WEBVTT 1 00:00:10.800 --> 00:00:13.759 Hello everyone, Welcome to a new episode of the Poker 2 00:00:13.880 --> 00:00:16.239 Go Podcast. My name is Donny Peters. I am joined 3 00:00:16.359 --> 00:00:20.920 by Tim Duckworth audio version today, And I'm saying that 4 00:00:21.000 --> 00:00:24.559 because if you are unaware, Tim and I did a 5 00:00:24.640 --> 00:00:28.120 video version of the podcast a couple of days ago 6 00:00:28.399 --> 00:00:33.399 that is available on PokerGO dot com for poker Ghost subscribers. 7 00:00:33.479 --> 00:00:36.240 So check that out. If you are a poker Grot subscriber, 8 00:00:36.320 --> 00:00:39.240 let us know the feedback that you have on it. 9 00:00:39.280 --> 00:00:41.920 I had fun doing it, had fun doing it. It 10 00:00:42.000 --> 00:00:44.799 was our pilot episode. We'll see if a full series. 11 00:00:45.759 --> 00:00:47.679 But yeah, what's going on, buddy? 12 00:00:48.320 --> 00:00:48.719 Not much. 13 00:00:49.240 --> 00:00:50.479 It looks like you just woke. 14 00:00:50.320 --> 00:00:51.560 Up no enough. 15 00:00:52.439 --> 00:00:53.600 I know your hair is a. 16 00:00:53.920 --> 00:00:54.439 It's a mess. 17 00:00:54.479 --> 00:00:57.479 We're trying to grow it out. Okay, just just give 18 00:00:57.520 --> 00:00:58.880 me eight months. That'll be normal. 19 00:00:58.960 --> 00:00:59.759 Eight four months. 20 00:01:00.159 --> 00:01:01.399 How long did it take you for you to grow 21 00:01:01.439 --> 00:01:04.159 your hair out to be like an acceptable length that fell? 22 00:01:04.439 --> 00:01:06.760 I don't know about that. I mean, I had a 23 00:01:06.799 --> 00:01:09.280 bet for twelve months, but I don't know or. 24 00:01:09.439 --> 00:01:12.040 Feel like I have to get through six months at 25 00:01:12.120 --> 00:01:16.680 least before it's like somewhat manageable. So right now it's 26 00:01:16.719 --> 00:01:18.439 in a very awkward stage. You're going to see me 27 00:01:18.439 --> 00:01:20.040 in a hat a lot, and that's about it. 28 00:01:20.359 --> 00:01:23.200 That stays looks fine. I like the state, but I'm 29 00:01:23.239 --> 00:01:25.239 just saying right now it's a bit messy, not that 30 00:01:25.280 --> 00:01:28.519 anyone can see because it gains the audio only so 31 00:01:28.560 --> 00:01:31.879 as as producer Rich Ryan would say, horrible radio, just 32 00:01:31.879 --> 00:01:35.680 absolutely horrible radio. On today's show, Tim and I are 33 00:01:35.680 --> 00:01:39.640 going to recap the twenty twenty four Poker Masters series 34 00:01:39.640 --> 00:01:41.319 that just wraps up. We're going to hit on who 35 00:01:41.359 --> 00:01:45.359 won the overall series, who won events, some honorable mentions 36 00:01:45.400 --> 00:01:48.640 of course, lot to talk about there. That'll lead into 37 00:01:48.719 --> 00:01:52.159 our discussion about the PGT leaderboard and any shakeups that 38 00:01:52.239 --> 00:01:55.560 occurred there as a result of the points earned during 39 00:01:55.680 --> 00:01:59.359 Poker Masters or maybe points not earned during Poker Masters. 40 00:02:00.159 --> 00:02:02.239 We're gonna hit on the NAPT Las Vegas. We have 41 00:02:02.239 --> 00:02:04.280 a new partnership with them. We also want to touch 42 00:02:04.280 --> 00:02:07.599 on what's coming up from that series. We do have 43 00:02:07.719 --> 00:02:10.800 a special giveaway that we are running in partnership with 44 00:02:10.919 --> 00:02:15.159 the Poker Stars NAPT, so stay tuned for that. EPT 45 00:02:15.319 --> 00:02:19.159 Barcelona recently wrapped up. We'll touch on the winners there 46 00:02:19.479 --> 00:02:22.319 and also some I guess industry news coming out at 47 00:02:22.319 --> 00:02:26.199 EPT Barcelona with some game integrity rule changes. The WPT 48 00:02:26.319 --> 00:02:30.000 has an announcement, Buddy, the w ET has an announcement. 49 00:02:30.080 --> 00:02:33.719 Can't wait to talk about it, and then questions for you, 50 00:02:34.800 --> 00:02:38.080 but listen, I'll be upfront with it. We already did 51 00:02:38.080 --> 00:02:41.840 the questions once. We're gonna do them again, so you'll 52 00:02:42.120 --> 00:02:44.960 be prepped. It's the same questions, you know. So if 53 00:02:44.960 --> 00:02:48.080 you saw the video podcast, same questions that I gave there. 54 00:02:47.879 --> 00:02:50.879 But we're going to change my answers, then you can. 55 00:02:50.800 --> 00:02:52.479 Do whatever you want, but you'll probably sound like an 56 00:02:52.479 --> 00:02:55.759 idiot answers. You can improve your answers. How about that. 57 00:02:57.000 --> 00:02:59.360 This episode of the Poker Go Podcast is brought to 58 00:02:59.439 --> 00:03:03.240 you by the Poker Stars NAPT. The NAPT returns to 59 00:03:03.319 --> 00:03:07.039 Las Vegas this November, running in November first through tenth 60 00:03:07.159 --> 00:03:10.719 at Resorts World. The series is headlined by the fifty 61 00:03:10.759 --> 00:03:14.560 three hundred dollars buying three million dollar guaranteed main event. 62 00:03:14.919 --> 00:03:17.080 The schedule has buy ins from as low as two 63 00:03:17.159 --> 00:03:19.360 hundred and fifty dollars all the way up to twenty 64 00:03:19.400 --> 00:03:22.680 five thousand dollars, so there is something for everyone across 65 00:03:22.719 --> 00:03:25.080 the festival. If you guys would like to learn more 66 00:03:25.120 --> 00:03:27.319 about the NAPT Las Vegas. I would encourage you to 67 00:03:27.360 --> 00:03:31.319 head on over to PokerStars Live dot com slash NAPT 68 00:03:31.680 --> 00:03:36.719 slash Loss Vegas and for our listeners in Michigan, Pennsylvania 69 00:03:36.759 --> 00:03:39.879 and New Jersey where Poker Stars is available to you, 70 00:03:40.319 --> 00:03:42.639 be sure to check out the Poker Stars lobby on 71 00:03:42.759 --> 00:03:45.759 the daily for qualifiers and a chance to win a 72 00:03:45.800 --> 00:03:49.319 gold pass to NAPT Las Vegas for free. Tim and 73 00:03:49.360 --> 00:03:52.400 I are planning on being at NAPT Las Vegas and 74 00:03:52.439 --> 00:03:54.560 we hope to see you guys there if you do 75 00:03:54.719 --> 00:03:56.599 go there. If you do come out to NAPT Las 76 00:03:56.680 --> 00:03:59.439 Vegas and you are a Poker Grol podcast listener, let 77 00:03:59.520 --> 00:04:01.560 us know, come up and talk to us. We obviously 78 00:04:01.639 --> 00:04:04.840 love talking with our listeners and finding out who you 79 00:04:05.000 --> 00:04:09.080 guys are. All right, Moving on to Poker Masters, which 80 00:04:09.159 --> 00:04:12.240 this year was presented by the Poker Stars and APT, 81 00:04:13.400 --> 00:04:17.839 Jim Collipy is the twenty twenty four Poker Masters Champion. 82 00:04:18.360 --> 00:04:21.959 Four cashes for mister Collopy five hundred and twenty one thousand, 83 00:04:22.040 --> 00:04:25.920 six hundred dollars earned. He picked up five hundred and 84 00:04:25.920 --> 00:04:29.720 twenty two points that allowed him to top the series leaderboard. 85 00:04:30.160 --> 00:04:35.120 He did so by making four consecutive final tables. He 86 00:04:35.160 --> 00:04:38.000 finished at the final table in event three, four, five, 87 00:04:38.120 --> 00:04:41.000 and six. He started off his run with a sixth 88 00:04:41.040 --> 00:04:43.680 place finish and event number three for forty seven thousand dollars, 89 00:04:43.759 --> 00:04:45.800 then a third place finish and Event number four for 90 00:04:45.839 --> 00:04:48.240 one hundred and five thousand dollars. Then he had a 91 00:04:48.240 --> 00:04:51.399 pair of runner up results event number five second for 92 00:04:51.600 --> 00:04:53.720 one hundred and forty two thousand dollars, and then Event 93 00:04:53.800 --> 00:04:58.800 number six second for two hundred and twenty six thousand dollars. 94 00:04:59.439 --> 00:05:01.240 Tim Andagan talk about this a little bit more, but 95 00:05:01.279 --> 00:05:03.360 before we do, I do want to throw it to 96 00:05:03.399 --> 00:05:07.920 the interview that Jim Collapy did with Jeff Platt here. 97 00:05:07.720 --> 00:05:11.759 With our series champion, Jim Colbee. Jim, congratulations, four straight 98 00:05:11.800 --> 00:05:14.759 final tables that's only been done once before at the 99 00:05:14.800 --> 00:05:15.519 Poker Masters. 100 00:05:15.560 --> 00:05:17.639 What was this run like for you? 101 00:05:18.120 --> 00:05:22.079 This run was incredible. No Limit is definitely a game 102 00:05:22.120 --> 00:05:24.480 I've played a lot of, but I play a lot 103 00:05:24.519 --> 00:05:27.319 of games, so it's nice to perform well on a 104 00:05:27.360 --> 00:05:29.800 big stage with a lot of guys that specialize in 105 00:05:29.879 --> 00:05:31.199 specifically this format. 106 00:05:31.519 --> 00:05:34.000 Along those lines, when you look back at your poker careers, 107 00:05:34.120 --> 00:05:37.199 this going to be an accomplishment that stands out to 108 00:05:37.240 --> 00:05:38.399 you absolutely. 109 00:05:38.519 --> 00:05:41.879 I mean with this game, with this format, with these structures, 110 00:05:41.920 --> 00:05:44.639 often there's a lot of close calls, so to put 111 00:05:44.680 --> 00:05:47.639 a lot of stock into any given event kind of 112 00:05:48.519 --> 00:05:51.920 this is the tree for the forest, or more of 113 00:05:51.959 --> 00:05:55.040 the forest for the tree, either way. But it's important 114 00:05:55.079 --> 00:05:57.720 to kind of look back and how you put it 115 00:05:57.759 --> 00:06:01.720 all together, and when you have a leader opportunity, even 116 00:06:01.759 --> 00:06:04.160 when you don't end up with any wins, this can 117 00:06:04.199 --> 00:06:05.920 add up to a little bit more. And I think 118 00:06:05.920 --> 00:06:07.600 that's what's most significant about it. 119 00:06:07.920 --> 00:06:11.040 Were we feeling extra patriotic this week, rocking the red, 120 00:06:11.079 --> 00:06:12.399 white and blue shades or what? 121 00:06:12.759 --> 00:06:13.120 Yeah? 122 00:06:13.240 --> 00:06:15.519 I think it's an important time for our country to 123 00:06:15.800 --> 00:06:19.279 kind of come together and show up. And I hope 124 00:06:19.319 --> 00:06:22.920 that at least I can remind some folks what it 125 00:06:23.079 --> 00:06:24.240 means to show up. 126 00:06:24.839 --> 00:06:27.560 What are your thoughts deserving winner? How did he do? 127 00:06:27.759 --> 00:06:29.879 I think what you were deserving in the fact that 128 00:06:30.439 --> 00:06:34.839 he is, without doubt one of the top five PGT 129 00:06:35.160 --> 00:06:38.720 tournament players, as in he puts in top five volume 130 00:06:38.839 --> 00:06:41.360 of anyone in the studio. You know that's we're talking 131 00:06:41.480 --> 00:06:45.560 rivals with someone like Daniel m'grind or Jeremy Osmus and Jim. 132 00:06:45.680 --> 00:06:47.839 You know, Jim does play Pelo, does play hold, him 133 00:06:47.879 --> 00:06:51.519 does play mixed games, so he's always supporting the PGT. 134 00:06:51.839 --> 00:06:55.639 He's also you know, to me personally voicing his opinions 135 00:06:55.639 --> 00:06:57.480 about how to make it better. So he does care 136 00:06:57.839 --> 00:07:00.399 and it's actually pretty cool to you know, he didn't 137 00:07:00.399 --> 00:07:02.759 get a victory, see him finish on top of the 138 00:07:02.800 --> 00:07:06.720 lead aboard, take home that purple jacket and the prizes 139 00:07:06.759 --> 00:07:07.279 that came with it. 140 00:07:07.959 --> 00:07:11.040 Yeah, not only the purple jacket was awarded to Jim Callipy, 141 00:07:11.040 --> 00:07:13.920 he won the twenty five thousand dollars PGT passports. That's 142 00:07:13.959 --> 00:07:17.439 good for PGT buyings across the tour. And then this 143 00:07:17.519 --> 00:07:20.519 year on behalf of the Poker Stars NAPT he picked 144 00:07:20.560 --> 00:07:22.639 up a gold pass. What is a gold pass, you 145 00:07:22.720 --> 00:07:25.199 might ask yourself. A gold pass is valued at ten 146 00:07:25.240 --> 00:07:27.560 thousand dollars, so some nice value there. It includes a 147 00:07:27.600 --> 00:07:29.879 buy in to the fifty three hundred dollars ANAPT Las 148 00:07:29.959 --> 00:07:33.720 Vegas main event, and then twenty nine hundred dollars worth 149 00:07:33.720 --> 00:07:36.560 of hotel accommodations at resorts. Well, I believe it's up 150 00:07:36.600 --> 00:07:40.120 to seven nights, and then eighteen hundred dollars in expense money. 151 00:07:40.160 --> 00:07:44.519 So pretty good, pretty good winners prize there for Colopy. 152 00:07:45.399 --> 00:07:48.079 I mean, listen, I think he performed extremely well. The 153 00:07:48.120 --> 00:07:53.360 four consecutive final tables was two second place finishes were 154 00:07:54.639 --> 00:07:59.519 notable and worthy of, you know, winning the purple jacket. 155 00:08:00.240 --> 00:08:02.319 We have liked to see him win an event, sure, 156 00:08:02.399 --> 00:08:04.079 but I mean that's not the goal of the leaderboard. 157 00:08:04.079 --> 00:08:06.079 The goal of the leaderboard is to you know, get 158 00:08:06.160 --> 00:08:08.360 as many points as you can to finish on top. 159 00:08:08.480 --> 00:08:13.680 You know, I still very much enjoy how we do 160 00:08:13.800 --> 00:08:16.279 this on the pgt where you know, we have these 161 00:08:16.439 --> 00:08:20.120 series leaderboards and people chase some sort of prize, some 162 00:08:20.160 --> 00:08:23.879 sort of title in addition to the event titles and 163 00:08:23.920 --> 00:08:27.199 prizes that they cheat chase with each individual tournament. I 164 00:08:27.240 --> 00:08:30.480 really do love that. I've always like been a sucker 165 00:08:30.519 --> 00:08:34.159 for player of the year stuff, leaderboards, prizes, you know, 166 00:08:34.200 --> 00:08:37.440 player of the series, et cetera. I would highly encourage 167 00:08:37.679 --> 00:08:42.039 all tours out there to do very similar things. It 168 00:08:42.080 --> 00:08:43.879 can be on the lesser scale, it can be on 169 00:08:43.919 --> 00:08:46.519 a bigger scale. But you know, I think this helps, 170 00:08:47.320 --> 00:08:52.120 you know, amplify poker, you know, kind of move it forward, 171 00:08:52.159 --> 00:08:55.240 because I think people are drawn to this sort of stuff. 172 00:08:55.360 --> 00:08:58.200 I think it also makes you know, the series fu 173 00:08:58.559 --> 00:09:01.399 the final event, because you have this race, you have 174 00:09:01.440 --> 00:09:04.120 people sweating, you have you know, we witnessed the first hand. 175 00:09:04.200 --> 00:09:08.000 Jim was eliminated, you know, after registration closed and he 176 00:09:08.080 --> 00:09:09.639 was sitting at the bar, he had a drink. He 177 00:09:09.759 --> 00:09:12.519 was kind of sweating some action, seeing who could win, 178 00:09:12.720 --> 00:09:15.000 what place this person needed to finish in, what place 179 00:09:15.080 --> 00:09:17.639 that person needed to finish in. And then the people 180 00:09:17.679 --> 00:09:20.360 also competing for it were like, Okay, I have to 181 00:09:20.720 --> 00:09:22.399 you know, win or I have to get heads up, 182 00:09:22.480 --> 00:09:24.639 or I have to finish fifth, you know, like Jeremy 183 00:09:24.679 --> 00:09:27.799 Becker had to finish fifth. So Jim was, you know, 184 00:09:27.879 --> 00:09:30.759 anti sweating Jeremy a little bit to busp so that 185 00:09:30.840 --> 00:09:32.759 he could just have one less person to worry about. 186 00:09:32.759 --> 00:09:36.559 And what's funny is Jeremy tweeted last night at one 187 00:09:36.559 --> 00:09:40.279 of my tweets in reference to Jim winning, Jeremy says, 188 00:09:40.559 --> 00:09:42.000 purple is not his color. 189 00:09:42.360 --> 00:09:44.120 So it feels like Jeremy's got. 190 00:09:44.000 --> 00:09:45.759 A little bit of a little bit of spite there 191 00:09:45.840 --> 00:09:50.279 after putting in a you know, his own impressive performance 192 00:09:51.159 --> 00:09:53.080 throughout the Poke Masters. 193 00:09:53.639 --> 00:09:57.200 Yeah, it was. It was Jeremy Becker, it was Michael Monchek, 194 00:09:57.240 --> 00:10:00.519 it was David Chen, it was justin Zachi. Where that 195 00:10:00.600 --> 00:10:04.120 last group of Wilson and Brock Wilson, Yes, excuse me, 196 00:10:04.879 --> 00:10:07.600 where that last group of competitors that could chase down 197 00:10:07.720 --> 00:10:11.399 Callipye in the final twenty five k events. It was 198 00:10:11.440 --> 00:10:14.360 actually interesting you you you referenced how you know Callipye 199 00:10:14.399 --> 00:10:17.919 was sweating well two things. One, it was shades of 200 00:10:18.200 --> 00:10:21.799 him sweating the PGT top forty to get into the 201 00:10:21.919 --> 00:10:25.639 PGT Championship million dollar free Roll. By the way, quick 202 00:10:25.639 --> 00:10:27.559 side note, I think we should change the name for 203 00:10:27.600 --> 00:10:29.559 the free role. I think it should be called the 204 00:10:29.559 --> 00:10:32.240 PGT Million Dollar Championship. That's just my new thing. I 205 00:10:32.240 --> 00:10:33.879 thought of that today because I like writing. 206 00:10:34.039 --> 00:10:37.120 I keep writing million million dollar Championship. 207 00:10:37.559 --> 00:10:40.159 Yeah, Like, I just think PGT Championship million dollar free 208 00:10:40.240 --> 00:10:40.799 roll is. 209 00:10:40.799 --> 00:10:42.039 It's a little like cumbersome. 210 00:10:42.480 --> 00:10:44.200 Yeah, And it's like, I don't know, I feel like 211 00:10:44.480 --> 00:10:47.360 I feel like the word free roll doesn't do it justice. 212 00:10:47.399 --> 00:10:50.480 Like free roll is like you play a free role 213 00:10:50.759 --> 00:10:52.679 when you sign up for an online poker site to 214 00:10:52.799 --> 00:10:54.000 like get started. 215 00:10:53.720 --> 00:10:55.600 Or like happens to have money changes. 216 00:10:56.120 --> 00:10:57.559 Well, I don't think that. I don't think the money 217 00:10:57.559 --> 00:10:58.200 should ever change. 218 00:10:58.200 --> 00:10:59.759 I think the money yeah, but went on it could 219 00:10:59.759 --> 00:11:01.279 show the money, so I understand. 220 00:11:01.279 --> 00:11:03.360 But if it's one million, how if it goes up? 221 00:11:03.480 --> 00:11:05.120 No, no, no, it should it should never go up. I 222 00:11:05.120 --> 00:11:07.600 don't think. I think it should maintain there. And then 223 00:11:07.960 --> 00:11:11.840 if there is some sort of increased budget to add 224 00:11:11.879 --> 00:11:14.840 to it, I would increase like serious prizes or stuff 225 00:11:14.879 --> 00:11:15.200 like that. 226 00:11:16.080 --> 00:11:18.200 I would be the best you've had all yeah. 227 00:11:18.120 --> 00:11:20.360 Yeah, I know, Like listen, I'm a I'm a branding 228 00:11:20.399 --> 00:11:21.440 and marketing expert. 229 00:11:21.799 --> 00:11:25.399 And yeah, it was PGT million Dollar Championship. 230 00:11:25.440 --> 00:11:27.879 I kept every time I would write PGT Championship million 231 00:11:27.919 --> 00:11:30.120 dollar free and we are way off the rails were 232 00:11:30.120 --> 00:11:32.279 talking about. But I don't care. This is our podcast 233 00:11:32.320 --> 00:11:34.399 and we'll do what we want. Like I I'm like, 234 00:11:34.480 --> 00:11:36.440 this doesn't sound right. Every time I would write it 235 00:11:36.480 --> 00:11:38.759 PGG Championship million dollar film, like this doesn't sound right. 236 00:11:38.759 --> 00:11:40.840 It doesn't sound right, it doesn't sound right. Obviously you 237 00:11:40.879 --> 00:11:42.759 want to get the million dollars in there, like you 238 00:11:42.799 --> 00:11:46.320 want to amplify that. So I think PGT Championship million 239 00:11:46.320 --> 00:11:50.120 dollar or PGT million Dollar Championship I think works the 240 00:11:50.159 --> 00:11:54.639 best anyway, back to the Poker Masters, I don't even 241 00:11:54.639 --> 00:11:56.679 remember what we were talking about. Oh yeah, all those players, 242 00:11:56.879 --> 00:12:00.279 but yeah, shades of Jim Collaby sweating the top forty 243 00:12:00.320 --> 00:12:02.039 sitting at the bar having a couple of drinks. I 244 00:12:02.039 --> 00:12:03.960 think this year he was having looked like a margarita 245 00:12:04.360 --> 00:12:07.360 or two or three as he's you know, sweat the 246 00:12:07.399 --> 00:12:11.960 action to see if anyone would overtake him. He the 247 00:12:12.000 --> 00:12:14.919 hand when Becker busted to get eliminated, he busted to 248 00:12:15.200 --> 00:12:17.720 Justin Zaki. Yeah, and he you know, he tanked forever 249 00:12:17.799 --> 00:12:20.279 on the river. Calopy's standing right there. It's this whole 250 00:12:20.320 --> 00:12:23.279 thing he hands up here, going it off with seven's 251 00:12:23.360 --> 00:12:27.039 on a king high paired board. Uh, Zaki has the 252 00:12:27.080 --> 00:12:30.919 aces and and that's that, you know. So in that 253 00:12:31.080 --> 00:12:34.240 moment for Collopy, because I think I remember Jesse Lonis 254 00:12:34.279 --> 00:12:37.240 was at the table and asked Colopy like, while the 255 00:12:37.240 --> 00:12:39.440 hand was happening, while Becker was tanking, like you know, 256 00:12:39.519 --> 00:12:42.639 it's it's lose lose for you or what do you 257 00:12:42.720 --> 00:12:45.279 want or something like that, And and for Collopy it's 258 00:12:45.320 --> 00:12:48.080 it's it was Becker getting eliminated because he only needed 259 00:12:48.120 --> 00:12:51.480 fifth or better minus the other guys, you know, possibly 260 00:12:51.480 --> 00:12:56.279 going on to win. But so with Becker's elimination in 261 00:12:56.320 --> 00:12:58.399 that spot short of the money, I think there was 262 00:12:58.440 --> 00:13:02.159 around thirty players left thirty five like that. You know, 263 00:13:02.279 --> 00:13:05.159 Zaki gets the chips of course, which boosts his stack, 264 00:13:05.399 --> 00:13:08.559 but he ultimately has to win, so still still pretty 265 00:13:08.559 --> 00:13:11.000 hard to achieve that at the end of the day. 266 00:13:11.399 --> 00:13:15.360 But as it turned out, everyone busted before day two 267 00:13:15.440 --> 00:13:18.639 of the event, so before the final table, justin Zaki 268 00:13:18.799 --> 00:13:21.240 was the last player to go and call it be 269 00:13:21.320 --> 00:13:23.720 locked it up. So, you know, good on Jim Callipy. 270 00:13:24.600 --> 00:13:26.559 You know, we'll talk about him a little bit more 271 00:13:26.919 --> 00:13:28.639 a little later in this podcast because I want to 272 00:13:28.679 --> 00:13:31.600 hit on where he is within the PGT leader board. 273 00:13:31.639 --> 00:13:33.519 But before we get into all that sort of stuff, 274 00:13:33.960 --> 00:13:35.879 do you want to give some due to all the 275 00:13:35.879 --> 00:13:38.759 Poker Masters winners that we had across the series and 276 00:13:38.840 --> 00:13:42.720 hit on some thoughts there. Event number one, Spencer Champlain 277 00:13:42.720 --> 00:13:46.480 one hundred and sixty K was the winnings for Champlain. 278 00:13:46.519 --> 00:13:48.679 He turned a five hundred and sixty dollars satellite into 279 00:13:48.759 --> 00:13:51.000 a five K seat, turned that five K seat into 280 00:13:51.039 --> 00:13:54.320 one hundred and sixty K score. He topped fellow five 281 00:13:54.399 --> 00:13:57.519 hundred and sixty dollars Satellite winner Jessica Vierling in heads 282 00:13:57.600 --> 00:14:02.240 up play there sir to Satellite when as much as 283 00:14:02.320 --> 00:14:03.200 make you feel good. 284 00:14:03.159 --> 00:14:06.320 Yeah, it was the perfect, perfect heads unmatch having those 285 00:14:06.320 --> 00:14:10.080 two satellite qualifiers get there. And it was also good 286 00:14:10.080 --> 00:14:13.240 to see some you know, as we start going through 287 00:14:13.240 --> 00:14:15.519 these results, you see some new names at the final 288 00:14:15.559 --> 00:14:19.519 table that you know, if you're a regular PGT watcher, you, 289 00:14:19.600 --> 00:14:22.159 to be honest, you do get used to the Chidwicks, 290 00:14:22.200 --> 00:14:25.600 the Koons, the Petangelos, the Osmus and the grind these names, 291 00:14:26.039 --> 00:14:29.720 and me personally, I like to see people that have 292 00:14:29.799 --> 00:14:32.159 never made a PGT final table make it now. I 293 00:14:32.159 --> 00:14:34.159 know for you and Remco and the people in charge 294 00:14:34.159 --> 00:14:36.759 of content probably hate that. They want a grinder helmet 295 00:14:36.759 --> 00:14:37.799 at every final TABLET. 296 00:14:37.799 --> 00:14:41.720 Don't you ever in that group doing so? No, I'm 297 00:14:41.960 --> 00:14:45.799 I'm more listen. It's it's great to have all the 298 00:14:45.799 --> 00:14:48.120 big names. Yeah, don't don't get me wrong, especially because 299 00:14:48.120 --> 00:14:51.200 we know that that's what drives a lot of viewership. Yes, 300 00:14:51.440 --> 00:14:56.759 but I also believe that there's a second element to this, 301 00:14:56.879 --> 00:15:02.360 where you know, you the new faces coming into the 302 00:15:02.399 --> 00:15:06.600 PGT that signifies growth, which is a good thing. And 303 00:15:06.639 --> 00:15:08.519 then on the back end when it comes to the 304 00:15:08.559 --> 00:15:12.279 content side, it's our job as poker go and be 305 00:15:12.360 --> 00:15:14.320 in the production house and the content house that we 306 00:15:14.399 --> 00:15:18.799 are to create these stories let people know who we are. 307 00:15:18.840 --> 00:15:20.480 Like if you look at it, like let's say the 308 00:15:20.559 --> 00:15:22.600 NBA for example, because I think they have kind of 309 00:15:22.639 --> 00:15:26.480 the most pressing issue with this Lebron Steph Curry, etc. 310 00:15:26.879 --> 00:15:29.759 Like they're almost out, like they're almost at the point 311 00:15:29.799 --> 00:15:33.159 of retirement, so you have to find those next stars 312 00:15:33.679 --> 00:15:35.879 and then you have to have them rise up. Baseball 313 00:15:35.919 --> 00:15:39.279 I think did a horrific job with this. Like their 314 00:15:39.480 --> 00:15:43.480 biggest star was what's his name out of Anaheim Trout, 315 00:15:43.720 --> 00:15:47.399 Like Trout and then Otani as well. Otani now is 316 00:15:47.399 --> 00:15:49.200 at least in a big market being as part of 317 00:15:49.240 --> 00:15:51.679 the Dodgers. Trout is still buried with the Angels and 318 00:15:51.720 --> 00:15:53.519 no one's ever watching that. Yeah, right, So it's like 319 00:15:53.519 --> 00:15:55.960 you just don't have these these stars that are that 320 00:15:56.000 --> 00:15:59.159 are magnified, and I think it hurts the game's popularity. 321 00:15:59.200 --> 00:16:01.639 It hurts the growth, you know, hurts viewership and all 322 00:16:01.639 --> 00:16:05.399 that sort of stuff. Like so poker like, yeah, people 323 00:16:05.480 --> 00:16:07.679 can stay around longer. I mean, you can play poker 324 00:16:07.720 --> 00:16:10.360 till you're seventy eighty nineties years old, whoever the heck 325 00:16:10.399 --> 00:16:13.559 knows how old you are, right, But you have to 326 00:16:13.559 --> 00:16:15.960 battle with the variants, like it's not always going to 327 00:16:15.960 --> 00:16:18.159 be in Neigrania making a final table or a helmet 328 00:16:18.320 --> 00:16:20.320 or an ivy or whoever. Right, it's just not going 329 00:16:20.399 --> 00:16:22.519 to happen that way. It can go they it could 330 00:16:22.559 --> 00:16:25.919 go long stretches, you could in theory, or you know, 331 00:16:27.440 --> 00:16:29.720 it could be an entire season and Nigranny doesn't make 332 00:16:29.759 --> 00:16:32.559 a PGT final table, yeah, and doesn't make a stream 333 00:16:32.600 --> 00:16:36.360 like that could happen, you know. So it's our job 334 00:16:36.440 --> 00:16:39.399 on the back end to tell people who these new 335 00:16:39.399 --> 00:16:42.320 people are and not just constantly be like we need 336 00:16:42.360 --> 00:16:44.559 a neig Granny, we need a helmet, we need this, 337 00:16:44.679 --> 00:16:47.559 No like you need. We need to tell the story 338 00:16:47.679 --> 00:16:52.320 of the tour, believe in what we're selling, boost these 339 00:16:52.360 --> 00:16:54.519 players up, and all of that sort of stuff. So 340 00:16:54.799 --> 00:16:56.799 I guess I would say that I'm in the middle. 341 00:16:56.840 --> 00:16:59.919 I see both sides, but I'm with you that that's 342 00:17:00.000 --> 00:17:02.360 seeing the new names, you know, is great, and then 343 00:17:02.399 --> 00:17:05.680 also seeing them come from in this first event, come 344 00:17:05.720 --> 00:17:09.400 from five hundred and sixty dollars satellite tickets, like you 345 00:17:09.440 --> 00:17:11.400 can you can show up at Aria and play a 346 00:17:11.440 --> 00:17:13.319 five hund and six dollars satellite if you're out there, 347 00:17:13.400 --> 00:17:15.160 maybe you don't have five K, maybe you don't have 348 00:17:15.200 --> 00:17:17.599 ten K, fifteen K, twenty five k, whatever, but you 349 00:17:17.599 --> 00:17:20.440 can fire in five sixty, win a seat, and then 350 00:17:20.480 --> 00:17:25.839 go from there. So I think that that's great. There 351 00:17:25.960 --> 00:17:28.559 was a funny little, I guess side story that came 352 00:17:28.599 --> 00:17:30.640 out of this first event. It had. It had one 353 00:17:30.680 --> 00:17:33.880 hundred and thirty one entries, which was what largest Poker 354 00:17:33.920 --> 00:17:35.039 Masters event ever. 355 00:17:35.440 --> 00:17:37.720 Not just five K. None of them hold them that 356 00:17:37.720 --> 00:17:39.279 we've ever done in the studio as well. 357 00:17:39.839 --> 00:17:44.079 Bang so sweet. At one point, Jesse Lonis and Ren Lynn, 358 00:17:44.079 --> 00:17:46.839 who are you know? Friends? They have a lot of 359 00:17:46.880 --> 00:17:49.640 friendly banter back and forth. They're competitive. They're always gambling 360 00:17:49.680 --> 00:17:51.559 with each other, not only you know, playing against each 361 00:17:51.559 --> 00:17:53.359 other in the poker tournaments, but like side bets and 362 00:17:53.359 --> 00:17:57.039 stuff like that. They make a side bet on the 363 00:17:57.160 --> 00:17:59.359 number of entries. I think when they made it there 364 00:17:59.440 --> 00:18:02.160 was like six or seventy players or entries in the field, 365 00:18:02.200 --> 00:18:05.480 and Ren had one hundred and thirty two entries and over, 366 00:18:06.440 --> 00:18:09.720 and Jesse Loanis had obviously under one thirty two, the 367 00:18:09.759 --> 00:18:12.680 bet was for ten thousand dollars. We get to the 368 00:18:12.720 --> 00:18:17.720 close of registration, that final break, everyone has registered except 369 00:18:17.759 --> 00:18:21.440 one person. The clock says one thirty one. Jesse Loans 370 00:18:21.519 --> 00:18:24.240 is out of the tournament, with a chance to re enter. 371 00:18:24.960 --> 00:18:27.640 He would not re enter because if he re entered, 372 00:18:27.680 --> 00:18:31.240 it would hit one thirty two. That five K entry 373 00:18:31.240 --> 00:18:34.400 would essentially cost him fifteen K because he would have 374 00:18:34.519 --> 00:18:38.079 to pay renlin ten K. So Jesse Loan is who 375 00:18:38.480 --> 00:18:40.799 It's also interesting is that he was I believe in 376 00:18:40.839 --> 00:18:45.960 this other side bet, so this must win the jacket 377 00:18:46.039 --> 00:18:48.240 side bet between six or seven players where they each 378 00:18:48.240 --> 00:18:51.880 put up fifty K. Now, obviously somebody has to win 379 00:18:51.920 --> 00:18:53.920 the jacket to collect all the money, either three hundred 380 00:18:53.960 --> 00:18:56.000 K or three hundred and fifty k or whatever. But 381 00:18:56.480 --> 00:18:59.200 the fact that he would pass on the chance to 382 00:18:59.240 --> 00:19:03.240 get points by playing a tournament to not let ren 383 00:19:03.319 --> 00:19:05.720 Linn win the money was just funny to me how 384 00:19:05.759 --> 00:19:08.440 that all shook out. So that was that was pretty comical. 385 00:19:08.480 --> 00:19:10.759 At the close of registration in event number. 386 00:19:10.519 --> 00:19:12.960 One, do you think his decision was the correct decision? 387 00:19:13.799 --> 00:19:16.039 I mean, I would I would have just I would 388 00:19:16.079 --> 00:19:18.359 have fired in the ten k and heard the fifteen k, 389 00:19:18.480 --> 00:19:20.119 the five k and then paid the ten cap and 390 00:19:20.200 --> 00:19:20.640 just whatever. 391 00:19:21.759 --> 00:19:24.480 I think Ran even offered him some kind of like buyout, 392 00:19:24.599 --> 00:19:26.400 not like a full amount, but like a Holf price 393 00:19:26.480 --> 00:19:27.720 buy it, and he didn't want to do it. 394 00:19:28.200 --> 00:19:29.960 But I'm also coming at this with the fact that 395 00:19:30.000 --> 00:19:32.039 I don't think ten k is like going to break 396 00:19:32.119 --> 00:19:34.279 Jesse Lonis in any sort of way. So it's kind 397 00:19:34.319 --> 00:19:38.480 of like whatever. Event number two, Jeremy Becker topped the 398 00:19:38.519 --> 00:19:41.000 field for two hundred and fifty five thousand dollars, his 399 00:19:41.079 --> 00:19:44.920 breakout high stakes win. His also also his largest career 400 00:19:44.920 --> 00:19:47.640 score in first ever six figure score. You know, Becker 401 00:19:47.680 --> 00:19:50.920 obviously got a ton of buzz what within the last 402 00:19:50.920 --> 00:19:54.160 one to two years with all the daily tournaments around 403 00:19:54.200 --> 00:19:57.160 Las Vegas that he was winning, most notably at Win 404 00:19:57.279 --> 00:20:00.279 Las Vegas. He ends up this ends up drawing the 405 00:20:00.319 --> 00:20:02.920 buzz of Daniel Legrand You and josh Aria, they like 406 00:20:03.000 --> 00:20:06.319 start backing him and supporting him. This recent summer, he's 407 00:20:06.359 --> 00:20:09.319 got this this bet against Land and Tice, So there's that, 408 00:20:10.519 --> 00:20:14.039 and then yeah, he's been battling in the studio. He's 409 00:20:14.039 --> 00:20:17.200 had a few cashes and he finally gets a victory. 410 00:20:17.319 --> 00:20:20.359 So I mean, has he arrived? I guess I'll ask 411 00:20:20.400 --> 00:20:23.000 you has he arrived on the highest stakes scene. 412 00:20:24.119 --> 00:20:26.119 I think he is this more. 413 00:20:27.319 --> 00:20:30.440 I think he's encouraged, both him and his backer is 414 00:20:30.799 --> 00:20:34.440 encouraged to play more PGT events. Normally we come, we 415 00:20:34.480 --> 00:20:36.839 see him play the fives and the tens and you know, 416 00:20:36.920 --> 00:20:38.920 jomp out in the fifteens. Twenty five is depending how 417 00:20:38.960 --> 00:20:41.160 he's going. But he played every event, played all light events, 418 00:20:41.240 --> 00:20:43.559 multiple buyings, multiple re entries. 419 00:20:43.839 --> 00:20:46.079 Jes first in that twenty five K because he was 420 00:20:46.079 --> 00:20:49.400 obviously in contention for the jackets his first ever twenty five. 421 00:20:49.599 --> 00:20:52.680 Yeah, so I think he's proven himself. He's got the 422 00:20:52.680 --> 00:20:53.359 one victory. 423 00:20:53.920 --> 00:20:54.440 You know he can. 424 00:20:54.640 --> 00:20:57.599 He was, you know, in the running for the peple jacket. 425 00:20:57.640 --> 00:20:59.920 I see, you know, come the next big series like 426 00:21:00.200 --> 00:21:02.759 Poker Gold Cup, most likely we'll see something similar. 427 00:21:02.759 --> 00:21:02.920 Way. 428 00:21:02.960 --> 00:21:06.440 He's planning to play everything and he's just going to 429 00:21:06.519 --> 00:21:09.039 continually put in the volume in the studio, play these 430 00:21:09.079 --> 00:21:12.160 PGT events, try and you know, knock away at some 431 00:21:12.200 --> 00:21:12.799 of these titles. 432 00:21:12.839 --> 00:21:13.119 He's got. 433 00:21:13.240 --> 00:21:16.039 He's got that taste of that six figure score much 434 00:21:16.079 --> 00:21:18.960 better than winning a win daily for twenty three hundred dollars. 435 00:21:20.039 --> 00:21:23.680 So yeah, I think he's arrived in the sense, but 436 00:21:23.759 --> 00:21:26.200 maybe he was already arrived, but now it's just the 437 00:21:26.240 --> 00:21:27.240 confidence and the he. 438 00:21:27.920 --> 00:21:31.799 Was arrived in the sense that he was a name, 439 00:21:32.000 --> 00:21:36.000 but like it's weird and poker and you know, when 440 00:21:36.039 --> 00:21:38.400 I first came into the industry, I remember going out 441 00:21:38.440 --> 00:21:40.799 to the World Series Poker for the first time and 442 00:21:41.119 --> 00:21:43.119 at the time, our boss was Gary Gates, and I 443 00:21:43.160 --> 00:21:46.119 remember like he would usually go around and then eventually 444 00:21:46.200 --> 00:21:48.680 I started doing this with with the team that I managed. 445 00:21:48.359 --> 00:21:48.799 Like you would. 446 00:21:48.920 --> 00:21:51.039 You would walk the field with some of the people, 447 00:21:51.680 --> 00:21:53.920 you know, mostly the newer people too, and then you 448 00:21:53.920 --> 00:21:56.240 would let them know, like who's who who we should cover, right, 449 00:21:56.279 --> 00:21:59.200 so they have a base of people to cover. I mean, 450 00:21:59.240 --> 00:22:02.079 I remember play being like being told like this is 451 00:22:02.119 --> 00:22:03.480 so and so, this is so and so, this is 452 00:22:03.559 --> 00:22:06.960 so and so, and like the one the one I 453 00:22:07.000 --> 00:22:10.200 remember is when when we were in the Brazilian room. 454 00:22:10.240 --> 00:22:12.720 I could still picture it was Tony Kuzino, first player. 455 00:22:12.799 --> 00:22:15.920 He told me about Tony Kuzno hasn't won anything I 456 00:22:15.960 --> 00:22:20.559 can remember since that day. So like, but because I 457 00:22:20.720 --> 00:22:24.839 was told to cover Tony Kuzino, on that day. To me, 458 00:22:25.000 --> 00:22:28.920 Tony Kuzno has always been a name, yeah, but I 459 00:22:28.920 --> 00:22:31.240 don't think he's had any sort of success that might 460 00:22:31.400 --> 00:22:32.880 justify the fact that he should be a name, you 461 00:22:32.880 --> 00:22:35.599 know what I mean. So, like, yeah, Becker is a name, 462 00:22:35.880 --> 00:22:38.519 and he's he's certainly popular within the pope community and 463 00:22:38.799 --> 00:22:41.000 everyone knows who he is now. But it came from 464 00:22:41.039 --> 00:22:44.960 winning the dailies, like people seeing his photo on the 465 00:22:45.039 --> 00:22:47.440 you know, the win feed on Twitter, like this guy 466 00:22:47.440 --> 00:22:49.640 won again. This guy won again, this guy won again. Right, 467 00:22:49.880 --> 00:22:53.000 But so it's like he he hasn't done anything yet, 468 00:22:53.279 --> 00:22:55.519 or hadn't at least like until this point. I mean, 469 00:22:55.559 --> 00:22:58.240 he he did have some results this year on the PGT, 470 00:22:58.759 --> 00:23:01.319 you know, and he started to the resume in that regard. 471 00:23:01.480 --> 00:23:05.799 So so now it's almost like he proved it in 472 00:23:05.880 --> 00:23:08.640 a way, you know, kind kind of similar to land 473 00:23:08.720 --> 00:23:10.599 and Tice And you know, I just put those two 474 00:23:10.640 --> 00:23:12.319 in the same bucket because they had this bed over 475 00:23:12.359 --> 00:23:15.039 the summer. But like going into the summer, you know, 476 00:23:15.240 --> 00:23:17.720 Landon was a big name and has had some scores, 477 00:23:17.720 --> 00:23:20.400 but then finally he made that WPT final table and 478 00:23:20.480 --> 00:23:22.039 it's like, you know, here we go, like here's the 479 00:23:22.039 --> 00:23:25.000 big breakout run, the big breakout score on a major 480 00:23:25.039 --> 00:23:28.240 stage for land Entice, right, so similar sort of thing there. 481 00:23:28.240 --> 00:23:30.720 It's like eventually you need to be like, yeah, but 482 00:23:31.160 --> 00:23:34.279 what are they actually done? Well? Landon had that WPT 483 00:23:34.440 --> 00:23:36.880 run for a ton of money. Jeremy Becker now gets 484 00:23:37.000 --> 00:23:39.359 this victory at the Poker Masters and was in contention 485 00:23:39.480 --> 00:23:41.599 for the whole series, so you know, kind of a 486 00:23:41.680 --> 00:23:43.559 jumping off point for them, but as it relates to 487 00:23:43.559 --> 00:23:48.640 the Poker Masters one for Jeremy Becker. Justin Zachi gets 488 00:23:48.680 --> 00:23:52.039 his second PGT winn of the season for taking home 489 00:23:52.279 --> 00:23:54.279 top honors in of at number three two hundred and 490 00:23:54.279 --> 00:23:58.000 forty four thousand dollars for him. Previously the twenty twenty 491 00:23:58.000 --> 00:24:00.920 four PGT season, he won the fifth event at the 492 00:24:00.960 --> 00:24:03.839 Poker Go Cup for two hundred and thirty two thousand dollars. 493 00:24:04.119 --> 00:24:08.440 He denied Jeremy Osmas his first win of the PGT season. 494 00:24:08.480 --> 00:24:11.799 Osmas has twenty one cashes but still a goose egg 495 00:24:11.920 --> 00:24:15.839 on or in the win column for Osmas, and Zaki 496 00:24:16.000 --> 00:24:19.160 was the one who denied him the win in this event. 497 00:24:19.319 --> 00:24:24.839 Jonathan Little, the Poker gro Cup Series champion from earlier 498 00:24:25.079 --> 00:24:27.960 this year. He won Event number four two hundred and 499 00:24:28.000 --> 00:24:30.640 twenty six thousand dollars for him his third win of 500 00:24:30.759 --> 00:24:36.079 the PGT season. Worth noting that Harvey Castro got second place. 501 00:24:36.160 --> 00:24:38.599 You may not know that game, but very very young kid. 502 00:24:38.759 --> 00:24:40.079 What was he twenty one or twenty two? 503 00:24:40.200 --> 00:24:40.440 Yeah? 504 00:24:40.480 --> 00:24:40.880 Twenty one? 505 00:24:41.000 --> 00:24:44.119 Yeah? What was the record that he set youngest ever 506 00:24:44.680 --> 00:24:47.400 sinyal table on the PGT. 507 00:24:48.160 --> 00:24:50.519 Yes, I'm confirmed, but very likely. 508 00:24:50.359 --> 00:24:53.440 Yes, yeah, and basically set it for a day because 509 00:24:54.799 --> 00:24:57.079 the next event was David Chen who's twenty one years 510 00:24:57.119 --> 00:24:59.000 old and won Event number five for two hundred and 511 00:24:59.000 --> 00:25:02.920 seventeen thousand dollars. David Chen, mit grat in computer science, 512 00:25:02.960 --> 00:25:06.440 does some some writing for gto Wizard. He became the 513 00:25:06.480 --> 00:25:10.799 youngest ever on the PGT winning that event, and then 514 00:25:10.839 --> 00:25:13.759 he ultimately was in contention in the twenty five K 515 00:25:14.200 --> 00:25:17.400 later on in the series as well. Isaac Haxton three 516 00:25:17.480 --> 00:25:20.559 hundred and fifty eight hundred dollars for winning event number six, 517 00:25:20.799 --> 00:25:23.440 Event number six and noven number seven Weber, both fifteen k's. 518 00:25:24.160 --> 00:25:26.680 Hackston's the reigning PGT Player of the year. It was 519 00:25:26.720 --> 00:25:31.480 his first PGT win this season. Before getting the victory 520 00:25:31.480 --> 00:25:34.480 in Event number six, he had a sixth place finish 521 00:25:34.519 --> 00:25:36.480 in event number four and a sixth place finish in 522 00:25:36.519 --> 00:25:39.279 event number five, So Hackson was heating up a little 523 00:25:39.279 --> 00:25:42.079 bit entering this event and then was ultimately able to 524 00:25:42.200 --> 00:25:46.559 get the victory. Event number seven was all Brock Wilson's. 525 00:25:46.559 --> 00:25:49.839 He had a big chip lead, hit a big chip lead, 526 00:25:49.880 --> 00:25:51.880 what going into the final table, you know late on 527 00:25:51.960 --> 00:25:56.839 day one. Ultimately was able to ride that out. Big 528 00:25:56.880 --> 00:26:02.359 beneficiary of Seth Davies punting over his steat with it 529 00:26:02.400 --> 00:26:05.039 was what yeah, but what was it? Six players left 530 00:26:05.119 --> 00:26:07.880 or it was a short stack at the table, yes, 531 00:26:08.039 --> 00:26:10.160 And that's why it was like kind of crazy for 532 00:26:10.160 --> 00:26:13.319 what Seth Davies did he I believe it was button 533 00:26:13.519 --> 00:26:18.519 versus small blind or maybe cut off versus button. I 534 00:26:18.559 --> 00:26:22.440 forget exactly, but Davies opened got three bet by Wilson, 535 00:26:22.839 --> 00:26:27.119 who had Jack's Davies elected to four bet. Jam Wilson 536 00:26:27.279 --> 00:26:29.799 quickly called off and the ace three suited did not 537 00:26:29.920 --> 00:26:33.400 come home for Seth Davies and he he came into 538 00:26:33.440 --> 00:26:36.039 that final table like one of the top three stacks, 539 00:26:36.079 --> 00:26:38.720 maybe even second in chips, and was out like right away. 540 00:26:38.759 --> 00:26:41.599 I think he went out in sixth place. So yeah, 541 00:26:41.640 --> 00:26:44.240 Brock Wilson did sell action to this event on poker Steak. 542 00:26:44.319 --> 00:26:46.880 You know, I there's a lot of players that sell 543 00:26:46.920 --> 00:26:48.799 action on poker Steak and a lot of players that 544 00:26:48.839 --> 00:26:52.960 had success this series, and I just I think it's cool, 545 00:26:53.000 --> 00:26:55.720 you know, if you're looking to sweat along with the action. 546 00:26:57.079 --> 00:26:59.359 You know, Tim and I can't when whenever it involves 547 00:26:59.400 --> 00:27:01.559 something that we're you know, streaming and working on. But 548 00:27:02.000 --> 00:27:03.839 you know, head on over to poker steak dot com. 549 00:27:03.920 --> 00:27:06.119 A lot of a lot of guys and girls that 550 00:27:06.160 --> 00:27:10.119 are playing the the PGT tournaments are listing a ton 551 00:27:10.119 --> 00:27:12.920 of action. Victoria Lifshitz had action on there. I know, 552 00:27:13.000 --> 00:27:16.640 Jesse Vierlan had action on there. David Coleman lists action 553 00:27:16.720 --> 00:27:20.000 on there, Jeremy Osmas, Aram Zobian, yeah, Aramzobe and Jeremy 554 00:27:20.000 --> 00:27:22.039 Osmas has action on there right now for Super High 555 00:27:22.079 --> 00:27:25.279 Rollable PLO coming up. So yeah, so there's a lot 556 00:27:25.319 --> 00:27:29.000 of action to be had, you know for the PGT events, 557 00:27:29.000 --> 00:27:31.359 and it pairs well when you are a poker Go 558 00:27:31.519 --> 00:27:35.200 subscriber and you are able to you know, watch and 559 00:27:35.240 --> 00:27:37.640 then also be like, yeah, I'm invested in so and so, 560 00:27:37.680 --> 00:27:39.559 like I have a piece of Brock Wilson like, that's 561 00:27:39.599 --> 00:27:41.319 really cool. He went on to win. So I win, 562 00:27:41.400 --> 00:27:44.359 so I'm invested that way. I just like that tie in. 563 00:27:44.480 --> 00:27:46.480 So yeah, poker steak dot com if you want to 564 00:27:46.519 --> 00:27:48.920 get in on that sort of stuff. And then rounding 565 00:27:48.920 --> 00:27:50.920 out the winners. There were eight events during the twenty 566 00:27:50.960 --> 00:27:54.359 twenty four Poker Masters. Ben Tolering wins five hundred and 567 00:27:54.359 --> 00:27:58.039 ten thousand dollars for taking home the twenty five thousand 568 00:27:58.039 --> 00:28:01.160 dollars Nolan HOLDHM finale. Sixty eight entries in this one 569 00:28:01.319 --> 00:28:04.599 was the field size that Toleraine topped. It was somewhat 570 00:28:04.599 --> 00:28:07.000 surprising to see him in the studio, but glad to 571 00:28:07.079 --> 00:28:10.319 have him. He topped Taylor von Kriegenberg in heads up play. 572 00:28:10.839 --> 00:28:14.400 Toleraine is enjoying his best tournament year ever. He's got 573 00:28:14.440 --> 00:28:18.319 more than five point one million dollars in winnings already. 574 00:28:19.319 --> 00:28:23.240 He was second to Santos Servanna in the WSFP two 575 00:28:23.279 --> 00:28:25.640 hundred and fifty k Super high Roller. He also has 576 00:28:25.680 --> 00:28:28.200 some Triton scores of five hundred and thirty two thousand 577 00:28:28.279 --> 00:28:31.039 and three hundred and ninety one thousand dollars. So big, 578 00:28:31.039 --> 00:28:35.920 big year for Tollerene. You know, has always been a 579 00:28:35.960 --> 00:28:38.519 successful poker player, you know, but but not always like 580 00:28:38.559 --> 00:28:41.680 in the spotlight, I would say, but seems to be playing, 581 00:28:41.839 --> 00:28:45.319 you know, some bigger tournaments this year and obviously having 582 00:28:45.480 --> 00:28:50.319 plenty of success in them. So general thoughts, I guess 583 00:28:50.400 --> 00:28:53.160 let's start at the top. The series opened big. I mean, 584 00:28:53.200 --> 00:28:54.599 we hit on it with the one hundred and thirty 585 00:28:54.640 --> 00:28:57.119 one entries in that first five K event, largest Poker 586 00:28:57.160 --> 00:29:01.039 Masters event ever, largest field in a PGT Nolanan Holdham 587 00:29:01.079 --> 00:29:06.160 event ever. But as you know, because you are the commissioner, 588 00:29:07.240 --> 00:29:11.119 a bunch of names missed. Oh yeah, so like which 589 00:29:11.160 --> 00:29:15.759 which tells? Which tells me that the see It tells 590 00:29:15.799 --> 00:29:17.720 me a couple of things. One, the series could have 591 00:29:17.759 --> 00:29:20.640 been bigger than it was. Like specifically, this opening event 592 00:29:20.680 --> 00:29:22.519 could have been bigger than it was, but the series 593 00:29:22.759 --> 00:29:24.720 as a whole could have been bigger than it was. 594 00:29:25.680 --> 00:29:28.759 It also tells me that I feel like we're doing 595 00:29:28.759 --> 00:29:31.720 an all right job getting new people in there, where 596 00:29:31.720 --> 00:29:34.880 the numbers can look very good and they can grow 597 00:29:35.000 --> 00:29:37.519 year over year, even with the fact that we're missing 598 00:29:37.599 --> 00:29:40.680 all the names. So who missed? Who were you surprised 599 00:29:40.720 --> 00:29:42.799 not to see? Like all these guys that that I 600 00:29:42.839 --> 00:29:45.359 know you're about to say, are are we could put 601 00:29:45.400 --> 00:29:47.680 them in the bucket of regulars like they play. 602 00:29:48.480 --> 00:29:50.359 I'm not I'm not calling out the guys that you know, 603 00:29:50.359 --> 00:29:52.440 play one or two events, calling the guys that normally 604 00:29:52.480 --> 00:29:55.599 play every event training our series especially, know of them 605 00:29:55.640 --> 00:29:59.160 and hold them. Brian Kim, Brian Rast, Stephen Shiitwick, Frank Fernaro, 606 00:29:59.279 --> 00:30:03.720 David Peters, as A Kimpton, Masashi, Oya, Nacha Barbera, Alex Livingson, 607 00:30:04.119 --> 00:30:07.200 Max Coleman, Stephens Song, Joey Weisman, Dylan to Stephano, Philip 608 00:30:07.240 --> 00:30:11.119 shing Lowis Spencer, Alex Condon, ed Sebesta, Anthony Who, and 609 00:30:11.160 --> 00:30:13.039 I guess we can throw in you know, Phil hellm 610 00:30:13.039 --> 00:30:15.279 With and of course I've got Adam Hendrix in there 611 00:30:15.319 --> 00:30:18.200 as well. Now a lot of these guys have excuses. 612 00:30:18.200 --> 00:30:19.880 I'm going to give it to him. Some went to 613 00:30:19.880 --> 00:30:23.000 Australia to play the WPT event, Some are moving to Portugal, 614 00:30:23.440 --> 00:30:27.640 some are just washed up, I don't know, broke. But 615 00:30:27.759 --> 00:30:30.200 the fact that there's twenty five to thirty people we 616 00:30:30.279 --> 00:30:33.440 can name that could have easily been in every event 617 00:30:34.720 --> 00:30:37.559 not here shows that our opening event could have easily 618 00:30:37.599 --> 00:30:40.799 been you know, one hundred and thirty could have easily 619 00:30:40.880 --> 00:30:42.119 hit two hundred, I think. 620 00:30:42.400 --> 00:30:45.559 Yeah, I mean, and that would be great. Like, you know, 621 00:30:45.599 --> 00:30:48.759 I would love to see numbers continue to grow for 622 00:30:48.839 --> 00:30:51.240 these series, you know, I would I would like for 623 00:30:51.279 --> 00:30:52.759 them to grow enough. 624 00:30:52.480 --> 00:30:54.039 That we need a new studio. 625 00:30:54.119 --> 00:30:57.599 On the pgt well, I mean, I don't know if 626 00:30:57.599 --> 00:31:02.279 that's possible, but on the PG TEA, we would be 627 00:31:02.480 --> 00:31:06.880 forced to like have two flights two days for the 628 00:31:06.920 --> 00:31:09.359 five k opener that we now do. Like that, that's like, 629 00:31:09.440 --> 00:31:11.160 that's like the goal that I think we should kind 630 00:31:11.200 --> 00:31:14.319 of have, you know, make it so you know, when 631 00:31:14.400 --> 00:31:17.000 when you're tim when you're doing the schedule for the 632 00:31:17.039 --> 00:31:19.960 next Poker gro Cup, you're like, shit, I need two 633 00:31:20.000 --> 00:31:23.160 starting flights because we're gonna get two hundred plus players. 634 00:31:23.160 --> 00:31:27.440 Like that, that's like that should be our goal. I 635 00:31:28.240 --> 00:31:30.079 would like for us to put a little bit more 636 00:31:30.079 --> 00:31:33.319 effort into satellites. I know, internally you and I have 637 00:31:33.759 --> 00:31:38.039 you know, pushed for that a lot. So yeah, I 638 00:31:38.039 --> 00:31:40.720 mean it's I guess i'll work in progress. But you know, 639 00:31:40.839 --> 00:31:44.720 I think we did our right with satellites this time around, 640 00:31:45.680 --> 00:31:47.039 you know, but if we can make them a little 641 00:31:47.039 --> 00:31:49.079 bit bigger, offer them for maybe some of the bigger 642 00:31:49.119 --> 00:31:51.359 events as well, then we can we can start growing 643 00:31:51.440 --> 00:31:54.720 things as a whole. But yeah, I mean listen without 644 00:31:54.759 --> 00:31:58.319 these names and and it's not even like you know, 645 00:31:58.400 --> 00:32:00.240 like a let's say, I don't know Brian cam these 646 00:32:00.240 --> 00:32:02.400 first on your list, here her Steven Chidwick for example. 647 00:32:02.480 --> 00:32:06.279 I mean, that's anywhere from one to three entry. I mean, 648 00:32:06.599 --> 00:32:09.039 you know, if they bust, they're going to max enter, right, 649 00:32:09.160 --> 00:32:12.720 So you know it's it's even if there's fifteen names 650 00:32:12.720 --> 00:32:15.599 on this list, that can be anywhere from thirty to 651 00:32:15.640 --> 00:32:19.160 forty five additional entries in a tournament. So do you 652 00:32:19.400 --> 00:32:22.680 do you have any like reason why things jump from 653 00:32:22.759 --> 00:32:26.359 year to year? Is it just the general trajectory and 654 00:32:26.640 --> 00:32:29.559 brand building that the tour is on? Is it? Is 655 00:32:29.599 --> 00:32:33.319 it players are getting I mean you hear players all 656 00:32:33.359 --> 00:32:35.160 the time. You hear our regulars all the time talk 657 00:32:35.200 --> 00:32:37.880 about like you know, the leaderboard prizes and the and 658 00:32:38.039 --> 00:32:40.400 qualifying for the million dollar free role at the end 659 00:32:40.440 --> 00:32:42.960 of the year. Like is that something that's just drawing 660 00:32:43.039 --> 00:32:45.279 new people in? Like what you know, why are these 661 00:32:45.319 --> 00:32:46.599 numbers just continuing to grow? 662 00:32:46.680 --> 00:32:49.279 I mean over the last few years, Pokemasa's always seems 663 00:32:49.319 --> 00:32:51.880 to be the biggest of a no limit hold of mages. 664 00:32:51.960 --> 00:32:54.200 At the end of the day, all these schedules are 665 00:32:54.200 --> 00:32:56.920 the same, right, five K, some tens, fifteen to twenty five's, 666 00:32:57.240 --> 00:32:59.240 So there are real difference between this and the USBO 667 00:32:59.359 --> 00:33:02.440 or the Poke Up. I think there's a lot to 668 00:33:02.440 --> 00:33:05.440 do with timing. You know, we're talking September, talking post 669 00:33:05.440 --> 00:33:08.839 World Series, so you know, some people have more money 670 00:33:08.880 --> 00:33:11.960 after a good World Series. Some people have you know, 671 00:33:12.559 --> 00:33:15.319 recovered their bankrolls, you know, you know we talk about USPO, 672 00:33:15.440 --> 00:33:17.440 maybe people are saving their money for the World Series. 673 00:33:18.599 --> 00:33:21.279 That's that's one reason. I think there's also been a 674 00:33:21.279 --> 00:33:24.079 bit of a lull in poker since the World Series. 675 00:33:24.160 --> 00:33:27.440 So you know that ends what July seventeenth, dish, We've now, 676 00:33:28.279 --> 00:33:31.000 you know, a couple months out since then, people have 677 00:33:31.160 --> 00:33:34.759 taken their break, they've recovered, they've spent time with family, 678 00:33:34.759 --> 00:33:37.200 they've traveled, and now they just kind of they're ready 679 00:33:37.240 --> 00:33:39.759 to play, ready to grind. So I think that's one 680 00:33:39.799 --> 00:33:43.559 good thing about this, where the Poke Masters is a 681 00:33:43.559 --> 00:33:46.000 couple months after the World Series where people just have 682 00:33:46.079 --> 00:33:48.519 that itch. And then if we're talking about kind of 683 00:33:48.559 --> 00:33:51.759 the brand it's been around for so long compared to 684 00:33:51.799 --> 00:33:54.079 the others. It's you know, this was his eighth installment, 685 00:33:55.680 --> 00:33:58.920 and I think this resonates as strong as like the 686 00:33:58.960 --> 00:34:02.200 Super high Roller brand, whereas you know, Poke Cup only 687 00:34:02.240 --> 00:34:05.400 three four five years old. People may not care as much, 688 00:34:05.440 --> 00:34:08.480 but Pokemsa's, I think is just a bit more brand, 689 00:34:08.519 --> 00:34:09.519 weaight than the others. 690 00:34:11.880 --> 00:34:14.599 Yeah, and you know, part of it is the luck 691 00:34:14.639 --> 00:34:17.719 factor too. I mean, let's be honest, there's two kind 692 00:34:17.719 --> 00:34:19.840 of luck factors involved with the series. 693 00:34:19.880 --> 00:34:20.119 Like this. 694 00:34:21.119 --> 00:34:25.280 One is the luck factor as it pertains two re entries. 695 00:34:25.760 --> 00:34:29.800 You know, it can break a certain way where you know, 696 00:34:29.920 --> 00:34:33.800 the players who wouldn't re enter or are busting out 697 00:34:33.800 --> 00:34:35.800 and the players who would possibly re enter our getting 698 00:34:35.800 --> 00:34:37.599 all the chips early, so that can kind of sway 699 00:34:37.639 --> 00:34:40.519 the entry number. Also, I mean, if you look at 700 00:34:40.519 --> 00:34:43.360 the first event, the five k Opener, you had Spencer 701 00:34:43.440 --> 00:34:46.440 Champlin winning, you had Jessica Erling second in chips, you 702 00:34:46.559 --> 00:34:50.239 had Nick Seward sixth place, you know for thirty two k. 703 00:34:50.360 --> 00:34:53.920 So I mean the point of why we went to 704 00:34:54.119 --> 00:34:57.239 having a five k opener was and some of the 705 00:34:57.280 --> 00:34:59.880 players were actually talking about about it, and I was 706 00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:01.719 I was eavesdropping where they were like, yeah, you know, 707 00:35:01.719 --> 00:35:03.880 they should just make the opener a ten k but 708 00:35:05.239 --> 00:35:08.679 this year, and it's obviously an extremely small sample size 709 00:35:08.719 --> 00:35:12.280 because this is just one event of a bunch and 710 00:35:12.320 --> 00:35:14.920 it just happened to break our way. But like when 711 00:35:14.920 --> 00:35:17.880 you get a Champlin winning a Virling second, you know, 712 00:35:18.039 --> 00:35:23.079 Nick Seward sixth, they're immediately motivated to then play the 713 00:35:23.119 --> 00:35:25.920 next event and then hopefully they start going on a run. 714 00:35:25.960 --> 00:35:28.719 And like that's kind of what you saw specifically out 715 00:35:28.760 --> 00:35:32.159 of you know, Champling and Seward. I mean, Jess Verlin 716 00:35:32.199 --> 00:35:34.039 played i think all the ten games, so she was 717 00:35:34.039 --> 00:35:37.679 in there, you know, so that's great, but maybe she 718 00:35:37.920 --> 00:35:39.960 elects to not play the ten k's if she doesn't 719 00:35:39.960 --> 00:35:42.480 have that ninety eight thousand dollars score in the first one. 720 00:35:42.639 --> 00:35:45.039 You know, I'm not sure. Champlain, you know, had that 721 00:35:45.119 --> 00:35:48.000 first place, then he cashed the next event in ninth place. 722 00:35:48.079 --> 00:35:49.840 Nick Seward had the sixth place in the first one, 723 00:35:49.920 --> 00:35:51.760 then a fifth place in the next one. So it's 724 00:35:51.800 --> 00:35:55.280 like like a Nick Seward, for example, or a Champlin, 725 00:35:55.760 --> 00:35:59.760 you know, immediately you're like, okay, I'm possibly in the running, 726 00:36:00.280 --> 00:36:02.400 and I can just kind of like keep rolling my 727 00:36:02.440 --> 00:36:05.159 winnings over and basically like free rolling myself into the 728 00:36:05.199 --> 00:36:08.239 next tournament, and you know Nick Seward like then he 729 00:36:08.320 --> 00:36:11.280 had you know, another cash in event number three, and 730 00:36:11.280 --> 00:36:13.199 then another cash in event number four, and like he 731 00:36:13.280 --> 00:36:15.079 just kept going and going and go or sorry, another 732 00:36:15.119 --> 00:36:16.559 cash in event number five. So like you just kept 733 00:36:16.599 --> 00:36:19.519 going and going and going. So the point is is, 734 00:36:19.559 --> 00:36:22.159 like we want to get people that might take a 735 00:36:22.199 --> 00:36:24.960 shot in a five K, and it's easier to get 736 00:36:24.960 --> 00:36:28.280 satellite people in a five K to then hopefully do 737 00:36:28.440 --> 00:36:30.920 well and then spin it into the next events and 738 00:36:30.960 --> 00:36:33.800 then maybe they make a run, you know. So that's 739 00:36:34.199 --> 00:36:36.920 that's the goal with with having the five K as 740 00:36:36.960 --> 00:36:39.000 the opener, and if you're a bigger player and you 741 00:36:39.039 --> 00:36:41.480 want to skip it, I mean, by all that does welcome. 742 00:36:41.559 --> 00:36:44.880 Yes, we do have people skipping the five K, and 743 00:36:44.920 --> 00:36:46.800 we've heard them say that, yeah, I don't want to 744 00:36:46.800 --> 00:36:48.960 play fives and then they see these field sides getting 745 00:36:49.000 --> 00:36:51.199 so big. They see the satellite you know, I think 746 00:36:51.239 --> 00:36:55.679 there was eight satellite qualifiers or nine into the opening event. 747 00:36:56.159 --> 00:36:59.239 You see these nine qualifiers, you see all these fresh 748 00:36:59.239 --> 00:37:02.000 faces you've never heard of, and some of these pros 749 00:37:02.039 --> 00:37:03.559 that lick in their lips, they're like, oh, I can 750 00:37:03.559 --> 00:37:06.400 beat these guys, you know. So we're basically creating a 751 00:37:06.440 --> 00:37:09.760 bit more EV for the pros, but we're also giving 752 00:37:09.800 --> 00:37:14.119 opportunity to you know, fresh faces, newcomers, people taking their 753 00:37:14.159 --> 00:37:16.639 shot where they can Hey, yeah, I can play this. 754 00:37:16.880 --> 00:37:18.679 Maybe I got in for five hundred dollars, or maybe 755 00:37:18.679 --> 00:37:20.840 I'll take a shot at a five K buy in 756 00:37:21.400 --> 00:37:23.679 to play in the studio and potentially you know, be 757 00:37:23.760 --> 00:37:28.440 on TV when you know, one hundred and sixty thousand dollars. 758 00:37:29.679 --> 00:37:31.519 Yeah, so, I mean I like the five k's. I 759 00:37:31.519 --> 00:37:32.480 think they're serious. 760 00:37:32.519 --> 00:37:34.960 There's an argument should we have two five kse that's 761 00:37:35.360 --> 00:37:37.760 you know, I'd rather go the other way than as 762 00:37:37.800 --> 00:37:40.159 you mentioned, you know, we should just make it a ten. Well, 763 00:37:40.159 --> 00:37:42.400 we used to do that. I think five is great 764 00:37:42.440 --> 00:37:45.599 because we get these new faces. You've said it, they parlay, 765 00:37:45.679 --> 00:37:48.920 they keep playing. Maybe there's a you know, there's an 766 00:37:48.960 --> 00:37:52.000 argument to having two five k's and then we go 767 00:37:52.039 --> 00:37:52.559 in the tens. 768 00:37:52.559 --> 00:37:53.280 I'm not really sure. 769 00:37:54.199 --> 00:37:57.000 Yeah, I mean it could it could be something where 770 00:37:58.199 --> 00:38:01.239 you know, we maybe you do like two five k's 771 00:38:01.280 --> 00:38:03.679 for the Poka Roo Cup, but then you start with 772 00:38:03.719 --> 00:38:06.840 ten k's for Masters, just because Masters feels like the 773 00:38:06.840 --> 00:38:10.559 more prestigious, more distinguished brand of the majors. So I 774 00:38:10.599 --> 00:38:14.559 don't know, you know, there's options there, but yeah, just 775 00:38:14.599 --> 00:38:17.119 wanted to put that out there. Turnouts overall, I think 776 00:38:17.199 --> 00:38:21.440 held pretty well, especially for the two to fifteen k's 777 00:38:21.440 --> 00:38:22.480 and also the twenty five K. 778 00:38:22.559 --> 00:38:24.079 Yeah, let me just touch on that real quick. So 779 00:38:24.119 --> 00:38:26.159 you already mentioned one hundred and thirty one entrants in 780 00:38:26.199 --> 00:38:29.800 the opening event. That's the biggest five K no limit 781 00:38:29.800 --> 00:38:31.320 hold and we've ever done. You know, we haven't done 782 00:38:31.360 --> 00:38:33.639 a lot of them, that's something new for this season, 783 00:38:33.639 --> 00:38:35.760 but still one hundred and thirty one entrance, ninety four 784 00:38:35.840 --> 00:38:41.360 unique unique players, which is kind of pretty awesome. It's 785 00:38:41.400 --> 00:38:44.280 also the sixth biggest five K field we've ever had. Obviously, 786 00:38:44.360 --> 00:38:48.159 our PLO events just have smashing numbers. Heading on to 787 00:38:48.320 --> 00:38:53.400 the ten k's event, two one hundred entrance, sixty four uniques. 788 00:38:53.440 --> 00:38:56.280 That's the fourth biggest ten K held in the studio 789 00:38:56.400 --> 00:39:00.440 during the PGT. Moving on to the fifteens, had two 790 00:39:00.480 --> 00:39:04.400 fifteen's eighty four entrance, seventy six entrance. That ranks as 791 00:39:04.480 --> 00:39:07.079 second and third biggest fifteen k's we've ever had in 792 00:39:07.079 --> 00:39:10.079 the studio during the PGT. Finally, the twenty five K 793 00:39:11.239 --> 00:39:14.119 that had a total of sixty eight entrance. That is 794 00:39:14.159 --> 00:39:17.440 the third biggest twenty five K held in the studio. 795 00:39:17.440 --> 00:39:20.320 These are all no limit numbers. Now, crazy thing is 796 00:39:20.840 --> 00:39:25.079 sixty eight entrance. The next two best was sixty nine 797 00:39:25.199 --> 00:39:28.559 entrants each. Here's the thing. I can call these people out. 798 00:39:28.599 --> 00:39:30.159 Now we've already called some people, are going to call 799 00:39:30.199 --> 00:39:32.320 more people out. Our boss carry Kats. 800 00:39:32.679 --> 00:39:35.079 Wait, wait, before you get into this, I would just 801 00:39:35.159 --> 00:39:36.800 like to make it clear and put it on record 802 00:39:36.800 --> 00:39:39.639 that Tim is the one point out and Donnie is 803 00:39:39.679 --> 00:39:40.159 not doing. 804 00:39:41.760 --> 00:39:45.559 Go ahead, our bus carry Kats, our other Lord and savior, 805 00:39:45.639 --> 00:39:51.639 Daniel Negrando, Dan Shack, Chris Brewer, China Reim. That's five 806 00:39:51.679 --> 00:39:55.480 people that are good for at least sometimes max bullets. 807 00:39:55.519 --> 00:39:58.320 But just let's give him just one bullet. Let's say 808 00:39:58.320 --> 00:40:00.440 they ran good and we're on there. Let's five people 809 00:40:00.480 --> 00:40:03.760 missing from the twenty five K that would have put 810 00:40:03.880 --> 00:40:09.400 us to seventy three entrants munimum, which would have been 811 00:40:09.440 --> 00:40:12.239 the biggest twenty five K. No lemon hold him event 812 00:40:12.239 --> 00:40:15.320 in the studio, Now, I get it. Chris Brewery, he's 813 00:40:15.480 --> 00:40:19.519 running an off in ban for something. Gino playing table 814 00:40:19.559 --> 00:40:24.079 one cash games, Daniel. I know you're often Counteda playing 815 00:40:24.119 --> 00:40:26.960 pool and GG poker, cool Carrie and Dan who knows 816 00:40:27.000 --> 00:40:27.480 what you're doing. 817 00:40:27.800 --> 00:40:31.800 But just saying, well, Daniel Legrony makes sense to me, 818 00:40:31.880 --> 00:40:36.239 and he makes sense because the series wasn't going that 819 00:40:36.320 --> 00:40:41.000 well for him, so there was no Purple Jacket implications 820 00:40:41.000 --> 00:40:43.000 for him to come in and you know, even rip 821 00:40:43.000 --> 00:40:44.719 off a win in the twenty five K. 822 00:40:44.440 --> 00:40:47.039 I think I think he skipped a finale once. 823 00:40:47.880 --> 00:40:50.519 Yeah, but if Daniel, if he even had a shot 824 00:40:50.599 --> 00:40:52.639 to win and win the Purple Jacket, I think he 825 00:40:52.679 --> 00:40:56.079 would have been in there. But that also comes in 826 00:40:56.199 --> 00:40:59.159 tandem with the fact that he's sitting pretty on the 827 00:40:59.159 --> 00:41:01.880 PGT leader he's currently fifth and we'll talk. 828 00:41:01.760 --> 00:41:03.559 On us a little bit later point stuff and not 829 00:41:03.559 --> 00:41:04.039 showing up. 830 00:41:05.320 --> 00:41:08.920 But I'm saying like he's he's in an extremely comfortable 831 00:41:08.920 --> 00:41:11.360 position and is never gonna fall outside the top at 832 00:41:11.440 --> 00:41:14.400 least I think it's no. But I'm saying that. But 833 00:41:14.480 --> 00:41:17.880 I'm saying if he's if he's like outside the top forty, 834 00:41:17.920 --> 00:41:20.719 if he's like forty six, maybe if he does say Okay, 835 00:41:20.719 --> 00:41:22.920 I'm gonna play the twenty five K. But that's that's 836 00:41:22.960 --> 00:41:27.199 also why I'm so surprised that Carrie skips because because 837 00:41:27.199 --> 00:41:30.280 he's outside the top forty and we know that, we 838 00:41:30.480 --> 00:41:32.079 know that he you know, he told us he might 839 00:41:32.079 --> 00:41:34.639 be missing the PLO series, et cetera, you know, due 840 00:41:34.679 --> 00:41:39.039 to some travel. So it's like, well, there's like you're 841 00:41:39.119 --> 00:41:41.559 running out of PGT events. I mean like at some point, 842 00:41:41.880 --> 00:41:44.239 at some point it just becomes a volume game that 843 00:41:44.280 --> 00:41:46.440 you just have to play and try and get the 844 00:41:46.519 --> 00:41:49.599 cashes right, So, I mean, and then also like, yeah, 845 00:41:49.760 --> 00:41:51.760 for some people they can, like for Daniel, you might 846 00:41:51.800 --> 00:41:54.239 say like, well, you know, points do equal starting hips, 847 00:41:54.239 --> 00:41:56.119 so the more points you get, the more starting tips 848 00:41:56.159 --> 00:41:59.760 you have in the PGT Championship. Yes, but Daniel also 849 00:42:00.079 --> 00:42:03.000 him into the year quality over quantity, so he's like 850 00:42:03.039 --> 00:42:06.280 an understandable one. For me, Carrie is less understandable because 851 00:42:06.280 --> 00:42:07.880 I'm like, you got to get the point. 852 00:42:08.000 --> 00:42:08.760 That's a good question. 853 00:42:09.719 --> 00:42:13.840 I think he's kind of around oh, he's sixteen, so yeah, 854 00:42:13.880 --> 00:42:18.079 So anyone that's like, you know, within striking distance of 855 00:42:18.119 --> 00:42:20.239 the top forty and you know, I would assume would 856 00:42:20.239 --> 00:42:24.000 have also played the twenty five K. Coupled with the 857 00:42:24.039 --> 00:42:28.000 fact that this twenty five K was large, it's not like, 858 00:42:28.079 --> 00:42:29.880 you know, you're rocking up to play a twenty person 859 00:42:29.960 --> 00:42:32.239 twenty five K. No, there was sixty eight entries, so 860 00:42:32.480 --> 00:42:34.599 and you also had you had a bunch of like 861 00:42:34.679 --> 00:42:36.920 first timers in there. The two that stick out to me, 862 00:42:37.079 --> 00:42:39.320 Jeremy Becker and David Chen, you know, because they were 863 00:42:39.320 --> 00:42:41.079 in the running for the jacket, like they were going 864 00:42:41.159 --> 00:42:44.800 to play. You know, Nick Seward was he talked about 865 00:42:44.800 --> 00:42:46.639 how he was gonna play the twenty five K and 866 00:42:46.679 --> 00:42:49.039 it would have been his first twenty five K ever ever, 867 00:42:49.119 --> 00:42:51.480 excuse me, had he been in the running for the jacket, 868 00:42:51.480 --> 00:42:53.760 but he deemed that he was probably gonna get ruled out, 869 00:42:53.800 --> 00:42:55.960 so he didn't. But if he had like cash the 870 00:42:55.960 --> 00:42:58.239 fifteen k or something like that, you know, or had 871 00:42:58.280 --> 00:43:00.440 a little bit of a better finish, then he probably 872 00:43:00.440 --> 00:43:03.239 in there as well. So so yeah, I don't know, 873 00:43:03.400 --> 00:43:06.559 I'm just I'm not surprised with Daniel. I am surprised 874 00:43:06.599 --> 00:43:08.880 that that carry. And and then also Dan Shack missed. 875 00:43:09.920 --> 00:43:11.519 Yeah, well I'm calling you guys out. You should have 876 00:43:11.519 --> 00:43:14.400 all played no more. It's not even the fact that 877 00:43:14.440 --> 00:43:16.760 they didn't play, get they all have excuses. It's at 878 00:43:16.760 --> 00:43:18.119 the end of the day, it's all their money, their 879 00:43:18.159 --> 00:43:19.719 own money. This is the fact that we were so 880 00:43:19.920 --> 00:43:22.840 we're just literally one person off tying the record and 881 00:43:22.880 --> 00:43:23.280 two people. 882 00:43:23.760 --> 00:43:24.599 You could have bought it. 883 00:43:24.639 --> 00:43:27.000 I'm very you could have bought it if I could 884 00:43:27.039 --> 00:43:27.480 expense it. 885 00:43:27.519 --> 00:43:29.239 You're the one who runs around the studio while day 886 00:43:29.920 --> 00:43:32.480 being like mister financed finance, a. 887 00:43:32.480 --> 00:43:34.639 Good financial decision not to play when you're as bad 888 00:43:34.639 --> 00:43:34.920 as you. 889 00:43:34.880 --> 00:43:37.559 Could have got in there. You could have maxilate right 890 00:43:38.239 --> 00:43:41.440 and just knitted it up to a cash Sean winterstyle, 891 00:43:41.559 --> 00:43:42.639 three big blinds get in. 892 00:43:44.440 --> 00:43:46.760 But either way, yeah, one off tying the record, two 893 00:43:46.760 --> 00:43:49.119 off setting a new record. But this is all good 894 00:43:49.159 --> 00:43:53.400 stuff for the PGT. We're growing, we're expanding, We're doing 895 00:43:53.440 --> 00:43:55.480 what we can to to put on a good product 896 00:43:55.519 --> 00:43:57.719 for you know, the players, and that's all that matters. 897 00:43:57.719 --> 00:44:02.719 I think, speaking of the players, this just want to 898 00:44:02.719 --> 00:44:04.960 touch on this, this fifty thousand dollars side bed, which 899 00:44:04.960 --> 00:44:09.000 I just thought was a fun little, you know, storyline 900 00:44:09.039 --> 00:44:11.320 within it all. I think there was seven players involved, 901 00:44:11.840 --> 00:44:14.880 maybe six, I can't remember. I remember Texas Mike Michael 902 00:44:14.920 --> 00:44:17.000 Monsek saying that he got in, but he got in 903 00:44:17.480 --> 00:44:21.000 for event number two because he skipped event number one, 904 00:44:21.280 --> 00:44:25.880 but it's it's it's fun to me. It's entertaining that, 905 00:44:26.119 --> 00:44:30.880 you know, these series and the PGT have become meaningful 906 00:44:31.000 --> 00:44:33.199 enough that these guys are now doing like a fifty 907 00:44:33.199 --> 00:44:36.360 thousand dollars per person must win side bet. Like that's 908 00:44:36.519 --> 00:44:38.480 just interesting and that's kind of why I wanted to 909 00:44:39.079 --> 00:44:41.960 bring it up. Some honorable mentions. I mean, obviously Jim 910 00:44:42.000 --> 00:44:45.440 Collape winning is the headliner here, of course, but just 911 00:44:45.440 --> 00:44:47.079 just some other things that that came out of the 912 00:44:47.119 --> 00:44:50.400 series that I think are worth talking about. Two satellite 913 00:44:50.400 --> 00:44:53.039 winners heads up in the first event, Champlain winning Railing second. 914 00:44:53.079 --> 00:44:54.800 You know, we talked about that already, but just want 915 00:44:54.840 --> 00:44:57.360 to bring that home that, you know, once again, when 916 00:44:57.360 --> 00:45:00.719 we have these satellites ahead of the big made your series, 917 00:45:01.440 --> 00:45:03.239 you can get in there. You can play at Aria, 918 00:45:03.320 --> 00:45:06.119 you can turn five sixty into a five K and 919 00:45:06.440 --> 00:45:09.159 go from there. Tim and I talked at length about 920 00:45:09.159 --> 00:45:13.800 the great turnout across the events. Awesome to see breakout 921 00:45:13.840 --> 00:45:16.840 win for breakout, high stakes win for Becker, and he 922 00:45:16.880 --> 00:45:19.800 also challenged for the Lead award. Playing his first twenty 923 00:45:19.840 --> 00:45:24.000 five K. Nick Sewart, his year continues to be hot. 924 00:45:24.000 --> 00:45:27.440 He had five cashes and two final tables. At the 925 00:45:27.480 --> 00:45:31.320 twenty twenty four Poker Masters he cashed four of the 926 00:45:31.360 --> 00:45:35.239 first five events. You know, he won. He wont to bracelet. 927 00:45:35.280 --> 00:45:37.559 Over the summer, I think he took the three K 928 00:45:37.679 --> 00:45:40.880 six Max Nolan hold him down for five hundred and something. K. 929 00:45:41.920 --> 00:45:45.920 Had some success recently down in Florida at Seminole, won 930 00:45:46.000 --> 00:45:48.519 a couple of events there, took fourth place and another one. 931 00:45:49.159 --> 00:45:50.840 Walked out of there with a lot of prize money 932 00:45:50.880 --> 00:45:53.440 and then brings it to the studio for Poker Masters 933 00:45:53.480 --> 00:45:56.239 and does very well. And you know, he's someone who 934 00:45:57.480 --> 00:45:59.519 maybe he took a shot here and there in some 935 00:45:59.559 --> 00:46:02.760 five K before. But I think we're now going to 936 00:46:02.840 --> 00:46:06.400 see a bit more of Nicholas Seward at the Poker 937 00:46:06.400 --> 00:46:09.000 gro studio. And he's he's pretty young. He's in his twenties, 938 00:46:09.000 --> 00:46:12.320 I believe early twenties. So be on the lookout for 939 00:46:12.480 --> 00:46:14.920 Nicholas Seward. And then you know, we talked about the 940 00:46:14.960 --> 00:46:18.639 players like missing the twenty five K just overall quiet 941 00:46:18.679 --> 00:46:22.440 series from the Grandeux, from Carrie Katz, Jesse Lonis, Alex Foxen. 942 00:46:23.000 --> 00:46:25.960 You know, based on what we normally see from these players, 943 00:46:26.760 --> 00:46:29.280 they really didn't make that much noise at all. They 944 00:46:29.360 --> 00:46:33.320 combined between these four for six cashes for two hundred 945 00:46:33.360 --> 00:46:38.679 thousand dollars, which again for them, that's pretty low. You know, 946 00:46:38.719 --> 00:46:42.159 I think Foxin, I think it was Foxen had three 947 00:46:42.239 --> 00:46:46.639 cashes and the other three had one cash each, So 948 00:46:46.920 --> 00:46:48.840 you know, and and Foxen's cash is I mean, you 949 00:46:48.840 --> 00:46:51.519 could tell, like just watching him on the streams, he 950 00:46:51.599 --> 00:46:53.880 was just kind of frustrated, it seemed, with how the 951 00:46:53.920 --> 00:46:56.920 series was going, you know, just really couldn't get anything happening. 952 00:46:57.800 --> 00:46:59.800 Things didn't work out in his favor, et cetera. So 953 00:47:01.519 --> 00:47:03.519 those guys a little bit down right now, but you know, 954 00:47:03.599 --> 00:47:08.199 we'll obviously see big things from them going forward. As 955 00:47:08.199 --> 00:47:12.000 it pertains to the PGT leaderboard, got Jeremy Osmas still 956 00:47:12.079 --> 00:47:15.159 up on top twenty one cases. He does have zero wins, 957 00:47:15.159 --> 00:47:17.360 but twenty one cashes is a crap ton of cashes, 958 00:47:17.400 --> 00:47:20.199 twenty three hundred and sixty nine points, which puts him 959 00:47:20.679 --> 00:47:23.599 five hundred and thirty four points ahead of Michael Rocco, 960 00:47:23.639 --> 00:47:27.880 who is in second place. Jim Collipy he jumped up 961 00:47:27.920 --> 00:47:32.119 into seventh. He's got fifteen hundred and seventy four points. 962 00:47:32.880 --> 00:47:36.400 He's now very comfortable compared to last year. He went 963 00:47:36.719 --> 00:47:39.559 from this series before the Pokemaster started, he was twenty ninth. 964 00:47:39.599 --> 00:47:41.960 He jumped up into seventh. You know, last year, Tim 965 00:47:42.000 --> 00:47:44.159 and I already mentioned it, but he was that the 966 00:47:44.199 --> 00:47:47.440 final event, the final series PGT Last Chance, he was 967 00:47:47.599 --> 00:47:50.480 sweating at the bar whether or not certain things would 968 00:47:50.480 --> 00:47:52.159 break his way that he could get in the top 969 00:47:52.199 --> 00:47:55.159 forty and then get into the PGT Championship. This year, 970 00:47:55.280 --> 00:47:58.800 it feels like he is guaranteed to make it, I mean, 971 00:47:59.199 --> 00:48:03.599 minus a miracle, so he's very comfortable. My question to you, 972 00:48:04.800 --> 00:48:08.800 we know immediately coming up we have the PGT PLO series. 973 00:48:08.840 --> 00:48:11.800 We got super high rollable PLO. I know you worked 974 00:48:11.840 --> 00:48:14.559 with Champions Club on a PLO series that's happening down there. 975 00:48:14.599 --> 00:48:17.360 We know Collaby can play PLO in addition to Nola 976 00:48:17.440 --> 00:48:21.519 at Hold Them. Could he challenge Jeremy Osmas for the 977 00:48:21.559 --> 00:48:22.480 POY title? 978 00:48:23.039 --> 00:48:27.599 I think he could, But the question is will he 979 00:48:28.679 --> 00:48:32.599 really try to because you know, I would say he's 980 00:48:32.639 --> 00:48:36.920 fairly safe position wise to make the championship. Does he 981 00:48:37.480 --> 00:48:39.360 turn down his volume like he's probably gonna play the 982 00:48:39.400 --> 00:48:42.800 PLO series? But I'm talking more, you know, whatever other 983 00:48:42.880 --> 00:48:45.360 series we do if we if we have this bounty series, 984 00:48:45.440 --> 00:48:48.480 you know, we do have Last Chance on the eve of. 985 00:48:48.920 --> 00:48:51.239 You know, to end the season, Like he could just 986 00:48:51.280 --> 00:48:52.079 skip those Did. 987 00:48:51.960 --> 00:48:54.360 He played Did he played Super High Rollable PLO last year? 988 00:48:54.400 --> 00:48:56.559 No? I don't think he did, so I could see 989 00:48:56.639 --> 00:48:59.000 him skipping the Last Chance if he's if he's pretty 990 00:48:59.000 --> 00:49:05.199 comfortably in so I think maybe he technically could compete 991 00:49:05.400 --> 00:49:08.440 and take on Jeremy, but I feel like he's, if anything, 992 00:49:08.440 --> 00:49:10.880 he's probably going to wind down his volume at the 993 00:49:10.960 --> 00:49:13.079 end of the season, especially with those no limit hold 994 00:49:13.159 --> 00:49:16.400 the events. And you know what, Jeremy's got a pretty 995 00:49:16.440 --> 00:49:19.280 impressive lead right now, and Michael Rocco, who you know, 996 00:49:19.800 --> 00:49:22.519 we'll see if he shows up for anything soon. He 997 00:49:22.559 --> 00:49:26.320 could also take his foot off the gas come Last Chance. 998 00:49:26.840 --> 00:49:29.360 If he's got a four hundred point lead, five hundred 999 00:49:29.360 --> 00:49:32.280 point lead over whoever's second at that point, he might 1000 00:49:32.320 --> 00:49:35.320 just skip that series and spend some time with family. 1001 00:49:35.400 --> 00:49:37.440 So it's very Do you. 1002 00:49:37.320 --> 00:49:39.880 Think Jeremy Osms has taken time off if? 1003 00:49:40.039 --> 00:49:43.599 Yes, many people, Yeah, yeah, I think he could. He 1004 00:49:43.639 --> 00:49:47.960 could definitely do that, especially I'm talking specifically PGT Last Chance, 1005 00:49:48.280 --> 00:49:51.440 you know where it's January tewcond to seventh ish it's 1006 00:49:51.559 --> 00:49:53.960 you know, all ten k no limit hold on events. 1007 00:49:54.199 --> 00:49:54.679 He's got his. 1008 00:49:55.199 --> 00:49:58.119 He can't do much to improve on his on his 1009 00:49:58.599 --> 00:50:02.159 standings both the lead aboard now if he's gunning for 1010 00:50:02.199 --> 00:50:04.800 some GPI, if he's gunning for something else. 1011 00:50:04.679 --> 00:50:09.199 More chips, Well, because you don't come in ce you 1012 00:50:09.280 --> 00:50:10.199 come in, haven't played. 1013 00:50:10.199 --> 00:50:12.920 Some have the same chips. Remember, we may be changing it. 1014 00:50:13.159 --> 00:50:15.960 I'm looking at it this week. The chips might be 1015 00:50:16.039 --> 00:50:18.920 locked to position. So it doesn't matter how many points 1016 00:50:18.960 --> 00:50:21.679 you have in first. If you're first, you have you know. 1017 00:50:21.960 --> 00:50:25.880 It disadvantages Jeremy, but it advantages the people in those 1018 00:50:25.920 --> 00:50:29.000 mid twenties thirties to try and ladder up a few 1019 00:50:29.000 --> 00:50:33.639 extra spots to gain some big blinds. So we'll say 1020 00:50:33.639 --> 00:50:36.000 I haven't really locked anything yet, but that's the current 1021 00:50:36.119 --> 00:50:36.800 tentative plan. 1022 00:50:37.480 --> 00:50:40.599 Some other movers on the PGT leaderboard, Jesse Lonas went 1023 00:50:40.599 --> 00:50:44.320 from fourth to third. Aromzovian went from seventh to sixth. 1024 00:50:44.519 --> 00:50:47.679 Kristen Foxen, who started the year heart slipped outside of 1025 00:50:47.679 --> 00:50:50.159 the top ten, is back into the top ten. She 1026 00:50:50.199 --> 00:50:54.679 went twelfth to tenth, moving into the top forty. The 1027 00:50:54.719 --> 00:50:56.920 top forty. Of course we always reference that, and just 1028 00:50:56.960 --> 00:50:59.320 so if you are unaware, the top forty is important 1029 00:50:59.320 --> 00:51:02.239 because the top forty players on the leaderboard, as long 1030 00:51:02.280 --> 00:51:06.079 as you have three cashes at least, then you qualify 1031 00:51:06.239 --> 00:51:09.519 for the season ending PGT Championship Million Dollar Free role, 1032 00:51:09.559 --> 00:51:13.199 which I have now renamed the PGT Million Dollar Championship. Okay, 1033 00:51:13.400 --> 00:51:16.880 So moving into the top forty, Ben Tolleran climbs into 1034 00:51:16.920 --> 00:51:19.960 thirty third, Shawn Winter gets into thirty seventh, Ren Lynn 1035 00:51:20.119 --> 00:51:23.840 into thirty eighth, Jonathan Little and thirty ninth, and then 1036 00:51:23.960 --> 00:51:26.280 falling out of the top forty because if you have 1037 00:51:26.360 --> 00:51:30.800 four additions, you're gonna have four subtractions. Joshua Adkins falls 1038 00:51:30.800 --> 00:51:34.400 to forty first, Steven Chidwick falls to forty second, Breschkuten 1039 00:51:35.039 --> 00:51:39.559 falls to forty fourth, and David Eldridge drops to forty fifth. 1040 00:51:40.000 --> 00:51:44.000 Most notably there would be Chidwick. He's somebody you could 1041 00:51:44.039 --> 00:51:46.480 probably always bet on being in the top ten of 1042 00:51:46.519 --> 00:51:50.320 the PGT leader board. So he's going through a bit 1043 00:51:50.360 --> 00:51:53.400 of a relocation right now. So he did skip Masters, 1044 00:51:53.440 --> 00:51:57.159 but I would anticipate we see him for some of 1045 00:51:57.199 --> 00:52:00.559 the other stuff we have going on, and then we'll obviously, 1046 00:52:00.639 --> 00:52:02.679 if you know Childwick's good enough, he's gonna put in 1047 00:52:02.719 --> 00:52:04.559 the volume. You know, it's just just a matter of 1048 00:52:05.440 --> 00:52:07.360 if he's here playing then then he'll get in. So 1049 00:52:08.400 --> 00:52:10.639 we'll see how that goes. And then we do have 1050 00:52:10.719 --> 00:52:14.119 some some players who are still outside of the top forty, 1051 00:52:14.119 --> 00:52:18.360 but did climb very nicely with some results from the 1052 00:52:18.400 --> 00:52:21.079 Poker Masters where they are very much now within striking 1053 00:52:21.119 --> 00:52:24.559 distance of that top forty. Taylor von Kriegenberg, he showed 1054 00:52:24.639 --> 00:52:28.079 up played only the twenty five k right at Poker Masters, 1055 00:52:28.239 --> 00:52:31.400 but he got second, so he climbs to forty third. 1056 00:52:31.800 --> 00:52:35.000 Brock Wilson moved up to forty eighth, Justin Zaki climbed 1057 00:52:35.079 --> 00:52:38.719 to fifty first, Jeremy Becker is now fifty fourth, and 1058 00:52:38.800 --> 00:52:43.559 Michael Manchek aka Texas Mike is now fifty ninth. For you, sir, 1059 00:52:44.119 --> 00:52:47.360 my question, okay, and it might be some people you 1060 00:52:47.559 --> 00:52:49.760 have already mentioned on this podcast, but who are your 1061 00:52:49.800 --> 00:52:54.239 biggest surprises sitting outside the top forty as things stand 1062 00:52:54.320 --> 00:52:54.960 right now. 1063 00:52:54.840 --> 00:52:58.079 I guess Steven Chidwick's obviously the big one skipping poke masts. 1064 00:52:58.519 --> 00:53:00.559 I think he may have skipped a cup this other 1065 00:53:00.599 --> 00:53:04.840 year too, with visa issues with relocation issues. 1066 00:53:04.880 --> 00:53:07.079 So that's I guess that's a big one to me. 1067 00:53:07.960 --> 00:53:11.840 You know, I'd also say Alex Fox and Dan Chak, 1068 00:53:12.280 --> 00:53:16.679 Carry Kat Sam Several, Isaac Hackson, Lucky Cheery, Cris Brewer, 1069 00:53:16.760 --> 00:53:21.360 these guys that put in pretty heavy volume in the studio. 1070 00:53:21.519 --> 00:53:24.000 You know, things are just not breaking their way on 1071 00:53:24.079 --> 00:53:26.760 the PGT right now. But there's still a lot of time, 1072 00:53:28.480 --> 00:53:30.480 so we still have you know, they still have a chance. 1073 00:53:30.679 --> 00:53:32.719 I do want to mention, though you mentioned the top forty, 1074 00:53:33.599 --> 00:53:35.000 we do have a new rule this year. You have 1075 00:53:35.039 --> 00:53:39.559 to have three PGT cashes this season. Okay, so if 1076 00:53:39.599 --> 00:53:41.320 we look at the leaderboard, we take out some of 1077 00:53:41.360 --> 00:53:44.000 these people that only have two or one cash. Now, 1078 00:53:44.000 --> 00:53:47.239 I know, you know, for example, Jonathan Tomao World Champ 1079 00:53:47.320 --> 00:53:50.840 has two cashes. He will be in Texas. He already 1080 00:53:50.920 --> 00:53:53.320 understands the rules. He's going to be coming at one 1081 00:53:53.320 --> 00:53:56.440 point to try and get that extra cash. But if 1082 00:53:56.480 --> 00:53:58.599 we rule out, if we locked it right now, let's 1083 00:53:58.639 --> 00:54:01.800 pretend it's January. We get rid of everyone with one 1084 00:54:01.880 --> 00:54:03.920 or two cashes, and I'll tell you the guys that 1085 00:54:04.000 --> 00:54:07.440 jump back into the qualification. Steven Chidwick, he's in Taylor, 1086 00:54:07.880 --> 00:54:12.400 Wan Kregenberg, In breck In Brock Wilson, Samoulei Sapilia, Justin Zaki, 1087 00:54:12.519 --> 00:54:16.320 Jeremy Becker, Joey Weisman, Monald Kajo, Michael Munchak, Sam Lasquitz 1088 00:54:16.400 --> 00:54:19.960 or are in the top forty under the new rules. Obviously, 1089 00:54:20.000 --> 00:54:23.360 we have another thirty events to go PLO series, the 1090 00:54:23.360 --> 00:54:26.079 PLO Series in Texas some no limit hold them stuff, 1091 00:54:26.119 --> 00:54:28.599 so you know there's going to be some there's some 1092 00:54:28.679 --> 00:54:30.639 definitely going to be some changes. I know for a fact, 1093 00:54:30.719 --> 00:54:34.760 Joshua Adkins, who's currently forty first Big PLO Player, is 1094 00:54:34.840 --> 00:54:38.159 aware of the PLO Series. It's David Eldridge, forty fifth 1095 00:54:38.199 --> 00:54:41.679 Big PLO Player, also aware of the PLO Series. They 1096 00:54:41.679 --> 00:54:44.199 both have one cash. They're sitting just outside the top forty. 1097 00:54:44.760 --> 00:54:47.960 Hopefully they come to the PLO Series, get their way 1098 00:54:47.960 --> 00:54:50.559 in and maybe push some some of the people out 1099 00:54:50.599 --> 00:54:52.519 that are just kind of sitting on that fringe. So 1100 00:54:54.400 --> 00:54:56.760 I do like this top three cash rule does open 1101 00:54:56.800 --> 00:54:58.920 it up more. You know, we're looking at Sam Laskowitz's 1102 00:54:58.960 --> 00:55:00.000 in he's currently sixtieth. 1103 00:55:00.519 --> 00:55:04.679 Sorry, yeah, and there are some people within the top 1104 00:55:04.719 --> 00:55:09.079 forty who don't meet that qualification yet. But I think 1105 00:55:09.199 --> 00:55:12.159 would well, he'll be favorites to meet it just just 1106 00:55:12.559 --> 00:55:14.519 talking with them and knowing that they're going to be 1107 00:55:14.519 --> 00:55:16.840 playing stuff. You mentioned Jonathan Tomile, you know he's got 1108 00:55:16.840 --> 00:55:20.280 two so he needs another one. But but he's aware, 1109 00:55:20.400 --> 00:55:22.840 as you said, I know, Brian Kim is aware. He's 1110 00:55:22.840 --> 00:55:27.400 also got two cashes. You know, he's been sending some 1111 00:55:27.440 --> 00:55:29.519 messages being like, hey, you know, when's this, when's this, 1112 00:55:29.639 --> 00:55:32.039 and you know, I'm looking for my third cash, et cetera. 1113 00:55:32.159 --> 00:55:34.239 So he's someone Matthew lemb. 1114 00:55:34.199 --> 00:55:36.360 Yeah, I was gonna say he played I think six 1115 00:55:36.400 --> 00:55:39.679 of the Polo the Masters events, Pucker Masa's events, didn't 1116 00:55:39.679 --> 00:55:42.239 get a cash, but he knows what he knows he 1117 00:55:42.280 --> 00:55:45.320 needs one more so he was trying maybe. 1118 00:55:45.440 --> 00:55:47.719 Yeah, And some of these other guys are just they're 1119 00:55:47.760 --> 00:55:52.400 PLO guys, you know, So I would like Elie Nakash. 1120 00:55:52.440 --> 00:55:56.280 He's a PLO guy, right, So you know PLO series 1121 00:55:56.320 --> 00:55:59.320 coming up, Super high Rollable PLO, the Texas PLO series, 1122 00:55:59.360 --> 00:56:02.360 so like you know, they can just you know, rip 1123 00:56:02.400 --> 00:56:04.679 off a cash or two in that sort of stuff 1124 00:56:04.679 --> 00:56:06.280 if they're playing that sort of stuff and then they're 1125 00:56:06.320 --> 00:56:10.079 in right, So so yeah, so it's it's going to 1126 00:56:10.159 --> 00:56:12.960 be interesting to see how it all shakes out overall. 1127 00:56:13.719 --> 00:56:15.719 I mean, I'm looking forward to it. You had most 1128 00:56:15.719 --> 00:56:17.599 of the people I put down nine names that I 1129 00:56:17.679 --> 00:56:20.519 was surprised or outside the top forty. You mentioned Chidwick, 1130 00:56:20.559 --> 00:56:23.760 You mentioned Fox, and you mentioned Soball, you mentioned Hackston. 1131 00:56:23.800 --> 00:56:28.119 I think Liechtenberger, Chris Brewer, Carrie Katz the two that 1132 00:56:28.199 --> 00:56:30.880 I had that you didn't mention Eric Sidel sixty fifth. 1133 00:56:31.519 --> 00:56:33.519 I know he doesn't put in like the most volume 1134 00:56:33.559 --> 00:56:36.480 on the PGT, but he always seems to perform very well. 1135 00:56:36.639 --> 00:56:38.760 So and we obviously know Eric's Sidel is very good. 1136 00:56:38.960 --> 00:56:40.880 The guy's a legend, so I'm just kind of surprised 1137 00:56:40.920 --> 00:56:44.360 to see him outside the top the top forty. He's 1138 00:56:44.400 --> 00:56:47.800 currently sixty fifth. And then Victoria Livshitz, who has put 1139 00:56:47.800 --> 00:56:49.960 in the volume and does have you know, a handful 1140 00:56:50.000 --> 00:56:53.360 of results, but not the biggest results, right, Like she 1141 00:56:53.440 --> 00:56:56.159 won an event, but it was during the PGT Texas 1142 00:56:56.159 --> 00:56:58.440 poke Ropen, so not the biggest or not the most 1143 00:56:58.440 --> 00:57:00.559 amount of points, so stuff like that, you know, but 1144 00:57:01.840 --> 00:57:04.079 like she made the final table of the twenty five 1145 00:57:04.159 --> 00:57:06.519 k to wrap up Poker Masters. She had some results 1146 00:57:06.519 --> 00:57:09.559 there like she's she's performing well, she's putting in the volume. 1147 00:57:09.679 --> 00:57:12.199 She just needs to kind of you know, for her, 1148 00:57:12.239 --> 00:57:13.800 I guess it's gonna be it's gonna be one of 1149 00:57:13.800 --> 00:57:16.280 two things. Either she's gonna find a big win somehow, 1150 00:57:16.320 --> 00:57:18.280 some way, right, like she's gonna show up to I 1151 00:57:18.280 --> 00:57:20.760 don't know. Maybe it's the Bounty Series, Maybe it's Last Chance. 1152 00:57:21.119 --> 00:57:24.800 Maybe she plays the NAPT Super high Roller, which does count. 1153 00:57:24.800 --> 00:57:26.159 We're going to talk about that in a second, but 1154 00:57:26.519 --> 00:57:28.760 you know, and maybe she gets a first second or 1155 00:57:28.800 --> 00:57:31.280 a third in something there and like she gets the 1156 00:57:31.280 --> 00:57:33.760 big point toll that she needs, or for her, it's 1157 00:57:33.800 --> 00:57:35.760 just going to be a volume game, right, you know, 1158 00:57:35.800 --> 00:57:38.760 she's going to have five to ten more cases and 1159 00:57:38.800 --> 00:57:40.960 just add up the points and then get in that way. 1160 00:57:41.039 --> 00:57:44.960 So I would expect you see a fair amount of 1161 00:57:45.000 --> 00:57:47.480 these these players get into the top forty. But but 1162 00:57:47.599 --> 00:57:49.800 of course, you know, you never know at the end 1163 00:57:49.800 --> 00:57:52.360 of the day. So you know, as always, Tim and 1164 00:57:52.360 --> 00:57:55.280 I will keep an eye on that. And then I 1165 00:57:55.280 --> 00:58:01.400 did tease it the NAPT Las Vegas turning to Resorts World. 1166 00:58:01.480 --> 00:58:04.719 So the twenty twenty four Poker Masters had a partnership 1167 00:58:04.719 --> 00:58:07.320 this year has a partnership this year where it's presented 1168 00:58:07.360 --> 00:58:12.320 by the Poker Stars NAPT That allowed for the winner 1169 00:58:12.360 --> 00:58:14.639 of the Poker Masters and that is Jim Collopy. He 1170 00:58:14.760 --> 00:58:18.079 picked up a gold pass which was again valued at 1171 00:58:18.119 --> 00:58:20.400 ten thousand dollars. It includes a fifty three hundred dollars 1172 00:58:20.400 --> 00:58:23.559 buy in to the napt Las Vegas Main Event, up 1173 00:58:23.639 --> 00:58:26.159 to seven nights of a hotel accommodations at Resorts World, 1174 00:58:26.199 --> 00:58:28.920 and then eighteen hundred dollars in expense money. So Collopy 1175 00:58:29.079 --> 00:58:31.679 was able to pick that up in addition to the 1176 00:58:31.679 --> 00:58:36.239 Purple Jacket and the twenty five KPGT passport bonus. November 1177 00:58:36.239 --> 00:58:40.079 one through tenth at Resorts World is when napt Las 1178 00:58:40.199 --> 00:58:43.760 Vegas returns. I'm a fan of the time slot much 1179 00:58:43.800 --> 00:58:46.639 earlier than f one, which the construction has started. It's 1180 00:58:46.639 --> 00:58:48.280 a bit of a mess out there. It's a bit 1181 00:58:48.320 --> 00:58:50.840 of a mess out there on this Vegas strip. This 1182 00:58:50.960 --> 00:58:53.960 year's buying for the napt Las Vegas Main Event fifty 1183 00:58:54.000 --> 00:58:56.519 three hundred dollars. Last year, Remember Tim and I had 1184 00:58:56.519 --> 00:58:59.280 a lot of thoughts on this. Sixteen hundred and fifty 1185 00:58:59.519 --> 00:59:01.880 was the buy I had a one point five million 1186 00:59:01.880 --> 00:59:06.840 dollar guarantee, so big increase very much in line with 1187 00:59:06.840 --> 00:59:09.440 with two things. One, it's in line with what the 1188 00:59:09.480 --> 00:59:12.159 old NAPT used to do, you know, before it went 1189 00:59:12.159 --> 00:59:15.159 away for several years. And it's also in line with 1190 00:59:15.440 --> 00:59:18.079 the EPT you know, fifty three hundred dollars like that's 1191 00:59:18.119 --> 00:59:21.199 right in line. The guarantee doubled from fifteen hundred up 1192 00:59:21.239 --> 00:59:25.039 to three million dollars. What are your thoughts on the 1193 00:59:25.039 --> 00:59:28.199 buying going up and the guarantee now being three mil. 1194 00:59:28.960 --> 00:59:31.440 I think that you know, you're the biggest advocate for 1195 00:59:31.480 --> 00:59:36.320 the five K buying price point, and I think there's. 1196 00:59:36.119 --> 00:59:38.679 Just a void. There's a void there in the US market. 1197 00:59:38.800 --> 00:59:42.239 I will I will die on this hill, even though 1198 00:59:42.280 --> 00:59:44.599 many people disagree with me. Some people say, you know, 1199 00:59:44.960 --> 00:59:47.280 thirty five hundred dollars is the correct price point? Whatever, 1200 00:59:47.360 --> 00:59:50.079 I think the five K there is a market for this, 1201 00:59:51.119 --> 00:59:53.079 and maybe the PGT should be involved. 1202 00:59:53.159 --> 00:59:55.639 But this is definitely a market because you've got people 1203 00:59:55.679 --> 00:59:58.320 that play you know, fifteen hundreds, et cetera, that can 1204 00:59:58.320 --> 01:00:00.599 take that would take a shot, you know, the three K. 1205 01:00:00.800 --> 01:00:03.840 There's not much difference for people that play the highest 1206 01:00:03.840 --> 01:00:06.679 off the ten k's five K is I step down, 1207 01:00:06.840 --> 01:00:11.280 but there's bigger fields bigger value there, so I think 1208 01:00:11.280 --> 01:00:13.920 it is a good price point. It's perfect for this event. 1209 01:00:15.519 --> 01:00:18.639 Three million seems about right. Obviously, this is their first 1210 01:00:18.679 --> 01:00:21.119 shot out of five k, so we'll see where the 1211 01:00:21.159 --> 01:00:23.480 guarantee falls in line with how many players show up. 1212 01:00:24.679 --> 01:00:27.639 Well they are. They are awarding I think upwards of 1213 01:00:27.639 --> 01:00:31.960 one hundred gold passes, so you'll get one hundred quote 1214 01:00:32.000 --> 01:00:36.039 unquote qualifiers via the gold passes to get into this event, 1215 01:00:36.079 --> 01:00:37.639 so you'll you'll have that to banker. 1216 01:00:37.519 --> 01:00:40.440 They need what six hundred ish entrance or another five 1217 01:00:40.519 --> 01:00:44.320 hundred outside of the goal pass winners. I think it's 1218 01:00:44.320 --> 01:00:46.920 a great price point. I will not be part taking. 1219 01:00:46.960 --> 01:00:49.199 It's a little out of my budget, but for the 1220 01:00:49.760 --> 01:00:50.280 I will be. 1221 01:00:50.360 --> 01:00:54.360 They got my money, and I'm far from you. I 1222 01:00:54.400 --> 01:00:55.920 will be on poker steak dot com. 1223 01:00:56.000 --> 01:00:57.760 Let me rephrase this, which I'm pretty. 1224 01:00:57.480 --> 01:01:00.880 I actually listed the events last night, so they are 1225 01:01:01.159 --> 01:01:02.800 which you can also do, sir, And you could play 1226 01:01:02.800 --> 01:01:03.800 for ten percent of yourself in. 1227 01:01:03.800 --> 01:01:07.199 The play and that's why you'll find me in tonight. 1228 01:01:07.199 --> 01:01:10.440 It's two hundred dollars south point. Notly, you're just a 1229 01:01:10.519 --> 01:01:13.519 much better poker player than me, and I have I 1230 01:01:13.559 --> 01:01:17.559 have finally realized that my my max is like one K. 1231 01:01:18.159 --> 01:01:21.960 Unless it's like the WSP main event. I'm just gonna 1232 01:01:21.960 --> 01:01:23.719 play within my bubble. I don't want to try and 1233 01:01:23.719 --> 01:01:25.239 get better. I just want to play. I just want 1234 01:01:25.239 --> 01:01:26.079 to enjoy myself. 1235 01:01:27.320 --> 01:01:30.000 I agree with you, Like, I'm not going to out 1236 01:01:30.039 --> 01:01:31.960 go out there and fire every single five K under 1237 01:01:32.000 --> 01:01:34.960 the sun. I'm not there yet and I'm not comfortable 1238 01:01:35.079 --> 01:01:38.119 in doing that. I'm not confident in my own play 1239 01:01:38.199 --> 01:01:43.039 doing that yet. But there are exceptions to the rule, 1240 01:01:43.599 --> 01:01:47.119 Like I think this event will draw a very good field, 1241 01:01:47.119 --> 01:01:49.199 a very valuable field that I'm willing to take a 1242 01:01:49.199 --> 01:01:51.840 shot here, right like when when you have a five 1243 01:01:51.960 --> 01:01:56.119 K with a three million dollar guarantee. It's in Las Vegas, 1244 01:01:56.280 --> 01:01:59.800 it's got Poker Stars in the napt branding, it obviously 1245 01:01:59.840 --> 01:02:03.159 has as a qualifier funnel both through satellites on the 1246 01:02:03.159 --> 01:02:06.519 Poker Stars platforms that are available most notably Michigan, New 1247 01:02:06.599 --> 01:02:09.400 Jersey and Pennsylvania, and then also the gold Pass element 1248 01:02:09.480 --> 01:02:12.360 to things, you know, Like, I think there's gonna be 1249 01:02:12.480 --> 01:02:15.079 enough value there that I can take a shot in 1250 01:02:15.119 --> 01:02:17.639 this field, you know, So just like just like I'll 1251 01:02:17.639 --> 01:02:19.320 take a shot in the WSP main event, just like 1252 01:02:19.320 --> 01:02:22.639 I'll take a shot in, you know, the WPT World Championship. 1253 01:02:22.679 --> 01:02:25.599 Like these would be my three biggest buy ins of 1254 01:02:25.639 --> 01:02:29.639 the year. I just I think that they're they're good value, 1255 01:02:29.800 --> 01:02:32.800 you know, out of those, Out of these three, the 1256 01:02:32.880 --> 01:02:35.800 toughest I would say is probably the WPT World Championship, 1257 01:02:36.559 --> 01:02:40.440 then the NAPT Las Vegas main event, then the WSFP 1258 01:02:40.559 --> 01:02:41.039 Maine event. 1259 01:02:41.159 --> 01:02:41.360 You know. 1260 01:02:41.760 --> 01:02:45.719 But for people like maybe you or others out there, 1261 01:02:45.760 --> 01:02:49.039 there are a bunch of other events. There's a five 1262 01:02:49.119 --> 01:02:51.440 hundred fifty dollars Mystery Bounty, it has a three hundred 1263 01:02:51.480 --> 01:02:54.119 K guarantee. There's a five hundred and fifty dollars NAPT 1264 01:02:54.320 --> 01:02:57.800 Cup also has a three hundred K guarantee. Yeah, there's 1265 01:02:57.840 --> 01:03:01.519 an eleven hundred dollars run good Open, four hundred K 1266 01:03:01.599 --> 01:03:03.920 guarantee in that one. So you know, there are a 1267 01:03:03.920 --> 01:03:06.159 bunch of options. I know, there's I think there's a 1268 01:03:06.199 --> 01:03:09.199 five hundred fifty dollars maybe it's five hundred, I don't 1269 01:03:09.199 --> 01:03:11.960 know the price point exactly, but Heroes event. There's also 1270 01:03:12.000 --> 01:03:14.480 a five to fifty eight game event, right, So, like 1271 01:03:14.800 --> 01:03:17.280 there's a lot of stuff on the schedule. There's a 1272 01:03:17.360 --> 01:03:18.920 I think there's a two hundred and fifty dollars event 1273 01:03:19.239 --> 01:03:22.360 three sixty maybe on there. So there's there's stuff for everyone. 1274 01:03:22.599 --> 01:03:25.760 On the higher end of things, the twenty five thousand 1275 01:03:25.800 --> 01:03:28.519 dollars Super high Roller and the ten thousand, three hundred 1276 01:03:28.519 --> 01:03:32.000 dollars high Roller are both now again in partnership with 1277 01:03:32.239 --> 01:03:35.480 Poker gro and the Poker Stars n APT Those two 1278 01:03:35.480 --> 01:03:39.519 events are PGT qualifying events, so you know, likely going 1279 01:03:39.559 --> 01:03:44.119 to get plenty of our players firing. I mean, they're 1280 01:03:44.159 --> 01:03:46.519 likely going to fire into the fifty three hundred dollars anyway, 1281 01:03:46.760 --> 01:03:49.559 you know. So now maybe they take that shot in 1282 01:03:49.639 --> 01:03:52.239 these two events as well. You know, somebody like a 1283 01:03:52.599 --> 01:03:55.119 like a Jeremy Becker for example, who now you know, 1284 01:03:55.159 --> 01:03:57.400 popped his cherry playing his first ever twenty five K. 1285 01:03:57.679 --> 01:03:59.800 Maybe we see him play this twenty five K as well, 1286 01:03:59.840 --> 01:04:03.440 you know, stuff like that, Especially somebody like a Jeremy Becker, 1287 01:04:03.480 --> 01:04:05.880 where you know, as Tim and I just talked about, 1288 01:04:06.119 --> 01:04:08.639 is right outside the top forty looking in, so if 1289 01:04:08.639 --> 01:04:11.400 he can get points, it benefits him. So you know, 1290 01:04:11.840 --> 01:04:14.400 with these players, you know, making the push to make 1291 01:04:14.440 --> 01:04:17.239 that top forty and make the million dollar championship at 1292 01:04:17.239 --> 01:04:21.000 the end of the PGT season. They volume helps, so 1293 01:04:21.559 --> 01:04:22.840 I would think that you're going to get a lot 1294 01:04:22.920 --> 01:04:25.079 of these people that do get into the ten thousand, 1295 01:04:25.119 --> 01:04:28.039 three hund dollars high Roller and the twenty five thousand 1296 01:04:28.039 --> 01:04:30.280 dollars Super high Roller. So those are on the schedule 1297 01:04:30.320 --> 01:04:33.360 for NAPT Las Vegas. I think they have I think 1298 01:04:33.400 --> 01:04:36.360 if you include the qualifiers that they have to the 1299 01:04:36.440 --> 01:04:39.920 various tournaments, there's like thirty six events, which is more 1300 01:04:39.960 --> 01:04:42.920 than they had last year. So I'm very much looking 1301 01:04:42.960 --> 01:04:46.280 forward to this series. I can't wait. I heard it's 1302 01:04:46.280 --> 01:04:47.559 in a new ballroom. 1303 01:04:47.199 --> 01:04:49.039 By the way, as in upstairs. 1304 01:04:49.440 --> 01:04:52.079 I'm assuming, yeah, yeah, I just think it's in a 1305 01:04:52.239 --> 01:04:54.199 different ballroom. That's what I heard. I mean, I don't 1306 01:04:54.239 --> 01:04:55.880 know even if it's in the same ballom, it doesn't matter. 1307 01:04:55.880 --> 01:04:58.159 That place was awesome, you know. I'm just I'm just 1308 01:04:58.239 --> 01:05:00.480 saying that that, like even that it's not like they're 1309 01:05:00.639 --> 01:05:04.760 they're upgrading. So so yeah, so it sounds like you 1310 01:05:04.800 --> 01:05:06.960 and I will both be there playing in some capacity. 1311 01:05:08.199 --> 01:05:11.039 I can't wait. I think it's gonna be fun. I 1312 01:05:11.079 --> 01:05:12.840 think it's gonna be a good, a really good series. 1313 01:05:12.880 --> 01:05:16.480 So that's a NAPT Las Vegas November first through tenth 1314 01:05:16.559 --> 01:05:19.119 at Resorts World, just down the street from where we 1315 01:05:19.199 --> 01:05:22.679 normally are at the Poker Growth Studio. PokerStars Live dot 1316 01:05:22.719 --> 01:05:25.920 com slash NAPT slash Las Vegas, if you guys want 1317 01:05:25.920 --> 01:05:28.079 to check out the schedule, and then also you need 1318 01:05:28.119 --> 01:05:31.159 to remind everyone who's in Michigan, New Jersey and Pennsylvania 1319 01:05:31.239 --> 01:05:35.360 to keep your eyes posted to the Poker Stars lobby 1320 01:05:35.519 --> 01:05:39.400 for qualifiers, for opportunities to win NAPT gold passes and 1321 01:05:39.480 --> 01:05:44.599 all of that good stuff. Keeping it in the same 1322 01:05:44.679 --> 01:05:47.960 vein with Poker Stars. Gonna head over the pond to 1323 01:05:48.280 --> 01:05:53.800 recap EPT Barcelona, which the main event was another freaking banger. 1324 01:05:54.159 --> 01:06:00.960 Barcelona just crushes every single year. Stevensong one of our 1325 01:06:01.000 --> 01:06:05.960 goats one the EPT Barcelona main event for one million 1326 01:06:05.960 --> 01:06:08.519 at two hundred and ninety thousand euros which is one 1327 01:06:08.599 --> 01:06:12.000 million fourn twenty five thousand dollars. He chopped it heads 1328 01:06:12.079 --> 01:06:14.960 up with Andrew Hume I believe is the player's name. 1329 01:06:15.000 --> 01:06:17.360 They chopped it heads up. A song ended up coming 1330 01:06:17.400 --> 01:06:20.599 out on top nineteen hundred and seventy five entries in 1331 01:06:20.639 --> 01:06:24.519 this main event five k euro price points. They had 1332 01:06:24.840 --> 01:06:28.760 massive field in the estrellas like championship event that they 1333 01:06:28.760 --> 01:06:31.480 do there, all the high rollers show out well. I mean, 1334 01:06:31.519 --> 01:06:35.360 it's just Barcelona. This Barcelona stop is one of the best. 1335 01:06:35.360 --> 01:06:38.559 If you, you know, are forwarded the opportunity to be 1336 01:06:38.239 --> 01:06:40.599 able to go there, I would highly encourage you to 1337 01:06:40.599 --> 01:06:43.159 do so. It's in a great location, great time of year, 1338 01:06:43.199 --> 01:06:47.800 the casinos one hundred feet from the beach. The fields 1339 01:06:47.800 --> 01:06:52.079 are tremendous value. You know, it always does extremely well 1340 01:06:52.119 --> 01:06:55.920 in terms of drawing like more recreational players. Doesn't matter 1341 01:06:55.920 --> 01:06:57.840 to the buy in. It could be a five point 1342 01:06:57.840 --> 01:07:00.559 fifty euro it could be the hunter k doesn't matter. 1343 01:07:00.599 --> 01:07:01.920 You're going to get a lot of recks in there 1344 01:07:01.920 --> 01:07:06.119 that are blasting away, so tremendous value overall. Stephen Song 1345 01:07:06.559 --> 01:07:10.920 is what the greatest big field MTT player ever, not 1346 01:07:11.039 --> 01:07:17.039 one of I mean just some highlights from from Song's 1347 01:07:17.880 --> 01:07:22.360 career and I guess you know right before EBT Barcelona 1348 01:07:22.400 --> 01:07:24.440 has a super deep run on the wu Maniement this year, 1349 01:07:24.559 --> 01:07:29.519 you know, speaking of big field MTTs twenty nineteen at 1350 01:07:29.559 --> 01:07:33.039 EPT Barcelona coincidentally a twenty two hundred euro Nolan at 1351 01:07:33.039 --> 01:07:36.239 hold Them he won it topped five hundred ninety nine 1352 01:07:36.360 --> 01:07:38.559 entries there one hundred and eighty five thousand euro or 1353 01:07:38.599 --> 01:07:41.840 two hundred and five thousand dollars same year, twenty nineteen 1354 01:07:42.559 --> 01:07:45.280 first place out of twenty four hundred and seventy seven 1355 01:07:45.440 --> 01:07:48.119 entries in a WSP. I believe this was a one 1356 01:07:48.199 --> 01:07:50.800 K event, three hundred and forty one thousand dollars for Song. 1357 01:07:51.480 --> 01:07:54.480 Twenty two w twenty twenty two WSP five thousand dollars 1358 01:07:54.519 --> 01:07:57.159 six max. At the WSP nine hundred and twenty entries, 1359 01:07:57.280 --> 01:08:00.320 Song got second for four hundred and seventy six thousand dollars. 1360 01:08:00.880 --> 01:08:06.920 The WPT Prime Championship in twenty twenty two, five thy 1361 01:08:07.119 --> 01:08:10.400 four hundred and thirty entries, Song won it all for 1362 01:08:10.679 --> 01:08:13.239 seven hundred and twelve thousand dollars, and then twenty twenty 1363 01:08:13.239 --> 01:08:16.760 three the WSB Circuit event in Chicago, seventeen hundred dollars 1364 01:08:16.760 --> 01:08:19.680 main event, Song first out of six hundred and fifty 1365 01:08:19.680 --> 01:08:22.359 two entries for one hundred and eighty three thousand dollars. 1366 01:08:22.520 --> 01:08:25.560 Song is an absolute crusher. There is a reason why 1367 01:08:26.199 --> 01:08:28.800 Matt Clark and I draft him in twenty five K 1368 01:08:28.920 --> 01:08:31.680 Fantasy and hopefully we get the opportunity to do it again. 1369 01:08:32.079 --> 01:08:36.279 Although people might becoming wise to mister song the field 1370 01:08:36.279 --> 01:08:39.680 bonus king our goat. As I mentioned, the guy is 1371 01:08:39.720 --> 01:08:42.920 just a freaking crusher. If he's able to get a 1372 01:08:42.920 --> 01:08:46.680 hold of chips in a big field tournament. I mean 1373 01:08:46.720 --> 01:08:49.119 it's like good luck to the rest of the field, really, right, 1374 01:08:49.159 --> 01:08:52.640 I mean, like, how does he rank to you in 1375 01:08:52.720 --> 01:08:54.720 terms of a big field MTT crusher? 1376 01:08:55.079 --> 01:08:57.880 I mean these results just speak for themselves, right, He's 1377 01:08:58.000 --> 01:09:02.840 an absolute base. Who can we talk about that currently 1378 01:09:02.880 --> 01:09:05.720 plays such high volume, that does this Like he used 1379 01:09:05.720 --> 01:09:07.399 to be dominating the sky, but he doesn't play that 1380 01:09:07.479 --> 01:09:11.279 much anymore. So, I mean he may have Stevensung may 1381 01:09:11.319 --> 01:09:13.760 have the hand on the crown right now, maybe just 1382 01:09:13.800 --> 01:09:14.560 about to put it on. 1383 01:09:14.840 --> 01:09:15.600 I'm not sure who else. 1384 01:09:15.640 --> 01:09:18.000 Yeah, I would say Adrian Matteos, but he's kind of 1385 01:09:18.159 --> 01:09:19.600 pushed to hy rollers now, so. 1386 01:09:21.119 --> 01:09:25.600 I mean, I mean somebody that sticks out is Joe McKeon, 1387 01:09:26.159 --> 01:09:28.680 has has crushed in big fields over the years, obviously 1388 01:09:29.000 --> 01:09:30.600 be main event winner and has crushed a bunch of 1389 01:09:30.680 --> 01:09:34.760 other stuff. Darren Elias just with all the WPT toils. 1390 01:09:34.800 --> 01:09:37.520 The wpts are big fields, right, I mean Darren won 1391 01:09:37.640 --> 01:09:39.960 some small wpts as well. He won one in the 1392 01:09:40.000 --> 01:09:42.159 Caribbean that was really small, and he won one at 1393 01:09:42.199 --> 01:09:45.319 Aria that was on the smaller side. But he's also 1394 01:09:45.399 --> 01:09:50.399 crushed in big fields plenty of times. More recently, probably 1395 01:09:50.399 --> 01:09:54.319 Andrew Moreno comes to mind. You know, he had obviously 1396 01:09:54.359 --> 01:09:57.199 the huge breakout victory for him when he won the 1397 01:09:57.279 --> 01:09:59.600 WPT or sorry it wasn't a WPT, he won the 1398 01:09:59.600 --> 01:10:03.399 win millions, and then you know, he just continues to 1399 01:10:03.439 --> 01:10:07.119 crush in really anything that has a massive field. So 1400 01:10:07.439 --> 01:10:11.079 there's him, Brian Altman like always seems to does it. 1401 01:10:11.079 --> 01:10:13.159 I feel like anytime there's a WPT here, there's a 1402 01:10:13.159 --> 01:10:15.319 big event at Seminole or whatever it is, you know, 1403 01:10:15.319 --> 01:10:18.399 Brian even w CB circuit stuff like Brian Altman is 1404 01:10:18.399 --> 01:10:21.560 in the mix, you know. So so yeah, you know 1405 01:10:21.640 --> 01:10:26.119 there's there's all those guys. But I I still think 1406 01:10:26.159 --> 01:10:28.199 like out of all those people that we mentioned, I mean, 1407 01:10:28.520 --> 01:10:31.239 songs on top, I'd probably have to dive in a 1408 01:10:31.279 --> 01:10:33.680 little bit further and like really break it down, but 1409 01:10:35.520 --> 01:10:38.039 I mean song seems like the guy right, And it's 1410 01:10:38.159 --> 01:10:42.520 just it's incredible to with how much variance there is 1411 01:10:42.520 --> 01:10:45.960 in poker tournaments. And then you add in the fact 1412 01:10:45.960 --> 01:10:49.039 that when you get to hundreds, if not thousands of 1413 01:10:49.079 --> 01:10:52.680 players in the field, like the variance that is then added, 1414 01:10:52.760 --> 01:10:55.560 like it's just wild that he's able to continue to 1415 01:10:55.640 --> 01:10:59.399 crush at such a high level. And it it it 1416 01:10:59.520 --> 01:11:02.039 sounds like like from what I saw that he'll be 1417 01:11:02.159 --> 01:11:05.279 at n APT Las Vegas. He listed i think on 1418 01:11:05.359 --> 01:11:08.000 poker Steake the twenty five k super high Roller and 1419 01:11:08.039 --> 01:11:10.560 the ten K high Roller and then he's probably just 1420 01:11:10.560 --> 01:11:12.640 gonna play the five k on his own of course, 1421 01:11:13.479 --> 01:11:16.039 so he'll be there for that and maybe we see 1422 01:11:17.439 --> 01:11:22.800 you know, some more PGT related stuff even time you 1423 01:11:22.840 --> 01:11:24.840 tell me you're the commissioner. I mean, he had the 1424 01:11:24.840 --> 01:11:26.119 deep run in the main event, right. 1425 01:11:27.720 --> 01:11:30.640 Just lost series, So yeah, he's that's pretty far out, 1426 01:11:30.680 --> 01:11:33.520 but I mean just takes a couple of results, you 1427 01:11:33.600 --> 01:11:37.159 back in contention, you know, well we're we're one hundred 1428 01:11:37.239 --> 01:11:41.680 and sixty seventh, but he's like four hundred points out 1429 01:11:41.720 --> 01:11:45.680 of like being in that that qualifying tier of forty 1430 01:11:45.720 --> 01:11:46.560 eligible players. 1431 01:11:46.600 --> 01:11:50.560 So so I mean it could if he's if he's 1432 01:11:50.600 --> 01:11:53.760 able to put up some results at this at n 1433 01:11:53.760 --> 01:11:55.720 APT Las Vegas, if he's playing the twenty five k 1434 01:11:55.800 --> 01:11:57.640 in the ten k, like if he can find you know, 1435 01:11:57.680 --> 01:12:00.359 a decent cash in one, if not both of those events, 1436 01:12:00.800 --> 01:12:02.800 like that'll be a nice little boost and then you 1437 01:12:02.840 --> 01:12:05.560 go from there, right, So what else we got? Oh 1438 01:12:05.640 --> 01:12:11.279 abt Barcelona game integrity rule changes. So heading into the series, 1439 01:12:11.800 --> 01:12:14.159 I know Kenny Hollard who has worked with Poker Stars before. 1440 01:12:14.199 --> 01:12:16.279 I'm not sure if he still like officially works with them, 1441 01:12:16.279 --> 01:12:20.159 but anyway, he put on Twitter slash acts no use 1442 01:12:20.159 --> 01:12:22.960 of gto solver slash charts are similar anywhere in the 1443 01:12:22.960 --> 01:12:26.880 whole tournament area at any time, also not for spectators. 1444 01:12:27.520 --> 01:12:32.399 And then from the Poker Stars tournament rules it says 1445 01:12:32.399 --> 01:12:34.920 players are not permitted to use at the table or 1446 01:12:34.960 --> 01:12:38.239 anywhere in the tournament room area at any time. Game 1447 01:12:38.439 --> 01:12:43.840 theory optimal in then parenthese's gto solver software GTO charts, 1448 01:12:44.199 --> 01:12:47.720 whether used on electronic devices or otherwise, or any AI 1449 01:12:47.960 --> 01:12:51.840 tool or similar algorithmic software that is capable of affording 1450 01:12:52.319 --> 01:12:55.319 the user a competitive advantage in the tournament. That is 1451 01:12:55.359 --> 01:12:58.760 an absolute mouthful of a sentence and needs like seventeen 1452 01:12:58.760 --> 01:13:03.680 commas and they're not there. We also don't allow any 1453 01:13:03.720 --> 01:13:06.800 spectator to make any use of electronic devices with solvers 1454 01:13:06.800 --> 01:13:10.560 inside the poker tournament area. So it seems like the 1455 01:13:11.279 --> 01:13:17.239 Poker Stars and more specifically the EPT is the first 1456 01:13:17.279 --> 01:13:20.039 to like really take a crack at this in terms 1457 01:13:20.079 --> 01:13:26.600 of like putting it on their books. I mean, I 1458 01:13:26.640 --> 01:13:29.000 still have questions. I would I you know, my first 1459 01:13:29.079 --> 01:13:31.600 question would be like, well, what's the penalty, right? I mean, 1460 01:13:31.800 --> 01:13:34.359 is it is it one hand? Is it are you? 1461 01:13:34.520 --> 01:13:36.479 Are you warned first? Is it a hand? Is it 1462 01:13:36.520 --> 01:13:38.279 a full round? Are you kicked out of the tournament? 1463 01:13:38.359 --> 01:13:41.359 I mean I don't, I don't know, so I guess 1464 01:13:41.800 --> 01:13:45.600 TBD on that and unless there was stuff that I 1465 01:13:45.840 --> 01:13:48.840 just haven't seen yet. So there's that. And then I 1466 01:13:48.920 --> 01:13:53.600 just I wonder about the language that just says when 1467 01:13:53.640 --> 01:13:56.600 it says tournament area. And I always cite the win 1468 01:13:56.720 --> 01:13:59.479 with this because I play there a lot and I 1469 01:13:59.560 --> 01:14:02.720 know the situation as the floor is laid out, the 1470 01:14:02.800 --> 01:14:06.880 tournament floor, which is now right outside the poker room, 1471 01:14:07.439 --> 01:14:10.359 like it's on the carpet, which gaming floors are on 1472 01:14:10.439 --> 01:14:13.279 the carpet, like literally five feet from the edge of 1473 01:14:13.319 --> 01:14:17.760 the tables, there's tile and that's a walkway, and like 1474 01:14:17.800 --> 01:14:19.439 you know, they always say that like on the tiles 1475 01:14:19.479 --> 01:14:21.680 that's where like the kids can walk. But on the carpet. 1476 01:14:21.720 --> 01:14:24.560 The kids can't go on the carpet, right, So it's like, 1477 01:14:25.119 --> 01:14:27.199 is so is in like that case, is it that 1478 01:14:27.319 --> 01:14:29.640 close that I can just walk three feet one direction 1479 01:14:29.720 --> 01:14:32.680 and be quote unquote outside of the tournament area? So 1480 01:14:33.199 --> 01:14:35.640 I'm I don't know. Or is it like when you 1481 01:14:35.720 --> 01:14:38.840 walk into the casino you can't be on your phone? 1482 01:14:38.880 --> 01:14:40.800 Like I mean, you know, it's like I have I 1483 01:14:40.840 --> 01:14:45.119 have questions there? So yeah, I mean, how what do 1484 01:14:45.159 --> 01:14:47.079 you think you're you're a little bit more I guess 1485 01:14:47.079 --> 01:14:48.680 in these streets, you know, you deal with all the 1486 01:14:48.680 --> 01:14:52.279 PGT stuff and whatnot. You talk to the players a 1487 01:14:52.439 --> 01:14:53.960 bit more. So what are your thoughts? 1488 01:14:53.960 --> 01:14:55.680 I feel like the way it's written is a little vague. 1489 01:14:55.680 --> 01:14:59.680 You mentioned what is the tournament area? Is that technically 1490 01:14:59.720 --> 01:15:02.279 could be the entire casino, could be the car park, right, 1491 01:15:02.560 --> 01:15:05.399 you need to find that a little better. What is 1492 01:15:05.479 --> 01:15:09.800 game theory? Optimal solver software? I might argue that I 1493 01:15:09.920 --> 01:15:13.439 learn a lot on Instagram. So if I feel like 1494 01:15:13.600 --> 01:15:17.439 Instagram is has gto stuff. If I'm following gto Wizard 1495 01:15:17.479 --> 01:15:20.800 on Instagram and they're putting out pictures with chart examples, 1496 01:15:21.319 --> 01:15:25.560 you know, then if I is that GTO solver software. 1497 01:15:26.960 --> 01:15:30.520 It's just really open to interpretation. The biggest issue I 1498 01:15:30.520 --> 01:15:33.000 have with all of these things is always how do 1499 01:15:33.079 --> 01:15:36.479 you police it? You know, are you hiring people, are 1500 01:15:36.520 --> 01:15:39.079 you expecting the dealers, are you expecting the floors. If 1501 01:15:39.119 --> 01:15:42.039 I'm sitting next to you and you're on GTO with It, 1502 01:15:42.039 --> 01:15:44.079 I'm going to call you out right, But habit, if 1503 01:15:44.119 --> 01:15:47.760 you're on you're checking your budget your family budget on 1504 01:15:47.800 --> 01:15:51.319 Google ducs, or you're checking your GTO charts on Google ducks, 1505 01:15:51.600 --> 01:15:53.520 am I just going to call the floor over like hey, 1506 01:15:53.520 --> 01:15:57.239 for he's cheating? You know, Like it just it opens 1507 01:15:57.319 --> 01:16:00.920 up so many issues, and like, yeah, if it could 1508 01:16:00.960 --> 01:16:03.479 work perfectly, if there was if it was able to 1509 01:16:03.520 --> 01:16:06.640 be easily policed, I'd be all for it. But personally, like, 1510 01:16:07.119 --> 01:16:09.159 if this comes up on the PGT and you know what, 1511 01:16:09.239 --> 01:16:12.560 it hasn't because we still see people looking at the stuff. 1512 01:16:12.600 --> 01:16:17.720 And I have no issues with people using you know, 1513 01:16:17.760 --> 01:16:22.760 any solvers, any anything to help them get better, because 1514 01:16:22.800 --> 01:16:24.960 I think it's a fair plan and even playing field. 1515 01:16:25.000 --> 01:16:27.800 Everyone can sign up to OCTUPI, they can sign up 1516 01:16:27.800 --> 01:16:30.319 to GTO with It, they can sign up to Pilo Mastermind. 1517 01:16:30.760 --> 01:16:32.960 You know, everyone has the equal chance to do this. 1518 01:16:33.680 --> 01:16:36.279 I would just say the easiest rule is, you know, 1519 01:16:36.359 --> 01:16:39.640 no phone usage while you have a lie while you're 1520 01:16:39.680 --> 01:16:41.520 in a hand like a live hand. And that even 1521 01:16:41.520 --> 01:16:44.319 needs to finding because you know when the cards are 1522 01:16:44.319 --> 01:16:47.279 getting dealt out technically your hands live, but you might 1523 01:16:47.279 --> 01:16:49.520 be sending a text message or checking something. I think 1524 01:16:49.520 --> 01:16:52.119 that's fine. It's when you're committing chips to a part 1525 01:16:52.119 --> 01:16:54.960 when you're playing a hand, you shouldn't be able to 1526 01:16:54.960 --> 01:16:56.720 look at your phone. In case this chart, that's an 1527 01:16:56.760 --> 01:16:58.640 easy way to police it. I don't think you need 1528 01:16:58.640 --> 01:17:00.640 to get up. I think you can sitting your seat 1529 01:17:00.640 --> 01:17:02.600 and look at gto Wizard as long as you're out 1530 01:17:02.600 --> 01:17:06.079 of a hand. So that's how I would enforce it. 1531 01:17:06.119 --> 01:17:08.720 On the PGT. We haven't really had anything come up recently, 1532 01:17:10.119 --> 01:17:12.079 but that's how that's my approach to it. 1533 01:17:12.760 --> 01:17:15.159 Yeah, I mean, I think it's just it's gonna be 1534 01:17:15.199 --> 01:17:21.159 something that needs to be continually ironed out, you know, 1535 01:17:21.239 --> 01:17:22.640 and like the rules are going to need to be 1536 01:17:22.720 --> 01:17:26.399 molded however people want to mold those going forward. I 1537 01:17:26.640 --> 01:17:28.319 did just want to bring this up as it relates 1538 01:17:28.359 --> 01:17:30.000 to you know, Poker Stars and the EPT because it 1539 01:17:30.039 --> 01:17:32.159 does seem like they're the first to kind of take 1540 01:17:32.159 --> 01:17:37.279 a crack at some new verbiage in terms of this rule. 1541 01:17:38.119 --> 01:17:42.239 I mean, the EPT is I think, always at the 1542 01:17:42.279 --> 01:17:46.800 forefront of everything in many cases, and sometimes it works, 1543 01:17:46.800 --> 01:17:49.720 sometimes it doesn't. And I only say that because you know, 1544 01:17:49.760 --> 01:17:52.960 for example, was it first card off the deck? Seemed 1545 01:17:53.000 --> 01:17:56.439 like a total disaster back in the day. But you know, 1546 01:17:56.840 --> 01:17:59.359 like there's stuff like that. But you know, if they 1547 01:17:59.359 --> 01:18:02.880 feel like it's in the in the the benefit of 1548 01:18:03.199 --> 01:18:05.319 the game and the players, then then I think they're 1549 01:18:05.359 --> 01:18:07.600 going to try it, and we can sit here on 1550 01:18:07.640 --> 01:18:09.680 the sidelines and see how it works out. You know, 1551 01:18:09.800 --> 01:18:12.000 I don't I agree with you that I don't think 1552 01:18:12.039 --> 01:18:15.720 it's an issue in our PGT events, But that's also 1553 01:18:15.760 --> 01:18:17.600 not to say that it might not become an issue 1554 01:18:17.800 --> 01:18:20.720 at some point. So you know, worth worth monitoring, worth 1555 01:18:20.800 --> 01:18:23.159 you know, staying up to date. But but yeah, well 1556 01:18:23.159 --> 01:18:25.000 we'll see how this this plays out, and we'll see 1557 01:18:25.039 --> 01:18:29.199 if you know, other big tour operators World Poker Tour, 1558 01:18:29.359 --> 01:18:34.159 wsp et cetera, adopt you know, similar stances, similar language 1559 01:18:34.479 --> 01:18:37.239 as we see on on the EPT with this sort 1560 01:18:37.239 --> 01:18:39.520 of stuff, maybe you know it's going to take a 1561 01:18:39.560 --> 01:18:42.079 few iterations of the language of the ruling from the 1562 01:18:42.079 --> 01:18:44.960 EPT to kind of get their their final you know, 1563 01:18:45.039 --> 01:18:48.159 hardened stance on where everything is, and we'll see how 1564 01:18:48.199 --> 01:18:50.079 that goes. Obviously, this is going to be a talking 1565 01:18:50.119 --> 01:18:53.600 point heading into next summer, next World Series of Poker, 1566 01:18:53.640 --> 01:18:55.520 because this all blew up as a result of the 1567 01:18:55.520 --> 01:19:00.159 World Series of Boger. I guess if you're the WSOP specifically, 1568 01:19:00.239 --> 01:19:04.680 and your officials there, like the the one kind of 1569 01:19:05.439 --> 01:19:08.439 saving grace that you have is that it happened right 1570 01:19:08.479 --> 01:19:10.039 at the end of your series and you didn't have 1571 01:19:10.079 --> 01:19:12.039 to deal with it, like in the moment. You can 1572 01:19:12.239 --> 01:19:15.880 take a breath, sit back and see how things play out, 1573 01:19:16.039 --> 01:19:19.840 have longer conversations, be an observer of what places like 1574 01:19:19.880 --> 01:19:22.720 the EPTR are doing with these rule changes, and then 1575 01:19:23.000 --> 01:19:28.079 craft your messaging your rulings entering next summer so that 1576 01:19:28.159 --> 01:19:30.479 benefits them. They can they can just chill out and 1577 01:19:30.479 --> 01:19:32.199 be like, Okay, let's see how this works out. Let's 1578 01:19:32.199 --> 01:19:34.159 see how that works out. Let's talk to the operators, 1579 01:19:34.439 --> 01:19:36.600 get some thoughts and opinions, and then and then we'll 1580 01:19:37.600 --> 01:19:39.760 talk about things. But because this was such a big 1581 01:19:39.800 --> 01:19:43.279 deal coming out of the main event, thewas Man event 1582 01:19:43.319 --> 01:19:47.560 this year. Then I think, you know, coming into next summer, 1583 01:19:47.600 --> 01:19:50.520 while it's it's it's died down on the w SP 1584 01:19:50.600 --> 01:19:53.199 front right now, it's going to rear its head once again. 1585 01:19:53.239 --> 01:19:53.399 You know. 1586 01:19:53.399 --> 01:19:54.560 I think a lot of people are going to bring 1587 01:19:54.560 --> 01:19:56.920 it up, like, oh hey, how about the rules? Is 1588 01:19:56.960 --> 01:19:58.560 this going to be addressed? You know, we're a week 1589 01:19:58.600 --> 01:20:01.119 out from the WSP. Is this what's the rule here? 1590 01:20:01.520 --> 01:20:04.680 So we'll see how that all goes. So part of 1591 01:20:04.720 --> 01:20:07.880 this is just stay tuned and we'll talk about it 1592 01:20:07.880 --> 01:20:10.479 more as it comes. 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But I thought they already announced dates, So 1602 01:20:43.960 --> 01:20:47.479 so the WPT on September sixteenth, So a couple of 1603 01:20:47.520 --> 01:20:52.760 days ago announced the specific dates for the four big 1604 01:20:52.760 --> 01:20:56.800 events at the WPT World Championship. They announced that the 1605 01:20:56.920 --> 01:21:00.520 WPT World Championship, that is the ten four an event, 1606 01:21:00.640 --> 01:21:04.680 will take place December fourteenth through twenty first, the WPT 1607 01:21:04.880 --> 01:21:10.359 Prime Championship December eighth through fourteenth, the Ladies Championship December 1608 01:21:10.399 --> 01:21:13.600 fourteenth through fifteenth, and then the Seniors Championship will take 1609 01:21:13.640 --> 01:21:18.840 place December eighteenth through nineteenth. Back on April fourth, several 1610 01:21:18.920 --> 01:21:23.439 months ago, they announced that the WPT World Championship would 1611 01:21:23.960 --> 01:21:27.359 take over Las Vegas at WIN Las Vegas from December 1612 01:21:27.399 --> 01:21:30.560 third through twenty third, so December third through twenty third 1613 01:21:30.560 --> 01:21:32.760 of the overall series dates and then I just outlined 1614 01:21:33.520 --> 01:21:36.560 the specific dates for those four tournaments. They also included 1615 01:21:36.600 --> 01:21:39.159 in the messaging that the full schedule will be announced 1616 01:21:39.199 --> 01:21:44.319 in one week, so next to Monday or Tuesday. Yeah, 1617 01:21:44.319 --> 01:21:49.520 we're getting the full schedule. Obviously. The big thought here 1618 01:21:49.760 --> 01:21:54.000 is that or is how does this align with Dobasipy 1619 01:21:54.039 --> 01:21:58.720 Paradise Wasipy Paradise If everyone remembers December sixth through nineteenth, 1620 01:21:59.760 --> 01:22:04.279 the two biggest events as it would pertain to conflict 1621 01:22:04.319 --> 01:22:06.760 with the WPT World Championship are the twenty five thousand 1622 01:22:06.800 --> 01:22:10.159 dollars Super Main Event and the ten thousand dollars GG 1623 01:22:10.439 --> 01:22:13.760 Millions Championship. The Super Main Event that is, of course, 1624 01:22:14.279 --> 01:22:17.880 the event that has the fifty million dollars guaranteed prize pool, 1625 01:22:18.119 --> 01:22:21.479 that takes place December twelfth through nineteenth. If you look 1626 01:22:21.479 --> 01:22:23.479 on WSP dot com, you can see that that has 1627 01:22:23.520 --> 01:22:27.399 four starting flights across December twelfth through fifteenth. And then 1628 01:22:27.439 --> 01:22:30.199 you have the ten thousand dollars GG Millions Championship that 1629 01:22:30.239 --> 01:22:33.159 has a five million dollar guarantee and that takes place 1630 01:22:33.239 --> 01:22:37.920 December sixteenth through nineteenth, and there are four flights across 1631 01:22:38.039 --> 01:22:43.199 December sixteenth through eighteenth, so a little bit of overlap there. 1632 01:22:43.720 --> 01:22:48.720 It does look to me that the WBT did time 1633 01:22:48.800 --> 01:22:52.880 it where you could play the Super main Event and 1634 01:22:53.039 --> 01:22:58.039 if you bomb out on all the starting flights, or 1635 01:22:58.079 --> 01:22:59.800 maybe even if you bust out on day two, you 1636 01:22:59.800 --> 01:23:03.359 can still hop on a plan and get back. But 1637 01:23:03.680 --> 01:23:07.359 we don't know the like if they're doing two flights, 1638 01:23:07.359 --> 01:23:10.399 three flights, four flights, whatever they're doing for the WPT 1639 01:23:10.520 --> 01:23:13.239 World Championship. So it does look like, you know, the 1640 01:23:13.319 --> 01:23:16.880 WPT is kind of aligning there. So we'll see. I mean, 1641 01:23:17.119 --> 01:23:18.800 what do you think? What are your thoughts? 1642 01:23:18.880 --> 01:23:21.239 Kind of initially, obviously we don't know what the guarantee 1643 01:23:21.279 --> 01:23:23.600 of the World Championship main event is, right. 1644 01:23:23.840 --> 01:23:25.479 WPT could it be? 1645 01:23:25.840 --> 01:23:26.920 And I'll get that next. 1646 01:23:26.960 --> 01:23:31.760 But I'm gonna I'm gonna bet a lot of money 1647 01:23:31.880 --> 01:23:34.520 that it's more than the five million of the ten 1648 01:23:34.600 --> 01:23:39.039 KGG millions Championship. So if you're a poker player, would 1649 01:23:39.079 --> 01:23:40.920 you rather play a five million dollar guarantee of enn 1650 01:23:40.960 --> 01:23:44.199 for ten k or a potentially forty million dollar event 1651 01:23:44.239 --> 01:23:46.840 for ten k? I'm probably gonna go with the forty million. 1652 01:23:46.880 --> 01:23:49.840 I'm now looking at this and like analyzing the dates. 1653 01:23:49.920 --> 01:23:53.479 I am so much more bullish on the WBT World 1654 01:23:53.520 --> 01:23:57.920 Championship than I was originally. I don't think this ten 1655 01:23:58.000 --> 01:24:01.399 kgg millions is anathy. The only reason you would play 1656 01:24:01.439 --> 01:24:04.520 that is if you were not coming to Vegas at all. 1657 01:24:05.039 --> 01:24:08.560 I mean, it's it could be a question of where 1658 01:24:08.640 --> 01:24:10.720 do you think the value is? Right? 1659 01:24:10.920 --> 01:24:12.399 So the value is the win? 1660 01:24:13.319 --> 01:24:16.079 See, I don't know. And I say that because listen, 1661 01:24:16.239 --> 01:24:20.640 I recall last year and the year before I play 1662 01:24:20.680 --> 01:24:22.760 at the win. Almost every time they have a series, 1663 01:24:22.920 --> 01:24:25.399 I play with them in a lot. They were constantly 1664 01:24:25.439 --> 01:24:30.039 pumping WPT World Championship satellites. Last year you saw a 1665 01:24:30.079 --> 01:24:34.960 crap ton of whether it was Andrew Nimi, brad Owen, Rampage, whoever, 1666 01:24:35.119 --> 01:24:38.319 playing on WPT Global. I mean that they had Jeff 1667 01:24:38.359 --> 01:24:41.199 Platt playing on WPT global, like you know, playing these 1668 01:24:41.279 --> 01:24:45.199 qualifier events. I don't know if I'm just missing the 1669 01:24:45.239 --> 01:24:47.000 marketing on that, but I just I don't feel like 1670 01:24:47.039 --> 01:24:47.399 I see it. 1671 01:24:47.479 --> 01:24:50.600 This difference is you're switched on and aware of these things. 1672 01:24:50.880 --> 01:24:54.039 Are we really sure ninety percent of the poker players 1673 01:24:54.039 --> 01:24:55.239 are also noticing these things? 1674 01:24:55.239 --> 01:24:58.239 Because I'm going to say, no, they're not noticing that stuff. 1675 01:24:58.800 --> 01:25:00.600 I mean, I yeah, but I I think like I 1676 01:25:00.600 --> 01:25:02.840 think a poker player would would know like the big 1677 01:25:02.960 --> 01:25:07.159 hitting topics like oh, they're going to qualify five hundred players. 1678 01:25:07.399 --> 01:25:10.239 But if you don't see that anymore, then how do 1679 01:25:10.279 --> 01:25:17.359 you know whereas WSP is pushing, they're who plays. I 1680 01:25:17.359 --> 01:25:19.600 don't know, man, Talking to these guys, I think I 1681 01:25:19.680 --> 01:25:22.119 think they're fairly into it. I mean, I know they 1682 01:25:22.159 --> 01:25:24.479 blank on a lot of stuff, but I think this 1683 01:25:24.560 --> 01:25:27.439 sort of stuff, you know, I think there are right, 1684 01:25:27.479 --> 01:25:30.880 So I think there's gonna be I think there might 1685 01:25:30.880 --> 01:25:33.279 be more value in that in that ten K plus. Listen, 1686 01:25:33.479 --> 01:25:36.279 you're already there, you know, you probably already send some 1687 01:25:36.399 --> 01:25:40.399 sort of package or whatever to get into the room. 1688 01:25:40.960 --> 01:25:43.600 You know, the discounts that you can get into. They 1689 01:25:43.640 --> 01:25:46.439 also have this million dollar invitational, the Super Savior, a 1690 01:25:46.439 --> 01:25:49.640 million dollar free roll thing that takes place on December eighteenth. 1691 01:25:49.319 --> 01:25:50.239 So let this one. 1692 01:25:51.359 --> 01:25:54.279 There's things that keep you there in the Bahamas, So 1693 01:25:55.680 --> 01:25:58.279 you know, I just find it interesting also, like I 1694 01:25:58.279 --> 01:26:02.119 think part of it might be wait and see. And 1695 01:26:02.159 --> 01:26:03.920 what I mean by that is like you might go 1696 01:26:03.960 --> 01:26:06.960 to the Bahamas with the plan to leave on December 1697 01:26:07.000 --> 01:26:09.840 fifteenth or sixteenth, and say, now, let's just change my 1698 01:26:09.920 --> 01:26:13.479 flight because the field's down here incredible, Like I don't know, 1699 01:26:13.720 --> 01:26:16.319 you know, so we'll see. I mean a lot of 1700 01:26:16.319 --> 01:26:20.199 it's going to depend on probably how many package winners. 1701 01:26:20.319 --> 01:26:22.720 GG Poker says that they're sending to this sort of stuff, 1702 01:26:23.239 --> 01:26:26.199 So I don't know. I think it's interesting how it 1703 01:26:26.239 --> 01:26:29.680 all lines up. What I will say is that now 1704 01:26:30.520 --> 01:26:34.680 we don't have the guarantee for the WPT yet. Okay, 1705 01:26:34.880 --> 01:26:38.680 it was fifteen million dollars in twenty twenty two. They 1706 01:26:38.720 --> 01:26:41.199 got like twenty eight million in it. Then they went 1707 01:26:41.239 --> 01:26:43.560 to forty million and they missed. They got like thirty 1708 01:26:43.560 --> 01:26:45.199 eight million, right, they missed by two or two and 1709 01:26:45.239 --> 01:26:50.800 a half million or whatever. Last year, the WPT World 1710 01:26:50.880 --> 01:26:55.840 Championship ran December twelfth through twenty first, which was ten days. 1711 01:26:56.920 --> 01:27:01.119 This year December fourteenth through twenty first is only eight days. 1712 01:27:01.960 --> 01:27:06.960 So they had four starting flights last year. Are they 1713 01:27:07.000 --> 01:27:10.000 going to have fewer starting flights this year to fit 1714 01:27:10.039 --> 01:27:12.039 into the eight day window versus the ten day window? 1715 01:27:12.039 --> 01:27:14.920 Are they gonna chop off a day from the back end? 1716 01:27:15.000 --> 01:27:17.840 You know last year they had two, three, four, five, six, 1717 01:27:18.039 --> 01:27:20.199 then the final table. Do you just like take out 1718 01:27:20.359 --> 01:27:23.000 day six for example, but then you still need to 1719 01:27:23.000 --> 01:27:28.159 take out one more day somewhere. So also, you know, 1720 01:27:29.279 --> 01:27:33.880 the structure for the wt World Championship has been sixty 1721 01:27:33.960 --> 01:27:38.119 minute levels on day one, ninety minute levels on day two. Personally, 1722 01:27:38.159 --> 01:27:40.159 I felt like the structure is a little too good. 1723 01:27:40.920 --> 01:27:43.319 Maybe I'm crazy for saying that as a player, but 1724 01:27:44.199 --> 01:27:47.439 I feel like you could get away with sixties on 1725 01:27:48.319 --> 01:27:52.079 day one and day two, maybe seventy fives on the 1726 01:27:52.159 --> 01:27:55.760 day two. So you know, my question is knowing that 1727 01:27:56.119 --> 01:28:00.000 they've allotted two fewer days to this year's event versus 1728 01:28:00.119 --> 01:28:02.600 last year, Like what is where is the change going 1729 01:28:02.680 --> 01:28:05.920 to come from? And then also I feel like if 1730 01:28:05.960 --> 01:28:09.279 you come in with two fewer days for the event, 1731 01:28:11.079 --> 01:28:13.079 there's no way you're going to come anywhere near the 1732 01:28:13.079 --> 01:28:16.439 guarantee that you did last year. So while you're bullish, 1733 01:28:16.800 --> 01:28:18.960 I'm bearish on the guarantee aspect. 1734 01:28:19.079 --> 01:28:23.119 I mean, yeah, theologic makes makes sense. Yeah, we we 1735 01:28:23.279 --> 01:28:26.960 don't know how they're changing, you know, maybe they're doing yeah, 1736 01:28:27.039 --> 01:28:28.319 less starting flights, but. 1737 01:28:29.279 --> 01:28:31.600 They had they had three starting flights the first year, 1738 01:28:31.640 --> 01:28:32.520 and then last year they had. 1739 01:28:32.479 --> 01:28:34.399 Four starting Maybe they go back to three, but they 1740 01:28:34.399 --> 01:28:36.279 play a little later, you know, they play a little 1741 01:28:36.279 --> 01:28:37.399 deepest so people can bus. 1742 01:28:37.800 --> 01:28:40.319 Or maybe it's three with unlimited reentry, because I think 1743 01:28:40.359 --> 01:28:40.960 it was one. 1744 01:28:41.560 --> 01:28:43.960 Remember they add that. Maybe they add day two registration, 1745 01:28:44.039 --> 01:28:44.479 you don't know. 1746 01:28:44.640 --> 01:28:46.560 Or maybe it was freeze out per flight. I can't remember. 1747 01:28:47.520 --> 01:28:50.039 It definitely wasn't unlimited entry, so oh. 1748 01:28:50.079 --> 01:28:52.560 Yeah, for sure it wasn't unlimited entry. And I want 1749 01:28:52.600 --> 01:28:54.960 to even say it was freeze out per flight. 1750 01:28:55.119 --> 01:28:57.399 You could anat I mean, chopping at day six off 1751 01:28:57.479 --> 01:29:00.319 somewhere is very easy, Like you's got to change the 1752 01:29:00.399 --> 01:29:02.960 level here or there, or keep them at sixty minute levels, 1753 01:29:02.960 --> 01:29:04.840 stuff like that. So yeah, we really have to wait 1754 01:29:04.880 --> 01:29:07.439 to see how it. You know, I just hope they 1755 01:29:07.479 --> 01:29:10.600 don't drop the guarantee, keep it the same. 1756 01:29:10.680 --> 01:29:12.319 I mean, yeah, I just don't see how there's any 1757 01:29:12.359 --> 01:29:16.039 way that they dropped the guarante. They don't drop the guarantee. 1758 01:29:16.279 --> 01:29:18.520 I mean, I don't know has there been any We 1759 01:29:18.720 --> 01:29:20.720 would have to go through the last twenty years of 1760 01:29:20.840 --> 01:29:24.079 WPT history, but has there any been any times where 1761 01:29:24.079 --> 01:29:25.479 they've done something like this where they've had a big 1762 01:29:25.479 --> 01:29:28.079 guarantee and dropped it, Like you know, seminoles seems to 1763 01:29:28.079 --> 01:29:31.880 be the main place for guarantees on the WPT, But 1764 01:29:32.039 --> 01:29:33.079 have they ever gone back? 1765 01:29:34.359 --> 01:29:35.119 Is it precedent? 1766 01:29:36.199 --> 01:29:39.079 No, not that I can think of. But you know, 1767 01:29:41.720 --> 01:29:45.680 is there precedent for going from fifteen million to forty 1768 01:29:46.399 --> 01:29:49.039 You don't know. So it's like that, and it's in 1769 01:29:49.159 --> 01:29:51.880 the in and of itself is a massive outlier, like 1770 01:29:51.960 --> 01:29:55.760 you would you would never jump to that, So it's 1771 01:29:55.800 --> 01:29:58.920 almost like you could probably just phrase it if you 1772 01:29:58.960 --> 01:30:02.399 pull back, which I am anticipate that they are. You know, listen, 1773 01:30:02.600 --> 01:30:05.600 we tried, we missed, We understand the climate, not a 1774 01:30:05.600 --> 01:30:07.800 big deal. But if we roll out twenty five million, 1775 01:30:07.840 --> 01:30:10.439 that's still huge. Like it's not you know, like that's 1776 01:30:10.520 --> 01:30:11.800 I think you just kind of have to take it 1777 01:30:11.840 --> 01:30:14.119 on the chin and own it, as opposed to if 1778 01:30:14.199 --> 01:30:16.840 you're if you try and hide it or deflect, I 1779 01:30:17.079 --> 01:30:20.239 think it just ends up looking worse for you versus 1780 01:30:20.239 --> 01:30:22.399 if you know, you just say, yeah, we tried to 1781 01:30:22.399 --> 01:30:27.760 go to forty, we missed, we understand the climate in 1782 01:30:27.800 --> 01:30:31.000 that timeframe, and you know we're going to go this 1783 01:30:31.079 --> 01:30:34.039 direction because we think that that's beneficial. And I think 1784 01:30:34.079 --> 01:30:36.960 you can then shift the messaging too. You know, at 1785 01:30:36.960 --> 01:30:40.680 the WPT we always put the players first, and they've 1786 01:30:40.720 --> 01:30:42.880 always said that the players are first. So once you like, 1787 01:30:43.880 --> 01:30:47.880 in a way admit defeat on the guarantee battle in December, 1788 01:30:48.199 --> 01:30:53.119 then you just shift it back to the player experience stuff, right, 1789 01:30:53.359 --> 01:30:55.760 And I think that's how you can how you can 1790 01:30:56.199 --> 01:30:58.439 ultimately win as best as you're going to win, if 1791 01:30:58.479 --> 01:31:02.920 not win overall. So that's what I would do. That's 1792 01:31:02.960 --> 01:31:06.000 the messaging that I would I would put forth. But 1793 01:31:06.279 --> 01:31:08.119 I don't think if you like try and hide that, 1794 01:31:08.199 --> 01:31:11.520 you're pulling back. It's it's gonna work. And I don't 1795 01:31:11.560 --> 01:31:13.680 think that if you come out with forty again, it's 1796 01:31:13.720 --> 01:31:17.319 gonna work. I mean, unless they have some crazy way 1797 01:31:17.359 --> 01:31:19.520 to do it. But you know, I just I just 1798 01:31:19.600 --> 01:31:21.800 couple the fact that I see two less days being 1799 01:31:21.840 --> 01:31:25.800 announced for it. I haven't seen as many qualifiers being 1800 01:31:25.840 --> 01:31:28.760 pushed for this sort of stuff. So I'm just I'm 1801 01:31:28.800 --> 01:31:32.640 curious for what's happening, you know. So, and I think 1802 01:31:33.800 --> 01:31:37.720 I think whin Las Vegas recently they dropped their Fall 1803 01:31:37.760 --> 01:31:43.439 Classic schedule, which takes place in October October fourth through 1804 01:31:43.520 --> 01:31:45.920 twenty eighth, and there's there's a satellite on the schedule, 1805 01:31:46.479 --> 01:31:51.239 satellite to the WPT World Championship. Three seats, I mean, yeah, 1806 01:31:51.239 --> 01:31:54.039 but I feel like these were just like there was 1807 01:31:54.159 --> 01:31:56.640 multiple five seat guarantees or there was a three and 1808 01:31:56.680 --> 01:31:58.399 then a five, like on all of their stuff, and 1809 01:31:58.439 --> 01:32:01.560 now it's just again, it just doesn't feel like they're 1810 01:32:01.600 --> 01:32:05.720 pushing it enough, which which isn't necessarily a bad thing. 1811 01:32:05.760 --> 01:32:08.560 It just tells me that that there's not the motivation 1812 01:32:08.640 --> 01:32:11.159 to push it because the guarantee ultimately won't. 1813 01:32:10.960 --> 01:32:11.640 Be that big. 1814 01:32:12.039 --> 01:32:14.079 Like if you know you have a forty million dollar 1815 01:32:14.119 --> 01:32:15.920 guarantee that you got to hit that you missed the 1816 01:32:16.000 --> 01:32:20.039 last year. You got to be throwing out satellites, you know, left, 1817 01:32:20.119 --> 01:32:22.680 right and center. So that's where I'm at with that. 1818 01:32:22.840 --> 01:32:25.560 So I think that, you know, it seems like we're 1819 01:32:25.600 --> 01:32:30.439 close in terms of the WPT guarantee being announced. I 1820 01:32:30.520 --> 01:32:33.159 will say this, they're doing a damn good job of 1821 01:32:33.680 --> 01:32:35.680 making sure that we talk about it over and over again. 1822 01:32:35.760 --> 01:32:35.920 Yeah. 1823 01:32:36.279 --> 01:32:38.520 The more they the more they hold out, you know, 1824 01:32:38.800 --> 01:32:41.159 the more they just put the breadcrumbs out there, the 1825 01:32:41.199 --> 01:32:44.119 more we continue to be like, where is this, Let's 1826 01:32:44.159 --> 01:32:47.159 talk about it some more, you know. So so I guess, 1827 01:32:47.199 --> 01:32:48.680 you know, kudos to them. I don't know if they 1828 01:32:48.720 --> 01:32:50.840 do that on purpose or if that just happened to 1829 01:32:51.199 --> 01:32:53.359 be a byproduct of it all. But it's working, okay, 1830 01:32:53.399 --> 01:32:57.079 it's it's working. And then just quickly on, So the 1831 01:32:57.159 --> 01:33:01.079 WPT Prime Championship same days, even days last year versus 1832 01:33:01.119 --> 01:33:03.359 seven days this year. Last year was the seventh through 1833 01:33:03.359 --> 01:33:07.640 the twelfth. This year is the eighth through the fourteenth. 1834 01:33:07.800 --> 01:33:10.640 So there's that, or sorry, last year was the seventh 1835 01:33:10.640 --> 01:33:12.399 through the twelfth. Then they delayed the final table to 1836 01:33:12.439 --> 01:33:16.119 the nineteenth, so so that'll be the same. And then 1837 01:33:16.359 --> 01:33:18.399 I also thought it was interesting that that last year 1838 01:33:18.399 --> 01:33:20.800 the Ladies Championship was three days and this year they 1839 01:33:20.840 --> 01:33:24.920 only have two days, So are they, you know, anticipating 1840 01:33:25.439 --> 01:33:28.640 a smaller turnout for that event as well. Last year 1841 01:33:28.720 --> 01:33:31.960 was December sixth through eighth. This year is December fourteenth 1842 01:33:32.039 --> 01:33:36.079 through fifteenth, is what they're listing. So so yeah, we'll 1843 01:33:36.119 --> 01:33:38.000 see how that all goes. But that could also be 1844 01:33:38.079 --> 01:33:41.000 maybe they do like a December fourteenth and fifteenth and 1845 01:33:41.079 --> 01:33:44.560 delay the final table. But I mean, but wouldn't you 1846 01:33:44.600 --> 01:33:47.680 put that on the schedule, Yes, you know, to let 1847 01:33:47.680 --> 01:33:49.199 people know that if you come out and play this 1848 01:33:49.239 --> 01:33:51.039 in final table, you might have to wait a week. 1849 01:33:51.520 --> 01:33:55.199 I think they should go nuts with this opener. If 1850 01:33:55.199 --> 01:33:57.359 they bring it back, the six hundred dollar opener, I 1851 01:33:57.359 --> 01:33:58.560 think it should be like a two and a half 1852 01:33:58.640 --> 01:34:01.520 or a three million dollar guarantee. I think they should 1853 01:34:01.520 --> 01:34:06.439 go nuts with the Prime Championship. That one K you know, 1854 01:34:06.479 --> 01:34:08.960 it got more than ten thousand entries last year it 1855 01:34:09.039 --> 01:34:11.439 was a five million dollars guarantee. Obviously blew that out 1856 01:34:11.479 --> 01:34:13.560 of the water. I think they should just come with 1857 01:34:13.560 --> 01:34:14.720 a ten million dollar guarantee. 1858 01:34:14.720 --> 01:34:18.000 There, WHOA, that's big. 1859 01:34:18.720 --> 01:34:21.279 That's how That's how I would attack this. I would say, okay, 1860 01:34:21.560 --> 01:34:23.800 because if you if you look at the WSFP Paradise 1861 01:34:23.800 --> 01:34:27.119 schedule and we've gone over this, the buy ins are massive. Yeah, 1862 01:34:28.319 --> 01:34:32.000 the lowest buyan is twenty five hundred dollars the lowest 1863 01:34:32.039 --> 01:34:34.479 buying like it's not like you know, and but that's 1864 01:34:34.560 --> 01:34:36.640 understandable because are you really going to travel to the 1865 01:34:36.640 --> 01:34:41.279 Bahamas to Atlantis, where we know it can be pricey, 1866 01:34:41.359 --> 01:34:45.319 and then just play a bunch of five hundreds? No, 1867 01:34:45.439 --> 01:34:48.399 I mean you're you're gonna play big stuff. Yeah, right, 1868 01:34:48.479 --> 01:34:50.000 so like you're gonna go down there, You're gonna play 1869 01:34:50.000 --> 01:34:51.680 a twenty five k, a ten kf five K, one 1870 01:34:51.720 --> 01:34:54.960 hundred k, fifty k, like all that sort of stuff. Now, 1871 01:34:55.000 --> 01:34:58.600 if you're WBT in the win, go the other way, 1872 01:34:59.319 --> 01:35:02.159 you know z when these people are zigging like you know, 1873 01:35:03.039 --> 01:35:06.039 so then you can you go nuts with like the 1874 01:35:06.039 --> 01:35:11.359 the one K Prime Championship, which aligns with everything that 1875 01:35:11.439 --> 01:35:13.279 I've seen from the World Poker Tour in the last 1876 01:35:13.359 --> 01:35:16.399 year a year and a half. Everything's been prime prime prime, 1877 01:35:17.119 --> 01:35:20.399 and it's been like less main tour, So push that. 1878 01:35:20.520 --> 01:35:22.279 So I would come out swinging with the six hundred 1879 01:35:22.319 --> 01:35:25.039 dollars one at the start last year was six dollars 1880 01:35:25.039 --> 01:35:27.920 one million dollar guarantee. I think they could easily do 1881 01:35:28.079 --> 01:35:30.880 six hundred two and a half or six hundred three 1882 01:35:30.920 --> 01:35:34.159 million easy. I think that's easy. And then I would 1883 01:35:34.199 --> 01:35:37.840 double the one k, make it a ten million dollar guarantee, 1884 01:35:37.840 --> 01:35:40.840 and I would swing for the fences there, which which 1885 01:35:40.920 --> 01:35:46.760 also takes less pressure off you pulling back on the 1886 01:35:46.760 --> 01:35:50.119 guarantee for the World Championship event, because if you say, hey, 1887 01:35:50.119 --> 01:35:54.159 we're pulling back here, but we're amplifying this stuff over there. 1888 01:35:54.760 --> 01:35:57.119 Because they already know the big players, they should have 1889 01:35:57.119 --> 01:35:58.800 a good idea that the big players are probably going 1890 01:35:58.880 --> 01:36:02.000 to go to the Bahama, But how do you get 1891 01:36:02.000 --> 01:36:04.279 the people that aren't going to the bombs? You have 1892 01:36:04.319 --> 01:36:08.840 a one K ten million dollar guarantee, that's what you do, Yeah, 1893 01:36:09.000 --> 01:36:10.880 or make it a one K fifteen million dollar guarantee 1894 01:36:10.880 --> 01:36:14.520 of your funeral? All right, seven man, they didn't settle 1895 01:36:14.560 --> 01:36:16.960 on last year. I would tell you that you have 1896 01:36:17.000 --> 01:36:19.960 a better chance of hitting a one K fifteen million 1897 01:36:20.000 --> 01:36:24.840 dollar guarantee versus hitting a ten K forty million dollar guarantee. 1898 01:36:25.359 --> 01:36:27.399 Yeah right, yeah, probably. 1899 01:36:28.880 --> 01:36:33.359 So anyway, all right, let's move on. Final little segment here. 1900 01:36:33.640 --> 01:36:38.560 Questions for you, buddy, Questions for you. I got five 1901 01:36:38.600 --> 01:36:43.560 of them, Okay, I want you to answer these seriously, okay, 1902 01:36:44.239 --> 01:36:47.840 like put your professional cap on. Don't just give me 1903 01:36:47.880 --> 01:36:51.600 the jokes, uring you be serious. The first question has 1904 01:36:51.600 --> 01:36:53.359 to do with the last topic that we just talked about, 1905 01:36:53.439 --> 01:36:57.720 WPT World Championship. We have the dates for the series, 1906 01:36:57.760 --> 01:36:59.560 we have the dates for the festival. I told you 1907 01:36:59.600 --> 01:37:02.079 that they're two less days for the World Championship than 1908 01:37:02.079 --> 01:37:06.680 the World last year. My first question is if it's 1909 01:37:06.760 --> 01:37:09.000 up to you, you're in charge, and you can, you 1910 01:37:09.000 --> 01:37:10.800 can say that you're in charge of WPT, You're in 1911 01:37:10.840 --> 01:37:12.680 charge of win whatever it is. You're in charge of 1912 01:37:12.720 --> 01:37:15.920 the guarantee. If the guarantee misses, it's on you, buddy, 1913 01:37:15.960 --> 01:37:18.319 it's on you. It's on your company. So if the 1914 01:37:18.359 --> 01:37:22.720 guarantees on you, what is the number you are coming with? 1915 01:37:22.800 --> 01:37:25.000 And we will see with your right Because they said 1916 01:37:25.479 --> 01:37:27.239 next week we're getting the guarantee. 1917 01:37:28.319 --> 01:37:29.800 I mean I already touched on it. I wouldn't go 1918 01:37:29.960 --> 01:37:32.319 back down. I'll keep it at forty million. The fact 1919 01:37:32.359 --> 01:37:34.039 you're telling you I have to pay for it myself 1920 01:37:34.079 --> 01:37:35.119 out of my pocket. 1921 01:37:34.840 --> 01:37:37.520 Well, no, the company, like you're in charge of you No, 1922 01:37:37.560 --> 01:37:37.840 I get it. 1923 01:37:37.880 --> 01:37:39.880 I would have Can we go back twelve months where 1924 01:37:39.920 --> 01:37:42.960 I started a very intensive satellite program to make sure 1925 01:37:43.000 --> 01:37:47.039 we have hundreds of qualifiers because here. 1926 01:37:47.239 --> 01:37:50.199 Because clearly that's not the case, Like clearly all that 1927 01:37:50.239 --> 01:37:52.960 stuff has happened. So because because that stuff would have 1928 01:37:53.000 --> 01:37:54.640 been already happening and we would have seen it. So 1929 01:37:54.800 --> 01:37:59.039 right now, like let's say you're in charge of WPT 1930 01:37:59.079 --> 01:38:02.039 and WIN offices. You're in all these meetings, right You're 1931 01:38:02.079 --> 01:38:05.479 you're the top dog. You're Adam Pliska, Like they're coming 1932 01:38:05.479 --> 01:38:08.439 to you with their suggestions, their analysis, whatever. But you 1933 01:38:08.560 --> 01:38:11.880 have to make the final call. You have to say, like, Okay, 1934 01:38:11.960 --> 01:38:15.399 I've taken all the information in, I've reviewed it all. 1935 01:38:15.479 --> 01:38:17.560 I got it. This is the number we're going with. 1936 01:38:18.560 --> 01:38:19.680 Yeah, I'm going with forty. 1937 01:38:20.640 --> 01:38:24.399 Wow, you're insane. You are out of your mind. 1938 01:38:24.680 --> 01:38:25.239 I can't. 1939 01:38:25.600 --> 01:38:28.840 I can't, I honestly cannot believe. I can't believe this 1940 01:38:28.880 --> 01:38:30.640 is a This is not a real answer for you. 1941 01:38:30.680 --> 01:38:31.920 Do you think I'm comfortable with it? 1942 01:38:32.000 --> 01:38:32.039 Not? 1943 01:38:32.359 --> 01:38:34.920 You are a knit There is no way you're going 1944 01:38:34.960 --> 01:38:35.920 forty million. 1945 01:38:35.720 --> 01:38:37.560 Going forty But like I said, if you're going to 1946 01:38:37.600 --> 01:38:39.239 put me in charge, that means we also have the 1947 01:38:39.279 --> 01:38:41.159 ability to go back in time a year. 1948 01:38:41.199 --> 01:38:43.199 And no, you don't have the ability to go back 1949 01:38:43.239 --> 01:38:44.159 in time right now. 1950 01:38:44.239 --> 01:38:48.079 I'm not going down. I'm not I'm not losing this battle. 1951 01:38:49.039 --> 01:38:52.159 Do you think that let's say, let's say they've decided 1952 01:38:52.199 --> 01:38:57.039 on forty, do you think they could still like roll 1953 01:38:57.039 --> 01:39:00.960 out satellites and stuff. I mean we still yeah, twentieth, Yeah, 1954 01:39:01.279 --> 01:39:02.319 you have some time. 1955 01:39:02.560 --> 01:39:05.600 You just go crazy on WPT Global. You you work 1956 01:39:05.640 --> 01:39:10.079 with all your partners around the world in Leuchtenstein and 1957 01:39:10.239 --> 01:39:15.279 Australia and run satellites like give like every seat is valuable, 1958 01:39:16.079 --> 01:39:18.640 you know, And there's there's once like we talk about 1959 01:39:18.680 --> 01:39:22.680 this once. You know, once you have some you hit 1960 01:39:22.720 --> 01:39:25.239 say twenty five satellite qualifiers, you make a big deal 1961 01:39:25.279 --> 01:39:27.199 about it. Then you hit the fifty, then you make 1962 01:39:27.239 --> 01:39:28.920 a big deal about it, You push it on. You 1963 01:39:28.960 --> 01:39:31.760 just keep you just ramp up as much promotion as 1964 01:39:31.800 --> 01:39:35.079 possible to promote that, Hey, we have I don't know, 1965 01:39:35.319 --> 01:39:36.760 I don't want to use the word dead money, but 1966 01:39:36.880 --> 01:39:38.760 we have some dead money in this. We have satellite 1967 01:39:38.840 --> 01:39:40.840 qualifiers and one there set for twenty dollars or a 1968 01:39:40.840 --> 01:39:44.840 free roll, and you look you're a bit behind the 1969 01:39:44.880 --> 01:39:45.279 eight ball. 1970 01:39:45.319 --> 01:39:47.840 But doesn't mean you can't. You don't just give up. 1971 01:39:47.920 --> 01:39:52.359 You have two months, right, well three months, you two 1972 01:39:52.399 --> 01:39:55.279 and a bit months whatever to really just go ham 1973 01:39:55.079 --> 01:39:57.680 on doing as much as you can to make sure 1974 01:39:57.720 --> 01:40:01.479 you don't miss that guarantee. Tell when more milestone. We 1975 01:40:01.520 --> 01:40:05.319 need a weekly use milestone satellies. We need step programs global, 1976 01:40:05.399 --> 01:40:08.239 we need step programs and milestones and everything. Just to 1977 01:40:08.279 --> 01:40:10.199 be all in, you have to be like two x 1978 01:40:10.239 --> 01:40:12.399 three x all in triple punt shoving. 1979 01:40:13.640 --> 01:40:16.680 I mean, if we obviously don't know what the guarantee is, 1980 01:40:16.720 --> 01:40:18.760 I mean, if the guarantee is fifteen million, then then 1981 01:40:19.159 --> 01:40:21.239 that's stuff that you're talking about. They're just not going 1982 01:40:21.319 --> 01:40:24.319 to do, probably right, But let's say you did. You 1983 01:40:24.359 --> 01:40:26.680 did settle on a big guarantee. I mean, you could 1984 01:40:26.680 --> 01:40:29.840 even do things like if you play the Prime Championship, 1985 01:40:29.880 --> 01:40:32.399 you get break free entry to the World Championship, like 1986 01:40:32.399 --> 01:40:34.760 like stuff like that. Yeah, you know, it's just I mean, yeah, 1987 01:40:34.800 --> 01:40:38.520 I know that that obviously costs money, but marketing costs money. 1988 01:40:38.560 --> 01:40:40.800 I mean that's just the world we live in. So 1989 01:40:41.439 --> 01:40:43.880 all that sort of stuff. I think I will be 1990 01:40:44.000 --> 01:40:46.680 very interested to see what they come with. Of course 1991 01:40:47.000 --> 01:40:49.680 they said they said we're getting the full schedule a 1992 01:40:49.720 --> 01:40:52.119 week from this announcement, which happened a couple of days ago. 1993 01:40:52.239 --> 01:40:53.760 Set with thirty five million. 1994 01:40:55.159 --> 01:40:56.920 The reason why I would be upset with thirty five 1995 01:40:56.960 --> 01:40:58.920 millions because I think that is a very stupid number. 1996 01:41:00.119 --> 01:41:04.520 Five million is like thirty five million is like if 1997 01:41:04.520 --> 01:41:06.800 you're gonna do thirty five, you just do forty first 1998 01:41:06.840 --> 01:41:08.680 of all, Like, there's what is five million? 1999 01:41:09.479 --> 01:41:10.279 It's five million? 2000 01:41:11.600 --> 01:41:14.800 But like if they drop it, like what are they 2001 01:41:14.800 --> 01:41:15.439 going to jump it to? 2002 01:41:17.000 --> 01:41:19.159 If you drop it, I think you go twenty five, 2003 01:41:20.159 --> 01:41:22.760 twenty or twenty five, which is an increase over the 2004 01:41:22.800 --> 01:41:25.119 first year, which I think can help you be like, listen, 2005 01:41:26.039 --> 01:41:28.920 we took our shot last year. We missed. You know, 2006 01:41:29.239 --> 01:41:32.920 maybe maybe it wasn't the correct course of action to 2007 01:41:33.000 --> 01:41:36.279 go from fifteen million to forty million, which I think 2008 01:41:36.359 --> 01:41:37.880 you and I would both agree, and we talked about 2009 01:41:37.920 --> 01:41:41.000 this before. Was wild that you would ever do that, 2010 01:41:41.479 --> 01:41:45.920 Like just absolutely wild. I mean, if we're going to 2011 01:41:45.960 --> 01:41:47.760 wind back the clock, which is what you're talking about, 2012 01:41:47.800 --> 01:41:50.199 you would you go to thirty million last year? Because 2013 01:41:50.199 --> 01:41:52.880 you got twenty eight or twenty nine, right, so you 2014 01:41:52.960 --> 01:41:55.159 just up it a little bit and you say, Okay, 2015 01:41:55.159 --> 01:41:58.439 we're going thirty like that's what we're doing, you know. 2016 01:41:58.600 --> 01:42:02.680 So I think pulling back to twenty five is is 2017 01:42:03.600 --> 01:42:08.000 like the community will will. I mean, they might make 2018 01:42:08.000 --> 01:42:09.840 a big deal out of it for a day or two, 2019 01:42:09.840 --> 01:42:11.760 but honestly they'll get over that. Now, if you do 2020 01:42:11.840 --> 01:42:14.359 something insane like come with ten million, I think you're 2021 01:42:14.399 --> 01:42:18.640 just then you're like, you're insane in the other direction, right. 2022 01:42:19.720 --> 01:42:22.319 But I think if you do pull back, which I 2023 01:42:22.359 --> 01:42:24.680 anticipate that they do, I think you need to come 2024 01:42:24.720 --> 01:42:28.279 with other stuff. So that's why I say, like, hey, yeah, 2025 01:42:28.319 --> 01:42:32.479 we're going twenty or twenty five million for the World Championship, 2026 01:42:32.600 --> 01:42:35.560 but we have this ten million dollar one K, we 2027 01:42:35.640 --> 01:42:37.680 have this three million dollars six hundred, you know, like 2028 01:42:38.279 --> 01:42:41.319 that sort of stuff. I mean, there's there's a WPT 2029 01:42:41.439 --> 01:42:45.800 coming up at Seminole in Florida. Their opening event is 2030 01:42:45.840 --> 01:42:48.520 a four hundred dollars two million dollar guarantee. 2031 01:42:48.600 --> 01:42:49.000 Jeez. 2032 01:42:49.359 --> 01:42:54.279 So it in my mind, everything that you do at 2033 01:42:54.279 --> 01:42:58.479 the quote unquote World Championship Festival of your tour should 2034 01:42:58.520 --> 01:43:00.760 be bigger than anything that's done on the rest of 2035 01:43:00.760 --> 01:43:03.239 the tour for the rest of the year. That's why 2036 01:43:03.319 --> 01:43:06.960 I say, if you open with a six hundred one 2037 01:43:07.000 --> 01:43:10.720 million or six hundred two million, I say, well, Seminole 2038 01:43:10.760 --> 01:43:14.039 did four hundred two million. Yeah, you gotta go point then, 2039 01:43:14.800 --> 01:43:17.159 So I'm like, just you know, six hundred two and 2040 01:43:17.199 --> 01:43:20.359 a half, six hundred whatever, you'll hit that. That's it's 2041 01:43:20.439 --> 01:43:22.800 easy to hit the numbers on the low buying scale 2042 01:43:22.840 --> 01:43:25.840 because that's where the volume comes from in poker. Like 2043 01:43:25.920 --> 01:43:30.520 that's why the WSP Colossus, the WSP Gladiator, like the 2044 01:43:30.560 --> 01:43:33.920 Mystery Millions, like all that sort of stuff does fifteen 2045 01:43:34.079 --> 01:43:38.119 twenty twenty five thousand entries because it's easier to get 2046 01:43:38.239 --> 01:43:40.199 entries from those price points than it is to get 2047 01:43:40.279 --> 01:43:43.279 entries from the high price points. So that that's where 2048 01:43:43.279 --> 01:43:45.600 I would go. So I would I would say, hey, yeah, 2049 01:43:45.640 --> 01:43:49.159 we're pulling back, but we're offering this like it's more basically, 2050 01:43:49.199 --> 01:43:54.520 we're making the WPT experience, which I think not only 2051 01:43:54.520 --> 01:43:56.560 do they hold at the highest regard, I think the 2052 01:43:56.560 --> 01:43:59.960 community holds the WPT experience at an extremely high regard. 2053 01:44:00.319 --> 01:44:06.520 We're making the WPT experience more accessible to everyone, not 2054 01:44:06.880 --> 01:44:10.399 just the ten thousand dollars player, the five thousand dollars player, 2055 01:44:10.439 --> 01:44:12.479 et cetera. Like we're making it accessible to the six 2056 01:44:12.520 --> 01:44:15.159 hundred dollars player, we're making it accessible to one thousand 2057 01:44:15.199 --> 01:44:18.680 dollars player, and everything from from six hundred up to 2058 01:44:18.760 --> 01:44:22.840 ten k. The WPT experience, the player experience that we 2059 01:44:23.079 --> 01:44:26.359 built the foundation of this company on. That is what 2060 01:44:26.880 --> 01:44:30.720 we are pushing and making accessible to everyone. That's how 2061 01:44:30.760 --> 01:44:34.760 I would go about it. That's the selling point. Anyway, 2062 01:44:35.000 --> 01:44:39.479 back to the questions, So you said forty, there's no shot. 2063 01:44:39.600 --> 01:44:43.359 You're out of your mind, all right. You've been really 2064 01:44:43.399 --> 01:44:46.159 into fitness and working out lately. We all know you're 2065 01:44:46.359 --> 01:44:49.039 you're sending me pictures all the time, like you got 2066 01:44:49.039 --> 01:44:51.079 your shirt off. It's just it's you pictures. 2067 01:44:51.279 --> 01:44:52.039 What are you talking about. 2068 01:44:52.319 --> 01:44:54.479 You did send me a picture with your shirt, but 2069 01:44:54.520 --> 01:44:56.239 you send me a picture with your shirt off, dripping 2070 01:44:56.279 --> 01:44:57.399 sweat in your garage. 2071 01:44:57.600 --> 01:45:00.920 You said coffee, and I'm like soon and I took 2072 01:45:00.920 --> 01:45:03.520 a photo. I was still working out, not sending you 2073 01:45:03.560 --> 01:45:04.680 pitches out of context. 2074 01:45:04.560 --> 01:45:06.119 Let's get that click. 2075 01:45:06.600 --> 01:45:07.920 I mean, I didn't ask you to send me a 2076 01:45:07.960 --> 01:45:09.920 picture of you naked. 2077 01:45:10.159 --> 01:45:11.000 I was not naked. 2078 01:45:11.199 --> 01:45:13.199 I mean, with how short those shorts were, you were 2079 01:45:13.239 --> 01:45:18.399 basically all right. So here's the deal. I saw your 2080 01:45:18.399 --> 01:45:21.720 abs in that photo. You don't have a six pack yet. 2081 01:45:22.079 --> 01:45:23.920 If I were to give you the option to have 2082 01:45:24.199 --> 01:45:28.520 the body from the neck down of Christiano Ronaldo, so 2083 01:45:28.680 --> 01:45:33.560 you're chiseled six pack, it's incredible and you could have 2084 01:45:33.640 --> 01:45:36.760 that body forever with doing extremely minimal work. You know, 2085 01:45:36.800 --> 01:45:38.520 you don't have to like be in the gym four 2086 01:45:38.520 --> 01:45:40.600 hours a day to maintain and stuff like that. But 2087 01:45:40.680 --> 01:45:44.000 the catch is you have to cut all ties with poker. 2088 01:45:44.119 --> 01:45:47.840 You can't work in the industry, you can't play anything, 2089 01:45:47.960 --> 01:45:50.680 you can't even be a Poker gro subscriber and watch 2090 01:45:50.760 --> 01:45:54.399 the game. Are you accepting the chiseled abs of steel 2091 01:45:54.479 --> 01:45:58.439 and the body of Christiano or are you sticking with poker? 2092 01:45:58.640 --> 01:46:00.439 This is the easiest question about it, ask me, and 2093 01:46:00.520 --> 01:46:06.119 this answer is no, taking what not taking Christiano's body? Wow, 2094 01:46:06.399 --> 01:46:09.680 I can get that eventually, hopefully, fingers cross, I'm not 2095 01:46:09.720 --> 01:46:12.079 giving up poker for that. That's too cheap of a 2096 01:46:12.079 --> 01:46:14.079 price point six pack. 2097 01:46:14.000 --> 01:46:18.960 Nine, I mean, okay, who knows? All right, if you 2098 01:46:19.000 --> 01:46:22.600 had the power to force one poker player to play 2099 01:46:22.640 --> 01:46:25.479 a full schedule of PGT events for an entire season. 2100 01:46:26.000 --> 01:46:27.600 Who would it be and. 2101 01:46:27.560 --> 01:46:33.039 Why gotta be my boy Phil Ivy. I just want 2102 01:46:33.039 --> 01:46:35.319 to see him in the studio playing every event, you know, 2103 01:46:35.479 --> 01:46:38.720 I think the go to answer is is feil Helm 2104 01:46:38.720 --> 01:46:43.880 with but he does come and play events. So I 2105 01:46:43.920 --> 01:46:48.439 want Ivy in the studio grinding five k's grinding ten, 2106 01:46:48.520 --> 01:46:51.439 k's grinding, the fifteens, the twenty five is playing everything. 2107 01:46:51.960 --> 01:46:52.600 That's my goal. 2108 01:46:54.880 --> 01:46:59.880 I would say I got a couple. I would say 2109 01:47:00.239 --> 01:47:09.720 Jason Mercier, Sean Deeb, Jason kuh I want to see 2110 01:47:09.760 --> 01:47:13.039 Coon in the fives and the tents play and everything. 2111 01:47:13.640 --> 01:47:15.239 I want to see if he really is the best 2112 01:47:15.279 --> 01:47:16.720 of the I mean he probably is the best of 2113 01:47:16.720 --> 01:47:18.359 the best, of course, yes, but I want to see 2114 01:47:18.359 --> 01:47:18.840 it in action. 2115 01:47:20.439 --> 01:47:23.720 D would be good. I would take Deep over over Kuhn. 2116 01:47:24.800 --> 01:47:30.560 I'd take Mercier over D. But I'm also thinking, like Ivy, 2117 01:47:30.600 --> 01:47:32.560 I think draws better if he get if he makes. 2118 01:47:32.359 --> 01:47:34.840 At Ivey is obviously a good one, you know, I'm 2119 01:47:34.880 --> 01:47:37.159 I I just am picking those other ones because you 2120 01:47:37.359 --> 01:47:41.279 took ay, you know, so so yeah. Another one that 2121 01:47:41.399 --> 01:47:43.920 somebody brought up recently in one of the YouTube chats 2122 01:47:43.920 --> 01:47:48.159 for our live streams Vanessa selves, that's a good one, Like, 2123 01:47:48.359 --> 01:47:50.319 you know, have her come back like she was obviously 2124 01:47:50.359 --> 01:47:52.479 at the top of her game basically when she walked away, Like, 2125 01:47:52.680 --> 01:47:54.279 you know, having her come back, that would be cool 2126 01:47:54.399 --> 01:47:57.239 to see her in there battling and seeing how she 2127 01:47:57.239 --> 01:48:00.239 she does against the field these days. So so yeah, 2128 01:48:00.239 --> 01:48:05.079 all right, same question, but pick an athlete or a celebrity, 2129 01:48:05.119 --> 01:48:07.039 so not a poker player. And if you had the 2130 01:48:07.079 --> 01:48:09.279 power to force that athlete or celebrity to play a 2131 01:48:09.319 --> 01:48:12.119 full schedule of PGT events for an entire season, who 2132 01:48:12.199 --> 01:48:12.760 would it be? 2133 01:48:13.520 --> 01:48:18.319 And why is Lebron James? The layup answer here is that, 2134 01:48:18.439 --> 01:48:26.359 like would that bring the most cloud or most athlete? 2135 01:48:26.479 --> 01:48:31.159 I mean, Lebron would be amazing, right, I. 2136 01:48:31.199 --> 01:48:33.680 Feel like it has to for thinking about the grow 2137 01:48:33.800 --> 01:48:36.479 trying to grow the PGT in a way, I feel 2138 01:48:36.479 --> 01:48:38.359 like has to be an American, has to be someone 2139 01:48:38.399 --> 01:48:41.840 in sports that has an audience that is in that 2140 01:48:41.960 --> 01:48:44.720 age range of that can gamble. 2141 01:48:45.640 --> 01:48:49.479 If you injected, if this worked out, this hypothetical and 2142 01:48:49.520 --> 01:48:51.840 you were able to put Lebron James in events, I 2143 01:48:51.840 --> 01:48:55.199 would think there would be a lot of people that 2144 01:48:55.239 --> 01:48:57.720 would be like if I just go play this five ky, 2145 01:48:57.800 --> 01:48:59.159 get to play with Lebron James. 2146 01:48:59.239 --> 01:48:59.960 That's what I'm thinking. 2147 01:49:00.039 --> 01:49:02.920 I mean they that had that like there are there 2148 01:49:02.920 --> 01:49:04.960 are you can probably count them, you know what. 2149 01:49:05.039 --> 01:49:07.159 No, no, got a number of people who have that pull. 2150 01:49:07.199 --> 01:49:09.560 I think I'm changing my answer. Lebron James is good. 2151 01:49:09.560 --> 01:49:14.399 I think Lebron James's audience skews us and younger. Okay, 2152 01:49:14.640 --> 01:49:18.239 and it also skews NBA. Like following basketball, you don't 2153 01:49:18.239 --> 01:49:20.199 really need a lot of money, you just watch basketball. 2154 01:49:20.760 --> 01:49:22.479 I'm thinking I need to think of a richer sport. 2155 01:49:23.000 --> 01:49:27.000 So I'm thinking golf. I'm thinking Tiger Woods because the 2156 01:49:27.039 --> 01:49:29.520 people that want to sit and play with Tiger Woods 2157 01:49:30.039 --> 01:49:32.439 have the money to play ten k's twenty five ks. 2158 01:49:33.319 --> 01:49:36.279 So I mentioned you have twenty five's and fifteen's and 2159 01:49:36.399 --> 01:49:38.760 fifty k We bring the fifty k's back, bring the 2160 01:49:38.800 --> 01:49:41.199 hunter k's back. I think there would be a good 2161 01:49:41.279 --> 01:49:44.960 appetite for people that want to play poker with Tiger Woods. 2162 01:49:46.279 --> 01:49:48.640 Tiger Woods is my answer. Now change it, Lebron, You're out. 2163 01:49:48.920 --> 01:49:51.119 Mine would be a completely selfish answer, but it would 2164 01:49:51.159 --> 01:49:53.039 be Charles Barkley because it would be an f. 2165 01:49:53.079 --> 01:49:54.800 And right it would be. That'd be great. 2166 01:49:54.920 --> 01:50:00.199 Yeah, and just him, you know, you know, Barkley Gambles like, 2167 01:50:00.239 --> 01:50:02.039 it would just be like absolutely wild. 2168 01:50:02.079 --> 01:50:03.720 That would be a good one. Yeah yeah, I mean. 2169 01:50:03.680 --> 01:50:06.000 Not that it would necessarily do anything in the It's 2170 01:50:06.079 --> 01:50:08.600 just like more of a selfish answer, but that's what 2171 01:50:08.720 --> 01:50:12.000 I would pick, all right. The NFL season is, uh, 2172 01:50:12.159 --> 01:50:14.760 moving on to Week three. You're a Broncos fan, so 2173 01:50:14.960 --> 01:50:16.720 I mean, you're not going to answer them for this question. 2174 01:50:17.000 --> 01:50:18.600 Who is winning the Super Bowl? 2175 01:50:20.680 --> 01:50:24.600 I mean the chunky answer is the Chiefs, right, but 2176 01:50:24.640 --> 01:50:26.039 the Jets look pretty okay. 2177 01:50:25.840 --> 01:50:28.920 Last night, so I don't know. I'm going with the Chiefs. 2178 01:50:28.960 --> 01:50:31.760 It's hard to bet against Pat Mahomes. 2179 01:50:32.720 --> 01:50:35.279 Oh yeah, I mean yeah, I don't know. 2180 01:50:35.279 --> 01:50:37.399 How it's a boring answer, but well yeah, but still 2181 01:50:37.439 --> 01:50:39.159 I don't want to see the Chiefs wing. I'd rather 2182 01:50:39.239 --> 01:50:43.239 say anyone else. Lions would be good, Jets would be 2183 01:50:43.239 --> 01:50:44.239 pretty awesome. 2184 01:50:44.359 --> 01:50:46.840 The Lions would be great. I think the Lions are 2185 01:50:46.840 --> 01:50:48.840 the Jets, And honestly, if it was, that would be 2186 01:50:49.000 --> 01:50:53.119 like my ideal super Bowl matchup Lions versus the Jets, 2187 01:50:53.199 --> 01:50:59.039 because both teams are pretty good now, they've just had 2188 01:50:59.159 --> 01:51:00.720 a drought forever. 2189 01:51:01.000 --> 01:51:02.640 Yeah, so like. 2190 01:51:02.680 --> 01:51:08.039 Just the the heartbreak and the devastation that those two 2191 01:51:08.079 --> 01:51:11.439 fan bases have gone through, and then the chance to 2192 01:51:11.600 --> 01:51:14.720 win the Super Bowl, and then you would you would 2193 01:51:14.720 --> 01:51:21.840 get guaranteed jubilation and guaranteed heartbreak, like in the same game. 2194 01:51:21.960 --> 01:51:23.520 That that's my ideal matchup. 2195 01:51:23.960 --> 01:51:24.399 That is it? 2196 01:51:24.880 --> 01:51:25.439 That is it? 2197 01:51:25.760 --> 01:51:25.880 So? 2198 01:51:26.840 --> 01:51:29.159 All right? You got anything else for me? 2199 01:51:29.359 --> 01:51:29.520 No? 2200 01:51:29.520 --> 01:51:32.199 No, We've been talking for hours. Yeah, this is the 2201 01:51:32.199 --> 01:51:35.640 longest podcast ever, but it doesn't. Rich good luck, Rich 2202 01:51:35.720 --> 01:51:38.920 is right, all right? Cool as always. Oh, I have 2203 01:51:39.000 --> 01:51:40.720 to tell people about one more thing. Sorry, and if 2204 01:51:40.760 --> 01:51:42.720 they're at the end of this episode, then you know, 2205 01:51:43.159 --> 01:51:50.840 great cool NPT Gold Pass giveaway for Poker Goro subscribers. 2206 01:51:51.600 --> 01:51:54.520 If you are an annual subscriber to poker Go, you 2207 01:51:54.560 --> 01:51:58.119 have a chance to be entered into the NPT Gold 2208 01:51:58.159 --> 01:52:00.880 Pass giveaway and then ultimately win a gold pass. 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