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Speaker 1: is Tim Duckworth. It is twenty twenty six. Happy ef
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Speaker 1: Brazilian Star, the freak Prussure Man. He wins Super High
Speaker 1: ROLLERBLE ten, Super High Rollable X. Every time I see
Speaker 1: super high Rollable X, I know the Roman numeral xes
Speaker 1: for ten, but I always put like x's when I
Speaker 1: in my documents after like fill in text later, so
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh am I forgetting to put something in there.
Speaker 1: But then I'm like, no, this is number ten. So
Speaker 1: Super High roll Role X twenty three entries. Jaosamou wins it.
Speaker 1: It was a freeze out. It was one hundred k
Speaker 1: buy in. He wins one point one million dollars. Another
Speaker 1: seven figure score for Jaosamau this year, which might be
Speaker 1: hard to realize because he has his Henden Mob hidden,
Speaker 1: but you can dig through some of the various platforms
Speaker 1: out there. We know the PGT stuff that he's done.
Speaker 1: Obviously WSAP stuff is out there as well, so you know,
Speaker 1: we'll kind of talk about his year in a second.
Speaker 1: But I mean this, the final table was epic. That
Speaker 1: the heads up match was insane. I was glued to
Speaker 1: the damn thing five hours against Jason Kuhn. I mean
Speaker 1: it was. If you guys haven't seen this, go find
Speaker 1: it on PokerGO dot com. You can find it on
Speaker 1: the poker Goro YouTube channel. I would highly encourage you
Speaker 1: to watch it. One it was. It was highly entertaining.
Speaker 1: You know, the hands and the action, the chips are flying,
Speaker 1: it was good stuff. The heads up match itself was
Speaker 1: it was a clinic by both players. You know, they
Speaker 1: were both of them are are very good in the
Speaker 1: theory side of things, the solver side of things. They
Speaker 1: understand all that, especially Jason Kuhn, who is arguably the
Speaker 1: best in the world at that. But then they also
Speaker 1: both understand how to deviate, when to exploit, and it
Speaker 1: was simply a masterpiece by both sides. You know, you
Speaker 1: had Kuhn who started out with a lead and then
Speaker 1: he stretched that up to I think it was about
Speaker 1: seven or eight to one. Early on, Samau gets all in.
Speaker 1: He's all in and at risk three different times in
Speaker 1: this heads up match, and each time he's crushed by Kuhn,
Speaker 1: but somehow pulls it out. You know. The first one
Speaker 1: is he's got Queen nine to Kuhn's King nine. He
Speaker 1: finds a queen on the river. You know. Then you know,
Speaker 1: Samala gets into the lead, but by a little bit,
Speaker 1: but then Kuhn takes it back. Kuhn gets back up
Speaker 1: to seven to one. Then it's Samow King five versus
Speaker 1: Kuon's King Queen. But no, you know, no worries because
Speaker 1: Samow just makes quad fives. No big deal there. And
Speaker 1: then it's Samow the ace five versus the pocket tens
Speaker 1: of Kuhn, and an ace hits on the turn and
Speaker 1: that puts theou up four to one in chips, and
Speaker 1: then eventually he closed it out from there. He finally
Speaker 1: had the best of it when the money went in.
Speaker 1: He had pocket eights, Coon had pocket fives, and Kuhn
Speaker 1: could not come from behind. But I mean, Samow, I thought,
Speaker 1: played great. You know, It's it's kind of hard because
Speaker 1: you watch the heads up match and and you know,
Speaker 1: as I outlined in some of those big hands there,
Speaker 1: you're kind of thinking, like, man, this guy's just getting
Speaker 1: lucky and lucky and lucky. And yeah, I mean he was.
Speaker 1: But that's not to take away from as well as
Speaker 1: Samo played, because he played great as well. You know,
Speaker 1: and for Kun, you know, one of the best players ever.
Speaker 1: It was great to really see him. I mean, maybe
Speaker 1: not great is the best way to describe it, but
Speaker 1: I don't know. I enjoyed seeing him have to go
Speaker 1: through that adversity and like constantly fight back and constantly
Speaker 1: get knocked down. And not that he wasn't you know,
Speaker 1: getting unlucky, because he certainly was, but just just constantly
Speaker 1: having to fight for that and keep his composure and
Speaker 1: continue to try and you know, make the best decision
Speaker 1: at every point when a lot of lesser players, you know,
Speaker 1: might have just kind of spiraled out of control, you know,
Speaker 1: just just being like, man, I can't beat this guy.
Speaker 1: I'm starting to go on tilt with all this losing
Speaker 1: that I'm doing. What the heck is happening? You lose composure,
Speaker 1: all that sort of stuff. But not Jason Kuhn. He
Speaker 1: was locked in every single hand, as was Jaosamau. And
Speaker 1: then and then right afterwards, you know, Josamau said, you know,
Speaker 1: I got really lucky, but both played great. The heads
Speaker 1: up match was one for the ages. If if you
Speaker 1: guys again haven't seen it, I would I highly encourage
Speaker 1: you to go find it. The total payouts, Jaosama out
Speaker 1: first place one point one million. As I mentioned, Kuhn
Speaker 1: got six hundred and fifty k for second place. Sam
Speaker 1: Soverll finished in third for three hundred and fifty k.
Speaker 1: He came into the day the final day as the
Speaker 1: chip leader with five players remaining, then finished third for three,
Speaker 1: which was good enough to put him at the top
Speaker 1: of the PGT leaderboard. So he's now the front runner
Speaker 1: for the PGT Player of the Year race, which Tim
Speaker 1: and I will get into a little bit more when
Speaker 1: we talk about the PGT Last Chance. And then you
Speaker 1: had Nick Shulman cashing in fourth place for two hundred k.
Speaker 1: As I mentioned five returns for the final day, Japan's
Speaker 1: June Ubara he bubbled first. He ran kings into Samsoverrol's
Speaker 1: aces that got him crippled the three Big Linds. Then
Speaker 1: he ultimately lost out to Jau Samau to burst on
Speaker 1: the bubble. But Obara played well in himself, I mean,
Speaker 1: just a cooler there with the kings into the aces
Speaker 1: that ultimately you know, caused his collapse, but left with
Speaker 1: the smile on his face. Seems like a great guy.
Speaker 1: So I'm excited to see him kind of in that
Speaker 1: PGT atmosphere more so going forward now for you, sir,
Speaker 1: mister commissioner, Yes, I mean talk to me about this event.
Speaker 1: I mean, first of all, let's just talk about Jousamao, Like,
Speaker 1: what's your thoughts on him? The year he's having on
Speaker 1: the PGT. You know, I think people forget that he
Speaker 1: finished third in the Super High Rollable PLO like he's
Speaker 1: he's crushing. And again, I think it's hard to because
Speaker 1: you go to look jousonmou up and you know you're
Speaker 1: gonna land on HND and MOB and he has his
Speaker 1: results hidden, right, so it's hard to be like, oh,
Speaker 1: like what, you know, what's he doing? What's happening all
Speaker 1: that sort of stuff. Like you see a lot of
Speaker 1: stuff out there right now with like Jesse Loan has
Speaker 1: won thirteen million dollars or whatever it was this year.
Speaker 1: Jesse Loanison who not Puns were battling for GPI Player
Speaker 1: of the Year. But when it comes to Samal you
Speaker 1: can't find anything. So you know, just talk to me
Speaker 1: a little bit about his year and that sort of thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, firstly, that shouldn't be allowed. We should uh laws,
Speaker 2: I'm the.
Speaker 1: Last laws privacy.
Speaker 2: Laws, but I don't believe in those laws. But yeah,
Speaker 2: that does make it difficult. You're also forgetting he won
Speaker 2: the uh what was it the Trident Maine for his
Speaker 2: third bracelet. Uh what three?
Speaker 1: I mean, we got into all that stuff. But yeah,
Speaker 1: he's having like six or he was, sorry, he won
Speaker 1: four million dollars in December alone.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's having a career year.
Speaker 1: Five million dollars in December alone.
Speaker 2: Sorry, a career year on the PGT. You kind of
Speaker 2: touched on it. He's fifth place right now with just
Speaker 2: a little bit over twenty two hundred points. He's won
Speaker 2: three point eight million all time in the PGT. He's
Speaker 2: only won five point four so a good sixty percent
Speaker 2: coming this year. And for those that may not be aware,
Speaker 2: you know, Jaz's looking pretty fit, pretty in shape. He's
Speaker 2: lost some weight. You know, is that the you know,
Speaker 2: is that can we relate that? Can we relate the
Speaker 2: health getting in shape, getting nice and healthy? You know,
Speaker 2: he's probably doing it for his you know, family and
Speaker 2: his kids and stuff, but hey, it's it's you know,
Speaker 2: it's leading to some pretty impressive poker results. So that's, uh,
Speaker 2: you know, that's something to kind of just be aware of.
Speaker 2: But yeah, he's having a great year. He plays ninety
Speaker 2: percent of our events. He plays mix, plays p low,
Speaker 2: plays all the no limit. Uh. He's also just one
Speaker 2: of the nicest guys on the tour, just like just
Speaker 2: like he's head up upon a Jason Kuhn.
Speaker 1: Yeah, as you touched on Tremendous twenty twenty five. You know,
Speaker 1: you and I know because we're in the studio during
Speaker 1: all the PGT events. We see him there all the
Speaker 1: time battling. So it kind of always seemed like a
Speaker 1: matter of time for as Jasamaov was going to have
Speaker 1: a year like this. As I mentioned, he did get
Speaker 1: third in that Super high rollerable plo. He cash for
Speaker 1: more than four million dollars at WSP Paradise right before
Speaker 1: he then came to play the Super high Roll lebl event.
Speaker 1: So just an absolute banner year for JAOSAMOU believe he
Speaker 1: had some success down in Brazil during their Super high
Speaker 1: Roller series that they had I think in November, maybe
Speaker 1: end of October, I forget exactly, but around that time.
Speaker 1: So you know, Jao's just on fire right now and
Speaker 1: looking ahead. You know, not to jump ahead too much here,
Speaker 1: but you know, entering the PGT Championship, he's got to
Speaker 1: be somebody that we consider, you know, could go on
Speaker 1: to win the event. You know, we're talking about him
Speaker 1: as the PGT Championship winner.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: And and for those that might think, well, where the
Speaker 1: heck did this guy come from? I mean, trust me,
Speaker 1: he's he's been around and he's been putting in the
Speaker 1: work and he's you know, he's finally getting the results
Speaker 1: that have been meaning to come to him. So good
Speaker 1: on Jao for all of that. And yeah, certainly one
Speaker 1: of the nicest guys in in the entire world. He's great.
Speaker 1: I do want to hit on the event itself. You know,
Speaker 1: there's been some chatter about the event. You know, the
Speaker 1: time nine was a bit wonky. I guess I'll just
Speaker 1: describe it as you know, kind of craming it in there.
Speaker 1: Right before Christmas, you know, Poker News wrote about the
Speaker 1: event in a paragraph within a greater article that was
Speaker 1: about entries being down in Las Vegas during December, and
Speaker 1: this one not that the entries were necessarily down in
Speaker 1: super high level because it was twenty four last year
Speaker 1: it was twenty three this year. But when you equate
Speaker 1: the buy in right before. It's been three hundred k
Speaker 1: when it's been in the studio minus the first year
Speaker 1: back in twenty fifteen. Well, it wasn't in the studio,
Speaker 1: it was in the conference area or whatever. But that
Speaker 1: was a five hundred k buy But you would figure that, Okay,
Speaker 1: if you take the price point and you chop it
Speaker 1: it down to one third of the price point, shouldn't
Speaker 1: you get close to three x the entries? You know? So,
Speaker 1: I mean, how do you like, what's your thoughts there
Speaker 1: or what would you tell the people or whatever?
Speaker 2: That's definitely not sure you would assume that. But you know,
Speaker 2: you have to think that there's people that would have
Speaker 2: actually played this if the buy in was bigger. I mean,
Speaker 2: you could make an argument that you make the buy
Speaker 2: in five hundred k, maybe we actually get more than
Speaker 2: twenty three entries. I don't think Poconeses did a very
Speaker 2: good job in putting this event as part of that article.
Speaker 2: I don't think it fits. Even though it's just a
Speaker 2: Vegas event in Decemba, it's a completely different event. It's
Speaker 2: so close to Christmas. Obviously, when you have such a buying,
Speaker 2: a buying of this magnetaria, it really you can't compare
Speaker 2: to five hundred dollars bayans thousand dollars buy ins, you know,
Speaker 2: the ten k main event that they're kind of discussing
Speaker 2: in the article. There's reasons this wasn't you know, a
Speaker 2: massive hit. And I would say, you know, a massive
Speaker 2: hit for this would have had to be in fifty
Speaker 2: sixty entries at a minimum. It was just kind of
Speaker 2: not the not the best time. We heard from players
Speaker 2: that they were skipping it that would normally be locks
Speaker 2: to play this if you put it in a random
Speaker 2: Wednesday in September. So yeah, timing was a big thing
Speaker 2: with this, especially after, you know, coming up on the
Speaker 2: back of WSB Paradise and the you know WPT Wins
Speaker 2: series where there was players that would plan to play
Speaker 2: this that were in events still at the win. So yeah,
Speaker 2: all in all, I'm not really using, you know, any
Speaker 2: of these data points of the twenty three entries as
Speaker 2: an indication for for any like future hundred k's or
Speaker 2: high stakes kind of tournaments are running. I think the
Speaker 2: biggest variable here it was was just timing wise and
Speaker 2: what else it was up against.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and listen, a lot of people got their asses
Speaker 1: buried in the Bahamas. Yeah, I mean like I was.
Speaker 1: I was looking up some like just Bahamas results the
Speaker 1: other day, and I was like, oh, how come, how
Speaker 1: come I can't find anyone with Isaac Hackson. Oh he
Speaker 1: didn't cash like Jason Kuhn had one cash you know,
Speaker 1: and like for someone like Jason Kuhn, who is for
Speaker 1: sure down there firing all the biggest buy and stuff,
Speaker 1: you know, he has like one cash for I think
Speaker 1: it was two hundred, two hundred and fifty k or something,
Speaker 1: I'm like, well, that's like that's one entry, like in
Speaker 1: a tournament. So you know, you're even like I was
Speaker 1: looking up Sean Deep like he didn't do anything yeah
Speaker 1: down there, Like you know, it's just people just got
Speaker 1: freaking buried. You know. Seth Davis put his results out
Speaker 1: on social media every single day. I mean he lost
Speaker 1: like one point two or one point five million or
Speaker 1: whatever the heck the number came to. But you know,
Speaker 1: people just got annihilated in the Bahamas. So I can't
Speaker 1: imagine that you would want to then hop on a
Speaker 1: flight come to Vegas right before Christmas and you know,
Speaker 1: light another one hunter km fire if that's how things
Speaker 1: are going for you at that current time in poker,
Speaker 1: so it's it's difficult.
Speaker 2: Yes, Seth was one of those ones that you know,
Speaker 2: he's a two time you know, defending not defending, but
Speaker 2: two time Super High Rollaball champion from last season. You
Speaker 2: would think he also loves the freeze out for him. Man,
Speaker 2: he's probably the first in line to register for this event.
Speaker 2: But you know, he had plans with his nephew. They
Speaker 2: were going to some college football Oregon Ducks game, So
Speaker 2: he was one that will kind of set out. There's
Speaker 2: a few names that you know, we don't hear too
Speaker 2: much on on the PGT you know that travel Play
Speaker 2: Trent that kind of reached out to me and expressed
Speaker 2: why they were not coming. And the biggest reason is,
Speaker 2: you know, they're going to play whatever it is, several
Speaker 2: million dollars of buyings in the Bahamas, and then is
Speaker 2: it really worth them on the eve of Christmas, you know,
Speaker 2: flying to Vegas for one event because at the end
Speaker 2: of the day, that's all it was. Because a lot
Speaker 2: of the big stuff at Win had already was like
Speaker 2: finishing or had already finished. So they were essentially, you know,
Speaker 2: coming just for one event. It wasn't really you know
Speaker 2: worth it for them, and a lot of these factors
Speaker 2: just you know, when you're talking of small fields, you know,
Speaker 2: we have twenty three entries. That's two you know, two, three,
Speaker 2: four people that couldn't make it because of just some
Speaker 2: other thing. Well, there's a big difference between you know,
Speaker 2: twenty three entries and twenty seven percentage wise when you
Speaker 2: have these small fields. So it doesn't matter every every entry,
Speaker 2: you know, matters in these high stakes tournaments when you're
Speaker 2: talking like the ten k win main event. You know,
Speaker 2: if one guy, you know, you didn't play this year,
Speaker 2: I didn't play this year, that's not really going to
Speaker 2: matter at the end of the day. Two entries for
Speaker 2: two trees out of you know, potentially sub thirty player
Speaker 2: field is a big difference.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, for sure. I mean, I mean this event
Speaker 1: also has kind of been all over the map in
Speaker 1: terms of scheduling. It's been in May, it's been in
Speaker 1: December now, it's right before Christmas, it's been in I
Speaker 1: think the fall, it's been in Europe, like, it's literally
Speaker 1: been all over the place. I mean, so you know,
Speaker 1: when you look ahead to next season and you have
Speaker 1: this event, you know, like where do you like where
Speaker 1: do you see it fitting in next season? Like if
Speaker 1: you could just if you could pick the best time
Speaker 1: independent of everything else, Like where would you stick this?
Speaker 2: Yes, I'm not planning I'm putting it anywhere on the
Speaker 2: schedule next year.
Speaker 1: I mean is that you're hearing about the high buy
Speaker 1: in stuff like.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a little bit of the tax it's a
Speaker 2: little bit of the taxes stuff. You know. I felt
Speaker 2: like we had a really really good spot for this
Speaker 2: year because originally it was it was on the back
Speaker 2: act of the one hundred k p Low, so we
Speaker 2: were going to basically go one hundred k plow three
Speaker 2: hundred k super high rollabile with some other high stakes
Speaker 2: no limit things, and we were to really capitalize on people.
Speaker 2: You know, now we're satisfying what these players have requested,
Speaker 2: like travel for a week, but get you know, I
Speaker 2: think Nick Pechangelo has told me in person like yeah,
Speaker 2: we want to come and put millions of dollars of
Speaker 2: buyings in in a short time, so it's worth it.
Speaker 2: So doing one hundred k plow, doing the three hundred
Speaker 2: k super Hierolli ball, or maybe it was one hundred
Speaker 2: k plus some other high sex no limit events around
Speaker 2: October where there was no overlap with competing events, you know,
Speaker 2: we would have got really big numbers. Now heading into
Speaker 2: next year, I would say this is coming up a
Speaker 2: bit of a failure, you know, even with the you know,
Speaker 2: even with all the variables we've discussed, it's you know,
Speaker 2: people are going to forget about that. When we announced this,
Speaker 2: say hyperthetly we're going to do it in May, people
Speaker 2: are just going to instinctively go. I don't think twenty
Speaker 2: three entries. That sucks with not you know, figuring out
Speaker 2: the variables, even though we know those. So personally, I
Speaker 2: think it's not on my radar at all to put
Speaker 2: on next year. I don't have any interest in doing it,
Speaker 2: and that's because of that. But also, you know, with
Speaker 2: all the taxes, you know, we've heard, I've heard directly
Speaker 2: from players that you know, what their limit is this
Speaker 2: year buy and why So I don't think this fits
Speaker 2: on the schedule. Obviously, there's people with more power than
Speaker 2: me at the company that may just say we're doing
Speaker 2: it December twenty second, and then it's on December twenty second.
Speaker 2: So but at this stage I'm not planning to do
Speaker 2: it again. We're just going to have to see how
Speaker 2: the year goes and kind of figure it out. Look
Speaker 2: may look if things change. You know, there's some stuff
Speaker 2: that came out the last few days about the taxes.
Speaker 2: I just kind of did a tweet about it. But
Speaker 2: maybe things change even further, maybe we get an overruling
Speaker 2: year and we're back to normal. We don't really know,
Speaker 2: so yeah, I'll have to configure it. And you know,
Speaker 2: I think we're probably won't discuss it on this part
Speaker 2: or for a little while, but you know, you and
Speaker 2: you and may have discussed a kind of different idea
Speaker 2: for a highest stakes kind of buying event that I
Speaker 2: think will have a lot more legs than this will.
Speaker 2: So I'd rather be putting my energy into to that
Speaker 2: event and making that be the one, the Al Marqui
Speaker 2: event for the season.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I hear you on all the fronts.
Speaker 1: You know, I totally get it. I will say that
Speaker 1: if I were to put on my audience hat and
Speaker 1: just like from where I sit, you know, I understand
Speaker 1: what you're saying where you say. You know, some players
Speaker 1: might look at it and say, like, well, it only
Speaker 1: got twenty three, twenty four entries. It's kind of not
Speaker 1: worth my time to travel and play it as one
Speaker 1: off whatever. I get that from the player side. As
Speaker 1: a viewer, I still love this event. I don't care
Speaker 1: if it gets sixteen players or you know, one hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty. I think it's still worth it to see
Speaker 1: the best of the best, you know, big buying tournament
Speaker 1: players play an extended event over three days in a
Speaker 1: really really good structure. I really like the freeze out
Speaker 1: format this year, you know, I think that that is
Speaker 1: something that like really tickles my fancy, Like I just
Speaker 1: I love that. Like that's why I was so glued
Speaker 1: to this heads up match between Samo and Kuhn, Like
Speaker 1: it was just freaking incredible poker. Like so from a viewer,
Speaker 1: I would say like, yeah, you know, it's a bit
Speaker 1: of a bummer that, you know, you don't get thirty
Speaker 1: forty fifty sixty entries in this thing, right, But I
Speaker 1: still think it's elite poker at the highest level, a
Speaker 1: lot on the line, and that's what I want to see.
Speaker 1: I want to see the I want to see the
Speaker 1: best players trying to make the best decisions they can
Speaker 1: in the highest pressure moments. And that's to me what
Speaker 1: super high rollabile prise events. Now, I also love things
Speaker 1: like like Triton, but I do think that Triton gets
Speaker 1: a little bit faster at the end in a lot
Speaker 1: of this, Like those events are pretty quick at the
Speaker 1: end of the day. And I get it, you know,
Speaker 1: you're catering to more VIPs and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 1: Like I totally understand it. But but this is, like,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know. This to me is like
Speaker 1: the the best, most prestigious like Super high Roller title
Speaker 1: out there. And yeah, it's taken some hits in terms
Speaker 1: of field size recently, and it's it's not the best
Speaker 1: to do it in the United States. It's just difficult.
Speaker 1: But yeah, so I don't know. I would I would
Speaker 1: hope it doesn't go away, but I get that if
Speaker 1: it has to, you know, kind of go on a
Speaker 1: hiatus for a year or so as we kind of
Speaker 1: figure out what the heck is going to happen with everything,
Speaker 1: you know, gauge, the player pool, et cetera. But I
Speaker 1: do love the event. You know, I personally think that
Speaker 1: Super high Roll will should go to five hundred k.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't I don't exactly know how I
Speaker 1: that's what I want to happen and then I'll like
Speaker 1: figure out the how later. But I don't know. I
Speaker 1: feel like the bigger the buy in, the better as
Speaker 1: opposed to going the other way, you know. So, but
Speaker 1: I do look, if we super high rollable mixed games
Speaker 1: at one hundred k priceman, I do like having Super
Speaker 1: Bowl PLO at one hundred k price point, and then
Speaker 1: I think the super high rollerball you know itself would
Speaker 1: I would be trying to kick that thing up the other.
Speaker 2: Way, right, Yeah. I mean, look, we had conversations with
Speaker 2: as they've come to be known VIPs, and how do
Speaker 2: we get them to play this event, and they had
Speaker 2: some interesting ideas. So if we were to say, if
Speaker 2: you force my hands, say let's schedule it next year,
Speaker 2: regardless of what you think, I'd obviously talk to them
Speaker 2: again see what they want to do, because they may
Speaker 2: obviously not care too much about the taxes, and then
Speaker 2: I would look to do how we kind of had
Speaker 2: originally planned where we had it following the hundred k PLO.
Speaker 2: I think that's a nice synergy of events, and you
Speaker 2: could mix in some kind of mid to higher buyings
Speaker 2: in there to really centivize, you know, the Europeans just
Speaker 2: to come travel. You know, instead of giving them one event, right,
Speaker 2: which is the Super roller Ball, we're giving them the
Speaker 2: Super roller Bowl, one hundred k plow, the Super Higher Rollabule,
Speaker 2: say one hundred k no limit. Maybe there's a couple
Speaker 2: of twenty fives and fifties sprinkled in on those other days.
Speaker 2: So yeah, you can come for the week and get
Speaker 2: a million dollars and buy ins in and actually make
Speaker 2: it worth your time. So yeah, gun to the head,
Speaker 2: That's what I would do next year. But we just
Speaker 2: really have to see, obviously how the landscape shakes out,
Speaker 2: you know, what how our schedule is like where we
Speaker 2: could put this, how is you know, the Trent schedule.
Speaker 2: You know, we've got obviously WPT doing some new stuff
Speaker 2: this this year. So yeah, we have to kind of
Speaker 2: wait and see. But hey, maybe we can get it
Speaker 2: back on the schedule. Maybe we won't, so kind of
Speaker 2: have to play the waiting game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So talking about Super High Rollable, Jousimow, congratulations to him.
Speaker 1: Just a freaking, absolutely amazing job. So kind of just
Speaker 1: wrapping up the whole Super High Rollable series if you
Speaker 1: want to call that or brand for the year. You
Speaker 1: had Chad Eve Sledge won the Super High Rollable Mixed
Speaker 1: Games Hunter k Bien and that one as well, he
Speaker 1: won that back in what was it, March, I believe, yeah, March.
Speaker 1: Then you had John Reardon, another nice guy in poker,
Speaker 1: super nice guy as well. He won Super High Rollable
Speaker 1: PLO in October, so not too long ago for him.
Speaker 1: And then here you have Jiao Samau winning Super High
Speaker 1: rollerbl in December to close out the calendar year, not
Speaker 1: the PGT year, because we still got to roll in
Speaker 1: to twenty twenty six, which we're going to do next
Speaker 1: here on the podcast as we swing things over to
Speaker 1: the PGT Last Chance Series. As the name suggests, as
Speaker 1: Tim and I have talked about in the past, this
Speaker 1: is the last chance to get into the PGT Million
Speaker 1: Dollar Championship. The PGT Last Chance Series takes place January
Speaker 1: fifth through tenth at the Pokero Studio. There are six
Speaker 1: ten thousand dollars buying events. They're ten thousand, five hundred
Speaker 1: dollars buying. If you register on time, you get a
Speaker 1: four hundred dollars discount, so it's only one hundred dollars rake,
Speaker 1: which is pretty awesome. Players are allowed unlimited entries, so
Speaker 1: buckle up. I guess it's gonna be blasting time in
Speaker 1: this thing. And then and then Tim wenton, did did
Speaker 1: something a little wacky crazy, I mean good, you know,
Speaker 1: in a good way. But last year three dream seats
Speaker 1: were given out based on the series leaderboard to people
Speaker 1: to get into the PGT million dollars Championship. This year
Speaker 1: he went up to to five. We might just go out,
Speaker 1: all right, cool, So I guess let's hit on that first,
Speaker 1: because that's kind of the coolest thing about this. You know,
Speaker 1: this season's Last Chance Series has that increase from three
Speaker 1: to five Dream seats being offered. So what's the motivation
Speaker 1: behind that change? What have players been saying out there?
Speaker 1: I know you're talking to everyone and you know who's
Speaker 1: going to be coming in blasted.
Speaker 2: The mere reason was the change is that for last
Speaker 2: year there was three dream seats plus five dream passes
Speaker 2: into another tournament where you could win into the championship.
Speaker 2: We removed that kind of satellite into the free roll.
Speaker 2: So doing that, we obviously had to up the Last
Speaker 2: Chance seats. The first year we did two, so we
Speaker 2: when two, three, five, I think that's a nice progression
Speaker 2: and it gives the best thing about this series is
Speaker 2: that it gives anyone a chance to qualify for the
Speaker 2: free roll. Now that may not sound good, but what
Speaker 2: that means that it does create a lot of extra
Speaker 2: value in this tournament for both the players. Like, for example,
Speaker 2: you may just decide to rock up fire, some bullets
Speaker 2: run good, and you're in the free roll. But then
Speaker 2: you think about the TJ. Reid, Well, he's pretty close anyway,
Speaker 2: so like, yeah, I mean he's coming off a.
Speaker 1: Huge score at Paradise. He doesn't couple studio events on
Speaker 1: the regular. Yeah, you know, and now he's he's out
Speaker 1: here and he's going to be blasting the whole thing
Speaker 1: he's got. He's got all the action listed on poker
Speaker 1: steak dot com. I think there's a whole of like
Speaker 1: seven or eight people that are on poker steak dot com.
Speaker 1: So if you guys do want to buy action, go
Speaker 1: over there and you can get in on the action.
Speaker 1: But TJ. Reid is somebody who's like, yeah, let's go.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get in there. I'm going to try and
Speaker 1: I'm either going to try and win a dream c
Speaker 1: via the leaderboard or I'm going to try and get
Speaker 1: the points to the.
Speaker 2: Cl and then you've got the people. You know, let's
Speaker 2: go to the very top of the leaderboard. You know,
Speaker 2: this year we'll got Sarveral fox and China Ring. Now
Speaker 2: they're all competing for Player of the Year. Obviously a
Speaker 2: bigger gap from second to third, but either way, Sam, Sarvo,
Speaker 2: Alex fox In they're only separated by basically a fifty
Speaker 2: k fifty k.
Speaker 1: Cash fifty first.
Speaker 2: So look they're going to be battling, you know, for
Speaker 2: Player of the Year. There's some value there if we
Speaker 2: if we scroll down to the very bottom, you know,
Speaker 2: you've got people like right on the fringe. You know
Speaker 2: that will be coming. You've got Joey Weisman, Mesado yokasaua
Speaker 2: Ben Tom you know, Matt Wantman, Eric Blair, all these
Speaker 2: guys right on the fringe close to getting knocked out.
Speaker 2: So there's value for them to pick up a few
Speaker 2: more points, lock their seat in.
Speaker 1: Last year's Player of the Year and PGT Championship winner
Speaker 1: is currently on the end.
Speaker 2: Then we exactly then we look on the outside. You
Speaker 2: got andrewos Spachenko didn't even realize he was so close.
Speaker 2: You got Nacho Barbero, David Corman, Jeremy Osmond, David chen Pads,
Speaker 2: Sam Laskuwitz, all these guys that are heavy volume players
Speaker 2: in the studio, but they haven't had the best here.
Speaker 2: Now they have a chance to. All right, let's get
Speaker 2: this run good in this week. Pick up some cash's,
Speaker 2: knock out the Michael Duex, the Sean Deebs, the Richard
Speaker 2: grecos that that may not be coming, and get into
Speaker 2: the top forty and then obviously in the middle of
Speaker 2: the list, the middle of the top forty. Every position
Speaker 2: you move up on the leaderboard, you gain five bbs
Speaker 2: for your starting stack in the million dollar three roll,
Speaker 2: So there's ev for there. So really this series is
Speaker 2: perfect for everyone, doesn't matter where you are on the leaderboard,
Speaker 2: unless unless you're someone like a Michael Msrahi, who I
Speaker 2: have chatted to. He's got these three cashes, he's locked
Speaker 2: into fourth. He could you know, maybe he drops the fifth, sixth, seventh,
Speaker 2: day two no's, but otherwise he's see him pretty sweet.
Speaker 2: He could just take that one more week off rock
Speaker 2: up for the championships. So either way, unless you're Michael Msrahi,
Speaker 2: there's a pretty decent amount of value for anyone that
Speaker 2: wants to come play PGT Last Chance.
Speaker 1: Yeah, last year during the PGT Last Chance Series, I
Speaker 1: looked it up that there was just a tad over
Speaker 1: seven thousand points awarded. So you know, that's a ton
Speaker 1: of points that have to do with the series leaderboard,
Speaker 1: that have to do with the season long leaderboard, that
Speaker 1: have to do with this Player of the Year race.
Speaker 1: I mean there's a lot on the line here. And
Speaker 1: as you and I have witnessed in the last couple
Speaker 1: of years, and most specifically last year during the Last
Speaker 1: Chance Series, I mean there is there are fewer sweats
Speaker 1: for a series like the Last Chance It's it's awesome
Speaker 1: in the studio. So you know, you got the players
Speaker 1: fighting for the top forty positions. You got players maneuvering
Speaker 1: to get more chips in there. You know, you got
Speaker 1: some players that might just come out just as a
Speaker 1: little bit of a warm up, you know for the championship,
Speaker 1: you know, instead of coming in cold if they've had
Speaker 1: you know, two three weeks off between you know, whatever
Speaker 1: they were doing before the holidays and coming into the championship.
Speaker 1: So there's that, you know, you obviously have the dream
Speaker 1: seats aspect of things, and that's going to be a
Speaker 1: big fight. So this is going to be a pretty
Speaker 1: exciting series. I'm pretty pumped see how it all plays out.
Speaker 1: I'm curious ultimately, you know, how many people come and play,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm always curious for our series, how many
Speaker 1: people come and play, you know. But I guess we'll
Speaker 1: wait and see and then Yeah.
Speaker 2: You know, this series last year had had insanely good
Speaker 2: number's basically averaged one hundred and fifteen entrance per per event. Now,
Speaker 2: you know, we're going to keep touching on this tax stuff.
Speaker 2: I think we'll have a little bit of an effect
Speaker 2: on this event obviously. I think if we're hitting the
Speaker 2: eighty entrance per tournament, I think that's good. But I
Speaker 2: don't think this will be And I don't think we
Speaker 2: can use the data from this unless it's severely bad,
Speaker 2: like fifty entrants as you know, data points for the
Speaker 2: rest of the season because of all the added value here,
Speaker 2: you know, alongside the dream seats, the point chase, and
Speaker 2: the free roll, there's just so much on offer in
Speaker 2: this event. So uh yeah, I hope we get it.
Speaker 2: I hope we get a good turnout. Obviously, there's a
Speaker 2: lot of big names you know that I kind of
Speaker 2: touched on that are on the fringes that will definitely
Speaker 2: be you know, wanting to be a part of the
Speaker 2: million dollar free roll. So I think we're going to see,
Speaker 2: you know, it also changes some of the way people play.
Speaker 2: Like if you remember last year, you know, the main
Speaker 2: event champion Jonathan Tomay, I just needed one more cash
Speaker 2: and like there were some spots I just remember, like,
Speaker 2: you know, he's facing it all in, but they're close
Speaker 2: to the money and he's making like very results, you know,
Speaker 2: orientated folds, and I think there's a lot of that
Speaker 2: for some people, you know, where now there's ICM implications
Speaker 2: just making the money, just cashing making that next pay
Speaker 2: jump is you know, you may leap you know, two, three, four, five,
Speaker 2: six spots on the leaderboard with if you can just
Speaker 2: make a six thousand dollars paye jump. So yeah, it's
Speaker 2: it's a very There's a lot of interesting dynamics with
Speaker 2: PGT Last Chance, and that's why it is a pretty
Speaker 2: fun series kind of to be a yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, listen, I can't wait for this one.
Speaker 2: Ten dream seats next year questionable, it's got to go up.
Speaker 2: It's gone two three, five, it has to go up.
Speaker 2: It's about just picking the number.
Speaker 1: I mean, five could be the number. You know, five
Speaker 1: could be a good number. I mean to me, it
Speaker 1: it's it's so the reason why I think that it's
Speaker 1: hard to just increase it is because it's it's a
Speaker 1: bit of a leap of faith, because you know, in theory, yes,
Speaker 1: there should be more dream seats awarded if the field
Speaker 1: sizes go up, but we don't know if the field
Speaker 1: sides are going to go on. I mean we're guessing, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, this year is this year's the riskiest of
Speaker 1: them all, just because again of that tax thing and
Speaker 1: what we're hearing from some of the players how they
Speaker 1: might back off plane and whatever. So it's going to
Speaker 1: be interesting to see how that happens, right, So I
Speaker 1: mean we'll see. I mean, hopefully it turns out to
Speaker 1: be awesome, but again, I mean, you just you never
Speaker 1: know at the end of the day.
Speaker 2: So and look, we don't have to decide, you know,
Speaker 2: whether we're going keeping it at five, we're going in
Speaker 2: a seven or ten. We don't really need to make that,
Speaker 2: you know, we don't need to plan on that for
Speaker 2: quite a while. So we'll have enough kind of we'll
Speaker 2: look at this how the season starts, breaking out the numbers,
Speaker 2: and then kind of, you know, figure it out from
Speaker 2: the well.
Speaker 1: One of the things we have to do is we
Speaker 1: have to draft for it.
Speaker 2: You and Ildy. I'm Sorrydy, I'm crushing you. I should
Speaker 2: just I should give you an extra pick.
Speaker 1: I mean, does super highroleble count.
Speaker 2: We dropted for Superrollible?
Speaker 1: No, we didn't.
Speaker 2: We drafted for Paradise and Super Highrollible.
Speaker 1: Oh I didn't. Okay, I didn't know if it was
Speaker 1: just Paradise and then we.
Speaker 2: Were it was both. Okay.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you're absolutely fucking crushing me. So it's like,
Speaker 1: but we'll draft anyway. For the hell I drafted jow Right, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: of course you did.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but he won the non PGT event.
Speaker 1: Does matter? He wants to pize.
Speaker 2: I know. I'm just saying I'm pretty good at this thing,
Speaker 2: all right.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean I didn't do too bad because I
Speaker 1: had Sam's overall and Jason kohon, so it's pretty good.
Speaker 1: The worst situation on the world. But I'm still getting crushed.
Speaker 1: You're up like you have like double my points, like
Speaker 1: I have like nineteen hundred. You have like thirty eight
Speaker 1: hundred or something. So whatever, all right, so let's just
Speaker 1: do five new people.
Speaker 2: Got it.
Speaker 1: You're up first, I'm up first. I hope he's fucking
Speaker 1: list maybe, I hope he's listening. My guy, Jeremy f
Speaker 1: and Becker. Let's go. J Becks, are you listening. I
Speaker 1: drafted you first. I told you the other day, well
Speaker 1: we were playing at Venetian, that you were going to
Speaker 1: crush the PGT last chance reason. You are gonna win
Speaker 1: a dream seat even though you have like two hundred
Speaker 1: points in the year and this is your only chance
Speaker 1: to get in. But you are hot. He just won
Speaker 1: the Venetian the other day for seventy one or seventy
Speaker 1: two k something like that. He bagged the day one
Speaker 1: a Chipley last night from the next Venetian tournament. I mean,
Speaker 1: this guy is as hot as they come. Let's go
Speaker 1: Jeremy Becker. He also said, Max firing, Max firing, Jay Becks,
Speaker 1: let's go. So I'm in there for Jeremy freakin Becker.
Speaker 1: Let's go, baby.
Speaker 2: I'm also gonna take a Jeremy.
Speaker 1: You can take you get, you get two picks.
Speaker 2: By the way, I know I'm gonna take Jeremy Osmas.
Speaker 1: Oh, Jeremy. I er, yes.
Speaker 2: Jeremy Osmus, and give me William Alex fuckson.
Speaker 1: That's a good one. That's a good one, all right.
Speaker 1: I'm going with.
Speaker 2: I do have some inside of knowledge on some of
Speaker 2: these players, so I don't if you if you throw
Speaker 2: someone out that I have knowledge on al you.
Speaker 1: Know, taking Shannon Shore, Okay, last year.
Speaker 2: He did win two. He thought he wasn't gonna play
Speaker 2: because of.
Speaker 1: All his DM saying I'm in okay, yeah, good. And
Speaker 1: then I'm gonna go with uh, David ODB Baker, my guy.
Speaker 1: I know he's got at least the first three events
Speaker 1: listed on poker Steakes, so maybe a little bit of
Speaker 1: elite from me. I'm guessing ODB is gonna be one
Speaker 1: of those guys which you do see in the PGT
Speaker 1: Last Chance Series where they're not going to reach the
Speaker 1: top forty. So they come and they play the first
Speaker 1: one to three events, maybe maybe they can get some
Speaker 1: some stuff going, they get some points, then they're in
Speaker 1: the thick of it for the dream Seat Race, and
Speaker 1: then boom, they're playing the whole series. So that's why
Speaker 1: I'm drafting ODB. Plus he's my guy. Let's freaking good.
Speaker 2: That's good. That's a good one. I'm gonna take Sean Winter.
Speaker 1: Sean Winter, Yep, No.
Speaker 2: He's coming and he's he's in that kind of vulnerable spot,
Speaker 2: so I'm like, Okay, he needs to get some points.
Speaker 2: I'll take him. Then I'm gonna take Jim Collopy, who
Speaker 2: is now of course Jim will be there. Breaking news,
Speaker 2: Victor Blaum has opted out of the free row, which
Speaker 2: means Jim Callipy is now fortieth.
Speaker 1: Okay, there you go. Yeah, that's just for all those
Speaker 1: wondering about the top forty, there's not only do you
Speaker 1: have to have enough points to be in the top
Speaker 1: forty of the leaderboard, you have to also check two boxes.
Speaker 1: One of them is you need three PGT caches. That's
Speaker 1: what we were talking about for so often with Michael
Speaker 1: the grindermans Rocky. He ended up getting his third in
Speaker 1: the Bahamas. For those PGT qualifying events as part of
Speaker 1: WSP Paradise, there are some other players either in the
Speaker 1: top forty or right around the top forty who would
Speaker 1: need to hit the three cash marks. So maybe they'll
Speaker 1: be out there trying to get it during the PGT
Speaker 1: Last Chance series. Maybe they just pass on it. It
Speaker 1: was all so then in that case, you would do
Speaker 1: like what Tim just said with Victor Blam, you remove them,
Speaker 1: You bump everyone up a slot, and that's how things go.
Speaker 1: The second thing is that people need to opt in
Speaker 1: to play the championship. So what Tim is saying there
Speaker 1: with Victor Blom, Tim's been doing all this outreach. He's
Speaker 1: being the commissioner that we need. He's talking to all
Speaker 1: the players. Hey, you know, if you qualify in the
Speaker 1: top forty, are you going to play? Because what we
Speaker 1: don't want to happen. What the point of this is
Speaker 1: you don't want me. Let's say I'm in the Let's
Speaker 1: say I'm tenth right and I'm in I'm in the
Speaker 1: free row, I have my three cashes, I have enough
Speaker 1: points whatever, but then I just don't show up. Well
Speaker 1: that then we just we want forty people in the
Speaker 1: free row. Okay, So if you're not going to show up, fine,
Speaker 1: just tell us and we'll give the seat to somebody else, Okay,
Speaker 1: the next person on the leader ward. That's how this
Speaker 1: is gonna work, because we ultimately want forty people from
Speaker 1: the leaderboard in the free row. Right, So that's that's
Speaker 1: how this works. So you have to confirm with the
Speaker 1: commissioner that you are going to play and opt in.
Speaker 1: Then you have to have those three cashes and enough points.
Speaker 1: So so that's that's that all right. So you took
Speaker 1: Jim Calliby and Sewan Winter, I'm get taking I just
Speaker 1: thought of someone I forget all. I'm taking John Reared
Speaker 1: in Good One. Yeah, and I'm taking Chino ring okay,
Speaker 1: because I think Sheino's gonna be out.
Speaker 2: I mean, what what else is he gonna do?
Speaker 1: Yeah? There are certain people where I'm like tax situation
Speaker 1: or no attack situation, Like, what the hell is Chino
Speaker 1: Rham gonna do? What is Jerry Becker gonna do? They're
Speaker 1: gonna just be playing poker like end of story. So
Speaker 1: these guys are gonna be in there. Chino's got that
Speaker 1: that backing or that that foundational support in terms of
Speaker 1: like motivation to play, because he has an outside shot
Speaker 1: at winning PGT Player of the Year. He's four hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty one points behind Sam Soverll, so he could
Speaker 1: steal it in the eleventh hour. I think last year
Speaker 1: the person who top leaderboard had more than six hundred
Speaker 1: points from this series alone, So it's very doable, you know,
Speaker 1: it's very doable, especially if if what Tim is thinking,
Speaker 1: if we get a really good attendance at this series
Speaker 1: and there's gonna be more points up for grabs. So
Speaker 1: you know, Gino's a performer, you know, so he's gonn
Speaker 1: to get out there and get it done. All right, sir.
Speaker 1: Last pick for you.
Speaker 2: I was going to take was being the keyword Andrew Osapachenka, right,
Speaker 2: because he's one out of the forty. But I don't know,
Speaker 2: maybe he's maybe he's just there whatever. I'm just gonna
Speaker 2: go to Borgara. One person I know is.
Speaker 1: I have no knowledge, but he will be there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, but I want to go someone that
Speaker 2: is basically needs to win for you'd right, I'm going
Speaker 2: to reach down and take Sam Lasquitz.
Speaker 1: I mean, he'll for sure for you there.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think Chenko will be there too, but you know,
Speaker 2: I have more question marks on him than I would
Speaker 2: Sam last Qwitz, and Sam Lastwitz needs more points than
Speaker 2: Asa Pachenka, so he may blast even harder. That's that's
Speaker 2: just my kind of got feeling on it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So okay, So PGT points are the scoring system
Speaker 1: for this, we'll do another one right before the championship
Speaker 1: because we have that day off in between, so we'll
Speaker 1: do another draft. Then we'll just draft for the championship
Speaker 1: and then we'll call it a year.
Speaker 2: I should well, whatever we do for that, you should
Speaker 2: get one pick in each of the sections, like the
Speaker 2: top ten, the next ten, the next time, the next time,
Speaker 2: and the dream State winness. Okay, I like, otherwise we're
Speaker 2: just going to take like, you know, the top ten
Speaker 2: chip counts by.
Speaker 1: Saying of course, of course, I'm also very excited to
Speaker 1: see how this Player of the Year race shakes out. Again.
Speaker 1: The gap between Sam Soverll, who's currently leading in Alex
Speaker 1: Fox and is only fifty five points. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: like a fourth place finish in one of these events,
Speaker 1: fifth place finish not maybe not even that, like you know,
Speaker 1: seventh place, six, I don't know, it's it's basically a
Speaker 1: decent cash like if you get to the final table. Yeah, So,
Speaker 1: I mean that's gonna be fun to sweat. And for
Speaker 1: some reason, you know, for whatever coincidence there may be,
Speaker 1: like these leaderboard sweats for us have always broke pretty
Speaker 1: well in terms of giving us max entertainment. You know,
Speaker 1: remember the Poo series. You had Fox and play in
Speaker 1: that Bounty tournament getting heads up again, and then Lonus
Speaker 1: was at the twenty five K final table just folding,
Speaker 1: like you know, you had that stuff happening. So I
Speaker 1: think we're gonna get a pretty good sweat here. So
Speaker 1: I like the chance that China reim, you know, kind
Speaker 1: of like it'd be hilarious if Gino like won the
Speaker 1: first event and it's like, oh, here we go.
Speaker 2: It would be hilarious if ms Rahi rocks up and
Speaker 2: wins the first two vans and.
Speaker 1: That would yeah, that would also be going. And like
Speaker 1: like we talked about last year, Brandon Wilson won two
Speaker 1: of the six events. Shannon Shore won two of the
Speaker 1: six events. You know, so these guys can get hot.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm looking at Jeremy Becker's probably gonna win
Speaker 1: two of the events with the way he's going recently,
Speaker 1: you know, so he's running pretty hot.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Right. The most official unofficial poker Awards, Baby, let's go.
Speaker 1: I mean, listen, I love fun wacky awards. I guess
Speaker 1: you do. I have one, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
Speaker 1: eight awards listed?
Speaker 2: Have you Yeah, you need to explain this. Do you
Speaker 2: have nominations or are you? Are you naming who you
Speaker 2: think the winner is? And then I name.
Speaker 1: Who your winner is for this time.
Speaker 2: Okay, this is gonna be tough. So first award, this
Speaker 2: is poker in the whole poker atmosphere, not just PGT correct.
Speaker 1: Yeah, a whole poker atmosphere for the entire twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: So the first one. These aren't in any particular order.
Speaker 1: I'll just read them how I wrote them down. The
Speaker 1: Main Character award, Okay, this goes to the player who
Speaker 1: is as far as I'm concerned, box Office. Like when
Speaker 1: I'm talking about box Office, I mean, when this person
Speaker 1: was on a stream, people tuned in, people are like
Speaker 1: I need to watch that. I'm gonna tune in. So
Speaker 1: who you got for twenty twenty five?
Speaker 2: I mean, I have a I have I kind of
Speaker 2: have like three answers. I think the obvious answer is honest.
Speaker 2: I want to say Daniel Agrano, but like, I don't
Speaker 2: really want to give it to Daniel Mograno. He's barely
Speaker 2: being on the strings.
Speaker 1: But listen, it's your award, all right.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna fine, Nigana, you're out. I'm gonna give it
Speaker 2: to Allan Kating. Whether it's on I considered him, yeah,
Speaker 2: whether it's on our shows, A hustler, he's always gonna
Speaker 2: play super Agro, he's gonna you're gonna see big pots.
Speaker 2: It's yeah, he's he's my He's my pick, all right.
Speaker 1: I mean he's a good one. You know, I certainly
Speaker 1: considered him. He was right there at the kind of
Speaker 1: the top of my list. But I'm going with Martin Cabrell.
Speaker 1: And I know that all rising. But I mean I
Speaker 1: see viewership numbers when this guy gets in a game,
Speaker 1: I love him or hate him, And there's plenty of
Speaker 1: people out there who are hate watching Martin Cabra. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean, he's absolutely tune in, right, and I know
Speaker 1: some of our listeners out there are going to hate
Speaker 1: the fact that we or that I'm listening in for
Speaker 1: this award. But you know, I just again, I see
Speaker 1: the way that the audience reacts when when Martin Cabrell
Speaker 1: is out there, so love him or hate him, you know,
Speaker 1: people are going to They're they're paying to see this movie.
Speaker 1: They're paying with their time to see the streaming. You know,
Speaker 1: the antics, the table talk, the casino Royal not like
Speaker 1: that all that sort of stuff from Martin Cabrell. Right now,
Speaker 1: another person who's kind of in the same vein Will Cassof.
Speaker 1: I could not in my right mind put him anywhere
Speaker 1: near this award. He's not getting it. I personally feel
Speaker 1: like Martin Cabrell is way more palatable than Will Casoof.
Speaker 1: Plus Martin's like he's he's really I mean he's he's
Speaker 1: been a name, right, Martin Cabrell has been a name, right,
Speaker 1: and he's drawn buzz and eyeballs before, but he picked
Speaker 1: up a ton of team this summer and he's really
Speaker 1: like harnessed that that success and tried to do it.
Speaker 1: Like he's also appeared on a lot of like Hustler
Speaker 1: Casino Live. He's on Venetian Poker Live. You know, he's
Speaker 1: out there getting it, getting his h his time in,
Speaker 1: and he's he's even like in the booth for WS
Speaker 1: to be Paradise, like just crazy stuff. And he had
Speaker 1: a lot of success. Like I got to kind of
Speaker 1: bake that in as well. So main character award, you
Speaker 1: got Alex Keating, Alan Keating. Excuse me, I have Martin
Speaker 1: Cabrell all right. The next one, the correct Breakout Player
Speaker 1: of the Year. And yes, I am petty because I
Speaker 1: feel like the people who voted on the Global Poker
Speaker 1: Awards Breakout Player of the Year got this wrong pretty
Speaker 1: much every single year. So we're gonna list the correct
Speaker 1: Breakout Player of the Year. Okay, I'm uh, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: opt out of this, so go ahead. No I haven't,
Speaker 1: I haven't. I always struggle with this one.
Speaker 2: I got no idea.
Speaker 1: What do you what do you mean you have noice?
Speaker 2: You go?
Speaker 1: I tell you to prepare because I think and a
Speaker 1: half ago you do it.
Speaker 2: But I'm no, no, I'm saying this category exactly is just one.
Speaker 2: Like even when the GPI ballot comes out, I'm like,
Speaker 2: I don't know any of these guys. I don't even
Speaker 2: think I end up voting because I don't think my
Speaker 2: vote is worthy. But I mean, actually researching this will
Speaker 2: take years, But I mean I kind of think it
Speaker 2: would take a while. But I feel like, right off
Speaker 2: the top of my head, you have to take I'm
Speaker 2: propping on a butcher. How you say this blase surge?
Speaker 2: How do you say it? Blase BLUs plus the blood
Speaker 2: bluse surge as whatever? You know? He won the two
Speaker 2: bracelets at the World Series, he won the twenty five
Speaker 2: UK No Limit, he won the fifteen hundred's the start
Speaker 2: eight and then he you know, he has some other
Speaker 2: deep runs and some other things. He's head, I think
Speaker 2: a runner up in Paradise. To me, that you know,
Speaker 2: like we no one knew this guy, right, you know
Speaker 2: he did have obviously have a Hindu man before that
Speaker 2: that goes just goes way back, but like you couldn't
Speaker 2: have picked this guy out of a lineup. And then
Speaker 2: he comes to the World Series, gets a dozen cashers,
Speaker 2: two bracelets into completely polarizing events. To me, that that
Speaker 2: was I would say would be a breakout the World Series.
Speaker 2: And then pulling up his hindon right now, yeah, he
Speaker 2: went obviously went back to Europe and just collected cash
Speaker 2: as that every ept stuff there is, even wins and
Speaker 2: final tables. And then, like I said, that runner up
Speaker 2: in Paradise. So you know, there's probably someone better out there,
Speaker 2: but off the top of my head, I feel like
Speaker 2: he is, you know, a pretty decent candidate for Breakout
Speaker 2: Player of the Year.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I looked into him, and I believe it's Blagerie Off.
Speaker 1: I believe and I think That's how we were saying
Speaker 1: it during the summer on the streams. And the reason
Speaker 1: why I I ultimately ruled him out as compared to
Speaker 1: the player that I ended up selecting was because looking
Speaker 1: at the twenty twenty four for Jerry Off, he has
Speaker 1: a second place finish in an FPS main event at
Speaker 1: EPT Paris for almost three n K or over three
Speaker 1: dr k. He won at that same series a twenty
Speaker 1: two hundred dollars event for one hundred and fifty K,
Speaker 1: so it was, you know, he I think he had
Speaker 1: like seven hundred and fifty K and earnings that that
Speaker 1: year before, So not that those things would would register
Speaker 1: him as as like his breakout year, but I just said,
Speaker 1: I just thought that that year, compared to who I
Speaker 1: picked their twenty twenty four, his year was a bit better.
Speaker 1: So it's more of a breakout in my side of things.
Speaker 1: But I understand totally what you're saying. And the two
Speaker 1: bracelets I think is awesome, you know, and one of
Speaker 1: them was in that that twenty five K that was
Speaker 1: freaking enormous. So yeah, I went with listen, this is
Speaker 1: this is one of your guys, sir, This is a
Speaker 1: PGT guy.
Speaker 2: Okay, win lay. Yeah, that's pretty. That's actually yeah, it's
Speaker 2: a home for us. That's the way think of him.
Speaker 1: Lays twenty twenty three, it's pretty forty three and twenty
Speaker 1: dollars in earnings, his twenty twenty four sixty eight four
Speaker 1: and fifty dollars in earnings, his twenty twenty five four million,
Speaker 1: seven hundred and sixty two thousand dollars in earnings. He
Speaker 1: also won a bracelet. He won the fifth one of
Speaker 1: the fifty k's at the at the w SP, the
Speaker 1: fifty K Nolan Haan Holdham high Roller for almost two
Speaker 1: point seven million. Right before that, he won the thirty
Speaker 1: five hundred dollars bet MGM Championship for seven hundred and
Speaker 1: seventy seven thousand dollars, So he had that, He had
Speaker 1: a He won that Borgada event. Remember they did that
Speaker 1: weird thing in Jim like like that sort of thing.
Speaker 1: He did that, and that was in January, you know,
Speaker 1: so that was in the year. I mean, this guy
Speaker 1: absolutely freaking blew up. He won a poker Master's event
Speaker 1: too later on, and like, I mean, this guy came
Speaker 1: out of nowhere blew up in a twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: So my winner is win Ley. It's a good breakout
Speaker 1: player of the year. Yeah for twenty twenty five. As
Speaker 1: far as I'm concerned. The way I do it is
Speaker 1: listen to the I go to the All Time Sorry,
Speaker 1: I go to the yearly Money List, clicking on people,
Speaker 1: and I say, okay, like if I click on this person,
Speaker 1: have they done anything before this year? Is the answer?
Speaker 1: Yes or no? Okay? And then I like I start
Speaker 1: ruling people out, like number one is you know, Jesse
Speaker 1: Lonis is on the Ultime Money List, but obviously on
Speaker 1: his name, you see that he's done everything in the
Speaker 1: past year, so he's already like had his breakout, so
Speaker 1: he's no longer eligible. So then you just find someone
Speaker 1: like that and then you kind of weigh him against
Speaker 1: each other. So you know, that's where I was. But
Speaker 1: I just felt like so many times you'd get like,
Speaker 1: I mean, listen and nothing against this guy, but like
Speaker 1: you get a John Wosnock would be nominated like win
Speaker 1: and it's like, what are we doing here, Like you know,
Speaker 1: just because he did that, did it on the biggest
Speaker 1: stage or like what you know? Like I don't know,
Speaker 1: So anyway, that's what we got. Win Lay is mine
Speaker 1: you took Blagieri off, which is a good respectable one
Speaker 1: for for coming off with it on the fly. All right,
Speaker 1: Next award, they can't Miss Event of the Year not
Speaker 1: named the ws B Main Event, because if we did
Speaker 1: include the ws being event, that's the one we would
Speaker 1: just always pick what do you got for this one?
Speaker 2: I'm assuming this counts, But can I can I say
Speaker 2: the WSB Paradise Main Event?
Speaker 1: You can't?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I would say that because I think a
Speaker 2: few different reasons. There was obviously the crazy increase in
Speaker 2: guarantee for no reason, so I think people were I'll
Speaker 2: be honest and say this, I think people were ami
Speaker 2: sweating it. I think people wanted to say it miss
Speaker 2: for sure. So I think there was a bit of anyone.
Speaker 1: Anyone who actively picked going to the WPT Win Series
Speaker 1: or wt World Championship at the win was actively sweating
Speaker 1: the guarantee.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, So there was the anti sweat of hoping
Speaker 2: a missus. There was the craziness of you know, Daniel
Speaker 2: Legrando being for thirteen buy ins and this person being
Speaker 2: for twelve, et cetera. There was the crazy structure where
Speaker 2: you can play Day one cash Day two, then entered
Speaker 2: day one. See, I think that threw people off. And
Speaker 2: then on the plus side, you know, you got a
Speaker 2: ten million dollar first prize, you got people taking shots
Speaker 2: in twenty five k buyings, you got players that have
Speaker 2: qualified via for ten cents on club GG or GG poker.
Speaker 2: And then the third cool thing about it was, you know,
Speaker 2: to be honest, the production is pretty good. You know,
Speaker 2: you got the two or three feature tables and all
Speaker 2: that stuff, so kind of all of those things you
Speaker 2: put them in a melting part kind of makes it,
Speaker 2: you know, can't miss event of the year. And for
Speaker 2: me personally, it was one I was you know, I
Speaker 2: don't watch that much poker outside of our events, but
Speaker 2: this was one I had on every day. You know,
Speaker 2: I think you and me were, you know, we're either
Speaker 2: texting or something, and it was on on one of
Speaker 2: our screens and we're saying, check out this hand, Oh
Speaker 2: my god, did you see that kind of thing? So
Speaker 2: we were both kind of tuned in as well. And
Speaker 2: you know, I don't normally do that outside of our
Speaker 2: events outside of the WSP, So I think that to
Speaker 2: me shows it was kind of a can't miss event personally.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, listen, I considered w spiperdis Super Main event.
Speaker 1: I ultimately couldn't get there as it relates to that event,
Speaker 1: because I still feel like it's an event that I
Speaker 1: personally don't really aspire to play. So like I feel
Speaker 1: like when I say can't miss event of the year,
Speaker 1: not named the main event, it's an event that, in
Speaker 1: my opinion, I'm going to go out of my way
Speaker 1: to try and play, Like whether that's raised money, if
Speaker 1: it's a little bit of a higher buying, whether that's
Speaker 1: clear the schedule so I can play. Whatever it is, like,
Speaker 1: I'm going to try and do it, you know, even
Speaker 1: with the big money that's up top, the huge guarantee,
Speaker 1: all that sort of stuff. Like, I don't know, I
Speaker 1: don't necessarily see myself going to over extend to go
Speaker 1: to the WSP Paradise Super Main Event. That's not to
Speaker 1: say it's not an incredible event, and it is, right,
Speaker 1: but I just feel like I feel like where I
Speaker 1: am that event is still very hard. So I don't
Speaker 1: know if I would ultimately go to do it. I
Speaker 1: mean maybe that that changes in you know, whatever ten months,
Speaker 1: eleven months or whatever, But where I sit right now,
Speaker 1: I just me personally wouldn't over extend to go do it,
Speaker 1: but I think it's certainly worthy of winning this award,
Speaker 1: So I don't I'm not saying you made a bad
Speaker 1: pick or anything like that. I went with the WPT
Speaker 1: Prime Championship at the win. I mean, as far as
Speaker 1: I'm concerned, that's the second best event of the year,
Speaker 1: like hands down to play. Yeah, I don't even think
Speaker 1: it's like I don't even think it's I mean, like
Speaker 1: I think it's WSP main event. It's the WSP Prime Championship.
Speaker 2: And I'll give you that.
Speaker 1: If I was the WPT or sorry that I think
Speaker 1: I said WSP Prime Championship the WPT Prime Championship. If
Speaker 1: I was the WPT, I would be going all in
Speaker 1: on this event, like I would be trying to push
Speaker 1: the the guarantee to ten million next year, you know,
Speaker 1: just just go push my chips in. Like now, I
Speaker 1: have no idea what they're gonna do. It doesn't seem
Speaker 1: like they're going to push their chips in or push
Speaker 1: more chips in to bet on the WPT World Championship itself,
Speaker 1: you know, because that's now been two years running without
Speaker 1: the guarantee. The numbers took a fairly meaningful dive this year.
Speaker 1: Even though it's still got more than eighteen hundred players,
Speaker 1: it's still a very good tournament to all that sort
Speaker 1: of stuff. Yes, but it just doesn't seem like that's
Speaker 1: like the focal point, and it does seem like this
Speaker 1: Prime Championship is a focal point, so I would continue
Speaker 1: to push in there. It's also a nice break in
Speaker 1: terms of like you have WSP Paradise doing their thing
Speaker 1: with the Super Event and then you're on the complete
Speaker 1: other side of things going with the eleven hundred dollars
Speaker 1: buy in Prime Championship, and like, to me, this is
Speaker 1: like this is like the mid major, mid Steaks slash
Speaker 1: low stakes tournament of the year by far. Like I
Speaker 1: think it's awesome, And in terms of like can't miss it,
Speaker 1: Like I'm blocking out my schedule, I'm planning for max
Speaker 1: Bullets like all that sort of stuff. So to me,
Speaker 1: that's the one that that I'm I'm not missing, And
Speaker 1: I think it's I think it's an incredible event. I
Speaker 1: really do, so, Yeah, I think it's I had a
Speaker 1: good feeling that, you know, if it wasn't both of
Speaker 1: us picking the Prime Championship, we were probably gonna be
Speaker 1: like you were probably gonna pick the Superman event and
Speaker 1: I would pick this. So yeah, we got this one
Speaker 1: right as well, of course, because it is our awards
Speaker 1: at the end of the day. The next one, the
Speaker 1: yeah Butt Award. This is for the player whose year
Speaker 1: came with an asterisk that everyone's going to bring up
Speaker 1: so when they say like, hey, remember so and so
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five and then someone was like yeah,
Speaker 1: but blah blah blah, so we mentioned the player, but
Speaker 1: we're always gonna say yeah, but with it and you
Speaker 1: can kind of take that and and you know, put
Speaker 1: it into whatever meaning you want when you give out
Speaker 1: this award.
Speaker 2: This is easy, okay. Benny Glaza, oh three bracelets? What
Speaker 2: what an insane year at the w s P. And
Speaker 2: then the year but is did he yeah, but did
Speaker 2: he win Player of the Year?
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, I mean yeah, that's interest. I didn't even
Speaker 1: think of Benny.
Speaker 2: This this is obviously yeah.
Speaker 1: But remember when he got slow rolled.
Speaker 2: I'm not even bringing that one up, but that that
Speaker 2: one might come up in uh yeah a little bit later.
Speaker 2: But you think about, uh Scott save his year of
Speaker 2: the year before three bracelets, We've seen people wind Player
Speaker 2: of the Year with a very with a set of
Speaker 2: results less superior to what Benny did. Unfortunately, the yeah,
Speaker 2: but he ran into the guy that wins the two
Speaker 2: biggest events of the World Series and along with the
Speaker 2: before min cash as everywhere else to kind of outthrow him.
Speaker 2: But yeah, Benny Glassar, I think is the year but
Speaker 2: the easy year butt for me.
Speaker 1: So the first person that came to mind for me
Speaker 1: was Renlnn obviously the ghosting whatever you know whatever thing.
Speaker 1: But then I was like looking up his year and
Speaker 1: I was like, he didn't do too much where I
Speaker 1: would like he would be necessarily brought up right. And
Speaker 1: then I went with somebody who I already picked. I'm
Speaker 1: giving him, give him the award again, Martin Cabrell because
Speaker 1: he had a great year. And then everyone's gonna be like, yeah,
Speaker 1: but he's horrible to watch on TV, or yeah, but
Speaker 1: I can't stand that guy, or yeah but this, yeah
Speaker 1: but that right, like with with Martin Cabrell. So you
Speaker 1: know Cabrell had would he win one or two bracelets
Speaker 1: this year? I think two because he won one in Europe.
Speaker 2: I believe he won the tan k Plo and mister
Speaker 2: Boundie in Europe, and then he won the the Mini
Speaker 2: Maine Mini Maine.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he gus. I think he had a deep run
Speaker 1: in the main event too. He hit a bunch of
Speaker 1: deep runs in the summer. Well.
Speaker 2: He final table with the tan k super Zoba Boundy
Speaker 2: like two days before the Mini Maine and and final
Speaker 2: table the two fifty K and final table with the
Speaker 2: five k PLO.
Speaker 1: So yeah, he had the running for Player of the Year.
Speaker 1: Like you know, obviously people were tuning in to watch him,
Speaker 1: whether they were watching him because they liked his antics,
Speaker 1: whether they were watching him because they hate watching whatever.
Speaker 1: But anytime you bring this this guy up and the
Speaker 1: year that he had, it's gonna be hit with a
Speaker 1: yeah butt. Yeah but I can't stand that guy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but he's he should be penalized, like yeah, but like
Speaker 1: whatever it is, it's there's always gonna be a yeah
Speaker 1: butt with him. So so he's my my yeah butt
Speaker 1: award there. Next up the Iron Chair Award. This is
Speaker 1: going to the player who simply would not leave, doesn't
Speaker 1: matter what's going on. This player was in the field
Speaker 1: and he was battling.
Speaker 2: Go ahead, as I read this, awarded to the player
Speaker 2: who simply would have would not leave. I only thought
Speaker 2: of one name, which is very different to how you
Speaker 2: just said it, which was okay, always battling because my
Speaker 2: guy was just kind of obviously William Kassouf.
Speaker 1: Uh would not leave. Everyone's best efforts, would not leave.
Speaker 2: He would not leave. He's you know. We had Bob
Speaker 2: Smith come over and give him a penalty.
Speaker 1: He would not leave.
Speaker 2: And then he busted and did a thirty minute bust
Speaker 2: out interview. Did all the media is.
Speaker 1: That that watched the stream that they that Natalie body
Speaker 1: God bless her heart for sticking with his question one
Speaker 1: question thirty away and they left the camera like on him.
Speaker 1: Natalie kept holding the microphone like the interview was still
Speaker 1: happening while they showed play and then they went back.
Speaker 1: It was the same thing. Yeah, that was actually what happened,
Speaker 1: like behind the scenes, that's what happened.
Speaker 2: And then after that, after the Natalie interview, he gave
Speaker 2: more interviews to the other media and then finally he
Speaker 2: was ushered out and I think he was banned for
Speaker 2: the rest of the world series. I think that was
Speaker 2: the band he was given. I don't think anything more
Speaker 2: than that. But still like talking about someone they wanted
Speaker 2: to leave. It's him, but like, if we're talking about it,
Speaker 2: wouldn't leave. Is in more of a tournament aspect then
Speaker 2: obviously becausof doesn't apply. But I'll let you. I'll let
Speaker 2: you take that one.
Speaker 1: Well, okay, my my winner is who I wanted to
Speaker 1: name the award after, but I didn't want to give
Speaker 1: it away, And it's Jeremy Becker. I mean, come on,
Speaker 1: the guy is literally there in every single tournament.
Speaker 2: He's a bit of a ground.
Speaker 1: Wanted me to look up some players on Hendon Mob,
Speaker 1: you know, because I'm thinking of like, like, if there's
Speaker 1: a tournament, Jeremy Becker's there, He's in there until they
Speaker 1: literally tell him he can't play, Like he's max bullets.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter if it's a two hundred dollar buying
Speaker 1: or a five K buying, It doesn't matter until registration closes,
Speaker 1: and then he has to bust and actually leave and
Speaker 1: go somewhere else. And then in that case, it's usually like, oh,
Speaker 1: can I make it to this next venue to play
Speaker 1: the next tournament? Like that's just how it operates. But
Speaker 1: because of that, you know, I was looking it up.
Speaker 1: He had eighty two cashes on the year In twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five, Pedro Palasio one hundred and fifty six cashes.
Speaker 1: I mean, this guy is this guy's is Florida's version
Speaker 1: of Jeremy Becker. I mean every tournament is just a
Speaker 1: two hundred dollar, one hundred and fifty dollars tournament at
Speaker 1: Seminal Coconut Creek, just NonStop, eighty dollars tournament, one hundred
Speaker 1: dollars tournament. You know, just this whole thing is just wild.
Speaker 1: Last year he had like one hundred and fifty k
Speaker 1: in earnings and I'm not sure he played a tournament
Speaker 1: with a higher buy in the three hundred dollars. It's
Speaker 1: just non stop in this Oh there's there's a four
Speaker 1: and dollars one at the WPT at Seminal hard Rock,
Speaker 1: but a six hundred dollar one as well. I mean
Speaker 1: this is just Pedro Palasio shout out to you, sir,
Speaker 1: Coconut Creek, Florida, just absolutely out there grinding, crushing this
Speaker 1: other guy too, well, not this guy, this guy who
Speaker 1: the guy in second place? We had one hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty year. Yeah, he's all in. Where's he at?
Speaker 2: Like Taiwan?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Taipei City is where he's playing at cash and everything.
Speaker 1: But he's got like, well, I don't know what these
Speaker 1: conversions are. Yeah, they're they're smaller, so the same sort
Speaker 1: of thing. But then the guy in third place, Conrad
Speaker 1: co Conrad Cou, It's just it's just south Point, south
Speaker 1: Point south He's a legend. This is south Point NonStop.
Speaker 1: This is all south Point. We look this guy up.
Speaker 1: It's literally the whole thig is south Point. If I
Speaker 1: know this guy's I mean south Point. SHO just signed
Speaker 1: this guy to a deal. It's just outrageous whole thing.
Speaker 1: South Point Nightly, south Point Nightly, south Point Nightly, south Point.
Speaker 1: It's just not every once in a while you'll get
Speaker 1: like the Orleans pops in there or whatever. But yeah,
Speaker 1: this is wild. So anyway, shout out to the grinders
Speaker 1: out there, you know, shout out to the grinders out there.
Speaker 2: But you go down to this guy, Michael Myles. Everything
Speaker 2: is at Tunica, same thing, like.
Speaker 1: Just grinding the dailies in their respective areas, I mean, good,
Speaker 1: shout out to them. It's freaking awesome, all right. Next
Speaker 1: award h most likely to run it back. That's the
Speaker 1: player most likely to repeat their success for another year.
Speaker 1: We're talking about consistency here. It's the most It's the
Speaker 1: person that you would you would most bank to have
Speaker 1: a similar year to the next year. You know, So
Speaker 1: if you gave me, like basically one name that I
Speaker 1: could bet on, being like, hey, will they achieve the
Speaker 1: same sort of success of another elite year, you know,
Speaker 1: this is the person that I would be better on.
Speaker 1: So who you got?
Speaker 2: It does make it hotter when you can sit up
Speaker 2: the old the tax implications for the Americans. But I
Speaker 2: feel like, to me, we kind of if you were
Speaker 2: to talk about twenty twenty five proka, you might even
Speaker 2: mentioned this guy, but he somehow compiled twelve point six
Speaker 2: million dollars in earnings this year, and that's Stephen Shildwick.
Speaker 2: So twelve point six phenomenal, second highest every year he's had.
Speaker 2: He had a thirteen million year back in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 2: I'm going to rule out twenty twenty and twenty twenty
Speaker 2: one because you know that old you know that old
Speaker 2: virus thing imagig. But basically last year at eight point eight,
Speaker 2: twenty twenty three, nine point eight, twenty twenty two, seven million,
Speaker 2: twenty nineteen, thirteen point five, twenty eighteen, ten, My point is,
Speaker 2: obviously twelve's a lot more than what you would say
Speaker 2: he's averages over the last few years. But he is
Speaker 2: going to continue to travel and play all the trents,
Speaker 2: play all the big stuff here. I don't think his
Speaker 2: playing volume change. So it's definitely very likely that he
Speaker 2: can replicate the amount of winnings. You know, he's had
Speaker 2: this year, and he hasn't really won a lot tournament
Speaker 2: wise compared to you know, some of these other names
Speaker 2: you name, but you know, he won a super higher
Speaker 2: roller here at napt he won to try an event,
Speaker 2: a couple close calls at the World Series, but no
Speaker 2: like super marquee wins. So I think he has still
Speaker 2: a little bit of room to convert a lot of
Speaker 2: these you know, final Like you look at his results
Speaker 2: of trying. You know, we got a seventh and eighth,
Speaker 2: the sixth, the sixth at that stuff. You know, we
Speaker 2: had that one win, but we had eight first, second, eighth,
Speaker 2: you know, Paradise, he had a fifth, like his World
Speaker 2: Series second second or one of those seconds was the Ariahrola,
Speaker 2: but second he's like right there this year, sorry, last
Speaker 2: year without getting that big marquee win. So even though
Speaker 2: he cashed for you know, twelve million plus, which is
Speaker 2: a lot compared to the last few years. The fact
Speaker 2: that he kind of fell short in the big moment
Speaker 2: shows that I think there is still some room for
Speaker 2: him to, with that doubt, replicate his results, especially with him,
Speaker 2: you know, not being a tax paying American.
Speaker 1: I'm going with Alex Fox and I mean, this guy
Speaker 1: round the taxes. He's just got what the heck is
Speaker 1: Alex Fox is gonna do with his life.
Speaker 2: Come on, he's gonna go play in the UFO.
Speaker 1: Okay, Mike, right now, whatever, I don't care. Eleven point
Speaker 1: six million in twenty twenty four, eleven point twenty six
Speaker 1: million in twenty twenty five. I mean, this guy's just
Speaker 1: he's an eight figure printing machine, is what he is.
Speaker 1: He's gonna Like, if I'm going to bank on somebody
Speaker 1: to repeat an eight figure year get over ten million,
Speaker 1: it's Alex Fox to me. I mean, that guy's just
Speaker 1: gonna be out there, is going to be doing it.
Speaker 1: So I am banking on Alex foxen for my most
Speaker 1: likely to run it back. Tim has got to.
Speaker 2: Be fun to bet on the opposite like who had
Speaker 2: a big year and who's going to be nowhere near
Speaker 2: it obviously the first Michael, Yeah, he's the first pick,
Speaker 2: but like, it'd be interesting to actually do that one too,
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean yeah. I didn't want to make it
Speaker 1: too negative in the awards, but it did cross my mind.
Speaker 1: Next year, all right, the next one. I'm calling this
Speaker 1: one the Connor Yackey, okay, And it's a blend between
Speaker 1: Connor Drynen and Bryce Yacky because those two hands are legendary.
Speaker 1: Connor when he had the aces versus carry Katz's aces
Speaker 1: and the big one for one drop the million dollar
Speaker 1: buying and he lost, They got the money and pre
Speaker 1: Floppy lost. Bryce Yackey we all know from the fifty
Speaker 1: k PPC against josh Aria took that horrendous beat in
Speaker 1: what Douce seven triple draw. So this is the Connor Yacky.
Speaker 1: It is the most memorable beat of the year. I'll
Speaker 1: let you go fests I have now this one's I
Speaker 1: might get a little pushback here, but I'm going with it, okay.
Speaker 1: Jared Blesnik Romayne Lequay aces versus nines in a the
Speaker 1: six bet pot in the WSP main event when look
Speaker 1: flop the nine. The thing is is like the money
Speaker 1: didn't get into the turn and Laquay had freaking quakes like,
Speaker 1: but still, this was a beat. The way that this
Speaker 1: hand played out, there is no way that Loque should
Speaker 1: ever have bucking nines here, yet he did in an
Speaker 1: absolutely wild hand left Jared Blesnick freaking stunned. Like it
Speaker 1: just just crazy shit in this one. So it was
Speaker 1: aces versus nines. I believe it was maybe button or
Speaker 1: cut off for Blessnick and big blind for Luquay. It
Speaker 1: was raised, re raised, re rais, reraise, reraised, call nine
Speaker 1: five three or nine five six or something on the
Speaker 1: flop they ended up getting the money on the turn
Speaker 1: when it's another nine. So yeah, to me, that that
Speaker 1: was that was the most memorable beat of the year.
Speaker 1: Plus with the way Jared acted afterwards where he was
Speaker 1: like walking around like just totally stunned. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean this could be recency biased, but there's two
Speaker 2: that kind of stand out to me. One was more
Speaker 2: a series of hands you already touched on it. The
Speaker 2: Jason Kuhn Jars heads up match all those beats that
Speaker 2: Kuhn took before busting. It's not really one hand, so
Speaker 2: but still I think the moment becoming a super high
Speaker 2: rolla bowl, you know, champion. There's a bit more gravity
Speaker 2: task to that win outside of just the one point
Speaker 2: one million dollars. First, I know it's not really a
Speaker 2: bad beat, but how do we not put the the
Speaker 2: Benny Glasa Eric wasses in hand.
Speaker 1: I know, it's not like, I mean, that is a beat.
Speaker 1: It's a beat.
Speaker 2: It's not a bad beat.
Speaker 1: It's just like, yeah, but I put the most memorable
Speaker 1: beat of the year.
Speaker 2: That's I mean, you're throwing the steaks the stage. I mean,
Speaker 2: it was disgusting. I don't know how he can.
Speaker 1: I I Eric Wasterson. I am kind of for a
Speaker 1: good slow roll at certain times, you know, like kind
Speaker 1: of like a home game with your buddies, a live
Speaker 1: stream cash game, that sort of stuff. Yeah, this to
Speaker 1: me crossed the line. Its like, not not like he's
Speaker 1: he's necessarily breaking any rules, but in terms of like
Speaker 1: crossing the line as when when are you considered like
Speaker 1: the ultimate dick? This is this? Was it like this
Speaker 1: he went over the line. From all accounts from the
Speaker 1: people that I've talked to, it was with purpose. Okay,
Speaker 1: like they had some beef going back whatever, Okay, I
Speaker 1: get it. But like I mean, come on, I mean
Speaker 1: come on, like this was ouch. I mean, I you know,
Speaker 1: come on. So yeah, that was that was something and
Speaker 1: if you watched. He later appeared on Venetian Poker Live
Speaker 1: and they started talking about it, and he said God
Speaker 1: slow rolled him like basically that like because of the
Speaker 1: past stuff that they might have had, which I thinks
Speaker 1: them back to the summer, that it was like the
Speaker 1: poker gods giving it back to him, giving it back
Speaker 1: to Benny Glauser. So therefore God slow rolled him like oh,
Speaker 1: I mean okay, like I mean, this was this was absurd.
Speaker 1: Like I I felt so bad when I watched that happen. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, how could you not feel so bad? I
Speaker 1: was like holy shit, I mean like really on that
Speaker 1: stage in that moment, like okay, you want to do
Speaker 1: it like level two, I mean okay, like I get it.
Speaker 1: I would probably say that it would probably not have
Speaker 1: been that bad, like if it was a stone bubble
Speaker 1: and you did it to him, because you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: I understand, like it's a stone bubble. It hurts, and
Speaker 1: it's like a difference of you know, zero or fifty
Speaker 1: K or maybe seventy five K if you had the
Speaker 1: bonuses or whatever, like I get it, but like this
Speaker 1: was the final table bubble or whatever. That was holy shit, man,
Speaker 1: like what good? God? Like, Yeah, it's like if somebody
Speaker 1: told if you were to tell me that you were
Speaker 1: gonna if you were planning to do this, I'd be like,
Speaker 1: that's fucking hilarious. Don't you dare fucking do that. You know,
Speaker 1: it's one of those things.
Speaker 2: I love a good slow roll. I will do it
Speaker 2: all the time when I can, when I'm playing low
Speaker 2: Stags cash for the Friends.
Speaker 1: This is.
Speaker 2: Just an insane spot to do it. And then let's
Speaker 2: also not forget that for for Benny, there's also another
Speaker 2: hundred k for just making that final table with the
Speaker 2: with the w SP parla. So you are slow rolled.
Speaker 2: He you know, missed the next page jump and you
Speaker 2: miss out on one hundred K bonus. It's just a
Speaker 2: whole world of you know, hell, but hey, but yeah
Speaker 2: and but yeah, but he won three bracelets at the
Speaker 2: World Series Vegas. He's fine.
Speaker 1: If Benny punched him after that happened, I would have
Speaker 1: been like, yeah, that was deserved. What he would never
Speaker 1: I know he would never. But like if there was
Speaker 1: a time when like you'd be like, yeah, that guy
Speaker 1: deserved to get punched for what he did. I'd probably
Speaker 1: be like, yeah, that one's that one qualifies.
Speaker 2: It definitely qualifies.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like if he punched him, like, what are you
Speaker 1: gonna do? Like you're like listen, yeah, that yeah, Okay,
Speaker 1: that was the most dickkest thing you could do. I mean,
Speaker 1: good God, like, man, that was something. All right. Last
Speaker 1: award here the Face of the Year award. So this
Speaker 1: award goes to the player who defined the year, in
Speaker 1: this case twenty twenty five, so looking ahead, you know, five, ten, fifteen,
Speaker 1: twenty five years down the road. You know, we often
Speaker 1: do this all the time, like, hey, remember when this
Speaker 1: happened in that year? So what is who is the
Speaker 1: face of the Year for twenty twenty five?
Speaker 2: I mean, I think it's obviously Michael Mrochi. I'm trying
Speaker 2: to think if as a if it's a second person,
Speaker 2: I could call it.
Speaker 1: Like the Grinder, Miss Rocky, like sorry, yeah, but to
Speaker 1: Benny Glasser for the for the three racelets and not
Speaker 1: winning Player of the Year and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 1: But I mean it's Michael the grind. Name is Rocky's year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm trying to I'm trying to think of the
Speaker 2: top of my head if I think of someone else.
Speaker 1: No, there is there's It's not like, who else are
Speaker 1: you gonna think of?
Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm going down the rabbit hall of
Speaker 2: content creatives and looking. I'm looking so far outside of
Speaker 2: the box if I can.
Speaker 1: I mean, Martin Cabrell kind of comes to mind, just
Speaker 1: because like everyone will remember remember that, like that year
Speaker 1: when he was so crazy, but he's also had another
Speaker 1: year like that where he's also been kind of crazy.
Speaker 1: You know, it wasn't as long and has drawn out.
Speaker 1: It was more center ground, like one specific event. But still,
Speaker 1: you know, I would say, by far, Michael, the grind
Speaker 1: name is.
Speaker 2: Rocky, Okay, Let's okay, sew let's I think everyone's not
Speaker 2: going to argue with that. Let's just like, let's just
Speaker 2: add a little spice to the award Club WPT gold.
Speaker 2: And what I'm saying with that is is specific quickly
Speaker 2: everything kind of went on at the WSP. You know,
Speaker 2: we're talking about the the big gold checks for a
Speaker 2: million dollars, the whole if you get if anyone ever
Speaker 2: remembers the millionaire make a controversy between James Carroll and
Speaker 2: Jesse Aga Numa with the very weird, unlucky heads up
Speaker 2: match for one of them. You know, you could say, hey,
Speaker 2: this was that was a pretty big defining moment that's
Speaker 2: kind of carried through the year. And when I say
Speaker 2: carried through, we see a lot of you know, if
Speaker 2: you're in the in the X streets, the Twitter streets,
Speaker 2: you see a lot of you know, we'd still say
Speaker 2: a little beef between both sides. It's fantastic, to be honest, sitting.
Speaker 1: On the sideline, he has more one sided. Yes, I
Speaker 1: feel like I'm constantly seeing the WPT side club constantly
Speaker 1: taking shots of Now. I don't know if that's because
Speaker 1: behind closed doors, WSP is actively saying let's not do this,
Speaker 1: or if if they're just not doing it, because I
Speaker 1: don't know, they don't have Like I know that WPT
Speaker 1: basically has a social media team. I don't think the
Speaker 1: WSP does, you know, like they kind of put stuff
Speaker 1: together for their put stuff together for their events, but
Speaker 1: it's also like not with this goal. It's with the
Speaker 1: goal of like covering their events and getting that sort
Speaker 1: of content out there.
Speaker 2: So I think a lot of people also are standing
Speaker 2: up and kind of speaking for w too. So it
Speaker 2: might not be coming directly from you know, the accounts, but.
Speaker 1: It would be so easy if you were w s
Speaker 1: AP to just dump on the WPT side. And so,
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess kudos to them for being the
Speaker 1: bigger person in this fight and not getting into this
Speaker 1: war in the mud. But yeah, like because you could,
Speaker 1: you could easily just take shots right back and basically
Speaker 1: bury exactly. So I don't I don't really unders stand
Speaker 1: the whole fight from the from like club WPD and
Speaker 1: WPT side. I mean, I don't. I don't know. Maybe
Speaker 1: the numbers on the back end bear out differently, but
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't see how taking that sort
Speaker 1: of strategy then translates to conversions for your website.
Speaker 2: I think it's just getting the attention. You're getting the
Speaker 2: clicks and maybe at the end of the day, obviously
Speaker 2: we can't speak for them, but that's maybe what they want.
Speaker 1: That intent, that attention, and those clicks need to convert,
Speaker 1: like that's the.
Speaker 2: Thing converts to trafficing eyeballs.
Speaker 1: Doesn't really Okay, that's that's what I want. Yeah, I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: I personally just don't see it like you know, but
Speaker 1: then on the other side, you know, you know what
Speaker 1: I do see, I see they hit a freaking seventy
Speaker 1: million dollar price pool. I see they got ten million
Speaker 1: dollars in first place, where your event in the same
Speaker 1: month dropped by a lot.
Speaker 2: You know, I see that we could pick a pot,
Speaker 2: that we could pick a pot the seventy million dollar
Speaker 2: price but if we really wanted to.
Speaker 1: Okay, but on the surface, that event one December, Yeah,
Speaker 1: and the event if you were to pick a winner
Speaker 1: from if you were to pick a winner from each series,
Speaker 1: so a winner from the WSP Paradise Series and a
Speaker 1: winner from the wt World Championship Series. For the WSP,
Speaker 1: it's the super main event, okay. For the WPT, it's
Speaker 1: the Prime Championship, which is not the crowning event of
Speaker 1: that series and that tour and that brand, right, which
Speaker 1: is that's like interesting to me? Yeah, I mean that
Speaker 1: Prime Championship again, it's it's the second best event to
Speaker 1: play in the world. I highly encourage everyone to play it.
Speaker 1: It's easier to play than the main event because it's
Speaker 1: one tenth to buy in. That event is freaking sick.
Speaker 1: It's awesome, Okay, But like that's the best event, in
Speaker 1: my opinion, out of that series. When shouldn't it be
Speaker 1: the WPT World Championship.
Speaker 2: Sure, yeah, but.
Speaker 1: This is what I'm getting.
Speaker 2: I get I get it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know. Yeah. Anyway, let's move on year end
Speaker 1: host recap, sir, let's go, oh god, I saw you
Speaker 1: posted some stuff on social media.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I kind of looked at it quickly. I tried to
Speaker 1: come up with some joke, take a shot at you,
Speaker 1: bring it on, similar to like Club WPT, but I
Speaker 1: couldn't do it.
Speaker 2: I'm open to all jugs.
Speaker 1: So here, I am here, we are. You go first,
Speaker 1: you give me your your your results for the year and.
Speaker 2: The results first.
Speaker 1: Okay, results, we're gonna okay, yeah, talk about your results
Speaker 1: and then talk.
Speaker 2: About it without god, we should do adohol review.
Speaker 1: Your results and then if you achieved your goals from
Speaker 1: last year, and we'll get into the goals for next year.
Speaker 2: All right. Surprisingly played more tournaments than you. I did
Speaker 2: not think that was going to happen. But thirty four entries,
Speaker 2: thirty one k buyings, average buying nine hundred bucks, had
Speaker 2: nine cashes more entries.
Speaker 1: Buddy, When somebody is stuck in the WSM man event
Speaker 1: for eighteen days.
Speaker 2: I didn't play anything off. I busted the WSLP main
Speaker 2: event nine cashes a cash A forty one K, so
Speaker 2: I made ninety two hundred bucks in profit. I play
Speaker 2: some cash games. You don't play twenty sessions. That's pretty
Speaker 2: much nothing. One one thousand dollars did you play? Maybe
Speaker 2: like when we're in Texas, I'll play like the mixed
Speaker 2: games with the dealers, or when like Rubbis Shazinski has
Speaker 2: his mixgame festival and normally come make an appearance or two.
Speaker 2: Outside of that, really nothing. My cash games are nearly
Speaker 2: purely or mixed, and it's just more for fun and
Speaker 2: so we're playing small stakes. So yeah, I'm not at
Speaker 2: all focused on any cash games anymore. So overall one
Speaker 2: basically ten point three K. I don't really track my
Speaker 2: online results like you do. I did win five hundred
Speaker 2: bucks on Club WPT, dumped about eight hundred dollars on
Speaker 2: WSP chasing those one hundred and sixty dollars main event flips.
Speaker 2: Anyone goes looks at my shark shark scope, you'll see
Speaker 2: a massive decline from those because my average buying is
Speaker 2: like eight dollars on WSP so they were my results.
Speaker 2: I played probably more than I thought, mainly because I
Speaker 2: started the year. I ended twenty twenty four decently and
Speaker 2: I kind of started the year pretty good. And then
Speaker 2: obviously the main event cash was kind of gave me
Speaker 2: that freedom to play a little bit more than I thought.
Speaker 2: As for my twenty twenty five goals, I had, What
Speaker 2: did I have? I had?
Speaker 1: I had?
Speaker 2: My note was they could all be achieved in one event,
Speaker 2: all right. It was surpass my old my first ever
Speaker 2: buss Heath chick in lifetime tournament earnings, I only trailed
Speaker 2: by seventy bucks. Knocked off that pretty quick play the
Speaker 2: WSP main event tick that box cash in a WSP
Speaker 2: and main event. I had a twenty three event cold
Speaker 2: streak that didn't include online or dailies or media free rolls,
Speaker 2: any of that rubbish, but pure bracelet of Vents Live
Speaker 2: did that when I catched the mate and I cashed
Speaker 2: for five digits. Obviously, when you catch the may and
Speaker 2: that's you know, five digits cash a five digits in
Speaker 2: the calendar. Last time I did that was twenty thirteen.
Speaker 2: Took obviously quite a few years off when I was
Speaker 2: working and stuff, But yeah, so I achieved all my goals.
Speaker 2: I was pretty kind of happy, you know, happy about.
Speaker 1: That, all right. I got thirty three entries live, three
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty four entries online total buyans live forty
Speaker 1: four hundred and twenty dollars fourteen hundred and sixty seven dollars.
Speaker 1: Average buy in had seven cashes. I cashed for a
Speaker 1: total of just over seventy six k, so I was
Speaker 1: up twenty seven seven hundred dollars live and then online,
Speaker 1: where I had the three hundred and fifty four entries,
Speaker 1: total buyans were just over twenty four thousand, sixty eight dollars.
Speaker 1: Average buy in fifty nine cashes, which is only sixteen
Speaker 1: points sixty seven percent. That's pretty shitty. Total cashes there
Speaker 1: sixteen four hundred so negative on the online tournament front
Speaker 1: negative seven six d and twenty So overall, I finished
Speaker 1: up twenty thousand and eighty two dollars decent year. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm happy with it. So yeah, my goals were to
Speaker 1: just fix shit and continue to improve my game, fix
Speaker 1: things to get better. I definitely achieved that. I got
Speaker 1: a lot better. I fixed a lot of stuff. I
Speaker 1: studied harder than I ever had in that same vein,
Speaker 1: I had a lot of things I still need to
Speaker 1: work on, and I've still cost myself in some big spots,
Speaker 1: most recently in the WPT Prime Championship when I fucked
Speaker 1: it up royally at the end, so I need to
Speaker 1: improve that. I also said that I wanted to win
Speaker 1: a trophy MTT, so like a ring of bracelet, you
Speaker 1: know whatever, a Venetian Lion, the wind trophy, et cetera.
Speaker 1: Didn't do that new career best live score. I did
Speaker 1: achieve that WSTWE Main Events five figure MTT score and
Speaker 1: a buy and of fifteen hundred dollars or less. I
Speaker 1: didn't do that. I would have done it had I
Speaker 1: not fucked up the Prime Championship, but I fucked up
Speaker 1: the Prime Championship, so I didn't do that. And then
Speaker 1: something I realized before we get into our goals for
Speaker 1: next year, but you know, these are kind of are
Speaker 1: kind of all results oriented goals other than the first one,
Speaker 1: which is to fix stuff, and I don't really like
Speaker 1: that process. So I'm taking a bit of a different
Speaker 1: approach to my goals going forward. And I guess we'll
Speaker 1: talk about that next. You can go first and give
Speaker 1: me your goals for your poker goals for twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm like, yo, it's mine at all results. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I knocked off Heath Chick Lasia. I'm going for someone new,
Speaker 2: a new target, putting him on the back podcast listen
Speaker 2: Paul Berman. I trial him by eleven K. He doesn't
Speaker 2: play much, but he comes to the Wood Series. He
Speaker 2: plays a lot in the series, so I need to
Speaker 2: really get him by World Series. So surpassed Paul Berman
Speaker 2: in lifetime tournament earnings. I really want a final table,
Speaker 2: a multi flight event close as I've had. I finished
Speaker 2: thirteenth in a Venetian three hundred months a stack, so yeah,
Speaker 2: I really just want to hit try and get to
Speaker 2: that final table. Now, this guy is probably a little
Speaker 2: bit more tougher with kind of you know, I probably
Speaker 2: can achieve it if I do the other one. But
Speaker 2: I basically want to profit more than thirte four hundred
Speaker 2: and fifty dollars in one event. The reason that number
Speaker 2: is because back in twenty eleven, I finished second in
Speaker 2: a fifty dollars accumulator for thirteen thousand, five hundred. Now
Speaker 2: I remember this event pretty specifically. Actually did a heads
Speaker 2: up deal with my friend. We chopped the money evenly
Speaker 2: played for the trophy. I kind of remember what the
Speaker 2: number is doesn't really matter, But on the handed mob,
Speaker 2: I just want to profit for more than thirteen four
Speaker 2: point fifty. And then a kind of a non poker
Speaker 2: playing goal is just I have some poker side projects
Speaker 2: we're working on. I just want to put some energy
Speaker 2: of that make sure we I can kind of like
Speaker 2: kick them off in a good spot. But yeah, slightly
Speaker 2: different goals to last year. I would say that the
Speaker 2: profit one is probably you know, I might miss that one.
Speaker 2: Hopefully the other two I can kind of tick off
Speaker 2: the other three. Actually, I'm kinda say I don't really
Speaker 2: have big plans to change my kind of volume. I
Speaker 2: just kind of I think both of us are very
Speaker 2: very limited to our time, and we kind of have
Speaker 2: to play according to what our work schedule brings, so
Speaker 2: you know, that's always going to dictate what we can play. Like,
Speaker 2: you know, we have events on the PGT coming up
Speaker 2: in January that overlaps pretty decent events here in Vegas,
Speaker 2: so that's kind of a bummer that will miss those,
Speaker 2: But hey, you know, works more important than poker until
Speaker 2: we you know, win a couple million dollars.
Speaker 1: I guess that's right. So my my approach this year
Speaker 1: is going to be process oriented goals over results oriented goals.
Speaker 1: Started I don't know, I don't know even know how
Speaker 1: I dove into it. I think I found something on
Speaker 1: social media or something came into my algorithm about how
Speaker 1: there's been these studies on if you set your goals
Speaker 1: based on the process versus the results, they ultimately come
Speaker 1: out better, which makes a lot of sense. So I
Speaker 1: just put together a bunch of process goals and then
Speaker 1: hopefully as a result of those processes, if I hit
Speaker 1: those goals, then then it will lead to results. First,
Speaker 1: one study on my own for four hundred hours, at
Speaker 1: least four hundred hours, So I mean, I probably won't
Speaker 1: study every single day just because I need a break
Speaker 1: here and there. But if I were to study every
Speaker 1: single day this three hundred and sixty five days in
Speaker 1: the year, it's a little bit over an hour each day,
Speaker 1: you know, But we'll see how things go. Like yesterday,
Speaker 1: I studied for three and a half hours, you know,
Speaker 1: and and hopefully I just stack those and continue to
Speaker 1: improve on that. If I do study for four hundred
Speaker 1: hours this year, will be the most I've ever studied
Speaker 1: by a long shot. So you know, hopefully that leads
Speaker 1: to two bigger things. I don't just want to include
Speaker 1: individual study into my goals. I do want to start
Speaker 1: working with the poker coach for at least fifty hours
Speaker 1: over the course of the year. So maybe that's once
Speaker 1: a week for an hour, you know, whatever it may be.
Speaker 2: But you have someone in mind, or that's just like
Speaker 2: I just want to get a coach eventually.
Speaker 1: No, I mean I work with someone already. I work
Speaker 1: with Tristan Wade. You know, he he's a good friend
Speaker 1: of mine, so it helps that he's been a poker
Speaker 1: coach for a while. I mean I like that, you know,
Speaker 1: like I don't necessarily think it's you should just go
Speaker 1: out there and like try and get the coach that
Speaker 1: has the best results, because not all those people can
Speaker 1: ultimately coach. Well. I mean, I like the way that
Speaker 1: Tristan coaches and talks to me, And I mean we
Speaker 1: have a good relationship anyway, We're good friends. We've been
Speaker 1: friends for a while. But you know, he'll just fucking
Speaker 1: tell me I'm an idiot, like, which is good because
Speaker 1: you need to hear that and he's he's coached for
Speaker 1: a while, so he has like those systems in place,
Speaker 1: so you know that that's what I'm using right now.
Speaker 1: Maybe that changes, maybe it doesn't, whatever, it doesn't matter,
Speaker 1: but either way, I think it's just good to and
Speaker 1: maybe it's not a poker coach. Maybe you just set
Speaker 1: aside time, you know, for those listening out there to
Speaker 1: talk with friends about stuff, because it's just good to
Speaker 1: hear an outside perspective on your play and stuff and
Speaker 1: just not be like, yeah, like I'm doing this, this
Speaker 1: is what my study says, but like, what am I missing,
Speaker 1: what's not working whatever. It's always good to get a
Speaker 1: second set of eyeballs on things to possibly improve. Drill
Speaker 1: fifty thousand hands on gto Wizard, which is a good amount,
Speaker 1: you know, I would like to do that. So it
Speaker 1: I mean, in a lot of ways, it's basically like
Speaker 1: playing poker, but you're just not putting up any sort
Speaker 1: of money and you get that real time feedback. You
Speaker 1: get to study the spots after, so you know that
Speaker 1: will I mean, that's going to kind of be rolled
Speaker 1: into where I say, the study on my own for
Speaker 1: four hundred hours. Part of that's going to be just
Speaker 1: drilling hands and studying those hands. But I still want
Speaker 1: to be able to put in that volume of hands
Speaker 1: on gto Wizard and listen, you can you don't have
Speaker 1: to use eto Wizard. You can use whatever you want.
Speaker 1: But that's what I do. And then I got to
Speaker 1: get out there and play, because you know, the best
Speaker 1: way to get better is to get out there and
Speaker 1: actually experience it. Put yourself in that arena, try the
Speaker 1: stuff that you're learning, try new things, all that sort
Speaker 1: of stuff. So play fifty live MTTs, which is kind
Speaker 1: of just play fifty live MTT entries, I think, because
Speaker 1: each entry is like a new tournament basically, and then
Speaker 1: play five hundred online MTT entries. I played thirty three
Speaker 1: live and three hundred and fifty four entries online last year.
Speaker 1: So I need to uptick that my online play will
Speaker 1: be very predominantly just on Sundays. Put in a high
Speaker 1: volume online on Sundays, and then I'll dabble in various
Speaker 1: stuff around town here in the other stuff. So yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll see how I go. And then hopefully, if I
Speaker 1: can do all this stuff, it leads to good results
Speaker 1: and it leads to me winning a fucking trophy and
Speaker 1: having the best year I've had and blah blah blah,
Speaker 1: all that sort of stuff that comes with it. So yeah,
Speaker 1: and even if it doesn't, I mean, maybe everything all
Speaker 1: the time and effort that I put in studying this
Speaker 1: year and all this work pays dividends in twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 1: I don't know, you know. So I just got to
Speaker 1: put in the work and I got to continue to
Speaker 1: put in the work. So and I do think it's
Speaker 1: fun to put in the work. I enjoy it. So yeah,
Speaker 1: just gonna try try my best see what happens, hopefully
Speaker 1: not fuck it up like.
Speaker 2: I didn't that was just.
Speaker 1: Gonna eat me for like literally a year, probably, So
Speaker 1: what are you gonna do? Last thing? Here? As we
Speaker 1: are now what an hour and thirty seven minutes on
Speaker 1: this podcast, So shout out to everyone who's listening. Producer
Speaker 1: rich Ryan's probably gonna shoot me. But I got a list.
Speaker 1: I got a list of things that I want to
Speaker 1: see happen in twenty twenty six in poker. There was
Speaker 1: no particular order to my list. It's just stuff I've
Speaker 1: kind of been writing down in a in the notepad
Speaker 1: on my phone that I would like to see happen.
Speaker 1: So if you're out there listening and you have any
Speaker 1: sort of influence on making these things happen, I think
Speaker 1: you should try and do that because selfishly, I think
Speaker 1: they're the best ideas, and Tim, you can just tell
Speaker 1: me if they're good or bad. Okay, okay, you have
Speaker 1: no idea what's coming? By the way, Nope, the listeners
Speaker 1: out there, first thing, bet'am Jim Poker, Can you guys
Speaker 1: get your ass in Nevada for like, well, let's go.
Speaker 1: You know, you know, I know we obviously have friends
Speaker 1: at at MGM at Aria and they've you know, they're
Speaker 1: saying that it's coming, and we've heard that it's coming.
Speaker 1: You know, we heard that it was coming at the
Speaker 1: end of twenty twenty five. You know, it didn't come
Speaker 1: by the end of twenty twenty five. Is it going
Speaker 1: to come by the end of twenty twenty six? Like?
Speaker 1: Can we make this happen? Especially now with all the
Speaker 1: interstate pooling that is available? You know, part of it
Speaker 1: is it seems like the BETEMGM poker online product is
Speaker 1: pretty awesome from everything that you see out there. They
Speaker 1: have a lot of qualifiers into the events. You know,
Speaker 1: that's happening at Borgata, that's happening in Maryland. Even they
Speaker 1: qualify a lot of people from you know, New Jersey
Speaker 1: and wherever into stuff here in Vegas. So having that
Speaker 1: sort of access to online qualifiers being here in Nevada,
Speaker 1: I think would be great. Also, I just I want
Speaker 1: the competition aspect of things. You know, WSP dot com
Speaker 1: is good, but can we get another person in there
Speaker 1: to have that competition to give us more options? Right? Like?
Speaker 1: I just you know, I want Betam Jim Poker to
Speaker 1: come to Nevada. So let's go. If you guys are listening,
Speaker 1: can we just make it happen. Number two again, no
Speaker 1: particular order here. Dinner breaks they got to go in
Speaker 1: ninety eight percent of tournaments. They just absolutely have have
Speaker 1: have to go. See you later. Get rid of these
Speaker 1: freaking dinner breeks. Okay, if the tournament, if the tournament
Speaker 1: doesn't have a buy in that is greater than three
Speaker 1: thousand dollars, you should be disqualified from having dinner breaks.
Speaker 1: I don't care. Get rid of them.
Speaker 2: I agree with that. I think there's some you know,
Speaker 2: some one thousand buy ins of fifteen hundred buyings that
Speaker 2: kind of dinner breaks.
Speaker 1: No stop, I said, some you don't need it, especially
Speaker 1: in the places where you can order food to the table,
Speaker 1: people can bring their own food. All that's just stop
Speaker 1: with the dinner breaks. We don't need dinner breaks. We
Speaker 1: don't home earlier. Yeah, like get out of here, okay.
Speaker 1: And kind of in line with that in terms of
Speaker 1: like I don't know, altering structures or whatever. Best star
Speaker 1: time is eleven am. That's what I think. I think
Speaker 1: the best start time is eleven am. I know some
Speaker 1: people out there said ten am. I know, I think
Speaker 1: Bay one on one does nine am. I I think
Speaker 1: that shit's a little bit too early. I like, I mean,
Speaker 1: selfishly speaking, I like a couple hours in the morning
Speaker 1: to be able to take care of some work stuff,
Speaker 1: get the kids to school, et cetera, like do that
Speaker 1: sort of stuff, and then go play. But I also
Speaker 1: think that like starting at noon, starting at one play
Speaker 1: until midnight or later is ridiculous as well. So I
Speaker 1: like eleven am. I think it's a good compromise for everyone.
Speaker 1: It's not that early. You know, you can still stroll
Speaker 1: in at twelve or one if you want to come
Speaker 1: a little bit late. So I think eleven am should
Speaker 1: kind of be across the board. Also sticking in line
Speaker 1: with the structure sheet sort of stuff here, the close
Speaker 1: of registration in a poker tournament should be a posted time,
Speaker 1: not end of level X or beginning of level X,
Speaker 1: and it should be posted on the structure sheet. Okay,
Speaker 1: So for the organizers out there, yourself included, mister commissioner,
Speaker 1: figure out Okay, we're going to close it at the
Speaker 1: end of level six, right, figure out what time that is.
Speaker 1: If everything runs on time, add ten minutes and put
Speaker 1: it on the structure sheet.
Speaker 2: Okay, you can't add ten minutes. Yeah, add time because
Speaker 2: the problem with that is we already had issues that
Speaker 2: if everything runs on time and it's a slide a
Speaker 2: level nine, well now is you ten minutes into level nine? No,
Speaker 2: that's why you put That's why you put the level,
Speaker 2: because the level is a fixated.
Speaker 1: That last break. You add that time no matter what
Speaker 1: you make it so it lines up with whatever time
Speaker 1: you put it on the structure. So if you say, listen,
Speaker 1: registration closes at five pm, then if you go on,
Speaker 1: if you go on a schedule twenty minute break at
Speaker 1: four thirty, well that you make that break thirty minutes Okay.
Speaker 2: I get what you're saying. That's yeah. I think that's fine.
Speaker 1: Just so that people can look at a structure sheet
Speaker 1: and they can say, okay, registration closes at five o'clock,
Speaker 1: registaing curs at five forty five, whatever it is. You
Speaker 1: can set a time or on your phone. Okay, I
Speaker 1: need to leave my house at five twenty five to
Speaker 1: get there, to get there for this time?
Speaker 2: Like it suttinly do we actually do do? Though? Except
Speaker 2: for that one structure sheet you pointed out that I
Speaker 2: didn't put it on, which is super i rollable.
Speaker 1: It should just be a time. Just put a freaking time.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: It's just people need to do all the math. I
Speaker 1: just need to stop asking you, Hey, what time does
Speaker 1: registration close? End of level nine? What freaking time is that? Okay?
Speaker 1: Did we start on time today? Did we not start
Speaker 1: on time today? Like? Can we just put a time? Please? Okay,
Speaker 1: put a time and then it can go in all
Speaker 1: the structure sheets. It can be out there. Everyone just knows. Okay.
Speaker 1: Another thing, I think that Venues should move to an
Speaker 1: eight handed format for big tournament series. Now. I understand
Speaker 1: that not everyone can do that. Not everyone is willing
Speaker 1: to do that, et cetera. But what I will say
Speaker 1: is that whoever does this first, I believe is going
Speaker 1: to win, like in terms of like getting bigger fields,
Speaker 1: being a better place to play, all that sort of stuff,
Speaker 1: getting the love from the playing community, like if the
Speaker 1: if the win or the Venetian here in Vegas for
Speaker 1: their series, or to be like, listen, it's eight handed
Speaker 1: from the start. And I understand when you do stuff
Speaker 1: like the large fields, you know you have to account
Speaker 1: for more tables, space, dealers, whatever. You know, you can
Speaker 1: solve that issue. Okay, open some more ballroom space, some
Speaker 1: more tables, get some more dealers, add an extra starting flight,
Speaker 1: whatever the heck it is. Figure it out. But the
Speaker 1: venue that I think makes it more comfortable for players
Speaker 1: to play at a table, I think is going to win.
Speaker 1: And I will also say that people might give me, Okay,
Speaker 1: I need to open more tables, that's more dealer money whatever. Okay,
Speaker 1: eight handed goes faster, I think players will then buy
Speaker 1: in more and you'll make it up at least somewhat
Speaker 1: in rate. So I think it's fine. So I think
Speaker 1: the first I think the first venue that does that
Speaker 1: is going to win. And like be be ahead of
Speaker 1: everyone else. You know, it's gonna be one of those
Speaker 1: things where like, yeah, but over here they play eight
Speaker 1: handed from the start, and that's gonna be like something
Speaker 1: that everyone talks about. Like, so that's a change that
Speaker 1: if if I was an operator, if I was a venue,
Speaker 1: I would be trying to implement. Okay, another one. Table
Speaker 1: breaking should be one hundred percent random at all times,
Speaker 1: all times. And you know what that would do all
Speaker 1: these people who look at the tournament clock and say, okay,
Speaker 1: breaking order twenty one, blah blah blah whatever, and then
Speaker 1: your asses start Yeah we're not on a video for
Speaker 1: this podcast, but Tim pointing at himself. Your asses starts stalling.
Speaker 2: Yeah you know.
Speaker 1: Or you see all the tables breaking in the road,
Speaker 1: you're like, oh, we're next. You start stalling so you
Speaker 1: don't have to pay a blind Yeah, screw you. Okay,
Speaker 1: every single tournament table break is random. End of story.
Speaker 1: I don't care if there's ten thousand people in the field.
Speaker 1: I don't care if there's ten people in the field.
Speaker 2: Okay, we'll happen. Okayny Logistics and Deala pushes like what
Speaker 2: is he now? The dealer is just out like there's
Speaker 2: all those kind of like dilemmas that figuring it out okay,
Speaker 2: throws the dealer breaks out like it's a mess.
Speaker 1: You figure it, like, just figure it out. It's just ridiculous.
Speaker 2: I would say that would be a like a good
Speaker 2: rule once in the money.
Speaker 1: Just make it random from the start, Okay, Like I'm
Speaker 1: done with the stalling crap.
Speaker 2: But hypothetically you're doing the one K prime WPT. You
Speaker 2: got tables on the poker room and tables in the thing.
Speaker 2: He's gonna break randomly in both break from one room
Speaker 2: to the other, and then from there you break sections.
Speaker 1: Okay. I also think that this is another pet peeve
Speaker 1: of mine. But when these these places that that now
Speaker 1: that these tournaments are so big. You see it at
Speaker 1: the wind you see it at the WSP in the summer,
Speaker 1: when they like break from a room to a room
Speaker 1: like that, that is just that is entirely not needed,
Speaker 1: Like just play even if it's the same flight, Just
Speaker 1: play it in that room down Like why do you
Speaker 1: need to move from a ballroom four hundred yards away
Speaker 1: walk eight minutes with chips in an actual ziploc bag
Speaker 1: to another tournament? Like I don't understand.
Speaker 2: That's where I think WSP does it best where they
Speaker 2: do the staggered clock, and then.
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, that's what I would say. They they
Speaker 1: have a better option to play it in both rooms
Speaker 1: because both rooms are so big. Like at the WIN
Speaker 1: you have those secondary rooms that are a bit smaller,
Speaker 1: so it might get a little weird. But the WSP
Speaker 1: you have those two insanely big rooms or three insanely
Speaker 1: big rooms. Right, you could just play within the rooms
Speaker 1: like you don't need to play like on all these
Speaker 1: other sides you mentioned breaks. Another thing, if if alive
Speaker 1: and I saw this at the Win a couple of
Speaker 1: times it happened. If a live series ever has synchronized
Speaker 1: breaks that line up with one another, you should be fined.
Speaker 1: Like it should just not be allowed online. Everything needs
Speaker 1: to be synchronized fifty five minutes at the hour boom
Speaker 1: live never synchronized, always staggered always. There's only so much
Speaker 1: bathroom space, so much hallway space, all this sort of stuff,
Speaker 1: like we should never ever ever have multiple tournaments going
Speaker 1: on break at the same time. You should just not.
Speaker 1: And if it's if it just so happens that like
Speaker 1: things end up getting moved, they start late one, they're
Speaker 1: gonna line up, say hey, guys, by the way, we're
Speaker 1: gonna play ten minutes into the next level and then
Speaker 1: we're gonna send you on break so we avoid the
Speaker 1: other shit. Like, just just make those changes. Okay, that
Speaker 1: needs to happen, all right, What else I got here?
Speaker 1: I got one more? Tournament clocks need to be paused
Speaker 1: or time needs to be given back during TV and
Speaker 1: stream all in moments that take up extra time, because
Speaker 1: that is ridiculous. And this is another argument why final
Speaker 1: table levels should be hands per level, not time per level. Buddy,
Speaker 1: some hands take an extra minute and a half to two.
Speaker 2: Minutes when you do the you when this it all in?
Speaker 1: Yeah, and they're waiting. I mean, listen, we work on
Speaker 1: the production side. We get it. You want to build
Speaker 1: the drama. I totally understand. Like I mean, listen, I
Speaker 1: like to build the drama aspect. But I think it
Speaker 1: would be pretty easy to just press pause and then
Speaker 1: press start, right, you know, just that people aren't losing
Speaker 1: all this time. Yeah, because it's ridiculous, especially when you
Speaker 1: know when you have streaming before final tables, because then
Speaker 1: you have one table that's playing on this this it's
Speaker 1: already slow because people are playing a little bit differently.
Speaker 1: They're playing a little bit tighter. Maybe they're nervous being
Speaker 1: on stream. They got to put make sure that they
Speaker 1: put their cards in the box, like this whole thing right.
Speaker 1: Then on top of it, the all ends are taking longer. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and even if it is just ten seconds longer per hand,
Speaker 1: you play one hundred hands, like that adds up. So
Speaker 1: like just add the time back, or pause the clock
Speaker 1: during the the all in moments or whatever, you know,
Speaker 1: or just run the damn cards out.
Speaker 2: I don't even care, like you know, running them out quickly.
Speaker 1: I mean we we I'll tell you that at you know,
Speaker 1: at Venetian Poker Live and when we were doing cash
Speaker 1: flow in those live stream cash games, we told them
Speaker 1: just don't don't do it like a tournament. Just go
Speaker 1: we'll figure out the action, we'll whatever. But like these
Speaker 1: guys want to get hands in now. The thing is
Speaker 1: that in a tournament the time is actually more important
Speaker 1: than a cash game. Cash game, the blind's going ups,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. But you know, the cash game players
Speaker 1: want to play fast, they want to move things along whatever.
Speaker 1: So but in a tournament, like you should totally give
Speaker 1: time back, like why can't. It's like in soccer when
Speaker 1: there's all this this time that the referee keeps and
Speaker 1: at the end of it it's like, okay, there's seven
Speaker 1: minutes of injury time, Like just add the time back
Speaker 1: or again, or just make all at the final table.
Speaker 1: It's hands per level, not time. That's also a very
Speaker 1: easy fix. I feel like, so those are my things
Speaker 1: that I would like to see happen, and I know
Speaker 1: you're on board for all of them. I know you're
Speaker 1: gonna put them all on the PGT structure sheets coming
Speaker 1: up for the next season. You know, I think we're in.
Speaker 2: I want to add one Yeah, go go right ahead.
Speaker 1: Oh but by the way, I want to add one more,
Speaker 1: one more because this this came up on social media
Speaker 1: the other day with David Baker tournament staff. When it's
Speaker 1: about to be a color this is this is this
Speaker 1: nothing nothing like sets me off more in a live
Speaker 1: poker tournament, and I don't really get set off. And
Speaker 1: this is a low, you know, very low down there
Speaker 1: set off. But when they come around with like twenty
Speaker 1: five minutes left in the level and they pass out
Speaker 1: racks to like the person who's the chip leader to
Speaker 1: start coloring up. It just creates an unneeded level of
Speaker 1: stupidity and slowness from everyone. It's like everyone kind of
Speaker 1: forgets what they're doing immediately. The person who gets the
Speaker 1: rack like thinks that they have to start coloring up,
Speaker 1: which is not true because you still got twenty five minutes. Okay.
Speaker 1: In the case that you do color up, then everyone's
Speaker 1: just making change for the next twenty minutes of the level,
Speaker 1: which is also annoying. Right. Then there's also times where
Speaker 1: like there's times in like let's say I got a rack,
Speaker 1: I gotta rack the other day of Venetian I was
Speaker 1: gonna color up. I put it, I put it behind
Speaker 1: my back in the chair, and I didn't do anything,
Speaker 1: and the dealer was like, you need to start coloring up.
Speaker 1: I'm like, no, there's eighteen minutes in a level. I
Speaker 1: do not need to start coloring up. And like the
Speaker 1: guy next to me was like ready to pass me
Speaker 1: as chips. I'm like, buddy, no, you're about to be
Speaker 1: in the big blind. Let's not do this right now.
Speaker 1: We'll do it, you know, four minutes before the break.
Speaker 1: I got it. It's fine, Like, but like everyone kind
Speaker 1: of like gets weird about it and then it ultimately
Speaker 1: slows everything down. So can we just like somehow fix this.
Speaker 1: I don't know exactly what to fix it, like, but
Speaker 1: just fix it. It's really annoying.
Speaker 2: I don't have the opportunity to do the color of
Speaker 2: that often, but when I do, I'm kind of half
Speaker 2: in with you. I don't ask anyone for chips.
Speaker 1: Just because like, like they give it to some people
Speaker 1: and you can tell some people are.
Speaker 2: Like I've done that. I've just taken it off them before.
Speaker 1: If it's me like, we'll just speed this process up
Speaker 1: and move on with our lives, I've I will.
Speaker 2: If someone gives me the chips like eighteen minutes out,
Speaker 2: I will call it on them up. But otherwise I'm
Speaker 2: not ever asking for chips until the last few minutes,
Speaker 2: like the lost handle to because yeah, we're gonna need
Speaker 2: those chips. It's we don't need to do it eighteen
Speaker 2: minutes ahead of time. But like, if someone starts selling me,
Speaker 2: I'll just buy them up. I don't really I don't
Speaker 2: care as much as ODB does or you, but I
Speaker 2: do think it is it does like when I've seen
Speaker 2: the amount of times you see you know, a four
Speaker 2: giver rack guys in a big hand and it just
Speaker 2: like throws them completely off. I guess that's a little
Speaker 2: bit on that person for not being out of concentrate
Speaker 2: as well.
Speaker 1: But like people playing big parts, people are passing chips
Speaker 1: across the table like in the middle of the big pot,
Speaker 1: and it's like, hey, can you just wait? Like some
Speaker 1: I know this isn't isn't allowed, you know, and I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna I don't have anyone to help specifically, but
Speaker 1: some dealers do it out of the pot, Like it's like,
Speaker 1: can we just stop with this? Like just stop? Yeah,
Speaker 1: So that's mine.
Speaker 2: I want to add. Can we try and convert more
Speaker 2: rooms to poker ols? That's all I want. I know
Speaker 2: it's more difficult than we think. There's contracts and there's
Speaker 2: lots of money involved. But like you know, especially during
Speaker 2: the sum the summer and the winter, you know, times
Speaker 2: I'm on poker outles looking at the wind or looking
Speaker 2: at VENETI and then I got to go to Bravo,
Speaker 2: which is although they did an updates, still a piece
Speaker 2: of poop and uh to find out what's going on
Speaker 2: in Ari or other places. Let's just let's just get
Speaker 2: pokeerrautles is better. Let's just get everyone on Parker out list,
Speaker 2: or alternatively get their own app like WSP.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean the first the first thing that people
Speaker 1: should do is, you know, get your own app like
Speaker 1: the WSP plus app. Now obviously that's that's something that
Speaker 1: a lot of people aren't gonna want to do just
Speaker 1: because it's costly and whatever, I get it. Second option,
Speaker 1: I agree with you, poker at list. Let's go like
Speaker 1: you know, it's been. It's just it's just better, it
Speaker 1: really is, you know, and listen, maybe the whole competition
Speaker 1: thing that we often talk about, whether it's live operators,
Speaker 1: online rooms, whatever it is, maybe the competition drives the
Speaker 1: Bravo product to get better. They have recently updated their app,
Speaker 1: you know, so maybe they are in terms of like
Speaker 1: trying to improve it. But yeah, I agree, poker alss
Speaker 1: right now is is so far ahead that everyone really
Speaker 1: just needs to use them. The old gripe that I
Speaker 1: have against poker Alice, they can use a little a
Speaker 1: little U I U X like upgrades. You know, it's
Speaker 1: a little bit kind of old there. And they got
Speaker 1: to add the last names.
Speaker 2: They got a name. Did you notice when you said
Speaker 2: that screenshot of Jeremy Becka winning the eleven hundred that
Speaker 2: he had a flag.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Some people have flags, some people don't. I don't
Speaker 1: really understand why that's how it.
Speaker 2: Is I want to do.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I was thinking like maybe, like maybe
Speaker 1: it's like if Jeremy like actually creating an account it's
Speaker 1: tied to his name and he put his location. I
Speaker 1: don't really know, but yeah, I'm looking him out. I
Speaker 1: think is great. You know. I like when they come
Speaker 1: over they break your table, they just give you that
Speaker 1: that seed. There's no like high card and stuff. It's
Speaker 1: just it's just you know, print it out and go.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I I like it. One thing I do
Speaker 1: think is a little bit funny with with poker Alice
Speaker 1: is because you have the the tablet is like built
Speaker 1: into the table, right, and some people, mainly the one
Speaker 1: seat in the nine set, can see the tablet and
Speaker 1: can see the names. Yeah.
Speaker 2: People.
Speaker 1: We had a guy the other day while I was
Speaker 1: at Venetian. He stood up like there was another hand
Speaker 1: going on, and he stands up. He's in the five seat.
Speaker 1: He leans over the table with his phone and takes
Speaker 1: a photo of the tablet. Okay, like to obviously get
Speaker 1: the names right because he can't see him and they're
Speaker 1: upside down from where he is, and I wanted to
Speaker 1: be like, okay, can we all have the photo, like,
Speaker 1: you know, like if you're gonna do that, can we
Speaker 1: all just have it? Can we all just share our names?
Speaker 1: Like how about that? How about we all just say like, hey,
Speaker 1: I'm Donnie Peters, go look me up. No big deal,
Speaker 1: Like it's like what are we doing here? So anyway,
Speaker 1: I do agree with you, though, Let's go Poker Outls.
Speaker 2: I'm looking at my Poker Outsis account, say I could
Speaker 2: add a flag and they have Poker Atleis bankroll so
Speaker 2: you can do tournament registration, payouts, purchase. Recently, there's only
Speaker 2: at two locations for.
Speaker 1: The Poker Atles event that have at Venetian in December
Speaker 1: and Remco and myself did commentary from we had John Friedberg,
Speaker 1: the owner, CEO whatever he is for Poker Atlas. He
Speaker 1: was saying that they are have this is like while
Speaker 1: we were doing the stream, this was like his quote
Speaker 1: unquote breaking news. But basically you're gonna there's like a
Speaker 1: Poker outless like wallet. Now you're gonna be able to
Speaker 1: like put money on there, buy into tournaments that way.
Speaker 1: You know that sort of thing, which is great. Another
Speaker 1: great upgrade. So you know another thing. I don't know
Speaker 1: if it's out yet. You're obviously seeing something like that
Speaker 1: right now in your poker outlics at But you know
Speaker 1: again another like good thing that's that's coming because if
Speaker 1: I don't have to carry a bunch of cash around
Speaker 1: all these different venues, I can just press buttons like
Speaker 1: that's that to me is great? Right, So yeah, another
Speaker 1: reason why I think that they're ultimately winning.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to not see what it asks for me
Speaker 2: social security pen. Okay, yeah, it's cool, definitely, you know,
Speaker 2: hopefilly that comes to Obviously coming to Vegas would be
Speaker 2: a bigger hurdle than the two locations in Texas because
Speaker 2: of all the Nevada gaming restrictions. But yeahs at least
Speaker 2: a step forward.
Speaker 1: Right, all right? You got anything else, sir?
Speaker 2: Another couple more days up straight in the Lost Chance
Speaker 2: straight into twenty twenty sixth season. I'm ready to get
Speaker 2: back to work, that's.
Speaker 1: Right, baby. So we got PGT Last Chance coming up
Speaker 1: January fifth through tenth. We have the PGT Championship coming
Speaker 1: up January twelfth through thirteenth, so that's on the docket
Speaker 1: and then we'll get into everything as we go throughout
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty sixth season. For Tim Duckworth. My name
Speaker 1: is Donnie Peters. Happy New Year everyone, don't forget to
Speaker 1: hit like and subscribe, share the podcast with all your friends,
Speaker 1: and uh yeah, we'll do that mailbag episode coming up
Speaker 1: sometime in the future. So podcast at PokerGO dot com
Speaker 1: is the email addressed that you can send in any
Speaker 1: questions and Tim and I will do our best to
Speaker 1: get to those in an episode in the future. But
Speaker 1: for now, we will talk to you guys later.
Speaker 2: Fell you night.
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