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Speaker 1: Hello, everyone, Welcome back to a new episode of the

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Poker Go Podcast of My name is Donnie peters Is.

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It is midnight on the Dot on Thursday in July sixteenth.

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This episode's going to be a big old results and

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bracelet winners dump. I think I have fifteen, maybe sixteen

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events to wrap up. When we got to the WSP

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Main Event, I neglected everything out else understandably, so the

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WSP Main Event is just the absolute chief event and

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had to head to throw everything else to the side,

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you know, plus the sickness, all that sort of stuff

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that I was battling through. But we're going to get

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through almost all of the winners. I looked and this

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one case super Turba Bounty has not left, so I'll

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leave that till the end. Maybe they'll be done, maybe

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they won't be. If they aren't, then we're gonna have

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to leave that one for an additional pod. But I

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do have some more podcasts that I'm planning to do

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between now and the WAISB Main Event Final Table, which

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is coming on August third. I want to do one

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that talks about the Player of the Year stuff and

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how that's all shaping up. You know. There are some

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results that happened today. You had Niokihara, Sean deeb and

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Alex Foxen going deep in the twenty five k horse.

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So I don't know if those points are tabulated just

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yet on the WSOP website. So I'll get to all

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the Player of the Year stuff and you know how

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those how those will shake out, because obviously we're going

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to be looking forward to WSP Paradise when when it's

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going to wrap up. There was an interesting tweet about

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I think Scott Sever might have put it out there.

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Maybe Scott Sever agreed with somebody I can't remember exactly,

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but basically it sounds like there might be some interest

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in having the basby Player of the Year race end

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in Vegas and then start in Paradise. Interesting. You know,

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I don't know if it really aligns with what the

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WSP wants to do. That's obviously up to them, but

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you know, we'll see how it goes. I agree that

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that's how it should be, but not my place to

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call the shots. And then also, of course, there is

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a ton of POY points up for grabs in the

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WSP main events, so maybe one of those nine players

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can can make some headway and get near the top

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of the leader board. But you know we'll leave that

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for a different pot. This one all about the bracelet

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gold chip stack to kick yourself off there. First up,

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Eric Weaber wins the six hundred dollars ultrastack Nolamit Hold'em

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Tournament eight thousand and seven entries. We were taking home

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his first gold racet and a nice big chunk of

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change here four hundred thousand dollars. To Poker News after

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he won Weaber, he said, I've been playing poker since

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I was a kid with my dad and uncles around

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the kitchen table. That's pretty freaking sweet if you ask me.

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When Moneymaker won the main event, I fell in love

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with the game. I've been coming to Vegas twice a

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year and every World Series, mostly playing the daily tournaments

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and grinding it out, hoping one day I'd be able

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to play bigger events. Well, we were. Previous best WSP

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finish was in eighty eighth place in eight hundred dollars

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deep Stack event in twenty twenty three for forty four

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hundred dollars. And now that he has this four hundred

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thousand dollars score for top in a field of more

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than eight thousand entries, we can certainly play those bigger

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events that he once hoped that he might be able

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to take a shot. And so go for it, Eric Weaver,

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because you got the bankroll now to get it done.

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Matthew Shepski won the one thousand dollars Mystery Bounty PLO,

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another big field. In this one, four seven hundred and

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sixty four entries, first bracelet for Shepski. He took home

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three hundred and five thousand dollars plus I think a

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little bit more than twenty thousand dollars in bounties. He

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defeated Alex Monzano in heads up play. Pretty tough final

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table here I see Chris Vich made the final table.

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He finished fourth. Mark Rhodoja got fifth, Nick Papio got

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sixth in this one. Shepski he's not an unknown name.

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Maybe some of yous you know may not recognize the

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name Matthew Shepsky, but he's a grinder. He's been around

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for quite a long time. He's got several w SOOP cashes,

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and one of those cases is a twenty ninth place

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finish in the twenty twenty two WSP Main Event, where

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he took home two hundred and sixty two thousand dollars.

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Back in twenty fifteen, he won a Heartland Poker Tour

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event for two hundred and twenty seven K. He's also

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the winner of the twenty eighteen Chicago Poker Classic Main

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event one hundred and ninety five K score. There so

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many big scores on Shepski's reugh record. He does mainly

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play cash, but here he is taking home his first

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gold braizlet for winning the one K Mystery Bounty p

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l oh in The Gladiators of Poker three hundred dollars

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buying in this one, Johnny O'shawna taking it down for

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two one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. He topped a

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field of eleven thousand, one hundred and eighty five entries

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to get the job done. More on that field size

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in a bit, But for O'shawna first goal bracelet, he's

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got live cashes that go back to twenty and thirteen.

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According to the Hendi moov dot com he won an

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MSPT event at Venetian Las Vegas back in twenty twenty

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one for one hundred and thirty K. This now, of course,

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tops that with the two hundred and fifty K score

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for winning the bracelet in The Gladiators of Poker. He's

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got a handful of w SOFP cashes prior to this one.

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His best, I think was a twenty fourth place finish

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in this summer's six hundred dollars ultrastack that we just

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talked about the event that was won by Eric Weaber.

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Johnny O'shanna got twenty fourth in. He cashed in that

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one for fifteen thousand and six hundred dollars. Congratulations to

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Johnny O'shawna. Now on the Gladiators of Poker, eleven one

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hundred and eighty five entries. When I saw that final number,

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I was thinking, hmm, that seems very low for this

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event and went into the old stats well to do

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some digging around. Back when this spent debuted in twenty

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twenty three, it had twenty three thousand and eighty eight entries.

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Then in twenty twenty four it had twenty thousand, six

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hundred and forty seven. Last year twenty four thousand, six

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hundred and twenty nine entries. So the eleven eighty five

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entries for this year is Gladiator as a poker is

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a far cry from where this event once was in

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terms of turnout. In twenty twenty five, that twenty four thousand,

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six hundred and twenty nine that's the number two largest

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tournament field in the in the in the live poker

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world of all time. The twenty twenty three version of

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this event was the number three on the list, and

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then twenty twenty four is number seven on the list,

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So you know, it kind of leaves you wondering what

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the heck happened in twenty twenty six here, even though

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you know, and we talked about this back when we

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got through the first fifty events and we ran through

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those numbers. How yes, a good handful of stuff was down,

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but those kind of headlining you know, the Colossus, the

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what was it, Millimaker, the Monster Stack, all that sort

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of stuff was doing pretty well. Overall. I would put

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the Gladiator as a poker in the same vein of

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those events, you know, those kind of headlining marquee, big field,

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multi flight events that are looking to attract the masses

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who are trying to get in at an accessible price point. Well,

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this one did not do so hot, and I think

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it has to do with the timing for when it

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fell on the schedule so previous years. In twenty twenty

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three it was June seven through twelfth, twenty twenty four,

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first ish two weeks of June. Last year it was

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June twenty fifth to twenty to thirtieth, So still in June,

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although in the back half of June this year though,

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they had it at what I would like to call

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a post Limb so post Doubsopy main event, kicking off

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July eighth through thirteen, and I would say that that

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is likely what hurt the turnout in this event. Now,

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of course, you know, there's always a lot of schedule

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juggling and shifting around from year to year. They got

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to fit all these different events in different areas. But

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this one looks like it suffered. I'm gonna guess the most,

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because nothing's going to take a dive of around thirteen

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thousand entries like this one did in the Gladiators of Poker,

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So that's a big dip and one, you know, the doubicipy.

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I'm sure we'll be looking at for next year for

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where they want to put this one on the schedule.

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Another popular event on the World Series of Poker schedule

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is the three thousand dollars buy in Mid Stakes Championship.

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This is a no limit holding tournament. This year's event

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and six hundred and sixty eight entries, Yan ting Jiang

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won it. She topped the field to take home. This

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is a big number, one million, one hundred and fifty

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nine thousand dollars. I mean, holy crap, you turned three

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k into one point one five million, almost one point

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one six million. Holy lordy, Maurice Hawkins, I know, very

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polarizing figure. There. He had another big result fourth place,

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finished for four under thirty two k. Punat Pontri sixth

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place two hundred and fifty K. Michael Rocco, who said

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he was quitting poker to go be a farmer while

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he's back, getting another big result here one hundred ninety

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two k for him in seventh place, and then Roberto

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Romanello out of the UK eighth place for one hundred

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and forty nine thousand dollars for Jang, the winner of

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this event first bracelet. It was her birthday the day

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before she won. She told Poker News afterwards, I still

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can't believe it. I feel lucky. I'm a single mom,

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I have two kids, and I just pray for whatever

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God will give me. Well, Jang, God has given you

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one point one five million dollars and a gold bracelet.

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It did say that she was from Indianapolis, Indiana. Her

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first live cash, according to hend him Mob was back

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in twenty twenty two, so not the longest hended mob

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record here for Jang, but getting the job done. Nonetheless,

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Her previous best score was earlier this series. She got

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forty seventh in the w SP one K Mystery Millions,

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taking on twenty four thousand dollars. There event number ninety

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on the schedule fifty thousand dollars high roller, two hundred

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and two entries. Jamie Dwan took a shot and the

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British pro took it down his first bracelet in his

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first ever fifty K buying tournament. He told Boker News

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that this was his first ever fifty k. It's also

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the most that he had ever invested in a tournament.

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It was a huge shot take. He said. None of

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this feels real. It feels insane. This was just like

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a big punt at the end of a At the

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end of the series, I was having a winning summer.

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I was like, I'll punt it. I'll have a go

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at it. You know, it feels like a dream. It

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doesn't feel real. It feels so much to me. He

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also said, my mom's not very well and all I

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wanted to do this summer was come back to her

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with a bracelet. I've done it. And I've done it

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in one of the biggest tournaments of the year. It

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means so much, so much congratulations to Jamie Dwan. I

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think what he means by this punt here is that

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he was probably up a little bit, you know, like

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I would guess he was probably up like seventy k

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on the summer. And then he said, you know what,

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me being up whatever, he's up a little bit of

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money or me me going home break even or down

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a little bit, that's all the same, right, So I

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might as well just fire it into this tournament. It's

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the last big one. Let's see what I got. And

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here he is walking away winning two point two seven

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six million dollars. Daniel Rizai out of Austria finishing in

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second place. Brin Kenny got third. He adds another million

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dollar score to his very impressive resume. You had Daniel

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Negranu finishing in eighth place for two hundred and twenty

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six thousand dollars. Gran New is wrapping up a profitable

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World Series of Poker. Absolutely crushed it this year, had

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some deep runs, had a couple of final tables. Of course,

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won a bracelet in the one hundred k PLO as well,

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there was a huge rail on hand, a big crowd

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on hand for Jamie down as you would expect from

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the British lot, lots and lots of cheering, you know,

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for his run and of course when he had that

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winning moment. I love the British rails, always have, you know,

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so much of us have loved them for so long,

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kind of missed them, you know, they're a little bit

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more few and far between than they once were. But

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these guys brought it for their guy, Jamie Dwan, and

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he's taken home a bracelet and more than two point

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two million dollars. Sergio Benso won the fifteen hundred dollars

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Pick Your PLO event, the first of its kind, a

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first bracelet for the Italian. Benso eight hundred and fifty

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seven entries in this debut event. So this Pick your

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Poo events Dealer's choice style and you can choose between

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four or five card PLO single or double board, so

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a few different options there. You can choose PLO high low,

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or you can select big O. Benzo took home one

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hundred and ninety six thousand dollars for the win, for

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had Jamasi taking him second place for one hundred and

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thirty k justin Liberto. Another good result for him at

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this World Series of Poker fourth place for sixty four K,

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Max Coleman got fifth for forty six K, and then

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seventh place was John Turner for twenty five thousand dollars.

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For Benzo, his first live cash came back in two

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thousand and seven. That's according to the hend Him Up.

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He had a WSW final table in twenty twenty four

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in the six hundred dollars half Nolan and hold Him

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half Plo event, where he took fourth for seventy five K.

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This win here and the one hundred ninety six thousand

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dollars that he won for winning the Pick Your Plo

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event pushed Benzo up over one million in career live

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tournament earnings. Sterling Lopez won the three thousand dollars TORS event.

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This used to be the three thousand dollars horse event

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is now a three thousand dollars TORS event. Four hundred

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and fifty seven entries, first bracelet for Lopez. He took

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home two hundred and forty seven thousand dollars in this event.

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He topped Jesse Lonis in heads up play. Gary Bolden

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got third, Alex Livingston fourth, David Bach fifth, and Chinghai

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Jack Pan got sixth. Lopez is from Alaska, I believe Anchorage.

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He has two prior w SP final tables, including this

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very event last year when he got sixth place for

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forty seven hundred dollars. He told Poker News, definitely got

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the revenge. Heck yeah, you did, my man. He flew

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back just for this tournament, just for the weekend. He

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was on the fence, he said about coming back because

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he really didn't take that much time off, or he

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really can't take that much time off. But it was

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definitely worth it. Of course it was worth it. He

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was able to better his final table from last year,

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take on almost two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. And

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then for Lonas, do you want to point out another

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second place finished for Lonas at this World Series of Poker.

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If you guys remember way back to the beginning of

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the WSOP, Lonis got second in event number five, the

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five KPLO event. Here he is then basically wrapping up

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his World Series of Poker with the second place finish

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in the three K Tours event. Ari Hassan won the

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fifteen hundred dollars closer topping a field of three thousand,

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seven hundred and twenty four entries. Not the first bracelet

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for Ori Hassan, but the first live bracelet. Yes, he

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has an online one from winning the twenty twenty two

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to four hund dollars Nolanan Holdham Kickoff event on WSB

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dot com for fifty eight thousand dollars. Five hundred and

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eighty two thousand dollars is the score in this one

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for Hassan winning the Closer. I've never played this event,

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but I always love it. I don't know, maybe I

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just love the name, and maybe I love that. You know,

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it's got a huge field, it's a good price point.

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I love everything about this event. For Hassan, it was

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a new career best score. That is according to hended

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Mob in twenty twenty four, though he did win the

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win Summer Classic twenty two hundred dollars Mystery Bounty for

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four hundred and sixty thousand dollars. Moving over to the

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ten K six handed no Limit Hold Them Championship event,

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always a big one here, five hundred and fifty eight entries,

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huge prize pool on offer and David Peters wins it

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for one million dollars one million, one thousand, three hundred

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and ninety one dollars, his fifth WSOP bracelet. I'll talk

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about the other ones that he has. In a second

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farad in mustavolv Out of Bulgaria six hundred and sixty

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k for second, Calvin Anderson another big results for him,

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third place, and then you had justin Liberto, which we

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just talked about in another event. Here he is getting

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fifth for two hundred and fifteen thousand dollars. I mentioned

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how this was Peters's fifth bracelet his prior ones. His

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first one was back in twenty sixteen he won a

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fifteen hundred dollars nolhim at hold Him event for four

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hundred and twelve thousand dollars. Then he won two online

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events as his next two bracelets. Twenty twenty he won

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the ten K heads up Nolan Holdham Championship for three

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hundred and sixty thousand dollars, and then twenty twenty one

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he won the seven seven hundred and seventy seven dollars

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Lucky Seven's high Roller for two hundred and eighty three

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thousand dollars. Then in twenty twenty two he won the

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one hundred k high Roller for one million, one hundred

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and sixty six thousand dollars, a bit of a return

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to the winner circle, you know, both of course on

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the felt but also probably a bit with the life

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situation that Peters seems to be involved with, because he

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had that situation when Dylan Lindy outed him on social

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media in April for unpaid debts. That was that was

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a big thing that blew up. Peters did come out

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with the statement himself. He said, you know, he got

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himself into a bad way. And I'm paraphrasing here, but

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he got himself into a bad way, but he is

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going to do what he can do to make things right.

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I saw the video, the video clip of the moment

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when Peters won. Here, he went over, he hugged his

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wife Hayley, big embrace there. She was definitely in tears,

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and you know, hopefully this is getting things back in

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the right footing for David Peters. I've personally always liked

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the guy, you know, I thought he was always very nice,

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but it did seem like, you know, through some of

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the stuff that came out that he got himself into

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a bad way. But you know, what can help that

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win in a million dollars, right, and then hopefully you

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can write anything that might have been wrong in the past.

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So David Peters fifth gold bracelet ten k, six handed

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Nolan Holand Championship winner Garrett Dwyer won the five hundred

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dollars Summer Saver foury, six hundred and twenty two entries,

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first bracelet for Dwyer, two hundred and ten k in

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the bank for him. Also as long as this is

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right on end him up his first w ASoP cash

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Garrett Dwyer out of Minnesota largest live score. Of course,

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his previous best was also his only previous five figure

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score for twenty one thousand dollars that was in the

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twenty twenty five MSPT Minnesota State Poker Championship. This next

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player that we're going to talk about, you guys, right,

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remember too earlier on in the World Series of Poker,

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when I told the story about Josh Wang, about how

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he came over while I was talking with my friend

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Tristan Wade about poker and the WSP and all this

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sort of stuff. Josh Wang just kind of injected himself

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into this conversation. It turns out that Tristan buys action

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of him on the stop. They are on the spot,

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they start texting back and forth. Immediately Josh ends up

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going on to bus. Doesn't cash in that tournament, but

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a tournament that he did cash in, and holy crap

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did he the three K, six handed PLO eight hundred

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ninety two entries and Josh Wang first place, first bracelet,

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So a whole common full circle moment, just really really

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awesome stuff there. And then to make it even sweeter,

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he denies Eric Sidell the legend number eleven. Not that

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like we're trying to deny Eric Sidell a number eleven,

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but if yeah, so, if you're on the spot, you

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want to win the tournament. But just that moment, you know,

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getting his first bracelet and you have to go through

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the legendary Eric Sidell to get it. Wang won four

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hundred and seven thousand dollars. Sidel took home two hundred

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and seventy one K for his second place finish. This

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this found Stable Sick, third place, Robertmans Rocky, fourth place,

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Chris Vich, fifth place, packing at Lisa Wad and then

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sixth place Biauding. So that rounds up the final table there.

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Congratulations to josh Wang getting it done. You guys will

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remember that story with Tristan Wade from back in the day. Well,

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Josh Wang, I mean, that's just awesome. I saw the

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photo on social media and I was like, that's the guy.

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And then I was like, yeah, josh Wang, Yes, that's

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the guy. Just so cool how that happened, and how

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he kind of came into our space, our little world

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here and here he is winning a freaking bracelet in

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four uner and seven thousand dollars. Just truly awesome stuff.

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There was an eight hundred dollars deep stack, no limit hold,

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no event that drew two thousand and thirty six entries.

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Nishant Sharma took it down. He's out of India. He

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won one hundred and ninety six thousand dollars. Jason Wheeler,

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a bracelet winner who I think got a bracelet. I

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think he has just one, I believe, if I remember correctly, Yeah,

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one bracelet, which I think also came at the very

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end of the World Series of Poker, if I remember

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that tournament correctly, My good friend Gary Gates finished I

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think fourth, maybe third, I can't remember, but he was

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definitely at that final table because I was on the

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rail and it was me and Ali Deshade on the

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ralphert Gary Gates in that one. But here Jason Wheeler

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taking third place for ninety five k. But the winner

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is of course Nishant Sharma taking it down for almost

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two hundred dimes. It's his fourth highest career live tournament

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score according to the hen Him Mob. So you know,

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Sharma not someone who's inexperience with winning big money in

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poker tournaments. Over in the big old twenty five k

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horse high Roller, you had Alexander Koch Stritzen taking it

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down his first bracelet. This guy used to be a

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freaking legend. I mean, I guess he still is a legend,

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but he used to be playing all the huge stuff,

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big tournaments, huge cash games, all that sort of stuff.

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Here he is topping a field of one hundred and

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forty eight entries to win eight hundred and seventy two

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thousand dollars. Is coach Stritzen when I left there today,

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because I did go down there, and I'll tell you

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why in a second. But he was up with Ali

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Islami Niowa Kihara finished in third place, and that third

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place finish, I believe is good enough to put Kihara

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in first place for the w s AP Player of

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the Year race, So that's really cool to see. I

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know a lot has been made about Sean deeb Alex

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Fox in and how they were going back and forth.

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They were both going deep in the WSP main event.

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But let's not forget about Niaoa Kihara. He's already won

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two bracelets at the twenty twenty sixth WICIP almost got

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his third here. He's gonna have to settle for a

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third place in three hundred ninety four K, but he

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has the POI lead at least by my math. I'll

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get into that more in a future episode, but should

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have the POI lead as we close up shop in

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Vegas and we're going to be heading to the Bahamas

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later this year. Rounding out to this event, Julian Sippon

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got fourth place, Yuki Zuo aka rich Zoo got fifth,

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Ari Engel sixth, Walter Chambers seventh. I just talked about

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Sean deep, he was deep in this event. Eighth place

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for him, Matthew Biner got ninth, and oh look, Alex

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Fox him tenth place in this tournament. A total of

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twenty three players cashed in this one. I see Max Coleman,

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Josh Aie also in the money. Jeremy Osmas is in there,

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Matt Rapenthin and he won a bracelet earlier this summer.

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Brace Jockey want a bracelet earlier this summer as well,

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like all these people cashing stack tournament as you would expect.

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But Alex go Stritzen up on top of the pack

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here eight hundred and seventy two thousand dollars for him

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and his first bracelets. The second to last event that

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we're going to talk about on this episode is the

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reason that I got up out of my desk, went

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to my car, drove down there to Paris. Actually Horseshoe

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is the paraside is closed, but on the horseshoe side

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because Phil Helmeath was in line to get bracelet number eighteen.

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He was at the final table of the five K

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eight handed nolanman Holdhem tournament, but in the end it

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was Darren Rabinowitz tagging it down, winning six hundred and

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ninety five dollars. His second bracelet. He has one that

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was an online bracelet, believe he won a one k online,

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but this is his first live bracelet. Four Rabinowitz, who's

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a grinder, plays everything around Las Vegas, always out there battling.

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He denied the one and only Phil Hellmuth to get

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number eighteen. Helm Youth finishing in second place for four

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hundred and sixty four thousand dollars. You walk into the

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horseshoe room. There's a table kind of over in the corner.

474
00:26:25,559 --> 00:26:29,279
It's on the rail. They put additional stanchions around the table.

475
00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:33,240
There's probably thirty people or so when there's six people

476
00:26:33,319 --> 00:26:35,759
left in this tournament. And then it seemed like every

477
00:26:35,759 --> 00:26:39,480
time somebody busted out, the rail grew by about ten

478
00:26:39,519 --> 00:26:42,599
to twenty new people. People got the word that, Okay,

479
00:26:42,599 --> 00:26:44,960
Hellmuth is going deeper. He's going deeper. He's going deeper.

480
00:26:45,240 --> 00:26:47,480
You had Nick Papo. He goes out in fifth place.

481
00:26:47,880 --> 00:26:50,440
Ral grows a little bit more. Joshua Stewart, he goes

482
00:26:50,440 --> 00:26:52,599
out in fourth place. Ral seems to get a little

483
00:26:52,599 --> 00:26:55,960
bit bigger. Nicholas Palma, him and Phil Helmuth have kind

484
00:26:55,960 --> 00:26:57,839
of had a little bit of an exchange of words.

485
00:26:58,160 --> 00:27:02,119
He's in three handed plays Palma, it's Hellmuth, it's Rebinowitz.

486
00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:04,640
People are yelling and screaming on social media. People are

487
00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:06,920
texting me, texting Kevin Math all this story stuff, turn

488
00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:09,079
the stream on. What the heck like? Blah blah blah blah,

489
00:27:09,279 --> 00:27:12,000
can't tell the stream on. When all the streaming's gone,

490
00:27:12,519 --> 00:27:15,519
they left the building. Palma ends up going out in third,

491
00:27:15,759 --> 00:27:17,960
three hundred and twenty six K score for him. Pretty

492
00:27:17,960 --> 00:27:21,400
good summer overall for Palma. He did chop up the

493
00:27:21,839 --> 00:27:24,880
bet MGM Poker Championship I believe it's called over at

494
00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:27,440
Aria earlier this summer for over four hundred K. Here

495
00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:29,240
he takes home three hundred and twenty six K, So

496
00:27:29,599 --> 00:27:31,799
really good summer for him, well over seven hundred K

497
00:27:32,240 --> 00:27:33,880
just from those two cashes alone. And then he had

498
00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:36,240
a handful of other cases. But then we get Phil

499
00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:40,519
Helmuth versus Aaron Rabinowitz. Rebinowitz starts with the chip lead.

500
00:27:40,799 --> 00:27:45,160
Helmuth battles back, takes the chip lead himself, then Rebinowitz

501
00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:49,559
battles back. They go on this break. They're just about even.

502
00:27:49,640 --> 00:27:51,720
I think there was forty four million chips in play.

503
00:27:51,759 --> 00:27:54,279
It was twenty two million to twenty two million, and

504
00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:58,039
the rail is one hundred and fifty people deep, like

505
00:27:58,079 --> 00:28:03,000
there's obviously a ton of members. There are a bunch

506
00:28:03,039 --> 00:28:05,519
of poker players that were just kind of coming over me, like, okay,

507
00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:07,559
you know, Helmut is there. There's of course a bunch

508
00:28:07,599 --> 00:28:09,799
of fans people that just want to see Helmet there.

509
00:28:10,359 --> 00:28:12,880
Helmy's wife was there, his two kids were there. It

510
00:28:13,039 --> 00:28:17,240
was pretty much one hundred and forty seven people were

511
00:28:17,319 --> 00:28:20,680
rooting for Helmut, including Martin Cabrel, who was extremely vocal

512
00:28:20,720 --> 00:28:23,880
and outgoing. I think there were four people, but three

513
00:28:23,880 --> 00:28:28,000
of them were vocal, four Darren Rabinoitz. The vocal ones

514
00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:33,720
were Zachary Donovan, Mike Holtz, and Eric Blair, and then

515
00:28:33,759 --> 00:28:36,839
I think An Koush Mondavia was also on his side.

516
00:28:37,359 --> 00:28:41,680
But everyone else was just cheering for Phil Hellmuth. They

517
00:28:41,680 --> 00:28:43,680
wanted to see that history. They wanted to see number

518
00:28:43,759 --> 00:28:47,160
eighteen one. They wanted to see the most decorated WSBY

519
00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:50,680
player of all time do it again. But Darren Rebinowitz,

520
00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:53,880
which had to be a sick, sick moment. You're playing

521
00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:56,759
heads up. The difference between first and second place six

522
00:28:56,920 --> 00:28:59,640
ninety five for first, four sixty four for second, So

523
00:28:59,680 --> 00:29:03,400
that's two hundred and thirty one thousand dollars a boatload

524
00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:06,599
of money between first and second. Of course, you have

525
00:29:06,680 --> 00:29:10,599
the bracelet on the line too. You're surrounded by one

526
00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:13,480
hundred and fifty people, of which ninety nine percent of

527
00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:17,599
them are rooting vocally for phil Helm Youth and not

528
00:29:17,799 --> 00:29:20,240
wanting to see you win in pull pots. But you

529
00:29:20,319 --> 00:29:23,720
got to just focus, lock in, play your game, not

530
00:29:23,799 --> 00:29:26,400
get rattled, and get the job done. And it I

531
00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:28,759
don't I mean, maybe it happened a little bit, but

532
00:29:28,880 --> 00:29:32,200
it felt like as it went on, like the rail

533
00:29:32,359 --> 00:29:35,079
and the crowd was getting closer and closer to the table,

534
00:29:35,119 --> 00:29:37,680
maybe not by a lot, but maybe by like half

535
00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:40,599
a foot every half hour or so. I mean, it

536
00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:42,759
was just it was madness down there. The tournament staff

537
00:29:42,839 --> 00:29:45,279
kept having to get on the microphone telling people to

538
00:29:45,279 --> 00:29:47,359
get off chairs because people were standing on chairs when

539
00:29:47,359 --> 00:29:49,680
they were like four deep on the rail trying to

540
00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:51,400
get a vantage point, but no one could see. The

541
00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:53,440
tournament staffs like we're gonna have to kick you guys

542
00:29:53,440 --> 00:29:55,599
out of here like this this whole thing like it was,

543
00:29:56,039 --> 00:29:57,920
it was madness. There was there was a couple of

544
00:29:57,960 --> 00:29:59,960
media members that show up. They're trying to do video,

545
00:30:00,079 --> 00:30:01,559
which you can't do video, and you can only do

546
00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:03,440
video if you have your media pass. But they're saying

547
00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:05,319
that they lost their media badge. They didn't bring it

548
00:30:05,359 --> 00:30:06,920
back home. They were planning to go to the airport,

549
00:30:06,920 --> 00:30:08,839
but then this happened, so they got to get down

550
00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:10,440
there and they got to obviously see if phil Hemmedy

551
00:30:10,440 --> 00:30:13,200
can get it done. So it was craziness in the

552
00:30:13,279 --> 00:30:15,599
in the back corner of the of the horseshoe ball

553
00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:19,880
room or whatever it's called. Ultimately, phil Helmuth calls it

554
00:30:19,920 --> 00:30:23,920
off bad on the final hand, long tank for Helmuth.

555
00:30:24,079 --> 00:30:27,920
On the final hands, they see a flop it comes

556
00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:31,799
nine to eight duce. I don't really know how they

557
00:30:31,799 --> 00:30:34,519
were at this stage. I think the blinds were five

558
00:30:34,559 --> 00:30:37,440
hundred thousand and a million, and so the average stack

559
00:30:37,559 --> 00:30:40,240
is twenty two big blinds. But Helmuth was a short

560
00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:44,359
stack here. He had like fifteen or sixteen big blinds.

561
00:30:44,359 --> 00:30:47,839
To start the hand for Benneretz raises the button, Helmuth

562
00:30:47,880 --> 00:30:50,319
has a stuce off. I don't know how. You just

563
00:30:50,319 --> 00:30:52,960
don't put the money in, like you just see a flop.

564
00:30:53,759 --> 00:30:56,200
He sees a flop that comes nine a duce, two clubs.

565
00:30:57,240 --> 00:30:59,720
Helmuth check calls three and a half million, turns a

566
00:30:59,759 --> 00:31:02,759
four or help me checks again. Rebinowitz puts him in

567
00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:07,839
for ten million, and Helm went deep into the tank,

568
00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:10,839
like he starts talking to himself. He's I think he

569
00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:13,039
was kind of muttering some things that says like it

570
00:31:13,079 --> 00:31:15,599
feels like you're on a draw over there. There was

571
00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:17,480
two clubs in the flop, so yes, the draw could

572
00:31:17,519 --> 00:31:20,039
be present. At one point, he like stands up in

573
00:31:20,079 --> 00:31:23,480
his chair. He's counting down his chips. He's staring at Rebinoitz.

574
00:31:23,519 --> 00:31:25,799
He sits back down. Eventually, like this goes on for

575
00:31:25,880 --> 00:31:28,480
a couple of minutes. Eventually he calls it off with

576
00:31:28,519 --> 00:31:31,680
ace deuce. Bottom pair. Rebinoitz has nine to seven for

577
00:31:31,759 --> 00:31:35,519
top fair top pair rivers just a seven, and that's that.

578
00:31:35,640 --> 00:31:39,039
Rebinowitz wins. And it's like immediately you can obviously tell

579
00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:43,240
Helmet is, you know, upset, frustrated in the moment, like

580
00:31:43,279 --> 00:31:45,720
he just lost. He got so close again to number eighteen,

581
00:31:46,319 --> 00:31:48,480
and it's it's the last event of the summer. He

582
00:31:48,559 --> 00:31:51,039
can't register anything else, everything else is closed, and he's

583
00:31:51,079 --> 00:31:53,119
just like, you know, he's got his family there and

584
00:31:53,119 --> 00:31:55,759
he's kind of walks off, and it's it's kind of

585
00:31:55,799 --> 00:31:58,759
like wow, like I was so close and then I

586
00:31:58,799 --> 00:32:00,839
did that and then for Rebind's on the other side.

587
00:32:00,839 --> 00:32:02,839
I mean, yes, there weren't a lot of people there

588
00:32:02,839 --> 00:32:05,599
in supportive we're beinoits, but the ones that were there,

589
00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:07,920
they were quick to you know, swarm him and even

590
00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:11,079
him he kind of did a whole like kind of

591
00:32:11,119 --> 00:32:13,200
like a little pacing back and forth. It seemed like

592
00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:17,119
like almost maybe like pinching himself that it was real.

593
00:32:17,279 --> 00:32:19,759
You know, Rebinowitz has done well for himself. He's a

594
00:32:19,839 --> 00:32:21,359
very tough player on the felt I've played with them

595
00:32:21,359 --> 00:32:25,599
a lot, extremely solid. He's won several tournaments. We talked

596
00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:29,359
about the online bracelet that he won previously, but this

597
00:32:29,440 --> 00:32:32,599
is like the crowning achievement of his career. I would say,

598
00:32:33,319 --> 00:32:35,559
you know, hopefully I'm not stepping out by saying that,

599
00:32:35,599 --> 00:32:38,039
but you know, almost seven hundred K in a five

600
00:32:38,119 --> 00:32:40,359
K event like this at the World Series Live Tournament,

601
00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:42,519
live bracelet, all that sort of stuff, and then on

602
00:32:42,599 --> 00:32:45,640
top of it, you go through Phil Hellmuth in the end,

603
00:32:45,759 --> 00:32:49,519
like that's just cool stuff. So Rebinowitz gets it done

604
00:32:49,680 --> 00:32:53,200
there to take it down, denying Phil Hellmath number eighteen,

605
00:32:53,279 --> 00:32:56,319
He's gonna have to wait till at least Paradise unless

606
00:32:56,319 --> 00:32:59,319
he plans on playing online at some point later on

607
00:32:59,359 --> 00:33:03,640
this year, but we'll obviously likely see Helmeth down at Paradise,

608
00:33:03,680 --> 00:33:06,160
and then we'll see if the quest for number eighteen

609
00:33:06,680 --> 00:33:10,000
gets as lively an electric as this one was, because

610
00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:12,799
he got as far as they could go without ultimately

611
00:33:12,839 --> 00:33:16,279
winning the title. There is one final event. It is

612
00:33:16,319 --> 00:33:20,079
the one K Super Turbo No Limit Hold Them. It

613
00:33:20,119 --> 00:33:23,240
had one thousand, six hundred and ninety nine entries. There

614
00:33:23,279 --> 00:33:26,160
are still five players left. At the time of recording,

615
00:33:26,200 --> 00:33:29,640
It's twelve thirty six am right now. I'm not sticking around,

616
00:33:29,680 --> 00:33:32,319
so I'm going to cover this one on a future pod.

617
00:33:32,759 --> 00:33:34,799
I'll just quickly tell you who's left. How about that

618
00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:37,759
Dmitri Ivanovitch looks to be the chip leader. Ryot Nikai

619
00:33:38,160 --> 00:33:43,640
is second, Shi Wong, Maxwell, Franklin, Cynthia van Sebi. Those

620
00:33:43,640 --> 00:33:46,759
are the final five players in this tournament. The final

621
00:33:46,799 --> 00:33:50,039
event event number one hundred on the schedule at the

622
00:33:50,039 --> 00:33:53,920
twenty twenty six WSOP two hundred and sixteen thousand dollars

623
00:33:54,119 --> 00:33:58,680
up top. The final five are guaranteed fifty six thousand dollars.

624
00:33:58,799 --> 00:34:01,319
But that's it. That's the that's gonna do it for me,

625
00:34:01,440 --> 00:34:05,359
That's gonna do it for ninety nine point nine percent

626
00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:07,680
of the twenty twenty six World Series of Poker. We're

627
00:34:07,680 --> 00:34:10,239
gonna have some wrap up pods, as I mentioned leading

628
00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:12,440
up to the final table. Of course, we'll have a

629
00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:15,079
big wrap up pod for the final table, probably be

630
00:34:15,079 --> 00:34:17,800
bringing you one every single night August third, August fourth,

631
00:34:17,840 --> 00:34:20,559
and then that final one on August fifth. Don't forget

632
00:34:21,119 --> 00:34:24,599
WSP main event is coming up. Those are the three days.

633
00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:27,239
It will be on ESPN and ESPN two, so make

634
00:34:27,280 --> 00:34:29,280
sure you check it out. The more that we can

635
00:34:29,320 --> 00:34:32,639
show these big platforms that we can bring the viewership,

636
00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:35,440
the better it's ultimately gonna be for poker. So that's

637
00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:37,400
where I will be. I will be glued to the

638
00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:40,840
coverage as should you. It's been a pleasure talking about

639
00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:42,840
all these results as always. I know this isn't the

640
00:34:42,880 --> 00:34:45,320
last pod, as I've mentioned, but it kind of feels

641
00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:47,360
like it's a little bit of an end here, you know,

642
00:34:47,480 --> 00:34:51,480
walking out of the horseshoe which they locked the gate,

643
00:34:51,519 --> 00:34:53,400
I had to go all the way back around through

644
00:34:53,440 --> 00:34:56,559
the Paris backside like a whole thing. The rooms are

645
00:34:56,760 --> 00:35:00,360
half empty, tables are on the floor, their chairs are gone,

646
00:35:00,719 --> 00:35:03,519
you know, the tablets and the dealer racks in the

647
00:35:03,519 --> 00:35:05,440
center of the table. Those are all removed. Like it's

648
00:35:05,559 --> 00:35:08,719
just like, man, the whole thing's over. It's coming to

649
00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:10,280
an end. And I know we'll be back in a

650
00:35:10,320 --> 00:35:12,079
couple of weeks in August. I know we will. I

651
00:35:12,079 --> 00:35:14,480
know they're gonna set the stage up on the horseshoe

652
00:35:14,480 --> 00:35:17,000
side in the event center. I get it. But it

653
00:35:17,079 --> 00:35:19,159
still is pretty sad as always walking out of that

654
00:35:19,199 --> 00:35:21,840
place knowing that it's kind of done. You know, I

655
00:35:21,920 --> 00:35:23,719
kind of had a couple a little bit of withdrawals

656
00:35:23,760 --> 00:35:26,519
here for the past let's say, thirty six hours. It

657
00:35:26,599 --> 00:35:28,239
was good to get back down there and you can

658
00:35:28,239 --> 00:35:30,880
get back into the sweat, you know, watching helpt Go

659
00:35:30,920 --> 00:35:34,199
for number eighteen, watching Darren Rabinwitz top him in the end.

660
00:35:34,239 --> 00:35:36,480
But yeah, it feels like it's coming to an end,

661
00:35:36,480 --> 00:35:38,320
and that sucks because the World Series of Poke is the best.

662
00:35:38,320 --> 00:35:41,719
So anyway, that's it for me, Donnie Peters, for producer

663
00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:43,960
Rich I guess I'll talk to you guys next time.

664
00:35:44,239 --> 00:36:00,440
The Price h