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