Speaker 1: Hello everyone, Welcome back to a new episode of the
Poker Go Podcast. My name is Donnie Peters. It is Sunday,
June fourteenth, eleven fifty p m. I'm gonna try and
get this one in before the day officially ends at
the World Series of Poker. So some of the stuff
that we might talk about might be a little bit fluid.
Maybe we just skip over it, come back to it
on the next episode. You know, I'm not waiting up
for another couple two hours or so. Tomorrow's Monday or
today is Monday when you guys are listening to this,
and that means the start of a new week, and
you know, we gotta be fresh to go, so you know,
can't be up all hours of the of the morning.
I do want to kick things off by getting into
this Nick Schulman interview that we did with him after
he won his eighth WSP Gold bracelet in the fifteen
dollars Horse Tournament, So that's going to be on this episode.
We also got Yurizevelevski winning gold bracelet number six, We
got Dong Chen winning his second, We got the Colossus
number that is in and we can talk about just
how big that tournament ended up being Sebastian Pali won
the fifteen hundred dollars raz he denied someone from getting
their second gold bracelet of the summer. You know, can
find out who that is in a little while, and
then we'll touch on, you know, what else is going on.
You know, maybe we'll touch on the twohundred and fifty
K Super high Roll or the ten K Big O,
the five K Seniors high Roller. But as I said,
you know, a lot of this stuff is still playing
down right now while I do press records, so we'll
see what we get to. We'll kind of bounce around,
and then you know, we'll likely come back to some
stuff on the next episode. I also want to get
into a little bit of an update on a couple
of the heavy hitters. You know, we're we're just about
the halfway point. I believe forty five events have started
at the World Series of Poker. There are one hundred
live wsopag Old Bracelet events. Let's see how Phil Ivey's doing,
Phil Helmy, Daniel mcgroney, Sean Deep those are the four
heavy hitters that I really want to touch on, just
to just to see where they're at, you know, right
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annual plan. All right, first things first here, I'd like
to start off by getting into the audio from the
interview that we did with the one, the only, Nick Shulman.
So we caught up with him after he won the
fifteen horse tournament the other night. It was his eighth
WSOP Gold bracelet. You know, it was really cool to
sit down with Nick. We talked with him for I
don't know, five ten minutes or so. Cut this down
into about a four to five minute interview. You know,
he really opened up with us. It was a long
night for him.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: We we usually get these players last after they've they've
done the photos, they've gone through a whole bunch of
other interviews, and then if we're lucky enough, if they're
willing enough and they're not too tired, they do to
take some time with us. So it's always a pleasure
to sit down with these guys. So I'm gonna play
that for you right now, and then we'll come back
and we'll talk about it. So here's Nick Shulman.
Speaker 2: I had him all in like five times and he
kept winning. And it gets really scary in that spot
because you know, I already have a second this summer,
and you know it's it's it's so easy to spin
playing limit, you know, when the limits are so high
that I just was very relieved. You never like expect
to win when you're deep per se, or I don't,
at least like so it's not like there wasn't like
a monkey to get off my back this summer or something.
I'm very grateful for the second to make it through
five hundred badoobie players like all trying to make badois,
and the twenty five k did sting a little bit,
just because it's such a big financial swing like so,
but you know it stands alone. It wasn't building for me.
I'm proud of the effort so far. And but yeah,
right now, I feel very very relieved and happy. I
never thought about making it to this point when I
first started. I was always a cash game player at heart,
even the first no limit tournament that I won, it
just felt like, you know, that was sick. But it's
kind of back to cash, like and I would come
to the series and sort of play some tournaments, but
my focus was always cash. And then when I won,
when I won the stud which was my fourth, I
think that's that was when I was started to think,
you know, five would be sick, like five is a number.
And then so now I'm sort of like, you know, uh,
trapped a little by the you know what I mean.
But but no, it was no, no, never really thought
about this until fairly recently. Actually, you know, No Limit
has been a passion of mine for for a while
and uh, she feel a little slept on out there,
but it's sorry you were. But uh, every game I
take a peek at here and there, and uh, I
really do put a lot of time in so you know,
and I have, like, I have some amazing players in
my corner and that I talked to both in No
Limit and Mixed. So I'm just very lucky in that regard.
Why you Because I feel like my two card is
kind of legit, like and I sometimes I know, these
these Euros think I'm just some forty year old American
and I'm kind of you know, they're gonna have to
come see me at some point, but you know, but
all jokes aside, Like I just I always felt in
my core I'm a no limit holding player who also
plays mixed. I think a lot of people think I'm
a mixed game player who kind of like you know,
plays no limits sometimes, but really I'm like a stud
player or whatever. And I'm very grateful, Like I like
people weren't with me, you know, going to the tage
every weekend and like it's it's been a crazy grind,
you know, like I've really put the time in. But yeah,
just I always felt like first and foremost forever, I'm
a no limit player kind of but very happy to
get a horse bracelet. I don't want to be driven
by like proving anything or having a chip on my
shoulder because it kind of bogs me down. It slows
me down. What I really want to do is make
my my wife and daughter, you know, proud, and my
parents and you know, my my like close day one
type people. My daughter is so cute. She got me
an early Father's Day gift. She got me a key
chain that said I'll always be your little girl, You'll
always be my hero, you know, love your dad for
Father's Day, and that just like melted me. I'm out
there like welling up, like randomly thinking about that. So
you know, she's everything to me, And yeah, I just
I want to make them proud, put my best foot
forwarding and get it done. What's left. Yeah, that's a
scary thought kind of. It's a really beautiful game, and
to see it a little bit deeper each year, I
like to think I'm improving really means a lot to me.
For now, I kind of look at it as writings
some wrongs. You know, I made a lot of mistakes.
I really do have a lot of regrets, but it all,
you know, everything happens for a reason, and I just
I want to do it the right way, which I
feel happened for the last few years now.
Speaker 1: I did kick it off there with Shulman by saying
that I've never seen him so elated when he's won
a bracelet, and I've seen him win several braces and
I've seen him win a bunch of other tournaments as well,
and he was he was pretty pumped for Nick Shulman, right,
I mean, he's not gonna be jumping up and down
or going too crazy. But but yeah, he definitely seemed
extremely happy there. Now, one of the things that stood
out to me are probably a couple of things that
stood out to me from this interview, is you know,
he doesn't he doesn't totally sound like someone who's won
eight bracelets. Maybe that's just something that's in my mind.
Maybe it's a little bit weird that I'm saying it,
but you know, he still sounds like someone who's I
don't know, one, three, four, five. I know he referenced
you know, like getting to five and that sort of stuff,
but basically, like, I think he's still trying to prove
that he belongs without letting that get to him. And
I don't want to be putting thoughts into Nick Shulman's
mind or words into his mouth. But that's kind of
the sense that I got. So I also did really
like how, you know, he talked about how he feels
like his two card game, you know, aka his hold
him game Nolman hold Him is a bit slept on.
I mean, listen, Nick's incredible in that regard, and you know,
hearing him say that he views himself as more of
a no limit player versus a mixed games player, you know.
I mean, heck, listen, I've probably categorized him plenty as
a mixed game savant first and foremost and then nol
him at second over the years, but you know, I
know he kind of pushed back on that label a
little bit. And listen, He's he spent a ton of time,
you know, being a Nolaman hold him player, especially in
this kind of new modern age of the game, and
really getting up to speed and staying at the top.
You know, I know the type. I know, the players
that that he talks with and rolls with on a
regular basis. You know, they're always talking about strategy, they're
diving into solvers. Like so, if you just think Nick
Shulman is some guy out there who's just playing based
on feel, kind of street poker ish because that's how
he's come up, and he's just really leaning into the
leaning into the experience of it all, I mean, I mean,
that's just not true. I Mean, yeah, he obviously has
that as part of his game, but you know, he
is very much a studied player. He understands the theory,
He works on it a lot, He talks to a
lot of really good players about that he's he's constantly
grinding off the felt. Of course, we see him playing
on the felt all the time. So you know, I
think it's kind of cool that that, you know, one
of the best all around poker players in the world,
that includes tournaments, that includes cash games, it includes all
the different variants. You know, he still thinks of himself.
I mean, you heard him say it as a young kid,
a teenager, young adult whatever, grinding those cash games at
the TAJE back in ac you know, and that's that's cool, right.
And then you know when he started talking about his daughter,
I mean that was just it was cool. It was touching.
I definitely felt it. I've got a five year old
daughter myself, and you know, when he was describing that
early Father's Day gift, the key chain, and how he
was getting emotional blout it thinking about at the table,
you know, I completely understood. I get it, and I'm
sure all the dads out there, all the moms too,
you know. You you know, like that sort of love
that you have for your kids and when they do
something like that, it can just really really hit home.
So that was that was awesome, you know, Shulman's a
guy who's now he's got a a race Let's played
for millions in cash games and in tournaments. You know,
he's got a WPT title, He's got tons of PGT titles.
I think he's got Triton as well. You know, he's
the guy the guys want everything. He's he's in the
Hall of Fame already. But it's like, you know, the
one thing right now that still motivates him, you know,
is his family, and it's it's largely because of his daughter.
So you know, that just felt very real from the
person who is the realist one in the whole game,
and you just absolutely love to see it. Moving on,
we got Yuri Zeveleski, now a six time w SOOP
Gold bracelet winner. Now, don't want to get like too
much into this other than the fact that you know,
Zevelevski is another player similar to Shulman who can simply
do it all. He's a few years younger than Nick Shulman.
I believe Yuri is thirty seven. Just one a six
sp gold bracelet and it was in the one hundred
k high Roller he won more than two point eight
million dollars. He plays mixed as well. He's an absolute
beast when he plays mixed. He plays the big bet
games as well. He's a beast there, you know, just
speaking to his his mixed game prowess. Earlier this year
he was the pace At Mixed Games Series Champion, and
then he carried that momentum right into the one hundred
thousand dollars buying Super High Rollable Mixed Games and he
won that for one point three million dollars. He's always
like grinding online. He plays all the big series online.
You know, people like Pads and other people out there
talk about how incredible he is, how tough he is
as an opponent when it comes from someone like a
Patrick Leonard, you know, especially when it comes to the
online poker streets. You know, Yury Zevlevski's got it. His
bracelets have come in twenty nineteen to twenty five hundred
dollars Omaha, Hilo Slash Stud High Low Mixed. He has
two online bracelets. First one was in twenty twenty he
won the four hundred dollars PLUSUS online plo OSSes PLUSUS. However,
you want to say that in twenty twenty three won
the ten k plo Championship Online in the live realm,
you know, also kind of tying this back into Nick Shulman.
Twenty twenty three year he won the fifteen hundred dollars
horse same tournament that Nick won for his eighth the
gold bracelet. In twenty twenty four, he won the three
K nine Game Mix aka the Mini PPC. And then
you know, we just talked about that hunter K high
Roller that he won a couple days ago, and that
on hundred K high Roller. I mean, that's just an
absolutely stacked field. The toughest players in the world are
out there battling, so you know, shout out to you
for forgetting that done. Dong Chen took home his second
WICP Gold bracelet when he won the ten K Limit
Hold Them. His first bracelet came in Paradise P Paradise
in twenty twenty three when he won the ten K
six Max No Limit Hold Them. Dong Chen defeated Benny
Glaser and heads up play two hundred and eighty five
K for dong Chen. Benny Glauser taken home one hundred
and ninety thousand dollars. Glaser was denied Gold Bracelet number nine.
He could have become the seventh player to win nine
WSOP Gold bracelets. There are four players that currently sit
with eight. Of course, one of them is the Shulman.
The other three are Benny Glazer. Yes, then we have
Sean deeb and we have Michael Legrinder Mizeraki. Finishing in
third place in this event was Jeremy Osmas. Jeremy Osmas
has had a pretty hot start to his summer. You know,
he came in a few days late, maybe a week late,
had that family trip to Japan. But doesn't matter. He's
absolutely flying since he's touched home here in Vegas. His
third final table of the summer was this one. He
previously had a fourth place finish in the ten k stud,
he had a sixth place finish in the ten k
Dealer's Choice, and here he is with a third place
finish in the ten k limit. Hold them all three
of those ten k buying Championship events, wide variety of
formats there. So Jeremy Osmas is flying to start the
twenty twenty six World Tis Poker and then fourth place.
Jesse lonis also having a hot start to his summer.
He finished fourth year for almost ninety two thousand dollars
his second final table the twenty twenty sixth WSOP, one
of the first events maybe like the third event, fourth
event on the schedule. The Lonas came second in the
five k p l O and then rounding out the
final table in this seven handed event, Jerry Wong in fifth.
Gus Hanson. Shout out to Gus Hanson, the legend. He's back.
He's playing everything. He's playing, absolutely playing everything, and he's
juggling every single time he doesn't have a hand. He
finished sixth and Dylan Smith finished seventh. That's a pretty
awesome final table. So Dong Chen, Benny Glauser, Jeremy Osmons,
Jesse Lonis, Jerry Wong, Gus Hanson, and Dylanis Smith. That's
freaking stacked there checking out the Colossus. They are playing
Day two D. They did that that funky thing you
know where you played a starting flay. Let's say it's
one A, then the next day it was the day
two for that day one, so day two A and
then you know, repeat, repeat, repeat, kind of wasn't digging
the colossus structure this year. Players didn't make the money
on day one, which I think is crazy. I mean,
I'm someone who subscribes to the idea that every tournament
fifteen hundred dollars buying or less outside of maybe, and
I put maybe in there because I'm not even sold
that I would do it for these tournaments, but outside
of the Monster Stack and the Millionaire Maker, but other
than that, like I think every tournament fifteen hundred dollars
buying or less just hit the money on day one
and then after that. So like even if the Monster Stack,
which is a very player friendly structure a long drawn
out tournament, even if that does hit the money on
day one, you can still just elongate the structure on
the back end when you get to date day through two,
day three, day four. Like the Colossus, you know, being
a five hundred dollars price point, this is a perfect
tournament where you could do something like, you know, you
could do twenty minute levels on day one, thirty minute
levels on day two, and then day three and onward
you go to forty minute levels, you know, something like that,
like just make it, or maybe you start thirty and
then you go thirty to forty to forty five or something,
you know, like just I don't know, I like that
a little bit better. You know. I also like to
just get in. Hopefully I get to the money by
the end of day one and then I can go
on with my day. But anyway, sixteen thousand, two hundred
and sixty nine entries were tallied in this year's Colossus.
That makes it the fifteenth largest live poker tournament ever,
as long as I have all of my numbers and
stats correct. Don't have my statman here, Tim Duckworth. If
I did, though I'm sure he would check me on it.
I saw that he put on social media that it
was the fourteenth largest ever, but I have it as
the fifteenth largest ever. I have it just behind last
year's Colossus, which had sixteen thousand, three hundred and one entries.
There's another tournament from this year's WSOP, and that is
the Mystery Millions or the Mini Mystery Millions that happened earlier,
that twenty four hundred and eighty eight entries that comes
in at seventh place here on this list. We do
have this list populated on PGT dot com. You can
just probably Google search. I don't know top fifteen largest
live tournaments ever PGT dot com, when it'll come up
the number one largest live Poker tournament ever, and I'm
not sure this is gonna be dethroned anytime soon. But
the twenty nineteen w SOP Big Fifty with twenty eight thousand,
three hundred and seventy one entries, it's almost four thousand
entries more than second place second and third on this list.
Second place is last year is Gladiators of Poker at
twenty four, six hundred and twenty nine, and the third
place is the twenty twenty three Gladiators of Poker twenty
three thousand and eighty eight entries all top fifteen, and
then I think even like further outside the top fifteen
are all WSOP events as you would expect. It's right,
I guess the WPT Prime World Championship is probably the
one that comes the closest that I can think about,
you know, getting up around ten thousand entries. But other
than that, you know, this is this is the WSP's list,
and they are absolutely crushing it. We still have to
come the Mystery Millions that is that is on this
list in ninth place from last year twenty twenty five,
eleventh place and twelfth place, so this year is Mystery Millions,
which is the one k buy in versus the Mini
Mystery Millions, which is a five hundred fifty dollars buying
that could also crack into this top fifteen here, and
we'll be talking about it. Another tournament that's coming up
that could crack in here would be the Gladiator's Poker
of course, that takes place sometime in July, I think
like a few days into the WSP Man Event, so
we'll see where that comes in again, three hundred dollars
price point for that, so you know people will be
out there absolutely blasting in that tournament. I would love
to see the WSP Man Event get up in here,
you know, crack sixteen thousand entries. That would be an
absolute freaking dream. Probably not gonna happen this year, but
but let's build towards it.
Speaker 2: Huh.
Speaker 1: You know what do you say? Another winner to touch
on came from the fifteen hundred dollars ras. We almost
had another two time gold bracelet winner this summer, but
it was Sebastian Paully who denied Dennis Weiss the title.
In this event, Paul gets his first WSP bracelet one
hundred and thirty five thousand dollars. He topped a field
of five hundred and nineteen entries. Ice finished second. He
won the fifteen dollars limit hold him and now he
wins or sorry, now he finishes second in this tournament,
This RAZ tournament, several of my friends that played in it,
and I saw on like some social media and whatnot
that Razz is absolute value talent. Everyone plays this game horribly,
I guess, So I guess I'm gonna need to figure
out RAS, and maybe everyone out there should try and
figure out RAS because according to I don't know, probably
a dozen people that I talked to, the field could
not be softer. People were just firing it in, playing
the most outrageous style of RAZ you could ever play.
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in these tournaments. You know, again, I am recording while
some of this stuff is still playing, so you know,
just just hang with me a little bit. Looks like
in the five K Seniors high Roller, at time of writing,
they are down to seven. There is one gold racelet
winner still in that is Kenneth Kim and Chad Lipton
is already still in. Chad Lipton's somebody who he had
a deep run earlier this summer in the ten k
GG Millions high Roller when he took third place in
that event for almost five hundred and four thousand dollars.
In here, with seven players remaining in this tournament, Lipton
is guaranteed eighty eight thousand dollars there at six hundred
and seventy three thousand dollars up top. I mean, momentum
is a thing in poker. You know, when you are rolling,
you are ultra confident, things are just clicking. You feel
like all the folds that you're making are correct, all
the bluffs are getting through. You know, every call that
you make just seems to work out the right way.
So you know, I mean, I don't know for sure
Lipton's feeling that, but I'm gonna guess he's feeling a
bit of momentum, right, I mean, going on on two
runs like this. You know that ten K GG Million's
high roller that had over six hundred entries there, They
had eight hundred and forty four entries in this Seniors
high roller, So you know, up little you know, this
isn't a twenty five K or a fifty K but
a ten K buying you know, in that type of
field and the GG Millions high Roller, you know, that's
not an easy feat to come in third there. And
then this five K Seniors high Roller, out of eight
hundred and forty four entries, he's in at least the
final seven. So shout out to Chad Lipton for that there.
We'll get caught up on this event on the next
episode when they wrap this up and get down to
a winner, but for now, seven players remaining in the
five K Seniors high Roller. In the two hundred and
fifth Super high Roller, they got up to fifty six
entries funny, so late registration stayed open for two levels,
I believe on day two on Sunday, and I'm walking
around the field to start and Daniel and Legrand who says,
you know, hey, Donnie, Donnie calls me over, says, a
you think we're going to get to sixty. I look
at the clock. I think it's at forty six at
the time, and I was like, I don't know that
that's going to be close. You know, sixty, you'll be close.
I think Tim Duckworth said they'll get to sixty. They
didn't get to sixty. They got a little bit short,
fifty six, you know, but still, and Daniel looked at
me and he said he basically joked that he was
going to buy me. And I said, listen, I'll play
for two percent. I don't care. He's like, you'll play
for nothing. I said, you know what, that's right, I
will play for nothing because you've imagined if I win
this damn thing, or even if I do well, I'll
be set for life in terms of like selling action
and doing whatever I want. So if you ever want
to put me in something, guys, just just let me know, Okay,
just let me know. I was, I was ready to go,
but they did get fifty six entries in this tournaments.
That's a boatload of prize money. Four point three million
dollars up top. The top four spots are all seven
figure pay days. Four point three million for first, two
point seven almost two point eight million for second, one
point eight six for third, one point three million for fourth.
The top nine spots get paid. Ninth place is a
bit more than double your buying five hundred and eighteen
thousand dollars. I know this is also tricky because not
only is this event not done for the day while
I'm doing this, but they're on this crazy long delay
for the live stream. So actually the stuff that's happening
in real time, I'm home now. I left Paris, but
the stuff that's happening there they might even be done,
I'm not sure, But then the stream is on the delay.
I see that Brent Kenny's the chip leader, and Samuel
Mueller is in second, Adrian Montaos is in third, David
Einhorn still in, Brandon Wilson, Matias Eiberger, Nick Bartangelo, Shaan Winter, Texas,
Mike Michael Montek, Jason Kuhne, Jason Kuhn told us before
that I can't remember if it was last year of
the year before the year when he won a fifty
K high roller, he said, this is the tournament like
this is his white Whale, this is his super Bowl,
This is the one he wants to win above all
other tournaments in the world. Is the two hundred and
fifty K Super high Roller at the World Series of Poker.
And at least as I see it, he is still
in with thirteen players remaining. I see phil Ivey's name
still there. I see Peter Wang, who has gone from
cash game to tournaments and he's in there. And then
Kristen Foxen rounding out the chip counts here in thirteenth place,
will see if she can continue on after winning that
twenty five K high Roller for a career best one
point seven seven million dollars and her sixth WSFP Gold
bracelet about a week or so ago. So pretty crazy
there in the two hundred and fifty K super high Roller,
But you know, we'll check back in on that on
the next episode. The ten K Big O Championship that
finalized the field size at four hundred and fifty six entries.
Big O PLO whatever it is, it's freaking booming. I
know some of these numbers are down, and I've actually
been compiling a list of all the numbers to kind
of see where we're at for this year's World Series
of Poker compared to last year, and there's actually there's
a previous year before last year that I also want
to compare. It to shout out to my good friend
Jeff Walsh for putting that idea in my head. I'm
gonna steal it from you, sir. I actually am going
to run with it, but I think I'm gonna wait
till either the next episode or the one after that,
try and get right around fifty events. That way, we're
kind of right at that halfway point. Not sure it'll
work out perfectly, but you know what, we'll do our
best when we check in on the numbers at the
halfway point of the twenty twenty six World Series of Poker.
But I see right now, with under forty players remaining
in this big OA Championship, they are in the money.
There's eight hundred and sixty one thousand dollars up top.
Scott Clements is the current chip leader, Sean Troja in second,
Eric Wasserson is absolutely crushing it. I think he won
more than two million dollars in the million Dollar game
from Hustler the other day. So he's still in. Christian
Harder still in trying to get his first bracelet. Dan
Shack is still in trying to get his first bracelet.
I wonder if I mean this says Nick Shulman is
still in. He was in when I left Paris, so
I'm thinking he's still in. Sam's overall is still on.
Mike Mattis Simon. This field is absolutely ridiculous. This is
gonna be a fun one to watch that one play out.
We got the eight hundred dollars deep stack, got almost
four thousand entries there. Not gonna get too much into
that one because it's just the day one. The ten
K Super Turbo Bounty, four hundred and sixty six entries. Here,
they are down to two tables. Alex Foxen is the
chip leader. Alex trying to catch Chrissy and get a
bracelet at the twenty twenty six WSOP almost six hundred
thousand dollars up there. This one's probably going to finish
at like three or four in the morning. Definitely, I'm
not waiting up for that, so we're gonna have to
catch up with that one. So a little funny inside
baseball talk here. But our photographer, Luther Luther read you know,
you guys should follow him on social media's absolutely crushing
it with you know, kind of more artistic, more cinematic,
more dramatic photos this year. They're freaking awesome. But he's
got to shoot all the winners for these ten k
events because all the ten k plus events are the
PGT qualifying events, so we need these photos. And he's
asking us, you know when we think this is going
to end, and we're like, well, I don't know. Four
in the morning, five in the morning. I think when
Phil Helmy wanted it was like six in the morning.
I don't even remember. So he actually went home. We
were like, you know what, just go home. This was
at LA seven or eight o'clock. Go home, sleep, set
your alarm to wake up around two or so, and
then come back in shoot the winter photos and then
go back home. So that's what Luther's doing. That's what
our team often has to do when when you you know,
you just got these these wacky tournament schedules that happened
in poker. All right, let's touch on these these legends here. Ivy,
Helmuth g on you and I include deep because when
it comes to the World Series of Poker, he's the
only two time WASB Player of the Year. He's always
the favorite every single year to win Player of the Year.
So I include him in in the WSOP talk here,
Phil Ivy, he's only got one cash so far. It
was a ninth place in the ten K limit hold
them for thirty thousand dollars. He definitely played the two
hundred and fifty K super high Roller, and I think
I mentioned that he was still in not too long ago.
But of course he might be out give him the
live stream delay or whatever. But Ivey's got to be
down a boatload, you know, when you're firing everything like
he's firing it. He's played all the tournaments. Mean, you
only have one cash for thirty K, you're absolutely freaking barried.
So not so much has happened in this year for
Phil Ivy, at least yet. Phil Helmuth. Now, he started
hot right if you remember, he had two top ten
finishes like right out of the gate. But since then,
you know, he has cooled off. He had that seventh
place finished in the ten k Omaha Hi Low for
fifty four thousand dollars. That's the tournament where he busted.
Then we caught up with him. He told us how
life is good. He's rich and famous, like all the
crazy stuff. Then he got a ninth place in the
ten K Nolan maduced to seven single draw for forty
one thousand dollars, and he also got a thirty seventh
place finish in the ten K pl Ohilo for twenty
one thousand dollars. So Phil I would say probably down
because he has played some of the bigger buying stuff
so far. But with those cashes, the damage is certainly
not as severe as phil Ivey's. Daniel Legrandu ninth place
in the twenty five K heads up for sixty K,
twentieth in the ten K Nolan mds to seven for
twenty one K, eighth place in a giant field six
hundred dollar buying Nolan had hold him slash PLO for
twenty four thousand dollars. That's the one where he got
beat in a sick fashion by Maurice Hawkins, and then
he got thirteenth in the ten K limit hold him
for twenty one thousand dollars. Now, one of the cool
things that Daniel does every single year, of course, is
he vlogs his entire world series of Poker. He releases
the vlog on his YouTube channel every single day. So
I would highly encourage you guys, if you're living under
a rock for whatever reason and you're not following Daniel's vlogs,
to watch them every single day. I'm a few behind,
but I did check in with this last one just
to see where the tally was, you know, like Ivy
and Helmuth, you know, we're guessing if they're up or
down or whatever. Mcgrannie puts his tally at the end
of every vlog, and at the end of the last one,
he added in the two hundred and fifty thousand dollars
buying for that two hundred and fifty K Super high Roller,
and he is down six hundred and eleven thousand dollars.
Now we know that he busted in the two hundred
and fifty K Super high Roller, and he hopped into
the ten K Super Turbo, and I think he put
at least one bullet, if not multiple bullets, into that
ten K Super Turbo. So Daniel probably looking like he's
down right around six thirty six forty or so heading
into this new week. Sean Deep, Now, Sean Deep is
someone who prides himself on chasing WSP Player of the Year.
He came into the summer I think he was sitting
in second place in the Player of the Year race,
behind the WSP Europe Made Event winner, I believe. But
Sean had a bunch of results in Europe that allowed
him to really pad that point total coming into the summer.
But this summer has not been good for mister Deep.
He only has one cash it's a fifth place in
the ten K Nolan MEDUSA seven for ninety nine thousand dollars.
But for Sean Deep's standards, that is just not going
to cut it. He's dropped it down a few spots
in the DOUBSP Player of the Year race. I believe
if I'm looking at this correctly on wspeed dot Com,
he is now in fifth. Dennis Weiss has moved up
to the number one spot. We just talked about how
Dennis finished second in the fifteen raz. He won the
fifteen limit hold him and I believe his points allowed
him to move up above Nio Kihara. Kihara has two
bracelets already this summer, but Vice his his results so
far this year have moved him up. Still quite a
long time to go, as it pertains the player of
the year. We still have a little bit more than
half of this WSP left. Of course, Paradise counts, or
I should say I believe Paradise counts. Not of course,
I'm pretty sure it counts. So you know, long way
to go for the whole thing. But you know, Sean
deeb is just he's kind of sliding. But you know,
I think Seandeb if I remember correctly last year, I
feel like I can't remember his last year of the
year before the year when he won the hunter k PLO.
I just recall like not not hearing a ton about
Shawn Deep. Not not that he wasn't cashing and having
success and making runs, but like it didn't have that
big Sean Deep type of feel to a summer. And
I'm getting those vibes right now. And I say that
because you know, he can just turn around and rip
off an event doesn't matter. And I think he was
even multi tabling today at some point. So Deep's still
going for it, still grinding every single day, and I
mean he's he's not going to finish the summer with
just one cash. I mean, that's just that's got to
be impossible. Right So the runs are coming, the final
tables are coming. It's just that right now, you know,
about forty to forty five events in there's just not
much there for Deep. But there's you know, there's not
much there for any of these guys, Ivy, Helmet, Negron,
and Deep. You know, the best one is probably Helmet
right now, but even he's kind of cooled off as
of late. But we also know Helmet does he does
schedule some days off here and there. He's not there playing,
you know, every single day, and then when he does play,
he usually comes a little bit late. But but that's
that all right. So that's gonna do it for me.
It was fun to get back on here and talk
to you guys again. Big week ahead at the World
Series of Poker. I'm gonna be hopping back into the
mix on Tuesday for the twenty five hundred dollars freeze out.
I think this week as well, we have the Millionaire
Maker coming, so you know, we are right in the
middle of it. All things are heating up. It's absolutely
awesome to see, but yeah, I'm gonna go get some sleep.
My name is Donna Peters. It was a pleasure as
always and I will talk to you next time.
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