Speaker 1: Hello everyone, Welcome back to a new episode of the
Poker Go Podcast. It is Saturday, July fourth, twelve thirteen am.
The show is going to kind of work out in
my favor a little bit of a mistake on my side.
I forgot to ask my guys to send me the
audio from the interview that I did with Daniel Legrandu
after he won the hundred k PLO high Roller for
yesterday's episode. So because of that, we're going to be
able to play it on this episode, and it works
out because I kind of want to go to bed
a little early. I'm playing on Saturday in the WASP
main Events. So you know, funny how those mistakes tend
to work themselves out in the end. Yeah, we're gonna
hit on of course, Day one B of the World
Series of Poker Main Event. Now, I'm gonna warn you guys.
I just didn't feel like the same sort of energy
was there compared to Day one A, which I think
should just probably be expected. You know, Day one a's here,
it's kicking off the best tournament in the world. Like
you get all that sort of buzz, you know, that
energy flowing through you, right, and then Day one B
is like, okay, you know, let's just kind of get
through this day and move on, you know, but at
least say, at least we got the negroon new interview
that we can play, and then of course, as always,
we'll try and touch on some of the other stuff
that's happening around Paris and Horseshoe. One big event is
wrapping up. They are heads up right now. It's this
ten k a game championship event. I don't know if
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poo game. All right, First things first, before we get
into Day one B of the WSP main event, I
do want to kick this episode off by playing the
winner interview, the sit down that we did with the
one and only Daniel Legrando after he captured his eighth
WSOP goal bracelet. He won the one hundred k Plow
high roller for well over two million dollars. Afterwards, you know,
I was able to grab him. I walked him through.
It was funny. Actually, just quickly before we get to
this interview, so he does the interviews, I grab him.
I walk him through the area, and it was kind
of like I was a bodyguard and he was a
celebrity because all these people, all those two to three
hundred people that I was talking about around the rail
were like trying to grab selfies with him. They all
had their phones. I it was a mob scene. I
didn't know which way to go. Either way we went,
this would have happened just with how many people were
around that area. But after like the fourth or fifth
person stopped to take the selfie, I just put my
arm around Daniel. I kind of stiff armed people with
the other arm. I said, guys, we gotta go, we
gotta go, We got to go. We don't have that
much time. We ended up just kind of bull rushing
through the whole thing. I got him into our back area,
and Daniel was kind enough to sit down with us,
but not so kind because he did throw a little
bit of shade to me in the interview. I mean, well,
how am I supposed to react. I'm conducting an interview
and you guys are gonna hear it here. But I mean,
holy crap, Dane, come on, man, I mean, why I
gotta be catching these strays out there. I'm right in
front of you, like, let's just let's chill, all right.
I know you're feeling high from winning the bracelet and
all the my gosh, man, all right, here's Daniel Legrandu
after he won his eighth Wsop gold bracelet. All right, Daniel,
there was an eleven year drought for you. Then you
got number seven in the fifty KPPC. Now two years
later you get the Hunter kpl O. Pretty quick succession
to go seven to eight. Just talk to me about
finally being able to be back in the WSP Winter
Circle after all that time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not gonna lie like really painful. I don't know,
I don't I stopped counting how many times I lost
heads up, like ten in a row, and he started
to feel feel like, this is ever gonna am I
ever gonna break through? Because I knew I was playing well.
You know, to get there, you gotta play well. You
need a few breaks. So to get to fifty k PPC.
That sort of took a monkey off my.
Speaker 3: Back, a little bit less stressed out.
Speaker 2: So when this head's up, I felt really good until
I had him and he doubled, and then I started
to freak out again because all those traumatic memories of
the past. You're like, nah, not like this, Please don't
do it to me again.
Speaker 1: You had several close calls this year as well. You know,
this is your twelfth cash bunch of other final tables.
At what point did this run start to feel like okay,
like I got a shot at this thing.
Speaker 2: I mean really early on in this PLO, Like it
took me about an hour to jump in to level
seven and grab the chip lead, and then I was
able to maintain. And one of the things I do
really well in PLO is maintained. You know you're gonna
go through ebbs and flows. I got cooled a few times,
but I minimized the damage to keep myself in the game.
And you know, you don't want to let your head
get like, oh no, I'm not the chip leader anymore.
So what just as long as you're doing good, just
get to the end, give yourself a chance, and then
you know, hopefully finish the job.
Speaker 1: It's no secret that you've always loved PLO. You always
said it really suits you very well. Why is that so?
Speaker 3: Listen?
Speaker 2: PLO is literally designed, like the Lord said, what's a
game that Daniel could be really good at?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 3: I got one? How about this? He can limp before
the flop and call a raise. Cool? He gets four cards?
Speaker 2: Awesome, it's pot limit even better and it's all about
post flops, right. And I've always been sort of like
a good reader post flop of situations and PLO afford
g date ability to see a lot of flops if
you choose to. And again, I just think it was
the game was like perfectly built for my skill set.
Speaker 1: Pretty big summer for you overall, not just the poker stuff,
but you know your life. You got a baby on
the way. His baby run good.
Speaker 2: Real listen, I mean everyone talks about baby run good.
And I'm feeling like I had a good summer. You know,
I was telling people even though I was down like
six hundred thousand bucks, I'm like, I think.
Speaker 3: I'm doing okay.
Speaker 2: It's hard to know though, you know, you don't cash
it two fifty here and there, but I was always
in there and I started to really heat up.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: It's nice to feel a little bit of redemption where
you know, those that buy a piece of meat throughout
the summer and watch the vlog, they're all going to
get a paycheck this year, and I'm happy to do that.
Speaker 1: It's not just that twenty five k fantasy you drafted yourself.
I believe this win puts you back on top. I'm
sure you got a lot of side action in addition
to trying to win that league, How important is that
to you or how fun is that?
Speaker 3: Used?
Speaker 2: Well, the twenty five K Fantasy League, I think really
brings a lot to the World Series of Poker, whether
people know it or not. And for us, like I
wasn't planning on drafting myself, but then I heard people
stop bidding. I'm like, no, no, no, no, no, do you
know who I am? And then I got Josh and
we're buddies. We live in Lake Las Vegas, so we go, well,
never mind golfing every day looks like we got to
go to work. So you saw me in the six
hundred dollars, minds the one k's, the hundred k's, all
of it. I ended up playing a lot this summer,
and I'm glad.
Speaker 1: I did you mentioned, you know, hearing your price maybe
it's not big enough or where you might think it
should be. Do you feel like you still have to
prove stuff to people or you want to prove stuff
to people.
Speaker 2: I enjoyed proving stuff to people, like I've always been
fueled by haters. I really like every few years, I
always hear like, he can't play with these guys anymore.
I love that it's fun because then you know when
you get these moments where I get to go, aha,
stick it in their face. I gotta be honest, it's
maybe it's petty, maybe it's childish, but it's really nice feeling.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you that.
Speaker 1: You're now back inside top ten of poy An award
you've won on occasion before. Is that something you strive for?
These days? You still think about the Player of the Year.
Speaker 2: So the way that I look at Player of the
Year now right are so many really good contenders in
the running for it is uh, you know, I just
try to put my work together, you know, and then
like the results will come. Then once you start to
get up there now, I'm gonna start thinking about a
little bit more of course. And of course you know
it all ends in Bahamas this year, and I'll be,
you know, ready to go there with a two week
old baby. I don't know that like he's coming, but
you know we're going to work in this in the winter.
Speaker 1: At the tail end of that long drought that you had.
If somebody were to tell you, listen, just stay the
course because you're gonna win the fifty k PPC, You're
gonna win the hundred KPO up. What would you thought.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you what, if somebody were to tell me
that I was gonna, you know, make it work, it
would have been me because I always believed, you know,
like I can. I'm pretty good at like blocking out
the outside noise.
Speaker 3: And I know the.
Speaker 2: Difference between whether it's like, yes, I'm getting out played.
I felt that before, and I went in the lab
and worked hard. But I also know and it's like no, no, no,
You're doing good. Everything you're doing is right. You just
got to get lucky in these spots and you'll be
in in the winter circle sooner or later.
Speaker 1: Both Cashes got the eighth bracelet back in the running
for POY twenty five. Kay fantasy, all that sort of stuff.
But there's still a good chunk of the summer still
left to go. We have the main event, we have
a lot of other big stuff. How do you keep
that momentum going forward.
Speaker 3: I'm looking for.
Speaker 2: I mean, listen, when you win a tournament, you're rare
to go like I. As soon as it was over,
I looked at the was wsp app and goalways what's
the eight hundred?
Speaker 3: What is that? Can I jump in that? Because now
there's a momentum.
Speaker 2: Right, And I've sort of, like I said, heated up,
I cash six in a row, had won no cash
than this one, so seven out of the last of
eight events.
Speaker 3: And I've kind of always been a little bit streaky.
Speaker 2: So when you're in that zone of like winning, you
just want to keep piling up the victory.
Speaker 1: This stage of your career, what's it all mean to you?
Speaker 2: Listen, at this stage of my career, I don't have
anything I have to prove to other people, but I
enjoy doing it. I love the game of poker, always have.
I love the feeling of agony and defeat, you know,
because without those painful moments, you don't feel the sweetness
of the reward when you get it, you know, quite
as impactfully. And so you know I've been through it,
like I mean, I don't everyone thinks they're the most
unlucky player in the world. Like heads up, I mean,
you know, Donnie Peters could have won heads up one
of those ten times I lost, you know, I lost.
Speaker 3: That all ten.
Speaker 1: I don't know, all right, if you guys can't tell.
It always means a lot to get bracelets, to get w's,
to compete at the highest level, for Daniel, So you know,
thank you to him for taking that time to sit
down with us and chat with us at length. Really
cool to do those interviews. It's one of my favorite
things of the summer. The number one favorite thing is
the podcast. Of course, I've said that before, I will
say it again. The number two thing is being able
to sit down get some time with these players, you know,
win or lose, you know, because we have done some
interviews this year that haven't always been after wins, but
just being able to tap in to these characters, these personalities,
you know, that's just it's awesome. So we don't need
to get too much into it to Daniel's win, of course,
but I did want to play that interview for all
you guys out there, and if you missed the last episode,
go back and listen to it. We talked at length
about Daniel's win, what it means to him, and all
of that sort of stuff. Day one B of the
World Series of Poker Main Event is in the books.
It continued the story of the greatest poker tournament in
the world. The numbers last year for one A had
nine to twenty three and then it was down sixteen
and a half percent to seven seventy one. We hit
on that when I last talked to you guys. This
year down, yes, but trending in the right direction. A
little bit of positivity here. Last year had one thousand
and ninety six entries on Day one B. This year
had one thousand and thirty eight, so not far off,
only down five point three percent compared a year over year,
So you know that's I think, you know, obviously one
A being down sixteen point five percent, we talked about
how that was kind of probably expected given what we
have been seeing all summer. You know some of the
you know, just talking to people around the world Series
of Poker, talking to people in the know, they all
kind of felt decline. But you know, now there's some
positivity here because you know that decline certainly isn't near
what it was for the one A field, and then
obviously we still have two more flights to go. I
also think this year I'll have to dig through some
of the numbers to see what we got for the
Day two late registration. I think that'll probably be more
than it's ever been, or at least on par with
what it was last year. I just think the late
registration thing. You know, players are are becoming a little
bit more open to it. They're realizing how valuable it
can be. Specifically in the WSP main event, when you
come in if you max late reds, registration is open
through seven levels, so all five levels on day one
and then two levels on day two. There's a break
after every level. Every level is two hours long, so
you'll come in on day two going into the six
hundred twelve hundred level to come with a freshtack of
sixty k that's fifty big wines. That's a crap ton
of tips to work with, especially when a structure like
this that's so good, long drawn out two hour levels,
you know, like that's a ton to work with. We say,
it's a lot to work with for some of the
other tournaments when you're coming in with you know, twenty
twenty two and a half, twenty five big wines, whatever
it may be. But to come in with fifty, I mean,
holy crap, man, that's a lot of tips. And you know,
you skip all the early play, you don't got to
deal with all that sort of stuff. So maybe it'll
be a little bit fresher than everyone else. So I
expect you know, the day two reach to be you know,
quite plentiful out there. I was there today. I did
have to dip out for a dinner at some point.
It was gone for about two hours, but you know,
came back to the end of the night, hung around,
and unlike the opening flight on Thursday one A, there
wasn't really one defining storyline that I could really like pinpoint,
you know, I think obviously the biggest storyline from Day
one A, of course, is that the WQ main event
is here, It's back, it's kicking off. Let's freaking go right.
Today it's just more kind of like you're just kind
of going through the motions. Not in a bad way,
but you know, you lose the buzz from a kicking off.
Of course. You know, the buzz on Thursday was only
heightened and boosted because you had, in conjunction with the
main event kicking off, you have Danielgrodney winning his eighth bracelet.
Right then they also did play the hell Youth entrance
on that day, and I'm actually curious. I started thinking, like,
this is how the professional brain in meat starts working.
The marketing brain, the branding brain, all the like the
content brain like all that sort of stuff starts working
in me as I was thinking, okay, so we know,
we know on Wednesday night that Daniel is making this
PLO high Roller Final table and it's one hunter K
and he was very healthy on chips. You know, he's
got a really good shot to win the thing, right,
I would be curious to see here if there was
any conversations to possibly delay the hellm youth entrance to
a different day, right, you know, do it maybe on
one B, do it on one C, maybe even do
it on one D. I think because with with how
how like the headlines to me for for the the
starting flights of the main event, like just coming in
if you don't know anything, Day one A the headliner
is you know, can easily just be wsp him and
kicks off, boom bang, let's go Day one D. You're
getting the largest starting flight of the four, you know,
I mean ninety nine point nine nine nine percent sure
that that is always happening, right, so you're gonna have that,
you know, giant numbers, thousands of players, people wall the
wall across properties like it's just it's nuts. Plus that's
usually when all the really really big names the stars
all tend to play, right, So you got that built
in headline, So what do you do for one B
and one C? So don't you want to kind of
approach mister WSP, mister seventeen time goal bracelet winner, you know,
mister phil ha Muthan, say hey, how about we plan
this for one B or one C? And then it
also if you know that negrony is, you know, making
that final table, maybe you say, okay, hey how about
we how about we kick this a day? Can we
move some stuff? Can we you know, rebook the models
who are walking in you know all that, all that
sort of sort of stuff. I mean, I know Helmuth
also likes his rest when it comes to playing poker,
his rest when it comes to playing that an event
which you know, if he were to do it on
one B, it still does allow him to have a
couple of days off. Should he make day two and
then you know he would have another day off and
then can come back for day three, so that that
rest aspect can still certainly be at play. You know,
I would say at least this year day one seed
July fourth, because one seed does fall on July fourth,
Like that's a pretty Festive Day in the US of course,
so you know you kind of get that as some
additional buzz within the room, right, So so so maybe
one B is a better timing to target the helmet
stuff because that the helmet stuff did add to the
buzz from one A. Right, you know, you had ground
You're doing his thing in the plo, you had the
main event kicking off, and then on top of all
of that, you had this this kind of lighter fluid
thrown in there, you know, to to make that fire
burn even bigger with with helmet doing his whole grand entrance.
For one B on Friday, you had plenty of recognizable
faces in the field. You had Michael the Grinder, Miss
Rocky in there, of course, horse the reigning champion for
the WSP main event and also fresh off one of
the greatest WSOP runs ever in the ten k Peel Championship.
You had Antonio s Fondiari playing. I haven't seen him
all summer. You know, it's great to see that he's
back out there. He was out playing with his wife Amal,
so that was cool to see them come out and grind.
Antonio was up on one of the feature tables. I
think for the entire day. So if you guys missed that,
if you want to check it out, you can find
it on the ESPN Plus on ESPN app to to
check out that stream with Antonio. Greg Ramer was in
the mix. Kenny Holler was in the mix. Nick Rigby
the Big rig, you know, he was out there doing
his thing. He had a ton of chips. Early think
he finished with a round seventy or eighty K or
something like that, but he was up to like one
fifty or something one point. Kevin Martin was in the mix,
Carrie Katz, Gerard p K. You know, kind of timely
that PK is coming back and playing with the World
Cup going on. You had Eric Baldwin was out there
as well. But again, you know, walking through the field
just didn't have that same electricity as one A. But
but that's that's fine, you know. I would say it's
probably a bit expected, you know, not every day is
going to have some sort of huge pop. Again, the
numbers that they did, the decrease year over year declining,
to me, I would view that as an improvement. I
don't really know what to expect for Day one C,
you know, because that does fall on July fourth, I
kind of never know what to expect that day, you know,
so who knows our Day one See it looks like
one thousand, one hundred and fourteen entries for Day one
C last year, so oh sorry, it kicked off with
one thousand and one and fourteen inches. My apologies, I
can't read on a program news dot com or reporting
from last year, and it ended up with sixteen hundred
and seventy eight. So nice boost from start of day
till the end of day. So, you know, if we're
gonna think it's gonna have about let's split the difference
between you know, year over year one A one B,
let's go ten percent decrease, so down what one seventy
they'll get around fifteen hundred entries on one C pretty good.
And then obviously we expect Day one D to absolutely
just be freaking gangbusters like it always is in there
with you know, thousands of people. Let me check what
Day one D got last year, so I can get
a feel for this number. Four thousand, nine hundred and
ninety seven. So that's just an absolutely ridiculous feel. They
finished all the day ones last year. As long as
the Poker News reporting is correct here with eighty six
hundred and ninety four entries, which means that because they
got nine thousand, seven hundred and thirty five I believe
was the final entry, which means they got more than
one thousd thousand late entries on day two, so sometime
between when the day ones ended until the start of
day two and then also until the late redge through
the seven levels, so a lot of late wredge. So
if let's say it was one thousand last year, I'll
say that it's probably going to be right around one
thousand last year. And I know earlier I said that
I would expect it to be larger. But if you
bake in a natural decrease that we've been seeing year
over year, that's something that could possibly be anticipated. Well,
then if it does equal last year, then you know,
it kind of bucked that that decrease, and that would
be a really good thing. But I'll say it'll be
I'll say eleven hundred eleven hundred late entries past day one,
and that's what I'm going with again. I just think
that players realize, listen, I get to come in with
fifty bigs, you know, or more if you come in
a little bit sooner than the max late redge. They
get to come in with the fifty bigs. There's still
a lot of stuff that I can play, you know,
covering those early days today there was a five case
shoes for Turbo. You had stuff going on in Ari. Yeah,
you had a huge three k plow mystery bounty happening
at the win. So it's not just the stuff at
the World Series book, but it's stuff elsewhere around town.
First out on one B, according to the Poker News reporting,
was Stephen Lee. Now was Stephen Lee different than Marini?
Marini got his money in bad Ace King suited versus
aces here, Stephen Lee got his money in pretty damn
good Shraga. Rubyl limp re raised from the hijack. Lee
was on the button. Lee makes the call. They go
to a flop of ten seven six, ten of clubs,
seven of diamonds, six of diamonds. Rubyle bets, Lee raises,
Ruby goes all in. Lee calls, Lee's got a set
of sevens. Lovely spot. Right. I mean if your opponent
decides to limp pre raise with two tens or with
the eight nine, I mean, okay, whatever, Like, what are
you gonna do Cooler City here. It was Ruble with
the Ace of Diamonds, Ace of Club, so took those rockets,
limped in from the hijack, re raised the button raise.
They end up getting the money in on the ten
seven six two diamond flop, it comes eight of diamonds
and I'm guessing you guys can can figure out where
this is going. Queen of Diamonds on the river, backdoor
diamonds for Ruble. That busts, the set of sevens for
Lee and he's out the door. As at least reported
by Poker News, though the first player to bust on
Day one B of the twenty twenty six w SP
main event. Others to bust out looking through the pocon
News chip counts, Kelly Lucas busted, Lily Koletto busted. Literally
Kalletto at one point made quads. She flopped a set
against Kevin Martin on King Queen eight, and then it
was four on the turn eight on the river and
she had eights against King Queen for Kevin Martin. She
won that pop but still ultimately busted on the day.
And then you also had genre Vera Bland busting out.
I was talking to somebody out on the floor that
saw Bolone throughout the day a little bit and then
his bus and they said, you know what, Bolon just
didn't look like he wanted to be there today. So
I don't know, maybe the cash games are bigger whatever,
But off she goes for JRB. The bigger stacks at
the end of one bee belonged to Brazil's Osmar Rockenbach,
Michael Stemberra, Demage Davenport. I believe his nickname is trick Time.
I believe William Watson, Shawn Savage, Ali Islami, and Shota
Nakanishi alias Lami and Shota Knackaniche are both bracelet winners
from past wsops and I think that's gonna be it
for one b of THESP main event. Oh, I got
gotta shout out my guy. Ryan talked about him playing
his first WSP main event. I believe I saw in
the app that he bagged around twenty two thousand or so,
So twenty two thousand from sixty thousand, Ryan, if you're listening,
I know it stinks to not bag decent stack more
than starting even just pretty much exactly starting whatever. It
doesn't matter, right, you heard Jason Kuhn talk about it
at the end of the last episode, like you're still
pretty deep. You just got to focus on how many
big blinds you have at the time, focus on the
next hand, and just you know, try and play the
best poker and the chips will come. You know, you
heard Jason Kuhon say that, you know, twenty five big
blinds can turn into one hundred big lines really quick,
and they can't. So just buckle down, get focused, and
enjoy your days off and come back strong on Monday.
All right. Moving on to some of the other events
that took place at the twenty twenty six WSOP. On Friday,
you had Assi Emoshi winning the three k nolamit hold
Them Freeze Out. There were fourteen players returning to the
final day. Those fourteen players came from a field of
seventeen hundred and ninety two entries. Moshi won six hundred
and eighty three thousand dollars, his fifth WSOP Gold bracelet.
Prior to this he won He's won two event too. Sorry,
he was on two bracelets. At WISIP Europe in twenty nineteen,
he won the sixteen to fifty euro potlom and Omaha
Slash Nolan a hold Them mix, and then also that
year but in Vegas, he won the fifteen hundred dollars
Nolanman Holdham Bounty tournament. In twenty eighteen, so a year
prior in Europe he won the sixteen fifty Nolan hold
Him six Max. And then twenty fourteen as when he
won his first bracelet, he won the fifte he won
a fifteen hundred dollars Nolanman hold Him event for five
hundred and eighty two thousand dollars for that one, so
a fifth bracelet here for Moshi. Interesting nuggets that he
stepped away from playing professional poker, which is, you know,
a little bit surprising when you consider someone who has
had the success that Moshi's had, you know, two point
almost two point eight million dollars in live tournament earnings.
He's got four bracelets, right, but stepped away from playing professionally,
claims to be a recreational player now has been away
from the game as a pro for about a year.
Comes back here rips off this three k Nolavan hold
Him freeze out when topping a pretty big field, getting
a nice hefty pay day of almost almost seven hundred
k and has to be happy that he's still got
some game. You know, he's not just all old and
washed up now that he's a now that he's just
a wreck man, now that he's just a wreck cow
do out of China, finishing in second place, Igor poppik
In third, Dustin Murphy, and fourth Chris Mormon seventh Andrew Moreno.
Andre Burno came into the day as the chip leader
one out of fourteen, but things did not go his way.
I saw on his Instagram account that he put in
something along the lines of, you know, not much I
felt I could do today, which you know, is kind
of similar to what I talked about on the last
episode as a pertained to Adrian Matteos and his run
which ultimately ended in his elimination on Day one A
of the WSP main event, where sometimes you know, there
you're just in a seat that is just never ever
ever going to win. I did see Moreno's last hand
three bet all in with Jack's most of YEA obviously
opened with queens, So it just it just was not
his day, really, really nothing that he could do. Book.
Congratulations to most you for getting bracelet number five and
six hundred and eighty three thousand dollars. All right, this
big ten K eight game Mixed Championship is done, and
we have Dmitri Urbanovitch winning the title. He defeats Richard
Bye in second place, Urbanovitch taking home four hundred and
thirty one thousand dollars. Richard By took home two hundred
and eighty three thousand dollars for second place. Derek an
Hour third place, Brian Rast fourth place, Alex Fix Fox
excuse me, Alex not, Alex Fixon, Alex Fox in fifth place,
Matt Vangren sixth, Maxim Pikorenko seventh, Ryan Miller eighth. I mean,
this is just an absolutely stacked field. I saw what
as it pertains to this event. Our friend of the pod,
David Odb Baker got a Platt tire on the way
to play the final day here, had to hop in
a New Burg get down there. So I'm sure that
was pretty hectic and you know, probably a little bit
stressful as well. Odb ultimately finished in twelfth place for
twenty seven thousand dollars. Urbanovitch, you know, remember this guy.
A couple of years ago, he was out there saying
like I'm gonna win three bracelets in at WSP and
everyone's like, what the heck are you talking about? So
a bit, you know, a bit removed from that. Probably
that was, you know, just his young, egotistical self speaking,
you know, you know, words that he necessarily couldn't back up.
But you know, I get it. We were all young
and just spout nonsense once. I probably still spout nonsense
right now. Arbanovich is able to do the damn thing
here in the ten K eight Game Mix Championship, which
is no easy tournament to win, a lot of really
tough players. Of course, you got to play eight different games,
one hundred and ninety nine entries in this field. Congratulations
to Orbanovitch for getting that first bracelet and four hundred
and thirty thousand dollars in the six hundred dollars Deep
Stack champ being CHIP. You have five players remaining from
a field of five thousand, one hundred and seventy seven entries.
Adrian Jacobs out of South Africa is the chip leader.
Big Chip lead for Jacobs, He's got sixty seven million,
which equates to one hundred and twelve big blinds. Second
place is Jungghan with thirty million or fifty big blinds,
so more than double for Jacob's, Paul Verlette, Jingwei Chen,
and Juniki Mirakami probably butchered that name in fifth place
here going into the final day. First place in this
one is two hundred and eighty two thousand dollars. These
final five players are guaranteed almost sixty thousand dollars in
prize money. Not a whole ton to report from the
eight hundred dollars Summer Celebration. It's yesterday was Day one
B today or sorry, yesterday was Day one A. Today
is Day one B. They are over sixty eight hundred
entries in the field. Day two is on Saturday, July fourth,
so not a whole bunch to report here, but really,
big field gonna be a big first place prize for
this one. Someone's gonna turn eight hundred bucks into a
pretty six score, and we'll look forward to talking about
the winner in the eight hundred dollars Summer Celebration when
that happens in a day or two. The fifteen hundred
dollars Double Board Bomb Pot Pot Limit Omaha Tournament is
the reporting says they are playing the final four hands
of the day, so we'll just quickly touch on this.
Jesse Lonis looks like he's up there near the top
the gorilla himself. I mean, he's had several several close calls.
If you guys remember back to the beginning of the summer,
way the heck back I think was the five K PLO.
It was either the five K PLO or the five
K Nolan, one of one of those two tournaments right
at the beginning of the year. But Lonus got second
or third, so he's you know, he's had a pretty
good summer overall. You know, obviously doesn't have the big
win yet, but heck, who knows it could come In
this fifteen hundred dollars double board a bomb pot PLO.
Sixteen hundred and seventy three entries was the tally from
this field they are down to. It looks like twenty
entries entering the final day. Somebody that I haven't seen
in a while, whose name is in the chip counts.
I'm not sure you guys would know this name. This
is more of just me seeing this person all the
time at the recipe and haven't seen him for a while.
But Christopher Amerol looks like he's still in and grinding away.
Justin Fawcett is in there as well. Justin Fawcett I
believe both drafted a team in twenty five K Fantasy
and is a player that was drafted in twenty five
K Fantasy. Don't know if he drafted himself that would
make sense. Of course. He's also a bracelet winner in
the five K Super Turbo Bounty. Now, this is a
cool tournament just because of the scheduling, right, you know
you this tournament, I think just takes two days, and
so if it happens on one B and one CE
of the WSWE main event, you get everyone that played
and bagged or played and busted one A, and then
you get everyone else that isn't gonna play till one D.
So this is perfectly timed, which probably led to the
fact that they had twelve hundred and thirteen entries out
there blasting in this one. First place is a nice
healthy five hundred and ninety three thousand dollars. They are
down under thirty players, remaining players such as Michael Burke,
Pete Chen Miles, Maleayley Nioa Kihara, Niahoah Kihara again making
a deep run, Jack Dewong, Nick Papio, Dara Taharpur, Colin
Robinson's in the mix, Christian Harder. These all according to
the chip counts on Poker News. So think they're still playing,
so it gonna be some time left here. I had
this this might even be a one day event for all.
I'd for you though. If it says super Turbo Bounty,
I would think that's a one day event. Let me
let me scroll back here and see if I can.
I can figure this out. Yeah, this is a one
day event, all right, so this is even better. They
should run. They should run another one of these on
day one. C they should just run run two of
these tournaments. I don't know if they are. I'm sure
I could look up the schedule, but you know, I
mean that's just that would take work, right, that would
take effort. July fourth, they have a one K nolan
at hold them a two day one K nolan hold
they should for sure run. I mean this one K
nolan holden has to be like a turboish type of format,
which I like that as well. But maybe you could
do maybe on on July fourth, you could have that
one K Nolman hold in that two day event. You know,
for the lower and mid range players, and then on
the high end you could run a ten k super
turbo bounty, right, Like, that'd be cool. Why not, you know,
just just crank these babies out. Let's go. If people
I know on one side you can say like, yeah,
but they already have one hundred bracelets. They have, however,
many bracelets all year round. The bracelet's not worth anything,
blah blah blah whatever, Like honestly, who cares? Right? Who
cares a that? If people are going to show up
and play tournaments and the number is healthy, then just
give them tournaments to play, Okay, end of story. Collect
that rake, put on the show, put on the events,
and let's just go. So I don't know if you
can make it happen. Jeff plapput a ten K superturb
of bounty on Saturday, July fourth. Let's go make it
a fifteen K superturb of bounty. Why not? I think
that's going to do it relatively short and sweet here.
But of course I am trying to play the SOP
main event tomorrow. I'm very much looking forward to it.
I started last year when I had that run to
day six on July fourth, I'm starting this year on
July fourth. I feel really good about my game. Hopefully
that continues, feel mentally strong, feel prepared, all that sort
of stuff. Got that stupid ass punt out of the way, hopefully,
hopefully that you know, is out of my system and
I can just focus on, you know, one hand at
a time and just going grinding, grinding, and honestly, you
know what, hopefully, hopefully I just make the damn nuts
like I don't know, six or seven times on day,
one day or every day for the for the next
two weeks. That would be incredible. But you know, we'll
see how she goes, and then I'll be podcasting every
single night. At the end, I will let you guys
know how I did. And uh, let's just uh, let's
keep our fingers crossed that we got another deep run
in US. As always, thank you to producer Rich for
getting the show out for you guys, and uh yeah,
that's it. My name is Donna Peters, and I will
talk to you on the next episode.