Speaker 1: Hello everyone, and welcome back to a new episode of
the Poker Go Podcast. My name is Donny Peters. His
name is Tim Duckworth. This is a fake bobblehead Daniel Legrand,
and we got a new location today. Tim want to
switch things up. Had a little bit of an issue
with our studio, if that's what you want to do.
Speaker 2: It was taken.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean we use it without photographers. So they're
shooting some photos of some special stuff that you guys
will see soon. My own bubblehead, yeah, Tim's own bubblehead. No,
not that, some to be announced stuff that is coming
down the pipeline. They're they're taking care of that. So
we relocated out here to the floor of the Horseshoe
Events Center, Bronze Table six twenty. Yeah, so when anyone
sits at this table when they're playing throughout the summer,
they can be like, that's where they recorded the podcast. Yep,
that's where they recorded it. On today's show, we got
Benny Glasser winning number two and number seven. You'll understand
why if you're a little bit confused as to why
I said it like that. Lou Garza comes back to
win the twenty five K no limit hold'em slash PLO
high Roller, the ten K Dealer's Choice it's way back
there somewhere, and the two K no limit where's that?
That's on the main stage over there somewhere. They are
both playing down. Not quite sure that we'll get to
the winner in those tonight, so Tim and I are
recording early. We'll touch on that, we'll see where they're at,
and then we'll wrap them up on the next episode
of the show. We got the fifteen hundred dollars Nolanman
hold them shootout is onto the final day, and then
of course we will touch on everything else that is
happening around the twenty twenty five World Series of Poker.
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Speaker 2: Let's go.
Speaker 1: Benny Glaser baby winning number two and number seven if
you can believe it. The reason why I say it
like that is because he won the second gold bracelet
for his summer here in twenty twenty five, and it's
only what nine days in crazy his seventh career WSP
gold bracelet. He won the fifteen hundred dollars Mixed Omaha
for two hundred and fifty eight thousand dollars, a big field,
twelve hundred and thirty nine entries in that one Glazer
Glaser came into the final day three players remaining. He
had the big lead. He ended up closing it out.
He's got two cashes on the summer and they're both wins.
He won the fifteen hundred dollars Dealer's Choice and then
the next tournament that he played was the fifteen hundred
dollars Mixed Omaha and he won that. So Benny Glaser
hasn't lost a tournament in six days. Bet, I mean,
it's just absolutely incredible stuff, right, first two times bracelet
winner here in twenty twenty five. He has seven career bracelets.
As I mentioned, after he won it, he was nice
enough to come meet up with you on the main
stage and chat for quite a bit, a fairly lengthy interview.
So let's go to that interview with Tim and Benny
right now.
Speaker 2: Benny Glaza, congratulations, seven time WSSP bracelet winner. Noway, one
thing I want to talk to you about first is
that there's a big streak here at the WSP players
winning two bracelets stretching back to two thousand and now
you have continued that twenty six seas in a row
after you won your first one this week. Was that
something immediately on your mind? You want to win a
second bracelet and a fourth this series?
Speaker 3: It was on my mind. Yeah, I had agreed essentially
infinite messages also just putting it in my mind, just
being like, we see another bracelet for you this series
as well, and you know, for going for three, it's
obviously like a stretch of a goal, but it's absolutely
been on my mind. I was really looking forward to
coming in for a big summer this time.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: There's only two players in the history of the WSP
that have won seven braces bicker them Johnny Mass and
Phil Ivy. You know, is that these kind of like
records that and history.
Speaker 4: In the WSP. Is that stuff that you care about?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I think so, Like there are one or two records.
I don't know if I have, like am I the
quickest ever double bracelet in a year for example, yeah?
Or if I yeah, or maybe the only person to
get back to back twice, Like these are things that
I think are just incredible achievements that yeah, I'm just
proud of.
Speaker 2: It's amazing.
Speaker 4: I think a lot of people know you as a
mixed game player.
Speaker 2: Yeah, how important is it to you to win games
in multiple variants? Not just you know all in horse
or all inside, but you you have brasus in four games,
you have to seven, you have omaha, hi, Low, you
have the other choice?
Speaker 4: How important that to you? Is your you know, your
poker resume.
Speaker 3: I like to think it adds credibility to me as
an overall poker player, which is something I definitely strike
for just to be a well or rounded player. And yeah,
it's important, and it's very useful for the World Series
when I can potentially jump into any event and have
the potential for a bracelet, Like if there's any event
like we do you today, I feel like, oh that
has a chance of Yeah, me wondering.
Speaker 2: Yet you have two and two braces seven, You have
two in omahah Low, And I guess you can kind
of call this as a third or you know, be
two thirds high Low.
Speaker 4: What is your best game when it comes to the
mixed games?
Speaker 3: I think generally my best game is limit Await. Okay,
it's close, but I think that's the one that I
normally considers my best.
Speaker 2: We talked about, you know, your impressive from resume on
the Poko podcast the other day. Yeah, we kind of thought,
you know, Benny's following his path of phil ivey. You know,
eleven bracelets in eight different variants, but no no limit
hold embracelets. Is that something that like you care about
or is it just you know, bracelet is a bracelet
to me.
Speaker 3: I mean I would like to win a no limit bracelet.
I think that would also be very cool. But just
the reality is I prioritize mixed so much more during
the summer that I'm probably only paying five, maybe six
no limit events throughout the whole summer, So it's just
much more likely I'm going to win a mixed bracelet
during the summer. But yeah, I think a no limit
hold embracer would also be very cool.
Speaker 2: I want to kind of talk a little bit about
young your legacy as a poker player.
Speaker 4: You're not forty yet. It's coming twenty twenty nine, you'll
be eligible for the Poker.
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame.
Speaker 4: I believe in a few names that are also eligible.
Speaker 2: That year you got pads Stephen Chidwick got Doug Poking
at Dance Smith.
Speaker 4: Now, obviously, right now the Hall of Fame is just
one person in.
Speaker 2: But for something for you? Is that something you're really
striving for? I want to know stamp my name in
the history book, and I want to be a first
ballot straining.
Speaker 4: A whole time.
Speaker 3: That would be something that's very cool. Like that achievement
is something I'm aiming for and would be very proud of.
That was a very strong list of names. I don't
know about that. I don't know about the first ballot.
That would be very cool. That's going to be a
tough year, I guess, but yeah, it's something I would
aim for and be incredibly proud of.
Speaker 2: Yeah, when the dust settles on your POPA three, hopefully
it's not for another forty fifteen years from here. What
do you want people to like look back on as
as Benny the Poper play?
Speaker 4: What do you want your legacy to be?
Speaker 2: Strong?
Speaker 3: Question? I mean, firstly just ability. I guess I would
like to think people think I'm good for was very good.
And then I guess the question is how much this
personality come in to I want people to think I
was maybe gracious or whatever, like in the ways I'm
winning or the ways I'm playing. There's a few things
like that that would nice, you know, just being a
good human hopefully as well. Things like that would be
nice to be thought of in that way.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we haven't busted the tournament in six days. I
believe we've got a fifteen hundred doogie up next. You're
probably gonna maybe get some dinner and see if you
can make that nine days without being a limited eliminated.
But congratulations, seven time WSP bracelet winner Benny Blasa.
Speaker 3: Thank you very much man.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: That was Benny Glauser, moments after he secured his seventh
career gold bracelet. All of his bracelets are in mixed games,
as you touched upon in that interview with him. What
does that say about where he ranks among I mean
two really two things. One among the great mixed game
players and then the other thing is among the great
WSOP players. Because there are very few people that have
seven or more bracelets.
Speaker 2: So what do you think? Yeah, he's right up there.
I mentioned in the interview. The person his career is
kind of following in is Phil Ivy. Eleven bracelets in
eight This different progravariance. You know, Benny is on track
to do something similar. I mean, you know, that's kind
why I'm kind of ask him about the no limit
hold Him bracelet as as it comes to obviously modern players,
he is, without doubt one of the best that the
WSP has. The record stands, you know, seven bracelets in
eleven years something like that. It's just outstanding. And you
know he's going to be competing for many years to come.
He's still young. He's younger than both of you and me.
He's I think he's he turns thirty six or thirty
seven in a couple of days, so still very very young.
And I mean he's not going to stop. He's gonna
he's probably going to get to ten pretty soon, I think. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So it's interest as you kind of compare him to
Phil iuve of him. I'm saying you specifically, just in general,
I think Phil has a chance to win a nolan
At Hold Him bracelet more so than Benny. And the
reason why I say that is Phil is for sure
going to be in all the twenty five k plus
nolan Ath hold Them tournaments. Now, of course those are
very tough, yes, but Phil is very good at nolam
A hold them and they're just smaller fields, you know,
the fifty K, the hunter k, the two to fifty k,
like that sort of stuff. You know, he can certainly
win those where I don't think Benny is going to
be playing I'll say fifty k plus. You know, maybe
he dabbles in a twenty five K, especially, I would
say this summer, especially because now he's obviously with these
two bracelets, early the front runner for player of the year.
So does he press a little bit harder similar to
what we saw with dan Zach a couple of years ago.
Dan Zach is known as a mixed game player, and
then all of a sudden he's like, I got to
play this two hundred fifty K super high role because
I got to get in there for a chance at
the poy points.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So do we see a similar sort of thing with Benny.
Speaker 2: I don't think we see it to the same degree
as dan Zach. We both saw Benny skip the twenty
five K half enough, I thought the field maybe it
was a little tough opted for an event where his
edge is kind of greater, which was the mixed Omaha
obviously paid off and I think that's what's going to happen.
If Benny has you know, a five K no limit
or fifteen hundred no limit or he has, say, you know,
fifteen hundred dollars start eight, I think he's always going
to go with the mixed game. He's going to lean
into his strengths, which is the mixed games, any mix
game we have on the schedule. But yeah, he it's
it will be interesting if he can get a couple
more results, a couple more cashes, and maybe another final
table here and there. Maybe does he take a swing
at a twenty five k or fifty k no limit
holder or even plhi rolla to try and lock up
player the I think that's you know, ask him about legacy.
I think that's something where it would really interest him.
Adding having a poy bannihanas at the time comes push,
comes to shove, you know, it wouldn't surprise me if
he does take a shot when needed. Now.
Speaker 1: At the twenty twenty three WSP, we saw Chad eve
Sledge when Event five and Event ten both dealers Choice tournaments.
He won the fifteen hundred dollars Dealer's Choice and then
won the ten K dealer's choice, so very early on
for him getting two bracelets. He also, like like Benny
this year, he had two cashes then they were both victories.
You know that obviously kickstarted his WSP campaign in a
very big way. But after those two wins, he didn't
final table another live WSP event in Vegas during that summer,
So you know, I just kind of use that as
a jumping off point. You know, how do you think
the remainder of Benny's summer is going to go. Is
it going to be similar to what we saw with
Chat Eve Sledge win these two early and then you know,
don't get back to a final table in the future,
or are we just going to see Benny continue to
you know, tear this place down.
Speaker 2: You know what, I would say, that's pretty hot, pretty
high high variance there for Chad not having another big
result after the starting so strongly. But if you had
asked him before the World Series, hey, you're going to
make two final tables, win two braces Are you okay
with that guarantee? He says one hundred percent. So you know,
if Benny does break the rest of the series, if
he can, you know, maybe.
Speaker 1: It's well it's not that Chad Brick the rest of
the story, but a couple of finishes in the teams
and whatever. It just didn't make it to.
Speaker 2: The final table. I think Benny would be pretty happy
with this now, the fact that he started so hot,
you know, two wins in two events over six days.
He's probably setting the bar very high for what comes
for the rest of the series. You know, like, hey,
I've knocked off two and it's only June fifth. You know,
where's the third bra when's the third brace that come?
When's the fourth bracelet come? When's the fifth bracelet coming?
You know, so you set those standards pretty high, so
it would probably disappoint him if he doesn't make at
least another big run at a third bracelet. Here.
Speaker 1: I want to see someone win a four bracelets and
ess it never happened, you know, I really want to
see that. I think Benny is one of those players
who has as good of a shot as anyone just
because of how good he is when it comes to
playing mixed games. He's going to be in all those
ten K Mixed Game Championship events, which they have anywhere
from one hundred to one hundred and fifty, maybe one
hundred and seventy five players something like that. You know,
I think, well, we still have the ten k horse
that's going to be a big one. We had the
ten k Omaha that was, you know, one of the
bigger ones. But you know the ten k stud study
stuff like that, that's you know kind of like around
what one twenty ish or so. He's obviously going to
be in the fifty k so you know he'll he'll
have as good of a chance as anyone in that event.
Speaker 2: So it's it's not even just you know the size
of the fields. I want to go back to twenty
fifteen when George Danze won he's three bracelets. He won
two here in Vegas, one in Asia Pacific.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that third one doesn't count, it does He established
that doesn't count.
Speaker 2: I'm going that's with you. Seventy nine events the entire year,
seventy nine events with the entire yearlevent brace events, right
when George Dan's are one, three for Benny with two already,
we have one hundred live bracelet events here, we have
thirty online. We're going to have fifty sixteen in Paradise.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure Benny's going to be playing in the online.
Speaker 2: Sixteen, but we're gonna have sixteen in Europe. We're going
to have another thirty three online in the fall, right,
So we're looking at something like two hundred and forty
five bracelet events versus seventy nine, basically three x thing
when George Danzer won three. So you know, it's not
just about the field sizes, it's also about the amount
of volume Benny can put in between now and Christmas
to try and win a third bracelet. Yeah, and the
fourth and fifth.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say, yeah, but here, I want the three
or the four to happen here in the summer in
Las Vegas.
Speaker 2: You want the Jeff lissand or the field iv ted, you.
Speaker 1: Know, like I don't. I don't want it to extend elsewhere,
you know, I just wanted to be this series, and
I still think he has a great chance to do it.
There are so many bracelet events left and ones that
are going to be great for him to be able
to get in there in Battle. I mean, it won't
be easy. There's a lot of tough competition some of
the events that he plays, Yes, but Benny is an
absolute elite player, So you know, I look forward to
to watching his quests for the rest of this summer.
We have, we have so much time to go, so
it's going to be a fun sweat the whole way.
Speaker 2: Another thing that.
Speaker 1: You hit on with him in the interview is the
Poker Hall of Fame and what getting in would mean
to him. You know, let me ask you. I know,
on the interview, you were playing the interviewee, you're asking
the questions, you know, but here I'm asking for your opinion.
Is Benny a Poker Hall of Famer? Obviously when he's
old enough, you know, when he's old enough, you know,
should he get in?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Here we all to join twenty twenty nine, so
a few more years, I would say he's probably a
favorite to at least been one more bracelet between now
and twenty twenty two. Nine one, that's it. I'm saying,
no one a year. Okay, come on, it's gonna win
one more this year, bro right, right, So he's gonna
he's gonna have seventeen bracelets in twenty if he can
win one more, he goes to you know, he goes
to eight, he joins, you know, the Grano. Maybe see
if he's got another one. Wait, when does he turn
June seven, twenty twenty nine, also in the middle of
the summer series. Yeah. So, the way some of the
Hall of Fame things work, it's basically when it's announced
the cutoff, and normally it's announced early June around now,
so he just falls in twenty twenty nine, depending when
they announced. Let's give him one bracelet, let's give him
eight bracelets. I'll say he's at He's at eleven bracelet.
That's a lot of bracelets. Sure, fine, eleven. Then even
without eleven, I think he's is Benny freaking Glazo. Come on, man,
Obviously the issue is how many people get in. I
think he is part of his eligibility class, the number
one pick to get in. Looking at the names that
I have that could get in into here we go
again with this nonsense. Let me read some names. I
can't wait. I cannot wait to hear the names Stephen Chidwick, Okay,
Doug Polk, Pads, Patrick, Leonard Seth Davis, Dan Smith, Sergio, Aito,
Daniel Divores.
Speaker 1: I mean, no one you named is getting in. And
Ed Arbustad, where's a net overset? Has she picked up
poker chips or cards in twelve years?
Speaker 2: Probably? But yeah, I get we saying. My point is
that he is probably the number one pick on this list.
Speaker 1: Oh he's by fuck, it's not even close. You can
combine careers of people on that list and it's still Benny.
I mean, listen, everyone on that list is a great
player and has their place in poker's history book. You know,
I don't want to be smirched these players, but when
you're throwing names at me like this, for the Hall
of Fame is the top tier of the top tier,
the most exclusive club is what Hall of Fames are just.
Speaker 2: Telling you who's eligible. I'm not saying I'm not I'm
not riding my ballot shadow Dance Smith. I'm just telling
you who's up for nomination. But you know, we have
to look at who is not in. You know, if
Jeremy Osmas isn't in by twenty twenty nine, maybe he
has nine bracelets, you know, so he's got to catch
up to Benny. Yeah, well, hopefully going to have eleven.
Hopefully it does eleven. But yes, I do think Ben
is a first ballot Hall of Famer, pending whatever changes
they make to get people in. But yeah, he's building
a resume to really establish himself as one of the
best mixed game players in the world, one of the
UK's best poker players in general, and you know every
day he's going to be out there grinding away, trying
to pick up titles and a mass millions of dollars
in earnings. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Crazy stuff from Benny Glaser to start the twenty twenty
five World Series of Poker.
Speaker 2: Most importantly, Yeah, I would like producer Rich to rewind
a few episodes, maybe like eight. I'm pretty sure I
said double bracelet winner by June fifteenth or June tenth
or something, so Rich, if you can put you're way
ahead of that. Play it here. It's June fifth. We
extend that. I think the streak that will never ever end.
Twenty six years in a row we've had a player
win two bracelets in the calendar year, or one hundred
and fourteen double bracelet winners in WSP history.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, Ben, he's on the list. Moving on to
the twenty five k Nolan at Hold Them Slash PLO,
we got lou Garza coming back and heads up play.
He was down four to one against Ben Lamb and
he wins his second career Gold bracelet. More than one
point three million dollars. His first gold bracelet came in
twenty twenty three when he won the ten k PLO
Championship event for right around the same amount one million,
three hundred nine thousand, and that one. This one was
one million, three hundred and two thousand. Came back against
Ben Lamb in this one. We all know how good
Ben Lamb is at poker, especially when it comes to
the fore card. Very this one ended up finishing out
in no limit hold them and he won with two aces.
Lamb jammed with King ten of clubs. Garza wakes up
with the aces, picks him off and that's that slight
sweat on the Queen Jack jack flop, But Lou Garza
held from there and took it down. On the way
to the winner circle. He busted, of course, Ben Lamb.
He busted Chang Jiang Yang and Brandon Mitchel. All that
was on the final day. Five players returned and then
Robert Cohen also was busted out on the final day
when he was eliminated by Ben Lamb. This was a
PGT qualifying event. It was also streamed on Poker Go,
so if you guys missed the stream it was It
was a quick one about two and a half two hours,
forty five minutes something like that. So if you missed it,
you want to go watch it, you can find the
on demand replay on poker Go. But for you, sir,
mister PGG commissioner, as was a PGT qualifying event. So
what the heck do the results here do for the leaderboard.
I'm assuming there's some shake ups because there was a
lot of points of there's going.
Speaker 2: To work top to bottom relative of the leaderboard. Michael
Munchak ninth place finisher, he moves into the top ten.
He's in eighth place, eight hundred and seven points, six
cashes this year. Alu Gaza up to fourteenth place with
his seven hundred points. He's a regular in our PGTPLO series,
so expect him to come back to the studio later
in the year and look to qualify for around million
dollar free roll. Ben Lamb has two casha this year already.
This one this runner finished takes him up to seventeenth place,
and you know third place finisher Chung Yang Yang, he's
just inside the top forty. So yeah, obviously the biggest
results there to kind of PGT regulars Lou and Ben
in quite a good position to really make a run
at it for the rest of the PGT season. Sounds good.
Speaker 1: So I got some breaking news' choice.
Speaker 2: We just lost Adam Friedman.
Speaker 1: He will not be winning it for a fourth time,
but valiant effort by him finishing in seventh place. There
are six players remaining. We've got Phil Sternheimer up on top,
Ryan Hoenig in second, Dario Alioto in third, Dylan Smith fourth,
Matthew Vanger, and fifth Brandon Cantu rounds it out in sixth.
Five of those six players are on twenty five K
fantasy team. So we are sweating well, I mean, we're
just gonna get crushed in in this one. What are
you gonna do? But looks like Sternheimer, your boy, could
be in line to get this first brace.
Speaker 2: I need something pretty nice for phil Son home today.
Oh yeah, what's that? So we came back? What's that?
Came back with I think like sixteen players something. They
redrew to two tables. Okay, they took the big table
up here where the two K and elimit is on
the feature, and they took tables see where the current
dealer's choices Nick Nick GUGENTI was complaining about the heat.
Didn't like it. All right, hold on, I know what
you're gonna say, but let me finish myself.
Speaker 1: Finish your story, and then we're gonna get into this nonset.
Speaker 2: They hadn't started dealing and I sat up there and
I was like, yeah, this is pretty well, Like do
you why do we do we have to be up here?
And the falls asked me. I was like, no, you
guys can see wherever you want, so can we move back? Sure?
At the same time, Phil was adjusting his seat. He
had a nice fresh I don't know, little ice latte
sitting on his table. Knocked it down, went splattering all
over the stage.
Speaker 1: You know the other day his drink got knocked over
by Mickey duek drinks. He put him on the floor
next to his does he got up and kicked one
over and then and then and then blamed it on
like a photographer.
Speaker 2: So they moved back and I said, you know, we
didn't have much with the cars are in the air
on the stream, we were pretty relaxed, said philty woman,
to go get you another one at that, Really, that'd
be awesome. I was like, yeah, whatever, it's a two
minute drive to the next stop box. Don't really take
much out of my day. He's okay, you guys, can
I order? Can I order you something? I was like, actually,
just have a guy, I just go on. I need one,
but I'll get more if you want to guess one
for for Nick. He wanted a trend of cold brew.
It's kind of your type of drink. Nick who I
picked up Nick Giante, the guy who you're going to
have a follow up. So when I got there, coffee
brought it back a couple of minutes later. One that's
when I called you and you were working out because
I used.
Speaker 1: To got me coffee. We put in the fridge, like
we're good. You look come on.
Speaker 2: For me. You were coming here for three hours, so
I'm not gonna you could have handled yourself anyway. Got
here a drink unbelievable, and I think I think that
drink is going to power him to this bracelet. I
think I should he should give me his bracelet when
he wins, because it's the the ice coffee I went,
or the ice latte went and got for him. At
one o'clock today.
Speaker 1: So you and I undered over to Paris. Yes, today
and we're checking out the twenty five K six Max.
We're checking out the fifteen hundred dollars Badugie, both of
which we'll talk about in a few minutes. But we
stumble upon a table that has both David Baker's Odib
and bakes. Right, he was sitting at that table. Nick
Wa genty was also, he was at that table at
that time. Now Odib immediately puts his hoodie like over
his head. You know, he's just getting to the table.
Nick Wa genty honestly looks like he's back in Ohio.
He's got a like two hoodies on. I think one
pulled way over his head. So he's he's complaining over
there that he's too cold. He's complaining over here that
he's too hot. You just can't please this guy. Now
are There are a handful of tables around the Horseshoe
and around Paris where there is event like pretty much
directly above them. If you guys watched Daniel Legrandu's vlog,
his recent vlaw, he's on one of those tables. It's
actually it's on the other side of the room. He
was in the dealersh cho and he had his he
had his hoodie pulled over. He was holding his holding
it tight in the front. He's like, this draft, this draft.
Look look at the little stanchion rope. Look at it
is blowing in the wind. So there are a few.
I love those tables personally. I like when it's freezing
cold in here, you know, I want I want Amazon
room temperatures that were at the Rio. You know you
gotta wear a sweatshirt for sure. I like when it's cold.
I would rather be cold than hot. That that's just me.
So anyway, you should tell the.
Speaker 2: Other side, sorry, from that, what you should tell the
athamar side story.
Speaker 1: No, we're not gonna tell the sides. We're not. We're
gonna skip that one. So the ten k deal shows
down to six again. We'll we'll wrap that one up
on what Friday?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think, Look, we got four more hours of
play today. I don't he just lost Brandon Cantu. I
still don't think it's going to get there. I bay
you the bag three players. I've come back tomorrow one o'clock.
Finished that off. Hopefully it's Phil Sternheim and winning. He's
w s O. P. Brasle.
Speaker 1: Okay, well there is three fifty four K for the winner. Sternheimer,
I think, I think among anyone who doesn't have a bracelet,
he is up there in terms of like he wants
one so bad, right, you know, and especially in this game,
this format, you know, dealer's choice. He's a huge, huge
mixed game guy. He absolutely loves it. He worked closely
with you on the Super High roller Bowl mixed game tournament,
like you know, that was his baby. So if he's
able to go on and win this, you know, I
think that that would just be absolutely freaking incredible. We
got the two K playing down as well. Where's that
one at? Well, that one's on the main stage first. Yeah,
and we got Humesh Babu Sukumar I probably put that
last name leading the way. With five players remain Scott
Bowman in second, Dusty Smith in third, Benjamin Williams and fourth,
and then Kwan Jao is in fifth place. These guys
are guaranteed guys Angal guaranteed one hundred and thirteen thousand
dollars four hundred and thirty six thousand dollars up top
for the winner. They're huge, huge field in this two
K possibility. On another one we had we had a
third place finished yesterday, and we had a shot here
to get another one in an open event. Of course,
sixteen and ninety two entries in this tournament. Not sure
if they're going to finish tonight. They're down there. It's
ten forty five pm, so we'll see. Might be one
of those bag with three players type of ordeals that happens,
and then you know, if it doesn't finish, you know,
either way, we'll just have to wrap it up on
the next episode. But I guess maybe there's a chance
something crazy happens and we get a little breaking news
here on the show right now, the fifteen hundred dollars shootout. Now,
so this is on to the final day, correct, So
how is this working? Because we're playing to stream this
on Friday.
Speaker 2: Right, correct? So how is this? It's just a normal
tournament now, just a fifteen play tournament. I thought they
might be like two teams. Yeah, no, they didn't do
that last year, so this year it's makes sense. Okay,
fifteen play a tournament. They'll play down obviously to firstly
one table and then modified shootout modified shootout, correct, And yeah,
we'll probably pick them up seven or eight handed about
four o'clock local time stream, probably targeting that five PM
that normal window for us. That is the current plan
with this one. You know, they'll be pretty deep to
start obviously, and entries were in this tournament a lot.
I feel like twelve ninety nine. But isn't that is
that round tables were nine handed someone eight handed because
of the double Yeah, but I feel that double flight.
Speaker 1: I want to say, didn't this used to get a
thousand players with a single flight, so now you have
two flights and only gets twelve ninety ninety.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but the issue with the single flight is that
once some you know, you kind of anyone playing at
the next like the the evening flight allows people that
playing another event on a date to Boston then getting
to it well before they couldn't. So yeah, the individual
flights are slightly small, law, but combined field size end
up being bigger. Does that make sense? Yeah, yeah, I
guess so. I think this fore that's way better than
I like.
Speaker 1: I like the format for sure. I would almost say
I think we discussed we could gram three flights.
Speaker 2: We can do you know, you do four flights?
Speaker 1: You could make this gouts go down to it. All
notables not puncery. Michael Rosito all punched their tickets through
to the final day. Duff Sharette is also going on
through Cred Golbert.
Speaker 2: Yeah, is that the same? Do we think that's the same.
Speaker 1: I think I would assume, so you have to so right, So, yeah,
they're all through to the final round. As to mention,
they're going to come back, they're going to play a
real tournament now and they're going to try and get
down to a winner. Two hundred and sixty seven thousand
dollars up top in that and we will be streaming
on poker Go and the poker Go YouTube channel, so
be sure to check that one out tomorrow. The plan
is for the stream to air.
Speaker 2: When tenably five pm Pacific. Got it all right? Cool?
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that are happening around the WSOP, we got the Colossus
plane Day one B three three hundred and nine entries
on this second starting flight, second of four starting flights. Now,
I did see a little discrepancy on Day one A.
I saw on Poker News that they had in the
recap that it was like there was three thousand, three
hundred and seventy nine on Day one A. But then
I saw on the app that it was two thy
seven hundred and seventy three. And immediately I thought, because
I was looking at Poker News, and I said, well,
that's weird that one B is less than one A.
That can't be right, Yeah, And then I looked in
the app and it gave me a different number. So
I don't know which number is correct for one A
yet I would assume it's two seven seventy.
Speaker 2: Three one because it's the app too.
Speaker 1: Because it's smaller than one B, I thought we would
get a little bit of a bigger jump for one
B up to like four K, right, going only two
seven seven three up to three three oh nine, I
thought it would be a little bit more right, you know,
hit thirty eight hundred four k something like that. I
still think Friday and Saturday are going to be absolutely
you know, wall to wall jam packed in this place.
But you know, still so that's still to come. We
won't touch too much on that. You know, it doesn't
really get serious till day two. In the Colosses. And
remember that the Colosses this year five hundred dollars buy
in as opposed to the four hundred dollars buy in.
So the other thing shout out to our buddy Matt Clark,
who pointed out today and we're not fact checking this,
so we're just going to roll with it. But it's
the tenth anniversary of the Colossus Tournament, which is which
is the OG that's.
Speaker 2: The OG Motion Show Tournament. Chaotic Kill.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's awesome, right, but remember when this first
happened and it was like, what is this thing? And
I just remember I remember the pavilion room at Rio
just being slammed, absolutely the lamped So, you know, shout
out to the Colossus because it's one it's one of
my favorite tournaments every single summer. I am bummed that
I can't play it this year. And yeah, I always
am like, where's the classes? I want to play it? Gladiators.
I'm just like, okay, I can't. I can't with the Gladiators.
I just I've tried. I'm ultrue. I mean, it's just
I mean, maybe it'll be different this year because you know,
we haven't heard anything about ten handed play, but every
time in the Gladiators you're playing ten handed. And the
worst part about when you play ten handed in that
tournament in the past, even when they're breaking tables, you're
still playing ten handed. It's like, why can't you just
break tables and make it nine handed? Like why can't
we just do this? You know, but they keep you
ten handed the whole way, and it's just it's out
of control. Moving on fifteen hundred dollars PL eight, Calvin
Anderson is cruising over there. We did get a cash
out of Nico Milgram for our five K fantasy team,
but he is since out. I think he busted in
fifty second place something like that. Around there somewhere they
are down to nineteen players from eleven hundred and seventy
six two hundred and forty eight thousand dollars up top.
I mentioned Calvin Anderson having the lead, Chris Vich is
second in chips. Justin Liberto is doing well. Bryce Jockey
is also doing well. So a nice field over there.
Andres Korn he was on our twenty five K team
last year, andres Man like, what the heck, what the heck,
what the heck. Marco Johnson also in there as well,
so we'll keep our eyes on that as it plays
out to a winner. And then the twenty five K
six Max Nolan mad hold them high Roller, the good
old Big Daddy I love this tournament. I was walking
the field today over there at Paris. It seemed incredibly tough. Now,
of course it should be tough, it's a twenty five
K six max. But I just felt like in the
past there were some soft spots, you know, this one,
I just I don't know, I don't feel like there
were any. So, I mean there was a few, of course,
but still I thought like this was I was like,
this is this tournament is ungodly hard. So you know,
we'll see how things go. Of course, but they wrapped
up day one a early. You talked to Chino while
we were out there, and she knows, like Sheino's asking you,
like you're in charge of the tournament structures. He's like,
what how come it says wrong playing eight levels today?
Because this is what they do in these tournaments now.
They play them eight levels so that they can have
the registry. They have a short day one, then they
have the registration carry through for the first level or
two on day two.
Speaker 2: That's what they do in the high rollers.
Speaker 1: So Gino must be new here obviously because this has
been a thing. It's not like this is new.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't I don't love it. I would rather
than play, you know, playing another level of two levels
on day one means you know, for WSFA, another rebuy,
another re entry, you know, allows some molar people to
get in. Potentially, I would have. You'd obviously have to
tweak the structure a little bit so you're not too
shallow if you do the max light on day two.
But yeah, it just seems silly to just you know,
mid day at nine pm and be done. It's a
bit of a short day, especially when most of the
other events, you know, you hit at two am.
Speaker 1: What the levels are an hour the Yeah, I think that. Yeah,
so it's not like you're playing until like twelve twelve midnight.
You know, you're playing until like ten, ten thirty something
like that. So it's not that bad. Michael got a
three time WSOP Gold Brace. The winner finished at the
top of the counts to finish day one seventy two
players and bagged up for day two. Aramaganion second in chips,
Nick Schulman third in chips, Jared Blessnik fifth and chips,
Seth Davies Team DBMD is in sixth and chips, and
we also have mister short Stack himself seventy second place
on the leaderboard. Our one hundred and forty one dollars
player bagging crumbs. What are the blinds for tomorrow, Jeremy
Jeffrey Dausmans put sixty five k in the bag for you.
Speaker 2: It's five big bonds. I'm going with five big bonds
a SI guy, so six twelve, six and a half bigs?
Speaker 1: Yes, Oh yeah, baby, let's go spin it up, baby.
I mean, he can still if he hasn't used his reentry,
he can use his reentry. It does have one re
entry in this tournament. I was reading on Poker News
and per they're reporting Daniel Legrandu Eric Sidel, which I
believe they spelled Eric saidel wrong unless I spelled it wrong.
But Dan Smith, Archer, Martirosi and Steven Chidwick and Adrian
Matteos all busted and used their re entry.
Speaker 2: Next wait on any one re entry. That's what it
said in the Poker News reporting.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, And it's feels like too much of a
hassle to try and go to the WSP website and
look up the structure. So you know, it's just I
can only do so much, right, I can only do
so much. Producer rich Is like, you guys got a
podcast early, I'm trying to rush through things.
Speaker 2: You're right, one re entry, Yeah, okay.
Speaker 1: Okay, So so yeah, if that's true, I mean, that's
that's a pretty good list of names that's no longer
going to be in this tournament, of course, chief among
them d Naggs. So we'll have to hop into the
next one, the fifteen hundred. Oh and also, this event
had two hundred and seventy two entries last year, so
already meeting last year's total on day one. They're gonna
get it. They're gonna get over three hundred, for sure.
They're gonna get all the people that didn't use their
re entry. Maybe they busted late in the night, they're
just like, I'm just gonna go home, not gonna play
for another forty five minutes or whatever.
Speaker 2: I'll come back tomorrow.
Speaker 1: You're gonna get a bunch of people that are just
buying in fresh tomorrow. Then you're gonna get people like
I mean, hope, I mean not hopefully, but Jeremy Osmas,
let's say he busts, he didn't use his re entry.
He's like, all right, I'm gonna fire it right back in.
So yeah, they're gonna soar up over three hundred, so massive,
massive turnout there. Shout out to the word massive. You
always love that bit, don't you. It's good to most
overused word in poker, so I'm gonna overuse it. Fifteen
hundred dollars bud Doogie turned out to be the largest
the Doogie tournament in the history of poker.
Speaker 2: Can you believe it? It's been like for tournament. That's
not the greatest thing, got it?
Speaker 1: You gotta set the records, baby, five hundred and thirty
four and there were four hundred and eighty seven last year.
So that's a nice little uptex for the badugie crowd,
for the mixed game crowd. Top eighty one are going
to pay one hundred and thirty eight thousand dollars up top.
Do you have anyone who's still in that tournament?
Speaker 2: George Wolf, Chip Lad, Niko Milgram top ten and Chips Oh,
Nico Big Ones so he's doing well. Just the man,
let's go Eerie d NDE guy, he's up in the
top ten. Ramos. Yeah, a whole bunch of mixed game
legends shock playing this one. So a good fun event.
You know, we we were over there for a little while,
checking it out, seeing all the faces in the event.
So definitely what I want to play one day. Yeah,
I don't know. I'm kind of over the mixed games.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I think, I think, I mean for now,
that'll probably change in a year, who knows, But I
don't know. I feel like the Nolan stuff is so
much better, and I'm a sucker for the just the
bigger prize pools. Yeah, I'm a sucker for the bigger
prize pools. I'm succer for the the fact that I
can go all in. I mean that sounds stupid, I know,
but I can literally say I'm all in. Yeah, I
know he can't always do it, so yeah, I don't know.
I'm just a sucker for that sort of stuff. I
like the I like to see all the flashing lights,
you know, the big like up in this two K,
four hundred and thirty six thousand dollars first place priorly
that sort of stuff. So you know, I mean, maybe
someday I'll swing back to the mixed game ways, but
for now loving the no limits stuff for sure. I
definitely want to start playing some more Plo and Polo eight.
I mean you see some stuff in this PLO eight
tournament that's like, what in the f are people do?
I mean, you see stuff in these PLO tournaments that
are like I don't see stuff in every tournament that
makes That is very true, That is very true. But
you know, I mean, yeah, it's funny the I feel
like in the polo tournaments, both PLO and PLO eight,
the really good players in those fields, they just have
such a control over things, like way more so than
nolamit hold them And it's it's funny because everyone thinks
PLO is this crazy action game, you know, when it
comes to PLO tournaments, I think it's a lot more
controlled than people think, at least when it comes to
like the best players. You know, they're not just like
spazing and going outs. I mean, you can't play that
if you want to, right, you can really really press
your edges. But you know, I think that there's you
know a lot of kind of delicate maneuvering that people
wouldn't expect when they see oh, fifte do PLO Like,
you know, do they have a fifteen dollar PLO six max?
Speaker 2: Do they have that? They should? I may have had
it before I don't know. If they have it, that.
Speaker 1: Would be that would be a ridiculous tournament. So yeah,
I don't think. I don't think we got anything else.
Unless you got anything else, got a new hat, you
did get a new hat. ESPN Poker Club, I don't.
I don't know what the ESPN Poker Club is. ESPN
Poker Club, did you did you hit up Andrew Feldman.
Speaker 2: Then there's a new ESPN Pop Club November twenty three.
Speaker 1: Twenty ten, and it's powered by PokerStars dot net. At
least it was with more games, more players, and more
awesome prizes. And then there's a there's the next post
on my searches from Reddit. Yeah, what happened to ESPN
Poker Club?
Speaker 2: I listed all the hats on eBay and that was
the end of it. I guess, I mean, I guess.
So I'm going to read this.
Speaker 1: It says one of my close friends and I played
poker all the time at his house. This is from
three years ago. Okay, he has this set from the
ESPN Poker Club that looks really nice and I was
thinking about buying my own. Everywhere I look, it's like
it never existed. There's almost no trace of this set.
So what exactly happened to the ESPN Poker Club And
why can't I find this set interesting?
Speaker 2: Uh? I don't know. I thought it was a pretty
cool hat. You know, we we bought like a poker
stuff and I just wanted an ESPN Poker Club hat
added to the collection were today? Yeah, no, of.
Speaker 1: Course I do find this interesting. So I'm on and
now I'm on eBay. This is the part of the
podcast that Rich probably hates.
Speaker 2: He just do that. He should mimic your screen. He
should go on eBay and do the same same.
Speaker 1: There's cards, SPM poper Club, there's chipset ESPM Poker Club,
there's a tough one. Look at a hat that's yours. Yeah,
that's that's a pair of hats. I get two hats
for the price of one. Wow, you got one hat,
you got ripped off and you didn't even buy one.
You didn't give me a coffee today from Phil Sternheim,
and you didn't buy me a hat. This is absolutely
freaking outrageous with this one. Look at this one. The
ESPN Poker Club. They got a shuffler on here.
Speaker 2: I mean, just crazy. That's a cool stuff from the
old and the two thousands.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is gonna be us and like thirty
years when we list.
Speaker 2: Our sailing crafts so we can get food from Alvason's this.
Speaker 1: Time, I mean yeah, I mean Albertson's probably won't be around,
but sure, why would that Why wouldn't a things come
and go?
Speaker 2: You never know, okay, by the biggest grocery store, and.
Speaker 1: I mean there's pretty big. Yeah, I mean they're obviously big,
but I mean you never know. By then we're gonna
have you know, AI robots making us fake meat and
it's gonna be dropped off by drones in our front yard.
Speaker 2: Like so a lot of what you just said we
already have.
Speaker 1: It's going to like all be like put together. Are
you just gonna be able to press a button on
your kitchen counter?
Speaker 2: And like it just wouldn't be more like and like
we just get like a needle that just ejects us
with maybe they don't even have to eat anymore.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it also in thirty years, like we
we might not be here because the robots just have
killed us all.
Speaker 2: So have you seen I am legend they have a
code to live by. They can't they can't hurt us.
Yeah yeah, yeah no.
Speaker 1: They always in any in any crazy robot movie, the
robots always go crazy. Okay, so it doesn't matter, you know.
So all right, we're gonna get out of here for
tim Do. My name is Donnie Peters, and we will
talk to you guys next.
Speaker 2: Night. Change Express