WEBVTT 1 00:00:10.880 --> 00:00:13.800 Hello, everyone, Welcome back to a new episode of the 2 00:00:14.039 --> 00:00:18.120 Poker Go Podcast. My name is Donny Peters. His name 3 00:00:18.440 --> 00:00:25.120 is Tim Duckworth. I hope you guys had a lovely Christmas. 4 00:00:25.760 --> 00:00:28.120 I know I did. I think I did. I mean, 5 00:00:28.719 --> 00:00:31.519 I think anytime I can just kind of chill, it's 6 00:00:31.559 --> 00:00:34.600 probably lovely, although I have a hard time always just 7 00:00:34.640 --> 00:00:37.920 like chilling. It was your Christmas, good sir. I know, 8 00:00:37.960 --> 00:00:39.359 I know you said on the Blast Show that you 9 00:00:39.399 --> 00:00:43.520 already opened your gifts, so like just another day for you. 10 00:00:43.719 --> 00:00:47.640 I opened some gifts, you know, but it was good. 11 00:00:47.880 --> 00:00:51.640 I'm trying to watch what I ate, and I did 12 00:00:51.679 --> 00:00:55.799 not achieve that. We tried a new dessert this year, 13 00:00:57.520 --> 00:00:58.840 key lime cheesecake. 14 00:00:59.039 --> 00:01:00.600 Well, key lime anything sucks. 15 00:01:00.600 --> 00:01:05.120 So okay, that's the end of the shot. We'll see 16 00:01:05.480 --> 00:01:06.560 see you guys next. 17 00:01:07.040 --> 00:01:08.560 You want to go, you want to you want to 18 00:01:08.640 --> 00:01:09.879 rank your top five desserts. 19 00:01:13.000 --> 00:01:17.319 We've done definitely done that before, and key lime pie is. 20 00:01:18.040 --> 00:01:24.799 Top Like anything lime anything lemon dessert type of form 21 00:01:24.920 --> 00:01:26.560 is just absolutely disgusting to me. 22 00:01:27.480 --> 00:01:29.319 How about cheesecake? You okay with cheesecake? 23 00:01:29.480 --> 00:01:32.640 I mean, listen, I'm every single year, I'm I'm essentially 24 00:01:32.680 --> 00:01:34.920 the I mean I am I'm the baker of the family, 25 00:01:35.120 --> 00:01:37.120 and I am tasked with making the desserts. 26 00:01:37.319 --> 00:01:40.599 So make the desserts. That's impressive because we never make desserts. 27 00:01:41.040 --> 00:01:44.640 Yeah, I'm you know one. It's it's you know, healthier 28 00:01:44.640 --> 00:01:48.159 to usually make it all yourself too. I I enjoyed 29 00:01:48.239 --> 00:01:52.280 baking a bit, so this year I had a request 30 00:01:52.519 --> 00:01:58.040 for my blueberry sour cream coffee cake. 31 00:01:58.319 --> 00:01:59.439 I would crush that. 32 00:01:59.719 --> 00:02:03.560 So I made that. That's that's a long time favorite. 33 00:02:04.159 --> 00:02:06.079 And then I made a I made a new recipe, 34 00:02:06.280 --> 00:02:10.080 a chocolate cheesecake and I never made that before. So 35 00:02:10.639 --> 00:02:14.520 made that and that went well. And then I helped 36 00:02:14.560 --> 00:02:18.080 my wife make some sugar cookies for the kids. Her 37 00:02:18.159 --> 00:02:21.800 her idea of baking is, I'm gonna go to the store, 38 00:02:21.800 --> 00:02:24.039 I'm gonna buy the mix, and I'm gonna make it 39 00:02:24.039 --> 00:02:26.680 with the kids. I'm like, no, that's not like, listen, 40 00:02:27.159 --> 00:02:28.919 I don't care to like give my kids a lot 41 00:02:28.919 --> 00:02:33.280 of cookies. My oldest she's three and a half. You know, 42 00:02:33.319 --> 00:02:36.159 she doesn't really like sweets. It's actually kind of weird 43 00:02:36.199 --> 00:02:39.879 but also refreshing, but she hates chocolate. She hates sweets. 44 00:02:40.080 --> 00:02:41.639 I had a piece of chocolate the other day and 45 00:02:41.639 --> 00:02:44.199 she's like, Dad, your breast smells like chocolate. She wouldn't 46 00:02:44.280 --> 00:02:47.560 didn't go near me. I was like, okay, she likes 47 00:02:47.560 --> 00:02:51.960 to make the cookies with my wife, and I was like, well, 48 00:02:51.960 --> 00:02:53.960 I'll just I'll make the dough for you and then 49 00:02:54.000 --> 00:02:56.039 you can just come home and do the rest of it. 50 00:02:56.479 --> 00:02:59.560 So so yeah, so I made that. But love baking, 51 00:03:00.120 --> 00:03:04.560 love love cooking in general. So yeah, little impromptu family pod. 52 00:03:04.719 --> 00:03:10.000 I guess it was all right? Yeah, no, not sponsored. 53 00:03:11.120 --> 00:03:15.240 The key line on this episode of the Poker Go Podcast. 54 00:03:15.280 --> 00:03:18.840 As we mentioned last time and foreshadowed for this show, 55 00:03:18.919 --> 00:03:21.599 we're gonna be heavy on the PGT PGT p g 56 00:03:21.759 --> 00:03:26.439 T PGT. We are going to recap the Texas PLO roundup. 57 00:03:27.120 --> 00:03:28.800 I know it's kind of been a long time coming 58 00:03:29.599 --> 00:03:31.960 for Tim. 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It drew four hundred and seventy 113 00:06:25.920 --> 00:06:30.040 four entries with one hundred and seventy unique player. So 114 00:06:30.079 --> 00:06:34.079 people were in there and they were firing one million, 115 00:06:34.120 --> 00:06:36.800 four hundred and twenty two thousand dollars in the prize pool, 116 00:06:36.800 --> 00:06:40.240 which is well clear of the million dollars guarantee. The 117 00:06:40.319 --> 00:06:45.680 top fifty five places paid. Lawrence Chang proved best amongst 118 00:06:45.720 --> 00:06:49.680 all competitors, topping the field for a three hundred thousand 119 00:06:49.800 --> 00:06:53.839 dollars win. He beat Andrew eg Egay. Is that how 120 00:06:53.839 --> 00:06:55.920 you say it? In a heads up play? Two hundred 121 00:06:55.959 --> 00:06:59.240 K for him, Sonovio Ramirez third place, one hundred and 122 00:06:59.240 --> 00:07:02.040 twenty K, sterl In Seville, eighty K for fourth place, 123 00:07:02.120 --> 00:07:06.759 Kyle Aurora fifth place for sixty K. Sean Rafael got 124 00:07:06.800 --> 00:07:10.040 sixth for fifty one thousand. Ladarren Banks we see him 125 00:07:10.079 --> 00:07:12.079 in the studio quite a bit, so, you know, over 126 00:07:12.120 --> 00:07:14.759 the season, especially for the PLO stuff seventh place, four 127 00:07:14.800 --> 00:07:20.079 banks forty three thousand dollars. David Misruloff, who ran deep 128 00:07:20.079 --> 00:07:23.399 in the Texas Poker Open as well. Right, did he 129 00:07:23.439 --> 00:07:25.079 be the in then. 130 00:07:25.279 --> 00:07:27.199 He catched like five times that series. 131 00:07:27.319 --> 00:07:29.120 Yeah, and he went deep in the main event too, 132 00:07:29.480 --> 00:07:32.000 And I remember being in the chat. He's one of 133 00:07:32.079 --> 00:07:36.279 the best players out of Texas for sure. Mazruloff got 134 00:07:36.480 --> 00:07:41.480 eighth place for thirty five point five. Matthew Macchiochi probably 135 00:07:41.480 --> 00:07:44.240 butchered that last name terribly, I'm sorry, thirty five point 136 00:07:44.240 --> 00:07:48.040 five for him as well, and then Zenis carol Ampo 137 00:07:48.399 --> 00:07:51.600 twenty nine k four tenth place. Some other notable finishes 138 00:07:51.639 --> 00:07:55.560 here we got Arthur Morris fifteenth place for eighteen thousand dollars, 139 00:07:55.600 --> 00:07:59.959 Chantroja twentieth for fourteen thousand dollars, Ben Ludlow twenty fourth 140 00:08:00.120 --> 00:08:02.839 eleven thousand dollars. Ren Lynn, who's you know again. We 141 00:08:02.920 --> 00:08:06.560 talked last time about all the success he's having in 142 00:08:06.600 --> 00:08:09.439 the latter half of this year and success here as well. 143 00:08:09.600 --> 00:08:12.720 With an asterisk because he was in for like eighty 144 00:08:12.759 --> 00:08:15.439 five thousand goals, didn't he have to come in like 145 00:08:16.000 --> 00:08:18.519 fifth place or something to break even something. 146 00:08:18.199 --> 00:08:19.920 Insane, something like that. 147 00:08:20.040 --> 00:08:22.279 Yes, yeah, so he got twenty six for eleven k. 148 00:08:22.439 --> 00:08:25.399 Jordan Griff twenty seventh for eleven thousand dollars, and that's 149 00:08:25.399 --> 00:08:26.680 notable because. 150 00:08:27.120 --> 00:08:31.560 He is now qualified for the PGT Million Dollar Championship. 151 00:08:31.600 --> 00:08:32.600 That was his third cash. 152 00:08:33.159 --> 00:08:37.399 Yeah, Jordan Griff obviously notably second place in the Wspy 153 00:08:37.440 --> 00:08:41.799 main event behind Jonathan Tomayo, but he needed to get 154 00:08:41.879 --> 00:08:45.879 a third cash. What was it Poker Masters or was 155 00:08:45.879 --> 00:08:49.600 it the Plokilo series, the PGTPLO series. He was out, 156 00:08:49.639 --> 00:08:51.919 he was battling. He did not get his third cast there, 157 00:08:52.720 --> 00:08:54.919 but then he headed on down to Texas and he 158 00:08:55.039 --> 00:08:58.000 was able to tick that box. You do have to 159 00:08:58.039 --> 00:09:02.200 have three PGT cash and be within the top forty 160 00:09:02.240 --> 00:09:05.399 points wise to qualify for the PGT Million Dollar Championship. 161 00:09:05.440 --> 00:09:06.919 Tim and I are going to get into that a 162 00:09:06.960 --> 00:09:09.799 little bit more later in this episode. But Jordan Griff 163 00:09:09.879 --> 00:09:12.559 notable twenty seventh place finished here because he does get 164 00:09:12.559 --> 00:09:15.679 that third cash. Then you had Ronald Kaiser thirtieth for 165 00:09:15.840 --> 00:09:19.080 nine thousand dollars, Josh Aria forty first for seventy five 166 00:09:19.159 --> 00:09:22.360 hundred Alex Livingston forty fourth for sixty five hundred and 167 00:09:22.440 --> 00:09:26.720 Matthew Wantman forty seventh, also for sixty five hundred dollars. 168 00:09:26.960 --> 00:09:29.279 There were some other events as part of the Texas 169 00:09:29.279 --> 00:09:33.519 Plo roundup that were PGT qualifying events. There were three 170 00:09:33.679 --> 00:09:37.600 five thousand dollars high rollers. You had Adam Hendrix, Curtis Muller, 171 00:09:37.720 --> 00:09:42.120 and Ronald Kaiser winning those three events. Hendricks top to 172 00:09:42.200 --> 00:09:44.720 field of twenty three entries to win almost fifty two 173 00:09:44.720 --> 00:09:47.559 thousand dollars, Mueller top the field of twenty entries to 174 00:09:47.600 --> 00:09:50.720 win fifty four thousand dollars, and then Kaiser chopped with 175 00:09:50.840 --> 00:09:54.000 Arthur Morris. They both took home just over forty thousand 176 00:09:54.039 --> 00:09:56.919 dollars each. Kaiser was the one who walked away with 177 00:09:57.080 --> 00:10:00.919 that beautiful Texas bell buckle. A right, sir, you're the 178 00:10:01.600 --> 00:10:04.879 you're the commissioner of the PGT. You love Texas, you 179 00:10:05.000 --> 00:10:08.840 love the steaks at Champions Club, you rock the boots, 180 00:10:08.960 --> 00:10:11.600 the hat, the whole damn thing. Surprise, you don't ride 181 00:10:11.600 --> 00:10:12.240 a horse there? 182 00:10:12.559 --> 00:10:13.240 I love. 183 00:10:13.720 --> 00:10:16.840 Yeah. You were on site, yes, down just outside of 184 00:10:16.840 --> 00:10:19.879 Houston or in Houston. How did the event go? Would 185 00:10:19.919 --> 00:10:22.200 you grade it as a success. I know there was 186 00:10:22.799 --> 00:10:26.919 some i'll say worry, but it's like a small w 187 00:10:26.919 --> 00:10:29.879 worry going in being like, this is a million dollar guarantee. 188 00:10:29.879 --> 00:10:32.200 There's a lot going on in the region poker wise. 189 00:10:32.600 --> 00:10:34.360 Are we going to hit it? No one's ever done 190 00:10:34.399 --> 00:10:36.840 a million dollar guarantee for a potlom and Omaha event, 191 00:10:36.919 --> 00:10:40.200 So you know, give us your thoughts, any interesting tibots 192 00:10:40.240 --> 00:10:42.000 that you want to share, all that sort of stuff. 193 00:10:42.919 --> 00:10:45.440 Yeah. Obviously, like you mentioned, million dollar guarantee, you never 194 00:10:45.440 --> 00:10:48.759 been done before in a in a multi flight PLO event, 195 00:10:49.240 --> 00:10:51.759 so you know, there's no data on that. We had 196 00:10:51.799 --> 00:10:55.200 no idea if it was going to crush, if we 197 00:10:55.200 --> 00:10:58.279 were going to get crushed. Everyone was very bullish on 198 00:10:58.440 --> 00:11:01.039 us hitting it any Problembviously, you kind of mentioned there 199 00:11:01.080 --> 00:11:04.080 was a lot of poker going on, especially in Texas. 200 00:11:04.360 --> 00:11:06.879 There was events in Houston, there was events up in Austin, 201 00:11:07.399 --> 00:11:10.519 so that drew some players away from ours. But as 202 00:11:11.039 --> 00:11:13.720 you kind of mentioned, one point four million dollars in 203 00:11:13.720 --> 00:11:19.480 the prize pool, we crushed the guarantee and the event 204 00:11:19.519 --> 00:11:22.639 went great. We had people coming out that we expected, 205 00:11:22.639 --> 00:11:25.039 We had a lot of new faces. You know. It 206 00:11:25.120 --> 00:11:27.720 did help the certain players were in for lots of bullets, 207 00:11:28.279 --> 00:11:32.200 including the champion, Lawrence, he was in for nine bullets. 208 00:11:32.720 --> 00:11:33.840 Nine bullets. 209 00:11:34.759 --> 00:11:39.799 Holy lord, Well the seven fight, it's understandable. But yeah, 210 00:11:39.960 --> 00:11:42.799 all round, it was a great series. We have already 211 00:11:43.279 --> 00:11:46.000 one hundred percent going to run this back probably a 212 00:11:46.080 --> 00:11:50.559 very similar time in twenty twenty five, just have to 213 00:11:50.679 --> 00:11:52.399 you know, we'll make a little a few little changes 214 00:11:52.399 --> 00:11:56.279 here to the schedule to try and get maximum numbers. 215 00:11:56.440 --> 00:12:00.559 But great series. It was, you know, pretty fun. You 216 00:12:00.600 --> 00:12:03.200 know the PGT. We brought in the PGT PLO series 217 00:12:03.679 --> 00:12:06.320 in twenty twenty three. You know, we've done that four 218 00:12:06.320 --> 00:12:08.440 times now. We haven't set for twenty twenty five, and 219 00:12:08.480 --> 00:12:11.279 this was our first PLO series outside of the studio 220 00:12:11.360 --> 00:12:17.159 and you know, it hit green green check marks all round. Yeah, 221 00:12:17.159 --> 00:12:18.480 it was definitely a great series. 222 00:12:19.200 --> 00:12:21.960 So a million dollar guarantee for a PLO tournament, you know, 223 00:12:22.200 --> 00:12:24.399 as I mentioned, seemed a little bit lofty, but lofty 224 00:12:24.480 --> 00:12:28.360 is good when you're doing poker tournament guarantees. You said it, 225 00:12:28.519 --> 00:12:31.679 you said, crush the guarantee, you know, one point four 226 00:12:31.720 --> 00:12:34.399 to two million in the price. Well at the end 227 00:12:34.440 --> 00:12:36.960 of the day, so clearing the guarantee, my question to 228 00:12:37.000 --> 00:12:40.320 you is would you like to raise the bar or 229 00:12:40.320 --> 00:12:42.799 push to get that bar raised as it pertains to 230 00:12:42.799 --> 00:12:45.279 the guarantee, Maybe go to one point five, maybe go 231 00:12:45.360 --> 00:12:47.600 to two million, Like, is there any sort of thought 232 00:12:47.639 --> 00:12:50.639 there from you, any discussions that are already happening. What's 233 00:12:50.720 --> 00:12:52.039 your temperature in that regard? 234 00:12:52.519 --> 00:12:56.039 Yeah, knowing that we lost players due to the competing series, 235 00:12:56.200 --> 00:12:59.559 if that's not an issue next year and hopefully the 236 00:12:59.639 --> 00:13:03.000 Texas poker community kind of teams up together to do 237 00:13:03.039 --> 00:13:05.120 what's best for Texas and that's not schedule over the 238 00:13:05.120 --> 00:13:08.639 top of each other. But if that's the case and we, 239 00:13:08.759 --> 00:13:11.480 you know, we have that period to ourselves, I think 240 00:13:11.879 --> 00:13:15.639 we have to help to guarantee, and both you and 241 00:13:15.639 --> 00:13:18.919 me are probably going to be more conservative. I personally 242 00:13:18.960 --> 00:13:20.799 think it could easily just go to one point five. 243 00:13:21.440 --> 00:13:24.679 Whether or our champions want to just go that big 244 00:13:25.240 --> 00:13:28.679 straight away is another question. I think easily one point 245 00:13:28.679 --> 00:13:32.399 two five is just an easy, you know, little uptick 246 00:13:32.480 --> 00:13:36.080 that shouldn't make the champions club team sweat it at all. 247 00:13:36.639 --> 00:13:38.200 It's just whether or not they want to do the 248 00:13:38.200 --> 00:13:41.159 one point five is probably going to be the question 249 00:13:41.240 --> 00:13:43.480 we kind of bounce back and forth on when we 250 00:13:43.480 --> 00:13:45.120 stop planning this for twenty twenty five. 251 00:13:45.679 --> 00:13:48.960 You also mentioned, you know, doing some things to kind 252 00:13:48.960 --> 00:13:52.759 of improve the numbers all around. I would say probably 253 00:13:52.960 --> 00:13:56.080 more specifically towards some of the side events, the high 254 00:13:56.159 --> 00:13:58.440 role events that happening. You know, we're nothing if we're 255 00:13:58.480 --> 00:14:02.200 not fair on this podcas SO Commission. What are some 256 00:14:02.360 --> 00:14:05.039 areas that you would like to improve upon for next 257 00:14:05.080 --> 00:14:06.679 year's Texas PLO around them? 258 00:14:07.320 --> 00:14:09.840 Yeah, I think we started too small with the buy ins. 259 00:14:09.879 --> 00:14:12.960 We started about three hundred. We missed that guarantee by 260 00:14:13.320 --> 00:14:15.159 like two or three players, and we did a four 261 00:14:15.240 --> 00:14:19.480 hundred miss by you know, another handful of players. Once 262 00:14:19.519 --> 00:14:23.080 we hit those the bigger numbers, the one k's especially, 263 00:14:23.960 --> 00:14:27.559 we exceeded the guarantees. So it says that, you know, 264 00:14:27.679 --> 00:14:30.919 the local community doesn't really want to play small PLO events. 265 00:14:30.960 --> 00:14:33.240 I want to play the bigger ones, obviously when we 266 00:14:33.279 --> 00:14:35.159 talk about the four hundred and seventy four in the 267 00:14:35.159 --> 00:14:38.360 main as well. So a concern of mine going in 268 00:14:38.480 --> 00:14:43.039 was sending people broke too quickly if you have kind 269 00:14:43.039 --> 00:14:45.600 of big buy inside events. But as you see by 270 00:14:45.639 --> 00:14:49.200 these numbers, that really wasn't the case. So starting next 271 00:14:49.279 --> 00:14:54.840 year we'll probably not really build around such smaller buy 272 00:14:54.879 --> 00:14:56.919 and starting a three hundred and escalating all the way 273 00:14:56.960 --> 00:14:58.879 up to three k. We may just start at the 274 00:14:58.919 --> 00:15:03.799 five six, one thousand mark really attract players to get 275 00:15:03.799 --> 00:15:08.840 there from the start high rollers. That's an interesting one. 276 00:15:09.279 --> 00:15:13.519 You know, I didn't have you know, massive numbers, and 277 00:15:13.600 --> 00:15:16.320 it was you know, majority of our players. When I 278 00:15:16.360 --> 00:15:20.240 say our players, the PGT regulars traveling from Vegas or 279 00:15:20.279 --> 00:15:22.720 traveling from out of town. It didn't really draw the 280 00:15:22.759 --> 00:15:25.519 locals like we had thought. So probably want to have 281 00:15:25.559 --> 00:15:27.519 a look at that again and see how we can 282 00:15:27.559 --> 00:15:31.360 maybe improve on that. Maybe it's just two high rollers 283 00:15:31.399 --> 00:15:34.120 instead of three, but that's probably the two negatives that 284 00:15:34.200 --> 00:15:35.759 come out of that series. 285 00:15:35.799 --> 00:15:40.639 I think, Well, do you think that this series should 286 00:15:40.639 --> 00:15:43.480 have a series leaderboard attached to it and with that, 287 00:15:43.840 --> 00:15:48.120 you know, hopefully generate some more interest in these high 288 00:15:48.159 --> 00:15:51.159 roller events, because you know, there might be some local 289 00:15:51.200 --> 00:15:53.080 players that say, hey, I'm going to kind of fire 290 00:15:53.159 --> 00:15:55.240 my one shot in this main event. It's got the 291 00:15:55.279 --> 00:15:57.960 million dollar guarantee, big price pool, all that sort of stuff, 292 00:15:58.480 --> 00:16:00.320 and I don't need to bother with the the high 293 00:16:00.399 --> 00:16:04.039 rollers because there's really nothing to chase in them, right, 294 00:16:04.200 --> 00:16:07.200 You know, versus when we do even the PLO series, 295 00:16:07.240 --> 00:16:09.320 in the Mixed Game series, you know, anything that we do, 296 00:16:09.360 --> 00:16:12.480 we always have these leaderboards attached to it. So should 297 00:16:12.679 --> 00:16:15.039 we look at attaching a leaderboard to this sort of 298 00:16:15.039 --> 00:16:18.440 thing to hopefully, you know, attract some more interest in 299 00:16:18.759 --> 00:16:20.960 the side events that have to do with the PGT. 300 00:16:23.200 --> 00:16:24.799 Look that was brought up when we did the Texas 301 00:16:24.840 --> 00:16:28.440 Poker Open as well, and I think it's the way 302 00:16:28.840 --> 00:16:31.639 we schedule this series with the multi flight main event 303 00:16:31.720 --> 00:16:35.080 and the high roller is overlapping the opening flights for 304 00:16:35.120 --> 00:16:37.600 people that have bagged it. I don't think adding a 305 00:16:37.679 --> 00:16:42.600 leaderboard prize actually changes that much. So I probably wouldn't 306 00:16:42.600 --> 00:16:45.080 opt for a leaderboard prize. I would just kind of 307 00:16:46.080 --> 00:16:49.639 configure the schedule a little better for players and work 308 00:16:49.679 --> 00:16:53.159 on you know. Obviously now we've laid the groundwork for 309 00:16:53.720 --> 00:16:56.279 a successful series, so that should help for the next 310 00:16:56.360 --> 00:16:59.360 year's promotion. But yeah, I don't think. I just don't 311 00:16:59.360 --> 00:17:02.120 think a leadable would work or really incentivize people to 312 00:17:03.159 --> 00:17:08.200 play play events and play you know, a multitude of events, 313 00:17:08.200 --> 00:17:10.720 because if you look at the lead like I do, 314 00:17:10.759 --> 00:17:14.759 a leaderboard just for tracking purposes, and even though someone 315 00:17:14.799 --> 00:17:18.240 like Arthur Morris cash in the main event finish runner 316 00:17:18.319 --> 00:17:21.640 up in two high Rollers, he only scored eighty a 317 00:17:21.759 --> 00:17:24.480 PGT points versus the winner, Lawrence, who got three hundred, 318 00:17:25.079 --> 00:17:27.880 So a leaderboard in this aspect's not going to work 319 00:17:27.920 --> 00:17:30.799 as much as like a PGTPLO series where you need 320 00:17:30.839 --> 00:17:35.200 to win multiple events cash multiple times to potentially win. 321 00:17:35.720 --> 00:17:37.759 It's just a yeah, it's just a completely different series, 322 00:17:37.799 --> 00:17:39.160 and I don't think it would work. 323 00:17:39.920 --> 00:17:44.440 I have one suggestion, okay, but two suggestions, actually two suggestions. 324 00:17:44.559 --> 00:17:47.200 I have no idea if this first one they're about 325 00:17:47.200 --> 00:17:49.559 to say is even a thing. So if it has 326 00:17:49.599 --> 00:17:52.720 already been a thing, then forgive me for being an idiot. 327 00:17:52.920 --> 00:17:55.599 Everyone that wins one of those smaller opening events should 328 00:17:56.079 --> 00:17:58.000 win a seat to the main event as part of 329 00:17:58.039 --> 00:18:02.920 their price. Good point them in there, and then you know, 330 00:18:03.079 --> 00:18:05.480 because you're down there, you know, doing the live reporting. 331 00:18:05.519 --> 00:18:07.440 We're streaming multiple days, you know, we can hit on 332 00:18:07.480 --> 00:18:10.039 that person. You're like, you know, hey, Jim Smith, you 333 00:18:10.079 --> 00:18:12.039 own the three hundred dollar opener and you also got 334 00:18:12.039 --> 00:18:14.000 into this event, like you know, to tell us about that. 335 00:18:14.039 --> 00:18:17.200 But whatever, that's additional kind of marketing, and that's a good, 336 00:18:17.519 --> 00:18:23.400 good story to have second to that. Not this this 337 00:18:23.680 --> 00:18:27.160 last series that h the WPT and winded for the 338 00:18:27.359 --> 00:18:29.759 World Championship event. But I think it was last year 339 00:18:30.119 --> 00:18:34.039 twenty twenty three where throughout the year when they when 340 00:18:34.079 --> 00:18:36.839 they had these satellites, they were doing photos of like 341 00:18:36.880 --> 00:18:39.160 the satellite winners, and like they would all kind of 342 00:18:39.160 --> 00:18:40.640 hold up a ticket or something and they would all 343 00:18:40.640 --> 00:18:42.240 stand there and sometimes there would be three of them, 344 00:18:42.279 --> 00:18:43.480 sometimes there would be ten of them. 345 00:18:43.519 --> 00:18:43.839 Whatever. 346 00:18:44.160 --> 00:18:47.640 But like I think that helps you know, so every 347 00:18:47.640 --> 00:18:50.160 time that there's a satellite winner or a group of 348 00:18:50.200 --> 00:18:53.480 satellite winners, you know, take a photo of them. If 349 00:18:53.519 --> 00:18:55.559 you're Champions Club, you know, they can send it to us. 350 00:18:55.559 --> 00:18:57.400 Of course, we can put it out there and promote it. 351 00:18:57.440 --> 00:19:00.319 Maybe we have some nice tickets drawn up. Because it 352 00:19:00.359 --> 00:19:04.599 allows people to actually see the satellites in motion, and 353 00:19:05.920 --> 00:19:07.799 like a couple things like one, you start to see 354 00:19:07.799 --> 00:19:09.960 like the number of people that have won satellites, which 355 00:19:09.960 --> 00:19:13.640 then draws in more interest in attending the event, you know, 356 00:19:13.839 --> 00:19:16.559 if you're somebody who's like chasing an event that has 357 00:19:16.599 --> 00:19:19.119 some decent value. Also, if you see a bunch of 358 00:19:19.119 --> 00:19:21.920 people in a photo that you know you don't recognize 359 00:19:22.039 --> 00:19:24.400 because they're recreational as you say, oh, this looks like 360 00:19:24.440 --> 00:19:26.079 it might be a decent value you feel now, you 361 00:19:26.119 --> 00:19:27.720 obviously have no idea if they're a good or bad 362 00:19:27.720 --> 00:19:31.359 player or whatever, but just not recognizing a bunch of 363 00:19:31.400 --> 00:19:34.599 faces is, you know, lends you to think that it's 364 00:19:34.640 --> 00:19:37.640 a good thing. So those two things I would like 365 00:19:37.680 --> 00:19:40.240 to see for next year. But of course, you know 366 00:19:40.359 --> 00:19:45.480 who the heck knows any more thoughts on the Texas 367 00:19:45.480 --> 00:19:47.000 people around up from you. 368 00:19:46.799 --> 00:19:49.160 Before we move on, No, just looking forward to running 369 00:19:49.160 --> 00:19:52.200 it back next year. Same with the Texas Poker Open. 370 00:19:52.319 --> 00:19:55.240 We have some hopefully a pretty fun idea cooking with 371 00:19:55.279 --> 00:19:58.279 that one to try and encourage some players to get 372 00:19:58.279 --> 00:20:01.759 in early. So yeah, starting to draw up those plans 373 00:20:01.799 --> 00:20:05.720 and hopefully, you know, early January we can get that 374 00:20:05.799 --> 00:20:08.599 announcement out there, get people to stop lucking it in 375 00:20:08.680 --> 00:20:11.160 the accountless you're going to come this time? Remember you 376 00:20:11.160 --> 00:20:13.839 said last time? Yeah, so you'll come into play? 377 00:20:14.200 --> 00:20:17.240 Well, yeah, the Texas pokero Open, Yeah, I would like 378 00:20:17.359 --> 00:20:20.680 to come play. I would like to I would like 379 00:20:20.759 --> 00:20:26.160 to start making one poker centric trip a year. Okay, 380 00:20:26.319 --> 00:20:30.400 that's kind of like my idea in my head now, 381 00:20:30.599 --> 00:20:32.680 of course, I got two young kids, I got a wife, 382 00:20:32.759 --> 00:20:34.920 et cetera. Like it's not can't just like, you know, 383 00:20:35.000 --> 00:20:38.039 get up and fuck off for a week, you know, 384 00:20:38.079 --> 00:20:42.359 as much as I might like to. But yeah, so 385 00:20:43.079 --> 00:20:46.319 part of my idea is maybe it's something where I 386 00:20:46.359 --> 00:20:48.480 can bring the family. And I think we've talked about 387 00:20:48.519 --> 00:20:51.519 this before, you know, like I think like Florida would 388 00:20:51.519 --> 00:20:54.039 be a decent stop because you know, I know, something 389 00:20:54.079 --> 00:20:56.599 a hard rock and like it's a good property to 390 00:20:56.640 --> 00:20:58.559 stay at and they have the pool and all that 391 00:20:58.599 --> 00:21:00.480 sort of stuff, and there's stuff to do around the 392 00:21:00.519 --> 00:21:05.200 area and whatnot. I'm not sure if Champions Club qualifies 393 00:21:05.279 --> 00:21:08.000 as like a place I would bring my family to. 394 00:21:08.200 --> 00:21:11.519 I just don't know what's around that area. That said, 395 00:21:12.200 --> 00:21:15.200 I'm fully prepared to just ask the wife if I 396 00:21:15.240 --> 00:21:19.039 can go for you know, four days or whatever, and 397 00:21:19.200 --> 00:21:22.559 you know, maybe I'll come down there and play, you know, 398 00:21:22.640 --> 00:21:25.039 kind of the tail end of the main events. You know, 399 00:21:25.480 --> 00:21:27.200 I think it would be good just from a work 400 00:21:27.240 --> 00:21:29.599 perspective to be there on site to see the event 401 00:21:29.680 --> 00:21:32.640