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