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