WEBVTT 1 00:00:10.880 --> 00:00:13.119 Hello everyone, Welcome back to a new episode of the 2 00:00:13.240 --> 00:00:21.440 Poker Go Podcast. It is Saturday, July fourth, twelve thirteen am. 3 00:00:21.760 --> 00:00:23.640 The show is going to kind of work out in 4 00:00:23.640 --> 00:00:27.480 my favor a little bit of a mistake on my side. 5 00:00:28.239 --> 00:00:32.880 I forgot to ask my guys to send me the 6 00:00:33.039 --> 00:00:37.439 audio from the interview that I did with Daniel Legrandu 7 00:00:37.600 --> 00:00:40.840 after he won the hundred k PLO high Roller for 8 00:00:41.600 --> 00:00:45.039 yesterday's episode. So because of that, we're going to be 9 00:00:45.039 --> 00:00:47.159 able to play it on this episode, and it works 10 00:00:47.159 --> 00:00:49.359 out because I kind of want to go to bed 11 00:00:49.439 --> 00:00:53.240 a little early. I'm playing on Saturday in the WASP 12 00:00:53.320 --> 00:00:56.679 main Events. So you know, funny how those mistakes tend 13 00:00:56.719 --> 00:01:00.520 to work themselves out in the end. Yeah, we're gonna 14 00:01:00.560 --> 00:01:03.920 hit on of course, Day one B of the World 15 00:01:04.159 --> 00:01:08.439 Series of Poker Main Event. Now, I'm gonna warn you guys. 16 00:01:08.719 --> 00:01:12.040 I just didn't feel like the same sort of energy 17 00:01:12.159 --> 00:01:15.120 was there compared to Day one A, which I think 18 00:01:15.159 --> 00:01:18.040 should just probably be expected. You know, Day one a's here, 19 00:01:18.239 --> 00:01:21.000 it's kicking off the best tournament in the world. 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All right, First things first, before we get 50 00:02:58.520 --> 00:03:02.080 into Day one B of the WSP main event, I 51 00:03:02.080 --> 00:03:05.360 do want to kick this episode off by playing the 52 00:03:05.520 --> 00:03:08.560 winner interview, the sit down that we did with the 53 00:03:08.599 --> 00:03:12.240 one and only Daniel Legrando after he captured his eighth 54 00:03:12.599 --> 00:03:16.120 WSOP goal bracelet. He won the one hundred k Plow 55 00:03:16.199 --> 00:03:21.520 high roller for well over two million dollars. Afterwards, you know, 56 00:03:21.599 --> 00:03:23.680 I was able to grab him. I walked him through. 57 00:03:23.719 --> 00:03:25.719 It was funny. Actually, just quickly before we get to 58 00:03:25.719 --> 00:03:28.080 this interview, so he does the interviews, I grab him. 59 00:03:28.120 --> 00:03:32.199 I walk him through the area, and it was kind 60 00:03:32.199 --> 00:03:34.319 of like I was a bodyguard and he was a 61 00:03:34.319 --> 00:03:37.000 celebrity because all these people, all those two to three 62 00:03:37.039 --> 00:03:38.639 hundred people that I was talking about around the rail 63 00:03:38.680 --> 00:03:40.759 were like trying to grab selfies with him. They all 64 00:03:40.800 --> 00:03:42.919 had their phones. I it was a mob scene. I 65 00:03:42.960 --> 00:03:45.120 didn't know which way to go. Either way we went, 66 00:03:45.199 --> 00:03:47.599 this would have happened just with how many people were 67 00:03:47.639 --> 00:03:51.159 around that area. But after like the fourth or fifth 68 00:03:51.360 --> 00:03:54.479 person stopped to take the selfie, I just put my 69 00:03:54.639 --> 00:03:57.599 arm around Daniel. I kind of stiff armed people with 70 00:03:57.680 --> 00:03:59.360 the other arm. I said, guys, we gotta go, we 71 00:03:59.400 --> 00:04:00.840 gotta go, We got to go. We don't have that 72 00:04:00.919 --> 00:04:03.680 much time. We ended up just kind of bull rushing 73 00:04:03.719 --> 00:04:06.000 through the whole thing. I got him into our back area, 74 00:04:06.080 --> 00:04:09.120 and Daniel was kind enough to sit down with us, 75 00:04:09.120 --> 00:04:11.400 but not so kind because he did throw a little 76 00:04:11.439 --> 00:04:13.719 bit of shade to me in the interview. I mean, well, 77 00:04:13.719 --> 00:04:15.560 how am I supposed to react. I'm conducting an interview 78 00:04:15.560 --> 00:04:16.959 and you guys are gonna hear it here. But I mean, 79 00:04:17.079 --> 00:04:20.079 holy crap, Dane, come on, man, I mean, why I 80 00:04:20.079 --> 00:04:22.720 gotta be catching these strays out there. I'm right in 81 00:04:22.759 --> 00:04:24.959 front of you, like, let's just let's chill, all right. 82 00:04:25.120 --> 00:04:27.920 I know you're feeling high from winning the bracelet and 83 00:04:27.959 --> 00:04:31.519 all the my gosh, man, all right, here's Daniel Legrandu 84 00:04:31.920 --> 00:04:36.639 after he won his eighth Wsop gold bracelet. All right, Daniel, 85 00:04:37.240 --> 00:04:39.759 there was an eleven year drought for you. Then you 86 00:04:39.879 --> 00:04:42.399 got number seven in the fifty KPPC. Now two years 87 00:04:42.439 --> 00:04:46.319 later you get the Hunter kpl O. Pretty quick succession 88 00:04:46.360 --> 00:04:48.800 to go seven to eight. Just talk to me about 89 00:04:49.360 --> 00:04:51.480 finally being able to be back in the WSP Winter 90 00:04:51.560 --> 00:04:52.639 Circle after all that time. 91 00:04:53.079 --> 00:04:55.920 Yeah, I'm not gonna lie like really painful. I don't know, 92 00:04:55.959 --> 00:04:57.839 I don't I stopped counting how many times I lost 93 00:04:57.839 --> 00:04:59.720 heads up, like ten in a row, and he started 94 00:04:59.720 --> 00:05:02.160 to feel feel like, this is ever gonna am I 95 00:05:02.160 --> 00:05:04.199 ever gonna break through? Because I knew I was playing well. 96 00:05:04.439 --> 00:05:06.079 You know, to get there, you gotta play well. You 97 00:05:06.120 --> 00:05:08.959 need a few breaks. So to get to fifty k PPC. 98 00:05:09.120 --> 00:05:10.439 That sort of took a monkey off my. 99 00:05:10.399 --> 00:05:12.720 Back, a little bit less stressed out. 100 00:05:12.800 --> 00:05:15.759 So when this head's up, I felt really good until 101 00:05:15.839 --> 00:05:17.800 I had him and he doubled, and then I started 102 00:05:17.800 --> 00:05:20.240 to freak out again because all those traumatic memories of 103 00:05:20.279 --> 00:05:23.240 the past. You're like, nah, not like this, Please don't 104 00:05:23.240 --> 00:05:23.959 do it to me again. 105 00:05:25.079 --> 00:05:27.480 You had several close calls this year as well. You know, 106 00:05:27.519 --> 00:05:29.920 this is your twelfth cash bunch of other final tables. 107 00:05:30.279 --> 00:05:32.879 At what point did this run start to feel like okay, 108 00:05:33.040 --> 00:05:34.439 like I got a shot at this thing. 109 00:05:34.800 --> 00:05:37.680 I mean really early on in this PLO, Like it 110 00:05:37.759 --> 00:05:39.720 took me about an hour to jump in to level 111 00:05:39.759 --> 00:05:41.720 seven and grab the chip lead, and then I was 112 00:05:41.759 --> 00:05:43.199 able to maintain. And one of the things I do 113 00:05:43.319 --> 00:05:46.480 really well in PLO is maintained. You know you're gonna 114 00:05:46.519 --> 00:05:48.800 go through ebbs and flows. I got cooled a few times, 115 00:05:48.839 --> 00:05:51.600 but I minimized the damage to keep myself in the game. 116 00:05:51.639 --> 00:05:53.120 And you know, you don't want to let your head 117 00:05:53.120 --> 00:05:54.879 get like, oh no, I'm not the chip leader anymore. 118 00:05:54.920 --> 00:05:57.560 So what just as long as you're doing good, just 119 00:05:57.639 --> 00:06:00.360 get to the end, give yourself a chance, and then 120 00:06:00.360 --> 00:06:01.639 you know, hopefully finish the job. 121 00:06:02.360 --> 00:06:04.519 It's no secret that you've always loved PLO. You always 122 00:06:04.519 --> 00:06:07.480 said it really suits you very well. Why is that so? 123 00:06:07.560 --> 00:06:07.839 Listen? 124 00:06:07.879 --> 00:06:10.920 PLO is literally designed, like the Lord said, what's a 125 00:06:10.959 --> 00:06:12.680 game that Daniel could be really good at? 126 00:06:12.759 --> 00:06:13.000 Oh? 127 00:06:13.319 --> 00:06:15.360 I got one? How about this? He can limp before 128 00:06:15.360 --> 00:06:18.319 the flop and call a raise. Cool? He gets four cards? 129 00:06:18.360 --> 00:06:21.360 Awesome, it's pot limit even better and it's all about 130 00:06:21.360 --> 00:06:24.040 post flops, right. And I've always been sort of like 131 00:06:24.079 --> 00:06:28.079 a good reader post flop of situations and PLO afford 132 00:06:28.079 --> 00:06:29.839 g date ability to see a lot of flops if 133 00:06:29.839 --> 00:06:32.839 you choose to. And again, I just think it was 134 00:06:32.920 --> 00:06:35.240 the game was like perfectly built for my skill set. 135 00:06:36.079 --> 00:06:40.480 Pretty big summer for you overall, not just the poker stuff, 136 00:06:40.519 --> 00:06:43.240 but you know your life. You got a baby on 137 00:06:43.279 --> 00:06:45.240 the way. His baby run good. 138 00:06:45.240 --> 00:06:48.399 Real listen, I mean everyone talks about baby run good. 139 00:06:48.399 --> 00:06:49.959 And I'm feeling like I had a good summer. You know, 140 00:06:49.959 --> 00:06:51.600 I was telling people even though I was down like 141 00:06:51.839 --> 00:06:53.800 six hundred thousand bucks, I'm like, I think. 142 00:06:53.639 --> 00:06:54.399 I'm doing okay. 143 00:06:54.600 --> 00:06:56.199 It's hard to know though, you know, you don't cash 144 00:06:56.199 --> 00:06:58.079 it two fifty here and there, but I was always 145 00:06:58.079 --> 00:06:59.600 in there and I started to really heat up. 146 00:07:00.160 --> 00:07:00.399 Now. 147 00:07:00.439 --> 00:07:03.399 It's nice to feel a little bit of redemption where 148 00:07:03.439 --> 00:07:05.079 you know, those that buy a piece of meat throughout 149 00:07:05.079 --> 00:07:06.959 the summer and watch the vlog, they're all going to 150 00:07:07.000 --> 00:07:09.319 get a paycheck this year, and I'm happy to do that. 151 00:07:10.000 --> 00:07:12.879 It's not just that twenty five k fantasy you drafted yourself. 152 00:07:13.319 --> 00:07:15.399 I believe this win puts you back on top. I'm 153 00:07:15.399 --> 00:07:17.040 sure you got a lot of side action in addition 154 00:07:17.079 --> 00:07:19.360 to trying to win that league, How important is that 155 00:07:19.399 --> 00:07:20.199 to you or how fun is that? 156 00:07:20.319 --> 00:07:20.519 Used? 157 00:07:20.680 --> 00:07:22.439 Well, the twenty five K Fantasy League, I think really 158 00:07:22.439 --> 00:07:24.040 brings a lot to the World Series of Poker, whether 159 00:07:24.079 --> 00:07:26.800 people know it or not. And for us, like I 160 00:07:26.839 --> 00:07:28.839 wasn't planning on drafting myself, but then I heard people 161 00:07:28.839 --> 00:07:30.480 stop bidding. I'm like, no, no, no, no, no, do you 162 00:07:30.519 --> 00:07:32.560 know who I am? And then I got Josh and 163 00:07:32.560 --> 00:07:34.639 we're buddies. We live in Lake Las Vegas, so we go, well, 164 00:07:35.000 --> 00:07:36.839 never mind golfing every day looks like we got to 165 00:07:36.839 --> 00:07:38.120 go to work. So you saw me in the six 166 00:07:38.240 --> 00:07:40.959 hundred dollars, minds the one k's, the hundred k's, all 167 00:07:41.000 --> 00:07:43.079 of it. I ended up playing a lot this summer, 168 00:07:43.279 --> 00:07:43.800 and I'm glad. 169 00:07:43.800 --> 00:07:47.360 I did you mentioned, you know, hearing your price maybe 170 00:07:47.399 --> 00:07:49.519 it's not big enough or where you might think it 171 00:07:49.560 --> 00:07:51.639 should be. Do you feel like you still have to 172 00:07:51.680 --> 00:07:53.319 prove stuff to people or you want to prove stuff 173 00:07:53.319 --> 00:07:53.680 to people. 174 00:07:53.839 --> 00:07:56.120 I enjoyed proving stuff to people, like I've always been 175 00:07:56.120 --> 00:07:59.079 fueled by haters. I really like every few years, I 176 00:07:59.160 --> 00:08:02.040 always hear like, he can't play with these guys anymore. 177 00:08:02.160 --> 00:08:04.680 I love that it's fun because then you know when 178 00:08:04.720 --> 00:08:06.959 you get these moments where I get to go, aha, 179 00:08:07.439 --> 00:08:09.560 stick it in their face. I gotta be honest, it's 180 00:08:09.560 --> 00:08:13.240 maybe it's petty, maybe it's childish, but it's really nice feeling. 181 00:08:13.279 --> 00:08:14.120 I'll tell you that. 182 00:08:15.160 --> 00:08:17.959 You're now back inside top ten of poy An award 183 00:08:17.959 --> 00:08:21.959 you've won on occasion before. Is that something you strive for? 184 00:08:22.000 --> 00:08:23.879 These days? You still think about the Player of the Year. 185 00:08:24.199 --> 00:08:25.399 So the way that I look at Player of the 186 00:08:25.480 --> 00:08:27.480 Year now right are so many really good contenders in 187 00:08:27.519 --> 00:08:29.680 the running for it is uh, you know, I just 188 00:08:29.720 --> 00:08:31.600 try to put my work together, you know, and then 189 00:08:31.680 --> 00:08:33.679 like the results will come. Then once you start to 190 00:08:33.679 --> 00:08:35.200 get up there now, I'm gonna start thinking about a 191 00:08:35.240 --> 00:08:37.279 little bit more of course. And of course you know 192 00:08:37.320 --> 00:08:39.440 it all ends in Bahamas this year, and I'll be, 193 00:08:39.600 --> 00:08:41.120 you know, ready to go there with a two week 194 00:08:41.159 --> 00:08:44.799 old baby. I don't know that like he's coming, but 195 00:08:45.080 --> 00:08:47.759 you know we're going to work in this in the winter. 196 00:08:48.639 --> 00:08:50.600 At the tail end of that long drought that you had. 197 00:08:50.720 --> 00:08:53.000 If somebody were to tell you, listen, just stay the 198 00:08:53.000 --> 00:08:54.799 course because you're gonna win the fifty k PPC, You're 199 00:08:54.799 --> 00:08:57.120 gonna win the hundred KPO up. What would you thought. 200 00:08:57.679 --> 00:08:59.519 I'll tell you what, if somebody were to tell me 201 00:09:00.279 --> 00:09:02.159 that I was gonna, you know, make it work, it 202 00:09:02.200 --> 00:09:04.720 would have been me because I always believed, you know, 203 00:09:05.159 --> 00:09:07.440 like I can. I'm pretty good at like blocking out 204 00:09:07.480 --> 00:09:08.240 the outside noise. 205 00:09:08.279 --> 00:09:08.879 And I know the. 206 00:09:08.799 --> 00:09:11.720 Difference between whether it's like, yes, I'm getting out played. 207 00:09:11.759 --> 00:09:13.440 I felt that before, and I went in the lab 208 00:09:13.480 --> 00:09:15.679 and worked hard. But I also know and it's like no, no, no, 209 00:09:15.919 --> 00:09:18.679 You're doing good. Everything you're doing is right. You just 210 00:09:18.720 --> 00:09:20.919 got to get lucky in these spots and you'll be 211 00:09:20.960 --> 00:09:22.879 in in the winter circle sooner or later. 212 00:09:23.519 --> 00:09:28.399 Both Cashes got the eighth bracelet back in the running 213 00:09:28.399 --> 00:09:30.600 for POY twenty five. Kay fantasy, all that sort of stuff. 214 00:09:30.639 --> 00:09:32.559 But there's still a good chunk of the summer still 215 00:09:32.600 --> 00:09:33.840 left to go. We have the main event, we have 216 00:09:34.000 --> 00:09:35.720 a lot of other big stuff. How do you keep 217 00:09:35.720 --> 00:09:37.000 that momentum going forward. 218 00:09:37.240 --> 00:09:37.720 I'm looking for. 219 00:09:37.759 --> 00:09:39.960 I mean, listen, when you win a tournament, you're rare 220 00:09:40.080 --> 00:09:41.879 to go like I. As soon as it was over, 221 00:09:41.919 --> 00:09:43.960 I looked at the was wsp app and goalways what's 222 00:09:44.000 --> 00:09:44.600 the eight hundred? 223 00:09:44.799 --> 00:09:47.159 What is that? Can I jump in that? Because now 224 00:09:47.480 --> 00:09:48.600 there's a momentum. 225 00:09:48.200 --> 00:09:49.600 Right, And I've sort of, like I said, heated up, 226 00:09:49.600 --> 00:09:51.840 I cash six in a row, had won no cash 227 00:09:51.919 --> 00:09:53.279 than this one, so seven out of the last of 228 00:09:53.320 --> 00:09:53.879 eight events. 229 00:09:54.000 --> 00:09:55.759 And I've kind of always been a little bit streaky. 230 00:09:55.960 --> 00:09:58.159 So when you're in that zone of like winning, you 231 00:09:58.279 --> 00:10:00.120 just want to keep piling up the victory. 232 00:10:01.320 --> 00:10:03.679 This stage of your career, what's it all mean to you? 233 00:10:04.759 --> 00:10:06.480 Listen, at this stage of my career, I don't have 234 00:10:06.559 --> 00:10:08.879 anything I have to prove to other people, but I 235 00:10:08.960 --> 00:10:11.480 enjoy doing it. I love the game of poker, always have. 236 00:10:11.600 --> 00:10:14.480 I love the feeling of agony and defeat, you know, 237 00:10:14.559 --> 00:10:18.360 because without those painful moments, you don't feel the sweetness 238 00:10:18.399 --> 00:10:20.600 of the reward when you get it, you know, quite 239 00:10:20.639 --> 00:10:24.000 as impactfully. And so you know I've been through it, 240 00:10:24.080 --> 00:10:26.679 like I mean, I don't everyone thinks they're the most 241 00:10:26.759 --> 00:10:29.360 unlucky player in the world. Like heads up, I mean, 242 00:10:29.759 --> 00:10:32.000 you know, Donnie Peters could have won heads up one 243 00:10:32.000 --> 00:10:34.200 of those ten times I lost, you know, I lost. 244 00:10:34.039 --> 00:10:34.639 That all ten. 245 00:10:34.720 --> 00:10:43.639 I don't know, all right, if you guys can't tell. 246 00:10:44.559 --> 00:10:48.000 It always means a lot to get bracelets, to get w's, 247 00:10:48.440 --> 00:10:52.039 to compete at the highest level, for Daniel, So you know, 248 00:10:52.080 --> 00:10:54.120 thank you to him for taking that time to sit 249 00:10:54.159 --> 00:10:56.639 down with us and chat with us at length. Really 250 00:10:56.679 --> 00:10:59.000 cool to do those interviews. It's one of my favorite 251 00:10:59.000 --> 00:11:02.840 things of the summer. The number one favorite thing is 252 00:11:02.879 --> 00:11:04.919 the podcast. Of course, I've said that before, I will 253 00:11:04.919 --> 00:11:06.960 say it again. The number two thing is being able 254 00:11:06.960 --> 00:11:09.519 to sit down get some time with these players, you know, 255 00:11:09.600 --> 00:11:11.320 win or lose, you know, because we have done some 256 00:11:11.399 --> 00:11:15.720 interviews this year that haven't always been after wins, but 257 00:11:15.919 --> 00:11:19.519 just being able to tap in to these characters, these personalities, 258 00:11:20.000 --> 00:11:23.120 you know, that's just it's awesome. So we don't need 259 00:11:23.159 --> 00:11:25.159 to get too much into it to Daniel's win, of course, 260 00:11:25.200 --> 00:11:27.279 but I did want to play that interview for all 261 00:11:27.320 --> 00:11:30.320 you guys out there, and if you missed the last episode, 262 00:11:30.600 --> 00:11:33.120 go back and listen to it. We talked at length 263 00:11:33.240 --> 00:11:36.159 about Daniel's win, what it means to him, and all 264 00:11:36.200 --> 00:11:39.840 of that sort of stuff. Day one B of the 265 00:11:39.840 --> 00:11:42.360 World Series of Poker Main Event is in the books. 266 00:11:42.960 --> 00:11:47.519 It continued the story of the greatest poker tournament in 267 00:11:47.679 --> 00:11:52.799 the world. The numbers last year for one A had 268 00:11:52.919 --> 00:11:55.320 nine to twenty three and then it was down sixteen 269 00:11:55.360 --> 00:11:58.080 and a half percent to seven seventy one. We hit 270 00:11:58.120 --> 00:12:00.759 on that when I last talked to you guys. This 271 00:12:00.879 --> 00:12:06.240 year down, yes, but trending in the right direction. A 272 00:12:06.240 --> 00:12:09.440 little bit of positivity here. Last year had one thousand 273 00:12:09.480 --> 00:12:12.000 and ninety six entries on Day one B. This year 274 00:12:12.080 --> 00:12:15.799 had one thousand and thirty eight, so not far off, 275 00:12:15.960 --> 00:12:20.080 only down five point three percent compared a year over year, 276 00:12:20.240 --> 00:12:24.200 So you know that's I think, you know, obviously one 277 00:12:24.240 --> 00:12:26.799 A being down sixteen point five percent, we talked about 278 00:12:26.799 --> 00:12:29.679 how that was kind of probably expected given what we 279 00:12:29.759 --> 00:12:32.080 have been seeing all summer. You know some of the 280 00:12:32.320 --> 00:12:34.080 you know, just talking to people around the world Series 281 00:12:34.120 --> 00:12:36.679 of Poker, talking to people in the know, they all 282 00:12:36.759 --> 00:12:39.039 kind of felt decline. But you know, now there's some 283 00:12:39.080 --> 00:12:43.279 positivity here because you know that decline certainly isn't near 284 00:12:43.320 --> 00:12:45.360 what it was for the one A field, and then 285 00:12:45.360 --> 00:12:47.679 obviously we still have two more flights to go. I 286 00:12:47.720 --> 00:12:50.320 also think this year I'll have to dig through some 287 00:12:50.360 --> 00:12:52.639 of the numbers to see what we got for the 288 00:12:52.759 --> 00:12:57.399 Day two late registration. I think that'll probably be more 289 00:12:57.440 --> 00:13:00.720 than it's ever been, or at least on par with 290 00:13:00.759 --> 00:13:03.919 what it was last year. I just think the late 291 00:13:04.000 --> 00:13:07.120 registration thing. You know, players are are becoming a little 292 00:13:07.120 --> 00:13:10.039 bit more open to it. They're realizing how valuable it 293 00:13:10.039 --> 00:13:13.399 can be. Specifically in the WSP main event, when you 294 00:13:13.440 --> 00:13:16.879 come in if you max late reds, registration is open 295 00:13:17.360 --> 00:13:21.120 through seven levels, so all five levels on day one 296 00:13:21.200 --> 00:13:24.000 and then two levels on day two. There's a break 297 00:13:24.000 --> 00:13:26.360 after every level. Every level is two hours long, so 298 00:13:27.120 --> 00:13:31.000 you'll come in on day two going into the six 299 00:13:31.080 --> 00:13:33.600 hundred twelve hundred level to come with a freshtack of 300 00:13:33.639 --> 00:13:36.120 sixty k that's fifty big wines. That's a crap ton 301 00:13:36.159 --> 00:13:38.759 of tips to work with, especially when a structure like 302 00:13:38.799 --> 00:13:42.519 this that's so good, long drawn out two hour levels, 303 00:13:42.559 --> 00:13:45.480 you know, like that's a ton to work with. We say, 304 00:13:45.480 --> 00:13:46.799 it's a lot to work with for some of the 305 00:13:46.799 --> 00:13:48.960 other tournaments when you're coming in with you know, twenty 306 00:13:49.159 --> 00:13:51.360 twenty two and a half, twenty five big wines, whatever 307 00:13:51.399 --> 00:13:53.320 it may be. But to come in with fifty, I mean, 308 00:13:53.720 --> 00:13:56.519 holy crap, man, that's a lot of tips. And you know, 309 00:13:56.559 --> 00:13:58.480 you skip all the early play, you don't got to 310 00:13:58.480 --> 00:14:00.480 deal with all that sort of stuff. So maybe it'll 311 00:14:00.480 --> 00:14:03.519 be a little bit fresher than everyone else. So I 312 00:14:03.960 --> 00:14:06.240 expect you know, the day two reach to be you know, 313 00:14:06.360 --> 00:14:09.399 quite plentiful out there. I was there today. I did 314 00:14:09.480 --> 00:14:12.000 have to dip out for a dinner at some point. 315 00:14:12.039 --> 00:14:14.159 It was gone for about two hours, but you know, 316 00:14:14.240 --> 00:14:15.919 came back to the end of the night, hung around, 317 00:14:16.440 --> 00:14:21.600 and unlike the opening flight on Thursday one A, there 318 00:14:21.679 --> 00:14:27.879 wasn't really one defining storyline that I could really like pinpoint, 319 00:14:27.960 --> 00:14:31.639 you know, I think obviously the biggest storyline from Day 320 00:14:31.679 --> 00:14:34.320 one A, of course, is that the WQ main event 321 00:14:34.399 --> 00:14:37.120 is here, It's back, it's kicking off. Let's freaking go right. 322 00:14:38.159 --> 00:14:41.080 Today it's just more kind of like you're just kind 323 00:14:41.080 --> 00:14:43.519 of going through the motions. Not in a bad way, 324 00:14:44.039 --> 00:14:46.679 but you know, you lose the buzz from a kicking off. 325 00:14:46.759 --> 00:14:50.840 Of course. You know, the buzz on Thursday was only 326 00:14:50.960 --> 00:14:54.240 heightened and boosted because you had, in conjunction with the 327 00:14:54.279 --> 00:14:57.759 main event kicking off, you have Danielgrodney winning his eighth bracelet. 328 00:14:58.000 --> 00:15:02.600 Right then they also did play the hell Youth entrance 329 00:15:02.759 --> 00:15:05.879 on that day, and I'm actually curious. I started thinking, like, 330 00:15:05.960 --> 00:15:10.200 this is how the professional brain in meat starts working. 331 00:15:10.399 --> 00:15:13.120 The marketing brain, the branding brain, all the like the 332 00:15:13.159 --> 00:15:15.039 content brain like all that sort of stuff starts working 333 00:15:15.080 --> 00:15:17.440 in me as I was thinking, okay, so we know, 334 00:15:18.879 --> 00:15:22.600 we know on Wednesday night that Daniel is making this 335 00:15:23.279 --> 00:15:26.200 PLO high Roller Final table and it's one hunter K 336 00:15:26.279 --> 00:15:28.120 and he was very healthy on chips. You know, he's 337 00:15:28.120 --> 00:15:30.159 got a really good shot to win the thing, right, 338 00:15:31.879 --> 00:15:34.080 I would be curious to see here if there was 339 00:15:34.080 --> 00:15:37.879 any conversations to possibly delay the hellm youth entrance to 340 00:15:38.000 --> 00:15:40.960 a different day, right, you know, do it maybe on 341 00:15:40.960 --> 00:15:44.120 one B, do it on one C, maybe even do 342 00:15:44.200 --> 00:15:47.519 it on one D. I think because with with how 343 00:15:48.679 --> 00:15:51.360 how like the headlines to me for for the the 344 00:15:51.399 --> 00:15:54.320 starting flights of the main event, like just coming in 345 00:15:54.360 --> 00:15:57.639 if you don't know anything, Day one A the headliner 346 00:15:57.799 --> 00:16:00.399 is you know, can easily just be wsp him and 347 00:16:00.480 --> 00:16:04.039 kicks off, boom bang, let's go Day one D. You're 348 00:16:04.080 --> 00:16:07.360 getting the largest starting flight of the four, you know, 349 00:16:07.799 --> 00:16:10.799 I mean ninety nine point nine nine nine percent sure 350 00:16:10.799 --> 00:16:13.080 that that is always happening, right, so you're gonna have that, 351 00:16:13.120 --> 00:16:16.879 you know, giant numbers, thousands of players, people wall the 352 00:16:16.919 --> 00:16:20.159 wall across properties like it's just it's nuts. Plus that's 353 00:16:20.200 --> 00:16:22.519 usually when all the really really big names the stars 354 00:16:22.559 --> 00:16:25.279 all tend to play, right, So you got that built 355 00:16:25.279 --> 00:16:28.120 in headline, So what do you do for one B 356 00:16:28.279 --> 00:16:30.519 and one C? So don't you want to kind of 357 00:16:30.559 --> 00:16:34.799 approach mister WSP, mister seventeen time goal bracelet winner, you know, 358 00:16:34.879 --> 00:16:37.240 mister phil ha Muthan, say hey, how about we plan 359 00:16:37.360 --> 00:16:40.840 this for one B or one C? And then it 360 00:16:41.000 --> 00:16:43.159 also if you know that negrony is, you know, making 361 00:16:43.159 --> 00:16:45.240 that final table, maybe you say, okay, hey how about 362 00:16:45.279 --> 00:16:47.759 we how about we kick this a day? Can we 363 00:16:47.799 --> 00:16:50.480 move some stuff? Can we you know, rebook the models 364 00:16:50.480 --> 00:16:52.399 who are walking in you know all that, all that 365 00:16:52.399 --> 00:16:55.039 sort of sort of stuff. I mean, I know Helmuth 366 00:16:55.120 --> 00:16:58.200 also likes his rest when it comes to playing poker, 367 00:16:58.240 --> 00:17:00.480 his rest when it comes to playing that an event 368 00:17:00.519 --> 00:17:02.120 which you know, if he were to do it on 369 00:17:02.120 --> 00:17:03.759 one B, it still does allow him to have a 370 00:17:03.799 --> 00:17:05.519 couple of days off. Should he make day two and 371 00:17:05.519 --> 00:17:07.079 then you know he would have another day off and 372 00:17:07.119 --> 00:17:09.160 then can come back for day three, so that that 373 00:17:09.279 --> 00:17:13.119 rest aspect can still certainly be at play. You know, 374 00:17:13.599 --> 00:17:15.680 I would say at least this year day one seed 375 00:17:15.759 --> 00:17:19.480 July fourth, because one seed does fall on July fourth, 376 00:17:19.519 --> 00:17:23.559 Like that's a pretty Festive Day in the US of course, 377 00:17:23.759 --> 00:17:26.480 so you know you kind of get that as some 378 00:17:26.599 --> 00:17:30.640 additional buzz within the room, right, So so so maybe 379 00:17:30.680 --> 00:17:33.160 one B is a better timing to target the helmet 380 00:17:33.160 --> 00:17:35.599 stuff because that the helmet stuff did add to the 381 00:17:35.599 --> 00:17:38.279 buzz from one A. Right, you know, you had ground 382 00:17:38.279 --> 00:17:40.880 You're doing his thing in the plo, you had the 383 00:17:40.920 --> 00:17:42.880 main event kicking off, and then on top of all 384 00:17:42.920 --> 00:17:45.880 of that, you had this this kind of lighter fluid 385 00:17:45.920 --> 00:17:48.519 thrown in there, you know, to to make that fire 386 00:17:48.599 --> 00:17:52.119 burn even bigger with with helmet doing his whole grand entrance. 387 00:17:52.359 --> 00:17:56.039 For one B on Friday, you had plenty of recognizable 388 00:17:56.039 --> 00:17:59.039 faces in the field. You had Michael the Grinder, Miss 389 00:17:59.119 --> 00:18:02.440 Rocky in there, of course, horse the reigning champion for 390 00:18:02.680 --> 00:18:06.039 the WSP main event and also fresh off one of 391 00:18:06.039 --> 00:18:10.200 the greatest WSOP runs ever in the ten k Peel Championship. 392 00:18:10.759 --> 00:18:13.440 You had Antonio s Fondiari playing. I haven't seen him 393 00:18:13.519 --> 00:18:16.400 all summer. You know, it's great to see that he's 394 00:18:16.440 --> 00:18:18.799 back out there. He was out playing with his wife Amal, 395 00:18:18.960 --> 00:18:22.400 so that was cool to see them come out and grind. 396 00:18:22.759 --> 00:18:26.079 Antonio was up on one of the feature tables. I 397 00:18:26.079 --> 00:18:28.960 think for the entire day. So if you guys missed that, 398 00:18:29.000 --> 00:18:30.480 if you want to check it out, you can find 399 00:18:30.519 --> 00:18:34.279 it on the ESPN Plus on ESPN app to to 400 00:18:34.480 --> 00:18:38.039 check out that stream with Antonio. Greg Ramer was in 401 00:18:38.079 --> 00:18:40.559