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