Hello, everyone, Welcome back to a brand new episode of the Poker Go
Podcast. My name is Donnie Peters. His name is Tim Duckworth, and
we have a new record in the World Series of Poker Main Event. I
feel like it came out of nowhere in a lot of ways. One talking
to a lot of people, I'm not sure many people expected the record to
be broken again. Most people that I talked to were coming in around ninety
five hundred, ninety six hundred, stuff like that. You know, a
little bit of a downturn, not that much, still a very good number,
but a little bit of a downturn. But it beat last year's record,
smashed him. Tim would say that it smashed it, Okay, I
wouldn't say that it smashed it. So we're going to get into that on
this episode. We got the because we have the final entry number, we
now have the prize pool. We're gonna hit on that big talking point there.
I'm sure Tim and I will have a few different opinions to share on
the prize pool, first place prize, all of that sort of stuff.
We do have some interviews on this episode. You spoke with defending champion Daniel
Wineman aka Daniel win Maine. We're also gonna play the interview with Barry Hutter
that Jeff Platt did while out in the field because he played a pretty wild
hand that aired on the live stream in the later portion of Day two d's
coverage on Poker Go. And then I caught up with our colleague Brent Hanks,
who is still in bagging for Day three. And also a person I
haven't seen in a while, but a person that I feel like I see
once a year and we always catch up. Jason Somerville. He's back,
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poker. Main me because it is a new record. I said it off
the top. It kind of came out of nowhere. I mean, I
don't think many people were expecting it, at least that's the vibe that I
got anecdotally. I mean, just I know that in the last week,
and I think I said this on the podcast a few episodes ago, but
you know, talking to some of the tournament staff, the new projection that
they had was ten thy two hundred, which the final number ten and twelve
is pretty close to that that projection, right, so they seem to be
on the ball with it. I saw a pretty good tweet from our I
believe it was our colleague. Who's our colleague? Remco what do you say?
He said something that is like, I think this is is truthful?
Is ten thousand the new floor for the WSP main event? Well, it
can't be truthful. It's a question, no, I think, Okay,
I think the statement has relevance then, but last statement, it's a question.
No. If there's more to the tweet, I'm not reading the rest.
It's all a question. I read it. I also responded to it,
Oh you did, what do you have a question? I think I
think ten thousand. I don't know if I would call it the new floor.
I think I might have wrote in the response new floor, but it's
the new benchmark. Yeah, I mean, like that's the that's the goal,
you know, like that's the goal every single year. And listen,
let's again we've said this before. If it comes in at nine and thirty
four next year, I mean, that's good. That's that that's still an
extremely good number. Just the fact that we have now the poker industry,
the World Series of Poker, the main event, has has achieved ten thousand
in back to back years, blew the old out of the water. Right
now, this is this is the new norm, right, this is the
new norm. And when I said earlier that I think it was surprising that
we hit it. It's just that I don't know, I didn't get the
sense that the WSOP itself was like really hyping it up last year. There
was an obvious push to break the record. Now did they think that they
were going to get over ten thousand, I don't know, you know,
I can't you know, read their minds and all that sort of stuff.
I think they felt pretty confident that the record was beaten. I mean,
they came out at the beginning of the summer when they had that press conference
saying like basically guaranteeing that the record would be broken, and they crushed it.
So this year, you know, it was like, okay, it
was it because there was that big push, there was added satellites everything.
Not that they didn't do a ton of satellites. There were an absolute ton
of satellites this year, and I think they might have even been even more
than last year. But I just felt like last year it was more in
my face everything that they were doing towards the main event. So maybe that's
just a good thing for them that they don't have to do that much marketing
and now the new normal is just ten k I mean, that's pretty incredible
if you don't have to do that much marketing for that much of a push.
Yeah, and you just go out there and boom, ten thousand people
have ten thousand dollars you mister financing. Oh oh okay, where the hell
are all these people getting all this money? What is happening? Let's have
a look at the Daily spych is that what's happening. People are just blasting
off their investments. I mean, yeah, sbys I have twenty dollars over
the last month. That's pretty good six month return. We're looking at eighty
dollars. Look, who knows crypto stock market maybe They're just like, I'm
just playing this this tournament. I don't know entry variance, I don't know.
There's no like clear sign, there's no huge spiking online traffic. There's
no you know, massive massive massive like bitcoin starge or anything. So it's
hard to tell. I just think that things are just slowly coming together.
We got club gg, you know, WSP dot com. We got just
some more money in the industry in general, and people are just firing.
Yeah, I mean it is It is a clear kind of answer, is
what kind of there isn't there isn't for sure? You know. I mean
also kind of the state of the US at least that you know, the
US doesn't make up the biggest portion of the field and of the WSP entries
in general from a you know, per country basis. Yeah, I mean
people are out there like inflations through the roof. We don't have as much
money as we once had, and you know, all that sort of stuff
is happening yet somehow and twelve people have ten thousand dollars to blast off in
this thing. It is wild. One thing to consider is, you know,
we're not the most educated people in the world here, you know me,
but we we don't know what else is going on a lot out in
the world, as in outside of America. You raise no world outside of
America. Okay, mister America. But for us Australians, we've talked about
the Kangaroo Crew. Why do you start? Did you move here? Yeah?
Because America is the best. Why they're all the Kangaroo Crew here?
Because America is the best? Was that where you go? What happened in
Australia recently? Those assholes took poker away from you guys. That's what I'm
saying. America is the best. Has that poker? It's not that much
better? Huh, it's not that much better here? What are you talking
about? There's ten thousand people in the middle. What are you talking about?
It's not that much better. Look, you guys don't even have the
Ozzie millions anymore. It's coming back and there's ten and twelve people in the
main thanks to us. Three thousand of them are from the Kangaroo Crew.
Stop stops. But that's the thing. Why have we seen a surgeon in
Australians. Maybe there's also a surgeon, Brazilians a surgeon, Chinese players a
surgeon than a lot of Brazilian, so we don't know like what led to
that. Maybe maybe the actual American unique numbers have gone down for this main
event. We have to wait. It would be cool to see that breakdown,
which don't we usually get that. I think we can get could possibly
get it from that, that would and then compare it to years past.
Yeah, you know, see if there's an uptick in in other countries versus
the US, or see if the US is up. I mean I listen,
I don't I'm not going up to every table and like listening to how
people speak or you know, talking to every player. But I feel like
there's a lot of Americans. These people, these people look American. Yeah.
If you look at the spy from year to year, last year now
today, it's as top one hundred bucks. Yeah, of course, which
is nothing to like, you know, put that in percentage terms, seventeen
point four percent today. There you go. You should know the direct process
why this every day should be looking. I invest and I don't ever look
like I don't see how much on one. I don't care. I think
that's actually cool when like my friends are like, oh my gosh, bitcoin
is this or this is that or whatever. I kind of get annoyed because
I don't want to ever look. I just want to invest, and I
don't look at crypto at all. I probably look one a month, to
be honest, I didn't even do that much. I do look at my
stock portfolio quite a lot. But that's you know, you know, seventeen
percent year on your growth. That's pretty big, especially for that generation of
you know, kind of like our parents, that kind of aging anywhere from
like say forty to seventy you know. You know, maybe, Okay,
I'm gonna realize some of my games. I'm gonna jump in play some play
some poker tournaments and stuff. So that could be definitely one of the many
variables as to why back to back years we've hit ten thousand plays. I
mean, you got to give a lot of props to the WSP for hitting
the number once again. I hope that this is the new normal, you
know. I hope ten k is is the floor going forward, you know,
and I hope it continues, even if it just continues a small upward
trend like we saw in ten thousand and forty three last year ten thousand,
one hundred and twelve, you know, it didn't. It didn't go ten
thousand and forty three to eleven thousand, you know, but just like a
nice little graduate like next year ten thousand, two hundred, the year after
that, maybe ten thousand, three hundred, just like slowly, slowly,
slowly, just trend none up. That would just be absolutely tremendous, I
mean going back. So they also unveiled the bracelet today, Yes, right,
founding father of the w SP, Jack Pinion, did the honor.
But before he did, Jack E. Fel from the World Series of Poker.
He was giving an introduction to Jack and he also mentioned about the numbers
and how today with the final number would come in and then we'd all debate,
like the health of poker, because the World Series of Poker is just
such a good example of the general health of all of poker, right,
I mean we can look at all different events all around the world, and
I would say that generally, over the past year, you and I have
probably felt like poker's just generally hot. Plos for sure, hot that shits
high. Yeah, No, that game needs to be burned down. That's
the only that's the only heat that needs to be applied to Studdehilo but you
know, Nolan would hold him. Feel are pretty booming everywhere. We obviously
saw what happened at the World Poker Tour Series at the wind Now listen,
I know they missed the guarantee, but it was a lofty guarantee, and
if I'm being honest, felt a bit crazy that they went as high as
they did. But hey, swing for the fences. But still, you
know, there was a ton of entries there and they got more than ten
thousand in their WPT Prime event, and you know, all those fields were
extremely big, and there was a lot of other stuff that was going on
around the poker industry that was all very very very good. So maybe maybe
all of that over the past year, maybe we should have just seen the
signs coming, seeing this giant ass freight train coming down the tracks and been
like, you know what, we're going to get the biggest wsp man of
it ever. Why would we not? Yeah, why wouldn't we? I
mean, why wouldn't we? So there was probably some I think there were
some people last year who didn't come play that were probably like, hey,
I mean I gotta come. Yeah, you know, I agree, We're
going to get that this year. Ve next year. Yeah, people like
me and people like you. That's right, baby. Already made a bet
with just for those out there, and I put it on record on the
podcast. You guys can hold me to it. I saw you guys shake
hands. Me and Jeff made a bet if I play the main event next
year, he has to pay me one hundred dollars. If I went out
and be a little chicken and Dot put out my ten K, I gotta
pay him one hundred dollars. So they put that more money one hundred.
He's enough. Okay, No, you should have bet one k. Should
have bet ten thousand. So every buy in is ten thousand dollars. Of
course, of the of that ten thousand dollars, ninety three hundred dollars goes
into the priz school. Seven hundred dollars goes to like the tournament fee and
the staff fee and whatever. So ninety three hundred dollars into the prize school.
So ninety three hundred times ten thy, one hundred and twelve gives us
the prize School of ninety four million, forty one thousand, six hundred dollars.
Let me say that once again, ninety four million dollars unreal out of
money onreal. So if you guys remember last year, Daniel Wineman aka Daniel
win Maine won the event for twelve million, one hundred thousand dollars. They
did the twelve point one because they felt or you know that, because they
set the record, because they smashed it by so much that they had to
also have the largest first place prize in WSP Manium in history. So they
topped the twelve million that Jamie Gold won back in two thousand and six,
and they had that year's prize last year twelve point one million. Okay,
so they did that. Now there was a whole bunch of to do on
social media, you know if you talk to people, yes, but mostly
you see it on social media about the payoffs and how they were ridiculous,
how they were super super top heavy. The twelve point one to first was
just insane. They also had the fact that not everyone that makes the nine
handed final table, the official WSP million Event final table, got a million
dollars. The gap from second to first was outrageous. It was six point
five million for second, twelve point one million for first. So a lot
of people were coming out the WSIP for the payouts last year. Okay,
the payouts this year are beautiful, a bit different. I also think that
they're beautiful. I think that there was a one year mess up by them.
It was a bit silly. Last year. They got too into the
fact that, like, this is the record setting field, so we got
to have a record setting first place prize. They got they got sucked into
that. And the thing is is that last year, it's twenty twenty three.
It's not two thousand and six anymore. Like it's not that that's not
like payouts across all of poker, and we talked about this, they changed
drastically, Right, first place prizes aren't, you know, as big of
a percentage of the total prize pool as they once were. Things are generally
much flatter overall. So like they didn't need to do what they did last
year. They did it, but whatever, it's fine, but a lot
of people were like up in arms about it. They corrected it this year,
and I don't know, I still feel like it's kind of mixed feelings
from players. I did see some stuff on social media that players some players
were like, this is great, this is way better. I saw some
other stuff that like, this is another payout mess up. I mean,
poker players are never going to be happy, and this is another example of
that. Because everyone freaked out last year with the payouts. Everyone got mad.
It seems like the device be heard that loud and clear and then adjusted
things and now everyone is like or not everyone less people, but still there
is a group of people that seem still mad. So I don't really understand
what we're trying to do here. So first place this year the twenty twenty
four WSP Main Event, first place is ten million dollars ten million even last
year, remember twelve point one million, this year ten million flat. It
goes ten million, six million, four million, three million, two point
five million, two million, one point five million, one point twenty five
million, and ninth place this year in the twenty twenty four World Series Boker
Main Event gets one million dollars even. Okay, so let's just compare it.
I guess to last year first place twelve point one million last year,
ten million this year, so two point million difference. Two point million is
skimmed off the prize this year. Last year second place six point five million,
this year six million. So that's all. That's five hundred thousand taken
off of their Okay, so now you have two point six million that you
can put elsewhere. Some of that went to ninth place, which I'll get
to in a second. Last year, third place was four four million,
Fourth place was three million. This year, same thing, four million,
three million now this year or sorry, last year two point four million for
fifth place. This year bumped up slightly to two point five million. Nice
clean number. Two point five million. I like that. So of that
two point six million that they took off of first and second combined, one
hundre k is applied right there. Sixth place last year one million, eight
hundred and fifty thousand, sixth place this year two million, so one hundred
and fifty thousand more. Seventh place last year one million, four hundred and
twenty five thousand, this year one point five million, so seventy five thousand
dollars more this year. Eighth place last year one million, one hundred and
twenty five thousand, this year one million, two hundred and fifty thousand,
and then ninth place last year nine hundred k, this year one million.
There's also places like ten through eleventh Last year was seven hundred k. Ten
through eleventh this year is eight hundred k twelve through thirteenth last year, I
thirty five twelve through thirteenth this year, six hundred. So clearly they took
you know, two point one off the top, five hundred k off the
second, and then redistributed it elsewhere within the payouts. So I like it.
Fifteen hundred and seventeen players will make the money in the twenty twenty four
World Series of Poker main event. All of the numbers are extremely clean from
top to bottom. I mean, the only one that like kind of sticks
out to you, and it's not even that bad at all, is fourteenth
through seventeenth. This four hundred and fifty four hundred dollars. That's the only
one. Everything else is either zero, zero, zero or five hundred,
right, So very very very clean overall. I mean, what, what's
what's your thought on the payouts? I got lots of thoughts, So like,
okay, let me see, No, I'm gonna ask you a question.
I'm gonna ask you a question. You said you have lots of thoughts.
I'm gonna try and get one thought at a time. Okay. That's
what I'm trying to get out of you, is that you're here. You
hear them announce the entries and then they say ten million for first what's your
What's your thought? Right there? When the idiot thought was that's lame.
It was a letdown, and I was like, no, why are we
let me finish? Why are we going down? But when I look deeper
in the picture and I see what they've done, I now like the payouts.
Just the first thing. The first thought was like, it's not twelve
million, it's not twelve point two or twelve point five. I'm disappointed.
But then I see what they've done and I'm I'm all for it. The
expectation was that it's probably going to be twelve million for first, just because
the expectation was set last year. So I think for those people that were
in the room and you really didn't hear, at least I didn't hear when
they announced it like a round of applause, any sort of chairs, and
it was kind of just like there was no announcement. It was just like,
oh, here's a prize pool. There was no kind of an announcement.
Yeah, I mean, listen. I definitely thought that that was a
miss. They should pair the prize pal announcement with the bracelet reveal like all
together, like could be start of day three, even doesn't need to be
day two d it could be started day three. I think announcing it is
a good thing on like as soon as the registration closes, as quickly as
you can get it out there. I just think, you know, I
know, the timing's not necessarily ideal in terms of like a press and communications
and marketing aspect of things, because you know, it's Tuesday night or sorry,
Monday nights. If you wanted to reach news outlets or you wanted to
do whatever. I mean, places are not open, you know, or
like not functional, you know, whereas if you were to release it in
the morning, Like I get it, But it's more about the players in
that regard, and like just getting it out there for the players and the
fans and like, if you're a poker fan, I mean, you're probably
sweating the action one way, shape or form. You know, you're following
the updates on Pokernews, WSP dot com, You're following things on social media,
you're watching Poker Growl whatever it may be. So you're probably just like
ready for the payouts to draw. You're ready for the final number to get
there. So I think doing it at that time is correct. I just
think you could make a much bigger deal of it, like make a big
deal out of the bracelet, yes, I mean, which they did,
but like you should also make a big deal out of the prize pool,
which I think is incredible because I don't really know what else is like it
in like competitions out there, you know, if you include sports and all
that sort of stuff. I mean, so I would kind of do it
all together, like you know, this is the these are the payouts,
this is the bracelet, like boom, like this is what you get,
Like let's go. They always put you know, and we obviously bring the
bracelet out, like they should bring the cash out for this thing, like
load up the cash on the table and like do a whole thing in that
on like tomorrow probably for us, No, yeah for us, But I'm
saying, like, has a big seleuration and get some social video started.
Day three is perfect because you can have the prep time. You can spend
an hour setting it up. People come in, you have the announcement ready
to go, you have Jack beingia and present the bracelet and say fast prize
ten million, we're paying this many spots Jack does his speech, Jack jack
Off, I mean, I think that's the best way to kind of do
it. Now, Like, Okay, you're going to say, well,
we have to wait for people to you know, people have to wait overnight
to hear the prize. Well, who cares? You can time it well
enough, start a day three, get all the media there to film,
do what they need to do, and actually make it, like you said,
a bit of a commotion, a bit of a spect you know,
a spectacular reveal of both prize pull and bracelet. The one thing I want
to touch on. You know, a lot of people mentioned this year WSP
are doing the two x min cash this year for the main event, fifteen
k me in cash. Well, the two reasons the main event was never
going to be changed. You already told me that, correct. Two reasons
why I love the fifteen k Number one, not tax on profit, because
it's five fifteen thousand and one dollar. You'd be taxed on that profit.
But two, I think you we've discussed this before. We've discussed this in
group chats. I'm a big fan of paying more people in the main event.
I think there's a lot of first timers year I think there's people that
just want to say I've cashed the main event. You've said it yourself probably
three days ago. Catching the main event is an achievement that people like really
want as part of their poker experience, whether a wreck like us, whether
they're even a pro, it's it's still a cool start to have I catch
the main event. So giving more people the opportunity to get your cash,
they're going to probably pocket that fifteen K. They'll probably spend five K on
whatever, and then here's my buying for next year. So I'm kind of
a fan of everything across the world, but especially keeping that fifteen K,
paying those that full amount of spots that they've kind of discussed A plus from
me for WSP on these payoffs. So this year, if you make the
final three tables. Last year, if you got twenty seventh through thirty fifth
place, twenty seven would be the final three tables. Twenty eighth and thirty
five is obviously not the final three tables, but you would get twenty eighty
one hundred. This year that that pay section is three hundred thousand dollars,
right, so a little bit more money than last year. You hit six
figure payout territory when you got to eightieth place. Eightieth place was one oh
nine four hundred. Okay, this year you get a six figure payout when
you get to one hundred and twenty fifth place, So that next little tier
there, or you know, sorry, an earlier tier, you get one
hundred k. So again taking you know, that two point six million that
they took off first and second combined and then applying it elsewhere. So I
think that that's pretty cool. I've always kind of, like, weirdly felt
if you get top one hundred in the main, it would be cool to
get one hundred thousand dollars at least. It just feels like a really crazy
achievement to go that deep and then rewarding it with you know, ten times
you're buying six figure payday all that sort of stuff, and that's what they're
ultimately gonna achieve here. It's even gonna go a little bit deeper because one
hundred and twenty fifth place is one hundred K. So I like that,
you know, overall, I think I think the payouts are pretty great.
Like I don't. I don't really understand why anyone would have any ripes with
this, because people like to grap about things kind of. I mean I
thought I felt like last year that you know, first place should have been
ten million, and then you just go from there and I don't I don't
care about having to have a bigger first place pase prize excuse me, than
you had in two thousand and six, because it's just a wildly different industry
than it once was. So I'm a big fan of what they did with
the payouts, you know, I think it's really good. I mean,
listen, Daniel Weinman, God bless his soul. Luck bucks, I mean,
how lucky is he. He's probably has one of the biggest first place
prize ever. I mean he pocketed two point one extra million dollars. Yeah,
just for the fact that he won it last year and didn't win it
this year, you know, I mean that's pretty wild. But yeah,
overall great. I love that the final nine players are getting a million.
I mean that's awesome. This year you get to fifty k, so five
times you're buying two hundred and eighty seventh place. Last year was the same.
Actually, two hundred and eighty seventh was fifty thousand and nine hundred,
so that's pretty similar. Overall, and then the bottom part is also pretty
similar. Last year was a fifteen k min cast, just like it is
this year. You had about two hundred and fifty spots before you bumped up
twenty five hundred dollars to seventeen point five, and then you know, another
two hundred and fifty spots or so until you got up to twenty thousand.
So kind of kind of similar in that regard, you know, for sure.
But overall, I'm a fan. I am a fan, so I
had two stats before we move on to the next UPIC. It took thirty
five years for the main event to hit ninety one million dollars in total prize
pools. Obviously today we had ninety four million. So yeah, that's kind
of pretty crazy. When they're going to break a hundred, When do you
think they're going to break a hundred? I would bet next ya, but
really maybe going to climb that high maybe twenty twenty six. It's coming next
to us. Damn. What was the number you gave that was wasn't like
eleven thousand? That would be a seven three ten thousand seven? Did?
Yeah, so that would be a considerable jump from ten thy one and twelve
to go to ten thousand. I think that's what they'll make a run at
that. I think that would be like if they target something that would be
a other impressive start. Ten million dollars first prize we have now, well,
the winner of this will have won the two hundred and fourth million dollars
in first prize main event history. I've got some end day ship counts unofficial,
but let's do that, and we'll also hit on these interviews. So
why don't you start with with who we got, who's cooking, who's not?
Who's cooking? Donovan Dean six hundred and thirty nine thousand, five hundred.
He is the current chip leader. Obviously we're still winning for some official
counts. Schue Young Harden six or four, Emily and Petavi five eighty nine,
Adam Friedman five hundred and eighty one thousand, and you're gonna love the
fifth overall, I'm not surprised at all, mister Steve even e FN's song
five hundred and seventy seven thousand chips. I mean, was there ever a
doubt, no doubt, no doubt Steven song. Let's go a couple of
others with some decent stacks around Zobi and one of the day one d chip
leaders doing pretty well. Ren Lynn looks like three seventy two, ODB Baker
three twenty nine, Cody Daniels so grinding away three hundred and ten k,
the Great phil Ivy two eighty three, the not so Great Landon Tice two
ninety two. Why not whatever, he's losing the bed to German background.
Yeah, but he fucking Eric was right, Brian rassn nod medic. Oh
baby out there. He was actually, you know what now that I think
about it, he was like a table or too old Rhythan phil Ivy,
which is interesting. That's a very interesting Matthew Wantman. Lots of chip counts
coming. One chip count right here. Let I see Daniel Wyman two hundred
and twenty nine thousand five good. He sawed the day with about fifty five
K. He did shower an interview from Jeff, and then Jeff had something
any sleep. I don't know if you got to watch that interview listening a
little trick in his pocket. Do you hear about this? He bought a
gift of Dan and Sarah's wedding registry and told him, and then Dan was
like, I'll give you a couple of minutes, and I did ask him
about that, but yeah, we have a Dan Wyman interview right now.
Might as well plind now, Yeah, let's go here with Dan Wyman defending
champion. Looks like you've kind of four x your starting stack from today.
Tell us about you know how today went for you? Really smooth day,
kind of dream day in the main event. Didn't really play any big pots,
never at risk. I still don't think I've bluffed the river in two
years in this tournament now and probably not going to change. Won a small
flip at the feature table and then just made a few hints and you know,
one a few small pots. I want to talk a little bit about
Jeff Patt. You showered him last year, then this year he came up
to you. You didn't want to give him, I think, and he
said to you, you know, I looked at the receipt. He didn't
buy you a pizza pan. What did did you have to check that?
Did you believe him? I believe him. I think Jeff's an honest guy.
So if he's going to spend the fifty bucks, then I can,
you know, give up the ten million dollars for first place to give me
a minute of my time. It's the curse of Jeff plat Reel. Yes,
I'm not. We'll see. We'll see in seven days. If I
don't win, it's got to be real. Are we going to see another?
Yes, he's cash. No, I mean like, I mean like
Greg Raymer asked, like you know, like first and like whatever. He's
so relaxed. He's too chilled. He's just like, ah, whatever,
I know. That's that when you just isn't that when you do it's when
he just called he calls it off with the ice jack offsuit against you know,
the winning He's just he's just relaxed. The weather is beautiful outside.
It's one hundred and forty eight degrees. He just wants to play some golf.
I want him to make Day seven. I always want the champ.
I always want the champ defending champ to make to make a seven, because
that's just like Day seven's when it gets like real real, like that's the
real real. He left. Yeah, Like that's right. We can talk
about Brent Hanks, sure, our friend, Brent Hanks, our colleague.
He came into the to the day with about one hundred and twenty thousand or
so, I think ran it up to I think he had a little bit
over two hundred, but then lost the pot towards the end of the night,
so I think he bagged right around one eighty or so. But afterwards
I caught up with Brent Hanks. I probably there might be a good amount
of our listeners who know Brent. Obviously one of the brains behind No Gamble
in the Future, formerly a podcast then turned into a show on Poker Grow.
He does a lot of commentary alongside Jeff Platt. But you know,
maybe some of our listeners don't exactly know about Brent Hanks. So I tried
to, you know, ask some questions to give a little bit more about
himself. I feel like on the commentary he kind of plays like the funny
guy, but also the analyst, kind of the funny analyst in a way.
He's kind of like Bill Walt to me, and I kind of get
that vibe from mister Hanks. But anyway, here's Brent. Now, after
the end of the day. All right, Brent Hanks, you just told
me you had it up to two twenty. Yeah, what happened? Man?
Well, I had a top set towards the end of the night versus
this man's or this Southern man's second nut flush who just called me on the
river. So it could have been worse. I was dancing thinking, oh,
maybe we're gonna be near three hundred. But yeah, you know,
it happens. The peaks and valleys during the main event are real. It's
never smooth, never easy, but we're alive and we're cooking with a one
hundred and eighty two thousand. Yeah, I mean, you're up from where
you started the day. You're on to day three, Like what's going through
your mind? Like you're feeling good? Are you ready? You ready to
make a run? Yeah, I'm just born. You're the only poker go
person left, so you better make a run. Wait a minute, you're
out. I'm out. What the hell happened? I don't want to talk
about it. Oh no, I'm out. Jeff's out. I mean I
knew Jeff was out. He had a series of very unfortunate events. And
yeah, it's just this thing is such a such an insane tournament. You
see the most ridiculous hands beats over and over again. It's very lucky to
be here, and we'll see what happens the rest of the way. Do
people recognize you at the table? I tell myself they don't, But then
oftentimes when we go to break, they're like, oh, I love everything,
you know, I love the commentary, and you have to adjust then
sort of, you know, but I get away with the whole. I'm
just a commentator role, you know, like I can kind of play that
card. But then if someone knows me, knows me, Like, you
idiot, you've been playing poker for you know, twenty years, You're not
a commentator, you know, Like, well, yeah, yeah, you
know so, but yeah, there's adjustments. But yeah, it's every table,
every player. It's always an adjustment, every single step of the way.
Do you used to play a bit more poker than you play these days?
So what like are you more of like a recreational now? How would
you describe yourself? Do you still keep up with the game, Like how
does it all kind of come together? I very much cheap up with the
game. I just don't play as often as I like. The summertime is
when I play the most. Not only am I playing a decent amount live,
but I'm also just pounding it online. I'm holmost going. When I'm
home, I'm playing a lot. When I'm here, I'm playing live.
So it's with my family situation, with the work situation, it's the only
opportunity that I have to play. Fortunately, my wife lets me, our
boss Morey lets me, so I just I play a lot and I try
and just try and get it done. I'm available for commentary because I guess
he's playing tomorrow, so if if I'm needed, you can put me in
coach. Someone else that I saw while wandering the field kind of falls into
the random player of the day. It's not top of my random player of
the day, no way. Well no, it's definitely not topping yours.
But I'm saying it kind of falls into it. Yeah, that definitely falls
into it. Days in Summerville. Yeah, who I honestly don't see that
often anymore. You know. Obviously used to be a round poker pretty much
every day. Got out of the game and doesn't frequent it as much.
But he will come out. He will play the w s AP main event.
He actually called himself in this interview that we're going to play that he's
a main event player. Now he plays this main event and then he plays
the WPT main event at the win and that's it. That's his uh,
that's the extent of his poker every year. So it's always good to catch
up with Jason Summerville. And here's that catch up between he and I right
now. All right, Jason Somerville, it's it's our annual check in.
Don't get to see you much these days. How are you doing so as
a person, how are you doing? I'm doing great, you know now
I listen to you, you know, I'm listening to the broadcast. You're
doing a great job with Ramco. You really carry the weight over there too,
so I think you're doing great job. Thank you very much. I'm
trying. Yeah, I feel like you're someone who I always watched, so
I try and learn from you. Give you sum Yeah you have, and
you've given me tips without actually giving me tips, just watching what you're doing,
being able to carry a one man show like you did for so long,
and that's a chore in a lot of ways, So you know,
thank you for for all that. Yeah. Well, the key, as
you're learning is to lean on on chat, you know, because then you're
having a dynamic, especially because you're not on any delay. The chat so
that's where we have fun with it, and I think you guys have gotten
a lot better with that when you're not trying to give away a Poker Go
T shirt or something every five minutes. Well, thank you, thank you,
you still got it. You know that, you know what you're doing.
I mean, we had such a great table. You should be interviewing
like Steve over here. He biked across the country when he was like from
Seattle to Washington. Yeah, I'm not the interesting per party here, I
swear to you. But we had It's a great table. Everybody was awesome,
having fun, laughing and yeah, I'm Max lay Regis. I don't
know what I mean, what were you gonna play? No matter what Max
late Regord was it like a I'm getting fomo, I need to come out
and play. No. No. I was always intending I'm a Day two
kind of guy. If I could Ridgister on day three, I'd be a
Day three kind of guy. But yeah, day two is fun. You
know, show up, you see some people. There's a lot of people
you see once a year. You give him a hugg You go, wow,
what a beard you've grown, you know whatever. Uh So, yeah,
it's been pleasant. I honestly, it was two super nice tables today,
Lots of fun people and it's good to be around poker once a year.
What is it about the main Event especially? I mean, what makes
it so great? Such the best event in poker? It's literally just such
a diverse crowd. Like I met people today who I'm never going to see
again, who are just like full of different stories, different places, coming
from all across the world. The main Event just brings people together in this
cluster of beautiful gambling emotions and highs and lows. You know, the stories,
the many threads that weave together in the beautiful main event. It's so
nice. I know you don't play as much as you once did. What's
your relationship with poker these days? I'm a fan like I was a fan.
I was a fan, I thought, you know, twenty years later,
I'm still a fan. I watch a ton of vloggers, I watch
Poker Go. You know, I still worked with Harlan Poker Tour. This
year doesn't up with them. So yeah, I enjoy when I get a
chance to play. I call myself a main event specialist. I play the
WBT ten K and the WSW ten K and yeah, I don't know,
I'm always at the periphery. Poker is always flirting with me, or maybe
it's the other way around. But yeah, good start, good start to
the day. Obviously late reg so yeah, yeah, I mean one fifty.
I feel happy. This is my peak. I never had more than
one fifty. So you know, some people get three hundred and make it
one hundred fem and they're mad, but I'm happy at one fifteen. So
yeah, I don't know. I got one hundred and thirty fith of last
year or something, so I feel like I would love to have anything close
to that this year. All right, Well that's all I got for you.
I appreciate the ones that your check in. Yeah, you know,
I walk around the field and I'm like, I got a fination at some
point. Yeah, I mean you're you're the one. Honestly, you're the
one I like, I hang on. You know, I don't give it
away in these tournaments, so you have a chance. You know, Jeff
Black will find me eventually on day three, day four. I'll just hang
in there. So well, hopefully that's the case. Hopefully I get to
do some commentary on you that would be like kind of the ultimate goal.
Yeah. Yeah. Last year I did it with Alex Fox and I said
to him, I was like, don't make me carry this broadcast. They're
not bringing you here for your conversation. Okay, So he did. He
was very a little big. I had to pull it out of it.
But yeah, I mean, honestly, it's much fun. Good to be
back and keep doing good things. You have blossomed yourself. Sir, We'll
thank you. I appreciate it. I appreciate you. I mean, he
sounds like he had a freaking blast on the table, bagged up a decent
stack. I think you think he put right around one forty five fifty in
the bag. He did come in late, pretty much a max late REDG
guy. You know, I don't think Jason's guy was going to just come
hang around and play all that Day one nonsense and whatever. He's going to
come in with his fifty bigs later on and try and get the job done.
So far, so good, you know, two and a half times
what he started with. So he's also moving on to day three alongside Brent
Hanks and Daniel Winman and then listen, we also had to talk to or
we didn't have to talk to, but Jeff Platt had to talk to Barry
Hutt was gone and talk to him. But again Jeff stole the interview.
So well, okay, that could be my fault because there was a hand
on the live stream that happened, and I immediately went out to find Jeff.
I said, Jeff, you need to find Barry Hudder and ask him
about this hand. And normally, you know, it's it's kind of whatever
to ask people about hands, because you, I mean, it can just
be too detailed. It gets just too bogged down. You also don't know
how players are gonna like Retael hands. You know, you'd rather just kind
of bounce around, ask them how they're doing, to be very general about
things overall. But this hand was just a wild one that happened on the
feature table in the later part of the day on Poker Go. So what
happened was, if I remember correctly, a gentleman I Kelly, I believe
his name was raised with two queens fan, a woman I don't have a
first name, but fan flatted aces, two red queen's raised, two black
aces. Call action. Slides over to Barry Hudder on the button. He
finds a couple of kings. He puts in the three bets action action back
over to Hi Kelly, and he opts to stick in a four bet.
Okay, not all in four bet. He had I think like eighty three
thousand to start the hand. I believe they were playing fifteen hundred big Blind.
So he four bets it. Then it's on Fan and she five bets
it, and now it's like, what the heck is going on? And
Barry Hutter, much to his credits, Fan had like two hundred and sixty
k to start the hand again fifteen hundred big Blind. Barry Hutter had about
two hundred and twenty K. So Hutter thinks for not a ton of time,
maybe thirty seconds. I don't know, I'd have to time it out.
But it wasn't like a super long tank folds the kings. I mean,
just incredible stuff. And then Hi Kelly, he thinks for a while,
you know, a little bit longer, he's a little bit shorter.
He put a lot of his stack in. He put basically like one fourth
of his stacking, and he ultimately as well. Then this was the last
hand before break. They ended up moving this table off of the feature table
and that's what went down. So fan gets deal, aces two of her
opponents, one gets kings, one gets queens, and they don't even go
to a flaw. What's happening? Do you when you just told that hand,
do you now want to rethink your king queen hand? I mean,
I want to rethink my king queen? And anyway, what are you talking
about? Like? I don't wis simebody? These guys are voting kings,
they're foting queens. You're sitting there sticking in with the king Queen, not
the kings, not the queens. The king Queen probably off suit. Yeah,
I had one of these. Isn't that better? I turned? I'm
not that well studied. No, I mean, listen, we're not going
to revisit my hand anymore than we already have. I don't. It's one
thing I do want to revisit real quick. Just it's it's on topic.
I want to read a tweet tweet I'm a WPT champion. Addressing addressing,
Can we get pads poker out of the birthplaces poker go and get Donnie Peters
back? Enough of educating the masses. The game's hot enough, No offense,
Donnie. That was from Salty Mass sALS Matt calling you out, Well,
maybe let's maybe saying Pads is too good, but I Pads is incredible.
Was not that he's too good. He's absolutely incredible. I didn't get
to watch a ton of the commentary because I'm obviously here doing work. We
had to run out and get interviews or whatever. But I did tune in
for twenty minutes, thirty minutes something like that. I absolutely cannot wait to
go back and watch it. Pads is somebody who I think is probably like
a top three poker mind in the game. Just like the combination of the
way he understands poker and how to think about it and how to play it
and how to apply theory to the actual game while he's out there battling,
and then also being able to talk about it in a way that you can
understand it and you can digest it while also remaining very high level. I
think it's just almost the perfect recipe for everything. And I've mentioned this before
on this podcast, but his course Pads on Poker on Run at Once is
outrageously good. It's like, I think it's like two hundred and something videos,
but it's just so so so good, and he really has an incredible
skill of being able to take kind of very complicated topics and break them down
into digestible stuff for people that might not be as high level as someone like
he is. He puts a ton of work into his game and from I
don't know that Pads has ever done commentary, I don't think he's done.
If he has, he doesn't know a lot of it. He's like would
be perfect at it. I mean, I think he even said at one
point on Twitter, I think I might have saw or saw somewhere where he
was like, you know, I'm not trying to get like too high level
with stuff. But it also it was fun that a player at one of
the Future Tables to start Alex the Theologist pone Diddy on Poker Stars. I
believe is an incredible mind and and Pads like is often battling with theologists in
a lot of the stuff that he plays online on gg poker on Poker Stars,
so him being able to commentate on Alex was also incredible. So like,
I was like totally the poker nerd to me was nerding out like a
bazillion times. It was. It was the best thing ever. So I
can't wait to watch that, you know, watch it back and like really
kind of like study it. So yeah, I mean that right there is
like pretty much worth a Poker Growth subscription. I mean, I'm being dead
serious. I know what it costs to be to buy the run at once
pads course, and uh this, I think you can just get a lot
of insight for pretty cheap on poker. So yeah, if he would be
open to it, I would love to be able to get him back in
the booth plenty. And yeah, if it's me and I need to keep
things very stupid, then yeah, I'm happy to do that too and serve
that part of things. Oh we gotta we well, we got to talk
to we got to play the Verry Hudder interview about this thing because because so
Pads was on the call for this, by the way, so you guys
can check it out on Poker Go. But yeah, afterwards, you know,
I went up to Jeff and I said, hey, like, you
gotta find Barry Hudder because he just folded kings to aces somebody else that actually
had queens as well and got away with it. But you know, pretty
crazy hand, so like some would say, godlike wow, Also one said,
I think on the book. Okay, I mean, listen, you
folded king's pretty flop. I mean you're pretty much a god. Huh,
you've done that. I'm not I'm not, No, I don't find the
truth straight now, ras I made a forty five he shop three hundred and
i'd like tank photo kings. Could you imagine I'm not talking to you,
Tim, I'm talking to all the people out there folding kings pre flopping,
a two three Nolan hold them game and a fucking casino. He was eighteen
years and you absolutely imagine that? Can you? Like? That's when you
should have quit poker back then then? But then we want to be friends?
Good wow? That like, what are you doing? I mean,
what are you going to back off and go? Then? I guess what
do you? I mean? I mean what year old? Tim? Though?
I mean what in the world? Play the interview? All right,
here's here's here's Jeff Flatt talking to Barry Hudder. All right, social media
is buzzy, and you got to give us at least a glimpse, at
least a glimpse into your your insight when you lay down those those two kings
there. Uh, I mean it was it was a crazy spot like she
flats the open, I squeeze, uh get four best sheet back five bets?
Uh. I don't know. It's just a spot that you don't really
see very often, and in any tournament this is just a swat where people
don't really make big risks and spots like that. I don't know, it's
once I just put the hand together. I just kind of felt like it
wasn't worth gambling, you know, wasn't It was stressful waiting to figure out
if it was a good fold or not. She said, I have to
wait to see this stream. So that was a little brutal, but you
know, pretty happy it was. Right when was that exact moment that you
found out? Like were you watching it? Trying to watch on stream?
Did a friend text you? What happened? I got I got a few
messages, and I had this stream on, but I was like in a
hand or something. But yeah, pretty much, right when it aired,
I figured it out and she's she told somebody at the table like a few
minutes before it aired that she had asis. So I was like a little
relieved, but you know, still I don't know, all right, what
else we got? I don't touch on you know, put you so rich
out at us for not leading with the main event last night. So it
was saving the side. The other bracelet of it is talking about it.
Do we have more minimums? Now? That's it. You should get out
of here. Let's go real quick. I'm going to make it real quick.
Fifteen games. Just down to seven players. They're playing in Province Utah
upstairs in the ballroom. Seven left, John raced a chip leader, followed
by Josh Arier, Max Coleman, Marco Johnson, and Miami John Snuda rounds
out the bottom of the chip counts. Uh. These seven players all guaranteed
fourteen one thousand dollars. First Rises hijacked the podcast. You just hijacked the
podcast to talk about it some tournament one thirty one. I'm going That's why
I'm going really quick. The GG Flippan Go played out today. A lot
of people complaining about they locked the entry one thousand and eighty eight entries,
nine hundred and fifty seven K in the prize pool. There is no hold
on, hold on what do you mean they locked the entry. There were
some issues with like they weren't open. They're supposed to run all day,
but now like people are complaining that they stopped running them something. I didn't
quite get the full story, but it seems like it says on the show
sheet running all day. So I'm not really sure when all day means.
To me, that means all day, but there were some social media voicing
of whatever I'm trying to say. Anyway, one hundred and thirty one K
four First, I'm going to raffle off really quickly. The one hundred and
thirty six players left. Here are some of the guys that are through today
too. You've all Runson, Mike Watson, Ashley deeb and Sean deep Wow,
Dylan Welcomes judging the kids. Who knows, probably Dylan Weisman, Patrick
Leonard Chance, Corneth, Dan Seppio, Galenholmike Lea, Chris phony Chen,
David Williams, Jeremy Osmas fire at least a bullets to get in missed,
the consistency of not getting it done. Randa kempe Jao, Samao Gabriel Andrade
Scott Siva so we'll see he's Siva Osmus. There's some peer white stuff gone
on in this one. Alex Lensky, Chris Brewer, Shanna Show, Toby
Lewis, they're just a handful of one hundred and thirty six players through to
day two tomorrow, where it's a normal time. It's not a going to
go anymore for those unaware, just that day one being we went up with
that massive lines athodot huge field. Most likely we'll discuss one tomorrow. Just
one quick boom boom boom. All right, Well, if that's all we
got, yeah, we're gonna get out of here, all right, all
right, that's gonna do it for us. By the way, it looks
like there's a new beef forming between Sean Perry and Phil Helmy. Yeah,
it's all fake, these two guys. Phil Hemmy just responded I saw saying
they're all talk. I mean they don't they're all talking. The only thing
that I think is probably truthful in both of these, like things from one
from Sean one from Phil, is that poker was ready to host it.
Both have said that, yes, we are ready to host it when people
man up and get to the table and let's go right, man up exactly.
So all right, that's gonna do it for us. My name is
Donny Peters. His name is Tim duckworth More main event tomorrow you can watch
on Poker Go. I believe the coverage starts at one pm Vegas time.
If I'm wrong at that? Wrong? No, I don't think I am.
Would you like to bet on it? Um? Would I like to
bet on it? I mean no, I mean the way you came at
me like that? No? What is tomorrow? Tuesday? Oh? Day?
I was looking to Day four? God damn it. Hey four starts
at one. Yeah, you're outd well. Covered should start tomorrow at one
pm, but it's not. It's gonna start at three thirty pm, three
thirty to seven thirty, then dinner break nine pm till one am. Right
now, it is scheduled that Jeff Platt and Brent Hanks are on the call
for the first stream. Brent Hanks is playing, so we don't know what
we're gonna do there. We'll figure that out as we go. Second part
is myself and Remco. So, Matt Salzburg, eat your heart out on
back, baby, all the dumb down takes you can handle. Let's go.
So yeah, all right, that's gonna do it for us. We're
out of here. Talk to you tomorrow. Yeah, Ad the Chenny expressed,