Speaker 1: Hello everyone, Welcome back to a new episode of the
Poker Go Podcast.
Speaker 2: My name is Donnie Peters.
Speaker 1: It is Thursday, June twenty fifth, twelve forty two.
Speaker 2: Am.
Speaker 1: Did my best this evening to wait until the events finish.
One or two of them aren't done, but we're not
going to hit on those events anyway because they're still early,
so whatever. But that said, a lot of stuff been
happening at the World Series of Poker. First up the headliner.
We have a winner in the Milli Maker. It is
Joseph Liberta.
Speaker 2: Not to be.
Speaker 1: Confused with Justin Liberto, because I know some people out there,
Producer Rich maybe maybe have confuse those two in the past.
But Joseph Liberta winning the Millionaire Maker for one point
two five million dollars. Josh Reichard finally got WSFP gold.
He won the twenty five hundred dollars no limit. We
can touch on the final fourteen players of an awesome
field remaining in the twenty five k half and half.
We got a winner in the one kplo. We got
a winner to catch up on in the fifteen hundred
dollars Juices even triple draw. We got a winner in
the five hundred dollars. Salute to warriors. Taking a look
around elsewhere, Mystery Millions looks like it's off to a
good start. I'll touch on that. I do want to
go off property as well from the WSP and touch
on this ten K Summer Championship that's taking place over
at the Win because we have some some numbers there,
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dot com, slash poker Go in the WSP millionaire maker
that wrapped up on Wednesday, Joseph Liberta. He came into
the final table third in chips. He ends up coming
out on top, topping a field of almost twelve thousand
entries eleven seven hundred and sixty nine entries to be exact,
Liberta winning a career best one point two five million dollars,
his first bracelet. He's a longtime pro player out of
New Jersey. He's got live cash. Is that day back
to two thoy and eleven If I'm looking at his
hand him up profile correctly, this is also his first
seven figure score. It's by far the largest score of
his career. He got kind of, I mean, not really
a slow start to the final table, but didn't really
get active in terms of knocking anyone out. It wasn't
until Joseph Bagdad Leon I believe I'm saying that correctly
busted in fifth place. But Bradley Gafford was the one
that left Bagdad Leon short and then Liberta ended up
finishing him off. Bagdodd leyon finished in fifth place for
four hundred ten thousand dollars. He was at my Day
two table. We battled in some hands. I doubled up
through him at one point. He ends up going on
to win more than four hundred thousand dollars, so great
run from Joseph magdod leyon there After he was busted
by Roberta Liberto, then busted Halford Fairchild in fourth place.
It was pocket nines for Roberta, besting the ace Queen
suited for Fairchild. Then he took out Roberto did he
took out Gafford in third place. Gafford with another deep
run in a big WSP event. He won the WAP
Mini Vaine.
Speaker 2: A couple of years ago.
Speaker 1: He actually beat Josh Reiker, who we're going to talk
about in a second, but Gafford busting in third place.
They got the money in well. Gafford jammed on the
river of a Jack ten to three King eight board.
Gafford believe it was check Ray's flop in I think
blind versus blind if I remember correctly, but he check
raised flop with King ten turn as a king he
bet got called river was an eight. Jammed got Liberta
had Queen nine flopped open ended, turned the King high
straight and then was able to pick off Gafford, who
was likely going for value in that spots with the
King ten, but just ran into it there. That said,
seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars score for Bradley Gafford.
Have played with him a bit around town. Might not
be playing with him anymore if he's you know, out
there winning three quarters of a million dollars. But a
good player, very aggressive, can certainly find some very interesting
lines in hands, and he's a he's a chore to
have at the table. So another big run here for
Bradley Gafford. Then it was heads up against Michael Monroy.
It ended up kind of a bit of a back
and forth, a little bit of a battle here, but
ultimately Liberto was just able to grind down Monroy. Monroy
got in his last i think five or six big
blinds with with ten eight priced in. Was Liberta or
at least you know, Monrog was short enough that he
called eight to five. Leberta flopped five deuce turn was
I think a queen to leave Monroy drawing dead.
Speaker 2: And that was that.
Speaker 1: Now Monrok did score a million dollars for second place.
This is the WSP millionaire maker. They did crowned two
millionaire makers. So Liberta on top one point twenty five million,
Monroyga second one million, Bradley Gafford third, seven hundred and
fifty k, Fairchild in fourth, five hundred and thirty K.
I mentioned Baghdad leon In fifth place or four hundred
and ten thousand, Alex Kim three hundred and fifteen thousand
for him sixth place. Alex Kim a friend of mine.
He was at the Poker COO Strategy Seminar a couple
of years ago that was held with US and had
coaches Andrew Marino and Andrew Liechtenberger there. Alex Kim made
the Millionaire Maker final table in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2: I believe I.
Speaker 1: Did commentary on that. I think with Remco eighth place
in that one for one hundred and seventy four one
thousand dollars, and then here makes the final table of
this tournament again does a little bit better and takes
home three hundred and fifteen k. Jacob Gagnuan seventh place
for two forty five, Gary Gervich one hundred ninety K
for eighth place, Yifu he one hundred and fifty k
for ninth place.
Speaker 2: Yfu.
Speaker 1: We see, we see in the studio quite a bit
plays a lot of our PGT events for the no
limit stuff, so a good score for him. There one
hundred and fifty thousand over into another big field no
limit holding tournament, the twenty five hundred dollars Buying No
Limit Event. Josh Reichard doing the damn thing, his first
gold bracelet five hundred and fifty five thousand dollars going
his way. He topped the field of one thousand, seven
hundred and thirty six entries. He passes seven million dollars
in live tournament earnings. He has now this w S
a pre bracelet to go along with a WPT title.
He's got two basically circuit main event titles. He's got
two MSPT titles. I believe he has a Heartland Poker
Tour rip, Heartland Poker Tour, a Heartland Poker Tour title
as well. You know, Josh is one of those players
who he's a good friend of a good friend of
mine Modo Wara. Josh is one of the nicest, one
of the best tournament players when it comes to like
these live mid stakes tournaments. He also had a final table,
did Josh earlier in the ten K Mystery Boundy. I
believe because Alex Foxen won the Super Turber of Bound Me. Anyway,
Josh just freaking crushes if it's got a buy in
between let's say one K and five K. Josh is
absolutely one of the best in the world at these tournaments,
you know, yeah, of course, you know things. He's had
some success in some higher buying stuff as well.
Speaker 2: Of course.
Speaker 1: You know, I think he's won a couple of ten
k's here and there. He's gone deep, and I think
the main event, et cetera, like he's done well, you know,
But the bread and butter, I would say for Josh
Reichard is the one K to five K price point,
and he just absolutely nukes people in those fields. I
don't know how he does it, to be honest. I mean,
it's just it's simply incredible.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: I look at someone like him, I look at someone
like an Andrew Moreno, and I'm just like these guys
just in these specific big field tournaments around this price point,
they just absolutely crushed the competition. Reikard beat Caleb Harris
in second place, Harris taking home three hundred and seventy
thousand dollars. We had a PGT regular Miles Moulay at
the final table. He took fifth place for one hundred
and forty five K. Let's take a break from discussing
the winners here for a second as we check out
the twenty five K nolam at HoldEm Slash Potlam and
Omaha Half and Half tournament. There are fourteen players remaining.
Believe they had a field of up over two hundred. Yeah,
two hundred and fourteen players or two hundred and fourteen
entries total in this one got a pretty good number
after it got a pretty low number, or at least
it started with a pretty low number.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: I was getting some screenshots of the tournament clock that
were showing one entry, then six entries, then seven entries,
and it was like, well, what the heck's going on?
Speaker 2: Is this thing?
Speaker 1: This thing actually gonna get getting the entries. But it
ended up getting up there, so you know, it did.
It did pretty well overall. I'm just pulling up the
number from last year. Last year was two forty five
and that was won by lou Garza, and he's still
in the field. He's actually second in chips here with
fourteen players or maining, So lou Gars are looking to
go back to back in this half and half tournament.
It is interesting that, you know, it started so slow
for the entries, but it ultimately got up over two hundred,
so not too far off the pace that was set
last year, kind of in line with how the these
twenty five k and then you know, bigger buying events
have been going during the twenty twenty six World Series
of vo where we outlined a lot of the numbers
on the last episode of the podcast. So if you
guys missed that one, I would encourage you to go
back and check it out. Also, if you guys want,
I would highly encourage you guys to go over and
check out. On substack, it's called The Overlay. It's written
by my friend and longtime colleague, you know, longtime fellow
media member within the industry, Lance Bradley. He wrote about
the numbers. Coincidentally, him and I have been kind of
exchanging some text messages about some of the numbers stuff
and our spreadsheets and whatnot, but we really hadn't talked
about you know, like, hey, I'm going to do this
on this date and he's going to do this on
that date. But it just so happens that the day
when we released on this podcast feed. My episode talking
about the WASV numbers is the same day when he
released his piece on his substack called the Overlay about
the numbers. Just honestly total coincidence. It was pretty funny.
Lance and I came to pretty similar conclusions overall with things,
and you know, I know, we exchanged some messages back
and forth that that we were doing this, but we
never really talked about our findings and what the conclusions
that we were coming to. So I think it just
gives some credence or some weight to those findings, given
that he and I both found very similar things, but
you know, not really discussing it and coming at it
from two different angles.
Speaker 2: So once again, go check that out.
Speaker 1: Lance does great work over on his substack.
Speaker 2: Again, it's called the Overlay.
Speaker 1: Just look for it, Google it, whatever you gotta do.
But back to this this twenty five K half and
a half, we got Yoha Helpi. The finished legend is
leading the way with fourteen players remaining one million, one
hundred and seventy two thousand dollars up top. The final
fourteen players have sixty one thousand dollars locked up. You
got lou Garza sitting in second place. He is the
ending champion of this event, looking to go back to back.
Sweet Loue Baby. Elis Parsonen is also in. He won
a bracelet earlier this summer twenty five k PLO for
him was that bracelet. He's now going strong in this one.
Sean Winter is still in Shawn Winter still looking for
his first bracelet. Maybe this is the one for mister Winter.
Maybe Dylan Wiseman's in there, Dylan Lindy's in there, And
then I think, you guys know this guy who's sitting
in fourteenth place, the shortest acrimating Daniel Nagrane. He's still in.
He's fourteen out of fourteen. He does have some work
to do, but Daniel can spin it with the best
of him, and he's going to look to do that.
Speaker 2: On Thursday.
Speaker 1: In the one k PLO, a tournament that attracted more
than thirty seven hundred entries, Harry Rubin bests the field
to win three hundred and ninety thousand dollars a first bracelet.
Four hair Rubin he's a Connecticut player. He is making
his eighth World Series of Poker Cash. Most of them
are kind of some smaller scores, but he did have
a fourth place finish and a one K freeze out
back in twenty twenty two for one hundred and thirteen
one thousand dollars. This event. You know, you might think, wow,
one KPOLO got more than the thirty seven hundred entries,
it did have three starting flights. But I think that's great.
You know, I think we need some of these. I
talked about it on the On the Numbers episode. GOLO
has gotten so big and it's so popular now there
is clearly a demand for it. So similar to how
you have these big multi flight Nolam Holden tournaments, I
think you can start doing much more of that for
the PLO stuff on the lower to mid stakes end.
I mean you could even do things like, I don't know,
could you have a PLO Monster Stack, Could you have
a PLO Milli Maker.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I think you could.
Speaker 1: I threw out some crazy ideas on the last one.
I'll throw out some crazy more here. But you know,
I poos here and I think the w SIP should
start looking at some.
Speaker 2: Of those those.
Speaker 1: More gimmicky ar at least headlining name brand events and
do that with PLO. But Harry Rubin here topping this
one kplo more than thirty seven hundred entries, getting a
huge score of three hundred and ninety K for him.
Michelle Chin, she won the fifteen hundred dollars Duce to
seven Triple Draw top in a field of six hundred
and fifty seven entries to win one hundred and sixty
one thousand dollars her first bracelet. She's the first woman,
or she was the first woman to ever win a
w SP circuit main event. I read that in the
Poker News recap that was back in twenty fifteen. She
won the circuit main event that was held at Council
Bluffs in Iowa. She's the second woman this summer to
win an open bracelet event. The first was, of course,
Kristin Foxen when she won the twenty five K high
Roller earlier this summer, beat Daniel Strelitz in heads up placed.
Chin took one hundred and sixty one K Straylt's one
hundred and seven k for him. You get Nick Papio
at this final table, Sean Troja at this final table
as well. In heads up play here, Straylt's actually began
with the chip lead. He was up about one point
five to one over Chin. He stretched that out to
it looked like about five or six to one. He
had Chin on the ropes. And then she ends up
getting all in. She makes an eighty six to beat
Straylitz's eighty seven. That gave her a double up, but
she still had work to do from there, of course,
And actually Straylt's kind of opened his lead back up
once again. But then all of a sudden, it's like
they went on this break, they come back. She starts
charging hard. You know, this is in the three hundred
thousand and six hundred level. She works her way into
the chip lead and then next thing you know, she's
got Straylett's on the ropes. They get all in. She's
got an eight seven five I think it was four
to three or maybe four deuce. Treil Ta has an
eight seven four to two draw. He ends up pulling
two threes, making a pair of threes, and that's all
she wrote for Straylas. He finishes in second place and
Michelle Chin coming out on top. We also had a
winner in the five hundred dollars Salute to Warriors event.
Prashant Notaraj takes this one down four thousand four hundred
and seventy eight entries in the field for this five
hundred dollars by an event notarage, taking home two hundred
and eight thousand dollars his first bracelet. His previous best score.
His previous best live score was forty two thousand dollars.
That's his only previous five figure score, So he crushes
that he gets his first bracelet.
Speaker 2: He does.
Speaker 1: He did have a handful of previous so op cashes,
but no final table is certainly nothing like this win.
His previous best WSOP score was for forty nine hundred dollars.
He taught Lawrence Essek in heads up Play. You had
Lexi Gavin Mather, a popular vlogger, popular player. She's been
around for quite some time. She finished in seventh place
for thirty three thousand dollars. This event, it's called the
Salute to Warriors because part of the prize pool is
donated to the United Service Organizations the USO in support
of military veterans. There was nearly a one hundred and
eighty thousand dollars raised for that cause to go to
those veterans. So that's a really cool thing that the
WSP always does every single year, and this event always
draws very very well. Congratulations to for Shant not Aaje
on his first placelet and the two hundred thousand dollars
plus score in the tournament that everyone has been clamoring
for them to stream, but they have not really streamed.
Speaker 2: Much of it.
Speaker 1: The fifty k PPC they are down to six players
from the field of one hundred and eight entries. The
chip leader entering the final day of play is Benny
in Glauser. He has a fairly healthy lead over the field.
He's got eight point six million. Next closest, well, there's
there's a few players. You have Max Coleman, you have
Phil Ivy, you have josh Aiy and Christopher Tong all
between five million and five point five million, and then
you have Paul Volby rounding out the pack with two
point seven million. This tournament is always an absolutely jam packed,
star studded field, and it was once again this year
simply an incredible tournament. One point three four million dollars
up top. You had a nice up well, I shouldn't
say nice because it's not like the biggest uptick, but
it is nice to see an uptick in the field size.
This year one hundred and eight entries. It was one
hundred and seven entries. Last year it had back to
back years when it was going down. Twenty twenty two
it was one hundred and twelve entries, then twenty twenty
three it was ninety nine, twenty twenty four was eighty nine,
and then twenty twenty five it kicked up to one
oh seven, and then here it went up again to
one oh eight. The final six players are guaranteed two
hundred and twenty six thousand dollars. They're going to come
back on Thursday. The plan is, per Jeff Platt on
social media, per everything that I've heard at the WSP
is that they are streaming this final table. So for
everyone out there who wants to watch mixed games, who
has wanted to watch mixed games all summer, now is
your chance. Be sure to tune in to the coverage
you had. Jason Mercier busted out in seventh place. Nick
Waghenti fell in eighth place, Alex Livingston busted ninth, Jesse
lonis tenth. There's not too many payouts. Overall, only seventeen
spots got paid, So I'll just run through all the
rest of them too, Chris Unikin eleventh, Chris Brewer twelfth,
Roy Thung thirteenth, Phil Hellmuth fourteenth, Maxim Piece Ranko fifteenth,
Mac Lance sixteenth, and Darja Tarapor got seventeenth. Bryce Yacki
was the player who bubbled on Day three. On Wednesday,
it was Day four action. Day five will be the
final day. So once again you got Benny Glaser up
on top with a somewhat of a comfortable lead. Here
he's got a battle with Max Coleman, Josh Aria, phil Ivy,
Christopher Tong, and Paul Volpi. Benny Glaser, I would say,
is the favorite, you know, when you figure out how
good he is at mixed games and the fact that
he has the chip, leader has to be the favorite
to win this title. I know he's come close before.
I know he really, really really wants this title, likely
more so than any title in the world, and he's
in line to get it. And that would be pretty cool,
you know, to see someone of his skill level ultimately
go on to win the fifty k PPC. Of course,
it would be cool as well to see phil Ivey
win it. Josh Arie maybe a little bit of a
chip on his shoulder here because he wasn't in those
that final group of players who were nominated by the
public to be a finalist for the Hall of Fame.
So and he's all you know, he also had that
second place finish to Calvin Anderson, you know, about a
week or so ago or whatever that was. So maybe
you know Josh is out there with something to prove,
you know how competitive he is. Right, and then listen,
don't count out Paul Volpi. I know he's last in chips.
I know he's got some work to do, Yes, but
Paul's gone deep in this event before. He's absolutely one
of the best all around players in poker, so he
can certainly make a name for himself. All these players
very very good, and that's going to be a lot
of fun to catch that final table On Thursday. The
one K Super Seniors is down to the final fifteen.
Timothy Garner leads the way. There's three hundred and fifty
five thousand dollars up top than thirty three hundred entries
in the field. Greg Ramer, yeah, we all know that
named Greg Ramer is still in Kevin Song a bracelet winner.
He's still in a name that I haven't seen or
a player that I haven't seen in quite some time,
but I guess he's here. Alexander Dovchenko is still in
as well. Again, that's the final fifteen in the one
K Super Seniors, and then in the ten K duce
To seven Championship that kicked off on a Wednesday. Brian Tate,
the founder of oates Overnight, he's leading the way. There
were one hundred and forty entries on day one, but
you know, registration is still open for a level or
two on day two, so don't have any finalized numbers there.
Andrew Yay is in second place on the leader board
entering day two. We also had the first two starting
flights take place for the one K Mystery Millions, the
ever so popular one K Mystery Millions. It's drawing pretty well,
you know. I normally we don't talk about these these
early day one just because there's still so much to come.
But I guess, you know, following up a bit on
the numbers episode that we did as the last show,
I do want to touch on the pacing here last
year for the Mystery Millions. One A got thirteen twenty nine,
one B got eighteen thirty three. That's thirteen twenty nine
for one A eighteen thirty three for one B. This year,
one A got sixteen forty three. That's a twenty three
point six percent increase over last year, and one B,
which was Wednesday's flight twenty two hundred and seventy eight,
which is a twenty four point three percent increase. So
you know, average those out, twenty four percent increase so
far for the first two starting flights. That's a very
very good sign. I know, we talked about how some
of these tournaments you know, have been down this year overall,
or you know, maybe because of the re entries and
the structure changes, they're maybe not as up as large
as we might have thought. But once again, you know,
one of those themes that we saw when we looked
at all the numbers was that these kind of gimmicky
I mean, not really gimmicky, the more like the more
name brand headline events. You know, the Monster Stack, the
Million Maker, the Colossus, now you have this Mystery Millions.
Those all continue to draw really well, and this one
probably is drawing the best at least early on through
the first two flights. This is the first two flights
of five drawing the best out of any of those. Now,
if we just take a twenty percent increase on the
total field size from last year, that total field size
was nineteen thousand, six hundred and fifty four entries. A
twenty percent increase on that would give us twenty three thousand,
five hundred and eighty five entries. And I think that's
being a little bit conservative, because you know, we have
seen a twenty four percent increase so far. But if
we just do twenty percent, that would mean this year's
Mystery Millions would become the third largest poker tournament of
all time, behind only the number one largest poker tournament
of all time, the twenty nineteen ws BE Big fifty,
and then the twenty twenty five WASP Gladiators of Poker,
And honestly, there's a chance that it could even become
the second largest poker tournament, because if it's on this pace,
then that second largest poker tournament, the twenty twenty five
WASIP Gladiators of Poker, had twenty four thousand, six hundred
and twenty nine entries. That is, if it stays on
this pace, that is certainly within striking distance. So you know,
I know there's a lot been made about how everything's
kind of down everywhere and this and that and the
other thing. But this Mystery Millions looks like it's pacing
incredibly well. So just we'll keep an eye on this
one as we go. Still three starting flights. This has
one A through one E for this one K Mystery Millions.
One event that did see so for as the Mystery Millions, right,
we got it up and we got it up twenty
four percent so far, an event that's down twenty four percent.
We're going to go off property. We're going to head
down the strip. We're going to go to the win
because the twenty twenty six ten thousand and four dollars
buying Win Summer Championship that drew if my math is correct,
based on what they have on the website for the
first three flights plus what was in poke ratlas. Today
they have eleven hundred and seventy entries. That is down
twenty three point nine percent from last year's fifteen hundred
and thirty seven entries. Buying here is a pretty hefty
ten thousand, four hundred dollars. In twenty twenty four, this
tournament had fourteen hundred and forty entries, so it went
up from twenty twenty four to twenty twenty five, it
went up ninety seven entries, and then this year it
dipped pretty hard. It's down almost twenty four percent. This
one did come with a guarantee, a ten million dollar
prize pool guarantee that was it was made. Yes, but
I would say probably a little too close for comfort
if you're the operator here, because the prize pool ends
up coming in at ten thousand and nine hundred and
seventy dollars, sorry, ten million, nine hundred and seventy thousand dollars.
That'd be way off if there were only at ten thousand,
ten million, nine hundred and seventy thousand dollars. So I'm
making it by nine hundred and seventy thousand dollars. Which
we know how poker operators work, right, They want to
crush guarantees. They really don't want to sweat them until
the bitter end. But this one was probably a sweat
at the win on Wednesday, you know, given that it
was less than a million above what they or what
they put on for the guarantee. So the reason I
want to point this out, you know I've talked about
or I've mentioned how you know numbers being down. It's
not just at the World Series of Poker for some
of those events. Even though I still think the World
Series of Poker, numbers are pulling pretty well this year.
As we talked about in that last episode, it's elsewhere too.
And this is a big marquee event at the Win
you know, the ten K buying win Sumber Championship, and
that has taken a twenty four percent hit this year.
I'm going to close the pod here by talking about
the tag team tournaments. Now, I wasn't supposed to play,
at least I wasn't planning to play this tag team
tournament this year. One K buy in the tag team
Nolanan Holdham event at the World Series at Poker. If
you're splitting a fifty to fifty, it's five hundred dollars
per person. It's only two person teams. I'm driving in
today around I don't even know what time, one or
two o'clock or something. Get a call from my good
friend Ronnie Barta. You guys probably heard from him on
a previous episode talking about his love for limit hold Them. Well,
he's telling me how the player that he usually plays
with justin Peachee is out of talent for some family stuff,
so he's thinking, why don't we fire, you know. So
I'm like, you know what, let me get down there,
let me look at my schedule, let me see what's up,
and uh, you know, we'll well, we'll possibly get in there.
So I get down to Paris, I get set up,
I check my schedule, I hit Ronnie back and I'm like, yeah,
let's go. You know I'm in And he tells me,
you know, well, how about this. We're gonna play some
audio clips from him. I ripped them off of his
Instagram story. But he tells me that basically he can
play most of day one, right, I just need to
cover for him while he goes to a dinner, and
then I'm gonna cover for him later night because he's
still in that ten k win Summer Championship, which has
day two on Thursday. So then on Thursday, if we
bag and make it through, I have to basically iron
man that whole thing as long as he's stilling at
the wind. So so that was kind of the plan
that we talked about. So here's here's Ronnie first talking
about playing with me.
Speaker 4: A little new development happening here. So today I was
a kind of take the day off. But you know what,
today's a tag team here.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 4: My partner Justin Peache, well, i've played the tag team
event with four or five times.
Speaker 3: We actually final.
Speaker 4: Table did two years ago. He's got some family stuff
going on. You can't be here right now. Unfortunately, Donnie
Peters always plays with Tim Duckworth, but him and they're
not playing for some reason.
Speaker 3: So I just hit up Donnie. I'm like, yo, you free.
He's like, yo, let's do it.
Speaker 4: So I'm gonna go fire all day one. I'm gonna
go to dinner with my friends. He's gonna re leave
me for dinner. I'm gonna come back. I'm gonna close out.
I'm not gonna play too late because I have that
ten k main day two tomorrow.
Speaker 3: He's gonna play tomorrow.
Speaker 4: If we get through today and then on my dinner break,
hopefully i'm still in. I'm gonna come and leave him
for an hour or so, go back and play the
rest of my ten k. And so he's at a
marathon day tomorrow. He says, we've got some iron Man duties.
If we can back tonight, let's go.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: So now we got Ronnie talking about how he's playing
with me. He's ready to go, you know, like we
talk on the phone, We're good to go. He's giving
me the rundown of how it has to work. I'm like, yeah, man,
whatever you need, no big deal. He's like, are you
sure you can handle the iron amount on day two
because you know there's no breaks in this tournament and whatever.
I'm like, yeah, I honestly, I feel like that probably
benefits me. Like, you know, I'm not gonna need to
go to the bathroom. I don't eat when I play. Like,
let's just you know, let's just sit down and let's
just crush these people. You just do the thing for
the most of the day one. I'll you know, cover
us on those breaks for the dinner and the late
night and whatever. And then that's that.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: And then I mean, I know he told me on
the phone that, like he's like, I just want to
you know, all these people with like their boyfriends and
their girlfriends, their husbands and their wives, their brothers and sisters,
and like their family members and longtime friends and all
of this.
Speaker 2: I just want to ruin them all. And I'm like
thinking into my head, I'm.
Speaker 1: Like, okay, man, like whatever, Like he's just trying to
like hype me up, He's trying to get himself hyped up.
Speaker 2: Whatever.
Speaker 1: Then I saw on his story that he actually talked
about wanting to ruin all these people while he was
walking over from Bollagio to the Horseshoe in Paris. And
here's Ronnie talking about how much he wanted to ruin
people in this specific tournament.
Speaker 3: I'm fully aware of how it's gonna sound.
Speaker 4: I mean it's gonna sound, but I want to go
in there and have a good time, but also just
dismantle some of these relationships brothers that are playing together,
husband and wives, you know, best.
Speaker 3: Friends, long life friendships.
Speaker 4: Why do you want to go in there and just
send people fucking home, have that partners yelling at them like,
oh you should have folded or you should have caught.
Speaker 3: Like this tournament is so fucking fun. I'm pumped. I
want to make a deep run. I'm gonna really try
my best.
Speaker 4: In this one, and I want to leave Donnie with
a mountain of chips when he gets in there in
about three hours.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: It didn't stop there, the talking about wanting to room
people because so we go to buy in. We buy in, okay,
and we're walking out of the Paris registration room because
you have to register for this tournament in person, which,
by the way, Jeff Platt put this on your list
of things to fix, Like why are we doing this?
There should be just some linking in the app with
your partner or something like you gotta tap phones or whatever.
You know, maybe like one person is the captain. That
captain has a QR code on their phone. The other
person can scan it, they can hit accept, they can
both agree boom. We can just buy in with the accounts.
We don't need to do this whole stand in the line.
I thought we were done with lines. Okay, let's let's
fix this. No more lines. Anyway, we get there with
the line. We're walking into the Paris tournament room. Ronnie's
bust out is his story, and he's he's walking and
talking about how he's gonna ruin all these people he walked.
We walk right up to the table and he's just like,
look like putting his phone or look at all these animals.
Look at I mean here, just listen to the people.
As we're walking into it, or listen to him talking
about the people as we walked to the room.
Speaker 5: Here we go, baby care, we fucking go black one
full four les right here. Oh yeah, let's take a look,
like I said, family members, wives, sisters, uncles, like the husbands.
But they're all gonna fill the fucking wrath. All these animals. Yeah,
look at these animals.
Speaker 3: Let's do it.
Speaker 1: So what you didn't hear there is so he cuts
off the story. But then we're standing right, we're in
seat four, we're standing right at the chair right, we
gotta check in, and there's a hand playing out, and
he's just talking about all these people, like the guy
in seat we're in seed four, the guy in seat five,
has you start with twenty k? That guy had like
one hundred and sixty K and just just one another
pot back door to straight the guy the other his
opponent flopped top set of kings. So like he's running
looking at this older gentleman just like, oh, like, I
can't wait. This guy's on my left, he's got all
these chips.
Speaker 2: I can't wait.
Speaker 1: He's like openly talking about how he's gonna like beat
all these poopies to look at all these people and
I'm just like, I'm standing there. I'm like, they can
probably hear you, man, they can probably hear you. So whatever,
they check us in. We're in kind of the front
of the room in Paris. I'm my desk in our
media setup is like back by the stage probably I
don't know, two hundred yards away, three hundred yards.
Speaker 2: Away, something like that. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know how big that room is exactly. But
I walk, we check in. He takes see he's gonna
play for about three hours. So he's got this dinner.
I'm gonna tag him in cool. I walk back to
my desk. I don't even sit into my chair, and
I'm getting text messages from him telling like telling.
Speaker 2: Me this hand.
Speaker 1: And then he's got photos and he's out. He's out
of the tournament. I'm like, what the fuck just happened?
Like I'm looking at these text messages he's got. It
ends up the first hand, he's dealt the very first hand.
He gets dealt ten to nine of hearts. He raises,
he gets a call from I think somebody in position,
call from a woman in the big blind. It comes
Queen Eid of Hearts, Queen of hearts, eight of hearts,
five of spades, Big blind checks Ronnie betts, Guy calls,
woman check raises, Ronnie puts it in. Guy folts, She calls,
She's got top and bottom turns the Queen's Ronnie's drawn
into the jack of hearts to make a straight flush,
rivers the jack of spades, so wrong, jack on the river.
And that's that. I mean, Like I'm like a huh,
like what I mean, He's in his story which I'm
about to play, like the story about him busting, where
he's talking about how he's like he's never busted a
tournament that fast. Well, I've also never busted a tournament
without playing a single hand. But I guess now I
can just check that off my bucket list too, because
that's been achieved. You know, this is not only the
fastest I've ever busted a tournament, for sure, but also
I did not play a single hand in this tournament.
I mean I didn't even get back to my desk.
I didn't even tell my people that I'm working with
that hey, I'm in the tag team today. Like I
didn't even get any of those words out of my mouth,
and this guy just busts us from the tournament.
Speaker 4: Can you guys imagine after all that that I just
talked about ruinings, ruining the dreams, ruining people's wsop dree
runing married couples and uncles and brothers and sisters, and
you know, the families that come in here to play
these fun cacteam tournaments. I said, I'm gonna go in
there now, I'm gonna torture some of these people. I'm
gonna get them. I got knocked out five minutes, serves
me right. That was the quickest I've ever gotten knocked
out in my life, because I walked in there like
an egotistical maniac on a mission, like an absolute crazy person.
Although I was having a little fun, none of it
was serious. I'm gonna post a hand after this story.
But I opened the ten nine of hearts went three ways.
If the Queen ate a heart flop five of spades,
you know, to getting a two four hundred level, I
bet fiacing on the flop. Old man calls girl, check raises,
I put it in he folds.
Speaker 3: She has top and bottom turned.
Speaker 4: Queen, I'm basically dead river Blackjack like the jacke hearts out.
Speaker 2: So yes, mister Barda my good friend, Ronnie.
Speaker 1: That's what you get for talking all that shit from
the Bolaggio to the table in Paris. You talk shit
the whole time. You talk shit on your story. You
were talking shit to me on the phone about ruining people.
You were talking shit again on your story when we
were walking right after the table. You were talking shit
off your story while we're standing next to the table.
And then, you know what, I think you kind of
got what you deserve now. Somehow I had to be
collateral damage in this thing, and my five hundred dollars
just got lit up in smoke. But I guess that's
just the breaks, that's just the break. So I know
I normally have played this event with Tim Duckworth. I
know Ronnie has normally played this event with Justin Peachee.
But I think next year Ronnie owes me a spot
as his teammate in the tag team event because he
busted us on the first hand. I don't care if
Tim is back for me. I don't care if Justin
is back for him. It doesn't matter. Ronnie owes me
round two, and I'm gonna play the first hand. Okay,
that's what's gonna happen. Next year we're playing again, and
I'm playing the first hand because I can't take this.
And I'm also instructing them. No Instagram stories, no talking
about ruining people, Okay, like we gotta just be calm
and collected and not over cocky, like this is ridiculous.
So anyway, that's my tech team story played today, lost
five hundred dollars, didn't play a single hand, honestly, truly great,
what the hell? But that's poker.
Speaker 2: What are you gonna do?
Speaker 1: And that's gonna be the pod. So thank you guys
as always for listening. Shout out to producer rich Ryan
for getting this thing up and posted. And we got
some fun content stuff in the works. I know many
of you have checked out the Jeremy Becker interview that
Rinko Rinkima did. I told you we got Andrew Lucky
Chue Lichtenberger. We got one of those coming. We got
some other video content that is coming as well, so
be on the lookout for that from the various Poker
ro channels. And that's it. That's the show. My name
is Donny Peters. Is a pleasure as always, and I
will talk to you guys next time.
Speaker 4: Jami