Speaker 1: Hello, everyone, Welcome back to a new episode of the
Speaker 1: Poker Go Podcast. It is twelve twenty seven am on Tuesday,
Speaker 1: June fourteenth. Gonna start this one off in a little
Speaker 1: bit of a different fashion because I got a special
Speaker 1: guest that decided to hop on the podcast tonight or today,
Speaker 1: or whatever the heck you want to call it. Tim
Speaker 1: Duckworth had an early night, so he was able to
Speaker 1: hop on the show with me. We recorded that before
Speaker 1: I recorded the rest of the podcast. So we'll just
Speaker 1: kick things off by bringing in Ducky first. Him and
Speaker 1: I will talk for a bit. I try and get
Speaker 1: his temperature on, you know, his overall impressions of the
Speaker 1: World Series of Poker. I ask him what his big
Speaker 1: storylines are. You know, we just kind of talk about
Speaker 1: all things WSOP. Was very fun to get him back on.
Speaker 1: Hopefully we can do that a little bit more as
Speaker 1: we go throughout the summer. But of course it does
Speaker 1: depend on schedules, you know, as explained in his little
Speaker 1: stint on the show. You know, he talks about why
Speaker 1: he hasn't been able to be on the show just
Speaker 1: with the busy schedule that he has on the production
Speaker 1: side of things. But yeah, that's what we're going to
Speaker 1: get into. First. I'm also going to hit on some
Speaker 1: of the events that wrapped up. Adrian Matteos won the
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty k Super high Roller for a
Speaker 1: second time at the WSP, his sixth the WSP Goal Bracelet,
Speaker 1: Juan Rodriguez won the Senior's high Roller, Matthew Moss won
Speaker 1: the eight hundred dollars Deep Stack, and then I'll hit
Speaker 1: on the updates for some of the other events, most
Speaker 1: notably the Colossus and the ten K Big Oh. There
Speaker 1: are nine players left in the Colosses. There are four
Speaker 1: players left in the Big O. So without further ado,
Speaker 1: let's just roll the segment with Ducky and now, for
Speaker 1: the first time this summer, I am joined by the
Speaker 1: busiest man in show business because he's NonStop running around
Speaker 1: on the floor. Mister Tim Duckworth, Welcome. It's about time.
Speaker 1: It only took a seven thirty pm finish for you
Speaker 1: to get on the podcast, but but we are here.
Speaker 1: What's going on.
Speaker 2: It's good to be back, finally, finally back. I had
Speaker 2: a lot a lot of people reach out saying you
Speaker 2: need to get back on the pod. Conch just have
Speaker 2: Donnie Soler and you know what the stars of in
Speaker 2: line today? What is it? It's twenty first day of
Speaker 2: the World Series of Poker. We got a seven pm
Speaker 2: wrap up on the stream, So why not let's pod
Speaker 2: let's do this, Let's talk poker, let's talk the World Series.
Speaker 1: Well, the first thing we should talk about is let
Speaker 1: the people know what the heck you have been doing
Speaker 1: all summer and why I'm calling you the busiest man
Speaker 1: in show business.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you have been buried under a rock, you
Speaker 2: will notice there are five feature tape out there on
Speaker 2: the main stage. One of them is set for Hustler,
Speaker 2: So there's four feature tables. So I kind of, you
Speaker 2: know the little I'm the stage manager. I'm kind of
Speaker 2: wrangling what's going where. I'm managing the bio team. I'm
Speaker 2: doing chip counts. I'm also working with WSP on you know,
Speaker 2: what events to bring up to this new cluster section
Speaker 2: we have. We have twelve tables just south of the
Speaker 2: main stage, you know, near the countdown set, and then
Speaker 2: we have that big gold section thirty six tables, you know,
Speaker 2: working with them, what we can put there, what time
Speaker 2: people bag, et cetera. So it's pretty much an all
Speaker 2: day thing. There's lots of texting, there's lots of group chats.
Speaker 2: It is pretty constant, but it's great fun. It's kind
Speaker 2: of what I did last year, just you know, ten
Speaker 2: xt the work. But yeah, it's just doesn't really matter
Speaker 2: what you're doing. It's just great to be at the
Speaker 2: World Series. I think you probably feel the same way.
Speaker 1: I do feel the same way. It's always good to
Speaker 1: be back. I will say that this year I felt
Speaker 1: like at times, like I talked about at the beginning,
Speaker 1: where it felt a little bit slower to get into it.
Speaker 1: And I think that was because of the whole waiting
Speaker 1: to unveil the new set, you know, and it was
Speaker 1: kind of like we're basically hiding this thing, which is
Speaker 1: such a big part of everything. So it took a
Speaker 1: few days for me to get into it. And then
Speaker 1: there are some days when I'm kind of like, hmm,
Speaker 1: it seems a little slow here, like last night was
Speaker 1: one of them, you know, And it's just it's I
Speaker 1: don't know, I just once once I get into the
Speaker 1: mode of the World Series, and there's like three to
Speaker 1: five final tables wrapping up a day. On days when
Speaker 1: there's not at least three, I feel like it's slow day.
Speaker 2: Let me ask you a question. Last year, we were
Speaker 2: based in the horseshow we would take little walks, get
Speaker 2: those steps in come over to Paris to see what
Speaker 2: was cooking. This year were flipped it. We're here in Paris,
Speaker 2: Is where the action is. How many times have you
Speaker 2: ventured over to the horsesho.
Speaker 1: Probably five, as we would do. Four of those have
Speaker 1: been when I was playing.
Speaker 2: Aunt Okay so.
Speaker 1: Wan, so I've been over there once or twice.
Speaker 2: And that's I think the difference where I haven't been
Speaker 2: there as much this year either. I would say, you know,
Speaker 2: maybe a dozen times I've walked over there, but the
Speaker 2: fact we're not seeing you know, those big day ones,
Speaker 2: the big day you know, day two, A, two b's
Speaker 2: in like the mystery millions and classes kind of events.
Speaker 2: It does feel like you said, a little slower, a
Speaker 2: little quieter on this side, because once you know things
Speaker 2: play down, it's always this side that is the playdown day.
Speaker 2: So there's less players in here. The tournaments are getting busier,
Speaker 2: but doesn't feel like the World Series. I think we're
Speaker 2: accustomed to.
Speaker 1: Well, one of the reasons why I haven't gone over
Speaker 1: to horseshoe is. I went over there one day to just,
Speaker 1: you know, go for a walk. Check it out. First
Speaker 1: of all, once you cross over the midway point and
Speaker 1: you hit horseshoe, the smoke brick, You're smashed in the
Speaker 1: face with a cloud of smoke. That is unfreaking barrel terrible. Okay,
Speaker 1: So I'm like, I'm not going over there. I can't
Speaker 1: do it. So on the times. On the other times,
Speaker 1: I basically like, go outside and I go up, and
Speaker 1: I go up the ramp and I go in the backway.
Speaker 2: Oh, you take the extra long way. I can't.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's that long.
Speaker 2: Okay, it's not. It's not.
Speaker 1: I've done that much longer. It's probably shorter. But I
Speaker 1: just the smoke is unbearable. I can't do it. And
Speaker 1: also I like the horseshoe. I like the nostalgia. I
Speaker 1: like how it's kind of old, it's a little bit
Speaker 1: grimi or dirty or all that sort of stuff. But
Speaker 1: I mean, it's like going from freaking the blagio over
Speaker 1: here to such a circus circuit on the other side.
Speaker 1: I mean, here is awesome. Everything is like newer, it's fancy,
Speaker 1: the air is clean and then you go over there
Speaker 1: and I'm like, where did I just go? Did I
Speaker 1: just walk into commerce?
Speaker 2: You know what the downside is of this place. It's
Speaker 2: a big negative to me, but it's a big pro
Speaker 2: to you. It is freezing cold over your impowered.
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 2: You love it. And you know you said you did
Speaker 2: a lap outside because of the smoke. I did a
Speaker 2: lap outside the other day to be in the sun,
Speaker 2: to be in this hundred degree vegacy, to warm on
Speaker 2: my body that I feel like I was about to
Speaker 2: suffer from hypothemia.
Speaker 1: Well I do that too, because because I like it cold,
Speaker 1: I go outside to get overly hot and then when
Speaker 1: I come inside. The other day I played the Super
Speaker 1: Turbo Bounty in Horseshoe and it was very cold in
Speaker 1: that room, but the room wasn't full. Now when I
Speaker 1: played the Monster Stack, and they started us in Normandy
Speaker 1: and then they moved us down which.
Speaker 2: Is Normandy, that's the one in near the poker room upstair, yes.
Speaker 1: Okay, the first floor, and then Province is above it,
Speaker 1: and that both of them are in play at times.
Speaker 1: So they moved us from Normandy to Horseshoe and it
Speaker 1: was so damn hot in horseshoe. I was dying. I
Speaker 1: mean it was only the end of the night. I
Speaker 1: only had an hour left, but holy crap, it was
Speaker 1: like unbelievable. But that's how it is. All those bodies
Speaker 1: in there overnight build.
Speaker 2: In the yellow section across from Paris, next to the pane,
Speaker 2: the closet, the closet it when that is full, that
Speaker 2: thing is eighty five degrees in there.
Speaker 1: Really, everyone complains that it's too cold.
Speaker 2: No, no, but once it feels I look, I have
Speaker 2: been constant request to bring the temperature down. So maybe
Speaker 2: now it's at a normal level. But during that casino
Speaker 2: employees event on day one, I walked in there, I
Speaker 2: was dripping in sweat.
Speaker 1: I mean it should it should always be about sixty
Speaker 1: five degrees in this place for a couple of reasons. One,
Speaker 1: people can always put clothes on. People can only take
Speaker 1: so many clothes off. Okay, that's number one. Number two,
Speaker 1: Once these poker players start sweating and become smelly, which
Speaker 1: some of them are already smelly before they even start sweating,
Speaker 1: it is a nightmare. Okay, So just keep it cool
Speaker 1: in here, keep everyone like they're basically, you know, a
Speaker 1: bunch of dead cows hanging in a freeze or something.
Speaker 2: I think you're forgetting number three.
Speaker 1: What's number three?
Speaker 2: Number three is if it's cold in here, you can
Speaker 2: visit the Pokeaar shop, buy No Gammer in the Future
Speaker 2: hoodie by a high Stakes Poco hoodie and feel warm
Speaker 2: and also represent pok Gar.
Speaker 1: That's true. That is very true. That room, though, that
Speaker 1: other room, that that closet over there, they got really
Speaker 1: going to fix that lighting. I mean, I like it's like,
Speaker 1: I mean, the lighting is yellow. It's the yellow sections.
Speaker 1: The lighting is very yellow, you know. But you know,
Speaker 1: I do like the new setup. You know, I prefer it.
Speaker 1: We're over here. It's the nicer side. I definitely feel
Speaker 1: like it's cleaner air, all that sort of stuff. So
Speaker 1: I like, it really got to get rid of that smoke.
Speaker 1: The smoke in Horseshoe is just freaking wild. And I
Speaker 1: just can't believe that that's even still loud.
Speaker 2: It's you just gotta move. That area's gonna move. It's
Speaker 2: gotta be relocated where you where the high traffic doesn't
Speaker 2: go through. I don't know where that is, but yeah,
Speaker 2: you're right, it's it's not fun. You know, we're obviously
Speaker 2: not smokers, so we hate it.
Speaker 1: But when you're in the Normandy Province section above the
Speaker 1: poker room, they now have the backway.
Speaker 2: Have you been? That's amazing?
Speaker 1: That is that is a life changer?
Speaker 2: Is everyone?
Speaker 1: So like when we were on brakes in the monster
Speaker 1: stack and everyone's just like herding cattle down this Like
Speaker 1: it's like literally a single file escalator and everyone goes
Speaker 1: that way. I just cut it to the right. There's
Speaker 1: like five people there. It goes, you walk all the
Speaker 1: way through and you come out by like right under
Speaker 1: the Eiffel Tower inside Paris.
Speaker 2: It's great. It's so good about it.
Speaker 1: It's so great. It's it's nice and clean. It's obviously
Speaker 1: new because they just built it. Like that's the way
Speaker 1: to go. That is absolutely the way to go. It's
Speaker 1: about the halfway point of the WSP at least events wise.
Speaker 1: What events are they on today? Forty eight? There are
Speaker 1: one hundred events on the schedule, they're on forty eight.
Speaker 1: So I got a couple of things for Tim here
Speaker 1: that I want to get his thoughts on. First, overall impressions. Second,
Speaker 1: his three biggest stories. He can do whatever he wants
Speaker 1: with that. I know he loves his lists, he loves
Speaker 1: all that sort of crack. I gotta get him to
Speaker 1: update the PGT leaderboard. There's been a lot of LODTT
Speaker 1: qualifying events here at the World Series, but then also
Speaker 1: the PGT Summer Series over at the studio has kicked
Speaker 1: off as well. So first things first, just give me
Speaker 1: your overall impressions. Right again, we are roughly the halfway point.
Speaker 2: I think the biggest thing is the new main stage,
Speaker 2: the new set, you know, obviously built by the in
Speaker 2: our team at Blueprint fifty two. I think a lot
Speaker 2: of people have just in alle when they see the
Speaker 2: size of it, the magnitude, you know, it spans the
Speaker 2: whole room, even for us that have seen behind the
Speaker 2: scenes of it getting built at the warehouse, just to
Speaker 2: see it all lit up, you know, it was rare.
Speaker 2: Now it's in the Solano Teal, purple, Lana Solana, Salano,
Speaker 2: Solana Solana colors, and those colors are grown on me.
Speaker 2: I think that's the biggest thing to me that stands out,
Speaker 2: you know about the World Series, because you know, you
Speaker 2: kin't look at everything else. The events are the same,
Speaker 2: people the same, but this is the biggest new thing,
Speaker 2: This grand set with five feature tables and just kind
Speaker 2: of a massive spend by the Gigi Poker team to
Speaker 2: to kind of put together what they want as the
Speaker 2: grand stage. And this is what we're going to see,
Speaker 2: you know, ESPN and Omaha Productions doing the main event
Speaker 2: from this is what's going to be for the final
Speaker 2: table over the Horseshoe in early August. And I love
Speaker 2: everything about it.
Speaker 1: So that's all you got for impressions. Just the state.
Speaker 2: To me, that's the thing that is the one, the
Speaker 2: one messy thing like we can start talking about, you know,
Speaker 2: if we want to go down the road of some negatives,
Speaker 2: we can go that way. I feel like some of
Speaker 2: the numbers are you know, I don't show how much
Speaker 2: you've discussed on events growing or events declining, but.
Speaker 1: I haven't really hit on it too much. I did
Speaker 1: good timing because on the last episode I did tease
Speaker 1: that I'm working on the list thing. I have a list,
Speaker 1: and then I'm also shout out to Jeff Walsh, friend
Speaker 1: and colleague brought.
Speaker 2: Him the other day.
Speaker 1: Yep, he was here. He basically gave me the idea
Speaker 1: to look at the numbers up until a previous year
Speaker 1: that wasn't last year and then compare it to this year.
Speaker 1: So I'm going to be doing that and then also
Speaker 1: this year. I mean, I think the majority of the
Speaker 1: events are down. Yeah, but I mean whatever I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: whatever I guess I mean. But it's not, as I've
Speaker 1: said many times, when I'm talking about the catastrophic it's
Speaker 1: it's not catastrophic one. But it's also not just ws
Speaker 1: A P it's other other events are down. And even
Speaker 1: if the other events aren't down, like missing guarantees, although
Speaker 1: some stuff has misguarantees, they're definitely not clearing guarantees like
Speaker 1: they would like to, you know, like if people want
Speaker 1: if people put one hundred K guarantee, they want two
Speaker 1: hundred ky in the Price School. So there's no sweat whatsoever.
Speaker 1: It's more like you're doing one hundred K guarantee, you
Speaker 1: might get one hundred and eight k in the Price School,
Speaker 1: which is a sweat.
Speaker 2: The one thing I actually came into this not really
Speaker 2: liking was the change they made to the events like
Speaker 2: the Monster Stack and the Colossus, where you played Day
Speaker 2: one A and the next day is day Day two
Speaker 2: A and on that same day is Day one B.
Speaker 2: And they do these for the first four flights, and
Speaker 2: you know, it kind of means that, look, you could
Speaker 2: potentially cash all four flights and then make the final
Speaker 2: Day three. But one thing I, you know, didn't really
Speaker 2: think about when I was kind of looking at this
Speaker 2: of these events and kind of unsure or a little
Speaker 2: bit giving a little bit of a negative eye, was
Speaker 2: that what it does save. It saves these massive day
Speaker 2: two restarts we don't have anymore. We have basically an
Speaker 2: individualized flight restart, you know, two A, two B, two
Speaker 2: C two D, and then you combine for day three.
Speaker 2: These day threes, they're not you know, multiple thousands of people.
Speaker 2: They're now two hundred three hundred people, and instead of
Speaker 2: on a Sunday, they're on a Monday. But it's also
Speaker 2: you're a lot deeper in the money. So if you're
Speaker 2: thinking about taking work off, it's you have a bit
Speaker 2: of a more reason to call in sick or use
Speaker 2: one of those PTA do's. But yeah, instead of the
Speaker 2: day two Sunday restarts that are many thousand, it's now
Speaker 2: a day three restart with just a couple hundred. And
Speaker 2: I think that change is actually very good for the
Speaker 2: everyday play, the every man, you know, the the guy
Speaker 2: from South Dakota coming out. You know, he can get
Speaker 2: his value. He can play a few flights in the
Speaker 2: months that cash a few times, you know, instead of
Speaker 2: you know, playing maybe playing one a bagging, not coming
Speaker 2: back for day two and doing all that stuff. So
Speaker 2: big fan of that now that I've seen it in motion.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know if I agree, but I also like,
Speaker 1: I don't necessarily disagree. I'm just kind of indifferent on it.
Speaker 1: I guess whatever whatever the masses want then just fair enough.
Speaker 1: I will say that I don't like the fact, and
Speaker 1: I've stood by this for many years, that any event
Speaker 1: fifteen hundred dollars are under should be in the money
Speaker 1: on day one. At the end of the day one,
Speaker 1: non rad, what are we playing four days and fifteen?
Speaker 2: You're gonna upset Mickey Doff with that comment.
Speaker 1: No, I want to upset Mickey doopp. Do you want
Speaker 1: to know why I want to play Nicky Doff because
Speaker 1: he's Micky No, because Mickey Doff shows up late to
Speaker 1: day one of the rads, Because it's senseless to show
Speaker 1: up early for those early levels. It is absolutely pointless.
Speaker 1: Speed everything up on day one and then give people
Speaker 1: more play later on. The Cossus is a good example.
Speaker 1: It was a travesty that the Cossus was not in
Speaker 1: the money on day one. Okay for a five hundred
Speaker 1: dollars buy it. Now, what you can do in a
Speaker 1: tournament like that is on day one for you know,
Speaker 1: for anything that's sub one thousand dollars, just make the
Speaker 1: day ones twenty minute level.
Speaker 2: Who cares twenty minutes?
Speaker 1: But but you there are first of all, there's multiple
Speaker 1: flights for you to a chance to get into the
Speaker 1: money and continue on. Then when you make it to
Speaker 1: day two, you go to thirty minute levels, so it's
Speaker 1: a little bit better, which is basically that's the normal
Speaker 1: structure that it used to be in classes. Then on
Speaker 1: day three forty minute levels, so it gets the structure
Speaker 1: gets better as you go, which is what it should.
Speaker 2: I agree with that, I just twenty minutes is short.
Speaker 1: Okay they call it a turbo here at the World
Speaker 1: Series of Poker when it's twenty minute levels, when at
Speaker 1: any other time in the world, a five hundred dollars
Speaker 1: termament has twenty minute levels. Sure, yeah, it's not. It's
Speaker 1: not that bad. And I will also say that if
Speaker 1: you put a focus on the quality of dealers. Then
Speaker 1: you can lessen the time because you're gonna be able
Speaker 1: to get in more hands. Right. Yeah, I would even say, go, what,
Speaker 1: what's twenty five minutes?
Speaker 2: Twenty five is slightly better?
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, twenty five minutes, you know, But and then
Speaker 1: you get in the money. At the end of day one,
Speaker 1: everyone's in the money. Then the structure starts to get
Speaker 1: better and better from there, because it's not just here
Speaker 1: at the World Series Poker, it's everywhere that they have
Speaker 1: the idea of quote unquote deep stack backwards. They give
Speaker 1: you a ton of chips to start, and then late
Speaker 1: it gets just a turbo right when it should be flipped.
Speaker 1: So make it really fast on day one a turbo,
Speaker 1: you know, just basically people have to just spin to
Speaker 1: get into the money and then go from there and
Speaker 1: make it a really good tournament afterwards.
Speaker 2: I one hundred percent agree with you getting too the
Speaker 2: money on day one in no them and hold them,
Speaker 2: I would, you know, when some of them makes so little.
Speaker 2: So I don't think that's too much of an issue.
Speaker 2: If you're making the money early on day two, I
Speaker 2: don't see any reason why the classist needs to wait
Speaker 2: until the third level on day two to make the
Speaker 2: money because from an operator standpoint, get these guys in
Speaker 2: the money, get them out of the tournament, and get
Speaker 2: them back in the next tournament. That should be the
Speaker 2: goal is increasing rake and increasing revenue and doing that,
Speaker 2: we're not increasing rake. No, sorry, I didn't mean.
Speaker 1: I know, I know, you miss it.
Speaker 2: I misspoke. Yes, you're right, you're right. Let's definitely not.
Speaker 1: I just want to make sure I allow you to
Speaker 1: correct yourself before somebody clips this is like says, more
Speaker 1: rake is better.
Speaker 2: Yeah, put me on a billboard like Daniel did. No,
Speaker 2: not increasing the actual rank, but increasing the revenue because
Speaker 2: we can get people firing more bullets, cashing firing more bullets,
Speaker 2: and you know, for WSP that means the entrants grow.
Speaker 2: That's good for marketing. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: So yeah, definitely make that money on day one and
Speaker 2: go from there. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And I think as it just as it pertains to
Speaker 1: the colossus, which is down to I think the final
Speaker 1: three tables right now at time of recording. I think
Speaker 1: people probably assume that they would have been in the
Speaker 1: money because I don't It didn't explicitly say anything on
Speaker 1: the structure seet versus some of the tournaments that are
Speaker 1: in the money, or it's I think it's said payouts
Speaker 1: begin day two. I think it might have said.
Speaker 2: That dist millions, though definitely says that.
Speaker 1: And if you look at like the Gladiators poker, that
Speaker 1: says payouts begin day one, meaning end of day one,
Speaker 1: you'll be in the money. Gladiator is a poker if
Speaker 1: I remember correctly when I've played in the past, you're
Speaker 1: in the money on day one, and then you continue
Speaker 1: to play correct a little bit after that. It's not
Speaker 1: just like make the money in stock that toxtremet, well, okay,
Speaker 1: not for a three dollars buying tournament. I don't care
Speaker 1: like that. That's what that should be.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: Split the difference for Colossus, it's it's, you know, a
Speaker 1: little bit better structure, a little bit of a higher
Speaker 1: buy in, right, So maybe then it's just play down
Speaker 1: till twelve and a half percent of the field. That's
Speaker 1: the money you end. And then you also get the
Speaker 1: chance that on day two when people come back, you know,
Speaker 1: they get to come back at a at a different
Speaker 1: level or something, you know, like maybe one flight plays
Speaker 1: a little bit later. One flight plays, you know, ends
Speaker 1: a little bit earlier, and then they can they can
Speaker 1: rewind that. That's what I would do there. I mean
Speaker 1: I would even say that. Listen. I know the Monster
Speaker 1: Stack is structured the way that it is, but I
Speaker 1: would be fine being in the money on day one
Speaker 1: of the Monster Stack and then make the tournament after
Speaker 1: that like super super long and drawn ou out. Like
Speaker 1: I have no problem with that. I think that that's
Speaker 1: that's great. I mean, maybe that's just me personally, like
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm not playing poker. I think I understand
Speaker 1: what's the motivation here is that you want to give
Speaker 1: people that buy into the lower buying stuff enough bang
Speaker 1: for their buck. So though they're left with some sort
Speaker 1: of positive experience, you know, they can when they come
Speaker 1: out here and they fire the Colossus, they can then
Speaker 1: go back home and say, you know what, I got
Speaker 1: to play for a whole day. I got to play
Speaker 1: for ten twelve hours. You know, I wasn't just sitting
Speaker 1: down and like it was go time and whatever. I
Speaker 1: just I just I can't do it, man, Like I
Speaker 1: just can't. I can't do it, you know. And I
Speaker 1: also I like to be their hand number one because
Speaker 1: I like to be able to, you know, play against
Speaker 1: some lesser competition. Maybe someone will punt to you, maybe
Speaker 1: it'll be a cooler or whatever. But so I like
Speaker 1: to be there early on and I don't like to
Speaker 1: come in late, you know. But that said, I don't
Speaker 1: think we need to be starting people three hundred big
Speaker 1: blinds deep in this tournament, these tournaments like, I think
Speaker 1: you can start people fifty big blinds deep, and just
Speaker 1: let's just go. Let's just get right down to it
Speaker 1: and let's go three biggest stories. Give me a particularly
Speaker 1: however you want to do it, and then just tell
Speaker 1: me the story. I'll say what I want to say,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe I'll agree, i'll disagree, whatever, and then
Speaker 1: you can go on to your next story.
Speaker 2: Story number one is about the biggest ambassador in poker
Speaker 2: for twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1: God, I can't I can can't even imagine where this
Speaker 1: is going.
Speaker 2: My current favorite poker player. Oh my god, Martin Cabra, I.
Speaker 1: Knew you were going to say it is that because
Speaker 1: he just likes you. Now it seems like no.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no no no. First of all, let's not
Speaker 2: going down that road. He has yelled at me several
Speaker 2: times about putting you on feature tables. Thankfully they didn't
Speaker 2: make the blog because we got in a very big argument. Look,
Speaker 2: he's very polarizing. I think most poker players, he's the
Speaker 2: definition of the most poker players do not like him.
Speaker 2: Last night he was running deep in the ten K
Speaker 2: two about midnight, and I was here watching him and
Speaker 2: Zamani were getting into as the money was throwing several
Speaker 2: low blows at him that we would not repeat on
Speaker 2: this podcast. But the difference is the fans, they love him.
Speaker 2: He's getting them to arms. They get him to do that.
Speaker 2: When he busted, they all left. When he's up at
Speaker 2: the feature table, there is more people around him than
Speaker 2: anyone else we've seen. He's just he's like so polarizing
Speaker 2: positively to the fans. People are watching him. He's doing
Speaker 2: his vlogs. I've met his editors. They're very nice guys.
Speaker 2: But you go on the other end and the poker plays.
Speaker 2: I think Daniel grind Out of VOG today kind of
Speaker 2: skipped through a little bit, but he's mentioned that, you know,
Speaker 2: was the two hundred and fifty k numbers down wreck
Speaker 2: wise because of Martin Cabrell. Okay, come on, I'm not
Speaker 2: I'm not sorry. I'm just making a come on, that's
Speaker 2: not no. You know we've seen it.
Speaker 1: He did get into it with Martin. Yes, during the
Speaker 1: two fifteen.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of people that don't like his antics.
Speaker 2: There was the issue on uh In. I think it
Speaker 2: was the hundred K with the R F I, D
Speaker 2: and Sam several. He's obviously very loud, he's a bit
Speaker 2: of a showman and that bothers the players. But like
Speaker 2: I said, he's polarizing and that's I think, without doubt
Speaker 2: being the story of the world series because we have
Speaker 2: when I say we, I'm talking about you know, the
Speaker 2: production team have been highlighting him a lot. You know,
Speaker 2: whether it was the heads up where these high roles,
Speaker 2: he's been on a lot of feature tables.
Speaker 1: Well, I think you first of all, let me just
Speaker 1: say that I think you need to be careful saying
Speaker 1: we because we, as in poker, grow no longer to
Speaker 1: make those productions. Okay, so if they want to highlight him,
Speaker 1: that is solely at the discretion of the dobisipy.
Speaker 2: Yes, that is that is that when I'm grouping myself
Speaker 2: with those not basically I'm not saying and look, it's
Speaker 2: you know, it gets the clicks. Like I said, it
Speaker 2: has the people watching him. I think that's, without doubt
Speaker 2: to me, the number one sorry that he has gone from.
Speaker 2: He's you know, he's always been like this, but I
Speaker 2: feel like since WSP European proguets dialed up a bit.
Speaker 2: Once he's out of vlogging, he comes here, he has
Speaker 2: a little bit of success, and then obviously dusts up
Speaker 2: two million dollars in the Hustle cash game. But very polarizing.
Speaker 2: To me, that's my kind of number one story, And
Speaker 2: I think that maybe is a little biased because I've
Speaker 2: been around it just so much. It's just always in
Speaker 2: my face. So yeah, that's my number one story.
Speaker 1: On poker dot org, they had a story that was
Speaker 1: based on Daniel Legrand, who's latest vlog, where he's said
Speaker 1: in the vlog, I guess this is a quote from
Speaker 1: the poker dot org article, is that he meaning Daniel,
Speaker 1: would have banned him him meaning Cabrel, five years ago.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: I don't know if we're going to ban just yet,
Speaker 1: you know, I you know, but I think in terms
Speaker 1: of him being polarizing, of course, he's extremely polarizing. Are
Speaker 1: people sick? Of him, I would say the answer is
Speaker 1: yes and no. You know, I think the more that
Speaker 1: you are ingrained within the poker community, so the more
Speaker 1: of a diehard fan, you are, a player, all that
Speaker 1: sort of stuff, then the more you likely cannot stand
Speaker 1: Martin Cabrell. But if you're on the fringe of poker,
Speaker 1: or you just happen to stumble across something on YouTube,
Speaker 1: or you know, you click on a social media post
Speaker 1: or whatever it may be, when it comes to attracting
Speaker 1: those fringe people slash new viewers, this could very well
Speaker 1: be a necessary evil in terms of like getting people
Speaker 1: interested in the game. Because listen, I'm not saying that
Speaker 1: I'm fully there yet in the fact that we need
Speaker 1: this necessary evil. I'm just saying that I can make
Speaker 1: the argument that it is a necessary evil because at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, people all people they like
Speaker 1: watching shocking, over the top things that are a bit
Speaker 1: wild and crazy. You know, train wrecks, car accidents, people fighting,
Speaker 1: you know, homeless guys fighting in the streets, stuff like,
Speaker 1: you know, all that crazy stuff that comes up on
Speaker 1: social media that you just doomscroll forever. People like the
Speaker 1: wild that they like the wacky, and Martin brings those
Speaker 1: things to poker. Now, does he go over the line
Speaker 1: with some of his stuff, Yes, I would say so.
Speaker 1: And that's that's where, you know, I think the tournament
Speaker 1: staff needs to step in and say, listen, you can
Speaker 1: do X, Y and Z, but you can only go
Speaker 1: so far and when you start crossing lines, you know,
Speaker 1: we got to kind of pull you back in. I
Speaker 1: want to cite, you know something that I heard Justin
Speaker 1: Saliba say during a studio series for the PGT. I
Speaker 1: can't remember if it was the Poker Girl Cupper, if
Speaker 1: it was US Poker Open, but it was earlier this
Speaker 1: year where he was talking about how he sees like
Speaker 1: all these cash games out there and the viewership that
Speaker 1: they get, and then he wonders why the viewership doesn't
Speaker 1: meet that when it's these higher buying, ultra elite competition
Speaker 1: final tables like we have in the studio for the PGT.
Speaker 1: And basically the point that Justine League was making and
Speaker 1: he was trying to talk to like his table, is
Speaker 1: that he's basically saying, you know, we need to do
Speaker 1: a little bit more as players. We need to show
Speaker 1: more personality, we need to be more colorful because people
Speaker 1: don't want to watch boring stuff. Nick Wright said it
Speaker 1: on the Bill Simmons podcasts, you know, a few weeks ago,
Speaker 1: and I think I talked about it here where it's
Speaker 1: that the right and he was talking about basketball, but
Speaker 1: it does, you know, apply to poker as well. And
Speaker 1: what he said about basketball in the NBA, because they
Speaker 1: were talking about tanking and that sort of stuff, is
Speaker 1: that the right way to play isn't the most entertaining
Speaker 1: way to play, you know, talking about load management, tanking,
Speaker 1: all that sort of stuff. That's not the most entertaining stuff.
Speaker 1: And in poker, it's not the most entertaining. To never
Speaker 1: say a word, to focus on just the math and
Speaker 1: try and win as much as possible. That is not entertaining.
Speaker 1: But if you want people to watch your stuff and
Speaker 1: watch you and and fall in love with the game,
Speaker 1: then maybe you need to break out of that shell
Speaker 1: and be a little bit more entertaining, right And and
Speaker 1: that's what Martin does, and that's why he is attractive
Speaker 1: to people who are on the fringe and and want
Speaker 1: to you know, get involved. I'm more someone who's on
Speaker 1: the inside and and you know, a die hard, so
Speaker 1: I don't necessarily care too much for it. I understand
Speaker 1: its place in poker. Yeah, I would say that he
Speaker 1: just needs to be told to tone it down a
Speaker 1: little bit, because I also do think at some point
Speaker 1: another player is gonna fly off the handle and probably
Speaker 1: just punch the guy. Like yes, Like but that's that's
Speaker 1: like because he just pushes and pushes and pushes and pushes,
Speaker 1: and he keeps pushing that line and and you know,
Speaker 1: putting his foot over it, over it and over it, and
Speaker 1: eventually like I don't know, I mean I thought Martin's
Speaker 1: Money might do it last night, Like you know, at
Speaker 1: some point, somebody's just gonna lose their shit on him, yeah, right,
Speaker 1: and then he's just gonna be like, oh well whatever,
Speaker 1: and it's like, dude, you kept provoking. This is like
Speaker 1: when I watch those videos that pop up on social
Speaker 1: media of the people that do those pranks and a
Speaker 1: home depot or a lost or whatever, and then like
Speaker 1: I root for those guys to get punched in the
Speaker 1: face all the time, like it's outrageous, and then when
Speaker 1: somebody does come at them, they're like, it's just a prank.
Speaker 1: It's just a prank, you're on video whatever, and it's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: but you allowed like you pushed the person that far,
Speaker 1: you kept pushing the buttons, So it's annoying in that sense.
Speaker 1: I also think that his antics allow the industry to
Speaker 1: be lazy, and what I mean by that is his
Speaker 1: antics lead to lazy coverage. And I would say that
Speaker 1: Poker gro has been at fault of that same sort
Speaker 1: of thing, and I have voiced my opinion on that
Speaker 1: with our team many times. Is that yes, he's loud,
Speaker 1: and he's wild, and he's doing crazy shit to get
Speaker 1: on camera and also to get under the skin of
Speaker 1: his opponents because that gives him an advantage and all
Speaker 1: that sort of stuff. But that shouldn't just be the story.
Speaker 1: That should be a small piece of the puzzle. Yes,
Speaker 1: you do need to show this sort of stuff, but
Speaker 1: every single post out there, every single live stream, every like,
Speaker 1: it doesn't all need to be Martin Martin, Martin Martin,
Speaker 1: because you're missing everything else. You're missing all these other
Speaker 1: cool stories that are happening. So like, we can't as
Speaker 1: an industry just be lazy and just latch onto this stuff.
Speaker 1: It's also the same reason why, in the same light,
Speaker 1: like we just can't latch onto let's say Daniel mcgrotney,
Speaker 1: for example, Like you just can't latch onto him and
Speaker 1: like put him at every future table because at some
Speaker 1: like what if tomorrow Daniel mcgroney stopped playing poker, Like
Speaker 1: we have to find the next story exactly. So yeah,
Speaker 1: So that's where I'm at with this whole thing with Martin. So,
Speaker 1: I mean, I think he's probably a big story. I
Speaker 1: don't know if I would put him in my top
Speaker 1: three like you, but you know that doesn't matter, Like
Speaker 1: he's still a big story. And I know there's a
Speaker 1: lot of resentment towards him. I know friend of the
Speaker 1: pod David od b Baker's co instantly talking about how
Speaker 1: he hates it and it's nonsense and it's not good
Speaker 1: for poker and all that sort of stuff. But I
Speaker 1: don't know.
Speaker 3: I I.
Speaker 1: It's hard to ignore the numbers that you see and
Speaker 1: the viewership that you see, and if people are ultimately
Speaker 1: drawn to poker because that's what they like to see,
Speaker 1: then there is some positive argument for that. What's your
Speaker 1: next one?
Speaker 2: My next story is a disappointing story, a sad story.
Speaker 2: Uh oh, maybe a cursed story. Sean Dabe, where are you?
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna stop by saying I'll.
Speaker 1: Tell you right now, I think he's in the ten
Speaker 1: k raz.
Speaker 2: Ooh he's probably not catching that one.
Speaker 1: Good time in as well, because I talked about him
Speaker 1: on the last episode. I did a rundown of like
Speaker 1: the the Legends and how they're doing Helmuth Ivy negron
Speaker 1: Eu and Deep because I think he's a wav legend. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I was like, you know how they're doing, and
Speaker 1: his summer not good.
Speaker 2: WSP Europe a few months ago fifteen Embracelet events, he
Speaker 2: cashed six times with two seconds. Well series, when you
Speaker 2: say forty eight, with forty eight events into this world series,
Speaker 2: he's got one cash.
Speaker 1: I mean, and that's indeed, that's not that's.
Speaker 2: Not good, it's it's terrible. Now. Look it was a
Speaker 2: final table curt Us there, but like he can't find
Speaker 2: him min cash in anything. Like he was front runner
Speaker 2: for POY he got overtaken by the Japanese wonder kid Naokihara.
Speaker 2: And I believe I heard that with Alex Foxon's win,
Speaker 2: he may have overtaken. I don't know if it's been yet,
Speaker 2: it was.
Speaker 1: I actually kind of yelled at Jeff Platt got it
Speaker 1: earlier today about this because so it was Niaoa Kihara
Speaker 1: leading the way. Okay, indeed got knocked down to fourth.
Speaker 1: Then as a result of the fifteen RAS shout out
Speaker 1: to that tournament again heads up Dennis Weiss Sex first
Speaker 1: or second moved him in front of Kihara, I believe
Speaker 1: by my math. But then I saw today the wheelsas
Speaker 1: of Poker posted fox AND's winner photo and said that
Speaker 1: he had taken the lead. And I just pulled up
Speaker 1: w SP dot com right now and it is still
Speaker 1: key horror on top.
Speaker 2: Update Jeff Platt, buddy fixed, let's go.
Speaker 1: This should be this. It should be tied into the app,
Speaker 1: so when the app updates, these leaderboards update right like
Speaker 1: that should be very easy.
Speaker 2: So look, Seawande, you know we are forty eight events
Speaker 2: and you have done pretty much nothing. But like we
Speaker 2: has fifty two more events, We have a plethora of
Speaker 2: online bracelet events. We obviously have paradise. He has a
Speaker 2: he's probably still the favorite to win Player of the Year.
Speaker 2: You know, maybe maybe you might still give out to
Speaker 2: fox And. Actually, but he just needs to do something.
Speaker 2: And you know what if Jeff Platt's going to play
Speaker 2: three hundred and fifty dollars to Dan Housen to curse
Speaker 2: Sean Dave. I think, and as the leader of the
Speaker 2: Shawande fan club for twenty twenty six, we need to
Speaker 2: to do a go fund me to find some money
Speaker 2: to now go to Dan Housen and on curse Seandeep.
Speaker 2: I think that's all we need the knicks of one.
Speaker 2: That's final. Let's move on. Let's now on curse Sean Deeb.
Speaker 2: See if you can get that. See if you just
Speaker 2: get a cash, See if you get one more cash.
Speaker 2: Then we'll work on a final table and then we'll
Speaker 2: work on another bracelet.
Speaker 1: So if it is fox and number one vice number two,
Speaker 1: then it would be Kihara liberto Hunikin, Deeb Shulman like
Speaker 1: in that order. Okay, I talked about this when Kihara
Speaker 1: won his second bracelet. I find it hard for him
Speaker 1: to be able to win POI because I'm not sure
Speaker 1: how much he's gonna be down in the Bahamas firing
Speaker 1: versus someone like Sean Deep is probably gonna be firing
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff to do.
Speaker 2: The Daily Deep Sacks count has been in the Daily
Speaker 2: Deep Sex.
Speaker 1: Someone like a Chris Hunikin, I think will fire the
Speaker 1: big stuff Yeah, someone like Nick Shulman I think will
Speaker 1: fire the big stuff. Al fox And obviously will fire
Speaker 1: the big stuff.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: Dennis Weiss is an interesting one because he fires the
Speaker 1: huge plo stuff. Yeah, but he's been having success in
Speaker 1: the low buy in Nicks games because that's like what
Speaker 1: he likes to play now. So you know, he's someone
Speaker 1: who I think could go to Paradise and do all
Speaker 1: that sort of stuff justin Liberto probably fifty to fifty
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean he can't play bigger, yes,
Speaker 1: but how big, right? I mean, so much is going
Speaker 1: to hinge on what happens at Paradise. When it comes
Speaker 1: to Player of the Year.
Speaker 2: You'd also throw I think christ and Foxon and Adrian
Speaker 2: Mitaeos in there. Yeah, sure, big win as the big
Speaker 2: high rollers. There's obviously big Bayans in Paradise. You know,
Speaker 2: there's they. You know, Adrian doesn't play pay a little,
Speaker 2: but Christen does. I'm not sure if shoul dabble in
Speaker 2: say the fifty k or the twenty five, but so
Speaker 2: they have a nice you know, start on poy and
Speaker 2: with the bians that we've seen a Paradise in previous years.
Speaker 2: You know, it just takes another, you know, big win
Speaker 2: there where they can really get thrust at the top
Speaker 2: along with you know, all the online stuff they play,
Speaker 2: all the smaller hold the stuff that's still left on.
Speaker 1: The schedule, and you know, listen, Shan Deeve. Of course
Speaker 1: there's fifty two events left yet to start. He could
Speaker 1: just rip off three bracelets for Suah. You know, it's
Speaker 1: just been a shitty summer for him, of course, but
Speaker 1: you know he's not out of it yet in terms
Speaker 1: of winning money or whatever. And if anyone's gonna grind it,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be Sean Deep. I personally would have paid
Speaker 1: infinite money for him in fantasy, and I thought that
Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty three dollars for Shonde was incredibly low.
Speaker 1: And right now he ain't doing so hot. All right,
Speaker 1: what's your third story?
Speaker 2: And if you turn more, but my third one is
Speaker 2: just and look, maybe we talk about this every year,
Speaker 2: but it just feels like so many big names of
Speaker 2: winning bracelets this year. You know, we have both Foxins,
Speaker 2: you know, they knocked up a bracelet. You know, we
Speaker 2: have Asa Mataios who who just won the two fifty,
Speaker 2: two hundred and fifty K. And then you look at
Speaker 2: some of the smaller events. You're justin Loberto adding another bracelet.
Speaker 2: You got Nick Schulman adding another bracelet. You have some
Speaker 2: of these big names, you know, breaking through winning you know,
Speaker 2: the third, fourth, fifth, sixth bracelet. You know Bryce Yucky,
Speaker 2: there's another one after Matre Rosy, and you mentioned Dennis Oh,
Speaker 2: he's from from Germany. Got Nathan Gamble now winning his
Speaker 2: third plow eight bracelet. That seems to be a record,
Speaker 2: as Scott Clemens coming out from nowhere, and then obviously
Speaker 2: Uri winning his six. So all these big names, you know,
Speaker 2: adding more gold to their trophy case and just kind
Speaker 2: of stamping you know, their legacy a little a little harder,
Speaker 2: you know, a little bit more. To me, that kind
Speaker 2: of stands out in a way, just just seeing these
Speaker 2: pros just just continuously kind of getting it done.
Speaker 1: What's your other one? Bonus one? My bonus one is
Speaker 1: the streaming. Oh god, God, go ahead.
Speaker 2: It's it's it's had its comments from the public, and
Speaker 2: i'd say, so, I don't know how much you've talked
Speaker 2: about it.
Speaker 1: I really haven't talked about it at all. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm sure plenty of people know. I'm sure you know
Speaker 1: I probably have a bazillion opinions, but I've just chosen
Speaker 1: not really voice them.
Speaker 2: I this is the way I see they're doing. They're
Speaker 2: doing something different, They're attempting something different, and I think
Speaker 2: for a lot of people it's a little bit of
Speaker 2: a shock because you know, we always talk about Poker
Speaker 2: go the previous years, and you know, we we the
Speaker 2: first kind of change we did was that horseshoe table,
Speaker 2: and we were able to do you know, some double streams,
Speaker 2: and we tried to do a lot of final tables,
Speaker 2: and then we slowly started adding in you know some
Speaker 2: day too, some day too, coverage, you know these this
Speaker 2: year it's something a little different, trying to tell a
Speaker 2: story from events, kind of from start to finish. Uh,
Speaker 2: you know, a lot less final tables. But this is
Speaker 2: they this is what kind of they think will work.
Speaker 2: This is their strategy, this is what they're testing. And
Speaker 2: the way I see it is that like, look, it's
Speaker 2: a bit of a cut. It's a bit of a
Speaker 2: shock to the viewers, right, but you know, you look
Speaker 2: at something like if we were just keeping in poker,
Speaker 2: they're big by nanny. When that came around, I was like,
Speaker 2: what the hell is this Why come we all just
Speaker 2: any And then it kind of became the norm. You know,
Speaker 2: there is a world where this is the norm in
Speaker 2: a few years. This is how the WSP is broadcast.
Speaker 2: We show these minim events. We have these crews, you know,
Speaker 2: all out in the field catching little bits of this,
Speaker 2: and we we're adding it in and you know, obviously
Speaker 2: the delays a little longer. But I think that's been
Speaker 2: quite a talking point from especially when I'm out there
Speaker 2: and I'm talking to players and say, hey, we're bringing
Speaker 2: you up on table A and they're like, when is
Speaker 2: it going live? I'm like, you know, two and a
Speaker 2: half hours. And then it kind of explaining to some
Speaker 2: people like asking you know, they ask questions, how does
Speaker 2: it work? Like why is it we doing it this way?
Speaker 2: You know, they're trying something. So I think that's been
Speaker 2: like one of the talking points. But I think people
Speaker 2: just kind of need to understand that they're trying something.
Speaker 2: You know, if it doesn't work, you know, we'll see
Speaker 2: what happens next year. But it's been a bit of
Speaker 2: an adjustment for you know, production team and also been
Speaker 2: a very big, you know, difference for the players, and
Speaker 2: obviously obviously the fans and viewers back Hume.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I'm I don't really care to get
Speaker 1: into it that much. Yeah, yeah, I just I know
Speaker 1: it is a bit of some sticker shock to a
Speaker 1: lot of people out there that said, I just I
Speaker 1: don't think that there's any reason to not change now
Speaker 1: as opposed to wait till next year, like you can
Speaker 1: literally change tomorrow, you know. So Yeah, and it's it's
Speaker 1: not that I always want the coverage to just improve
Speaker 1: every single year, whether it's US doing it, WSP doing it,
Speaker 1: whoever's doing it, the coverage should always just level up, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: And you know, it just seems like the sentiment out
Speaker 1: there is that it hasn't improved. But then again, you
Speaker 1: know the opposite side of that is that you really
Speaker 1: only see like the vocal one to two percent on
Speaker 1: social media. You know, you don't see the common fan
Speaker 1: or the regular Joe that maybe tuning in or that
Speaker 1: maybe have stumbled upon it late night while they're browsing
Speaker 1: around YouTube or whatever, so you don't know how that
Speaker 1: person feels. I would say that viewership has been pretty
Speaker 1: good numbers wise, just from what you see on YouTube.
Speaker 1: So so yeah, you know, it's not always like the
Speaker 1: loudest people out there are are you know, always correct?
Speaker 1: So I mean we always got shipped for anything that
Speaker 1: we did, even if we thought that we were doing
Speaker 1: it the right way. Now it's the ws A P
Speaker 1: that's in that boat that's getting dumped on by a
Speaker 1: lot of people, and that's just you know, you're you're
Speaker 1: probably never gonna please everyone, unfortunately, and that's that's just
Speaker 1: unfortunately for our friend Jeff Platt, he just has to
Speaker 1: take the absolute brunt of it.
Speaker 2: He's the man of the people.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he is.
Speaker 2: He is the people.
Speaker 1: He is the man of the people. I still don't
Speaker 1: understand why the hell he's parking in the freaking parking
Speaker 1: garage with the people when he can just park in
Speaker 1: the back.
Speaker 2: It shows that he is a man of the people.
Speaker 1: You know that the people can also park in the back.
Speaker 2: They can talk it exactly.
Speaker 1: So I mean, there's no reason why, you know, you
Speaker 1: guys can't park in the back or park somewhere else,
Speaker 1: then figure that out. Giving updates to the PGT lead aboard.
Speaker 2: Oh, a lot of a lot has been going on.
Speaker 2: We've seen a lot of winners. Let's about I guess
Speaker 2: the people that were kind of already on.
Speaker 1: By the way, just real quickly, somebody put an AI
Speaker 1: video out there. This is kind of timely because I
Speaker 1: was talking about it of Alex Foxen and Martin Cabrell
Speaker 1: when they got into it at the Future table. But
Speaker 1: they aied Fox and beating. So that's that's making the
Speaker 1: rounds right now on social media.
Speaker 2: No, I guess you know. Let's let's let's start with Yuri.
Speaker 2: He was the leader, the PGT leader board winner leader
Speaker 2: sorry after Super Higher Old Bowl Mixed Games. Obviously he
Speaker 2: dropped back a little bit with Brock Wilson going on
Speaker 2: a little heater, but with you know, his big win,
Speaker 2: he's back in the first. He got fourteen hundred and
Speaker 2: eighty four points four point eight million dollars in winnings
Speaker 2: so far this season from five cash is pretty impressive.
Speaker 2: Alex Foxen massive win yesterday or early this morning really
Speaker 2: in the ten case Super Turber Bounty. He's now in
Speaker 2: second place with twelve hundred and eighty points. He has
Speaker 2: five cashes this world series already. Kristen Fox and his
Speaker 2: wife one her sixth bracelet. Yep, she moved up to
Speaker 2: at the time was second place, where she's currently fourth,
Speaker 2: twelve hundred and fifty eight points. She's two cashes this
Speaker 2: world series. Brock Wilson, though the leader heading into the
Speaker 2: World series, done basically nothing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean we talked about Sean Deep doing that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: brox Do, he was as hard as they come.
Speaker 2: Well, he was also playing at the wind the other
Speaker 2: day in the thirty five hundred, so it's really his
Speaker 2: fault from leaving the venue. So but he's in third,
Speaker 2: and then a big mover, Sean Winter. He has accumulated
Speaker 2: eight hundred and twenty PGD points this world series. He's
Speaker 2: now fifth place. Brandon Wilson another guy that's that's done
Speaker 2: pretty nice, pretty well so far. He's up into six.
Speaker 2: And then we look, let's look at some you know,
Speaker 2: some new blood. We got the Nasim Salem got eleven
Speaker 2: hundred points. That puts him, you know, inside the top ten.
Speaker 2: But you know, as we always talk about, there's certain
Speaker 2: qualifications you need for the PGT Championship at the end
Speaker 2: of the year. Three cashs one in the Shoudi. He's
Speaker 2: only got one cash. Eleven hundred points is probably a
Speaker 2: good good probably get him in there. He's gonna get
Speaker 2: two more cashes. One of them is in the studio.
Speaker 2: Another person that's in that similar position, Nathan Gamble. After
Speaker 2: winning his third bracelet, he has seven hundred and sixty
Speaker 2: seven points, balding five cashes seven hundred and sixty four points.
Speaker 2: He finds himself well inside the top twenty. Some other
Speaker 2: names that you know, will we see them in the
Speaker 2: PGT Championship Niokahara, you know, Galen Hall, you know, Santos Savannah,
Speaker 2: you know some of these guys, you know, are they
Speaker 2: gonna capitalize on their World Series, you know, for the
Speaker 2: latter half of the PGT season and you know, find
Speaker 2: those extra cashs, find that studio cash and try and
Speaker 2: qualify for our end of season free roll.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be interesting. And there's still so much poker
Speaker 1: to be had. Many PGT qualifying events still to come
Speaker 1: at the World Series, still eight PGT Summer Series events
Speaker 1: as well that are going to shake shake some things up, so,
Speaker 1: you know, long summer ahead.
Speaker 2: One name, you know, as you bring up the PGD Summer,
Speaker 2: we're only two events in of tr We'll played two
Speaker 2: fifteen K no limit holding events. One name I didn't
Speaker 2: mention was Asia Mataos. You know obviously doesn't live here
Speaker 2: in Vegas. He has you know, he just won the
Speaker 2: two fifty K so two World Series cashes. You know,
Speaker 2: we expect a few more out of him. He'll go
Speaker 2: to Paradise. But one he's got a third cash in
Speaker 2: the studio when he won PGT Summer Series number two,
Speaker 2: one hundred and eighty k. So he's you know, he's qualified, right,
Speaker 2: He's got these three cashes, one in the shoot. He's qualified.
Speaker 2: He now he just needs you know, maybe a few
Speaker 2: more points to make sure he gets in and then
Speaker 2: see if he wants to venture down to Vegas in
Speaker 2: most likely January. That was event two of the Summer Series.
Speaker 2: Event one, Galen Hall. You know, another guy didn't mention
Speaker 2: he won one one hundred and eighty two thousand dollars
Speaker 2: in his pocket. And yeah, two events so far. We've
Speaker 2: got a couple five kplos coming up. And then you know,
Speaker 2: the really big events for this series are going to
Speaker 2: be during the main event, the WSP Main event, over
Speaker 2: those day ones. You know, these single day fifteen k's
Speaker 2: are pretty popular amongst the players, and that's where you
Speaker 2: know there'll be a lot of a lot of international guys,
Speaker 2: a lot of people kind of firing once they've bagged
Speaker 2: the main event, and we'll see some a lot of
Speaker 2: points for Graps early July.
Speaker 1: What do you think INSP main event numbers?
Speaker 2: I should check.
Speaker 1: I should check the old prediction market.
Speaker 2: I was. I've been up for a while and after
Speaker 2: seeing some of these bigger ten k's right, we've got
Speaker 2: you know, we have the Mystery Bounding coming up, so
Speaker 2: that would be a good sign. But we have the
Speaker 2: super Turbo Bownie. We've seen some other events just down
Speaker 2: a little too much, and now I'm kind of I'm
Speaker 2: flip flopping a little bit. What does the prediction market
Speaker 2: tell us?
Speaker 1: It's pretty much all in on under thousand entries.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's how I'm kind of feeling.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, who knows. I mean a lot can
Speaker 1: change between now and then, of course. Yeah, but but
Speaker 1: we'll just time to get your temperature on that.
Speaker 2: You know, there's obviously a plethora of factors why the
Speaker 2: numbers could be down. But I'm wondering is the World
Speaker 2: Cup being.
Speaker 1: Here big enough of a factor in terms of just
Speaker 1: getting people in here to play?
Speaker 2: Yeah, because look I spoke I was speaking with Anthony
Speaker 2: Hugh today. He's going to Europe for three weeks, and
Speaker 2: I'm like, what He's like, Yeah, ever since I turned
Speaker 2: twenty one, I've been at the World Series of Poker
Speaker 2: and I might as well go spend some time outside.
Speaker 2: I'm like, it's the World Series of Poker. Of course
Speaker 2: you should be here. Harvey Castro, I believe is because
Speaker 2: this comes down to our World Cup of Vegas, you know,
Speaker 2: squad developments. He's heading to see a World Cup match early,
Speaker 2: you know, early July, but then happened. All these international
Speaker 2: guys are they you know what, I just want to
Speaker 2: go follow the France team. I just want to follow
Speaker 2: the Argentine team. I want to follow Germany. I want
Speaker 2: to I want to go base myself in Houston and
Speaker 2: just you know, watch a bunch of games there. So
Speaker 2: does actually the World Cup being here in America, you
Speaker 2: know kind of her I would have said, maybe it
Speaker 2: should help bring people here. They should go watch a
Speaker 2: game and then come play. But you know, it's it's
Speaker 2: with when you pair it with some of these numbers
Speaker 2: being down, it's a little you know, maybe the unders,
Speaker 2: maybe the unders are going to come in.
Speaker 1: It does seem like for things that have been down,
Speaker 1: it's been big field no limits stuff, and then stuff
Speaker 1: that's been big.
Speaker 2: By no limit. What do you mean big field because
Speaker 2: big field is kind of up right, like the Colosses
Speaker 2: kind of things.
Speaker 1: Uh well, yeah, like the Colossal Well the classes is actually.
Speaker 2: Down at hat.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but things like like I think like the five
Speaker 1: K no limit to start, Yeah, I think the two
Speaker 1: k was down as well, stuff like that. You know,
Speaker 1: I want to say the fifteen hundred dollars six max
Speaker 1: was down. I mean I have the sheet right here, Yeah,
Speaker 1: fifteen hundred dollars six max was down as well. So
Speaker 1: you know, anything that's just anything no limit basically is
Speaker 1: on the downturn versus you know, going up, whereas the
Speaker 1: things that are up are you know, like the PLO stuff,
Speaker 1: the big O stuff like that seems to just be
Speaker 1: absolutely freaking flying on fire, like to the point where
Speaker 1: like I mean, I don't know exactly how many like
Speaker 1: PLO slash Big O events are on the schedule this year,
Speaker 1: like percentage wise, but like it should may probably make
Speaker 1: up twenty five percent of the schedule next year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the numbers, If the numbers are going to stay like this,
Speaker 1: I mean, the hell with it, Just go go all
Speaker 1: in on BLO. I mean, create a freaking PLO Player
Speaker 1: of the Year. I mean, let's just go nuts, you know.
Speaker 1: You know, like this, this first six hundred dollar Nolan
Speaker 1: hold them Deep Stack had forty six hundred last year,
Speaker 1: or sorry, forty six hundred this year. Last year was
Speaker 1: over six thousand. So like that, that sort of stuff
Speaker 1: is just it's a big dip, right. I think the
Speaker 1: five hundred dollars Freeze Out got hammered pretty hard. Forty
Speaker 1: one hundred this year over five thousand last year. So
Speaker 1: you know, if it's down, it's down on average of
Speaker 1: about twenty percent. But then you got some other stuff
Speaker 1: that's up. You know, this big O is up almost
Speaker 1: is up over forty percent. The Dealer's Choice was up,
Speaker 1: the fifteen hundred dollars no limit Deuces seven Single Draw
Speaker 1: was up. The fifteen hundred dollars PLO was up sixty
Speaker 1: five percent.
Speaker 2: Wasn't that a multifly that was multifying that one?
Speaker 1: Okay, fine, whatever.
Speaker 2: Counts.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but listen, I know, yes, Asterix, but I will
Speaker 1: also say that if it's able to support a multi
Speaker 1: flight and have that much growth, then it does speak
Speaker 1: to how how popular PLO, right, you know, if you're
Speaker 1: able to get a four figure field on both starting flights,
Speaker 1: like that's huge. Yeah, you know, so, you know, I
Speaker 1: think the ras is up, the razz is up ten percent.
Speaker 1: People are just fucking coming out of the world work
Speaker 1: to play fucking rats like this. This ten K big
Speaker 1: O Championship up thirteen years shit, like you know. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's crazy, but that's you know, that's how it is.
Speaker 1: I think that sort of stuff just speaks to the
Speaker 1: type of player that plays those tournaments. I would say
Speaker 1: a person who plays a mixed tournament or maybe a
Speaker 1: PLO tournament is probably a little bit more on the
Speaker 1: wealthier side than a typical no limit holding player. But anyway,
Speaker 1: that's all I got for you. Anything else on that,
Speaker 1: nuh huh on that stuff. No, No, just in general, Yes,
Speaker 1: what else?
Speaker 2: I think we need to play some music?
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I dropped the ball. I talked about it.
Speaker 1: I missed a family pot jingle, but you could.
Speaker 2: Do every think we should start with community college. Okay,
Speaker 2: go ahead, community CODs jingle? Does Rich try and still editor?
Speaker 1: Is he Rich and Rich grand does still edit? He
Speaker 1: was staying with me for a few days. Shout out
Speaker 1: producer Rich he's going already. Yeah, I mean he didn't.
Speaker 1: He didn't make day two of the classes, so he said,
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm going back to see my family.
Speaker 2: Fair enough, all right, Rich, play the Community CODs music
Speaker 2: right now.
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Speaker 2: I've seen a many poker podcast hats. Thank you guys
Speaker 2: for wearing those. You know, we didn't have a hat
Speaker 2: this year. Stuff didn't come together quick enough.
Speaker 1: Honestly, they're too freaking expensive.
Speaker 2: But that's that's herky and witchy. But look, thanks for
Speaker 2: wearing those. You know a lot of people with Assi's
Speaker 2: ur a new hat. Unfortunately, no, you know, we'll try
Speaker 2: and make it right next year. Pumped into many people.
Speaker 2: Two I can remember, one is Blair, I believe, one
Speaker 2: is Brad, one I played with when I was in
Speaker 2: Portland last September. Play some cards at Poland Meadows together Portland.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like Oregon.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm going there after this too. Football tournaments, you know. Okay,
Speaker 2: but look, there's people that I mean, I'm assuming there's
Speaker 2: people coming out to you to say hello. There's people
Speaker 2: coming out to me. You know, we appreciate every one
Speaker 2: of you, even if the part is not what it
Speaker 2: was last year. But look back together for this episode.
Speaker 2: Who knows how many we can get. Maybe the main
Speaker 2: event we kick it back up. You know, did some
Speaker 2: daily stuff depending on how busy the ESPN work gets
Speaker 2: for me. But yeah, no, keep coming up to us,
Speaker 2: keep saying hello, keep one of those hats. Uh. You know,
Speaker 2: we appreciate all of you listeners.
Speaker 1: Sweet what else you got? Family part?
Speaker 2: I don't really have a f Do you have anything?
Speaker 2: Because my son's birthday today to get up early and I.
Speaker 1: Don't really have anything. No, everything's been pretty low key
Speaker 1: on the home front, which is a good thing.
Speaker 2: You know. Have you spent more time at home this
Speaker 2: World series and previous because of yes, Yeah, and as
Speaker 2: that felt.
Speaker 1: Well one of the reasons that I have been opting
Speaker 1: to go home and do the podcast. Yeah, staying here.
Speaker 1: So you know that me at least an extra hour
Speaker 1: to two hours at home every night.
Speaker 2: But do you make it home while the kids are
Speaker 2: still awake?
Speaker 1: Oh hell no, No, They're usually in bed seven to
Speaker 1: seven thirty. So I'm definitely not home Last night I did.
Speaker 1: I didn't make it home. I think two times this
Speaker 1: summer I've made it home while they were still awake. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: but yeah, you know, it's just.
Speaker 2: Kind of well, kind of used they used to it
Speaker 2: as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, of course, I mean, you know it's come come,
Speaker 1: you know, end of May. My wife knows she's basically
Speaker 1: a single mom for seven weeks or whatever it is.
Speaker 1: But yeah, well, I mean we'll see how it goes.
Speaker 1: Just part of the world we live in, man. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, that's going to do it for you, sir.
Speaker 1: It was a pleasure as always. Maybe we'll get another
Speaker 1: seven thirty pm end at some point.
Speaker 2: I We'll try to sink a few more. And I
Speaker 2: think we we owe it to the people. Just like
Speaker 2: Jeff is a man of the people, we need to
Speaker 2: be men for the podcast people.
Speaker 1: Definitely. And speaking of Jeff, I want to get him
Speaker 1: back on at some point. I know I had him
Speaker 1: on already, you know, he he said, you know, he
Speaker 1: would happy to be happy to come back on again.
Speaker 1: So maybe we'll get Jeff back on again. Maybe we'll
Speaker 1: get an update to the parking situation. Just kidding, Jeff, but.
Speaker 2: It's still the same. That's the up thing.
Speaker 1: I mean, listen, the parking doesn't work, okay, end of story.
Speaker 1: I have zero sympathy for anyone still parking there, Like,
Speaker 1: just find a different spot to park. You can park
Speaker 1: it I don't know Planet Hollywood. You can park it Blage.
Speaker 2: You would be quick at to park Apolage, and then.
Speaker 1: Just you could park walk through that nice casino, through
Speaker 1: the shops. You can stop at that Starbucks right before
Speaker 1: you get outside, you go right across the walkway and
Speaker 1: you're into the horseshoe like you get your steps in,
Speaker 1: good to go. You can park in the back. We
Speaker 1: talked about that. Parking in the back is the same
Speaker 1: exact thing as parking in the garage. It's the only
Speaker 1: difference is that you're going to be outside, so the
Speaker 1: car might heat up a little bit, But just get
Speaker 1: one of those windshield screens and you'll be okay, to
Speaker 1: be fine, okay, And you know, as far as I'm concerned.
Speaker 1: I haven't seen anyone get stuck in the back. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So there, that's what I would do. I mean, heck,
Speaker 1: you can probably park at other places that I'm just
Speaker 1: I don't know about across the streets somewhere. I have
Speaker 1: no idea, who knows. That's what I would suggest to
Speaker 1: people who are just sick and tired of getting stuck
Speaker 1: in the parking crotch, you know, because especially when there's
Speaker 1: just thousands of people that are getting out of a
Speaker 1: poker tournament at the same time, I mean, stuff's just
Speaker 1: gonna break down. That's just how it is. So go
Speaker 1: another route, people, all right, pleasure having you Tim as
Speaker 1: always so y, it was a pleasure to have Tim on.
Speaker 1: Of course, hopefully we get him. I'm gonna I'm gonna
Speaker 1: try and get him on once a week, That's what
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go for. I'm gonna go for once a week.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna really press him to figure out his schedule,
Speaker 1: give up half hour to an hour of sleep or
Speaker 1: whatever the heck he needs to do to make it happen.
Speaker 1: But that's what that's what we're gonna try and do
Speaker 1: for the rest of the show. Here let's hit on
Speaker 1: some of the stuff that happened at the World Series
Speaker 1: of Poker on Monday, June fifteenth, because I know you
Speaker 1: guys are listening to this on Tuesday right before I
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Speaker 1: thirty dollars off. First up, Adrian Matteos, the Absolute Crusher,
Speaker 1: wins the two hundred and fifty k Super high Roller
Speaker 1: for a second time in his career. It is gold
Speaker 1: bracelet number six. Sorry, Matt Savage, I said gold in
Speaker 1: front of bracelet. I'll try and change that up if
Speaker 1: it's really bothering you that much. But huge fist pump,
Speaker 1: which you don't often see from these high rollers. I
Speaker 1: don't think I've ever seen a reaction like that out
Speaker 1: of Mateos. But when that final rivercard hit and his
Speaker 1: hand held against bryn Kenny. It was a Tiger Woods
Speaker 1: Kobe Bryant esque fist pump out of Mataos. You know,
Speaker 1: he really shows how much winning means to him, how
Speaker 1: much he cares.
Speaker 2: This guy.
Speaker 1: I mean, this kid is only thirty one years old.
Speaker 1: He's got more than sixty seven million dollars in live
Speaker 1: tournament earnings. He's now moved up to fifth on poker's
Speaker 1: all time money list. He's had an outrageous two months
Speaker 1: of a run. Here he won the Triton Montenegro two
Speaker 1: hundred K Invitational for six point three seven million in May,
Speaker 1: and now here he is at the World Series of Poker,
Speaker 1: winning the biggest buy in of the summer, the two
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty K Super high Roller for four point
Speaker 1: three three million dollars. Mateos defeated a super tough final table,
Speaker 1: obviously a super tough event. Brin Kenny finished in second place.
Speaker 1: Brin Kenny, Poker's all time money leader, had a chance
Speaker 1: to get another giant win on his resume. Ultimately came second,
Speaker 1: but did push closer to ninety million dollars in live
Speaker 1: tournament earnings. David Einhorn the recreational player. The businessman, finance
Speaker 1: man out of New York was out here playing again.
Speaker 1: Believe he was playing for a charity, as he always does.
Speaker 1: He finished in third place for more than one point
Speaker 1: eight million dollars. Seawan Winter another close call for mister Winter,
Speaker 1: but that first goal bracelet does elude him. Still one
Speaker 1: point three million for him. Jason Kuhn was in the
Speaker 1: mix once again. We talked before about how this tournament
Speaker 1: is Jason Kuhn's white whale. It's the one he chases
Speaker 1: the most. It's the one he wants to win. But
Speaker 1: if he fell in fifth place for just shy of
Speaker 1: a million dollars, Samuel Mueller in sixth place for seven
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty k, Brandon Wilson in seven for six
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty thousand, phil Ivy ran Jacks into queens.
Speaker 1: I believe it was Bryn Kenny who had the queens.
Speaker 1: He fell in eighth place for five hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: three thousand, and then Texas Mike in ninth place for
Speaker 1: five hundred and eighteen K. Mataos now with six bracelets.
Speaker 1: His first one came back in twenty thirteen, and it
Speaker 1: came over in Europe when he won the ten k
Speaker 1: WASIP Europe Main Event for one million euros. In twenty sixteen,
Speaker 1: he won the fifteen hundred dollars Summer Solstice Event remember
Speaker 1: that event for four hundred and nine thousand dollars. Twenty seventeen,
Speaker 1: he won the ten k Heads Up Championship for three
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty five thousand dollars. Twenty twenty one, that's
Speaker 1: when he won the two hundred and fifty K Super
Speaker 1: high Roller for the first time in his career. Three
Speaker 1: point twenty sixty five million was the score there. Last
Speaker 1: year he won an online event. He won the thirty
Speaker 1: two hundred dollars high Roller Online for two hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty three thousand dollars. So that wraps up the two
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty K Super high Roller, as mentioned, the
Speaker 1: largest buy in poker tournament on the schedule each summer.
Speaker 1: I'm starting to think they could go a little bit higher.
Speaker 1: I'm starting to think they could push five hundred k,
Speaker 1: like slap a five hundred k out there, do that
Speaker 1: once a year. I think it could happen. I think
Speaker 1: pretty much all the fifty six entries that you get
Speaker 1: in here would fire into a five hundred K, you know,
Speaker 1: I think you're getting forty entries for sure, And that's
Speaker 1: one of those things where like the higher the buy in,
Speaker 1: maybe then you get some like ultra ultra rich guys,
Speaker 1: the ultra big cash game players dive in something like that.
Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe you attract, you know, a little
Speaker 1: bit of a different player type than than you do
Speaker 1: when it comes to the two hundred and fifty k
Speaker 1: Super high Roller. But nevertheless, still a great tournament, super
Speaker 1: high level play, and it's good to see Adrian Matteos
Speaker 1: get the win once again. The biggest crowd pop of
Speaker 1: the summer goes to the supporters of Juan Rodriguez. He
Speaker 1: won the Seniors high Roller, five K buy in in
Speaker 1: that Senior's high Roller, his first bracelet and six hundred
Speaker 1: and seventy three thousand dollars. He topped a field of
Speaker 1: eight hundred and forty four entries. His Rael called for
Speaker 1: a king.
Speaker 2: It was he.
Speaker 1: I believe he had King eight versus Ace three. Maybe
Speaker 1: on the final hand, but is Rail called for a
Speaker 1: king on the river? A king it was, and holy
Speaker 1: hell did they erupt. It was an absolute incredible pop.
Speaker 1: One of those pops that you love to see every
Speaker 1: single summer. I was behind the big wall in our
Speaker 1: little media space, heard the pop out there, went running
Speaker 1: out there. At first I was like, wait, did like,
Speaker 1: did that come from the Mateos versus Kenny heads upmatch,
Speaker 1: because at the time they were heads up in the
Speaker 1: two hundred fifty k Super high Roller. But no, this
Speaker 1: was all for one Rodriguez over in the seniors high Roller.
Speaker 1: At an adjacent feature table after Rodriguez one, he told Polkernews,
Speaker 1: he said, I used to play more for fun and
Speaker 1: I wanted to collect rings and wins, but now I'm
Speaker 1: playing for my beautiful son Max so that he can
Speaker 1: have a future. That was going through my mind all day. Well,
Speaker 1: Max is going to have a bit more of a
Speaker 1: brighter future here thanks to six hundred and seventy three
Speaker 1: thousand dollars in the bank for Rodriguez. I mentioned Chad
Speaker 1: Lipton had that deep run in the ten K Chigi Millions.
Speaker 1: Here he finishes in fourth place for two hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty three thousand dollars. Rodriguez beat Naraman yag Mai from
Speaker 1: Iran in second place for four hundred and forty eight thousand,
Speaker 1: Chinglu in third place. She took home three hundred and
Speaker 1: fourteen thousand. I mentioned Chad Lipton, Mark Rivera out of
Speaker 1: the Philippines fifth place for one hundred and sixty one K,
Speaker 1: Hari Kleiper sixth place for one hundred and eighteen K,
Speaker 1: Kenneth Kim in seventh for eighty a K, and Luke
Speaker 1: Graham finished in eighth place for sixty seven thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: These seniors events, they always produce really really big fields.
Speaker 1: I mentioned the eight hundred and forty four entries in
Speaker 1: this one. We are starting to get into the one
Speaker 1: K seniors event. That one is always absolutely slammed from
Speaker 1: wall to wall across horseshoe in Paris, so I expect
Speaker 1: a big field for that one as it goes over
Speaker 1: these next couple of days. The eight hundred dollars deep
Speaker 1: stack also found a winner on Monday. Matthew Moss out
Speaker 1: of the UK, defeated Darryl Ronconi in second place, Moss
Speaker 1: taking home his first bracelet three hundred and eighteen thousan
Speaker 1: five hundred and fifty six dollars for him. Ron Coney
Speaker 1: taking home two hundred and twelve thousand dollars for his
Speaker 1: second place finished Saloon Al Harr taking third place for
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty five k. Cheang jian Yang fourth
Speaker 1: place for one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars. These players
Speaker 1: came from a field of three thousand, nine hundred and
Speaker 1: three entries. Again it was Moss Matthew Moss out of
Speaker 1: the UK, topping the mall for his first bracelet in
Speaker 1: three hundred and eighteen thousand dollars. Two events are down
Speaker 1: to the final day. Let's go in order of buying.
Speaker 1: We'll go with the ten K Big O first. They
Speaker 1: are down to the final four players. There was some
Speaker 1: question whether or not this would finish today, but the
Speaker 1: players did opt to bag it up but leave the structure.
Speaker 1: She does say this is a four day event, so
Speaker 1: they got down to four. I think they played a
Speaker 1: little bit longer than Ultimately they decided to put the
Speaker 1: chips in the bag and then they'll come back on Tuesday.
Speaker 1: Daniel Aharoni leads the way with eighty seven big blinds.
Speaker 1: You got Bruno Firth is in the mix, Aaron Coopen
Speaker 1: is in the mix. Doug Losurie is also in the mix.
Speaker 1: Those three players. Firth has thirty one big linds Coopin's
Speaker 1: got thirty six, Losurie's got thirty, so they're all kind
Speaker 1: of bunched together in basically in second place to a
Speaker 1: Haroni huge first place prize. In this one, there was
Speaker 1: almost sorry over four hundred and fifty entries in the field,
Speaker 1: four hundred and fifty six to be exact, eight hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty one one thousand dollars up top. The final
Speaker 1: four players are guaranteed two hundred and seventy six thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: Nick Shulman had another deep run here the Goat, Shulman
Speaker 1: finishing in fifth place, taking home one hundred and ninety
Speaker 1: seven thousand dollars. Sean Troja got six, Sam Soverall got seventh,
Speaker 1: Scott Clemens took eighth, got David Benjamin in tenth. You
Speaker 1: got Mike Mattisow in fourteenth, Victor Blaum in sixteenth. So
Speaker 1: pretty packed and stacked field in this ten K big
Speaker 1: O nice turnout a four hun and fifty six entries,
Speaker 1: but we're gonna have to wait for that one to
Speaker 1: finish out on Tuesday. Then in the Colossus, the sixteen
Speaker 1: thousand plus entry field Colossus, you got u Fan Wang
Speaker 1: leading the way, I mean, just listen to this chip stack.
Speaker 1: One hundred and seventy five million, just like saying that
Speaker 1: number is so crazy. Of course it's it's nuts, because
Speaker 1: you know, everyone starts with whatever the heck they start
Speaker 1: with maybe fifty k in this tournament, I forget sixteen
Speaker 1: thousand something entries, so of course it's gonna build that.
Speaker 1: But still saying that the chip leaders got one hundred
Speaker 1: and seventy five million is just a freaking wild number,
Speaker 1: absolutely wild number. Most notable player here Eric Baldwin, a
Speaker 1: two time w Spigo Brace winner. He is in the mix.
Speaker 1: Arguably nobody loves it more than baseball that he is
Speaker 1: six out of nine per the chip counts. So he
Speaker 1: is going for the five hundred and fifty thousand dollars
Speaker 1: first place prize the final. The nine players here are
Speaker 1: guaranteed a little bit over sixty thousand dollars.
Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 1: Speaking of proker News, I was supposed to go on
Speaker 1: the Poker News podcast on Monday evening. One of their hosts,
Speaker 1: Chad Holloway. Shout out Chad Holloway, bircher, Chad, No chop Chad.
Speaker 1: He got stuck on a plane coming back. I was
Speaker 1: scrolling a lot of social media today, and there was
Speaker 1: a lot of like plane cancel cancelations and delays and
Speaker 1: all this sort of stuff. So Chad's all caught up
Speaker 1: in that mix. So rain check on the on me
Speaker 1: joining the pan pod. But we'll make it happen eventually.
Speaker 1: Back to the Colossus. Nine players in May, and they
Speaker 1: are guaranteed sixty thousand dollars. Eric Baldwin is still in
Speaker 1: u Fan Wang is the chip leader. The only player
Speaker 1: who has a bracelet is Eric Baldwin and he's got two,
Speaker 1: so he's going for number three in this one. That
Speaker 1: one's also going to play out on Tuesday. I hope
Speaker 1: they stream this final table. I've noided what the streaming
Speaker 1: plan is for Tuesday, but I hope they stream the
Speaker 1: final table just because like these these smaller buy in,
Speaker 1: massive shout out massive field poker tournaments, like that's just
Speaker 1: that's where it's at for like the WSP excitement, You're
Speaker 1: probably gonna see some wacky plays. I'm sure the stacks
Speaker 1: aren't overly deep here at the final table. I mean
Speaker 1: they're probably fine. Let me see, chip leaders got fifty
Speaker 1: eight big linds. Looks like the average stack is around
Speaker 1: twenty five to thirty or so. Shortest stacks got nine
Speaker 1: and a half. You got one, two, three, four players
Speaker 1: sub twenty five players if you include Miles Jerman, who's
Speaker 1: got exactly twenty big Linds. Other than that, you know,
Speaker 1: not too much to report on. We had the ten
Speaker 1: k Raz kicked off. I mean, this is just unbelievable
Speaker 1: how well this guy plays ras Calvin Anderson. I mean,
Speaker 1: every time I look at a RAZ tournament and Calvin
Speaker 1: Anderson is in there, he's just absolutely crushing the damn thing.
Speaker 1: He looks to be the chip leader from day one.
Speaker 1: You got the twenty five k high roller plo kicked
Speaker 1: off wild hand. By the way, that happened towards the
Speaker 1: end of the night in this tournament, so it looks
Speaker 1: like Yanni you can mine in fresh off his marriage.
Speaker 1: Congratulations to Yoni is the chip leader. He busted four
Speaker 1: players in one hand at the end of the night.
Speaker 1: He made a wheel with six five, five to three
Speaker 1: to eliminate Daniel Mgrandu, Carrie Katz, Sean Rafael, and Yang
Speaker 1: Wang all in the same hand. It was reported on
Speaker 1: by Poker News they got all the money in pre
Speaker 1: flop somehow and Yoni Yokuminin's six five to five to
Speaker 1: three made the wheel on the turn. He held from
Speaker 1: there to KO four players. Not sure I've ever seen
Speaker 1: that before. That's pretty freaking wild. You have the twenty
Speaker 1: five hundred dollars mixed Omaha High Low slash Stud High
Speaker 1: Low is playing down there throughout the final few tables.
Speaker 1: I believe that one's schedule to finish on Tuesday. And yeah,
Speaker 1: that's pretty much it. As I said earlier, it was
Speaker 1: a pleasure to get tim on. Hopefully we'll try and
Speaker 1: do something like that once a week, but that's gonna
Speaker 1: do it for the pod. Appreciate you guys as always
Speaker 1: for listening. I got to run because I think my
Speaker 1: dog has just put the trash all over the kitchen
Speaker 1: and I gotta go figure that out. So my name
Speaker 1: is Donny Peters and I will catch you guys on
Speaker 1: the next month.
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