WEBVTT 1 00:00:11.240 --> 00:00:13.519 Hello everyone, Welcome back to a new episode of the 2 00:00:13.599 --> 00:00:19.559 Poker Go Podcast. My name is Donnie Peters. It is 3 00:00:20.480 --> 00:00:25.920 Oh wow, it's Sunday now, Sunday, June seventh, twelve, twenty seven. Am. 4 00:00:26.399 --> 00:00:30.199 I just got done. I just got home. Spent time 5 00:00:30.239 --> 00:00:31.800 going through the rundown for what we're going to talk 6 00:00:31.800 --> 00:00:34.520 about today for another day at the World Series of Poker. 7 00:00:34.560 --> 00:00:38.159 My day was all about playing Day one d of 8 00:00:38.240 --> 00:00:42.039 the Monster Stack. We did bag I'll talk about it 9 00:00:42.320 --> 00:00:45.240 a little bit later on in the pot He definitely 10 00:00:45.280 --> 00:00:47.920 want to hit on a bunch of the news and 11 00:00:48.000 --> 00:00:51.479 happenings that have happened around the World Series of Poker. 12 00:00:51.560 --> 00:00:54.320 You know, we had the special, the special episode with 13 00:00:54.399 --> 00:00:57.240 David odb Baker on the last episode. If you didn't 14 00:00:57.280 --> 00:01:01.000 catch that, you know, David's one of my salute favorite 15 00:01:01.039 --> 00:01:03.920 people in the world, not only in poker, so definitely 16 00:01:03.960 --> 00:01:06.280 go check that out. We talked at length about a 17 00:01:06.280 --> 00:01:09.799 whole bunch of stuff, WSP fantasy, him being the King 18 00:01:09.840 --> 00:01:11.959 of the Heart, rankings, all that sort of cool stuff. 19 00:01:12.000 --> 00:01:14.319 So definitely check that out. But because we did that, 20 00:01:14.400 --> 00:01:15.719 you know, we didn't really hit on some of the 21 00:01:15.719 --> 00:01:19.400 stuff that happened the day prior, so let me kind 22 00:01:19.439 --> 00:01:22.319 of touch on a few things in this episode also 23 00:01:22.359 --> 00:01:25.840 get you caught up on what happened on Saturday, and 24 00:01:25.920 --> 00:01:29.439 then we'll lead into Sunday. One of the things we're 25 00:01:29.439 --> 00:01:31.920 going to hit on is Jeff Madsen winning his fifth 26 00:01:32.239 --> 00:01:35.599 WSOP Gold bracelet. We also got to talk about the 27 00:01:35.680 --> 00:01:41.439 Japanese sensation Nihoa Kihara winning his second WSP Gold bracelet. 28 00:01:41.480 --> 00:01:43.400 He's also on a bit of a heater, and you'll 29 00:01:43.400 --> 00:01:48.319 find out why Frederick Normand won the fifteen hundred dollars 30 00:01:48.359 --> 00:01:52.200 PLO High Low for his first bracelet in a story 31 00:01:52.239 --> 00:01:54.680 that I feel like we get one of these pretty 32 00:01:54.760 --> 00:01:57.239 much every single year. At the World Series of Poker, 33 00:01:57.280 --> 00:01:59.760 we got the twenty five k high Roller is down 34 00:02:00.079 --> 00:02:03.000 to six players. And then of course I do want 35 00:02:03.000 --> 00:02:09.240 to touch on my monster stack day one. 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That's Plomastermind dot com, slash Poker Go 63 00:03:37.000 --> 00:03:40.400 where you can save twenty percent now through July fourteenth. 64 00:03:41.280 --> 00:03:42.840 All Right, the first thing we want to talk about 65 00:03:42.840 --> 00:03:46.719 here is Jeff Madson, former WSOP Player of the Year. 66 00:03:47.719 --> 00:03:50.639 On the episode that I did with ODB, you guys 67 00:03:50.719 --> 00:03:53.039 might have heard some of that loud cheering, that loud 68 00:03:53.120 --> 00:03:56.639 yelling going on in the background. That was celebrations for 69 00:03:56.919 --> 00:04:01.400 Jeff Madson because he won his fifth WSP Gold bracelet 70 00:04:01.400 --> 00:04:05.199 and one hundred and sixty one thousand dollars. He won 71 00:04:05.520 --> 00:04:08.280 the fifteen hundred dollars Dealer's Choice. I talked about that 72 00:04:08.360 --> 00:04:12.319 a couple of days ago on the Mini Mailbag episode 73 00:04:12.520 --> 00:04:16.040 when somebody asked, what's the most prestigious fifteen hundred dollars 74 00:04:16.040 --> 00:04:19.360 bracelet that's a non hold him event? I said it 75 00:04:19.399 --> 00:04:21.879 was this one, and Jeff Madson won the damn thing. 76 00:04:22.360 --> 00:04:25.000 Madson is also off to a pretty hot start to 77 00:04:25.040 --> 00:04:27.480 his summer, of course this win, but he has an 78 00:04:27.480 --> 00:04:30.279 eleventh place finish in the five k PLO from a 79 00:04:30.279 --> 00:04:34.240 few days ago, so he's starting to you know, we're 80 00:04:34.279 --> 00:04:36.199 starting to get the signs like, okay, he could be 81 00:04:36.240 --> 00:04:39.839 a contender for Player of the Year. Now I think 82 00:04:39.839 --> 00:04:43.240 he's gonna need a big, big, summer, Madson, right, you know, 83 00:04:43.480 --> 00:04:47.199 because the stuff that's coming up at Paradise at the 84 00:04:47.319 --> 00:04:49.759 end of the year, like Sean Deeve and all the 85 00:04:49.800 --> 00:04:51.879 heavy hitters are going to be very much in the 86 00:04:51.920 --> 00:04:54.319 mix for all that stuff. And we know WSB Paradise 87 00:04:54.879 --> 00:04:59.439 is just big Bayen's galore, So I think Jeff will 88 00:04:59.439 --> 00:05:02.040 probably need to do a lot of his point getting 89 00:05:02.399 --> 00:05:05.920 during the summer. And then obviously if you have a 90 00:05:05.920 --> 00:05:07.759 lot of point getting during the summer, that means some 91 00:05:07.800 --> 00:05:10.160 big results, so you have a bit of a larger bankroll, 92 00:05:10.240 --> 00:05:12.439 then you can fire some of the bigger stuff down 93 00:05:12.480 --> 00:05:15.360 at WSP Paradise if you do want to chase the 94 00:05:15.399 --> 00:05:17.480 Doubasipy Player of the Year title. He won it back 95 00:05:17.519 --> 00:05:20.199 in two thousand and six. He won two breasts that year. 96 00:05:20.720 --> 00:05:24.759 Belief he still holds the title as the youngest POI winner, 97 00:05:25.399 --> 00:05:27.600 and he mentioned I was reading through the Poker News 98 00:05:27.600 --> 00:05:30.079 recap over on pokernews dot com. By the way I 99 00:05:30.120 --> 00:05:32.160 shouted them out the other day, or I said go 100 00:05:32.199 --> 00:05:34.879 give them five stars or whatever. My fault there, but 101 00:05:34.920 --> 00:05:36.800 also yeah, you might as well go give them some love, 102 00:05:37.879 --> 00:05:39.720 you know, because that's what that's where I got my 103 00:05:39.759 --> 00:05:42.360 podcast start at the old PM pod. But yeah, but 104 00:05:42.399 --> 00:05:44.800 Mattson talked about, you know, wanting to go for the 105 00:05:44.800 --> 00:05:46.800 Player of the Year title again, and he said, like 106 00:05:46.879 --> 00:05:48.560 he's very much going for it now that he got 107 00:05:48.560 --> 00:05:50.240 this win, he got that eleventh place in the in 108 00:05:50.279 --> 00:05:53.240 the five KPL, He's he's very much in the thick 109 00:05:53.279 --> 00:05:56.000 of things. You know. Again, I do think he's going 110 00:05:56.040 --> 00:05:58.160 to need a very, very big summer. Jeff is a 111 00:05:58.160 --> 00:06:00.759 guy to me. Yes, he can play the big bet stuff, 112 00:06:00.759 --> 00:06:02.399 he can play Nolan and hold him. But I think 113 00:06:02.439 --> 00:06:05.439 he's somebody who's probably gonna have his results come more 114 00:06:05.480 --> 00:06:10.600 from the mixed game variety of tournaments. But that said, 115 00:06:10.680 --> 00:06:12.360 I mean there there's a ton of tournament. There's a 116 00:06:12.399 --> 00:06:15.319 ton of tournaments, not the twenty twenty six wsop that 117 00:06:15.319 --> 00:06:17.879 that Madson is going to be getting into. So you know, 118 00:06:17.959 --> 00:06:21.040 let's let's uh, let's see how he goes Now. I 119 00:06:21.160 --> 00:06:23.360 say that he's gonna need a big, big summer in 120 00:06:23.399 --> 00:06:25.240 my opinion to be able to compete with someone like 121 00:06:25.360 --> 00:06:28.920 Sean Dee. But I also won't be surprised in the 122 00:06:28.959 --> 00:06:32.120 slightest if he's in the mix. Okay, so just just 123 00:06:32.199 --> 00:06:34.199 keep an eye on that you know, Jeff Madson gets 124 00:06:34.240 --> 00:06:37.160 bracelet number five. He said he wants to chase that 125 00:06:37.160 --> 00:06:39.920 player of the year titled get It Again. So so 126 00:06:40.120 --> 00:06:42.600 you know, don't be don't be shocked when when Jeff 127 00:06:42.600 --> 00:06:45.079 Madson's you know, fighting with Sean deeb, you know till 128 00:06:45.079 --> 00:06:48.600 the bitter end of the summer. Just quickly on Madson's 129 00:06:48.600 --> 00:06:51.040 other four bracelets, I mentioned the two that he won 130 00:06:51.160 --> 00:06:53.360 in two thousand and six. I mean, he was a 131 00:06:53.399 --> 00:06:57.160 freaking baby when when he won those bracelets. He won 132 00:06:57.199 --> 00:06:59.199 the two K Nolanan hold Him for six hundred and 133 00:06:59.199 --> 00:07:02.560 sixty K. He won the five K Nolman HoldEm six 134 00:07:02.639 --> 00:07:05.360 Max event for six hundred and forty K. So's that's 135 00:07:05.399 --> 00:07:08.319 almost one point three million dollars between those two scores there. 136 00:07:09.120 --> 00:07:10.959 Then there was a little bit of a gap. Twenty 137 00:07:11.160 --> 00:07:13.600 thirteen is when his next bracelet came and it was 138 00:07:13.600 --> 00:07:16.399 in potlom and Omaha three K buy in PLO. He 139 00:07:16.439 --> 00:07:18.959 won three hundred and eighty four thousand dollars and then 140 00:07:18.959 --> 00:07:21.639 two years later, in two thousand and fifteen, he won 141 00:07:21.680 --> 00:07:24.800 the three K PLO High Low for three hundred and 142 00:07:24.839 --> 00:07:27.079 one thousand dollars. So then another bit of a gap 143 00:07:27.160 --> 00:07:31.519 from twenty fifteen to now eleven years for when he 144 00:07:31.600 --> 00:07:35.839 won his fifth w Soobgle bracelet. Buck congratulations two, Jeff 145 00:07:35.879 --> 00:07:48.079 Matsy Niowa Kihara. He grabbed his second w soop gold bracelet. Now, 146 00:07:48.079 --> 00:07:49.879 if you want to talk about a gap in bracelets, 147 00:07:49.879 --> 00:07:53.399 this is a big gap in bracelets. His second bracelet. 148 00:07:53.480 --> 00:07:55.879 His first one was back in twenty twelve when he 149 00:07:55.920 --> 00:07:58.639 won the five K PLO six Max for five hundred 150 00:07:58.680 --> 00:08:02.319 and twelve thousand dollars. This summer, Kihara won the ten 151 00:08:02.399 --> 00:08:05.199 K Nolan MEDUSA seven Singles Off for four hundred and 152 00:08:05.240 --> 00:08:09.560 twenty eight thousand dollars. You know, he did talk again 153 00:08:09.680 --> 00:08:12.959 just just reading through the Poker News recaps. You know, 154 00:08:13.160 --> 00:08:14.759 these guys, by the way, Poker News have been doing 155 00:08:14.800 --> 00:08:18.360 some great recaps this summer. You know, I'm a soccer 156 00:08:18.360 --> 00:08:20.439 for a good recap. I'm a soccer for some good 157 00:08:20.519 --> 00:08:23.519 quotes in there. And we've gotten some good stuff from 158 00:08:23.560 --> 00:08:27.120 the Poker News peeps this summer, and Kihara was talking 159 00:08:27.120 --> 00:08:29.959 about how basically he almost he wanted to quit tournament poker. 160 00:08:30.000 --> 00:08:32.440 He was thinking about quitting tournament poker, you know, just 161 00:08:32.480 --> 00:08:35.639 hadn't had really the results. He's also someone to me, 162 00:08:35.879 --> 00:08:37.799 you know, over the years, like playing the twenty five 163 00:08:37.879 --> 00:08:40.600 K Fantasy League, he's always kind of been on my radar. 164 00:08:40.799 --> 00:08:45.000 But since he had that win back in twenty twelve, 165 00:08:45.080 --> 00:08:47.399 it's like, you know, what kind of what happened? Because 166 00:08:47.600 --> 00:08:50.200 I remember when he kind of came around and he 167 00:08:50.320 --> 00:08:51.840 was kind of the hot new guy on the scene 168 00:08:51.879 --> 00:08:54.559 and everyone's like, okay, like he's he seems like he 169 00:08:54.639 --> 00:08:56.879 understands a lot of the different games. He's obviously out 170 00:08:56.919 --> 00:08:59.639 there blasting. He's doing well, like this is the guy now, 171 00:08:59.720 --> 00:09:03.320 right and for whatever reason, you know, I mean, variance 172 00:09:03.440 --> 00:09:06.679 is a bitch, I guess in tournament poker, but things 173 00:09:06.679 --> 00:09:09.159 didn't like totally work out for him in terms of winning, 174 00:09:09.240 --> 00:09:11.360 and that's ultimately what you're going to be measured by, 175 00:09:11.399 --> 00:09:13.559 and that's what people are going to remember you for. 176 00:09:15.240 --> 00:09:18.600 And yeah, you know, it took a while, but thankfully, 177 00:09:18.919 --> 00:09:21.679 at least for Kihara's sake, that he did give it 178 00:09:21.720 --> 00:09:23.279 one last go at it. He came out to the 179 00:09:23.279 --> 00:09:27.399 twenty twenty sixth dibicip and he's here winning his secondbsop 180 00:09:27.519 --> 00:09:29.480 goald Brace so that it comes with more than four under k. 181 00:09:29.879 --> 00:09:31.240 He said, he's going to be playing a lot of 182 00:09:31.240 --> 00:09:36.039 the bigger stuff now, and you know, while we're on him, 183 00:09:36.559 --> 00:09:40.200 he then goes and fires into the ten K Stud 184 00:09:40.720 --> 00:09:43.000 and he finishes day one with the chip Ley. So 185 00:09:43.679 --> 00:09:47.759 you know, the heater for Kihara is certainly real right now. 186 00:09:48.120 --> 00:09:50.000 And not only that, I mean, I might as well 187 00:09:50.039 --> 00:09:53.440 just stay on it for a second. But Kihara is 188 00:09:53.720 --> 00:09:56.919 in the final eleven of the ten K Stud Championship. 189 00:09:56.960 --> 00:10:00.200 They did bag with eleven players left, so they are 190 00:10:00.279 --> 00:10:03.440 entering day three. He is sitting six out of eleven. 191 00:10:03.600 --> 00:10:05.559 He's in the money right now for at least twenty 192 00:10:05.600 --> 00:10:08.519 four thousand dollars. There's more than three hundred thousand dollars 193 00:10:08.919 --> 00:10:12.440 up top. The eleven players are topped by the one 194 00:10:12.480 --> 00:10:16.039 and only the Grinder, Michael Mizeraki. I mean, this guy 195 00:10:16.080 --> 00:10:18.639 is absolutely freaking unreal with the way that he just 196 00:10:18.639 --> 00:10:22.480 seems to do things in tournaments. But yeah, Grinders on 197 00:10:22.519 --> 00:10:26.200 top of the ten K seven Card Stud Championship entering 198 00:10:26.279 --> 00:10:29.320 day three. Day three is on Sunday, got Chris Brewer 199 00:10:29.360 --> 00:10:34.080 and second James Chung, Ryan Miller, Jeremy Osmis, Jeremy Ols 200 00:10:34.159 --> 00:10:37.399 is back from an overseas trip to Japan. He did 201 00:10:37.399 --> 00:10:40.679 get his vlogger badge, so he is ready to go, 202 00:10:40.759 --> 00:10:42.440 and he is already in the final eleven of a 203 00:10:42.440 --> 00:10:46.200 tournament I mentioned Niowiki Aar was in sixth place. He is. 204 00:10:46.600 --> 00:10:49.840 Maxim piece Enko's in there. Alan Kessler megan a run 205 00:10:50.519 --> 00:10:53.080 this name, now this next name that I'm about to read. 206 00:10:53.159 --> 00:10:54.879 I walked through the field and I was like, hold on, 207 00:10:55.039 --> 00:10:56.759 this isn't a hold internal, What the hell is going on? 208 00:10:56.840 --> 00:10:59.919 Dan cepil Dan, I didn't know this guy knew how 209 00:10:59.919 --> 00:11:03.120 to spell stud let alone. Play it good. Old Danny 210 00:11:03.159 --> 00:11:05.919 boy out there. Brad Rubin is in there, and Jason 211 00:11:06.039 --> 00:11:09.879 Kluska as well. That rounds out the eleven players you had. 212 00:11:09.960 --> 00:11:13.159 David Odb Baker. I guess no podcast run good because 213 00:11:13.200 --> 00:11:15.639 he stone bubbled the event. And it was kind of 214 00:11:15.720 --> 00:11:18.240 a sick way in that there were two all ins. 215 00:11:18.559 --> 00:11:20.679 It was he was all in and Robert Miss Rocky 216 00:11:20.759 --> 00:11:23.480 was all in at the same table. Miss Rocky had 217 00:11:23.720 --> 00:11:28.679 ODB covered by one thousand chips, and you know, therefore 218 00:11:28.799 --> 00:11:32.159 he got the higher position and Odb stone bubbled it. 219 00:11:32.279 --> 00:11:34.879 But you know, as we know, king of the Heart rankings, 220 00:11:34.919 --> 00:11:38.080 mister Odb, he will be back firing again. In the 221 00:11:38.120 --> 00:11:42.240 next one, Frederick Normand won the fifteen hundred dollars PLO 222 00:11:42.399 --> 00:11:45.320 Hi Low for his first WSOP gold race. Atop the 223 00:11:45.320 --> 00:11:48.799 field of one thousand and ninety three entries, took home 224 00:11:48.799 --> 00:11:53.360 two hundred and thirty five thousand dollars. I mentioned that 225 00:11:53.440 --> 00:11:55.799 we always see something, or I feel like we always 226 00:11:55.840 --> 00:11:59.000 see something once a summer, and what it is is 227 00:11:59.039 --> 00:12:03.279 that if somebody wins a tournament that they've never played before. 228 00:12:04.320 --> 00:12:09.320 Normand had never played a PLO high low tournament before 229 00:12:09.360 --> 00:12:12.240 this one. He had played a big O tournament, I believe, 230 00:12:12.320 --> 00:12:15.919 but that's a different game. This is PLO high low. Now. 231 00:12:16.799 --> 00:12:20.480 Norman is a very good PLO player, very very good. 232 00:12:20.559 --> 00:12:23.200 So I'm thinking he's somebody who can just kind of 233 00:12:23.240 --> 00:12:25.639 figure it out on the fly. And obviously he figured 234 00:12:25.679 --> 00:12:28.720 it out because he won the damn tournament for two 235 00:12:28.799 --> 00:12:32.120 hundred and thirty five thousand dollars. Second place in this 236 00:12:32.200 --> 00:12:35.840 one was Michael Rodriguez. Good Old Rods was looking for 237 00:12:35.879 --> 00:12:39.440 his second Tabyssopigo bracelet a little bit late though. You know, 238 00:12:39.480 --> 00:12:42.320 we drafted him a couple of years ago on twenty 239 00:12:42.360 --> 00:12:44.399 five K Fantasy, but he didn't work out that summer. 240 00:12:44.440 --> 00:12:46.480 But here he is finishing second with a nice little 241 00:12:46.480 --> 00:12:50.360 score and josh Aria took third place here. Believe he 242 00:12:50.440 --> 00:12:55.600 was going for bracelets number eight josh Ari, but ultimately denied. 243 00:12:55.960 --> 00:13:00.559 There the twenty five k high roller is down to six. 244 00:13:00.639 --> 00:13:05.279 You got Galen Hall, Kristin fox Enjoey Wiseman, Bawding, Setnick Zizka, 245 00:13:05.360 --> 00:13:09.240 and Ignacio Moron are among this or are the six 246 00:13:09.279 --> 00:13:13.039 players remaining more than one point seven seven million dollars 247 00:13:13.120 --> 00:13:18.399 up top. It's just freaking wild to see what Kristin 248 00:13:18.480 --> 00:13:22.159 Foxing continues to do over and over and over again. 249 00:13:22.240 --> 00:13:24.919 I mean she is I think she's one of my 250 00:13:25.080 --> 00:13:27.879 like top three to five favorite players now. It's just 251 00:13:28.039 --> 00:13:31.720 simply incredible. I also like that she's got a good personality, 252 00:13:32.360 --> 00:13:34.879 Like she's she's fun at the table, Like obviously she 253 00:13:34.960 --> 00:13:38.000 gets focused in the zone and locks in when when 254 00:13:38.000 --> 00:13:41.360 it calls for it. But you know, earlier on in tournaments, 255 00:13:41.360 --> 00:13:44.320 she's she's talking, she's laughing it up, you know, all 256 00:13:44.360 --> 00:13:47.080 that sort of stuff, which makes for a good entertaining player. 257 00:13:47.080 --> 00:13:51.159 And she certainly plays an entertaining style as well. Galen Hall, 258 00:13:51.440 --> 00:13:54.759 I mean this guy, he just shows up every summer, 259 00:13:55.080 --> 00:13:57.279 plays a couple of tournaments here and there, and like 260 00:13:57.480 --> 00:14:00.000 final tables one or two of them every freaking summer. 261 00:14:00.159 --> 00:14:03.279 With this guy, it's it really is incredible and it 262 00:14:03.600 --> 00:14:07.519 speaks to just the type of talent that that Galen 263 00:14:07.600 --> 00:14:10.200 Hall is and like how good of a poker mind 264 00:14:10.240 --> 00:14:14.879 he is because he's not grinding a full tournament circuit. 265 00:14:15.279 --> 00:14:16.679 I mean, like like if you just were to compare 266 00:14:16.720 --> 00:14:19.360 him to christ Vaxin for example, she's playing everything all 267 00:14:19.360 --> 00:14:21.679 the time, right, She's traveling to Triton, she's playing at 268 00:14:21.720 --> 00:14:24.080 the studio for the PGT events, She's going all the 269 00:14:24.080 --> 00:14:27.639 big buy and stuff. You know. Galen Hall like pops 270 00:14:27.679 --> 00:14:30.720 in here there and always just seems to crush. Like 271 00:14:30.879 --> 00:14:35.519 it's just wild. Joey Wiseman, great player, you know, just 272 00:14:35.559 --> 00:14:38.600 coming off his marriage, so I know there's baby run Good. 273 00:14:38.600 --> 00:14:41.159 I don't know if there's you know, a new marriage 274 00:14:41.240 --> 00:14:43.519 run good, but if not, he has it. Bout Ding. 275 00:14:43.600 --> 00:14:45.240 I mean, this guy just always seems to freaking do 276 00:14:45.279 --> 00:14:48.000 it at the dibsip. Ever, since we all kind of 277 00:14:48.000 --> 00:14:50.759 got word, I would say from ren Linn, who bout 278 00:14:50.799 --> 00:14:53.080 ding is? You know, here he is and he's crushing 279 00:14:53.519 --> 00:14:56.080 I don't know, is that in exiska that well but 280 00:14:56.879 --> 00:14:59.679 a bit of a Dobissippi coming out party, I guess 281 00:14:59.679 --> 00:15:02.519 for him in terms of you know, at the at 282 00:15:02.559 --> 00:15:04.919 the main World Series of Poker. You know, it's just 283 00:15:06.159 --> 00:15:09.320 when you do it on a stage like this, you know, 284 00:15:09.960 --> 00:15:14.159 that's when it matters most. And he does have a 285 00:15:14.320 --> 00:15:17.799 WSFP gold bracelets. Yeah, he won a one K no 286 00:15:17.960 --> 00:15:20.559 limit event top the big old field of eighteen hundred 287 00:15:20.559 --> 00:15:22.919 and seventy three entries last year at the World Series 288 00:15:22.960 --> 00:15:26.200 of Poker. But you know what I'm getting at is 289 00:15:26.240 --> 00:15:28.960 when when you're in a twenty five k field like this, 290 00:15:29.679 --> 00:15:32.200 when you're up against the crushers, that this type of 291 00:15:32.240 --> 00:15:35.360 field brings out like that's when boom, You've made it. 292 00:15:35.399 --> 00:15:38.200 You know. I know a lot of people will say like, well, 293 00:15:38.240 --> 00:15:40.360 you know, kind of anyone can win a one k 294 00:15:40.559 --> 00:15:42.720 or a fifteen hundred or whatever. I mean, it's not 295 00:15:42.720 --> 00:15:45.720 that anyone can, but you know, there's just a wide 296 00:15:45.799 --> 00:15:48.919 variety of people that win those. But when you're up 297 00:15:48.960 --> 00:15:52.759 there and you're crushing and performing well in ten k's, 298 00:15:53.399 --> 00:15:55.600 you know, twenty five ks, even if you start going 299 00:15:55.639 --> 00:15:57.440 up to fifty k stuff like that. I mean, that's 300 00:15:57.480 --> 00:16:01.039 when like basically you become a maid man poker, and 301 00:16:01.039 --> 00:16:04.320 and Ziska here is obviously showing that that he has 302 00:16:04.360 --> 00:16:07.879 what it takes. Believe he was drafted in twenty five 303 00:16:08.000 --> 00:16:12.200 K Fantasy. Yes he was, so you know, another one 304 00:16:12.240 --> 00:16:15.000 who has the respect of his peers, you know, to 305 00:16:15.039 --> 00:16:18.200 go along with the fact that he is a successful players. 306 00:16:18.600 --> 00:16:21.759 Out of these players who have made the final six, 307 00:16:21.840 --> 00:16:25.200 here you have Kristin Foxen was drafted, Joey Wiseman was drafted, 308 00:16:25.480 --> 00:16:27.679 Zisko was drafted. As I just mentioned in the bow ding, 309 00:16:27.919 --> 00:16:30.879 it was the other one that was drafted, Galen Hall 310 00:16:30.960 --> 00:16:35.480 not drafted, and Ignacio Moron not drafted. Those players will 311 00:16:35.480 --> 00:16:38.360 be back on Sunday to finish it out. They are 312 00:16:38.399 --> 00:16:43.120 guaranteed a little bit over three hundred thousand dollars. Top 313 00:16:43.159 --> 00:16:45.399 two places are up in seven figures. It's one point 314 00:16:45.399 --> 00:16:47.600 seven million for first, one point one to eight for second, 315 00:16:48.480 --> 00:16:51.320 then a whole bunch of prize money up for grabs. 316 00:16:52.080 --> 00:16:56.360 My guess is my prediction is Kristin Foxen gets it done. 317 00:16:56.360 --> 00:17:01.080 I'm gonna say Kristen Foxen won, Joey Weisman two. That's 318 00:17:01.120 --> 00:17:11.160 what That's what I'm going with there switching things up. 319 00:17:11.240 --> 00:17:14.240 Now we are through the news, I want to talk 320 00:17:14.279 --> 00:17:17.720 a little bit about my day the Monsters dec I mean, 321 00:17:17.720 --> 00:17:19.279 this thing is First of all, I've never played this 322 00:17:19.359 --> 00:17:22.079 Monsters Act before. I've always wanted to play it, as 323 00:17:22.119 --> 00:17:24.839 I've talked about, never really could carve out the time, 324 00:17:26.119 --> 00:17:28.440 was able to carve out the time. This year, I'm 325 00:17:28.480 --> 00:17:30.000 happy I got to play it. I mean, what a 326 00:17:30.039 --> 00:17:33.759 freaking tournament this thing is. This thing is awesome. Structure 327 00:17:33.839 --> 00:17:35.480 is great, other than the fact that they have that 328 00:17:36.079 --> 00:17:38.559 silly dinner break in there, But other than that, structure's good. 329 00:17:39.680 --> 00:17:40.920 You know, you get a ton of play in this one, 330 00:17:40.920 --> 00:17:43.359 and you start with fifty k chips, hour long levels, 331 00:17:44.319 --> 00:17:46.680 blind start out one two hundred. You know, it's just 332 00:17:46.799 --> 00:17:52.599 it's a nice, slow, player friendly structure. We'll have Day 333 00:17:52.799 --> 00:17:56.960 two d on Sunday, and I believe they would play 334 00:17:56.960 --> 00:17:58.880 into the money at some point on that day, and 335 00:17:58.920 --> 00:18:01.759 then anyone who advances would advance with the other players 336 00:18:01.759 --> 00:18:04.240 who advance. Every Day one had its own day too, 337 00:18:04.279 --> 00:18:06.599 so there's a bunch of people that advanced already, and 338 00:18:06.599 --> 00:18:10.000 then everyone combines on Day three on Monday. Hopefully I'm 339 00:18:10.039 --> 00:18:13.400 in there as well, but yeah, this is a great tournament. 340 00:18:13.440 --> 00:18:14.960 So you start with fifty k. As I mentioned, I 341 00:18:15.000 --> 00:18:17.200 was able to put two hundred and fifty eight thousand 342 00:18:17.279 --> 00:18:20.119 in the bag. Not my peak. I did get up 343 00:18:20.200 --> 00:18:24.400 over three hundred thousand, but took a couple hits. At 344 00:18:24.440 --> 00:18:26.960 the end of the night in the final level, there 345 00:18:27.000 --> 00:18:30.440 was a gentleman on my right who was just out 346 00:18:30.480 --> 00:18:32.640 of control. I'll I mean, I might as well just 347 00:18:32.640 --> 00:18:35.079 talk about it. So first of all, I'm in Normandy. Okay, 348 00:18:35.440 --> 00:18:37.480 don't know why they put you in Normandy, but that 349 00:18:37.680 --> 00:18:42.880 was ridiculous. We get moved from Normandy to Horseshoe. It 350 00:18:42.960 --> 00:18:46.359 took ten minutes to go from Normandy to Horseshoe. We 351 00:18:46.480 --> 00:18:48.559 left in the second to last level of the night 352 00:18:48.599 --> 00:18:51.440 when there was exactly two minutes on the clock. By 353 00:18:51.519 --> 00:18:55.039 time we got to the other room, there was fifty 354 00:18:55.079 --> 00:18:57.920 two minutes on the clock. Eighty people just walking like 355 00:18:57.960 --> 00:19:00.640 halfway down the strip. It's just that they got to 356 00:19:00.680 --> 00:19:03.000 do something better than that. But anyway, I get moved in, 357 00:19:03.119 --> 00:19:06.400 I sit down at this table. Mike Didntali's there, don't 358 00:19:06.440 --> 00:19:09.400 know anyone else. Got to my right, starts talking about 359 00:19:10.319 --> 00:19:13.440 I have this little figurine of a black dog looks 360 00:19:13.480 --> 00:19:16.000 like my dog, Duke, and he starts asking me about it. 361 00:19:16.599 --> 00:19:20.240 He says, he tells me that he wants a dog 362 00:19:22.559 --> 00:19:25.920 to retire somewhere like basically like on a barn somewhere, 363 00:19:26.000 --> 00:19:28.240 or on a farm somewhere, not a barn, on a 364 00:19:28.279 --> 00:19:31.000 farm somewhere with a barn, just so his dog can 365 00:19:31.039 --> 00:19:32.400 just run around. He doesn't have to put him on 366 00:19:32.440 --> 00:19:36.039 a leash or whatever. But then about two minutes later 367 00:19:36.160 --> 00:19:38.440 he tells someone else at the table because someone asked 368 00:19:38.519 --> 00:19:39.960 him what he does, and he tells someone that he 369 00:19:40.039 --> 00:19:43.119 is retired. So I couldn't quite understand that if he 370 00:19:43.240 --> 00:19:46.599 wanted to retire or if he is retired. Then he 371 00:19:46.640 --> 00:19:50.680 proceeded to straddle three times from the under the gum position. 372 00:19:51.039 --> 00:19:54.680 He played ninety percent of hands. He went from two 373 00:19:54.720 --> 00:19:58.400 hunder k to bag. I played with him for forty minutes. 374 00:19:58.440 --> 00:20:01.440 He went from two hunderd K to nine hundred and 375 00:20:01.480 --> 00:20:04.200 like fifteen thousand or something like one of the hottest 376 00:20:04.240 --> 00:20:07.200 runs I've ever seen. Like he would just call bets 377 00:20:07.240 --> 00:20:10.680 on flop and turn with bottom pair, drill the trips 378 00:20:10.720 --> 00:20:12.720 on a river. Somebody would have like top two pair, 379 00:20:12.759 --> 00:20:14.680 and he would get paid like it was just wild 380 00:20:14.759 --> 00:20:17.519 shit from this guy. He would limp some hands, he 381 00:20:17.559 --> 00:20:20.240 would four and five x some hands. He was never 382 00:20:20.319 --> 00:20:24.039 folding to raises, really never ever folding to flop bets 383 00:20:24.079 --> 00:20:26.480 at all. I mean, it was just an absolute wild 384 00:20:26.519 --> 00:20:29.160 spin up for this guy. And if that's at one 385 00:20:29.200 --> 00:20:31.480 point he also said he asked if he could bag 386 00:20:31.480 --> 00:20:33.440 and tag his chips so he could go home. He's like, 387 00:20:33.480 --> 00:20:34.960 I have enough right to bag in tag. Can I 388 00:20:35.000 --> 00:20:36.839 just bag and tag and leave. Everyone's like, no, you 389 00:20:36.920 --> 00:20:38.960 have to actually play out till the end of the night. 390 00:20:39.440 --> 00:20:41.799 So that's the monster stack. But a couple of the 391 00:20:41.839 --> 00:20:44.839 key hands that I played, I pulled, I pulled five hands. 392 00:20:45.160 --> 00:20:47.440 I'm doing the thing where I write every hand down 393 00:20:47.519 --> 00:20:51.119 I can review it later. The first two that I'm 394 00:20:51.119 --> 00:20:55.720 going to tell you guys about two big folds. I 395 00:20:56.000 --> 00:20:59.319 guess maybe not that big one. I think was kind 396 00:20:59.319 --> 00:21:03.119 of big one was kind of standard. Maybe I even 397 00:21:03.160 --> 00:21:05.880 should have folded pre flop the first one. The cutoff 398 00:21:05.880 --> 00:21:12.000 opens to fourteen hundred. At three hundred six hundred, the 399 00:21:12.000 --> 00:21:14.480 button calls the small blind calls, I call him the 400 00:21:14.480 --> 00:21:18.359 big blind with pocket fives two black fives. The flop 401 00:21:18.400 --> 00:21:23.559