Hello, everyone, Welcome back to a brand new episode of the Poker Go
Podcast. I don't know if people can hear that cheering in the background,
but that's the most excited stud eight final table rail in the history of the
World Series of Poker. Game all the Future, No, definitely not the
game of the future. That game takes years off our lives. It's July
second, twenty twenty four, a little bit after eleven pm. I just
got done doing commentary on the twenty five thousand dollars PLO high Roller alongside Remco
Rinki Mo and we have the pleasure of having Fernando Habiger aka Jynandes in the
booth. We're gonna hit on that event. It is the eve of the
twenty twenty four World Series of Poker Main Events. We'll talk about the WSP
main event. I told Tim on yesterday day episode to bring stats. I
got it. I've got more claims he has stats, although ten minutes ago
he claimed he didn't have any stats and was asking me why he needs stats,
and I was like, I told you on the podcast yesterday to have
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stud High Low Championship. There's still three left right now. We'll see if
anything develops from that. We got the Colossus closing in on a winner.
You spelled the classes wrong on the right down the mystery bounty is flying on
down to looks like three tables. We have Phil Hellmuth. Make it a
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already won. So Phil Helmuth is playing event. He's running deep twenty five
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like the fifty thousand dollars PLO high Roller kicked off, we can touch on
that. We got the one K mini main event has a freaking massive number
of entries in that tournament, So we'll hit on some things. I kind
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sir? Twenty five thousand dollars p l oh high roller David Eldridge won his
second World Series of Poker Gold bracelet, and boy is this one different than
the first. Tim is over here giving me the look of death because he
probably wrote he won a bracelet in Pennsylvania online for I think forty seven thousand
dollars, So that is why you likely missed it. As Tim Tims,
there's no fucking WSP logo put his photo on the mic or his forehead on
the mic. But I was saying, this is this my whole recount.
This bracelet is very much different than listen. At least you didn't interview him,
because you would have went out there and been like, hey, how's
it feel to get your first bracelet? And he would have been like,
I got too, buddy, But very different than the first one. I
think the first one was a one K buying event on WSB dot com Pennsylvania.
But that one, for you know, obviously online in one state is
a bit smaller than everything else, so I think he won around forty seven
or fifty k if I remember correctly, did David Eldridge. But here tops
a big, big, big field the four hundred and seventy six entries in
the twenty five thousand dollars PLO high Roller to win two million, two hundred
and forty six thousand dollars. Not only did Eldridge top that massive field in
this high roll or high buy an event to win a huge first place sum
of money, but he defeated Poker Hall of Fame six time Gold Bracelet winner
mister Brian Rast. I really thought, especially when Rast had the chip lead
at the final table chip lead heads up, I thought the summer of seven
was going to continue. We had Hennigan winning seven, we had Negronju winning
seven, we had Scott sever winning seven. This would have been Rast winning
seven. And then I was thinking, so Jeremie Alsma's has to win seven,
right, But we get David Eldridge. Who listen, Eldridge played awesome
at this final table. Again, we did commentary on this, so got
to watch it from start to finish. I mean, he was bobbin and
we even throwing haymakers here, jabs there, like doing every single thing you
need to do, keeping his opponents like way off balance. I'm not sure
anyone else at the table could really get a grasp of what David Elders was
trying to do. He was bluffing a whole lot, which then led to
him getting paid off a whole lot when he had big hands. You know,
there was some very interesting ICM moments because you know three handed play.
Rass was a huge tip leader over Eldridge and Ethan Kahn, so there was
some interesting maneuvering that had to be done there. But ultimately, you know,
Eldridge comes out on top. He did enter heads up play at a
big chip disadvantage, but he was able to battle back get into the chip
lead, and then he started putting the pressure on Rast. Then they got
back to even they started flipping the chip stacks back and forth. But again
at the end of the day, David Elders was able to grind Brian Rass
down and then ultimately finish him off. So the six time goal brace the
winner. Brian Rass will have to wait for number seven. I got the
sense that like this one pretty much stung a lot from Brian Rass just just
kind of looking at the way things resulted, you know, his mannerisms afterwards,
the way he was kind of acting. I mean, when you get
so close, yeah, you know, heads up, I'm sure you just
you absolutely feel like you had it and then it got away right. But
overall, you know, really really great final table. This is available on
poker Go and the poker Go YouTube channel to go back and watch. So
Elders took that two million, two hundred and forty six thousand dollars for first
place, then Brian Rass just shy of one point five million dollars for him
for second place. I mentioned Ethan Kahn, he took home a one million
and thirty eight thousand dollars for third place. Yangwang seven hundred and thirty one
thousand dollars for fourth place. And then at today's final table returned five handed.
You had finished pro the legend Yuha Helpi busting in fifth place for five
hundred and twenty five thousand dollars. What do you want to move on to?
Come with a sun high line studd high love. Okay, let's do
this. We are down to three handed play. We have Richie skalar A
rash Ghanian, and Thomas Taylor battling for the three hundred and seventy six thousand
dollars first place prize. The final three players are guaranteed one hundred and seventy
three thousand dollars. They came from a field of one hundred and sixty seven.
You know, finished in sixth place in this event. Eric Wasserson,
No, he was. Eric Wasserson was fifth place. Sixth place was our
guy, Dario Alioto on our fantasy team. Dario's had a great summer.
Would have liked to see him. I mean, this is the loudest study
eight rail in the history of mankind. It's unbelievable. I don't even know
how you get excited over study or do they cheer? They say it's the
game of the future, so it's pretty easy to get excited about that is
not the game of the future. Yeah, Dario has been grinding his butt
off, yeah this summer, and it would have been good just to see
him come out on top because he's had several close calls. He did earn
us fifty points, he did earnt himself sixty five thousand dollars. So let's
see if he has any big runs going forward. Michael Rocco got eighth place
in this one, Brad Rubin twelfth place, Norman Chad fifteenth, Todd Brunson
busted in fourth place. By the way, you mentioned Eric Wassers and he
took fifth place in this event. So not much update there because we don't
have a winner just yet. It's just about eleven thirty. My question to
you, is this going to end tonight? No? This ten the ten
K seven guard stood for sure. He's be four days or they got to
speed up the structure, speed it up. Speed this truck, I mean
anything with footpots speed up. Yeah, and we've talked about how some of
these structures need to be sped up in general. All right, let's move
on. Colossus Colossus, Colossus, Colossus, what was it? It was
over nineteen thousand entries, became the seventh largest live poker tournament of all time.
They are down to five players. Julian Eugen Zau I probably totally butchered
that name, looks to be leading the way. Joel vanettin second place,
Ricky and Dino is in there, Brooks Floyd and then Martin Alcaide is also
in there. They are battling for what is more than five hundred thousand dollars
up top one hundred and forty four thousand dollars for fifth place. Mac Lance
ran deep in this one field bonus. Mac Lance took nineteenth place, earned
twenty one thousand, six hundred dollars and a whole crap ton of field bonus
points for anyone who has him in ODB or twenty five K fantasy. I
have no idea who has him in twenty five K fantasy. I would bet
that it's just the dinkers, Like I'll just bet that it's not the dinkers.
How do the dinkers have one and twenty six points? Is this?
How is this a real score? I mean Roberts Rocky Strattor for a dollar
has two hundred and ten points. Good God, Glance is on Team Lucky.
Of course he's on Team Lucky. We did move up into we broke
into single digits. By the way, in twenty five K fantasy. We
are now up to five hundred and twenty four points. We are in ninth
place. We are very much within striking distance of cash. I don't know
if we're within striking distance of winning, because the dinkers is crushing, but
we all we can cash. We can definitely cash four spots pay. We
are one hundred and twenty points out of fourth, so we can cash.
It can happen. You know, we got we got some people making some
runs, so let's freaking go. Guys. What's next? Mix pig bet
No, mister Bownie, we're doing, mister Bownie. What's going on over
there? They're down to sixteen? Dang, this thing is flying. It's
fine. Yeah, could finish today? Could it? Really? Is it
a three day event? Yeah? Wait? Is today day to today's day?
Two? Yeah? Holy finished? They bust the bubble today and they're
going to get down. No, they're not going to finish it today.
This is this isn't a turbo right, it's just a mystery bounty. It's
forty million levels but so fastish. Philippe Kaiser, I believe it's how you
say his name. Maybe I'm wrong there, but he hit the biggest bounty
two un and fifty k. I saw some chatter on social media that they
need to rethink the bounties. Yeah you agree, Yeah, what are your
thoughts? They had one hundred and forty five five K bounties. They had
what, yes, something insite like that? Yeah, who cares about that?
As a ten k? Bye? That's my point. What do we
do? Give me some more twenty five k's, fifty k's, one hundred
k's. I was actually when I went out there to check, like to
walk through the events, see who was still in and whatever. You know,
they have the bounties up on the screen, I was surprised that the
biggest bounty was only two hundred fifty K. I mean, I don't think
I don't think you would ever want to go to a million, just because
Mystery Millions is the Mystery Millions and that's the thing. But I thought you
might get a five hundred yes, like you know, that'd be that'd be
cool. How many one hundred and forty five? It was something like that,
Yeah, we gotta find this. Oh here we are one hundred and
forty five five K bounties and then thirty four to ten K bounties? Was
this because the field size was so large and everyone who made was was it?
Everyone that made Day two was a bounty? Yes? Well just adjust
that. I think you need to adjust that. You just need to stop
bumping some of those one forty five five k's up a bit? Yeih,
how are you going to do that? You have to take more money out
of the price bool? No, No, I mean you take take a
hundred of them, right, and then make them bigger. So sorry,
you take one hundred of the five K bounties, you turn like four of
them into twenty five of them into twenty five K, five them into twenty
five K. That's what. If everyone on the Day two makes is a
bounty, then you need the number of you need the same number of people
that make Day two. No, I don't think you all saying saying I
think I do, and I don't think you're understanding math. I love math
better than you aimation. If you have one hundred five K bounties, yes,
and you change that to lesser bounties but for more money, yes,
then that means some pi R bounty. Yeah, yes, I know,
I'm right, this is math. Like, I mean, what, like
what are you talking about? So you need to just adjust the fact that,
like you know, maybe it's maybe in this tournament, it's like I
don't know, the fucking top ten percent of the field is the bounty or
something like. That's when you get or when you get into the money,
then the bounty start or something. That's how normally is right, and mister
Bounty right, Well, no, because like the Mystery Millions, you make
the money and then the bounty start on day two. Yeah, but I'm
saying, like there's not many to if you play at the win and if
you played the win, I think you make the money, but then you
end the day. Yes, the Mystery Millions, you made the money and
then you kept playing. No, I know, I get that. I'm
saying, there's not many tournaments where mister Bownie stopped before you're in the money,
is my point. This is probably the only one. You know,
they went in the money today coming back today, is my point. So
maybe they need to play later on day one. Maybe it's played down to
fifteen percent regardless of length of day. Yeah, man, or you can
just or you can just figure it out the next day. I mean,
right, I don't see why not, but yeah, I think in this
one, definitely definitely would need to look at that for sure. In their
defense, they probably got a little bit caught off guard. I mean,
five hundred and sixty eight entries this year and nine hundred and sixty five.
I mean it basically doubled. I mean, so it's like you know,
it just it went gangbuster. There's more than a million dollars up top in
this event, one million and eighteen thousand, which is out of control.
I think last year Chris Claude Nikki won like eight hundred and fifteen thousand or
something. Everyone that cashed got thirteen thousand, six hundred dollars, which isn't
the double if you go off the ten k, but it is kind of
double if you go off the seven k that actually goes to the prize bowl,
seven K to the prize bowl, three K to whatever. Right,
I think that's how it breaks out. And look at that, they're already
down to fifteen. They're just freaking flying out of here. Damage I Davenport
is leading the way. I mean, this chip count can't be real.
He is double second place. Robert Heidorn made a deep run in the WSP
main event, once tenth place a place. He's in second place out there,
who's Chris Brewer is still in? Julian sip On, Jay Farber,
Dan Shack, Ajan Matteo, huh wow, okay, your boys out,
Sean deeb so ya your other boy? Why is this? Say France?
He's not French? Didyer garn his kangaroo crew through and through? He is?
But for tax reasons he's French. I mean for tax reasons. Have
you ever listened to him talk French? Okay, he ain't French. Kangaroo
crew threw and through? What are like for Australian poke holding? That's pretty
Eric Baldwin Ran Deep and Cash, Patrick Leonard ran deep in Cash, John
reard In Shocker ran deemon cast. We're drafting next, yure. I don't
care what anyone says. Nick Shulman, Deep in Cash, David Coleman,
Taylor On Kriegenberg, Victor Blom. Yeah, I mean this this event was
sick, very very very sick. I think it was your buddy Giuseppe Ia
Siderna or how do you say his last name, that's how you say the
bubble boy. He had his kings, he has kings cracked by seven's.
I was out there and saw that happen. Painful, painful exit. So
yeah, so this one, I'm I'm guessing they don't finish it out today.
It's yeah, it's past eleven thirty. They'll play down to I don't
know, I final table as far as they can go or whatever. They'll
come back tomorrow and crown a one million dollar winner. Mixed Big Bet gj
Anglao is leading the way ahead of Wing Lou, Chris Klaude Nikki speaking of
the winner of last year's By the way, they switched the name right.
Last year was called the Secret Bounty ten thousand dollars Secret Boundy. This year
it's called the ten thousand dollars Mystery Boundy. By the way, people just
people just love mystery bounties. I'm not really a fan. I don't particularly
care for them. Yeah, but holy crap, does everyone, like the
common poker person just loves them. They should have six Mystery Bounty tournaments on
the WIT schedule next year, like that's what this year. They should have
a one K obviously, the mystery millions. I mean they should have Fuck,
they should just have a five hundred for all I care. They should
have a three K, they should have a five K, they should have
the ten K, they should have a fifty K, Like, I mean,
why not just go for it? You're crazy? Yeah I am crazy,
But like these people want to blast off, do they not need to
have like something like that. They need to do the fifty K high rollers
every other day. They need to have a two hundred and fifty K PLO.
Yes, I haven't even looked at the updated fifty K PLO high roller
numbers. But like when all the PLO high rollers are smashing the Nolan Holdham
high rollers, it's time to add it to fifty k. Like it just
is kitchen Event Today by Ben Blaham actually for hour series. But what is
it? A two of fIF k plohiroll? No, he wants a full
Max. Oh, I'm in a full Max Paylo. You don't know.
We don't gonna need new tables, so he says, he goes a ten
k full Max. We don't have enough table guys, and I got maybe
a twenty five. We need we need the circular tables. Oh yeah,
like like you know, I used to have them like my college. Yeah
yeah, you call it a doorman exact days. So anyway, Chris catt
Nicky is doing well in this Big Bet Mix twenty five hundred dollars Big Bet
Mix six handed. Alex Foxen is doing well, Alan Lee doing well.
Andy Black. That's the kind of that's kind of random player of the day
ish, I mean, I haven't seen that name all summer, so yes,
how me mee this chipped up Phillip helmet up, Andres Corn is not
chipped up. Looks like he's going the other way. And it says Andres
Corn is from Frankfurt. He's not German, He's Argentinian. Okay, Like
maybe that's the discrepancy in his results. Well, they had him in there
as Norberto Corn the other day, so twenty four left in this one.
First place is two hundred and ten thousand dollars. We could have a Phil
Helmy run, you could. We should stream this. I was just gonna
say, if this guy and you you know he's for sure going to make
he's I would bet on the fact that he's for sure making Day three,
which is tomorrow, which is the start of the w c P main event,
which means we are going to get a ton of messages about streaming ChIL
to it, and to be honest, we should be doing it. Yes,
we should be banking it happy, but we're gonna get a whole ton
of messages about King Kallus is still in there. Joey Coodin is out there
as well. I mean that's it's a pretty good field. This is a
pretty pretty good field. Still a long way to go in this one.
With twenty four players remaining. It's day two, so they're playing down to
whatever final table X levels, et cetera, and then they'll come back and
finish it out on Wednesday. Thousand dollars Mini main Events. I love this
tournament. Kind of a little bit bummed out that I didn't play it this
year. But whatever, last year had five thousand, like two hundred and
something entries, this year has six thousand and ninety three. Hella crushing.
I mean, so for all the numbers talk that we had, I mean,
I came off the future me and myself talk, for all the talk
that we did all summer long about all the numbers, you know, bouncing
up and down and all over the place, and then you know spiking for
all the high roller stuff, a bit of a surge, like the last
week, Colossus Huge Search went from like fifteen eight to nineteen something. You
gotta put an asterix on why. Okay, they added flights in the Monster
Stack in the Millionaire Maker and they got five percent increases. So I'm just
saying there's an asterix. I'm just saying, I just saying it. But
yes, Producer Rich Ryan's theory is schools out people are like, you can't,
you can't take time off to go. His theory is that you you
know, it's you're less likely to take time off and go if your kids
are still in school, like so you wait till the kids are out of
school, like school for fucking seven weeks, buddy, No, I think
some schools were later. You got to set everything up, you got you
know, you can't just like schools out, SMA camp, send him on
some camp and go play poker. Anyway, So we saw big up tick
and classes. We saw a huge uptick in the mystery bounty, the ten
game mystery bounty that was bananas. Obviously. The twenty five k PLO that
we already mentioned was very very large. We haven't gotten to it yet,
but I'm assuming the fifty k PLO is trending to be very large. I
don't know, Actually, you need to look up. I already have last
year's first number. Yeah, I got it. Okay, you need to
speak up when you talk. Also, you know three people told me you
don't talk loud enough to turn them mind, you got the look, you
got the switchboard there, turn it out. They're all the same. You
don't know how to talk on a podcast or on a microphone in general.
You have to project. You have to stuff your voice into the microphone.
Like, that's what you have to think about it, got it? Thank
you? And then the Mini Main event is up a ton, Yeah,
year over year? What was you were here? What was it like?
What were the lines like? It was? I mean, it was insane
that they were in the what's it called? This is the Grand ball room?
It did like two loops in that room. Then it looped outside into
the hallway down past the men's toilets, the registration in the other room.
They won't letting anybody in max Light registration. There was a line out the
door. It was an insane day for the Mini Main event. Yeah,
so I have a side topic for a second because you made me think of
it and I wanted to bring it up yesterday, but I didn't bring it
up yesterday. When you bust these tournaments like the Colossus Mini main events gonna
fall into that. Gladiators. Of course, all these tournaments you have to
first go stand in a line. You're right, they say, hey,
you know whatever, payout table whatever. You stand there, The tournament staff
comes over and like they send a message to the clerks or whatever. Then
the tournament clerk comes over and gives you your payout slip and like walks you
over to a line. You go stand in this line, which for the
big fields tournaments, the line can be extremely long. Like I mean,
I was waiting in the Colossus line yesterday for like half an hour. And
you go up, you give them your payout slip, you give them your
ID, and you give them your player's card and they all they do is
put you in the system. Correct. Why is this the thing? Well,
you need put ratls and they'll be automatic. Okay. Why like why
when the clerk comes over to me, doesn't the clerk just like have an
iPad or something and just like you know, like a I don't know,
you just swipe my player's card or something and then you punch something in and
then you just automatically whatever, and then I walk and go do whatever I
want. If they just do it on the iPad, it's done. You're
already in the system. Yeah, It's like it seems pretty wildly absurd that
I have to First I get a tournament staff comes over. They're like in
a WhatsApp chat or something whatever, they're doing telegram texting, Like, just
pay out so and so, so and so. Then then another person comes
over, hands me a piece of paper, walks me over to a line
with like three hundred people in it that I have to then stand in just
to be entered into a system. Then you have to go stand in another
line to actually get the money. Yeah, like that seems like a very
bad process overall. Like I feel like that there should just be like a
tournament clerk, Like I think the pokerautlest thing is obviously the best, right,
but they're Bravo here, they're not poker outles, so I get it.
But still, like, just come over with an iPad when you do
the mystery bounty event you knock someone out, you know, someone comes over
with an iPad and you just do your thing. You really press a button
and that's it. Like, so why can't it just be like that but
for payouts, Like, I don't understand why you need all this extra waiting
around. It seems crazy to me. That's that's done like that anyway,
I'm all over the place. I think Alan Castler said that it took about
an hour and a half, maybe an hour and forty five minutes to get
through the line. Just wild stuff, but good problem to have because that
means numbers are banging. All right, let's check on this fifty thousand dollars
plow high roller, mister statman. Jason Mercyer is the chip leader. I
mean, of course he is. Jared Blesnick is second, Santo Servana's third.
I mean, come on, this field is sexy. One hundred and
thirty one entries, That's what the thing says right now. Why don't you
tell me what it was last year? Well, I'll see we had one
hundred and sixty seven entrants one day one Yep, that played down to and
t So right now we're behind that pace. Final number was two hundred in
that one year before only one hundred and six entrance. So yeah, even
that last year was the huge spike for everything. Yeah, it doubled,
It was basically doubled. But yeah, we're currently behind pace. So all
your big bit high roller theory up year on year increases is looking I'm sorry,
one of like the twelve of them. Yeah, this one's just not
going to follow how follow through? How long do they play tonight in this
tournament? Eight levels I'm looking at of right now. I think they have
level twelve levels. Two more levels. Oh yeah, it's it's not then
on our levels forty minute levels. They play twelve levels. Late registration is
open, maybe three levels tom at then late registration is open until No,
it's only one level tomorrow. Oh, that's stupid, says It says one
pm restart for day two. Late registration thirteen levels, so approximately one forty
on day two. That doesn't mean. That doesn't make sense. Haven't they
been doing it? Two levels? It's then you have a break so that
they can sort out all the This wouldn't be a break, right, this
would be the hell. This sounds like fun. Two re entries are allowed
per player in this event, so you know some of the numbers thing,
you know, not being on pace could just be re entry variants. You
know obviously a lot about that with the PGT events that can just you know,
not necessarily break in your favor. Last year was the same. I
did look this up before. You know, three entries max per player,
two re entries plus your original entry. Oh they're done. They're done right
now. It looks like Jason Mercer is the chip leader as long as no
one else pops out of the woodwork. And then Jared Blesnik, second,
Santo Servanna, third, Bryce Yockey's doing well. David ben Jamine is in
there. I see Yanna, you come inine in. I see last year's
champion, Jesse Lonis. I see Scott sever Is out there going for a
bracelet. Number four John Reardan, how King, Nick Schulman, Carrie Katz,
Anthony Zeno Mgranu departs is like the last update that they put in,
So that's fun. What does he have? Ace King? Eight three?
This update reads Daniel Legranny was all in already and the Ada hearts six of
spades, DUSA hearts jacket Diamond's term then also brought the last one hundred and
forty nine thousand of Petko Sokov into the middle against Eric Kurtzman. I can't
even make sense of that sentence. And then there's three hands, so whatever,
When was Daniel Allen pre flop flop? Like? What's going on here?
Did you see the Megamerica great again? Hats over there? I did
that? They were all wearing I did Mickey Duek had one on Yona Yukamin
and had one on Jason Mercer had one. Did did Elis? No,
I don't think he did. I should say make poker great again, make
plo grade again, and then mixed on I ate it great again. So
yeah, so I mean, we'll update this one as we go. What
did Statman? What did the twenty five k plhigh roller finished Day one with?
Go close that tap? Yeah? Well, you know you got to
be on the ball. You have to stay twenty twenty three or twenty No
this year, I want to know, like because I want to see where
I want to see where it went from day at the end of Day one
to where it ended up with Who won that again? David Eldridge, the
one that just saw, the one that just happened, largest study eight rail
in history of the WSP is happening right now tonight on the eve of the
WSP main events. Who knew Day one had three sixty five entrants? So
got more than one hundred on Day two? I've got, yes, more
than so this one cans a chance. It's just that, I mean,
you're definitely getting Daniel la grand new Yeah, there's one entry. Yeah,
I mean you're probably getting Brian Rass and David Eldridge, sw Ethan Cohn.
I mean yeah, probably the guy in third vice, Yang Wang. I
mean just people people in the people that are busted right now in the Chip
counts, Stephen Chanick, Sam soverall Elis Parson and Arthur Morris, Arthur March,
Rosian, phil Ivy Connordron and Dylan Wiseman, Dan Kates, Aaron Katz,
Jeremy Osmas, I mean all Tyler Brown, all these people, Alex
Livingson, Eric Lingra and all these people are firing again. Yeah, Daniel
ging Yep finally decided to show up and play a plow even I guess,
yeah, all these people are firing again. So we're gonna get in there,
and they basically have forty minutes to blast off another bullet, right,
possibly you tell us what's going on with the Poker Hall of Fame please,
Yeah. They announced the ten numbinees today. Who we got? We got
Patrick Antonius, Josh Lovitz, Josh Okay, just okay, Well, my
thing with Josh Aria not that he's not on the list, but if you
continue to go through this list and there's other people not on it, then
I'll question josh Ari's inclusion, is what I mean. So go ahead,
okay, Patrick Antonio's josh Ari. These are the people that have already been
nominated before. Matt Savage, is Cei Shinberg, Kathy Liebert, Bill Smith
nominated for a second your first time nominees, Bonnie Bowman, Miami, John
Sunudo. Uh and that is did I name ten? I named ten right?
Ted Forrest. That's what I'm miss sorry, Ted Forrest. So okay,
So this is what I mean with josh Aria. There's no Jeremy Osmas.
Yes, he's been replaced by Ted Forrest. I don't I just don't
understand. So you don't understand. You know this works though, Yes,
you're writing your nomination. Who did you write in? I don't write anyone?
Well, then it's your fault that josh Jeremy Osmis is not that I
didn't even know this was happening. Okay, so that's not my fault.
Show, Yes, like what I what do you want me to do?
Look, anyone that's gonna complain about the nominaes, it's really if you're not
nominating people, it's kind of your fault. But so you're gonna complain about
anyone to nominate people if you if you can listen, anyone can nominate people
anyway, it gets open to anyone out of out of anyone, I'm putting
anyone in a group. How many people know who Bill Smith is to vote?
This tells me, I mean, how many people are voting if Bill
Smith is getting in here? Maybe Bill Smith has an insane amount of family
that, like, I know, there's a lot of Smith's in the world
included. It might just take but it just might take twenty four people,
right, Like I'm Jeremy Smith. That's what I mean. If if he's
one of the top ten, with you said twenty four people, twenty four
votes, then two hundred people are voting. Yeah, it could be like
that. I mean that that's way too low, is it? Though you
didn't vote, I didn't vote. Why didn't you vote because you didn't know
what's happening. I knew it was happening. I just abstained from voting.
Not the right word abstained. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Anyway, so
that's the ten. Only one of them most likely will get in. I
think we all know who the front runner is. Who well, Our front
runner is Patrick Antonio's isn't it our front runner? Yeah? Yeah, the
front the real front runner. Who's the front Yeah? Actually, can we
just wind it back to yesterday because we mentioned this the voting, and I
threw out some ways that we didn't know how to vote, but you'd never
corrected me, even though you supposedly know how it votes. Speaking to a
Hall of Famer today, they told me, you get ten votes, you're
gonna play them in anyway. It's like you get ten points at least two
people, So you know, someone might go nine votes to Mike mattisow one
to Bill Smith. Well you could give one to each, or you could
go five to Isi Sheinberg, five to Matt Savage. That's how you vote,
and the fate of these ten people rest in the current Hall of Fame
members. How do you do that's? How would you do your ten let's
play that game ten? Yeah, right now with this ten, how do
you do your ten points? So ten votes, how many get in?
WHOA I'm assuming one that's been one in the last few years. Well that
shouldn't you have to know how many get in before? Let let's assume it's
one. I'm giving seven to East Si Schinberg and three to Patrick Antonio's and
those seven are likely wasted because EASi is probably never getting in. I've always
thought should that. I've always thoughts Si Schinberg should be in. I've said
that many times. So if they're getting wasted, why I use him on
him to prove a point? Okay, Like listen, I I just have
personally feel that, like this is as far as East Si Sheinberg goes to
the nomine nation list. I feel kind of the same way about Matt Savage
that he goes as far as the nomination list and ultimately doesn't get in.
I don't know how Jeremy Osmas is not on this list after he was on
it last year. So he was just on it last year because there was
a big campaign on social media and get Jeremy Osmas in. So you say
you have to campaign every year, Yeah, you get a Campbell, then
I'm forty, I'm campaigning next year. I'm going to campaign for you.
Yeah, we're gonna do it all. We're gonna I'm gonna do graphics and
promo reads on our live streams, We're gonna do social media contests, We're
gonna do email blasts like the whole nine yards just voting for you the in
the Hall of Fame. If you make the nomine list, it doesn't matter.
I just want to be It'll be a win if I make the nominations.
It would be a good test case. Does what I mean to do
this? We should maybe try this, Like, let's just see if I
can get on the nomination list. Yeah, okay, well I would give
I'm forty. I apply right, I'm giving seven votes to Antonius and then
one to Sinudo, Ted Farrest and Kathy Wave. Josh, Bonnie, you're
out chance, Josh, you can wait a little while Madison. Fuck Madison.
Kind of like Madison to get in. I'm changing Antonio seven, madis
Ath three. That's how I'm doing. Yeah, I mean, listen,
I I know we've got a couple of hate. I thought. I thought.
Producer Rich Ryan had a good tweet about this today. He said,
my Poker Hall of Fame thoughts had a second yearly entry that is voted on
by media members who are curated annually to make sure there aren't any legacy voters
who don't give an f His words not mine anymore. I mean Listen.
I felt that sort of way about the Global Poker Awards in that, like,
listen, I just think that there's a lot of people out there who
have voting power who just aren't in tune with a lot of stuff that's going
on. You know. That's that's kind of why I ultimately like how you
know, like the MVP and the NBA is voted on by media, not
the players. You know, all pro is voted on by media, not
the players. You know, Like, yeah, you know, media have
their biases. Of course, I think everyone has their biases, but I
also feel like in some ways, you know, in a lot of ways,
media is just kind of better verse. But then again, you know,
building off that, you have to curate the media because it's not just
every single person that's quote unquote media, because as I think we've experienced with
the Global Poker Awards, people just basically vote for their favorites or they vote
for anythings, you know. So like I think I wrote about this once
for Pocket Fives, Like basically with like the Global Poker Awards for example,
and also the Poker Hall of Fame, like you have a list of people
who can vote, and they basically need to have a test every single year,
and you either pass or fail the test, and if you pass,
you can continue voting. If you failure out, I mean, because like
you know, you just can't be throwing nonsense out there if we ultimately want
to make these things mean what they're supposed to me. But whatever, it's
a good talking point. Every year. Everyone always gets there, you know,
throws their arms up and freaks out over this and that and the other
thing. This year it's the Jeremy Osmas thing. And then as as it's
specific to Jeremy Osmas, you know, it's like next year is going to
be extremely interesting because you're gonna get sever added, right for sure. You're
gonna get Nick Shulman added, for sure, you know. So, I
mean, that's gonna be a list, man, that's gonna be a pretty
pretty crazy, crazy list. So yeah, but that's the Poker Hall of
Fame again. The nominees or the finalists, sorry, then finalists are Patrick
Antonius, josh Ari, Barney Bowman, Miami, John Sarnudo, Ted Forrest,
Kathy Liebert, Mike Madisow, Matt Savage, is Isi Sheinberg, and
Bill Smith. When did they announce this? Like, I think they announced
in the even on the eve of the Poker Hall of Fame tournament, so
that the winner can play literally during the event. Yeah, well it's more
at first break, but it's during the event. Sure, but it's I
mean what the event starts tomorrow, so it gets announced the end start.
It's the start of the Poco Hall of Fame turn which is an event.
I'm like, which is during the mid event. But before I hit you,
I'm sorry, it's during the main event. It is. That's just
how it is. All right, let's talks an event. Pal. Last
year, day one day, what to get stat man? I was gonna
I had this big setup. Okay, you're gonna ask for stats. I
was gonna be like, well, this is the fifty fifth main event last
year. I was going to be like a tool. What do you want
to know? I got a bunch of stuff here. I just want you
to start ripping off stats. You're that man? Alright, ready, okay,
this is my first favorite stat Ready ten seven hundred and fifty three entrance.
What is that? That means? We hit that? That's one hundred
million dollars prize, Pall. That's pretty cool. So that baby, that's
the goal for everyone. That should be the goal. Yes, that is
the goal. We won't get there there that, but that's never said.
Like I feel like, you know, when they like is coming into last
year, it was all about beating the record. So the goal was was
what was eight thousand and seven and seventy three, So the goal was eight
thousand, seven and seventy four. Right, well, this is a new
record right now ten sorry, this is the new goal is ten thousand,
seven hundred and fifty three entrance. That will get to us to what I'm
saying, you'd be good at, but you gotta take steps with one step
at a time. The first step is to beat the lost record, and
then we always set a new record. But I'm saying that they beat they
shatted the record. Yeah, blew away expectations and you know, have to
tip your cap to them for doing as well as they did. Ten thousand
and forty three entries. People coming you know, out of everywhere to play
this event last year. Yeah, you know. Like so what I'm saying
is that it's almost like this year put it out there that like next up
one hundred million, that's the goal. The goal isn't just ten thousand and
fourty four entries. The goal is one hundred million dollar prize for yes,
like, let's go nuts this year. Unless something insane happens will be they
will award the two hundred millionth first place prize dollar to the winner. We're
currently at one hundred and repeat that currently at one hundred and ninety four million
dollars. So unless the first prize is less than six, lets think get
four thousand entries. Yeah, so that's one we should never happen. Now
I'm looking I was trying to do some figuring out why on this, but
I didn't get through it all and I look at Okay, so in the
past, the last three years, we've had day two registration, so that
changes how the numbers are kind of interpreted. Back in the days, we
used to have just three flights. Late two thousand's we had four flights.
So, you know, like it's been the structure of the main been different
most most years. But how many day ones were there when Moneymaker won just
one year? Like when when did it go to multiple? First multiple one
that I have on my thing is Jamie Goldzier, But then was it two?
It was through four? So they went one to four no, I
don't. That's where my data stops. So I've got a feeling this.
I'm just curious how that progression went. I mean, I don't I'll try
and feel this in about there. I'm just curious how, like when did
they decide, okay, we need two starting flights? You know, when
did we decide like when do they say, okay, two is not enough,
we need three? Like you know that sort of thing continue the last
fifteen years, last fifteen years, only on three occasions has Day one ain
not been the smallest field. So that's that's kind of been pretty consistent,
you know, throughout the last time that happened Espens. Yeah, oh I
remember that. It's random that was July fourth, but also Day one B
the last three years has also been July fourth, so that's not really an
indicator of of anything. And it was only less than Day one A by
like literally two tables, so it's a dramatic drop off. I don't know
why I feel like Day one A is going to be larger than normal this
year. I don't know. I think I said it on yesterday's episode maybe,
but like I've been just talking to a lot of people who are like
I'm playing one A. Yeah, like I just feel like i'm here,
I'm hearing a lot of that. Normally it's one D. You know,
like that's kind of what people have kind of always played, So that gets
the biggest field whatever. Going back to what you said, the biggest fields
over the last fifteen years actually sixteen years. Fifteen years is always the last
flight. And what I mean by that is the last three years that's been
Day one D YEP. Starting in twenty twelve to twenty nineteen, it was
Day one C was the biggest field, and then before that twenty eleven down
to two thousand and six. I do not have two thousand and seven data.
It was one D. So what did I say? Last flight always
the big guess it's just followed a trend that. Yeah, it's been pretty
consistent over the years, So I know, I like that kind of nerdy
stuff. I think is kind of interesting. I got I've got another one
for you. Ready for this? Yeah, I'm ready for it. All
man. We've had fifty four WSP Main Event champions. You would agree this
is fifty fifth well Series of focus we've had fifty disagree, hard disagree?
Okayyls won three. No, No, I meant, okay, you gotta
when I finish my Johnny Chan okay, yes is yes? Like, what
are you gonna understand when I finished? What do you mean? No again?
Math fifty four? You're bad at the math. You're the stab man,
not the math man. Okay, one hundred percent understand the mystery bunting.
Now you can't understand that that these people who won multiple main events are
not multiple different people. Yes, the same person of the fifty four winners
of the main event. I know for a fact right now that when Rich
Ryan heard that we've had fifty four million members, he was screaming, no,
let me finish. Please. All of those fifty four winners, who
is cash the next year? How many have cashed the next year? Greg
Raymer, Joe Hash the number, Jonathan Dummel, Peter Eastgate. I mean
I've ripped off four for sure. All Right, Let's go from the top.
Johnny Doyle Brunton because he won three, Yeah, there you go,
Doyle one, Johnny Chan, Johnny Moss won Johnny Chan twice. Yeah,
all right, because he won one. Then he came second. I understand,
h Yeah, you're the one boy, You're the one that doesn't understand
your boy Bill Smith, Bill Smith, my boy? How is that?
My? How is he? My boy? Barry Johnson? You said,
Johnny Chance, Dan Harrington, Greg Raymond, Johash and Peter Eastgate, Greg
Merson, kry Adamy. Of all those players that did not win all wait,
you didn't give me a number, twelve twelve of all those players that
did not win or come second, So Doyle, Johnny Mas, Johnny Chan,
you're out? What was the best place finish and who was it?
I'm sorry? What of all those players? We just listened the twelve,
the twelve, okay, the twelve winning the second time or finishing second?
So Johnny Chan, what was the best finish and who was it? From?
Ummm, so I'll give you the names. I'll give you the names,
ready, Bill Smith, Barry Johnson, Dan Harrington, Greg Raymond,
Joe Hashim, Peter Eskape, Greg Meurson, Bill Smith. It was Bill
Smith, fifth place? Yeah, your boy Bill Smith, my boy Smith.
I don't understand why he's my boy. But okay, I got some
Day two entrance stuff and some Day three, four, five, six,
seven, eight, blah blah blah. It's not that interesting. Why isn't
it interesting? Because I want to compare it to this year, Like when
we get that data and we can look at like how many Day two AB
total starters we had, how many we had D two entry Day two entry?
I have data for four years. How has it been trending? The
second entry, the second day so day it's it's called it's been called different
days, like it's this year it's Day two D. Previously it's been Day
two CD. But you get them. There's two day twos, the second
one just three exes two and a half to three xes. But I'm saying,
how how has the day two entries for like twenty twenty one been compared
to the Day two entries for twenty twenty two and then twenty twenty three?
Is it going up getting Day two entries? So let's not for twenty twenty
one, weird year we were in November. That's things. Throw that one
out, but let's go the last two. Let's go Espens and Wineman's year
Day two A B one ninety six, so that's pretty similar. Day two
D was five eleven. Is not very similar. It's CLO's, it's Satman,
it's I think to me, it's very very similar. When we're talking
ten thousand entries, you're talking difference of four. We're talking about the difference
between those two numbers. Percent difference. That is a very significant percent difference.
Different way. Yes, if you're looking at it individually, Yeah,
then you what I'm trying to get at. What I'm trying to get at
is late regging and more specifically max late regging things has become a much more
popular thing to do because that can often maximize your ev Okay, that is
why so many of these guys are max late reging everything, coming in at
the absolute last minute, getting in there. So is that then translating to
the WSP main event? Meaning now that max late reging and late reging in
general becomes more and more of a thing that players are doing. Are they
doing it also in the WSP Main Event? Are more and more players late
reging the WSP Main Event? Or are they not? And it's just kind
of flat. So like if it went from one to one ninety six,
is it going to go to two fifty? But then day to day he
went from five eleven down to five us up. Yeah, So then it's
I'm just saying then it's not, but you need to just you just need
to add those two numbers because I just want total day two rege, So
you need to add them both and then say, you know, in twenty
twenty two, the total day two redge was this. In twenty twenty three,
the total day two redge was this. And then I'm curious if that
number just continues to go up, if it goes down, if it stays
flat, whatever it is, because max late reging, yes, is plus
ev in many spots. But the wasby main event can just be the Unicorn
event where it just is not because you want to show up early play hand
number one, three hundred big blind is deep against everyone in the universe,
Like that's what you want to do in this event, right, So so
what I find interesting is, okay, twenty twenty two, there was six
hundred and fifty nine light entrance got okay twenty twenty three, seven hundred and
three late. But if you compare it to the field size twenty twenty two,
seven point six one percent, you compare it to twenty twenty three seven
percent, so went down relative to total field down. Yes, so that's
a little bit interesting then yeaheah, but there it is stats. No,
but listen, I don't think the percentage matters in this case because you're getting
interpreted you're not. I don't think you're getting I don't think you're getting common
poker player max late regime. I think max late reging is coming from pros
that recognize the ev difference with max late regiing. So they're making the transition
from showing up early on day one to then transitioning to max late regiing,
right, So that's where I think that population comes from. And then the
number of the main event itself just generally grows because poker becomes more popular,
there's more satellite winners, et cetera, and all those people that fall into
that category are showing up number one. That's what they're doing. So I
don't think the percentage matters so much then the actual real one thing I want
to just randomly that I've stumbled across in my stat diving in the past.
So the year Bill Smith went won nineteen eighty five, one hundred and forty
entrants, nine players in the money, he won seven hundred k. Cool.
Next year they made a they go we're going to pay out more spots
so they wanted to pay out thirty six spots. They pay out thirty six
spots, but they only got an increase of one player. I think that
year they also paid less, the mid payer was less. So then for
the next seven years we still do thirty six spots. We go from one
forty one to two to two oh one. Then they go, let's go
down to twenty seven, so three tables. We get an actual increase of
thirty players. And then you know, fifteen years later we start seeing these
bigger growths in payouts. But I don't know, I feel that interesting.
We had paying out just nine for you know, five six, and then
let's just go to thirty six. I wrote down a handful of names here,
six of them who have had some really good runs in the WS be
main events as a whole, most of them in the modern era. One
one person. I did have to include one cash out of the modern era.
And when I say modern era, I consider that two thousand and three
and beyond two thousand and three. That's when Moneymaker won and you know,
everything just took off from there. But I'll use two thousand and three as
the start of the modern era. Anton saout two thousand and nine third place
three point four to seven nine million buckaroos, twenty sixteen got twenty fifth for
two hundred and sixty nine k, and then twenty seventeen fifth place for two
million. That's a pretty pretty sick run, so a third in two thousand
and nine, sixteen, twenty fifth, twenty seventeen got fifth. Okay,
then there's Ben Lamb. So Ben Lamb has in this new modern era five
cashes. In two thousand and seven one hundred and fifty sixth place for fifty
eight k, which is, you know, I mean obviously good, yes,
but like not really what I'm hitting at here. But the next three
two thousand and nine he got fourteenth for six hundred and six six hundred and
thirty three thousand. In twenty eleven he made the final table, took third
place for four million and twenty one thousand dollars. In twenty seventeen he made
the final table, took ninth place for a million dollars, and then in
twenty twenty three, last year, he got six hundred and fifty first place
for thirty thousand dollars. So pretty good record for mister Lamb in the WSP
main events Mark Neuhaus. Twenty eleven he got one hundred and eighty second for
forty seven thousand dollars, and then of course twenty thirteen and twenty fourteen ninth
place. Both years twenty thirteen seven hundred thirty three K for the ninth place
finish and then the next year ninth place for seven hundred and thirty K.
In twenty twenty one he cashed nine hundred and tenth for fifteen K, So
not bad for mister newhouse. Joe Katta, this is a good one.
Two thousand and nine he wins the WSP Main Events eight million, five hundred
and forty six thousand dollars. Twenty seventeen he cashes for sixteen K, took
nine hundred and forty eighth place. In twenty eighteen he returns to the final
table. He takes fifth for two million, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars,
and then twenty twenty three he finished in the money thirteen hundred and fifty
fifth place for fifteen K. That's pretty damn good, Dan Harrington, this
is the one where I included the outside of the modern era, even if
you just do look at the modern era. Two thousand and three, he
got third for six hundred and fifty K. Two thousand and four he got
fourth for one point five million, and then in two thousand nine and he
got two hundred and fifty second for thirty three K. If you include nineteen
ninety five, he won the event for one million dollars. I mean,
overall, pretty darn good track record for mister Harrington. And then listen,
we got a touch on mister phil Ivy twenty sorry two thousand and two.
I know this is of course before the twenty twenty three but or sorry two
thousand and three. But I have a reason for this because in two thousand
and two he got twenty third for forty K. The next year two thousand
and three, he got ten for eighty two thousand, seven hundred. Two
thousand and five he got twentieth for three hundred and four thousand dollars. So
two thousand and two to two thousand and five, three top twenty five finishes
pretty good. Two thousand and nine this was the year he made the wsp
Man final. Say well, that's the year Joke had a one seventh place
one million, four hundred thousand dollars. Twenty fourteen, Ivy cashed again four
hundred and thirtieth place for twenty five thousand, seven hundred dollars, and then
he cashed again in twenty and eighteen, five hundred and forty seventh place for
twenty four thousand dollars. So these are just some of the players that have
stuck out to me in terms of, like, I don't know best main
event performers, if you want to call it that, just you know,
they've all had one, if not two, very very deep runs in the
modern poker era when field sizes have been massive, and they've all performed extremely
well. I don't have Greg Ramer on here, but he won it in
two thousand and four, and then in two thousand and five he got like
twenty third or twenty fourth or something like that. So incredible back to back
years from Greg Ramer. Yeah, overall pretty crazy, right. I don't
know who has the record for most consecutive cashes Anymorennie. Well, I know
Ronnie got to five and set the record, but I don't know if somebody,
like I think somebody might have beat it after that, and I can't
remember who it was, Asta Pachenka. It might have been Asta pa chenk.
That makes a lot of sense. Yeah, but it's with a asterix.
Why because one was the the online one. Well, if they counted,
we count it. That's how it works. Okay, what was last
year's one A again? Already for one oh something? One of three seven,
one thousand and thirty seven? You said that very weird, one O
three seven, like it was one of three point seven. I knew it
was one uh and then I can remember the off the numbers up the one
all three point seven k I s S Radio Home of the Hits. It's
more or less then last year one A. What do you got, buddy?
One thirty seven less? I'm I'm over for coffee. Let's go.
Okay, let's go. When do they tell us these numbers again? I
forget? Sometimes we get on the day. Yeah, I know, it's
like always like a sweat. We're like, where it's the number where you
can Sometimes I've asse, I don't want to release a bit. It sounds
like people are growing more and more bullish by the day on where the final
tally ultimately comes in. I think a lot of people were thinking slightly below
last year's record setting number of ten thousand and forty three entries. But I
think in this last week or so week week and a half, I think
people have really started moving their number up a bit. The number that I'm
most often hearing is ten thy two hundred to ten thousand, three hundred in
that range. So to me, that's comfortably beating last year's record and setting
a new record. So that would be wild. I'm curious to see where
it lands. I think we'll get a decent idea depending on what happens on
Wednesday. For Day one A, I think it comes over slightly. But
I say that mostly because I just feel like a lot of people are playing
one A this year. I don't know why, Like maybe it's the rest
thing. To be honest, Like, you play, if you get through,
you have a few days off you can just kind of chill and do
whatever, and then you go from there, right, And I think those
days off can play really, really really big dividends if you end up,
you know, making day six, making day seven, because it just adds
up overall. Not only do you get played Day one A and then you
get three days off before you play your Day two, should you make it,
you play your Day two as the first day too. Then you get
another day off, so space it out pretty nicely. I'm ready for this
damn thing to start. It is the biggest, most historic, most prestigious
tournament in the world, and we freaking love it. Like one thing I
want to add once when most that I forgot. Yeah, let's go third
on the WSP Main Event all Time money list. Thanks, I'm the same
what I'm saying, W has to be all time w has to be the
main event all time money list. Third is Joe Katta. Yeah, of
course, why wouldn't it was? In like you, who's the highest ranked
non winner? Do you think who's the highest ranked non winner? Could be
him? Ben Lamb? Wait no, I'm not even thinking who who won
lost? Who was second? Last year? I had Darius Amentino, But
that's definitely not correct. Stephen Jones. Yeah, I think it is going
to be Stephen Jones. I could update this page. Yeah, I mean
the second place people will be higher. Yeah, yeah, they've got Bombia.
Well no, wait, yeah, Stephen Jones won six point five right,
yeah, but what is Ben cash? For? Ben was four point
something at his final table then six hunder k also had a one million five
point seven million. Oh yeah, he's close. Darius seventeen has six point
one. He has second in twenty nineteen. Then he has forty thirty twenty
seventeen. So yeah, yeah seven Jones. Now who has the most of
and cashes, not including last year? I have three people tied with ten,
not including last year. Well that's this one's an old doc that I
have one person that is above all. What are you including including Europe?
He's just Vegas, just Vegas. I have three tied to ten. So
you know, one person cash last year? Okay, I'm gonna say it
was probably Alan Cunningham. It was not Alan Cunningham. Johnny Chan, yep,
wow, Johnny freaking Chan who he was deep in the Mystery Bounty Tournament.
He was over there. Johnny Chan last year in the WISIP main event.
Took one thousand and sixty sixth place, so a little bit above a
min cash there for him. Did you look up Andrew Ostupchenko, by the
way, he but he has seven made him and cashers. I think I
think Andrew ostop Chenko set the record. I think I remember talking with some
player about that, because everyone's kind of questioning who's got the record. Whatever.
You know, some people said, well, he used to be Ronnie,
but I think this is kid andrews up Chenko beat it, and maybe
he did. Maybe he did well. Osobacheka has six in a row.
Okay, well that beats Ronnie's five. But he has a year in the
middle of twenty twenty that he did in cash. I mean that counts that,
that's does it? Yeah, I twenty twenty doesn't count to me.
I mean seven in ra seven and I mean like, no, he's got
six in round, like he's gonna get seven in a run and then I'll
think about it. Oh, he's made event time, boys and girls,
let's get ready. Speaking of main event time, we are streaming the WSB
main events on pogergro of course. So the plan is the first four days,
so the first starting flights, the starting flights for the ws BE main
event are going to be on poker go dot com and the poker Go YouTube
channel. So yes, if you're out there and you're wondering why am I
paying for poker Grow if it's for free, well only those days are for
free. Okay, it's super early action, you know, it's it's more
to attract people in and then you know, we'll move things over to poker
Go, the poker Go platform and the paywall after the day one, so
so be aware that that is coming. You have Remco Rinkima and myself on
the call. At least I'll be on three of the four day ones.
Not going to be on you know, fingers crossed. I'm not on the
one on the day that I'm plane. But we are going to be bringing
you six hours of coverage on each of these starting days. So tomorrow,
the stream will start at five thirty Vegas time, that's eight thirty if you're
over on the East coast, And the way that it breaks down is we're
gonna do five thirty to seven thirty, which is one level, two hour
levels, and the w SIP main events. The field is gonna go on
dinner break, and then we're gonna come back to stream from nine pm to
one am, which that takes us right to the end of the day,
right. Yeah, So that's the plan for each of the first four days.
So you're gonna get a two hour chunk five thirty to seven thirty that
is Vegas time, yes, and then you're gonna get a second chunk that's
a four hour chunk from nine pm to one am, so a lot of
fun there. Again, Remco and myself will be in the booth for these
first four starting flights. We're gonna be having a rotation of guests and pro
players that come in with us. Some will stay for maybe an hour,
some will stay for two hours, some might stay for the whole day that
we're doing the commentary, So expect a nice rotation of people to be coming
on into the commentary booth alongside of us. And then once we move things
over to day two, the coverage starts to get expanded a little bit.
On the day two's on Day two and on the both day twoes, and
also on day three, coverage is gonna start at three thirty Vegas time,
three thirty to seven thirty and then nine to one am, so an extra
two hours of coverage on those days. And then once we hit day four,
we expand coverage even more. We start at one pm, we go
to seven thirty, there's a break, we come back at nine, we
go to one am. And then of course on day eight, July fourteenth
is day eight, we're gonna start at one pm. I mean, as
long as the tournament starts on time and you know, they can obviously change
the schedule depending on what happens, but plan right now is one thirty to
seven thirty pm and then the rest of the day is TBD because we just
don't know what's gonna happen in terms of you know, where they're at in
the tournaments. That is playdown day to the final table. So if they
hit the final table, you know, if they come back with like twenty
players and they get down to nine, then we're done. If they need
to take a dinner break, come back. You know, we'll be with
us all the way until we reach that final table of nine. So you
know, of course stay tuned for that to come, and then day off
on July fifteenth, and then on July sixteenth and July seventeenth, final table
day two parter again, so you know, we'll go nine to I don't
know, six, five or four whatever whatever we decide, maybe three and
then well, you know, the players will stop the final whatever. Players
will bag up. Last year it was three, it was Dan Wyman,
it was Steven Jones and it was Adam Walton. They bagged up and came
back the next day. So then the next day they'll come back and on
July seventeenth, they will finish it out and crown a new world champion.
I am also extremely looking forward to the greatest podcast episode of the year.
Every year, the Bubble episode is the Bubble Day three or day four.
After I'm meeting today, it might be day four in the morning. Okay,
well, we better be here and be ready. I will be I
will be here and be ready because I will be unbagging chips at the start
of day four. I will be on the Bubble. I will be I
will be podcasting my own journey through the Bubble. That's what's gonna happen,
Okay, because I'm cashing this year, putting it out there in the universe.
But that's the best episode of the year every single year. So can't
pressure me. Can I love that episode? That episode? Pressure because I'm
going to be out there too. Bro, You know how it is when
listen. When I'm playing on the Bubble, every hand takes fifteen minutes.
I will have plenty of time to walk around and interview people. Okay,
plenty of time. All right, that's gonna do it for us. My
name is Donnie Peters. His name is Tim Duckworth, tomorrow or today.
Sorry. Wednesday, July third World Series of Poker main event, Baby Let's Go expressed