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