Speaker 1: Hello, everyone, Welcome to a new episode of the Poker
Go Podcast Special Edition podcast. Because I have Jeff Platt
here with me today, I have to ask you, though
I have no idea what your actual title is, so
please tell me.
Speaker 2: Oh, I would love to tell you, Donnie, I would
love to tell you it is Global Broadcast Talent.
Speaker 3: I've heard that face of the experience.
Speaker 1: I've heard that when you're on stage just today MC,
so I've kind of heard it all, okay, but I
like your official ones so global we can get the
actual people to tell you that.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, say that let's go. Let's go.
Speaker 2: You can refer to me as that really just guy
with a microphone, though it works. I appreciate you having
me on. By the way, I pretty much demand it
to be on. When I heard Donnie with his first podcast,
he did actually text me, please please let me on.
Let me jump on with you at least once a Monthther's.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I think you know.
Speaker 1: I won't normally release episodes by themselves, but I think
this one is warranted. And it's funny because I wanted
to have you on to talk about the exact things
that we're gonna talk about. I just I'm worried about
abusing the relationship. Oh come on, but you ask all
these people all the time, and it's like, really at
some point, like you know, the worst is when people
are running deep in the main event and you talk
to them on day five, then you talk to him
on day six and I'm like, can I talk to
you once again one more time? I mean, I'm sorry,
but you're kind of doing well, like you know, what
are we gonna do? But for me, I love it,
like I love jumping on and talking with you, and
it doesn't, of course have to be about stuff that
I promote. I feel like we both share this passion
for poker, so this is a cool space for me
to be involved in. So always happy to jump on
with you. Yeah, I mean, as you alluded to there,
we've both been around poker for for quite a long time,
as you much longer man, Okay, I mean, but you
were playing, Yeah, I mean, so you've been around it.
You know, even if you weren't exactly working in the industry, you.
Speaker 2: Were around it absolutely.
Speaker 1: As it relates to the doubsip though, quick timeline for
those out there who need a little bit of a
refresher but it goes from the Rio to the Horseshoe
slash Paris in from twenty twenty one to twenty twenty two.
Speaker 3: Right, yeah, you.
Speaker 1: Got more than ten thousand entries in twenty twenty three.
You know, I think. I mean, I heard Norman on
your show yesterday saying like, if if the whole online
poker thing didn't happen, that would have happened years ago,
which is likely the case. And then after the online
poker thing did happen, it was kind of a question
of is it ever gonna happen? And then it finally
did happen. So that's great. You got GG Poker acquiring
the brand. In twenty twenty four, you got the WSIP
live app. It was WASIP plus. Now it's the WASP
Live app launching last year, which I know that might
sound like a small thing on this timeline, but I'm
telling you, guys.
Speaker 3: Is a huge thing.
Speaker 1: Okay, it's a huge thing, and now this year, I
mean the big thing is that the venues are flipped. Right,
this is what Horseshoe was, and it's bigger. Over here
we are on the main set right now. Does it
feel surreal to you going from player to working in
the industry a bit now being escalated to the position
that you're in. To see all those changes in a
relatively quick period of time for the w would.
Speaker 2: Be Yeah, it's a great question. It shows you how
we really just skyrocketed over the last couple of years.
You mentioned the change in locations, it's because the set
just couldn't fit in Horseshoe. It could not fit. So
for the World Series of Poker under the new ownership
you mentioned to be willing to make that kind of
investment along with investing in the app. I mean, I
think it shows you what the future could become, and
that's something that WSP is really looking out for. That's
really why I wanted to align myself with this brand
moving forward.
Speaker 1: When you first got into the industry, obviously you have
a media background before getting into poker on the working
side and the industry side of things.
Speaker 3: Was that a goal of yours?
Speaker 1: Were you like, I want to get into that industry
and I want to do the media stuff and I
want to eventually work my way up whatever that may be.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's dream job. You and I have talked about
the main event being the greatest poker tournament in the world.
It is over these I don't care what anyone says,
it just is. It's just at another level. So the
super Bowl, so to speak, for me and for a
lot of us in poker, is the World Series of
Poker main event. With what I do specifically in hosting
or sideline reporting or global broadcasts talenting, it just makes
sense that that would be my dream job, right to
be involved in that World Series of Poker main event,
to be able to tell the story of the greatest
poker tournament in the world to a wider audience to
people who cannot make it live. And it took a
crazy fortunate balance here and there with timing, and then
it was twenty twenty and then Kara couldn't do it,
and I'm sure a lot of people couldn't do it.
So Dan Gotti eventually got to me on his list,
and since then, I just I just got in at
the right time, and I'm so thrilled, proud, honor to
be here. I realized some like that could sound maybe
corny in a sense, but like it's really genuine for me.
It's something that I think about a lot, that this
is true dream job status for me to be involved.
Speaker 1: You're you're really closely connected to the player experience, the
fan experience. You know, a lot of the stuff that
you wanted to make happen here. You're like, we got
to make the viewing experience better. You've always said that's
what's the most fun part of that side of the gig.
Speaker 2: I think it's just that everybody's open to listening to
everybody else, not just me. But I can get time
with Ty Stewart, our CEO, or Spunky, our head of production,
and we'll have a great back and forth. And they
are always looking for what I have to say, what
other people have to say. They're good at gathering opinions.
Nobody has to be right one hundred percent of the time.
So just to really have a seat at the table,
just to be in the room during these discussions, just
to throw out some opinions, it helps you set it.
Because I'm not I don't consider myself just a broadcaster,
but a player a little bit on the side. So
I want to look out for player experience, and that
includes parking dealers, the app et cetera. I consider myself
a fan, right so when we're out here at this stage,
I want it to be the best setup possible, so
you show up and you know what's going on, your
view is not blocked. And then speaking of views, I'm
a viewer also, so I know, like I think, I
know what I would like, what you would probably like,
what most people would would probably like, and it's nice
to be able to have a say in every single
one of those areas.
Speaker 1: Speaking of views, you know you've been getting bombarded with
questions on the schedule, what are you guys streaming?
Speaker 3: What's going on?
Speaker 1: My sense of it is that I think you guys
are base just we're turning the cameras on at let's
say two o'clock every day, the stream's going to start
it let's say five o'clock every day or whatever that
time is, and it's just go time basically in a way,
twenty four to seven. Once the cameras got turned on
yesterday and now it's just every day throughout the duration
of the series. But for the people out there, can
you help describe, you know, what the schedule is, because
you are getting questions, what's streaming today, what's going on?
Where's the schedule that the schedules schedule right?
Speaker 2: That is kind of the way I see it that
this is new, innovative, comprehensive live stream coverage. Now we
will focus on certain events a bit more than others.
For example, the twenty five kads Up Championship, we will
have them up on stage at our future tables. We
will have the five K no limit final table on
one of our side features, or the five KPLO Final
table on one of our side features. So the plan
is to have one main tournament that we're honing in
on that we're going to show you a ton of
coverage from. That is going to be twenty five K
Heads Up Championship, twenty five K hi Roller, ten KGG Millions,
two hundred fifty K Super Highroller, but also Millionaire Maker,
Monster Stack Colossus, to try to captivate the audience no
matter what form of poker they may be interested in,
whether it's high bids with the Superstars, lower bi ins
with the weekend Warriors of the world. But at the
same time that we're showcasing all of this featured table coverage,
we are keeping track of what's going on at the
outer tables, so we're just taking you. The goal is
to take you in to the World Series of Poker
and give you a sense of everything that is going on.
Seventy seventy five eighty percent of our coverage will be
honed in on one event and the rest of it
will just be out and about and see what pops
up and see what storylines developed. So I don't really
think there's a need to put out a specific schedule.
I understand that people want it. We have something like
a schedule on YouTube. It's always subject to change, and
I think you put it perfectly. A certain time is
gonna hit and we're gonna turn the cameras on. That's
future table coverage, and we have a ton of camera
crews outside to treat every day if the World Series
of Poker like it's the main event.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you mentioned the outer table coverage. Where Jeff and
I are sitting right now are the outer tables.
Speaker 3: This is what's the cluster. It's called the cluster.
Speaker 1: There's twelve tables here, there's these behind us, there's five
feature tables in.
Speaker 3: A horseshoe shape.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then they're gonna be bouncing around from everything
and then you guys can't see it. But off camera
is a new pregame show set, morning show set, whatever
it's being called what's the motivation behind that this year?
Speaker 3: Well, first, are running the show.
Speaker 2: It is called WSP Countdown. Yes, we did have a rebranding.
We were talking about developing a morning show and it
just kind of turned into that pregame show that you mentioned.
So it is me, David Williams, Joe Stapleton, Norman Chatta,
some of a rotating cast of characters. You know, I'm
hoping our friend Maria Hope and join us a few
times here and there, things like that. The goal of
this show, it's kind of like the goal of the
live stream coverage. It's to take you inside the World
Series of Poker to give you a sense of what
happened last night and what to expect coming up on
our live stream coverage. That is going to include diving
into some hot topics. You know this the drama is
going to pop up at some point in the World
Series and we'll be there to cover it, and we
want to cover it. We don't want to ignore it.
So that's the overall game plan. It will include interviews
with big name players, it will include bracelet ceremony recaps,
it will include live looks at whatever Daniel Lgrantini or
feel Helmut or feel iv Er up to on that day.
So it's just a little bit of everything, and I
think that's why I'm excited about it. It's very easy
to say that you want to model yourself after a
college game day ornt inside the NBA, right, But that
is the goal, and I hope we can take steps
in the right direction to reach that goal.
Speaker 1: Did you guys come into this whole summer plan with
everything you know, new stage, the way that you're planning
the coverage, the countdown show ahead of time, with the
idea of like, listen, we want to push poker coverage.
Speaker 3: To new heights. We want to set a new standard.
Speaker 2: Yeah, That's been Spunky's goal this whole time, recognizing the
poker boom of the Moneymaker era and trying to develop
one that doesn't necessarily rely on any specific superstar. And
I think that's important. You know this. I feel like,
especially in our Poker go years, how bad did we
run as far as getting you know, big names to
a final table or something like that. Of course, it
feels like it. It felt like it always fell apart, right, And.
Speaker 1: I'll be honest, listen, Poker gro had its own budgetary
restrictions and whatnot.
Speaker 2: Of course.
Speaker 1: I mean listen, for lack of a better term, GG
Poker's unloading the clip and it's fucking great. Okay, it's awesome,
you know, so that, but you know, we are still partnered.
We are still working with you guys on everything. I
mean the Blueprint fifty two team, which is the arm
of poker Goo that does these builds. They're the ones
that built this set, you know. So obviously the vision
came from the WSP side of things, but then you
had to have the handyman in the room to make
it out.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, And I think it's It's also an important note,
not just because I am on the Poker podcast or
talking with you, or because I've worked with poker Go
or because they're still partner. I think poker Go did
a tremendous job over the last few years in live streaming.
You know, we hear a lot about today like oh
well now it's not behind a paywall, but so much
of the coverage last year was open and available on YouTube.
Poker Go set up a distribution this year. Get right,
they forget, They forget very quickly. Poker Go's distribution deal
not only included the main event being televised by other
preliminary Bracelet events being televised. I think they were great,
But to your point, I mean, Ensis, the parent company
of both GG and WSP, they're going to fire off.
They are going to invest in the future, invest in
our coverage. We want you to see this setup, whether
it's because of an Instagram post or because you're watching
our coverage on WSP's YouTube channel, or because you're watching
the main event on ESPN and you see it and
you want to be here, right, And so that's that's
kind of the boom that we're hoping to develop, that
that Spunky is hoping to develop. Change the game. As
far as production is concerned. Just go bigger, Just go
so much bigger. I don't want to say, don't worry
about cost, but it's close to that. I mean, I'm
looking now, you're not the one right in the check
so you know that helps a little bit. I'm looking
now at our countdown show set that we were just
talking about. I see now we have like a teleprompter
and a huge monitor for the prompter. It's just like
these little things.
Speaker 1: It's just like, yeah, I gotta put you on the
spot who needs the teleprompter? Well, you think, Donnie, if
it's pointing at Norman's seat, I know it's not you.
Speaker 3: It's one of the other three.
Speaker 1: I can't quite see the angle from here, but it's
definitely fair states.
Speaker 2: They do have a couple of monologues they want to
go off, and so I think a.
Speaker 3: Prompter is a question now is can they read? I mean, yeah,
we're gonna find out.
Speaker 2: We're gonna find out soon enough.
Speaker 1: So you saw this thing at the at the warehouse,
the poker warehouse, like I think it was like a
third built right now, take me back, like what was
when you walked into you guys, your team got a
view of like, okay, this is like basically half of
it or a third of it. This is an idea
of what it's gonna look like. What were your thoughts then,
because it's it's one thing to see it on some
renderings or in some photos, you know, but then to
see it in real life.
Speaker 2: Well, I not only saw the renderings, but I heard
from Spunky and Ty that you know, this new set
we're gonna build is three times bigger than the one
in the Bahamas, which the WCP Paradise set was pretty
pretty massive. I thought that was the biggest poker stage
setup that I had ever seen. So I heard that,
I think, okay, okay, And then I walked into the
warehouse at Poker Ghost Campus and then I saw it.
I was like, wow, this this is big. And then
more it comes over and says, you know, this is
only like a third of it.
Speaker 4: Oh my god.
Speaker 2: So it's still like it still could not I could
not process it. It could not get through my mind.
And that's what I told everybody and the lead up
to this, it's like I still can't get it through
my head what it's going to look like. Even walking
in here a week ago and seeing some of the
set up with you, Oh wow, this is nice. This
is really cool. But it's just ten times better than
it was in the development process, Like this is this
is an I know we're still searching for an ame.
And you mentioned the arena, and I like the arena,
and maybe it would be Grand Arena. Grand Arena is
really good. Maybe we go back to Thunder, I don't know,
whatever we figure out, maybe whatever pops up organically, but
like this, this is the future of poker. This is
the new home of the World Series. I can't emphasize
enough just how it sounds simple, but just how cool
it is.
Speaker 1: What do you think, you know, fans, whether they're or
players too, you know, but but players are ultimately fans
of the year. I think when they you know, when
they walk in here and they see this thing, now
there's no more curtain when they tune into a live
stream when they see it, what do you guys want
them to feel.
Speaker 2: I want them to be shocked, to be stunned that
this is the investment that the World Series is putting
into its home, is putting into its production. And I
think we achieved that goal. You know, this is to
go back to what we were saying earlier, the greatest
poker series in the world. This is Poker's premiere event,
and now we have a stage that really aligns with
that description.
Speaker 3: What's something that people don't see?
Speaker 2: Oh, good question. People are going to see this massive
arena and be impressed. You've probably walked through back there.
But like the production area is wild and there are
rows upon rows upon rows of monitors. You know, our
countdown show is their own row. You know, we have
a full on production crew for what four of the
feature tables. So like our usual control room which had
I don't know, fifteen or twenty people in it for
a final table, like you have three or four versions
of those. People don't see a massive production crew running
around what feels like twenty four to seven and all
the behind the scenes work that goes into this. I
think that's what people may miss out on. But that
shows you just how how big the effort is.
Speaker 1: How do you approach the idea that it's impossible to
make everyone happen? You know, we talked a little bit
earlier how people are blowing you up on social media
as so for this, that and the other thing. You know,
even here there's people are like, you got to fix
the parking, Jeff, you gotta fix this. You gotta fix that.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: I will say, by the way, he is actually parking
where the people park. And I told him that. I said,
why don't you just park them back? He said, no, no,
I'm not doing I said, well, okay, people are crazy.
You guys park in the back.
Speaker 2: Park peacepot in the production line.
Speaker 1: But how do you like, are you do you just
come into it and you say, listen, we're not going
to make everyone happy.
Speaker 3: Or are you actually going to try and make everyone
else well. I feel like.
Speaker 2: Part of the role that I'm in is like is
listening to feedback, and sometimes the feedback is going to
be something that we agree with, and sometimes it's not.
You know, when it comes to player experience, of course,
like we want to make the parking situation just great
for everybody, and so I want to genuinely like, if
you guys feel the pain from it, I want to
That's something we're easily going to be aligned on.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: Then it comes to things that are a bit more subjective,
I would say, where some people may tweet at us, hey, like,
why aren't you showing this fifteen hundred dollars seven cards
stud final table? And I appreciate the question, I don't
personally think and I don't think our team thinks that
that would be a great use of our resources.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: I know, we go ham and add this massive production crew,
but we're still only going to be on a certain
amount of the time, and when we're on, we're probably
going to lean towards showing you the Helme Use, the Negrano's,
the Miss Rockies, the Heads Up Championship. Highlights of the
world while leaving a side some moments here and there
to touch on the fifteen hundred dollars seven card stud
I like to say that we're covering every tournament. In
a sense, some tournaments will not receive the same level
of coverage that others do, so I do genuinely appreciate
the feedback. I look for constructive criticism. I try to
get back to most people on social media because we
want to be really open about our thought process. I
understand the later start times and how that's going to
impact some people. This is all a huge work in progress,
and we'll take everything under consideration.
Speaker 1: I mean it's kind of like, you know, not sometimes
things just hit the cutting room floor. I mean, like,
for example, when we produce episodes, you can't cram every
single hand into a forty four minute episode, and somebody
might be like, well, you didn't show that hand.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean you can't. You can't always. You can't always.
Speaker 2: If we could turn every single camera on in this
building and put up three hundred YouTube streams all at once,
and maybe.
Speaker 1: That that is, I don't know if there's enough with
an electricity to actually.
Speaker 2: Do that right, I don't know, but you know, we
will develop, we will get better and better, and who
knows what the future holds for us, but for now
we feel at least somewhat comfortable with our game plan.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I'm a big you know, rising tide lift lifts all boats.
So if the World Series a poker, which is the
biggest boat in the sea, if that can can you know,
do its job, or the World Series Poker really is
the rising tide to be honest, you know, if it
can make poker bigger, everyone, you know, even competitors of
the World Series will benefit. And I do think that,
you know, yes, maybe you don't make every single person happy,
you know, the person clamoring for the seven card start
or whatever it is. Like I get it, I was
in your shoes, you know, previous years. But the jump
that you've already made, and if that's like a sign
of things to come, like, Okay, this is what we
did in year one of this whole new thing. Next year,
let's go what's what's the next step, And then the
next year, what's the next step. And then eventually, yeah,
maybe if you are streaming, instead of five tables, it's
seven tables or whatever it is. So there's there's a
build in process. You also have to I mean, you
can't bite off more than you can choose, right, Like
if you came out here and said, okay, we're streaming
twenty tables, like and then it just breaks, then you're screwed.
Yeah right, So I get it. It's hard, it's not
easy being in your shoes. But I also understand the
lengths that you've gone already. I'm glad you mentioned that
Spunky ahead of our production. He's really big on process
and efficiency. So people come to and there, what if we,
you know, do this and we have a special feature
table that's in the corner. He's like, let's just get
the process down right, Let's just keep it. Let's turn
the cameras on the first space.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah right, let's just get off the ground and
let's showcase this to our viewers. And once we're comfortable
with this process, then we can fine tune in, we
can tweak it, we can add in one thing at
a time, but we won't go super crazy because that
could lead to flaws at the core of the system.
We want the core to be strong before we totally
branch out.
Speaker 1: You're around Poker, I mean more than anyone I mean,
you know, you and I talk pretty much every single day.
I know how much you're around this game, both playing
on the industry side of things as well. You know
what still fascinates you about poker?
Speaker 2: For me, I can find storylines, not just from a
coverage standpoint. Just like if I'm walking around in every
single event, it doesn't need I love it. Of course,
if it's Daniel Nigranu and Phil Hellmuth and Kristen Foxen Amriell,
that's great, that's easy. But I can walk by still
a two hundred dollars daily deep stack and see that
there are seven players left, and see that a couple
players are treating it like it's the final table of
their World Series of Poker main event. That still stands
out to me, the passion for poker, or that's still
that still hits me, because I think it still hits others.
It's it's funny. I'm walking Bill. I'm watching Bill Klein
walk into this room right now and twenty five kids
up Championship sure like it's a high by in for poker,
right doesn't doesn't really move the needle for Bill Klein.
And if he won the whole thing, not going to
move the needle for Bill Klin, but he's here. He's
here because he wants to compete. And I love how
that competition is just drawn out of everybody, from the
Jesse Lonises of the world to the Bill Kleines, to
the to the Colby Covingtons of the world. You know,
you see our athletes come in and like they're so
enthused by poker and they're just it just brings the
competitive spirit out of everybody. And that's just something that
I love about this game and we'll always love.
Speaker 1: A question that I've been trying to ask every single
person that I have on the podcast is that you know,
what does a successful summer look like for you personally?
Now I know that maybe you don't take the same
angle as as a player might respond to that question,
but what.
Speaker 3: Does the successful summer look like for Jeff play?
Speaker 2: It's nice I don't have to set any like bracelet
goals or tournament results.
Speaker 3: I'm going to win three.
Speaker 2: That kind of takes the pressure off. I think successful
summer for me, it's going to sound simple, but it's
perhaps more complicated than it sounds. I want to end
the summer in a better position than we started off.
Just want to get better, just want to improve. I
know we're not going to be at one hundred percent capacity,
so to speak, and perfect on day one or two,
and we probably won't be perfect throughout six weeks, and
I don't expect to be. But I just want to
get better and better. I want to improve our process
because you know this as a poker player. If you
improve the process, the results are going to come eventually.
They might not come right off the bat. I just
want to improve the process. I just want to get
a little better. I know it's cliche, but it is
going to help us in the long run if we
do get a little better each and every day.
Speaker 1: When it all settles down, you know, the dust settles.
Let's say it's September. You know what do you want
people to talk about when they look back on the
twenty twenty six WSP Is it the set? Is it
something that's possibly to come?
Speaker 3: You know, what is that in your mind?
Speaker 2: I want them to talk about this, this set, this arena.
I want them to talk about our new and improved
comprehensive livestream coverage where we're just all over the map,
where we're taking you inside the world Series of Poker,
and I want them to look back on a record
setting World Series of Poker Main Event that is back
on ESPN, that did really well with our three week
delay in between reaching the final table and actually showcasing
the Final table live the storylines that we were able
to develop. I want people to see the investment that
the World Series is putting into this and think, you
know what that all of this pretty cool, pretty good summer,
pretty memorable summer.
Speaker 3: All the main Event.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm bullish, I think, Sam, you know, I
think it's going to get back up over ten thousand.
Now does that mean record setter? I don't know, but
hearing you say it, is that a motivation of the company.
Is that why you're saying that, because it's in the room,
in the back room, you guys are saying we want
a record setter.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think it's always the motivation of the company.
Everybody looks at the World Series of Poker Main Event. Now,
does that mean if we got nine, nine hundred and
ninety two players, Even if you.
Speaker 1: Guys got eight thousand, it's still eight k in a
ten k free zee.
Speaker 2: It's it's still just mind boggling to think about right
when you compare it to all the other attendance numbers.
But sure, we'd like to set a record. Listen, Gigi
Poker sends more and more people to the main event
every single year. Poker is is growing. I mean, we're
seeing more and more people become interested in poker. Whether
that results in more main event entries, I don't know.
But we are back on ESPN. That is going to
have some kind of a lure to some people. The set,
the stage that's gonna have, the grand arena, excuse me,
that's gonna have some kind of a lure to some people.
And I think when you combine everything that you are
just going to be in for a record setting main event.
What I appreciate about the World Series is like we
always what I just said, we just always try to
get better.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: It's like I think Nicks. I think it was Nick
Saban after he wins a national championship. He has one
glass of champagne on the plane, but that plane is
on a recruiting trip, and you know he's just thinking
about the next year. And that's kind of our model,
Like just Okay, this was awesome, let's celebrate it, just
for a little bit though, and then let's get back
to work and how do we make the next one better?
I was going to say, how could there be a
huge cheer here in this room at noon?
Speaker 1: Because it's the World Series of Poker and it's Arsenal
versus PSG, which it looks like PSG.
Speaker 3: Just won the Champions League.
Speaker 2: Our COO, Greg SHOs shown is French. His PSG is
the French one.
Speaker 1: Right, Yes, I mean there's obviously many French teams, right No,
I think he might hate PSG specific. So I think
that's all I got for you. But did I miss anything?
Is there anything you want to say talk about?
Speaker 2: I really don't think so. I think you know, an
important note that I would want to get out there
is that we're going for this every day. So everyday
World Tires of Poker Countdown is going to be on
and it's going to lead into our livestream coverage it
if you get sick, I think we're stuck with STAPs
in the hosting chair or something like that. So the
show goes on whether I'm here or not. It does
not rely on any one person, and we're just we're
just really excited to see how it all plays out,
and like I told you earlier, you know, I want
the feedback, the constructive criticism, not just from you, but
but from all of your listeners, all of your viewers.
Just hit me up on social media and we're accepting everything.
If you just say, Jeff, you suck, that doesn't help
us that much.
Speaker 3: We would, we would, it should be you suck. Here's why.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, exactly, that is exactly what I'm talking about.
So that's what I want to get out and I
always appreciate it and enjoy the time with you.
Speaker 1: All right, man, Well he's Jeff Platt on Twitter, so
that's where you guys can can hit him up there.
He is responding to I think.
Speaker 2: Every single try gets a little Sometimes I even look
at it and I'm like, ah, why'd you even respond
to that one? At the point, can I give you
a little tease, Yeah, just because I see Seande walking up,
I have a surprise for him week one of the
World Series that could like Joker viral.
Speaker 4: No no, no, I'm not gonna hij I just got to
come say hi, hello, my friend, love the set, thank you,
The morning show going.
Speaker 2: It's it's called WSP Countdown. Let's show some respect, going, well,
it's not the countdown, it's just WSOP countdown, Mark somewhere else,
probably probably, So.
Speaker 1: I'm just making sure my producer, producer Rich, shout out
producer Rich.
Speaker 3: He'll yell at me if I didn't do this.
Speaker 2: So, yeah, thank you for asking, Sean. It's fantastic. I
was just telling Donnie that I have a surprise coming
your way at some point in I think week one
of the WSP, maybe early week two, and it could.
It has the potential to go I wouldn't say viral,
but like a poker viral, like maybe we get twenty
two reposts in three hundred likes on it.
Speaker 4: I think I'll have three hundred and thirty three likes.
It's just what I think.
Speaker 3: It is.
Speaker 2: Oh, interesting, interesting working. I had no comment at this time.
I don't want to review.
Speaker 3: Any no comment at this time. I like it.
Speaker 2: Though. It's better than whatever Tim Duckworth has planned. You know,
it's got to be at least that.
Speaker 4: I give him a lot of credit. Man, he's really
growing up in his role. Over the years, has.
Speaker 3: He highly questionable? Sean? Highly questionable?
Speaker 4: Remember how low the bar was to start?
Speaker 3: That's true.
Speaker 2: That's a great point.
Speaker 3: I mean pants yesterday. Yeah, I never seen him wear
it is.
Speaker 1: It's it's much colder on this side of things than
it is on the horseshoes side of things.
Speaker 4: At the Showdown, you know, I'm going to stay called
the Showdown.
Speaker 2: The Countdown, w SP countdown. Maybe moving back to the
morning they got they got a logo and everything. I mean,
give it a night show that could be the showdown
on the showdown. Yeah, you should have been in our
earlier conversation.
Speaker 4: I know I should be in these production meetings actually
show you guys how to do things.
Speaker 2: But we're gonna up here. He's got to get it.
Speaker 1: The pleasure Sean Deep as always, it's a pleasure pleasures
on flat. My mic is all screwed up now, as
if it wasn't already. But all right, this has been
the Poker Girl Podcast, a little special edition here with
Jeff Platmin name is Dona Pears and we will catch
you guys next time.
Speaker 2: Express