Speaker 1: Hello, everyone, Welcome back to a new episode of the
Poker Go Podcast. My name is Donnie Peters. His name
is Tim Duckworth. It is Saturday, January twenty fifth. We
just wrapped up the PGT Kickoff series that is going
to be the topic of conversation here on this podcast.
A lot of things went down early on, a lot
of excitement building so far for the twenty twenty five
Poker Go Tour season, which I am very, very very
pleasantly surprised about just the amount of buzz that I
think was generated from this series. I want to say,
surpassed expectations. Not that we weren't confident that we are
cooking up something good here on the PGT, but you know,
I think that things came out as a result a
bit better than we had hoped, which is awesome. You know, So,
how are you good?
Speaker 2: Great? What is that for?
Speaker 1: Coke zero? Is unbelievable? This guy, Yeah, I'm sure, it's sure.
It's so great for you whatever. Yeah, We're just gonna
run through what happened on the PGT Kickoff series five events,
first four or five k's. The last one was a
ten K right off the bat. No need to bury
the lead. Kristin Foxen coming out on top in the
final event in event that she won last year. Yep,
almost to the day. Last season she kicked off, hence
the name PGT kicked off her twenty twenty four PGT
campaign with a win in the final event of the
PGT Kickoff Series. She topped none other than Daniel mcgranu
in that event. She then went on over the court
the season to build up enough points to finish in
twelfth place on the leader board. She came into the
PGT Million Dollar Championship, she ended up her and Alex,
her husband, did a little double bubble in the PTT
Million Dollar Championship and which which was just absolutely crazy.
They're playing hand for hand, what was it, four and
four Yeah, four players on each table, one hand. Alex
goes out at the same time on the same deal,
Kristen goes out on the other table. Just absolutely wild stuff.
But here she came into the final event as the
chip leader, seven players remaining, and she never lost the
chip lead. I'm pretty sure. I'm ninety nine point ninety
nine nine percent sure. She never lost the chip lead
and just absolutely dominated things. She beat Jou Samow in
heads up play. Also at the final table Stephen Song,
Jeremy Osmas, and Grewburno, Nick Seward, and Neil Warren. A
really really good series overall. This event that Kristin won
had ninety three entries. Do you know how many entries
it had last year?
Speaker 2: It had fifty? Yeah, nearly double.
Speaker 1: I mean that's just that's crazy that that surprised me.
You know, I definitely was aware that the field size
from when you got to the five ks to the
ten k dropped. I didn't think it was that low
last year. So really good to see the number get
up to ninety three numbers overall from this series in
event order eighty four, ninety six, one twelve one, twenty
six in the first four events, which were all five k's,
I mean, that's just incredible, really good numbers. I know
Tim was pretty bearish on where the numbers would be
coming into the season, but he always likes.
Speaker 2: To me into the seasons coming to this series.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this series, but that is also the season because
this is this is the start of the season. So
but he always likes to under promise and over deliver. Yeah,
I mean, really good start overall. Andrew Lichtenberger won the opener.
Patrick Leonard Pads won the second events. We had a
great group of winners. Masado Yokosawa, the superstar Japanese poker vlogger.
He won event number three. Spencer Champlain, he was the
satellite winner who satellited it into last year's Poker Masters
opening event and then went on to win that opening event.
He actually topped fellow satellite winner Jessica Vierling in that
event to get the title. And now here Spencer Champlain
gets a win in event number four. Really really crazy
hot start to the year for Spencer Champlain, not just
on the PGT because he came second down at the
Lucky Arts Poker opened for I think was four twenty
five maybe four and thirty five thousand dollars, gets on
a plane, comes here to Las Vegas, gets in the
studio boom one hundred and fifty seven thousand dollars win
in event number four. I guess I'll kick it to you.
Opening thoughts, you know, kind of conclusions wrap up. How
do you feel that the series and this start to
the season went.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the series pretty much as you kind of touch on,
exceeded all my expectations. Not because I'm bearish on the PGT,
just bearish of this week. There's a lot of stuff
overlapping it. We had the back end of the Baulgada series,
back end of the Seminole series, so we knew. I
always knew it was going to start slow and slowly
build up into the ten K. I did not expect
it to just kick off with eighty four entrants then
go ninety six, one twelve, one twenty six. So that
really impressed me. And it wasn't just you know, our
regulars in for six, seven, eight nine bullets each event.
We saw a whole bunch of new faces. We saw
a lot of people that were on the fringe last year.
You know, we'd play an event here or there, jumping
into this playing a full series. For what it's worth,
last year's kickoff in twenty twenty four we had seventy
nine unique entries entrance this year one hundred and nineteen.
Speaker 1: So let's go.
Speaker 2: That's a massive one hundred and fifty percent increase there
for this series. And you know what, it sets a
good floor, a good baseline for what we can expect
in five k yin events. And you know we've got
Pogo Cup coming up there's a five K, there's several
ten k's, fifteen twenty five. So hoping these numbers carry
on through to not just the Poggo Cup that's coming
up in a few weeks, but our entire season of
No Limit Hold Them Series.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean you mentioned that the new faces in
the mix definitely something that stood out to me as well.
And I think generally speaking, and you know, you guys
can excuse the Homer talk, but we're definitely onto something here,
I thought, and I talked about this, I believe on
this podcast, if not definitely from the commentary booth on
some of the streams. But the buzz that was built
up for the PGT Last Chance Series leading into the
PGT Million Dollar Championship was certainly something that you could
feel in the studio in the room talking to the players, like,
you know, everyone was really gunning for that championship. And
I think quite a bit of that carried over here
into the PGT Kickoff Series in that you know, I mean,
I did the commentary last PGT Kickoff Series, and I
do not recall the players talking at the final tables
as much as they did about the leaderboard, the points
where they had to get to in order to get
into the million dollar Championship, all that sort of stuff.
I mean, I don't think I heard a peep of
that last time around. And maybe I'm just not remembering
because it's been a year, but I think I have
a pretty good memory when it comes to that sort
of stuff, and I don't really recall it this time around.
I mean every single final table there was some sort
of mention of the PGT, the leaderboard, you know, the points,
et cetera. Yeah, definitely in the first three maybe four
events at the final table, the players were flat out like,
you know, oh, what's what's it? Nine hundred points to
get to the into the championship, Like that's the cutoff
or the top forty, and you know somebody would say, no,
it's about nine to fifty or one thousand or whatever it is.
So I think that there is something there as it
relates to chasing qualification for the PGT Million Dollar Championship,
And at the end of the day, that's what we're
trying to build. So that in and of itself tells
me that that you know, it was a successful series.
You cited all the new faces. I love to see that,
so so yeah, I'm just I'm pretty over the moon
with how it all went. And I know that's easier
to say when you know you wear the brand and
you work for the company and you know they sign
your paychecks. Yes, but I'm sure plenty of our listeners
out there would know that Tim and I both will
certainly issue our fair share of criticism, even on ourselves
at times when when it's warranted. But here, you know,
I just I really am. I'm already like, you know,
how do we continue to like bottle up this success
and really sit for the rest of the PGT you know,
over the course of the series, you know, first and foremost,
like looking towards the Pokeroo Cup, how can we keep
this momentum up and keep everything just going in the
right direction.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what stood out to me mainly was, you know,
speaking of this final event, you know, you touched on
people talking about points and how much they need and
qualifying for the championship for this season, and you know,
when Kristen and Jow got heads up. We don't often
even in our events, even with a lot of people
that are friends and in our series, you don't often
see chops, right, and these two decided let's chop the money.
You know, the chips were not equal. They were close,
but not equal. And then's and they said, let's play
for the points. And we don't often see that. It's
it's you know, in these events where there's no series bonus.
I know you're not a big fan will just chop
chop it evenly, but.
Speaker 1: A fan that's putting it lately because you're flat out wrong.
It's just the rules, buddy, but you're wrong, scuff wrong rules. Fine,
but they wanted to play for the points. That shows
that obviously both Kristen and yeah, our you know an
anomaly here that you know, Christen plays all out no
limit holding events yals in most about no limit obviously
all the PLO occasionally some mix, but obviously they want
that extra What was at one hundred and so many
points that was between second and first to get that
advantage you know heading in to the next series of
the season, So seventy seven was the difference.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's a lot of points, you know when
you're saying, you know, when these player are saying, you know,
nine hundred points to to make the to make the
top forty for the PGT Million dollars championship. That extra
hundred and seventy seven points is going to go a
long way.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So all of the events at the PGT Kickoff
offer double points. There is no series title or series
bonus prize, as Tim mentioned, but what we do for
this one is we do offer double PGT leaderboard points
for all the cases. You know, it's just in our mind.
It's a way for the players to kick start their
PGT season. Hopefully some people you know, make their way
into the money. They are awarded double points, and then
they're incentivized to chase that leaderboard standing a little bit more,
which I think, you know, I think we're going to
see it. I think plenty of guys you know, and
ladies you know, out there we're firing away and getting
in the mix. So you know, there's a lot of
points that were grabbed. Right now, it is Kristin Foxen
up on top of the leader board. She's got five
hundred and twenty five points. She did finish with that
win in the final event, the ten K, but she
also had three cashes on the series. She walked away
with just over two hundred and eighteen thousand dollars in
prize money total. Her lead's a pretty hefty one about
what one hundred and eighty points are, so over Patrick Leonard,
who's sitting in second place. He was the winner of
event number two. He had three cashes overall. He took
sixth place in event number one. So those first two
events were consecutive final tables for Pads, and it was
good to see Pads at the studio. You know, somebody
who I know, Tim and I have been like, how
do we get this guy here? We know that he
does spend quite a bit of time here in Las Vegas.
He has a place here, so you know, how do
we get him into the studio. He finally jumped on
in and he had a lot of success. He picked
up plenty of points. Three hundred and forty two is
what he's leaving the series with, so hopefully we see
plenty more from Pads. He's one of those players who's
extremely well rounded, can play all the games, so you know,
don't rule him out for the PLO series or the
Mixed game series, you know, all that sort of stuff.
It's probably just going to be a factor of what's
on Patrick Leonard's schedule and can he fit this stuff
in and will he be in Las Vegas, and then
I would say, yeah, he'll probably play. So if you
are blaming me he hooked him. If you are a
betting man, I know you sometimes I am. What would
you set the line of Pokogo Cup events he plays?
So no limits a couple of weeks away. We know
he's probably been town for that eight events, five K,
seven tens, fifteen point five?
Speaker 2: What the line he said for him?
Speaker 1: Five and four and a half, four and a half.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like we're going to see him in
the five and the first couple of tens. He does
get a cash, so maybe he sticks around. But like
everything he saw on social, he was very a lot
of positive about playing in the Poco studio for the
first time. So he has a good experience. He's winning,
you know, maybe he just kind of doubled downs parlays.
I needed a bigger result here and there, and yeah,
I hope we see him more than four events, but
you never know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I think it would be great to
have him have him in here. I think the same
could be said for somebody like a Masai Yokasawa who
had just one cash but it was a victory. Nick Seward,
you know, he was he played plenty of PGT stuff
last season, but you know, didn't qualify for the championship.
But maybe you know, he starts getting in there a
little bit more. Steven Song, Andrew Mourno, Eric Blair we saw.
We don't see Eric Blair a lot, but he was
out there playing a lot of events. John Reordan had
a few cashes. I think he made a final table
in there as well. So yeah, I mean there's there's
a lot of players that I'm excited to see how
the progression of their PGT season part you know, comes together.
Jeremy Osmas, the reigning PGT Player of the Year, the
winner of the PGT Million Dollar Championship. He finished with
one cash, almost went over because it took until the
final event, but he did make his way to a
fourth place finish in this final event, one hundred and
sixty seven points for him. So, I mean, all in all,
just really really good series. I thought, you know, I
hope it. I hope it continues.
Speaker 2: For Poker Grow.
Speaker 1: Cup, you know, I hope we see it. You know,
a huge field for that opener for that five K,
you know, getting into those ten k's and then obviously
hope it carries over as well. I mean, we'll see
how it goes, but it definitely does seem like the
momentum is is there overall? Do you want to hit on?
I guess a couple other players that found some results
you had. Eric Saidell had two final tables and two cashes.
He left the series with one hundred and seven points.
Sam Laskowitz, who I picked to get into the top
forty after missing out on the top forty last season,
he had one cash, ended up having quite a bit
of a cooler at the final table that he made
when he ran kings into aces of the aforementioned Patrick
Leonard China Riem was also in that hand with pocket ten,
so it was a three way all in. Chino Reim
worth mentioning because he said to you and I during
the Last Chance Series that he would bet any amount
of money that he's getting into that top forty this season.
So Chino Reim currently thirty seven on the leader board.
He thirty eight points, He had one cash. It was
a final table but not ultimately the deepest, so he
leaves with thirty eight points. But she knows a guy
who you know at least if you're going off last season,
we saw him in the PLO, we saw him in
the Nick Game, so I would expect to see uh
Chino rein plenty. Phil Helmuth got in there, found himself
into the money in one event. He was out here
playing with his son as well. In one of the events.
They were actually busted by John Riordan, both of them,
and both times Riordan had Ace King the King got
the King got him. We saw Brad Owen out here,
we saw Jeff Madson out here. So so yeah, I
mean I'm looking forward to a young q Song WPT
Player of the Year. He was out here playing everything,
many many bolts I think for Song, I mean, unless
he was joking.
Speaker 2: But but yeah, he was definitely joking. He was joking.
Speaker 1: I mean he said like I'm in for four bowls
or whatever and a couple of times and I heard him,
so he yeah. I mean, he's definitely a trolley type
of player. But that's good fun. It's funny because you
know I mentioned the numbers eighty four in the first event,
ninety six in the second event, one twelve one to
twenty six, and then that final event which had a
higher buy in as ten k ninety three entries there,
but the numbers overall might have been even larger had
you know, several players not been stuck at Seminal or whatever.
For example, Brandon Wilson, who once again had a big
result down in a Seminal high roller.
Speaker 2: He took.
Speaker 1: He took, yeah, I know, right, he took second place
in the in the Lucky Hearts twenty five k for
I think three hundred and some thousand, you know, got
on a plane, came up here and fired in some
of these events. It was him, I want to say.
Michael Burke was down there playing some stuff. I already
mentioned Stencer Champlain who got second place in the main event. Well, yeah,
but he he got here early. Yeah, he busted the
he busted in the money in the main event at
like ten pm, snap, got on a plane, made it
here and made it into thest event. But yeah, I mean,
you know, plenty of people were down in Florida, maybe
even at Borgata, and they made their way here.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, we we missed people like Rock Wilson, Cherish Andrews.
We didn't see Stephen Chidwick even though we know he's
in town, because he was at some charity events. Who
else did we miss? I mean Daniel Legrand who didn't play.
But Daniel, you know, he's always been like, yeah, I'm
just not going to play the five k's. It's just
you know whatever, which which is fine, So you know
he wasn't here. Who else do we miss? It was
Big Lucky Chewie Lichtenburger back. Yeah, who said he was
like taking a break from program.
Speaker 2: Here is the biggest name, Phil Ivy, No, he's dead
to me, he finished seventh on the PGT. Lad he
plays every one of our series, but skip this one. Oh,
Jim Colley, Jim mccallopy.
Speaker 1: Where's Jim? I mean he also missed David Coleman, but
you knew he was.
Speaker 2: He was going to Disneyland of all points. Come on,
have some respect for the PGT. To me, Jim Colapy
is the biggest name that we didn't get because he
is he will play everything we have obviously lives here.
I'm assuming he went to Bogart. I'm assuming he went
to Seminole. Maybe you just didn't want to come back.
Another one.
Speaker 1: I think I think he definitely was at Seminole.
Speaker 2: Yeah, another one. Dylan Weisman, Now he played I think
a event, an event, or maybe two events, but someone
that lives here, someone that used this series as his
springboard for the twenty twenty four season. Very surprising not
to see him, you know, especially after cashing in the
PGT Million dollars Championship just a couple of weeks ago.
Not to play all these events, So that was They're
the two biggest surprises to me that we would, you know,
normally expect to see day in and day out in
the studio.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we didn't see. I mean, just some other names
just going off the top forty from last year. Not
that these were in any way, shape or form givens
to play in this series, because I think it's you
know a lot of these players would skip a series
like this, but I mean notable because of where they
finished on the PGT leaderboard last season. Seth Davies finished
third last season, and I did see on social media
that he wasn't He said he wasn't going to be
traveling a lot for poker at least upcoming, so I thought,
maybe we get him for the ten k, you know,
and then that's that. I was actually a little bit
surprised not to see Jonathan Tomaio to be honest, I
mean just because he went so hard he did get
the cash with that third qualifying cash in the final
event of PGT Last Chance in order to qualify for
the PGT Million Dollar Championship. You know, we know he's
got money now in one of the Dew's been mad
An event. I just thought we would see him, right,
I thought there was a chance we would see him.
You know, these are these are the smaller byans, you know,
for the stuff that we have in the studio, so
it's not gonna you know, do too much damage to
the bankroll. So I was a little bit surprised not
to see him. Joe Sarrock, same sort of thing, you know.
I just thought that he seemed like he liked playing
in here and in the studio and that sort of thing.
So I was a little bit surprised to see or sorry,
not see Joe Sarrock. And then I also thought possibly
for the ten k we might get Ben Toleering, because
it was always like he was showing up at the
last event he was yeah, you know, so I was
a little bit surprised not to see him. Ren Lynn
came late. Yeah, I mean he came late understandable. So yeah,
and then I mean, I guess this one is a
little bit tricky. Maybe maybe not Scott sever I just
thought maybe. I mean, I know, he made a lot
of his points at the WSP with the success that
he had, and then played a little bit afterwards. But
definitely somebody who finished outside the top forty. I mean
he got into the championship but wasn't here. Matthew Wattman,
I was surprised. Well, he put a lot of volume
in last he did.
Speaker 2: He went to those, he went to Barth Stops, I believe,
and then he went straight to Thunder Valley, just like
you know, Francis Sanderson came for I believe it was
Event three and then went to Thunder Valley after cashinging that.
So you know, there's a lot.
Speaker 1: Of Pokemon we didn't see.
Speaker 2: Justin Zaki, I mean, Florida boy probably don't want to
he's he's probably.
Speaker 1: He, but he he played plenty of our series that
I thought he was someone who, even if he played
Lucky Hearts, would get on the pike. Think come in
event or too.
Speaker 2: Zachty listening, so I feel like doing Justin Yeah, email
us at I think I awesome. I think he said
he was probably skipping kickoff and coming for cup. But
maybe I'm just making it worse in my head right now.
Speaker 1: I mean it's just like I know for some players
that frequent the higher buying stuff and prefer you know,
the ten k's, the fifteens and twenty fives, et cetera.
I mean the double points is hella attract triple points?
I mean it's so attractive to like, I mean, look,
Kristen Foxon is five twenty five. I mean she's halfway there,
you know. I mean, it's it's crazy. So I think
the double points thing is crazy attractive and bad. See
I I kind of wonder if it is or not.
I've gone back and forth in my head. I mean,
I don't think it's all that bad. And and I
thought about this this morning in the shower. I was
in the shower, honestly, just going back and forth in
my head, like what am I gonna like? Is it good?
Is it bad? But I was like, you know, we
don't do a series bonus for this, okay, So in
a way, the series bonus is double points. And I understand, like,
if you're somebody out there and you don't play, and
you're like, well, it's silly that so and so, you know,
got it's silly that Kristen got in because she made
five hundred points from whatever. Well it's not like it's closed.
Everyone can come play these and get the double points.
But my end, and I mean for anyone that complains
the point that we do it is to hopefully get
some new blood that get a taste, get those points,
and then play, which in turn is I mean the
goal is to make the field sizes bigger later on. Right.
You know, you get people that have some points, maybe
they leave the PGT kickoff with you know, one hundred
points one fifty, and they're like, Okay, I think I
can do this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like let's go.
Speaker 1: Like I mean, listen, for example, Michael Vanier, I mean,
is he a PGT regular? I have no idea. I'm
gonna say venir because that's what Remco is saying on
the broadcast. For a week, he made two final tables. Okay,
he had one top three finish. He came out of
the series of two hundred and fifty one points. Now,
is is Michael Vanier a PGT regular?
Speaker 2: That's upside? No? No, But that's my.
Speaker 1: He's not, so maybe now he becomes one and then
we are building the player pool that way. Like that's
how it goes, you know, because because also like you
have to think, I mean, listen, I have no shame
in saying it. But like I think there are people
that they get up to the top and they somewhat
move on. I look at someone like a Nick Petrangela
for example. You know, Nick might play our twenty five
k's and if we have anything higher like super high rollable, right,
but like Nick doesn't often come out for the lower
buying stuff. So he's someone who's almost gotten too big
and has moved on. Jason Kuhn, for example, Like they've
gotten too big and they've moved on. They play much
bigger stuff and they don't play as often. Well, for
every player that you lose, you have to fill it
with someone exactly. So hopefully we fill it with a
Michael Vandier and he's he's like, oh, yeah, you know
I left that I got double points. Yeah, this is
worth me taking some more shots later on. Maybe he's
somebody that you know, Poker Go Cup was never on
his radar, and I'm just using Michael Viniers as an example.
Speaker 2: You know what.
Speaker 1: You know, maybe Poker Go Cup wasn't on his radar,
but maybe now it is, and it's like, Okay, now
I gotta come for cup. And then he finds another
cash there and it's another fifty points or whatever it is,
and it's like, okay, like I got I gotta go,
go go, Like this is what it's about. So that's
why we do it. I don't really think that it's wrong.
Speaker 2: I like it.
Speaker 1: And at the end of the day, I mean, it's
it's our tour and we can do whatever we want
with it. You know what made me think of it
this morning, I'm like land on the fact that I
don't think it's wrong. I lean that it's right because
it's our tour. It's like when you have a fantasy
football league. You can do whatever you want as the commission,
Like you can set it up however you want, and
people can choose the player.
Speaker 2: They can choose not to.
Speaker 1: Exactly, you know. And I would say that people like
it because they were talking about it a lot. There's
obviously a lot of buzz. There seems to be positive feedback,
and the numbers are going up. So I'm four it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, my theory with Kickoff is that it's five events,
it is double points. We are influencing the points chase
for the year. But like I said, it's five events.
At the very side of the year, it's you know,
four percent of our total events that we're going to run.
So you know, someone like Daniel m'grano who didn't play
any events, he's going to see this lead of five
hundred points from Christmas Box and well he's got one
hundred and twenty five events to chase it down. So
it's not like we're doing this at the in the
middle of the season. At the end of the season,
it's at the top. It's a good way to as
we keep pushing to get some new faces that we
may not normally see. Right up on the leaderboard. You
got Pads, you got Spencer Champlain, you got Masado, Nick Seawood,
we got Neil Warren. All in the top ten. Never
ever would you expect them to be in the top ten,
and maybe you could say not even in the top
forty if you're a betting man for the end of
the championship. But they've got a taste, maybe they come
play the whole Cup. They play some other things and
we get some new faces really making a push to
hit to be in the top forty the million dollar
Championship at the end of the season.
Speaker 1: I mean, I have more of an issue. I think
with something like the player who wins the dobs be
main events can get so many points from that, maybe
cashing something else at the w SIP and then just
has to do a Jonathan Tomi I find one of
the cash. I mean, I think that's a little bit
more weird to me. But you know, but like overall,
I think it's good.
Speaker 2: It is weird, but then you see you can see
the positives it's it's had on our series. You look
at Last Chance Johnathan Tomay, I was in for I
don't know, fourteen to fifteen bullets and sixside. Don't tell
me he's not stimulating the poker economy and the poko
Shi Baris Angelo he was in for three four five
bullets as well. Jonathan also played all the PLO events
in Texas. He doesn't really play palelo, so it does
have its advantages. You just have to kind of look
look through it a little deep up.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think at the end of the day,
what we're ultimately trying to achieve is I look at
something like a World Poker Tour for example, you have
many many players who kind of really only travel around
and play on World Poker Tour events, and I think
they're chasing WPT titles. They obviously like those events for
you know, various reasons, and they're you know, chasing like
WPT Player of the Year or you know, I know
friend of ours Mo Nowara. You know, he's been in
the mix early on for MSPT Player of the Year
in the past, and then he's like, okay, now I
got to chase this. So trying to create something where
initially people catch a little bit of the bug and
then they chase it, which for us, you know, the big,
the big, the big pot of gold at the end
of the rainbow is the million dollar championship, the million
dollar free role that we have on offer. So I
think overall it's good. And again it's it's open to anyone, right,
you know, anyone can come out, they can play these events. Obviously,
you just need money to buy in.
Speaker 2: Even you have a PGT cash.
Speaker 1: Even I do, but it wasn't in one of our events.
But I do have I don't right I remember when
I cashed, I had got an email almost instantaneously from
Carry saying congrats on your first cash.
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure that pretty funny. Yeah, I would.
Speaker 1: I would personally love to play, like in one of
these opening five k's that we have now, you know,
for cup Masters or USPO. I mean, they're obviously more affordable.
The field than those is, you know, something that I
would feel a little bit more comfortable in. Not that
I don't think it would be an uphill battle for me.
I certainly think it would, but not as much of
an uphill battle. The climb wouldn't be as steep, you know,
compared to playing in a ten K, you know, Plus
I could have a bit more of my own action,
it wouldn't be as hard to sell. But it also
always seems like every damn time I have to work
or you know, I'm doing commentary whatever. And don't get
me wrong, I'm very grateful for that sort of stuff,
and I love doing it. So I'm not going to
pass it up to just go play a tournament. But
I do one day, you know, want to. I want
to hopefully play in one.
Speaker 2: Of those, and we'll see how it goes. One of
the I think it was Landa Ties. He's like, he says, something,
when are we going to get see you in one
of these five k's. I said, never, you guys too good,
and then I woke away. You know the different to me,
but I was like, yeah, I ain't gonna be in
here with battling with you guys unless I win a
safe for fifty bucks.
Speaker 1: Ye, I mean, I would love to like play the
satellite the day before, speaking of February tenth, in inside
the Aria of Poker Room, five hundred and sixty dollars
buying satellite to event number one of the Poker Go Cup.
That first event is a fifty one hundred dollars buying
if you're on time, fifty three if you're late, so
you can I'm on down to the Ario Poker Room.
You can play for five and sixty bucks and you
can get in there. But I would like to play
some of those satellites, you know, trying to win a
seat that way and then and then go from there.
If I did play a satellite and want to see it,
I'd probably just yolo the whole buy and say the
hell with it, let's go.
Speaker 2: Maybe I win.
Speaker 1: Maybe I don't.
Speaker 2: But I just want the people to know that I
am the third best fucker player of the Triangle Room
crew because we just run. Now. First, I have a
free role and I finished third place. I cashed dunny,
How did you finish?
Speaker 1: Bro? I got so fucking nit rolled. It's under that bad.
I mean it's every time I play. I got a bounty,
a mystery bounty, A hundred bucks. Yeah, I get out
of here. Did you like how I limp re raised
under the gun with aces?
Speaker 2: That was very nice? Yeah, very nice.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's right. Also, huh that was a pretty bad Mete.
Like I tank for like two fucking minutes.
Speaker 2: What do you fucking do.
Speaker 1: Every time I play poker in the studio. By the way,
I get in it roll. It happened when I made
the NFT final table. Yes, that was a Megane role.
That fucking thing. Do you wanna do? You wanna tell
everyone about what we have coming up on play PokerGO
dot com. So this is fun, this is interesting. I
like it, and I'm gonna be in there and I'm
guessing Tim will be two. But what we are going
to be doing is we are going to be running
the play Poker Go Cup what on play poker go
dot com. So we're basically gonna have a mirroring series. So,
for example, there are eight events as part of the
real Life poker Go Cup. First buying is five thousand,
the next batch or ten thousand, then we got two fifteen's,
then we have a twenty five k okay on play
poker go dot com. It's a free to play social site,
so you can't win anything, but there will be plenty
of goddamn bragging rights, okay, trust me, Like the five
K buying on play poker Go will be a five
hundred thousand gold buying. Ten K will be one million gold,
et cetera, et cetera. There'll be events every single day.
I believe we're going to start them on February twelfth,
and then they're going to finish on February nineteenth. We're
going to talk about them on the stream. Maybe we'll
check in and sweat some of the actions, sweat some
of the final tables. Live remco and I will be
doing the day one bonus coverage that we call it,
in addition to the full production final tables that we
get for the poker Go Cup. So you know, Remco
and I a little bit more of a lax broadcast
so we can kind of, you know, have some more
fun with it, do what we want. Maybe Remco and
I will be playing while we commentate stuff like that.
But definitely get in there on play Poker goat dot com.
I would get in there a little bit early. Again,
it's going to be starting on February twelfth, but you
want to get in there. You want to get acclimated
to the software a little bit. I'll tell you this
right now. If you're not used to it. One of
the things that you might find a little surprising is
that it goes fast. You don't have the longest time
day to act, which is fine once you're used to it.
Speaker 2: You know, it feels like two seconds. It needs another
I need a bit more time.
Speaker 1: Nice like just go go go.
Speaker 2: You just got so many times.
Speaker 1: It's it's whatever, it's it's free, it's fun. Just get
in there and you know, go at. But yeah, well
one event today, so it's gonna be a lot of
fun to play this, you know, alongside again, you know,
for bragging rights, I I really really really do hope
that some of the podcast listeners out there because I
love the podcast community really first and foremost they get
out there, they play and one of you guys wins
one of these events, or you know, some of you
guys win a few of the events or whatever, email
us let us know, you know, because I don't I
don't get to look at screen names and see who
people are and all that sort of stuff. So just
you know, if you have some success there and he
wants to shout you out on the broadcast or on
the podcast, you know, let us have it. That's why
we built the community cards segment so we can shout
out the community, so you know, take some screenshots, whatever,
hit us up and uh let's go. All right, that's
gonna do it for us. His name is Tim Duckworth,
my name is Donnie Peters, and we will talk to
you guys next time.
Speaker 2: Brads night. Jay Express