Speaker 1: Hello everyone, and welcome back to a new episode of
The Poker Show Podcast. My name is Donny Peters. His
name is Tim Duckworth. We are recording from the Poker
gro studio down on the Las Vegas Strip. It is
about ten thirty at night. I'm sure the Vegas Golden
Knights hockey game. The crowd from that game is on
its way out, so at least we'll be chilling here
for a little while as we recap what happened down
at the studio today. Big day, as we get into
everything as it pertains to the p g T Million
Dollar Championship that is taking place tomorrow. Hopefully you guys
are listening to this in the morning of that two
day event to get you prepped and ready to go
for everything that's going to happen. We know the field,
we know who's eligible. Granted they all have to show up, yes,
but high likelihood that I would say ninety eight percent
of them do. Today was a big day on the
Poker Go Tour. First, we wrapped up the PGT Last
Chance Series Event number six wrapped up. Tim and I
can talk about that and how it played into the
overall standings. The big race for the PGT Championship qualification
and all that sort of stuff, and then we had
Playing out is the Dream Seat Invitational, from which six
people won Dream Seats to get into the PGT Million
Dollar Championship. So big day overall on the PGT. As
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Championship PGT Last Chance. We'll hit on Last Chance. First,
we had our second two time winner from the series.
Shannon Shore captured the title in the final events the
sixth event of the sixth event series. He took home
two hundred and ninety thousand dollars. So last time we spoke,
we were entering the final table of event number three, right,
So we had Nick Shulman winning the opening event, we
had Shannon Shore winning the second event. Then there was
that day off, Tim and I recorded a show. We
talked about how Brandon Wilson had the chip lead going
into event number three. Well, guess what, Brandon Wilson won it.
And not only that, Brandon Wilson went on to win
the next event, so back to back titles for him.
Then it was Martin's Monni winning event number five, and
then Shannon Shore back in the winners circle for event
number six. This event number six was a sweat for everyone.
One hundred and sixteen entries in this one really good turnout.
Across the entire series, numbers held strong. What was the
average one sixteen pretty much? Yeh yeah, so I mean
really really good turnout. Everyone was sweating it. One of
the biggest sweats in this final event was two people,
Boris Angelov and Jonathan Tomio. They are some of the
players who had enough points to be positioned in the
top forty of the PGT leaderboard, but as Tim and
I have mentioned before, they needed to get to a
third cash in order to be eligible. There is a
three cash requirement in PGT events in order to be
eligible for the PGT Million Dollar Championship. So you need
two things. You need enough points to meet into the
top forty. You also need at least three PGT cases.
Of course, you guys likely know Tomio one the twenty
twenty four Doubles to Be main event. That's where he
got the bulk of his points. Boris Angelov got fifth
in the WASP main event. That's where he got the
bulk of his points. So they had a lot of
points from the WASP main event, but still needed to
get a third cash. They had gone over and everything
that they played up until this point the final event,
and they both made it in Can you believe it?
Speaker 3: Sir?
Speaker 2: I can you have faith? I had faith they were
gonna make it. They were pleading to the poker God,
especially Jonathan.
Speaker 1: Unfortunately Jonathan Tomorrow was for sure pleading to the book.
Speaker 2: Ye down and uh, but they got in. So that
was a great showing. You know, baris obviously traveling from
Bulgaria to come play these last start he did. He
missed the first two events, I believe, but he got
his cash. That's all that matters. Same with Jonathan, you know,
probably took a few more events than he was planning
on taking, but at least he's in there, got a
chance to uh make a run in the upcoming pg
T million dollars Championship.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So Tomayo had been you know, after he made
the run at the World Series of Poker and won
the Wspmian events and he had to get that third cash.
He played the NAPT events that we partnered with there,
the high rollers that were part of that schedule to
get a third cash obviously missed out. He was at
the Texas Plow roundup down at our partner champions Club.
He blanked out there and then you know, of course
he's here and he's firing away, but he's going over,
and then of course final event comes up, he ends
up getting into the money. He cashed in eighth place,
So probably a bit of a loser on the series,
but he can all he can make it all up
in the PGT Championship event. Boris Angelov did a bit
better in this event, ultimately finished second place to Shannon Shore.
He took home just under one hundred and eighty one
thousand dollars and then it was Shannon Shore up on
top with two hundred and ninety k some other sweats.
At this final final table, you had two players. You
had Dylan Lindy and you had Jeremy Becker. Now there
was kind of two pathways that they were working to
the PGT Championship event. So Lindy, if he got first
place in this event, then he would he would have
enough points to be in the top forty of the leaderboard,
which would then get him into the PGT Championship. Or
if he finished in second place, he would leap frog
Martin Zemani on the series leaderboard to finish in one
of those top three spots, and those top three spots
then got you in to the PGT Championship via the
dream seats that were given away at the series. Now,
also given Lindy's position, he was going to be guaranteed
to play in the Dream Seat Invitational no matter what
happened today. And fortunately for him, at least he got
to play in that Dream Seat Invitational because he bombed
out in seventh plays at the final table. First one
to go Jeremy Becker. So he needed to finish in
the top three to get into the top forty of
the PGT leader board, or he needed to finish fourth
or fifth so top five to get into the Dream
Seat Invitational. He could not get enough points to get
up to winning one of the dream seats without also
qualifying for the top forty leaderboard, so you can forget
about that. So for him, six players left, he's just
got to go one more spot in order to in
order to guarantee the fact that he can continued the
quest for the championship right now. I don't know if
you saw his bust out. I don't think I agree
with it, but.
Speaker 2: We had different thoughts on how he should play, and
we saw him put out on different thoughts. You had
very similar thoughts oh okay. They were very different to
his thoughts where he said I'm gone for first.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I didn't know if he was, like that
was just something he put out there on social and
like whatever, I mean for him. It was interesting because
everyone left. So when there were six players UF, it
was Shannon Show, Boris angelov Renlin, Shawn Winter, and Steven
Chidwick in addition to Becker. Shannon Shore having won the
event already, having had this obviously made it to the
position that he was in at this final table. He
was going to get one of those dream seats, okay,
and then everyone else is in the top forty okay.
So it was an interesting dynamic because for Becker it
was essentially a satellite yes to at least get into
the top five, if not, try and satellite yourself into
the top three. For everyone else, they could just do
whatever they want, play it like a normal tournament, right,
So that interesting dynamic was at play. Becker gets dealt
the Queen nine suited Queen nine of clubs under the
gun six handed believe he had eight point three maybe
eight point three, one two five big blinds. He elected
to ultimately go with it. He did one of those
committing raises folded around to Boris Angelov in the Big Blind,
he had King Queen suited. He put the money in, uh,
Becker called it off, and Becker could not come from
behind there. I personally would fold that hand. I think
it's worth thinking about, but ultimately I think you got
to put it in the muck, just given that this
is like a satellite situation for Becker. I mean probably
Queen ten suited. I think about Queen Jack stud. I
think I'm in there. So I'm not saying it's it's
anything egregious, Like I think it's worth considering. Yes, you know,
I think I do you know lean to what you're saying.
Where Becker at the end of the day was like
probably thought, okay, gotta kind of play to win type
of thing. That said, I think it was more important
for him to do the best that he could to
get into the free roll, and at least I know that, like,
he wasn't guaranteed to get into the free roll if
he got fourth or fifth, because he would still need
to compete in the Dream Seed Invitational and then finish
top six in that event. But once you get to
five handed, if you can maneuver your way to five
handed play, and your ultimate goal is getting in the
top three, because then that gets you into the top forty.
That gets you into the championship for sure. Then at
least when you get to five, you have like that
that nice cushion, that that net that if you you know,
get the Queen nine and you want to jam it, Okay, fine,
you know, at least you're gonna fall back on the
fact that you're in the Dream Seat Imitational. His fallback,
as he put on social media after, was off to
the win six hundred. So he's down the street playing
at the win. He will not be competing in the
PGT Championship because he finished in sixth place in this event.
Speaker 2: Don't you think it's better for him once you get
to six regardless of the people's chips, decks leave. I'm
joking literally just folded. I mean, maybe play aces, but
like vuote every other hand because I.
Speaker 1: Mean, you have to play a little bit wider than aces,
I think, or you're just gonna like it. I Mean,
here's the thing. The other players, I believe were well
aware of the situation as well, So like, I don't
think they're going to necessarily do anything too crazy.
Speaker 2: But think about the people you have. You have Sean Winter,
you have the greatest short steck. You don't think these
guys are trying to pressure each other to try and
win too, so they could easily be some clash with
should Wick. Four bet rips the Ice five suit into
Rendland's Ice Queen, and he.
Speaker 1: Actually had a chance to for bet rip the Ace
five suit and he just folded it. These knits, I
think that hand was Redlin opened Shaan Winter three bit
Chidwick found the Ace five suit and put it in
the mucker. I mean understandable, yes, But I'm just saying
I don't think these guys were very willing to just
get after it a ton. And I think they from
what I saw when I was doing the commentary, it
did seem like they were doing the dance, you know,
doing the tiptoeing around things, knowing that Becker had to
do a certain thing and that was probably on his mind.
So so yeah, I mean, who knows either way. You know,
I think that I think it's safe to say that,
you know, Becker coming out here playing all season long
on the PGT, getting close to the top forty, you know,
I think he's somebody who's here to stay. Yeah, he's
gonna be you know, grinding those win six hundreds and
all that sort of stuff regularly. But you know, I
expect to see him at the kickoff coming up in
a week or so. You know, I expect to see
him firing plenty of PGT stuff throughout the twenty twenty
five seasons. So as far as I'm concerned, Jeremy Becker
has arrived. You know. Now he just kind of needs
to take the next step. And as it pertains to
the PGT, Like he won a PGT event this season,
he had say, right around eight hundred points finished, you know,
near the top forty. You know, he was contending in
several events. I know Daniel Legrand who has talked about
it many times that you know, Jeremy very much looks
the part, acts the part, plays the part when he's
in the studio playing these events. So I would expect
all of that sort of stuff to continue, and then
we'll see if he can raise the bar again take
that next step, which is qualify for next season's championship events.
So left to be determined if it happens. But you know,
that's how things played out today for not only Jeremy Becker,
but also Dylan Lindy, you know, just missing out. And then,
as I mentioned, Shannon Shore goes on to win the
whole thing, the second win of the series for him.
Kind of crazy that we had six events but only
four winners. Yeah, what's up with that?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 1: You're making it too easy for some of these guys.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to think, what's the macho manphrase, cream of
the Ooh, yeah, whatever. Brandon Wilson, it's his time, Shannon Shaw,
it's his time, and now they're in the big dance.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean these two guys. I mean, Shannon Shore
obviously didn't finish on the top forty. Either did Brandon Wilson.
Speaker 2: Both very close though, just as so.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, listen, it must feel really freaking good
to have this sort of confidence, have this sort of momentum,
you know, just really have the wind at you're back
as you're coming into this championship event. Right, You've obviously
performed super well at this series. You know that you
can hang with these caliber of players. Because a large
majority of people playing in the PGT Last Chance Series
are gonna be playing in the PGG Championship event. You know,
they are top notch high stakes players. You know, they're
all tournament grinders. They know what they do, they're doing,
they're experienced, they're skillful, all that sort of stuff. So
Suore getting two wins, Brandon Wilson getting two wins, you know,
I think really does bode well for them confidence wise
going into the PGT Championship. And you know, so don't
sleep on them going into the PDT Championship. Now that said,
they're gonna start with a little less chips than some
of the other players, right, yeah, because the dream Seat
winners start with how many big lines.
Speaker 2: You mean, Shannon Martin and Brandon.
Speaker 1: Well, all the dream Seat winners in general, But are
they different. They're differentyea, oh, they're different.
Speaker 2: Yeah, those three will start with one hundred and twenty
five big blinds. The fortieth player, for example, on the
lead aboard starts at one hundred and thirty big blinds
and then it goes up.
Speaker 1: So yeah, so that's how it works out. And then
of course we had the dream Seed Invitational playing out,
which had twenty five entries in it. Do you can
you tell me who advanced? I know, ket.
Speaker 2: Alan Keating advanced. He had every chip in the room
from like pretty much twenty players out. I don't know
what's happened, but Alan Keating he did advance. Another player
that has played some PGT EVN, Zachary Gretch, he also advanced.
And then we had George Kasanas. And then we had
two Poker Goo annual subscriber winners by monthly drawings. Joe
Siico Junior. That name Israel.
Speaker 1: Joe Sico Sico wins PGT Write It Now Baby.
Speaker 2: The other annual subscriber was Rudolph Rothamund and Rudy Rudy Believe.
And the final dream Seat winner was a person that
won through our gleam social media promotions. A couple of
retweets here and there's some likes that kind of stuff,
Philip Johnston. So they are the six dream Seat winners
from the dream Sea Invitational. They'll be starting the PGT
Championship with one hundred Big blinds and yeah, the final
six people to qualify for this fifty entrant field.
Speaker 1: That's great. Yeah, So when we tell you guys we're
doing this promotion, we're doing that promotion. This is ultimately
what could happen to you, Like Tim said, maybe you
fire off some retweets, maybe you respond to some stuff
like a couple of posts. Follow this page, follow that page,
whatever it may be. Maybe your Poker Co annual subscriber,
whatever the case may be. We generally have several promotions
running throughout the year that you can win really cool
things with, and like Tim mentioned, some of those winners
are now competing in the PGT Million Dollars Championship with
a chance to win half a million dollars. Also, as
a result of the festivities here at the studio, you
had Jeremy Osmus locking up PGT Player of the Year honors,
not that we weren't confident that he was gonna do so.
Tim and I talked about it on some previous episodes.
That lead that he had coming into the PGT Last
Chance Series was a very big one for Jeremy Osmas,
so likely in insurmountable lead, especially when second place Daniel
mcgrowney was not going to be playing at the PGT
Last Chance Series. And then, you know, just for good measure,
Jeremy Alins went out and finished second place in event
number four. He finished runner up to Brandon Wilson, but
he did add one hundred and seventy six dollars in
prize money one hundred and seventy seven points there, so
he was able to get closer to three thousand. Think
he finished the season with twenty nine hundred and sixty
six points twenty six. Huh yeah, so close to three thousand,
twenty six cashes over five million dollars. One he had
won victory. So Jeremy Osmas absolutely positively showed out on
the PGT this season. Congratulations to him. He joins Steven
Chidwick and Isaac Haxton as PGT Player of the Year winners.
Chidwick won it in twenty twenty two, the first official
year the award, and then Isaac Hackston won it last year,
and then this year. Of course Jeremy Osmas. And one
of the benefits, well, two of the benefits. One, he
gets a fifty thousand dollars prize. Cool awesome, love it.
Two he gets to start the PGT Million Dollar Championship
with the most chips. How many big blinds is he
gonna start with? Sir?
Speaker 2: He starts with three hundred and fifty big blinds. There
you go. That's but he's already complained about it.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, what what's what now?
Speaker 2: If we were running it the same as Lasia, he
would have started with two hundred and ninety seven big.
Speaker 1: Blinds, but the gap would be bigger.
Speaker 2: But the gap would be bigger, and he cares about
the gap. I tried to give you more chips, tried
to make it nice and fair for all these PoCA
players and of course.
Speaker 1: Complaints. I like last year is way better because it
because it incentivizes Jeremy, like somebody like Jeremy, even if
he's in first place, like he didn't have to play
any of these events, and he would have started with
the same number of big lines, the same gap between
first and second. But it incentivizes players to play as
much as possible because they can gain more chips every
time they get more points. I personally think that's a
better way I get because then you get people firing
to the end, even if they're absolutely locked in and
you can't get out of the top four.
Speaker 2: You didn't see the numbers. We hadn't feature Oh yeah
they were.
Speaker 1: Yeah, of course a lot of them were firing, But
you know, I think you might get a couple more firing.
There was there was people in the top forty that
weren't here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the main reason was to try and kind of wait,
it a little different on the lower end.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, I also think that, like I think to
Jeremy's point, I mean, he should be rewarded for having
such a big lead and crushing everyone else.
Speaker 2: He's rewarded with more signing chips than he would have
had lost yet, No.
Speaker 1: But it should be more. I'm on Jeremy's side personally here. Okay, listen,
I'm here against me, but whatever, I'm against you quite
a bit. We argue all the time.
Speaker 2: That's just one.
Speaker 1: I'm definitely against you. But whatever, it's fine. He's still
gonna start with the most chips. So it is what
it is. Just let me look at the PGT leader
board as I pull it up right now. Who else
we got in there? So we got Jeremy Osmas number one,
number two, Daniel Legrand New I know he didn't play
the PGT Last Chance Series, but he will be here
on Friday for the PGT Million Dollars Championship set. Davies
is in third. He played a couple PGT Last Chance
Series events. Michael Rocco, he's coming, you know, he's already here.
Jesse Loani is Yeah, but isn't he playing not Nolham
at Holden, which I think is a little weird, Like.
Speaker 2: I like he's just getting he's getting the gro Like I.
Speaker 1: If it was me, right, I would play at least
one last chance event just to like get especially for Yeah,
you playing here, you get to feel out things like
you know, how does the clockwork when you're playing? Like
you know, what is it like just sitting in these
chairs and being in this atmosphere and what's the tournament
staff like? And the dealers and you get the battle
with some of the players that you then might be
battling with, Like you know, it's just it's practice. You know,
I would not come in cold. You know, someone like
a Daniel Legrando I think is a little bit different
because he's in here for every single event that we have.
You know, he just happened to take this one off,
so I don't think he's someone that might need the practice.
But you know, Michael Rocco isn't in the studio all
the time, like he got the large majority of his
points from the WSP. So if I was him, I
would be here playing, even if it's just the final
event just to get in there, you know again, start
just feeling it, get going through the motions, all that
sort of stuff. Jonathan Tomayo is sixth on the leaderboard.
We mentioned how he was able to get his third cash,
so he got his third cash during this series. Boris
Angelov got his third cash during this series, and then
another person from the wap Man Event Final Table, Brian Kim,
he got his third cash from the series. Unlike Angelov
and Tomayo, Kim got it in the first event of
the PGT last series, so he came in he got
that out of the way right away. He still played
all the other events, but you know he's in there
as well. Who are the players who didn't get it?
I know, Jason Segal he tried. No, I know he tried,
but I'm just saying they ultimately didn't didn't get it.
So just before you name all the names, I'll let
you get that prepared. Of the players that were in
the top forty that ultimately didn't get three cashes. So
what happens is they essentially get removed from the leader
board and everyone gets slotted up a spot. So if
you finished in forty sixth place and one player in
the top forty didn't get three cashes, that player is ineligible.
Then from or sorry, from forty first, then from forty
first you get bumped up to fortieth and you're in.
So who were those players I mentioned, Jason Segle being
one of them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so there was six in total that didn't have
enough enough cashes to qualify. One was Nicholas asked that
Jason Segle, who you mentioned, he was here playing the
first three events. He needed two cashes though, so hopefully
he was probably trying to rip one off early then
he could shoot for that third one. Matthew Lambresh, who
you know played all pokemases here, he did not return.
Andre's gonzales Ano, the WSP main event finalist, Elie Nakashi
the PLO WSP PLO when he needed one more dinner
make it. Malow Latinoir also needed two cash as he
did not come. So that's the six guys that gave
up their seats to the six just outside the top forty.
Speaker 1: And then who were the six that got in the
six lucky ones?
Speaker 2: Justin Saliba, you're in.
Speaker 1: Mattheeleva was in to start series. That's the thing that's
why this was like so crazy is you have these
people who are like in like thirty five through fortieth,
but then people below them like jump into the top
forty and then they get knocked out. And like, I'm
sure people I was here every day, but I was
largely in the commentary booth. I mean you were out
here on the floor. I'm sure people were like, where
am I, What do I gotta do? What position am I?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 1: Who bumped me out? All the like, I'm sure it
was crazy.
Speaker 2: We're going to get to a bad base, so don't worry.
But justin Saliva snuck in, Matthew Wantman snuck in, Jonathan
Little snuck in, Isaac Hackson, Sergio Aido, and Breck's gutten.
They will fill those six spots vacated by the guys
without the cashs. Let me tell you about this bad
beat Brock Wilson, he was started, I think he started
in fortieth or thirty ninth. He bricked every event and
he only needed three points, oh my god, to get
like from the very it. He yeah, he bricked everything.
Bryce Jockey had that early final table and then he
just just on the very last event got knocked out.
That's the same with Danny Tang got knocked out in
the last event. Sam Laskowitz got knocked out at it
in the last event, So pretty brutal for you know,
Danny wasn't here playing, but pretty brutal for Sam and
Bryce who were in for those last five events and
got knocked out. And obviously Brock was in until that
last event too, but went cashless during this series, So
pretty brutal for those guys. Yeah, it's it's pretty intense
out here because people knew what they needed. They knew
they needed like a men cash to go above this guy,
or they knew they needed this to get onto the
PGT Last Chance leaderboard and have a dream seat or
have a dream pass. So everyone knew. Everyone knew exactly
what they want, they knew who they want anti sweating,
even though they didn't want to admit it. You know,
every all win, especially as every event ticked on, was
like it just was more weight involved for each player.
So I think you know you're going to agree with me.
We love this kind of last leaderboard chase with so
many moving parts to quite.
Speaker 1: It also gives me a headache.
Speaker 2: It does. It gets very confusing. You have people I
have players asking me this, and I'm like, this is
the scenario, and then he's asking me this. I'm like, look,
there's like eighty nine different scenarios just involving you. I
can't really break them down. Just I kept telling these
players just win. I know that sounds like, you know,
but you control your destiny, Like you don't want to
put your destiny in other players. You want to control
it yourself. And the longer you stay in and you
hit the money, you start laddering up points, you start
laddering up places and make that final table, make a
run on the final table. You control you destiny. That's
the best way to kind of approach it and not sweat.
You know, you keep bringing up the Jim Callipe story
of Lossie is sitting at the bow, you know, sweating
some results you don't want to rely on that you
want taking in your own hands and uh get that,
get that big.
Speaker 1: W Yeah, I mean I agree, you know, you got
to kind of just take it into your own hands,
control your fate at least to the best of your ability,
and uh be able to get into this championship event.
I while a lot of the different scenarios, you know,
like I said, and you know, jokingly, because I do
love it. It gives me a popsicle headache. I definitely
can tell that it's working what we're doing now. I
think we definitely need to improve on a bunch of
things for next season. But that's fine. We can obviously
work to improve on things. And why I say that
I think that it's working is, you know, kind of
just two things. One is a little bit more easier
to get a grasp on, and that's the numbers in
this this season's Last Chance Series versus last seasons, numbers
had a big, big boost. Not only did the actual
numbers have a big big boost, but like the players
that were coming out, you know, a lot of new
faces being like, yeah, this is the last chance. I'm
aware of these dream seats on this leaderboard over here,
so I can just compete even though I might not
have any points whatsoever. So that tells me that, you know,
I think there is a fair amount of interest in
this series, and a growing interest at that. Okay, so
there's that, and then just secondary, you know, then this
is a little bit harder to measure, although I just
know from being in the room and being at the
studio and talking to these players and you know, whether
it's you know, going through text messages or dming with
them on like where they stand, what they need, all
this sort of stuff, Like there is for sure a
buzz and a feeling that you just get from being here.
And they care and they know And yeah, maybe they
don't know every single different scenario on how they can
get in down to the exact science of it all,
but they're generally aware. They know, they're firing, they're blasting,
they're constantly bugging you, and that tells me that they care. Right.
Speaker 2: So, if we.
Speaker 1: Created a PGT Championship event, we, as in the company,
you know, created this PGT Championship event that ultimately numbers
grow and the the want to, the desire to get
into it grows, and it's there and it's palpable and
you can feel it, then we're at least on the
right track. Do we have things to improve, sure, of course,
who doesn't. That said, you know, I think we've done
a really good job and I'm really excited for the
stuff that we can put into motion for the next season, which,
you know, as I alluded to a little bit earlier,
is coming up in about a week or a week
and a half or whatever it is.
Speaker 2: With the does this schedule?
Speaker 1: Yeah you, but I'm all for it, so I think
it's great. As for the PGT Championship, do you want
to let everyone know that if you are unaware it
kicks off on Friday, it will start streaming on poker
grot starting at four thirty Vegas time, that's seven thirty
pm on the East Coast. Take it all the way
down to a final table is reached. Do you know
if they plan on stopping at seven or six? Because
six are paying, they pay six, Okay, so you'll see
the bubble on day one. Got day one, See the
bubble on day one, they'll stop at six. Those six
will come back on the next day. Six people cash
from this event. There are a maximum of fifty players
in the PGT Championship, so million dollar thre year roll max.
Some fifty players. That puts you know the value of
each seat at twenty thousand dollars. Now, there's probably gonna
be I don't know, three to four people that don't
show up, or that's my estimate at least. You know,
we've just had that in past years. That's why I'm
saying that so you know, the value is a little
bit over twenty k overall, and then if you want
to break it down based on chip stack, you know,
the value is probably a little bit more for someone
like a Jeremy Osmus because he starts with the most chips.
Values a little bit less for the people that come
in with thee hundred big blinds. But you know, it
all kind of averages out to right around twenty K,
five hundred thousand dollars. First place prize, it is a
little bit top heavy, but that's the point. Second place
is what two hundred yep. Yeah, so I mean let's
go I mean the one year when Jason Coon wanted
it was winner take all five hundred k, right, yeah, yeah,
so keep this same, I mean we yeah, we'll keep
the first prize the same, but the price pool did
get bumped up. So yeah, great stuff, great, great stuff.
I'm really looking forward to it. I'm certainly gonna watch
it all. I'm gonna have Ali Najade and Jesse Sylvia
on the call for commentary. Jeff Platt will be on
the sidelines, So tune in if that's your thing, and
I would hope that's your thing if you're listening to
the Poker Go Podcast. Just know that that largely Tim
myself on a smaller scale, put a lot of time
and effort, as does everyone at the company into the
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We are very grateful for that, So definitely tune in again.
That's Friday, starting at four thirty Vegas times when the
stream will start taking it all the way down till
the final six is reached. All right, sir, you and
I Fantasy time, Baby, we're doing this. We're doing it.
I got the document ready. We're gonna do twelve hundred
big blinds. So here's what Tim and I are doing.
We're gonna draft six players each from the list of
players that are eligible to compete in the PGT Million
Dollar Championship. We chose six because there's six spots that
pay out in this event. But we're gonna put it
a cap on starting big blinds and we each have
twelve hundred that we can work with. So that means
if you want to draft Jeremy Osmas.
Speaker 2: Can we dobble up?
Speaker 3: What do you mean?
Speaker 2: Can we drop the same person.
Speaker 1: No, no, what do you know?
Speaker 2: It's like one of those No, okay.
Speaker 1: No, like so, I don't know. Do you want to
go first? Do you want the next two? You decide?
Speaker 2: Oh, snake with snake in it? Take the next two?
All right? Cool?
Speaker 1: Jeremy Osmas? How many big blinds does he have?
Speaker 2: Three?
Speaker 1: Three fifty?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 1: Euro up, sir, there's.
Speaker 2: No, we're not. We don't want to make any conditions
like you gotta choose. No, you have to. You have to.
Speaker 1: Look, I have eight to fifty left to work with.
Speaker 2: Yah, I get it. I just thought, okay, we might
be forced to take like a dream scene or something.
Speaker 1: Should we do even less? But let's do a thousand
big line? Fuck it right, okay, let's just make it
harder on us. So I got six fifty left to
work with. All right, you're up, sir. Two pick two?
Speaker 2: Seth Davies?
Speaker 1: Wow, what's he got? Three thirty? Ye?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 2: Nick Schulman, Nick, I'm going all over the place. I'm
I'm gonna work my way down the board.
Speaker 1: Tell me how many he is?
Speaker 2: Nick Shulman has two ninety. Seth Davis is three thirty.
Speaker 1: Nick Sewan has two ninety thirty is this is he
just two seventy? Where are you looking on this PGTC
standings doc?
Speaker 2: No, that's no, don't look at that one. Look at
the one that says PGTC stats. Where is that? Let
that one right?
Speaker 1: Why?
Speaker 2: Yeah? You have yes, I have too many docs, too many.
Speaker 1: The first is big gt doc. Big, this big, huge
PGT doc. Right, And the first first thing is PGTS.
Speaker 2: That's what I was making all the social I know,
that's what I'm It's the first one.
Speaker 1: Why wouldn't. It's all color coded, it's got all this
stuff like that's what.
Speaker 2: I used the first one.
Speaker 1: Now oh yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, but it
doesn't have big blinds on here.
Speaker 2: Okay, it's a thousand. I'm ready, I'm ready.
Speaker 1: I know, all right, two ninety for you, all right,
so I get to now ummm, I mean.
Speaker 2: Take your forwa take you rusty d N eggs, washed up.
Speaker 1: I mean I have to take.
Speaker 2: He might have forgotten how to play, shut up.
Speaker 1: Forget the hell. And if you're listening, just know that
I believe in you, and this idiot over here does not.
Not that he believes in anyone.
Speaker 3: Umm hmmmmmmm.
Speaker 1: I mean I really wanted to take Shulman's I'm a
bit pummed there. Yeah, well I only got I can't wait.
I can't take him. I can't take Daniel. Why because
then I can't fill out my roster?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you need to Where are you putting these numbers?
Speaker 1: Well, you can't take show? We're going?
Speaker 2: Okay, why can I take? This is great?
Speaker 1: This is great, This is how this is how prepared
we are. We're going back to twelve hundred big one, No,
one thousand, No, we can't because you because you only
have three hundred and something left and you need to
fill four spots that they can one hundred. Fine, we're
doing twelve hundred. We're doing twelve hundred, all right. So
then I'll go and on you with three forty. Okay,
so I can make that happen, all right. So now
I gotta go to the bottom of the barrel here.
Speaker 2: Which is just a thousand scrubs baby.
Speaker 1: Great, yeah, Starzan Scrubbs is right. I mean, come on,
Brandon Wilson.
Speaker 2: Good one yeah, yeah, one twenty five? Can you tell
me how many points I have left to play with?
Speaker 1: Five eighty you got choose a we.
Speaker 2: Getting six players? Yeah, five eighty that's a lot.
Speaker 1: So you can do a cap of two eighty. This
is just like the twenty five K fantasy, right, except
I just set up the spreadsheet like I really want,
absolutely hack.
Speaker 2: I really want. I'm not taking Kristen. She's not playing well.
Speaker 1: She's not She's not playing well. Kristen Foxon is.
Speaker 2: A beast not good. Rushed up, Jesus, good Lord. One sack,
one sack one seco give me red Lynn gren Lynn,
Lady Gaga, touchdown, Tom Brady.
Speaker 1: All right, one more? You got three seventy five, so
s got.
Speaker 2: To gamble with with with my real boy Philip?
Speaker 1: The hell is your real boy?
Speaker 2: Philip?
Speaker 1: Help me?
Speaker 2: He's not playing IVY.
Speaker 1: I mean he's qualified. Is he gonna show up? Who knows?
Speaker 2: What's my max bid? Right now?
Speaker 1: One seventy five.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna pick someone that has had a disastrous PGT
lost chance series disastrous, okay, because he's gotta use all
that rung good. Who's a PGT championship?
Speaker 1: I have no idea who you're gonna miss?
Speaker 2: The Fox and William Alex a.
Speaker 1: Disastrous PGT Last Chances? How about a disastrous.
Speaker 2: PGT I mean he made the Freewell.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but he's had for Alex Fox and standards. He
has had a bad PGT season, yep. I mean he's
been here playing and things just haven't worked out. I
mean that's just the breaks in tournament poker. What are
you gonna do? But but yeah, he's like he's like
one of those those players that I would say is
a dark horse to win it all because listen, Alex
Oxen is an incredible player, as we saw when he
ripped off that massive win down Wispy Paradise in Bahamas,
Like he has the ability to do it. Yes, it
just yeah on whatever whatever reason variants, it just hasn't
worked out for him in the PGT events at the studio.
All right, it's on me. I'm going with the guy
who's hotter than anyone right now, mister Shannon, sure one
twenty five for him, So I have a maximum of
one sixty. I mean, I mean perfect, right, right? Do
I want to do that?
Speaker 2: You're looking at Alan Key? Are you looking at Alan Kenny?
Speaker 1: Alan Key is going to be out in one like
one whatever one.
Speaker 2: Orbit um.
Speaker 3: Hmmmmmmmm My max.
Speaker 1: Is one sixty. So that'll that'll give you an idea
A good name there with one sixty. I know that's
what it's what I'm looking at.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna have to take it if you don't.
Speaker 3: Umm hmmm mm hmmm.
Speaker 2: And what's that?
Speaker 1: So that's one twenty so one thirty five? All right,
I'm gonna go with the guy at want sixty. Uh
Steven Chidwick. Like Alex, Like Alex Foxen, I have a
hundred left, so I have to take one of the hundreds.
Like Alex, Foxen has not had a great twenty twenty
four PGT campaign that said, we all know Stevie's like
Stevie Stevie, just like we all know Foxes is about
I mean, you can say that it really about anyone
on this damn list.
Speaker 2: How many how many points have I got? Two?
Speaker 1: O five?
Speaker 2: I have literally, so you're gonna take two hundred people?
Speaker 1: Two one hundred people?
Speaker 2: Yes, I have five five points on the table. That's
pretty bad, but I mean it's bad drafting.
Speaker 1: Of course, it's always bad drafting.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, I'm not gonna choose that guy because
I'm gonna full seeded. Maybe choose that guy. Give me, okay,
give me the wrong good Poka series dreams. Way not
take Derek Yomata that's what I was gonna take. Put
him on my team, and for my this is my
final pick, right, yeah, final pick. P g T Dream
Seat Invitational, Monkey Tilt representative Zachary Gretch, Welcome to the team.
And now you can drop Alan Katy and Schifferman.
Speaker 1: What's wrong with cheering for Alan Kety. He's like one
of the most exciting players.
Speaker 2: In the universe. But when, like you said, he's adding
the first over, you're gonna be mad that you didn't
choose Rudy.
Speaker 1: Media. I'm taking Keaty, all right. So I have Jeremy Allismus,
Danie mcgron, Brandon Wilson, Shannon Shore, Stephen Chidwick, and Alan Keating.
You have Seth Davies, Nick Shulman, Ren Lynn, Alex Foxon,
Derek Yamatta and Zachary Grett. Love my team, yeah, I
mean I love mine too, And it's gonna ride on
the back of Daniel Legran you just as we did
in twenty five K Fantasy this year. So I know
we didn't do that well overall, but Daniel did win
the fifty K and he's gonna get it all back
for me in this one.
Speaker 2: He might not show up he's gonna shut he hasn't
shot up for lost chance.
Speaker 1: Stop, He's going to show up for sure.
Speaker 2: He'll be here.
Speaker 1: He will be here, he will be in the mix.
Speaker 2: He may be the first player in the door, first
poker player right of the forty.
Speaker 1: When you want to bet on who's the first person here, well,
I will China didn't qualify, so it won't be Chino
won't come in at you know, the start.
Speaker 2: We sided one.
Speaker 1: He said would be here at twelve fifteen ordering his
food and then he'll go walk and then he'll come
back and eat his food. I'll say the first person
here will be well, the first I'll say the first
non Dreams winner, because these guys might be here at
ten o'clock. Jonathan Tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Good one. That's actually a pretty good one. I tell
you who's going to be the last one here? Jim Collopy.
Speaker 1: Really you think he's gonna be the last one.
Speaker 2: He's always the last one, you know events him and
the Foxes normally goes Foxes and then call it.
Speaker 1: So yeah, but I feel like this event's a little different.
I mean, they'll they'll kind of be here.
Speaker 2: You would hope, so, but.
Speaker 1: Who knows are chips in play from the start.
Speaker 2: No, they are not going to play from the start. Oh, interesting,
but you do lose chips.
Speaker 1: Oh, they do the thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, take roundom blinds.
Speaker 1: Off, and then what seat draw is? Just like when
you show up you get a seacrd type of thing.
I wish we did the seat draws.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm gonna we'll touch on this to
the very end episode. Some changes already kind of planned.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this goes into like some of the improvements for
next year. Next year, we're doing like a seat draw
show pre game. Whatever the hell you and I let's
do it.
Speaker 2: Sure, the dream seat winners from the Dream Seat Invitational
plus Derek the wrong good dream seat winning they are
all one at every table.
Speaker 1: So also it's like a meetup game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, one kind of reverse meetup game. They're one at
every table, and then the remaining players in the field
can draw from the open seats like a normal high
roller tournament. Chips are not in play. If you arrive late,
you can draw from all the tables. Blah blah blah blah.
You want to talk about next season?
Speaker 1: What about next season?
Speaker 2: The next championship? Something changes I have planned?
Speaker 1: You know, are these like locked in or are these
you throwing them out there? As these are?
Speaker 2: Since I am the decision making ninety nine percent lockdown.
Speaker 1: Until until I tell you how stupid they are, then
you will change your mind. No, go ahead, tell me
your idea.
Speaker 2: The first one is h hate it. Go ahead. Donny
Peters has a dream seat. Oh well, okay, we'll kill
that one.
Speaker 1: I hate it. I don't want to I don't want
to know.
Speaker 2: No, we're gonna have a new role entering PGT Last
Chance next season. If you're in the top forty, you
need to opt in to playing. What that means is,
you know, we have some people that have voiced that
they are definitely not coming ah their seat.
Speaker 1: If they said, I draft anyone, that's you're good, You're good,
you're good, trying to get one over on your No,
definitely not.
Speaker 2: I don't need to get on.
Speaker 1: You're like, oh, Jimmy Osmars isn't coming in a Daniel.
Speaker 2: And Daniel they're sitting out this on. Yeah. No. But basically,
before Last Chance, if you say hey, I cannot attend,
your seat will be open. Currently, if you qualify through
the top forty, your you know your seat is in play.
You know Adrian Mataos, He's not coming due to some
travel issues, so unfortunately we cannot replace him because that's
the way the structure is written. So that's one rule
I'll change so that we can have a full top
forty of eligible players. And the other thing I'm going
to change is kind of what you just touched on.
Will you know, the current structure builds in the random
seat draw on the day. We will change that to
have some production flexibility is the phrase I want to use.
So maybe we can do it live on the show.
We can do it on this podcast, or do it
on a YouTube show. We just have we can have
some flexibility to do a seat draw without the player's presence.
Speaker 1: Listen, we have this giant, eighty five thousand foot led wall.
I want World Cup esque, Like you know how they
do the groups. Well, those are the tables. Okay, you
draw a name out and it goes up on the
screening balls yeah whatever, I don't care. It goes up
on the screen. We see who's at table, and then
they can do the whole you know, all the media
out there us including can be like, oh this is
the table of death.
Speaker 2: This is the easiest one.
Speaker 1: Over here. Oh, look at this, Look at that like
that'd be cool. And listen, the players don't have to
be here for it, right, We just do it and
then we release it and it's out there and everyone
that has it can study and do whatever they want.
Speaker 2: And the most important part of it, though, will you
wear a cowboy hat with me?
Speaker 1: Hell?
Speaker 2: No, I buy you a cowboy hat.
Speaker 1: No, I'm not wearing a cowboy hat.
Speaker 2: If it's a PGT cowboy hat.
Speaker 1: No, I don't want a PGT cowboy hat. I don't
want a cowboy you're the resident cowboy. Okay, you can
do that thing. I'm just the guy.
Speaker 2: I feel like maybe it should be a show with
me and Jeff Platt. Then I need some real commitment.
Speaker 1: That's fine. No one is more committed than me.
Speaker 2: No one is more committed than you just said. None
of the cowboy hat though, Fuck the cowboy hat? What? No,
listen to you, guys.
Speaker 1: We're gonna do this seat draw It's gonna be great. Okay,
we're gonna do that. That'd be a cool thing.
Speaker 2: Talk about it.
Speaker 1: We can see how people stack up, like all that
sort of stuff. I think it would definitely add some
entertainment value to the whole thing. So yeah, but in
that case, then you'd have to have people's chips and
play from the start, which is fine. I mean it's
the same thing. Yes, you would, But they'll show up
on time for this event.
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, they'll lose a couple of bones. It's okay.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't see anyone not showing up for this event.
So yeah, it's gonna be a good one. The PGT
Million Dollar Championship. I don't have anything else. Do you
have anything else? We talked about last Chance, we talked
about the PGT Million Dollar Championship. We got our fantasy
teams on law. It's gonna be a sweet event. I
can't wait to Would you like to see win?
Speaker 2: Not?
Speaker 1: I'm kind of just partial to Ozmas because like he's
been the best performing player, yeah, points wise, and by
quite a lot, by almost a thousand points, by nine
hundred over the course of the season, so you know,
it kind of feels like he should be the winner,
although I understand, I mean it's kind I mean, I
know the reason why we installed the Player of the
Year thing. It's like fantasy football. Your first place in
fantasy football in the regular season, then you just lose
the first round of the playoffs due to some random variants.
Like that's kind of silly, right, you know. So the
two picks we award Jeremy Osmas PGT Player of the Year.
He was the best performing player. But guess what, just
because you're the top seed doesn't necessarily mean you're winning
the super Bowl. You gotta get through everyone else. So, yes,
he is best positioned, he's got that home field advantage,
he's got the bye in round one. You know, yeah,
what if you did that for a change? You give
the leader of they got to stack after the second level.
I'm joking.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'll think about it.
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 2: Look, I agree with you, Jeremy Osmos. It would be
really ideal for him to win. You could even argue
daniel A grind or Seth Davies because they're second and
third on the lead aboard. But I think it'd be
pretty cool. I got two names for you. He had
twenty cashes and zero wins. Jim Calapee another guy twenty
cash as zero win Sean Winter Sewn Winter also finished
second to Jason Kuhn in the PGT Championship. When we
first did the five hundred K free roll. It'd be
pretty cool if their only wins for the season came
in the season any championship. That'd be kind of cool.
So they are my two outside picks. Yes, I like
you said, Osmus would be the preferred winner, and you
know in the grinder Seth would be would be pretty
nice too.
Speaker 1: But I'm pretty sure I picked Osmas as player of
the Year at the beginning a year ago. I also
picked David Coleman his breakout player.
Speaker 3: I believe.
Speaker 1: I just want to point that out there that.
Speaker 2: I got a lot of you're gonna have to pull.
Speaker 1: I will pull, I will pull the ta, I will
pull the right here. I also think Kristin Foxon would
be a great winner. She's had a great year on
the PGT twelve cashes one victory. Yeah, that's right, twelve
cash is one victory. She currently sits twelve, so she's
gonna start with two hundred and seventy big blinds, So
I think that that would be great. I mean then
there's just a lot of general firepower, of course, all
throughout this list, so it's going to be a very
very very fun event. Again, I can't wait. I said
that before I'll say it again. And I also hope
you know, one of these dreams he winners makes a run,
you know, just just give me a run. I'm not
saying you need to give me a victory. Just give
me a run, Okay, give me a like make the
money like that'd be cool, right, so that that would
be cool? All right, cool, that's gonna do it for us.
My name is Donny Peters, his name is is Tim Duckworth,
and we're gonna get out of here and enjoy the
p g C Championship.
Speaker 2: Ratnight, chan Express, Ratnight, Chenny Express.