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

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Poker Go Podcast. My name is Donnie Peters. It is

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good to be back. It is Saturday, June twentieth, twelve

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thirty eight am. I am still at the World Series

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of Poker. I am at Paris. I'm trying to wait

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on this Sean Deeb versus Joey Coodin heads up match

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in the three K nine game Mix aka the Mini PPC.

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Really wish they would change that name, Jeff Platt, make

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it happen, buddy, change the name. You got the Mini

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Mystery Millions, you got the Mini main Event. We the

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Mini PPC. Like, let's go trying to wait this out.

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The plan was that if this ends, I'm gonna interview

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Sean Deeb if he wins and gets his ninth bracelet,

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and then work that into the pod and talk about it.

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Because it's about to be twelve forty am. I think

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I'm just gonna bang out this pod and then leave

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whatever happens in that tournament until the next episode. It

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has been a couple of days since I've been on

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this microphone. I've been feeling under the weather. Haven't been

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able to pod at nighttime, trying to get my rest

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so I can somehow survive the summer. It's just that

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every time I get into this place for the World

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Series of Poker, I'm just around all these animals that

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bring all these different types of viruses and diseases and

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germs and bacteria from god knows where. It just eats

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my body alive, so trying to survive through it all.

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So that's why I haven't been doing the show for

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the past couple of days. But here we are tonight,

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and we have a wide variety of winners to talk

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about one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight people,

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eight players, one gold bracelets that we're going to get

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caught up on. But first I do need to remind

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straight into it here. First up, we got Alex Foxen.

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That's right. We talked about Kristen Foxen winning. Now we

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got Alex Foxen winning. He won the ten K Super

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Turbo Bounty, a single day event. Fox And top d

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field of four hundred forty six entries to win almost

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six hundred thousand dollars. Don't know what he won in bounties.

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Believe it was seven K to the prize bowl three

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K per bounty. I'm assuming well, I mean he got

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at least one bounty for winning the tournament. I'm assuming

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it was many more with the way that fox And plays,

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so probably well over the six hundred thousand dollars mark

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going to him fourth WSOP bracelets might be surprising to

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hear that it is only his fourth with how successful

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Alex Foxen is, But you know, it's his fourth right now,

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and I'm assuming he's gonna get many, many more throughout

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his career. He beat Yikshi Tang in heads up play,

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Tang taking home almost four hundred thousand dollars for his

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finish there. Martin Zemani made the final table, Harvey Castro

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made the final table. Jamie Dwan made the final table

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as well. This fourth bracelet for fox And comes after

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he won his first bracelet was in twenty twenty two.

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He won the two hundred and fifty K Super High

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Roller for more than four point five million dollars. Then

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he won an online bracelet. He won the five hundred

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dollars pot limit Omaham Mystery Bounty six Max Tournament only

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twenty K. What was the prize there? Of course, it's

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a mystery bounty format, so plenty of money I'm sure

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went into the Mystery Bounty prize pool for that one.

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And then twenty twenty four at WSP Paradise, Foxen won

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one hundred thousand dollars. Triton Nolan had hold him a

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main event that was a bracelet event as part of

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the partnership between Triton and the World Series of Poker

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down in Paradise in the Bahamas three point eighty five

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million for the score there for Fox, and after the win,

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he told Poker News, I think your career is really

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about repeated performance and an entire body of work rather

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than one event proving something. This doesn't feel like to

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me as much the one that would do that, but

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it's a piece of the body of work. So I'm

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proud of it that that statement there from Fox, and

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you know, that echo a lot of the stuff that

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I've heard him say over the years, that he's told

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me over the years, and some of our interviews that

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we've done when he's won PGT events, you know, kind

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of that same sort of line, like it's just about

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building that resume, stacking that trophy case, getting those accolades

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time and time again, because at the end of it all,

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you know, it's about what you've done over the course

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of your career, not just one month, one tournament, one year,

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whatever it may be. So to me, that's that's the

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bulk of the story here. A lot of poker discussion

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often gets reduced to you know, we count bracelets, different titles,

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WPT titles, triton titles, whatever it may be. Individual results,

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you know. But Foxton's point here is just trying to

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drive home that that greatness isn't concise. You know, it

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is generally, or it should generally be viewed as expansive.

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You know, what did you do over your entire body

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of work? It's the accumulation of those results over years

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and years and years. You know. The Poker Hall of

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Fame always had this thing, did the players stand the

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test of time? You know? And that's kind of what

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Foxin is getting at here. You know, we've seen hot

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streaks for let's say, a full summer at the World

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Series of Poker. We've seen hot streaks for an entire year,

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two years, three years, four years, whatever it may be.

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But those when you when you pull back and you

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look at the grand scheme of things go, those can

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be just blips on the radar right now. They could

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be incredibly impressive, don't get me wrong, you know, but

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how good was this person from kind of when they

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started playing poker to when they finished? You know, have

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they done it for a long period of time? And

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they did? They do it at the at the top,

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you know, against the best players and constantly winning. Foxing,

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to me, has done that and it's it's pretty crazy

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to think that he's only thirty five years old. I

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don't know. I always thought in my mind he was

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a little bit closer to forty, you know, not Hall

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of Fame eligible yet, but you know, get in thirty eight,

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thirty nine. But the fact that he's only thirty five,

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I mean, that's just absolutely wild. He just continues to

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do it over and over and over again. This is

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his fourth bracelet. He's the reigning PGT Player of the Year.

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This was a PhD qualifying event, be it a ten

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thousand dollars buying ws AP event, and he's right back

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into the running now. Believe this puts him in the

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top three. I think he's sitting second in the race

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right now from you know, so he could go back

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to back for being a PGT Player of the Year.

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That's pretty crazy. Some of the other big results, you know,

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these aren't all of his results that he's had during

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the summer here at the World Series of Poker, but

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he got sixth in the one hundred k high roller

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and he got seventh in the twenty five k p

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Loo high Rollers, So some two really big scores there.

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In addition to this almost six hundred thousand dollars win

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for fox Him. You know when I say Ford Basby bracelets,

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when I say PGT Player of the Year, When I

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say bracelet in the ten K Super Turbo Bounty, two

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other final tables, in the o K high Roller, and

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in the twenty five K POO high Roller, that for

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a lot of players, that's a successful career. Like if

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that happened to me, I'd be like, yes, my poker

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career was a success. I crushed it. I did a

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lot of really great things. I mean, But for Alex Foxen,

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that's just June. Okay, that's all He's done in June

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and we're only twenty days through. It's absolutely wild. He's

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just going to continue to build this resume over and

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over and over again, you know, I mean, as long

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as he continues to play, right. I mean, he could

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walk away from the game, I'm sure. But to me,

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you know, fox And seems like a lifer. He's going

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to be in this one until the bitter end. You know.

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He also he wins it no limit. He wins in

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the high rollers, he wins in PLO. He's starting to

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dabble in mixed games. Now that's really specifically no limit

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Deuce to seven, which is kind of a hybrid mixed game. Yes,

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it's still big bed, but it's also a mixed game

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format kind of. You know, he wins online, obviously, he

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wins live. You know, he keeps just growing this sample size.

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I would love to see if he starts really dabbling

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into the mix game stuff, you know, because just with

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the volume that's here at the World Series of Poker,

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we could really see him do some damage and in

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terms of the bracelet count, right. So yeah, it's just

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really cool to see someone have this continued success like this.

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I know Alex really really wants it. He's highly competitive,

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and he just added another great little accolade here to

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his ever growing career. We also can't forget, you know,

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I mentioned it quickly off the top, but his wife,

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Kristen Foxen a week ago she won the twenty five

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k high Roller for one point eight million. That was

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her sixth gold brace that She's got two more than

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Alex does right now. So between the two of them,

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I mean, what a freaking summer it's been for the

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Fox's and we still have half the WSOP still to go.

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This is easily I mean it's without question, husband wife combo.

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This is the most successful one we've ever had and

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likely we'll ever have in poker. I mean, you can

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couples whatever it is. I mean, these two are the

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absolute best of the best. It really is just superb stuff.

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Another player who is highly talented has a ton of

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stuff on his resume as well, just won his sixth

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WSOP bracelet. That is Calvin Anderson. He won the ten

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k Raz Championship for three hundred and fifty seven thousand dollars,

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top in a field of one hundred and fifty five

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entries in this championship event. Here at the World Series

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of Poker for Anderson, his second time winning the ten

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k Raz Championship. This time around he topped Eric Rodterwig

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in heads up play. Todd Dakaki got third place, Tobias

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Lechness got fourth. Tobias I believe had a final table

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run in the Super High Roll of Mixed Games tournament.

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If you guys here yelling, that's the that's the Sean

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Deep versus Joey Coudin final table. That's behind the wall.

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Here also at this final table in the ten k

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Reces Championship, Max Cruse you've Al Bronstein, Philip Sternheimer, and

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Shane Littlefield. So six gold racelets. Now, for Calvin Anderson,

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I mentioned that he previously won the ten K Rece Championship.

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Before that was back in two thousand and eighteen. I

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believe it was twenty fourteen when he won his first

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as ap goal bracelet and the fifteen hundred dollars stud

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High Low. Then he won that ten K res Championship

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in twenty eighteen. In twenty twenty three, he won two bracelets.

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One was online, it came in the one K PLO

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six Max. He won the or sorry, they were both online,

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and then the second online one was in the fifty

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three hundred dollars Super High Roller six Max about fifty

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thousand dollars and then one hundred and forty one thousand

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dollars there respectively. For those two wins, twenty twenty four,

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Anderson won the ten K eight Game Mix Championships. So

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quite the well rounded bracelet grouping here for Calvary and Anderson.

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You know, and I think there's a legitimate argument that

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he's one of the most overlooked elite players that we

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have in poker. You know, six bracelets at the end

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of the day is six bracelets. And then you know

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within those bracelets two ten k Raids Championships, the eight

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Game Mixed Championship. I mean, those are super super tough bracelets.

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This fifty three hundred dollars Super high Roller six Max

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that was played online that I'm sure was not easy

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at all. I mean you also have to include in

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twenty twenty three at the WPT World Championship. At the win,

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he won the WPT Prime Championship for almost one point

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four million dollars. I don't have no idea how many

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players were in that field, but it's probably around ten

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thousand or so. Who knows. He's got several other ws

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AP final tables. I know, ultimately we don't always count

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that are Maybe it's not that we don't count it,

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we don't think about it all the time. But he's

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had plenty of close runs to other WSP bracelets. You know,

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he just to me, he's somebody who kind of rarely

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gets discussed alongside some of the bigger names in the game,

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and I think that's probably because he's not in the

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spotlight as often. He doesn't play every single major tour stop.

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I mean just in our little ecosystem that we deal with.

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You know, he's not grinding every single PGT event. He

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puts in a good amount of volume at the World

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Series of Poker, but I don't think he's here playing

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every single day, every single tournament like let's say in

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Alex Faxon or a Sean Deep might He's just not

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in that conversation. But it's not that he shouldn't be,

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because cal is extremely good and every time he's in

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the field, he's awesome. And I think, actually right now

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as I'm recording this, I think he's still in the

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ten k Horse Championship and they're down to two tables.

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He was in about twenty minutes ago, so I think

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he's still in. So so you know he's he's doing

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it again. I mean, this guy is absolutely freaking incredible.

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This tournament, this ten k Rats Championship that he just won.

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I mean, he went as wire to wire as you

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can come. He was the chip leader after day one,

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he was the chip leader after day two, and then

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he went on to win the event on day three.

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Now I'm sure at some point, you know, somebody might

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have overtook him and somebody else had the chip leader

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when he did, and I know for sure that happened,

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or at least I'm ninety eight percent sure that it

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happened at the final table. So it's not exactly wire

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to wire. But when when you finish day one is

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the chip leader, then day two is the chip leader,

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and then you go on to win the tournament and

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seal the deal like that is wire to wire in poker.

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I mean, that is absolutely freaking incredible. So what that

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tells me is he controlled the tournament. He was in

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the driver's seat from start to finish. Then you have

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that historical significance of it all, winning the ten k

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Ras Championship for a second time. I think now he's

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now the most decorated and winningest RAS player in WSP history.

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At least I saw that's what Poker News wrote. I

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would believe their stats people that that's what they said.

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So when it comes to Raz, specialists Calvin anders and

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is right there, it's got to be the best, right

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he just has to be. Now, Raz is off in

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the game. Everyone loves to joke about, everyone loves to dismiss,

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everyone loves to complain about, you know, all that sort

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of stuff. But I think Anderson has really embraced that,

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and he talked about that a little bit in the

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winter interview that he did with Poker News. I won't

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get too much into it, you know, I would encourage

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you guys to go to Poker News, find the event,

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and find what cal had to say after he won.

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You know, but basically what he was saying is like,

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you know, yeah, sure, people just just keep thinking that

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it's all luck, you know, but you know that's that's

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not what it is in this game. The point being

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with all of this is that Calvin Anderson's got six bracelets.

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He's won them in multiple games, multiple variants. He's got

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that WPT Prime Championship, He's got several other WSP final tables.

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He is a complete tournament player. He's quietly assembled because

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he's not the biggest, loudest person in the room. He's

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quietly assembled one of the best resumes in the game.

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You know. So I think we need to start putting

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a little bit more more respect on Calvin Anderson's name

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out there. Marco Johnson won the twenty five hundred dollars

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freeze out No Limit hold 'em tournament. For this one,

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I played in this one. It did not go well.

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I you start with thirty five kN chips felt like

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a kind of a random number, I guess just quickly

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before I get into Marco this. Let me let me

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get my little spiel out of the way with how

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I did. I built to about one hundred and ten

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hundred and fifteen thousand pretty smoothly. Then I ran a

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big bluff, bluffed off about seventy five percent of my chips.

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Ultimately couldn't really recover from that. I mean I did

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kind of grind back a little bit, and then three

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bed jammed over a race from Bin Wang from the

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small blind. The gentleman in the big blind woke up

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with Ace King. I had Ace Queen, and that was

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all she wrote. But felt really really good with everything

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from that tournament. Feel like I'm playing really really well

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right now in all summer. So yeah, I'm really happy

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with things. But let's get to the real story here,

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because the real story is not me and my stupid

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bust out. The real story is Marco freaking Johnson, Crazy Marco,

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as he often goes by, or at least he used

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to go by. He topped a field of fifteen hundred

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and sixty one entries to win more than five one

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hundred thousand dollars his third career bracelet. Johnson, I think

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it was ten It's been ten years since he won't

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won a bracelet. He topped Chino Reim in heads up

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play with Chino Rehim taking home three hundred and forty

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two thousand dollars. Kenzo Ishida third place for oz Jaka.

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I know many of you know that name. Fourth place,

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Elliott Smith. I feel like I haven't seen his name

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making some WSFP noise recently. He took seventh place in

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this one now for Marco. You know, he's one of

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the most well respected players in poker. You know some

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some bracelet winners that we get every single summer, you know,

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also in Europe, also in Paradise, wherever it may be.

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You know, they're famous with the fans. So we're talking

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in Alex Foxon who we just talked about. We're talking

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a Daniel mcgrand now, a Phil Helmuth, A Shawn d.

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Nick Shulman, who you know we talked about on a

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few episodes ago because he won another gold bracelet. You know,

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those those players, those names when they were embracelets, it's

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like bang, These are famous with the poker fans out

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there like the general poker audience. Other players are famous,

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quote unquote famous with players within the community. They are

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as well respected as they come. They you know, they

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get all the admiration from their peers. And that is

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Marco Johnson. You know, that is who he is. I

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think the most telling thing about his victory is not

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the bracelet himself or the bracelet itself, you know, it's

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it's kind of like who shows up on your rail

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when you're deep like that, who's in the winner photo?

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And and here, you know, I was there towards the

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tail end of the night. I did leave before Marcro won,

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But you saw the same people that I saw on

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the rail in the winner photo. And that was you

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got Scott sever you got friend of the Pod David

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od b Baker, you got Ray Henson, Phil Sternheim or

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Craig Chate, Mark Gregorich. They're all there. They're in the

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WINNI photo. They're celebrating. You know, I think that's that's

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a little snapshot of how respected Johnson is within poker's

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inner circle. And then and then you start seeing the

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comments that are coming out on social media. You know,

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you got Tony Dunst out there who's saying the ogs, No,

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Marco is the man you got Chris Vich giving him

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plenty of flowers, saying like, you know, I respect the

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hell out of the guy, love the guy. He's great.

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Definitely never want to see him at my table, you know,

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he's that type of player. You don't want him at

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your table, even even as much as you like him.

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You don't want Mark at your table because he's that good.

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You had Patrick Leonard Pads posting about how nice he is,

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how great of a player is also how awesome of

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a dad and a family man he is. You know,

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so I think generally you really only hear great things

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about about Marco, you know, really whoever you talk to.

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I've been a little bit cordial with him over the years.

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Super nice guy, you don't He's someone who, maybe even

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less so than Calvin Anderson, who he just talked about,

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who you don't hear about as often because outside of

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the summer, like he's just not really around that much.

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You know, he might pop in here and there, but

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he's basically being a family guy and being a dad

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and doing that sort of stuff. The other thing that

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I really like about Marco is, and I think I

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talked with him maybe last year of the year before

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a little bit about this next stuff that I'm about

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to say, but it's basically about the evolution of him

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and his career as it pertains the poker. You know,

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for years he was viewed primarily as a mixed game player,

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a mixed game crusher. But after COVID, you know, he

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made a conscious effort to modernize and improve his no

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limit game. You know, him and I talked specifically about

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this sort of thing, and specifically about a course that

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I've taken and I've talked about before. Is that Patrick

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Leonard's course pads his course on run at once, Pads

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on Poker or pads poker. I forget exactly what it's called,

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but you know how that course is, you know, it's

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it's a few years old now, yes, but I think

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it very much still holds up. And I think Marco,

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you know, would agree. Five years later, since he really

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started putting more time and effort into his nolam At

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hold him game. It pays off with a six score

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here more than half a million dollars and a Nolanman

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hold him bracelet. So you know, I think That's kind

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of a great lesson here for poker players, is that

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the game, or all the games, you know, it's it's

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always going to evolve. Poker is always going to evolve,

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and if you want to stay up with the times,

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you need to evolve with it. If you want to

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be one of the best, you need to evolve with it.

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You know, you constantly need to be working, working, working

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at it. After the fact, when he spoke with Poker News,

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you know, Johnson's his comments reflected that you know that

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this wasn't just another bracelet, is kind of the sense

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that you got from his words. It was somewhat of

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a validation that the work he's put into being better

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at this specific variant no limit hold him where he

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was once thought of as like only a mixed game

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guy like that actually mattered. You know, here's what he

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said exactly. I'll just read the quote he said. He

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told Poker News. It means a lot. I started playing

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no limit twenty twenty five years ago. I've been playing

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for a living, and I stopped playing no limit for

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a while then after COVID, So the last five years

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i've been I've played a lot of No limit and

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I really enjoy it. It actually might be one of

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my favorite games. So it feels really good to win

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a bracelet in a no limit event. So shout out

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to Marco for putting the time in, putting the effort in,

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and having that all come to fruition to the tune

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of more than five hundred thousand dollars and his third

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gold bracelet. I also want to do touch on here

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second place, Chino Reim, you know, another near gold bracelet

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for Chino rem Every time Gino Ream gets deep in

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ABSIP event, the conversation resurfaces, and it's going to resurf

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in right here with me on the Poker Go podcast.

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The guy's got three WPG titles. He's a PCA main

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event champion, a massive shout out, massive tournament resume. Of course,

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he made the WSIP main Event final table, you know,

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many years ago. I can't even remember what you that

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was two thousand and eight or two thousand and nine

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or whatever the heck it was. You know, he's got

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god knows how many PGT titles he's won in the studio.

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He's the he was. He's a PGT Plo Series champion.

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He won the PGT Mixed Game Series twice, you know,

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yet still no bracelet. He's got five runner up finishes

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in WSIP events, and I think he has you know,

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plenty of other final tables as well for China Rem.

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But still it's like the longer it goes, the more

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fascinating this story becomes with Chino Rem, you know, especially

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when you put it into the whole career arc that

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he's had, where now it's kind of the whole comeback

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part of the story for Chino Reem, you know, righting

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those wrongs, being a better person. He's a dad now,

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et cetera, all that sort of stuff, and it feels

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like the last thing to achieve for him is a

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gold bracelet, and once again he's one spot short. Now,

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Johnson did have a big lead coming into heads up play,

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so it would have been a lot for Chino to overcome,

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but nevertheless, still another runner up finish. Here at the

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World Series of Poker for Chino Rem, Finland's Elis Parsonen

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won the twenty five k PLO high Roller. He top

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day field of four hundred and fifty one entries to

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win more than two point one million dollars. It's the

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second bracelet for parsonen, I'm gonna have to take a

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pause here, guys. Okay, I'll explain it in a second's

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family turn. Okay, I'm back. I mean sorry, Like it's

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it's past one o'clock in the morning. My wife is

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texting me asking me if I'm home. I'm telling her

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I'm not home. She's like, well, someone's here. I know

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we have somebody staying with us. So I'm like, well,

471
00:25:35,480 --> 00:25:40,000
it's probably that person. Like why don't like, I mean,

472
00:25:40,039 --> 00:25:42,079
I feel bad because I'm here and I can't, Like

473
00:25:42,119 --> 00:25:44,599
I can't go look right, you know, and I want

474
00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:46,519
to go. Look. I I'm you know, I want to

475
00:25:46,559 --> 00:25:48,279
protect the family if I have to. But like she's

476
00:25:48,319 --> 00:25:50,920
also it's like, you have to go look like I can't.

477
00:25:50,960 --> 00:25:52,839
I can't look. I'm here, Like what are you gonna do?

478
00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:56,400
Like what are we doing here? Anyway? So that's happening

479
00:25:58,200 --> 00:26:01,359
back to back to Finland's Greatest Eli's Parson in here

480
00:26:01,839 --> 00:26:04,720
winning the twenty five k PLO high Roller. I mean,

481
00:26:04,839 --> 00:26:07,920
I mean, this guy's just he's the freaking goat PLO player,

482
00:26:08,039 --> 00:26:10,640
isn't he. And it's kind of funny because so he

483
00:26:10,680 --> 00:26:12,799
had he had a previous bracelet twenty twenty one, he

484
00:26:12,839 --> 00:26:15,359
won the five k mixed Nolan had hold him slash

485
00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:18,640
plover five hundred and forty five k. But that's a

486
00:26:18,680 --> 00:26:21,359
half and half event, right, so it's not like a

487
00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:25,519
full PLO event. It's also not a high roller PLO

488
00:26:25,519 --> 00:26:28,319
event like this one is. So in a way, it's

489
00:26:28,359 --> 00:26:34,079
like he kind of maybe needed this, you know, because listen,

490
00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:37,400
if you ask anyone, and we've done this as some content,

491
00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:40,079
we've also just done this as talking points and you know,

492
00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:42,000
on this podcast and whatever. You know, who's the greatest

493
00:26:42,039 --> 00:26:44,480
PLO player in the world in in pok or history?

494
00:26:44,960 --> 00:26:47,519
Elis is in the conversation. He's always a name that's

495
00:26:47,559 --> 00:26:49,920
thrown out there one dred percent of the time. You know.

496
00:26:50,519 --> 00:26:52,160
The only thing that you could ever really say with

497
00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:53,759
him is like, yeah, but how come he doesn't have

498
00:26:53,799 --> 00:26:55,920
a brace? You know, like that's the thing. Well, now

499
00:26:55,920 --> 00:26:57,519
he's got one and it's in the twenty five k

500
00:26:57,599 --> 00:27:00,640
PLO high roller for more than two point one million dollars.

501
00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:03,799
Whenever I have an update, it was the person that

502
00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:06,440
stayed is staying with us, and the person fell asleep

503
00:27:06,519 --> 00:27:08,680
on the couch, so my wife found that out. We

504
00:27:08,680 --> 00:27:12,400
are all safe at home. Good good to know when

505
00:27:12,559 --> 00:27:16,680
whenever Parsonen wins, it feels, you know, it's definitely not

506
00:27:16,759 --> 00:27:21,160
a breakthrough, right, it's just more confirmation of how good

507
00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:23,599
he is. And he's also started playing a lot of

508
00:27:23,599 --> 00:27:26,440
these Nolan hold him hiers and holds his own out there.

509
00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:29,160
I mean, he's a very very good, well rounded player

510
00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:30,920
when it comes to Nolan and hold him and PLO

511
00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:34,960
of course, he's known for PLO and like I said,

512
00:27:35,079 --> 00:27:39,240
whenever there's that debate of who the best PLO player is,

513
00:27:39,599 --> 00:27:43,240
he is always a name that is thrown out there, always, always,

514
00:27:43,319 --> 00:27:46,440
always this event four hundred and fifty one entries twenty

515
00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:49,079
five k BI and it's at the Dobsip. That's some

516
00:27:49,119 --> 00:27:51,799
real freaking juice right there. That's one of the toughest

517
00:27:51,799 --> 00:27:55,680
fields you're gonna find anywhere in poker. And it's gotten

518
00:27:55,720 --> 00:27:58,920
to a point now I think with Elis and even myself,

519
00:27:58,960 --> 00:28:01,119
I find myself thinking this many times, is that you

520
00:28:01,440 --> 00:28:05,279
expect him to start winning some of these these PLO

521
00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:08,599
high roller bracelet events, the twenty five k, the fifty k,

522
00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:12,200
the one hundred k, even like the ten K championship one,

523
00:28:12,279 --> 00:28:16,279
like you just you just expect him to start putting,

524
00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:18,799
you know, not checking those off, like winning them, winning them,

525
00:28:18,799 --> 00:28:20,440
winning them. Now, of course you have to put the

526
00:28:20,519 --> 00:28:22,400
volume in there, which I think he is. He has

527
00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:24,720
done a lot more so more recently in his career.

528
00:28:25,119 --> 00:28:27,519
Elis used to really just play tournaments or sorry, cash

529
00:28:27,519 --> 00:28:30,400
games and not tournaments, and now he's definitely playing a

530
00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:33,720
lot of live tournaments. He's traveling to Triton's, he's he

531
00:28:33,759 --> 00:28:36,599
comes to the PGT PLO series, he's here at the

532
00:28:36,599 --> 00:28:39,160
World Series of Poker, playing all these events, also dabbling

533
00:28:39,519 --> 00:28:42,079
in the the Nolan Holdham high Rollers as well. So

534
00:28:42,519 --> 00:28:45,160
you know, it's really cool to see that he's got

535
00:28:45,359 --> 00:28:48,359
the respect of his peers. They all know how good

536
00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:53,000
he is, and that part of things is always incredibly difficult,

537
00:28:53,519 --> 00:28:56,480
you know, to to win over people, especially in a

538
00:28:56,519 --> 00:28:59,000
game like PLO where there can often be quite a

539
00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:02,200
bit of variance, you know, but as always the cream

540
00:29:02,279 --> 00:29:05,559
rises and Elis is certainly that the second bracelet for

541
00:29:05,640 --> 00:29:08,680
him matters. Of course, you're not just a one bracelet wonder,

542
00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:11,880
you know' that's bigger story that all builds in to

543
00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:16,799
the legacy. So let's say ten years, twenty years, however,

544
00:29:16,799 --> 00:29:19,319
many years from now it is, you know, when people

545
00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:22,880
are discussing who are the best PLO players of all time?

546
00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:27,119
Who are the PLO players that defined a certain era?

547
00:29:27,680 --> 00:29:30,480
Elis Parson, you know, he's always going to be one

548
00:29:30,480 --> 00:29:32,599
of the first names mentioned. He already is one of

549
00:29:32,599 --> 00:29:34,680
the first names mentioned, and that's only going to carry

550
00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:37,920
through as true, especially when you get a result like this,

551
00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:40,079
and it really does, you know, just kind of further

552
00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:44,240
solidify everything in terms of where you stand in the

553
00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:46,920
poker history books. I do want to tie kind of

554
00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:49,839
all four of these winners together. So we got foxin,

555
00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:53,440
we got Calvin Anderson, we got Marco Johnson, and we

556
00:29:53,519 --> 00:29:56,279
got Elis Parson and right, so there are a few

557
00:29:56,319 --> 00:29:58,079
other winners that we want to talk about here, but

558
00:29:58,160 --> 00:30:01,759
these four specifically. It's a connection, but it's not a connection.

559
00:30:01,839 --> 00:30:04,559
What I mean by that is like, none of these

560
00:30:04,559 --> 00:30:07,599
guys winning are flukes like that. They just aren't. Fox

561
00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:09,359
and Is he's a favorite to win a bracelet every

562
00:30:09,359 --> 00:30:12,279
single year. Calvin Anderson probably is as well, you know.

563
00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:15,279
And then you got Marco Johnson. You know, he's always

564
00:30:15,279 --> 00:30:17,759
out here grinding, he's always out here doing great. And

565
00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:20,200
you know, I think I saw something on social media

566
00:30:20,319 --> 00:30:22,599
heading into the summer. Maybe I didn't, and maybe I'm

567
00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:24,279
just thinking that maybe I should have put it on

568
00:30:24,279 --> 00:30:26,480
social media. I can't remember, so forgive me if you're

569
00:30:26,480 --> 00:30:29,319
the person who put this out there. But there was

570
00:30:29,359 --> 00:30:32,319
a question about, you know, give me a basically a

571
00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:36,400
dark horse to win two bracelets this summer. There's also

572
00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:38,079
always the question of giving me a dark horse to

573
00:30:38,119 --> 00:30:41,400
win Player of the year. Marco Johnson's somebody you should

574
00:30:41,680 --> 00:30:44,039
consider in, you know, as a response to both of

575
00:30:44,079 --> 00:30:47,920
those questions, you know, especially now with how much his

576
00:30:48,279 --> 00:30:50,359
Nolan at hold him game has come along and been

577
00:30:50,400 --> 00:30:53,200
brought into the modern era, right, Like, He's someone who

578
00:30:53,279 --> 00:30:56,519
can certainly go off and win two bracelets and be

579
00:30:56,880 --> 00:31:00,480
a dark horse surprising name to win Player the Year. Now,

580
00:31:00,559 --> 00:31:02,559
if you ask a lot of the high stakes community,

581
00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:05,160
you know, oh hey, if you if you say to them, oh, hey,

582
00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:07,920
Marco Johnson won two bracelets, or oh hey, he's in

583
00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:10,039
the top three year, Oh he's leading with the Player

584
00:31:10,039 --> 00:31:11,200
of the Year race, they would be like, oh, well,

585
00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:13,759
that's not really a surprise. It's fricking Marco. He's amazing,

586
00:31:13,960 --> 00:31:16,039
you know. But to a common poker fan, they might

587
00:31:16,079 --> 00:31:19,039
be like, oh, who's that. You know, that's the name.

588
00:31:19,039 --> 00:31:20,720
I haven't really heard about for a while, didn't really

589
00:31:20,759 --> 00:31:24,279
know he was still around. So you know, again, don't

590
00:31:24,319 --> 00:31:26,400
be surprised if you see all the success come from

591
00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:29,119
him this summer. He did win just win this bracelet,

592
00:31:29,440 --> 00:31:32,720
and I believe he's still in as as his cal

593
00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:36,039
in this ten k horse what was you know, as

594
00:31:36,079 --> 00:31:38,079
they got into the money. So we'll keep an eye

595
00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:41,319
on that. You know, these guys, all four of them,

596
00:31:41,359 --> 00:31:44,319
You got Fox and you got Anderson, Johnson, Parson, and

597
00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:49,119
they all represent in poker what is sustained excellence. They

598
00:31:49,119 --> 00:31:53,400
are players who their peers all respect. You know, anyone

599
00:31:53,440 --> 00:31:56,799
respects all of these guys. There are also all these

600
00:31:56,799 --> 00:31:58,920
guys are players you just don't want to have at

601
00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:02,160
your table. We know Fox is an absolute beast. I

602
00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:04,839
don't know if you guys have ever seen or played

603
00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:08,599
with Calvin Anderson, but he plays kind of miss Rocky

604
00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:12,319
esque where he's in like ninety percent of hands, just

605
00:32:12,359 --> 00:32:16,400
like constantly like putting you in awkward spots, you know,

606
00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:19,160
being aggressive. Like it's just he can have almost any

607
00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:21,559
two cards or at least a wider range of the

608
00:32:21,640 --> 00:32:25,079
most so often and he's just very, very tricky to

609
00:32:25,119 --> 00:32:28,880
play against. So you know, these guys are these guys

610
00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:31,279
are the best of the best. We always get the

611
00:32:31,359 --> 00:32:35,519
surprise winners, you know, the no name players that make

612
00:32:35,559 --> 00:32:38,400
a name for themselves on the on the Wisp stage.

613
00:32:38,640 --> 00:32:41,920
We always get that, you know, right, But it's also

614
00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:45,400
cool to always see the truly elite players who just

615
00:32:45,480 --> 00:32:48,000
keep doing it and they keep finding themselves back in

616
00:32:48,039 --> 00:32:57,480
the winner circle time and time and time again. A

617
00:32:57,519 --> 00:33:01,119
couple other winners to go over here, we got Daniel

618
00:33:01,119 --> 00:33:06,079
Aharoni winning the ten K Big O Championship, his first bracelet.

619
00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:08,319
He topped a field of four hundred and fifty six

620
00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:12,480
entries to win eight hundred and sixty one thousand dollars.

621
00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:16,880
Ahrony's a cash game player from New York. He said

622
00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:19,680
he rarely plays tournaments. In fact, he told Poker News

623
00:33:19,799 --> 00:33:22,319
that this is the first tournament he has entered in

624
00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:24,759
two years, and now he's on top of it all,

625
00:33:25,119 --> 00:33:28,559
winning more than eight hundred and sixty thousand dollars. Aaron

626
00:33:28,599 --> 00:33:31,599
Coopan finished in second place in this one. Nick Schulman

627
00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:34,279
had another final table run here. He got fifth in

628
00:33:34,319 --> 00:33:36,799
this one. You had Scott Clemenz who won a bracelet

629
00:33:36,839 --> 00:33:39,039
earlier this summer. He was back at the final table,

630
00:33:39,079 --> 00:33:42,559
finishing eighth here as well Scott Clement's taking him eighty K.

631
00:33:42,839 --> 00:33:45,759
Shoulman hundred ninety seven K. Aaron Coopan for his second

632
00:33:45,799 --> 00:33:48,359
place got five hundred and seventy four thousand dollars, but

633
00:33:49,079 --> 00:33:52,640
the bracelet goes to Daniel Aharoni here in eight hundred

634
00:33:52,799 --> 00:33:57,640
and sixty one thousand dollars. Eddie Blumenthal won the twenty

635
00:33:58,079 --> 00:34:02,000
five hundred dollars oe that's half stud High Low half

636
00:34:02,039 --> 00:34:04,880
Omaha High Low, top the field of five hundred and

637
00:34:04,880 --> 00:34:08,280
eighty seven entries to get two hundred and forty eight

638
00:34:08,440 --> 00:34:14,559
thousand dollars in his pocket. First bracelet for Bloomenthal. Eddie

639
00:34:14,679 --> 00:34:17,599
my guy a few years too late here for our

640
00:34:17,639 --> 00:34:20,639
twenty five K fantasy pick from twenty to twenty two,

641
00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:24,320
back when we were Team Pocket Five's Eddie Bloomenthal here.

642
00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:27,719
You know he's he's someone who's had several close calls

643
00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:29,559
at the World Series of Poker. I think he said

644
00:34:29,559 --> 00:34:32,079
this was his tenth final table, and that's one of

645
00:34:32,079 --> 00:34:34,760
the reasons why we drafted him. You know, he's always

646
00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:38,079
making deep runs, always making final tables. That sort of stuff.

647
00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:40,920
Finally got that monkey off his back to win his

648
00:34:40,920 --> 00:34:43,840
first bracelet and two hundred and forty eight thousand dollars.

649
00:34:44,159 --> 00:34:47,440
In the ten k Mystery Bounty, you had Alex Anton

650
00:34:47,599 --> 00:34:50,000
topping a field of five hundred and fifty eight entries

651
00:34:50,039 --> 00:34:53,599
to win six hundred and seventy eight thousand dollars. Of course,

652
00:34:54,039 --> 00:34:56,320
I'm sure there were some mystery bounty pulls along the

653
00:34:56,320 --> 00:35:00,559
way for Anton that probably padded his his winning quite

654
00:35:00,559 --> 00:35:05,679
a bit. His first bracelet, his largest live score. He

655
00:35:05,800 --> 00:35:10,400
beat Julian Siphon in second place. Josh Reicher finished in

656
00:35:10,559 --> 00:35:14,960
third place. There, Champion Douglas got fourth. Kent Stevens he

657
00:35:15,039 --> 00:35:18,760
won a He won the Poker Masters Showcase on the

658
00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:22,599
PGT last season, I believe, or maybe he won the

659
00:35:22,599 --> 00:35:24,679
Poker Roll Cup Showcase. I think he won the Poker

660
00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:29,119
Roll Cup Showcase earlier this season. I can't remember, but

661
00:35:29,360 --> 00:35:32,280
Kent Stevens here finishing in ninth place for fifty thousand dollars.

662
00:35:32,320 --> 00:35:34,360
Kent Stevens when he won that showcase event came out

663
00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:36,079
of nowhere, like we didn't know who he was, came

664
00:35:36,079 --> 00:35:38,079
out and where won the tournament started firing a few

665
00:35:38,119 --> 00:35:41,239
more PGT events. He did dip in for some USPO

666
00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:44,920
stuff here and there. Okay, great, you know, now he's

667
00:35:44,960 --> 00:35:47,519
been here a ton at the World Series of Poker

668
00:35:47,840 --> 00:35:49,880
firing away. You know, I didn't know if you know,

669
00:35:50,079 --> 00:35:52,320
maybe okay, that was kind of his shot for those

670
00:35:52,360 --> 00:35:55,079
early PGT stuff and we wouldn't see too much of

671
00:35:55,119 --> 00:35:57,679
him since. But that has not been the case. Kent

672
00:35:57,719 --> 00:36:00,519
has been absolutely firing and here he gets final table

673
00:36:00,599 --> 00:36:02,960
run and a fifty thousand dollars score and then rounding

674
00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:04,679
out the winners that we're going to talk about on

675
00:36:04,719 --> 00:36:07,239
this episode of the pod, we got the one K

676
00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:13,880
Seniors Championship winner, Homan Mohammadi, topping a field of seven thousand,

677
00:36:14,119 --> 00:36:17,880
five hundred and thirty eight entries, winning six hundred and

678
00:36:17,920 --> 00:36:24,000
sixty thousand dollars. Mohammadi's from North Vancouver, Canada. He told

679
00:36:24,039 --> 00:36:26,639
Poker News after he won this one, it's like a

680
00:36:26,719 --> 00:36:30,760
dream come true. Absolutely, I've been very close multiple times,

681
00:36:31,079 --> 00:36:34,400
but going through this field plus but going through this

682
00:36:34,480 --> 00:36:36,400
field and trying to keep the flag up, it just

683
00:36:36,639 --> 00:36:40,159
feels amazing some of those close calls. Just looking at

684
00:36:40,920 --> 00:36:44,280
Mohammadi's hend In Moob he had in twenty seventeen, a

685
00:36:44,320 --> 00:36:48,239
second second place finish in a sixteen hundred dollars championship

686
00:36:48,239 --> 00:36:51,159
event at the Win during the summer so it was

687
00:36:51,199 --> 00:36:53,119
part of the Win Summer Classic. He had two hundred

688
00:36:53,119 --> 00:36:55,840
and eleven thousand dollars score there. He had a third

689
00:36:55,840 --> 00:37:01,000
place finish in a WSP circuit event in Richmond in Canada.

690
00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:03,639
I think that's also in Vancouver, one hundred and ten

691
00:37:03,679 --> 00:37:06,119
thousand dollars there. So you know he's had he's had

692
00:37:06,159 --> 00:37:10,079
some big scores on on his resume. Of course, nothing

693
00:37:10,159 --> 00:37:12,559
you know, comes close to this. You know, you get

694
00:37:12,559 --> 00:37:14,840
the six hundred and sixty thousand dollars, you get the

695
00:37:14,840 --> 00:37:17,880
gold bracelet, so you know, great for him, big big

696
00:37:17,960 --> 00:37:20,840
rail he had on his side of things. They really

697
00:37:20,920 --> 00:37:23,840
did embrace him when that final river card hit and

698
00:37:23,880 --> 00:37:26,960
he won the bracelet. So good for home on Mohammadi.

699
00:37:27,440 --> 00:37:30,280
And that's it. That's the pod. I know. We didn't

700
00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:33,199
get fully caught up with everything. We still got we

701
00:37:33,280 --> 00:37:36,360
got this ten k horse playing down the three K

702
00:37:36,719 --> 00:37:39,360
six Max Nolam and hold him, which a wild story

703
00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:43,960
from that where a gentleman sat down to play started started.

704
00:37:43,960 --> 00:37:45,880
I I might as well talk about this he started,

705
00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:49,320
he started, He just lit up a cigarette at the table.

706
00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:53,119
I saw it was funny. I'm browsing on social media.

707
00:37:53,199 --> 00:37:55,559
I see a post from Nick Shulman. It says a

708
00:37:55,639 --> 00:37:58,400
gentleman in this three K six Max went for the

709
00:37:58,559 --> 00:38:02,960
very rarely seen basically unprecedented move of simply lighting up

710
00:38:02,960 --> 00:38:06,280
a cigarette and casually enjoying it until, of course being

711
00:38:06,360 --> 00:38:10,639
removed from the tournament. Lol. My so Shaulmann puts that

712
00:38:10,880 --> 00:38:14,239
on Twitter, right when I get a text message from

713
00:38:14,440 --> 00:38:18,480
my friend Ronnie Barto who says, a drunk Brazilian animal

714
00:38:18,599 --> 00:38:20,320
just lit a cigarette in the middle of the three

715
00:38:20,400 --> 00:38:23,760
K floor. Security came over, he just kept on smoking

716
00:38:23,760 --> 00:38:25,639
it at the table while trying to talk to him.

717
00:38:25,840 --> 00:38:27,719
They made him get up out of his seat. He

718
00:38:27,760 --> 00:38:29,800
took all of his chips and just stuffed him in

719
00:38:29,840 --> 00:38:32,719
his pocket. And then then you know, security in the

720
00:38:32,719 --> 00:38:34,639
flour like you got to give the chips back, and

721
00:38:34,679 --> 00:38:36,880
then he just kept pulling chips out. I guess, like,

722
00:38:37,159 --> 00:38:40,079
you know, handful by handful to give him back. There's

723
00:38:40,079 --> 00:38:41,960
a video of this, you know, I know Ronnie put

724
00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:45,039
something on his story. I think the WSP account has

725
00:38:45,079 --> 00:38:47,480
an official video of what happened. There. I mean, it

726
00:38:47,519 --> 00:38:50,199
was it looked like madness out there. I mean, we're

727
00:38:50,199 --> 00:38:52,679
at the halfway point of the World Series of Poker,

728
00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:55,360
the Brazilians are winning World Cup games, and this dude

729
00:38:55,480 --> 00:38:59,280
is just sitting down and just ripping a sick, just

730
00:38:59,280 --> 00:39:01,800
just ripping it. Like they're like in the video, like

731
00:39:01,840 --> 00:39:05,719
they're they're yelling at him, and he's just he's just

732
00:39:05,920 --> 00:39:09,280
still going like he's just enjoying, enjoying his life. I mean,

733
00:39:09,320 --> 00:39:12,280
that's that's one of the most expensive cigarettes ever because

734
00:39:12,280 --> 00:39:15,960
it probably cost that gentleman three thousand dollars. But yeah, yeah,

735
00:39:15,960 --> 00:39:18,280
that had that that happened. I guess I should give

736
00:39:18,440 --> 00:39:21,000
another shout out here, not that that was necessarily a

737
00:39:21,039 --> 00:39:23,119
shout out, but some of the people that I've been

738
00:39:23,119 --> 00:39:25,480
meeting around the world Treez of Poker that I've yet

739
00:39:25,480 --> 00:39:28,119
the shout out here on the podcast. But I should

740
00:39:28,119 --> 00:39:31,119
also get caught up with this. We got Jared Villa Reale.

741
00:39:31,639 --> 00:39:33,639
He came over to me back when I played the

742
00:39:33,719 --> 00:39:36,519
seventeen hundred dollars US Circuit Championship. He was a few

743
00:39:36,519 --> 00:39:38,760
tables over. He came over to me wished me good luck.

744
00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:40,679
That was in level two of that tournament. Thank you,

745
00:39:40,760 --> 00:39:44,320
Jared appreciated. Hopefully you have plenty of luck this summer

746
00:39:44,360 --> 00:39:47,639
as well. Justin Butt saw me on Break of the

747
00:39:47,679 --> 00:39:50,400
Monsters Act. He said, I've emailed you before, just wanted

748
00:39:50,400 --> 00:39:53,639
to introduce myself in person. So Justin, what's up my

749
00:39:53,719 --> 00:39:57,280
man Ryan, who I met last year, and he said,

750
00:39:57,280 --> 00:39:59,480
this year, Ryan, I don't I gotta look up. I

751
00:39:59,519 --> 00:40:01,800
think I kind of look up how you did in

752
00:40:01,840 --> 00:40:03,639
the Monsters Ack. I know you made Day two with me.

753
00:40:03,719 --> 00:40:05,719
My Day two sucked. I think you were still in

754
00:40:05,760 --> 00:40:08,599
when I busted. But Ryan said that he's playing the

755
00:40:08,639 --> 00:40:12,239
main event for the first time with his son turning

756
00:40:12,280 --> 00:40:14,960
twenty one this year, so that's great. We got Jim

757
00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:18,440
from Seattle who spawned seven big blinds back up into

758
00:40:18,519 --> 00:40:23,239
a starting stack at reg Close that was also in

759
00:40:23,280 --> 00:40:26,400
the Monster Stack. I believe, so good on Jim. Now

760
00:40:26,960 --> 00:40:30,440
I met this guy Sean from Cali. Okay, I mean this,

761
00:40:31,360 --> 00:40:35,119
This guy gave me a story, so it wasn't as

762
00:40:35,119 --> 00:40:37,159
crazy as the guy in the All Lakers outfit that

763
00:40:37,239 --> 00:40:39,239
was talking about the hooker and all that sort of stuff.

764
00:40:39,239 --> 00:40:43,400
But Sean from Calli he's driving in to play here

765
00:40:43,400 --> 00:40:47,400
at the World Series of poker, he said, a bit

766
00:40:47,440 --> 00:40:50,880
of ways outside of Las Vegas. Before he gets into

767
00:40:50,920 --> 00:40:54,000
Las Vegas, his car breaks down. Okay, so he calls

768
00:40:54,360 --> 00:40:57,639
and he gets it towed. If I remember correctly, he

769
00:40:57,679 --> 00:41:00,960
told me he was staying either at Horse Reparis. So

770
00:41:01,039 --> 00:41:03,159
he's thinking, like where do I get it toad. Well,

771
00:41:03,199 --> 00:41:06,480
across the street from Horseshoe. Outside there's a restaurant and

772
00:41:06,559 --> 00:41:09,239
like a parking lot Batista's Batista's hole in the wall.

773
00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:12,960
So he he says, he tells them, okay, let's have

774
00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:14,360
a toad there, because you can't really have like a

775
00:41:14,480 --> 00:41:17,320
tow truck bring your car into like the parking garage

776
00:41:17,440 --> 00:41:19,719
at Horseshoe, especially with the gates and everything like that.

777
00:41:19,800 --> 00:41:22,559
So while he gets that, he gets it set up

778
00:41:22,559 --> 00:41:25,280
where he goes to the security at Batista's because they

779
00:41:25,280 --> 00:41:28,440
have security patrolling outside. I said, listen, I just need

780
00:41:28,440 --> 00:41:31,119
to put my car here for like half an hour.

781
00:41:31,440 --> 00:41:33,719
I need to go check into the hotel and get

782
00:41:33,760 --> 00:41:35,639
that squared away, and then I'm gonna come back over

783
00:41:35,679 --> 00:41:38,480
here and I'm gonna sort the situation with the car. Okay.

784
00:41:38,960 --> 00:41:42,760
Security guard tells him, okay, great, He goes, he gets

785
00:41:42,800 --> 00:41:44,679
over to his hotel so that he can check in.

786
00:41:45,400 --> 00:41:48,920
He comes back and gone. He was gone for like

787
00:41:48,960 --> 00:41:51,840
fifteen minutes. The car is already towed out of Batistas.

788
00:41:51,960 --> 00:41:55,119
I mean, first of all, security people like, if you're

789
00:41:55,159 --> 00:41:56,719
gonna tell the guy you're gonna let him do that,

790
00:41:56,719 --> 00:41:58,719
then just let him do it, like come me, come on.

791
00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:01,639
So that's what happened to Sean. So he he was

792
00:42:01,679 --> 00:42:04,840
dealing with that whole situation. Hopefully, you know, things turn

793
00:42:05,239 --> 00:42:07,079
in his favor, he gets a little bit more good

794
00:42:07,159 --> 00:42:09,480
luck in some of the tournaments that he's playing, because

795
00:42:10,159 --> 00:42:12,440
that sucks when you got to deal with that. You know,

796
00:42:12,480 --> 00:42:15,239
you're coming in from out of town. The first issue,

797
00:42:15,280 --> 00:42:18,639
the car breaks down, that's super annoying and frustrating. Second

798
00:42:18,639 --> 00:42:21,039
issue is that you know, you think you're doing the

799
00:42:21,079 --> 00:42:23,679
right thing getting this all situated. You check with the

800
00:42:23,719 --> 00:42:25,639
security guard. You don't just leave it there on your

801
00:42:25,639 --> 00:42:28,039
own accord whatever, and then they go and do something

802
00:42:28,079 --> 00:42:31,199
like that. So hopefully the cards treat you well and

803
00:42:31,440 --> 00:42:34,239
repay you for that one. Sean shout out to Matt

804
00:42:34,280 --> 00:42:37,079
from Boise, Idaho who caught up with me. I think

805
00:42:37,079 --> 00:42:40,079
it was right outside the cash game room here. You

806
00:42:40,199 --> 00:42:44,639
got Jeff Schneider. I played with him in the Turbo Bounty.

807
00:42:45,320 --> 00:42:47,159
It's funny because like you play with some people and

808
00:42:47,199 --> 00:42:49,360
then they don't they don't like say anything to you

809
00:42:49,440 --> 00:42:52,440
until like later on. But anyway, play with Jeff. He

810
00:42:52,559 --> 00:42:54,559
was the one who was like, he's like, so, are

811
00:42:54,599 --> 00:42:56,559
you still doing the podcast? I said, yeah, I'm doing it,

812
00:42:56,599 --> 00:42:59,599
you know, just about every day. And then he's like, oh,

813
00:42:59,599 --> 00:43:01,480
I haven't seen it or whatever. I said. So I

814
00:43:01,480 --> 00:43:02,960
pulled up my phone just to make sure that it

815
00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:04,719
was there. I said, what do you what do you use?

816
00:43:04,800 --> 00:43:06,719
He's like, I forget what he said, but you know,

817
00:43:06,760 --> 00:43:08,079
I looked at it and I was like, yeah, it's

818
00:43:08,159 --> 00:43:11,159
it's there, you know. He said, oh, but you hadn't

819
00:43:11,159 --> 00:43:12,920
done it for a while before the World Series, right,

820
00:43:12,960 --> 00:43:14,360
I said, yeah, you know, we we did take a

821
00:43:14,400 --> 00:43:16,119
lot of time off, so that's probably why, you know,

822
00:43:16,159 --> 00:43:17,719
you forgot about it. But we are back, you know,

823
00:43:17,760 --> 00:43:20,119
pretty much every day, or at least every day that

824
00:43:20,159 --> 00:43:24,119
I can. And then, you know, just earlier tonight, shout

825
00:43:24,119 --> 00:43:26,599
out to my guy Andrew de Fayo. He said he

826
00:43:26,679 --> 00:43:29,199
bagged again in the Million Maker, so he must have

827
00:43:29,199 --> 00:43:33,119
bagged Day one A and then bagged Day one B,

828
00:43:33,360 --> 00:43:35,159
or maybe he bagged Day one B and bag Day

829
00:43:35,159 --> 00:43:38,280
one C today. I can't remember exactly, but Andrew. Andrew's

830
00:43:38,280 --> 00:43:41,519
funny because every time I see him, and I've probably

831
00:43:41,559 --> 00:43:43,960
seen Andrew I don't know, half a dozen times now,

832
00:43:44,039 --> 00:43:46,519
you know. I've seen him at the World Series several times,

833
00:43:46,559 --> 00:43:48,880
many different years. I've seen him at the wind at

834
00:43:48,880 --> 00:43:50,679
different times, and every time he comes up to me,

835
00:43:50,719 --> 00:43:53,199
he's like, what's up, Donnie, Andrew d FAYO. He always

836
00:43:53,360 --> 00:43:55,800
always just introduces himself. I had I had to check

837
00:43:55,840 --> 00:43:57,840
you on, and Andrew, you know, I had to be like, listen, man,

838
00:43:58,079 --> 00:43:59,960
I know your name by now. I know I'm bad

839
00:44:00,280 --> 00:44:03,519
with most names, I really am, but you specifically Andrew,

840
00:44:03,760 --> 00:44:06,480
because you tell me every single time your name is Andrew. DeFeo.

841
00:44:06,719 --> 00:44:10,159
I know your name. Okay, Love you man. Hopefully hope

842
00:44:10,159 --> 00:44:12,880
the best for you on day two here in the Millionmaker.

843
00:44:12,880 --> 00:44:14,360
I hope it goes better than the first Day two

844
00:44:14,559 --> 00:44:17,159
went for you. Hope you make a run in that thing.

845
00:44:17,400 --> 00:44:19,440
All right, That's all I got. I'm gonna go check

846
00:44:19,480 --> 00:44:22,920
back in on the Seawan Dee match versus Joey Coodin.

847
00:44:22,920 --> 00:44:25,679
We'll see what's going on there. And then probably get

848
00:44:25,679 --> 00:44:27,519
out of here for the night. I'm supposed to play

849
00:44:27,840 --> 00:44:30,760
the Millionmaker on Saturday. I kind of feel like crap,

850
00:44:30,800 --> 00:44:33,239
so I might end up skipping it. I don't like

851
00:44:33,320 --> 00:44:35,000
to put my money at risk. I don't like to

852
00:44:35,000 --> 00:44:37,199
put my investors money at risk when I'm not feeling

853
00:44:37,280 --> 00:44:40,320
up to it, So we'll see how that goes. I

854
00:44:40,360 --> 00:44:42,719
was hoping to get a decent amount of sleep tonight,

855
00:44:42,760 --> 00:44:44,920
but I don't know if that's gonna be in the card,

856
00:44:44,960 --> 00:44:47,679
so we'll see how it goes. As always, I appreciate

857
00:44:47,719 --> 00:44:50,559
you guys for listening. This has been the Poker Gol podcast.

858
00:44:50,599 --> 00:44:52,719
My name is Donnie Peters, and I will talk to

859
00:44:52,760 --> 00:45:11,760
you next time. It express