WEBVTT 1 00:00:10.800 --> 00:00:12.960 Hello everyone, Welcome back to a new episode of the 2 00:00:13.119 --> 00:00:19.239 Poker Go Podcast. My name is Donnie Peters. Friday, July third, one, 3 00:00:19.359 --> 00:00:25.440 ten am. Here we just wrapped up very possibly, quite 4 00:00:25.480 --> 00:00:30.640 possibly the most fun and exciting day from the twenty 5 00:00:30.800 --> 00:00:36.880 twenty six World Series of Poker so far. Daniel mcgranu 6 00:00:37.479 --> 00:00:41.880 won his eighth WSOP bracelet. Yes, sir, he did the 7 00:00:42.000 --> 00:00:46.039 damn thing. He won the one hundred KPLO high Roller 8 00:00:46.359 --> 00:00:49.640 for more than two point two million dollars and it 9 00:00:49.679 --> 00:00:54.359 came on the same day that the WSOP main event 10 00:00:54.560 --> 00:00:58.119 kicked off. Today was Day one air. Yesterday was Day 11 00:00:58.200 --> 00:01:01.600 one A. We'll be talking about it. We caught up 12 00:01:01.600 --> 00:01:05.400 with Scott sever I, got an interview that Renco Rinkima 13 00:01:05.480 --> 00:01:08.840 did with Phil Hellmuth and his son Nick. I spoke 14 00:01:08.879 --> 00:01:10.640 with Jason Kohon at the end of the night, so 15 00:01:10.799 --> 00:01:13.879 all of that is coming in this episode. Of course, 16 00:01:13.920 --> 00:01:16.480 we will also bounce around Horseshoe and Paris to see 17 00:01:16.480 --> 00:01:20.719 some of the other stuff that went on on Thursday 18 00:01:21.000 --> 00:01:23.480 at the World Series. But it is negro on you. 19 00:01:23.640 --> 00:01:27.200 It is the WSP main event headlining this show, so 20 00:01:27.319 --> 00:01:32.879 let's go as always, please like, subscribe, rate review five 21 00:01:32.959 --> 00:01:36.799 stars only spread the love, help us grow. 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The one hundred k PLO high roller 41 00:02:45.199 --> 00:02:48.520 eighty three entries in this bad boy Daniel took it 42 00:02:48.599 --> 00:02:53.800 down two million, two hundred and fifty seven thousand dollars 43 00:02:53.960 --> 00:02:57.159 in the bank. I think he was down around six 44 00:02:57.240 --> 00:03:00.479 hundred k or so if I remember what is vlogs 45 00:03:00.639 --> 00:03:02.680 the tally. He puts the tally. You know, he keeps 46 00:03:02.759 --> 00:03:04.599 up with it at the end of his blog or 47 00:03:04.639 --> 00:03:07.159 at the end of his blog every every episode that 48 00:03:07.199 --> 00:03:09.960 comes out. And now you know, now that he's banked 49 00:03:10.000 --> 00:03:12.759 more than two point two million dollars, he obviously cleared 50 00:03:12.759 --> 00:03:16.199 the deficit. He's well into the black and there is 51 00:03:16.280 --> 00:03:19.280 absolutely no way he has a losing summer from here 52 00:03:19.319 --> 00:03:22.319 on out. So that's pretty freaking awesome for Daniel McGrane. 53 00:03:22.919 --> 00:03:27.199 Of course, the eighth gold bracelet, it is going into 54 00:03:27.240 --> 00:03:29.680 his trophy case. That's great. He's also now in the 55 00:03:29.759 --> 00:03:32.639 running for WSIP Player of the Year, something you know, 56 00:03:32.680 --> 00:03:35.360 we really weren't talking about as it relates to Dani mcgranney. 57 00:03:35.639 --> 00:03:37.719 I know, I talked at length in the last episode 58 00:03:37.719 --> 00:03:40.680 about Sean deeb you know, and his chase for the 59 00:03:40.680 --> 00:03:42.800 Player of the Year, and we got you know, the 60 00:03:42.879 --> 00:03:46.280 thoughts from Sean directly. We also talked about how you 61 00:03:46.280 --> 00:03:49.960 know that top fifteen of the top ten to fifteen 62 00:03:50.039 --> 00:03:52.120 of the WASIP Player of the Year leader board is 63 00:03:52.159 --> 00:03:57.719 absolutely jam packed with great players, awesome names, superstars, et cetera. 64 00:03:58.360 --> 00:04:00.400 And now d Nex is right in the running because 65 00:04:00.680 --> 00:04:03.080 as long as my math is correct, he should be 66 00:04:03.080 --> 00:04:06.039 in the top ten now with this win. This was 67 00:04:06.080 --> 00:04:09.199 his twelfth cash of the summer. He's had a whole 68 00:04:09.199 --> 00:04:11.639 bunch of deep bronze, He's had a few final tables, 69 00:04:11.960 --> 00:04:15.280 hadn't won a bracelet yet, but he gets that done here. 70 00:04:15.319 --> 00:04:19.360 He has always said, always, always, always said that PLO 71 00:04:19.839 --> 00:04:24.079 is his jam. He feels it suits exactly the type 72 00:04:24.120 --> 00:04:26.680 of style that he likes to play. He said that, 73 00:04:27.199 --> 00:04:29.560 you know, every time he talks about this game, that's 74 00:04:29.560 --> 00:04:32.120 what he says. PLO is my jam. Here's why it 75 00:04:32.199 --> 00:04:34.560 suits my style. I fit it really well. I love 76 00:04:34.600 --> 00:04:38.480 the strategy, all that sort of stuff. Not an easy 77 00:04:38.600 --> 00:04:42.079 road for Daniel to go to get bracelet number eight. 78 00:04:42.160 --> 00:04:45.519 He had the top archer Martirosian in heads up play, 79 00:04:45.800 --> 00:04:50.040 Christopher Frank got third, Phil Sternheimer got fourth, You took 80 00:04:50.079 --> 00:04:52.879 him Mickey out of Japan, really good player got fifth, 81 00:04:52.920 --> 00:04:56.759 Sean Winter six, Sergio Martinez Gonzales seventh, and then Jeremy 82 00:04:56.759 --> 00:05:00.279 Osmas finished in eighth place. Of course, tons of other 83 00:05:00.399 --> 00:05:04.360 killers Daniel had to battle with along the way, you know, 84 00:05:04.879 --> 00:05:08.000 for years. You know, what was it, twenty and thirteen 85 00:05:08.319 --> 00:05:10.120 was his last bracelet. 86 00:05:09.680 --> 00:05:10.160 When he went. 87 00:05:10.240 --> 00:05:12.199 But you know, before he went into that super long 88 00:05:12.319 --> 00:05:15.920 drought of what ended up being eleven years, you know, 89 00:05:16.040 --> 00:05:20.120 up until twenty twenty four, and the narrative around him 90 00:05:20.600 --> 00:05:24.680 was very simple, you know, it was, listen, this guy's awesome. 91 00:05:24.959 --> 00:05:28.800 He's a legend. He's one of poker's greatest, if not 92 00:05:28.879 --> 00:05:35.600 the greatest ambassador. He's the face of poker. But the 93 00:05:35.680 --> 00:05:39.480 bracelets had stopped coming, you know, and sometimes many claimed 94 00:05:39.959 --> 00:05:43.639 that the big wins had stopped coming. He just couldn't 95 00:05:43.639 --> 00:05:46.319 do it for that stretch, you know, for whatever reason. 96 00:05:47.120 --> 00:05:50.480 And you know, again, twenty thirteen to twenty twenty four, 97 00:05:50.519 --> 00:05:53.639 that is a long ass period of time to be 98 00:05:53.720 --> 00:05:57.560 sitting on six bracelets when you know, you were poker superstar, 99 00:05:57.680 --> 00:05:59.839 you were the one winning everything, you were crushing everything, 100 00:06:00.000 --> 00:06:01.920 and all of a sudden you just couldn't close the 101 00:06:02.000 --> 00:06:05.160 deal when it comes to the World Series, right, so, 102 00:06:05.639 --> 00:06:08.319 more than a decade without winning a bracelet, you know, 103 00:06:08.360 --> 00:06:10.759 and he's he was obviously close many many times, many 104 00:06:10.800 --> 00:06:14.360 final tables all that sort of stuff. Twenty twenty four 105 00:06:14.399 --> 00:06:18.480 comes around, Bam rips off that fifty K Poker Players 106 00:06:18.519 --> 00:06:21.800 Championship win. That was freaking incredible. He got number seven. 107 00:06:22.160 --> 00:06:26.319 I still remember that night, being in there, seeing the 108 00:06:26.439 --> 00:06:30.399 rail on the stage, all the people, you know, chanting 109 00:06:30.519 --> 00:06:35.120 Daniel's name, him crying, like the whole the scene was unreal, 110 00:06:35.480 --> 00:06:39.639 absolutely unreal. You could not have scripted it better. That's 111 00:06:39.720 --> 00:06:42.879 one of the most prestigious titles in poker, you know, 112 00:06:43.040 --> 00:06:46.120 Daniel has always talked about many top pros have talked 113 00:06:46.120 --> 00:06:48.759 about how, yes, w SE main event. Of course that's 114 00:06:48.800 --> 00:06:51.879 the Unicorn, but outside of that, it's the PPC, right, Like, 115 00:06:51.959 --> 00:06:55.680 that's the one. Now two years later he goes and 116 00:06:55.720 --> 00:07:00.399 gets another bracelet, wins the one hundred KPLO for more 117 00:07:00.439 --> 00:07:02.519 than two point two million dollars two point two five 118 00:07:02.519 --> 00:07:07.959 million dollars. I mean, that's an incredible tournament, a very 119 00:07:08.040 --> 00:07:10.959 very tough tournament to win in and of its own right, 120 00:07:11.040 --> 00:07:13.879 you know. So it's not just that he's back to 121 00:07:13.920 --> 00:07:16.279 winning these racelets, you know, because we have two in 122 00:07:16.319 --> 00:07:19.759 the span of three years. It's also what he's winning 123 00:07:19.879 --> 00:07:23.959 fifty k PPC, hunter k PLO high Roller. I said 124 00:07:24.000 --> 00:07:27.439 it earlier. He has always said that PLO is his game. 125 00:07:27.720 --> 00:07:30.480 He said it's his jam. Okay, that's what he's always said. 126 00:07:30.480 --> 00:07:34.040 PLO is my jam. He loves the game, he likes 127 00:07:34.040 --> 00:07:36.720 the strategy behind it. He feels like it suits him 128 00:07:36.720 --> 00:07:39.800 incredibly well. He likes to be able to limp in it, 129 00:07:39.879 --> 00:07:42.519 all that sort of stuff. I talked about how tough 130 00:07:42.560 --> 00:07:44.040 the field was in this one. I read off that 131 00:07:44.680 --> 00:07:46.959 final table. You had other people like, you know, if 132 00:07:46.959 --> 00:07:49.439 phil Ivey was out there, only Yuka Mine and the 133 00:07:49.480 --> 00:07:53.399 Finnish legend, you know, just absolute freaking killers in this tournament. 134 00:07:53.439 --> 00:07:55.839 Nick Shulman was in the field, etc. Etc. Like it 135 00:07:55.879 --> 00:08:00.000 was just Jason Kuhne was out there in absolute murder 136 00:08:00.439 --> 00:08:02.720 when you're when you're playing one hundred k PLO turn 137 00:08:03.000 --> 00:08:08.160 right and Daniel's coming out on top. So yeah, it's 138 00:08:08.160 --> 00:08:11.399 it's just awesome. It was a great scene down there 139 00:08:11.439 --> 00:08:13.759 at Paris. You know, the w SBE main event Day 140 00:08:13.800 --> 00:08:16.360 one A is going on and that's taking up the 141 00:08:16.519 --> 00:08:19.879 large bulk of the room in the main Paris ballroom. 142 00:08:19.920 --> 00:08:24.120 But then one of the side feature tables is this 143 00:08:24.279 --> 00:08:29.000 hunter K PLO high Roller final table and the rail 144 00:08:29.199 --> 00:08:32.519 around it was I don't know, two hundred people deep, 145 00:08:33.080 --> 00:08:35.360 you know, like I mean, they kind of didn't have 146 00:08:35.480 --> 00:08:40.240 enough room. I mean, obviously, I think everyone in poker 147 00:08:41.120 --> 00:08:43.480 roots for big names to do well because that's good 148 00:08:43.480 --> 00:08:44.039 for the game. 149 00:08:44.519 --> 00:08:44.679 You know. 150 00:08:44.840 --> 00:08:48.080 I'm sure with Daniel being attached to the Gig brand, 151 00:08:48.360 --> 00:08:50.720 you know, they're hoping that he makes final tables all 152 00:08:50.759 --> 00:08:55.399 this sort of stuff. So, but that's not really planned for, 153 00:08:55.679 --> 00:08:58.399 especially on you know, the day when everything's supposed to 154 00:08:58.399 --> 00:09:00.440 be shifting to the greatest poker tournament the world and 155 00:09:00.440 --> 00:09:02.799 that is the main event. But then all of a sudden, 156 00:09:02.840 --> 00:09:04.679 you have Daniel kind of stealing the show from the 157 00:09:04.679 --> 00:09:06.799 greatest poker tournament in the world because he's over there 158 00:09:07.080 --> 00:09:10.360 doing the damn thing. And uh yeah, you know, of 159 00:09:10.360 --> 00:09:13.159 course Amanda, his wife, shows up. He's got his whole 160 00:09:13.240 --> 00:09:16.279 rail there. It's a whole thing. People are chanting his name. 161 00:09:16.519 --> 00:09:20.080 Like I talked about on the last episode about how 162 00:09:20.200 --> 00:09:23.759 it's refreshing to see the way that Michael Msrocky wears 163 00:09:23.799 --> 00:09:26.720 his heart on his sleeve when it comes to poker 164 00:09:27.320 --> 00:09:30.039 and celebrating his wins and all that sort of stuff. 165 00:09:30.080 --> 00:09:34.559 You saw very similar things from Daniel when he won 166 00:09:34.639 --> 00:09:37.320 this and also when he lost it, because there was 167 00:09:37.720 --> 00:09:40.720 a couple times when he looks kind of pretty upset 168 00:09:40.759 --> 00:09:42.720 with things, not to the point where it was like 169 00:09:42.759 --> 00:09:46.480 going to rattle him. But Daniel is an outgoing personality, 170 00:09:46.679 --> 00:09:49.759 both vocally and then also physically with a lot of 171 00:09:49.799 --> 00:09:52.559 his mannerisms. Case in point, when he smashed that selfie 172 00:09:52.559 --> 00:09:55.759 stick a couple of years ago in this exact room, 173 00:09:55.960 --> 00:09:58.840 actually we took a six sick beat, you know, and 174 00:09:58.879 --> 00:10:01.320 that was in the midst of the whole drought thing, right, 175 00:10:01.360 --> 00:10:03.759 you know, So here he gets all in at one 176 00:10:03.759 --> 00:10:07.279 point when he's heads up with Archer march Rosian. I 177 00:10:07.320 --> 00:10:09.639 think Daniel thought he might have made it straight but 178 00:10:09.679 --> 00:10:12.600 he didn't or whatever. But Archer doubles up, and Daniel's 179 00:10:12.639 --> 00:10:15.399 kind of like like, you know, he he gets kind 180 00:10:15.399 --> 00:10:17.159 of gets kind of mad, right, but then he you know, 181 00:10:17.159 --> 00:10:18.759 he sits back down, he calms him out, down, he 182 00:10:18.799 --> 00:10:21.000 locks back in, and the next time he gets him 183 00:10:21.000 --> 00:10:23.440 all in, he ends up taking him out and winning 184 00:10:23.440 --> 00:10:25.919 the tournament. You know, hands are in the air, he's yelling, 185 00:10:25.960 --> 00:10:27.799 he's jumping up and down like like the whole thing. 186 00:10:27.799 --> 00:10:30.159 People are chanting, so it's a whole awesome thing. He 187 00:10:30.240 --> 00:10:32.279 runs over to make sure he gets his vlogging camera 188 00:10:32.320 --> 00:10:33.919 because he wants to put it all on the vlog 189 00:10:34.000 --> 00:10:36.519 so you guys will see that. So just really really 190 00:10:36.519 --> 00:10:39.200 cool stuff to see that. You know, this is poker's 191 00:10:39.240 --> 00:10:42.480 biggest superstar, the most popular player, the most popular poker 192 00:10:42.480 --> 00:10:45.480 player in the world, and to see him act that 193 00:10:45.600 --> 00:10:47.919 sort of way is just like Michael m is Rocky. 194 00:10:48.080 --> 00:10:51.679 It's it's refreshing, it's cool to see. We also cannot 195 00:10:51.759 --> 00:10:56.519 overlook the fact that he's now very much right into 196 00:10:56.559 --> 00:10:59.759 the thick of it for this incredible race for the 197 00:11:00.399 --> 00:11:04.080 Player of the Year title. You know, Daniel jumped up. 198 00:11:04.240 --> 00:11:06.200 I want to say he was like forty third or 199 00:11:06.200 --> 00:11:08.919 something when I looked, and then the win put him 200 00:11:08.919 --> 00:11:11.440 into the top ten. I think he's eighth, maybe ninth, 201 00:11:12.360 --> 00:11:15.679 if he's able to keep playing, keep putting in the volume. 202 00:11:15.879 --> 00:11:18.639 I know he does have a baby on the way 203 00:11:18.639 --> 00:11:20.440 that's supposed to come later in the year. Not that 204 00:11:20.440 --> 00:11:22.559 that's going to affect this world Series of Poker during 205 00:11:22.559 --> 00:11:25.679 the summer, but maybe that could possibly take him away 206 00:11:25.720 --> 00:11:28.879 from you know, going to Paradise or something like that. 207 00:11:28.879 --> 00:11:31.879 That said, there's still a lot of Doubsip he left 208 00:11:31.919 --> 00:11:35.200 here in the summer, we're getting into the waiting Man event. 209 00:11:35.960 --> 00:11:38.159 It's not like he hasn't run deep in that thing before. 210 00:11:38.279 --> 00:11:41.320 He has. There's a lot of big tournaments still left 211 00:11:41.320 --> 00:11:44.360 that Daniel can certainly make a run in, and yeah, 212 00:11:44.559 --> 00:11:46.919 I think he's I think he's ready to go. You know, 213 00:11:47.240 --> 00:11:49.639 it wasn't like we were really thinking of Daniel in 214 00:11:49.720 --> 00:11:51.759 terms of the WASIV Player of the Year race just 215 00:11:51.799 --> 00:11:55.320 because of a lot of the results that the Sean Deep, 216 00:11:55.360 --> 00:11:58.240 the Alex fox In, the Nick Shulman's, Benny Glasser or 217 00:11:58.279 --> 00:12:00.879 Calvin Anderson, all these players like they're just putting up 218 00:12:01.440 --> 00:12:03.960 like win after win after win, big resolve, that they're 219 00:12:03.960 --> 00:12:05.879 big result, that they're big result. I mean, it's crazy. 220 00:12:05.919 --> 00:12:10.399 You had Calvin Anderson, Nioa Kihara, Elis Parson and all 221 00:12:10.720 --> 00:12:13.559 winning two bracelets this summer, you know, and then of 222 00:12:13.600 --> 00:12:15.480 course you have all the other success from all those 223 00:12:15.519 --> 00:12:18.480 other you know, really really good players, and Daniel was 224 00:12:18.960 --> 00:12:21.720 you know, yeah, he had eleven cashes coming into this 225 00:12:22.200 --> 00:12:25.120 cash here. This was his twelfth Wasity cash this summer. 226 00:12:25.120 --> 00:12:27.919 He has had some deep runs, He's had some final tables, right, 227 00:12:28.480 --> 00:12:30.080 you know, but you really have to finish out like 228 00:12:30.120 --> 00:12:33.559 the top of that stuff to really challenge for Player 229 00:12:33.600 --> 00:12:36.720 of the Year. And then boom, he rips off this win. 230 00:12:36.840 --> 00:12:38.759 He gets it done, and now he's back into the 231 00:12:38.799 --> 00:12:41.559 top ten, he's back into that race, he's back into 232 00:12:41.600 --> 00:12:44.000 that conversation. He's won the speed Player of the Year 233 00:12:44.039 --> 00:12:46.720 title before. He won the first one in two thousand 234 00:12:46.720 --> 00:12:48.159 and four. That's when he won that tyt of truck. 235 00:12:48.200 --> 00:12:51.039 Remember the tyto truck. Yeah, that thing was crazy. Let's 236 00:12:51.080 --> 00:12:53.320 let's bring back Jeff Jeff Jeff Platt. Can you can 237 00:12:53.360 --> 00:12:55.639 you make trucks happen? Can we get like trucks and 238 00:12:55.720 --> 00:12:57.720 cars and stuff like that for the WSB Player of 239 00:12:57.720 --> 00:13:00.639 the Year. That's that'd be badass. And he won again 240 00:13:00.799 --> 00:13:03.799 in twenty thirteen, so you know, it would be kind 241 00:13:03.840 --> 00:13:05.399 of fitting if he's able to get it for a 242 00:13:05.440 --> 00:13:08.240 third time. Sean deeb is currently the front runner. He's 243 00:13:08.240 --> 00:13:10.240 also won it twice. He's looking to make it a 244 00:13:10.279 --> 00:13:12.879 third time there, but Daniel could do it as well 245 00:13:12.919 --> 00:13:15.039 now and he's right in the thick of it. So 246 00:13:16.360 --> 00:13:18.399 I think the Player of the ear race thing is 247 00:13:18.440 --> 00:13:20.480 just very cool. You know, we just we kind of 248 00:13:20.879 --> 00:13:23.679 weren't talking about it with Daniel just again because of 249 00:13:23.720 --> 00:13:25.840 all the success that everyone else has happened. But now 250 00:13:26.240 --> 00:13:28.519 you know he's right there, so we're definitely going to 251 00:13:28.559 --> 00:13:30.480 be talking about it, and it's all eyes on Daniel. 252 00:13:30.799 --> 00:13:35.480 I think overall, you really can't ignore the whole longevity 253 00:13:35.480 --> 00:13:38.399 aspect when it comes to Nigranu. You know, poker has 254 00:13:39.200 --> 00:13:42.759 changed a ton in the last ten to fifteen years. 255 00:13:42.799 --> 00:13:45.399 The heck gets changed in the last three to five years. 256 00:13:45.399 --> 00:13:48.519 You know, it's the game is evolving more than it 257 00:13:48.559 --> 00:13:53.519 ever has. And plenty of big name players, notable players, 258 00:13:53.799 --> 00:13:57.480 you know, players from the boom era, right those stars. 259 00:13:57.799 --> 00:14:00.159 There's a lot of them that they just have and 260 00:14:00.240 --> 00:14:02.720 kept up, and because they haven't kept up, they really 261 00:14:02.799 --> 00:14:07.240 just can't win anymore. And Daniel is not that person. 262 00:14:07.320 --> 00:14:11.440 You know, He's shown over time that he can win. 263 00:14:11.679 --> 00:14:13.679 And there was a period of time when maybe he 264 00:14:13.759 --> 00:14:16.440 was starting to slip and he really hunkered down and 265 00:14:16.559 --> 00:14:19.759 he got studying or coaching. He studied a lot, you know, 266 00:14:19.799 --> 00:14:22.440 he got into the lab and he grinded and he 267 00:14:22.759 --> 00:14:26.080 improved in a lot of ways. You combine all that 268 00:14:26.120 --> 00:14:29.559 sort of stuff with his modern game, and you're taking 269 00:14:29.559 --> 00:14:32.240 his game into the modern era. Combine that with all 270 00:14:32.279 --> 00:14:35.720 of the decades of experience that he has, you know, 271 00:14:36.120 --> 00:14:40.200 and yeah, he's as good as fierce as any competitor 272 00:14:40.240 --> 00:14:44.200 out there, and he has certainly dapten and been able 273 00:14:44.240 --> 00:14:46.679 to keep up with things. So it's really cool to 274 00:14:46.720 --> 00:14:49.159 see him to get another result here at the World 275 00:14:49.159 --> 00:14:52.799 Series of Poker and to have that happen. I know 276 00:14:52.840 --> 00:14:55.799 it did overshadow a lot of what happened on Day 277 00:14:55.799 --> 00:14:58.360 one A of the WSP main event, but also, you know, 278 00:14:59.559 --> 00:15:01.720 this to be kind of the last thing before we 279 00:15:01.799 --> 00:15:04.120 are full swing into the SPE main event is also 280 00:15:04.200 --> 00:15:07.559 really cool, right. It's like boom, Daniel one, Okay, let's 281 00:15:07.559 --> 00:15:10.480 go WSP main Event, you know, which happened right away 282 00:15:10.559 --> 00:15:13.360 right afterwards, yes, but then also what's gonna happen tomorrow 283 00:15:13.399 --> 00:15:15.440 and for the next two weeks and then lead into 284 00:15:15.480 --> 00:15:17.960 August for the final table. So just just really cool. 285 00:15:17.960 --> 00:15:21.200 There was an awesome scene down there. Dwight from Cincinnati 286 00:15:21.279 --> 00:15:24.720 shout out to Dwight from Cincinnati talked with him for Dwight, 287 00:15:24.759 --> 00:15:26.720 I don't even know how long we talked, half hour, 288 00:15:27.159 --> 00:15:30.080 forty minutes. I mean, you kept saying you were gonna 289 00:15:30.120 --> 00:15:31.399 let me go, and you never let me go. But 290 00:15:31.440 --> 00:15:34.240 as I told you, I'm happy to talk poker with 291 00:15:34.320 --> 00:15:36.639 any of the podcast fans out there, any of the listeners, 292 00:15:36.679 --> 00:15:38.759 for as long as possible, because I love this shit 293 00:15:38.879 --> 00:15:41.240 and I will absolutely nerd out for hours and hours 294 00:15:41.279 --> 00:15:43.320 and hours. And we just kept talking about but Dwight, 295 00:15:43.480 --> 00:15:47.000 you know, he's in town, he's visiting, and he basically 296 00:15:47.039 --> 00:15:50.120 just wanted to come down and sweat the action. And 297 00:15:50.200 --> 00:15:51.759 he was he was asking me, you know, you know, 298 00:15:51.799 --> 00:15:54.320 how sick How sick am I? How sick are we that? 299 00:15:54.440 --> 00:15:59.240 You know there's not really any cameras around. We can't 300 00:15:59.240 --> 00:16:01.279 see the whole car, you know, there's only the one 301 00:16:01.320 --> 00:16:04.759 flop cam up top, you know, but we're just standing 302 00:16:04.799 --> 00:16:07.960 here twenty feet away, just just watching for hours and hours. 303 00:16:08.000 --> 00:16:10.000 I said, yeah, but that's why I know you're a 304 00:16:10.039 --> 00:16:12.799 diehard just like I am, Dwight, because that's the shit 305 00:16:12.919 --> 00:16:15.840 we love to do. Okay, And yeah, it's really cool 306 00:16:15.840 --> 00:16:17.679 that he that he happened to come and one of 307 00:16:17.679 --> 00:16:20.120 the days that he's in town for he got to 308 00:16:20.159 --> 00:16:23.639 go down to Paris and see Danielgrand who win bracelet 309 00:16:23.720 --> 00:16:26.840 number eight. And it was just I mean again, incredible 310 00:16:26.879 --> 00:16:30.919 scenes down there. As always, when Daniel gets gets deep 311 00:16:31.000 --> 00:16:35.200 like this, it's just absolutely crazy times. And the fact 312 00:16:35.240 --> 00:16:37.320 that it was in the hundred k pl O high 313 00:16:37.399 --> 00:16:40.080 roller with well north of two million dollars up top, 314 00:16:40.240 --> 00:16:54.879 just truly spectacular stuff. Speaking of the spectacular, the WSP 315 00:16:55.159 --> 00:16:59.759 main event is here. Thursday was Day one A, the 316 00:16:59.759 --> 00:17:03.679 first of four starting flights. We'll have one A, one B, 317 00:17:03.799 --> 00:17:05.880 one C and one D of course, then they will 318 00:17:05.880 --> 00:17:09.880 have two Day two's as well to ABC and then 319 00:17:09.960 --> 00:17:13.720 two D. Those will be how those two are broken 320 00:17:13.920 --> 00:17:16.880 up as long as the board is correct on the app. 321 00:17:16.920 --> 00:17:18.960 What I saw when I was there at Paris today 322 00:17:19.000 --> 00:17:22.119 before coming home, seven hundred and seventy one entries were 323 00:17:22.200 --> 00:17:27.279 tallied for Day one A. Now have to be honest 324 00:17:27.319 --> 00:17:30.680 with you guys, that is down from last year. Last 325 00:17:30.759 --> 00:17:32.799 year's Day one A nine to twenty three, so we're 326 00:17:32.839 --> 00:17:37.160 looking at a sixteen and a half percent decrease, which 327 00:17:38.160 --> 00:17:41.519 I don't think is too alarming. I think that's somewhat expected. 328 00:17:41.680 --> 00:17:44.640 You know a lot of these no limit hold them 329 00:17:44.680 --> 00:17:47.720 tournaments have been down, let's say in the realm of 330 00:17:47.759 --> 00:17:50.599 ten to twenty percent, right, you know, I had that 331 00:17:50.680 --> 00:17:53.839 episode many episodes ago when when I broke down or 332 00:17:53.880 --> 00:17:56.279 I went through kind of the the overview of the 333 00:17:56.359 --> 00:17:58.880 numbers for through the first fifty events on the the 334 00:17:59.000 --> 00:18:01.640 WSB schedule, I have felt like there's been a bit 335 00:18:01.680 --> 00:18:04.559 more buzz. Things have been picking up in the last 336 00:18:04.559 --> 00:18:07.599 week or two, you know, at Paris and at Horseshoe. Yes, 337 00:18:08.240 --> 00:18:10.079 but I don't think that this is any sort of 338 00:18:10.079 --> 00:18:12.079 prize that the ivis to being the ain event is 339 00:18:12.160 --> 00:18:14.160 down and you know, as I laid out in the 340 00:18:14.200 --> 00:18:16.240 last episode, I'm going like I think it was nine 341 00:18:16.279 --> 00:18:19.119 to one seven seven was my number nine and seventy 342 00:18:19.119 --> 00:18:22.240 seven entries, which which would be a decrease over the 343 00:18:22.279 --> 00:18:24.640 more than ninety seven hundred that they had in twenty 344 00:18:24.720 --> 00:18:29.519 twenty five. So down, Yes, big deal, Definitely not you 345 00:18:29.599 --> 00:18:33.119 had past champions in the mix. Greg Merson is out there. 346 00:18:33.119 --> 00:18:35.279 He was wearing his Milkman jersey. I think he wore 347 00:18:35.319 --> 00:18:38.119 two different Milkman jerseys. He had a baseball jersey on 348 00:18:38.200 --> 00:18:39.880 at one point, he had a I think a hockey 349 00:18:40.000 --> 00:18:44.359 jersey on at another point. Believe it's the first of 350 00:18:44.400 --> 00:18:46.880 his to be tournament of the summer for Gregy. He 351 00:18:47.240 --> 00:18:49.119 spends a lot of his time doing the whole sports 352 00:18:49.119 --> 00:18:52.640 cards thing. Not not quite as big as a Blez 353 00:18:52.880 --> 00:18:56.000 Jared Blesnik is in that regard, but you know, Greg 354 00:18:56.039 --> 00:18:58.799 holds his own for sure. Joe Katta was in the mix. 355 00:18:58.880 --> 00:19:02.880 Daniel Weinman was also out there playing. You had Phil Hellmuth, 356 00:19:03.039 --> 00:19:07.160 another w s AP main event champion, in play for 357 00:19:07.319 --> 00:19:09.480 Day one A, but he showed up later as he 358 00:19:09.559 --> 00:19:13.039 always does. And of course it wouldn't be Phil Hollmuth 359 00:19:13.079 --> 00:19:14.960 playing the ws to be main evented it did. It 360 00:19:15.000 --> 00:19:18.400 didn't come with one of his wild, famous, over the 361 00:19:18.400 --> 00:19:19.319 top entrances. 362 00:19:20.519 --> 00:19:22.440 Phil, what's it like to have your sons in the man? 363 00:19:23.200 --> 00:19:26.279 It's nerve wracking. When I'm at the future table and 364 00:19:26.319 --> 00:19:28.759 he's the future table and I'm just like geez, and 365 00:19:28.799 --> 00:19:31.440 I look over and it looks really intense, and I'm like, ah. 366 00:19:31.880 --> 00:19:33.440 You know, like I mean, I just want. 367 00:19:33.279 --> 00:19:36.599 To like it's I'm a father, you know. And I 368 00:19:36.680 --> 00:19:38.680 was pretty good for the first month of trying to 369 00:19:38.680 --> 00:19:41.839 ignore their results, but I see how much effort they're 370 00:19:41.880 --> 00:19:44.960 putting in, and then I'm like, oh, so then you 371 00:19:45.000 --> 00:19:47.559 are it even harder. So as much as I'm trying 372 00:19:47.599 --> 00:19:50.279 to keep the focus on me and playing great I'm 373 00:19:50.279 --> 00:19:51.759 looking over there and I can't help myself. How Manny 374 00:19:51.799 --> 00:19:53.000 chips you got Nick back? 375 00:19:53.039 --> 00:19:54.319 Fifty thousand almost exactly? 376 00:19:54.400 --> 00:19:54.599 Great? 377 00:19:54.880 --> 00:19:57.079 Yeah, fifty And I told think, if you make it 378 00:19:57.079 --> 00:19:59.799 through the day with thirty k, you're still really deep. So, 379 00:20:00.680 --> 00:20:02.240 you know, so I think maybe he thinks of it 380 00:20:02.279 --> 00:20:04.160 differently than than other people. Nick. 381 00:20:04.279 --> 00:20:08.279 For you, this event kickstarted your dad's legacy and massive 382 00:20:08.759 --> 00:20:09.160 sort of. 383 00:20:09.440 --> 00:20:11.400 List of results in poker. 384 00:20:11.880 --> 00:20:14.400 What has it been like for you growing up seeing 385 00:20:14.400 --> 00:20:16.559 this event from a distance and then now being in it. 386 00:20:17.079 --> 00:20:19.279 Honestly, I don't think it's that deep for me. You know, 387 00:20:19.319 --> 00:20:21.720 poker is something my dad did when I was growing up. 388 00:20:21.960 --> 00:20:23.680 I didn't pay as much attention to whether it's the 389 00:20:23.680 --> 00:20:25.839 main events or this event or that event. Honestly, I 390 00:20:25.839 --> 00:20:27.759 don't even know how the World's Series worked, you know 391 00:20:27.759 --> 00:20:29.240 what I mean? Was a series of events? 392 00:20:29.400 --> 00:20:29.559 Was it? 393 00:20:29.599 --> 00:20:31.279 You know what I mean? Like with just one big tournament. 394 00:20:32.039 --> 00:20:36.279 So I mean I kind of compartmentalize, you know what 395 00:20:36.279 --> 00:20:38.400 I mean, Like Dad's had his own journey. I'm having 396 00:20:38.440 --> 00:20:41.079 my own journey, and I hope to just focus on 397 00:20:41.119 --> 00:20:43.279 my own progression and hope to do as well as 398 00:20:43.279 --> 00:20:45.640 I can. But honestly, I don't think about it that much. 399 00:20:46.400 --> 00:20:50.839 Phil, last question for you, The life of a poker player, 400 00:20:51.000 --> 00:20:52.880 with all the ups and downs and all the swings, 401 00:20:52.920 --> 00:20:55.240