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