Speaker 1: Hello, everyone, Welcome back to a new episode of the
Speaker 1: Poker Go Podcast. My name is Donnie Peters. It is
Speaker 1: one two three four am, twelve thirty four am on Monday,
Speaker 1: June twenty seconds. I know I've faulted on this in
Speaker 1: the past in terms of saying this is gonna be
Speaker 1: short and sweet, but it's likely gonna be pretty short
Speaker 1: and sweet here because yours truly bagged for day three
Speaker 1: of the Milling Maker. So I've been playing all day.
Speaker 1: I've been playing all day for the past two days.
Speaker 1: I want to be able to get some sleep tonight,
Speaker 1: so I'm gonna try and bang out a podcast tonight.
Speaker 1: Truth be told, I did fire up the podcast to
Speaker 1: do one last night or the night before, and it
Speaker 1: was twelve forty five am. I'd got one plane, you know.
Speaker 1: I get home, I'm looking through all the results and
Speaker 1: like everything is still running. Like I'm like, so nothing's
Speaker 1: even ending, Like all this stuff is still happening. So
Speaker 1: you know, you got the ten k horse is still
Speaker 1: playing out, so you got all this other There's not
Speaker 1: really any other tournaments that are really ending, you know.
Speaker 1: So I'm just like, all right, well, I gots I'm
Speaker 1: not waiting up all night, so I guess I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna have to punt on this day and come to
Speaker 1: the next day. So here we are, it's the next day.
Speaker 1: We got to talk about Calvin Anderson once again. We
Speaker 1: already talked about him, and we're talking about him again.
Speaker 1: We got to hit on Joussimoo, the absolute Brazilian crusher.
Speaker 1: Zach Rumberg won the first ever five card plo, and
Speaker 1: I think we've got a couple other winners that we're
Speaker 1: gonna hit on here as we go. As always, please
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Speaker 1: sort of stuff. I know I owe you guys at mailbag,
Speaker 1: so that's going to be coming at some point. I
Speaker 1: do have my spreadsheet finally complete now with the first
Speaker 1: fifty events on this year's w SIP schedule, and what
Speaker 1: I'm talking about is the entries, the number of entries
Speaker 1: for those first fifty events, and I'm going to compare
Speaker 1: them to some past year. So I just got to
Speaker 1: collect my thoughts on where I sit from it, because
Speaker 1: I know that there's a lot of talk about the
Speaker 1: numbers being down in a lot of events this year.
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Speaker 1: it with Calvin Anderson here. He won the ten k
Speaker 1: Horse Championship. So it's the second time this summer that
Speaker 1: we've seen someone win a ten k championship event, hop
Speaker 1: into the next ten D championship event and then go
Speaker 1: on to win that one. Calvin Anderson did it here.
Speaker 1: We talked about him a few days ago winning the
Speaker 1: ten k raz Championship. Then he gets into the ten
Speaker 1: k Horse Championship Boom. He tops one hundred and eighty
Speaker 1: nine entries to win four one hundred and thirteen thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: Naokihara did it earlier in the summer when he won
Speaker 1: back to back championship events. For Anderson his seventh career bracelet,
Speaker 1: he topped Josh Aria in heads up play. Anderson took
Speaker 1: the four hundred and thirteen thousand dollars, Aria second place
Speaker 1: for two hundred and seventy five one thousand dollars. You
Speaker 1: also had Roberts Rocky ht this final table. You had
Speaker 1: David Bach at this final table as well. The story
Speaker 1: here is, of course, Calvin Anderson. You know, a few
Speaker 1: days ago, I was on this microphone, I was sitting
Speaker 1: in this chair. I was talking about how Calvin Anderson
Speaker 1: winning his six bracelet. You know how that is one
Speaker 1: of the most underrated great players that poker has. Right now.
Speaker 1: We all throw around these names. You know, a lot
Speaker 1: of the names like like the person he beat heads
Speaker 1: up josh Aari for example. All those names get thrown
Speaker 1: around when it comes Poker Hall of Fame time. Of course,
Speaker 1: that's fine. I don't believe Calvin Anderson is eligible because
Speaker 1: I don't think he's forty years old yet. But that said,
Speaker 1: you know, his name should be up there right Like
Speaker 1: he now has seven bracelets, he has a bunch of
Speaker 1: other wins. You know, he's had some success in PGT events.
Speaker 1: He had that WPT Prime Championship win for more than
Speaker 1: a million dollars. You know, cal does it, and he
Speaker 1: does it in a wide variety of games. And now
Speaker 1: just past the halfway point of the twenty twenty six
Speaker 1: World Series of Poker, Calvin Anderson is right there in
Speaker 1: the thick of it to chase down the WSB Player
Speaker 1: of the Year title, which would just be another incredible
Speaker 1: feather in his cap. You know. So at some point
Speaker 1: we just got to stop calling this a hot streak
Speaker 1: and really start calling it for what it is. And
Speaker 1: Calvin Anderson's got flat out one of the best tournament
Speaker 1: resumes and poker hands down. And you know, if you
Speaker 1: were to if you were to poll people, like if
Speaker 1: I were to walk around the World tore as a
Speaker 1: poker tomorrow and say, you know, who are the best
Speaker 1: tournament players of the last fifteen years, and I mean
Speaker 1: Calvin Adson's name might not get mentioned at all. I
Speaker 1: mean how many people would I need to get to
Speaker 1: before I get to Calvin Anderson. Now, obviously there are
Speaker 1: a lot of great, great, great tournament players, but when
Speaker 1: you start racking up the accolades that he has racked up,
Speaker 1: I mean, he's got to be up there in some
Speaker 1: sort of conversation, right He's he just always does it.
Speaker 1: Now will he continue to do it? I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean I feel like you have to just say
Speaker 1: yes because scoreboard. This is what the scoreboard said. The
Speaker 1: guy just keeps on a freaking winning. He's not not loud,
Speaker 1: you know, He's not constantly out there creating a bunch
Speaker 1: of headlines. But Calvin Anderson just constantly keeps on winning. Now,
Speaker 1: he's got a little bit of a miss rocky in
Speaker 1: his game, where he plays a high percentage of hands
Speaker 1: when he's at the table. He is an aggressive player.
Speaker 1: He can't have a bit of a wider range than
Speaker 1: most you know, But Calvin Anderson absolutely has the skills
Speaker 1: and he of course has the results now to go
Speaker 1: up there with some of the best in the world.
Speaker 1: It really is just incredible to watch him perform time
Speaker 1: and time again. So now we had Iowa kihar winning
Speaker 1: a bracelet two times this summer. Now we got Calvin
Speaker 1: Anderson doing it. I mean, this, this Player of the
Speaker 1: Year race this year is just absolutely freaking incredible. I
Speaker 1: don't know if WSP dot com is up to date yet. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't think it is, because I'm looking at it
Speaker 1: now and doesn't look like Calvin Anderson is. Oh he's
Speaker 1: in ninth place, so that might be up to date.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I mean within the top fifteen here.
Speaker 1: Just just listen to some of these names. Alex Foxen,
Speaker 1: Nick Shulman, Sean deep Naoikihar Josh ari A, Justin Loberto
Speaker 1: URIs of Aleski, Calvin Anderson, Dennis Weiss, Stephen Hubbard, Chris Unikan,
Speaker 1: Marco Johnson, uh seem Aka, Nick Salem, Alex Anton and
Speaker 1: bow Dan. I mean some of those players, Fox and Shulman,
Speaker 1: deep Aria, Euris of Alefski, Anderson. Like, this is a great, great,
Speaker 1: great player of the erase. It really is. I was
Speaker 1: actually talking to someone the other day who said that
Speaker 1: they might have tinkered with the formula a little bit.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's true or false, but the person,
Speaker 1: you know, I believe the sources in the know and I,
Speaker 1: you know, I think that they did, or you know,
Speaker 1: he believed at least that they adjusted with it a
Speaker 1: little bit. So you know, we'll see how this all
Speaker 1: shakes out in the end. But right now, these names
Speaker 1: incredible race. You know, I can't wait to see this
Speaker 1: thing play out as we go forward. Jouson Mao over
Speaker 1: in the fifty k PLO high Roller. He topped one
Speaker 1: hundred and ten entries to win one point three six
Speaker 1: eight million dollars his fourth career bracelet. He defeated Santos
Speaker 1: Servanna in heads up place. Santos was going for his
Speaker 1: second bracelet of the summer. Robert Cowan finished in third year.
Speaker 1: He's of Alefski. I just mentioned his name and the
Speaker 1: Player of the Year race. He took sixth place in
Speaker 1: this one at Niowa Kihara. I just talked about him
Speaker 1: a little bit. He finished seventh place. What a freaking
Speaker 1: summer this guy's having. Niowa Kihara, who who said that
Speaker 1: he was basically about to quit poker, tournament poker, I
Speaker 1: should say tournament poker, excuse me and just go back
Speaker 1: to cash And now he is absolutely just dominating in
Speaker 1: the summer. So that's Niaoiqihar just an absolutely incredible, credible showing.
Speaker 1: And you know we still have what forty percent of
Speaker 1: the summer left, but jausimout fourth bracelet. This guy, for
Speaker 1: the past six months or so has been crushing. He
Speaker 1: won a Super High rollerble at the studio for over
Speaker 1: a million dollars. That was that epic heads up now
Speaker 1: against Jason Kuhn when they battled for like four or
Speaker 1: five hours. It was just absolutely out of control, both
Speaker 1: players playing a plus plus plus poker. That was awesome.
Speaker 1: He also won a bracelet at WSOP Paradise. He won
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty k at Paradise for more than
Speaker 1: three million dollars. So he's got the seven figure score
Speaker 1: for Super High Rollerball. He's got the three million dollar
Speaker 1: score here for the WSP Paradise Triton victory, which was
Speaker 1: his third bracelet. Here he's got another one point three
Speaker 1: eight million dollars plus. So I mean, Jossamoo absolutely crushing,
Speaker 1: absolutely on fire. Another player who now he doesn't have
Speaker 1: the bracelet count that some of the other guys do.
Speaker 1: Of course, he's only got four, but you know wel
Speaker 1: T has four, Alex Foxen's got four. I mean Alex
Speaker 1: Foxen jos Samoo. Like, if people are gonna pick one
Speaker 1: of the two, they're probably gonna pick Alex Foxen. But
Speaker 1: Chaos Samoo is as equal as a Crusher as far
Speaker 1: as I'm concerned. An absolute crusher plays Nolan Hold super well,
Speaker 1: plays Plo super well. Josama was always in there battling
Speaker 1: in the studio. We know someone like an Alex Foxen
Speaker 1: was always in there battling in the studio. Well, JOm
Speaker 1: I was there every single day for just about every
Speaker 1: single event, always fire and fire and firing. And you know,
Speaker 1: he's really come on these last six months in terms
Speaker 1: of getting those those big seven figure scores that a
Speaker 1: career like his deserves. Gotta take us back a day
Speaker 1: here for this next talking point. When I recorded the
Speaker 1: last episode, Sean Deep was still taking on Joey Couten
Speaker 1: in heads up play. Well, as it turns out, Joey
Speaker 1: Couten denied Sean Dee his bracelets. Joey Couten gets his third.
Speaker 1: Believe it was the ninth bracelet that's uh Dee was
Speaker 1: going for there. Deep started with a a sizable lead
Speaker 1: heads up. I watched a bit of the heads up match.
Speaker 1: I mean, Joey Couten just had his number. I mean, honestly,
Speaker 1: he just won pot after pot after pot after pot,
Speaker 1: big rail. On both sides. Deep had a lot of
Speaker 1: his supporters, let's say fifteen to twenty of them. On
Speaker 1: the other side, inequal amount of people, I believe. I
Speaker 1: heard Nick Waginty say it was basically the entire Columbus,
Speaker 1: Ohio poker scene was on Joey Couten's side. Joey Couten
Speaker 1: out there looking like Grandma from Rounders with that with
Speaker 1: with the jacket on, with with the hat. I mean,
Speaker 1: he looked looking as cool as hell out there. Ultimately
Speaker 1: is able to come back finish off Deep Deep kind
Speaker 1: of a little bit of a storm out after it, and
Speaker 1: I mean not really, but like got up, walked right off,
Speaker 1: grabbed his phone and like just kind of let like
Speaker 1: he was like you could kind of tell it was like, man,
Speaker 1: like I got so close, especially after the summer that
Speaker 1: Deep's been had and having excuse me, and uh yeah,
Speaker 1: just couldn't ultimately get the job. And I'm probably stung
Speaker 1: a little bit more because he did have a big
Speaker 1: lead for much of the final table, not only during
Speaker 1: heads up play, but ultimately it was Joey Cooden winning
Speaker 1: the three K nine game Mix for two hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty four thousand dollars. That said everything that Sean Deep
Speaker 1: did during WASP Europe and now coupled with this second
Speaker 1: place finish, he also has one final table earlier this
Speaker 1: summer as well. He's right back into the thick of
Speaker 1: things for the wasity player of the Erase and that
Speaker 1: is what he cares about first and foremost. Zach Gruenberg
Speaker 1: won the first ever five card Plo event for his
Speaker 1: third career bracelet. Now. Zach Gruenberg aka Hustler Groon is
Speaker 1: a guy who you know he I mean, he hit
Speaker 1: rock bottom him poker kind of right after Black Friday.
Speaker 1: He fell into a pretty severe drug addiction, got addicted
Speaker 1: to pills, even said he got addicted to heroin, and
Speaker 1: he was at like the lowest of the low, you know,
Speaker 1: kind of had some financial issues with like you know,
Speaker 1: basically he was kind of taking some of his money
Speaker 1: that he was getting from his staking deal and he
Speaker 1: was spending it on drugs and like all this sort
Speaker 1: of stuff. I mean, he's just it was really bad
Speaker 1: for Zach Gruenberg. You know, he talked about this in
Speaker 1: a card Player article that they did several years ago.
Speaker 1: But you know, eventually he was able to come out
Speaker 1: of it, you know, went to rehab, got himself straight,
Speaker 1: got everything together, came back, came back to the World
Speaker 1: Series of Poker, had a really good summer that first
Speaker 1: summer back. And yeah, ever since then, you know, he's
Speaker 1: just been on the right track. And here he is
Speaker 1: becoming the winner of the first ever five card pot
Speaker 1: limit Omaha event at the World Series of Poker. I
Speaker 1: think they've had five card plo high low before, but
Speaker 1: not five card plo. In this one, Grooenberg topped the
Speaker 1: field of thirteen hundred and nineteen entries to get the
Speaker 1: job done. He won two hundred and seventy one thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: I mean, really cool for Gruenberg. You know, he's in hustler.
Speaker 1: Gruons is just in og On poker legend, right, he
Speaker 1: really is. So it's great to see him turn his
Speaker 1: life around like this. It's great to see him continue
Speaker 1: to stay playing poker and have the success now that
Speaker 1: he continues to have. In the three K six handed
Speaker 1: no limit hold them abashek Mater wins that one for
Speaker 1: four hundred and ninety two thousand dollars. He denied former
Speaker 1: WSP Main Event champion Martin Jacobson, not Martin Jakobsen, Rich
Speaker 1: Ryan Producer Rich Martin Jacobson Jacobson, taking him three hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty seven thousand dollars for second place. Nasim Salem
Speaker 1: aka Nick Salem. He won the GG Millions High Roller
Speaker 1: and here he is finishing third in this event for
Speaker 1: two hundred and twenty six thousand dollars. Chris Vich. I
Speaker 1: thought Chrisovich was a mixed game player, but performing well
Speaker 1: here in Nola. Man Holdham finished sixth in this event.
Speaker 1: Martyr topped a field of one thy one hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty entries in this one. We also had the fifty
Speaker 1: k PPC kicked off today. That one is I mean,
Speaker 1: I mean it's day one, so it's obviously super early.
Speaker 1: I'm just kind of looking through the chip counts here. Obviously,
Speaker 1: you know, take this for what you will, because things
Speaker 1: are gonna change, and they're gonna change probably pretty drastically.
Speaker 1: But it looks like Matt Glance is off to a
Speaker 1: hot start. China Rhem, Benny Glaser all performing very well
Speaker 1: out of the gate, Jason Merciers in the field, Dylan
Speaker 1: Wiseman's in the field, of josh Ari's in the field.
Speaker 1: Josh Ari of course, fresh off that second place finish
Speaker 1: in the ten k horse. You got Chris Brewer in
Speaker 1: the field, Eric Wasterson, James Ops, Paul Volpie. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: mean that's you know, to who's who. Let's look at
Speaker 1: some of the players that are out though, how about that,
Speaker 1: Chad Eves sledge out, Robert is Not, Miss Rocky out,
Speaker 1: Scott sever out, Jeremy Osmas Busto, Dan Cats out, Natcho
Speaker 1: Barbaro's out, Patrick Leonard's out, Michael Miss Rocky looks like
Speaker 1: he's the latest one that's out as well. So they
Speaker 1: are up to eighty seven entries right now. I don't
Speaker 1: know how long registration stays open to this one, but
Speaker 1: I would assume it stays open for quite a long time.
Speaker 1: And this is a five or six day event. They've
Speaker 1: said many times, at least Jeff Platt has said many
Speaker 1: times on social media they're going to be streaming multiple
Speaker 1: days of this. So for all those people out there
Speaker 1: who have been clamoring for some Mixed Games coverage, there
Speaker 1: are multiple days supposedly coming from the fifty k PPC.
Speaker 1: You also had one k plo is playing down on
Speaker 1: day one B, so that one's still happening. Don't need
Speaker 1: to touch on that one too much. We have the
Speaker 1: fifteen dollars limit deuce to seven triple draw is down
Speaker 1: to looks like the final two tables. Who we got
Speaker 1: in here? Steve bill racis wow, Steve Billa rockis in there,
Speaker 1: Sean Trojas in there, Daniel Strelitz, Miguel Rodriguez. Okay, Rod's
Speaker 1: just out there doing it. Huh. We drafted him once
Speaker 1: on twenty five K Fantasy. He didn't do much for us.
Speaker 1: A little late, buddy, little late. I just kidding. The
Speaker 1: five hundred dollars Salute to Warriors got almost forty five
Speaker 1: hundred entries. They are playing it out now on day one,
Speaker 1: so not gonna touch on that one too much. And yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that's the pod. I told you it was
Speaker 1: gonna be short and sweet. I think it is short
Speaker 1: and sweet here. I had a pretty good Day two
Speaker 1: for my million maker run. I'm in for two bullets.
Speaker 1: I played Day one D. I doubled up the second
Speaker 1: or third hand that I played on my first bullet.
Speaker 1: After that, just lost lost, lost, lost, loss, ultimately busted
Speaker 1: whatever got back in ended up kind of just hanging around.
Speaker 1: You start with twenty five K structures, really really good
Speaker 1: hour long levels. It's a very player friendly structure for sure.
Speaker 1: They just really got to fix the dinner breaks and
Speaker 1: like some silly breaks that they do. But anyway, I
Speaker 1: bag thirty nine k on day one, coming back to
Speaker 1: one k T twok, I get it up to around
Speaker 1: seventy thousand, maybe a slightly less than seventy thousand, without
Speaker 1: having to go to any showdowns. Then I pick up aces.
Speaker 1: I end up doubling up to one forty or one
Speaker 1: fifty or whatever it is, and uh yeah, from there
Speaker 1: it was kind of just smooth sailing. I ran one
Speaker 1: really really big bluff triple barrel bluff with two fours
Speaker 1: on ace eight five eight ten rainbow board. Got that
Speaker 1: one through with a shove on the river. Had to
Speaker 1: endure a four or five minute tank, but got it through.
Speaker 1: And then yeah, one some big pots later on, ended
Speaker 1: up bagging six hundred and fifteen thousand. I believe when
Speaker 1: we come back on Monday, well I'll have should be
Speaker 1: twenty k big blind so just over thirty bigs, you know,
Speaker 1: so we'll see how go. I definitely played at some
Speaker 1: tougher tables as things kind of converged down, but you know,
Speaker 1: I mean that's to be expected, you know, in in
Speaker 1: tournament poker, you know, the better players are. You know,
Speaker 1: at least a lot of them are gonna are gonna
Speaker 1: win as we go, so you know, you got to
Speaker 1: just be prepared to be able to battle with them.
Speaker 1: But I felt really good all day and had some
Speaker 1: big hands that helped out as well. And uh yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll we'll see how we go. We'll go from there.
Speaker 1: I have no idea what the payout is or anything
Speaker 1: like that. I just know that obviously it's a millionaire maker,
Speaker 1: so there's a million dollars up top. At least there's
Speaker 1: like twelve thousand entries in this freaking ridiculous thing. So
Speaker 1: we'll see if we can make some hands on Monday
Speaker 1: and see if we can keep this train right on moving.
Speaker 1: But that's it. That's the pod. So I appreciate you guys,
Speaker 1: as always appreciate producer Rich for putting this together in
Speaker 1: the early morning and getting it out for all you
Speaker 1: to listen to. And until next time, my name is
Speaker 1: Donny Peters. This has been the latest episode of the
Speaker 1: Poker Girl Podcast. Off to you guys, labor rats night.
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