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