Speaker 1: Hello, everyone, Welcome to a new episode of the Poker
Go Podcast. My name is Donnie Peters. It is well,
I guess it's Friday. It's Friday, May twenty ninth, one
oh five am. Latest pod recording session of the summer
so far. I feel like it's still a little bit
early though. I had a later night hanging out and
was just chatting with some folks towards towards the end
of the night that that uh took up my time. Overall,
things are starting to cook over at the World Series
of Poker now. I keep thinking every time I go
down there that it's it's still the calm before the storm.
I think there's a couple things, and I know I've
said this already, you know, on a few of the
recent episodes, but I think it's because of a couple
of things specifically, and they're they're for whatever reason, they're
they're affecting my psyche. One like our area where we
got to sit and like do our stuff. It's still
not fully set up. Of course, it's not expected to
be set up, you know, dealing with the main stage.
I got it. You know, we're second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth,
We're way down on that total bowl. I totally get it.
But that said, it's just messing with my psyche a
little bit, you know. Second thing, and I think this
thing might be the bigger thing, is that that main
stage it's still behind the curtain. It is still shut
off from the public. Now it's a giant curtain, and
you can get a size or an idea of the
size of this thing, but it just feels like a
metaphor that it won't fully be the twenty twenty six
doubs ap until that curtain drops on Friday, which is today,
when you guys are listening to this, when Pete, we'll
see what I'm calling the wacip Grand Arena. When this
thing is revealed, it's it's wow factor, you know. To me,
everyone's still kind of waking up. The whip itself is
still kind of waking up. Once this thing drops, once
that curtain hits the ground, it is on. It is
game freaking on. And also part of this as well
is that, you know, we still haven't crowned a bracelet
are yet. It's Friday. This thing kicked off on Tuesday.
There has been no bracelet one just yet. Of course,
we're getting there, right a couple of cool things happened.
We got our first final table today, well actually our
first two final tables that I should say, apologies me.
We got the five hundred dollars Industry Employees event playing
down right now. They are currently heads up while I
am recording. I'm likely not going to touch on this
one once, even if we get a winner during the show.
I kind of want to, you know, give a little
bit more to this event when there is a winner
that happens, So, you know, likely on the next podcast
is when I'll touch on that one. I don't just
want to be like, oh, hey, so and so on,
let's just move on with our lives. But heads up
is Jeremy Nepple and Sean Hammering, and they look to
be pretty deep as well, so that one could take
a little while over there. Now. The other final table
that we got is in the five K no Limit
hold them. We talked about that event already a little bit,
you know, getting yesterday, I was talking about how it's
setting up where we could see a final table that
includes Martin Cabrell and Maurice Hawkins. Well both of them
busted out. I think Cabrell busted out shortly after, I
must have, you know, pressed the stop button and sent
the sent the podcast over to producer Rich. But listen,
Friday is a big day. It is a big, big,
big day. I know I keep hyping up this, this set,
this stage, but I think it's worth it. You know,
I'm not someone who tries to just set these crazy
lofty expectations, you know, to basically clickbait everyone. I do
not believe this is clickbait. I'm also trying to couch
a little bit of what I'm saying because I don't
really want to give away too much. But I'm telling you, guys,
when you see this thing, it's gonna be awesome. And
with that reveal, it's gonna be immediately into streaming. You know,
twenty five k heads up. You know it's day one
of that or day one A of that, because they
do have two starting flights in that tournament this year.
You know that's supposed to be streaming. You're also likely
gonna have some coverage of the five thousand dollars Noldman
hold the final table that's going on as well. So
it's gonna be curtain drop. It's gonna be a whole
big wow factor. People are gonna get to see this thing,
and then throughout the day, you know, it's gonna be
an action and it's gonna be put out there via
the WSOP YouTube channel, and people are gonna be able
to watch this thing and see the set and see
the twenty six WSOP in action in full. And at
that point, like that's when it's like, like I said,
it's game on now. Speaking of that five thousand dollars,
nolam that hold them final table, it is here. It's
a big one. They got half a million dollars up top.
There are five players remaining when they bagged them up
on Thursday. One of them is wren linn. Lynn of course,
had a bit of a situation back in October where
while he was over in Cyprus playing in the WISIP
Super Circuit Series, it was ruled that he violated the
poker Integrity policy on gg Poker while playing the WSIP
Super Circuit Cypress main event. If I remember correctly, what
happened is basically, someone he was in a group chat,
somebody called him on a video call and asked him
what to do on a spot on a phone, and
he gave some answers and that was the thing. Now
we can obviously debate, was this innocent thing. Did Rendland
know what the heck he was doing? I have no idea.
I can't really judge intent from where I sit. That said,
it was ruled that he violated this policy and then
as a result they opted to disqualify him from the
live tournament, even though what he did was technically an
online breach of policy. So kind of an interesting result there,
but that was the penalty. It was a polarizing situation
at the time. You had plenty of people coming out
kind of on both sides. Listen, he didn't really mean it,
he didn't really do it. On the other side of things,
it's like, yes, he's an ambassador, he needs to know better.
Like it was, you had both sides covered, and I'm
sure even still to this day, you know you have
both sides still covered. You know, there's plenty of people
on both sides of the fence here. But the story
now is that Renland is back and he's made the
final table of the five thousand dollars, no limit, hold
Them event at the twenty twenty six and he's he's
full on renln You know, lady Gaga fold to heads up,
touchdown Tom Brady like it is. It is all there,
and it is there in full. He does come in
fourth in Chips with five players of mating. It's Chen
Jang Mao another player from China, so the three players
from China. Redland is from China at this final table.
So Mayo leads the way. He's got ninety big blinds.
Danny el Geba second in Chips, Jaohulu also from China,
third and Chips and Renlin in fourth. Like I mentioned in,
Peter Muger is in fifth. They are playing for that
five hundred thousand dollars first place prize. A little bit
more here on Renlin, He's got nineteen point four million
dollars in live tournament earnings. According to the Hendon mock.
He's got several victories on his resume. Some of those
victories are PGT titles. He's got three of those. He's
also got a couple of wins in some WPT high
roller events. Believe he won it was a twenty five
k high roller on the WPT, and then he also
won an Alpha eight event. That Alpha eight event took
place at the win WPT World Championship a couple of
years ago. But he has no bracelets. Now, that's not
to say he hasn't had success in wis AP events.
You know, he's had five second place finishes, He's had
three third place finishes in ws AP gold bracelet events.
He's made the final five here. I didn't look past
third place over those. You know that was enough. You know,
eight top three finishes without a win. That that's a lot.
That is the definition of knocking on the door of
winning a bracelet. And here he is. Yes, he does
come in fourth in chips. He has twenty five big
Lindes to work with, but in Renland style, I think
he's gonna kick around for a bit and probably make
you know, the top three for sure, and then go
from there. Another player of note at this final table
danielle Geba. He's in better trip position than Lenny said second. Overall,
he's We've covered him a little bit in some some
prior tournaments PGT for sure. I think he has a
second place finish in maybe a Poker Masters event if
I remember correctly. But he's definitely been in the studio
a bit playing there. I've played with him as well
around town here in Las Vegas. He had you know,
some some stream time during a Venetian event that we
did on the PGT. You know, he he's just a fun,
aggressive player. He has a tendency to not hold back
one single bit. So this could be for or this
could lean into quite a lot of fun. And especially
if this is gonna be on stream and if they
are showing a bit of this table, that'll be great
because with how Gebba plays, I would expect plenty of fireworks.
He's supremely confident in his ability. You know, he's not
someone who's who's overly loud or boisterous or anything like that.
He's he's very quiet. He's kind of silent, you know,
but his play and his style of play certainly does
speak volumes. You know. He's also the type of player
where because he plays this type of you know, kind
of really like Gopher Broke type of style, if he
does go on to win this thing, it would be
his first breakout win. Now, independent of that, let's say,
you know, I mean he's starting second in chips, he's
got seventy two big blinds, So let's say he gets
to the top three. I mean, that type of score
this early in the series that could be you know,
the type of momentum that somebody of this type of
style really does harness to then go on and make
a whole crap ton of noise this summer. So just
just keep that in mind when it comes to Daniel Gebba,
just with this playing style, when he gets hot, big
things can happen. So you know, this might not be
the last time you hear his name this summer, and
then we can look back and be like, yeah, he
made that opening five gate final table, like that's kind
of where it all started for Daniel. We have switching
things up and looking over at the fifteen hundred dollars
Omaha High Low Tournament, they are down to the final
eighteen players and it looks like they're down to the
final couple hands before they bag up for the evening,
and among them they were over eight hundred. They were
eight hundred and twenty eight players in the field there,
but among them in the final eighteen Vanessa Selps. So
she's back, she is back in the mix. She is
back grinding. I believe Phil Helmon's put it on Twitter
that even if she's only back for a few events.
At the start of the dibsip it's good. It's good
to have her back, and it is good to have
her back blasting away. So that's that's a little bit
of a notable nugget there. From the fifteen hundred dollars
Omaha High Low had another flight of the five hundred
and fifty five dollars fifty five, five hundred and fifty dollars,
a mini mystery million. It drew twenty four hundred and
fifty entries today, which was Day one seed. That brings
the total number of entries in this field up to
five thousand, six hundred and forty seven. We talked about
how Day one B was surprisingly fewer entries than Day
one A in this tournament, but a nice uptick here
to get things trending back in the right direction. And then,
speaking of numbers, while we're just on this topic, the
fifteen hundred dollars stud kicked off today got a bit
over three hundred, much closer to last year's number. The
five thousand dollars PLO got up over seven hundred entries
that also very close to last year's number. So although
they didn't meet last year's number, drawing as close as
they did, you know, it's definitely a much better sign
for things to come, and it could all just maybe
be it's just kind of a slower start to the
summer overall. But again, you know we're gonna be We're
gonna be keeping an eye on things with how they go,
and you know, tracking these numbers and you know, seeing
seeing how it all shakes out. You know, I still
expect big things overall from the entire summer. You know,
I think it's just a little bit slow to start,
So I mean, shoot me if I'm too optimistic there.
All right, in that five thousand dollars PLO tournament, it
ended up with seven hundred and sixteen entries five hundred
and ninety five k up top. It's a shocking player
who's in first place. It's it's Dylan Wiseman. I mean,
it's mister freaking Plo himself is just doing it once again.
And then right behind him is Jesse Lonis, so two
heavy hitters there when it comes to the four card game.
Dylan is one of the absolute best, if not the
best PLO player in the world, especially when it comes
to tournaments. We all know Jesse Lonis aka the Gorilla
with how good he is. You know, he's also a
player who, as I was talking about earlier with Daniel Gebba,
you know, he's someone who he swings big and when
he gets hot, I mean, you just better freaking watch out.
I was hanging around on the rail checking out out
this tournament for a bit today, you know, I don't know,
probably an hour or two before they bagged up. I'm
talking with Tristan Wade, who's a good friend of mine.
We do some commentary together as well. I think we're
lined up to do some commentary this weekend at Venetian
for the Venetian Poker live streams that are coming up
on Saturday and Sunday. And we're, you know, we're just chatting.
He had just busted out of the tournament. We're just
you know, shooting the ship, talking about life. He's floating
some ideas with me, like all this sort of stuff.
A gentleman starts kind of hovering close to us, and
it's it's to the point where you know, you, I mean,
you guys know what's happening When when I say that,
you know, you feel that the person wants to talk
to you, but he's kind of waiting for a reason
to talk to you, or he's waiting for one of
us to say something where he can agree with us
and like basically interject himself into the conversation. So he's
kind of like floating right near us and getting a
little bit closer. And then finally he just starts asking Tristan,
you know about the tournament. Hey. Oh. The first he says,
actually is do you have any bullets left? Which is
kind of a very weird question to ask, And immediately
I'm thinking, oh, he's this guy. Maybe this guy's just
like looking out there to blast and he wants to
put people who have extra bullets because I believe you
could allow you were allowed three bullets in this thing,
one entry and then two re entries. And Tristan says,
you know, yeah, I you know, I only played once,
but I'm not going to play again. And it didn't
amount to the guy, you know, firing in. Like I
was like, that would be crazy if the guy was like, well,
I'll just put you in, you know. But anyway, but
him and Tristan started talking. The gentleman's name was Josh
and an Asian gentleman, and he's you know, they're chatting
it up and basically they start talking about like should
the guy Josh is like, you know, should I Should
I register now? Should I wait till it's late registration
and registration was about to close and let's say ten
or fifteen minutes that break and then obviously through the
break you could so they're debating the benefits. Then gives
the positives in terms of, you know, should he get now,
should he just wait till the late reds all this
sort of stuff. So it ends up they end up
chatting whatever. But it never really felt like the guy
was like gonna play the tournament, okay, So whatever. Tristan
ends up like the conversation like breaks off after you know,
ten minutes or so. Tristan runs to the bathroom. He
comes back in the tournament's on break, the tournament's about
to get back from break. We're sitting there chatting with
Michael mss Rocky about how you know him and Tristan
went down to Australia, had a fun time down there,
had some success in the tournaments for the return of
the Ausie Millions like all that, and Miss Rocky leaves
and the guy the Gentleman, the Asian Gentleman comes back
over Josh and he's, you know, he's he shows Trists
in the app and he's like, he's like, I'm in
or whatever he says. He's like, I'm in, you know,
so do I just like, do I just wait for
my seat? Because he's he's was listed as an alternate. First,
Tristan tells him, oh, you should go find a floor,
but then it dawned on him and they said, no, no,
actually you just wait till it pops up on the
app and then it says, you know, oh your seat's
availab or whatever it says, I forget. But the cool
thing about it is that, I don't know, they got
to be kind of friendly throughout this whole little ordeal.
And Tristan goes, you know, can I buy a piece?
Can I buy a piece right now? And the guys like,
are you're serious? And I don't really like he goes,
I don't really know, like because I know what I'm doing,
but I'm not the best PLO player, like you know,
and Tristan's like, I don't care. I get kind of
good feeling. So if Tristan ends up just buying five
percent on the spot, at face gives the guy two
hundred and fifty bucks, and then the guy starts asking
him pointers, you know, like you know, hey, like Tristan said, yeah,
you know, just just let me know, like they exchange numbers.
Tristan's like, yeah, you can text me any time, you know,
I'll give you some tips. Maybe we can talk hands
like whatever it may be. And the guy's like, yeah,
you know, like I was kind of looking at this
thing to see like what's a good hand and what's
not like and then Tristan's explaining how when the guy
comes in, he's only gonna have twelve and a half
big blind, so there's gonna be a limping strategy that
he should deploy, and it's kind of spawns into this
whole little ten minute strategy talk. But I just thought
that the interaction was just it was cool. It was
something that you know, you really only see in poker
and in the gambling world, and all that sort of
stuff is magnified and a little bit more prevalent when
it comes to the World Series of Poker. Just Tristan
just met this guy. He only knows that the guy's
name is Josh, that's all he knows, and just out
of nowhere pulls out his wallet and says, I want
to buy five percent. The guy says, are you sure? Okay,
the guy just accepts it. Tristan pays him the cash
right there, They exchange numbers and that's that. The guy's
off and running. In the tournament, they start with fifty
thousand chips. Tristan and I go, we're just talking some more.
Tristan gets a text that like the guys, all of
a sudden, like a half hour after he started playing,
is up to two hundred k. And you know, it's
just it's it's off and running. So I mean, I
hope he does well. That'd just be an amazing story
and we'll have to we'll have to follow it up
from here. Funny funny stuff. How that that all happens
at the World Series? And I'm sure, Oh, I think
they had a connection that Tristan's from Florida, and I
think that this guy might live in Florida or spends
a lot of time in Florida or something like that.
That was kind of the initial connection. But anyway, I
just think it's funny that that that that sort of
interaction can spark a friendship now, like like a poker friendship.
Like these guys are you know? He bought action five
percent of them on the spot, just and has no idea.
This guy's good, bad, what he's he gonna do with
the money? Like it doesn't matter. There's just that trust there.
He sized him up, thought he was a good guy,
said you know what, let's gamble. I want to get
back in the mix. Here's five percent, here's my money,
let's go. Now they got each other's numbers. They're probably
going to see each other throughout the summer in terms
of like playing in the tournaments and being at different tables,
but they'll always have like that little bond that that's
something comes from it. And I just I don't know,
I'm a sucker for this shit. I'm sorry, I just
really am. So that's that was a really cool nugget
of something that happened today while out there roaming the floor.
Another cool thing that happened today. And this is the
coolest damn thing that happened today. It didn't happen down
at the Horseshoe or at Paris. In fact, I guess
it happened digitally because Daniel Legrano Amanda Nagrano, they announced
that they are having a baby. It is through a surrogate.
Daniel and Amanda announced it on the vlog that dropped
on Thursday. The vlogs are back, by the way, guys,
the vlogs are back. The d nexvogs are back. Watch
them every single morning. If you guys don't do that
as well, I don't know what the hell you're doing.
But they explained fifteen weeks pregnant. Now they have talked
in some various vlogs, or at least Daniel has talked
in some various blogs how they are trying or they
have been trying. So now they are fifteen weeks pregnant,
expected to be delivered in November. And it is a boy,
so great news there of Daniel and a minute. It's
also a funny running joke another the funny story. I
guess that that happened today kind of in the similar
conversation when I was standing there, a Trician is Jeff
Gross walks up and he starts talking about, you know, hey,
are we gonna do the World Cup of Vegas this year?
Are we gonna play soccer? Because the three of us
are on a team, and I believe we won the
first one that they ever held together. We won it twice.
I couldn't remember if it was the first one or
the second one, but we won that that soccer tournament
twice with all the poker players in Las Vegas. But
we're you know, we're talking about how we're old now.
Getting out of bed is like we feel like we
can't move half the time, like you know, imagine trying
to run around play soccer all day, Like are we
gonna be able to do that? I mean, we're you know,
we're half joking that we're old, but you know, you
start feeling it. We got kids now, chasing them around again,
and all of us have kids, so that but that's
the joke now. And that also is something that we
talk about often over at the Poker Gross studio where
it's like everyone everyone's got a fucking kids now, Like
that that's the thing, Like, you know, everyone comes in,
they show up to quote unquote work, whether you're a player,
whether you're on our side of things, whatever, and it's like, hey,
how's the family, how the kids, how's the wife? You know,
like that's those are the conversations now, And it's almost
as though if you don't have a kid, if you
aren't a dad or a mom. You know, you're you're
almost the outlier now, which is both cool but also
kind of a reminder that there's not a lot of
young people kind of coming up in the game these days,
which stinks, but you know, it is what it is.
But yeah, but that's just how it is. So anyway,
shout out to Daniel and Amanda. That's really really really
awesome news. A lot of fun and you know, so
I guess next summer when when Daniel's doing vlogs, he's
gonna have a little kid running around or crawling around
or whatever. So a lot of fun there. But honestly,
that's really all I got for you guys. You know,
a couple stories run through, a couple of results. Here.
Tomorrow's the big day, as I mentioned, or Friday is
the big day. The w SP Grand Arena is going
to be revealed. I hope you guys, if you aren't
able to make it down to Paris to the Horseshoe
to see this thing in person this year. You know,
I hope that the photos can do a justice. I
hope the streams can do it justice. I hope the
videos that come out can do it justice because Poker,
and specifically the World Series of Poker deserves a stage
like this. It does. It is o our industry super Bowl.
It is the biggest and the best thing that this
industry has, and it deserves to have, you know, that
giant monumental setting to be played out, and so look
forward to that. You know, I know the team at
Blueprint fifty two cannot wait to reveal that to anyone.
I mean also, you know, with the reveal comes a
bit of sleep, because those guys have been working like
they were still there doing work when I left at
like eleven thirty or whatever time it was that I left.
I mean, they are working basically around the clock to
get this thing ready to go, ready for day one
of streaming and to you know, really get that debas
would heartbeat, you know, ramped up into full gear. All right,
that's gonna do it for me. Another relatively short podcast,
but it's looking like Monday is when you know, we'll
have our entire space set up. We'll be bringing back
the video podcast, we'll be diving into some more interviews,
all that sort of stuff. So you know, thanks for
kind of sticking with me for these early few days.
As we feel things out and we kind of ease
into this thing, but you know, it's always important. At
least I do feel that it's pretty important to get
it out to you guys. You know what's happening down
there as best I can. I know not everyone can
come on down to the World Series of Pokers. So
if we can relay through this show that this is
what it's like to be here, then you know, that's
a win. That's a win for me. All Right, that's
gonna do it for me. I'm gonna go try and
get some sleep and then get back down there for
the big reveal on Friday. My name is Donni Peters,
and I will talk to you guys next time. It's
to night on the Jenny expressed a ya