WEBVTT 1 00:00:10.919 --> 00:00:14.039 Hello, everyone, Welcome to a new episode of the Poker 2 00:00:14.480 --> 00:00:17.280 Go Podcast. My name is Donny Peters, and I'm here 3 00:00:17.399 --> 00:00:21.920 solo tonight. It is it just hit eleven o'clock on 4 00:00:22.039 --> 00:00:26.039 the dot as I looked at my phone on Memorial Day, Monday, 5 00:00:26.280 --> 00:00:30.559 May twenty fifth. It is the eve of the twenty 6 00:00:30.640 --> 00:00:35.640 twenty six World Series of Poker. Just drove home from 7 00:00:35.640 --> 00:00:38.079 the Las Vegas trip from the Poker Grol studio for 8 00:00:38.159 --> 00:00:42.840 what was the annual twenty five K Fantasy Draft hosted 9 00:00:42.920 --> 00:00:48.399 by the One, the Only Daniel Negranu. That's going to 10 00:00:48.439 --> 00:00:53.679 be the bulk of the discussion on today's show. But first, 11 00:00:54.079 --> 00:00:57.759 a housekeeping item or two. I know we've been off 12 00:00:57.880 --> 00:01:02.240 for quite some time here on on these airwaves. Last 13 00:01:02.240 --> 00:01:04.920 pod was February twentieth. I looked it up. I want 14 00:01:04.959 --> 00:01:07.120 to see the date, February twenty. That was a hell 15 00:01:07.159 --> 00:01:10.359 of a long time ago. Sorry about that hiatus. Call 16 00:01:10.359 --> 00:01:13.359 out what you will, but we are back for WSP 17 00:01:13.519 --> 00:01:16.760 season and we will be coming to you multiple times 18 00:01:16.799 --> 00:01:19.680 a week. My plan is at least five times a week, 19 00:01:19.799 --> 00:01:22.239 if not daily. I just don't want to set it 20 00:01:22.879 --> 00:01:26.640 the expectation too high and then ultimately fall short. You know, 21 00:01:26.760 --> 00:01:30.040 so ultimately under to promise over deliver. That's how we're 22 00:01:30.079 --> 00:01:31.799 going to go about it. But I also looked at 23 00:01:31.799 --> 00:01:34.879 that last podcast, and it was a WSP focused podcast 24 00:01:34.920 --> 00:01:40.079 because we dropped it talking about the WSP schedule for 25 00:01:40.359 --> 00:01:43.879 this year, one hundred WSP Gold Bracelet events. The first 26 00:01:43.879 --> 00:01:48.000 of those kicks off on Tuesday. I'm recording this on 27 00:01:48.040 --> 00:01:51.599 Monday night. You're likely going to hear this on Tuesday, 28 00:01:51.640 --> 00:01:55.359 so the WSP will be off and running. I don't 29 00:01:55.359 --> 00:01:57.599 know how often I'll have a guest or a co 30 00:01:57.680 --> 00:02:01.599 host on this show this summer, but I love the pod. 31 00:02:02.239 --> 00:02:04.159 It's my favorite thing to do when it comes to 32 00:02:04.640 --> 00:02:07.799 this job and my role within this industry. So I'm 33 00:02:07.840 --> 00:02:09.960 gonna do my damn just to bring you guys something 34 00:02:10.479 --> 00:02:14.639 every single day that I can. Maybe that's every single day, 35 00:02:14.719 --> 00:02:18.479 maybe it's ninety seven percent of the days, but we'll 36 00:02:18.520 --> 00:02:22.719 see how it goes. This year's twenty five K Fantasy 37 00:02:22.840 --> 00:02:29.240 Draft had twenty four teams. I did not participate this year. 38 00:02:29.800 --> 00:02:32.080 I'll get into that in a little bit my thoughts 39 00:02:32.080 --> 00:02:35.199 on why I didn't do it, But yeah, twenty four 40 00:02:35.240 --> 00:02:38.000 teams this year. That ties the record. The record was 41 00:02:38.000 --> 00:02:41.039 set last year also with twenty four teams, it did 42 00:02:41.080 --> 00:02:44.000 look like there might be twenty five this year. Everyone's 43 00:02:44.080 --> 00:02:46.639 kind of hanging around the studio waiting to get things 44 00:02:46.759 --> 00:02:50.240 kicked off. Daniel announced up at the front of the 45 00:02:50.319 --> 00:02:53.240 room that there were twenty five teams, but then shortly 46 00:02:53.280 --> 00:02:56.199 thereafter he said, you know, there's twenty four teams, so 47 00:02:56.479 --> 00:02:59.439 maybe somebody backed out, couldn't make it last minute, whatever 48 00:02:59.479 --> 00:03:02.039 the case may be, that tends to happen, you know, 49 00:03:02.159 --> 00:03:07.199 every single year. I'm also interesting that twenty four squads 50 00:03:07.199 --> 00:03:09.840 this year. That's a great turnout. Many of us went 51 00:03:09.840 --> 00:03:13.080 into this even though I had known that I wasn't 52 00:03:13.080 --> 00:03:16.400 going to be participating this year, you know, I still 53 00:03:16.960 --> 00:03:19.240 kept them an eye on things, and it just felt 54 00:03:19.280 --> 00:03:21.719 like the number was gonna be down a little bit. 55 00:03:21.759 --> 00:03:23.639 I mean, twenty four is a big ass number from 56 00:03:23.719 --> 00:03:26.919 last year, right, And then you know you hear like, okay, 57 00:03:26.960 --> 00:03:28.879 this this person's not gonna have a team this year, 58 00:03:28.960 --> 00:03:30.680 or this team's not going to be back this year, 59 00:03:30.800 --> 00:03:32.879 or this team over here and this team over there 60 00:03:32.960 --> 00:03:34.919 like they're gonna comebine and just be one team. So 61 00:03:35.240 --> 00:03:39.000 you know, I'm thinking, okay, seventeen eighteen nineteen. Maybe in 62 00:03:39.039 --> 00:03:42.400 that realm is where it's going to land. Next thing, 63 00:03:42.400 --> 00:03:45.039 you know, I mean, there's like sixty seventy people in 64 00:03:45.080 --> 00:03:47.120 the studio and I'm looking around like, holy crap, half 65 00:03:47.199 --> 00:03:48.800 these people I don't even know. It looks like a 66 00:03:48.800 --> 00:03:51.639 bunch of new players in here. So they ended on 67 00:03:51.800 --> 00:03:54.919 twenty four Daniel did announce that first place would be 68 00:03:55.159 --> 00:03:58.960 two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, so ten x the 69 00:03:59.080 --> 00:04:01.960 twenty five K buy in. He also said the top 70 00:04:01.960 --> 00:04:05.080 five spots would be paid, so that's gonna be the 71 00:04:05.080 --> 00:04:07.639 payoff structure for this one. Twenty five K Fantasy dot 72 00:04:07.719 --> 00:04:09.759 Com is where you guys can get all the information. 73 00:04:10.599 --> 00:04:13.240 You can follow things throughout the summer. Twenty five K 74 00:04:13.319 --> 00:04:17.800 Fantasy dot Com keeps everything updated as best as I 75 00:04:17.839 --> 00:04:20.439 have ever seen, you know, better than almost better than 76 00:04:20.480 --> 00:04:23.439 like the official tournament reports at times. They keep all 77 00:04:23.480 --> 00:04:26.000 the scoring up to dates, you know, all the team rankings, 78 00:04:26.079 --> 00:04:29.439 the league leaderboard and standings. They got all the rules 79 00:04:29.439 --> 00:04:32.000 there that you can dig into. You can also look 80 00:04:32.040 --> 00:04:34.319 at some past history of stuff, you know, past history 81 00:04:34.319 --> 00:04:39.240 of players drafted, how much they went for scoring, past teams, 82 00:04:39.279 --> 00:04:40.920 how they were constructed and put together. 83 00:04:40.959 --> 00:04:42.160 All that sort of stuff that's. 84 00:04:42.040 --> 00:04:45.120 Over on twenty five K fantasy dot com and twenty 85 00:04:45.120 --> 00:04:47.120 five K fantasy dot com is where you will also 86 00:04:47.160 --> 00:04:53.519 find information on David ODB Baker's fantasy league, appropriately titled 87 00:04:53.639 --> 00:04:56.439 ODB Fantasy, so you can find that. There's a special 88 00:04:56.480 --> 00:04:59.040 tab on twenty five K fantasy dot Com for the 89 00:04:59.079 --> 00:05:02.839 ODB Fansantas League and ODB is one of four players 90 00:05:03.319 --> 00:05:06.680 that I spoke to after the draft was over. I 91 00:05:06.720 --> 00:05:09.279 caught up with Sean Deep. He was the first team 92 00:05:09.759 --> 00:05:13.399 that completed filling out his roster of all eight players, 93 00:05:13.399 --> 00:05:16.560 I caught up with him. I talked to ODB, I 94 00:05:16.600 --> 00:05:18.879 talked to Jeremy Becker, and then I went out and 95 00:05:18.879 --> 00:05:21.839 I got Ryan Steiner. Now that name you may not 96 00:05:21.959 --> 00:05:25.680 know Ryan Steiner. Believe he's out of Arizona player, plays 97 00:05:25.680 --> 00:05:28.199 a lot of poker tournaments around the place I think 98 00:05:28.279 --> 00:05:31.399 you might remember him from would be We did a 99 00:05:31.480 --> 00:05:36.399 Venetian Poker live tournament stream within the last year or 100 00:05:36.439 --> 00:05:39.560 so and Steiner was a part of that and made 101 00:05:39.600 --> 00:05:43.399 the final table. I believe went pretty deep there. Also 102 00:05:43.560 --> 00:05:47.319 won the Arizona State Poker Championship. I believe back to 103 00:05:47.399 --> 00:05:50.839 back years if I'm not mistaken. The reason why I 104 00:05:50.879 --> 00:05:53.439 wanted to talk to Steiner specifically is because he's a 105 00:05:53.519 --> 00:05:57.040 rookie this year in twenty five K Fantasy. I'd been 106 00:05:57.040 --> 00:06:00.399 in his shoes before, being a rookie coming into that room, 107 00:06:00.399 --> 00:06:03.160 plopping down twenty five K, you know, battling with some 108 00:06:03.199 --> 00:06:06.560 of the biggest names in poker in this fantasy league. 109 00:06:06.560 --> 00:06:09.480 But he got right in and you know, I'll spoil 110 00:06:09.519 --> 00:06:12.199 a little bit, but I love his team, I really 111 00:06:12.279 --> 00:06:14.720 really do. So we'll talk to him as well. So 112 00:06:14.720 --> 00:06:16.360 those are the four players that you'll hear from on 113 00:06:16.480 --> 00:06:21.079 this show, Sean Deep, David Baker, Jeremie Becker, and Ryan Steiner. 114 00:06:22.040 --> 00:06:24.079 Now I told you I would tell you about why 115 00:06:24.199 --> 00:06:27.199 I didn't get involved this year. You know, every single year, 116 00:06:28.319 --> 00:06:30.959 I plan that when the calendar turns over to a 117 00:06:31.000 --> 00:06:35.240 new year, when January rolls around, that I'll start working 118 00:06:35.279 --> 00:06:37.759 on my spreadsheets. I'll start updating everything. 119 00:06:37.800 --> 00:06:38.600 I have a. 120 00:06:38.560 --> 00:06:44.439 Whole big Google doc Google sheets, you know, all worked out. 121 00:06:44.639 --> 00:06:47.480 I start updating everything. I import all the results from 122 00:06:47.560 --> 00:06:50.800 last year's w SOOP, I pull results from elsewhere in 123 00:06:50.839 --> 00:06:52.959 the poker world that I think are notable results that 124 00:06:53.000 --> 00:06:55.839 I should start digging into and I really just start 125 00:06:55.879 --> 00:06:59.120 aggregating all of this data and I put it together. 126 00:06:59.519 --> 00:07:01.199 And I don't do this all at once, and I 127 00:07:01.199 --> 00:07:04.240 don't spend a lot of time like per day when 128 00:07:04.279 --> 00:07:07.040 I sit down, but maybe a couple hours a week. 129 00:07:07.279 --> 00:07:10.560 And that's why I give myself from January all the 130 00:07:10.560 --> 00:07:13.240 way up until the end of May, because you know, 131 00:07:13.279 --> 00:07:15.199 I don't want to just be cramming, cram and cramming 132 00:07:15.279 --> 00:07:17.720 for like two or three weeks straight, So just working 133 00:07:17.759 --> 00:07:19.360 on a couple hours a week, and that's how I 134 00:07:19.399 --> 00:07:21.519 go about it. Now. This year, I don't know, January 135 00:07:21.600 --> 00:07:25.800 rolled around, calendars flying by, and I just really didn't 136 00:07:25.879 --> 00:07:28.279 think about it that much, just in terms of getting 137 00:07:28.360 --> 00:07:31.959 motivated to do it, and next thing you know, it's February, 138 00:07:32.319 --> 00:07:35.639 next thing you know, it's March. I hadn't even messaged 139 00:07:36.360 --> 00:07:40.720 my fellow teammates that I often you know, deep dive with, 140 00:07:41.000 --> 00:07:43.399 do research with, you know, get in the draft room 141 00:07:43.439 --> 00:07:45.600 with all that sort of stuff. I hadn't really talked 142 00:07:45.600 --> 00:07:47.240 to anyone about it. I don't know, I just didn't 143 00:07:47.240 --> 00:07:49.920 feel like I wanted to do it. And I'm somebody 144 00:07:49.920 --> 00:07:51.959 who likes to I don't know, listen to what my 145 00:07:52.000 --> 00:07:54.360 mind and my body are telling me. So I said, whatever, 146 00:07:54.600 --> 00:07:56.439 you know, maybe it'll come around, maybe it won't. Well 147 00:07:56.439 --> 00:07:58.040 we'll just we'll just see how it goes. No real 148 00:07:58.199 --> 00:08:01.839 reason to force it. I also felt, you know, maybe 149 00:08:02.279 --> 00:08:05.600 once people start talking about it, once I see maybe 150 00:08:05.639 --> 00:08:08.000 a couple people hit me up asking me to buy 151 00:08:08.759 --> 00:08:11.199 a share of the team, maybe i'll see, you know, 152 00:08:11.279 --> 00:08:14.680 Daniel posted on social media that it's coming up. Get 153 00:08:14.720 --> 00:08:17.279 your teams together. Maybe I'll see some people, you know, 154 00:08:17.319 --> 00:08:19.480 put their schedules out there, thinking, hey, I want to 155 00:08:19.480 --> 00:08:23.839 get drafted. Maybe that'll, you know, spark the motivation for me. 156 00:08:24.319 --> 00:08:28.279 But it just never happened. So yeah, so here I am. 157 00:08:28.680 --> 00:08:31.680 I don't have a team. I feel fine about it, 158 00:08:31.720 --> 00:08:33.720 you know, I don't. I don't really feel any fomo, 159 00:08:34.159 --> 00:08:36.200 but I still want to talk about it. I do 160 00:08:36.279 --> 00:08:40.960 think fantasy poker as a whole is awesome. I do 161 00:08:41.039 --> 00:08:44.159 really want it to grow. You know, obviously, not everyone 162 00:08:44.360 --> 00:08:47.720 has the means to be able to fire twenty five 163 00:08:47.879 --> 00:08:52.320 k into a very exclusive fantasy league like the twenty 164 00:08:52.320 --> 00:08:54.639 five K Fantasy, But I know plenty of people out 165 00:08:54.639 --> 00:08:57.600 there have five hundred bucks that they can fire into 166 00:08:57.600 --> 00:09:00.639 the ODB Fantasy. So if that's your fancy, I would 167 00:09:00.679 --> 00:09:02.759 highly encourage you to do so. And again, all that 168 00:09:02.840 --> 00:09:05.759 information for both the different leagues is available over at 169 00:09:05.799 --> 00:09:09.799 twenty five k fantasy dot com. As a reminder, every 170 00:09:09.840 --> 00:09:13.799 team gets two hundred auction dollars that they bid on players. 171 00:09:14.039 --> 00:09:18.080 The roster is constructed of eight players. You got you 172 00:09:18.120 --> 00:09:20.720 gotta pick eight. You can't pick seven, you can't pick six, No, 173 00:09:20.840 --> 00:09:22.799 you gotta you gotta pick eight, and then you can't 174 00:09:22.840 --> 00:09:25.440 spend more than two hundred dollars. It goes around the room. 175 00:09:25.519 --> 00:09:25.679 You know. 176 00:09:25.759 --> 00:09:28.960 The first team that gets a drawn to nominate, they 177 00:09:28.960 --> 00:09:31.320 got to throw a player out. The bidding happens back 178 00:09:31.360 --> 00:09:34.840 and forth. They'll settle on teams. I'm sure many of 179 00:09:34.840 --> 00:09:36.840 you out there who are listening know how it all 180 00:09:36.879 --> 00:09:39.879 goes by now, if you missed the draft and you 181 00:09:39.919 --> 00:09:42.200 want to relive it or maybe skip through and catch 182 00:09:42.240 --> 00:09:44.600 some of the highlights. We did stream it on the 183 00:09:44.600 --> 00:09:47.960 Poker Go YouTube channel. The draft did take place at 184 00:09:48.000 --> 00:09:51.039 the Poker Goro studio, so we turned on the cameras. 185 00:09:51.039 --> 00:09:53.120 We fired up the live stream for this one. It 186 00:09:53.200 --> 00:09:56.120 went about four or five hours, I believe was scheduled. 187 00:09:56.159 --> 00:09:58.600 The kickoff at four thirty. Got started a little bit late, 188 00:09:58.840 --> 00:10:01.720 finished I don't know, nine nine thirty something like that. 189 00:10:01.799 --> 00:10:04.919 I think wasn't really looking at the clock, but you know, 190 00:10:04.960 --> 00:10:06.840 you guys can check it out if you want. I know, 191 00:10:06.879 --> 00:10:10.159 it was a little bit later here in Vegas, so 192 00:10:10.200 --> 00:10:12.399 maybe not everyone in other parts of the world were 193 00:10:12.399 --> 00:10:15.799 able to tune in, but really lively chat was going on. 194 00:10:15.840 --> 00:10:18.120 You know. Obviously people are debating if picks were good 195 00:10:18.200 --> 00:10:20.080 or bad, if they were valuable or not, all that 196 00:10:20.080 --> 00:10:24.240 sort of stuff. So yeah, and then just just looking 197 00:10:24.240 --> 00:10:25.639 over the teams, you know, I'm just gonna kind of 198 00:10:25.639 --> 00:10:27.679 go through. You know, I was in the room, so 199 00:10:27.720 --> 00:10:30.200 I kind of I had some thoughts when things were happening, 200 00:10:30.600 --> 00:10:33.519 you know, in the moment. But I'm also now looking 201 00:10:33.559 --> 00:10:35.639 at all twenty four of the teams and I'm kind 202 00:10:35.639 --> 00:10:38.120 of just kind of go through them, and I guess 203 00:10:39.000 --> 00:10:41.320 touch on you know, what I think is maybe good 204 00:10:41.399 --> 00:10:44.120 or bad. I will say that I do feel like 205 00:10:44.200 --> 00:10:47.720 I am somewhat of an expert in this regard. I 206 00:10:47.720 --> 00:10:50.120 guess I have played this thing many times. 207 00:10:50.159 --> 00:10:50.360 Again. 208 00:10:50.399 --> 00:10:53.000 I love Fantasy Poker. We did win it one year too, 209 00:10:53.120 --> 00:10:56.200 so you know, typically cap to us for being able 210 00:10:56.240 --> 00:10:58.879 to do that first team that that's on my list. 211 00:10:59.440 --> 00:11:01.240 I'm just gonna go with how it was on the 212 00:11:01.279 --> 00:11:03.840 Google sheet. But this is also the first team that finished, 213 00:11:04.200 --> 00:11:07.840 which belongs to Sean Deeb. He's Team Lucky if you're 214 00:11:07.879 --> 00:11:10.240 looking for his team over on twenty five k fantasy 215 00:11:10.279 --> 00:11:15.600 dot com. He has Esther Taylor, Max Nusbauer, Frankie Brannon, 216 00:11:15.799 --> 00:11:19.559 Dylan Wiseman, Martin Cabrell, Carrie katz Ze, Nig Zizka, and 217 00:11:19.559 --> 00:11:23.799 Andreas Frolick. I spoke with Sean afterwards. I'll get to 218 00:11:23.840 --> 00:11:26.960 that interview in a little bit, but you know, Sean 219 00:11:27.159 --> 00:11:30.559 was like, you know, a lot of these guys are European. 220 00:11:30.840 --> 00:11:33.159 People may not know about him. I'm in a room 221 00:11:33.159 --> 00:11:36.360 with a bunch of dumb Americans, and I really love 222 00:11:36.440 --> 00:11:39.519 my team. I have some question marks around the picks 223 00:11:39.559 --> 00:11:43.480 of Esther Taylor Eta. You know, it's just more of 224 00:11:43.600 --> 00:11:46.600 like what sort of volume are we gonna get from her? 225 00:11:46.919 --> 00:11:48.960 I know she plays mixed games, and there's obviously a 226 00:11:49.000 --> 00:11:52.720 lot of mixed games on the schedule, but I don't 227 00:11:52.759 --> 00:11:56.159 think you can go like just a mixed games person player, 228 00:11:56.279 --> 00:11:58.519 right Like, I just I don't know. I feel like 229 00:11:58.559 --> 00:12:01.200 they need to be playing kind of everything. I'm I'm 230 00:12:01.240 --> 00:12:05.120 a big, big volume guy when it comes to constructing 231 00:12:05.159 --> 00:12:07.879 a team. I think you just need max volume. And 232 00:12:07.960 --> 00:12:10.159 deep did say he thinks that. You know, his team 233 00:12:10.240 --> 00:12:12.919 probably has the most volume of any other team, which 234 00:12:13.399 --> 00:12:15.120 I guess is hard for him to say because when 235 00:12:15.120 --> 00:12:17.799 I talked with him, he got done and he was 236 00:12:17.879 --> 00:12:21.320 gonna leave, and there was still multiple hours left in 237 00:12:21.360 --> 00:12:23.720 the draft. You know, teams were like half done. So 238 00:12:25.080 --> 00:12:27.000 I don't know how he can say that right now, 239 00:12:27.039 --> 00:12:28.879 but you know, it is what it is. I do 240 00:12:29.000 --> 00:12:30.840 love the Martin Cabrell pick. 241 00:12:31.159 --> 00:12:31.440 Now. 242 00:12:31.600 --> 00:12:35.159 I know Martin Cabrell is an extremely polarizing player, but 243 00:12:35.240 --> 00:12:40.279 Martin Cabrell for sixty nine dollars is quite nice, no 244 00:12:40.399 --> 00:12:45.679 pun intended. I mean he's a guy who I mean 245 00:12:45.720 --> 00:12:49.480 he only plays the wop or at least it's ninety 246 00:12:49.600 --> 00:12:54.480 nine pop. He's gonna be out there raising all types 247 00:12:54.519 --> 00:12:58.200 of hell in the fifteen hundred dollars monster stack all 248 00:12:58.240 --> 00:12:59.480 the way up to the two hundred and fifty k 249 00:12:59.559 --> 00:13:01.919 super High. I mean, he's he's gonna play it all. 250 00:13:02.639 --> 00:13:05.240 Last year, you know, he won a bracelet in the minime. 251 00:13:05.600 --> 00:13:08.519 You know, one K buying you know, multiple thousands of 252 00:13:08.559 --> 00:13:11.120 players in that field. But then he's also someone who 253 00:13:11.200 --> 00:13:12.720 he's going to be in the twenty five k's, he's 254 00:13:12.759 --> 00:13:14.840 going to be in the fifties, the one hundred k's, 255 00:13:14.919 --> 00:13:17.039 the two fifty, like, he's going to be doing. 256 00:13:16.879 --> 00:13:17.440 All of it now. 257 00:13:17.519 --> 00:13:22.039 Yeah, Martin likely doesn't play all the mixed games unless 258 00:13:22.039 --> 00:13:24.120 he learned some recently that I don't know about. But 259 00:13:24.600 --> 00:13:26.879 he's going to be firing all the no limit stuff. 260 00:13:26.879 --> 00:13:28.919 He's going to be firing all the PLO stuff. So 261 00:13:29.480 --> 00:13:33.159 I really do like Martin Cabrell for sixty nine there, 262 00:13:33.200 --> 00:13:35.519 Like I think he's a player who, you know, you 263 00:13:35.519 --> 00:13:39.159 could make the case that he could push eighty ninety 264 00:13:39.480 --> 00:13:43.720 maybe even kind of flirt with three digits. So yeah, 265 00:13:43.840 --> 00:13:47.960 you know, Max Neusbauer, I don't. I mean, he was 266 00:13:47.960 --> 00:13:49.480 in the room and he had a team and he 267 00:13:49.519 --> 00:13:53.000 was bidding on himself. So I think that alone tells 268 00:13:53.039 --> 00:13:56.559 me that he has interest and d was able to 269 00:13:56.639 --> 00:13:58.919 snatch him up. Carry Katz I always think is a 270 00:13:58.919 --> 00:14:01.639 pretty goodbye. You know, Carry freaking loves it. He'll be 271 00:14:01.679 --> 00:14:05.039 there every day. So twelve dollars for Kerry Katz I 272 00:14:05.320 --> 00:14:07.960 think is really good. Is that in Axisco I don't 273 00:14:07.960 --> 00:14:11.320 really know too much about, and the same with Andreas Frolick. 274 00:14:11.440 --> 00:14:15.639 But you know, I'm guessing they're pretty good European players. 275 00:14:16.000 --> 00:14:18.639 But enough for me, let's just hear it right from 276 00:14:18.840 --> 00:14:22.720 the man himself. This is Sean Deep. Hi, Sean Deep, 277 00:14:23.279 --> 00:14:25.440 you are the first team to wrap up in the 278 00:14:25.480 --> 00:14:28.440 twenty five K Fantasy Draft. You just shared a little 279 00:14:28.480 --> 00:14:29.919 bit of thoughts hot way, how did it go? 280 00:14:30.360 --> 00:14:33.480 I think that most of the team captains are Americans. 281 00:14:33.480 --> 00:14:36.080 They don't know who the fuck I drafted. I have 282 00:14:36.360 --> 00:14:40.200 four amazing Europeans who put on amazing results in Walter's Europe. 283 00:14:40.320 --> 00:14:42.679 They're all gonna put it in a fan volume like 284 00:14:42.919 --> 00:14:44.080 I love my team. 285 00:14:44.360 --> 00:14:46.279 I think everyone I got on my team I would 286 00:14:46.279 --> 00:14:48.799 have paid at least ten dollars more for, if not more. 287 00:14:49.399 --> 00:14:52.919 So obviously I'm willing to coach them the mixed games. 288 00:14:53.639 --> 00:14:56.960 You know they have money behind them. It's just the 289 00:14:56.960 --> 00:14:59.960 amount of volume and tournaments buyings played in my group 290 00:15:00.480 --> 00:15:03.080 is probably gonna be number one of any team. So 291 00:15:03.960 --> 00:15:07.440 it's yeah, I'm shocked. Like there's so many people I 292 00:15:07.440 --> 00:15:10.360 got stumbled upon that I just laughed at. I think 293 00:15:10.480 --> 00:15:13.480 no one knows who they are and listen, I'm out 294 00:15:13.480 --> 00:15:16.120 of poker. I'm not that knowledgeable, but I guess, going 295 00:15:16.120 --> 00:15:17.720 on a will two's year up the last you know, 296 00:15:17.799 --> 00:15:21.000 ten years, I've met some people who are amazing poker players, 297 00:15:21.039 --> 00:15:23.559 amazing people to root for. Everyone on my team is 298 00:15:23.600 --> 00:15:25.240 begging for pieces. I'm going to make a ton of 299 00:15:25.240 --> 00:15:28.200 side bets and yeah, it's a it's a good spot 300 00:15:28.240 --> 00:15:28.519 to be in. 301 00:15:29.960 --> 00:15:32.159 Who on your team do you think is your best pick? 302 00:15:33.320 --> 00:15:36.480 Carry Katz for sure? You got him for twelve dollars, 303 00:15:36.879 --> 00:15:39.200 What a fucking joke. I think Carry's going for like 304 00:15:39.200 --> 00:15:41.240 fifty to seventy. A few years I had him a 305 00:15:41.240 --> 00:15:44.399 bunch of times. I love Carrie as a person. We 306 00:15:44.440 --> 00:15:46.799 already talked about me coaching him in mixed games. He 307 00:15:46.919 --> 00:15:50.679 plays nolanmitt plo well and plays the highest stakes obviously, 308 00:15:51.240 --> 00:15:53.360 and he loved you know, he wont to bracelet last year. 309 00:15:53.639 --> 00:15:55.799 I know he's not as motivated because he want to 310 00:15:55.799 --> 00:15:58.240 get his you know, the chip off his back. But 311 00:15:58.759 --> 00:16:02.639 he is an amazing person to root for. Yeah, he's 312 00:16:02.759 --> 00:16:06.080 a great student. He's obviously so fucking intelligent. Yeah, I 313 00:16:06.960 --> 00:16:08.840 think I have the smartest team. I think I have 314 00:16:09.639 --> 00:16:14.440 the Yeah, I just I'm in shock, because I literally said, 315 00:16:14.519 --> 00:16:16.840 going into this event, I was like, I'm making no 316 00:16:16.960 --> 00:16:20.120 side bets because I did no research, and I'm gonna 317 00:16:20.120 --> 00:16:22.000 have a shitty team. I always get stuck with some people, 318 00:16:22.519 --> 00:16:24.919 and I bit on some people, and I just when 319 00:16:24.960 --> 00:16:27.799 the gavel got hit, I was just looking around and 320 00:16:28.039 --> 00:16:30.720 was just like, people clearly don't know who they are, 321 00:16:30.840 --> 00:16:33.720 what they're capable of. How come you don't take yourself. 322 00:16:35.559 --> 00:16:38.519 I tried to actually take myself this year. Usually I don't. 323 00:16:39.080 --> 00:16:41.519 I also change my schedule, like I listen, I come 324 00:16:41.519 --> 00:16:43.639 here for Player of the Year. If I draft myself, 325 00:16:44.320 --> 00:16:46.279 I would if I had myself on my team, I'd 326 00:16:46.320 --> 00:16:49.080 play the five hundred tomorrow first over the five k. 327 00:16:49.840 --> 00:16:51.840 For POI, the five k is by far the play, 328 00:16:52.720 --> 00:16:56.039 but for Fantasy it's a little different. So I was 329 00:16:56.039 --> 00:16:58.679 happy to not take myself because I can avoid some 330 00:16:58.759 --> 00:17:01.559 of the biggest field stuff and I can play more 331 00:17:01.559 --> 00:17:03.799 to win and final table as opposed to to get 332 00:17:03.799 --> 00:17:06.359 the field bonus. But that's the thing I love about 333 00:17:06.400 --> 00:17:08.440 my team is I think I can coach them on 334 00:17:08.519 --> 00:17:11.799 the inflection points of fantasy and teach them the evy 335 00:17:12.359 --> 00:17:15.640 of where to stole and when not to, so I'm 336 00:17:15.640 --> 00:17:17.720 sure World Treo's gonna be pissed I'm talking about this stuff. 337 00:17:18.039 --> 00:17:21.079 But yeah, it's kind of an unfortunate thing when you 338 00:17:21.119 --> 00:17:24.359 have this much money on the line that people, you know, 339 00:17:24.799 --> 00:17:25.720 affect the tournaments. 340 00:17:25.759 --> 00:17:27.480 So yeah, I kind of. 341 00:17:27.480 --> 00:17:30.200 Exit it out, but we'll let it ride. I'm sorry, Jack. 342 00:17:30.359 --> 00:17:31.400 What do you think about your price? 343 00:17:31.440 --> 00:17:33.480 One hundred and thirty three dollars the most expensive player 344 00:17:33.519 --> 00:17:34.200 this year's draft? 345 00:17:34.680 --> 00:17:36.640 Uh, I think it's reasonable. 346 00:17:37.039 --> 00:17:41.119 Obviously the last five ten years, I've put up the 347 00:17:41.160 --> 00:17:44.799 most points per average, and obviously with my start in Europe, 348 00:17:44.799 --> 00:17:46.759 I'm going hard for Player of the Year, going to 349 00:17:46.799 --> 00:17:50.319 play a lot of the high buy ins. But it's 350 00:17:50.359 --> 00:17:53.160 also you know, I was a highest point getter last year. 351 00:17:53.400 --> 00:17:55.720 That's a hard thing to do with this many people 352 00:17:56.000 --> 00:17:59.640 and this many events. But yeah, I think it's reasonable. 353 00:17:59.720 --> 00:18:01.759 I think I have the highest floor out of anyone, 354 00:18:02.119 --> 00:18:04.480 and I think everyone agrees that here. So if you're 355 00:18:04.480 --> 00:18:06.400 gonna make side bets, if you have a lot of 356 00:18:06.440 --> 00:18:08.960 good one dollar players, if I knew I could get 357 00:18:08.960 --> 00:18:10.200 some of the people I did for what I did, 358 00:18:10.680 --> 00:18:12.920 I might have bid more on myself, Like I would 359 00:18:12.920 --> 00:18:15.079 love to have myself on my team instead. 360 00:18:14.759 --> 00:18:16.480 Of one or. 361 00:18:16.400 --> 00:18:19.359 Two other people. But I will still take my team 362 00:18:19.759 --> 00:18:22.400 versus pretty much anyone. I don't care my team's the 363 00:18:22.440 --> 00:18:25.039 first one done. I will blindly bet versus any group 364 00:18:25.079 --> 00:18:28.240 of eight if anyone wants to side bet shops open. 365 00:18:28.960 --> 00:18:31.079 Is there anyone out there that you were surprised with 366 00:18:31.319 --> 00:18:33.119 either how high they went or how low they went? 367 00:18:33.200 --> 00:18:34.839 Well, there's always a lot of things. I think. 368 00:18:34.920 --> 00:18:38.720 You know, it's crowd, everyone's drinking, everyone's distracted. Some people 369 00:18:38.799 --> 00:18:42.400 definitely go for weight, like BENI was super low. There's 370 00:18:42.440 --> 00:18:44.240 just people kind of have an idea of what they 371 00:18:44.279 --> 00:18:46.400 want their team to be, and they don't bid on 372 00:18:46.519 --> 00:18:48.920 just good players. Like I wasn't planned getting most people 373 00:18:49.039 --> 00:18:52.119 on my team. I just saw them, I know their capabilities, 374 00:18:52.160 --> 00:18:54.400 and I bid on them and then the bidding just stopped. 375 00:18:54.880 --> 00:18:57.440 So yeah, it's kind of a weird spot where I 376 00:18:57.480 --> 00:19:01.480 think most people are not aggressive enough bidding on great players. 377 00:19:02.400 --> 00:19:04.200 They just kind of have an idea who they want 378 00:19:04.839 --> 00:19:07.960 and if you get someone for way below value, why 379 00:19:08.000 --> 00:19:08.559 not take them. 380 00:19:08.640 --> 00:19:10.759 I mean, it's a lot of teams in this draft. 381 00:19:11.960 --> 00:19:15.119 Obviously the side bets you want a different team floor based, 382 00:19:15.440 --> 00:19:18.440 and I was actually picking my team originally on ceiling, 383 00:19:18.799 --> 00:19:21.680 not floor, but I end up with some amazing floor guys, 384 00:19:21.839 --> 00:19:23.599 and so yeah, so now I'm making side bets. 385 00:19:24.640 --> 00:19:28.079 It's Monday night, it's Memorial Day. WSP starts tomorrow. Are 386 00:19:28.119 --> 00:19:30.799 you somebody who feels on the eve of it all 387 00:19:31.200 --> 00:19:33.039 I'm fired up? Or are you more like, okay, time 388 00:19:33.079 --> 00:19:33.960 to punch the clock. 389 00:19:33.799 --> 00:19:36.960 Nine to five. So I actually mentioned this to someone yesterday. 390 00:19:37.599 --> 00:19:40.480 I feel more pressure on myself this summer than another 391 00:19:40.559 --> 00:19:43.759 summer because of my start in Europe. Everyone just assumes 392 00:19:43.759 --> 00:19:45.799 it's back to back player of the year. I know 393 00:19:45.839 --> 00:19:47.720 how fucking hard it is to do that. 394 00:19:48.319 --> 00:19:48.880 I've tried. 395 00:19:49.599 --> 00:19:51.640 I also know how great a start I have, but 396 00:19:51.680 --> 00:19:54.000 also the variance that can be and also Bahamas will 397 00:19:54.039 --> 00:19:56.480 be huge. You know, so many big buy in small 398 00:19:56.480 --> 00:20:01.119 field events. But I'm excited to play poker. I love 399 00:20:01.200 --> 00:20:04.599 the World Series and my wife is holding down the 400 00:20:04.599 --> 00:20:06.559 ford at home and I get to be here for 401 00:20:06.720 --> 00:20:09.599