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Speaker 1: is Tim Duckworth, and we have breaking breaking news. Maybe
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Speaker 1: p g T Venetian Loss Vegas Classic. I want this
Speaker 1: event to become a thing because I want it just
Speaker 1: to be called the Classic, and like I want people
Speaker 1: when they say, like, I'm playing the Classic, they just know,
Speaker 1: like right.
Speaker 2: But the Classic is like use quite a lot of
Speaker 2: places though, Yeah, that's the class.
Speaker 1: That's fine, Okay, that's fine. I think of the movie
Speaker 1: Uh Side Out. Believe it was in the early nineties maybe,
Speaker 1: but it was a movie where this guy went to
Speaker 1: work for his uncle. He ends up trying to serve
Speaker 1: this other guy who's like a beach bum who's been
Speaker 1: running from stuff. They end up becoming friends. They get
Speaker 1: entered into a volleyball tournament, and I believe they play.
Speaker 1: The tournament that they play in is called the Classic.
Speaker 1: I believe it is. We missed a bit with the
Speaker 1: PGT Bounty Blitz, but I think we hit with the
Speaker 1: PGT Venetian.
Speaker 2: And don't think the Manning Blitz was that terrible. We
Speaker 2: knew it was. It was capped how good it could be.
Speaker 2: I think it was fine. I think it was fun.
Speaker 2: If we put it back on the schedule next season,
Speaker 2: we're just find a bit classic.
Speaker 1: It is called the Classic Classic, Yeah, the gold Quervo Classic. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it's great. So the the PGT Venian Los
Speaker 1: Phigas Classic was part of Venetian's Deep Stack Extravaganza series
Speaker 1: as part of this entire month of poker that they're
Speaker 1: doing over there. They got an MSPT event as part
Speaker 1: of it. They got a whole bunch of other stuff
Speaker 1: that they're doing at Venetian. But the PGT Venetian Las
Speaker 1: Vegas Classic had a main event thirty three hundred dollars
Speaker 1: by million dollar guarantee, and then it also had three
Speaker 1: high rollers fifty three hundred dollars buy in each for
Speaker 1: those All four of those events were PGT qualifying events.
Speaker 1: First up was the main event million dollar guarantee, but
Speaker 1: that was surpassed with more than one point twenty five
Speaker 1: million in the prize pool. Didn't seem like much of
Speaker 1: a sweat, although it's always a swim. I mean, once
Speaker 1: I saw the Day one A numbers were eighty eight entries. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I thought that it was pretty good and
Speaker 1: then obviously it built from there and it got over it.
Speaker 1: But it also wasn't one of those ones where, you know,
Speaker 1: it ended up with two point five million in the
Speaker 1: prize pool and I'm looking at you saying like, well,
Speaker 1: why didn't we have a bigger guarantee? So I don't
Speaker 1: know this sort of price point is it's tricky in
Speaker 1: Las Vegas. I think it's tricky in ad Venetian specifically
Speaker 1: as well. I mean they don't have a lot of
Speaker 1: this stuff. They have that big WPT in the summer
Speaker 1: and that now they have this and then everything else
Speaker 1: is like eleven hundred and sixteen hundred for their big stuff, right,
Speaker 1: So you know, I think that Tommy LaRosa, the director
Speaker 1: of co operations over there, would agree that, you know,
Speaker 1: this was a little bit of a step outside of
Speaker 1: their comfort zone. But it did come through four hundred
Speaker 1: and eighteen entries one point twenty five to four million
Speaker 1: in the prize pool. The winner, Daniel Lee, took it
Speaker 1: down for two hundred and fifty k I think a
Speaker 1: pretty good uh first place prize all things considered, thirty
Speaker 1: three hundred dollars buy and he defeated Lily Coletto, the
Speaker 1: firecracker herself, Lily Coletto, and trust me, she plays quite
Speaker 1: a firecrackery. I mean she has some wild hands. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like she just she plays just straight forward power poker,
Speaker 1: just just goes for it. And it was good. Doug
Speaker 1: lay Lee, yes, that Doug Lee. Doug Lee from I
Speaker 1: Believe two plus two fame back in the day, finished third.
Speaker 1: Doug Lee want a satellite into that event, finished third
Speaker 1: for one hundred and twenty k. He won a satellite
Speaker 1: into this pogram Masters showcase. Just now as offin He's
Speaker 1: just a satellite king. We had Daniel Marcus finishing fourth,
Speaker 1: We had Ryan Lang finishing in fifth, Santiego Santiago, Montes
Speaker 1: and sixth and Jeremy Osmas and seven. Now, Jeremy Osmas
Speaker 1: came into the final table with a big chip lead.
Speaker 1: He had four point four to eight million I believe
Speaker 1: was the number, and the next closest had around two
Speaker 1: point five. I think. Yeah. He ran a big bluff
Speaker 1: like maybe the fifth hand or something against Daniel Lee.
Speaker 1: It went open from Jeremy with jacktan suited three bet
Speaker 1: from Daniel Lee from one of the blinds. They were
Speaker 1: they were very very deep at this this fire final table. Everywhere,
Speaker 1: so Jeremy calls in position seems totally it came Queen high.
Speaker 2: It went.
Speaker 1: Check bet call from Daniel He check called turn turn
Speaker 1: what I don't even know what the turn was. Then
Speaker 1: check that call again and then the river was a
Speaker 1: king and I went check all in and ace king
Speaker 1: for Daniel Lee and he thought about it for a
Speaker 1: while and called. I think there was a I think
Speaker 1: Jeremy made a comment like right after the hand saying
Speaker 1: that he it was a bad river card for him
Speaker 1: to bluff. I agree, I did not think he should
Speaker 1: bluff that river card. But I think he also felt like, well,
Speaker 1: I have Jack High, let's go for it. Not that
Speaker 1: I'm going to be here, you know, questioning Jeremy Osmas's play,
Speaker 1: because the guy is absolutely incredible. But I did think
Speaker 1: that that was, you know, not needed to go for
Speaker 1: it there, but you know, he did, and it bit him.
Speaker 1: He tumbled down the leaderboard. He didn't quite fall to
Speaker 1: a short sack, but kind of shortly thereafter things didn't
Speaker 1: really work for him. He became the shortstack and then
Speaker 1: was ultimately eliminated in seventh place for thirty five thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: Clearly not the result he wanted, right.
Speaker 2: Of course not Nah, he was a little disappointed, but hey,
Speaker 2: we can say that elimination led to some future success.
Speaker 1: Yeah, at which will hit on, but it is important
Speaker 1: for Jeremy thirty five PGT points. He's been well off
Speaker 1: pace for you know, last season, he was the PGD
Speaker 1: Player of the Year. The guy could do no wrong,
Speaker 1: absolutely crushed it. In this season, you know, he hasn't
Speaker 1: been able to do much right. You know, call at
Speaker 1: variance whatever you will. You know, it just hasn't been
Speaker 1: working out in Jeremy Osma's favor, and he's been outside
Speaker 1: the top forty for much of the entire season. I mean,
Speaker 1: maybe he was in there in the beginning, but other
Speaker 1: than that, he's been outside the top forty. So any
Speaker 1: points that he can garner the better. And I know
Speaker 1: he told you that he was skipping Triton Jju to
Speaker 1: play the PGT stuff. So you know, it's good to
Speaker 1: see him make that run there, Daniel Lee. You know,
Speaker 1: he he said after that he's been going through a
Speaker 1: little bit of a downswing. You know. He he won
Speaker 1: an event I think it was in Manila. It was
Speaker 1: like an apt Yeah, he won an event for I
Speaker 1: think a little bit more than two hundred and fifty K,
Speaker 1: because this became his second largest career score and I
Speaker 1: think his first ever live tournament cash was in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four, so relatively new to the live poker scene
Speaker 1: or at least not a recognizable face, but he was
Speaker 1: able to get this win. I thought he played very
Speaker 1: very well both, you know, when we covered him on
Speaker 1: day two and then also at this final table, he
Speaker 1: seemed like he had good command. You know, he obviously,
Speaker 1: you know, was the beneficiary of that big bluff from
Speaker 1: Jeremy Osmas and was able to pick that off. But
Speaker 1: from there, you know, I think he controlled things quite well.
Speaker 1: And yeah, we'll see what's to come for Daniel Lee.
Speaker 1: I don't really know if he's going to fire all
Speaker 1: of Poker Masters. I would expect him to play the
Speaker 1: showcase because it's a similar event, you know, multiply.
Speaker 2: He made it sound like he was he's up from
Speaker 2: San Francisco, so he made it sound like he was
Speaker 2: going to go home.
Speaker 1: First and for a couple of days come back.
Speaker 2: So we'll see tomorrow. Maybe he hops in the studio
Speaker 2: kind of told him a little bit about it. He's
Speaker 2: never been in here, so it'd be good to see
Speaker 2: not just him, but a lot of those players have
Speaker 2: played the Venetian event come over here, you know. But yeah,
Speaker 2: we'll see for the showcase what happens.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm very much looking forward to the showcase, which
Speaker 1: we'll talk about a little bit later.
Speaker 2: Before you move on the high rolls, I want to
Speaker 2: talk about numbers real quick. You mentioned four engren eighteen
Speaker 2: entrance first time. You know, we touched on this last
Speaker 2: episode that you know, for this price point thirty three
Speaker 2: hundred dollars, the Venetian was doing a rake discount of
Speaker 2: two hundred dollars if you are on time. We have
Speaker 2: seen the success of that here in the studio, and
Speaker 2: we wanted to see how it kind of works in
Speaker 2: the midstakes. Of those four hundred and eighteen entrants, just
Speaker 2: slightly more than half were unique, two hundred and fifteen
Speaker 2: unique entrants. We had one hundred and eighty six time
Speaker 2: across all three flights. That's two hundred and thirty too late,
Speaker 2: you know, that fifty to fifty split. We never really
Speaker 2: see in these kind of events for us anyway, So
Speaker 2: I think that says that, you know, this field, and
Speaker 2: you know, you can probably experience talk from your experience,
Speaker 2: but field was although full of PGT players, there was
Speaker 2: a lot of new faces in there, a lot of
Speaker 2: players that were only in for one board that had
Speaker 2: satellited and we gave I think we awarded somewhere about
Speaker 2: twenty five satellite seats for this one, so I think
Speaker 2: that was.
Speaker 1: It was seven, nine, ten, twenty six.
Speaker 2: So that was good. It was good that we saw
Speaker 2: a lot of new faces, fresh faces.
Speaker 1: And those satellites were two C guarantees, so well passed
Speaker 1: was going.
Speaker 2: To see guarantee milestone satellites and but yeah, I think
Speaker 2: that I think this.
Speaker 1: Was within those milestone It was a milestone.
Speaker 2: Yeah, very successful. A lot of our players were missing,
Speaker 2: whether they were at trying J Drew, whether they were
Speaker 2: Adam Hendrick's wedding had a couple people just out of town.
Speaker 1: You know, it was like seven people in Adam Hendricks's wedding.
Speaker 2: People just skipping because they were going to play you know,
Speaker 2: the showcase. So that's fine.
Speaker 1: One thing that I want to mention about the field
Speaker 1: and the numbers was that I thought that price point
Speaker 1: we would get a few more of the guys that
Speaker 1: I play with around town. Yeah, you know that they
Speaker 1: will play like in eleven hundred and sixteen hundred stuff
Speaker 1: like that. I thought they would just kind of make
Speaker 1: the jump to play the thirty three hundred. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to name any names, but there was
Speaker 1: you know, there was a handful of players that I
Speaker 1: thought we would get. Some of them did play the satellites,
Speaker 1: but then ultimately didn't play the event. Some of them
Speaker 1: played the satellites want to see, but then didn't play
Speaker 1: anymore other than that bullet. So I just thought that
Speaker 1: that was interesting, and you know, because I thought us
Speaker 1: lowering our normal price point. You know here in Vegas,
Speaker 1: we haven't done anything lower than a five k, right,
Speaker 1: We've obviously done the stuff in Texas. But I thought
Speaker 1: thirty three hundred, you know, I know it's a step up,
Speaker 1: like a thirty three hundred is you know, more than
Speaker 1: double a sixteen hundred dollars buying. It's triple with eleven
Speaker 1: hundred dollar buying like it is is jump up, but
Speaker 1: you know, sell some action, you know, do that sort
Speaker 1: of thing like you know, take a shot whatever. Like
Speaker 1: So I was a little bit surprised with that, but continue.
Speaker 2: No, I think with everything how it played out, it
Speaker 2: was very successful. There is a world where we could
Speaker 2: definitely run this back. Like you said, you want this
Speaker 2: to become maybe a staple on the tournament calendar here
Speaker 2: in Vegas. I think there is definitely a spot for it.
Speaker 2: And already looking into next year, I smell that, hey,
Speaker 2: could we see a PLO version of this? We've seen
Speaker 2: our successful PLO is, we have our PLO series in March.
Speaker 2: Could this be could we do this there? You know,
Speaker 2: like a thirty three hundred multi fight PLO kind of
Speaker 2: championship then leads into our PGT PLO series. So that's
Speaker 2: what I'm kind of thinking about. You know, me and
Speaker 2: Tommy have chatted a little bit about, Hey, what's next
Speaker 2: on the partnership. So yeah, I think there's an appetite
Speaker 2: for them, appetite for us, and yeah, only in all,
Speaker 2: I thought it was a great a great main event
Speaker 2: and even the high role is that we're going to
Speaker 2: touch on with much better than I expected.
Speaker 1: Actually quickly on the main event stuff, I thought, I
Speaker 1: thought the field is pretty tough on a hole. I
Speaker 1: thought Day one A was incredibly tough. I when did
Speaker 1: I play one B played one B.
Speaker 2: Yeah, one be.
Speaker 1: But just looking around the field on Day one A,
Speaker 1: I thought it was very, very very tough. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean that's I think that speaks to the climate in Vegas,
Speaker 1: and you know, meaning I don't think a lot of
Speaker 1: people like outside of the big WPT stuff, the WSOP
Speaker 1: of course, and really everything in the summer, it's just
Speaker 1: hard at that price point in Vegas. It's just it's
Speaker 1: out of people's comfort zone, right, And then I think
Speaker 1: it's a little bit harder for people to make the
Speaker 1: jump once they see how tough the field is. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I thought it was a little bit tough on Day
Speaker 1: one A. The day I played Day one B, it
Speaker 1: was tough. I had a good table draw, you know,
Speaker 1: I didn't make it through I think twenty three or something,
Speaker 1: went through twenty four and I got like thirtieth or
Speaker 1: something thirty second, I can't remember. But my table was
Speaker 1: pretty good to start for most of the day. But
Speaker 1: you know, obviously the best players tend to you know,
Speaker 1: go deeper and survive and whatnot. So as things progressed,
Speaker 1: it didn't get a little bit tougher. Yes, So I
Speaker 1: wonder if that's you know, a little bit of something like.
Speaker 1: I just thought we would get more of like the
Speaker 1: no insults here with the minor league players to play
Speaker 1: this event, and I think that that is something that
Speaker 1: we should try and improve upon. Maybe that's enhanced satellite offering.
Speaker 1: You know, I thought the satellites that they had were good,
Speaker 1: But can we do more of them? You know, can
Speaker 1: we do more? Can we get them in there? Can
Speaker 1: we do some different stuff? You know, put some bigger
Speaker 1: guarantees on them, you know, with the numbers that they
Speaker 1: got in those satellites, I think you could safely run
Speaker 1: five seat guaranteed satellites and then you know, go from there.
Speaker 1: So I was also thinking today when I was playing
Speaker 1: this satellite, what about a satellite that's you know, all
Speaker 1: satellites seem to be one in ten. Why can't you
Speaker 1: do a one in five, like a big a buy
Speaker 1: in one and like for this one, like for the
Speaker 1: one I just played, that would require spending one thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: So I think that's a little too much, right, because
Speaker 1: once you get to five hundred dish, which the one
Speaker 1: I played was five sixty to the fifty one hundred
Speaker 1: dollars tournament, right, five ten goes into the price onol
Speaker 1: and whatever. So but like once you expect people to
Speaker 1: pay a thousand, that's a little bit dicey. But here
Speaker 1: six hundred, yeah, I mean, you know, one five, Maybe
Speaker 1: do one of those, like I think that would be cool,
Speaker 1: that would work, right.
Speaker 2: I mean I would explore seven and bring it down
Speaker 2: to like five hundred, which is sure.
Speaker 1: By the way, that was a great thing about the
Speaker 1: event that it was seven handed the whole way through,
Speaker 1: Absolutely freaking incredible. I think people had a good time
Speaker 1: at Venetian. I think they enjoyed it. I think they
Speaker 1: liked the room. I think they you know, I mean
Speaker 1: Remko and I have seen it a lot because we
Speaker 1: do a lot of the commentary over there. We talked
Speaker 1: about it all the time. But just the fact you
Speaker 1: can just park at Palazzo, go up the elevator. It
Speaker 1: literally says poker room on the elevator button, which is
Speaker 1: like unheard of in Vegas that they're actually catering to
Speaker 1: catering to a poker room. You get off the elevator
Speaker 1: and it's like one hundred yards to the room. It's
Speaker 1: right there. I mean, the poker room is away from
Speaker 1: the casino. It is in the Palazzo Shops area. I
Speaker 1: mean food is good, thereat I mean you have to
Speaker 1: pay for it, yes, but I mean obviously you can
Speaker 1: use your comps. But the food menu there is really, really,
Speaker 1: really good. The streaming room, I think a lot of
Speaker 1: people liked as well, you know that element of it.
Speaker 1: So yeah, just I think a lot of fun all around.
Speaker 1: Just quickly before we touch on these high rollers. We
Speaker 1: had John Reordan tenth place. We had Craig Mason twelfth place,
Speaker 1: Dustin Ayinatti thirteenth place. Jeremy Becker remains hot sixteenth place.
Speaker 1: I do got to touch on Sam Laskuitz. Where did
Speaker 1: he bust? Because he got absolutely freaking screwed. He lost
Speaker 1: aces to something I don't even remember what, but to queens,
Speaker 1: I think to Kathy Liebert, yeah, and then or maybe
Speaker 1: that wasn't then, I can't remember. But he lost with aces,
Speaker 1: he gets those cracked. Then it was to believe, it
Speaker 1: was to King Queen, whatever, it doesn't matter. He lost
Speaker 1: with aces, he got him cracked all on pre fub
Speaker 1: then blind verse blind, he gets Queen ten versus the
Speaker 1: big lines Queens and I can't remember exactly how the
Speaker 1: board went. I believe it was Queen ten x turn
Speaker 1: ten so philosopher Philas, I mean, just just absolutely sick stuff,
Speaker 1: just ridiculous stuff. Kane Calls twenty fifth, Jeff Platt twenty seventh,
Speaker 1: Andrew Lichtenberger thirtieth, Josh Aria forty first, Land Entice fifty seconds.
Speaker 1: So you know, a lot of big names ran deep
Speaker 1: in that event, that main event. Hopefully, you know, we
Speaker 1: bring it back next year and it becomes a thing.
Speaker 1: I would love to do it again. I would love
Speaker 1: to grow on that and grow our partnership with Venetian.
Speaker 1: I think it was pretty big hit, a pretty big
Speaker 1: success in year one. So and we didn't just spout
Speaker 1: the guarantee too much. You know, it was close, yes,
Speaker 1: but you know, ultimately not really like worrisome.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: High Roller time. There were three high rollers. The first
Speaker 1: one got fifty one entries, the second one got sixty
Speaker 1: two entries, and then the third one got forty nine entries.
Speaker 1: That first one was won by Sam Laskowitz, so he
Speaker 1: busted in brutal fashion from the main event hops in
Speaker 1: this one. Best vanilla poker player, vanilla tournament poker player
Speaker 1: in the world. His nickname is Vanilla. From now on,
Speaker 1: he won for eighty and fifty dollars. He beat Aaron
Speaker 1: Mesmer in Heads of played. Jim Callapy got third of
Speaker 1: Victoria Liftschitz and the money Jonathan little money, Joey Wiseman
Speaker 1: in the money. I feel like it's been a while
Speaker 1: since we've seen Joey Wiseman in the game on the PGT,
Speaker 1: but he's back. Second one, Jeremy Osmas. He goes on
Speaker 1: to win it, so redeems himself a little bit after
Speaker 1: the seventh place finish in the main event, after coming
Speaker 1: in with a big chip lead. And then here I
Speaker 1: was reading the updates, I heard he battled Stephen's song
Speaker 1: for two hours of Heads of Play. They didn't get
Speaker 1: doneuntil like one thirty in the morning. Crazy stuff.
Speaker 2: Both back on time registration the next day as true,
Speaker 2: tremendous to do.
Speaker 1: Ozmas won ninety nine hundred dollars song second, Jim Calliby
Speaker 1: third again. Jim Colliby's just crushes. Shannon Shorre got fifth
Speaker 1: in this one. Jeremy Becker. Jeremy Becker still hot. So
Speaker 1: that's what. So that was five out of six, six
Speaker 1: out of seven, seven out of nine of the up
Speaker 1: until this point, of the last PGT events and then
Speaker 1: he did not cash in the last one. So seven
Speaker 1: out of ten in PGT events post WSP for Jeremy
Speaker 1: Becker in terms of cat fire, that is on fire.
Speaker 1: Like I mean, the bad thing is is that he's
Speaker 1: in these events that aren't awarding a lot of points,
Speaker 1: so he still got a lot of work to do
Speaker 1: for the leaderboard. But you know, it could happen. It
Speaker 1: could certainly happen. And then the final one was won
Speaker 1: by Craig Mason, who was at my table when I
Speaker 1: played on a day one b in the main event,
Speaker 1: kind of towards the end of the day, but he
Speaker 1: was talking about how he hasn't run up won a
Speaker 1: poker tournament in like, I don't know, ten years or
Speaker 1: something ridiculous. So here we go. Craig Mason won. He
Speaker 1: beat Andrew Lichtenberger in heads up play. Mason took home
Speaker 1: eighty five thousand and seven. And for the dollars, what
Speaker 1: do you got to say about the high rollers?
Speaker 2: Better numbers then I thought we were going to get.
Speaker 2: We had a lot of non rigs playing, which is great,
Speaker 2: so that did help. Look, Venetian don't run these high
Speaker 2: rollers often, so the nuances that our players are used
Speaker 2: to didn't quite you know, just one is free flowing.
Speaker 2: But by the end of it, I think it was okay.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I think they were great. The single day
Speaker 2: events we got decent numbers, got a lot of fresh faces,
Speaker 2: which you know, the players were happy to see. But yeah,
Speaker 2: well you know, I think this kind of this kind
Speaker 2: of series where you have a main event and then
Speaker 2: just a couple of high rollers after it or overlapping
Speaker 2: the final few day is kind of a good way
Speaker 2: to do it. And I think this is a good
Speaker 2: kind of template for whether we take this back to Venetian,
Speaker 2: or we take this except somewhere else, or we do
Speaker 2: a p low version. I think this kind of short
Speaker 2: and sharp and sweet format series is kind of ideal
Speaker 2: for these players.
Speaker 1: Well, Venetians definitely got to get it back. I mean
Speaker 1: it was it was a great event, it really was.
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Speaker 1: All right, Moving on Borgatta, they had a fifty three
Speaker 1: dollars bet MGM Poker Millionaire Championship as part of whatever
Speaker 1: series is going on right now. It's called like the
Speaker 1: the Big Big or I can't whatever. Yeah. Anyway, so
Speaker 1: this event they came out with it, you know, three
Speaker 1: million dollar prize will guarantee one million dollar first place
Speaker 1: prize guarantee, okay, which seems like on the surface, it's
Speaker 1: going to be a little bit awkward.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: It ends with six hundred and seventy players. So the
Speaker 1: prize pools three million, three hundred and fifty thousand, paid
Speaker 1: sixty seven spots, which is ten percent, which which seems good.
Speaker 1: You know, when you when you when you are baking
Speaker 1: in that it's going to be so top heavy, it's
Speaker 1: good to pay fewer spots overall. So I like that.
Speaker 1: But first place one million, five thousand, which is thirty
Speaker 1: percent of the prize pool. Second place four hundred and
Speaker 1: two thousand, I mean, is wild terrible, third place two
Speaker 1: forty seven, fourth place two oh six one sixty seven,
Speaker 1: one thirty one or two seventy five fifty one. So
Speaker 1: couple things here. I want to know why first place
Speaker 1: is a million and five thousand, not just a million.
Speaker 1: So where where did that come from?
Speaker 2: I tweeted out of that at how that triggered my
Speaker 2: OCA so badly? And I don't understand what they did
Speaker 2: at all. So honecesary. Mat I really don't understand it,
Speaker 2: especially since second is six hundred k less. Yeah, give
Speaker 2: it to that guy.
Speaker 1: You know, a min cash was more than ten thousand dollars,
Speaker 1: which is it was right around double. You know, it
Speaker 1: was fifty three hundred dollars for the buying, So if
Speaker 1: you want to count, you know where you want to
Speaker 1: go fifty three hundred and then they want whether you want
Speaker 1: to go five k into the prize pool whatever it
Speaker 1: is right on double. I mean, I have another question
Speaker 1: there is that it doesn't does a min cash need
Speaker 1: to be that much? And I know that you and
Speaker 1: I talked about min cash is because you were working
Speaker 1: with a Venetian on the min cash for that, So like,
Speaker 1: what do you think we don't normally do double?
Speaker 2: Do we? No, we definitely do underdouble.
Speaker 1: And I understand that there's gonna be a lot of
Speaker 1: players that they might cash and lose because they might
Speaker 1: fire multiple bullets. But then those are the breaks.
Speaker 2: I guess. I think for this format it's I don't know,
Speaker 2: I don't know what their player pool is. I know
Speaker 2: what our player pools. Like, they want a big first prize,
Speaker 2: so we would prefer to make the min cash smaller,
Speaker 2: so that first second third there's more money up top. Uh,
Speaker 2: if you can tell me the six hundred and seventy
Speaker 2: players that playbable Goder or more local grinders, you know,
Speaker 2: then maybe the double mincash is probably more on point.
Speaker 2: But it's so hard when you're doing this whole million
Speaker 2: dollars for first you know, which is thirty percent guaranteed.
Speaker 2: That makes it really tough to make a normal kind
Speaker 2: of payout. And I think when you set it up
Speaker 2: like that, then this is drop pretty late on the schedule.
Speaker 2: They you know, they saw a little window without us
Speaker 2: running VENETI and they kind of went over the top
Speaker 2: of it. You know, if they had more lead up time,
Speaker 2: maybe they would have. Maybe they were expecting to get
Speaker 2: you know, closer to four and a half million or
Speaker 2: something in the prize pool, where a million wouldn't be
Speaker 2: you know, too too crazy.
Speaker 1: So but just can't you adjust the payouts so it's
Speaker 1: not so insane?
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you'd have to take it. You'd have to
Speaker 2: drop that men cash to say seventy five hundred ak, yeah,
Speaker 2: and then stop building up.
Speaker 1: I was even thinking like the first two brackets, which
Speaker 1: I think they did, like the first nine or whatever,
Speaker 1: and then then there was like a four or five
Speaker 1: and jump like first two brackets just make them the same. Yeah,
Speaker 1: something like that.
Speaker 2: You know, that's what the goal is. Like if they're
Speaker 2: trying to just like flatten out everything else, then you know,
Speaker 2: but with this payouts, you know, you're always going to
Speaker 2: get a chop and that's what en up happening.
Speaker 1: That's what ended up happening. Can you look up who won?
Speaker 1: I know the person who won chopped with chance corn. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know that, so we need to get the gentleman's name.
Speaker 1: But they did. They did end up chopping, which I did.
Speaker 1: Kushume me. Yeah, so shout out to Kashumi. They they
Speaker 1: did a deal him in chance and then he ended
Speaker 1: up winning the trophy, which is pretty bad as trophy.
Speaker 1: It is that line. Do they also have the Borgatta
Speaker 1: Trophy because I like the Borgota trophy too. It's like
Speaker 1: the wind trophy trophies on the trophy is that it's
Speaker 1: a replica to the Hotel. The original win trophy was
Speaker 1: this before whin Yeah pretty, I'm pretty sure as well.
Speaker 1: And that's trophy. I when I was like getting into poker,
Speaker 1: I was like I want to win that truck. Ye
Speaker 1: on the goal of this, I mean, I'm guessing the
Speaker 1: goal is to leverage a million dollar first place prize
Speaker 1: for marketing. Yeah, I mean, which is fine, that's okay, okay,
Speaker 1: yes and no, yes, it's good in theory. No, it
Speaker 1: should not come at at the expense of the player,
Speaker 1: like you know, because and ultimately you didn't even get
Speaker 1: a million dollar first place prize, so it doesn't matter
Speaker 1: because you were never going to get a million dollar
Speaker 1: first place prize unless you got five million dollars in
Speaker 1: the price bool you just weren't because these guys were
Speaker 1: always chopping. Yeah, like you know. So I think that
Speaker 1: that gimmicks like this are, for lack of a better term, lazy,
Speaker 1: because why wasn't there a bigger guarantee to make a
Speaker 1: million dollar first place prize more palatable? Why wasn't there
Speaker 1: more satellite or marketing efforts. I mean, you know, when
Speaker 1: was this announced? Could it have been announced sooner and
Speaker 1: there was more lead up to it to get the field,
Speaker 1: you know, just all in all trying to make it
Speaker 1: less awkward at the top, because it just makes it
Speaker 1: very awkward. So, I mean, I know, I think one
Speaker 1: person who had a contrarian take was for oz Joka.
Speaker 1: You know, he said, ultimately, if this sort of thing
Speaker 1: gets more players like into agree into the event because
Speaker 1: it's a million dollar first place prize, then that's a
Speaker 1: good thing. I mean, I don't know if it did.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to say a field of tournament, a
Speaker 1: main event at Borgata that gets six and seventy is
Speaker 1: like you know, breaking doors down everything. That's that's a
Speaker 1: good turnout.
Speaker 2: Like you know, new players are attracted to like million
Speaker 2: dollar first prize.
Speaker 1: I mean yeah they might be, but like did did
Speaker 1: they have new players in there? How many players were new?
Speaker 2: What attracts me is obviously a big prize for because
Speaker 2: that means it's you know, more chance I can make
Speaker 2: some money. I would rather if you were trying to
Speaker 2: attract new players, you might want to say, you know what,
Speaker 2: we're going to pay twenty percent and you're going to
Speaker 2: get a double min cash. It's going to be worth
Speaker 2: double buying. Now that would attract you know, if that's
Speaker 2: going to deter the pros and attract everyone else, you know,
Speaker 2: you got to think of it that way. And this
Speaker 2: this is more a pro heavy you know, yeah, like
Speaker 2: endeavor and if that's what they want, that's fine, but
Speaker 2: you know, I disagree quite heavily there with for us.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I just thought it was interesting that
Speaker 1: they that they did this. I mean, and you you
Speaker 1: pretty much know, I think in today's poker landscape, when
Speaker 1: you come out and you say this is a three
Speaker 1: million dollar guaranteed event has a million dollar first place prize,
Speaker 1: like we all kind of like, well, that's going to
Speaker 1: be awkward, Like you just know ahead of time right now,
Speaker 1: unless their projection said one thing, and you know, those
Speaker 1: projections didn't come through. Okay, I get it, but you know,
Speaker 1: I don't think you necessarily need to do you know,
Speaker 1: kind of crazy stuff like this that makes it awkward
Speaker 1: in the end. Right So you know, it is what
Speaker 1: it is. But that happened, and we'll see, I mean,
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Why should I care? Because I care? That's not That's
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Speaker 2: We care. Look, we've seen a big influx in popularity
Speaker 2: for that five K opening event we started doing, so
Speaker 2: I thought, how can we make this even bigger, how
Speaker 2: can we make it better? Let's try this multifly, Let's
Speaker 2: do something a little different. We never done this year
Speaker 2: on the studio. We've never done a big guarantee for
Speaker 2: an opening event like this, So, you know, we kind
Speaker 2: of workshops some ideas. Felt like this. This worked really well.
Speaker 2: This showcase idea two flies play down of the money
Speaker 2: come back on day two, play down the final table.
Speaker 2: We see a lot of new faces that play the
Speaker 2: five K buy ins in the studio and then never
Speaker 2: play anything else even if they cash. So our goal,
Speaker 2: all right, let's get a really really big opening event.
Speaker 2: Let's hope some people win some big money and move on.
Speaker 2: But also new for this as well is a second
Speaker 2: five K, So we're doing a second five K after that,
Speaker 2: and then we lead into like the normal series of tens,
Speaker 2: fifteens and the twenty five K finale. And for those
Speaker 2: if you're listening, you've been here, you've seen the studio.
Speaker 2: We've got a completely different setup. We've never done this
Speaker 2: for a no limit hold of major such as the Pokemonasters.
Speaker 2: But there's no final table feature table there in the middle,
Speaker 2: which is fourteen tables, fourteen tables there. We got one table.
Speaker 1: Here, fifteen. I just can't believe it. Well this is
Speaker 1: the fifteen oh okay, but in there because.
Speaker 2: We not only do we want we expect a big field,
Speaker 2: we don't want any ultimates. So fourteen tables out there.
Speaker 1: There were nine satellite winners today, yep, so you know
Speaker 1: those players are in there. There's one there's another satellite
Speaker 1: tomorrow night. Yeah, it doesn't have five seats guarantee as
Speaker 1: two seats guarantee, but still and then there's you know,
Speaker 1: there's another you know winner from it, the OCTOPI Poker
Speaker 1: Masters giveaway. So we're going to have ten people already
Speaker 1: in there for sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and Nick Sewan was the first player to register.
Speaker 1: He was randomly today. Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 2: But yeah, we're trying something different and we think it'll
Speaker 2: be successful. Obviously, putting in guarantee is always scary, even
Speaker 2: if it's the data says we should be fine. But
Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to it. I'm hoping it brings in
Speaker 2: some new faces. I'm hoping some people from Venetian come over.
Speaker 2: Obviously great success in the satellite tonight with nine seats. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's just something different. Let's see how it goes. Throwing
Speaker 2: the new trophies. You know, we're trying to appeal to
Speaker 2: what we think is is the right I buying level
Speaker 2: here in Vegas, especially with our players, and giving out
Speaker 2: regulars new people to play against, but giving you know,
Speaker 2: people such as you a chance to take a shot,
Speaker 2: you know, and play up a little bit and play
Speaker 2: in the studio and get to experience. What you know,
Speaker 2: you've watched on TV, you know over the last few years,
Speaker 2: et cetera.
Speaker 1: I will be taking a shot. I was going to
Speaker 1: be taking a shot anyway, but then I won the seat.
Speaker 1: But now you have a rebot as backup. I thought
Speaker 1: about that and I doubt it. Okay, but you know
Speaker 1: it was good to squeak in into the satellite with
Speaker 1: one big got in there, you know again, shout out charity.
Speaker 2: First PGT event in the studio, right.
Speaker 1: This is my first PGT event in the studio. I
Speaker 1: have played in the studio before. I've actually had good
Speaker 1: results in the studio. Two final tables, right, that is correct.
Speaker 1: I was going to say I've played three events and
Speaker 1: finished me actually actually looked at uthing. I've definitely finished
Speaker 1: in the final table.
Speaker 2: The charity event, NFT event. You probably played the wrong good,
Speaker 2: probably played the run good and I it's at least
Speaker 2: three events.
Speaker 1: I cashed the run good. I don't know if I
Speaker 1: I don't know if I made the fund table.
Speaker 2: I don't think you did.
Speaker 1: I foul tabled the NFT event. Yeah, I got knit
Speaker 1: rolled that. That was ridiculous, first hand, right, first hand
Speaker 1: the found table. H Yeah, first or second of the
Speaker 1: final table, something.
Speaker 2: Like that charity event. The one Tilly won is the
Speaker 2: one good not on here. Did you cash in the
Speaker 2: wrong good one? Then maybe you didn't cash. I mean
Speaker 2: maybe twenty two Maybe.
Speaker 1: I didn't cash.
Speaker 2: I cash in the Poker Go Employee free roll, the
Speaker 2: twenty dollars the way when we played that poker Employee
Speaker 2: free roll.
Speaker 1: No, I don't remember that. What year was this this
Speaker 1: stupid run good thing. Not that it's stupid that I
Speaker 1: can't find it as stupid.
Speaker 2: It was not on your pay It was not on
Speaker 2: your hand, and that means you didn't cash.
Speaker 1: I could have sworn I cashed. I mean maybe it
Speaker 1: was the NFT thing that I catched. Yeah, I may.
Speaker 1: I definitely catch the NFT thing. I definitely cashed the
Speaker 1: One Step Closer Foundation charity poker tournament. I think Jennifer
Speaker 1: Tilly took me out in the end. That would be great. Mainly,
Speaker 1: I just want to challenge myself in this one. I
Speaker 1: kind of feel like if I do commentary on these
Speaker 1: events in these players, I have to be able to
Speaker 1: back it up. That was like my motivation to play.
Speaker 1: So I was like, you know what, I'll play this one.
Speaker 1: You know, I always kind of told myself, maybe I'll
Speaker 1: play the opening event, the five k of like one
Speaker 1: of the majors Masters USPO or Cup. What always turned
Speaker 1: me off was that, well, one, I could never play
Speaker 1: the satellites, like scheduling reasons. I just couldn't play. So
Speaker 1: not that I couldn't like you know, sell action and
Speaker 1: get in anyway, but the fact that they were just
Speaker 1: like the single day turbo ish tournaments. I was like,
Speaker 1: you know, whatever, but this one, you know, not that
Speaker 1: it is a little bit of a faster structure, yes,
Speaker 1: but you know multi flight like there's going to be
Speaker 1: you know, it's not going to be full of just
Speaker 1: the PGT players like it's there's going to be a
Speaker 1: bunch of others in there. So I think I'll be
Speaker 1: all right.
Speaker 2: Who I ask you a question, I ask your questions.
Speaker 2: Who do you want to not see at your table?
Speaker 1: Not see at my table because they're too good?
Speaker 2: And be who do you want to see at your
Speaker 2: table because not because they're bad, but because you want
Speaker 2: to play, like you know, you maybe not idolized might
Speaker 2: be the wrong word, but you want to play against them.
Speaker 2: What you want to test yourself against that person.
Speaker 1: I mean I don't want to see Andrew Moreno. Okay,
Speaker 1: I think he's like the best at this price point. Like,
Speaker 1: but they're all like I can literally name any of them, Like,
Speaker 1: they're all really really good. The thing is is like
Speaker 1: like a Shannon Shore, who I think is also incredible, right,
Speaker 1: the thing is, maybe maybe this is just a you know,
Speaker 1: mental leap that I need to make. But I play.
Speaker 1: I've played a lot with Shannon Shore around town, so
Speaker 1: I'm comfortable with that, you know, not that I haven't
Speaker 1: played sometimes with Andrew Moreno. I just I've talked a
Speaker 1: lot of poker with him, and I know how good
Speaker 1: he is, and I've watched how good he is, and
Speaker 1: he's super aggressive. I mean in the Venetian event and
Speaker 1: drowsed Upchenko gave me fucking fits the whole goddamn day.
Speaker 1: He was really really good. He did really unorthodox things.
Speaker 1: It was such a headache to try and figure out
Speaker 1: he feel. It felt like he beat me in every
Speaker 1: pot that we played. So like I don't want him
Speaker 1: at the table either. I mean, yeah, I mean I
Speaker 1: played once with Nick. I mean, Nick's incredible. The guys
Speaker 1: who I don't like, the players, not that I don't
Speaker 1: like playing with them. The players that give me the
Speaker 1: toughest go of it are players who are very good
Speaker 1: and super aggressive because and not only aggressive, but like
Speaker 1: kind of loose too, Like they can just be in
Speaker 1: there with like anything at any like at any time.
Speaker 1: But again and they're just like Agro and you you
Speaker 1: kind of have no idea where they're ever at, and
Speaker 1: it's just it's just very tough. Whatever whatever happens happens.
Speaker 1: You know. I'm happy to happy to be in the field.
Speaker 1: I was gonna play anyway whether or not I won
Speaker 1: the satellite, but it's still good to bank the satellite.
Speaker 1: And uh yeah, we'll see what happens anyway.
Speaker 2: Ten events, two five k's six No five ten k's,
Speaker 2: two fifteens and a twenty five ten events, so ten events.
Speaker 2: It sounds like player the wins the most PGT points
Speaker 2: in those ten events is going to win the real jacket,
Speaker 2: not this fifteen pounds.
Speaker 1: I saw it out somewhere.
Speaker 2: I put it out there. It's on display near the
Speaker 2: cashier along with one of the trophies, so people like
Speaker 2: it's the first thing they see when they register. I
Speaker 2: want people to see this new trope and be like,
Speaker 2: you know what, I got to get me one of those.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I think it's going to be a really
Speaker 2: great series. Obviously there's going to be a little bit
Speaker 2: of overlap from Trying and JJ that's finishing up right now,
Speaker 2: so people, you know, some of those heroes probably come
Speaker 2: in mid series. But either way, looking forward to the showcase,
Speaker 2: looking forward to a strong showing in that because you know,
Speaker 2: if we can really you know, it's not smash the guarantee,
Speaker 2: but if we can get through the guarantee pretty comfortably
Speaker 2: without a sweat, it feels like we can. Definitely this
Speaker 2: can be the template for the next mages, you know, public, Yeah,
Speaker 2: we can do this again, USPO, we can do this again.
Speaker 2: This can be kind of the formation to how we
Speaker 2: build the build these series. So I definitely need to
Speaker 2: it to be successful. And like I said, I always
Speaker 2: want to say new people in here, because that will
Speaker 2: stop continue to build out, you know, build out, play
Speaker 2: a base.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm listening. I'm very much looking forward to it.
Speaker 1: I think it's going to be a great event. Hopefully
Speaker 1: I just run like the freaking sun and don't think
Speaker 1: about a damn thing. That's always the best, of course,
Speaker 1: speaking of Poker Masters, we gotta do the PGT fantasy.
Speaker 1: I am kicking your ass. I have four and thirty
Speaker 1: three points right now you have one hundred. But we
Speaker 1: got a long way to go. Remember it's for the
Speaker 1: entire rest of the season, so like anything can happen.
Speaker 1: Anything can happen. And this this is the series where
Speaker 1: like you could have a thousand points by the end
Speaker 1: and like just take over the teams. Right now, I
Speaker 1: have Jeremy Osmas, Jeremy Becker, Nick Shulman, Michael Wang, and
Speaker 1: Sam Laskowitz. You have Alex Fox and Chino him Sam
Speaker 1: so overall, John Riordan and Michael Burke. In the last
Speaker 1: ad drop, I dropped Adam Hendrix and picked up Sam Laskowitz.
Speaker 1: Great job by me. You dropped Jesse Lonis and picked
Speaker 1: up Michael Burke. Not a bad job by you because
Speaker 1: he got some points. Yeah, he did get some points.
Speaker 1: So Tim and I drafted five players each. Then we
Speaker 1: have some weird kind of rules where after every series
Speaker 1: we must drop a player and we must add a player.
Speaker 1: That must happen. And then for example, if I were
Speaker 1: to drop Nick Shulman, okay, Tim can't pick up Nick Shulman, right,
Speaker 1: that person is we can.
Speaker 2: Trade a player.
Speaker 1: No, I'm getting to all the rules. So that's the
Speaker 1: first rule. The second rule is that you and I
Speaker 1: then freeze two players on our team. Right, So let's
Speaker 1: say I can freeze Jeremy Austins and Jeremy Becker like,
Speaker 1: which has to do with the next part where you
Speaker 1: have the option to then switch one of your players
Speaker 1: with one of my other two players. The person who
Speaker 1: was added after the drop is not eligible for this.
Speaker 1: Last time, you choose not to switch a player, and
Speaker 1: then I picked. I took Jeremy Allison's from your team,
Speaker 1: which was a really good steal for me. Okay, so
Speaker 1: I locked last time, you locked first. I locked first
Speaker 1: last time, So you locked first this time? No, sorry,
Speaker 1: we don't add drop first first. I did it first
Speaker 1: last time. I dropped Adam HENDRICKX. So you got to
Speaker 1: drop someone. And by the way, Hendrix and Jesse Lowns
Speaker 1: are not back in the pool back.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna drop. This hurts me. But Alex Foxon, Wow,
Speaker 2: he just got two playing too busy playing.
Speaker 1: Match.
Speaker 2: He might not come back. So I think, you know,
Speaker 2: like I said, he's a try and he's probably gonna
Speaker 2: miss a few events.
Speaker 1: So I do recall that I heard Kristen talking about
Speaker 1: going to this event and this was I want to say,
Speaker 1: during the summer maybe, but she said that they booked
Speaker 1: a one way ticket. They might go to Japan after
Speaker 1: all that, yeah, exactly, So you know, I have no
Speaker 1: idea if they're going to come back or not. But
Speaker 1: I recall her saying that, you know, they they were
Speaker 1: going to go to Triton, and they did book a
Speaker 1: one way ticket and then they'll just figure.
Speaker 2: It out from there.
Speaker 1: So not a bad drop by you. I'm going to drop,
Speaker 1: and I gotta drop Michael Wang.
Speaker 2: You should have dropped him last time.
Speaker 1: But you know why I dropped him last time, and
Speaker 1: I was, I was, I was right in dropping him
Speaker 1: last time, and I was right with exactly why I
Speaker 1: dropped him because I thought there was a greater chance
Speaker 1: that Michael Wayne could come back. Then there was a
Speaker 1: chance of Adam Hendricks skipping his wedding or something to
Speaker 1: play in an event. Adam Hendricks did not show up
Speaker 1: at all, so there was still a chance that Michael
Speaker 1: Wang said the heck with Triton, I'm coming back to
Speaker 1: the States, And I mean he didn't, which is fine. Second,
Speaker 1: I think in the half and hour, yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: he's he's crushing. But like the thing with Michael Wang
Speaker 1: is like what if he was having a horrible Triton
Speaker 1: Jju trip. He's like, you know what, I'm done, I'm
Speaker 1: coming back. So that was my idea there, but it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. I'm I'm dropping him. Okay, So do you
Speaker 1: want to do the freeze first or the pick up?
Speaker 1: The pick up, I'm going to pick up the guy.
Speaker 1: This is the pure gamble. Wait do I want to
Speaker 1: do this? I get a look at the list, You're
Speaker 1: gonna pure game pure gamble.
Speaker 2: Because I'm so far behind. I know he's he's mentally
Speaker 2: feeling good, he's refreshed.
Speaker 1: I don't even know what this means.
Speaker 2: And pick up Louis Spencer.
Speaker 1: Lewis Spencer. I mean, Louis, that's fine. I know you
Speaker 1: saw that.
Speaker 2: He was here. I'm gambling, you know, like there's better
Speaker 2: picks out there. But like, mentally, I think he's he's
Speaker 2: ready to have he's he's primed, ready to have a
Speaker 2: big series.
Speaker 1: I'm picking up Andrew Luttenberger.
Speaker 2: Oh that was That's how I had as well. On
Speaker 2: my lett.
Speaker 1: It's just my team is stacked. Your team is stacked,
Speaker 1: all right, Now we got a lock, players lock too,
Speaker 1: and then I'll lock to.
Speaker 2: You can't take Louis Spencer, right, and I can't take Luchtenberger. Yeah,
Speaker 2: oh automatically loved right. Okay, Yeah, I'm gonna lock Gino
Speaker 2: and Soebrle.
Speaker 1: Okay, you have, I mean, much bigger problem. I do
Speaker 1: have a bigger problem. But I'm gonna lock Jeremy Osmas
Speaker 1: and Nick schul Oh leave?
Speaker 2: Should I pick up?
Speaker 1: Now? You can swap?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you can. Now you're not gonna swap. I can't
Speaker 2: swap with like Lucky Chew. He's out right.
Speaker 1: You can't stop Lucky Chewi. You can either you can
Speaker 1: either give me John Riordan or Michael Burke for either
Speaker 1: Jeremy Becker or Sam Laskuwitz. Okay, that's what you can do,
Speaker 1: and then I can obviously do vice versa. And then
Speaker 1: once you swap, I can't swap back by the way,
Speaker 1: like that person's gone.
Speaker 2: Ah, this is pretty tough. Why don't you go first?
Speaker 1: Why don't I go first? Jesus?
Speaker 2: Because I don't know if I want to swap.
Speaker 1: Buddy, you gotta go first. This is the this is
Speaker 1: the rule.
Speaker 2: Jordan's gonna play everything, Burke's gonna play everything.
Speaker 1: Beck Yeah, but it's not necessarily if they're gonna play everything,
Speaker 1: it's do you think they're gonna do well? You know,
Speaker 1: like I mean, maybe you see someone on the other
Speaker 1: team that that might do do you think might do
Speaker 1: better than the person on your team?
Speaker 2: Beck is running so hot that he's he's something due
Speaker 2: to be cold, right, But if I take becka that's
Speaker 2: my my other argument. He's running runing intu audio.
Speaker 1: Okay, I mean there's a reason I didn't look well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, I'm okay rolling out with John Reordan and Burke.
Speaker 1: But if you want to switch, is that your final?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I mean, if you switch, I'm okay to it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not doing it either. Wow. Keeping with the
Speaker 1: same time. All right, So I have Jeremy Osmons, Jeremy Becker,
Speaker 1: Nick Schulman, Sam Lasquitz, and Andrew Lichtenberger. You have China Reim,
Speaker 1: Sam Several, John Reordan, Michael Burke, and Lewis Spencer.
Speaker 2: Got it here we go? Baby? All right?
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Speaker 1: Love it, love it all right, family, pot, I guess
Speaker 1: we should play the music. Yeah, it's been a while that.
Speaker 2: Who doesn't family.
Speaker 1: You said you had one by the way, and you
Speaker 1: were like, I'm not gonna share it because I'm gonna
Speaker 1: wait till you go to Disneyland.
Speaker 2: I forgot what it was, but I can think of something.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, listen, I went to Disneyland with the kids.
Speaker 1: It was a lot of fun. It was ungodly hot there.
Speaker 1: This might this might not be exactly like a family thing.
Speaker 1: It might just be more about my life. So whatever,
Speaker 1: it's my podcast. I'll do what I want. It was
Speaker 1: it was eighty five degrees, but it felt like it
Speaker 1: was one hundred and twenty. It was unreal. I did
Speaker 1: get the visit with producer Rich Ryan, so shout out
Speaker 1: to that. That was fun. He had us over to
Speaker 1: his place and cooked us some nice burgers and wings. Credible. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, the funny thing is about Disneyland is the
Speaker 1: adult people that go like without kids, that are.
Speaker 2: Just like big to a fans.
Speaker 1: There was one, there was it was definitely two people,
Speaker 1: might have been three. I can't remember. It was three.
Speaker 1: So my daughter wanted to meet the princesses. Okay, so
Speaker 1: you go to this one thing and you can like
Speaker 1: go inside and there's like three. You're like in this
Speaker 1: like castle or the house or whatever, and you meet
Speaker 1: three of the princesses. Right, she met Anna from Frozen,
Speaker 1: she met Cinderella, and she met Sleeping Beauty. Okay, it
Speaker 1: was either Sleeping Beauty or Cinderella. But you like you
Speaker 1: go and you meet and you can tell you're in
Speaker 1: like this room that broken up into threes, and like
Speaker 1: there's walls, like you kind of walk into one part.
Speaker 1: It's just that that princess, you meet them, you do
Speaker 1: photos whatever, you go out to the next one, but
Speaker 1: like you go behind a wall, so like there's only
Speaker 1: like really one person in the thing at one time,
Speaker 1: but like there's there's a tiny bit of a line,
Speaker 1: like sometimes you'll be waiting while the person's talking to
Speaker 1: the princess whatever. There's this group of women. One of
Speaker 1: them is pregnant, and they like want I think it
Speaker 1: was sleeping Beauty or Cinderella like to bless the baby,
Speaker 1: like put her hand on the belly, like this whole thing.
Speaker 1: Then they had her sign a onesie of the of
Speaker 1: the baby and they were like they were like when
Speaker 1: the baby and go on the real princess, right, buddy,
Speaker 1: this was out there. They're like, when the baby's born,
Speaker 1: we're gonna come back here and the baby will be
Speaker 1: And I'm like, what, like, what are what are we
Speaker 1: doing here? I mean, I know, like it's Disneyland. It's
Speaker 1: the happiest place on earth. You know, adults tend to
Speaker 1: be you know, kids a little bit in there. But
Speaker 1: it's like it's kind of weird. Okay, it's kind of
Speaker 1: weird the way that some of these people act in Disneyland.
Speaker 1: You know. I'm all for, like, I enjoy it. I
Speaker 1: like Disney stuff, you know, I'm into it. I obviously
Speaker 1: grew up on a lot of Disney stuff, So there's
Speaker 1: some nostalgia there.
Speaker 2: I get it.
Speaker 1: My wife loves it as well, you know, but like,
Speaker 1: I mean I'll wear a shirt, my wife will wear
Speaker 1: a shirt, she'll have the Disney years on, like like
Speaker 1: but that's like kind of the extent of it, but
Speaker 1: like some people are just like they're a bit over
Speaker 1: the top, and I think it's a little bit weird.
Speaker 1: My son was petrified of everything. He's two years old.
Speaker 1: He no, he went on some. He went He definitely
Speaker 1: went on some. Every time he went on the ride,
Speaker 1: he like we would go on to like like the
Speaker 1: the Cars Won with Mader where like you do in
Speaker 1: like this freaking tow truck or whatever and it like
Speaker 1: spins you around or whatever and like you sit down.
Speaker 1: He'd immediately start screaming, but then like once the ride started,
Speaker 1: he got a little bit better. Not that he was
Speaker 1: like smiling and loving it, but he was calm. Daughter
Speaker 1: loved everything. She was screaming and yelling. There's this, there's that,
Speaker 1: there's goofy, there's like all over the place. She loved
Speaker 1: the whole thing. She's she's four, so she's just totally
Speaker 1: in for it. But yeah, but he like we did
Speaker 1: like one of those family breakfasts, you know, where you
Speaker 1: can meet the thing and they're all at the restaurant
Speaker 1: and whatever, and yeah, my son was like he was
Speaker 1: not having it. He would like them from Afar from
Speaker 1: like five to ten feet away, but if you tried
Speaker 1: to get clothes immediately, screaming, immediately screaming. It wasn't till
Speaker 1: the third day that he finally kind of warmed up
Speaker 1: to them a little bit. So I just wanted to
Speaker 1: know how much you spent, So how much you like, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean we got a deal through Costco. Okay,
Speaker 1: we got three day park hopper passes for what I
Speaker 1: thought was a good price. We didn't stay at a
Speaker 1: Disneyland hotel because we did stay at a Disneyland hotel
Speaker 1: the first time we went when my daughter turned two,
Speaker 1: and the plan was when she turned two, we were
Speaker 1: gonna do it. Then when my son turned to we
Speaker 1: were gonna go. Right. They're kind of that old they
Speaker 1: can kind of understand things then, you know whatever. And
Speaker 1: it was great because when you stay at Disneyland Hotel,
Speaker 1: like you're right there, you get early access to the
Speaker 1: park for like an hour an hour and a half
Speaker 1: before everyone else gets in, So that was awesome. The
Speaker 1: prices this time around were fucking outrageous, like out of
Speaker 1: like a thousand dollars a night. I was like, this
Speaker 1: is the dumbest shit I've ever seen. But the Disney
Speaker 1: like the Disneyland hotels, I think there's three of them.
Speaker 1: So we didn't stay there. We stayed right across the street.
Speaker 1: It was maybe a twelve minute walk from our hotel
Speaker 1: into the park. So it was it was great. I
Speaker 1: was pleasantly surprised with the prices of the food and
Speaker 1: stuff inside Disneyland. Okay, like it wasn't that bad. It was.
Speaker 1: It was it was reasonable, you know, I thought, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm like great, Like I'm gonna buy a hot dog,
Speaker 1: It's gonna cost me thirty five dollars. Like, I mean,
Speaker 1: they were they were a little bit expensive, but like
Speaker 1: they weren't egregious. And yeah, but what I'll say is
Speaker 1: that the food in Disneyland sucks. Okay, absolutely sucks. Like
Speaker 1: in Disneyland in California Adventure, it's just bad. Most of
Speaker 1: the time. We left the park and went to Downtown
Speaker 1: Disney which is right there. They have a lot of
Speaker 1: restaurants just just I mean, the prices are similar, but
Speaker 1: it's just way better food, way way better food. The
Speaker 1: food inside Disneyland and California Adventure is just like it's
Speaker 1: just it's like normal theme park food. Like there's chicken fingers,
Speaker 1: there's onion rings, there's you know, hot dogs. Like, it's
Speaker 1: just not that good. Now, one of the things that
Speaker 1: I always love when I go there is I love
Speaker 1: to get that giant ass fucking turkey leg that they have.
Speaker 1: I love that thing. So I got that. My wife
Speaker 1: likes the Dole whip, so she got that. Yeah, But
Speaker 1: like most of the stuff, like when you look at
Speaker 1: the restaurants, it's like it's just not that attractive and
Speaker 1: not that good, and plus you're paying a premium for it.
Speaker 1: Not that it's outrageous, but it's like really like it's
Speaker 1: it's just not that great, which which surprises me because
Speaker 1: Disney takes such pride in these parks and everything is
Speaker 1: freaking perfect in the parks. Yet the food is just
Speaker 1: very lackluster. To me, It's just it's just not that great.
Speaker 1: And I wouldn't mind spending a little bit more if
Speaker 1: the food was like the food kind of like was
Speaker 1: like something you kind of remembered, but you know, it
Speaker 1: is what it is. But we had a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: We had great seats for the fucking parade, and we
Speaker 1: saw the parade actually twice, which is great because one
Speaker 1: night we were the parade goes one way right at
Speaker 1: like eight thirty, and then it comes back later on
Speaker 1: at night at like ten thirty or something like that,
Speaker 1: and we were there super late. So yeah, all in
Speaker 1: all was great. It was a really good trip. It
Speaker 1: definitely was.
Speaker 2: I remember what my story was, so I got two
Speaker 2: real quick. My son is in GATE, which is like
Speaker 2: accelerated learning but like NUDS Smoak kids, and they have
Speaker 2: a field trip coming out.
Speaker 1: I think they called that when I was in school
Speaker 1: because I was in it for one year, and they
Speaker 1: called it GT That's what it was called.
Speaker 2: But this is like gift, I guess, gifted and whatever,
Speaker 2: Gifted and intelligence whatever. They have a field trip Gifted
Speaker 2: and talented some of that. Yeah, they have a field
Speaker 2: trip at Disneyland. And I was like, oh, this is good.
Speaker 2: He can go, he can enjoy it. I don't have
Speaker 2: to spend the enormous amount of money for like all
Speaker 2: of us to go.
Speaker 1: And he was like, oh yeah, yeah one day thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, okay.
Speaker 2: So he finds out that we have to take him
Speaker 2: to school at like four am because he has to
Speaker 2: catch you know, the bus down and then I pick
Speaker 2: him up because the bus leaves like midnight pick him
Speaker 2: up at four am again, and he's just like, wait,
Speaker 2: so I don't get to sleep in And I'm like no,
Speaker 2: and he goes, I don't think I want to go,
Speaker 2: Like you can sleep on the bus, buddy. He's like, nah,
Speaker 2: I'm good. Sound like, well, there goes that idea, So
Speaker 2: we'll revisit it. But seems like his mind's pretty made
Speaker 2: up on not going because he's going to lose some sleep.
Speaker 2: But my family part story is I've been involved in
Speaker 2: like a seven month game of tag with him. I
Speaker 2: don't know if you do this with your kids or
Speaker 2: if anyone else out there does it, Like just like tag,
Speaker 2: you're it just that right, And there's always a safe
Speaker 2: zone in the house. It used to be just the
Speaker 2: white cotch that was the safe zone. So when when
Speaker 2: I was it and he was going to get a
Speaker 2: drink and I'd come in the lounge room, he'd run
Speaker 2: back to the white couch. Now the safe zone has
Speaker 2: evolved into like a certain like plushy or like a
Speaker 2: different couch or like now he's using downstairs as the
Speaker 2: safe zone. He's using the pool like in the water.
Speaker 1: Sounds like he's bending the rule in the very least
Speaker 1: if not full and cheating.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's full of cheating. But what it means was
Speaker 2: like I've had to like get really creative with like
Speaker 2: how I tag him. So there was one time where
Speaker 2: he was swimming and the water was the safe sign.
Speaker 2: He came out and he's like, where's Dad. Where's Dad?
Speaker 2: And they're like, oh, he went upstairs to get changed.
Speaker 2: He has got to go to work, so he like
Speaker 2: came to like ride with the doores, and I was
Speaker 2: like hiding. I had to tag him either way. Every
Speaker 2: day we're playing tag in this house and like I'm
Speaker 2: hoping he gets over it soon because it's so much effort,
Speaker 2: so much energy, and same when I jumped him off,
Speaker 2: he'll tag me on the way out of the seat.
Speaker 2: It's like safe zone school. I'm like, well I can't
Speaker 2: even get out, but it doesn't matter. But like, yeah,
Speaker 2: monsterous game of tag me and my son right now. Okay,
Speaker 2: it's just never ends, Neverens.
Speaker 1: It's just interesting that it's like just ongoing forever.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like tomorrow when he wakes up, and when
Speaker 2: when I wake up, if it wakes uping for a second,
Speaker 2: they'll run to like they'll tag one of them, he'll
Speaker 2: tag me and be like safe zone something, and that
Speaker 2: would just be it, and then we'll just go like
Speaker 2: I've tried to make like we've tried to get rid
Speaker 2: of safe zones. We tried to do everything that doesn't work,
Speaker 2: doesn't work. Tell me if anyone else out there is
Speaker 2: experiencing that, cool.
Speaker 1: Well that's gonna do it for us. Friday Poker Masters begin.
Speaker 1: Let's freak in and go again. Hopefully I run hot,
Speaker 1: but be here every single day. Got a lot of coverage,
Speaker 1: plan a lot of live streaming, so be sure to
Speaker 1: stay tuned to Poker Grow, to the pokerro YouTube channel,
Speaker 1: all that sort of stuff. And uh yeah that's all
Speaker 1: we got, right, Yeah, all right, cool Mousa's time baby
Speaker 1: for Tim Dalkworth. My name is Donny Peters and we
Speaker 1: will talk to you guys next time.
Speaker 2: So yeah, night, Channing Express