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