Speaker 1: Hello, everyone, Welcome back to a new episode of the
Speaker 1: Poker Go Podcast. It is Sunday, May thirty first, I'm
Speaker 1: getting this one in just before the clock turns over
Speaker 1: and we are in June. It is eleven fifty one pm.
Speaker 1: Just wrapped up another day down at Paris Slash Horseshoe
Speaker 1: for the twenty twenty six World Series of Poker. There
Speaker 1: were seven tournaments running today. Seven. The place is as
Speaker 1: alive as it has been this summer and it is
Speaker 1: freaking awesome. We'll hit on a bunch of those tournaments
Speaker 1: that happen, might not touch on every single one, but
Speaker 1: you know, we'll do our best. Of course, some big
Speaker 1: news that went down today. A million dollar bounty was
Speaker 1: pulled down at Believe. That was pulled at Horseshoe is
Speaker 1: where they were doing day two of the Mini Mystery Millions.
Speaker 1: There were some other big bounties pulled as well. A
Speaker 1: couple two hundred and fifty k ones, a few one
Speaker 1: hundred k ones we got. The twenty five K Heads
Speaker 1: Up Championship is working its way down to the final
Speaker 1: four now. At time of recording, there are still eight
Speaker 1: players remaining. They are playing out the final round right now.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, guys, I'm not waiting up till this ends.
Speaker 1: I don't know when it's gonna end, so we're doing
Speaker 1: this on the fly. If anything comes across my desk,
Speaker 1: i'll talk about it as if it's happening now, that's fine,
Speaker 1: But if not, I'm just gonna basically touch on who
Speaker 1: the final eight are and then we'll go from there
Speaker 1: to set up what will be the final day on Monday.
Speaker 1: And then Nick Shulman, the Goat, as some may say,
Speaker 1: was denied gold bracelet number eight. We'll talk about that
Speaker 1: one throughout this podcast as well. And then I got
Speaker 1: a little bit of a take here, at least I
Speaker 1: want to throw my take into the ring after a
Speaker 1: question that recently came up on the WSP Countdown Show.
Speaker 1: And then speaking of that WSP Countdown Show, which is
Speaker 1: what it is officially called, as we learned when I
Speaker 1: spoke with Jeff Platt on the last episode of the podcast,
Speaker 1: if you didn't listen to that episode, I just want
Speaker 1: to remind you go back and listen to it. A
Speaker 1: little special edition podcast drop. It was just Jeff and
Speaker 1: I talking about the new era for the World Series
Speaker 1: of Poker, the new Grand arena that the final tables
Speaker 1: and the feature tables are being played at, plans for
Speaker 1: the coverage, the streaming, all that sort of stuff. Jeff
Speaker 1: is a good friend of mine and we had a
Speaker 1: really good chat that was taking that took place on
Speaker 1: the last episode. If you are listening to this podcast,
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Speaker 1: And I really want you guys to send in some questions,
Speaker 1: some comments, your own takes and thoughts on the twenty
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Speaker 1: Even if they're not. If I want to make funny whatever,
Speaker 1: I'll likely read it on air and then listen. I've
Speaker 1: been getting a lot of questions about Tim. About Tim Duckworth. Doucky,
Speaker 1: my guy who was on the podcast before, is not
Speaker 1: on the podcast. Now here's the deal. I fired it,
Speaker 1: just kidding. The real deal is that Tim has a
Speaker 1: different role this summer, he is working directly with the
Speaker 1: production team. He's basically a table liaison. He did a
Speaker 1: lot of that in recent years with our team, but
Speaker 1: as this summer is a much more scaled up offering
Speaker 1: of what's going on, and we are handling the production
Speaker 1: side in partnership with the WSP and in partnership with
Speaker 1: Gigi Poger, it's just a lot heavier lift. Like, for example, tonight,
Speaker 1: he's going to be doing the table liaison stuff. I
Speaker 1: don't know till maybe two or three am, who the
Speaker 1: heck knows. So his schedule doesn't really jive with the podcast,
Speaker 1: at least for right now. So there's obviously a chance
Speaker 1: he comes back on when that schedule shifts back to
Speaker 1: more of a normal thing, But at least for these
Speaker 1: early days here, he's been handling that twenty five K
Speaker 1: heads up, which has been running pretty late every night
Speaker 1: so far. So yeah, listen, I'll do my best to
Speaker 1: do it myself, and I really love doing it. So
Speaker 1: you know, if it was a choice between I can
Speaker 1: either do it myself on a lot of the days
Speaker 1: or people aren't getting a podcast, I'm choosing to do
Speaker 1: it myself. Okay, So that's why I'm here bringing you
Speaker 1: guys the podcast again, hopefully every single day that we can.
Speaker 1: As we go, you know, I will continue to work
Speaker 1: in some good interviews. I just talked about the show
Speaker 1: that I did with Jeff Platt talking with him. We
Speaker 1: had Daniel Gebba a winner interview from him. We had
Speaker 1: a special interview that I did with Nick Palmer as well.
Speaker 1: Both of those were two episodes ago, so go check
Speaker 1: those out as well, and we'll carry on throughout the
Speaker 1: summer as best we can. I don't know what's going
Speaker 1: to happen on days when I play. I do plan
Speaker 1: on playing eight events, the first of which is coming
Speaker 1: up on Tuesday. I'm going to hop into this. I
Speaker 1: don't even know really what it's called, the ws AP
Speaker 1: Circuit Championship. I guess I don't know. I should get
Speaker 1: the I should get the actual name of this tournament.
Speaker 1: The name of it, PERWSP dot com, is the nola
Speaker 1: At Hold Them US WSP Circuit Championship. I don't really
Speaker 1: know what that means. I don't think it's anything special
Speaker 1: other than a branded way to help promote the WA Circuit.
Speaker 1: But I'll be in there fire on that one. It
Speaker 1: starts on Tuesday. You are allowed three bullets max. One
Speaker 1: entry plus two re entries. I am bringing all three
Speaker 1: shells ready to blast off. Let's freaking go. Hopefully I
Speaker 1: can still pod and do it extremely late at night
Speaker 1: and I'll just be running deep. You know. That would
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Speaker 1: thing up for the news of the day. We got
Speaker 1: Nick Shulman, the man, the myth, the legend, the goat,
Speaker 1: was denied his eighth w Soop gold bracelet. He finished
Speaker 1: second in the fifteen hundred dollars badoogie event from a
Speaker 1: field of five hundred and fifty four entries. Shulman collected
Speaker 1: ninety four thousand dollars in prize money. But I don't
Speaker 1: think it's really about the prize money for him in
Speaker 1: a tournament like this, It's more about getting number eight,
Speaker 1: getting another piece of WASP hardware, more legacy, all that
Speaker 1: sort of stuff that goes with the great Nick Shulman.
Speaker 1: The winner Michael Cassella won it for one hundred and
Speaker 1: forty one thousand dollars. It was his first World Series
Speaker 1: of Poker Gold bracelets. These two battled a long ass time.
Speaker 1: I think heads up play lasted three to four hours.
Speaker 1: Shulman did have the lead at one point, but then
Speaker 1: he ultimately got short. But when he got short, it
Speaker 1: was like every time that Shulman was all in, he
Speaker 1: just kept doubling up, kept doubling up, kept doubling up.
Speaker 1: But then you know, after a couple hours of that
Speaker 1: Shulman just couldn't hold on any longer. He was ultimately
Speaker 1: overcome by Cassella. Scott sever finished third in that one.
Speaker 1: But I know a lot of people out there were
Speaker 1: rooting and were sweating the action and hoping that that
Speaker 1: Nick Shelman would get number eight. A lot of actually
Speaker 1: a lot of big names stop by to hang out
Speaker 1: on the rail. You had Eric Washerson, Jason Mercier, Matthew Wantman,
Speaker 1: Jean Barbart Baland came over many times, was saying, you
Speaker 1: got this, Nikki, you got this Nikki likely, you know,
Speaker 1: verbally cheering his man on. Frank Brannon was there on
Speaker 1: the rail. You know, people just kind of Darius Martino
Speaker 1: stopped by at one point, so you know, people were
Speaker 1: come by, they were really they're really sweat and Nick
Speaker 1: hoping that he could get number eight, but ultimately fell short.
Speaker 1: That said, a second place finished ninety four k is
Speaker 1: still a very good result, especially this early in the summer,
Speaker 1: and Nick's gonna have plenty of opportunities to go out
Speaker 1: there and get his eighth WSP Gold bracelet. If he
Speaker 1: were to win it, he would join You got Michael Mzrocky,
Speaker 1: Benny Glauser and Sean deeb they all have eight. Ahead
Speaker 1: of them, you got Johnny Moss's got nine. Then there's
Speaker 1: three players with exactly ten. Eric Saidel, Johnny Chan and
Speaker 1: Doyle Brunson. Phil Ivy has got eleven, and then of
Speaker 1: course Phil Hellmuth has seventeen. So all of those players
Speaker 1: have reached at least eight gold bracelets, if not more,
Speaker 1: tied at seven alongside Nick Shulman. Third place finisher Scott
Speaker 1: sever in this event, sever was also going for his
Speaker 1: eighth WSFP gold bracelet. Brian Rast has seven and the win
Speaker 1: or men the win. I was gonna say men the master,
Speaker 1: but then I wanted to leave out the master, and
Speaker 1: then I got tripped up. Men win as seven, uh
Speaker 1: d n Eggs Daniel and Legrand who also has seven,
Speaker 1: John Hennigan with seven, Billy Baxter with seven, and Josh
Speaker 1: Aria also got seven. So a lot of players there,
Speaker 1: a lot of really good players could have a really
Speaker 1: really good opportunity to get to get to number eight,
Speaker 1: and heck, maybe even more. I mean a couple of
Speaker 1: summers ago Scots he was out there winning three goal braces.
Speaker 1: Day two of the WSP Mini Mystery Millions took place Today,
Speaker 1: twenty thousand, four hundred and eighty eight entries were tallied
Speaker 1: in this tournament, total six starting flights to get there.
Speaker 1: That makes this tournament the twenty twenty six Mini Mystery
Speaker 1: Millions the sixth largest live poker tournament of all time.
Speaker 1: It moves ahead of the twenty twenty two WASP Housewarming
Speaker 1: event that had twenty thousand and eighty entries, and then
Speaker 1: it slotted just behind the twenty twenty four Gladiators of
Speaker 1: Poker also ASP event. That event had twenty thousand, six
Speaker 1: hundred and forty seven entries, so booming field in that
Speaker 1: one did think it would get up over twenty thousand entries,
Speaker 1: and it did. Today was Bounty Day when they announced
Speaker 1: the bounties. You had a one million dollar bounty up
Speaker 1: for grabs. You had two two hundred and fifty thousand
Speaker 1: dollars bounties up for grabs, and then you had four
Speaker 1: one hundred thousand dollars bounties up for grabs. Of course,
Speaker 1: there was a slew of other bounties, but those were
Speaker 1: the biggest in the Treasure test and Andrew Shelton was
Speaker 1: the man who pulled the million dollar bounty and it
Speaker 1: was pretty wild. What happened to him when he pulled it.
Speaker 1: So I was reading through the story on Andrew Selton
Speaker 1: Shelton pulling the million dollar bounty over on pokernews dot com,
Speaker 1: and he said, when I drew the gold chest, I
Speaker 1: was under the gun. So I said, I'd play my
Speaker 1: button and then go up after that, because if the
Speaker 1: screen populates that he'd get a gold chest, you get
Speaker 1: to go up and actually draw out of the chest.
Speaker 1: Shelton continues, But on my button, I got ace king
Speaker 1: in against pocket aids to bust so Shelton. Shelton says, okay,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna play my button, then I'll go up. He
Speaker 1: plays his button and busts on his button. Then he
Speaker 1: goes up and it's a million dollar pull. He went wild.
Speaker 1: He was screaming, he was yelling, he was celebrating and
Speaker 1: jumping up and down. The emotion, the reaction you love
Speaker 1: to see when you turn a five hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: dollars buying into a million dollar bounty pull, absolutely incredible stuff.
Speaker 1: Shelton finished in one hundred and second place in the
Speaker 1: tournament for thirty three hundred and fifty dollars, so you
Speaker 1: know he good cash there. Obviously good run hundred and
Speaker 1: second out of twenty thousand and four hundred and eighty
Speaker 1: eight entries, but then pulling that seven figure bounty just
Speaker 1: absolutely freaking insane stuff. You had Jacob Long and Adidia
Speaker 1: Sisla pulling two hundred and fifty thousand dollars bounties each.
Speaker 1: I don't really understand this, but those bounties were actually
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty thousand, three hundred dollars. I don't
Speaker 1: get that, but that's what they were worth. And then
Speaker 1: you had Christopher George Cartek, Ved, Peter Lee, and Hunter Payne.
Speaker 1: Those four players each pulled one hundred thousand dollars bounties.
Speaker 1: First place in this event is still up for grabs
Speaker 1: as well, four hundred thousand dollars up top again five
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty dollars buying in this Mini Mystery million tournament.
Speaker 1: I believe I saw. I just did a quick scan
Speaker 1: of the chip guns. I'm not gonna look through him,
Speaker 1: you know, too crazy right now, But I did see
Speaker 1: Mike Leah was stilling. I mean, he's probably gonna win
Speaker 1: with the way that that guy performs in big field
Speaker 1: Pobra tournament. So that tournament I believe, is set to
Speaker 1: finish on Monday, so stay tuned for some more news
Speaker 1: from the Mini Mystery Millions. The twenty five K heads
Speaker 1: up is down to the final eight. Sixteen players returned
Speaker 1: for day two, then the final eight are. These are
Speaker 1: the matches that are happening right now as I record,
Speaker 1: you got Bowding up against Dimitar dan Chev. You got
Speaker 1: Carrie Katz playing Ryuta Nakai, you got Henry Pustinen playing
Speaker 1: Nikita KU's nets off, and Thomas Boyvaan is taking on
Speaker 1: Alex Fox and they are all up. On the main stage,
Speaker 1: those final eight players have locked up one hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty thousand dollars. A min cash was worth sixty K.
Speaker 1: Then they got one hundred and fifty thousand. I believe
Speaker 1: it was our sixty k if I remember correctly. If
Speaker 1: not shoot me, but whatever, the final aid are getting
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty thousand, and there's an eight hundred
Speaker 1: thousand dollars first place prize up for grabs. This is
Speaker 1: a PGT qualifying event, so there will be some implications
Speaker 1: for the PGT leaderboard that eight hundred thousand dollars first
Speaker 1: place prize that translates to four hundred and eighty PGT points.
Speaker 1: So you know, as we go out throughout the summer,
Speaker 1: there are thirty one PGT qualifying events. We are Poker
Speaker 1: gro we do have the Poker Grow Tour. So yes,
Speaker 1: I'm going to talk about it and we'll see how
Speaker 1: that leaderboard starts to get adjusted and moved around as
Speaker 1: we go on the BSIP Countdown show, not the one
Speaker 1: that was done today, but the previous one. There was
Speaker 1: a question that came up. They always do kind of
Speaker 1: hot topics or questions and then all the panelists, you know,
Speaker 1: give their points and debate and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 1: But the question was asked if heads up poker is
Speaker 1: the purest form of poker, And I know that that's
Speaker 1: often thrown around. I know that that's often thought about.
Speaker 1: You know, some people say the purest form of poker
Speaker 1: is Nolanman hold them. Some people say the purest form
Speaker 1: of poker is nolantdo seventh single draw. Some say it's
Speaker 1: specifically heads up poker when it comes to Nola A
Speaker 1: hold them. So that's what this question was centered around,
Speaker 1: and after giving it some thought, here's where I land,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna apologize ahead of time for what is
Speaker 1: essentially going to be some fence straddling here. Now, the
Speaker 1: case for heads up being the purest form of poker is,
Speaker 1: you know, there are a couple of things working in
Speaker 1: the favor of that. That's going to be your argument.
Speaker 1: There's nowhere to hide, right you're sitting there. You got
Speaker 1: to play basically every hand. I mean, you don't have
Speaker 1: to play every hand, but if you don't play nearly
Speaker 1: every hand, you're going to get absolutely steamrolled. In heads
Speaker 1: up poker, every decision that you make, every hand that
Speaker 1: you play, every street that you play, every bet that
Speaker 1: you make, all that sort of stuff, all those decisions
Speaker 1: they are only against one opponent, which I think just
Speaker 1: magnifies the scope of everything. Because when you're constantly doing
Speaker 1: the same thing over and over again, and in the
Speaker 1: case of heads of poker, you're constantly planning aainst the
Speaker 1: same opponent repeatedly, you know, those patterns start to build,
Speaker 1: and then there's a lot of you know, adjusting to
Speaker 1: the patterns, pattern recognition, metagame, all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 1: So adjustments and counter adjustments matter more than table dynamics
Speaker 1: in a heads up format. Positional battles, you know, hand reading,
Speaker 1: timing of things. You know, this is a big stack
Speaker 1: over here, he's just attacking the little stacks over here.
Speaker 1: He's got a certain position at the table. There's there's
Speaker 1: all those different elements when you're playing more than just
Speaker 1: heads up. You know, six handed, full ring, whatever it
Speaker 1: may be. All that sort of stuff is very much
Speaker 1: amplified when it's just one on one. You're under the
Speaker 1: microscope every single hand. Now, what I just said is
Speaker 1: is you know that's kind of the that's the case
Speaker 1: for heads up poker being the purest form. Now where
Speaker 1: I think it starts to break down a little bit,
Speaker 1: and I don't think it fully breaks down, But there's
Speaker 1: a volume argument that comes into play specifically with heads
Speaker 1: up poker tournaments because listen, when you play heads up cash,
Speaker 1: and specifically when you play heads up cash games online,
Speaker 1: you know that is where you can get in tens
Speaker 1: of thousands of hands. You know you can play if
Speaker 1: you're playing heads up cash online, you know you can
Speaker 1: play one opponent or across multiple tables for a lengthy
Speaker 1: period of time, and next thing you know, you're playing
Speaker 1: multiple thousands, if not tens of thousands of hands against
Speaker 1: a singular opponent, So the card distribution and the edges
Speaker 1: that are present from either player, you know, that all
Speaker 1: becomes to become much more, you know, apparent it just
Speaker 1: it just becomes fine tuned quite a bit more. Again, this,
Speaker 1: I know this is a little bit of fence straddling
Speaker 1: here because I just made the case for why heads
Speaker 1: of poker can be the purest form. But now I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: heads up tournament poker, I don't know if it can
Speaker 1: be just due to the time and volume constraints. Now,
Speaker 1: if you want to do a heads of poker tournament
Speaker 1: that last two weeks, Okay, I get it, Like that's
Speaker 1: a different animal, right, but you can't do that. It's
Speaker 1: just not possible. Most heads up poker tournaments are done
Speaker 1: in two or three days, if not one day, if
Speaker 1: you're playing you know something that's a little bit smaller
Speaker 1: buying or whatever. So you know, heads up poker, yes,
Speaker 1: it can be the purest form of poker because every
Speaker 1: decision is magnified and there's nowhere to hide. But a
Speaker 1: heads up poker tournament isn't necessarily the purest test of
Speaker 1: skill because the sample sizes just ultimately are too small.
Speaker 1: So the purer that the format becomes strategically, the more
Speaker 1: volume you need to accurately identify, you know, who's ultimately
Speaker 1: the better player or who has the bigger edge, and
Speaker 1: then that edge applied over an extended period of time
Speaker 1: is likely going to you know, normalize a bit more. So, yes,
Speaker 1: I don't think there's any argument that heads up poker
Speaker 1: is an extremely pure form of the game. But when
Speaker 1: it comes to heads up tournaments, when you are constrained
Speaker 1: by time, when you are constrained by getting to a
Speaker 1: very very large volume, you know, it's not necessarily the
Speaker 1: best measure of this being the purest form of poker.
Speaker 1: So yes, that is some fence straddling. But I've been
Speaker 1: thinking about this for a day and a half and
Speaker 1: that's where I settled on this, on the question of
Speaker 1: you know, is heads up poker the purest form of poker?
Speaker 1: So the answer is yes, but you know, yes because
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Speaker 1: guessing and start winning. All right, Now that I got
Speaker 1: my heads up, take out of the way, let's just
Speaker 1: bounce around quickly to what's going on elsewhere around the
Speaker 1: World Series of Poker. You got Phil Hellmuth, the one
Speaker 1: and only, is pushing for gold bracelet number eighteen. I
Speaker 1: mentioned earlier that he's one of those players who has
Speaker 1: at least eight WSFP gold races. He's the way the
Speaker 1: hell up there was seventeen. He's chasing number eighteen, and
Speaker 1: he is down to the final couple of tables in
Speaker 1: the ten thousand dollars buy in Omaha High Low tournament.
Speaker 1: Last I looked about fifteen or twenty minutes ago, Helmuth
Speaker 1: had a top two stack. He was behind just Scott Clements. Now,
Speaker 1: of course, chips can fluctuate quite fast in tournaments, but
Speaker 1: he looks like he's been going strong. With the way
Speaker 1: that Phil Helmuth plays, the style that he enacts in
Speaker 1: these tournaments, he's always a very, very very tough one
Speaker 1: to kill, so if he has a lot of chips,
Speaker 1: I can only imagine this is really setting itself up
Speaker 1: for a final table run. I don't know what the
Speaker 1: streaming plans are for Monday, but I would say that
Speaker 1: if helm Youth is in line for number eighteen, better
Speaker 1: turn them dem cameras on because the hell of a
Speaker 1: lot of people are gonna be watching and wanting to
Speaker 1: watch Phil hemm Youth go for number eighteen. And even
Speaker 1: if he doesn't, you know, Phil helm Youth on a stream,
Speaker 1: it's always just pure entertainment, right, especially in a game
Speaker 1: like like Omaha Hi Low, where I'm sure he's gonna
Speaker 1: have a few choice words his own thoughts, and I'm
Speaker 1: sure that will come out with how his opponents are playing,
Speaker 1: you know, especially if he starts starts taking some beats.
Speaker 1: You got Scott Clements in the mix, still, you got
Speaker 1: James Ops, Rob Misrocki, Josh Aria, they were all still
Speaker 1: in with a couple of tables left. At time of recording.
Speaker 1: I think it's four hundred and fifty thousand dollars up
Speaker 1: top in that one, in the six hundred dollars deep
Speaker 1: stack that kicked off today. Quite a weekend if you
Speaker 1: if you got into the the last flight of the
Speaker 1: five hundred and fifty Mini Mystery Millions. Maybe that worked out,
Speaker 1: maybe it didn't. But then today, you know, you got
Speaker 1: the six hundred dollars Deep Stack starting tomorrow or sorry,
Speaker 1: on Monday kicks off the fifteen hundred dollars Nolman hold
Speaker 1: Them six Max. And then on Tuesday you got that
Speaker 1: seventeen hundred dollars Doubsipy Circuit Championship event. So a nice
Speaker 1: little string here for the lower buying Nolan at Holden players.
Speaker 1: But in this six hundred dollars deep stack, four thy
Speaker 1: six hundred and twenty two entries, goodfield, big number, but
Speaker 1: it is down twenty five percent from last year. Last
Speaker 1: year this event, same event number, event number ten had
Speaker 1: six thousand and ninety entries. So a bit of a
Speaker 1: downtick there, but we have seen several downticks across the board.
Speaker 1: I think it's just par for the course, you know,
Speaker 1: And it's not just the Doubsip events. You're you're seeing
Speaker 1: numbers that are not that they're necessarily down a ton
Speaker 1: or missing guarantees is what I really should say, because
Speaker 1: you know, other venues do a lot of guarantees, but
Speaker 1: it's more like they're kind of like just making guarantees,
Speaker 1: which when you're operator and you're sweating a guarantee never
Speaker 1: you don't want to just make it, you know. I
Speaker 1: know I always say that, like you should fall within
Speaker 1: a little bit of a guarantee, a little bit over.
Speaker 1: That means you set a good guarantee that was hard
Speaker 1: to attain. But I think operators always love to smash it.
Speaker 1: That's always the phrase, guarantee, smash guarantee crushed on you know,
Speaker 1: day two or whatever. But it makes them sweat a bit.
Speaker 1: I get it. You know, we had a guarantee it
Speaker 1: in the Poker gro studio that we had to sweat.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's not fun to sweat those things. But
Speaker 1: you know, down there in the six hundred dollars deep stack,
Speaker 1: the ten k GGI millions kicked off that had around
Speaker 1: two hundred entries and I when I hit record, they
Speaker 1: had the clock pause. They must have been playing out
Speaker 1: the final couple hands of the day and they were
Speaker 1: right around two hundred entries. The clock said one ninety four.
Speaker 1: But maybe there was a couple of people that got
Speaker 1: in because this is unlimited entry and you can register
Speaker 1: into Day two, so you know it might have been
Speaker 1: some stuff that wasn't tallied yet. That said, around two
Speaker 1: hundred entries on day one. A in this ten thousand
Speaker 1: dollars buy an event takes place on Monday. The survivors
Speaker 1: from both flights will come back on Tuesday. Ultimately, if
Speaker 1: I have this correctly four day event. The structure in
Speaker 1: this one is wild. So you start with one hundred
Speaker 1: thousand chips and it's one hundred two hundred, so you're
Speaker 1: starting with five hundred big blinds. Now, in the WSP
Speaker 1: Main Event, the greatest tournament in the world, you start
Speaker 1: with sixty k and the blinds are one hundred three
Speaker 1: hundred big lines, so you have an incredibly deeper start
Speaker 1: starting stack here in this ten KGG millions. You also
Speaker 1: have unlimited rantry in this tournament, and then you have
Speaker 1: max Late registration and you can come in on Tuesday
Speaker 1: and you can come in with twenty five big lines.
Speaker 1: That is a ton of big blinds to come with
Speaker 1: Max Late. So I'm gonna guess that I mean basically
Speaker 1: between today or between Sunday and Max Late redge on Tuesday,
Speaker 1: like you can get other tournaments in right so I
Speaker 1: think a lot of other a lot of people might
Speaker 1: just wait to max late this thing on Tuesday. Might
Speaker 1: it might be one of those things where, you know,
Speaker 1: I think we saw it for sure last year, if
Speaker 1: not the year before too. But like the max late
Speaker 1: reg you know, you have fifty sixty. However many people
Speaker 1: showing up at the end, they got to do like
Speaker 1: a full tournament rejaw, like that whole thing that kind
Speaker 1: of delays everything. I think this is gonna be one
Speaker 1: of those tournaments where you're gonna have a ton of
Speaker 1: people showing up with twenty five big lines, which is
Speaker 1: a lot to work with. You know, normally you come
Speaker 1: in max lay, you're working with I don't know, twelve
Speaker 1: and a half bigs, fifteen bigs whatever, I mean, twenty
Speaker 1: five that's a reasonable stack. You can actually play a
Speaker 1: bunch of hands and play them to the river. So
Speaker 1: that's gonna be something something to consider. And then we'll
Speaker 1: see how how Day one B of that tournament goes.
Speaker 1: Obviously we always expect starting flights to increase as you
Speaker 1: go deeper into the structure, but we'll see. You know,
Speaker 1: we already have one tournament earlier that did dip from
Speaker 1: Day one B to Day one A. But obviously that
Speaker 1: that shot up right after that. I would expect, let's say,
Speaker 1: three hundred to three point fifty on Day one B.
Speaker 1: That's gonna be my guess. So get up over five
Speaker 1: hundred for this tournament. I don't know. Well, you know,
Speaker 1: we'll see this is this is an interesting tournament, and
Speaker 1: we'll see how it goes, right. I mean, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of heavy hitters. I was walking around the field
Speaker 1: today a little bit. You know, all the all the
Speaker 1: big nolemic guys are in there, you know, but I
Speaker 1: know a lot of people were talking about the structure
Speaker 1: and how it's almost too good, and that they'll just
Speaker 1: take advantage of that that late registration and then go
Speaker 1: play some other things in these two days and go
Speaker 1: from there. Also, kicking off today, you had the fifteen
Speaker 1: hundred dollars no limit deuced to seven single jaw. Now
Speaker 1: this one, you know, we've talked to times about how
Speaker 1: these numbers are down. This one had a nice boost
Speaker 1: over last year. So last year they had five hundred
Speaker 1: and thirty two entries in this tournament. This year six
Speaker 1: twenty six, that's an eighteen percent increase. That is tremendous
Speaker 1: to get to get a boost like that in this
Speaker 1: tournament again fifteen hundred dollars, no limit, deuce to seven
Speaker 1: singles d all. So that's that's really cool there to
Speaker 1: see this event get get an up tech tick like this.
Speaker 1: You know, I think the ten k O eight, by
Speaker 1: the way, was down a tiny bit. You know, it's
Speaker 1: very much in line with last year. So you know,
Speaker 1: some events are holding strong, other events are dipping down.
Speaker 1: But here, you know, we get a nice uptick from
Speaker 1: this uh fifteen dollars ducee and well and we'll see,
Speaker 1: you know, Nolan duce and we'll and we'll see if
Speaker 1: you know, some other these events start to uptick as
Speaker 1: we go. You know, I think I think the first
Speaker 1: couple of days you're coming up Memorial Day weekend, people
Speaker 1: are still trying to kind of get their bearings. You
Speaker 1: get a bunch of people still like coming in from
Speaker 1: trit and all that sort of stuff. So you know,
Speaker 1: I think I think numbers will still be pretty good
Speaker 1: carrying through. I was talking with David Baker, her good
Speaker 1: friend ODB the other day, and he was saying how
Speaker 1: he's still bullish on the WAD event, which I am
Speaker 1: still bullish on the wasb min event, you know, and
Speaker 1: I think I mentioned that with uh in my conversation
Speaker 1: with Jeff Platt. But I'm just you know, I still
Speaker 1: think that, Like I don't know, part of me says
Speaker 1: GG poker slash the wicip is gonna do whatever they
Speaker 1: can as the summer goes on to cramp more people
Speaker 1: into that tournament. I don't know. That's how I just feel.
Speaker 1: I feel like you come out with this like this
Speaker 1: is your first I know, last year was their first
Speaker 1: year owning the Dobsip you know, I'm talking about GG Poker.
Speaker 1: But this year, like you come with this new giant
Speaker 1: ass arena, like you're doing all this new streaming stuff.
Speaker 1: You move from the Horseshoe over to Paris for everything.
Speaker 1: You know, you got one hundred events on the schedule,
Speaker 1: like it's you know, everything is like okay, let's go,
Speaker 1: this is our thing. Now we're rocking, we're rolling. Well
Speaker 1: do you want to couple that with a lower number
Speaker 1: in the event. I don't think so. So I think
Speaker 1: they're gonna they're gonna turn the heat up, you know
Speaker 1: quite a bit. Maybe that means more satellites, Maybe they
Speaker 1: leverage more stuff on wsp dot com here in the
Speaker 1: States as we get closer to it. Maybe it's more
Speaker 1: live satellites, you know. Maybe GG poker is ramping stuff
Speaker 1: up on their platform for rest of the world. I
Speaker 1: don't know what it is, but that's just the sense
Speaker 1: that I get, you know, like I don't think you
Speaker 1: want to come out and do all this amazing stuff.
Speaker 1: But then at the end of it, people are only
Speaker 1: talking about a number when it comes to the douvas
Speaker 1: main events. Now, I've always said it and I'll say
Speaker 1: it again. Whether you get seventy five hundred eighty five hundred,
Speaker 1: eight thousand, nine thousand, ten thousand, eleven thousand, whatever it is,
Speaker 1: those are insanely big numbers for a ten K freeze out,
Speaker 1: you know. So yes, those numbers are great. But we
Speaker 1: all know how the media is and we're always going
Speaker 1: to be talking about things, and it's like, okay, you
Speaker 1: know what sort of decline is in poker because the
Speaker 1: WASIP minivent is this big barometer for the entire industry,
Speaker 1: and I just think it's it's kind of hard with
Speaker 1: how everything is. One. You got the taxing, the ninety
Speaker 1: percent rule that sucks. I hate it. I hopefully it
Speaker 1: gets you know, reverted, but you know, what can you
Speaker 1: do right now? It's there, right and people are you know,
Speaker 1: worry about it, and they're concerned about it, so you
Speaker 1: got that. Another thing is it's just freaking expensive. And
Speaker 1: I don't think a lot of people have a lot
Speaker 1: of money. I mean, it's just it's just the nature
Speaker 1: of the world. Everything is going up, up, up, up up,
Speaker 1: Yet you know, salaries and all that sort of stuff
Speaker 1: aren't really you know, following at the same pace, so
Speaker 1: it's hard. Maybe people just have a little bit less
Speaker 1: money to throw around when it comes to pover that said,
Speaker 1: if you are going to throw money around, it's going
Speaker 1: into the waspre main event as far as I'm concerned.
Speaker 1: So I am still bullish on the ubas main event.
Speaker 1: I am still sticking with my prediction that it gets
Speaker 1: back up over ten thousand entries. That is my prediction,
Speaker 1: and I'm sticking with it until I tell you guys
Speaker 1: that I'm not. So let's gobs to be main event.
Speaker 1: And with that, I got nothing else to talk about.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you guys in stick are tired of me,
Speaker 1: but again, you know, I do want to hear your thoughts.
Speaker 1: I love hearing questions from you, guys. I love hearing
Speaker 1: takes from you guys. I love hearing if you want
Speaker 1: to debate me, if you want to argue with me,
Speaker 1: if you think I'm right, if you think I'm wrong,
Speaker 1: whatever it may be. Maybe there's some stories out there
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Speaker 1: I love engaging with the fans. I've met a couple
Speaker 1: of you at Paris or Horseshoe this summer, and I
Speaker 1: hope to meet many more of you. So that's that.
Speaker 1: That's gonna do it for this episode of the Poker
Speaker 1: Girl Podcast. My name is Donny Peters. It was a
Speaker 1: pleasure as always, and now we'll talk to you guys
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