Speaker 1: Hello everyone, Welcome back to a new episode of the
Poker Go Podcast. My name is Donnie Peters. It is
Oh wow, it's Sunday now, Sunday, June seventh, twelve, twenty seven. Am.
I just got done. I just got home. Spent time
going through the rundown for what we're going to talk
about today for another day at the World Series of Poker.
My day was all about playing Day one d of
the Monster Stack. We did bag I'll talk about it
a little bit later on in the pot He definitely
want to hit on a bunch of the news and
happenings that have happened around the World Series of Poker.
You know, we had the special, the special episode with
David odb Baker on the last episode. If you didn't
catch that, you know, David's one of my salute favorite
people in the world, not only in poker, so definitely
go check that out. We talked at length about a
whole bunch of stuff, WSP fantasy, him being the King
of the Heart, rankings, all that sort of cool stuff.
So definitely check that out. But because we did that,
you know, we didn't really hit on some of the
stuff that happened the day prior, so let me kind
of touch on a few things in this episode also
get you caught up on what happened on Saturday, and
then we'll lead into Sunday. One of the things we're
going to hit on is Jeff Madsen winning his fifth
WSOP Gold bracelet. We also got to talk about the
Japanese sensation Nihoa Kihara winning his second WSP Gold bracelet.
He's also on a bit of a heater, and you'll
find out why Frederick Normand won the fifteen hundred dollars
PLO High Low for his first bracelet in a story
that I feel like we get one of these pretty
much every single year. At the World Series of Poker,
we got the twenty five k high Roller is down
to six players. And then of course I do want
to touch on my monster stack day one. D As always,
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All Right, the first thing we want to talk about
here is Jeff Madson, former WSOP Player of the Year.
On the episode that I did with ODB, you guys
might have heard some of that loud cheering, that loud
yelling going on in the background. That was celebrations for
Jeff Madson because he won his fifth WSP Gold bracelet
and one hundred and sixty one thousand dollars. He won
the fifteen hundred dollars Dealer's Choice. I talked about that
a couple of days ago on the Mini Mailbag episode
when somebody asked, what's the most prestigious fifteen hundred dollars
bracelet that's a non hold him event? I said it
was this one, and Jeff Madson won the damn thing.
Madson is also off to a pretty hot start to
his summer, of course this win, but he has an
eleventh place finish in the five k PLO from a
few days ago, so he's starting to you know, we're
starting to get the signs like, okay, he could be
a contender for Player of the Year. Now I think
he's gonna need a big, big, summer, Madson, right, you know,
because the stuff that's coming up at Paradise at the
end of the year, like Sean Deeve and all the
heavy hitters are going to be very much in the
mix for all that stuff. And we know WSB Paradise
is just big Bayen's galore, So I think Jeff will
probably need to do a lot of his point getting
during the summer. And then obviously if you have a
lot of point getting during the summer, that means some
big results, so you have a bit of a larger bankroll,
then you can fire some of the bigger stuff down
at WSP Paradise if you do want to chase the
Doubasipy Player of the Year title. He won it back
in two thousand and six. He won two breasts that year.
Belief he still holds the title as the youngest POI winner,
and he mentioned I was reading through the Poker News
recap over on pokernews dot com. By the way I
shouted them out the other day, or I said go
give them five stars or whatever. My fault there, but
also yeah, you might as well go give them some love,
you know, because that's what that's where I got my
podcast start at the old PM pod. But yeah, but
Mattson talked about, you know, wanting to go for the
Player of the Year title again, and he said, like
he's very much going for it now that he got
this win, he got that eleventh place in the in
the five KPL, He's he's very much in the thick
of things. You know. Again, I do think he's going
to need a very, very big summer. Jeff is a
guy to me. Yes, he can play the big bet stuff,
he can play Nolan and hold him. But I think
he's somebody who's probably gonna have his results come more
from the mixed game variety of tournaments. But that said,
I mean there there's a ton of tournament. There's a
ton of tournaments, not the twenty twenty six wsop that
that Madson is going to be getting into. So you know,
let's let's uh, let's see how he goes Now. I
say that he's gonna need a big, big summer in
my opinion to be able to compete with someone like
Sean Dee. But I also won't be surprised in the
slightest if he's in the mix. Okay, so just just
keep an eye on that you know, Jeff Madson gets
bracelet number five. He said he wants to chase that
player of the year titled get It Again. So so
you know, don't be don't be shocked when when Jeff
Madson's you know, fighting with Sean deeb, you know till
the bitter end of the summer. Just quickly on Madson's
other four bracelets, I mentioned the two that he won
in two thousand and six. I mean, he was a
freaking baby when when he won those bracelets. He won
the two K Nolanan hold Him for six hundred and
sixty K. He won the five K Nolman HoldEm six
Max event for six hundred and forty K. So's that's
almost one point three million dollars between those two scores there.
Then there was a little bit of a gap. Twenty
thirteen is when his next bracelet came and it was
in potlom and Omaha three K buy in PLO. He
won three hundred and eighty four thousand dollars and then
two years later, in two thousand and fifteen, he won
the three K PLO High Low for three hundred and
one thousand dollars. So then another bit of a gap
from twenty fifteen to now eleven years for when he
won his fifth w Soobgle bracelet. Buck congratulations two, Jeff
Matsy Niowa Kihara. He grabbed his second w soop gold bracelet. Now,
if you want to talk about a gap in bracelets,
this is a big gap in bracelets. His second bracelet.
His first one was back in twenty twelve when he
won the five K PLO six Max for five hundred
and twelve thousand dollars. This summer, Kihara won the ten
K Nolan MEDUSA seven Singles Off for four hundred and
twenty eight thousand dollars. You know, he did talk again
just just reading through the Poker News recaps. You know,
these guys, by the way, Poker News have been doing
some great recaps this summer. You know, I'm a soccer
for a good recap. I'm a soccer for some good
quotes in there. And we've gotten some good stuff from
the Poker News peeps this summer, and Kihara was talking
about how basically he almost he wanted to quit tournament poker.
He was thinking about quitting tournament poker, you know, just
hadn't had really the results. He's also someone to me,
you know, over the years, like playing the twenty five
K Fantasy League, he's always kind of been on my radar.
But since he had that win back in twenty twelve,
it's like, you know, what kind of what happened? Because
I remember when he kind of came around and he
was kind of the hot new guy on the scene
and everyone's like, okay, like he's he seems like he
understands a lot of the different games. He's obviously out
there blasting. He's doing well, like this is the guy now,
right and for whatever reason, you know, I mean, variance
is a bitch, I guess in tournament poker, but things
didn't like totally work out for him in terms of winning,
and that's ultimately what you're going to be measured by,
and that's what people are going to remember you for.
And yeah, you know, it took a while, but thankfully,
at least for Kihara's sake, that he did give it
one last go at it. He came out to the
twenty twenty sixth dibicip and he's here winning his secondbsop
goald Brace so that it comes with more than four under k.
He said, he's going to be playing a lot of
the bigger stuff now, and you know, while we're on him,
he then goes and fires into the ten K Stud
and he finishes day one with the chip Ley. So
you know, the heater for Kihara is certainly real right now.
And not only that, I mean, I might as well
just stay on it for a second. But Kihara is
in the final eleven of the ten K Stud Championship.
They did bag with eleven players left, so they are
entering day three. He is sitting six out of eleven.
He's in the money right now for at least twenty
four thousand dollars. There's more than three hundred thousand dollars
up top. The eleven players are topped by the one
and only the Grinder, Michael Mizeraki. I mean, this guy
is absolutely freaking unreal with the way that he just
seems to do things in tournaments. But yeah, Grinders on
top of the ten K seven Card Stud Championship entering
day three. Day three is on Sunday, got Chris Brewer
and second James Chung, Ryan Miller, Jeremy Osmis, Jeremy Ols
is back from an overseas trip to Japan. He did
get his vlogger badge, so he is ready to go,
and he is already in the final eleven of a
tournament I mentioned Niowiki Aar was in sixth place. He is.
Maxim piece Enko's in there. Alan Kessler megan a run
this name, now this next name that I'm about to read.
I walked through the field and I was like, hold on,
this isn't a hold internal, What the hell is going on?
Dan cepil Dan, I didn't know this guy knew how
to spell stud let alone. Play it good. Old Danny
boy out there. Brad Rubin is in there, and Jason
Kluska as well. That rounds out the eleven players you had.
David Odb Baker. I guess no podcast run good because
he stone bubbled the event. And it was kind of
a sick way in that there were two all ins.
It was he was all in and Robert Miss Rocky
was all in at the same table. Miss Rocky had
ODB covered by one thousand chips, and you know, therefore
he got the higher position and Odb stone bubbled it.
But you know, as we know, king of the Heart rankings,
mister Odb, he will be back firing again. In the
next one, Frederick Normand won the fifteen hundred dollars PLO
Hi Low for his first WSOP gold race. Atop the
field of one thousand and ninety three entries, took home
two hundred and thirty five thousand dollars. I mentioned that
we always see something, or I feel like we always
see something once a summer, and what it is is
that if somebody wins a tournament that they've never played before.
Normand had never played a PLO high low tournament before
this one. He had played a big O tournament, I believe,
but that's a different game. This is PLO high low. Now.
Norman is a very good PLO player, very very good.
So I'm thinking he's somebody who can just kind of
figure it out on the fly. And obviously he figured
it out because he won the damn tournament for two
hundred and thirty five thousand dollars. Second place in this
one was Michael Rodriguez. Good Old Rods was looking for
his second Tabyssopigo bracelet a little bit late though. You know,
we drafted him a couple of years ago on twenty
five K Fantasy, but he didn't work out that summer.
But here he is finishing second with a nice little
score and josh Aria took third place here. Believe he
was going for bracelets number eight josh Ari, but ultimately denied.
There the twenty five k high roller is down to six.
You got Galen Hall, Kristin fox Enjoey Wiseman, Bawding, Setnick Zizka,
and Ignacio Moron are among this or are the six
players remaining more than one point seven seven million dollars
up top. It's just freaking wild to see what Kristin
Foxing continues to do over and over and over again.
I mean she is I think she's one of my
like top three to five favorite players now. It's just
simply incredible. I also like that she's got a good personality,
Like she's she's fun at the table, Like obviously she
gets focused in the zone and locks in when when
it calls for it. But you know, earlier on in tournaments,
she's she's talking, she's laughing it up, you know, all
that sort of stuff, which makes for a good entertaining player.
And she certainly plays an entertaining style as well. Galen Hall,
I mean this guy, he just shows up every summer,
plays a couple of tournaments here and there, and like
final tables one or two of them every freaking summer.
With this guy, it's it really is incredible and it
speaks to just the type of talent that that Galen
Hall is and like how good of a poker mind
he is because he's not grinding a full tournament circuit.
I mean, like like if you just were to compare
him to christ Vaxin for example, she's playing everything all
the time, right, She's traveling to Triton, she's playing at
the studio for the PGT events, She's going all the
big buy and stuff. You know. Galen Hall like pops
in here there and always just seems to crush. Like
it's just wild. Joey Wiseman, great player, you know, just
coming off his marriage, so I know there's baby run Good.
I don't know if there's you know, a new marriage
run good, but if not, he has it. Bout Ding.
I mean, this guy just always seems to freaking do
it at the dibsip. Ever, since we all kind of
got word, I would say from ren Linn, who bout
ding is? You know, here he is and he's crushing
I don't know, is that in exiska that well but
a bit of a Dobissippi coming out party, I guess
for him in terms of you know, at the at
the main World Series of Poker. You know, it's just
when you do it on a stage like this, you know,
that's when it matters most. And he does have a
WSFP gold bracelets. Yeah, he won a one K no
limit event top the big old field of eighteen hundred
and seventy three entries last year at the World Series
of Poker. But you know what I'm getting at is
when when you're in a twenty five k field like this,
when you're up against the crushers, that this type of
field brings out like that's when boom, You've made it.
You know. I know a lot of people will say like, well,
you know, kind of anyone can win a one k
or a fifteen hundred or whatever. I mean, it's not
that anyone can, but you know, there's just a wide
variety of people that win those. But when you're up
there and you're crushing and performing well in ten k's,
you know, twenty five ks, even if you start going
up to fifty k stuff like that. I mean, that's
when like basically you become a maid man poker, and
and Ziska here is obviously showing that that he has
what it takes. Believe he was drafted in twenty five
K Fantasy. Yes he was, so you know, another one
who has the respect of his peers, you know, to
go along with the fact that he is a successful players.
Out of these players who have made the final six,
here you have Kristin Foxen was drafted, Joey Wiseman was drafted,
Zisko was drafted. As I just mentioned in the bow ding,
it was the other one that was drafted, Galen Hall
not drafted, and Ignacio Moron not drafted. Those players will
be back on Sunday to finish it out. They are
guaranteed a little bit over three hundred thousand dollars. Top
two places are up in seven figures. It's one point
seven million for first, one point one to eight for second,
then a whole bunch of prize money up for grabs.
My guess is my prediction is Kristin Foxen gets it done.
I'm gonna say Kristen Foxen won, Joey Weisman two. That's
what That's what I'm going with there switching things up.
Now we are through the news, I want to talk
a little bit about my day the Monsters dec I mean,
this thing is First of all, I've never played this
Monsters Act before. I've always wanted to play it, as
I've talked about, never really could carve out the time,
was able to carve out the time. This year, I'm
happy I got to play it. I mean, what a
freaking tournament this thing is. This thing is awesome. Structure
is great, other than the fact that they have that
silly dinner break in there, But other than that, structure's good.
You know, you get a ton of play in this one,
and you start with fifty k chips, hour long levels,
blind start out one two hundred. You know, it's just
it's a nice, slow, player friendly structure. We'll have Day
two d on Sunday, and I believe they would play
into the money at some point on that day, and
then anyone who advances would advance with the other players
who advance. Every Day one had its own day too,
so there's a bunch of people that advanced already, and
then everyone combines on Day three on Monday. Hopefully I'm
in there as well, but yeah, this is a great tournament.
So you start with fifty k. As I mentioned, I
was able to put two hundred and fifty eight thousand
in the bag. Not my peak. I did get up
over three hundred thousand, but took a couple hits. At
the end of the night in the final level, there
was a gentleman on my right who was just out
of control. I'll I mean, I might as well just
talk about it. So first of all, I'm in Normandy. Okay,
don't know why they put you in Normandy, but that
was ridiculous. We get moved from Normandy to Horseshoe. It
took ten minutes to go from Normandy to Horseshoe. We
left in the second to last level of the night
when there was exactly two minutes on the clock. By
time we got to the other room, there was fifty
two minutes on the clock. Eighty people just walking like
halfway down the strip. It's just that they got to
do something better than that. But anyway, I get moved in,
I sit down at this table. Mike Didntali's there, don't
know anyone else. Got to my right, starts talking about
I have this little figurine of a black dog looks
like my dog, Duke, and he starts asking me about it.
He says, he tells me that he wants a dog
to retire somewhere like basically like on a barn somewhere,
or on a farm somewhere, not a barn, on a
farm somewhere with a barn, just so his dog can
just run around. He doesn't have to put him on
a leash or whatever. But then about two minutes later
he tells someone else at the table because someone asked
him what he does, and he tells someone that he
is retired. So I couldn't quite understand that if he
wanted to retire or if he is retired. Then he
proceeded to straddle three times from the under the gum position.
He played ninety percent of hands. He went from two
hunder k to bag. I played with him for forty minutes.
He went from two hunderd K to nine hundred and
like fifteen thousand or something like one of the hottest
runs I've ever seen. Like he would just call bets
on flop and turn with bottom pair, drill the trips
on a river. Somebody would have like top two pair,
and he would get paid like it was just wild
shit from this guy. He would limp some hands, he
would four and five x some hands. He was never
folding to raises, really never ever folding to flop bets
at all. I mean, it was just an absolute wild
spin up for this guy. And if that's at one
point he also said he asked if he could bag
and tag his chips so he could go home. He's like,
I have enough right to bag in tag. Can I
just bag and tag and leave. Everyone's like, no, you
have to actually play out till the end of the night.
So that's the monster stack. But a couple of the
key hands that I played, I pulled, I pulled five hands.
I'm doing the thing where I write every hand down
I can review it later. The first two that I'm
going to tell you guys about two big folds. I
guess maybe not that big one. I think was kind
of big one was kind of standard. Maybe I even
should have folded pre flop the first one. The cutoff
opens to fourteen hundred. At three hundred six hundred, the
button calls the small blind calls, I call him the
big blind with pocket fives two black fives. The flop
comes seven four three rainbow action checks around turn is
a six, so I drill as straight small blind checks
I bet fifteen hundred into what fifty six into like
six thousand or so, like sixty four hundred or something
very small cut off in the button both fold Small
Wine calls River is the four of four of diamonds.
Doesn't matter, that's a diamond, but River's a four pairs
the board. Small blind just leads all in for fifteen thousand,
two hundred over bets the pot, and I'm just like,
what is this? And I'm just like, yeah, he's like
does he have a five here? Like that? I mean
that's I mean, obviously he can have a five, right,
but is he doing that with a five? I don't
know this. This guy seemed pretty straightforward in the time
that I was playing with him. I ultimately just folded
my hand, you know. I was just like, he can
have a lot of combos of full houses here. I mean,
there's still a combo of there's the eight five that
can beat me for a higher straight. So yeah, I
just said, you know what, I don't think that these
players are just gonna go blasting over bets all in
for their tournament life without it was kind of my
decision there. So yeah, yeah. Then there's a hand where
a woman who was who was playing pretty aggressive and
she seemed she was tough, like she was doing a
lot of like tricky things that were throwing a lot
of players off. I did win some chips off her,
you know, just gotten some fortunate situations against her. But
she opens his hand under the gun. They're playing or
playing three and six, and again she makes it twelve
hundred next to act one of the gump plus one
makes it thirty five hundred. A guy who was pretty
standard ABC would even say, probably a little bit too tight,
so he three bets next to act. It folds to
me in the cutoff, and I look down and I
got two Jack's jack Ahart Jack of Spades, and I'm like, hmm,
I mean, we're like pretty deep here, and I'm just like,
you know, we're like, I think, well, the woman was
a little bit shorter, but the gentleman who who three
bet he had probably one hundred big blinds and and
I covered him slightly. So I'm thinking, you know, I
don't know, I don't really want to just four bet
this hand. I was like, I can probably just fold,
but then I was thinking, you know what, I think
I can just play a call and it's not the
end of the world, because ultimately I think there's a
highlighthood that everyone else behind me is going to get
out of the way. There also might even be the
possibility where she jams, being a little which shorter. She
had like thirty big lines. He folds, and then I'll
just call her jam with my jackson and end up.
I called, and I called with the plan to proceed
cautiously postflop. You know, even if I flop an overpair.
Let's just you know, see how this one kind of develops.
Woman calls from under the gun as well. It comes
ten to seven, three, ten to seven of diamonds under
the gun checks gentleman bets five K. I call, I
have an overpayer. Can't just give it up just yet,
you know, he can be He was also the type
of player who I think would probably just even though
he's out of position in a lot of spots, I
think he would just bet hands like Ace King, for example.
So I mean, I didn't really think he would have
Ace Queen here. It's mostly Ace King, you know, And
then probably a bunch of overpairs as well, so he
bets five K. I call, she folds U turn is
the five of diamonds, So diamonds do come in. He
bets ten K. I just fold you pretty easy fold,
I think there. So yeah, So those are two that
I just lost kind of early on the big hand
that really got my climb started is folds to me
at five hundred, one thousand on the button, I make
it twenty two hundred with queen Jack of clubs small
blind believe he was from Argentina. Three bets to seventy
five hundred, so I go two point two x. He
goes seven point five X. He's about fifty four blinds deep.
I think I cover. I call flop comes ten nine eight, bingo,
just flop the nuts straight. He bets ten nine eight
with two spades. He bets five thousand, and I just
decided to raise right there. I mean, I think, you know,
he's he can have a lot of hands that I
think are just going to continue. I did see him
three bets some ace wheel suited cards, you know, so
he could have spades here and we just get it in.
He could obviously have two overs in spades. He can
have an overpair that I think he just overvalues. Yeah,
I'm just happy to start putting money in here. I also,
because of how wet the board was, I didn't want
my action to get killed, Like if I call and
let's say, like the turns seven for example, or you know,
the turn is a queen or whatever it may be,
and he kind of shuts down with his hand. I
didn't want that to happen. And yeah, so I also
wanted it to I put in a raise where I
would you know, he had he had roughly forty five
thousand going to the flop, so he bet five k.
I was like, I can raise to an amount where
maybe he thinks that he can put it in and
get some folds out of me. I make it fourteen
to five. He puts in forty five thousand. I obviously snapcall.
He's had his ace a hard's ten of spades, so
top pair with I guess backdoor spates. So it just
bricks out and I win that one. That was a nice,
healthy pot that really got me going. Then in the
one fifteen hundred level, this was funny. So we get
back from dinner, gentleman gets moved to my rights and
he's like as soon as he sits down, he's just
a fast talking guy. He's immediately telling us about he
just lost some two hundred k pot. On the other table,
he's showing the guy on the other side of him,
he's directly to my right. He's showing the guy in
the one seat whose name is Danny Pleasure, meeting you Danny.
Like he's showing in the video of how he lost
with his hand, and this is like this whole thing.
He's going on and on on. So anyway, we go
to dinner. We come back from dinner. There's eight players
at the table, but only six of them are present.
So on the first one, the first hand, the big
blind is dead. That guy, the gentleman to my right, raises,
everyone folds. The next hand, the big blind and the
small blind are both dead. So there's four thousand of
dead money in the middle. And I'm like, he's gonna
he's gonna just keep doing this, like he's gonna try
and be table captain, even though he's only got like
fifty thousand or so chips and I have, like, you know,
triple that. I think he's just the type of player
who's just gonna try and be the table captain and
just attack the dead money here. So he raises from
the lowjack. He makes it four K. I look down
and see two red jacks, and I'm just like, oh,
this is beautiful, this is so beautiful. I make it
eleven K, folds back to him. He he spends about
a minute and a half counting down his chip stack
over and over again. And I'm like, okay, like you
just are you gonna put it all in? Like let's
go all righty. I didn't say that, but in my head,
I'm like, okay, what are we doing? He ends up
just calling, So he just calls he's got about forty
five thousand. Behind the flop comes Queen ten, six queen clubs,
ten of clubs, six of spades. Remember I have red jacks,
he checks. I go very small, thirty five hundred. He calls,
turn is the five of clubs. So club jaw does
get completed? He checks, I checked behind river is the
queen of diamonds, the pair of the board. He jams
all in for I think forty three thousand, five hundred.
I pretty much snapped call. I'm not full. I probably
wasn't folding a lot of rivers to this guy, I
just I had kind of made up my mind. You know,
maybe this is wrong, but I kind of made up
my mind. This guy's just gonna blast off. So as
long as the river, I felt was a pretty good
one for me, and I thought pairing the Queen here
was a pretty good card for me, all things considered.
So I quickly call. He says, you got it. He
had eight o'club seven of diamonds eight high. So I
won that one. He was gone, and we're off and running.
Then I won one more big one in the Normandy
room before we moved over to the horseshoe. The cut off.
My guy Danny believe he's from heard him say l Paso, Texas,
very active player. He opens to the thirty five hundred,
same level oney fifteen hundred. I call him the small wine
with two threes. Big Blind calls it comes Jack ten
three bingo rainbow as well. I checked, Big Blind checks
cut off. That's five thousand. I call big mine folds
turn six clubs, does bring in a second club? I checked,
cut off goes eighteen thousand. I debated raising here, but
I thought, you know, I just want to make sure that,
like I keep all his bluffs in like I don't
want to fold you know, if he's just blasting off,
like I don't want to fold him out. So I'm
just fine to just continue to slow play here. Also,
I think, you know, him and I had kind of
been battling, so you know, I thought he might like
he could also be betting for value here and I
just have that smashed, and I think he might try
and go for some thinner value against me, and just
like barrel off three streets, so I call rivers of
the eight of spades, so you know, queen nine gets there,
nine seven gets there, like if you have a come
of like nine seven clubs, for example, I check he
bets thirty three thousand, I just call. He ends up
having jack ten off. So if I raise turn, I
probably get all the money. I mean we had, we
both had piles of chips, and yeah, maybe I left
some money on the table there, but you know, allultimately,
I think it's fine. Like the way he was thinking
on the river too, I honestly thought he was going
to go all in for like one point five x pot.
I'm not folding. I'm just kind of you know, sy calling,
And if you just decided to backdoor and then yolo
and go for all of it. Then so be it.
But yeah, that was my day overall. After I won
that hand, I started to just kind of play a
lot of pots over and over again. Did pretty well,
won a couple all ins against some shorter stacks. Awesome
against some shorter stacks. Just is what it is. Got
up over three hundred thousand, bag two under in fifty
eight thousand, come back to twenty five hundred big blind
so I'll have a little bit over one hundred big
blinds to work with. This tournament's simply incredible, absolutely incredible,
So I'm looking forward to it. Day two d is
on Sunday, and hopefully I continue can continue to make
a run in this thing. The other events that kicked
off on Saturday, you had the twenty five K high
Roller six Max, Nick Shulman bagging the day one chip lead.
Nick Shulman finished eighteenth in the twenty five K high
Roller for sixty four thousand. Then he hops in the
twenty five K six Max he bags the day one chipley.
So Nick Shulman off to a nice start. We talked
about him many days ago when he finished second in
the fifteen hundred dollars, do give it. Nick Shulman is
another guy. If he stays hot like this and he
can keep kind of stringing together these runs, he's another
person who you can see him contending for Player of
the Year. And then you had the fifteen hundred dollars
big oh kicking off. They'll have Day two on Sunday.
Day one early on, of course, had more than two
thousand entries on Day one, but no need to get
into that right now. We can get into that one
as it goes, as that tournament gets deeper. But that's it.
That's the pod. Do you got to give a shout out?
Two two guys that I met, One was Justin. Justin
came up to me. He was playing the monster stack.
I hope you bagged, sir. If you didn't, I'm sorry,
but I hope you did. And then Ryan as well
also bagged, taking I think one hundred and sixty k
into day two. D also said he's playing the main
for the first time this year, so let's freaking go, buddy,
Let's make it happen. But a lot of fun being
out there playing. Absolutely love it. The World Series is
it's it's the best tournament series in the world hands down.
As I've said it once, I'll say it again, but
that's gonna do it for me. It's just past one
am here in Las Vegas. I gotta get some sleep
because I got to be back down there for in
eleven am. Restart on Sunday. My name is Donny Peters
and I will talk to you guys next time. J