Speaker 1: Hello everyone, and welcome back to a new episode of
the Poker Go Podcast. My name is Donnie Peters. His
name is Tim Duckworth. What's up, buddy.
Speaker 2: Not much, buddy.
Speaker 1: It is eleven twenty seven pm on Saturday, September sixth,
kind of back to dubs a p hours. We just
wrapped up the first ever PGT Bounty Blitz Tournament Series series. Yes,
that is true tournament series. Thank you for finishing my sentence.
I appreciate that. We're gonna talk all about it. We
got a little bit of a recap here. We wanted
to get this one out of the way before we
get into PGT. Venetian is coming up later this week.
After that, in what two weeks week and a half
or so, it's the Poker Masters. So we got a
lot of PGT stuff, as we outlined on the last
episode of the podcast during the month of September, So
we're going to kind of do things after every single
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Players Equals This wrestler got a lot of different messages,
talking to a lot of different people that we saw
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so that was fun. A couple people, they were not
a couple. One person one negative review and it was
Matt Savage the only negative review. Yeah, I didn't hear
any other negative reviews, did you exactly?
Speaker 2: So just I mean, it's just a height.
Speaker 1: It sounds like it's a problem with that versus a
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I thoroughly enjoyed it. So maybe we'll do those more
in our downtime as we try and you know, we
talk about some of the more boring stuff, but.
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get into this PGT Bounty Blitz, which I kept like
writing and talking and saying and whatever, kept calling it
the Bounty series, and I had like delete stuff and
correct myself. I'll probably stumble over my own words a
few times throughout this episode, but we'll see if we
can get on through first everone mm hmm. I would
say that we took a chance to do this series,
and we'll talk about some of the results. But first
and foremost, mister Jeremi Becker, the guy who at the
win a couple days ago told us he might not play.
Speaker 2: The series, doesn't.
Speaker 1: Hates bounties, never plays them, doesn't do well on them,
so he doesn't like to play them. All that sort
of stuff. He comes out here, not only does he play,
he final tables not one, not two, not three, not four,
but five of the six tournaments. Five he won the
first one, he had, the second place in another one.
He just finished third in the final event. I mean,
the guy absolutely destroyed. I believe he cashed for around
one hundred and thirty five to one hundred and forty
thousand dollars total when you include the bounty money that
he won.
Speaker 2: How many points did he finish with? Picked up one
hundred and eighty five points.
Speaker 1: One hundred and eighty five points for his quest towards
qualification for the season ending PGT Million Dollar Championship, which
he seems to think he's drawing dead. But I don't
think he's drawing dead. There are plenty of events left
on the schedule if he's able to just rip off
one of the big ones.
Speaker 2: You know, if he, let's say.
Speaker 1: Wins PGT Venetian or you know, wins the five K
showcase opener for Poker Masters, or even like final tables
those you know, that could be a couple hundred points
or so. Yeah, and then he's you know, right there
in the mix of things. There's plenty of stuff at
Poker Masters, the true classic, rags to riches. There is
stuff in Texas if he wants to go down there
and gam wants some plot napt stuff. He was there
last year. I would expect him to be there this year.
Maybe he's not playing the fifty k, but I think
the other stuff he can certainly be in there. I
think on this year's NABT they have a twelve k
quattro they do, and now that he's mister Bounty, I
mean he needs to go in there and just show
everyone what's up.
Speaker 2: So there's that.
Speaker 1: So he's got plenty of last chance as well. He's
got plenty of He's got absolutely plenty of stuff. So yeah,
five final tables total almost one hundred and forty thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: One.
Speaker 1: He added one hundred and eighty five eighty three whatever
the heck it was PGT leaderboard points. So I mean,
just absolutely on fire as of late is Jeremie Becker.
He won the opening event for a total of fifty
five thousand, six hundred dollars. You know, even though the
field sizes here, which we'll talk about in a little bit,
I'm gonna put the commissioner on the hot seat. Oh,
not not really on the hot seat, but I mean
the hot seat. But it's not going to be that hot.
All the fields izes weren't that big, allthough the prize
pools weren't that huge. You know, Becker did enjoy a
lot of success, and he really did become the story
of the series. Both, you know, people following along. I
know that they were, you know, tuning in on the streams,
they were talking about on social media, we were talking
about it in various group chats in the tournament room.
You know, they were you know, busting his balls NonStop
about how hot he's running, all this sort of stuff.
So Jeremy Becker very much the story of the series.
Do you think, mister Commissioner, that a run like this
helps Jeremy, you know, build more momentum as like a
breakout name on the PGT do you or I mean,
do you even think he's like still a breakout name
or is he fully arrived? Like, well, what do you
think this does for him?
Speaker 2: No? I think he has fully arrived. We I was
chatting the other day, and he is one of the
highest volume players, you know.
Speaker 1: But that's also why I was that he didn't have
like he had like sixty five points or something.
Speaker 2: He just haven't gone his way this season. But like
he has played literally every Noliman hold them event we've run.
You know, he doesn't play plow, doesn't play mix, so
he obviously loses opportunities there. So he's definitely not a
breakout star. He's definitely been here. He's here, and I
think this run, you know, not a lot of points,
you know, you know, one hundred and something thousand dollars
in winnings. I think it gives him a little bit
of confidence, a little bit of momentum going into Venetian,
going into Poker Masters, where you know, he could potentially
pick up maybe he picks up four hundred points with
you know, another an assortment of cashes and and now
he's you know, within shriking distance of that top forty.
He's now one more big cash outside of qualifying. So
I think it's pretty good for him. Is the momentum.
You know, if he came here bricked everything, you know,
fired a bunch of bullets and nothing resulted. That confidence
would have been kind of, you know, at an all
time low for the PGT event. So maybe don't see
him blasting the Master's Venetian Evans and you know, everything
else upcoming. So I think this is a good for him.
Hopefully the results do go his way. You know, he's
he's bitched the mind a few times about missing the
championship last year and it being my fault. So hopefully
we can get away.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I didn't understand that comment. Why was it your fault?
Speaker 2: What we changed the rules this year? Is it because
of the eligibility thing? Eligibility thing?
Speaker 1: I mean, it wasn't your fault. Those were the rules
and some people selected not to show up.
Speaker 2: What he would do? You know, he likes to blame
me and things. He wants to blame me. Why there
wasn't a Player of the Series trophy? You know, why
was there a Player of the series exactly? Why was
there not money for Player of the Series. So you know,
it's always my fault. It is, it is always your fault.
Speaker 1: I do think that if if you did, I'm not
sure I would have done a Player of the Series
for this one, I would have entertained a like top
bounty hunter.
Speaker 2: So like the person who is one of the most
bounties something.
Speaker 1: Either either either accumulated the most bounties or accumulated the
most bounty dollars. I know what the dollars thing. There
is a bit more luck involved with the mystery bounty element,
but still, you know, either one of those I think
could have just been fun, right, you know, and it
doesn't necessarily have to be a big prize. I would
have liken that sort of prize to when you did
that Chip Leader bonus. Yeah, you know, that was kind
of just a fun little thing. So I would have
thought something like this. Not that Jeremy would have won it,
because he didn't learn a single bounty that I saw.
I mean, he did, but it didn't seem like he
ever won bounties. He was constantly complaining about not getting
a ton of bounties.
Speaker 2: Bounties did not go in He's a direction.
Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, But overall, Jeremie Becker moves up to
two hundred and thirty seven points on the season. That
puts him in two hundred and fourteenth place, which may
seem like it's far away from the top forty. But
the top forty right now, fortieth place is Ben Lamb
eight eighty seven, so he's around six point fifty away
from Ben Lamb. So getting into the top forty, which
is you know, people get like if the leader board
winner of Poker Masters is going to get around six
to fifty if not more, right, like, you know, I
mean that person's going to get between five hundred to
one thousand, I would say so, and especially this year
because you added two events. Last year was eight events
for Poker Masters. This year, we're going back to ten,
so there's you know, some additional tournaments to get in there.
I think that opener of the showcase is like right
up Jeremy's alley too, you know, Like I think that's
going to be right in his wheelhouse for the stuff
that he excels in.
Speaker 2: So, you know, I don't.
Speaker 1: Think he's drawing dead, even though he might think he's
drawing dead. You know, I think he just needs to
buckle down and trust the process, because, like you said,
he is in here grinding all these events. He clearly
has what it takes to compete with these guys who
you know, a lot of these players in here are
some of the best players in the world, you know.
But Jeremy has proven I think now the past couple
of seasons that he does belong. You know, he's still here,
he's showing up, he's having success. So yeah, just keep
at it, man, just keep at it.
Speaker 2: There's also least six opportunities for him to win a
dream seat and be fast checking the championship, giving one
away at the napt if you finish on top of
that lead aboard, you know, eight events there that qualify
for the PGT and then we're doing five for PGT
Lost Chance. So he could easily just win a PGT
lost Chance event and be on the top of the
leader board that way. He has got other methods to
get in, as do you know everyone else out there,
So he can't just give up now with the remaining
in the season.
Speaker 1: And he's you know, he's some of what Jeremy does.
Speaker 2: He's just busting balls like we all like to do.
Speaker 1: So I know he's going to be gunning for it,
and I think I think he's going to get there,
you know. Again, I just think that at some point
the variance has to go his way, which I think
this series, it really did start to go his way
in a lot of spots. I mean, he would have
had a better result had he won with those aces
vers Sergia Ido's kings and in the second event of
the series at the final table. But you know there
were other times when we saw him get lucky spots,
so you know it goes both ways. But just the
volume aspect, we know he's going to be here, He's
going to be playing all of our events. You know,
I think he's gonna he's gonna do it. So a
couple more results go his way, and you know Jeremy's
going to be in the top forty if not knocking
on the door. And then come that Last Chance Series,
you know it's gonna be game.
Speaker 2: On other winners.
Speaker 1: You know, we mentioned that Jeremy Becker won the opening
event for what was fifty five thousand, six hundred dollars,
and we also had Sergerio Ido won the second event
for looks like sixty he looks like seventy thousand, No,
sixty nine thousand, sixty nine thousand dollars or right or
right around there. That's that's first place prize many plus
bounties is what I'm giving you, guys. Land Entice once
Jeremy Becker's enemy. I guess you would say counterpart. They
are kind of buddies.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: He won the third event for almost eighty thousand dollars.
Yeah did land Entice. Fourth event, ream won that one.
He actually beat Jeremy Becker in heads up play That
was a PKO.
Speaker 2: How much did he win?
Speaker 1: Twenty eight K first place prize, thirty seven thousand bounties
sixty sixty five. Sorry, my apologies. Jason Hickey, newcomer to
the studio, came out here, played all series long, and
it finally came home for Jason Hickey in even number
five that was the Mystery Bounty. He won first place
prize for fifty K, and then he took another forty
seven thousand dollars in bounties, notably Anthony Marquez third place
in this one for twenty four thousand, seven hundred, but
sixty six k in bounties sixty six k. Once again
at a PGT mystery bounty event. The first bounty pulled
was the biggest bounty available. Wild stuff, absolutely wild stuff
in that one. And then this final event, the well,
it was a standard bounty, then it was changed to
a quatro then it was changed again to a mystery
bounty was won by Sam Laskowitz. He defeated Andrew Lichtenberger
and Jeremie Berger got third in that one. Laskowitz took
home well, they made a deal, so I have no
idea what he took home. They basically chopped up the
last two bounties.
Speaker 2: Chop the last of Banni. It was twenty five k
and a five k. They did ic him chump for that.
Then they played out for the rest Yeah Laska weight
so yeah chok on thirty six and a hop thousand
for the win plus thirty zero point sixty eight in bounties. Sweet,
not bad, awesome.
Speaker 1: The whole series minus the last event. The final tables
were live streamed on poker Goro and on the Poker
Go YouTube channel, So if you missed them you want
to rewatch them, you guys can go find them there.
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 1: It was fun to see. I know it's no limit
hold them, but the bounty element and the different bounty element,
I think through a through a wrinkle into things for
the players. You know, right away, like in the studio,
you could tell a lot of players aren't really familiar
with bounties and how to play them, and they were
kind of figuring out, figuring it out as they go,
and they were asking a lot of questions and all
that sort of stuff. And then of course the bounties
were changing every single day. Like the first event was
just a standard bounty. Every time you knock them out,
you get a two K bounty. The second one was
what a quatro no. Second one was the escalator, so
it was five hundred, then it was one thousand, then
it was like five K, a little bit over five k,
depending on the stage of the tournament that you were at.
Third one was the quatro So bounties kicked in when
twenty five percent of the field those remaining and boundaries
were four x what they are in a standard boundary,
so budies were ak there. So that added some some
bigger bounties at play. You had a PKO as well.
We've had pko's before, but PKO was in play here,
and you had a mystery bounty as well, so you know,
a lot of different stuff that was going on. It
was interesting again to see kind of people figure it out,
you know, be like, oh, should I call here, there's
the bounty?
Speaker 2: You know, what do I do?
Speaker 1: The pay jumps are relatively small because the prize pool's
got some money taken out to count for the bounty pool,
so all that sort of stuff. So yeah, check it out.
It's on pokergrow dot com. You can also find it
on the poker Go YouTube channel.
Speaker 2: Five.
Speaker 1: Final tables they were pretty easy to two digest. I
think the longest one was around four hours, but other
than that, they were right around two hours each, so
kind of in and out for those. So yeah, I
think fun series is how I would describe it. Also
good to try something new, but I would also say
that it kind of fell short, at least from my expectations.
I know you were lower on things than I was,
but I'm I'm always higher, you're always lower. If you
want to look at averages, the six events averaged forty
six entries, so I would say, and we didn't top
sixty entries for a single event, so, you know, a
little bit on the small side for what we're used to.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean we look, we've had players wanting to
put this on the schedule for a while and we
had to find the spot for it. We knew this
wasn't going to be a harm run, but We wanted
to get it on there and test it out, see
what works, say what didn't. We knew we were going
up against you know, a little bit of ebt Barcelona
heading into trying j jors, So you know, we lost
a lot of our regulars over there. They're all sitting
over there trying to win some JJ coin right now.
But hey, we tried it. I think we will probably
do some variation of it again. I think we learned
what worked, what doesn't work. And obviously scheduling is always
going to be very important, so making sure whenever we
do do it next, we schedule it in a better time,
a better spot to really maximize kind of turnout.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So do you think this was like just a
scheduling thing? Do you think that maybe there wasn't enough
interest in a bounty series from what we might have
thought that there was interest on it? Like, you know,
why is it? I mean, or is it just like no,
we just scheduled that it was up against a lot
of stuff. But this is also why we could only
run it, Like, I mean, is there more to just
than just a schedule?
Speaker 2: I guess is what I'm asking. I think the schedule
is the biggest component. I think what we learned from
the series was that, you know, some of the bounty
format formats just are not preferable at this kind of buying. So,
you know, stuff like the standard knockout and the you know,
the PKAO and even the escalators whinning cent you're taking
money out from hand one, while the Quadra obviously registration ends,
you sill no boundies. None of the prize was being
touched Mister Boundie. Same thing. A lot of the toke
the last few days was like, hey, if we do
this again, just make it a mister Bounie series.
Speaker 1: I was I heard that too, the players say that,
and I was honestly surprised, because while I understand the
appetite and enthusiasm for the poker playing community to be
attracted to mystery bounties, right you have that lottery aspect,
that luck factor, you get to sweat the envelope like
all that sort of stuff, I just thought that, like
professional poker players, which I think the large majority of
the guys in here are, and not only that, but
they're like the upper class pro poker players, I just
thought that they wouldn't care as much for a mystery
bounty format. I thought all these guys would be more
PKO yeah than Mystery Bounding. Like, I feel like Mystery
Bounty is more for the common folk because they kind
of they like they're playing poker kind of recreationally for fun,
and part of that fun is having that gamble element.
And what's more gamble than busting someone and pulling an
envelope and seeing what you get, Like like that's max gamble, right,
So I was surprised to see so much love for
the Mystery Bounty format specifically.
Speaker 2: You know, I just thought that the PKO.
Speaker 1: Would be something that they all were like, Yeah, the
pko's the better one.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think that obviously has a lot of success
in the PLO series doesn't correlate to No Limit, and
you know, as these guys explain why, it makes a
lot of sense. So yeah, we'll definitely make those changes.
But you know we're going back to, you know, the
Banning series. We saw so many new faces in here
on that event one we would just say, oh, this
could be good. So there's obviously definitely an appetite for
a Bannie s is knowing that you see someone like
you know, Jason Hicky comes out plays every event obviously
thinks that the main finale event five. A lot of
other people playing events here that are not you know,
we go that Drake Kemper played all six events. He
doesn't really play in the studio at all except maybe
a Pokemasa's you know opening event, et cetera kind of thing.
You know, even Mike Zulka, who had a good World series,
doesn't often play in here, plays a little bit here
and there, but he played, you know, all six events.
He got Andrew Kelso always here for the mixed game series.
Never expect him to play anything but mixed games, but
he was like out here, he played four of the
they played five of the six events. So I would
say Andrew Ostupchenko, yep.
Speaker 1: You know, obviously he's kind of got that new money
coming off a huge summer. You know, he's popped into
the studio before, but he was here for the full series.
John Andres also has popped into the studio before, but
he was again here for the full series. So you know,
that's that's definitely a positive takeaway, you know the fact
that we got some some new blood in here, you know,
every single day plane So so that was good to see.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you know, we'll tweak it for twenty twenty six,
whenever we can fit that in and figure it out.
I think we got a lot of positive comments about
this little little trophy here. Tried something new, this is uh.
Speaker 1: I just think it needs to be a little bigger.
I think it needs to be like sitting down, I've
already told you all this same down, like I don't
like this little thing here, but it's still it's still
like cool.
Speaker 2: Basically, we kind of audibled pretty light because the originally
was going to be a treasure chest. And that's the
reason we have all these hundred dollars bills, these plocks,
fake under plaques because they were going to go in
the treasure chest. And so you could open the treasure
chest and it was filled with hundreds, right, and we
get sized it accordingly.
Speaker 1: And then this is what happens, guys, when you put
this guy in charge of the budget. Okay, this is
we got. We got treasure chests, we got floating skulls,
we got we got not expensive, and then we got
plaques with his face on it. Why not his face,
Tim's face, hal.
Speaker 2: Boy, Tim, to be exactly, we have more are of
Kerry once we made this logo, we made the quick
change to do something relative to the logo. We had
a three D printer three D printing company make these,
so they don't really make trophies. Shout out printer world.
But yeah, we didn't really know how to put on
a base. We didn't really the next obviously, if you
can kind of see, is pretty thin. So yeah, I
think they came out all right. Look, they were not
that expensive at all, compared to like the gold cups
we've liven out significantly cheaper. I think they were a
little bit more fun. I think a lot of people
are like, oh, this is kind of cool. Really want
to skull trophy. But yeah, I think that was kind
of one of the positives that came out, even though
it wasn't perfect. But we put it all together in
a couple of weeks to get these overall in the series.
Speaker 1: You know, I can I can make arguments that are positive,
I can make arguments that are negative. So that's exactly
what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna straddle the fence. I'm
going to give you ball sides. And the positive side
of me is that I think it's good to try
new things. I think it's good to try and innovate,
if that's the word here, not that you know, having
a poker series isn't necessarily innovative, but innovating in the
way of you have a whole series, a higher stake
series dedicated towards bounties and all different kinds of bounties.
So you know, you can't innovate without testing the waters.
And I think that this was a good test case here.
And if you're going to take steps forward or find
things out, I think you have to be willing to
take some risks and kind of take leaps of faith,
which I think we did here, which is fine. Also,
I think that you know, being in the booth all
week and watching the final tables, the bounty format created
a lot of entertaining moments, a lot of fun hands.
There was you know, a bunch of threw away all
ends at times, like people being like, oh, I'm going
to gamble because we have the bounty, all that sort
of stuff. In the mystery bounty element, you got the
exciting bounty pulls. So you know, from like a broadcast
and an entertainment standpoint, you know, I think that the
bounty product it adds a bit of color to everything,
and I think, you know, the viewers that tuned in
enjoyed it. It kept things pretty fast paced overall. There
was one final table, the third or fourth one, that
was a little bit slower than the other ones, but
for the most part, the bounty prizes I think drove
a lot of the action, which is good. And listen,
you're not I think it's foolish to ever think that
you're going to bat a thousand in anything that you
do in life, not just what we do. So expecting
that everything is going to be a home run, I
think is just wildly silly. You know, sometimes you're going
to try something and it's not going to work like
you had hoped. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't keep
trying new things. And that doesn't mean, you know, this
should just be like thrown away because it didn't work
one time. Maybe we tinker with it, we bring it back,
you know, and we see how it goes the second
time around. If we don't see improvement from there, then yeah,
then maybe you can and it's just not working. But
and overall, you know, I do think it kind of
hel helps us get that going on the PGT, which
I think is a pretty decent thing. You know, It's
in a way, it's kind of like the mid season
PGT kickoff, Like the PGT kickoff series isn't exactly like
a barn burner right out of the gate when we
kick off the season. I mean, it's it's it's decent,
but you know, it's not not a major it's not
you know, shattering entry records here in the studio, you know,
but it's still a good way to start easing in
to the series. And with that kickoff, you know, a
lot of times you and I talk about how it's
trying to get like newer blood into the studio. Hopefully
they get a bunch of PGT points and then they
continue on throughout the season. Yeah, same sort of thing here.
You know, we saw a lot of new faces, which
I think is a pretty big positive here, and hopefully
some of those players, you know, continue to try and
battle on. You know, I look at somebody like Jason Hickey,
just because he won an event, so he's top of mind.
He got you know, a chunk of PGT points for that,
you know, obviously a chunk of money to almost one
hundred K. So you know, maybe we see a Jason
Hickey take to pg Venetian, you know, take to Poker Masters.
Maybe he's firing some napt high roller stuff, you know,
and now he's like taking more shots on the PGT
in the studio, et cetera. So so yeah, I think
that's the positive take. The negative take is, you know,
I think that the market speaks loudly at times, and
you should tend to listen to the market. And I
think the message from the market here was pretty clear
that they weren't interested in this series.
Speaker 2: Now we can debate why they weren't interested.
Speaker 1: Maybe it was simply they weren't interested because the schedule
was jam packed and they chose to go somewhere else.
But that would tell me that like, Okay, this series
wasn't big and attractive enough for them to skip whatever
they were doing and come to this, right, So you know,
that's that's the negative side of things.
Speaker 2: So yeah, overall, I'm happy with it. I do.
Speaker 1: I do think it was a good enough series that
I can say that I think people missed out. Now,
maybe they missed out because you had some bad scheduling
and we can hopefully adjust that in the future. But
you're also never going to one hundred percent get around
scheduling just with so much that's going on in poker
these days, So you know, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: I mean, we can't for this series specifically, you can't
really move it up somebody, you know, somebody might have
a home right now, be like, well what about August?
Trust me, no one wants to touch poker in August really,
like everyone's over. Yeah, everyone's just kind of over from
the WSP, Like they're all just like resting and relaxing
until it's like you basically takesally you battle for six weeks,
then you take like six weeks off just chilling.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: Obviously there's some seminal stuff and whatever, but for the
most part, people are kind of chilling, and then you know,
right at the end of August early September comes in,
it's like, okay, we're back, you know. So just doing
anything in August tends to just flop per experience, So
so yeah, anything else on the Blitz?
Speaker 2: Do you like the name? I like the logo, the
logo logol name. We through some stuff around this seem
to fit most you know, obviously if we do do it,
mister Bounty series maybe it's a it's another name change,
but I don't think that's really a problem. Yeah, I
just don't know about a Mistery Bounty series. I mean,
I think it would work if we time it right,
I think it would be good.
Speaker 1: I think you also have to have some lower by
like a thirty three hundred.
Speaker 2: Like a thirty three hundred opener, and then like some
fives and tens is the way to do it, to
be honest.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and so yeah, maybe that would work. Who that comes?
All right, let's talk on this uh PGT fantasy quickly
and then we'll get on We'll get.
Speaker 2: On out of here. So ways, where were they on
the level? We're my voice too?
Speaker 1: On the last episode, Tim and I did a quick
draft between us. We drafted five players each for the
second half of the PGT season. But there are some
you know, rules and caveats that come with it. You
can drop you, okay, you have to drop one player
after each series. So after the PGT Bounty Buez, we're
going to drop a player right now, After PGT Venetian,
we're gonna drop a player. After Pokemasters are gonna drop
a player. So you got to drop someone and you
to pick someone up. Then from the other four players,
you select two that are untouchable, and then we do
a swap from the other two player you can swap one.
So if I say, like two of my players are untouchable,
from the other two, you can say, like, Okay, I'm
gonna swap you this guy for that guy.
Speaker 2: Now the untouchable is just for the next series, right, So.
Speaker 1: That's the untouchable, as I'm saying, are like right now,
like when we swap, you can't swap with using those
two players.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but then the next time I could switch the untouchable. Yeah,
you can switch them. Yes.
Speaker 1: So the teams I drafted Alex fox and Jeremy Becker,
Nick Shulman, Adam Hendrix, and Michael Wang, of which two
of those people aren't even on this continent, which is
a problem. I have no idea whe Nick Shulman is.
I know he went Okay, Well, Alex Foxen and Michael
Wang are for sure at Trton.
Speaker 2: I think Shulman's there too, see.
Speaker 1: I just I just I've seen like stuff like updates
or social media with Alex fox In same with Michael Wang.
I have seen nothing with Shulman. I know Sherlman went
to Cyprus. I just don't know if he actually then
went to Trite and if he did, I just haven't
seen any updates or anything, or maybe I just haven't
looked hard, but I haven't seen anything, So I don't
know if he's there, if he came back, he's not
playing this series, I don't know. I would think that
Shulman's look the type of guy where if he was here,
I think he would play this anyway. So I'm guessing
he's there and I just haven't seen it. Adam Hendricks,
I think, came back.
Speaker 2: Here, texted me saying he was coming back to play.
The Bounding series didn't play.
Speaker 1: Exactly so, and I thought he was gonna be playing too.
He is getting married soon, but I thought this series
would fit in his last poker Hurrah before he goes
and goes the whole wedding honeymoon thing. So don't know
where the heck he is. So those are my five.
You have Jeremy Osmaschino, Reim, Sam Silverall, Jesse Lonis, and
John Reordan. Now, in terms of attendance at this series,
four of those guys played.
Speaker 2: I crushed it. I crushed the.
Speaker 1: Osbes played one event, Gino Reem played everything. Sam Silverell
played a handful. I don't know if it was all
of them. Jesse Loonis didn't play. He's a Triton and
I believe he's a chip leader with like one hundred
and twenty left. Of course he is of the Triton one.
And then John Reordan was here as well. China Raim's
the only one who did anything. Yeah, he won the
one event, beating Jeremy Becker coming out of it.
Speaker 2: And the scoring system that we're using was just using
PGT points, just a way for us to talk shit.
Speaker 1: I joked on the last pod that I would drop
Jeremy Becker entering like the PLO stuff. He heard it,
texted me at like one in the morning telling me
I was going to drop his ass. He said, I
lit a fire under his ass. And then he goes
in final tables five of the six events here at
PGT body Blitz. So I mean, we ain't dropping Jeremy Becker, okay,
especially with PGT Venetian coming up. Who are you going
to drop? By the way, the points are one to
eighty five for me, seventy four for you.
Speaker 2: Now we're just drofting for Venetian, right, and then we
drop for Pokemasas.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're dropping someone to draft for a Venetian, the
whole Venetian series, so that main event and then the
high Line, anything that counts for anything that counts for
whatever events.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Jesse Lionis, see you later. Okay, Jesse Lonis, see
you later. Well who you who you're picking out? Well,
you need to jump something first, I think, okay, you
want to do that. Yeah, that's what I mean.
Speaker 1: I have no idea if I don't know when, I
don't even know when trade ends.
Speaker 2: It's you just it's still going while the nation goes.
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess I'm dropping Adam Hendricks because I
just wow, Okay, well when's his wedding?
Speaker 2: I have no clue. I'm can he play Venetian? Is
that official? Can he play Vetian? I don't call him
up right now? Sure?
Speaker 1: All right, I'm dropping Adam Hendricks. He's probably gonna he's
probably gonna somehow play Venetian, probably.
Speaker 2: Win a high roll or something. Yeah, okay, are we
going to do the pick ups first? And then we
protect or do we protect from that current fall? No?
No pick pick up right now, Okay, I'm gonna pick up.
I'm gonna I got a few names.
Speaker 1: You drop Jesse Lonas correct, Okay, great, right?
Speaker 2: Who you adding? I'm gonna add Michael Burke. Wow, that's
a fucking good one. I had a few names on
my list. That's a really fucking good one. You know what.
Fuck it. I'm gonna add Sam Laskowitz. Good one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean he said he said Today I heard
him say that he was the best vanilla tournament player
in the world, which I couldn't tell he was serious
or not, which I thought was he meant vanilla because
he was like they were joking. A lot of them
were joking like the whole time that like they didn't
really know exactly how to do everything in tournaments or
sorry mystery or bounty tournaments. So then he was saying
vanilla tournaments, I'm like the best in the world, which
I didn't know he was serious, and I think he.
Speaker 2: Was a kind of It was a pretty fun, fun
timele They're all kind of chulling each other.
Speaker 1: But then Jeremy Becker was like, you know, like the
goat basically is right here, Andrew Lick, he's chocolate. He
said he wash, Yeah, but he said he was chocolate.
But still whatever. Anyway, all right, so I add Sam Laskowitz,
you added Michael, I dropped Anim HENDRICKX for Laskowitz, You
dropped Jesse Lonis for Michael Burke. All right, cool, I
gotta protect Okay, let's let's I'll let you decide on
this rule because I didn't put it in the rules.
Speaker 2: So whatever.
Speaker 1: For let's say, for Poker Masters, are Lonus and Hendricks
available again?
Speaker 2: But you said you have it there? What does it
say they're they're available for the next series. They have
to basically have a series off, so yes, you could.
Where does it say that? But I said immediately, Yeah,
pick up immediately. That's fine.
Speaker 1: So they're back in the pool for posters. Okay, cool,
all right, now you got to tell me your two
players protect are protected, and then I will possibly switch
one of mine for yours.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm gonna be you can't. Yeah, I'm protecting John
Ryorden and Michael Burke. No, you can't protect Michael Burke.
That's what I just asked before.
Speaker 1: Well, the so this is great radio, by the way,
but I don't give a ship Laskowitz and Burke are
not eligible for this swap thing. Okay, they're They're like
they're safe. So you got to pick some some somebody else.
So either osmus China Reim or Sam's overall give me save.
Speaker 2: You. Huh, You're you're locking up sover saver. I'm protecting save. Okay,
Henry Ordon, so you get like fucking music to my ears.
That's fine. I'm going to lock up.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm locking out fucking Jeremy Biker. I mean
he's the goat. I mean, I don't even care who
I lock up with these other guys. I mean I'm
locking at Nick Schulman.
Speaker 2: I would have also jumped Wang and kept Hendricks because
at least Hendrix is here. I mean he may play
a high roll up.
Speaker 1: I understand that, but I am thinking that there's a chance.
I think there's a greater chance that Michael Wang hops
on a plane tomorrow to get back here for something
like the PGT Venetian series, as opposed to the guy
who is about to get married and didn't even play
this series, plays this.
Speaker 2: Series, excited to play the upcoming try and park a
super high rolls see all the stuff, whatever it does,
I've seen it all he's missing half a Pokemon. I understand,
but these guys are flaky, man, trust me, they are flaky.
All right? Who are you gonna swap? You don't? Okay?
So I didn't have to suck, right, Yeah, you don't.
You don't have to if you don't want Okay. So
I have to either salk with Alex Fox and Huwayan
here or Michael Wang Huayn here, and I can't take Lasco.
It's so I'm not swapping anybody, okay.
Speaker 1: Cool, Well, I'm swapping Alex Fox in for Jeremy Osmas.
Speaker 2: Okay. See, Like the thing is with Ozma's he's here.
I mean he was talking to me. He's like, I
don't want to travel anymore. I just want to be home.
And then he skipped every event about the first time.
Speaker 1: I bet he saw the numbers and I was like,
this isn't worth my sight.
Speaker 2: But like I'm wondering, like is he gonna get out
of bed for a three K? That's like, I'm not
sure is he gonna get is he gonna get out of.
Speaker 1: If not, I'm going to his house. I don't know
where he lives, but I'm gonna find me. We'll find
him I'm gonna he's walking.
Speaker 2: Uh, he sometimes walks down the street where I take
the street. I go down and take my kid to go.
I've seen him like walking in like he's alloyed pants
and a white vest with his wife. Well there you go.
All right.
Speaker 1: So the new teams are I have Jeremy Osmas, Jeremy Becker,
Nick Shulman, Michael Wang, and Sam Laskowitz. You have Alex Foxen,
Chino Reem, Sam's overall, John Reordan and Michael Burke.
Speaker 2: And one hundred and eleven one hundred and one points.
Wait night, no, you have seventy four. You have seventy four.
I'm saying I'm behind.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, that's right. All right, cool, you got
anything else because we can just get.
Speaker 2: Out of here. If you don't know. PGTAV The Nation
Las Vegas Classic thirty three hundred dollars mayn Event three
starting flights starting on Thursday, September eleven. You have two
hundred dollars discount if you're on time. Kicks off at
eleven ten am on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Get down
play million dollar guarantee. I'm definitely playing the three hundred
and eighty dollars satellite on the Wednesday night at five o'clock,
trying to get mine's definitely playing the tournament. You're definitely
playing the tournament. If I win my seat, I'm playing
one A. And then I've got to go down to
Orange County to beat the Orange County Giants in some
auzi RULs football on day one B. But whatever, But yeah,
come down and play, come support. You know, I think
the fact that Venetian is willing to a put up
a million dollar guarantee on a new event B give
players two hundred dollars rake discount is absolutely massive. And
if you know, spread the word, get your friends, tell
people to come support that, because you know, if it's successful,
they all keep doing a rake discount on these midsteaks.
I guess you can call them midstakes tournaments, and they
may set a precedent going forward for other casinos to
do the same. It's great for players. It gets the
event going, gets cards in the air, gets tables field,
So it's definitely a really positive step forward. And the
other thing with this event that you brought up today
that I completely forgot about. It's seven handed. You don't
really see that often, you know, we hear a lot
of complaints about nine handed and ten handed play. You
don't really see the ten hand play anymore, but nine
handed so much. You know, obviously we play eight and
then play down to seven. They're just seven handed the
entire tournament.
Speaker 1: So I mean, they they might go to a should
they need it, but I don't think that they're gonna
need it because they have fifty tables there, yea that
they can use. The streaming room will be one of
those tables, yeah, because they are streaming all the days.
So I'm guessing maybe not for the first flight, but
I'm guessing for maybe the Friday flight. I would say
almost for sure for the Saturday day fight. They're probably
gonna cancel or delay the cash games for a little bit,
you know, like they do. They say, Okay, we're gonna,
you know, gonna the cashimes are gonna end at ten thirty,
you know, the terms kicking off at eleven ten, you know,
at like one o'clock or two o'clock, we'll start opening
up some cash game tables again, or however it goes,
you know, so we'll see, but seven handed throughout. I'm
excited for that. I'm excited to battle. It's gonna be
good fun. I would join you in those satellites, but
I'm going to Disneyland. Damn, oh rich is this not
rich at all? Disneyland is a fuck ton of money.
It's outrageous. But you know, this has been a long
time coming. And yeah, so I'm sure we haven't done
it in a while. But I'm hoping I'll have a
family pot I.
Speaker 2: Actually have a family pot story. Oh but no, no,
we're gonna still save because something has to develop from Disneyland.
I'm gonna have two kids running around MENI so I goes.
So I've been telling all my family post stories to
to you know, Jim and Antonio out there, but it's
related to Disneyland. I think it's pretty funny, but we'll
save it for post Venetian pod. Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 1: Sweet all right, cool Houston, Duckworth. I'm Donnie Peters and
we'll talk to you guys next time.