Speaker 1: Hello everyone, Welcome back to a new episode of the
Speaker 1: Poker Go Podcast. My name is Donnie Peters. At twelve
Speaker 1: twenty am on Friday, July tenth, Day four of the
Speaker 1: World Series of Poker Main Event is.
Speaker 2: In the books.
Speaker 1: The bubble has burst, the remaining players are all deep
Speaker 1: into the money, and we are moving forward today five
Speaker 1: in the greatest poker tournament in the world that this
Speaker 1: is the world famous Bubble Pod. So we're gonna play
Speaker 1: some audio of me talking on the floor. I got
Speaker 1: rim Ken Rinkimo was out on the floor, We talked
Speaker 1: to some players throughout it all. We'll be running you
Speaker 1: through the hands that ultimately led to the bubble bursting.
Speaker 1: So there's a lot to unpack in this episode. Of course,
Speaker 1: we'll also get into some of the just general news
Speaker 1: of the happenings today. You know, who's got big stacks,
Speaker 1: who's leading the way, how many players are left, who
Speaker 1: busted out, all that sort of good stuff that is
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Speaker 1: Day four came into today or yesterday, I should say,
Speaker 1: with the thirteen hundred and eighty nine players remaining, thirteen
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty two made the money, so seven people
Speaker 1: had to bust before we got into the money for
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty sixth to visit p main event. They
Speaker 1: did not start play hand for hand. I thought they
Speaker 1: would have, you know, I thought after what happened last year.
Speaker 1: I believe we came back last year, maybe twelve people
Speaker 1: off the money around there, you know, close but not
Speaker 1: close enough that it was just gonna snap bust. But
Speaker 1: still there was a lot of There was a lot
Speaker 1: of tanking, there was a lot of stalling. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of people yelling at each other about about the
Speaker 1: whole situation. At one point, my table got the whole
Speaker 1: the clock got put on the entire table because of
Speaker 1: a couple of players. It was a whole big shnanigans
Speaker 1: going on. So I thought, you know, coming off of that,
Speaker 1: they would have just started hand for hand this year,
Speaker 1: I mean just just skipped through all that sort of stuff,
Speaker 1: so they didn't start doing hand for hand play and
Speaker 1: right off the bat, you know, I thought that that
Speaker 1: was interesting, right because it felt a little too close
Speaker 1: to comfort, like you might be flying a little bit
Speaker 1: too close to the sun here. They I believe each
Speaker 1: table played one, maybe two hands before tournament director got
Speaker 1: on the loud speaker and said, okay, you know, all
Speaker 1: the dealers stopped dealing. Once you deal the current hand
Speaker 1: that you're on and that hand is complete, stand up,
Speaker 1: do the whole thing that That obviously signals that they
Speaker 1: are going to then go into hand for hand. So
Speaker 1: thirteen hundred and eighty nine players returned. I look up
Speaker 1: the clock. You know, there's thirteen eighty five that it
Speaker 1: ticks down to thirteen eighty four. I'm like, oh, they're
Speaker 1: getting They're getting pretty close here. And you know, so
Speaker 1: you know, a bunch of tables start finishing up. You know,
Speaker 1: one by one, all the tables are finishing up. Players
Speaker 1: are obvio standing up, stretching out. They all know what's coming.
Speaker 1: One of those players, Sean Deep, he had a he
Speaker 1: had a big stack to close out Day three. So
Speaker 1: and I talked with him on that last episode, and
Speaker 1: here I am. I wanted to catch up with them
Speaker 1: at the beginning. I basically I wanted to ask Sean,
Speaker 1: you know, he's played a bazillion tournament. I wanted to say,
Speaker 1: you know, what do you think about them not not
Speaker 1: starting in hand for hand play? And he had had
Speaker 1: an interesting take on it. So let's just play that
Speaker 1: now to kind of kick things off here before we
Speaker 1: start getting into more of the money bubble. I have
Speaker 1: one question for you, Sean Deep, are you surprised to
Speaker 1: not start hand for hand?
Speaker 3: I mean, I knew that they would do this and
Speaker 3: we got a few bust outs. It's just hand for
Speaker 3: hand is so slow, you know, for years. I've been
Speaker 3: talking the World series, suggesting around for round, and I
Speaker 3: think that solves so many issues these big bubbles. It
Speaker 3: makes a better player experience, the money gets split up.
Speaker 4: You know, it's just.
Speaker 2: Way better overall.
Speaker 3: So hopefully you know, they decided to make some changes
Speaker 3: that will be a much better customer experience. And we
Speaker 3: don sit around for twenty minutes every hand because with
Speaker 3: no shot clocks, there's gonna be hands to take twenty
Speaker 3: minutes on the bubble. And you know it's one hundred
Speaker 3: and fifty plus tables in play. It only takes one
Speaker 3: and everyone's waiting fifteen minutes.
Speaker 1: So well, let me let me push back for one
Speaker 1: second this specific event. Don't you want that spectacle of
Speaker 1: the money? I mean maybe you don't as a player,
Speaker 1: but the poker world they can.
Speaker 2: But yeah, that's the I'm the words person, Like, I
Speaker 2: don't listen. I know that you're all business. You're like,
Speaker 2: let's go.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean, like I almost considered playing the PLO last
Speaker 3: night because I knew that the hand for handled be
Speaker 3: so slow.
Speaker 4: I might just go play over there. But I also
Speaker 4: know it's me a big.
Speaker 3: Sack, so I couldn't miss the free hands over here,
Speaker 3: so I'm gonna win. You know, ninety percent of hands
Speaker 3: dealt So yeah, it's just it's a bad experience. I
Speaker 3: think it messed up everyone's schedule. If we sit around
Speaker 3: doing nothing, it's we're here to gamble. Why why make
Speaker 3: us sit here and wait? It's like, you know, it's
Speaker 3: a fucking natural rain delay of these poker tournaments, and
Speaker 3: it shows fucking reval. Like it's just a waste of time.
Speaker 3: There's something the camerackers have to go to every table.
Speaker 3: It's just the craft swarms.
Speaker 2: And guys signing autographs here. I mean, you know, the
Speaker 2: whole the whole thing. Yeah, I mean, there's nothing else
Speaker 2: to do.
Speaker 4: Really, you know, I'm just sitting here. It's one of
Speaker 4: my thumbs, right, and call my wife and FaceTime her,
Speaker 4: you know, chatting to family.
Speaker 3: I usually can't talk to any tournament. This is the
Speaker 3: time where than can be shit to do, so I
Speaker 3: might as well keep the kids happy.
Speaker 1: So that was Sean deep and uh interesting that he
Speaker 1: doesn't necessarily care about the hand for hand stuff, the
Speaker 1: money bubble, all that sort of stuff. I mean, just
Speaker 1: very workmanlike for Sean. He wants to just get there.
Speaker 1: He wants to play the voker, he wants to move
Speaker 1: on with things. I do have to disagree with him,
Speaker 1: you know, I would say that, you know, ninety nine
Speaker 1: point nine percent of tournaments out there do all that
Speaker 1: other sort of stuff. Get through it, let's move on
Speaker 1: with our day. But the one tournament in the world
Speaker 1: that deserves the spectacle, and honestly it deserves it deserves
Speaker 1: a spectacle to be made even more of a spectacle
Speaker 1: than it is, right, just just crank that thing up
Speaker 1: with the craziness, the spectacle, the lights, the cameras, all
Speaker 1: of that sort of entertainment. Like, let's do it for
Speaker 1: the WSP Maine event. You know this is I mean,
Speaker 1: it's up there. I don't know exactly where it ranks,
Speaker 1: and I'm not going to sit here and do some
Speaker 1: sort of list on the fly. But as the coolest
Speaker 1: day in poker for the entire calendar year, right, Like
Speaker 1: it's so cool to be around, you know, in the room,
Speaker 1: for the atmosphere, for the tension, for the excitement, you know,
Speaker 1: all that sort of stuff. You have people abusing the bubble,
Speaker 1: trying to get chips. You got people's dreams getting absolutely
Speaker 1: freaking shattered. You have the pressure of people who are
Speaker 1: moving all in whether they're called or not. You know,
Speaker 1: you have the crazy swings of if you're actually all
Speaker 1: in and you do get called, you you just have
Speaker 1: all these emotions, everything just just going on in one room.
Speaker 1: You know, there are thousands of people in. Yes, you
Speaker 1: have the thirteen hundred and you know eighty something players
Speaker 1: that are in the tournament, but there are hundreds of
Speaker 1: fans around as well, Like this is the day when
Speaker 1: you know you play this tournament. Okay, fine, but you know,
Speaker 1: let's say you come to town. You come down to
Speaker 1: town with a bunch of your buddies, or you come
Speaker 1: to the town with your wife or your girlfriend or
Speaker 1: whatever it may be, and you know you're gonna play
Speaker 1: this event. Well, they don't come down on day one,
Speaker 1: or day two, or heck, they don't even come down
Speaker 1: on day three. You know, it's just checking in on
Speaker 1: text messages, whatever the heck the thing is. But when
Speaker 1: it's Money Bubble day, people are in the room, and
Speaker 1: then of course you have dozens of media members running around.
Speaker 2: Production gets beefed up a little bit more.
Speaker 1: You know, Jack Effel's there and today, for the first
Speaker 1: time ever, Jack Effel was wearing a camera on his chest,
Speaker 1: similar to like what you guys might see on the
Speaker 1: referees in the World Cup. So it's just it's awesome.
Speaker 1: It's madness, but it's incredible, it's brilliant. I absolutely love it.
Speaker 1: So so yeah, so each table played one to two
Speaker 1: hands that they announced that they're going to go to
Speaker 1: hand for hand play. So let's start getting in to
Speaker 1: the Bubble episode and go straight to the floor where
Speaker 1: I was out there. I know remc rinkium On, my
Speaker 1: colleague was out there as well, and we got we
Speaker 1: got a lot of different audio that we're going to
Speaker 1: play here, So let's just get right into it, all.
Speaker 2: Right, everyone, We are here on the Bubble, day four
Speaker 2: of the World Series of Poker Main events.
Speaker 1: So they started the day with thirteen hundred and eighty
Speaker 1: nine in the players remaining thirteen hundred and eighty two cash,
Speaker 1: so seven spots off the money. They did not start
Speaker 1: hand for hand, so immediately in the first few minutes here,
Speaker 1: the clock starts at one hundred and twenty minutes.
Speaker 2: Due to two hour levels, the clock has paused.
Speaker 1: Right now at one hundred and eleven minutes and forty
Speaker 1: six seconds so less than ten minutes in they did
Speaker 1: announce play this hand and stop. But the clock reads
Speaker 1: that thirteen hundred and eighty five players left, so we've
Speaker 1: already lost four players. And honestly, there's a chance that
Speaker 1: this bubble bursts right now anti climactically, I mean, without
Speaker 1: really the big bubble spectacle that you get in the
Speaker 1: World Series of Poker main events. And I mean, it's
Speaker 1: just it's very interesting to have it done this way.
Speaker 1: I can't recall it happening like this. I am surprised
Speaker 1: that they didn't just start hand for hand from the
Speaker 1: start of play today, but I do also understand that
Speaker 1: that does take a while.
Speaker 2: Yes, but you know, we'll see how this goes. Okay,
Speaker 2: So they wrapped up the few first bunch of hands.
Speaker 1: When the clock was paused, they asked all tables to
Speaker 1: please finish dealing the hand that they were on. I
Speaker 1: just talked about how the clock said that they were
Speaker 1: three off when the tournament director got back on the
Speaker 1: mic to announce hand for hand play, telling all the
Speaker 1: dealers to sit down.
Speaker 2: They are moving to hand for hand play. They are
Speaker 2: one off the money.
Speaker 1: Thirteen and eighty three players remain thirteen and eighty two
Speaker 1: spots will cash during this first hand of hand for
Speaker 1: hand play, we do have a few different all ins happening.
Speaker 1: One of them is up here on the cluster of
Speaker 1: the main stage. I'm standing right up here. Looks like
Speaker 1: a player Timundo Matsumoto is all in and there is
Speaker 1: a call, So this one's definitely going to be run.
Speaker 1: I know. There are a few other ones that I'm
Speaker 1: hearing from the production team that are taking place out
Speaker 1: on the rest of the floor. Everyone is running around,
Speaker 1: Various camera crews are getting set up try and film
Speaker 1: the action. Definitely increased level of production this year, just
Speaker 1: in terms of the volume of resources that are out
Speaker 1: here on the floor.
Speaker 5: There are.
Speaker 1: Three JIB cameras in play. There's multiple MG crews running
Speaker 1: around that.
Speaker 4: Would help us out. We're going to have a hard
Speaker 4: time checking as well. This would help us out. Please mainment.
Speaker 6: Players, remain in your seat.
Speaker 1: Players being instructed to remain in their seats. They do
Speaker 1: ask the dealers that once they are done, to stand
Speaker 1: up so they can get an eye on if hands
Speaker 1: are completed, but players are requested to sit down. Of course,
Speaker 1: fewer people standing allows the tournament directors to be.
Speaker 2: Able to see the dealers.
Speaker 1: They should also put that functionality on the app. I'm
Speaker 1: telling you, you just press hand done on your app
Speaker 1: that all goes through to the tablet that all the
Speaker 1: tds have. There's maybe a master tablet that one of
Speaker 1: them sitting at a desk behind, and that you know,
Speaker 1: that would make this a little bit more efficient. Yes,
Speaker 1: you can do the whole stand up thing too, but
Speaker 1: let's use that technology.
Speaker 2: Of course.
Speaker 1: It's kind of special right this moment for everyone to
Speaker 1: have a chance to cash the main.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean I'm currently down about seventy K in
Speaker 7: the man, so I'll try to get some of that today.
Speaker 4: We'll say, is this your first time deep in the main?
Speaker 7: I've cashed once in twenty twenty one, but I've played
Speaker 7: it about eight times and I've only been cashed once,
Speaker 7: So yeah, I've been This tournament's insane.
Speaker 2: I was down to like thirty k.
Speaker 7: You can just always have like twenty bigs and like
Speaker 7: it's incredible. You just have you can really take your time.
Speaker 7: It's a it's a lot. I mean, I'm already feeling
Speaker 7: the fatigue. I feel like this is gonna be uh
Speaker 7: fun if you go really deep. But I'm glad that
Speaker 7: doing the August wait till you play the biggest spot
Speaker 7: of your life and give you like a two weeks off.
Speaker 2: Kind of thing.
Speaker 5: It's exciting.
Speaker 7: If I make it, that would be cool.
Speaker 4: Quick quick question for Chino as a as a main
Speaker 4: event veteran, after this bubble bursts, what's gonna happen?
Speaker 8: Chips are gonna fly, people are gonna go nuts.
Speaker 9: That's normally what happens.
Speaker 10: Like the short sects are just gonna go for it,
Speaker 10: and the big secs are gonna now be able to
Speaker 10: do it at ease with ease.
Speaker 4: Are you gonna sit back and watch the fireworks? Are
Speaker 4: you gonna get in there? It all depends, you know.
Speaker 9: I can't. I don't know that.
Speaker 10: All depends on in the moment.
Speaker 9: Can't never answer that yet.
Speaker 4: What have the swings been in the main event so far?
Speaker 5: For me?
Speaker 10: Basically steady, just full fullfold and then I got a
Speaker 10: nice little rush last level of the Night of the
Speaker 10: Future table and to be above average. But basically I
Speaker 10: just folded a lot, a lot to get here. Then yeah,
Speaker 10: now we're here. Patience patience, Patience takes patience in the
Speaker 10: main event.
Speaker 2: Greg, what was the bubble, like four for the money.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 9: I don't even remember how long it lasted.
Speaker 12: All I remember is that like a guy on the
Speaker 12: next table got knocked out and they didn't do this
Speaker 12: thing now where they like make you pause. So he
Speaker 12: gets knocked out and the look on his face was
Speaker 12: like someone had phoned him and said, like your wife
Speaker 12: and children are dead, you know, like there was a
Speaker 12: car crash.
Speaker 9: That was his level of anguish.
Speaker 12: It was so intense. And then they were like, wait,
Speaker 12: there's a hand on the feature table and that guy busted.
Speaker 9: You both get five thousand now. We looked like we're sorry,
Speaker 9: We're sorry, Like that was a different John Smith. That
Speaker 9: wasn't your wife. Amazing he was that.
Speaker 12: And then they announced we're giving you each five thousand more.
Speaker 12: Now it was like, not only is your wife alive,
Speaker 12: she bought the winning powerball ticket.
Speaker 9: I mean, it was unbelievable to see his face. It
Speaker 9: was amazing.
Speaker 4: How big was that for you to get to the
Speaker 4: money back to him?
Speaker 12: I was like, if not the biggest stack, one of
Speaker 12: the top four or five. So I was thinking about
Speaker 12: abusing the bubble, not making the name. I had never
Speaker 12: made the money in the main event before but I
Speaker 12: was past that point and.
Speaker 4: This year, what's the story so far?
Speaker 12: I mean, I've had a lot of tough hands. I've
Speaker 12: had a couple of very lucky hands, and uh, you know,
Speaker 12: I'm just trying to make the best decision. That's it, Like,
Speaker 12: what's the best possible decision?
Speaker 5: Right now?
Speaker 4: Take me back to your first main events. How did
Speaker 4: you decide to play? When was it? How did it go?
Speaker 13: My first main event, I got twenty third place, so
Speaker 13: it was pretty good. I had like no money to
Speaker 13: my name and had a quarter million after and had
Speaker 13: a chance to win eight million, so it was good.
Speaker 14: Yeah.
Speaker 15: I don't remember the bubble really, I know, with like thirty.
Speaker 13: Five people left, I was chip leading and then I
Speaker 13: got twenty third, so so it was kind of it was,
Speaker 13: you know, very good, but disappointing at the same time.
Speaker 13: So been trying to replicate that run since and hopefully
Speaker 13: this is the year.
Speaker 1: Does the gorilla really come out once the bubble has burst.
Speaker 13: He's always in there, you know, in this tournament sometimes
Speaker 13: you gotta put him away.
Speaker 5: It's a marathon, so.
Speaker 13: You know, just trying to play each hand the best
Speaker 13: I can and whatever happens happens.
Speaker 4: Josh, are good to see you, get to see you.
Speaker 4: You are here for some poy points, for a deep run.
Speaker 4: What are we doing?
Speaker 16: I'm here for ten million fucking dollars. That's right, that's
Speaker 16: number one on the list. Never played another anti poker
Speaker 16: after that.
Speaker 4: This is the retirement tour.
Speaker 16: This is this is this is my retirement plan.
Speaker 4: How much does experience help in the main.
Speaker 16: I think a lot, just because this is what I
Speaker 16: do every day and there's you know, people that aren't
Speaker 16: going to be as comfortable, so I I mean I
Speaker 16: have an edge against the guy that doesn't, that flies
Speaker 16: out and play one event for sure, and it's no secret.
Speaker 16: I mean I think that they would say the same thing.
Speaker 4: Having been in many big spots in your life, even
Speaker 4: just this summer. At what point does the avrenalin come.
Speaker 5: In for you?
Speaker 16: When I wake up in the morning, when it never leaves.
Speaker 16: I I'm a junkie, like I live this shit. I
Speaker 16: absolutely fucking love it. I love competing. I love staring
Speaker 16: a guy down and just knowing that he's given his
Speaker 16: best and in his biggest moment and no one thinking
Speaker 16: that I'm able just to stay, you know, and when
Speaker 16: when it gets hot and there's a fire. You know,
Speaker 16: I'm just right there in my olement.
Speaker 4: This man is going to set some more stuff on fire.
Speaker 4: Just watch.
Speaker 9: It's just money here in a minute.
Speaker 1: So you guys heard from well myself there on the floor.
Speaker 1: You heard from Rock Wilson, China, Reem, Greg Ramer, Jesse
Speaker 1: Lonis was out there, Josh Aria as well.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 1: So a lot of players that that REMCO was able
Speaker 1: to catch up with get some different thoughts on things.
Speaker 1: Some people are straight up chilling. Some people I feel
Speaker 1: like you can kind of hear it in their voices,
Speaker 1: like this is a big spot. You know, this is
Speaker 1: a this is an important thing.
Speaker 2: And listen.
Speaker 1: I know somebody like a Sean Deep for example, like
Speaker 1: he's just extremely nonchalant about this whole thing. But I
Speaker 1: don't know, it's still effing cool to get into the
Speaker 1: money for the WSOP man. And I don't care who
Speaker 1: you are. You know, maybe maybe there might be five
Speaker 1: or six people and poker where it doesn't matter and
Speaker 1: they don't they don't feel how cool it actually is.
Speaker 1: But for everyone else out there, like this is the moment,
Speaker 1: everyone's just kind of mulling around, you know, waiting for
Speaker 1: them to officially kick off hand for hand and then
Speaker 1: they do you know, the room gets down or back
Speaker 1: into plane, I should say, and they play the first
Speaker 1: hand that lasts for however long it lasts, and there
Speaker 1: are four all in in calls on that first hand.
Speaker 1: So what they do, as you guys know, is they
Speaker 1: basically run around from table to table. They run it
Speaker 1: all in out. They do ask that players when they
Speaker 1: get all in and there is a call, all hands
Speaker 1: remain face down. Nothing gets revealed, so there's no like
Speaker 1: information that's getting out around the room, like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: this guy right here, he's drawing dead. So if everyone
Speaker 1: just folds, we're all going to get into the money.
Speaker 1: Like you don't want that stuff to get out there.
Speaker 1: So they they run four all in and calls, and uh,
Speaker 1: we'll just get into that right now. I was, I
Speaker 1: was kind of far away from all of them and
Speaker 1: just listened in on the loudspeaker. You know, Jack Effel
Speaker 1: runs around from table to table. Uh, production is right
Speaker 1: behind him filming the whole thing. Media is, you know,
Speaker 1: stampeding behind him as well. They they surround the table
Speaker 1: with with with it, you know, the cameras, the microphones
Speaker 1: just all of it, right, But jackets on the microphone.
Speaker 1: He calls the action, so you can hear everything in
Speaker 1: the room and I kind of talk it through. You
Speaker 1: know what's going on. So let's get into now that
Speaker 1: this first batch of all in hands again, there were
Speaker 1: four all in in calls on this first hand of
Speaker 1: hand for him play all right, So right now there
Speaker 1: are four all in in calls that were just announced
Speaker 1: by Jack Effel. He is going to be running around
Speaker 1: to the different tables.
Speaker 2: He will be announcing the action. I'll try and send it.
Speaker 1: Through to you guys here as well as I hear
Speaker 1: it in the room.
Speaker 17: Okay, an, let's see five pocket thieves all right?
Speaker 2: Firsthand Kings versus Queens.
Speaker 15: Seven phase Head of Diamonds, nine of space King's no good,
Speaker 15: Ace of Clouds, no help. Let's see the river River
Speaker 15: was the sphase two Kings that were going to double one.
Speaker 1: So on the first all in and call that was run,
Speaker 1: pocket Kings doubled up through pocket Queens. So we are
Speaker 1: now down to three all in and calls again. We
Speaker 1: are one off the money here in the twenty twenty
Speaker 1: sixth obissop, the main event, Jack and the team are
Speaker 1: heading over to the next table. I can see it's
Speaker 1: on the complete opposite side of the room from where
Speaker 1: I am.
Speaker 17: Okay and be all over here seat number six and
Speaker 17: we are versus seat number nine.
Speaker 15: That were hands all on the show first, he's got.
Speaker 18: Pocket games versus pocket eights, pocket.
Speaker 15: Gains and wrists but even the league but six flop.
Speaker 17: Oh si mart seven of marks kind of spain none
Speaker 17: in our age could be very understandable.
Speaker 6: The two things are.
Speaker 15: Still a hand.
Speaker 1: Let's say the charge Kings versus eights player with the
Speaker 1: eights is the covering stack.
Speaker 2: He flopped the gutter.
Speaker 9: Can no help for the ads.
Speaker 15: River was a Queen Kings.
Speaker 2: Up again, King's doubling up again. In the Dobissophie main event.
Speaker 1: We are now down to two all in in calls
Speaker 1: to try and burst this bubble on this first hand
Speaker 1: of hand for hand play. So on the first one,
Speaker 1: the first run out, Kings versus Queen's Kings got the double.
Speaker 1: There Kings versus Eights flop came ten to seven to six,
Speaker 1: but the King's held to get another double. And we
Speaker 1: are moving on and it looks like they are.
Speaker 2: Going to where are we heading?
Speaker 1: There's a whole giant group of people running down the hallway.
Speaker 1: I see Jeff Platt, I see multiple camera crews, I
Speaker 1: see Jack Effel, all the media members. I mean, what
Speaker 1: an absolute spectacle this is. You just love to see it,
Speaker 1: you really do.
Speaker 2: They might be coming up.
Speaker 1: Here to the cluster for this all in new call
Speaker 1: that we have on the cluster.
Speaker 2: All right, they are coming up here. I'm gonna back
Speaker 2: out of the way.
Speaker 1: I used to like to get right in there, you know,
Speaker 1: just just cram myself in with all the other sixty
Speaker 1: people that are trying to cramer on one poker table.
Speaker 2: That's got three feet of space.
Speaker 1: Around it as a moat, but not anymore, you know.
Speaker 1: I'll watch from afar. I'll listen on the on the
Speaker 1: loudspeaker to hear them call the auction. Okay, And this
Speaker 1: was the player that I just told you about.
Speaker 15: Let's him did the parts versus Queen of Parts Jack.
Speaker 2: Also all Ace eight is all in against Queen Jack.
Speaker 1: An this one feels like it.
Speaker 2: It's the one the pace had good on the flop,
Speaker 2: got a straight trout.
Speaker 1: Now for the Queen Jack on the turn, let's river
Speaker 1: River car it.
Speaker 15: Makes are.
Speaker 1: All right? So Ace eight makes it straight and he
Speaker 1: just needed to hold, and he did hold.
Speaker 2: So Ace eight doubles up there, and we.
Speaker 1: Are going to one more all in and call a
Speaker 1: fourth and final all in and call of this hand
Speaker 1: of hand for handling. I kind of want this to
Speaker 1: keep going on. Guys, come on, don't burst the bubble yet.
Speaker 1: Let's have let's have like four hands. You know, I
Speaker 1: don't want a two to three hour bubble, but you
Speaker 1: know we can deal with forty minutes or so.
Speaker 2: Have some fun with it. Man, it would be a
Speaker 2: sixth sweat.
Speaker 1: To be to be the last player all in when
Speaker 1: you know the other three have already doubled up. That
Speaker 1: would be a wild feeling sitting there at the table
Speaker 1: you hear the first one boom, because because you know,
Speaker 1: when you go last, and you got these other use
Speaker 1: that are all on and calls ahead of you. If
Speaker 1: somebody busts, great, you're you're free. Wrong, right, you know
Speaker 1: you're gonna split them in cash or whatever they're gonna
Speaker 1: do the the flip or whatever they.
Speaker 2: Do for the seat for next year.
Speaker 1: You know, I mean they never announced that, but I'm
Speaker 1: assuming they're gonna do it again. Now you're the last one.
Speaker 1: You're four out of four and everyone else doubled up.
Speaker 2: Here we go.
Speaker 1: It seems like some bad navigation. They went from the
Speaker 1: opposite side of the room to this side of the room.
Speaker 2: And then back to the opposite side of.
Speaker 6: The room versus s what's up over here? All right?
Speaker 15: We had a board ten to stuff A SPAN's.
Speaker 8: Not a heart.
Speaker 11: Art.
Speaker 2: This is all on the river.
Speaker 15: Type. I've got three tins over there.
Speaker 6: And three tens looks like that's the best hands.
Speaker 15: Of her nines and would double up here there will
Speaker 15: be no elimination.
Speaker 1: So it was announced that three tens are gonna double
Speaker 1: up versus a pair of nines. That was sounded like
Speaker 1: it was all in and call on the river. Maybe
Speaker 1: there was another player on the hand before that. I
Speaker 1: don't know exactly, but they got there on the end,
Speaker 1: So all four all on calls on this first hae
Speaker 1: hand for hand play resulted in double ups one hand.
Speaker 2: We are back one more hand with hand for hand
Speaker 2: to play.
Speaker 1: I got a guy over here with a bottle of
Speaker 1: Maker's mark on the table and a corona.
Speaker 2: Mean, this gentleman is incredible. All right, it's time for.
Speaker 1: The rundown for the second hand of hand for hand
Speaker 1: play here on the main event bubble at the World
Speaker 1: Series of Poker six all in and calls six hands.
Speaker 1: We got to run through, so we got six shots
Speaker 1: at bursting this bubble.
Speaker 2: Let's see if they can do it.
Speaker 1: They are running over to the So everyone is in
Speaker 1: the main Paris ballroom today, and to help accommodate the
Speaker 1: size of this feeling and get everyone into one room,
Speaker 1: they have tables in the cash came section and that
Speaker 1: is where we are going.
Speaker 8: First, Jack just.
Speaker 1: Calling out his dealers. First, Okay, ace king suited versus
Speaker 1: pocket fives.
Speaker 2: All in player has ace.
Speaker 1: King fives, maintain their lead on the flop, go river cord,
Speaker 1: all right, so the ace king, the ace king gets
Speaker 1: eliminated there. So we have a bust out on the
Speaker 1: first hand of the second hand.
Speaker 2: So everyone in here, he's getting into the money. Well
Speaker 2: maybe not everyone, but.
Speaker 1: We are running over to the second hand. Now, maybe
Speaker 1: we'll just go six for six six bust.
Speaker 2: Outs, I mean, why not?
Speaker 19: Right sitting secondhand here?
Speaker 1: Okay, all up player has aces up against Queen ten.
Speaker 1: All right, all right, that one bricks out, so the
Speaker 1: aces are going to double up there. Moving to the
Speaker 1: next table, so we are two hands done one elimination.
Speaker 1: Moving over to the third hand, we got six hands
Speaker 1: to get there.
Speaker 18: Okay, first, all.
Speaker 1: Right, full house on board in this hand. Chris Moneymaker
Speaker 1: is the losing player on this hand. Here there was
Speaker 1: a full house on board, but the covering player had
Speaker 1: pocket aces to make a better full house and bust.
Speaker 2: Chris Moneymaker. Jeez, Jack just rubbing it in.
Speaker 1: Goes from world champion to bubble boy.
Speaker 2: All right, fourth hand here.
Speaker 15: You've got a pair of four?
Speaker 5: Can you be.
Speaker 7: You?
Speaker 15: Okay? Where could we be?
Speaker 9: Alright, let's.
Speaker 15: Kings on the river?
Speaker 5: All right?
Speaker 2: Double up on that table.
Speaker 1: Couldn't really hear what the heck was going on, something
Speaker 1: about kings and four's pair of fours. I don't really
Speaker 1: know what was happening on that one, But we double
Speaker 1: up is all we need. Moving over to the fifth hand,
Speaker 1: I think the place that you're able to be the
Speaker 1: most free is on the feature tables during the bubble.
Speaker 2: I'm just looking around at these feature tables up here.
Speaker 1: The all in player here has abandoned his hand and
Speaker 1: is not at the table to.
Speaker 2: Turn it over. What what is going on?
Speaker 5: Jack?
Speaker 2: I was on the mic saying the player abandoned his hand.
Speaker 2: What's happening.
Speaker 1: I think they're still trying to look for this player.
Speaker 1: Jack did mention that he's going to try and look
Speaker 1: around the room and maybe see if he can get
Speaker 1: this player to come back.
Speaker 2: But the hand is not revealed.
Speaker 15: He does he.
Speaker 6: Count.
Speaker 1: Oh, they're gonna have to count this one down. So
Speaker 1: there's a player with king ten who made a pair
Speaker 1: of kings. There's a player with pocket nines. But the
Speaker 1: player with the pocket nines left an abandoned his hand.
Speaker 1: So now they're now they're counted down the stacks to
Speaker 1: verify who's got more chips here? Okay, all right, well
Speaker 1: I guess they're going to the other table.
Speaker 6: Now nine, okay, all versus three's right?
Speaker 2: All right, so let's get the last all on a call.
Speaker 19: Here we have five space fIF.
Speaker 14: O' clocks, acy diamonds, three diamonds, ten of clubs.
Speaker 15: Then I can't see the champions here. He's got three sixes.
Speaker 5: And he has a pair of pass three six.
Speaker 15: Best hand he hasn't covered at last even corrects. Do
Speaker 15: you have an elimination here?
Speaker 5: Ooh?
Speaker 2: Elimination there? Trip six is trip sixes elimination.
Speaker 6: Eliminations that he which means with one off hunting that.
Speaker 15: Two places who shot three different players.
Speaker 6: We will play off more into.
Speaker 15: The supermainer ten. All right, so we will be all
Speaker 15: three of those players for come ballom on every day.
Speaker 14: So you can do this playoff, determine who he ask
Speaker 14: for Baba Bay will be, and then you guys can
Speaker 14: shots each one fifteen thousand each.
Speaker 19: All right.
Speaker 1: So they're going to an empty table right now, three eliminations.
Speaker 1: They're gonna do this playoff, this flip whatever they do,
Speaker 1: and they're gonna award one player with a twenty five
Speaker 1: K seat to the WSP Paradise Super Main Event, and
Speaker 1: then the other two players are going to chop the
Speaker 1: in the money prize here.
Speaker 2: So that's how this one's working out, or they're gonna
Speaker 2: get in some money. I don't I don't really know.
Speaker 2: Matth is hard.
Speaker 15: Okay, So three.
Speaker 18: Players money man, what's your nest one start.
Speaker 14: And what is your er?
Speaker 15: What's a good meme?
Speaker 11: I love that.
Speaker 1: So those three players that all bust it on the bubble,
Speaker 1: they're gonna chop up the first two spots.
Speaker 2: So fifteen K times two.
Speaker 1: That's thirty thousand divided by three, that's ten thousand apiece
Speaker 1: and then gentlemen, I believe his name is Jack is
Speaker 1: winning the twenty five k WSP Paradise Main Event seater
Speaker 1: or Super remain Events seat.
Speaker 2: I should say, allow me to correct myself.
Speaker 8: Let's given.
Speaker 19: Order.
Speaker 15: We'll get the cards back in the air.
Speaker 14: They're gonna give you guys some instructions, but I will
Speaker 14: send congratulations to all of us for making the money.
Speaker 15: Here for twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2: All right, so you guys heard it.
Speaker 1: There Three of the six hands resulted in eliminations. One
Speaker 1: was Chris Moneymaker, another one was Stoyan Manziev, and then
Speaker 1: the third player to bus was Jakin said Betkov, I
Speaker 1: probably butchered that name, and I'm sorry. Madonziev had Ace
Speaker 1: King of Hearts up against Gregory Brown's fives. The fives held,
Speaker 1: they were all on pre ran off the board, no
Speaker 1: Aser King, no hearts, no nothing for Madonziev, and he's out.
Speaker 1: And then with money Maker, there was a lot of
Speaker 1: action leading to the river on a board that contained
Speaker 1: a full house that had eight seven seven seven eight
Speaker 1: on the board. Antonio Vargas jammed on the river. Moneymaker
Speaker 1: called with Jack nine playing the board, but Vargas had
Speaker 1: aces so Moneymaker was eliminated, and then set Betkov moved
Speaker 1: all in on the river.
Speaker 5: I believe he bet.
Speaker 1: Multiple streets here if I remember correctly. On ace six, five, three, ten,
Speaker 1: move was on on the river. Dan sta Villa called
Speaker 1: with a set of sixes. Sep Betkov had ace nine,
Speaker 1: so he was eliminated. So those three players, Madonziev, Moneymaker
Speaker 1: and Sep Betkov all got eliminated. So because there were
Speaker 1: three eliminations and we were only one spot off the money,
Speaker 1: the three players got to chop the first two payouts,
Speaker 1: so fifteen thousand dollars each, as I said, that's thirty
Speaker 1: thousand dollars. They get ten thousand dollars each, so they
Speaker 1: break even. Then they do this flip for a twenty
Speaker 1: five thousand dollar our seat into the WSP Paradise Super
Speaker 1: Main Event, and said Betkov wins that. I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't know too much about him, but I do know
Speaker 1: Chris Moneymaker won the main event once I do know,
Speaker 1: Soyaan Madanzi have won the online WSP main event for
Speaker 1: almost four million dollars. So I feel like, said Bekov
Speaker 1: should be the one winning winning this flip at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, So as always fun on the bubble.
Speaker 1: You know, it's great to be in that room. If
Speaker 1: if you're a fan and you kind of pick some
Speaker 1: days to come out to watch stuff at the World
Speaker 1: Series of Poker, I would I would try and time
Speaker 1: it around the ws P main event money bubble as
Speaker 1: one of those.
Speaker 2: Days to look at.
Speaker 1: Of course, you know the best days to come out
Speaker 1: as a fanily just come out for the final table,
Speaker 1: watch the final table, right, but secondary to that, it's
Speaker 1: probably the bubble day. You know, being in there, it's
Speaker 1: just really cool, it really is. So yeah, the money
Speaker 1: bubble that never disappoints.
Speaker 15: It really doesn't.
Speaker 1: From there obviously, the bubble bursts and the eliminations, they
Speaker 1: come in fast and furious. The payouts to start were
Speaker 1: fifteen thousand dollars or one and a half times you're buying.
Speaker 1: In that first payout bracket, you had Isaac Barron, Kristin Fox,
Speaker 1: and Chris Vich, Kathy Leeber. Those are just some of
Speaker 1: the names that I know busted for fifteen thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: After that, everyone got a pay jump of twenty five
Speaker 1: hundred dollars up to seventeen thousand and five hundred, and
Speaker 1: then in that bracket, you had Mike Leah Stevenson, Chris Mormon,
Speaker 1: and Anton Winfield. Anton Winfield Senior a football cornerback. Believe
Speaker 1: he played for the Bills, the Vikings. Yeah, maybe maybe
Speaker 1: one other team, but they were all in the mix
Speaker 1: cashing for seventeen thousand, five hundred dollars. Then you had
Speaker 1: the twenty thousand dollars payout bracket. Jesse Lonis, Chris Brewer,
Speaker 1: Alex Livingston, Dimitar Danch have all cash there. And that
Speaker 1: twenty thousand bracket or at least those four players that
Speaker 1: I named all finished better than one thousand in place.
Speaker 1: So now we're getting down to you know, fewer than
Speaker 1: one thousand players left in the twenty twenty six is
Speaker 1: a p Maine event. Pay jump is another twenty five
Speaker 1: hundred dollars up to twenty two thy five hundred. Joey Cooden,
Speaker 1: Jeremy Osmas, Joe Hasham had a deep run for the
Speaker 1: hash and Michael Rocco all finish in that group there,
Speaker 1: and then the next jump was to twenty five k.
Speaker 1: You had Renlinn Farrah Galfon, Alan Lee and another former champ,
Speaker 1: Scott Blumstein. Scot Blumstein got six hundred and seventy first
Speaker 1: place for twenty five K. So when it was all
Speaker 1: said and done, when Day four was done and dusted,
Speaker 1: five hundred and thirty three players remained. Now I do
Speaker 1: have a little bit of a gripe here. I'm kind
Speaker 1: of a little bit confused on who the chip leader
Speaker 1: is going in today.
Speaker 5: Five.
Speaker 1: I look on Poker News and I see a gentleman
Speaker 1: named Sam Swellum Swileom, probably butchering his last name. I'm sorry, Sam,
Speaker 1: I they have him up on top. If I look
Speaker 1: in the WSP app, they have Archer Marturosian up on top.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna guess that thesp app is correct, but I'm
Speaker 1: also not completely sure. So it's either one of these two.
Speaker 1: I'm guessing unless somebody else somehow gets some chips. My
Speaker 1: gripe is that there never seems to be any like
Speaker 1: news coverage or promotion coming from WSP when these days end,
Speaker 1: Like it's it's two hours now since the day ended,
Speaker 1: since I left Paris, Like why aren't there all the
Speaker 1: chip counts pushed down on social media? You know, graphics,
Speaker 1: photos in email blasts like all that sort of stuff everywhere? Right, Like,
Speaker 1: let's I mean, this is Poker super Bowl, Like, let's
Speaker 1: let's get the word out, like, you know, like I mean, heck,
Speaker 1: like we should be going like we should be going nuts.
Speaker 1: We should be in the back, you know, slamming the
Speaker 1: buttons for morse code to to to let the other
Speaker 1: countries know out there that you know, this is this
Speaker 1: is a coming. Day five is a coming, Like, let's
Speaker 1: get rocking and rolling. So yeah, I think, I mean,
Speaker 1: I would like for that to be done a little
Speaker 1: bit better. I just feel like I'm flying blind here
Speaker 1: and here I am guessing because I have Poker News,
Speaker 1: as you know, they're the only live reporting outlet, and
Speaker 1: they've got one guy on top. The WSB app has
Speaker 1: another person on top. So I'm confused with the chip leader,
Speaker 1: which I want to talk about. But then also that
Speaker 1: leads me to question, what are the are the other
Speaker 1: chip counts right or all the payouts that I just read, right,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm just I'm confused. So we all know
Speaker 1: about Archer march ROSI right, So I don't I don't
Speaker 1: think we really need to touch on him too much.
Speaker 1: I will say that he got a lot of his
Speaker 1: chips at the end of the evening or towards the
Speaker 1: end of the evening on day four when he won
Speaker 1: a big hot with ace as a gentleman, either four
Speaker 1: or five that ripped in like seventy big blinds with
Speaker 1: pocket tens, and march Rosian is just sitting there with
Speaker 1: the freaking birds calls aces hold, and that is that.
Speaker 1: We obviously know how good Arterur Martirosian is. He won
Speaker 1: another bracelet earlier this summer, but for Sam Swilom, he's
Speaker 1: out of Lutz, Florida. He's only got one hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty eight thousand dollars in earnings according to the Hendon Mob.
Speaker 1: And of that one hundred and thirty eight, one hundred
Speaker 1: and nine thousand was from his best live score, so
Speaker 1: the large majority of it is from one score and
Speaker 1: that was in It's very interesting if you look through
Speaker 1: his results, he's this is only his seventh live tournament cash. Again,
Speaker 1: this is all according to hendonmob dot com. And he's
Speaker 1: got one previous WSP cash in the fifteen hundred dollars
Speaker 1: Closer in twenty nineteen. None of his other events are
Speaker 1: like they're all like fifteen hundred, eleven hundred, smaller buying stuff,
Speaker 1: but this largest cash isn't a fifty k super high
Speaker 1: roller down at seminole, So I don't know if he
Speaker 1: was just ripping off the biggest shot of his life.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he was, you know, want a
Speaker 1: satellite or something like that. You know, but that's that's
Speaker 1: pretty crazy and notable. He won a big pot off
Speaker 1: Chris Brewer. He made a full house and won a
Speaker 1: big pot there. And then he also busted a player
Speaker 1: when he made a flush to win another big pot.
Speaker 1: You know, those are kind of the two notable ones
Speaker 1: that I saw through some of the coverage that allowed
Speaker 1: Sam to build and I'll say a top three stack.
Speaker 1: I think that that one's safe. I think that that
Speaker 1: one's safe. We also got danceda Villa and far Reed
Speaker 1: Johnton with quite a lot of chips. Believe they both
Speaker 1: have just a little bit over three million. Now, those two.
Speaker 1: I want to mention those two specifically because if things
Speaker 1: go like I think they can go, as it relates
Speaker 1: to Dance to Villa and Faried Johnton, get ready for
Speaker 1: some very creative, some very entertaining poker that is coming
Speaker 1: from these two. They are fun, They are a bit
Speaker 1: unorthodox at times, both of them are willing to get
Speaker 1: after it, especially when they have a lot of chips
Speaker 1: and they're able to leverage their stack against other players
Speaker 1: in the field. So if these two start to get featured,
Speaker 1: they start to show up on some feature tables and
Speaker 1: that sort of stuff like that, it's gonna be some fun,
Speaker 1: you know, especially with Furrey John, Like that guy is
Speaker 1: as agro as they come, and it's awesome to see.
Speaker 1: And when he is locked in, and he is locked
Speaker 1: in every break, he goes up onto the side of
Speaker 1: the stage and he just sits way over by himself.
Speaker 1: No one's around, He's just got his eyes closed. He
Speaker 1: sits there, he just does some meditating. Then he gets
Speaker 1: out of that meditation and that breath work, he does
Speaker 1: a little bit of stretching and he goes back over.
Speaker 1: He sits down and he just plays. He doesn't talk much,
Speaker 1: he doesn't give off much. He's like a freaking robot
Speaker 1: out there. But he's an absolute stone cold killer. Is
Speaker 1: free John. Other players still in the mix. We got
Speaker 1: hosting ensign the twenty nineteen champ is still doing it.
Speaker 1: Brock Wilson. Brock Wilson hasn't had the best summer for
Speaker 1: as hot as he was at the beginning of the year.
Speaker 1: He won the poker Rol Cup, he won the US
Speaker 1: Poker Open. He was crushing this year, but the summer
Speaker 1: hasn't been too kind to brock Wilson. But of course
Speaker 1: that can all change when it comes to the biggest
Speaker 1: tournament of them all, the World Series of Poker Maneament.
Speaker 1: Sasha Lou made it through, Daniel Hasham made it through.
Speaker 1: His dad didn't make it through. We mentioned how Joe
Speaker 1: Hashim busted, but Daniel Hasham is looking to carry the torch.
Speaker 1: Michael Rosito is still in Caitlyn Kameski, Matt Salzburg, Alex Foxen,
Speaker 1: Sean Winter, Masado Yokosawa, Sean Deeb. Just quickly Foxen and Deeb.
Speaker 1: Both of them are I think Foxen's leading and Deep
Speaker 1: might be third or fourth in the wsitby Player of
Speaker 1: the Year race. They're both aware of each other and
Speaker 1: it's just great to see them go ahead to head
Speaker 1: in this event, which is you know, the main event
Speaker 1: is going to have so oh many points up for
Speaker 1: grabs as it relates to the Player of the Year
Speaker 1: and these two and they are aware of each other
Speaker 1: and what they have to do. They have similar chip stacks,
Speaker 1: which adds to the story. Like it's just cool to
Speaker 1: see this battle and the I mean, these two are
Speaker 1: They're incredible players first of all, so just having them
Speaker 1: go deep in the WSP Made Event is a great
Speaker 1: treat for all of us fans. With the added element
Speaker 1: that they are battling for the WASP Player of the
Speaker 1: Year title, that's just super cool.
Speaker 2: We got TJ.
Speaker 1: Reid out there, Brianyu and Sam Chardier. Dylan Smith is
Speaker 1: still going, Tony Dunst still in. Will Gibbons Dutch Boyd
Speaker 1: is in the mix. Ryan lang Sala de Carlos de
Speaker 1: Carlo got second in the monster Stack, I believe for
Speaker 1: nine hundred K. So he's you know, he's already had
Speaker 1: a successful summer. Now he's looking to make it even
Speaker 1: more successful with a deeper run in the WSP Man Event.
Speaker 1: Michael mcrocky still alive, was doing the damn thing for
Speaker 1: much of the day up on the feature table.
Speaker 2: Didn't bag you.
Speaker 1: Know, at peak, but he's still in and he's the grinder.
Speaker 1: He can absolutely spin it up at any given moment.
Speaker 1: Patrick Leonard is still in. Greg Ramer, another former champion
Speaker 1: of this event is still in and then we got
Speaker 1: Marcel Luise, the Flying Dutchman, still in the damn field.
Speaker 1: Of course, there are hundreds of other players still in
Speaker 1: the mix, but that's just a handful of the players
Speaker 1: when I browsed through the chip counts that I grabbed
Speaker 1: to shout out here. I mean, it's just the event
Speaker 1: is awesome. It's it's absolutely incredible. The crowds are starting
Speaker 1: to build inside Paris. You can feel the tension with
Speaker 1: almost every half hour, every hour, definitely every level that
Speaker 1: goes by, just building building building. The way that the
Speaker 1: Paris Ballroom is set up, they are almost all in
Speaker 1: kind of the front section now, which has is all
Speaker 1: kind of the roped off area that leads right up
Speaker 1: to the stage. I think there's still a few tables
Speaker 1: that need to be out in kind of the outer
Speaker 1: section as I'll call it, but there might be let's
Speaker 1: say anywhere from five to ten tables there. Those will
Speaker 1: break relatively early on on day five on Friday, and
Speaker 1: then once that happened, and you're once that happens and
Speaker 1: you're a little bit closer to the stage. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's like, in a way, that's kind of like a
Speaker 1: moment that's like a new checkpoint in a way. And
Speaker 1: then once they have these these outer sections right around
Speaker 1: the w CB countdown stage, once those get all done
Speaker 1: and everything is up on the cluster and like actually
Speaker 1: on the physical stage, that's like, I mean, I'm getting
Speaker 1: I'm getting some some freaking goosebumps, and you know, the
Speaker 1: hair is standing up on my arms just just thinking
Speaker 1: about that, right, Just thinking about how close people are
Speaker 1: going to be to then ultimately getting to the final table,
Speaker 1: getting to the winner circle. So that's just freaking great.
Speaker 1: Throughout the day, I wanted to talk to a couple
Speaker 1: of people. One of them was Will Gibbons. You know,
Speaker 1: I've talked about Will Gibvens' story a couple of times
Speaker 1: now on this podcast. How this is his first time
Speaker 1: back at the World Series of Booker after he was
Speaker 1: banned from Caesar's Properties for a few years. So I
Speaker 1: just wanted to talk to him about exactly that and
Speaker 1: also how his event is going. And Will was kind
Speaker 1: enough to give me a few minutes of his time.
Speaker 1: So this interview happened right on the dinner break, so
Speaker 1: there was still a couple of levels to play. Afterwards.
Speaker 1: Will did go on to bag chips. I think he
Speaker 1: bagged around one million or one point one million heading
Speaker 1: into into day five. But here is Will Givens, just
Speaker 1: talking about being back at the World Series of Poker
Speaker 1: after some time away. All right, everyone, I'm here with
Speaker 1: Will Givens going into dinner break. First of all, your
Speaker 1: stack is looking quite great. How many chips you got
Speaker 1: over there?
Speaker 5: We have two point four? Two point four?
Speaker 2: I mean, this is this is this is what you do.
Speaker 14: Right.
Speaker 2: How's the day been going for you?
Speaker 5: It's been smooth, you know, I believe it or not.
Speaker 20: I didn't really beep it much at the bubble, didn't
Speaker 20: really have any hands.
Speaker 5: I'm not forcing anything. That's my younger days.
Speaker 20: So everything's just been smooth, you know what I mean,
Speaker 20: just playing as you know, taking as it come. And
Speaker 20: she's been smooth selling who came in with one point five?
Speaker 20: Now we got two point four at five tens, so
Speaker 20: we're all right.
Speaker 1: So you're someone who I've always wondered over the last
Speaker 1: couple of years. You know, where is Will Givens when
Speaker 1: it comes to the Little Series of Poker. It just
Speaker 1: so happens that you then show up at one of
Speaker 1: my tables earlier. Yeah, and you were telling the story
Speaker 1: to some of the people how you had been banned
Speaker 1: from Caesar's properties for something that happened in the pit.
Speaker 2: I mean, what happened and how did you get back in?
Speaker 2: Because we hear about people that could band all the
Speaker 2: time and then they never get back in. But you're
Speaker 2: here now, Okay.
Speaker 5: Well, first off, shout out to my lawyer.
Speaker 20: She's amazing. Little she might she might charge you, but
Speaker 20: it's worth it. But uh so, Yeah, man, I had
Speaker 20: a crazy night with some friends. I bagged chip lead
Speaker 20: at the wind playing I think it was a seventeen hundred?
Speaker 20: Did I end up gambling at the wind? Four am
Speaker 20: rolls around. I walk over to where I was getting
Speaker 20: contact because I was seven star at the time at Harris,
Speaker 20: I walk in had no intentions on playing bacarat, but
Speaker 20: the board was talking to me. Back back then, I
Speaker 20: used to play a lot of back and a lot
Speaker 20: of crabs like I mean that literally it was if
Speaker 20: it wasn't poker, it's them too. And I sit down,
Speaker 20: I'm buy him for about five thousand, and I'm cooking.
Speaker 20: I'm cooking, and this lady next to me, Asian lady.
Speaker 20: She's beat in the opposite of me, so she's getting roasted.
Speaker 20: So now she's sitting there with her arms crossed, and
Speaker 20: I go to bed three thousand and uh. She starts
Speaker 20: tapping on the felt money, money, money, money, and I
Speaker 20: don't know what that means. So I'm like looking at
Speaker 20: my stacks, I'm like, this is my money, that's your money.
Speaker 20: And then her and the dealer kept talking and she
Speaker 20: doesn't be English or speaking man during to each other,
Speaker 20: and I'm asking the dealer what is she saying? And
Speaker 20: the dealer won't even translate, which is weird.
Speaker 5: And so then I get up. I go to the
Speaker 5: pit balls and.
Speaker 20: I'm like, sir, you got a lady here to say money, money, money, nfelt.
Speaker 20: I have a three thousand dollars bet going on. It's frozen.
Speaker 20: Can you please, like you know, figure this out. And
Speaker 20: he starts talking to her a little bit, and then
Speaker 20: I said, can you just go to security? I requested,
Speaker 20: please just go to security so we can just move forward.
Speaker 20: Now this is crazy. I sit there and wait two hours,
Speaker 20: six on in the morning, security come down. They whisper
Speaker 20: in her ear. She starts crying, so obviously she speaks English,
Speaker 20: and because he doesn't speak mendering, and I acted, sir.
Speaker 5: I said what happened?
Speaker 20: And he said, you took six black chips house in
Speaker 20: between us, in between us, and I said, there's no
Speaker 20: way I did that, but here you go. I handed
Speaker 20: a six hundred. If I did that, I'm sorry. He
Speaker 20: asked me to stand up. He acted for my player card.
Speaker 20: I give him my card and then he proceeds to
Speaker 20: tell me that I'm benned for stealing. I'm like, no way, sir.
Speaker 20: I requested you to come down. I sat here for
Speaker 20: two hours. I got a day two tomorrow and it's
Speaker 20: almost seven in the morning. What kind of thief is
Speaker 20: doing this? And I even pointed at the cameras and
Speaker 20: told him what I do for a living. And I
Speaker 20: go to my bag and I pull out money and
Speaker 20: I'm like, bro, like, look at what I'm betting, Like
Speaker 20: make it makes sense.
Speaker 5: And he looks in my eyes.
Speaker 20: It was really offensive. He goes, there's stupid thiefs. So
Speaker 20: he's called me dumb, and he's called me a thief.
Speaker 2: I checked I did.
Speaker 20: When you lose it, it sucks, man, because being a
Speaker 20: black man in America, you deal with things that people
Speaker 20: really don't know about, and there's my dad dealt with it.
Speaker 20: My dad did seventeen years in prison. And there's so
Speaker 20: many men that's in prison just innocent, and I'm getting
Speaker 20: accused of stealing and I never stole, never attended to steal.
Speaker 5: I snapped, gave her the money.
Speaker 20: I did everything that I could as a customer, and
Speaker 20: I'm telling this man and then they've proceeded and I
Speaker 20: was staying there and they're like, well, you got to leave,
Speaker 20: and I'm like, well, I have a room here and
Speaker 20: I can't check into another room. It's seven something in
Speaker 20: the morning. They're like, well you can stay here. You
Speaker 20: can't come back to you can see the floor.
Speaker 5: But you can stay here and there tomorrow.
Speaker 20: So when I woke with the next morning, it was
Speaker 20: like I got a day two that I'm supposed to
Speaker 20: be excited about, But I'm like, did I just have
Speaker 20: a nightmare?
Speaker 5: Was that real life? And the man four years later and.
Speaker 1: Then you said you got a hold of a lawyer
Speaker 1: and it took it's only a couple of weeks or
Speaker 1: a few weeks to get back in.
Speaker 2: How did that process go about?
Speaker 20: I contact a lawyer, told them my situation, got the details.
Speaker 5: They did what they did. I stayed back.
Speaker 2: They wait, why so long before you got a lawyer?
Speaker 14: Was it?
Speaker 2: Well, you just didn't know about that process.
Speaker 5: You want to know exactly what happened.
Speaker 2: Of course, I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for
Speaker 2: the app.
Speaker 5: Okay, okay, I was sitting in the letters, sending a letter,
Speaker 5: sending the letters.
Speaker 20: I always deny, deny, deny it. Then I live in Texas,
Speaker 20: now Dallas. They had a WSOP circuit in Austin. I
Speaker 20: finally got a hold of this app, and I saw
Speaker 20: how smooth it was.
Speaker 5: See last year.
Speaker 20: I realized the playing field outside of the WOP changed
Speaker 20: dramatically last year, but I couldn't figure out why.
Speaker 5: See, I didn't mind it because back in.
Speaker 20: The day, with the lines and all the hassle and
Speaker 20: the dealers and all that, I said, you know what,
Speaker 20: this is paradise. I'm playing out the win and I'm
Speaker 20: playing at ario. I'm playing everything else and people come
Speaker 20: out and I still have just not as big fields,
Speaker 20: but I can still make money. So I was okay
Speaker 20: with it, but I wanted to get in. But once
Speaker 20: the app came in, lock holded everybody. So now the
Speaker 20: fields out there is like all the years and everything.
Speaker 20: So once I actually used that app, I said, I
Speaker 20: gotta get a lawyer. So I did some investigating, I
Speaker 20: did some research and took about the man.
Speaker 5: Thank you God.
Speaker 2: Three weeks boom, you're back here this summer.
Speaker 1: You've had a couple of results already, you had a
Speaker 1: final table, you had another deep run I think the
Speaker 1: million maker, and here you're sitting on a huge stack
Speaker 1: in the main event.
Speaker 2: I mean, I guess, could you have asked for a
Speaker 2: better return?
Speaker 18: Bro?
Speaker 20: Someone said, why would you drop that kind of money
Speaker 20: on the lawyer or whatever? There's no value to be
Speaker 20: competing against the best and something that you love. I
Speaker 20: couldn't put a price on it. So yes, it was
Speaker 20: a great return. And I'm just happy that I'm mentally
Speaker 20: where I'm at now to where Also, I'm grateful every
Speaker 20: time I stepped foot in this building. Everything happens for
Speaker 20: a reason. So yeah, it was a great return. I'm grateful,
Speaker 20: and I'm just happy to be competing against the best
Speaker 20: froom all around the world again.
Speaker 5: You know, like I'm here, let's good, let's dance.
Speaker 2: You know what's it gonna take to go super deep
Speaker 2: in this thing?
Speaker 20: Possibly win it man, mental clarity, focus, energy, aligned, discipline.
Speaker 20: There's so many different things, so many different variables you
Speaker 20: have to There's it's crazy. You can't just come in
Speaker 20: here and thinks just gonna win. That's there's upstairs downs,
Speaker 20: you gotta take it.
Speaker 5: There's swings. Can't get too high, can't get too low.
Speaker 5: You know, he's just it.
Speaker 20: It's like a one hundred round boxing match, like right now,
Speaker 20: we're in round twenty, okay, so you just gotta you
Speaker 20: just gotta survive.
Speaker 5: All right.
Speaker 1: So that was Will not shy at all to share
Speaker 1: his story and what happened to him.
Speaker 2: And you know, it's better.
Speaker 1: It's better than just coming from me from what I
Speaker 1: hear it. But he's back and he's having a great summer.
Speaker 1: He's absolutely crushing it. He has well, he has two
Speaker 1: Dubis Whippy Cashes this summer. He has a third place
Speaker 1: finish in the fifteen hundred dollars pot limit Omaha event
Speaker 1: for two hundred and fourteen thousand dollars, and then he
Speaker 1: has a deep run in the Millionaire Maker a fifty
Speaker 1: fourth place there which netted him twenty seven thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: You know, Will is one of those players that you
Speaker 1: just see him around kind of everywhere playing everything. He
Speaker 1: does have a World Series of Poker Gold bracelets. Twenty fourteen,
Speaker 1: he won a one K Nolan Man Hold Him event
Speaker 1: for three hundred and six thousand dollars. In that tournament,
Speaker 1: he topped a field of eighteen hundred and forty one.
Speaker 1: So yeah, so that's Will Givens. He's going strong into
Speaker 1: day five and we'll obviously be checking in on him
Speaker 1: and seeing how he's doing going forward. But it's good
Speaker 1: to have Will Gibbings back in the mix. At the
Speaker 1: end of the night, I wanted to talk to Caitlin Komeski.
Speaker 1: She was on her way out and I grabbed her
Speaker 1: and she was kind enough to, you know, give me
Speaker 1: a few minutes off her time. We did a whole
Speaker 1: walk and talk thing, So pardon me if there is
Speaker 1: is some background noise. We're walking through a crowd at
Speaker 1: one point, people just aren't getting out of the way
Speaker 1: of a walk. We're walking through the main hallway into
Speaker 1: like the Rotunda area over in Paris. But listen, I
Speaker 1: talked about how good of a summer Will Givens has
Speaker 1: been having so far. I mean, Kaitlyn Comeski's freaking crushing it.
Speaker 1: She's got one, two, three, four.
Speaker 5: Five six.
Speaker 1: I believe this is her seventh, maybe her eighth eighth
Speaker 1: dobisipy cash. This summer, she's been on fire in terms
Speaker 1: of making some deep runs she has. She made the
Speaker 1: final table of the Ladies Championship, she got fourth there
Speaker 1: for sixty seven thousand dollars. And then she played the
Speaker 1: ten K stud High Low Championship. She got fifth place
Speaker 1: there for ninety seven thousand dollars. That ninety seven thousand
Speaker 1: dollars is her largest live tournament score. So Kaitlyn's freaking cooking.
Speaker 1: Like you know, she and she and she's great. She's
Speaker 1: got a lot of personality on her. I know she
Speaker 1: can be viewed as as the funny person, but you know,
Speaker 1: when it's I've played with Kaitlin on a few different occasions,
Speaker 1: you know when you're playing with her, yeah, she's a
Speaker 1: good time and she likes to have a laugh and
Speaker 1: some jokes and whatever. But when it's time to play
Speaker 1: some poker and buckle down, focus and get serious, like
Speaker 1: she's in there and she's in there battling. She's a
Speaker 1: handful to deal with at the table. So here's a
Speaker 1: little Walk and Talk interview at the end of the
Speaker 1: night with Caitlyn Komeski, who bagged I believe a little
Speaker 1: bit over one point seven million. All right, Kaitlyn Komeski,
Speaker 1: I think it's been the summer of Kaitlin. Well, what's
Speaker 1: are you on steroids? What's going what's going on here?
Speaker 11: I honestly put the work in. I meditated and manifested,
Speaker 11: I journaled, I watched hours of content. I watched hours
Speaker 11: of poker. I've played hours and hours online last year.
Speaker 11: I I don't know, I've probably played one hundred thousand
Speaker 11: hands between my live and online volume. And you know,
Speaker 11: I mean, I know most people know me as a
Speaker 11: content creator, but slowly and surely I have really put
Speaker 11: in the work to get better and refine my game.
Speaker 11: I think I've got more work into the mixed games,
Speaker 11: if I'm being honest. But it has made me a
Speaker 11: better Nola, not for no question. And I'm just feeling
Speaker 11: like really dialed in. Momentum is real and poker and
Speaker 11: in all sports, and I feel it and I'm riding
Speaker 11: the wave.
Speaker 1: You're someone who always seems to have fun at the table,
Speaker 1: even though you obviously take the game very seriously, both
Speaker 1: on and off the filthy Just how has the experience been?
Speaker 1: You know, I notice you, you know, having a lot
Speaker 1: of fun with those guys at the end, talking about
Speaker 1: making day five all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 2: How important is that part of things to just enjoy
Speaker 2: it along the way?
Speaker 11: It's incredibly important. I mean, just like mindfulness and living
Speaker 11: in general is going to make you a happier person.
Speaker 11: If you're living in the past or the future, you're
Speaker 11: never gonna feel fulfillment. So just in terms of like
Speaker 11: being a good person and having a good attitude, that's imperative.
Speaker 5: But for poker, I think growing the game and.
Speaker 11: Making the game more accessible, especially with how solved it's
Speaker 11: getting and how good everyone's getting and how intimidating the
Speaker 11: environment is, we have to keep that fun element in
Speaker 11: it to continue it, to grow, to make people go
Speaker 11: shrudged through the mud that is becoming a winning coper player.
Speaker 1: You're in the money, You're going to day five in
Speaker 1: the main event, you had this incredible summer from here
Speaker 1: on out.
Speaker 2: What sort of expectations do you have for yourself?
Speaker 1: You put a lot of chips in the bag heading
Speaker 1: to day five, So how are you dealing with possible pressure,
Speaker 1: possible expectations, all of that.
Speaker 11: I'll tell you what the first week I was here,
Speaker 11: I was running deep in my best event seven no
Speaker 11: limit single draw. The best I had ever finished was
Speaker 11: thirty second last year in the eight game, and when
Speaker 11: we got down to thirty two players, I found this
Speaker 11: huge adrenaline spike that I was not in control of.
Speaker 11: I beat Jerry Wong in a huge pot read the
Speaker 11: situation perfectly made the maximum and there was too much
Speaker 11: power behind the steering though I was speeding and I
Speaker 11: didn't even realize how deep I was. Talked about this
Speaker 11: with somebody else, but yeah, I punted. I got overwhelmed
Speaker 11: by the moment. I had odb on my left and
Speaker 11: Jerry Wong on my right, and I have one of
Speaker 11: the top stacks in the tournament, and.
Speaker 9: It was too much.
Speaker 11: So I did a Q and A with Alex Livingston
Speaker 11: and I asked him, like, how do you deal with
Speaker 11: these pressures? Because I feel like I'm good at the game.
Speaker 11: I was ready for the moment. I did the grind
Speaker 11: to get there, and then I tripped on the finish
Speaker 11: line and he said, the only way that you get
Speaker 11: better and can feel more in control of these thoughts
Speaker 11: is just keep putting yourself in them. So I put
Speaker 11: myself in a ton of uncomfortable positions and I had
Speaker 11: a really hard week. I played some games that I'm
Speaker 11: not very good at. I got fish braided a lot.
Speaker 11: I ran into a player who took a particular disliking
Speaker 11: to me that I had to play with a lot,
Speaker 11: and it was really hard, and I moved through that.
Speaker 11: I had a lot of support and a lot of friends,
Speaker 11: and I'm really proud of myself for putting myself in
Speaker 11: those uncomfortable positions so that I know now that I'm here,
Speaker 11: I'm ready. I mean, if I final table is and
Speaker 11: then it'll be my third final table at the series,
Speaker 11: so it'll feel very comfortable on car for the course.
Speaker 11: And that's really exciting because I know I'm going to
Speaker 11: be able to play my best because of the summer
Speaker 11: that I've had before this to be ready to you know,
Speaker 11: make it happen.
Speaker 1: So that was Caitlyn Kameski was a pleasure talking to
Speaker 1: her as well. Thought I might not get the interview,
Speaker 1: to be honest, she was doing another interview and you know,
Speaker 1: the whole double interview at the end of night when
Speaker 1: people are just trying to get the heck out of
Speaker 1: there and go get some rest. I'm always a little
Speaker 1: bit worried they're going to say no. Of course, you
Speaker 1: know full respect that, you know, everyone's allowed to say no.
Speaker 1: It's not a big deal.
Speaker 2: But I was a little bit worried.
Speaker 1: I did want to talk to her, So thank you
Speaker 1: Caitlin for taking the time there. As I mentioned, five
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty three players remain, they are all guaranteed
Speaker 1: thirty two thousand, five hundred dollars. It's either ar tomorch
Speaker 1: Erosion or Sam Swilim as the chip leader. Entering day five,
Speaker 1: there is going to be a pay jump of another
Speaker 1: twenty five hundred dollars up to thirty five. When they
Speaker 1: get down to four hundred and seventy six players left
Speaker 1: in the field. I'm guessing they'll finish with around two
Speaker 1: hundred or so on day five, maybe a little bit more.
Speaker 1: I was thinking today, you know, it kind of hit
Speaker 1: me and maybe I'm just getting a little bit too
Speaker 1: in my feelings about things. I was walking through the
Speaker 1: floor and I was like, man, like these these guys
Speaker 1: are like they're all they're all in it, Like all
Speaker 1: these players are. They're in it, They're deep, they're in it.
Speaker 1: Look at these stacks, like the payouts are starting to build,
Speaker 1: Like okay, like we're getting there. You know, there's there's
Speaker 1: under one thousand players left, there's under seven hundred players left,
Speaker 1: there's under six hundred players left. And then I was thinking, man,
Speaker 1: they still have so much further to go, Like it's
Speaker 1: you know, you have to go day five, Day six,
Speaker 1: day seven, day eight, and then if you ultimately want
Speaker 1: to get to the top of the mountain, you got
Speaker 1: to go through multiple days of a final table. I'm
Speaker 1: like this, there is still so much left this tournament,
Speaker 1: and that's that's what makes it so great, Like there's
Speaker 1: nothing is given in this tournament. You can be a
Speaker 1: chip leader and you can be out tomorrow. You can
Speaker 1: be a short sack and you can spin it and
Speaker 1: be a chip leader. You know, heading into day six,
Speaker 1: it can go any which way up, down, left, right, sideways,
Speaker 1: It does not matter.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 1: I mean this thing is just absolutely awesome. And if
Speaker 1: Day five is anything like Day four, and I'm speaking
Speaker 1: mostly about what we saw on the coverage, I mean,
Speaker 1: good lord, the hands that were played, you would honestly
Speaker 1: think that the decks were raked. It was banger after
Speaker 1: banger after banger, like big pairs, classic flips. There was
Speaker 1: a hand that was a set over set with an
Speaker 1: overpair of aces involved. It's just madness up there. And
Speaker 1: then of course you get all the crazy hands combined
Speaker 1: with the pressure of the moment, the characters that are involved,
Speaker 1: like all of it. Like, there is nothing like this tournament.
Speaker 2: And I really really.
Speaker 1: Hope that you know, what we do on this podcast
Speaker 1: can just give you guys a little taste of how
Speaker 1: freaking awesome it is. Don't forget to tune into the
Speaker 1: coverage when it happens. I know there's been a lot
Speaker 1: to be said about it being on the ESPN Plus
Speaker 1: or the app or whatever it's called. But tune in
Speaker 1: because ultimately, the more viewers that this thing gets, the
Speaker 1: better that it ultimately is for poker, and that's what
Speaker 1: we want to thrive, that's what we want to succeed.
Speaker 1: But we're getting down to it, boys and girls. It's
Speaker 1: going to be Friday. It's going to be day five
Speaker 1: of the WSP Main Event. Five hundred and thirty three
Speaker 1: players remain, and we are going My name is Donna
Speaker 1: Peters it's a pleasure as always, and I will talk
Speaker 1: to you guys on the next episode.
Speaker 9: Jenny