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Speaker 1: Hello, everyone, Welcome to a new episode of the Poker

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Go Podcast. My name is Donni Peters and I'm flying

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solo today to bring you a conversation that I recently

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had with Jeremy Osmas. Jeremy, of course needs little introduction.

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He's been a guest on this podcast before, but it's

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always good to chat with him and to catch up.

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I especially wanted to do so coming off of the

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big summer that Jeremy had with twenty two dobasipy cashes,

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seven final tables and more than three point four million

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dollars on. Some of the topics that we hit on were,

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of course, his World Series of Poker. We hit on

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selling tournament action with Jeremy often does, and he has

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some action now up on poker steak dot com for

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the Super High Roller Series and Super High Roller Bowl

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that is taking place in Cyprus. So if you want

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a piece of Jeremy, I would go check that out

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at poker steak dot com. We also hit on the

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Hall of Fame and then we talked about the Olympian

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in Jeremy's family. Hope you guys enjoy here's the interview.

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All right, Welcome to the show. Jeremy Osmas. As many

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of our listeners know, this isn't the first time that

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you and I have spoken, but it's always it's always

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good to catch up see how things are going. Thank

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you for joining, sir.

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Speaker 2: Sure, of course, glad to be here.

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Speaker 1: So it's been a month, I think pretty much exactly

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since the Divisip has ended. That's the biggest, most jam packed,

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possibly grueling time of the year for a tournament player.

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What has life been like since the Divissip? Have you

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been playing poker at all?

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Speaker 2: I played an online session on a Sunday last Sunday,

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and I believe that is the only poker I've played since.

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So what is it the fourteenth or something? And I

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finished up around the twenty second. I took a little

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trip to Colorado, been doing fair amount of coaching and

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just kind of preparing for this upcoming trip of mine.

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It's to Cyprus, getting back into the workouts and the

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routine at home, and just spend time with the family.

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So not a lot of poker. Is that?

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Speaker 1: Is that coaching that you mentioned? Is that you coaching

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others or others coaching you?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Me coaching others. Yeah, I'm doing more and more

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of that these days, Yeah, demands kind of picked up,

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so I've kind of started to enjoy it and kind

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of from my you know, gotten a good routine with that.

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So I like that.

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Speaker 1: Do you find it helps your poker game, your poker mind?

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Speaker 2: It does. I mean, essentially, you're you're helping someone. You

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get to see them grow. That's cool. You you know,

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my rate is pretty good money, so that's cool. And

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also I'm just looking at sins or talking about poker

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and even ideas I have and things like that and

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just kind of reinforcing them over and over. So, you know,

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depending on the level of student you have, if it's

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a high level sent especially, you're kind of just like

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studying while you help them too. So it's pretty pretty

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efficient use of time basically.

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Speaker 1: So coming off the WSP, I think you had twenty

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two cashes, seven final tables, which tied the record. You

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cash for more than I think it was three point

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four million dollars. You were in contention for Player of

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the Year. Was a pretty hotly contested battle, most notably

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against Scott sever who ultimately went on to win it,

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but there was others, you know, in the race pretty close.

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You didn't come away from the summer with a bracelet,

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though you didn't get Player of the Year. Of course,

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how does Jeremy Osmas rate his summer?

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean really, I look at it like the

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dollars perspective. It's not all about winning the bracelets. And

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fortunately for me, I've been ran really well in the

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last few years and I've won, you know, five in

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the last prior three years to this year, so I'm

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kind of okay with my bracelet count these days. And

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you know, you always want to win one, and I've

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always wanted to win Player of the Year. It is

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hard to do without a win. It really is. Like

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if you look at the formula, it's just very top heavy.

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You almost just have to have a win to be

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competing in there. Without a win even was pretty cool,

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pretty crazy. I think they improved the formula quite a

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bit by making it you know, your top ten results

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only because I don't feel like it should be about

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who's ever going to play, you know, multiple tables at

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once at the World Series and count all the online events.

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I feel like the online bracelets shouldn't even count personally,

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in the right direction kind of making that that better,

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and I kind of learn about some new techniques if

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you're really trying to play the year and a lot

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of them, I'm not really down there because you just

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kind of burn a lot of money. So certain people

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so indeed want most specifically, he goes really out of

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his way to do crazy things like not play the

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main event or something like that. You know, if he's

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on the running for Player the Year, because it's actually

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bad for your EV of winning Player the Year, so

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and you know you're kind of focus. You give up

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dollary V in return for EV and winning Player of

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the Year basically. So it's fun. It was great to

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be in the race this year. I'm not willing to

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go to all the extremes that would make me the

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most likely to win it in the future, but anytime

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I start off pot at the World Series more than

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the first few weeks, I'll just stay at the Worlds.

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Like this year, I didn't go. It's hard to lead ever,

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so I would guess that thing, you know, parison horseshoe

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the entire seme. It was fun.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I wanted to hit on like specifically

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that you know, I watched I believe it was your

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WSP preparation video over on Weren't Once and you you

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talked in that there was a line where you said,

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my main focus is to make money. Maybe I can

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win Player of the Year and that'd be cool, but

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it's really just about maximizing profits.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: I bring that up because you also mentioned, you know,

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the possibility of jumping from from venue to venue, playing

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wherever you might find value or you know, chase dollars

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and that sort of thing. Like, at what point this

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summer do you say, Okay, I have a shot at

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Player of the Year, I'm doing very well at the

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w SP. I'm just gonna stay here and like kind

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of really battle for this thing.

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Speaker 2: Well, I think the first two or three weeks there

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weren't a lot of things, Like what really pulls me

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away from the WSP is the big events at the

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Win for example, I'm not running around and playing like

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a feteen hundred at the Venetian or the wind But

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it's more like some big buy in like they had

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some twenty five k's, some that huge WPT things like that.

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which I did play, so a lot of those didn't

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take place in the first two or three weeks I

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think of those summer, and then I kind of had

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my you know, it did take Maybe my first little

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run wasn't until about two and a half three week mark.

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I think maybe two weeks I forget. But anyways, I

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had that, so it's a good start. But then immediately

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I just was fteing every tournament I played almost you know,

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I just had like urm after tournament where I just

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was going deep and deep and deep. So and then

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I'm right up there in the leaderboard, you know. So

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at that point, you know, the ARIA had like some

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ten k's no limit and some ten K plows, and

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you know they're not like rate value or anything, but

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play TGT events, so I do sneak over there sometimes.

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need to really like play all the ten K mix,

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which sometimes I play. Sometimes I don't even some small mix,

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you know, like generally I don't play the fifty mix.

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It's just kind of a big time commitment and there's

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so many big no limit and PLO tournaments. But at

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a certain point, I will kind of start to play

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those if I'm like really up there, because if you

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win one, that does a lot to help your chances.

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Speaker 1: You mentioned there, you know, the how you started running

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kind of really hot, you know, making all these different

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final tables. Obviously, tournament poker is very streaky on both sides.

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cashing anything or making a final table or winning. On

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the other side, you know, people can get really hot,

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really fast and really start to rack up the results.

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making deep runs making final tables like you were, what

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does that do for your confidence level? And how do

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you like kind of keep that confidence in check because

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a lot of people, they know call it up till

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you know, they kind of get ahead of themselves and

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that can throw them off their game, even if they

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are running pretty.

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Speaker 2: Hot, right. I think, you know, my level of experience

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at this point in my career helps me with that

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issue a lot, especially now I only play tournaments. The

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ups are bigger and the downs are bigger, so I've

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always been pretty even keeled with it, but being a

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tournament full time turnament really tests to you know, resolve,

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because especially playing how Irons, they'll just go on six figure,

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seven figure down swings kind of semi regularly. The trick is,

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you know, to keep your game as as solid as

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you can keep it in those times. And I think

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I can do that and you don't want to change

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your play like, oh, maybe I'm not doing this and

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that correctly, or you know, things like that. And for me,

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like I've done it so long, I like to zoom out.

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I can look at a graph I have or something

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of my poker career the last five years, and I

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can just see the success that it's had, you know,

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and that just instilled, you know, through all those periods

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of ups and downs, I'm pretty solid playing the same

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and when I can kind of look at a long

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term result like that and kind of just use it

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as a little bit of stability and support and some

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positivity to say, you know, it will turn around if

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I'm in a big down swing, or yeah, if I'm

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winning a lot, that doesn't give you an excuses to

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start playing bad. So I think I have that part

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down pretty good. And I think a lot of it

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apps to do with just long term being a long

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term winner in appropriate.

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Speaker 1: You play second in the one hundred k high Roller.

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I think it was right around one point nine million dollars,

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But you did it playing in arguably the most electric

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final table atmosphere of the entire DIVISIPY. I would almost

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equate it to you were the away team going to

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play a playoff game in the home team's arena with

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all the fans and supporters that big unique Chris Unican

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had on his side. Like what was that experience like?

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And have you ever experienced anything like that in poker?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that was an amazing final table, like the runouts,

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the people there, the rail was insane. Yeah you said it, well,

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like I was kind of the out of town team,

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but that I never have a big rail, I mean,

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so I'm used to that. This rail was kind of

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you know, they weren't out of out of line or anything,

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but they were very very loud. Had a pretty loud

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one the year before at the World Series two some

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Europe who it was, but this one was that times

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five or ten. So yeah, it was fun. You know,

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I like Pony. It was all his people and like

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I said, they weren't getting out of line or anything.

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they catch that river card on you and the crowd,

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this erupts, you know, things like that. But but yeah,

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that was a very memorable final table. You know, I

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did final table main in twenty twelve, so that was

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probably that. You know, the stage can't really get me

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bigger incther than that, and I still remember that very well,

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and even just leading up to the final table, the

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experience like nothing else, making that final nine of the

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main event. So I've kind of you know, I've had

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I'm just always ready, you know, to play. The pressure

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doesn't get to me much. It's kind of hot up there,

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as one of my biggest complaints. I'm kind of hot.

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pretty used to it at this point.

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Speaker 1: You mentioned, you know, how you don't have normally have

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big final table rails yourself. I mean, how come and

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it's not just you? You see it a lot in like

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the high Rollers scene specifically. I mean you mentioned the

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WSP Main Event final table You're run back in twenty twelve,

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and that's kind of expected, you know, going into that

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final table. You know, there's going to be a lot

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of supporters there for everyone else. But I always thought

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it was a little bit weird maybe for lack of

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a better word, that like one hundred K high Roller,

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for example, is supposedly the best players in the world,

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or if not, they're very popular players and people should

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be wanting to support them, Yet there's not often big

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rails other than like you know, might what we saw

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for you know, Heunikin. But I mean, why is that?

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Speaker 2: I think it could be due to the fact that,

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you know, a lot of the guys at the highest level,

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they're not in this stage of their life where they

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maybe party a lot or go out a lot. A

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lot of my friends and just a lot of guys

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that poko they're they're having families now, so they're in

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a more kind of docile stage in their life. I

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feel like, where so a lot of their friends aren't

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these rowdy friends that are drinking all the time and

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things like that. Also a lot of their friends and

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in my case also are poker players and they're playing

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poker all summer. Also, I don't know, maybe a lot

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of the people that regularly succeed at the highest limits

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are are just a little more. I don't know, quiet

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and things like that. I think that's the thing, Like,

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if I look at the people you know at poker Go,

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it's not a lot of like wild people. You know,

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they're they've got their lifestyled in and optimized, and they're

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not they're not loud voice for celebrating and celebracious people celebrations.

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That word out.

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Speaker 1: He just made it up in his mind.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So I don't know. I think all those kind

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of reasons combined just kind of add up to something

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like that, because because it's true. You know, if I'm around,

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I'll go support a friend of mine at a final table,

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but generally I'm playing or something like that. You know,

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it's or I have a tournament the next day and

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I'm not I'm not going to go on the rail

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and drink a bunch of beers. You know. That was

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kind of a perfect storm. Hoooney. He's got a lot

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of friends. He has huge parties at his house, you know,

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for the Fourth of July. He's always talking about and

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things like that. And uh, and I know a lot

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of our guys, you know, I like the guys, so

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it's cool to see. But yeah, I've just never really

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had that outside of like, you know, the main event

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things like that. My wife came down a couple of

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times this summer for me last year with my brother

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in law, and some friends will drop by, like Eric

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bald One and things like that, but he's on break

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of a tournament something, you know, to to that effect,

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so it's just kind of different.

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Speaker 1: I guess, just a flashback quickly now to twelve years

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ago WSP Main Event final table. You end up cashing

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for a little bit more than two million dollars. What

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did you imagine your career would look like afterwards and

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how does it compare to what it actually became if

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you can like somehow go back any time.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, good question. I didn't really know. I mean I

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there weren't you know, there wasn't a big high stake

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scene back then. So it was without a doubt life

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changing money for me at the time. And I just

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had two young children at that time, you know, one

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month old and two and almost two year olds, So

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I kind of realized is that that just kind of

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helped this out with things like you know, just the

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expenses of a young family and things like that, and

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I knew I was more rolled to play bigger events

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and stuff if I need be. But you know how

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many hundred k's were there back then, Like there were questions.

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I believe there was, like, yeah, the World Series had

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one in like two thousand and thirteen, fourteen fifteen. I

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played a few of those hundred k's that they would

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have off and on, but they really it just wasn't

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a common thing, and so I guess I thought I

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would just kind of keep playing my Bologgio game. I

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kind of think, I I don't think I thought it

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would affect a lot as far as like what I

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would be playing, because I was playing at ten twenty

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and ten twenty forty at Bologgio. That was kind of

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the biggest game every day. You know. One thing I

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thought it could me to me playing more Mix and

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maybe playing them a big Mix game eventually. And I

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did play more Mix, not the big big one, but

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lower Mix played some of that. So that kind of

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put me on that trajectory a little more. I guess

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Outside of that, not a lot. I was never a

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guy who was dying to take on the toughest players

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and the biggest stakes. And you know, someone like Jason

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Koon's a guy who that's that's what he wants, and

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he wants to play the best and beat the best,

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and he's a very driven focus and he wants to

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co be the highest levels of things. I've never really

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been like that. I just want to kind of make

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a living, enjoy poker, and I'm always improving and things

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like that. And he's rubbed off on me a little

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bit to kind of play higher stakes, to push myself

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a little more, which is he's a really good influence.

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So but yeah, back then, it's just pokers have a lot.

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You know, it has changed a lot since then.

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Speaker 1: You mentioned how you, you know, predominantly play tournaments these days.

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Are you aware that that that fifth place run in

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twenty twelve is your only main event cash?

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Speaker 2: I am aware.

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Speaker 1: Okay, my next question, why haven't you been able to

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cash anymore?

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Speaker 2: It's funny I complain about people all the time and

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they tell me to shut up. I don't know what

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the problem is, Like I say, I say, I looked

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up out of him in the name. I have to

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patch it one time out of probably eighteen nineteen times

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now since two thousand and six, maybe one time, and

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it's arguably the easiest tournaments of cash. So yeah, it's

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kind of wild. But Scott Seaver has cashed zero or one.

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I forget I thought it was zero, but maybe this

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maybe he told me he did cash it one time

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now and he's played it probably I would say more

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than me. He's a great player, So you know, who knows.

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I don't know. I just can't. I just can't cash.

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It's just it's just a weird varian thing in my opinion.

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Speaker 1: You know, well, I mean you should play bigger where

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they respect your raises.

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Speaker 2: Probably, that's yeah, that's what it is.

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Speaker 1: I mean, do you do you think you approach it

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any differently than other tournaments? You know, I mean it's

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obviously a ten k buying yes, but the main event

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kind of doesn't really play like your normal ten k

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that you see so often. It plays like, I don't know,

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probably closer to a fifteen hundred in a lot of ways,

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depending on your table draw.

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Speaker 2: Right, So yeah, I approach it differently than I would

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I roll an aria. You know, you have more time,

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you have more chips. Yeah, it's a freeze out, so

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all those things come into play. And I have a

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lot of experience in large field like soft tournaments and

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have been successful, you know, even the summer. Just like

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a lot of my runs, or a few of them

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were you know, one was a shootout of fifteen hundred

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shootout and other one of the twenty five hundred No Limit,

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a couple of my final tables. So so yeah, definitely

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adjust to the different types of players that you run across,

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some of the weaker players is a big part of it.

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Speaker 1: I think, how much time these days do you work

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on your game off the felt not playing?

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Speaker 2: Oh well, I mentioned the coaching that I do, and

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I'm able to do that because I've worked on my

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game a lot. You know, I feel pretty sharp overall,

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make less mistakes all the time than if I look back,

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you know for the previous few years or months, and

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I'm just my what I what I strive to do

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is just always improved. So I still I still am

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working on There's always more to learn and more depth

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to go into in different areas and and things like that.

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And you know, there's new software out there that's amazing

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and always improving. So yeah, I still definitely work on things.

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Speaker 1: What's an area of your game that you feel needs

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the most work.

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Speaker 2: I'm pretty sound like GTO. It's it's so hard to

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just crush the gto though and just hit every spot

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like impossible, So try to minimize the mistakes when you're

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playing a good player, and then I think I do

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a good job of kind of throwing that out the

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window when I'm facing different types of opponents. I think

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ICM Final tables getting close to the money that was

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something that years ago I didn't think about much or

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care about because I was a cash game player. So

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that was kind of one of my bigger hurdles is

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just not torching big EV spots at final tables that

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I used to do probably, And also that's just kind

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of a you know, I feel like the ICM sims

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aren't perfect, and I feel like there's a lot of

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room for debate right now about maybe what is the

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actual right place because what they can do is somewhat

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limited and doesn't take everything into account obviously, which solvers

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done at all, but at you know, definitely don't because

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there's a lot of variables going on in the final table.

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So just trying to think about things like that, I

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think is a big deal, especially playing more you know,

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mainly high rollers like I play table so it's a

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pretty big deal to get that stuff down.

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Speaker 1: Like you obviously play a lot of high rollers, your

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extremely experienced. You have the results to back it up.

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But are there are there any players out there? When

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you know, you sit down at the table, you see

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them across from you, and you kind of think to yourself, Okay,

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I really need to bring my a game. Or maybe

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you get a little bit of a lack of confidence

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that might seep into your brain thinking that, Okay, this

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guy is clearly better than me. I need to like

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really be on it today. Does that does that ever

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cross your mind these days?

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Speaker 2: Well? I mean my good friend Jason, I know how

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good he is. I study with him, We talked poker

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a lot. He's just unreal good at every spot. He's

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a guy I never want to see at my table.

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He's I just think he's, without a doubt, one of

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one of the top guys. And I think you know

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someone like Childwick keep going throw in there. Those are

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all guys, but you don't you know, they're just not

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giving up much. They're super studied, they've been playing forever,

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very experienced. Live the hotels. You know, they can pick

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up tells, understand ic M.

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Speaker 1: Well, you're likely to run into some of them when

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you head over to Europe. You're going to go play

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Super high Roll or Series, Super high Roll or Bowl.

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It's Super high Roller bol going to be the biggest

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buying you've ever played.

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Speaker 2: It will be. Yeah, So I played the two fifty

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the last two years at the World Series, and then

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this one is three hundreds, so it.

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Speaker 1: Will be Are you more nervous or more excited about

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playing a buy on that big.

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Speaker 2: I don't know, and neither one has really has crossed

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my mind that much. I'm just kind of preparing. I'm

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sat in the chair for many years and just think

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I'll make some good decisions. Hopefully no torches. And yeah,

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I'm excited. I've never been to Cyprus. I'm more excited

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just for the actual overall trip. You know, it's several tournaments,

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pgt runs, great, great tournaments. Never been to Cyprus for

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just beautiful There's some PLO tournaments, so I'm just excited

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to make the trip. I haven't been out of the

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country outside of the Homers. Haven't been. I went to

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Madrid Triten one two thousand and two, so it's been

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a couple of years. So looking forward to it.

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Speaker 1: Do you think we'll see you make more trips like this?

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I would say most specifically for Triton stuff. You know,

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they have the biggest stuff around the world every time

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every year.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I you know, I keep saying, like, oh, the

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next and I'll go to the next tright, And I've

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been saying that for like a year. There's often something

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competing in the States in the stakes are much lower,

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but it's just close. I don't have to be gone

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for two to three weeks. It's just easier. The tournament's softer.

477
00:26:19,680 --> 00:26:21,759
You know, a lot of the big buyings I'm selling,

478
00:26:22,480 --> 00:26:25,599
you know, some action, so I don't have to deal

479
00:26:25,599 --> 00:26:29,160
with that. And a lot of times it's just sometimes

480
00:26:29,160 --> 00:26:31,359
it's just right here in Vegas at poker go at Arias.

481
00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:34,599
So it's hard. If it's hard when there's a series

482
00:26:34,839 --> 00:26:38,519
at aria of ten tournaments to go halfway around the

483
00:26:38,559 --> 00:26:42,720
world and get jet lagged, and why for twenty twenty

484
00:26:42,839 --> 00:26:47,240
twenty five hours? Hey that all those expensive whenever I

485
00:26:47,240 --> 00:26:50,599
could just sleep in my own bed right here. So

486
00:26:52,599 --> 00:26:55,599
it depends. I have been saying, especially the ones in

487
00:26:55,640 --> 00:26:59,119
Asia I'm going to go to. Where did they go?

488
00:26:59,279 --> 00:27:02,200
There was a couple of really Vietnam one was amazing,

489
00:27:02,359 --> 00:27:05,000
which they might not be doing back there. But then

490
00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:11,759
the just the Asian stop ser the amazing when I

491
00:27:11,839 --> 00:27:14,559
hear so, and I've never been to Asia.

492
00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:18,960
Speaker 1: You mentioned, uh, selling Action. You have Action listed on

493
00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:21,920
poker steak dot com for this series. The super higher

494
00:27:22,039 --> 00:27:25,200
level is included in there. So just for the listeners

495
00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:26,319
out there, if you guys want to grab some of

496
00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:29,519
Jeremy's Action poker steak dot com, it's very easy to use.

497
00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:32,599
High lists some stuff on there all the time. It's

498
00:27:32,720 --> 00:27:35,519
it's great why I sell Action in that medium versus

499
00:27:35,519 --> 00:27:37,839
you know, just maybe your poker group or whatever it

500
00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:38,240
may be.

501
00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:43,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's funny how many people came up

502
00:27:43,240 --> 00:27:45,839
to me this summer and said that they've been buying

503
00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:47,799
my Action and I was having a great summer and

504
00:27:47,839 --> 00:27:49,920
they were so stoked about it. So that was actually

505
00:27:50,559 --> 00:27:54,559
really cool to see. Uh So, Yeah, it just makes it.

506
00:27:54,559 --> 00:27:58,119
It makes it fun. And you know, as I've gotten older,

507
00:27:58,319 --> 00:28:03,160
I've gotten more risk averse for sure. And since I've

508
00:28:03,160 --> 00:28:07,519
switched full time tournament to tournaments, I didn't Yeah, so

509
00:28:07,559 --> 00:28:10,680
I used to just play mainly cash and some tournaments

510
00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:15,759
and the cash money is much more steady, and then

511
00:28:15,799 --> 00:28:17,920
when I go play a tournament, I would just take

512
00:28:17,960 --> 00:28:19,640
all of it and be like whatever, it doesn't matter

513
00:28:19,680 --> 00:28:22,160
because I'm just you know, doing fine cash and I

514
00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:27,359
just hardly have losing months. It seemed like tournaments are

515
00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:33,640
just enormously volatile. It's like it's just you can't even

516
00:28:33,680 --> 00:28:38,519
compare the two. So I really just went on so

517
00:28:38,559 --> 00:28:43,000
many massive down swings, but then massive upswings eventually too.

518
00:28:43,079 --> 00:28:47,559
But I just kind of decided I want to, you know,

519
00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:50,000
take a little less risk in a lot of these things.

520
00:28:50,119 --> 00:28:55,720
And so yeah, I just listen more action on there

521
00:28:55,799 --> 00:28:57,519
these days, and like I said, it is kind of fun,

522
00:28:57,599 --> 00:29:00,279
has a social aspect, and I think it's good for poker.

523
00:29:00,400 --> 00:29:03,160
You know, a lot of people are playing in tournaments

524
00:29:03,160 --> 00:29:05,559
say maybe could or couldn't play before, and a lot

525
00:29:05,559 --> 00:29:07,640
of people are listening their action on there, and it's

526
00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:10,799
just kind of less people kind of get in the action,

527
00:29:11,119 --> 00:29:15,000
kind of like if they're watching sports or betting sports

528
00:29:15,079 --> 00:29:17,519
or something like that. Right, But in a lot of

529
00:29:17,519 --> 00:29:19,359
the cases that they find a good horse, they're going

530
00:29:19,359 --> 00:29:21,119
to be making. I mean, you know, i'd like to

531
00:29:21,119 --> 00:29:24,240
think in my case, the markup I put on there.

532
00:29:24,279 --> 00:29:27,920
I think they're probably going to be making money over

533
00:29:27,960 --> 00:29:29,640
the long term, so I think it's going to be

534
00:29:29,680 --> 00:29:34,279
a win win for both parties and poker's Sake's amazing.

535
00:29:34,319 --> 00:29:37,400
They don't charge anything on either side, at least at

536
00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:39,599
this point, so it's pretty pretty cool.

537
00:29:39,920 --> 00:29:42,160
Speaker 1: How do you how do you decide on markup? Does

538
00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:43,720
it take you long to figure it out?

539
00:29:44,359 --> 00:29:47,720
Speaker 2: I kind of just decide what I. I give an

540
00:29:47,839 --> 00:29:50,599
estimate of what I think my ROI will be, and

541
00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:54,440
then I, you know, take some portion off that. So

542
00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:57,519
ideally they get some of the ROI and I get

543
00:29:57,519 --> 00:30:00,640
some of the ROI, and then return I give up

544
00:30:00,640 --> 00:30:04,440
some of the ROI, but in return I get lower variants.

545
00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:07,359
Speaker 1: You've got six bracelets you want? I mean, I don't

546
00:30:07,599 --> 00:30:10,240
even know how many PGT and high roller events and

547
00:30:10,279 --> 00:30:12,000
all that sort of stuff. You've got a circuit ring,

548
00:30:12,039 --> 00:30:15,160
all this sort of stuff. World Poker Tour title. Is

549
00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:17,799
that like something you want to achieve in your career?

550
00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:18,640
Speaker 2: Is that? You know?

551
00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:20,000
Speaker 1: Do you think of it like that way? Like I

552
00:30:20,039 --> 00:30:21,880
have all these titles, but I don't have this one

553
00:30:21,920 --> 00:30:23,960
over here, so maybe I want to go after it

554
00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:24,680
a little bit harder.

555
00:30:25,359 --> 00:30:31,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, So WPT and Triton, those would be two great

556
00:30:32,119 --> 00:30:37,799
or an EPT main. The problem is the wpts are

557
00:30:37,839 --> 00:30:41,039
just super hard to win that they only have how

558
00:30:41,039 --> 00:30:43,519
many main events a year because they have a lot

559
00:30:43,519 --> 00:30:46,160
of you know, it's just like the main event, So

560
00:30:47,039 --> 00:30:49,200
you have like ten chances a year, fifteen chances a

561
00:30:49,279 --> 00:30:54,200
year to win any WPT main. I'm much more likely

562
00:30:54,240 --> 00:30:57,559
to win a Triton first, I think, and an APT

563
00:30:57,680 --> 00:31:02,200
would be possible, I guess small like a side of

564
00:31:02,240 --> 00:31:06,440
any PT, but never the you know, a main or

565
00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:10,480
anything like that. So yeah, it'd be cool, but I'm

566
00:31:10,519 --> 00:31:13,480
not going to every WPT just to try to win one,

567
00:31:13,519 --> 00:31:17,279
you know, so it's not It's not that high in

568
00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:19,799
my book. I love the WPT by the way. I

569
00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:21,720
think they are a great brand, one of the best

570
00:31:21,759 --> 00:31:26,319
friends and poker and I've watched them for a really

571
00:31:26,359 --> 00:31:32,240
long time, back when they're on the Travel Channel, just

572
00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:34,920
like the direction that they've gone with the company, and

573
00:31:35,279 --> 00:31:38,599
I think they're just a very respectable.

574
00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:41,079
Speaker 1: I completely agree. I'm a big fan myself. We recently

575
00:31:41,119 --> 00:31:43,799
saw Patrick Antonia's get into the Hall of Fame. You

576
00:31:43,839 --> 00:31:46,119
were on the list of finalists in twenty twenty three,

577
00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:49,279
but not this year. But like big picture, you know,

578
00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:51,400
do you want to get into the Hall of Fame someday?

579
00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:54,039
Speaker 2: Yeah, I do. I think it'd be would be cool.

580
00:31:54,079 --> 00:31:57,079
I was kind of taken off guard when I was

581
00:31:57,079 --> 00:31:59,000
suddenly on the list last year because I think a

582
00:31:59,039 --> 00:32:01,400
Hall of famers, I think these older guys and things,

583
00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:04,519
but you know, I'm not so young myself these days,

584
00:32:04,559 --> 00:32:07,440
forty four. But maybe I was a little preemptive to

585
00:32:07,480 --> 00:32:10,160
get on there. But my friend Eric Baldin kind of

586
00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:12,559
just threw it out there on Twitter, and apparently that's

587
00:32:12,599 --> 00:32:14,359
why I didn't get on this year. I don't know

588
00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:17,960
about this nomination process they have, but someone needs to

589
00:32:18,039 --> 00:32:20,559
kind of nominate you publicly. I don't know if like

590
00:32:20,680 --> 00:32:24,720
Twitter is the platform to do that, it's or what.

591
00:32:24,880 --> 00:32:27,039
It doesn't seem that clear to me. So I was

592
00:32:27,119 --> 00:32:29,160
pretty shocked when I wasn't on the list this year

593
00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:32,279
because I thought I would be one of the you know,

594
00:32:32,440 --> 00:32:36,640
possibly get in there. But after Antonius is on there,

595
00:32:36,799 --> 00:32:42,200
I think he is very deserving and should have I

596
00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:44,440
don't know, it's hard to compare you know, the industry

597
00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:47,359
poker people and the poker players, so I don't know

598
00:32:47,640 --> 00:32:49,799
where to go with all that, and Also, I don't

599
00:32:49,799 --> 00:32:53,039
know some of these old school people who are on there,

600
00:32:53,160 --> 00:32:56,359
but I do know that Antonio's is a legend and

601
00:32:57,000 --> 00:33:00,559
to one hundred percent at some point being Hall of Fame.

602
00:33:00,559 --> 00:33:04,079
I mean, he's crushed the highest stakes for a long time.

603
00:33:04,319 --> 00:33:08,680
So I thought it was very well deserved. And it's

604
00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:11,279
cool to see someone who doesn't have a lot of

605
00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:13,799
wsop success because sometimes it feels like the Hall of

606
00:33:13,839 --> 00:33:18,319
Fame is very wsop us friendly. So I thought it

607
00:33:18,359 --> 00:33:22,039
was cool that someone who isn't from that you know

608
00:33:22,160 --> 00:33:25,880
group of people was got the award.

609
00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:29,039
Speaker 1: This story, I guess a little bit different than you

610
00:33:29,079 --> 00:33:31,559
know you're possibly wanting to get into the Hall of Fame,

611
00:33:31,680 --> 00:33:33,920
is you know, how how would you want people to

612
00:33:34,160 --> 00:33:37,480
remember the poker career of Jeremy Osmas, you know, let's

613
00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:39,759
say forty years down the road when things are all

614
00:33:39,799 --> 00:33:40,519
said and done.

615
00:33:41,279 --> 00:33:46,559
Speaker 2: Yeah, good question. First and foremost, like a lot of winning, right,

616
00:33:46,640 --> 00:33:49,720
That's that's my main goal in poker, but also going

617
00:33:49,759 --> 00:33:55,599
about it ethically always, you know, being composed and never

618
00:33:57,559 --> 00:34:01,480
having big big bones. I thick people and fights them

619
00:34:01,519 --> 00:34:03,920
all over Twitter and things like that. Not the way

620
00:34:03,920 --> 00:34:06,720
I'd like to be remembered. So I do a pretty

621
00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:10,239
good job of saying out of all that. So, yeah,

622
00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:12,840
just kind of controversy for you. Just a guy who

623
00:34:13,639 --> 00:34:16,559
came in and got along with people and was enjoyable

624
00:34:16,559 --> 00:34:20,440
to be around, and joined the company of the tablemates

625
00:34:20,480 --> 00:34:23,199
and just had a long, successful career.

626
00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:28,760
Speaker 1: You recently shared a story on Twitter about your cousin's daughter,

627
00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:31,960
Emily Osmas, being the youngest member of the US Olympic

628
00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:34,000
water polo team. She's only eighteen years old, but she

629
00:34:34,039 --> 00:34:36,440
made it to the world's biggest stage and competed at

630
00:34:36,440 --> 00:34:40,880
the Olympics. I'm sure there's probably some close friends, some

631
00:34:40,920 --> 00:34:43,519
family members of yours that might look at you kind

632
00:34:43,519 --> 00:34:45,599
of in a similar light because you're the big poker

633
00:34:45,639 --> 00:34:47,880
player on a lot of the biggest stages, playing for

634
00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:50,000
tons of money. But now you're like on the other

635
00:34:50,039 --> 00:34:54,440
side watching Emily compete for an Olympic medal. Possibly, I mean,

636
00:34:54,599 --> 00:34:57,320
what was that experience like watching her go through it

637
00:34:57,360 --> 00:34:59,920
all and doing so at such a young age.

638
00:35:00,119 --> 00:35:03,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was so cool, man, I was I've just

639
00:35:03,360 --> 00:35:07,239
been so beyond excited for like, my kids play sports,

640
00:35:07,280 --> 00:35:10,280
and it's it's there's nothing better than watching your kids

641
00:35:10,280 --> 00:35:13,760
play sports. But this is my cousin who grew up

642
00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:16,559
next to me for a number of years and I'm

643
00:35:16,599 --> 00:35:21,039
close with lives in California now and his Yeah, both

644
00:35:21,039 --> 00:35:23,400
of his kids are just like elite water polo players

645
00:35:23,440 --> 00:35:27,000
fool right, And they both went to USC but they

646
00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:30,239
could have gone anywhere they wanted to believe anything like that.

647
00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:33,760
And and the daughter, who's the younger the two, is

648
00:35:33,840 --> 00:35:37,679
just a complete phenom and and made it into the Olympics.

649
00:35:37,679 --> 00:35:41,679
So we were sure to watch every game and learned

650
00:35:41,679 --> 00:35:44,840
a lot about water polo and it was really really

651
00:35:44,840 --> 00:35:47,039
cool to go watch and learn about it. We watched

652
00:35:47,039 --> 00:35:48,519
the game of Theirs when they came to Vegas a

653
00:35:48,559 --> 00:35:52,239
few years back, and so, yeah, it was fun. I

654
00:35:52,280 --> 00:35:54,239
was texting a lot with my cousin who was there

655
00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:58,199
watching and fom on TV and the stands and things

656
00:35:58,239 --> 00:36:03,119
like that. So hopefully if she's she took her first

657
00:36:03,199 --> 00:36:05,400
year off of college just to train for the Olympics

658
00:36:05,440 --> 00:36:09,079
and they take thirteen people and she didn't know, you know,

659
00:36:09,159 --> 00:36:11,400
she's kind of she's the youngest, so she didn't know

660
00:36:11,440 --> 00:36:14,800
if she's like, maybe gonna make it, maybe not. They

661
00:36:14,880 --> 00:36:17,480
cut the team down from sixteen to thirteen. I think,

662
00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:21,119
so she trains for like almost an entire year and

663
00:36:21,159 --> 00:36:23,960
skips her first year of college, and then she maybe

664
00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:26,920
doesn't even doesn't know until like a month before, three

665
00:36:26,960 --> 00:36:29,000
weeks before the Olympics if she makes the team or not.

666
00:36:29,119 --> 00:36:32,679
It was pretty insane. That's why I can't Yeah, I

667
00:36:32,719 --> 00:36:36,880
can't imagine how stressful that's going to be for the parents. Anyways,

668
00:36:37,039 --> 00:36:41,039
if she continues on this path of water pool of dominance.

669
00:36:42,719 --> 00:36:46,639
I believe the twenty twenty eight Olympics are in la

670
00:36:47,119 --> 00:36:50,840
and we will definitely be going out there and watching her.

671
00:36:50,960 --> 00:36:54,960
We wanted to go this year, but we just we

672
00:36:55,599 --> 00:36:59,079
couldn't make it happen obligation, other things going on. But

673
00:36:59,159 --> 00:37:04,360
then super stoked that she is still at the top

674
00:37:04,480 --> 00:37:07,760
like this to go watch her and been to it

675
00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:09,599
in the Olympics anywhere, so that'd be a lot of.

676
00:37:09,519 --> 00:37:13,559
Speaker 1: Fun, awesome. Well that's all I have for you, sir.

677
00:37:13,840 --> 00:37:16,800
I appreciate you taking the time and wish you the

678
00:37:16,840 --> 00:37:18,880
best of luck over in Europe and joy Cyprus. I've

679
00:37:18,880 --> 00:37:21,800
been there one time myself, not to this specific property

680
00:37:21,840 --> 00:37:24,599
that you're going to. I went to a different merit property,

681
00:37:25,239 --> 00:37:27,280
but it was awesome a lot of fun there, So

682
00:37:28,239 --> 00:37:29,559
Hope you have a good time, hope you win a

683
00:37:29,559 --> 00:37:32,039
boatload of money, and maybe we'll get a winner's interview

684
00:37:32,079 --> 00:37:33,239
after it's all said and done.

685
00:37:33,559 --> 00:37:35,280
Speaker 2: Sweet, Yes, let's do that.

686
00:37:35,679 --> 00:37:38,760
Speaker 1: Thanks for having me, Bun, all right, everyone that was

687
00:37:39,119 --> 00:37:42,880
Jeremy Osmas can't thank Jeremy enough for taking the time

688
00:37:43,039 --> 00:37:46,840
to chat about a variety of topics. And maybe, just

689
00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:50,519
maybe you'll be hearing him back on this podcast sooner

690
00:37:50,679 --> 00:37:53,719
rather than later if he can find himself to the

691
00:37:53,719 --> 00:37:56,760
winner circle over in Cyprus, and then maybe we'll be

692
00:37:56,760 --> 00:38:01,000
able to grab him for a winners interview. As a reminder,

693
00:38:01,159 --> 00:38:04,079
the Super High Roller Series and Super High Roller Bowl

694
00:38:04,119 --> 00:38:08,159
that Jeremy is off plane that is streaming on poker gro.

695
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696
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700
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Commentary by Jeff Platt and Brent Hanks. I'm very excited

701
00:38:31,800 --> 00:38:33,679
for this event. I think it's gonna be massive. I

702
00:38:33,679 --> 00:38:36,719
think it's gonna be huge. Can't wait to see the

703
00:38:36,760 --> 00:38:41,280
play from Cyprus from Merit from the new Onyx Club

704
00:38:41,360 --> 00:38:44,360
that they are debuting over there, and that's gonna do

705
00:38:44,360 --> 00:38:47,039
it for me. That's gonna do it for this episode.

706
00:38:47,280 --> 00:38:50,360
Thanks everyone for tuning in, Take care, and we'll talk

707
00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:55,280
to you next time. Jennie