Speaker 1: Hello, everyone, Welcome back to a new episode of the
Speaker 1: Poker Go Podcast. My name is Donnie Peters. It is
Speaker 1: twelve thirty five am. It's another one of those nights
Speaker 1: where I was trying to wait for a couple of
Speaker 1: these tournaments to end. Doesn't seem like they're ending. We
Speaker 1: got a heads up match in the twenty five k
Speaker 1: half and half those guys are battling back and forth.
Speaker 1: One of them just doubled up again. So we'll see
Speaker 1: if by time I get to that, if there's a
Speaker 1: winner in that one, because that's a pretty big event
Speaker 1: that we can talk about. But if not, we'll talk
Speaker 1: about the winner on the next episode. But there is
Speaker 1: some stuff that I do want to hit on from
Speaker 1: that specific event. But the headliner on this episode we
Speaker 1: got Benny Glauser winning the fifty KC. He topped a
Speaker 1: field of one hundred and eight entries to win what
Speaker 1: many consider to be the most prestigious bracelet at the
Speaker 1: World Series of Poker, and if it's not considered that,
Speaker 1: then it is certainly second to the WASIP Maine event.
Speaker 1: I would have the ws main event first, of course,
Speaker 1: but I know a lot of the top pros out
Speaker 1: there they want to win the fifty k PPC. They
Speaker 1: probably think that they have a chance to win it
Speaker 1: more due to the field size. But you know that's that,
Speaker 1: and we're we're gonna hit on Benny Glazer's triumphant victory there.
Speaker 1: We got Daniel Legrand who, speaking of the fifty k,
Speaker 1: he won that once a couple of years ago. Daniel
Speaker 1: Legrano coming close to another gold bracelet, will hit on that.
Speaker 1: We got Sean Winter, I want to talk about him.
Speaker 1: Didn't win anything, but that's kind of the point of
Speaker 1: why we're going to be talking about mister Winter. The
Speaker 1: Ladies Championship event kicked off on Thursday, a record turnout,
Speaker 1: a record field size in the Ladies Championship, but we
Speaker 1: did lose the goat on day one, and then we
Speaker 1: got a couple winners. We got the one K Super
Speaker 1: Seniors winner, we got the fifte hundred dollars freeze out winner.
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Speaker 1: Benny Glaser take down the fifty K Poker Players Championship.
Speaker 1: He tops a field of one hundred and eight entries
Speaker 1: one hundred and eight of poker's best to win one million,
Speaker 1: three hundred and forty three thousand dollars, his ninth bracelet
Speaker 1: nine nine for Benny, and that's nine in eleven years.
Speaker 1: His first bracelet win was in twenty fifteen. It's his
Speaker 1: eighth wasip cash this summer. He came close to getting
Speaker 1: number nine a little while ago in the ten K
Speaker 1: limitold Heim Championship. Ever so close because he got second
Speaker 1: in that event for one hundred and ninety thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: As it relates to the fifty K PPC. He did
Speaker 1: say after when he was talking to Jeff Platt post
Speaker 1: win in his little interview there the little bracelet presentation
Speaker 1: that they do that Jeff Platt does. He told Jeff that,
Speaker 1: you know, he really wanted to win this one, and
Speaker 1: he's come closed a couple of times. Those times that
Speaker 1: he has come close in the past, first twenty eighteen
Speaker 1: when he finished fifth in the event for two hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty thousand dollars, and then in twenty twenty two
Speaker 1: he took fourth in the event for four hundred and
Speaker 1: sixty four thousand dollars. An interesting thing is if you
Speaker 1: look at post Moneymaker, so Moneymaker won in two thousand
Speaker 1: and three, let's not consider that year because once that happened,
Speaker 1: that's really what ignited everything. You know, it sparked, It
Speaker 1: sparked the incredible growth of poker, THESIP, all that sort
Speaker 1: of stuff. So let's start with the two thousand and
Speaker 1: four WSP since that year. Guests, who has the most
Speaker 1: bracelet wins? Of course, you probably guessed Benny Glaser. No
Speaker 1: one has more bracelets starting with the two thousand and
Speaker 1: four DOUBSIP than Benny Glauser. He's got nine Helmuth, Shulman, deeb,
Speaker 1: Miss Rocky, they've all got eight. And then Rasked Ivy,
Speaker 1: sever and Anderson, Calvin Anderson, they've got seven. So with
Speaker 1: the type of success that Benny has been having, I
Speaker 1: think the question now that we have to start asking
Speaker 1: is is Benny Glasser the greatest mixed games player in
Speaker 1: the modern era? And honestly, you might even say of
Speaker 1: all time to be real, but let's just you know,
Speaker 1: keep it to the modern era, right Also, you know,
Speaker 1: the modern era is my era. It's a little bit
Speaker 1: easier for me to speak to than trying to go back,
Speaker 1: you know, generations and stuff like that. You got Phil
Speaker 1: helm he's still owning the all time bracelet record with seventeen.
Speaker 1: Of course, you got Phil Ivy, who was also at this,
Speaker 1: at this fifty K final table, he finished in third place.
Speaker 1: You know, he's the player that many consider to be
Speaker 1: the most naturally gifted, the goat the greatest player of
Speaker 1: all time. We want to look at the fifty KPPC specifically,
Speaker 1: of course, that's Michael the grind Durmaans Rockies event. You know,
Speaker 1: he has owned this tournament. He's won it four times. Famously,
Speaker 1: he won it the last WSIP in twenty twenty five,
Speaker 1: and then he also went on to win the WSP
Speaker 1: main event in just an absolutely out of this world happening.
Speaker 1: But if we're going to talk strictly about the last
Speaker 1: two decades, or slightly more than the last two decades,
Speaker 1: because let's again let's take it back to two thousand
Speaker 1: and four, the players who came after that year in
Speaker 1: two thousand and three, when Chris Moneymaker won and poker
Speaker 1: then exploded. I'm not sure that there's anyone out there
Speaker 1: who has built a better WSIP resume than Benny Glauser.
Speaker 1: I understand you might be able to argue maybe some
Speaker 1: people have, maybe some people maybe Beny hasn't you know,
Speaker 1: I get it, But Benny one hundred percent, two hundred
Speaker 1: percent has to be in the conversation. He just has
Speaker 1: to be nine bracelets in eleven years. He's done it
Speaker 1: in all different types of variants, and he just won
Speaker 1: when it comes to mixed games, when it comes to
Speaker 1: being the best all around player in the world, this
Speaker 1: is the tournament to win the fifty KPPC. So this
Speaker 1: isn't just when you look at all that success he's
Speaker 1: had at the World series of poker. You know, this
Speaker 1: isn't just bracelet number nine, it's bracelet number nine in
Speaker 1: eleven years. Again, if you take out all bracelets from
Speaker 1: two thousand and three and before, Glausar is number one. Okay,
Speaker 1: he's ahead of Helmut, He's ahead of Shulman, He's ahead
Speaker 1: of deb He's ahead of his Rocky rast Ivy sver Anderson,
Speaker 1: you name it. He is ahead. I don't think I
Speaker 1: can state how hard it is to win this specific tournament.
Speaker 1: You know this. You have to play for five days,
Speaker 1: You got to play nine different games. It is a
Speaker 1: very long drawn out, player friendly structure. You know, this
Speaker 1: isn't just about showing up for two days and just
Speaker 1: running hot, right like, this is a true test of
Speaker 1: a poker tournament. This is, you know, part of its endurance.
Speaker 1: If if there was ever a tournament that was as
Speaker 1: close as it could get to a cash game, it's
Speaker 1: this one, and it's the WSP min event, right like
Speaker 1: those are the two and there's really nothing else that's close.
Speaker 1: You know, the field in this one one hundred and
Speaker 1: eight of the world's best mixed game specialists. You know,
Speaker 1: of course, yes, you have some other players in their blasting.
Speaker 1: But everyone's got a lot of game. They're all playing
Speaker 1: their ass off. They're putting up fifty K to play
Speaker 1: this one. First place is more than one point three
Speaker 1: four million dollars when you factor in what Benny's been
Speaker 1: doing this summer alone. Again, this is his eighth abyssip cash. Like,
Speaker 1: it's not like this is like, you know, he just
Speaker 1: got in this tournament. It kind of came out of nowhere.
Speaker 1: Had in the fact that he's been close in this
Speaker 1: event before, add in the fact that he's had eight
Speaker 1: previous mixed game bracelets, Like this isn't just magic and
Speaker 1: something that just happened out of thin air. Like Benny's
Speaker 1: a freaking crusher. He really is, you know, just whatever
Speaker 1: a week or two weeks ago or however long it was,
Speaker 1: he almost won the ten k Lemon Holdham Championship. He
Speaker 1: finished second there for one hundred and ninety K. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is just absolutely crazy. He's been knocking on this
Speaker 1: door before. I mentioned the fifth place finish in twenty eighteen,
Speaker 1: I mentioned the fourth place finish in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 1: Nine bracelets in eleven years. That is simply incredible. It really,
Speaker 1: really really is, and it's nine bracelets in the most
Speaker 1: recent eleven years, when I don't think it's any surprise
Speaker 1: to say that this is the hardest time to win
Speaker 1: it poker. Everyone is good, fields are bigger, it's harder
Speaker 1: to win. And Benny is just absolutely at the top
Speaker 1: of his game. You know. Again, he's ahead of Helmut Shulman.
Speaker 1: Deep this rocky rast ivy see for Galvin Anderson, Like
Speaker 1: that is a six sick list of players right there,
Speaker 1: and Benny Glauser is just alone to the top with
Speaker 1: nine bracelets since two thousand and four. You know, there
Speaker 1: are players that dominate a game, sure, got it. There
Speaker 1: are players that dominate an era. Of course, you know,
Speaker 1: Benny has basically dominated multiple games, you know, And it's
Speaker 1: just it's crazy. Since he won his first bracelet in
Speaker 1: twenty fifteen, he's averaged nearly a bracelet a year. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's awesome, I know, I know. You know, obviously there
Speaker 1: were some years when he didn't win, some he won
Speaker 1: three the one year, Like, I get it. You know,
Speaker 1: it's almost like now he's got to be the player
Speaker 1: that you have to think has Sorry, maybe not the player,
Speaker 1: but he's he's one of the players who has a
Speaker 1: great shot at running down Phil Hemp. He has to
Speaker 1: if he stays on this pace. You know, if you
Speaker 1: just put him at a bracelet a year, okay, the
Speaker 1: next ten years, he's gonna have ten more. He's gonna
Speaker 1: be up to nineteen. Like you know, maybe some years
Speaker 1: he doesn't win one, maybe o those years he wins two. Like,
Speaker 1: I mean, he's certainly good enough. And while he hasn't
Speaker 1: won a bracelet in Nolan at hold Him or potlom
Speaker 1: and Omaha. Like Ben, he plays all the games, you know,
Speaker 1: and yes, certain games might be better. He might say
Speaker 1: he's better at that than the big bet stuff, of course,
Speaker 1: but he's had plenty of success in big bet stuff, right. Like,
Speaker 1: he's a very very good player, and he tries his
Speaker 1: ass off, which I think matters a lot. You know,
Speaker 1: I think that's probably you know, Phil Hellmuse's best skill
Speaker 1: is that he's like never gonna give up ever. You know,
Speaker 1: he's always gonna try, try, try. We can all like
Speaker 1: you know, poke fun at his game or saying he's
Speaker 1: not doing this right or that right or whatever the
Speaker 1: heck it is, but like he's always going to try to,
Speaker 1: Like his last chip is gone, and Benny's a similar
Speaker 1: type of player. He's always going to just bust his
Speaker 1: ass and try, try to try, and he cares a lot.
Speaker 1: He showed a lot of emotion after he won this tournament.
Speaker 1: You know, he got down in kind of a squad.
Speaker 1: You know, he didn't really get down to his knees,
Speaker 1: but he was down down to his squad. He was,
Speaker 1: you know, visibly emotional, tears coming out of his eyes.
Speaker 1: Really couldn't he really didn't have enough time to collect
Speaker 1: himself before he went up and talked to Jeff Platt,
Speaker 1: but he, you know, he did what he could, said
Speaker 1: some really good things. And yeah, I mean, I mean,
Speaker 1: this guy is just he's becoming one of, if not
Speaker 1: the defining mixed game legend in poker history. Like he
Speaker 1: really is. And again he might be the one that
Speaker 1: ultimately ends up running down Phil Hammyth. First, He's got
Speaker 1: a ways to go. Of course, Helmet is up there
Speaker 1: with seventeen helmets, of course, still playing. But on this pace,
Speaker 1: I mean, Benny is is absolutely dominating. I would say
Speaker 1: that the next thing for many just seems naturally that
Speaker 1: it's gonna be WSP Player of the Year. Now does
Speaker 1: that come this year. Does that come in a future year?
Speaker 1: I don't know, but that seems like the one thing
Speaker 1: he's got to tick off, you know, not that he
Speaker 1: has to, you know, I think his his resume already
Speaker 1: speaks for itself. Yes, but if he is able to
Speaker 1: achieve WSP Player of the Year honors, then that would
Speaker 1: just be the absolute ice you Noman King. All right,
Speaker 1: let's go over and check out this twenty five k
Speaker 1: high roller half and half nolanan Holdham slash pot limit. Omaha.
Speaker 1: They are still heads up at time of recording. It's
Speaker 1: twelve forty nine am right now. On Friday, June twenty
Speaker 1: sixth Elis Parsonen is heads up with another finish player.
Speaker 1: He finished legend Yuha Helpi. Elis is going for his
Speaker 1: second bracelet this summer. We've already had Nioi Kihara to
Speaker 1: this summer. We've already had Calvin Anderson winning to this summer.
Speaker 1: Now Elis could get his second as well. These guys.
Speaker 1: Elis did pull away, he had the chipley to start,
Speaker 1: he started to pull away. Help me, doubled up a
Speaker 1: couple of times. And now it looks like, at least
Speaker 1: according to Poker News again twelve forty nine am that
Speaker 1: they are basically dead even so doesn't look like we're
Speaker 1: going to get to talk about this one. It does
Speaker 1: look like they are about thirty five to forty big
Speaker 1: Linds deep, So this one could take a while, especially
Speaker 1: you know, I'm I'm assuming these guys absolutely wanted a ton, right,
Speaker 1: so they're going to be freaking battling until the end.
Speaker 1: But we can still talk about this tournament a little bit,
Speaker 1: you know, kind of up until this point. You know,
Speaker 1: at the final table, a couple of notable stories here.
Speaker 1: One we had Lou Garza, Sweet Lou ap Lou Garza
Speaker 1: making the final table. He ultimately finished in sixth place
Speaker 1: for two hundred and three thousand dollars. And I bring
Speaker 1: up Garza because he won this event last year, almost
Speaker 1: went back to back, that's wild. You had Daniel Legrandu
Speaker 1: at the final table. He finished in seventh place for jesh,
Speaker 1: I have one hundred and fifty three thousand dollars like
Speaker 1: the player we just talked about winning the fifty k
Speaker 1: PPC Benny Glasser Daniel m'granno making his eighth cash of
Speaker 1: the summer's eighth WSP cash of the summer. Of course,
Speaker 1: that seventh place finish though, is going to be short
Speaker 1: of bracelet number eight. This summer for Daniel, he's got
Speaker 1: a ninth, a twentieth, in eighth, a thirteenth, a twenty
Speaker 1: sixth and eleventh, and eighty fourth and a seventh, so
Speaker 1: he's definitely putting together some deep runs. He's still got
Speaker 1: thirty events left on the schedule, so I would expect,
Speaker 1: at a stone minimum, probably two more final tables out
Speaker 1: of Daniel. It's just my personal expectation with the kind
Speaker 1: of performances that he's been putting out there so far,
Speaker 1: and he's got thirty events left to go win number
Speaker 1: eight or maybe even bracelet number nine if he's able
Speaker 1: to rip two of these off. But it's not like
Speaker 1: he hasn't been kind of knocking out the door, Daniel.
Speaker 1: He has certainly been knocking at the door with so
Speaker 1: many deep runs like he's been having, and a lot
Speaker 1: of those that have been in some some bigger buying
Speaker 1: events against some tough competition like this one here, the
Speaker 1: twenty five k half and half. So Daniel's getting close.
Speaker 1: Did fall short here, yes, but you know, it seems
Speaker 1: like he's he's getting pretty gone close to getting another
Speaker 1: piece of doubsipy goal. And then the other player that
Speaker 1: I want to mention from this event, third place finisher
Speaker 1: taking home five hundred and forty thousand dollars. That is,
Speaker 1: if there was a poster child for how cruel it
Speaker 1: can be in poker tournaments, how hard it can be
Speaker 1: to win a bracelet. You know, how tough and brutal
Speaker 1: the w s AP grind can can be. You know,
Speaker 1: when you couple in how often you're out there playing,
Speaker 1: how close you're getting to ultimately winning, and you know,
Speaker 1: in a lot of cases, or at least in this
Speaker 1: player's case, is how close you're coming but ultimately not
Speaker 1: walking away with a title. That's Shawn Winter. I mean,
Speaker 1: I mean every single year it seems to come out.
Speaker 1: We have this list in poker that everyone talks about.
Speaker 1: You know, I've talked about it many times, the best
Speaker 1: players who still don't have ASP bracelet. Now that list
Speaker 1: really should be called the list of notable players who
Speaker 1: still don't have ABSP bracelet. Either way, whatever the heck
Speaker 1: you want to call it. Shawn Winter. Unfortunately for him,
Speaker 1: he's going to remain on that list this time another
Speaker 1: deep run he gets third place in this twenty five
Speaker 1: K half and half, another final table for him. Earlier
Speaker 1: this summer he had a fourth place in an event,
Speaker 1: he had a third place in an event. Now he's
Speaker 1: got this third place. So three top four finishes but
Speaker 1: still short of that bracelet. Over the years, he's had
Speaker 1: six other top five finishes in WSLP events. I mean, you,
Speaker 1: on one hand, it's like you kind of hurt for
Speaker 1: the guy, right, You're kind of like, man like, can
Speaker 1: he just like rip this one off already, Like can
Speaker 1: he just get this monkey off his back? On the
Speaker 1: other side of things, you know, you just really do
Speaker 1: appreciate how often he's able to put himself in a
Speaker 1: position of the final five, the final four, the final three,
Speaker 1: you know, in these tournaments. And it's not like Sean
Speaker 1: Winter's really out there putting in a huge amount of volume.
Speaker 1: You know, he plays a good amount, yes, but he
Speaker 1: really focuses on stuff that's five K and higher, ten
Speaker 1: K and higher. So one, it's not the highest volume.
Speaker 1: So you can't just be like, well, it's just volume,
Speaker 1: that's why he's getting so deep all the time. It's
Speaker 1: really not that. And then also like the higher the
Speaker 1: buy in the tougher the competition generally, but Sean Winter,
Speaker 1: you know, he's he keeps doing it in terms of
Speaker 1: putting himself in position to win one of these, and
Speaker 1: he just hasn't yet. We felt this, you know, a
Speaker 1: handful of years ago with Jason Kohn for so long
Speaker 1: and then he finally got that, he won the twenty
Speaker 1: five K heads up finally, right. We felt it for
Speaker 1: a while with Seth Davies more recently, maybe a player
Speaker 1: that that maybe he's not on the level of maybe
Speaker 1: a Jason Coon in terms of like notoriety or a
Speaker 1: Shawn Winter in terms of notoriety. But Josh Reiker just
Speaker 1: won the other day, right, you know, that guy's won
Speaker 1: everything and he finally got it. Darren Elias is another one.
Speaker 1: But I think Darren he won an online event, right, So,
Speaker 1: I mean, you can say what you want about the
Speaker 1: online bracelets, but still got one, right, you know. But
Speaker 1: so long, it's like, man, is he ever going to
Speaker 1: get one? Is he ever going to get when? Is
Speaker 1: he ever going to get one? And these players are
Speaker 1: able to win everywhere else. You know, Shawn Winter's won
Speaker 1: everywhere else, but he, for whatever reason, he just can't
Speaker 1: get the bracelet. He just can't do it, you know.
Speaker 1: I think sometimes when we kind of put together these lists,
Speaker 1: whether you want to call it the best players a
Speaker 1: lot of bracelet or the most notable players with a
Speaker 1: lot of bracelet, I think some people out there might say, like, well,
Speaker 1: what's missing? Why aren't these people closing? Why why can't
Speaker 1: they finish the job? You know? And honestly, it's probably
Speaker 1: just variance. We all know how good Shawn Winter is.
Speaker 1: He's proven he can get there time and time again
Speaker 1: that I know. He is a guy who he's often
Speaker 1: he's often shorter stacked, you know, and it's kind of
Speaker 1: a funny little joke with him that you just can't
Speaker 1: kill the guy. But he's also had plenty of big
Speaker 1: stacks plenty of times, right, you know. I remember the
Speaker 1: I think it was the was it the two nd
Speaker 1: fifty K final table either last year or a couple
Speaker 1: of years ago or whatever, where he got it in
Speaker 1: with kings versus queens. I believe it was against Taylor
Speaker 1: von Kregenberg and vob Kregenberger hit a queen that was
Speaker 1: with for a ton of the chips in play at
Speaker 1: the final table. So like stuff like that just just
Speaker 1: not going Winter's way. But you have to believe that
Speaker 1: if you just consistently keep putting yourself in these situations
Speaker 1: and as it pertains to Winter. Here the final three,
Speaker 1: the final four, the final five players in WSP events, like,
Speaker 1: eventually the cards are going to cooperate things. You know,
Speaker 1: the universe is going to align and he's gonna get
Speaker 1: his time in the Winter Circle. The resume for Seann
Speaker 1: It already says he's one of the most elite tournament
Speaker 1: players of his generation and now we are just waiting
Speaker 1: on him winning the bracelet. But again it's not going
Speaker 1: to come in this twenty five K half and half
Speaker 1: because third place finished for him five hundred and forty K.
Speaker 1: But we're not going to finish this one out or
Speaker 1: be able to finish this one out. Here just refreshing
Speaker 1: the page again. These guys are separated by only about
Speaker 1: five or six big blinds here, Elis Parson and you
Speaker 1: help you the two fins, So we'll have to touch
Speaker 1: on that one on the next episode. In the one
Speaker 1: K Ladies Championship, record turnout in this event, I mean,
Speaker 1: what a freaking showing over the Dobyssipe Ladies Championship fourteen
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy five entries. That makes it the largest
Speaker 1: ever Ladies championship in do Bissip history, easily topping last
Speaker 1: year's record field of thirteen hundred and sixty eight. So
Speaker 1: more than one hundred entries better, almost two hundred thousand
Speaker 1: dollars will be going to the winner in this event.
Speaker 1: The top two hundred and twenty two places will pay out.
Speaker 1: I don't think they are in the money just yet.
Speaker 1: It looks like they're about one hundred, one hundred and
Speaker 1: ten places short of the money. So day two they'll
Speaker 1: be getting in the money on this one. Shina Okamoto,
Speaker 1: the goat aka Shina Okagoto, she busted today, so she's
Speaker 1: not going to be seeing We're not going to be
Speaker 1: seeing a three peet from her. Remember it's not only
Speaker 1: just the fact that she's won it the last two years,
Speaker 1: which is just absolutely ridiculous. But then back in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty three she finished second. So twenty twenty three, she
Speaker 1: gets second, then she gets first, then she gets first again. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: we're not going to see her her winning again, you know.
Speaker 1: But still a long way to go for this one,
Speaker 1: I believe, if I remember correctly, for what I saw
Speaker 1: on the WSP s streaming today because they were showing
Speaker 1: the fifty KPBC when they showed at the end what
Speaker 1: was coming up. I think it's three straight days of
Speaker 1: this Ladies Championship, Day two, Day three, and then the
Speaker 1: final table. If these chip guns are correct, it looks
Speaker 1: like we got some big stacks for Angela Jordanson, Jessica Tussel,
Speaker 1: who I think won this event before. Yeah, she won
Speaker 1: this event before, Lexi, Gavin Mather, she's coming off a
Speaker 1: recent final table. Marshall Wolac is in there, so yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean there's obviously a lot of good players left,
Speaker 1: you know. I said there's a little bit over three
Speaker 1: hundred players remaining in this field. And again, this is
Speaker 1: a record turnout for the WSP Ladies Championship. And we'll
Speaker 1: pit back up on this one on the next episode
Speaker 1: as well. A lot to go from this tournament, and
Speaker 1: definitely tune in to watch this one as we watch
Speaker 1: it play out over these next couple of days. The
Speaker 1: one K Super Seniors has come to an end. Lionel
Speaker 1: Barricano tops thirty three hundred and twenty three entries to
Speaker 1: win his first bracelet. He also gets three hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty five dimes. He denied Kevin Song a second w
Speaker 1: Sop bracelet. Nancy Bernbaum made the final table. She finished
Speaker 1: fifth for a little bit over one hundred k. Alexander
Speaker 1: Dovchenko talked about him on the last episode, how I
Speaker 1: haven't seen him in a long time or heard his
Speaker 1: name in a long time, but he got sixth place
Speaker 1: in this event for seventy six thousand dollars. In the
Speaker 1: fifteen hundred dollars freeze out, Siro Gonzalez topped a field
Speaker 1: of twenty six hundred and seventeen entries to win almost
Speaker 1: four hundred and fifty thousand dollars his first bracelet as well.
Speaker 1: Two names that stick out to me here two guys
Speaker 1: that play in the studio A bit you got sixth
Speaker 1: place Brandon Hamlet ninety three thousand dollars for him, and
Speaker 1: then Aramzobian finishing in eighth place for fifty four thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: I believe I saw on a Ram's Instagram story that
Speaker 1: he lost a pot to be one of eight, and
Speaker 1: then I don't know if you busted on the hand
Speaker 1: or busted shortly thereafter, but either way, A Ramzobe in
Speaker 1: eighth place here in the fifteen hundred dollars freeze out
Speaker 1: the one K tag team the event that I played
Speaker 1: without playing a single hand in the tournament thanks to
Speaker 1: my guy Ronnie Barta. Looks like twenty seven players left
Speaker 1: from the field of thirteen hundred and seventy five Up
Speaker 1: top in this one is almost one hundred and eighty
Speaker 1: five thousand dollars. We'll talk about this one on a
Speaker 1: future episode. You got the ten K limit duce to
Speaker 1: seven Championship. Looks like they're playing a couple more hands
Speaker 1: before they finish out on the night they are deep
Speaker 1: into the money. There were one hundred and seventy six
Speaker 1: entries in this field right now. Poker New says eleven left.
Speaker 1: And the names that I see Todd Brunton, Justin Smith,
Speaker 1: Andrew Kelsall aka aj Kelsal, Nick Shulman, Shulman trying to
Speaker 1: do it again, Billy Baxter, the legends still in the mix.
Speaker 1: Look at this name Nihoa Kihara again. This guy unfreaking believable.
Speaker 1: So some some big names here in the mix and
Speaker 1: the ten K limit two to seven Championship, they should
Speaker 1: play to a winner on Friday, and we'll have the
Speaker 1: information on who took this one down and scored the
Speaker 1: three hundred and ninety two thousand dollars first place prize
Speaker 1: once it ends. I do want to do a check
Speaker 1: in here on two events that we talked about on
Speaker 1: the last episode. First up, the w s AP Mystery Millions.
Speaker 1: So they played Day one C on Thursday, the third
Speaker 1: of five starting flights. They got three and forty three entries.
Speaker 1: How does that compare to last year's Day one C. Well,
Speaker 1: it's up now, it's not up as much as the
Speaker 1: first two starting flights were up. The first starting flight
Speaker 1: was up twenty three point six percent, the second starting
Speaker 1: flight was up twenty four point three percent. This one
Speaker 1: is still up though, up four point nine percent. So
Speaker 1: it continues to pace well does the Mystery Millions. And
Speaker 1: it's kind of setting up nicely because we're what a
Speaker 1: week away less than a week away from the WSP
Speaker 1: main event. So are we starting to gain that momentum?
Speaker 1: Is the World Series of Poker starting to gain the
Speaker 1: momentum it needs to head into the WSP main event
Speaker 1: to put up a really big number. You know, a
Speaker 1: lot of people are kind of thinking that the wspre
Speaker 1: main event is going to be down once again. I'm
Speaker 1: trying to remain as optimistic as possible, and if I
Speaker 1: was to point to something that would allow me to
Speaker 1: be optimistic, it would be this. You know, you got
Speaker 1: the Ladies Championship set in a record field, you got
Speaker 1: this Mystery Millions. Looks like it's performing very very well
Speaker 1: over these first three starting flights. Two starting flights to
Speaker 1: go still, so we'll see how this one pans out
Speaker 1: the rest of the way, but things are looking pretty
Speaker 1: pretty good here at the World Series of Poker for
Speaker 1: the Mystery million to know what they have to hit
Speaker 1: on Fry. Last year's Day one D had five three
Speaker 1: hundred and fourteen entries and then Day one E got
Speaker 1: eighty one hundred and eighteen entries, so two giant numbers.
Speaker 1: So that's what we're looking for here on Friday and
Speaker 1: Saturday to hit. And then the other event that I
Speaker 1: do want to check in on, we're gonna go off
Speaker 1: property once again. We're gonna check back in on this
Speaker 1: ten k win Summer Championship. I told you guys yesterday
Speaker 1: or on the last episode about how it drew eleven
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy entries for a prize school just shy
Speaker 1: of eleven million dollars. It did have a ten million
Speaker 1: dollar guarantee, so it cleared that. But the that eleven
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy entries was down almost twenty four percent
Speaker 1: from the year prior. That said, one hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: one places paid this year. They are well into the money.
Speaker 1: It looks like if I'm looking at Poker Atlas and
Speaker 1: this information is correct, looks like they just wrapped up play.
Speaker 1: Sixty four players remain. They are all in the money.
Speaker 1: They are all guaranteed at least thirty two one thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: First place in this tournament a whopping one point eight
Speaker 1: two four million dollars. Second place is one point two
Speaker 1: four four million dollars. In my opinion, this is the
Speaker 1: event that the newly added GG millions high Roller, that
Speaker 1: ten k event earlier at the w S a P.
Speaker 1: That's what that event was supposed to be, like multi
Speaker 1: flight ten k high roller event, you know, if you
Speaker 1: ask me, that's what the g GG millions is supposed
Speaker 1: to be. It's supposed to be on par with like
Speaker 1: this ten k Win Summer Championship, the ten k Win
Speaker 1: Summer Championship got about, you know, right around double the entries,
Speaker 1: double the prize pool in it, and that's largely because
Speaker 1: of well won the timing too. This had a guarantee
Speaker 1: on it at the Dowasity event doesn't have a guarantee
Speaker 1: on it. You know. WSP doesn't really do guaranteed prize
Speaker 1: pools unless it's doing you know, the million Maker where
Speaker 1: they're guaranteeing a first place prize or they're guarantee in
Speaker 1: some of those bounty pool stuff like that. Right, But
Speaker 1: you know, if you do want to have the GG
Speaker 1: millions high roller pop off, like I think, slapping a
Speaker 1: guarantee and it wouldn't be the worst thing in the world, right.
Speaker 1: It does look like Alexander Chevlikov, the winner of the
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five EPT Monte Carlo main event. It looks
Speaker 1: like he is the chip leader entering day three of
Speaker 1: this Win Summer Championship. And then another quick news item
Speaker 1: from the win. It was announced today on or yesterday
Speaker 1: on the Poker News podcast that the WPT World Championship
Speaker 1: will be returning to the Win in December, and that'll
Speaker 1: be its fifth year at December. I love that series
Speaker 1: it's one of the best of the year. It's the
Speaker 1: second best series of the year to the World Series
Speaker 1: of Poker. I can't wait to play it. I've been
Speaker 1: I've been kind of thinking these last few days, like
Speaker 1: I really wish that the schedule would come out so
Speaker 1: I get start planning and seeing what I want to play.
Speaker 1: Freaking love of that series, so very much looking forward
Speaker 1: to it. And you know, even though they didn't announce
Speaker 1: any dates, they didn't announce anything on the schedule. All
Speaker 1: they said was that it is coming back in December
Speaker 1: for its fifth year, So we'll be on alert for
Speaker 1: when all that stuff drops. I'm assuming it's gonna take
Speaker 1: a little bit of time to get all that out there.
Speaker 1: But that's that. That's the pod. Relatively short and sweet here,
Speaker 1: but we are heading into Friday. We are getting very
Speaker 1: very close to the World Series of Poker Main Event.
Speaker 1: I cannot freaking wait. It's going to be absolutely awesome.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be in there again this year. First up,
Speaker 1: I am going to play the Mini main Event, a
Speaker 1: tournament I also love. I think I had to skip
Speaker 1: it last year or maybe the year before, I can't remember,
Speaker 1: but I love that freaking tournament. It's great. So I'll
Speaker 1: be in there for those two events. That'll close out
Speaker 1: the plane for my summer, and you know, of course
Speaker 1: I'll be there on site just about every single day.
Speaker 1: It's one awa eight am. I can hear my daughter
Speaker 1: at the top of the stairs. I'm calling for somebody,
Speaker 1: so I'm gonna go deal with that. Shout out to
Speaker 1: producer rich Ryan forgetting it, forgetting this up and out,
Speaker 1: and go check out the Poker Go YouTube channel. We
Speaker 1: just dropped a new video featuring Ace Pachico. You guys
Speaker 1: will know Ace Pachico. He plays on High Sakes Poker,
Speaker 1: he plays on Hustler, He's played on No Gamble in
Speaker 1: the Future, Super High Roller, Cash Game, all that sort
Speaker 1: of stuff. It's kind of a little look into his life,
Speaker 1: his come up and then also gathering the million dollars
Speaker 1: to go play in Hustler's million dollar game that was
Speaker 1: held here in Las Vegas during the World Series of
Speaker 1: o where So definitely go check that out, guys. It's
Speaker 1: a really, really, really fucking good video. Okay, Remco Rinkuima,
Speaker 1: Enrique Malfavone, Antonio o'brego. They did a great job with that.
Speaker 1: I had very little to do with it. All the
Speaker 1: credit goes to those guys, and then thank you to
Speaker 1: Ace Pachico as well for opening up and allowing us
Speaker 1: to along with him for that entire endeavor. Again, that's
Speaker 1: on the Poker Go YouTube channel. It is out now.
Speaker 1: I highly encourage you guys to go check it out.
Speaker 1: All right, that's gonna do it for me. My name
Speaker 1: is Donnie Peters. It was a pleasure as always, and
Speaker 1: I will catch you guys on the next episode. Express