Speaker 1: Hello, everyone, Welcome back to a new episode of the
Poker Go Podcast. My name is Donnie Peters, and we
are back in the freaking Saddle. I am very sorry
for the missed days of the podcast. As you might
be able to tell, as you might be able to hear,
I was battling a bit of a sore throat. I'm
still battling a bit of a sore throat, a little
bit of a virus or something ripping through me here.
So I tried to take a few days off to
get some rest before this became worse. I'm going to
power through this episode.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: As I've said before, there's nothing I love more than
doing the podcast, So every time I don't get to
do it, it does really pain me quite a bit.
You can also probably blame my good friend mister mo
Nuara aka the Moose, because so he made a deep
run in an eleven hundred dollars plo event at Aria
and he's a good friend of mine. Always got to
sweat your friends. I got a piece, So after leaving
the WSOP, I go over there to sweat him. He's
heads up or sorry, he's three handed when I get there.
Then he gets the heads up, he's doing well. Next thing,
you know, it's two fifteen in the morning, and I'm like, man,
I really just hate myself. Why am I doing this
to myself? Mo ends up finishing second for forty six
thousand dollars. Great score by him, awesome job, but it
really messed up my sleep schedule. You know, I don't
get a lot of sleep during the summer as is,
but then throw this on top of it, and it
probably ultimately did me in because I probably could have
used an extra hour or two of sleep if I
was starting to starting to feel it and get a
little bit of a virus or something coming on. Always
go sweat your friends people, no matter what though, even
though if you have to battle through some sickness afterwards.
It's one of the best things to do in poker.
It sharing that success with your friends, you know, and
it should be reciprocal. You know, you go sweat them,
they go sweat you. That's just the absolute way to
do it. It's the best thing to do. So I'm
happy that I did it. Congratulations to Moe for his score,
But yeah, did have some sacrifices that had to be made,
and the pod was up there, so I'm sorry, but
I'm back.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: Now, last time on this feed, we hit on our
tomorrow Rosie winning his fourth bracelet. We had Braydon lou
Kid just out of college, driving across the USA, returning
from college, stops in Vegas rips off his first gold bracelet.
So all that's in the past, it's said and done.
We've got some catching up to do. But the first
thing that we have to focus on today, I'm gonna
run through all the other winners that we've had, but
we cannot not start with the goat mister Nick Schulman, who,
as of I don't know an hour or so ago,
won the fifteen hundred dollars horse here at the twenty
twenty six World Series of Poker, taking home his eighth
WSP Goald bracelet one hundred and eighty three thousand dollars
for Shulman. I mean, this guy is just absolutely freaking incredible.
He had a second place finish already this summer in
that fifteen hundred dollars Baduga event. He battled, battle, battled,
ultimately lost out. He had a fifth place finish. I
believe it was in another tournament he had a the
fifth place finish was in the ten K Dealer's Choice.
He had an eighteenth place finish in the twenty five
k Nolan at hold him, you know, so some close
calls already, some very close calls with those second place
in that fifth place finish, but Nick is able to
get the job done. In the fifteen hundred dollars horse there,
he topped seven hundred and eighty entry to get the win.
He told Poker News afterwards that he feels like he's
just hitting his prime. And that's kind of a scary
thing to think about if you're somebody like a Phil Helmuth.
You know, yeah, Phil Hellmuth has got a nice lead
with seventeen goal bracelets. But I mean Nick doesn't look
like he's slowing down. And if he's going to be
making final tables at this rate, with how good he is,
with how well versed he is in all the different games,
i mean, watch out at the top of that bracelet leaderboard.
Absolutely watch out after Nick one. I've really never seen
him so elated and excited and being outgoing about the win.
You know, I've seen several of his bracelet wins. I've
seen plenty of other tournament wins of his especially those
inside the studio, but this one, I don't know. It
just seemed like it hit a little bit different for Nick.
I don't have an interview for you guys on this
episode of the podcast, but we did sit down with
Nick afterwards. It was myself and my videographer Antonio Abrego,
and we got some really good stuff with Nick. So
we're going to be releasing that at some point over
the weekend. I was very open, he was definitely very happy,
but he got into why he still does this and
what's kind of driving him. So stay tuned for that.
You know, it'll get released on all the different social
media outlets for Poker go so that is coming. But
congratulations to Nick Shulman the Goat getting number eight in
the fifteen dollars horse Also to get caught up on
we had new winners that included Richard alsup in the
fifteen hundred dollars Monsters Act, Braxton done Away. I'm sure
you guys all know that name for the success he's
had in recent years. But he won another gold bracelet.
He won the two K no limit. Bryce Yackey got
his third bracelets. Brent Gregory denied he ever so Polarized
Maurice Hawkins. It was a third WSP bracelet for the
one and only high Roller Santosh Servanna Dennis Weiss won
the fifteen dollars limit hold him and Mike Holtz, a
co host of another podcast, a podcast that I have
mistakenly shouted out several times on this show. Mike Holts
won the fifteen hundred dollars Super Turbo Bounty. So that's
all the stuff we're gonna hit on on today's episode.
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winner's rundown to get through. Richard Alsup wins the fifteen
hundred dollars Monster Stack topping a field a wopping field
of eleven nine and thirty three entries. Alse Up one
just of one point three million dollars. This second gold
bracelet for alse Up. He previously won an eight hundred
dollars Nolan had hold Him Deep Stack event in twenty
twenty two for two hundred and seventy two thousand dollars.
There As you can imagine that eight hund dollars Deep
Stack was a pretty big field twenty eight hundred and
twelve entries in that one. Alsop now moves to second
on Minnesota's all time money list. Number one on that
list is Blake Bone. In his winter interview with Poker News,
else Up cited some baby run good. So I guess
he's got a baby on the way. Maybe he just
had a baby, but either way, baby run good help
propel Alsop here to his largest career live tournament score
now at the final table. If you guys watched it,
I know they did some checking. I'm not sure exactly
how much they showed of it, but he cracked aces
twice en route to victory, and both times he cracked
aces it was against sale to Carlo De Carlo ended
up finishing in second place on the first one. The
first time that Alceup cracked to Carlo's aces, it was
with five players left. Alsop was all from the button
with King Queen of diamonds to Carlo had aces. In
the big blind it came king nine to five to
eight king on the river, so trips there on the
river for alceup. The second time came a bit later
during heads up play. The money got all in on
eight six four two diamond flop. Alsop had seven six
of spades, so middle pair and a straight draw to
Carlo had the aces. He also had the ace of
diamonds in hand, so back to a flustraw as well,
turn jack river six for alsup, So once again trips
on the river for alceup to crack the aces of
Di Carlo. From there, you know, also battled his way
into the chip lead, but the lead did swing back
and forth a few different times. On the final hand,
it was luck on the side of alsup once again
is a seven off beating to Carlo's He's king off
as seven hit the flop and that was that. So
hard not to feel for sale to Carlo here, you know,
getting your aces cracked by the same player twice in
the fashion that he did, ultimately getting his money in
on the final hand with very much the best of
it doesn't go his way. Yes, there is luck and poker.
We all know that, we all believe it's predominantly skilled
with a little bit of luck, but it is painful
when it doesn't go your way like it didn't for
Sail to Carlo. So Alsup takes home one million, three
hundred and two thousand dollars for the win to Carlo,
nine hundred k for second. Then you had John Ripnik,
Aaron Mazzy, Matthew Miller, Pierce McKellar, Kevin Eister, and Nicholas
Angelou rounding out to the final table. Another player that
I did want to mention from this event is Andrew Moreno.
One of the things I think is important to do
in all poker coverage, especially at the World Series of Poker,
is to really try and showcase all different sides of
the game, not not just you know, the winner's photos,
the bracelet ceremonies, the feel good stories, all that sort
of stuff, because there is the other side of the
grind that does you know, come up, especially during the
World Series when the spotlight is so big on poker
and when there was so much poker being played in
a relatively small window. Moreno this year got eleventh out
of the almost twelve thousand entries for one hundred and
twenty thousand dollars. He's had a ton of deep runs
in this specific tournament. So eleventh place this year for
one hundred and twenty k. Last year he got one
hundred and twenty third out of nine hundred and twenty entries,
the year before that seven hundred and forty seventh out
of eighty seven hundred entries. The first year post COVID
SO twenty twenty one, Moreno got two hundred and eighty
seventh out of thirty five hundred and twenty entries in
two ninth team forty ninth place out of more than
six thousand entries, and then back in twenty sixteen he
had a final table run that ultimately ended in sixth
place out of six nine hundred and twenty seven players.
So now you know the eleventh place finished out of
almost twelve thousand entries. That's that's a solid six figure score,
one hundred and twenty thousand dollars in the bank for
Andrew ma Reno. Incredible accomplishment, right, But when you're a professional,
and a seasoned, experienced professional like Moreno is and somebody
who's trying to win the whole thing. You get that close,
you probably start to feel it. I'm sure that it
can also be incredibly painful in a way. We were
following Moreno, you know, throughout the later stages of this tournament,
and he was kind enough to, you know, kind of
close the book on it all. You know. He joined
us afterwards for a really thoughtful conversation about perspective. He
touched on his process, why he still loves the game,
you know, despite having another mirror, and you're missed like this,
So let's hear from Andrew Marino.
Speaker 3: Now, all right, Andrew, close call to the Monster Stack
final table. But again, I know poker has obviously it's
ups and its down. Just talk to me about what
you're feeling in this post.
Speaker 4: I feel like I want to fly home right now
and see my family and my kids. So they're supposed
to come and see me. I came for a few
weeks by myself, and I just missed them terribly. It's
it's the only thing I think that'll make me feel better.
So I'm gonna consider. I'm going to sleep on it,
and I might leave in the morning or I don't know.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure.
Speaker 3: When you bust aternament like that close to the final table.
You know, you walk away with a six figure pay
day on one hand, which is a really good score,
but also you know you're someone who I think prides
yourself on winning, right, you know when you get to
that stage, how does that mind shift shift and to
be like, Okay, now is time. Now I have my shot,
I'm ten spots away or whatever it is, can actually
winning this whole thing?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I don't really think about how far away I am
when I'm in a tournament. I'm mostly just focus on
all the factors at the table. Who's in the stack distribution?
What should my strategy be based on the chip distribution?
You know, there will be the thought of can I
or should I position myself to ladder or potentially get
a big stack and try to become the chip leader,
So I kind of think about It's weird, like I
didn't really think at all about the final table, not
I didn't think about the money or anything.
Speaker 2: I was mostly just trying to.
Speaker 4: Just like really lean into the moment and just kind
of feel what was happening at the table.
Speaker 3: You've had a sixth place finish in this Sponsor Stack
event before, and a few other deep runs as well.
This time around almost twelve thousand entries. When did it
start to feel Okay, maybe I'm going to start making
a run, Maybe it's.
Speaker 2: Going to happen again. Yeah.
Speaker 4: So, going on day three, I lost half my stack
on the first hand, and I realized that if I
just kind of play solid and not get into some
of these close spots that I had been getting into,
people were giving me extra lives. Basically, they were so
many mistakes that were being made, and I was able
to just kind of extend my tournament so many different
times just from people making errors. And then I at
the end of the third night, I caught some great hands,
made a wild bluff, got caught, and realized my little
bit of equity to win the pot. And at that
point I thought, okay, something might happen here.
Speaker 3: Ten years ago is when you came at sixth past
board And now, how have you changed as a player.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's weird. I think I feel so much more
in control now. I don't even think I'm a very
aggressive or loose player. Most people think I am. I
probably am. I just feel so in control now, whereas
before it was I was a lot more feel based
it's like I don't think this guy has it, or
I feel like this guy's overdoing it, And now I'm
a lot more rooted in theory and I feel more
calm in general.
Speaker 3: Do you think that's because of how much you put
into study. I mean, I saw on social media the
other day he said, this is why I study so much,
so that I'm constantly aware of like what the theory is,
what ranges are playing against, what ranges. So has that
comfortability come from all that practice that you put in
off the film?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think putting in all the practice off the
felt it's It's one of those things I always thought
when I look at I always thought of a guy
like Kobe Bryant. I always wanted to be like that.
I wanted to be the guy that was going to
outwork everyone else.
Speaker 2: And just.
Speaker 4: As long as I knew that I was in the
gym sweating my balls off, like working harder than everyone else,
if I was losing in the game, I really care
because I knew that I was just going to go
do that over and over again, and I just did
it for me to have peace. That way, I could
have bad variants, bad results and still feel okay, about.
Speaker 3: It's going to grind. About studying poker over and over again,
doing it for so many hours, Like how do you
find the motivation to just keep doing.
Speaker 2: I actually enjoy it now and I switch it up.
Speaker 4: I have a couple different ways that I study, and
I think, you know, it's kind of like going to
the gym. Some people, you know, they like getting on
the peloton, some people like kickboxing classes, some people like
hot yoga. I think you just have to find a
way for you to study that feels enjoyable. I will
say that I think there needs to be active studying.
Enjoyable study can be you know, watching a Poker Go
final table for me and having a computer up and
just kind of looking at things, but actually doing active
studying where I'm you know, looking at hand.
Speaker 2: Ranges or even some solves.
Speaker 4: Because I think it's real easy to like watch a
training video or listen to a podcast and all that
can help too. But I just think there's definitely there
needs to be an emphasis on really doing an active studying.
Speaker 3: This tournament had a lot of I guess extracurricular things
going on. You guys are moved up onto the stage,
you get moved to a stream table at one point.
You know, a lot of shuffling like that. There's bright lights,
there's cameras. Now at this stage of your career, are
you kind of imputed to that sort of stuff and
you just get in your comfort zone and lock in.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I actually like it because I think it's a
competitive advantage for me because I've played on so many
stream tables, and I know what that can do to
someone if they're not used to it. Not just you know,
the lights and you know the pressure, but just the
fear that comes along with making a mistake and having
other people see it.
Speaker 2: So I think people are going to perform worse.
Speaker 4: And I like it because I write down pretty much
all my hands anyway, So if I'm gonna stream, it's
just less work for me.
Speaker 2: I can just you know, I don't have to write
down anything, So it's good.
Speaker 3: How do you balance a feeling after a run like
this between satisfaction because ultimately you did have a nice
financial sport, but also maybe that disappointment of coming up
when it was short.
Speaker 5: Of the ultimate part.
Speaker 4: Yeah, disappointment in poker is you know something that I
think I would be really interested to hear other people
talk about it because I.
Speaker 2: It's such a hard thing.
Speaker 4: Anyone out there watching poker or watching this, they probably
enjoy poker. They've gone to the casino, lost a big pot,
and the emotion behind that and the feelings behind it,
it's hard to articulate. For me personally, I think I've
done a really good job of learning how to be
gentle with myself when I feel like I did make
a mistake, and I have a lot of compassion and
empathy for myself because I work really hard. I think
if if I didn't work hard, I would have a
lot less empathy for myself because I yeah, I think
that preparedness really allows me to be a lot kinder
to myself.
Speaker 3: What keeps the fire alive to keep coming back, because
you know, in poker terms, you can kind of get
your teeth kicked in a lot of it sometimes and
it's not always super fun, but other times it is
the lady right. But what keeps striving?
Speaker 4: I just love I'm a poker guy, Like I love
the game so much. It's like when I'm sitting at
a poker table, I'm always trying to think, like can
I bluff this hand?
Speaker 2: Should I be all in?
Speaker 4: What happened, Like, is there anything creative I can try
to find? I'm really trying to think about what other
people are doing and how can.
Speaker 2: I exploit them?
Speaker 4: And I think being in that creative and yeah, just
more like playful mindset, I think that's when I really
feel like, oh my god.
Speaker 2: I love this.
Speaker 4: And I think when I I had periods in my
career where I was going on or things weren't going well,
and I feel like it's more like being in survival
and it's really I think one of the first things
to go in when that happens is creativity. So as
long as I'm just like sitting there being creative and
having opportunities also competing against tough competition, I absolutely love
testing myself against some of these great players and all
that stuff combined, I think is what I love about poker.
Speaker 3: I gotta ask you about your final hand. A little
bit of a nitrole, I guess by the guy with
the queens. You made kind of a comment that he's
you know, gave you a little bit of a speech
like let's go through your mind in that moment.
Speaker 4: It didn't bother me at all. I like to bust
people's balls. I was like, I was like, buddy, don't
speak to me with queens. Come on, you got queens,
you know, because I just recognize that it's, you know,
gonna happen the way that it does, and it's just
up to the universe, and it was his time, you know,
and it was richest time and everyone else's and good
for them.
Speaker 3: When you look back on a run like this and
a lot of the runs that you've had in your career,
is it more a feeling of while that was a
near miss or are you thinking I consistently keep putting
myself in position to win.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Mostly, I'm just trying to think what am I doing
well and what do I think I need to improve on?
And I think I did a lot of things really
well in this tournament. And I also know there were
a couple of things that I really took from this
experience and I'm gonna do better with in the future.
So yeah, I just look back on it and try
to find the useful pieces and not try to make
up too much about the result.
Speaker 3: You talked about possibly going home missing the family. What
can we expect from you the rest of the summer.
Speaker 4: Yeah, some people ask me about if I was going
to play a bunch this summer, and you know, because
of the Fantasy Draft, and I like that people don't
really count on me because I just like, I want
to do whatever I feel like.
Speaker 2: I don't really feel like playing. I might feel like playing.
Speaker 4: In the morning, but yeah, I just like to be
able to come and go as I please and.
Speaker 2: Just be pretty relaxed about the whole vent.
Speaker 1: Moving on to the two K no limit hold them,
Braxton Dunaway, or as he's known as be done top
day field of nine hundred and sixty eight entries to
win two hundred and eighty eight thousand dollars his second
w Sop gold a bracelet. And then speaking of the
Monster Sac that we just talked about in twenty twenty three,
that's the tournament that done Away won for one million,
one hundred and sixty two thousand dollars. And of course
we all know how Dunaway finished third last year in
the ws we made event behind Michael Msrocky and John Woznik,
and Dunaway cashed in that one for four million dollars.
Here at this final table was done Away on top
I mentioned that two hundred and eighty eight K that
he won Irwin Pshot second place, Jannive Peretz third place,
Brian Alvarez fourth place, Kimon Fon Fontukitis. I'm gonna butcher
all these names, and it doesn't help that my throat's
not working. Fifth place for him, six was Albert Calderon.
Ionis Canapopoulos. Probably butchered that one too, I'm sorry. Seventh place,
Sammy besha Head eighth place, Ivan por Lev ninth place.
Another player that added to his bracelet tally is Bryce
Yaki a third piece of ws AP hardware for him.
Yaki top one hundred and sixty three entries in the
ten K Dealers Choice Championship, scooping up three hundred and
seventy one thousand dollars. In twenty seventeen, Yaki won the
ten k PLO High Low Championship, and then in twenty
twenty four he won the five k PLO. He had
a really nice quote after his win. This was told
too Poker News. He said, I've wanted to win this
tournament for a really long time. In terms of like
mixed game tournaments, this one's really unique because there's just
a lot of strategy beyond just playing the game that
goes into it. People actually try to choose games to
target you, whatever they think you're bad at, whatever they
think they have an edge air sorry, whatever they think
they have an advantage at. Part of the game is
also just learning to play that game too and just
avoiding them in those situations when you can. I wanted
to win this one for a long time. A very
very very prestigious tournament at the World Series Bober. You
know it's probably main event fifty KPBC and then probably
this one to be honest, So shout out to Bryce Jockey.
There three hundred and seventy one k for him in
first place. Pretty stacked final table here, Ryan Miller second place,
Jake Schwartz third place, Chad eve Sledge fourth place. Nick Shulman.
We already talked about his fifth place finish in this
one second final table of the summer at the time
for Shulman after getting second in that padugie, but we
now know that he had a third final table and
ultimately got the win and that fifteen hundred dollars horse
and then Jeremy Osmas rounded out this final table with
a sixth place finish. Was also the second final table
this WSP for Osmis. He also got fourth in the
ten K Stud Championship. It is one oh seven am,
by the way, I did not shout out at the
time on Saturday, June thirteenth, and there's a chance that
Osmus makes another final table. He was down to the
final two tables in the ten K Limit Hold'em Championship.
Brent Gregory was the winner of the six hundred dollars
half and half Nolan hold Him Slash Pot Limit Omaha.
He topped a field of more than thirty three hundred
entries to pick up two hundred and four thousand dollars
and his first gold bracelet. He denied Maurice Hawkins a bracelet,
with Hawkins finishing in second place. Not only was Hawkins
at this final table, but Daniel Legrando was there, Alex
Foxon was there, and Josh Reichard was there. Hawkins took
one hundred and thirty five thousand dollars for his second
place finished. Reichard got third for just under one hundred k,
fox In fifth for fifty five K. Nigrany eighth for
twenty four thousand, three hundred dollars. Hawkins busted Negranu in
eighth place and a pretty wild hand of plo. They
get it all on pre flop Nigrowaney's got King Queen
nine to seven, King Queen of Hearts nine to seven
of clubs. He's up against the ace ace jack deuce
and Hawkins was suited with the jack deuce in diamonds.
When the money goes in pre I did look up
the odds, shout out to the card player odds calculator.
But Hawkins is a little bit over fifty seven percent
to win. Negron New is a little bit under forty
three percent to win. Flop comes six four to four
with two hearts does give a flushtraw to negron New,
but he's still just thirty four point six percent versus
the sixty five point four percent four Hawkins turn though
bang heart ten of hearts, that makes negron Neu a
whopping ninety percent favorite in a pan of plos so
nine times out of ten, the river card is going
to give Negroanney the double up and keep him alive.
But the river here is the six six six four
of spades so four four four on the board that
allows Hawkins's aces to play as a full house and
he Ko's Daniel mcgrad in eighth. Santos Servanna did it
again in a high roller field. This time it was
the fifty K high Roller. He topped a field of
one hundred and sixty seven entries, winning JASHI of two
million dollars. It was the third Divisip Gold bracelet for Santos.
He previously won the fifty thousand euro Diamond high Roller
at Doubysip Europe back in twenty twenty three, and then
in twenty twenty four he won the two hundred and
fifty K super high Roller. He extends his lead a
top India's all time moneyless and it's a giant lead.
Santos has won more than twenty two point six million dollars.
Second on that list is an old school name vivid
Rashkumar won eight million dollars and he's currently second on
that list. At this final table was Santoch on top
for the one point nine to ninety two million dollars
Chang Lee. Last year, Chang Lee won the twenty five
K high roller. This year he comes second in this
fifty K high roller for one point two to eight million.
Colin Robinson shout out to Colin Robinson. He's a player
I've had on my one dollar list in twenty five
K Fantasy, but have never ultimately gotten to pull the
trigger on him. He satellited into this one, he told
me cast for eight hundred ninety three thousand dollars, his
largest career score. Chris Brewer fourth place for six hundred
and thirty four thousand dollars. Chris Brewers had a pretty
great start to his summer fourth place in this event
for the six hundred and thirty four K. He also
got fourth in the ten KGG Millions and he got
fifth in the ten K stud Championship, So that's a
pretty great start to your summer for Chris Brewer. Fifth
place here anatolely Is Latnikov, Brandon Wilson got sixth, Brian
Breck got seventh, and yawns Iron's got eighth. Dennis Weiss
won the fifteen K limit hold Them for one hundred
and thirty three thousand dollars and his third WSOP Gold bracelet.
He topped a field of five hundred and ten entries. Previously,
Weiss won the five K PLO five K Europlo at
WSP Europe in twenty twenty four, and then last year
he won the twenty five K POO at the World
Series of Poker here in Vegas. He told Poker News
after before this year, I mostly played PLO. I tested
the waters last year in some of the fifteen hundred
dollars mixed games. I studied a little bit, and it's
fun to play them. So this one feels different. It
feels and it feels fun. It's basically what he said.
It's always great to see players, you know, kind of
branch out to other games, and you know, it seems
like Weiss has a knack for things. I always say,
you know, if you if you just are good at poker,
even if it's just one variant, you just probably have
that type of mind that you can probably learn other
variants pretty well and pick them up at least to
a capacity where you're able to perform well in tournaments.
And then maybe you know, you catch a hot streak.
Next thing you know, you know you're in the Winter circle.
So why he's taking home one hundred and thirty three
thousand dollars for his win. Omar Ma Mood took second
for eighty eight thousand. Ronnie barta good friend of mine,
fifty nine k for third place. There Pads. Shout out
to Pads Patrick Leonard sixth place in this one. As
you guys know, you know, Ronnie part is a good
friend of mine, you know, I know he really wanted
this title. How much he loves Limit Hold Him plays
it all the damn time. He might play it the
most out of anyone in the world, especially live, which
is pretty crazy. He plays it pretty much every single
day up in the Bay Area. He won the twenty
five hundred dollars six Max Limit Hold Him back in
twenty twelve. He has a few other Ubasity final tables
in Limit Hold Them similar to Andrew Moreno before in
the Monster Stack, we were following Ronnie Barda. We had
him miked up, you know, so after we busted, we
put an interview out there on social media. You guys
can check that out on the Coca Goro channels. But
after he busted, you know, we talked with him a
little bit and I wanted to just pull the clip
on why he loves Limit Hold Him so much, because
it to many it's dying game, but to Ronnie Barto,
it's very much alive, and he even wants more of it.
So here's Ronnie Barta talking about why he loves Limit
hold Them so much.
Speaker 5: First of all, the people that play Limit Hold Them
are just quite characters. I mean, obviously the whole poker
world are full of characters, but in a sense, mixed
games and Limit hold Them bring a special crew. And
you know, yeah, I've been playing this game since two
thousand and three, you know, and going back and forth
from Limit hold Them and no Limit hold Them, Limit
hold Them, no Limit hold Them. I just love Limit
hold Him. I don't know I did that didn't really
answer what your question. I would say it's a combination
of like just getting thin value and making big folds.
And you know, they change his format to seven handed,
which is pretty cool.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 5: I told Jack Effel in my last interview. I didn't
tell him personally, but to you guys, I mean, getting
rid of the six match broke my heart. I love
Limit Hold Him because it's like it's just war like
check raising faces on the river, getting thin value, you know,
just outclassing your opponents, and it's a it's a game
of intuition, and a lot of people underestimate Limit hold Them.
They're like you can't bluff and Limit hold Them. But
there's so much bluffing going on and limit hold Them.
There's so much thin value and it really strengthens your
hand reading abilities when it comes to playing no limit
because you see so many hands go to showdown and
I know the bets are for men, but you get
to feel how a player reacts when they actually make
their hands and they're You're on the river a lot
in limit hold Them.
Speaker 2: So fuck.
Speaker 5: I just love the game. I caught my teeth that
Fox was playing it. It's the first time I started
to play, right after seven Cards stud But yeah, I
just wanted to be a best, to be the best
at something. I mean, losing here was I'm not feeling
it quite yet, you know it to my second third
place on the limit hold Them event. It's my third
final table in the last three years or four years.
We get the ten K limit hold them tomorrow. They
only offer two events now. I mean we had before
the no limit Chris Moneymaker booms half the tournaments a
limit hold him. You had a shootout, you had a
fifteen hundred, you had a one K, you had a
two K, a three K at three K, six max,
a five K, a ten k, and probably another fifteen
hundred you know. And the fields are big, five hundred
and ten players is not bad. And we get a
lot of new plood that comes into the game. And
like this man here, Dennis, he's a PLO German pro.
He fucking loves the game and he's gonna come back.
And we've had a lot of every tournament kid who
final table registered on accident.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 5: We have one of those that happened constantly, and the
guy absolutely loved it.
Speaker 2: He's going to be back.
Speaker 5: I don't think it's a dead game whatsoever.
Speaker 2: And yeah, I love limit holding.
Speaker 1: The fifteen dollars super Turbo bounty. I played it. I
put two bullets in. They did not work out Mike Holtz,
though it certainly worked out for him. He topped all
two thousand and one, one hundred and three injuries to
win at two hundred and thirty eight thousand dollars. Notably,
an online player is Mike Holtz. He already had an
online bracelet, but he did say he wanted to win
a live one. That first bracelet of his came in
twenty twenty two in the seven hundred and seventy seven
dollars Lucky Sevens event on WSP dot com this win here.
The two hundred and thirty eight thousand dollars score is
the largest live tournament score and first six figure live
score for Mike Holts. Mike is a co host of
the Poker News podcast. The Poker News podcast that I'm
scheduled to be on on Monday, so you guys can
stay tuned for that on their feeds. But he told
Poker News afterwards, he said, I've always wanted a live bracelet.
There is sort of a stigma with the online bracelet, like, oh,
blah blah blah, fuck them, baby, Daddy's got two now.
Mike is an absolute, crazy, colorful character. After he won,
he was yelling things about, you know, somebody tell them Hawkins,
that's how you close, or whatever the heck he said.
Maurice Hawkins came on the Poker News podcast, which had
Holloway with Mike Holts, and they had a pretty combative
back and forth about all of Maurice Hawkins's situations and
the allegations surrounding him. So that then spawned, you know,
some shouting from Mike Colts here when he ended up
getting first later on in the evening, on the same
night that Maurice Hawkins got second, so just crazy stuff.
Holtz beat may Siatu probably butchered that name and I'm
very sorry for it. One hundred and fifty eight k
for her for second place, Root Gin third place, Andrew
Hastabachenko got sixth place in this one. I think that's
gonna do it for all the winners. Oh no, we
got another one from tonight my faults Yuri's Evelevski winning
his sixth World Series of Poker gold bracelet for two
point eight million smackers. I mean, holy hell, I mean,
Uri is this guy is just absolutely unbelievable. He's another
player that if he just keeps playing for long enough,
he's going to be in double digits by a mile
for bracelets.
Speaker 2: I mean, he.
Speaker 1: Plays all the games, and he plays them incredibly well.
And here he is topping one of the toughest fields
at the World Series of o where one hundred K
high roller and winning two point eight million dollars doing
it in the three K nolan at Holdham you had
a poker pro turned businessman Omar Zaze winning it all
for two hundred sorry two hundred for it's way more
than two hundred, five hundred and thirty eight thousand dollars
in this three K event. A beautifully structured four day tournament.
Is this three K event. He battled with Jeanrebert Blonde
during heads up play. Blond had a big chip lead.
At the final table, he had a big chip lead
three handed, had believe he had the chip lead heads
up maybe, but ultimately Blonde fell in second place for
three hundred and fifty eight thousand dollars and it was
all about Omar Zase five hundred and thirty eight thousand
dollars for him in the ten K limit Hold Them championship.
We are down to seven players from the field of
one hundred and twenty one. Benny Glasser is the chip leader.
He's ahead of Dong Chen. Then it's Gus Hansen, Jeremy Osmas,
Jesse Lonis, Dylan Smith, and Jerry Wong. It does look
like we lost phil Ivey. It does look like we
lost Daniel Legrand who It does look like we lost
josh Aria along the way. So some heavy hitters there
hitting the rail. Josh Ari finished in the eighth place
for thirty thousand dollars. Right behind him phil Ivey ninth
place thirty thousand dollars. Nigraney busted in thirteenth for twenty
one k. You also had Raisner in fourteenth, e k
Esther Taylor in fifteenth, and yeah, I mean that's a
pretty sick sick field. These guys will be back on
Saturday to finish it out something. Check what this first
place prize is two hundred and eighty five thousand, two
hundred dollars. So again, that's seven players left in the
ten K limit hold them championship. Benny Glaser on top.
He's going for gold bracelet number nine, I believe. And
that's just freaking incredible that Benny Glaser's got Damny Demn bracelets.
I mean, this is another absolute freaking crusher out there.
The fifteen hundred dollars pot limit Omaha is down to
fifteen players from two thousand, five hundred and eighty one.
Jason zip Fell is up on top. Jason, I forget
what does he go by. He goes by another name.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: I should know this because he played on cash Flow.
He's played on Venetian Poker Live. I forget his name.
He plays on the table one game all the time.
He's definitely a cash game player. Last year he needed
to finish in a certain place in a Venetian poker
tournament to get unstuck for the summer, and he ended
up doing it, so pretty crazy. There didn't even know
he really played plo. But here he is chip leading
the final fifteen entering the final day of play. Here
Will Givens is in second place. Pretty crazy story about
Will Givens. So he joined my table in the seventeen
hundred dollars US circuit event and he starts talking about
how it's his first time back at the WSB, his
first tournament back was that one that thereas to be
in four years and we're like, okay, why He says
he was banned from the World Series of Boker or
from all series properties or something. Something happened in the pit.
He got accused of something. He said that he didn't
do it. It was a whole thing. He explained that
he fought with Caesars. Or he tried tried to write letters,
which they always say, you just have to write a letter.
Do you have to write a letter? He kept trying
to write letters, nothing ever happened. Finally he got a
lawyer and I said, oh, you know, and he said, yeah,
you just have to get a lawyer. I said, so,
what was the time between when you got a lawyer
and when you got you know, allowed to come back?
And he's like three weeks. I was like, oh damn.
So you basically sat out almost a full four years
and all you had to do was.
Speaker 2: Get a lawyer.
Speaker 1: For whatever reason, the lawyer was able to work the
right channels, make the right case, whatever it was. But
it worked out for Will Gibbons and he is now
back at the World Series of Poker and here he
is two to fifteen in this fifteen hundred dollars plo
of and Max Coleman is also in there. Nick Unie
is in there as well. These guys are vying for
a four hundred and forty thousand dollars first place prize.
The five thousand dollars Seniors high Roller kicked off today
and won't get too much into that, still very early,
and then the fifteen hundred dollars raz also kicked off,
also not going to get too much into this one,
because well, you know, it's early day one and it's
ras and that's that. I think my umble voice made
it through. I'm not really sure. It feels like it's
going in and out. Hopefully it sounded good for you guys,
and hopefully we got this one done and I'll try
and get some more rest over these coming days, keep
bringing you these guys, these pods. But tonight was a
very very cool night at the World Series of Poker
with Nick Shulman getting bracelet number eight again. Stay tuned
for that interview that's going to drop at some point
over the weekend. It was a pleasure, as always to
talk to Nick after he got the job done. It's
always it's never really easy to, you know, go up
to these players. You know, they they just played a
grueling tournament, likely which happens they win. Yes, they're happy,
but then you gotta take a whole bunch of photos.
Then there's a whole bunch of different media interviews, and
then finally we walk up last and say, hey, by
the way, you got time for one more and we
want to go over here and do it on video.
So you know, I get it. I appreciate all the
players forgiving their time. They don't have to, they can
always say no. But stay tuned for that interview from
Nick Schulman. And that's that. I think we made it through.
I'm happy with it so I will catch you guys
next time. My name is Donny Peters. This has been
the Poker Go Podcast. I'll see you soon.