Hello, everyone, Welcome back to a new episode of the Poker Go Podcast.
My name is Donny Peters. His name across the table from me is
Tim Duckworth. What's going on, sir? How are you? I'm doing
great, great, I'm happy we're doing great. That's great. I'm doing
all right myself. Thanks for asking to appreciate it. Um, bubble is
looming. Yes. In the twenty twenty three World Series of Poker Main Event,
the record shattering twenty twenty three World Series of Poker Main Event, they
bagged up the players about what fifteen spots, maybe a few less off the
money, something like that. It's pretty close. Fifteen oh seven pay.
I think there was around fifteen twenty fifteen twenty one was on the clock,
so I think it was. Oh, I take it down a few times,
okay, okay, here we go. So tomorrow the bubble will burst.
I'm pretty confident in saying that. How you sure? I mean,
you never know, right, there's always a possibility that stuff can happen,
But no, the bubble will burst tomorrow. I'm guessing sometime in the first
level of the day, they did play the complete five levels that were on
the structure today they made it all the way to the end, pause that
clock. With ten minutes left, they announced two hands, which I'm not
so sure that was legit because I've never heard them ever draw two hands in
any tournament in the universe. I don't even think they but the two and
it was two hands. But you know whatever, we get it. Um.
On this episode of the Poker Girl podcast, we had community cards.
Do we have community? We had an update? The hats are flying out
the door. Tim writes the main events on the bubble. As I just
talked about Chance Corneth is cruising with a ton of chips. Tim spoke with
Chance. Um. I spoke with who I think is the star of the
show, Nick Rigby. But big rig this guy is incredible. I know
a lot of people fell in love with him in the twenty twenty one main
event. He's back now. He's absolutely crushing. I spoke with him after
play. Tim road here Donnie dusted, I mean I didn't dust. I
got absolutely aft all day today. It was unbelievable. Polo Bounty is playing
to a winner. There's a huge, huge, huge day one ce Field
in the set one hundred and seventy seven dollars Lucky Seven's event, we'll talk
about what's coming up, and then I guess we'll touch on what's happening kind
of down the street at the World Poker Tour everyone for one Drop tournament.
That's the ten five dollars I think ten million dollars guarantee. They had Day
one A today, so we'll touch on that as well jam Pack show.
The bulk of it will be the w SPE main event. So let's go
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all right, So news and happenings. As I mentioned at the top of
the show, the twenty twenty three WSP main event is on the bubble.
I know it's a few spots away, but you know it's close enough to
say that it is on the bubble. They've bagged up overnight. They are
coming back for day four and it is going to be absolutely incredible. The
Bubble day is one of my favorite days, if not my favorite day in
the Wheel series of poker main events, and largely because of what we started
on this podcast is the special edition Bubble Pod where we run around the field
during the bubble when they're playing hand for hand, talking to anyone that we
can get on the mic for short snippets, also just kind of relaying the
action as we hear it. This year, we're going to be handing off
all of the recordings over to our producer, rich Ryan, and we'll see
if he can figure it all out and sort it for us. But I'm
a little wired. You bring a lot of pressure on me. Yeah,
you've never done this before, so I got to give you the lay of
the land. But we'll figure it out. It's a lot of fun.
All you need to do. Bring your phone, Okay, you can bring
that little microphone that I gave you, and bring an external like a portable
charger for your phone because you're gonna need it while you're out there. Okay,
yep, that's what you need. I'm a little stressed out. It's
fine, it's great. It's a lot of fun, all right. So
the Chip leader, I think, although I'm not sure I'm confirmed who it's
unconfirmed. Well, they we're gonna have an official Yeah, it's unofficial,
but it looks like Antonio Heredia is the leader at least for the chip stacks
right now. One million, eight hundred ninety nine thousand in the bag,
Chance Corneth not too far behind, one million, eight hundred and eighty seven
thousand, pay Lee one million, seven and forty two thousand, and the
Big rig himself, the Dirty Diver, the Yanser, Nicholas Rigby one million,
seven hundred and nineteen thousand in the bag. It was a day.
It was an absolute what are you doing? I canna help myself? What
is that? It's the podcast Mike and the Milky Way. Oh my god,
the Milky Way. Pay attention to the show. But I think that
would be funny. I want to put an attention to the show. All
right. So they came back. I don't even know how many players they
came back with today. How many did they come back today? Three thousand,
five hundred or something like that. Yeah, I had multiple different numbers,
but three five seven three was what I'm going with. Well, what's
on the report? Well that's where I have the issues because this is the
number that is one thing, and then there's a bat amount of people on
the last is a different number, of course it is, so why would
be lost with that? Anyway? People were flying out the door today,
flying, you know, coming into the into the day. You know,
no one really thought that, or at least the l likelihood of reaching the
money seemed on the lower side. But as the day went on, it
was like, wow, we're getting you know, the people are flying out.
They getting pretty close, you know, they get down to it.
The math didn't work out. They did pause the clock with ten minutes left,
as they always do when there's a rejar coming, and they announced that
there was two hands left to be played. There was a whole heck of
a lot of tanking going on out there. I watched it. We were
in the field, we were watching. It happened, but you know a
lot of people made it through. I think I watched Fabian Quass tank for
four minutes pre flop, which was crazy what happened. He tanked for like
four or five minutes. He had two k left. The big line was
six K position was he had, I mean he was middle position. I
just don't know exactly where he had like three hands until he was going to
be in the big line. So it was just before they had announced the
yes, this is this is before. So he's tanking, tanking, tanking.
He finally puts his final two K and somebody else, I think the
next guy raised to twelve, either twelve or thirteen. I think the guy
in the big blind or the small blind might have called his well. Anyway,
the flap came like King King high, King like five douce or King
five three or so some ridiculous and the guy, the first guy bets,
he bets the other players out of the hand, and then he like shows
Fabby in his hand and like points at him and like he was kind of
gesturing like you like he had Queen high, he had Queen Duce high.
I'm like a King six three board that could still be good though no,
it was not good. Fabian had a seven Queen high because still be No,
it was potentially go it was not good. And anyway, Fabian's hand
holds up. He wins the pot, so he's got a little bit of
life. I mean, still has a lot of work to do, of
course, but depending on the redraw that he gets tomorrow four day four,
you know, he could uh, he could squeak into the money. You
know, but we'll see people certainly were not backing down from playing big pots,
you know, even though the money bubble approach. I mean, these
people are flying the money. Yeah, I mean it was like unbelievable.
I saw some ridiculous bluffs. I saw one guy try and bluff Nick Marchington
on a jack three deuce nine ten board. There was a it was jackoharts,
three deuce of diamonds, nine o'clubs, ten o'clubs. The guy bets
like two hundred k on the river or something. Nick Marchington's in the tank
forever. Finally, this gentleman the floor, like the floor people are running
all over the place right trying to grab all the sea cards, make sure
everything's an order. Blah blah blah. Floor comes like walking by his table.
This guy goes four. The floor guy kind of like turns around,
but then like keeps walking because the floor guy knows that the player, like
he could you could tell that he sends that a player called the floor,
and the player again was like flour and so that the floor turns out did
you call floor? And so the guy or the floor guy comes over and
he's like yes, and the guy's like clock. And and I'm standing next
to Tony Dunns, and Tony duns is like, you know, his gangster.
When the guy who made the bet calls the clock, I said,
yeah, And it's extra gangster that he didn't even tell the dealer. He
literally summoned the floor and then told the floor himself that he wanted the clock.
Dumb. Yeah, like he didn't say anything to the dealer. He
didn't say he didn't say anything to about the clock. Everyone that was watching
knew that it was gonna be a clock, but he waved till the floor
came over. He was like clock, I love it. So then so
the dealer count the flour bank counts down the clock and they do what thirty
seconds and then with five seconds left, they count you down. So they're
counting him down, you know, I don't know. It's like the flour
guy says five as he's gonna start the five second countown and Nick Marchington calls.
So the other guy, the guy who gets called um says like,
you know, good call, right or first he doesn't say anything for like
three seconds and he's a good call. And then he's just sitting there and
Nick Marchington is also sitting there, and then and then Marchington turns his hand
over right and he's got Jack seven for top hair, and the other guy's
like, I gotta nie. And then then he stands up and his cards
are still faced down, and I'm like thinking in my head, I'm like,
he's gonna table the winner. I'm like, I just have this weird
feelings. Then he like picks his hand up and he's like looking at it
and I'm like, oh my god, he's gonna like he's gonna like drop
down like two pairs somehow, Like this is gonna be so sick. And
then he puts his hand on. He had Queen nine, so he didn't
have the best of it. But it was just such a funny situation.
I mean, these people are just blasting off. I saw Dylan Wiseman want
a massive pot, doubled up on a king Jack eight flop, gets it
all in with pocket eights against the guy with aces um. That was a
wild hand. If he gets like, yeah, you mentioned, everyone's kind
of bloasting and we're kind of figetting about the money. They played three days
of polka. It's like, okay, now they're just gonna kind of stack
off within the rage of making the money. It seems so odd that you
would put his what is it, nearly thirty hours of play and just to
like, yeah, I mean, I just don't. I don't think people.
I don't think people really think like that. It's funny because I feel
like people have to for whatever reason. There are listen, there are people
who when you get close to the money, they're well aware of the money's
coming, right. Yeah, you know. I feel like a lot of
people though, they for whatever reason, there's like some mental block in their
brain that they can't wrap the head around that they're nearing the money until they
hear the loudspeaker and the tournament staff or the head of the supervisor or whatever
says we are going to hand for hand player. We are on the bubble
like until that hits their head and they hear that. They actually can't get
it through their brain that they are close to the money. It's like this
thing kept like every time they take the clock down, like we're obviously sweating
it because we're trying to film the whole thing, like you know, our
production chatters going nuts, and like, you know more, he's like they're
not going to hit it then more. He's like, oh, they're getting
closed, you know, because every time they updated the clock they dropped it
by like ten spots. It was getting ridiculous. Like we're like, um,
this is gonna get kind of close. You know. I can speak
from first hand experience that sometimes you just gonna have a brain and fought on
the bubble of the biggest tournament in the world. Uh, what are we
gonna say? Maybe sixty percent of the people silly in and probably very new
to Poka most likely, and you know, things happen. You kind of
forget way you are, forget what you're doing, and like I said,
have a little brain, fot and maybe push all in with a hand.
You probably should. I mean it was some of the hands that I saw
were wild. Also on the other side of things, you saw, you
know, some very good big stack play, you know, Chance Corne did
well, Nicholas Rigby did well, Frost Joca did very well, Steven Chidwick,
Chris Brewer, like all all these guys who are very very good players
and can certainly ramp up the aggression when needed, they were just abusing the
bubble. Mickey Douek had a big stack. He was abusing the bubble.
Nick Marchington, I think was you know, in there doing his thing as
well on the bubble. It was. It was a lot of fun to
watch these big stacks with the bubble. And one of those big zacts was
Chance Corneth, who's been having himself one hell of a summer. Okay,
so it's kind of only fitting that he's now at least in the top five
of the chip counts, if not second going into day four. So afterwards
you caught up with Chance. Yes, you spoke with him, So let's
listen to that interview now, sending him a Chance Corneth, I am pretty
sure you're the chip lead at one point eight eighty seven million in chips.
Now. I spent the last you know, our walking around you know,
the tournament area, and I talked to everyone. They agree that, even
chop Is, you know, they're all in. It's about sixty thousand and
change and we're on you to make the final decision. What do you say?
Maybe next year? All right, maybe maybe next year. I probably
stood around here for ten minutes watching you play. It felt like you played
every hand. Oh yeah, you must love the bubble and with a massive
chip sign. I mean, this was incredible, But bubble started for us
at our tablet like eighteen hundred left, and I waited a lot longer to
really go for it than I would have otherwise. Maybe because table was so
friendly and I don't want to punish it was bad. Or maybe it was
just right to fold the dirty diaper. You know, I'm not Riggsby,
but for about eleven players away from the money, Okay, we know in
you know, many ease of experiences, probably going to take another two hours.
Probably would you prefer to continue playing tonight it's already you know, twelve
thirty, or are you good with this decision? Coming back tomorrow fresh m
It's tricky because like I like everyone at my table and so like continuing to
punishing them on the bubble is like, you know, I don't mind punishing
other people, but I think that in general it's actually quite bad. You
know. It's like, this is a major, major stage in the tournament
for people to make these decisions, and all of a sudden, recreational players
pros alike are just going in line. You don't know if the guys playing
like Riggsby or playing like some tight older gentlemen. And so it's really really
dicey when like now people are on this fifteen K pay jump or you know,
zero to fifteen k and and they have zero information. So overall,
I actually think it's a big negative. I don't really know what else they
can do. You're already denied the fifteen way charpen, hundred way charpe for
you personally, Chip leader heading in today four, what is the floor that
you expect to perform in this event. I don't really think about it that
way, Like I just approach every hand. I want to play every hand
to the best of my ability, and you know, one hand at the
time a time, one day to time. Look, if you're watching the
broadcast and now you may have seen a little segment with me and Donny appearing.
Jeff came over asked us to be in it. I'm not sure if
it made the cut, but I think it did make it deep because Sam
Cosby showed it to me. Okay, he needed that help. We helped
him out. Then, as people are bagging up, I'm standing next to
Chance watching waiting, and I see Jeff Platt coming over there in his little
expressed boys suit and says, I'm going to interview Chance, I'm going to
vulture your interview, and just took it. Just took all my glory of
interviewing the what I thought was the chip leader at the time. What are
you gonna do? Man? Production wins out. Even though we're kind of
part of production, they still be Jeff just tossed me to the side like
a rag. I mean, it is what it is, you know,
m But you got it in there anyway. Yeah, and you were able
to Chance Jeff actually talk to me, talk to another person, took seven
selfies with people that he was playing with, all with a smile on his
face. It's tricky. So you know, we're out there while these players
are bagging trying to find some people to get some interviews. The way that
the Horseshoe specifically is set up, it doesn't help what we're trying to do.
And the reason why I say that is because it's a traffic jam trying
to get out of this place. Yes, you know, it's like I
would I would. I would like in it too. When you're at a
sporting event and everyone leaves a sporting man at the same time, and everyone's
stuck in the parking garage, like that's basically what it's like. And you
have to funnel from the event center at Horseshoe. You have to funnel down
a relatively narrow hallway. I mean it's not super narrow, but it's compared
to like the one over at Paris, and it's like everyone has to go
through the same hallway. It's not it's not what it was at the Rio.
It's probably half the width of the Rio right about the way and a
third of the high Well, yeah, the height is very low, you
know, so anyway, but you all have to go out that way the
other. You know, at the Rio, you all kind of went out
and like it's kind of was spread out. You went into the parking lot
everyone there was like two different ways to get in and out. It was
multiple, Yeah, it was. It was kind of spread out. Um
Here, it's like basically one way in, one way out type of situation.
Um So everyone like is like trying to bag up their chips as fast
as possible, trying to get out there. You see people, you know,
we talked about it on yesterday show. You see people that you know,
they just leave early. They don't play the last couple of hands,
so they can beat all the traffic, so it's not conducive for us trying
to grab players and keep them from an extra draft five or ten minutes,
because you know they don't want to. But on the flip side of that,
you know Chance is obviously really good at that. You know, he
enjoys it and he you know, does take time out of his day,
and we appreciate that. What I was gonna lead into is that if that
was me and I was like a Chance Cornis, I mean, Chance might
not need it, but because he already is, you know, known in
the industry, known to poker fans around the world, et cetera. But
this is like your moment, you know, they could be your moment that
this tournament we see it every single year. Okay, you see chip leaders
on day three, Day four, Day five, they ultimately like, don't
crack the top twenty seven because this tournament is such a beast. There's so
many obstacles. Everything can you know, go you know, left, right,
up, down, sideways like it can just fall apart. So while
you're in the spotlight, you might as well take advantage of it. Do
all the interviews that you can, um, you know, take the selfies,
all that sort of stuff. Take the photos, talk to Jeff Platt
on camera, like you know everything right, Like just do it while you
can soak it up because you don't know how long it'll last in this thing.
A couple hands go your go, you know, not your way,
and you're just you know, you're on the sidelines watching. Kind of one
person who I feel like kind of caught some of that, uh at Spark
a couple of years ago, Nick Rigby, the Yinzer out of Pittsburgh,
the dirty guy, Big himself, the Big rig I mean, this guy
is like he's he's moved up my favorite poker players to watch list so damn
fast. Yeah, he's amazing. And then I spoke with him after play
today he bagged one million, seven hundred nineteen thousand. I mean he's like
he knows that, like he's like a bit of a blaster, but he
just like he doesn't care, like you know, he's like, this is
this is how I play, this is what I do. I mean,
it's awesome what I love about Rigby. Day one day finished with four hundred
and eight thousand. Day two ABC second in chips with eight seventy nine.
Day three unconfirmed. Maybe he's somewhere in the top five, but one point
seven million in chips. Yeah, and he's just Chipichim said, like,
you know, he got out to one point four then he got down to
nine hundred, and then he got back up to what like he's all over
them over the place. He's like, there was a guy that started three
better me, Like, I mean, listen, well, I'll just play
the interview. You guys into it. I'm here at the end of day
three. Nicholas Rigby, how did you do today? I came out of
the gates hot. I started the day with just over nine hundred k.
I came right out and got up to one point four million. Was feeling
pretty good. There was a player at my table that proved to be a
little bit difficult. He was three better me, light with some smaller pocket
pairs, and we battled for you know, better end of four or five
hours there towards the end, and I got the best of him at the
end. I mean he's still sitting probably in six hundred thousand, but he
shot up over million at one point, and I mean we were just swinging
back and forth. We might as well have been playing heads up honestly.
So I got in some trouble. I went dropped down from the one point
four to nine. I lost a huge hand where he peeled on it with
a gutshot against me and hit it and I paid him off. I lost
like four hundred thousand, So I dropped down like five hundred and twenty k
at a point in time, and I made a couple of big spots where
I peeled, peeled, hit a guy, are on someone flop two's foot
one hand, and next thing you know is right back over a million.
And then just apply the pressure in this last hour, who got up over
one point seven? So you're smiling there as you're telling me about your day.
You obviously must love playing the style that you do. Do you ever
worry that it's gonna backfire against you? Or are you just really confident in
how you play? I mean, I'm confident in how I play. It
could definitely be volatile at times when you're sitting there trying to push the issue,
but I mean it needs to be done with the big stack, and
let's everyone dreams about playing with a big stack. It should be the easiest
way to play. But you're just kind of sick once you take those dips.
So I'm glad I could backback, bounce back at the end. There,
What have you learned from the last run you had back in twenty twenty
one that you're taking to this run? Now, just take a couple more
breasts and think about some hands. These guys don't want to bluff me.
I mean, I've caught him in spots and first hand back after dinner break
on day six a year and a half ago, was sick for me.
Came back out of your slow played aces. I flopped queen high flush and
he's got the ace of hearts and just peels off hearts and I just I
pay him off like about third of my stack, just like mistakes like that.
Like he's not bluffing in those types of spots. So it's just kind
of being like more consciences and these different spots and whether or not you know,
tournament chips are valuable. I don't think that these guys want to sit
there and risk bluffing a madman such as myself. So and I think after
the first hand after dinner break tomorrow, if I do make it that far,
one won't find me back immediately after dinner break because today I also flopped
trip kings with a ten kicker and some guy flopped five full kings against me,
So first hand after dinner break is not for me. How many how
many diapers were dished out today? I think I won with it three times
and the fourth time it was a really odd limp. The hijack to my
immediate right, there was someone that was sitting short stack for quite a while
and I opened a five X and the cut off and the uh, the
button elected to jam for jam for about eleven big So I'm already rolling my
eyes where I know I'm gonna have to call the diaper off, probably drawing
near dead, but the price would probably be right. Uh. The odd
limp, which was the only limp of the day, alexa shove for about
two hundred thousand, So that makes my decision pretty easy where I fold the
diaper. The holdings of the limper were aces, the button were nines,
The flop was eight seven deuce, the turn was the three, and the
river was the three. So that was a little deflating to watch that run
out. But you know, you can't fold the hand that you're made for.
Yeah, that's because that's karma. Just coming back to bite in the
ass. So h no, but you know I don't. I'm not gonna
call it the diaper against taces so sick to see. I think that happened
last year as well, where I folded it and I was up would be
up against kings and as king in the flow us three or three twos.
I mean, they're gonna have that. But as long as you're making the
right folds, then you can't dwell on stuff like that. I'm gonna trying
to talk to him, maybe not every day, but maybe every other day
something like that, because he's just he's a treat. If he keeps doubling
up every day, we're gonna have to speak to him. He plays like
an animal. Okay, he speaks very well. He loves it. He's
well aware of the situation. Like I just I love it. I'm entertained
by him. What's the story exactly? Um, I mean he's just from
Pittsburgh. I think he's actually a dealer. Um. And then you know,
plays poker on the side, takes some shots. I think he's a
bit of a you know, a gambler in a lot of ways, Like
he seems like a type of guy or from everything that I've heard, you
know, he kind of saves up some money plays him, takes some big
shots in some cash games, some tournaments like the ten thousand dollars main events,
stuff like that, and you know, tries to spin it. Right.
That's great. That's how to get him in the PGT. I think
that's the most important question. How do we get him in a shittio doesn't
necessarily feel like a guy who I mean, he needs cash for a million
or more, That's what I'm saying. So he needs to come in eighth
place. Well, I feel like I feel like, you know, not
the PGT. We need to get him on like No Gam in the Future,
yeah, poker, like you know, get him on the cash game
shows, especially if he is a I mean I've heard he likes to play
the cash games in the in the Fitzburgh area. So if he's a cash
guy, like, I mean, let's go, let's get him in some
of those shows, right. I mean, could you imagine Rigby on No
gaml in the Future, Jeff Platon, Brett Hanks calling it. He's out
there messing around that that wheel every second, but that that show, Like,
you know, we could make we could make the show like instead of
having seven deuce on the on the Wheel of Pain, yeah, we could
have the dirty diaper on there. You know, I'm all in on this
side of this is the greatest idea you've ever had. We'll build a whole
damn show around Nick Rigby. I mean, this has to happen, you
know, just kind of looking around the room. Some other notables who have
bagged up chips. Stephen Chidwick, I think he bagged seven figures stack,
Yeah, one point one zero six million. You had Yury Zeveleski, Maurice
Hawkins, Jason Somerville, Dylan Wiseman, Julian Martini, Nick Guaganty, Alex
Foxon, James Ops, Patrick Antonius, Bert Traun, Elkie Grosspellier, Andrew
Neimi, Alexandra Botez, Ryan Garcia, the Boxer, Ben Lamb, and
Jason Mercier all bagging chips. You also had Joe Hasham, former Manhiman Champion,
as Is, Johnny Chant, Chris Moneymaker, Joe Kata, and Jamie
Gold. So all those former champs are still in kind of cool to see
Jamie Gold still in the mix. Of course, this WSP main event set
the record for the largest World Series of Poker main event ever, breaking the
two thousand and six Wman Events record, and that was the year that Jamie
Gold famously won it. All notable eliminations including some champions two fall, Ryan
Reese, Joe mckeann and Damien Salis. And I'll say Asterick Barry Showman.
He won Europe. He didn't win the one champ. He didn't win the
one here. M Sean deeb also busted, Bart Hanson, Martin Zamani,
JC Tran, Randy Ohel, George Holmes, Elie Elezra, Todd Brunson,
Tom Dwan who busted on the main feature table under the bright lights and cameras,
Mike Madison, Robert Ms, Rocky David, the gun slinger back and
you had to do it, I did. You had to do it,
of course, Donny Peter, we got to talk about it. I had
to put you in it. Just brutal. We want to talk about we
wanted let's talk about the day we started with eighty two thousand. I started
with eighty two thousand. He ran it up. I was in a perfect
seat. I was in the corner of the room. It was cold over
there. There was no tables behind me. I was in my favorite seat
at the table. You were on the back wall. Was literally on the
back wall. It was the bet. It was honestly the best seat in
the whole house. I'm not joking. Yeah, that seat that I had,
the absolute top top seat in the whole house. So I'm feeling good.
Um. I got to be very active early, which was a very
different than the first two days and I had when I was just didn't have
any hands, didn't really have any spots, so I had to be very
selective and practice a whole crap ton of patients. But this one, UM,
I had some good hands to start. I had some good spots early
on, so I was very active early. Immediately went from eighty two to
one hundred and twenty or so. I end up losing one pot to go
back under a hundred. When I three bet A's Queen Middle Physician opened,
I threw about the button. Um it came king high on the flop.
I got check called on the flop and then I shut it down after that,
but I did find a double do that same guy. I opened the
LoJack with pocket sevens. He three bet from the big blind. I decided
I had I think thirty two or thirty three bigs at the time. I
decided to put it in let's go. I said, you know what,
let's go. I'm not here to just play like a giant baby, so
we're gonna put this in here. And for whatever reason after after I had
three bet that guy and watching him play early on, I got the sense
that he was going to take the approach of like not letting himself get bullied
in a way, you know, so like he might three bet a little
bit lighter. I did see him like three bet at ten nine off at
one point, like he played some weird hands. He happened to have ace
king this time he had ace king off, so he calls it off.
But the seventh hold, baby, because we win flips, that's what we
do. It was my fourth time all in the tournament and I won.
I had won all of them so far, so feeling good. It was
really weird because the money went in and I was like, I just I
like the board ran out and I like didn't even feel like I was like,
I'm just gonna win this hand, Like I just that I was gonna
win some confident. Yeah, it was I don't know it was just weird.
You just sometimes you know you feel that way, and then other times
you feel the opposite, and then you know they just smack you right away.
You're just like of course, you know, of course, like so
whatever. Um. So I find that double up, Um, then I
want another nice hand with a flush. This hand was a fun one.
Guy opens from the low jack. I call on the button with queen jack
of clubs. I was debating between three betting or just calling. I settled
on just calling, opting to play in position against him. He was a
newer player at the table, so I didn't really have any information on him.
You know, this might have been like his third or fourth hand or
something like that at the table. Big blind also came along. It came
eight five four m the five and the four were clubs. I think it
was the eight hearts or eighty diamonds and I so I have two overs to
the board and the queen high flush draw. It checks around. The turn
is a three. UM. I didn't want to I didn't want to bet
the flop in position because I thought there would be a good chance that this
could connect with the big blinds range, and I didn't want to get check
raised, and then you know, not that I can. I can still
obviously play my hand, but it just makes it a little bit more trickier.
I have to build a pole with a cleanie flush tracks of us.
So I just opted to check back on the flop three. On the turn
blank three, I think it was the three of spades, Big blind leads
for six K. Low jack calls. I call rivers a seven of clubs,
so it's eight five four three seven, and there's the flush shock comes
in, so I make my flush. It checks to me there's about thirty
eight thousand in the pots something like that. I bet thirty four thousand,
five hundred. Big blindfold Lowjack tanks for a while. He starts talking about
like what sixes I can have? You know, do you have pocket six?
Is this this and this whatever? He eventually calls boom, chip up
over two hundred K with that hand. So I go into the break with
a little over two hundred thousand. So I'm feeling great. Start with eighty
two. I'm just like I'm like this is this is like finally it's all
coming together. I get to play some hands. I actually get to get
involved, like you know, things are working out for me. I felt
I felt great. I felt in control of the table. Like you know,
you know, when you like start playing hands, you start winning,
you feel like the table like knows that you're the captain. Yeah, in
a way, like not that I was like, because there was a couple
of the players that were also getting involved, but we had been staying out
of each other's way so far. But but yeah, you know, and
like people kind of like they back down to you in some spots, you
know, and it might just be like this guy's winning every hand, I'm
just not going to kind of mess with them type of stuff. Speaking of
we get back. So I got I got like two hundred and one thousand
or something, coming back to fifteen hundred three thousand, and I play a
hand against this guy, the guy who doubled me up at the Ace King.
When I had the sevens, I opened in the low jack with the
king deuce of diamonds. This tells you how good I'm feeling, because I'm
now I'm opening the king deuce of diamonds because I just don't care anymore.
No I care, But like we're ramping up the aggression. He calls out
of the big blind it comes even four three with one diamond, the three
of diamonds. He checks. I checked back. The turn is the ace
of diamonds, which is like the best card for me in the world.
I turn a ton of equity with a flush draw, and not only is
it a flush draw, I have the nut flush straw. I also turn
a straight draw and I can also represent the ace, so it's like the
greatest card for me. He checks. I bet eight thousand. He check
raises me to twenty thousand. So I'm like, okay, like I'm calling
I'm never folding whatever I call river Jack of diamonds, just like the gin
card. I'm like, this is let's go. I hope you have like
you know, I mean, I hope he has like five six, Like
that's the best hand for him to have. You know, he flopped the
straight I'm thinking maybe he's got some sort of two pair as well. Whatever
he leads for twenty two thousand and he had on the river, he had
about one hundred and thirty thousand, hundred and thirty five thousand. Maybe there
are a lot of times in this specific situation where I will just move all
in a bit of like an overbet in away. I thought about that for
a while, and I decided that I'm going to raise to a smaller amount
than all in because I think that players in the basic main event value their
tournament life so much, and I want to be sure that I'm called here,
so I want to try and find some kind of what's like maximum value.
So I sized it where I felt like, if he was like kind
of um on the fence about calling, he could call and be fine losing
and still feel healthy if that makes sense to you. Ye, like he'd
still have like, you know, fifteen twenty big blinds and it wouldn't be
the worst of it. So I made he made it. He bet twenty
two, I made seventy eight. He'd snap called, So now I'm like,
fuck kind of stuff. He had pocket three, he flop bottom set,
so I could have probably like yellow at it all and got the call.
But obviously I don't know that he has kind of yeah for him for
sure. So yeah, so that puts me over three hundred thousand. So
now I have like three, three or nine, and I think on that
hand, there's another hand shortly thereafter that where I'm in the big blind.
It's a raise actually from that guy. That guy raises the guy next to
him calls, I have pocket nines in the big lines, and I just
decided to three bet and I'm going to get it in against the opener.
The other guy might be a little bit tricky if he back raises off to
make a decision. They both end up fulling instant. I'm moved to like
three twenty five. I'm like, I'm like, holy crap, I have
fucking I got one hundred and eight big mines in the fucking main event.
Day three, I'm like, let's go, Like, let's absolutely go.
So I feel amazing, I feel super locked in. Everything's working out.
I'm in control the situations like this is like, this is what it's supposed
to be about. This is how it's supposed to work out. I had
to deal with all the crap on the first two days. Now I feel
just absolutely great, awesome. Then gentleman next to me, older man named
Gary. He's from Arkansas. He offered me his hotel room here. That
was a little bit weird, not gonna lie it, but he also complimented
me on my commentary, which was very cool. Thank you very much,
Gary, Thanks Glary. I don't like the way that this hand resulted.
He opens under the gun. Was this before the hand? When he said
this stuff the hotel, all this stuff was before the hand. Okay,
so he opens under the gun to seven k I look down next to act
two kings. I'm like, oh my gosh, this is great. I've
been pretty active, Like this is perfect. Now. The tricky spot about
this situation is that he's under the gun. I'm plus one, so we're
both super early so and he was very tight. Yeah, okay, so
his open is super strong, so if I three bet him, it's going
to be extra strong. But I'm like, you know what. One of
the things that I kind of like, I actually have a written down in
my notes. I have a few rules that I go over every time before
I play a poker tournament. One of them is that it's like, sometimes
just play your value hands. Just face up for value, and don't worry
about like randomizing and all this sort of stuff, because it just doesn't matter
a ton at the end of the day. Like, yes, if I'm
showing up to the Poker Girl studio day in and day out for all of
these PGT majors, yeah, then I'm gonna need to do some different things,
like I'm gonna need to call sometimes in position. I'm gonna need to
do different sizings, like all this sort of stuff. This field against you
know, more random players that you've never played again with against before. It's
also very early in the day, so we don't have a ton of experience
playing with each other on this day yet. So I'm just like, whatever,
it doesn't matter if this is face up. This is face up.
So I make he makes it seven K, I make it eighteen K,
folds back to him, he puts his money in eight K. I'd beat
him into the pot. He's got Jack's rivers a jacket. I'm just like,
fuck God, Like whatever, it doesn't matter. I'd got up to
three twenty after I like going through the blinds once and then losing this pot.
I'm on like two twenty five. I'm like, whatever, I start
up with the eighty two, Like, I still got two twenty five.
This is amazing, no big deal, just a small bump in the road.
Then there's a spot where it folds to me on the button. I
have ace five of hearts. This hand, I'll admit, is a mistake.
I messed it up. I raised the button big bund three bets.
I opt to four bet, he five bet jams, I fold. I
should have just called in position. We were we were deep enough that I
can just play ace five hearts in position against him. That's fine. I
don't need to four beet it in my hand like if he's if he's I
thought he was like a good player, which is why I thought he might
be messy with me, and I ultimately went with the four bets. I
should just call in position there, play a pot in position against him.
My hand is still pretty good, has some value. You know, he
could be getting out of line. I also know that, like I knew
when I four bet that he can he has a stack to five bet jam.
I mean it's it's like that's a good thing. I just didn't know
if he would do that. I mean, listen, he probably just had
a value hand. I mean that's normally what people do here. So so
yeah, so anyway, I had I folded that hand, so whatever,
So UM, a little bit of a mistake there, but whatever, not
a big deal um for that specific hand. But then I just kept like
losing every hand that I played, you know, opening up either getting three
bets um or you know, defending from the blinds or not hitting flops,
stuff like that, you know, being played back at. So stuff just
started going the other way, and it was just kind of just after that
hand, it was like small pots, smallpots, smallpots. So I peaked
at like three twenty five in this level and I go into the break at
one hundred and eight thousand. I'm just like, man, come on,
Like I felt like I had it and now I don't have it. But
end of the day, I still have more than what I started with.
So it's like whatever, you know, I mean, you know, no
big deal. I tried to get six hundred, didn't work out, you
know, and now we still got more than what we started with. No
big deal. So we come back to two K, four K, and
I had gone through the blinds a couple of times, you know, nothing
big I have. Like I think I had like eighty nine thousand or ninety
thousand something like that, or no, I had more five hundred exactly.
Because this I'm about to be all in against the player and he has he
had exactly ninety thousand. I remember he opens from the hijack to eight thousand
min rays. I'm in the small blind and I move all in for you
know, twenty four and a half big blinds or whatever big blindfolds. This
was the guy that when I had the Queen Jack of Clubs and I made
that flush, he called it off against me. So he's like thinking and
he's like when I had the Queen Jack clubs, he was talking out loud
on the riverbed, like thinking about calling me, and he was saying,
like, you know, what types of sixes do you have? He wasn't
talking to me, he was just talking out loud. Yeah. Here he
was doing the same thing. He started talking all He's like, oh,
you could have you know, a's five, this and that, like whatever.
Then he calls he's got King Queen off. I'm like, okay,
whatever, it's got a hold, no big deal. I have the eight
of Spades in my hand. I have the eight of spades, eight a
hearts. It comes King of Spades, eight of clubs, deuce of Spades.
I don't win the hand. I'm just like because it comes spade spade
and I just lose to a flush, and I'm just like really like,
really this is not the way, Like this is what's gonna like, you
know, so I have eighty five hundred left at the pay off is ninety
CAI have eighty five hundred left. Two hands later, I get out of
somebody or Brett Apter raises from the low jack seed. He makes it a
k I go all in for eighty five hundred, Button re raises to twenty
six k Apter gets out of the way. I have king jack off versus
the other guy's ace seven of clubs comes like eight seven five with two clubs.
So I'm just like, you know, with the worst flop universe.
I mean, I still have two overs, but I can't. I can't
hit any of them that are clubs. Now bricks out and I'm out of
the tournament. So yeah, So that was my day. So it was
just it sucked. I mean it was brutal. I played two and a
half days of poker in this tournament. I had to practice the most insane
patients ever for both of the two days before this one. Today off to
an amazing start, like things are going so well, Like I'm just like,
this is this is amazing, this is how it's going to be in
these they ripped it all from me. Yeah. In the words of our
friend Jeff Platt, I'll just go fuck myself now because that's what happened today.
It was unbelievable. I'm like a once I lost with those Kings.
It was just downhill. So it's just brutal, you know, you just
play like just brutal. It's brutal, it really is. So yeah,
I had fun today, but overall overall, you know, I thought I
played super well throughout the entire turn. The first two days were really a
test of just patience. If you guys heard yesterday's podcast episode when I talked
to Cliff Josephye after play, you know, I asked him about like,
what's like the best tip for this tournament or where I can't remember how I
phrases exactly, but he said, it's patience. And over the years,
I know that it's patients. Like it's patients that you see so many times.
These people come into this tournament and they're very good players, but they
try and play every hand, you know, I mean, listen, Nick
Griegy tries to play every hand. Yes, okay, but sometimes it worked
out. Sometimes it doesn't right, you know, live by the door or
die by the sword type of thing. But you can be very patient and
I was very patient on the first two days, and I really battled and
I fought hard. In both of those days. I had twenty five thousand
with thirty minutes to go in the day, and I bagged a lot.
I bagged more than starting on the first day. I mean not a lot,
but a lot more than I had. I had bagged more than starting
on the first day, and I bagged eighty two thousand on the second day.
So I felt really good. So I felt like the way that today
started, it was like everything's turning like this is like, yes, okay,
now I'm gonna hit my rush. The heat's coming, Like, let's
go. The heat has happened, Like I'm gonna, like, you know,
I'm gonna go into dinner break with a million. This is gonna be
amazing. I can't wait. But you know, things just slid the other
way. But that's the game. The game is the game. Um,
as Monoir has always said to me, my good friend Monoir, he said,
um, the game will always humble you. It just always will.
That's what it does. Poker is a sick game that we play, and
sometimes it doesn't work out from you and we'll just get them next to you.
That's right, that's right. You didn't want twelve one point one million
Fest prize. You want the twelve point two million Fest prize next. Yeah,
great, whatever, No, But I mean, overall, looking back
on it, I think I'm happy. You know, obviously you're you're a
you know, frustrator enough set with um how it ends, because you feel
like you're really started to gain momentum and then it just all goes away.
Yeah, obviously, you know, all of that is heightened by the fact
that this is the greatest tournament in the world. So like having that rush
happened today and then having it just taken away from me as soon as it
was given to you. It hurts. It's painful, Like it's not I'm
not gonna not say that it's not you know, like I know, like
you know a lot of people are like, you know, it's it's whatever.
It's another tournament, and you get used to it whatever. Like I
don't know if I would I'll ever get used to it in this specific tournament.
That said, in the moment, you know, you just play right,
felt really good. Like both days just like if I bust, I
bust, you know, like things aren't going to affect me. I just
have to play my game and do whatever. Like if like when I forbat
jam with those sevens, if he fucking just snaps me off with two kings
here, so be it. I gotta go with my gut here and do
do what I want I think I can do. I'm excited to play more
poker. I'm excited to do more comments anything else you're gonna play this world.
So it's funny. I saw, if you remember the pre one of
the PREWSP shows, Ryan Brown, who I said to look out for.
Who I don't know how he bagged. I don't know if he's on the
list anywhere. But he had a ton of chips. When I walked by
him, he said he's had a shit summer. But I said, listen,
this is the one you get, even this is the one, if
there was one, this is it. Okay, this is the one you
want. So he has a ton of chips, and he asked me,
he said, you know, are you gonna you're gonna play anymore? I
said, man, I said, I can't fathom like grinding the WSP main
event busting and then like hopping in like seven seven. I just can't do
it. Like I just can't you know, nothing against the people that do
that, Like you're just I guess better than me. Like to me,
this is like it's the finale in a way. Also, like we talk
about it with Work, it used to be like work with the main event
was the finale, and it was like it was Now it's you have all
these side events and stuff going on to In a way, it's like,
wait, I have to like cover more things when even though the main event
is like it should only be the main event, right, you know,
Like I mean I get it from a business perspective and all that sort of
stuff, having all the post lums and whatnot, Like I totally get it,
but I'm just saying mentally, you're like, wait, there's this other
stuff, you know, Like I just you know, for me, it's
like you you build up to all this stuff in the summer um, at
least for me playing wise, you know, you play some preliminary Bracelet events
blah blah blah, and then you know it culminates with playing the worst event
and you know, if it works out or if it doesn't work out,
then that's it for my summer. You know, don't play for a month
or so you know, and then come back. We'll be back on the
South Point nightly. We will be back in the South Point nightly. But
um, it's gonna take a little bit while, probably not till like September
or something. Wow, that's so far away. I have another kid on
the way. Okay, I'm not gonna be How do you get out of
the house? How do you that? This is how you get away from
the dirty This is how you get away from the rigby dirty divers, dirty
divers. Speaking of other things that we have to talk about. Even though
the event is still going on, pot limit, Omaha bounty, is it
still going Yeah, on a head up break right now, they're on a
heads up break. We're like the only people in the room other than the
French media across from us, and you know, a couple of tournament staff.
The chair all these chairs are stacked on top of each other so they
can vacuum the area and they're on a heads up break over there. So
there are two players remaining from the field of one thousand, two hundred and
fourteen. The two players are Thomas Skaggs and David who they're playing for one
hundred and seventy one thousand, seven hundred and forty two dollars. Some notable
eliminations. You had Noah Schwartz busting in eighth place. You had Jeff Madson
finishing in twelfth. I think before you had I think Nigrani finished with thirty
first. I was sixteen seventeen, So you know a few names, you
know, firing away and making some deep runs in this ultimately falling short.
But right now Thomas Skaggs versus David Who, and we'll we'll get back to
talking about the winner of this one on the next episode once they wrap up,
and we're going to continue on here with a huge field in the seven
hundred and seventy seven dollars Lucky sevens noleman hold them. This one has that
seven hundred and seventy seven thousand, seven hundred and seventy seven dollars first place
prize. I like feel like I'm gonna mess that up a million times on
say that. I think we also but today that people were saying that because
so there was when the main event came back today, Um, I was
in the horseshoe. What's this from the end? The Events Center they think
to change these Events Center Grand Ballroom Paris, So Grand ball Room and the
event center on the horseshoe side were full, and they had some tables over
in Paris. One dty one tables. Yeah, one hundred forty one tables.
No way, no way, it was not one hundred forty Paris.
Yes, I do it sided at a table one and the last table we've
been played was one forty one. No, what was a forty one?
No, there's no way one hundred and forty one tables? What do you
what do you want want to say? You think I'm I'm lying to Maybe
maybe I'm just insane? Paris table one. That seems like all the way
down to Paris table one, I lied one forty four. Okay, so
I was right, I mean I was right. You're lucky you didn't bet
on it. What do you mean you will right that it wasn't one forty
one. I can't believe there was that many tables over Yes, I thought
there was a good amount of tables, but I didn't think it was that
it was a lot. Well, okay, Well, anyway, the players
that were over there and then came over here, you know, all they
were talking about was how big this line was for the biggest line of the
sum of It town for registration to get into this final flight of the Lucky
Sevens tournaments UM. Day one A of that tournament had fourteen hundred and seventy
entries. Day one B had two thousand, three hundred and eighty six,
and then today had three thousand, four hundred and forty four, which doesn't
seem that crazy if they didn't let people in for a while, so that's
probably delay it too. They delayed it, they didn't let anyone register,
all seat sit down. It's just similar event. They need a big venue.
I'm I'm not joking, like, yeah, I mean, that's like
one of those good problems to have. But like you got to solve the
problem because I mean it's not also just venue size, it's it would definitely
a dealer availability. Yeah, it didn't have enough. You might be able
to, I don't know if solve is the right word, maybe alleviate some
of the pains with you're you're gonna have to just look at the schedule and
be like, okay, like we can't have this going on this day.
You know, like you're really gonna need to space things out a little bit
more which I'm you know, I'm guessing that that's like probably one of the
things on the top of the mind. Um, because there were you know,
for the mini main event when this happened. You know, Wsity officials
were literally walking through the line saying like, hey, we're terribly sorry.
You know, we're not gonna be able to seach you, so you can
wait in the line and try to luck out or you know, I'm sorry,
but you can just continue on with your day because you're not going to
get a seat. Um. And I would I would guess that that's not
a fun conversation you want to be having. You don't want to be walking
through the line saying like, hey, we can't seach you. Also,
that's taking money out of your pocket as the business. So I don't know
if they can find a bigger venue. I don't know if they can like
knock out one of these walls. And I don't think they're gonna move venues
anytime soon. But there's definitely ways to potentially add some tables, especially here
in the events center. Well I don't know about that. I mean a
lot of the tables and like the way that they're laid out. Ultimately comes
down to the fire marshal. Yes, that is true, but also you
know, it's production. If you've been to these these venues, you'll be
like, oh, well there's this space here, we can fit four tables,
or we can do this, and then they'll be like, yeah,
but the fire marshal, you can't do that. You literally can't do that.
It's illegal, which next to us to some you know, emergency excess,
so we can't block those with tables, you know. So yeah,
you're one hundred center right there. I mean, it's just it's it's tricky.
I mean, it's obviously a good thing that the attendance is so large.
Yeah, you know that people want to come out and play these events
and they're so big, you know, but yeah, at some point,
like you're going to have capacity issues. You know, we have the same
thing in the studio at times. You know, it's great to hit the
new capacity, but then you're like, um, well now we got to
figure out how to solve the capacity problem. But there's a simple solution here.
What's up? Twelve handed? Put him on the root, twelve handed,
no limit, hold him poka tonaments of the w Is there a basement
here? Is there a Bosio's. Is there a bowling alley that we can
build? Is just a tent? We used to have Fieri's Flavor Town,
Bro, it's so hot outside. We're not the tent outside, so you
have tents out there instead. It's Fieri's. I'm in Fieris Flavor toown,
Flavor Toown three. I would love to play at Guy Fieri's Flavortown, Baby,
I'm in. I mean, I don't know what you do. I
mean, it's I think it's simple. I think you maybe have to use
the poker room. You know, you may have to clear some space out
in front of the poker room, like when we played that Sucker event.
But even if they did that, yeah, like I said, we're still
What's so hard about that is that that area is, you know, in
the main casino area, and you have to walk through it to go from
the parish to the horseshoes side or vice versa. That area of like the
casino tables, because if they put poker tables there, they to take out
casino tables. That place is bumping every ninth. It's packed out there like
it's a package. There's people playing roulette, craps, whatever, the hell
and it's jam packed. I mean, people are having a blast. So
I'm like, so good luck trying to sell some casino executives on that for
some poker tables. And you remember the very first time you met Ram Komori
came here, it was like November of twenty twenty one, and we all
went to the poker room and we went up those escalators at the top because
that's where we thought that this was going to be. It was like one
of those theaters that's where they actually I think ran one of the circuit events
one year here. Maybe that is available. I don't know how busy that
some of those theaters are during the summer, but that could potentially be as
But like, hey, by the way, the Millionaire Maker is in the
I know it's not called the Jubilee Theater, but whatever theater that is,
you know, the stuff like that. I don't know if those kind of
options, yeah, it's tricky. Um, it's gonna be something they need
to solve for sure. But anyway, overall, seventy three hundred entries you
know, give or take, in the seven seven seven events, um,
there's about three hundred three twenty five remaining who's got some stacks on that one.
Do we know anyone? Uh, Sean Daniels PGT player, he's thirteen
ships. Alex Livingston Sean Daniels used to play so he used when I used
to go to GVR, yeah and play one, two, one, three
and whatever. He used to always be in this like it wasn't a private
game, but it kind of was a private game, like in the back
playing against this guy known as mwahaha because because of his laugh and like they
would be playing heads up three handed, four handed, like super shorthanded,
just with like you know, I don't know if they're playing five, ten,
ten, twenty five whatever, but he would always be battling in that
game. I think one day he had like, you know, thirty kne
front of him, like just crazy shit, something you would never see at
Greenvilley Ranch. But that's what happened there. But anyway, some players with
chips we have I mentioned Alex Livingston tenth in chips A silent Sneaky Player of
the Year candidate Michael Rodriguez. Matigus hasn't won yet, not yet. He's
still gotta He's still got to sweat it out. But Michael Rodriguez he has
one point four million and the two thousand and seven world champion, and Jerry
Yang himself sixty first and chips with one point three five million. Okay,
so it's gonna be moving day on day two on Monday, playing down to
probably the final table where the winner will take home seven hundred and seventy seven
thousand and seven hundred seventy seven dollars seventy seven cents as well. John John
Reridden bags some chips. It's gonna be a fun one to watch that.
I think we also mentioned yesterday that this was played seven handed. I don't
believe it actually is. I think we just assume that. No, it
is played seven handed for sure? Are you sure someone told me we were
wrong. I have not been over there and I look just looked at the
struct shot and there is nothing seven handed right there. Maybe they'll play maybe
today, Yeah, just like today event is played nine handeds. You might
have to go ten handed if capacity, you know, like in get in
the clossus or the gladdiear or whatever like, you know, you have to
do that if you want to see people. Um, but yeah, no,
but this is a yeah, okay, yeah, exactly, come on.
So what's coming up? We have Day four the Man Event. Of
course, we got Day four the Device mand Vent. That's gonna be a
fun one. Um. You can stay tuned for the special edition Bubble Podcast
Come in your Way, that's gonna be the next episode. Tim doesn't know
what he's gonna be getting into, but I'm telling you, man, you're
just gonna have a blast with it. Um twenty five know them and hold
them. Okay, that's a good one. And the twenty five K horse
does that start tomorrow? Yeah? Wow? I love something off the Uh
what's coming up? Yeah, let me out it real quick? Ready twenty
five? No final? Oh my god, Final two hundred and fifty dollar
horse. Steve zach A, Right, you can go. I am hopefully
the bubble bust before the deep sex thoughts. There is no shot I'm playing
to cash that event. It's driving me crazy. You need to just cash
in event? Yeah? Yeah, sorry, rub it in why night.
I'm with it, right there with you, man, I am right there
with you. All right. We're gonna kick it away from the WSFP and
head over and checking on this WPT everyone for one Drop event. So this
is their their summer events. Over at the win. Uh, ten thousand,
five hundred dollar buying ten million dollars guaranteed. It's so it's funny because
ten million, that sounds so big. And then you're like, but an
event had ninety three million. Yeah, it's like, you know, it's
so crazy. Anyway, So this this event has a has a charity aspect
to it. Um. So of that ten thousand, five hundred dollars buying,
ninety seven hundred dollars goes into the prize pool, two hundred dollars goes
to charity. Six hundred dollars is for you know, the rake and the
fees and all that sort of stuff. Day one A had two hundred and
sixty five entries. There are three starting flights, I believe, and you
can re enter once per flight. Okay, so six total entries if you
want to do that, eighty five players. I think that's right, Um,
eighty five players. And look who's leading the way Stephen's song. He's
at the wrong venue. He's at the wrong venue. Do we get twenty
five? I think we need to call up Daniel and ask if we can
make a you know, an appeal to the is. And I'm honestly,
you know, go in a bowlot to money, Stephen and come back on
over here and blast some more stuff. That's what I want you to do.
So yeah, So it looks like Stephen's song is the chip leader four
hundred. He's got a massive chip lead. He's if he wins, is
he misses the fifty four hundreds, he has four hundred six thousand, five
hundred and chips, and the next closest is Alex Kolev with three hundred and
six thousand. Next crushing Ryan Laplant bagged two hundred and seventy one thousand,
Brian Altman two hundred and twenty nine thousand and five hundred. I feel like
I haven't seen Brian Altman all summer. Where has he been? Masashi Oya
Oya who I'm pretty sure it was in the main event today. He was
He was supposed to be on the feature table and then busted before he got
up there. Ethan Rampageo two hundred and two thousand, Darren Elias, that's
pretty much mister wpt right there, one hundred ninety five thousand, David Peretti's
one hundred and fifty thousand. Kevin Rabbutschow one hundred and sixty eight thousand,
five hundred. Jim Collifie hundred forty thousand, just kind of going through these
lists. Johan Gilbert one hundred and twelve thousand, five hundred. How many
chips they start with in this thing? They had to start with a lot.
David Peters seventy four thousand, John Reardon seventy two thousand. So John
Reardon has a bag in the seven seven seven that'll come back tomorrow. But
because he bagged this tournament on day one A, he has a days off
in it, so it comes back much later. That is King John Reard
and the third everyone bow down to the King. Fad Or Holtz bagging up
chips. Also Chris Claude, nicky, wasn't he in the main? Was
it yesterday? Was it today? I can't remember? You know what sucks
about? But he's he bagged up chips to reorder and bagging miss is that
he may have to miss the three k PLO six max whatever. I don't
care. I root for my guys. They can win money wherever they want,
that's all. Um. So yeah, like we said, two more
starting flights in that one, um, I think two eighty five entries on
day one sounds good in terms of like hitting that ten million dollar guarantee.
I think it's about right on target to what they would have hoped for.
Well, you were you were saying, we were talking, and we were
talking over in the in the other room, the Grand ball Room. Is
that what it's called. I don't know the names of these rooms, but
how the WPT's probably rooting for the WSP main event money bubbles to burst to
yea, because now if you get people the bus, obviously once the money
bubble burst, people start flying out, you know, all everyone's going everywhere.
Well maybe you know, some of these people of cash for fifteen thousand,
they head on over to the wind, they fire, you know,
a bullet or two over there exactly. Well, now they're stuck in this
tournament over here for another, you know, at least a couple hours of
the day, and then it's like if you come over here tomorrow and you
bust, you really want to go play another tournament? You just busted the
w to me inventing all that sort of stuff. So so I'm sure WPD
is rooting for the bubble the burst today, but it didn't, so I'm
not that I necessarily think that's really going to do anything for the numbers,
but you know, yeah, it's worth throwing it out there. That's it.
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name is Donnie Peters, his name is Tim Duckworth. Day four of the
Devistwean event tomorrow the money Bubble. Let's go