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