Hello everyone, Welcome back to a new episode of the Poker Go Podcast.
My name is Donny Peters. I am joined by Tim Duckworth, fresh off
the first Poker gro Tour series of the twenty twenty four season. Tim,
how do you feel? Are you rested? You did a lot of live
reporting. I'm exhausted. At one point I saw you in the Aria Convention
Center hallway looking like a kind of a homeless person. Well, first of
all, they were my workout clothes because I was just at the gym.
So look, it's I'm a little exhausted. We had a stretch of events,
Lost Chance, Championship, kickoff, going to enjoy a little bit of
time off. But hey man, PGT never never never ends. It's all
right, love it it ends. There's you know, it ends every year
and then restarts. Yeah, restarts. There's like, no, there's no
time off. It's you know, players have complained directly saying you're not letting
us relax, and I say, you don't have to come. But yet
they're here on time. They're firing our events because they love it just as
much as we do. Yeah, I mean they do. They definitely don't
have to come. I mean they can't they can take time off that we
have to come. We have to be there. I mean the nah,
I don't know about that. I mean, I bet we could push the
envelope a little bit, and okay, I'm not willing to try that.
If you are good luck, you know. All right. On today's show,
we're going to talk about the PGT kickoff series that just wrapped up.
We'll also touch on the upcoming Poker Go Cup probably a short and sweet episode.
Every time I say that, we go forever, but you know,
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to talk about next week, maybe the next couple episodes as we really get
into not only the you know, the Poker Grow Tour season, but you
know, the Poker year you know as a whole. So so yeah,
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Community Cards. We have one. I feel like it's the same thing.
It's going to be the same thing all the time. But we'll play the
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Radio audience near and far, it is now time for a brand spanking,
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of the Poker Go podcast Community Cards. All right, the community cards is
who is it? Tim? Who is it? I mean, it's one
of our loyal listeners. Jeffrey Dean Platt is his middle name, Dean.
I don't know, just I felt like it just I mean, it kind
of fits to be honest, you know. Right well, he came and
donated five thousand dollars during PGT kickoff and then he was like, you know
what, I can't beat these guys. I'm going to go back to the
win. Played the eleven hundred event, five hundred and eighty six entrance.
He finished third, third place, fifty three thousand dollars. That's like what
three of his day rates I think combined for his uh, his commentary duties.
So congrats Jeff, third place, that's pretty good. You know,
there's no uh, there's no middle name on his Wikipedia entry. Wow,
weird, weird. Maybe there's only someone you can blame for that one.
I guess maybe he doesn't maybe he doesn't have one. He definitely has one.
Jeff was the last American standing in that tournament. Okay, First place
was David air Kiaga. I hope, I hope I said that correctly from
the Philippines. One hundred and four thousand dollars for David, and then second
place was Enrique Kevinias from Spain, just under seventy k for him, Jeff
is now up to seven hundred and sixty thousand dollars in career live tournament earnings.
The question for you, Tim is will Jeff eclips the million dollar mark
in twenty twenty four. I'm gonna say just under two hundred and forty k
short, that's a one score. That's like one score. But how many
events does Jeff really get to play nowadays? Thirty? This is a lot
he has to literally he's good, yeah, but he has to like bink
something big, like at the World Series. So yeah, but World Series
one of these like MSPT events that he has here in Los Angles, like
one hundred k though, he needs to win two of those. I'm gonna
say, but listen, it can happen. Now. I'm gonna say,
ready for this, the win World Championship twenty twenty five, that's when he
was five. I mean, I'm so far on the under it's not even
possible. He's gonna do it this year, for sure, going to happen
this year. If there was a betting market for this, I would I
would be I would be wagering on it. I'd be waging actual money on
Jeff eclipsing the one million dollar mark. All Right, that's it for the
I gonna add something. Okay, it's none on the runnow, but I'm
gonna add something. After PGT kickoff, Jim Collopy and Dylan Lindy, We're
at the bod drinking a lot of drinks and Jim was more drinks than Dylan.
He says he's a loyal uh podcast listening. He says, I listen
to the podcast every time. I didn't believe him because he doesn't even have
Twitter. And I want to mention this because Jeff, me and Dylan were
having a very strong discussion about the PGT and as I mentioned, Jim was
a few drinks deep and he's said to me that he wants to fight me.
Right, I want to put it out. I want to put that
out there in community cards because I feel like going, no, I'm not
gonna find it. But this is a test to see if A he remembers
that he said he wants to fight me, or and B is he really
a podcast listener or was he just like trolling me during PGT kickoff. So
next time I see Jim, I'm not going to bring it up. I'm
going to see if he is listening to this episode and then he goes,
oh, ship, did I actually was I so drunk that I told Tim
I wanted to fight him and then come and apologize. This is a little
test. I think he will tell you that he heard this or whatever.
Yep. And I don't think that he's going to apologize, acknowledge, acknowledge
the statement. Maybe that's a better a better friend, acknowledge this thing.
All right, Well, we'll see if that happens, we'll follow up.
But I would believe him that he is a listener. I mean, why
not, right, it's the best poker podcast in the lay of course.
All right. PGT Kickoff, the first PGT series of the twenty twenty four
season, is in the books. We did a little bit something different for
this series. First of all, there was an emphasis on the five thousand
dollars buy in price. Point four events were five thousand dollars, and then
the final event was ten thousand dollars. And then the second thing that we
did that was a different for this series is every tournament offered double PGT leaderboard
points, so you know, there wasn't a series leaderboard with some sort of
prize at the end of it. But every tournament within this series did offer
double points, which allowed some players, you know, all those players that
finished in the money in these events to get a boosted start to their twenty
twenty four or PGT campaign. We'll hit on some of those players in a
little bit, but you know, right off the top, got to ask
the commissioner himself, you know, what do you think, success, no
success? How do you feel about the first ever PGT kickoff series? I
thought it was great. I thought we had a lot of new faces with
the five k price point. Obviously, you know someone we're gonna mention on
the podcast a little later doesn't care that much for five k's that's fine,
but I think it's important in bringing some new blood into the studio, and
that's the goal with these these lower buyings. Regarding the double points, you
know, I'm not the hugest fan of gimmicks, but if we're going to
do something like this, I think it can really only work at the top
of the season, because you know, if players are going to bring up
variants, et cetera, it gives us enough time to eradicate the double points.
What it does positively for the PGT, it puts some people, gives
some people that head start, that that boost to the season where you know,
like we've heard it directly from David Coleman, I'm gonna have to play
a few more. You know, I'm going to probably play more events than
I thought I was going to because I've had this hot start, so you
can give some It gives people, you know, the incentive to play the
Popular Cup, play the USBO, play all these other events. Because they
had such a good start, They're going to try and you know, capitalize
on it. And I think that's kind of important in helping other events grow,
whether you think it's getting people in there that weren't in there or just
you know, just kind of helping the ecosystem a little bit. So all
in all, I loved it. We obviously had that drop off in the
fourth event, mainly due to the Sunday, but otherwise the four other events
kind of better than I ever expected it could have been. And let's not
forget well, God is running a big series, Seminals running a big series.
There's lots of stuff going on, and you know the fact that we
could still have such a great turnout is you know a great sign of support
for the PGT for the twenty twenty four season. Yeah, a lot of
a lot of kind of new faces, you know, as you hit on
you know, we're in the studio for these events, which was you know,
a big you know goal of this or one of the goals of this
series. You know, get some new people in there, some fresh blood.
Maybe they get a taste of playing inside the studio, maybe they have
some success, get some points, you know, cash for something, and
then they you know, hopefully parlay that into you know, something in the
Poker Goro Cup and then you know, next thing, you know, we've
attracted some more players into the PGT ecosystem in general. As for the events
themselves, five events and four winners, because somebody that you mentioned, David
Coleman won two of the five events. So David Coleman won the first event
for one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. Dylan Wiseman won the second event for
one hundred and twenty one thousand dollars. Dylan Wiseman getting his first no Limit
Hold Them tournament victory in the live realm. He had three prior tournament victories,
but not in Nolaman Hold Him. I think it was PLO and then
a couple of mixed games, or maybe two PLO and one mixed game,
but yeah, no, Nolaman hold him until even number two. Justin Young
won Event number three for one hundred and five almost one hundred and six thousand
dollars. Wild finish to that one. You guys can check the highlights over
on the poker gro YouTube channel, but the final hand was a banger three
way all in a lot of fun there. David Coleman runs it back in
event number four, winning that one for just under seventy four thousand dollars,
and then in event number five, surprisingly, David Coleman, you know,
did not win this one, but Kristin Foxen did. Kristin Foxen comes on
top. She defeated She defeated Daniel LeGrande and heads up play Okay. She
also topped her husband, Alex Foxen, who was at the table. She
actually knocked him out. She delivered a bad beat her queen's his aces queen
on the flop. See you later, Alex, you're sleeping on the couch.
You are not the top dog. I think she be on the couch,
wouldn't you? She deliver at the bad bait shouldn't she be on the
couch. No, Alex needs to be good enough to for his aces to
hold up. That's how this needs to work out, you know. And
yeah, but his chips went to a good spot, went to Kristin.
She was able to be an aggressive chip leader for much of the final table
and ultimately sealed the deal after a rather lengthy heads up a battle with Daniel
McGrane and you know, they went back and forth for quite a bit,
but ultimately Christin got the better of Daniel Legrand. There. All those final
tables are available to watch on rerun over on the Poker Go YouTube channel.
They're also on Poker Go, so if you missed any of that action,
you can tune in and watch you know, the the reruns or whatever whatever
you want to call of those they are available on demand. So the three
at least for me and you can you can jump in with anything. But
I got three headlining things that came out of the Kickoffs series. Number one
and we'll touch on these individuals, but number one it was the David Coleman
Show. Number two, Kristin Foxton showed out and number three Nigron News Hot
Start to twenty twenty four continues. Now when it comes to David Coleman,
I mentioned the two victories. He was at every single final table for the
first four events. He won E at number one, he won E at
number four. He racked up almost three hundred thousand dollars in prize money.
With the double points, he has five hundred and ninety PGT leaderboard points.
That's quite the start to the season. So two wins, four cashes,
almost three hundred kN winnings, five hundred and ninety leaderboard points. If things
play out over the twenty twenty four PGT season as they did last year,
the cutoff is what twelve hundred again, I would probably say slightly low of
this year, Okay, I like it los so Oney to eleven hundred,
let's call it. Coleman's more than half way there. It's been one series,
you know, so and as he mentioned, you know you touched on
it, him probably going to play or higher volume now that he's gotten this
start. He did talk about at one point that he was probably going to
be playing stuff like the PGTPLO series. You know, he does play PLO,
you know, said it's not his best game. That's no little bit
hold him, but he feels good enough in it that he'll he'll dabble in
at least some of those events, you know, trying to get points to
ultimately do the best that he can on this leader board. So can I
give you a stat a David Coleman's stat. Go ahead, you're the stat
maans. So would you say five hundred and ninety points he has? Yes?
Right? It took until event twenty seven of the PGT twenty twenty three
season until someone eclipsed that six hundred point mark and he's done at in four
events. So while without that a hot stop, yeah for sure. I
mean, of course the double point aspect helps, but even without that,
you know, he'd have what two hundred and ninety five points, so he'd
have you know, he'd be a quarter of the way there. Right,
So David Coleman, I mean, listen, I don't want to say I
called it, but I called it. He was my front runner for PGT
Breakout Player of the Year. I mean, I mean, I listen,
I still I still got it, right, I still got it. For
those of you who who don't know about David Coleman, just quickly, you
know, I'll run through some stuff on him. I mean, he's thirty
thirty years old. He's out of Livingston, New Jersey, but he now
resides here in Las Vegas. I think he's renting the house, which also
helps with the whole you know, playing a higher volume on the PGT because
the majority of our events are here in Las Vegas. So if he's now
living here, you know, he's certainly going to be able to fire a
lot more. He's a professional poker player now, but he did go to
college. He graduated from Rutgers University with a finance degree. He's the former
number one ranked online player in New Jersey, and he won the largest online
event ever held in New Jersey at least to date. He topped the field
of eight hundred and sixty eight entries and won fifty six thousand dollars in what
was the WPT Online Poker Open. Coleman does cite poker as an enormous part
of his life, but likes to maintain quality balance, you know, with
all things. He's got a love for sports. He likes spending time with
his three brothers. When it comes to sports, plays basketball, soccer,
and volleyball. Believe he also you know, did some cross country or some
track while he was in school. So yeah, and then he leans a
lot, you know, for his poker play, a lot on his you
know, obviously with the finance degree, you would guess that he's got kind
of a data driven and analytical background. He leans a lot on that as
it comes to his poker play. You know, he's analyzed, you know,
large amounts of data within his game to identify a lot of flaws that
coming from his experience in the online world. You know, he does kind
of lean to, I guess prefer online just because of the volume that you
can get in which is certainly understandable. Also the convenience factor there, but
then that in turn allows you to get many more data points, you know,
many more data sets that you can review about your own play plug some
leaks, get better, improve, all that sort of stuff. And you
know, of course you gotta run hot. He ran hot at times plenty
of times during the PGT kickoff series. So we'll see how much more that
plays out for the rest of the twenty twenty four PGT season. But as
of right now, David Coleman on top of the twenty twenty four PGT leaderboard
with five hundred and ninety points my second headlining thing. Kristin Foxen showed out.
Not only did she win that event number five, which was the ten
thousand dollars by an event, she took home one hundred and sixty five k
for topping Daniel Legrandu in the final heads up match of that event, but
she also took third in event number three, that was the one that was
won by Justin Young. That was the one that resulted in the three way
all in at the end of it. So you know, she did extremely
well. Four hundred and twenty nine points for her from the two cashes that
she had at the PGT kickoff series, almost two hundred and fifteen thousand dollars
in winnings. And guess what, Tim, guess what what? I picked
three people to break out on the PGT. Coleman was one, Kristin Foxen
was another. You picked Foxen. I did pick Foxy. I played the
Tavid Coleman, I listened to the tape before the podcast. I picked Kristin
fox and David Coleman and Eric Baldwin. You picked Jeremy Becker and Mark Aoli
marc On he played one event. I'm quite upset at him. Well,
that's your wrong. You got to do your research, man, Gotta do
your research, all right. Moving on from Kristin Foxen, who listen,
she's she was fun to watch before I move on, because she plays a
very aggressive style of so when you get her with the big stack in these
tournaments, it's fun to watch. When you get her at a final table
with a big stack, it's certainly fun to watch. At that event,
number five final tables, As I mentioned, it was both her and Alex
Foxen, we're at the final table. Both you know, were very entertaining,
very creative with their plays. I thought Kristen played, you know,
pretty lights out throughout the entire final table, and of course you know she
then goes on to win. So yeah, if you get a chance to
watch Kristen fox and play, she's extremely good, very entertaining. Anyone who's
aggressive is a lot of fun to watch, and she certainly falls within that
category. All right. The person she beat in that final event Daniel Legran
new hot Start for twenty twenty four. Now it is his hot start wasn't
fully in the twenty twenty four PGT season. Some of it was in the
end of the twenty twenty three PGT season, which happened to fall in twenty
twenty four. He won the first event of the pg Last Chance Series,
that was the final series of the last season. He won event number one,
and then he played one more event during that series he didn't cash.
He played the PGT Championship, didn't cash in that one, and then he
came second in event number five of this PGT kickoff series. So he's played
three tournaments in twenty twenty four that have required a buy in. The PGT
Championship, of course, is that million dollar free roll. So if we
omit that one, he's two for three in terms of cashes. And not
only are they cashes. You know, last year he had a lot of
cashes on the PGT. He had won twenty four to twenty five cashes.
This time it's a first and a second. This year, you know,
he had a lot of cashes overall. If you watched that video that he
put out reviewing his twenty twenty three stats, he had, you know,
a good amount of cashes last year, but nothing was big every like the
biggest one was like one hundred and twenty k. I think, and I
believe if I remember correctly that only like three or four member for six figures.
So that's not going to do it for negran New when he's playing,
you know, the buy ins that he's playing. You know, he plays
a three hundred thousand dollars super high rollable, he plays all the hunter k's,
the fifty K, he plays the two fifty k at the World Series
of Poker. So like all that's going to add up to, you know,
millions and millions of dollars in buy ins. So if you're not having
at least one, if not two, seven figure scores, it's probably going
to be very hard for you to come out in the black. And Negron
you didn't, you know, we've mentioned it many times, but lost two
point two to two point three million last year. But already this year,
already in twenty twenty four, he's gone with quality over quantity, only playing
when he feels good about it. He has a first place and a second
place finish. He's won three hundred and twenty three thousand dollars in uprizing.
Tim would say you about Negrowney's hot start, quality of a quantity. He's
preaching it, he's following through with it, and it's it's coming true.
Like he's had two from three. He is incredible start to his year in
poker twenty twenty four, and you know he's already said to us, Hey,
I'm not going to play these five k's. He said it on the
stream to Chrissy. Uh. I think he's just going to be more selective
with these events, even during the World Series, and I think everything's pointing
upwards for a big year for n Grunner. Yeah, and with the way
that he's been preaching it, as you said, and also coming through with
with with some of these these statements that he's put out there and you know,
talking about how he's only going to be feeling playing when he's feeling good,
et cetera. I think he needs to bring back dream declared deliver.
I mean right, I mean, yeah, he's dreaming, he's declaring it,
and he's he's so far he's delivered. So yes, we need to
bring it back. Hashtag dream to declared deliver Daniel. Let's go. You
need to start bringing that back. Put it on the timeline. The people
got to believe. We believe, so yeah, let's go. As things
shake out. For the PGT leader board, David Coleman's number one as mentioned,
five hundred and ninety points, Kristin fox In number two, four hundred
and twenty nine points. Shout out to me for picking them. As you
know PGT breakout players for this fourth season of the PGT Dylan Wiseman's third two
sixty five, a Ramzobian fourth two fifty sixth. Then we have Justin Young
dan On LeGrande, Jeremy Becker. Shout out to you, yea, that
was one of your players. He's seventh. He had some final table runs
two I believe two final table runs or maybe two cashes, but definitely one
final table run during this kickoff series. One hundred and seventy five points for
Becker. He's in seventh place. Then we have eighth places, Victor Ustamov
ninth place, Samuel Alaskawitz in tenth place, Sergei Kizlinski. So a lot
of different names within that top ten that you know you might not see just
outside the top ten. You got Steven Chidwick in eleventh, you have Jeremy
Osmyth in twelfth place. You got Alex Foxen in fifteenth place. You know
those are more of like the the regular names that you see on the you
know, on the PGT. Of course, it's very early in the season.
Get a lot of volume to go. Sean Winters down there in twenty
six, justin bonhom of twenty seven, so we'll see how things shake out.
And it's going to all start, of course, with the Poker Gro
Cup that's coming up in just over a week's time. We're taping this on
Wednesday, January seventeenth. The next Thursday, January twenty fifth, is when
the series officially gets underway. It's the fourth edition of the poker Gro Cup.
Previous winners include Daniel Legrandew, Jeremy Osmas, and Carrie Katz. This
time around, we are doing some things I guess a little bit differently,
or at least one thing a little bit differently. I would say three things
differently, three things differently. Five thousand dollars opener this time. Normally the
opener's ten K. This time we're going five K. We are also doing
the championship event is a twenty five thousand dollars buying. You know, in
the past, I believe that it's been fifty K. Now it's twenty five
K. And then the championship bonus this time around is twenty five thousand dollars
for the series leader board winner. I mean, Tim, you're the commissioner,
why don't you just talk about you know, the cup, what's what's
coming up, what people can expect, all that sort of stuff. Yeah,
obviously you touched on the five K opening event. Then we're using this
to hopefully, hey, let's leuis some you know, more new blood in
and a more affordable price point for some people to open the event. We're
also on the back end, you know, we dropped that from fifty to
twenty five. Actually, the first Prog Cup was one hundred K main event,
so it's gone hundred and fifty to fifty and now twenty five. We
just think that the twenty five k price point is is this better for the
majority of our play a pool. So what I mean is that we had
a lot of players playing the tens, some would take a shot in the
twenty five and then be just gone for the fifty. Well, now they
can really compete in every event, and the points race, I think is
going to be significantly more dramatic. It's going to involve more players that are
playing potentially everybody that's playing the twenty five K, so I think that's a
good thing for the leaderboard race. Regarding the Pocago Cup, you know,
we're going to be fresh off Borgarda wrapping up, fresh off Seminal wrapping up,
so hopefully all our players are back, they're ready to fire, they're
ready to win some money. And who knows, maybe Borgarda and Seminal crowns
some new one hundred thousand airs, some millionaires. I don't know if they
have anything that big, but we get some new a little bit of a
trickle off from that, maybe we get Bin Waning coming and playing everything and
being crowned the Pocago Cup champion. Who knows. So looking forward to it.
We've you know, obviously shifted it a little later in the in the
month, and anomally is this normally opens as a year, so we'll see
how that goes. And I'm kind of looking forward to it, looking forward
to, you know, kicking this We're already kicked off this season, you
know with PGT kickoff, and now we're just going to jump into the bigger
buying stuff. And I'm looking forward to seeing how this leaderboard shapes up,
seeing how you know, what David Coleman does, what what Chrissy Foxon does?
Do we see some of these new faces like that Victor Eusta, Marvin
Sergei, Nikita, you know, are they gonna they add new you know?
Are they part of the play pool. They're going to be in every
event. So looking forward to seeing how it all shapes out. I'm really
interested to see what that five thousand dollars opener draws just in terms of a
field size. I mean, there is a bit more brand power behind the
Poker Girl Cup than there is with you know, a PGT kickoff series or
PGT sprint something like that. I mean, this Poker Girl Cup is one
of our majors. You know. We got the Poker Girl Cup, we
got the US Proke Rope, and we have Poker Masters, So those are
our biggest series of the year, you know, and that's really how we
position them. So I think a lot of people are looking forward to Poker
gro Cup in general. They're gonna be coming off the heels of Lucky Hearts
down in Florida. You know, whatever's going on up at Borgata, what's
at the Winter Poker Open as well. So I don't know, maybe we
get a couple of people that have some scores there that dabble in. You
know. It was I think last year was it Samuel Laskowitz, I believe,
or maybe it was two years ago where he had a big score at
Borgotta, also had a final table at the Divasippy Colossus, you know,
but now he's kind of a mainstay in a lot of ways on the PGT.
So do we get someone that takes their shot that way? So we'll
see how things go. But yeah, I'm looking forward to it. I'm
curious with these satellites as well. Draw In the three days leading into Poker
Girl Cup on January twenty second, twenty third, twenty fourth, we have
three satellites running first two days on the twenty second and twenty third, there's
an eleven hundred dollars each day that'll award what one out of ten into one
of the ten k events. And then on the twenty fourth, we have
a five hundred and sixty dollars satellite which will award seats one out of ten
into the opening five thousand dollars events. I think I'm gonna have to try
and fire in that satellite. Oh yeah, honestly, I thought about just
playing the five K. To be honest, I just don't. I don't
know, We'll see. I mean, I don't know if I'm ready mentally
for that, so I'll probably skip it. But I would like this year
to play one of these five K events. So if we do a similar
sort of thing for USPO, if we do a similar sort of thing for
program masters, you know, maybe I'll look at that, right, Yeah,
you know, I think it would be It'd be a lot of fun.
It's always fun to play inside the studio. It's always fun to test
yourself. I mean, at least from where I sit as a player,
I would feel fine taking a shot in one of those events. I think
the ten thousand dollars buy ins, like, if I were to try and
take a shot in that, that might be a little bit too much of
a step up in competition for what I'd be willing to do, at least
at this stage, right, But I think you can get some players that
are kind of more closely aligned with my level in the five ks, you
get some satellite winners, et cetera. So so yeah, that's what I
would go for. But I think this this January twenty fourth satellite seems like
a good one. I mean, why not, right, take a five
hundred dollars shot, five hundred and sixty dollars shot, get on in there,
maybe parlay it, maybe you run it up. Whatever, let's go.
So next, maybe go on to David Coleman esque run. Maybe I
can go on and I will tell you this. If I were to play
the satellite and I win a seat and then I win the first event,
I might just yolo the whole series. Whole series. I mean, why
not, right? Why how are you gonna going to David Coleman run if
you don't give yourself the maximum opportunity? That is a good point, right,
you know, so let's go. That's a of course, that's a
pipe dream. But yeah, you know, who knows. Well, we'll
start with the satellite, go from there. All final tables from Poker Go
Cup are going to be live streamed on poker Go. January twenty six is
when they start. Those carry through to February third will be that final event.
What one day off in there? That Sunday in there, Yeah,
taking Sundays off for football. That'll be Championship weekend. I think so,
so, Yeah, I don't know, do you have anything else to talk
about, because I don't. No ready, I'm ready for bok A Cup,
are you though? Because you said you we kicked off the episode by
saying that you were extremely tired. I just want to make sure that you're
ready, because you know, we only did five six days of reporting and
you're already talking about you're being tired. Okay, let's okay. Well,
no, we need five days of reporting on the back of two days of
championship, on the back of six days. I know, I know,
I know, I get it. I'm just giving you some crap. Man.
Come on, I'm really curious, you know, to kind of see
what comes out of I know this isn't PGT related, but what comes out
of Seminole for Lucky Hearts, What's what comes out of Borgata for that winter
pokeer open. I did see one of our PGT regulars, Rehn Lynn,
ripped off a twenty five K bounty in the in their Mystery Bound. Yeah,
to be honest, I was surprised it wasn't the five hundred, which
is the biggest bounty prize. But uh, I think next week we'll do
an episode before Poker Girl Cup starts. We'll do some We'll do some predictions
on you know, how we think Poker Go Cup is gonna play out,
maybe pick some players do That's that sort of stuff, and then we'll also
hit on, you know, the stuff that's happening down in Florida, the
stuff that's happening on the East coast or the northeast up in Borgata. So
yeah, it's kind of a I mean, it's it's January comes hard for
poker. Yeah, you know again, two three weeks off whatever it is
for the holidays, and then boom, everyone's you know, right back into
it. So yeah, I mean it's it's pretty crazy. I'm assuming plenty
of the PGT players will be at either, if not both, Florida and
Borgoda stops, right. I mean, I know a lot of them are
traveling down there, So I've seen a lot of Bogada that I didn't expect
to go to Bogada. So I'm looking at you go, don't you go
to Seminole first and then up to Borgata? Yeah, But like I've like
I'm saying, play as well, do you want to go to Borgoda?
First of all, Atlantic City is trash. Second of all, the weather
sucks, right, now, so, like I mean, not that the
weather is good ever, the weather is really not good. Ever, it's
Atlantic City, and I can say that because I'm from the Northeast. I
mean, like during the summer, you get what seventy five to eighty,
Like okay, cool, but it's Florida. Yeah, that's what I'm surprised.
Like even the guys that kick off talking, Yeah, I'm flying a
Bogada on Wednesday, and like a lot of people were choosing that over the
early events of Seminole. So must just be a value thing. Yeah,
I mean those a lot of those people that come out for those Borgata events
are you know, I would guess that the pros view them is quite valuable.
But honestly, you know, I probably think the same for some of
those opening events for the Florida tournaments, right, I mean, they get
thousands of people in these fields. Yeah. I think we also hurt the
Seminal on Bolgada feels because a lot of there are some players that are saying,
I'm not even gonna go to either. There's so much you know,
we've just played two weeks of poker here, we have a week off and
then we have another two weeks of poker. So you know, there's some
people just gonna use this week off to actually take a week off. So
come on, no one actually takes a week off. Let's that's what they
say. Doesn't mean they're gonna follow what they say. They're gonna be on
a plane tomorrow. Okay, Like it's not happening. No one takes a
week off. The only people that actually might take a week off are like,
well, daniel Leigranu quality over quantity, and like Jeremy Osmas because he
has a family and kids and kids are back in school now, so like
you gotta deal with all that sort of stuff. But like the poker players,
like if Jesse Lonis told me he was taking a week off, I'd
be like, you're lying to me. I mean, although Jesse Loans does
have kids, so who knows. I played basketball with Jesse Lenis yesterday.
I saw that he looks like he's got game. He's very good. I
was like, dang, he's like like the video that you put on your
social media was basically just him dribbling the ball up of the court and then
took a shot. His form looks like it needs a little work on the
shot okay, but it was still it was still much better than you would
guess from a poker player. Yeah, he was, he was, but
he's dribbling. I was like, he looks like he's been playing his whole
life. I mean he probably has, but yeah, but he looked very
good, you know. So so yeah, was then was there anyone else
that was good and or bad? Do you want to pay people on blast?
Well, your basketball game you used to be like good, very rusty,
very rusty, but you got to get in on it. I just
wanted to get the run round and it was it was me, Jesse,
Lonas Adams, Ralph Wong, and then it was a couple. You know,
it seems like a lot of cash game guys. I didn't really know.
But it was fun. It was It was good to dust off the
old basketball shoes. I've kind of retired those for soccer cleats. But it
was good to get out. I did not shoot at all. I think
I took two shots. I was just kind of passing and trying to get
into the groove of things. But it was fun. A good bunch of
blokes to shoot some on the teams I was playing with. We had one
game where I was trying to assist Adam Hendrix and he kept just bricking.
He just was like missing the next game, same stuff. But he was
hitting everything, so that was good. And then Aram Zobian's brother, I
think his name's Garan. I'm not sure. He shot a lot and did
not make that many. I would have thought you would have said, Jesse
Lona's shot a lot simply because I'm only drawing off one ten second video that
I saw of yours. He literally dribbled up the court and took a three.
Yeah. Oh he's gonna be one of those players. He's just gonna
take all the show. He was very good. He he did shoot a
lot, but he also got he got into the key a lot for some
layups. But he only played. We played like three hours for forever.
He played like two games and had to leave. So uh, can't really
give my full judgment, but yeah, Jesse was very very good. Okay,
so if you're then I played soccer last night, and soccer not a
poker player. It's just just the Vegas group. But like, my legs
are completely dead today. Like I'm just I don't worry. Man, I'm
so old, I can't handle it anymore. None of us can. We're
all too old and washed up. All right, Well that's gonna do it
for us. His name is Tim Duckworth. My name is Donny Pears.
We will talk to you guys in just about a week's time as we preview
Poker Go Cop and hit on some of the other happenings around the poker world.
Until then, have a good rest of your week, have a good
weekend, and we'll talk to you soon. Say yeah Express night, Jenny Express.