Speaker 1: Hello everyone, Welcome back to a new episode of the
Poker Go Podcast. My name is Donny Peters. His name
is Tim Duckworth. It is the evening of Sunday, January,
fifth day off from the PGT Last Chance Series, and
an important day off for my co host here because
his Broncos are going to the playoffs. How you doing, Buddy?
Speaker 2: I feel great. Great game of football that was.
Speaker 1: I mean they have did the Chiefs end up scoring?
I turned it off?
Speaker 3: Was still enough of the d to do some other stuff,
but first off was pretty fun to watch.
Speaker 1: There you go Bonnicks and them boys.
Speaker 2: How about your boys? What's coming on over there?
Speaker 1: Well, listen, everyone still associates me with the New England Patriots.
I would like to announce once and for all for
everyone that has for a long time, I haven't associated
myself with the New England Patriots. First of all, I
just feel like I've grown up and I don't feel
any sort of allegiance really to any one team. Second
of all, I am team Tom Brady. So that's how
I'm gonna go. I mean now, it's just like, you know,
sports are fun, and I don't feel like I feel
like I look back on my younger self and how
I used to get lots of highs and a lot
of lows depending on how sports teams that I had
a quote unquote allegiance towards we're doing. And I think
that's kind of silly in a lot of rooms. So
I don't really care anymore. I mean, I love sports,
don't get you're wrong. I love it more than ever,
and I'll definitely wager on a bunch of games and
I guess that will be where my allegiance is for
that day or that night, or that week or that season.
But other than that, I don't really care. That said,
the Patriots are an absolute clown show. I mean, you
have the number one pick in your hands, it's already yours.
This isn't like one of those things where they had
the number two or number three pick and then if
they lose they could get it. No, this is you
are number one. You are number one on the draft board.
And yes, I'm not a big follower of as I
call them, unprofessed sports, and I don't think like the
draft class this year is supposed to be overly great.
That said, you have a chance to control the draft board.
You can trade out of there, get a boatload of picks,
you can do whatever you want. Okay, So I mean
this is on. You can't blame Drowd Mayo for like
going out there and trying to win the game. If
you're the Crafts who own the team, you absolutely positively
have to fire the coach before the game. If you're
gonna fire him anyway, fire him before they fire the
whole staff. Say, players, you're gonna coach yourselves today. Who
cares you? Make damn sure you get that number one pick.
That is your job. And then once Milton gets out
there and starts cooking up and down the field, you say, buddy,
you are sitting your ass down. We're putting the emergency
QB in, we are calling wildcat plays, whatever we're gonna
do to ensure that we get the number one pick.
I know this is a poker podcast, but it is
just it's it's more about the general incompetence you see
on a weekly basis, on a game by game basis,
from these billion dollar franchises, These people who are supposed
to be these elite football minds, these elite like franchise
owners and all this sort of stuff. Executives blah, blah blah,
and they just butcher things all the time. This is
an absolute butcher job by the entire Patriots organization. You
can't blame the players because they're playing for contracts, incentives
their next jobs, like all this sort of stuff. I
totally get it right. You can't blame the coaches, they're
doing the same thing. But as the crafts, you have
to take this into your own hands as much as possible.
You have to clear out the staff beforehand. You can't
give them any shot whatsoever to like win the game. Yeah,
that's what you have to do. It's just it's absolutely ridiculous.
But yeah, that's my thoughts. If anyone wants legit football
content this playoffs, check out my other podcast, Great Aaron Gambles. Okay, yes,
selfish plug. I don't give a crap. It's myself, it's
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but playoff season is super fun. We release podcasts pretty
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of conversation for this podcast, and it's probably gonna end
up being a short podcast, although every time I say that,
Tim and I go long. Just PGT Last Chance. So,
as I mentioned earlier, it is the day off for
PGT Last Chance. First two events are in the books.
The third event is on a bit of a hiatus.
It played down to the final table yesterday. They will
resume on Monday. There are it'll be that event and
then three more finishing out for the series and it
all leads into the PGT Million Dollar Championship. I'm throwing
it to you first, buddy. It's been a great series
to start, some record setting fields, lots of fun. Like
you can feel the buzz in the air. What are
your initial thoughts? Just let me have it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean you touched on the record breaking numbers.
We've had something that I wasn't at all expecting. I
was thinking we're going to get seventies and eighties, a
little less than we did last year, just because I
don't know. There was just like a vibe or a
read I had on the playpool and I was very wrong. Yeah,
we've had one hundred and what is it, one hundred
and eleven, one hundred and nineteen and one hundred and
nineteen entrants absolutely kind of insane numbers, lots of new faces,
lots of old faces, lots of people taking their shot,
and this series is just a great one to kick
off the new year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's it's been awesome being there every
single day, just again, you know, really feeling that buzz
in the room for the players that are all taking
their shots, you know, to better their position within the
top forty of the leader board, or to get a
shot at a dream seat or get themselves into the
top forty. You know, there's been a lot of things
happening kind of all at once, as as like a
I guess a league type of nerd, a stats nerd,
all that sort of stuff, Like it's great for me,
you know sports nerd as well. Like it's just how
it all kind of comes together, and the season really
does come down to, like this series, if people are
gonna get in or out for that championship event. You mentioned,
those numbers great right out of the gate. I keep
telling you every single day I'm taking the over. You
keep poop pooing me taking the under. The numbers are
just absolutely freaking incredible. Last year for the PGT Last
Chance Series, the opener had ninety one entries. The series
ended up happening between I think it was seventy eight
ninety one entries for the events. So with one eleven,
one nineteen and one nineteen already just crushing what we
did last year, you know, which is awesome. So shout
out to you forgetting all that sort of stuff done.
Nick Shulman and Shannon Shore won the first two events.
Nick Schulman won the first one two hundred and eighty
three thousand dollars for him. Shannon Shore won the second
one two hundred ninety seven five hundred dollars for him.
The third event, as I mentioned, is going to finish
out on Monday. There are seven players left. Keith Lear
get on the f and Jet Cheese Monster. He is
the chip leader, ahead of what Sam soverrolls in second place.
David Chen is that there as well. David Chen is
like it gets a cult following every time we do
a YouTube stream. It's amazing. So yeah, just some other notes. Quickly,
We got Ren Lynn. He has climbed his way currently
at least into the top forty of the PGT Lead Award.
He did that with a sixth place finish in event
number two. This is important. Of course, we've said it before,
I will say it again because the top forty players
on the PGT lead aboard at the end of the season,
they qualify for the season ending at PGT million dollars championship.
So Lynn moved into the top forty. I think he's
thirty eighth right now, thirty ninth. He bumped Justin Saliba out.
Justin Seba is now sitting forty first. Also of note,
Brian Kim was one of those nine players coming into
this series who was in the top forty points wise,
but needed to get to three PGT cases. You need
to have at least three PGT cashes in order to
officially qualify get that eligibility for the championship. He cashed
in the first event, so he came, got in there,
he got his cash, so he is qualified. He's pretty
much locked in.
Speaker 2: Right like, yeah, he's locked yeh, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: He's he's locked in. He's still been playing since, but
he's locked in. So he got that done. Jonathan Tomaio
is still looking for a cash. I mean that guy,
it's he's he's the Jim Callipy of last year. Yeah,
you know, like Jim callipy last year. Tim and I
have talked about it before. He was right on the
outside of the top forty looking in and just trying
trying to get points, trying to get points, trying to
get points, and then the final event happens, he busted
out and he needed to like sweat some other people.
It was like literally he was sitting at the bar
like drinking while the final event was playing near the bubble,
like waiting. Sure it happened, it didn't break his way,
and it was just sad Jim Collipe, It seems like
sad Jonathan Tomorrow every time I see him. Yeah, I mean,
it's just entries, entries, entries. He played like he played
everything at the napt that we did in partnership with
Poker Stars, right. He went to Texas, he played the
the plo stuff down there. He the guy needs one cash.
He's got enough points. He's got seventeen dred and thirty points.
He's sixth place on the PGT leader where just needs
to hit the money one time, and he just can't
seem to do it.
Speaker 3: He's not even getting close. That's the that's the worst part.
He's busting so early. I just I feel so least
he get unlimited entries.
Speaker 1: I mean, the guy won ten million dollars. He can
fire away.
Speaker 2: I know, I know, I just I really want him
to get this cash.
Speaker 1: Same like I think it's great to have the WSB
main event champion in there. Yeah, And I also think
it's great that like he's he's like him getting in
the way, like just chasing so hard to the end,
and like obviously he wants to get in this free role,
you know, and he's just chasing, chasing, chasing, and it's
just like every time you see him, you're just like, man,
you just get a damn cash already. So he's he's uh,
he was one of those nine. He's not one of
the eight because, as I mentioned, Kim got in what
were you gonna say?
Speaker 3: No, I was like, I think yesterday within the first orbit,
he busted his first bullet. Fluped top set guy flupped
is not straight. It's just like it's just it's it's yeah,
it's insane.
Speaker 1: Maybe you should sit him down and be like, listen,
I'm the king of folding to cash, Okay, Like like
I need to talk talk to you about this.
Speaker 2: He's playing on time too. That's that's interesting to me.
Speaker 3: I know there's obviously the rake reduction, but for someboding
like this where he just needs one cash. In Texas,
he was he was max late every time. I know
it was plo, but still I'm surprised he's actually not
taking that strategy in these just coming in like.
Speaker 1: I would play on time, because I would play on
time and essentially like a super knit early or maybe
play like a lunatic early whatever, it doesn't happen because
just playing on time giving yourself that extra chance to
hopefully just get hit with the deck and run like
god and have a big stack, as opposed to the
max late reg coming into the twenty big lines and
going you can all. The thing is with the with
the PGT Last Chance series different from some of our
other series which allow maximum three entries. This is unlimited,
so no matter what, he'll be able to max late
redge with twenty. So you might as well just come
earlier and fire off. It doesn't matter. Whereas if you
come earlier and you have that cap at three entries,
you might go through all three and then you're screwed.
But here he can just he can be in for
ten who the hell knows. I mean, like you know,
but yeah, like just kind of go nuts, like I
would probably play a bit crazy to start, just you know,
dani Legroanney style, all in every hand like he does
in some of those crazy bounty events or whatever, and
then you know, play a little bit more normal second entry,
and then of course, you know, if you have to
fire that max late red entry, I mean you're just
tank every hand, fold the cash. That's the goal there,
if you even can do that. So you mentioned Brian
Kim did check that box. Jonathan Toyo is still searching
the other players, still searching. Nicholas Oustadt, but he's not here.
Don't think he's coming. We'll see. Jason Segel needs two cashes.
He's been here, it's been playing everything. So time is
starting to run out for mister Sagle, who needs two cashes.
Boris Angelov missed what.
Speaker 2: The first event?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, first event, but he got on a plane,
got his butt here and Boris Angelov is in there.
He needs one cash. Matthew Lambreck haven't seen him.
Speaker 2: Seen him.
Speaker 1: He was all about it too.
Speaker 2: He might just be over it as well, all right.
Speaker 1: He just might be over it and just Gonzalez have
not seen him. He needs two cashes. Ali and Nakash
have not seen him. He needs one cash and Mallow
Latinois also needs a cash or he needs two cashes. Sorry,
but haven't seen him as well. So yeah, with the
I know that third event still has to play out,
but there's you know, obviously registration has closed. There so
only three events left for these players to get in there.
But it's not just them. It's not just them because
there are two leaderboard races going on simultaneously. There's obviously
the one that we've talked about many times where it's
getting into the top forty. So that's on a lot
of people's minds. I mentioned Renlin had already done enough
at least right now. If things were to pause right now,
Renlin would be in because he got that sixth place
finish in event number two. But there's other players, you know,
right both like in that I would say, what thirty
five to forty, and then the ones that are like
forty one to sixty ish or so, like they're within
striking distance. The thirty five to forty that's Chance corn
Is Scott, sever Alex Foxen, Elis Parsonen, Renlin and Jonathan Little,
everyone but Cornith and Parsonen have been here firing a lot.
Kind of I would say, slight surprise to see sever
I thought he might be more of like I'll monitor
it and maybe I'll come right at the end type
of thing. But he's been there every single day, tirn Away,
Jonathan Little is now the last person in.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: Correctly, Well, I'm just saying, I know, I know there's
like the if those guys that are the ashes that like,
I know, there's all that sort of stuff, But honestly
that kind of gives me a popsicle headache and it
makes it harder to explain, so I kind of just
leave it to the side for right now. But what
Tim is alluding to is, like, let's say Jonathan Tomow
doesn't get the three cashes, He's essentially removed from the
leader board and everyone gets slotted up one spot. Okay,
So that would mean in that case, specifically, if if
one person didn't qualify Tomle we're using him as an example,
then Justin Saliba would go from forty first to fortieth
and then he's in. So there's those people that are
in like that forty one through forty nine range, Justin Saliba,
Matthew Wantman, Isaac Hackson, Sergio Ido, Steven Chidwick, Danny Tang,
Joshua Atkins, Bryce Jockey, and Brock Wilson, who are all
like have the chance to move up. Atkins doesn't have
the qualifying cashes yet though he has one cash, he
needs to get to three. So everyone else that I
just mentioned has at least three cashes. But Atkins is
you still looking to get into the money two more
times in order to Yeah, he is here playing, so
it could happen. So that's like the one leaderboard race.
Then you have the other leaderboard race, which is the
series leaderboard, and that's going to award three dream seats,
and a dream seat is a direct entry into the
PGT Million Dollar Championship. So the top three players on
that leaderboard, players who aren't already qualified, they would get
into the million Dollar Championship, and then right behind them
the next five spots get an entry into the Dream
Seat Invitational. And then in that Dream Seat Invitational, which
is an invite only event that will be played on
January ninth, the top six players from that event, which
is essentially an invite only satellites they get into the
PGT Million Dollar Championship. So as things stand right now
on the series leaderboard, yes it is Nick Schulman on
top points wise, but Nick is very much qualified already
for the championship, being in what.
Speaker 2: Ninth place or eighth eighth playeah eighth.
Speaker 1: Place, so essentially just take him out, So that means
Shannon Shore is currently the front runner. Joe Sirock is
then third, but he's also well qualified. He's in thirteenth place,
so we can remove that. So then it's Jaousamoo and
David Chen are the top three currently getting those dream seats.
Then you've got Victoria Liftshit, Sam Laskowitz, Stevensong, Bryce Yacky
with an asterisk next to him because he might get
in depending on who gets the three cashes or not
and who doesn't. Matthew McEwan and I guess you can
include Dan Shack also kind of with an asterisk depending
on what happens with Bryce Yaky ahead of them. So
there's just a lot going on, a lot of different
moving parts, but it's super fun. The best part of it.
I mean, it's great to fall along from where we are,
but it's great to see the players like so involved.
They're all well aware of like what's going on. You know,
They're like, I need these many points, I need that,
Like where's the leaderboard? What's this? Can you give me
an update? What do I need? What don't it? Like
all this sort of stuff. I'm sure they're asking you
a bazillion questions every single time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're texting me non stuff. It's great, but yeah, no,
they do.
Speaker 2: They do know all the implications I have.
Speaker 3: Like you know Dan Shack, you know, on Saturday when
he had made the money and then he made a
pay jump and he's like, oh, that paye jump's so
big for me, you know. And then he made another
PA and he's like, oh, not a good paye jump.
So they understand the logistics behind it. They understand how
the race is kind of shaping out. And in a way,
it's funny when you look at these the dream seats
and if you've qualified, you don't get a dream seats.
Speaker 2: You don't need one.
Speaker 3: There's a bit of anti sweating going on, you know,
like a lot of people were probably cheering for Joseph
Rock to win yesterday, right, so Shannon Shaw would have
got second, he would have only got one hundred and
eighty four points, which is much more like reachable for
some of those people below. But the fact that Shaw won,
he's now got two hundred ninety eight points. He's second
to Shulman with three h seven. It's kind of show's
kind of got a one hand on a dream seat, right,
It's gonna be hard to chase him down. So there's
a bit of anti sweating going on. You know, the
players are never gonna admit that, but we definitely know
it's true. So it's definitely a fun a fun race,
and with three more events to go, it's gonna be
very interesting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it also creates a very interesting element for
the final tables. I would honestly say that at these
final tables, and I've been doing the commentary alongside Remko
Rinkima and Rempco asked me for you know, for the
first one, Like normally, it's how aware of these guys
of like pay jumps and all that sort of stuff.
I mean, here, it's almost like everything is about points.
Like it's almost the guys kind of throw the money
to the side, and and I'm like, I'm kind of
exaggerating that, but I'm also not, because that's why everyone's
playing this series is to get the points. Now. Like
one kind of weird example of this is the first
event which Shulman ended up going on to win. He
pulled this crazy bluff on the river where he checked
jammed on Joos Samoo with what was bottom pair at
the time. I think it was Jack ten three turn
was a blank river was an ace. Nick had King
three and check jammed into Jos Samaou's King Queen who
had the nuts, and Jos sma obviously called and doubled up.
It doesn't matter Nick went on to win anyway. But
what I'm getting at is, does Nick pull that bluff
if he's not like already locked in and he's like
on the outside of the top forty looking in, or
he's in the race for the dream seat or the
sorry the PGT Last Chance Leader, you know what I mean? Like, yeah,
he was kind of just he was totally free to
do whatever he wanted at that final table because he's
well locked in. I mean, yeah, obviously for Nick he
wants to win and the money and all that sort
of stuff, Yes, but like you know, he can kind
of just be like, yeah, I'm gonna take it to
the streets on this one, because it doesn't matter if
I end up screwing it up, right, Yeah. Whereas if
you're like if you're a Ren Lynn, for example, or
you're somebody like that's look right on the outside looking in,
or maybe you're not and you just want to fight
those fight the battle to get to win the leader
board or get one of those dream seats. Do you
ultimately pull that bluff? I mean, maybe you don't. You
don't pull the trigger there, right, So, like, I'm sure
that's in the in the minds of people at some point.
So yeah, I think it's I think it's just great.
I freaking love it, and it's it's only gonna, you know,
become kind of crazier when when things get down to
these final three events, the final two event, and then
obviously that final event and then another another situation that
that sticks out to me from the early events. I
think it was the first event, might have been the second,
which which event did. Yeah, it was the first event.
Jeremy Becker bubbling with the Kings versus Ace King on
the river, like I mean, and Becker's like, you know,
we obviously talk with him during the poker stars an
apt when he's like he's like, I played this twenty
five k because you guys got me chasing points that
crazy hand where he loses to what he had to
Jonathan Little's Ace King like super early, Like there's that
now this with the Kings, you know, like he needs
the points. Yeah, Like so that must stick sting extra
extra hard for him. So like he's out there fighting
for points like he's because he's close, right.
Speaker 3: He's like five, he's five off the you know, eligible
top forty. So he needs basically let's call it a
final table. Uh if the results everywhere else above him
stays the same. So yeah, that min cash even though
it's only worth sixteen points. He gets in the money.
Maybe he makes a run, but it's just it's chipping
away at what he needs to try chase down. So yeah,
that's a big that's a pretty big spot for him.
And obviously Ace King versus Kings, you've got the you've got,
you know, you're in pretty good shape. They had to
double up, and that Ace on the River is pretty
pretty dirty for Jeremy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So I mean it's just all around, it's just
a really great series, probably probably our best series of
the year, which is like weird because it's what we internally,
you know, jokingly called a minor I almost feel like
this needs to get the the full on production, Like
we need to like make that push for next year
just because of like the way the players treat it,
like you let you let them kind of dictate what's
important and what's not, and they obviously like sweat the
crap out of this thing, you know, So like we
like it'd be great if you had like like if
you had Jeff Platt running around being like the sideline
reporter while people are like having all these sorts of
sweats and like all these points things and whatever. Like
like if you could get Jeff to grab Jeremie Becker,
for example, right after he got you know, knocked out
there with that ace on the river and like what
that actually meant to him and how much it hurts
and like all that sort of that would be great.
Like all this stuff would be great. So like, yeah, yeah,
we need to push for that just because like it's
this series is just i know, like at first when
we put it together at first, when you put it
together at first, was kind of like, Okay, we're going
to do this as as the last chance to get
in you know, pun intended of course, but it's become
like amazing. You also have people like I mean, Michael
Burke comes to mind right where like he doesn't doesn't
play a lot of stuff on the PGT all season.
Maybe if he had some more success on the PGD
he would have pushed more. But now he's out there
for this series. Yeah, you know, he knows that, Like, Okay,
I had some success. He had some deep runs at
some stuff. At the win in December, I think he
had two six figure scores and now all you have
to do is you have to finish in the top
three this leaderboard, or you finish in the top eight
and you can get into you know that that dream
Seed invitation shot. So you know, I think a lot
of people are just really, really really pushing for this
sort of stuff.
Speaker 3: So and unfortunately for him, he was the bubble boy.
In event three, he played a two and a half
million chip pot with Keith Leo and Monster maybe was
not on the winning side of it.
Speaker 1: I mean, I would not play a big pot with
Keith lear He seems like he wins all the biggest
pots he ever plays. In his entire life. Yeah, just
a big pop player. But even like Keith Lear, like
I mean, why is he here, Like no, I you
know that, like maybe he's just like whatever, Like maybe
I can get to this free roll. Cool, let's go,
and I want to play some tournament poker, Like I mean,
that's that's great. You know, you see a lot of
guys that don't really play a lot that come out
and you know they're firing in this. So yeah, the
PGT Last Chance is front and center. It's absolutely awesome.
As as I mentioned, on Monday, January sixth, at four
pm Eastern time one pm Pacific time, we will have
the final table of event number three with the same
one hundred nineteen entries that we had in event number two,
same the first place prize there, so two hundred and
ninety seven five hundred dollars up top. Keith Lear is
in front, Sam Silverall is second, Dylan Lindy is third,
Landon Tice fourth, David Chen, Brandon Wilson sixth, Darren Elias
his seventh. So that's important for I mean, David Chen,
this is good for him, you know, if he can,
if he can get another top three finish. I mean,
he's got to be a favorite win a dream seat.
Speaker 3: Right, I mean, yeah, he's not locked, but very close
to locking.
Speaker 2: He's two five.
Speaker 3: He probably needs to win two events to make the
top forty naturally, but you know there's there's obviously going
to be some this one except for Sam Several is
kind of completely open. You know, no one really has
enough points to make a run at the top forty
from the seven remaining players. So whoever wins this event
outside of Several is you know, really going to be
grinding those last three events to make sure they can
take home that dream seat.
Speaker 1: But even for Souverall, this is important, Like, I mean,
there is a world where people could have leapfrogged him, Yeah, in.
Speaker 2: Like a weird way.
Speaker 1: So because he's currently right now without the point and
said he's gonna get from this event thirty third on
the lead aboard one and seventy seven points. Jonathan Little
was that player that we mentioned earlier, is fortieth. He's
got nine to twenty three. So you know, there's still
enough like top three spots left in the series that
it's it's a long shot, yes, but it could happen.
That Silver like it's bumped out.
Speaker 2: So yeah, the biggest think it helps.
Speaker 1: Him that he got a cash and got a final
table like it just really like it basically guarantees that
he's gonna make it now, which is good. You don't
have to you don't have to sweat it, which I'm
sure is you want that like off your back, like
you don't want to have to worry about it.
Speaker 3: The big thing for Sarval is that it if he
can win this, you know, he's gonna move obviously up
the PGT leader board to around fifteenth place depending on
the results. And for him, it's going to improve his
starting stack in the PGT Championship. Currently he's got about
two hundred big blinds. He will move all the way
up to two hundred and sixty big blinds.
Speaker 1: So winning this big blinds difference.
Speaker 3: Yeah, winning this obviously you're putting three hundred k in
your pocket, but also for the PGT Million Dollar Championship,
you know you're adding another fifty sixty big blind see
your starting stack, which you know is a huge ev
h in itself.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I mean that's just another another cool element of
this whole thing that that Tim has been at the
forefront of putting together. It's just you know, it's a
lot of fun. It's really awesome. So, you know, I
think the fact that also we have outside of David Chen,
you know, these other names here, I mean, I would
say outside David Chan, outside of soilverall, you have five
other names here that are essentially going to be in
contention for the series leaderboard, right, so that race like
coming down to the final two in one event. You know,
like it's just going to be a lot of fun
to see how that all shakes out there. So still
a lot to be had, lots of play for here.
All these players are going to be out there battling
of course, anything else on the Last Chance Series, any
sort of final thoughts before we get the heck out.
Speaker 3: Of here, final thoughts hopefully Jonathan Tamaya gets that cash.
Yeah for real, I'm definitely you know, cheering for our
regulars to try and sneak in there. You know, it
would be good to see everyone that puts in the
volume qualify and you can see they're all like we've mentioned,
we mentioned Jeremy Becker, people like Sam Laskowitz that you
know won the Dream Saint last year. They're all they
put volume all season they're grinding hard for this, so
hopefully everything breaks right for some of these guys and
they can get in, But otherwise I think it's going
to be a pretty good conclusion to this series, and
then obviously the PGT Championship kicking off on Friday.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I echo your thoughts on the regulars.
Just quickly looking at the lead award you mentioned Sam Laskowitz.
He's fifty six, very much within striking distance. Jeremy Becker
right behind him, very much within striking distance. Justin Zachi
is right there as well. Dan Shack, who is at
this event number three or sorry, who had the deep
run of event number three, who you know, moved up
a little bit. He's now pretty much within striking distance.
Eric s Idell is right there. He's been out playing.
Joey Wiseman is out there playing. Uh Noel Rodriguez played
he played it right, He's been playing everything right as
he I know he played the I.
Speaker 2: Think he played the first two events.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean yeah, So there's a lot of these
guys that they you know, they frequent the PGT quite
a bit. I mean Dan Shack has fourteen PGT cashes now.
Eric Saidel has fourteen PGT cashes and they play a
lot on the tour. They're just they haven't had that that,
you know, those big results. And then someone else I'm
also keeping an eye on is Alex Foxen, who's currently
thirty seventh. You know, he's probably really like thirty fourth,
thirty third, depending on some of these players ahead of him.
Like I'm I'm assuming Tom I was gonna get a
cash like in this calculation. So I mean, I have
no idea if he will or won't the way he's going,
who the heck knows, But I'm gonna assuming he gets
it and everyone else. I'm gonna say he gets and
Boris Angelov gets it, and then everyone else won't. So
that would bump Foxing up and give him a little
bit more comfort in terms of qualifying. It was also
bumped some of these players you know that are right
outside the top forty up and in. But of course,
as I've mentioned a couple of times on the broadcast,
you know, if you're someone like ad Justin Saliba, Matthew Wotman,
Isaac Hackson, Steven Chidwick, you know you just you want it.
You'd rather take your feet into your own hands, just
get the cashes, get the points, and don't have to
sweat the other stuff. Because we saw that heartbreak with
Jim Callaby last year. I guess just quickly you had
a funny little conversation with Steven Chidwick where you were like,
you have to get a cash or what?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 1: How did that go? Yeah?
Speaker 3: I was basically just after the first event, updating some
of those people right on the fringe. You know, hey,
you're thirty ninth, you're forty. And I was talking to
whoever was sitting next to Chidwick and then I said, yeah,
the Stevie or now this spot, and he's said something
like it's fine, I'll get a cash. He's had just
had all the confidence like he and then obviously he
rolled up the cash. Yeah, he cashed that event. It
didn't even It was funny because like people that have
at least watch Steven shiitway, he doesn't talk, doesn't really
give off much of a personality, but he's actually a
very entertaining and funny person when he speaks. And when
he said that, kind of the whole table started laughing,
like just the the uber confidence he had that he'll
be right, like I'll be right, I'll get another.
Speaker 2: Cash there you go? All right?
Speaker 1: So Event number three is going to stream on Monday,
four pm Eastern time, one pm Pacific time. As I mentioned,
two hundred ninety seven, five hundred dollars up top. We'll
also have the Event number four final table on Tuesday,
five on Wednesday, and then six on Thursday. That's all
going to lead into the PGT Million Dollar Championship January
tenth through eleventh, two days of live streaming coverage from
that event. The event is capped at fifty players, there
won't be more than that, but likely a few less,
and then the top six will pay five hundred thousand
dollars up top. And then I also want to mention
that we just announced the new season of High Stakes Poker,
premiering Monday, January thirteenth. Several few new faces, I should say,
are making their high stakes poker debut Jared Blesnick Scott,
sever Ryan Feldman, and Sam Kekey. Sam Kekey is the
name that you guys probably have no idea who that is.
He is the I think founder and president, founder and
a CEO. I don't know exactly, but of Monkey Tills.
They like sports betting and fantasy platform all that sort
of stuff, but absolute wild character plays, probably wilder than
his personality is. So get ready for that because it's
gonna be an absolute gong show out there. You have
Phil Helmuth, Andrew Robol, Alan Keating, Nick air Ball, and
Rick Solomon are all turning this season. That should give
you an idea just of how wild and crazy this
season can get. I mean, Keating, Airball, Solomon, I mean,
come on, probably got a helmets blow up in there
at some point. I mean, the guy always blows up
on our show, so expect that. Of course, I haven't
seen anything. I was there for like some of the tapings,
and I kind of got an idea of like what
was going on, but I have no idea really what
was going on. So I'm I'm very much anticipating this season.
Steaks are two hundred four hundred all the way up
to five hundred one thousand. I saw the teaser video
and there's like one clip where Solomon like looks aside
and says, give me a million, So I mean that
just tells me it's gonna be bananas. So I can't wait.
That's again coming up Monday, January thirteenth. In the new episodes,
will be airing every Monday for High Stakes Poker exclusively
on Poker Go. All right, that's gonna do it for us.
Tim's Broncos are in the playoffs. I'm sorry he's pumping.
Although they're gonna get their doors blown off by this, right,
they're gonna get crushed.
Speaker 2: We've seen defense. Defense is top.
Speaker 1: Now your defense is good. It's also Josh Allen on
the other side, you know, rookie quarterback going in a
very tough place to play.
Speaker 3: It's a fairy this is a fairy tale. It's gonna
be great. Just think how sad Brent Hanks will be
when they lose to the Denver Broncos.
Speaker 1: There is no no chance they lose, no chance. All right,
that's gonna do for us. My name is Donny Peters,
his name is Tim Duckworth, and we'll talk to you
guys later.
Speaker 4: So yeah, Express Express