Speaker 1: Hello everyone, Welcome back to the Poker Go Podcast. My
Speaker 1: name is Donnie Peters. It is Thursday, May twenty second,
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Speaker 1: w s AP predictions, sir? Are you ready? Never never ready?
Speaker 1: Never ready? But I will I will admit that I'm
Speaker 1: fully unprepared for this as well. Okay, just because just
Speaker 1: trying to set up all this sort of stuff. Get ready,
Speaker 1: it's been a week whatever, but it is what it is.
Speaker 1: I think the first question that we have to hit
Speaker 1: on is something that we've already touched on once, but
Speaker 1: it's worth touching on again. We're probably gonna touch on
Speaker 1: it a few times throughout the summer. It's probably gonna
Speaker 1: be one of those topics that not only us, but
Speaker 1: several media outlets hit on multiple times. I'm sure the man,
Speaker 1: mister Phil Helmeth's gonna be asked, I'll say, a dozen times,
Speaker 1: maybe two dozen times over the summer. Is Phil Hellmuth
Speaker 1: gonna play the twenty twenty five ws BE main event?
Speaker 1: Of course, I mean, I'm right with you. I also
Speaker 1: think yes, yeah, I mean I think it's too big
Speaker 1: to miss, and he's got it. He's got an out
Speaker 1: as far as I'm concerned, Meaning when it comes to
Speaker 1: that time, he can be like, did you guys really
Speaker 1: think I was gonna miss the exactly the biggest event
Speaker 1: in the world, like YadA, YadA, YadA whatever, like you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, and honestly he should just do a day
Speaker 1: to entry and that's that. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean, he's not going to turn down being in
Speaker 2: the spotlight, doing his entrance like normal. But yeah, most
Speaker 2: likely I would expect the day two and then yeah,
Speaker 2: he does have those. He does have that backup plan
Speaker 2: of saying I.
Speaker 1: Was just drugging with you guys. Come on, yeah, you
Speaker 1: think you think you know? Mister miss you know is
Speaker 1: gonna miss the biggest event in the world, the one
Speaker 1: that I won way back when that I almost won
Speaker 1: multiple times. No, it's no, he's not missing it. And
Speaker 1: if he does miss it, I mean I'll be shocked,
Speaker 1: but I don't. I don't think he's gonna miss it.
Speaker 1: All right. Speaking of Phil Helmuth, let's stick on the
Speaker 1: poker brad himself. How many gold bracelets is he gonna
Speaker 1: win this summer? Is he gonna win any? In your
Speaker 1: head you are mister phil hammis I am wearing a
Speaker 1: Phil HOMEI shit, oh my god, I didn't even realize.
Speaker 1: Just get that, Jesus Lord.
Speaker 2: The head says no, but the hat says yes, he's
Speaker 2: gonna get one.
Speaker 1: I mean no zero. You say he's gonna get one. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: he's not gonna guess he's not going to get in Roy.
Speaker 1: I mean part of me says, now I know phil
Speaker 1: Hammyth has obviously made a career of crushing the World
Speaker 1: Series of Poker, and I know he's a very good player,
Speaker 1: right at least when it comes to like basic B threshold. Now,
Speaker 1: can he hang with some of the high rollers and whatnot? No,
Speaker 1: but he also kind of like skips those fields, right,
Speaker 1: Like he plays in the stuff that it certainly caters
Speaker 1: to his strengths, which I think benefits him. But One,
Speaker 1: it's very hard to win a bracelet, Okay. Two, I'm
Speaker 1: just going with the fact that if he is ultimately
Speaker 1: going to make a big stink about how long tournaments are,
Speaker 1: how tiring they are, how he's getting older, all this
Speaker 1: sort of stuff, then all right, maybe you're just mentally
Speaker 1: not ready for the summer ahead. And I'm gonna say
Speaker 1: that's gonna affect your game and you're not gonna win
Speaker 1: any bracelets. Now. Of course, if he does win a bracelet, amazing, right,
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna I'm gonna say no. I'm going to
Speaker 1: say no, he's going to be stuck for another year
Speaker 1: without winning one. So we'll see. But maybe we'll get
Speaker 1: a blow over two not on the list. Speaking of that,
Speaker 1: will we get a helmet blow up, and what I
Speaker 1: mean by that is like one that kind of goes
Speaker 1: viral within the space.
Speaker 2: I think you have to rework the question and say
Speaker 2: what date will we have with the fail helm with
Speaker 2: blow up?
Speaker 1: I think that's more important. We're definitely gonna have one on.
Speaker 2: It's probably gonna be when some idiot beats him in
Speaker 2: a hand with fourteen left in a.
Speaker 1: But I don't just I don't just want like a
Speaker 1: guy to beat him in a hand and he says
Speaker 1: a couple of things to him whatever I want, like
Speaker 1: full blow up, like full like ranting. Maybe doesn't have
Speaker 1: to be as crazy as that time in No Game
Speaker 1: in the Future when he threw the mic pack, but
Speaker 1: you know heih Sike spoke. We're kind of storming out
Speaker 1: of the set, like you know, something like that, you know,
Speaker 1: possibly like like one of those blow ups where people
Speaker 1: start questioning if he should be penalized. Like that's kind
Speaker 1: of a line, okay, you know, yeah, June twelfth day,
Speaker 1: June twelfth, all right, yeah, no big deal. We're like
Speaker 1: thirteen days into the wab boom. We're gonna be calling
Speaker 1: for half if you get a penalty. I think we'll
Speaker 1: have some verbal tie rades. I just don't think we'll
Speaker 1: go as far anymore. Like I feel like in kind
Speaker 1: of recent years he's kind of tiptotal a little bit
Speaker 1: towards it, but he ultimately hasn't got to the point
Speaker 1: where there's kind of that that outrage on social media
Speaker 1: within the community when I'd be like, hey, how come
Speaker 1: he doesn't get a penalty? What the heck is this?
Speaker 1: All that sort of stuff. So we'll have, you know,
Speaker 1: various tie raids. You know, he'll probably do some ranting,
Speaker 1: some some calling of names under his breath, but I
Speaker 1: don't think we're gonna get full Phil Helmuth blowout, So
Speaker 1: I'll say no to that one. Phil Helmuth is a
Speaker 1: former ws AP main event champion. Will we see a
Speaker 1: former man ement champion reach the final table of the
Speaker 1: WSP Man Event this year? Oh?
Speaker 2: I thought this was going to be of any pricelet event?
Speaker 1: Well I was. I changed it on the fly, and
Speaker 1: I was gonna then ask any final table after? So
Speaker 1: I'll say first man event, No, yeah, obviously, no, okay,
Speaker 1: now any final yes, Phil Hellmuth w eighteenth the price letter, Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: that tracks obviously, I would say, funny, I was the
Speaker 1: line's got to be like three and a half three
Speaker 1: and a half under. Not a lot of them play
Speaker 1: that much, but toking just Vegas main event. To clarify, Yeah,
Speaker 1: knock are doing it like all this other stuff, but
Speaker 1: like there's not I mean, they play, but like, okay,
Speaker 1: let's take I would probably start with like Chris Moneymaker
Speaker 1: because like pre Chris Moneymaker, they probably don't play a
Speaker 1: whole ton if at all, you know, like like look
Speaker 1: look pre Chris Moneymaker, Robert Varconi, huck Seed, like they
Speaker 1: don't even play, you know, for one event. But Chris Moneymaker, right,
Speaker 1: he plays a couple of events, but it's a couple
Speaker 1: you know. He like he kind of comes out, maybe
Speaker 1: does one kind of little stint, maybe goes back home,
Speaker 1: comes out for the main like that sort of thing.
Speaker 1: So it's not high volume. I think if someone like
Speaker 1: Greg Merson right also only comes out for like various
Speaker 1: stints at times, you know, a very good player, yes,
Speaker 1: but but doesn't put the volume in, then you have
Speaker 1: on the East Coast somewhere. So shed liquidity WSV dot com. Okay,
Speaker 1: we're not counting that's as final title. Oh no, no,
Speaker 1: these questions refer to only the live stuff.
Speaker 2: It's just it's just easier that way. Come on, either way,
Speaker 2: here's who I'm betting. I'm betting on Ryan Race, Joe mckaon.
Speaker 1: Is okay. Are they all going to be here playing
Speaker 1: like a full volume? I think so.
Speaker 2: Joe Hashim's gonna come out of play a few events, obviously, a.
Speaker 1: Few events, A few events. He's good. He's gonna play
Speaker 1: like three plow turns. He's good.
Speaker 2: He's not good that he'll find one of those. Obviously,
Speaker 2: Phil Helm with uh, you know, Jim Besh will play
Speaker 2: some of those mixed game ones that you know, and
Speaker 2: they get one hundred and thirty players, so much easier
Speaker 2: to make a fundampy that one. I like my three
Speaker 2: and a half, but I was taking too account online.
Speaker 1: I think somebody will, but I'm taking under on your
Speaker 1: three and a half. As it relates to the live realm,
Speaker 1: I think somebody will again make a final table live
Speaker 1: at the Way this year, but I think it's gonna
Speaker 1: be hard for you know, several of them, just because
Speaker 1: I don't think that the volume is there. You know,
Speaker 1: you even have people like Daniel Wineman recently responding to
Speaker 1: your tweet basically saying that like he's not playing the
Speaker 1: main event. Does that mean he's not playing at all?
Speaker 1: I mean he seems like a guy who was kind
Speaker 1: of trying to get his way out of poker to
Speaker 1: begin with. Yeah, and then he happens to rip off
Speaker 1: the main for ten million, and now it's just like,
Speaker 1: all right, get out of jail free cards. I got
Speaker 1: ten million dollars.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna whatever I want for the rest of you
Speaker 2: being a dad.
Speaker 1: Yeah for real, all right? What is the deepest a
Speaker 1: former w S A p main event winner will go
Speaker 1: in the main event this year? Is that final table?
Speaker 1: Is that final three tables? Top one hundred? Just in
Speaker 1: the money? What's it going to be?
Speaker 2: I'll take top hundred easily, top one easily easily.
Speaker 1: We should bet this stuff. I'm not taking top one hundred.
Speaker 2: I'm just trying to think top twenty seven is pretty hot.
Speaker 2: But I'll take top one.
Speaker 1: Hundred, all right. I'm going top five hundred, okay, And
Speaker 1: I just don't think, you know, hard to just get
Speaker 1: the top one hundred of the made event. That is insane, insane?
Speaker 1: How many former mainument champions are gonna play twelve Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a good. Yeah, Well, we think Helmut is gonna play,
Speaker 1: You'll probably get money Maker, You're probably get Jacobson.
Speaker 2: Jonathan Tomayo. Yes, yes, we're gonna rule that Wineman, right,
Speaker 2: that's what.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, that's what. That's what he responded. By
Speaker 1: the way, everyone Tim has been putting out these like
Speaker 1: stats and stuff on Twitter one a day as it
Speaker 1: relates to the ever speak great stuff, absolutely great stuff.
Speaker 1: But but you put one out there about former main
Speaker 1: event champions like cashing the next year because and then
Speaker 1: Dan Weinman said like, I won't be busting. He basically
Speaker 1: was insinuating he's not playing the main event. He just
Speaker 1: sound like he was gonna win at all.
Speaker 2: No, but like it's yeah, well, Tomayo, Espen Karai, Damien
Speaker 2: Selas and Sound will play.
Speaker 1: Damon's loss might honestly be a lock for the top
Speaker 1: one hundred. He always runs deep stuff.
Speaker 2: He'll play right six, Queen Win seven McKee and a
Speaker 2: Jacobsen nine, Race Merson, that's up to eleven, Jaccatta twelve,
Speaker 2: Yang and Gold probably God Goal as.
Speaker 1: That new sponsorship. Yeah, right, so that means he should
Speaker 1: be in there. Money Maker fifty eight, it's more like
Speaker 1: eighteen probably because then you're gonna get some randoms, like
Speaker 1: you know, whoever that gets in money makers for sure
Speaker 1: usually plays Johnny Chamberry Johnson. Yeah, he didn't even name Helmut.
Speaker 1: We think he's gonna play, even though he said he
Speaker 1: wasn't gonna play. Does he play? Excuse me? He plays
Speaker 1: the main event at least? Yeah, I mean, I don't know,
Speaker 1: it's probably closer to eighteen nineteen something like that. What
Speaker 1: is the deepest a female player is going to go
Speaker 1: in the main event this year? Of course, last year
Speaker 1: we had Kristen fox and what was a twelfth, thirteenth
Speaker 1: something like that, super super deep almost made the final table.
Speaker 1: So how far is a female player going to run
Speaker 1: this year?
Speaker 2: Further than a main event champion? But top one hundred still.
Speaker 1: Okay, I got final three table? Whoa Okay. I think
Speaker 1: there's just a lot of really really really solid women
Speaker 1: who play poker these days, A lot of them, like
Speaker 1: I think, forefront of everyone's mind, as we just mentioned
Speaker 1: Kristin Foxen. But there are a lot of really really
Speaker 1: really efing good female poker players, like even ones that
Speaker 1: you don't necessarily know, like they kind of they get
Speaker 1: their time in the spotlight during the Ladies Championship. You
Speaker 1: watch that stream, you follow the coverage, and you're like, Wow,
Speaker 1: holy hell, Like this person has played extremely well, you know.
Speaker 1: So there's a lot of just really really good female
Speaker 1: poker players, and you know, I think that they can
Speaker 1: do extremely well in the main events. So I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go final three tables. And I'm also going to say
Speaker 1: it's probably gonna be someone we don't necessarily know about.
Speaker 1: I mean, maybe we've heard the name here or there,
Speaker 1: but it's not going to be not that it can't
Speaker 1: be a Maria j or Kristin Foxen, you know, those
Speaker 1: sort of big names. I just I think it's going
Speaker 1: to be more of an unknown female player who kind
Speaker 1: of has her breakout moment on poker's biggest stage. So
Speaker 1: That's what I'm going with there, Will any woman win
Speaker 1: an open field bracelet event? Yes, and know the Ladies
Speaker 1: Championship does not count as an open field No, this
Speaker 1: is alive. I'm still gonna say yes. I feel like
Speaker 1: we'll get one. I also say yes again going back
Speaker 1: to what I said about the waspy main event. There
Speaker 1: are just too many very good, capable, successful female poker
Speaker 1: players who can do it. You know, so I think that, yeah,
Speaker 1: we're we're going to see it happen, all right? Moving on,
Speaker 1: will or sorry? Who will be the top performing high
Speaker 1: roller across the series? Now, you and I talked a
Speaker 1: little bit before we hopped on air here. Top performing
Speaker 1: is kind of open to interpretation, you know. The way
Speaker 1: that I kind of classify it is like if you
Speaker 1: were to say, let's say, five, ten, fifteen years from now, oh,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, doubasp which high roller was the best
Speaker 1: or had the best series? Boom, you just named the person.
Speaker 1: Like That's kind of of how it's you know, and
Speaker 1: it doesn't have to be exact, but it can kind
Speaker 1: of be like you can you can make the argument
Speaker 1: in a way, you know. So that's what I'm going
Speaker 1: with there. I go a bit on film.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I take my boy, a PGT boy Alex Foxen.
Speaker 1: Same. I got Alex Foxen too. He's been doing extremely
Speaker 1: well both on the PGT this season also now currently
Speaker 1: over in Triton, he's doing very well. He won an
Speaker 1: event already, He's had some deep runs, so I like
Speaker 1: that form as well. For Alex Foxen, you obviously know
Speaker 1: he's gonna put in the volume at the dovasit B
Speaker 1: he's going to play all all sorts of buy ins.
Speaker 1: I actually think that, you know, just going off what
Speaker 1: we talked about last time in that article for Polker
Speaker 1: dot Org, I believe he mentioned kind of along the
Speaker 1: lines of like a Philhamuth, you know, just hinting at
Speaker 1: sort of the stamina aspect, the health aspect of things,
Speaker 1: where he might focus a little bit less this year
Speaker 1: on smaller buying events and really focus towards the higher
Speaker 1: buying events and like, you know, just make sure that
Speaker 1: he's one hundred percent every time he goes into one
Speaker 1: of those big buy in field. So so yeah, I
Speaker 1: think Alex Foxon is gonna have a very good summer.
Speaker 1: And you know, of course he's an incredible player. So
Speaker 1: that makes sense. Of the top ten ranked PGT players
Speaker 1: right now, which I'm gonna rely on you to list
Speaker 1: them in a second, So pull up that list, mister
Speaker 1: PGT commissioner, Who's gonna be the best performer this wsop?
Speaker 1: So who do we got? Well? Current top ten?
Speaker 2: Eric Blair in order, Alex fox and China, Raim Kristen Foxen,
Speaker 2: Joey Weisman, Nick Schulman, Daniel Nogrando, Jesse Lernis, Shannon Shaw,
Speaker 2: and Jim Callapee. I'm gonna take Alex foxon again. You
Speaker 2: just gotta keep gonna keep betting on that man.
Speaker 1: I'm also taking Alex foxon again. I mean, how can
Speaker 1: you not if you name him already for the previous question,
Speaker 1: I think you have to name him right now as well.
Speaker 1: So Alex take a second person.
Speaker 2: Let's take a second person then, Okay, I'm gonna go
Speaker 2: with Jesse Linis, just because he's having a great just
Speaker 2: like Alex's great series of tried and doing really well.
Speaker 2: He's he's primed for another big world series. Shannon Shore
Speaker 2: good one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean he's, you know, talking about form like
Speaker 1: he's been just crushing this year. So I expect Channon
Speaker 1: Shore to have a really really big summer. Predict one
Speaker 1: player to win multiple bracelets in twenty twenty five. I'm
Speaker 1: going to take a guy live only, live only, Buddy
Speaker 1: live only, this is rigged.
Speaker 2: I'm going to take a guy that is going to
Speaker 2: play the most events with the smallest fields and has
Speaker 2: won multiple bracelets in the same year.
Speaker 1: And you don't where I'm going. I think won a.
Speaker 2: Pretty big event right here in the studio earlier this year,
Speaker 2: taking Chad eaves Sledge.
Speaker 1: That's not where I thought you were going. But I
Speaker 1: thought you were going to go with Chris Brewer.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, he's rushed up. Chad eaves Sledge plays all
Speaker 2: the mix He plays the No Limit high Rollers, the
Speaker 2: p Loo high Rollers. Also does play online. But you know,
Speaker 2: obviously that's not going to count anymore. He's my pretty
Speaker 2: shouldn't win multiple bracelets just like he did a couple
Speaker 2: years ago.
Speaker 1: Okay, that makes sense. I'm going with kind of an
Speaker 1: off the radar pick, but it is in a similar
Speaker 1: vein of a mixed game player. But I believe he
Speaker 1: can also play the big beat games at least with
Speaker 1: enough competency to you know, probably be a favorite over
Speaker 1: the majority of the fields that you get out at
Speaker 1: the WSP. And that's David Funkhauser. Okay, so I like
Speaker 1: that one. Yeah, a little bit off the board there,
Speaker 1: but I got Funkhauser. Give us three picks for WSP
Speaker 1: Player of the Year. We're gonna pick a favorite, We're
Speaker 1: gonna pick a mid mid tier contender, and we're gonna
Speaker 1: pick one long shot.
Speaker 2: My favorite is is Shuan dy and the main reason
Speaker 2: is I think the I think there's only a few
Speaker 2: favorites when it comes to WSP Player of the Year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think some of the other ones. My how
Speaker 1: many do you think there are? Just give me like
Speaker 1: a number. Is it more like three year, is it
Speaker 1: more like fifteen?
Speaker 2: I feel like it's three. I think it's the Grano.
Speaker 2: It could just to but Nograno and Deep, I really
Speaker 2: they're They're tier one of all WSP Player of the
Speaker 2: Year candidates, and then you have a kind of a
Speaker 2: bigger tier two, which is like I think the Shaman's,
Speaker 2: the osmas Is, Michael Manchek, all those kind of people
Speaker 2: that are going to play big schedules and play events
Speaker 2: where they can accue a lot of points, and then
Speaker 2: you have basically everyone else. So I think Nograno, after
Speaker 2: winning a bracelet last year, pressure might not be there.
Speaker 2: I could be wrong, but I think Deep always wants
Speaker 2: to win. This is always going to push to try
Speaker 2: and win one, two, three, four bracelets, win another Player
Speaker 2: of the Year title and really stamp his legacy. So,
Speaker 2: Sean Dee's my my favorite, pick about yours?
Speaker 1: I'm not taking a favorite. What do you mean You're
Speaker 1: not take your favorite. I'm in charge of the podcast
Speaker 1: and we have twenty five K fantasy coming up, so
Speaker 1: I'm going to abstain right now. Oh my, but once
Speaker 1: you see who we select you, that will be my favorite.
Speaker 1: So stay tuned for a couple of days. I can
Speaker 1: give the opponents to any sort of edge. You know,
Speaker 1: there's supposedly a lot of new teams. I don't know
Speaker 1: any of who the heck these guys are listening, so
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not giving my favorite. Did you only
Speaker 1: you only gave favorite? Okay, I'm gonna say my mid
Speaker 1: tier then, Okay, Bryce Jockey interests. That's a good one.
Speaker 2: He's got a mid year right, No, No, it's good.
Speaker 2: I never really would have consider him. He plays a lot,
Speaker 2: plays a lot of plays all the games. He I
Speaker 2: think he cares a crap ton like he wants to win.
Speaker 2: He's super competitive, you know.
Speaker 1: I think in some ways he's kind of got something
Speaker 1: to prove, kind of monkey off the back. Ish. You know,
Speaker 1: you had the whole bad beat several years ago versus
Speaker 1: josh Aria, you had finishing second last summer to Negron.
Speaker 1: You like, you know, it's kind of like at some
Speaker 1: point I feel like Bryce is gonna rip off, like
Speaker 1: he's gonna have like a Scott sever esque summer. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, so, I mean not that he's like any
Speaker 1: sort of guarantee to win. Of course, it's very hard
Speaker 1: to win over his Spy Player of the Year, Yes,
Speaker 1: but you know Bryce can get as hot as anyone,
Speaker 1: as you mention, and he plays all the games. He'll
Speaker 1: play big and especially like he's the type of guy
Speaker 1: who kind of similar to what we saw a couple
Speaker 1: of years ago with Dan Zach. If he has a
Speaker 1: big summer early, maybe he's like, oh, I gotta get
Speaker 1: in the two fifty k. You gotta get the hunter
Speaker 1: k like high role, Like I gotta start, you know,
Speaker 1: sell some pieces and play every big thing for sure,
Speaker 1: But you got mid tier mid tier.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna ride my pick from earlier Chad Evesledge. I
Speaker 2: think that's I think he qualifies for mid tier. If
Speaker 2: I think he's gonna win a couple of bracelets, he's
Speaker 2: likely to play a little maybe play a little bit bigger.
Speaker 2: And when I say that, I'm talking about the hundred
Speaker 2: kplow one hundred k no limit. I don't see him
Speaker 2: getting into two fifty k. But We also said that
Speaker 2: about Dan Zach, So he's one that could definitely make
Speaker 2: a run at trying to win Player of the Year.
Speaker 1: We got long shot, got this one's he could anybody.
Speaker 2: I don't, I no idea, but if I'm really thinking
Speaker 2: about it, I think he could consider this guy a
Speaker 2: long shot.
Speaker 1: Another mixed guy.
Speaker 2: Benny Glasser, No, no, you're not a long shot.
Speaker 1: No, he's in he's he's a mid tia. You think
Speaker 1: he might be favorite? Get out of here? Okay, what
Speaker 1: are you talking about? Who's gonna play as much Volney
Speaker 1: and like all the big stuff as Benny.
Speaker 2: I feel like everyone out of like a twelve people
Speaker 2: then all technically lung shots.
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, that's kind of the point. You got,
Speaker 1: you pick one. Let me think David Fuonkauser okay, who
Speaker 1: already said. I mean it's part long shot in that
Speaker 1: I think it's hard to win Player of the Year,
Speaker 1: or at least be a true favorite if you're not
Speaker 1: gonna step up and like play the fifty k's, play
Speaker 1: the twenty five k's, like all that sort of stuff. Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: a phone causer might get into the fifty k PPC,
Speaker 1: but is he gonna play a fifty K PLO. I
Speaker 1: don't know he's gonna play a twenty five k like
Speaker 1: like that sort of stuff, which I think, you know,
Speaker 1: it obviously gives you a really good chance to contend
Speaker 1: for POI if you're in those tournaments, which I think
Speaker 1: the favorite guys are, Like the favorite guys are like
Speaker 1: a lock to play two fifty to five K, like
Speaker 1: four shore, like whatever's happening that day, and then maybe
Speaker 1: they splashed around in some of those smaller stuff depending
Speaker 1: on what it is. So so that's how I kind
Speaker 1: of attack it there. And then also it's part long
Speaker 1: shot because like I feel like if David Funk collser
Speaker 1: ultimately wins, like the common poker verse might be like
Speaker 1: who's that, Like we know who David Funk calls is.
Speaker 1: You know, he's obviously plays, but it's like who's that?
Speaker 1: You know, So it's kind of like long shot, slash
Speaker 1: like breakout type of person to fit this little criteria.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to think of someone that if it was
Speaker 2: a betting board on DraftKings, they wouldn't be listed.
Speaker 1: Another one I thought of going back to something I
Speaker 1: said someone I said earlier is Shannon Shure. I was
Speaker 1: thinking he's like a long shot, like, you know, he
Speaker 1: might step it step it up now with the run
Speaker 1: he's on play a bunch of the twenty five k's,
Speaker 1: you know, but like I wouldn't say that he's like
Speaker 1: any sort of favorite to win a POI, Right.
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna follow him that kind of shout and
Speaker 2: show group of players and take Steven song. Yeah over
Speaker 2: in Asia right now?
Speaker 1: I would what does that term with the Lord the Lords?
Speaker 2: It's like a feel like a try and off, like
Speaker 2: a like a small Chatten series. But you know what
Speaker 2: he could rip off, you know, the million maker. Then
Speaker 2: he could final table the twenty five k no lemon
Speaker 2: hold him. He could win an online bracer which counts
Speaker 2: for Player of the Year. So he has got a
Speaker 2: few different avenues to getting there, and I would definitely say.
Speaker 1: He is a long shot to win Player of the Year.
Speaker 1: Which mixed game specialist is going to have the biggest summer?
Speaker 1: I think I know who You're going to save a
Speaker 1: good I got to continue chats and I'm also going
Speaker 1: to continue David Funks. Okay, so there we go. Which
Speaker 1: poker vlogger or influencer will make the biggest noise on
Speaker 1: the Felt this summer, and you cannot say Daniel Legrano
Speaker 1: is noise on the Felt results or is that is
Speaker 1: that breaking a selfie stick? Yes, I mean, I guess,
Speaker 1: open to interpretation. I implied felt, but you can I go.
Speaker 2: Ahead. I'm going to take Ryan to Paula. I know
Speaker 2: he is having a baby. Congratulations isn't going to play?
Speaker 2: I don't know, but we have to remember baby run good,
Speaker 2: Baby Ron Good. He's also backed by Negrano, meaning he
Speaker 2: can probably play a.
Speaker 1: Big Wait, when did he get back to byground? Is
Speaker 1: that like an open thing.
Speaker 2: That's he talks about on his vog all the time?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: Yeah, he does vlog every day, so that's he's making
Speaker 2: noise in that aspect. On the YouTube streets, he'll be
Speaker 2: playing a bunch of events. I would expect he's my pick.
Speaker 2: I went down the list of vloggers, and it's hard
Speaker 2: to know how much they're gonna play, how much they're
Speaker 2: gonna how much content they're gonna make. It's actually kind
Speaker 2: of a tough one to pick. I thought, But.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I got brad On. If you watched his recent vlog,
Speaker 1: he talked about how hard he's gonna be going this summer,
Speaker 1: he's also got some he oh, he already won one
Speaker 1: of those golden tickets for Club WPT. How kind of sketchy,
Speaker 1: but you know he already he already won one. So basically,
Speaker 1: if he wins, then one of those tournaments, he wins
Speaker 1: an additional million dollars. So there's that. But then I
Speaker 1: think he also said, and I mean, you guys can
Speaker 1: check the vlog to make sure that I'm not speaking nonsense,
Speaker 1: because I very well might be. But if he wins
Speaker 1: like something else, like another bracelet event, he's gonna basically
Speaker 1: give one hundred k away. Rampage is doing some of that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So I mean, like Brad has talked about, basically, he's
Speaker 1: like all in on the summer. He's gonna be going hard.
Speaker 1: So so yeah, I mean he fits. He fits, you
Speaker 1: know obviously poker vlogger and influencer. So yeah, I'm going
Speaker 1: with Brad Owen for that one. Now, this next one.
Speaker 1: In my short pre episode prep, I wasn't able to
Speaker 1: come up with a name, so I'll see if I
Speaker 1: can think of one on the fly, but I'm gonna
Speaker 1: throw it to you first. Predict one mainstream athlete or
Speaker 1: celebrity to make a splash in a gold bracelet event.
Speaker 1: Doesn't have to win, but you know, go deep, generate
Speaker 1: some good buzz. The thing that I think of is
Speaker 1: back at the rio ws BE main event, Richard Seymour
Speaker 1: was running deep and it started to really get legs
Speaker 1: with like outside poker media like that sort of stuff, like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, like three time Super Bowl champ Richard Seymour.
Speaker 1: He's like running deep in the biggest poker tournament in
Speaker 1: the world, so so that type of like but it's
Speaker 1: maybe not that big, you know, because it's obviously hard
Speaker 1: to achieve that, but you know, just starting to really really,
Speaker 1: you know, pick up some buzz. Who's it going to be?
Speaker 2: I think Richard Simos easy to consensus pick.
Speaker 1: It is he does he play that much anymore? That's
Speaker 1: my like. Since he got like kind of looped into
Speaker 1: this Raiders ownership group, he like it's been more out
Speaker 1: of the spotlight.
Speaker 2: I wasn't gonna pick him the I'm gonna take a
Speaker 2: sucker legend.
Speaker 1: Neyma still dealing with some injuries, so every time to
Speaker 1: play some poker.
Speaker 2: Perfect time to play some sold the buzz when he
Speaker 2: was here and he.
Speaker 1: Cashan what like the one, and you know, so he
Speaker 1: was at my table, that's right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think he'll likely play a few events, and
Speaker 2: the name and the stardom that he that he brings
Speaker 2: will will create some kind of buzz for the World
Speaker 2: Series of Poker.
Speaker 1: I'm going with your boy, Kalais Campbell. The reason I
Speaker 1: say that is because I think I feel like he's
Speaker 1: the He's the one person that's a mainstream athlete or
Speaker 1: celebrity that I feel like is there every.
Speaker 2: Year trying to check if he's signed to an NFL team.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean, Like, I feel like a
Speaker 1: lot of these guys, like I have no idea they're
Speaker 1: even going to show up. Yeah, I mean a bunch
Speaker 1: of them will show up for the main events, right,
Speaker 1: But like you know, I mean you did that interview
Speaker 1: with Kalay a couple of years ago. He's like, I
Speaker 1: want to win a race, like I want to I'm
Speaker 1: super competitive, Like I want to do that sort of stuff.
Speaker 1: So I feel like we see him out there. You know,
Speaker 1: I was thinking about possibly naming our friend Nick Wright,
Speaker 1: but I think he's only playing like three tournaments.
Speaker 2: So Kalays Campbell just re signed with Arizona Codinals who
Speaker 2: boom short drive away buddy, Okay, I just drived that
Speaker 2: last week and it's not that short. It's not that fun.
Speaker 1: Oh he's got he's got the money to but he's first.
Speaker 2: En off where it's you know, whether he's got some
Speaker 2: RTA's or some Sama camp obligations. He is a forty
Speaker 2: five hour flight away or a five hour drive.
Speaker 1: So, uh, that's a good pick by you. That's right,
Speaker 1: all right? Name I added this one. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you saw it, but name a first time WSP
Speaker 1: Bracele winner. Easy Alan Kesla. Oh Jesus Christ, No, not happening.
Speaker 1: I got sewn Winter good one. He's freaking dou Yeah.
Speaker 1: We got so burned last year in that freaking two
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty k high roller his kings Taylor Vron
Speaker 1: Krigenberg's kings with like they really like nine or ten
Speaker 1: or eleven left or something like that. It was a
Speaker 1: massive pot. I mean it is burned into my brain
Speaker 1: that if Winter just wins that pot, he wins the tournament. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it changes like everything for us in terms of
Speaker 1: fantasy and and all that sort of stuff. So I
Speaker 1: got Winter. I mean, it's time he's gonna He's not
Speaker 1: gonna put in like the biggest volume, but I say
Speaker 1: every ten K plus Nola ma Ath hold him and
Speaker 1: PLO tournament, he's gonna be in there. We obviously know
Speaker 1: how hard it is to kill Shawn Winter in a
Speaker 1: poker tournament. Yeah, like and and you know he can
Speaker 1: play extremely, extremely well. So I got Sean Winter is finally,
Speaker 1: finally gonna do it. And when you have additions like
Speaker 1: the hunter k PLO, that's right up Sewan Winter, you know.
Speaker 1: So so there we go, Sean Winter. I'm looking at
Speaker 1: you for first time. W sphegle brace winner. All right,
Speaker 1: moving on to a batch of questions that have to
Speaker 1: do with prize pools and field sizes at the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five WIP. First up, of course, we got to
Speaker 1: look at the ws AP main event. Will it break
Speaker 1: the field size record which was ten and twelve entries
Speaker 1: from last year.
Speaker 2: I don't want to bet against this number, but I
Speaker 2: feel like I have to with everything that's going on
Speaker 2: in this country and some of the travel restrictions, So
Speaker 2: I just I don't want to. My head says I
Speaker 2: have to. My heart says, don't. Don't be an idiot,
Speaker 2: you know, I always bet the overs here. So I'm
Speaker 2: going to say that we, you know, we fall a
Speaker 2: little short.
Speaker 1: I'm somewhat aligned with you until two days ago or yesterday,
Speaker 1: when bitcoin is now at an all time high again,
Speaker 1: so we know how invested the poker community is into cryptocurrency.
Speaker 2: I don't think that affects the main event as much
Speaker 2: as it affects like the two fifty k or something.
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe that is true, because because the main event
Speaker 1: is you know, it's it's one ten k bolton, that's it,
Speaker 1: versus something with re entries. Yeah, yeah, I can.
Speaker 2: I didn't make that much money the last few days.
Speaker 2: It doesn't really change how I play if I'm going to.
Speaker 1: I think I'm a no. It's just and it's not
Speaker 1: like it's not like this is a no oh my god,
Speaker 1: they're going to get six thousand, you know, like that
Speaker 1: sort of thing. No, I mean, this is just a
Speaker 1: I think it's just really hard to achieve that. I
Speaker 1: agree with you on a lot of the stuff that's happening.
Speaker 1: I think kind of generally speaking, poker feels slightly down
Speaker 1: in terms of field sizes, not like anything big or
Speaker 1: alarming or whatever. It's just kind of like just like
Speaker 1: leveled off a little bit. So I think ten and
Speaker 1: twelve is super super hard to achieve. I think it's great,
Speaker 1: but I think they're going to fall slightly short, slightly short,
Speaker 1: and then I would anticipate that things pick back up
Speaker 1: next year, right, So that that's kind of how I'm
Speaker 1: thinking thinking through this one. Do you have a prediction
Speaker 1: for field size? Like me, give me a number.
Speaker 2: I take like ten thousand and than seventeen.
Speaker 1: I got niney nine and ninety two. Okay, so I
Speaker 1: mean we're pretty close in terms of, you know, slightly
Speaker 1: below last year. Extremely good number, you know, is there
Speaker 1: is there a number? So would you be like, right
Speaker 1: on a scale of one to ten, how surprised would
Speaker 1: you be if they broke the record? I wouldn't be
Speaker 1: that surprised to be.
Speaker 2: One to ten, ah and being the most surprised.
Speaker 1: Yeah, ten being oh my god, what the hell this
Speaker 1: is insane? Like a four? Yeah, I'm like a six.
Speaker 1: Maybe what's the number where you're like, wow, that's bad
Speaker 1: because I don't think you and I like you're at
Speaker 1: tenenty seventeen. I'm at nine thousand, nine or ninety two.
Speaker 1: I would never say that, we would say that's very good.
Speaker 2: But from from my perspective is different to what WSP's perspective, right,
Speaker 2: I think WSP's perspective would be anything sub ten thousand
Speaker 2: is bad.
Speaker 1: I think, come on, that's what you're playing with one
Speaker 1: hundred and twelve entries. That's not even a lie. I'm saying.
Speaker 1: That's how I think they may view it.
Speaker 2: Personally, I think there's a world where we get eighty
Speaker 2: eight hundred, eighty five hundred. Anything below that is like, oh,
Speaker 2: this is this is not great. But we're going to
Speaker 2: have a I think we'll have a pretty good idea
Speaker 2: in the first few weeks as the World Series starts
Speaker 2: and we start comparing field sizes to previous years.
Speaker 1: We'll ook at.
Speaker 2: Different buyers, and we'll see whether where it's trending, if
Speaker 2: it's trending the same or trending significantly under us or
Speaker 2: hopefully just significantly over. We can readjust these lines.
Speaker 1: I think the I think sub eight thousand is for
Speaker 1: me personally as wow, that's bad. I think anything over
Speaker 1: eight thousand for a ten K poker tournament is still
Speaker 1: an insane accomplishment. Yeah, Like, I just don't care what
Speaker 1: anyone says. I don't care if you got ten and
Speaker 1: twelve last year. I still think that's a wild, wild
Speaker 1: number to get, you know, especially when it's a freezer, Like,
Speaker 1: it's just to me, that's incredible. Now, of course people
Speaker 1: are gonna look at it and they're gonna be like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, they're twenty percent down. Oh yeah, what's
Speaker 1: going on whatever? Like you know, first year, Gigi owned
Speaker 1: the thing. What the heck? You know? But no, so
Speaker 1: while I do think it's going to be ever so
Speaker 1: slightly down, like it's going to take a lot for
Speaker 1: me to be like, wow, that's horribly bad. Yeah type
Speaker 1: of thing. All right, how many million dollar first place
Speaker 1: prizes are going to be awarded this summer? I'll let
Speaker 1: you answer this. Okay, how about this. I'm gonna give
Speaker 1: you what it was last year? There was sixteen. Do
Speaker 1: you think it'll be more or less?
Speaker 2: Well, it's fifteen the year before sixteen last year, but
Speaker 2: you already you know, of course you do. Just forging
Speaker 2: stack guy, I'm gonna go it's going to be more.
Speaker 2: Take at least seventy eight, mainly because more events. We're
Speaker 2: adding one hundred k plot that's going to be a
Speaker 2: million dollar first prize. If we predict some of these
Speaker 2: events to go down, Okay, maybe we we chrop onnder that.
Speaker 2: We did have one event last year that had nine
Speaker 2: hundred and seventy five K for first I believe I
Speaker 2: was the one Michael Rucker one, so that could easily
Speaker 2: go out. We could have eighteen. But yeah, I think
Speaker 2: we get more than last.
Speaker 1: Yea, I'm going less, I'm going fifteen. Okay, I just think,
Speaker 1: you know, some of these events might be cutting it
Speaker 1: a little bit close. Like I kind of wonder about
Speaker 1: the PPC, to be honest, I mean that's kind of close.
Speaker 1: You have the Monster Stack was one million, ninety eight thousand,
Speaker 1: you got the well they don't have and I know
Speaker 1: you said the Hunter k Poo, which I also thought of,
Speaker 1: but they don't have that three thousand dollars mid Stakes Championship, yeah,
Speaker 1: which was over. It was slightly over a million, one thousand,
Speaker 1: one million and forty one thousand, so like, you know,
Speaker 1: that's a wash there. I kind of wonder about this
Speaker 1: ten thousand dollars Mystery Bounty, the one that Matthew Lambreck
Speaker 1: won that was slightly over. You know, you have you're
Speaker 1: going to get the main event. Of course, right, you're
Speaker 1: gonna have the Millionaire Maker. That's a lock because it's guaranteed.
Speaker 1: You're also going to have a guarantee with the mystery million.
Speaker 2: So add the twenty five k half and half. I
Speaker 2: feel like that could easily you know, we've seyen the
Speaker 2: popularity of plo and rollers, that could easily be a
Speaker 2: seven figa first prize right there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm just I just think we're going to see
Speaker 1: kind of some hits here there, So that's that's where
Speaker 1: I'm at. But it'll probably be right around the same
Speaker 1: number overall, so I don't think it's too crazy. Now.
Speaker 1: One thing that is that is working against this prediction
Speaker 1: here for me is I think that the organizers will
Speaker 1: push to get a million, like where they can. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Like if let's say the Monster Stack is like nine
Speaker 1: hundred and ninety three thousand, maybe they just push it
Speaker 1: to a million.
Speaker 2: Depends on the event, But I think there is one
Speaker 2: pay out there, Like check which one Michael Ruco won.
Speaker 1: He won those six max.
Speaker 2: Right how much though? Wasn't like nine to seventy five,
Speaker 2: nine to twenty four? Yeah, Like when do they start?
Speaker 2: That was the closest to a million without Yeah, when
Speaker 2: do they start trying to get that one up? But
Speaker 2: like is that event worthy of a fiddling with the payouts?
Speaker 1: I don't know. So what's interesting about that event? That
Speaker 1: event always takes place like during the masbe main event,
Speaker 1: but like deep into it. Yeah, like that's the one
Speaker 1: I think Sean Dee won a couple of years ago. Obviously,
Speaker 1: Michael Rocco won it last year. But what's interesting this
Speaker 1: year is you have that WPT Venetian event. Sure five K,
Speaker 1: four million dollar guaranteed. So is it kind of like
Speaker 1: people are picking and choosing a little bit more. I
Speaker 1: mean we'll see obviously, but you know, just kind of
Speaker 1: worth worth throwing out there in that regard. But I
Speaker 1: mean it's probably gonna be race writer on the same
Speaker 1: number as last year. Which event is going to have
Speaker 1: the largest prize pool outside of the waspre main event?
Speaker 2: You kind of touched on the price of bitcoin, So
Speaker 2: I am going to bed on LOSSI as big as
Speaker 2: prize pool.
Speaker 1: Which was the two fifty k. There's only one answer,
Speaker 1: and it's super Hirola.
Speaker 2: Nothing beatsa well, mister millions is pretty close, lossie. But
Speaker 2: I think there'll be some issues this year and we're
Speaker 2: going to get onto that soon. But yeah, two fifty
Speaker 2: k Superhirola.
Speaker 1: Will the Mystery Millions once again? He clip eighteen thousand entries. Oh,
Speaker 1: by the way, I think it's gonna be the two
Speaker 1: fifty k. Well that's not clear. So in terms of
Speaker 1: the Mystery Millions eclipsing eighteen thousand entries, it had eighteen thousand,
Speaker 1: one hundred and eighty eight in twenty twenty three and
Speaker 1: then last year at eighteen thousand, four hundred and nine.
Speaker 1: So is it going to They did add a flight, correct,
Speaker 1: I believe I believe all those like millionaire maker Monster Stack.
Speaker 1: I believe they all added a flight. Maybe I'm wrong there,
Speaker 1: but I.
Speaker 2: Think they did. I'm honestly gonna take I'm going to
Speaker 2: take on this, and the main reason it being was,
Speaker 2: you know, we have issues with people traveling, so maybe
Speaker 2: they only want to come for a limited amount of time.
Speaker 2: They might they might save that for the main event time.
Speaker 2: I also think there's gonna be a lot of issues
Speaker 2: with WSP plus for that first couple of days where
Speaker 2: you're gonna lose, You're gonna lose entries for people they're
Speaker 2: gonna be they won't be able to get in on time,
Speaker 2: they'll get in on light, they won't be able to
Speaker 2: fire as many bullets as they want. So I feel
Speaker 2: like we even with the additional flight, we may fall
Speaker 2: slightly short.
Speaker 1: I think it gets over eighteen thousand. Again, I think
Speaker 1: it's gonna be under last year, but it'll get over
Speaker 1: eighteen thousand. I feel like that's just kind of the
Speaker 1: benchmark for this tournament now, you know. I just think
Speaker 1: that ultimately it's that extra flight is just going to
Speaker 1: do wonders for this thing. So I mean, that's that's
Speaker 1: where I'm at with that, and it might even set
Speaker 1: a record, to be honest, with the extra flight turnout wise,
Speaker 1: what's going to be the biggest surprise bracelet event. You
Speaker 1: can take that however you want. You can spin it positive,
Speaker 1: you can spin it negative. You know, when we come
Speaker 1: out of this w SUP or when we hop on
Speaker 1: a podcast that night or whatever it is, which event
Speaker 1: are we going to be like kind of talking about
Speaker 1: as it relates to the turnout the most.
Speaker 2: I think it's that new event. I think it's the
Speaker 2: one hundred k PLO. It's going to have a massive field,
Speaker 2: and I mean that's what I also have Yeah, I
Speaker 2: think it's gonna be a top of the town that
Speaker 2: where did these three hundred and sixty players find one
Speaker 2: hundred K from?
Speaker 1: Something? I mean, I feel like every year for the
Speaker 1: twenty five, at least in previous years, for the twenty
Speaker 1: five KPLO, for the fifty k PLO, you and I
Speaker 1: are walking through the field, where'd all these people come from? Yeah?
Speaker 1: You know, like I feel like that's only going to
Speaker 1: be the same sort of thing when it comes to
Speaker 1: the Hunter K And like I think the hundre k
Speaker 1: PLO is going to be bigger than the Hunter K
Speaker 1: Nolanmit hold Them, which I think had one hundred and
Speaker 1: twelve entries last year. You know, like I think this
Speaker 1: Hunter k PLO is going to be banana. Yeah, I like,
Speaker 1: I think the lines one fifty yeah take it over.
Speaker 1: So so that's where I'm at with that. I don't
Speaker 1: have anything else written down, so do you No, you
Speaker 1: don't have any any other predictions. Overall, I think it's
Speaker 1: going to be a really good summer. I can't remember
Speaker 1: did we talk about this on the podcast. I think
Speaker 1: we might have before, But I think w SP does
Speaker 1: very well. You know, I think it's obviously the biggest
Speaker 1: and the best in terms of in this industry. It
Speaker 1: is the NFL, right, the main event is the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl all that sort of stuff. I think there's a
Speaker 1: greater potential that we're talking about other venues getting hurt
Speaker 1: by various things, just most specifically that these other venues
Speaker 1: have guarantees on every single tournament. Yeah, you know, like
Speaker 1: the WSP has like they have like one tournament guarantee
Speaker 1: that's the Gladiators of Poker with a three million dollar guarantee,
Speaker 1: and then everything else is like, oh, we're guaranteeing first place.
Speaker 1: So like the Millionaire Makers guarantee is really only a
Speaker 1: million dollars, right, So you know stuff like that. So
Speaker 1: I don't think the SPY is going to get hurt
Speaker 1: in terms of like, oh my god, they misguarantees, Oh
Speaker 1: my god, Overlailer all that sort of stuff. Thinksp is
Speaker 1: going to be just plenty plenty fine. Of course, that's
Speaker 1: where the common folk go. That's where the big fields are,
Speaker 1: the recreationals, the shot takers, all that sort of stuff,
Speaker 1: the dreamers, and then you know, we could just be
Speaker 1: hearing things outside of that. I used to be like, oh,
Speaker 1: like this venue has missed a whole bunch of guarantees,
Speaker 1: or this might be just missed a whole bunch of guarantees.
Speaker 1: And with the way that these venues now promote the overlays,
Speaker 1: like you know, overlay Alert, would probably see a fair
Speaker 1: bit of that, or at least we could see a
Speaker 1: fair bit of that. I think there's there's potential for
Speaker 1: it this year. So overall that's kind of where my
Speaker 1: head is at. But well, yeah, I mean I think
Speaker 1: it's going to be a really really good summer or
Speaker 1: really really big summer, and I'm excited. I mean, we're
Speaker 1: less than a week away. As we said, are we
Speaker 1: doing a code word?
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's do one. Okay, what do you want it
Speaker 2: to pay?
Speaker 1: You choose it. I'll say the code word will be
Speaker 1: let's just use prediction. It's a long one. I know.
Speaker 1: It's also one of those ones that I think some
Speaker 1: people might misspell it, which is I think is good,
Speaker 1: Like you gotta spell it right now, So prediction, google
Speaker 1: it or chat GBT or do whatever you got to
Speaker 1: do out there to get the spelling right for a
Speaker 1: prediction that is the code word, and uh yeah, let's
Speaker 1: rock and roll. I'm ready to go for Tim Duckworth,
Speaker 1: the mullet no no sleeve wearing guy. I hope you
Speaker 1: shoveled to the device to be like that. Please, for
Speaker 1: the love of God, for be incredible for him, Tim Duckworth,
Speaker 1: for me, Johnny Peters, We're out of here. We will
Speaker 1: talk to you guys next time.
Speaker 2: Express