Speaker 1: Hello, everyone, Welcome back to a new episode of the
Speaker 1: Poker Go Podcast. My name is Donnie Peters. His name
Speaker 1: is Tim Duckworth. We're going audio only today.
Speaker 2: Rubbish, no video, rubbish, rubbish.
Speaker 1: You can blame producer Rich doesn't have time to edit
Speaker 1: our ugly ass faces in a video. But we did
Speaker 1: want to come to you guys with the show because
Speaker 1: Super High Rollable Poo just wrapped. We're also coming off
Speaker 1: of pgt PLO series, so a bit to talk about here.
Speaker 1: We're gonna keep this one short and sweet. Of course,
Speaker 1: every time I say that, we end up going way
Speaker 1: too long, but this one I believe we do need
Speaker 1: to keep it pretty short, so we're just gonna keep
Speaker 1: it to those two things.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 1: There's a lot happening in the world as it pertains
Speaker 1: to poker, namely the whole Chauncey Billups poker cheating and
Speaker 1: private Games scandal. Tim and I will hit on that
Speaker 1: on maybe the next episode after this, also, maybe with
Speaker 1: some more information comes out. There's been a lot of
Speaker 1: stuff about it coming out already. We'll give us a
Speaker 1: little bit of time to digest it all. But yeah,
Speaker 1: that that story is crazy, you know, But we'll obviously
Speaker 1: leave it at that, and we'll just keep it to
Speaker 1: the tournament scene, which my buddy loves to do over here. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, So super High Roller Bowl PLO.
Speaker 4: Baby, John, we're gonna lead with that. Yeah.
Speaker 1: See, listen, here's the deal. I'm a guy, I understand.
Speaker 1: But the biggest story out of this stuff is John
Speaker 1: reard In winning Super High Rollable PLO. So we're gonna
Speaker 1: lead with that, and then we're gonna work backwards. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's just how it is, because the king has earned
Speaker 1: his freaking crown. Baby, let's go King, John reard In.
Speaker 1: The set comes out as a thought. You said, it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. It's going to change every time. Problem comes out.
Speaker 1: On top of the one hundred thousand dollars buy in
Speaker 1: Super High Roller Bowl PLO, he topped a thirty seven
Speaker 1: entry field. I know that might not sound like the
Speaker 1: biggest field. I know it is not the biggest field,
Speaker 1: as John said himself in the winter interview that I
Speaker 1: did with him. But still super deep, stacked, super prolonged structure,
Speaker 1: super super super tough competition across three days of action,
Speaker 1: you know, so this is not an easy tournament to win,
Speaker 1: even if it is just thirty seven entries. It's not
Speaker 1: easy to win these things. I mean, you got to
Speaker 1: freaking grind it out, so for him to come out
Speaker 1: on top, awesome job by him his largest ever live
Speaker 1: tournament score. I think his previous best was from like
Speaker 1: fifteen years ago or some than absolutely ridiculous forever ago.
Speaker 1: And uh, you know, he mentioned to me that it's
Speaker 1: been kind of bugging him in the back of his
Speaker 1: mind a little bit that that previous best was from
Speaker 1: so long ago.
Speaker 4: Went twenty and eleven.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he won the WSP Circuit main event in Palm
Speaker 2: Beach chwiundred and ten k had a lot of six figures.
Speaker 1: Goes Now, now do it by like put it back
Speaker 1: in the normal stance and then scroll all the way
Speaker 1: down to his first cash that was exactly yep, how
Speaker 1: crazy is that?
Speaker 4: That's pretty so his.
Speaker 1: Previous but before he won the one point two five
Speaker 1: million dollars that he won in super high Rollable PLO,
Speaker 1: you know, just in whatever an hour or so ago,
Speaker 1: his previous best cash was fourteen or fifteen years ago,
Speaker 1: twenty eleven, you said, yeah, And it was also his
Speaker 1: first ever live trim and cast recorded by Hendon mobs. Yeah, wild, right,
Speaker 1: absolutely wild. To make things even crazier, he beat his
Speaker 1: college roommate in heads up play Sam's Overall. Now they
Speaker 1: both at the school in Gainesville. I believe, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know exactly how long silver All lasted,
Speaker 1: but Weird in quit after a year, went for a year.
Speaker 1: I think he was playing online poker and whatever said
Speaker 1: the heck with this and bounce.
Speaker 4: But college roommates.
Speaker 1: They then meet and heads up play in the biggest
Speaker 1: PLO tournament in the world.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's just it's wild.
Speaker 1: Stuff, right, it's great, it's crazy, yeah, weird in one
Speaker 1: one million dollars, as I said, four hundred PGT points,
Speaker 1: he's very much going to be qualified.
Speaker 4: Lock put a luck on it.
Speaker 1: I mean you always say that, but I mean he's nine,
Speaker 1: he's a luck. I understand. But there are there are
Speaker 1: actually some very big events coming up on the PGT.
Speaker 1: The napt stuff is big. We added the Devias be
Speaker 1: Paradise stuff, so there is actually there is a world.
Speaker 1: I mean it would take like in absolute perfect world.
Speaker 1: But he could get knocked out of the season. I understand,
Speaker 1: I absolutely understand. But yeah, he's in ninth place on
Speaker 1: the PGT Lead Award, now crushing. He's one of the
Speaker 1: most frequent cash most frequent players on the PGT, so
Speaker 1: you know, for him, he's always here in the studio.
Speaker 1: He plays everything outside of the mixed game stuff. He'll
Speaker 1: play PLO. He might show up for one or two
Speaker 1: mixed games tournaments depending on what the mix is. He
Speaker 1: plays of course, all the no limits stuff, he'll play
Speaker 1: everything from five k's up to one hundred k's.
Speaker 4: He's in there battling always.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So a little bit of validation in a way
Speaker 1: for him that he was actually able to get this victory,
Speaker 1: because you know, you can come here and you can perform,
Speaker 1: and you can have cases and you can make final
Speaker 1: tables and all that sort of stuff, but if ultimately
Speaker 1: you're not ending up in the Winter Circle, it's got
Speaker 1: to be extremely frustrating. Now, Ardan always has a smile
Speaker 1: on his face, always seems like he's you know, upbeat
Speaker 1: and having a good time. He certainly seems like he
Speaker 1: has the respect of his peers here for being in
Speaker 1: here day in a day out battling. But still, like
Speaker 1: I said, it's got to be a giant like pain
Speaker 1: in your side to not actually get the win. So
Speaker 1: this one on the biggest stage. Again, he's the best
Speaker 1: players in one of the biggest buy ins. He gets
Speaker 1: it done.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Speaking of you know, kind of his results, when we
Speaker 2: look at the you know, zoom out a little bit
Speaker 2: on the PGT he ranks tenth in all time PGT cashes,
Speaker 2: you know, so that's pretty impressive that today was his
Speaker 2: sixty ninth PGT cash, third win of all time.
Speaker 4: But like you said, has really got those big scores.
Speaker 1: At all, you know, this season, tied for the most.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And then when we look at points, you know, total points,
Speaker 2: we have Alex Fox and leading and we'll probably touch
Speaker 2: on that soon, but he's all the way down in
Speaker 2: forty six. So that kind of shows that, like he
Speaker 2: does get those cashes, you know, a lot of mint cashs.
Speaker 2: He's always there, whether it's you know, PLO Nolan and
Speaker 2: hold him. He has I think he plays I think
Speaker 2: is one mixed game cash.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's in big bet mix I believe, yeah,
Speaker 1: or it's in the deuce to seven some of that. Yeah.
Speaker 2: But either way, he's always here, always participating, always playing,
Speaker 2: and like you said, good to see him emerge victorious
Speaker 2: for that pretty whopping one point two five million dollars score.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I think I would consider John reard
Speaker 1: done a friend, very good guy.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 1: I always always see him around town battling in like
Speaker 1: six tournaments at the Win stuff like that. You know,
Speaker 1: he's always playing. I don't know if he'll be playing
Speaker 1: the six hundred dollars tournament coming up this weekend.
Speaker 4: But you know, we'll see, we'll see.
Speaker 1: It would be pretty wild if he goes from playing
Speaker 1: and winning this hundred K buy in super high rollable
Speaker 1: plo to then playing the sixth all or at the
Speaker 1: win with me and maybe you this weekend. But that
Speaker 1: would be come on, man, get out, I'm playing that.
Speaker 4: Hey, he should jump in this fifteen k.
Speaker 1: He said, he said, he said, he said his wife esther,
Speaker 1: shout out esther. She she she said, no, he's not
Speaker 1: able to play that one afterwards. So yeah, he took off,
Speaker 1: he took the money and ran, you know. But good
Speaker 1: for him, you know, because he's got he's got enough points.
Speaker 1: You said one of the So there's there's three different
Speaker 1: things that you have to achieve this season in order
Speaker 1: to qualify for the pg T Million dollar championship one,
Speaker 1: you have to have enough points to get into the
Speaker 1: top forty. I mean, of course there is a fourth
Speaker 1: option where you can win one of the dreams stats.
Speaker 1: But for the people that are chasing the leaderboard qualification,
Speaker 1: you got to finish in the top forty, So you
Speaker 1: need enough points to do that.
Speaker 4: That's one.
Speaker 1: Along with that, you have to have a minimum of
Speaker 1: three PGT cashes correct. Okay, so there are some people
Speaker 1: in the top forty that are still chasing that. Weird
Speaker 1: And has Reardon has a ton of cashes already whatever,
Speaker 1: he's got twenty eight on the season. The other thing
Speaker 1: is you have to opt in.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And the reason why Tim put that in place is
Speaker 1: because you know, you don't want somebody who's like in
Speaker 1: let's say eleventh place. They don't there's no opt in
Speaker 1: opt out thing, they don't show up. We want all
Speaker 1: we want forty leaderboard qualifying players in the championship event.
Speaker 1: Now that might be forty first because maybe the person
Speaker 1: in eighteenth place says, you know what, I'm not coming
Speaker 1: take my seat, and you know, give it to the
Speaker 1: next person on the leaderboard. Weird And already has already
Speaker 1: opted in.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Basically, it was like, I want to make sure I'm
Speaker 1: telling you that I'm opting in.
Speaker 2: And this was like obviously way before. This was several
Speaker 2: days ago before the Super High roll. Will said, he goes, uh,
Speaker 2: this was something I have to opt in or something.
Speaker 2: What do I need to do. I'm like, you're in body,
Speaker 2: you just tell me. He goes, Okay, I need to
Speaker 2: like write a letter or anything. They should they should
Speaker 2: have to write a letter.
Speaker 1: Yeah, my name is John Reard and I had like
Speaker 1: twenty eight cashes and fifteen hundred and forty nine PGT points.
Speaker 1: I am the winner of the one hundred thousand dollars
Speaker 1: buying Super High Rollerable PLO.
Speaker 4: Please let me.
Speaker 1: I believe that I have enough accolades to have qualified
Speaker 1: for the PGT Million Dollar champions Like basically, like you know,
Speaker 1: like I don't know if you guys do this in Australia.
Speaker 4: I mean maybe college except as college submission letters.
Speaker 1: You should have to have him submit like a college
Speaker 1: submision letter.
Speaker 4: That would be good. So yeah, that's what you hate. John.
Speaker 4: You are the first person to uh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's in there to be put in so yeah,
Speaker 1: so that's it's good to have him in there. I
Speaker 1: know he's been wanting to play in that tournament and
Speaker 1: it's coming up in January. It's it's not gonna be
Speaker 1: like one of those things where this is the last
Speaker 1: time we see him between now and then.
Speaker 4: The guy actually loves to play poker.
Speaker 1: Like I said, he'll probably be in that win six
Speaker 1: hundred come this weekend. We'll probably see him at the
Speaker 1: NAPT Las Vegas next week, so you know we're it's
Speaker 1: going to be out there grinding. But when we drafted
Speaker 1: him on our twenty five K fantasy team a couple
Speaker 1: of years ago and that was the year we won,
Speaker 1: he was like very much bought into it. He enjoyed
Speaker 1: the sweat, all that sort of stuff. You know, we've
Speaker 1: become a little bit closer just chatting. We have kids
Speaker 1: that are the similar ages, you know, all that sort
Speaker 1: of stuff. So John's a great guy. Really awesome to
Speaker 1: see him come out on top here. And yeah, afterwards
Speaker 1: I did speak with him, probably about I don't know,
Speaker 1: five minutes or so of just chatting with the new
Speaker 1: champion of Super High Rollable PLO. So I'll throw it
Speaker 1: to that interview right now and then we'll come back
Speaker 1: on the other side. All right, John, sitting behind a
Speaker 1: pile of cash has some big results in your career before.
Speaker 5: I would imagine that this one takes the cake? Does it?
Speaker 5: Is this the crowning moment?
Speaker 3: This takes the gig by far? I mean, hopefully one
Speaker 3: day it won't take the gig, but right now it
Speaker 3: by far takes the gig. I'm over the moon with
Speaker 3: the victory for sure.
Speaker 1: I saw on social media coming into the Fountain that
Speaker 1: you talk about how you've already locked up your biggest
Speaker 1: career score.
Speaker 5: Were you excited in that moment or was it more like, Okay,
Speaker 5: I've done.
Speaker 3: This, Yeah, it's I mean, in tournaments you always are
Speaker 3: happy to find pay jumps and everything like that, but
Speaker 3: you're ultimately always trying to win. I know, I was
Speaker 3: tied for most pgg cashes and I had zero wins,
Speaker 3: so getting a win is always great, and getting a
Speaker 3: win like this is just insane. So I'm very thrilled.
Speaker 1: I mean, like, like you said, you cash all the time.
Speaker 1: In the studio, You're always in her battle with some
Speaker 1: of the best players in the world. It's blatantly obvious
Speaker 1: that they all respect you, but it's also may not
Speaker 1: be so obvious to the fans or the viewers at
Speaker 1: home because they watch all the time and they really
Speaker 1: only see the people who win. Does this service a
Speaker 1: little bit of validation in some ways, you know, being
Speaker 1: able to get done well.
Speaker 3: I think it definitely makes me. I mean, it's it's
Speaker 3: been bothering me that I my biggest cash was from
Speaker 3: fifteen years ago at the Kennel Club. So finally getting
Speaker 3: over that hump, and I mean, this is something I've
Speaker 3: been dreaming about for a long time. So to really
Speaker 3: make it happen is you know, it's it's a dream
Speaker 3: come true. Man, It's it feels great.
Speaker 1: Like I said, you're always in here battling PLO, hunter K,
Speaker 1: buying toughest players in the world. It's not east you know,
Speaker 1: you're in the conversation, of course, but the competition certainly
Speaker 1: stands out.
Speaker 5: How hard was it to get here to the winner?
Speaker 3: Cirt, Yeah, it was. I mean the only thing that
Speaker 3: was not insanely difficult was it's not that many people. Fortunately,
Speaker 3: it's like fifty total entrants, but everybody's like the absolutely
Speaker 3: best in the planet, and you know they're ready to rebuy,
Speaker 3: and you know, it's it's just all killers and I'm
Speaker 3: so thrilled to make it out on top. For sure.
Speaker 1: You told us before where we turned the camera on
Speaker 1: that you had already texted your wife. You know, she
Speaker 1: doesn't she doesn't want to wait, she wants to Your
Speaker 1: wife plays poker a bit, so you guys can go
Speaker 1: through this whole journey together.
Speaker 5: How's that having that support stament? What did she say
Speaker 5: when you text your to.
Speaker 3: I don't even know if I got to see what
Speaker 3: she said, but she I'm sure she's thrilled. And having
Speaker 3: her also know the game is is like really invaluable
Speaker 3: for me because I mean, you you know how it
Speaker 3: goes where there's so many losing days, and like having
Speaker 3: somebody that understands like it's just a matter of time
Speaker 3: until you get a nice win is really helpful because
Speaker 3: there's there's there's a lot of losing days for sure.
Speaker 1: And then last question here is you're pretty much locked
Speaker 1: in now for the championship event, and you found it
Speaker 1: out you did need to confirm yourself as eligible that
Speaker 1: you're going to play.
Speaker 3: That's props in my way for that I did not
Speaker 3: play that.
Speaker 1: What is it going to mean to you to ultimately
Speaker 1: get to play in that event at the end of
Speaker 1: the season.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I'm I wanted to play last year and
Speaker 3: I was like ninety it that wasn't even close. So
Speaker 3: to get to play it, I mean, it's half a million,
Speaker 3: I think is the value of the free roll, and
Speaker 3: I mean it's it's just awesome opportunity to get to
Speaker 3: a I mean it's gonna be tough. Feel obviously it's
Speaker 3: everybody that's been doing well all year. But to get
Speaker 3: like a really high value free roll, that's that's ecstatic.
Speaker 3: And obviously, you know, it feels good to like be
Speaker 3: one of the people that made it because obviously, like
Speaker 3: it's really hard. So I'm thrilled.
Speaker 5: And then does this does the wind like this does it?
Speaker 5: Does it cause you to slow down?
Speaker 1: Or you're just gonna continue to grind, continue to play
Speaker 1: everything being here every single day, you know, does it
Speaker 1: give you more motivation to just keep going?
Speaker 5: The confidence factor?
Speaker 3: Uh, it should help the confidence factor. I mean I've
Speaker 3: already been pretty confident, but now it's nice to have
Speaker 3: something to point to that it's justified, not just my
Speaker 3: own enormous ego poker wise. But uh, I I don't
Speaker 3: think it's gonna change what I play you that much
Speaker 3: like I love to play. I'd love to be a
Speaker 3: home my family, and when I find some time, I'm
Speaker 3: happy to get to find something to play. So absolutely.
Speaker 1: All right, that was the king. John reared in the
Speaker 1: fifth taking it down Super High Rollerble PLO Championship, so
Speaker 1: third installment of Super High Rollable PLO. Thirty seven entries
Speaker 1: in this one. The official payouts we'll read reared in
Speaker 1: up on top one point twenty five million for him,
Speaker 1: he beat Sam Silverell, his former college roommate, Silverll taking
Speaker 1: home eight hundred and twenty five K. Soverle's having quite
Speaker 1: a nice huge PGT season. Is now up to second
Speaker 1: place on the leader board. Jousimow third place, only, Yuka
Speaker 1: mine in fourth place, Arthur Marchosi in fifth place, Bryce
Speaker 1: Yockey sixth place, in Jared Blesnick seventh place. Notable about
Speaker 1: Jared Blesnik, he won the first ever Super High Rollable PLO.
Speaker 1: He is cashed in all three editions, first place the
Speaker 1: first year, I think it was fourth place last year,
Speaker 1: and now seventh place this year. So Jared Blessnik. Everyone
Speaker 1: knows him for his PLO game, yes, but certainly proving
Speaker 1: it on the biggest.
Speaker 4: Player in the world.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's an absolute crusher. So really cool, really cool event.
Speaker 1: I always love this event. Numbers down a little bit,
Speaker 1: what was it forty two last.
Speaker 2: Year, thirty year, forty two the next year, then you know,
Speaker 2: thirty seven this year, and look, that's disappointing. We always
Speaker 2: want to be growing all our events, but I think
Speaker 2: there were some things against us this year. We will
Speaker 2: kind of work on that next year to try and
Speaker 2: you know avoid that. There was a big PLO series,
Speaker 2: you know, a couple of weeks earlier that a couple
Speaker 2: of Europeans say too. We talked to Yoni a little
Speaker 2: bit after the after he was eliminated, and he said,
Speaker 2: you know, some of the year guys, they had some
Speaker 2: people visiting, they were doing some golf trips.
Speaker 4: You know, we they've got baby.
Speaker 1: You know, you can golf here thinks as Yoni did
Speaker 1: pretty much every single day.
Speaker 4: So there's a lot going on.
Speaker 2: And look, you know what, it's great for poker that
Speaker 2: there were events all over the world stakes from the
Speaker 2: lawless of the highest. There's lots of opportunities for these
Speaker 2: guys nowadays to play you know, high stakes PLO tournament.
Speaker 4: So that's good for them.
Speaker 2: They have options all around the world, obviously makes it
Speaker 2: tougher for a smaller event like ours to attract everyone.
Speaker 2: But hey, you know, we're going to use that as
Speaker 2: a as a growing point for next year and try
Speaker 2: and offer something a little bitter to get these guys
Speaker 2: back here playing, because you know, they love playing here.
Speaker 2: But hey, sometimes you got to take a break. Sometimes
Speaker 2: you're gonna stay with the family. And that's uh, you know,
Speaker 2: you may obviously understand that, so it's okay, that's forgiven.
Speaker 1: I mean, there was probably ten to twelve names that yeah,
Speaker 1: highly likely should have played this event and didn't for
Speaker 1: you know whatever reason. You know, Carry Katz didn't play.
Speaker 1: He's out of talent on a family trip, you know,
Speaker 1: speaking of family something that was booked a long time
Speaker 1: ahead of time, so you know, this was when we
Speaker 1: could schedule this event, so it didn't line up for him,
Speaker 1: so he had to miss it. You know, There's that
Speaker 1: didn't have Daniel Groaner for whatever reason, didn't have Jason Mercier,
Speaker 1: who is in literally here playing cash two hundred yards away,
Speaker 1: So like, you know, stuff like that that you know,
Speaker 1: maybe could have broken our way. So all things considered,
Speaker 1: I think getting thirty seven is is pretty good. A
Speaker 1: couple of the players. This is a two entry max.
Speaker 1: You can play once and then you can re enter once.
Speaker 1: A couple of people didn't re enter that I thought
Speaker 1: might have. Nick Shulman was one that didn't re enter,
Speaker 1: you know, I thought he might get back in there.
Speaker 4: I would also say that we got people re entering
Speaker 4: that I didn't think would re ender to me.
Speaker 1: So that maybe that evens out.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it even so.
Speaker 1: But you know, again, all things considered, I think it
Speaker 1: was it was a good turnout. You know again, Hunter
Speaker 1: k Byan, I'm not really expecting one hundred to one
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty five players, so getting close to that
Speaker 1: number of forty is pretty good.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say like smashing success, but I also would
Speaker 1: not say disaster. It was just good. Like it was good.
Speaker 1: So and I think we got a good winner. The
Speaker 1: play was good. There was a lot of fun throughout.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm generally for it. And if you guys
Speaker 1: out there missed any of the action, there were three
Speaker 1: days of coverage for this one. I've been watching a
Speaker 1: bit of it when I've been going home at night,
Speaker 1: and it's been awesome to listen to Alex Livingston. He's
Speaker 1: in the booth for the entire thing alongside Ali Nasade
Speaker 1: and Alex Livingston is super sharp, really really really good
Speaker 1: PLO player and is now becoming a really really really
Speaker 1: good commentator, like he's really coming into his own and
Speaker 1: that area of things, like a lot of stuff. You know,
Speaker 1: it just takes some reps. You got to kind of
Speaker 1: get used to it. You got to get used to
Speaker 1: working off somebody, working with somebody else and whatnot. But
Speaker 1: obviously Ali's one of the best. He's been doing this for,
Speaker 1: you know, eighty five years or whatever the heck it is.
Speaker 1: But Alex Livingston, you know, for the PLO expertise, it's
Speaker 1: just simply incredible and something I'm definitely paying attention to,
Speaker 1: trying to learn more about PLO, get.
Speaker 4: Better at it.
Speaker 1: I do some PLO commentary when I'm called upon my self,
Speaker 1: and it's hard because I definitely feel like I'm a
Speaker 1: fish out of water. But you know, hearing Alex be
Speaker 1: able to talk through stuff, especially the stuff that high
Speaker 1: level players that come play Super High rollerble, you know,
Speaker 1: especially the stuff that they're doing out there, it's extremely insightful.
Speaker 1: So I would highly encourage you guys to get on
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Speaker 2: I just want to say that I've also opted in
Speaker 2: the free roll. If I make it, I'm quite I'm
Speaker 2: quite larm on on twenty points, but I'm.
Speaker 1: Ahead of you. I'm on six.
Speaker 4: Are you opting in? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I'm up up. This is this is me officially finished.
Speaker 3: I'm in.
Speaker 1: I better win something before what counts?
Speaker 4: Huh?
Speaker 1: What counts that? Next? I gottaly go to Paradise.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you gotta go to Paradise. I got no shot
Speaker 2: before we move on to the PGTPLO series. Yeah, you're
Speaker 2: talking about dream seats. All right, let's quickly promote the
Speaker 2: Poker Go podcast dream Seat giveaway, because guys, we're getting
Speaker 2: this episode out mainly because October thirty first, at mid nine,
Speaker 2: it ends it's done. We're going to draw a winner
Speaker 2: the next day. And you know we've been doing this
Speaker 2: secret code so this is gonna be the last secret code.
Speaker 2: You're hopefully going to hear this on October thirtieth, if
Speaker 2: producer Rich does his due diligence and gets this out.
Speaker 4: So there's the last secret code word.
Speaker 2: You're going to have literally, you know, thirty six hours
Speaker 2: or so to get it in. And I think it's
Speaker 2: fitting that this final secret code word, it is going
Speaker 2: to be King John.
Speaker 4: King John eight letters King John.
Speaker 1: That means you spell jao each and everyone.
Speaker 2: I feel like that's the way most people would link
Speaker 2: to listen for sure. Yeah, King John, k I n
Speaker 2: G Joe John. And since it's the last one and
Speaker 2: he just won one point two five million dollars.
Speaker 1: You're gonna give away one point two five million Raffle tickets.
Speaker 1: Holy crap, man.
Speaker 4: Let's one hundred and twenty five hundred. That's A five.
Speaker 4: The last one was like thirty one hundred and twenty
Speaker 4: five raffle tickets.
Speaker 2: The last secret code only fifty of you used it,
Speaker 2: So hey, you put this one twenty five in, you
Speaker 2: might as well lock up your.
Speaker 1: Are you tracking all the raffle tickets? Oh?
Speaker 4: It has it in the in the gleam. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 4: I'm not going to spend anymore. Say, that's a lot
Speaker 4: of work.
Speaker 2: If you know what to do, you know where to go,
Speaker 2: King John, one hundred and twenty five raffle tickets. When
Speaker 2: you listen to this, you probably have about thirty six
Speaker 2: hours to get it in. I'm going to draw a
Speaker 2: winner this Saturday morning before I go play the Venetian
Speaker 2: three hundred, before you go play the win six hundred.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'll go play the Venetian three hundred. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe there's maybe there's there's probably a world where I
Speaker 1: can play both both. But there might be something about
Speaker 1: when does the Venetian Day two happen Monday? See that's
Speaker 1: that's why that's I think that's why I didn't play.
Speaker 4: You can't play Monday.
Speaker 1: No, I just always like a freaking work.
Speaker 2: Day, Like, Yeah, I don't know so anyway, get that,
Speaker 2: get that King Johns a.
Speaker 1: Day two on a Monday. I don't know, I don't
Speaker 1: know it's.
Speaker 4: Been on the Sunday because I feel like I want
Speaker 4: to watch football this second. One hundred and twenty five
Speaker 4: Raffle tickets.
Speaker 1: You realize that all these Pokal rooms have TVs.
Speaker 2: I just I want to watch for youwhere on my
Speaker 2: couch in pajamas under a blanket and not move all you.
Speaker 1: Can definitely bring I can bring you wear your pajamas.
Speaker 1: You can have your own TV. You can, you know,
Speaker 1: bring a blanket. You can do whatever you want.
Speaker 2: For Sunday's a day. I like to do two workouts,
Speaker 2: one in the morning, one at night. I don't want
Speaker 2: to mix poker with that. Anyway, one undred and twenty
Speaker 2: five Rapple tickets and I draw went on Saturday. Please
Speaker 2: look out for your emails will be coming from me,
Speaker 2: uh to see if you've won.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then just quickly on the on the giveaway train.
Speaker 1: We'll just crank all this this stuff out, you know,
Speaker 1: pay the bills while we have. We are also giving
Speaker 1: away three dream seats to Poker Grow annual subscribers. That
Speaker 1: drawing is coming up at the same time as the
Speaker 1: drawing that Tim just mentioned for the podcast Raffle tickets.
Speaker 1: So if you are an annual subscriber, would highly encourage
Speaker 1: you to become one before October thirty first at midnight.
Speaker 1: Also hot off the press, everyone, oh one annual subscriber.
Speaker 1: On November eighteenth, we are drawing to win a thirty
Speaker 1: thousand dollars package to WSOP Paradise.
Speaker 4: I am not joking.
Speaker 1: You get a thirty K package if you are an
Speaker 1: If you are an annual subscriber and we draw your name,
Speaker 1: that includes eight yeah, but you can't win.
Speaker 4: For part of the company.
Speaker 1: That includes a twenty five K buy in to the
Speaker 1: WSOP Paradise Super Main event. Sixty million dollars guaranteed in
Speaker 1: that one. Okay, that's absolutely out of control. And then
Speaker 1: the five K that makes up to the thirty k
Speaker 1: is you know included. You get round trip flight, you
Speaker 1: get hotel. I think it's seven nights down at Atlanta's
Speaker 1: Paradise Island. So that's a pretty freaking badass giveaway. So
Speaker 1: if you've become an annual subscriber before October thirty first,
Speaker 1: and I forgot to mention that we are recording this
Speaker 1: on Wednesday, October twenty ninth, a little after seven pm.
Speaker 1: You'll have three polls at a Dream Seat and one
Speaker 1: poll at a WSB Paradise. Thirty K package seems pretty awesome.
Speaker 1: Of course, there are rules, There are terms and conditions,
Speaker 1: so head on over to PokerGO dot com slash rules.
Speaker 1: It has all the different giveaways that are currently running,
Speaker 1: has all the terms and conditions in there. There are
Speaker 1: some restrictions that do apply. It is us. Only a
Speaker 1: couple places don't count, but it's all in there. You
Speaker 1: have to be twenty one plus of course, because you
Speaker 1: do have to you know, ultimately come gamble either here
Speaker 1: in Las Vegas at the Porkra studio or down in
Speaker 1: the Bahamas. But those are some pretty cool things that
Speaker 1: we're doing. You know, we're doing a lot of giveaways.
Speaker 1: For those of you wondering about the True Classic giveaway,
Speaker 1: the True Classic team is going to be getting me
Speaker 1: the fifteen winners any day, any moment.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 1: I'm just waiting, and then we'll start the outreach there
Speaker 1: to get those people to then you know, get them
Speaker 1: sorted if they accept the prize, etc. To come out
Speaker 1: and play in the event in December. I know many
Speaker 1: of you out there submitted your stories.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 1: I read through way too many of them, but they
Speaker 1: were awesome to read, so you know, good luck to
Speaker 1: you if you're a podcast listener, as well as somebody
Speaker 1: who submitted a story to that giveaway. All right, let's
Speaker 1: rip on through this pgt PLO series. Baby Gino reem
Speaker 1: another king, king, freaking change this guy, I mean, absolutely
Speaker 1: crushing Chino rem So. Ten events were part of the
Speaker 1: pgt PLO series. Gino cash in seven of them seventy
Speaker 1: percent cash rate. He won one event, and that event
Speaker 1: was the twenty five K finale where he beat Bryce
Speaker 1: Yacki and heads up play to win five hundred and
Speaker 1: ten thousand dollars. He hacks sorry, Isaac Hackson. Bryce Yockey
Speaker 1: got third. Correct, No, brass Soaky did not cash. It
Speaker 1: was second. I don't know why. I'm thinking Bryce Yackey
Speaker 1: and whatever.
Speaker 4: Well, Gina wanted to win the leaderboard over Bryce, that's
Speaker 4: what you can.
Speaker 1: No, I think it was. Yeah, I don't know. I'm
Speaker 1: just just tonn idiot. Bryce won the event before though,
Speaker 1: I know that much. But yes, I'll get to the
Speaker 1: leaderboard in a second. Bryce Jockey finished second on the
Speaker 1: lead aboard, but just quickly again on Chino he had
Speaker 1: the win. He had the seven cashes, three sorry, two
Speaker 1: top three finishes and four final table finishes. He won
Speaker 1: almost eight hundred thousand dollars. Did Chino Reim? You and
Speaker 1: I have talked about it many many times as it
Speaker 1: relates to Chino rem just one of the absolute best
Speaker 1: in the world at poker. When the buyings go up,
Speaker 1: the guy just you know, puts his game face on
Speaker 1: and he comes to play with the best of them.
Speaker 1: He may not be in the sliver streets and doing
Speaker 1: GGO and theory and all that sort of stuff, but
Speaker 1: she know, is as good as anyone out there, plays
Speaker 1: all the games as well, which as it pertains to
Speaker 1: the PGT, I think gives him, you know, a little
Speaker 1: bit of an edge over over some others in terms
Speaker 1: of like, you know, accumulating points and whatnot. And also,
Speaker 1: mister Reim became the first player with three series titles. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he won the PGT Mixed Games twice and now he
Speaker 1: won the PGT PLO series. No one else has done that.
Speaker 1: Sean Winter has two, and then I think everyone else
Speaker 1: has won. No one else has two, but she no
Speaker 1: reem becoming the first player in PGT history with three
Speaker 1: series titles. So that's pretty cool.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So Bryce y Hockey, he was the front runner on
Speaker 1: the leaderboard entering the final event. Then once registration closes
Speaker 1: in the final event, you know, Tim does the whole
Speaker 1: thing where he calculates, Okay, these are the many people
Speaker 1: that are left. Ever, Bryce Yacki ends up busting out,
Speaker 1: and there was what five or six people?
Speaker 2: Uh so when he busted there was probably about ten left. Okay,
Speaker 2: once we got close to the money, Yeah, it ended
Speaker 2: up being I think it was six people entering the
Speaker 2: money could have won.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And then at the final table of that last event,
Speaker 1: so Bryce is up on top. He needed to sweat
Speaker 1: Sam's overall, Jao Samao and Chino Ring. Yeah, and at
Speaker 1: once it gets down to four handed play and it's
Speaker 1: those three are still in and Isaac Hackson and he.
Speaker 4: Still had outside.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean the but the only result there was that,
Speaker 1: So Chino had to finish second or first to take
Speaker 1: the lead from Bryce Jackey. But if he finished second
Speaker 1: and Sam's overall one, then Sam so over win the title.
Speaker 1: Or if Chino finished second, Joao Samao won then he
Speaker 1: would win the title. So it needed to be Isaac
Speaker 1: Hackston winning and beating either Samaoo or Sam sOliver.
Speaker 4: That's what needed to happen.
Speaker 1: Well, Sam soliverall goes out in fourth place, then shouts
Speaker 1: them out, goes out in third place, and then it's
Speaker 1: locked up for Chino Reims. So it gets locked up
Speaker 1: for him. He's got the he's got the series titled
Speaker 1: Gold Cup on the table as he's battling heads up
Speaker 1: for whatever one hundred and seventy nine and eighty nine
Speaker 1: thousand dollars or whatever the heck. It was heads up
Speaker 1: between them, right, so because it was what five to
Speaker 1: ten and then three third one? Yeah, yeah, so he's
Speaker 1: battling for that one hundred and seventy nine k heads
Speaker 1: up between them. So yeah, all in all, great series
Speaker 1: for Chino, great series for a lot of people.
Speaker 4: To be honest.
Speaker 1: You know, Bryce had two wins, three cashes. He won
Speaker 1: more than five hundred k. Isaac Hackston also won more
Speaker 1: than five hundred K. Frederick Norman first time in the studio,
Speaker 1: time in the studio, shout out to him, had six cashes. Uh,
Speaker 1: John Reardan, you know, speaking of successful, but this this
Speaker 1: kind of goes along the lines of we often see
Speaker 1: from John Reard and where five cashes, only one final table,
Speaker 1: you know, like, yeah, he won one hundred and sixty
Speaker 1: two thousand dollars and did well points wise, but like
Speaker 1: this is kind of what we've seen for so long
Speaker 1: from John Reard and is like close but not close
Speaker 1: enough exactly. And so again going back to the super
Speaker 1: high rollable PLO to see him actually get that breakthrough
Speaker 1: win a huge, huge, huge victory on the PGT is
Speaker 1: just absolutely awesome to see for you know, one of
Speaker 1: the true tried and tested grinders here on the Poker
Speaker 1: Go Tour. Thoughts on the PGTPLO series.
Speaker 2: I thought it was good, you know, like we kind
Speaker 2: of touched someone with super highrobo ball. Some of the
Speaker 2: bigger dogs missing, but we saw a lot of new faces.
Speaker 2: You know, you mentioned Frederick Norman. You know, we were
Speaker 2: talking about Nicky Palma before Nicky Pay. Yeah he's just
Speaker 2: a PGT regular now now yeah, he's playing the fifteen
Speaker 2: kri So we had a lot of new faces, which
Speaker 2: is good, which is what we always want to see.
Speaker 2: Were still strong for some of these events. We had
Speaker 2: two events that were kind of basically top five size
Speaker 2: wise in PGT history.
Speaker 4: So that was a good a good thing. But yeah,
Speaker 4: all in all, great series.
Speaker 2: I also want to give a shout out to Alex
Speaker 2: fox and who we've kind of touched on a lot,
Speaker 2: but he won event two I think, right, yeah, Event Tour,
Speaker 2: the five K quatro and when he did that, he
Speaker 2: had his ten thousandth PGT point, which reremendous, kind of
Speaker 2: pretty amazing. You know we touched on during Pokemasses he
Speaker 2: had the he had his tenth win and he had
Speaker 2: his hundredth cash. Yeah, but now he's got his ten
Speaker 2: thousand point and already with the series, you know, wrapping up,
Speaker 2: he's already one hundred and five cashes. He's heading towards
Speaker 2: two hundred. All right, when do you get another jokey
Speaker 2: for that? But yeah, amazing there. So yeah, I thought
Speaker 2: it was a good series. You know, we were up against,
Speaker 2: like I said, a little bit of that event in
Speaker 2: the PLO event in I think it was Talan or
Speaker 2: Estony or whatever, and you know, we'll touch on it
Speaker 2: next week, but Bay one on one was also running
Speaker 2: that stall a few players after they played the first
Speaker 2: few events. But all in all, another great PLO series.
Speaker 2: It always gets the biggest numbers every time, and you
Speaker 2: know we'll be back in March in some way, shape
Speaker 2: or form, make some adjustments if needed, and kind of
Speaker 2: go from there.
Speaker 1: More than nine million dollars awarded in total from this
Speaker 1: edition of the PGT PLO series. We had Jesse Lonis
Speaker 1: winning the opening event for one hundred and seventy five k.
Speaker 1: As Tim mentioned, Alex Foxen won the second event for
Speaker 1: I believe it was one hundred and seventy seven K
Speaker 1: when you include eighty seven K first place money, and
Speaker 1: then he won ninety K in bounties. Eric Sidell, the
Speaker 1: legend himself, won event number three for one hundred and
Speaker 1: seventy one thousand, five hundred. Ben Lamb, another legendary PLO player,
Speaker 1: won event number four for two hundred ninety two thousand. Really, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know he played.
Speaker 4: The ninety five K for sure. I don't think he did.
Speaker 1: Oh no, he didn't because he had some golf.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 1: Wow, Okay, I want to say you might have played
Speaker 1: another event.
Speaker 4: I can check it.
Speaker 1: Seawan Winter won event number five. Seawan Winter also a
Speaker 1: Bounty tournament winner here one hundred and twenty two K
Speaker 1: from the prize pool. This was a PKO and then
Speaker 1: he won one hundred and fifty.
Speaker 4: Five K as well.
Speaker 1: How many events four and five? Yeah, I thought I
Speaker 1: just saw him in here a couple of times. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Bryce Yockey, I mentioned he has two titles. This was
Speaker 1: the first one two hundred and thirty seven six dollars
Speaker 1: for winning event number six, a ten K polo event.
Speaker 1: Vessel In Kritakov won the fifteen K POO three hundred
Speaker 1: and forty a K. Taylor Wilson. He topped Frederick Norman
Speaker 1: in the fifteen K PLO Mystery Bounty. Taylor Wilson won
Speaker 1: one hundred ninety five K from the prize pool, one
Speaker 1: hundred and ninety K from the mystery bounties. Bryce Jockey
Speaker 1: back in the Winter Circle for even number nine another
Speaker 1: fifteen K there, two hundred and ninety K for him,
Speaker 1: and then China reim as we talked about, won the
Speaker 1: twenty five K finale for five one hundred and ten
Speaker 1: thousand dollars. So that is the PGTPLO series and I
Speaker 1: think that's it for this podcast. Yeah, you're good with that.
Speaker 1: I do want to give a shout out to Eric Raskin.
Speaker 1: He had me on the Low Rollers podcast today. We
Speaker 1: talked about the Chauncey Billup stuff a little bit. He
Speaker 1: wanted to kind of get my thoughts on that. Talked
Speaker 1: about that. He asked me about being the one hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty third best player in the world. So I
Speaker 1: talked about that. Actually kind of timely, because the other
Speaker 1: day I spent probably fifteen minutes And this is probably like,
Speaker 1: maybe I'm just a loser for doing this, but I
Speaker 1: spent about fifteen twenty minutes going through my sweat threat
Speaker 1: just like reading it back and like just getting all
Speaker 1: the emotions back again. I was like, let's fucking go.
Speaker 1: It was awesome. So have your friends invest in you,
Speaker 1: and invest in your friends because that's, you know, really
Speaker 1: the best part of the whole journey. Yeah, and then
Speaker 1: we talked a little football as well. So that's the
Speaker 1: Low Rollers podcast. I believe it'll be out on Thursday,
Speaker 1: he said, if not, at some point this week, I'll
Speaker 1: share it from all my socials as well. But do
Speaker 1: you want to give some love to a fellow podcaster
Speaker 1: and gambling industry veteran, Eric Raskin, good buddy of mine,
Speaker 1: have worked with him many many years, So check that
Speaker 1: out if you haven't already shared the podcast, like it,
Speaker 1: listen to it, all that good stuff, because more podcasts
Speaker 1: the better. All right, that's gonna do it for us.
Speaker 3: Here.
Speaker 1: We'll be back in I don't know a week's time
Speaker 1: or so, probably at the beginning ish part of an
Speaker 1: apt Las Vegas. Tim and I are going to be
Speaker 1: over there at Resorts World playing some events, so we'll
Speaker 1: let you know how those are going. Maybe we put
Speaker 1: together another tandem deep run in something and we can
Speaker 1: pot about it all the time.
Speaker 4: We should just do that.
Speaker 1: If you and I like run deep in something, we
Speaker 1: should like always pop like as we're going. But it
Speaker 1: has to be like a big, a big No, I'm
Speaker 1: not talking like the six hundred at the win. Sorry
Speaker 1: six sorry six hundred. Yeah, but it doesn't have multiple
Speaker 1: we need multiple days.
Speaker 4: I don't think you and may going to play anything
Speaker 4: with multiple days.
Speaker 1: You never know, man, No, you never freaking out.
Speaker 4: I'm definitely not.
Speaker 1: You never know.
Speaker 4: You may, but you.
Speaker 1: Might settle into something and you know, you never.
Speaker 4: Know, so save it for next SEUs W has to
Speaker 4: be man event.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, an ABT Las Vegas is coming up
Speaker 1: there are a bunch of PGT qualifying events as part
Speaker 1: of that schedule, so we got plenty of talk about there.
Speaker 1: That series is pretty awesome in and of itself. Tim
Speaker 1: and I again will be over at Resource with if
Speaker 1: you're there, and if you're a podcast listener, say hi
Speaker 1: to us please. We love to meet you guys, and yeah,
Speaker 1: that's gonna do it for us. My name is Donny Peters,
Speaker 1: his name is Tim Duckworth and we'll talk to you
Speaker 1: guys next time.
Speaker 4: So ah,