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Speaker 1: Hello everyone, Welcome back to a new episode of the

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Poker Go Podcast. My name is Donnie Peters. Friday, July third, one,

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ten am. Here we just wrapped up very possibly, quite

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possibly the most fun and exciting day from the twenty

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twenty six World Series of Poker so far. Daniel mcgranu

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won his eighth WSOP bracelet. Yes, sir, he did the

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damn thing. He won the one hundred KPLO high Roller

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for more than two point two million dollars and it

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came on the same day that the WSOP main event

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kicked off. Today was Day one air. Yesterday was Day

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one A. We'll be talking about it. We caught up

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with Scott sever I, got an interview that Renco Rinkima

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did with Phil Hellmuth and his son Nick. I spoke

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with Jason Kohon at the end of the night, so

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all of that is coming in this episode. Of course,

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we will also bounce around Horseshoe and Paris to see

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some of the other stuff that went on on Thursday

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at the World Series. But it is negro on you.

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hate to kick the w SIB main event, you know

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to the second standing here on the rundown. But we

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got DNX, we got kid Poker. We have Daniel Legrod

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who winning his eighth WSOP bracelet and he did it

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in emphatic fashion. The one hundred k PLO high roller

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eighty three entries in this bad boy Daniel took it

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down two million, two hundred and fifty seven thousand dollars

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in the bank. I think he was down around six

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hundred k or so if I remember what is vlogs

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the tally. He puts the tally. You know, he keeps

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up with it at the end of his blog or

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at the end of his blog every every episode that

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comes out. And now you know, now that he's banked

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more than two point two million dollars, he obviously cleared

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the deficit. He's well into the black and there is

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absolutely no way he has a losing summer from here

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on out. So that's pretty freaking awesome for Daniel McGrane.

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Of course, the eighth gold bracelet, it is going into

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his trophy case. That's great. He's also now in the

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running for WSIP Player of the Year, something you know,

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we really weren't talking about as it relates to Dani mcgranney.

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I know, I talked at length in the last episode

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about Sean deeb you know, and his chase for the

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Player of the Year, and we got you know, the

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thoughts from Sean directly. We also talked about how you

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know that top fifteen of the top ten to fifteen

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of the WASIP Player of the Year leader board is

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absolutely jam packed with great players, awesome names, superstars, et cetera.

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And now d Nex is right in the running because

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as long as my math is correct, he should be

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in the top ten now with this win. This was

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his twelfth cash of the summer. He's had a whole

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bunch of deep bronze, He's had a few final tables,

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hadn't won a bracelet yet, but he gets that done here.

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He has always said, always, always, always said that PLO

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is his jam. He feels it suits exactly the type

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of style that he likes to play. He said that,

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you know, every time he talks about this game, that's

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what he says. PLO is my jam. Here's why it

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suits my style. I fit it really well. I love

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the strategy, all that sort of stuff. Not an easy

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road for Daniel to go to get bracelet number eight.

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He had the top archer Martirosian in heads up play,

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Christopher Frank got third, Phil Sternheimer got fourth, You took

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him Mickey out of Japan, really good player got fifth,

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Sean Winter six, Sergio Martinez Gonzales seventh, and then Jeremy

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Osmas finished in eighth place. Of course, tons of other

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killers Daniel had to battle with along the way, you know,

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for years. You know, what was it, twenty and thirteen

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was his last bracelet.

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Speaker 2: When he went.

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Speaker 1: But you know, before he went into that super long

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drought of what ended up being eleven years, you know,

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up until twenty twenty four, and the narrative around him

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was very simple, you know, it was, listen, this guy's awesome.

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He's a legend. He's one of poker's greatest, if not

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the greatest ambassador. He's the face of poker. But the

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bracelets had stopped coming, you know, and sometimes many claimed

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that the big wins had stopped coming. He just couldn't

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do it for that stretch, you know, for whatever reason.

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that is a long ass period of time to be

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sitting on six bracelets when you know, you were poker superstar,

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you were the one winning everything, you were crushing everything,

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and all of a sudden you just couldn't close the

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deal when it comes to the World Series, right, so,

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more than a decade without winning a bracelet, you know,

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and he's he was obviously close many many times, many

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final tables all that sort of stuff. Twenty twenty four

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comes around, Bam rips off that fifty K Poker Players

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Championship win. That was freaking incredible. He got number seven.

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I still remember that night, being in there, seeing the

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rail on the stage, all the people, you know, chanting

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Daniel's name, him crying, like the whole the scene was unreal,

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absolutely unreal. You could not have scripted it better. That's

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one of the most prestigious titles in poker, you know,

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Daniel has always talked about many top pros have talked

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about how, yes, w SE main event. Of course that's

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the Unicorn, but outside of that, it's the PPC, right, Like,

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that's the one. Now two years later he goes and

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gets another bracelet, wins the one hundred KPLO for more

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than two point two million dollars two point two five

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million dollars. I mean, that's an incredible tournament, a very

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very tough tournament to win in and of its own right,

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you know. So it's not just that he's back to

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winning these racelets, you know, because we have two in

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the span of three years. It's also what he's winning

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fifty k PPC, hunter k PLO high Roller. I said

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it earlier. He has always said that PLO is his game.

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He said it's his jam. Okay, that's what he's always said.

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PLO is my jam. He loves the game, he likes

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the strategy behind it. He feels like it suits him

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incredibly well. He likes to be able to limp in it,

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all that sort of stuff. I talked about how tough

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the field was in this one. I read off that

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final table. You had other people like, you know, if

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phil Ivey was out there, only Yuka Mine and the

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Finnish legend, you know, just absolute freaking killers in this tournament.

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Nick Shulman was in the field, etc. Etc. Like it

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was just Jason Kuhne was out there in absolute murder

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when you're when you're playing one hundred k PLO turn

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right and Daniel's coming out on top. So yeah, it's

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it's just awesome. It was a great scene down there

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at Paris. You know, the w SBE main event Day

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large bulk of the room in the main Paris ballroom.

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hunter K PLO high Roller final table and the rail

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around it was I don't know, two hundred people deep,

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you know, like I mean, they kind of didn't have

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enough room. I mean, obviously, I think everyone in poker

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roots for big names to do well because that's good

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for the game.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure with Daniel being attached to the Gig brand,

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you know, they're hoping that he makes final tables all

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this sort of stuff. So, but that's not really planned for,

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especially on you know, the day when everything's supposed to

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be shifting to the greatest poker tournament the world and

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that is the main event. But then all of a sudden,

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you have Daniel kind of stealing the show from the

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greatest poker tournament in the world because he's over there

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doing the damn thing. And uh yeah, you know, of

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course Amanda, his wife, shows up. He's got his whole

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rail there. It's a whole thing. People are chanting his name.

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Like I talked about on the last episode about how

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it's refreshing to see the way that Michael Msrocky wears

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his heart on his sleeve when it comes to poker

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and celebrating his wins and all that sort of stuff.

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this and also when he lost it, because there was

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a couple times when he looks kind of pretty upset

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with things, not to the point where it was like

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going to rattle him. But Daniel is an outgoing personality,

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both vocally and then also physically with a lot of

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his mannerisms. Case in point, when he smashed that selfie

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stick a couple of years ago in this exact room,

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actually we took a six sick beat, you know, and

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that was in the midst of the whole drought thing, right,

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you know, So here he gets all in at one

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point when he's heads up with Archer march Rosian. I

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think Daniel thought he might have made it straight but

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he didn't or whatever. But Archer doubles up, and Daniel's

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kind of like like, you know, he he gets kind

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of gets kind of mad, right, but then he you know,

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he sits back down, he calms him out, down, he

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locks back in, and the next time he gets him

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all in, he ends up taking him out and winning

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the tournament. You know, hands are in the air, he's yelling,

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he's jumping up and down like like the whole thing.

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People are chanting, so it's a whole awesome thing. He

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runs over to make sure he gets his vlogging camera

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because he wants to put it all on the vlog

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so you guys will see that. So just really really

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cool stuff to see that. You know, this is poker's

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biggest superstar, the most popular player, the most popular poker

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player in the world, and to see him act that

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sort of way is just like Michael m is Rocky.

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It's it's refreshing, it's cool to see. We also cannot

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overlook the fact that he's now very much right into

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the thick of it for this incredible race for the

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Player of the Year title. You know, Daniel jumped up.

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something when I looked, and then the win put him

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into the top ten. I think he's eighth, maybe ninth,

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if he's able to keep playing, keep putting in the volume.

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I know he does have a baby on the way

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that's supposed to come later in the year. Not that

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that's going to affect this world Series of Poker during

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the summer, but maybe that could possibly take him away

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from you know, going to Paradise or something like that.

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That said, there's still a lot of Doubsip he left

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here in the summer, we're getting into the waiting Man event.

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It's not like he hasn't run deep in that thing before.

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He has. There's a lot of big tournaments still left

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that Daniel can certainly make a run in, and yeah,

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I think he's I think he's ready to go. You know,

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it wasn't like we were really thinking of Daniel in

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terms of the WASIV Player of the Year race just

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because of a lot of the results that the Sean Deep,

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the Alex fox In, the Nick Shulman's, Benny Glasser or

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Calvin Anderson, all these players like they're just putting up

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like win after win after win, big resolve, that they're

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big result, that they're big result. I mean, it's crazy.

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winning two bracelets this summer, you know, and then of

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course you have all the other success from all those

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other you know, really really good players, and Daniel was

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you know, yeah, he had eleven cashes coming into this

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cash here. This was his twelfth Wasity cash this summer.

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you know, but you really have to finish out like

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the top of that stuff to really challenge for Player

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of the Year. And then boom, he rips off this win.

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He gets it done, and now he's back into the

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top ten, he's back into that race, he's back into

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that conversation. He's won the speed Player of the Year

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title before. He won the first one in two thousand

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and four. That's when he won that tyt of truck.

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Remember the tyto truck. Yeah, that thing was crazy. Let's

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let's bring back Jeff Jeff Jeff Platt. Can you can

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you make trucks happen? Can we get like trucks and

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cars and stuff like that for the WSB Player of

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the Year. That's that'd be badass. And he won again

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in twenty thirteen, so you know, it would be kind

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of fitting if he's able to get it for a

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third time. Sean deeb is currently the front runner. He's

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also won it twice. He's looking to make it a

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third time there, but Daniel could do it as well

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now and he's right in the thick of it. So

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I think the Player of the ear race thing is

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just very cool. You know, we just we kind of

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weren't talking about it with Daniel just again because of

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all the success that everyone else has happened. But now

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you know he's right there, so we're definitely going to

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be talking about it, and it's all eyes on Daniel.

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I think overall, you really can't ignore the whole longevity

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aspect when it comes to Nigranu. You know, poker has

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changed a ton in the last ten to fifteen years.

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The heck gets changed in the last three to five years.

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You know, it's the game is evolving more than it

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ever has. And plenty of big name players, notable players,

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you know, players from the boom era, right those stars.

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There's a lot of them that they just have and

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kept up, and because they haven't kept up, they really

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just can't win anymore. And Daniel is not that person.

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You know, He's shown over time that he can win.

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And there was a period of time when maybe he

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was starting to slip and he really hunkered down and

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he got studying or coaching. He studied a lot, you know,

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he got into the lab and he grinded and he

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improved in a lot of ways. You combine all that

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sort of stuff with his modern game, and you're taking

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his game into the modern era. Combine that with all

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of the decades of experience that he has, you know,

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and yeah, he's as good as fierce as any competitor

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out there, and he has certainly dapten and been able

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to keep up with things. So it's really cool to

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see him to get another result here at the World

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Series of Poker and to have that happen. I know

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it did overshadow a lot of what happened on Day

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one A of the WSP main event, but also, you know,

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this to be kind of the last thing before we

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are full swing into the SPE main event is also

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really cool, right. It's like boom, Daniel one, Okay, let's

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go WSP main Event, you know, which happened right away

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right afterwards, yes, but then also what's gonna happen tomorrow

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and for the next two weeks and then lead into

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August for the final table. So just just really cool.

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There was an awesome scene down there. Dwight from Cincinnati

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shout out to Dwight from Cincinnati talked with him for Dwight,

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I don't even know how long we talked, half hour,

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forty minutes. I mean, you kept saying you were gonna

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let me go, and you never let me go. But

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as I told you, I'm happy to talk poker with

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any of the podcast fans out there, any of the listeners,

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for as long as possible, because I love this shit

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and I will absolutely nerd out for hours and hours

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and hours. And we just kept talking about but Dwight,

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you know, he's in town, he's visiting, and he basically

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just wanted to come down and sweat the action. And

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he was he was asking me, you know, you know,

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how sick How sick am I? How sick are we that?

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You know there's not really any cameras around. We can't

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see the whole car, you know, there's only the one

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flop cam up top, you know, but we're just standing

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here twenty feet away, just just watching for hours and hours.

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I said, yeah, but that's why I know you're a

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diehard just like I am, Dwight, because that's the shit

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we love to do. Okay, And yeah, it's really cool

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that he that he happened to come and one of

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the days that he's in town for he got to

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go down to Paris and see Danielgrand who win bracelet

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number eight. And it was just I mean again, incredible

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scenes down there. As always, when Daniel gets gets deep

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like this, it's just absolutely crazy times. And the fact

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that it was in the hundred k pl O high

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roller with well north of two million dollars up top,

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just truly spectacular stuff. Speaking of the spectacular, the WSP

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main event is here. Thursday was Day one A, the

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first of four starting flights. We'll have one A, one B,

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one C and one D of course, then they will

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have two Day two's as well to ABC and then

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two D. Those will be how those two are broken

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up as long as the board is correct on the app.

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What I saw when I was there at Paris today

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before coming home, seven hundred and seventy one entries were

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tallied for Day one A. Now have to be honest

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with you guys, that is down from last year. Last

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year's Day one A nine to twenty three, so we're

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looking at a sixteen and a half percent decrease, which

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I don't think is too alarming. I think that's somewhat expected.

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You know a lot of these no limit hold them

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tournaments have been down, let's say in the realm of

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ten to twenty percent, right, you know, I had that

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episode many episodes ago when when I broke down or

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I went through kind of the the overview of the

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numbers for through the first fifty events on the the

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WSB schedule, I have felt like there's been a bit

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more buzz. Things have been picking up in the last

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week or two, you know, at Paris and at Horseshoe. Yes,

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but I don't think that this is any sort of

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prize that the ivis to being the ain event is

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down and you know, as I laid out in the

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last episode, I'm going like I think it was nine

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to one seven seven was my number nine and seventy

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seven entries, which which would be a decrease over the

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more than ninety seven hundred that they had in twenty

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twenty five. So down, Yes, big deal, Definitely not you

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had past champions in the mix. Greg Merson is out there.

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He was wearing his Milkman jersey. I think he wore

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two different Milkman jerseys. He had a baseball jersey on

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at one point, he had a I think a hockey

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jersey on at another point. Believe it's the first of

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his to be tournament of the summer for Gregy. He

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spends a lot of his time doing the whole sports

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cards thing. Not not quite as big as a Blez

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Jared Blesnik is in that regard, but you know, Greg

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holds his own for sure. Joe Katta was in the mix.

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Daniel Weinman was also out there playing. You had Phil Hellmuth,

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another w s AP main event champion, in play for

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Day one A, but he showed up later as he

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always does. And of course it wouldn't be Phil Hollmuth

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playing the ws to be main evented it did. It

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didn't come with one of his wild, famous, over the

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top entrances.

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Speaker 2: Phil, what's it like to have your sons in the man?

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Speaker 4: It's nerve wracking. When I'm at the future table and

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he's the future table and I'm just like geez, and

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I look over and it looks really intense, and I'm like, ah.

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Speaker 2: You know, like I mean, I just want.

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Speaker 4: To like it's I'm a father, you know. And I

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was pretty good for the first month of trying to

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ignore their results, but I see how much effort they're

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putting in, and then I'm like, oh, so then you

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are it even harder. So as much as I'm trying

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to keep the focus on me and playing great I'm

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looking over there and I can't help myself. How Manny

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chips you got Nick back?

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Speaker 5: Fifty thousand almost exactly?

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Speaker 2: Great?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, fifty And I told think, if you make it

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through the day with thirty k, you're still really deep. So,

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you know, so I think maybe he thinks of it

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differently than than other people. Nick.

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Speaker 6: For you, this event kickstarted your dad's legacy and massive

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sort of.

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Speaker 2: List of results in poker.

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Speaker 1: What has it been like for you growing up seeing

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this event from a distance and then now being in it.

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Speaker 5: Honestly, I don't think it's that deep for me. You know,

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poker is something my dad did when I was growing up.

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I didn't pay as much attention to whether it's the

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main events or this event or that event. Honestly, I

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don't even know how the World's Series worked, you know

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what I mean? Was a series of events?

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Speaker 2: Was it?

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Speaker 5: You know what I mean? Like with just one big tournament.

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So I mean I kind of compartmentalize, you know what

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I mean, Like Dad's had his own journey. I'm having

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my own journey, and I hope to just focus on

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my own progression and hope to do as well as

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I can. But honestly, I don't think about it that much.

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Speaker 1: Phil, last question for you, The life of a poker player,

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with all the ups and downs and all the swings,

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can be very emotionally unstable.

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Speaker 2: It can be just taking over your whole life. Do

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you have to make your sons away how tough this

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life can be? And then how do you view them

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if they were potentially to play full time?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know.

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Speaker 4: I mean it's been a good case study for Nick

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because he's spent he spent like a month straight now

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playing poker almost every day. And I see he's handling

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it really well, like he's he's getting with kings and

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losing and then kings and losing, and then queens and

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losing an ace king.

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Speaker 1: But he's coming back.

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Speaker 4: Yeah he's not. And I'm like, it's a good son.

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You keep playing big pots with big hands, and then boom,

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the deep runs started coming for him, two or three

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deep runs in the next like four or five tournaments.

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And so he's handling it well. He's not like feeling

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I have to go drinking or you know what I mean, like.

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Speaker 5: Or get all oat pressed or a two upset or emotional.

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You know, I just don't have to keep adding. So

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we actually have like a little list of all the

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hands I get knocked out on or go broke with,

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you know what I mean. And so it's funny. It's like,

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you know Ace King, King Gang, King Gang, you know

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Ace Queen Queens, you know, So it's funny we keep

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adding to the list. Is a good room that like,

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if I just keep it up, you know what I mean,

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then I think I'll get there. And it's it's been

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I feel like I've been breaking through these past couple

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of weeks.

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Speaker 4: So it's it's incredible to see him get better, but

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to also handle the emotional swings, because you're right, and

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I used to go crazy and I would call his mom,

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who I'm still very happily married with after thirty seven years.

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I'd be calling him but a little too emotional. And

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he's handling it better then I was handling it. And

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you can see him getting better every day thinking about things.

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Speaker 2: You come to me and.

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Speaker 4: Say I think this, and I'm like, oh my god, Nick,

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that's really advanced. Thinking. No one else, all the all

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the great players don't do this well.

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Speaker 1: They all the great players don't.

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Speaker 2: Do this well.

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Speaker 4: And you've already figured out that you need to do it.

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That's something an element of patience. But I think he

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hit the nail on the head, you know, to rewind,

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and he's just he's handling it well, and you know,

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he's you know, it's my first world series and you know,

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and and it's it's you can't get too tied to

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the results.

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Speaker 2: Final one for you, Nick, what's the ambition.

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Speaker 5: In povert Well, I quit my job last year, like

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early fall, late summer. I saw my brother had been

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doing this for a little while.

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 5: I thought I'd give it a try, and I I

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have a liking for it. I really liked laying poker

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and so ambitions, you know, I just take things one

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step at a time, you know what I mean. I

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tried to think too big or too grandiose, just to

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focus on the next step, next goal for me to accomplish.

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And there's always going to be a goal after that.

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So you know, one step at a time, well.

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Speaker 1: Said, Well said, he's so solid.

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Speaker 2: I love that that's so solid.

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Speaker 4: But that makes me proud because then he's not going

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to get too emotional, and then that that's.

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Speaker 2: A good thing.

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Speaker 1: This one, he was dressed as I think Superman but

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he was in all black. He had his sons on

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his side, Nick and Phil. He had Jungleman alongside. It

473
00:23:50,039 --> 00:23:56,920
was it was as outrageously cringe slash awesome at the

474
00:23:56,920 --> 00:24:00,880
same time as you would imagine, like it's just it's

475
00:24:01,279 --> 00:24:05,160
it's just the thing that Phil Helmy does. It's a spectacle.

476
00:24:07,079 --> 00:24:09,559
Those of us in the industry are kind of like, Okay,

477
00:24:10,279 --> 00:24:12,359
we've seen it, you know, we'll put up with it.

478
00:24:12,480 --> 00:24:15,240
We got it, you know. I don't really know, like

479
00:24:15,319 --> 00:24:17,880
what the outside world thinks of it. Yeah, I mean,

480
00:24:17,920 --> 00:24:20,279
Ali and Jodd Nick Schulman were in the booth losing

481
00:24:20,279 --> 00:24:25,720
their minds over the tightness of Phil's costume in certain

482
00:24:26,880 --> 00:24:31,119
man areas at a couple of bulging parts going on.

483
00:24:31,799 --> 00:24:34,640
I mean, yeah, the whole thing is always it's always

484
00:24:35,680 --> 00:24:39,680
a fun day when Helm phil Helm makes makes his entrance.

485
00:24:39,720 --> 00:24:43,319
He had he had seventeen models. Everyone had a sign

486
00:24:43,359 --> 00:24:45,680
with a number on it. Of course for his seventeen bracelets.

487
00:24:45,680 --> 00:24:48,480
There's music blasting. I mean the whole thing, right, the

488
00:24:48,519 --> 00:24:51,960
whole the whole freaking thing. You also had some notables

489
00:24:51,960 --> 00:24:54,960
in the field, Scott sever Jason Kuhn, Adrian Matteos was

490
00:24:54,960 --> 00:24:58,680
out there. I saw Eric Sidell rocking his New York

491
00:24:58,759 --> 00:25:01,920
Knicks hat set day in the mixed legend, Billy Baxter,

492
00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:08,400
Japanese vlogging sensation, Masado Yokasawa, Jeremy Ozma, Samsover, Olivier Busque,

493
00:25:08,880 --> 00:25:11,480
and then Andrew Lichtenberger. They were all in the mix

494
00:25:11,559 --> 00:25:14,359
they played. Speaking of Andrew Lichtenberger, don't forget to go

495
00:25:14,440 --> 00:25:18,000
check out the Face the Ace podcast that Liechtenberger did

496
00:25:18,119 --> 00:25:21,039
with my guy Remco Rinkim. You guys can find it

497
00:25:21,119 --> 00:25:22,960
on the feed. If you want to watch the video format,

498
00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:26,000
you can find it on the Poker Go YouTube channel.

499
00:25:26,599 --> 00:25:29,240
As always, you see some wild and crazy shit on

500
00:25:29,680 --> 00:25:33,400
the day ones of the w CP main event. The

501
00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:37,240
first elimination, at least as it was reported by Poker News,

502
00:25:37,319 --> 00:25:41,720
was Anthony Marini. He got involved in a pot against

503
00:25:41,920 --> 00:25:44,440
Ryan Sands and it was I believe there was an

504
00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:47,519
open at the table than Marini three bet. They're playing

505
00:25:47,599 --> 00:25:49,920
one hundred two hundred for the blinds. You start with

506
00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:52,319
sixty K, so you start three hundred big blinds deep.

507
00:25:53,279 --> 00:25:58,039
It goes rays to an unknown amount, then a three

508
00:25:58,079 --> 00:26:02,200
bet from Marini to fifteen hundred right, and Sands unclear

509
00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:04,640
if he was the original razor or not, but whatever,

510
00:26:04,680 --> 00:26:07,400
it doesn't really matter. He four bets the thirty five

511
00:26:07,480 --> 00:26:11,079
hundred gets back to Marini. He five bets to seventy

512
00:26:11,119 --> 00:26:14,599
five hundred. Sans moves all in for what I'm assuming

513
00:26:14,720 --> 00:26:19,000
is sixty k. Marini calls with Ace King of diamonds,

514
00:26:19,079 --> 00:26:24,839
Ace King suited. Sans's got the two black aces. There's

515
00:26:24,839 --> 00:26:26,720
a king on the flop. Yeah, so a little bit

516
00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:29,920
of hope there for Marini, but it breaks out from there.

517
00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:32,920
He's busto and then Sands is up to double starting

518
00:26:33,160 --> 00:26:36,079
in level one, ultimately goes on to bag one hundred

519
00:26:36,079 --> 00:26:39,279
and forty four five hundred chips, and we're just freaking off.

520
00:26:39,319 --> 00:26:42,920
The main is back. People are just blasting it off.

521
00:26:43,599 --> 00:26:46,759
In level one of this tournament. You also had a

522
00:26:46,799 --> 00:26:51,920
wild first level for Scott sever There was a report

523
00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:55,440
on poker News. So Scott puts something on social media

524
00:26:55,480 --> 00:26:58,519
where it was like I just doubled up in a

525
00:26:58,559 --> 00:27:01,160
spot where like no one else would would play for

526
00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:03,960
stacks or something along those lines. Right, So then I

527
00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:07,680
obviously go check poker news. They got the hand. Sever's

528
00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:10,720
involved in a three way pot on King five four

529
00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:13,480
with two hearts. He ends up getting it all in

530
00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:17,559
with Ace King against Gafang Lynn, who's got King seven.

531
00:27:18,160 --> 00:27:21,119
I think, if this report is correct on Poker News,

532
00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:25,359
Lynn over bet the flop. They had him as betting

533
00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:27,359
ten thousand into a pot of what looked to be

534
00:27:27,400 --> 00:27:29,880
eighty four hundred. Sever just goes all in for a

535
00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:33,039
little over fifty k. He gets a call from Lynn

536
00:27:33,279 --> 00:27:36,680
with the King seven. The turns and Ace and Lynn's

537
00:27:36,720 --> 00:27:40,039
just drawing dead. So sever wins that him basically doubles.

538
00:27:40,359 --> 00:27:43,319
But then also in the first level there's a hand

539
00:27:43,359 --> 00:27:47,240
Whereceivers said he folded Queen's pre flop, like so, it's

540
00:27:47,279 --> 00:27:51,960
just there's nothing like this tournament, absolutely nothing. So I'm

541
00:27:51,960 --> 00:27:54,599
like reading through the updates, I'm seeing this all all there.

542
00:27:54,720 --> 00:27:56,240
There was a few different hands where it was like,

543
00:27:56,279 --> 00:27:58,240
what the Heck's going on off there? Mind you. I'm

544
00:27:58,240 --> 00:28:01,039
also thinking, you know, I'm setting up to play this

545
00:28:01,119 --> 00:28:05,480
event on Saturday for day one sea and I'm like, hm,

546
00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:07,920
should I just go out there with the way some

547
00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:10,440
of these people are just blasting their chips out and

548
00:28:10,519 --> 00:28:13,039
just get my start today, because heck, it looks like

549
00:28:13,079 --> 00:28:15,599
it's pretty profitable out there. So anyway, I'm reading through

550
00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:17,640
some of the updates. There's a bunch of stuff happening,

551
00:28:17,640 --> 00:28:19,759
but the sever stuff stuck out to me so much

552
00:28:19,799 --> 00:28:22,640
so that I wanted to go catch up with him.

553
00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:25,039
So after the first level, the first two hours were

554
00:28:25,039 --> 00:28:27,039
in the books, I went out there and I found

555
00:28:27,359 --> 00:28:29,160
Scott Severer and I just had to ask him, Man,

556
00:28:29,359 --> 00:28:32,119
what the heck's going on? So here's my quick chat

557
00:28:32,599 --> 00:28:36,359
with mister Scott sever himself. All right, Scott, you got

558
00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:39,160
a pretty eventful first level. You doubled up, you folded

559
00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:41,759
Queen's pre flaba. What's up with the start?

560
00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:45,720
Speaker 7: Yeah, I've played four or five hands for stacks already.

561
00:28:46,839 --> 00:28:48,880
I have one hundred and fifty thousand a little over.

562
00:28:49,359 --> 00:28:53,559
It's been a really tumultuous and exciting first level.

563
00:28:54,200 --> 00:28:57,200
Speaker 1: Is that something you kind of come into with maybe

564
00:28:57,240 --> 00:28:59,240
a strategy. Listen, I'm gonna play aggressive early and just

565
00:28:59,279 --> 00:29:01,240
go for it, or is it just take it as

566
00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:01,680
it comes?

567
00:29:01,720 --> 00:29:03,759
Speaker 7: I think your strategy has to be fluid based on

568
00:29:03,799 --> 00:29:06,079
the type of table you're at. There's some tables where

569
00:29:06,079 --> 00:29:08,079
you really just want to wait and hope that like

570
00:29:08,119 --> 00:29:10,200
a good thing happens to you, and there are some

571
00:29:10,359 --> 00:29:12,920
tables where you need to make sure you're in there

572
00:29:13,079 --> 00:29:15,240
such that you have the opportunity for you to be

573
00:29:15,279 --> 00:29:18,839
the one to receive a good blessing. And I just

574
00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:21,000
had some spots where I felt I needed to make

575
00:29:21,039 --> 00:29:23,599
pots kind of big and hope they went my way.

576
00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:25,119
Speaker 2: And so far they have one of.

577
00:29:25,079 --> 00:29:27,160
Speaker 1: Those pots that did get kind of big, the Ace

578
00:29:27,240 --> 00:29:29,200
King versus the King seven. And you put on social

579
00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:32,279
media that you played for stacks in a spot that

580
00:29:32,319 --> 00:29:34,240
a lot of other people wouldn't get the full stack,

581
00:29:34,319 --> 00:29:36,519
you know, just tell me about that decision in that process.

582
00:29:36,640 --> 00:29:40,079
Speaker 7: Yeah, we were three ways in a three bet pod

583
00:29:40,119 --> 00:29:42,440
and it came King five four and I have Ace King,

584
00:29:42,519 --> 00:29:44,960
So of course I'm happy, but it's still just a

585
00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:47,200
pair for three hundred big lines in the main event,

586
00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:51,240
and the other player he let out ten thousand, and

587
00:29:51,359 --> 00:29:52,920
I looked at him, and I just kind of felt

588
00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:54,720
the energy and I thought I had the best hand,

589
00:29:55,039 --> 00:29:56,559
which is the first thing you got to figure out.

590
00:29:56,799 --> 00:29:59,279
And the second thing is usually I feel you would

591
00:29:59,279 --> 00:30:02,039
either call or small, but probably just call to let

592
00:30:02,119 --> 00:30:04,759
someone else either a bluff. There was a flusterrawl possible,

593
00:30:04,759 --> 00:30:07,720
a straight draw possible. I just thought that he had

594
00:30:07,759 --> 00:30:09,559
a hand that he wanted to get all in with

595
00:30:10,079 --> 00:30:12,160
and also that my hand was somehow good, so I

596
00:30:12,279 --> 00:30:15,720
just put all sixty thousand in over it and he

597
00:30:15,759 --> 00:30:18,960
called with King seven on King Kai four and the

598
00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:21,599
turn was an ace. It's giving me aces and kings.

599
00:30:21,599 --> 00:30:24,519
But I feel with almost any other action, probably King

600
00:30:24,559 --> 00:30:26,680
seven gets scared when the turn comes an ace. So

601
00:30:27,039 --> 00:30:29,160
I feel happy the way I played it to get

602
00:30:29,279 --> 00:30:30,079
the pull sixty.

603
00:30:30,640 --> 00:30:32,279
Speaker 1: You played one level, you got two and a half

604
00:30:32,279 --> 00:30:34,920
times this starting stack. Have you ever had a start

605
00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:35,759
like this to the main event.

606
00:30:35,799 --> 00:30:37,279
Speaker 7: I don't think I have. I think this is the

607
00:30:37,279 --> 00:30:38,599
best level one I've ever had.

608
00:30:45,480 --> 00:30:48,960
Speaker 1: So you heard it there sever multiple times. Just ready

609
00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:51,519
to play for stacks, just absolutely ready to go for it.

610
00:30:52,119 --> 00:30:55,319
Sever went onto bag I think around two hundred thousand.

611
00:30:56,240 --> 00:30:58,799
He put on social media that he said he played

612
00:30:58,799 --> 00:31:02,920
his heart out, and yeah, he's got almost three x

613
00:31:03,039 --> 00:31:08,519
starting entering day two, which is an absolute mountain of

614
00:31:08,640 --> 00:31:10,799
chips in this tournament. I mean, people cash in this

615
00:31:10,839 --> 00:31:14,400
tournament with you know, the starting sackler or less of

616
00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:19,359
course receivers out here, just building up to three X

617
00:31:19,480 --> 00:31:24,079
starting in on the first day of play. But that

618
00:31:24,279 --> 00:31:26,319
just absolutely sounds like he was willing to go for it.

619
00:31:26,799 --> 00:31:28,920
In a lot of spots. The chip leader to come

620
00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:32,880
out of Day one A was Ryuta Nikai out of Japan.

621
00:31:33,279 --> 00:31:37,720
These Japanese players, let me tell you, they are taking

622
00:31:37,759 --> 00:31:41,400
over the poker world like theyre. If they're not here already,

623
00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:45,119
they are freaking comment like, there's a lot of Japanese

624
00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:49,359
players that are out. They are playing not only the

625
00:31:49,359 --> 00:31:51,759
big bet stuff specifically Nolan man hold them at the

626
00:31:51,799 --> 00:31:55,559
World Series. They are playing everything. They are performing very well.

627
00:31:56,039 --> 00:31:58,359
Some of them are even getting drafted in twenty five

628
00:31:58,440 --> 00:32:00,599
K Fantasy. I have played with a bunch of the

629
00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:04,720
Japanese players throughout this summer, I would even say going

630
00:32:04,799 --> 00:32:08,920
back to last summer, and they are an absolute freaking

631
00:32:09,039 --> 00:32:12,519
handful to deal with. They know their shit, they are

632
00:32:12,599 --> 00:32:15,480
fearless at the table, they get after it. They put

633
00:32:15,519 --> 00:32:19,079
you in super tough spots. So yeah, I mean shout

634
00:32:19,079 --> 00:32:21,680
out to the Japanese players who are making making waves

635
00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:23,559
here at the World Series of Poker. We've always kind

636
00:32:23,559 --> 00:32:26,400
of talked about over the last let's say five years

637
00:32:26,519 --> 00:32:30,799
or so, you know, give or take that, the Japanese market,

638
00:32:30,839 --> 00:32:34,519
the Japanese region was you know, really getting ready to boom.

639
00:32:34,599 --> 00:32:38,640
Poker is increasingly growing there and becoming more and more popular.

640
00:32:39,319 --> 00:32:41,119
I don't think it, you know, and I could be wrong,

641
00:32:41,119 --> 00:32:44,440
but I don't think it's like fully legal yet, you know,

642
00:32:44,519 --> 00:32:46,799
to play for real money and all that sort of stuff,

643
00:32:46,799 --> 00:32:49,960
even though some stuff has happened there, Yes, but it

644
00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:52,799
seems like just going to continue to grow, right. And then,

645
00:32:52,960 --> 00:32:56,279
you know, I've talked about it already on this podcast feed.

646
00:32:56,319 --> 00:32:59,599
But when you got people like Masada Yokosawa leaving the

647
00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:03,599
charge chartering Giant jets to bring over two hundred plus

648
00:33:03,640 --> 00:33:05,960
people to come to the World Series of Poker like that,

649
00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:08,880
everything just seems to be moving in the right direction, right.

650
00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:13,319
Coupled with the fact that these players are super tough,

651
00:33:13,559 --> 00:33:16,839
highly competitive. I mean, the player in me says like,

652
00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:18,480
get the heck out of here, because I don't want to.

653
00:33:18,599 --> 00:33:19,920
I don't want to have to deal with more tough

654
00:33:19,960 --> 00:33:22,480
players in the fields. But they are very, very good,

655
00:33:22,720 --> 00:33:26,119
and they are coming if they are not here already.

656
00:33:26,319 --> 00:33:28,599
And on top of day one A, we got Ryuta

657
00:33:28,680 --> 00:33:32,440
and Nikai, who I think was drafted in twenty five

658
00:33:32,559 --> 00:33:35,359
K fantasy has let me check these chip guns. He

659
00:33:35,480 --> 00:33:37,920
was drafted in twenty five K fantasy. Speaking of another

660
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:41,319
Japanese player by the way, Masado Yokosawa, who I just mentioned,

661
00:33:41,640 --> 00:33:47,039
He bagged north of two hundred and twenty thousand in chips,

662
00:33:47,519 --> 00:33:51,119
so you know he's crushing it too. He had a

663
00:33:51,119 --> 00:33:53,960
great day. Helmuth went on to bag I think sixty

664
00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:57,640
six thousand and his son as long as the app

665
00:33:57,680 --> 00:33:59,720
is correct, which I don't know if it's fully updated

666
00:33:59,759 --> 00:34:01,319
yet or not, but where it's going to roll with

667
00:34:01,359 --> 00:34:07,200
it forty five thousand, eight hundred. Another superstar player in

668
00:34:07,240 --> 00:34:10,800
the mix for Day one A was Jason Kuhn. Came

669
00:34:10,960 --> 00:34:14,480
a little bit late to the day, not too late,

670
00:34:14,519 --> 00:34:17,480
but maybe a level in or so. He had kind

671
00:34:17,519 --> 00:34:20,920
of a tough first day, bagging eighteen thousand, seven hundred,

672
00:34:21,039 --> 00:34:24,800
so less than one third starting. If you were watching

673
00:34:24,840 --> 00:34:27,760
the stream, you know that a hand was caught. They

674
00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:30,199
caught it on the river where Kuon is on the river.

675
00:34:30,360 --> 00:34:33,679
The board's got the King of Spades, the Tennis spades,

676
00:34:33,719 --> 00:34:37,400
and another spade. It's not paired. Kuon's got the Queen

677
00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:40,119
Jack of Spades, so he's got the second nut flush

678
00:34:40,559 --> 00:34:43,960
and his opponent has moved all in into him with

679
00:34:44,079 --> 00:34:47,079
the Ace six of spades. Kuhn tanks for a little

680
00:34:47,079 --> 00:34:51,320
bit ultimately folds the second nuts in this pot, the

681
00:34:51,360 --> 00:34:55,119
second nut flush Kun I think ended up getting all

682
00:34:55,119 --> 00:34:58,039
the way down to like three thousand and chips or

683
00:34:58,079 --> 00:35:03,599
something like, just getting brutalized all day. I talked to

684
00:35:03,679 --> 00:35:06,639
him afterwards, you know, he said he lost. He said

685
00:35:06,639 --> 00:35:09,320
he folded second nuts another time offstream to a guy

686
00:35:09,360 --> 00:35:10,960
when he was like sure that the guy had it.

687
00:35:11,280 --> 00:35:15,000
He lost Queens to Ace nine for a pile. He

688
00:35:15,360 --> 00:35:17,519
did fight his way back, and then in the last

689
00:35:17,599 --> 00:35:19,440
level when I was standing out there waiting for the

690
00:35:19,519 --> 00:35:21,920
end of the night to come around to hopefully talk

691
00:35:21,960 --> 00:35:24,840
to Jason, he got Queens again. He got him in

692
00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:27,400
against Ace King. He was able to double up there.

693
00:35:28,079 --> 00:35:30,280
Tough day. Jason Kuhn had to fight. You know, not

694
00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:32,719
everything comes easy in this event. You know, the big

695
00:35:32,760 --> 00:35:37,320
blind starting with day two will be eight hundred, so

696
00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:39,320
it'll be four hundred and eight hundred. So you know,

697
00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:43,320
he has what twenty five big blinds to or sorry

698
00:35:43,360 --> 00:35:47,360
not twenty five, twenty whatever, twenty three, twenty three and

699
00:35:47,400 --> 00:35:50,360
a half big blinds to work with. So you know,

700
00:35:50,480 --> 00:35:52,679
certainly not out of it. You're not as deep as

701
00:35:52,679 --> 00:35:54,840
you want to be in this tournament. You know, especially

702
00:35:54,840 --> 00:36:00,360
someone who is as aggressive and relentless and creative as

703
00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:03,199
Jason Kuhn. But you know that doesn't mean you give up,

704
00:36:03,320 --> 00:36:06,119
of course. But after play, you know, Jason was nice

705
00:36:06,199 --> 00:36:08,239
enough to catch up with me for a few minutes.

706
00:36:08,280 --> 00:36:11,000
So here is my talk with Jason Kuhn.

707
00:36:12,039 --> 00:36:16,800
Speaker 6: All right, Jason, uh not necessarily your days stack wise,

708
00:36:16,920 --> 00:36:19,760
but I mean you kind of should be out of

709
00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:21,480
the tournament after that Queen Jack of Space and what

710
00:36:21,480 --> 00:36:22,400
the heck that?

711
00:36:23,840 --> 00:36:28,039
Speaker 8: I had about three situations similar to that later in

712
00:36:28,039 --> 00:36:28,559
the day too.

713
00:36:28,599 --> 00:36:29,960
Speaker 3: I've made some crazy folds.

714
00:36:29,960 --> 00:36:32,559
Speaker 8: Obviously I'll never know because I didn't see him, but

715
00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:35,039
uh yeah, I had that, and then I got Queen's

716
00:36:35,039 --> 00:36:36,760
against a nine suited for a big one.

717
00:36:37,039 --> 00:36:39,280
Speaker 3: Lost, but somehow I'm still in the tournament.

718
00:36:39,320 --> 00:36:42,880
Speaker 8: But yeah, the Queen Jack of Spades was something, you know,

719
00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:47,000
obviously not a recommended fold for people to make, but

720
00:36:47,760 --> 00:36:49,000
I've been playing for a long time.

721
00:36:49,039 --> 00:36:49,840
Speaker 3: I had a lot of things.

722
00:36:49,920 --> 00:36:52,719
Speaker 8: Kind of I almost hold the turn, which would have

723
00:36:52,719 --> 00:36:54,440
been completely ballistic.

724
00:36:53,960 --> 00:36:55,199
Speaker 3: But I almost did.

725
00:36:55,280 --> 00:36:58,519
Speaker 8: Man, I thought it would have been too crazy to

726
00:36:58,559 --> 00:37:00,239
hold the turn because I thought if he had a

727
00:37:00,239 --> 00:37:01,679
smaller clush, he may raise the turn.

728
00:37:01,719 --> 00:37:05,199
Speaker 3: And check back the river. But when the money went

729
00:37:05,280 --> 00:37:07,960
on the river, I just was pretty confident.

730
00:37:07,599 --> 00:37:11,639
Speaker 8: That if he had a bluff, it would have the

731
00:37:11,639 --> 00:37:12,800
hand would have played out differently.

732
00:37:12,840 --> 00:37:15,000
Speaker 3: And you know, I could have been very wrong.

733
00:37:15,039 --> 00:37:17,519
Speaker 8: I've made some big folds and a lot of tournaments

734
00:37:17,559 --> 00:37:18,800
and most of them have been right.

735
00:37:18,840 --> 00:37:21,280
Speaker 3: But sometimes look like a moron. But you gotta trust yourself.

736
00:37:21,320 --> 00:37:21,480
Speaker 6: You know.

737
00:37:21,880 --> 00:37:23,159
Speaker 1: It seems like you were having a lot of fun

738
00:37:23,159 --> 00:37:24,719
with your table. Take story.

739
00:37:24,880 --> 00:37:26,360
Speaker 3: Lovely group, lovely group.

740
00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:28,800
Speaker 8: And you know, every year I played the main Like, honestly,

741
00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:33,320
I played this tournament today like like it was my

742
00:37:33,480 --> 00:37:35,639
last dollar. I had to my name, Like I really

743
00:37:35,679 --> 00:37:36,559
fought for every chip.

744
00:37:36,599 --> 00:37:38,119
Speaker 3: I want to be around. I don't want to just

745
00:37:38,119 --> 00:37:38,800
give up.

746
00:37:40,639 --> 00:37:42,599
Speaker 8: And just prove to myself that, like, even if the

747
00:37:42,639 --> 00:37:45,159
stakes are smaller, I'm always willing to grind it out,

748
00:37:45,199 --> 00:37:45,400
you know.

749
00:37:46,280 --> 00:37:48,599
Speaker 3: But yeah, the table was lovely. Everybody was having a blast.

750
00:37:48,639 --> 00:37:49,519
And I really like the main.

751
00:37:49,599 --> 00:37:52,679
Speaker 8: I like talking to people and enjoying enjoying their experience

752
00:37:52,719 --> 00:37:55,039
with them. Because we had two first timers here today,

753
00:37:55,119 --> 00:37:57,400
and you know, I like, uh, I like hanging out

754
00:37:57,440 --> 00:37:57,800
with people.

755
00:37:58,079 --> 00:38:00,320
Speaker 1: Well, you got around a little less than what a

756
00:38:00,320 --> 00:38:02,719
third starting stack going to day two. Yeah, I mean,

757
00:38:02,760 --> 00:38:04,320
what's just just grind it out?

758
00:38:04,440 --> 00:38:06,559
Speaker 8: Been there plenty man, I mean we were coming back

759
00:38:06,599 --> 00:38:07,360
to eight hundred BB.

760
00:38:08,960 --> 00:38:11,400
Speaker 3: It gives me, you know a little over twenty five BB.

761
00:38:11,639 --> 00:38:13,679
Speaker 8: I can make that work, and twenty five can become

762
00:38:13,679 --> 00:38:14,639
one hundred real fast.

763
00:38:15,079 --> 00:38:16,639
Speaker 3: This is a long tournament. I don't need to bag

764
00:38:16,679 --> 00:38:18,320
the tip of the day one.

765
00:38:18,599 --> 00:38:20,760
Speaker 1: All right. So that was Jason Kuhne, and you heard

766
00:38:20,840 --> 00:38:23,280
him say that he's trying to play this tournament like

767
00:38:24,079 --> 00:38:26,840
it's his last dollar. And if this guy's able to

768
00:38:26,880 --> 00:38:29,719
get some chips and make a run, you know, that

769
00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:33,679
could be quite the handful for players to deal with

770
00:38:33,920 --> 00:38:37,480
later on. Of course, as always, you know, a bunch

771
00:38:37,480 --> 00:38:40,840
of players do bust whenever poker tournaments happen. It doesn't

772
00:38:40,840 --> 00:38:43,599
matter how good the structure is. We already talked about

773
00:38:43,960 --> 00:38:47,519
Anthony Moriny going out when he had the ace king

774
00:38:47,599 --> 00:38:53,440
suited into Ryan Sans's pocket aces. Jason Coon did survive, Yes,

775
00:38:53,559 --> 00:38:55,639
you know he's short. You know some of the players

776
00:38:55,679 --> 00:38:59,320
who didn't survive, you ha, Jared Blesnik busting, David Bach busting,

777
00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:03,360
Nick Seward out, Dan Smith gone, Leo Margetz gone, Chetty

778
00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:06,440
Sledge Gone, Set Davies and Adrian Mittaos I mentioned them earlier.

779
00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:09,239
They are also busted. Mateos was on one of the

780
00:39:09,280 --> 00:39:12,000
feature tables, and it just looked like nothing went his way,

781
00:39:12,199 --> 00:39:14,719
like he just had the second best hand, the second

782
00:39:14,719 --> 00:39:16,519
best hand, the second best hand, and a lot of

783
00:39:16,599 --> 00:39:19,920
really tough spots, cooler spots, just over and over and

784
00:39:19,960 --> 00:39:24,599
over again. And sometimes you know that's just the hand

785
00:39:24,639 --> 00:39:27,159
your delt or the hands that you are dealt in

786
00:39:27,199 --> 00:39:29,679
a poker tournament. And it certainly looked that no matter

787
00:39:29,840 --> 00:39:33,920
who sat in Adrian Matteos's seat today, on day one

788
00:39:33,960 --> 00:39:37,320
A of the twenty twenty six to pace, no one's

789
00:39:37,400 --> 00:39:41,480
going to be winning that day. I'm trying to see

790
00:39:41,840 --> 00:39:45,920
how many people advanced through. It looks like around five

791
00:39:46,320 --> 00:39:48,159
forty to five fifty.

792
00:39:48,480 --> 00:39:48,639
Speaker 4: So.

793
00:39:50,360 --> 00:39:54,320
Speaker 1: A little bit over two hundred players busted out on

794
00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:57,960
day one A, so you know a good amount of

795
00:39:57,960 --> 00:40:00,800
them have moved on to day two. They'll be back

796
00:40:00,880 --> 00:40:04,480
on Monday, so a couple days off Friday, Saturday and

797
00:40:04,599 --> 00:40:07,679
Sunday off while the other day ones play. I guess

798
00:40:07,760 --> 00:40:11,639
just my thoughts walking around Paris, walking through the field,

799
00:40:11,920 --> 00:40:16,079
I did think I thought the field looked pretty good

800
00:40:16,920 --> 00:40:19,719
in terms of like value. I also thought, you know,

801
00:40:19,760 --> 00:40:21,840
then I'm reading some of the updates and stuff on

802
00:40:21,960 --> 00:40:25,119
Poker News, and I'm thinking, okay, yeah, like this field

803
00:40:25,159 --> 00:40:30,280
looks pretty valuable on day one A. I think if

804
00:40:30,320 --> 00:40:32,440
you couple that with the fact that you get three

805
00:40:32,519 --> 00:40:34,599
days off, and if you do end up making a

806
00:40:34,679 --> 00:40:37,639
run in this thing, having those days off early could

807
00:40:37,639 --> 00:40:41,159
probably pay dividends much later on when this thing really

808
00:40:41,199 --> 00:40:44,840
does become a grueling gauntlet that you have to get

809
00:40:44,840 --> 00:40:46,960
through and you have to have that stamina and you

810
00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:48,719
have to be able to power through and try and

811
00:40:48,760 --> 00:40:51,639
be as fresh as possible. So I don't know, day

812
00:40:51,679 --> 00:40:54,039
one A might be something that I think more players

813
00:40:54,119 --> 00:40:56,079
might want to start looking into playing.

814
00:40:56,280 --> 00:40:56,440
Speaker 7: Now.

815
00:40:56,480 --> 00:40:59,880
Speaker 1: There were some tough tables out there. I would say that,

816
00:41:00,079 --> 00:41:03,280
you know, in terms of like known really good players.

817
00:41:03,400 --> 00:41:05,559
Not not that players can't be really good, they're just

818
00:41:05,760 --> 00:41:09,239
you know, you don't necessarily recognize them by face or whatever.

819
00:41:09,320 --> 00:41:11,360
You have to dig a little bit deeper, find their name,

820
00:41:11,440 --> 00:41:14,920
look them up, et cetera. Just like first look looking

821
00:41:14,960 --> 00:41:17,199
around out there, I think the worst I saw was

822
00:41:17,239 --> 00:41:20,760
a table with like three known good players at it,

823
00:41:20,920 --> 00:41:24,199
you know, so that's not the worst thing in the world.

824
00:41:24,239 --> 00:41:26,079
You know, it's not like a table had five or six,

825
00:41:26,199 --> 00:41:29,880
like absolute killers or something like that. So of course,

826
00:41:29,960 --> 00:41:32,320
you know, day one D the last starting flight, has

827
00:41:32,360 --> 00:41:35,760
always been the largest starting flight. I know a lot

828
00:41:35,760 --> 00:41:39,199
of people opt to play that flight, but you know,

829
00:41:39,360 --> 00:41:41,480
I also think that there's a good chance you could

830
00:41:42,320 --> 00:41:45,199
end up getting stuck with a lot better players and

831
00:41:45,239 --> 00:41:49,400
then you have, you know, fewer rest days going forward

832
00:41:49,400 --> 00:41:52,119
if you do ultimately run deep. So I kind of

833
00:41:52,119 --> 00:41:54,199
think one A might be the one ame might be

834
00:41:54,239 --> 00:41:56,639
the player I'm playing one se though. Listen, once I

835
00:41:56,679 --> 00:41:58,639
make a deep run starting with one seed, I get it.

836
00:41:58,639 --> 00:42:00,480
I got to keep it up until it doesn't happen.

837
00:42:00,800 --> 00:42:03,840
So that's what's gonna happen with me. Plus got to

838
00:42:03,880 --> 00:42:05,719
juggle the work schedule and all that sort of stuff.

839
00:42:05,760 --> 00:42:09,360
But one I looked, uh, one I looked good. Plus

840
00:42:09,400 --> 00:42:11,199
I feel like with one A, you kind of you

841
00:42:11,280 --> 00:42:13,239
kind of fly under the radar a little bit. You know,

842
00:42:13,239 --> 00:42:17,480
you kind of just go out there, workmanlike, punch the clock,

843
00:42:17,920 --> 00:42:20,239
get it done, bag tips for day two, get a

844
00:42:20,239 --> 00:42:22,599
few days off, and you know, you don't really have

845
00:42:22,639 --> 00:42:24,039
to think about it, you know, and it's kind of

846
00:42:24,039 --> 00:42:33,239
a little bit easier on the whole pressure side of things.

847
00:42:33,400 --> 00:42:36,320
I'm going to take a scan here around the rest

848
00:42:36,360 --> 00:42:40,000
of the tournaments that took place at the twenty twenty

849
00:42:40,039 --> 00:42:42,360
six World Series of Poker. Not going to go in

850
00:42:42,559 --> 00:42:45,559
depth too much into this sort of stuff, just because

851
00:42:45,639 --> 00:42:49,800
listen today was about Danna and Grandu winning embracelet number eight.

852
00:42:49,880 --> 00:42:53,280
Today was about the kickoff for the twenty twenty six

853
00:42:53,360 --> 00:42:58,039
and WSP main event. But we did have the winner

854
00:42:58,440 --> 00:43:05,400
in the mini event, Daisuke Ogita. Guess where he's from, guys, Japan,

855
00:43:05,719 --> 00:43:09,880
that's right, winning a million dollars tops the field of twelve,

856
00:43:10,320 --> 00:43:17,480
five hundred and sixty entries. Canada's Jaywa Sun took second place. Now,

857
00:43:17,960 --> 00:43:21,000
I got to mention a hand that Sun played because

858
00:43:21,119 --> 00:43:24,559
this hand, because it was at my table and we're

859
00:43:24,599 --> 00:43:28,440
we're so earlier in the day. On day two, Sun

860
00:43:28,559 --> 00:43:32,880
is at my table, doesn't play a single hand for like,

861
00:43:33,079 --> 00:43:35,480
I don't know, in our maybe a little bit longer,

862
00:43:35,559 --> 00:43:37,400
doesn't play any hand. Of course, that could simply be

863
00:43:37,480 --> 00:43:41,239
card distribution. Fine, our table breaks, we go our separate

864
00:43:41,280 --> 00:43:46,519
ways whatever. I think it was. Two table breaks later

865
00:43:46,599 --> 00:43:50,079
for me, Son moves back to my table, okay. He

866
00:43:50,119 --> 00:43:54,159
doesn't play a hand for a little while. Then all

867
00:43:54,159 --> 00:43:57,239
of a sudden, he plays this hand where it full.

868
00:43:57,320 --> 00:43:59,280
I'm in the small blind, he's in the he's on

869
00:43:59,320 --> 00:44:02,760
the button. It folds to him. On the button, he

870
00:44:02,840 --> 00:44:06,039
puts in a raise to three point twenty five x

871
00:44:06,079 --> 00:44:08,800
the big blind. Immediately I'm like, well, that's just too big,

872
00:44:09,079 --> 00:44:11,239
like and then I'm looking at the clock, thinking, oh,

873
00:44:11,280 --> 00:44:12,880
the blind's about to go up, and he maybe thought

874
00:44:12,920 --> 00:44:15,119
that they were already up whatever, so he just jacks

875
00:44:15,119 --> 00:44:19,000
it up on the button. I fold player in the

876
00:44:19,000 --> 00:44:23,880
big blind goes all in for nine big blinds. Son's

877
00:44:23,920 --> 00:44:26,679
like tanking for a while and then slams in the

878
00:44:26,719 --> 00:44:28,679
chips for the call on tables in his hands, got

879
00:44:28,719 --> 00:44:32,159
seven deuce off, dead serious. It's like, what the hell

880
00:44:32,239 --> 00:44:34,519
is going on? Big Blind's got queen ten of hearts.

881
00:44:34,880 --> 00:44:37,559
The Queen ten of hearts holds and you know that's that.

882
00:44:38,079 --> 00:44:42,639
So that hand happened. He ends up getting heads up,

883
00:44:42,679 --> 00:44:45,360
he got short. Later on he was involved in a

884
00:44:45,360 --> 00:44:47,760
three way pot where I ended up doubling up, but

885
00:44:47,760 --> 00:44:50,000
he ended up folding pre flop. It was like a

886
00:44:50,119 --> 00:44:52,280
sky went all in for like seven big lines. He

887
00:44:52,360 --> 00:44:55,880
called I jammed over top, then he folded and I

888
00:44:56,000 --> 00:44:59,599
won that pot. But it was yeah, just seeing that

889
00:44:59,639 --> 00:45:02,320
and then you know him going on to finish in

890
00:45:02,400 --> 00:45:04,559
second place here for six hundred and twenty five thousand dollars.

891
00:45:04,599 --> 00:45:07,559
I mean, you know, good for him. Jeffrey Evans got third,

892
00:45:08,079 --> 00:45:11,079
am in most stuff most of AVI got fourth with

893
00:45:11,159 --> 00:45:13,800
three and sixty k. Evans got four to seventy five

894
00:45:14,440 --> 00:45:17,480
for third, Richard Harris fifth for two to seventy five.

895
00:45:18,039 --> 00:45:20,480
I mean, this this tournament, man, it was over super

896
00:45:20,559 --> 00:45:24,719
super quick on on Thursday. You know, the average stack

897
00:45:24,880 --> 00:45:29,519
was really really shallow entering that final day. But you know,

898
00:45:29,599 --> 00:45:35,559
congratulations to Japan's Daisuke Ogita for winning the mini main

899
00:45:35,679 --> 00:45:37,800
event at the twenty twenty six Cool Trees It Poker

900
00:45:37,880 --> 00:45:43,280
for one million dollars. The twenty five hundred dollars mixed

901
00:45:43,599 --> 00:45:48,280
triple draw. Patrick Stacey topped a field of five hundred

902
00:45:48,320 --> 00:45:52,239
and eight entries there. Stacy's won his first bracelet and

903
00:45:52,280 --> 00:45:55,559
he also took home two hundred and twenty three thousand dollars.

904
00:45:55,639 --> 00:45:58,519
He beat Danny Tang in heads up play. Mark Gregorich

905
00:45:58,559 --> 00:46:03,679
got third, Alan Kessler got fourth, Andrew Kelsall aka aj

906
00:46:04,039 --> 00:46:09,079
Kelsall fifth place there and Arthur Morris sixth place on

907
00:46:09,400 --> 00:46:14,320
that one. The six hundred dollars Deep Stack Championship is

908
00:46:14,360 --> 00:46:20,559
down to fifty players remaining. Okay, okay, this was five thousand,

909
00:46:20,840 --> 00:46:26,159
one hundred and seventy seven entries in this tournament. Six

910
00:46:26,280 --> 00:46:29,159
hundred dollars buying up top is two hundred and eighty

911
00:46:29,239 --> 00:46:33,639
two thousand dollars. Ship leader looks to be Song Han

912
00:46:34,280 --> 00:46:37,880
is leading the way narrowly ahead of Lisa Tan. It's

913
00:46:37,960 --> 00:46:40,400
six point two to eighty five million up top for Han,

914
00:46:41,039 --> 00:46:44,639
and Tan's got six point two to three million up

915
00:46:44,679 --> 00:46:49,880
on top there. I don't see any notable notable players

916
00:46:49,920 --> 00:46:53,119
sticking out to me in the top batch of the

917
00:46:53,199 --> 00:46:55,960
chip guns, but that's fine. You know it's gonna get

918
00:46:55,960 --> 00:46:58,440
a new superstar that comes out of this one. Yeah,

919
00:46:58,480 --> 00:47:00,599
just a quick skin here. I really don't recognize any

920
00:47:00,599 --> 00:47:03,760
of the names in the field, but two hundred and

921
00:47:03,760 --> 00:47:06,360
eighty two thousand dollars up top. They're going to finish

922
00:47:06,360 --> 00:47:10,280
this one out, I'm assuming on Friday, So stay tuned

923
00:47:10,320 --> 00:47:12,159
for the winner of the six hundred dollars Deep Sack

924
00:47:12,639 --> 00:47:16,760
Championship event. I definitely know the front runner of the

925
00:47:16,840 --> 00:47:19,960
chip leader with fourteen players remaining in the three K

926
00:47:20,199 --> 00:47:24,599
freeze out, and that is mister Andrew Moreno Amo for

927
00:47:24,719 --> 00:47:28,599
show is up on top. He's got a nice chip

928
00:47:28,679 --> 00:47:31,800
lead there with what looks to be almost twelve million

929
00:47:31,840 --> 00:47:34,599
in chives one hundred big blinds. I mean he's about

930
00:47:34,599 --> 00:47:39,960
two million ahead of second place first place in this one.

931
00:47:40,079 --> 00:47:44,440
I think it's almost seven hundred K, six eighty three,

932
00:47:44,840 --> 00:47:47,239
six hundred and eighty three thousand dollars. Of course, everyone

933
00:47:47,360 --> 00:47:50,440
is deep into the money here, seventeen hundred and ninety

934
00:47:50,480 --> 00:47:54,239
two entries in this field. You've got David Mischaikowski in

935
00:47:54,320 --> 00:47:58,079
the mix, Chris Mormon is still in. Martin Jacobson is

936
00:47:58,159 --> 00:48:02,000
also in there as well. So again down to fourteen

937
00:48:02,039 --> 00:48:05,800
players in the three K freeze out that will also

938
00:48:06,119 --> 00:48:09,679
finish out on Friday. Andrew Marino had a deep run

939
00:48:09,760 --> 00:48:13,400
in the WSP Monster Stack earlier this summer, another deep

940
00:48:13,440 --> 00:48:15,519
run in that tournament. He's had several deep runs in

941
00:48:15,519 --> 00:48:19,559
the Doubsity Monster Stack. Good friend of Mine, absolute killer

942
00:48:19,679 --> 00:48:23,159
on the Felt, is one of those players who it's

943
00:48:23,199 --> 00:48:27,000
about time he wins a WSP Goald bracelet, and this

944
00:48:27,079 --> 00:48:29,280
could very well be it he is the chip leader

945
00:48:29,320 --> 00:48:31,960
with fourteen players remaining, so we'll keep tabs on this

946
00:48:32,000 --> 00:48:35,599
one and talk about it on the next episode. The

947
00:48:35,639 --> 00:48:40,719
ten K eight Game Mixed Championship, we have twelve players

948
00:48:40,760 --> 00:48:45,280
remaining from a field of one hundred and ninety nine entries.

949
00:48:45,280 --> 00:48:47,800
More than four hundred thousand dollars up top four hundred

950
00:48:47,800 --> 00:48:52,519
and thirty one thousand dollars to be exact, leading the

951
00:48:52,559 --> 00:48:57,360
way atop those final twelve players. Brian rast second place.

952
00:48:57,519 --> 00:49:00,760
Alex Foxen. You know you guys, don't think don't sleep

953
00:49:00,800 --> 00:49:02,480
on mister Alex fox And when it comes to the

954
00:49:02,519 --> 00:49:07,079
mixed games, because he's out there battling Matt Vangren's still

955
00:49:07,079 --> 00:49:09,480
in the mix. Taylor Atchison. The reason why I bring

956
00:49:09,559 --> 00:49:13,119
up Taylor Atchison is I'm sure the listeners out there no,

957
00:49:13,639 --> 00:49:16,239
he won a bracelet already this summer. We've already had

958
00:49:16,280 --> 00:49:20,440
three people win to this summer, and Atchison could become

959
00:49:20,480 --> 00:49:23,559
the fourth to do it. Bryn Kenny is still in

960
00:49:23,599 --> 00:49:26,719
the mix. Ryan Miller and David ODB Baker friend of

961
00:49:26,760 --> 00:49:29,159
the pod. Let's go short stack twelve out of twelve,

962
00:49:29,239 --> 00:49:32,239
but spin that baby up. Let's go ODB Come on,

963
00:49:32,840 --> 00:49:38,880
let's go odb sporting the cop aviators out there, his

964
00:49:38,920 --> 00:49:42,280
new glasses. He doesn't have to deal with headaches. Let's go, buddy,

965
00:49:42,280 --> 00:49:46,639
do the damn thing. The eight hundred Summer Celebration drew

966
00:49:46,639 --> 00:49:50,760
a field of twenty five hundred and eighty four. Oh

967
00:49:50,760 --> 00:49:53,800
this is only day one A. Good lord, josh Aria

968
00:49:53,920 --> 00:49:57,800
bag in a big stack in this tournament. Okay, he was.

969
00:49:58,119 --> 00:50:00,119
He ran over to be in the winter photo for

970
00:50:00,239 --> 00:50:03,960
Daniel Legrandero from that one hundred k PLO. All right,

971
00:50:04,119 --> 00:50:06,039
that's enough of the eight hundre dollars Summer Celebration. If

972
00:50:06,039 --> 00:50:07,920
I find out it's day one A of this tournament, yeah,

973
00:50:07,920 --> 00:50:10,679
I'm just not gonna talk about you that much more.

974
00:50:11,320 --> 00:50:13,400
And then you had the fifteen hund dollars Double Board

975
00:50:14,039 --> 00:50:19,079
Bomb Pot PLO tournament taking place. What's this one? Sixteen

976
00:50:19,119 --> 00:50:22,239
hundred and seventy three entries, three hundred and twenty two

977
00:50:22,239 --> 00:50:24,480
thousand dollars up top? All right, cool, that's enough of

978
00:50:24,519 --> 00:50:28,159
that one as well. But you guys know the drill

979
00:50:29,079 --> 00:50:31,679
daily episodes during the ws BE main event. It is

980
00:50:31,800 --> 00:50:34,800
one B on Friday. I'm gonna be looking to play

981
00:50:35,000 --> 00:50:38,039
one C. Shout out to my guy Ryan who is

982
00:50:38,159 --> 00:50:40,679
playing the ws BE main event for the first time.

983
00:50:40,719 --> 00:50:43,920
He is playing one B. We chatted for a bit today.

984
00:50:44,000 --> 00:50:46,480
I know he's excited. I know he's ready to go.

985
00:50:46,960 --> 00:50:50,039
I know he recently got through a downswing and is

986
00:50:50,480 --> 00:50:53,079
on the positive side of things now with Varians starting

987
00:50:53,119 --> 00:50:56,079
to work back in his favor, and maybe, just maybe

988
00:50:56,559 --> 00:50:59,559
he can catch some heat in the biggest tournament of

989
00:50:59,599 --> 00:51:01,840
them all and go on a run. Ryan, I am

990
00:51:01,880 --> 00:51:05,239
pulling for you. Let's go, Let's make it happen. All right,

991
00:51:05,239 --> 00:51:07,679
that's gonna do it for me. Fun episode here, negroan

992
00:51:07,800 --> 00:51:11,679
you winning number eight WSV main event kicking off. It's

993
00:51:11,719 --> 00:51:14,000
gonna be a fun two weeks ahead and I can't

994
00:51:14,079 --> 00:51:17,559
wait to be on this podcast feed every single night.

995
00:51:17,599 --> 00:51:20,079
My name is Donny Peters. Shout out to Rich Ryan

996
00:51:20,480 --> 00:51:23,159
for making the magic happen, making us sound good, and

997
00:51:23,199 --> 00:51:25,159
I will talk to you guys next time.

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