Speaker 1: Hello, everyone, Welcome back to a new episode of the
Speaker 1: Poker Go Podcast. My name is Donnie Peters. It is
Speaker 1: good to be back. It is Saturday, June twentieth, twelve
Speaker 1: thirty eight am. I am still at the World Series
Speaker 1: of Poker. I am at Paris. I'm trying to wait
Speaker 1: on this Sean Deeb versus Joey Coodin heads up match
Speaker 1: in the three K nine game Mix aka the Mini PPC.
Speaker 1: Really wish they would change that name, Jeff Platt, make
Speaker 1: it happen, buddy, change the name. You got the Mini
Speaker 1: Mystery Millions, you got the Mini main Event. We the
Speaker 1: Mini PPC. Like, let's go trying to wait this out.
Speaker 1: The plan was that if this ends, I'm gonna interview
Speaker 1: Sean Deeb if he wins and gets his ninth bracelet,
Speaker 1: and then work that into the pod and talk about it.
Speaker 1: Because it's about to be twelve forty am. I think
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna bang out this pod and then leave
Speaker 1: whatever happens in that tournament until the next episode. It
Speaker 1: has been a couple of days since I've been on
Speaker 1: this microphone. I've been feeling under the weather. Haven't been
Speaker 1: able to pod at nighttime, trying to get my rest
Speaker 1: so I can somehow survive the summer. It's just that
Speaker 1: every time I get into this place for the World
Speaker 1: Series of Poker, I'm just around all these animals that
Speaker 1: bring all these different types of viruses and diseases and
Speaker 1: germs and bacteria from god knows where. It just eats
Speaker 1: my body alive, so trying to survive through it all.
Speaker 1: So that's why I haven't been doing the show for
Speaker 1: the past couple of days. But here we are tonight,
Speaker 1: and we have a wide variety of winners to talk
Speaker 1: about one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight people,
Speaker 1: eight players, one gold bracelets that we're going to get
Speaker 1: caught up on. But first I do need to remind
Speaker 1: you guys that season sixteen of High Sakes Poker is
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Speaker 1: want to bring it up is because what just dropped
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Speaker 1: straight into it here. First up, we got Alex Foxen.
Speaker 1: That's right. We talked about Kristen Foxen winning. Now we
Speaker 1: got Alex Foxen winning. He won the ten K Super
Speaker 1: Turbo Bounty, a single day event. Fox And top d
Speaker 1: field of four hundred forty six entries to win almost
Speaker 1: six hundred thousand dollars. Don't know what he won in bounties.
Speaker 1: Believe it was seven K to the prize bowl three
Speaker 1: K per bounty. I'm assuming well, I mean he got
Speaker 1: at least one bounty for winning the tournament. I'm assuming
Speaker 1: it was many more with the way that fox And plays,
Speaker 1: so probably well over the six hundred thousand dollars mark
Speaker 1: going to him fourth WSOP bracelets might be surprising to
Speaker 1: hear that it is only his fourth with how successful
Speaker 1: Alex Foxen is, But you know, it's his fourth right now,
Speaker 1: and I'm assuming he's gonna get many, many more throughout
Speaker 1: his career. He beat Yikshi Tang in heads up play,
Speaker 1: Tang taking home almost four hundred thousand dollars for his
Speaker 1: finish there. Martin Zemani made the final table, Harvey Castro
Speaker 1: made the final table. Jamie Dwan made the final table
Speaker 1: as well. This fourth bracelet for fox And comes after
Speaker 1: he won his first bracelet was in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 1: He won the two hundred and fifty K Super High
Speaker 1: Roller for more than four point five million dollars. Then
Speaker 1: he won an online bracelet. He won the five hundred
Speaker 1: dollars pot limit Omaham Mystery Bounty six Max Tournament only
Speaker 1: twenty K. What was the prize there? Of course, it's
Speaker 1: a mystery bounty format, so plenty of money I'm sure
Speaker 1: went into the Mystery Bounty prize pool for that one.
Speaker 1: And then twenty twenty four at WSP Paradise, Foxen won
Speaker 1: one hundred thousand dollars. Triton Nolan had hold him a
Speaker 1: main event that was a bracelet event as part of
Speaker 1: the partnership between Triton and the World Series of Poker
Speaker 1: down in Paradise in the Bahamas three point eighty five
Speaker 1: million for the score there for Fox, and after the win,
Speaker 1: he told Poker News, I think your career is really
Speaker 1: about repeated performance and an entire body of work rather
Speaker 1: than one event proving something. This doesn't feel like to
Speaker 1: me as much the one that would do that, but
Speaker 1: it's a piece of the body of work. So I'm
Speaker 1: proud of it that that statement there from Fox, and
Speaker 1: you know, that echo a lot of the stuff that
Speaker 1: I've heard him say over the years, that he's told
Speaker 1: me over the years, and some of our interviews that
Speaker 1: we've done when he's won PGT events, you know, kind
Speaker 1: of that same sort of line, like it's just about
Speaker 1: building that resume, stacking that trophy case, getting those accolades
Speaker 1: time and time again, because at the end of it all,
Speaker 1: you know, it's about what you've done over the course
Speaker 1: of your career, not just one month, one tournament, one year,
Speaker 1: whatever it may be. So to me, that's that's the
Speaker 1: bulk of the story here. A lot of poker discussion
Speaker 1: often gets reduced to you know, we count bracelets, different titles,
Speaker 1: WPT titles, triton titles, whatever it may be. Individual results,
Speaker 1: you know. But Foxton's point here is just trying to
Speaker 1: drive home that that greatness isn't concise. You know, it
Speaker 1: is generally, or it should generally be viewed as expansive.
Speaker 1: You know, what did you do over your entire body
Speaker 1: of work? It's the accumulation of those results over years
Speaker 1: and years and years. You know. The Poker Hall of
Speaker 1: Fame always had this thing, did the players stand the
Speaker 1: test of time? You know? And that's kind of what
Speaker 1: Foxin is getting at here. You know, we've seen hot
Speaker 1: streaks for let's say, a full summer at the World
Speaker 1: Series of Poker. We've seen hot streaks for an entire year,
Speaker 1: two years, three years, four years, whatever it may be.
Speaker 1: But those when you when you pull back and you
Speaker 1: look at the grand scheme of things go, those can
Speaker 1: be just blips on the radar right now. They could
Speaker 1: be incredibly impressive, don't get me wrong, you know, but
Speaker 1: how good was this person from kind of when they
Speaker 1: started playing poker to when they finished? You know, have
Speaker 1: they done it for a long period of time? And
Speaker 1: they did? They do it at the at the top,
Speaker 1: you know, against the best players and constantly winning. Foxing,
Speaker 1: to me, has done that and it's it's pretty crazy
Speaker 1: to think that he's only thirty five years old. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I always thought in my mind he was
Speaker 1: a little bit closer to forty, you know, not Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame eligible yet, but you know, get in thirty eight,
Speaker 1: thirty nine. But the fact that he's only thirty five,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's just absolutely wild. He just continues to
Speaker 1: do it over and over and over again. This is
Speaker 1: his fourth bracelet. He's the reigning PGT Player of the Year.
Speaker 1: This was a PhD qualifying event, be it a ten
Speaker 1: thousand dollars buying ws AP event, and he's right back
Speaker 1: into the running now. Believe this puts him in the
Speaker 1: top three. I think he's sitting second in the race
Speaker 1: right now from you know, so he could go back
Speaker 1: to back for being a PGT Player of the Year.
Speaker 1: That's pretty crazy. Some of the other big results, you know,
Speaker 1: these aren't all of his results that he's had during
Speaker 1: the summer here at the World Series of Poker, but
Speaker 1: he got sixth in the one hundred k high roller
Speaker 1: and he got seventh in the twenty five k p
Speaker 1: Loo high Rollers, So some two really big scores there.
Speaker 1: In addition to this almost six hundred thousand dollars win
Speaker 1: for fox Him. You know when I say Ford Basby bracelets,
Speaker 1: when I say PGT Player of the Year, When I
Speaker 1: say bracelet in the ten K Super Turbo Bounty, two
Speaker 1: other final tables, in the o K high Roller, and
Speaker 1: in the twenty five K POO high Roller, that for
Speaker 1: a lot of players, that's a successful career. Like if
Speaker 1: that happened to me, I'd be like, yes, my poker
Speaker 1: career was a success. I crushed it. I did a
Speaker 1: lot of really great things. I mean, But for Alex Foxen,
Speaker 1: that's just June. Okay, that's all He's done in June
Speaker 1: and we're only twenty days through. It's absolutely wild. He's
Speaker 1: just going to continue to build this resume over and
Speaker 1: over and over again, you know, I mean, as long
Speaker 1: as he continues to play, right. I mean, he could
Speaker 1: walk away from the game, I'm sure. But to me,
Speaker 1: you know, fox And seems like a lifer. He's going
Speaker 1: to be in this one until the bitter end. You know.
Speaker 1: He also he wins it no limit. He wins in
Speaker 1: the high rollers, he wins in PLO. He's starting to
Speaker 1: dabble in mixed games. Now that's really specifically no limit
Speaker 1: Deuce to seven, which is kind of a hybrid mixed game. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's still big bed, but it's also a mixed game
Speaker 1: format kind of. You know, he wins online, obviously, he
Speaker 1: wins live. You know, he keeps just growing this sample size.
Speaker 1: I would love to see if he starts really dabbling
Speaker 1: into the mix game stuff, you know, because just with
Speaker 1: the volume that's here at the World Series of Poker,
Speaker 1: we could really see him do some damage and in
Speaker 1: terms of the bracelet count, right. So yeah, it's just
Speaker 1: really cool to see someone have this continued success like this.
Speaker 1: I know Alex really really wants it. He's highly competitive,
Speaker 1: and he just added another great little accolade here to
Speaker 1: his ever growing career. We also can't forget, you know,
Speaker 1: I mentioned it quickly off the top, but his wife,
Speaker 1: Kristen Foxen a week ago she won the twenty five
Speaker 1: k high Roller for one point eight million. That was
Speaker 1: her sixth gold brace that She's got two more than
Speaker 1: Alex does right now. So between the two of them,
Speaker 1: I mean, what a freaking summer it's been for the
Speaker 1: Fox's and we still have half the WSOP still to go.
Speaker 1: This is easily I mean it's without question, husband wife combo.
Speaker 1: This is the most successful one we've ever had and
Speaker 1: likely we'll ever have in poker. I mean, you can
Speaker 1: couples whatever it is. I mean, these two are the
Speaker 1: absolute best of the best. It really is just superb stuff.
Speaker 1: Another player who is highly talented has a ton of
Speaker 1: stuff on his resume as well, just won his sixth
Speaker 1: WSOP bracelet. That is Calvin Anderson. He won the ten
Speaker 1: k Raz Championship for three hundred and fifty seven thousand dollars,
Speaker 1: top in a field of one hundred and fifty five
Speaker 1: entries in this championship event. Here at the World Series
Speaker 1: of Poker for Anderson, his second time winning the ten
Speaker 1: k Raz Championship. This time around he topped Eric Rodterwig
Speaker 1: in heads up play. Todd Dakaki got third place, Tobias
Speaker 1: Lechness got fourth. Tobias I believe had a final table
Speaker 1: run in the Super High Roll of Mixed Games tournament.
Speaker 1: If you guys here yelling, that's the that's the Sean
Speaker 1: Deep versus Joey Coudin final table. That's behind the wall.
Speaker 1: Here also at this final table in the ten k
Speaker 1: Reces Championship, Max Cruse you've Al Bronstein, Philip Sternheimer, and
Speaker 1: Shane Littlefield. So six gold racelets. Now, for Calvin Anderson,
Speaker 1: I mentioned that he previously won the ten K Rece Championship.
Speaker 1: Before that was back in two thousand and eighteen. I
Speaker 1: believe it was twenty fourteen when he won his first
Speaker 1: as ap goal bracelet and the fifteen hundred dollars stud
Speaker 1: High Low. Then he won that ten K res Championship
Speaker 1: in twenty eighteen. In twenty twenty three, he won two bracelets.
Speaker 1: One was online, it came in the one K PLO
Speaker 1: six Max. He won the or sorry, they were both online,
Speaker 1: and then the second online one was in the fifty
Speaker 1: three hundred dollars Super High Roller six Max about fifty
Speaker 1: thousand dollars and then one hundred and forty one thousand
Speaker 1: dollars there respectively. For those two wins, twenty twenty four,
Speaker 1: Anderson won the ten K eight Game Mix Championships. So
Speaker 1: quite the well rounded bracelet grouping here for Calvary and Anderson.
Speaker 1: You know, and I think there's a legitimate argument that
Speaker 1: he's one of the most overlooked elite players that we
Speaker 1: have in poker. You know, six bracelets at the end
Speaker 1: of the day is six bracelets. And then you know
Speaker 1: within those bracelets two ten k Raids Championships, the eight
Speaker 1: Game Mixed Championship. I mean, those are super super tough bracelets.
Speaker 1: This fifty three hundred dollars Super high Roller six Max
Speaker 1: that was played online that I'm sure was not easy
Speaker 1: at all. I mean you also have to include in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three at the WPT World Championship. At the win,
Speaker 1: he won the WPT Prime Championship for almost one point
Speaker 1: four million dollars. I don't have no idea how many
Speaker 1: players were in that field, but it's probably around ten
Speaker 1: thousand or so. Who knows. He's got several other ws
Speaker 1: AP final tables. I know, ultimately we don't always count
Speaker 1: that are Maybe it's not that we don't count it,
Speaker 1: we don't think about it all the time. But he's
Speaker 1: had plenty of close runs to other WSP bracelets. You know,
Speaker 1: he just to me, he's somebody who kind of rarely
Speaker 1: gets discussed alongside some of the bigger names in the game,
Speaker 1: and I think that's probably because he's not in the
Speaker 1: spotlight as often. He doesn't play every single major tour stop.
Speaker 1: I mean just in our little ecosystem that we deal with.
Speaker 1: You know, he's not grinding every single PGT event. He
Speaker 1: puts in a good amount of volume at the World
Speaker 1: Series of Poker, but I don't think he's here playing
Speaker 1: every single day, every single tournament like let's say in
Speaker 1: Alex Faxon or a Sean Deep might He's just not
Speaker 1: in that conversation. But it's not that he shouldn't be,
Speaker 1: because cal is extremely good and every time he's in
Speaker 1: the field, he's awesome. And I think, actually right now
Speaker 1: as I'm recording this, I think he's still in the
Speaker 1: ten k Horse Championship and they're down to two tables.
Speaker 1: He was in about twenty minutes ago, so I think
Speaker 1: he's still in. So so you know he's he's doing
Speaker 1: it again. I mean, this guy is absolutely freaking incredible.
Speaker 1: This tournament, this ten k Rats Championship that he just won.
Speaker 1: I mean, he went as wire to wire as you
Speaker 1: can come. He was the chip leader after day one,
Speaker 1: he was the chip leader after day two, and then
Speaker 1: he went on to win the event on day three.
Speaker 1: Now I'm sure at some point, you know, somebody might
Speaker 1: have overtook him and somebody else had the chip leader
Speaker 1: when he did, and I know for sure that happened,
Speaker 1: or at least I'm ninety eight percent sure that it
Speaker 1: happened at the final table. So it's not exactly wire
Speaker 1: to wire. But when when you finish day one is
Speaker 1: the chip leader, then day two is the chip leader,
Speaker 1: and then you go on to win the tournament and
Speaker 1: seal the deal like that is wire to wire in poker.
Speaker 1: I mean, that is absolutely freaking incredible. So what that
Speaker 1: tells me is he controlled the tournament. He was in
Speaker 1: the driver's seat from start to finish. Then you have
Speaker 1: that historical significance of it all, winning the ten k
Speaker 1: Ras Championship for a second time. I think now he's
Speaker 1: now the most decorated and winningest RAS player in WSP history.
Speaker 1: At least I saw that's what Poker News wrote. I
Speaker 1: would believe their stats people that that's what they said.
Speaker 1: So when it comes to Raz, specialists Calvin anders and
Speaker 1: is right there, it's got to be the best, right
Speaker 1: he just has to be. Now, Raz is off in
Speaker 1: the game. Everyone loves to joke about, everyone loves to dismiss,
Speaker 1: everyone loves to complain about, you know, all that sort
Speaker 1: of stuff. But I think Anderson has really embraced that,
Speaker 1: and he talked about that a little bit in the
Speaker 1: winter interview that he did with Poker News. I won't
Speaker 1: get too much into it, you know, I would encourage
Speaker 1: you guys to go to Poker News, find the event,
Speaker 1: and find what cal had to say after he won.
Speaker 1: You know, but basically what he was saying is like,
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, sure, people just just keep thinking that
Speaker 1: it's all luck, you know, but you know that's that's
Speaker 1: not what it is in this game. The point being
Speaker 1: with all of this is that Calvin Anderson's got six bracelets.
Speaker 1: He's won them in multiple games, multiple variants. He's got
Speaker 1: that WPT Prime Championship, He's got several other WSP final tables.
Speaker 1: He is a complete tournament player. He's quietly assembled because
Speaker 1: he's not the biggest, loudest person in the room. He's
Speaker 1: quietly assembled one of the best resumes in the game.
Speaker 1: You know. So I think we need to start putting
Speaker 1: a little bit more more respect on Calvin Anderson's name
Speaker 1: out there. Marco Johnson won the twenty five hundred dollars
Speaker 1: freeze out No Limit hold 'em tournament. For this one,
Speaker 1: I played in this one. It did not go well.
Speaker 1: I you start with thirty five kN chips felt like
Speaker 1: a kind of a random number, I guess just quickly
Speaker 1: before I get into Marco this. Let me let me
Speaker 1: get my little spiel out of the way with how
Speaker 1: I did. I built to about one hundred and ten
Speaker 1: hundred and fifteen thousand pretty smoothly. Then I ran a
Speaker 1: big bluff, bluffed off about seventy five percent of my chips.
Speaker 1: Ultimately couldn't really recover from that. I mean I did
Speaker 1: kind of grind back a little bit, and then three
Speaker 1: bed jammed over a race from Bin Wang from the
Speaker 1: small blind. The gentleman in the big blind woke up
Speaker 1: with Ace King. I had Ace Queen, and that was
Speaker 1: all she wrote. But felt really really good with everything
Speaker 1: from that tournament. Feel like I'm playing really really well
Speaker 1: right now in all summer. So yeah, I'm really happy
Speaker 1: with things. But let's get to the real story here,
Speaker 1: because the real story is not me and my stupid
Speaker 1: bust out. The real story is Marco freaking Johnson, Crazy Marco,
Speaker 1: as he often goes by, or at least he used
Speaker 1: to go by. He topped a field of fifteen hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty one entries to win more than five one
Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars his third career bracelet. Johnson, I think
Speaker 1: it was ten It's been ten years since he won't
Speaker 1: won a bracelet. He topped Chino Reim in heads up
Speaker 1: play with Chino Rehim taking home three hundred and forty
Speaker 1: two thousand dollars. Kenzo Ishida third place for oz Jaka.
Speaker 1: I know many of you know that name. Fourth place,
Speaker 1: Elliott Smith. I feel like I haven't seen his name
Speaker 1: making some WSFP noise recently. He took seventh place in
Speaker 1: this one now for Marco. You know, he's one of
Speaker 1: the most well respected players in poker. You know some
Speaker 1: some bracelet winners that we get every single summer, you know,
Speaker 1: also in Europe, also in Paradise, wherever it may be.
Speaker 1: You know, they're famous with the fans. So we're talking
Speaker 1: in Alex Foxon who we just talked about. We're talking
Speaker 1: a Daniel mcgrand now, a Phil Helmuth, A Shawn d.
Speaker 1: Nick Shulman, who you know we talked about on a
Speaker 1: few episodes ago because he won another gold bracelet. You know,
Speaker 1: those those players, those names when they were embracelets, it's
Speaker 1: like bang, These are famous with the poker fans out
Speaker 1: there like the general poker audience. Other players are famous,
Speaker 1: quote unquote famous with players within the community. They are
Speaker 1: as well respected as they come. They you know, they
Speaker 1: get all the admiration from their peers. And that is
Speaker 1: Marco Johnson. You know, that is who he is. I
Speaker 1: think the most telling thing about his victory is not
Speaker 1: the bracelet himself or the bracelet itself, you know, it's
Speaker 1: it's kind of like who shows up on your rail
Speaker 1: when you're deep like that, who's in the winner photo?
Speaker 1: And and here, you know, I was there towards the
Speaker 1: tail end of the night. I did leave before Marcro won,
Speaker 1: But you saw the same people that I saw on
Speaker 1: the rail in the winner photo. And that was you
Speaker 1: got Scott sever you got friend of the Pod David
Speaker 1: od b Baker, you got Ray Henson, Phil Sternheim or
Speaker 1: Craig Chate, Mark Gregorich. They're all there. They're in the
Speaker 1: WINNI photo. They're celebrating. You know, I think that's that's
Speaker 1: a little snapshot of how respected Johnson is within poker's
Speaker 1: inner circle. And then and then you start seeing the
Speaker 1: comments that are coming out on social media. You know,
Speaker 1: you got Tony Dunst out there who's saying the ogs, No,
Speaker 1: Marco is the man you got Chris Vich giving him
Speaker 1: plenty of flowers, saying like, you know, I respect the
Speaker 1: hell out of the guy, love the guy. He's great.
Speaker 1: Definitely never want to see him at my table, you know,
Speaker 1: he's that type of player. You don't want him at
Speaker 1: your table, even even as much as you like him.
Speaker 1: You don't want Mark at your table because he's that good.
Speaker 1: You had Patrick Leonard Pads posting about how nice he is,
Speaker 1: how great of a player is also how awesome of
Speaker 1: a dad and a family man he is. You know,
Speaker 1: so I think generally you really only hear great things
Speaker 1: about about Marco, you know, really whoever you talk to.
Speaker 1: I've been a little bit cordial with him over the years.
Speaker 1: Super nice guy, you don't He's someone who, maybe even
Speaker 1: less so than Calvin Anderson, who he just talked about,
Speaker 1: who you don't hear about as often because outside of
Speaker 1: the summer, like he's just not really around that much.
Speaker 1: You know, he might pop in here and there, but
Speaker 1: he's basically being a family guy and being a dad
Speaker 1: and doing that sort of stuff. The other thing that
Speaker 1: I really like about Marco is, and I think I
Speaker 1: talked with him maybe last year of the year before
Speaker 1: a little bit about this next stuff that I'm about
Speaker 1: to say, but it's basically about the evolution of him
Speaker 1: and his career as it pertains the poker. You know,
Speaker 1: for years he was viewed primarily as a mixed game player,
Speaker 1: a mixed game crusher. But after COVID, you know, he
Speaker 1: made a conscious effort to modernize and improve his no
Speaker 1: limit game. You know, him and I talked specifically about
Speaker 1: this sort of thing, and specifically about a course that
Speaker 1: I've taken and I've talked about before. Is that Patrick
Speaker 1: Leonard's course pads his course on run at once, Pads
Speaker 1: on Poker or pads poker. I forget exactly what it's called,
Speaker 1: but you know how that course is, you know, it's
Speaker 1: it's a few years old now, yes, but I think
Speaker 1: it very much still holds up. And I think Marco,
Speaker 1: you know, would agree. Five years later, since he really
Speaker 1: started putting more time and effort into his nolam At
Speaker 1: hold him game. It pays off with a six score
Speaker 1: here more than half a million dollars and a Nolanman
Speaker 1: hold him bracelet. So you know, I think That's kind
Speaker 1: of a great lesson here for poker players, is that
Speaker 1: the game, or all the games, you know, it's it's
Speaker 1: always going to evolve. Poker is always going to evolve,
Speaker 1: and if you want to stay up with the times,
Speaker 1: you need to evolve with it. If you want to
Speaker 1: be one of the best, you need to evolve with it.
Speaker 1: You know, you constantly need to be working, working, working
Speaker 1: at it. After the fact, when he spoke with Poker News,
Speaker 1: you know, Johnson's his comments reflected that you know that
Speaker 1: this wasn't just another bracelet, is kind of the sense
Speaker 1: that you got from his words. It was somewhat of
Speaker 1: a validation that the work he's put into being better
Speaker 1: at this specific variant no limit hold him where he
Speaker 1: was once thought of as like only a mixed game
Speaker 1: guy like that actually mattered. You know, here's what he
Speaker 1: said exactly. I'll just read the quote he said. He
Speaker 1: told Poker News. It means a lot. I started playing
Speaker 1: no limit twenty twenty five years ago. I've been playing
Speaker 1: for a living, and I stopped playing no limit for
Speaker 1: a while then after COVID, So the last five years
Speaker 1: i've been I've played a lot of No limit and
Speaker 1: I really enjoy it. It actually might be one of
Speaker 1: my favorite games. So it feels really good to win
Speaker 1: a bracelet in a no limit event. So shout out
Speaker 1: to Marco for putting the time in, putting the effort in,
Speaker 1: and having that all come to fruition to the tune
Speaker 1: of more than five hundred thousand dollars and his third
Speaker 1: gold bracelet. I also want to do touch on here
Speaker 1: second place, Chino Reim, you know, another near gold bracelet
Speaker 1: for Chino rem Every time Gino Ream gets deep in
Speaker 1: ABSIP event, the conversation resurfaces, and it's going to resurf
Speaker 1: in right here with me on the Poker Go podcast.
Speaker 1: The guy's got three WPG titles. He's a PCA main
Speaker 1: event champion, a massive shout out, massive tournament resume. Of course,
Speaker 1: he made the WSIP main Event final table, you know,
Speaker 1: many years ago. I can't even remember what you that
Speaker 1: was two thousand and eight or two thousand and nine
Speaker 1: or whatever the heck it was. You know, he's got
Speaker 1: god knows how many PGT titles he's won in the studio.
Speaker 1: He's the he was. He's a PGT Plo Series champion.
Speaker 1: He won the PGT Mixed Game Series twice, you know,
Speaker 1: yet still no bracelet. He's got five runner up finishes
Speaker 1: in WSIP events, and I think he has you know,
Speaker 1: plenty of other final tables as well for China Rem.
Speaker 1: But still it's like the longer it goes, the more
Speaker 1: fascinating this story becomes with Chino Rem, you know, especially
Speaker 1: when you put it into the whole career arc that
Speaker 1: he's had, where now it's kind of the whole comeback
Speaker 1: part of the story for Chino Reem, you know, righting
Speaker 1: those wrongs, being a better person. He's a dad now,
Speaker 1: et cetera, all that sort of stuff, and it feels
Speaker 1: like the last thing to achieve for him is a
Speaker 1: gold bracelet, and once again he's one spot short. Now,
Speaker 1: Johnson did have a big lead coming into heads up play,
Speaker 1: so it would have been a lot for Chino to overcome,
Speaker 1: but nevertheless, still another runner up finish. Here at the
Speaker 1: World Series of Poker for Chino Rem, Finland's Elis Parsonen
Speaker 1: won the twenty five k PLO high Roller. He top
Speaker 1: day field of four hundred and fifty one entries to
Speaker 1: win more than two point one million dollars. It's the
Speaker 1: second bracelet for parsonen, I'm gonna have to take a
Speaker 1: pause here, guys. Okay, I'll explain it in a second's
Speaker 1: family turn. Okay, I'm back. I mean sorry, Like it's
Speaker 1: it's past one o'clock in the morning. My wife is
Speaker 1: texting me asking me if I'm home. I'm telling her
Speaker 1: I'm not home. She's like, well, someone's here. I know
Speaker 1: we have somebody staying with us. So I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: it's probably that person. Like why don't like, I mean,
Speaker 1: I feel bad because I'm here and I can't, Like
Speaker 1: I can't go look right, you know, and I want
Speaker 1: to go. Look. I I'm you know, I want to
Speaker 1: protect the family if I have to. But like she's
Speaker 1: also it's like, you have to go look like I can't.
Speaker 1: I can't look. I'm here, Like what are you gonna do?
Speaker 1: Like what are we doing here? Anyway? So that's happening
Speaker 1: back to back to Finland's Greatest Eli's Parson in here
Speaker 1: winning the twenty five k PLO high Roller. I mean,
Speaker 1: I mean, this guy's just he's the freaking goat PLO player,
Speaker 1: isn't he. And it's kind of funny because so he
Speaker 1: had he had a previous bracelet twenty twenty one, he
Speaker 1: won the five k mixed Nolan had hold him slash
Speaker 1: plover five hundred and forty five k. But that's a
Speaker 1: half and half event, right, so it's not like a
Speaker 1: full PLO event. It's also not a high roller PLO
Speaker 1: event like this one is. So in a way, it's
Speaker 1: like he kind of maybe needed this, you know, because listen,
Speaker 1: if you ask anyone, and we've done this as some content,
Speaker 1: we've also just done this as talking points and you know,
Speaker 1: on this podcast and whatever. You know, who's the greatest
Speaker 1: PLO player in the world in in pok or history?
Speaker 1: Elis is in the conversation. He's always a name that's
Speaker 1: thrown out there one dred percent of the time. You know.
Speaker 1: The only thing that you could ever really say with
Speaker 1: him is like, yeah, but how come he doesn't have
Speaker 1: a brace? You know, like that's the thing. Well, now
Speaker 1: he's got one and it's in the twenty five k
Speaker 1: PLO high roller for more than two point one million dollars.
Speaker 1: Whenever I have an update, it was the person that
Speaker 1: stayed is staying with us, and the person fell asleep
Speaker 1: on the couch, so my wife found that out. We
Speaker 1: are all safe at home. Good good to know when
Speaker 1: whenever Parsonen wins, it feels, you know, it's definitely not
Speaker 1: a breakthrough, right, it's just more confirmation of how good
Speaker 1: he is. And he's also started playing a lot of
Speaker 1: these Nolan hold him hiers and holds his own out there.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's a very very good, well rounded player
Speaker 1: when it comes to Nolan and hold him and PLO
Speaker 1: of course, he's known for PLO and like I said,
Speaker 1: whenever there's that debate of who the best PLO player is,
Speaker 1: he is always a name that is thrown out there, always, always,
Speaker 1: always this event four hundred and fifty one entries twenty
Speaker 1: five k BI and it's at the Dobsip. That's some
Speaker 1: real freaking juice right there. That's one of the toughest
Speaker 1: fields you're gonna find anywhere in poker. And it's gotten
Speaker 1: to a point now I think with Elis and even myself,
Speaker 1: I find myself thinking this many times, is that you
Speaker 1: expect him to start winning some of these these PLO
Speaker 1: high roller bracelet events, the twenty five k, the fifty k,
Speaker 1: the one hundred k, even like the ten K championship one,
Speaker 1: like you just you just expect him to start putting,
Speaker 1: you know, not checking those off, like winning them, winning them,
Speaker 1: winning them. Now, of course you have to put the
Speaker 1: volume in there, which I think he is. He has
Speaker 1: done a lot more so more recently in his career.
Speaker 1: Elis used to really just play tournaments or sorry, cash
Speaker 1: games and not tournaments, and now he's definitely playing a
Speaker 1: lot of live tournaments. He's traveling to Triton's, he's he
Speaker 1: comes to the PGT PLO series, he's here at the
Speaker 1: World Series of Poker, playing all these events, also dabbling
Speaker 1: in the the Nolan Holdham high Rollers as well. So
Speaker 1: you know, it's really cool to see that he's got
Speaker 1: the respect of his peers. They all know how good
Speaker 1: he is, and that part of things is always incredibly difficult,
Speaker 1: you know, to to win over people, especially in a
Speaker 1: game like PLO where there can often be quite a
Speaker 1: bit of variance, you know, but as always the cream
Speaker 1: rises and Elis is certainly that the second bracelet for
Speaker 1: him matters. Of course, you're not just a one bracelet wonder,
Speaker 1: you know' that's bigger story that all builds in to
Speaker 1: the legacy. So let's say ten years, twenty years, however,
Speaker 1: many years from now it is, you know, when people
Speaker 1: are discussing who are the best PLO players of all time?
Speaker 1: Who are the PLO players that defined a certain era?
Speaker 1: Elis Parson, you know, he's always going to be one
Speaker 1: of the first names mentioned. He already is one of
Speaker 1: the first names mentioned, and that's only going to carry
Speaker 1: through as true, especially when you get a result like this,
Speaker 1: and it really does, you know, just kind of further
Speaker 1: solidify everything in terms of where you stand in the
Speaker 1: poker history books. I do want to tie kind of
Speaker 1: all four of these winners together. So we got foxin,
Speaker 1: we got Calvin Anderson, we got Marco Johnson, and we
Speaker 1: got Elis Parson and right, so there are a few
Speaker 1: other winners that we want to talk about here, but
Speaker 1: these four specifically. It's a connection, but it's not a connection.
Speaker 1: What I mean by that is like, none of these
Speaker 1: guys winning are flukes like that. They just aren't. Fox
Speaker 1: and Is he's a favorite to win a bracelet every
Speaker 1: single year. Calvin Anderson probably is as well, you know.
Speaker 1: And then you got Marco Johnson. You know, he's always
Speaker 1: out here grinding, he's always out here doing great. And
Speaker 1: you know, I think I saw something on social media
Speaker 1: heading into the summer. Maybe I didn't, and maybe I'm
Speaker 1: just thinking that maybe I should have put it on
Speaker 1: social media. I can't remember, so forgive me if you're
Speaker 1: the person who put this out there. But there was
Speaker 1: a question about, you know, give me a basically a
Speaker 1: dark horse to win two bracelets this summer. There's also
Speaker 1: always the question of giving me a dark horse to
Speaker 1: win Player of the year. Marco Johnson's somebody you should
Speaker 1: consider in, you know, as a response to both of
Speaker 1: those questions, you know, especially now with how much his
Speaker 1: Nolan at hold him game has come along and been
Speaker 1: brought into the modern era, right, Like, He's someone who
Speaker 1: can certainly go off and win two bracelets and be
Speaker 1: a dark horse surprising name to win Player the Year. Now,
Speaker 1: if you ask a lot of the high stakes community,
Speaker 1: you know, oh hey, if you if you say to them, oh, hey,
Speaker 1: Marco Johnson won two bracelets, or oh hey, he's in
Speaker 1: the top three year, Oh he's leading with the Player
Speaker 1: of the Year race, they would be like, oh, well,
Speaker 1: that's not really a surprise. It's fricking Marco. He's amazing,
Speaker 1: you know. But to a common poker fan, they might
Speaker 1: be like, oh, who's that. You know, that's the name.
Speaker 1: I haven't really heard about for a while, didn't really
Speaker 1: know he was still around. So you know, again, don't
Speaker 1: be surprised if you see all the success come from
Speaker 1: him this summer. He did win just win this bracelet,
Speaker 1: and I believe he's still in as as his cal
Speaker 1: in this ten k horse what was you know, as
Speaker 1: they got into the money. So we'll keep an eye
Speaker 1: on that. You know, these guys, all four of them,
Speaker 1: You got Fox and you got Anderson, Johnson, Parson, and
Speaker 1: they all represent in poker what is sustained excellence. They
Speaker 1: are players who their peers all respect. You know, anyone
Speaker 1: respects all of these guys. There are also all these
Speaker 1: guys are players you just don't want to have at
Speaker 1: your table. We know Fox is an absolute beast. I
Speaker 1: don't know if you guys have ever seen or played
Speaker 1: with Calvin Anderson, but he plays kind of miss Rocky
Speaker 1: esque where he's in like ninety percent of hands, just
Speaker 1: like constantly like putting you in awkward spots, you know,
Speaker 1: being aggressive. Like it's just he can have almost any
Speaker 1: two cards or at least a wider range of the
Speaker 1: most so often and he's just very, very tricky to
Speaker 1: play against. So you know, these guys are these guys
Speaker 1: are the best of the best. We always get the
Speaker 1: surprise winners, you know, the no name players that make
Speaker 1: a name for themselves on the on the Wisp stage.
Speaker 1: We always get that, you know, right, But it's also
Speaker 1: cool to always see the truly elite players who just
Speaker 1: keep doing it and they keep finding themselves back in
Speaker 1: the winner circle time and time and time again. A
Speaker 1: couple other winners to go over here, we got Daniel
Speaker 1: Aharoni winning the ten K Big O Championship, his first bracelet.
Speaker 1: He topped a field of four hundred and fifty six
Speaker 1: entries to win eight hundred and sixty one thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: Ahrony's a cash game player from New York. He said
Speaker 1: he rarely plays tournaments. In fact, he told Poker News
Speaker 1: that this is the first tournament he has entered in
Speaker 1: two years, and now he's on top of it all,
Speaker 1: winning more than eight hundred and sixty thousand dollars. Aaron
Speaker 1: Coopan finished in second place in this one. Nick Schulman
Speaker 1: had another final table run here. He got fifth in
Speaker 1: this one. You had Scott Clemenz who won a bracelet
Speaker 1: earlier this summer. He was back at the final table,
Speaker 1: finishing eighth here as well Scott Clement's taking him eighty K.
Speaker 1: Shoulman hundred ninety seven K. Aaron Coopan for his second
Speaker 1: place got five hundred and seventy four thousand dollars, but
Speaker 1: the bracelet goes to Daniel Aharoni here in eight hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty one thousand dollars. Eddie Blumenthal won the twenty
Speaker 1: five hundred dollars oe that's half stud High Low half
Speaker 1: Omaha High Low, top the field of five hundred and
Speaker 1: eighty seven entries to get two hundred and forty eight
Speaker 1: thousand dollars in his pocket. First bracelet for Bloomenthal. Eddie
Speaker 1: my guy a few years too late here for our
Speaker 1: twenty five K fantasy pick from twenty to twenty two,
Speaker 1: back when we were Team Pocket Five's Eddie Bloomenthal here.
Speaker 1: You know he's he's someone who's had several close calls
Speaker 1: at the World Series of Poker. I think he said
Speaker 1: this was his tenth final table, and that's one of
Speaker 1: the reasons why we drafted him. You know, he's always
Speaker 1: making deep runs, always making final tables. That sort of stuff.
Speaker 1: Finally got that monkey off his back to win his
Speaker 1: first bracelet and two hundred and forty eight thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: In the ten k Mystery Bounty, you had Alex Anton
Speaker 1: topping a field of five hundred and fifty eight entries
Speaker 1: to win six hundred and seventy eight thousand dollars. Of course,
Speaker 1: I'm sure there were some mystery bounty pulls along the
Speaker 1: way for Anton that probably padded his his winning quite
Speaker 1: a bit. His first bracelet, his largest live score. He
Speaker 1: beat Julian Siphon in second place. Josh Reicher finished in
Speaker 1: third place. There, Champion Douglas got fourth. Kent Stevens he
Speaker 1: won a He won the Poker Masters Showcase on the
Speaker 1: PGT last season, I believe, or maybe he won the
Speaker 1: Poker Roll Cup Showcase. I think he won the Poker
Speaker 1: Roll Cup Showcase earlier this season. I can't remember, but
Speaker 1: Kent Stevens here finishing in ninth place for fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: Kent Stevens when he won that showcase event came out
Speaker 1: of nowhere, like we didn't know who he was, came
Speaker 1: out and where won the tournament started firing a few
Speaker 1: more PGT events. He did dip in for some USPO
Speaker 1: stuff here and there. Okay, great, you know, now he's
Speaker 1: been here a ton at the World Series of Poker
Speaker 1: firing away. You know, I didn't know if you know,
Speaker 1: maybe okay, that was kind of his shot for those
Speaker 1: early PGT stuff and we wouldn't see too much of
Speaker 1: him since. But that has not been the case. Kent
Speaker 1: has been absolutely firing and here he gets final table
Speaker 1: run and a fifty thousand dollars score and then rounding
Speaker 1: out the winners that we're going to talk about on
Speaker 1: this episode of the pod, we got the one K
Speaker 1: Seniors Championship winner, Homan Mohammadi, topping a field of seven thousand,
Speaker 1: five hundred and thirty eight entries, winning six hundred and
Speaker 1: sixty thousand dollars. Mohammadi's from North Vancouver, Canada. He told
Speaker 1: Poker News after he won this one, it's like a
Speaker 1: dream come true. Absolutely, I've been very close multiple times,
Speaker 1: but going through this field plus but going through this
Speaker 1: field and trying to keep the flag up, it just
Speaker 1: feels amazing some of those close calls. Just looking at
Speaker 1: Mohammadi's hend In Moob he had in twenty seventeen, a
Speaker 1: second second place finish in a sixteen hundred dollars championship
Speaker 1: event at the Win during the summer so it was
Speaker 1: part of the Win Summer Classic. He had two hundred
Speaker 1: and eleven thousand dollars score there. He had a third
Speaker 1: place finish in a WSP circuit event in Richmond in Canada.
Speaker 1: I think that's also in Vancouver, one hundred and ten
Speaker 1: thousand dollars there. So you know he's had he's had
Speaker 1: some big scores on on his resume. Of course, nothing
Speaker 1: you know, comes close to this. You know, you get
Speaker 1: the six hundred and sixty thousand dollars, you get the
Speaker 1: gold bracelet, so you know, great for him, big big
Speaker 1: rail he had on his side of things. They really
Speaker 1: did embrace him when that final river card hit and
Speaker 1: he won the bracelet. So good for home on Mohammadi.
Speaker 1: And that's it. That's the pod. I know. We didn't
Speaker 1: get fully caught up with everything. We still got we
Speaker 1: got this ten k horse playing down the three K
Speaker 1: six Max Nolam and hold him, which a wild story
Speaker 1: from that where a gentleman sat down to play started started.
Speaker 1: I I might as well talk about this he started,
Speaker 1: he started, He just lit up a cigarette at the table.
Speaker 1: I saw it was funny. I'm browsing on social media.
Speaker 1: I see a post from Nick Shulman. It says a
Speaker 1: gentleman in this three K six Max went for the
Speaker 1: very rarely seen basically unprecedented move of simply lighting up
Speaker 1: a cigarette and casually enjoying it until, of course being
Speaker 1: removed from the tournament. Lol. My so Shaulmann puts that
Speaker 1: on Twitter, right when I get a text message from
Speaker 1: my friend Ronnie Barto who says, a drunk Brazilian animal
Speaker 1: just lit a cigarette in the middle of the three
Speaker 1: K floor. Security came over, he just kept on smoking
Speaker 1: it at the table while trying to talk to him.
Speaker 1: They made him get up out of his seat. He
Speaker 1: took all of his chips and just stuffed him in
Speaker 1: his pocket. And then then you know, security in the
Speaker 1: flour like you got to give the chips back, and
Speaker 1: then he just kept pulling chips out. I guess, like,
Speaker 1: you know, handful by handful to give him back. There's
Speaker 1: a video of this, you know, I know Ronnie put
Speaker 1: something on his story. I think the WSP account has
Speaker 1: an official video of what happened. There. I mean, it
Speaker 1: was it looked like madness out there. I mean, we're
Speaker 1: at the halfway point of the World Series of Poker,
Speaker 1: the Brazilians are winning World Cup games, and this dude
Speaker 1: is just sitting down and just ripping a sick, just
Speaker 1: just ripping it. Like they're like in the video, like
Speaker 1: they're they're yelling at him, and he's just he's just
Speaker 1: still going like he's just enjoying, enjoying his life. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's that's one of the most expensive cigarettes ever because
Speaker 1: it probably cost that gentleman three thousand dollars. But yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that had that that happened. I guess I should give
Speaker 1: another shout out here, not that that was necessarily a
Speaker 1: shout out, but some of the people that I've been
Speaker 1: meeting around the world Treez of Poker that I've yet
Speaker 1: the shout out here on the podcast. But I should
Speaker 1: also get caught up with this. We got Jared Villa Reale.
Speaker 1: He came over to me back when I played the
Speaker 1: seventeen hundred dollars US Circuit Championship. He was a few
Speaker 1: tables over. He came over to me wished me good luck.
Speaker 1: That was in level two of that tournament. Thank you,
Speaker 1: Jared appreciated. Hopefully you have plenty of luck this summer
Speaker 1: as well. Justin Butt saw me on Break of the
Speaker 1: Monsters Act. He said, I've emailed you before, just wanted
Speaker 1: to introduce myself in person. So Justin, what's up my
Speaker 1: man Ryan, who I met last year, and he said,
Speaker 1: this year, Ryan, I don't I gotta look up. I
Speaker 1: think I kind of look up how you did in
Speaker 1: the Monsters Ack. I know you made Day two with me.
Speaker 1: My Day two sucked. I think you were still in
Speaker 1: when I busted. But Ryan said that he's playing the
Speaker 1: main event for the first time with his son turning
Speaker 1: twenty one this year, so that's great. We got Jim
Speaker 1: from Seattle who spawned seven big blinds back up into
Speaker 1: a starting stack at reg Close that was also in
Speaker 1: the Monster Stack. I believe, so good on Jim. Now
Speaker 1: I met this guy Sean from Cali. Okay, I mean this,
Speaker 1: This guy gave me a story, so it wasn't as
Speaker 1: crazy as the guy in the All Lakers outfit that
Speaker 1: was talking about the hooker and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 1: But Sean from Calli he's driving in to play here
Speaker 1: at the World Series of poker, he said, a bit
Speaker 1: of ways outside of Las Vegas. Before he gets into
Speaker 1: Las Vegas, his car breaks down. Okay, so he calls
Speaker 1: and he gets it towed. If I remember correctly, he
Speaker 1: told me he was staying either at Horse Reparis. So
Speaker 1: he's thinking, like where do I get it toad. Well,
Speaker 1: across the street from Horseshoe. Outside there's a restaurant and
Speaker 1: like a parking lot Batista's Batista's hole in the wall.
Speaker 1: So he he says, he tells them, okay, let's have
Speaker 1: a toad there, because you can't really have like a
Speaker 1: tow truck bring your car into like the parking garage
Speaker 1: at Horseshoe, especially with the gates and everything like that.
Speaker 1: So while he gets that, he gets it set up
Speaker 1: where he goes to the security at Batista's because they
Speaker 1: have security patrolling outside. I said, listen, I just need
Speaker 1: to put my car here for like half an hour.
Speaker 1: I need to go check into the hotel and get
Speaker 1: that squared away, and then I'm gonna come back over
Speaker 1: here and I'm gonna sort the situation with the car. Okay.
Speaker 1: Security guard tells him, okay, great, He goes, he gets
Speaker 1: over to his hotel so that he can check in.
Speaker 1: He comes back and gone. He was gone for like
Speaker 1: fifteen minutes. The car is already towed out of Batistas.
Speaker 1: I mean, first of all, security people like, if you're
Speaker 1: gonna tell the guy you're gonna let him do that,
Speaker 1: then just let him do it, like come me, come on.
Speaker 1: So that's what happened to Sean. So he he was
Speaker 1: dealing with that whole situation. Hopefully, you know, things turn
Speaker 1: in his favor, he gets a little bit more good
Speaker 1: luck in some of the tournaments that he's playing, because
Speaker 1: that sucks when you got to deal with that. You know,
Speaker 1: you're coming in from out of town. The first issue,
Speaker 1: the car breaks down, that's super annoying and frustrating. Second
Speaker 1: issue is that you know, you think you're doing the
Speaker 1: right thing getting this all situated. You check with the
Speaker 1: security guard. You don't just leave it there on your
Speaker 1: own accord whatever, and then they go and do something
Speaker 1: like that. So hopefully the cards treat you well and
Speaker 1: repay you for that one. Sean shout out to Matt
Speaker 1: from Boise, Idaho who caught up with me. I think
Speaker 1: it was right outside the cash game room here. You
Speaker 1: got Jeff Schneider. I played with him in the Turbo Bounty.
Speaker 1: It's funny because like you play with some people and
Speaker 1: then they don't they don't like say anything to you
Speaker 1: until like later on. But anyway, play with Jeff. He
Speaker 1: was the one who was like, he's like, so, are
Speaker 1: you still doing the podcast? I said, yeah, I'm doing it,
Speaker 1: you know, just about every day. And then he's like, oh,
Speaker 1: I haven't seen it or whatever. I said. So I
Speaker 1: pulled up my phone just to make sure that it
Speaker 1: was there. I said, what do you what do you use?
Speaker 1: He's like, I forget what he said, but you know,
Speaker 1: I looked at it and I was like, yeah, it's
Speaker 1: it's there, you know. He said, oh, but you hadn't
Speaker 1: done it for a while before the World Series, right,
Speaker 1: I said, yeah, you know, we we did take a
Speaker 1: lot of time off, so that's probably why, you know,
Speaker 1: you forgot about it. But we are back, you know,
Speaker 1: pretty much every day, or at least every day that
Speaker 1: I can. And then, you know, just earlier tonight, shout
Speaker 1: out to my guy Andrew de Fayo. He said he
Speaker 1: bagged again in the Million Maker, so he must have
Speaker 1: bagged Day one A and then bagged Day one B,
Speaker 1: or maybe he bagged Day one B and bag Day
Speaker 1: one C today. I can't remember exactly, but Andrew. Andrew's
Speaker 1: funny because every time I see him, and I've probably
Speaker 1: seen Andrew I don't know, half a dozen times now,
Speaker 1: you know. I've seen him at the World Series several times,
Speaker 1: many different years. I've seen him at the wind at
Speaker 1: different times, and every time he comes up to me,
Speaker 1: he's like, what's up, Donnie, Andrew d FAYO. He always
Speaker 1: always just introduces himself. I had I had to check
Speaker 1: you on, and Andrew, you know, I had to be like, listen, man,
Speaker 1: I know your name by now. I know I'm bad
Speaker 1: with most names, I really am, but you specifically Andrew,
Speaker 1: because you tell me every single time your name is Andrew. DeFeo.
Speaker 1: I know your name. Okay, Love you man. Hopefully hope
Speaker 1: the best for you on day two here in the Millionmaker.
Speaker 1: I hope it goes better than the first Day two
Speaker 1: went for you. Hope you make a run in that thing.
Speaker 1: All right, That's all I got. I'm gonna go check
Speaker 1: back in on the Seawan Dee match versus Joey Coodin.
Speaker 1: We'll see what's going on there. And then probably get
Speaker 1: out of here for the night. I'm supposed to play
Speaker 1: the Millionmaker on Saturday. I kind of feel like crap,
Speaker 1: so I might end up skipping it. I don't like
Speaker 1: to put my money at risk. I don't like to
Speaker 1: put my investors money at risk when I'm not feeling
Speaker 1: up to it, So we'll see how that goes. I
Speaker 1: was hoping to get a decent amount of sleep tonight,
Speaker 1: but I don't know if that's gonna be in the card,
Speaker 1: so we'll see how it goes. As always, I appreciate
Speaker 1: you guys for listening. This has been the Poker Gol podcast.
Speaker 1: My name is Donnie Peters, and I will talk to
Speaker 1: you next time. It express