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Speaker 1: Hello everyone, Welcome back to a new episode of the

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Poker Go Podcast. My name is Donnie Peters. His name

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is Tim Duckworth. It is twenty twenty six. Happy ef

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in New year, Baby, Let's go all feels like the

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same to me. It's Friday, January second. Here it is

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one oh three pm, so little afternoon pod for the boys.

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We're gonna be talking about Super High roller Bowl because

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that wrapped up just before the Christmas holiday hit and

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everyone decided to, you know, take off and not pay

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attention to anything. PGT Last Chance is coming up, so

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Tim and I will dive into that. We also got

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to do our Fantasy Draft. I want to do some

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fun segments. We're gonna do our year end recap, of course,

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we got to do that, you know, talk about how

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much we either succeeded or failed in twenty twenty five,

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give our results, all that good stuff. I also want

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to do the most official, unofficial poker awards, you know,

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because it's RIP Global Poker Awards, So you know, I'm

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gonna do it my way, and that's just how it's

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going to be done. Tim shaking his head over there.

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And then I have a list. I'm the one bringing

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a list today. Okay, so we're just gonna have some

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fun with it as we wrap up twenty twenty five

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and kick off twenty twenty six. As always, if you

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PokerGO dot com. I'm thinking that we should do a

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mailbag episode coming up. I was thinking, you know, maybe

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we should do it for this show, but then I

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kind of just some I mean, we did that one

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year for the WSP and it was it was the hit.

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every single one, all that sort of stuff. So maybe

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questions about twenty twenty five or upcoming for twenty twenty six.

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were due for a mailbag episode. So I mean, if

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you guys want to start the chain there, you know,

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just fire over some questions to podcast at PokerGO dot

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com and Tim and I will put together an episode

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surround or centered around that, and then we'll we'll hit

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on everything. This episode of the Poker Girl Podcast is

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in this season, Sam Keekey's there, Stanley Tang is there.

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trying to not lose for once in his High Stakes

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Poker tenure. It seems like all that guy seems to

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the bills, let's get into Super High rollerbl Jaosimo, the

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Brazilian Star, the freak Prussure Man. He wins Super High

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ROLLERBLE ten, Super High Rollable X. Every time I see

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super high Rollable X, I know the Roman numeral xes

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for ten, but I always put like x's when I

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Super High roll Role X twenty three entries. Jaosamou wins it.

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It was a freeze out. It was one hundred k

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buy in. He wins one point one million dollars. Another

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seven figure score for Jaosamau this year, which might be

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hard to realize because he has his Henden Mob hidden,

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but you can dig through some of the various platforms

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out there. We know the PGT stuff that he's done.

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we'll kind of talk about his year in a second.

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But I mean this, the final table was epic. That

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the heads up match was insane. I was glued to

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the damn thing five hours against Jason Kuhn. I mean

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it was. If you guys haven't seen this, go find

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it on PokerGO dot com. You can find it on

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the poker Goro YouTube channel. I would highly encourage you

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to watch it. One it was. It was highly entertaining.

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it was good stuff. The heads up match itself was

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it was a clinic by both players. You know, they

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were both of them are are very good in the

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theory side of things, the solver side of things. They

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understand all that, especially Jason Kuhn, who is arguably the

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best in the world at that. But then they also

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both understand how to deviate, when to exploit, and it

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was simply a masterpiece by both sides. You know, you

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had Kuhn who started out with a lead and then

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he stretched that up to I think it was about

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seven or eight to one. Early on, Samau gets all in.

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He's all in and at risk three different times in

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this heads up match, and each time he's crushed by Kuhn,

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but somehow pulls it out. You know. The first one

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is he's got Queen nine to Kuhn's King nine. He

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finds a queen on the river. You know. Then you know,

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Samala gets into the lead, but by a little bit,

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but then Kuhn takes it back. Kuhn gets back up

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to seven to one. Then it's Samow King five versus

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Kuon's King Queen. But no, you know, no worries because

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Samow just makes quad fives. No big deal there. And

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then it's Samow the ace five versus the pocket tens

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of Kuhn, and an ace hits on the turn and

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that puts theou up four to one in chips, and

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then eventually he closed it out from there. He finally

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had the best of it when the money went in.

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He had pocket eights, Coon had pocket fives, and Kuhn

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could not come from behind. But I mean, Samow, I thought,

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played great. You know, It's it's kind of hard because

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you watch the heads up match and and you know,

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as I outlined in some of those big hands there,

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you're kind of thinking, like, man, this guy's just getting

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lucky and lucky and lucky. And yeah, I mean he was.

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Samo played, because he played great as well. You know,

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and for Kun, you know, one of the best players ever.

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not great is the best way to describe it, but

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I don't know. I enjoyed seeing him have to go

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through that adversity and like constantly fight back and constantly

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get knocked down. And not that he wasn't you know,

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getting unlucky, because he certainly was, but just just constantly

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having to fight for that and keep his composure and

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continue to try and you know, make the best decision

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at every point when a lot of lesser players, you know,

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might have just kind of spiraled out of control, you know,

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just just being like, man, I can't beat this guy.

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I'm starting to go on tilt with all this losing

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that I'm doing. What the heck is happening? You lose composure,

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all that sort of stuff. But not Jason Kuhn. He

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was locked in every single hand, as was Jaosamau. And

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then and then right afterwards, you know, Josamau said, you know,

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I got really lucky, but both played great. The heads

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up match was one for the ages. If if you

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guys again haven't seen it, I would I highly encourage

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you to go find it. The total payouts, Jaosama out

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first place one point one million. As I mentioned, Kuhn

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got six hundred and fifty k for second place. Sam

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He came into the day the final day as the

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chip leader with five players remaining, then finished third for three,

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which was good enough to put him at the top

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of the PGT leaderboard. So he's now the front runner

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for the PGT Player of the Year race, which Tim

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and I will get into a little bit more when

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we talk about the PGT Last Chance. And then you

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had Nick Shulman cashing in fourth place for two hundred k.

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As I mentioned five returns for the final day, Japan's

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June Ubara he bubbled first. He ran kings into Samsoverrol's

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aces that got him crippled the three Big Linds. Then

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he ultimately lost out to Jau Samau to burst on

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the bubble. But Obara played well in himself, I mean,

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just a cooler there with the kings into the aces

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that ultimately you know, caused his collapse, but left with

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the smile on his face. Seems like a great guy.

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PGT atmosphere more so going forward now for you, sir,

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mister commissioner, Yes, I mean talk to me about this event.

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I mean, first of all, let's just talk about Jousamao, Like,

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what's your thoughts on him? The year he's having on

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the PGT. You know, I think people forget that he

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finished third in the Super High Rollable PLO like he's

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he's crushing. And again, I think it's hard to because

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you go to look jousonmou up and you know you're

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gonna land on HND and MOB and he has his

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results hidden, right, so it's hard to be like, oh,

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like what, you know, what's he doing? What's happening all

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that sort of stuff. Like you see a lot of

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stuff out there right now with like Jesse Loan has

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won thirteen million dollars or whatever it was this year.

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Jesse Loanison who not Puns were battling for GPI Player

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of the Year. But when it comes to Samal you

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can't find anything. So you know, just talk to me

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a little bit about his year and that sort of thing.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, firstly, that shouldn't be allowed. We should uh laws,

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I'm the.

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Speaker 1: Last laws privacy.

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Speaker 2: Laws, but I don't believe in those laws. But yeah,

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that does make it difficult. You're also forgetting he won

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the uh what was it the Trident Maine for his

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third bracelet. Uh what three?

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Speaker 1: I mean, we got into all that stuff. But yeah,

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he's having like six or he was, sorry, he won

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four million dollars in December alone.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's having a career year.

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Speaker 1: Five million dollars in December alone.

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Speaker 2: Sorry, a career year on the PGT. You kind of

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touched on it. He's fifth place right now with just

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a little bit over twenty two hundred points. He's won

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three point eight million all time in the PGT. He's

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only won five point four so a good sixty percent

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coming this year. And for those that may not be aware,

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you know, Jaz's looking pretty fit, pretty in shape. He's

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lost some weight. You know, is that the you know,

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is that can we relate that? Can we relate the

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health getting in shape, getting nice and healthy? You know,

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he's probably doing it for his you know, family and

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his kids and stuff, but hey, it's it's you know,

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it's leading to some pretty impressive poker results. So that's, uh,

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you know, that's something to kind of just be aware of.

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But yeah, he's having a great year. He plays ninety

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percent of our events. He plays mix, plays p low,

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plays all the no limit. Uh. He's also just one

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of the nicest guys on the tour, just like just

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like he's head up upon a Jason Kuhn.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, as you touched on Tremendous twenty twenty five. You know,

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you and I know because we're in the studio during

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all the PGT events. We see him there all the

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time battling. So it kind of always seemed like a

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matter of time for as Jasamaov was going to have

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a year like this. As I mentioned, he did get

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third in that Super high rollerable plo. He cash for

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more than four million dollars at WSP Paradise right before

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he then came to play the Super high Roll lebl event.

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So just an absolute banner year for JAOSAMOU believe he

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had some success down in Brazil during their Super high

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Roller series that they had I think in November, maybe

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end of October, I forget exactly, but around that time.

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So you know, Jao's just on fire right now and

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looking ahead. You know, not to jump ahead too much here,

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but you know, entering the PGT Championship, he's got to

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be somebody that we consider, you know, could go on

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to win the event. You know, we're talking about him

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as the PGT Championship winner.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 1: And and for those that might think, well, where the

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heck did this guy come from? I mean, trust me,

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he's he's been around and he's been putting in the

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work and he's you know, he's finally getting the results

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that have been meaning to come to him. So good

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on Jao for all of that. And yeah, certainly one

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of the nicest guys in in the entire world. He's great.

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I do want to hit on the event itself. You know,

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there's been some chatter about the event. You know, the

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time nine was a bit wonky. I guess I'll just

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describe it as you know, kind of craming it in there.

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Right before Christmas, you know, Poker News wrote about the

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event in a paragraph within a greater article that was

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about entries being down in Las Vegas during December, and

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this one not that the entries were necessarily down in

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super high level because it was twenty four last year

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it was twenty three this year. But when you equate

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the buy in right before. It's been three hundred k

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when it's been in the studio minus the first year

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back in twenty fifteen. Well, it wasn't in the studio,

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it was in the conference area or whatever. But that

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was a five hundred k buy But you would figure that, Okay,

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if you take the price point and you chop it

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it down to one third of the price point, shouldn't

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you get close to three x the entries? You know? So,

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I mean, how do you like, what's your thoughts there

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or what would you tell the people or whatever?

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Speaker 2: That's definitely not sure you would assume that. But you know,

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you have to think that there's people that would have

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actually played this if the buy in was bigger. I mean,

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you could make an argument that you make the buy

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in five hundred k, maybe we actually get more than

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twenty three entries. I don't think Poconeses did a very

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good job in putting this event as part of that article.

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I don't think it fits. Even though it's just a

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Vegas event in Decemba, it's a completely different event. It's

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so close to Christmas. Obviously, when you have such a buying,

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a buying of this magnetaria, it really you can't compare

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to five hundred dollars bayans thousand dollars buy ins, you know,

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the ten k main event that they're kind of discussing

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in the article. There's reasons this wasn't you know, a

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massive hit. And I would say, you know, a massive

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hit for this would have had to be in fifty

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sixty entries at a minimum. It was just kind of

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not the not the best time. We heard from players

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that they were skipping it that would normally be locks

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to play this if you put it in a random

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Wednesday in September. So yeah, timing was a big thing

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with this, especially after, you know, coming up on the

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back of WSB Paradise and the you know WPT Wins

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series where there was players that would plan to play

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this that were in events still at the win. So yeah,

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all in all, I'm not really using, you know, any

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of these data points of the twenty three entries as

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an indication for for any like future hundred k's or

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high stakes kind of tournaments are running. I think the

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biggest variable here it was was just timing wise and

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what else it was up against.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and listen, a lot of people got their asses

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buried in the Bahamas. Yeah, I mean like I was.

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I was looking up some like just Bahamas results the

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other day, and I was like, oh, how come, how

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come I can't find anyone with Isaac Hackson. Oh he

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didn't cash like Jason Kuhn had one cash you know,

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and like for someone like Jason Kuhn, who is for

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sure down there firing all the biggest buy and stuff,

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you know, he has like one cash for I think

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it was two hundred, two hundred and fifty k or something,

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I'm like, well, that's like that's one entry, like in

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a tournament. So you know, you're even like I was

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looking up Sean Deep like he didn't do anything yeah

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down there, Like you know, it's just people just got

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freaking buried. You know. Seth Davis put his results out

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on social media every single day. I mean he lost

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like one point two or one point five million or

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whatever the heck the number came to. But you know,

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people just got annihilated in the Bahamas. So I can't

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imagine that you would want to then hop on a

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flight come to Vegas right before Christmas and you know,

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light another one hunter km fire if that's how things

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are going for you at that current time in poker,

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so it's it's difficult.

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Speaker 2: Yes, Seth was one of those ones that you know,

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he's a two time you know, defending not defending, but

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two time Super High Rollaball champion from last season. You

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would think he also loves the freeze out for him. Man,

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he's probably the first in line to register for this event.

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But you know, he had plans with his nephew. They

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were going to some college football Oregon Ducks game, So

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he was one that will kind of set out. There's

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a few names that you know, we don't hear too

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much on on the PGT you know that travel Play

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Trent that kind of reached out to me and expressed

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why they were not coming. And the biggest reason is,

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you know, they're going to play whatever it is, several

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million dollars of buyings in the Bahamas, and then is

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it really worth them on the eve of Christmas, you know,

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flying to Vegas for one event because at the end

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of the day, that's all it was. Because a lot

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of the big stuff at Win had already was like

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finishing or had already finished. So they were essentially, you know,

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coming just for one event. It wasn't really you know

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worth it for them, and a lot of these factors

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just you know, when you're talking of small fields, you know,

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we have twenty three entries. That's two you know, two, three,

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four people that couldn't make it because of just some

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other thing. Well, there's a big difference between you know,

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twenty three entries and twenty seven percentage wise when you

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have these small fields. So it doesn't matter every every entry,

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you know, matters in these high stakes tournaments when you're

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talking like the ten k win main event. You know,

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if one guy, you know, you didn't play this year,

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I didn't play this year, that's not really going to

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matter at the end of the day. Two entries for

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two trees out of you know, potentially sub thirty player

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field is a big difference.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, no, for sure. I mean, I mean this event

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also has kind of been all over the map in

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terms of scheduling. It's been in May, it's been in

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December now, it's right before Christmas, it's been in I

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think the fall, it's been in Europe, like, it's literally

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been all over the place. I mean, so you know,

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when you look ahead to next season and you have

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this event, you know, like where do you like where

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do you see it fitting in next season? Like if

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you could just if you could pick the best time

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independent of everything else, Like where would you stick this?

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Speaker 2: Yes, I'm not planning I'm putting it anywhere on the

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schedule next year.

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Speaker 1: I mean is that you're hearing about the high buy

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in stuff like.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a little bit of the tax it's a

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little bit of the taxes stuff. You know. I felt

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like we had a really really good spot for this

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year because originally it was it was on the back

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act of the one hundred k p Low, so we

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were going to basically go one hundred k plow three

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hundred k super high rollabile with some other high stakes

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no limit things, and we were to really capitalize on people.

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You know, now we're satisfying what these players have requested,

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like travel for a week, but get you know, I

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think Nick Pechangelo has told me in person like yeah,

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we want to come and put millions of dollars of

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buyings in in a short time, so it's worth it.

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So doing one hundred k plow, doing the three hundred

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k super Hierolli ball, or maybe it was one hundred

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k plus some other high sex no limit events around

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October where there was no overlap with competing events, you know,

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we would have got really big numbers. Now heading into

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next year, I would say this is coming up a

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bit of a failure, you know, even with the you know,

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even with all the variables we've discussed, it's you know,

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people are going to forget about that. When we announced this,

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say hyperthetly we're going to do it in May, people

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are just going to instinctively go. I don't think twenty

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three entries. That sucks with not you know, figuring out

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the variables, even though we know those. So personally, I

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think it's not on my radar at all to put

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on next year. I don't have any interest in doing it,

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and that's because of that. But also, you know, with

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all the taxes, you know, we've heard, I've heard directly

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from players that you know, what their limit is this

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year buy and why So I don't think this fits

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on the schedule. Obviously, there's people with more power than

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me at the company that may just say we're doing

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it December twenty second, and then it's on December twenty second.

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So but at this stage I'm not planning to do

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it again. We're just going to have to see how

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the year goes and kind of figure it out. Look

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may look if things change. You know, there's some stuff

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that came out the last few days about the taxes.

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I just kind of did a tweet about it. But

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maybe things change even further, maybe we get an overruling

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year and we're back to normal. We don't really know,

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so yeah, I'll have to configure it. And you know,

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I think we're probably won't discuss it on this part

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or for a little while, but you know, you and

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you and may have discussed a kind of different idea

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for a highest stakes kind of buying event that I

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think will have a lot more legs than this will.

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So I'd rather be putting my energy into to that

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event and making that be the one, the Al Marqui

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event for the season.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I hear you on all the fronts.

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You know, I totally get it. I will say that

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if I were to put on my audience hat and

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just like from where I sit, you know, I understand

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what you're saying where you say. You know, some players

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might look at it and say, like, well, it only

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got twenty three, twenty four entries. It's kind of not

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worth my time to travel and play it as one

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off whatever. I get that from the player side. As

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a viewer, I still love this event. I don't care

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if it gets sixteen players or you know, one hundred

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and sixty. I think it's still worth it to see

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the best of the best, you know, big buying tournament

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players play an extended event over three days in a

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really really good structure. I really like the freeze out

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format this year, you know, I think that that is

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something that like really tickles my fancy, Like I just

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I love that. Like that's why I was so glued

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to this heads up match between Samo and Kuhn, Like

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it was just freaking incredible poker. Like so from a viewer,

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I would say like, yeah, you know, it's a bit

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of a bummer that, you know, you don't get thirty

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forty fifty sixty entries in this thing, right, But I

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still think it's elite poker at the highest level, a

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lot on the line, and that's what I want to see.

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I want to see the I want to see the

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best players trying to make the best decisions they can

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in the highest pressure moments. And that's to me what

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super high rollabile prise events. Now, I also love things

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like like Triton, but I do think that Triton gets

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a little bit faster at the end in a lot

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of this, Like those events are pretty quick at the

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end of the day. And I get it, you know,

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you're catering to more VIPs and all that sort of stuff.

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Like I totally understand it. But but this is, like,

472
00:24:18,480 --> 00:24:20,400
you know, I don't know. This to me is like

473
00:24:20,440 --> 00:24:26,400
the the best, most prestigious like Super high Roller title

474
00:24:26,440 --> 00:24:28,799
out there. And yeah, it's taken some hits in terms

475
00:24:28,799 --> 00:24:31,240
of field size recently, and it's it's not the best

476
00:24:31,480 --> 00:24:33,799
to do it in the United States. It's just difficult.

477
00:24:35,480 --> 00:24:37,680
But yeah, so I don't know. I would I would

478
00:24:37,680 --> 00:24:39,519
hope it doesn't go away, but I get that if

479
00:24:39,559 --> 00:24:40,839
it has to, you know, kind of go on a

480
00:24:40,920 --> 00:24:43,480
hiatus for a year or so as we kind of

481
00:24:44,720 --> 00:24:46,839
figure out what the heck is going to happen with everything,

482
00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:51,079
you know, gauge, the player pool, et cetera. But I

483
00:24:51,119 --> 00:24:53,799
do love the event. You know, I personally think that

484
00:24:53,839 --> 00:24:57,400
Super high Roll will should go to five hundred k.

485
00:24:57,680 --> 00:24:59,839
You know, I don't I don't exactly know how I

486
00:25:00,279 --> 00:25:02,079
that's what I want to happen and then I'll like

487
00:25:02,079 --> 00:25:05,319
figure out the how later. But I don't know. I

488
00:25:05,559 --> 00:25:08,319
feel like the bigger the buy in, the better as

489
00:25:08,359 --> 00:25:11,759
opposed to going the other way, you know. So, but

490
00:25:11,799 --> 00:25:13,880
I do look, if we super high rollable mixed games

491
00:25:13,920 --> 00:25:15,599
at one hundred k priceman, I do like having Super

492
00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:17,680
Bowl PLO at one hundred k price point, and then

493
00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:21,240
I think the super high rollerball you know itself would

494
00:25:21,319 --> 00:25:23,359
I would be trying to kick that thing up the other.

495
00:25:23,160 --> 00:25:26,319
Speaker 2: Way, right, Yeah. I mean, look, we had conversations with

496
00:25:27,119 --> 00:25:30,079
as they've come to be known VIPs, and how do

497
00:25:30,160 --> 00:25:32,240
we get them to play this event, and they had

498
00:25:32,240 --> 00:25:35,200
some interesting ideas. So if we were to say, if

499
00:25:35,240 --> 00:25:37,279
you force my hands, say let's schedule it next year,

500
00:25:37,319 --> 00:25:39,880
regardless of what you think, I'd obviously talk to them

501
00:25:39,920 --> 00:25:42,799
again see what they want to do, because they may

502
00:25:42,839 --> 00:25:46,359
obviously not care too much about the taxes, and then

503
00:25:46,400 --> 00:25:48,160
I would look to do how we kind of had

504
00:25:48,279 --> 00:25:52,000
originally planned where we had it following the hundred k PLO.

505
00:25:52,119 --> 00:25:56,480
I think that's a nice synergy of events, and you

506
00:25:56,519 --> 00:25:59,119
could mix in some kind of mid to higher buyings

507
00:25:59,160 --> 00:26:03,519
in there to really centivize, you know, the Europeans just

508
00:26:03,599 --> 00:26:07,440
to come travel. You know, instead of giving them one event, right,

509
00:26:07,799 --> 00:26:10,599
which is the Super roller Ball, we're giving them the

510
00:26:10,599 --> 00:26:13,960
Super roller Bowl, one hundred k plow, the Super Higher Rollabule,

511
00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:16,519
say one hundred k no limit. Maybe there's a couple

512
00:26:16,519 --> 00:26:19,319
of twenty fives and fifties sprinkled in on those other days.

513
00:26:19,839 --> 00:26:22,319
So yeah, you can come for the week and get

514
00:26:22,359 --> 00:26:25,440
a million dollars and buy ins in and actually make

515
00:26:25,480 --> 00:26:28,240
it worth your time. So yeah, gun to the head,

516
00:26:28,319 --> 00:26:30,839
That's what I would do next year. But we just

517
00:26:30,880 --> 00:26:33,640
really have to see, obviously how the landscape shakes out,

518
00:26:33,759 --> 00:26:37,599
you know, what how our schedule is like where we

519
00:26:37,599 --> 00:26:40,200
could put this, how is you know, the Trent schedule.

520
00:26:40,599 --> 00:26:44,200
You know, we've got obviously WPT doing some new stuff

521
00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:47,440
this this year. So yeah, we have to kind of

522
00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:49,519
wait and see. But hey, maybe we can get it

523
00:26:49,519 --> 00:26:52,400
back on the schedule. Maybe we won't, so kind of

524
00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:53,400
have to play the waiting game.

525
00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:57,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, So talking about Super High Rollable, Jousimow, congratulations to him.

526
00:26:57,920 --> 00:27:00,000
Just a freaking, absolutely amazing job. So kind of just

527
00:27:00,119 --> 00:27:03,559
wrapping up the whole Super High Rollable series if you

528
00:27:03,599 --> 00:27:05,680
want to call that or brand for the year. You

529
00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:09,279
had Chad Eve Sledge won the Super High Rollable Mixed

530
00:27:09,279 --> 00:27:11,839
Games Hunter k Bien and that one as well, he

531
00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:16,759
won that back in what was it, March, I believe, yeah, March.

532
00:27:17,799 --> 00:27:20,880
Then you had John Reardon, another nice guy in poker,

533
00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:24,000
super nice guy as well. He won Super High Rollable

534
00:27:24,039 --> 00:27:28,440
PLO in October, so not too long ago for him.

535
00:27:28,759 --> 00:27:31,839
And then here you have Jiao Samau winning Super High

536
00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:36,160
rollerbl in December to close out the calendar year, not

537
00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:39,240
the PGT year, because we still got to roll in

538
00:27:39,279 --> 00:27:42,319
to twenty twenty six, which we're going to do next

539
00:27:42,359 --> 00:27:45,640
here on the podcast as we swing things over to

540
00:27:46,160 --> 00:27:52,400
the PGT Last Chance Series. As the name suggests, as

541
00:27:52,440 --> 00:27:54,319
Tim and I have talked about in the past, this

542
00:27:54,480 --> 00:27:58,960
is the last chance to get into the PGT Million

543
00:27:59,119 --> 00:28:03,359
Dollar Championship. The PGT Last Chance Series takes place January

544
00:28:03,359 --> 00:28:06,440
fifth through tenth at the Pokero Studio. There are six

545
00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:09,759
ten thousand dollars buying events. They're ten thousand, five hundred

546
00:28:09,759 --> 00:28:11,920
dollars buying. If you register on time, you get a

547
00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:14,160
four hundred dollars discount, so it's only one hundred dollars rake,

548
00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:18,839
which is pretty awesome. Players are allowed unlimited entries, so

549
00:28:19,519 --> 00:28:23,480
buckle up. I guess it's gonna be blasting time in

550
00:28:23,519 --> 00:28:27,119
this thing. And then and then Tim wenton, did did

551
00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:29,960
something a little wacky crazy, I mean good, you know,

552
00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:32,480
in a good way. But last year three dream seats

553
00:28:32,519 --> 00:28:35,799
were given out based on the series leaderboard to people

554
00:28:35,799 --> 00:28:38,720
to get into the PGT million dollars Championship. This year

555
00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:41,440
he went up to to five. We might just go out,

556
00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:48,480
all right, cool, So I guess let's hit on that first,

557
00:28:48,480 --> 00:28:50,680
because that's kind of the coolest thing about this. You know,

558
00:28:50,799 --> 00:28:54,200
this season's Last Chance Series has that increase from three

559
00:28:54,279 --> 00:28:57,359
to five Dream seats being offered. So what's the motivation

560
00:28:57,519 --> 00:29:00,240
behind that change? What have players been saying out there?

561
00:29:00,279 --> 00:29:02,839
I know you're talking to everyone and you know who's

562
00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:03,960
going to be coming in blasted.

563
00:29:04,039 --> 00:29:06,240
Speaker 2: The mere reason was the change is that for last

564
00:29:06,319 --> 00:29:09,759
year there was three dream seats plus five dream passes

565
00:29:09,759 --> 00:29:13,200
into another tournament where you could win into the championship.

566
00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:16,880
We removed that kind of satellite into the free roll.

567
00:29:17,319 --> 00:29:21,839
So doing that, we obviously had to up the Last

568
00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:23,640
Chance seats. The first year we did two, so we

569
00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:27,359
when two, three, five, I think that's a nice progression

570
00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:32,039
and it gives the best thing about this series is

571
00:29:32,039 --> 00:29:35,400
that it gives anyone a chance to qualify for the

572
00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:38,240
free roll. Now that may not sound good, but what

573
00:29:38,279 --> 00:29:40,200
that means that it does create a lot of extra

574
00:29:40,279 --> 00:29:43,720
value in this tournament for both the players. Like, for example,

575
00:29:43,759 --> 00:29:46,400
you may just decide to rock up fire, some bullets

576
00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:48,720
run good, and you're in the free roll. But then

577
00:29:48,799 --> 00:29:52,759
you think about the TJ. Reid, Well, he's pretty close anyway,

578
00:29:53,039 --> 00:29:55,400
so like, yeah, I mean he's coming off a.

579
00:29:55,440 --> 00:29:58,920
Speaker 1: Huge score at Paradise. He doesn't couple studio events on

580
00:29:58,960 --> 00:30:01,359
the regular. Yeah, you know, and now he's he's out

581
00:30:01,359 --> 00:30:03,079
here and he's going to be blasting the whole thing

582
00:30:03,119 --> 00:30:04,960
he's got. He's got all the action listed on poker

583
00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:06,559
steak dot com. I think there's a whole of like

584
00:30:06,559 --> 00:30:08,920
seven or eight people that are on poker steak dot com.

585
00:30:08,960 --> 00:30:10,400
So if you guys do want to buy action, go

586
00:30:10,480 --> 00:30:12,519
over there and you can get in on the action.

587
00:30:12,599 --> 00:30:14,680
But TJ. Reid is somebody who's like, yeah, let's go.

588
00:30:14,759 --> 00:30:16,200
I'm gonna get in there. I'm going to try and

589
00:30:16,319 --> 00:30:17,839
I'm either going to try and win a dream c

590
00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:19,640
via the leaderboard or I'm going to try and get

591
00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:20,319
the points to the.

592
00:30:20,279 --> 00:30:23,200
Speaker 2: Cl and then you've got the people. You know, let's

593
00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:24,720
go to the very top of the leaderboard. You know,

594
00:30:24,799 --> 00:30:29,079
this year we'll got Sarveral fox and China Ring. Now

595
00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:32,119
they're all competing for Player of the Year. Obviously a

596
00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:36,440
bigger gap from second to third, but either way, Sam, Sarvo,

597
00:30:36,559 --> 00:30:39,880
Alex fox In they're only separated by basically a fifty

598
00:30:39,960 --> 00:30:41,160
k fifty k.

599
00:30:41,079 --> 00:30:43,039
Speaker 1: Cash fifty first.

600
00:30:43,119 --> 00:30:46,279
Speaker 2: So look they're going to be battling, you know, for

601
00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:48,519
Player of the Year. There's some value there if we

602
00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:51,079
if we scroll down to the very bottom, you know,

603
00:30:51,079 --> 00:30:53,799
you've got people like right on the fringe. You know

604
00:30:53,839 --> 00:30:58,720
that will be coming. You've got Joey Weisman, Mesado yokasaua

605
00:30:59,480 --> 00:31:04,039
Ben Tom you know, Matt Wantman, Eric Blair, all these

606
00:31:04,079 --> 00:31:06,880
guys right on the fringe close to getting knocked out.

607
00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:09,400
So there's value for them to pick up a few

608
00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:10,599
more points, lock their seat in.

609
00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:14,759
Speaker 1: Last year's Player of the Year and PGT Championship winner

610
00:31:14,839 --> 00:31:15,599
is currently on the end.

611
00:31:15,599 --> 00:31:18,400
Speaker 2: Then we exactly then we look on the outside. You

612
00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:21,240
got andrewos Spachenko didn't even realize he was so close.

613
00:31:21,279 --> 00:31:24,799
You got Nacho Barbero, David Corman, Jeremy Osmond, David chen Pads,

614
00:31:25,640 --> 00:31:29,160
Sam Laskuwitz, all these guys that are heavy volume players

615
00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:31,119
in the studio, but they haven't had the best here.

616
00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:34,119
Now they have a chance to. All right, let's get

617
00:31:34,119 --> 00:31:36,640
this run good in this week. Pick up some cash's,

618
00:31:37,160 --> 00:31:41,119
knock out the Michael Duex, the Sean Deebs, the Richard

619
00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:44,400
grecos that that may not be coming, and get into

620
00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:46,799
the top forty and then obviously in the middle of

621
00:31:46,839 --> 00:31:49,960
the list, the middle of the top forty. Every position

622
00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:52,880
you move up on the leaderboard, you gain five bbs

623
00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:54,839
for your starting stack in the million dollar three roll,

624
00:31:54,880 --> 00:31:59,079
So there's ev for there. So really this series is

625
00:31:59,119 --> 00:32:02,720
perfect for everyone, doesn't matter where you are on the leaderboard,

626
00:32:02,759 --> 00:32:06,279
unless unless you're someone like a Michael Msrahi, who I

627
00:32:06,319 --> 00:32:10,119
have chatted to. He's got these three cashes, he's locked

628
00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:14,000
into fourth. He could you know, maybe he drops the fifth, sixth, seventh,

629
00:32:14,039 --> 00:32:16,359
day two no's, but otherwise he's see him pretty sweet.

630
00:32:17,079 --> 00:32:18,960
He could just take that one more week off rock

631
00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:22,359
up for the championships. So either way, unless you're Michael Msrahi,

632
00:32:22,759 --> 00:32:27,359
there's a pretty decent amount of value for anyone that

633
00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:29,119
wants to come play PGT Last Chance.

634
00:32:30,119 --> 00:32:33,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, last year during the PGT Last Chance Series, I

635
00:32:33,960 --> 00:32:37,480
looked it up that there was just a tad over

636
00:32:37,599 --> 00:32:43,160
seven thousand points awarded. So you know, that's a ton

637
00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:45,680
of points that have to do with the series leaderboard,

638
00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:47,839
that have to do with the season long leaderboard, that

639
00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:49,599
have to do with this Player of the Year race.

640
00:32:49,640 --> 00:32:51,680
I mean there's a lot on the line here. And

641
00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:54,200
as you and I have witnessed in the last couple

642
00:32:54,240 --> 00:32:56,839
of years, and most specifically last year during the Last

643
00:32:56,920 --> 00:33:00,160
Chance Series, I mean there is there are fewer sweats

644
00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:03,519
for a series like the Last Chance It's it's awesome

645
00:33:03,640 --> 00:33:06,839
in the studio. So you know, you got the players

646
00:33:06,839 --> 00:33:09,720
fighting for the top forty positions. You got players maneuvering

647
00:33:09,759 --> 00:33:11,799
to get more chips in there. You know, you got

648
00:33:11,799 --> 00:33:13,400
some players that might just come out just as a

649
00:33:13,440 --> 00:33:16,119
little bit of a warm up, you know for the championship,

650
00:33:16,160 --> 00:33:17,960
you know, instead of coming in cold if they've had

651
00:33:18,240 --> 00:33:20,839
you know, two three weeks off between you know, whatever

652
00:33:20,880 --> 00:33:23,559
they were doing before the holidays and coming into the championship.

653
00:33:23,599 --> 00:33:26,720
So there's that, you know, you obviously have the dream

654
00:33:26,759 --> 00:33:29,079
seats aspect of things, and that's going to be a

655
00:33:29,079 --> 00:33:32,279
big fight. So this is going to be a pretty

656
00:33:32,279 --> 00:33:36,720
exciting series. I'm pretty pumped see how it all plays out.

657
00:33:38,039 --> 00:33:41,599
I'm curious ultimately, you know, how many people come and play,

658
00:33:42,440 --> 00:33:44,519
you know, I'm always curious for our series, how many

659
00:33:44,519 --> 00:33:48,200
people come and play, you know. But I guess we'll

660
00:33:48,599 --> 00:33:51,359
wait and see and then Yeah.

661
00:33:51,960 --> 00:33:55,440
Speaker 2: You know, this series last year had had insanely good

662
00:33:55,480 --> 00:34:00,799
number's basically averaged one hundred and fifteen entrance per per event. Now,

663
00:34:01,559 --> 00:34:03,640
you know, we're going to keep touching on this tax stuff.

664
00:34:04,480 --> 00:34:06,119
I think we'll have a little bit of an effect

665
00:34:06,160 --> 00:34:10,400
on this event obviously. I think if we're hitting the

666
00:34:10,480 --> 00:34:13,719
eighty entrance per tournament, I think that's good. But I

667
00:34:13,760 --> 00:34:15,239
don't think this will be And I don't think we

668
00:34:15,239 --> 00:34:18,000
can use the data from this unless it's severely bad,

669
00:34:18,320 --> 00:34:21,159
like fifty entrants as you know, data points for the

670
00:34:21,199 --> 00:34:23,599
rest of the season because of all the added value here,

671
00:34:25,159 --> 00:34:27,639
you know, alongside the dream seats, the point chase, and

672
00:34:27,639 --> 00:34:30,199
the free roll, there's just so much on offer in

673
00:34:30,239 --> 00:34:32,920
this event. So uh yeah, I hope we get it.

674
00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:35,320
I hope we get a good turnout. Obviously, there's a

675
00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:38,000
lot of big names you know that I kind of

676
00:34:38,039 --> 00:34:40,800
touched on that are on the fringes that will definitely

677
00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:42,760
be you know, wanting to be a part of the

678
00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:45,559
million dollar free roll. So I think we're going to see,

679
00:34:46,239 --> 00:34:48,280
you know, it also changes some of the way people play.

680
00:34:48,360 --> 00:34:50,559
Like if you remember last year, you know, the main

681
00:34:50,559 --> 00:34:53,159
event champion Jonathan Tomay, I just needed one more cash

682
00:34:53,719 --> 00:34:56,199
and like there were some spots I just remember, like,

683
00:34:56,800 --> 00:34:58,639
you know, he's facing it all in, but they're close

684
00:34:58,679 --> 00:35:01,840
to the money and he's making like very results, you know,

685
00:35:02,519 --> 00:35:04,920
orientated folds, and I think there's a lot of that

686
00:35:04,960 --> 00:35:09,280
for some people, you know, where now there's ICM implications

687
00:35:09,360 --> 00:35:12,719
just making the money, just cashing making that next pay

688
00:35:12,840 --> 00:35:16,199
jump is you know, you may leap you know, two, three, four, five,

689
00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:18,760
six spots on the leaderboard with if you can just

690
00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:22,480
make a six thousand dollars paye jump. So yeah, it's

691
00:35:22,519 --> 00:35:24,559
it's a very There's a lot of interesting dynamics with

692
00:35:24,639 --> 00:35:27,440
PGT Last Chance, and that's why it is a pretty

693
00:35:27,480 --> 00:35:30,400
fun series kind of to be a yeah.

694
00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:32,039
Speaker 1: I mean, listen, I can't wait for this one.

695
00:35:32,840 --> 00:35:37,320
Speaker 2: Ten dream seats next year questionable, it's got to go up.

696
00:35:37,360 --> 00:35:39,199
It's gone two three, five, it has to go up.

697
00:35:39,400 --> 00:35:40,639
It's about just picking the number.

698
00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:42,679
Speaker 1: I mean, five could be the number. You know, five

699
00:35:42,719 --> 00:35:44,880
could be a good number. I mean to me, it

700
00:35:45,039 --> 00:35:48,760
it's it's so the reason why I think that it's

701
00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:52,320
hard to just increase it is because it's it's a

702
00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:56,239
bit of a leap of faith, because you know, in theory, yes,

703
00:35:56,280 --> 00:35:58,480
there should be more dream seats awarded if the field

704
00:35:58,559 --> 00:36:01,400
sizes go up, but we don't know if the field

705
00:36:01,400 --> 00:36:03,360
sides are going to go on. I mean we're guessing, right,

706
00:36:03,519 --> 00:36:05,880
I mean, this year is this year's the riskiest of

707
00:36:05,920 --> 00:36:08,760
them all, just because again of that tax thing and

708
00:36:08,760 --> 00:36:10,320
what we're hearing from some of the players how they

709
00:36:10,360 --> 00:36:12,559
might back off plane and whatever. So it's going to

710
00:36:12,639 --> 00:36:15,559
be interesting to see how that happens, right, So I

711
00:36:15,599 --> 00:36:18,440
mean we'll see. I mean, hopefully it turns out to

712
00:36:18,480 --> 00:36:22,280
be awesome, but again, I mean, you just you never

713
00:36:22,280 --> 00:36:23,079
know at the end of the day.

714
00:36:23,159 --> 00:36:25,199
Speaker 2: So and look, we don't have to decide, you know,

715
00:36:25,239 --> 00:36:27,239
whether we're going keeping it at five, we're going in

716
00:36:27,239 --> 00:36:29,679
a seven or ten. We don't really need to make that,

717
00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:32,119
you know, we don't need to plan on that for

718
00:36:32,199 --> 00:36:34,679
quite a while. So we'll have enough kind of we'll

719
00:36:34,719 --> 00:36:37,559
look at this how the season starts, breaking out the numbers,

720
00:36:37,559 --> 00:36:40,559
and then kind of, you know, figure it out from

721
00:36:40,559 --> 00:36:41,599
the well.

722
00:36:41,599 --> 00:36:42,719
Speaker 1: One of the things we have to do is we

723
00:36:42,760 --> 00:36:43,639
have to draft for it.

724
00:36:43,800 --> 00:36:47,559
Speaker 2: You and Ildy. I'm Sorrydy, I'm crushing you. I should

725
00:36:47,599 --> 00:36:48,960
just I should give you an extra pick.

726
00:36:49,239 --> 00:36:52,199
Speaker 1: I mean, does super highroleble count.

727
00:36:52,440 --> 00:36:53,880
Speaker 2: We dropted for Superrollible?

728
00:36:54,199 --> 00:36:54,760
Speaker 1: No, we didn't.

729
00:36:56,239 --> 00:36:58,280
Speaker 2: We drafted for Paradise and Super Highrollible.

730
00:36:58,599 --> 00:37:00,480
Speaker 1: Oh I didn't. Okay, I didn't know if it was

731
00:37:00,559 --> 00:37:01,440
just Paradise and then we.

732
00:37:01,360 --> 00:37:03,000
Speaker 2: Were it was both. Okay.

733
00:37:03,079 --> 00:37:05,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you're absolutely fucking crushing me. So it's like,

734
00:37:07,119 --> 00:37:10,360
but we'll draft anyway. For the hell I drafted jow Right, Yeah, yeah,

735
00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:10,960
of course you did.

736
00:37:11,039 --> 00:37:13,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, but he won the non PGT event.

737
00:37:13,440 --> 00:37:15,239
Speaker 1: Does matter? He wants to pize.

738
00:37:15,280 --> 00:37:17,440
Speaker 2: I know. I'm just saying I'm pretty good at this thing,

739
00:37:19,039 --> 00:37:19,400
all right.

740
00:37:19,519 --> 00:37:21,679
Speaker 1: Well, I mean I didn't do too bad because I

741
00:37:21,800 --> 00:37:25,559
had Sam's overall and Jason kohon, so it's pretty good.

742
00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:29,559
The worst situation on the world. But I'm still getting crushed.

743
00:37:29,559 --> 00:37:31,639
You're up like you have like double my points, like

744
00:37:31,679 --> 00:37:33,400
I have like nineteen hundred. You have like thirty eight

745
00:37:33,440 --> 00:37:36,679
hundred or something. So whatever, all right, so let's just

746
00:37:36,719 --> 00:37:38,239
do five new people.

747
00:37:38,440 --> 00:37:38,840
Speaker 2: Got it.

748
00:37:38,920 --> 00:37:44,000
Speaker 1: You're up first, I'm up first. I hope he's fucking

749
00:37:44,079 --> 00:37:48,719
list maybe, I hope he's listening. My guy, Jeremy f

750
00:37:48,840 --> 00:37:52,280
and Becker. Let's go. J Becks, are you listening. I

751
00:37:52,360 --> 00:37:55,360
drafted you first. I told you the other day, well

752
00:37:55,360 --> 00:37:57,639
we were playing at Venetian, that you were going to

753
00:37:57,719 --> 00:38:00,840
crush the PGT last chance reason. You are gonna win

754
00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:02,599
a dream seat even though you have like two hundred

755
00:38:02,599 --> 00:38:04,480
points in the year and this is your only chance

756
00:38:04,519 --> 00:38:06,440
to get in. But you are hot. He just won

757
00:38:06,440 --> 00:38:09,199
the Venetian the other day for seventy one or seventy

758
00:38:09,199 --> 00:38:11,400
two k something like that. He bagged the day one

759
00:38:11,440 --> 00:38:14,519
a Chipley last night from the next Venetian tournament. I mean,

760
00:38:14,559 --> 00:38:17,599
this guy is as hot as they come. Let's go

761
00:38:17,880 --> 00:38:23,480
Jeremy Becker. He also said, Max firing, Max firing, Jay Becks,

762
00:38:23,599 --> 00:38:27,280
let's go. So I'm in there for Jeremy freakin Becker.

763
00:38:27,599 --> 00:38:28,519
Let's go, baby.

764
00:38:29,119 --> 00:38:31,159
Speaker 2: I'm also gonna take a Jeremy.

765
00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:32,519
Speaker 1: You can take you get, you get two picks.

766
00:38:32,559 --> 00:38:35,400
Speaker 2: By the way, I know I'm gonna take Jeremy Osmas.

767
00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:37,320
Speaker 1: Oh, Jeremy. I er, yes.

768
00:38:39,119 --> 00:38:43,760
Speaker 2: Jeremy Osmus, and give me William Alex fuckson.

769
00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:48,719
Speaker 1: That's a good one. That's a good one, all right.

770
00:38:48,840 --> 00:38:49,800
I'm going with.

771
00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:54,400
Speaker 2: I do have some inside of knowledge on some of

772
00:38:54,400 --> 00:38:56,840
these players, so I don't if you if you throw

773
00:38:56,920 --> 00:38:59,119
someone out that I have knowledge on al you.

774
00:38:59,119 --> 00:39:03,840
Speaker 1: Know, taking Shannon Shore, Okay, last year.

775
00:39:03,760 --> 00:39:06,119
Speaker 2: He did win two. He thought he wasn't gonna play

776
00:39:06,159 --> 00:39:06,599
because of.

777
00:39:06,599 --> 00:39:10,480
Speaker 1: All his DM saying I'm in okay, yeah, good. And

778
00:39:10,480 --> 00:39:15,079
then I'm gonna go with uh, David ODB Baker, my guy.

779
00:39:15,840 --> 00:39:18,599
I know he's got at least the first three events

780
00:39:18,599 --> 00:39:20,760
listed on poker Steakes, so maybe a little bit of

781
00:39:20,760 --> 00:39:23,320
elite from me. I'm guessing ODB is gonna be one

782
00:39:23,360 --> 00:39:25,159
of those guys which you do see in the PGT

783
00:39:25,280 --> 00:39:27,880
Last Chance Series where they're not going to reach the

784
00:39:27,920 --> 00:39:30,320
top forty. So they come and they play the first

785
00:39:30,360 --> 00:39:33,440
one to three events, maybe maybe they can get some

786
00:39:33,440 --> 00:39:35,480
some stuff going, they get some points, then they're in

787
00:39:35,480 --> 00:39:37,079
the thick of it for the dream Seat Race, and

788
00:39:37,079 --> 00:39:39,639
then boom, they're playing the whole series. So that's why

789
00:39:39,639 --> 00:39:42,159
I'm drafting ODB. Plus he's my guy. Let's freaking good.

790
00:39:42,239 --> 00:39:47,480
Speaker 2: That's good. That's a good one. I'm gonna take Sean Winter.

791
00:39:48,639 --> 00:39:50,320
Speaker 1: Sean Winter, Yep, No.

792
00:39:50,400 --> 00:39:54,239
Speaker 2: He's coming and he's he's in that kind of vulnerable spot,

793
00:39:54,280 --> 00:39:56,000
so I'm like, Okay, he needs to get some points.

794
00:39:56,000 --> 00:40:03,800
I'll take him. Then I'm gonna take Jim Collopy, who

795
00:40:03,920 --> 00:40:07,800
is now of course Jim will be there. Breaking news,

796
00:40:08,039 --> 00:40:11,480
Victor Blaum has opted out of the free row, which

797
00:40:11,559 --> 00:40:13,800
means Jim Callipy is now fortieth.

798
00:40:14,559 --> 00:40:17,920
Speaker 1: Okay, there you go. Yeah, that's just for all those

799
00:40:17,920 --> 00:40:20,360
wondering about the top forty, there's not only do you

800
00:40:20,400 --> 00:40:23,000
have to have enough points to be in the top

801
00:40:23,039 --> 00:40:25,320
forty of the leaderboard, you have to also check two boxes.

802
00:40:25,360 --> 00:40:29,199
One of them is you need three PGT caches. That's

803
00:40:29,199 --> 00:40:31,119
what we were talking about for so often with Michael

804
00:40:31,119 --> 00:40:33,840
the grindermans Rocky. He ended up getting his third in

805
00:40:33,920 --> 00:40:36,800
the Bahamas. For those PGT qualifying events as part of

806
00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:40,400
WSP Paradise, there are some other players either in the

807
00:40:40,440 --> 00:40:42,360
top forty or right around the top forty who would

808
00:40:42,400 --> 00:40:44,639
need to hit the three cash marks. So maybe they'll

809
00:40:44,639 --> 00:40:47,800
be out there trying to get it during the PGT

810
00:40:47,920 --> 00:40:49,880
Last Chance series. Maybe they just pass on it. It

811
00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:52,000
was all so then in that case, you would do

812
00:40:52,079 --> 00:40:54,280
like what Tim just said with Victor Blam, you remove them,

813
00:40:54,320 --> 00:40:56,800
You bump everyone up a slot, and that's how things go.

814
00:40:56,920 --> 00:40:59,559
The second thing is that people need to opt in

815
00:40:59,800 --> 00:41:03,239
to play the championship. So what Tim is saying there

816
00:41:03,239 --> 00:41:05,920
with Victor Blom, Tim's been doing all this outreach. He's

817
00:41:05,960 --> 00:41:07,880
being the commissioner that we need. He's talking to all

818
00:41:07,880 --> 00:41:10,519
the players. Hey, you know, if you qualify in the

819
00:41:10,559 --> 00:41:12,159
top forty, are you going to play? Because what we

820
00:41:12,239 --> 00:41:14,320
don't want to happen. What the point of this is

821
00:41:14,679 --> 00:41:16,960
you don't want me. Let's say I'm in the Let's

822
00:41:16,960 --> 00:41:19,159
say I'm tenth right and I'm in I'm in the

823
00:41:19,199 --> 00:41:20,960
free row, I have my three cashes, I have enough

824
00:41:20,960 --> 00:41:23,840
points whatever, but then I just don't show up. Well

825
00:41:23,880 --> 00:41:26,480
that then we just we want forty people in the

826
00:41:26,480 --> 00:41:29,639
free row. Okay, So if you're not going to show up, fine,

827
00:41:29,920 --> 00:41:32,719
just tell us and we'll give the seat to somebody else, Okay,

828
00:41:32,840 --> 00:41:34,400
the next person on the leader ward. That's how this

829
00:41:34,440 --> 00:41:37,280
is gonna work, because we ultimately want forty people from

830
00:41:37,280 --> 00:41:40,559
the leaderboard in the free row. Right, So that's that's

831
00:41:40,559 --> 00:41:43,400
how this works. So you have to confirm with the

832
00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:45,880
commissioner that you are going to play and opt in.

833
00:41:46,760 --> 00:41:48,880
Then you have to have those three cashes and enough points.

834
00:41:48,920 --> 00:41:52,480
So so that's that's that all right. So you took

835
00:41:52,519 --> 00:41:58,920
Jim Calliby and Sewan Winter, I'm get taking I just

836
00:41:58,960 --> 00:42:02,639
thought of someone I forget all. I'm taking John Reared

837
00:42:02,639 --> 00:42:07,440
in Good One. Yeah, and I'm taking Chino ring okay,

838
00:42:07,880 --> 00:42:09,159
because I think Sheino's gonna be out.

839
00:42:09,159 --> 00:42:10,960
Speaker 2: I mean, what what else is he gonna do?

840
00:42:11,480 --> 00:42:14,239
Speaker 1: Yeah? There are certain people where I'm like tax situation

841
00:42:14,400 --> 00:42:16,400
or no attack situation, Like, what the hell is Chino

842
00:42:16,480 --> 00:42:18,920
Rham gonna do? What is Jerry Becker gonna do? They're

843
00:42:18,960 --> 00:42:21,840
gonna just be playing poker like end of story. So

844
00:42:22,280 --> 00:42:24,800
these guys are gonna be in there. Chino's got that

845
00:42:24,800 --> 00:42:28,199
that backing or that that foundational support in terms of

846
00:42:28,199 --> 00:42:31,360
like motivation to play, because he has an outside shot

847
00:42:31,519 --> 00:42:34,119
at winning PGT Player of the Year. He's four hundred

848
00:42:34,119 --> 00:42:38,039
and fifty one points behind Sam Soverll, so he could

849
00:42:38,079 --> 00:42:40,599
steal it in the eleventh hour. I think last year

850
00:42:41,159 --> 00:42:43,719
the person who top leaderboard had more than six hundred

851
00:42:43,719 --> 00:42:46,800
points from this series alone, So it's very doable, you know,

852
00:42:46,840 --> 00:42:50,280
it's very doable, especially if if what Tim is thinking,

853
00:42:50,320 --> 00:42:53,679
if we get a really good attendance at this series

854
00:42:53,719 --> 00:42:56,239
and there's gonna be more points up for grabs. So

855
00:42:56,840 --> 00:43:00,000
you know, Gino's a performer, you know, so he's gonn

856
00:43:00,079 --> 00:43:01,320
to get out there and get it done. All right, sir.

857
00:43:01,440 --> 00:43:02,239
Last pick for you.

858
00:43:03,320 --> 00:43:09,360
Speaker 2: I was going to take was being the keyword Andrew Osapachenka, right,

859
00:43:09,400 --> 00:43:15,840
because he's one out of the forty. But I don't know,

860
00:43:15,920 --> 00:43:18,159
maybe he's maybe he's just there whatever. I'm just gonna

861
00:43:18,159 --> 00:43:21,000
go to Borgara. One person I know is.

862
00:43:21,320 --> 00:43:24,039
Speaker 1: I have no knowledge, but he will be there.

863
00:43:23,920 --> 00:43:27,559
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, but I want to go someone that

864
00:43:28,199 --> 00:43:31,719
is basically needs to win for you'd right, I'm going

865
00:43:31,800 --> 00:43:34,559
to reach down and take Sam Lasquitz.

866
00:43:35,480 --> 00:43:36,719
Speaker 1: I mean, he'll for sure for you there.

867
00:43:37,079 --> 00:43:40,440
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think Chenko will be there too, but you know,

868
00:43:40,559 --> 00:43:43,000
I have more question marks on him than I would

869
00:43:43,000 --> 00:43:46,760
Sam last Qwitz, and Sam Lastwitz needs more points than

870
00:43:46,840 --> 00:43:51,719
Asa Pachenka, so he may blast even harder. That's that's

871
00:43:51,760 --> 00:43:54,400
just my kind of got feeling on it.

872
00:43:54,960 --> 00:43:58,159
Speaker 1: Yeah. So okay, So PGT points are the scoring system

873
00:43:58,199 --> 00:44:00,599
for this, we'll do another one right before the championship

874
00:44:00,639 --> 00:44:04,599
because we have that day off in between, so we'll

875
00:44:04,599 --> 00:44:06,639
do another draft. Then we'll just draft for the championship

876
00:44:07,320 --> 00:44:08,840
and then we'll call it a year.

877
00:44:08,960 --> 00:44:11,119
Speaker 2: I should well, whatever we do for that, you should

878
00:44:11,199 --> 00:44:15,239
get one pick in each of the sections, like the

879
00:44:15,280 --> 00:44:17,599
top ten, the next ten, the next time, the next time,

880
00:44:17,679 --> 00:44:20,239
and the dream State winness. Okay, I like, otherwise we're

881
00:44:20,239 --> 00:44:22,719
just going to take like, you know, the top ten

882
00:44:22,760 --> 00:44:23,480
chip counts by.

883
00:44:23,360 --> 00:44:27,320
Speaker 1: Saying of course, of course, I'm also very excited to

884
00:44:27,320 --> 00:44:30,880
see how this Player of the Year race shakes out. Again.

885
00:44:30,960 --> 00:44:34,320
The gap between Sam Soverll, who's currently leading in Alex

886
00:44:34,360 --> 00:44:36,599
Fox and is only fifty five points. I mean, that's

887
00:44:36,679 --> 00:44:39,800
like a fourth place finish in one of these events,

888
00:44:39,840 --> 00:44:43,079
fifth place finish not maybe not even that, like you know,

889
00:44:43,159 --> 00:44:45,559
seventh place, six, I don't know, it's it's basically a

890
00:44:45,559 --> 00:44:48,800
decent cash like if you get to the final table. Yeah, So,

891
00:44:48,960 --> 00:44:51,519
I mean that's gonna be fun to sweat. And for

892
00:44:51,559 --> 00:44:55,480
some reason, you know, for whatever coincidence there may be,

893
00:44:55,639 --> 00:45:00,000
like these leaderboard sweats for us have always broke pretty

894
00:45:00,119 --> 00:45:03,519
well in terms of giving us max entertainment. You know,

895
00:45:03,599 --> 00:45:05,760
remember the Poo series. You had Fox and play in

896
00:45:05,760 --> 00:45:08,679
that Bounty tournament getting heads up again, and then Lonus

897
00:45:08,719 --> 00:45:10,840
was at the twenty five K final table just folding,

898
00:45:11,079 --> 00:45:13,079
like you know, you had that stuff happening. So I

899
00:45:13,079 --> 00:45:14,760
think we're gonna get a pretty good sweat here. So

900
00:45:15,119 --> 00:45:17,079
I like the chance that China reim, you know, kind

901
00:45:17,079 --> 00:45:19,000
of like it'd be hilarious if Gino like won the

902
00:45:19,000 --> 00:45:21,639
first event and it's like, oh, here we go.

903
00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:24,480
Speaker 2: It would be hilarious if ms Rahi rocks up and

904
00:45:24,519 --> 00:45:25,800
wins the first two vans and.

905
00:45:26,079 --> 00:45:28,159
Speaker 1: That would yeah, that would also be going. And like

906
00:45:28,159 --> 00:45:31,119
like we talked about last year, Brandon Wilson won two

907
00:45:31,199 --> 00:45:33,320
of the six events. Shannon Shore won two of the

908
00:45:33,360 --> 00:45:37,239
six events. You know, so these guys can get hot.

909
00:45:37,559 --> 00:45:39,440
I mean, I'm looking at Jeremy Becker's probably gonna win

910
00:45:39,440 --> 00:45:42,039
two of the events with the way he's going recently,

911
00:45:42,159 --> 00:45:44,599
you know, so he's running pretty hot.

912
00:45:44,639 --> 00:45:44,880
Speaker 2: Yeah.

913
00:45:45,119 --> 00:45:53,079
Speaker 1: Right. The most official unofficial poker Awards, Baby, let's go.

914
00:45:53,840 --> 00:45:57,519
I mean, listen, I love fun wacky awards. I guess

915
00:45:57,559 --> 00:46:02,440
you do. I have one, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,

916
00:46:02,639 --> 00:46:03,840
eight awards listed?

917
00:46:04,599 --> 00:46:06,840
Speaker 2: Have you Yeah, you need to explain this. Do you

918
00:46:06,880 --> 00:46:09,800
have nominations or are you? Are you naming who you

919
00:46:09,840 --> 00:46:14,599
think the winner is? And then I name.

920
00:46:12,920 --> 00:46:14,480
Speaker 1: Who your winner is for this time.

921
00:46:14,599 --> 00:46:19,079
Speaker 2: Okay, this is gonna be tough. So first award, this

922
00:46:19,119 --> 00:46:23,239
is poker in the whole poker atmosphere, not just PGT correct.

923
00:46:23,519 --> 00:46:26,159
Speaker 1: Yeah, a whole poker atmosphere for the entire twenty twenty five.

924
00:46:27,400 --> 00:46:29,800
So the first one. These aren't in any particular order.

925
00:46:29,800 --> 00:46:31,599
I'll just read them how I wrote them down. The

926
00:46:31,639 --> 00:46:35,360
Main Character award, Okay, this goes to the player who

927
00:46:35,480 --> 00:46:39,880
is as far as I'm concerned, box Office. Like when

928
00:46:39,920 --> 00:46:42,920
I'm talking about box Office, I mean, when this person

929
00:46:43,039 --> 00:46:46,800
was on a stream, people tuned in, people are like

930
00:46:46,880 --> 00:46:49,400
I need to watch that. I'm gonna tune in. So

931
00:46:50,599 --> 00:46:52,360
who you got for twenty twenty five?

932
00:46:53,880 --> 00:46:55,760
Speaker 2: I mean, I have a I have I kind of

933
00:46:55,760 --> 00:46:58,920
have like three answers. I think the obvious answer is honest.

934
00:46:59,639 --> 00:47:03,280
I want to say Daniel Agrano, but like, I don't

935
00:47:03,280 --> 00:47:05,360
really want to give it to Daniel Mograno. He's barely

936
00:47:05,400 --> 00:47:06,239
being on the strings.

937
00:47:07,880 --> 00:47:11,840
Speaker 1: But listen, it's your award, all right.

938
00:47:11,880 --> 00:47:15,840
Speaker 2: I'm gonna fine, Nigana, you're out. I'm gonna give it

939
00:47:15,880 --> 00:47:24,599
to Allan Kating. Whether it's on I considered him, yeah,

940
00:47:24,719 --> 00:47:27,880
whether it's on our shows, A hustler, he's always gonna

941
00:47:28,480 --> 00:47:33,159
play super Agro, he's gonna you're gonna see big pots.

942
00:47:36,199 --> 00:47:40,039
It's yeah, he's he's my He's my pick, all right.

943
00:47:40,039 --> 00:47:41,840
Speaker 1: I mean he's a good one. You know, I certainly

944
00:47:41,880 --> 00:47:43,960
considered him. He was right there at the kind of

945
00:47:44,000 --> 00:47:48,039
the top of my list. But I'm going with Martin Cabrell.

946
00:47:48,920 --> 00:47:52,880
And I know that all rising. But I mean I

947
00:47:52,920 --> 00:47:55,039
see viewership numbers when this guy gets in a game,

948
00:47:55,599 --> 00:47:58,119
I love him or hate him, And there's plenty of

949
00:47:58,119 --> 00:48:00,239
people out there who are hate watching Martin Cabra. Well,

950
00:48:00,840 --> 00:48:06,480
I mean, he's absolutely tune in, right, and I know

951
00:48:06,840 --> 00:48:08,320
some of our listeners out there are going to hate

952
00:48:08,360 --> 00:48:10,719
the fact that we or that I'm listening in for

953
00:48:10,760 --> 00:48:13,920
this award. But you know, I just again, I see

954
00:48:14,039 --> 00:48:16,800
the way that the audience reacts when when Martin Cabrell

955
00:48:16,920 --> 00:48:19,800
is out there, so love him or hate him, you know,

956
00:48:20,679 --> 00:48:24,400
people are going to They're they're paying to see this movie.

957
00:48:24,440 --> 00:48:27,440
They're paying with their time to see the streaming. You know,

958
00:48:27,480 --> 00:48:32,079
the antics, the table talk, the casino Royal not like

959
00:48:32,159 --> 00:48:35,280
that all that sort of stuff from Martin Cabrell. Right now,

960
00:48:35,559 --> 00:48:38,039
another person who's kind of in the same vein Will Cassof.

961
00:48:38,079 --> 00:48:41,159
I could not in my right mind put him anywhere

962
00:48:41,239 --> 00:48:45,719
near this award. He's not getting it. I personally feel

963
00:48:45,719 --> 00:48:49,639
like Martin Cabrell is way more palatable than Will Casoof.

964
00:48:50,880 --> 00:48:53,880
Plus Martin's like he's he's really I mean he's he's

965
00:48:53,880 --> 00:48:55,880
been a name, right, Martin Cabrell has been a name, right,

966
00:48:55,880 --> 00:48:59,400
and he's drawn buzz and eyeballs before, but he picked

967
00:48:59,440 --> 00:49:02,199
up a ton of team this summer and he's really

968
00:49:02,239 --> 00:49:05,719
like harnessed that that success and tried to do it.

969
00:49:05,760 --> 00:49:07,480
Like he's also appeared on a lot of like Hustler

970
00:49:07,519 --> 00:49:10,719
Casino Live. He's on Venetian Poker Live. You know, he's

971
00:49:10,760 --> 00:49:13,280
out there getting it, getting his h his time in,

972
00:49:13,519 --> 00:49:15,920
and he's he's even like in the booth for WS

973
00:49:15,920 --> 00:49:19,559
to be Paradise, like just crazy stuff. And he had

974
00:49:19,559 --> 00:49:22,199
a lot of success. Like I got to kind of

975
00:49:22,239 --> 00:49:25,760
bake that in as well. So main character award, you

976
00:49:25,840 --> 00:49:29,679
got Alex Keating, Alan Keating. Excuse me, I have Martin

977
00:49:29,760 --> 00:49:34,639
Cabrell all right. The next one, the correct Breakout Player

978
00:49:34,679 --> 00:49:38,679
of the Year. And yes, I am petty because I

979
00:49:38,719 --> 00:49:42,239
feel like the people who voted on the Global Poker

980
00:49:42,239 --> 00:49:44,760
Awards Breakout Player of the Year got this wrong pretty

981
00:49:44,800 --> 00:49:48,280
much every single year. So we're gonna list the correct

982
00:49:48,400 --> 00:49:52,360
Breakout Player of the Year. Okay, I'm uh, I'm gonna

983
00:49:52,360 --> 00:49:55,599
opt out of this, so go ahead. No I haven't,

984
00:49:55,679 --> 00:49:59,800
I haven't. I always struggle with this one.

985
00:50:00,119 --> 00:50:01,039
Speaker 2: I got no idea.

986
00:50:01,920 --> 00:50:03,599
Speaker 1: What do you what do you mean you have noice?

987
00:50:04,199 --> 00:50:04,599
Speaker 2: You go?

988
00:50:05,400 --> 00:50:07,800
Speaker 1: I tell you to prepare because I think and a

989
00:50:07,840 --> 00:50:09,320
half ago you do it.

990
00:50:10,280 --> 00:50:14,599
Speaker 2: But I'm no, no, I'm saying this category exactly is just one.

991
00:50:14,719 --> 00:50:16,719
Like even when the GPI ballot comes out, I'm like,

992
00:50:16,760 --> 00:50:18,519
I don't know any of these guys. I don't even

993
00:50:18,559 --> 00:50:20,800
think I end up voting because I don't think my

994
00:50:20,920 --> 00:50:25,840
vote is worthy. But I mean, actually researching this will

995
00:50:25,920 --> 00:50:30,639
take years, But I mean I kind of think it

996
00:50:30,639 --> 00:50:33,880
would take a while. But I feel like, right off

997
00:50:33,920 --> 00:50:35,599
the top of my head, you have to take I'm

998
00:50:35,599 --> 00:50:37,719
propping on a butcher. How you say this blase surge?

999
00:50:38,039 --> 00:50:45,679
How do you say it? Blase BLUs plus the blood

1000
00:50:47,480 --> 00:50:49,559
bluse surge as whatever? You know? He won the two

1001
00:50:49,599 --> 00:50:52,960
bracelets at the World Series, he won the twenty five

1002
00:50:53,000 --> 00:50:57,920
UK No Limit, he won the fifteen hundred's the start

1003
00:50:57,960 --> 00:51:00,280
eight and then he you know, he has some other

1004
00:51:00,320 --> 00:51:03,920
deep runs and some other things. He's head, I think

1005
00:51:03,920 --> 00:51:08,159
a runner up in Paradise. To me, that you know,

1006
00:51:08,239 --> 00:51:11,199
like we no one knew this guy, right, you know

1007
00:51:11,239 --> 00:51:13,039
he did have obviously have a Hindu man before that

1008
00:51:13,039 --> 00:51:15,960
that goes just goes way back, but like you couldn't

1009
00:51:16,039 --> 00:51:17,599
have picked this guy out of a lineup. And then

1010
00:51:17,639 --> 00:51:20,480
he comes to the World Series, gets a dozen cashers,

1011
00:51:20,559 --> 00:51:28,039
two bracelets into completely polarizing events. To me, that that

1012
00:51:28,679 --> 00:51:30,599
was I would say would be a breakout the World Series.

1013
00:51:30,639 --> 00:51:33,840
And then pulling up his hindon right now, yeah, he

1014
00:51:33,880 --> 00:51:36,639
went obviously went back to Europe and just collected cash

1015
00:51:36,639 --> 00:51:40,280
as that every ept stuff there is, even wins and

1016
00:51:40,360 --> 00:51:42,920
final tables. And then, like I said, that runner up

1017
00:51:43,159 --> 00:51:47,320
in Paradise. So you know, there's probably someone better out there,

1018
00:51:47,360 --> 00:51:48,719
but off the top of my head, I feel like

1019
00:51:48,800 --> 00:51:52,119
he is, you know, a pretty decent candidate for Breakout

1020
00:51:52,119 --> 00:51:52,719
Player of the Year.

1021
00:51:53,559 --> 00:51:57,079
Speaker 1: Yeah. I looked into him, and I believe it's Blagerie Off.

1022
00:51:57,119 --> 00:52:00,400
I believe and I think That's how we were saying

1023
00:52:00,440 --> 00:52:03,760
it during the summer on the streams. And the reason

1024
00:52:03,760 --> 00:52:08,039
why I I ultimately ruled him out as compared to

1025
00:52:08,079 --> 00:52:11,880
the player that I ended up selecting was because looking

1026
00:52:11,960 --> 00:52:15,719
at the twenty twenty four for Jerry Off, he has

1027
00:52:16,679 --> 00:52:20,880
a second place finish in an FPS main event at

1028
00:52:20,920 --> 00:52:23,480
EPT Paris for almost three n K or over three

1029
00:52:23,639 --> 00:52:27,280
dr k. He won at that same series a twenty

1030
00:52:27,320 --> 00:52:29,119
two hundred dollars event for one hundred and fifty K,

1031
00:52:29,239 --> 00:52:30,880
so it was, you know, he I think he had

1032
00:52:30,920 --> 00:52:32,639
like seven hundred and fifty K and earnings that that

1033
00:52:32,760 --> 00:52:38,719
year before, So not that those things would would register

1034
00:52:38,840 --> 00:52:41,360
him as as like his breakout year, but I just said,

1035
00:52:41,440 --> 00:52:44,920
I just thought that that year, compared to who I

1036
00:52:45,039 --> 00:52:48,840
picked their twenty twenty four, his year was a bit better.

1037
00:52:48,880 --> 00:52:52,159
So it's more of a breakout in my side of things.

1038
00:52:52,360 --> 00:52:54,840
But I understand totally what you're saying. And the two

1039
00:52:54,880 --> 00:52:58,119
bracelets I think is awesome, you know, and one of

1040
00:52:58,159 --> 00:52:59,639
them was in that that twenty five K that was

1041
00:52:59,639 --> 00:53:04,880
freaking enormous. So yeah, I went with listen, this is

1042
00:53:05,039 --> 00:53:07,000
this is one of your guys, sir, This is a

1043
00:53:07,039 --> 00:53:08,559
PGT guy.

1044
00:53:08,719 --> 00:53:14,920
Speaker 2: Okay, win lay. Yeah, that's pretty. That's actually yeah, it's

1045
00:53:15,440 --> 00:53:17,280
a home for us. That's the way think of him.

1046
00:53:17,519 --> 00:53:21,039
Speaker 1: Lays twenty twenty three, it's pretty forty three and twenty

1047
00:53:21,039 --> 00:53:25,039
dollars in earnings, his twenty twenty four sixty eight four

1048
00:53:25,039 --> 00:53:29,639
and fifty dollars in earnings, his twenty twenty five four million,

1049
00:53:29,800 --> 00:53:34,840
seven hundred and sixty two thousand dollars in earnings. He

1050
00:53:34,880 --> 00:53:37,719
also won a bracelet. He won the fifth one of

1051
00:53:37,719 --> 00:53:41,480
the fifty k's at the at the w SP, the

1052
00:53:41,519 --> 00:53:44,159
fifty K Nolan Haan Holdham high Roller for almost two

1053
00:53:44,159 --> 00:53:46,960
point seven million. Right before that, he won the thirty

1054
00:53:46,960 --> 00:53:50,679
five hundred dollars bet MGM Championship for seven hundred and

1055
00:53:50,719 --> 00:53:54,840
seventy seven thousand dollars, So he had that, He had

1056
00:53:54,920 --> 00:53:57,679
a He won that Borgada event. Remember they did that

1057
00:53:57,719 --> 00:54:00,960
weird thing in Jim like like that sort of thing.

1058
00:54:01,000 --> 00:54:03,159
He did that, and that was in January, you know,

1059
00:54:03,280 --> 00:54:05,159
so that was in the year. I mean, this guy

1060
00:54:05,360 --> 00:54:08,639
absolutely freaking blew up. He won a poker Master's event

1061
00:54:08,639 --> 00:54:11,559
too later on, and like, I mean, this guy came

1062
00:54:11,599 --> 00:54:16,360
out of nowhere blew up in a twenty twenty five.

1063
00:54:16,440 --> 00:54:20,960
So my winner is win Ley. It's a good breakout

1064
00:54:21,000 --> 00:54:25,280
player of the year. Yeah for twenty twenty five. As

1065
00:54:25,280 --> 00:54:27,760
far as I'm concerned. The way I do it is

1066
00:54:27,760 --> 00:54:31,239
listen to the I go to the All Time Sorry,

1067
00:54:31,239 --> 00:54:34,239
I go to the yearly Money List, clicking on people,

1068
00:54:34,760 --> 00:54:36,760
and I say, okay, like if I click on this person,

1069
00:54:36,800 --> 00:54:39,199
have they done anything before this year? Is the answer?

1070
00:54:39,280 --> 00:54:42,039
Yes or no? Okay? And then I like I start

1071
00:54:42,119 --> 00:54:44,239
ruling people out, like number one is you know, Jesse

1072
00:54:44,320 --> 00:54:46,440
Lonis is on the Ultime Money List, but obviously on

1073
00:54:46,480 --> 00:54:48,880
his name, you see that he's done everything in the

1074
00:54:48,880 --> 00:54:50,920
past year, so he's already like had his breakout, so

1075
00:54:50,960 --> 00:54:52,800
he's no longer eligible. So then you just find someone

1076
00:54:52,840 --> 00:54:54,760
like that and then you kind of weigh him against

1077
00:54:54,800 --> 00:54:58,119
each other. So you know, that's where I was. But

1078
00:54:58,239 --> 00:54:59,920
I just felt like so many times you'd get like,

1079
00:55:00,199 --> 00:55:02,199
I mean, listen and nothing against this guy, but like

1080
00:55:02,679 --> 00:55:05,039
you get a John Wosnock would be nominated like win

1081
00:55:05,119 --> 00:55:08,079
and it's like, what are we doing here, Like you know,

1082
00:55:09,000 --> 00:55:10,639
just because he did that, did it on the biggest

1083
00:55:10,639 --> 00:55:12,920
stage or like what you know? Like I don't know,

1084
00:55:13,639 --> 00:55:16,920
So anyway, that's what we got. Win Lay is mine

1085
00:55:17,239 --> 00:55:20,000
you took Blagieri off, which is a good respectable one

1086
00:55:20,000 --> 00:55:22,840
for for coming off with it on the fly. All right,

1087
00:55:22,880 --> 00:55:25,639
Next award, they can't Miss Event of the Year not

1088
00:55:25,800 --> 00:55:27,840
named the ws B Main Event, because if we did

1089
00:55:27,840 --> 00:55:29,639
include the ws being event, that's the one we would

1090
00:55:29,679 --> 00:55:32,400
just always pick what do you got for this one?

1091
00:55:33,960 --> 00:55:35,960
Speaker 2: I'm assuming this counts, But can I can I say

1092
00:55:35,960 --> 00:55:37,960
the WSB Paradise Main Event?

1093
00:55:39,119 --> 00:55:39,519
Speaker 1: You can't?

1094
00:55:39,599 --> 00:55:42,159
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I would say that because I think a

1095
00:55:42,159 --> 00:55:45,480
few different reasons. There was obviously the crazy increase in

1096
00:55:45,519 --> 00:55:50,679
guarantee for no reason, so I think people were I'll

1097
00:55:50,719 --> 00:55:52,159
be honest and say this, I think people were ami

1098
00:55:52,199 --> 00:55:54,679
sweating it. I think people wanted to say it miss

1099
00:55:55,039 --> 00:55:58,079
for sure. So I think there was a bit of anyone.

1100
00:55:57,760 --> 00:56:03,519
Speaker 1: Anyone who actively picked going to the WPT Win Series

1101
00:56:03,599 --> 00:56:06,599
or wt World Championship at the win was actively sweating

1102
00:56:07,440 --> 00:56:08,119
the guarantee.

1103
00:56:08,199 --> 00:56:10,920
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, So there was the anti sweat of hoping

1104
00:56:10,920 --> 00:56:15,559
a missus. There was the craziness of you know, Daniel

1105
00:56:15,639 --> 00:56:18,239
Legrando being for thirteen buy ins and this person being

1106
00:56:18,320 --> 00:56:24,599
for twelve, et cetera. There was the crazy structure where

1107
00:56:24,719 --> 00:56:27,679
you can play Day one cash Day two, then entered

1108
00:56:27,719 --> 00:56:31,199
day one. See, I think that threw people off. And

1109
00:56:31,239 --> 00:56:33,599
then on the plus side, you know, you got a

1110
00:56:33,599 --> 00:56:37,000
ten million dollar first prize, you got people taking shots

1111
00:56:37,000 --> 00:56:40,159
in twenty five k buyings, you got players that have

1112
00:56:40,239 --> 00:56:45,039
qualified via for ten cents on club GG or GG poker.

1113
00:56:46,920 --> 00:56:49,239
And then the third cool thing about it was, you know,

1114
00:56:49,360 --> 00:56:52,280
to be honest, the production is pretty good. You know,

1115
00:56:52,320 --> 00:56:56,519
you got the two or three feature tables and all

1116
00:56:56,559 --> 00:56:58,840
that stuff, so kind of all of those things you

1117
00:56:58,840 --> 00:57:00,559
put them in a melting part kind of makes it,

1118
00:57:01,079 --> 00:57:03,440
you know, can't miss event of the year. And for

1119
00:57:03,519 --> 00:57:06,199
me personally, it was one I was you know, I

1120
00:57:06,239 --> 00:57:09,960
don't watch that much poker outside of our events, but

1121
00:57:10,039 --> 00:57:12,079
this was one I had on every day. You know,

1122
00:57:12,159 --> 00:57:14,519
I think you and me were, you know, we're either

1123
00:57:14,679 --> 00:57:17,039
texting or something, and it was on on one of

1124
00:57:17,039 --> 00:57:19,519
our screens and we're saying, check out this hand, Oh

1125
00:57:19,519 --> 00:57:21,079
my god, did you see that kind of thing? So

1126
00:57:21,119 --> 00:57:22,719
we were both kind of tuned in as well. And

1127
00:57:23,440 --> 00:57:26,159
you know, I don't normally do that outside of our

1128
00:57:26,199 --> 00:57:29,400
events outside of the WSP, So I think that to

1129
00:57:29,480 --> 00:57:31,880
me shows it was kind of a can't miss event personally.

1130
00:57:32,920 --> 00:57:36,199
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, listen, I considered w spiperdis Super Main event.

1131
00:57:36,400 --> 00:57:39,320
I ultimately couldn't get there as it relates to that event,

1132
00:57:39,400 --> 00:57:43,400
because I still feel like it's an event that I

1133
00:57:43,480 --> 00:57:48,199
personally don't really aspire to play. So like I feel

1134
00:57:48,280 --> 00:57:50,679
like when I say can't miss event of the year,

1135
00:57:50,760 --> 00:57:52,800
not named the main event, it's an event that, in

1136
00:57:53,440 --> 00:57:55,679
my opinion, I'm going to go out of my way

1137
00:57:55,719 --> 00:57:58,800
to try and play, Like whether that's raised money, if

1138
00:57:58,800 --> 00:58:00,719
it's a little bit of a higher buying, whether that's

1139
00:58:01,079 --> 00:58:03,559
clear the schedule so I can play. Whatever it is, like,

1140
00:58:03,639 --> 00:58:05,679
I'm going to try and do it, you know, even

1141
00:58:05,760 --> 00:58:09,960
with the big money that's up top, the huge guarantee,

1142
00:58:10,119 --> 00:58:12,360
all that sort of stuff. Like, I don't know, I

1143
00:58:12,360 --> 00:58:16,400
don't necessarily see myself going to over extend to go

1144
00:58:16,440 --> 00:58:18,760
to the WSP Paradise Super Main Event. That's not to

1145
00:58:18,760 --> 00:58:21,000
say it's not an incredible event, and it is, right,

1146
00:58:21,280 --> 00:58:23,800
but I just feel like I feel like where I

1147
00:58:23,880 --> 00:58:27,840
am that event is still very hard. So I don't

1148
00:58:27,840 --> 00:58:30,320
know if I would ultimately go to do it. I

1149
00:58:30,360 --> 00:58:33,480
mean maybe that that changes in you know, whatever ten months,

1150
00:58:33,480 --> 00:58:36,519
eleven months or whatever, But where I sit right now,

1151
00:58:36,840 --> 00:58:40,760
I just me personally wouldn't over extend to go do it,

1152
00:58:40,800 --> 00:58:44,320
but I think it's certainly worthy of winning this award,

1153
00:58:44,360 --> 00:58:46,199
So I don't I'm not saying you made a bad

1154
00:58:46,199 --> 00:58:49,000
pick or anything like that. I went with the WPT

1155
00:58:49,159 --> 00:58:52,519
Prime Championship at the win. I mean, as far as

1156
00:58:52,559 --> 00:58:55,039
I'm concerned, that's the second best event of the year,

1157
00:58:55,880 --> 00:58:58,639
like hands down to play. Yeah, I don't even think

1158
00:58:58,639 --> 00:59:01,159
it's like I don't even think it's I mean, like

1159
00:59:01,199 --> 00:59:03,880
I think it's WSP main event. It's the WSP Prime Championship.

1160
00:59:04,599 --> 00:59:05,599
Speaker 2: And I'll give you that.

1161
00:59:05,760 --> 00:59:08,239
Speaker 1: If I was the WPT or sorry that I think

1162
00:59:08,280 --> 00:59:13,559
I said WSP Prime Championship the WPT Prime Championship. If

1163
00:59:13,599 --> 00:59:15,719
I was the WPT, I would be going all in

1164
00:59:15,760 --> 00:59:18,360
on this event, like I would be trying to push

1165
00:59:18,440 --> 00:59:22,079
the the guarantee to ten million next year, you know,

1166
00:59:22,360 --> 00:59:26,280
just just go push my chips in. Like now, I

1167
00:59:26,320 --> 00:59:29,519
have no idea what they're gonna do. It doesn't seem

1168
00:59:29,599 --> 00:59:33,159
like they're going to push their chips in or push

1169
00:59:33,239 --> 00:59:37,039
more chips in to bet on the WPT World Championship itself,

1170
00:59:37,280 --> 00:59:39,880
you know, because that's now been two years running without

1171
00:59:39,880 --> 00:59:43,519
the guarantee. The numbers took a fairly meaningful dive this year.

1172
00:59:43,559 --> 00:59:45,719
Even though it's still got more than eighteen hundred players,

1173
00:59:45,719 --> 00:59:47,360
it's still a very good tournament to all that sort

1174
00:59:47,400 --> 00:59:49,639
of stuff. Yes, but it just doesn't seem like that's

1175
00:59:49,639 --> 00:59:51,880
like the focal point, and it does seem like this

1176
00:59:51,960 --> 00:59:54,719
Prime Championship is a focal point, so I would continue

1177
00:59:54,719 --> 00:59:56,960
to push in there. It's also a nice break in

1178
00:59:57,039 --> 00:59:59,480
terms of like you have WSP Paradise doing their thing

1179
00:59:59,519 --> 01:00:01,880
with the Super Event and then you're on the complete

1180
01:00:01,920 --> 01:00:04,800
other side of things going with the eleven hundred dollars

1181
01:00:04,800 --> 01:00:08,239
buy in Prime Championship, and like, to me, this is

1182
01:00:08,320 --> 01:00:12,880
like this is like the mid major, mid Steaks slash

1183
01:00:12,920 --> 01:00:16,559
low stakes tournament of the year by far. Like I

1184
01:00:17,119 --> 01:00:19,880
think it's awesome, And in terms of like can't miss it,

1185
01:00:19,960 --> 01:00:23,679
Like I'm blocking out my schedule, I'm planning for max

1186
01:00:23,719 --> 01:00:26,320
Bullets like all that sort of stuff. So to me,

1187
01:00:26,480 --> 01:00:29,039
that's the one that that I'm I'm not missing, And

1188
01:00:29,400 --> 01:00:32,119
I think it's I think it's an incredible event. I

1189
01:00:32,159 --> 01:00:36,199
really do, so, Yeah, I think it's I had a

1190
01:00:36,199 --> 01:00:39,199
good feeling that, you know, if it wasn't both of

1191
01:00:39,280 --> 01:00:41,239
us picking the Prime Championship, we were probably gonna be

1192
01:00:41,320 --> 01:00:43,280
like you were probably gonna pick the Superman event and

1193
01:00:43,280 --> 01:00:45,679
I would pick this. So yeah, we got this one

1194
01:00:45,760 --> 01:00:47,679
right as well, of course, because it is our awards

1195
01:00:47,719 --> 01:00:52,360
at the end of the day. The next one, the

1196
01:00:52,519 --> 01:00:56,400
yeah Butt Award. This is for the player whose year

1197
01:00:56,639 --> 01:00:59,320
came with an asterisk that everyone's going to bring up

1198
01:00:59,320 --> 01:01:01,920
so when they say like, hey, remember so and so

1199
01:01:01,960 --> 01:01:03,840
in twenty twenty five and then someone was like yeah,

1200
01:01:03,880 --> 01:01:07,400
but blah blah blah, so we mentioned the player, but

1201
01:01:07,400 --> 01:01:10,159
we're always gonna say yeah, but with it and you

1202
01:01:10,199 --> 01:01:13,239
can kind of take that and and you know, put

1203
01:01:13,280 --> 01:01:15,360
it into whatever meaning you want when you give out

1204
01:01:15,360 --> 01:01:15,840
this award.

1205
01:01:16,199 --> 01:01:23,360
Speaker 2: This is easy, okay. Benny Glaza, oh three bracelets? What

1206
01:01:23,360 --> 01:01:26,320
what an insane year at the w s P. And

1207
01:01:26,360 --> 01:01:28,320
then the year but is did he yeah, but did

1208
01:01:28,320 --> 01:01:29,360
he win Player of the Year?

1209
01:01:29,960 --> 01:01:33,159
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, I mean yeah, that's interest. I didn't even

1210
01:01:33,159 --> 01:01:33,719
think of Benny.

1211
01:01:34,039 --> 01:01:35,800
Speaker 2: This this is obviously yeah.

1212
01:01:35,800 --> 01:01:37,320
Speaker 1: But remember when he got slow rolled.

1213
01:01:38,159 --> 01:01:41,679
Speaker 2: I'm not even bringing that one up, but that that

1214
01:01:41,679 --> 01:01:44,400
one might come up in uh yeah a little bit later.

1215
01:01:45,880 --> 01:01:48,920
But you think about, uh Scott save his year of

1216
01:01:48,920 --> 01:01:53,039
the year before three bracelets, We've seen people wind Player

1217
01:01:53,039 --> 01:01:56,320
of the Year with a very with a set of

1218
01:01:56,360 --> 01:02:01,480
results less superior to what Benny did. Unfortunately, the yeah,

1219
01:02:01,519 --> 01:02:03,880
but he ran into the guy that wins the two

1220
01:02:03,920 --> 01:02:07,519
biggest events of the World Series and along with the

1221
01:02:07,599 --> 01:02:11,039
before min cash as everywhere else to kind of outthrow him.

1222
01:02:11,079 --> 01:02:14,239
But yeah, Benny Glassar, I think is the year but

1223
01:02:14,880 --> 01:02:16,039
the easy year butt for me.

1224
01:02:17,760 --> 01:02:19,559
Speaker 1: So the first person that came to mind for me

1225
01:02:21,000 --> 01:02:27,159
was Renlnn obviously the ghosting whatever you know whatever thing.

1226
01:02:27,280 --> 01:02:29,199
But then I was like looking up his year and

1227
01:02:29,199 --> 01:02:30,440
I was like, he didn't do too much where I

1228
01:02:30,440 --> 01:02:34,960
would like he would be necessarily brought up right. And

1229
01:02:35,000 --> 01:02:37,480
then I went with somebody who I already picked. I'm

1230
01:02:37,480 --> 01:02:41,679
giving him, give him the award again, Martin Cabrell because

1231
01:02:41,760 --> 01:02:45,039
he had a great year. And then everyone's gonna be like, yeah,

1232
01:02:45,079 --> 01:02:48,280
but he's horrible to watch on TV, or yeah, but

1233
01:02:48,519 --> 01:02:50,920
I can't stand that guy, or yeah but this, yeah

1234
01:02:50,960 --> 01:02:54,079
but that right, like with with Martin Cabrell. So you

1235
01:02:54,119 --> 01:02:57,559
know Cabrell had would he win one or two bracelets

1236
01:02:57,599 --> 01:03:00,840
this year? I think two because he won one in Europe.

1237
01:03:00,840 --> 01:03:02,920
Speaker 2: I believe he won the tan k Plo and mister

1238
01:03:02,960 --> 01:03:05,360
Boundie in Europe, and then he won the the Mini

1239
01:03:05,440 --> 01:03:06,320
Maine Mini Maine.

1240
01:03:06,400 --> 01:03:08,679
Speaker 1: Yeah, he gus. I think he had a deep run

1241
01:03:08,719 --> 01:03:10,920
in the main event too. He hit a bunch of

1242
01:03:10,960 --> 01:03:12,119
deep runs in the summer. Well.

1243
01:03:12,119 --> 01:03:14,199
Speaker 2: He final table with the tan k super Zoba Boundy

1244
01:03:14,280 --> 01:03:16,960
like two days before the Mini Maine and and final

1245
01:03:16,960 --> 01:03:19,719
table the two fifty K and final table with the

1246
01:03:19,719 --> 01:03:20,639
five k PLO.

1247
01:03:20,920 --> 01:03:23,360
Speaker 1: So yeah, he had the running for Player of the Year.

1248
01:03:23,519 --> 01:03:26,599
Like you know, obviously people were tuning in to watch him,

1249
01:03:26,599 --> 01:03:28,719
whether they were watching him because they liked his antics,

1250
01:03:28,760 --> 01:03:31,000
whether they were watching him because they hate watching whatever.

1251
01:03:31,360 --> 01:03:33,920
But anytime you bring this this guy up and the

1252
01:03:34,000 --> 01:03:36,000
year that he had, it's gonna be hit with a

1253
01:03:36,079 --> 01:03:39,920
yeah butt. Yeah but I can't stand that guy. Yeah,

1254
01:03:39,960 --> 01:03:43,480
but he's he should be penalized, like yeah, but like

1255
01:03:43,519 --> 01:03:46,519
whatever it is, it's there's always gonna be a yeah

1256
01:03:46,559 --> 01:03:50,599
butt with him. So so he's my my yeah butt

1257
01:03:50,920 --> 01:03:57,679
award there. Next up the Iron Chair Award. This is

1258
01:03:57,719 --> 01:04:01,559
going to the player who simply would not leave, doesn't

1259
01:04:01,599 --> 01:04:04,800
matter what's going on. This player was in the field

1260
01:04:04,920 --> 01:04:05,800
and he was battling.

1261
01:04:07,159 --> 01:04:11,599
Speaker 2: Go ahead, as I read this, awarded to the player

1262
01:04:11,639 --> 01:04:14,079
who simply would have would not leave. I only thought

1263
01:04:14,119 --> 01:04:16,920
of one name, which is very different to how you

1264
01:04:17,000 --> 01:04:21,000
just said it, which was okay, always battling because my

1265
01:04:21,079 --> 01:04:24,920
guy was just kind of obviously William Kassouf.

1266
01:04:25,159 --> 01:04:31,480
Speaker 1: Uh would not leave. Everyone's best efforts, would not leave.

1267
01:04:31,679 --> 01:04:34,639
Speaker 2: He would not leave. He's you know. We had Bob

1268
01:04:34,679 --> 01:04:36,280
Smith come over and give him a penalty.

1269
01:04:37,039 --> 01:04:37,800
Speaker 1: He would not leave.

1270
01:04:38,039 --> 01:04:40,360
Speaker 2: And then he busted and did a thirty minute bust

1271
01:04:40,360 --> 01:04:43,119
out interview. Did all the media is.

1272
01:04:43,119 --> 01:04:46,000
Speaker 1: That that watched the stream that they that Natalie body

1273
01:04:46,559 --> 01:04:49,880
God bless her heart for sticking with his question one

1274
01:04:49,960 --> 01:04:55,400
question thirty away and they left the camera like on him.

1275
01:04:55,480 --> 01:04:58,000
Natalie kept holding the microphone like the interview was still

1276
01:04:58,039 --> 01:05:01,000
happening while they showed play and then they went back.

1277
01:05:01,199 --> 01:05:04,719
It was the same thing. Yeah, that was actually what happened,

1278
01:05:04,719 --> 01:05:06,400
like behind the scenes, that's what happened.

1279
01:05:06,519 --> 01:05:08,719
Speaker 2: And then after that, after the Natalie interview, he gave

1280
01:05:08,719 --> 01:05:10,800
more interviews to the other media and then finally he

1281
01:05:10,840 --> 01:05:15,119
was ushered out and I think he was banned for

1282
01:05:15,199 --> 01:05:17,519
the rest of the world series. I think that was

1283
01:05:17,559 --> 01:05:19,119
the band he was given. I don't think anything more

1284
01:05:19,159 --> 01:05:21,639
than that. But still like talking about someone they wanted

1285
01:05:21,599 --> 01:05:25,440
to leave. It's him, but like, if we're talking about it,

1286
01:05:25,519 --> 01:05:28,639
wouldn't leave. Is in more of a tournament aspect then

1287
01:05:28,840 --> 01:05:31,480
obviously becausof doesn't apply. But I'll let you. I'll let

1288
01:05:31,519 --> 01:05:32,199
you take that one.

1289
01:05:32,320 --> 01:05:35,880
Speaker 1: Well, okay, my my winner is who I wanted to

1290
01:05:36,000 --> 01:05:37,679
name the award after, but I didn't want to give

1291
01:05:37,679 --> 01:05:39,800
it away, And it's Jeremy Becker. I mean, come on,

1292
01:05:40,239 --> 01:05:44,119
the guy is literally there in every single tournament.

1293
01:05:45,679 --> 01:05:46,559
Speaker 2: He's a bit of a ground.

1294
01:05:47,199 --> 01:05:52,119
Speaker 1: Wanted me to look up some players on Hendon Mob,

1295
01:05:52,280 --> 01:05:54,159
you know, because I'm thinking of like, like, if there's

1296
01:05:54,159 --> 01:05:57,119
a tournament, Jeremy Becker's there, He's in there until they

1297
01:05:57,119 --> 01:06:00,519
literally tell him he can't play, Like he's max bullets.

1298
01:06:00,559 --> 01:06:02,079
It doesn't matter if it's a two hundred dollar buying

1299
01:06:02,159 --> 01:06:04,840
or a five K buying, It doesn't matter until registration closes,

1300
01:06:04,880 --> 01:06:06,639
and then he has to bust and actually leave and

1301
01:06:06,639 --> 01:06:09,079
go somewhere else. And then in that case, it's usually like, oh,

1302
01:06:09,119 --> 01:06:10,760
can I make it to this next venue to play

1303
01:06:10,800 --> 01:06:14,679
the next tournament? Like that's just how it operates. But

1304
01:06:15,079 --> 01:06:17,840
because of that, you know, I was looking it up.

1305
01:06:17,840 --> 01:06:20,000
He had eighty two cashes on the year In twenty

1306
01:06:20,079 --> 01:06:26,320
twenty five, Pedro Palasio one hundred and fifty six cashes.

1307
01:06:26,360 --> 01:06:29,840
I mean, this guy is this guy's is Florida's version

1308
01:06:29,840 --> 01:06:32,599
of Jeremy Becker. I mean every tournament is just a

1309
01:06:32,599 --> 01:06:34,920
two hundred dollar, one hundred and fifty dollars tournament at

1310
01:06:34,920 --> 01:06:39,800
Seminal Coconut Creek, just NonStop, eighty dollars tournament, one hundred

1311
01:06:39,800 --> 01:06:43,079
dollars tournament. You know, just this whole thing is just wild.

1312
01:06:43,239 --> 01:06:44,840
Last year he had like one hundred and fifty k

1313
01:06:44,960 --> 01:06:48,440
in earnings and I'm not sure he played a tournament

1314
01:06:48,480 --> 01:06:51,639
with a higher buy in the three hundred dollars. It's

1315
01:06:51,760 --> 01:06:54,119
just non stop in this Oh there's there's a four

1316
01:06:54,159 --> 01:06:57,800
and dollars one at the WPT at Seminal hard Rock,

1317
01:06:57,880 --> 01:06:59,719
but a six hundred dollar one as well. I mean

1318
01:06:59,719 --> 01:07:04,119
this is just Pedro Palasio shout out to you, sir,

1319
01:07:04,159 --> 01:07:09,559
Coconut Creek, Florida, just absolutely out there grinding, crushing this

1320
01:07:09,639 --> 01:07:12,480
other guy too, well, not this guy, this guy who

1321
01:07:13,800 --> 01:07:15,119
the guy in second place? We had one hundred and

1322
01:07:15,119 --> 01:07:18,800
thirty year. Yeah, he's all in. Where's he at?

1323
01:07:19,199 --> 01:07:19,880
Speaker 2: Like Taiwan?

1324
01:07:22,559 --> 01:07:27,039
Speaker 1: Yeah, Taipei City is where he's playing at cash and everything.

1325
01:07:27,079 --> 01:07:28,960
But he's got like, well, I don't know what these

1326
01:07:28,960 --> 01:07:31,559
conversions are. Yeah, they're they're smaller, so the same sort

1327
01:07:31,599 --> 01:07:34,760
of thing. But then the guy in third place, Conrad

1328
01:07:34,880 --> 01:07:38,920
co Conrad Cou, It's just it's just south Point, south

1329
01:07:38,920 --> 01:07:42,440
Point south He's a legend. This is south Point NonStop.

1330
01:07:42,480 --> 01:07:45,320
This is all south Point. We look this guy up.

1331
01:07:45,559 --> 01:07:48,519
It's literally the whole thig is south Point. If I

1332
01:07:48,559 --> 01:07:50,760
know this guy's I mean south Point. SHO just signed

1333
01:07:50,800 --> 01:07:55,079
this guy to a deal. It's just outrageous whole thing.

1334
01:07:55,199 --> 01:07:58,159
South Point Nightly, south Point Nightly, south Point Nightly, south Point.

1335
01:07:58,159 --> 01:07:59,840
It's just not every once in a while you'll get

1336
01:07:59,880 --> 01:08:03,079
like the Orleans pops in there or whatever. But yeah,

1337
01:08:03,280 --> 01:08:07,800
this is wild. So anyway, shout out to the grinders

1338
01:08:07,840 --> 01:08:09,880
out there, you know, shout out to the grinders out there.

1339
01:08:09,920 --> 01:08:13,800
Speaker 2: But you go down to this guy, Michael Myles. Everything

1340
01:08:13,840 --> 01:08:16,279
is at Tunica, same thing, like.

1341
01:08:16,600 --> 01:08:19,399
Speaker 1: Just grinding the dailies in their respective areas, I mean, good,

1342
01:08:19,399 --> 01:08:26,760
shout out to them. It's freaking awesome, all right. Next

1343
01:08:26,760 --> 01:08:30,479
award h most likely to run it back. That's the

1344
01:08:30,520 --> 01:08:34,279
player most likely to repeat their success for another year.

1345
01:08:34,439 --> 01:08:37,239
We're talking about consistency here. It's the most It's the

1346
01:08:37,279 --> 01:08:40,760
person that you would you would most bank to have

1347
01:08:40,840 --> 01:08:43,600
a similar year to the next year. You know, So

1348
01:08:43,680 --> 01:08:45,600
if you gave me, like basically one name that I

1349
01:08:45,640 --> 01:08:47,520
could bet on, being like, hey, will they achieve the

1350
01:08:47,520 --> 01:08:51,079
same sort of success of another elite year, you know,

1351
01:08:51,159 --> 01:08:53,000
this is the person that I would be better on.

1352
01:08:53,159 --> 01:08:54,199
So who you got?

1353
01:08:54,479 --> 01:08:56,920
Speaker 2: It does make it hotter when you can sit up

1354
01:08:57,279 --> 01:09:03,359
the old the tax implications for the Americans. But I

1355
01:09:03,399 --> 01:09:08,920
feel like, to me, we kind of if you were

1356
01:09:08,920 --> 01:09:11,000
to talk about twenty twenty five proka, you might even

1357
01:09:11,000 --> 01:09:16,560
mentioned this guy, but he somehow compiled twelve point six

1358
01:09:16,560 --> 01:09:20,239
million dollars in earnings this year, and that's Stephen Shildwick.

1359
01:09:20,560 --> 01:09:26,399
So twelve point six phenomenal, second highest every year he's had.

1360
01:09:26,399 --> 01:09:28,600
He had a thirteen million year back in twenty nineteen.

1361
01:09:29,760 --> 01:09:32,239
I'm going to rule out twenty twenty and twenty twenty

1362
01:09:32,239 --> 01:09:36,199
one because you know that old you know that old

1363
01:09:36,279 --> 01:09:39,000
virus thing imagig. But basically last year at eight point eight,

1364
01:09:39,199 --> 01:09:41,920
twenty twenty three, nine point eight, twenty twenty two, seven million,

1365
01:09:42,279 --> 01:09:45,760
twenty nineteen, thirteen point five, twenty eighteen, ten, My point is,

1366
01:09:46,920 --> 01:09:49,079
obviously twelve's a lot more than what you would say

1367
01:09:49,079 --> 01:09:53,039
he's averages over the last few years. But he is

1368
01:09:53,399 --> 01:09:55,840
going to continue to travel and play all the trents,

1369
01:09:55,920 --> 01:09:57,840
play all the big stuff here. I don't think his

1370
01:09:59,239 --> 01:10:03,079
playing volume change. So it's definitely very likely that he

1371
01:10:03,159 --> 01:10:08,039
can replicate the amount of winnings. You know, he's had

1372
01:10:08,039 --> 01:10:14,000
this year, and he hasn't really won a lot tournament

1373
01:10:14,000 --> 01:10:16,159
wise compared to you know, some of these other names

1374
01:10:16,159 --> 01:10:18,119
you name, but you know, he won a super higher

1375
01:10:18,159 --> 01:10:20,319
roller here at napt he won to try an event,

1376
01:10:20,760 --> 01:10:24,479
a couple close calls at the World Series, but no

1377
01:10:24,720 --> 01:10:28,000
like super marquee wins. So I think he has still

1378
01:10:28,039 --> 01:10:30,239
a little bit of room to convert a lot of

1379
01:10:30,239 --> 01:10:33,560
these you know, final Like you look at his results

1380
01:10:33,560 --> 01:10:36,279
of trying. You know, we got a seventh and eighth,

1381
01:10:36,319 --> 01:10:39,159
the sixth, the sixth at that stuff. You know, we

1382
01:10:39,239 --> 01:10:41,640
had that one win, but we had eight first, second, eighth,

1383
01:10:42,319 --> 01:10:45,159
you know, Paradise, he had a fifth, like his World

1384
01:10:45,199 --> 01:10:48,439
Series second second or one of those seconds was the Ariahrola,

1385
01:10:48,520 --> 01:10:52,600
but second he's like right there this year, sorry, last

1386
01:10:52,680 --> 01:10:56,880
year without getting that big marquee win. So even though

1387
01:10:56,920 --> 01:10:59,239
he cashed for you know, twelve million plus, which is

1388
01:10:59,279 --> 01:11:01,880
a lot compared to the last few years. The fact

1389
01:11:01,880 --> 01:11:04,239
that he kind of fell short in the big moment

1390
01:11:04,359 --> 01:11:07,039
shows that I think there is still some room for

1391
01:11:07,119 --> 01:11:11,840
him to, with that doubt, replicate his results, especially with him,

1392
01:11:11,880 --> 01:11:14,800
you know, not being a tax paying American.

1393
01:11:16,880 --> 01:11:20,640
Speaker 1: I'm going with Alex Fox and I mean, this guy

1394
01:11:20,680 --> 01:11:23,279
round the taxes. He's just got what the heck is

1395
01:11:23,279 --> 01:11:24,520
Alex Fox is gonna do with his life.

1396
01:11:24,760 --> 01:11:27,760
Speaker 2: Come on, he's gonna go play in the UFO.

1397
01:11:28,319 --> 01:11:32,000
Speaker 1: Okay, Mike, right now, whatever, I don't care. Eleven point

1398
01:11:32,039 --> 01:11:34,199
six million in twenty twenty four, eleven point twenty six

1399
01:11:34,239 --> 01:11:36,560
million in twenty twenty five. I mean, this guy's just

1400
01:11:37,600 --> 01:11:40,439
he's an eight figure printing machine, is what he is.

1401
01:11:40,680 --> 01:11:43,520
He's gonna Like, if I'm going to bank on somebody

1402
01:11:43,560 --> 01:11:47,079
to repeat an eight figure year get over ten million,

1403
01:11:47,199 --> 01:11:50,199
it's Alex Fox to me. I mean, that guy's just

1404
01:11:50,199 --> 01:11:51,560
gonna be out there, is going to be doing it.

1405
01:11:51,600 --> 01:11:55,000
So I am banking on Alex foxen for my most

1406
01:11:55,039 --> 01:11:56,720
likely to run it back. Tim has got to.

1407
01:11:56,720 --> 01:12:00,960
Speaker 2: Be fun to bet on the opposite like who had

1408
01:12:00,960 --> 01:12:03,960
a big year and who's going to be nowhere near

1409
01:12:03,960 --> 01:12:07,239
it obviously the first Michael, Yeah, he's the first pick,

1410
01:12:07,279 --> 01:12:09,920
but like, it'd be interesting to actually do that one too,

1411
01:12:10,560 --> 01:12:11,039
I think.

1412
01:12:10,960 --> 01:12:13,079
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean yeah. I didn't want to make it

1413
01:12:13,079 --> 01:12:17,119
too negative in the awards, but it did cross my mind.

1414
01:12:18,279 --> 01:12:22,159
Next year, all right, the next one. I'm calling this

1415
01:12:22,199 --> 01:12:25,439
one the Connor Yackey, okay, And it's a blend between

1416
01:12:25,800 --> 01:12:30,640
Connor Drynen and Bryce Yacky because those two hands are legendary.

1417
01:12:30,680 --> 01:12:34,119
Connor when he had the aces versus carry Katz's aces

1418
01:12:34,159 --> 01:12:36,159
and the big one for one drop the million dollar

1419
01:12:36,239 --> 01:12:38,000
buying and he lost, They got the money and pre

1420
01:12:38,079 --> 01:12:41,479
Floppy lost. Bryce Yackey we all know from the fifty

1421
01:12:41,560 --> 01:12:45,840
k PPC against josh Aria took that horrendous beat in

1422
01:12:45,960 --> 01:12:50,880
what Douce seven triple draw. So this is the Connor Yacky.

1423
01:12:50,960 --> 01:12:54,760
It is the most memorable beat of the year. I'll

1424
01:12:54,800 --> 01:12:58,720
let you go fests I have now this one's I

1425
01:12:58,800 --> 01:13:01,600
might get a little pushback here, but I'm going with it, okay.

1426
01:13:02,399 --> 01:13:08,399
Jared Blesnik Romayne Lequay aces versus nines in a the

1427
01:13:08,520 --> 01:13:11,439
six bet pot in the WSP main event when look

1428
01:13:11,680 --> 01:13:15,960
flop the nine. The thing is is like the money

1429
01:13:16,000 --> 01:13:19,159
didn't get into the turn and Laquay had freaking quakes like,

1430
01:13:19,359 --> 01:13:21,720
but still, this was a beat. The way that this

1431
01:13:21,800 --> 01:13:24,399
hand played out, there is no way that Loque should

1432
01:13:24,439 --> 01:13:28,560
ever have bucking nines here, yet he did in an

1433
01:13:28,600 --> 01:13:33,720
absolutely wild hand left Jared Blesnick freaking stunned. Like it

1434
01:13:33,960 --> 01:13:37,640
just just crazy shit in this one. So it was

1435
01:13:37,720 --> 01:13:41,880
aces versus nines. I believe it was maybe button or

1436
01:13:41,880 --> 01:13:44,720
cut off for Blessnick and big blind for Luquay. It

1437
01:13:44,800 --> 01:13:49,079
was raised, re raised, re rais, reraise, reraised, call nine

1438
01:13:49,279 --> 01:13:51,319
five three or nine five six or something on the

1439
01:13:51,319 --> 01:13:54,079
flop they ended up getting the money on the turn

1440
01:13:54,119 --> 01:13:57,159
when it's another nine. So yeah, to me, that that

1441
01:13:57,239 --> 01:13:59,840
was that was the most memorable beat of the year.

1442
01:14:01,520 --> 01:14:03,640
Plus with the way Jared acted afterwards where he was

1443
01:14:03,680 --> 01:14:08,520
like walking around like just totally stunned. Yeah.

1444
01:14:08,600 --> 01:14:11,520
Speaker 2: I mean this could be recency biased, but there's two

1445
01:14:11,560 --> 01:14:14,359
that kind of stand out to me. One was more

1446
01:14:14,359 --> 01:14:15,920
a series of hands you already touched on it. The

1447
01:14:16,000 --> 01:14:18,920
Jason Kuhn Jars heads up match all those beats that

1448
01:14:19,039 --> 01:14:22,279
Kuhn took before busting. It's not really one hand, so

1449
01:14:22,640 --> 01:14:25,439
but still I think the moment becoming a super high

1450
01:14:25,479 --> 01:14:28,760
rolla bowl, you know, champion. There's a bit more gravity

1451
01:14:28,760 --> 01:14:31,279
task to that win outside of just the one point

1452
01:14:31,319 --> 01:14:34,720
one million dollars. First, I know it's not really a

1453
01:14:34,720 --> 01:14:39,039
bad beat, but how do we not put the the

1454
01:14:39,079 --> 01:14:40,800
Benny Glasa Eric wasses in hand.

1455
01:14:41,439 --> 01:14:43,439
Speaker 1: I know, it's not like, I mean, that is a beat.

1456
01:14:43,560 --> 01:14:44,119
It's a beat.

1457
01:14:44,199 --> 01:14:45,079
Speaker 2: It's not a bad beat.

1458
01:14:45,119 --> 01:14:47,199
Speaker 1: It's just like, yeah, but I put the most memorable

1459
01:14:47,199 --> 01:14:47,960
beat of the year.

1460
01:14:48,239 --> 01:14:55,279
Speaker 2: That's I mean, you're throwing the steaks the stage. I mean,

1461
01:14:55,520 --> 01:14:58,039
it was disgusting. I don't know how he can.

1462
01:14:58,079 --> 01:15:05,359
Speaker 1: I I Eric Wasterson. I am kind of for a

1463
01:15:05,359 --> 01:15:08,119
good slow roll at certain times, you know, like kind

1464
01:15:08,119 --> 01:15:11,279
of like a home game with your buddies, a live

1465
01:15:11,319 --> 01:15:14,920
stream cash game, that sort of stuff. Yeah, this to

1466
01:15:15,039 --> 01:15:18,560
me crossed the line. Its like, not not like he's

1467
01:15:18,800 --> 01:15:22,640
he's necessarily breaking any rules, but in terms of like

1468
01:15:22,680 --> 01:15:25,319
crossing the line as when when are you considered like

1469
01:15:25,359 --> 01:15:29,159
the ultimate dick? This is this? Was it like this

1470
01:15:29,439 --> 01:15:32,880
he went over the line. From all accounts from the

1471
01:15:32,880 --> 01:15:35,479
people that I've talked to, it was with purpose. Okay,

1472
01:15:35,800 --> 01:15:37,920
like they had some beef going back whatever, Okay, I

1473
01:15:37,960 --> 01:15:39,960
get it. But like I mean, come on, I mean

1474
01:15:39,960 --> 01:15:44,479
come on, like this was ouch. I mean, I you know,

1475
01:15:44,520 --> 01:15:48,479
come on. So yeah, that was that was something and

1476
01:15:48,560 --> 01:15:51,119
if you watched. He later appeared on Venetian Poker Live

1477
01:15:51,119 --> 01:15:54,720
and they started talking about it, and he said God

1478
01:15:54,800 --> 01:16:00,720
slow rolled him like basically that like because of the

1479
01:16:00,760 --> 01:16:02,680
past stuff that they might have had, which I thinks

1480
01:16:02,720 --> 01:16:06,520
them back to the summer, that it was like the

1481
01:16:06,560 --> 01:16:11,159
poker gods giving it back to him, giving it back

1482
01:16:11,199 --> 01:16:15,720
to Benny Glauser. So therefore God slow rolled him like oh,

1483
01:16:15,800 --> 01:16:18,960
I mean okay, like I mean, this was this was absurd.

1484
01:16:19,039 --> 01:16:23,880
Like I I felt so bad when I watched that happen. Yeah,

1485
01:16:23,960 --> 01:16:27,479
I mean, how could you not feel so bad? I

1486
01:16:27,520 --> 01:16:30,159
was like holy shit, I mean like really on that

1487
01:16:30,239 --> 01:16:32,720
stage in that moment, like okay, you want to do

1488
01:16:32,720 --> 01:16:35,159
it like level two, I mean okay, like I get it.

1489
01:16:36,079 --> 01:16:37,800
I would probably say that it would probably not have

1490
01:16:37,840 --> 01:16:39,640
been that bad, like if it was a stone bubble

1491
01:16:39,840 --> 01:16:42,560
and you did it to him, because you know, yeah,

1492
01:16:42,600 --> 01:16:44,640
I understand, like it's a stone bubble. It hurts, and

1493
01:16:44,680 --> 01:16:46,920
it's like a difference of you know, zero or fifty

1494
01:16:46,960 --> 01:16:48,520
K or maybe seventy five K if you had the

1495
01:16:48,520 --> 01:16:51,359
bonuses or whatever, like I get it, but like this

1496
01:16:51,520 --> 01:16:55,960
was the final table bubble or whatever. That was holy shit, man,

1497
01:16:56,079 --> 01:17:01,079
like what good? God? Like, Yeah, it's like if somebody

1498
01:17:01,119 --> 01:17:02,359
told if you were to tell me that you were

1499
01:17:02,399 --> 01:17:05,159
gonna if you were planning to do this, I'd be like,

1500
01:17:05,600 --> 01:17:10,279
that's fucking hilarious. Don't you dare fucking do that. You know,

1501
01:17:10,560 --> 01:17:11,760
it's one of those things.

1502
01:17:12,039 --> 01:17:14,920
Speaker 2: I love a good slow roll. I will do it

1503
01:17:16,319 --> 01:17:18,560
all the time when I can, when I'm playing low

1504
01:17:18,600 --> 01:17:19,680
Stags cash for the Friends.

1505
01:17:20,319 --> 01:17:21,680
Speaker 1: This is.

1506
01:17:24,359 --> 01:17:26,840
Speaker 2: Just an insane spot to do it. And then let's

1507
01:17:26,880 --> 01:17:32,720
also not forget that for for Benny, there's also another

1508
01:17:32,840 --> 01:17:35,479
hundred k for just making that final table with the

1509
01:17:35,600 --> 01:17:40,119
with the w SP parla. So you are slow rolled.

1510
01:17:40,920 --> 01:17:43,039
He you know, missed the next page jump and you

1511
01:17:43,079 --> 01:17:46,800
miss out on one hundred K bonus. It's just a

1512
01:17:46,840 --> 01:17:50,640
whole world of you know, hell, but hey, but yeah

1513
01:17:50,680 --> 01:17:53,079
and but yeah, but he won three bracelets at the

1514
01:17:53,079 --> 01:17:54,479
World Series Vegas. He's fine.

1515
01:17:55,199 --> 01:17:57,920
Speaker 1: If Benny punched him after that happened, I would have

1516
01:17:57,960 --> 01:18:01,960
been like, yeah, that was deserved. What he would never

1517
01:18:02,079 --> 01:18:03,560
I know he would never. But like if there was

1518
01:18:03,560 --> 01:18:05,000
a time when like you'd be like, yeah, that guy

1519
01:18:05,039 --> 01:18:06,680
deserved to get punched for what he did. I'd probably

1520
01:18:06,680 --> 01:18:08,159
be like, yeah, that one's that one qualifies.

1521
01:18:08,560 --> 01:18:09,520
Speaker 2: It definitely qualifies.

1522
01:18:09,680 --> 01:18:12,439
Speaker 1: Yeah, like if he punched him, like, what are you

1523
01:18:12,479 --> 01:18:15,520
gonna do? Like you're like listen, yeah, that yeah, Okay,

1524
01:18:16,159 --> 01:18:19,319
that was the most dickkest thing you could do. I mean,

1525
01:18:19,359 --> 01:18:24,920
good God, like, man, that was something. All right. Last

1526
01:18:24,920 --> 01:18:27,880
award here the Face of the Year award. So this

1527
01:18:27,920 --> 01:18:31,199
award goes to the player who defined the year, in

1528
01:18:31,239 --> 01:18:35,079
this case twenty twenty five, so looking ahead, you know, five, ten, fifteen,

1529
01:18:35,159 --> 01:18:37,199
twenty five years down the road. You know, we often

1530
01:18:37,239 --> 01:18:39,119
do this all the time, like, hey, remember when this

1531
01:18:39,199 --> 01:18:43,000
happened in that year? So what is who is the

1532
01:18:43,039 --> 01:18:44,960
face of the Year for twenty twenty five?

1533
01:18:46,239 --> 01:18:49,079
Speaker 2: I mean, I think it's obviously Michael Mrochi. I'm trying

1534
01:18:49,079 --> 01:18:51,199
to think if as a if it's a second person,

1535
01:18:51,239 --> 01:18:51,760
I could call it.

1536
01:18:52,199 --> 01:18:55,279
Speaker 1: Like the Grinder, Miss Rocky, like sorry, yeah, but to

1537
01:18:55,319 --> 01:18:58,920
Benny Glasser for the for the three racelets and not

1538
01:18:58,920 --> 01:19:00,640
winning Player of the Year and all that sort of stuff.

1539
01:19:00,640 --> 01:19:04,800
But I mean it's Michael the grind. Name is Rocky's year.

1540
01:19:05,840 --> 01:19:07,199
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm trying to I'm trying to think of the

1541
01:19:07,199 --> 01:19:08,880
top of my head if I think of someone else.

1542
01:19:11,119 --> 01:19:13,880
Speaker 1: No, there is there's It's not like, who else are

1543
01:19:13,840 --> 01:19:14,399
you gonna think of?

1544
01:19:14,720 --> 01:19:16,439
Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm going down the rabbit hall of

1545
01:19:16,560 --> 01:19:20,199
content creatives and looking. I'm looking so far outside of

1546
01:19:20,199 --> 01:19:20,920
the box if I can.

1547
01:19:21,760 --> 01:19:26,000
Speaker 1: I mean, Martin Cabrell kind of comes to mind, just

1548
01:19:26,039 --> 01:19:29,199
because like everyone will remember remember that, like that year

1549
01:19:29,239 --> 01:19:31,479
when he was so crazy, but he's also had another

1550
01:19:31,600 --> 01:19:33,560
year like that where he's also been kind of crazy.

1551
01:19:33,880 --> 01:19:35,840
You know, it wasn't as long and has drawn out.

1552
01:19:35,880 --> 01:19:38,359
It was more center ground, like one specific event. But still,

1553
01:19:39,920 --> 01:19:42,079
you know, I would say, by far, Michael, the grind

1554
01:19:42,119 --> 01:19:42,439
name is.

1555
01:19:42,399 --> 01:19:47,800
Speaker 2: Rocky, Okay, Let's okay, sew let's I think everyone's not

1556
01:19:47,840 --> 01:19:50,880
going to argue with that. Let's just like, let's just

1557
01:19:50,880 --> 01:19:55,840
add a little spice to the award Club WPT gold.

1558
01:19:56,960 --> 01:20:00,359
And what I'm saying with that is is specific quickly

1559
01:20:00,840 --> 01:20:04,119
everything kind of went on at the WSP. You know,

1560
01:20:04,119 --> 01:20:06,760
we're talking about the the big gold checks for a

1561
01:20:06,840 --> 01:20:09,720
million dollars, the whole if you get if anyone ever

1562
01:20:09,760 --> 01:20:14,720
remembers the millionaire make a controversy between James Carroll and

1563
01:20:14,800 --> 01:20:20,279
Jesse Aga Numa with the very weird, unlucky heads up

1564
01:20:20,319 --> 01:20:25,199
match for one of them. You know, you could say, hey,

1565
01:20:25,239 --> 01:20:28,760
this was that was a pretty big defining moment that's

1566
01:20:28,840 --> 01:20:32,039
kind of carried through the year. And when I say

1567
01:20:32,079 --> 01:20:34,359
carried through, we see a lot of you know, if

1568
01:20:34,399 --> 01:20:37,439
you're in the in the X streets, the Twitter streets,

1569
01:20:37,439 --> 01:20:39,520
you see a lot of you know, we'd still say

1570
01:20:39,520 --> 01:20:46,479
a little beef between both sides. It's fantastic, to be honest, sitting.

1571
01:20:46,199 --> 01:20:50,760
Speaker 1: On the sideline, he has more one sided. Yes, I

1572
01:20:50,800 --> 01:20:55,760
feel like I'm constantly seeing the WPT side club constantly

1573
01:20:55,760 --> 01:20:59,680
taking shots of Now. I don't know if that's because

1574
01:21:00,640 --> 01:21:04,399
behind closed doors, WSP is actively saying let's not do this,

1575
01:21:04,720 --> 01:21:08,000
or if if they're just not doing it, because I

1576
01:21:08,000 --> 01:21:11,359
don't know, they don't have Like I know that WPT

1577
01:21:11,439 --> 01:21:14,439
basically has a social media team. I don't think the

1578
01:21:14,520 --> 01:21:16,760
WSP does, you know, like they kind of put stuff

1579
01:21:16,760 --> 01:21:19,880
together for their put stuff together for their events, but

1580
01:21:19,880 --> 01:21:22,680
it's also like not with this goal. It's with the

1581
01:21:22,720 --> 01:21:25,079
goal of like covering their events and getting that sort

1582
01:21:25,079 --> 01:21:26,000
of content out there.

1583
01:21:26,039 --> 01:21:28,159
Speaker 2: So I think a lot of people also are standing

1584
01:21:28,239 --> 01:21:31,720
up and kind of speaking for w too. So it

1585
01:21:31,840 --> 01:21:35,880
might not be coming directly from you know, the accounts, but.

1586
01:21:37,119 --> 01:21:39,680
Speaker 1: It would be so easy if you were w s

1587
01:21:39,680 --> 01:21:43,159
AP to just dump on the WPT side. And so,

1588
01:21:43,279 --> 01:21:46,039
I mean, I guess kudos to them for being the

1589
01:21:46,079 --> 01:21:48,159
bigger person in this fight and not getting into this

1590
01:21:49,079 --> 01:21:52,399
war in the mud. But yeah, like because you could,

1591
01:21:52,520 --> 01:21:55,640
you could easily just take shots right back and basically

1592
01:21:55,680 --> 01:22:00,479
bury exactly. So I don't I don't really unders stand

1593
01:22:00,600 --> 01:22:05,199
the whole fight from the from like club WPD and

1594
01:22:05,279 --> 01:22:07,880
WPT side. I mean, I don't. I don't know. Maybe

1595
01:22:07,920 --> 01:22:10,800
the numbers on the back end bear out differently, but

1596
01:22:11,520 --> 01:22:15,000
I don't know. I don't see how taking that sort

1597
01:22:15,039 --> 01:22:19,520
of strategy then translates to conversions for your website.

1598
01:22:20,520 --> 01:22:22,840
Speaker 2: I think it's just getting the attention. You're getting the

1599
01:22:22,880 --> 01:22:25,560
clicks and maybe at the end of the day, obviously

1600
01:22:25,640 --> 01:22:27,640
we can't speak for them, but that's maybe what they want.

1601
01:22:27,760 --> 01:22:30,600
Speaker 1: That intent, that attention, and those clicks need to convert,

1602
01:22:31,319 --> 01:22:31,880
like that's the.

1603
01:22:31,880 --> 01:22:34,840
Speaker 2: Thing converts to trafficing eyeballs.

1604
01:22:35,079 --> 01:22:39,600
Speaker 1: Doesn't really Okay, that's that's what I want. Yeah, I mean, yeah,

1605
01:22:39,640 --> 01:22:41,840
I personally just don't see it like you know, but

1606
01:22:42,000 --> 01:22:43,439
then on the other side, you know, you know what

1607
01:22:43,479 --> 01:22:45,600
I do see, I see they hit a freaking seventy

1608
01:22:45,600 --> 01:22:47,760
million dollar price pool. I see they got ten million

1609
01:22:47,800 --> 01:22:49,920
dollars in first place, where your event in the same

1610
01:22:49,960 --> 01:22:51,279
month dropped by a lot.

1611
01:22:51,920 --> 01:22:54,079
Speaker 2: You know, I see that we could pick a pot,

1612
01:22:54,199 --> 01:22:57,680
that we could pick a pot the seventy million dollar

1613
01:22:57,720 --> 01:22:58,920
price but if we really wanted to.

1614
01:22:59,199 --> 01:23:08,079
Speaker 1: Okay, but on the surface, that event one December, Yeah,

1615
01:23:08,119 --> 01:23:10,479
and the event if you were to pick a winner

1616
01:23:10,520 --> 01:23:13,840
from if you were to pick a winner from each series,

1617
01:23:14,560 --> 01:23:16,600
so a winner from the WSP Paradise Series and a

1618
01:23:16,600 --> 01:23:19,800
winner from the wt World Championship Series. For the WSP,

1619
01:23:19,840 --> 01:23:22,720
it's the super main event, okay. For the WPT, it's

1620
01:23:22,720 --> 01:23:26,119
the Prime Championship, which is not the crowning event of

1621
01:23:26,159 --> 01:23:29,880
that series and that tour and that brand, right, which

1622
01:23:29,920 --> 01:23:34,880
is that's like interesting to me? Yeah, I mean that

1623
01:23:34,920 --> 01:23:37,319
Prime Championship again, it's it's the second best event to

1624
01:23:37,319 --> 01:23:39,560
play in the world. I highly encourage everyone to play it.

1625
01:23:39,560 --> 01:23:41,680
It's easier to play than the main event because it's

1626
01:23:41,680 --> 01:23:43,840
one tenth to buy in. That event is freaking sick.

1627
01:23:43,960 --> 01:23:47,960
It's awesome, Okay, But like that's the best event, in

1628
01:23:48,000 --> 01:23:50,760
my opinion, out of that series. When shouldn't it be

1629
01:23:50,800 --> 01:23:52,119
the WPT World Championship.

1630
01:23:54,680 --> 01:23:55,640
Speaker 2: Sure, yeah, but.

1631
01:23:57,239 --> 01:23:57,960
Speaker 1: This is what I'm getting.

1632
01:23:58,000 --> 01:23:59,359
Speaker 2: I get I get it.

1633
01:23:59,439 --> 01:24:04,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know. Yeah. Anyway, let's move on year end

1634
01:24:04,760 --> 01:24:07,760
host recap, sir, let's go, oh god, I saw you

1635
01:24:07,800 --> 01:24:09,239
posted some stuff on social media.

1636
01:24:09,560 --> 01:24:09,840
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1637
01:24:10,199 --> 01:24:12,520
Speaker 1: I kind of looked at it quickly. I tried to

1638
01:24:12,520 --> 01:24:14,840
come up with some joke, take a shot at you,

1639
01:24:15,119 --> 01:24:17,359
bring it on, similar to like Club WPT, but I

1640
01:24:17,560 --> 01:24:18,600
couldn't do it.

1641
01:24:19,640 --> 01:24:21,319
Speaker 2: I'm open to all jugs.

1642
01:24:21,760 --> 01:24:24,479
Speaker 1: So here, I am here, we are. You go first,

1643
01:24:24,520 --> 01:24:27,800
you give me your your your results for the year and.

1644
01:24:27,880 --> 01:24:28,720
Speaker 2: The results first.

1645
01:24:28,760 --> 01:24:32,720
Speaker 1: Okay, results, we're gonna okay, yeah, talk about your results

1646
01:24:32,880 --> 01:24:33,920
and then talk.

1647
01:24:33,760 --> 01:24:36,239
Speaker 2: About it without god, we should do adohol review.

1648
01:24:36,079 --> 01:24:38,640
Speaker 1: Your results and then if you achieved your goals from

1649
01:24:38,720 --> 01:24:40,920
last year, and we'll get into the goals for next year.

1650
01:24:41,000 --> 01:24:44,560
Speaker 2: All right. Surprisingly played more tournaments than you. I did

1651
01:24:44,560 --> 01:24:47,600
not think that was going to happen. But thirty four entries,

1652
01:24:49,039 --> 01:24:52,439
thirty one k buyings, average buying nine hundred bucks, had

1653
01:24:52,520 --> 01:24:54,039
nine cashes more entries.

1654
01:24:54,079 --> 01:24:57,359
Speaker 1: Buddy, When somebody is stuck in the WSM man event

1655
01:24:57,399 --> 01:24:58,640
for eighteen days.

1656
01:24:58,840 --> 01:25:01,520
Speaker 2: I didn't play anything off. I busted the WSLP main

1657
01:25:01,560 --> 01:25:07,279
event nine cashes a cash A forty one K, so

1658
01:25:07,279 --> 01:25:11,439
I made ninety two hundred bucks in profit. I play

1659
01:25:11,680 --> 01:25:14,920
some cash games. You don't play twenty sessions. That's pretty

1660
01:25:14,960 --> 01:25:19,560
much nothing. One one thousand dollars did you play? Maybe

1661
01:25:19,600 --> 01:25:22,439
like when we're in Texas, I'll play like the mixed

1662
01:25:22,479 --> 01:25:25,319
games with the dealers, or when like Rubbis Shazinski has

1663
01:25:25,319 --> 01:25:28,399
his mixgame festival and normally come make an appearance or two.

1664
01:25:28,840 --> 01:25:32,720
Outside of that, really nothing. My cash games are nearly

1665
01:25:32,760 --> 01:25:34,840
purely or mixed, and it's just more for fun and

1666
01:25:34,880 --> 01:25:39,159
so we're playing small stakes. So yeah, I'm not at

1667
01:25:39,159 --> 01:25:43,359
all focused on any cash games anymore. So overall one

1668
01:25:43,680 --> 01:25:46,039
basically ten point three K. I don't really track my

1669
01:25:46,079 --> 01:25:49,119
online results like you do. I did win five hundred

1670
01:25:49,119 --> 01:25:53,640
bucks on Club WPT, dumped about eight hundred dollars on

1671
01:25:53,800 --> 01:25:58,439
WSP chasing those one hundred and sixty dollars main event flips.

1672
01:26:00,000 --> 01:26:02,560
Anyone goes looks at my shark shark scope, you'll see

1673
01:26:02,600 --> 01:26:05,920
a massive decline from those because my average buying is

1674
01:26:05,920 --> 01:26:10,319
like eight dollars on WSP so they were my results.

1675
01:26:10,399 --> 01:26:13,840
I played probably more than I thought, mainly because I

1676
01:26:13,840 --> 01:26:18,119
started the year. I ended twenty twenty four decently and

1677
01:26:18,159 --> 01:26:20,520
I kind of started the year pretty good. And then

1678
01:26:20,520 --> 01:26:24,479
obviously the main event cash was kind of gave me

1679
01:26:24,520 --> 01:26:26,720
that freedom to play a little bit more than I thought.

1680
01:26:27,880 --> 01:26:32,119
As for my twenty twenty five goals, I had, What

1681
01:26:32,159 --> 01:26:33,000
did I have? I had?

1682
01:26:33,439 --> 01:26:33,840
Speaker 1: I had?

1683
01:26:34,159 --> 01:26:36,479
Speaker 2: My note was they could all be achieved in one event,

1684
01:26:37,399 --> 01:26:40,880
all right. It was surpass my old my first ever

1685
01:26:40,920 --> 01:26:44,159
buss Heath chick in lifetime tournament earnings, I only trailed

1686
01:26:44,159 --> 01:26:47,439
by seventy bucks. Knocked off that pretty quick play the

1687
01:26:47,560 --> 01:26:51,880
WSP main event tick that box cash in a WSP

1688
01:26:51,920 --> 01:26:53,880
and main event. I had a twenty three event cold

1689
01:26:53,920 --> 01:26:58,319
streak that didn't include online or dailies or media free rolls,

1690
01:26:58,359 --> 01:27:01,159
any of that rubbish, but pure bracelet of Vents Live

1691
01:27:01,920 --> 01:27:04,840
did that when I catched the mate and I cashed

1692
01:27:04,840 --> 01:27:07,399
for five digits. Obviously, when you catch the may and

1693
01:27:07,479 --> 01:27:10,760
that's you know, five digits cash a five digits in

1694
01:27:10,760 --> 01:27:12,760
the calendar. Last time I did that was twenty thirteen.

1695
01:27:13,479 --> 01:27:15,880
Took obviously quite a few years off when I was

1696
01:27:15,920 --> 01:27:18,640
working and stuff, But yeah, so I achieved all my goals.

1697
01:27:19,119 --> 01:27:22,399
I was pretty kind of happy, you know, happy about.

1698
01:27:22,159 --> 01:27:27,359
Speaker 1: That, all right. I got thirty three entries live, three

1699
01:27:27,439 --> 01:27:32,039
hundred and fifty four entries online total buyans live forty

1700
01:27:32,640 --> 01:27:35,640
four hundred and twenty dollars fourteen hundred and sixty seven dollars.

1701
01:27:35,640 --> 01:27:40,159
Average buy in had seven cashes. I cashed for a

1702
01:27:40,199 --> 01:27:42,720
total of just over seventy six k, so I was

1703
01:27:42,840 --> 01:27:47,119
up twenty seven seven hundred dollars live and then online,

1704
01:27:47,119 --> 01:27:48,760
where I had the three hundred and fifty four entries,

1705
01:27:48,800 --> 01:27:52,520
total buyans were just over twenty four thousand, sixty eight dollars.

1706
01:27:52,560 --> 01:27:56,279
Average buy in fifty nine cashes, which is only sixteen

1707
01:27:56,319 --> 01:28:00,319
points sixty seven percent. That's pretty shitty. Total cashes there

1708
01:28:00,720 --> 01:28:05,039
sixteen four hundred so negative on the online tournament front

1709
01:28:05,439 --> 01:28:08,640
negative seven six d and twenty So overall, I finished

1710
01:28:08,680 --> 01:28:16,239
up twenty thousand and eighty two dollars decent year. I mean,

1711
01:28:16,239 --> 01:28:21,159
I'm happy with it. So yeah, my goals were to

1712
01:28:21,319 --> 01:28:23,600
just fix shit and continue to improve my game, fix

1713
01:28:23,640 --> 01:28:27,319
things to get better. I definitely achieved that. I got

1714
01:28:27,319 --> 01:28:30,720
a lot better. I fixed a lot of stuff. I

1715
01:28:30,760 --> 01:28:34,800
studied harder than I ever had in that same vein,

1716
01:28:34,960 --> 01:28:36,359
I had a lot of things I still need to

1717
01:28:36,359 --> 01:28:39,840
work on, and I've still cost myself in some big spots,

1718
01:28:40,000 --> 01:28:42,840
most recently in the WPT Prime Championship when I fucked

1719
01:28:42,880 --> 01:28:45,680
it up royally at the end, so I need to

1720
01:28:45,880 --> 01:28:49,399
improve that. I also said that I wanted to win

1721
01:28:49,439 --> 01:28:51,920
a trophy MTT, so like a ring of bracelet, you

1722
01:28:51,920 --> 01:28:55,520
know whatever, a Venetian Lion, the wind trophy, et cetera.

1723
01:28:56,720 --> 01:29:01,640
Didn't do that new career best live score. I did

1724
01:29:01,680 --> 01:29:07,199
achieve that WSTWE Main Events five figure MTT score and

1725
01:29:07,239 --> 01:29:09,680
a buy and of fifteen hundred dollars or less. I

1726
01:29:09,720 --> 01:29:11,279
didn't do that. I would have done it had I

1727
01:29:11,319 --> 01:29:13,399
not fucked up the Prime Championship, but I fucked up

1728
01:29:13,439 --> 01:29:16,840
the Prime Championship, so I didn't do that. And then

1729
01:29:16,840 --> 01:29:21,279
something I realized before we get into our goals for

1730
01:29:21,319 --> 01:29:23,720
next year, but you know, these are kind of are

1731
01:29:23,800 --> 01:29:26,720
kind of all results oriented goals other than the first one,

1732
01:29:26,760 --> 01:29:29,279
which is to fix stuff, and I don't really like

1733
01:29:29,319 --> 01:29:31,199
that process. So I'm taking a bit of a different

1734
01:29:31,239 --> 01:29:35,359
approach to my goals going forward. And I guess we'll

1735
01:29:35,359 --> 01:29:37,239
talk about that next. You can go first and give

1736
01:29:37,239 --> 01:29:40,479
me your goals for your poker goals for twenty twenty six.

1737
01:29:41,079 --> 01:29:45,319
Speaker 2: Well, I'm like, yo, it's mine at all results. Yeah,

1738
01:29:43,720 --> 01:29:49,560
I knocked off Heath Chick Lasia. I'm going for someone new,

1739
01:29:49,600 --> 01:29:52,479
a new target, putting him on the back podcast listen

1740
01:29:52,600 --> 01:29:57,039
Paul Berman. I trial him by eleven K. He doesn't

1741
01:29:57,039 --> 01:29:59,279
play much, but he comes to the Wood Series. He

1742
01:29:59,279 --> 01:30:01,239
plays a lot in the series, so I need to

1743
01:30:01,239 --> 01:30:04,920
really get him by World Series. So surpassed Paul Berman

1744
01:30:05,000 --> 01:30:08,760
in lifetime tournament earnings. I really want a final table,

1745
01:30:08,800 --> 01:30:11,479
a multi flight event close as I've had. I finished

1746
01:30:11,520 --> 01:30:16,159
thirteenth in a Venetian three hundred months a stack, so yeah,

1747
01:30:16,159 --> 01:30:17,600
I really just want to hit try and get to

1748
01:30:17,600 --> 01:30:19,920
that final table. Now, this guy is probably a little

1749
01:30:19,920 --> 01:30:22,840
bit more tougher with kind of you know, I probably

1750
01:30:22,840 --> 01:30:24,159
can achieve it if I do the other one. But

1751
01:30:24,600 --> 01:30:27,600
I basically want to profit more than thirte four hundred

1752
01:30:27,600 --> 01:30:30,920
and fifty dollars in one event. The reason that number

1753
01:30:31,079 --> 01:30:35,359
is because back in twenty eleven, I finished second in

1754
01:30:35,399 --> 01:30:39,319
a fifty dollars accumulator for thirteen thousand, five hundred. Now

1755
01:30:39,680 --> 01:30:42,680
I remember this event pretty specifically. Actually did a heads

1756
01:30:42,720 --> 01:30:44,840
up deal with my friend. We chopped the money evenly

1757
01:30:44,880 --> 01:30:46,640
played for the trophy. I kind of remember what the

1758
01:30:46,720 --> 01:30:49,399
number is doesn't really matter, But on the handed mob,

1759
01:30:49,800 --> 01:30:51,880
I just want to profit for more than thirteen four

1760
01:30:51,920 --> 01:30:54,960
point fifty. And then a kind of a non poker

1761
01:30:55,039 --> 01:30:58,079
playing goal is just I have some poker side projects

1762
01:30:58,119 --> 01:31:00,000
we're working on. I just want to put some energy

1763
01:31:00,079 --> 01:31:01,520
of that make sure we I can kind of like

1764
01:31:02,680 --> 01:31:06,199
kick them off in a good spot. But yeah, slightly

1765
01:31:06,239 --> 01:31:09,199
different goals to last year. I would say that the

1766
01:31:09,239 --> 01:31:12,840
profit one is probably you know, I might miss that one.

1767
01:31:14,159 --> 01:31:15,920
Hopefully the other two I can kind of tick off

1768
01:31:16,119 --> 01:31:19,640
the other three. Actually, I'm kinda say I don't really

1769
01:31:19,640 --> 01:31:23,560
have big plans to change my kind of volume. I

1770
01:31:23,680 --> 01:31:25,640
just kind of I think both of us are very

1771
01:31:28,159 --> 01:31:29,960
very limited to our time, and we kind of have

1772
01:31:30,039 --> 01:31:32,760
to play according to what our work schedule brings, so

1773
01:31:33,560 --> 01:31:35,720
you know, that's always going to dictate what we can play. Like,

1774
01:31:35,800 --> 01:31:38,800
you know, we have events on the PGT coming up

1775
01:31:38,840 --> 01:31:41,840
in January that overlaps pretty decent events here in Vegas,

1776
01:31:41,840 --> 01:31:43,520
so that's kind of a bummer that will miss those,

1777
01:31:43,560 --> 01:31:48,520
But hey, you know, works more important than poker until

1778
01:31:48,520 --> 01:31:50,520
we you know, win a couple million dollars.

1779
01:31:50,560 --> 01:31:54,720
Speaker 1: I guess that's right. So my my approach this year

1780
01:31:54,800 --> 01:31:59,840
is going to be process oriented goals over results oriented goals.

1781
01:32:00,520 --> 01:32:02,319
Started I don't know, I don't know even know how

1782
01:32:02,319 --> 01:32:04,439
I dove into it. I think I found something on

1783
01:32:04,479 --> 01:32:07,640
social media or something came into my algorithm about how

1784
01:32:08,079 --> 01:32:10,159
there's been these studies on if you set your goals

1785
01:32:10,199 --> 01:32:14,239
based on the process versus the results, they ultimately come

1786
01:32:14,239 --> 01:32:17,039
out better, which makes a lot of sense. So I

1787
01:32:17,319 --> 01:32:19,960
just put together a bunch of process goals and then

1788
01:32:20,600 --> 01:32:24,800
hopefully as a result of those processes, if I hit

1789
01:32:24,880 --> 01:32:29,159
those goals, then then it will lead to results. First,

1790
01:32:29,159 --> 01:32:32,439
one study on my own for four hundred hours, at

1791
01:32:32,479 --> 01:32:36,600
least four hundred hours, So I mean, I probably won't

1792
01:32:36,640 --> 01:32:39,279
study every single day just because I need a break

1793
01:32:39,319 --> 01:32:40,640
here and there. But if I were to study every

1794
01:32:40,680 --> 01:32:42,279
single day this three hundred and sixty five days in

1795
01:32:42,279 --> 01:32:44,760
the year, it's a little bit over an hour each day,

1796
01:32:45,800 --> 01:32:49,239
you know, But we'll see how things go. Like yesterday,

1797
01:32:49,279 --> 01:32:51,880
I studied for three and a half hours, you know,

1798
01:32:51,920 --> 01:32:55,000
and and hopefully I just stack those and continue to

1799
01:32:56,199 --> 01:32:59,479
improve on that. If I do study for four hundred

1800
01:32:59,479 --> 01:33:01,479
hours this year, will be the most I've ever studied

1801
01:33:02,439 --> 01:33:06,000
by a long shot. So you know, hopefully that leads

1802
01:33:06,039 --> 01:33:09,159
to two bigger things. I don't just want to include

1803
01:33:09,199 --> 01:33:12,239
individual study into my goals. I do want to start

1804
01:33:12,279 --> 01:33:15,399
working with the poker coach for at least fifty hours

1805
01:33:15,399 --> 01:33:18,479
over the course of the year. So maybe that's once

1806
01:33:18,520 --> 01:33:20,520
a week for an hour, you know, whatever it may be.

1807
01:33:21,239 --> 01:33:23,039
Speaker 2: But you have someone in mind, or that's just like

1808
01:33:23,119 --> 01:33:24,520
I just want to get a coach eventually.

1809
01:33:25,640 --> 01:33:27,800
Speaker 1: No, I mean I work with someone already. I work

1810
01:33:27,800 --> 01:33:31,279
with Tristan Wade. You know, he he's a good friend

1811
01:33:31,319 --> 01:33:33,000
of mine, so it helps that he's been a poker

1812
01:33:33,000 --> 01:33:38,279
coach for a while. I mean I like that, you know,

1813
01:33:40,239 --> 01:33:44,159
like I don't necessarily think it's you should just go

1814
01:33:44,199 --> 01:33:46,079
out there and like try and get the coach that

1815
01:33:46,119 --> 01:33:49,960
has the best results, because not all those people can

1816
01:33:50,039 --> 01:33:55,960
ultimately coach. Well. I mean, I like the way that

1817
01:33:56,000 --> 01:33:59,520
Tristan coaches and talks to me, And I mean we

1818
01:33:59,560 --> 01:34:01,479
have a good relationship anyway, We're good friends. We've been

1819
01:34:01,479 --> 01:34:04,359
friends for a while. But you know, he'll just fucking

1820
01:34:04,359 --> 01:34:06,680
tell me I'm an idiot, like, which is good because

1821
01:34:06,720 --> 01:34:10,920
you need to hear that and he's he's coached for

1822
01:34:10,920 --> 01:34:13,159
a while, so he has like those systems in place,

1823
01:34:13,199 --> 01:34:15,680
so you know that that's what I'm using right now.

1824
01:34:16,239 --> 01:34:18,720
Maybe that changes, maybe it doesn't, whatever, it doesn't matter,

1825
01:34:18,760 --> 01:34:20,960
but either way, I think it's just good to and

1826
01:34:21,000 --> 01:34:23,239
maybe it's not a poker coach. Maybe you just set

1827
01:34:23,279 --> 01:34:25,760
aside time, you know, for those listening out there to

1828
01:34:26,680 --> 01:34:29,600
talk with friends about stuff, because it's just good to

1829
01:34:29,720 --> 01:34:33,319
hear an outside perspective on your play and stuff and

1830
01:34:33,359 --> 01:34:36,279
just not be like, yeah, like I'm doing this, this

1831
01:34:36,359 --> 01:34:38,279
is what my study says, but like, what am I missing,

1832
01:34:38,279 --> 01:34:40,960
what's not working whatever. It's always good to get a

1833
01:34:41,000 --> 01:34:46,399
second set of eyeballs on things to possibly improve. Drill

1834
01:34:46,479 --> 01:34:50,960
fifty thousand hands on gto Wizard, which is a good amount,

1835
01:34:51,760 --> 01:34:53,479
you know, I would like to do that. So it

1836
01:34:53,720 --> 01:34:55,439
I mean, in a lot of ways, it's basically like

1837
01:34:55,520 --> 01:34:58,079
playing poker, but you're just not putting up any sort

1838
01:34:58,119 --> 01:35:01,079
of money and you get that real time feedback. You

1839
01:35:01,119 --> 01:35:04,159
get to study the spots after, so you know that

1840
01:35:04,239 --> 01:35:05,960
will I mean, that's going to kind of be rolled

1841
01:35:05,960 --> 01:35:07,680
into where I say, the study on my own for

1842
01:35:07,720 --> 01:35:09,479
four hundred hours. Part of that's going to be just

1843
01:35:09,560 --> 01:35:11,720
drilling hands and studying those hands. But I still want

1844
01:35:11,760 --> 01:35:14,119
to be able to put in that volume of hands

1845
01:35:14,159 --> 01:35:16,800
on gto Wizard and listen, you can you don't have

1846
01:35:16,800 --> 01:35:18,359
to use eto Wizard. You can use whatever you want.

1847
01:35:18,640 --> 01:35:20,760
But that's what I do. And then I got to

1848
01:35:20,760 --> 01:35:22,720
get out there and play, because you know, the best

1849
01:35:24,880 --> 01:35:26,600
way to get better is to get out there and

1850
01:35:26,640 --> 01:35:29,399
actually experience it. Put yourself in that arena, try the

1851
01:35:29,399 --> 01:35:31,359
stuff that you're learning, try new things, all that sort

1852
01:35:31,399 --> 01:35:35,199
of stuff. So play fifty live MTTs, which is kind

1853
01:35:35,239 --> 01:35:39,760
of just play fifty live MTT entries, I think, because

1854
01:35:39,800 --> 01:35:42,359
each entry is like a new tournament basically, and then

1855
01:35:42,359 --> 01:35:45,760
play five hundred online MTT entries. I played thirty three

1856
01:35:46,079 --> 01:35:48,960
live and three hundred and fifty four entries online last year.

1857
01:35:49,000 --> 01:35:52,800
So I need to uptick that my online play will

1858
01:35:52,840 --> 01:35:57,680
be very predominantly just on Sundays. Put in a high

1859
01:35:57,760 --> 01:36:00,479
volume online on Sundays, and then I'll dabble in various

1860
01:36:00,479 --> 01:36:04,479
stuff around town here in the other stuff. So yeah,

1861
01:36:04,560 --> 01:36:07,399
we'll see how I go. And then hopefully, if I

1862
01:36:07,399 --> 01:36:10,600
can do all this stuff, it leads to good results

1863
01:36:10,760 --> 01:36:13,239
and it leads to me winning a fucking trophy and

1864
01:36:13,640 --> 01:36:15,800
having the best year I've had and blah blah blah,

1865
01:36:15,840 --> 01:36:18,840
all that sort of stuff that comes with it. So yeah,

1866
01:36:18,920 --> 01:36:22,600
and even if it doesn't, I mean, maybe everything all

1867
01:36:22,640 --> 01:36:24,520
the time and effort that I put in studying this

1868
01:36:24,640 --> 01:36:27,640
year and all this work pays dividends in twenty twenty seven.

1869
01:36:27,760 --> 01:36:29,640
I don't know, you know. So I just got to

1870
01:36:29,640 --> 01:36:31,000
put in the work and I got to continue to

1871
01:36:31,039 --> 01:36:33,000
put in the work. So and I do think it's

1872
01:36:33,039 --> 01:36:35,840
fun to put in the work. I enjoy it. So yeah,

1873
01:36:36,800 --> 01:36:40,760
just gonna try try my best see what happens, hopefully

1874
01:36:40,800 --> 01:36:41,720
not fuck it up like.

1875
01:36:41,720 --> 01:36:44,479
Speaker 2: I didn't that was just.

1876
01:36:44,399 --> 01:36:47,039
Speaker 1: Gonna eat me for like literally a year, probably, So

1877
01:36:47,119 --> 01:36:51,239
what are you gonna do? Last thing? Here? As we

1878
01:36:51,279 --> 01:36:53,560
are now what an hour and thirty seven minutes on

1879
01:36:53,600 --> 01:36:56,640
this podcast, So shout out to everyone who's listening. Producer

1880
01:36:56,720 --> 01:37:00,880
rich Ryan's probably gonna shoot me. But I got a list.

1881
01:37:01,159 --> 01:37:04,760
I got a list of things that I want to

1882
01:37:04,800 --> 01:37:07,319
see happen in twenty twenty six in poker. There was

1883
01:37:07,359 --> 01:37:09,479
no particular order to my list. It's just stuff I've

1884
01:37:09,560 --> 01:37:13,279
kind of been writing down in a in the notepad

1885
01:37:13,319 --> 01:37:15,600
on my phone that I would like to see happen.

1886
01:37:15,720 --> 01:37:18,880
So if you're out there listening and you have any

1887
01:37:18,880 --> 01:37:22,000
sort of influence on making these things happen, I think

1888
01:37:22,039 --> 01:37:25,199
you should try and do that because selfishly, I think

1889
01:37:25,199 --> 01:37:28,239
they're the best ideas, and Tim, you can just tell

1890
01:37:28,239 --> 01:37:30,640
me if they're good or bad. Okay, okay, you have

1891
01:37:30,640 --> 01:37:32,880
no idea what's coming? By the way, Nope, the listeners

1892
01:37:32,880 --> 01:37:36,760
out there, first thing, bet'am Jim Poker, Can you guys

1893
01:37:37,359 --> 01:37:40,640
get your ass in Nevada for like, well, let's go.

1894
01:37:40,800 --> 01:37:43,880
You know, you know, I know we obviously have friends

1895
01:37:43,920 --> 01:37:47,920
at at MGM at Aria and they've you know, they're

1896
01:37:48,000 --> 01:37:50,159
saying that it's coming, and we've heard that it's coming.

1897
01:37:50,279 --> 01:37:52,119
You know, we heard that it was coming at the

1898
01:37:52,159 --> 01:37:54,520
end of twenty twenty five. You know, it didn't come

1899
01:37:54,520 --> 01:37:55,840
by the end of twenty twenty five. Is it going

1900
01:37:55,880 --> 01:37:57,279
to come by the end of twenty twenty six? Like?

1901
01:37:57,560 --> 01:38:00,279
Can we make this happen? Especially now with all the

1902
01:38:00,880 --> 01:38:03,840
interstate pooling that is available? You know, part of it

1903
01:38:03,880 --> 01:38:08,279
is it seems like the BETEMGM poker online product is

1904
01:38:08,399 --> 01:38:11,239
pretty awesome from everything that you see out there. They

1905
01:38:11,239 --> 01:38:14,239
have a lot of qualifiers into the events. You know,

1906
01:38:14,279 --> 01:38:17,439
that's happening at Borgata, that's happening in Maryland. Even they

1907
01:38:17,479 --> 01:38:19,640
qualify a lot of people from you know, New Jersey

1908
01:38:19,680 --> 01:38:22,439
and wherever into stuff here in Vegas. So having that

1909
01:38:22,439 --> 01:38:25,840
sort of access to online qualifiers being here in Nevada,

1910
01:38:25,840 --> 01:38:29,239
I think would be great. Also, I just I want

1911
01:38:29,279 --> 01:38:33,079
the competition aspect of things. You know, WSP dot com

1912
01:38:33,119 --> 01:38:35,600
is good, but can we get another person in there

1913
01:38:35,640 --> 01:38:39,159
to have that competition to give us more options? Right? Like?

1914
01:38:39,319 --> 01:38:41,199
I just you know, I want Betam Jim Poker to

1915
01:38:41,199 --> 01:38:43,640
come to Nevada. So let's go. If you guys are listening,

1916
01:38:43,720 --> 01:38:47,399
can we just make it happen. Number two again, no

1917
01:38:47,399 --> 01:38:50,479
particular order here. Dinner breaks they got to go in

1918
01:38:50,960 --> 01:38:55,079
ninety eight percent of tournaments. They just absolutely have have

1919
01:38:55,079 --> 01:38:57,680
have to go. See you later. Get rid of these

1920
01:38:57,800 --> 01:39:03,079
freaking dinner breeks. Okay, if the tournament, if the tournament

1921
01:39:03,119 --> 01:39:05,640
doesn't have a buy in that is greater than three

1922
01:39:05,680 --> 01:39:10,560
thousand dollars, you should be disqualified from having dinner breaks.

1923
01:39:11,439 --> 01:39:13,920
I don't care. Get rid of them.

1924
01:39:14,279 --> 01:39:19,880
Speaker 2: I agree with that. I think there's some you know,

1925
01:39:20,000 --> 01:39:22,680
some one thousand buy ins of fifteen hundred buyings that

1926
01:39:22,760 --> 01:39:23,960
kind of dinner breaks.

1927
01:39:23,920 --> 01:39:29,439
Speaker 1: No stop, I said, some you don't need it, especially

1928
01:39:29,479 --> 01:39:31,800
in the places where you can order food to the table,

1929
01:39:31,840 --> 01:39:34,560
people can bring their own food. All that's just stop

1930
01:39:34,600 --> 01:39:36,720
with the dinner breaks. We don't need dinner breaks. We

1931
01:39:36,720 --> 01:39:42,199
don't home earlier. Yeah, like get out of here, okay.

1932
01:39:42,600 --> 01:39:45,680
And kind of in line with that in terms of

1933
01:39:45,760 --> 01:39:51,640
like I don't know, altering structures or whatever. Best star

1934
01:39:51,760 --> 01:39:54,600
time is eleven am. That's what I think. I think

1935
01:39:54,600 --> 01:39:56,520
the best start time is eleven am. I know some

1936
01:39:56,560 --> 01:39:58,560
people out there said ten am. I know, I think

1937
01:39:58,560 --> 01:40:00,199
Bay one on one does nine am. I I think

1938
01:40:00,239 --> 01:40:02,840
that shit's a little bit too early. I like, I mean,

1939
01:40:03,800 --> 01:40:06,479
selfishly speaking, I like a couple hours in the morning

1940
01:40:06,520 --> 01:40:08,279
to be able to take care of some work stuff,

1941
01:40:08,319 --> 01:40:10,279
get the kids to school, et cetera, like do that

1942
01:40:10,319 --> 01:40:12,800
sort of stuff, and then go play. But I also

1943
01:40:12,840 --> 01:40:15,840
think that like starting at noon, starting at one play

1944
01:40:15,920 --> 01:40:18,760
until midnight or later is ridiculous as well. So I

1945
01:40:18,840 --> 01:40:21,159
like eleven am. I think it's a good compromise for everyone.

1946
01:40:21,520 --> 01:40:24,720
It's not that early. You know, you can still stroll

1947
01:40:24,720 --> 01:40:26,399
in at twelve or one if you want to come

1948
01:40:26,439 --> 01:40:29,760
a little bit late. So I think eleven am should

1949
01:40:29,840 --> 01:40:31,960
kind of be across the board. Also sticking in line

1950
01:40:32,000 --> 01:40:37,800
with the structure sheet sort of stuff here, the close

1951
01:40:37,840 --> 01:40:42,279
of registration in a poker tournament should be a posted time,

1952
01:40:42,800 --> 01:40:45,760
not end of level X or beginning of level X,

1953
01:40:46,039 --> 01:40:48,680
and it should be posted on the structure sheet. Okay,

1954
01:40:48,960 --> 01:40:52,880
So for the organizers out there, yourself included, mister commissioner,

1955
01:40:53,239 --> 01:40:56,439
figure out Okay, we're going to close it at the

1956
01:40:56,520 --> 01:40:59,479
end of level six, right, figure out what time that is.

1957
01:41:00,039 --> 01:41:02,720
If everything runs on time, add ten minutes and put

1958
01:41:02,720 --> 01:41:03,680
it on the structure sheet.

1959
01:41:03,920 --> 01:41:07,520
Speaker 2: Okay, you can't add ten minutes. Yeah, add time because

1960
01:41:08,159 --> 01:41:10,199
the problem with that is we already had issues that

1961
01:41:10,239 --> 01:41:12,840
if everything runs on time and it's a slide a

1962
01:41:12,920 --> 01:41:15,119
level nine, well now is you ten minutes into level nine? No,

1963
01:41:15,159 --> 01:41:16,960
that's why you put That's why you put the level,

1964
01:41:17,000 --> 01:41:18,960
because the level is a fixated.

1965
01:41:19,159 --> 01:41:21,560
Speaker 1: That last break. You add that time no matter what

1966
01:41:22,039 --> 01:41:24,119
you make it so it lines up with whatever time

1967
01:41:24,199 --> 01:41:25,720
you put it on the structure. So if you say, listen,

1968
01:41:25,720 --> 01:41:28,520
registration closes at five pm, then if you go on,

1969
01:41:28,760 --> 01:41:31,079
if you go on a schedule twenty minute break at

1970
01:41:31,079 --> 01:41:34,720
four thirty, well that you make that break thirty minutes Okay.

1971
01:41:34,359 --> 01:41:36,079
Speaker 2: I get what you're saying. That's yeah. I think that's fine.

1972
01:41:36,239 --> 01:41:38,000
Speaker 1: Just so that people can look at a structure sheet

1973
01:41:38,000 --> 01:41:40,600
and they can say, okay, registration closes at five o'clock,

1974
01:41:40,720 --> 01:41:43,159
registaing curs at five forty five, whatever it is. You

1975
01:41:43,199 --> 01:41:44,800
can set a time or on your phone. Okay, I

1976
01:41:44,840 --> 01:41:46,680
need to leave my house at five twenty five to

1977
01:41:46,680 --> 01:41:48,239
get there, to get there for this time?

1978
01:41:48,600 --> 01:41:51,279
Speaker 2: Like it suttinly do we actually do do? Though? Except

1979
01:41:51,279 --> 01:41:52,920
for that one structure sheet you pointed out that I

1980
01:41:52,920 --> 01:41:54,720
didn't put it on, which is super i rollable.

1981
01:41:54,800 --> 01:41:57,680
Speaker 1: It should just be a time. Just put a freaking time.

1982
01:41:58,079 --> 01:41:58,520
Speaker 2: Okay.

1983
01:41:58,960 --> 01:42:01,479
Speaker 1: It's just people need to do all the math. I

1984
01:42:01,520 --> 01:42:03,239
just need to stop asking you, Hey, what time does

1985
01:42:03,239 --> 01:42:06,479
registration close? End of level nine? What freaking time is that? Okay?

1986
01:42:06,640 --> 01:42:08,600
Did we start on time today? Did we not start

1987
01:42:08,600 --> 01:42:12,520
on time today? Like? Can we just put a time? Please? Okay,

1988
01:42:12,720 --> 01:42:14,439
put a time and then it can go in all

1989
01:42:14,479 --> 01:42:19,079
the structure sheets. It can be out there. Everyone just knows. Okay.

1990
01:42:19,159 --> 01:42:26,039
Another thing, I think that Venues should move to an

1991
01:42:26,119 --> 01:42:30,199
eight handed format for big tournament series. Now. I understand

1992
01:42:30,199 --> 01:42:32,479
that not everyone can do that. Not everyone is willing

1993
01:42:32,520 --> 01:42:34,399
to do that, et cetera. But what I will say

1994
01:42:34,760 --> 01:42:38,800
is that whoever does this first, I believe is going

1995
01:42:38,840 --> 01:42:44,800
to win, like in terms of like getting bigger fields,

1996
01:42:45,319 --> 01:42:47,800
being a better place to play, all that sort of stuff,

1997
01:42:47,840 --> 01:42:50,359
getting the love from the playing community, like if the

1998
01:42:50,760 --> 01:42:52,840
if the win or the Venetian here in Vegas for

1999
01:42:52,880 --> 01:42:54,840
their series, or to be like, listen, it's eight handed

2000
01:42:54,880 --> 01:42:58,399
from the start. And I understand when you do stuff

2001
01:42:58,439 --> 01:43:00,880
like the large fields, you know you have to account

2002
01:43:00,880 --> 01:43:03,239
for more tables, space, dealers, whatever. You know, you can

2003
01:43:03,279 --> 01:43:05,960
solve that issue. Okay, open some more ballroom space, some

2004
01:43:06,000 --> 01:43:08,479
more tables, get some more dealers, add an extra starting flight,

2005
01:43:08,520 --> 01:43:11,960
whatever the heck it is. Figure it out. But the

2006
01:43:12,079 --> 01:43:15,520
venue that I think makes it more comfortable for players

2007
01:43:15,560 --> 01:43:18,000
to play at a table, I think is going to win.

2008
01:43:18,560 --> 01:43:21,840
And I will also say that people might give me, Okay,

2009
01:43:21,880 --> 01:43:25,479
I need to open more tables, that's more dealer money whatever. Okay,

2010
01:43:25,880 --> 01:43:29,000
eight handed goes faster, I think players will then buy

2011
01:43:29,000 --> 01:43:31,279
in more and you'll make it up at least somewhat

2012
01:43:31,319 --> 01:43:33,640
in rate. So I think it's fine. So I think

2013
01:43:33,640 --> 01:43:35,680
the first I think the first venue that does that

2014
01:43:36,439 --> 01:43:39,680
is going to win. And like be be ahead of

2015
01:43:39,720 --> 01:43:41,359
everyone else. You know, it's gonna be one of those

2016
01:43:41,399 --> 01:43:43,000
things where like, yeah, but over here they play eight

2017
01:43:43,000 --> 01:43:45,119
handed from the start, and that's gonna be like something

2018
01:43:45,119 --> 01:43:48,159
that everyone talks about. Like, so that's a change that

2019
01:43:48,239 --> 01:43:50,279
if if I was an operator, if I was a venue,

2020
01:43:50,319 --> 01:43:55,960
I would be trying to implement. Okay, another one. Table

2021
01:43:56,000 --> 01:44:01,279
breaking should be one hundred percent random at all times,

2022
01:44:01,319 --> 01:44:04,159
all times. And you know what that would do all

2023
01:44:04,199 --> 01:44:06,800
these people who look at the tournament clock and say, okay,

2024
01:44:06,920 --> 01:44:09,359
breaking order twenty one, blah blah blah whatever, and then

2025
01:44:09,399 --> 01:44:11,560
your asses start Yeah we're not on a video for

2026
01:44:11,600 --> 01:44:15,199
this podcast, but Tim pointing at himself. Your asses starts stalling.

2027
01:44:15,479 --> 01:44:16,760
Speaker 2: Yeah you know.

2028
01:44:18,239 --> 01:44:20,079
Speaker 1: Or you see all the tables breaking in the road,

2029
01:44:20,119 --> 01:44:22,079
you're like, oh, we're next. You start stalling so you

2030
01:44:22,079 --> 01:44:24,399
don't have to pay a blind Yeah, screw you. Okay,

2031
01:44:24,720 --> 01:44:30,319
every single tournament table break is random. End of story.

2032
01:44:30,680 --> 01:44:33,039
I don't care if there's ten thousand people in the field.

2033
01:44:33,199 --> 01:44:35,159
I don't care if there's ten people in the field.

2034
01:44:35,239 --> 01:44:42,000
Speaker 2: Okay, we'll happen. Okayny Logistics and Deala pushes like what

2035
01:44:42,119 --> 01:44:44,439
is he now? The dealer is just out like there's

2036
01:44:44,479 --> 01:44:48,239
all those kind of like dilemmas that figuring it out okay,

2037
01:44:48,520 --> 01:44:50,720
throws the dealer breaks out like it's a mess.

2038
01:44:50,760 --> 01:44:55,479
Speaker 1: You figure it, like, just figure it out. It's just ridiculous.

2039
01:44:55,520 --> 01:44:58,479
Speaker 2: I would say that would be a like a good

2040
01:44:58,560 --> 01:45:00,600
rule once in the money.

2041
01:45:02,479 --> 01:45:04,800
Speaker 1: Just make it random from the start, Okay, Like I'm

2042
01:45:04,840 --> 01:45:06,039
done with the stalling crap.

2043
01:45:06,119 --> 01:45:09,760
Speaker 2: But hypothetically you're doing the one K prime WPT. You

2044
01:45:09,800 --> 01:45:12,039
got tables on the poker room and tables in the thing.

2045
01:45:12,359 --> 01:45:17,520
He's gonna break randomly in both break from one room

2046
01:45:17,520 --> 01:45:19,960
to the other, and then from there you break sections.

2047
01:45:20,039 --> 01:45:22,159
Speaker 1: Okay. I also think that this is another pet peeve

2048
01:45:22,159 --> 01:45:24,279
of mine. But when these these places that that now

2049
01:45:24,319 --> 01:45:26,039
that these tournaments are so big. You see it at

2050
01:45:26,039 --> 01:45:30,159
the wind you see it at the WSP in the summer,

2051
01:45:30,439 --> 01:45:33,159
when they like break from a room to a room

2052
01:45:33,560 --> 01:45:36,159
like that, that is just that is entirely not needed,

2053
01:45:36,680 --> 01:45:39,640
Like just play even if it's the same flight, Just

2054
01:45:39,720 --> 01:45:43,479
play it in that room down Like why do you

2055
01:45:43,520 --> 01:45:47,000
need to move from a ballroom four hundred yards away

2056
01:45:47,479 --> 01:45:51,000
walk eight minutes with chips in an actual ziploc bag

2057
01:45:51,119 --> 01:45:52,760
to another tournament? Like I don't understand.

2058
01:45:52,800 --> 01:45:54,840
Speaker 2: That's where I think WSP does it best where they

2059
01:45:54,840 --> 01:45:57,039
do the staggered clock, and then.

2060
01:45:56,840 --> 01:46:00,279
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, that's what I would say. They they

2061
01:46:00,319 --> 01:46:03,479
have a better option to play it in both rooms

2062
01:46:03,520 --> 01:46:06,560
because both rooms are so big. Like at the WIN

2063
01:46:06,720 --> 01:46:08,680
you have those secondary rooms that are a bit smaller,

2064
01:46:08,720 --> 01:46:10,760
so it might get a little weird. But the WSP

2065
01:46:10,920 --> 01:46:13,600
you have those two insanely big rooms or three insanely

2066
01:46:13,600 --> 01:46:16,479
big rooms. Right, you could just play within the rooms

2067
01:46:17,720 --> 01:46:19,560
like you don't need to play like on all these

2068
01:46:19,560 --> 01:46:23,359
other sides you mentioned breaks. Another thing, if if alive

2069
01:46:23,520 --> 01:46:24,960
and I saw this at the Win a couple of

2070
01:46:24,960 --> 01:46:30,319
times it happened. If a live series ever has synchronized

2071
01:46:30,359 --> 01:46:33,520
breaks that line up with one another, you should be fined.

2072
01:46:33,760 --> 01:46:37,560
Like it should just not be allowed online. Everything needs

2073
01:46:37,560 --> 01:46:40,319
to be synchronized fifty five minutes at the hour boom

2074
01:46:40,560 --> 01:46:45,600
live never synchronized, always staggered always. There's only so much

2075
01:46:45,640 --> 01:46:48,680
bathroom space, so much hallway space, all this sort of stuff,

2076
01:46:48,680 --> 01:46:52,800
like we should never ever ever have multiple tournaments going

2077
01:46:52,840 --> 01:46:55,119
on break at the same time. You should just not.

2078
01:46:55,399 --> 01:46:57,279
And if it's if it just so happens that like

2079
01:46:57,359 --> 01:47:00,319
things end up getting moved, they start late one, they're

2080
01:47:00,319 --> 01:47:01,880
gonna line up, say hey, guys, by the way, we're

2081
01:47:01,880 --> 01:47:03,560
gonna play ten minutes into the next level and then

2082
01:47:03,560 --> 01:47:05,399
we're gonna send you on break so we avoid the

2083
01:47:05,399 --> 01:47:08,720
other shit. Like, just just make those changes. Okay, that

2084
01:47:08,800 --> 01:47:12,439
needs to happen, all right, What else I got here?

2085
01:47:13,840 --> 01:47:20,000
I got one more? Tournament clocks need to be paused

2086
01:47:21,319 --> 01:47:24,640
or time needs to be given back during TV and

2087
01:47:24,720 --> 01:47:29,600
stream all in moments that take up extra time, because

2088
01:47:29,600 --> 01:47:35,159
that is ridiculous. And this is another argument why final

2089
01:47:35,199 --> 01:47:42,159
table levels should be hands per level, not time per level. Buddy,

2090
01:47:42,359 --> 01:47:45,399
some hands take an extra minute and a half to two.

2091
01:47:45,359 --> 01:47:48,119
Speaker 2: Minutes when you do the you when this it all in?

2092
01:47:48,560 --> 01:47:50,479
Speaker 1: Yeah, and they're waiting. I mean, listen, we work on

2093
01:47:50,479 --> 01:47:51,960
the production side. We get it. You want to build

2094
01:47:52,000 --> 01:47:55,720
the drama. I totally understand. Like I mean, listen, I

2095
01:47:55,840 --> 01:47:57,920
like to build the drama aspect. But I think it

2096
01:47:57,920 --> 01:48:00,279
would be pretty easy to just press pause and then

2097
01:48:00,359 --> 01:48:03,279
press start, right, you know, just that people aren't losing

2098
01:48:03,399 --> 01:48:07,199
all this time. Yeah, because it's ridiculous, especially when you

2099
01:48:07,239 --> 01:48:11,560
know when you have streaming before final tables, because then

2100
01:48:11,600 --> 01:48:14,640
you have one table that's playing on this this it's

2101
01:48:14,680 --> 01:48:17,640
already slow because people are playing a little bit differently.

2102
01:48:17,720 --> 01:48:20,319
They're playing a little bit tighter. Maybe they're nervous being

2103
01:48:20,319 --> 01:48:22,039
on stream. They got to put make sure that they

2104
01:48:22,039 --> 01:48:24,079
put their cards in the box, like this whole thing right.

2105
01:48:24,439 --> 01:48:27,199
Then on top of it, the all ends are taking longer. Yeah,

2106
01:48:27,199 --> 01:48:29,680
and even if it is just ten seconds longer per hand,

2107
01:48:30,079 --> 01:48:32,399
you play one hundred hands, like that adds up. So

2108
01:48:33,560 --> 01:48:37,880
like just add the time back, or pause the clock

2109
01:48:38,000 --> 01:48:40,840
during the the all in moments or whatever, you know,

2110
01:48:41,239 --> 01:48:42,560
or just run the damn cards out.

2111
01:48:42,600 --> 01:48:45,840
Speaker 2: I don't even care, like you know, running them out quickly.

2112
01:48:46,840 --> 01:48:49,239
Speaker 1: I mean we we I'll tell you that at you know,

2113
01:48:50,000 --> 01:48:52,800
at Venetian Poker Live and when we were doing cash

2114
01:48:52,800 --> 01:48:55,239
flow in those live stream cash games, we told them

2115
01:48:55,439 --> 01:48:57,640
just don't don't do it like a tournament. Just go

2116
01:48:58,520 --> 01:49:01,439
we'll figure out the action, we'll whatever. But like these

2117
01:49:01,439 --> 01:49:03,760
guys want to get hands in now. The thing is

2118
01:49:03,760 --> 01:49:05,720
that in a tournament the time is actually more important

2119
01:49:05,760 --> 01:49:07,439
than a cash game. Cash game, the blind's going ups,

2120
01:49:07,439 --> 01:49:09,279
it doesn't matter. But you know, the cash game players

2121
01:49:09,319 --> 01:49:11,359
want to play fast, they want to move things along whatever.

2122
01:49:11,439 --> 01:49:13,479
So but in a tournament, like you should totally give

2123
01:49:13,520 --> 01:49:16,560
time back, like why can't. It's like in soccer when

2124
01:49:16,600 --> 01:49:19,520
there's all this this time that the referee keeps and

2125
01:49:19,560 --> 01:49:21,159
at the end of it it's like, okay, there's seven

2126
01:49:21,159 --> 01:49:24,079
minutes of injury time, Like just add the time back

2127
01:49:24,279 --> 01:49:27,159
or again, or just make all at the final table.

2128
01:49:27,199 --> 01:49:30,439
It's hands per level, not time. That's also a very

2129
01:49:30,439 --> 01:49:33,920
easy fix. I feel like, so those are my things

2130
01:49:33,920 --> 01:49:37,399
that I would like to see happen, and I know

2131
01:49:37,439 --> 01:49:38,960
you're on board for all of them. I know you're

2132
01:49:39,000 --> 01:49:41,680
gonna put them all on the PGT structure sheets coming

2133
01:49:41,760 --> 01:49:44,199
up for the next season. You know, I think we're in.

2134
01:49:45,439 --> 01:49:48,159
Speaker 2: I want to add one Yeah, go go right ahead.

2135
01:49:48,199 --> 01:49:49,840
Speaker 1: Oh but by the way, I want to add one more,

2136
01:49:50,119 --> 01:49:55,560
one more because this this came up on social media

2137
01:49:55,680 --> 01:50:01,680
the other day with David Baker tournament staff. When it's

2138
01:50:01,680 --> 01:50:05,000
about to be a color this is this is this

2139
01:50:05,279 --> 01:50:08,479
nothing nothing like sets me off more in a live

2140
01:50:08,520 --> 01:50:10,359
poker tournament, and I don't really get set off. And

2141
01:50:10,359 --> 01:50:13,359
this is a low, you know, very low down there

2142
01:50:13,399 --> 01:50:16,079
set off. But when they come around with like twenty

2143
01:50:16,079 --> 01:50:18,600
five minutes left in the level and they pass out

2144
01:50:18,720 --> 01:50:21,239
racks to like the person who's the chip leader to

2145
01:50:21,239 --> 01:50:28,039
start coloring up. It just creates an unneeded level of

2146
01:50:28,079 --> 01:50:31,920
stupidity and slowness from everyone. It's like everyone kind of

2147
01:50:31,920 --> 01:50:34,880
forgets what they're doing immediately. The person who gets the

2148
01:50:34,960 --> 01:50:37,840
rack like thinks that they have to start coloring up,

2149
01:50:38,119 --> 01:50:42,119
which is not true because you still got twenty five minutes. Okay.

2150
01:50:42,159 --> 01:50:44,239
In the case that you do color up, then everyone's

2151
01:50:44,279 --> 01:50:46,760
just making change for the next twenty minutes of the level,

2152
01:50:46,800 --> 01:50:49,800
which is also annoying. Right. Then there's also times where

2153
01:50:49,840 --> 01:50:51,640
like there's times in like let's say I got a rack,

2154
01:50:51,680 --> 01:50:53,279
I gotta rack the other day of Venetian I was

2155
01:50:53,319 --> 01:50:56,479
gonna color up. I put it, I put it behind

2156
01:50:56,520 --> 01:50:58,920
my back in the chair, and I didn't do anything,

2157
01:50:59,319 --> 01:51:01,119
and the dealer was like, you need to start coloring up.

2158
01:51:01,159 --> 01:51:02,840
I'm like, no, there's eighteen minutes in a level. I

2159
01:51:02,840 --> 01:51:04,479
do not need to start coloring up. And like the

2160
01:51:04,520 --> 01:51:05,920
guy next to me was like ready to pass me

2161
01:51:05,960 --> 01:51:07,960
as chips. I'm like, buddy, no, you're about to be

2162
01:51:08,000 --> 01:51:09,840
in the big blind. Let's not do this right now.

2163
01:51:10,000 --> 01:51:12,239
We'll do it, you know, four minutes before the break.

2164
01:51:12,279 --> 01:51:14,720
I got it. It's fine, Like, but like everyone kind

2165
01:51:14,720 --> 01:51:17,960
of like gets weird about it and then it ultimately

2166
01:51:17,960 --> 01:51:20,359
slows everything down. So can we just like somehow fix this.

2167
01:51:20,439 --> 01:51:22,319
I don't know exactly what to fix it, like, but

2168
01:51:22,439 --> 01:51:24,000
just fix it. It's really annoying.

2169
01:51:25,880 --> 01:51:27,880
Speaker 2: I don't have the opportunity to do the color of

2170
01:51:27,920 --> 01:51:31,640
that often, but when I do, I'm kind of half

2171
01:51:31,680 --> 01:51:34,920
in with you. I don't ask anyone for chips.

2172
01:51:34,199 --> 01:51:37,119
Speaker 1: Just because like, like they give it to some people

2173
01:51:37,159 --> 01:51:38,199
and you can tell some people are.

2174
01:51:38,119 --> 01:51:40,760
Speaker 2: Like I've done that. I've just taken it off them before.

2175
01:51:40,800 --> 01:51:42,680
Speaker 1: If it's me like, we'll just speed this process up

2176
01:51:42,720 --> 01:51:45,159
and move on with our lives, I've I will.

2177
01:51:45,520 --> 01:51:48,239
Speaker 2: If someone gives me the chips like eighteen minutes out,

2178
01:51:48,319 --> 01:51:50,319
I will call it on them up. But otherwise I'm

2179
01:51:50,359 --> 01:51:53,119
not ever asking for chips until the last few minutes,

2180
01:51:53,359 --> 01:51:56,840
like the lost handle to because yeah, we're gonna need

2181
01:51:56,840 --> 01:51:58,800
those chips. It's we don't need to do it eighteen

2182
01:51:58,840 --> 01:52:01,479
minutes ahead of time. But like, if someone starts selling me,

2183
01:52:01,520 --> 01:52:03,680
I'll just buy them up. I don't really I don't

2184
01:52:03,720 --> 01:52:07,359
care as much as ODB does or you, but I

2185
01:52:07,399 --> 01:52:10,279
do think it is it does like when I've seen

2186
01:52:10,359 --> 01:52:13,000
the amount of times you see you know, a four

2187
01:52:13,039 --> 01:52:15,960
giver rack guys in a big hand and it just

2188
01:52:16,000 --> 01:52:18,720
like throws them completely off. I guess that's a little

2189
01:52:18,720 --> 01:52:20,520
bit on that person for not being out of concentrate

2190
01:52:20,560 --> 01:52:20,920
as well.

2191
01:52:21,039 --> 01:52:23,600
Speaker 1: But like people playing big parts, people are passing chips

2192
01:52:23,640 --> 01:52:25,560
across the table like in the middle of the big pot,

2193
01:52:25,600 --> 01:52:27,399
and it's like, hey, can you just wait? Like some

2194
01:52:27,880 --> 01:52:30,439
I know this isn't isn't allowed, you know, and I'm

2195
01:52:30,479 --> 01:52:32,199
not gonna I don't have anyone to help specifically, but

2196
01:52:32,239 --> 01:52:34,359
some dealers do it out of the pot, Like it's like,

2197
01:52:34,399 --> 01:52:37,680
can we just stop with this? Like just stop? Yeah,

2198
01:52:38,520 --> 01:52:39,159
So that's mine.

2199
01:52:39,520 --> 01:52:43,319
Speaker 2: I want to add. Can we try and convert more

2200
01:52:43,399 --> 01:52:46,680
rooms to poker ols? That's all I want. I know

2201
01:52:47,000 --> 01:52:49,479
it's more difficult than we think. There's contracts and there's

2202
01:52:50,720 --> 01:52:54,079
lots of money involved. But like you know, especially during

2203
01:52:54,079 --> 01:52:57,600
the sum the summer and the winter, you know, times

2204
01:52:58,000 --> 01:52:59,920
I'm on poker outles looking at the wind or looking

2205
01:52:59,920 --> 01:53:01,720
at VENETI and then I got to go to Bravo,

2206
01:53:02,159 --> 01:53:04,439
which is although they did an updates, still a piece

2207
01:53:04,479 --> 01:53:07,039
of poop and uh to find out what's going on

2208
01:53:07,079 --> 01:53:09,920
in Ari or other places. Let's just let's just get

2209
01:53:10,039 --> 01:53:12,439
pokeerrautles is better. Let's just get everyone on Parker out list,

2210
01:53:12,600 --> 01:53:15,439
or alternatively get their own app like WSP.

2211
01:53:15,920 --> 01:53:18,479
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean the first the first thing that people

2212
01:53:18,479 --> 01:53:21,880
should do is, you know, get your own app like

2213
01:53:21,880 --> 01:53:24,479
the WSP plus app. Now obviously that's that's something that

2214
01:53:24,520 --> 01:53:26,239
a lot of people aren't gonna want to do just

2215
01:53:26,279 --> 01:53:30,359
because it's costly and whatever, I get it. Second option,

2216
01:53:30,399 --> 01:53:32,920
I agree with you, poker at list. Let's go like

2217
01:53:33,319 --> 01:53:36,840
you know, it's been. It's just it's just better, it

2218
01:53:36,920 --> 01:53:40,640
really is, you know, and listen, maybe the whole competition

2219
01:53:40,720 --> 01:53:43,439
thing that we often talk about, whether it's live operators,

2220
01:53:43,479 --> 01:53:46,199
online rooms, whatever it is, maybe the competition drives the

2221
01:53:46,239 --> 01:53:49,279
Bravo product to get better. They have recently updated their app,

2222
01:53:49,600 --> 01:53:52,039
you know, so maybe they are in terms of like

2223
01:53:52,079 --> 01:53:54,560
trying to improve it. But yeah, I agree, poker alss

2224
01:53:54,640 --> 01:53:58,199
right now is is so far ahead that everyone really

2225
01:53:58,239 --> 01:54:00,920
just needs to use them. The old gripe that I

2226
01:54:00,960 --> 01:54:03,960
have against poker Alice, they can use a little a

2227
01:54:04,039 --> 01:54:06,800
little U I U X like upgrades. You know, it's

2228
01:54:06,840 --> 01:54:10,000
a little bit kind of old there. And they got

2229
01:54:10,039 --> 01:54:10,800
to add the last names.

2230
01:54:10,800 --> 01:54:16,079
Speaker 2: They got a name. Did you notice when you said

2231
01:54:16,079 --> 01:54:19,119
that screenshot of Jeremy Becka winning the eleven hundred that

2232
01:54:19,199 --> 01:54:19,920
he had a flag.

2233
01:54:20,199 --> 01:54:22,079
Speaker 1: Yeah. Some people have flags, some people don't. I don't

2234
01:54:22,079 --> 01:54:24,399
really understand why that's how it.

2235
01:54:24,319 --> 01:54:25,880
Speaker 2: Is I want to do.

2236
01:54:25,960 --> 01:54:29,439
Speaker 1: I don't know. I was thinking like maybe, like maybe

2237
01:54:29,439 --> 01:54:32,720
it's like if Jeremy like actually creating an account it's

2238
01:54:32,760 --> 01:54:34,720
tied to his name and he put his location. I

2239
01:54:34,920 --> 01:54:39,000
don't really know, but yeah, I'm looking him out. I

2240
01:54:39,000 --> 01:54:41,159
think is great. You know. I like when they come

2241
01:54:41,159 --> 01:54:43,399
over they break your table, they just give you that

2242
01:54:43,399 --> 01:54:45,640
that seed. There's no like high card and stuff. It's

2243
01:54:45,680 --> 01:54:48,159
just it's just you know, print it out and go.

2244
01:54:48,319 --> 01:54:51,960
So yeah, I I like it. One thing I do

2245
01:54:52,000 --> 01:54:55,680
think is a little bit funny with with poker Alice

2246
01:54:55,840 --> 01:54:58,680
is because you have the the tablet is like built

2247
01:54:58,680 --> 01:55:02,359
into the table, right, and some people, mainly the one

2248
01:55:02,399 --> 01:55:04,079
seat in the nine set, can see the tablet and

2249
01:55:04,119 --> 01:55:05,520
can see the names. Yeah.

2250
01:55:06,039 --> 01:55:06,359
Speaker 2: People.

2251
01:55:06,560 --> 01:55:08,039
Speaker 1: We had a guy the other day while I was

2252
01:55:08,079 --> 01:55:12,000
at Venetian. He stood up like there was another hand

2253
01:55:12,039 --> 01:55:14,640
going on, and he stands up. He's in the five seat.

2254
01:55:14,680 --> 01:55:17,279
He leans over the table with his phone and takes

2255
01:55:17,319 --> 01:55:22,560
a photo of the tablet. Okay, like to obviously get

2256
01:55:22,600 --> 01:55:25,399
the names right because he can't see him and they're

2257
01:55:25,479 --> 01:55:27,159
upside down from where he is, and I wanted to

2258
01:55:27,199 --> 01:55:29,760
be like, okay, can we all have the photo, like,

2259
01:55:30,239 --> 01:55:32,199
you know, like if you're gonna do that, can we

2260
01:55:32,239 --> 01:55:34,359
all just have it? Can we all just share our names?

2261
01:55:34,439 --> 01:55:36,239
Like how about that? How about we all just say like, hey,

2262
01:55:36,319 --> 01:55:38,720
I'm Donnie Peters, go look me up. No big deal,

2263
01:55:38,760 --> 01:55:41,279
Like it's like what are we doing here? So anyway,

2264
01:55:42,079 --> 01:55:44,840
I do agree with you, though, Let's go Poker Outls.

2265
01:55:44,960 --> 01:55:47,000
Speaker 2: I'm looking at my Poker Outsis account, say I could

2266
01:55:47,000 --> 01:55:50,880
add a flag and they have Poker Atleis bankroll so

2267
01:55:51,000 --> 01:55:57,279
you can do tournament registration, payouts, purchase. Recently, there's only

2268
01:55:57,279 --> 01:55:58,520
at two locations for.

2269
01:55:58,520 --> 01:56:02,560
Speaker 1: The Poker Atles event that have at Venetian in December

2270
01:56:02,640 --> 01:56:07,119
and Remco and myself did commentary from we had John Friedberg,

2271
01:56:07,880 --> 01:56:12,520
the owner, CEO whatever he is for Poker Atlas. He

2272
01:56:12,680 --> 01:56:17,079
was saying that they are have this is like while

2273
01:56:17,079 --> 01:56:18,720
we were doing the stream, this was like his quote

2274
01:56:18,760 --> 01:56:21,479
unquote breaking news. But basically you're gonna there's like a

2275
01:56:21,479 --> 01:56:24,039
Poker outless like wallet. Now you're gonna be able to

2276
01:56:24,079 --> 01:56:27,119
like put money on there, buy into tournaments that way.

2277
01:56:27,359 --> 01:56:29,399
You know that sort of thing, which is great. Another

2278
01:56:29,760 --> 01:56:31,960
great upgrade. So you know another thing. I don't know

2279
01:56:32,000 --> 01:56:33,960
if it's out yet. You're obviously seeing something like that

2280
01:56:34,079 --> 01:56:35,960
right now in your poker outlics at But you know

2281
01:56:36,000 --> 01:56:38,960
again another like good thing that's that's coming because if

2282
01:56:38,960 --> 01:56:40,479
I don't have to carry a bunch of cash around

2283
01:56:40,520 --> 01:56:42,680
all these different venues, I can just press buttons like

2284
01:56:42,920 --> 01:56:48,199
that's that to me is great? Right, So yeah, another

2285
01:56:48,239 --> 01:56:50,359
reason why I think that they're ultimately winning.

2286
01:56:52,239 --> 01:56:54,239
Speaker 2: I'm trying to not see what it asks for me

2287
01:56:55,920 --> 01:57:00,800
social security pen. Okay, yeah, it's cool, definitely, you know,

2288
01:57:00,840 --> 01:57:03,600
hopefilly that comes to Obviously coming to Vegas would be

2289
01:57:03,600 --> 01:57:07,560
a bigger hurdle than the two locations in Texas because

2290
01:57:07,560 --> 01:57:10,279
of all the Nevada gaming restrictions. But yeahs at least

2291
01:57:10,279 --> 01:57:11,199
a step forward.

2292
01:57:11,039 --> 01:57:13,840
Speaker 1: Right, all right? You got anything else, sir?

2293
01:57:15,119 --> 01:57:17,800
Speaker 2: Another couple more days up straight in the Lost Chance

2294
01:57:17,840 --> 01:57:20,680
straight into twenty twenty sixth season. I'm ready to get

2295
01:57:20,680 --> 01:57:22,520
back to work, that's.

2296
01:57:22,439 --> 01:57:24,720
Speaker 1: Right, baby. So we got PGT Last Chance coming up

2297
01:57:24,760 --> 01:57:27,680
January fifth through tenth. We have the PGT Championship coming

2298
01:57:27,760 --> 01:57:32,319
up January twelfth through thirteenth, so that's on the docket

2299
01:57:32,359 --> 01:57:34,920
and then we'll get into everything as we go throughout

2300
01:57:34,960 --> 01:57:39,159
the twenty twenty sixth season. For Tim Duckworth. My name

2301
01:57:39,239 --> 01:57:41,800
is Donnie Peters. Happy New Year everyone, don't forget to

2302
01:57:41,880 --> 01:57:44,399
hit like and subscribe, share the podcast with all your friends,

2303
01:57:44,439 --> 01:57:46,760
and uh yeah, we'll do that mailbag episode coming up

2304
01:57:46,800 --> 01:57:49,439
sometime in the future. So podcast at PokerGO dot com

2305
01:57:49,479 --> 01:57:51,600
is the email addressed that you can send in any

2306
01:57:51,680 --> 01:57:53,239
questions and Tim and I will do our best to

2307
01:57:53,279 --> 01:57:56,479
get to those in an episode in the future. But

2308
01:57:56,560 --> 01:57:58,960
for now, we will talk to you guys later.

2309
01:57:59,399 --> 01:58:02,680
Speaker 2: Fell you night.

2310
01:58:03,399 --> 01:58:07,159
Speaker 1: The cany expressed