Speaker 1: Hello everyone, Welcome back to a new episode of the
Speaker 1: Poker Go Podcast. My name is Donnie Peters. Friday, July third, one,
Speaker 1: ten am. Here we just wrapped up very possibly, quite
Speaker 1: possibly the most fun and exciting day from the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty six World Series of Poker so far. Daniel mcgranu
Speaker 1: won his eighth WSOP bracelet. Yes, sir, he did the
Speaker 1: damn thing. He won the one hundred KPLO high Roller
Speaker 1: for more than two point two million dollars and it
Speaker 1: came on the same day that the WSOP main event
Speaker 1: kicked off. Today was Day one air. Yesterday was Day
Speaker 1: one A. We'll be talking about it. We caught up
Speaker 1: with Scott sever I, got an interview that Renco Rinkima
Speaker 1: did with Phil Hellmuth and his son Nick. I spoke
Speaker 1: with Jason Kohon at the end of the night, so
Speaker 1: all of that is coming in this episode. Of course,
Speaker 1: we will also bounce around Horseshoe and Paris to see
Speaker 1: some of the other stuff that went on on Thursday
Speaker 1: at the World Series. But it is negro on you.
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Speaker 1: hate to kick the w SIB main event, you know
Speaker 1: to the second standing here on the rundown. But we
Speaker 1: got DNX, we got kid Poker. We have Daniel Legrod
Speaker 1: who winning his eighth WSOP bracelet and he did it
Speaker 1: in emphatic fashion. The one hundred k PLO high roller
Speaker 1: eighty three entries in this bad boy Daniel took it
Speaker 1: down two million, two hundred and fifty seven thousand dollars
Speaker 1: in the bank. I think he was down around six
Speaker 1: hundred k or so if I remember what is vlogs
Speaker 1: the tally. He puts the tally. You know, he keeps
Speaker 1: up with it at the end of his blog or
Speaker 1: at the end of his blog every every episode that
Speaker 1: comes out. And now you know, now that he's banked
Speaker 1: more than two point two million dollars, he obviously cleared
Speaker 1: the deficit. He's well into the black and there is
Speaker 1: absolutely no way he has a losing summer from here
Speaker 1: on out. So that's pretty freaking awesome for Daniel McGrane.
Speaker 1: Of course, the eighth gold bracelet, it is going into
Speaker 1: his trophy case. That's great. He's also now in the
Speaker 1: running for WSIP Player of the Year, something you know,
Speaker 1: we really weren't talking about as it relates to Dani mcgranney.
Speaker 1: I know, I talked at length in the last episode
Speaker 1: about Sean deeb you know, and his chase for the
Speaker 1: Player of the Year, and we got you know, the
Speaker 1: thoughts from Sean directly. We also talked about how you
Speaker 1: know that top fifteen of the top ten to fifteen
Speaker 1: of the WASIP Player of the Year leader board is
Speaker 1: absolutely jam packed with great players, awesome names, superstars, et cetera.
Speaker 1: And now d Nex is right in the running because
Speaker 1: as long as my math is correct, he should be
Speaker 1: in the top ten now with this win. This was
Speaker 1: his twelfth cash of the summer. He's had a whole
Speaker 1: bunch of deep bronze, He's had a few final tables,
Speaker 1: hadn't won a bracelet yet, but he gets that done here.
Speaker 1: He has always said, always, always, always said that PLO
Speaker 1: is his jam. He feels it suits exactly the type
Speaker 1: of style that he likes to play. He said that,
Speaker 1: you know, every time he talks about this game, that's
Speaker 1: what he says. PLO is my jam. Here's why it
Speaker 1: suits my style. I fit it really well. I love
Speaker 1: the strategy, all that sort of stuff. Not an easy
Speaker 1: road for Daniel to go to get bracelet number eight.
Speaker 1: He had the top archer Martirosian in heads up play,
Speaker 1: Christopher Frank got third, Phil Sternheimer got fourth, You took
Speaker 1: him Mickey out of Japan, really good player got fifth,
Speaker 1: Sean Winter six, Sergio Martinez Gonzales seventh, and then Jeremy
Speaker 1: Osmas finished in eighth place. Of course, tons of other
Speaker 1: killers Daniel had to battle with along the way, you know,
Speaker 1: for years. You know, what was it, twenty and thirteen
Speaker 1: was his last bracelet.
Speaker 2: When he went.
Speaker 1: But you know, before he went into that super long
Speaker 1: drought of what ended up being eleven years, you know,
Speaker 1: up until twenty twenty four, and the narrative around him
Speaker 1: was very simple, you know, it was, listen, this guy's awesome.
Speaker 1: He's a legend. He's one of poker's greatest, if not
Speaker 1: the greatest ambassador. He's the face of poker. But the
Speaker 1: bracelets had stopped coming, you know, and sometimes many claimed
Speaker 1: that the big wins had stopped coming. He just couldn't
Speaker 1: do it for that stretch, you know, for whatever reason.
Speaker 1: And you know, again, twenty thirteen to twenty twenty four,
Speaker 1: that is a long ass period of time to be
Speaker 1: sitting on six bracelets when you know, you were poker superstar,
Speaker 1: you were the one winning everything, you were crushing everything,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden you just couldn't close the
Speaker 1: deal when it comes to the World Series, right, so,
Speaker 1: more than a decade without winning a bracelet, you know,
Speaker 1: and he's he was obviously close many many times, many
Speaker 1: final tables all that sort of stuff. Twenty twenty four
Speaker 1: comes around, Bam rips off that fifty K Poker Players
Speaker 1: Championship win. That was freaking incredible. He got number seven.
Speaker 1: I still remember that night, being in there, seeing the
Speaker 1: rail on the stage, all the people, you know, chanting
Speaker 1: Daniel's name, him crying, like the whole the scene was unreal,
Speaker 1: absolutely unreal. You could not have scripted it better. That's
Speaker 1: one of the most prestigious titles in poker, you know,
Speaker 1: Daniel has always talked about many top pros have talked
Speaker 1: about how, yes, w SE main event. Of course that's
Speaker 1: the Unicorn, but outside of that, it's the PPC, right, Like,
Speaker 1: that's the one. Now two years later he goes and
Speaker 1: gets another bracelet, wins the one hundred KPLO for more
Speaker 1: than two point two million dollars two point two five
Speaker 1: million dollars. I mean, that's an incredible tournament, a very
Speaker 1: very tough tournament to win in and of its own right,
Speaker 1: you know. So it's not just that he's back to
Speaker 1: winning these racelets, you know, because we have two in
Speaker 1: the span of three years. It's also what he's winning
Speaker 1: fifty k PPC, hunter k PLO high Roller. I said
Speaker 1: it earlier. He has always said that PLO is his game.
Speaker 1: He said it's his jam. Okay, that's what he's always said.
Speaker 1: PLO is my jam. He loves the game, he likes
Speaker 1: the strategy behind it. He feels like it suits him
Speaker 1: incredibly well. He likes to be able to limp in it,
Speaker 1: all that sort of stuff. I talked about how tough
Speaker 1: the field was in this one. I read off that
Speaker 1: final table. You had other people like, you know, if
Speaker 1: phil Ivey was out there, only Yuka Mine and the
Speaker 1: Finnish legend, you know, just absolute freaking killers in this tournament.
Speaker 1: Nick Shulman was in the field, etc. Etc. Like it
Speaker 1: was just Jason Kuhne was out there in absolute murder
Speaker 1: when you're when you're playing one hundred k PLO turn
Speaker 1: right and Daniel's coming out on top. So yeah, it's
Speaker 1: it's just awesome. It was a great scene down there
Speaker 1: at Paris. You know, the w SBE main event Day
Speaker 1: one A is going on and that's taking up the
Speaker 1: large bulk of the room in the main Paris ballroom.
Speaker 1: But then one of the side feature tables is this
Speaker 1: hunter K PLO high Roller final table and the rail
Speaker 1: around it was I don't know, two hundred people deep,
Speaker 1: you know, like I mean, they kind of didn't have
Speaker 1: enough room. I mean, obviously, I think everyone in poker
Speaker 1: roots for big names to do well because that's good
Speaker 1: for the game.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: I'm sure with Daniel being attached to the Gig brand,
Speaker 1: you know, they're hoping that he makes final tables all
Speaker 1: this sort of stuff. So, but that's not really planned for,
Speaker 1: especially on you know, the day when everything's supposed to
Speaker 1: be shifting to the greatest poker tournament the world and
Speaker 1: that is the main event. But then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you have Daniel kind of stealing the show from the
Speaker 1: greatest poker tournament in the world because he's over there
Speaker 1: doing the damn thing. And uh yeah, you know, of
Speaker 1: course Amanda, his wife, shows up. He's got his whole
Speaker 1: rail there. It's a whole thing. People are chanting his name.
Speaker 1: Like I talked about on the last episode about how
Speaker 1: it's refreshing to see the way that Michael Msrocky wears
Speaker 1: his heart on his sleeve when it comes to poker
Speaker 1: and celebrating his wins and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 1: You saw very similar things from Daniel when he won
Speaker 1: this and also when he lost it, because there was
Speaker 1: a couple times when he looks kind of pretty upset
Speaker 1: with things, not to the point where it was like
Speaker 1: going to rattle him. But Daniel is an outgoing personality,
Speaker 1: both vocally and then also physically with a lot of
Speaker 1: his mannerisms. Case in point, when he smashed that selfie
Speaker 1: stick a couple of years ago in this exact room,
Speaker 1: actually we took a six sick beat, you know, and
Speaker 1: that was in the midst of the whole drought thing, right,
Speaker 1: you know, So here he gets all in at one
Speaker 1: point when he's heads up with Archer march Rosian. I
Speaker 1: think Daniel thought he might have made it straight but
Speaker 1: he didn't or whatever. But Archer doubles up, and Daniel's
Speaker 1: kind of like like, you know, he he gets kind
Speaker 1: of gets kind of mad, right, but then he you know,
Speaker 1: he sits back down, he calms him out, down, he
Speaker 1: locks back in, and the next time he gets him
Speaker 1: all in, he ends up taking him out and winning
Speaker 1: the tournament. You know, hands are in the air, he's yelling,
Speaker 1: he's jumping up and down like like the whole thing.
Speaker 1: People are chanting, so it's a whole awesome thing. He
Speaker 1: runs over to make sure he gets his vlogging camera
Speaker 1: because he wants to put it all on the vlog
Speaker 1: so you guys will see that. So just really really
Speaker 1: cool stuff to see that. You know, this is poker's
Speaker 1: biggest superstar, the most popular player, the most popular poker
Speaker 1: player in the world, and to see him act that
Speaker 1: sort of way is just like Michael m is Rocky.
Speaker 1: It's it's refreshing, it's cool to see. We also cannot
Speaker 1: overlook the fact that he's now very much right into
Speaker 1: the thick of it for this incredible race for the
Speaker 1: Player of the Year title. You know, Daniel jumped up.
Speaker 1: I want to say he was like forty third or
Speaker 1: something when I looked, and then the win put him
Speaker 1: into the top ten. I think he's eighth, maybe ninth,
Speaker 1: if he's able to keep playing, keep putting in the volume.
Speaker 1: I know he does have a baby on the way
Speaker 1: that's supposed to come later in the year. Not that
Speaker 1: that's going to affect this world Series of Poker during
Speaker 1: the summer, but maybe that could possibly take him away
Speaker 1: from you know, going to Paradise or something like that.
Speaker 1: That said, there's still a lot of Doubsip he left
Speaker 1: here in the summer, we're getting into the waiting Man event.
Speaker 1: It's not like he hasn't run deep in that thing before.
Speaker 1: He has. There's a lot of big tournaments still left
Speaker 1: that Daniel can certainly make a run in, and yeah,
Speaker 1: I think he's I think he's ready to go. You know,
Speaker 1: it wasn't like we were really thinking of Daniel in
Speaker 1: terms of the WASIV Player of the Year race just
Speaker 1: because of a lot of the results that the Sean Deep,
Speaker 1: the Alex fox In, the Nick Shulman's, Benny Glasser or
Speaker 1: Calvin Anderson, all these players like they're just putting up
Speaker 1: like win after win after win, big resolve, that they're
Speaker 1: big result, that they're big result. I mean, it's crazy.
Speaker 1: You had Calvin Anderson, Nioa Kihara, Elis Parson and all
Speaker 1: winning two bracelets this summer, you know, and then of
Speaker 1: course you have all the other success from all those
Speaker 1: other you know, really really good players, and Daniel was
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, he had eleven cashes coming into this
Speaker 1: cash here. This was his twelfth Wasity cash this summer.
Speaker 1: He has had some deep runs, He's had some final tables, right,
Speaker 1: you know, but you really have to finish out like
Speaker 1: the top of that stuff to really challenge for Player
Speaker 1: of the Year. And then boom, he rips off this win.
Speaker 1: He gets it done, and now he's back into the
Speaker 1: top ten, he's back into that race, he's back into
Speaker 1: that conversation. He's won the speed Player of the Year
Speaker 1: title before. He won the first one in two thousand
Speaker 1: and four. That's when he won that tyt of truck.
Speaker 1: Remember the tyto truck. Yeah, that thing was crazy. Let's
Speaker 1: let's bring back Jeff Jeff Jeff Platt. Can you can
Speaker 1: you make trucks happen? Can we get like trucks and
Speaker 1: cars and stuff like that for the WSB Player of
Speaker 1: the Year. That's that'd be badass. And he won again
Speaker 1: in twenty thirteen, so you know, it would be kind
Speaker 1: of fitting if he's able to get it for a
Speaker 1: third time. Sean deeb is currently the front runner. He's
Speaker 1: also won it twice. He's looking to make it a
Speaker 1: third time there, but Daniel could do it as well
Speaker 1: now and he's right in the thick of it. So
Speaker 1: I think the Player of the ear race thing is
Speaker 1: just very cool. You know, we just we kind of
Speaker 1: weren't talking about it with Daniel just again because of
Speaker 1: all the success that everyone else has happened. But now
Speaker 1: you know he's right there, so we're definitely going to
Speaker 1: be talking about it, and it's all eyes on Daniel.
Speaker 1: I think overall, you really can't ignore the whole longevity
Speaker 1: aspect when it comes to Nigranu. You know, poker has
Speaker 1: changed a ton in the last ten to fifteen years.
Speaker 1: The heck gets changed in the last three to five years.
Speaker 1: You know, it's the game is evolving more than it
Speaker 1: ever has. And plenty of big name players, notable players,
Speaker 1: you know, players from the boom era, right those stars.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of them that they just have and
Speaker 1: kept up, and because they haven't kept up, they really
Speaker 1: just can't win anymore. And Daniel is not that person.
Speaker 1: You know, He's shown over time that he can win.
Speaker 1: And there was a period of time when maybe he
Speaker 1: was starting to slip and he really hunkered down and
Speaker 1: he got studying or coaching. He studied a lot, you know,
Speaker 1: he got into the lab and he grinded and he
Speaker 1: improved in a lot of ways. You combine all that
Speaker 1: sort of stuff with his modern game, and you're taking
Speaker 1: his game into the modern era. Combine that with all
Speaker 1: of the decades of experience that he has, you know,
Speaker 1: and yeah, he's as good as fierce as any competitor
Speaker 1: out there, and he has certainly dapten and been able
Speaker 1: to keep up with things. So it's really cool to
Speaker 1: see him to get another result here at the World
Speaker 1: Series of Poker and to have that happen. I know
Speaker 1: it did overshadow a lot of what happened on Day
Speaker 1: one A of the WSP main event, but also, you know,
Speaker 1: this to be kind of the last thing before we
Speaker 1: are full swing into the SPE main event is also
Speaker 1: really cool, right. It's like boom, Daniel one, Okay, let's
Speaker 1: go WSP main Event, you know, which happened right away
Speaker 1: right afterwards, yes, but then also what's gonna happen tomorrow
Speaker 1: and for the next two weeks and then lead into
Speaker 1: August for the final table. So just just really cool.
Speaker 1: There was an awesome scene down there. Dwight from Cincinnati
Speaker 1: shout out to Dwight from Cincinnati talked with him for Dwight,
Speaker 1: I don't even know how long we talked, half hour,
Speaker 1: forty minutes. I mean, you kept saying you were gonna
Speaker 1: let me go, and you never let me go. But
Speaker 1: as I told you, I'm happy to talk poker with
Speaker 1: any of the podcast fans out there, any of the listeners,
Speaker 1: for as long as possible, because I love this shit
Speaker 1: and I will absolutely nerd out for hours and hours
Speaker 1: and hours. And we just kept talking about but Dwight,
Speaker 1: you know, he's in town, he's visiting, and he basically
Speaker 1: just wanted to come down and sweat the action. And
Speaker 1: he was he was asking me, you know, you know,
Speaker 1: how sick How sick am I? How sick are we that?
Speaker 1: You know there's not really any cameras around. We can't
Speaker 1: see the whole car, you know, there's only the one
Speaker 1: flop cam up top, you know, but we're just standing
Speaker 1: here twenty feet away, just just watching for hours and hours.
Speaker 1: I said, yeah, but that's why I know you're a
Speaker 1: diehard just like I am, Dwight, because that's the shit
Speaker 1: we love to do. Okay, And yeah, it's really cool
Speaker 1: that he that he happened to come and one of
Speaker 1: the days that he's in town for he got to
Speaker 1: go down to Paris and see Danielgrand who win bracelet
Speaker 1: number eight. And it was just I mean again, incredible
Speaker 1: scenes down there. As always, when Daniel gets gets deep
Speaker 1: like this, it's just absolutely crazy times. And the fact
Speaker 1: that it was in the hundred k pl O high
Speaker 1: roller with well north of two million dollars up top,
Speaker 1: just truly spectacular stuff. Speaking of the spectacular, the WSP
Speaker 1: main event is here. Thursday was Day one A, the
Speaker 1: first of four starting flights. We'll have one A, one B,
Speaker 1: one C and one D of course, then they will
Speaker 1: have two Day two's as well to ABC and then
Speaker 1: two D. Those will be how those two are broken
Speaker 1: up as long as the board is correct on the app.
Speaker 1: What I saw when I was there at Paris today
Speaker 1: before coming home, seven hundred and seventy one entries were
Speaker 1: tallied for Day one A. Now have to be honest
Speaker 1: with you guys, that is down from last year. Last
Speaker 1: year's Day one A nine to twenty three, so we're
Speaker 1: looking at a sixteen and a half percent decrease, which
Speaker 1: I don't think is too alarming. I think that's somewhat expected.
Speaker 1: You know a lot of these no limit hold them
Speaker 1: tournaments have been down, let's say in the realm of
Speaker 1: ten to twenty percent, right, you know, I had that
Speaker 1: episode many episodes ago when when I broke down or
Speaker 1: I went through kind of the the overview of the
Speaker 1: numbers for through the first fifty events on the the
Speaker 1: WSB schedule, I have felt like there's been a bit
Speaker 1: more buzz. Things have been picking up in the last
Speaker 1: week or two, you know, at Paris and at Horseshoe. Yes,
Speaker 1: but I don't think that this is any sort of
Speaker 1: prize that the ivis to being the ain event is
Speaker 1: down and you know, as I laid out in the
Speaker 1: last episode, I'm going like I think it was nine
Speaker 1: to one seven seven was my number nine and seventy
Speaker 1: seven entries, which which would be a decrease over the
Speaker 1: more than ninety seven hundred that they had in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five. So down, Yes, big deal, Definitely not you
Speaker 1: had past champions in the mix. Greg Merson is out there.
Speaker 1: He was wearing his Milkman jersey. I think he wore
Speaker 1: two different Milkman jerseys. He had a baseball jersey on
Speaker 1: at one point, he had a I think a hockey
Speaker 1: jersey on at another point. Believe it's the first of
Speaker 1: his to be tournament of the summer for Gregy. He
Speaker 1: spends a lot of his time doing the whole sports
Speaker 1: cards thing. Not not quite as big as a Blez
Speaker 1: Jared Blesnik is in that regard, but you know, Greg
Speaker 1: holds his own for sure. Joe Katta was in the mix.
Speaker 1: Daniel Weinman was also out there playing. You had Phil Hellmuth,
Speaker 1: another w s AP main event champion, in play for
Speaker 1: Day one A, but he showed up later as he
Speaker 1: always does. And of course it wouldn't be Phil Hollmuth
Speaker 1: playing the ws to be main evented it did. It
Speaker 1: didn't come with one of his wild, famous, over the
Speaker 1: top entrances.
Speaker 2: Phil, what's it like to have your sons in the man?
Speaker 4: It's nerve wracking. When I'm at the future table and
Speaker 4: he's the future table and I'm just like geez, and
Speaker 4: I look over and it looks really intense, and I'm like, ah.
Speaker 2: You know, like I mean, I just want.
Speaker 4: To like it's I'm a father, you know. And I
Speaker 4: was pretty good for the first month of trying to
Speaker 4: ignore their results, but I see how much effort they're
Speaker 4: putting in, and then I'm like, oh, so then you
Speaker 4: are it even harder. So as much as I'm trying
Speaker 4: to keep the focus on me and playing great I'm
Speaker 4: looking over there and I can't help myself. How Manny
Speaker 4: chips you got Nick back?
Speaker 5: Fifty thousand almost exactly?
Speaker 2: Great?
Speaker 4: Yeah, fifty And I told think, if you make it
Speaker 4: through the day with thirty k, you're still really deep. So,
Speaker 4: you know, so I think maybe he thinks of it
Speaker 4: differently than than other people. Nick.
Speaker 6: For you, this event kickstarted your dad's legacy and massive
Speaker 6: sort of.
Speaker 2: List of results in poker.
Speaker 1: What has it been like for you growing up seeing
Speaker 1: this event from a distance and then now being in it.
Speaker 5: Honestly, I don't think it's that deep for me. You know,
Speaker 5: poker is something my dad did when I was growing up.
Speaker 5: I didn't pay as much attention to whether it's the
Speaker 5: main events or this event or that event. Honestly, I
Speaker 5: don't even know how the World's Series worked, you know
Speaker 5: what I mean? Was a series of events?
Speaker 2: Was it?
Speaker 5: You know what I mean? Like with just one big tournament.
Speaker 5: So I mean I kind of compartmentalize, you know what
Speaker 5: I mean, Like Dad's had his own journey. I'm having
Speaker 5: my own journey, and I hope to just focus on
Speaker 5: my own progression and hope to do as well as
Speaker 5: I can. But honestly, I don't think about it that much.
Speaker 1: Phil, last question for you, The life of a poker player,
Speaker 1: with all the ups and downs and all the swings,
Speaker 1: can be very emotionally unstable.
Speaker 2: It can be just taking over your whole life. Do
Speaker 2: you have to make your sons away how tough this
Speaker 2: life can be? And then how do you view them
Speaker 2: if they were potentially to play full time?
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know.
Speaker 4: I mean it's been a good case study for Nick
Speaker 4: because he's spent he spent like a month straight now
Speaker 4: playing poker almost every day. And I see he's handling
Speaker 4: it really well, like he's he's getting with kings and
Speaker 4: losing and then kings and losing, and then queens and
Speaker 4: losing an ace king.
Speaker 1: But he's coming back.
Speaker 4: Yeah he's not. And I'm like, it's a good son.
Speaker 4: You keep playing big pots with big hands, and then boom,
Speaker 4: the deep runs started coming for him, two or three
Speaker 4: deep runs in the next like four or five tournaments.
Speaker 4: And so he's handling it well. He's not like feeling
Speaker 4: I have to go drinking or you know what I mean, like.
Speaker 5: Or get all oat pressed or a two upset or emotional.
Speaker 5: You know, I just don't have to keep adding. So
Speaker 5: we actually have like a little list of all the
Speaker 5: hands I get knocked out on or go broke with,
Speaker 5: you know what I mean. And so it's funny. It's like,
Speaker 5: you know Ace King, King Gang, King Gang, you know
Speaker 5: Ace Queen Queens, you know, So it's funny we keep
Speaker 5: adding to the list. Is a good room that like,
Speaker 5: if I just keep it up, you know what I mean,
Speaker 5: then I think I'll get there. And it's it's been
Speaker 5: I feel like I've been breaking through these past couple
Speaker 5: of weeks.
Speaker 4: So it's it's incredible to see him get better, but
Speaker 4: to also handle the emotional swings, because you're right, and
Speaker 4: I used to go crazy and I would call his mom,
Speaker 4: who I'm still very happily married with after thirty seven years.
Speaker 4: I'd be calling him but a little too emotional. And
Speaker 4: he's handling it better then I was handling it. And
Speaker 4: you can see him getting better every day thinking about things.
Speaker 2: You come to me and.
Speaker 4: Say I think this, and I'm like, oh my god, Nick,
Speaker 4: that's really advanced. Thinking. No one else, all the all
Speaker 4: the great players don't do this well.
Speaker 1: They all the great players don't.
Speaker 2: Do this well.
Speaker 4: And you've already figured out that you need to do it.
Speaker 4: That's something an element of patience. But I think he
Speaker 4: hit the nail on the head, you know, to rewind,
Speaker 4: and he's just he's handling it well, and you know,
Speaker 4: he's you know, it's my first world series and you know,
Speaker 4: and and it's it's you can't get too tied to
Speaker 4: the results.
Speaker 2: Final one for you, Nick, what's the ambition.
Speaker 5: In povert Well, I quit my job last year, like
Speaker 5: early fall, late summer. I saw my brother had been
Speaker 5: doing this for a little while.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 5: I thought I'd give it a try, and I I
Speaker 5: have a liking for it. I really liked laying poker
Speaker 5: and so ambitions, you know, I just take things one
Speaker 5: step at a time, you know what I mean. I
Speaker 5: tried to think too big or too grandiose, just to
Speaker 5: focus on the next step, next goal for me to accomplish.
Speaker 5: And there's always going to be a goal after that.
Speaker 5: So you know, one step at a time, well.
Speaker 1: Said, Well said, he's so solid.
Speaker 2: I love that that's so solid.
Speaker 4: But that makes me proud because then he's not going
Speaker 4: to get too emotional, and then that that's.
Speaker 2: A good thing.
Speaker 1: This one, he was dressed as I think Superman but
Speaker 1: he was in all black. He had his sons on
Speaker 1: his side, Nick and Phil. He had Jungleman alongside. It
Speaker 1: was it was as outrageously cringe slash awesome at the
Speaker 1: same time as you would imagine, like it's just it's
Speaker 1: it's just the thing that Phil Helmy does. It's a spectacle.
Speaker 1: Those of us in the industry are kind of like, Okay,
Speaker 1: we've seen it, you know, we'll put up with it.
Speaker 1: We got it, you know. I don't really know, like
Speaker 1: what the outside world thinks of it. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: Ali and Jodd Nick Schulman were in the booth losing
Speaker 1: their minds over the tightness of Phil's costume in certain
Speaker 1: man areas at a couple of bulging parts going on.
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, the whole thing is always it's always
Speaker 1: a fun day when Helm phil Helm makes makes his entrance.
Speaker 1: He had he had seventeen models. Everyone had a sign
Speaker 1: with a number on it. Of course for his seventeen bracelets.
Speaker 1: There's music blasting. I mean the whole thing, right, the
Speaker 1: whole the whole freaking thing. You also had some notables
Speaker 1: in the field, Scott sever Jason Kuhn, Adrian Matteos was
Speaker 1: out there. I saw Eric Sidell rocking his New York
Speaker 1: Knicks hat set day in the mixed legend, Billy Baxter,
Speaker 1: Japanese vlogging sensation, Masado Yokasawa, Jeremy Ozma, Samsover, Olivier Busque,
Speaker 1: and then Andrew Lichtenberger. They were all in the mix
Speaker 1: they played. Speaking of Andrew Lichtenberger, don't forget to go
Speaker 1: check out the Face the Ace podcast that Liechtenberger did
Speaker 1: with my guy Remco Rinkim. You guys can find it
Speaker 1: on the feed. If you want to watch the video format,
Speaker 1: you can find it on the Poker Go YouTube channel.
Speaker 1: As always, you see some wild and crazy shit on
Speaker 1: the day ones of the w CP main event. The
Speaker 1: first elimination, at least as it was reported by Poker News,
Speaker 1: was Anthony Marini. He got involved in a pot against
Speaker 1: Ryan Sands and it was I believe there was an
Speaker 1: open at the table than Marini three bet. They're playing
Speaker 1: one hundred two hundred for the blinds. You start with
Speaker 1: sixty K, so you start three hundred big blinds deep.
Speaker 1: It goes rays to an unknown amount, then a three
Speaker 1: bet from Marini to fifteen hundred right, and Sands unclear
Speaker 1: if he was the original razor or not, but whatever,
Speaker 1: it doesn't really matter. He four bets the thirty five
Speaker 1: hundred gets back to Marini. He five bets to seventy
Speaker 1: five hundred. Sans moves all in for what I'm assuming
Speaker 1: is sixty k. Marini calls with Ace King of diamonds,
Speaker 1: Ace King suited. Sans's got the two black aces. There's
Speaker 1: a king on the flop. Yeah, so a little bit
Speaker 1: of hope there for Marini, but it breaks out from there.
Speaker 1: He's busto and then Sands is up to double starting
Speaker 1: in level one, ultimately goes on to bag one hundred
Speaker 1: and forty four five hundred chips, and we're just freaking off.
Speaker 1: The main is back. People are just blasting it off.
Speaker 1: In level one of this tournament. You also had a
Speaker 1: wild first level for Scott sever There was a report
Speaker 1: on poker News. So Scott puts something on social media
Speaker 1: where it was like I just doubled up in a
Speaker 1: spot where like no one else would would play for
Speaker 1: stacks or something along those lines. Right, So then I
Speaker 1: obviously go check poker news. They got the hand. Sever's
Speaker 1: involved in a three way pot on King five four
Speaker 1: with two hearts. He ends up getting it all in
Speaker 1: with Ace King against Gafang Lynn, who's got King seven.
Speaker 1: I think, if this report is correct on Poker News,
Speaker 1: Lynn over bet the flop. They had him as betting
Speaker 1: ten thousand into a pot of what looked to be
Speaker 1: eighty four hundred. Sever just goes all in for a
Speaker 1: little over fifty k. He gets a call from Lynn
Speaker 1: with the King seven. The turns and Ace and Lynn's
Speaker 1: just drawing dead. So sever wins that him basically doubles.
Speaker 1: But then also in the first level there's a hand
Speaker 1: Whereceivers said he folded Queen's pre flop, like so, it's
Speaker 1: just there's nothing like this tournament, absolutely nothing. So I'm
Speaker 1: like reading through the updates, I'm seeing this all all there.
Speaker 1: There was a few different hands where it was like,
Speaker 1: what the Heck's going on off there? Mind you. I'm
Speaker 1: also thinking, you know, I'm setting up to play this
Speaker 1: event on Saturday for day one sea and I'm like, hm,
Speaker 1: should I just go out there with the way some
Speaker 1: of these people are just blasting their chips out and
Speaker 1: just get my start today, because heck, it looks like
Speaker 1: it's pretty profitable out there. So anyway, I'm reading through
Speaker 1: some of the updates. There's a bunch of stuff happening,
Speaker 1: but the sever stuff stuck out to me so much
Speaker 1: so that I wanted to go catch up with him.
Speaker 1: So after the first level, the first two hours were
Speaker 1: in the books, I went out there and I found
Speaker 1: Scott Severer and I just had to ask him, Man,
Speaker 1: what the heck's going on? So here's my quick chat
Speaker 1: with mister Scott sever himself. All right, Scott, you got
Speaker 1: a pretty eventful first level. You doubled up, you folded
Speaker 1: Queen's pre flaba. What's up with the start?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I've played four or five hands for stacks already.
Speaker 7: I have one hundred and fifty thousand a little over.
Speaker 7: It's been a really tumultuous and exciting first level.
Speaker 1: Is that something you kind of come into with maybe
Speaker 1: a strategy. Listen, I'm gonna play aggressive early and just
Speaker 1: go for it, or is it just take it as
Speaker 1: it comes?
Speaker 7: I think your strategy has to be fluid based on
Speaker 7: the type of table you're at. There's some tables where
Speaker 7: you really just want to wait and hope that like
Speaker 7: a good thing happens to you, and there are some
Speaker 7: tables where you need to make sure you're in there
Speaker 7: such that you have the opportunity for you to be
Speaker 7: the one to receive a good blessing. And I just
Speaker 7: had some spots where I felt I needed to make
Speaker 7: pots kind of big and hope they went my way.
Speaker 2: And so far they have one of.
Speaker 1: Those pots that did get kind of big, the Ace
Speaker 1: King versus the King seven. And you put on social
Speaker 1: media that you played for stacks in a spot that
Speaker 1: a lot of other people wouldn't get the full stack,
Speaker 1: you know, just tell me about that decision in that process.
Speaker 7: Yeah, we were three ways in a three bet pod
Speaker 7: and it came King five four and I have Ace King,
Speaker 7: So of course I'm happy, but it's still just a
Speaker 7: pair for three hundred big lines in the main event,
Speaker 7: and the other player he let out ten thousand, and
Speaker 7: I looked at him, and I just kind of felt
Speaker 7: the energy and I thought I had the best hand,
Speaker 7: which is the first thing you got to figure out.
Speaker 7: And the second thing is usually I feel you would
Speaker 7: either call or small, but probably just call to let
Speaker 7: someone else either a bluff. There was a flusterrawl possible,
Speaker 7: a straight draw possible. I just thought that he had
Speaker 7: a hand that he wanted to get all in with
Speaker 7: and also that my hand was somehow good, so I
Speaker 7: just put all sixty thousand in over it and he
Speaker 7: called with King seven on King Kai four and the
Speaker 7: turn was an ace. It's giving me aces and kings.
Speaker 7: But I feel with almost any other action, probably King
Speaker 7: seven gets scared when the turn comes an ace. So
Speaker 7: I feel happy the way I played it to get
Speaker 7: the pull sixty.
Speaker 1: You played one level, you got two and a half
Speaker 1: times this starting stack. Have you ever had a start
Speaker 1: like this to the main event.
Speaker 7: I don't think I have. I think this is the
Speaker 7: best level one I've ever had.
Speaker 1: So you heard it there sever multiple times. Just ready
Speaker 1: to play for stacks, just absolutely ready to go for it.
Speaker 1: Sever went onto bag I think around two hundred thousand.
Speaker 1: He put on social media that he said he played
Speaker 1: his heart out, and yeah, he's got almost three x
Speaker 1: starting entering day two, which is an absolute mountain of
Speaker 1: chips in this tournament. I mean, people cash in this
Speaker 1: tournament with you know, the starting sackler or less of
Speaker 1: course receivers out here, just building up to three X
Speaker 1: starting in on the first day of play. But that
Speaker 1: just absolutely sounds like he was willing to go for it.
Speaker 1: In a lot of spots. The chip leader to come
Speaker 1: out of Day one A was Ryuta Nikai out of Japan.
Speaker 1: These Japanese players, let me tell you, they are taking
Speaker 1: over the poker world like theyre. If they're not here already,
Speaker 1: they are freaking comment like, there's a lot of Japanese
Speaker 1: players that are out. They are playing not only the
Speaker 1: big bet stuff specifically Nolan man hold them at the
Speaker 1: World Series. They are playing everything. They are performing very well.
Speaker 1: Some of them are even getting drafted in twenty five
Speaker 1: K Fantasy. I have played with a bunch of the
Speaker 1: Japanese players throughout this summer, I would even say going
Speaker 1: back to last summer, and they are an absolute freaking
Speaker 1: handful to deal with. They know their shit, they are
Speaker 1: fearless at the table, they get after it. They put
Speaker 1: you in super tough spots. So yeah, I mean shout
Speaker 1: out to the Japanese players who are making making waves
Speaker 1: here at the World Series of Poker. We've always kind
Speaker 1: of talked about over the last let's say five years
Speaker 1: or so, you know, give or take that, the Japanese market,
Speaker 1: the Japanese region was you know, really getting ready to boom.
Speaker 1: Poker is increasingly growing there and becoming more and more popular.
Speaker 1: I don't think it, you know, and I could be wrong,
Speaker 1: but I don't think it's like fully legal yet, you know,
Speaker 1: to play for real money and all that sort of stuff,
Speaker 1: even though some stuff has happened there, Yes, but it
Speaker 1: seems like just going to continue to grow, right. And then,
Speaker 1: you know, I've talked about it already on this podcast feed.
Speaker 1: But when you got people like Masada Yokosawa leaving the
Speaker 1: charge chartering Giant jets to bring over two hundred plus
Speaker 1: people to come to the World Series of Poker like that,
Speaker 1: everything just seems to be moving in the right direction, right.
Speaker 1: Coupled with the fact that these players are super tough,
Speaker 1: highly competitive. I mean, the player in me says like,
Speaker 1: get the heck out of here, because I don't want to.
Speaker 1: I don't want to have to deal with more tough
Speaker 1: players in the fields. But they are very, very good,
Speaker 1: and they are coming if they are not here already.
Speaker 1: And on top of day one A, we got Ryuta
Speaker 1: and Nikai, who I think was drafted in twenty five
Speaker 1: K fantasy has let me check these chip guns. He
Speaker 1: was drafted in twenty five K fantasy. Speaking of another
Speaker 1: Japanese player by the way, Masado Yokosawa, who I just mentioned,
Speaker 1: He bagged north of two hundred and twenty thousand in chips,
Speaker 1: so you know he's crushing it too. He had a
Speaker 1: great day. Helmuth went on to bag I think sixty
Speaker 1: six thousand and his son as long as the app
Speaker 1: is correct, which I don't know if it's fully updated
Speaker 1: yet or not, but where it's going to roll with
Speaker 1: it forty five thousand, eight hundred. Another superstar player in
Speaker 1: the mix for Day one A was Jason Kuhn. Came
Speaker 1: a little bit late to the day, not too late,
Speaker 1: but maybe a level in or so. He had kind
Speaker 1: of a tough first day, bagging eighteen thousand, seven hundred,
Speaker 1: so less than one third starting. If you were watching
Speaker 1: the stream, you know that a hand was caught. They
Speaker 1: caught it on the river where Kuon is on the river.
Speaker 1: The board's got the King of Spades, the Tennis spades,
Speaker 1: and another spade. It's not paired. Kuon's got the Queen
Speaker 1: Jack of Spades, so he's got the second nut flush
Speaker 1: and his opponent has moved all in into him with
Speaker 1: the Ace six of spades. Kuhn tanks for a little
Speaker 1: bit ultimately folds the second nuts in this pot, the
Speaker 1: second nut flush Kun I think ended up getting all
Speaker 1: the way down to like three thousand and chips or
Speaker 1: something like, just getting brutalized all day. I talked to
Speaker 1: him afterwards, you know, he said he lost. He said
Speaker 1: he folded second nuts another time offstream to a guy
Speaker 1: when he was like sure that the guy had it.
Speaker 1: He lost Queens to Ace nine for a pile. He
Speaker 1: did fight his way back, and then in the last
Speaker 1: level when I was standing out there waiting for the
Speaker 1: end of the night to come around to hopefully talk
Speaker 1: to Jason, he got Queens again. He got him in
Speaker 1: against Ace King. He was able to double up there.
Speaker 1: Tough day. Jason Kuhn had to fight. You know, not
Speaker 1: everything comes easy in this event. You know, the big
Speaker 1: blind starting with day two will be eight hundred, so
Speaker 1: it'll be four hundred and eight hundred. So you know,
Speaker 1: he has what twenty five big blinds to or sorry
Speaker 1: not twenty five, twenty whatever, twenty three, twenty three and
Speaker 1: a half big blinds to work with. So you know,
Speaker 1: certainly not out of it. You're not as deep as
Speaker 1: you want to be in this tournament. You know, especially
Speaker 1: someone who is as aggressive and relentless and creative as
Speaker 1: Jason Kuhn. But you know that doesn't mean you give up,
Speaker 1: of course. But after play, you know, Jason was nice
Speaker 1: enough to catch up with me for a few minutes.
Speaker 1: So here is my talk with Jason Kuhn.
Speaker 6: All right, Jason, uh not necessarily your days stack wise,
Speaker 6: but I mean you kind of should be out of
Speaker 6: the tournament after that Queen Jack of Space and what
Speaker 6: the heck that?
Speaker 8: I had about three situations similar to that later in
Speaker 8: the day too.
Speaker 3: I've made some crazy folds.
Speaker 8: Obviously I'll never know because I didn't see him, but
Speaker 8: uh yeah, I had that, and then I got Queen's
Speaker 8: against a nine suited for a big one.
Speaker 3: Lost, but somehow I'm still in the tournament.
Speaker 8: But yeah, the Queen Jack of Spades was something, you know,
Speaker 8: obviously not a recommended fold for people to make, but
Speaker 8: I've been playing for a long time.
Speaker 3: I had a lot of things.
Speaker 8: Kind of I almost hold the turn, which would have
Speaker 8: been completely ballistic.
Speaker 3: But I almost did.
Speaker 8: Man, I thought it would have been too crazy to
Speaker 8: hold the turn because I thought if he had a
Speaker 8: smaller clush, he may raise the turn.
Speaker 3: And check back the river. But when the money went
Speaker 3: on the river, I just was pretty confident.
Speaker 8: That if he had a bluff, it would have the
Speaker 8: hand would have played out differently.
Speaker 3: And you know, I could have been very wrong.
Speaker 8: I've made some big folds and a lot of tournaments
Speaker 8: and most of them have been right.
Speaker 3: But sometimes look like a moron. But you gotta trust yourself.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 1: It seems like you were having a lot of fun
Speaker 1: with your table. Take story.
Speaker 3: Lovely group, lovely group.
Speaker 8: And you know, every year I played the main Like, honestly,
Speaker 8: I played this tournament today like like it was my
Speaker 8: last dollar. I had to my name, Like I really
Speaker 8: fought for every chip.
Speaker 3: I want to be around. I don't want to just
Speaker 3: give up.
Speaker 8: And just prove to myself that, like, even if the
Speaker 8: stakes are smaller, I'm always willing to grind it out,
Speaker 8: you know.
Speaker 3: But yeah, the table was lovely. Everybody was having a blast.
Speaker 3: And I really like the main.
Speaker 8: I like talking to people and enjoying enjoying their experience
Speaker 8: with them. Because we had two first timers here today,
Speaker 8: and you know, I like, uh, I like hanging out
Speaker 8: with people.
Speaker 1: Well, you got around a little less than what a
Speaker 1: third starting stack going to day two. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: what's just just grind it out?
Speaker 8: Been there plenty man, I mean we were coming back
Speaker 8: to eight hundred BB.
Speaker 3: It gives me, you know a little over twenty five BB.
Speaker 8: I can make that work, and twenty five can become
Speaker 8: one hundred real fast.
Speaker 3: This is a long tournament. I don't need to bag
Speaker 3: the tip of the day one.
Speaker 1: All right. So that was Jason Kuhne, and you heard
Speaker 1: him say that he's trying to play this tournament like
Speaker 1: it's his last dollar. And if this guy's able to
Speaker 1: get some chips and make a run, you know, that
Speaker 1: could be quite the handful for players to deal with
Speaker 1: later on. Of course, as always, you know, a bunch
Speaker 1: of players do bust whenever poker tournaments happen. It doesn't
Speaker 1: matter how good the structure is. We already talked about
Speaker 1: Anthony Moriny going out when he had the ace king
Speaker 1: suited into Ryan Sans's pocket aces. Jason Coon did survive, Yes,
Speaker 1: you know he's short. You know some of the players
Speaker 1: who didn't survive, you ha, Jared Blesnik busting, David Bach busting,
Speaker 1: Nick Seward out, Dan Smith gone, Leo Margetz gone, Chetty
Speaker 1: Sledge Gone, Set Davies and Adrian Mittaos I mentioned them earlier.
Speaker 1: They are also busted. Mateos was on one of the
Speaker 1: feature tables, and it just looked like nothing went his way,
Speaker 1: like he just had the second best hand, the second
Speaker 1: best hand, the second best hand, and a lot of
Speaker 1: really tough spots, cooler spots, just over and over and
Speaker 1: over again. And sometimes you know that's just the hand
Speaker 1: your delt or the hands that you are dealt in
Speaker 1: a poker tournament. And it certainly looked that no matter
Speaker 1: who sat in Adrian Matteos's seat today, on day one
Speaker 1: A of the twenty twenty six to pace, no one's
Speaker 1: going to be winning that day. I'm trying to see
Speaker 1: how many people advanced through. It looks like around five
Speaker 1: forty to five fifty.
Speaker 4: So.
Speaker 1: A little bit over two hundred players busted out on
Speaker 1: day one A, so you know a good amount of
Speaker 1: them have moved on to day two. They'll be back
Speaker 1: on Monday, so a couple days off Friday, Saturday and
Speaker 1: Sunday off while the other day ones play. I guess
Speaker 1: just my thoughts walking around Paris, walking through the field,
Speaker 1: I did think I thought the field looked pretty good
Speaker 1: in terms of like value. I also thought, you know,
Speaker 1: then I'm reading some of the updates and stuff on
Speaker 1: Poker News, and I'm thinking, okay, yeah, like this field
Speaker 1: looks pretty valuable on day one A. I think if
Speaker 1: you couple that with the fact that you get three
Speaker 1: days off, and if you do end up making a
Speaker 1: run in this thing, having those days off early could
Speaker 1: probably pay dividends much later on when this thing really
Speaker 1: does become a grueling gauntlet that you have to get
Speaker 1: through and you have to have that stamina and you
Speaker 1: have to be able to power through and try and
Speaker 1: be as fresh as possible. So I don't know, day
Speaker 1: one A might be something that I think more players
Speaker 1: might want to start looking into playing.
Speaker 7: Now.
Speaker 1: There were some tough tables out there. I would say that,
Speaker 1: you know, in terms of like known really good players.
Speaker 1: Not not that players can't be really good, they're just
Speaker 1: you know, you don't necessarily recognize them by face or whatever.
Speaker 1: You have to dig a little bit deeper, find their name,
Speaker 1: look them up, et cetera. Just like first look looking
Speaker 1: around out there, I think the worst I saw was
Speaker 1: a table with like three known good players at it,
Speaker 1: you know, so that's not the worst thing in the world.
Speaker 1: You know, it's not like a table had five or six,
Speaker 1: like absolute killers or something like that. So of course,
Speaker 1: you know, day one D the last starting flight, has
Speaker 1: always been the largest starting flight. I know a lot
Speaker 1: of people opt to play that flight, but you know,
Speaker 1: I also think that there's a good chance you could
Speaker 1: end up getting stuck with a lot better players and
Speaker 1: then you have, you know, fewer rest days going forward
Speaker 1: if you do ultimately run deep. So I kind of
Speaker 1: think one A might be the one ame might be
Speaker 1: the player I'm playing one se though. Listen, once I
Speaker 1: make a deep run starting with one seed, I get it.
Speaker 1: I got to keep it up until it doesn't happen.
Speaker 1: So that's what's gonna happen with me. Plus got to
Speaker 1: juggle the work schedule and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 1: But one I looked, uh, one I looked good. Plus
Speaker 1: I feel like with one A, you kind of you
Speaker 1: kind of fly under the radar a little bit. You know,
Speaker 1: you kind of just go out there, workmanlike, punch the clock,
Speaker 1: get it done, bag tips for day two, get a
Speaker 1: few days off, and you know, you don't really have
Speaker 1: to think about it, you know, and it's kind of
Speaker 1: a little bit easier on the whole pressure side of things.
Speaker 1: I'm going to take a scan here around the rest
Speaker 1: of the tournaments that took place at the twenty twenty
Speaker 1: six World Series of Poker. Not going to go in
Speaker 1: depth too much into this sort of stuff, just because
Speaker 1: listen today was about Danna and Grandu winning embracelet number eight.
Speaker 1: Today was about the kickoff for the twenty twenty six
Speaker 1: and WSP main event. But we did have the winner
Speaker 1: in the mini event, Daisuke Ogita. Guess where he's from, guys, Japan,
Speaker 1: that's right, winning a million dollars tops the field of twelve,
Speaker 1: five hundred and sixty entries. Canada's Jaywa Sun took second place. Now,
Speaker 1: I got to mention a hand that Sun played because
Speaker 1: this hand, because it was at my table and we're
Speaker 1: we're so earlier in the day. On day two, Sun
Speaker 1: is at my table, doesn't play a single hand for like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, in our maybe a little bit longer,
Speaker 1: doesn't play any hand. Of course, that could simply be
Speaker 1: card distribution. Fine, our table breaks, we go our separate
Speaker 1: ways whatever. I think it was. Two table breaks later
Speaker 1: for me, Son moves back to my table, okay. He
Speaker 1: doesn't play a hand for a little while. Then all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, he plays this hand where it full.
Speaker 1: I'm in the small blind, he's in the he's on
Speaker 1: the button. It folds to him. On the button, he
Speaker 1: puts in a raise to three point twenty five x
Speaker 1: the big blind. Immediately I'm like, well, that's just too big,
Speaker 1: like and then I'm looking at the clock, thinking, oh,
Speaker 1: the blind's about to go up, and he maybe thought
Speaker 1: that they were already up whatever, so he just jacks
Speaker 1: it up on the button. I fold player in the
Speaker 1: big blind goes all in for nine big blinds. Son's
Speaker 1: like tanking for a while and then slams in the
Speaker 1: chips for the call on tables in his hands, got
Speaker 1: seven deuce off, dead serious. It's like, what the hell
Speaker 1: is going on? Big Blind's got queen ten of hearts.
Speaker 1: The Queen ten of hearts holds and you know that's that.
Speaker 1: So that hand happened. He ends up getting heads up,
Speaker 1: he got short. Later on he was involved in a
Speaker 1: three way pot where I ended up doubling up, but
Speaker 1: he ended up folding pre flop. It was like a
Speaker 1: sky went all in for like seven big lines. He
Speaker 1: called I jammed over top, then he folded and I
Speaker 1: won that pot. But it was yeah, just seeing that
Speaker 1: and then you know him going on to finish in
Speaker 1: second place here for six hundred and twenty five thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, good for him. Jeffrey Evans got third,
Speaker 1: am in most stuff most of AVI got fourth with
Speaker 1: three and sixty k. Evans got four to seventy five
Speaker 1: for third, Richard Harris fifth for two to seventy five.
Speaker 1: I mean, this this tournament, man, it was over super
Speaker 1: super quick on on Thursday. You know, the average stack
Speaker 1: was really really shallow entering that final day. But you know,
Speaker 1: congratulations to Japan's Daisuke Ogita for winning the mini main
Speaker 1: event at the twenty twenty six Cool Trees It Poker
Speaker 1: for one million dollars. The twenty five hundred dollars mixed
Speaker 1: triple draw. Patrick Stacey topped a field of five hundred
Speaker 1: and eight entries there. Stacy's won his first bracelet and
Speaker 1: he also took home two hundred and twenty three thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: He beat Danny Tang in heads up play. Mark Gregorich
Speaker 1: got third, Alan Kessler got fourth, Andrew Kelsall aka aj
Speaker 1: Kelsall fifth place there and Arthur Morris sixth place on
Speaker 1: that one. The six hundred dollars Deep Stack Championship is
Speaker 1: down to fifty players remaining. Okay, okay, this was five thousand,
Speaker 1: one hundred and seventy seven entries in this tournament. Six
Speaker 1: hundred dollars buying up top is two hundred and eighty
Speaker 1: two thousand dollars. Ship leader looks to be Song Han
Speaker 1: is leading the way narrowly ahead of Lisa Tan. It's
Speaker 1: six point two to eighty five million up top for Han,
Speaker 1: and Tan's got six point two to three million up
Speaker 1: on top there. I don't see any notable notable players
Speaker 1: sticking out to me in the top batch of the
Speaker 1: chip guns, but that's fine. You know it's gonna get
Speaker 1: a new superstar that comes out of this one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just a quick skin here. I really don't recognize any
Speaker 1: of the names in the field, but two hundred and
Speaker 1: eighty two thousand dollars up top. They're going to finish
Speaker 1: this one out, I'm assuming on Friday, So stay tuned
Speaker 1: for the winner of the six hundred dollars Deep Sack
Speaker 1: Championship event. I definitely know the front runner of the
Speaker 1: chip leader with fourteen players remaining in the three K
Speaker 1: freeze out, and that is mister Andrew Moreno Amo for
Speaker 1: show is up on top. He's got a nice chip
Speaker 1: lead there with what looks to be almost twelve million
Speaker 1: in chives one hundred big blinds. I mean he's about
Speaker 1: two million ahead of second place first place in this one.
Speaker 1: I think it's almost seven hundred K, six eighty three,
Speaker 1: six hundred and eighty three thousand dollars. Of course, everyone
Speaker 1: is deep into the money here, seventeen hundred and ninety
Speaker 1: two entries in this field. You've got David Mischaikowski in
Speaker 1: the mix, Chris Mormon is still in. Martin Jacobson is
Speaker 1: also in there as well. So again down to fourteen
Speaker 1: players in the three K freeze out that will also
Speaker 1: finish out on Friday. Andrew Marino had a deep run
Speaker 1: in the WSP Monster Stack earlier this summer, another deep
Speaker 1: run in that tournament. He's had several deep runs in
Speaker 1: the Doubsity Monster Stack. Good friend of Mine, absolute killer
Speaker 1: on the Felt, is one of those players who it's
Speaker 1: about time he wins a WSP Goald bracelet, and this
Speaker 1: could very well be it he is the chip leader
Speaker 1: with fourteen players remaining, so we'll keep tabs on this
Speaker 1: one and talk about it on the next episode. The
Speaker 1: ten K eight Game Mixed Championship, we have twelve players
Speaker 1: remaining from a field of one hundred and ninety nine entries.
Speaker 1: More than four hundred thousand dollars up top four hundred
Speaker 1: and thirty one thousand dollars to be exact, leading the
Speaker 1: way atop those final twelve players. Brian rast second place.
Speaker 1: Alex Foxen. You know you guys, don't think don't sleep
Speaker 1: on mister Alex fox And when it comes to the
Speaker 1: mixed games, because he's out there battling Matt Vangren's still
Speaker 1: in the mix. Taylor Atchison. The reason why I bring
Speaker 1: up Taylor Atchison is I'm sure the listeners out there no,
Speaker 1: he won a bracelet already this summer. We've already had
Speaker 1: three people win to this summer, and Atchison could become
Speaker 1: the fourth to do it. Bryn Kenny is still in
Speaker 1: the mix. Ryan Miller and David ODB Baker friend of
Speaker 1: the pod. Let's go short stack twelve out of twelve,
Speaker 1: but spin that baby up. Let's go ODB Come on,
Speaker 1: let's go odb sporting the cop aviators out there, his
Speaker 1: new glasses. He doesn't have to deal with headaches. Let's go, buddy,
Speaker 1: do the damn thing. The eight hundred Summer Celebration drew
Speaker 1: a field of twenty five hundred and eighty four. Oh
Speaker 1: this is only day one A. Good lord, josh Aria
Speaker 1: bag in a big stack in this tournament. Okay, he was.
Speaker 1: He ran over to be in the winter photo for
Speaker 1: Daniel Legrandero from that one hundred k PLO. All right,
Speaker 1: that's enough of the eight hundre dollars Summer Celebration. If
Speaker 1: I find out it's day one A of this tournament, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm just not gonna talk about you that much more.
Speaker 1: And then you had the fifteen hund dollars Double Board
Speaker 1: Bomb Pot PLO tournament taking place. What's this one? Sixteen
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy three entries, three hundred and twenty two
Speaker 1: thousand dollars up top? All right, cool, that's enough of
Speaker 1: that one as well. But you guys know the drill
Speaker 1: daily episodes during the ws BE main event. It is
Speaker 1: one B on Friday. I'm gonna be looking to play
Speaker 1: one C. Shout out to my guy Ryan who is
Speaker 1: playing the ws BE main event for the first time.
Speaker 1: He is playing one B. We chatted for a bit today.
Speaker 1: I know he's excited. I know he's ready to go.
Speaker 1: I know he recently got through a downswing and is
Speaker 1: on the positive side of things now with Varians starting
Speaker 1: to work back in his favor, and maybe, just maybe
Speaker 1: he can catch some heat in the biggest tournament of
Speaker 1: them all and go on a run. Ryan, I am
Speaker 1: pulling for you. Let's go, Let's make it happen. All right,
Speaker 1: that's gonna do it for me. Fun episode here, negroan
Speaker 1: you winning number eight WSV main event kicking off. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be a fun two weeks ahead and I can't
Speaker 1: wait to be on this podcast feed every single night.
Speaker 1: My name is Donny Peters. Shout out to Rich Ryan
Speaker 1: for making the magic happen, making us sound good, and
Speaker 1: I will talk to you guys next time.
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