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