WEBVTT 1 00:00:10.800 --> 00:00:13.039 Hello, everyone, Welcome back to a new episode of the 2 00:00:13.119 --> 00:00:18.399 Poker Go over Go Podcast. My name is Donny Peters. 3 00:00:18.440 --> 00:00:22.239 His name is Tim Duckworth. How are you good? 4 00:00:23.800 --> 00:00:24.079 Great? 5 00:00:24.640 --> 00:00:27.559 Another new setting for the podcast right in front of 6 00:00:27.559 --> 00:00:32.640 this lovely led screen. Just wrapped up the PGT true 7 00:00:32.759 --> 00:00:39.039 classic Rags, two riches, not really an agenda on today's show. 8 00:00:39.640 --> 00:00:41.439 Last time, we talked about how we wanted to hit 9 00:00:41.479 --> 00:00:45.439 on some stuff before we were abruptly kicked out of 10 00:00:45.600 --> 00:00:48.240 our studio. But we'll hit on some of those topics. 11 00:00:48.280 --> 00:00:52.359 But I don't know, kind of unprepared, kind of just 12 00:00:52.399 --> 00:00:54.560 going to be firing from the hip. But maybe that'll 13 00:00:54.560 --> 00:00:55.439 produce a good show. 14 00:00:55.520 --> 00:00:56.640 I don't know. We'll see. 15 00:00:57.039 --> 00:01:00.359 We'll let producer rich Ryan tell us if this was 16 00:01:00.399 --> 00:01:03.880 good or bad, and then we're gonnajus going forward. Yeah, 17 00:01:03.960 --> 00:01:04.799 how's that sound to you? 18 00:01:05.159 --> 00:01:05.640 Good for me? 19 00:01:06.439 --> 00:01:10.159 You're not very lively today. Not enough coffee today, not 20 00:01:10.280 --> 00:01:12.879 enough coffee, And I tried to get you to go 21 00:01:12.920 --> 00:01:14.439 get more coffee, and you're like, I don't know. 22 00:01:16.079 --> 00:01:17.879 So that's probably my fault, that's what I'm. 23 00:01:17.959 --> 00:01:23.200 Probably your coke. It is Friday, December fifth, It is 24 00:01:23.560 --> 00:01:27.760 six eleven pm. And because it is Friday, December fifth, 25 00:01:27.760 --> 00:01:30.040 you've got a few days left to head on over 26 00:01:30.120 --> 00:01:32.920 to play poker Go. Play poker go dot com. You 27 00:01:32.920 --> 00:01:36.599 can also download it to your iOS device, to your 28 00:01:36.599 --> 00:01:39.640 Android device. All you gotta do sign up for a 29 00:01:39.680 --> 00:01:43.480 free account, play a free hand, one single hand of 30 00:01:43.519 --> 00:01:47.280 Allline poker. It's free, and do that before December tenth 31 00:01:47.319 --> 00:01:51.000 so you can get automatically entered to win a dream 32 00:01:51.079 --> 00:01:55.480 seat into the PGT Million Dollar Championship. That drawing is 33 00:01:55.519 --> 00:01:58.159 going to happen on December eleventh, So you got a 34 00:01:58.200 --> 00:02:01.120 couple of days left to get in there, play that freehand, 35 00:02:01.159 --> 00:02:03.640 and then hopefully you're coming out here to Las Vegas, 36 00:02:03.640 --> 00:02:06.319 to the pork Gro Studio and competing in that event. 37 00:02:06.359 --> 00:02:10.520 First place is going to be five hundred thousand dollars. 38 00:02:10.520 --> 00:02:13.479 The top six are going to pay out. There's going 39 00:02:13.520 --> 00:02:16.800 to be what fifty four entries fifty four, Yeah, so 40 00:02:16.840 --> 00:02:19.400 you've got a really damn good shot of like actually 41 00:02:20.159 --> 00:02:23.159 winning that tournament. You know, it's not like we're you're 42 00:02:23.159 --> 00:02:24.879 coming out here to play a two thousand player field 43 00:02:25.000 --> 00:02:28.560 or something like that. No legitimate shot nopeburch is necessary. 44 00:02:28.599 --> 00:02:30.240 Of course, must be twenty one or older in the 45 00:02:30.360 --> 00:02:33.479 US resident to enter. Full details can be found at 46 00:02:33.639 --> 00:02:37.800 poker groat dot com slash rules. All right, first things first, 47 00:02:39.360 --> 00:02:40.919 what'd you think of this True Classic event? 48 00:02:42.159 --> 00:02:43.599 It was good. It was fun. 49 00:02:45.000 --> 00:02:49.039 Having the you know, fifteen True Classic giveaway winners in 50 00:02:49.080 --> 00:02:51.719 the field. I think attracted a you know, some new 51 00:02:51.800 --> 00:02:54.759 faces and new names into the Progo studio to play. 52 00:02:55.039 --> 00:02:59.240 Obviously we have the ten seats guaranteed in the satellite 53 00:02:59.280 --> 00:03:00.000 end up getting. 54 00:02:59.759 --> 00:03:01.919 A maybeing one of them as well. 55 00:03:01.919 --> 00:03:02.319 There you go. 56 00:03:02.719 --> 00:03:05.560 So that was obviously good, you know, attracting some new 57 00:03:05.599 --> 00:03:07.599 people and everything here. 58 00:03:07.639 --> 00:03:09.840 And it was a different event. It was. It was 59 00:03:09.879 --> 00:03:13.360 our first three K no limit hold them event here in. 60 00:03:13.280 --> 00:03:16.240 The studio, so that that was a good thing to 61 00:03:16.280 --> 00:03:19.639 break through, to break the ice. And I think kind of, hey, 62 00:03:19.759 --> 00:03:22.719 maybe we do you know, a few more three ks 63 00:03:23.280 --> 00:03:25.879 on the PGT in the twenty twenty sixth season. 64 00:03:25.879 --> 00:03:27.120 I think there's an avatite for him. 65 00:03:27.159 --> 00:03:30.000 We saw what was one hundred odd players on Day 66 00:03:30.080 --> 00:03:33.479 one B so hey, you know, I feel like that's 67 00:03:33.919 --> 00:03:35.879 probably what we could expect if we did more of 68 00:03:35.919 --> 00:03:39.479 these in a time slot where we can have the 69 00:03:39.520 --> 00:03:42.520 full attention of our playable. 70 00:03:42.879 --> 00:03:43.599 Yeah, I agree. 71 00:03:44.680 --> 00:03:47.280 Timeslot was something you know, we'll want to maybe improve 72 00:03:47.360 --> 00:03:49.159 upon for next year. There are always things that we 73 00:03:49.199 --> 00:03:53.159 want to improve upon for the next time around. Speaking 74 00:03:53.159 --> 00:03:57.879 with Ryan Bartlett, co founder of True Classic, he's gung 75 00:03:57.960 --> 00:04:00.199 ho on this event, trying to go bigger and better 76 00:04:00.319 --> 00:04:02.280 with it. He was pumped to be here. He was 77 00:04:02.319 --> 00:04:03.879 out here for the last two days. He got to 78 00:04:03.919 --> 00:04:08.039 meet a lot of those fifteen qualifiers or fifteen giveaway 79 00:04:08.080 --> 00:04:11.840 winners that you mentioned. Two of them cashed, Mark Anthony 80 00:04:11.840 --> 00:04:16.319 Debello cash for twelve k. James Anderson cashed for eight k, 81 00:04:16.959 --> 00:04:21.879 so good on them, and yeah, they did well with everything. 82 00:04:22.000 --> 00:04:24.519 So you know, two out of fifteen not bad. A 83 00:04:24.600 --> 00:04:27.600 couple of the players you saw, Luke Burnham took a 84 00:04:27.600 --> 00:04:29.759 horrible beat. Was a King's births as king for like 85 00:04:29.800 --> 00:04:33.120 the chip lead on day one beat, Yeah exactly, So 86 00:04:33.639 --> 00:04:35.240 you know, stuff like that breaks the other way and 87 00:04:35.279 --> 00:04:38.319 maybe we got some more people going deep. But all 88 00:04:38.360 --> 00:04:41.240 in all, I think it was a good event, a 89 00:04:41.279 --> 00:04:43.800 good foundational start to everything. And then of course you 90 00:04:43.839 --> 00:04:47.040 know we'll we'll go from there and we'll grow as 91 00:04:47.120 --> 00:04:50.480 we go. And then speaking of Ryan Bartlett, we were 92 00:04:50.519 --> 00:04:53.319 able to speak with him after the event ended. Did 93 00:04:53.319 --> 00:04:55.639 a little interview with him, talked with him about the promotion, 94 00:04:55.759 --> 00:04:58.199 the giveaway, the event as a whole, true classic giving back, 95 00:04:58.279 --> 00:05:00.480 all that sort of stuff. So let's hear from Ryan 96 00:05:00.560 --> 00:05:02.879 right now, and then we will come on back on 97 00:05:02.959 --> 00:05:03.839 the other side. 98 00:05:04.399 --> 00:05:06.879 I mean, you guys know that we are really big 99 00:05:06.879 --> 00:05:09.759 in the philanthropy, really big into giving, and you know, 100 00:05:09.800 --> 00:05:12.000 since we're already partnered with Poker Go, it just made 101 00:05:12.000 --> 00:05:14.680 sense to figure out how to bring value to some 102 00:05:14.759 --> 00:05:17.160 people in the poker community that you know, we could 103 00:05:17.240 --> 00:05:19.279 help put them into a tournament and make some money. 104 00:05:19.319 --> 00:05:21.759 So it was kind of the perfect combination of like 105 00:05:22.160 --> 00:05:23.959 a little bit of philanthropy mixed with a little bit 106 00:05:23.959 --> 00:05:26.720 of gambling, and you get this rexter Wig a tournament. 107 00:05:27.800 --> 00:05:30.079 I mean, I still secretly wish that I could have 108 00:05:30.160 --> 00:05:33.000 made it work some way somehow, but I just was 109 00:05:33.120 --> 00:05:36.439 not good enough. I Mean, these guys are the pros, obviously, 110 00:05:37.600 --> 00:05:40.680 but I'm such a gambler at heart. I gamble a 111 00:05:40.720 --> 00:05:43.560 lot in business. I take a lot of big bets 112 00:05:43.879 --> 00:05:45.240 and have a high risk tolerance. 113 00:05:45.279 --> 00:05:46.519 So I still have that. 114 00:05:46.560 --> 00:05:49.240 Poker player in me to this day. It just plays 115 00:05:49.279 --> 00:05:51.240 out very differently in the business world than at the 116 00:05:51.240 --> 00:05:51.879 Poker Table. 117 00:05:52.160 --> 00:05:54.279 I just hope that they know that we're here to. 118 00:05:54.240 --> 00:05:56.120 Show up for the community in one way or the other, 119 00:05:56.160 --> 00:05:58.720 whether it's the poker tournaments or giving out free credit 120 00:05:58.920 --> 00:06:01.680 or whatever we figure out to give back to the community. 121 00:06:02.560 --> 00:06:04.879 I just want to continue to be one of those 122 00:06:04.879 --> 00:06:07.399 brands it just shows up some way, somehow, other than 123 00:06:07.480 --> 00:06:11.079 just being another branded sponsor. I mean, within the poker community, 124 00:06:11.120 --> 00:06:12.600 there's a lot to give. I mean, there's a lot 125 00:06:12.639 --> 00:06:14.600 of things we can do. I think the tournament was 126 00:06:14.639 --> 00:06:16.800 a good start. I want to brainstorm for the World 127 00:06:16.839 --> 00:06:18.879 Series next year on what we can do to show up. 128 00:06:19.319 --> 00:06:21.639 I know a couple of years prior, we tried to 129 00:06:21.639 --> 00:06:24.480 show up with gift bags and things that the players 130 00:06:24.519 --> 00:06:26.839 would need at the World Series that would help them 131 00:06:26.839 --> 00:06:29.279 get to their day. So, you know, it's gonna be 132 00:06:29.279 --> 00:06:31.360 more tournaments, more ways to give. I don't know, we'll 133 00:06:31.360 --> 00:06:32.879 see where it goes, but I'm gonna rely on you 134 00:06:32.879 --> 00:06:34.319 guys to how brainstorm. 135 00:06:33.879 --> 00:06:35.160 It all right. 136 00:06:35.199 --> 00:06:38.680 That was true Classic co founder Ryan Barlett, a former 137 00:06:38.720 --> 00:06:41.839 poker player in his own right, but as he'll tell you, 138 00:06:41.959 --> 00:06:43.920 poker didn't quite go so well for him, and then 139 00:06:44.199 --> 00:06:47.000 he went on to get involved into some other businesses, 140 00:06:47.000 --> 00:06:49.079 and eventually True Classic took off, and you know, now 141 00:06:49.079 --> 00:06:51.759 it's basically taking over the world as it's taking over 142 00:06:51.879 --> 00:06:55.079 the Poker Go studio. So it's good to get brands 143 00:06:55.120 --> 00:06:58.439 like this involved in poker. I feel like it's few 144 00:06:58.480 --> 00:07:01.839 and far between these days too. It to one to 145 00:07:01.920 --> 00:07:04.439 just get sponsors to care about poker like they once did, right, 146 00:07:04.480 --> 00:07:08.879 that's like the first hurdle, and then also get sponsors 147 00:07:08.920 --> 00:07:14.399 involved that are tied to poker. They have poker roots, 148 00:07:14.439 --> 00:07:16.199 they want to give back, they want to do good 149 00:07:16.240 --> 00:07:19.399 things and also something that can benefit poker players. I mean, 150 00:07:20.040 --> 00:07:23.480 he gave a lot of value, you know to the 151 00:07:23.519 --> 00:07:25.439 fifteen giveaway winners got to come out here. 152 00:07:25.519 --> 00:07:26.959 They're into five thousand dollars package. 153 00:07:27.000 --> 00:07:28.639 They played in the thirty three hundred dollar event, they 154 00:07:28.639 --> 00:07:31.360 got three nights at Aria, they got flights, that sort 155 00:07:31.360 --> 00:07:35.079 of stuff. They also got True Classic gear. Even today, 156 00:07:35.160 --> 00:07:37.240 you know, Ryan's hitting me up before the stream starts 157 00:07:37.240 --> 00:07:39.240 and he's like, hey, I got twenty five one hundred 158 00:07:39.240 --> 00:07:41.199 dollars codes. Let's give him out on the stream to 159 00:07:41.279 --> 00:07:43.639 the fans, you know, do that sort of stuff, like, 160 00:07:43.879 --> 00:07:45.879 I mean, he really does want to give back as 161 00:07:45.959 --> 00:07:49.920 much as possible to the poker community, and he really 162 00:07:49.920 --> 00:07:53.000 wants to help people to chase their dreams. So that's great. 163 00:07:53.040 --> 00:07:54.680 You know, It's it's one thing to get a sponsor 164 00:07:54.680 --> 00:07:57.279 out here and slap their logo on stuff, but it's 165 00:07:57.279 --> 00:08:02.360 great to really get that integration, that engagement through it all. So, 166 00:08:02.800 --> 00:08:05.800 you know, I'm very pleased with everything and being able 167 00:08:05.800 --> 00:08:08.439 to work with True Classic because you know, they see 168 00:08:08.439 --> 00:08:10.480 the vision that we're trying to create here and that's 169 00:08:10.480 --> 00:08:11.839 that's always fun to have. 170 00:08:11.959 --> 00:08:15.439 So sweet. You got any final thoughts on the event? 171 00:08:15.800 --> 00:08:17.199 I guess we can talk a little bit about the 172 00:08:17.199 --> 00:08:20.279 PGT Labbol you know, was a PGT qual It. 173 00:08:20.279 --> 00:08:22.079 Was a pg That's why it was called the PGT 174 00:08:22.240 --> 00:08:25.199 True Classic. Rags, two riches. 175 00:08:25.360 --> 00:08:28.560 Two kind of people. I'm going to talk about one 176 00:08:29.240 --> 00:08:30.560 Michael Wang final type. 177 00:08:30.360 --> 00:08:32.039 And we should quickly before you get to that, we 178 00:08:32.039 --> 00:08:37.360 should say that Daniel Maher won the event about thousand dollars. Yeah, 179 00:08:38.080 --> 00:08:40.240 he also won a thirty thousand dollars package to play 180 00:08:40.279 --> 00:08:43.000 in the WSB Paradise Super Main event. He at sixty 181 00:08:43.039 --> 00:08:45.720 million dollars guaranteed event, which will be a PGT qualifying event. 182 00:08:45.759 --> 00:08:49.399 There are six events as part of WSB Paradise that 183 00:08:49.559 --> 00:08:53.000 are PGT qualifying, the first of which kicks off on Saturday, 184 00:08:53.080 --> 00:08:54.039 December sixth. 185 00:08:54.159 --> 00:08:58.200 So speaking of Dan though, yeah, he's won three huge 186 00:08:58.200 --> 00:09:01.600 events massive shout Out, Massive event in the last eighty months, 187 00:09:01.799 --> 00:09:06.000 two now in this very room, right, one being obviously 188 00:09:06.039 --> 00:09:08.799 the PGT True Classic Rags to Riches. He also won 189 00:09:08.840 --> 00:09:11.120 the ben MGM Championship that was last year. Yeah, in 190 00:09:11.120 --> 00:09:14.200 the last eighteen months. Oh yeah, sorry, And he also 191 00:09:14.240 --> 00:09:17.000 won his first bracelet at last years he. 192 00:09:16.960 --> 00:09:19.159 Did, and I did not know that that bracelet was 193 00:09:19.200 --> 00:09:21.679 one of the online to Live hybrid events. Yeah, the 194 00:09:21.720 --> 00:09:25.159 hybrid yeah, which you know, there's obviously every time ws 195 00:09:25.159 --> 00:09:28.159 A P comes around, there's always that that bracelet talk. 196 00:09:28.240 --> 00:09:31.600 You know, does do bracelets matter? Are they watering them down? 197 00:09:31.679 --> 00:09:32.840 Like all that sort of stuff? 198 00:09:32.919 --> 00:09:35.799 Right, as far as I'm concerned, a bracelet is a 199 00:09:35.799 --> 00:09:38.840 bracelet as long as the operator says it's a bracelet. 200 00:09:39.240 --> 00:09:42.200 That's my stance these days. I do think though, that 201 00:09:43.080 --> 00:09:46.600 all the online bracelets I think should just be online 202 00:09:46.639 --> 00:09:48.679 to live like that. 203 00:09:48.679 --> 00:09:48.759 That. 204 00:09:48.919 --> 00:09:52.639 I feel like that's that's my solution there, all of them, 205 00:09:52.919 --> 00:09:55.600 all of them should be No I know, but okay, 206 00:09:55.600 --> 00:09:57.600 But what I'm going also, what I'm saying with that 207 00:09:57.759 --> 00:10:01.600 is that if you atta packet with the fact that 208 00:10:02.000 --> 00:10:04.879 they need to be online to live, then you're gonna 209 00:10:04.919 --> 00:10:07.919 have fewer of them online, you know what I mean, 210 00:10:08.000 --> 00:10:09.600 because you're not gonna want to do, like you said, 211 00:10:09.679 --> 00:10:13.039 sixty two one hundred online to live events. But you 212 00:10:13.039 --> 00:10:15.639 could do a dozen. You could do twenty throughout the year. 213 00:10:16.200 --> 00:10:18.320 You could make that happen. You know, you could do 214 00:10:18.440 --> 00:10:22.320 some for the summer stuff you know that plays online 215 00:10:22.320 --> 00:10:24.519 to live of course during the summer, and then you 216 00:10:24.519 --> 00:10:26.559 could also do some that play like in the fall 217 00:10:26.600 --> 00:10:28.240 when they do the one here in the States on 218 00:10:28.320 --> 00:10:29.919 WSP dot com and they do them on gd Poker, 219 00:10:29.960 --> 00:10:31.720 and you could end up in paradise. Why can't you 220 00:10:31.720 --> 00:10:33.639 do that? Oh that's a good way, you know, like that, 221 00:10:34.159 --> 00:10:35.480 and that's how you do it. And then maybe you 222 00:10:35.519 --> 00:10:37.559 get I don't know, maybe you do fifteen in the summer, 223 00:10:37.679 --> 00:10:40.639 fifteen in the fall between the two markets, you get 224 00:10:40.639 --> 00:10:42.960 thirty total or something and you go about that. Or 225 00:10:43.039 --> 00:10:45.360 you could even do something where it's like maybe you 226 00:10:45.440 --> 00:10:48.159 do the live stuff at w SP Europe, right, you know, 227 00:10:48.279 --> 00:10:52.120 because they do have these three live ten pole events 228 00:10:52.200 --> 00:10:54.759 that they could drive people too, you know. And then 229 00:10:54.799 --> 00:10:57.320 and then also maybe like when it comes to w 230 00:10:57.399 --> 00:10:59.799 SP Paradise for example, you know, maybe they get some 231 00:10:59.840 --> 00:11:01.840 more people in that SUPERMANI men. You know, maybe they 232 00:11:01.840 --> 00:11:04.000 get them blasting down there, so all that sort of stuff. 233 00:11:04.039 --> 00:11:06.320 So I think that could be kind of a pathway, 234 00:11:06.720 --> 00:11:09.200 you know, or a way to possibly attack it. It 235 00:11:09.240 --> 00:11:12.080 Also it just creates like, I mean, the whole thing 236 00:11:12.120 --> 00:11:14.639 with the with the online stuff. I mean, listen, online 237 00:11:14.679 --> 00:11:18.000 poker is super fucking hard, but people are like, I 238 00:11:18.000 --> 00:11:19.480 don't know who I'm playing against, I don't know what 239 00:11:19.519 --> 00:11:21.039 they're doing. All this sort of stuff. Well, at least 240 00:11:21.039 --> 00:11:22.919 if you get them at the final table in a 241 00:11:22.960 --> 00:11:26.039 live setting, it's there, it's live, it's in the flesh, right, 242 00:11:26.080 --> 00:11:28.799 So yeah, I don't know that kind of thought about 243 00:11:28.799 --> 00:11:31.039 that today, but you know, we'll see how it goes. 244 00:11:31.559 --> 00:11:33.120 But w SPE Paradise is coming up anyway. 245 00:11:33.600 --> 00:11:36.039 Put the PGT three people are gonna talk about real quick. 246 00:11:36.039 --> 00:11:39.639 Neil Warren, he Cash. He moved up to eightieth, but 247 00:11:39.720 --> 00:11:41.679 he's got seven hundred and four points. He is right 248 00:11:41.759 --> 00:11:44.120 in that striking distance from that top. 249 00:11:44.159 --> 00:11:44.519 Forty. 250 00:11:44.799 --> 00:11:48.919 Sam Laskwitz min Cash he moved up. He leaped from 251 00:11:49.000 --> 00:11:52.159 Dennis wise Brace, the winner from this world series. Most 252 00:11:52.159 --> 00:11:55.159 importantly for Sam is he's forty eighth on the lead aboard. 253 00:11:55.279 --> 00:11:58.600 Why that he's right there because that's technically with out 254 00:11:58.600 --> 00:12:01.960 little rules fortieth when you take out the eligibility must 255 00:12:01.960 --> 00:12:05.000 cast three times, he's actually when you remove those players 256 00:12:05.080 --> 00:12:08.159 such as Michael Musrahi, John Woznik, some of those guys, 257 00:12:08.320 --> 00:12:11.279 he's now fortieth, so he's in, but obviously lots more 258 00:12:11.320 --> 00:12:14.559 events to come. And the final person Michael Wang Final Table, 259 00:12:14.879 --> 00:12:18.120 the event he leaped up over Dylan Lindy. He's now 260 00:12:18.200 --> 00:12:21.039 seventeenth on the PGT leader board, twelve hundred and eighty. 261 00:12:22.200 --> 00:12:25.440 Would say he's probably locked in to qualify for the 262 00:12:25.440 --> 00:12:27.720 PGT Million Dollar Championship. But that was the three big 263 00:12:27.720 --> 00:12:30.759 movers from Yeah, the true Classic, Rags Riches. 264 00:12:30.720 --> 00:12:33.200 And then in this event. You know, with everything that 265 00:12:33.240 --> 00:12:34.960 we did here trying to promote it as much as 266 00:12:35.000 --> 00:12:38.000 possible live streaming at et cetera, I felt like this 267 00:12:38.080 --> 00:12:40.039 kind of kicked off the month of December in a 268 00:12:40.039 --> 00:12:43.399 lot of ways. It's a huge month here for poker 269 00:12:43.440 --> 00:12:45.759 in Las Vegas and around the world. With everything that's 270 00:12:45.799 --> 00:12:49.279 going on again, WISP Paradise, you got EPT Prague that's happening. 271 00:12:49.360 --> 00:12:53.159 So there's a lot of stuff happening. Tim and I 272 00:12:53.159 --> 00:12:54.840 are going to be out there battling quite a bit, 273 00:12:55.200 --> 00:12:57.440 see if we can make some things happen as we 274 00:12:57.519 --> 00:12:59.679 close out the year. So you know, maybe we'll have 275 00:12:59.679 --> 00:13:02.519 a couple podcast before we turn the calendar over to 276 00:13:02.559 --> 00:13:04.480 twenty twenty six and kind of talk about it all. 277 00:13:04.519 --> 00:13:07.519 But we'll see how we need to do annual uh 278 00:13:08.200 --> 00:13:09.399 perka Rica we do. 279 00:13:09.440 --> 00:13:11.679 We do talk about next years. 280 00:13:11.519 --> 00:13:12.879 Go I feel like I have to tick off like 281 00:13:12.960 --> 00:13:15.360 nine more of them. I feel like I haven't done 282 00:13:15.440 --> 00:13:15.919 what I wanted to. 283 00:13:17.159 --> 00:13:20.320 I'm already said, you probably said shitty goals go back 284 00:13:20.320 --> 00:13:20.759 and listen. 285 00:13:20.840 --> 00:13:22.840 I don't know to the cash in an event. 286 00:13:23.799 --> 00:13:27.960 Wow, problem, my goals are pretty I mean, I don't 287 00:13:27.960 --> 00:13:29.879 remember what I don't even remember what our goals were. 288 00:13:29.960 --> 00:13:33.919 I remember I went back. So yeah, okay, we'll. 289 00:13:33.600 --> 00:13:35.559 Touch on it, like you know, around New Year's Eve. 290 00:13:37.799 --> 00:13:39.159 So I did want to touch on some of these 291 00:13:39.159 --> 00:13:41.799 other events that happened around the world in the last 292 00:13:41.840 --> 00:13:46.440 month or so. First and foremost, this APT Championship event 293 00:13:46.480 --> 00:13:50.240 that happened in where did it happened Taiwan, Taiwan. I 294 00:13:50.240 --> 00:13:54.559 mean this event like it kind of came out of nowhere, 295 00:13:54.919 --> 00:13:57.399 like I knew it was going to be happening, yeah right, 296 00:13:57.440 --> 00:14:00.879 and I knew it was a laft The event, the 297 00:14:01.399 --> 00:14:05.720 main event itself was a ten k us freeze out, 298 00:14:05.799 --> 00:14:09.559 freeze five million dollars guarantee, okay, which is I mean, 299 00:14:09.559 --> 00:14:16.240 that's lofty by today's standards, especially when from what I recall, 300 00:14:16.279 --> 00:14:18.200 I don't think they've ever done an event like that 301 00:14:18.600 --> 00:14:20.440 big of a buy in for like their main event. 302 00:14:20.440 --> 00:14:22.919 They were usually smaller I think, and that could be 303 00:14:22.960 --> 00:14:25.919 wrong there, but anyway, all of a sudden, it's like 304 00:14:26.720 --> 00:14:30.440 this Championship event is all over social media, it's getting 305 00:14:30.440 --> 00:14:32.120 streamed like there's a lot of stuff happening. There's a 306 00:14:32.120 --> 00:14:33.799 lot of players that made their way there. So it 307 00:14:33.840 --> 00:14:36.200 was like boom, all a sudden done when it comes 308 00:14:36.240 --> 00:14:39.240 to the Championship main events, six hundred and seventy one entry, 309 00:14:39.279 --> 00:14:43.320 so they did hit the guarantee, five million dollars were guaranteed. 310 00:14:43.360 --> 00:14:45.600 Of course, they got over that with the six seventy 311 00:14:45.639 --> 00:14:48.440 one in the field again freeze out, freeze out, which 312 00:14:48.480 --> 00:14:53.080 is just absolutely freaking wild India's Nishant Sharma won the 313 00:14:53.120 --> 00:14:55.159 event for almost one point two. 314 00:14:56.799 --> 00:14:58.279 You and I were joking. You text me, You're like, 315 00:14:58.279 --> 00:14:59.159 should we go next year? 316 00:14:59.399 --> 00:14:59.960 I want to hunt? 317 00:15:00.600 --> 00:15:04.399 Yeah, Like kind of the reason the like for me 318 00:15:04.440 --> 00:15:06.440 talking about this event isn't so much about like talking 319 00:15:06.440 --> 00:15:09.039 about the results and like who won, like you know, 320 00:15:09.080 --> 00:15:10.840 shout out to Sharma for winning more than one point 321 00:15:10.879 --> 00:15:13.240 two million dollars, like that's awesome. But for me, the 322 00:15:13.279 --> 00:15:16.399 story here is like this event is now firmly on 323 00:15:16.440 --> 00:15:19.200 the map, like it I mean, it's like you and 324 00:15:19.200 --> 00:15:21.720 I are talking about, listen, should we plan for a 325 00:15:21.720 --> 00:15:25.120 trip next November? A lot of players, same sort of thing. 326 00:15:25.639 --> 00:15:29.279 I tried to do some reach out to various players 327 00:15:29.279 --> 00:15:32.159 to see how it was there, you know. Dylan Lindy 328 00:15:32.200 --> 00:15:36.879 said that he deeply enjoyed his first Asian Poker Tour experience. 329 00:15:37.120 --> 00:15:39.279 He said that the whole schedule had a wide range 330 00:15:39.600 --> 00:15:42.519 of well structured high rollers to mixed games to large, 331 00:15:42.679 --> 00:15:45.559 large guaranteed freeze outs, which is, you know, that's pretty 332 00:15:45.600 --> 00:15:48.639 cool to say. Hal Rotholds was over there as well. 333 00:15:48.759 --> 00:15:50.519 He said he's played a few of these events over 334 00:15:50.519 --> 00:15:52.879 the years, but he's glad to see what the APT 335 00:15:53.240 --> 00:15:56.600 brought this year with his events, especially as a mixed 336 00:15:56.600 --> 00:15:59.519 game player, so you know, again echoing with Dylan, Lindy said, 337 00:15:59.559 --> 00:16:03.039 as it really to the mixed games. A. J. Kelsaw 338 00:16:03.080 --> 00:16:05.159 another mixed game player. He was over there. I think 339 00:16:05.159 --> 00:16:09.679 he won a mixed game event as well, so you know, 340 00:16:09.759 --> 00:16:12.559 he had a good friend over there. He was happy with, 341 00:16:12.639 --> 00:16:15.320 like the people and how they welcomed you, and the 342 00:16:15.360 --> 00:16:17.360 hospitality and all that sort of stuff. He said, I 343 00:16:17.399 --> 00:16:20.399 highly recommend the APT series next November in Type A 344 00:16:20.519 --> 00:16:23.840 for anyone who wants to visit Asia while playing some poker. 345 00:16:23.960 --> 00:16:26.960 The events were well planned, the staff was outstanding, and 346 00:16:27.000 --> 00:16:30.519 the operation ran super smoothly with no lines or weights, 347 00:16:30.519 --> 00:16:35.519 et cetera. Anthony, who who Final Table DPGT True Classic 348 00:16:35.639 --> 00:16:38.559 Rags to Riches basically must have got off the plane 349 00:16:38.600 --> 00:16:41.960 and came right here because he was over there doing 350 00:16:41.960 --> 00:16:42.519 some stuff. 351 00:16:42.960 --> 00:16:43.279 He said. 352 00:16:43.279 --> 00:16:45.559 It was a very good vibe over there. The fields 353 00:16:45.559 --> 00:16:48.120 weren't as competitive as the US, which is good if 354 00:16:48.159 --> 00:16:52.279 you're value hunting. They have no cash games, according to him, 355 00:16:52.279 --> 00:16:55.440 so they have very like good structures and well structured 356 00:16:55.440 --> 00:16:58.120 tournaments that allows them to do that. He did say 357 00:16:58.159 --> 00:17:00.600 the rake was pretty high though, so so you know, 358 00:17:00.879 --> 00:17:02.519 he said it can be as high as fifteen percent 359 00:17:02.559 --> 00:17:04.119 and ten percent for the high rollers. 360 00:17:04.640 --> 00:17:05.519 So you know. 361 00:17:05.599 --> 00:17:08.160 He did say Taiwan's a great city. He speaks Chinese, 362 00:17:08.160 --> 00:17:11.839 so that helps him travel over there. He did say, 363 00:17:11.839 --> 00:17:14.000 I recommend going for fun, but hard to make money 364 00:17:14.039 --> 00:17:17.119 there with the rape plus currency conversion fees plus travel expenses. 365 00:17:17.160 --> 00:17:19.559 I mean, I get it, you know. 366 00:17:19.599 --> 00:17:22.119 I think it's good to have somebody who's you know, 367 00:17:22.519 --> 00:17:26.000 on not not necessarily a negative side, but isn't just like, yeah, 368 00:17:26.000 --> 00:17:27.400 this is awesome. I'm going to go every time, So 369 00:17:27.599 --> 00:17:31.119 it's good to get a nice diversified look there through 370 00:17:31.119 --> 00:17:33.920 some of the players. But from what I saw, it 371 00:17:34.039 --> 00:17:37.680 seemed like something I would want to maybe go, you know, 372 00:17:37.759 --> 00:17:40.119 if I do make a poker trip like this is 373 00:17:40.160 --> 00:17:43.039 now in the consideration for me, which I think when 374 00:17:43.079 --> 00:17:46.759 you're putting this event on and you want to attract 375 00:17:46.799 --> 00:17:49.079 international players, like that's what you're hoping to try and achieve, 376 00:17:49.160 --> 00:17:51.960 create that sense of fomo, to get people thinking about it, 377 00:17:51.960 --> 00:17:54.559 getting friends like us being like, hey, should we make 378 00:17:54.599 --> 00:17:55.319 a trip out of it. 379 00:17:55.400 --> 00:17:57.599 I just looked at the schedule and it kind of 380 00:17:58.359 --> 00:18:00.400 had a bit of everything for everyone. Know we talked, 381 00:18:00.519 --> 00:18:02.680 you mentioned these some of these guys, Hal and Dylan, 382 00:18:02.720 --> 00:18:05.559 Lindy and AJ mixed game guys. There was mixed game 383 00:18:05.599 --> 00:18:08.119 tournaments and tournaments I had never even heard of. Habby 384 00:18:08.119 --> 00:18:10.039 Mirk played once you want to yeah, Pineapple. 385 00:18:10.240 --> 00:18:14.359 To some yes, Seventh Heaven Pineapple. I don't know. 386 00:18:14.559 --> 00:18:16.599 They all crazy games, but they had a lot of 387 00:18:16.599 --> 00:18:18.960 stuff at very affordable buyings for like you know, you 388 00:18:19.039 --> 00:18:21.440 and me, we're talking three hundred, four hundred, five hundred. 389 00:18:21.759 --> 00:18:24.400 But then they had stuff like five k's, ten K 390 00:18:24.519 --> 00:18:26.400 main event, twenty five K high rolls. I had a 391 00:18:26.440 --> 00:18:29.400 full full spectrum of buyings and events. 392 00:18:29.720 --> 00:18:29.920 Uh. 393 00:18:29.960 --> 00:18:32.319 And that's what kind of you know, picked my interest. Plus, hey, 394 00:18:32.319 --> 00:18:34.200 a city. You know, we've done a lot of traveling 395 00:18:34.519 --> 00:18:37.640 in our career working. We never really made it to Taiwan, 396 00:18:38.200 --> 00:18:40.119 so it's kind of a spot. Hey, you know, it 397 00:18:40.119 --> 00:18:41.599 could be a good one to go to. Speaking to 398 00:18:41.599 --> 00:18:43.880 Anthony who he did talk about the players and some 399 00:18:43.920 --> 00:18:48.200 of the incredible hands he saw, but also the fact 400 00:18:48.240 --> 00:18:49.640 that was pretty you know, it's pretty easy trip. I 401 00:18:49.640 --> 00:18:51.359