Speaker 1: Hello, everyone, Welcome to a new episode of the Poker
Speaker 1: Go Podcast. My name is Donny Peters, and I'm here
Speaker 1: solo tonight. It is it just hit eleven o'clock on
Speaker 1: the dot as I looked at my phone on Memorial Day, Monday,
Speaker 1: May twenty fifth. It is the eve of the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty six World Series of Poker. Just drove home from
Speaker 1: the Las Vegas trip from the Poker Grol studio for
Speaker 1: what was the annual twenty five K Fantasy Draft hosted
Speaker 1: by the One, the Only Daniel Negranu. That's going to
Speaker 1: be the bulk of the discussion on today's show. But first,
Speaker 1: a housekeeping item or two. I know we've been off
Speaker 1: for quite some time here on on these airwaves. Last
Speaker 1: pod was February twentieth. I looked it up. I want
Speaker 1: to see the date, February twenty. That was a hell
Speaker 1: of a long time ago. Sorry about that hiatus. Call
Speaker 1: out what you will, but we are back for WSP
Speaker 1: season and we will be coming to you multiple times
Speaker 1: a week. My plan is at least five times a week,
Speaker 1: if not daily. I just don't want to set it
Speaker 1: the expectation too high and then ultimately fall short. You know,
Speaker 1: so ultimately under to promise over deliver. That's how we're
Speaker 1: going to go about it. But I also looked at
Speaker 1: that last podcast, and it was a WSP focused podcast
Speaker 1: because we dropped it talking about the WSP schedule for
Speaker 1: this year, one hundred WSP Gold Bracelet events. The first
Speaker 1: of those kicks off on Tuesday. I'm recording this on
Speaker 1: Monday night. You're likely going to hear this on Tuesday,
Speaker 1: so the WSP will be off and running. I don't
Speaker 1: know how often I'll have a guest or a co
Speaker 1: host on this show this summer, but I love the pod.
Speaker 1: It's my favorite thing to do when it comes to
Speaker 1: this job and my role within this industry. So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna do my damn just to bring you guys something
Speaker 1: every single day that I can. Maybe that's every single day,
Speaker 1: maybe it's ninety seven percent of the days, but we'll
Speaker 1: see how it goes. This year's twenty five K Fantasy
Speaker 1: Draft had twenty four teams. I did not participate this year.
Speaker 1: I'll get into that in a little bit my thoughts
Speaker 1: on why I didn't do it, But yeah, twenty four
Speaker 1: teams this year. That ties the record. The record was
Speaker 1: set last year also with twenty four teams, it did
Speaker 1: look like there might be twenty five this year. Everyone's
Speaker 1: kind of hanging around the studio waiting to get things
Speaker 1: kicked off. Daniel announced up at the front of the
Speaker 1: room that there were twenty five teams, but then shortly
Speaker 1: thereafter he said, you know, there's twenty four teams, so
Speaker 1: maybe somebody backed out, couldn't make it last minute, whatever
Speaker 1: the case may be, that tends to happen, you know,
Speaker 1: every single year. I'm also interesting that twenty four squads
Speaker 1: this year. That's a great turnout. Many of us went
Speaker 1: into this even though I had known that I wasn't
Speaker 1: going to be participating this year, you know, I still
Speaker 1: kept them an eye on things, and it just felt
Speaker 1: like the number was gonna be down a little bit.
Speaker 1: I mean, twenty four is a big ass number from
Speaker 1: last year, right, And then you know you hear like, okay,
Speaker 1: this this person's not gonna have a team this year,
Speaker 1: or this team's not going to be back this year,
Speaker 1: or this team over here and this team over there
Speaker 1: like they're gonna comebine and just be one team. So
Speaker 1: you know, I'm thinking, okay, seventeen eighteen nineteen. Maybe in
Speaker 1: that realm is where it's going to land. Next thing,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, there's like sixty seventy people in
Speaker 1: the studio and I'm looking around like, holy crap, half
Speaker 1: these people I don't even know. It looks like a
Speaker 1: bunch of new players in here. So they ended on
Speaker 1: twenty four Daniel did announce that first place would be
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, so ten x the
Speaker 1: twenty five K buy in. He also said the top
Speaker 1: five spots would be paid, so that's gonna be the
Speaker 1: payoff structure for this one. Twenty five K Fantasy dot
Speaker 1: Com is where you guys can get all the information.
Speaker 1: You can follow things throughout the summer. Twenty five K
Speaker 1: Fantasy dot Com keeps everything updated as best as I
Speaker 1: have ever seen, you know, better than almost better than
Speaker 1: like the official tournament reports at times. They keep all
Speaker 1: the scoring up to dates, you know, all the team rankings,
Speaker 1: the league leaderboard and standings. They got all the rules
Speaker 1: there that you can dig into. You can also look
Speaker 1: at some past history of stuff, you know, past history
Speaker 1: of players drafted, how much they went for scoring, past teams,
Speaker 1: how they were constructed and put together.
Speaker 2: All that sort of stuff that's.
Speaker 1: Over on twenty five K fantasy dot com and twenty
Speaker 1: five K fantasy dot com is where you will also
Speaker 1: find information on David ODB Baker's fantasy league, appropriately titled
Speaker 1: ODB Fantasy, so you can find that. There's a special
Speaker 1: tab on twenty five K fantasy dot Com for the
Speaker 1: ODB Fansantas League and ODB is one of four players
Speaker 1: that I spoke to after the draft was over. I
Speaker 1: caught up with Sean Deep. He was the first team
Speaker 1: that completed filling out his roster of all eight players,
Speaker 1: I caught up with him. I talked to ODB, I
Speaker 1: talked to Jeremy Becker, and then I went out and
Speaker 1: I got Ryan Steiner. Now that name you may not
Speaker 1: know Ryan Steiner. Believe he's out of Arizona player, plays
Speaker 1: a lot of poker tournaments around the place I think
Speaker 1: you might remember him from would be We did a
Speaker 1: Venetian Poker live tournament stream within the last year or
Speaker 1: so and Steiner was a part of that and made
Speaker 1: the final table. I believe went pretty deep there. Also
Speaker 1: won the Arizona State Poker Championship. I believe back to
Speaker 1: back years if I'm not mistaken. The reason why I
Speaker 1: wanted to talk to Steiner specifically is because he's a
Speaker 1: rookie this year in twenty five K Fantasy. I'd been
Speaker 1: in his shoes before, being a rookie coming into that room,
Speaker 1: plopping down twenty five K, you know, battling with some
Speaker 1: of the biggest names in poker in this fantasy league.
Speaker 1: But he got right in and you know, I'll spoil
Speaker 1: a little bit, but I love his team, I really
Speaker 1: really do. So we'll talk to him as well. So
Speaker 1: those are the four players that you'll hear from on
Speaker 1: this show, Sean Deep, David Baker, Jeremie Becker, and Ryan Steiner.
Speaker 1: Now I told you I would tell you about why
Speaker 1: I didn't get involved this year. You know, every single year,
Speaker 1: I plan that when the calendar turns over to a
Speaker 1: new year, when January rolls around, that I'll start working
Speaker 1: on my spreadsheets. I'll start updating everything.
Speaker 2: I have a.
Speaker 1: Whole big Google doc Google sheets, you know, all worked out.
Speaker 1: I start updating everything. I import all the results from
Speaker 1: last year's w SOOP, I pull results from elsewhere in
Speaker 1: the poker world that I think are notable results that
Speaker 1: I should start digging into and I really just start
Speaker 1: aggregating all of this data and I put it together.
Speaker 1: And I don't do this all at once, and I
Speaker 1: don't spend a lot of time like per day when
Speaker 1: I sit down, but maybe a couple hours a week.
Speaker 1: And that's why I give myself from January all the
Speaker 1: way up until the end of May, because you know,
Speaker 1: I don't want to just be cramming, cram and cramming
Speaker 1: for like two or three weeks straight, So just working
Speaker 1: on a couple hours a week, and that's how I
Speaker 1: go about it. Now. This year, I don't know, January
Speaker 1: rolled around, calendars flying by, and I just really didn't
Speaker 1: think about it that much, just in terms of getting
Speaker 1: motivated to do it, and next thing you know, it's February,
Speaker 1: next thing you know, it's March. I hadn't even messaged
Speaker 1: my fellow teammates that I often you know, deep dive with,
Speaker 1: do research with, you know, get in the draft room
Speaker 1: with all that sort of stuff. I hadn't really talked
Speaker 1: to anyone about it. I don't know, I just didn't
Speaker 1: feel like I wanted to do it. And I'm somebody
Speaker 1: who likes to I don't know, listen to what my
Speaker 1: mind and my body are telling me. So I said, whatever,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe it'll come around, maybe it won't. Well
Speaker 1: we'll just we'll just see how it goes. No real
Speaker 1: reason to force it. I also felt, you know, maybe
Speaker 1: once people start talking about it, once I see maybe
Speaker 1: a couple people hit me up asking me to buy
Speaker 1: a share of the team, maybe i'll see, you know,
Speaker 1: Daniel posted on social media that it's coming up. Get
Speaker 1: your teams together. Maybe I'll see some people, you know,
Speaker 1: put their schedules out there, thinking, hey, I want to
Speaker 1: get drafted. Maybe that'll, you know, spark the motivation for me.
Speaker 1: But it just never happened. So yeah, so here I am.
Speaker 1: I don't have a team. I feel fine about it,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't. I don't really feel any fomo,
Speaker 1: but I still want to talk about it. I do
Speaker 1: think fantasy poker as a whole is awesome. I do
Speaker 1: really want it to grow. You know, obviously, not everyone
Speaker 1: has the means to be able to fire twenty five
Speaker 1: k into a very exclusive fantasy league like the twenty
Speaker 1: five K Fantasy, But I know plenty of people out
Speaker 1: there have five hundred bucks that they can fire into
Speaker 1: the ODB Fantasy. So if that's your fancy, I would
Speaker 1: highly encourage you to do so. And again, all that
Speaker 1: information for both the different leagues is available over at
Speaker 1: twenty five k fantasy dot com. As a reminder, every
Speaker 1: team gets two hundred auction dollars that they bid on players.
Speaker 1: The roster is constructed of eight players. You got you
Speaker 1: gotta pick eight. You can't pick seven, you can't pick six, No,
Speaker 1: you gotta you gotta pick eight, and then you can't
Speaker 1: spend more than two hundred dollars. It goes around the room.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: The first team that gets a drawn to nominate, they
Speaker 1: got to throw a player out. The bidding happens back
Speaker 1: and forth. They'll settle on teams. I'm sure many of
Speaker 1: you out there who are listening know how it all
Speaker 1: goes by now, if you missed the draft and you
Speaker 1: want to relive it or maybe skip through and catch
Speaker 1: some of the highlights. We did stream it on the
Speaker 1: Poker Go YouTube channel. The draft did take place at
Speaker 1: the Poker Goro studio, so we turned on the cameras.
Speaker 1: We fired up the live stream for this one. It
Speaker 1: went about four or five hours, I believe was scheduled.
Speaker 1: The kickoff at four thirty. Got started a little bit late,
Speaker 1: finished I don't know, nine nine thirty something like that.
Speaker 1: I think wasn't really looking at the clock, but you know,
Speaker 1: you guys can check it out if you want. I know,
Speaker 1: it was a little bit later here in Vegas, so
Speaker 1: maybe not everyone in other parts of the world were
Speaker 1: able to tune in, but really lively chat was going on.
Speaker 1: You know. Obviously people are debating if picks were good
Speaker 1: or bad, if they were valuable or not, all that
Speaker 1: sort of stuff. So yeah, and then just just looking
Speaker 1: over the teams, you know, I'm just gonna kind of
Speaker 1: go through. You know, I was in the room, so
Speaker 1: I kind of I had some thoughts when things were happening,
Speaker 1: you know, in the moment. But I'm also now looking
Speaker 1: at all twenty four of the teams and I'm kind
Speaker 1: of just kind of go through them, and I guess
Speaker 1: touch on you know, what I think is maybe good
Speaker 1: or bad. I will say that I do feel like
Speaker 1: I am somewhat of an expert in this regard. I
Speaker 1: guess I have played this thing many times.
Speaker 2: Again.
Speaker 1: I love Fantasy Poker. We did win it one year too,
Speaker 1: so you know, typically cap to us for being able
Speaker 1: to do that first team that that's on my list.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna go with how it was on the
Speaker 1: Google sheet. But this is also the first team that finished,
Speaker 1: which belongs to Sean Deeb. He's Team Lucky if you're
Speaker 1: looking for his team over on twenty five k fantasy
Speaker 1: dot com. He has Esther Taylor, Max Nusbauer, Frankie Brannon,
Speaker 1: Dylan Wiseman, Martin Cabrell, Carrie katz Ze, Nig Zizka, and
Speaker 1: Andreas Frolick. I spoke with Sean afterwards. I'll get to
Speaker 1: that interview in a little bit, but you know, Sean
Speaker 1: was like, you know, a lot of these guys are European.
Speaker 1: People may not know about him. I'm in a room
Speaker 1: with a bunch of dumb Americans, and I really love
Speaker 1: my team. I have some question marks around the picks
Speaker 1: of Esther Taylor Eta. You know, it's just more of
Speaker 1: like what sort of volume are we gonna get from her?
Speaker 1: I know she plays mixed games, and there's obviously a
Speaker 1: lot of mixed games on the schedule, but I don't
Speaker 1: think you can go like just a mixed games person player,
Speaker 1: right Like, I just I don't know. I feel like
Speaker 1: they need to be playing kind of everything. I'm I'm
Speaker 1: a big, big volume guy when it comes to constructing
Speaker 1: a team. I think you just need max volume. And
Speaker 1: deep did say he thinks that. You know, his team
Speaker 1: probably has the most volume of any other team, which
Speaker 1: I guess is hard for him to say because when
Speaker 1: I talked with him, he got done and he was
Speaker 1: gonna leave, and there was still multiple hours left in
Speaker 1: the draft. You know, teams were like half done. So
Speaker 1: I don't know how he can say that right now,
Speaker 1: but you know, it is what it is. I do
Speaker 1: love the Martin Cabrell pick.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: I know Martin Cabrell is an extremely polarizing player, but
Speaker 1: Martin Cabrell for sixty nine dollars is quite nice, no
Speaker 1: pun intended. I mean he's a guy who I mean
Speaker 1: he only plays the wop or at least it's ninety
Speaker 1: nine pop. He's gonna be out there raising all types
Speaker 1: of hell in the fifteen hundred dollars monster stack all
Speaker 1: the way up to the two hundred and fifty k
Speaker 1: super High. I mean, he's he's gonna play it all.
Speaker 1: Last year, you know, he won a bracelet in the minime.
Speaker 1: You know, one K buying you know, multiple thousands of
Speaker 1: players in that field. But then he's also someone who
Speaker 1: he's going to be in the twenty five k's, he's
Speaker 1: going to be in the fifties, the one hundred k's,
Speaker 1: the two fifty, like, he's going to be doing.
Speaker 2: All of it now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Martin likely doesn't play all the mixed games unless
Speaker 1: he learned some recently that I don't know about. But
Speaker 1: he's going to be firing all the no limit stuff.
Speaker 1: He's going to be firing all the PLO stuff. So
Speaker 1: I really do like Martin Cabrell for sixty nine there,
Speaker 1: Like I think he's a player who, you know, you
Speaker 1: could make the case that he could push eighty ninety
Speaker 1: maybe even kind of flirt with three digits. So yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, Max Neusbauer, I don't. I mean, he was
Speaker 1: in the room and he had a team and he
Speaker 1: was bidding on himself. So I think that alone tells
Speaker 1: me that he has interest and d was able to
Speaker 1: snatch him up. Carry Katz I always think is a
Speaker 1: pretty goodbye. You know, Carry freaking loves it. He'll be
Speaker 1: there every day. So twelve dollars for Kerry Katz I
Speaker 1: think is really good. Is that in Axisco I don't
Speaker 1: really know too much about, and the same with Andreas Frolick.
Speaker 1: But you know, I'm guessing they're pretty good European players.
Speaker 1: But enough for me, let's just hear it right from
Speaker 1: the man himself. This is Sean Deep. Hi, Sean Deep,
Speaker 1: you are the first team to wrap up in the
Speaker 1: twenty five K Fantasy Draft. You just shared a little
Speaker 1: bit of thoughts hot way, how did it go?
Speaker 4: I think that most of the team captains are Americans.
Speaker 4: They don't know who the fuck I drafted. I have
Speaker 4: four amazing Europeans who put on amazing results in Walter's Europe.
Speaker 2: They're all gonna put it in a fan volume like
Speaker 2: I love my team.
Speaker 4: I think everyone I got on my team I would
Speaker 4: have paid at least ten dollars more for, if not more.
Speaker 4: So obviously I'm willing to coach them the mixed games.
Speaker 4: You know they have money behind them. It's just the
Speaker 4: amount of volume and tournaments buyings played in my group
Speaker 4: is probably gonna be number one of any team. So
Speaker 4: it's yeah, I'm shocked. Like there's so many people I
Speaker 4: got stumbled upon that I just laughed at. I think
Speaker 4: no one knows who they are and listen, I'm out
Speaker 4: of poker. I'm not that knowledgeable, but I guess, going
Speaker 4: on a will two's year up the last you know,
Speaker 4: ten years, I've met some people who are amazing poker players,
Speaker 4: amazing people to root for. Everyone on my team is
Speaker 4: begging for pieces. I'm going to make a ton of
Speaker 4: side bets and yeah, it's a it's a good spot
Speaker 4: to be in.
Speaker 2: Who on your team do you think is your best pick?
Speaker 4: Carry Katz for sure? You got him for twelve dollars,
Speaker 4: What a fucking joke. I think Carry's going for like
Speaker 4: fifty to seventy. A few years I had him a
Speaker 4: bunch of times. I love Carrie as a person. We
Speaker 4: already talked about me coaching him in mixed games. He
Speaker 4: plays nolanmitt plo well and plays the highest stakes obviously,
Speaker 4: and he loved you know, he wont to bracelet last year.
Speaker 4: I know he's not as motivated because he want to
Speaker 4: get his you know, the chip off his back. But
Speaker 4: he is an amazing person to root for. Yeah, he's
Speaker 4: a great student. He's obviously so fucking intelligent. Yeah, I
Speaker 4: think I have the smartest team. I think I have
Speaker 4: the Yeah, I just I'm in shock, because I literally said,
Speaker 4: going into this event, I was like, I'm making no
Speaker 4: side bets because I did no research, and I'm gonna
Speaker 4: have a shitty team. I always get stuck with some people,
Speaker 4: and I bit on some people, and I just when
Speaker 4: the gavel got hit, I was just looking around and
Speaker 4: was just like, people clearly don't know who they are,
Speaker 4: what they're capable of. How come you don't take yourself.
Speaker 4: I tried to actually take myself this year. Usually I don't.
Speaker 4: I also change my schedule, like I listen, I come
Speaker 4: here for Player of the Year. If I draft myself,
Speaker 4: I would if I had myself on my team, I'd
Speaker 4: play the five hundred tomorrow first over the five k.
Speaker 4: For POI, the five k is by far the play,
Speaker 4: but for Fantasy it's a little different. So I was
Speaker 4: happy to not take myself because I can avoid some
Speaker 4: of the biggest field stuff and I can play more
Speaker 4: to win and final table as opposed to to get
Speaker 4: the field bonus. But that's the thing I love about
Speaker 4: my team is I think I can coach them on
Speaker 4: the inflection points of fantasy and teach them the evy
Speaker 4: of where to stole and when not to, so I'm
Speaker 4: sure World Treo's gonna be pissed I'm talking about this stuff.
Speaker 4: But yeah, it's kind of an unfortunate thing when you
Speaker 4: have this much money on the line that people, you know,
Speaker 4: affect the tournaments.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I kind of.
Speaker 4: Exit it out, but we'll let it ride. I'm sorry, Jack.
Speaker 4: What do you think about your price?
Speaker 1: One hundred and thirty three dollars the most expensive player
Speaker 1: this year's draft?
Speaker 2: Uh, I think it's reasonable.
Speaker 4: Obviously the last five ten years, I've put up the
Speaker 4: most points per average, and obviously with my start in Europe,
Speaker 4: I'm going hard for Player of the Year, going to
Speaker 4: play a lot of the high buy ins. But it's
Speaker 4: also you know, I was a highest point getter last year.
Speaker 4: That's a hard thing to do with this many people
Speaker 4: and this many events. But yeah, I think it's reasonable.
Speaker 4: I think I have the highest floor out of anyone,
Speaker 4: and I think everyone agrees that here. So if you're
Speaker 4: gonna make side bets, if you have a lot of
Speaker 4: good one dollar players, if I knew I could get
Speaker 4: some of the people I did for what I did,
Speaker 4: I might have bid more on myself, Like I would
Speaker 4: love to have myself on my team instead.
Speaker 1: Of one or.
Speaker 4: Two other people. But I will still take my team
Speaker 4: versus pretty much anyone. I don't care my team's the
Speaker 4: first one done. I will blindly bet versus any group
Speaker 4: of eight if anyone wants to side bet shops open.
Speaker 1: Is there anyone out there that you were surprised with
Speaker 1: either how high they went or how low they went?
Speaker 2: Well, there's always a lot of things. I think.
Speaker 4: You know, it's crowd, everyone's drinking, everyone's distracted. Some people
Speaker 4: definitely go for weight, like BENI was super low. There's
Speaker 4: just people kind of have an idea of what they
Speaker 4: want their team to be, and they don't bid on
Speaker 4: just good players. Like I wasn't planned getting most people
Speaker 4: on my team. I just saw them, I know their capabilities,
Speaker 4: and I bid on them and then the bidding just stopped.
Speaker 4: So yeah, it's kind of a weird spot where I
Speaker 4: think most people are not aggressive enough bidding on great players.
Speaker 4: They just kind of have an idea who they want
Speaker 4: and if you get someone for way below value, why
Speaker 4: not take them.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's a lot of teams in this draft.
Speaker 4: Obviously the side bets you want a different team floor based,
Speaker 4: and I was actually picking my team originally on ceiling,
Speaker 4: not floor, but I end up with some amazing floor guys,
Speaker 4: and so yeah, so now I'm making side bets.
Speaker 1: It's Monday night, it's Memorial Day. WSP starts tomorrow. Are
Speaker 1: you somebody who feels on the eve of it all
Speaker 1: I'm fired up? Or are you more like, okay, time
Speaker 1: to punch the clock.
Speaker 2: Nine to five. So I actually mentioned this to someone yesterday.
Speaker 4: I feel more pressure on myself this summer than another
Speaker 4: summer because of my start in Europe. Everyone just assumes
Speaker 4: it's back to back player of the year. I know
Speaker 4: how fucking hard it is to do that.
Speaker 2: I've tried.
Speaker 4: I also know how great a start I have, but
Speaker 4: also the variance that can be and also Bahamas will
Speaker 4: be huge. You know, so many big buy in small
Speaker 4: field events. But I'm excited to play poker. I love
Speaker 4: the World Series and my wife is holding down the
Speaker 4: ford at home and I get to be here for
Speaker 4: fifty some days and she takes care of the kids
Speaker 4: and every other responsibility. So now I'm in poker mode,
Speaker 4: which I haven't been in since you know, last year.
Speaker 1: If you were to predict your summer, what do the
Speaker 1: results look like?
Speaker 4: I think one win, two seconds, a fourth, and like
Speaker 4: two other final tables.
Speaker 1: All right, So that was Sean Deeb. You heard him
Speaker 1: talk about how he feels like his team is going
Speaker 1: to put in a ton of volume. He likes his
Speaker 1: team compared to any other team out there. I'm sure
Speaker 1: he's gonna have plenty of side action on the line.
Speaker 1: You know, deep is somebody who it's I mean, it's
Speaker 1: it's absolutely all or nothing every single summer. I mean,
Speaker 1: the guy is all in. He chases Player of the
Speaker 1: Year just to a crazy degree. He goes after all
Speaker 1: the brace. That's he's going to be there every single day.
Speaker 1: And then on top of it, you know he has
Speaker 1: tons of side action going for him in the fantasy stuff.
Speaker 1: So Deeb is all in every single summer. Team Glazer,
Speaker 1: that was a Benny team Glaser. Excuse me, Benny Glaser
Speaker 1: and Chris Brewer. They got Brandon Shack, Harris Craig Chate,
Speaker 1: Shawn Winter, Kristen Foxen, Dan Smith, James Opps, Blajerry Off,
Speaker 1: and Patrick Stacey. Now, this is a tricky thing when
Speaker 1: you go to turn up. You know, if you're going
Speaker 1: to enter an ODB team, you're going to see Patrick
Speaker 1: Stacey thirty four dollars. Why what the heck just happened? Well,
Speaker 1: they had thirty four dollars left, they had one player
Speaker 1: to fill, so they just fired him into thirty four
Speaker 1: dollars just to make sure that no one else could
Speaker 1: get him. I think Blajerryoff is a very very good
Speaker 1: pick here. Underrated player had a lot of success either
Speaker 1: last year or the year before at the w SP,
Speaker 1: challenging for Player of the Year. All that sort of
Speaker 1: stuff kind of came out of nowhere to do that.
Speaker 1: Love that pick. I think Kristin Foxon is going to
Speaker 1: be a pretty good pick Sean Winter, you know, as
Speaker 1: long as he's out there for sure playing all the
Speaker 1: high buy and big bet stuff. A great pick as well.
Speaker 1: Brandon shack Harris is a little bit of a wild
Speaker 1: card to me. You know, he's kind of had up
Speaker 1: and down years in terms of how much volume we're
Speaker 1: got to get out of Brandon shak Harris. But he
Speaker 1: was in the room. He was hanging out with these guys,
Speaker 1: so I'm guessing he's in the know with them. Next up,
Speaker 1: we got the Lang gang. That was Mike Lang and
Speaker 1: Josh Reichard. They picked somebody who is the first on
Speaker 1: my notes that I think is a bit too expensive,
Speaker 1: and that is Ari Angele Listen love Ari, absolute grinder.
Speaker 1: He'll be playing poker every single day. The question is
Speaker 1: will he be at the World Series of Poker every
Speaker 1: single day? That's the big question mark with Ari. You
Speaker 1: know he's gonna hunt value all.
Speaker 2: Over Las Vegas.
Speaker 1: We've seen Las Vegas. We've seen it in the past.
Speaker 1: So just don't know if he's going to be one
Speaker 1: all in on the World Series. In my opinion, you
Speaker 1: want people who are ninety nine percent, if not one
Speaker 1: hundred percent, going to be at the World Series of Poker.
Speaker 1: That's the only place that they go. That's the only
Speaker 1: place that they will play. And you know, some players,
Speaker 1: it's hard to gauge if they will or if they won't.
Speaker 1: You like to think that they will, but then maybe
Speaker 1: they find something at the win or at the Aria
Speaker 1: or wherever it may be that that might draw him in.
Speaker 1: So it's it's it can be a guessing game for
Speaker 1: some players, and you can be surprised when they go
Speaker 1: out their I get it. But Ari, I think I
Speaker 1: think he you know that he's gonna search elsewhere. Now
Speaker 1: maybe they have inside information that he's only going to
Speaker 1: be playing at DABISPI. I don't know, but you know
Speaker 1: that that's a little bit too risky for my taste.
Speaker 1: Jeremie Osmas for ninety dollars, also on this team.
Speaker 2: I like it.
Speaker 1: Ren Linn, he's back twenty nine. I like that one
Speaker 1: as well. Alan Kesler for two dollars. I sneaky love
Speaker 1: Alan Kesler this year. I bought some of his action
Speaker 1: in a small package on Poker Steak. I think in
Speaker 1: those events he's going to have a pretty big year.
Speaker 1: So I like Alan Kesler a lot for two dollars.
Speaker 1: Mike Lea is another one that sticks out on this team.
Speaker 1: Eight dollars for him. Lee has been having some success
Speaker 1: this year up in Canada in some events. Just question
Speaker 1: mark on volume with him now. As I said, you know,
Speaker 1: I didn't really feel motivated to do it this year.
Speaker 1: I ultimately did not get into the twenty five K fantasy.
Speaker 1: So I don't have all the research that a lot
Speaker 1: of these guys might have done, because a lot of
Speaker 1: my research as well is you know, reaching out to
Speaker 1: all the different players saying like, hey, what's your schedule,
Speaker 1: what's your schedule or just checking their social media and
Speaker 1: trying to get a feel for it. So I may
Speaker 1: just be being the unknown on things there. That team
Speaker 1: rounds out with Jim Collapy, Brad Jansen, Ian Matakis, Nick
Speaker 1: Waghenti Blades and Shades really like this team. Jesse lows
Speaker 1: for sixty nine that could probably be upwards of eighty ninety.
Speaker 1: Now he's not going to fire a ton of mixed,
Speaker 1: you know, but listen, I think Jesse Mike Dabble, he's
Speaker 1: a gambler, he loves it, and I think he might
Speaker 1: also be someone who is very likely going to be
Speaker 1: always at the WSIP. So I do like that pick.
Speaker 1: Chris Hunikan for thirty five seems a little bit high
Speaker 1: for me, but yeah, it is what it is.
Speaker 2: Jack Pan.
Speaker 1: Chinghai Jack Pan second or third on the PGT leodleboard.
Speaker 1: He went for twelve dollars here, which I like. You know,
Speaker 1: and some players were questioning if he's going to be
Speaker 1: pulled away from the ws AP to play some of
Speaker 1: the PGT stuff that's happening over at the studio. There
Speaker 1: are ten events at the studio, you know. Some of
Speaker 1: the players are like, oh, he's going to be gone
Speaker 1: for two weeks playing that sort of stuff. I mean,
Speaker 1: those are I believe, single day events. They're pretty fast,
Speaker 1: they get done. And listen, if he wants to win
Speaker 1: the PGT leadleboard, great, but there are thirty one PGT
Speaker 1: qualifying WISOP events, so he can get a ton of
Speaker 1: points just by saying at the w SP spite work
Speaker 1: that was Matthew Wantman Bow Dang, Robert Wells, Pouna, Puncrie,
Speaker 1: Jeremy Becker's on this team, Dylan Smith, Riot Turo Suzuki,
Speaker 1: Renji Maut, David Peters. David Peters is a question mark
Speaker 1: with everything that's been happening, you know, getting called out
Speaker 1: by Dylan Lindy. You know, how much volume is he
Speaker 1: going to play? And even if he is there playing volume,
Speaker 1: how high is he going to play? Because if his
Speaker 1: financials aren't in order, as is alleged by some out there,
Speaker 1: then maybe he can't get the backing or he can't
Speaker 1: sell pieces off at the higher buying stuff. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm talking fifty K, one hund k two hundred fifty
Speaker 1: k that sort of stuff. I also do think though
Speaker 1: this is a bi loo opportunity on David Peters. I
Speaker 1: mean It's kind of like the stock market, right, you
Speaker 1: buy during the dips, like and I gotta think a
Speaker 1: guy who might be having some trouble that needs to
Speaker 1: make shit work. The pressure is on. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: not that David Peters is not a talented poker player.
Speaker 1: I think he's a very good, solid, technical, talented poker player,
Speaker 1: all that sort of stuff. So I like the bilo
Speaker 1: aspect here and getting number three bucks for Matthew Wantman.
Speaker 1: I don't hate it. Glue Factory. That's Dan CBO's team.
Speaker 1: He drafted Matthew Wantman, Chris Vich, Calvin Anderson, Dario Sammartino,
Speaker 1: Maxim Pisa, Renko, Matt Vanger, and Tyler Phillips and he
Speaker 1: drafted himself Dan cepl team seems fine, nothing special, nothing
Speaker 1: really that sticks out. I just I just I'm not
Speaker 1: a fan of the build. You know, when you get
Speaker 1: four or five six players all kind of in that
Speaker 1: thirty to fifty dollars range, you know, twenty to fifty
Speaker 1: dollars range, all those middle guys. I'm very much a
Speaker 1: Stars and Scrubs guy, as you guys know out there
Speaker 1: who have listened for many years, and you know how
Speaker 1: we always build our teams. We try and get one
Speaker 1: or two heavy hitters, and then we fill everything out
Speaker 1: with you know, cheap bargain buy lottery tickets. Eric Wasserson,
Speaker 1: Victor blom Adam Hendrix, Isaac Hackson, Steven Chidwick, Shannon sure
Speaker 1: Brian Yunan, huck Seed, John Turner, this this, I mean,
Speaker 1: I can't jive with this team either. It's just very,
Speaker 1: very questionable. I think the best one here is prob
Speaker 1: I mean, I like Shannon Shore for eleven dollars, Victor
Speaker 1: Bolm for sixty nine is probably gonna be fine as
Speaker 1: long as Victor's playing a full schedule. But some of
Speaker 1: the other ones, I just you know, I just question
Speaker 1: huck Seed. I know, he made a big push last summer.
Speaker 1: You know, he got picked up by Fenam Poker, he
Speaker 1: was playing a big schedule, all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 1: I mean, how much is he going to be playing
Speaker 1: this year? But maybe Wasserton, you know, being in that circle,
Speaker 1: that high stake circle, maybe he has some insight there.
Speaker 1: All right, Now we get up to Ryan Steiner's team
Speaker 1: State Kings. So it wasn't just Ryan Steiner, as you
Speaker 1: guys will hear in the upcoming interview with him. It
Speaker 1: was him, It was Jonahl Branch, Tyler Hancock, and then
Speaker 1: I think one other person was involved. And forgive me
Speaker 1: for not knowing that person's name, but Brian Rass for
Speaker 1: ninety seven, David odib Bigger for sixty one. So those
Speaker 1: are your big guns. Feels a little pricey on Brian Rast.
Speaker 1: It's a volume thing with him. Just need to make
Speaker 1: sure that he's out there playing every single day and battling,
Speaker 1: because if he is, then Rast he's one of the
Speaker 1: absolute best to ever do it. But I will say
Speaker 1: that if I think that that might be slightly overpriced.
Speaker 1: David Baker odb our guy at sixty one, I think
Speaker 1: it's underpriced. And listen, is odb going to be in
Speaker 1: the twenty five k no limits and plos, the fifty
Speaker 1: k's the hunter k's the two fifty k highly likely?
Speaker 5: No, But.
Speaker 1: He's one thousand percent going to be at the divisity
Speaker 1: every single day. He's going to be nowhere else nobody
Speaker 1: loves it more. So I gotta put him at the
Speaker 1: top of the heart rangings. Just absolutely have to. And
Speaker 1: like I just think he's in a really, really good spot,
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 2: To me, ODB.
Speaker 1: I mean, and listen, I'm biased. That's my guy. But
Speaker 1: he's gonna show up every single day and play what
Speaker 1: is his A game. Now, you can argue that his
Speaker 1: A game might not be the best a game that
Speaker 1: there is in poker, but that's fine because a lot
Speaker 1: of times people are fluctuating between their A game and
Speaker 1: their D game or maybe their F game, like you know,
Speaker 1: depending on the day or depending on what's happening. Right, So,
Speaker 1: but somebody that just shows up every single day freaking
Speaker 1: loves the grind owns it and you know, plays their
Speaker 1: best game no matter what, no matter if he's zero
Speaker 1: for fifty in the summer or if he's smashing everything
Speaker 1: in his one five bracelets like, he's gonna be doing
Speaker 1: his damn thing. Now. The rest of this team and
Speaker 1: you guys are for sure gonna understand why I love
Speaker 1: this team. Steven Song for eighteen, that's our guy. Now.
Speaker 1: Supposedly he's not playing as big of a schedule this year,
Speaker 1: but it doesn't matter. He'll probably still hit three or
Speaker 1: four field bonuses. John Reardon, the King, the King himself
Speaker 1: for twelve dollars. That's a freaking steal. What the hell
Speaker 1: are these people doing.
Speaker 3: See.
Speaker 1: The thing with Weird is that his price got a
Speaker 1: little bit out of whack because of how much he
Speaker 1: smashed it for us. So now it's kind of coming
Speaker 1: back down to the earth over correcting the other day.
Speaker 1: He's definitely worth more than twelve dollars. He's another guy
Speaker 1: who's going to be at the sip every single freaking day.
Speaker 1: And John is very very very good. Nick Seward for
Speaker 1: nine dollars, very good. Ethan Yao aka Rampage for a buck,
Speaker 1: Brandon Shields for a buck, Michael Wang for a buck.
Speaker 1: Those are great one dollar flyers, one dollar lottery tickets.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 1: Ethan yoo Is he's a blaster. If he gets hot early,
Speaker 1: he might just fire literally everything. Brandon schiels I played
Speaker 1: with him a bit, very very good player. Michael Wang
Speaker 1: also a beast as well. But enough of what I'm
Speaker 1: saying about this team. Let's let's hear from Ryan Steiner,
Speaker 1: a rookie to the twenty five K Fantasy Draft. Let's
Speaker 1: hear from him right now. All right, Ryan Steiner, you
Speaker 1: just wrapped up your team. You just told me before
Speaker 1: I hit record that you feel really.
Speaker 2: Good being rookies.
Speaker 1: That's exactly what I wanted to ask you about first
Speaker 1: time here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, how do you feel wrapping things up?
Speaker 6: Little nervous up front? Like our first couple bids, we
Speaker 6: were trying to feel it out a little bit, and
Speaker 6: I think we went a little heavy on our first
Speaker 6: couple guys. But looking back, I'm thrilled with all eight
Speaker 6: players that we got.
Speaker 1: This is a team that I look at and I say,
Speaker 1: if I were to construct the team, I would build
Speaker 1: it like this. I have played this many times and
Speaker 1: I like the stars and scrubs. You know, two big guys,
Speaker 1: a bunch of cheap guys. I'm partial to Stephen Song.
Speaker 1: Great pick there, John Reordan. We coined him, we coined
Speaker 1: him the King. So you got the King. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is a great build. Now, how do you land
Speaker 1: on someone like a Brandon Shields?
Speaker 6: He was one that so I've got four of us
Speaker 6: on the team. It was me, Tyler Hancock, Stephen Jones,
Speaker 6: Jonah Lebranch. The four of us were all in on
Speaker 6: this equally. He was a name that independently both me
Speaker 6: and Jonah and Steven were like, here, this should be
Speaker 6: a sleeper for a dollar, and we all like kind
Speaker 6: of secretly circled him on our on our list and
Speaker 6: was like, Okay, it's meant to be if all three
Speaker 6: of us think that that's our next guy. I think,
Speaker 6: if I remember correctly, he had eleven cashes last year
Speaker 6: and then eleven the year before. He's a cash machine,
Speaker 6: plays the right games.
Speaker 1: So I played with him last year deep in the main.
Speaker 1: We made Day five together. He was, on my direct right,
Speaker 1: a very good player, and you could also tell, like
Speaker 1: some of the conversations after even following his social media,
Speaker 1: he thinks pretty deeply about the game. He cares a lot,
Speaker 1: which ultimately that's somebody you want on the team, right. Yeah.
Speaker 6: Steven and Stephen played with them in Prague just recently
Speaker 6: and was like, yeah, he's he's a crusher, So if
Speaker 6: we can get him for a dollar, get.
Speaker 1: Him, and we did. You mentioned being a little bit
Speaker 1: nervous coming in, understandably so, But now that you've wrapped
Speaker 1: things up, how do you feel thrilled?
Speaker 6: I think I'd put our team up against any of
Speaker 6: the other teams out there. Obviously it's a crapshoot on
Speaker 6: any of these teams who's going to do well and
Speaker 6: who's not. But I think our team stacks up right
Speaker 6: there with anybody in the room.
Speaker 1: All right, that was Ryan Steiner. I do love his team,
Speaker 1: I really really do. So I'm sneaky hoping that that
Speaker 1: one does well, although I really have no rooting interest among.
Speaker 2: This whole thing.
Speaker 1: Let's skip around a little bit here, Let's go to
Speaker 1: So let's skip around to Dan Fleischman's team. So his
Speaker 1: team is it's kind of always the same. He's always
Speaker 1: going to try and get Michael de Grinderman's Rocky. He's
Speaker 1: always going to try and get Phil Helmet. Phil Helm
Speaker 1: we've walked in the room today, did his thing, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know. An hour or so into the draft
Speaker 1: he comes walking in. It was a joke that oh hey,
Speaker 1: hey we got to pause the draft, you know, royalties.
Speaker 1: Here he's on his phone, he's doing his whole video
Speaker 1: social media Instagram thing.
Speaker 2: He goes over to Fleischmann.
Speaker 1: He's like, they let they let you get me for
Speaker 1: sixty six dollars. Yeah, they did, Phil, But you know
Speaker 1: Phil for sixty six is he's a pretty good pick.
Speaker 1: You know, he's gives Phil a ton of flack. I
Speaker 1: think a lot of people in that room probably don't
Speaker 1: like the way he plays, but he's the most decorated
Speaker 1: w CIP player of all time. And say what you want,
Speaker 1: Phil Helmuth knows how to get it done on the
Speaker 1: w SIP stage. So Phil Hellmuth for sixty six bucks,
Speaker 1: I can't hate it. The rest of this team, I
Speaker 1: don't really know. Chance Cornick for thirty four feels a
Speaker 1: little pricey given the volume. Chris Mormon for six, Paul
Speaker 1: Volpi for five. Paul's always an interesting one supreme player.
Speaker 1: I just you just never see him and then he
Speaker 1: might show up for the WSP. So like again, it's
Speaker 1: a it's a volume thing there. Christian Harder for six.
Speaker 1: I actually really like that one. Eric said out for
Speaker 1: a dollar. I mean Eric's been pretty vocal on the
Speaker 1: whole tax thing and how he's not going to be
Speaker 1: playing as much, so how much is he playing? And
Speaker 1: then valtin Vorniku for a buck as well. On that team,
Speaker 1: let's give over to trump Power great name. That's Gary
Speaker 1: Benson's team. So he is the most expensive player drafted
Speaker 1: this year, and that is Sean Deep for one hundred
Speaker 1: and thirty three dollars, which I think is too cheap.
Speaker 1: I mean there's twenty four teams in my opinion, you
Speaker 1: need a horse, you need a stallion, and there is
Speaker 1: no one better in this format than Shawn Deep. So
Speaker 1: I was a bit surprised when he went for one
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty three. And I know that David Baker
Speaker 1: at one point I think he said won ten for
Speaker 1: Deep when that bidding was happening, but then stopped or
Speaker 1: didn't go much higher or whatever.
Speaker 2: So he was out.
Speaker 1: But like I mean, I would go to one ninety
Speaker 1: three for Shawn Deep. I would, I honestly would, And
Speaker 1: then I would just get dollar players. You know, I'm
Speaker 1: pretty confident always in our long list of you know,
Speaker 1: the bargain basement guys that we can just pull out
Speaker 1: of the bin.
Speaker 2: But yeah, so.
Speaker 1: I don't necessarily think that these dollar players are the
Speaker 1: ones that I would go with that are part of
Speaker 1: this team. From Gary Benson, you know, uh changed Jeff Matdson.
Speaker 1: She scooped Malcolm Trainor Yukizu, John Hennicking, and then Gary
Speaker 1: Benson drafted himself. He always does this, so he drafts
Speaker 1: a few of the Australian guys. I think as she
Speaker 1: scooped as Australian Malcolm Trainers obviously Australian just won Aussie Millions.
Speaker 1: He also won the Mystery Millions last year of the
Speaker 1: year before or something like that. And then Gary Benson
Speaker 1: is Australian as well.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't not a big fan of the rest of
Speaker 1: that team, but you got the anchor in Sean Deep,
Speaker 1: so that's all right. Who else we got was a
Speaker 1: big one. Oh, Texas Mike Michael Monchak. He went to
Speaker 1: his own team, Team Monchak aka Gators. They got Brandon
Speaker 1: Wilson for fifteen, which I think is an absolutely incredible pick.
Speaker 1: They got Texas Mike Michael Monchak for one hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty dollars. That is absolutely insane. I'm honestly not sure
Speaker 1: if it's more insane that Mike Monchak went for one
Speaker 1: thirty on the high side or that Shawnde went for
Speaker 1: one thirty three, which I think might be too up. Like,
Speaker 1: I don't, I don't know which one is crazier. We
Speaker 1: obviously know that Michael Monchak has put it out there
Speaker 1: he's chasing Player of the Year. He's he'll he'll blast
Speaker 1: everything up to the two fifty.
Speaker 2: I just I just.
Speaker 1: Don't know that feels like a lot. His brother's on
Speaker 1: the team as well, Tyler Monchak. Tyler was in the
Speaker 1: room drafting for this squad. Martin Zemani's on the team,
Speaker 1: Michael Molnar, Ryan Lang, zach Esti's and Peter Krupa. And
Speaker 1: I believe Peter because that says forty two dollars next
Speaker 1: to him, So that must have been one of those
Speaker 1: things where he's only had one player left to fill
Speaker 1: gets him for forty two.
Speaker 2: And that's that.
Speaker 1: Just bouncing around here trying to figure out, Oh, there
Speaker 1: was one other team that I liked. It was, oh,
Speaker 1: Nick Verderramo's team, which is Nick Verdiramo combined with Jake Schwartz.
Speaker 1: You know, I just I like the style of the build. Again,
Speaker 1: stars and scrubs. They're stars. Nick Shulman for eighty nine dollars.
Speaker 1: That is criminally f and cheap. Everyone that is way
Speaker 1: too damn cheap. Eighty nine dollars. Eighty nine dollars for
Speaker 1: Nick Sewan Nick Sholmans should be one twenty plus stone minimum,
Speaker 1: one twenty plus Phil Ivy for eighty I like that
Speaker 1: one as well, you know, as long as if Ivy's
Speaker 1: going to be there, putting in reasonable volume, which we
Speaker 1: have seen recently from him, then you know he's another
Speaker 1: great player here. Brad Rubin for twenty one, that's a
Speaker 1: good one. Jason Mercier for a dollar. I mean flyer there.
Speaker 1: But I have had talks with Jason, and I think,
Speaker 1: you know, as his kids are getting a little bit older,
Speaker 1: he's going to be taking a little bit more time
Speaker 1: to come out to the w SIP. I don't think
Speaker 1: he's somebody who's ready at this time to come out
Speaker 1: and play a whole summer, you know, but if you
Speaker 1: can get ten to fifteen events out of him, you know,
Speaker 1: Jason's a stud for buck. I'll take that flyer. Ryan
Speaker 1: Reese for three dollars, just a volume thing with him.
Speaker 1: Dan Shack for a dollar, you know he'll be there
Speaker 1: blasting Gabrielle Androddy. I don't know volume for Androtti, you know,
Speaker 1: I know he likes to play high stakes cash.
Speaker 2: I just don't know.
Speaker 1: Andrew Lichtenberger aka Lucky Chewy not a bad flyer there.
Speaker 1: So I like this team. I like the build style.
Speaker 1: I don't like it as much as Ryan Steiner's State
Speaker 1: Kings team. You know, ultimately, with how the players shook out,
Speaker 1: but you know, still, in my opinion, the right type.
Speaker 2: Of approach to a build.
Speaker 1: Well, let's go over and talk about Jeremy Becker's team
Speaker 1: back office. I did an interview with Jeremy afterwards. You'll
Speaker 1: hear from him in a minute. But this team is
Speaker 1: just absolutely all over the place. So he comes out
Speaker 1: and he gets Archer march Rosian first for thirty nine dollars,
Speaker 1: which feels high. I asked him about it afterwards, and
Speaker 1: he tells me that Archer has a piece of the team,
Speaker 1: so he felt like he had to get him. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's just that's flat out just not true. I have
Speaker 1: had many players who have invested in our teams over
Speaker 1: the years that they always tell me, you know, hey,
Speaker 1: I'm a great buy. Hey I'm playing this great awesome.
Speaker 1: I will try and get you if I think that
Speaker 1: it's valuable and it fits into the bill. But I'm
Speaker 1: not going to over extend myself and paint myself into
Speaker 1: this this corner by doing that, which I think he
Speaker 1: might have done a little bit there. Phil Sternheimer for
Speaker 1: sixty five dollars is another pick, his second player, his
Speaker 1: most expensive player. The problem with this one is that
Speaker 1: Sternheimer is leaving when the WSB man events star like
Speaker 1: July fourth or July third or whatever, he's leaving, so
Speaker 1: he's out. You know, he's only going to be giving
Speaker 1: you whatever five weeks. You know, now Sternheimer is a
Speaker 1: very good player, and he's going to be playing all
Speaker 1: the big buy and stuff, of course, but he kind
Speaker 1: of you want that extra two weeks of volume, you know.
Speaker 1: Ben You thirty seven, Aaron Coopan thirty four, Jason Daly
Speaker 1: to twenty five, Ryut and Nikai six, Danny Wong three,
Speaker 1: Ben Tollerene one. I'll tell you about Ben Tollerene in
Speaker 1: a second. But the other Ben Ben You on this
Speaker 1: team thirty seven dollars. He's always interesting because you know,
Speaker 1: he's like a Paul Volpe. You know, you just don't.
Speaker 1: You don't see this.
Speaker 2: Guy all year.
Speaker 1: So is he gonna play? Is he gonna be there?
Speaker 1: What's his volume going to be?
Speaker 3: Like?
Speaker 1: We obviously know that if Ben You is there and
Speaker 1: if he's playing a big schedule, he's got to be
Speaker 1: a great pick. He's a great player. He's had a
Speaker 1: ton of success, He's scored a ton of points for
Speaker 1: a lot of people, over the years in twenty five
Speaker 1: K Fantasy, it's just a volume thing and you know,
Speaker 1: where is he? What's he doing? Ben Tolerain is interesting
Speaker 1: on this team because so they have to nominate a
Speaker 1: player and they have one spot left. So they're kind
Speaker 1: of freaking out on what to do. And I was
Speaker 1: standing right there. Tim Duckworth is standing right there as well,
Speaker 1: because he's doing the whole auctioneer thing. He's like, hey,
Speaker 1: I need a player from you.
Speaker 2: Guys.
Speaker 1: Like they're firing into their group chat with their friends
Speaker 1: trying to figure out a player.
Speaker 2: They don't really know what to do.
Speaker 1: Finally, they like they fire out Ben Toleraine's name, which
Speaker 1: I don't think is the worst pick in the world
Speaker 1: for a dollar, but I don't think that they wanted
Speaker 1: to get stuck with him. And you know, Toleraine, at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, if he can give you,
Speaker 1: let's say, five to eight of the big big buy
Speaker 1: and stuff, you know, twenty five K plus fifty K
Speaker 1: plus that sort of stuff, I mean, he's the best
Speaker 1: in the world when it comes to Nolan, mat Hold
Speaker 1: and Plo like, so it can't be the worst thing.
Speaker 1: I mean, I've seen worst picks. I mean, people have
Speaker 1: literally drafted people that have not shown up for an
Speaker 1: entire summer. So but the thing is with Toleraen is
Speaker 1: that I'm I heard that he's just worried with playing
Speaker 1: in the States and the whole new taxle on that
Speaker 1: sort of stuff, so he might sit out. You know,
Speaker 1: he's someone who's probably made way too much money in
Speaker 1: his freaking career that he can just he can he
Speaker 1: can sit out. So so that's that. Danny Wong, I guess, okay,
Speaker 1: pick if he puts in volume, you know, just question
Speaker 1: mark what type of volume we're going to get out
Speaker 1: of Danny Wong. But very good player, you know, especially
Speaker 1: in the mix game stuff.
Speaker 2: But enough for me.
Speaker 1: Let's let's hear from Jeremy Becker after the draft was
Speaker 1: over all, right, Jeremy Becker, you just wrapped up your
Speaker 1: team a little bit of a scramble at the end
Speaker 1: there with the final pick of Ben Tolerain.
Speaker 2: How do you how do you feel though with your team?
Speaker 5: I think he's one of the I's not the best
Speaker 5: player in the world, so I mean a dollar at
Speaker 5: the end, we'll take it.
Speaker 2: What about the rest of your team?
Speaker 1: Archur march Rose and Phil Sternheimer some heavy hitters there.
Speaker 5: I really like our team honestly, especially our first four picks,
Speaker 5: and then we're basically going for Gosto.
Speaker 2: Here at the end with our cheaper guys. Who's in
Speaker 2: the Kai, who's in the kay? That's a great question.
Speaker 5: But my partner, who was watching the draft from home
Speaker 5: deep diving, said we need this guy and I'm just
Speaker 5: trusting him here, So let's go Ryuta.
Speaker 1: Can you make a lot of side bets when you
Speaker 1: do this sort of thing or is it just in
Speaker 1: the in the draft?
Speaker 2: And that's it.
Speaker 5: We made a few pre draft, got odds on a
Speaker 5: couple because of our last place finish last year, and
Speaker 5: we'll be looking a few more now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't believe people are giving you odds. It's
Speaker 2: it's a vary incest.
Speaker 5: Come on, yeah, But I mean it's clear some people
Speaker 5: are better prepared than others. I know, we really were
Speaker 5: going hard this year in the lab. We thought we
Speaker 5: were well prepared, but uh, shit kind of hit the
Speaker 5: fan there at the end.
Speaker 1: Well, listen, as somebody who has done this draft before,
Speaker 1: who was prepared honestly for months heading into every draft,
Speaker 1: it always hits the fan. So it's always a scramble
Speaker 1: at the end, and you can never control what people
Speaker 1: are doing. So I heard you say, you know, you
Speaker 1: ran one hundred simulated teams or whatever, but.
Speaker 2: It always falls apart.
Speaker 5: We ran over one hundred fake teams we put together
Speaker 5: based on prices we thought everyone was going to go for.
Speaker 5: And we had two one dollar guys that we were
Speaker 5: getting one hundred percent of the time, and we didn't
Speaker 5: get either of them.
Speaker 2: Who were they? I mean, if they got drafted, it's fine.
Speaker 2: They have not been drafted.
Speaker 5: They had, well, then how did you not get them?
Speaker 1: So then so then that what that tells me is
Speaker 1: that your final pick of Ben to Lorraine, you were
Speaker 1: throwing it out for someone else to bid on him.
Speaker 5: No, we think he's one of, if not the best
Speaker 5: player in the world.
Speaker 2: So we're all in.
Speaker 5: But yeah, I'm a little I'm breathless right now because
Speaker 5: things don't always go to play. But you know what,
Speaker 5: we got some guys who are going to be playing
Speaker 5: in some big field stuff and we're out there that
Speaker 5: field bonus.
Speaker 1: All right, that's Jeremy Becker. He's got his team. You
Speaker 1: can sweat it back office. What's the name.
Speaker 5: Bowling became a big thing here in Vegas, and someone
Speaker 5: started making lines on people's bowling skills, and uh, they
Speaker 5: were in the back office making the line. So there's
Speaker 5: a little homage to them. All right.
Speaker 1: Well, best of luck to you with your fantasy quest
Speaker 1: this summer.
Speaker 2: Hopefully a little bit better than last place.
Speaker 1: Hopefully you take some down some of those side bets,
Speaker 1: specifically punishing the people who gave you odds, because that
Speaker 1: just seems absurd. Yeah, fuck josh K We're coming for him,
Speaker 1: all right. So that was Jeremy Becker JBEX. Hopefully we
Speaker 1: get to catch up with him a few times throughout
Speaker 1: the summer. He told me after we spoke, I was like,
Speaker 1: you know, hey, are you getting started tomorrow? Right away
Speaker 1: He's like, I haven't even looked at the schedule, Donnie,
Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on. I'm just gonna you know,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna wake up in the morning, I'm gonna look
Speaker 1: at the app I'm gonna see what's what's happening, and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go down and I'm gonna play. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's how Jeremy Becker operates. Team Lady Gaga ren Linn
Speaker 1: is back another team where I really really really love
Speaker 1: the bill. This is full on stars and scrubs. This
Speaker 1: is this just speaks to me URI's Eveleski aka, You're
Speaker 1: a nerd guy, ninety bucks, Alex Fox in seventy nine,
Speaker 1: Clemens Reuter twenty four, and then the other five players.
Speaker 1: We got a dollar, a dollar, a dollar, a dollar,
Speaker 1: a dollar. Everyone else is a dollar now. The only
Speaker 1: issue that I have with these other players, it's not
Speaker 1: really an issue, it's just a me thing. I don't
Speaker 1: know who they all are. Renland does this every year.
Speaker 1: He picks some Asian players that no one else knows.
Speaker 1: He is tapped into that part of the world, that
Speaker 1: poker playing community. He knows the volumes these guys are
Speaker 1: gonna play, he knows how big they're gonna play. He
Speaker 1: has some insight into how good they are. So he's
Speaker 1: got all these players. He's got John Lamb, Choi, Anson Sang,
Speaker 1: which we've heard of, Anson saying, yes, chong Jiang Yang
Speaker 1: have not heard of him. Junabara had some success, I
Speaker 1: believe in super higher roleble bubble did I believe. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't exactly call out success, but you know, still had
Speaker 1: a deep run. June Wang is the other one, So
Speaker 1: I just don't know. I'm unfamiliar with some of these players.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: When we won it a couple of years ago, we
Speaker 1: were going back and forth at the top of the
Speaker 1: leader board with Renland's team with Lady Gaga. I like
Speaker 1: Redlands strategy. I think he has it dialed into the
Speaker 1: stars and scrubs. So I would be fearful of this squad,
Speaker 1: especially because we don't know these players that much, at
Speaker 1: least I don't, so, I mean, they could be absolute killers.
Speaker 1: They probably are freaking killers. Andrew Brown's team, Brown Dog,
Speaker 1: this is an example of a team that I just
Speaker 1: don't really like. Arthur Morris thirty one, Max Coleman fifty eight,
Speaker 1: nik Wa Ganti thirty seven, Scott Bowlman thirty five. I
Speaker 1: just don't like that middling type of bill justin Saliva
Speaker 1: twenty two. That's just that's just not my my thing.
Speaker 1: There was one other pick somewhere. Where is it? Oh,
Speaker 1: Daniel Legrand who won sixteen. So Daniel drafted himself. I
Speaker 1: might as well talk about Daniel's team. This is, you know,
Speaker 1: the draft that he hosts at the end of the day.
Speaker 1: So Daniel drafts himself for one hundred and sixteen. What
Speaker 1: I thought was interesting is somebody threw him out to
Speaker 1: start for fifty and then somebody said one hundred. Now
Speaker 1: he's obviously gonna get up there. This is Daniel Legrann.
Speaker 1: We get it. But when you go from fifty to
Speaker 1: one hundred and he ultimately settles on one sixteen, could
Speaker 1: there have been you know, a couple bucks saved here
Speaker 1: along the way if it didn't jump from fifty to
Speaker 1: one hundred, you know, that would just be my question mark.
Speaker 5: There.
Speaker 1: He drafted himself, he drafted his buddy Josh Aria, he
Speaker 1: drafted Ben Lamb. At that point he was joking that
Speaker 1: those three will take on any other three people in
Speaker 1: the room in golf. But we're not playing golf, Daniel,
Speaker 1: we are playing poker. Dong Chen, that is somebody who
Speaker 1: I believe ren linn throughout. And then Daniel is basically like, well,
Speaker 1: if ren Lin's throwing out these players that I view
Speaker 1: as random Asian players, I'm just gonna bid on them
Speaker 1: because he knows something that I don't. So that's how
Speaker 1: he ended up with Dong Chan. He's got Nick Papillo,
Speaker 1: he's got Ellie Lezro, he's got Brent Kenny's got Jason Kohon.
Speaker 1: I kind of like this team lukewarm. I'm lukewarm on
Speaker 1: this team. Okay, that's where I'm at with that team.
Speaker 1: But the one pick that I want to talk about
Speaker 1: was where is where is John Rasner? He's on Team
Speaker 1: Norri's team. Now this is another one stars and scrubs.
Speaker 1: Jal Vieira one oh one, John Rasner eighty six. I
Speaker 1: think John Raysner is going to be a steal at
Speaker 1: eighty six dollars. Maybe I'm wrong there. Maybe I'll be
Speaker 1: left with the egg on my face when it's all
Speaker 1: said and done at the end of the summer. But
Speaker 1: the thing with Rasner in recent years is he hasn't
Speaker 1: put in full volume. He's like made some different trips
Speaker 1: out here, that sort of stuff. Last year he made
Speaker 1: his first trip out here, got off the plane, registered
Speaker 1: a tournament, won the damn thing. But this year he
Speaker 1: put out on social media, he rented a house in
Speaker 1: Las Vegas. He's going to be here all summer and
Speaker 1: he's going to be fired. He's someone to me who
Speaker 1: is likely one WSP focused. He plays all the games,
Speaker 1: he plays a wide variety of buyings. He's a very
Speaker 1: very good player. He's someone who you know, I know,
Speaker 1: it's going to be hard to contend with the people
Speaker 1: who already went to WSP Europe, namely Sean Dee, But
Speaker 1: when it comes to Player of the Year, like I
Speaker 1: could see John Raisner being right up there in the mix.
Speaker 1: So I really do like that pick for eighty six.
Speaker 1: I think he's more of a you know, closer to
Speaker 1: one hundred dollars player if you get the volume, and
Speaker 1: we're getting the volume from him this year. Also on
Speaker 1: this team, Justin Zakia dollar, Michael Norri a dollar, Sean
Speaker 1: Buchanan two dollars, Mike Madison seven dollars, Dara Tarapoor one dollar.
Speaker 1: Dara played, he played some of the mixed stuff at
Speaker 1: the Poker Gris studio, you know, made some runs, you know,
Speaker 1: and Jordan Siegel as well. So this is this is
Speaker 1: really I mean, outside of Justin Zachi, this is a
Speaker 1: mixed game heavy team here for sure. But I do
Speaker 1: like the Stars and Scrubs build. Let's go, I mean,
Speaker 1: let's go to David Baker's team, and then this is
Speaker 1: the last one that we'll just touch on here. So
Speaker 1: David Baker's team, Banana so it was I believe drafting
Speaker 1: was David Baker, of course, and then also Mark Gregorich
Speaker 1: his good friend was alongside him. So they got Scott
Speaker 1: sever for seventy nine. That's their big gun, their second
Speaker 1: most expensive player, Marco Johnson fifty one. Marco Johnson Hill.
Speaker 1: Hear me talk about with odb in the interview in
Speaker 1: a second. But Marco is somebody who I never really know,
Speaker 1: you know, put him in the class of a ben U,
Speaker 1: of a Paul Vopie, Like I don't know the volume
Speaker 1: for these guys because I don't see them really playing
Speaker 1: outside of the World Series of Poker every single year.
Speaker 1: That said, much like you know, Daniel looks at ren
Speaker 1: Lynn and when ren Linn throws a player out that
Speaker 1: Daniel doesn't know about, Daniel says, I got to jump
Speaker 1: on that player. I always look at David Baker and say, oh,
Speaker 1: there's certain players I know he's very very good friends
Speaker 1: with that if he's in on them, then that should
Speaker 1: tell you something. And Marco Johnson is one of those players.
Speaker 1: He's also got David Coleman and Danny Tang on his
Speaker 1: team that checks the high roller boxes. Brian Hastins, Brad Owen,
Speaker 1: Lawrence Brand and Iowa Kiara. As you'll hear from David Baker.
Speaker 1: You know, he talked about why he chose those specific players.
Speaker 1: So you know, overall, I kind of like this build.
Speaker 1: I like the top end, the top four sever Coleman, Johnson, Tang,
Speaker 1: you know, the guys that cost all more than one dollar,
Speaker 1: the bottom ones, the one dollar players. I might have picked,
Speaker 1: you know, some different one dollar players. But I get
Speaker 1: the strategy, and you're always gonna need a lot of
Speaker 1: luck when it comes to the one dollar players. Right again,
Speaker 1: those are your lottery tickets. But you know, let's hear
Speaker 1: from David Baker. Let's hear what he has to say.
Speaker 1: He talked a lot about his team, his build, his
Speaker 1: whole philosophy behind fantasy poker. All right, I'm here with
Speaker 1: David odib Baker just wrapped up another edition of the
Speaker 1: twenty five K Fantasy Draft. How are you feeling about
Speaker 1: your squad?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm extremely happy. I got a lot of the
Speaker 3: guys that were on my target list. And uh yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm curious what you think. I know you're the king
Speaker 3: of Fantasy.
Speaker 6: I don't.
Speaker 3: I can't believe he didn't have a team this year.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I mean I'm very happy. I don't know.
Speaker 3: I mean, we can go through the players.
Speaker 1: If you want, but yeah, Scott Severs seventy nine, he's
Speaker 1: your big gun. Second to him, not second that you drafted,
Speaker 1: but second in price.
Speaker 2: Marco Johnson, who you're friends with.
Speaker 1: Marko was always a little bit of an enigma to
Speaker 1: me because I just don't know what he might be
Speaker 1: playing every single year.
Speaker 2: But I would rely it.
Speaker 1: If I was in this room drafting, I would say, oh, well,
Speaker 1: if Odb's in, like you got to be in them.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So you know, on Marco, he's staying at my house
Speaker 3: this summer and he's playing everything. So you know, Mark
Speaker 3: is one of the best players, and he's one of
Speaker 3: my best friends. He's the one guy I talked poker with,
Speaker 3: so obviously I love the guy and he's you know,
Speaker 3: I respect his game, and yeah, so I mean I'm
Speaker 3: thrilled obviously to Marco on my team. He's just a
Speaker 3: consistent producer. I mean, he's like thirteenth on the all
Speaker 3: time points list and he didn't even play like several
Speaker 3: years that much because of tournaments. Sever he was one
Speaker 3: of one of the people in our a bucket, and
Speaker 3: when all the A buckets started to go off, we
Speaker 3: were like I was, I was like, we're fine, We're fine,
Speaker 3: We're gonna get Sever, We're gonna get Sever. And then
Speaker 3: all the guys went off that we didn't like quite
Speaker 3: as much as Sever, so I didn't want to like
Speaker 3: bid on them because I just wanted to get Sever.
Speaker 3: I think it's a big redemption year for him, and
Speaker 3: we were prepared to spend over one hundred and getting
Speaker 3: him for seventy nine, which I think was kind of
Speaker 3: insane considering I think he was the last eightier player.
Speaker 3: So yeah, thrilled to have him.
Speaker 1: Obviously, you got David Coleman, high roller player, he's been
Speaker 1: on fire lately. You got Danny Tang as well, another
Speaker 1: high roller player coming off.
Speaker 2: A huge win at Tradon.
Speaker 1: I want to specifically ask you about Brian Hastens because
Speaker 1: he's someone who years ago was like almost guaranteed a
Speaker 1: bracelet a year, and for whatever reason, has fallen off
Speaker 1: of the radar of the people in the draft room.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't know why, but Stinger's a crusher, right, Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean the thing that's scary about Brian is the
Speaker 3: fact that he tweeted out that he wasn't playing some
Speaker 3: of the bigger events, that he was going to play
Speaker 3: the one K to three K stuff. But one thing
Speaker 3: I know about the series is there's people who love
Speaker 3: it and there's people who you can just count on
Speaker 3: are always going to play more than they say. And look,
Speaker 3: I'm welling to gamble on talent. Obviously, I wish that
Speaker 3: he had a bigger edgile planned, but look, when you're
Speaker 3: as talented as Brian, you know, I'm sure that he'll
Speaker 3: find his way into enough big events and hopefully he
Speaker 3: just gets off to a good start and plays early.
Speaker 3: And you know, he's the type of guy that really
Speaker 3: can win and we all know that the points are
Speaker 3: up top. And he's also if he's going to play
Speaker 3: the smaller events, he has like opportunities. He at field Bonus,
Speaker 3: he plays an a lemon, he plays mits, and he
Speaker 3: wins when he plays. So yeah, I mean, I'm happy
Speaker 3: to get I'm happy to get Hastings. He wasn't initially
Speaker 3: on the target list just because of the schedule, but
Speaker 3: you know, if we were going to be able to
Speaker 3: get him for single digits, then that was fine. And
Speaker 3: obviously get him for dollars more than good. So yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean I'm a couple of the guys that we
Speaker 3: got at the end, Lawrence, Brant and Noya. I think
Speaker 3: if people they are kind of people that don't really
Speaker 3: hang out with a lot of the people that are
Speaker 3: in this room, so people are scared.
Speaker 2: To draft him.
Speaker 3: You know, I got information on both that they playing,
Speaker 3: and I mean Lawrence is an absolute killer and Noyo
Speaker 3: when he plays, he's a killer. And he told me
Speaker 3: he was playing all the ten cases. So yeah, I'm
Speaker 3: excited to have him and Brad Owen. Look, we know
Speaker 3: that he's good in No Limit and he's just getting
Speaker 3: better in Mix and he's super focused on having a
Speaker 3: good series. So I've been hanging out with him a
Speaker 3: little bit. He's been playing my No Limit cash game
Speaker 3: and we've been talking a lot, and I think he's
Speaker 3: ready to prove that he belongs. So I'm willing to
Speaker 3: gamble for a dollar that he you know, that he
Speaker 3: can make the switch.
Speaker 2: Any regret having twenty eight dollars left over.
Speaker 3: I always have money left because the way that I
Speaker 3: play it is I have this group of people that
Speaker 3: I want and my whole goal is to get more
Speaker 3: money than everybody else at the end of the draft,
Speaker 3: so that I can hand pick my last three selections.
Speaker 3: So I'm totally fine with it because I would have
Speaker 3: been willing to go twenty on Lawrence Brant, I would
Speaker 3: have been willing to go ten on Owen. So yes,
Speaker 3: I ended up with the money, but if they would
Speaker 3: have just come out earlier, then once people saw me
Speaker 3: bidding on Lauren Sprans, he would have gone for fifteen
Speaker 3: or twenty anyway, So I think it's totally fine. It's
Speaker 3: the way that I play. I understand that, like having
Speaker 3: the hammer at the end of the draft is worth something.
Speaker 3: Rend and Bruski was a guy I really wanted, and
Speaker 3: so I wanted to keep the hammer for him, but
Speaker 3: unfortunately there was one team who had more, so they
Speaker 3: had the hammer, but I was willing to spend my
Speaker 3: thirty dollars on him. So that was kind of the plan,
Speaker 3: is to get everybody to get the roster spots filled
Speaker 3: or get below my max bid so that I could
Speaker 3: max out on Rennon or Lawrence Brandt or there was
Speaker 3: one other guy that I really liked to I can't
Speaker 3: remember that we'd ended up not getting We also Ariel
Speaker 3: Montel was another guy that we were kind of looking at.
Speaker 3: Nicholas Milburn. That's another one. You guys had him last year.
Speaker 3: He was at sixteen, so I mean, we could have
Speaker 3: easily fit him in and gotten him. But I think
Speaker 3: if we would have done that, it gives a really
Speaker 3: good team in the Dinkers the Hammer over us. And
Speaker 3: once we start throwing out Laurence Brant and Nooya and
Speaker 3: people like that, they're just gonna top us on all
Speaker 3: of them because they know that, like if we're throwing
Speaker 3: them out. So I kind of sacrificed Milgram to be
Speaker 3: able to get the other three. If Laurence, Brant or
Speaker 3: Noya would have come out first, I would have sacrificed
Speaker 3: one of them to get the other three.
Speaker 2: So it's kind of like a three for one thing.
Speaker 3: That's kind of how I think about it is if
Speaker 3: I can just have the Hammer, I can get three
Speaker 3: guys I want, rather than than spending it online.
Speaker 2: So that's kind of the.
Speaker 3: Way I approach it. I know that it looks funny
Speaker 3: that we have twenty eight dollars left, and it's like, oh, well,
Speaker 3: you could have taken hoste things and that, and like
Speaker 3: a thirty dollars guy, But that's not really how it works,
Speaker 3: because like you're just not going to get your bottom guys.
Speaker 3: If you have a dollar left, you're left just throwing
Speaker 3: out guys and then seeing if anybody bits a dollar
Speaker 3: on them. And it's like Ben Tullohan, great player, but
Speaker 3: like I don't really want a guy who's playing like
Speaker 3: five or six events, like he only really plays the
Speaker 3: high rollers and that you know, when you throw out
Speaker 3: a guy like that, then you're kind of at the mercy.
Speaker 3: So Danny Wong was another one that we could have taken.
Speaker 3: I love Danny, he's a good friend of mine, but
Speaker 3: kind of didn't want to get into bidding war again.
Speaker 3: So that's just how I play the game. It's not
Speaker 3: necessarily right or wrong, but I don't like to be
Speaker 3: at the mercy of the dollar at the end. I
Speaker 3: want to I want to be able to put the
Speaker 3: hammer out when people you know, the people who had
Speaker 3: who had money left were Phil Sternheimer very smart, Josh
Speaker 3: Kay very smart. Like these are the guys who continually
Speaker 3: win in this thing, so I want to be able
Speaker 3: to top them when the best values come out.
Speaker 1: Tomorrow the world tis the poker starts you love it,
Speaker 1: maybe more than anyone.
Speaker 2: Can you believe it's here for another year.
Speaker 3: It's weird. This one kind of like snuck up on me,
Speaker 3: and I don't know, it felt like, yeah, it's it
Speaker 3: didn't didn't feel like it's here.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean, I'm excited.
Speaker 3: Tomorrow I'm gonna play the five K No Limit and yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean this year, I'm gonna be playing a little
Speaker 3: bit more No Limit. Obviously, I'll play all the mixed
Speaker 3: and you know, I'm bracelet hunting and all that stuff,
Speaker 3: but I'm going to try to prioritize some No Limit
Speaker 3: stuff over the mix. But you know, when we're in
Speaker 3: there and I'm starting at one hundred person field and mix,
Speaker 3: or I could go register my fourteenth bullet of the
Speaker 3: Milling Maker, you know, I'll probably end up just just
Speaker 3: putting the ten nins in the next But yeah, I mean,
Speaker 3: I love it. I love to compete, and I love
Speaker 3: everything that does. I love what my Fantasy League has
Speaker 3: brought to the overall experience. You know, I'm getting NonStop
Speaker 3: techs add me as bonus players, like one hundred and
Speaker 3: fifty freaking bonus players this year.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I love it.
Speaker 3: You love it, and you know, I'm looking forward to
Speaker 3: listening to you and Tim talk talk poker every day.
Speaker 6: On the on the way.
Speaker 1: Last question here a pretty simple one. How many teams
Speaker 1: in ODB Fantasy this year?
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm hoping we I'm hoping we get a thousand,
Speaker 3: but I don't know. I feel like that's probably a
Speaker 3: little ambitious. I think last year we had eight seventy,
Speaker 3: so I'll take the over on that. But I think
Speaker 3: we've grown every year for ten straight. So if we
Speaker 3: don't grow, I'm not going to consider a failure. I
Speaker 3: think like at some point like it has to like
Speaker 3: make a little tickdown.
Speaker 2: But I don't know.
Speaker 3: It feels like there's as high interest as ever. So
Speaker 3: I mean I'll predict that, you know, we get eight eighty,
Speaker 3: which will be a record.
Speaker 1: And that was the man himself o dB. Arguably nobody
Speaker 1: loves it more than David O dB Baker, and that's
Speaker 1: going to do it for the twenty five K Fantasy Draft.
Speaker 1: I didn't hit on every team. I know, I started
Speaker 1: kind of going through, you know, a lot of the
Speaker 1: teams at the start. You know what I liked, what
Speaker 1: I didn't like. You know, there's some some interesting teams
Speaker 1: out there, some interesting bills. There's there's a lot of
Speaker 1: names on here that obviously there's a lot of names
Speaker 1: that I recognize that we all recognize, but there's also
Speaker 1: a lot of that I don't recognize at all, And
Speaker 1: it'll be interesting to see what sort of results these
Speaker 1: people put up. One, but also two, you know, if
Speaker 1: you're seeing them every single day. For example, you look
Speaker 1: at Andrew Brown's team and I see, I see ray Fishman,
Speaker 1: that might as well be create a player for all
Speaker 1: I know, no disrespect to mister Fisherman out there, but
Speaker 1: I don't know who this is and what type of volume.
Speaker 1: So when we're walking around the first week and we
Speaker 1: finally get eyes on ray Fishman, you know, you see somebody,
Speaker 1: then we're going to see every single day, because if
Speaker 1: you don't see them every single day, like that's an
Speaker 1: issue to me when you're building out teams. We had
Speaker 1: a bunch of players last year, or a few players
Speaker 1: last year that they didn't put in the volume that
Speaker 1: we had anticipated that they would put in. Ultimately, that
Speaker 1: bitteress th in the ass. So you know, we'll see,
Speaker 1: h we'll see how it goes, but it's gonna be
Speaker 1: a fun summer. As I said at the top of
Speaker 1: the show, you can get all the information as it
Speaker 1: relates to twenty five K fantasy over all on twenty
Speaker 1: five k fantasy dot com. If you are on x
Speaker 1: then I would highly encourage you to follow at twenty
Speaker 1: five K Fantasy. We'll talk about it on this podcast
Speaker 1: every so often. Maybe not every single day, but you know,
Speaker 1: a few times a week as we go throughout the summer.
Speaker 1: The big thing though, the summer is here, it is
Speaker 1: WSOP season. On Tuesday, May twenty sixth is when everything
Speaker 1: kicks off. I believe it starts with the mini Mystery Millions,
Speaker 1: which is gonna be an absolute freaking gong show. Five
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty dollars buy in you know, you know
Speaker 1: mystery bounty format, Like that's just gonna be absolutely freaking wild.
Speaker 1: Hopefully you guys hear from me just about every single day.
Speaker 1: Hopefully I have some new hats for you this year.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna try and make that happen as well as always,
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Speaker 1: your podcast. Enough rambling from me, though it's approaching midnight,
Speaker 1: I want to get some sleep because tomorrow, on Tuesday,
Speaker 1: it all begins, boys and girls, and if you're out
Speaker 1: here this summer, come say hi. I love to meet
Speaker 1: the listeners out there. I absolutely love the podcast, love
Speaker 1: doing it, and hopefully you guys love listening. So that's
Speaker 1: gonna do it for me. Donnie Peters and I will
Speaker 1: talk to you next time.
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