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