WEBVTT 1 00:00:10.960 --> 00:00:13.160 Hello everyone, and welcome back to a new episode of 2 00:00:13.599 --> 00:00:17.719 the Poker Go Podcast. My name is Donny Peters. His 3 00:00:17.800 --> 00:00:21.120 name is Tim Duckworth. And as you guys can tell, 4 00:00:22.440 --> 00:00:25.559 it is the end, the end of it all. We 5 00:00:25.600 --> 00:00:27.480 are out here in the middle of the floor in 6 00:00:27.559 --> 00:00:30.320 the Horseshoe Events Center. We still haven't found a better 7 00:00:30.440 --> 00:00:33.039 name for it. Shout out to that that Twitter user 8 00:00:33.039 --> 00:00:35.960 who I just haven't been feeling it with the nicknames 9 00:00:35.960 --> 00:00:36.719 for this run yet. 10 00:00:36.799 --> 00:00:37.960 Not yet, not yet. 11 00:00:39.119 --> 00:00:42.920 We have a champion. It is Michael the Grinder, Miss 12 00:00:43.039 --> 00:00:53.000 Rocky Grind, Grind Grinder in in absolutely unbelievable final table, 13 00:00:53.039 --> 00:00:57.119 in unbelievable run to the winner circle, the stuff that 14 00:00:57.280 --> 00:01:00.439 like I feel like, I feel like. The script writers 15 00:01:00.439 --> 00:01:04.400 were out for this one writing the script of this 16 00:01:04.560 --> 00:01:08.959 WSP Maine event, especially the last few days and extra 17 00:01:09.159 --> 00:01:12.400 especially the final table with the way that this played 18 00:01:12.400 --> 00:01:14.840 out over the last few days with the Grinder ever 19 00:01:14.879 --> 00:01:18.920 since he got down to three big lines, the run 20 00:01:19.159 --> 00:01:21.519 to the to the winner circle, to the ten million 21 00:01:21.560 --> 00:01:25.959 dollars to his eighth WSOP Gold bracelet, like just the 22 00:01:26.439 --> 00:01:28.760 stuff of legend. You guys wouldn't believe it if you 23 00:01:28.760 --> 00:01:30.640 didn't watch it. Hopefully you did watch it, because it 24 00:01:30.680 --> 00:01:34.640 was absolutely positively one for the age is one we will. 25 00:01:35.159 --> 00:01:38.079 I don't think we're ever gonna forget it, honestly, if 26 00:01:38.079 --> 00:01:40.000 we're always gonna look back on the twenty twenty five 27 00:01:40.439 --> 00:01:43.200 main event and be like, you remember that time when 28 00:01:43.400 --> 00:01:45.920 and then there's like eighteen different moments that we can 29 00:01:45.959 --> 00:01:47.879 list you remember that time when this happened. You remember 30 00:01:47.920 --> 00:01:51.959 that when this happened, Like you know, just so many crazy, 31 00:01:52.079 --> 00:01:55.959 crazy things, you know, you and I feel extremely grateful, 32 00:01:56.239 --> 00:01:58.640 extremely blessed to be able to be here. We did 33 00:01:58.640 --> 00:02:01.200 this podcast every single day. Shout out to you, buddy, 34 00:02:01.200 --> 00:02:03.840 the only be hanging high fives. Let's go just an 35 00:02:03.840 --> 00:02:06.599 absolutely incredible summer, or of course, gonna break down the 36 00:02:06.760 --> 00:02:09.680 entire final day of the Final Table. If you missed 37 00:02:09.840 --> 00:02:12.439 the first part, go back to the last episode whether 38 00:02:12.439 --> 00:02:15.000 you're listening or watching on YouTube and check that out, 39 00:02:15.000 --> 00:02:17.159 because that took us from nine players down to four. 40 00:02:17.439 --> 00:02:21.360 Here we're going from four down to the winner. And 41 00:02:21.439 --> 00:02:25.360 quite honestly, this podcast might last longer than the final day, a. 42 00:02:26.960 --> 00:02:28.479 Last than the final day. 43 00:02:28.759 --> 00:02:31.400 I mean, Grinder joked, what's it gonna take the closest 44 00:02:31.400 --> 00:02:34.800 thing out tomorrow an hour. I think total time was 45 00:02:34.840 --> 00:02:37.520 around fifty six minutes, but like actual playtime if you 46 00:02:37.560 --> 00:02:40.240 cut out like the breakdesk stuff, the pregame stuff was 47 00:02:40.319 --> 00:02:43.599 around forty forty five minutes or so. Yeah, I mean, 48 00:02:43.759 --> 00:02:46.840 just you wouldn't believe it if I told you. We're 49 00:02:46.879 --> 00:02:48.680 gonna tell you, but you might not believe it. So 50 00:02:49.280 --> 00:02:53.120 just holy hell, absolutely holy hell. Of course, before we 51 00:02:53.199 --> 00:02:56.360 jump in, quick reminder, if you're listening out there, give 52 00:02:56.439 --> 00:02:59.039 us a rating five stars only. Please, for the love 53 00:02:59.080 --> 00:03:02.680 of God, share the podcast, subscribe to it, do all 54 00:03:02.719 --> 00:03:05.240 that good stuff. Also leave a review, send it on 55 00:03:05.280 --> 00:03:08.680 into podcasts at PokerGO dot com. 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I 65 00:03:32.439 --> 00:03:34.960 went through some of them from the last episode when 66 00:03:35.000 --> 00:03:37.039 we ask people to like rank all the people that 67 00:03:37.080 --> 00:03:39.280 they thought or are the players that they thought would win, 68 00:03:39.479 --> 00:03:40.840 you know, went through a lot of that stuff. Tim 69 00:03:40.879 --> 00:03:43.599 and I are often in there responding to the comments. 70 00:03:43.639 --> 00:03:45.759 We love to hear them, good or bad. Even if 71 00:03:45.759 --> 00:03:47.479 you want to talk shit, come and talk shit. We'll 72 00:03:47.479 --> 00:03:50.400 talk We'll talk shit, okay. 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All right, now, we 151 00:07:23.279 --> 00:07:28.000 got to get into it. Michael the Grinder, Miss Rocky 152 00:07:28.560 --> 00:07:33.759 the EFN Grinder does the farthest thing from grinding, yeah, 153 00:07:33.959 --> 00:07:36.879 but gets it done, gets it done absolutely wild stuff. 154 00:07:36.879 --> 00:07:39.120 So we come back today. He's got seventy six percent 155 00:07:39.199 --> 00:07:42.160 of the chips in play, four hundred and forty four 156 00:07:42.160 --> 00:07:44.120 and a half million. There's five hundred and eighty four 157 00:07:44.279 --> 00:07:46.920 point five million in play, seventy six percent of the 158 00:07:46.959 --> 00:07:48.879 chips and play. Kenny Howard's pretty short to start. He 159 00:07:48.920 --> 00:07:51.079 got eight big blinds. Braxin's on the way, isn't too 160 00:07:51.120 --> 00:07:53.600 far ahead of him. He's got ten big blinds, and 161 00:07:53.639 --> 00:07:56.800 then John Wosnock had like thirty seven or thirty eight, 162 00:07:56.800 --> 00:07:59.920 something like that. You know, we talked about yesterday, how Ellie. 163 00:08:00.160 --> 00:08:02.800 I felt if there was some close spots early, maybe 164 00:08:02.879 --> 00:08:05.720 Kenny passes on them. He takes the ICM approach. Well, 165 00:08:05.720 --> 00:08:08.439 he was dell Ace queen off on the first no, 166 00:08:08.680 --> 00:08:11.839 so he goes all in. Grinder with the tight squeeze 167 00:08:12.120 --> 00:08:14.800 from the big blind, peels king jack of Diamond's boom. 168 00:08:14.839 --> 00:08:19.160 Here we go, makes the call, first first pitch of 169 00:08:19.240 --> 00:08:21.920 the deck, and we're just off with an all in. 170 00:08:22.759 --> 00:08:25.959 Of course, it comes all spades, nobody hits, No one's 171 00:08:26.000 --> 00:08:28.360 got a spade, just the jack of clubs on the turn. 172 00:08:28.879 --> 00:08:31.079 Of course, as if Grinder was not going to hit this. 173 00:08:31.319 --> 00:08:33.360 I swear this guy hasn't lost it all in in 174 00:08:33.360 --> 00:08:36.320 twelve days. Yeah, I mean, he should take this ten 175 00:08:36.360 --> 00:08:39.840 million dollars and go spend the entire thing on powerball, 176 00:08:41.039 --> 00:08:44.039 because I'm like ninety five percent certain he would win. Well, 177 00:08:44.080 --> 00:08:46.000 look up the powerball jackpot right now, you're you're the 178 00:08:46.000 --> 00:08:46.440 money guy. 179 00:08:46.799 --> 00:08:49.000 Look, okay, I might be the money guy, but I 180 00:08:49.039 --> 00:08:50.399 do not condone power. 181 00:08:50.320 --> 00:08:53.879 Jack Yes, okay, but you do condone pressing your luck 182 00:08:53.879 --> 00:08:56.039 when you're as hot as Grinder is. I know you do. 183 00:08:56.279 --> 00:09:00.320 Come on, estimated jackpot two hundred and sixty million. 184 00:09:00.399 --> 00:09:03.879 That's twenty six x that right now? You know he 185 00:09:03.879 --> 00:09:06.879 would win, you know he could. You could you imagine 186 00:09:06.919 --> 00:09:07.279 the story. 187 00:09:07.320 --> 00:09:08.440 It would be the best story ever. 188 00:09:09.120 --> 00:09:10.679 This has already been the best story ever. 189 00:09:10.720 --> 00:09:13.039 Okay, should spend fifty k on tickets? 190 00:09:13.639 --> 00:09:15.840 I mean she should. He's just been five hundred can tickets. 191 00:09:15.840 --> 00:09:19.200 Why not just fifty You know what, Actually, with the 192 00:09:19.200 --> 00:09:21.639 way he's running, he could spend one dollar. You spend 193 00:09:21.679 --> 00:09:26.240 one He's just gonna win. It's just gonna win. Just 194 00:09:26.240 --> 00:09:29.360 simply incredible stuff. So yeah, first hand, we lose Kenny Holler. 195 00:09:29.679 --> 00:09:32.600 He takes home three million dollars. Kenny Holler has had 196 00:09:32.639 --> 00:09:34.799 an absolutely incredible run over the years, and let it 197 00:09:35.039 --> 00:09:37.639 be main Event. I know we all like I think 198 00:09:37.639 --> 00:09:40.399 Paul Vopie has the nickname main Event. I mean, I'm sorry, 199 00:09:40.440 --> 00:09:42.679 like I'm starting to think Kenny Hollard needs the nickname 200 00:09:42.720 --> 00:09:45.039 main Event. He's made the found table twice, He's had 201 00:09:45.039 --> 00:09:47.600 many other deep runs. I mean, the guy just basically 202 00:09:47.600 --> 00:09:49.360 it's like every year or every other year, he's like, 203 00:09:49.399 --> 00:09:49.639 you know. 204 00:09:49.600 --> 00:09:50.919 What, one more and he can have it. 205 00:09:50.960 --> 00:09:51.120 Yeah. 206 00:09:51.159 --> 00:09:53.000 Sorry, I'm gonna be a little yeah, I guy, just 207 00:09:53.039 --> 00:09:55.600 give that away. I mean a big nickname, of course. 208 00:09:56.240 --> 00:09:58.159 I'm sure if you're Kenny, you're a little bit bummed 209 00:09:58.159 --> 00:09:59.600 to go. You get out all in with the best hand. 210 00:09:59.759 --> 00:10:02.720 He's Queen versus King Jack. But all things considered, you 211 00:10:02.799 --> 00:10:05.519 turn ten k into three million dollars your second run 212 00:10:05.519 --> 00:10:07.720 of it here. Last time he was at the WSP 213 00:10:07.759 --> 00:10:10.600 Man Event Final table, he finished in sixth place, and 214 00:10:10.840 --> 00:10:13.480 so here doing a bit better for himself, and like 215 00:10:13.519 --> 00:10:17.000 I said, three million dollars richer. And then we didn't 216 00:10:17.039 --> 00:10:21.320 have to wait long. The next hand, yeap Braxton Dunaway. 217 00:10:21.360 --> 00:10:26.840 So John Wasnock folds the button, Michael m Isrocky Jams 218 00:10:26.960 --> 00:10:29.440 from the Small Blind, and I think Braxton Dunaway had 219 00:10:29.600 --> 00:10:31.480 ten big blinds to start the hand. So he's got 220 00:10:31.559 --> 00:10:34.679 nine big blinds because he posted the big blind nanty 221 00:10:34.919 --> 00:10:38.159 and he calls all in with ten six suited Grinder's 222 00:10:38.200 --> 00:10:43.639 got a ten of diamonds. This is the wildest call 223 00:10:43.720 --> 00:10:47.759 I've ever seen. Like, I can't I don't know what happened. 224 00:10:48.039 --> 00:10:48.759 I honestly don't know. 225 00:10:49.200 --> 00:10:49.480 You know what. 226 00:10:49.720 --> 00:10:53.559 I spoke to Braxton Stot of Play and he was like, 227 00:10:53.559 --> 00:10:55.080 you know, this is gonna be tough spot for me 228 00:10:55.120 --> 00:10:57.840 and Kenny, and you know, we were talking a little 229 00:10:57.840 --> 00:10:59.559 bit about parking. I was like, yeah, whoever is out, 230 00:10:59.720 --> 00:11:03.279 who whoever gets the third to the final three, he's 231 00:11:03.279 --> 00:11:06.159 going to feel so much relief and like basically be 232 00:11:06.240 --> 00:11:08.919 free rolling. And Braxson was like, yeah, you know, you're right, 233 00:11:08.960 --> 00:11:10.480 that's just the goal. We'll get to three and then 234 00:11:10.720 --> 00:11:12.879 you make that million dollar page jump and then anything goes. 235 00:11:13.960 --> 00:11:17.039 My guess is he got to that. He's looking up 236 00:11:17.120 --> 00:11:19.559 at this giant everest of a chip stack that Michael 237 00:11:19.600 --> 00:11:21.399 Msrahi has and goes, you know what, if I have 238 00:11:21.480 --> 00:11:24.159 any chance of winning, I need to turn this nine 239 00:11:24.200 --> 00:11:28.639 big blinds, you know, to twenty to forty eighty and 240 00:11:28.679 --> 00:11:30.679 start chipping away at miss road I have any chance, 241 00:11:31.360 --> 00:11:33.919 and he's you know what, it might not be a 242 00:11:33.960 --> 00:11:37.399 gto optimal at all, but I think that's what it is. 243 00:11:37.399 --> 00:11:38.720 I think it's just a little bit of a gamble. 244 00:11:38.960 --> 00:11:42.200 Try and take nine bigs off off the chip leader 245 00:11:42.240 --> 00:11:45.000 and close that gap a little bit with John Waznak, 246 00:11:45.399 --> 00:11:46.600 and hopefully. 247 00:11:46.200 --> 00:11:46.840 It's his turn. 248 00:11:46.919 --> 00:11:48.519 He said to me this twenty you know, I ran 249 00:11:48.639 --> 00:11:51.200 like shit yesterday. I hope today I ran like I 250 00:11:51.360 --> 00:11:53.440 hope today. I run like the sun from the start. 251 00:11:54.039 --> 00:11:56.320 And that's what he's maybe trying to do there with 252 00:11:56.360 --> 00:11:57.200 the ten six of hearts. 253 00:11:57.279 --> 00:11:59.679 I understand running like the sun and Era wanting to 254 00:11:59.720 --> 00:12:01.440 run like the sun. I think we all want to 255 00:12:01.480 --> 00:12:04.679 run like the sun. You still have to make good decisions. 256 00:12:04.840 --> 00:12:08.080 I'm sorry. I mean, this is just when Nick Shulman, 257 00:12:08.759 --> 00:12:13.480 who's the classiest individual in the booth, you know, tries 258 00:12:13.519 --> 00:12:16.240 to keep it as buttoned up as possible, doesn't really 259 00:12:16.279 --> 00:12:19.039 go in on players when he says, I really don't 260 00:12:19.159 --> 00:12:23.240 like that. You know, it's god awfully bad, Like I mean, 261 00:12:23.320 --> 00:12:27.960 it's I think I personally think ten nine suited would 262 00:12:28.000 --> 00:12:30.879 be hard to pull the trigger, just because, again, you 263 00:12:30.960 --> 00:12:33.879 make so much money all the time by folding, and 264 00:12:34.799 --> 00:12:35.039 he did. 265 00:12:35.159 --> 00:12:36.919 He might he folded the first hand right. 266 00:12:38.519 --> 00:12:40.919 Standing, he folded the first hand, but still like, you 267 00:12:40.960 --> 00:12:44.039 can't find a better hand in the next two hands 268 00:12:44.039 --> 00:12:47.279 than ten six suited and worst case scenario, maybe you 269 00:12:47.360 --> 00:12:48.960 end up in the big blind again. I mean, I 270 00:12:49.000 --> 00:12:52.600 think in this tournament you can get down to six 271 00:12:52.639 --> 00:12:55.360 big blinds, seven big blinds and still be okay. 272 00:12:56.480 --> 00:12:59.320 I was down a season off bigs. I know he's 273 00:12:59.320 --> 00:13:01.360 going to have seven, and how big blinds? You know 274 00:13:01.399 --> 00:13:04.799 obviously he is. It's three handed, so you've heavily reliant 275 00:13:04.799 --> 00:13:07.519 on on the deck hitting you and getting something worth 276 00:13:07.840 --> 00:13:10.519 you know, something a little stronger than the ten six I. 277 00:13:10.480 --> 00:13:13.440 Mean, facing a two million dollar page in between third 278 00:13:13.480 --> 00:13:17.279 and second, I think that I personally would have just 279 00:13:17.360 --> 00:13:21.799 tried to fold as much as I needed to with 280 00:13:21.919 --> 00:13:25.279 the hopes that wasnock and Miss Rocky just went ballistic, 281 00:13:25.360 --> 00:13:27.559 which I think could certainly happen. I mean, we know 282 00:13:27.600 --> 00:13:28.000 the Miss. 283 00:13:27.919 --> 00:13:29.919 Rocky's is going to do was stop the day with 284 00:13:29.960 --> 00:13:32.720 how many bigs? I think thirty eight thirty eight? So yeah, 285 00:13:32.799 --> 00:13:36.120 so still an hood climb to of a take care. 286 00:13:36.279 --> 00:13:37.960 Look, yeah, but what if you see something similar to 287 00:13:38.000 --> 00:13:39.279 what we saw on the first day of the final 288 00:13:39.279 --> 00:13:42.120 table Wasnock picks up a big hand Queen's Miss Rocky 289 00:13:42.200 --> 00:13:43.759 picks up a big hand Ace King, and they just 290 00:13:43.759 --> 00:13:45.279 get all the money in. Now, it maybe takes a 291 00:13:45.279 --> 00:13:47.360 little bit less than that. You know, one guy gets 292 00:13:47.360 --> 00:13:49.720 ace Queen, the other guy's got two sevens, and they 293 00:13:49.759 --> 00:13:52.279 just go nuts. Like I don't know, like that could happen. 294 00:13:52.519 --> 00:13:54.799 And if that's the case and the guy goes out, 295 00:13:55.759 --> 00:13:58.279 I'm sitting there collecting a two million dollar page up. 296 00:13:58.320 --> 00:14:00.960 I mean I would try and approach it like way 297 00:14:01.000 --> 00:14:04.080 back when shout out Jonathan Duhommel's banner over there, when 298 00:14:04.200 --> 00:14:06.840 John Rister was just sitting on the sidelines and Joseph 299 00:14:06.919 --> 00:14:09.480 Chong just decided to go nuts. I mean, you never know, 300 00:14:10.320 --> 00:14:11.480 you never know, and like. 301 00:14:12.240 --> 00:14:14.879 The ten six is not ideal, But I ain't found 302 00:14:14.879 --> 00:14:15.840 on the ice Queen or the. 303 00:14:16.159 --> 00:14:18.000 No no, no, I'm not saying full of the East Queen, 304 00:14:18.080 --> 00:14:20.279 of course, like I'm not saying like full just fold 305 00:14:20.360 --> 00:14:22.559 good hands. But like this just seemed like he just 306 00:14:24.000 --> 00:14:25.799 he locked up that million dollar page up and said 307 00:14:25.799 --> 00:14:29.960 fuck it, I'm going forward with. I mean, maybe part 308 00:14:30.039 --> 00:14:32.240 of me wants to respect, but the poker player in 309 00:14:32.279 --> 00:14:35.879 me says, what in the holy hell just happened? That said, 310 00:14:36.559 --> 00:14:39.159 you know, Braxton's gone away four million dollars richer, so 311 00:14:40.679 --> 00:14:43.759 he gambled it up. But I also I also thought that, like, 312 00:14:43.799 --> 00:14:46.159 I don't think Braxton Dunaway is I don't think he's 313 00:14:46.200 --> 00:14:47.919 a like a theory guy. I think he's more of 314 00:14:47.960 --> 00:14:50.120 like a live player, a field player. That's just my 315 00:14:50.120 --> 00:14:53.240 my reader understanding of him. So you know, he decided 316 00:14:53.240 --> 00:14:56.480 to gamble it up in that spot and it ultimately 317 00:14:56.519 --> 00:14:59.120 didn't work, and you know, maybe it costs him, maybe 318 00:14:59.120 --> 00:15:01.240 it didn't like maybe he goes on third anyway, right, 319 00:15:01.360 --> 00:15:04.879 But I mean it's certainly being well talked about. And 320 00:15:05.600 --> 00:15:08.480 I don't think we got a bust out interview with him, 321 00:15:08.519 --> 00:15:10.840 because I would have liked to hear somebody ask him, 322 00:15:10.840 --> 00:15:13.399 you know, hey, like, what what was the thought process 323 00:15:13.399 --> 00:15:15.240 with calling all in with ten six suited there? I 324 00:15:15.240 --> 00:15:18.320 mean it just seems I mean, we know Grinder's grinder, 325 00:15:18.360 --> 00:15:20.240 and he can, I mean Grinder can jam five to 326 00:15:20.279 --> 00:15:24.720 six suited, but I mean ten six suited is a reach. 327 00:15:25.120 --> 00:15:28.799 It's definitely a reach. So but either way, very very 328 00:15:28.919 --> 00:15:31.879 very good run from Braxton dunaway. He gets four million 329 00:15:31.919 --> 00:15:36.240 dollars for his third place finish. Of course Michael mcrocky 330 00:15:36.279 --> 00:15:38.879 with that ace ten did take him out. He ended 331 00:15:38.960 --> 00:15:40.679 up making a flush on the river, I think is 332 00:15:40.720 --> 00:15:43.039 how it finished. But when that money went in, it 333 00:15:43.120 --> 00:15:46.159 was funny because Ms Rocky sees the hands and immediately 334 00:15:46.200 --> 00:15:48.480 starts celebrating like he just like he like he won 335 00:15:48.519 --> 00:15:50.759 the hand. Yeah, obviously he sees the hands turned over 336 00:15:50.799 --> 00:15:54.279 and he has him you know, crushed, but he still 337 00:15:54.360 --> 00:15:57.360 is like he's celebrated. I mean, the celebrations from his 338 00:15:57.440 --> 00:15:59.799 Rocky even start to finishing this thing where it's just 339 00:15:59.799 --> 00:16:08.639 just absolutely wild. So then we take a break. Of 340 00:16:08.679 --> 00:16:10.320 course they bring up all the money, they do the 341 00:16:10.360 --> 00:16:12.759 whole thing. We get the heads up play and it's 342 00:16:13.279 --> 00:16:15.919 it's a pretty big gap overall. I mean, walls nuts 343 00:16:15.960 --> 00:16:18.799 got around like ninety million basically like what he started 344 00:16:18.840 --> 00:16:20.600 with because he didn't play any hands. It was just 345 00:16:20.639 --> 00:16:23.240 boom boom, and what heads up Ms Rocky's got. You know, 346 00:16:23.240 --> 00:16:25.639 he's pushing what five hundred million at this point, and 347 00:16:25.879 --> 00:16:28.159 the whole thing is just wild. So now we're thinking, 348 00:16:28.440 --> 00:16:30.039 I mean, what are you thinking? At this point? This 349 00:16:30.080 --> 00:16:31.159 is gonna be over in three hands. 350 00:16:31.320 --> 00:16:34.919 To be honest, I'm praying it goes for several more hours, 351 00:16:35.440 --> 00:16:38.279 you know, like I wanted to be an event. You know, 352 00:16:38.519 --> 00:16:40.639 we don't really want this over in three four, five hands. 353 00:16:40.639 --> 00:16:43.679 We want to show we want to see these guys battle. Obviously, 354 00:16:43.720 --> 00:16:46.120 the result is whoever's anyone cheering for. But that's the 355 00:16:46.200 --> 00:16:47.759 only thing I really I just didn't want to see 356 00:16:47.759 --> 00:16:51.000 it end within like ten to fifteen minutes. So when 357 00:16:51.039 --> 00:16:53.080 it started, and you know, a couple of us went 358 00:16:53.080 --> 00:16:54.679 to grind a straight away as like, God, here would go. 359 00:16:54.720 --> 00:16:56.200 He's gonna wear him down and take him out. 360 00:16:56.240 --> 00:16:59.519 But yeah, I'm kind of like you. I mean, I 361 00:16:59.519 --> 00:17:01.759 don't know how long I wanted to last. I just wanted. 362 00:17:01.879 --> 00:17:04.119 I wanted was not to like make it a match 363 00:17:04.200 --> 00:17:07.599 like maybe get one, double up, maybe pull even. Part 364 00:17:07.599 --> 00:17:09.240 of why I wanted that is I wanted to see 365 00:17:09.240 --> 00:17:12.519 how Grinder would possibly respond to some sort of adversity, 366 00:17:12.720 --> 00:17:16.240 because everything up until this point has just been all Grinder. Like, 367 00:17:16.519 --> 00:17:21.400 whatever needed to happen to fall in Grinder's favor, it happened, right, 368 00:17:21.559 --> 00:17:23.680 you know. Like obviously that ace on the river on 369 00:17:23.759 --> 00:17:26.440 day one of the Final Table was enormous, but so 370 00:17:26.559 --> 00:17:28.559 many other things just happened to work out for him. 371 00:17:28.599 --> 00:17:30.559 His bluffs work. You know, he got paid off when 372 00:17:30.559 --> 00:17:34.079 he needed to, like all this crazy stuff. So you know, 373 00:17:34.400 --> 00:17:36.400 then you know he busts those two people. Things are 374 00:17:36.440 --> 00:17:38.480 going more in Grinders away. So I just wanted to 375 00:17:38.480 --> 00:17:40.160 see him like start making it a match. Maybe he 376 00:17:40.200 --> 00:17:42.640 gets up to like two hundred million. Yeah, Grinders still 377 00:17:42.640 --> 00:17:45.759 got a healthy chip lead. But like then it's kind 378 00:17:45.759 --> 00:17:48.160 of like, oh, like, oh, is Grinder going to lose this? 379 00:17:48.319 --> 00:17:49.880 Is he going to lose this? You know, is he 380 00:17:50.000 --> 00:17:52.200 possibly feeling the pressure a little bit or is it 381 00:17:52.240 --> 00:17:55.279 starting to build? And you know How's was not feeling 382 00:17:55.319 --> 00:17:57.839 but you know, I know wasnot got up over one 383 00:17:57.880 --> 00:18:00.240 hundred million, a little bit over one hundred million, but 384 00:18:00.319 --> 00:18:03.359 he I mean he never really he never really got 385 00:18:03.400 --> 00:18:04.640 close even like. 386 00:18:05.200 --> 00:18:06.880 A couple of steps forward, a couple of back, couple 387 00:18:06.920 --> 00:18:07.680 steps a couple back. 388 00:18:07.720 --> 00:18:09.400 You couldn't really get that kind of run on. 389 00:18:09.599 --> 00:18:13.880 I mean, it really was just Grinders. Yeah, tournament. I mean, like, 390 00:18:13.960 --> 00:18:16.480 I don't know what to say. It was interesting to 391 00:18:16.480 --> 00:18:20.559 see wa Wasnock start talking to Grinder a little bit 392 00:18:20.640 --> 00:18:23.400 mm hmm. You know, he was talking to him in 393 00:18:23.440 --> 00:18:25.279 some of the some of the hands, which which I 394 00:18:25.279 --> 00:18:27.200 thought was a little bit interesting because I feel like. 395 00:18:28.559 --> 00:18:28.960 That at all. 396 00:18:29.079 --> 00:18:33.039 Yeah, you haven't seen it. And also if anyone's able 397 00:18:33.079 --> 00:18:35.200 to like read you, I feel like Grinder is one 398 00:18:35.200 --> 00:18:36.440 of the best at it in the world. 399 00:18:36.680 --> 00:18:38.920 Yeah, you're probably not the guy you want to chat to. 400 00:18:39.039 --> 00:18:41.039 Like, you know, you don't want to chat to Dan Legrand, 401 00:18:41.039 --> 00:18:42.799