WEBVTT 1 00:00:10.800 --> 00:00:13.119 Hello everyone, and welcome back to a new episode of 2 00:00:13.320 --> 00:00:17.920 the Poker Go Podcast. My name is Donnie Peters. His 3 00:00:18.039 --> 00:00:22.399 name is Tim Duckworth. What's up, buddy. 4 00:00:22.760 --> 00:00:23.719 Not much, buddy. 5 00:00:24.120 --> 00:00:28.760 It is eleven twenty seven pm on Saturday, September sixth, 6 00:00:28.879 --> 00:00:31.600 kind of back to dubs a p hours. We just 7 00:00:31.839 --> 00:00:40.240 wrapped up the first ever PGT Bounty Blitz Tournament Series series. Yes, 8 00:00:40.280 --> 00:00:43.600 that is true tournament series. Thank you for finishing my sentence. 9 00:00:43.640 --> 00:00:46.640 I appreciate that. We're gonna talk all about it. We 10 00:00:46.719 --> 00:00:48.960 got a little bit of a recap here. We wanted 11 00:00:49.000 --> 00:00:50.960 to get this one out of the way before we 12 00:00:51.039 --> 00:00:54.439 get into PGT. Venetian is coming up later this week. 13 00:00:54.759 --> 00:00:57.560 After that, in what two weeks week and a half 14 00:00:57.679 --> 00:01:00.600 or so, it's the Poker Masters. So we got a 15 00:01:00.600 --> 00:01:03.039 lot of PGT stuff, as we outlined on the last 16 00:01:03.079 --> 00:01:05.840 episode of the podcast during the month of September, So 17 00:01:05.879 --> 00:01:09.079 we're going to kind of do things after every single 18 00:01:09.439 --> 00:01:13.480 series as always. If you are listening, no matter where 19 00:01:13.480 --> 00:01:17.000 you're listening, please give us a favorite, follow the show, 20 00:01:17.200 --> 00:01:20.560 leave a review, five stars, all that good stuff. If 21 00:01:20.599 --> 00:01:23.599 you are watching on YouTube, like it's that little thumbs 22 00:01:23.680 --> 00:01:26.760 up button below the video subscribe to the channel drop 23 00:01:26.879 --> 00:01:30.640 a comment as well. A lot of fun stuff coming 24 00:01:30.719 --> 00:01:33.319 in from the last episode when we did the PGT 25 00:01:33.400 --> 00:01:37.040 Players Equals This wrestler got a lot of different messages, 26 00:01:37.120 --> 00:01:39.799 talking to a lot of different people that we saw 27 00:01:39.840 --> 00:01:42.359 in the studio and whatnot. Everyone had their kind of opinions, 28 00:01:42.400 --> 00:01:46.640 so that was fun. A couple people, they were not 29 00:01:46.680 --> 00:01:50.560 a couple. One person one negative review and it was 30 00:01:50.560 --> 00:01:55.000 Matt Savage the only negative review. Yeah, I didn't hear 31 00:01:55.000 --> 00:01:58.200 any other negative reviews, did you exactly? 32 00:01:58.239 --> 00:01:59.719 So just I mean, it's just a height. 33 00:02:00.000 --> 00:02:02.560 It sounds like it's a problem with that versus a 34 00:02:02.640 --> 00:02:05.200 problem with what we're doing here. 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Let's 56 00:03:13.639 --> 00:03:17.360 get into this PGT Bounty Blitz, which I kept like 57 00:03:17.479 --> 00:03:21.120 writing and talking and saying and whatever, kept calling it 58 00:03:21.120 --> 00:03:23.280 the Bounty series, and I had like delete stuff and 59 00:03:23.400 --> 00:03:26.000 correct myself. I'll probably stumble over my own words a 60 00:03:26.039 --> 00:03:28.800 few times throughout this episode, but we'll see if we 61 00:03:28.840 --> 00:03:32.960 can get on through first everone mm hmm. I would 62 00:03:33.000 --> 00:03:36.400 say that we took a chance to do this series, 63 00:03:37.000 --> 00:03:39.800 and we'll talk about some of the results. But first 64 00:03:39.800 --> 00:03:45.159 and foremost, mister Jeremi Becker, the guy who at the 65 00:03:45.199 --> 00:03:50.360 win a couple days ago told us he might not play. 66 00:03:50.240 --> 00:03:51.199 The series, doesn't. 67 00:03:51.879 --> 00:03:55.199 Hates bounties, never plays them, doesn't do well on them, 68 00:03:55.240 --> 00:03:57.000 so he doesn't like to play them. All that sort 69 00:03:57.000 --> 00:03:59.680 of stuff. He comes out here, not only does he play, 70 00:04:00.400 --> 00:04:03.599 he final tables not one, not two, not three, not four, 71 00:04:04.080 --> 00:04:09.199 but five of the six tournaments. Five he won the 72 00:04:09.240 --> 00:04:11.680 first one, he had, the second place in another one. 73 00:04:11.680 --> 00:04:14.479 He just finished third in the final event. I mean, 74 00:04:14.520 --> 00:04:18.560 the guy absolutely destroyed. I believe he cashed for around 75 00:04:18.600 --> 00:04:20.480 one hundred and thirty five to one hundred and forty 76 00:04:20.480 --> 00:04:23.360 thousand dollars total when you include the bounty money that 77 00:04:23.399 --> 00:04:23.800 he won. 78 00:04:24.399 --> 00:04:26.319 How many points did he finish with? Picked up one 79 00:04:26.399 --> 00:04:27.759 hundred and eighty five points. 80 00:04:27.439 --> 00:04:30.560 One hundred and eighty five points for his quest towards 81 00:04:30.680 --> 00:04:34.560 qualification for the season ending PGT Million Dollar Championship, which 82 00:04:34.560 --> 00:04:37.240 he seems to think he's drawing dead. But I don't 83 00:04:37.240 --> 00:04:39.560 think he's drawing dead. There are plenty of events left 84 00:04:39.600 --> 00:04:42.519 on the schedule if he's able to just rip off 85 00:04:42.519 --> 00:04:43.399 one of the big ones. 86 00:04:43.480 --> 00:04:44.759 You know, if he, let's say. 87 00:04:44.560 --> 00:04:48.439 Wins PGT Venetian or you know, wins the five K 88 00:04:48.720 --> 00:04:51.759 showcase opener for Poker Masters, or even like final tables 89 00:04:51.800 --> 00:04:54.399 those you know, that could be a couple hundred points 90 00:04:54.480 --> 00:04:57.399 or so. Yeah, and then he's you know, right there 91 00:04:57.399 --> 00:04:59.680 in the mix of things. There's plenty of stuff at 92 00:04:59.680 --> 00:05:03.439 Poker Masters, the true classic, rags to riches. There is 93 00:05:03.560 --> 00:05:05.279 stuff in Texas if he wants to go down there 94 00:05:05.279 --> 00:05:08.560 and gam wants some plot napt stuff. He was there 95 00:05:08.639 --> 00:05:10.519 last year. I would expect him to be there this year. 96 00:05:10.560 --> 00:05:12.879 Maybe he's not playing the fifty k, but I think 97 00:05:12.920 --> 00:05:15.480 the other stuff he can certainly be in there. I 98 00:05:15.560 --> 00:05:18.199 think on this year's NABT they have a twelve k 99 00:05:18.279 --> 00:05:21.800 quattro they do, and now that he's mister Bounty, I 100 00:05:21.839 --> 00:05:23.800 mean he needs to go in there and just show 101 00:05:23.839 --> 00:05:24.600 everyone what's up. 102 00:05:25.480 --> 00:05:26.040 So there's that. 103 00:05:26.720 --> 00:05:30.040 So he's got plenty of last chance as well. He's 104 00:05:30.040 --> 00:05:34.000 got plenty of He's got absolutely plenty of stuff. So yeah, 105 00:05:34.240 --> 00:05:38.480 five final tables total almost one hundred and forty thousand dollars. 106 00:05:38.519 --> 00:05:38.720 One. 107 00:05:39.079 --> 00:05:41.879 He added one hundred and eighty five eighty three whatever 108 00:05:41.879 --> 00:05:44.959 the heck it was PGT leaderboard points. So I mean, 109 00:05:45.279 --> 00:05:48.279 just absolutely on fire as of late is Jeremie Becker. 110 00:05:48.319 --> 00:05:51.519 He won the opening event for a total of fifty 111 00:05:51.560 --> 00:05:55.920 five thousand, six hundred dollars. You know, even though the 112 00:05:55.959 --> 00:05:58.519 field sizes here, which we'll talk about in a little bit, 113 00:05:58.800 --> 00:06:01.199 I'm gonna put the commissioner on the hot seat. Oh, 114 00:06:01.519 --> 00:06:03.319 not not really on the hot seat, but I mean 115 00:06:03.399 --> 00:06:05.199 the hot seat. But it's not going to be that hot. 116 00:06:05.519 --> 00:06:07.639 All the fields izes weren't that big, allthough the prize 117 00:06:07.680 --> 00:06:10.720 pools weren't that huge. You know, Becker did enjoy a 118 00:06:10.759 --> 00:06:13.160 lot of success, and he really did become the story 119 00:06:13.160 --> 00:06:16.079 of the series. Both, you know, people following along. I 120 00:06:16.319 --> 00:06:19.360 know that they were, you know, tuning in on the streams, 121 00:06:19.360 --> 00:06:22.160 they were talking about on social media, we were talking 122 00:06:22.199 --> 00:06:26.240 about it in various group chats in the tournament room. 123 00:06:26.279 --> 00:06:28.600 You know, they were you know, busting his balls NonStop 124 00:06:28.639 --> 00:06:30.519 about how hot he's running, all this sort of stuff. 125 00:06:30.560 --> 00:06:34.519 So Jeremy Becker very much the story of the series. 126 00:06:34.800 --> 00:06:38.360 Do you think, mister Commissioner, that a run like this 127 00:06:38.519 --> 00:06:41.639 helps Jeremy, you know, build more momentum as like a 128 00:06:41.639 --> 00:06:43.959 breakout name on the PGT do you or I mean, 129 00:06:43.959 --> 00:06:45.759 do you even think he's like still a breakout name 130 00:06:45.839 --> 00:06:48.120 or is he fully arrived? Like, well, what do you 131 00:06:48.120 --> 00:06:49.040 think this does for him? 132 00:06:49.199 --> 00:06:52.000 No? I think he has fully arrived. We I was 133 00:06:52.079 --> 00:06:55.759 chatting the other day, and he is one of the 134 00:06:55.879 --> 00:06:58.040 highest volume players, you know. 135 00:06:58.399 --> 00:07:01.079 But that's also why I was that he didn't have 136 00:07:02.480 --> 00:07:04.600 like he had like sixty five points or something. 137 00:07:05.120 --> 00:07:06.759 He just haven't gone his way this season. But like 138 00:07:07.360 --> 00:07:11.199 he has played literally every Noliman hold them event we've run. 139 00:07:11.439 --> 00:07:13.319 You know, he doesn't play plow, doesn't play mix, so 140 00:07:13.480 --> 00:07:16.399 he obviously loses opportunities there. So he's definitely not a 141 00:07:16.399 --> 00:07:20.720 breakout star. He's definitely been here. He's here, and I 142 00:07:20.800 --> 00:07:24.000 think this run, you know, not a lot of points, 143 00:07:24.120 --> 00:07:26.680 you know, you know, one hundred and something thousand dollars 144 00:07:26.800 --> 00:07:29.279 in winnings. I think it gives him a little bit 145 00:07:29.279 --> 00:07:31.680 of confidence, a little bit of momentum going into Venetian, 146 00:07:31.759 --> 00:07:35.000 going into Poker Masters, where you know, he could potentially 147 00:07:35.519 --> 00:07:38.319 pick up maybe he picks up four hundred points with 148 00:07:38.560 --> 00:07:41.439 you know, another an assortment of cashes and and now 149 00:07:41.480 --> 00:07:44.279 he's you know, within shriking distance of that top forty. 150 00:07:44.319 --> 00:07:48.000 He's now one more big cash outside of qualifying. So 151 00:07:48.519 --> 00:07:50.319 I think it's pretty good for him. Is the momentum. 152 00:07:50.319 --> 00:07:52.720 You know, if he came here bricked everything, you know, 153 00:07:52.759 --> 00:07:56.079 fired a bunch of bullets and nothing resulted. That confidence 154 00:07:56.120 --> 00:07:57.480 would have been kind of, you know, at an all 155 00:07:57.519 --> 00:08:00.439 time low for the PGT event. So maybe don't see 156 00:08:00.480 --> 00:08:04.279 him blasting the Master's Venetian Evans and you know, everything 157 00:08:04.279 --> 00:08:06.000 else upcoming. So I think this is a good for him. 158 00:08:06.160 --> 00:08:08.439 Hopefully the results do go his way. You know, he's 159 00:08:08.639 --> 00:08:10.920 he's bitched the mind a few times about missing the 160 00:08:11.000 --> 00:08:13.519 championship last year and it being my fault. So hopefully 161 00:08:13.560 --> 00:08:14.079 we can get away. 162 00:08:14.160 --> 00:08:16.480 Yeah, I didn't understand that comment. Why was it your fault? 163 00:08:17.040 --> 00:08:19.000 What we changed the rules this year? Is it because 164 00:08:19.040 --> 00:08:20.800 of the eligibility thing? Eligibility thing? 165 00:08:20.879 --> 00:08:24.560 I mean, it wasn't your fault. Those were the rules 166 00:08:24.600 --> 00:08:26.319 and some people selected not to show up. 167 00:08:26.920 --> 00:08:28.879 What he would do? You know, he likes to blame 168 00:08:28.920 --> 00:08:30.319 me and things. He wants to blame me. Why there 169 00:08:30.360 --> 00:08:33.240 wasn't a Player of the Series trophy? You know, why 170 00:08:33.519 --> 00:08:36.360 was there a Player of the series exactly? Why was 171 00:08:36.360 --> 00:08:38.360 there not money for Player of the Series. So you know, 172 00:08:39.120 --> 00:08:42.039 it's always my fault. It is, it is always your fault. 173 00:08:42.559 --> 00:08:45.639 I do think that if if you did, I'm not 174 00:08:45.679 --> 00:08:47.120 sure I would have done a Player of the Series 175 00:08:47.159 --> 00:08:50.440 for this one, I would have entertained a like top 176 00:08:50.480 --> 00:08:51.120 bounty hunter. 177 00:08:52.200 --> 00:08:54.039 So like the person who is one of the most 178 00:08:54.039 --> 00:08:54.960 bounties something. 179 00:08:55.000 --> 00:09:00.960 Either either either accumulated the most bounties or accumulated the 180 00:09:00.960 --> 00:09:03.480 most bounty dollars. I know what the dollars thing. There 181 00:09:03.519 --> 00:09:05.960 is a bit more luck involved with the mystery bounty element, 182 00:09:06.639 --> 00:09:08.200 but still, you know, either one of those I think 183 00:09:08.240 --> 00:09:10.360 could have just been fun, right, you know, and it 184 00:09:10.399 --> 00:09:13.159 doesn't necessarily have to be a big prize. I would 185 00:09:13.159 --> 00:09:15.000 have liken that sort of prize to when you did 186 00:09:15.039 --> 00:09:17.519 that Chip Leader bonus. Yeah, you know, that was kind 187 00:09:17.519 --> 00:09:19.960 of just a fun little thing. So I would have 188 00:09:19.960 --> 00:09:21.799 thought something like this. Not that Jeremy would have won it, 189 00:09:21.799 --> 00:09:24.000 because he didn't learn a single bounty that I saw. 190 00:09:24.120 --> 00:09:25.799 I mean, he did, but it didn't seem like he 191 00:09:25.840 --> 00:09:28.600 ever won bounties. He was constantly complaining about not getting 192 00:09:28.879 --> 00:09:29.759 a ton of bounties. 193 00:09:29.799 --> 00:09:32.559 Bounties did not go in He's a direction. 194 00:09:32.919 --> 00:09:36.279 So yeah, yeah, But overall, Jeremie Becker moves up to 195 00:09:36.279 --> 00:09:38.960 two hundred and thirty seven points on the season. That 196 00:09:39.000 --> 00:09:42.799 puts him in two hundred and fourteenth place, which may 197 00:09:42.879 --> 00:09:45.039 seem like it's far away from the top forty. But 198 00:09:45.120 --> 00:09:47.960 the top forty right now, fortieth place is Ben Lamb 199 00:09:48.039 --> 00:09:53.039 eight eighty seven, so he's around six point fifty away 200 00:09:53.840 --> 00:09:57.600 from Ben Lamb. So getting into the top forty, which 201 00:09:57.720 --> 00:10:00.639 is you know, people get like if the leader board 202 00:10:00.639 --> 00:10:02.480 winner of Poker Masters is going to get around six 203 00:10:02.440 --> 00:10:04.559 to fifty if not more, right, like, you know, I 204 00:10:04.600 --> 00:10:06.360 mean that person's going to get between five hundred to 205 00:10:06.399 --> 00:10:09.480 one thousand, I would say so, and especially this year 206 00:10:09.919 --> 00:10:13.080 because you added two events. Last year was eight events 207 00:10:13.080 --> 00:10:15.519 for Poker Masters. This year, we're going back to ten, 208 00:10:16.279 --> 00:10:19.200 so there's you know, some additional tournaments to get in there. 209 00:10:19.639 --> 00:10:21.919 I think that opener of the showcase is like right 210 00:10:21.960 --> 00:10:24.320 up Jeremy's alley too, you know, Like I think that's 211 00:10:24.360 --> 00:10:26.240 going to be right in his wheelhouse for the stuff 212 00:10:26.240 --> 00:10:27.159 that he excels in. 213 00:10:27.279 --> 00:10:29.200 So, you know, I don't. 214 00:10:28.960 --> 00:10:30.840 Think he's drawing dead, even though he might think he's 215 00:10:30.919 --> 00:10:32.919 drawing dead. You know, I think he just needs to 216 00:10:32.919 --> 00:10:37.720 buckle down and trust the process, because, like you said, 217 00:10:37.840 --> 00:10:41.039 he is in here grinding all these events. He clearly 218 00:10:41.080 --> 00:10:44.679 has what it takes to compete with these guys who 219 00:10:44.759 --> 00:10:46.440 you know, a lot of these players in here are 220 00:10:46.480 --> 00:10:48.440 some of the best players in the world, you know. 221 00:10:48.559 --> 00:10:51.679 But Jeremy has proven I think now the past couple 222 00:10:51.759 --> 00:10:54.519 of seasons that he does belong. You know, he's still here, 223 00:10:54.600 --> 00:10:57.679 he's showing up, he's having success. So yeah, just keep 224 00:10:57.720 --> 00:10:58.919 at it, man, just keep at it. 225 00:10:59.320 --> 00:11:02.720 There's also least six opportunities for him to win a 226 00:11:02.799 --> 00:11:05.840 dream seat and be fast checking the championship, giving one 227 00:11:05.840 --> 00:11:08.519 away at the napt if you finish on top of 228 00:11:08.559 --> 00:11:11.159 that lead aboard, you know, eight events there that qualify 229 00:11:11.240 --> 00:11:13.759 for the PGT and then we're doing five for PGT 230 00:11:13.879 --> 00:11:16.000 Lost Chance. So he could easily just win a PGT 231 00:11:16.120 --> 00:11:18.080 lost Chance event and be on the top of the 232 00:11:18.120 --> 00:11:20.879 leader board that way. He has got other methods to 233 00:11:20.879 --> 00:11:23.799 get in, as do you know everyone else out there, 234 00:11:23.879 --> 00:11:27.440 So he can't just give up now with the remaining 235 00:11:27.440 --> 00:11:28.080 in the season. 236 00:11:27.879 --> 00:11:29.919 And he's you know, he's some of what Jeremy does. 237 00:11:29.919 --> 00:11:31.919 He's just busting balls like we all like to do. 238 00:11:32.000 --> 00:11:34.000 So I know he's going to be gunning for it, 239 00:11:34.200 --> 00:11:36.840 and I think I think he's going to get there, 240 00:11:37.039 --> 00:11:40.320 you know. Again, I just think that at some point 241 00:11:40.440 --> 00:11:42.840 the variance has to go his way, which I think 242 00:11:42.960 --> 00:11:45.320 this series, it really did start to go his way 243 00:11:45.320 --> 00:11:47.600 in a lot of spots. I mean, he would have 244 00:11:47.600 --> 00:11:51.240 had a better result had he won with those aces 245 00:11:51.320 --> 00:11:54.480 vers Sergia Ido's kings and in the second event of 246 00:11:54.519 --> 00:11:57.879 the series at the final table. But you know there 247 00:11:57.919 --> 00:12:00.559 were other times when we saw him get lucky spots, 248 00:12:00.639 --> 00:12:03.679 so you know it goes both ways. But just the 249 00:12:03.759 --> 00:12:06.039 volume aspect, we know he's going to be here, He's 250 00:12:06.080 --> 00:12:08.159 going to be playing all of our events. You know, 251 00:12:08.399 --> 00:12:10.240 I think he's gonna he's gonna do it. So a 252 00:12:10.320 --> 00:12:13.000 couple more results go his way, and you know Jeremy's 253 00:12:13.000 --> 00:12:14.720 going to be in the top forty if not knocking 254 00:12:14.799 --> 00:12:17.519 on the door. And then come that Last Chance Series, 255 00:12:18.080 --> 00:12:19.159 you know it's gonna be game. 256 00:12:19.000 --> 00:12:21.879 On other winners. 257 00:12:22.120 --> 00:12:25.240 You know, we mentioned that Jeremy Becker won the opening 258 00:12:25.279 --> 00:12:29.840 event for what was fifty five thousand, six hundred dollars, 259 00:12:30.399 --> 00:12:32.919 and we also had Sergerio Ido won the second event 260 00:12:33.279 --> 00:12:37.240 for looks like sixty he looks like seventy thousand, No, 261 00:12:37.320 --> 00:12:40.919 sixty nine thousand, sixty nine thousand dollars or right or 262 00:12:41.000 --> 00:12:43.799 right around there. That's that's first place prize many plus 263 00:12:43.799 --> 00:12:47.360 bounties is what I'm giving you, guys. Land Entice once 264 00:12:47.519 --> 00:12:50.720 Jeremy Becker's enemy. I guess you would say counterpart. They 265 00:12:50.720 --> 00:12:51.759 are kind of buddies. 266 00:12:51.799 --> 00:12:51.960 Now. 267 00:12:52.279 --> 00:12:56.840 He won the third event for almost eighty thousand dollars. 268 00:12:56.919 --> 00:13:01.000 Yeah did land Entice. Fourth event, ream won that one. 269 00:13:01.480 --> 00:13:05.320 He actually beat Jeremy Becker in heads up play That 270 00:13:05.399 --> 00:13:06.159 was a PKO. 271 00:13:06.799 --> 00:13:07.559 How much did he win? 272 00:13:07.720 --> 00:13:10.480 Twenty eight K first place prize, thirty seven thousand bounties 273 00:13:11.000 --> 00:13:15.360 sixty sixty five. Sorry, my apologies. Jason Hickey, newcomer to 274 00:13:15.399 --> 00:13:18.320 the studio, came out here, played all series long, and 275 00:13:18.360 --> 00:13:21.399 it finally came home for Jason Hickey in even number 276 00:13:21.440 --> 00:13:25.399 five that was the Mystery Bounty. He won first place 277 00:13:25.480 --> 00:13:28.120 prize for fifty K, and then he took another forty 278 00:13:28.159 --> 00:13:33.919 seven thousand dollars in bounties, notably Anthony Marquez third place 279 00:13:33.960 --> 00:13:36.240 in this one for twenty four thousand, seven hundred, but 280 00:13:36.360 --> 00:13:40.399 sixty six k in bounties sixty six k. Once again 281 00:13:40.840 --> 00:13:44.519 at a PGT mystery bounty event. The first bounty pulled 282 00:13:44.600 --> 00:13:49.000 was the biggest bounty available. Wild stuff, absolutely wild stuff 283 00:13:49.000 --> 00:13:52.759 in that one. And then this final event, the well, 284 00:13:53.240 --> 00:13:55.360 it was a standard bounty, then it was changed to 285 00:13:55.399 --> 00:13:58.360 a quatro then it was changed again to a mystery 286 00:13:58.399 --> 00:14:02.039 bounty was won by Sam Laskowitz. He defeated Andrew Lichtenberger 287 00:14:02.080 --> 00:14:05.159 and Jeremie Berger got third in that one. Laskowitz took 288 00:14:05.200 --> 00:14:06.879 home well, they made a deal, so I have no 289 00:14:06.919 --> 00:14:09.360 idea what he took home. They basically chopped up the 290 00:14:09.399 --> 00:14:10.399 last two bounties. 291 00:14:10.200 --> 00:14:11.879 Chop the last of Banni. It was twenty five k 292 00:14:11.960 --> 00:14:13.879 and a five k. They did ic him chump for that. 293 00:14:13.919 --> 00:14:16.080 Then they played out for the rest Yeah Laska weight 294 00:14:16.159 --> 00:14:18.639 so yeah chok on thirty six and a hop thousand 295 00:14:18.720 --> 00:14:22.720 for the win plus thirty zero point sixty eight in bounties. Sweet, 296 00:14:22.919 --> 00:14:24.000 not bad, awesome. 297 00:14:24.720 --> 00:14:27.960 The whole series minus the last event. The final tables 298 00:14:28.000 --> 00:14:30.559 were live streamed on poker Goro and on the Poker 299 00:14:30.600 --> 00:14:33.200 Go YouTube channel, So if you missed them you want 300 00:14:33.200 --> 00:14:35.039 to rewatch them, you guys can go find them there. 301 00:14:35.080 --> 00:14:35.360 It was. 302 00:14:35.720 --> 00:14:40.360 It was fun to see. I know it's no limit 303 00:14:40.399 --> 00:14:43.200 hold them, but the bounty element and the different bounty element, 304 00:14:43.279 --> 00:14:46.240 I think through a through a wrinkle into things for 305 00:14:46.320 --> 00:14:49.440 the players. You know, right away, like in the studio, 306 00:14:50.120 --> 00:14:52.600 you could tell a lot of players aren't really familiar 307 00:14:52.639 --> 00:14:55.879 with bounties and how to play them, and they were 308 00:14:55.919 --> 00:14:58.120 kind of figuring out, figuring it out as they go, 309 00:14:58.360 --> 00:15:00.240 and they were asking a lot of questions and all 310 00:15:00.279 --> 00:15:02.120 that sort of stuff. And then of course the bounties 311 00:15:02.480 --> 00:15:04.639 were changing every single day. Like the first event was 312 00:15:04.639 --> 00:15:06.399 just a standard bounty. Every time you knock them out, 313 00:15:06.399 --> 00:15:08.720 you get a two K bounty. The second one was 314 00:15:08.840 --> 00:15:13.519 what a quatro no. Second one was the escalator, so 315 00:15:13.559 --> 00:15:15.399 it was five hundred, then it was one thousand, then 316 00:15:15.440 --> 00:15:17.799 it was like five K, a little bit over five k, 317 00:15:18.039 --> 00:15:19.919 depending on the stage of the tournament that you were at. 318 00:15:20.200 --> 00:15:23.120 Third one was the quatro So bounties kicked in when 319 00:15:23.159 --> 00:15:26.120 twenty five percent of the field those remaining and boundaries 320 00:15:26.120 --> 00:15:29.320 were four x what they are in a standard boundary, 321 00:15:29.320 --> 00:15:31.679 so budies were ak there. So that added some some 322 00:15:31.720 --> 00:15:34.879 bigger bounties at play. You had a PKO as well. 323 00:15:34.919 --> 00:15:38.159 We've had pko's before, but PKO was in play here, 324 00:15:38.559 --> 00:15:40.559 and you had a mystery bounty as well, so you know, 325 00:15:40.600 --> 00:15:43.279 a lot of different stuff that was going on. It 326 00:15:43.399 --> 00:15:45.960 was interesting again to see kind of people figure it out, 327 00:15:46.440 --> 00:15:48.799 you know, be like, oh, should I call here, there's 328 00:15:48.840 --> 00:15:49.360 the bounty? 329 00:15:49.519 --> 00:15:50.399 You know, what do I do? 330 00:15:50.440 --> 00:15:53.480 The pay jumps are relatively small because the prize pool's 331 00:15:53.519 --> 00:15:55.559 got some money taken out to count for the bounty pool, 332 00:15:55.600 --> 00:15:57.639 so all that sort of stuff. So yeah, check it out. 333 00:15:57.720 --> 00:15:59.480 It's on pokergrow dot com. You can also find it 334 00:15:59.519 --> 00:16:01.080 on the poker Go YouTube channel. 335 00:16:01.120 --> 00:16:01.320 Five. 336 00:16:01.360 --> 00:16:03.879 Final tables they were pretty easy to two digest. I 337 00:16:03.879 --> 00:16:06.279 think the longest one was around four hours, but other 338 00:16:06.360 --> 00:16:08.960 than that, they were right around two hours each, so 339 00:16:09.039 --> 00:16:12.240 kind of in and out for those. So yeah, I 340 00:16:12.279 --> 00:16:15.440 think fun series is how I would describe it. Also 341 00:16:15.559 --> 00:16:17.679 good to try something new, but I would also say 342 00:16:17.679 --> 00:16:20.279 that it kind of fell short, at least from my expectations. 343 00:16:20.279 --> 00:16:22.039 I know you were lower on things than I was, 344 00:16:22.080 --> 00:16:24.879 but I'm I'm always higher, you're always lower. If you 345 00:16:24.919 --> 00:16:27.720 want to look at averages, the six events averaged forty 346 00:16:27.759 --> 00:16:31.039 six entries, so I would say, and we didn't top 347 00:16:31.120 --> 00:16:34.320 sixty entries for a single event, so, you know, a 348 00:16:34.320 --> 00:16:37.240 little bit on the small side for what we're used to. 349 00:16:37.679 --> 00:16:40.399 Yeah, I mean we look, we've had players wanting to 350 00:16:40.399 --> 00:16:42.279 put this on the schedule for a while and we 351 00:16:42.320 --> 00:16:44.639 had to find the spot for it. We knew this 352 00:16:44.759 --> 00:16:47.799 wasn't going to be a harm run, but We wanted 353 00:16:47.799 --> 00:16:50.720 to get it on there and test it out, see 354 00:16:50.759 --> 00:16:52.360 what works, say what didn't. We knew we were going 355 00:16:52.440 --> 00:16:55.399 up against you know, a little bit of ebt Barcelona 356 00:16:55.519 --> 00:16:58.639 heading into trying j jors, So you know, we lost 357 00:16:58.679 --> 00:17:00.720 a lot of our regulars over there. They're all sitting 358 00:17:00.759 --> 00:17:04.519 over there trying to win some JJ coin right now. 359 00:17:05.079 --> 00:17:09.400 But hey, we tried it. I think we will probably 360 00:17:09.440 --> 00:17:11.599 do some variation of it again. I think we learned 361 00:17:11.599 --> 00:17:15.279 what worked, what doesn't work. And obviously scheduling is always 362 00:17:15.279 --> 00:17:19.559 going to be very important, so making sure whenever we 363 00:17:19.599 --> 00:17:22.400 do do it next, we schedule it in a better time, 364 00:17:22.440 --> 00:17:25.519 a better spot to really maximize kind of turnout. 365 00:17:26.000 --> 00:17:28.720 Yeah, So do you think this was like just a 366 00:17:28.759 --> 00:17:33.119 scheduling thing? Do you think that maybe there wasn't enough 367 00:17:33.200 --> 00:17:36.279 interest in a bounty series from what we might have 368 00:17:36.359 --> 00:17:38.799 thought that there was interest on it? Like, you know, 369 00:17:39.079 --> 00:17:41.200 why is it? I mean, or is it just like no, 370 00:17:41.319 --> 00:17:42.960 we just scheduled that it was up against a lot 371 00:17:42.960 --> 00:17:44.519 of stuff. But this is also why we could only 372 00:17:44.599 --> 00:17:47.319 run it, Like, I mean, is there more to just 373 00:17:47.559 --> 00:17:48.319 than just a schedule? 374 00:17:48.319 --> 00:17:50.119 I guess is what I'm asking. I think the schedule 375 00:17:50.200 --> 00:17:53.200 is the biggest component. I think what we learned from 376 00:17:53.200 --> 00:17:55.920 the series was that, you know, some of the bounty 377 00:17:56.000 --> 00:18:00.839 format formats just are not preferable at this kind of buying. So, 378 00:18:02.240 --> 00:18:05.720 you know, stuff like the standard knockout and the you know, 379 00:18:05.759 --> 00:18:08.359 the PKAO and even the escalators whinning cent you're taking 380 00:18:08.400 --> 00:18:13.200 money out from hand one, while the Quadra obviously registration ends, 381 00:18:13.200 --> 00:18:15.319 you sill no boundies. None of the prize was being 382 00:18:15.359 --> 00:18:18.119 touched Mister Boundie. Same thing. A lot of the toke 383 00:18:18.160 --> 00:18:19.920 the last few days was like, hey, if we do 384 00:18:20.000 --> 00:18:22.319 this again, just make it a mister Bounie series. 385 00:18:23.119 --> 00:18:25.799 I was I heard that too, the players say that, 386 00:18:25.880 --> 00:18:30.440 and I was honestly surprised, because while I understand the 387 00:18:30.480 --> 00:18:35.960 appetite and enthusiasm for the poker playing community to be 388 00:18:36.000 --> 00:18:40.160 attracted to mystery bounties, right you have that lottery aspect, 389 00:18:40.319 --> 00:18:43.440 that luck factor, you get to sweat the envelope like 390 00:18:43.519 --> 00:18:47.799 all that sort of stuff, I just thought that, like 391 00:18:48.000 --> 00:18:50.480 professional poker players, which I think the large majority of 392 00:18:50.519 --> 00:18:53.440 the guys in here are, and not only that, but 393 00:18:53.480 --> 00:18:57.799 they're like the upper class pro poker players, I just 394 00:18:57.839 --> 00:19:00.000 thought that they wouldn't care as much for a mystery 395 00:19:00.160 --> 00:19:02.519 bounty format. I thought all these guys would be more 396 00:19:02.559 --> 00:19:05.920 PKO yeah than Mystery Bounding. Like, I feel like Mystery 397 00:19:05.960 --> 00:19:09.680 Bounty is more for the common folk because they kind 398 00:19:09.680 --> 00:19:12.599 of they like they're playing poker kind of recreationally for fun, 399 00:19:12.640 --> 00:19:14.839 and part of that fun is having that gamble element. 400 00:19:15.119 --> 00:19:17.559 And what's more gamble than busting someone and pulling an 401 00:19:17.640 --> 00:19:20.960