Speaker 1: Hello everyone, and welcome back to a new episode of
Speaker 1: the Poker Go Podcast. My name is Donny Peters. His
Speaker 1: name is Tim Duckworth. And as you guys can tell,
Speaker 1: it is the end, the end of it all. We
Speaker 1: are out here in the middle of the floor in
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Speaker 2: Not yet, not yet.
Speaker 1: We have a champion. It is Michael the Grinder, Miss
Speaker 1: Rocky Grind, Grind Grinder in in absolutely unbelievable final table,
Speaker 1: in unbelievable run to the winner circle, the stuff that
Speaker 1: like I feel like, I feel like. The script writers
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Speaker 1: especially the final table with the way that this played
Speaker 1: out over the last few days with the Grinder ever
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Speaker 1: to the to the winner circle, to the ten million
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Speaker 1: was absolutely positively one for the age is one we will.
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Speaker 1: got to get into it. Michael the Grinder, Miss Rocky
Speaker 1: the EFN Grinder does the farthest thing from grinding, yeah,
Speaker 1: but gets it done, gets it done absolutely wild stuff.
Speaker 1: So we come back today. He's got seventy six percent
Speaker 1: of the chips in play, four hundred and forty four
Speaker 1: and a half million. There's five hundred and eighty four
Speaker 1: point five million in play, seventy six percent of the
Speaker 1: chips and play. Kenny Howard's pretty short to start. He
Speaker 1: got eight big blinds. Braxin's on the way, isn't too
Speaker 1: far ahead of him. He's got ten big blinds, and
Speaker 1: then John Wosnock had like thirty seven or thirty eight,
Speaker 1: something like that. You know, we talked about yesterday, how Ellie.
Speaker 1: I felt if there was some close spots early, maybe
Speaker 1: Kenny passes on them. He takes the ICM approach. Well,
Speaker 1: he was dell Ace queen off on the first no,
Speaker 1: so he goes all in. Grinder with the tight squeeze
Speaker 1: from the big blind, peels king jack of Diamond's boom.
Speaker 1: Here we go, makes the call, first first pitch of
Speaker 1: the deck, and we're just off with an all in.
Speaker 1: Of course, it comes all spades, nobody hits, No one's
Speaker 1: got a spade, just the jack of clubs on the turn.
Speaker 1: Of course, as if Grinder was not going to hit this.
Speaker 1: I swear this guy hasn't lost it all in in
Speaker 1: twelve days. Yeah, I mean, he should take this ten
Speaker 1: million dollars and go spend the entire thing on powerball,
Speaker 1: because I'm like ninety five percent certain he would win. Well,
Speaker 1: look up the powerball jackpot right now, you're you're the
Speaker 1: money guy.
Speaker 4: Look, okay, I might be the money guy, but I
Speaker 4: do not condone power.
Speaker 1: Jack Yes, okay, but you do condone pressing your luck
Speaker 1: when you're as hot as Grinder is. I know you do.
Speaker 3: Come on, estimated jackpot two hundred and sixty million.
Speaker 1: That's twenty six x that right now? You know he
Speaker 1: would win, you know he could. You could you imagine
Speaker 1: the story.
Speaker 3: It would be the best story ever.
Speaker 1: This has already been the best story ever.
Speaker 3: Okay, should spend fifty k on tickets?
Speaker 1: I mean she should. He's just been five hundred can tickets.
Speaker 1: Why not just fifty You know what, Actually, with the
Speaker 1: way he's running, he could spend one dollar. You spend
Speaker 1: one He's just gonna win. It's just gonna win. Just
Speaker 1: simply incredible stuff. So yeah, first hand, we lose Kenny Holler.
Speaker 1: He takes home three million dollars. Kenny Holler has had
Speaker 1: an absolutely incredible run over the years, and let it
Speaker 1: be main Event. I know we all like I think
Speaker 1: Paul Vopie has the nickname main Event. I mean, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: like I'm starting to think Kenny Hollard needs the nickname
Speaker 1: main Event. He's made the found table twice, He's had
Speaker 1: many other deep runs. I mean, the guy just basically
Speaker 1: it's like every year or every other year, he's like,
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 3: What, one more and he can have it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Sorry, I'm gonna be a little yeah, I guy, just
Speaker 1: give that away. I mean a big nickname, of course.
Speaker 1: I'm sure if you're Kenny, you're a little bit bummed
Speaker 1: to go. You get out all in with the best hand.
Speaker 1: He's Queen versus King Jack. But all things considered, you
Speaker 1: turn ten k into three million dollars your second run
Speaker 1: of it here. Last time he was at the WSP
Speaker 1: Man Event Final table, he finished in sixth place, and
Speaker 1: so here doing a bit better for himself, and like
Speaker 1: I said, three million dollars richer. And then we didn't
Speaker 1: have to wait long. The next hand, yeap Braxton Dunaway.
Speaker 1: So John Wasnock folds the button, Michael m Isrocky Jams
Speaker 1: from the Small Blind, and I think Braxton Dunaway had
Speaker 1: ten big blinds to start the hand. So he's got
Speaker 1: nine big blinds because he posted the big blind nanty
Speaker 1: and he calls all in with ten six suited Grinder's
Speaker 1: got a ten of diamonds. This is the wildest call
Speaker 1: I've ever seen. Like, I can't I don't know what happened.
Speaker 1: I honestly don't know.
Speaker 2: You know what.
Speaker 4: I spoke to Braxton Stot of Play and he was like,
Speaker 4: you know, this is gonna be tough spot for me
Speaker 4: and Kenny, and you know, we were talking a little
Speaker 4: bit about parking. I was like, yeah, whoever is out,
Speaker 4: who whoever gets the third to the final three, he's
Speaker 4: going to feel so much relief and like basically be
Speaker 4: free rolling. And Braxson was like, yeah, you know, you're right,
Speaker 4: that's just the goal. We'll get to three and then
Speaker 4: you make that million dollar page jump and then anything goes.
Speaker 4: My guess is he got to that. He's looking up
Speaker 4: at this giant everest of a chip stack that Michael
Speaker 4: Msrahi has and goes, you know what, if I have
Speaker 4: any chance of winning, I need to turn this nine
Speaker 4: big blinds, you know, to twenty to forty eighty and
Speaker 4: start chipping away at miss road I have any chance,
Speaker 4: and he's you know what, it might not be a
Speaker 4: gto optimal at all, but I think that's what it is.
Speaker 4: I think it's just a little bit of a gamble.
Speaker 4: Try and take nine bigs off off the chip leader
Speaker 4: and close that gap a little bit with John Waznak,
Speaker 4: and hopefully.
Speaker 3: It's his turn.
Speaker 4: He said to me this twenty you know, I ran
Speaker 4: like shit yesterday. I hope today I ran like I
Speaker 4: hope today. I run like the sun from the start.
Speaker 4: And that's what he's maybe trying to do there with
Speaker 4: the ten six of hearts.
Speaker 1: I understand running like the sun and Era wanting to
Speaker 1: run like the sun. I think we all want to
Speaker 1: run like the sun. You still have to make good decisions.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I mean, this is just when Nick Shulman,
Speaker 1: who's the classiest individual in the booth, you know, tries
Speaker 1: to keep it as buttoned up as possible, doesn't really
Speaker 1: go in on players when he says, I really don't
Speaker 1: like that. You know, it's god awfully bad, Like I mean,
Speaker 1: it's I think I personally think ten nine suited would
Speaker 1: be hard to pull the trigger, just because, again, you
Speaker 1: make so much money all the time by folding, and
Speaker 1: he did.
Speaker 3: He might he folded the first hand right.
Speaker 1: Standing, he folded the first hand, but still like, you
Speaker 1: can't find a better hand in the next two hands
Speaker 1: than ten six suited and worst case scenario, maybe you
Speaker 1: end up in the big blind again. I mean, I
Speaker 1: think in this tournament you can get down to six
Speaker 1: big blinds, seven big blinds and still be okay.
Speaker 4: I was down a season off bigs. I know he's
Speaker 4: going to have seven, and how big blinds? You know
Speaker 4: obviously he is. It's three handed, so you've heavily reliant
Speaker 4: on on the deck hitting you and getting something worth
Speaker 4: you know, something a little stronger than the ten six I.
Speaker 1: Mean, facing a two million dollar page in between third
Speaker 1: and second, I think that I personally would have just
Speaker 1: tried to fold as much as I needed to with
Speaker 1: the hopes that wasnock and Miss Rocky just went ballistic,
Speaker 1: which I think could certainly happen. I mean, we know
Speaker 1: the Miss.
Speaker 3: Rocky's is going to do was stop the day with
Speaker 3: how many bigs? I think thirty eight thirty eight? So yeah,
Speaker 3: so still an hood climb to of a take care.
Speaker 1: Look, yeah, but what if you see something similar to
Speaker 1: what we saw on the first day of the final
Speaker 1: table Wasnock picks up a big hand Queen's Miss Rocky
Speaker 1: picks up a big hand Ace King, and they just
Speaker 1: get all the money in. Now, it maybe takes a
Speaker 1: little bit less than that. You know, one guy gets
Speaker 1: ace Queen, the other guy's got two sevens, and they
Speaker 1: just go nuts. Like I don't know, like that could happen.
Speaker 1: And if that's the case and the guy goes out,
Speaker 1: I'm sitting there collecting a two million dollar page up.
Speaker 1: I mean I would try and approach it like way
Speaker 1: back when shout out Jonathan Duhommel's banner over there, when
Speaker 1: John Rister was just sitting on the sidelines and Joseph
Speaker 1: Chong just decided to go nuts. I mean, you never know,
Speaker 1: you never know, and like.
Speaker 3: The ten six is not ideal, But I ain't found
Speaker 3: on the ice Queen or the.
Speaker 1: No no, no, I'm not saying full of the East Queen,
Speaker 1: of course, like I'm not saying like full just fold
Speaker 1: good hands. But like this just seemed like he just
Speaker 1: he locked up that million dollar page up and said
Speaker 1: fuck it, I'm going forward with. I mean, maybe part
Speaker 1: of me wants to respect, but the poker player in
Speaker 1: me says, what in the holy hell just happened? That said,
Speaker 1: you know, Braxton's gone away four million dollars richer, so
Speaker 1: he gambled it up. But I also I also thought that, like,
Speaker 1: I don't think Braxton Dunaway is I don't think he's
Speaker 1: a like a theory guy. I think he's more of
Speaker 1: like a live player, a field player. That's just my
Speaker 1: my reader understanding of him. So you know, he decided
Speaker 1: to gamble it up in that spot and it ultimately
Speaker 1: didn't work, and you know, maybe it costs him, maybe
Speaker 1: it didn't like maybe he goes on third anyway, right,
Speaker 1: But I mean it's certainly being well talked about. And
Speaker 1: I don't think we got a bust out interview with him,
Speaker 1: because I would have liked to hear somebody ask him,
Speaker 1: you know, hey, like, what what was the thought process
Speaker 1: with calling all in with ten six suited there? I
Speaker 1: mean it just seems I mean, we know Grinder's grinder,
Speaker 1: and he can, I mean Grinder can jam five to
Speaker 1: six suited, but I mean ten six suited is a reach.
Speaker 1: It's definitely a reach. So but either way, very very
Speaker 1: very good run from Braxton dunaway. He gets four million
Speaker 1: dollars for his third place finish. Of course Michael mcrocky
Speaker 1: with that ace ten did take him out. He ended
Speaker 1: up making a flush on the river, I think is
Speaker 1: how it finished. But when that money went in, it
Speaker 1: was funny because Ms Rocky sees the hands and immediately
Speaker 1: starts celebrating like he just like he like he won
Speaker 1: the hand. Yeah, obviously he sees the hands turned over
Speaker 1: and he has him you know, crushed, but he still
Speaker 1: is like he's celebrated. I mean, the celebrations from his
Speaker 1: Rocky even start to finishing this thing where it's just
Speaker 1: just absolutely wild. So then we take a break. Of
Speaker 1: course they bring up all the money, they do the
Speaker 1: whole thing. We get the heads up play and it's
Speaker 1: it's a pretty big gap overall. I mean, walls nuts
Speaker 1: got around like ninety million basically like what he started
Speaker 1: with because he didn't play any hands. It was just
Speaker 1: boom boom, and what heads up Ms Rocky's got. You know,
Speaker 1: he's pushing what five hundred million at this point, and
Speaker 1: the whole thing is just wild. So now we're thinking,
Speaker 1: I mean, what are you thinking? At this point? This
Speaker 1: is gonna be over in three hands.
Speaker 4: To be honest, I'm praying it goes for several more hours,
Speaker 4: you know, like I wanted to be an event. You know,
Speaker 4: we don't really want this over in three four, five hands.
Speaker 4: We want to show we want to see these guys battle. Obviously,
Speaker 4: the result is whoever's anyone cheering for. But that's the
Speaker 4: only thing I really I just didn't want to see
Speaker 4: it end within like ten to fifteen minutes. So when
Speaker 4: it started, and you know, a couple of us went
Speaker 4: to grind a straight away as like, God, here would go.
Speaker 3: He's gonna wear him down and take him out.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I'm kind of like you. I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't know how long I wanted to last. I just wanted.
Speaker 1: I wanted was not to like make it a match
Speaker 1: like maybe get one, double up, maybe pull even. Part
Speaker 1: of why I wanted that is I wanted to see
Speaker 1: how Grinder would possibly respond to some sort of adversity,
Speaker 1: because everything up until this point has just been all Grinder. Like,
Speaker 1: whatever needed to happen to fall in Grinder's favor, it happened, right,
Speaker 1: you know. Like obviously that ace on the river on
Speaker 1: day one of the Final Table was enormous, but so
Speaker 1: many other things just happened to work out for him.
Speaker 1: His bluffs work. You know, he got paid off when
Speaker 1: he needed to, like all this crazy stuff. So you know,
Speaker 1: then you know he busts those two people. Things are
Speaker 1: going more in Grinders away. So I just wanted to
Speaker 1: see him like start making it a match. Maybe he
Speaker 1: gets up to like two hundred million. Yeah, Grinders still
Speaker 1: got a healthy chip lead. But like then it's kind
Speaker 1: of like, oh, like, oh, is Grinder going to lose this?
Speaker 1: Is he going to lose this? You know, is he
Speaker 1: possibly feeling the pressure a little bit or is it
Speaker 1: starting to build? And you know How's was not feeling
Speaker 1: but you know, I know wasnot got up over one
Speaker 1: hundred million, a little bit over one hundred million, but
Speaker 1: he I mean he never really he never really got
Speaker 1: close even like.
Speaker 4: A couple of steps forward, a couple of back, couple
Speaker 4: steps a couple back.
Speaker 3: You couldn't really get that kind of run on.
Speaker 1: I mean, it really was just Grinders. Yeah, tournament. I mean, like,
Speaker 1: I don't know what to say. It was interesting to
Speaker 1: see wa Wasnock start talking to Grinder a little bit
Speaker 1: mm hmm. You know, he was talking to him in
Speaker 1: some of the some of the hands, which which I
Speaker 1: thought was a little bit interesting because I feel like.
Speaker 3: That at all.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you haven't seen it. And also if anyone's able
Speaker 1: to like read you, I feel like Grinder is one
Speaker 1: of the best at it in the world.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're probably not the guy you want to chat to.
Speaker 1: Like, you know, you don't want to chat to Dan Legrand,
Speaker 1: who you probably don't want to check to Phil Ivy.
Speaker 1: Probably Grinder is like up there in that crowd, like
Speaker 1: you don't want to start, like, especially.
Speaker 4: On this run, and he's been on where everything is
Speaker 4: going his way, like literally he can't do no wrong.
Speaker 3: Yeah he can't. Yeah, don't give him any added help. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So then the final hand comes up, and the final
Speaker 1: hand comes up, I think about forty to forty five
Speaker 1: minutes of actual playtime, and this final hand, I mean
Speaker 1: it had it had everything in one hand. So I'm
Speaker 1: not even sure I know where to begin with this hand.
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously you got to begin on the turn.
Speaker 1: So it goes check check on the flop. The club
Speaker 1: comes in on the turn to give Grinder the flush.
Speaker 1: He checks wasna finally bets his top top two pair.
Speaker 1: Now the first crazy part Grinder starts pumping up the
Speaker 1: crowd before he raises he's going. He's like going like
Speaker 1: this to the crowd to get them amped up, and
Speaker 1: then goes thirty million.
Speaker 3: Does this one like this it's for the lost feed ice, I.
Speaker 1: Know, like he did in the Hand with Kenny Hollard
Speaker 1: on the first day of the Like it's just like
Speaker 1: mid hand, the biggest stage of poker, and this guy
Speaker 1: is like just acting like a complete I say this
Speaker 1: in a in a totally endearing way, acting like a fool,
Speaker 1: but in a really good.
Speaker 4: Photos very entertaining. It wasn't like it all insulting. I
Speaker 4: didn't think it was pure entertainment.
Speaker 1: So like he pumped up the crowd and they start
Speaker 1: yelling and like you can barely hear him say thirty million,
Speaker 1: and then Wasnock snap jams. Grinder calls it off. Of course,
Speaker 1: then it gets even crazier, as if you don't think
Speaker 1: it stops there. Grinder thinks that he needs to fade
Speaker 1: a club. I think he saw the black Yeah from
Speaker 1: from was Knock. He thinks he needs the FATA club,
Speaker 1: so he starts yelling to his rail that he needs
Speaker 1: the fan of club. He's like no club, no club,
Speaker 1: no club, which is not true.
Speaker 3: That's not true.
Speaker 1: Then he comes like back to the table kind of
Speaker 1: and he's like he's like, oh, oh.
Speaker 2: I won, I won.
Speaker 1: He's like going like it's over, it's over, it's over.
Speaker 1: He's yelling to his rail that it's over. He starts
Speaker 1: putting his hands in the air like the whole thing,
Speaker 1: and we're all like, dude.
Speaker 4: I think there's pictures of his mom in the background
Speaker 4: going like this. We think we have picture of him.
Speaker 4: Say no, no, no, you're wrong. That's not right, that's
Speaker 4: not right.
Speaker 1: Shulan's on the broadcast going Mikey, Mikey, wait a minute,
Speaker 1: it's everybody relaxed, Like I think, Shulan says, like, did
Speaker 1: we misread the board? So there's this whole thing where
Speaker 1: he first he thinks he needs to fait a club,
Speaker 1: which is not true. Then he thinks he's won it,
Speaker 1: which is also not true. So then he comes back
Speaker 1: and like you and I have been in poker, like
Speaker 1: you almost feel like you've seen it where people prematurely celebrate, yeah,
Speaker 1: and it just it's a disaster for them. But it's
Speaker 1: grinders turn this tournament. So obviously wallsnak does not fill up.
Speaker 1: It's over. Then you get his brothers hopping over the rail.
Speaker 1: You get blessed it coming out of like the wherever
Speaker 1: the heck he was, because he did like the little
Speaker 1: pregame show. He comes rushing up on the stage like
Speaker 1: you got all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 3: It's madness.
Speaker 1: Then they snap and ducked him into the Hall of Fame,
Speaker 1: like fifteen Hall of Fame. People walk up there and
Speaker 1: there's like Helmut gets on this whole thing, which which
Speaker 1: is a phrase like I've never heard before. But he
Speaker 1: starts talking about what did he say? A battlefield induction.
Speaker 1: I don't even know what that means. I feel like
Speaker 1: he just made that up. Yeah, but they snap inducted me.
Speaker 1: The whole thing was just.
Speaker 4: I would like to know how that all played out,
Speaker 4: to be honest, Like, was that like a text chain
Speaker 4: between everyone that's still a round, you know, late late
Speaker 4: last night, early today, just hey, what do you think
Speaker 4: of this idea? And then everyone's just signing off on
Speaker 4: it and they're like, yeah, let's go do it.
Speaker 1: Because we saw we saw a tweet from Helmet saying
Speaker 1: like you know, would it say? It said something about
Speaker 1: like we all agree or we're talking about it or
Speaker 1: whatever like need negra on you, et cetera.
Speaker 4: So just just for those at home, a little bit
Speaker 4: of you know, behind the scenes stuff that is not
Speaker 4: grind as trophy, no.
Speaker 1: Trophy.
Speaker 4: So he has been promptly returned to him already, but yeah,
Speaker 4: it feels like it's something that happened, you know, late
Speaker 4: last night today. Hey, if this happens, you know he's eligible.
Speaker 4: He's forty four. This will be his eighth bracelet for
Speaker 4: PPC title's main event title. What else can this guy do?
Speaker 4: And you know what I think this secretly does. And
Speaker 4: like I said, we'd love to find some more. You know,
Speaker 4: there's a lot of chattah about changing the way the
Speaker 4: PPC is done, right, we need to put more people in.
Speaker 4: Maybe this opens the door to changes, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's part of me is like cool,
Speaker 1: whatever put him in the Hall of Fame. I mean this,
Speaker 1: this feat fifty KPPC and the wasp Man event in
Speaker 1: the same year, plus everything else that he's done in poker.
Speaker 1: Of course on top of that, like, yes, the guy's
Speaker 1: a Hall of Famer, But it also part of me
Speaker 1: is like it took a player winning the fifty KPPC
Speaker 1: and the WSP main event in the same year for
Speaker 1: them to adjust the rules, even if temporarily. That's what
Speaker 1: it took. It took this monumental accomplishment for them to
Speaker 1: change the rules. Yeah, when we've talked at length many
Speaker 1: times about the you know, the backlog and all this
Speaker 1: sort of stuff, and it's like, I don't know if
Speaker 1: this changes things. I also don't think that, like they
Speaker 1: shouldn't just be like snap inducting like people for crazy
Speaker 1: reasons like this is this is this is like a
Speaker 1: one of a kind unique thing. I get it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, but I'm saying, like, let's say, let's just
Speaker 1: play Devil's Advocate. You know, I don't know Jeremie Osmus
Speaker 1: wins two bracelets next year and then they're like, oh, okay,
Speaker 1: but that's what I'm But I'm just saying I'm just
Speaker 1: throwing it out there, like it takes like Grinder was
Speaker 1: going to get in likely in the future. Like even
Speaker 1: if he didn't win this well with the.
Speaker 3: With the comment system of one person, I don't think
Speaker 3: he was at all a lock.
Speaker 1: I mean, come on, he has to be a lock.
Speaker 1: It's anyway it was just it was just kind of
Speaker 1: the way that it all played out, this this entire
Speaker 1: main event, especially these last couple of days with Grinder,
Speaker 1: coupled with the fact that he won that fifty k
Speaker 1: PPC earlier in the summer, the fourth time he's won it.
Speaker 1: I mean, it was honestly was kind of fitting that
Speaker 1: they just walked up on stage and gave him the
Speaker 1: damn trophy and put him into the Hall Fame right
Speaker 1: then and there, like, you know what, who cares Like
Speaker 1: part of me says, like the poker industry isn't like
Speaker 1: an entirely serious, buttoned up industry. I mean that like
Speaker 1: in a good way, like that we're allowed to do
Speaker 1: these things. So I think it was kind of cool that.
Speaker 1: I think it was that everyone came together in basically
Speaker 1: the last twenty four hours and said, you know what,
Speaker 1: f it, He's going into the hall.
Speaker 4: I thought it was great that, you know, not everyone's
Speaker 4: in town, everyone's already worked their way home. You know,
Speaker 4: they're not here, they're not playing. But you had helm with,
Speaker 4: you had Jen Harmon, you had Maury. You know, obviously
Speaker 4: Nick Schulman's in the booth. I saw earlier, Elezra, all these.
Speaker 1: David oppenheimwa if Phil Ivy went up there? He did,
Speaker 1: John Hennigan went up there.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So you had all these Hall of Famers that
Speaker 4: we're here just like, you know what, let's make this
Speaker 4: a really big moment, not just one guy going up,
Speaker 4: as many of us that are here playing or at
Speaker 4: least in the vicinity watching, come up and do this
Speaker 4: and really support Grind and really support this. Uh, you know,
Speaker 4: as we keep touching on this pretty insane change to
Speaker 4: the to the current Hall of Fame adding someone you know,
Speaker 4: very sporadically, very randomly, but I think I think we'll
Speaker 4: all agree completely well deserved.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it just again it goes with the whole
Speaker 1: the chaos of the summer and the chaos of you know,
Speaker 1: Michael the Grinder, MS Rocky and everything that he achieved
Speaker 1: this summer, meaning that like we're gonna this is one
Speaker 1: of those things, as I said earlier, when we look
Speaker 1: back on it and let's say fifteen, twenty twenty five years,
Speaker 1: whatever the heck it is, and we're gonna say, remember
Speaker 1: that time on Grinder to this part of that part
Speaker 1: of one of those eighteen things that I say, we
Speaker 1: can say about this is remember that time they all
Speaker 1: walked up on stage and inducted him into the Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame right then and there. Yeah, like, screw the
Speaker 1: voting process, screw this, screw that he's in the hall. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like which is which is just absolutely incredible. So I
Speaker 1: don't even again, I don't really have words for everything
Speaker 1: that I just witnessed. I mean, it was it was
Speaker 1: simply incredible. It was simply incredible. You know from start,
Speaker 1: guys and that guy's pretty incredible to everything's just incredible here.
Speaker 1: I mean, we're right in the middle of it all.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but come on, you see camera, you see two
Speaker 4: guys talking on a microphone.
Speaker 1: Well, I don't think you can really see the camera.
Speaker 3: That he's he's half asleep. He literally won't ride here,
Speaker 3: He's completely.
Speaker 2: Out of it.
Speaker 1: I absolutely love it.
Speaker 3: So he picks up his table and takes it out
Speaker 3: in the back because it was.
Speaker 1: Where does this put grinder in terms of like the
Speaker 1: legacy conversation or the legend conversation?
Speaker 4: You know, we we we we kind of joked around
Speaker 4: about the Mount Rushmore and you know, I kind of
Speaker 4: gave you a little bit of grief for comparing him
Speaker 4: to Stone called Steve Austin.
Speaker 1: But I mean, by the way, I plugged and he
Speaker 1: told me grinder was stone called Steve Austin.
Speaker 3: So if chat GPT thinks I mean it, God be true.
Speaker 1: But look, by the way, this is gonna be a
Speaker 1: future podcast. I thought about it because we're gon we're
Speaker 1: gonna be coming up on some downtime and we're gonna
Speaker 1: need some fillers, and we're gonna do a whole list
Speaker 1: of like these are the top twenty poker players and
Speaker 1: this is their wrestling.
Speaker 3: You compared to football, compared to every sport.
Speaker 4: Really, look, let's be honest, feel home with Okay, sure
Speaker 4: concerns its number one. I think you gotta put Phil
Speaker 4: Ivy number two. I think you got to put down
Speaker 4: on the ground at number three, even though he has
Speaker 4: less bracelets this fourth spot, he's doing a lot to
Speaker 4: put his name on that. I at WSP bracelets full ppc.
Speaker 1: PL.
Speaker 4: He doesn't have a Player of the Year, right, I
Speaker 4: don't think he won the yeah two WPT titles and
Speaker 4: now the main event there's not. I don't think there
Speaker 4: is a better resume, a better all round resume and
Speaker 4: poker than that. It's going to be really hard to
Speaker 4: match especially. You know, we can obviously talk about the
Speaker 4: success of Doyle and Stuey Younger back in the days,
Speaker 4: but this is also the modern the modern time, the
Speaker 4: post money Maker era, where the fields are bigger and
Speaker 4: the players are better. So it is incredibly hard, you know,
Speaker 4: to really say that anyone is better than is Rahi.
Speaker 3: Who do we have to consider?
Speaker 4: Eric saidel ten WSP bracelets, five or six you know,
Speaker 4: PGT titles. I think he's got a tried and title,
Speaker 4: He's got other wins, so he's probably the one that
Speaker 4: can really challenge Grinder when it comes to this thing.
Speaker 4: And then I think the other one is Jason Kuhn.
Speaker 4: Now he doesn't have the WSP you know resume. He
Speaker 4: has two bracelets, two incredibly good bracelets, right the Heads
Speaker 4: Up Championship and we've got the fifty k Nolman hold
Speaker 4: Them roll of this year. But what's he got Eleven
Speaker 4: triedent titles, He's won the PGT Championship, you know, lots
Speaker 4: of PGT, he's got EPT titles, high stakes cash games,
Speaker 4: one of the nicest and best ambassadors the game's got.
Speaker 4: So I think those three are the legitimate, Like who
Speaker 4: should be number four, when you're kind of considering post
Speaker 4: money Maker era and everything that's kind of happening right now.
Speaker 1: I think collectively as an industry, this is I mean,
Speaker 1: I might get flamed for this, but let's just let's
Speaker 1: not go too crazy on like the goat conversation, only
Speaker 1: because I feel like players like Doyle, Brunson, et cetera.
Speaker 1: They deserve their place on them of course, So I'm
Speaker 1: just saying, like, let's just not throw Doyle off, for example, Grinder.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm just saying, like, this is an incredible
Speaker 1: moment in incredible summer for Grinder.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to think of it more of a current,
Speaker 3: not the actual live span of poker, because obviously, yes,
Speaker 3: I don't think we're going to re removing Doyle anytime soon.
Speaker 3: I like what we grew up with.
Speaker 1: I like to think of it in the sense that
Speaker 1: we're never gonna see this type of accomplishment in the
Speaker 1: span of a summer at the WSP ever again, meaning
Speaker 1: winning the fifty k PPC and winning the WSP Main
Speaker 1: Event by far, the two hardest tournaments to win by far,
Speaker 1: and he won both of them in the same summer.
Speaker 1: I mean, like, what the hell what the hell just happened? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, part of like winning the fifty k PPC
Speaker 1: is obviously obviously you're playing multiple games against the toughest
Speaker 1: players in the world. But part of that is you
Speaker 1: have to be able to build up to even spend
Speaker 1: fifty k to play in the damn thing. Not every
Speaker 1: like the barrier to entry is a bit greater than
Speaker 1: a lot of other tournaments. Okay, there's that aspect of things.
Speaker 1: Then to win the WSP Main Event across ten days
Speaker 1: of play, I means it's extremely grueling, Like it's a
Speaker 1: minefield out there. The main Event is such a different
Speaker 1: beast than everything else. Like you're you're playing largely against
Speaker 1: unknown commodities, players you've never seen before. You got to
Speaker 1: figure them out on the fly. You obviously have to
Speaker 1: run hot at times, yes, but you like you have
Speaker 1: to play as best as you can play for ten
Speaker 1: days straight, ten to twelve hours a day. I mean,
Speaker 1: the whole thing is just Again, if you were to
Speaker 1: like write this in a movie, I'm not sure that
Speaker 1: I would believe it. If I were to watch this
Speaker 1: movie as a poker movie, I'm telling I would say,
Speaker 1: if this weren't didn't happen in real life. And I
Speaker 1: watched it as a poker movie, I'd say, yeah, but
Speaker 1: that would never happen in real life, That's what I
Speaker 1: would say. And it fucking happened in real life. Like, so,
Speaker 1: I don't know what to say.
Speaker 4: This whole story, this whole story needs to be a
Speaker 4: goddamn movie. It would be the most entertaining movie of
Speaker 4: all generations.
Speaker 1: It really, it really should. I mean, plus you have
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 4: It allopens with them at the Rhino, but you always
Speaker 4: a monologue from Nick Shulman it's day seven of the
Speaker 4: main event.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but you also have grinders, like he's had these
Speaker 1: crazy ups and down to his entire career. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: like he's he's gone through it all, like he obviously
Speaker 1: was at he was at the height of the poker
Speaker 1: when he was one of the biggest names in the game.
Speaker 1: He was the grinder, Like that's who he was, Like
Speaker 1: that's how you knew him, when you knew his face
Speaker 1: was plastered everywhere, like you know everything about it. He
Speaker 1: was he was larger than life. Then you know, he
Speaker 1: obviously went through his problems financially and whatever, like a
Speaker 1: lot a lot of people do, and then he storms
Speaker 1: back and it's like that's happened multiple times, but now
Speaker 1: to do it in the WS main event and win
Speaker 1: ten million dollars.
Speaker 3: Again, what the f just happened?
Speaker 4: I just you know, you can't touch you can't touch
Speaker 4: on how he had those big highs and he's had
Speaker 4: the lows.
Speaker 3: I hope, I hope there's not more lows. I hope
Speaker 3: he's I hope he's around. I hope he's competing. You know,
Speaker 3: we're gonna touch on the PGT later ball a little
Speaker 3: later bit. I hope he starts playing a little bigger
Speaker 3: play some of our events, you know, try and you know,
Speaker 3: ride that rush, you know powerball.
Speaker 1: Okay, part of okay, but part of I know you say,
Speaker 1: like you don't want him to like go through those
Speaker 1: ups and downs. But that's part of the authenticity that
Speaker 1: makes him Michael the Grinderman. Yeah, yeah, okay, is he
Speaker 1: he is exactly who he is? Yeah, he is the
Speaker 1: guy who looks like a buffoon, jumping up and down,
Speaker 1: cheering midhand before he raises, like misreading the final hand
Speaker 1: of the Dubbsby main event, going out every single night
Speaker 1: and partying in the midst of this incredible run, like
Speaker 1: all wearing the bracelet the whole way through. He wore
Speaker 1: s fifty K bracelet, Like I got a sorry about that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but the whole thing is like you like, you don't
Speaker 1: see that stuff from from like from the big name stars.
Speaker 1: You don't see that stuff anymore. Yeah, and he is
Speaker 1: the big name star that did the whole thing. Again,
Speaker 1: I cannot comprehend what the hell has happened.
Speaker 3: To touch on the briser real quick. There was a
Speaker 3: little incident with it.
Speaker 1: Oh God, of course there was an incident, and I.
Speaker 3: Have to get sent off to get a little fixed.
Speaker 4: It might have been production when they did the all
Speaker 4: shoot on day five, you know with all the smoke
Speaker 4: and stuff. Uh, the one of the little clips you know,
Speaker 4: like on the watch, one of the one of he's
Speaker 4: called that that kind of like came loose.
Speaker 3: So they get it like repair.
Speaker 4: They put the bracelet on the link the links so yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: and they couldn't get it off, like it wouldn't clip up,
Speaker 4: like it wouldn't unclipped. But like in the moment they're
Speaker 4: doing photos, so they like they're rushing, but like they
Speaker 4: don't and He's just like leave it on wed shoot
Speaker 4: all the photo. So that's why he's doing all the
Speaker 4: pictures like this. I'm wondering now, is he I's still
Speaker 4: wearing it because he wants to, or be he's still
Speaker 4: wearing it because because they come off. I will see
Speaker 4: they figured out how to do it once the once
Speaker 4: the moment kind of you know, calm down, and they
Speaker 4: could take their time to unclip it, you know, fix
Speaker 4: the link, et cetera.
Speaker 1: Well, I'll tell you that. And I did an interview
Speaker 1: with him, which we're going to play in one second.
Speaker 1: But after the interview, he's got both bracelets on. He's
Speaker 1: got the main one, and afterwards Gregorysia shown from w
Speaker 1: s P, is like trying to take the manim em
Speaker 1: bracelet off.
Speaker 3: He couldn't take it off, okay, So.
Speaker 1: Grinder was like, I'll just wear it like he's got
Speaker 1: this two hundred and fifty K bracelet. And they were
Speaker 1: like yeah, but you know there's a lot of thing
Speaker 1: out there. What if you Grinds like, it's okay, I
Speaker 1: got a lot.
Speaker 3: Of people with me. Yeah, he gives none.
Speaker 1: But here's the interview. After Michael the Grinders, Rocky became
Speaker 1: the world champion and won ten million dollars.
Speaker 2: When did it hit you? When?
Speaker 1: When did you start realizing, like this is really happening.
Speaker 1: It's all coming.
Speaker 2: Together to tell you the truth. Day one. What's it
Speaker 2: going to take?
Speaker 1: The closest thing out to mom.
Speaker 5: An houris ft otherwise he's out in hand one and
Speaker 5: that'll do it.
Speaker 1: Legendary run Kenny, the embrace of the French fans.
Speaker 5: Off the rail, a time it for cook measure and
Speaker 5: a table for four just became a table for two,
Speaker 5: no waste or nine.
Speaker 6: That's all it would take and it's over.
Speaker 7: It's unexplainable, like no one never thought. I mean I
Speaker 7: heard people guys, this is the greatest achievement in poker history.
Speaker 7: And then you got Jared by I says this is
Speaker 7: the biggest accomplishment in gambling. That you got Phil Ivery
Speaker 7: saying this is the biggest accomplishment in sports. So so
Speaker 7: I heard all the craziest things, so I can't believe
Speaker 7: I can It's unimagined. Now, the all the thirty three
Speaker 7: guys came up said this guy deserves a Hall of fame.
Speaker 2: So I love love them all, Thank you so much.
Speaker 2: It's well deserved.
Speaker 7: I mean I could have waited another year would have
Speaker 7: motivated me more, maybe hungrier next year.
Speaker 2: But it's okay. I appreciate it, guys. Thank you guys
Speaker 2: so much.
Speaker 7: When I played the Hatikva and I was had all
Speaker 7: the guys you know, celebrated when I won the PPC.
Speaker 7: Then I was after the day one chip Day one
Speaker 7: be chip leader and I had no hands too, and
Speaker 7: I want all the money in bluffs, no cards over.
Speaker 7: It's over, right, it's over.
Speaker 2: It's over.
Speaker 6: Waiting, it's not over it, Mikey, wait a minute, he.
Speaker 2: Just got board pairs?
Speaker 1: Are we reading the board ron?
Speaker 2: Hang on?
Speaker 7: Oh well, well, it was the craziest thing I've ever
Speaker 7: seen because after ten days of playing, I don't know,
Speaker 7: I was black blanked out.
Speaker 2: I couldn't even see it, like the cars.
Speaker 7: I was like what And then at the first I
Speaker 7: thought he had as a club, so I thought he
Speaker 7: just had a flush straw. And then I thought he
Speaker 7: had that nine with an ace kicker. Then he's drawn
Speaker 7: dead and then they were like remember the crowd said, no,
Speaker 7: he's got top two. I was like, oh crap, I
Speaker 7: got he's got four out so that's.
Speaker 2: Not that bad.
Speaker 7: I was like, oh man, I was already celebrating so
Speaker 7: I was never misread. That's the first time ever misread
Speaker 7: of him. It was the final hand of those event.
Speaker 7: I just think I've I've figured out the game very
Speaker 7: well at a deeper, deeper level to do a lot
Speaker 7: of creativity that people thinks that no one's ever seen.
Speaker 7: I've done plays. Even Mercy and Daniel was going crazy.
Speaker 7: Please tell me what you have? Would you have? Begging me?
Speaker 7: Mercy said, I can't sleep at night.
Speaker 2: What'd you have? Please? And I told my hands so
Speaker 2: I can go to sleep.
Speaker 7: It's just it's, uh, it's all instincts and and feel
Speaker 7: for the game and and and knowing my players hand rangers.
Speaker 2: I think that's everything.
Speaker 7: And that and the in the aggression, no one to bluff,
Speaker 7: you know, no one to just give up a hand,
Speaker 7: and uh even know when to face adversity.
Speaker 2: And I just that's what gets me through.
Speaker 7: Or the thirty three guys that inducted me to the
Speaker 7: Hall of Fame, I appreciate that when I could do
Speaker 7: with my family and friends. So that's an amazing feeling.
Speaker 2: And thank you guys, Love you guys. Mama grind Or
Speaker 2: she gets everything. God.
Speaker 7: Her favorite thing is she loves to play slot machine,
Speaker 7: So I'm gonna give her a lot of money to
Speaker 7: play some slides. I was at the top of my
Speaker 7: level this this World Series. I mean, that's it takes
Speaker 7: everything out of me. And that's why every time I
Speaker 7: play the World Series, it burns me out.
Speaker 2: But I'm not burnt out. I wish he's still going.
Speaker 1: I love it. I love everything about it. Fact, when
Speaker 1: I asked him when did he when did he realize that,
Speaker 1: like this is all happening, and he said day one.
Speaker 3: He didn't mean day one of the main eventyone, day
Speaker 3: one of you know, May twenty seve I.
Speaker 1: Mean, he's absolutely positively one of a kind. They don't
Speaker 1: make him like grinder. I feel like I'm going to
Speaker 1: rewatch this Final table multiple times. This twelve Final Table, well,
Speaker 1: part of it is like, yes, it was pretty short,
Speaker 1: you know, almost just under four hour, nineteen hands to
Speaker 1: nineteen hands today and I believe seventy nine total over
Speaker 1: the I think it was fifty nine on the first day. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so yeah, yeah, the first the first day of the
Speaker 1: Final Table took a little bit under four hours total.
Speaker 1: Today took about an hour, a little bit under total,
Speaker 1: So you know, it's easily easily digestible.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 1: I do often go back and watch past final tables,
Speaker 1: and I feel like this is one of those ones
Speaker 1: that I'm going to be sucked into watching a few
Speaker 1: more times. I mean, it was just the whole thing
Speaker 1: was just wildly incredible from start to finish. I think
Speaker 1: it's a great result, you know, I think that this
Speaker 1: was arguably I'm not sure how far I would go back,
Speaker 1: but I mean just kind of looking through some of
Speaker 1: these banners here in this room. I mean, it's often
Speaker 1: hard for me to talk about final tables and compare
Speaker 1: them to the ones that took place inside the Pen
Speaker 1: and Teller Theater because even though you may not have
Speaker 1: gotten like the biggest names or stars or storylines at
Speaker 1: those final tables, that atmosphere inside Pen and Teller Theater
Speaker 1: was absolutely electric when the place was packed, everyone had
Speaker 1: like fifty people in their crowd, like just going nuts
Speaker 1: like that shit was wildly awesome. So it's hard for
Speaker 1: me to like go back there and I'd have to
Speaker 1: think through it more.
Speaker 4: When is the lost Penn and Tell one twenty ten?
Speaker 4: That's a good question, No, no, no, no ten. Jacobson's Yeah,
Speaker 4: ke win Keyans was not right.
Speaker 3: Mckeyen's was. I think Jacobson's was the loss.
Speaker 1: No, because didn't didn't keywin beat Gordon vio in Penn
Speaker 1: and Teller two.
Speaker 4: Thousand and eight was the first, and then twenty and sixteen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, keeing because I remember I remember the Gordon vio stuff.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I can just picture Key winning Gordon
Speaker 1: Viole like in my mind on the stage. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: then and then Blumstein moved in. I remember where I
Speaker 1: was for the Blumstein when I was sitting in the Newark,
Speaker 1: New Jersey airport, and that one went to like Forever
Speaker 1: in the morning and I had like a I had
Speaker 1: like this overnight layover in the airport and I was like,
Speaker 1: well I just fire up to man. Fuck it. It
Speaker 1: was because it was on Forever. But like that atmosphere
Speaker 1: inside that theater was so cool, was just so so cool.
Speaker 1: So you got any like you got any other kind
Speaker 1: of lasting thoughts here on on Grinder and the just
Speaker 1: keep it to the men event for right now. We'll
Speaker 1: get into the PGG stuff.
Speaker 4: And No, it was, you know, the whole the whole
Speaker 4: last few days was just kind of unbelievable. Watched He's like, no,
Speaker 4: there's no way, you know, goes down the three big ones.
Speaker 4: He's done. You know, there goes one of our big names. Nope,
Speaker 4: he's still in. He's still in, chipping up, chipping up.
Speaker 4: Like the story just always seemed like we couldn't believe it,
Speaker 4: but it just kept getting bigger and bigger and bigger.
Speaker 4: You know, you get to the final table on day
Speaker 4: one and you know we have that big ace King
Speaker 4: King's hand, He's like, oh, his luck's run out from
Speaker 4: Ace on the river, you know, like it's.
Speaker 1: Just every he said he felt the ace on the
Speaker 1: river coming. He said, I didn't feel the ten, but
Speaker 1: I felt the ace.
Speaker 3: Of course, every day just seemed to level up, like
Speaker 3: just so much more on the line, so much more
Speaker 3: tugging at the heart strings of you know, everyone in
Speaker 3: this room, Like I kind of touched on a bit yesday.
Speaker 3: The poker players were behind him, you know, a lot
Speaker 3: of friends, a lot of guys that are playing all
Speaker 3: these events.
Speaker 4: Here in this bit where we're sitting out, we're rooting
Speaker 4: for Grinder, and it's it's it's just so hard to believe,
Speaker 4: and you know, like we're going to be back here
Speaker 4: next year, you know, talking about the main event, talking
Speaker 4: about other events and being like, probably still won't be
Speaker 4: able to believe that Grinder did what he did this
Speaker 4: world series, you know.
Speaker 1: I mean, I can already see myself back here next
Speaker 1: year and we're gonna see his banner up on the
Speaker 1: wall and they're gonna we're gonna look at it and
Speaker 1: be like, you remember that ship, You remember how crazy
Speaker 1: that this.
Speaker 3: Is gonna be.
Speaker 4: This has to be AI generated, No way this is true,
Speaker 4: but yeah, it's gonna be. You know, he'll be, He's bound.
Speaker 4: I'll be right up there where Jonathan Tomos is. And
Speaker 4: there's some incredible winter photos to choose from. Good luck
Speaker 4: WSP picking the right photo, because you're picking a photo
Speaker 4: to immortalize the moment. And if you look at these banners,
Speaker 4: you know they're all they're all very similar. They're all
Speaker 4: holding the bracelet, you know, above the money. You look
Speaker 4: at Dan Wyman's where he's leaning on the money.
Speaker 1: I like the I like the like over the money,
Speaker 1: which Grinder has one of those.
Speaker 4: I think that could be the I think that's the
Speaker 4: photo they should use for Grinder to be I like.
Speaker 1: Those photos the best. I don't like the ones that
Speaker 1: are like Johnson Scott Blumstein where you're just standing there
Speaker 1: like holding the cards in the like, I like like like,
Speaker 1: grab that fucking money. It's that's yours. Yeah, but that
Speaker 1: is yours. Shit, grab it, like, let's go, grab it,
Speaker 1: pick it up, bring it home.
Speaker 4: Singing to the Jamie gold one where that he was
Speaker 4: leaning on the twelve million dollars, just like all of it,
Speaker 4: like slackdown, Wyman.
Speaker 3: Those were Yeah, they're probably the best one in the sound.
Speaker 1: Yes, all right. Well part of Michael the Grinder and
Speaker 1: Rocky winning the ten thousand dollars WSUP main event here
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five is he is the new number
Speaker 1: one on the PGT leaderboard. You put him as the
Speaker 1: new number one. You did the leaderboard calculations, you sorted them,
Speaker 1: and you said, you looked at me and you said,
Speaker 1: guess who's the new number one.
Speaker 3: I didn't realize he was.
Speaker 4: Okay, Look, we've made changes to the system because players
Speaker 4: have like kind of mentioned, hey, the winner of the
Speaker 4: main event stion and go to the top.
Speaker 3: I agreed, we made adjustments.
Speaker 4: But when you win the fifty k PPC and the
Speaker 4: main event, it's pretty hard not to be a top
Speaker 4: he is now the leader two hundred and fifty points.
Speaker 4: I spoke to Jared but Lesnik I said, hey, by
Speaker 4: the way, he's now in the championship. This is before today,
Speaker 4: you know, when there was fall left. So by the way, Mazerah,
Speaker 4: he's in the championship. You need to get him down.
Speaker 4: The studio is that he's not going to come play
Speaker 4: the anything I'm like, but he's qualified for the free role.
Speaker 4: He needs one more cash because we need three cashs
Speaker 4: to qualify, and he's said, oh okay, maybe I'll get
Speaker 4: him down there for something. But now he's the top.
Speaker 4: He's ahead of Alex foxhen by one hundred and eighteen points.
Speaker 4: Obviously two cashes. We know Alex Fox and he's going
Speaker 4: to be firing hard for the rest of the year.
Speaker 4: He's got seventeen cash. He's going to catch up. Moving
Speaker 4: down John Wasnock, he's seventh place one cash. You have
Speaker 4: Braxton done Away in ninth, you have Kenny Hallard in fourteenth. However,
Speaker 4: the biggest mover from the main event was without Dad
Speaker 4: Adam Hendrix four cashes this PGT season. He's now sixth
Speaker 4: place with fifteen hundred and three points guaranteed. I say
Speaker 4: that guaranteed a seat in the PGT Million Dollar Championship.
Speaker 4: Now it's more of a question of where does he
Speaker 4: want to position himself on the leaderboard coming into the
Speaker 4: million dollar free role. And for Grinder, what a chatter
Speaker 4: this week about him not winning the Player of the Year, Right,
Speaker 4: you know what player of the year title? He could
Speaker 4: win the GGT Player of the Year and the fifty
Speaker 4: K bonus he gets for winning that. So look if
Speaker 4: Jared Blesnik or Chino, one of his close friends that
Speaker 4: plays our events can convince Grinder. You know, we've got
Speaker 4: a plow series coming up that's right up his alley.
Speaker 4: We've got a bounty series coming up, We've got Pokemasters,
Speaker 4: We've got all these events come down, get that cash,
Speaker 4: make a run at you know, locking up your own
Speaker 4: PGT Player of the Year award.
Speaker 1: At this rate, I just expect him to win PGG Player.
Speaker 3: Of the Year. He'll play one event win.
Speaker 1: That's the whole The whole thing is just absolutely positively crazy.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: I do want to mention one thing, but we're not
Speaker 1: going to really talk about it. I just want to
Speaker 1: mention it, and that is that we have some breaking news.
Speaker 8: Is breaking News says that Asie Millions is returning.
Speaker 3: I know, I just remember.
Speaker 1: So we just got that. Well, we'll talk about it
Speaker 1: a little bit more on a future pod. But you know,
Speaker 1: somebody dropped it into a chat with me. It's made
Speaker 1: it into our our little w s P chat. So
Speaker 1: Ausie Millions returning, Stay tuned for more on that, Tim
Speaker 1: and I will we'll digest this little if they'll have
Speaker 1: us back at Crown. I am fucking in. Okay, I am,
Speaker 1: I am in. If I can go, if I can
Speaker 1: go to that food court, meet my guy who always
Speaker 1: remembered me every single time. I always remembered me, always
Speaker 1: always remembered me. I'll go there. I'll order my fruit bowl,
Speaker 1: maybe my little kishe you know, double espresso maybe.
Speaker 2: What is it?
Speaker 1: What do I usually get to?
Speaker 2: Flat?
Speaker 1: Flat white? No long, not long black? I got a
Speaker 1: long block all the time. Go to that little sushi
Speaker 1: joint with has a little single rules. That place was
Speaker 1: eleade to the whole, the whole I'm sending all right,
Speaker 1: So we'll talk about that at the future date. Obviously
Speaker 1: we want to have some more details come out, but
Speaker 1: it sounds like Allsie Millions back. It's gonna be back, baby,
Speaker 1: and yeah, you got anything else for me when the
Speaker 1: main event?
Speaker 3: No, talk a little bit about some other events for us.
Speaker 1: Okay, because it is I forgot.
Speaker 4: It is the last day, but there is a plus
Speaker 4: also just going on so the fans know.
Speaker 1: I think we'll do a podcast tomorrow.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna done tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Ship all right, Well when can you do a podcast?
Speaker 3: I'm back on Tuesday. I think on Wednesday.
Speaker 1: That's way too long.
Speaker 3: You could do a solid.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'll do a solo just just to just because
Speaker 1: there's there's a couple. I mean, they just moved the
Speaker 1: spy and they're still about the twenty five k horse
Speaker 1: happening the closer Super Turble, so there's still stuff happening. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but on that quickly I am. I am pro having
Speaker 1: other events run during the main event. I obviously think
Speaker 1: that it's a smart decision revenue wise. Yeah. I also
Speaker 1: like giving everyone that's here more stuff to play. But
Speaker 1: I do think that the last day, the final card
Speaker 1: Dell should be the final hand of the main event
Speaker 1: and then we should be Finito Seal eight. Yeah, like
Speaker 1: that's what I think should happen. So you know, I
Speaker 1: this this stuff because I mean also like we all
Speaker 1: kind of go home, like everyone's kind of like, all right,
Speaker 1: it's done, but it's not done, so it's kind of tricky.
Speaker 4: So anyway, continue, Yeah, let's go real quick. We got
Speaker 4: the twenty five K horse high Roller over there. That's
Speaker 4: down to five players playing for eight hundred and eighty
Speaker 4: three K. Toby lewis run rapping the toss event looking
Speaker 4: for a little bit of vengeance here, Brian Rass, not
Speaker 4: cha Rivera.
Speaker 1: Well, they only needed to switch the first game, yea.
Speaker 3: Ryan Miller.
Speaker 4: Brian Rass also has a bricelet going for a second
Speaker 4: brcelet for the summer, the three K PLR. It was
Speaker 4: won by dan Zach. That happened late last night. Yep,
Speaker 4: dan Zach. Another bracelet that he defeated Zach Swartz, a
Speaker 4: pgt PLO series winner. So dan Zach, congratulations. Another bracer
Speaker 4: the fifteen hundred Closer. That's down to eighteen players playing
Speaker 4: for six hundred and forty eight K. Donny will recap
Speaker 4: that they just moved the table in here. This is
Speaker 4: the five K no limit hold him and the number
Speaker 4: one Pokego podcast fan David Odi B. Baker is the
Speaker 4: chip leader going for his second bracelet of the summer
Speaker 4: nine point four million.
Speaker 3: He's got a massive shoutout, massive mass.
Speaker 4: He does have a message over Paddy Lions world famous
Speaker 4: Pat Lions. Who's in second, Brandon Wilson, Andreosopachenko, Sam Laskowitz
Speaker 4: and Bryan Altman amongst the final I.
Speaker 1: Feel like we haven't seen Sam laskowitch much of him
Speaker 1: the summer. Obviously has new baby, but you know, really
Speaker 1: haven't seen him doing anything on the felt so good
Speaker 1: for him to close the series strong.
Speaker 4: And Event one hundred, the final event of the World
Speaker 4: Series nineteen hundred and thirty five players in the one
Speaker 4: K turbo sound to one hundred and eleven players. That's
Speaker 4: going to wrap up. They'll probably finish before all. He's
Speaker 4: actually and shot for he's the current chip later first
Speaker 4: prize is two hundred and thirty seven K. So obviously
Speaker 4: a few more events happening. We have a Player of
Speaker 4: the Year that needs to be confirmed. Although the front
Speaker 4: Rono came and gave me the middle finger and said,
Speaker 4: fuck you, I want to know that. I'm like, it
Speaker 4: ain't finished it. Buddy grind is going to register the
Speaker 4: one K. He's like, no, the Restrutians already closed, so
Speaker 4: I'm just just kidding up beside. No dude, and I checked.
Speaker 4: I was like, what do you mean you checked? So
Speaker 4: we'll kind of touch a bit more on that, gentleman.
Speaker 4: And if he, you know, being potentially a winning player of.
Speaker 1: The year, alrighty, well, that's going to do it for us.
Speaker 1: Our final podcast from here inside the Horseshoe. It was
Speaker 1: a pleasure to be bringing this to you every single
Speaker 1: damn day, fifty one days in a row, I believe,
Speaker 1: is what we ended up doing. We did video, we
Speaker 1: achieved what we set out to do, met a lot
Speaker 1: of good listeners. Oh yeah, wait, hold on, one more thing.
Speaker 1: Your hats.
Speaker 4: The hats, the hat's we're wearing. Twenty five left. We
Speaker 4: want you to email us. What's that email again?
Speaker 1: Podcast? Thank you dot com.
Speaker 4: The first twenty five people that send us an email
Speaker 4: with their address, we will send you a hat. Unfortunately
Speaker 4: US only, so if you're from Australia, bad luck. If
Speaker 4: you're from Zimbabwe, bad luck. If you're from Poland, Poland,
Speaker 4: bad luck. US only twenty five hats left. First twenty
Speaker 4: five that email us, we'll get one of those. Will
Speaker 4: probably take a week before we send them out. But yeah,
Speaker 4: thank you for all the support this summer. It's been fun.
Speaker 4: It's been fun meeting all of you, fun, giving on
Speaker 4: hats and finding you out in the field, hearing your
Speaker 4: stories about you know, the bad beats and the luck
Speaker 4: of the hat and all that stuff. So we appreciate
Speaker 4: every one of you, guys, and look forward to doing
Speaker 4: this a.
Speaker 3: Bit more for the rest of the year.
Speaker 1: We'll all move back to our more regular cadence of
Speaker 1: once a week, you know, same channel, same podcast, catches
Speaker 1: all that sort of stuff. But so don't expect the
Speaker 1: daily stuff. Maybe we'll come a little bit more frequently,
Speaker 1: which depending on what's happening in the poker world. But
Speaker 1: you know, for right now, we're really gonna just try
Speaker 1: and move back to once a week, talk about the news,
Speaker 1: talk about the PGT, all of that sort of good stuff.
Speaker 1: Anything else for me, Yeah, I.
Speaker 4: Got one more thing. You guys can see the set right,
Speaker 4: beautiful set. God, But we're throwing it out. We'll not
Speaker 4: the expensive stuff like the LED I would hope not
Speaker 4: the LED panels. We're keeping some of this other stuff.
Speaker 4: It's a little junkie and I've been given I've been
Speaker 4: given clearance, been given clearance.
Speaker 3: To hit something.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, we're gonna end the world series with
Speaker 4: a bang, literally a bang, literally a bang. So I've
Speaker 4: been giving the okay, there's a TV over there that's
Speaker 4: going the dumpster at seven years old.
Speaker 3: Jesus, We're gonna put this sledge. First of all, they
Speaker 3: said this is a sedge hammer. I was expecting twenty
Speaker 3: seven hammer. Yeah, it's a hammer.
Speaker 4: So we're gonna go put a little hole on a
Speaker 4: TV to end this podcast on a bang. He's gonna
Speaker 4: bring the camera. I'm gonna put these meta glasses on
Speaker 4: from a photographer. See if I can record.
Speaker 3: Sometime the scenes things. We'll see how this because I
Speaker 3: can record video on this. All right, this is how
Speaker 3: we are gonna end the podcast. Thanks for all listening, guys,
Speaker 3: And let's close this seem duckworth.
Speaker 1: I'm Johnny Peters, and I guess you're gonna go smash something.
Speaker 1: I think, so let's let's stop.
Speaker 9: Okay, Retnight, Chenny Express, Retnit, Chenny Express. Okay