WEBVTT 1 00:00:10.759 --> 00:00:12.839 Hello, everyone, Welcome back to a new episode of the 2 00:00:12.919 --> 00:00:17.199 Poker Go Podcast. My name is Donnie Peters. It is 3 00:00:17.239 --> 00:00:21.320 good to be back. It is Saturday, June twentieth, twelve 4 00:00:21.679 --> 00:00:25.920 thirty eight am. I am still at the World Series 5 00:00:25.920 --> 00:00:28.879 of Poker. I am at Paris. I'm trying to wait 6 00:00:29.399 --> 00:00:33.600 on this Sean Deeb versus Joey Coodin heads up match 7 00:00:33.759 --> 00:00:37.600 in the three K nine game Mix aka the Mini PPC. 8 00:00:38.159 --> 00:00:40.520 Really wish they would change that name, Jeff Platt, make 9 00:00:40.560 --> 00:00:43.439 it happen, buddy, change the name. You got the Mini 10 00:00:43.479 --> 00:00:45.759 Mystery Millions, you got the Mini main Event. We the 11 00:00:45.799 --> 00:00:49.479 Mini PPC. Like, let's go trying to wait this out. 12 00:00:49.840 --> 00:00:52.960 The plan was that if this ends, I'm gonna interview 13 00:00:53.560 --> 00:00:56.000 Sean Deeb if he wins and gets his ninth bracelet, 14 00:00:56.399 --> 00:00:59.640 and then work that into the pod and talk about it. 15 00:01:00.000 --> 00:01:03.280 Because it's about to be twelve forty am. I think 16 00:01:03.320 --> 00:01:06.000 I'm just gonna bang out this pod and then leave 17 00:01:06.040 --> 00:01:10.359 whatever happens in that tournament until the next episode. It 18 00:01:10.439 --> 00:01:13.079 has been a couple of days since I've been on 19 00:01:13.280 --> 00:01:17.640 this microphone. I've been feeling under the weather. Haven't been 20 00:01:17.680 --> 00:01:20.239 able to pod at nighttime, trying to get my rest 21 00:01:20.280 --> 00:01:22.120 so I can somehow survive the summer. It's just that 22 00:01:22.200 --> 00:01:24.079 every time I get into this place for the World 23 00:01:24.120 --> 00:01:26.799 Series of Poker, I'm just around all these animals that 24 00:01:26.840 --> 00:01:29.519 bring all these different types of viruses and diseases and 25 00:01:29.599 --> 00:01:32.719 germs and bacteria from god knows where. It just eats 26 00:01:32.799 --> 00:01:35.799 my body alive, so trying to survive through it all. 27 00:01:35.840 --> 00:01:38.640 So that's why I haven't been doing the show for 28 00:01:38.680 --> 00:01:40.680 the past couple of days. But here we are tonight, 29 00:01:41.239 --> 00:01:45.879 and we have a wide variety of winners to talk 30 00:01:45.920 --> 00:01:48.760 about one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight people, 31 00:01:49.239 --> 00:01:52.480 eight players, one gold bracelets that we're going to get 32 00:01:52.519 --> 00:01:55.719 caught up on. But first I do need to remind 33 00:01:55.760 --> 00:01:59.120 you guys that season sixteen of High Sakes Poker is 34 00:01:59.159 --> 00:02:02.519 airing now on Poker Go. And the reason why I 35 00:02:02.560 --> 00:02:05.799 want to bring it up is because what just dropped 36 00:02:06.400 --> 00:02:11.599 includes the largest ever pot in high stakes poker history, 37 00:02:11.800 --> 00:02:15.199 more than two point four million dollars in the middle 38 00:02:15.199 --> 00:02:18.599 and no, it was not chopped. This is a single 39 00:02:18.879 --> 00:02:21.400 winner pot. So you guys can check out all the 40 00:02:21.400 --> 00:02:25.159 new episodes from season sixteen of High Stakes Poker exclusively 41 00:02:25.280 --> 00:02:28.840 on Poker Go, and if you want to save some bucks, 42 00:02:29.080 --> 00:02:31.560 head on over to poker Go use the promo code 43 00:02:31.759 --> 00:02:35.439 HSP sixteen when you sign up for a new annual plan. 44 00:02:35.520 --> 00:02:37.439 It also works if you're a monthly or a quarterly 45 00:02:37.479 --> 00:02:40.240 subscriber and you want to upgrade because that promo code 46 00:02:40.280 --> 00:02:43.840 will get you thirty dollars off your first year. All right, 47 00:02:43.879 --> 00:02:47.719 straight into it here. First up, we got Alex Foxen. 48 00:02:48.120 --> 00:02:50.520 That's right. We talked about Kristen Foxen winning. Now we 49 00:02:50.560 --> 00:02:54.199 got Alex Foxen winning. He won the ten K Super 50 00:02:54.479 --> 00:02:58.719 Turbo Bounty, a single day event. Fox And top d 51 00:02:58.840 --> 00:03:02.759 field of four hundred forty six entries to win almost 52 00:03:03.000 --> 00:03:07.680 six hundred thousand dollars. Don't know what he won in bounties. 53 00:03:07.719 --> 00:03:09.719 Believe it was seven K to the prize bowl three 54 00:03:09.879 --> 00:03:14.240 K per bounty. I'm assuming well, I mean he got 55 00:03:14.280 --> 00:03:16.280 at least one bounty for winning the tournament. I'm assuming 56 00:03:16.319 --> 00:03:18.159 it was many more with the way that fox And plays, 57 00:03:19.000 --> 00:03:21.360 so probably well over the six hundred thousand dollars mark 58 00:03:22.000 --> 00:03:26.960 going to him fourth WSOP bracelets might be surprising to 59 00:03:26.960 --> 00:03:29.759 hear that it is only his fourth with how successful 60 00:03:30.159 --> 00:03:33.759 Alex Foxen is, But you know, it's his fourth right now, 61 00:03:33.960 --> 00:03:36.319 and I'm assuming he's gonna get many, many more throughout 62 00:03:36.319 --> 00:03:40.319 his career. He beat Yikshi Tang in heads up play, 63 00:03:40.599 --> 00:03:44.159 Tang taking home almost four hundred thousand dollars for his 64 00:03:44.199 --> 00:03:47.680 finish there. Martin Zemani made the final table, Harvey Castro 65 00:03:48.120 --> 00:03:51.000 made the final table. Jamie Dwan made the final table 66 00:03:51.080 --> 00:03:54.840 as well. This fourth bracelet for fox And comes after 67 00:03:54.919 --> 00:03:58.360 he won his first bracelet was in twenty twenty two. 68 00:03:58.439 --> 00:04:00.560 He won the two hundred and fifty K Super High 69 00:04:00.639 --> 00:04:04.120 Roller for more than four point five million dollars. Then 70 00:04:04.159 --> 00:04:06.919 he won an online bracelet. He won the five hundred 71 00:04:06.919 --> 00:04:10.520 dollars pot limit Omaham Mystery Bounty six Max Tournament only 72 00:04:10.560 --> 00:04:12.919 twenty K. What was the prize there? Of course, it's 73 00:04:12.919 --> 00:04:15.919 a mystery bounty format, so plenty of money I'm sure 74 00:04:16.000 --> 00:04:18.439 went into the Mystery Bounty prize pool for that one. 75 00:04:18.680 --> 00:04:22.920 And then twenty twenty four at WSP Paradise, Foxen won 76 00:04:23.000 --> 00:04:25.600 one hundred thousand dollars. Triton Nolan had hold him a 77 00:04:25.639 --> 00:04:28.519 main event that was a bracelet event as part of 78 00:04:28.519 --> 00:04:31.199 the partnership between Triton and the World Series of Poker 79 00:04:31.639 --> 00:04:34.720 down in Paradise in the Bahamas three point eighty five 80 00:04:35.120 --> 00:04:39.399 million for the score there for Fox, and after the win, 81 00:04:39.800 --> 00:04:43.240 he told Poker News, I think your career is really 82 00:04:43.279 --> 00:04:47.360 about repeated performance and an entire body of work rather 83 00:04:47.439 --> 00:04:51.079 than one event proving something. This doesn't feel like to 84 00:04:51.160 --> 00:04:53.759 me as much the one that would do that, but 85 00:04:53.839 --> 00:04:56.120 it's a piece of the body of work. So I'm 86 00:04:56.160 --> 00:04:59.399 proud of it that that statement there from Fox, and 87 00:04:59.439 --> 00:05:02.079 you know, that echo a lot of the stuff that 88 00:05:02.639 --> 00:05:04.360 I've heard him say over the years, that he's told 89 00:05:04.439 --> 00:05:06.279 me over the years, and some of our interviews that 90 00:05:06.319 --> 00:05:10.040 we've done when he's won PGT events, you know, kind 91 00:05:10.040 --> 00:05:11.800 of that same sort of line, like it's just about 92 00:05:12.360 --> 00:05:16.879 building that resume, stacking that trophy case, getting those accolades 93 00:05:16.959 --> 00:05:19.600 time and time again, because at the end of it all, 94 00:05:19.759 --> 00:05:22.160 you know, it's about what you've done over the course 95 00:05:22.160 --> 00:05:26.639 of your career, not just one month, one tournament, one year, 96 00:05:26.720 --> 00:05:30.040 whatever it may be. So to me, that's that's the 97 00:05:30.079 --> 00:05:32.920 bulk of the story here. A lot of poker discussion 98 00:05:33.639 --> 00:05:38.000 often gets reduced to you know, we count bracelets, different titles, 99 00:05:38.120 --> 00:05:42.279 WPT titles, triton titles, whatever it may be. Individual results, 100 00:05:42.360 --> 00:05:45.800 you know. But Foxton's point here is just trying to 101 00:05:45.920 --> 00:05:51.319 drive home that that greatness isn't concise. You know, it 102 00:05:51.439 --> 00:05:55.279 is generally, or it should generally be viewed as expansive. 103 00:05:55.399 --> 00:05:58.439 You know, what did you do over your entire body 104 00:05:58.480 --> 00:06:02.480 of work? It's the accumulation of those results over years 105 00:06:02.519 --> 00:06:04.279 and years and years. You know. The Poker Hall of 106 00:06:04.279 --> 00:06:06.879 Fame always had this thing, did the players stand the 107 00:06:06.920 --> 00:06:09.399 test of time? You know? And that's kind of what 108 00:06:09.519 --> 00:06:12.680 Foxin is getting at here. You know, we've seen hot 109 00:06:12.680 --> 00:06:15.120 streaks for let's say, a full summer at the World 110 00:06:15.160 --> 00:06:17.639 Series of Poker. We've seen hot streaks for an entire year, 111 00:06:17.720 --> 00:06:19.759 two years, three years, four years, whatever it may be. 112 00:06:20.720 --> 00:06:23.680 But those when you when you pull back and you 113 00:06:23.720 --> 00:06:25.800 look at the grand scheme of things go, those can 114 00:06:25.839 --> 00:06:28.199 be just blips on the radar right now. They could 115 00:06:28.240 --> 00:06:31.000 be incredibly impressive, don't get me wrong, you know, but 116 00:06:31.920 --> 00:06:33.800 how good was this person from kind of when they 117 00:06:33.800 --> 00:06:37.000 started playing poker to when they finished? You know, have 118 00:06:37.079 --> 00:06:39.160 they done it for a long period of time? And 119 00:06:39.319 --> 00:06:41.199 they did? They do it at the at the top, 120 00:06:41.279 --> 00:06:45.480 you know, against the best players and constantly winning. Foxing, 121 00:06:45.560 --> 00:06:49.399 to me, has done that and it's it's pretty crazy 122 00:06:49.480 --> 00:06:52.160 to think that he's only thirty five years old. I 123 00:06:52.959 --> 00:06:54.560 don't know. I always thought in my mind he was 124 00:06:54.720 --> 00:06:57.000 a little bit closer to forty, you know, not Hall 125 00:06:57.040 --> 00:07:00.680 of Fame eligible yet, but you know, get in thirty eight, 126 00:07:00.759 --> 00:07:03.279 thirty nine. But the fact that he's only thirty five, 127 00:07:03.399 --> 00:07:07.720 I mean, that's just absolutely wild. He just continues to 128 00:07:07.759 --> 00:07:11.319 do it over and over and over again. This is 129 00:07:11.360 --> 00:07:14.680 his fourth bracelet. He's the reigning PGT Player of the Year. 130 00:07:14.879 --> 00:07:18.160 This was a PhD qualifying event, be it a ten 131 00:07:18.199 --> 00:07:21.240 thousand dollars buying ws AP event, and he's right back 132 00:07:21.279 --> 00:07:23.199 into the running now. Believe this puts him in the 133 00:07:23.199 --> 00:07:26.480 top three. I think he's sitting second in the race 134 00:07:26.639 --> 00:07:28.839 right now from you know, so he could go back 135 00:07:28.879 --> 00:07:30.720 to back for being a PGT Player of the Year. 136 00:07:30.759 --> 00:07:33.759 That's pretty crazy. Some of the other big results, you know, 137 00:07:33.759 --> 00:07:36.319 these aren't all of his results that he's had during 138 00:07:36.319 --> 00:07:37.959 the summer here at the World Series of Poker, but 139 00:07:38.000 --> 00:07:40.120 he got sixth in the one hundred k high roller 140 00:07:40.160 --> 00:07:43.079 and he got seventh in the twenty five k p 141 00:07:43.199 --> 00:07:45.680 Loo high Rollers, So some two really big scores there. 142 00:07:45.879 --> 00:07:48.920 In addition to this almost six hundred thousand dollars win 143 00:07:49.240 --> 00:07:52.959 for fox Him. You know when I say Ford Basby bracelets, 144 00:07:53.000 --> 00:07:55.399 when I say PGT Player of the Year, When I 145 00:07:55.560 --> 00:07:58.720 say bracelet in the ten K Super Turbo Bounty, two 146 00:07:58.800 --> 00:08:01.199 other final tables, in the o K high Roller, and 147 00:08:01.240 --> 00:08:04.240 in the twenty five K POO high Roller, that for 148 00:08:04.399 --> 00:08:08.279 a lot of players, that's a successful career. Like if 149 00:08:08.279 --> 00:08:10.439 that happened to me, I'd be like, yes, my poker 150 00:08:10.480 --> 00:08:12.800 career was a success. I crushed it. I did a 151 00:08:12.839 --> 00:08:15.360 lot of really great things. I mean, But for Alex Foxen, 152 00:08:15.720 --> 00:08:18.360 that's just June. Okay, that's all He's done in June 153 00:08:18.439 --> 00:08:21.720 and we're only twenty days through. It's absolutely wild. He's 154 00:08:21.759 --> 00:08:24.480 just going to continue to build this resume over and 155 00:08:24.519 --> 00:08:26.560 over and over again, you know, I mean, as long 156 00:08:26.560 --> 00:08:29.279 as he continues to play, right. I mean, he could 157 00:08:29.319 --> 00:08:30.959 walk away from the game, I'm sure. But to me, 158 00:08:31.120 --> 00:08:33.440 you know, fox And seems like a lifer. He's going 159 00:08:33.519 --> 00:08:36.440 to be in this one until the bitter end. You know. 160 00:08:36.639 --> 00:08:39.600 He also he wins it no limit. He wins in 161 00:08:39.600 --> 00:08:43.759 the high rollers, he wins in PLO. He's starting to 162 00:08:43.879 --> 00:08:48.240 dabble in mixed games. Now that's really specifically no limit 163 00:08:48.320 --> 00:08:51.639 Deuce to seven, which is kind of a hybrid mixed game. Yes, 164 00:08:51.679 --> 00:08:53.679 it's still big bed, but it's also a mixed game 165 00:08:53.720 --> 00:08:56.679 format kind of. You know, he wins online, obviously, he 166 00:08:56.759 --> 00:09:00.360 wins live. You know, he keeps just growing this sample size. 167 00:09:00.399 --> 00:09:02.879 I would love to see if he starts really dabbling 168 00:09:02.919 --> 00:09:05.559 into the mix game stuff, you know, because just with 169 00:09:05.679 --> 00:09:07.799 the volume that's here at the World Series of Poker, 170 00:09:08.720 --> 00:09:10.759 we could really see him do some damage and in 171 00:09:10.879 --> 00:09:14.879 terms of the bracelet count, right. So yeah, it's just 172 00:09:14.919 --> 00:09:17.720 really cool to see someone have this continued success like this. 173 00:09:17.799 --> 00:09:21.039 I know Alex really really wants it. He's highly competitive, 174 00:09:21.600 --> 00:09:25.120 and he just added another great little accolade here to 175 00:09:25.200 --> 00:09:27.840 his ever growing career. We also can't forget, you know, 176 00:09:27.919 --> 00:09:30.639 I mentioned it quickly off the top, but his wife, 177 00:09:30.720 --> 00:09:34.200 Kristen Foxen a week ago she won the twenty five 178 00:09:34.279 --> 00:09:36.919 k high Roller for one point eight million. That was 179 00:09:36.960 --> 00:09:39.799 her sixth gold brace that She's got two more than 180 00:09:39.799 --> 00:09:43.240 Alex does right now. So between the two of them, 181 00:09:43.279 --> 00:09:45.200 I mean, what a freaking summer it's been for the 182 00:09:45.200 --> 00:09:49.200 Fox's and we still have half the WSOP still to go. 183 00:09:50.080 --> 00:09:54.320 This is easily I mean it's without question, husband wife combo. 184 00:09:54.399 --> 00:09:57.080 This is the most successful one we've ever had and 185 00:09:57.240 --> 00:09:59.799 likely we'll ever have in poker. I mean, you can 186 00:10:00.519 --> 00:10:03.320 couples whatever it is. I mean, these two are the 187 00:10:03.360 --> 00:10:08.559 absolute best of the best. It really is just superb stuff. 188 00:10:15.399 --> 00:10:20.720 Another player who is highly talented has a ton of 189 00:10:20.879 --> 00:10:24.840 stuff on his resume as well, just won his sixth 190 00:10:25.120 --> 00:10:29.399 WSOP bracelet. That is Calvin Anderson. He won the ten 191 00:10:29.480 --> 00:10:33.720 k Raz Championship for three hundred and fifty seven thousand dollars, 192 00:10:33.799 --> 00:10:36.799 top in a field of one hundred and fifty five 193 00:10:37.039 --> 00:10:39.720 entries in this championship event. Here at the World Series 194 00:10:39.759 --> 00:10:45.480 of Poker for Anderson, his second time winning the ten 195 00:10:45.559 --> 00:10:50.440 k Raz Championship. This time around he topped Eric Rodterwig 196 00:10:50.720 --> 00:10:55.159 in heads up play. Todd Dakaki got third place, Tobias 197 00:10:55.240 --> 00:10:58.480 Lechness got fourth. Tobias I believe had a final table 198 00:10:58.559 --> 00:11:01.039 run in the Super High Roll of Mixed Games tournament. 199 00:11:01.039 --> 00:11:03.679 If you guys here yelling, that's the that's the Sean 200 00:11:03.720 --> 00:11:07.879 Deep versus Joey Coudin final table. That's behind the wall. 201 00:11:08.480 --> 00:11:12.159 Here also at this final table in the ten k 202 00:11:12.200 --> 00:11:15.120 Reces Championship, Max Cruse you've Al Bronstein, Philip Sternheimer, and 203 00:11:15.159 --> 00:11:19.720 Shane Littlefield. So six gold racelets. Now, for Calvin Anderson, 204 00:11:19.759 --> 00:11:22.440 I mentioned that he previously won the ten K Rece Championship. 205 00:11:22.480 --> 00:11:25.759 Before that was back in two thousand and eighteen. I 206 00:11:25.840 --> 00:11:28.639 believe it was twenty fourteen when he won his first 207 00:11:28.720 --> 00:11:31.159 as ap goal bracelet and the fifteen hundred dollars stud 208 00:11:31.240 --> 00:11:33.919 High Low. Then he won that ten K res Championship 209 00:11:33.919 --> 00:11:37.440 in twenty eighteen. In twenty twenty three, he won two bracelets. 210 00:11:37.519 --> 00:11:40.120 One was online, it came in the one K PLO 211 00:11:40.240 --> 00:11:43.279 six Max. He won the or sorry, they were both online, 212 00:11:43.840 --> 00:11:45.600 and then the second online one was in the fifty 213 00:11:45.600 --> 00:11:49.000 three hundred dollars Super High Roller six Max about fifty 214 00:11:49.039 --> 00:11:51.080 thousand dollars and then one hundred and forty one thousand 215 00:11:51.080 --> 00:11:54.440 dollars there respectively. For those two wins, twenty twenty four, 216 00:11:54.799 --> 00:11:59.399 Anderson won the ten K eight Game Mix Championships. So 217 00:12:00.080 --> 00:12:04.480 quite the well rounded bracelet grouping here for Calvary and Anderson. 218 00:12:04.559 --> 00:12:06.600 You know, and I think there's a legitimate argument that 219 00:12:07.039 --> 00:12:10.720 he's one of the most overlooked elite players that we 220 00:12:10.799 --> 00:12:13.879 have in poker. You know, six bracelets at the end 221 00:12:13.879 --> 00:12:17.159 of the day is six bracelets. And then you know 222 00:12:17.440 --> 00:12:21.080 within those bracelets two ten k Raids Championships, the eight 223 00:12:21.120 --> 00:12:24.279 Game Mixed Championship. I mean, those are super super tough bracelets. 224 00:12:24.519 --> 00:12:26.919 This fifty three hundred dollars Super high Roller six Max 225 00:12:26.919 --> 00:12:29.679 that was played online that I'm sure was not easy 226 00:12:29.840 --> 00:12:32.159 at all. I mean you also have to include in 227 00:12:32.200 --> 00:12:35.799 twenty twenty three at the WPT World Championship. At the win, 228 00:12:36.559 --> 00:12:40.240 he won the WPT Prime Championship for almost one point 229 00:12:40.279 --> 00:12:42.399 four million dollars. I don't have no idea how many 230 00:12:42.440 --> 00:12:44.279 players were in that field, but it's probably around ten 231 00:12:44.320 --> 00:12:47.799 thousand or so. Who knows. He's got several other ws 232 00:12:47.799 --> 00:12:50.480 AP final tables. I know, ultimately we don't always count 233 00:12:50.480 --> 00:12:52.279 that are Maybe it's not that we don't count it, 234 00:12:52.320 --> 00:12:54.200 we don't think about it all the time. But he's 235 00:12:54.200 --> 00:12:58.480 had plenty of close runs to other WSP bracelets. You know, 236 00:12:58.639 --> 00:13:01.159 he just to me, he's somebody who kind of rarely 237 00:13:01.159 --> 00:13:04.080 gets discussed alongside some of the bigger names in the game, 238 00:13:04.120 --> 00:13:06.559 and I think that's probably because he's not in the 239 00:13:06.600 --> 00:13:11.039 spotlight as often. He doesn't play every single major tour stop. 240 00:13:12.120 --> 00:13:14.960 I mean just in our little ecosystem that we deal with. 241 00:13:15.000 --> 00:13:18.120 You know, he's not grinding every single PGT event. He 242 00:13:18.200 --> 00:13:19.840 puts in a good amount of volume at the World 243 00:13:19.840 --> 00:13:22.000 Series of Poker, but I don't think he's here playing 244 00:13:22.080 --> 00:13:24.480 every single day, every single tournament like let's say in 245 00:13:24.559 --> 00:13:27.360 Alex Faxon or a Sean Deep might He's just not 246 00:13:28.039 --> 00:13:30.919 in that conversation. But it's not that he shouldn't be, 247 00:13:30.919 --> 00:13:34.399 because cal is extremely good and every time he's in 248 00:13:34.399 --> 00:13:36.840 the field, he's awesome. And I think, actually right now 249 00:13:36.919 --> 00:13:39.519 as I'm recording this, I think he's still in the 250 00:13:39.559 --> 00:13:42.559 ten k Horse Championship and they're down to two tables. 251 00:13:43.000 --> 00:13:45.320 He was in about twenty minutes ago, so I think 252 00:13:45.360 --> 00:13:47.480 he's still in. So so you know he's he's doing 253 00:13:47.519 --> 00:13:50.159 it again. I mean, this guy is absolutely freaking incredible. 254 00:13:50.519 --> 00:13:53.840 This tournament, this ten k Rats Championship that he just won. 255 00:13:55.320 --> 00:13:57.679 I mean, he went as wire to wire as you 256 00:13:57.720 --> 00:13:59.759 can come. He was the chip leader after day one, 257 00:13:59.840 --> 00:14:01.960 he was the chip leader after day two, and then 258 00:14:01.960 --> 00:14:03.759 he went on to win the event on day three. 259 00:14:03.840 --> 00:14:06.240 Now I'm sure at some point, you know, somebody might 260 00:14:06.320 --> 00:14:08.799 have overtook him and somebody else had the chip leader 261 00:14:08.840 --> 00:14:10.799 when he did, and I know for sure that happened, 262 00:14:10.919 --> 00:14:12.679 or at least I'm ninety eight percent sure that it 263 00:14:12.720 --> 00:14:15.720 happened at the final table. So it's not exactly wire 264 00:14:15.799 --> 00:14:18.440 to wire. But when when you finish day one is 265 00:14:18.440 --> 00:14:20.480 the chip leader, then day two is the chip leader, 266 00:14:20.559 --> 00:14:22.399 and then you go on to win the tournament and 267 00:14:22.440 --> 00:14:25.360 seal the deal like that is wire to wire in poker. 268 00:14:25.600 --> 00:14:29.039 I mean, that is absolutely freaking incredible. So what that 269 00:14:29.159 --> 00:14:33.120 tells me is he controlled the tournament. He was in 270 00:14:33.159 --> 00:14:37.080 the driver's seat from start to finish. Then you have 271 00:14:37.200 --> 00:14:40.240 that historical significance of it all, winning the ten k 272 00:14:40.360 --> 00:14:44.639 Ras Championship for a second time. I think now he's 273 00:14:44.679 --> 00:14:50.679 now the most decorated and winningest RAS player in WSP history. 274 00:14:50.679 --> 00:14:53.080 At least I saw that's what Poker News wrote. I 275 00:14:53.120 --> 00:14:55.840 would believe their stats people that that's what they said. 276 00:14:56.480 --> 00:15:00.200 So when it comes to Raz, specialists Calvin anders and 277 00:15:00.279 --> 00:15:03.120 is right there, it's got to be the best, right 278 00:15:03.200 --> 00:15:06.000 he just has to be. Now, Raz is off in 279 00:15:06.080 --> 00:15:09.360 the game. Everyone loves to joke about, everyone loves to dismiss, 280 00:15:09.399 --> 00:15:11.480 everyone loves to complain about, you know, all that sort 281 00:15:11.519 --> 00:15:14.960 of stuff. But I think Anderson has really embraced that, 282 00:15:15.200 --> 00:15:17.519 and he talked about that a little bit in the 283 00:15:17.559 --> 00:15:20.519 winter interview that he did with Poker News. I won't 284 00:15:20.519 --> 00:15:22.200 get too much into it, you know, I would encourage 285 00:15:22.200 --> 00:15:23.879 you guys to go to Poker News, find the event, 286 00:15:24.279 --> 00:15:26.440 and find what cal had to say after he won. 287 00:15:26.960 --> 00:15:29.039 You know, but basically what he was saying is like, 288 00:15:29.080 --> 00:15:31.000 you know, yeah, sure, people just just keep thinking that 289 00:15:31.039 --> 00:15:33.919 it's all luck, you know, but you know that's that's 290 00:15:33.960 --> 00:15:37.320 not what it is in this game. The point being 291 00:15:37.559 --> 00:15:41.720 with all of this is that Calvin Anderson's got six bracelets. 292 00:15:42.200 --> 00:15:45.600 He's won them in multiple games, multiple variants. He's got 293 00:15:45.600 --> 00:15:49.960 that WPT Prime Championship, He's got several other WSP final tables. 294 00:15:51.879 --> 00:15:57.080 He is a complete tournament player. He's quietly assembled because 295 00:15:57.120 --> 00:16:00.320 he's not the biggest, loudest person in the room. He's 296 00:16:00.360 --> 00:16:03.200 quietly assembled one of the best resumes in the game. 297 00:16:03.679 --> 00:16:05.799 You know. So I think we need to start putting 298 00:16:05.840 --> 00:16:09.159 a little bit more more respect on Calvin Anderson's name 299 00:16:09.200 --> 00:16:14.519 out there. Marco Johnson won the twenty five hundred dollars 300 00:16:14.759 --> 00:16:17.039 freeze out No Limit hold 'em tournament. For this one, 301 00:16:17.120 --> 00:16:19.600 I played in this one. It did not go well. 302 00:16:20.039 --> 00:16:23.000 I you start with thirty five kN chips felt like 303 00:16:23.000 --> 00:16:26.120 a kind of a random number, I guess just quickly 304 00:16:26.159 --> 00:16:27.840 before I get into Marco this. Let me let me 305 00:16:27.879 --> 00:16:29.679 get my little spiel out of the way with how 306 00:16:29.720 --> 00:16:31.879 I did. I built to about one hundred and ten 307 00:16:32.000 --> 00:16:36.320 hundred and fifteen thousand pretty smoothly. Then I ran a 308 00:16:36.320 --> 00:16:39.320 big bluff, bluffed off about seventy five percent of my chips. 309 00:16:40.000 --> 00:16:42.320 Ultimately couldn't really recover from that. I mean I did 310 00:16:42.360 --> 00:16:45.279 kind of grind back a little bit, and then three 311 00:16:45.320 --> 00:16:47.399 bed jammed over a race from Bin Wang from the 312 00:16:47.399 --> 00:16:50.840 small blind. The gentleman in the big blind woke up 313 00:16:50.879 --> 00:16:53.039 with Ace King. I had Ace Queen, and that was 314 00:16:53.080 --> 00:16:55.960 all she wrote. But felt really really good with everything 315 00:16:56.000 --> 00:16:58.200 from that tournament. Feel like I'm playing really really well 316 00:16:58.919 --> 00:17:02.000 right now in all summer. So yeah, I'm really happy 317 00:17:02.000 --> 00:17:03.960 with things. But let's get to the real story here, 318 00:17:04.000 --> 00:17:06.079 because the real story is not me and my stupid 319 00:17:06.119 --> 00:17:10.720 bust out. The real story is Marco freaking Johnson, Crazy Marco, 320 00:17:10.920 --> 00:17:13.240 as he often goes by, or at least he used 321 00:17:13.240 --> 00:17:15.440 to go by. He topped a field of fifteen hundred 322 00:17:15.720 --> 00:17:18.880 and sixty one entries to win more than five one 323 00:17:18.960 --> 00:17:25.279 hundred thousand dollars his third career bracelet. Johnson, I think 324 00:17:25.279 --> 00:17:27.880 it was ten It's been ten years since he won't 325 00:17:27.880 --> 00:17:32.039 won a bracelet. He topped Chino Reim in heads up 326 00:17:32.039 --> 00:17:34.880 play with Chino Rehim taking home three hundred and forty 327 00:17:34.960 --> 00:17:38.519 two thousand dollars. Kenzo Ishida third place for oz Jaka. 328 00:17:38.599 --> 00:17:40.599 I know many of you know that name. Fourth place, 329 00:17:41.480 --> 00:17:44.160 Elliott Smith. I feel like I haven't seen his name 330 00:17:44.160 --> 00:17:48.079 making some WSFP noise recently. He took seventh place in 331 00:17:48.279 --> 00:17:54.480 this one now for Marco. You know, he's one of 332 00:17:54.519 --> 00:17:58.799 the most well respected players in poker. You know some 333 00:17:58.839 --> 00:18:02.559 some bracelet winners that we get every single summer, you know, 334 00:18:02.720 --> 00:18:05.839 also in Europe, also in Paradise, wherever it may be. 335 00:18:06.359 --> 00:18:09.599 You know, they're famous with the fans. So we're talking 336 00:18:10.279 --> 00:18:13.079 in Alex Foxon who we just talked about. We're talking 337 00:18:13.119 --> 00:18:15.319 a Daniel mcgrand now, a Phil Helmuth, A Shawn d. 338 00:18:15.799 --> 00:18:18.480 Nick Shulman, who you know we talked about on a 339 00:18:18.480 --> 00:18:21.319 few episodes ago because he won another gold bracelet. You know, 340 00:18:21.799 --> 00:18:24.880 those those players, those names when they were embracelets, it's 341 00:18:24.920 --> 00:18:28.880 like bang, These are famous with the poker fans out 342 00:18:28.920 --> 00:18:32.960 there like the general poker audience. Other players are famous, 343 00:18:33.039 --> 00:18:36.680 quote unquote famous with players within the community. They are 344 00:18:36.720 --> 00:18:40.160 as well respected as they come. They you know, they 345 00:18:40.160 --> 00:18:43.839 get all the admiration from their peers. And that is 346 00:18:43.880 --> 00:18:47.079 Marco Johnson. You know, that is who he is. I 347 00:18:47.079 --> 00:18:50.240 think the most telling thing about his victory is not 348 00:18:51.200 --> 00:18:56.160 the bracelet himself or the bracelet itself, you know, it's 349 00:18:56.599 --> 00:18:58.720 it's kind of like who shows up on your rail 350 00:18:59.319 --> 00:19:01.759 when you're deep like that, who's in the winner photo? 351 00:19:01.839 --> 00:19:03.599 And and here, you know, I was there towards the 352 00:19:03.599 --> 00:19:06.599 tail end of the night. I did leave before Marcro won, 353 00:19:08.000 --> 00:19:10.119 But you saw the same people that I saw on 354 00:19:10.119 --> 00:19:12.400 the rail in the winner photo. And that was you 355 00:19:12.480 --> 00:19:15.200 got Scott sever you got friend of the Pod David 356 00:19:15.200 --> 00:19:17.799 od b Baker, you got Ray Henson, Phil Sternheim or 357 00:19:17.799 --> 00:19:21.200 Craig Chate, Mark Gregorich. They're all there. They're in the 358 00:19:21.240 --> 00:19:24.599 WINNI photo. They're celebrating. You know, I think that's that's 359 00:19:24.599 --> 00:19:31.000 a little snapshot of how respected Johnson is within poker's 360 00:19:31.000 --> 00:19:33.160 inner circle. And then and then you start seeing the 361 00:19:33.200 --> 00:19:35.440 comments that are coming out on social media. You know, 362 00:19:35.480 --> 00:19:38.960 you got Tony Dunst out there who's saying the ogs, No, 363 00:19:39.079 --> 00:19:42.079 Marco is the man you got Chris Vich giving him 364 00:19:42.079 --> 00:19:44.640 plenty of flowers, saying like, you know, I respect the 365 00:19:44.640 --> 00:19:46.680 hell out of the guy, love the guy. He's great. 366 00:19:47.279 --> 00:19:49.160 Definitely never want to see him at my table, you know, 367 00:19:49.319 --> 00:19:50.799 he's that type of player. You don't want him at 368 00:19:50.839 --> 00:19:52.960 your table, even even as much as you like him. 369 00:19:53.000 --> 00:19:55.400 You don't want Mark at your table because he's that good. 370 00:19:55.880 --> 00:19:59.559 You had Patrick Leonard Pads posting about how nice he is, 371 00:19:59.599 --> 00:20:01.880 how great of a player is also how awesome of 372 00:20:01.920 --> 00:20:03.480 a dad and a family man he is. You know, 373 00:20:03.680 --> 00:20:08.799 so I think generally you really only hear great things 374 00:20:09.759 --> 00:20:13.279 about about Marco, you know, really whoever you talk to. 375 00:20:13.880 --> 00:20:16.920 I've been a little bit cordial with him over the years. 376 00:20:16.920 --> 00:20:21.559 Super nice guy, you don't He's someone who, maybe even 377 00:20:21.640 --> 00:20:23.759 less so than Calvin Anderson, who he just talked about, 378 00:20:23.759 --> 00:20:28.359 who you don't hear about as often because outside of 379 00:20:28.359 --> 00:20:31.480 the summer, like he's just not really around that much. 380 00:20:31.640 --> 00:20:33.400 You know, he might pop in here and there, but 381 00:20:33.480 --> 00:20:36.039 he's basically being a family guy and being a dad 382 00:20:36.039 --> 00:20:38.480 and doing that sort of stuff. The other thing that 383 00:20:38.519 --> 00:20:41.799 I really like about Marco is, and I think I 384 00:20:41.839 --> 00:20:45.160 talked with him maybe last year of the year before 385 00:20:45.720 --> 00:20:48.279 a little bit about this next stuff that I'm about 386 00:20:48.279 --> 00:20:52.000 to say, but it's basically about the evolution of him 387 00:20:52.000 --> 00:20:54.039 and his career as it pertains the poker. You know, 388 00:20:54.160 --> 00:20:58.680 for years he was viewed primarily as a mixed game player, 389 00:20:58.720 --> 00:21:02.039 a mixed game crusher. But after COVID, you know, he 390 00:21:02.079 --> 00:21:05.960 made a conscious effort to modernize and improve his no 391 00:21:06.079 --> 00:21:09.519 limit game. You know, him and I talked specifically about 392 00:21:09.599 --> 00:21:12.240 this sort of thing, and specifically about a course that 393 00:21:12.359 --> 00:21:15.680 I've taken and I've talked about before. Is that Patrick 394 00:21:15.759 --> 00:21:19.640 Leonard's course pads his course on run at once, Pads 395 00:21:19.640 --> 00:21:22.039 on Poker or pads poker. I forget exactly what it's called, 396 00:21:22.519 --> 00:21:25.759 but you know how that course is, you know, it's 397 00:21:26.079 --> 00:21:28.039 it's a few years old now, yes, but I think 398 00:21:28.079 --> 00:21:30.079 it very much still holds up. And I think Marco, 399 00:21:30.279 --> 00:21:33.000 you know, would agree. Five years later, since he really 400 00:21:33.039 --> 00:21:36.119 started putting more time and effort into his nolam At 401 00:21:36.119 --> 00:21:39.160