Speaker 1: Hello, everyone, Welcome back to a new episode of the
Speaker 1: Poker Go Podcast. My name is Donnie Peters. His name
Speaker 1: is Tim Duckworth. It is the halfway point of the
Speaker 1: PGT Mixed Game series. Saturday, March first is when we
Speaker 1: are recording. Event number four has wrapped up, Event number
Speaker 1: five is underway. We're going to touch on how things
Speaker 1: have gone so far to date. How are you doing
Speaker 1: over there, Champ commissioner.
Speaker 2: Don great, fantastic, what a great series. What happened?
Speaker 1: Yeah, numbers have been off the chain for us, some
Speaker 1: would say massive for us.
Speaker 3: Huge numbers.
Speaker 1: First three events of the series were record setting events,
Speaker 1: and then event number four.
Speaker 2: I mean, come on, let's be let's be real.
Speaker 3: The first No, I'm not. I'm not giving you the first.
Speaker 1: I'm giving you the first three five events all records setting,
Speaker 1: because yeah, the fifth event is brand new record for
Speaker 1: an event. Technically a record too, depending how you look
Speaker 1: at it. Listen, as much as you want to be
Speaker 1: like most people in this industry, I will not let
Speaker 1: you be like a lot of people in this industry.
Speaker 3: We're going to keep it.
Speaker 1: We're going to keep it one hundred here, all right,
Speaker 1: That's how we're gonna do so, Yeah, four events in
Speaker 1: the books. There are how many events are there total?
Speaker 1: There's seven seven eventals seven events, So we're past the
Speaker 1: halfway point. With the fourth event in the books. Chino
Speaker 1: rem leads the way on the series leaderboard. China Rem
Speaker 1: won the PGT Mixed Games before the second ever PGT
Speaker 1: Mixed Games. Chino Reim was the winner. He just got
Speaker 1: to win in event number four. It was wacky, It
Speaker 1: was wild. It was crazy. At the end, him and
Speaker 1: josh Aria were literally just flipping. We'll get to that
Speaker 1: in a bit, but yeah, China Ream is up on
Speaker 1: top of the leaderboard, a quite sizeable lead for him
Speaker 1: as we head into the back half of the events.
Speaker 1: First up the five K Horse, one hundred and thirty
Speaker 1: entries out of the gate. Nicholas milgram I saw some
Speaker 1: people calling him Nico. He topped Jerry Wong and heads
Speaker 1: up play in that event to win the one hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty nine thousand dollars first place prize. Then we
Speaker 1: had the five K E Game Tournament. If you thought
Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty entries for a mixed game event
Speaker 1: was good, well, guess what one hundred and forty eight
Speaker 1: The second time around for the A game tournament blew
Speaker 1: that record out of the water. Adam Friedman wins it.
Speaker 1: He beat tal Aviv in heads up play. Friedman took
Speaker 1: home one hundred and seventy thousand dollars. Then set another
Speaker 1: record in event number three in the ten K Horse
Speaker 1: ninety five entries in that one. The record was set
Speaker 1: for this one because it was a record for a
Speaker 1: ten K. The other records were records for five ks.
Speaker 1: Ryan Miller wins this one, tops Samuel Sternfield in heads
Speaker 1: up play two hundred and forty seven K for him,
Speaker 1: and then ninety two entries in the ten K eight
Speaker 1: game tournament, Chino Reim came out on top. He ended
Speaker 1: up chopping it with Josh are So prize money to
Speaker 1: him as one hundred and ninety five thousand dollars. Him
Speaker 1: and Josh just chopped it straight even, but they did
Speaker 1: run a whole bunch of flips for the points and
Speaker 1: Chino Reim ended up on top to get the win.
Speaker 1: That puts China Reim on top of the series leaderboard
Speaker 1: with three hundred and fifty three points.
Speaker 2: So he's I mean, high points did he have when
Speaker 2: he won the kid?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: So that's the thing when well, let me say when
Speaker 1: dan Zach won, he won the first ever Fiji tam
Speaker 1: mix teams, he had three hundred and fifty two points. Okay,
Speaker 1: when China won, he had three eighty eight. When Max
Speaker 1: Hoffman won the last one, he had three thirty one.
Speaker 1: So Gina Reim has three fifty three. He's ahead of
Speaker 1: where dan Zach was, he's ahead of where Max Hoffman was,
Speaker 1: and he's behind where he was.
Speaker 3: So I mean, is anyone going to catch him? I mean,
Speaker 3: three hundred fifty three points doesn't sound like a lot,
Speaker 3: but he could.
Speaker 2: Easily do it well with these numbers, you have to think, well,
Speaker 2: we have a fifteen K Dealers Choice coming out, we
Speaker 2: have the twenty five K ten Game Championship, probably gonna
Speaker 2: be big fields, probably gonna be a lot of points.
Speaker 2: So one of these guys that are sitting in the
Speaker 2: top ten, and we got some pretty we got some
Speaker 2: names that are gonna play every event. You know, you
Speaker 2: got Benny Glass, you got David Funkasa, you got Nick Schulman,
Speaker 2: Ryan Miller. All these guys are probably playing the next
Speaker 2: couple events. So although Chino's lead we think is pretty good,
Speaker 2: he has to keep keep battling away on it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So in e ve number five, which we're not
Speaker 1: gonna touch on, well, we'll touch another bit today, but
Speaker 1: event number five is the ten K Morris Mix. What
Speaker 1: I want to hit on right now is that we
Speaker 1: know the prize pool. We know there's two hundred and
Speaker 1: ten thousand dollars per first place, which means that two
Speaker 1: hundred and ten points are for grabs. So that would
Speaker 1: mean one hundred and forty three points is what you
Speaker 1: need right now. So of that, Nicholas Milgram, Adam Friedman,
Speaker 1: josh A A. Nick Schulman, and Ryan Miller have enough.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: Sam Sternfield also has enough. But we know that he
Speaker 1: left for a couple of days. I come back for Monday.
Speaker 1: He said, Yeah, he had a prior commitment that he
Speaker 1: was going to duck out for go hang out with
Speaker 1: some friends and then come back.
Speaker 3: Might get back from Monday, might not put but we'll see.
Speaker 1: So those players are all in immediate contention if they
Speaker 1: were to win the Moreys Mix tournaments, and then of
Speaker 1: course if anyone wins it, that has any point. So
Speaker 1: we'll just get close to Chino, et cetera. So things
Speaker 1: are heating up. So I ran through the numbers as
Speaker 1: the series starts. I mean, what are you're the commissioner
Speaker 1: you put this on. What are your thoughts record setting fields,
Speaker 1: players that are here, et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 3: How do you feel?
Speaker 2: I feel great. Obviously, these numbers are just are just fantastic.
Speaker 2: We knew the numbers were going to be better than
Speaker 2: a couple of the other series, we didn't weren't really
Speaker 2: show how much better. The five k's are obviously going
Speaker 2: to be just bigger fields in general, and we were
Speaker 2: very impressed by the you know, the one hundred and thirty
Speaker 2: and the one forty eight engines. We got in those
Speaker 2: a lot of a lot of new faces, a lot
Speaker 2: of new names, a lot of rags missing to chat
Speaker 2: to some of the player is about, you know, where
Speaker 2: this person was, where this person is? You know some
Speaker 2: people coming in late. We saw two new arrivals, you know,
Speaker 2: jump in today. So it's good to see the numbers thriving,
Speaker 2: even without you know, ten ish players that we could
Speaker 2: have easily counted on playing all these opening events. So
Speaker 2: who you got, We're gonna throw some people on the
Speaker 2: buses that you want me to do I.
Speaker 3: Mean you could throw people under the bus.
Speaker 1: You can say, I mean, you don't have to throw
Speaker 1: them under the bus that you can just simply say
Speaker 1: that they're not here. For example, Jeremie osmas is not
Speaker 1: here because he's a trading cool Jeremie Osmina's won one
Speaker 1: point eight million dollars today.
Speaker 2: Love the guy well, and he's not walking back in
Speaker 2: the year.
Speaker 3: But you see, take a different approach tonight.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, So the two biggest names are going to
Speaker 2: give you Ellie Lezra and Joum Manette. John's only played
Speaker 2: one event, Ellie's played two. You know, I was obviously
Speaker 2: missing a few events. I know there is a big
Speaker 2: cash game going on right now, but not today, right
Speaker 2: I think that's why you have played today because there
Speaker 2: was he might not add a seat. It's good you
Speaker 2: get you got to lose some back. Yeah, that's so
Speaker 2: that's that's taking some players away. You know, you've got
Speaker 2: some some I would say mixed games. Stall Wat's like
Speaker 2: Craig Chait played one event, then he went played the
Speaker 2: full hundred at the Winds, so really going up and
Speaker 2: down stakes in that.
Speaker 1: Al Kessler played the first two five K's didn't play
Speaker 1: after that was complaining in the poker Stack group chat
Speaker 1: that a Poker State group chat that the structure is
Speaker 1: to crap shooting. I mean that's what they're thought. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean they're not. First of all, they're they're not
Speaker 1: that crap shooting. Okay, first of all. Second of all,
Speaker 1: you shouldn't really care that much when everyone is a
Speaker 1: super elite player. So if you're not a super elite player,
Speaker 1: then you should want a faster structure so there's more
Speaker 1: gamble involved.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 1: Also, as I mentioned on stream and commentary with Remco
Speaker 1: and Kevin Gerhart the other day, is that all PGT
Speaker 1: numbers are continually to go up. Okay, you want to
Speaker 1: look at Triton, All those numbers are going up. You know,
Speaker 1: you see a lot of events at smaller price points
Speaker 1: where they've now transitioned to their structures where it's you
Speaker 1: make the money at the end of the day, and
Speaker 1: you know, you speed things up, like everything is kind
Speaker 1: of everything in general is sped up, I feel like,
Speaker 1: and the numbers of the field sizes are going up,
Speaker 1: which tells me that people like it, or in the
Speaker 1: very least they don't care enough to skip events. Like
Speaker 1: so when you have tried in two day tournaments in
Speaker 1: a twenty five k getting three hundred and ninety people
Speaker 1: and all this sort of stuff. People don't care. So
Speaker 1: like the fact that he has such a voice and
Speaker 1: tries to have so much influence on these mixed game
Speaker 1: structures is just not that's not what people want.
Speaker 3: It's what he wants.
Speaker 1: It's not what the people want because the people show
Speaker 1: up and play the tournaments and he says, no thanks,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go play the four and at the win.
Speaker 1: Like no, I've actually had a play come up to
Speaker 1: me today asking to speed the structures up even more. So.
Speaker 1: I mean, honestly, these last two found tables took quite
Speaker 1: a long time. Yeah, you know, I mean yesterday was
Speaker 1: outrageously long. I mean not that it's bad, but I'm
Speaker 1: just saying it was. It was very long for what
Speaker 1: we're used to and that's just how I mean, that's
Speaker 1: how it is.
Speaker 2: Look, every every players can play whatever they want. They
Speaker 2: have the choice to do and attend any events. We
Speaker 2: put on a series that is meant to be a
Speaker 2: little quicker, little trouble. So you know, we're trying to
Speaker 2: basically make these one and a half day events.
Speaker 1: Now does Alan Caster honestly like the four hundred? What
Speaker 1: did he play at the wins four hundred? I love
Speaker 1: the win, I love the structures over there. I would
Speaker 1: say not, don't change it, but like that's not a
Speaker 1: crapshoot at the end.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I haven't looked at the structure.
Speaker 3: It's not we're not playing a four horse term but
Speaker 3: that takes six days. You're just not doing it. I mean,
Speaker 3: if they all get fast.
Speaker 2: Sure, if he wants to play the ten k horse
Speaker 2: that takes four days, well, the World Series is three
Speaker 2: months away, but there are people that are you know,
Speaker 2: let's let's think about the two Aussies that came here.
Speaker 2: What if they come here to play like six events
Speaker 2: over three weeks. Maybe not. You know, this is built
Speaker 2: to be kind of in and out. You get you
Speaker 2: kind of fix, you get your action, and you know
Speaker 2: you can win a quarter million in a day and
Speaker 2: a half. That's kind of the point behind these. The
Speaker 2: schedule's not super long, so you can't go superbust though,
Speaker 2: but we're trying to. We're in that niche of you know,
Speaker 2: faster structures. You know, our product is obviously getting to
Speaker 2: the final table so we can stream. It doesn't fit everyone,
Speaker 2: it obviously appeals to a lot of other players, you know,
Speaker 2: so it's hard to middle it, you know, if we're
Speaker 2: trying to be perfect here, but we're doing our best
Speaker 2: and the numbers show that, you know, people do enjoy this. Now,
Speaker 2: could we have got a few more players if we
Speaker 2: made it a three day event, most likely could have
Speaker 2: also lost a chunkle players, you never know, definitely going
Speaker 2: to lose some players.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean that's like, that's without question.
Speaker 1: So I think that's probably a wash, if not more
Speaker 1: negative than positive in terms of the numbers. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I think these events are great as is. And you know,
Speaker 1: I think we're always going to look at the data
Speaker 1: and say, Okay, are things going up or are things
Speaker 1: going down?
Speaker 3: How can we improve? You know?
Speaker 1: And things are going up, so it would tell me
Speaker 1: we're doing something right, you know. And you know, as
Speaker 1: you mentioned, we lost a bunch of players you know
Speaker 1: that are maybe they're at Triton, maybe they just didn't come,
Speaker 1: Maybe they're you know, into a playing game, and yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe they're not rolled to play the ten k's because
Speaker 1: they didn't have any success in the five ks whatever.
Speaker 3: It may be, you know, but still numbers are very
Speaker 3: very good.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And I also like the fact that walking through the
Speaker 1: field out there, you see a lot of new faces,
Speaker 1: which tells us that, like we're building something with the
Speaker 1: mixed game series that people want to come and compete
Speaker 1: at exactly.
Speaker 3: So that's like the most important thing to me.
Speaker 1: I also do want to point out, just speaking of
Speaker 1: the numbers quickly, I know we talked about the poker
Speaker 1: gro Cup satellite had one hundred and forty two entries,
Speaker 1: which was absolutely bananas. The satellite for this had eighty
Speaker 1: five entries and gave out ten seats to the five
Speaker 1: K and then eleventh got you know, forty two five.
Speaker 1: So you know, satellites are booming as well as it
Speaker 1: relates to the PGT. So things are just pretty great
Speaker 1: all around, even though you, mister Commissioner, continue to be
Speaker 1: miss miss Debbie Downer over there on the numbers. Every
Speaker 1: time I ask you, you say, oh, it's not going
Speaker 1: to do this, it's not going to do that. You
Speaker 1: have already said that USPO is just not going to
Speaker 1: be as good. Yeah, your bluff. It's gonna be freaking bananas,
Speaker 1: have top set. It's gonna be bananas.
Speaker 2: It's good.
Speaker 3: It's good. It's gonna be huge.
Speaker 1: You're gonna need a bigger studio, that's what you That's
Speaker 1: what you're gonna You're gonna need a bigger studio like
Speaker 1: in Jaws. And I say, you're gonna need a bigger boat. Yep,
Speaker 1: You're gonna need a bigger studio. What else stands out
Speaker 1: to you so far besides the numbers. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: the biggest story. There's nothing, nothing more than that.
Speaker 2: To me. It's just the numbers. And were kind of
Speaker 2: talked about the new faces, the new names. You know,
Speaker 2: we had a couple of Wazzi's come out here. We
Speaker 2: got some Europeans. We've got Andy McLeod, James Obbs from Australia.
Speaker 2: That's that I think is pretty big. He was kind
Speaker 2: of a last minute, yeah, last minute flew in. You know,
Speaker 2: we have people rolling in today. We had the great
Speaker 2: Jason mess here and John Rasa flying and jump in
Speaker 2: the Mary's mix. We got you know, Phil Stenheimer and
Speaker 2: I believe I would die. He coming in this weekend
Speaker 2: to play the back end of the series. So hoping
Speaker 2: the dealer's choice, you know, we op the buying on that,
Speaker 2: Let's see how that kind of goes. Let's see how
Speaker 2: the ten game goes. Can we set some records in
Speaker 2: the ten game event and be what we've done previously.
Speaker 2: And then obviously this all leads into the the hundred
Speaker 2: inaugural one hundred thousand dollars buying super high rollable mix games.
Speaker 1: I'll get to that in a second, because I do
Speaker 1: want to touch on that hundred K buying super high
Speaker 1: leable mixed games. But I do want to ask you
Speaker 1: about Maury's Mix, which is right game which is named
Speaker 1: after Maury es Candani. Okay, but it wasn't originally going
Speaker 1: to be named that. It was going to be called
Speaker 1: the Commissioner's Mix RCT. You thought people might revolt with
Speaker 1: you with you putting your job title on it, so
Speaker 1: you decided to name it Mory's Mix.
Speaker 3: I love it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I talked about on the last.
Speaker 1: Podcast how I think the WSP should do this sort
Speaker 1: of thing with like the Player of the Year award.
Speaker 3: I think that that's great.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Now it is rather a unique mix. Correct, It's six games.
Speaker 1: They're all all high games one winter games, but they're
Speaker 1: all one winners.
Speaker 2: One winning games, limit one winning games.
Speaker 1: I mean what, first of all, tell the people what
Speaker 1: the mix is, and then second of all, tell me, like,
Speaker 1: how do you think the people the players are receiving
Speaker 1: the mix.
Speaker 2: So the mix is basically two flop two draw two started.
Speaker 2: We played limit hold Them, We played Limit Omaha High,
Speaker 2: We play rasin stud and then we play but Dooogie
Speaker 2: andduce to seven triple draw. The guys love the mix
Speaker 2: except for one game, and that one game is Omaha
Speaker 2: High because no one plays Limit Omaha High anywhere except
Speaker 2: for the Crown Casino and Showia.
Speaker 3: Now people don't play the Crome Cosine. It's just crone.
Speaker 2: Okay, shout out Natasha. The reason I put this is
Speaker 2: in was just to balance the mix. You know, the
Speaker 2: two flop two start two draw. We could have obviously
Speaker 2: switched to Omaha High for ace to five or something
Speaker 2: like that, but.
Speaker 3: What are the two flames hold them at all?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Okay, And you know it felt like it was
Speaker 2: something different. We wanted a kind of a blood mix,
Speaker 2: which was you know where obviously there's a lot of
Speaker 2: pain because it's there's all scoops. In return, we did
Speaker 2: give players more starting chips to balance the bloodiness of
Speaker 2: the games, and you know what, a lot of people
Speaker 2: voice concerns about omahaha not wanting to play on Omaha Hi.
Speaker 2: We saw people playing it complaining, busting immediately re entering.
Speaker 2: So they either they've just here to play Mix and
Speaker 2: they want to play Mix, or you know, it's not
Speaker 2: that awful, it's you know, we're trying something different. You know,
Speaker 2: we trying to figure out what works. We tried Triple Start,
Speaker 2: we've tried Big Bet Mix. Those two kind of got
Speaker 2: put on the chopping block. This was our next attempt.
Speaker 2: The players have supported it pretty well. Now I'm not
Speaker 2: saying that it will be in next year, but when
Speaker 2: you have seventy entrants, I think that's extremely good for
Speaker 2: a very you know, unique mix with a game that's
Speaker 2: not played nearly anywhere like at all. So that's kind
Speaker 2: of the idea about it. Yes, I named after Maury
Speaker 2: mainly so people will protesting me and they kind of
Speaker 2: have to come in and play and honor Maury. And
Speaker 2: also it's a way to get Maury into the tournaments
Speaker 2: because he hasn't played all series, but he had some
Speaker 2: free time today being Saturday. And also the fact that
Speaker 2: it's named after him, that he was able to jump in,
Speaker 2: and you know what, he's currently the chip latest, so.
Speaker 1: It's all this could be a pretty pretty wild way
Speaker 1: to have this event if he can take Maury's mix down.
Speaker 1: So I was talking with Kevin Garhard on today's stream
Speaker 1: saying that, you know, we were kind of running over
Speaker 1: the tournament as it was happening to update people. But
Speaker 1: it just made me think that, you know, I know
Speaker 1: we've done obviously the Big Bet Mix, as you mentioned,
Speaker 1: we've done that, the Stud Mixed Triple Stud, We've done that. Like,
Speaker 1: I feel like there's a good amount of the events
Speaker 1: that are like basically locked in. Like I like, I
Speaker 1: love the schedule how it is now, Like you have
Speaker 1: the five K horse five K game and then you
Speaker 1: have ten k's of those, you have a fifteen K
Speaker 1: dealer choice, you have the twenty five K ten game.
Speaker 1: But what I'm getting is I like having like one
Speaker 1: tournament where you kind of change it up every year.
Speaker 3: You switch it up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, like this Mory's mix. Fine, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe maybe it's still called Morri's Mix next time, but
Speaker 1: it's just different mix. Yeah, you know, different idea, you
Speaker 1: know whatever. It is, like kind of just just mix
Speaker 1: it up all the time. The main reason behind it was,
Speaker 1: you know, we're coming off Horse. In the mix world,
Speaker 1: people were very like, you know, if you've got the
Speaker 1: Andrew Kelso, the ODB Baker, they'll play everything, but you
Speaker 1: do have players are very specific to to the Horse
Speaker 1: eight game formats versus say the Dealer's Choice where there's
Speaker 1: a lot of draw games but do see Bideci all
Speaker 1: that stuff. So we wanted an event before we hit
Speaker 1: the Dealer's Choice in the ten Game Championship that would
Speaker 1: keep these Horse eight game players around for one more event.
Speaker 1: And we felt obviously you got hold them, you got
Speaker 1: raz you got starred, you know, Deuce to seven triple drawers,
Speaker 1: the one draw game. It definitely is very sync to
Speaker 1: Horse when you you know, you play these toss or
Speaker 1: force mixers and you just.
Speaker 2: Add Badugi and you add omaha, Hi, it's all limit.
Speaker 2: We felt that there would be enough to carry through
Speaker 2: and we didn't see that much of it, but we
Speaker 2: saw a little bit, and at this stage I would
Speaker 2: I would run it back the same, but like I
Speaker 2: do kind of like your idea of figuring out something
Speaker 2: unique for each series that is just called Maury's Mix
Speaker 2: and a couple of players have already suggested some things. So,
Speaker 2: you know, once we get to the World Series and
Speaker 2: we'll talk to the players and try and to start,
Speaker 2: you know, discussing the twenty twenty six BGT makes thename
Speaker 2: series and what Mori's mix could end up being.
Speaker 1: I mean, listen, it's it's hard to go against seventy entries, yeah,
Speaker 1: for this event, you know, I mean I didn't really
Speaker 1: know what to expect. I walked in here today, I
Speaker 1: saw I think thirty four was on the board, and
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, okay, maybe it's not as good
Speaker 1: as I thought, but then it obviously gets up to seventy.
Speaker 1: I like that it's all one winner games. There's no
Speaker 1: split pots in there. I really like that, you know,
Speaker 1: the I think the split spot, the split pot games
Speaker 1: can just drag things on quite a bit. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: there's not that I would like remove them all entirely,
Speaker 1: but there's enough of them already in the other different mixes.
Speaker 3: You know that this one I think is pretty unique.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I could think I could see you
Speaker 1: certainly doing like a triple draw mix, you know, kind
Speaker 1: of different things with whatever quote unquote Morey's mix is,
Speaker 1: but I I like it, and again I think the
Speaker 1: numbers have shown that the players will like it.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: Of course, maybe they'll have some suggestions, but I think
Speaker 1: it's a good I think it's a good turnament.
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, play is always going to throw some
Speaker 2: suggestions at the end of the day. I think we
Speaker 2: all just want the biggest fields as possible, and obviously
Speaker 2: we should just if that's the answer, we should just
Speaker 2: do another horse event. But having three horse events and
Speaker 2: three eight game events in a one ten game it's
Speaker 2: just a little a little boring, right, It's not really
Speaker 2: a mixed game series. It's like a three game you know,
Speaker 2: a three mix series. So one idea that you know,
Speaker 2: Daniel m'garnold presenter today, was we could just do another
Speaker 2: eight game event, but eight game dealer's choice, so it's
Speaker 2: just the eight games to choose from. You know, we
Speaker 2: could do maybe we find it, we just do a
Speaker 2: ten game dealer's choice. We could do something like that,
Speaker 2: so it's like basically horse Horse eight game, eight game
Speaker 2: dealers choice, dealer's Choice ten game Championship. To me, that
Speaker 2: would make a bit of sense too. But yeah, this
Speaker 2: is something will definitely visit I think Daniel talked about
Speaker 2: it last year. Maybe it was on his old podcast
Speaker 2: or whatever. I can't remember exactly, but Dealer's choice. But
Speaker 2: you can only call the game once.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like obviously if you then run out, maybe you
Speaker 1: get you can go back to the beginning. But like
Speaker 1: you know, if you know, if okay, I'm gonna call
Speaker 1: Nolan at hold them, then okay, I don't use that.
Speaker 1: So then then there's that strategy element of like, okay,
Speaker 1: do I call it now? Do I wait? Maybe I'm
Speaker 1: not even in later on to have it, so like
Speaker 1: how do I do that? I think that would be
Speaker 1: a cool little twist. Not exactly how you'd work that
Speaker 1: out logistically, but it's just going to make a lot
Speaker 1: of game plots. Well yeah, but then you have to
Speaker 1: just like you know, players move and all this sort
Speaker 1: of stuff. So it would be kind of tricky. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know what I have thought it would be.
Speaker 2: I have thought about it, and we would probably just
Speaker 2: reduce the plaques by a couple but you would make
Speaker 2: it where you know, they say the twenty one games,
Speaker 2: you have to play like eighteen of them, so there's
Speaker 2: a you know, so you don't have to choose a
Speaker 2: part liament holder if you don't want it, but you
Speaker 2: have to get through your eighteen. When you're down a three,
Speaker 2: you get it. You get to re up them. So
Speaker 2: kind of like some you know, the kind of like
Speaker 2: the way we do time extensions. It's it's an idea.
Speaker 2: It's an idea where we could do a five K
Speaker 2: you know, Dealer's Choice under that format, and that would
Speaker 2: probably fit well if you do, you know, five K horse,
Speaker 2: five K E game, five K Dealer's Choice, ten K horse,
Speaker 2: ten K E game, fifteen K Dealer's Choice ten Game Championship.
Speaker 2: So that's kind of one schedule we could run out
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so we still have Morey's Mix to finish out,
Speaker 1: then we have the Dealer's Choice, and then we have
Speaker 1: the twenty five K ten Game Championship. I would imagine
Speaker 1: the Dealer's Choice, which is at a fifteen K price point,
Speaker 1: and then the twenty five K ten Game Championship. Excuse me,
Speaker 1: I would imagine those two tournaments draw pretty well, all
Speaker 1: leading into the first ever one hundred thousand dollars buy
Speaker 1: in Super high Roller Bowl Mixed Games tournament.
Speaker 3: This one runs March sixth through eighth.
Speaker 1: There will be a satellite on Wednesday, a twelve, seven
Speaker 1: hundred dollars satellite. If you're on time one in eight,
Speaker 1: get a seat. I mean, first of all, what's the
Speaker 1: format there?
Speaker 2: Ten games?
Speaker 1: No, what's the the Superhower will mix this ten games
Speaker 1: ten game? Yeah, well you're at the forefront of this
Speaker 1: for the PGT first ever one hundred k by and
Speaker 1: PLO tournament, now first ever hundred k buy in mixed
Speaker 1: game tournament. Y.
Speaker 3: I mean that that we're aware of. Right.
Speaker 1: Obviously there's the famed fifty thousand dollars Poker Players Championship
Speaker 1: of the DIVISIP and that thing is awesome and great big.
Speaker 1: I mean I was I remember being out there on
Speaker 1: the floor last year when Philip Sternheimer was like, we
Speaker 1: need to do this, and we kind of looked at
Speaker 1: him like.
Speaker 3: He was crash crazy.
Speaker 1: But now I have I see you putting out lists
Speaker 1: of sixteen confirmed players. Yeah, which I would I would
Speaker 1: have thought if I would have walked in and we
Speaker 1: got to sixteen, I'd be like, sixty, great, and now
Speaker 1: you're sixteen ready to go right now? Yeah, and there
Speaker 1: might be more players coming. There's obviously the satellites you know,
Speaker 1: maybe a bunch of players like win some money during
Speaker 1: the Mixed Game series and then they run it into
Speaker 1: that like whatever it is. So I mean, well, first
Speaker 1: of all, why don't you give us the list of
Speaker 1: the sixteen that are confirmed?
Speaker 2: So yeah, you know, we have a list of forty
Speaker 2: players with different percentages, and these were the sixteen that
Speaker 2: were okay having their name out there, and we're pretty
Speaker 2: much confirmed to be you know, ninety percent plus Brian Rass,
Speaker 2: Johannis Beka, Matthew Ashton, Philip Sternheimer, Eerie, John Rais's got Siva,
Speaker 2: Dan Zech Mercia ray D Chad Evs, Albert Dahir, Max Coleman,
Speaker 2: Benny Glasser, and Tallal. So sixteen confirmed players. Obviously, who knows,
Speaker 2: if they didn't feel in it, they may not play.
Speaker 2: But all those guys have been playing all the events
Speaker 2: and gambling it up. Obviously. We mentioned Jason came into
Speaker 2: town today along with Raisner and Alberts on his way.
Speaker 2: We're also been running some online satellites and have three
Speaker 2: seats in that. So that's three of those guys that
Speaker 2: we kind of just named. And yeah, the kind of
Speaker 2: point putting that out is for more people to be like,
Speaker 2: you know what this is actually going to be.
Speaker 1: Okay, it's not going to be eight players. I'm going
Speaker 1: to join, you know, so that's kind of you didn't
Speaker 1: name carry Kats is he? I mean I feel like
Speaker 1: he could play. I don't know if you have any
Speaker 1: information that he wants no.
Speaker 2: I mean his percentage was much lower than ninety percent.
Speaker 2: Who knows.
Speaker 3: Somebody showed you a list of like, was that you percentages? Yeah?
Speaker 2: That was that was the list. Yeah, I was who
Speaker 2: was that? Who? That was from Sternheimer's.
Speaker 3: Funny because like you know, he's giving the people like
Speaker 3: there this much. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So look, it's a great sign sixteen. You know,
Speaker 2: when we plan this, I was hoping, you know, let's
Speaker 2: try and get three tables. I think that's okay, that's
Speaker 2: a success. You know, first ever one hundred K buying
Speaker 2: mixed tournament. And you know, if we're starting with sixteen, hey,
Speaker 2: maybe we're going to re entry or two. Maybe we
Speaker 2: get a few more people that, you know, let me
Speaker 2: throw some names out, Keith Lear. You know, we've obviously
Speaker 2: got a satellite coming up.
Speaker 1: Man, I don't know he was going to show up
Speaker 1: for this because I talked to him after the pol
Speaker 1: Girl Cup and it sounded like he was going to
Speaker 1: be back to the PLO series but might not be
Speaker 1: back for this, And then he showed up a couple
Speaker 1: of days later.
Speaker 3: But he's there. He certainly might play.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Texas Mix here, he's been playing every event. He's
Speaker 2: he's in for sure, he has to be hofely. Yeah, Kerry,
Speaker 2: we got Dan Shack, you know how, let's see how
Speaker 2: these Chino wins the series. Maybe he jumps in, we know, well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let me hit on those players who have who
Speaker 1: are doing well in the series right now and have
Speaker 1: won a lot of money.
Speaker 3: Chino.
Speaker 1: Reeim right, he's currently leading. I would feel like Chino
Speaker 1: as the Mixed Games champion if he does go on
Speaker 1: to win, like he has to get it. Yeah, right,
Speaker 1: and he's already he's he's cashed at the Mixed Game
Speaker 1: Series for three hundred and ten thousand.
Speaker 3: Okay, what about Ryan Miller?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean possibly, I mean he's he's cash for
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty five k.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: I don't think Samuel Sternfield. But Nick Shulman, Nick Shulman
Speaker 1: should yeah, yeah, right, so he's cashed for one hundred
Speaker 1: and eighty four thousand dollars instead a pair of third
Speaker 1: place finishes so far.
Speaker 2: Josh Aria, he told me he's not going to play.
Speaker 3: Okay, but if he keeps winning. He's won two hundred
Speaker 3: and twenty K so far.
Speaker 1: He was only going to play the first four events. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: He's juncked in the fifth event. Never not it all changes,
Speaker 1: was Adam Friedeman.
Speaker 2: Said osme at the end of the series, because it
Speaker 2: depends how have been running, okay.
Speaker 1: And he's already one hundred because he won an event,
Speaker 1: so you know he's there. Like, I feel like you
Speaker 1: can just get the random like guy who like you
Speaker 1: you think might play, but it's going to take him
Speaker 1: doing well at the Mixed Game Series. And there's enough
Speaker 1: of those guys that have you know, there's one, two, three,
Speaker 1: four or five, six, seven, eight nine. There's ten guys
Speaker 1: who have cashed for six figures.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 1: I bet there's people right outside Jerry Wong, Alex Livingston,
Speaker 1: you know, so I bet someone like James Ups has
Speaker 1: flowing in. You might be like, yeah, we're saying if
Speaker 1: I feel like if you came here, if you traveled here, okay,
Speaker 1: and you have played the fifty K PPC two or
Speaker 1: more times in your life, especially in like the recent
Speaker 1: five to six years, you are virtually a lock to
Speaker 1: play the hundred. Okay, so James ops, yes, like what
Speaker 1: what is he doing here? I meant now, unless there's
Speaker 1: the other side of the coin, like the people that
Speaker 1: run hot maybe they parlayed in. But then there's also
Speaker 1: the people that they brick everything. They put like two
Speaker 1: or three bulls James, and then they're like, well the
Speaker 1: hell with this, I'm out of here right.
Speaker 2: One name that interests me that we have no info
Speaker 2: on Brian Brack Final Table Event four. He busted immediately
Speaker 2: jumped into event five. He's running up a stack. I
Speaker 2: have no idea who he is, no idea where he's from.
Speaker 2: He's got to kill a beard and maybe he just
Speaker 2: like whatever one hundred k lets.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you watched the stream today, but
Speaker 1: he did. In the first hour. I think he had
Speaker 1: six peers he was he.
Speaker 3: Was pummeling men.
Speaker 1: Calls love pounding beers other players that I feel like
Speaker 1: you have a shot to get them in. Marco Johnson,
Speaker 1: Now he went home already, Okay. Eric Wasterson, Yeah, he
Speaker 1: missed a lot of events, but definitely ver Eric Washington
Speaker 1: is like, the bigger the buying, the more likely he's
Speaker 1: gonna be unless you want to try it, and I
Speaker 1: don't think so. He's probably just in the cash games.
Speaker 1: What about somebody like a David Oppenheim.
Speaker 2: He was here today, but.
Speaker 1: I feel like David Openheim could give two craps in
Speaker 1: my opinion, this is just is just me talking, could
Speaker 1: give two craps about anything less than a fifty K bye,
Speaker 1: you know so now, But Hunter k Byan like that's
Speaker 1: David Oppenheim's like Wheelhouse.
Speaker 2: We just need the cash games not running. We need,
Speaker 2: you know, lyle Berman and David Oppenheim and all those
Speaker 2: guys to just you know what, let's go play one
Speaker 2: hundred K. That's what we need.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, for sure.
Speaker 1: I mean John Hennigan is also someone that I feel
Speaker 1: like is not one percent, but maybe sixty percent depending
Speaker 1: on how he does during mixed games. Yeah right, And
Speaker 1: he he hasn't done much yet, but we know he's
Speaker 1: obviously very very good and he can do a lot.
Speaker 1: So you know, I think there's a pretty good shot
Speaker 1: overall about or with that tournament. What about someone like
Speaker 1: Robert MS Rocky I don't know. He Mike Growdinski is
Speaker 1: he was he on the list.
Speaker 2: Goro was like somewhere in the middle.
Speaker 1: Also, if you've never missed the fifty k PBC, I
Speaker 1: feel like you're.
Speaker 2: It's missed that. Remember he left earlier that year.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, but like after winning and he also have
Speaker 1: his box stolen at Polagio, you know, I mean hekip Okay,
Speaker 1: has Robert miss Rocky missed the fifty k like recently.
Speaker 3: I feel like he's.
Speaker 2: Always not but he did skip the loss to events,
Speaker 2: So I don't know, Okay, Yeah, it's just hard to predict.
Speaker 2: It's it's just like when we were trying to predict
Speaker 2: the hundred KPLO we had, you know, we weren't really
Speaker 2: showing them. We had people turn up out of no way,
Speaker 2: and we had that's what we may get maybe.
Speaker 3: Ok yeah, Jared blesnik jj okay, but like.
Speaker 2: Maybe he comes back in time. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3: I want to say.
Speaker 1: He was like talking like you could do this and this,
Speaker 1: like if you do it a certain way, you could
Speaker 1: like go to jju play X come back play this,
Speaker 1: Like I feel like that's a possibility.
Speaker 3: I don't know of.
Speaker 2: All the people in JJ. He may be the only
Speaker 2: one that does something crazy like flybacks for this and
Speaker 2: then flies back to JJ.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean I don't. I mean, Jeremie Alice
Speaker 1: is not coming back. He's staying there.
Speaker 2: I mean.
Speaker 1: The only other people there that I think you're missing
Speaker 1: out on, and these are even long shots, are Antonius
Speaker 1: and Ivy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Antonius will ever play. Ivy would maybe if he
Speaker 2: was here.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean, but that's like, that's just I'm
Speaker 1: just saying that's like the only group of people, you know.
Speaker 3: I mean, does someone like does Jungleman show up for
Speaker 3: the Hunter K.
Speaker 2: I mean I just read a tweet from Jungleman. He's
Speaker 2: out there trying to change the poker world with getting reduced.
Speaker 1: Rake in all these casinos, But he can start here.
Speaker 1: Maybe he can start here. Yeah, from five hundred dollars Rake,
Speaker 1: I mean, come on, a hundred kicks exactly. But he's
Speaker 1: someone who I have no idea he can wake up
Speaker 1: the morning of and like come in. I mean, I
Speaker 1: have no idea about that guy, you know. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I think it's gonna be interesting to see
Speaker 1: who we get.
Speaker 3: I set the line at twenty point five.
Speaker 2: After saying sixteen, I have to take off this, you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but you also know these things are like it
Speaker 1: could be that you could get sixteen, you could get
Speaker 1: one extra guy, you get one satellite winner and that's it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I think the key is the satellite.
Speaker 2: We need the non lock locks to get in, like
Speaker 2: we need Gino to win the satellite, or we need
Speaker 2: like if if he makes.
Speaker 3: Another final table, he's in.
Speaker 2: We have to get in easy with to just keep
Speaker 2: talking to him and like, hey, you're the two time
Speaker 2: Mixed Games champion, buddy. If you don't play this, what's
Speaker 2: wrong with you getting getting We're gonna get in his
Speaker 2: head like that.
Speaker 1: That's how you need him to just make another final table,
Speaker 1: Showman to make another final and Ryan Miller to make
Speaker 1: another finals table, and you'll get those three.
Speaker 2: I think, Yeah, Ryan Miller, I don't know that's it,
Speaker 2: not really sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but right listen, I think he's gotten to the
Speaker 1: point now where he's good enough.
Speaker 3: I mean, he's obviously good enough.
Speaker 1: He's been good enough, but I'm saying good enough in
Speaker 1: tournaments because he's always been a cash game guy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but he's like kind of started to learn tournaments a
Speaker 1: little bit more and obviously get better and obviously he
Speaker 1: won the two bracelets recently, but you know, just getting
Speaker 1: better at the tournament setting, and then as people recognize
Speaker 1: that you're better in the tournament setting, you can obviously
Speaker 1: sell more action if that's what you want to do
Speaker 1: to lower your variants. So that sort of stuff, right, So, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I'm looking forward to it. I think it's
Speaker 1: going to be great. Maybe the person who you know
Speaker 1: rips off the twenty five cases, Okay, let's go. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna take my three or four hunder k or whatever
Speaker 1: it is. I'm just gonna harley it into this. Like
Speaker 1: that's another thing that could possibly happen for sure. So
Speaker 1: I think it's a pretty good sign overall for the
Speaker 1: Super high Roller. All mixed and yeah, scene sixteen seems great.
Speaker 1: I still wish we were getting more in there.
Speaker 2: If he wins More's mix, maybe we can convince him
Speaker 2: to jump in. Yeah maybe.
Speaker 1: All right, what else do you got for me? I
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Speaker 1: Lovely, Yeah, get in there for sure, all right, just quickly,
Speaker 1: I mean I probably should have done this earlier when
Speaker 1: I was talking about it, but I'm gonna.
Speaker 3: Do it right now.
Speaker 1: Just quickly running down the PGT Mixed Games Series leaderboard
Speaker 1: right now through four events, Chino r him up on
Speaker 1: top three hundred and fifty three points, all by Ryan
Speaker 1: Miller two fifty four, Samuel Sternfield two thirteen, Nick Shulman
Speaker 1: one four, and josh Ari eight one seventy eight. That's
Speaker 1: the top five. And then also I should bring up
Speaker 1: as it relates to Nick Shulman, he's done well enough
Speaker 1: so far at this series to climb into the top
Speaker 1: five of the overall.
Speaker 3: PGT leader board.
Speaker 1: He has moved ahead of Michael Manchek aka Texas Mike,
Speaker 1: who was in fifth place. Shulman now is five hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty eight points. It's still Joy Wiseman up on
Speaker 1: top there, Kristen Fox and second air player third. They're
Speaker 1: not playing mixed games. They don't play mixed games. But
Speaker 1: Patrick Leonard who's in fourth, he's been out here all
Speaker 1: the time playing. Nick Shulman is out here playing everything
Speaker 1: as I already got two third place finishes. So yeah,
Speaker 1: people are moving on up the leaderboard and knocking some
Speaker 1: people down the leaderboard. So that's all good to see.
Speaker 1: I got nothing else for you. Good good, So we
Speaker 1: can get out of here well you can.
Speaker 2: Get out of here. I'm gonna go back to some
Speaker 2: line reporting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I might hang around for a little
Speaker 1: bit and then head on home. But as it relates
Speaker 1: to the podcast, we are done. Thank you as always
Speaker 1: to our producer, as Tim mentioned, Rich Ryan for making
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