:55:16.960 --> 00:55:21.760 whether it's just a feel in the room, it's the content we're creating, 821 00:55:21.760 --> 00:55:24.840 it's the content other media outlets creating. I think those big, big 822 00:55:24.920 --> 00:55:30.679 name poker players winning you know, an eighteenth bracelet and eleventh bracelet at seventh, 823 00:55:30.719 --> 00:55:34.920 eighth, ninth, whatever the number is really just I don't know, 824 00:55:35.039 --> 00:55:37.519 you get we remember those times when that was happening, you know, back 825 00:55:37.559 --> 00:55:39.960 at the Rio, and you know, I think you mentioned a couple of 826 00:55:39.960 --> 00:55:44.239 podcasts ago where you know, Ivy was heads up for a number eleven and 827 00:55:44.400 --> 00:55:47.880 we talked about it in her favorite win. Phil was heads up in embracing 828 00:55:47.960 --> 00:55:52.920 the other room and like these moments. You know, I think especially with 829 00:55:52.960 --> 00:55:55.280 the way social media is, you know, tweets start going out, you 830 00:55:55.280 --> 00:55:58.920 know, the Instagrams already start going out, people start coming to the main 831 00:55:58.960 --> 00:56:01.639 stage. You know, we can potentially have you know, if we get 832 00:56:01.679 --> 00:56:06.639 the perfect class we have, if I phil Ivy bracelet on one table chase 833 00:56:06.800 --> 00:56:09.719 and Negrando chase on another, helmet chase on another. Those kind of moments, 834 00:56:10.119 --> 00:56:13.880 you know, and the storylines that develop from that is what I always 835 00:56:13.920 --> 00:56:19.039 want year after year. Yeah, I mean one of those. Negron knew 836 00:56:19.079 --> 00:56:23.480 he that's my top storyline to watch. You know. He came into twenty 837 00:56:23.519 --> 00:56:27.840 twenty four as a whole, not just the Doubs ape. You know, 838 00:56:27.960 --> 00:56:31.639 the year coming off a pretty big losing year by his standards, lost what 839 00:56:31.719 --> 00:56:36.559 two point two million something like that. You know, he's he's vocal about 840 00:56:36.599 --> 00:56:40.119 his results every single year. He put out a video at the beginning of 841 00:56:40.119 --> 00:56:44.960 this year going over how he did it was very bad, deep in the 842 00:56:45.000 --> 00:56:50.440 red. He vowed a new approach to twenty twenty four. He called it 843 00:56:50.840 --> 00:56:55.840 quality over quantity, meaning he was going to focus a little bit more, 844 00:56:55.960 --> 00:57:00.519 be a little bit more selective on what he played when he played, as 845 00:57:00.519 --> 00:57:06.599 opposed to just firing you know, anything and everything under the sun. So 846 00:57:06.599 --> 00:57:09.519 so far, so good. He's had a lot of success this year, 847 00:57:09.880 --> 00:57:14.239 a lot of success on the PGT, in the Poker Grove studio, doing 848 00:57:14.400 --> 00:57:19.639 very well overall, certainly taking days off, time off whenever he needed to. 849 00:57:19.840 --> 00:57:22.440 He put his WSB schedule out there. You know, the the events 850 00:57:22.480 --> 00:57:28.840 that he anticipates he would probably play was a little bit smaller than years past. 851 00:57:28.920 --> 00:57:30.679 Believe it included forty five events, you know, give or take. 852 00:57:31.159 --> 00:57:34.800 And he, you know, he flat out said, you know, you're 853 00:57:34.840 --> 00:57:37.519 like, I'm going to be doing the vlog again, but there might be 854 00:57:37.599 --> 00:57:40.000 days when there's no vlog because I might just play because I you know, 855 00:57:40.199 --> 00:57:44.760 I mean, we'll see I believe him. I mean, then the reason 856 00:57:44.800 --> 00:57:46.639 why I believe him is because we've already seen it on the PGT. He's 857 00:57:46.639 --> 00:57:52.360 just flat up. What's the line on days? Miss that said two and 858 00:57:52.400 --> 00:57:57.320 a half when he doesn't come into this place two and a half? Would 859 00:57:57.320 --> 00:58:00.880 you take underserves? That's the exact line that I would have set. And 860 00:58:01.000 --> 00:58:05.480 I have no idea. I'm all in on on this. I mean, 861 00:58:05.480 --> 00:58:07.639 it's like going to be two or three. I feel like that's the thing. 862 00:58:07.639 --> 00:58:09.280 That's why it such a that's the perfect line. It's yeah, it's 863 00:58:09.440 --> 00:58:15.079 I'll say, I'll say over, yeah, it's on this I'll take over 864 00:58:15.239 --> 00:58:20.000 well series of poker. So you know, Negron new being top of mind 865 00:58:20.000 --> 00:58:23.719 for me, hasn't won a gold bracelet since twenty thirteen. He did win 866 00:58:23.760 --> 00:58:28.199 two that year, but not in Vegas. He won one in Australia. 867 00:58:28.199 --> 00:58:31.480 He won the WSP Asia Pacific main Event. He also won a high roller 868 00:58:31.519 --> 00:58:37.639 at WSP Europe, so did win two bracelets there. As for Las Vegas, 869 00:58:37.960 --> 00:58:42.400 he hasn't won one in Vegas in two thousand and eight. You know, 870 00:58:42.480 --> 00:58:45.679 you mentioned some of those big names. You know, these might not 871 00:58:45.760 --> 00:58:49.920 be the biggest names, but these are names that that I wrote down that 872 00:58:50.000 --> 00:58:53.039 are you know, I would say when you when you say when you say 873 00:58:53.039 --> 00:58:58.159 this player's name, you probably think like, that's a WSP player, And 874 00:58:58.480 --> 00:59:01.519 these are some guys that that have one in quite a bit of time. 875 00:59:01.559 --> 00:59:06.880 Of course, negrano I mentioned twenty thirteen. Also twenty thirteen a player who 876 00:59:06.960 --> 00:59:12.599 got heads up last year in one Mike the Mouth. Madisow hasn't won a 877 00:59:12.599 --> 00:59:16.639 brass since twenty thirteen. Phil Ivey twenty fourteen. Now, of course he's 878 00:59:16.679 --> 00:59:21.639 been more touch and go in terms of what he plays, but Ivy has 879 00:59:21.639 --> 00:59:25.159 not won a bracelets since twenty fourteen. Jeff Madson came out of the gate 880 00:59:25.320 --> 00:59:29.719 hot as all hell back in the day when he was twenty one, won 881 00:59:29.760 --> 00:59:32.599 those two bracelets. One player of the Year hasn't won one since twenty fifteen. 882 00:59:34.760 --> 00:59:40.960 Robert mss Rocky twenty sixteen. I wrote down Johnson so and I I'm 883 00:59:40.960 --> 00:59:45.000 guessing it's Marco Johnson, although I have married. I mean it has to 884 00:59:45.000 --> 00:59:52.000 be Marco Johnson twenty sixteen for Marco Johnson, Brandon Shaq Harris twenty sixteen, 885 00:59:53.880 --> 00:59:58.239 David Bach twenty seventeen. Yeah, but like what these are like players you 886 00:59:58.239 --> 01:00:00.119 don't see anywhere else other than the WYSSIP really right, That's why I kind 887 01:00:00.119 --> 01:00:05.079 of and like they they made it was. It was that coupled with the 888 01:00:05.079 --> 01:00:07.400 fact that like they made a lot of noise on the wa sphe like brand 889 01:00:07.440 --> 01:00:10.239 Jack Harris was like, you know, one multiple bracelets. It was gunning 890 01:00:10.320 --> 01:00:14.159 for Player of the Year. Him and George Danzer were going to Australia going 891 01:00:14.199 --> 01:00:15.480 back and Forth, you know, like that whole thing. David Bach, 892 01:00:15.599 --> 01:00:19.679 like you know, one Bracelets won the fifty k, like you know, 893 01:00:19.719 --> 01:00:22.719 he made some noise. He hasn't won one since twenty seventeen. Another one 894 01:00:22.800 --> 01:00:25.559 Chrisovich twenty seventeen as well. So you know, those are some of the 895 01:00:25.639 --> 01:00:30.559 names and the droughts that have happened, you know that are that are still 896 01:00:30.559 --> 01:00:37.679 going. I don't know. I I feel like Daniel's doing it this year, 897 01:00:37.039 --> 01:00:40.280 and I feel like he's gonna do it twice at least, like I 898 01:00:40.800 --> 01:00:46.360 just I feel it. I feel like i've I mean, I know I've 899 01:00:46.800 --> 01:00:52.800 said this in years past that Daniel's gonna win. But this is the year, 900 01:00:52.840 --> 01:00:57.840 man, This is the year. I'm telling you, this is the 901 01:00:57.960 --> 01:01:01.440 year Quality over quant he is going to do it. DNS is going to 902 01:01:01.480 --> 01:01:06.639 be back in that WSP Winter Circle. I am telling you guys, it's 903 01:01:06.679 --> 01:01:09.920 going to happen. I would ask producer Rich to insert the music here, 904 01:01:09.960 --> 01:01:15.119 but we could get like Royalty Band. But have you ever seen the movie 905 01:01:15.119 --> 01:01:19.119 Love? Actually yes, and I don't remember it, and he sings that 906 01:01:19.239 --> 01:01:22.760 song Christmas is all around me. It's like I feel it in my fingers. 907 01:01:22.800 --> 01:01:24.719 I feel it that's all. When you were saying, like I feel 908 01:01:24.760 --> 01:01:27.440 it, I was like, that's all I could think of. Does that 909 01:01:27.519 --> 01:01:31.199 sound? Well? My next one is I'm going to bring it home to 910 01:01:31.280 --> 01:01:35.360 poker Go a little bit. And I'm kind of excited to you know, 911 01:01:35.440 --> 01:01:37.760 maybe this is the mixed game guy and me, maybe this is the poker 912 01:01:37.760 --> 01:01:43.039 girl guy and me. But I'm really looking forward to the four days of 913 01:01:43.079 --> 01:01:49.519 PPC streaming we're doing, and I'm wondering like how people are going to be 914 01:01:49.679 --> 01:01:53.719 like receptive of that, Like it's nothing we've never done before, and I 915 01:01:53.719 --> 01:01:57.039 think that's going to be kind of I want to see it, Like I'm 916 01:01:57.039 --> 01:01:59.559 going to enjoy that, you know, think of all the table compas we 917 01:01:59.599 --> 01:02:05.599 have, hope we get. I'm down on Mixed I just I feel I 918 01:02:05.639 --> 01:02:09.679 feel like they kind of they tried to break through and they didn't didn't make 919 01:02:09.719 --> 01:02:16.159 it, and there's they're they're just still stuck over there, and well maybe 920 01:02:16.159 --> 01:02:21.719 this would Nolan and hold them where it's at is where it's at, Yeah, 921 01:02:21.880 --> 01:02:27.000 Pelos. Yeah, I feel like Mixed games kind of got a a 922 01:02:27.199 --> 01:02:30.199 bump because everyone was dumping on Nolan and hold them like for there was a 923 01:02:30.199 --> 01:02:32.920 couple of years there when everyone's like, Nolan hold them so boring, these 924 01:02:32.920 --> 01:02:36.840 guys are all robots, this and that and the other thing, like it's 925 01:02:36.880 --> 01:02:39.840 such a big we hate playing, you know, it's just not fun whatever, 926 01:02:39.920 --> 01:02:44.599 and then mixed games like we're the fun thing. I don't know. 927 01:02:44.639 --> 01:02:47.360 I feel like they never fully broke through, and I feel like Nolan holdenm 928 01:02:47.400 --> 01:02:57.679 is fun again. So because you're weird, because you don't like it, 929 01:02:57.679 --> 01:03:00.880 because you fold too much, that's a problem. People realize you don't fun 930 01:03:00.920 --> 01:03:05.760 fold, and Nolan hold Him became fun again. Who would have thought? 931 01:03:06.039 --> 01:03:09.199 Who would have thought? You just stop folding and the game gets fun. 932 01:03:09.400 --> 01:03:15.840 Gee, I wonder makes sense? Right? Is that? Is that all 933 01:03:15.840 --> 01:03:17.360 you're gonna say on mixed games to no, you maybe know sad now? 934 01:03:17.400 --> 01:03:22.880 So yeah, I'm I'm ready to press. And on Miss Lincoln podcasts. 935 01:03:23.320 --> 01:03:27.840 The other thing that I'm looking forward to is just overall the state of live 936 01:03:27.920 --> 01:03:31.760 poker. I think the World Series of Poker is a very good barometer for 937 01:03:31.840 --> 01:03:36.480 what's going on all over the world. We just get to see so much 938 01:03:36.679 --> 01:03:40.079 in one place under such a big spotlight that we can really get a good 939 01:03:40.119 --> 01:03:45.960 idea of of everything that's kind of happening in the poker economy, both near 940 01:03:45.039 --> 01:03:50.480 and far from everything that I have seen, And you know, I pay 941 01:03:50.519 --> 01:03:53.079 attention to this stuff as much as anyone. Poker is extremely healthy. Numbers 942 01:03:53.119 --> 01:03:58.119 are booming everywhere. Yeah, we already talked about it a little bit earlier 943 01:03:58.199 --> 01:04:01.639 on this podcast the casino employees. Was it oney fifteen last year? Eleven 944 01:04:01.719 --> 01:04:04.880 hundred and ninety four this year? So nice bump there. So you know, 945 01:04:04.960 --> 01:04:10.119 obviously the big talk is the granddaddy of them all, WSP Maine event 946 01:04:10.239 --> 01:04:14.039 ten thousand, forty three entries last year. Are they gonna beat it? 947 01:04:14.440 --> 01:04:17.679 Are they not? Now? I will say that you don't have to beat 948 01:04:17.719 --> 01:04:21.280 it, okay, Like if you get ninety eight hundred, for example, 949 01:04:21.440 --> 01:04:26.360 that's still a great, badass number. I mean that's like, that's just 950 01:04:26.360 --> 01:04:30.360 what it is. Yeah, it's down two hundred and two to two fifty 951 01:04:30.440 --> 01:04:33.760 or whatever from the year before, But ninety eight hundred entries, like, 952 01:04:34.039 --> 01:04:38.480 I mean that's incredible. Now if it breaks the record or sets a new 953 01:04:38.519 --> 01:04:42.159 record this year, I mean, that would just be absolutely tremendous. But 954 01:04:42.920 --> 01:04:45.039 it doesn't have to to be a success, right. The only thing that 955 01:04:45.079 --> 01:04:47.639 would make it that you would look at it and be like, it's not 956 01:04:47.679 --> 01:04:51.960 a success. Is if it was like seven k, yeah, sixty five 957 01:04:53.039 --> 01:04:55.599 hundred, like, but that's never gonna happen. I mean, they're probably 958 01:04:55.599 --> 01:04:59.599 gonna have that many through the first three days. But yeah, just so 959 01:04:59.679 --> 01:05:01.920 just kind of like just the general state of live poker on how it's going. 960 01:05:02.719 --> 01:05:06.400 You know, I mentioned casino employees up pretty good. I think the 961 01:05:06.440 --> 01:05:10.920 four ninety three and that five k opener seems like a pretty good number there. 962 01:05:11.280 --> 01:05:14.639 You know, you and I have referenced the registration line that we're seeing, 963 01:05:14.880 --> 01:05:16.239 you know for the five hundred dollars kickoff. That's gonna be another good 964 01:05:16.239 --> 01:05:20.519 test tomorrow. So yeah, you know, in twenty twenty two, there 965 01:05:20.559 --> 01:05:28.519 were three WSP tournaments that broke into the top fifteen largest poker tournament fields of 966 01:05:28.559 --> 01:05:33.719 all time. In twenty twenty three, three WSP tournaments, one WP tournaments, 967 01:05:34.679 --> 01:05:39.519 WPT tournament excuse me, broke into the top fifteen largest poker tournaments of 968 01:05:39.559 --> 01:05:43.880 all time. And last year those were or sorry, last year w SIP 969 01:05:44.000 --> 01:05:49.639 Gladiators of Poker became the second largest tournament live tournament of all time twenty three 970 01:05:49.679 --> 01:05:56.840 thousand and eighty eight entries Colossus also went up from twenty twenty two to twenty 971 01:05:56.880 --> 01:06:00.480 twenty three. You had the Mystery Millions when up from twenty twenty two to 972 01:06:00.480 --> 01:06:02.880 twenty twenty three. Of course, twenty twenty two was called the million Dollar 973 01:06:02.960 --> 01:06:08.519 Bounty that had what nineteen thousand or twenty thousand entries last year? Another another 974 01:06:08.679 --> 01:06:15.880 absolutely you know wall bursting field here inside the Horseshoe and Paris. And then 975 01:06:15.960 --> 01:06:17.599 of course you know we touched on the wsp Man event ten thousand and forty 976 01:06:17.639 --> 01:06:21.239 three entries last year. Not only did set a new record, shattered the 977 01:06:21.280 --> 01:06:26.719 previous record, which was two thousand and six eighty seven hundred and seventy six 978 01:06:27.360 --> 01:06:30.400 PLO tournaments. We've been talking about this all year. They're absolutely booming all 979 01:06:30.440 --> 01:06:33.199 over the place. So I'm excited to see what those numbers do. So 980 01:06:33.280 --> 01:06:39.639 just just that general state of live poker, you know, I think it's 981 01:06:39.679 --> 01:06:42.760 healthy, but how healthy is it? Right? That's that's kind of what 982 01:06:42.800 --> 01:06:45.440 I'm looking at there. Let me throw some numbers at you. Six hundred 983 01:06:45.480 --> 01:06:49.480 dollars ultrastack glassius, seventy two hundred players, seven hundred and seventy seven dollars 984 01:06:49.559 --> 01:06:56.559 lucky sevens seven thousand, three hundred players four hundred dollars Colossus fifteen thousand players. 985 01:06:57.480 --> 01:07:00.800 Now, they didn't really have a similar event to our in the summer, 986 01:07:00.360 --> 01:07:03.000 you know, they had to basically we'll call it the Mystery Millions opened 987 01:07:03.039 --> 01:07:09.360 it that had eighteen thousand players for one K. Ken Tomorrow's five hundred dollars 988 01:07:09.480 --> 01:07:15.000 WSP kickoff two day scheduled event. Would you say it will get over five 989 01:07:15.039 --> 01:07:18.119 thousand? Uh, I mean, I don't know for sure, but I 990 01:07:18.119 --> 01:07:20.159 feel like if it does, I wouldn't be like, oh my god, 991 01:07:20.199 --> 01:07:24.760 I'm so surprised. I have seven thousand seven things. I feel like, 992 01:07:24.880 --> 01:07:29.559 I feel like five to five thousand to sixty five hundred is kind of the 993 01:07:29.599 --> 01:07:31.280 number. Yeah, I'm more in the yeah, the six to seven K. 994 01:07:31.840 --> 01:07:35.719 But like, I think, what this, what this event gets is 995 01:07:35.719 --> 01:07:41.280 going to kind of set a baseline for these similar events for the rest of 996 01:07:41.280 --> 01:07:45.760 the summer, you know, the Mystery Millions, the Colossus, the those 997 01:07:45.840 --> 01:07:49.360 events you know that are in that kind of under one K kind of price 998 01:07:49.440 --> 01:07:54.119 point. Well, well, I also talked about it earlier, where you 999 01:07:54.159 --> 01:07:56.920 know, there's a lot of people I feel that are if you're coming out 1000 01:07:56.920 --> 01:08:00.159 for the Mystery millions. Maybe you come a couple of days early, you're 1001 01:08:00.199 --> 01:08:03.000 UNI five to the five hundre dollars kickoff. That probably applies the other way 1002 01:08:03.199 --> 01:08:08.480 in regards to the casino employees. Fire the casino employees. Maybe you bust 1003 01:08:08.639 --> 01:08:11.440 fire the kickoff the next stack, right, do both of those for a 1004 01:08:11.519 --> 01:08:14.880 thousand bucks boom like that? That seems like a you know, pretty good 1005 01:08:14.880 --> 01:08:16.960 bang for your buck that casino employees. For a lot of people, a 1006 01:08:17.039 --> 01:08:20.319 nice little warm up to, you know, a bigger feel the warm up, 1007 01:08:20.840 --> 01:08:24.399 no warm up to the kickoff. Maybe you know, stretching your handy, 1008 01:08:24.439 --> 01:08:27.279 you get to pounded through the end zone. Let's go, let's go. 1009 01:08:28.560 --> 01:08:30.960 So yeah, So so I I think that that could be happening. 1010 01:08:31.000 --> 01:08:35.079 So I listen, I'm expecting big numbers for this wasipy kickoff. If it 1011 01:08:35.119 --> 01:08:41.000 gets less than if it gets less than four thousand, I would be pretty 1012 01:08:41.000 --> 01:08:44.960 surprised. But I don't. I don't think that that's gonna happen. So 1013 01:08:45.279 --> 01:08:46.439 I mean, we'll see. I mean, like you said, I I 1014 01:08:46.600 --> 01:08:50.000 do. I do agree that it's gonna set the tone for the summer. 1015 01:08:50.279 --> 01:08:55.840 Right that that's the that's the event where you know, when we come in 1016 01:08:55.880 --> 01:08:59.920 here tomorrow. There's gonna be people everywhere. It's gonna be a goddamn zoo 1017 01:09:00.079 --> 01:09:02.960 here. It's gonna be awesome. It's gonna be great. The hallways are 1018 01:09:03.000 --> 01:09:06.399 going to be packed on breaks, You're not gonna want to go anywhere, 1019 01:09:06.479 --> 01:09:13.640 but that's gonna be awesome to see. So yeah, I'm expecting. I'll 1020 01:09:13.640 --> 01:09:19.439 say, I'll say sixty one hundred. I'm taking overs wonders. I'm bullish, 1021 01:09:19.520 --> 01:09:23.159 I mean bullish on this event since it was added to the schedule. 1022 01:09:23.520 --> 01:09:27.720 I'm gonna go with, Yeah, sixty five hundred. Yeah, because this 1023 01:09:27.800 --> 01:09:30.640 is one you know, I know you've been eyeing it because it's on our 1024 01:09:30.640 --> 01:09:33.800 schedule to stream it. Yeah, I'm at it today already. Yeah, 1025 01:09:33.960 --> 01:09:38.000 Tim's out there, like we're probably gonna need an extra day for this one. 1026 01:09:38.079 --> 01:09:41.079 I mean, these these do play super super fast. But I mean 1027 01:09:41.520 --> 01:09:43.880 you can play fast, but when you have sixty five hundred playing down to 1028 01:09:43.920 --> 01:09:46.520 six in you know, twenty something levels, it's not But I think there 1029 01:09:46.560 --> 01:09:49.279 was a deep stack last year that had a crap ton of players, like 1030 01:09:49.359 --> 01:09:53.760 five to six thousand, and I think he got done in two days. 1031 01:09:54.479 --> 01:09:57.680 I mean, they just they play so crazy fast in these but there's a 1032 01:09:57.680 --> 01:10:00.199 difference with getting done in two days at like where I am, Oh, 1033 01:10:00.279 --> 01:10:04.319 like you know, getting done in three days at a normal time. Yeah, 1034 01:10:04.319 --> 01:10:09.600 that's what I'm I mean. We'll see. My storyline was grawan new 1035 01:10:09.640 --> 01:10:12.479 So this is a nice little lead into what we're gonna talk about next twenty 1036 01:10:12.800 --> 01:10:28.279 five K Fantasy Yours truly the reigning champion of the twenty five K Fantasy Draft, 1037 01:10:28.840 --> 01:10:32.039 myself alongside Matt Clark. We took it down last year. We were 1038 01:10:32.119 --> 01:10:39.720 back to battle this year. Nineteen teams this year, so one fewer than 1039 01:10:39.800 --> 01:10:44.399 last year. I have no idea who Maria Hoe dropped out, so maybe 1040 01:10:44.399 --> 01:10:47.760 it's her? Who else? Anyone else dropped off or dropped out? He 1041 01:10:47.760 --> 01:10:51.640 had a team, Yeah, I don't know that he had a team. 1042 01:10:53.119 --> 01:10:56.680 We gained one team. Adam Schwartz was in there with a team. Gary 1043 01:10:56.720 --> 01:11:01.119 Benson, Yes, we gained there, maybe lose we can't get who else 1044 01:11:01.119 --> 01:11:04.640 do we lose? Oh? Teams of money? He didn't get Martin ze 1045 01:11:04.680 --> 01:11:12.600 Moni he was one and done. I guess gain though. Who was Team 1046 01:11:12.760 --> 01:11:19.000 jew dash Ish? Was that that was Soon and Dan Zach? Yeah, 1047 01:11:19.279 --> 01:11:23.720 Team Dirty Stack. I don't know who that it was dirty stack. I 1048 01:11:23.720 --> 01:11:27.560 don't know. Team Nori was back, Team Reese was back, Fleischmann back 1049 01:11:27.720 --> 01:11:31.880 Chip leader coaching. We didn't get chance. We didn't get anyway. Nineteen 1050 01:11:31.880 --> 01:11:39.600 teams still awesome. The The draft was held in the Poker gro studio. 1051 01:11:39.680 --> 01:11:45.399 We did live stream it on the Poker Goro YouTube channel, a lot of 1052 01:11:45.439 --> 01:11:51.880 fun. We got the most expensive player ever drafted in the history of the 1053 01:11:51.960 --> 01:11:58.359 draft, daniel Le grand I paid one hundred and thirty two buckeroos for him. 1054 01:11:58.399 --> 01:12:00.079 Not real dollars, you know, fan, I see auction dollars. 1055 01:12:01.439 --> 01:12:08.359 Was going toe to toe with our colleague here at Poker Go, Brent Hanks, 1056 01:12:09.560 --> 01:12:13.199 but I won. I was prepared to go to one ninety three and 1057 01:12:13.239 --> 01:12:17.359 you were gonna have to pry d eggs from my hands and it was not 1058 01:12:17.560 --> 01:12:24.079 happening. No one, no one in that room is prepared to go as 1059 01:12:24.199 --> 01:12:28.680 high as I will go. I am that person like no one will go 1060 01:12:28.720 --> 01:12:30.039 as high as I will go. I want to check right now if he's 1061 01:12:30.039 --> 01:12:36.119 still in the one who cares he played because we played event one. I'm 1062 01:12:36.119 --> 01:12:40.560 as happy he played. I'm happy he played, all right. So one 1063 01:12:40.640 --> 01:12:47.079 hundred and sixteen thousand chips. Let's let's go forty. That's real. So 1064 01:12:47.479 --> 01:12:53.439 okay, let's just run over who we drafted. You obviously did the auction 1065 01:12:53.520 --> 01:12:57.479 your duties once again, high your feed feeling. I'll be the draft. 1066 01:12:57.479 --> 01:13:00.279 I feel like took longer than it ever has four hours. It took so 1067 01:13:00.600 --> 01:13:04.119 long. Last year was long. I tried to speed it up at points 1068 01:13:04.119 --> 01:13:08.439 when we were like just you know, once we got to like you know, 1069 01:13:08.520 --> 01:13:11.319 third fourth round, and then people were bitching I was going too fast, 1070 01:13:11.319 --> 01:13:13.880 and then I had to saw it back down and like it is the 1071 01:13:13.920 --> 01:13:17.960 other thing that really frustrates me the most is when people wait till the going 1072 01:13:18.000 --> 01:13:20.199 on is going twice, I'm about to say saw it, and they bid, 1073 01:13:20.520 --> 01:13:24.840 like, let's us speed this up. Let's just bid, and then 1074 01:13:24.880 --> 01:13:27.560 if you're out, you're out. Like it's much better that way. Yeah, 1075 01:13:27.560 --> 01:13:30.359 I mean, there's just some gazeman ship there. You got to try 1076 01:13:30.359 --> 01:13:33.800 and make it seem like you're not going way up or whatever. So my 1077 01:13:33.880 --> 01:13:38.640 team, Team DPMC is back. Daniel Legrand, you one hundred and thirty 1078 01:13:38.680 --> 01:13:42.359 two dollars. You have a two hundred dollars auction budget to spend on players. 1079 01:13:42.399 --> 01:13:45.640 You have to have fill a team of eight players. So if you 1080 01:13:45.680 --> 01:13:48.439 did want to max out on one player, that's why I said the one 1081 01:13:48.520 --> 01:13:54.840 hundred and ninety three dollars shout out Rich Ryan producer rich Ryan Ivy in The 1082 01:13:54.880 --> 01:13:59.359 Misfits was our original sort of talking shit plan about this. You know, 1083 01:13:59.439 --> 01:14:01.600 draft Ivy for one ninety three, get a bunch of dollar players and go 1084 01:14:01.640 --> 01:14:06.279 from there. So we got Daniel mcgroney for one thirty two, Sean Winter 1085 01:14:06.479 --> 01:14:13.439 for seventeen, Steven Chidwick for twenty. Then we have a bunch of good 1086 01:14:13.479 --> 01:14:18.319 old cheapies Sergio Ado Dollar, Andre Corn Dollar, Stephen Song four dollars Steve. 1087 01:14:18.399 --> 01:14:21.359 If you ask me, Michael Rodriguez, no one's gonna know who that 1088 01:14:21.479 --> 01:14:25.920 is, but they will have for this year. Won the first ever Badugi 1089 01:14:25.960 --> 01:14:32.239 event last year. Three dollars for Rodriguez. Dario Alioto one dollar. Pick 1090 01:14:32.640 --> 01:14:39.199 Why you could have got so many more players for one though I like Dario 1091 01:14:39.319 --> 01:14:42.840 Ari Ari Angel you could have got for one though Ari Engle is gonna be 1092 01:14:42.880 --> 01:14:49.239 at the Orleans and the Summer. I don't want I don't want any this 1093 01:14:49.359 --> 01:14:54.720 year is damn jan you watch yeah whatever Dario Alioto is supposed to be playing 1094 01:14:54.760 --> 01:14:58.279 like the fifty k PLO. So let's go, buddy, get in there. 1095 01:15:00.079 --> 01:15:01.359 Let me just look at some of the players here. So as I 1096 01:15:01.399 --> 01:15:04.560 said, you know, we got the most expensive player not only this year 1097 01:15:04.600 --> 01:15:11.640 but ever in draft history, one hundred and thirty two dollars. Alex Livingston 1098 01:15:11.720 --> 01:15:15.439 went the second highest, probably a little bit puffed up because he was in 1099 01:15:15.479 --> 01:15:20.319 the room bidding on himself. Yeah, one hundred and ten dollars Livingston went 1100 01:15:20.399 --> 01:15:25.920 for but he's he's ready to go, confident. I think he was out 1101 01:15:25.920 --> 01:15:28.720 there on social media making a lot of bracelet bets, so he's ready to 1102 01:15:28.760 --> 01:15:31.840 go. Sean Deeb went for one hundred and four dollars. I think Sean 1103 01:15:31.880 --> 01:15:36.640 Deeb was a little bit annoyed that he didn't go for more, at least 1104 01:15:38.159 --> 01:15:43.319 relative to where Livingston and Nigranney went. The thing with Deeve is that he 1105 01:15:43.479 --> 01:15:49.000 was nominated first, so he kind of set the market there. Once he 1106 01:15:49.079 --> 01:15:54.159 went for one oh four, I thought that, and then it was him, 1107 01:15:54.159 --> 01:15:58.439 and then Nigronney was was next. I thought then we would be able 1108 01:15:58.479 --> 01:16:00.640 to Nigrowney was our number one target. I was like, okay, well 1109 01:16:00.640 --> 01:16:02.920 we're going to get him. Between one hundred and one hundred and ten. 1110 01:16:04.479 --> 01:16:09.439 Those two guys always tend to go pretty close. And then with it being 1111 01:16:09.479 --> 01:16:12.319 either like on the one hundred and ten side or the one hundred side, 1112 01:16:12.439 --> 01:16:15.560 it just depended how people felt on the ground. Did they say, did 1113 01:16:15.560 --> 01:16:19.720 they look at him and say, the quality over quantity approach, a little 1114 01:16:19.720 --> 01:16:23.239 bit of a lower volume on schedule is going to be a good thing for 1115 01:16:23.279 --> 01:16:25.319 him, or were they like, you know what, I want him playing 1116 01:16:25.319 --> 01:16:28.399 sixty events? Yeah, you know so, am I Gonna'm not willing to 1117 01:16:28.439 --> 01:16:31.960 go to one hundred and ten for him? Like I said, we were 1118 01:16:31.960 --> 01:16:35.159 going to go as high as possible. I did not think there would be 1119 01:16:35.199 --> 01:16:40.960 anyone that would be in with us. But you know, Brent Hanks, 1120 01:16:42.560 --> 01:16:45.359 I can't give him full credit. I can't even really give him half credit. 1121 01:16:45.399 --> 01:16:50.039 I mean, like, listen, he basically Brent Hanks walked up to 1122 01:16:50.079 --> 01:16:54.079 the side of the pool. He's got his swim trunks on its probably got 1123 01:16:54.079 --> 01:16:57.119 a tank top, you know, probably a whole bunch of sunscreen on his 1124 01:16:57.199 --> 01:17:00.760 face. I could see Brent and a bucket hat. He's got a dog 1125 01:17:00.840 --> 01:17:03.600 in one hand, he's got a beer in the other hand, like and 1126 01:17:03.640 --> 01:17:06.880 he just dips his toe in the water. That's what he did. He 1127 01:17:06.920 --> 01:17:12.039 dipped his toe on. You know, I was swimming like a freaking seal 1128 01:17:12.119 --> 01:17:14.800 in the deep end like I was. I was in there. I was 1129 01:17:14.840 --> 01:17:17.239 ready to go. You know, I was gonna go as high as possible. 1130 01:17:17.439 --> 01:17:20.680 I think at one point Brent said one twenty three. I looked at 1131 01:17:20.720 --> 01:17:23.640 my coner. I said, how high can we go? He said, 1132 01:17:23.680 --> 01:17:26.560 I don't know, one thirty. I said, one thirty just skipping it, 1133 01:17:27.039 --> 01:17:29.199 just gonna show you that, I mean it. You got to you 1134 01:17:29.239 --> 01:17:31.039 got to just lay the hammer down like at some point you gotta be like 1135 01:17:31.119 --> 01:17:34.880 no. And then I think, you know, some explotas were shouted from 1136 01:17:34.960 --> 01:17:38.800 from Brent over there. He said one thirty one. I said one thirty 1137 01:17:38.800 --> 01:17:43.039 two. I said it pretty quickly. I was like, I'm just who 1138 01:17:43.119 --> 01:17:46.479 cares? Like this guy wants to go? Let's go? And uh yeah, 1139 01:17:46.479 --> 01:17:48.880 we got him for one thirty two. So I'm in. I'm happy. 1140 01:17:49.119 --> 01:17:51.640 I think Dan's gonna have a big year. I'm ready for it. 1141 01:17:51.720 --> 01:17:58.439 So make it happen, Dan eggs, let's go. Our biggest competitor last 1142 01:17:58.520 --> 01:18:04.680 year was Team Lady Gaga, that is ren Lyn's team he has the third 1143 01:18:04.800 --> 01:18:09.640 and fourth most expensive player from this year's draft. He got Sean Deep one 1144 01:18:09.720 --> 01:18:14.560 oh four. He got Yuri's at A Levski aka Ury nerd guy for ninety 1145 01:18:14.680 --> 01:18:17.640 So, you know, yeah, a lot of expensive players. I was. 1146 01:18:18.479 --> 01:18:23.760 I was surprised that there wasn't another player or two that went over one 1147 01:18:23.800 --> 01:18:28.159 hundred dollars. I just thought that like Yuri would maybe get there. I 1148 01:18:28.199 --> 01:18:33.119 thought maybe jan Viere would get there. Man losing the online hus Yeah, 1149 01:18:33.159 --> 01:18:39.520 but I don't know. These guys aren't like super crazy online guys. I 1150 01:18:39.560 --> 01:18:45.359 mean, I bet you everyone in the top twenty bits online guys. Yeah. 1151 01:18:45.399 --> 01:18:46.239 I mean, but like I feel like a lot of them just like 1152 01:18:46.359 --> 01:18:49.159 super folks, Like they're not online guys like I would look at Sean Deep 1153 01:18:49.159 --> 01:18:54.039 as an online guy, like he's like he is playing at least twenty five 1154 01:18:54.079 --> 01:18:56.640 events online. Well, I don't know, I have no idea. I 1155 01:18:56.680 --> 01:19:02.439 think so Osmas probably, I mean, I don't know who knows. Yeah, 1156 01:19:02.640 --> 01:19:09.039 I mean I feel good about our team. I've probably felt as good 1157 01:19:09.039 --> 01:19:12.039 as I ever have, probably the best I ever have coming out of a 1158 01:19:12.119 --> 01:19:16.800 draft. Now, that usually doesn't mean a goddamn thing. It probably means 1159 01:19:16.800 --> 01:19:20.560 that we're gonna bomb because I feel so good. Normally, when you don't 1160 01:19:20.560 --> 01:19:25.159 feel so good, you know, you kind of do well. So so 1161 01:19:25.239 --> 01:19:33.640 we'll see. Our biggest gamble was Stephen Chidwick. Now, if Chidwick comes 1162 01:19:33.640 --> 01:19:41.720 out and is playing a pretty big schedule, he he's the ninety dollars players. 1163 01:19:41.760 --> 01:19:44.079 To me, yeah, I mean he's he's up there with all the 1164 01:19:44.119 --> 01:19:49.720 top guys. He's as good, if not better than anyone in tournaments. 1165 01:19:50.319 --> 01:19:54.960 I mean when they talk about who's the best player in the world, Steven 1166 01:19:55.039 --> 01:20:00.439 Chidwick is a top three mentioned always, but there's just questions about his volume. 1167 01:20:00.479 --> 01:20:03.359 He was in trading at Montenegro. He cast he took second place in 1168 01:20:03.399 --> 01:20:10.880 a Triton Montenegro event two days ago on May twenty sixth, But my co 1169 01:20:11.000 --> 01:20:15.520 owner Matt Clark said he saw him today and talked with them, so he's 1170 01:20:15.560 --> 01:20:17.479 here. I was like, you know what if we get Stevie to come 1171 01:20:17.520 --> 01:20:21.520 out for the twenty five k heads up, I'm in great. That's a 1172 01:20:21.520 --> 01:20:26.760 win for me. He's already here. Let's go straight off the plane, 1173 01:20:27.680 --> 01:20:32.039 right to the horseshoe. Let's go Stevie. Very few people love it more 1174 01:20:32.079 --> 01:20:35.920 than mister Steven Chidwick. So listen, that's a gamble because it's twenty dollars. 1175 01:20:35.960 --> 01:20:40.720 But hey, I'll take it the other guys. You know, I'm 1176 01:20:40.760 --> 01:20:43.920 ready to go. We had Steven Song last year. He hit a field 1177 01:20:43.960 --> 01:20:48.920 bonus for us. Steven Song has scored triple digits. I believe five years 1178 01:20:48.960 --> 01:20:51.960 in a row. Four years in a row for sure, if not five. 1179 01:20:54.159 --> 01:20:57.319 So yeah, onres Corn playing a pretty big schedule, playing a lot 1180 01:20:57.319 --> 01:21:00.760 of the mixed game stuff, Sergio, I know, I mean maybe a 1181 01:21:00.800 --> 01:21:04.039 little bit of a gamble there because he did. He's still wherever he is 1182 01:21:04.119 --> 01:21:09.000 playing scoop or he was playing day three of Scoop today, so not here 1183 01:21:09.079 --> 01:21:11.920 yet but for a buck, no big deal there. We view him as 1184 01:21:11.920 --> 01:21:16.479 Adrian Motato's light. So so yeah, I'm I'm looking forward to the draft 1185 01:21:17.079 --> 01:21:20.439 or to the to the sweat you know, all uh all summer long. 1186 01:21:20.479 --> 01:21:25.159 It's going to be a lot of fun. Dude, does anything like stick 1187 01:21:25.159 --> 01:21:30.840 out to you? I mean, any salaries high lowick, I didn't like. 1188 01:21:30.880 --> 01:21:32.159 Look, there was a couple of names that yeah, but maybe just 1189 01:21:32.239 --> 01:21:35.760 in not nothing that's necessarily our tea in general. There's a couple of names 1190 01:21:35.760 --> 01:21:40.560 on the list that I thought when for what I thought was maybe too high, 1191 01:21:40.600 --> 01:21:43.760 but I don't know, Like justin Loberto, seventy eight dollars was number 1192 01:21:43.800 --> 01:21:47.159 one on my list. Now, the thing is with him is that like 1193 01:21:47.439 --> 01:21:51.560 in our chat like talking about players and stuff leading up to the to the 1194 01:21:51.640 --> 01:21:59.399 draft, we all agreed that Liberto would be popular, especially within the crowd 1195 01:21:59.399 --> 01:22:03.079 that drafts. Like these guys know about Liberto. They know he you know, 1196 01:22:03.159 --> 01:22:05.279 plays a lot of stuff, plays mixed games, he's a very good 1197 01:22:05.279 --> 01:22:10.359 player, et cetera. I mean I just thought fifty to fifty five bucks 1198 01:22:10.399 --> 01:22:12.680 something like that, which is still a pretty hefty price. I mean, 1199 01:22:12.680 --> 01:22:15.760 that's nothing to sneeze at. He ends up going for seventy eight, which 1200 01:22:15.800 --> 01:22:19.600 I not that it's a bad buye It's just more than I expected. So 1201 01:22:19.680 --> 01:22:24.079 that was that's one of that stuck out with me. Arthur Marmas forty seven 1202 01:22:24.119 --> 01:22:27.720 dollars. Yeah, I have him down here too. I mean he three 1203 01:22:27.800 --> 01:22:30.560 dollars last time. Yeah, that's just an insane bump. He he talked 1204 01:22:30.560 --> 01:22:32.800 to some people that we know. I think he might have even said it 1205 01:22:32.840 --> 01:22:35.239 to me, like he was telling me about a schedule during I think the 1206 01:22:35.239 --> 01:22:40.680 PGTPLO series, and you know, he said he thought he would be like 1207 01:22:40.720 --> 01:22:43.439 a twenty dollars player. I mean, I was like, no, you're 1208 01:22:43.439 --> 01:22:47.199 definitely gonna go for more if you're vocal about your schedule, Like it seems 1209 01:22:47.239 --> 01:22:53.800 like you're being ends up going for forty seven. So we'll see. I 1210 01:22:53.800 --> 01:22:57.119 mean, Arthur's a good player, had a big score last year, playing 1211 01:22:57.119 --> 01:23:00.840 a very robust schedule. This year is a wide variety of games, plays 1212 01:23:00.840 --> 01:23:04.399 po and we'll play pretty big. So there's also two guys I have here 1213 01:23:04.399 --> 01:23:10.000 in the thirty dollars range, Jim Callape thirty three dollars to Team Girl Dads 1214 01:23:10.039 --> 01:23:14.520 and Adam Hendricks thirty three dollars to Team Wilson. I'm not doubting that their 1215 01:23:14.560 --> 01:23:17.520 thirty three dollars is not the worst value. But I see those kind of 1216 01:23:17.520 --> 01:23:23.920 guys as who is the other one Jim Callopy and Adam Hendricks as as in 1217 01:23:23.920 --> 01:23:27.840 that ari angle group of hey, there's something really good value at the win. 1218 01:23:28.000 --> 01:23:30.439 I mean, Jim Caliby flat out told you and I at the studio 1219 01:23:30.520 --> 01:23:34.960 during the PGT series that he's just going to value hunt Yeah, anywhere, 1220 01:23:35.039 --> 01:23:40.760 it doesn't it doesn't matter. So like he's gonna go wherever the value is. 1221 01:23:40.800 --> 01:23:43.600 Now there is a lot of value in w SP events, right, 1222 01:23:43.680 --> 01:23:46.159 So if you did draft Jim Callipy, you know that's where you kind of, 1223 01:23:47.239 --> 01:23:49.920 you know, have some confidence that there is a lot of value in 1224 01:23:49.960 --> 01:23:55.159 these fields, but now more so than ever and it continues to grow every 1225 01:23:55.199 --> 01:24:00.399 single year. There's more going on around town. So does Collopy go play 1226 01:24:00.439 --> 01:24:03.000 other? Does does he venue hop as we call it. So I would 1227 01:24:03.039 --> 01:24:06.279 be a little bit scared there. Not that he's not a goodbye like you 1228 01:24:06.319 --> 01:24:10.880 said, it just it it makes you not want to spend as much. 1229 01:24:10.960 --> 01:24:12.920 We're like a lot of the guys, you know, when we talk to 1230 01:24:12.960 --> 01:24:16.079 people, you obviously try and get their schedule or whatnot, and then you 1231 01:24:16.159 --> 01:24:18.279 try and say, you know how much you're going to play at the w 1232 01:24:18.399 --> 01:24:23.239 SIP and you want him to say nine. Yeah, you know, one 1233 01:24:23.319 --> 01:24:27.600 hundred percent, like you know that sort of thing. So yeah, on 1234 01:24:27.680 --> 01:24:30.880 the on the flip side of things, a couple of names that I thought 1235 01:24:30.239 --> 01:24:34.760 these could these could win someone this fantasy draft. The fact that this guy 1236 01:24:35.279 --> 01:24:40.079 is playing a five K, no limit hold him event on the opening day. 1237 01:24:40.399 --> 01:24:44.319 Jason Mercy are two dollars to Team Lang let's see where that goes. 1238 01:24:44.760 --> 01:24:47.520 Another name, James Obbs if a team no game on a future three dollars 1239 01:24:48.920 --> 01:24:53.199 said he was so Rubbert Campbell before it supposed to be James Obbs is only 1240 01:24:53.279 --> 01:24:58.760 supposed to be playing like three weeks or something, but he could say it's 1241 01:24:58.800 --> 01:25:01.760 James Obbs. We don't know, and then do you have anyone that's yeah, 1242 01:25:01.760 --> 01:25:03.960 I mean Pads. Pad's a six dollars, Yeah, it could be 1243 01:25:03.960 --> 01:25:06.920 a pretty big value. He's been like he's been on social media saying like, 1244 01:25:06.960 --> 01:25:10.000 am I going to go to the was B how much am I gonna 1245 01:25:10.000 --> 01:25:12.960 be there? Am I gonna go to the Euros Soccer? You know that? 1246 01:25:13.119 --> 01:25:15.920 That sort of thing. So it's he's a tricky one. Obviously. 1247 01:25:15.000 --> 01:25:17.439 If Pads comes and puts his heart into it, he's one of the best 1248 01:25:17.439 --> 01:25:21.600 players in the world and he can play all the games, so what would 1249 01:25:21.600 --> 01:25:25.960 be great buy there. I know Sean Deep got him and was pumped, 1250 01:25:26.159 --> 01:25:30.520 Yeah that he got him. So we'll see. I saw today on his 1251 01:25:30.880 --> 01:25:34.399 Instagram that he busted the scoops and he's like Vegas it is or something. 1252 01:25:34.479 --> 01:25:38.399 So we'll see if he shows up in the next couple of days. Chris 1253 01:25:38.439 --> 01:25:42.039 Brewer surprised me. He went for sixty dollars. I thought he would go 1254 01:25:42.079 --> 01:25:45.600 for more. To be honest, I thought Brewer would be seventy five eighty 1255 01:25:45.600 --> 01:25:48.880 dollars. So Chris Brewer going for sixty dollars. You know, if he 1256 01:25:48.960 --> 01:25:51.760 puts in a full volume, I don't. I don't think I saw him 1257 01:25:51.760 --> 01:25:56.520 at in the five K. But it could just be one of the things 1258 01:25:56.520 --> 01:26:00.439 where all these guys coming back from Triton, Montenegro not a turn around the 1259 01:26:00.520 --> 01:26:02.800 time that you know you might like as much. So maybe you take a 1260 01:26:02.840 --> 01:26:09.079 day or two off to just kind of get yourself reacclimated to being back here 1261 01:26:09.119 --> 01:26:12.439 for the World Series of Poker. You do have a long stretch of six 1262 01:26:12.479 --> 01:26:14.800 and a half seven weeks ahead of you, so taking a couple of days 1263 01:26:14.840 --> 01:26:18.239 off at the beginning not the worst thing. Anthony Zeno thirty one dollars. 1264 01:26:19.319 --> 01:26:23.119 So I put that in my notes because I feel like that could be a 1265 01:26:23.159 --> 01:26:27.880 surprise to people given the stuff that was happening, the legal stuff, the 1266 01:26:28.279 --> 01:26:30.039 you know, the possible stealing of the backpack, the allegations, all that 1267 01:26:30.039 --> 01:26:35.000 sort of stuff, right, But it seems like he was kind of like 1268 01:26:35.399 --> 01:26:39.039 on the campaign trail talking to a lot of people, and a lot of 1269 01:26:39.079 --> 01:26:42.720 people were aware that he's playing, Like he's back, he's playing, right, 1270 01:26:43.119 --> 01:26:44.960 I know we had him down on our list. Is like, you 1271 01:26:44.960 --> 01:26:46.840 know, maybe people are going to be off him because they're unsure about him. 1272 01:26:46.880 --> 01:26:53.279 But yeah, it seems pretty clear that that he reached out to multiple 1273 01:26:53.279 --> 01:26:57.159 teams and probably told them like, this is what's happening. So he's out 1274 01:26:57.199 --> 01:27:00.520 there. Daniel Weinman for thirty one dollars. I feel like that's too much. 1275 01:27:00.560 --> 01:27:02.960 I mean, I don't know, is he he's obviously he's here, 1276 01:27:03.000 --> 01:27:08.960 he's playing the Champions Reunion. But is that because of the Champions Reunion they 1277 01:27:09.000 --> 01:27:11.560 bring him out, they say, hey, you gotta calm you're the reigning 1278 01:27:11.640 --> 01:27:13.800 champ. We got to get you in there. Obviously you get the free 1279 01:27:13.800 --> 01:27:16.159 buying whatever. Is he just gonna leave tomorrow and go play golf, like, 1280 01:27:16.239 --> 01:27:20.880 I mean, like, well, yeah, but they go everywhere together 1281 01:27:20.920 --> 01:27:24.880 now. Yeah, But what I'm saying is that maybe he's going to play 1282 01:27:24.920 --> 01:27:27.279 a few events, but he's also going to play a lot of golf here. 1283 01:27:28.600 --> 01:27:30.560 Yeah. I mean, it's like, how I just don't know how 1284 01:27:30.600 --> 01:27:32.319 much he's playing. I mean, if if he can put it in a 1285 01:27:32.319 --> 01:27:41.039 decent schedule, more rounds of golf than he does I mean, I think, 1286 01:27:41.079 --> 01:27:45.039 so does he play more rounds of golf than he's played ten times? 1287 01:27:45.079 --> 01:27:49.000 He's played ten times, He's played ten times the amount of golf that he 1288 01:27:49.039 --> 01:27:51.880 has poker since he won the minimum, Like, I just don't and like 1289 01:27:51.960 --> 01:27:56.680 and last year when he won the min event, like he came out he 1290 01:27:56.840 --> 01:28:00.600 was like, I'm over it, left and then came back for the main 1291 01:28:00.640 --> 01:28:04.600 event, right, So it's like, if he was kind of already over 1292 01:28:04.640 --> 01:28:08.960 it, then now he has all the money in the universe, who cares? 1293 01:28:09.039 --> 01:28:11.279 Yeah, It's like, is he really just gonna come out here and 1294 01:28:11.319 --> 01:28:13.920 grind, grind grind? I mean, I don't know. I felt like 1295 01:28:14.960 --> 01:28:17.159 I felt like his price got inflated a little bit because he was in the 1296 01:28:17.239 --> 01:28:20.359 room and people saw him. Yeah, but he's been in the he was 1297 01:28:20.359 --> 01:28:23.640 in the room last night, I know. But and also you couple with 1298 01:28:23.680 --> 01:28:26.159 that with the fact that he's in the room for a reason because the Champions 1299 01:28:26.199 --> 01:28:28.319 Reunion is the next day. Yeah, and so it's like, I mean, 1300 01:28:28.520 --> 01:28:31.760 how like how much stock can you really put into that? So I 1301 01:28:31.880 --> 01:28:35.600 was a little bit surprised that that he went for so high. I gotta 1302 01:28:35.640 --> 01:28:42.000 say that was it Team Wilson, who was Scott Wilson and Adam Schwartz just 1303 01:28:43.880 --> 01:28:47.680 blundered in two spots twice in the draft. First Mike First, Mike Gardinski. 1304 01:28:48.439 --> 01:28:53.560 We we almost did this last year. Well, Matt, my co 1305 01:28:53.680 --> 01:28:55.720 owner, almost did this. He threw out Anthony's he know, and he 1306 01:28:55.720 --> 01:28:58.479 threw him out for thirty dollars, and I wanted to fucking punch him. 1307 01:28:59.439 --> 01:29:01.439 You alls throw people out for a dollar. I don't care if the next 1308 01:29:01.520 --> 01:29:05.920 bit is fifty don't like because you there's just something that you might not know. 1309 01:29:05.960 --> 01:29:10.640 There's always the chance. And for like three seconds, two seconds or 1310 01:29:10.680 --> 01:29:13.439 whatever it was, there was no no one said anything on Zeno and then 1311 01:29:13.479 --> 01:29:15.359 finally people started bidding. He went for like forty one dollars or whatever. 1312 01:29:15.520 --> 01:29:18.319 So fine, but we almost got stuck with him for an insane price, 1313 01:29:18.479 --> 01:29:23.239 and that could have been that could have really screwed us. Adam Schwartz throws 1314 01:29:23.239 --> 01:29:26.399 out Mike Ordinsky. This year, Mike Ordensky put on social media that he's 1315 01:29:26.439 --> 01:29:29.439 probably not going to be playing a lot, you know, like staying home 1316 01:29:29.479 --> 01:29:32.520 with his family and whatever. And he might play like twelve events. He 1317 01:29:32.560 --> 01:29:38.520 throws him out for twenty bucks crickets. No one says anything once you know 1318 01:29:38.600 --> 01:29:41.439 that happens. It's like, I mean, I think he might have gone 1319 01:29:41.439 --> 01:29:44.359 for like seven yeah, but it's like, you know, you just wasted 1320 01:29:44.399 --> 01:29:46.119 a bunch of money. Then he did it again with Land and Dice. 1321 01:29:46.199 --> 01:29:53.199 He throws him out for ten dollars, which I was specifically surprised about Land 1322 01:29:53.239 --> 01:29:59.239 and Tice because Adam Schwartz does the Dat Poker podcast with Daniel mcgroartney. Daniel 1323 01:29:59.279 --> 01:30:02.840 mcgroartney was out there on the Poker News podcast alongside David od b Baker talking 1324 01:30:02.880 --> 01:30:09.720 about specifically Jeremy Becker and landon Tice and how they might not command as much 1325 01:30:09.760 --> 01:30:15.079 of a price even though there's been a lot about the bet between them and 1326 01:30:15.079 --> 01:30:17.560 a bet and the bet you know above them, between Burkie and the Granu. 1327 01:30:18.960 --> 01:30:26.159 That bet that crossbook includes all different properties all over Vegas and it's captain 1328 01:30:26.199 --> 01:30:30.159 the ten k buy in, So like, why would you put Jeremi Becker 1329 01:30:30.159 --> 01:30:31.560 in a twenty five kf Like it doesn't count for this bet? What's the 1330 01:30:31.560 --> 01:30:34.720 point? I mean maybe you do, yes, but you know so so 1331 01:30:34.760 --> 01:30:38.840 that That's why I thought that that one was surprising. Again, he throws 1332 01:30:38.880 --> 01:30:42.239 them out for ten dollars crickets, nothing there, so he essentially wasted you 1333 01:30:42.319 --> 01:30:45.239 know, thirty bucks or twenty eight bucks or whatever if they would have been 1334 01:30:45.239 --> 01:30:49.920 one dollar players by throwing those guys out. So that was that was a 1335 01:30:49.920 --> 01:30:56.640 bit surprising. Yeah, I mean, overall, I think it was a 1336 01:30:56.640 --> 01:31:00.960 good draft. Again, I'm happy with it. Any ODB teams for you, 1337 01:31:01.000 --> 01:31:04.079 No, I just I've stopped doing the ODB stuff just because then it 1338 01:31:04.119 --> 01:31:06.520 gets to just be too much. I got players everywhere, I'm trying to 1339 01:31:06.520 --> 01:31:10.000 sweat all this different stuff. I'll just focus on the twenty five K. 1340 01:31:10.119 --> 01:31:12.880 I don't even do side bets. I know, I know Matt does a 1341 01:31:12.920 --> 01:31:14.520 lot of side bets. He's always like, you want to bet, you 1342 01:31:14.560 --> 01:31:15.439 want to bet? I mean a lot of these guys all do side bets. 1343 01:31:15.479 --> 01:31:19.720 Yeah, I'm just I'm in on the twenty five K. That's it. 1344 01:31:20.039 --> 01:31:23.479 You know, Matt can handle the side bets if you want. I 1345 01:31:23.479 --> 01:31:26.600 do. Want to point out just two little nuggets here, uh Negran you 1346 01:31:26.680 --> 01:31:29.000 ended up. Niaranni, by the way, wanted to draft himself for the 1347 01:31:29.039 --> 01:31:30.520 first time ever, So I guess that's a good sign. He believes in 1348 01:31:30.600 --> 01:31:34.079 himself, not that he doesn't believe in himself, but you know, for 1349 01:31:34.079 --> 01:31:36.319 the first time ever he wanted to get himself. And then you know, 1350 01:31:36.439 --> 01:31:41.239 Brent I decided to go nuts. But Nigrano ended up with Shulman. Nick 1351 01:31:41.279 --> 01:31:44.960 Schulman again. He's had him. He had him in twenty sixteen, twenty 1352 01:31:45.039 --> 01:31:47.399 nineteen, twenty twenty two, twenty twenty three, and now twenty twenty four. 1353 01:31:48.520 --> 01:31:54.760 Dan Fleischman Team Fleischman got Phil Helmuth again twenty thirteen, twenty fourteen, 1354 01:31:54.760 --> 01:31:59.000 twenty sixteen, twenty twenty two, and twenty twenty three. Also now in 1355 01:31:59.000 --> 01:32:02.359 twenty twenty four, a Fleishman has helped you. So a lot of these 1356 01:32:02.359 --> 01:32:05.680 guys, I feel like just kind of go after the same group of guys. 1357 01:32:06.399 --> 01:32:13.800 So so yeah, there's for sure gonna be a lot of potential second 1358 01:32:13.880 --> 01:32:17.439 guessing with my team. I can already see it happening a lot of wood 1359 01:32:17.439 --> 01:32:23.800 IFFs. We had such a deep list of like one to five dollar guys. 1360 01:32:24.399 --> 01:32:28.319 If we needed to go there and it it, we were prepared to 1361 01:32:28.359 --> 01:32:30.640 be able to go there. That's why we built the list the way that 1362 01:32:30.680 --> 01:32:32.600 we did. We end up getting to graw on you for the price that 1363 01:32:32.600 --> 01:32:35.760 we got him at one thirty two. So now I'm thinking, like, 1364 01:32:35.800 --> 01:32:39.359 okay, we're really gonna need this list. Thank god, we did a 1365 01:32:39.359 --> 01:32:42.920 lot of research there, you know, we put in the effort, but 1366 01:32:43.119 --> 01:32:46.319 then we lucked out Sean Winter seventeen, Steven Chadwick twenty and we were sitting 1367 01:32:46.359 --> 01:32:49.960 really good, right but now you know it's gonna be like, Okay, 1368 01:32:49.960 --> 01:32:53.880 we got Sergio Aido for a dollar, should we have got this other guy 1369 01:32:53.920 --> 01:32:56.159 for a dollar? You know, it's gonna be there can be a lot 1370 01:32:56.199 --> 01:32:59.319 of that because we had like forty guys on that list that there's gonna be 1371 01:32:59.359 --> 01:33:00.920 like, well we could have had this guy or that guy. You know. 1372 01:33:00.000 --> 01:33:02.720 So it's but that's gonna happen every single year. So it's just like 1373 01:33:02.760 --> 01:33:06.119 whatever, you just got to kind of get over it. So one of 1374 01:33:06.159 --> 01:33:12.760 my like top plans was Negron new and Childwick. So I'm happy that I 1375 01:33:12.760 --> 01:33:16.439 got that. I think I would have if I'm looking right now, like, 1376 01:33:16.479 --> 01:33:20.479 who who's somebody that like maybe I would have wanted. I would have 1377 01:33:20.520 --> 01:33:24.720 wanted Dylan Wiseman. I know you're gonna like to hear that. Yeah, 1378 01:33:24.760 --> 01:33:29.199 I know, Sean Dee might not like to hear that, but I'm a 1379 01:33:29.239 --> 01:33:32.319 big Dylan Wiseman guy, I think, especially now more so than ever, 1380 01:33:32.399 --> 01:33:35.720 with the fact that he's playing more two card as opposed to four card. 1381 01:33:35.720 --> 01:33:40.479 He's still obviously playing the four card pillow, but he's probably he's playing a 1382 01:33:40.479 --> 01:33:44.000 lot of the two card. He went over to try and played a bunch 1383 01:33:44.039 --> 01:33:45.439 of the two card You know, some of those guys over there are the 1384 01:33:45.439 --> 01:33:48.239 best of the best in the world, so that's not easy. And he's 1385 01:33:48.239 --> 01:33:51.279 been playing a lot of mixed games on the PGT. He's been playing a 1386 01:33:51.319 --> 01:33:55.960 lot of cash at resorts like he's in the mixed game streets, and he's 1387 01:33:55.960 --> 01:33:58.960 a very good player. He's a nerd. I mean that with all the 1388 01:33:59.039 --> 01:34:00.960 love in my heart, and I'm sure that he would agree. He is 1389 01:34:00.000 --> 01:34:04.159 a poker nerd. He loves the game, he loves learning about it, 1390 01:34:04.199 --> 01:34:08.960 he loves getting better. So you know, Dylan Wiseman, fifty nine dollars 1391 01:34:09.000 --> 01:34:12.840 went to our good friend Team Baker ODB. Mark Gregor is running up that 1392 01:34:12.880 --> 01:34:15.079 team. I mean, I feel like he's a ninety dollars player like I 1393 01:34:15.079 --> 01:34:19.760 would have loved to get the problem with him is love to have those seven 1394 01:34:19.840 --> 01:34:26.159 Palo events at the Poga Yeah whatever, who cares? Who cares? We 1395 01:34:26.199 --> 01:34:30.680 really wanted Adrian Mataos, but he got to be a little bit too expensive 1396 01:34:30.720 --> 01:34:33.720 forty five. I mean, Mataos is a beast. I probably would have 1397 01:34:33.720 --> 01:34:40.600 paid thirty for Mateos, and it probably could have fit within our bill, 1398 01:34:40.720 --> 01:34:44.239 like we could have got we could have gotten a grand new Mateos Chidwick. 1399 01:34:44.920 --> 01:34:49.920 So essentially swapping uh Mataos for Winter Winter Place PLO, It's all that I 1400 01:34:50.000 --> 01:34:55.720 need. Yeah, But I would say that with the counter argument to that 1401 01:34:55.880 --> 01:34:58.760 or the argument for Mataos, his Matatos is going to be in there in 1402 01:34:58.840 --> 01:35:03.600 every one K fifty teen hundred and three K. And he that guy tries 1403 01:35:03.640 --> 01:35:08.840 harder than anyone. He will play the twenty five hundred dollars no limit, 1404 01:35:08.920 --> 01:35:13.000 like he will play the two hundred fifty K. He will try his ass 1405 01:35:13.039 --> 01:35:16.600 off. So you know, I can kind of go either way. New 1406 01:35:16.640 --> 01:35:20.800 team, your guy Gary Benson drafting people out of left field, out of 1407 01:35:20.840 --> 01:35:27.359 nowhere, somebody drafted, somebody drafted Rob Hollink. That was that was the 1408 01:35:27.439 --> 01:35:30.760 weirdest thing I've ever seen. I mean, that was King Calous. I 1409 01:35:30.800 --> 01:35:34.079 believe so Kine just must have some insight that no one, no one else 1410 01:35:34.119 --> 01:35:41.359 knows about. Renlan's team was just hilarious because he goes out and he gets 1411 01:35:41.720 --> 01:35:45.079 Seande first first one off the board, one hundred and four dollars. Then 1412 01:35:45.119 --> 01:35:49.479 he gets Yuri's of Elevski for ninety dollars. He's just he he can't do 1413 01:35:49.520 --> 01:35:55.520 anything after that. He can do one dollar players. I mean he was 1414 01:35:56.119 --> 01:36:00.000 riding down. If you didn't watch the stream, he was legit. Tim 1415 01:36:00.039 --> 01:36:01.479 would be like, okay, you know Rn, you're up. Tim would 1416 01:36:01.479 --> 01:36:06.159 walk over there his team. There was like fourteen of them there. Okay, 1417 01:36:06.079 --> 01:36:11.399 they had the four tables they were They would write the name down on 1418 01:36:11.439 --> 01:36:14.840 a piece of paper and handed it to Tim because they either they couldn't say 1419 01:36:14.880 --> 01:36:17.840 it or they knew Tim couldn't repeat it if they just said it. Yeah, 1420 01:36:17.920 --> 01:36:23.880 Wing polu Ye, I'm gonna butcher these. I apologize ahead of time. 1421 01:36:24.079 --> 01:36:27.479 King Zu dong Chen. I got that one for sure. Renji Mao 1422 01:36:28.960 --> 01:36:33.640 Yingui Lee Yan Shing Sang, I mean, I, oh, that's Anson 1423 01:36:33.680 --> 01:36:38.039 Sang. Okay, Anson Sang know him for sure. The other ones, 1424 01:36:38.079 --> 01:36:40.880 I have no idea. One guy that was like, I don't I don't 1425 01:36:40.920 --> 01:36:44.199 know if he's any of these guys that we just said other than Anson, 1426 01:36:45.680 --> 01:36:49.640 but he was in that group of like people that were in Ren's team, 1427 01:36:50.119 --> 01:36:54.039 and I played at the win the other day with him. He sat down 1428 01:36:54.119 --> 01:36:57.840 in the win six hundred. He had a Triton like track jacket on, 1429 01:36:58.039 --> 01:37:00.920 and so I'm like looking at him, I'm like, don't don't recognize him. 1430 01:37:00.920 --> 01:37:02.600 But you know, he could just have like he could just be a 1431 01:37:02.600 --> 01:37:05.760 fan of Trite and like got it off the internet, you know, went 1432 01:37:05.800 --> 01:37:09.359 to the trading store and bought a shirt. But then I see him showing 1433 01:37:09.399 --> 01:37:10.880 up here. So I'm like, oh, was this good? Like was 1434 01:37:10.920 --> 01:37:14.479 this somebody? You know? Maybe he was just getting this. Maybe maybe 1435 01:37:14.520 --> 01:37:19.239 it is. You never know, you never know. So it's gonna be 1436 01:37:19.279 --> 01:37:23.159 it's gonna be tricky to sweat those guys. You know, it's gonna be 1437 01:37:23.159 --> 01:37:29.439 hard to sweat those guys. John Reardon King John Rearden of Team DPMA no 1438 01:37:29.520 --> 01:37:32.760 longer was the third player nominated in the whole draft. Crazy. We saw 1439 01:37:32.840 --> 01:37:35.960 him today, He's like, who the hell nominated me third? We got 1440 01:37:36.000 --> 01:37:40.600 him last year for four dollars. He's now an eighteen dollars player in the 1441 01:37:40.680 --> 01:37:43.840 draft, so which is probably a pretty still normal rule. I mean, 1442 01:37:43.880 --> 01:37:46.479 listen, Rearden plays a lot of stuff. He's gonna be grinding his ass 1443 01:37:46.479 --> 01:37:50.560 off. One of the reasons why we we would have loved to have reard 1444 01:37:50.560 --> 01:37:54.479 in again, but it would have been it would have needed to have been 1445 01:37:54.720 --> 01:37:58.680 for a similar price to last year, you know, four or five, 1446 01:37:58.800 --> 01:38:02.159 maybe even six bucks. The reason that we weren't in on him this year 1447 01:38:02.199 --> 01:38:06.359 one that the price just shot up super super fast and so we were, 1448 01:38:06.399 --> 01:38:10.479 you know, instantly out. But also the online stuff, as Tim has 1449 01:38:10.479 --> 01:38:15.760 been mentioning, you know, the online stuff not counting for John Reardan. 1450 01:38:15.880 --> 01:38:17.760 You know, he he did make a lot of points for us online. 1451 01:38:17.800 --> 01:38:23.279 He rinds that online stuff all the time. So him not having that is 1452 01:38:23.319 --> 01:38:26.520 certainly something that we didn't really want to dive into. But you know, 1453 01:38:26.800 --> 01:38:30.720 no big deal. It's also always like it's also interesting because you know, 1454 01:38:30.760 --> 01:38:33.760 you talk to these guys like everyone always wants to get drafted, and it's 1455 01:38:33.760 --> 01:38:38.720 a kind of a big ego thing. I know d X talked about that 1456 01:38:38.800 --> 01:38:41.920 on the Pogram News podcast. It's like funny because you don't really get anything 1457 01:38:42.319 --> 01:38:45.359 mean anything. I mean, how about Alan Kessler he was in the run 1458 01:38:45.439 --> 01:38:47.399 for well you know, you know where Alan Kesler was today. He's at 1459 01:38:47.439 --> 01:38:49.880 the win. So that was the worst two dollars ever spent as far as 1460 01:38:49.920 --> 01:38:53.399 I'm concerned. I mean, the guy's not even here. I mean, 1461 01:38:53.479 --> 01:38:55.520 right, he should be here. He should be firing the five K. 1462 01:38:55.720 --> 01:38:58.319 What's he like? He's got enough money, He's got to see it in 1463 01:38:58.319 --> 01:39:02.119 the casino employees. Somehow he's got he he should could for sure get in 1464 01:39:02.199 --> 01:39:08.239 the casino and police just looking over I might as well look over ODB Fantasy. 1465 01:39:08.279 --> 01:39:13.039 I want to see who these bonus players are. How many bonus players 1466 01:39:13.079 --> 01:39:15.359 are there? I don't even know eighty five? Good lord, ODB, 1467 01:39:15.479 --> 01:39:18.960 what are you doing? Ben Ludlow was one I do, Isaac Campton, 1468 01:39:19.000 --> 01:39:26.039 John Richards, David fam Andrew ostep Chenko, who is invested in our team, 1469 01:39:26.439 --> 01:39:31.199 John Little, Ben Ludlow, Reniyah Nazardine, Victoria Lifschitz, Jeff Lennon, 1470 01:39:31.520 --> 01:39:36.720 Nick cost I mean, or it could be a really good one. 1471 01:39:36.840 --> 01:39:40.680 She could be. She's already out there in the five K. David Funkhauser 1472 01:39:40.920 --> 01:39:44.840 and he could be a good one. Cole Ferraro kind of England. They 1473 01:39:45.399 --> 01:39:47.520 I see they corrected her name. They had her as kind of English earlier. 1474 01:39:48.079 --> 01:39:50.960 Sean Buchanan. Does that guy play poker Darons anymore? I have no 1475 01:39:51.039 --> 01:39:59.279 idea. Max Hoffman PGT Mixed Games winner Max Hoffman is out there, your 1476 01:39:59.359 --> 01:40:05.439 boy, pot limit hold them, Steve Z He's in there. There's no 1477 01:40:05.520 --> 01:40:11.800 pot limit. He's in there. It's funny. There's there's a bunch of 1478 01:40:12.119 --> 01:40:15.800 guys on here that were on our cheap list, and I'm not I'm purposely 1479 01:40:15.800 --> 01:40:18.800 skipping over for their names, so I don't I don't put them out there. 1480 01:40:18.840 --> 01:40:25.319 But but yeah, Jeff Platt made it. What how did Jeff Platt 1481 01:40:25.439 --> 01:40:30.359 make it? Two events? Jeff Platt made it, Matt Burkey made it, 1482 01:40:30.479 --> 01:40:33.920 Nate Silver, Andrew Marino's on there. I think it was on the 1483 01:40:34.039 --> 01:40:39.239 last year. He's there, Cherish Andrews there, Baldwin, you're going to 1484 01:40:39.279 --> 01:40:43.720 play more events than Matt Burkey. Won'll say that. I mean that that 1485 01:40:43.800 --> 01:40:47.039 could possibly be the case. Chris Treeve is on there, Christina Gollands, 1486 01:40:47.119 --> 01:40:50.279 Christina Hill, Cord Garcia, Dan Lowry. Yeah, I mean it's a 1487 01:40:50.319 --> 01:40:54.479 good list here. It should be fun for all those out there firing. 1488 01:40:54.520 --> 01:40:59.720 I haven't looked over the Gregor Rich fantasy the twenty five hundred dollars one, 1489 01:40:59.760 --> 01:41:03.399 just to see who Sewande most money there. Interesting, the top three are 1490 01:41:03.399 --> 01:41:06.760 the same, okay, I mean not in the same order, but Shawn 1491 01:41:06.800 --> 01:41:11.680 Dee most in the Gregorig So the Mark Gregorich, that's what it's called, 1492 01:41:12.039 --> 01:41:15.760 Fantasy League, Mark Gregorich runs it. Twenty five hundred dollars buying actually took 1493 01:41:15.840 --> 01:41:19.600 place in the studio right after twenty five K. I have no goddamn idea 1494 01:41:19.640 --> 01:41:23.560 how light like those people were there thirty not that late. Oh they were 1495 01:41:23.600 --> 01:41:26.640 flying. Yeah, they went with the I watched the auction. I was 1496 01:41:26.680 --> 01:41:28.279 like, oh, I need to bring you in next year. You will 1497 01:41:28.319 --> 01:41:32.000 quit once twice, so I was like, whoa, whoa wow. Shawande 1498 01:41:32.000 --> 01:41:35.800 went for the most there, Daniel Legran new second, Alex Livingston tied for 1499 01:41:35.840 --> 01:41:40.359 second, with the Grand New Yuris of LSKY third. All four of those 1500 01:41:40.399 --> 01:41:45.960 players up over one hundred dollars. I'm trying to see who else. I 1501 01:41:46.000 --> 01:41:50.720 mean, the the gregorig draft and the twenty five k are are very closely 1502 01:41:50.760 --> 01:41:55.079 aligned at times, so you know you get a lot of very similar teams. 1503 01:41:55.159 --> 01:42:00.199 Yeah, similar teams people with people in their drafting him. So yeah, 1504 01:42:00.199 --> 01:42:04.000 I'm trying to see if anyone kind of jumps off this list as possible 1505 01:42:04.079 --> 01:42:09.439 sleeper, but I don't really see anyone. Even the Asian guys that that 1506 01:42:09.520 --> 01:42:12.920 ren Lynn drafted are all like drafted here. I mean, so maybe like 1507 01:42:12.960 --> 01:42:15.920 those guys just were like, yeah, these guys have to be playing stuff 1508 01:42:15.960 --> 01:42:23.560 because hold on, did you see this can't be real? Is this real? 1509 01:42:23.760 --> 01:42:28.000 What am I looking for? Team Oz Gary? Yeah, he drafted 1510 01:42:28.000 --> 01:42:33.199 in that one too. He drafted Billy the Crock. That's incredible. He's 1511 01:42:33.239 --> 01:42:39.199 on the list. I can see five dollars, what is happening? He 1512 01:42:39.319 --> 01:42:45.760 drafted himself though, John Shulman, I mean, oh did he Oh wow? 1513 01:42:45.840 --> 01:42:51.239 He went he went this this, this dosand scrubs approach you, tim 1514 01:42:51.319 --> 01:42:56.199 Ausi, tim Os Gary, Yeah, he just drafted a bunch of asses. 1515 01:42:56.319 --> 01:42:59.000 Nothing wrong with that. What are you trying to say? All right, 1516 01:42:59.079 --> 01:43:01.239 well, that's a that's twenty five K fantasy. You know, we'll 1517 01:43:01.279 --> 01:43:04.439 be talking about it, I'm sure on this podcast for the rest of the 1518 01:43:04.479 --> 01:43:11.119 summer. Really looking forward to hopefully running it back hopeful ly, please please 1519 01:43:11.159 --> 01:43:15.880 please make it happen. That would just be absolutely incredible. Last thing we're 1520 01:43:15.920 --> 01:43:17.439 going to talk about here before we get out of here, on this first 1521 01:43:17.479 --> 01:43:23.239 episode of the Poker Go Podcast from the twenty twenty four World Series of Poker. 1522 01:43:25.479 --> 01:43:30.000 New hats on the way, yep, So we'll once those arrive, 1523 01:43:30.439 --> 01:43:33.760 we'll get the details out there on how people can get them. We have 1524 01:43:33.800 --> 01:43:38.680 a new giveaway. Oh do you know what this is? I don't even 1525 01:43:38.720 --> 01:43:42.680 know if you know what this is. We talked about it, but you 1526 01:43:42.760 --> 01:43:45.640 were like on the fence. Okay, Well I'm in whatever it is. 1527 01:43:45.680 --> 01:43:48.560 We're playing the Tag Team Okay, you and I are playing the Tag Team 1528 01:43:48.560 --> 01:43:51.760 Event? Got it? So I want you to decide. Okay, So 1529 01:43:51.800 --> 01:43:56.199 here's what we're gonna do. You and I are playing the Tag Team event. 1530 01:43:56.279 --> 01:43:59.079 Is it is a one thousand dollars buying Okay, you know, you 1531 01:43:59.119 --> 01:44:02.920 and I are each putting a half. We are going to give away pieces, 1532 01:44:03.119 --> 01:44:08.640 okay, to our for our action. I believe the Tag Team event 1533 01:44:08.720 --> 01:44:13.039 is on July first, Could be wrong there, but I think that's what 1534 01:44:13.319 --> 01:44:16.640 if my memory serves me correctly. But should we give away fifty pieces or 1535 01:44:16.640 --> 01:44:20.159 twenty five fifty? Okay? Fifty? So we're going to give away fifty 1536 01:44:21.119 --> 01:44:28.000 one percent shares to the tag team event. Okay, we're going to do 1537 01:44:28.039 --> 01:44:31.000 it our same sort of way that we do all of our giveaways wherever you 1538 01:44:31.039 --> 01:44:34.920 listen to your podcasts. We prefer Apple, but you can do it anywhere. 1539 01:44:35.000 --> 01:44:38.479 We don't care. We'll take it. We're not that that much of 1540 01:44:38.520 --> 01:44:42.760 a of sticklers of where the reviews go. But go leave a review, 1541 01:44:43.840 --> 01:44:49.079 take a screenshot of that review, send it in to podcasts at PokerGO dot 1542 01:44:49.079 --> 01:44:51.760 com. We will log you into our sheet. If you've already done a 1543 01:44:51.800 --> 01:44:57.319 review, can we make them re submit the review so we know they listeners. 1544 01:44:57.359 --> 01:44:59.399 I don't know, if I don't know, if you can you can 1545 01:44:59.439 --> 01:45:00.760 take a screen shot. Uh oh yeah, you could do that. Yeah, 1546 01:45:00.760 --> 01:45:03.800 I have everybody's name. So if you email us and say, hey, 1547 01:45:03.840 --> 01:45:06.159 I submitted, I'm saying, if I'm saying, if you've done it 1548 01:45:06.199 --> 01:45:09.319 in the past, don't worry that, like you can't do a new one 1549 01:45:09.319 --> 01:45:13.960 because we've already locked right, Like you're you're already there. Just yeah, 1550 01:45:13.960 --> 01:45:15.880 but if you want, if you want to resend, you can, you 1551 01:45:15.920 --> 01:45:20.199 can certainly go ahead. We're gonna we're gonna continue to remind everyone about this 1552 01:45:20.880 --> 01:45:25.439 from now until the event kicks off. So we have a little bit over 1553 01:45:25.479 --> 01:45:29.680 a month's time. We're gonna keep driving at home. We're gonna keep driving 1554 01:45:29.680 --> 01:45:34.880 it home, you know, the episode or two or whatever. Before the 1555 01:45:34.920 --> 01:45:40.840 event, we will draw all the winners and then all fifty of you will 1556 01:45:40.880 --> 01:45:44.319 have an action or a piece of our action. Hopefully we can make a 1557 01:45:44.399 --> 01:45:46.000 run to a cash and we can you know, get get you guys some 1558 01:45:46.039 --> 01:45:51.199 money if we don't happy to have you along. So for all those out 1559 01:45:51.199 --> 01:45:57.279 there who listen, that is how you can get into our giveaway for this 1560 01:45:57.399 --> 01:46:00.520 summer. We'll probably do some other giveaways along the way, but this is 1561 01:46:00.560 --> 01:46:01.680 this is the big one. Okay, this is the big one. You 1562 01:46:01.680 --> 01:46:05.359 guys can have some action, you can sweat along with us. So yeah, 1563 01:46:05.479 --> 01:46:11.279 fifty one percent pieces will be up for grabs. Leave a review for 1564 01:46:11.319 --> 01:46:15.880 the Poker Girl Podcast five stars only. Please, wherever you listen to your 1565 01:46:15.920 --> 01:46:18.000 podcast, take a screenshot of it. Take a picture of it on your 1566 01:46:18.000 --> 01:46:21.159 computer with your phone. I don't care. Just take a picture, screenshot, 1567 01:46:21.199 --> 01:46:27.159 whatever. Send it in via email podcast at pokergrow dot com. We 1568 01:46:27.199 --> 01:46:30.279 will log it. You will be in there. We will read some of 1569 01:46:30.279 --> 01:46:32.079 the reviews on the show. We always love doing that. We love hearing 1570 01:46:32.079 --> 01:46:38.039 from you guys. Feel free to email us in in general. I know 1571 01:46:38.119 --> 01:46:41.159 some people did email in about like some of the what if stuff, some 1572 01:46:41.199 --> 01:46:44.840 of the favorite WSP wins, you know, on some of those kind of 1573 01:46:44.840 --> 01:46:48.079 off topics that we did on some recent episodes. I do have to go 1574 01:46:48.199 --> 01:46:51.000 back and respond to all those, you know. Thank you for everyone has 1575 01:46:51.119 --> 01:46:55.960 who has reached out to via email. It's gonna be a great goddamn summer. 1576 01:46:56.279 --> 01:46:58.960 I cannot wait. I know, Tim cannot wait. You got anything 1577 01:46:58.960 --> 01:47:00.720 else to add or we get not here? I'm ready for bed, Buddy, 1578 01:47:00.800 --> 01:47:03.079 you are ready, Fred, you're here falling asleep over there. It 1579 01:47:03.159 --> 01:47:09.119 is midnight here. I'm gonna get this episode over to producer Rich Ryan. 1580 01:47:09.159 --> 01:47:12.600 He's gonna edit it and get it up on a line. Shout out to 1581 01:47:12.680 --> 01:47:15.760 him for all of his good work. He is, I would say, 1582 01:47:15.800 --> 01:47:18.039 probably the best best producer in the biz. Best one I've had, definitely 1583 01:47:18.079 --> 01:47:20.920 Proposer Podcast, because there's only like seven of them, so he has to 1584 01:47:20.920 --> 01:47:25.479 be at the top. No, But anyway, thank you guys for listening. 1585 01:47:25.600 --> 01:47:27.640 We will talk to you soon. I'm gonna be gonna try and do 1586 01:47:27.720 --> 01:47:30.920 this every single day. That's the goal every single day, and we have 1587 01:47:31.039 --> 01:47:34.199 we have a we have a secondary podcast, a little bit of a quick 1588 01:47:34.279 --> 01:47:38.039 hitting one that that I thought of that I'm going to be bringing to you 1589 01:47:38.079 --> 01:47:41.039 guys, so stay tuned for that as well. Once we get rolling here 1590 01:47:41.079 --> 01:47:44.439 in the next couple of days, you guys will hear what that is. 1591 01:47:44.520 --> 01:47:47.560 It'll be very quick, but it'll be very informative. My name is Donnie 1592 01:47:47.560 --> 01:47:51.000 Peters, his name is Tim Duckworth, and we'll talk to you guys next 1593 01:47:51.039 --> 01:48:01.720 time. Base O