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

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Go Podcast. My name is Donnie Peters and looks left,

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looks right. I'm flying solo once again, and you are

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only getting an audio podcast once again. Don't worry. This

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one will be I think, on the shorter side. But

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then again, as I say that, I know that in

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past years, every time I say that, it tends to

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run long. But we'll see. I don't think we have

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a whole ton of stuff to go through on this podcast,

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but I did want to get one out there. Today

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was officially Day one of the twenty twenty six World

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Series of Poker, my first day actually on site between

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Paris and Horseshoe. I do think now we need to

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put Paris first before Horseshoe with the way that things

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are laid out, and I'll talk about that today. I

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wanted to just kind of give you know, some first

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impressions of walking around the place, because there is a

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new feel, a new look to things this year. And then,

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of course, you know, we did have a couple of

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tournaments that kicked off today. We had the Mini Mystery Millions.

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We also had the five K eight handed Nolan at

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Hold Them at time of recording, it is twelve o

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six am on Wednesday, May twenty seventh. Those two tournaments

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are still playing out right now, so I'm not gonna

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stick around it and wait up on this day one.

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So you know, forgive me for that one. Also, you're

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gonna have to forgive me because no interviews on this show.

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You know, it was going a little bit late. I

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don't know, things, things felt like they were dragging on

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a little bit there today. But you know, nonetheless, it

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was good to be there. It was good to start

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start feeling the vibe for everything. As always, please do

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like subscribe, rate review to the podcast. Hopefully we'll be

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coming to you daily, but the goal is at least

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five times a week, if not more, that we'll be

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coming to you guys from the twenty twenty six World

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Series of Poker. First things first, let's just talk about

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the start. You know, quiet, but I think that that's

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relatively normal for the World Series. You know, it's it's

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it's building, right, it builds towards that storm. It is calm,

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but also not really calm, because you can feel the

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excitement in the air. You know, you can feel the

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excitement when you talk to a lot of people that

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you may have not seen for weeks, months, you know,

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basically a full year since the last wsop. You definitely

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feel it all. You know, you feel the buzz is

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starting to build, You feel that tension is starting to

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come into play. You know, I think the day one

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is always it's kind of laid back. I know people

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are coming into the summer obviously taking things very serious. Yes,

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but you know, you're you're seeing people that you haven't

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seen for a while, So maybe your focus isn't you know,

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one hundred percent locked in because in between hands, you're

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you're shooting the shit, You're dapping people up at adjacent tables,

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You're going around giving some hugs, you know, checking how

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the fam is, how people have been doing, where they've

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been lately, you know, all that sort of stuff. So

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you know, I get it same sort of vibe on

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my side of things, you know, on the industry side

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of things, the media side of things, like like that's

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just you're kind of out there, just you're gaining your footing.

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and you're just kind of getting acquainted with the people.

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The space and everything that's to come over the next

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you know, six seven, eight weeks. So so that's kind

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of the feel of it all now. One of the

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things that everyone's got to get a little bit acquainted to.

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And if you're coming out here for the w SIPE

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this year, you're going to see it. But the new setup,

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so basically Paris and Horseshoe have flipped the Horseshoe Event Center.

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That's what used to house the feature table stage, you know,

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the mothership, the Thunderdome, whatever you want to call it.

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It was over there in the event center. Then you

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had that other Horseshoe ballroom, I don't remember exactly the

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name of what it was, called the Front one. And

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then on the Paris side you had that giant Paris

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Ballroom that was where you know, a lot of the

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cash came action took place. They had the King's Lounge

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in there. Previously they had that kind of high roller

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section off to the one side of the King's Lounge.

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It was just a huge, huge, huge room, just a

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sea of poker tables as far as you can see. Well,

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they flipped the Horseshoe Event Center and the Paris Room

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so that the Paris Room now houses the new set.

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And I mean, I'm just going to say it right

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now off the top, but calling that thing a stage

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or a set honestly does not do it justice. It

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does not do that thing justice. As my dog Duke

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can't attest to. I can't say much yet because the

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big reveal of this new what I'm gonna call the arena,

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is still to come. It's all going to get revealed.

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The full reveal is on Friday, May twenty ninth. But

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this thing is absolutely effing absurd. The scale is hard

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to believe. I know that I've seen the renderings. I've

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seen the plans. I've seen part of it builds at

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the warehouse in Las Vegas where we have our office

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the Poker Go Campus, you know, but you never really

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get the full thoughts. You know, the juices aren't really

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full in. It doesn't all kind of the dots don't

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connect altogether until you actually see it in person. The

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lights are going, it's in the room. You hear the

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chips getting shoveled in the background, like all that sort

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of stuff. Right, So all that's happening, it's behind this

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big curtain. You can't see it yet. Got to give

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a huge, huge, huge credit, massive credit shout out massive

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the first one of the summer to the team at

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Blueprint Blueprint fifty two. They are the guys that build

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this whole giant thing, headed up by Justin Garone. His

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team is absolutely freaking incredible. You guys can see some

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of their work over at Blueprint fifty two dot Io

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that is the Casino Furnishings, the studio Furnishing's arm within

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the Poker Gaut Umbrella. They absolutely freaking crush this damn thing.

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It is unreal, absolutely unreal. But that's that's all I'm

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gonna say for now. The full reveal again is on Friday,

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May twenty ninth. You know, I'm assuming, like w SIPP

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always does when they do something like this, they do

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a great job at getting a lot of media out there,

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drawing a lot of tension, getting a lot of buzz

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around this thing, do a big reveal. I would guess.

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I have no idea, but I know what they've done

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in the past. When they do sorts of things like this,

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they get some sort of person or celebrity to come

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down and kick it off. You know. I mean, we

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had Lisa Vanda Pump with her dog on the table.

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One year, we've had Guy Fieri doing the bracelet. You know,

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all the you get all this sort of stuff that

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just happens at the World Series of Appropriate. It honestly

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is just a giant spectacle and this, this stage, this set,

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this arena is a spectacle. So you guys will get

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all the videos, you'll get all the social media, you'll

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get all the photos from that coming out on Friday,

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May twenty ninth. But it is absolutely something you do

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not want to miss if you do come out to

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Las Vegas this summer. You know, even if you're coming

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out for a regular chip, maybe you're coming out for

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the Stanley Cup now that the Golden Knights made it.

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You know, maybe you're just popping out here to play

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some of the other events that are going on around town.

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You got to make your way over to Paris and

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you got to check this damn thing out because it

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is freaking unbelievable. Other than that, you know, I walked

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around both venues. You gotta just get your sea legs

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a little bit, because for the past couple of years

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it's been everything has been at Horseshoe. Paris has been

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kind of the secondary venue for the entire World Series

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of Poker this year. It's flipped, so you know, we're

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housed in Paris. That's where we're sitting up. I mean

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it just the whole flow of it feels a lot better.

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It feels more modern, newer, you know. Obviously the Paris

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side is a little bit more up to date than

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the Horseshoe side. The Horseshoe side though, does have like

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a lot of history to it. It feels nostalgic when

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you're walking around the Horseshoe side, you know, yeah, we

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can all do without the smoke. I get it, but

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you know, it just still feel it pulls on those

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nostalgia strings a little bit. There's many, many, many more

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tables I feel like, which I believe they put out

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there at some point that there was a bunch of

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new tables. A lot of the tables look brand new,

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as if they were just built. The felt looks brand new,

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you know, So I don't know, everything just feels like

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it's it's like, wow, it's twenty twenty six, and everything

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is also in twenty twenty six with us. You know.

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It's just it really feels like this is officially the

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new era of the dobsip, which in recent years you

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could say, Okay, left the Rio, coming down to the

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Las Vegas, trip to Horseshoe in Paris, Like, that's a

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new era. I get it. Last year, the first year

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or the first summer under the new ownership of gig Poker,

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that's a new era. Yes, those are I will say

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small e eras new eras, but this truly feels like

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this is the new era. This is the modern era

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right now for the world's racey poker. That's that's the

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feel I get, the vibe that I get when I'm

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walking around that place, So you know, it's just it's

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really cool to be down there again. Just definitely come

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check it out if you're in town. I would highly

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encourage you to do so. And if you're gonna to

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be around on Friday, May twenty ninth when they do

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that big reveal of the new the new setup down there,

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you know, just just try and be there. Seriously, be

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in the room. It's it's going to be absolutely incredible.

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On the events themselves that were playing today, two WSOP

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events took place. You had the five hundred and fifty

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dollars buying mini mystery millions tournament believe they are scheduled

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to play twenty two levels on their day one This

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is Day one A. It is the first starting flight

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of six starting flights. They got six hundred, sixteen hundred,

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excuse me, sixteen hundred and thirty five entries, which I

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think is a tad down a tad from where I

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thought it might be that said, you know this, this

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thing is it's one of those ones, big multi flight tournament.

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It's going to just build, build, build, build build. It's

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a newer event to kick off the series. Last year

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they kicked off with the one K Mystery Millions, So

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same concept, same tournament in theory, but half the price point.

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They had five starting flights last year. It had twelve

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or thirteen hundred to start in Day one A, and

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then of course it just build, built, built, and the

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final starting flight, the fifth starting flight, had like eight thousand,

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one hundred entries or something ridiculous on its way to

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you know, well over nineteen thousand total entries in the field.

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So this is one of those ones where it's definitely

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gonna build, build build throughout the week and it's gonna

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get there. But I just I can't help but think

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it's it's slightly down from where I thought. And this

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is gonna be this is gonna be a theme of

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this part. And it's not just WSIP related. And you'll

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you'll see what I'm getting to in a second. The

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w SIP five K, the eight handed NOLA MIT hold

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them five thousand dollars by an event. It looks like

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right now they are a bit over four hundred entries,

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which is good, right, of course, it's good. I mean

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four hundred and eleven entries. Right now, it looks like

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they are in the final level of the day level ten.

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I have about forty five minutes left at time of recording.

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Right now it's twelve seventeen AM. But last year Day

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one had five hundred and fifty eight entries and then

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it ultimately finished with six hundred and ninety three entries.

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There is late registration into Day two, same thing that

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happens this year. So it's looking like it's behind the

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pace of last year. Now I just say that, and

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I point that this all of this out because I'm

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just listen. I know it's Day one, but I'm already

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starting to think, like our numbers everywhere gonna be down.

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Another example of this the win eleven hundred that took

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place today. I got a message in a chat that

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I'm in with some poker players. You know, one of

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the guys was like value alert, you know, got to

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head over to win. They're brought to overlay on this

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eleven hundred dollars buying million dollar guarantee, and they ended

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up they ended up overlaying. By the math that I have,

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they got eight hundred and fifty five entries total. Of

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the eleven hundred dollars, nine hundred and sixty five goes

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into the prize spool, So that means a price spool

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of just over eight hundred and twenty five thousand dollars.

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You guys can do the mass math. That means that

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they missed by one hundred and seventy five thousand dollars

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the win so early on in their win Summer series

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missing a guarantee like the one K price point. You know,

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we've talked about it before on this podcast. I've said

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it many times. I think that's just the most elite

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price point in all of poker. And if we're starting

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out a series had a big, big property, a notable property,

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a very established summer series in the win Summer series, Like,

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that's that's just, you know, something that that catches my attention.

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You couple it with the fact that some of these

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other events look like they might be behind pace for

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what we might have thought, it's like, hmmm, is this

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going to start to become a trend throughout the summer?

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You know? I know that also looking around on I

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believe it was on Calshi the prediction market. They had

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a prediction market for the size of the Douvaspy main

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event this year. You know, up until last week my

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guys over in the Grid airon Gamble Discord channel, where

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we're often talking sports, sports, betting, poker, all this sort

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of stuff. I was bullish, very very bullish on over

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ten thousand entries in the WASP main event, which I

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still think I'm kind of bullish, but a little bit

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more lukewarm than Blazing Hot. But on Calshi the market

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was such that the under was the favorite. So I'm

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just starting to wonder overall if this is something we

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just need to kind of pay attention to, you know,

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And it's there's just there's a lot of freaking poker,

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and it's just I think at some point. You know,

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we always talked about it, Tim and I always talked

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about it a lot, where maybe the economy and what's

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going on in the real world is eventually going to

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catch up to people catch up to the industry, this

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industry and specific the poker industry. So maybe that's kind

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of what we're seeing here. So maybe we do see

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a little bit of a pullback. That said, it's day one.

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This stuff always builds, bills builds all summer. You're just

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coming off a Memorial Day weekend when you know, maybe

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people are just they're out doing their thing, they're finishing

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up their vacations, they're not traveling out to Vegas yet,

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like all that sort of stuff. Right, So I'm not

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gonna like, I don't think anyone should be freaking out,

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but I'm just you know, pointing out because I think

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it's a notable talking point here. Yeah, it looks like,

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you know, well over four hundred entries. Of course they'll

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probably push I would say five fifty five eighty in

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that five K, So that's going to be a huge

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prize school there. You got this mini mystery millions that's

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just gonna be freaking gangbusters. I'm curious at the end

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of that all, when when all six starting flights are done,

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you know, that's one of those tournaments where you know,

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it's like what place on the ranking list for largest

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turnouts ever in a poker tournament, Where's this only gonna fall?

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within the top ten for sure, and then it's just

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where does it go from there? And then you know,

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I touched on the Wind tournament, and I guess I'll

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touch on some some things you know around the industry.

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We are you know, going to be focused on the

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WSP Yes, of course that's the biggest and baddest UH

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series in town, in the world. But you know, when

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when things stick out like this that have to build

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into a larger trend, you know, like this opening eleven

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hundred over at the Wind, then then you know, well

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we'll hit on it. Something else I saw today out

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of the out of the content pool was from my

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good friend, my old friend Lance Bradley. So so Lance

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has a sub stack, it's called the Overlay. Lance is

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also writing for ESPN this year, so I would highly

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encourage you guys to check him out on social media,

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give him a follow or read his stuff. You know,

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I'm a big fan of Lance As. I'm obviously biased

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because you know, he's a good friend of mine, been

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a colleague as well for for a long time. But

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this the substack article that he dropped today. It was

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titled five threats to Sean Deebs Historic WSP Player of

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the Year repeat Chances, and he listed five players, and

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I mean, I don't agree with all these players. Michael

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Monchek Texas, Mike James Ovs been you Chatty Sledge, Marco Johnson.

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But I did want to weigh in on Marco Johnson.

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I'm big on Marco Johnson. This summer. Touched on him

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a tiny bit in the last pod. You heard David

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Baker ODB talk about him, how Marco is out here,

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He's playing a full schedule. He's even staying at Odb's house. So,

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you know, Marco being on this list, like that's someone

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who when it you know, when we get to you know,

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July rolls around and it's it's kind of halfway through

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the was Man event and we're checking in on the

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WSP Player of the Year standings, and you might see

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Marco Johnson's name challenging for the league he's in the

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top three, he's in the top five, he's within striking distance.

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I mean, don't be surprised. Marco plays all the games.

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He plays all the games. Well. The only knock that

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I think you could have on Marco Johnson in this

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sort of setup is like he might not play the

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super big PLO and Nolan and hold him high rollers,

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you know, like I don't even know if he'll go

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as high as twenty five k, but you know, the fifties,

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the one hundred, the two fifty, like he probably won't

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be in there, at least to my knowledge. That said,

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you know, he's certainly good enough to get a bunch

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of points elsewhere. Now, of course, it's going to be

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very very hard to chase down Sean Deep, who got

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a great start at dubis apub in this year. Europe counts,

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Vegas counts, and the Bahamas count so you know a

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little bit of an advantage to start the summer for

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Sean Deep. But you know, I wouldn't be surprised at

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all if Marco Johnson is certainly in the mix. There

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another nice little nugget that came out of this this

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sub stack from Lance Bradley is that Sean deeb is

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the only player to have finished in the top one

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hundred of the Player of the Year race every year

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for the last ten years. That that's wild, I mean.

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But that's also why I'm so big on Deep when

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it comes to fantasy poker. And I'd say that, you know,

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one hundred and thirty three dollars for him as the

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most expensive player, and this year's twenty five K Fantasy draft,

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it's too cheap. It is just too cheap for Sean Deep.

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And then I wanted to throw another player into the

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mix here. If Lance was to allow me to add

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a six person, I would add John Rasner. I think

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John Raisner, I'm big on him this year. I think

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he's going to be challenging for WSB Player of the Year.

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I think he has, you know, a really good shot

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at making multiple final tables, winning multiple bracelet's. Like John

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Rasner is that type of player. Coupled with the fact

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that this year full schedule rented a house all summer

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with my fam, he is ready to go. So John

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Rasner is absolutely ready to go. Somebody that I would

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have paid a lot more than I think he went

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for eighty six bucks. Maybe tiny bit, but I would

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have pushed into the nineties, maybe even flirted with six

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figures for John Reister, and listen, maybe I'll be wrong there,

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but I would back John Rasner this year. And that's

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really all I have for you guys today. You know,

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the big thing coming out of this is that you know,

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the WASIP is here. It's a quiet start, but of

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course it's building. Everything feels like it's much more modern

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at the whip. It feels like this is truly the

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start of a new era for the World Series of Poker.

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And if that new set is any sort of sign

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for like what's to come in the future, I mean,

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I think poker as a whole isn't a really really

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good place. Because at the end of the day, if

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the World Series of Poker does well and grows and

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draws in a lot of eyeballs and gets new players

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in the game, and you know, reinvigorates old players to

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come back into the game, and all that sort of

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stuff happens, it's ultimately good for every single person in poker,

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every media outlet, every operator, every player. It's good for

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every venue out there, small poker rooms, big poker rooms,

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giant casinos. It doesn't matter. It's all good for poker, right,

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so you know, hopefully that all that all pans out.

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Of course, moving on to Wednesday, May twenty seventh, that

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is when you guys are likely listening to this. We're

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going to have day one B of the five fifty

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Mini Mystery Millions, also going to kick off the five

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hundred dollars Employees event, and then another event that's very

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very big every single year, Mixed Games event, the fifteen

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hundred dollars buying Omaha High Low. First day of that one,

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that one always draws a very very very large field.

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So everything's starting to pick up a little bit of

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the calm before the storm type of feel today. But

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you know, day two, I think we're going to increase

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ten X Thursday even more so Friday Boom Weekend is

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going to be here. It's going to be absolutely you know,

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just just freaking balls to the wall. Let's go. So

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that's all I got for you guys today, nice and short,

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when I actually did keep it short today, so you know,

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I stuck to my word. Appreciate you guys for listening.

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As always. My name is Donny Peters and I will

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catch you next time. Night Express,