Speaker 1: Hello everyone, Welcome back to a new episode of the
Poker Go Podcast. My name is Donnie Peters. This is
twelve ten am on Monday, July sixth. All four starting
flights for the twenty twenty six World Series of Poker
Main Event are done and dusted. That's going to be
I think all we'll talk about today. I got to
play tomorrow, guys. I want to be able to get
a decent amount of sleep. But we're going to hit
on what was, as expected, the largest starting flight for
the WSP Main Event. The numbers are in through the
first four starting flights. Of course, we still have Day
two registration on both Day to ABC and Day two
D to come, so don't know the final number just yet.
A lot of big names were in the mix. We're
going to be talking about it. There was a crazy
hand within the first thirty minutes that we'll touch on
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July fourteenth. Don't miss it, because then things go back
to the regular crisis. The final starting flight for the
twenty twenty six WSP Main Event attracted four thousand, six
hundred and ninety four entries. Yes, that is down. It's
a decrease of six point one percent from last year's
Day one d but a bit better than I think
probably a lot of people expected for this final flight,
even myself, you know, I thought this would come in
around between forty three and forty four hundred. I'm just
kind of looking at where some of the trends were
so far. But things performed pretty pretty well overall. We're
sitting at eight thousand and seventy seven entries before we
tally any of the Day two late entries, and that
is down seven point one percent from last year. Last year,
at this point we were at eight thousand, six hundred
and ninety four. I have been talking about what I
think is going to be happening for the day two
late entries. I still think we're gonna get around one thousand.
Let's say nine hundred to one thousand is my final guess.
And if we do that, the number goes back up
over nine thousand, and it's it's you know, it's fine.
It's certainly plenty fine. A lot of stuff is been down.
Some stuff has been up, of course, but a lot
of stuff has been down throughout the summer. It's just
kind of a crazy wild world out there where things
are expensive, people have less money. Bitcoin is down, like
you know, they got the ninety percent tax law, like
you got all this sort of stuff that's just going
against poker right now. But still being able to maintain
what I think is going to be right around nine thousand,
probably a little bit more than nine thousand entries for
the WSP made event in this current climate, I think
is a very very big win for the World Series
of Poker, and I am looking forward to next year
because when you make this big push to build a
new stage like they did, bring the streaming to ESPN.
You know what sort of effect is that going to have?
And it's not just ESPN because yes, it's ESPN in
the the US, or the ESPN platform, I should say
in the US, because it's split between the app slash
plus and then also it'll be on ESPN and ESPN
two for the final table. But there's there's some international
deals as well. So you know, the US stuff, I know,
a lot of US, a lot of the listeners out
there see because we are you know, in the US,
we're American, et cetera. But there's a lot of stuff
going on around the rest of the world too. To
beef up the distribution. That's not gonna be something that
really pays any sort of dividends this year. It's if
enough people see it, there's enough eyeballs on it, people
get excited about it. They say, that's awesome. Maybe I
forgot about poker. Maybe this reignites some sort of fire
inside me to get back out there and fire this.
And then next year is when you see the bump
plus maybe you know, maybe Bitcoin goes back up and
other crypto maybe you know, the economy is just doing
a little bit better. All that sort of stuff. You know,
we'd have we'd have a year, right, so that's a
lot of time for things to to turn the right direction.
Of course, I mean they could go the other way, yes,
but I generally like to be positive about things in
the world. So you know, we gotta we gotta got
a new highst hit next year. Of course, within the
first thirty minutes of day one, as reported by Poker News,
Patrick Lander was eliminated from the tournament in a pretty
crazy fashion, bluffing it off with six high So listen
to this hand. This is this is again, this is
this is as reported by Poker News, but it does
come from with the table reported two Poker News Under
the gun you had Nicholas by Sirius. Believe I said
that name correctly. He raised a five hundred again the
first level in his minimum is one hundred, two hundred
with the sixty k starting stack. Action folded all the
way around to Brian Bonacor in the small blind. He
made the call, and then Lander Patrick Lander was in
the big blind. He three bet to fifteen hundred. Both
players call it comes nine to eighty four. Small blind
checks Lander out of the big blind bets two thousand,
which is right around forty percent pot. Both players call
turn is an ace, small Blind checks again. Lander comes
with the same bet two k, so now this time
he's betting around twenty percent pot, one fifth of the pot.
The original razor from under the gun VI Sierras He folds,
but then the small blind bon Acorp he checked raises
to seven k. Lander decides to make the call, having
position on his opponent, River is a King. Bonacor bets
twelve thousand, which is fifty percent pot, and Lander goes
all in for what the table said was around forty
five thousand. After a little bit of a tank, Bonacort
called with pocket eights for a set of eights. He
flopped a set of eights on the nine to eighty
four flop. Lander had six five six five six high
and was sent out the door. Now, listen, this isn't
an easy call with the eights, So I think you
got to tip your cap to Bonacor here, because listen,
I don't recognize these players in the hand. And you know,
forgive me if I'm just you know, not recognizing them.
But let's just what I'm getting at is, I don't
think that these players probably knew who each other were like,
you know, it's not like you're sitting down You're like, Okay,
this is Alex Fox and he can have X y
Z hands. You know, he can kind of be out
there doing something. I mean, when you have what you
might think is an unknown player, you don't know that
player and they're just going all in within the first
half hour of the WSP Maine event, I mean, you
have to have some sort of giant sirens just booming
in your head, being like what the heck is going on?
So you're sitting there with a set of eight. It's
when listen, this guy could certainly have aces here, right,
three bet pre flop, bets the flop, BET's the turn
and betting the turn really small. If he were to
have aces here. When he makes a set of aces
and then he gets check raised, he just flats to
keep all your opponents' hands in, gets a clean river card,
and then just goes bombs away. You know, like that
makes sense to me, right, I mean, kings maybe a
little less, so you know probably, I mean, maybe you
bet the turn like this and then you call a
check raise. I don't know, maybe you want to splash
around a little bit nine. I could possibly being there
if he wants to get aggressive pre flop, probably more
of it just a call, but you know, I think
it's certainly likely that this player could have aces. Now,
I don't know what Patrick Lander was up to for
the you know, the twenty twenty five minutes or however
long he was there first. Maybe he's just blasting off
and everyone's like, you know, this guy's just he's going off.
We got to call him down. But still it did
say that Bonacor did tank call with the eights, you know,
so you know, you got to tap the table, tip
your cap to Bonicor there for making the call there
and Lander, I mean, I mean, the guy just freaking
went for it. He was six high. But he's out
of the tournament. So that's that. You always just see
these wild hands in the Level one of the WSP
main event. It's just it's crazy out there, right, it
really is. I mean, at the end of the day,
I know it's the biggest and the best and the
most prestigious tournament in the world, and one that it's
on every poker player's bucket list. Everyone wants to try
extra hard. Everyone's you know, a little bit more kind
of buttoned up in a lot of spots. Not everyone,
but you know a lot of people and some other
people are just out there. They just take it to
the opposite extreme right. They either just kind of treat
it like they would any other tournament and just go
for it in spots when they want to, or they're
just there to just gamble up, try and run up
a huge stack and just steamroll this whole thing from
start to finish. And that's what leads to some pretty
crazy hands early on. And of course with all eyes,
all media, you know, focused on the WSP main events,
all of this sort of stuff that happens in the
early levels, it really does come to light with that
increased spotlight on it. So we said goodbye to Patrick
Lander early on with the six High Bluff and just
you know, wild stuff there. Plenty of big names were
in the field for Day one d You had Daniel
mcgrano made it down to Paris. He played on the
feature table all day long, well I shouldn't say all
day from level I think three all the way till
the end. Nick Schulman was in the mix. You had
both the Fox and Kristin Fox and Alex Foxen were
out there, Martin Cabrell was in there, Victor Blom, Darren Elias,
Eric Lnglan, Ryan Race, Benny Glausser, Anthony Zen, Oshan deeb,
Jennifer Tilly, Phil Locke was out there, Greg Mueller, Joe Hasham,
Jonathan Tamayo, Jeremy Becker, Dylan Wiseman, Joey Weissman, Christian Harder
and then rampage Ethan Rampagey how they were all in
the mix. Don't really know how. Too many of them
bagged up chips. I do know that Jennifer Tilly bagged
around thirty thousand. I know that Daniel legrand New bagged chips.
I didn't see what his number was. It wasn't in
the app just yet, but I know they finished up
their hand up on the main feature table. He did
the phil ivey, he walked off and did a walk
off interview they like. Jeff Platt met him, I don't know,
twenty feet from the table in the middle of the
main stage area and they walked off and filmed an
exit interview or a day end interview. I shouldn't say
EXE because he didn't bust the tournament. Daniel but a
day's end interview, you know all they will they walked
out of the room and then somebody else, you know,
floor staff or whoever bags Daniel's chips up on the
feature table. Another player that was in the mix, Paul, Missrocky.
I know you guys know a lot about the Miss
Rocky brothers. Well, this is a Miss Rocky son. Paul
Msrocky is Michael the Grinder, Miss Rocky's son. He played
I think his first like big major tournament in December
when he had turned twenty one at WSP Paradise And
here he is playing his first WSP main event. And
guess how many chips this guy backed? One hundred and
ninety seven, two under, more than three times the starting
stack in true Miss Rocky fashion. You know, I was
reading through. There's an article about it on on pokernews
dot com and shout out to Poker News. By the way,
I've been referencing them a lot throughout the summer. They've
been doing a lot of hard work out there, a
lot of articles, a lot of good stuff. With the
live reporting. It's always good to have, Yes, it's great
to have the streams and the coverage that way, but
then also, you know to have written in other media
going out as well. It's just if you want to
consume it all and be a total nerd about it,
you got to consume it all, right. But ms Rocky
was kind of joking like did I get lucky today
or you know, how did I play or whatever to
his table, and his table said, no, you grinded. So
you know, it sounds like he grinded it out. But
we got at new miss Rocky here, Paul ms Rocky,
Michael Mrocky's son bagging more than three times the starting stack.
I mentioned Jennifer Tilly and how she bagged around thirty thousand.
I think it was just shy of thirty thousand, so
just shy of half of a starting stack. She hasn't
been playing that Visit to be Man event for a while.
And now you guys are gonna have to bear with
us on the audio here because we shot it for
a video. But we're gonna use the audio here because
I do want to hear from Gentilly. You know why
she's been not able to play the w C MANI
for a few years. She talks about her love for poker,
mentions you know, her boyfriend Phil Locke and you know
him playing and you know all different kinds of stuff
from Jennifer Tilly. Ka did this interview, So here's from
Jennifer Tilly. This was before she bagged on the day.
So on one of the breaks leading towards the end of.
Speaker 2: The day, Jennifer, where have you been all these years
in the main?
Speaker 3: Well, I am so happy. It's been six years since
I've played the main for Suicid Pandemic, remember the Pandemic,
then three seasons of Chucking, which we filmed in the summer,
two seasons.
Speaker 2: Of the Real House. It's the Beverly Hills.
Speaker 3: So this is my first main event tournament in a
very long time. So it's fun. I'm a little rusty
and tournament play like I played high sakes poker. Those
guys play like crazy pants. They're like billionaires. They lose
one hundred thousand dollars and then they laugh and they
show you that they have three seven off suit. So
these people you so when they raise you, they have something.
So I'm learning how to adjust to how real people play.
But my big goal is the lasted at the end
of the day, because it'd be a gloomy time in
the old Tilly Philly household tomorrow. If Phil is still
in the tournament and I'm not, so I think I
can hold on to my chips, just not do anything
crazy and rash.
Speaker 4: You've been at the World Chairs of bog before many years. Yes,
the lore of the main event is huge. You have
a bracelet, but you don't have a deep run in
the main events.
Speaker 2: So talk to me about what this tournament means to
you and what that would mean.
Speaker 3: I have never gotten past the second day. I think
once I made it to the second day, and all
the other days I just didn't even get past the
first day. It would be so amazing to do a
deep run. I mean, and a lot of people dream
about making the final table. I dream of them saying
the bubble has burst and I'm there cheering along with
everybody else. So you know, hopefully that'll happen. But anything
can happen. This is the great thing about tournaments. I mean,
a lot of times you say the cream rises to
the top. Sometimes you'll see some really top players at
the final table, but more often you see, like Joe
from Ohio, a guy with the dream like I'm sitting
next to lady that has like a farm. She's like, Oh,
I left the cows for a couple of days to
come play poker. That's the greatest thing about this. Everybody
comes from all over, everyone has the same dream, and
it's legendary. I know there's other tournaments to have a
lot bigger buy in, like two hundred and fifty thousand
buy in, and obviously the Poker Players Championship is very
presty just but I just love this. I love what
it represents. I love that we have Norman, Chad and
Lon mcghernan back. I've got the ESPN broadcasting it because
I cut my teeth. I'm watching the World Series of
Poker live, not live, but on TV before I actually
came out here and played it myself. So this is
where legends are made.
Speaker 2: One hundred percent agreed.
Speaker 4: The cash games, though, have gotten so much traction. Yeah,
whenever you play, it goes crazy.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: And what I found super interesting is that your fans,
they know you from your.
Speaker 2: Acting career, and then every now and then.
Speaker 4: You throw on a poker clip or something about poker,
and it's so fascinating to see their response.
Speaker 2: Right, what is it like to you to show them
this part of your life.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, it's so interesting because well, I say,
before Housewives, usually before Housewives, seven out of ten people
knew me from Bride of Chucky and three out of
ten people knew me from poker. So now most people
know me from Housewives. It's I don't know, it's a
huge show all around the world. But I'm so happy
when people say that they like watching me in poker,
and I always get a little like cringe, Like they're like,
I was watching on TV last night. I was like,
were you watching when I one hundred thousand dollars? You're
watching me handra I lost one hundred thousand dollars Because
on any given day, you're a terrible poker player or
you're a brilliant poker player, and the swings on those
games are insane. But the girls, like for example, in
Real Housewives and Beverly Hills, they get super excited. You're like,
I want ten thousand dollars last night, and you're like
and they're like, ten thousand dollars, what are you gonna buy?
And to me, it's like that's such a baby pot.
So it is fun, you know, to have a lot
of things that I'm interested in and have a lot
of things that I love to do. But I was
saying to Phill the end day philed my boyfriend Phil
Lock in the UNI Bomber, we're really getting back into
wanting to We used to follow the tournament circuit and
it's really fun. And then one day we decided like, oh,
we're old stirs. We can't be tramping around but we're
all chasing these elusive stats. But now we've got like
renewed vigor and we were even thinking that maybe next
year we're just gonna go around to some of these
exotic places and you know, compete, compete with Ill.
Speaker 2: Why not? Why not? Final question? Poker has been a
consulant in your life?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 2: What does the game mean to you?
Speaker 3: You know what I love about poker is it's it's
really a microcosm of life. Like this morning, I woke
up with dread, like, what terrible thing is gonna happen
at the end of the day. I mean, they're gonna
be happier. I'm gonna be not happy. But it's it
is like life. You have these extreme emotions and it's
so much like I used to be haunted by, Oh,
you know the thing a lady went through the intersection,
got broadsided by the carl. You know, you think I
would think what if she left house a little lad,
what if she left the house a little earlier. I
always feel like when poker, we're always like, what if
I check raised on the turn? Or what if I
hadn't played that hand, or what if I played it
a little bit differently? Would I still be in the tournament?
And you have a lot of self incriminations and ruminations,
you know, you're always exploring your soul, like did I
just tilt off those chips? Was a like a really
good bluff that just didn't work. I'm very kind to
myself because I feel like I make the best decisions
given the information that I have. And you know, it's like,
how was I to know the guy I had quads?
You know, you don't know these things. And the thing
with people who are professional poker players or even amateur
poker players, they tend to beat themselves up a lot.
But the reason why this is such a great game,
it's a game of incomplete information, and the luck factor
really throws her mention to think, isn't it, Philahelm, You said,
if for luck, I'd win every time. But that's why
we have all the amateur players from all over the
world coming and chasing their dream because they've had themmen,
this amount of luck in their poker league, get home,
and they really want to come and try their luck
with the best. I think, you know, obviously, when Chris
Moneymaker won against Sammy Fara, a seasoned gambler with an
insane bluff, I think that that really inspired everybody. Everyone
could be a poker champion. Yeah, everybody can. Why not me?
Speaker 1: Good stuff there from Jennifer Tilly. Interesting to hear how
she's kind of feeling like she has to figure out
how tournament players play, and specifically in the dobas v
min event play in a contrast to how players play
in the cash games, you know, high stakes poker, no gamble,
no future, all the big stuff, Poker Stars, big game,
whatever it is that Jennifer Tilly plays on. You know,
it's more just like a rich home game. People are
splashing around, they're in there with you know, kind of
really wide ranges, they're doing kind of wild stuff. They're
willing to gamble a bit more in a tournament, and
especially in the w P Man event, it's it's not
like that out there. I mean, maybe once in a
while you get that absolute unicorn of a table draw
where there are people all splashing around. It is like,
you know, just a cash game atmosphere. But for the
for the most part, you know, people are you know,
much more buttoned up with everything. They play a bit
closer to the vest. And you also get a wider variety,
a wider range of all types of players. You get
people that are in on satellites and that could be
smaller buyings to free roles to whatever. You get rich
people that are in there. You get grinders that are
in there, you get shot takers that are in there.
You know, you get all this sort of stuff where
it's a little bit more confined the player type. When
you know gentility is going to play let's say a
high six poker for example. And by the way, you
can catch her on season sixteen available.
Speaker 2: Now on a Poker go.
Speaker 1: So, yeah, it was just interesting to hear from her
how she you know, she's got to kind of change
up her game and kind of refigure things out. You know,
Jenn's played a lot of poker in her life to yeah,
here she is backgrinding and both her and Phil Locke
did advance to Day two. As long as the app
is correct, I think Phil lock bagged around seventy seven thousand,
and then I mentioned Tilly bagged around thirty thousand. Another
player to bag chips and some of you listeners out
there may know this name and also have heard his voice,
Ben Ludlow. Ben Ludlow good friend of mine, friend of
the pod, but also co host of the Poker News podcast.
I wanted to talk to Ben because he was stuck
up on the feature table, the main feature table for
three levels today, because he had a starting table that
belonged to the one Daniel mcgroney. Ben battled with Daniel
in a few pots, some early on offstream, then a
couple on stream. I just wanted to get the lay
of the land, you know, see how his day went.
What was it like playing on the feature on day one?
You know, I think it's interesting especially for people who
maybe you're nervous, maybe you're coming out and you're you're
planning to play the main event, and you're like, oh, man,
like what if they put me on a feature What
if I get a table draw with one or two
big names, or I draw like like bended here with
with Daniel. You know, am I am I gonna be
nervous going up there? You know, how's it gonna be? Yeah.
I mean a lot of times you see people kind
of go one of two ways when they get to
a stream table. One is that they get really tight
and conservative because they're overly cautious and they don't want
to make mistakes. On the other side, you get people
that their ego really comes out and they start going
from confident to cocky. And once you do that, that's
bad news. And you're trying to pull off big bluffs
and you're trying to you know, make a show out
of a hand or whatever it may be, and that
can also you know, backfire against you. And you know
that's why they say. You know, a lot of the
a lot of the pros or experienced players who have
have you know a lot of hours out there playing
under the bright light. It's with the cameras on, you know,
all that sort of stuff. They can take advantage of
tables like that because they're just used to that, right.
But Ben got the play up there for I think
it was six hours today, three full levels. So let's
hear from Ben Ludload, now co host of the Poker
News podcast. You played on the feature table, the main
feature table with Dane on the Grand Nude pretty much
all day on day one. How was that experience. Did
you feel like you had to do anything differently, you know,
bright lights, cameras, et cetera.
Speaker 5: I definitely was a little nervous coming up here. I
mean I don't think that I've really this is by
far the biggest like streamed moment I've ever had. I
think I was on a stream a couple of times before,
much smaller stuff. So yeah, I was definitely nervous. It
didn't change really anything how I played.
Speaker 2: Honestly, it was nice.
Speaker 5: I felt way more locked in. In the back of
my head. I was like, well, you can't do anything
stupid because everyone you know is going to see if
you do. Playing with Daniels a lot of fun. It
was an interesting day because no one went bust. This
was the nine that we started with and the nine
that we ended with, so I think I bagged the
most ships of anyone with one oh three point eight,
So there wasn't a ton of big hands. Everyone played
really solid. I don't know if the Future table had
anything to do with it. There were it was kind
of the same before, so I would say, uh, it
was fun. It was fun, but you know a little
bit of nerves at the start. But you know, a
few minutes in, it's just poker.
Speaker 1: I gotta put you on the spot a little bit.
How uh, how would you rate Daniel's play on day one?
Speaker 5: Oh God, I hope he's not listening. No, no, I
mean Daniel was Daniel. He played a lot of hands,
he saw a lot of flops. You know, we were
talking about PLO all day. He just won one hundred
k PLO. He was like, you know, I love PLO
because I get the limp and no matter what, I'm
gonna call. So he definitely employed the limp in his
pimp and strategy a little bit. He didn't. I don't
think he made very many hands. He ended up bagging
more than starting. He had played one big one at
the end where he made a good call with trips
versus top two. But he didn't show down a ton
of hands. He saw a lot of rivers unfolded. But
I mean it's Daniel Gronde.
Speaker 2: He's the goat.
Speaker 1: Now, after you have this experience, you're up here playing
on the stream. Is it something you're more wanting to
get back to or are you like, you.
Speaker 2: Know what, I did it on day one.
Speaker 1: I'm happy to avoid it for a few days and
then maybe on day five basics, when it's real, let's go.
Speaker 2: Then it's a good question. I think I want more.
Speaker 5: I think I want more. I think I felt like,
you know, I definitely made a couple of mistakes today,
and there's always things to improve on. But I definitely
I struggle here and there with being present at the table.
You know, I'm a little add I'm looking all over
the place, going on my phone, I'm taking a break.
So this was this was like you can't do that,
you just you literally cannot. So I want more of this.
I hope it's not till day five, but I hope
I'm back here for sure.
Speaker 3: I want one.
Speaker 1: So it was a great start for Ben Ludlow. He
bagged more than one hundred thousand, bagged one hundred and
three thousand and eight hundred. He also told me off
Mike that he flopped a straight flush at one hand.
I think it was in the last level of the night.
Want a small pot or so something there. So yeah,
I mean things went pretty well for Ludlow, and you
guys can check him out if you want to, over
on the Poker News podcast that's he co hosts alongside
Chad Holloway and Mike Holts. Mike Colts was also in
the field today. Don't know how he fared, but he
was looked like he was having a blast when Jeff
Platt went out there and interviewed him about halfway through
the day or so. And of course we know because
we talked about it on this show already this summer.
But Mike Colts won a bracelets the super Turbo bounty.
He won for around two hundred and forty thousand dollars.
I believe it was on the other side of things.
Of course, plenty of players did, unfortunately have to bust out.
That's just how poker tournaments work. Some of the notable
players to hit the rail on Day one D include
Scottie Winn, Doug Polk. Doug Polk, by the way, had
a wild level up and down and all over the
place to start this thing that ultimately could never recover
and bust it. Nate Silver Sugar, Sean O'Malley, the UFC fighter,
He was out there battling. He was on one of
the feature tables for a while. He ultimately got moved
off or his table got you know, replaced with another
table up there, and then Sugar Sean busted out. So
I think in the either the second to last level
or the last level of the Night Team or Margrelin,
a three time Bracele winner. He busted Michael Burke, John Juwanda,
David Odb Baker friend of the Pod Odb. His main
event run comes to an end, and the PLO god
Lataro Guera also hit the rail on Day one d
of the main event. I think that's going to do
it for the w SP main Event, and honestly, that
just might do it for the POD. I'm excited for
my Day two. It's on Monday, starts at eleven am.
I believe I'm in the Horseshoe room as opposed to
the parish room this time, so at some point we
might break if I survived that long. But yeah, I'm
excited coming off what was a rough you know, what
was it eighty percent of Day one that ultimately the
last level turned out to be pretty good from where
I was. I know I talked about in the last episode.
So overall feeling good going into Day two. Think my
table draw is okay, don't. I mean I recognize a
couple names there, but doesn't seem like it'll be too bad.
But again, it doesn't matter what your table draw is. Yes,
some can be good, some can be bad. You know,
that's just the luck of the draw. But at the
end of the day, you have to sit down and
you have to face those players in front of you.
So I'm ready for whatever they throw at me and
hopefully I perform my best. So short and sweet here,
but this main event is building again. We are over
eight thousand entries in the WSP main event this year.
We'll see what the Day two ABC and Day two
D late registration brings. I'm thinking nine hundred to one thousand,
which gets this total field size up over nine thousand.
My guess on the field size was nine and seventy seven,
so that could still be achieved. Yes, and uh, we're
off and running. It's the World Series of Poker Main event.
It's the best freaking time of the year, so let's
freaking go. My name is Donny Peters. As always, don't
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of the things that I want to hear from you
guys now that it is Main Event time. I know
a lot of people have been out there on social
media saying this, that and the other thing about the
coverage this year. I want to hear from you guys,
the listeners. But I don't want to hear just complaining
and rants and whatever. Give some provide some actual suggestions
or some thoughts as to things that you would like
to see with the coverage. I plan on sitting down
to watch the full main event, you know, basically from
start to finish. I'll just binge it once the final
table is reached and I have a bit more time
on my hands to actually consume it all. But you know,
I would like to get some thoughts from the listeners
out there and be like, hey, you know, what if
they did this, or what if they did that? Or
I think this would be cool or I think that
would be cool. I don't think we've ever asked for
that before on this podcast. I'd be interested to hear it,
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and I will catch you guys for next time.
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