Speaker 1: Hello, everyone, Welcome back to a new episode oh of
the Poker Go Podcast. My name is Donnie Peters. It
is officially Sunday, July fifth. We just skipped right through
good old Independence Day twelve forty four. Am here yours
truly did put chips in the bag on Day one
C of the WSOP main event, bagging up forty five
nine hundred. Yes, that is less than the sixty k
starting stack. But I went into the last level with
eleven thousand, six hundred chips, and I was all in
on the third hand of that last level for eleven thousand.
Because I was in the big line posted that six
hundred big line, Anti got all in Kings versus Ace
King held doubled up, went on a nice little late
night surge to get back to a respectable stack. Feels
like a million. Feels like a million chips in the
bag after the day I had. I'll talk a little
bit about that later on in the show. Of course,
we do want to run through some of the stuff
that happened on Day one C of the WSOP main event.
Because I was playing, I'm not as in tune with
exactly what was going on out there, but I'll do
my best. You know, we'll touch on a lot of
the other stuff that happened around the World Series of Poker,
and then you know, we'll get we'll get up on
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All right, Day one C of the Fabulous World Series
of Poker Main Event one thousand, five hundred and seventy
three entries. That is what the tally said on the
board in the app at the end of the day
on Saturday. That is down a little bit from last
year's Day one. See, last year had sixteen hundred and
seventy eight so you're looking at a decrease of six
point three percent. Through the first three flights. Each day
has been in decline compared to last year. Yes, but
these last two starting invites not as bad as that
that first one was. You know, that first one was
negative sixteen point five percent. Overall, so far, thirty three
hundred and eighty three entries have been tallied in the
World Series of Poker. Maintament. That does not count the
players who are already signed up for Day one D.
I'm not not going to include that in that number.
At this point. Last year we had three thy six
hundred and ninety seven, so you're looking at a decrease
of eight and a half percent. You know, earlier we
kind of talked when we were talking about Day one
A because that one fell with a decrease of sixteen
and a half percent. We were saying, and you know, okay,
that's kind of in line with the ten to twenty
percent range that some of these tournaments that are down
have been down. But now just being down eight and
a half percent feels okay. You know, when you play
this tournament, there's a lot of downtime between hands that
that you're actually playing. You know, things are a little
bit more drawn out, so the mind does wander a
little bit. And at one point I did look up
at the board saw the number. This is kind of
in the last half of the night or so when
I said, you know what, it actually doesn't seem all
that bad. Now that I see the number here, you know,
the total through the first three flights down eight and
a half percent. I don't think that that's that bad.
I expect a big number on Day one D So
last year, according to Poker News, four thousand, nine hundred
and ninety seven entries on Day one d they ended
up with I think it was nine thy seven hundred
and thirty five. Where was the total number? I talked
about this either the last episode or the episode before,
but they finished all the starting flights with eighty six
hundred and ninety four, So then they got just over
one thousand entries for the late redge on the Day twos, right.
I have also said that, you know, I think that
people are leaning to do the day two redge a
little bit more so than we've seen. So overall, eight
and a half percent decrease not too bad. It's not
up over ten percent like you know, we might have
thought when we were coming out of that first starting
flight one A. If you think that, you know, you're
gonna be able to also make up some ground with
more Day two late entry, then overall, I don't I
don't think the numbers, you know, all that bad. You know, again,
anything around nine thousand above it, you know, even slightly
below it, I think is is plenty fine for the
World Series of Poker main events. You know, we were
always going to kind of see some pullback in one
of these years, like either now even last year, if
we would have saw it fine or some of the
upcoming years. So we're just seeing a little bit more
this year, but that's fine, you know, I think things
were flying a little bit too high overall, and then
we'll see what it gains for Day one D. You know,
I know a lot of people are playing. I know
that's kind of anecdotal, and you know, you can't really
I can't go out there talking to five thousand different people,
but I know there are a lot of people that
are out there gonna be blasting away on Sunday for
Day one D, so we'll see where that number comes in.
The number to beat from last year was four nine
and ninety seven, so we'll see how it goes. As
we've been doing each day, I've been trying to look
through the Poker News updates to find what they have
reported as the first bust out of the day, and
on Day one C it was DeWitt Nakirk who Poker
News has reported as the first to bust out of
the day. And to be honest, I got no idea
how new Kirk busted on this hand because he should
not have gone broke. They they being Poker News, caught
up with the hand. They're on the river it's ten
ten to nine, Ace Jack, don't think there's a fluster
on board. Newkirk's got twenty thousand in front of him.
Stephen Grainer puts him all in his remaining twenty six.
New Kirk says something to the effect is I have
to call and then mix the call with Queen eight.
Queen eight of hearts for a straight and not even
the nut straight because King ten or sorry King Queen,
excuse me, it is the nut straight here. Grainer's got
a full house with aces and and that's that for
DeWitt Na Kirk. I mean, there's several full houses on
this board. There's a better straight. I mean, I can't
I can't imagine going broke in this sort of fashion.
I also just kind of have no idea how this
even like ended up like this, you know, I mean,
if he had Queen eight, he's chasing a gutter like
I mean, it's just wild. Stuff goes down in the
WSP main event, especially early on. You just see some
absolutely shocking stuff. Julian Bognadov, Lawrence Brandt, Justin Rwin and
Freddy Deeb. They all bagged a lot of chips. For
much of my day, I was at a table right
next to Freddy Deeb's table, and every time I looked over,
you know, I do that thing that I've told you
guys about before, where when I'm under the gun, if
I fold my hand, I stand up, stretch the legs,
sit back down to get ready to go for a
big blind, small blind, and button, because those are the
three most active hands that you regularly play it. Also
if you do that every rotation. Now it's a little
bit different if you play the hand under the gun.
If you're dealt something you tend to miss, you know,
getting up from your seat. But I just like to
get up and stretch. I don't like to sit all
day every day. You know, it's just not that good
for you. So I do try and stretch up, or sorry,
stand up and stretch a little bit and all that
sort of stuff. So every time I would stand up,
I kind of would just look over at Freddy Dee's table,
and he's had more chips than he had the last
time I looked every time, and he went on to
bag an absolute freaking pile of chips. I think he
bagged two hundred and something thousand. I mean, I don't
even know I mean, yeah, two hundred and sixty seven thousand.
I mean he was just Freddy deep just over there's
absolutely crushing people. Cameras are on him a lot, so
I'm sure if you watch the coverage, you probably got
to look into his table, but it looked like, you know,
Freddy Dee was was the one to catch over there
on the feature table. Now I didn't get to watch
because I was busy playing, but it sounds like this guy,
Jordan Baptiste absolutely stole the show on the stream both
with his play. You know, he was making some big
plays from what I could call he was getting some
big hands, getting people to pay him off. And some
of that getting people to pay him off was because
his personality, right, he was talkative, he was outgoing, he
was colorful, all that sort of stuff. He busted Jamie Gold.
He bagged an absolute pile of chips. You start with
sixty thousand chips in the WSP main event. He bagged
three hundred and fifty seven thousand, and that's a mountain
of chips. So I'm excited to see Baptiste when I
watch back the coverage. When I'm there every single day,
you know, I can't watch all of it. Sometimes, if
it's a not playing day and I am at my
computer a little bit more, I will have the stream
up so I can check in with it, kind of
skim through it, find some important points, all that sort
of stuff. But once the dobasop ends is when I
tend to sit down and really watch the whole thing,
like from start to finish, lock in, maybe even make
my wife watch it with me and you know, talk
through it, even though she'll probably walk out of the
room because it's poker and it can be boring to
non diehards. But but yeah, I'm excited to watch Baptist
and maybe you know, one of the best things about
the WSP main event. One of my favorite things about
the WASP main event is seeing these personalities, seeing these
stories develop early and then seeing what they turn into.
You know, years ago we saw it with Nick Rigby, right,
you know, we saw him develop. I think the other
gentleman's name was Aaron Zang one year right. That was
a lot of fun watching him develop. You know, you
always kind of see it. I mean, even going way
back obviously to Jamie Gold, Like you started to see
that earlier and now it was a little bit different
back then because it wasn't live throughout. You know, it
was cut into episodes, so you could kind of rework
the story a little bit. But you know, here you
tend to see some people the French guy remain Look, hey,
I believe it was just an absolute savage on the
fel He's the one who had the He fought the
set of nines on Blesnick's aces and then turned quads
and cracked him in just an absolutely outrageous pot But
you know, stuff like that, just seeing these players develop
into two characters, and Jordan Baptiste seems like he's gonna
be that guy. Had a nice little interview with Jeff
Platt at the end of the day talking about you
know how he was a little bit nervous at the start,
he kind of settled in and then you know, the
deck treated him well and he was able to just
get in his groove and do his thing. And when
you're bagging three hundred and fifty seven thousand on day
one a so almost six starting stacks, there's a good
chance you're gonna go kind of deep. You know, I
can't say if you know, anyone is gonna even if
they bag six starting sacks on day one, they're ultimately
gonna make you know, day five, day six, day seven,
et cetera. But I mean there's a good chance with
this stack, he's for sure around to day three and
day right, so getting into the money, and if he's
able to have this personality, like it seemed like he
had really colorful guy out there, both with his play
and his talking, then he's gonna be somebody who's featured
a bit more. You know, he's got that that combination
of everything where he's got the personality for it, he's
got some game, and he's got a boatload of chips.
You know, sometimes you don't get all three of those
things working for you. Somebody might have. They might be
a good player, they might have a lot of personality,
but they might you know, be nursing a big blinds. Right,
So then that's kind of like, well, you know, can
we really feature this player because if they bust, then
they're out, you know whatever. But here with Jordan bet Piece,
I mean, maybe we've got the recipe for some really
cool stuff. So let's see. Maybe he's the next poker star.
I mean, heck, you never know, right, you never know
who's gonna be that next Jamie Gold, that next Chris Moneymaker.
So maybe we're getting a little early look at this.
Other than that, I don't think I really have much
from day one sea of the w SP main event.
I'm gonna take us away from the main event for
a second here. I'm gonna go through some of the
other news items that happened around the World Series of
Poker on Saturday, and then I'll come back and I'll
talk a little bit about my day in the WSOP
main event. That way, if you guys want to hear
what happened at the World Series of Poker, you can
get all that stuff now. First main event, which we
just talked about, we'll hit on some of these other events,
and then if you don't want to listen to my
non sense, fine, you can turn the podcast off. No
big deal. Over. In the six hundred dollars Deep Stack Championship,
remember five and seventy seven entries in this one, Adrian
Jacobs won the damn thing Adrian Jacobs out of South
Africa two hundred and eighty two thousand dollars, going his
way his first World Series of Poker bracelet. He defeated
Paul Murlette in heads Up Play song. Hon took third
place in that one. Lisa Tan got sixth place. Pretty good.
I think this was the one that was there was
there were a couple final tables. Er, yeah, I think
a couple of final tables running today. There was for
sure this one. There was the five K super turb
of Bounty that we're going to talk about, and then
might even been one more. But there was a lot
of noise, is what I'm getting at. I was kind
of way in the in the front side of the
conference or of the Paris ballroom and up on the
main stage, like there was a lot of yelling, chanting
and whatever, and you know, judging by I see like
eight or nine people here in the winter photo for
Adrian Jacobs, so you know it's probably him, you know,
Shout out to him, Shout out to the rail. They
were having a blast, sounded like a great time. Got
the South African flag there hanging in the background. So
that's pretty freaking dope, I believe, if I remember correctly,
he started the day did Jacob was of the big
chip lead, so he was able to ride that to
the Winter Circle and take home two hundred and eighty
two thousand dollars heading over to the five K Super Turbo,
a bounty two hundred and thirteen entries in this one,
and a guy who plays in the studio quite a bit,
a youngster Miles Mulally running hot to win five hundred
and ninety three thousand dollars. Pete Chen finished in second place.
Nigeen Aes finished in fourth. You had Christian Harder getting
close again. Christian Harder still without a World Series of
over a World bracelet. I follow him on Instagram and
he's constantly joking about all the min cash is that
he's having this this summer, this one a little bit
better than a min cash, but ultimately not the goal
that he wanted to take home. Miles Malali, he came
on to at least my radar. It was me and
Remco Rinkima doing the Millionaire Maker Final table. I think
twenty twenty I don't know, twenty twenty four, twenty three,
something like that, right, and we lately made the final
table played. I thought extremely well, you know, I thought
pretty much every decision point that he was faced with
seemed like he clicked the right button. He was very
young at the time. He was either like twenty one
or twenty two, I think, And here he is now
getting his first w who he bracelet almost six hundred
thousand dollars as well. Again, he is constantly in the
studio playing a lot of the PGT events. You know,
he rolls with the crew that's Nick Seward, Sam Alaskowitz,
Jeremy Becker. He's in that group of players so kind
of the newer American high rollers that that frequent the
PGT events at the Boggo studio. My Miles is certainly
in there. Maybe we're going to see a bit more
of them in there when he's ripping off a near
six hundred K score in this five K super Turbo bounty,
and I'm guessing that he got a bit more than
the money that's just on the price bowl five hundred
ninety three thousand dollars because with this being a super
turbo bounty, right, you know, I'm sure he I'm sure
he collected some scalps along the way. So congrats to
Miles Malayy. The eight hundred dollars Summer celebration another lower
buying but massive shout out massive Field Nolan at Hold
Them event. This one had six eight hundred and three entries.
Toby pro takes it down for five hundred thousand dollars.
I mean, holy hell, that is a heck of a
first place price. This also might have been the final
table that was yelling and screaming. I mean there was
a few over there. His first bracelet for Toby Price,
he defeated Dennis Ony believe I said that correctly, maybe
out of Germany for second place. So it was five
hundred for first for Toby Price, only three twenty two
per second. Michael Montchek third place Texas. Mike got close there,
two hundred and forty k. Kind of crazy that, you know.
For all the stuff that Michael Monchak plays, there is
no buying that is too high. Here he is coming
in third place in the eight hundred dollars Summer Celebration
that had almost seven thousand entries in it. Craig Varnell
finished in fifth place here for one hundred and thirty
seven thousand dollars. So congratulations too, Toby Price taking down
the eight hundred dollars Summer Celebration. They are still three
handed in the fifteen hundred dollars double Board Bomb Pot
pl tournament. We have justin Fawcett, abdul Amir and heiq
Lee battling it out for what is a three hundred
and twenty two thousand dollars first place prize. So we'll
get back to this one on the next episode. Ken
mentioned here though that Jesse Lonis did have a final
table Ronnie finished in eighth place for almost thirty five
thousand dollars. And then one other event that was running.
It's day one of two, still a long way to
go with around fifty entries left, but they had a
one K Nolan HOLDHM Tournament, a two day event that
kicked off on Saturday, seventeen hundred and thirty two entries
in the field. We got a first place prize of
almost two hundred and twenty one thousand dollars. Up top,
they are in the money. Believe they are bagging right
at time of recording, while I'm talking to you guys,
it looks like Greg Murson is a big stack. I mean,
I don't know how up to date these these stacks are.
But Greg Murson, as I say that, he's in there
twice so so these stacks are not not that up
to date. But we'll see if Greg Greg murs Andrew
Heidelberg is doing well up there, Casey Brown. Who else
we got Lucas Pasma. Okay, you know there's some there's
some poker notables you know, in there doing their damn thing,
But this one still has to play out on Sunday,
so we'll check back more in on this one, as
well as that double board bomb pop Helo event. All right,
so let's chat about my day in the WSP main
event earlier. You start with sixty K. I was there
for hand number one. I only recognized at my table.
I so we started I think five or six handed.
Diogo Vieira I recognized. Ryan Bells was also at my
table to start. Shortly after we kick things off, Paul
Newe joined. So that's who I had at my table today.
A gentleman to my left or a young kid to
my left out of Italy. Forget his name, but he
was very good. He was on my direct left. So yeah,
it was The table was okay, wasn't wasn't the best
table in the world. Wasn't the absolute worst table in
the world. It was just fine. You know. I thought
I would say half the table I thought was good
competent players. The other half of the table. You know,
I thought was a little bit probably slightly below average players,
so you know, it was kind of a mixed bag
out there. We ended up getting I don't know the
gentleman's name, but he goes by seven high on Netflix,
I think is what he goes by. He's on the
Devil's Plan on Netflix. I wish I could find this
gentleman's name, but he got he I think he bought
in late and joined late. He might have also came
from a broken table, I don't know, but he joined
later on. He was a freaking handful to deal with,
because that guy for folds ever, ever, ever ever. I
was talking with my friend Mickey Doff last night and
I was like, you know what, Mickey, I just want
a day, one day in the main event where I
just make the nuts, you know, every hand, and somebody's
got something to pay me off. So guess what happened, guys?
In level one, I made the nuts in a multi
way pot for board was seven six five with two clubs.
Turn was the eight of hearts, so puts a four
liner on board also brought a second fluster on. Then
the river was the king of clubs, and I had
the ace Queen of clubs, and I had the big
blind betting turn and river into me, and then I
sized up quite a bit with the rays on the river.
He quickly called, so I won that pot again, you
start with sixty K. At probably three quarters of the
way through the first level, I was winning a lot
of pots. I won that pot that was somewhat sizable
for the stakes at the time, and I got up
there around seventy five K. Seventy four seventy five K
was kind of cruising along. Then I actually played a
hand where I had aces. Ryan Bells opened from early
slash middle position. The button called. I three bed from
the small blind with aces. Ryan Bells just called button folded.
We ended up going I bet flop. He called on
queen seventy five with two spades. I had the ace
of spades in hand. Turn was an eight, it went
check check, River was a six. I checked. He bet small.
I called he had the two red aces. I had
the two black aces. He had the two red aces.
I did think it was a little interesting that he
opted to flat pre flop just because there was a
third player in the hand, and that player ultimately would
have had position. So you know Ryan Bells here would
have been monkey in the middle to two of us.
And I mean, it's not always fun to have to
take aces multi way, especially out of position. So I
just thought that that was interesting, something that I filed
away in my head. Then kind of towards the end
of the level and Love one, I basically got knocked
back down to just above starting. I had King Queen
off with the King of Spades. I opened from the
cutoff the big Blind defended. This was the same player younger,
I think German kid who I had the nut flush
much earlier against when he had assuming was a straight
with hout quick. He called you. I mean he also
had a worse flush, but given that he bet turn,
I would lean straight. So I opened King Queen with
the King of Spades. He calls Big Blind. It comes
Queen a deuce with two spades. He checks. I bet.
He calls Turnes the three of Spades. He checks. I debate,
just checking back here. I think he can check back some.
I think you can bet some. I have to just
go with a bet. He calls Rivers the niner spades,
so putting four spades on board, he checks, I bet again,
sizing up to around sixty percent pot I think, or
so he comes with a fairly quick check rays and
it was interesting because he he we took let's say
ten seconds twelve seconds or so to call on the turn,
and the way he was acting on the turn when
that spade came out after I bet, like, I just
I don't know, I just the energy it was given me.
Shout out to Jeremy Becker. And the whole energy thing
was that he had a big hand. Now, of course
that could have been that he turned a lower flush right,
you know, it doesn't always mean that, like it's like
a super super big hand and I'm like drawing stone debt.
So but he ended up just check calling the turn right.
So on the river a fine like he checks to me,
I think for a little while, and look, okay, I
think I got to bet my hand, like I mean,
I can't just check this back. I bet. He kind
of quickly checked raises. I deliberated for a little while.
Ultimately I folded, you know, I folded on the again.
It was Queen of Spades, eight of spades, deuce, three
of spades, nine of spades, and I folded the King
of Spades. So I mean, yes, he could have a
straight flush, so technically I have the third nuts here.
But yeah, I mean I just I don't know. I
just don't think this player, you know, he had been
kind of acting if he had been paying some people off,
but I hadn't seen him take this sort of line
or do anything like this so far. So I don't know.
It just leaned a little bit more valued to me
than not. So yeah, I ended up folding it. I mean,
I looked at it right before I hopped on the pod.
You know, it does say full river in the solver.
I know solvers aren't possible, but yeah, so I don't know.
It's just tricky spot from that point on, from losing
that hand that was like right at the end of
the first level. We then proceeded to play the next
three levels, so six hours of actual play. Of course
there's breaks in there, but I mean, I just could
not win a damn hand, guys, Like it was. It
was unreal. It was just like and it wasn't. I
didn't really lose any big pots. I didn't run any
big bluffs like you know, I didn't have any kind
of big cool ers, like nothing, nothing like super eventful happened.
It was just like, you know, fifteen hundred here, two
k here, another seventeen hundred here, and like that just
kept happening happening, and a lot of it was I know,
for you poker people out there who are like a
bit more studied and like, you know, you understand what
I'm about to say. We're like I'm opening like ace
queen off and it comes like eight seven six two
suits that are not any of my suits. I'm up
against two other players, and like I just have like
no maneuverability on this sort of bored texture, Like what
am I gonna do with my hand? Like, yeah, maybe
I could like blast off. And I tried. I tried
to kind of switch some things up. I tried to,
you know, bet in some spots I might not normally bet.
I tried to be a little bit more patient in
spots that I might take a more aggressive line just
just because I don't know. Things just really kind of
just weren't working out for me. So after a little while,
I'd be like, Okay, maybe if I just try and
like do something a little different here. Okay, I normally
wouldn't bet this, So what if I do bet this?
You know, just nothing was working. Nothing was working for
three straight levels and the WSP main event every level
is two hours. So I'm just like losing, losing, losing.
Next thing, you know, I'm at forty K. Next thing,
you know, I'm at thirty five K. Then I'm at
and I'm just like what the what is like? What
is going on? Like I won a couple of small pots,
you know, to kind of get back up around forty,
and I'm just like losing, losing, losing, losing. Diogo Vieira
really good player. Believe he's Portuguese even though his flag
said American. Anyway, he's at my table, he's two to
my right, he's steam rolling the table. Okay, he's playing.
I thought very very well. He had a ton of chips.
He was, you know, the deck was working in his favor.
He was getting people to pay him off in huge
spots where he like was just like two x three
x pot on river, like just crazy stuff. There was
a gentleman in seat nine who he was there originally
before he got moved before seven High joined. And I
mean this gentleman was like Diego had him on like
life till because he was just like doing all this
stuff getting to pay him off. It was if that
guy would have stayed there, he would have for sure
busted at our table and likely to Vira for sure.
So I'm just kind of like losing, losing, losing. So
I'm seeing Vera open like some some spots in some
later positions, like I was on the button, he would
be in the hijack seat and he's opening hands like
you know, queen six suited, seven five suited, like you know,
he's just he's getting a little bit more liberal, not
that you can't get liberal on these spots. I agree
with him. I would probably be doing the exact same
thing in his shoes. So then that leads me to
a hand, you know, in the second to last level
of the night, where he opens from the hijack seven
High who had now joined our table, who had If
seven High played a hand, he would just never fold,
like to the river pretty much. I mean, he wasn't
like he wasn't giving it away. That might sound like
I'm saying he was giving it away. He was not
giving it away. He was just incredibly sticky. He did fold.
Sometimes I'm using a little bit hyperbole there, but anyway,
he calls I have ace jack off on the button,
and I think I can go either way. I think
I can call. I think I can raise. Based on
how liberal first VIA's opens were being and how much
seven High was getting in the mix, you know, kind
of playing hands in position. Both of them had had
a good amount of chips. I was like, you know what,
I'm gonna three bet this hand. And I was like,
you know what if if Viera goes for this, like
if he decides to come with a four bet, I don't.
I kind of don't know what the hell I'm gonna do.
I mean, I might just stack off, which which seemed
crazy at the time, but I don't know. I probably
would have folded anyway. Via folds seven High, decides to
call it comes ten eighty three Rainbow. He checks, I bet.
He calls h Turner is the King of Hearts, brings
a second heart. The other heart on the board was
the three Hearts. He checks, I bet again. Sizeing up,
he calls like, well, what does this guy have? Does
he like? I mean, yeah, he can he can flop
sets here like he can have eights and tens, you know,
flats the rays. Although I thought with I thought with
those two hands tens and eights. You know, this would
be a good spot for him to It's not a
spot where I think he might do it one hundred
percent of the time, but maybe sometimes he might backjam.
Given I was kind of on the shorter side. He
can just get the money in pre against me with
tens and eights right after he flats the rays from
Viera and he gets out of the way. So there
was a chance that I thought, you know, maybe some
percent of the time he can flat those hands more
so tens than eights, just you know, and play for
a backjam. I also thought, you know, hand like King
ten suited can be in there. The river is just
it's a blank. It's not a six or four or
something whatever. He checks, and I debated just going for
the triple barrel and I would have put it all in,
and I didn't. I got I backed off, you know,
I said, you know what, I don't need to do this.
The hard part is is that so okay? So I check.
Ultimately I have like fifteen k left or something. He
tables two nines, So I think his hand is supposed
to be a foal on the turn. I think, I mean,
that seems like it's getting pretty sticky out there, with
you know, two overs on board, me off my stack side,
going multiple streets here after three bedding pre I mean,
that just seems pretty sticky. But given how he was playing,
I also think if I would have tripled it off,
he probably would have heroed me. So I might just
be out of the tournament. I mean, I have no idea.
Maybe that works, maybe doesn't. I'm still unknown on it.
But anyway, the level ends shortly after that. I have
eleven thousand, six hundred going into the last level of
the night, last level of nights three hundred, six hundred,
so you know, I'm working with nineteen big Lindes, you know,
just under twenty big lines. And it's one of those
days where you're just like, man, I just can't like
nothing's like nothing's working right. And I had a similar
day day too, with a monster stack earlier this summer,
back to a really good stack on day one, Day two,
literally just lost every hand that I play, just could
not not maneuver at all or make anything happen. And
anything that other people were doing against me was like
it was working and it was good timing. It was everything,
you know, like and eventually you just kind of feel
like this punching bag. And I've been wearing a I
had an ESPN Hockey Night jersey, a red hockey jersey
that I wore, you know, just because WSB is back
on ESPN, and I decided, you know what, let's just
wear this be a little bit festive. Last year on
the fourth of July, I worthy the USA jacket. This year,
will switch it up a little bit. So I had
that on. Normally I just play in like my black
PGT jacket, and I walked back to my desk and
I said, you know what, screw this jersey, taking jersey off,
I'm going back to all black. Put the all black
back on. Shout out to my guy, Antonio o'brego, photographer
for Poker gro He's like, you know, He's like, just
just do some meditation whatever, you know, And normally I'm
just like whatever. I kind of just go for a walk,
I do some stretching, you know, whatever. I did. I
sat down and I did some breathing exercises and I
just kind of sat in silence, and I was like,
you know what, just like just just fucking grind, like
it's twenty big lines. In a poker tournament. You know, yes,
it's the Waspe main event, but it's also twenty big
lines in a poker tournament, and you've done that a
million times in your life, Like you know what to do. Yes,
everyone else has way more tips than you. It's not
fun to just be losing losing losings, but you still
got twenty bigs, right, so just you know, just kind
of being like, yeah, just gotta just just gotta. It's
not that I wasn't trying hard, because I will always
try hard. I just was like, you know what, just
try even harder, like just I don't know if you
can do that, but just try even harder. And I
went back out there and maybe it's just the gods
shining down on me. But third hand, I get kings.
I'm in the big blind. I'm all in for eleven
thousand against a gentleman with ace king, and uh yeah,
I double up there, I get back up over twenty
play that stack for a little while. Then I four
bet rip ace King, gentleman who doubled me up with
the ace king when I had kings. He opens some
early position to twelve hundred. Diogo Viira makes it forty
two hundred from the cutoff. I'm in the small blind
with Ace King. I put in twenty one three hundred
all in first raiser folds. I get a bit of
a tank with like like a minute or so minute
and a half. You know, it was a long tank
from Vieira. He's kind of hemming and hall on about
the whole thing. And as he's thinking, I'm thinking because
the way he had been playing, like, I didn't think
he was three betting you know, tens nine's eight seven
stuff like that in this spot. So I kind of
didn't think I was up against a pair because I
thought that the pairs that he with three bet would
have already called me, right, you know, it's I mean, listen,
it's not You're not like fist pumping in there with
like jacks or queens because my hands look super strong.
But you're you're calling I mean queens. You're probably calling
pretty happily, and it's like whatever, you know. Plus he
had it well over one hunter k and chips, I think,
so I'm thinking, does he just have Ace Queen here?
Like he's queen suited And he's like really debating, like
you know, looking at me, like thinking and you know,
does he just have two tens or two jacks over there?
And I'm just gonna ultimately flip with this guy. He
calls he's got two jacks, So I was a little
bit surprised to not have seen a faster call with
the jacks. But I drilled the king, and you know,
we're back up over forty k and kind of cruising,
got gotta touch over fifty table broke lost one hand
towards like the second to last hand of the night
or something, and then uh yeah, bagged forty five nine hundred.
So again, given where I was at eleven thousand, six
hundred going into that final level of night, the day
that I had where I hadn't won a pot for
six hours, and it just it seemed like it seemed
like I was just like, you know what I said,
you know what if if if you're gonna bust, you're
gonna bust. I mean that it's it's at the end
of the day, it sucks the bus to the WS
be main event, yes, but also it's like people bust
poker tournaments. Ah shit, ton of people bust poker tournaments
every time they go out and play them. So it's
not It's not the end of the world, you know,
and ultimately, if today is not your day, then then
you know, so be it. You know, so be it.
But thankfully, you know, things did swing back in my
favor and I was able to close pretty strong at
the end there, so so that was fun. Bagging forty
five nine hundred is not starting stack, it's less than starting,
but uh, considering where I was and the day that
I had, had it feels like I bagged you know,
four in one thousand, so I'm ready to go. Last year,
I bag thirty five eight hundred on day one, So
I've never really had a good day one I had.
I had one good day one, and then I punted
it off on day two. So the other times, it's
it's more like I they almost I need to be
I need to have to work for it, I guess
is what I'm saying, Like I need to constantly work
for it. I can't just be front running the whole thing,
which is fine. I'm happy to go out there and uh,
you know, bring the lunch pal and go to work.
So so yeah, bring bring on day two. It'll be
on Monday, Day two. ABC. Have my have my table already,
look pretty okay, I recognize I think one name at
the table, Kina England is there. She's two to my right.
Don't recognize anyone off the top, but uh yeah, you
know it doesn't matter. You know, you can only play
the people that they sit you with. You don't have
to worry about tabe I mean getting a bad table jog,
getting a good table drag. Yes, that's a big part
of going deep in a tournament, especially in this tournament.
But you also have to play who's in front of you, right.
You can't skip, you can't sit out, you know, you
can't take a rest day any of that sort of stuff.
You've got to go in there and you got to
be prepared to battle. I'll have fifty seven big lines
at four hund at eight hundred or so, I'm ready
to go. You know, that's a hell of a deep
stack and we can make a lot of things happen.
So yeah, so that's my day one. See, it's a
hell of a tournament, guys, it's a hell of a tournament.
I would highly encourage all of you out there, and
I'm sure I've said this in past years, but if
you haven't played the WSP main event. Yet listen, start
saving that money now, one hundred bucks, two hundred bucks
a week, whatever it is. Sell some action to your friends,
sell some action on poker's take, whatever the heck you
gotta do. Chalk it off as a bucket list item
and just make it happen, because it is really, so
so so much fun to be out there battling in
this one specific tournament. And it's certainly not lost on
me that I that I get to do it. So
hopefully you guys out there get that opportunity as well,
and you know, hopefully I can see you on the way.
But yeah, but that's gonna do it. For the episode
tomorrow or sorry, Sunday is Day one D. We will
see where this number comes in. Remember last year, Day
one D seven entries, so that's the target. I'm comfortable
in saying that it gets up over four thousand, and
then we'll see where it goes from there. As always,
it was fun talking to you guys. Stay tuned for
the next episode. Shout out to producer Rich for getting
this up and out, and I will talk to you
guys next time.