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Tim Duckworth. What's going on, sir? Not much another exciting days of
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high Roller, and we have an interview with that's bracelet winner. Then then
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Point Takeover tournament. I would say fifteen ish people came out. Was a
lot of fun. Whoa fifteen of out people? That's what I mean.
The tournament itself one hundred and seventy one seventy five I don't even remember,
but it was a lot of fun to meet everyone that came out. Um,
first person I met was Brian. When we walked, I walked into
the door, he was sitting out a slot machine, called out my name,
hooked him up with the hat. He was also the player that lasts
the longest besides me, little brag, you know, besides me, a
little brag, little brag, little bracks. Besides me, he busted like
four or five spots short of the money. Took a little bit of a
bad beat, so what are you gonna do? Took home a Phil Helm
Youth signed and framed piece of felt, which is pretty damn cool. You
see a little bullet point here that says Donny cash's that's that's right, that's
all what needs to be. Eighteenth place, eighteenth place. I was in
there crushing the whole the whole Tournamentum, I honestly don't really remember what happened
to the tournament because I was kind of not paying attention. We have a
caveat to that you saying you cashed? Yeah, what's up? It was
a bullet too, so I just wanted to put that out there. I
won, money, doesn't matter. Bullet one guy did not want to pay
the bubble, which was extremely annoying, named Donny Petis. No, no,
no, no, I'm you're an anti bubble payer. No no,
no, I'm anti chop. I'm one thousand percent pay the bubble. And
my reason, my reasoning is that it speeds the thing up. We wasted
like a half an hour of hand for hand. It's just like, can
we move this along, please, it's almost midnight. Let's get this going
right now. The here's my here's my biggest issue with the don't pay the
bubble people, okay, is that if you are a don't pay the bubble
person, if you do not then raise hands, you should be disqualified from
the tournament. Like okay, and the guy that said, you know,
he doesn't want to pay the Bubble didn't even have that many chips. And
I had been playing with the whole time and was like the tightest player in
the universe, like, dude, why do you not want to pay?
I don't understand these people. I'm team pay Bubble and team chop. And
something something changed with the South Point because when they asked to pay the Bubble,
they said, we have a silent voting system now, and they were
going to hand every single person twenty four people pay. There's twenty five people
left. They were going to hand twenty five people a little card and you
basically checked like a box, and then handed those cards in and then they
went and tallied it up. The old way that they used to do is
they would literally go to a table and they would say, we have a
request to pay the bubble. You know, does everyone does everyone's here say
yes or no, and then they would quickly look around the table. Everyone
would say yes or like put their hand up or give their thumbs up or
whatever. They would move to the next table. It took all of like
forty seconds. Okay, this is like they gotta pass out all the cards.
Everyone's got to get a pen. Everyone's got to check their thing.
They gotta collect them, then they gotta go tell them. Then they got
to come back and be like yes or no. I mean like what happened?
Like was there some sort of bullying going on? That must I mean
whatever? So, yeah, it was a lot of fun. I got
to play with the guy I think his name was jar. I walked over
the table. I was might be like one hand to light from start to
play, and he looks up at me and he says family put which was
the password to get Yeah, I gave him my hats. By the way,
they were the merch team came through because they are so sweet. Um.
Yeah, I played for him with a while. I gave him a
sign. Daniel negroner Felt actually asked him because we were conversating kind of the
whole the whole time we were playing. I said, Phil on Daniel,
who do you prefer? He goes, Oh, I can't stand Phil.
I love Daniel. So that's why he got the Daniel Negrono uh sein Felt?
Who else did we? Um? We had the uzzy an just to
play the south Point? Uh yeah, south point that we had Um fellow.
We had a couple other guys. We had a fellow, some fellow
employees. Joseph, one of our editors. We also had Remco showed up,
didn't play, but he was there. And then we had he just
wanted to show up his fresh show, which blonde here. And then Jeff
and Brent showed up. Brent in for many bullets. Jeff I thought was
going to run over the tournament and went in like level eight with the way
that he was running, flopping all the full houses and craziness overall, I
thought it was a lot of fun. It was good to kind of get
out there, have some people come hang out, play in the area.
Um that we like to play it so much with your south point. I
have to give another shout out to Sanjeet who I met today, who was
gonna come yesterday but it ended up not coming yesterday from Berlin, Germany,
I believe. But he's over here second time in Vegas at the World Series
of Poker. He's gonna play some of the smaller buying stuff. Hopefully we
see him make a run. It's been fun seeing everyone around. If you
see us around here, say hello, tell us you're a podcast fan.
We need to tell them the story, and we'll in the mistery millions and
we'll give a hat your boy, Ryan Brown, if Ryan Brown, I
mean just he just came over to say hello and talk about how you know,
we were giving him a shout out for being one of the ones to
watch. He's in the money in the mystery, the mystery millions. Okay,
they were in the They were in the money when Kessler shoved all in,
they were in the money. Got it. Kessler was all in with
like five big blind over there, and Tim and I happened to be walking
through the field at that time, and both of us were like, he
has like king's minimum and he turned over queens on the stone bottom of your
range, sir. But anyway, Oh, we have to talk about one
more thing. You told me about some hand you want to don't think about?
No, no, no, no no, we have to talk about
the hand. Talk. I want to know about the hand. So Tim
and Tim's was lasting pretty deep in the tournament, and I texted you and
I asked you how many chips you had, because I was thinking, you
know, there's obviously a lot of variants in this thing. So if he's
gotten anywhere somewhat remotely close to me, then we'll just do some sort of
swap or whatever. I think I had one hundred and twenty five K at
the time, and then you said you had like twenty five K, and
I was like, all right, well that's just not worth my time.
It is, but tell us about this hand you played. Look I already,
I've already talked to you. You think I played it pretty bad?
I just you know, there's times the people need to know about this hand.
Okay, the people need to listen. You think Alan Kessler is tight?
Way do you hear this hand? You know when you play Parker and
you get the heeby GBS, I had the heeby GBS. So it's fifteen
hundred three k. I've got like fifty K. It goes limp middle position,
limp, hijack limp body. You have like sixteen point three big I
complete small blind with um what is it? What happens? Fifteen three is
like early position. I think you told me ears hijack lamps buttom limbs.
I have three four spades in the small blind. I complete fine, yeah,
big blind checks who has all of out flop comes five six sevens.
I flopped the bottom end of a straight two diamonds. When you flopped the
straight bottom end of the straight, you flopped the system, remember bottom end.
Check big blind bets ten k into fifteen or whatever it is, follows
back to me. I feel like I'm just pretty far far ahead or far
behind. I know, I just call the fact that you said you think,
I mean there's two hands that beat you. Yeah, that's so two
hands. I just don't know. The big mine just leading out into fall
players, one of those two hands you block. Just yes, you know
that, but the big wine just leading out into fall players. He could
have a pair and a flush drawer. He could have two pair like he
could have like a pair in a straight draw. Well, look, I
called, I'm prepared to kind of go broke. Turns a deuce of diamonds.
So the three diamonds, now, I checked. You told me the
term was the three. Yeah, I'm correcting myself. Now it's the two
of diamonds, which makes his hand worse and worse. Yeah, exactly,
And then check he bet like nineteen thousand or twenty something thousand, like he
was leaving me with some change. I just had like the heb gbs and
I was like, this guy's fucked him. I just like this thoughtful,
like maybe like a minute, and I followed, I can't if you listen.
If you if you are a listener out there and you turn off this
podcast and you never listen again, I don't. I don't blame you,
because I mean that is just flops a straight with sixteen big blinds and proceeds
to just check called check fold. I mean I can't. I can't believe
I'm talking to a real person. I'm just rusty, rusty. I mean,
that's play in like six weeks. You should if that's what you were
gonna do, you should have just checked jam the flop because what does he
call with a million things? Dude? South Point Nightly, south Point Nightly,
Hello, Hello, That tournament is insane. Have everybody on this microphone
right now, the two of us who's won the south Point night Like,
that doesn't matter, It doesn't matter, it doesn't doesn't matter. And you
made when you won the tournament, you made an absolutely outrageous fold as well.
Isn't that when you had the queens and you folded it over on the
when when that guy that we played with check raised us. Yeah, check
raised me. Yeah, yeah, it was a no. No, that
was good. I'm confident. No, it wasn't it. Jack's someone will
have to tell us whatever. It doesn't matter that you had queens and it's
just outrageous. It's a brilliant fold, both of them. Perfect. Please
let us know what you think of Tim's fold. Yes, it was bad,
but like you should, honestly, I just you know what, I
honestly was like you know, in my head a little bit because of the
whole twenty five K six max thing that we were trying to make sure it
got down to six. I was just like work marked. I wasn't even
like constant. All the more reason to stick your money. Yeah, if
you're broken, go bro. And then I just stuck him in with a
paranise and lost. I mean, I can't. I cannot believe you folded
that. I just can't. I'll make a man. I can't promise tomorrow
and the mister millions if you fold and left yourself with what eleven twelve big,
I mean, that's plenty. That's plenty in the south point of that
way. God, I mean, when you call from the small blind with
four or three spades, what exactly are you expecting to hit on the board?
Obviously four four four ice, there's five of spades. I mean you
will, I mean, I mean, you're right. Like my first reaction
was, you know, we can't talk about this on the pod because it's
just so bad. It's like, I just I have to protect you.
But I was like, you know what, No, you're a grown man.
You you don't deserve protection from me. You can handle yourself. So
everyone needs to hear what a ridiculous hand that happened. All right, let's
move on to actual poker and not what Tim was doing. Number two the
twenty five K no limit hold Them high Roller, six handed, two hundred
and seven entries more than four point eight million dollars in the prize pool.
The winner crowned today, winning his first usp goal bracelet and more than one
point two million dollars, was Swiss player Alexander Fulimier. He took it all
down, he'd beat chance, cornerth and heads up play. The final table
also included Sean Winter and Ren Lynn. I think it was alex her axel
Lee was also at the final table. Who else was there? Joey Wiseman
busted in sixth place. Joey Wiseman took a sick one folded to him.
In the small blind, he shoved all in for I think three big blinds
with pocket kings. Volimier called with jack three jack three off. Tim would
have folded the jack three off, but Volimia is just like I got a
call, so he calls flop contains two two threes and that's all she wrote
for Joey Wiseman. Really fun final table Um it's on Poker Grow. If
you are a subscriber, you can go watch that on demand. If you
are now a subscriber, do what I said to do at the beginning of
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this one. It was extremely fun. Hall Najatte and Brent Hanks were on
the call. One thing that was most fun about it. There was a
little bit of a spoiler alert here if you want to watch the whole thing,
so just be four warned. Volimier crushed Shaun Winter in a pot where
Shaun Winter made a pretty ambitious bluff. Volimier was strong to the test,
ended up making the call, leaving Shaun Winter with one point five big blinds.
Winter then proceeded to vel up in just an absolutely outrageous run out.
Um, he gets it all in with King Queen against what ace jack?
Was it yes? Ten? Ase ten and the flop game eight deuce or
some ace eight three, and Winter ran out of straight doubled up there,
then he doubled up again. Then all of a sudden he's like moving up
the chip counts fade and bust outs. N Lynn busts in fifth place,
axelhl A busts in fourth place, and then Winter's run ends in third place,
takes home like five sixteen five and eighteen k something like that. His
finish was good enough to move him to the top of the PGT lead aboard
that is Seawan Winter, Seawan Winter's coming off a pretty successful run lately.
He went over to Triton for the first time ever, going over to one
of their stops. He was in Cyprus. He had a lot of success
there, some big scores, um, I think one was the right around
one point five one point six million. And then he comes here at the
wsop and already rips off a half million dollars score. Heads up play is
between Volimier and Chance Corneth. Volimier had nineteen million nineteen point eight or something
like that million, well two Chance corners about eleven point three eleven point five.
Volimia quickly took a chunk from Chance Corneth and then finished things off in
right around half an hour or so of heads up play. Afterwards, Tim
went up there on stage got the interview interview from a mister Volimier, So
we'll play that now. Alex, congratulations, you just won the the new
event of the series, and I would say a pretty tough event, right.
What do you think of this field, especially the players you played,
and particularly Chance Corner three you went heads up against. Its just an incredible
field. I mean all of the stars are here, I mean, yeah,
a vast majority of them, and I did well. I love to
battle against the boys, but Chance has has just this disability to to see
everything in yourself to to videos out, so it is difficult to pay against
him. And I'm happy that I was lucky with the card card distribution in
the headset. And yeah, I'm I'm absolutely thrilled. Obviously, you recently
played in the popular studio at a uspoor event. And now obviously there's the
twenty five K. What do you what do you enjoy playing these high rollers?
I absolutely love playing them. I mean it's also to be to be
part of the elite. I mean it might say a little bit arrogant to
say that, but I love the I come from chess, so I love
the competitive part and I love also this spirit of being part of a group,
you know. So so I love playing this, this this Autimus for
sure ye fifth fifth price winner from Switzerland, Um, I believe, which
I think is kind of pretty cool. I'm pretty crazy. You know,
you played against a lot of Europeans, you play against Americans, Canadians.
You know, how do you rank the difference in countries between I don't want
to to start the world bat three, but you know what they say about
American that if they if they pull forbet, that thins that they have aces
and if Europeans forbet, that means that somebody three. But but it's an
old joke. Now it's not like this anymore. Um. I mean the
epts, the EPT events are also breaking all the records of participation. Now
it's really the golden era of poker everywhere. Um, I hope to play
the Triton series next, So I mean there is something for everyone. What
are you? You know, we talk about Parker where you talk a lot
about goals and ambitions and obviously playing high rolevance you want to win a lot
of money. But what is it the drives you to play. Is it
just a competition like you said, or you want to win multiple praceless?
What kind of what drives you? For me? The points of the player
of the year are important. So last year I'm sweet, so I am
cursed in the way that there is Linus. So he's just the best in
the world. So obviously if he plays, I don't have any chance.
But last year he didn't play, so I wanted for for twenty twenty two
and this year he started playing, So it's just not possible. But I
mean to be in the top twenty in Europe, to pain in Europe or
maybe even even higher. U it is something that that that that matters.
I mean, it will not make the world a better place, but it's
a nice, nice goad. All right. That was Alexander Willimia, very
well spoken. Yeah, no, I liked what he said. You know,
how he likes to compete with the boys, and you know, he
kind of called himself at one point saying, you know, that might sound
a little bit cocky or you know however he phrased it. But I don't
I don't think it was cocky. I think it was you know, confident,
Yeah, confident. You know you should be confident after a win like
that in a field like that. K six handed high Roller at the World
Series of Poker is certainly one of the toughest tournaments to win in the entire
world. And Alex Vallimia did it. I heard you got a stat stat
man, Yeah, I mean that's the fifth Swiss bracelet. I think I
mentioned it mentioned an interview that kind of surprised me. I just felt like
there was gonna be like twenty Swiss bracelets. I don't know, maybe I
was just wasn't one one last year? Correct? One? Was it was
actually true last year? I think, well it was online, but but
yeah, I just I don't know. I just felt like, who won
him last year? Do you remember? And meo b SA one one in
U in Europe? Yeah, to close out well series last year. Then
we had one. But I thought, is it wasn't isn't Jessica Toissel's boyfriend?
Wasn't he aust They're Austrian? Oh Austrian? Damn it? So be
seem Holt one the second one? He won one in Europe and then he
won one. I'm sorry, Emil Bisa one. Two Swiss bracelets, so
got it? Okay, I don't know fifth Swiss bracelet every day, I
promise you. I can't even name another Swiss player, so I don't even
know. Look up the Swiss all time money list. Oh, this is
a fun game. Do you think you could name the top hel Uh?
I think I know it is. I haven't got it out, but I
think I know who it is. I have. I'm gonna say Stephen Huber.
What's funny is he was mentioned in that interview and we didn't think of
him a Linus. Oh yeah, yes, yeah, because he had the
big scores recently. Stephan Huber on there HBr No wait, no, seven
Hooper is Austrian, I'm clearly, but it was the two. I just
I'm sorry if in the Austrians and the Swiss out there, because I'm just
mixing you guys. You want to make amends and maybe just name name the
top five. Lina Slowliga yea with seven point five million, but seem hard
two point two, Claudio Rinaldi one point seven, Chris big Block, okay,
yeah, one point four eight, and then sam Al sayed one point
two four five? Do you know what? Sam Al saied? One A
WPT correct in Morocco? Are you guessing or I'm guessing? I'm I mean,
I have no idea nah clause WPT. I'm neville, yeah close ten
years ago, thirteen years ago, whoa, we're all. I don't have
anything else to say about that events. Um, I mean we talked about
it, kind of going in where the field ties would go. We talked
about Dan Kelly's win, you know, several years ago. It's good,
it's it's great to have this event back. I think this is an awesome
event. I think it's a great way to kick off the World Series of
Poker every single year. UM for that high roller crowd yep um. It
was a lot of fun. Also, you know, a little uh,
a little I don't know, might be this might be too much inside baseball,
but twenty five K fantasy. A lot of implications were at the fine
table, including Ren Lynn's team who had Ren Lynn and Sean Winter, so
a lot of points there for Ren Lynn's team team Lady Gaga. If you
look up twenty five k Fantasy dot Com, the results are been heaving rolling
in. UM should probably touch on some of the players to cash. Some
of the big names bin Wang We took a couple of days ago Bin Wang
cash of course, of course, both place UM Crush WSP Europe Champion Adrian
Mateos fourteenth place, Bill Klein one of our favorites nineteen, our Lord and
Savior carry Kats nineteenth, Chris Brewer one of our PGT players to watch twenty
first, and Daniel ol Grinder twenty second, guy Sam sony third. I
was gonna let you covering him, but I just want to finish. Remember
I spoke to the champ a couple of days ago as well, Espanios at
twenty fifth, a couple of guys we interviewed or talked about his players to
watch there grabbing a cash in the second event. I mean we didn't really
dig too deep with the players to watch, so I'm not going to really,
you know, pat myself on the back too much. I mean it
took me like seven hours to put my list together. Jake Schindler ninth place,
eighth place, eighth place, Yeah, okay, eighth place. So
whether you're sweating or anti sweating, Jake with all the stuffs around. I
actually asked one of the players. I'm not going to mention who it is,
but I asked one of the players that was playing with him yesterday,
you know, what was it like playing with Jake? You know what was
there any heat you know with him? And he said no, there was
nothing, like no one like made any commotion, no one. You know.
I approached him in a way where it stood out to me like to
him. So I thought that was interesting. I thought we would actually get
a little bit of, you know, heat or backlash or something. But
nothing. Ben number three the one K Mystery Millions yesterday wrapped up Day one
a just over two thousand players in the field. Of two thousand entries in
the field, one hundred and two finished the day. Francis Anderson. He
made the what Monster Stack final table last year it was like the monster Stack
of the million Maker, one of one of those fifteen hundreds. Cash pretty
big last year in that event. Plays a lot of events around town here
at the World Ties of Poker. He finished with the chip lead two point
seven five million. Dan Coleboys. We know Dan Coleboys. He's been in
the studio plenty two million. Jimmy d Ambrogio. If you've been watching No
Gamble in the Future season two, you know the craziness that is Jimmy d
one point four million. But a man finishing get kind of middle of the
pack, a little bit towards the back half, but still healthy going into
Day two, Matt Glance. And that is of course notable because last year
mac Lance was the one who pulled the million dollar bounty. So Mac Glance
bagged five hundred twenty five thousand, puts him or put him on day one
a sixty fourth out of one hundred and two remaining players, and he is
very much alive to go back to back million dollar bounty pulls. If he
does that, he will be by far and away the most hated man in
poker. And it won't even be close. Could you imagine it would be?
It would actually be great. I mean it would be great, like
the content, the entertainment would be great. But people would hate on him
so hard. People You see how people are hating on Jeremy Becker. Imagine
the guy pulls the one in a bazillion shot at a million dollars in back
to back years at the World Series of Poker, people, and that will
like he'll kind of rub it in, He'll have some sarcastic tweets, like
he'll just he'll soak it all up. And you talk to him after he
bagged yesterday. So let's play that interview. Now, I'm here with Mac
Glance, the uh the famous million dollar bounty pulla from two thousand and twenty
two, and here you all use just bag chips, you know, fly.
I tell me, how about your day? How did it go?
It was pretty easy. My tables are really soft today other than the last
table, but up until that much softer than last year. Um, and
the repeat is still long, so it's still I was only from one bullet
today and the day two, so the bounty start in day two. So
just if I get one balloty, the repeat is still long until then until
I get knocked out and I don't have the million dollars bounty, I'm still
on it. What are your thoughts to these mystery bounties? Do you approach
them any differently joined normal non of them and hold them. So this is
this is actually the second mystery bounty tournament I've ever played in my life.
The first one was last year. I'm not really much of a tournament.
I played one tournament between the last World Series and this. I haven't played
any mystery bunty but we're bounty tournament, so I don't really know anything about
them other than just get lucky. A lot of talk about this event being
just absolutely massive and there's a chance and maybe more than one million dollars bounty,
you know, it'd be cool. I was about to say, is
that something that is good? Or should there be maybe just one million dollar
bounty and in a few five hundred nine The more the better, for sure.
I mean, if you have two of a million dollars bounty winners,
that's great. Twenty five K fantasy job just happened recently. You know you're
you're opping that. What's your schedule like for this yet? The usual I
played like twenty twenty five events mostly that's the ten K mixed games m I
don't really play many fifteen hundreds or a thousand dollars events other than the the
bounty is obviously a special one, but us mostly mixed game fifty K,
twenty five K, horse like those kinds, and but mostly I played cash
like the Aria or Bellagio. Now, this is a pretty selfish question coming
from someone that you know runs the PGT, But where were you for PGTA
mixed games? Oh? I wanted to go so bad, and I'll be
there in the fall pretty much. But in January when year that was going
on, I was moving that that week from Pennsylvania to Florida, So I
made a big move, big life move, got a new house of Barda,
So that was just my move week and I couldn't really avoid it.
How much farmer I was there that you missed that series? A lot of
farm because my friends were texting me how great it was. It was fun
like everyone everyone really loved that. So you guys did a great job.
And I can't wait to do it. What's it September with aiming second week
of October October, so I expect to see me there. Can you believe
he's only played to mister Bounty events his entire life? And the first one,
so yes, I can. He wins the million and then the second
one he makes day two. It's I mean, it's it's unfair. It
is totally how many of you played, um five maybe and you never made
day two? Right, I've never pulled a B. It's not fair.
I know, it really is unfair. But MAT's a lucky guy. He
was on our list for fantasy purposes. Somebody brought him up and drafted him.
He was a little bit abobble. We were willing to pay, but
you know, we kind of wanted to draft him solely because we thought he
was lucky. That was strategy, that our number one note on him.
Yeah, he's just lucky, um, and he has a very good chance
of getting lucky today. Is this supposed to be Day one eight chip Leaders
or Day one B for the next part, I think it's supposed to be
day one. It is day one band. It's it's just some of the
latest currently they just as you touched on Eliot. They're in the money but
still got another I think two more level, a couple more levels of play.
So yeah, I mean at time of recording, it's just about eleven
pm on Thursday, June first. Martin Jacobson, or as producer Rich would
say, Jakobsen even though Jacobson himself told us that, Um, James Romero
and Benny Glazer all doing well. My guy Ryan Brown, we saw him
over there. As we mentioned earlier, he was in the money. Alan
Kestler, as he mentioned earlier, he was in the money. So second
tightest player in the second tiest player in the building because Tim has overtaken him
with that that you know, debacle with a straight earlier. UM, and
yeah, this is the fun tournament. UM, I think it's I think
it's right around two thousand, a little bit more. A little so they
had two thousand and twenty three one day one day. I think Day one
B is a little bit more than that. UM. And then we'll see
what Day one C and Day one D get for numbers. UM, it
looks like they're pacing behind a little bit to eclipse the fourteen thousand, one
hundred and twelve entries that they got last year. That said skeptic, huh,
well, it's pacing behind. The first two days are behind. I
mean, you can't deny the facts. That said, we know how these
tournaments end up, and that is also yet last year, you wonder what
I found that was interesting that I didn't realize is that Day one D was
lower than Day one C last year. Day one D I think might have
been the lowest one. It might have been like on a Monday or something
that that might have been the problem. But we know Friday tomorrow is gonna
be gangbusters. We know that Saturday is going to be out of control,
so um, they can certainly make up for it. So you know,
I wouldn't look at the numbers right now and be like, oh my god,
they're so far off pace. Like I don't I don't really worry about
it. I'm not straight. If you okay, listen, when you play
Mystery Bounty tournaments, you have to play way more aggressive than normal because the
whole goal is to build a stack. And if you're going to day two,
just like limping into the money getting to day two. Don't play put
your money somewhere sounds not for me. Just play like an animal. Come
on, man, let's play like an animal. All right, That's all
you gotta do. You might be out early, but you might be mac
glance. You never know. UM Event number five fifteen hundred dollars Dealer's Choice
UM four hundred and fifty six entries in this one twenty three or so remaining.
Andrew Kelsaw aka aj Kelsau doing well out there. Andrew Brown also doing
well out there. David Levy doing well, Chatty Sledge doing well. Jeff
Lesandro, your boy, take your head off if you don't, Auntie love
it. Fill him with was out there? Is he still out there?
He is? And he is the shortest stack with about of course he of
course he is. He's gotta know why is the shortest sixty? You know
why is the short of stack? Because he's not wearing the Gucci suit.
He's wearing the sweatpants with the hole on him, which he has to retire.
He has to move on. Yeah, we gotta get rid of that.
This is a new year, Phil, You gotta turn around. You
gotta get the Gucci suit. That needs to be the suit. Okay,
first place in this one is one hundred and thirty one, eight hundred and
seventy nine dollars. They're supposed to what play down to the final table today
or close to it. I think it's just ten levels on the ten levels,
so ten wall levels and then this one will finish up tomorrow. Not
sure Barbara was out there. Brian Micon was out there. He is gone.
Okay, he's gone. Who else we Gogory, Gregory Kelly, He's
out there, Chip Jet, he's out there. I mean this. You
walk through the field and you're like, these are all mixed game players,
like all of them. And the guy that won the twenty five hundred mixed
triple draw Dominics. He's out there doing well. So that one will come
back tomorrow. I don't I'll probably have twenty no, no, no,
I think I get down a twelve twelves ambitious Okay, fifteen, I'll say
fifteen. I have no idea though, but um, that'll come back tomorrow.
Kicking off today, we had the fifteen hundred dollar limit hold them,
so the Mini min Bet Championship kicked off. That was over in the Pavilion
ballroom. We also had a tournament that Tim and I both agree that is
pretty fun. That is the five K half and half half Noleman hold him
half Plo. We kind of were talking. Tim suggested that they should have
a championship event out of this one, the ten K half and half Championship,
that's what I named it. They can sponsor it by half and half.
Um, I think that would be sweet. The field looked pretty stacked
over there. Um, the action was fun. The PLO hands that I
saw, I saw maybe four plo hands. Three of them were all ins
and two of those three that I saw were three way all in. So
people are gambling. Okay, they're ready to go. Um. I saw
I saw Sean Deep. You also saw Sean Deep got it all in,
got all in three ways, his hand held up. He had the best
hand going in his hand held up and he knocked out two players. We
saw John Reard and had a stack. I saw Daniel McGraney was doing pretty
well good and chips miss n there you go. See what I told you?
This could be the year of Negrani okaylie, Yeah, he cashed in
the twenty five k, right, cash in the twenty five k. He
punted in the deal's choice of course, who cares? Who wants to play
that? And he's in this one. This one's great. Um. I
saw Jeremy Osmond's out there. He was multi table in the online event.
The first online event was today the three hundred and thirty three dollars triple Trays
noelm and hold him or something like that. So that kicked off today,
a bunch of players around the Horseshoe and Paris were multi tabling on their phone
and also um, in whatever live tournament they were playing. Um, who
else did we see over there playing China? Rahim Dulan Weisman, Chris Brew
was over there? Yep, Jared Jaffee knew w knew, two time WPT
champion. Excuse me, Jared Jaffee was over there? So UM good the
field over there, I'm likely going to see a pretty stacked lineup as this
one plays down, you know, closer, closer to the end. You
you thought they were playing pretty fast this one. I mean, this one
is a thirty minute forty minute level tournament, although it's thirty minutes until end
of registration and now forty last year this was. This is a two day
event that finished it like one am. Last year. At this stage,
we are planning to hold them when they get to the final table and bring
them back the next day. Sorry, guys, but that is pending.
People want to see your play, Yeah, we'll see. I mean,
they're at eighty six players now, you could easily get down to fifty.
They come back at twelve tomorrow. They could get to a final table in
seven hours and maybe we just stream that, but true to see see what
happens and then what else is coming up tomorrow? One of the favorite events,
so a lot of people out there. The twenty five K Heads Up
Championship will be underway. Supposedly a tweet went out thirty seven players registered already,
well a couple of hours ago. It's probably over forty. That's without
doubt a record. If you if you're if you're like thinking about playing that
tournament, and it's gets capped at sixty four, right, it's a soft
cap. So I mean, if you see them, you know, tweet
out that there's thirty seven people already registered, you probably went and registered just
to make sure that you got in and you didn't get shut out. So
maybe there's a chance they get they move it up to two hundred and twenty
eight. If if that's what happens, I mean, you know, see
how the turnout is, how many people want to play this thing. I
mean, actually, you know what the late registration says, sell out at
sixty four entries. Oh wow, this is a hard cap. But that
and I think that's a I don't know, focused booman man, Like,
let's let's keep it up. I think if sixty four people walked up to
the cage after they sold out, they would probably bump into one twenty eight.
It was always weird, you would have like it would always be weird
when you had like the eighty seven and then like you have the people playing
this playing match and whatever. So that's why I think I think we need
to revisit the bracket format and feel like, how can we just for different
kinds of numbers, like like you said, like eighty seven, you know
some some range between like eighty and one hundred, you do it differently.
I mean I kind of like just cabinet at sixty four. Get in there,
don't be lazy. We should up the buy in. I don't hate
that you could probably I'm not sure I would up the buy it well,
I mean yes I would up to buy him, but also like you could
probably have a ten kN a fifty k then, and I also think you
could have like a one k online and come back for like the final sixteen
or final eight or so. I don't hate that. I don't hate that
he got good ideas. Man, I might follow three times follow the idea
was not a good but I have good poker tournament ideas. That idea is
not a good one. Also have the finale to the Tournament of Champions Lawn
McCarron busted. I know. He was a favorite of a lot of people
fallowing and now was in the booth. Yes. Um he did cash though,
Yes, had barely any chips going into the money, but made it.
Um. Jason Samrville your your friend. Yeah he is. He still
in checking right now, but he okay stack one of our our Pogo studio
dealers, Mark Rowland, he is crushing. He also chopped the he won
a sucker ring. Yeah. Yeah. He also chopped the twenty two hundred
dollar horse at win with Miami John Sanudo. That's right, the real Miami
John Baby. All right, I think that's all we got. I think
yeah, heads up Championship tomorrow, We've got the fifteen hundred stud we got
Day one Sea of the Mystery Millions Saturday. My favorite event, the ten
k Dealer's Choice, one of my favorite events to cover. Unfortunately I don't
get to cover it anymore. But AKA the Adam freedoman invitation invitation he can
win it for a fourth time. I'll be over there a lot, you
know, checking it out like watching that event. Um, maybe do some
recruiting for the upcoming whenever we decided to announce O a mixed game series any
more any more? People who I mean, we had a really good show
in the first time. I think I'm gonna double all the numbers. Jesus,
that's ambitious. But maybe maybe he'll do it. But hey, I
know a lot of people that were also kind of on the fence. By
the way. You know what I haven't seen yet. Maybe I just missed
him, the god of PLO Lataro. I have been in quite close contact
with him. Yeah, but because he here he is. He said,
I'll see you soon. I was gonna say, because you know, when
he won the PLO series, you know, you talked to him. He
said, he's already got everything book, he's ready to go. I haven't
seen him yet. Well, the first real like just straight Palo obviously we
just touched on the mix. Well, yeah, I thought he might like
dive into this. Yeah, I mean the first real Palo I think is
next week. So maybe he's just talking to that one. Okay, Yeah,
all right. Um, also saw Greg Merson today. The champ is
here, so things are going well, numbers look good all around. I
think people are having a lot of fun. Um. So yeah, I'm
looking forward to a good summer. It's only what our third day being here,
but we're being here awake already, right, I mean, if feels
like, honestly we were here. We've been here seven weeks and it feels
quite like it never ended from last year for whatever reason. I feel like
we are very much into like mid wspform very quickly, like everything. So
and Tim has like a massive cramp right now and he's freaking out on the
other side of the table. You should have got that massage that you were
I'm getting one off of it. You were gonna gonna go get um all
right, Well that's gonna do it for us, and uh, we'll talk
to you guys tomorrow. My name is Donny Peters. His name his Tim
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