Speaker 1: Hello, everyone, Welcome back to a new episode of the
Speaker 1: Poker Go Podcast. My name is Donnie Peters. His name
Speaker 1: is Tim Duckworth. It is Sunday, January eleventh. It looks
Speaker 1: like the Jaguars are about to kick an extra point?
Speaker 1: Is this?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Extra point to go up? Seventeen thirteen is the middle
Speaker 1: of wild card weekend, but.
Speaker 2: More important to be twenty than thirteen.
Speaker 1: Why is that, mister idiot miss?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Well, you know kickers af I mean, that's just how
Speaker 1: it is.
Speaker 2: Best kicker in the league.
Speaker 1: No, there's no shot, he's the best kicker in the league.
Speaker 2: Biggest kick. How about biggest kicker in the league?
Speaker 1: No, no, Brandon Aubrey's the biggest.
Speaker 2: Didn't he didn't He set the record for an out
Speaker 2: those stadium last week.
Speaker 1: That I don't if you were to line them up
Speaker 1: side by side and have them do some sort of
Speaker 1: kickoff Brandon Aubrey all day, Like what do you want
Speaker 1: to bet all day?
Speaker 2: And every how many field goals he missed in the
Speaker 2: last like four weeks of the season.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because whatever, it doesn't matter. It's twelve twenty two
Speaker 1: pm on this fine Sunday. We're going to be talking
Speaker 1: all things end of the season PGT Last Chance PGT Championship.
Speaker 1: The PGT Championship kicks off on Monday, January twelfth, a
Speaker 1: two day event. Fifty four players, I believe is what
Speaker 1: it is. It's forty players from the top forty of
Speaker 1: the season long leaderboard, as we've been talking about for
Speaker 1: an entire year. It is also fourteen Dream seats winners,
Speaker 1: five of which won their dream seats at the death,
Speaker 1: as some might say during the PGT Last Chance series.
Speaker 1: So we're going to get into all of that sort
Speaker 1: of stuff. I'm guessing Tim and I should do some
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Speaker 1: I haven't even checked on anything I am. So you know,
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Speaker 1: the Last Chance series six tournaments. As we talked about
Speaker 1: what a week ago, week and half ago something like that,
Speaker 1: six tournaments, all ten K buy ins. We had a
Speaker 1: lot on the line. You had a Player of the
Speaker 1: Year race that was still to be decided. You had
Speaker 1: people trying to get into the top forty. You had
Speaker 1: people in the top forty trying to move up some
Speaker 1: spot in order to get some more chips for the
Speaker 1: PGT Championship. You had people who were in the top
Speaker 1: forty but at the bottom trying to make sure that
Speaker 1: they stayed in the top forty by competing, maybe getting
Speaker 1: a couple more points. Then, of course, you had the
Speaker 1: five dream seats that were up for grabs during the
Speaker 1: series leaderboard. So even if you hadn't done a damn
Speaker 1: thing all PGT season, shout out to you, Jeremy Becker,
Speaker 1: then wow, has he done anything all PGT season?
Speaker 2: Yea, he did a little bit of this, a little
Speaker 2: bit of that.
Speaker 1: Okay, how about this, if you were and I don't
Speaker 1: even know if you could actually do this, but if
Speaker 1: you could put points per dollar, he's definitely he's got
Speaker 1: to be low because he had a ton of buyings
Speaker 1: all season and it was pretty low. I would also
Speaker 1: say Jeremy Osmas is probably high up there.
Speaker 2: I know who's I know who the leader probably is.
Speaker 1: Who's the leader?
Speaker 2: Well, at least it's definitely Victoria Lushitz No, no, no, shot,
Speaker 2: what do you mean she has one hundred and fifty
Speaker 2: six points.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but but if you factor in, I think part
Speaker 1: of Jeremy is that, like he played all the big
Speaker 1: buy and stuff. Wow, she skipped some bigger buy and stuff,
Speaker 1: Like she might have skipped a couple of twenty five k's.
Speaker 2: Even if she skipped the twenty five k's. I mean,
Speaker 2: Becca has four XRA points on.
Speaker 1: Her Yeah, I mean it could it could be.
Speaker 2: And three and a half x the winnings. Listen, there's
Speaker 2: probably someone even lower than that.
Speaker 1: But like some years are good, some years are bad.
Speaker 1: It's just that's just poker. That's the variance of it all.
Speaker 1: So once again, you know, during this during this series,
Speaker 1: you know, we got a lot of I don't know,
Speaker 1: hype buzz, like at least within the room for sure,
Speaker 1: just of these players like sweating trying to figure out
Speaker 1: what was happening where they had to finish. You know,
Speaker 1: do I have to get here? Do I have to
Speaker 1: get there? Like, well, what about this guy over here?
Speaker 1: What's going on? And then in addition to that, not
Speaker 1: only the people in the Pokergro studio, but like you were,
Speaker 1: you know, messaging people left right and center all day
Speaker 1: every day, telling them like because there was people that
Speaker 1: were on the cusp of the top forty or maybe
Speaker 1: they were you know, right below it and or sorry,
Speaker 1: right at the bottom of it, and you know, there
Speaker 1: was a chance that they could fall out. Some did
Speaker 1: fall out, as we'll talk about, you know, but they
Speaker 1: were just going to basically sweat it and then hop
Speaker 1: on a plane today if that were the case. So
Speaker 1: we got a lot to dive into. I think first
Speaker 1: and foremost the thing that I want to touch on
Speaker 1: is the thing that took until the absolute last second
Speaker 1: to be decided, and that's the Player of the Year yep,
Speaker 1: which coming into PGT Last Chance, you had Sam Silverll
Speaker 1: as the leader on top of the season long leaderboard.
Speaker 1: So the winner for the season long leader board gets
Speaker 1: a fifty thousand dollars bonus, they get the award, the trophy,
Speaker 1: and then they also enter the PGT Championship with the
Speaker 1: most starting chips. Starting hips in that event are based
Speaker 1: on your leaderboard finishing position. Alex Foxen was like right
Speaker 1: there within striking distance. He's like fifty or sixty or
Speaker 1: seventy points behind coming into the series. You know, so
Speaker 1: like one deep run from Alex Foxen, like he could
Speaker 1: overtake sover Of course he needed to fade Soverll doing
Speaker 1: anything as well. Chino Reeim was a long shot, but
Speaker 1: but he could make it happen, right, He was like
Speaker 1: four fifty or five hundred points out. You know, a
Speaker 1: couple of these events had three hundred points plus up top,
Speaker 1: so you know, a win and then you know some
Speaker 1: other stuff from from Chino and he could have Tooken,
Speaker 1: taken the Player of the Year title. Anyone else you
Speaker 1: would have needed to win like four events, you know,
Speaker 1: like Shausamal would have needed to win four events. Not
Speaker 1: that that's necessarily out of the realm of possibility, but
Speaker 1: you know, it would have been a very very very
Speaker 1: small chance for that to happen. But you got Soverroll
Speaker 1: getting in there, like he had a couple of cases
Speaker 1: to kind of pad his lead. Alex Foxen looked like
Speaker 1: nothing was really going to happen for him. He was
Speaker 1: I think we heard him say last night, at least
Speaker 1: I heard him say last night that he put eighteen
Speaker 1: bullets in over the course of the entire series. So
Speaker 1: Alex Foxen was certainly blasting to try and get this
Speaker 1: Player of the Year title. You know, these three guys,
Speaker 1: Fox and Sobroll and Ream, they were very much locked
Speaker 1: in for the championships, like they didn't necessarily need to
Speaker 1: be there other than going for this POI title. I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously if you like money too and you want to
Speaker 1: win money, but you know you necessarily didn't need to
Speaker 1: to go for this. Chino makes back to back to
Speaker 1: back final tables like and then entering the final event
Speaker 1: registration closes. All three of them are in right, so
Speaker 1: Sover's basically playing defense. Foxen needs what we sorted out
Speaker 1: as a fourth placer better independent of Soverroll getting any results,
Speaker 1: and then Chino needed to win, but also like China
Speaker 1: could win, but then fox and if Foxing finished third,
Speaker 1: he could lock it up. So there was a lot
Speaker 1: of moving parts at play for this specific race. Soilver
Speaker 1: goes out, So now we just have Foxen and Ring
Speaker 1: both know what needs to happen. Foxen knows he needs
Speaker 1: to get fourth or if he gets third, for sure
Speaker 1: he locks it up. Right, if he gets fourth and
Speaker 1: then Chino wins the tournament, Chino could win POI. Chino
Speaker 1: knows he has to win. So all this is playing out.
Speaker 1: They both did they both make the final table? Or
Speaker 1: where did Chino go out?
Speaker 2: Chino bust just short of the Fhonne table right eight?
Speaker 1: Was it eighth or was it ninth or eighth or
Speaker 1: something like that?
Speaker 2: Yeah, he finished eighth bubble the final table.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so he was a bit bummed obviously. I mean,
Speaker 1: I mean still a good results, still good series for
Speaker 1: Chino Reim, did you have his series stats on hand?
Speaker 2: Yeah, he had four cashes at three final tables obviously
Speaker 2: and that Finnal table bubble three hundred and thirty five
Speaker 2: points he picked up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so China know, you know, a pretty great season overall.
Speaker 1: And I believe he led in terms of cashes and
Speaker 1: titles or did fox And tie him in titles?
Speaker 2: Foxin ended up tying him. They both have five wins
Speaker 2: for the season. Uh, and obviously there is still one
Speaker 2: event to go. There is a tiebreaker for that wins. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Chino crushed the crap the cashes, thirty five cashes. Next
Speaker 2: best was several with thirty one, and then after that
Speaker 2: we had two people on twenty eight, which was Nick
Speaker 2: Schulman and John Reordan.
Speaker 1: How many of those cases do you know from Chino
Speaker 1: came in the mixed game series because Fox and Fox
Speaker 1: and will play polo. They'll both play po will obviously
Speaker 1: both play in No Limit, but I don't think foxing plays.
Speaker 2: Yeah, China picked up three cashes during PGT Mixed Games
Speaker 2: and obviously got a couple at the World Series. He
Speaker 2: didn't have the best World series, only had four cashes,
Speaker 2: while Fox and Sxson's World Series was very strong. Eight
Speaker 2: cash is eleven hundred points.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so listen, it came down to the wire. Then
Speaker 1: they get to the found taplesod Chino goes out in
Speaker 1: eighth places we talked about. They get to the final
Speaker 1: table of seven and this last event is you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know, call it the freaking roaring twenties, twenty
Speaker 1: minute levels, twenty second shot clocks, like it's just everything
Speaker 1: is twenty twenty second time, banks, et cetera very fast event.
Speaker 1: They get down to the final table and like, no
Speaker 1: one's got chips they get When they got down to
Speaker 1: the found table, there was like one hundred and four
Speaker 1: big blinds in play total. Josh Aria had many of
Speaker 1: those big blinds. He had I don't know what thirty
Speaker 1: five percent of the chips and player or something like
Speaker 1: that to start. Everyone else was pretty short. Foxon's basically
Speaker 1: playing this like a satellite, knowing that he has to
Speaker 1: get to fourth to get the poy. Everyone else knows that.
Speaker 1: But then there's also the added dynamics of, you know,
Speaker 1: josh Aria needs to win, and if he wins, he's
Speaker 1: going to get a dream seat. If aram Aganian wins
Speaker 1: the tournament, he's going to get into the top forty.
Speaker 1: If Jonathan Little wins the tournament, he's going to get
Speaker 1: a dream seat, you know. And then you have what
Speaker 1: Chewie Brandon Wilson, and was that it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, boy, No, Chewey was already in so he
Speaker 2: could already.
Speaker 1: But I unders saying that they had already kind of
Speaker 1: locked up their positions and they're just playing a regular tournament.
Speaker 1: Before that as well, you had Brandon Wilson, who he
Speaker 1: wanted to cash in order to just really solidify his
Speaker 1: position on the leaderboards. He wanted to cash because if
Speaker 1: he cashed, he got a couple more points. He's like,
Speaker 1: there's no shot that, like any craziness can happen for
Speaker 1: me to lose one of these dream seats. But then
Speaker 1: if he finished at least eighth, this is Brandon Wilson again,
Speaker 1: then he would move into the top forty of the
Speaker 1: season long leader board, which other players were rooting for,
Speaker 1: because if he moves out of the dream Seat leader
Speaker 1: board into the top forty, he makes an additional dream
Speaker 1: seat available, most notably for Jeremy Becker, who was in
Speaker 1: sixth place on the Dream Seat leader Award again five
Speaker 1: dream seats awarded, Brandon was ahead of him. But if
Speaker 1: Brandon then gets into the top forty, you know, all
Speaker 1: this sort of shakes out. And like Brandon's like in
Speaker 1: he's in multiple pots, all multiple all in situations like
Speaker 1: before the before the final eight were happening, like it was,
Speaker 1: it was crazy, and like, you know, Jeremy's messaging us
Speaker 1: because he's he's playing down the street, I played at
Speaker 1: Hollywood in the circuit event. He's like, hey, like what
Speaker 1: are my chances? You know, like We're like, well, Brandon's
Speaker 1: all in right now, like all this sort of stuff.
Speaker 1: So it was it was pretty wild. There was one
Speaker 1: hand in particular where so Jonathan Little he has to
Speaker 1: win the tournament, but he can also finish second if
Speaker 1: Brandon Wilson finishes in the top eight. If he were
Speaker 1: to finish second, then he would have tied with Jeremy Becker,
Speaker 1: but Brandon Wilson would have been out and moved into
Speaker 1: the top forty. So but then there was a hand
Speaker 1: where Brandon Wilson basically moved on and left like one
Speaker 1: chip behind or one big blind behind or something. Jonathan
Speaker 1: Little put him all in from the big blind with
Speaker 1: a six off, which I thought was if you know that,
Speaker 1: you can't bust Brandon Wilson, Like I thought that that
Speaker 1: was just crazy to me. But also is that collusion
Speaker 1: or is that just the dynamics of the situation.
Speaker 2: I mean, we could question some chip dumping, but uh.
Speaker 1: I mean, but I'm just saying, I'm just saying, just
Speaker 1: fold your hand type of thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, it doesn't quite make sense. I think
Speaker 2: maybe he actually had it wrong in his mind and
Speaker 2: was actually just trying to bust him. So it took
Speaker 2: a you know, slightly high variant spot than he may
Speaker 2: normally have.
Speaker 1: That's my yeah, I think I would have just folded
Speaker 1: my hand. You know. It's it's pretty it's very much
Speaker 1: like a satellite in a lot of ways, you know,
Speaker 1: because but he also needs Brandon Wilson to finish top
Speaker 1: eight was part of the equation for him, So I
Speaker 1: mean what whatever, I mean, It was just there was
Speaker 1: a lot of just fun, little interesting dynamics to everything
Speaker 1: that were going on, and like everyone was kind of
Speaker 1: aware about it. So like, you know, especially when they
Speaker 1: got down to that seven hind to final table, like
Speaker 1: everyone knows fox And has to finish fourth, right, everyone
Speaker 1: knows like josh Aria has to win, or Jonathan Little
Speaker 1: has to win, or Aramaganiy has to win, you know,
Speaker 1: so it's very just kind of interesting. Then there was
Speaker 1: this crazy hand at the final table where josh Aria
Speaker 1: has he had like one point five million and he
Speaker 1: raised to one point one million. The big blind was
Speaker 1: one hunter k so he puts out the large majority
Speaker 1: of his chips behind him. Brandon Wilson goes all in
Speaker 1: and has him cover slightly covered folds back to Aria
Speaker 1: and Brandon Wilson. This is another situation by the way
Speaker 1: of these players exposing cars, because Brandon Wilson immediately turns
Speaker 1: his hand over, yeah, and he showed he shows aces,
Speaker 1: which it's just freaking crazy. So Aria sees it. They're
Speaker 1: sitting right next to each other. Aria sees it, and
Speaker 1: he's like quickly folds his hand. He said he had
Speaker 1: ace jack. So that's another crazy situation where if ari
Speaker 1: A doesn't see his hand, he probably calls off the
Speaker 1: rest of his chips right, and then he's likely out
Speaker 1: of the tournament. The very next hand, Aria gets two
Speaker 1: kings and doubles up like it's just it was just
Speaker 1: wild how some of this stuff was playing. Anyway, it
Speaker 1: goes on that Alex Foxen ends up getting into fourth
Speaker 1: place or there's four players left, so he secures the
Speaker 1: Player of the Year title, and then from there you
Speaker 1: had a long battle to get down from four to one,
Speaker 1: especially the heads up match that took place between Brandon
Speaker 1: Wilson and Alex Foxen. It was back and forth, back
Speaker 1: and forth, multiple lead changes, even though there was like
Speaker 1: forty big blinds in play total, Like the these guys
Speaker 1: were just battling back and forth, back and forth, you know,
Speaker 1: whoever was all in just like could never lose. It
Speaker 1: was it was crazy. Eventually though, Alex Foxen did the
Speaker 1: damn thing. He came out on top. He won the
Speaker 1: whole thing two hundred and thirty two thousand dollars to
Speaker 1: thirty two point four. I think was was the final prize. So,
Speaker 1: you know, he had already secured the PGT Player of
Speaker 1: the Year title, but great good on him to be
Speaker 1: able to cap it all off with a win. You know,
Speaker 1: I thought Alex Foxon absolutely crushed this season. You know,
Speaker 1: Sam's overall would have been deserving as well. You know,
Speaker 1: of course based on the point system. I trust the
Speaker 1: point system, you know, but but I you know, I
Speaker 1: do have to say that I was I was looking
Speaker 1: through Silverall's results in the past couple of days, and
Speaker 1: I was like, where where did all these points come from?
Speaker 1: Like what what happened? And a lot of it was
Speaker 1: was ws AP related. Think he won the ten K
Speaker 1: six max for example, Like that was a boatload of
Speaker 1: points there. There was like a fIF a in there.
Speaker 2: He was just basically consistently kind of you know, getting points,
Speaker 2: you know, final table here every series.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's he's always very consistent. Yeah, over like yeah,
Speaker 1: every season. You know, he's he's like one of those
Speaker 1: guys who's he's for sure always in the top ten,
Speaker 1: if not always in the top five, like always.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he you know, he won a couple of smaller events,
Speaker 2: but you know, like every you know, every win counts.
Speaker 2: You know, a couple you had a runner out finish
Speaker 2: in the PLO series, you know, several final tables. He
Speaker 2: had the runner up in the hundred KPLO. You know,
Speaker 2: he he won an nap AT event, runner up in
Speaker 2: an NAPT event.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I think well that specifically, just quickly
Speaker 1: is that I think people because you know, it kind
Speaker 1: of came about where people were like where did Sam
Speaker 1: get all his points from? And people kind of forget
Speaker 1: when like a lot of Sam's points came dissip he did.
Speaker 1: He did very well during the napt Las Vegas series,
Speaker 1: So it's like stuff that's not in the studio, people
Speaker 1: just kind of like forget about. Whereas you're in the
Speaker 1: studio all sees and long, you're seeing everything that's happening
Speaker 1: in the studio, so you're you're a little bit more
Speaker 1: you're closer to that happening so it's just more front
Speaker 1: of mine.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So anyway, Alex Oxen is the twenty twenty five PGT
Speaker 1: Player of the Year. As I did mention earlier, he
Speaker 1: gets a fifty thousand dollars bonus. He's gonna enter the
Speaker 1: PGT Championship with the most chips and funny, you know,
Speaker 1: I kind of joked with him afterwards while he was
Speaker 1: taking his winner photo for this event that he's had,
Speaker 1: He's had very very close results to like series titles
Speaker 1: and stuff like that before. The one that stuck out
Speaker 1: to me the most was the PLO series where it
Speaker 1: was him and Jesse Lonis coming down right to the wire.
Speaker 1: Jesse Lonis is at the final table of the twenty
Speaker 1: five K championship event of that series, but then they
Speaker 1: had a five K turbo that was happening that Foxen
Speaker 1: needed to win. So Foxin is in the in the
Speaker 1: Foxin's in the main studio rooms. He gets to heads
Speaker 1: up against I think it was Zach Schwartz, Yeah it was,
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, and Jesse Lomnis, who is like, you know,
Speaker 1: always in their blasting maximum pressure on everyone is playing
Speaker 1: basically icm nitfest in the in the twenty five kids
Speaker 1: trying to fall so he can get as many points
Speaker 1: as possible to beat Fox. And so that that was
Speaker 1: another fun race that you know, once involved Alex Foxen.
Speaker 1: With this one he ultimately was able to come out
Speaker 1: on top of.
Speaker 2: Real quick about Fox and just touching on his year,
Speaker 2: he was the first player to reach one hundred PGT cases.
Speaker 2: He has one hundred and eight right now, first player
Speaker 2: to reach ten thousand PGT points, still leading that. He
Speaker 2: has the most PGT final tables with seventy seven. He's
Speaker 2: tied for second with Steven Chidwick for most wins with twelve,
Speaker 2: behind several thirteen, and he leads PGT earnings with nineteen
Speaker 2: point three million. So it's not just this year for Alex.
Speaker 2: Obviously very consistent over the first you know, five seasons
Speaker 2: of the PGT and you know that reward is now
Speaker 2: being crowned the twenty twenty five PGT Player of the Year.
Speaker 1: Crusher, absolute freaking crusher, dream seats. Yeah, all right, who
Speaker 1: won the five? Tell me who won the five?
Speaker 2: Well, it was good, it was a good fun race.
Speaker 2: The big winner David Odie b Baker, two cashes, two
Speaker 2: runner up finishers, tops the leaderboard gets that dream seat
Speaker 2: in to the PGT Championship, took that final event off.
Speaker 2: You know, he's sent me kind of asked me, like,
Speaker 2: that's my goal, try and get enough points where I
Speaker 2: can take that last event off. Watched some football, et cetera.
Speaker 2: So he was in. Next up, Neil Warren won his
Speaker 2: first PGT title. It was the tied for the biggest
Speaker 2: field in the room. He's second and he was also
Speaker 2: one off the top forty two. So if he had
Speaker 2: cashed in one of those last two events, I think
Speaker 2: he had to get about the twenty k cash, he
Speaker 2: would have actually qualified for the top forty. That would
Speaker 2: have free up another seat four. We'll talk to it
Speaker 2: for someone else. Clement Dang he won the opening event.
Speaker 2: He got in because he got another cash as well.
Speaker 2: And then the penultimate event winner Chi Jun Chu or Justin.
Speaker 2: I think he said he goes by. He won his
Speaker 2: first PGT title. To be fourth and then fifth was
Speaker 2: kind of where it all. You know, the sweat was coming.
Speaker 2: We had Jeremy Becker in that spot, we had Phil
Speaker 2: helm with, we had Land and Tyres, Jared Jaffe, all
Speaker 2: these players playing that finale, you know, knowing what they
Speaker 2: needed to do. And then obviously they had to sweat
Speaker 2: some other results, but it ended up going to our boy,
Speaker 2: Jeremy Becker one hundred and ninety three points. He want
Speaker 2: a rounded up, so let's just say it's one ninety four.
Speaker 2: And then yeah, that that person on deck that was
Speaker 2: Phil Helm with and Land and Tice. So you know,
Speaker 2: if Neil warrant to get that cash, we could have
Speaker 2: seen Phil Helm within the PGT Championship, but not this year.
Speaker 2: We'll have to wait until twenty twenty six hopefully. But yeah,
Speaker 2: they're the dreams. He winners, ODB Baker, Neil Warren, Clement
Speaker 2: and True and Jeremy Becka.
Speaker 1: I mean, just again another really really fun race, you know,
Speaker 1: came down to the wire, you know, like Becker's in
Speaker 1: our in our messages, NonStop, just trying to sweat all
Speaker 1: the stuff that's happening.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: I'm sure plenty of other people were sweating as well
Speaker 1: who were close. I know, Jared Jaffey had had a
Speaker 1: fairly decent run in that in that in that final
Speaker 1: turbo there, he didn't cash. He did fall. I don't
Speaker 1: think he cashed. He might have cashed, but either way
Speaker 1: he fell shorts, you know, but he was definitely like
Speaker 1: he's like, you know, I need to do this, I
Speaker 1: need to like basically finish top whatever, and and yeah,
Speaker 1: you know again another really fun sweat to it all.
Speaker 1: And then of course you had the just the top
Speaker 1: forty right where everyone's battling all season long to get
Speaker 1: into the top forty. You know, Jeremy Osmas ragining PGT
Speaker 1: Player of the Year, well not anymore, actually last last
Speaker 1: season's PGT Player of the Year because now it is decided,
Speaker 1: and and last year's PGT Championship winner, you know, Ozmus
Speaker 1: also went on to win that event. He was outside
Speaker 1: looking in coming into the series. He earned enough points.
Speaker 1: The big one was a final table run that he
Speaker 1: had in the middle of the series to get into
Speaker 1: the top forty. But then he's someone who you know,
Speaker 1: needed to sweat some stuff happening for players getting in.
Speaker 1: You know, it wasn't in any way, shape or form
Speaker 1: a guarantee, whereas somebody like let's say Patrick Leonard, who
Speaker 1: started the season off really hot first half of the season,
Speaker 1: was at some point he was at the top of
Speaker 1: the leader board. Then he was you know, within the
Speaker 1: top five to ten for a good majority leading into
Speaker 1: the WSP he started to just kind of slide slide, slide,
Speaker 1: slide slide. Next thing you know, he's outside the top
Speaker 1: forty looking in. But Pads of course, won an event
Speaker 1: during the PGT Last Chance which shot him up kind
Speaker 1: of into the middle ish area of the top forty.
Speaker 1: So he was like pretty much locked, right, I mean,
Speaker 1: he was still playing until the end, but he was
Speaker 1: very much locked in. Osmas was the opposite, you know,
Speaker 1: he was he got in, but it was like, man,
Speaker 1: I could still because he only got he only leapfrogged
Speaker 1: the bottom two people.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean when we started Last Chance, the top
Speaker 2: forty was sorry, the last the last few names we
Speaker 2: were we were Richard Greco, Ben Toleraene Sean Deeb, Michael Duek,
Speaker 2: Jim Calapee, and Joseph Chenko. Nacho Barbero. Now Greco, Toleraine, Deep,
Speaker 2: Duek and Barbara weren't coming, but they were obviously all
Speaker 2: hoping to make the championship. So a lot of these
Speaker 2: guys I was kind of texting to back and forth
Speaker 2: on the outside.
Speaker 1: It have to be clear that they weren't coming for
Speaker 1: PGT Last Chance, correct, correct, Yeah, they were going to
Speaker 1: monitor and then get on a flight for the championship.
Speaker 2: And some had flights booked, you know, with you know,
Speaker 2: ready to cancel if they needed to on the outside.
Speaker 2: Looking in forty first, with all the like you know rules,
Speaker 2: we had David Common, forty second, Jeremy Osmas, forty fourth,
Speaker 2: Patrick Leonard, you know, forty six was TJ. Reid, and
Speaker 2: forty seventh Sam last Wuiz. I say those names because
Speaker 2: they played pretty much every event. Now, David Coleman had
Speaker 2: a great series and leapt into the top forty and
Speaker 2: moved all the way up to about twentieth place. Jeremy
Speaker 2: Osmas he got his cash. He missed the ladder against
Speaker 2: David Coleman, but he was in. But then as things
Speaker 2: started moving, you know, he was dropping down and down
Speaker 2: and down. He did get another cash, so that kind
Speaker 2: of gave him a little bit of a buffer. And
Speaker 2: then obviously Pads he won event too. He leapt in.
Speaker 2: Fortunately for TJ. Reid he couldn't get that third cash
Speaker 2: and that likely that third cash would have qualified him.
Speaker 2: And then for Sam Lasko it's not a great series either.
Speaker 2: He couldn't sneak in. So yeah, that lower end of
Speaker 2: the forty was just everyone was monitoring it. I had
Speaker 2: texts from you know, Richard Greco and Sean Deev every day,
Speaker 2: talking to Michael Duek, talking to Ben Toleraine and then
Speaker 2: even Callopy if you remember from I think it was
Speaker 2: last year he was the bubble boy. Uh he got
Speaker 2: pushed out of.
Speaker 1: Two seasons ago.
Speaker 2: Yeah, two seasons ago.
Speaker 1: He was sitting at the bar just just like every
Speaker 1: like five to ten minutes he would walk into the
Speaker 1: studio room. I'm pretty sure he was drinking a marguerite
Speaker 1: or something kind of ease his nerves, and he was
Speaker 1: like sweating. You know what was what was happening because
Speaker 1: there was a couple of people in that if they
Speaker 1: they cashed in that final event would bump him out.
Speaker 1: And that's what he was sweating last year with Jeremy Becker.
Speaker 1: How can you forget that?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, so calop he got himself in. Uh
Speaker 2: and look he so he was in, but he wasn't
Speaker 2: locked in, right, He wasn't like David Coleman. So he
Speaker 2: was still sweating some results come that final event. You know,
Speaker 2: you would have seen yesterday he was sitting at the bar,
Speaker 2: but he was a bit happier because it was you know,
Speaker 2: he was a pretty strong likelihood, you know, to get in.
Speaker 2: He needed like an exact trifecta of results to get
Speaker 2: him knocked out. But yeah, he ends up finishing in
Speaker 2: thirty eighth place, Jeremy Osmas thirty ninth, and Ben toleraen forty.
Speaker 2: So I mean, Sean Deeb is this year is bubble
Speaker 2: Boy by one point as well? So he's like, is there?
Speaker 2: He texted me today, is there any Have you heard
Speaker 2: of anyone else opting out? And I said, to be honest,
Speaker 2: the only three names I could think of that May
Speaker 2: Night show would be Michael Mizrahi, Ben Lamb and Eric Wasserson.
Speaker 2: And he goes, how I doubt it? And I go,
Speaker 2: I mean, I've texted Mirahi, but he could easily be
Speaker 2: playing a slot tournament in Cuba or something. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Well, I know he's in Vegas today.
Speaker 2: I did see that. Yeah, he's playing a cash game
Speaker 2: in Vegas and I so that does help. Deeb did
Speaker 2: text Wasserson and Lamb. They said they're playing, So he said,
Speaker 2: probably going to just cancel my flight. I'll see you
Speaker 2: at the World Series.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so this is one of the one of the requirements.
Speaker 1: So you had to obviously get enough points to finish
Speaker 1: in the top forty. That was a requirement number one.
Speaker 1: Number two, you had to have at least three PGT cashes, right,
Speaker 1: Tim and I have talked about this at many points
Speaker 1: on this podcast during the season. You know, as you know,
Speaker 1: miss Rocky was one of those people who needed to
Speaker 1: find a third cash. He was able to find that
Speaker 1: during the PGT qualifying events at that basically Paradise. But
Speaker 1: then then the third part of this equation was because
Speaker 1: we ultimately want forty players from the leaderboard in ideally
Speaker 1: it would be the top forty, right, but there are
Speaker 1: some players who in excuse me, in past seasons didn't show, right,
Speaker 1: They just didn't show Which makes it a little bit
Speaker 1: awkward because you know, you're trying to create this event
Speaker 1: that hopefully everyone wants to to play for and try
Speaker 1: and get in and all that sort of stuff. Okay,
Speaker 1: but then if they don't show up, it's like, well,
Speaker 1: do they not like our events? Do they not care
Speaker 1: for it? Like whatever. So let's say you have forty
Speaker 1: four people on show up, then you have thirty six.
Speaker 1: It's like, well, that's kind of weird. On the other
Speaker 1: side of things, you know, we want to put on
Speaker 1: an event that everyone wants to play. Everyone you know
Speaker 1: wants to get in, and we really want to show
Speaker 1: that high stakes competition aspect of it all. So Tim
Speaker 1: instituted this new rule that where you basically had to
Speaker 1: opt in with him as the commissioner. You had to
Speaker 1: tell him listen, I'm gonna play. So you know, he
Speaker 1: got a hold of everyone under the sun, and some
Speaker 1: players said, you know, no, I'm not gonna come. And
Speaker 1: if that's the case, if you told us ahead of
Speaker 1: time that you weren't planning to come at all, you know,
Speaker 1: it's okay for you to basically pass up on my seat.
Speaker 1: So there was a hand how many of those players
Speaker 1: were there.
Speaker 2: They ended up being three people opting out Victor blam
Speaker 2: Lettara Guerrera and Texas Mike. Okay, So those seats rolled down,
Speaker 2: and then you had the players that were ineligible that
Speaker 2: didn't that were in the forty but didn't have you know,
Speaker 2: enough cashers to get them.
Speaker 1: So anyone there was no one this year that needed
Speaker 1: a third cast during Last Chance, right.
Speaker 2: Uh from the in the forty No, just outside, like
Speaker 2: I kind of mentioned Terrence Reid was you know, a
Speaker 2: decent cash outside the top because.
Speaker 1: Last season we had what Tomayo, Jonathan Tomyo.
Speaker 2: Jonathan Tomyo was the big one, firing pretty hard to
Speaker 2: get that last one. And then I think we had someone.
Speaker 1: Was it was it? Brian Kim was one of them?
Speaker 1: Was he last year?
Speaker 2: Is the Yeah? I think that, Yeah, it was a
Speaker 2: Brian Kim.
Speaker 1: Brian Kim is another one. He got it. He I remember,
Speaker 1: got one mini cash right right away.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he got one min cash to get his third
Speaker 2: cash to be twentyeth on the leaderboard. Yeah, so those
Speaker 2: two guys a bit more expensive for Jonathan Tomyo, but
Speaker 2: you know he did win the main event for ten millions,
Speaker 2: so he's fine.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's okay. So yeah, you know, so we're gonna
Speaker 1: have have all forty of these players, you know, at
Speaker 1: least for what they've told us, told Tim, you know,
Speaker 1: they should be there. You know, no one should be
Speaker 1: not showing up. So obviously you know we'll see. But yeah,
Speaker 1: so you know it's an event where I think it's
Speaker 1: I mean, everyone wants to be there, Everyone wants to
Speaker 1: compete in this thing.
Speaker 2: They want to I want to just say, yeah, I
Speaker 2: played the free Lassia. You know, there's a little bit
Speaker 2: on it because like obviously there's only topics a price,
Speaker 2: there's only six payouts, so it isn't it's not like
Speaker 2: an easy tournament to win. It's not like there's everyone's
Speaker 2: getting paid out, so it's so hard to make money.
Speaker 2: But I think you know you hear from these guys. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I just want to qualify. I just want to be.
Speaker 2: I just want to be part of it. I want
Speaker 2: to get the play a bag. I want to get
Speaker 2: some cool stuff. I want to be I want to
Speaker 2: feel like this is a cool way to, you know,
Speaker 2: conclude this season. You know all the hard work I put.
Speaker 1: In, yeah, for sure, and you see the same thing.
Speaker 1: But on the opposite side, people that just missed, you
Speaker 1: know that they they want to get in. You know,
Speaker 1: there's a bunch of people that put in a lot
Speaker 1: of volume this season that did not ultimately get in.
Speaker 1: I mean, I know, Jeremy Becker won a dream seat,
Speaker 1: but we wouldn't have heard the end of it from
Speaker 1: him had had he not gotten in. You know, given
Speaker 1: he was, he was in the studio for every single
Speaker 1: freaking Nolan Holden tournament, right carry Katz did not qualify
Speaker 1: this year. You know, he finished what one hundred points
Speaker 1: out or maybe even less, but you know he was
Speaker 1: like constantly talking about it and how he wanted to
Speaker 1: get in there, trying to make that push to the end.
Speaker 1: So you know, and you see it in that. You know,
Speaker 1: in the events during the PGT Last Chance Series, everyone
Speaker 1: is out there trying to chase. You know, you had
Speaker 1: you had Eric's headel was out there blasting. You had
Speaker 1: Seth Davies, you had Shannon Shore, you had Brent Kenny
Speaker 1: as well. You know all these players Aramaganyan, you know,
Speaker 1: et cetera. Like they were all out there really trying
Speaker 1: to get some more points to get into that top forty.
Speaker 1: So you know, there is a bit of pride with it.
Speaker 1: You know, you kind of want to see. Listen, I
Speaker 1: put in all this time and effort over the course
Speaker 1: of the twenty twenty five PGT season. I played, how
Speaker 1: over many dozens of events, you know, however, many hundreds
Speaker 1: of thousands of dollars in buy ins. So even if
Speaker 1: ultimately my effort in the PGT Championship, should I make it,
Speaker 1: you know, ends up not resulting in a cash. If
Speaker 1: I bust out before the top six and make any money,
Speaker 1: like still just making it there is like listen, all
Speaker 1: this wasn't all or not? Like you know, like so
Speaker 1: that's what I think a lot of these people are
Speaker 1: are trying to chase, and that's ultimately what we want
Speaker 1: to create. You know, this is you know, we're kind
Speaker 1: of trying to create like I guess pokers version of
Speaker 1: the FedEx Cup if you want to take us a
Speaker 1: sports analogy here, or you know, any sort of like playoffs,
Speaker 1: like you know, I'm watching the Bills Jaguars game right now,
Speaker 1: so you know, any sort of playoffs, like you want
Speaker 1: to just kind of get to the dance and then
Speaker 1: you know, whatever happens in the big dance like can happen, right,
Speaker 1: you know, we can see somebody come from the bottom
Speaker 1: and go on to win the thing.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Alex Foxen does start with an advantage, you know,
Speaker 1: but yeah, Alex Foxen's advantage is kind of similar to
Speaker 1: if you get the one seed in the NFL playoffs
Speaker 1: and you get a little bit of a buye. He
Speaker 1: gets a little bit of an advantage to start. So yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a it's good stuff. You know, I like it,
Speaker 1: you know, I do. Part of me also wishes though
Speaker 1: that I wish and this is, I guess, you know,
Speaker 1: something that I'm trying to solve just given my role
Speaker 1: as like how do we make it kind of catch
Speaker 1: on more? Just because it's it's it is the closest
Speaker 1: thing to like a sports league that poker has. I mean,
Speaker 1: I like, I'm never gonna be one that says, you know,
Speaker 1: poker is a sport. I don't believe that. But you know,
Speaker 1: if if this, if there was anything in poker that
Speaker 1: was as close to some sort of like sports league
Speaker 1: as possible, I do really believe that the PGT is
Speaker 1: it just the whole season long aspect you have, you know,
Speaker 1: all the different elements to it, the points, leader board,
Speaker 1: et cetera. Like it's you know, it's got basically it's
Speaker 1: regular season. It's got its play offs, it's got the champion,
Speaker 1: all that sort of stuff. So you know, yeah, I
Speaker 1: hope it, uh, I hope it continues to just kind
Speaker 1: of build and catch on.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm. I agree.
Speaker 1: So Fox is gonna start with the lead three hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty thousand, what's that? Three hundred fifty big blinds yep,
Speaker 1: and the lowest stack is going to be who it's
Speaker 1: gonna be from from the top forty.
Speaker 2: From the top forty, it's one hundred and thirty big blinds.
Speaker 1: And then and who's that Benal that's been tal that
Speaker 1: has been tolerant okay, Brandon Wilson, Oh, Eric Blair made
Speaker 1: it okay, Thomas Boyven, Mike Zulker. I'm just kind of
Speaker 1: looking to the names there were, like who didn't we
Speaker 1: see in the top forty during the PGT Last Chance?
Speaker 2: Adam Hendricks, Yeah, Adam Hendrix, michaelm israhe uh, we didn't
Speaker 2: say Eric Wassingston, Sean Rafael, Chad Age Sledge. But a
Speaker 2: couple of these guys, you know, John Wallslink, Isaac Hackson
Speaker 2: Ao said we're just coming for you know, the free role.
Speaker 2: They would pretty say. Phil Sternheimer rocked up for the
Speaker 2: last event, was crushing that then didn't go his way.
Speaker 1: You know when let you go ninth maybe.
Speaker 2: Yeah, ninth or tenth, yeah, win Lee, Dylan Lindy and
Speaker 2: Bryce Yocky showed up on that last event, didn't play,
Speaker 2: but Ben Lamb didn't play. Ben Lamb. We saw a
Speaker 2: little bit of Eric Blair, not a whole lot, but Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's really it's a great series for kind of anyone,
Speaker 2: you know, if you want to improve your position, or
Speaker 2: if you need to sneak in, or if you're way
Speaker 2: up top and need to try and want to try
Speaker 2: and win that Player of the Year title. So there's
Speaker 2: a lot of there's a lot of pros for this series.
Speaker 2: And if you look at you know, I was looking
Speaker 2: at the numbers just before of the series. You know,
Speaker 2: we had two one hundred and twenty six entry player
Speaker 2: fields not play two hundred and twenty six entrants, which
Speaker 2: was the second largest of all time in ten K
Speaker 2: buy ins. Now, last year's series very flat, you know,
Speaker 2: we basically averaged one hundred and sixteen, but the highest
Speaker 2: we had was one twenty one. Lowest we had was
Speaker 2: one to eleven. This year we were you know, one
Speaker 2: O nine, one twenty six, one twenty six, one seventy
Speaker 2: and bouncing around a little bit. And then we obviously
Speaker 2: did something different, which was that one day Turbo, which
Speaker 2: I think got eighty three. But I think eighty three
Speaker 2: for a Turbo was pretty good a single day turbo,
Speaker 2: especially with you know, we also had the WSP circuit
Speaker 2: going on, which did steal a few of our players.
Speaker 2: So you know, having that on in town and still
Speaker 2: putting out basically averaging one hundred and eleven entrants in
Speaker 2: all our events was was very good. Once you're even
Speaker 2: throw in that whole new tax low that's coming, So
Speaker 2: I think the series will always have a place in
Speaker 2: the PGT with all that added value. Yeah, I'm just
Speaker 2: a big fan of PGT Last Chance.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I agree with you. I you know,
Speaker 1: very happy with the numbers themselves as I was tracking
Speaker 1: them going going along, you know, I was also very
Speaker 1: happy when I saw someone like a Nick Schulman, Jausamou,
Speaker 1: Jesse Lonis, you know, Steven Chidwick, Christen Fox, and like
Speaker 1: those players who were one locked into the top forty.
Speaker 1: You know, those players are all in the in the
Speaker 1: top ten, but they were still out there blasting every
Speaker 1: single day in every single tournament. So you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: part of that is going to be like, well, what
Speaker 1: else are these guys are going to do? Their poker
Speaker 1: players and this is what they do, right, I mean
Speaker 1: you know, but also as you mentioned, you know, there
Speaker 1: was there's been plenty of players who kind of told
Speaker 1: us maybe they'll scale back on their buy ins. And
Speaker 1: volume doe to the new tax thing at least maybe
Speaker 1: until that kind of gets a little bit more sorted out.
Speaker 1: So there was that, and then you know they also
Speaker 1: like they didn't really need to play.
Speaker 2: Like yeah, they had nothing.
Speaker 1: Out there, and like blast Off in all the tournaments,
Speaker 1: like he's just you know, but you know, part of
Speaker 1: it is maybe they again, they just want to play
Speaker 1: because that's what they do. The other part is, like
Speaker 1: I think it's like I think with Phil Sternheimer. You know,
Speaker 1: he could have come in on Sunday, but he came in.
Speaker 1: He got one event in you know, kind of like
Speaker 1: a little warm up, right, you know, you kind of
Speaker 1: want to dust the rust off if he took some
Speaker 1: time off for the holidays, you know, and you know,
Speaker 1: get in there battle with a lot of the people
Speaker 1: that you're going to be playing with, you know, come
Speaker 1: the championship anyway, so you know that sort of thing.
Speaker 2: He's also secretly here for a nice high stakes mixed game.
Speaker 1: I mean, it wasn't really a secret in the room.
Speaker 1: He was telling everyone about about this mixed game that
Speaker 1: he's got going on. All right, So we talked about
Speaker 1: the top forty, We talked about the five players who
Speaker 1: won dream seats from the PGT Last Chance Series. But
Speaker 1: we also have additional dream See winners. Why don't you
Speaker 1: let me know who those players are?
Speaker 2: Yeah, So he ran a variety of promotions you know,
Speaker 2: and partner promotions throughout the year. First one we did,
Speaker 2: you know, in a BT Las Vegas. We ran a
Speaker 2: leaderboard there. Nick Changela, obviously PGT regular most years, hasn't
Speaker 2: been playing a lot recently on the PGT, but he
Speaker 2: won that lead aboard. So he'll be starting with one
Speaker 2: hundred and twenty five big blinds. The next eight dream
Speaker 2: See winners all qualified to start with one hundred bigs.
Speaker 2: We're gonna start with Run Good Poker series they ran
Speaker 2: the last three years. They've ran a basically promotion with us,
Speaker 2: you know, promoting the PGT, promoting Poker Go and then
Speaker 2: they run a season ending dream Seed Invitational where everyone
Speaker 2: that's won a ring gets to know participator, you know,
Speaker 2: for a price well, but then also to represent Run
Speaker 2: Good in this that was won by Ed Miller, not
Speaker 2: the author Ed Miller for those if you remember that name.
Speaker 2: Similar to Run Good, Champions Club did something very similar.
Speaker 2: They very much mimicked what we do on the PGT
Speaker 2: they ran Basically, they did a season ending championship and
Speaker 2: every quarter they qualified eight players, and then the eight
Speaker 2: players who didn't qualify via that quarter will filled the
Speaker 2: final eight spots. So very kind of similar to my
Speaker 2: ours with a big of a twist. The winner of
Speaker 2: that was a David Shaw. He was the third place
Speaker 2: finisher in the Texas Pelo Roundup for one hundred K,
Speaker 2: his career largest score. So he's going to represent Champions Club.
Speaker 2: And then we did a.
Speaker 1: He also won an event before he finished third.
Speaker 2: Correct, he won one of the I think it was
Speaker 2: the maybe the plow Monster Stack.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I mean, listen, this guy's got some chops,
Speaker 1: Like he's.
Speaker 2: Nice guy's yeah, yeah, he's here's a table to WSP
Speaker 2: event this year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like, if David shows somehow wins this tournament, I
Speaker 1: will not be in the in the least bit surprised.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, him and him and Ed Miller qualified via like
Speaker 2: a year long you know, poker promotion. So these aren't
Speaker 2: just kind of the random selections. These guys kind of blood,
Speaker 2: sweat and tears to win nast seat.
Speaker 1: And let me just say one thing quickly, and maybe
Speaker 1: Tim will just yell at me for saying this afterwards,
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna say it anyway. If you're an operator
Speaker 1: or a pokerom manager or whatever out there and you
Speaker 1: want a similar promotion with a dream seat to work
Speaker 1: with us, reach out to Tim. You know, nothing guaranteed,
Speaker 1: but maybe we can do a similar thing with your
Speaker 1: venue or your tour or whatever. Right like this helps
Speaker 1: on our side. You know, we can get kind of
Speaker 1: new people into the big stage, into the big dance,
Speaker 1: like you know that way on your side, maybe it
Speaker 1: can be a little bit of a revenue drivers as
Speaker 1: hopefully you know champions saw So reach out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, one hundred percent. Yeah, we're trying to get something
Speaker 2: back in a way. The pgt to to give you
Speaker 2: that as the stream seats, so we're always open to
Speaker 2: listening and having conversations. The next three annual subscribe its
Speaker 2: pretty self expanentory. You're signed up to Poker Guy, you're
Speaker 2: watching out content, you're watching WSP all that stuff. You're
Speaker 2: randomly entered into a draw. We drew three winners there,
Speaker 2: Travis Hogg, David Friedler, and Timothy Tuvousen, so they'll be
Speaker 2: representing the annual subscribers. And then we did a social
Speaker 2: media promotion via Gleam basically you know, retweet this, like this,
Speaker 2: follow that, and then that was also basically a random
Speaker 2: drawing and Daniel Van Dyke is going to represent you know,
Speaker 2: the social media side of Poker Go. And then you know,
Speaker 2: you listeners at home, we ran a pretty you know,
Speaker 2: if you've been a longtime listener, you've you would have
Speaker 2: heard our promotion for the Pogo podcast dream Seat and
Speaker 2: we did mention this a little while back, but Matthew
Speaker 2: Petrie he will be win representing the Pogo podcast family.
Speaker 2: So you know, I'm not I can't really cheer for
Speaker 2: anyone in this, but like I think, if we're going
Speaker 2: to cheer for anyone, we should cheer for the podcast listener.
Speaker 2: And then final dream Set went to Aaron Cooper from
Speaker 2: WSB Paradise. That was a you know, with the partnership,
Speaker 2: they're a thrown in seat to one of their events
Speaker 2: and he ended up winning that one. So he'll be
Speaker 2: the last dream See winners. So fourteen dream Sea winners,
Speaker 2: forty players, we got fifty four people trying to win
Speaker 2: that five hundred thousand dollars first prize on Monday.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, listen, this is going to be a
Speaker 1: super fun event. I'm not rooting for anyone. I just
Speaker 1: want to see good entertainment, so you know, final table, like,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't really care, Like I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: obviously some of these players you know, we're closer with
Speaker 1: than others or whatever, but ultimately, like I think it's
Speaker 1: just going to be a super fun event, highly competitive.
Speaker 1: I think this year kind of the biggest win heading
Speaker 1: into the event versus past seasons, which is something I
Speaker 1: kind of already touched on, is that everyone there it
Speaker 1: wants to be there, you know, which I think is
Speaker 1: already going to raise the bar a little bit for
Speaker 1: like the competition and the entertainment aspect coming in. You know,
Speaker 1: because I listen, I did feel a little bit bummed
Speaker 1: when phil Ivy qualified the top forty and didn't bother
Speaker 1: to show up, Like like you feel a little bit
Speaker 1: bummed because you're, like, man, I put on this party,
Speaker 1: no one wants to come drink the punch, Like what
Speaker 1: the fuck? Like you know, so you know, but this one,
Speaker 1: you know, as we talked about, all these people want
Speaker 1: to be there. So I think that alone means that
Speaker 1: this event means something to those players, and I think
Speaker 1: that's going to then translate through to the level of competition,
Speaker 1: the battling on the felt, you know, all that sort
Speaker 1: of stuff. So it's gonna be really cool. The top
Speaker 1: six are going to pay out. I did hear a
Speaker 1: little bit of chatter from some people around the studio saying, Oh,
Speaker 1: it's really really top heavy. It's really really top heavy.
Speaker 1: I mean yes, I mean like purposefully so, I mean
Speaker 1: this this event was once in a prior edition Winner
Speaker 1: take All when Jason Koon won it, remember that one.
Speaker 1: So you know, it is in a lot of ways
Speaker 1: it is a made for TV event. I mean it's not,
Speaker 1: but it has those elements into it, which you know
Speaker 1: when you kind of cram a lot more money up
Speaker 1: first prize and you make it a little bit you know,
Speaker 1: uneven or you know, not as a steady for the payouts.
Speaker 1: You know, yeah, it's it's a little bit made for TV.
Speaker 1: But you know, if we were to do like, let's say,
Speaker 1: regular payouts for a fifty four person tournament, you know,
Speaker 1: are you gonna get like three hundred and thirty dollars
Speaker 1: thirty thousand dollars for first place? And then like it
Speaker 1: kind of goes. No, we want to boom big first
Speaker 1: place prize, five hundred k, let's.
Speaker 2: End, and alest you gotta remember it's a free roll,
Speaker 2: so if these guys are putting up their money, yeah,
Speaker 2: it would be a normal payass structure. But yeah, we
Speaker 2: make it a little top heavy. And look, we know
Speaker 2: what's gonna happen, Like two or three people are gonna
Speaker 2: get heads up three handed, and hey, let's look at money.
Speaker 2: You know how tournaments are, so you know that may happen,
Speaker 2: and we'll deal with that as we have to. But yeah,
Speaker 2: it is top heavy. And look, obviously there's been some
Speaker 2: some discussion about hey, flat lining this. We've had discussion
Speaker 2: of hey make this a full reak back to one,
Speaker 2: the more everyone gets a payout. So we've we've looked
Speaker 2: at several different options, and you know, when next year
Speaker 2: season comes, we'll look at it again and see if
Speaker 2: we want to change it. But I think, oh, this
Speaker 2: is the best. Think it's I think it's a good version.
Speaker 2: The chips are good. I think we've you know, nailed
Speaker 2: how we do it. I think our promotions definitely makes sense,
Speaker 2: although some of the players may not understand, but you know, internally,
Speaker 2: it makes sense for us. And look at you know,
Speaker 2: I guess we'll quickly talk about the seatrow. It's it's
Speaker 2: a random seatual for all the players, just like normal,
Speaker 2: except for the the eight rung, the eight dream See
Speaker 2: winners with one hundred big blinds, the ones that kind
Speaker 2: of won, you know, their seat. That one of those
Speaker 2: will be on each table. So there's not going to
Speaker 2: be any really unfair tables. It's it's we try and
Speaker 2: keep that side of things balanced. But you know, look,
Speaker 2: Alex Fox and Sam several could draw the same table.
Speaker 2: You know, Alex Fuxon could draw a table with all
Speaker 2: those dream Sea winners that had one hundred and twenty
Speaker 2: five big So that side of it's still going to
Speaker 2: be pretty random. Once we kick things off on Monday.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I really like this event. I'm very much looking
Speaker 1: forward to it. Place starts on Monday at one pm
Speaker 1: Vegas time. There will be live streaming on pokergot dot
Speaker 1: com taking place a little bit later in the day.
Speaker 1: We'll basically catch the entire back half of Day one
Speaker 1: leading down to the final table, and then on Tuesday,
Speaker 1: the entire final table will be live streamed on poker
Speaker 1: Go so be sure to tune in to all of
Speaker 1: that action. It's going to be a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: We got Jeff Platt and Brent Hanks on the call
Speaker 1: from start to finish. Yeah, Alex Fox and Michael Is Rocky,
Speaker 1: Nick Shulman, Daniel mcgron, new Kristen Foxen. You know, all
Speaker 1: the big guns from the PGT are in the field
Speaker 1: for this one. So tune in early and watch the
Speaker 1: whole damn thing. I know I will be. So you
Speaker 1: want to do some fantasy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I think I've touched on it last week.
Speaker 2: We should draft per like section of the the.
Speaker 1: Forty buddy, tell me what I gotta do.
Speaker 2: You choose someone in the top ten, someone from eleven
Speaker 2: to twenty, someone from twenty one to thirty, someone from
Speaker 2: thirty one to forty, and then one of the dream
Speaker 2: seg wins. You're gonn choose a team of five.
Speaker 1: I mean, I let you, let me tell you.
Speaker 2: Let you pick first.
Speaker 1: And I had I had a really good series. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I had Becker ODB.
Speaker 2: Oh you had ODB. I you remember, Oh, yeah, you
Speaker 2: had a good series.
Speaker 1: I mean so yeah, I mean you had Alex foxon No,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I haven't run the numbers yet, so
Speaker 1: let's just draft. Uh brand new? What what did you say?
Speaker 2: We're doing top Oneick click on the are you and
Speaker 2: the p G five doc Click the tab This is
Speaker 2: PGT Championship. You'll see him kind of tat it up documents.
Speaker 1: We got a whole bunch of stuff PGT Championship. I
Speaker 1: am in there, baby, all right.
Speaker 2: So now draft from that quaded draft from the top ten,
Speaker 2: then the next ten, the next ten, next ten, and
Speaker 2: then the dream State winners.
Speaker 1: How many people are we drafting?
Speaker 2: Five?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 2: Cool?
Speaker 1: Who goes first?
Speaker 2: You? Of course you're getting crushed.
Speaker 1: I mean, buddy, Alex Fox, that's.
Speaker 2: Fine, give me China, you get well, you get two. No,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna let you pick first. Each section?
Speaker 1: Oh each section? Yeah, each section is really handicapping me.
Speaker 1: Y yeah, okay, next section.
Speaker 2: I mean take him. I don't want him, you can
Speaker 2: have him.
Speaker 1: Obvious one.
Speaker 2: David cole I swore you were going to take the grounder,
Speaker 2: and then I was gonna take David Coleman.
Speaker 1: I take the hot hand, one of the best players
Speaker 1: in the world versus one. I was literally on the
Speaker 1: golf course every single day.
Speaker 2: I mean, look, I'm texting him tonight.
Speaker 1: Know what a button opening range is? Or is he
Speaker 1: more worried about his nine iron?
Speaker 2: But he's no man, he's texting me today. He's like,
Speaker 2: what time tomorrow? Yeah?
Speaker 1: What time tomorrow is? I can make sure I'm off
Speaker 1: the golf course.
Speaker 2: I will continue the message. What time has a start tomorrow?
Speaker 2: And do you have to be on time? So he
Speaker 2: may be like.
Speaker 1: On time, but you're gonna lose.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna. I'm gonna. I thought I was gonna get
Speaker 2: in there. I guess I'll take him.
Speaker 1: In that section, Coleman is the lowest chance I know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's he's twenty. Yeah, I'll take I'll take Dnggs.
Speaker 2: All right, next section is fun one. I know who
Speaker 2: I want right now? See if you take him?
Speaker 1: Wow, this is a This is a good section. Yeah.
Speaker 1: If if there was anyone who wasn't going to show up,
Speaker 1: it's from this section. There's like two names that I
Speaker 1: mean I would question. But all right, I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: Thomas Boyn.
Speaker 2: Yes, I'll take Matt Wantman.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's a good one. I was I was debating
Speaker 1: between Thomas Boyn and Pads. Yeah, but I went there
Speaker 1: all right next section. I mean, you know what I
Speaker 1: think you take. I'm going with the story. Wow, Okay,
Speaker 1: who who is that? I'm assuming it's either Osma's or Current.
Speaker 1: If you're going with the story, it's awesome. Won it
Speaker 1: last year. Last year's POY has been basically outside the
Speaker 1: top forty looking in for the large majority of the season,
Speaker 1: gets in at the end. Now, just run it up
Speaker 1: and win it, buddy, let's go. I have to take
Speaker 1: the hot hands, the whole damn thing. Jeremy.
Speaker 2: I gotta take Brandon Wilson.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's a good one. I mean he's he's I mean,
Speaker 1: he's obviously one of the best, and he's he's in
Speaker 1: form right now, all right, dream seen.
Speaker 2: Just a lot of a good way we should have
Speaker 2: done this. We should have started like done like a
Speaker 2: fantasy football draft where you get like a thousand dollars
Speaker 2: in auctions and you buy you build your team via chips.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, that could be in a fun way. But
Speaker 2: this way's fun.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm taking Jeremy Becker like he's.
Speaker 2: I mean, odib's two runner up finishes.
Speaker 1: It's hard to like dB is in form.
Speaker 2: Man, you got Nick Petangelo there that's pretty good value.
Speaker 2: Nick Petangelo of this list, Sure, where are you taking?
Speaker 2: I'll take give me Nikky p give me Nikky Pei.
Speaker 2: Probably spent the week right and mountain biking, you know,
Speaker 2: Mount Charleston in the snow. Probably ready to go. Actually,
Speaker 2: I just saw a text via someone else that he
Speaker 2: was heading down to Aria to play that ran twenty
Speaker 2: five K. So he's you know, dust the rustuff there And.
Speaker 1: Who is why you can't name this person?
Speaker 2: Oh, I'm not gonna say who that person? Texas then
Speaker 2: TEXTA mean, it doesn't really matter.
Speaker 1: But Alex Fox and David Coleman, Thomas boy Fend, Jeremy
Speaker 1: Osmas and Jeremy Becker. That is my team.
Speaker 2: Good team, Good team.
Speaker 1: Tim has China, Reim Dan and Gran You, Matthew Wantman,
Speaker 1: Brandon Wilson and Nick Petrangelo. This is all the marbles, baby,
Speaker 1: all the fantasy poker freaking marbles.
Speaker 2: We're gonna get a belt. We should get a belt made.
Speaker 1: We should, we definitely should. I do want to start
Speaker 1: a fantasy poker league at some point, like a season
Speaker 1: long league. Yeah, maybe I'll do that in my spare time.
Speaker 1: All right, cool? Anything else we needed to talk about,
Speaker 1: hit on whatever.
Speaker 2: No. PGT Championship season ends on Monday. Tune in watch it, buddy,
Speaker 2: It's gonna be great.
Speaker 1: It ends on Tuesday.
Speaker 2: Yes, in Monday.
Speaker 1: Oh sorry?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 1: Yeah, so we'll be back probably Tuesday or Wednesday. I
Speaker 1: want to get the winner of the event on here,
Speaker 1: so we'll try and do that.
Speaker 2: Did you speak to Fox and last night?
Speaker 1: Uh? No, I did, but you know he he won
Speaker 1: Player of the Year. I mean I talked with him.
Speaker 1: I didn't just get him on the show, you know.
Speaker 1: I told him. We'll probably do some sort of ceremony
Speaker 1: and whatever during the day one of the PGT Championships. So,
Speaker 1: you know, can we get a Fox and Fox and
Speaker 1: heads up match?
Speaker 2: Could?
Speaker 1: Could that?
Speaker 2: That would be fun?
Speaker 1: That would be funny, right, all right? Cool, that's gonna
Speaker 1: do it for us? Uh for Tim Duckworth. My name
Speaker 1: is Donnie Peters, and we will talk to you guys
Speaker 1: in a few days, so you