Speaker 1: Hello everyone, Welcome back to a new episode of the
Poker Go Podcast. It is Wednesday, July eighth, twelve forty two.
Am just got home from another day down on the
strip at Paris and Horseshoe for the World Series of
Poker Main event Baby Day two D is in the books.
That means we are done with all the multiple different days.
You know, all the day ones are done, all the
Day two's are done. Registration is closed, we know the
field size, the numbers are in, we have the prize pool,
we have the payouts, all of that sort of stuff.
We are going to hit on it on this episode
of the Poker Go Podcast. We're also going to talk
to or I did talk to him. Going to play
those interviews, but Adam Levy and Alex Foxen will be
joining us on the show. Caught up with Adam Levy
on the last break of the day. Caught up with
Alex Foxon at the end of the day. Alex Foxen
played a ridiculous hand. I had to ask him about it.
We'll run through that one, you know, we'll talk about
all the stuff that happened as well. Got a funny
story as well that I'll talk about. Maybe maybe two
stories at the end of it all, but they do
tie in to the main event, so you know, we're
gonna have some fun with this episode. As always, if
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thousand gold bonus to help kickstart your bank roll. We
have the numbers, the final tally on entries for the
twenty twenty six World Series of Poker Main Event, nine thousand,
two hundred and eight entries, every single one of them
ponying up ten thousand dollars. That creates a prize pool
of eighty five million, six hundred and thirty four thousand,
four hundred dollars I believe it's ninety six hundred goes
to the prize pool. You know, then there's raking all
that sort of stuff that gets taken out. The top
thirteen hundred and eighty two places will make the money.
Now that could that could fluctuate a little bit when
we get down you know, obviously on the the WSP
main Event bubble, there are multiple all ins that that
can happen on a given hand. Sometimes some players split
prizes and all that sort of stuff, So you know,
we'll get to that. Of course, I would expect the
bubble bursts on Day four. We are heading into Day three.
Day three will take place on Wednesday, July eighth. There
are three thy two hundred and ninety four players left
in the field, so we're gonna need what is it,
a little bit less than two thousand of them to
bust before we get into the money. On Day two D,
eight hundred and twenty late entries were tallied, and that
is up from last year's Day two D. I believe,
as long as I have the math correct that I
ran on the back of this napkin here before depressing
the record button. Last year looked like it was seven
to seventy six, which is plus five point seven percent
year over year. So as I predicted, you know, we
had more late entry on Day two on the both
Day two s than we did last year. Last year
was a little bit over one thousand, like one thousand
and fifty one seventy five something like that. It looks
like this year was eleven hundred and thirty two, So
it went up there. You know, I think there's I
think there's more knowledge out there for people realizing how
valuable it is to register late. Again. The total number
nine thousand, two hundred and eight entries, Yes, that is
down from last year's nine thousand, seven hundred and thirty five,
but down only five point four percent, you know, And
I think once we kicked this things off, you know,
I keep going back to that Day one, a number
that was down sixteen and a half percent year over year.
I thought everyone started to kind of get concerned. There
was a lot of chatter, is he even going to
break nine thousand? Well, it broke nine thousand. And I'm
also gonna pat myself on the back because a few
episodes ago I did predict nine thousand, one hundred and
seventy seven and it comes in at nine thousand, two
hundred and eight. So that was pretty damn close. Min
cash in this year's WSP main event as expected fifteen
thousand dollars, so one and a half x the buy
in if you just get into the money up top
ten million dollars, second place six million, third place three
point seven five million, fourth place two point seven five million,
fifth place two point twenty five million, sixth place, one
point seven five million, seventh place, one point five million,
eighth place, one point twenty five million, and ninth place
at the official final table as they call it, one
million dollars. All players at the official final table will
be millionaires from this event. Got a long way to go,
of course, but feels like now it's it's it's a
bit more real. Of course, it's a bit more real
than it ever was. We are heading to day three,
but now we know what everyone's playing for. All the
registration is locked and let's freaking go in this thing.
This is the greatest poker tournament in the world. And
now we are moving to day three. The player who
will take the chip lead into day three is actually
hold On. Oh no, sorry, they're just they always trick
me with these these recaps. The title of the recap
says entrepreneur Je Fenster bags a big stacks, and I
just quickly read Jeff Finzer and I said, oh, is
he the chip leader? Because I just looked at the
chip couns and it was Lorenzo Lavis out of France
who has the chip lead. So I was just a
little bit confused there. Apologies for that hiccup, but we're
leaving it in there because that's how we do. Chip
leader Lorenzo Lavis out of France. He bagged eight hundred
and eight thousand. That is more than the chip leader
from day to ABC, so Lorenzo Lavas is taking the
overall chip lead into Day three. He is the only
player in the field with more than eight hundred thousand
in his stack. He's got three hundred and twenty three
big blinds for Day three, eight hundred and eight thousand
for Lavis, and the big blind is going to be
twenty five hundred. That's out of control. Some other notable
stacks big stacks to come out of Day two d
Michael Rosito seven hundred and seventy k. He's got three
hundred and eight big blinds. Michael Rosito is a very
very talented player, very aggressive, will get after it, will
pull the trigger if he needs to. That could be
a heck of a lot of fun. Another player similar
sort of mold to Rosito for Reed Johnton. He bagged
six hundred and thirty or two hundred and fifty two biglines.
That's gonna be a lot of fun as well. For Reid,
having all those chips. TJ Reid. We all know TJ Reid,
you know works in the industry, work with Polker dot org,
now slid over to do some watip circuit work. He's
got the vlog Torching with TJ. Really good. Dude. If
you guys haven't checked out his Table one podcast, by
the way, you should go check it out because there's
a lot of stuff on there that I bet you
didn't know about. TJ. Very very good. Listen on the
Table one podcast. But TJ Reid he can blast with
the best of them too. He'll get after it. He's
got five hundred ninety seven K in the bag or
two hundred and thirty nine big lines. Aaron Mermelstein bagged
a lot five hundred and ten k. Alex Foxen I
told you guys we're going to talk to Alex fxon
and we are. Alex Foxen bagged almost five hundred thousand,
four hundred ninety three thousand and five hundred in the bag.
That's just shy two hundred big lines. I saw somewhere else.
I think it was on Poker News. Christen Foxen bagged
around one hundred and forty or one hundred and fifty K,
so she's got a nice looking stack. Heading forward to
day three as well, Stevens Song, the player that I
can't believe went for his cheap as he did in
twenty five K Fantasy's got four hundred and thirty K
in the bag. Steven Song probably gonna be scoring another
field won us another deep run in the main. One
of the best big field nolaman holding players in the world,
Steven Song. John Sin former champion of this event, bagged
four hundred and three thousand. Ryan Reees, another former champion
of this event, bag three hundred and ninety five K.
Sean Deeb did some work three hundred and sixty eight
K in the bag for him, and David Peters bagged
three hundred and sixty five thousand. Of course, there are
players that had to bust. Not everyone can make it through.
Jonathan Tomaio gone, Ari Engele gone, live Bury gone, Barbara Enright,
Kevin Rabbichow, Jeff Mattson, Brent Kenny, Ellie, Elezra, Matt glans Land, Entice,
James Ops all eliminated. We also lost Ethan Rampage. Yeah,
we lost Daniel Legrandu and we lost Nick Schulman. I
only saw Nick Shulman bust that he ran seventh. He
was very short. He ran sevens into Queens and that
was that. So that's a kind of look at the
chip sacks as we go. The players in, the players out,
some notable players. All these guys that I talked about
bagging big stacks or sorry, all these players I talked
about bagging stacks have big stacks. Going into day three,
the fields will combine. This is gonna be a heck
of a lot of fun. No one has topped the
million chip mark. There was a player in the WSP
app who it said that he had hit over nine
hundred thousand. I know, my friend, my colleague Mickey Doff
went over to his table. He checked nowhere near nine
hundred thousand. I went over and checked as well, nowhere
near nine hundred thousand. So I don't know how that
got messed up because the player looked like he had
around three hundred thousand or so. So this wasn't like,
you know, somebody fat fingered his extra or whatever it was.
Maybe the player was just lying in the app. Not cool, buddy,
if that was the case. But anyway, no one over
a million yet that is for sure going to happen
on Wednesday, we will have the first player to hit
a million in the WSP main event. I used to
love when years ago when this was at the Rio,
they always used to do different announcements for certain milestones
in the tournament. You know, first player to get to
a million, first player to get to five million, or whatever.
They would do the announcement where hey, everyone, you are
all in one room, and at the time it was
the Amazon room, right, you know, everyone like the WSPE
minimum champion is in this room, you know, instead of
spread out across multiple rooms. Like I love that sort
of stuff. I don't know if it's possible, but I'll
throw it out there. It'd be great if we had
Jeff Platt doing that. I think he would be perfect
for it. Just going around just doing these different sort
of milestones. I feel like it it helps with the
atmosphere in the room, you know, creates that additional buzz
stuff like that. I think it's just a cool little touch.
First player to hit ten million in chips, you know,
all that sort of stuff, like, I think it's just fun.
At one point today, you know, when the when the
field sides got locked. Jeff Jeff Platt got up there
on the WSP countdown stage and he announced the whole thing.
Lack of applause from all you guys out there, all
you players. I think maybe I think maybe eight people clapped,
and I was one of them. So what I mean,
come on, there's more than eighty five million dollars in
the prize, but in the greatest term in the world,
we can't clap for a ten million dollar first place prize?
Are we really that desensitized to everything? I mean, come on, people,
let's go. This is the World Series of Poker main event.
Speaker 2: Let's go.
Speaker 1: I got to get to this hand with Alex Foxen.
So Alex is on the main feature all I think
all day and he had a big stack. He was
doing Alex fox and things, and then this hand comes up.
Then win. I believe everyone was calling him Vinnie, who
has a bright pink shirt on that has Donald Trump's
face on it. He's drinking, slurring his speech at times,
looks like he's having a blast. At one point they
kind of showed a side shot of him and he's
got no shoes on, took a shoes off. So it's
just the whole thing. They look there having a blast
up there. Right he opens, they're playing it's the it's
the six hundred and twelve hundred levels, so whatever level
that is, I think that's the third level. The day
before dinner break, he opens Jack tennehearts from earlier position,
early middle, early position. I think it was early position.
Alex Fox in flats ace jack from middle from two
seats over a player last name Hayasaki. He re raised
from the big blind to sixty five hundred. I believe
it went twenty four hundred. Caller might have won twenty
five hundred call and then Hyasackey makes it sixty five
hundred out of the big one with King six of clubs.
I don't think that that's a thing, but it's what happened.
And also very very small on the three bet Vin
Winn had I think fifty five big blinds total or
right around there. Fox and covered Fox and had like
over three hundred k. Hiaackey had around one hundred and
eighty K. Win just rips it for fifty five k
with the Jack ten of hearts, and this is like
it's like, well, I'm watching this and I'm like, what
the hell is going on fox In like is surprised.
He is, like, he doesn't fold right away, He's thinking.
He starts hitting Win with some chatter to the point
where like I was even wondering, and I know, David
Williams said in the commentary, but like, is the chatter
even aloud? Because he was kind of asking him what
he had? Win was talking back, But there's a third
player in the hand, mind you. Eventually Foxen makes the
call again, this is for fifty five big blinds. This
is just a four bet jam for fifty five big blinds.
Fox And calls with Ace jack off. Hayasaki quickly gets
out of the way, and when the hands are tabled,
then Win's like, oh my god, oh my god, what
the heck? I was just trying to squeeze him out.
Why did I punt this off? How did you call that? Alex?
It was it was a whole scene up there. Fox
is just kind of laughing and smiling. He's in an
incredible spot. Here board runs out King six' five, ace
but it was The king Of hearts and The ace
Of hearts on the board up until the. Turn So
whin has a royal flush draw going to the river
where river Bricks off pairs the board with the six the,
spades and when is out the, Door foxton takes that
pot gets a nice. Boost who's already very big, stack you.
Know after play was, DONE i had to go up
to Fox and AND i had to, say, listen, MAN i
got to talk to you about this hand BECAUSE i
think it's a spot where a lot of, people and
honestly likely myself, INCLUDED i do not think THAT i
would have been able to find this call even IF
i had whatever the Heck alex Fox AND i think
he had around three hundred and fifty thousand and chips
to start the, Hand so an absolute mountain of, chips you,
know but still that's that's a lot of chips there
and you just have ace jack. Off but, listen this
is Why Alex foxon is one of the absolute best
in the, world the best to ever do. It he
makes this. CALL i talked to him, about you, know
wanting to press what even might be small, edges and
how important that is in a field like The World
series of pokermon event where a lot of, people you,
know because we talk about how good the structure, is
some people might just fold the ace jack off and be,
like you know, WHAT i don't need to do. THIS
i only wasted you know whatever two to three. K
it is on the hand and let's just move. On but,
No foxen made the call and got a huge jump.
There so here is my chat With Alex. Foxhen all, Right,
ALEX i got to ask you about the ah Jack
jack ten. Hend what was that when the guy Had
jack ten suited he went on in for like sixty
SOMETHING k and you you contemplated with the ace. JACK
i mean it seems like a spot WHERE i mean
you obviously kind of read the situation, corrected, right but
also like it is a gamble there with the ash, jack,
Right so just kind of what's going through your?
Speaker 2: Mind, YEAH i mean it's it's definitely a kind of six.
SPOT i think THAT i had played with was his
Name viddie for a little bit at this, point and
he was definitely on the looser side and you, know
willing to make some unconventional, plays AND i took that
situation to be one where he looked at my range as,
cap which is, correct and the big one was genuine
in trying to call and miss click. Raise so it
just leaves the action open for him to jam a
ton of. Hands he had been opening pretty, wide AND
i was pretty confident, that you, know given that he
had about SEVENTY, k he had enough room to three
bet or four bet technically to a smaller size with
some of his more nutted. Hands and, additionally he started
to seem pretty uncomfortable WHEN i WHEN i didn't instantly.
Fold so THEN i just started to think, that, Yeah
i'm gonna have a lot of dominating, hands AND i
kind of, thought worst case, Scenario, Yes i'm going to
like ninser, eights but there are gonna be some like
King jack, Suits jack ran, studits Que jack, suits some
more suited aces in. There SO i feel, like with
there's still a chunk of dead money in the pot
and the fact THAT i probably have the WAY i
perceived his, RANGE i THINK i still have an equity
advantage with a lot of hands THAT i, Dominate SO,
i you, know suddenly make a.
Speaker 1: CALL i think an easy follow up is do you
need to take a risk like? That you, know even
if it is a kind of a smaller percentage equity, advantage,
right if you think you're going to do fairly, well
you have a good chip stack, already do you need
to press those?
Speaker 2: Edges, YEAH i THINK i think this is a fine
line that you walk in the main event where you you,
know you don't want to sacrifice too much on your
win rate or your ev in the in the tournament
by by folding away small, edges because if you do
that around the course is you, know five, six, seven eight,
days it does that. Up and, additionally at the, TIME
i THINK i had like three hundred and FIFTY k
or so to start the, Hand so HOW'D i lost this?
Pot i'm still like two hundred big lines, deep very,
Comfortable so it was a good spot WHERE i was
able to withstand a loss there pretty. Easily AND i
think if if my stack was, different the decision might
have been a lot more. Difficult AND i think there's
a higher chance THAT i would have holded HAD i,
had say one HUNDRED k instead of you, know three HUNDRED.
K so that definitely plays a. Role and it's just
one of, yeah one of those spots WHERE i my
read was that he was scored the bottom of his,
range and you, know when you get it in for
with seventy, percent it's a pretty good. Spot so those
are spots.
Speaker 3: THAT i. Think it's, like you have to you have to.
Speaker 2: Be willing to. Gamble it is just another. Tournament you
have to think the spots as they.
Speaker 1: Come so you guys heard. It there a little bit
of insight into the mind of one of the best
tournament poker players in the history of the, game hands.
Down Alex foxon is that. Dude he is that. Good
he's got almost five HUNDRED k going forward to day,
three And lord have mercy on everyone who stands in his,
way because if this guy can continue to steam roll like.
This when he was playing on that beach, TIP i
watched maybe let's say forty five minutes total of you,
KNOW i was popping in and, out of, course going
out to the floor and. WHATEVER i mean it not
to take anything away from the other players out, there
but it looked like in a al playing with middle
schoolers is like playing basketball with middle. Schools it was
it was, unreal like he was doing whatever he. Wanted EVEN. J.
C tran he got him in one pot where he
had a flushtraw he checked back, flop, raised turned like GOT. J.
C tran to fold the best hand on the. RIVER i,
mean it's just like Even ja Z TRAN. Jayc trann
is of course no, slouch And foxen is just up
there doing What Alex foxen. Does just tremendous stuff from.
Him and if he is as locked in as we always,
See Alex foxen has as many chips as he, does
just just look. OUT i can already see this one
brewing for a deep run For Alex. Foxen WHEN i
talked about HOW i busted out of the tournament and
HOW i was feeling about my summer and HOW i
thought that, overall you, KNOW i played WHAT i consider
to be MY a game and one of my best
strengths as a poker. PLAYERS i believe THAT i am
able to show up and play as close to MY
a game as possible on a consistent. Basis, now MY
a game is not a lot of really good PLAYERS
a games like In Alex. Foxen but What i'm getting at,
IS i Think Alex foxen is the player to, me you,
know or at least one of a small handful of
players THAT i don't ever see him not playing HIS a.
GAME i JUST i really just, don't you, know it's like,
Him It's Steven. CHIDWICK i kind of think that might
be the, LIST i might Throw Jason kuhn in, there
BUT i have to like go to What jason kun
has said where you know he's he's told me this
summer and you guys heard it on the podcast where
he was he went into this was to be mad
him at this, year and you know he has since,
busted but he went into it playing like this was
the last ten thousand dollars he had to his name
and he had to make it. Work now in that
quote or that comment that he, Said i'm looking at
the thing he didn't, say which is maybe at other
TIMES i didn't play that, way, Right so maybe he
wasn't playing HIS a game at times when it comes
to some some of the lower buying. Stuff, yes when
it's when it's a FIFTY k one HUNDRED k two
to FIFTY, k you, Know Jason coon is showing up
and it's it's a plus game no matter. What but
maybe when he plays some of the lower, stuff he
kind of just you, know gets off of his game
a little. Bit maybe he's playing A b plus game
and that's not AN a. Game but With Alex, FOXEN
i just every single time this guy has locked the
f in and he looked locking locked in all day
on the feature. Table so you, know don't be surprised
if we're talking About Alex foxen on you, know day,
six day, seven very very deep in this. Tournament another
player who bagged chips entering day three Is Adam, levy
two hundred and seventy thousand in the. Bag per his social.
MEDIA i was following his media throughout this. Tournament he's
just SOMEBODY i, follow so it pops up a. Lot
he said that this was his twentieth W sup main.
Event that's cool as. SHIT i also know That Adam
levy has been a part of some pretty epic moments
in The World series Of poker main. Event you, know
he was famously involved in a phil help me blow
up when he had The queen ten and help me
say honey he called me with The queen. Ten you
know that whole, Clip, yeah that Was Adam. Levy there
was another clip involving Jeanre Barat balhon where jenerre Barat
balon thought that he thought that he won the hand
or hand in the hand locked, UP i think on the,
term But Adam levy was, like oh, no, no like you,
know he can hit whatever and then of course the
guy hits. It that Was Adam, levy like pointing it
out TO. Jrb in twenty, Ten Adam levey finished twelfth
in this event for six hundred and thirty thousand or
something like. That SO i mean he's had a bunch
of other cases as, well so he's you, know he
goes by Ruthless Adam Adam, levy he's super fun, guy
and you know he was good to chat with. Him
he at one, point you, know he he spun up
a big. Stack you, know he had kind of, whatever let's,
say seventy to eighty k or, SO i MEAN i
could be off there a little, bit but then all
of a, sudden he was, like you, KNOW i just
hit a crazy rush of cards boom, boom boom.
Speaker 3: All the way.
Speaker 1: Up SO i wanted to go chat with him see
how he was. Doing so let's get to.
Speaker 3: That.
Speaker 1: Now here is my chat on the last break of the,
day so there was still one level to. Go but
HERE i am chatting With Adam. LEE i saw you
put on twitter twentieth main. Event, Yeah, LIKE i, Mean
bookie's coming every, year you keep coming. Back why.
Speaker 3: It's just the best turnament on the, planet like there's
no other tournament or you even get two hour levels
and sixty thousand. Chips you get people that you're playing
with their first tournament, ever and then like from around the,
world like it's probably he, Like i'm actually curious on those,
stats like how many countries every? Year but it's off
and that's awesome AND i love, it and everyone's usually pretty,
friendly and then it just escalates and it gets more
and more. Tense there's chips, flying players you've never even
seen before just. Blasting it's.
Speaker 1: Awesome you've been on a little bit of a rush.
TODAY i also saw you put that on social. Media
how do you juggle the enjoyment of a? Rush but,
also and in your, case you have some history with
going deep knowing that there's still so much tournament, left
so you've got to kind of keep yourself calm and.
Speaker 3: Collected, Yeah i'm not gonna. LIE i wasn't really that
calm the last hour or. SO i was just kind
of like it was a bit of adrenaline in this,
case BECAUSE i like had BEEN i think my peak
in the tournament was like ninety k and like THEN
i was at the bottom And i'm dejected and then
all of a, sudden within forty five, MINUTES i seven
x my. Stack, yeah SO i WAS i was pretty,
happy but, like you, know yeah, EXACTLY i was telling,
myself all, right we Can we're here, now we have
a nice. Stack we can calm. Down there's a long
ways to, go but you, know you still have to
enjoy it the. Ride you've had a lot of history
in this. Event you got The queen ten, hand the
famous hand Against.
Speaker 1: Helmuth of, course you had a deep run in twenty
ten OUT i believe for twelfth place. There how do
you kind of think about your place in history in
regards to THE wsb main.
Speaker 3: EVENT i, mean it's just funny you say that because
someone a GUY i played with my like the beginning
of Day seaton, one he was, like that's like a historic.
Hand he was, like you're The queen ten. Yea that's
LIKE i was, LIKE i, MEAN i DON'T i, GUESS
i don't. KNOW i haven't really ever really considered. It
but like the fact that it's eighteen years later from
that That queen ten hand and people are just like
you're that guy and they still know, it and it's
it's pretty. COOL i think was it you And remco
did the like, rankings it was like OR i think got.
THIRTEENTH i was like top one hundred hands of all
time or. WHATEVER i was, like, yeah it's pretty. Cool so,
YEAH i MEAN i didn't know, that by the, way
a little bit of lower like it was a it
was A Vanessa russo, quote LIKE i didn't even make
it up BECAUSE i Guess i'm like tuplus two she
said it. Was i'm sorry it was an aggressive call on.
It it's like you can't really make a call that's.
Aggressive it's like kind of an. Oxymoron SO i just
kind of used it and like help, you like you
could see how white hot he. Is so, YEAH i
MEAN i guess in a way like you, know you
just say something silly and it just sticks And helmet was.
There it was. Awesome, yeah so it's super, Cool Like
I'm I'm i'm happy with. That even the genre bear
ball on, hand that's actually like the one where he
just doesn't realize that he's drunk dead AND i have
to tell. Him, Yeah like the main event is definitely
a part of my, life regardless of IF i ever
have Another Deep run or. Not AND i love it
what keeps the dream. ALIVE i Guess i've always loved
tournaments of just about any, kind like whether it's magic
urns growing, up or just like just the idea that
you start from scratch for any tournament and then it
just kind of builds and builds, builds and like emotionally or,
monetarily it's JUST i love that. Stuff and always just
seeing people different, people you, know it's just.
Speaker 1: Like a.
Speaker 2: The people that you.
Speaker 3: Meet it's like it's not like they're all like very nut,
special but like they're all. Interesting AND i love, that you,
know just being around people and also just playing poker
at the deep stack you can in any tourna, whatever it's.
Speaker 2: Awesome so we're heading.
Speaker 1: Into the last level of day. Two you got a good.
Stack do you feel like you're ready for another deep?
Speaker 3: RUN i, don't, like you, know LIKE i, was the
adrenaline was kind of pumping a little. Bit, YEAH i
don't want to get ahead of. Myself But i'm always,
Ready Like i'm always, like let's, go let's get in the,
money let's build a. Stack you. KNOW i had a
couple LIKE i had a stint in like the two
thousands WHERE i had some, cash LIKE i had cashed it,
again and it is like you just you, know you
just feel the energy and it, builds and LIKE i
keep saying, that but, Yeah I'm i'm, ready you, know let's.
Speaker 1: Go you can definitely tell with with players like him
who have been there before and they've run deep in this,
event you, know similar to What Tony dunk was saying
on the last, episode it's like you want it again
and you get a sense of what it, takes, yes
and you know it's of course. Hard you Heard adam
talk about how that a gentleman does start, pumping you,
know you kind of start to feel. It but on
the flip side of, things it's only at the time
it was day. Two now we're going into day. Three
there's a long tournament to. Go there's a full let's,
say one point two days of play left before this
tournament even hits the. Money, like so more than a
full day of play is, left BECAUSE i don't think
they're gonna, Man i'm pretty sure they're not gonna hit
the money on day. Three they usually don't usually happens
early on on day. Four so you have a day
and then some you know to get there and we
talked about on the last, episode how many of The
day TWO abc chip leaders don't even run super. Deep you,
know some might, cash one player didn't, cash you, know
and you're bagging you, know six, seven eight HUNDRED, k
and you're you're not even making the, Money, like how
is that? Possible, well it's, poker and it's poker tournament
and crazy stuff. Happen and then speaking of Those day
TWO d chip, leaders AS i talked about with The
day TWO abc chip leaders and how they fare going.
Forward sankim last year seven hundred ninety nine, thousand ultimately
finished in eleven hundred and sixty fifth place for seventeen,
thousand five, hundreds so he got the. Cash the year before,
that it Was Alex livingston who was who of course
made the final table of this event before he bagged
seven hundred and FIFTY K day TWO d overall chip
lead finished in two hundred ninety fifth for forty FIVE
k the year before. THAT i believe this is the
best we've had for A day two chip leader in
the last four. Years Maurice hawkins bagged nine hundred and
forty one, thousand went on to finish in thirty fifth.
Place for two hundred and eighty thousand. Dollars year before,
that twenty twenty, Two mohammed Abdel raheem bagged nine hundred
and thirty six, thousand finished in one hundred and sixth
place for sixty two thousand and five one hundred. Dollars
so it's easy to get caught up in the fact, that,
yeah you bag the chip. Leader you've got a pile of,
chips you're sitting on three hundred plus big, bins and
you can, think, okay Like i'm a lock for top
one hundred or whatever it may. Be and it's that's
the furthest thing from from the case. Here so you,
know of course we'll keep an eye on the chip
leaders as we do going, forward and we'll see how
they fare as with everyone. Else but it just always
seems to be the case, that you, know someone comes
out of the pack from elsewhere and starts to, uh
starts to steal the thunder and make a run this.
Thing so the story THAT i wanted to tell you
guys from day two d of the main. Event so
it's it's the end of the, night it's the, uh
the time when all the servers start loading up their
trays with. Beers you, know it. Started this, started you,
know several years, ago the beer love the last level
of the, night especially towards the very, end everyone's starting
to order some, beers kind of celebrate the fact that
they're about to make the, bag they're going to advance
to the next, day all that sort of. Stuff and
it got to the point, where you, know everyone started
ordering beers that some of the servers would just go
in the back and just get the beers and put
them on their tray and then walk, out walk around
and pass them. Out, Right so now it's a customed,
that you, know all the servers go back to the,
back they just fire up the beers and then they
go out there because they know a bunch of people
are going to be ordering them and celebrating the fact
that they're about to hit the end of the night
and advance one day. Further in THE wsp main, event
there was a server who came over by WHERE i
was standing next To Mickey, dofft and the server put
the tray of, ABOUT i don't, know fourteen fifteen beers
on the like the railing of one of the side feature,
tables and then he was passing out the beers right,
Well mickey AND i are standing let's, say six to
eight feet away from where this tray. IS a gentleman
Who i'm going to Name Benjamin krauss gets up from
the table that was sitting right. There he walks over
to this tray of beers and he takes a beer
off of. It the server is not, around because the
server's out in the field delivering. Beers he takes a
beer off of. It when he takes the beer, off
the tray becomes uneven and the whole thing tips over
smashes on the. Ground there's like twelve beers that just
go freaking. Everywhere they're all Over mickey AND i and
this guy is looking at me And i'm looking at,
him AND i just straight up pointed him AND i
say it was, him Because i'm not taking any sort
of blame for. This i'm looking At. Mickey mickey's just
got his arms out to the, side, like what the
heck just. Happened there's beer all over my, shoes in my.
Pants the server comes back over and looks at, me
AND i point again to, cry this guy Been Jam,
krause And i'm like it was. Him Benjamin, crouse mind,
you has his beer in, hand just quietly turns, around
walks five feet back over to his, chair takes the
sip of his, beer sits back, down hoodie, on and
just goes about playing the final few hands to. NIGHT
i didn't. LISTEN i could have not heard, it BUT
i didn't hear an. APOLOGY i didn't hear any sort
of offer to help clean it. UP i mean it
was just the servers just kind of looking, around like
what the heck's going? On there's beer all over the,
Floor the tray is all over the, floor cups are
all over the. FLOOR a couple of the dealers that
weren't currently, working like some of the feature table dealers
who were sitting around, waiting you, know they're coming, over
like what the heck's going? On is this guy gonna
help people clean? Up some of the floor staff comes
over like what is he gonna? Help like what is
he gonna say? Anything Like, no he just sat down
and just kept. PLAYING i, mean, what what what the?
Speaker 3: Heck?
Speaker 1: Like you could have. LISTEN i know you don't want
to misshands in thews be main, Event, yes BUT i don't,
know could you show a little more for what the
heck you just? Did mickey AND i got beer all
over our pants and. Shoes there's beer all over the.
Floor everyone's got to clean it. Up you're not even
offering to. Help you're not like pulling out one hundred
dollars and being, like, Hey i'm, SORRY i gotta play these.
Hands here's a hundred bucks for a tip for you,
guys BECAUSE i just made a freaking. Mess not to,
MENTION i spilled all these damn beers all over the.
Place like, WELL i mean WHAT i don't. Understand where
are people's? Manners, honestly where are people's? MANNERS i, mean,
seriously this was just an absurd. Situation and like the
fact that like he just sat there and just like
face the, table so his back is then to where
all this, happened and like didn't turn, around didn't say, hey,
Guys i'm, Sorry like if you leave, It i'll help
you clean it. Up just let me play these last
four or five hands whatever it, Is, like there was
none of, That LIKE i just Don't and on top of,
it he's just sipping the. Beer then he took off this.
Stray i'm, like what what is going? ON i JUST i,
MEAN i could not believe that that absolutely. Happened it
was simply, outrageous an absolutely outrageous. Move And Benjamin, KRAUSMAN i,
mean come, on just do better with. That, please just
at least an, apology for the love Of. God the
other story THAT i wanted to. Tell AND i don't
know If i've still told this story before on the.
Podcast MAYBE i, have MAYBE i have him but if, not,
Whatever i'll tell it. Again So i'm standing again With.
MICKY i actually went to check in on a. Player
micky happen to be standing right there because he's doing
some of the running for. Producing and then another player
comes walking over to me and he says, Hello AND
i recognize the, player you know, him AND i say
hello every once in. Ahile It's Scott. Lanzarre Scott, lazar of,
course made The discipy main event final table backing in
two thousand and five When Joe hasham won. It So
scott says, HELLO i say hello. Back he's Got if
you remember What Scott lazar looked like back, then he
looks a little bit different now he's got a beard
and it's a white. Beard he also had a bucket
head on shout out to the No gamble In No
future bucket. Hats he had that. On he also had
some sunglasses. On micky didn't recognize him right. Away he
AND i just start. Chatting scott's, like, oh by the,
way because were You were you at that table in
the back Of Caesar's palace on the night of The Heads?
Upturn AND i said, Yes scott when when we hit
the bad beat? Jackpot he said. Yes and back in twenty,
FOURTEEN i, believe was the year The National heads Of
Poker championship was about to happen and it was taking
place At caesar's and they had the draw party At Pure.
Nightclub after they had the draw party and we were all,
there a bunch of us went to The Caesars poker
room and we fired up a game OF i believe
it was one. Three we were playing one. Three there
might have been some straddles on who the heck? Knows
but in the game are me my good? Friend and
who was my boss at the time or? He maybe
he was my boss at the, TIME i can't. Remember
maybe he was already working For, prokers But Gary gates
was in the field or in the. Mix Chris moneymaker
was at the, Table Joe hasham was at the, Table
Jason mercier was at the. Table of, Course scotland was
at the. Table Mari Es, candani who is now my,
boss was at the. Table Eric, morris the publisher Of bluff,
magazine he was at the, table and Then Jason Alexander
george From seinfeld was also at the. Table and we're
playing this game and we hit the Bad beat, jackpot
which at the TIME i think was just ten thousand,
dollars was capped at, it and you know whoever got
their shares of, IT i got five hundred BUCKS i
think it. Was But Jason mercier wasn't at the table
because he went to the bathroom and could not Get
he came back and we had hit the. Jackpot and,
yeah the the hand that caused the jackpot to be.
Hit the flop was four, deuce, deuce somebody had, deuces
somebody had pocket, force turn was a four boom and
we got the we got we got the Bad beat.
Jackpot so do you imagine hitting a Bad beat jackpot
with that sort of? Lineup so we're IN i don't
know if you guys know what the Old Caesars Poker
room or WHAT i think might be the Current Caeesars poker,
room BECAUSE i don't think went back to. It but
it had this little kind of section that was an
upper level where it HAD i think three, tables maybe four.
Tables it was like a step up and it was
railed off a little. Bit that's where kind of the
higher stakes games played and the room is like kind
of full and, us you, know being with all these
players are up there and we're the ones out of
all the people in the room that hit the bad beat.
Jack it was we kind of annoyed everyone else that
was there that, night but that was that was a fun.
Story also at the. TABLE i have to of course
give credit because the story is online because of One Paul. Harris.
Uh he you, know he did some work in the
media for poker And Paul. Harris if you guys go
to harrisonline dot com you can find this story on.
There he talks about it all and about hitting the
hitting the bad beat. Jackpot. There so, too two fun, stories,
uh from the. Night But scotlands are you know he's
still in the. TOURNAMENT i believe he. Was he was
talking to me for a While he's, like, YEAH i
don't really want to play any. HANDS i just want
to make it till to uh to the. Bags and
if you remember back when he made that found, Table
scott was gambling up a freaking storm at that found.
Table is going. Nuts so, Call i'll give you a
gamble like that whole. Thing but very much a different
and a changed player these days Is. Scotlandzar but nice as.
Heck that guy really like him out, there so we'll
see if he does. Well So Benjamin kraus gotta do
a little bit better with the. Manners Scott, Lanzar, Call
i'll give you a, gamble, baby all, right that's gonna do.
It for this episode of The Poker Go, podcast shout
out To Rich ryan for the. Producing my name Is
Donny peters AND i will talk to you guys next.
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