WEBVTT 1 00:00:10.839 --> 00:00:13.240 Hello, everyone, Welcome back to a new episode oh the 2 00:00:13.400 --> 00:00:17.519 Poker Go Podcast. My name is Donnie Peters. His name 3 00:00:17.719 --> 00:00:21.920 is Tim Duckworth. As I adjust my mic stand right now, 4 00:00:22.320 --> 00:00:24.719 probably going to create some great audio for producer Rich 5 00:00:24.800 --> 00:00:28.000 Ryan to fix. But whatever, we're back. Baby. It's been 6 00:00:28.039 --> 00:00:32.719 a while. But it's December first, it is twelve fifty 7 00:00:32.799 --> 00:00:38.200 three pm. It is officially my birthday month. My wife 8 00:00:38.240 --> 00:00:41.359 decides to, you know, tell me it's her birthday month, 9 00:00:41.359 --> 00:00:43.520 it's her birthday week, whatever the heck. So you know 10 00:00:43.600 --> 00:00:46.280 I'm gonna do the same. You know, it's my birthday 11 00:00:46.359 --> 00:00:48.719 year as far as I'm concerned. Wow, yeah, exactly. On 12 00:00:48.759 --> 00:00:50.359 today's show, we had a lot to catch up on. 13 00:00:50.840 --> 00:00:53.600 We're gonna talk about the NPT Las Vegas. They had 14 00:00:54.159 --> 00:00:56.880 a bunch of PGT qualifying events that were part of 15 00:00:56.880 --> 00:01:00.439 that schedule, so we'll hit on those. Texas PLO round 16 00:01:00.560 --> 00:01:04.560 up finished up. Tim was down there at Champions Club, 17 00:01:04.599 --> 00:01:07.400 so he's gonna check or he's gonna get us up 18 00:01:07.400 --> 00:01:10.760 to date on what happened down in Texas. Austin, right, 19 00:01:11.359 --> 00:01:13.760 he's Houstons. I always do that. I don't know why. 20 00:01:13.840 --> 00:01:16.079 I don't know why. I always think Austin. I want 21 00:01:16.079 --> 00:01:18.079 to touch on these other big tournaments that happened around 22 00:01:18.120 --> 00:01:23.120 the world, AP APT Championship. I'm probably gonna butcher that 23 00:01:23.200 --> 00:01:25.000 because you know, you and I used to go to 24 00:01:25.040 --> 00:01:26.079 the APPT. 25 00:01:25.959 --> 00:01:28.120 Quite a lot, so you never went to the APT. 26 00:01:28.959 --> 00:01:32.439 I've never gone to the APT. I've only been to 27 00:01:32.519 --> 00:01:36.799 the APPT and the A and ZPT. There you go, 28 00:01:37.799 --> 00:01:41.079 B s Op Millions wrapped up and then currently running 29 00:01:41.159 --> 00:01:45.760 right now WPT Seminal Rock and Roll Poke Roping I 30 00:01:45.760 --> 00:01:47.680 believe is the one that's running right now. I do 31 00:01:47.719 --> 00:01:50.200 want to just quickly there's been a lot of drama 32 00:01:50.439 --> 00:01:52.680 in the Twitter world of the past what two weeks 33 00:01:52.719 --> 00:01:55.599 now or so. Yeah, we're not gonna get too much 34 00:01:55.599 --> 00:01:58.760 into it, but maybe we'll just give some quick takes, right, 35 00:01:58.840 --> 00:02:01.000 you know, we'll just quickly touch on things. We'll move on. 36 00:02:02.079 --> 00:02:04.519 And yeah, as always, if you are listening, please do 37 00:02:05.319 --> 00:02:07.760 favorite the show, leave a review, and if you do 38 00:02:07.959 --> 00:02:10.520 leave a review, send it on a podcast at PokerGO 39 00:02:10.599 --> 00:02:12.479 dot com. We might read it on air. If you're 40 00:02:12.520 --> 00:02:16.919 watching on the poker Go YouTube channel, like subscribe, comment 41 00:02:17.240 --> 00:02:20.280 all of that good stuff. We love to see where 42 00:02:20.280 --> 00:02:22.960 you guys are watching us from where you are tuning 43 00:02:23.039 --> 00:02:27.599 in from not too many giveaways on this show. We 44 00:02:27.599 --> 00:02:30.120 were wrapping up things. We did give away our podcast 45 00:02:30.159 --> 00:02:32.520 to the seat right, so that's done and dusted. But 46 00:02:32.599 --> 00:02:34.439 there is one more dream seat to be one there 47 00:02:34.479 --> 00:02:37.800 is and it belongs to somebody on Play Poker Go 48 00:02:38.639 --> 00:02:41.120 Poker gro and Play Poker Goro have teamed up to 49 00:02:41.120 --> 00:02:45.120 award a dream seat into the PGT Million Dollar Championship. 50 00:02:45.240 --> 00:02:46.599 All you have to do is go to play poker 51 00:02:46.599 --> 00:02:49.360 go dot com play single hand a free online poker. 52 00:02:49.680 --> 00:02:52.000 But it ends December tenth, so we got ten days 53 00:02:52.080 --> 00:02:54.280 left as of time of recording for you guys to 54 00:02:54.319 --> 00:02:57.000 get in there play your single hand of free online poker. 55 00:02:57.199 --> 00:02:59.439 Someone's gonna win that seat. They're gonna come out to 56 00:02:59.479 --> 00:03:02.319 Las Vegas in January. They're gonna play in that million 57 00:03:02.360 --> 00:03:04.719 dollar free role five hundred thousand dollars first place prize. 58 00:03:04.719 --> 00:03:06.800 It will be about fifty players, you know, give or 59 00:03:06.800 --> 00:03:09.080 take in that field, so you got a pretty good 60 00:03:09.080 --> 00:03:12.199 shot at winning half a million dollars. Of course, no 61 00:03:12.240 --> 00:03:14.599 purchase necessary. You do have to be twenty one or 62 00:03:14.599 --> 00:03:16.199 older because you know, you got to be able to 63 00:03:16.199 --> 00:03:19.879 come out here and play in the Studio US residents only. 64 00:03:19.960 --> 00:03:22.919 Full rules and details can be found at PokerGO dot 65 00:03:22.960 --> 00:03:29.000 com slash rules. All right, First things first, goll Ye 66 00:03:29.039 --> 00:03:33.919 Frock wins the NAPT Las Vegas main event. Now, this 67 00:03:34.120 --> 00:03:36.800 was not a PGT qualifying event. I don't know how 68 00:03:36.840 --> 00:03:39.280 many questions you feeled about that, but I think I 69 00:03:39.280 --> 00:03:43.560 feel two dozen you know what? Or you know is 70 00:03:43.599 --> 00:03:46.479 this PGT qualifying? Why isn't it PGT qualifying? All that 71 00:03:46.479 --> 00:03:49.879 sort of stuff. Anyway, the Frock gets his largest live 72 00:03:50.080 --> 00:03:54.000 tournament score. He wins five hundred and forty three thousand dollars. 73 00:03:54.000 --> 00:03:57.120 Now he did make a deal with Thomas Boyven heads up, 74 00:03:57.439 --> 00:04:00.240 they chopped it I think even, and left some need 75 00:04:00.240 --> 00:04:04.360 to play for Boyven had a large chip lead throughout 76 00:04:04.719 --> 00:04:08.120 much of the final table, the large majority of it. 77 00:04:08.120 --> 00:04:10.560 It was interesting because I was watching the stream and 78 00:04:11.560 --> 00:04:15.280 Boyvin he took a large chip lead into the final table, 79 00:04:15.560 --> 00:04:17.480 and then I think when he got down to three handed, 80 00:04:17.680 --> 00:04:21.199 it was Boyvin e Frock and then Jen Shahati and 81 00:04:21.240 --> 00:04:23.360 Boyven asked to look at the numbers, which I thought 82 00:04:23.399 --> 00:04:25.639 was interesting because he had such a big lead, Like 83 00:04:25.680 --> 00:04:27.639 why would you why wouldn't you just play for it? All. 84 00:04:28.120 --> 00:04:30.639 It was a kind of a combination of Shahati and 85 00:04:30.959 --> 00:04:33.680 e Frock when Boyven wanted to kind of negotiate better 86 00:04:33.759 --> 00:04:37.560 terms for him because he believed he I have this correctly, 87 00:04:37.839 --> 00:04:39.600 if my memory serves me, kucy that he wanted a 88 00:04:39.639 --> 00:04:42.199 little bit more than ICM because of his chip stack 89 00:04:42.240 --> 00:04:44.680 and everything. But Shahati was like, you know, let's just 90 00:04:44.759 --> 00:04:46.639 let's just play for it, you know, let's just play. 91 00:04:47.079 --> 00:04:49.439 So anyway, they end up playing for it. Jen Shahati 92 00:04:49.519 --> 00:04:51.480 goes out third, then there's a deal struck between e 93 00:04:51.560 --> 00:04:55.199 Frock and Boyvin. E Frok ends up coming back taking 94 00:04:55.279 --> 00:04:57.600 it all down. So it was e Froc on top, 95 00:04:57.600 --> 00:04:59.839 five hundred and forty three thousand dollars, boy then second, 96 00:05:00.240 --> 00:05:03.120 five hundred and eighteen k Shahati third, two hundred ninety 97 00:05:03.160 --> 00:05:07.680 one thousand. Ekram Boskirt fourth satellite winner into the event 98 00:05:08.160 --> 00:05:10.199 and then went on to finish fourth. Ekram is a 99 00:05:10.199 --> 00:05:14.519 regular player around Las Vegas, made a final table or 100 00:05:14.519 --> 00:05:17.079 two at Venetian that we streamed as part of Venetian 101 00:05:17.079 --> 00:05:19.759 Poker Live and also Poker gro He took home two 102 00:05:19.839 --> 00:05:22.480 hundred and twenty four thousand dollars. Michael Burke PGC regular 103 00:05:22.519 --> 00:05:26.240 fifth place, Peter Muger sixth place, one hundred and thirty 104 00:05:26.240 --> 00:05:29.319 two thousand for him, Burke got one seventy two, Abdullah 105 00:05:29.600 --> 00:05:32.399 Akbarpoor got seventh place for one hundred two thousand dollars, 106 00:05:32.439 --> 00:05:36.680 and then Richard Green, also frequent some PGT events, seventy 107 00:05:36.720 --> 00:05:40.519 eight thousand dollars for him, seven hundred and thirty eight entries. 108 00:05:41.000 --> 00:05:43.680 Last year was eight ninety five this year's prize school 109 00:05:43.680 --> 00:05:45.519 I did have a three million dollar guarantee last year 110 00:05:45.519 --> 00:05:47.800 and this year. This year came at almost three point 111 00:05:47.800 --> 00:05:50.360 six million dollars. Last year was a bit over four 112 00:05:50.399 --> 00:05:53.120 point three million dollars. So those two numbers compared to 113 00:05:53.160 --> 00:05:57.319 last year, seventeen point five percent decrease. That's what I 114 00:05:57.399 --> 00:05:59.759 want to talk about as it pertains to the main event. 115 00:06:00.160 --> 00:06:03.959 What are your thoughts, like, why did the field decline? 116 00:06:04.720 --> 00:06:06.199 I got four? Four reasons? 117 00:06:06.279 --> 00:06:09.199 Oh, four four, So that by the way, I like 118 00:06:09.319 --> 00:06:12.480 that you're bringing four and the reason why I like, Yeah, 119 00:06:12.519 --> 00:06:16.199 But it's never one thing I try to say, like, oh, 120 00:06:16.240 --> 00:06:18.920 it's it's because of this, and it's there's a pie chart, 121 00:06:19.279 --> 00:06:21.639 and like everything has its own percentage of the pie. Yeah, 122 00:06:21.639 --> 00:06:23.360 you know, so that's how this So I'm happy you're 123 00:06:23.399 --> 00:06:26.040 bringing multiple things here that that likely played into it. 124 00:06:26.079 --> 00:06:28.600 Now we may not exactly know the percentages, but there's 125 00:06:28.600 --> 00:06:30.360 always a bunch of different factors that are to. 126 00:06:30.360 --> 00:06:31.000 Way go ahead. 127 00:06:31.360 --> 00:06:33.360 We're going to touch on two of them a little later, 128 00:06:33.480 --> 00:06:38.800 but two pretty big, impressive competing events. We're going to 129 00:06:38.839 --> 00:06:41.319 talk about Asian pokatur in Taiwan. We're going to talk 130 00:06:41.319 --> 00:06:46.040 about the BSOP that's obviously going to draw some of 131 00:06:46.079 --> 00:06:49.120 those local players to state. It's also lurid some of 132 00:06:49.160 --> 00:06:51.240 our players. When I say our players, i'm talking you know, 133 00:06:51.319 --> 00:06:54.720 Las Vegas slash America over to those stops, and that's 134 00:06:54.720 --> 00:06:57.439 obviously going to have an influence on another event we'll 135 00:06:57.439 --> 00:06:59.279 talk about a little later, the textas Payler around up. 136 00:06:59.600 --> 00:07:02.199 So those two things are pretty big. I think the 137 00:07:02.279 --> 00:07:04.720 third thing to me, and you know, you and I 138 00:07:04.759 --> 00:07:06.959 have chatted about this a lot in person. I've chatted 139 00:07:07.000 --> 00:07:09.079 with players about a lot. I didn't think the schedule 140 00:07:09.120 --> 00:07:12.680 was that good. And when I say good, I'm talking 141 00:07:12.680 --> 00:07:14.639 more about how it was kind of conducted, how it 142 00:07:14.680 --> 00:07:15.319 was structured. 143 00:07:15.920 --> 00:07:17.920 You know, the offerings was not good. 144 00:07:18.000 --> 00:07:21.160 Yeah, And I think when a player wanting to travel 145 00:07:21.199 --> 00:07:23.480 here looking at that, They're like, you know, I can't 146 00:07:23.480 --> 00:07:25.160 play this event. I can't play that. I can only 147 00:07:25.199 --> 00:07:26.879 play a couple of events. It's not really worth it 148 00:07:26.920 --> 00:07:28.800 for me. I'm going to skip it. And then the 149 00:07:28.839 --> 00:07:32.120 fourth thing I think is is something I'm not quite 150 00:07:32.240 --> 00:07:34.680 knowledgeable on. Maybe you a little better than me, but 151 00:07:36.000 --> 00:07:37.800 the landscape. And when I said to Lanscap, I'm talking 152 00:07:37.839 --> 00:07:41.680 about Focus Stars, I'm talking about FanDuel And you know, 153 00:07:41.720 --> 00:07:44.079 we touched on it, like we just didn't feel there 154 00:07:44.160 --> 00:07:47.600 was as much promotion for this series in the last 155 00:07:47.920 --> 00:07:49.680 compared to the last couple of years. And now was 156 00:07:49.720 --> 00:07:52.439 that on purpose? Was that Pocos Stars saying, you know what, 157 00:07:52.519 --> 00:07:55.360 let's dial down the marketing dollars a little bit. You know, 158 00:07:55.720 --> 00:07:58.439 I'm sure if we could somehow access the data of 159 00:07:58.480 --> 00:08:03.160 satellite see winners online and and live. I'm assuming there's 160 00:08:03.199 --> 00:08:04.319 a big decline there too. 161 00:08:04.680 --> 00:08:07.399 Yeah, I mean I think that last sorry, two years ago, 162 00:08:07.560 --> 00:08:09.439 they obviously had to make a pretty big splash. Now 163 00:08:09.439 --> 00:08:10.920 it was a little bit of a different event with 164 00:08:11.240 --> 00:08:13.199 a different price point, but they still had to make 165 00:08:13.199 --> 00:08:15.399 a big splash. Return of the napt It's coming back 166 00:08:15.399 --> 00:08:17.639 to Las Vegas all that sort of stuff, and then 167 00:08:18.040 --> 00:08:21.160 last year they go back, they go to more of 168 00:08:21.199 --> 00:08:23.759 an EPT model, more of the old NAPT model, the 169 00:08:23.800 --> 00:08:26.000 five K in event, three million dollar guaranteed price, well, 170 00:08:26.040 --> 00:08:27.399 that sort of stuff. So obviously you've got to put 171 00:08:27.399 --> 00:08:29.680 a lot of marketing power behind that, and then this 172 00:08:29.800 --> 00:08:31.800 year maybe they just pulled back on it. I just 173 00:08:31.879 --> 00:08:35.360 I felt like buzz was a little bit lesser than 174 00:08:35.440 --> 00:08:37.600 last year, and that's probably just because it wasn't so 175 00:08:37.759 --> 00:08:40.320 in your face with the marketing, you know, actual so 176 00:08:40.399 --> 00:08:43.399 it was it was it was still a really good turnout, right, 177 00:08:43.720 --> 00:08:44.240 you know, but. 178 00:08:44.399 --> 00:08:48.440 Yeah, nearly eight hundred players, you know, you that's that's great. 179 00:08:48.759 --> 00:08:51.879 The actual on site marketing, let's just make sure we 180 00:08:52.000 --> 00:08:54.840 under it was still fantastic. The room's great to play in, 181 00:08:55.440 --> 00:08:58.000 you know, the branding at result World is still great. 182 00:08:58.440 --> 00:09:01.159 It's we're talking about leading up to whether it's on social, 183 00:09:01.200 --> 00:09:03.480 whether it's you know, they did a lot of stuff 184 00:09:03.559 --> 00:09:07.360 last year with influences and even like some pretty big 185 00:09:07.360 --> 00:09:10.039 Twitter accounts like was Las Vegas locally and stuff, so 186 00:09:10.399 --> 00:09:14.879 those additional marketing arms weren't there this year. Everything on 187 00:09:14.919 --> 00:09:16.960 side we're not talking about, it's just leading up to it. 188 00:09:17.399 --> 00:09:21.639 Online social et cetera, just built not not as there, 189 00:09:21.759 --> 00:09:22.960 not as much there as last time. 190 00:09:23.279 --> 00:09:25.120 I mean, it's also I know you want to talk 191 00:09:25.120 --> 00:09:26.639 about this a little bit more later, but it is 192 00:09:26.840 --> 00:09:31.480 very difficult these days with there's just so much poker. 193 00:09:31.559 --> 00:09:32.919 There's so much, you know, it's. 194 00:09:32.960 --> 00:09:37.279 It's it's getting pretty crazy, and it's it's good to 195 00:09:37.320 --> 00:09:41.000 see that the industry is able to survive through it, 196 00:09:41.080 --> 00:09:43.120 you know, like for example, this event, you know, it 197 00:09:43.120 --> 00:09:46.360 didn't it didn't miss the guarantee, It cleared the guarantee. 198 00:09:46.759 --> 00:09:48.679 You know, it was I think it was probably a 199 00:09:48.679 --> 00:09:51.200 bit more of a sweat than they would have liked. 200 00:09:51.399 --> 00:09:53.440 But still they made it by about six in r K, 201 00:09:53.559 --> 00:09:56.679 so that's you know, a fair a fair amount over 202 00:09:56.840 --> 00:09:59.720 you know that I would say that this doesn't fall 203 00:09:59.759 --> 00:10:01.960 into fake guarantee range because they didn't blow it out 204 00:10:01.960 --> 00:10:04.360 of the water finally, but it was again, it was 205 00:10:04.360 --> 00:10:06.679 probably a little bit closer than they would have liked. 206 00:10:07.360 --> 00:10:09.639 So there's that. Yeah, all in all, you know, I 207 00:10:09.639 --> 00:10:12.120 thought the event was good. I lasted a whole of 208 00:10:12.159 --> 00:10:15.480 like forty minutes in it, so that was also spectacular. Yeah, 209 00:10:15.480 --> 00:10:17.960 it's very well played. You know, I don't like to 210 00:10:18.320 --> 00:10:19.919 wait around. You know, I either get in and I 211 00:10:19.960 --> 00:10:22.600 lose or I win, you know, one of the others. 212 00:10:23.159 --> 00:10:25.919 Moving on to the PGT qualifying events that were part 213 00:10:25.919 --> 00:10:28.639 of the NAPT Las Vegas. You had eight events, the 214 00:10:28.879 --> 00:10:31.200 ten K Mystery Bounty, the twenty K Super high Roller 215 00:10:31.200 --> 00:10:33.679 warm Up, the fifty K Super high Roller, ten K 216 00:10:34.120 --> 00:10:36.919 Half and half Nolan Holdham Slash Plo, twenty five K 217 00:10:37.000 --> 00:10:42.759 Poo high Roller, ten K Bounty, twelve K Quattro Knockout, 218 00:10:42.840 --> 00:10:46.080 and then the ten K napt high Roller First Up 219 00:10:46.360 --> 00:10:50.279 the Mystery Bounty. Cherish Andrews won it all topped eighty 220 00:10:50.279 --> 00:10:52.840 four entries She want to combined three hundred and thirty 221 00:10:52.840 --> 00:10:55.240 one thousand dollars. She won one hundred and eleven thousand 222 00:10:55.240 --> 00:10:56.919 dollars from the prize pool. She went two hundred and 223 00:10:56.919 --> 00:11:00.879 twenty thousand dollars from the mystery bounties. She beat Nick 224 00:11:00.879 --> 00:11:04.440 Petraangelo in heads up play. Petra Angelo got almost one 225 00:11:04.480 --> 00:11:07.720 hundred and twenty two thousand dollars between prize, school and bounties. 226 00:11:08.039 --> 00:11:10.480 And I bring up Petrangela specifically because he then went 227 00:11:10.519 --> 00:11:13.600 on to win the next event, the twenty K Super 228 00:11:13.639 --> 00:11:15.879 high Roller warm Up, topping fifty three entries to win 229 00:11:15.960 --> 00:11:19.039 almost three hundred and ten thousand dollars. The fifty k 230 00:11:19.159 --> 00:11:22.600 super high Roller that had twenty three entries. Steven Chidwick 231 00:11:23.159 --> 00:11:27.159 topped all comers five hundred and fifty seven thousand dollars. 232 00:11:27.200 --> 00:11:31.440 Thomas Boyven second place for three thirty four, already on 233 00:11:31.480 --> 00:11:34.240 a high before that main event score that we already 234 00:11:34.279 --> 00:11:36.679 talked about. This fifty k super high Roll took place 235 00:11:36.720 --> 00:11:41.320 before the main event, so all combined well over eight 236 00:11:41.399 --> 00:11:44.200 hundred thousand dollars just from those two finishes for Boyvin, 237 00:11:44.240 --> 00:11:46.440 who's had a really really great year, he had a 238 00:11:46.480 --> 00:11:50.679 smashing WSP does very well here at NPT Las Vegas. 239 00:11:50.759 --> 00:11:54.600 The ten k Nolanan HOLDOM slash PLO JACEAMU top sixty 240 00:11:54.720 --> 00:11:57.360 entries won one hundred and seventy four thousand dollars. Sam 241 00:11:57.360 --> 00:11:59.799 Soeverell second place one hundred and thirteen thousand dollars cherish 242 00:11:59.840 --> 00:12:04.039 and back at the final table She's Hot fifth place 243 00:12:04.120 --> 00:12:07.679 for forty seven thousand dollars. The twenty five KPLO high Roller. 244 00:12:08.000 --> 00:12:12.759 This event was i'll say needs improvement. Eleven entries, Yeah, 245 00:12:13.559 --> 00:12:15.399 it was. It was just a bad structure. It was 246 00:12:15.440 --> 00:12:18.440 scheduled for three days. I think they started him way 247 00:12:18.480 --> 00:12:20.799 too deep in chips. They only played a handful levels 248 00:12:20.840 --> 00:12:23.440 on day one. They even had to adjust the structure 249 00:12:23.480 --> 00:12:25.320 on day one. It was kind of a mess. It 250 00:12:25.360 --> 00:12:26.799 only got eleven entries at the end of the day. 251 00:12:26.840 --> 00:12:29.559 Sean Rafael won it for one hundred and seventy one 252 00:12:29.559 --> 00:12:32.960 thousand dollars. He beat Jordan Glazer, who took ninety two 253 00:12:33.039 --> 00:12:36.480 k for second place, and then Glazer, much like Petrangelo 254 00:12:36.559 --> 00:12:38.759 did to kick off the high rollers, Glazer went on 255 00:12:38.799 --> 00:12:41.320 to win the next high roller, top fourteen entries in 256 00:12:41.399 --> 00:12:44.639 the ten K Bounty to win forty two thousand dollars. 257 00:12:44.960 --> 00:12:49.519 Then Glazer took second place in the twelve K Quatro knockout. 258 00:12:50.120 --> 00:12:53.519 He lost there to Sam so Overroll. Sam Soverll wins 259 00:12:53.600 --> 00:12:56.039 almost two hundred one thousand dollars over two hundred thousand dollars, 260 00:12:56.720 --> 00:13:00.840 topping thirty nine entries there, and then the the most 261 00:13:00.879 --> 00:13:03.639 well attended a high roller event on the schedule, the 262 00:13:03.679 --> 00:13:09.320 ten K napt high Roller Batali Zavorotnis I probably severely 263 00:13:09.360 --> 00:13:11.960 pushed at that one, top one hundred and fifty eight 264 00:13:12.039 --> 00:13:14.240 entries to win three hundred and fifty eight thousand dollars. 265 00:13:14.279 --> 00:13:21.360 It had one hundred and seventy entries last year. For you, sir, Yes, Now, 266 00:13:21.440 --> 00:13:24.200 part of our partnership with the NAPT Las Vegas. And 267 00:13:24.200 --> 00:13:26.279 when I say our, I mean the PGT, we gave 268 00:13:26.320 --> 00:13:30.240 a dream seat which fast tracked somebody into the PGT 269 00:13:30.440 --> 00:13:33.279 Million Dollar Championship. Who won that thing? And who are 270 00:13:33.279 --> 00:13:34.519 we going to be seeing in January? 271 00:13:34.639 --> 00:13:38.000 Well, we like we do on the PGT, he must 272 00:13:38.039 --> 00:13:41.559 have two cash's, so that kind of you know, disqualified 273 00:13:41.639 --> 00:13:44.960 or made some people ineligible to win this. So who 274 00:13:45.000 --> 00:13:46.799 actually finished second on the leaderboard, but he did have 275 00:13:46.799 --> 00:13:50.559 two cashes? Nick Petriangelo has both hands on that dream see. 276 00:13:50.600 --> 00:13:53.480 But you know, here's the thing, here's the kicker. And 277 00:13:53.519 --> 00:13:57.159 I've told some players that are on this leaderboard he's 278 00:13:57.200 --> 00:14:00.200 pretty close to the top forty. And we know he's 279 00:14:00.200 --> 00:14:02.919 going to Bahamas and we know he probably might play 280 00:14:02.960 --> 00:14:06.320 last Chance, so there was a chance that he naturally 281 00:14:06.440 --> 00:14:09.919 qualifies for the PGT Championship. So what that means that 282 00:14:10.120 --> 00:14:13.159 seat start rolling down next up. 283 00:14:13.360 --> 00:14:17.120 And the reason why you do that is because dream 284 00:14:17.200 --> 00:14:19.639 seat winners only start with one hundred big lines. 285 00:14:19.679 --> 00:14:20.080 Correct. 286 00:14:20.159 --> 00:14:22.320 If you qualify in the top forty. 287 00:14:22.440 --> 00:14:23.240 Do you have a lot more? 288 00:14:23.279 --> 00:14:25.759 You can have more chips based on your finishing position 289 00:14:25.840 --> 00:14:27.600 in the top four Exactly. The first person on the 290 00:14:27.679 --> 00:14:29.519 leader board, which right now is Alex Fox, and he 291 00:14:29.559 --> 00:14:32.039 would start with the most chips in the PGT Championship, 292 00:14:32.279 --> 00:14:35.240 second whatever, the second most, et cetera. So you'd rather 293 00:14:35.279 --> 00:14:38.240 than that. We're gonna benefit the player in this regard exactly. 294 00:14:38.519 --> 00:14:41.480 Next up Sam several Well, he's second on the leader board, 295 00:14:41.519 --> 00:14:45.159 so he's out. Uh. Steven Chidwick also in the top forty, 296 00:14:45.200 --> 00:14:47.440 he's at bin Wang one cash. 297 00:14:47.519 --> 00:14:49.080 Unfortunately he does not qualify. 298 00:14:49.159 --> 00:14:52.320 Next person on the list, Jordan Glazer four cash, is 299 00:14:52.440 --> 00:14:56.279 best performing player at NAPT when it came to the 300 00:14:56.279 --> 00:14:59.279 PGT qualifying events. But Jordan, we'll touch on him. He 301 00:14:59.320 --> 00:15:02.960 did down to Texas, had some results there. He's about 302 00:15:03.320 --> 00:15:06.879 four hundred points away from the top forty. 303 00:15:07.320 --> 00:15:07.720 Not sure. 304 00:15:07.759 --> 00:15:10.440 I'm not sure he was going to Muhamas yet. So 305 00:15:11.480 --> 00:15:15.639 he's probably, you know, not a favorite. But hey, I 306 00:15:15.639 --> 00:15:18.840 already told him keep the communication lines open. I might 307 00:15:18.879 --> 00:15:20.919 have to send you a message. He may also come 308 00:15:20.960 --> 00:15:24.360 and play PGT last chance. He's more of a PLO player, 309 00:15:24.399 --> 00:15:27.440 but he may come out here. So there's a chance, 310 00:15:27.480 --> 00:15:29.639 you know, he could score some results and potentially get 311 00:15:29.679 --> 00:15:33.320 in naturally too. But if Petranglo does qualify, he's got 312 00:15:33.320 --> 00:15:36.639 four hundred and fifty points, that sea would roll down 313 00:15:36.679 --> 00:15:38.679 to Jordan and then if you know, like it can 314 00:15:38.720 --> 00:15:41.440 keep going. Obviously, if he did both of them somehow 315 00:15:41.480 --> 00:15:44.240 get in, it's going to go down to Sam Laskwitz 316 00:15:44.360 --> 00:15:46.960 was just outside the top forty. Just somow he's in, 317 00:15:47.039 --> 00:15:50.080 Kristen Foxon and carry Katz sitting in tenth, not in 318 00:15:50.080 --> 00:15:53.120 the top forty yet, but hey, this is his backup option. 319 00:15:53.639 --> 00:15:55.080 So what about Cherish Wish? 320 00:15:55.120 --> 00:15:59.240 She Cherish's on thirteenth on the leaderboard, so significantly more 321 00:15:59.279 --> 00:16:01.120 down on this dream see little bit. But yeah, she's 322 00:16:01.519 --> 00:16:03.480 she's outside the top forty as well. So yeah, this 323 00:16:03.679 --> 00:16:05.879 is I though Nick, it's currently with Nick. 324 00:16:05.960 --> 00:16:06.679 It may change. 325 00:16:07.200 --> 00:16:08.720 We'll just kind of see how the next you know, 326 00:16:09.440 --> 00:16:12.960 what is it twenty sixteen events or something play out? 327 00:16:14.000 --> 00:16:18.480 Anything else stand out to you from this series? You 328 00:16:18.559 --> 00:16:21.120 can focus on the PGT stuff. I mean, what have 329 00:16:21.200 --> 00:16:21.720 you got to say? 330 00:16:21.960 --> 00:16:22.000 So? 331 00:16:22.200 --> 00:16:25.600 I think the biggest thing is, you know, we had 332 00:16:25.679 --> 00:16:29.440 three people knock up some PGT milestones. Okay, okay, So 333 00:16:30.399 --> 00:16:33.879 we had Steven Schidwick sur past ten thousand PGT points, 334 00:16:33.879 --> 00:16:37.120 he joins Alex Foxon in that category. We had Sam 335 00:16:37.279 --> 00:16:41.200 Several and Jeremy Osmond's pick up their one hundredth PGT cash, 336 00:16:41.559 --> 00:16:43.879 so it's three pretty cool milestones. And then we look 337 00:16:43.919 --> 00:16:46.519 at the leaderboard, we did have some big, big movers. 338 00:16:46.559 --> 00:16:50.480 Some people solidify, you know, their position. Obviously, Sam Several 339 00:16:50.519 --> 00:16:53.720 picked up three cash as he's he's now just looks 340 00:16:53.759 --> 00:16:58.120 like forty four points outside Alex Foxon. So that race 341 00:16:58.279 --> 00:16:59.759 to be PGT Player of the Year is going to 342 00:16:59.799 --> 00:17:02.759 come pretty pretty hot down this home stretch. You know, 343 00:17:02.840 --> 00:17:05.000 we had jos Mao move up in the top ten, 344 00:17:05.079 --> 00:17:07.599 Kristen fox And move up, Chidwick move up. A lot 345 00:17:07.640 --> 00:17:10.039 of these guys kind of solidified their position. And then 346 00:17:10.079 --> 00:17:13.359 you look just outside that, you know, top forty, we 347 00:17:13.400 --> 00:17:17.640 saw Sam Liskoy it's now forty first. Including all the 348 00:17:17.960 --> 00:17:20.880 little rules we have, we have Jeremy Osma's now sneaking in, 349 00:17:21.720 --> 00:17:24.279 so he's right in there, you know, obviously defending PGT 350 00:17:24.400 --> 00:17:28.000 Player of the Year, defending PGT Championship winner. So he 351 00:17:28.279 --> 00:17:31.640 is currently sitting thirty eight, so he's going to still 352 00:17:31.720 --> 00:17:33.880 do some more work to make sure he sleticizes his position. 353 00:17:34.000 --> 00:17:37.359 But yeah, some movers in the forty people just moving 354 00:17:37.519 --> 00:17:39.880 just to the outside. So did have a bit of 355 00:17:39.920 --> 00:17:40.880 a bit of a shakeup. 356 00:17:41.680 --> 00:17:43.839 Yeah, I mean, listen, I thought I thought the high 357 00:17:43.880 --> 00:17:44.680 walls were pretty good. 358 00:17:44.839 --> 00:17:45.000 You know. 359 00:17:45.200 --> 00:17:47.400 I think going back to your point about the schedule stuff, 360 00:17:47.519 --> 00:17:50.319 some tinkering could be done there. And yeah, you know, 361 00:17:50.400 --> 00:17:53.519 all in all, I hope, I hope this event stays 362 00:17:53.559 --> 00:17:55.920 on the schedule. I really like it's I think it's 363 00:17:55.960 --> 00:17:59.599 got a decent time slot. I see decent now because 364 00:18:00.160 --> 00:18:02.200 as we'll get into some of the later stuff and 365 00:18:02.240 --> 00:18:05.480 Tim kind of touched on could be more challenging going forward. 366 00:18:05.839 --> 00:18:09.079 I also do wonder if this this letter or whatever 367 00:18:09.160 --> 00:18:11.519 from the Nevada Gaming Commission has anything to do with it, 368 00:18:11.839 --> 00:18:14.799 because they sent the letter to their belief to fand yeah, 369 00:18:15.000 --> 00:18:18.480 you know about the prediction market stuff, you know, and 370 00:18:18.599 --> 00:18:21.119 I want to say they mentioned Flutter in there, so 371 00:18:21.440 --> 00:18:24.559 does because Flutter owns poker Stars. Does that affect this 372 00:18:24.720 --> 00:18:27.319 event like it's it's a whole thing. So I guess 373 00:18:27.440 --> 00:18:29.960 wait and see on that. I would hate to see 374 00:18:30.440 --> 00:18:34.039 this event go. I mean, I want to see the 375 00:18:34.119 --> 00:18:39.519 napt evolve into a full on tour, not just one stop. 376 00:18:39.680 --> 00:18:42.599 I mean, I think that they should be. I think 377 00:18:42.640 --> 00:18:46.480 they should be trying to do four big five K 378 00:18:46.559 --> 00:18:52.119 events a year different properties, culminate with the final one 379 00:18:52.519 --> 00:18:55.559 in Las Vegas, and then do a bunch of those 380 00:18:55.640 --> 00:18:59.880 Poker Stars open ones, right, you know, maybe do let's 381 00:19:00.200 --> 00:19:04.119 four to eight of those smaller events one K price point, 382 00:19:04.240 --> 00:19:06.119 you know, and they kind of all feed in to 383 00:19:06.240 --> 00:19:08.279 those then majors. Like That's how I would kind of 384 00:19:08.319 --> 00:19:10.160 try and structure this thing. I don't know how many 385 00:19:10.200 --> 00:19:12.720 properties are are available to them, how many you know, 386 00:19:12.880 --> 00:19:15.359 partner properties they have. Obviously they went to I think 387 00:19:15.400 --> 00:19:17.920 it was Maryland Live for the Poker Stars Open. I 388 00:19:18.000 --> 00:19:21.400 think they have a presence in Pennsylvania. They're in Michigan, 389 00:19:21.519 --> 00:19:23.759 So can they find someone there to do something with, like, 390 00:19:23.880 --> 00:19:25.599 you know, all that sort of stuff. I don't know, 391 00:19:25.680 --> 00:19:28.480 we'll see. Would love for that to happen. And I think, 392 00:19:28.519 --> 00:19:30.039 again I've said it before, I'll say it again, the 393 00:19:30.079 --> 00:19:33.240 resort property is elite. It just kind of thinks that 394 00:19:34.039 --> 00:19:35.599 it seems like no one's ever there when I'm there, 395 00:19:35.759 --> 00:19:39.039 which sucks so quiet, it's so but the entire property 396 00:19:39.119 --> 00:19:41.440 is so freaking nice, and like when you go to 397 00:19:41.480 --> 00:19:44.400 play poker there for the napt you're in this ballroom, 398 00:19:44.480 --> 00:19:49.240 You're away from everything. Everything super updated, state of the art, spacious, luxurious. 399 00:19:49.240 --> 00:19:52.079 It's it's awesome. It really is. Even simple things like 400 00:19:52.680 --> 00:19:54.680 coming in off the highway, it's like right there, you 401 00:19:54.680 --> 00:19:56.519