Speaker 1: Hello, everyone, Welcome back to a new episode of the
Poker Go Podcast of My name is Donnie peters Is.
It is midnight on the Dot on Thursday in July sixteenth.
This episode's going to be a big old results and
bracelet winners dump. I think I have fifteen, maybe sixteen
events to wrap up. When we got to the WSP
Main Event, I neglected everything out else understandably, so the
WSP Main Event is just the absolute chief event and
had to head to throw everything else to the side,
you know, plus the sickness, all that sort of stuff
that I was battling through. But we're going to get
through almost all of the winners. I looked and this
one case super Turba Bounty has not left, so I'll
leave that till the end. Maybe they'll be done, maybe
they won't be. If they aren't, then we're gonna have
to leave that one for an additional pod. But I
do have some more podcasts that I'm planning to do
between now and the WAISB Main Event Final Table, which
is coming on August third. I want to do one
that talks about the Player of the Year stuff and
how that's all shaping up. You know. There are some
results that happened today. You had Niokihara, Sean deeb and
Alex Foxen going deep in the twenty five k horse.
So I don't know if those points are tabulated just
yet on the WSOP website. So I'll get to all
the Player of the Year stuff and you know how
those how those will shake out, because obviously we're going
to be looking forward to WSP Paradise when when it's
going to wrap up. There was an interesting tweet about
I think Scott Sever might have put it out there.
Maybe Scott Sever agreed with somebody I can't remember exactly,
but basically it sounds like there might be some interest
in having the basby Player of the Year race end
in Vegas and then start in Paradise. Interesting. You know,
I don't know if it really aligns with what the
WSP wants to do. That's obviously up to them, but
you know, we'll see how it goes. I agree that
that's how it should be, but not my place to
call the shots. And then also, of course, there is
a ton of POY points up for grabs in the
WSP main events, so maybe one of those nine players
can can make some headway and get near the top
of the leader board. But you know we'll leave that
for a different pot. This one all about the bracelet
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Eric Weaber wins the six hundred dollars ultrastack Nolamit Hold'em
Tournament eight thousand and seven entries. We were taking home
his first gold racet and a nice big chunk of
change here four hundred thousand dollars. To Poker News after
he won Weaber, he said, I've been playing poker since
I was a kid with my dad and uncles around
the kitchen table. That's pretty freaking sweet if you ask me.
When Moneymaker won the main event, I fell in love
with the game. I've been coming to Vegas twice a
year and every World Series, mostly playing the daily tournaments
and grinding it out, hoping one day I'd be able
to play bigger events. Well, we were. Previous best WSP
finish was in eighty eighth place in eight hundred dollars
deep Stack event in twenty twenty three for forty four
hundred dollars. And now that he has this four hundred
thousand dollars score for top in a field of more
than eight thousand entries, we can certainly play those bigger
events that he once hoped that he might be able
to take a shot. And so go for it, Eric Weaver,
because you got the bankroll now to get it done.
Matthew Shepski won the one thousand dollars Mystery Bounty PLO,
another big field. In this one, four seven hundred and
sixty four entries, first bracelet for Shepski. He took home
three hundred and five thousand dollars plus I think a
little bit more than twenty thousand dollars in bounties. He
defeated Alex Monzano in heads up play. Pretty tough final
table here I see Chris Vich made the final table.
He finished fourth. Mark Rhodoja got fifth, Nick Papio got
sixth in this one. Shepski he's not an unknown name.
Maybe some of yous you know may not recognize the
name Matthew Shepsky, but he's a grinder. He's been around
for quite a long time. He's got several w SOOP cashes,
and one of those cases is a twenty ninth place
finish in the twenty twenty two WSP Main Event, where
he took home two hundred and sixty two thousand dollars.
Back in twenty fifteen, he won a Heartland Poker Tour
event for two hundred and twenty seven K. He's also
the winner of the twenty eighteen Chicago Poker Classic Main
event one hundred and ninety five K score. There so
many big scores on Shepski's reugh record. He does mainly
play cash, but here he is taking home his first
gold braizlet for winning the one K Mystery Bounty p
l oh in The Gladiators of Poker three hundred dollars
buying in this one, Johnny O'shawna taking it down for
two one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. He topped a
field of eleven thousand, one hundred and eighty five entries
to get the job done. More on that field size
in a bit, But for O'shawna first goal bracelet, he's
got live cashes that go back to twenty and thirteen.
According to the Hendi moov dot com he won an
MSPT event at Venetian Las Vegas back in twenty twenty
one for one hundred and thirty K. This now, of course,
tops that with the two hundred and fifty K score
for winning the bracelet in The Gladiators of Poker. He's
got a handful of w SOFP cashes prior to this one.
His best, I think was a twenty fourth place finish
in this summer's six hundred dollars ultrastack that we just
talked about the event that was won by Eric Weaber.
Johnny O'shanna got twenty fourth in. He cashed in that
one for fifteen thousand and six hundred dollars. Congratulations to
Johnny O'shawna. Now on the Gladiators of Poker, eleven one
hundred and eighty five entries. When I saw that final number,
I was thinking, hmm, that seems very low for this
event and went into the old stats well to do
some digging around. Back when this spent debuted in twenty
twenty three, it had twenty three thousand and eighty eight entries.
Then in twenty twenty four it had twenty thousand, six
hundred and forty seven. Last year twenty four thousand, six
hundred and twenty nine entries. So the eleven eighty five
entries for this year is Gladiator as a poker is
a far cry from where this event once was in
terms of turnout. In twenty twenty five, that twenty four thousand,
six hundred and twenty nine that's the number two largest
tournament field in the in the in the live poker
world of all time. The twenty twenty three version of
this event was the number three on the list, and
then twenty twenty four is number seven on the list,
So you know, it kind of leaves you wondering what
the heck happened in twenty twenty six here, even though
you know, and we talked about this back when we
got through the first fifty events and we ran through
those numbers. How yes, a good handful of stuff was down,
but those kind of headlining you know, the Colossus, the
what was it, Millimaker, the Monster Stack, all that sort
of stuff was doing pretty well. Overall. I would put
the Gladiator as a poker in the same vein of
those events, you know, those kind of headlining marquee, big field,
multi flight events that are looking to attract the masses
who are trying to get in at an accessible price point. Well,
this one did not do so hot, and I think
it has to do with the timing for when it
fell on the schedule so previous years. In twenty twenty
three it was June seven through twelfth, twenty twenty four,
June sixth through eleven, so very much in that you know,
first ish two weeks of June. Last year it was
June twenty fifth to twenty to thirtieth, So still in June,
although in the back half of June this year though,
they had it at what I would like to call
a post Limb so post Doubsopy main event, kicking off
July eighth through thirteen, and I would say that that
is likely what hurt the turnout in this event. Now,
of course, you know, there's always a lot of schedule
juggling and shifting around from year to year. They got
to fit all these different events in different areas. But
this one looks like it suffered. I'm gonna guess the most,
because nothing's going to take a dive of around thirteen
thousand entries like this one did in the Gladiators of Poker,
So that's a big dip and one, you know, the doubicipy.
I'm sure we'll be looking at for next year for
where they want to put this one on the schedule.
Another popular event on the World Series of Poker schedule
is the three thousand dollars buy in Mid Stakes Championship.
This is a no limit holding tournament. This year's event
and six hundred and sixty eight entries, Yan ting Jiang
won it. She topped the field to take home. This
is a big number, one million, one hundred and fifty
nine thousand dollars. I mean, holy crap, you turned three
k into one point one five million, almost one point
one six million. Holy lordy, Maurice Hawkins, I know, very
polarizing figure. There. He had another big result fourth place,
finished for four under thirty two k. Punat Pontri sixth
place two hundred and fifty K. Michael Rocco, who said
he was quitting poker to go be a farmer while
he's back, getting another big result here one hundred ninety
two k for him in seventh place, and then Roberto
Romanello out of the UK eighth place for one hundred
and forty nine thousand dollars for Jang, the winner of
this event first bracelet. It was her birthday the day
before she won. She told Poker News afterwards, I still
can't believe it. I feel lucky. I'm a single mom,
I have two kids, and I just pray for whatever
God will give me. Well, Jang, God has given you
one point one five million dollars and a gold bracelet.
It did say that she was from Indianapolis, Indiana. Her
first live cash, according to hend him Mob was back
in twenty twenty two, so not the longest hended mob
record here for Jang, but getting the job done. Nonetheless,
Her previous best score was earlier this series. She got
forty seventh in the w SP one K Mystery Millions,
taking on twenty four thousand dollars. There event number ninety
on the schedule fifty thousand dollars high roller, two hundred
and two entries. Jamie Dwan took a shot and the
British pro took it down his first bracelet in his
first ever fifty K buying tournament. He told Boker News
that this was his first ever fifty k. It's also
the most that he had ever invested in a tournament.
It was a huge shot take. He said. None of
this feels real. It feels insane. This was just like
a big punt at the end of a At the
end of the series, I was having a winning summer.
I was like, I'll punt it. I'll have a go
at it. You know, it feels like a dream. It
doesn't feel real. It feels so much to me. He
also said, my mom's not very well and all I
wanted to do this summer was come back to her
with a bracelet. I've done it. And I've done it
in one of the biggest tournaments of the year. It
means so much, so much congratulations to Jamie Dwan. I
think what he means by this punt here is that
he was probably up a little bit, you know, like
I would guess he was probably up like seventy k
on the summer. And then he said, you know what,
me being up whatever, he's up a little bit of
money or me me going home break even or down
a little bit, that's all the same, right, So I
might as well just fire it into this tournament. It's
the last big one. Let's see what I got. And
here he is walking away winning two point two seven
six million dollars. Daniel Rizai out of Austria finishing in
second place. Brin Kenny got third. He adds another million
dollar score to his very impressive resume. You had Daniel
Negranu finishing in eighth place for two hundred and twenty
six thousand dollars. Gran New is wrapping up a profitable
World Series of Poker. Absolutely crushed it this year, had
some deep runs, had a couple of final tables. Of course,
won a bracelet in the one hundred k PLO as well,
there was a huge rail on hand, a big crowd
on hand for Jamie down as you would expect from
the British lot, lots and lots of cheering, you know,
for his run and of course when he had that
winning moment. I love the British rails, always have, you know,
so much of us have loved them for so long,
kind of missed them, you know, they're a little bit
more few and far between than they once were. But
these guys brought it for their guy, Jamie Dwan, and
he's taken home a bracelet and more than two point
two million dollars. Sergio Benso won the fifteen hundred dollars
Pick Your PLO event, the first of its kind, a
first bracelet for the Italian. Benso eight hundred and fifty
seven entries in this debut event. So this Pick your
Poo events Dealer's choice style and you can choose between
four or five card PLO single or double board, so
a few different options there. You can choose PLO high low,
or you can select big O. Benzo took home one
hundred and ninety six thousand dollars for the win, for
had Jamasi taking him second place for one hundred and
thirty k justin Liberto. Another good result for him at
this World Series of Poker fourth place for sixty four K,
Max Coleman got fifth for forty six K, and then
seventh place was John Turner for twenty five thousand dollars.
For Benzo, his first live cash came back in two
thousand and seven. That's according to the hend Him Up.
He had a WSW final table in twenty twenty four
in the six hundred dollars half Nolan and hold Him
half Plo event, where he took fourth for seventy five K.
This win here and the one hundred ninety six thousand
dollars that he won for winning the Pick Your Plo
event pushed Benzo up over one million in career live
tournament earnings. Sterling Lopez won the three thousand dollars TORS event.
This used to be the three thousand dollars horse event
is now a three thousand dollars TORS event. Four hundred
and fifty seven entries, first bracelet for Lopez. He took
home two hundred and forty seven thousand dollars in this event.
He topped Jesse Lonis in heads up play. Gary Bolden
got third, Alex Livingston fourth, David Bach fifth, and Chinghai
Jack Pan got sixth. Lopez is from Alaska, I believe Anchorage.
He has two prior w SP final tables, including this
very event last year when he got sixth place for
forty seven hundred dollars. He told Poker News, definitely got
the revenge. Heck yeah, you did, my man. He flew
back just for this tournament, just for the weekend. He
was on the fence, he said about coming back because
he really didn't take that much time off, or he
really can't take that much time off. But it was
definitely worth it. Of course it was worth it. He
was able to better his final table from last year,
take on almost two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. And
then for Lonas, do you want to point out another
second place finished for Lonas at this World Series of Poker.
If you guys remember way back to the beginning of
the WSOP, Lonis got second in event number five, the
five KPLO event. Here he is then basically wrapping up
his World Series of Poker with the second place finish
in the three K Tours event. Ari Hassan won the
fifteen hundred dollars closer topping a field of three thousand,
seven hundred and twenty four entries. Not the first bracelet
for Ori Hassan, but the first live bracelet. Yes, he
has an online one from winning the twenty twenty two
to four hund dollars Nolanan Holdham Kickoff event on WSB
dot com for fifty eight thousand dollars. Five hundred and
eighty two thousand dollars is the score in this one
for Hassan winning the Closer. I've never played this event,
but I always love it. I don't know, maybe I
just love the name, and maybe I love that. You know,
it's got a huge field, it's a good price point.
I love everything about this event. For Hassan, it was
a new career best score. That is according to hended
Mob in twenty twenty four, though he did win the
win Summer Classic twenty two hundred dollars Mystery Bounty for
four hundred and sixty thousand dollars. Moving over to the
ten K six handed no Limit Hold Them Championship event,
always a big one here, five hundred and fifty eight entries,
huge prize pool on offer and David Peters wins it
for one million dollars one million, one thousand, three hundred
and ninety one dollars, his fifth WSOP bracelet. I'll talk
about the other ones that he has. In a second
farad in mustavolv Out of Bulgaria six hundred and sixty
k for second, Calvin Anderson another big results for him,
third place, and then you had justin Liberto, which we
just talked about in another event. Here he is getting
fifth for two hundred and fifteen thousand dollars. I mentioned
how this was Peters's fifth bracelet his prior ones. His
first one was back in twenty sixteen he won a
fifteen hundred dollars nolhim at hold Him event for four
hundred and twelve thousand dollars. Then he won two online
events as his next two bracelets. Twenty twenty he won
the ten K heads up Nolan Holdham Championship for three
hundred and sixty thousand dollars, and then twenty twenty one
he won the seven seven hundred and seventy seven dollars
Lucky Seven's high Roller for two hundred and eighty three
thousand dollars. Then in twenty twenty two he won the
one hundred k high Roller for one million, one hundred
and sixty six thousand dollars, a bit of a return
to the winner circle, you know, both of course on
the felt but also probably a bit with the life
situation that Peters seems to be involved with, because he
had that situation when Dylan Lindy outed him on social
media in April for unpaid debts. That was that was
a big thing that blew up. Peters did come out
with the statement himself. He said, you know, he got
himself into a bad way. And I'm paraphrasing here, but
he got himself into a bad way, but he is
going to do what he can do to make things right.
I saw the video, the video clip of the moment
when Peters won. Here, he went over, he hugged his
wife Hayley, big embrace there. She was definitely in tears,
and you know, hopefully this is getting things back in
the right footing for David Peters. I've personally always liked
the guy, you know, I thought he was always very nice,
but it did seem like, you know, through some of
the stuff that came out that he got himself into
a bad way. But you know, what can help that
win in a million dollars, right, and then hopefully you
can write anything that might have been wrong in the past.
So David Peters fifth gold bracelet ten k, six handed
Nolan Holand Championship winner Garrett Dwyer won the five hundred
dollars Summer Saver foury, six hundred and twenty two entries,
first bracelet for Dwyer, two hundred and ten k in
the bank for him. Also as long as this is
right on end him up his first w ASoP cash
Garrett Dwyer out of Minnesota largest live score. Of course,
his previous best was also his only previous five figure
score for twenty one thousand dollars that was in the
twenty twenty five MSPT Minnesota State Poker Championship. This next
player that we're going to talk about, you guys, right,
remember too earlier on in the World Series of Poker,
when I told the story about Josh Wang, about how
he came over while I was talking with my friend
Tristan Wade about poker and the WSP and all this
sort of stuff. Josh Wang just kind of injected himself
into this conversation. It turns out that Tristan buys action
of him on the stop. They are on the spot,
they start texting back and forth. Immediately Josh ends up
going on to bus. Doesn't cash in that tournament, but
a tournament that he did cash in, and holy crap
did he the three K, six handed PLO eight hundred
ninety two entries and Josh Wang first place, first bracelet,
So a whole common full circle moment, just really really
awesome stuff there. And then to make it even sweeter,
he denies Eric Sidell the legend number eleven. Not that
like we're trying to deny Eric Sidell a number eleven,
but if yeah, so, if you're on the spot, you
want to win the tournament. But just that moment, you know,
getting his first bracelet and you have to go through
the legendary Eric Sidell to get it. Wang won four
hundred and seven thousand dollars. Sidel took home two hundred
and seventy one K for his second place finish. This
this found Stable Sick, third place, Robertmans Rocky, fourth place,
Chris Vich, fifth place, packing at Lisa Wad and then
sixth place Biauding. So that rounds up the final table there.
Congratulations to josh Wang getting it done. You guys will
remember that story with Tristan Wade from back in the day. Well,
Josh Wang, I mean, that's just awesome. I saw the
photo on social media and I was like, that's the guy.
And then I was like, yeah, josh Wang, Yes, that's
the guy. Just so cool how that happened, and how
he kind of came into our space, our little world
here and here he is winning a freaking bracelet in
four uner and seven thousand dollars. Just truly awesome stuff.
There was an eight hundred dollars deep stack, no limit hold,
no event that drew two thousand and thirty six entries.
Nishant Sharma took it down. He's out of India. He
won one hundred and ninety six thousand dollars. Jason Wheeler,
a bracelet winner who I think got a bracelet. I
think he has just one, I believe, if I remember correctly, Yeah,
one bracelet, which I think also came at the very
end of the World Series of Poker, if I remember
that tournament correctly, My good friend Gary Gates finished I
think fourth, maybe third, I can't remember, but he was
definitely at that final table because I was on the
rail and it was me and Ali Deshade on the
ralphert Gary Gates in that one. But here Jason Wheeler
taking third place for ninety five k. But the winner
is of course Nishant Sharma taking it down for almost
two hundred dimes. It's his fourth highest career live tournament
score according to the hen Him Mob. So you know,
Sharma not someone who's inexperience with winning big money in
poker tournaments. Over in the big old twenty five k
horse high Roller, you had Alexander Koch Stritzen taking it
down his first bracelet. This guy used to be a
freaking legend. I mean, I guess he still is a legend,
but he used to be playing all the huge stuff,
big tournaments, huge cash games, all that sort of stuff.
Here he is topping a field of one hundred and
forty eight entries to win eight hundred and seventy two
thousand dollars. Is coach Stritzen when I left there today,
because I did go down there, and I'll tell you
why in a second. But he was up with Ali
Islami Niowa Kihara finished in third place, and that third
place finish, I believe is good enough to put Kihara
in first place for the w s AP Player of
the Year race, So that's really cool to see. I
know a lot has been made about Sean deeb Alex
Fox in and how they were going back and forth.
They were both going deep in the WSP main event.
But let's not forget about Niaoa Kihara. He's already won
two bracelets at the twenty twenty sixth WICIP almost got
his third here. He's gonna have to settle for a
third place in three hundred ninety four K, but he
has the POI lead at least by my math. I'll
get into that more in a future episode, but should
have the POI lead as we close up shop in
Vegas and we're going to be heading to the Bahamas
later this year. Rounding out to this event, Julian Sippon
got fourth place, Yuki Zuo aka rich Zoo got fifth,
Ari Engel sixth, Walter Chambers seventh. I just talked about
Sean deep, he was deep in this event. Eighth place
for him, Matthew Biner got ninth, and oh look, Alex
Fox him tenth place in this tournament. A total of
twenty three players cashed in this one. I see Max Coleman,
Josh Aie also in the money. Jeremy Osmas is in there,
Matt Rapenthin and he won a bracelet earlier this summer.
Brace Jockey want a bracelet earlier this summer as well,
like all these people cashing stack tournament as you would expect.
But Alex go Stritzen up on top of the pack
here eight hundred and seventy two thousand dollars for him
and his first bracelets. The second to last event that
we're going to talk about on this episode is the
reason that I got up out of my desk, went
to my car, drove down there to Paris. Actually Horseshoe
is the paraside is closed, but on the horseshoe side
because Phil Helmeath was in line to get bracelet number eighteen.
He was at the final table of the five K
eight handed nolanman Holdhem tournament, but in the end it
was Darren Rabinowitz tagging it down, winning six hundred and
ninety five dollars. His second bracelet. He has one that
was an online bracelet, believe he won a one k online,
but this is his first live bracelet. Four Rabinowitz, who's
a grinder, plays everything around Las Vegas, always out there battling.
He denied the one and only Phil Hellmuth to get
number eighteen. Helm Youth finishing in second place for four
hundred and sixty four thousand dollars. You walk into the
horseshoe room. There's a table kind of over in the corner.
It's on the rail. They put additional stanchions around the table.
There's probably thirty people or so when there's six people
left in this tournament. And then it seemed like every
time somebody busted out, the rail grew by about ten
to twenty new people. People got the word that, Okay,
Hellmuth is going deeper. He's going deeper. He's going deeper.
You had Nick Papo. He goes out in fifth place.
Ral grows a little bit more. Joshua Stewart, he goes
out in fourth place. Ral seems to get a little
bit bigger. Nicholas Palma, him and Phil Helmuth have kind
of had a little bit of an exchange of words.
He's in three handed plays Palma, it's Hellmuth, it's Rebinowitz.
People are yelling and screaming on social media. People are
texting me, texting Kevin Math all this story stuff, turn
the stream on. What the heck like? Blah blah blah blah,
can't tell the stream on. When all the streaming's gone,
they left the building. Palma ends up going out in third,
three hundred and twenty six K score for him. Pretty
good summer overall for Palma. He did chop up the
bet MGM Poker Championship I believe it's called over at
Aria earlier this summer for over four hundred K. Here
he takes home three hundred and twenty six K, So
really good summer for him, well over seven hundred K
just from those two cashes alone. And then he had
a handful of other cases. But then we get Phil
Helmuth versus Aaron Rabinowitz. Rebinowitz starts with the chip lead.
Helmuth battles back, takes the chip lead himself, then Rebinowitz
battles back. They go on this break. They're just about even.
I think there was forty four million chips in play.
It was twenty two million to twenty two million, and
the rail is one hundred and fifty people deep, like
there's obviously a ton of members. There are a bunch
of poker players that were just kind of coming over me, like, okay,
you know, Helmut is there. There's of course a bunch
of fans people that just want to see Helmet there.
Helmy's wife was there, his two kids were there. It
was pretty much one hundred and forty seven people were
rooting for Helmut, including Martin Cabrel, who was extremely vocal
and outgoing. I think there were four people, but three
of them were vocal, four Darren Rabinoitz. The vocal ones
were Zachary Donovan, Mike Holtz, and Eric Blair, and then
I think An Koush Mondavia was also on his side.
But everyone else was just cheering for Phil Hellmuth. They
wanted to see that history. They wanted to see number
eighteen one. They wanted to see the most decorated WSBY
player of all time do it again. But Darren Rebinowitz,
which had to be a sick, sick moment. You're playing
heads up. The difference between first and second place six
ninety five for first, four sixty four for second, So
that's two hundred and thirty one thousand dollars a boatload
of money between first and second. Of course, you have
the bracelet on the line too. You're surrounded by one
hundred and fifty people, of which ninety nine percent of
them are rooting vocally for phil Helm Youth and not
wanting to see you win in pull pots. But you
got to just focus, lock in, play your game, not
get rattled, and get the job done. And it I
don't I mean, maybe it happened a little bit, but
it felt like as it went on, like the rail
and the crowd was getting closer and closer to the table,
maybe not by a lot, but maybe by like half
a foot every half hour or so. I mean, it
was just it was madness down there. The tournament staff
kept having to get on the microphone telling people to
get off chairs because people were standing on chairs when
they were like four deep on the rail trying to
get a vantage point, but no one could see. The
tournament staffs like we're gonna have to kick you guys
out of here like this this whole thing like it was,
it was madness. There was there was a couple of
media members that show up. They're trying to do video,
which you can't do video, and you can only do
video if you have your media pass. But they're saying
that they lost their media badge. They didn't bring it
back home. They were planning to go to the airport,
but then this happened, so they got to get down
there and they got to obviously see if phil Hemmedy
can get it done. So it was craziness in the
in the back corner of the of the horseshoe ball
room or whatever it's called. Ultimately, phil Helmuth calls it
off bad on the final hand, long tank for Helmuth.
On the final hands, they see a flop it comes
nine to eight duce. I don't really know how they
were at this stage. I think the blinds were five
hundred thousand and a million, and so the average stack
is twenty two big blinds. But Helmuth was a short
stack here. He had like fifteen or sixteen big blinds.
To start the hand for Benneretz raises the button, Helmuth
has a stuce off. I don't know how. You just
don't put the money in, like you just see a flop.
He sees a flop that comes nine a duce, two clubs.
Helmuth check calls three and a half million, turns a
four or help me checks again. Rebinowitz puts him in
for ten million, and Helm went deep into the tank,
like he starts talking to himself. He's I think he
was kind of muttering some things that says like it
feels like you're on a draw over there. There was
two clubs in the flop, so yes, the draw could
be present. At one point, he like stands up in
his chair. He's counting down his chips. He's staring at Rebinoitz.
He sits back down. Eventually, like this goes on for
a couple of minutes. Eventually he calls it off with
ace deuce. Bottom pair. Rebinoitz has nine to seven for
top fair top pair rivers just a seven, and that's that.
Rebinowitz wins. And it's like immediately you can obviously tell
Helmet is, you know, upset, frustrated in the moment, like
he just lost. He got so close again to number eighteen,
and it's it's the last event of the summer. He
can't register anything else, everything else is closed, and he's
just like, you know, he's got his family there and
he's kind of walks off, and it's it's kind of
like wow, like I was so close and then I
did that and then for Rebind's on the other side.
I mean, yes, there weren't a lot of people there
in supportive we're beinoits, but the ones that were there,
they were quick to you know, swarm him and even
him he kind of did a whole like kind of
like a little pacing back and forth. It seemed like
like almost maybe like pinching himself that it was real.
You know, Rebinowitz has done well for himself. He's a
very tough player on the felt I've played with them
a lot, extremely solid. He's won several tournaments. We talked
about the online bracelet that he won previously, but this
is like the crowning achievement of his career. I would say,
you know, hopefully I'm not stepping out by saying that,
but you know, almost seven hundred K in a five
K event like this at the World Series Live Tournament,
live bracelet, all that sort of stuff, and then on
top of it, you go through Phil Hellmuth in the end,
like that's just cool stuff. So Rebinowitz gets it done
there to take it down, denying Phil Hellmath number eighteen,
He's gonna have to wait till at least Paradise unless
he plans on playing online at some point later on
this year, but we'll obviously likely see Helmeth down at Paradise,
and then we'll see if the quest for number eighteen
gets as lively an electric as this one was, because
he got as far as they could go without ultimately
winning the title. There is one final event. It is
the one K Super Turbo No Limit Hold Them. It
had one thousand, six hundred and ninety nine entries. There
are still five players left. At the time of recording,
It's twelve thirty six am right now. I'm not sticking around,
so I'm going to cover this one on a future pod.
I'll just quickly tell you who's left. How about that
Dmitri Ivanovitch looks to be the chip leader. Ryot Nikai
is second, Shi Wong, Maxwell, Franklin, Cynthia van Sebi. Those
are the final five players in this tournament. The final
event event number one hundred on the schedule at the
twenty twenty six WSOP two hundred and sixteen thousand dollars
up top. The final five are guaranteed fifty six thousand dollars.
But that's it. That's the that's gonna do it for me,
That's gonna do it for ninety nine point nine percent
of the twenty twenty six World Series of Poker. We're
gonna have some wrap up pods, as I mentioned leading
up to the final table. Of course, we'll have a
big wrap up pod for the final table, probably be
bringing you one every single night August third, August fourth,
and then that final one on August fifth. Don't forget
WSP main event is coming up. Those are the three days.
It will be on ESPN and ESPN two, so make
sure you check it out. The more that we can
show these big platforms that we can bring the viewership,
the better it's ultimately gonna be for poker. So that's
where I will be. I will be glued to the
coverage as should you. It's been a pleasure talking about
all these results as always. I know this isn't the
last pod, as I've mentioned, but it kind of feels
like it's a little bit of an end here, you know,
walking out of the horseshoe which they locked the gate,
I had to go all the way back around through
the Paris backside like a whole thing. The rooms are
half empty, tables are on the floor, their chairs are gone,
you know, the tablets and the dealer racks in the
center of the table. Those are all removed. Like it's
just like, man, the whole thing's over. It's coming to
an end. And I know we'll be back in a
couple of weeks in August. I know we will. I
know they're gonna set the stage up on the horseshoe
side in the event center. I get it. But it
still is pretty sad as always walking out of that
place knowing that it's kind of done. You know, I
kind of had a couple a little bit of withdrawals
here for the past let's say, thirty six hours. It
was good to get back down there and you can
get back into the sweat, you know, watching helpt Go
for number eighteen, watching Darren Rabinwitz top him in the end.
But yeah, it feels like it's coming to an end,
and that sucks because the World Series of Poke is the best.
So anyway, that's it for me, Donnie Peters, for producer
Rich I guess I'll talk to you guys next time.
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