WEBVTT 1 00:00:10.800 --> 00:00:13.160 Hello everyone, Welcome back to a new episode of the 2 00:00:13.240 --> 00:00:16.920 Poker Go Podcast. My name is Donnie Peters. His name 3 00:00:17.120 --> 00:00:21.280 is Tim Duckworth. It is twenty twenty six. Happy ef 4 00:00:21.320 --> 00:00:25.000 in New year, Baby, Let's go all feels like the 5 00:00:25.039 --> 00:00:28.000 same to me. It's Friday, January second. Here it is 6 00:00:28.079 --> 00:00:33.359 one oh three pm, so little afternoon pod for the boys. 7 00:00:33.880 --> 00:00:37.280 We're gonna be talking about Super High roller Bowl because 8 00:00:37.280 --> 00:00:41.520 that wrapped up just before the Christmas holiday hit and 9 00:00:41.679 --> 00:00:44.320 everyone decided to, you know, take off and not pay 10 00:00:44.320 --> 00:00:47.719 attention to anything. PGT Last Chance is coming up, so 11 00:00:47.759 --> 00:00:49.759 Tim and I will dive into that. We also got 12 00:00:49.759 --> 00:00:53.759 to do our Fantasy Draft. I want to do some 13 00:00:53.799 --> 00:00:56.920 fun segments. We're gonna do our year end recap, of course, 14 00:00:57.119 --> 00:00:59.240 we got to do that, you know, talk about how 15 00:01:00.560 --> 00:01:04.040 much we either succeeded or failed in twenty twenty five, 16 00:01:04.239 --> 00:01:07.599 give our results, all that good stuff. I also want 17 00:01:07.599 --> 00:01:11.560 to do the most official, unofficial poker awards, you know, 18 00:01:11.640 --> 00:01:14.879 because it's RIP Global Poker Awards, So you know, I'm 19 00:01:14.879 --> 00:01:18.319 gonna do it my way, and that's just how it's 20 00:01:18.319 --> 00:01:20.159 going to be done. Tim shaking his head over there. 21 00:01:21.879 --> 00:01:24.599 And then I have a list. I'm the one bringing 22 00:01:24.599 --> 00:01:28.480 a list today. Okay, so we're just gonna have some 23 00:01:28.599 --> 00:01:31.280 fun with it as we wrap up twenty twenty five 24 00:01:31.319 --> 00:01:34.560 and kick off twenty twenty six. As always, if you 25 00:01:34.599 --> 00:01:38.120 are listening wherever you're listening to the Poker Grol Podcast, 26 00:01:38.200 --> 00:01:42.959 please please please favorite the show, leave a review, subscribe, 27 00:01:43.200 --> 00:01:45.239 whatever the heck you got to do to help the 28 00:01:45.280 --> 00:01:47.760 algorithm know that we do have listeners out there and 29 00:01:47.799 --> 00:01:51.920 they do enjoy our content. It really does help us grow. 30 00:01:52.439 --> 00:01:55.439 As always, feel free to email us at podcast at 31 00:01:55.439 --> 00:01:58.760 PokerGO dot com. I'm thinking that we should do a 32 00:01:58.760 --> 00:02:03.760 mailbag episode coming up. I was thinking, you know, maybe 33 00:02:03.799 --> 00:02:05.719 we should do it for this show, but then I 34 00:02:05.760 --> 00:02:08.039 was like, well I kind of thought about it late, 35 00:02:08.120 --> 00:02:10.560 didn't really get the word out whatever, but you know, 36 00:02:10.680 --> 00:02:12.759 kind of just some I mean, we did that one 37 00:02:12.879 --> 00:02:15.639 year for the WSP and it was it was the hit. 38 00:02:15.960 --> 00:02:17.479 You know, we had a ton of questions, we answered 39 00:02:17.479 --> 00:02:19.120 every single one, all that sort of stuff. So maybe 40 00:02:19.120 --> 00:02:21.800 we'll do another one just kind of like, I don't know, 41 00:02:22.639 --> 00:02:26.039 questions about twenty twenty five or upcoming for twenty twenty six. 42 00:02:26.120 --> 00:02:28.240 I don't know exactly, but you know, I think we 43 00:02:28.240 --> 00:02:31.919 were due for a mailbag episode. 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All right, now that I paid 84 00:04:37.759 --> 00:04:44.480 the bills, let's get into Super High rollerbl Jaosimo, the 85 00:04:44.519 --> 00:04:49.639 Brazilian Star, the freak Prussure Man. He wins Super High 86 00:04:49.759 --> 00:04:53.199 ROLLERBLE ten, Super High Rollable X. Every time I see 87 00:04:53.279 --> 00:04:56.600 super high Rollable X, I know the Roman numeral xes 88 00:04:56.600 --> 00:04:59.040 for ten, but I always put like x's when I 89 00:04:59.160 --> 00:05:02.040 in my documents after like fill in text later, so 90 00:05:02.079 --> 00:05:04.079 I'm like, oh am I forgetting to put something in there. 91 00:05:04.120 --> 00:05:06.040 But then I'm like, no, this is number ten. So 92 00:05:06.199 --> 00:05:10.199 Super High roll Role X twenty three entries. Jaosamou wins it. 93 00:05:10.199 --> 00:05:11.920 It was a freeze out. It was one hundred k 94 00:05:12.000 --> 00:05:16.439 buy in. He wins one point one million dollars. Another 95 00:05:17.360 --> 00:05:21.120 seven figure score for Jaosamau this year, which might be 96 00:05:21.160 --> 00:05:23.959 hard to realize because he has his Henden Mob hidden, 97 00:05:24.600 --> 00:05:28.000 but you can dig through some of the various platforms 98 00:05:28.000 --> 00:05:30.839 out there. We know the PGT stuff that he's done. 99 00:05:30.839 --> 00:05:34.480 Obviously WSAP stuff is out there as well, so you know, 100 00:05:34.600 --> 00:05:36.319 we'll kind of talk about his year in a second. 101 00:05:36.439 --> 00:05:40.480 But I mean this, the final table was epic. That 102 00:05:40.519 --> 00:05:44.800 the heads up match was insane. I was glued to 103 00:05:44.839 --> 00:05:49.120 the damn thing five hours against Jason Kuhn. I mean 104 00:05:49.160 --> 00:05:52.600 it was. If you guys haven't seen this, go find 105 00:05:52.639 --> 00:05:54.439 it on PokerGO dot com. You can find it on 106 00:05:54.439 --> 00:05:57.040 the poker Goro YouTube channel. I would highly encourage you 107 00:05:57.120 --> 00:05:59.600 to watch it. One it was. It was highly entertaining. 108 00:05:59.800 --> 00:06:01.920 You know, the hands and the action, the chips are flying, 109 00:06:01.959 --> 00:06:06.079 it was good stuff. The heads up match itself was 110 00:06:07.000 --> 00:06:10.839 it was a clinic by both players. You know, they 111 00:06:10.839 --> 00:06:13.959 were both of them are are very good in the 112 00:06:13.959 --> 00:06:16.480 theory side of things, the solver side of things. They 113 00:06:16.560 --> 00:06:19.319 understand all that, especially Jason Kuhn, who is arguably the 114 00:06:19.360 --> 00:06:21.680 best in the world at that. But then they also 115 00:06:21.800 --> 00:06:26.160 both understand how to deviate, when to exploit, and it 116 00:06:26.279 --> 00:06:29.879 was simply a masterpiece by both sides. You know, you 117 00:06:29.920 --> 00:06:33.959 had Kuhn who started out with a lead and then 118 00:06:34.000 --> 00:06:35.920 he stretched that up to I think it was about 119 00:06:35.920 --> 00:06:39.199 seven or eight to one. Early on, Samau gets all in. 120 00:06:39.480 --> 00:06:41.800 He's all in and at risk three different times in 121 00:06:41.839 --> 00:06:44.759 this heads up match, and each time he's crushed by Kuhn, 122 00:06:45.040 --> 00:06:48.079 but somehow pulls it out. You know. The first one 123 00:06:48.120 --> 00:06:50.399 is he's got Queen nine to Kuhn's King nine. He 124 00:06:50.439 --> 00:06:53.279 finds a queen on the river. You know. Then you know, 125 00:06:53.920 --> 00:06:56.120 Samala gets into the lead, but by a little bit, 126 00:06:56.160 --> 00:06:58.000 but then Kuhn takes it back. Kuhn gets back up 127 00:06:58.000 --> 00:07:01.040 to seven to one. Then it's Samow King five versus 128 00:07:01.160 --> 00:07:03.759 Kuon's King Queen. But no, you know, no worries because 129 00:07:03.759 --> 00:07:06.839 Samow just makes quad fives. No big deal there. And 130 00:07:06.879 --> 00:07:09.279 then it's Samow the ace five versus the pocket tens 131 00:07:09.279 --> 00:07:11.319 of Kuhn, and an ace hits on the turn and 132 00:07:11.360 --> 00:07:13.879 that puts theou up four to one in chips, and 133 00:07:13.920 --> 00:07:16.480 then eventually he closed it out from there. He finally 134 00:07:16.519 --> 00:07:17.759 had the best of it when the money went in. 135 00:07:17.800 --> 00:07:20.759 He had pocket eights, Coon had pocket fives, and Kuhn 136 00:07:20.759 --> 00:07:25.240 could not come from behind. But I mean, Samow, I thought, 137 00:07:25.240 --> 00:07:28.160 played great. You know, It's it's kind of hard because 138 00:07:28.639 --> 00:07:31.040 you watch the heads up match and and you know, 139 00:07:31.079 --> 00:07:32.879 as I outlined in some of those big hands there, 140 00:07:32.920 --> 00:07:34.720 you're kind of thinking, like, man, this guy's just getting 141 00:07:34.759 --> 00:07:37.279 lucky and lucky and lucky. And yeah, I mean he was. 142 00:07:37.839 --> 00:07:40.439 But that's not to take away from as well as 143 00:07:40.480 --> 00:07:42.879 Samo played, because he played great as well. You know, 144 00:07:42.920 --> 00:07:46.759 and for Kun, you know, one of the best players ever. 145 00:07:47.800 --> 00:07:51.600 It was great to really see him. I mean, maybe 146 00:07:51.639 --> 00:07:53.959 not great is the best way to describe it, but 147 00:07:54.000 --> 00:07:55.800 I don't know. I enjoyed seeing him have to go 148 00:07:55.839 --> 00:07:58.920 through that adversity and like constantly fight back and constantly 149 00:07:58.920 --> 00:08:02.040 get knocked down. And not that he wasn't you know, 150 00:08:02.120 --> 00:08:05.879 getting unlucky, because he certainly was, but just just constantly 151 00:08:05.920 --> 00:08:08.199 having to fight for that and keep his composure and 152 00:08:08.480 --> 00:08:10.959 continue to try and you know, make the best decision 153 00:08:11.000 --> 00:08:14.759 at every point when a lot of lesser players, you know, 154 00:08:14.920 --> 00:08:17.879 might have just kind of spiraled out of control, you know, 155 00:08:18.040 --> 00:08:19.959 just just being like, man, I can't beat this guy. 156 00:08:20.319 --> 00:08:22.240 I'm starting to go on tilt with all this losing 157 00:08:22.240 --> 00:08:24.800 that I'm doing. What the heck is happening? You lose composure, 158 00:08:24.839 --> 00:08:27.560 all that sort of stuff. But not Jason Kuhn. He 159 00:08:27.639 --> 00:08:31.160 was locked in every single hand, as was Jaosamau. And 160 00:08:31.199 --> 00:08:33.279 then and then right afterwards, you know, Josamau said, you know, 161 00:08:33.279 --> 00:08:37.000 I got really lucky, but both played great. The heads 162 00:08:37.039 --> 00:08:39.440 up match was one for the ages. If if you 163 00:08:39.440 --> 00:08:42.080 guys again haven't seen it, I would I highly encourage 164 00:08:42.080 --> 00:08:46.399 you to go find it. The total payouts, Jaosama out 165 00:08:46.440 --> 00:08:48.519 first place one point one million. As I mentioned, Kuhn 166 00:08:48.600 --> 00:08:51.440 got six hundred and fifty k for second place. Sam 167 00:08:51.519 --> 00:08:54.000 Soverll finished in third for three hundred and fifty k. 168 00:08:54.080 --> 00:08:56.200 He came into the day the final day as the 169 00:08:56.279 --> 00:09:00.399 chip leader with five players remaining, then finished third for three, 170 00:09:00.480 --> 00:09:02.480 which was good enough to put him at the top 171 00:09:02.759 --> 00:09:06.000 of the PGT leaderboard. So he's now the front runner 172 00:09:06.360 --> 00:09:08.360 for the PGT Player of the Year race, which Tim 173 00:09:08.360 --> 00:09:10.679 and I will get into a little bit more when 174 00:09:10.720 --> 00:09:12.840 we talk about the PGT Last Chance. And then you 175 00:09:12.879 --> 00:09:16.159 had Nick Shulman cashing in fourth place for two hundred k. 176 00:09:17.559 --> 00:09:20.519 As I mentioned five returns for the final day, Japan's 177 00:09:20.639 --> 00:09:24.679 June Ubara he bubbled first. He ran kings into Samsoverrol's 178 00:09:24.679 --> 00:09:27.559 aces that got him crippled the three Big Linds. Then 179 00:09:27.600 --> 00:09:31.440 he ultimately lost out to Jau Samau to burst on 180 00:09:31.559 --> 00:09:34.440 the bubble. But Obara played well in himself, I mean, 181 00:09:34.480 --> 00:09:37.320 just a cooler there with the kings into the aces 182 00:09:37.320 --> 00:09:40.480 that ultimately you know, caused his collapse, but left with 183 00:09:40.480 --> 00:09:42.240 the smile on his face. Seems like a great guy. 184 00:09:42.360 --> 00:09:44.600 So I'm excited to see him kind of in that 185 00:09:44.720 --> 00:09:50.639 PGT atmosphere more so going forward now for you, sir, 186 00:09:51.480 --> 00:09:55.480 mister commissioner, Yes, I mean talk to me about this event. 187 00:09:56.440 --> 00:09:59.000 I mean, first of all, let's just talk about Jousamao, Like, 188 00:09:59.360 --> 00:10:01.759 what's your thoughts on him? The year he's having on 189 00:10:01.799 --> 00:10:04.480 the PGT. You know, I think people forget that he 190 00:10:04.519 --> 00:10:07.679 finished third in the Super High Rollable PLO like he's 191 00:10:08.039 --> 00:10:11.320 he's crushing. And again, I think it's hard to because 192 00:10:11.360 --> 00:10:14.000 you go to look jousonmou up and you know you're 193 00:10:14.039 --> 00:10:16.320 gonna land on HND and MOB and he has his 194 00:10:16.399 --> 00:10:19.039 results hidden, right, so it's hard to be like, oh, 195 00:10:19.159 --> 00:10:21.879 like what, you know, what's he doing? What's happening all 196 00:10:21.879 --> 00:10:23.080 that sort of stuff. Like you see a lot of 197 00:10:23.120 --> 00:10:25.320 stuff out there right now with like Jesse Loan has 198 00:10:25.320 --> 00:10:27.519 won thirteen million dollars or whatever it was this year. 199 00:10:27.600 --> 00:10:30.720 Jesse Loanison who not Puns were battling for GPI Player 200 00:10:30.759 --> 00:10:32.320 of the Year. But when it comes to Samal you 201 00:10:32.320 --> 00:10:35.240 can't find anything. So you know, just talk to me 202 00:10:35.240 --> 00:10:37.360 a little bit about his year and that sort of thing. 203 00:10:37.799 --> 00:10:42.039 Yeah, firstly, that shouldn't be allowed. We should uh laws, 204 00:10:42.159 --> 00:10:42.519 I'm the. 205 00:10:42.519 --> 00:10:44.759 Last laws privacy. 206 00:10:44.360 --> 00:10:47.279 Laws, but I don't believe in those laws. But yeah, 207 00:10:47.320 --> 00:10:49.879 that does make it difficult. You're also forgetting he won 208 00:10:49.960 --> 00:10:52.440 the uh what was it the Trident Maine for his 209 00:10:52.559 --> 00:10:54.799 third bracelet. Uh what three? 210 00:10:54.879 --> 00:10:58.080 I mean, we got into all that stuff. But yeah, 211 00:10:58.120 --> 00:11:00.840 he's having like six or he was, sorry, he won 212 00:11:00.919 --> 00:11:02.600 four million dollars in December alone. 213 00:11:02.639 --> 00:11:05.080 Yeah, he's having a career year. 214 00:11:04.879 --> 00:11:06.200 Five million dollars in December alone. 215 00:11:06.200 --> 00:11:08.240 Sorry, a career year on the PGT. You kind of 216 00:11:08.240 --> 00:11:11.200 touched on it. He's fifth place right now with just 217 00:11:11.200 --> 00:11:12.960 a little bit over twenty two hundred points. He's won 218 00:11:13.039 --> 00:11:16.039 three point eight million all time in the PGT. He's 219 00:11:16.039 --> 00:11:19.559 only won five point four so a good sixty percent 220 00:11:19.639 --> 00:11:23.799 coming this year. And for those that may not be aware, 221 00:11:24.399 --> 00:11:27.399 you know, Jaz's looking pretty fit, pretty in shape. He's 222 00:11:27.399 --> 00:11:30.639 lost some weight. You know, is that the you know, 223 00:11:30.759 --> 00:11:33.039 is that can we relate that? Can we relate the 224 00:11:33.080 --> 00:11:36.679 health getting in shape, getting nice and healthy? You know, 225 00:11:36.679 --> 00:11:38.919 he's probably doing it for his you know, family and 226 00:11:38.919 --> 00:11:42.159 his kids and stuff, but hey, it's it's you know, 227 00:11:42.240 --> 00:11:45.200 it's leading to some pretty impressive poker results. So that's, uh, 228 00:11:45.879 --> 00:11:48.279 you know, that's something to kind of just be aware of. 229 00:11:48.320 --> 00:11:51.559 But yeah, he's having a great year. He plays ninety 230 00:11:51.559 --> 00:11:53.919 percent of our events. He plays mix, plays p low, 231 00:11:54.000 --> 00:11:56.480 plays all the no limit. Uh. He's also just one 232 00:11:56.480 --> 00:11:59.399 of the nicest guys on the tour, just like just 233 00:11:59.440 --> 00:12:01.240 like he's head up upon a Jason Kuhn. 234 00:12:01.799 --> 00:12:05.480 Yeah, as you touched on Tremendous twenty twenty five. You know, 235 00:12:05.600 --> 00:12:07.799 you and I know because we're in the studio during 236 00:12:07.799 --> 00:12:09.960 all the PGT events. We see him there all the 237 00:12:10.039 --> 00:12:12.840 time battling. So it kind of always seemed like a 238 00:12:12.879 --> 00:12:15.120 matter of time for as Jasamaov was going to have 239 00:12:15.399 --> 00:12:17.519 a year like this. As I mentioned, he did get 240 00:12:17.559 --> 00:12:20.879 third in that Super high rollerable plo. He cash for 241 00:12:20.960 --> 00:12:24.120 more than four million dollars at WSP Paradise right before 242 00:12:24.159 --> 00:12:28.240 he then came to play the Super high Roll lebl event. 243 00:12:28.360 --> 00:12:31.879 So just an absolute banner year for JAOSAMOU believe he 244 00:12:31.960 --> 00:12:35.399 had some success down in Brazil during their Super high 245 00:12:35.480 --> 00:12:37.960 Roller series that they had I think in November, maybe 246 00:12:38.039 --> 00:12:40.720 end of October, I forget exactly, but around that time. 247 00:12:41.879 --> 00:12:44.879 So you know, Jao's just on fire right now and 248 00:12:46.320 --> 00:12:49.200 looking ahead. You know, not to jump ahead too much here, 249 00:12:49.240 --> 00:12:52.039 but you know, entering the PGT Championship, he's got to 250 00:12:52.039 --> 00:12:55.440 be somebody that we consider, you know, could go on 251 00:12:55.480 --> 00:12:57.639 to win the event. You know, we're talking about him 252 00:12:57.639 --> 00:13:00.480 as the PGT Championship winner. 253 00:13:00.720 --> 00:13:00.919 You know. 254 00:13:01.200 --> 00:13:03.519 And and for those that might think, well, where the 255 00:13:03.559 --> 00:13:05.279 heck did this guy come from? I mean, trust me, 256 00:13:05.360 --> 00:13:07.200 he's he's been around and he's been putting in the 257 00:13:07.279 --> 00:13:09.279 work and he's you know, he's finally getting the results 258 00:13:09.320 --> 00:13:13.080 that have been meaning to come to him. So good 259 00:13:13.120 --> 00:13:15.519 on Jao for all of that. And yeah, certainly one 260 00:13:15.519 --> 00:13:19.039 of the nicest guys in in the entire world. He's great. 261 00:13:20.960 --> 00:13:24.679 I do want to hit on the event itself. You know, 262 00:13:24.720 --> 00:13:27.320 there's been some chatter about the event. You know, the 263 00:13:27.360 --> 00:13:32.039 time nine was a bit wonky. I guess I'll just 264 00:13:32.080 --> 00:13:34.240 describe it as you know, kind of craming it in there. 265 00:13:34.639 --> 00:13:39.000 Right before Christmas, you know, Poker News wrote about the 266 00:13:39.039 --> 00:13:42.679 event in a paragraph within a greater article that was 267 00:13:42.720 --> 00:13:50.679 about entries being down in Las Vegas during December, and 268 00:13:50.840 --> 00:13:53.879 this one not that the entries were necessarily down in 269 00:13:53.919 --> 00:13:56.000 super high level because it was twenty four last year 270 00:13:56.039 --> 00:14:00.480 it was twenty three this year. But when you equate 271 00:14:00.559 --> 00:14:03.360 the buy in right before. It's been three hundred k 272 00:14:03.480 --> 00:14:06.080 when it's been in the studio minus the first year 273 00:14:06.120 --> 00:14:08.679 back in twenty fifteen. Well, it wasn't in the studio, 274 00:14:08.720 --> 00:14:11.240 it was in the conference area or whatever. But that 275 00:14:11.279 --> 00:14:14.240 was a five hundred k buy But you would figure that, Okay, 276 00:14:14.360 --> 00:14:17.639 if you take the price point and you chop it 277 00:14:17.639 --> 00:14:20.120 it down to one third of the price point, shouldn't 278 00:14:20.159 --> 00:14:23.919 you get close to three x the entries? You know? So, 279 00:14:24.840 --> 00:14:27.440 I mean, how do you like, what's your thoughts there 280 00:14:27.559 --> 00:14:29.720 or what would you tell the people or whatever? 281 00:14:29.840 --> 00:14:33.360 That's definitely not sure you would assume that. But you know, 282 00:14:33.399 --> 00:14:35.639 you have to think that there's people that would have 283 00:14:35.639 --> 00:14:37.960 actually played this if the buy in was bigger. I mean, 284 00:14:38.039 --> 00:14:39.919 you could make an argument that you make the buy 285 00:14:39.960 --> 00:14:42.039 in five hundred k, maybe we actually get more than 286 00:14:42.039 --> 00:14:46.960 twenty three entries. I don't think Poconeses did a very 287 00:14:47.000 --> 00:14:50.960 good job in putting this event as part of that article. 288 00:14:51.080 --> 00:14:53.399 I don't think it fits. Even though it's just a 289 00:14:53.480 --> 00:14:57.039 Vegas event in Decemba, it's a completely different event. It's 290 00:14:57.120 --> 00:15:01.559 so close to Christmas. Obviously, when you have such a buying, 291 00:15:01.679 --> 00:15:05.519 a buying of this magnetaria, it really you can't compare 292 00:15:05.639 --> 00:15:08.919 to five hundred dollars bayans thousand dollars buy ins, you know, 293 00:15:09.000 --> 00:15:11.559 the ten k main event that they're kind of discussing 294 00:15:11.679 --> 00:15:17.159 in the article. There's reasons this wasn't you know, a 295 00:15:17.200 --> 00:15:20.480 massive hit. And I would say, you know, a massive 296 00:15:20.559 --> 00:15:22.240 hit for this would have had to be in fifty 297 00:15:22.320 --> 00:15:25.799 sixty entries at a minimum. It was just kind of 298 00:15:25.840 --> 00:15:28.440 not the not the best time. We heard from players 299 00:15:28.440 --> 00:15:31.000 that they were skipping it that would normally be locks 300 00:15:31.080 --> 00:15:33.759 to play this if you put it in a random 301 00:15:33.799 --> 00:15:37.600 Wednesday in September. So yeah, timing was a big thing 302 00:15:37.679 --> 00:15:40.679 with this, especially after, you know, coming up on the 303 00:15:40.720 --> 00:15:46.159 back of WSB Paradise and the you know WPT Wins 304 00:15:46.200 --> 00:15:48.840 series where there was players that would plan to play 305 00:15:48.840 --> 00:15:53.519 this that were in events still at the win. So yeah, 306 00:15:53.559 --> 00:15:56.159 all in all, I'm not really using, you know, any 307 00:15:56.200 --> 00:16:00.440 of these data points of the twenty three entries as 308 00:16:00.440 --> 00:16:04.120 an indication for for any like future hundred k's or 309 00:16:04.159 --> 00:16:06.080 high stakes kind of tournaments are running. I think the 310 00:16:06.679 --> 00:16:10.159 biggest variable here it was was just timing wise and 311 00:16:11.080 --> 00:16:12.240 what else it was up against. 312 00:16:13.840 --> 00:16:17.000 Yeah, and listen, a lot of people got their asses 313 00:16:17.200 --> 00:16:19.879 buried in the Bahamas. Yeah, I mean like I was. 314 00:16:20.360 --> 00:16:23.480 I was looking up some like just Bahamas results the 315 00:16:23.519 --> 00:16:26.480 other day, and I was like, oh, how come, how 316 00:16:26.480 --> 00:16:28.600 come I can't find anyone with Isaac Hackson. Oh he 317 00:16:28.639 --> 00:16:32.440 didn't cash like Jason Kuhn had one cash you know, 318 00:16:32.600 --> 00:16:35.600 and like for someone like Jason Kuhn, who is for 319 00:16:35.679 --> 00:16:38.519 sure down there firing all the biggest buy and stuff, 320 00:16:38.720 --> 00:16:40.279 you know, he has like one cash for I think 321 00:16:40.279 --> 00:16:42.080 it was two hundred, two hundred and fifty k or something, 322 00:16:42.120 --> 00:16:45.200 I'm like, well, that's like that's one entry, like in 323 00:16:45.240 --> 00:16:47.919 a tournament. So you know, you're even like I was 324 00:16:47.919 --> 00:16:50.120 looking up Sean Deep like he didn't do anything yeah 325 00:16:50.200 --> 00:16:52.080 down there, Like you know, it's just people just got 326 00:16:52.399 --> 00:16:56.600 freaking buried. You know. Seth Davis put his results out 327 00:16:56.679 --> 00:16:58.879 on social media every single day. I mean he lost 328 00:16:58.919 --> 00:17:00.960 like one point two or one point five million or 329 00:17:01.000 --> 00:17:03.120 whatever the heck the number came to. But you know, 330 00:17:03.279 --> 00:17:07.480 people just got annihilated in the Bahamas. So I can't 331 00:17:07.519 --> 00:17:09.400 imagine that you would want to then hop on a 332 00:17:09.440 --> 00:17:12.839 flight come to Vegas right before Christmas and you know, 333 00:17:13.359 --> 00:17:15.680 light another one hunter km fire if that's how things 334 00:17:15.720 --> 00:17:19.440 are going for you at that current time in poker, 335 00:17:19.519 --> 00:17:21.000 so it's it's difficult. 336 00:17:21.160 --> 00:17:23.880 Yes, Seth was one of those ones that you know, 337 00:17:23.960 --> 00:17:28.640 he's a two time you know, defending not defending, but 338 00:17:28.680 --> 00:17:33.960 two time Super High Rollaball champion from last season. You 339 00:17:34.000 --> 00:17:36.440 would think he also loves the freeze out for him. Man, 340 00:17:36.640 --> 00:17:39.200 he's probably the first in line to register for this event. 341 00:17:39.279 --> 00:17:41.599 But you know, he had plans with his nephew. They 342 00:17:41.599 --> 00:17:45.839 were going to some college football Oregon Ducks game, So 343 00:17:46.079 --> 00:17:49.680 he was one that will kind of set out. There's 344 00:17:49.720 --> 00:17:51.599 a few names that you know, we don't hear too 345 00:17:51.640 --> 00:17:54.279 much on on the PGT you know that travel Play 346 00:17:54.319 --> 00:17:57.519 Trent that kind of reached out to me and expressed 347 00:17:57.519 --> 00:17:59.839 why they were not coming. And the biggest reason is, 348 00:17:59.839 --> 00:18:02.799 you know, they're going to play whatever it is, several 349 00:18:02.799 --> 00:18:05.599 million dollars of buyings in the Bahamas, and then is 350 00:18:05.640 --> 00:18:09.160 it really worth them on the eve of Christmas, you know, 351 00:18:09.240 --> 00:18:11.039 flying to Vegas for one event because at the end 352 00:18:11.039 --> 00:18:13.799 of the day, that's all it was. Because a lot 353 00:18:13.839 --> 00:18:16.559 of the big stuff at Win had already was like 354 00:18:16.839 --> 00:18:20.839 finishing or had already finished. So they were essentially, you know, 355 00:18:21.279 --> 00:18:24.160 coming just for one event. It wasn't really you know 356 00:18:24.759 --> 00:18:27.880 worth it for them, and a lot of these factors 357 00:18:27.920 --> 00:18:30.599 just you know, when you're talking of small fields, you know, 358 00:18:31.000 --> 00:18:33.640 we have twenty three entries. That's two you know, two, three, 359 00:18:33.720 --> 00:18:36.440 four people that couldn't make it because of just some 360 00:18:36.559 --> 00:18:39.160 other thing. Well, there's a big difference between you know, 361 00:18:39.240 --> 00:18:42.640 twenty three entries and twenty seven percentage wise when you 362 00:18:42.720 --> 00:18:45.519 have these small fields. So it doesn't matter every every entry, 363 00:18:46.000 --> 00:18:49.279 you know, matters in these high stakes tournaments when you're 364 00:18:49.279 --> 00:18:52.799 talking like the ten k win main event. You know, 365 00:18:52.839 --> 00:18:55.240 if one guy, you know, you didn't play this year, 366 00:18:55.480 --> 00:18:57.799 I didn't play this year, that's not really going to 367 00:18:57.839 --> 00:18:59.519 matter at the end of the day. Two entries for 368 00:18:59.599 --> 00:19:02.960 two trees out of you know, potentially sub thirty player 369 00:19:02.960 --> 00:19:04.240 field is a big difference. 370 00:19:04.759 --> 00:19:07.400 Yeah, no, for sure. I mean, I mean this event 371 00:19:07.440 --> 00:19:09.880 also has kind of been all over the map in 372 00:19:09.960 --> 00:19:13.880 terms of scheduling. It's been in May, it's been in 373 00:19:14.079 --> 00:19:17.440 December now, it's right before Christmas, it's been in I 374 00:19:17.480 --> 00:19:20.240 think the fall, it's been in Europe, like, it's literally 375 00:19:20.279 --> 00:19:22.839 been all over the place. I mean, so you know, 376 00:19:23.079 --> 00:19:25.559 when you look ahead to next season and you have 377 00:19:25.680 --> 00:19:30.599 this event, you know, like where do you like where 378 00:19:30.799 --> 00:19:32.880 do you see it fitting in next season? Like if 379 00:19:32.920 --> 00:19:35.039 you could just if you could pick the best time 380 00:19:36.240 --> 00:19:38.880 independent of everything else, Like where would you stick this? 381 00:19:40.839 --> 00:19:43.640 Yes, I'm not planning I'm putting it anywhere on the 382 00:19:43.680 --> 00:19:44.480 schedule next year. 383 00:19:45.599 --> 00:19:48.079 I mean is that you're hearing about the high buy 384 00:19:48.160 --> 00:19:50.599 in stuff like. 385 00:19:50.160 --> 00:19:51.680 Yeah, it's a little bit of the tax it's a 386 00:19:51.680 --> 00:19:54.720 little bit of the taxes stuff. You know. I felt 387 00:19:54.759 --> 00:19:56.559 like we had a really really good spot for this 388 00:19:56.680 --> 00:20:00.000 year because originally it was it was on the back 389 00:20:00.039 --> 00:20:03.000 act of the one hundred k p Low, so we 390 00:20:03.000 --> 00:20:05.200 were going to basically go one hundred k plow three 391 00:20:05.279 --> 00:20:09.200 hundred k super high rollabile with some other high stakes 392 00:20:09.200 --> 00:20:12.480 no limit things, and we were to really capitalize on people. 393 00:20:12.680 --> 00:20:16.319 You know, now we're satisfying what these players have requested, 394 00:20:16.519 --> 00:20:19.759 like travel for a week, but get you know, I 395 00:20:19.759 --> 00:20:22.559 think Nick Pechangelo has told me in person like yeah, 396 00:20:22.559 --> 00:20:25.680 we want to come and put millions of dollars of 397 00:20:25.720 --> 00:20:28.799 buyings in in a short time, so it's worth it. 398 00:20:30.160 --> 00:20:32.640 So doing one hundred k plow, doing the three hundred 399 00:20:32.680 --> 00:20:34.599 k super Hierolli ball, or maybe it was one hundred 400 00:20:34.680 --> 00:20:38.519 k plus some other high sex no limit events around 401 00:20:38.599 --> 00:20:43.519 October where there was no overlap with competing events, you know, 402 00:20:43.559 --> 00:20:47.200 we would have got really big numbers. Now heading into 403 00:20:47.240 --> 00:20:50.400 next year, I would say this is coming up a 404 00:20:50.400 --> 00:20:53.119 bit of a failure, you know, even with the you know, 405 00:20:53.160 --> 00:20:56.200 even with all the variables we've discussed, it's you know, 406 00:20:56.240 --> 00:20:58.799 people are going to forget about that. When we announced this, 407 00:20:58.960 --> 00:21:01.920 say hyperthetly we're going to do it in May, people 408 00:21:01.920 --> 00:21:03.759 are just going to instinctively go. I don't think twenty 409 00:21:03.759 --> 00:21:06.720 three entries. That sucks with not you know, figuring out 410 00:21:06.720 --> 00:21:10.519 the variables, even though we know those. So personally, I 411 00:21:10.559 --> 00:21:13.759 think it's not on my radar at all to put 412 00:21:13.759 --> 00:21:16.279 on next year. I don't have any interest in doing it, 413 00:21:17.599 --> 00:21:20.759 and that's because of that. But also, you know, with 414 00:21:20.799 --> 00:21:24.160 all the taxes, you know, we've heard, I've heard directly 415 00:21:24.200 --> 00:21:26.759 from players that you know, what their limit is this 416 00:21:26.839 --> 00:21:29.720 year buy and why So I don't think this fits 417 00:21:29.759 --> 00:21:34.039 on the schedule. Obviously, there's people with more power than 418 00:21:34.039 --> 00:21:36.000 me at the company that may just say we're doing 419 00:21:36.079 --> 00:21:38.880 it December twenty second, and then it's on December twenty second. 420 00:21:38.960 --> 00:21:41.599 So but at this stage I'm not planning to do 421 00:21:41.640 --> 00:21:44.119 it again. We're just going to have to see how 422 00:21:44.119 --> 00:21:47.960 the year goes and kind of figure it out. Look 423 00:21:48.000 --> 00:21:50.519 may look if things change. You know, there's some stuff 424 00:21:50.559 --> 00:21:52.480 that came out the last few days about the taxes. 425 00:21:53.599 --> 00:21:55.160 I just kind of did a tweet about it. But 426 00:21:56.440 --> 00:21:59.680 maybe things change even further, maybe we get an overruling 427 00:22:00.240 --> 00:22:02.400 year and we're back to normal. We don't really know, 428 00:22:03.240 --> 00:22:06.119 so yeah, I'll have to configure it. And you know, 429 00:22:06.200 --> 00:22:08.640 I think we're probably won't discuss it on this part 430 00:22:08.720 --> 00:22:10.240 or for a little while, but you know, you and 431 00:22:10.759 --> 00:22:13.839 you and may have discussed a kind of different idea 432 00:22:13.920 --> 00:22:16.960 for a highest stakes kind of buying event that I 433 00:22:17.000 --> 00:22:20.200 think will have a lot more legs than this will. 434 00:22:20.240 --> 00:22:23.799 So I'd rather be putting my energy into to that 435 00:22:23.880 --> 00:22:27.599 event and making that be the one, the Al Marqui 436 00:22:27.680 --> 00:22:28.480 event for the season. 437 00:22:28.720 --> 00:22:32.319 Yeah, I mean, I hear you on all the fronts. 438 00:22:32.440 --> 00:22:35.440 You know, I totally get it. I will say that 439 00:22:35.559 --> 00:22:41.240 if I were to put on my audience hat and 440 00:22:41.319 --> 00:22:43.920 just like from where I sit, you know, I understand 441 00:22:43.960 --> 00:22:45.880 what you're saying where you say. You know, some players 442 00:22:45.960 --> 00:22:47.200 might look at it and say, like, well, it only 443 00:22:47.200 --> 00:22:49.400 got twenty three, twenty four entries. It's kind of not 444 00:22:49.440 --> 00:22:51.519 worth my time to travel and play it as one 445 00:22:51.559 --> 00:22:55.759 off whatever. I get that from the player side. As 446 00:22:55.799 --> 00:22:59.519 a viewer, I still love this event. I don't care 447 00:22:59.519 --> 00:23:02.519 if it gets sixteen players or you know, one hundred 448 00:23:02.519 --> 00:23:07.759 and sixty. I think it's still worth it to see 449 00:23:07.799 --> 00:23:12.319 the best of the best, you know, big buying tournament 450 00:23:12.359 --> 00:23:16.200 players play an extended event over three days in a 451 00:23:16.240 --> 00:23:18.680 really really good structure. I really like the freeze out 452 00:23:18.720 --> 00:23:22.200 format this year, you know, I think that that is 453 00:23:22.240 --> 00:23:25.920 something that like really tickles my fancy, Like I just 454 00:23:26.039 --> 00:23:28.440 I love that. Like that's why I was so glued 455 00:23:28.480 --> 00:23:30.720 to this heads up match between Samo and Kuhn, Like 456 00:23:30.759 --> 00:23:36.720 it was just freaking incredible poker. Like so from a viewer, 457 00:23:36.759 --> 00:23:38.400 I would say like, yeah, you know, it's a bit 458 00:23:38.440 --> 00:23:41.400 of a bummer that, you know, you don't get thirty 459 00:23:41.440 --> 00:23:45.359 forty fifty sixty entries in this thing, right, But I 460 00:23:45.400 --> 00:23:49.279 still think it's elite poker at the highest level, a 461 00:23:49.319 --> 00:23:51.920 lot on the line, and that's what I want to see. 462 00:23:51.960 --> 00:23:54.039 I want to see the I want to see the 463 00:23:54.039 --> 00:23:56.359 best players trying to make the best decisions they can 464 00:23:56.480 --> 00:23:58.759 in the highest pressure moments. And that's to me what 465 00:23:58.920 --> 00:24:02.240 super high rollabile prise events. Now, I also love things 466 00:24:02.279 --> 00:24:06.319 like like Triton, but I do think that Triton gets 467 00:24:06.319 --> 00:24:08.880 a little bit faster at the end in a lot 468 00:24:08.880 --> 00:24:11.400 of this, Like those events are pretty quick at the 469 00:24:11.480 --> 00:24:12.559 end of the day. And I get it, you know, 470 00:24:12.559 --> 00:24:14.960 you're catering to more VIPs and all that sort of stuff. 471 00:24:14.960 --> 00:24:18.000 Like I totally understand it. But but this is, like, 472 00:24:18.480 --> 00:24:20.400 you know, I don't know. This to me is like 473 00:24:20.440 --> 00:24:26.400 the the best, most prestigious like Super high Roller title 474 00:24:26.440 --> 00:24:28.799 out there. And yeah, it's taken some hits in terms 475 00:24:28.799 --> 00:24:31.240 of field size recently, and it's it's not the best 476 00:24:31.480 --> 00:24:33.799 to do it in the United States. It's just difficult. 477 00:24:35.480 --> 00:24:37.680 But yeah, so I don't know. I would I would 478 00:24:37.680 --> 00:24:39.519 hope it doesn't go away, but I get that if 479 00:24:39.559 --> 00:24:40.839 it has to, you know, kind of go on a 480 00:24:40.920 --> 00:24:43.480 hiatus for a year or so as we kind of 481 00:24:44.720 --> 00:24:46.839 figure out what the heck is going to happen with everything, 482 00:24:47.400 --> 00:24:51.079 you know, gauge, the player pool, et cetera. But I 483 00:24:51.119 --> 00:24:53.799 do love the event. You know, I personally think that 484 00:24:53.839 --> 00:24:57.400 Super high Roll will should go to five hundred k. 485 00:24:57.680 --> 00:24:59.839 You know, I don't I don't exactly know how I 486 00:25:00.279 --> 00:25:02.079 that's what I want to happen and then I'll like 487 00:25:02.079 --> 00:25:05.319 figure out the how later. But I don't know. I 488 00:25:05.559 --> 00:25:08.319 feel like the bigger the buy in, the better as 489 00:25:08.359 --> 00:25:11.759 opposed to going the other way, you know. So, but 490 00:25:11.799 --> 00:25:13.880 I do look, if we super high rollable mixed games 491 00:25:13.920 --> 00:25:15.599 at one hundred k priceman, I do like having Super 492 00:25:15.640 --> 00:25:17.680 Bowl PLO at one hundred k price point, and then 493 00:25:17.680 --> 00:25:21.240 I think the super high rollerball you know itself would 494 00:25:21.319 --> 00:25:23.359 I would be trying to kick that thing up the other. 495 00:25:23.160 --> 00:25:26.319 Way, right, Yeah. I mean, look, we had conversations with 496 00:25:27.119 --> 00:25:30.079 as they've come to be known VIPs, and how do 497 00:25:30.160 --> 00:25:32.240 we get them to play this event, and they had 498 00:25:32.240 --> 00:25:35.200 some interesting ideas. So if we were to say, if 499 00:25:35.240 --> 00:25:37.279 you force my hands, say let's schedule it next year, 500 00:25:37.319 --> 00:25:39.880 regardless of what you think, I'd obviously talk to them 501 00:25:39.920 --> 00:25:42.799 again see what they want to do, because they may 502 00:25:42.839 --> 00:25:46.359 obviously not care too much about the taxes, and then 503 00:25:46.400 --> 00:25:48.160 I would look to do how we kind of had 504 00:25:48.279 --> 00:25:52.000 originally planned where we had it following the hundred k PLO. 505 00:25:52.119 --> 00:25:56.480 I think that's a nice synergy of events, and you 506 00:25:56.519 --> 00:25:59.119 could mix in some kind of mid to higher buyings 507 00:25:59.160 --> 00:26:03.519 in there to really centivize, you know, the Europeans just 508 00:26:03.599 --> 00:26:07.440 to come travel. You know, instead of giving them one event, right, 509 00:26:07.799 --> 00:26:10.599 which is the Super roller Ball, we're giving them the 510 00:26:10.599 --> 00:26:13.960 Super roller Bowl, one hundred k plow, the Super Higher Rollabule, 511 00:26:14.160 --> 00:26:16.519 say one hundred k no limit. Maybe there's a couple 512 00:26:16.519 --> 00:26:19.319 of twenty fives and fifties sprinkled in on those other days. 513 00:26:19.839 --> 00:26:22.319 So yeah, you can come for the week and get 514 00:26:22.359 --> 00:26:25.440 a million dollars and buy ins in and actually make 515 00:26:25.480 --> 00:26:28.240 it worth your time. So yeah, gun to the head, 516 00:26:28.319 --> 00:26:30.839 That's what I would do next year. But we just 517 00:26:30.880 --> 00:26:33.640 really have to see, obviously how the landscape shakes out, 518 00:26:33.759 --> 00:26:37.599 you know, what how our schedule is like where we 519 00:26:37.599 --> 00:26:40.200 could put this, how is you know, the Trent schedule. 520 00:26:40.599 --> 00:26:44.200 You know, we've got obviously WPT doing some new stuff 521 00:26:44.200 --> 00:26:47.440 this this year. So yeah, we have to kind of 522 00:26:47.440 --> 00:26:49.519 wait and see. But hey, maybe we can get it 523 00:26:49.519 --> 00:26:52.400 back on the schedule. Maybe we won't, so kind of 524 00:26:52.400 --> 00:26:53.400 have to play the waiting game. 525 00:26:53.680 --> 00:26:57.880 Yeah, So talking about Super High Rollable, Jousimow, congratulations to him. 526 00:26:57.920 --> 00:27:00.000 Just a freaking, absolutely amazing job. So kind of just 527 00:27:00.119 --> 00:27:03.559 wrapping up the whole Super High Rollable series if you 528 00:27:03.599 --> 00:27:05.680 want to call that or brand for the year. You 529 00:27:05.720 --> 00:27:09.279 had Chad Eve Sledge won the Super High Rollable Mixed 530 00:27:09.279 --> 00:27:11.839 Games Hunter k Bien and that one as well, he 531 00:27:11.880 --> 00:27:16.759 won that back in what was it, March, I believe, yeah, March. 532 00:27:17.799 --> 00:27:20.880 Then you had John Reardon, another nice guy in poker, 533 00:27:20.920 --> 00:27:24.000 super nice guy as well. He won Super High Rollable 534 00:27:24.039 --> 00:27:28.440 PLO in October, so not too long ago for him. 535 00:27:28.759 --> 00:27:31.839 And then here you have Jiao Samau winning Super High 536 00:27:31.920 --> 00:27:36.160 rollerbl in December to close out the calendar year, not 537 00:27:36.480 --> 00:27:39.240 the PGT year, because we still got to roll in 538 00:27:39.279 --> 00:27:42.319 to twenty twenty six, which we're going to do next 539 00:27:42.359 --> 00:27:45.640 here on the podcast as we swing things over to 540 00:27:46.160 --> 00:27:52.400 the PGT Last Chance Series. As the name suggests, as 541 00:27:52.440 --> 00:27:54.319 Tim and I have talked about in the past, this 542 00:27:54.480 --> 00:27:58.960 is the last chance to get into the PGT Million 543 00:27:59.119 --> 00:28:03.359 Dollar Championship. The PGT Last Chance Series takes place January 544 00:28:03.359 --> 00:28:06.440 fifth through tenth at the Pokero Studio. There are six 545 00:28:06.640 --> 00:28:09.759 ten thousand dollars buying events. They're ten thousand, five hundred 546 00:28:09.759 --> 00:28:11.920 dollars buying. If you register on time, you get a 547 00:28:11.920 --> 00:28:14.160 four hundred dollars discount, so it's only one hundred dollars rake, 548 00:28:14.200 --> 00:28:18.839 which is pretty awesome. Players are allowed unlimited entries, so 549 00:28:19.519 --> 00:28:23.480 buckle up. I guess it's gonna be blasting time in 550 00:28:23.519 --> 00:28:27.119 this thing. And then and then Tim wenton, did did 551 00:28:27.160 --> 00:28:29.960 something a little wacky crazy, I mean good, you know, 552 00:28:30.000 --> 00:28:32.480 in a good way. But last year three dream seats 553 00:28:32.519 --> 00:28:35.799 were given out based on the series leaderboard to people 554 00:28:35.799 --> 00:28:38.720 to get into the PGT million dollars Championship. This year 555 00:28:38.720 --> 00:28:41.440 he went up to to five. We might just go out, 556 00:28:44.000 --> 00:28:48.480 all right, cool, So I guess let's hit on that first, 557 00:28:48.480 --> 00:28:50.680 because that's kind of the coolest thing about this. You know, 558 00:28:50.799 --> 00:28:54.200 this season's Last Chance Series has that increase from three 559 00:28:54.279 --> 00:28:57.359 to five Dream seats being offered. So what's the motivation 560 00:28:57.519 --> 00:29:00.240 behind that change? What have players been saying out there? 561 00:29:00.279 --> 00:29:02.839 I know you're talking to everyone and you know who's 562 00:29:02.880 --> 00:29:03.960 going to be coming in blasted. 563 00:29:04.039 --> 00:29:06.240 The mere reason was the change is that for last 564 00:29:06.319 --> 00:29:09.759 year there was three dream seats plus five dream passes 565 00:29:09.759 --> 00:29:13.200 into another tournament where you could win into the championship. 566 00:29:13.200 --> 00:29:16.880 We removed that kind of satellite into the free roll. 567 00:29:17.319 --> 00:29:21.839 So doing that, we obviously had to up the Last 568 00:29:21.920 --> 00:29:23.640 Chance seats. The first year we did two, so we 569 00:29:23.640 --> 00:29:27.359 when two, three, five, I think that's a nice progression 570 00:29:28.640 --> 00:29:32.039 and it gives the best thing about this series is 571 00:29:32.039 --> 00:29:35.400 that it gives anyone a chance to qualify for the 572 00:29:35.440 --> 00:29:38.240 free roll. Now that may not sound good, but what 573 00:29:38.279 --> 00:29:40.200 that means that it does create a lot of extra 574 00:29:40.279 --> 00:29:43.720 value in this tournament for both the players. Like, for example, 575 00:29:43.759 --> 00:29:46.400 you may just decide to rock up fire, some bullets 576 00:29:46.480 --> 00:29:48.720 run good, and you're in the free roll. But then 577 00:29:48.799 --> 00:29:52.759 you think about the TJ. Reid, Well, he's pretty close anyway, 578 00:29:53.039 --> 00:29:55.400 so like, yeah, I mean he's coming off a. 579 00:29:55.440 --> 00:29:58.920 Huge score at Paradise. He doesn't couple studio events on 580 00:29:58.960 --> 00:30:01.359 the regular. Yeah, you know, and now he's he's out 581 00:30:01.359 --> 00:30:03.079 here and he's going to be blasting the whole thing 582 00:30:03.119 --> 00:30:04.960 he's got. He's got all the action listed on poker 583 00:30:04.960 --> 00:30:06.559 steak dot com. I think there's a whole of like 584 00:30:06.559 --> 00:30:08.920 seven or eight people that are on poker steak dot com. 585 00:30:08.960 --> 00:30:10.400 So if you guys do want to buy action, go 586 00:30:10.480 --> 00:30:12.519 over there and you can get in on the action. 587 00:30:12.599 --> 00:30:14.680 But TJ. Reid is somebody who's like, yeah, let's go. 588 00:30:14.759 --> 00:30:16.200 I'm gonna get in there. I'm going to try and 589 00:30:16.319 --> 00:30:17.839 I'm either going to try and win a dream c 590 00:30:18.000 --> 00:30:19.640 via the leaderboard or I'm going to try and get 591 00:30:19.640 --> 00:30:20.319 the points to the. 592 00:30:20.279 --> 00:30:23.200 Cl and then you've got the people. You know, let's 593 00:30:23.240 --> 00:30:24.720 go to the very top of the leaderboard. You know, 594 00:30:24.799 --> 00:30:29.079 this year we'll got Sarveral fox and China Ring. Now 595 00:30:29.480 --> 00:30:32.119 they're all competing for Player of the Year. Obviously a 596 00:30:32.160 --> 00:30:36.440 bigger gap from second to third, but either way, Sam, Sarvo, 597 00:30:36.559 --> 00:30:39.880 Alex fox In they're only separated by basically a fifty 598 00:30:39.960 --> 00:30:41.160 k fifty k. 599 00:30:41.079 --> 00:30:43.039 Cash fifty first. 600 00:30:43.119 --> 00:30:46.279 So look they're going to be battling, you know, for 601 00:30:46.400 --> 00:30:48.519 Player of the Year. There's some value there if we 602 00:30:49.200 --> 00:30:51.079 if we scroll down to the very bottom, you know, 603 00:30:51.079 --> 00:30:53.799 you've got people like right on the fringe. You know 604 00:30:53.839 --> 00:30:58.720 that will be coming. You've got Joey Weisman, Mesado yokasaua 605 00:30:59.480 --> 00:31:04.039 Ben Tom you know, Matt Wantman, Eric Blair, all these 606 00:31:04.079 --> 00:31:06.880 guys right on the fringe close to getting knocked out. 607 00:31:07.400 --> 00:31:09.400 So there's value for them to pick up a few 608 00:31:09.400 --> 00:31:10.599 more points, lock their seat in. 609 00:31:11.880 --> 00:31:14.759 Last year's Player of the Year and PGT Championship winner 610 00:31:14.839 --> 00:31:15.599 is currently on the end. 611 00:31:15.599 --> 00:31:18.400 Then we exactly then we look on the outside. You 612 00:31:18.480 --> 00:31:21.240 got andrewos Spachenko didn't even realize he was so close. 613 00:31:21.279 --> 00:31:24.799 You got Nacho Barbero, David Corman, Jeremy Osmond, David chen Pads, 614 00:31:25.640 --> 00:31:29.160 Sam Laskuwitz, all these guys that are heavy volume players 615 00:31:29.200 --> 00:31:31.119 in the studio, but they haven't had the best here. 616 00:31:31.720 --> 00:31:34.119 Now they have a chance to. All right, let's get 617 00:31:34.119 --> 00:31:36.640 this run good in this week. Pick up some cash's, 618 00:31:37.160 --> 00:31:41.119 knock out the Michael Duex, the Sean Deebs, the Richard 619 00:31:41.160 --> 00:31:44.400 grecos that that may not be coming, and get into 620 00:31:44.400 --> 00:31:46.799 the top forty and then obviously in the middle of 621 00:31:46.839 --> 00:31:49.960 the list, the middle of the top forty. Every position 622 00:31:50.000 --> 00:31:52.880 you move up on the leaderboard, you gain five bbs 623 00:31:52.920 --> 00:31:54.839 for your starting stack in the million dollar three roll, 624 00:31:54.880 --> 00:31:59.079 So there's ev for there. So really this series is 625 00:31:59.119 --> 00:32:02.720 perfect for everyone, doesn't matter where you are on the leaderboard, 626 00:32:02.759 --> 00:32:06.279 unless unless you're someone like a Michael Msrahi, who I 627 00:32:06.319 --> 00:32:10.119 have chatted to. He's got these three cashes, he's locked 628 00:32:10.160 --> 00:32:14.000 into fourth. He could you know, maybe he drops the fifth, sixth, seventh, 629 00:32:14.039 --> 00:32:16.359 day two no's, but otherwise he's see him pretty sweet. 630 00:32:17.079 --> 00:32:18.960 He could just take that one more week off rock 631 00:32:19.000 --> 00:32:22.359 up for the championships. So either way, unless you're Michael Msrahi, 632 00:32:22.759 --> 00:32:27.359 there's a pretty decent amount of value for anyone that 633 00:32:27.400 --> 00:32:29.119 wants to come play PGT Last Chance. 634 00:32:30.119 --> 00:32:33.880 Yeah, last year during the PGT Last Chance Series, I 635 00:32:33.960 --> 00:32:37.480 looked it up that there was just a tad over 636 00:32:37.599 --> 00:32:43.160 seven thousand points awarded. So you know, that's a ton 637 00:32:43.200 --> 00:32:45.680 of points that have to do with the series leaderboard, 638 00:32:45.680 --> 00:32:47.839 that have to do with the season long leaderboard, that 639 00:32:48.000 --> 00:32:49.599 have to do with this Player of the Year race. 640 00:32:49.640 --> 00:32:51.680 I mean there's a lot on the line here. And 641 00:32:51.720 --> 00:32:54.200 as you and I have witnessed in the last couple 642 00:32:54.240 --> 00:32:56.839 of years, and most specifically last year during the Last 643 00:32:56.920 --> 00:33:00.160 Chance Series, I mean there is there are fewer sweats 644 00:33:00.200 --> 00:33:03.519 for a series like the Last Chance It's it's awesome 645 00:33:03.640 --> 00:33:06.839 in the studio. So you know, you got the players 646 00:33:06.839 --> 00:33:09.720 fighting for the top forty positions. You got players maneuvering 647 00:33:09.759 --> 00:33:11.799 to get more chips in there. You know, you got 648 00:33:11.799 --> 00:33:13.400 some players that might just come out just as a 649 00:33:13.440 --> 00:33:16.119 little bit of a warm up, you know for the championship, 650 00:33:16.160 --> 00:33:17.960 you know, instead of coming in cold if they've had 651 00:33:18.240 --> 00:33:20.839 you know, two three weeks off between you know, whatever 652 00:33:20.880 --> 00:33:23.559 they were doing before the holidays and coming into the championship. 653 00:33:23.599 --> 00:33:26.720 So there's that, you know, you obviously have the dream 654 00:33:26.759 --> 00:33:29.079 seats aspect of things, and that's going to be a 655 00:33:29.079 --> 00:33:32.279 big fight. So this is going to be a pretty 656 00:33:32.279 --> 00:33:36.720 exciting series. I'm pretty pumped see how it all plays out. 657 00:33:38.039 --> 00:33:41.599 I'm curious ultimately, you know, how many people come and play, 658 00:33:42.440 --> 00:33:44.519 you know, I'm always curious for our series, how many 659 00:33:44.519 --> 00:33:48.200 people come and play, you know. But I guess we'll 660 00:33:48.599 --> 00:33:51.359 wait and see and then Yeah. 661 00:33:51.960 --> 00:33:55.440 You know, this series last year had had insanely good 662 00:33:55.480 --> 00:34:00.799 number's basically averaged one hundred and fifteen entrance per per event. Now, 663 00:34:01.559 --> 00:34:03.640 you know, we're going to keep touching on this tax stuff. 664 00:34:04.480 --> 00:34:06.119 I think we'll have a little bit of an effect 665 00:34:06.160 --> 00:34:10.400 on this event obviously. I think if we're hitting the 666 00:34:10.480 --> 00:34:13.719 eighty entrance per tournament, I think that's good. But I 667 00:34:13.760 --> 00:34:15.239 don't think this will be And I don't think we 668 00:34:15.239 --> 00:34:18.000 can use the data from this unless it's severely bad, 669 00:34:18.320 --> 00:34:21.159 like fifty entrants as you know, data points for the 670 00:34:21.199 --> 00:34:23.599 rest of the season because of all the added value here, 671 00:34:25.159 --> 00:34:27.639 you know, alongside the dream seats, the point chase, and 672 00:34:27.639 --> 00:34:30.199 the free roll, there's just so much on offer in 673 00:34:30.239 --> 00:34:32.920 this event. So uh yeah, I hope we get it. 674 00:34:33.000 --> 00:34:35.320 I hope we get a good turnout. Obviously, there's a 675 00:34:35.320 --> 00:34:38.000 lot of big names you know that I kind of 676 00:34:38.039 --> 00:34:40.800 touched on that are on the fringes that will definitely 677 00:34:40.800 --> 00:34:42.760 be you know, wanting to be a part of the 678 00:34:42.800 --> 00:34:45.559 million dollar free roll. So I think we're going to see, 679 00:34:46.239 --> 00:34:48.280 you know, it also changes some of the way people play. 680 00:34:48.360 --> 00:34:50.559 Like if you remember last year, you know, the main 681 00:34:50.559 --> 00:34:53.159 event champion Jonathan Tomay, I just needed one more cash 682 00:34:53.719 --> 00:34:56.199 and like there were some spots I just remember, like, 683 00:34:56.800 --> 00:34:58.639 you know, he's facing it all in, but they're close 684 00:34:58.679 --> 00:35:01.840 to the money and he's making like very results, you know, 685 00:35:02.519 --> 00:35:04.920 orientated folds, and I think there's a lot of that 686 00:35:04.960 --> 00:35:09.280 for some people, you know, where now there's ICM implications 687 00:35:09.360 --> 00:35:12.719 just making the money, just cashing making that next pay 688 00:35:12.840 --> 00:35:16.199 jump is you know, you may leap you know, two, three, four, five, 689 00:35:16.280 --> 00:35:18.760 six spots on the leaderboard with if you can just 690 00:35:18.800 --> 00:35:22.480 make a six thousand dollars paye jump. So yeah, it's 691 00:35:22.519 --> 00:35:24.559 it's a very There's a lot of interesting dynamics with 692 00:35:24.639 --> 00:35:27.440 PGT Last Chance, and that's why it is a pretty 693 00:35:27.480 --> 00:35:30.400 fun series kind of to be a yeah. 694 00:35:30.400 --> 00:35:32.039 I mean, listen, I can't wait for this one. 695 00:35:32.840 --> 00:35:37.320 Ten dream seats next year questionable, it's got to go up. 696 00:35:37.360 --> 00:35:39.199 It's gone two three, five, it has to go up. 697 00:35:39.400 --> 00:35:40.639 It's about just picking the number. 698 00:35:40.840 --> 00:35:42.679 I mean, five could be the number. You know, five 699 00:35:42.719 --> 00:35:44.880 could be a good number. I mean to me, it 700 00:35:45.039 --> 00:35:48.760 it's it's so the reason why I think that it's 701 00:35:48.800 --> 00:35:52.320 hard to just increase it is because it's it's a 702 00:35:52.320 --> 00:35:56.239 bit of a leap of faith, because you know, in theory, yes, 703 00:35:56.280 --> 00:35:58.480 there should be more dream seats awarded if the field 704 00:35:58.559 --> 00:36:01.400 sizes go up, but we don't know if the field 705 00:36:01.400 --> 00:36:03.360 sides are going to go on. I mean we're guessing, right, 706 00:36:03.519 --> 00:36:05.880 I mean, this year is this year's the riskiest of 707 00:36:05.920 --> 00:36:08.760 them all, just because again of that tax thing and 708 00:36:08.760 --> 00:36:10.320 what we're hearing from some of the players how they 709 00:36:10.360 --> 00:36:12.559 might back off plane and whatever. So it's going to 710 00:36:12.639 --> 00:36:15.559 be interesting to see how that happens, right, So I 711 00:36:15.599 --> 00:36:18.440 mean we'll see. I mean, hopefully it turns out to 712 00:36:18.480 --> 00:36:22.280 be awesome, but again, I mean, you just you never 713 00:36:22.280 --> 00:36:23.079 know at the end of the day. 714 00:36:23.159 --> 00:36:25.199 So and look, we don't have to decide, you know, 715 00:36:25.239 --> 00:36:27.239 whether we're going keeping it at five, we're going in 716 00:36:27.239 --> 00:36:29.679 a seven or ten. We don't really need to make that, 717 00:36:30.440 --> 00:36:32.119 you know, we don't need to plan on that for 718 00:36:32.199 --> 00:36:34.679 quite a while. So we'll have enough kind of we'll 719 00:36:34.719 --> 00:36:37.559 look at this how the season starts, breaking out the numbers, 720 00:36:37.559 --> 00:36:40.559 and then kind of, you know, figure it out from 721 00:36:40.559 --> 00:36:41.599 the well. 722 00:36:41.599 --> 00:36:42.719 One of the things we have to do is we 723 00:36:42.760 --> 00:36:43.639 have to draft for it. 724 00:36:43.800 --> 00:36:47.559 You and Ildy. I'm Sorrydy, I'm crushing you. I should 725 00:36:47.599 --> 00:36:48.960 just I should give you an extra pick. 726 00:36:49.239 --> 00:36:52.199 I mean, does super highroleble count. 727 00:36:52.440 --> 00:36:53.880 We dropted for Superrollible? 728 00:36:54.199 --> 00:36:54.760 No, we didn't. 729 00:36:56.239 --> 00:36:58.280 We drafted for Paradise and Super Highrollible. 730 00:36:58.599 --> 00:37:00.480 Oh I didn't. Okay, I didn't know if it was 731 00:37:00.559 --> 00:37:01.440 just Paradise and then we. 732 00:37:01.360 --> 00:37:03.000 Were it was both. Okay. 733 00:37:03.079 --> 00:37:05.280 Yeah, so you're absolutely fucking crushing me. So it's like, 734 00:37:07.119 --> 00:37:10.360 but we'll draft anyway. For the hell I drafted jow Right, Yeah, yeah, 735 00:37:10.400 --> 00:37:10.960 of course you did. 736 00:37:11.039 --> 00:37:13.280 Yeah, but he won the non PGT event. 737 00:37:13.440 --> 00:37:15.239 Does matter? He wants to pize. 738 00:37:15.280 --> 00:37:17.440 I know. I'm just saying I'm pretty good at this thing, 739 00:37:19.039 --> 00:37:19.400 all right. 740 00:37:19.519 --> 00:37:21.679 Well, I mean I didn't do too bad because I 741 00:37:21.800 --> 00:37:25.559 had Sam's overall and Jason kohon, so it's pretty good. 742 00:37:25.800 --> 00:37:29.559 The worst situation on the world. But I'm still getting crushed. 743 00:37:29.559 --> 00:37:31.639 You're up like you have like double my points, like 744 00:37:31.679 --> 00:37:33.400 I have like nineteen hundred. You have like thirty eight 745 00:37:33.440 --> 00:37:36.679 hundred or something. So whatever, all right, so let's just 746 00:37:36.719 --> 00:37:38.239 do five new people. 747 00:37:38.440 --> 00:37:38.840 Got it. 748 00:37:38.920 --> 00:37:44.000 You're up first, I'm up first. I hope he's fucking 749 00:37:44.079 --> 00:37:48.719 list maybe, I hope he's listening. My guy, Jeremy f 750 00:37:48.840 --> 00:37:52.280 and Becker. Let's go. J Becks, are you listening. I 751 00:37:52.360 --> 00:37:55.360 drafted you first. I told you the other day, well 752 00:37:55.360 --> 00:37:57.639 we were playing at Venetian, that you were going to 753 00:37:57.719 --> 00:38:00.840 crush the PGT last chance reason. You are gonna win 754 00:38:00.840 --> 00:38:02.599 a dream seat even though you have like two hundred 755 00:38:02.599 --> 00:38:04.480 points in the year and this is your only chance 756 00:38:04.519 --> 00:38:06.440 to get in. But you are hot. He just won 757 00:38:06.440 --> 00:38:09.199 the Venetian the other day for seventy one or seventy 758 00:38:09.199 --> 00:38:11.400 two k something like that. He bagged the day one 759 00:38:11.440 --> 00:38:14.519 a Chipley last night from the next Venetian tournament. I mean, 760 00:38:14.559 --> 00:38:17.599 this guy is as hot as they come. Let's go 761 00:38:17.880 --> 00:38:23.480 Jeremy Becker. He also said, Max firing, Max firing, Jay Becks, 762 00:38:23.599 --> 00:38:27.280 let's go. So I'm in there for Jeremy freakin Becker. 763 00:38:27.599 --> 00:38:28.519 Let's go, baby. 764 00:38:29.119 --> 00:38:31.159 I'm also gonna take a Jeremy. 765 00:38:31.000 --> 00:38:32.519 You can take you get, you get two picks. 766 00:38:32.559 --> 00:38:35.400 By the way, I know I'm gonna take Jeremy Osmas. 767 00:38:35.000 --> 00:38:37.320 Oh, Jeremy. I er, yes. 768 00:38:39.119 --> 00:38:43.760 Jeremy Osmus, and give me William Alex fuckson. 769 00:38:45.400 --> 00:38:48.719 That's a good one. That's a good one, all right. 770 00:38:48.840 --> 00:38:49.800 I'm going with. 771 00:38:50.400 --> 00:38:54.400 I do have some inside of knowledge on some of 772 00:38:54.400 --> 00:38:56.840 these players, so I don't if you if you throw 773 00:38:56.920 --> 00:38:59.119 someone out that I have knowledge on al you. 774 00:38:59.119 --> 00:39:03.840 Know, taking Shannon Shore, Okay, last year. 775 00:39:03.760 --> 00:39:06.119 He did win two. He thought he wasn't gonna play 776 00:39:06.159 --> 00:39:06.599 because of. 777 00:39:06.599 --> 00:39:10.480 All his DM saying I'm in okay, yeah, good. And 778 00:39:10.480 --> 00:39:15.079 then I'm gonna go with uh, David ODB Baker, my guy. 779 00:39:15.840 --> 00:39:18.599 I know he's got at least the first three events 780 00:39:18.599 --> 00:39:20.760 listed on poker Steakes, so maybe a little bit of 781 00:39:20.760 --> 00:39:23.320 elite from me. I'm guessing ODB is gonna be one 782 00:39:23.360 --> 00:39:25.159 of those guys which you do see in the PGT 783 00:39:25.280 --> 00:39:27.880 Last Chance Series where they're not going to reach the 784 00:39:27.920 --> 00:39:30.320 top forty. So they come and they play the first 785 00:39:30.360 --> 00:39:33.440 one to three events, maybe maybe they can get some 786 00:39:33.440 --> 00:39:35.480 some stuff going, they get some points, then they're in 787 00:39:35.480 --> 00:39:37.079 the thick of it for the dream Seat Race, and 788 00:39:37.079 --> 00:39:39.639 then boom, they're playing the whole series. So that's why 789 00:39:39.639 --> 00:39:42.159 I'm drafting ODB. Plus he's my guy. Let's freaking good. 790 00:39:42.239 --> 00:39:47.480 That's good. That's a good one. I'm gonna take Sean Winter. 791 00:39:48.639 --> 00:39:50.320 Sean Winter, Yep, No. 792 00:39:50.400 --> 00:39:54.239 He's coming and he's he's in that kind of vulnerable spot, 793 00:39:54.280 --> 00:39:56.000 so I'm like, Okay, he needs to get some points. 794 00:39:56.000 --> 00:40:03.800 I'll take him. Then I'm gonna take Jim Collopy, who 795 00:40:03.920 --> 00:40:07.800 is now of course Jim will be there. Breaking news, 796 00:40:08.039 --> 00:40:11.480 Victor Blaum has opted out of the free row, which 797 00:40:11.559 --> 00:40:13.800 means Jim Callipy is now fortieth. 798 00:40:14.559 --> 00:40:17.920 Okay, there you go. Yeah, that's just for all those 799 00:40:17.920 --> 00:40:20.360 wondering about the top forty, there's not only do you 800 00:40:20.400 --> 00:40:23.000 have to have enough points to be in the top 801 00:40:23.039 --> 00:40:25.320 forty of the leaderboard, you have to also check two boxes. 802 00:40:25.360 --> 00:40:29.199 One of them is you need three PGT caches. That's 803 00:40:29.199 --> 00:40:31.119 what we were talking about for so often with Michael 804 00:40:31.119 --> 00:40:33.840 the grindermans Rocky. He ended up getting his third in 805 00:40:33.920 --> 00:40:36.800 the Bahamas. For those PGT qualifying events as part of 806 00:40:37.000 --> 00:40:40.400 WSP Paradise, there are some other players either in the 807 00:40:40.440 --> 00:40:42.360 top forty or right around the top forty who would 808 00:40:42.400 --> 00:40:44.639 need to hit the three cash marks. So maybe they'll 809 00:40:44.639 --> 00:40:47.800 be out there trying to get it during the PGT 810 00:40:47.920 --> 00:40:49.880 Last Chance series. Maybe they just pass on it. It 811 00:40:50.000 --> 00:40:52.000 was all so then in that case, you would do 812 00:40:52.079 --> 00:40:54.280 like what Tim just said with Victor Blam, you remove them, 813 00:40:54.320 --> 00:40:56.800 You bump everyone up a slot, and that's how things go. 814 00:40:56.920 --> 00:40:59.559 The second thing is that people need to opt in 815 00:40:59.800 --> 00:41:03.239 to play the championship. So what Tim is saying there 816 00:41:03.239 --> 00:41:05.920 with Victor Blom, Tim's been doing all this outreach. He's 817 00:41:05.960 --> 00:41:07.880 being the commissioner that we need. He's talking to all 818 00:41:07.880 --> 00:41:10.519 the players. Hey, you know, if you qualify in the 819 00:41:10.559 --> 00:41:12.159 top forty, are you going to play? Because what we 820 00:41:12.239 --> 00:41:14.320 don't want to happen. What the point of this is 821 00:41:14.679 --> 00:41:16.960 you don't want me. Let's say I'm in the Let's 822 00:41:16.960 --> 00:41:19.159 say I'm tenth right and I'm in I'm in the 823 00:41:19.199 --> 00:41:20.960 free row, I have my three cashes, I have enough 824 00:41:20.960 --> 00:41:23.840 points whatever, but then I just don't show up. Well 825 00:41:23.880 --> 00:41:26.480 that then we just we want forty people in the 826 00:41:26.480 --> 00:41:29.639 free row. Okay, So if you're not going to show up, fine, 827 00:41:29.920 --> 00:41:32.719 just tell us and we'll give the seat to somebody else, Okay, 828 00:41:32.840 --> 00:41:34.400 the next person on the leader ward. That's how this 829 00:41:34.440 --> 00:41:37.280 is gonna work, because we ultimately want forty people from 830 00:41:37.280 --> 00:41:40.559 the leaderboard in the free row. Right, So that's that's 831 00:41:40.559 --> 00:41:43.400 how this works. So you have to confirm with the 832 00:41:43.400 --> 00:41:45.880 commissioner that you are going to play and opt in. 833 00:41:46.760 --> 00:41:48.880 Then you have to have those three cashes and enough points. 834 00:41:48.920 --> 00:41:52.480 So so that's that's that all right. So you took 835 00:41:52.519 --> 00:41:58.920 Jim Calliby and Sewan Winter, I'm get taking I just 836 00:41:58.960 --> 00:42:02.639 thought of someone I forget all. I'm taking John Reared 837 00:42:02.639 --> 00:42:07.440 in Good One. Yeah, and I'm taking Chino ring okay, 838 00:42:07.880 --> 00:42:09.159 because I think Sheino's gonna be out. 839 00:42:09.159 --> 00:42:10.960 I mean, what what else is he gonna do? 840 00:42:11.480 --> 00:42:14.239 Yeah? There are certain people where I'm like tax situation 841 00:42:14.400 --> 00:42:16.400 or no attack situation, Like, what the hell is Chino 842 00:42:16.480 --> 00:42:18.920 Rham gonna do? What is Jerry Becker gonna do? They're 843 00:42:18.960 --> 00:42:21.840 gonna just be playing poker like end of story. So 844 00:42:22.280 --> 00:42:24.800 these guys are gonna be in there. Chino's got that 845 00:42:24.800 --> 00:42:28.199 that backing or that that foundational support in terms of 846 00:42:28.199 --> 00:42:31.360 like motivation to play, because he has an outside shot 847 00:42:31.519 --> 00:42:34.119 at winning PGT Player of the Year. He's four hundred 848 00:42:34.119 --> 00:42:38.039 and fifty one points behind Sam Soverll, so he could 849 00:42:38.079 --> 00:42:40.599 steal it in the eleventh hour. I think last year 850 00:42:41.159 --> 00:42:43.719 the person who top leaderboard had more than six hundred 851 00:42:43.719 --> 00:42:46.800 points from this series alone, So it's very doable, you know, 852 00:42:46.840 --> 00:42:50.280 it's very doable, especially if if what Tim is thinking, 853 00:42:50.320 --> 00:42:53.679 if we get a really good attendance at this series 854 00:42:53.719 --> 00:42:56.239 and there's gonna be more points up for grabs. So 855 00:42:56.840 --> 00:43:00.000 you know, Gino's a performer, you know, so he's gonn 856 00:43:00.079 --> 00:43:01.320 to get out there and get it done. All right, sir. 857 00:43:01.440 --> 00:43:02.239 Last pick for you. 858 00:43:03.320 --> 00:43:09.360 I was going to take was being the keyword Andrew Osapachenka, right, 859 00:43:09.400 --> 00:43:15.840 because he's one out of the forty. But I don't know, 860 00:43:15.920 --> 00:43:18.159 maybe he's maybe he's just there whatever. I'm just gonna 861 00:43:18.159 --> 00:43:21.000 go to Borgara. One person I know is. 862 00:43:21.320 --> 00:43:24.039 I have no knowledge, but he will be there. 863 00:43:23.920 --> 00:43:27.559 Yeah, I know, but I want to go someone that 864 00:43:28.199 --> 00:43:31.719 is basically needs to win for you'd right, I'm going 865 00:43:31.800 --> 00:43:34.559 to reach down and take Sam Lasquitz. 866 00:43:35.480 --> 00:43:36.719 I mean, he'll for sure for you there. 867 00:43:37.079 --> 00:43:40.440 Yeah. I think Chenko will be there too, but you know, 868 00:43:40.559 --> 00:43:43.000 I have more question marks on him than I would 869 00:43:43.000 --> 00:43:46.760 Sam last Qwitz, and Sam Lastwitz needs more points than 870 00:43:46.840 --> 00:43:51.719 Asa Pachenka, so he may blast even harder. That's that's 871 00:43:51.760 --> 00:43:54.400 just my kind of got feeling on it. 872 00:43:54.960 --> 00:43:58.159 Yeah. So okay, So PGT points are the scoring system 873 00:43:58.199 --> 00:44:00.599 for this, we'll do another one right before the championship 874 00:44:00.639 --> 00:44:04.599 because we have that day off in between, so we'll 875 00:44:04.599 --> 00:44:06.639 do another draft. Then we'll just draft for the championship 876 00:44:07.320 --> 00:44:08.840 and then we'll call it a year. 877 00:44:08.960 --> 00:44:11.119 I should well, whatever we do for that, you should 878 00:44:11.199 --> 00:44:15.239 get one pick in each of the sections, like the 879 00:44:15.280 --> 00:44:17.599 top ten, the next ten, the next time, the next time, 880 00:44:17.679 --> 00:44:20.239 and the dream State winness. Okay, I like, otherwise we're 881 00:44:20.239 --> 00:44:22.719 just going to take like, you know, the top ten 882 00:44:22.760 --> 00:44:23.480 chip counts by. 883 00:44:23.360 --> 00:44:27.320 Saying of course, of course, I'm also very excited to 884 00:44:27.320 --> 00:44:30.880 see how this Player of the Year race shakes out. Again. 885 00:44:30.960 --> 00:44:34.320 The gap between Sam Soverll, who's currently leading in Alex 886 00:44:34.360 --> 00:44:36.599 Fox and is only fifty five points. I mean, that's 887 00:44:36.679 --> 00:44:39.800 like a fourth place finish in one of these events, 888 00:44:39.840 --> 00:44:43.079 fifth place finish not maybe not even that, like you know, 889 00:44:43.159 --> 00:44:45.559 seventh place, six, I don't know, it's it's basically a 890 00:44:45.559 --> 00:44:48.800 decent cash like if you get to the final table. Yeah, So, 891 00:44:48.960 --> 00:44:51.519 I mean that's gonna be fun to sweat. And for 892 00:44:51.559 --> 00:44:55.480 some reason, you know, for whatever coincidence there may be, 893 00:44:55.639 --> 00:45:00.000 like these leaderboard sweats for us have always broke pretty 894 00:45:00.119 --> 00:45:03.519 well in terms of giving us max entertainment. You know, 895 00:45:03.599 --> 00:45:05.760 remember the Poo series. You had Fox and play in 896 00:45:05.760 --> 00:45:08.679 that Bounty tournament getting heads up again, and then Lonus 897 00:45:08.719 --> 00:45:10.840 was at the twenty five K final table just folding, 898 00:45:11.079 --> 00:45:13.079 like you know, you had that stuff happening. So I 899 00:45:13.079 --> 00:45:14.760 think we're gonna get a pretty good sweat here. So 900 00:45:15.119 --> 00:45:17.079 I like the chance that China reim, you know, kind 901 00:45:17.079 --> 00:45:19.000 of like it'd be hilarious if Gino like won the 902 00:45:19.000 --> 00:45:21.639 first event and it's like, oh, here we go. 903 00:45:22.000 --> 00:45:24.480 It would be hilarious if ms Rahi rocks up and 904 00:45:24.519 --> 00:45:25.800 wins the first two vans and. 905 00:45:26.079 --> 00:45:28.159 That would yeah, that would also be going. And like 906 00:45:28.159 --> 00:45:31.119 like we talked about last year, Brandon Wilson won two 907 00:45:31.199 --> 00:45:33.320 of the six events. Shannon Shore won two of the 908 00:45:33.360 --> 00:45:37.239 six events. You know, so these guys can get hot. 909 00:45:37.559 --> 00:45:39.440 I mean, I'm looking at Jeremy Becker's probably gonna win 910 00:45:39.440 --> 00:45:42.039 two of the events with the way he's going recently, 911 00:45:42.159 --> 00:45:44.599 you know, so he's running pretty hot. 912 00:45:44.639 --> 00:45:44.880 Yeah. 913 00:45:45.119 --> 00:45:53.079 Right. The most official unofficial poker Awards, Baby, let's go. 914 00:45:53.840 --> 00:45:57.519 I mean, listen, I love fun wacky awards. I guess 915 00:45:57.559 --> 00:46:02.440 you do. I have one, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, 916 00:46:02.639 --> 00:46:03.840 eight awards listed? 917 00:46:04.599 --> 00:46:06.840 Have you Yeah, you need to explain this. Do you 918 00:46:06.880 --> 00:46:09.800 have nominations or are you? Are you naming who you 919 00:46:09.840 --> 00:46:14.599 think the winner is? And then I name. 920 00:46:12.920 --> 00:46:14.480 Who your winner is for this time. 921 00:46:14.599 --> 00:46:19.079 Okay, this is gonna be tough. So first award, this 922 00:46:19.119 --> 00:46:23.239 is poker in the whole poker atmosphere, not just PGT correct. 923 00:46:23.519 --> 00:46:26.159 Yeah, a whole poker atmosphere for the entire twenty twenty five. 924 00:46:27.400 --> 00:46:29.800 So the first one. These aren't in any particular order. 925 00:46:29.800 --> 00:46:31.599 I'll just read them how I wrote them down. The 926 00:46:31.639 --> 00:46:35.360 Main Character award, Okay, this goes to the player who 927 00:46:35.480 --> 00:46:39.880 is as far as I'm concerned, box Office. Like when 928 00:46:39.920 --> 00:46:42.920 I'm talking about box Office, I mean, when this person 929 00:46:43.039 --> 00:46:46.800 was on a stream, people tuned in, people are like 930 00:46:46.880 --> 00:46:49.400 I need to watch that. I'm gonna tune in. So 931 00:46:50.599 --> 00:46:52.360 who you got for twenty twenty five? 932 00:46:53.880 --> 00:46:55.760 I mean, I have a I have I kind of 933 00:46:55.760 --> 00:46:58.920 have like three answers. I think the obvious answer is honest. 934 00:46:59.639 --> 00:47:03.280 I want to say Daniel Agrano, but like, I don't 935 00:47:03.280 --> 00:47:05.360 really want to give it to Daniel Mograno. He's barely 936 00:47:05.400 --> 00:47:06.239 being on the strings. 937 00:47:07.880 --> 00:47:11.840 But listen, it's your award, all right. 938 00:47:11.880 --> 00:47:15.840 I'm gonna fine, Nigana, you're out. I'm gonna give it 939 00:47:15.880 --> 00:47:24.599 to Allan Kating. Whether it's on I considered him, yeah, 940 00:47:24.719 --> 00:47:27.880 whether it's on our shows, A hustler, he's always gonna 941 00:47:28.480 --> 00:47:33.159 play super Agro, he's gonna you're gonna see big pots. 942 00:47:36.199 --> 00:47:40.039 It's yeah, he's he's my He's my pick, all right. 943 00:47:40.039 --> 00:47:41.840 I mean he's a good one. You know, I certainly 944 00:47:41.880 --> 00:47:43.960 considered him. He was right there at the kind of 945 00:47:44.000 --> 00:47:48.039 the top of my list. But I'm going with Martin Cabrell. 946 00:47:48.920 --> 00:47:52.880 And I know that all rising. But I mean I 947 00:47:52.920 --> 00:47:55.039 see viewership numbers when this guy gets in a game, 948 00:47:55.599 --> 00:47:58.119 I love him or hate him, And there's plenty of 949 00:47:58.119 --> 00:48:00.239 people out there who are hate watching Martin Cabra. Well, 950 00:48:00.840 --> 00:48:06.480 I mean, he's absolutely tune in, right, and I know 951 00:48:06.840 --> 00:48:08.320 some of our listeners out there are going to hate 952 00:48:08.360 --> 00:48:10.719 the fact that we or that I'm listening in for 953 00:48:10.760 --> 00:48:13.920 this award. But you know, I just again, I see 954 00:48:14.039 --> 00:48:16.800 the way that the audience reacts when when Martin Cabrell 955 00:48:16.920 --> 00:48:19.800 is out there, so love him or hate him, you know, 956 00:48:20.679 --> 00:48:24.400 people are going to They're they're paying to see this movie. 957 00:48:24.440 --> 00:48:27.440 They're paying with their time to see the streaming. You know, 958 00:48:27.480 --> 00:48:32.079 the antics, the table talk, the casino Royal not like 959 00:48:32.159 --> 00:48:35.280 that all that sort of stuff from Martin Cabrell. Right now, 960 00:48:35.559 --> 00:48:38.039 another person who's kind of in the same vein Will Cassof. 961 00:48:38.079 --> 00:48:41.159 I could not in my right mind put him anywhere 962 00:48:41.239 --> 00:48:45.719 near this award. He's not getting it. I personally feel 963 00:48:45.719 --> 00:48:49.639 like Martin Cabrell is way more palatable than Will Casoof. 964 00:48:50.880 --> 00:48:53.880 Plus Martin's like he's he's really I mean he's he's 965 00:48:53.880 --> 00:48:55.880 been a name, right, Martin Cabrell has been a name, right, 966 00:48:55.880 --> 00:48:59.400 and he's drawn buzz and eyeballs before, but he picked 967 00:48:59.440 --> 00:49:02.199 up a ton of team this summer and he's really 968 00:49:02.239 --> 00:49:05.719 like harnessed that that success and tried to do it. 969 00:49:05.760 --> 00:49:07.480 Like he's also appeared on a lot of like Hustler 970 00:49:07.519 --> 00:49:10.719 Casino Live. He's on Venetian Poker Live. You know, he's 971 00:49:10.760 --> 00:49:13.280 out there getting it, getting his h his time in, 972 00:49:13.519 --> 00:49:15.920 and he's he's even like in the booth for WS 973 00:49:15.920 --> 00:49:19.559 to be Paradise, like just crazy stuff. And he had 974 00:49:19.559 --> 00:49:22.199 a lot of success. Like I got to kind of 975 00:49:22.239 --> 00:49:25.760 bake that in as well. So main character award, you 976 00:49:25.840 --> 00:49:29.679 got Alex Keating, Alan Keating. Excuse me, I have Martin 977 00:49:29.760 --> 00:49:34.639 Cabrell all right. The next one, the correct Breakout Player 978 00:49:34.679 --> 00:49:38.679 of the Year. And yes, I am petty because I 979 00:49:38.719 --> 00:49:42.239 feel like the people who voted on the Global Poker 980 00:49:42.239 --> 00:49:44.760 Awards Breakout Player of the Year got this wrong pretty 981 00:49:44.800 --> 00:49:48.280 much every single year. So we're gonna list the correct 982 00:49:48.400 --> 00:49:52.360 Breakout Player of the Year. Okay, I'm uh, I'm gonna 983 00:49:52.360 --> 00:49:55.599 opt out of this, so go ahead. No I haven't, 984 00:49:55.679 --> 00:49:59.800 I haven't. I always struggle with this one. 985 00:50:00.119 --> 00:50:01.039 I got no idea. 986 00:50:01.920 --> 00:50:03.599 What do you what do you mean you have noice? 987 00:50:04.199 --> 00:50:04.599 You go? 988 00:50:05.400 --> 00:50:07.800 I tell you to prepare because I think and a 989 00:50:07.840 --> 00:50:09.320 half ago you do it. 990 00:50:10.280 --> 00:50:14.599 But I'm no, no, I'm saying this category exactly is just one. 991 00:50:14.719 --> 00:50:16.719 Like even when the GPI ballot comes out, I'm like, 992 00:50:16.760 --> 00:50:18.519 I don't know any of these guys. I don't even 993 00:50:18.559 --> 00:50:20.800 think I end up voting because I don't think my 994 00:50:20.920 --> 00:50:25.840 vote is worthy. But I mean, actually researching this will 995 00:50:25.920 --> 00:50:30.639 take years, But I mean I kind of think it 996 00:50:30.639 --> 00:50:33.880 would take a while. But I feel like, right off 997 00:50:33.920 --> 00:50:35.599 the top of my head, you have to take I'm 998 00:50:35.599 --> 00:50:37.719 propping on a butcher. How you say this blase surge? 999 00:50:38.039 --> 00:50:45.679 How do you say it? Blase BLUs plus the blood 1000 00:50:47.480 --> 00:50:49.559 bluse surge as whatever? You know? He won the two 1001 00:50:49.599 --> 00:50:52.960 bracelets at the World Series, he won the twenty five 1002 00:50:53.000 --> 00:50:57.920 UK No Limit, he won the fifteen hundred's the start 1003 00:50:57.960 --> 00:51:00.280 eight and then he you know, he has some other 1004 00:51:00.320 --> 00:51:03.920 deep runs and some other things. He's head, I think 1005 00:51:03.920 --> 00:51:08.159 a runner up in Paradise. To me, that you know, 1006 00:51:08.239 --> 00:51:11.199 like we no one knew this guy, right, you know 1007 00:51:11.239 --> 00:51:13.039 he did have obviously have a Hindu man before that 1008 00:51:13.039 --> 00:51:15.960 that goes just goes way back, but like you couldn't 1009 00:51:16.039 --> 00:51:17.599 have picked this guy out of a lineup. And then 1010 00:51:17.639 --> 00:51:20.480 he comes to the World Series, gets a dozen cashers, 1011 00:51:20.559 --> 00:51:28.039 two bracelets into completely polarizing events. To me, that that 1012 00:51:28.679 --> 00:51:30.599 was I would say would be a breakout the World Series. 1013 00:51:30.639 --> 00:51:33.840 And then pulling up his hindon right now, yeah, he 1014 00:51:33.880 --> 00:51:36.639 went obviously went back to Europe and just collected cash 1015 00:51:36.639 --> 00:51:40.280 as that every ept stuff there is, even wins and 1016 00:51:40.360 --> 00:51:42.920 final tables. And then, like I said, that runner up 1017 00:51:43.159 --> 00:51:47.320 in Paradise. So you know, there's probably someone better out there, 1018 00:51:47.360 --> 00:51:48.719 but off the top of my head, I feel like 1019 00:51:48.800 --> 00:51:52.119 he is, you know, a pretty decent candidate for Breakout 1020 00:51:52.119 --> 00:51:52.719 Player of the Year. 1021 00:51:53.559 --> 00:51:57.079 Yeah. I looked into him, and I believe it's Blagerie Off. 1022 00:51:57.119 --> 00:52:00.400 I believe and I think That's how we were saying 1023 00:52:00.440 --> 00:52:03.760 it during the summer on the streams. And the reason 1024 00:52:03.760 --> 00:52:08.039 why I I ultimately ruled him out as compared to 1025 00:52:08.079 --> 00:52:11.880 the player that I ended up selecting was because looking 1026 00:52:11.960 --> 00:52:15.719 at the twenty twenty four for Jerry Off, he has 1027 00:52:16.679 --> 00:52:20.880 a second place finish in an FPS main event at 1028 00:52:20.920 --> 00:52:23.480 EPT Paris for almost three n K or over three 1029 00:52:23.639 --> 00:52:27.280 dr k. He won at that same series a twenty 1030 00:52:27.320 --> 00:52:29.119 two hundred dollars event for one hundred and fifty K, 1031 00:52:29.239 --> 00:52:30.880 so it was, you know, he I think he had 1032 00:52:30.920 --> 00:52:32.639 like seven hundred and fifty K and earnings that that 1033 00:52:32.760 --> 00:52:38.719 year before, So not that those things would would register 1034 00:52:38.840 --> 00:52:41.360 him as as like his breakout year, but I just said, 1035 00:52:41.440 --> 00:52:44.920 I just thought that that year, compared to who I 1036 00:52:45.039 --> 00:52:48.840 picked their twenty twenty four, his year was a bit better. 1037 00:52:48.880 --> 00:52:52.159 So it's more of a breakout in my side of things. 1038 00:52:52.360 --> 00:52:54.840 But I understand totally what you're saying. And the two 1039 00:52:54.880 --> 00:52:58.119 bracelets I think is awesome, you know, and one of 1040 00:52:58.159 --> 00:52:59.639 them was in that that twenty five K that was 1041 00:52:59.639 --> 00:53:04.880 freaking enormous. So yeah, I went with listen, this is 1042 00:53:05.039 --> 00:53:07.000 this is one of your guys, sir, This is a 1043 00:53:07.039 --> 00:53:08.559 PGT guy. 1044 00:53:08.719 --> 00:53:14.920 Okay, win lay. Yeah, that's pretty. That's actually yeah, it's 1045 00:53:15.440 --> 00:53:17.280 a home for us. That's the way think of him. 1046 00:53:17.519 --> 00:53:21.039 Lays twenty twenty three, it's pretty forty three and twenty 1047 00:53:21.039 --> 00:53:25.039 dollars in earnings, his twenty twenty four sixty eight four 1048 00:53:25.039 --> 00:53:29.639 and fifty dollars in earnings, his twenty twenty five four million, 1049 00:53:29.800 --> 00:53:34.840 seven hundred and sixty two thousand dollars in earnings. He 1050 00:53:34.880 --> 00:53:37.719 also won a bracelet. He won the fifth one of 1051 00:53:37.719 --> 00:53:41.480 the fifty k's at the at the w SP, the 1052 00:53:41.519 --> 00:53:44.159 fifty K Nolan Haan Holdham high Roller for almost two 1053 00:53:44.159 --> 00:53:46.960 point seven million. Right before that, he won the thirty 1054 00:53:46.960 --> 00:53:50.679 five hundred dollars bet MGM Championship for seven hundred and 1055 00:53:50.719 --> 00:53:54.840 seventy seven thousand dollars, So he had that, He had 1056 00:53:54.920 --> 00:53:57.679 a He won that Borgada event. Remember they did that 1057 00:53:57.719 --> 00:54:00.960 weird thing in Jim like like that sort of thing. 1058 00:54:01.000 --> 00:54:03.159 He did that, and that was in January, you know, 1059 00:54:03.280 --> 00:54:05.159 so that was in the year. I mean, this guy 1060 00:54:05.360 --> 00:54:08.639 absolutely freaking blew up. He won a poker Master's event 1061 00:54:08.639 --> 00:54:11.559 too later on, and like, I mean, this guy came 1062 00:54:11.599 --> 00:54:16.360 out of nowhere blew up in a twenty twenty five. 1063 00:54:16.440 --> 00:54:20.960 So my winner is win Ley. It's a good breakout 1064 00:54:21.000 --> 00:54:25.280 player of the year. Yeah for twenty twenty five. As 1065 00:54:25.280 --> 00:54:27.760 far as I'm concerned. The way I do it is 1066 00:54:27.760 --> 00:54:31.239 listen to the I go to the All Time Sorry, 1067 00:54:31.239 --> 00:54:34.239 I go to the yearly Money List, clicking on people, 1068 00:54:34.760 --> 00:54:36.760 and I say, okay, like if I click on this person, 1069 00:54:36.800 --> 00:54:39.199 have they done anything before this year? Is the answer? 1070 00:54:39.280 --> 00:54:42.039 Yes or no? Okay? And then I like I start 1071 00:54:42.119 --> 00:54:44.239 ruling people out, like number one is you know, Jesse 1072 00:54:44.320 --> 00:54:46.440 Lonis is on the Ultime Money List, but obviously on 1073 00:54:46.480 --> 00:54:48.880 his name, you see that he's done everything in the 1074 00:54:48.880 --> 00:54:50.920 past year, so he's already like had his breakout, so 1075 00:54:50.960 --> 00:54:52.800 he's no longer eligible. So then you just find someone 1076 00:54:52.840 --> 00:54:54.760 like that and then you kind of weigh him against 1077 00:54:54.800 --> 00:54:58.119 each other. So you know, that's where I was. But 1078 00:54:58.239 --> 00:54:59.920 I just felt like so many times you'd get like, 1079 00:55:00.199 --> 00:55:02.199 I mean, listen and nothing against this guy, but like 1080 00:55:02.679 --> 00:55:05.039 you get a John Wosnock would be nominated like win 1081 00:55:05.119 --> 00:55:08.079 and it's like, what are we doing here, Like you know, 1082 00:55:09.000 --> 00:55:10.639 just because he did that, did it on the biggest 1083 00:55:10.639 --> 00:55:12.920 stage or like what you know? Like I don't know, 1084 00:55:13.639 --> 00:55:16.920 So anyway, that's what we got. Win Lay is mine 1085 00:55:17.239 --> 00:55:20.000 you took Blagieri off, which is a good respectable one 1086 00:55:20.000 --> 00:55:22.840 for for coming off with it on the fly. All right, 1087 00:55:22.880 --> 00:55:25.639 Next award, they can't Miss Event of the Year not 1088 00:55:25.800 --> 00:55:27.840 named the ws B Main Event, because if we did 1089 00:55:27.840 --> 00:55:29.639 include the ws being event, that's the one we would 1090 00:55:29.679 --> 00:55:32.400 just always pick what do you got for this one? 1091 00:55:33.960 --> 00:55:35.960 I'm assuming this counts, But can I can I say 1092 00:55:35.960 --> 00:55:37.960 the WSB Paradise Main Event? 1093 00:55:39.119 --> 00:55:39.519 You can't? 1094 00:55:39.599 --> 00:55:42.159 Yeah, yeah, I would say that because I think a 1095 00:55:42.159 --> 00:55:45.480 few different reasons. There was obviously the crazy increase in 1096 00:55:45.519 --> 00:55:50.679 guarantee for no reason, so I think people were I'll 1097 00:55:50.719 --> 00:55:52.159 be honest and say this, I think people were ami 1098 00:55:52.199 --> 00:55:54.679 sweating it. I think people wanted to say it miss 1099 00:55:55.039 --> 00:55:58.079 for sure. So I think there was a bit of anyone. 1100 00:55:57.760 --> 00:56:03.519 Anyone who actively picked going to the WPT Win Series 1101 00:56:03.599 --> 00:56:06.599 or wt World Championship at the win was actively sweating 1102 00:56:07.440 --> 00:56:08.119 the guarantee. 1103 00:56:08.199 --> 00:56:10.920 Yeah. Yeah, So there was the anti sweat of hoping 1104 00:56:10.920 --> 00:56:15.559 a missus. There was the craziness of you know, Daniel 1105 00:56:15.639 --> 00:56:18.239 Legrando being for thirteen buy ins and this person being 1106 00:56:18.320 --> 00:56:24.599 for twelve, et cetera. There was the crazy structure where 1107 00:56:24.719 --> 00:56:27.679 you can play Day one cash Day two, then entered 1108 00:56:27.719 --> 00:56:31.199 day one. See, I think that threw people off. And 1109 00:56:31.239 --> 00:56:33.599 then on the plus side, you know, you got a 1110 00:56:33.599 --> 00:56:37.000 ten million dollar first prize, you got people taking shots 1111 00:56:37.000 --> 00:56:40.159 in twenty five k buyings, you got players that have 1112 00:56:40.239 --> 00:56:45.039 qualified via for ten cents on club GG or GG poker. 1113 00:56:46.920 --> 00:56:49.239 And then the third cool thing about it was, you know, 1114 00:56:49.360 --> 00:56:52.280 to be honest, the production is pretty good. You know, 1115 00:56:52.320 --> 00:56:56.519 you got the two or three feature tables and all 1116 00:56:56.559 --> 00:56:58.840 that stuff, so kind of all of those things you 1117 00:56:58.840 --> 00:57:00.559 put them in a melting part kind of makes it, 1118 00:57:01.079 --> 00:57:03.440 you know, can't miss event of the year. And for 1119 00:57:03.519 --> 00:57:06.199 me personally, it was one I was you know, I 1120 00:57:06.239 --> 00:57:09.960 don't watch that much poker outside of our events, but 1121 00:57:10.039 --> 00:57:12.079 this was one I had on every day. You know, 1122 00:57:12.159 --> 00:57:14.519 I think you and me were, you know, we're either 1123 00:57:14.679 --> 00:57:17.039 texting or something, and it was on on one of 1124 00:57:17.039 --> 00:57:19.519 our screens and we're saying, check out this hand, Oh 1125 00:57:19.519 --> 00:57:21.079 my god, did you see that kind of thing? So 1126 00:57:21.119 --> 00:57:22.719 we were both kind of tuned in as well. And 1127 00:57:23.440 --> 00:57:26.159 you know, I don't normally do that outside of our 1128 00:57:26.199 --> 00:57:29.400 events outside of the WSP, So I think that to 1129 00:57:29.480 --> 00:57:31.880 me shows it was kind of a can't miss event personally. 1130 00:57:32.920 --> 00:57:36.199 Yeah, I mean, listen, I considered w spiperdis Super Main event. 1131 00:57:36.400 --> 00:57:39.320 I ultimately couldn't get there as it relates to that event, 1132 00:57:39.400 --> 00:57:43.400 because I still feel like it's an event that I 1133 00:57:43.480 --> 00:57:48.199 personally don't really aspire to play. So like I feel 1134 00:57:48.280 --> 00:57:50.679 like when I say can't miss event of the year, 1135 00:57:50.760 --> 00:57:52.800 not named the main event, it's an event that, in 1136 00:57:53.440 --> 00:57:55.679 my opinion, I'm going to go out of my way 1137 00:57:55.719 --> 00:57:58.800 to try and play, Like whether that's raised money, if 1138 00:57:58.800 --> 00:58:00.719 it's a little bit of a higher buying, whether that's 1139 00:58:01.079 --> 00:58:03.559 clear the schedule so I can play. Whatever it is, like, 1140 00:58:03.639 --> 00:58:05.679 I'm going to try and do it, you know, even 1141 00:58:05.760 --> 00:58:09.960 with the big money that's up top, the huge guarantee, 1142 00:58:10.119 --> 00:58:12.360 all that sort of stuff. Like, I don't know, I 1143 00:58:12.360 --> 00:58:16.400 don't necessarily see myself going to over extend to go 1144 00:58:16.440 --> 00:58:18.760 to the WSP Paradise Super Main Event. That's not to 1145 00:58:18.760 --> 00:58:21.000 say it's not an incredible event, and it is, right, 1146 00:58:21.280 --> 00:58:23.800 but I just feel like I feel like where I 1147 00:58:23.880 --> 00:58:27.840 am that event is still very hard. So I don't 1148 00:58:27.840 --> 00:58:30.320 know if I would ultimately go to do it. I 1149 00:58:30.360 --> 00:58:33.480 mean maybe that that changes in you know, whatever ten months, 1150 00:58:33.480 --> 00:58:36.519 eleven months or whatever, But where I sit right now, 1151 00:58:36.840 --> 00:58:40.760 I just me personally wouldn't over extend to go do it, 1152 00:58:40.800 --> 00:58:44.320 but I think it's certainly worthy of winning this award, 1153 00:58:44.360 --> 00:58:46.199 So I don't I'm not saying you made a bad 1154 00:58:46.199 --> 00:58:49.000 pick or anything like that. I went with the WPT 1155 00:58:49.159 --> 00:58:52.519 Prime Championship at the win. I mean, as far as 1156 00:58:52.559 --> 00:58:55.039 I'm concerned, that's the second best event of the year, 1157 00:58:55.880 --> 00:58:58.639 like hands down to play. Yeah, I don't even think 1158 00:58:58.639 --> 00:59:01.159 it's like I don't even think it's I mean, like 1159 00:59:01.199 --> 00:59:03.880 I think it's WSP main event. It's the WSP Prime Championship. 1160 00:59:04.599 --> 00:59:05.599 And I'll give you that. 1161 00:59:05.760 --> 00:59:08.239 If I was the WPT or sorry that I think 1162 00:59:08.280 --> 00:59:13.559 I said WSP Prime Championship the WPT Prime Championship. If 1163 00:59:13.599 --> 00:59:15.719 I was the WPT, I would be going all in 1164 00:59:15.760 --> 00:59:18.360 on this event, like I would be trying to push 1165 00:59:18.440 --> 00:59:22.079 the the guarantee to ten million next year, you know, 1166 00:59:22.360 --> 00:59:26.280 just just go push my chips in. Like now, I 1167 00:59:26.320 --> 00:59:29.519 have no idea what they're gonna do. It doesn't seem 1168 00:59:29.599 --> 00:59:33.159 like they're going to push their chips in or push 1169 00:59:33.239 --> 00:59:37.039 more chips in to bet on the WPT World Championship itself, 1170 00:59:37.280 --> 00:59:39.880 you know, because that's now been two years running without 1171 00:59:39.880 --> 00:59:43.519 the guarantee. The numbers took a fairly meaningful dive this year. 1172 00:59:43.559 --> 00:59:45.719 Even though it's still got more than eighteen hundred players, 1173 00:59:45.719 --> 00:59:47.360 it's still a very good tournament to all that sort 1174 00:59:47.400 --> 00:59:49.639 of stuff. Yes, but it just doesn't seem like that's 1175 00:59:49.639 --> 00:59:51.880 like the focal point, and it does seem like this 1176 00:59:51.960 --> 00:59:54.719 Prime Championship is a focal point, so I would continue 1177 00:59:54.719 --> 00:59:56.960 to push in there. It's also a nice break in 1178 00:59:57.039 --> 00:59:59.480 terms of like you have WSP Paradise doing their thing 1179 00:59:59.519 --> 01:00:01.880 with the Super Event and then you're on the complete 1180 01:00:01.920 --> 01:00:04.800 other side of things going with the eleven hundred dollars 1181 01:00:04.800 --> 01:00:08.239 buy in Prime Championship, and like, to me, this is 1182 01:00:08.320 --> 01:00:12.880 like this is like the mid major, mid Steaks slash 1183 01:00:12.920 --> 01:00:16.559 low stakes tournament of the year by far. Like I 1184 01:00:17.119 --> 01:00:19.880 think it's awesome, And in terms of like can't miss it, 1185 01:00:19.960 --> 01:00:23.679 Like I'm blocking out my schedule, I'm planning for max 1186 01:00:23.719 --> 01:00:26.320 Bullets like all that sort of stuff. So to me, 1187 01:00:26.480 --> 01:00:29.039 that's the one that that I'm I'm not missing, And 1188 01:00:29.400 --> 01:00:32.119 I think it's I think it's an incredible event. I 1189 01:00:32.159 --> 01:00:36.199 really do, so, Yeah, I think it's I had a 1190 01:00:36.199 --> 01:00:39.199 good feeling that, you know, if it wasn't both of 1191 01:00:39.280 --> 01:00:41.239 us picking the Prime Championship, we were probably gonna be 1192 01:00:41.320 --> 01:00:43.280 like you were probably gonna pick the Superman event and 1193 01:00:43.280 --> 01:00:45.679 I would pick this. So yeah, we got this one 1194 01:00:45.760 --> 01:00:47.679 right as well, of course, because it is our awards 1195 01:00:47.719 --> 01:00:52.360 at the end of the day. The next one, the 1196 01:00:52.519 --> 01:00:56.400 yeah Butt Award. This is for the player whose year 1197 01:00:56.639 --> 01:00:59.320 came with an asterisk that everyone's going to bring up 1198 01:00:59.320 --> 01:01:01.920 so when they say like, hey, remember so and so 1199 01:01:01.960 --> 01:01:03.840 in twenty twenty five and then someone was like yeah, 1200 01:01:03.880 --> 01:01:07.400 but blah blah blah, so we mentioned the player, but 1201 01:01:07.400 --> 01:01:10.159 we're always gonna say yeah, but with it and you 1202 01:01:10.199 --> 01:01:13.239 can kind of take that and and you know, put 1203 01:01:13.280 --> 01:01:15.360 it into whatever meaning you want when you give out 1204 01:01:15.360 --> 01:01:15.840 this award. 1205 01:01:16.199 --> 01:01:23.360 This is easy, okay. Benny Glaza, oh three bracelets? What 1206 01:01:23.360 --> 01:01:26.320 what an insane year at the w s P. And 1207 01:01:26.360 --> 01:01:28.320 then the year but is did he yeah, but did 1208 01:01:28.320 --> 01:01:29.360 he win Player of the Year? 1209 01:01:29.960 --> 01:01:33.159 Okay, okay, I mean yeah, that's interest. I didn't even 1210 01:01:33.159 --> 01:01:33.719 think of Benny. 1211 01:01:34.039 --> 01:01:35.800 This this is obviously yeah. 1212 01:01:35.800 --> 01:01:37.320 But remember when he got slow rolled. 1213 01:01:38.159 --> 01:01:41.679 I'm not even bringing that one up, but that that 1214 01:01:41.679 --> 01:01:44.400 one might come up in uh yeah a little bit later. 1215 01:01:45.880 --> 01:01:48.920 But you think about, uh Scott save his year of 1216 01:01:48.920 --> 01:01:53.039 the year before three bracelets, We've seen people wind Player 1217 01:01:53.039 --> 01:01:56.320 of the Year with a very with a set of 1218 01:01:56.360 --> 01:02:01.480 results less superior to what Benny did. Unfortunately, the yeah, 1219 01:02:01.519 --> 01:02:03.880 but he ran into the guy that wins the two 1220 01:02:03.920 --> 01:02:07.519 biggest events of the World Series and along with the 1221 01:02:07.599 --> 01:02:11.039 before min cash as everywhere else to kind of outthrow him. 1222 01:02:11.079 --> 01:02:14.239 But yeah, Benny Glassar, I think is the year but 1223 01:02:14.880 --> 01:02:16.039 the easy year butt for me. 1224 01:02:17.760 --> 01:02:19.559 So the first person that came to mind for me 1225 01:02:21.000 --> 01:02:27.159 was Renlnn obviously the ghosting whatever you know whatever thing. 1226 01:02:27.280 --> 01:02:29.199 But then I was like looking up his year and 1227 01:02:29.199 --> 01:02:30.440 I was like, he didn't do too much where I 1228 01:02:30.440 --> 01:02:34.960 would like he would be necessarily brought up right. And 1229 01:02:35.000 --> 01:02:37.480 then I went with somebody who I already picked. I'm 1230 01:02:37.480 --> 01:02:41.679 giving him, give him the award again, Martin Cabrell because 1231 01:02:41.760 --> 01:02:45.039 he had a great year. And then everyone's gonna be like, yeah, 1232 01:02:45.079 --> 01:02:48.280 but he's horrible to watch on TV, or yeah, but 1233 01:02:48.519 --> 01:02:50.920 I can't stand that guy, or yeah but this, yeah 1234 01:02:50.960 --> 01:02:54.079 but that right, like with with Martin Cabrell. So you 1235 01:02:54.119 --> 01:02:57.559 know Cabrell had would he win one or two bracelets 1236 01:02:57.599 --> 01:03:00.840 this year? I think two because he won one in Europe. 1237 01:03:00.840 --> 01:03:02.920 I believe he won the tan k Plo and mister 1238 01:03:02.960 --> 01:03:05.360 Boundie in Europe, and then he won the the Mini 1239 01:03:05.440 --> 01:03:06.320 Maine Mini Maine. 1240 01:03:06.400 --> 01:03:08.679 Yeah, he gus. I think he had a deep run 1241 01:03:08.719 --> 01:03:10.920 in the main event too. He hit a bunch of 1242 01:03:10.960 --> 01:03:12.119 deep runs in the summer. Well. 1243 01:03:12.119 --> 01:03:14.199 He final table with the tan k super Zoba Boundy 1244 01:03:14.280 --> 01:03:16.960 like two days before the Mini Maine and and final 1245 01:03:16.960 --> 01:03:19.719 table the two fifty K and final table with the 1246 01:03:19.719 --> 01:03:20.639 five k PLO. 1247 01:03:20.920 --> 01:03:23.360 So yeah, he had the running for Player of the Year. 1248 01:03:23.519 --> 01:03:26.599 Like you know, obviously people were tuning in to watch him, 1249 01:03:26.599 --> 01:03:28.719 whether they were watching him because they liked his antics, 1250 01:03:28.760 --> 01:03:31.000 whether they were watching him because they hate watching whatever. 1251 01:03:31.360 --> 01:03:33.920 But anytime you bring this this guy up and the 1252 01:03:34.000 --> 01:03:36.000 year that he had, it's gonna be hit with a 1253 01:03:36.079 --> 01:03:39.920 yeah butt. Yeah but I can't stand that guy. Yeah, 1254 01:03:39.960 --> 01:03:43.480 but he's he should be penalized, like yeah, but like 1255 01:03:43.519 --> 01:03:46.519 whatever it is, it's there's always gonna be a yeah 1256 01:03:46.559 --> 01:03:50.599 butt with him. So so he's my my yeah butt 1257 01:03:50.920 --> 01:03:57.679 award there. Next up the Iron Chair Award. This is 1258 01:03:57.719 --> 01:04:01.559 going to the player who simply would not leave, doesn't 1259 01:04:01.599 --> 01:04:04.800 matter what's going on. This player was in the field 1260 01:04:04.920 --> 01:04:05.800 and he was battling. 1261 01:04:07.159 --> 01:04:11.599 Go ahead, as I read this, awarded to the player 1262 01:04:11.639 --> 01:04:14.079 who simply would have would not leave. I only thought 1263 01:04:14.119 --> 01:04:16.920 of one name, which is very different to how you 1264 01:04:17.000 --> 01:04:21.000 just said it, which was okay, always battling because my 1265 01:04:21.079 --> 01:04:24.920 guy was just kind of obviously William Kassouf. 1266 01:04:25.159 --> 01:04:31.480 Uh would not leave. Everyone's best efforts, would not leave. 1267 01:04:31.679 --> 01:04:34.639 He would not leave. He's you know. We had Bob 1268 01:04:34.679 --> 01:04:36.280 Smith come over and give him a penalty. 1269 01:04:37.039 --> 01:04:37.800 He would not leave. 1270 01:04:38.039 --> 01:04:40.360 And then he busted and did a thirty minute bust 1271 01:04:40.360 --> 01:04:43.119 out interview. Did all the media is. 1272 01:04:43.119 --> 01:04:46.000 That that watched the stream that they that Natalie body 1273 01:04:46.559 --> 01:04:49.880 God bless her heart for sticking with his question one 1274 01:04:49.960 --> 01:04:55.400 question thirty away and they left the camera like on him. 1275 01:04:55.480 --> 01:04:58.000 Natalie kept holding the microphone like the interview was still 1276 01:04:58.039 --> 01:05:01.000 happening while they showed play and then they went back. 1277 01:05:01.199 --> 01:05:04.719 It was the same thing. Yeah, that was actually what happened, 1278 01:05:04.719 --> 01:05:06.400 like behind the scenes, that's what happened. 1279 01:05:06.519 --> 01:05:08.719 And then after that, after the Natalie interview, he gave 1280 01:05:08.719 --> 01:05:10.800 more interviews to the other media and then finally he 1281 01:05:10.840 --> 01:05:15.119 was ushered out and I think he was banned for 1282 01:05:15.199 --> 01:05:17.519 the rest of the world series. I think that was 1283 01:05:17.559 --> 01:05:19.119 the band he was given. I don't think anything more 1284 01:05:19.159 --> 01:05:21.639 than that. But still like talking about someone they wanted 1285 01:05:21.599 --> 01:05:25.440 to leave. It's him, but like, if we're talking about it, 1286 01:05:25.519 --> 01:05:28.639 wouldn't leave. Is in more of a tournament aspect then 1287 01:05:28.840 --> 01:05:31.480 obviously becausof doesn't apply. But I'll let you. I'll let 1288 01:05:31.519 --> 01:05:32.199 you take that one. 1289 01:05:32.320 --> 01:05:35.880 Well, okay, my my winner is who I wanted to 1290 01:05:36.000 --> 01:05:37.679 name the award after, but I didn't want to give 1291 01:05:37.679 --> 01:05:39.800 it away, And it's Jeremy Becker. I mean, come on, 1292 01:05:40.239 --> 01:05:44.119 the guy is literally there in every single tournament. 1293 01:05:45.679 --> 01:05:46.559 He's a bit of a ground. 1294 01:05:47.199 --> 01:05:52.119 Wanted me to look up some players on Hendon Mob, 1295 01:05:52.280 --> 01:05:54.159 you know, because I'm thinking of like, like, if there's 1296 01:05:54.159 --> 01:05:57.119 a tournament, Jeremy Becker's there, He's in there until they 1297 01:05:57.119 --> 01:06:00.519 literally tell him he can't play, Like he's max bullets. 1298 01:06:00.559 --> 01:06:02.079 It doesn't matter if it's a two hundred dollar buying 1299 01:06:02.159 --> 01:06:04.840 or a five K buying, It doesn't matter until registration closes, 1300 01:06:04.880 --> 01:06:06.639 and then he has to bust and actually leave and 1301 01:06:06.639 --> 01:06:09.079 go somewhere else. And then in that case, it's usually like, oh, 1302 01:06:09.119 --> 01:06:10.760 can I make it to this next venue to play 1303 01:06:10.800 --> 01:06:14.679 the next tournament? Like that's just how it operates. But 1304 01:06:15.079 --> 01:06:17.840 because of that, you know, I was looking it up. 1305 01:06:17.840 --> 01:06:20.000 He had eighty two cashes on the year In twenty 1306 01:06:20.079 --> 01:06:26.320 twenty five, Pedro Palasio one hundred and fifty six cashes. 1307 01:06:26.360 --> 01:06:29.840 I mean, this guy is this guy's is Florida's version 1308 01:06:29.840 --> 01:06:32.599 of Jeremy Becker. I mean every tournament is just a 1309 01:06:32.599 --> 01:06:34.920 two hundred dollar, one hundred and fifty dollars tournament at 1310 01:06:34.920 --> 01:06:39.800 Seminal Coconut Creek, just NonStop, eighty dollars tournament, one hundred 1311 01:06:39.800 --> 01:06:43.079 dollars tournament. You know, just this whole thing is just wild. 1312 01:06:43.239 --> 01:06:44.840 Last year he had like one hundred and fifty k 1313 01:06:44.960 --> 01:06:48.440 in earnings and I'm not sure he played a tournament 1314 01:06:48.480 --> 01:06:51.639 with a higher buy in the three hundred dollars. It's 1315 01:06:51.760 --> 01:06:54.119 just non stop in this Oh there's there's a four 1316 01:06:54.159 --> 01:06:57.800 and dollars one at the WPT at Seminal hard Rock, 1317 01:06:57.880 --> 01:06:59.719 but a six hundred dollar one as well. I mean 1318 01:06:59.719 --> 01:07:04.119 this is just Pedro Palasio shout out to you, sir, 1319 01:07:04.159 --> 01:07:09.559 Coconut Creek, Florida, just absolutely out there grinding, crushing this 1320 01:07:09.639 --> 01:07:12.480 other guy too, well, not this guy, this guy who 1321 01:07:13.800 --> 01:07:15.119 the guy in second place? We had one hundred and 1322 01:07:15.119 --> 01:07:18.800 thirty year. Yeah, he's all in. Where's he at? 1323 01:07:19.199 --> 01:07:19.880 Like Taiwan? 1324 01:07:22.559 --> 01:07:27.039 Yeah, Taipei City is where he's playing at cash and everything. 1325 01:07:27.079 --> 01:07:28.960 But he's got like, well, I don't know what these 1326 01:07:28.960 --> 01:07:31.559 conversions are. Yeah, they're they're smaller, so the same sort 1327 01:07:31.599 --> 01:07:34.760 of thing. But then the guy in third place, Conrad 1328 01:07:34.880 --> 01:07:38.920 co Conrad Cou, It's just it's just south Point, south 1329 01:07:38.920 --> 01:07:42.440 Point south He's a legend. This is south Point NonStop. 1330 01:07:42.480 --> 01:07:45.320 This is all south Point. We look this guy up. 1331 01:07:45.559 --> 01:07:48.519 It's literally the whole thig is south Point. If I 1332 01:07:48.559 --> 01:07:50.760 know this guy's I mean south Point. SHO just signed 1333 01:07:50.800 --> 01:07:55.079 this guy to a deal. It's just outrageous whole thing. 1334 01:07:55.199 --> 01:07:58.159 South Point Nightly, south Point Nightly, south Point Nightly, south Point. 1335 01:07:58.159 --> 01:07:59.840 It's just not every once in a while you'll get 1336 01:07:59.880 --> 01:08:03.079 like the Orleans pops in there or whatever. But yeah, 1337 01:08:03.280 --> 01:08:07.800 this is wild. So anyway, shout out to the grinders 1338 01:08:07.840 --> 01:08:09.880 out there, you know, shout out to the grinders out there. 1339 01:08:09.920 --> 01:08:13.800 But you go down to this guy, Michael Myles. Everything 1340 01:08:13.840 --> 01:08:16.279 is at Tunica, same thing, like. 1341 01:08:16.600 --> 01:08:19.399 Just grinding the dailies in their respective areas, I mean, good, 1342 01:08:19.399 --> 01:08:26.760 shout out to them. It's freaking awesome, all right. Next 1343 01:08:26.760 --> 01:08:30.479 award h most likely to run it back. That's the 1344 01:08:30.520 --> 01:08:34.279 player most likely to repeat their success for another year. 1345 01:08:34.439 --> 01:08:37.239 We're talking about consistency here. It's the most It's the 1346 01:08:37.279 --> 01:08:40.760 person that you would you would most bank to have 1347 01:08:40.840 --> 01:08:43.600 a similar year to the next year. You know, So 1348 01:08:43.680 --> 01:08:45.600 if you gave me, like basically one name that I 1349 01:08:45.640 --> 01:08:47.520 could bet on, being like, hey, will they achieve the 1350 01:08:47.520 --> 01:08:51.079 same sort of success of another elite year, you know, 1351 01:08:51.159 --> 01:08:53.000 this is the person that I would be better on. 1352 01:08:53.159 --> 01:08:54.199 So who you got? 1353 01:08:54.479 --> 01:08:56.920 It does make it hotter when you can sit up 1354 01:08:57.279 --> 01:09:03.359 the old the tax implications for the Americans. But I 1355 01:09:03.399 --> 01:09:08.920 feel like, to me, we kind of if you were 1356 01:09:08.920 --> 01:09:11.000 to talk about twenty twenty five proka, you might even 1357 01:09:11.000 --> 01:09:16.560 mentioned this guy, but he somehow compiled twelve point six 1358 01:09:16.560 --> 01:09:20.239 million dollars in earnings this year, and that's Stephen Shildwick. 1359 01:09:20.560 --> 01:09:26.399 So twelve point six phenomenal, second highest every year he's had. 1360 01:09:26.399 --> 01:09:28.600 He had a thirteen million year back in twenty nineteen. 1361 01:09:29.760 --> 01:09:32.239 I'm going to rule out twenty twenty and twenty twenty 1362 01:09:32.239 --> 01:09:36.199 one because you know that old you know that old 1363 01:09:36.279 --> 01:09:39.000 virus thing imagig. But basically last year at eight point eight, 1364 01:09:39.199 --> 01:09:41.920 twenty twenty three, nine point eight, twenty twenty two, seven million, 1365 01:09:42.279 --> 01:09:45.760 twenty nineteen, thirteen point five, twenty eighteen, ten, My point is, 1366 01:09:46.920 --> 01:09:49.079 obviously twelve's a lot more than what you would say 1367 01:09:49.079 --> 01:09:53.039 he's averages over the last few years. But he is 1368 01:09:53.399 --> 01:09:55.840 going to continue to travel and play all the trents, 1369 01:09:55.920 --> 01:09:57.840 play all the big stuff here. I don't think his 1370 01:09:59.239 --> 01:10:03.079 playing volume change. So it's definitely very likely that he 1371 01:10:03.159 --> 01:10:08.039 can replicate the amount of winnings. You know, he's had 1372 01:10:08.039 --> 01:10:14.000 this year, and he hasn't really won a lot tournament 1373 01:10:14.000 --> 01:10:16.159 wise compared to you know, some of these other names 1374 01:10:16.159 --> 01:10:18.119 you name, but you know, he won a super higher 1375 01:10:18.159 --> 01:10:20.319 roller here at napt he won to try an event, 1376 01:10:20.760 --> 01:10:24.479 a couple close calls at the World Series, but no 1377 01:10:24.720 --> 01:10:28.000 like super marquee wins. So I think he has still 1378 01:10:28.039 --> 01:10:30.239 a little bit of room to convert a lot of 1379 01:10:30.239 --> 01:10:33.560 these you know, final Like you look at his results 1380 01:10:33.560 --> 01:10:36.279 of trying. You know, we got a seventh and eighth, 1381 01:10:36.319 --> 01:10:39.159 the sixth, the sixth at that stuff. You know, we 1382 01:10:39.239 --> 01:10:41.640 had that one win, but we had eight first, second, eighth, 1383 01:10:42.319 --> 01:10:45.159 you know, Paradise, he had a fifth, like his World 1384 01:10:45.199 --> 01:10:48.439 Series second second or one of those seconds was the Ariahrola, 1385 01:10:48.520 --> 01:10:52.600 but second he's like right there this year, sorry, last 1386 01:10:52.680 --> 01:10:56.880 year without getting that big marquee win. So even though 1387 01:10:56.920 --> 01:10:59.239 he cashed for you know, twelve million plus, which is 1388 01:10:59.279 --> 01:11:01.880 a lot compared to the last few years. The fact 1389 01:11:01.880 --> 01:11:04.239 that he kind of fell short in the big moment 1390 01:11:04.359 --> 01:11:07.039 shows that I think there is still some room for 1391 01:11:07.119 --> 01:11:11.840 him to, with that doubt, replicate his results, especially with him, 1392 01:11:11.880 --> 01:11:14.800 you know, not being a tax paying American. 1393 01:11:16.880 --> 01:11:20.640 I'm going with Alex Fox and I mean, this guy 1394 01:11:20.680 --> 01:11:23.279 round the taxes. He's just got what the heck is 1395 01:11:23.279 --> 01:11:24.520 Alex Fox is gonna do with his life. 1396 01:11:24.760 --> 01:11:27.760 Come on, he's gonna go play in the UFO. 1397 01:11:28.319 --> 01:11:32.000 Okay, Mike, right now, whatever, I don't care. Eleven point 1398 01:11:32.039 --> 01:11:34.199 six million in twenty twenty four, eleven point twenty six 1399 01:11:34.239 --> 01:11:36.560 million in twenty twenty five. I mean, this guy's just 1400 01:11:37.600 --> 01:11:40.439 he's an eight figure printing machine, is what he is. 1401 01:11:40.680 --> 01:11:43.520 He's gonna Like, if I'm going to bank on somebody 1402 01:11:43.560 --> 01:11:47.079 to repeat an eight figure year get over ten million, 1403 01:11:47.199 --> 01:11:50.199 it's Alex Fox to me. I mean, that guy's just 1404 01:11:50.199 --> 01:11:51.560 gonna be out there, is going to be doing it. 1405 01:11:51.600 --> 01:11:55.000 So I am banking on Alex foxen for my most 1406 01:11:55.039 --> 01:11:56.720 likely to run it back. Tim has got to. 1407 01:11:56.720 --> 01:12:00.960 Be fun to bet on the opposite like who had 1408 01:12:00.960 --> 01:12:03.960 a big year and who's going to be nowhere near 1409 01:12:03.960 --> 01:12:07.239 it obviously the first Michael, Yeah, he's the first pick, 1410 01:12:07.279 --> 01:12:09.920 but like, it'd be interesting to actually do that one too, 1411 01:12:10.560 --> 01:12:11.039 I think. 1412 01:12:10.960 --> 01:12:13.079 Yeah, I mean yeah. I didn't want to make it 1413 01:12:13.079 --> 01:12:17.119 too negative in the awards, but it did cross my mind. 1414 01:12:18.279 --> 01:12:22.159 Next year, all right, the next one. I'm calling this 1415 01:12:22.199 --> 01:12:25.439 one the Connor Yackey, okay, And it's a blend between 1416 01:12:25.800 --> 01:12:30.640 Connor Drynen and Bryce Yacky because those two hands are legendary. 1417 01:12:30.680 --> 01:12:34.119 Connor when he had the aces versus carry Katz's aces 1418 01:12:34.159 --> 01:12:36.159 and the big one for one drop the million dollar 1419 01:12:36.239 --> 01:12:38.000 buying and he lost, They got the money and pre 1420 01:12:38.079 --> 01:12:41.479 Floppy lost. Bryce Yackey we all know from the fifty 1421 01:12:41.560 --> 01:12:45.840 k PPC against josh Aria took that horrendous beat in 1422 01:12:45.960 --> 01:12:50.880 what Douce seven triple draw. So this is the Connor Yacky. 1423 01:12:50.960 --> 01:12:54.760 It is the most memorable beat of the year. I'll 1424 01:12:54.800 --> 01:12:58.720 let you go fests I have now this one's I 1425 01:12:58.800 --> 01:13:01.600 might get a little pushback here, but I'm going with it, okay. 1426 01:13:02.399 --> 01:13:08.399 Jared Blesnik Romayne Lequay aces versus nines in a the 1427 01:13:08.520 --> 01:13:11.439 six bet pot in the WSP main event when look 1428 01:13:11.680 --> 01:13:15.960 flop the nine. The thing is is like the money 1429 01:13:16.000 --> 01:13:19.159 didn't get into the turn and Laquay had freaking quakes like, 1430 01:13:19.359 --> 01:13:21.720 but still, this was a beat. The way that this 1431 01:13:21.800 --> 01:13:24.399 hand played out, there is no way that Loque should 1432 01:13:24.439 --> 01:13:28.560 ever have bucking nines here, yet he did in an 1433 01:13:28.600 --> 01:13:33.720 absolutely wild hand left Jared Blesnick freaking stunned. Like it 1434 01:13:33.960 --> 01:13:37.640 just just crazy shit in this one. So it was 1435 01:13:37.720 --> 01:13:41.880 aces versus nines. I believe it was maybe button or 1436 01:13:41.880 --> 01:13:44.720 cut off for Blessnick and big blind for Luquay. It 1437 01:13:44.800 --> 01:13:49.079 was raised, re raised, re rais, reraise, reraised, call nine 1438 01:13:49.279 --> 01:13:51.319 five three or nine five six or something on the 1439 01:13:51.319 --> 01:13:54.079 flop they ended up getting the money on the turn 1440 01:13:54.119 --> 01:13:57.159 when it's another nine. So yeah, to me, that that 1441 01:13:57.239 --> 01:13:59.840 was that was the most memorable beat of the year. 1442 01:14:01.520 --> 01:14:03.640 Plus with the way Jared acted afterwards where he was 1443 01:14:03.680 --> 01:14:08.520 like walking around like just totally stunned. Yeah. 1444 01:14:08.600 --> 01:14:11.520 I mean this could be recency biased, but there's two 1445 01:14:11.560 --> 01:14:14.359 that kind of stand out to me. One was more 1446 01:14:14.359 --> 01:14:15.920 a series of hands you already touched on it. The 1447 01:14:16.000 --> 01:14:18.920 Jason Kuhn Jars heads up match all those beats that 1448 01:14:19.039 --> 01:14:22.279 Kuhn took before busting. It's not really one hand, so 1449 01:14:22.640 --> 01:14:25.439 but still I think the moment becoming a super high 1450 01:14:25.479 --> 01:14:28.760 rolla bowl, you know, champion. There's a bit more gravity 1451 01:14:28.760 --> 01:14:31.279 task to that win outside of just the one point 1452 01:14:31.319 --> 01:14:34.720 one million dollars. First, I know it's not really a 1453 01:14:34.720 --> 01:14:39.039 bad beat, but how do we not put the the 1454 01:14:39.079 --> 01:14:40.800 Benny Glasa Eric wasses in hand. 1455 01:14:41.439 --> 01:14:43.439 I know, it's not like, I mean, that is a beat. 1456 01:14:43.560 --> 01:14:44.119 It's a beat. 1457 01:14:44.199 --> 01:14:45.079 It's not a bad beat. 1458 01:14:45.119 --> 01:14:47.199 It's just like, yeah, but I put the most memorable 1459 01:14:47.199 --> 01:14:47.960 beat of the year. 1460 01:14:48.239 --> 01:14:55.279 That's I mean, you're throwing the steaks the stage. I mean, 1461 01:14:55.520 --> 01:14:58.039 it was disgusting. I don't know how he can. 1462 01:14:58.079 --> 01:15:05.359 I I Eric Wasterson. I am kind of for a 1463 01:15:05.359 --> 01:15:08.119 good slow roll at certain times, you know, like kind 1464 01:15:08.119 --> 01:15:11.279 of like a home game with your buddies, a live 1465 01:15:11.319 --> 01:15:14.920 stream cash game, that sort of stuff. Yeah, this to 1466 01:15:15.039 --> 01:15:18.560 me crossed the line. Its like, not not like he's 1467 01:15:18.800 --> 01:15:22.640 he's necessarily breaking any rules, but in terms of like 1468 01:15:22.680 --> 01:15:25.319 crossing the line as when when are you considered like 1469 01:15:25.359 --> 01:15:29.159 the ultimate dick? This is this? Was it like this 1470 01:15:29.439 --> 01:15:32.880 he went over the line. From all accounts from the 1471 01:15:32.880 --> 01:15:35.479 people that I've talked to, it was with purpose. Okay, 1472 01:15:35.800 --> 01:15:37.920 like they had some beef going back whatever, Okay, I 1473 01:15:37.960 --> 01:15:39.960 get it. But like I mean, come on, I mean 1474 01:15:39.960 --> 01:15:44.479 come on, like this was ouch. I mean, I you know, 1475 01:15:44.520 --> 01:15:48.479 come on. So yeah, that was that was something and 1476 01:15:48.560 --> 01:15:51.119 if you watched. He later appeared on Venetian Poker Live 1477 01:15:51.119 --> 01:15:54.720 and they started talking about it, and he said God 1478 01:15:54.800 --> 01:16:00.720 slow rolled him like basically that like because of the 1479 01:16:00.760 --> 01:16:02.680 past stuff that they might have had, which I thinks 1480 01:16:02.720 --> 01:16:06.520 them back to the summer, that it was like the 1481 01:16:06.560 --> 01:16:11.159 poker gods giving it back to him, giving it back 1482 01:16:11.199 --> 01:16:15.720 to Benny Glauser. So therefore God slow rolled him like oh, 1483 01:16:15.800 --> 01:16:18.960 I mean okay, like I mean, this was this was absurd. 1484 01:16:19.039 --> 01:16:23.880 Like I I felt so bad when I watched that happen. Yeah, 1485 01:16:23.960 --> 01:16:27.479 I mean, how could you not feel so bad? I 1486 01:16:27.520 --> 01:16:30.159 was like holy shit, I mean like really on that 1487 01:16:30.239 --> 01:16:32.720 stage in that moment, like okay, you want to do 1488 01:16:32.720 --> 01:16:35.159 it like level two, I mean okay, like I get it. 1489 01:16:36.079 --> 01:16:37.800 I would probably say that it would probably not have 1490 01:16:37.840 --> 01:16:39.640 been that bad, like if it was a stone bubble 1491 01:16:39.840 --> 01:16:42.560 and you did it to him, because you know, yeah, 1492 01:16:42.600 --> 01:16:44.640 I understand, like it's a stone bubble. It hurts, and 1493 01:16:44.680 --> 01:16:46.920 it's like a difference of you know, zero or fifty 1494 01:16:46.960 --> 01:16:48.520 K or maybe seventy five K if you had the 1495 01:16:48.520 --> 01:16:51.359 bonuses or whatever, like I get it, but like this 1496 01:16:51.520 --> 01:16:55.960 was the final table bubble or whatever. That was holy shit, man, 1497 01:16:56.079 --> 01:17:01.079 like what good? God? Like, Yeah, it's like if somebody 1498 01:17:01.119 --> 01:17:02.359 told if you were to tell me that you were 1499 01:17:02.399 --> 01:17:05.159 gonna if you were planning to do this, I'd be like, 1500 01:17:05.600 --> 01:17:10.279 that's fucking hilarious. Don't you dare fucking do that. You know, 1501 01:17:10.560 --> 01:17:11.760 it's one of those things. 1502 01:17:12.039 --> 01:17:14.920 I love a good slow roll. I will do it 1503 01:17:16.319 --> 01:17:18.560 all the time when I can, when I'm playing low 1504 01:17:18.600 --> 01:17:19.680 Stags cash for the Friends. 1505 01:17:20.319 --> 01:17:21.680 This is. 1506 01:17:24.359 --> 01:17:26.840 Just an insane spot to do it. And then let's 1507 01:17:26.880 --> 01:17:32.720 also not forget that for for Benny, there's also another 1508 01:17:32.840 --> 01:17:35.479 hundred k for just making that final table with the 1509 01:17:35.600 --> 01:17:40.119 with the w SP parla. So you are slow rolled. 1510 01:17:40.920 --> 01:17:43.039 He you know, missed the next page jump and you 1511 01:17:43.079 --> 01:17:46.800 miss out on one hundred K bonus. It's just a 1512 01:17:46.840 --> 01:17:50.640 whole world of you know, hell, but hey, but yeah 1513 01:17:50.680 --> 01:17:53.079 and but yeah, but he won three bracelets at the 1514 01:17:53.079 --> 01:17:54.479 World Series Vegas. He's fine. 1515 01:17:55.199 --> 01:17:57.920 If Benny punched him after that happened, I would have 1516 01:17:57.960 --> 01:18:01.960 been like, yeah, that was deserved. What he would never 1517 01:18:02.079 --> 01:18:03.560 I know he would never. But like if there was 1518 01:18:03.560 --> 01:18:05.000 a time when like you'd be like, yeah, that guy 1519 01:18:05.039 --> 01:18:06.680 deserved to get punched for what he did. I'd probably 1520 01:18:06.680 --> 01:18:08.159 be like, yeah, that one's that one qualifies. 1521 01:18:08.560 --> 01:18:09.520 It definitely qualifies. 1522 01:18:09.680 --> 01:18:12.439 Yeah, like if he punched him, like, what are you 1523 01:18:12.479 --> 01:18:15.520 gonna do? Like you're like listen, yeah, that yeah, Okay, 1524 01:18:16.159 --> 01:18:19.319 that was the most dickkest thing you could do. I mean, 1525 01:18:19.359 --> 01:18:24.920 good God, like, man, that was something. All right. Last 1526 01:18:24.920 --> 01:18:27.880 award here the Face of the Year award. So this 1527 01:18:27.920 --> 01:18:31.199 award goes to the player who defined the year, in 1528 01:18:31.239 --> 01:18:35.079 this case twenty twenty five, so looking ahead, you know, five, ten, fifteen, 1529 01:18:35.159 --> 01:18:37.199 twenty five years down the road. You know, we often 1530 01:18:37.239 --> 01:18:39.119 do this all the time, like, hey, remember when this 1531 01:18:39.199 --> 01:18:43.000 happened in that year? So what is who is the 1532 01:18:43.039 --> 01:18:44.960 face of the Year for twenty twenty five? 1533 01:18:46.239 --> 01:18:49.079 I mean, I think it's obviously Michael Mrochi. I'm trying 1534 01:18:49.079 --> 01:18:51.199 to think if as a if it's a second person, 1535 01:18:51.239 --> 01:18:51.760 I could call it. 1536 01:18:52.199 --> 01:18:55.279 Like the Grinder, Miss Rocky, like sorry, yeah, but to 1537 01:18:55.319 --> 01:18:58.920 Benny Glasser for the for the three racelets and not 1538 01:18:58.920 --> 01:19:00.640 winning Player of the Year and all that sort of stuff. 1539 01:19:00.640 --> 01:19:04.800 But I mean it's Michael the grind. Name is Rocky's year. 1540 01:19:05.840 --> 01:19:07.199 Yeah, I'm trying to I'm trying to think of the 1541 01:19:07.199 --> 01:19:08.880 top of my head if I think of someone else. 1542 01:19:11.119 --> 01:19:13.880 No, there is there's It's not like, who else are 1543 01:19:13.840 --> 01:19:14.399 you gonna think of? 1544 01:19:14.720 --> 01:19:16.439 I don't know. I'm going down the rabbit hall of 1545 01:19:16.560 --> 01:19:20.199 content creatives and looking. I'm looking so far outside of 1546 01:19:20.199 --> 01:19:20.920 the box if I can. 1547 01:19:21.760 --> 01:19:26.000 I mean, Martin Cabrell kind of comes to mind, just 1548 01:19:26.039 --> 01:19:29.199 because like everyone will remember remember that, like that year 1549 01:19:29.239 --> 01:19:31.479 when he was so crazy, but he's also had another 1550 01:19:31.600 --> 01:19:33.560 year like that where he's also been kind of crazy. 1551 01:19:33.880 --> 01:19:35.840 You know, it wasn't as long and has drawn out. 1552 01:19:35.880 --> 01:19:38.359 It was more center ground, like one specific event. But still, 1553 01:19:39.920 --> 01:19:42.079 you know, I would say, by far, Michael, the grind 1554 01:19:42.119 --> 01:19:42.439 name is. 1555 01:19:42.399 --> 01:19:47.800 Rocky, Okay, Let's okay, sew let's I think everyone's not 1556 01:19:47.840 --> 01:19:50.880 going to argue with that. Let's just like, let's just 1557 01:19:50.880 --> 01:19:55.840 add a little spice to the award Club WPT gold. 1558 01:19:56.960 --> 01:20:00.359 And what I'm saying with that is is specific quickly 1559 01:20:00.840 --> 01:20:04.119 everything kind of went on at the WSP. You know, 1560 01:20:04.119 --> 01:20:06.760 we're talking about the the big gold checks for a 1561 01:20:06.840 --> 01:20:09.720 million dollars, the whole if you get if anyone ever 1562 01:20:09.760 --> 01:20:14.720 remembers the millionaire make a controversy between James Carroll and 1563 01:20:14.800 --> 01:20:20.279 Jesse Aga Numa with the very weird, unlucky heads up 1564 01:20:20.319 --> 01:20:25.199 match for one of them. You know, you could say, hey, 1565 01:20:25.239 --> 01:20:28.760 this was that was a pretty big defining moment that's 1566 01:20:28.840 --> 01:20:32.039 kind of carried through the year. And when I say 1567 01:20:32.079 --> 01:20:34.359 carried through, we see a lot of you know, if 1568 01:20:34.399 --> 01:20:37.439 you're in the in the X streets, the Twitter streets, 1569 01:20:37.439 --> 01:20:39.520 you see a lot of you know, we'd still say 1570 01:20:39.520 --> 01:20:46.479 a little beef between both sides. It's fantastic, to be honest, sitting. 1571 01:20:46.199 --> 01:20:50.760 On the sideline, he has more one sided. Yes, I 1572 01:20:50.800 --> 01:20:55.760 feel like I'm constantly seeing the WPT side club constantly 1573 01:20:55.760 --> 01:20:59.680 taking shots of Now. I don't know if that's because 1574 01:21:00.640 --> 01:21:04.399 behind closed doors, WSP is actively saying let's not do this, 1575 01:21:04.720 --> 01:21:08.000 or if if they're just not doing it, because I 1576 01:21:08.000 --> 01:21:11.359 don't know, they don't have Like I know that WPT 1577 01:21:11.439 --> 01:21:14.439 basically has a social media team. I don't think the 1578 01:21:14.520 --> 01:21:16.760 WSP does, you know, like they kind of put stuff 1579 01:21:16.760 --> 01:21:19.880 together for their put stuff together for their events, but 1580 01:21:19.880 --> 01:21:22.680 it's also like not with this goal. It's with the 1581 01:21:22.720 --> 01:21:25.079 goal of like covering their events and getting that sort 1582 01:21:25.079 --> 01:21:26.000 of content out there. 1583 01:21:26.039 --> 01:21:28.159 So I think a lot of people also are standing 1584 01:21:28.239 --> 01:21:31.720 up and kind of speaking for w too. So it 1585 01:21:31.840 --> 01:21:35.880 might not be coming directly from you know, the accounts, but. 1586 01:21:37.119 --> 01:21:39.680 It would be so easy if you were w s 1587 01:21:39.680 --> 01:21:43.159 AP to just dump on the WPT side. And so, 1588 01:21:43.279 --> 01:21:46.039 I mean, I guess kudos to them for being the 1589 01:21:46.079 --> 01:21:48.159 bigger person in this fight and not getting into this 1590 01:21:49.079 --> 01:21:52.399 war in the mud. But yeah, like because you could, 1591 01:21:52.520 --> 01:21:55.640 you could easily just take shots right back and basically 1592 01:21:55.680 --> 01:22:00.479 bury exactly. So I don't I don't really unders stand 1593 01:22:00.600 --> 01:22:05.199 the whole fight from the from like club WPD and 1594 01:22:05.279 --> 01:22:07.880 WPT side. I mean, I don't. I don't know. Maybe 1595 01:22:07.920 --> 01:22:10.800 the numbers on the back end bear out differently, but 1596 01:22:11.520 --> 01:22:15.000 I don't know. I don't see how taking that sort 1597 01:22:15.039 --> 01:22:19.520 of strategy then translates to conversions for your website. 1598 01:22:20.520 --> 01:22:22.840 I think it's just getting the attention. You're getting the 1599 01:22:22.880 --> 01:22:25.560 clicks and maybe at the end of the day, obviously 1600 01:22:25.640 --> 01:22:27.640 we can't speak for them, but that's maybe what they want. 1601 01:22:27.760 --> 01:22:30.600 That intent, that attention, and those clicks need to convert, 1602 01:22:31.319 --> 01:22:31.880 like that's the. 1603 01:22:31.880 --> 01:22:34.840 Thing converts to trafficing eyeballs. 1604 01:22:35.079 --> 01:22:39.600 Doesn't really Okay, that's that's what I want. Yeah, I mean, yeah, 1605 01:22:39.640 --> 01:22:41.840 I personally just don't see it like you know, but 1606 01:22:42.000 --> 01:22:43.439 then on the other side, you know, you know what 1607 01:22:43.479 --> 01:22:45.600 I do see, I see they hit a freaking seventy 1608 01:22:45.600 --> 01:22:47.760 million dollar price pool. I see they got ten million 1609 01:22:47.800 --> 01:22:49.920 dollars in first place, where your event in the same 1610 01:22:49.960 --> 01:22:51.279 month dropped by a lot. 1611 01:22:51.920 --> 01:22:54.079 You know, I see that we could pick a pot, 1612 01:22:54.199 --> 01:22:57.680 that we could pick a pot the seventy million dollar 1613 01:22:57.720 --> 01:22:58.920 price but if we really wanted to. 1614 01:22:59.199 --> 01:23:08.079 Okay, but on the surface, that event one December, Yeah, 1615 01:23:08.119 --> 01:23:10.479 and the event if you were to pick a winner 1616 01:23:10.520 --> 01:23:13.840 from if you were to pick a winner from each series, 1617 01:23:14.560 --> 01:23:16.600 so a winner from the WSP Paradise Series and a 1618 01:23:16.600 --> 01:23:19.800 winner from the wt World Championship Series. For the WSP, 1619 01:23:19.840 --> 01:23:22.720 it's the super main event, okay. For the WPT, it's 1620 01:23:22.720 --> 01:23:26.119 the Prime Championship, which is not the crowning event of 1621 01:23:26.159 --> 01:23:29.880 that series and that tour and that brand, right, which 1622 01:23:29.920 --> 01:23:34.880 is that's like interesting to me? Yeah, I mean that 1623 01:23:34.920 --> 01:23:37.319 Prime Championship again, it's it's the second best event to 1624 01:23:37.319 --> 01:23:39.560 play in the world. I highly encourage everyone to play it. 1625 01:23:39.560 --> 01:23:41.680 It's easier to play than the main event because it's 1626 01:23:41.680 --> 01:23:43.840 one tenth to buy in. That event is freaking sick. 1627 01:23:43.960 --> 01:23:47.960 It's awesome, Okay, But like that's the best event, in 1628 01:23:48.000 --> 01:23:50.760 my opinion, out of that series. When shouldn't it be 1629 01:23:50.800 --> 01:23:52.119 the WPT World Championship. 1630 01:23:54.680 --> 01:23:55.640 Sure, yeah, but. 1631 01:23:57.239 --> 01:23:57.960 This is what I'm getting. 1632 01:23:58.000 --> 01:23:59.359 I get I get it. 1633 01:23:59.439 --> 01:24:04.760 Yeah, you know. Yeah. Anyway, let's move on year end 1634 01:24:04.760 --> 01:24:07.760 host recap, sir, let's go, oh god, I saw you 1635 01:24:07.800 --> 01:24:09.239 posted some stuff on social media. 1636 01:24:09.560 --> 01:24:09.840 Yeah. 1637 01:24:10.199 --> 01:24:12.520 I kind of looked at it quickly. I tried to 1638 01:24:12.520 --> 01:24:14.840 come up with some joke, take a shot at you, 1639 01:24:15.119 --> 01:24:17.359 bring it on, similar to like Club WPT, but I 1640 01:24:17.560 --> 01:24:18.600 couldn't do it. 1641 01:24:19.640 --> 01:24:21.319 I'm open to all jugs. 1642 01:24:21.760 --> 01:24:24.479 So here, I am here, we are. You go first, 1643 01:24:24.520 --> 01:24:27.800 you give me your your your results for the year and. 1644 01:24:27.880 --> 01:24:28.720 The results first. 1645 01:24:28.760 --> 01:24:32.720 Okay, results, we're gonna okay, yeah, talk about your results 1646 01:24:32.880 --> 01:24:33.920 and then talk. 1647 01:24:33.760 --> 01:24:36.239 About it without god, we should do adohol review. 1648 01:24:36.079 --> 01:24:38.640 Your results and then if you achieved your goals from 1649 01:24:38.720 --> 01:24:40.920 last year, and we'll get into the goals for next year. 1650 01:24:41.000 --> 01:24:44.560 All right. Surprisingly played more tournaments than you. I did 1651 01:24:44.560 --> 01:24:47.600 not think that was going to happen. But thirty four entries, 1652 01:24:49.039 --> 01:24:52.439 thirty one k buyings, average buying nine hundred bucks, had 1653 01:24:52.520 --> 01:24:54.039 nine cashes more entries. 1654 01:24:54.079 --> 01:24:57.359 Buddy, When somebody is stuck in the WSM man event 1655 01:24:57.399 --> 01:24:58.640 for eighteen days. 1656 01:24:58.840 --> 01:25:01.520 I didn't play anything off. I busted the WSLP main 1657 01:25:01.560 --> 01:25:07.279 event nine cashes a cash A forty one K, so 1658 01:25:07.279 --> 01:25:11.439 I made ninety two hundred bucks in profit. I play 1659 01:25:11.680 --> 01:25:14.920 some cash games. You don't play twenty sessions. That's pretty 1660 01:25:14.960 --> 01:25:19.560 much nothing. One one thousand dollars did you play? Maybe 1661 01:25:19.600 --> 01:25:22.439 like when we're in Texas, I'll play like the mixed 1662 01:25:22.479 --> 01:25:25.319 games with the dealers, or when like Rubbis Shazinski has 1663 01:25:25.319 --> 01:25:28.399 his mixgame festival and normally come make an appearance or two. 1664 01:25:28.840 --> 01:25:32.720 Outside of that, really nothing. My cash games are nearly 1665 01:25:32.760 --> 01:25:34.840 purely or mixed, and it's just more for fun and 1666 01:25:34.880 --> 01:25:39.159 so we're playing small stakes. So yeah, I'm not at 1667 01:25:39.159 --> 01:25:43.359 all focused on any cash games anymore. So overall one 1668 01:25:43.680 --> 01:25:46.039 basically ten point three K. I don't really track my 1669 01:25:46.079 --> 01:25:49.119 online results like you do. I did win five hundred 1670 01:25:49.119 --> 01:25:53.640 bucks on Club WPT, dumped about eight hundred dollars on 1671 01:25:53.800 --> 01:25:58.439 WSP chasing those one hundred and sixty dollars main event flips. 1672 01:26:00.000 --> 01:26:02.560 Anyone goes looks at my shark shark scope, you'll see 1673 01:26:02.600 --> 01:26:05.920 a massive decline from those because my average buying is 1674 01:26:05.920 --> 01:26:10.319 like eight dollars on WSP so they were my results. 1675 01:26:10.399 --> 01:26:13.840 I played probably more than I thought, mainly because I 1676 01:26:13.840 --> 01:26:18.119 started the year. I ended twenty twenty four decently and 1677 01:26:18.159 --> 01:26:20.520 I kind of started the year pretty good. And then 1678 01:26:20.520 --> 01:26:24.479 obviously the main event cash was kind of gave me 1679 01:26:24.520 --> 01:26:26.720 that freedom to play a little bit more than I thought. 1680 01:26:27.880 --> 01:26:32.119 As for my twenty twenty five goals, I had, What 1681 01:26:32.159 --> 01:26:33.000 did I have? I had? 1682 01:26:33.439 --> 01:26:33.840 I had? 1683 01:26:34.159 --> 01:26:36.479 My note was they could all be achieved in one event, 1684 01:26:37.399 --> 01:26:40.880 all right. It was surpass my old my first ever 1685 01:26:40.920 --> 01:26:44.159 buss Heath chick in lifetime tournament earnings, I only trailed 1686 01:26:44.159 --> 01:26:47.439 by seventy bucks. Knocked off that pretty quick play the 1687 01:26:47.560 --> 01:26:51.880 WSP main event tick that box cash in a WSP 1688 01:26:51.920 --> 01:26:53.880 and main event. I had a twenty three event cold 1689 01:26:53.920 --> 01:26:58.319 streak that didn't include online or dailies or media free rolls, 1690 01:26:58.359 --> 01:27:01.159 any of that rubbish, but pure bracelet of Vents Live 1691 01:27:01.920 --> 01:27:04.840 did that when I catched the mate and I cashed 1692 01:27:04.840 --> 01:27:07.399 for five digits. Obviously, when you catch the may and 1693 01:27:07.479 --> 01:27:10.760 that's you know, five digits cash a five digits in 1694 01:27:10.760 --> 01:27:12.760 the calendar. Last time I did that was twenty thirteen. 1695 01:27:13.479 --> 01:27:15.880 Took obviously quite a few years off when I was 1696 01:27:15.920 --> 01:27:18.640 working and stuff, But yeah, so I achieved all my goals. 1697 01:27:19.119 --> 01:27:22.399 I was pretty kind of happy, you know, happy about. 1698 01:27:22.159 --> 01:27:27.359 That, all right. I got thirty three entries live, three 1699 01:27:27.439 --> 01:27:32.039 hundred and fifty four entries online total buyans live forty 1700 01:27:32.640 --> 01:27:35.640 four hundred and twenty dollars fourteen hundred and sixty seven dollars. 1701 01:27:35.640 --> 01:27:40.159 Average buy in had seven cashes. I cashed for a 1702 01:27:40.199 --> 01:27:42.720 total of just over seventy six k, so I was 1703 01:27:42.840 --> 01:27:47.119 up twenty seven seven hundred dollars live and then online, 1704 01:27:47.119 --> 01:27:48.760 where I had the three hundred and fifty four entries, 1705 01:27:48.800 --> 01:27:52.520 total buyans were just over twenty four thousand, sixty eight dollars. 1706 01:27:52.560 --> 01:27:56.279 Average buy in fifty nine cashes, which is only sixteen 1707 01:27:56.319 --> 01:28:00.319 points sixty seven percent. That's pretty shitty. Total cashes there 1708 01:28:00.720 --> 01:28:05.039 sixteen four hundred so negative on the online tournament front 1709 01:28:05.439 --> 01:28:08.640 negative seven six d and twenty So overall, I finished 1710 01:28:08.680 --> 01:28:16.239 up twenty thousand and eighty two dollars decent year. I mean, 1711 01:28:16.239 --> 01:28:21.159 I'm happy with it. So yeah, my goals were to 1712 01:28:21.319 --> 01:28:23.600 just fix shit and continue to improve my game, fix 1713 01:28:23.640 --> 01:28:27.319 things to get better. I definitely achieved that. I got 1714 01:28:27.319 --> 01:28:30.720 a lot better. I fixed a lot of stuff. I 1715 01:28:30.760 --> 01:28:34.800 studied harder than I ever had in that same vein, 1716 01:28:34.960 --> 01:28:36.359 I had a lot of things I still need to 1717 01:28:36.359 --> 01:28:39.840 work on, and I've still cost myself in some big spots, 1718 01:28:40.000 --> 01:28:42.840 most recently in the WPT Prime Championship when I fucked 1719 01:28:42.880 --> 01:28:45.680 it up royally at the end, so I need to 1720 01:28:45.880 --> 01:28:49.399 improve that. I also said that I wanted to win 1721 01:28:49.439 --> 01:28:51.920 a trophy MTT, so like a ring of bracelet, you 1722 01:28:51.920 --> 01:28:55.520 know whatever, a Venetian Lion, the wind trophy, et cetera. 1723 01:28:56.720 --> 01:29:01.640 Didn't do that new career best live score. I did 1724 01:29:01.680 --> 01:29:07.199 achieve that WSTWE Main Events five figure MTT score and 1725 01:29:07.239 --> 01:29:09.680 a buy and of fifteen hundred dollars or less. I 1726 01:29:09.720 --> 01:29:11.279 didn't do that. I would have done it had I 1727 01:29:11.319 --> 01:29:13.399 not fucked up the Prime Championship, but I fucked up 1728 01:29:13.439 --> 01:29:16.840 the Prime Championship, so I didn't do that. And then 1729 01:29:16.840 --> 01:29:21.279 something I realized before we get into our goals for 1730 01:29:21.319 --> 01:29:23.720 next year, but you know, these are kind of are 1731 01:29:23.800 --> 01:29:26.720 kind of all results oriented goals other than the first one, 1732 01:29:26.760 --> 01:29:29.279 which is to fix stuff, and I don't really like 1733 01:29:29.319 --> 01:29:31.199 that process. So I'm taking a bit of a different 1734 01:29:31.239 --> 01:29:35.359 approach to my goals going forward. And I guess we'll 1735 01:29:35.359 --> 01:29:37.239 talk about that next. You can go first and give 1736 01:29:37.239 --> 01:29:40.479 me your goals for your poker goals for twenty twenty six. 1737 01:29:41.079 --> 01:29:45.319 Well, I'm like, yo, it's mine at all results. Yeah, 1738 01:29:43.720 --> 01:29:49.560 I knocked off Heath Chick Lasia. I'm going for someone new, 1739 01:29:49.600 --> 01:29:52.479 a new target, putting him on the back podcast listen 1740 01:29:52.600 --> 01:29:57.039 Paul Berman. I trial him by eleven K. He doesn't 1741 01:29:57.039 --> 01:29:59.279 play much, but he comes to the Wood Series. He 1742 01:29:59.279 --> 01:30:01.239 plays a lot in the series, so I need to 1743 01:30:01.239 --> 01:30:04.920 really get him by World Series. So surpassed Paul Berman 1744 01:30:05.000 --> 01:30:08.760 in lifetime tournament earnings. I really want a final table, 1745 01:30:08.800 --> 01:30:11.479 a multi flight event close as I've had. I finished 1746 01:30:11.520 --> 01:30:16.159 thirteenth in a Venetian three hundred months a stack, so yeah, 1747 01:30:16.159 --> 01:30:17.600 I really just want to hit try and get to 1748 01:30:17.600 --> 01:30:19.920 that final table. Now, this guy is probably a little 1749 01:30:19.920 --> 01:30:22.840 bit more tougher with kind of you know, I probably 1750 01:30:22.840 --> 01:30:24.159 can achieve it if I do the other one. But 1751 01:30:24.600 --> 01:30:27.600 I basically want to profit more than thirte four hundred 1752 01:30:27.600 --> 01:30:30.920 and fifty dollars in one event. The reason that number 1753 01:30:31.079 --> 01:30:35.359 is because back in twenty eleven, I finished second in 1754 01:30:35.399 --> 01:30:39.319 a fifty dollars accumulator for thirteen thousand, five hundred. Now 1755 01:30:39.680 --> 01:30:42.680 I remember this event pretty specifically. Actually did a heads 1756 01:30:42.720 --> 01:30:44.840 up deal with my friend. We chopped the money evenly 1757 01:30:44.880 --> 01:30:46.640 played for the trophy. I kind of remember what the 1758 01:30:46.720 --> 01:30:49.399 number is doesn't really matter, But on the handed mob, 1759 01:30:49.800 --> 01:30:51.880 I just want to profit for more than thirteen four 1760 01:30:51.920 --> 01:30:54.960 point fifty. And then a kind of a non poker 1761 01:30:55.039 --> 01:30:58.079 playing goal is just I have some poker side projects 1762 01:30:58.119 --> 01:31:00.000 we're working on. I just want to put some energy 1763 01:31:00.079 --> 01:31:01.520 of that make sure we I can kind of like 1764 01:31:02.680 --> 01:31:06.199 kick them off in a good spot. But yeah, slightly 1765 01:31:06.239 --> 01:31:09.199 different goals to last year. I would say that the 1766 01:31:09.239 --> 01:31:12.840 profit one is probably you know, I might miss that one. 1767 01:31:14.159 --> 01:31:15.920 Hopefully the other two I can kind of tick off 1768 01:31:16.119 --> 01:31:19.640 the other three. Actually, I'm kinda say I don't really 1769 01:31:19.640 --> 01:31:23.560 have big plans to change my kind of volume. I 1770 01:31:23.680 --> 01:31:25.640 just kind of I think both of us are very 1771 01:31:28.159 --> 01:31:29.960 very limited to our time, and we kind of have 1772 01:31:30.039 --> 01:31:32.760 to play according to what our work schedule brings, so 1773 01:31:33.560 --> 01:31:35.720 you know, that's always going to dictate what we can play. Like, 1774 01:31:35.800 --> 01:31:38.800 you know, we have events on the PGT coming up 1775 01:31:38.840 --> 01:31:41.840 in January that overlaps pretty decent events here in Vegas, 1776 01:31:41.840 --> 01:31:43.520 so that's kind of a bummer that will miss those, 1777 01:31:43.560 --> 01:31:48.520 But hey, you know, works more important than poker until 1778 01:31:48.520 --> 01:31:50.520 we you know, win a couple million dollars. 1779 01:31:50.560 --> 01:31:54.720 I guess that's right. So my my approach this year 1780 01:31:54.800 --> 01:31:59.840 is going to be process oriented goals over results oriented goals. 1781 01:32:00.520 --> 01:32:02.319 Started I don't know, I don't know even know how 1782 01:32:02.319 --> 01:32:04.439 I dove into it. I think I found something on 1783 01:32:04.479 --> 01:32:07.640 social media or something came into my algorithm about how 1784 01:32:08.079 --> 01:32:10.159 there's been these studies on if you set your goals 1785 01:32:10.199 --> 01:32:14.239 based on the process versus the results, they ultimately come 1786 01:32:14.239 --> 01:32:17.039 out better, which makes a lot of sense. So I 1787 01:32:17.319 --> 01:32:19.960 just put together a bunch of process goals and then 1788 01:32:20.600 --> 01:32:24.800 hopefully as a result of those processes, if I hit 1789 01:32:24.880 --> 01:32:29.159 those goals, then then it will lead to results. First, 1790 01:32:29.159 --> 01:32:32.439 one study on my own for four hundred hours, at 1791 01:32:32.479 --> 01:32:36.600 least four hundred hours, So I mean, I probably won't 1792 01:32:36.640 --> 01:32:39.279 study every single day just because I need a break 1793 01:32:39.319 --> 01:32:40.640 here and there. But if I were to study every 1794 01:32:40.680 --> 01:32:42.279 single day this three hundred and sixty five days in 1795 01:32:42.279 --> 01:32:44.760 the year, it's a little bit over an hour each day, 1796 01:32:45.800 --> 01:32:49.239 you know, But we'll see how things go. Like yesterday, 1797 01:32:49.279 --> 01:32:51.880 I studied for three and a half hours, you know, 1798 01:32:51.920 --> 01:32:55.000 and and hopefully I just stack those and continue to 1799 01:32:56.199 --> 01:32:59.479 improve on that. If I do study for four hundred 1800 01:32:59.479 --> 01:33:01.479 hours this year, will be the most I've ever studied 1801 01:33:02.439 --> 01:33:06.000 by a long shot. So you know, hopefully that leads 1802 01:33:06.039 --> 01:33:09.159 to two bigger things. I don't just want to include 1803 01:33:09.199 --> 01:33:12.239 individual study into my goals. I do want to start 1804 01:33:12.279 --> 01:33:15.399 working with the poker coach for at least fifty hours 1805 01:33:15.399 --> 01:33:18.479 over the course of the year. So maybe that's once 1806 01:33:18.520 --> 01:33:20.520 a week for an hour, you know, whatever it may be. 1807 01:33:21.239 --> 01:33:23.039 But you have someone in mind, or that's just like 1808 01:33:23.119 --> 01:33:24.520 I just want to get a coach eventually. 1809 01:33:25.640 --> 01:33:27.800 No, I mean I work with someone already. I work 1810 01:33:27.800 --> 01:33:31.279 with Tristan Wade. You know, he he's a good friend 1811 01:33:31.319 --> 01:33:33.000 of mine, so it helps that he's been a poker 1812 01:33:33.000 --> 01:33:38.279 coach for a while. I mean I like that, you know, 1813 01:33:40.239 --> 01:33:44.159 like I don't necessarily think it's you should just go 1814 01:33:44.199 --> 01:33:46.079 out there and like try and get the coach that 1815 01:33:46.119 --> 01:33:49.960 has the best results, because not all those people can 1816 01:33:50.039 --> 01:33:55.960 ultimately coach. Well. I mean, I like the way that 1817 01:33:56.000 --> 01:33:59.520 Tristan coaches and talks to me, And I mean we 1818 01:33:59.560 --> 01:34:01.479 have a good relationship anyway, We're good friends. We've been 1819 01:34:01.479 --> 01:34:04.359 friends for a while. But you know, he'll just fucking 1820 01:34:04.359 --> 01:34:06.680 tell me I'm an idiot, like, which is good because 1821 01:34:06.720 --> 01:34:10.920 you need to hear that and he's he's coached for 1822 01:34:10.920 --> 01:34:13.159 a while, so he has like those systems in place, 1823 01:34:13.199 --> 01:34:15.680 so you know that that's what I'm using right now. 1824 01:34:16.239 --> 01:34:18.720 Maybe that changes, maybe it doesn't, whatever, it doesn't matter, 1825 01:34:18.760 --> 01:34:20.960 but either way, I think it's just good to and 1826 01:34:21.000 --> 01:34:23.239 maybe it's not a poker coach. Maybe you just set 1827 01:34:23.279 --> 01:34:25.760 aside time, you know, for those listening out there to 1828 01:34:26.680 --> 01:34:29.600 talk with friends about stuff, because it's just good to 1829 01:34:29.720 --> 01:34:33.319 hear an outside perspective on your play and stuff and 1830 01:34:33.359 --> 01:34:36.279 just not be like, yeah, like I'm doing this, this 1831 01:34:36.359 --> 01:34:38.279 is what my study says, but like, what am I missing, 1832 01:34:38.279 --> 01:34:40.960 what's not working whatever. It's always good to get a 1833 01:34:41.000 --> 01:34:46.399 second set of eyeballs on things to possibly improve. Drill 1834 01:34:46.479 --> 01:34:50.960 fifty thousand hands on gto Wizard, which is a good amount, 1835 01:34:51.760 --> 01:34:53.479 you know, I would like to do that. So it 1836 01:34:53.720 --> 01:34:55.439 I mean, in a lot of ways, it's basically like 1837 01:34:55.520 --> 01:34:58.079 playing poker, but you're just not putting up any sort 1838 01:34:58.119 --> 01:35:01.079 of money and you get that real time feedback. You 1839 01:35:01.119 --> 01:35:04.159 get to study the spots after, so you know that 1840 01:35:04.239 --> 01:35:05.960 will I mean, that's going to kind of be rolled 1841 01:35:05.960 --> 01:35:07.680 into where I say, the study on my own for 1842 01:35:07.720 --> 01:35:09.479 four hundred hours. Part of that's going to be just 1843 01:35:09.560 --> 01:35:11.720 drilling hands and studying those hands. But I still want 1844 01:35:11.760 --> 01:35:14.119 to be able to put in that volume of hands 1845 01:35:14.159 --> 01:35:16.800 on gto Wizard and listen, you can you don't have 1846 01:35:16.800 --> 01:35:18.359 to use eto Wizard. You can use whatever you want. 1847 01:35:18.640 --> 01:35:20.760 But that's what I do. And then I got to 1848 01:35:20.760 --> 01:35:22.720 get out there and play, because you know, the best 1849 01:35:24.880 --> 01:35:26.600 way to get better is to get out there and 1850 01:35:26.640 --> 01:35:29.399 actually experience it. Put yourself in that arena, try the 1851 01:35:29.399 --> 01:35:31.359 stuff that you're learning, try new things, all that sort 1852 01:35:31.399 --> 01:35:35.199 of stuff. So play fifty live MTTs, which is kind 1853 01:35:35.239 --> 01:35:39.760 of just play fifty live MTT entries, I think, because 1854 01:35:39.800 --> 01:35:42.359 each entry is like a new tournament basically, and then 1855 01:35:42.359 --> 01:35:45.760 play five hundred online MTT entries. I played thirty three 1856 01:35:46.079 --> 01:35:48.960 live and three hundred and fifty four entries online last year. 1857 01:35:49.000 --> 01:35:52.800 So I need to uptick that my online play will 1858 01:35:52.840 --> 01:35:57.680 be very predominantly just on Sundays. Put in a high 1859 01:35:57.760 --> 01:36:00.479 volume online on Sundays, and then I'll dabble in various 1860 01:36:00.479 --> 01:36:04.479 stuff around town here in the other stuff. So yeah, 1861 01:36:04.560 --> 01:36:07.399 we'll see how I go. And then hopefully, if I 1862 01:36:07.399 --> 01:36:10.600 can do all this stuff, it leads to good results 1863 01:36:10.760 --> 01:36:13.239 and it leads to me winning a fucking trophy and 1864 01:36:13.640 --> 01:36:15.800 having the best year I've had and blah blah blah, 1865 01:36:15.840 --> 01:36:18.840 all that sort of stuff that comes with it. So yeah, 1866 01:36:18.920 --> 01:36:22.600 and even if it doesn't, I mean, maybe everything all 1867 01:36:22.640 --> 01:36:24.520 the time and effort that I put in studying this 1868 01:36:24.640 --> 01:36:27.640 year and all this work pays dividends in twenty twenty seven. 1869 01:36:27.760 --> 01:36:29.640 I don't know, you know. So I just got to 1870 01:36:29.640 --> 01:36:31.000 put in the work and I got to continue to 1871 01:36:31.039 --> 01:36:33.000 put in the work. So and I do think it's 1872 01:36:33.039 --> 01:36:35.840 fun to put in the work. I enjoy it. So yeah, 1873 01:36:36.800 --> 01:36:40.760 just gonna try try my best see what happens, hopefully 1874 01:36:40.800 --> 01:36:41.720 not fuck it up like. 1875 01:36:41.720 --> 01:36:44.479 I didn't that was just. 1876 01:36:44.399 --> 01:36:47.039 Gonna eat me for like literally a year, probably, So 1877 01:36:47.119 --> 01:36:51.239 what are you gonna do? Last thing? Here? As we 1878 01:36:51.279 --> 01:36:53.560 are now what an hour and thirty seven minutes on 1879 01:36:53.600 --> 01:36:56.640 this podcast, So shout out to everyone who's listening. Producer 1880 01:36:56.720 --> 01:37:00.880 rich Ryan's probably gonna shoot me. But I got a list. 1881 01:37:01.159 --> 01:37:04.760 I got a list of things that I want to 1882 01:37:04.800 --> 01:37:07.319 see happen in twenty twenty six in poker. There was 1883 01:37:07.359 --> 01:37:09.479 no particular order to my list. It's just stuff I've 1884 01:37:09.560 --> 01:37:13.279 kind of been writing down in a in the notepad 1885 01:37:13.319 --> 01:37:15.600 on my phone that I would like to see happen. 1886 01:37:15.720 --> 01:37:18.880 So if you're out there listening and you have any 1887 01:37:18.880 --> 01:37:22.000 sort of influence on making these things happen, I think 1888 01:37:22.039 --> 01:37:25.199 you should try and do that because selfishly, I think 1889 01:37:25.199 --> 01:37:28.239 they're the best ideas, and Tim, you can just tell 1890 01:37:28.239 --> 01:37:30.640 me if they're good or bad. Okay, okay, you have 1891 01:37:30.640 --> 01:37:32.880 no idea what's coming? By the way, Nope, the listeners 1892 01:37:32.880 --> 01:37:36.760 out there, first thing, bet'am Jim Poker, Can you guys 1893 01:37:37.359 --> 01:37:40.640 get your ass in Nevada for like, well, let's go. 1894 01:37:40.800 --> 01:37:43.880 You know, you know, I know we obviously have friends 1895 01:37:43.920 --> 01:37:47.920 at at MGM at Aria and they've you know, they're 1896 01:37:48.000 --> 01:37:50.159 saying that it's coming, and we've heard that it's coming. 1897 01:37:50.279 --> 01:37:52.119 You know, we heard that it was coming at the 1898 01:37:52.159 --> 01:37:54.520 end of twenty twenty five. You know, it didn't come 1899 01:37:54.520 --> 01:37:55.840 by the end of twenty twenty five. Is it going 1900 01:37:55.880 --> 01:37:57.279 to come by the end of twenty twenty six? Like? 1901 01:37:57.560 --> 01:38:00.279 Can we make this happen? Especially now with all the 1902 01:38:00.880 --> 01:38:03.840 interstate pooling that is available? You know, part of it 1903 01:38:03.880 --> 01:38:08.279 is it seems like the BETEMGM poker online product is 1904 01:38:08.399 --> 01:38:11.239 pretty awesome from everything that you see out there. They 1905 01:38:11.239 --> 01:38:14.239 have a lot of qualifiers into the events. You know, 1906 01:38:14.279 --> 01:38:17.439 that's happening at Borgata, that's happening in Maryland. Even they 1907 01:38:17.479 --> 01:38:19.640 qualify a lot of people from you know, New Jersey 1908 01:38:19.680 --> 01:38:22.439 and wherever into stuff here in Vegas. So having that 1909 01:38:22.439 --> 01:38:25.840 sort of access to online qualifiers being here in Nevada, 1910 01:38:25.840 --> 01:38:29.239 I think would be great. Also, I just I want 1911 01:38:29.279 --> 01:38:33.079 the competition aspect of things. You know, WSP dot com 1912 01:38:33.119 --> 01:38:35.600 is good, but can we get another person in there 1913 01:38:35.640 --> 01:38:39.159 to have that competition to give us more options? Right? Like? 1914 01:38:39.319 --> 01:38:41.199 I just you know, I want Betam Jim Poker to 1915 01:38:41.199 --> 01:38:43.640 come to Nevada. So let's go. If you guys are listening, 1916 01:38:43.720 --> 01:38:47.399 can we just make it happen. Number two again, no 1917 01:38:47.399 --> 01:38:50.479 particular order here. Dinner breaks they got to go in 1918 01:38:50.960 --> 01:38:55.079 ninety eight percent of tournaments. They just absolutely have have 1919 01:38:55.079 --> 01:38:57.680 have to go. See you later. Get rid of these 1920 01:38:57.800 --> 01:39:03.079 freaking dinner breeks. Okay, if the tournament, if the tournament 1921 01:39:03.119 --> 01:39:05.640 doesn't have a buy in that is greater than three 1922 01:39:05.680 --> 01:39:10.560 thousand dollars, you should be disqualified from having dinner breaks. 1923 01:39:11.439 --> 01:39:13.920 I don't care. Get rid of them. 1924 01:39:14.279 --> 01:39:19.880 I agree with that. I think there's some you know, 1925 01:39:20.000 --> 01:39:22.680 some one thousand buy ins of fifteen hundred buyings that 1926 01:39:22.760 --> 01:39:23.960 kind of dinner breaks. 1927 01:39:23.920 --> 01:39:29.439 No stop, I said, some you don't need it, especially 1928 01:39:29.479 --> 01:39:31.800 in the places where you can order food to the table, 1929 01:39:31.840 --> 01:39:34.560 people can bring their own food. All that's just stop 1930 01:39:34.600 --> 01:39:36.720 with the dinner breaks. We don't need dinner breaks. We 1931 01:39:36.720 --> 01:39:42.199 don't home earlier. Yeah, like get out of here, okay. 1932 01:39:42.600 --> 01:39:45.680 And kind of in line with that in terms of 1933 01:39:45.760 --> 01:39:51.640 like I don't know, altering structures or whatever. Best star 1934 01:39:51.760 --> 01:39:54.600 time is eleven am. That's what I think. I think 1935 01:39:54.600 --> 01:39:56.520 the best start time is eleven am. I know some 1936 01:39:56.560 --> 01:39:58.560 people out there said ten am. I know, I think 1937 01:39:58.560 --> 01:40:00.199 Bay one on one does nine am. I I think 1938 01:40:00.239 --> 01:40:02.840 that shit's a little bit too early. I like, I mean, 1939 01:40:03.800 --> 01:40:06.479 selfishly speaking, I like a couple hours in the morning 1940 01:40:06.520 --> 01:40:08.279 to be able to take care of some work stuff, 1941 01:40:08.319 --> 01:40:10.279 get the kids to school, et cetera, like do that 1942 01:40:10.319 --> 01:40:12.800 sort of stuff, and then go play. But I also 1943 01:40:12.840 --> 01:40:15.840 think that like starting at noon, starting at one play 1944 01:40:15.920 --> 01:40:18.760 until midnight or later is ridiculous as well. So I 1945 01:40:18.840 --> 01:40:21.159 like eleven am. I think it's a good compromise for everyone. 1946 01:40:21.520 --> 01:40:24.720 It's not that early. You know, you can still stroll 1947 01:40:24.720 --> 01:40:26.399 in at twelve or one if you want to come 1948 01:40:26.439 --> 01:40:29.760 a little bit late. So I think eleven am should 1949 01:40:29.840 --> 01:40:31.960 kind of be across the board. Also sticking in line 1950 01:40:32.000 --> 01:40:37.800 with the structure sheet sort of stuff here, the close 1951 01:40:37.840 --> 01:40:42.279 of registration in a poker tournament should be a posted time, 1952 01:40:42.800 --> 01:40:45.760 not end of level X or beginning of level X, 1953 01:40:46.039 --> 01:40:48.680 and it should be posted on the structure sheet. Okay, 1954 01:40:48.960 --> 01:40:52.880 So for the organizers out there, yourself included, mister commissioner, 1955 01:40:53.239 --> 01:40:56.439 figure out Okay, we're going to close it at the 1956 01:40:56.520 --> 01:40:59.479 end of level six, right, figure out what time that is. 1957 01:41:00.039 --> 01:41:02.720 If everything runs on time, add ten minutes and put 1958 01:41:02.720 --> 01:41:03.680 it on the structure sheet. 1959 01:41:03.920 --> 01:41:07.520 Okay, you can't add ten minutes. Yeah, add time because 1960 01:41:08.159 --> 01:41:10.199 the problem with that is we already had issues that 1961 01:41:10.239 --> 01:41:12.840 if everything runs on time and it's a slide a 1962 01:41:12.920 --> 01:41:15.119 level nine, well now is you ten minutes into level nine? No, 1963 01:41:15.159 --> 01:41:16.960 that's why you put That's why you put the level, 1964 01:41:17.000 --> 01:41:18.960 because the level is a fixated. 1965 01:41:19.159 --> 01:41:21.560 That last break. You add that time no matter what 1966 01:41:22.039 --> 01:41:24.119 you make it so it lines up with whatever time 1967 01:41:24.199 --> 01:41:25.720 you put it on the structure. So if you say, listen, 1968 01:41:25.720 --> 01:41:28.520 registration closes at five pm, then if you go on, 1969 01:41:28.760 --> 01:41:31.079 if you go on a schedule twenty minute break at 1970 01:41:31.079 --> 01:41:34.720 four thirty, well that you make that break thirty minutes Okay. 1971 01:41:34.359 --> 01:41:36.079 I get what you're saying. That's yeah. I think that's fine. 1972 01:41:36.239 --> 01:41:38.000 Just so that people can look at a structure sheet 1973 01:41:38.000 --> 01:41:40.600 and they can say, okay, registration closes at five o'clock, 1974 01:41:40.720 --> 01:41:43.159 registaing curs at five forty five, whatever it is. You 1975 01:41:43.199 --> 01:41:44.800 can set a time or on your phone. Okay, I 1976 01:41:44.840 --> 01:41:46.680 need to leave my house at five twenty five to 1977 01:41:46.680 --> 01:41:48.239 get there, to get there for this time? 1978 01:41:48.600 --> 01:41:51.279 Like it suttinly do we actually do do? Though? Except 1979 01:41:51.279 --> 01:41:52.920 for that one structure sheet you pointed out that I 1980 01:41:52.920 --> 01:41:54.720 didn't put it on, which is super i rollable. 1981 01:41:54.800 --> 01:41:57.680 It should just be a time. Just put a freaking time. 1982 01:41:58.079 --> 01:41:58.520 Okay. 1983 01:41:58.960 --> 01:42:01.479 It's just people need to do all the math. I 1984 01:42:01.520 --> 01:42:03.239 just need to stop asking you, Hey, what time does 1985 01:42:03.239 --> 01:42:06.479 registration close? End of level nine? What freaking time is that? Okay? 1986 01:42:06.640 --> 01:42:08.600 Did we start on time today? Did we not start 1987 01:42:08.600 --> 01:42:12.520 on time today? Like? Can we just put a time? Please? Okay, 1988 01:42:12.720 --> 01:42:14.439 put a time and then it can go in all 1989 01:42:14.479 --> 01:42:19.079 the structure sheets. It can be out there. Everyone just knows. Okay. 1990 01:42:19.159 --> 01:42:26.039 Another thing, I think that Venues should move to an 1991 01:42:26.119 --> 01:42:30.199 eight handed format for big tournament series. Now. I understand 1992 01:42:30.199 --> 01:42:32.479 that not everyone can do that. Not everyone is willing 1993 01:42:32.520 --> 01:42:34.399 to do that, et cetera. But what I will say 1994 01:42:34.760 --> 01:42:38.800 is that whoever does this first, I believe is going 1995 01:42:38.840 --> 01:42:44.800 to win, like in terms of like getting bigger fields, 1996 01:42:45.319 --> 01:42:47.800 being a better place to play, all that sort of stuff, 1997 01:42:47.840 --> 01:42:50.359 getting the love from the playing community, like if the 1998 01:42:50.760 --> 01:42:52.840 if the win or the Venetian here in Vegas for 1999 01:42:52.880 --> 01:42:54.840 their series, or to be like, listen, it's eight handed 2000 01:42:54.880 --> 01:42:58.399 from the start. And I understand when you do stuff 2001 01:42:58.439 --> 01:43:00.880 like the large fields, you know you have to account 2002 01:43:00.880 --> 01:43:03.239 for more tables, space, dealers, whatever. You know, you can 2003 01:43:03.279 --> 01:43:05.960 solve that issue. Okay, open some more ballroom space, some 2004 01:43:06.000 --> 01:43:08.479 more tables, get some more dealers, add an extra starting flight, 2005 01:43:08.520 --> 01:43:11.960 whatever the heck it is. Figure it out. But the 2006 01:43:12.079 --> 01:43:15.520 venue that I think makes it more comfortable for players 2007 01:43:15.560 --> 01:43:18.000 to play at a table, I think is going to win. 2008 01:43:18.560 --> 01:43:21.840 And I will also say that people might give me, Okay, 2009 01:43:21.880 --> 01:43:25.479 I need to open more tables, that's more dealer money whatever. Okay, 2010 01:43:25.880 --> 01:43:29.000 eight handed goes faster, I think players will then buy 2011 01:43:29.000 --> 01:43:31.279 in more and you'll make it up at least somewhat 2012 01:43:31.319 --> 01:43:33.640 in rate. So I think it's fine. So I think 2013 01:43:33.640 --> 01:43:35.680 the first I think the first venue that does that 2014 01:43:36.439 --> 01:43:39.680 is going to win. And like be be ahead of 2015 01:43:39.720 --> 01:43:41.359 everyone else. You know, it's gonna be one of those 2016 01:43:41.399 --> 01:43:43.000 things where like, yeah, but over here they play eight 2017 01:43:43.000 --> 01:43:45.119 handed from the start, and that's gonna be like something 2018 01:43:45.119 --> 01:43:48.159 that everyone talks about. Like, so that's a change that 2019 01:43:48.239 --> 01:43:50.279 if if I was an operator, if I was a venue, 2020 01:43:50.319 --> 01:43:55.960 I would be trying to implement. Okay, another one. Table 2021 01:43:56.000 --> 01:44:01.279 breaking should be one hundred percent random at all times, 2022 01:44:01.319 --> 01:44:04.159 all times. And you know what that would do all 2023 01:44:04.199 --> 01:44:06.800 these people who look at the tournament clock and say, okay, 2024 01:44:06.920 --> 01:44:09.359 breaking order twenty one, blah blah blah whatever, and then 2025 01:44:09.399 --> 01:44:11.560 your asses start Yeah we're not on a video for 2026 01:44:11.600 --> 01:44:15.199 this podcast, but Tim pointing at himself. Your asses starts stalling. 2027 01:44:15.479 --> 01:44:16.760 Yeah you know. 2028 01:44:18.239 --> 01:44:20.079 Or you see all the tables breaking in the road, 2029 01:44:20.119 --> 01:44:22.079 you're like, oh, we're next. You start stalling so you 2030 01:44:22.079 --> 01:44:24.399 don't have to pay a blind Yeah, screw you. Okay, 2031 01:44:24.720 --> 01:44:30.319 every single tournament table break is random. End of story. 2032 01:44:30.680 --> 01:44:33.039 I don't care if there's ten thousand people in the field. 2033 01:44:33.199 --> 01:44:35.159 I don't care if there's ten people in the field. 2034 01:44:35.239 --> 01:44:42.000 Okay, we'll happen. Okayny Logistics and Deala pushes like what 2035 01:44:42.119 --> 01:44:44.439 is he now? The dealer is just out like there's 2036 01:44:44.479 --> 01:44:48.239 all those kind of like dilemmas that figuring it out okay, 2037 01:44:48.520 --> 01:44:50.720 throws the dealer breaks out like it's a mess. 2038 01:44:50.760 --> 01:44:55.479 You figure it, like, just figure it out. It's just ridiculous. 2039 01:44:55.520 --> 01:44:58.479 I would say that would be a like a good 2040 01:44:58.560 --> 01:45:00.600 rule once in the money. 2041 01:45:02.479 --> 01:45:04.800 Just make it random from the start, Okay, Like I'm 2042 01:45:04.840 --> 01:45:06.039 done with the stalling crap. 2043 01:45:06.119 --> 01:45:09.760 But hypothetically you're doing the one K prime WPT. You 2044 01:45:09.800 --> 01:45:12.039 got tables on the poker room and tables in the thing. 2045 01:45:12.359 --> 01:45:17.520 He's gonna break randomly in both break from one room 2046 01:45:17.520 --> 01:45:19.960 to the other, and then from there you break sections. 2047 01:45:20.039 --> 01:45:22.159 Okay. I also think that this is another pet peeve 2048 01:45:22.159 --> 01:45:24.279 of mine. But when these these places that that now 2049 01:45:24.319 --> 01:45:26.039 that these tournaments are so big. You see it at 2050 01:45:26.039 --> 01:45:30.159 the wind you see it at the WSP in the summer, 2051 01:45:30.439 --> 01:45:33.159 when they like break from a room to a room 2052 01:45:33.560 --> 01:45:36.159 like that, that is just that is entirely not needed, 2053 01:45:36.680 --> 01:45:39.640 Like just play even if it's the same flight, Just 2054 01:45:39.720 --> 01:45:43.479 play it in that room down Like why do you 2055 01:45:43.520 --> 01:45:47.000 need to move from a ballroom four hundred yards away 2056 01:45:47.479 --> 01:45:51.000 walk eight minutes with chips in an actual ziploc bag 2057 01:45:51.119 --> 01:45:52.760 to another tournament? Like I don't understand. 2058 01:45:52.800 --> 01:45:54.840 That's where I think WSP does it best where they 2059 01:45:54.840 --> 01:45:57.039 do the staggered clock, and then. 2060 01:45:56.840 --> 01:46:00.279 I mean, yeah, that's what I would say. They they 2061 01:46:00.319 --> 01:46:03.479 have a better option to play it in both rooms 2062 01:46:03.520 --> 01:46:06.560 because both rooms are so big. Like at the WIN 2063 01:46:06.720 --> 01:46:08.680 you have those secondary rooms that are a bit smaller, 2064 01:46:08.720 --> 01:46:10.760 so it might get a little weird. But the WSP 2065 01:46:10.920 --> 01:46:13.600 you have those two insanely big rooms or three insanely 2066 01:46:13.600 --> 01:46:16.479 big rooms. Right, you could just play within the rooms 2067 01:46:17.720 --> 01:46:19.560 like you don't need to play like on all these 2068 01:46:19.560 --> 01:46:23.359 other sides you mentioned breaks. Another thing, if if alive 2069 01:46:23.520 --> 01:46:24.960 and I saw this at the Win a couple of 2070 01:46:24.960 --> 01:46:30.319 times it happened. If a live series ever has synchronized 2071 01:46:30.359 --> 01:46:33.520 breaks that line up with one another, you should be fined. 2072 01:46:33.760 --> 01:46:37.560 Like it should just not be allowed online. Everything needs 2073 01:46:37.560 --> 01:46:40.319 to be synchronized fifty five minutes at the hour boom 2074 01:46:40.560 --> 01:46:45.600 live never synchronized, always staggered always. There's only so much 2075 01:46:45.640 --> 01:46:48.680 bathroom space, so much hallway space, all this sort of stuff, 2076 01:46:48.680 --> 01:46:52.800 like we should never ever ever have multiple tournaments going 2077 01:46:52.840 --> 01:46:55.119 on break at the same time. You should just not. 2078 01:46:55.399 --> 01:46:57.279 And if it's if it just so happens that like 2079 01:46:57.359 --> 01:47:00.319 things end up getting moved, they start late one, they're 2080 01:47:00.319 --> 01:47:01.880 gonna line up, say hey, guys, by the way, we're 2081 01:47:01.880 --> 01:47:03.560 gonna play ten minutes into the next level and then 2082 01:47:03.560 --> 01:47:05.399 we're gonna send you on break so we avoid the 2083 01:47:05.399 --> 01:47:08.720 other shit. Like, just just make those changes. Okay, that 2084 01:47:08.800 --> 01:47:12.439 needs to happen, all right, What else I got here? 2085 01:47:13.840 --> 01:47:20.000 I got one more? Tournament clocks need to be paused 2086 01:47:21.319 --> 01:47:24.640 or time needs to be given back during TV and 2087 01:47:24.720 --> 01:47:29.600 stream all in moments that take up extra time, because 2088 01:47:29.600 --> 01:47:35.159 that is ridiculous. And this is another argument why final 2089 01:47:35.199 --> 01:47:42.159 table levels should be hands per level, not time per level. Buddy, 2090 01:47:42.359 --> 01:47:45.399 some hands take an extra minute and a half to two. 2091 01:47:45.359 --> 01:47:48.119 Minutes when you do the you when this it all in? 2092 01:47:48.560 --> 01:47:50.479 Yeah, and they're waiting. I mean, listen, we work on 2093 01:47:50.479 --> 01:47:51.960 the production side. We get it. You want to build 2094 01:47:52.000 --> 01:47:55.720 the drama. I totally understand. Like I mean, listen, I 2095 01:47:55.840 --> 01:47:57.920 like to build the drama aspect. But I think it 2096 01:47:57.920 --> 01:48:00.279 would be pretty easy to just press pause and then 2097 01:48:00.359 --> 01:48:03.279 press start, right, you know, just that people aren't losing 2098 01:48:03.399 --> 01:48:07.199 all this time. Yeah, because it's ridiculous, especially when you 2099 01:48:07.239 --> 01:48:11.560 know when you have streaming before final tables, because then 2100 01:48:11.600 --> 01:48:14.640 you have one table that's playing on this this it's 2101 01:48:14.680 --> 01:48:17.640 already slow because people are playing a little bit differently. 2102 01:48:17.720 --> 01:48:20.319 They're playing a little bit tighter. Maybe they're nervous being 2103 01:48:20.319 --> 01:48:22.039 on stream. They got to put make sure that they 2104 01:48:22.039 --> 01:48:24.079 put their cards in the box, like this whole thing right. 2105 01:48:24.439 --> 01:48:27.199 Then on top of it, the all ends are taking longer. Yeah, 2106 01:48:27.199 --> 01:48:29.680 and even if it is just ten seconds longer per hand, 2107 01:48:30.079 --> 01:48:32.399 you play one hundred hands, like that adds up. So 2108 01:48:33.560 --> 01:48:37.880 like just add the time back, or pause the clock 2109 01:48:38.000 --> 01:48:40.840 during the the all in moments or whatever, you know, 2110 01:48:41.239 --> 01:48:42.560 or just run the damn cards out. 2111 01:48:42.600 --> 01:48:45.840 I don't even care, like you know, running them out quickly. 2112 01:48:46.840 --> 01:48:49.239 I mean we we I'll tell you that at you know, 2113 01:48:50.000 --> 01:48:52.800 at Venetian Poker Live and when we were doing cash 2114 01:48:52.800 --> 01:48:55.239 flow in those live stream cash games, we told them 2115 01:48:55.439 --> 01:48:57.640 just don't don't do it like a tournament. Just go 2116 01:48:58.520 --> 01:49:01.439 we'll figure out the action, we'll whatever. But like these 2117 01:49:01.439 --> 01:49:03.760 guys want to get hands in now. The thing is 2118 01:49:03.760 --> 01:49:05.720 that in a tournament the time is actually more important 2119 01:49:05.760 --> 01:49:07.439 than a cash game. Cash game, the blind's going ups, 2120 01:49:07.439 --> 01:49:09.279 it doesn't matter. But you know, the cash game players 2121 01:49:09.319 --> 01:49:11.359 want to play fast, they want to move things along whatever. 2122 01:49:11.439 --> 01:49:13.479 So but in a tournament, like you should totally give 2123 01:49:13.520 --> 01:49:16.560 time back, like why can't. It's like in soccer when 2124 01:49:16.600 --> 01:49:19.520 there's all this this time that the referee keeps and 2125 01:49:19.560 --> 01:49:21.159 at the end of it it's like, okay, there's seven 2126 01:49:21.159 --> 01:49:24.079 minutes of injury time, Like just add the time back 2127 01:49:24.279 --> 01:49:27.159 or again, or just make all at the final table. 2128 01:49:27.199 --> 01:49:30.439 It's hands per level, not time. That's also a very 2129 01:49:30.439 --> 01:49:33.920 easy fix. I feel like, so those are my things 2130 01:49:33.920 --> 01:49:37.399 that I would like to see happen, and I know 2131 01:49:37.439 --> 01:49:38.960 you're on board for all of them. I know you're 2132 01:49:39.000 --> 01:49:41.680 gonna put them all on the PGT structure sheets coming 2133 01:49:41.760 --> 01:49:44.199 up for the next season. You know, I think we're in. 2134 01:49:45.439 --> 01:49:48.159 I want to add one Yeah, go go right ahead. 2135 01:49:48.199 --> 01:49:49.840 Oh but by the way, I want to add one more, 2136 01:49:50.119 --> 01:49:55.560 one more because this this came up on social media 2137 01:49:55.680 --> 01:50:01.680 the other day with David Baker tournament staff. When it's 2138 01:50:01.680 --> 01:50:05.000 about to be a color this is this is this 2139 01:50:05.279 --> 01:50:08.479 nothing nothing like sets me off more in a live 2140 01:50:08.520 --> 01:50:10.359 poker tournament, and I don't really get set off. And 2141 01:50:10.359 --> 01:50:13.359 this is a low, you know, very low down there 2142 01:50:13.399 --> 01:50:16.079 set off. But when they come around with like twenty 2143 01:50:16.079 --> 01:50:18.600 five minutes left in the level and they pass out 2144 01:50:18.720 --> 01:50:21.239 racks to like the person who's the chip leader to 2145 01:50:21.239 --> 01:50:28.039 start coloring up. It just creates an unneeded level of 2146 01:50:28.079 --> 01:50:31.920 stupidity and slowness from everyone. It's like everyone kind of 2147 01:50:31.920 --> 01:50:34.880 forgets what they're doing immediately. The person who gets the 2148 01:50:34.960 --> 01:50:37.840 rack like thinks that they have to start coloring up, 2149 01:50:38.119 --> 01:50:42.119 which is not true because you still got twenty five minutes. Okay. 2150 01:50:42.159 --> 01:50:44.239 In the case that you do color up, then everyone's 2151 01:50:44.279 --> 01:50:46.760 just making change for the next twenty minutes of the level, 2152 01:50:46.800 --> 01:50:49.800 which is also annoying. Right. Then there's also times where 2153 01:50:49.840 --> 01:50:51.640 like there's times in like let's say I got a rack, 2154 01:50:51.680 --> 01:50:53.279 I gotta rack the other day of Venetian I was 2155 01:50:53.319 --> 01:50:56.479 gonna color up. I put it, I put it behind 2156 01:50:56.520 --> 01:50:58.920 my back in the chair, and I didn't do anything, 2157 01:50:59.319 --> 01:51:01.119 and the dealer was like, you need to start coloring up. 2158 01:51:01.159 --> 01:51:02.840 I'm like, no, there's eighteen minutes in a level. I 2159 01:51:02.840 --> 01:51:04.479 do not need to start coloring up. And like the 2160 01:51:04.520 --> 01:51:05.920 guy next to me was like ready to pass me 2161 01:51:05.960 --> 01:51:07.960 as chips. I'm like, buddy, no, you're about to be 2162 01:51:08.000 --> 01:51:09.840 in the big blind. Let's not do this right now. 2163 01:51:10.000 --> 01:51:12.239 We'll do it, you know, four minutes before the break. 2164 01:51:12.279 --> 01:51:14.720 I got it. It's fine, Like, but like everyone kind 2165 01:51:14.720 --> 01:51:17.960 of like gets weird about it and then it ultimately 2166 01:51:17.960 --> 01:51:20.359 slows everything down. So can we just like somehow fix this. 2167 01:51:20.439 --> 01:51:22.319 I don't know exactly what to fix it, like, but 2168 01:51:22.439 --> 01:51:24.000 just fix it. It's really annoying. 2169 01:51:25.880 --> 01:51:27.880 I don't have the opportunity to do the color of 2170 01:51:27.920 --> 01:51:31.640 that often, but when I do, I'm kind of half 2171 01:51:31.680 --> 01:51:34.920 in with you. I don't ask anyone for chips. 2172 01:51:34.199 --> 01:51:37.119 Just because like, like they give it to some people 2173 01:51:37.159 --> 01:51:38.199 and you can tell some people are. 2174 01:51:38.119 --> 01:51:40.760 Like I've done that. I've just taken it off them before. 2175 01:51:40.800 --> 01:51:42.680 If it's me like, we'll just speed this process up 2176 01:51:42.720 --> 01:51:45.159 and move on with our lives, I've I will. 2177 01:51:45.520 --> 01:51:48.239 If someone gives me the chips like eighteen minutes out, 2178 01:51:48.319 --> 01:51:50.319 I will call it on them up. But otherwise I'm 2179 01:51:50.359 --> 01:51:53.119 not ever asking for chips until the last few minutes, 2180 01:51:53.359 --> 01:51:56.840 like the lost handle to because yeah, we're gonna need 2181 01:51:56.840 --> 01:51:58.800 those chips. It's we don't need to do it eighteen 2182 01:51:58.840 --> 01:52:01.479 minutes ahead of time. But like, if someone starts selling me, 2183 01:52:01.520 --> 01:52:03.680 I'll just buy them up. I don't really I don't 2184 01:52:03.720 --> 01:52:07.359 care as much as ODB does or you, but I 2185 01:52:07.399 --> 01:52:10.279 do think it is it does like when I've seen 2186 01:52:10.359 --> 01:52:13.000 the amount of times you see you know, a four 2187 01:52:13.039 --> 01:52:15.960 giver rack guys in a big hand and it just 2188 01:52:16.000 --> 01:52:18.720 like throws them completely off. I guess that's a little 2189 01:52:18.720 --> 01:52:20.520 bit on that person for not being out of concentrate 2190 01:52:20.560 --> 01:52:20.920 as well. 2191 01:52:21.039 --> 01:52:23.600 But like people playing big parts, people are passing chips 2192 01:52:23.640 --> 01:52:25.560 across the table like in the middle of the big pot, 2193 01:52:25.600 --> 01:52:27.399 and it's like, hey, can you just wait? Like some 2194 01:52:27.880 --> 01:52:30.439 I know this isn't isn't allowed, you know, and I'm 2195 01:52:30.479 --> 01:52:32.199 not gonna I don't have anyone to help specifically, but 2196 01:52:32.239 --> 01:52:34.359 some dealers do it out of the pot, Like it's like, 2197 01:52:34.399 --> 01:52:37.680 can we just stop with this? Like just stop? Yeah, 2198 01:52:38.520 --> 01:52:39.159 So that's mine. 2199 01:52:39.520 --> 01:52:43.319 I want to add. Can we try and convert more 2200 01:52:43.399 --> 01:52:46.680 rooms to poker ols? That's all I want. I know 2201 01:52:47.000 --> 01:52:49.479 it's more difficult than we think. There's contracts and there's 2202 01:52:50.720 --> 01:52:54.079 lots of money involved. But like you know, especially during 2203 01:52:54.079 --> 01:52:57.600 the sum the summer and the winter, you know, times 2204 01:52:58.000 --> 01:52:59.920 I'm on poker outles looking at the wind or looking 2205 01:52:59.920 --> 01:53:01.720 at VENETI and then I got to go to Bravo, 2206 01:53:02.159 --> 01:53:04.439 which is although they did an updates, still a piece 2207 01:53:04.479 --> 01:53:07.039 of poop and uh to find out what's going on 2208 01:53:07.079 --> 01:53:09.920 in Ari or other places. Let's just let's just get 2209 01:53:10.039 --> 01:53:12.439 pokeerrautles is better. Let's just get everyone on Parker out list, 2210 01:53:12.600 --> 01:53:15.439 or alternatively get their own app like WSP. 2211 01:53:15.920 --> 01:53:18.479 Yeah, I mean the first the first thing that people 2212 01:53:18.479 --> 01:53:21.880 should do is, you know, get your own app like 2213 01:53:21.880 --> 01:53:24.479 the WSP plus app. Now obviously that's that's something that 2214 01:53:24.520 --> 01:53:26.239 a lot of people aren't gonna want to do just 2215 01:53:26.279 --> 01:53:30.359 because it's costly and whatever, I get it. Second option, 2216 01:53:30.399 --> 01:53:32.920 I agree with you, poker at list. Let's go like 2217 01:53:33.319 --> 01:53:36.840 you know, it's been. It's just it's just better, it 2218 01:53:36.920 --> 01:53:40.640 really is, you know, and listen, maybe the whole competition 2219 01:53:40.720 --> 01:53:43.439 thing that we often talk about, whether it's live operators, 2220 01:53:43.479 --> 01:53:46.199 online rooms, whatever it is, maybe the competition drives the 2221 01:53:46.239 --> 01:53:49.279 Bravo product to get better. They have recently updated their app, 2222 01:53:49.600 --> 01:53:52.039 you know, so maybe they are in terms of like 2223 01:53:52.079 --> 01:53:54.560 trying to improve it. But yeah, I agree, poker alss 2224 01:53:54.640 --> 01:53:58.199 right now is is so far ahead that everyone really 2225 01:53:58.239 --> 01:54:00.920 just needs to use them. The old gripe that I 2226 01:54:00.960 --> 01:54:03.960 have against poker Alice, they can use a little a 2227 01:54:04.039 --> 01:54:06.800 little U I U X like upgrades. You know, it's 2228 01:54:06.840 --> 01:54:10.000 a little bit kind of old there. And they got 2229 01:54:10.039 --> 01:54:10.800 to add the last names. 2230 01:54:10.800 --> 01:54:16.079 They got a name. Did you notice when you said 2231 01:54:16.079 --> 01:54:19.119 that screenshot of Jeremy Becka winning the eleven hundred that 2232 01:54:19.199 --> 01:54:19.920 he had a flag. 2233 01:54:20.199 --> 01:54:22.079 Yeah. Some people have flags, some people don't. I don't 2234 01:54:22.079 --> 01:54:24.399 really understand why that's how it. 2235 01:54:24.319 --> 01:54:25.880 Is I want to do. 2236 01:54:25.960 --> 01:54:29.439 I don't know. I was thinking like maybe, like maybe 2237 01:54:29.439 --> 01:54:32.720 it's like if Jeremy like actually creating an account it's 2238 01:54:32.760 --> 01:54:34.720 tied to his name and he put his location. I 2239 01:54:34.920 --> 01:54:39.000 don't really know, but yeah, I'm looking him out. I 2240 01:54:39.000 --> 01:54:41.159 think is great. You know. I like when they come 2241 01:54:41.159 --> 01:54:43.399 over they break your table, they just give you that 2242 01:54:43.399 --> 01:54:45.640 that seed. There's no like high card and stuff. It's 2243 01:54:45.680 --> 01:54:48.159 just it's just you know, print it out and go. 2244 01:54:48.319 --> 01:54:51.960 So yeah, I I like it. One thing I do 2245 01:54:52.000 --> 01:54:55.680 think is a little bit funny with with poker Alice 2246 01:54:55.840 --> 01:54:58.680 is because you have the the tablet is like built 2247 01:54:58.680 --> 01:55:02.359 into the table, right, and some people, mainly the one 2248 01:55:02.399 --> 01:55:04.079 seat in the nine set, can see the tablet and 2249 01:55:04.119 --> 01:55:05.520 can see the names. Yeah. 2250 01:55:06.039 --> 01:55:06.359 People. 2251 01:55:06.560 --> 01:55:08.039 We had a guy the other day while I was 2252 01:55:08.079 --> 01:55:12.000 at Venetian. He stood up like there was another hand 2253 01:55:12.039 --> 01:55:14.640 going on, and he stands up. He's in the five seat. 2254 01:55:14.680 --> 01:55:17.279 He leans over the table with his phone and takes 2255 01:55:17.319 --> 01:55:22.560 a photo of the tablet. Okay, like to obviously get 2256 01:55:22.600 --> 01:55:25.399 the names right because he can't see him and they're 2257 01:55:25.479 --> 01:55:27.159 upside down from where he is, and I wanted to 2258 01:55:27.199 --> 01:55:29.760 be like, okay, can we all have the photo, like, 2259 01:55:30.239 --> 01:55:32.199 you know, like if you're gonna do that, can we 2260 01:55:32.239 --> 01:55:34.359 all just have it? Can we all just share our names? 2261 01:55:34.439 --> 01:55:36.239 Like how about that? How about we all just say like, hey, 2262 01:55:36.319 --> 01:55:38.720 I'm Donnie Peters, go look me up. No big deal, 2263 01:55:38.760 --> 01:55:41.279 Like it's like what are we doing here? So anyway, 2264 01:55:42.079 --> 01:55:44.840 I do agree with you, though, Let's go Poker Outls. 2265 01:55:44.960 --> 01:55:47.000 I'm looking at my Poker Outsis account, say I could 2266 01:55:47.000 --> 01:55:50.880 add a flag and they have Poker Atleis bankroll so 2267 01:55:51.000 --> 01:55:57.279 you can do tournament registration, payouts, purchase. Recently, there's only 2268 01:55:57.279 --> 01:55:58.520 at two locations for. 2269 01:55:58.520 --> 01:56:02.560 The Poker Atles event that have at Venetian in December 2270 01:56:02.640 --> 01:56:07.119 and Remco and myself did commentary from we had John Friedberg, 2271 01:56:07.880 --> 01:56:12.520 the owner, CEO whatever he is for Poker Atlas. He 2272 01:56:12.680 --> 01:56:17.079 was saying that they are have this is like while 2273 01:56:17.079 --> 01:56:18.720 we were doing the stream, this was like his quote 2274 01:56:18.760 --> 01:56:21.479 unquote breaking news. But basically you're gonna there's like a 2275 01:56:21.479 --> 01:56:24.039 Poker outless like wallet. Now you're gonna be able to 2276 01:56:24.079 --> 01:56:27.119 like put money on there, buy into tournaments that way. 2277 01:56:27.359 --> 01:56:29.399 You know that sort of thing, which is great. Another 2278 01:56:29.760 --> 01:56:31.960 great upgrade. So you know another thing. I don't know 2279 01:56:32.000 --> 01:56:33.960 if it's out yet. You're obviously seeing something like that 2280 01:56:34.079 --> 01:56:35.960 right now in your poker outlics at But you know 2281 01:56:36.000 --> 01:56:38.960 again another like good thing that's that's coming because if 2282 01:56:38.960 --> 01:56:40.479 I don't have to carry a bunch of cash around 2283 01:56:40.520 --> 01:56:42.680 all these different venues, I can just press buttons like 2284 01:56:42.920 --> 01:56:48.199 that's that to me is great? Right, So yeah, another 2285 01:56:48.239 --> 01:56:50.359 reason why I think that they're ultimately winning. 2286 01:56:52.239 --> 01:56:54.239 I'm trying to not see what it asks for me 2287 01:56:55.920 --> 01:57:00.800 social security pen. Okay, yeah, it's cool, definitely, you know, 2288 01:57:00.840 --> 01:57:03.600 hopefilly that comes to Obviously coming to Vegas would be 2289 01:57:03.600 --> 01:57:07.560 a bigger hurdle than the two locations in Texas because 2290 01:57:07.560 --> 01:57:10.279 of all the Nevada gaming restrictions. But yeahs at least 2291 01:57:10.279 --> 01:57:11.199 a step forward. 2292 01:57:11.039 --> 01:57:13.840 Right, all right? You got anything else, sir? 2293 01:57:15.119 --> 01:57:17.800 Another couple more days up straight in the Lost Chance 2294 01:57:17.840 --> 01:57:20.680 straight into twenty twenty sixth season. I'm ready to get 2295 01:57:20.680 --> 01:57:22.520 back to work, that's. 2296 01:57:22.439 --> 01:57:24.720 Right, baby. So we got PGT Last Chance coming up 2297 01:57:24.760 --> 01:57:27.680 January fifth through tenth. We have the PGT Championship coming 2298 01:57:27.760 --> 01:57:32.319 up January twelfth through thirteenth, so that's on the docket 2299 01:57:32.359 --> 01:57:34.920 and then we'll get into everything as we go throughout 2300 01:57:34.960 --> 01:57:39.159 the twenty twenty sixth season. For Tim Duckworth. My name 2301 01:57:39.239 --> 01:57:41.800 is Donnie Peters. Happy New Year everyone, don't forget to 2302 01:57:41.880 --> 01:57:44.399 hit like and subscribe, share the podcast with all your friends, 2303 01:57:44.439 --> 01:57:46.760 and uh yeah, we'll do that mailbag episode coming up 2304 01:57:46.800 --> 01:57:49.439 sometime in the future. So podcast at PokerGO dot com 2305 01:57:49.479 --> 01:57:51.600 is the email addressed that you can send in any 2306 01:57:51.680 --> 01:57:53.239 questions and Tim and I will do our best to 2307 01:57:53.279 --> 01:57:56.479 get to those in an episode in the future. But 2308 01:57:56.560 --> 01:57:58.960 for now, we will talk to you guys later. 2309 01:57:59.399 --> 01:58:02.680 Fell you night. 2310 01:58:03.399 --> 01:58:07.159 The cany expressed