Speaker 1: Hello everyone, and welcome back to a new episode of
the Poker Go Podcast.
Speaker 2: My name is Donny Peters. His name is Tim Duckworth.
Speaker 1: We just wrapped up Day one, Part one of the
WSOP Main Event A final table probably.
Speaker 2: What day one pot one? That means it's another pot today,
Day one Part one? No like Day one slash Part one? No,
that's incorrect too, Final Table Day one. Stop.
Speaker 1: Okay, stop stop talking, because you do a whole bunch
of shit incorrect. And I don't get on you all
the time about it.
Speaker 2: You should.
Speaker 1: I try to, but you obviously don't listen because you
just you do your own thing. It is Thursday, July fifteenth.
It is eight oh five pm. This might be our
earliest podcast of the summer. There was one other one
that was pretty early. I think that was NINEUS. Yeah,
so either way down to four in the WSOP A
main event, and holy hell, Grinder Grinder. Grinder has an
enormous chip leads. Some would say massive, shoutout massive. He
has four hundred and forty five and a half million
in chips. To better put that into context, I will
just tell you that he has seventy six percent of
the chips in play seventy six percent. He has one
hundred and seventy eight big blinds. John Wosnock is in
second with ninety four point five million, which represents thirty
eight big blinds. Then it's Braxton Donaway with twenty five
point five million, he's got ten big blinds, and then
Kenny Hollard nineteen million, which is eight big blinds. So,
as far as I'm concerned, this thing is either going
to be over in an hour on Wednesday, or Grinder
is going to be out in an hour because he plays.
It is just it is full steam down the tracks.
Get the hell out of the way, and if you
don't get out of the way, there's gonna be a collision.
Some places to be And I told you that Grinder
was going to play a ridiculously big pot.
Speaker 2: Somewhat I also agreed with that, but I thought it
was going to go the way of John, and it
should have gone that way. But we'll get to it.
Speaker 1: Should will We will get to that one. I mean,
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you at the tables. WSBE Main Event, Final table. Right
off the bat, first hand out, boom all in. Yeah,
just incredible stuff there. So first hand delt, we get
a knockout. It's day Young Lee. He raises Ace Queen.
Now he came into the day second in chips. He
raises with Ace Queen. John Wosnock defends out of the
big blind with a couple of fives. Thought there might
be an argument for Wassnock just to put it in
against Lee, but he defends.
Speaker 2: Fine, it comes Queen Jack five.
Speaker 1: Hello, we got top toe Lee, cool, we got pocket
Vye's bottom set for Wosnock.
Speaker 2: It goes check bet. I think the bet was three
million raised to six point five million. Lee jams it
in wasnock of course, calls and it runs out clean
from there.
Speaker 1: We lose day young Lee. First, he collected a million
dollars right out the gate. Interesting to note mister Lee
did not have his mask.
Speaker 2: Or face covering on, and that was his downfall. Yeah,
he switched up. It was like Samson with the hair cut.
The hair.
Speaker 1: You cut the hair, you lose all your strength. You
take the face covering off, you lost all your strength.
I'm curious as to why.
Speaker 2: I think it was. What you know, maybe someone said
something to him because he came into the day, walked
in with no mosque, so obviously someone had told him,
probably early on the halo, let's lose this. But you know,
is it really unlucky? Probably not. We just know we're
just we're just broken around with that. I mean, there's
nothing he can do in this hand. The money's going
in with how short. He was just wondering if it's
if it's just a bitter spot to just shove in,
shove it all in here, because we know we know
John's probably likely fouling the five. He played pretty snog
most of the most.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I mean listened. Jared mc guinea was
pretty short, yes, but I think he still had fifteen
big blinds to start the day, so I don't hate
the way the hand played out. Ultimately, it's just a
cooler on that flop, But what are you gonna do?
It was pretty draw heavy. It was Queen Jack five
with two diamonds, so you know, there's straight draws there,
there's flush straws there.
Speaker 2: Top top with what seventeen bigs behind?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I mean he can have he can possibly
have some worse hands for value. You can have King Queen,
he can have Queen ten, maybe Queen nine, stuff like that.
You know, I don't hate to play a bit of
a cooler there to send Lee home on the first hand.
And then we didn't have to wait long for the
next bust out because on the seventh hand of the
final table, Jared mc guinea gets his money in in
a very similar sort of situation. This time it's Ace
Queen for Ming Guinea, Ace Queen of Diamonds versus the
pocket fours of Kenny Holler. Now it did play out differently.
Pre flop you had to raise on the button from
ming Guinea, Kenny Holler just elected to jam out of
the big blind. Mc guinea of course calls the fours
hold from there and we lose mng Guinea in eighth place.
He takes home one point twenty five million, but did
secure a quarter of a million dollars page out. You'll
come in as a short stack. That's got to feel good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. You're not going
to complain about that. And you know, like we discussed yesterday,
he was probably the betting favorite to be eliminated first.
But so you I think, you know, you look at
a lot of these people that come into the short
set oft the WSB final table, a surprising I mean,
we should probably drew to check this, but a surprising
amount of him have lighted up. So you're kind of
coming in with with nothing, no expectations, right, you know,
you're already guaranteed a million dollars. Everything's up from here.
It's just like you just hope the cards are on
your side, and you know, for Jared it was cards
were not on say hung side and day hung side, sorry,
and he and he felt first. So yeah, two hundred
and fifty k in the pocket. So you were here.
I wasn't here. I was off site just missing out
on work.
Speaker 1: I was definitely working handling some stream duties from our office.
Speaker 2: And so you were here, I mean, what was so?
What was it like?
Speaker 1: Like the first seven hands, we get two knockouts first
and of course boom out of the gate, we lose lead.
Then we lose mc guinea shortly after on the seven.
Then what was the atmosphere like?
Speaker 2: Here, I'm gonna I'm gonna take it back a little further.
Actually to about one o'clock, players start rolling in and
security wasn't letting any players in, and players players, Braxton
Dunaway was out there like can I get in? I
was like sure? On next year's like no, we're not
letting you in. We called, you know, we made some
calls up to the top the final they let him in.
And you have seen if you watch the broadcast in
recent years, you normally see players walking in with a
big entourage. There's signs this cheering. We're filming it. Braxton
came in. He was just sitting doing some relaxing. We
had Jared sitting in the rails, like in the audience boxes,
just listening to some music. We had the Chip leader
John sitting out here in the in the gold section,
you know, on his fine. So everyone kind of came
in without their big entourages.
Speaker 1: They should allow all the fans to come in, and
they should let the players should like hang out somewhere.
Speaker 2: Like the old days. Remember when they came through the tunnel.
You know what they would do, remember the tunnel.
Speaker 1: But I mean, obviously we don't have the turn you
know what they should do that control room of ours
that we take down and then we use it for
the inner room, we should turn that into kind of
a little lounge. The players themselves can go in the
lounge and maybe you know, they can bring like the
closest to them, maybe like mom and dad, wife or
girlfriends something like that, right can go with them. But
the rest of their fans are out here getting ready.
Then you walk them out. Everyone's chanting, cheering. It's a
whole thing.
Speaker 2: Wouldn't that be like kind of like, you know, it's
it's Game seven of the NBA Finals, it's the Celtics,
it's the like is and Lebron and Jason Tatum are
in the same locker room. Isn't that like a little
I mean hate but you you wouldn't know because you
would treat it like you treat it like they do it,
like like the NFL draft or the NBA draft, where
like everyone has their own little section, So you need
like nine sections back there, you know, with a couple
of chairs.
Speaker 1: You know, they're all kind of like in their own
little area, and that's what you do. You could probably
do nine like around the outside of the room. Have
a nice little spread of some food in there or
whatever like in that that could also be used. That
could also be used as a break room for the players,
Like they can go in there so they don't get
to go out here and you deal with all the
nonsense and the chaos and the fans and people wanting
photos and maybe asking for autographs and all that sort
of stuff. So they can just duck out there, go
into that room. You know, it's whatever. You know, they
get away for twenty minutes or so, and then that's
the thing.
Speaker 2: So once the players sat down, it was it was
a media circus. Every media outlet was in the stage
taking photos. You know. Our stage manager, Lose was like,
do we need to kick them out? Yeah? I was like, no,
they got twenty minutes we'll let them do the thing.
And then once we finally got him out, we had
Jack ready to do his intro. He's shuffle up and
deal some technical difficulties, but we got the cards in
the air. And then once that happened, he really felt
you know, everyone still was feeling the seats, feeling the
audience boxes. You kind of felt this like lifting that
makes sense, like you felt, you know, the noise creeping up,
just the pressure creeping up. The cards start getting dere Obviously,
we get those first two bus outs and luck you said,
we lose one on the first hand, we don't really
expect that. Obviously it can happen. We lose one seven
hands later, and it's just like it was very tense
in here. And then you combine that with we've got
a PLO event over here. We got a twenty five
K over here, but we had two final tables going up,
we had a lot of things going on combined with
the main event where it just kept building and building
and building and building, especially with all the action going on.
So yeah, once we lost Day Hung and then we
lost Jaredy, it was like, Okay, I think for these players,
a little bit of pressure was off off them. You know,
they've now ladded up two spots. Was seven handed. You know,
the crowds kind of sat down a couple of people
who dragged some pots. You know when we played the
main event. Just winning that first part is going to
feel pretty good. So he does stuff that and then
like now we're riding to the think of things seven left,
you know, all right, now you start making like your
moves and moving up to the letaboard.
Speaker 1: And I believe with that first knockout, well actually it was.
It was not only the first knockout. It was the
first knockout. Then wasnok won the next hand. He won
the first two hands because I remember joking on the
stream that, you know, maybe he'll just win every hand.
Then a couple hands later he picked up kings and
won it. Yes, And quickly he went from one hundred
and eight million up to like one hundred and fifty
three to fifty. Yeah, right away, Kenny Holler took out
mc guinea. He got up over one hundred million, right,
so it's like, okay, we're off right, and then you know,
a little bit of time passes before the hand happened
that I said would happen.
Speaker 2: I said Miss Rocky would go nuts.
Speaker 1: Now granted, I mean he he had a big hand,
but still, this is just this is absolutely wild. The
cutoff makes it is Braxton Dunaway. He makes it four million.
They're up to two million, big blind Wasnock on the button,
finds a couple of kings. I believe Dunaway had Queen
nineh Wasnock makes it ten million. Miss Rocky he's got
seventy one million. He makes it thirty million, nearly half
of his stack with ace King Dunaway out of the
Waynock jams Miss Rocky calls it off, and all of
a sudden boom, we got a pot of fire than
one hundred and forty million. We got Miss Rocky absolutely
dominated with his ace king up against the kings. For Wasnock,
it comes Jack nine seven queen to give some additional
outs to grinder.
Speaker 2: He can now hit an ace or a ten. The
ten would give him broadway an ace on the river.
And I am not sure I have ever heard an
eruption as loud as that. It was out of control.
I mean, the ground shook. It was wow.
Speaker 1: I Miss Rocky's obviously jumping up and down high five
in the crowd like he's he's as into it as
I've seen any player. And it's also crazy how into
it he is because he's he's been around forever, like
he's in a lot of ways you would you would
you might look at him like he's a withered pro.
He's been he's been through everything in poker. But like
you can tell how much this means to him and
is absolutely outrageous that act on the river. So he
gets up to like one hundred and forty five million
or whatever it is Wasnock goes down to like I
think he still had one hundred million after that hand
he would he chipped up nicely, so obviously a big blow, yes,
but now we're like, here we go.
Speaker 2: Grinder just won all the chips. He's got the chip leader.
Speaking of Grinder, where when that ace happened? When that
ace hit, you know, we obviously saw the reaction on
the stream from Grinder and from his supporters, but here
in the horseshoe, you know, in that twenty five k
horse high roll that's just in front of the main stage,
a lot of Grinder's friends, you know, we have Chino,
we have these kind of guys and you could hear
it was actually chance coming from players in particular Eric
Lingren started going Grinder Grinder. It felt like a lot
of people in the room were team Grinder, Team is Rahi,
which I didn't actually kind of expect amongst the you know,
the poker players here, but obviously there's some there is
an obsession with with Grinder with these guys, and it
was very much felt like he was, without doubt the
fan favorite, the player favorite, and it felt like even
some of the people on the media rose favorite.
Speaker 1: I mean, just absolutely wild stuff. I mean, we've seen
him hit cards in this tournament, but holy hell, that
was a card to hit. Then in seventh place, we
lose the story of the final table Leo Margetts. She
busts to Kenny Hollard folds to her in the small blind,
she limps the ace and of hearts. Kenny Hollard puts
her in from the big line with two sixes. She
calls it off. Of course, it comes jack seven to
five with two spades, turn ace of spades. River is
the nine of spades and Kenny Hollard has the six
of spades in his hands, so he busts Leo Marguet's
into seventh. She it did look like she didn't realize,
but I think she had like gone over to her
rail yep, and the acid of course, and everyone's very happy,
and I think they just realized that the River wasn't
the sixth and they all kind of they all kind
of celebrated, which I think then Leo was like, oh
I won, type of like she then she kind of
like but then they were like, no, you know, he's
got the spade, you know, and she's she's out, so
we lose her in seventh place. She collects one point
five million dollars, all things considered an incredible run by her.
The fact that she got to the final table and
was the first woman to do it in thirty years
is just absolutely tremendous stuff.
Speaker 2: Is this I'm gonna say it's not, but is this
the largest score ever by a female in the world?
Now I know it is that the work I was
gonna say, that's who I'm start checking right now, Livebury.
That's the biggest one. Yeah, okay, one point five is
probably and uh over said was I believe over two
million when she won WS Europe when she was like,
you know, fourteen years old. She was I think, I
wonder if there's like associate Jang trying to score there
someone too. Yeah, so one point five million dollars, she
breaks that that long drought. There's no downside to her
finishing in seventh. You know, I'm she was very disappointed
when she bustled. You can see it on a face,
very emotional. But hey, seventh place in the biggest event
in the world. Fantastic of it, Yes, definitely. Then we
lose Adam Hendricks in sixth place. He got tangled up
with Grinder. It was Hendrix's jacks up against Miss Rocky's
ace King and guess what a King hit the turn.
As if everything else wasn't going as perfect for Grinder,
he drills a King on the turn. Here he busts
Adam Hendricks in sixth place. He takes home one point
nine million dollars. That also put Grinder over two hundred
million in chips, two hundred million. It's incredible.
Speaker 1: I mean that it was at this point, like obviously
the first time when he hit that ace on the
river and he gets the chip lead, okay, but when
he hits this one, and I know this one is
he's dominated in the other one here it's just a
pure flip. But still like this is when I was like,
it's it's it really is his tournament. Yeah, I mean
I did feel a little bit of that going into
this final table, you know, just the fact that he
built up such a big stack coming into this final day,
but or this second to last day. But you know,
still like this, this is when I was like, he's
not He's not gonna lose a hand. He's just gonna
even get in all these all ins. He's just gonna
win every single all in. Then, as if things couldn't
get any better for Grinder, this hand goes his way. Now,
this hand didn't go to a flop, but this hand
was crazy under the gun. Kenny Holler opens to four
million at two million YEP with Ace king Off. Oh
and he's I believe at the time he's second in
chips to Grinder. Braxton Dunaway or maybe he's third chips,
I can't remember exactly. Braxton done Away from the cutoff
seat makes it eleven point five million with pocket sevens. Yeah, Grinder,
did we lack that? I probably just call yeah, but
I can understand, like, I mean that that's kind of
Dunaway's m O like, I feel like he's.
Speaker 2: Gonna always lean to pick the aggressive route. Speaking of
aggressive routes, Grinder finds a couple of jacks in the
small mind just boom forty million, and this sends Kenny
Holler into the tank forever and he's just tank and
tank and taking, and eventually he puts the ace king
off into the muck. Dunaway quickly follows suit with his
sevens and that puts Grinder up to I don't know,
I don't even know two hundred and seventy, two hundred
and fifty millions something I don't know.
Speaker 1: But from there Grinder just kept surgery. He just like
he was bluffing in multiway pots. He was winning pots.
Next thing you know, he's up over three hundred million.
It just just steam rolling through the final table like
you can tell he's feeling it. He's pumped up, his
rail is into it like the whole thing. Then he
plays another hand against Kenny Holler. This one actually goes
to a flop, and in fact, it goes all the
way to a showdown, and he won an enormous one
off of Kenny Holler from the cutoff Sea Grinder raises
it up to four million, still playing at the two
million big blind level. He makes it Formullia with Queen
ten off Kenny Holler's in the small blind.
Speaker 2: He flats King Jack suited.
Speaker 1: It comes King ten three rainbow, there's a check call
from Holler, turn bing Queen just boom two pair or
Grinder Holler check calls again. I mean, I can't blame Kenny.
The way that this whole hand played, that river is
a four is the blank check hall again from Hollard,
you know, and he obviously sees the bad news that
Grinder got him on the turn making two pair at
like the way Grinder was playing, like you just have
to check call down with this unless you try it,
you make some crazy hero fold. But you know, top
pair Jack Kicker. I cannot fault Kenny at all. But
he does lose the pot and he's left to twenty
five million, so he like tumbles basically all the way
down towards the bottom of the leaderboard. Then not too
long after that we lose Luka Badjovic in fifth place.
He gets it all in good, really really good. He
gets it all in with Ace King against Wasnak's Ace
Jack Wosnock is the ace of clubs. It comes four
three deuce all clubs. Turn is a jack. I believe
it was the jack of hearts. And that's the end
of the line. Nothing nothing on the river for Badjovic
and he's out in fifth place. And then because of
the speed of play, because of the the chip stacks
all kind of looked, you know, at this point, Grinder's
over four under million. The other players are just like,
you know, I think with this Ko Waznak has a
little bit over one hundred million. The other two are
pretty short. We decided, okay, we're going to play out
this level which there was like I don't know, eight
maybe eight minutes left, six minutes left, that was six minutes,
and then bag them up for the night. We actually,
to be honest, I'll tell you, pretty funny.
Speaker 2: Sorry. Me and Morey were watching the hand on the
jub TV, which hand the Pujovic's boss got it, and
we were cheering for him to win because we had planned.
You know what, Look, if you're supposed to be impartial,
let me tell you why. No, there's no there is
no Let me tell you why you don't cheer for anything.
We wanted to. We didn't want to stop. We wanted
to keep. We wanted to get a couple more hours
of playing tonight. And we knew that if we lost
him then we would have probably had to stop and
bring back Ford tomorrow due to the stock sizes. We
both misread the hand. We both thought he had the ace.
Jack oh yeah, so we to run out. He gets
oh the fly jobs, ok yea yeah, we need a club.
Let's get a club. Jackson the time, like Maury immediately celebrates.
He's like yes, and I'm like this one more a
cord canna come relax? River Nothing. He's happy, He's happy.
And then we see all the graphics, you know, eliminated
in fifth coming up, and me and Moury like, what
is going on? Do they make a mistake. We're looking
at the board, you know, the ready mock the cars
with no we completely missed. We thought that all in
button was on the wrong person A way to go.
He runs down to the truck. He's like, how long
is left? I'm like this five minutes, fifteen seconds? Okay,
gets back text me, Okay, stop them, Let's stop them.
We finish out the level and bag them up. But
I don't know why we thought the handsome big stuff.
Speaker 1: Just an absolutely wild day. Like I always come into
these fil tables and I think they're going to go
so much longer than they do.
Speaker 2: M M.
Speaker 1: Do you think you know a lot of the guys
are just gonna knit it up and just going to
try and do the ICM PAYE jumps and whatever, and
the next thing you know, it's like boom, boom boom,
everyone's out. Somebody's got an insane chip lead and here
we are talking about whether we should stop it or
not because they're going too fast. It took fifty nine
hands to go from nine to four. I mean, like
it was. It was wild stuff.
Speaker 2: Was the more hands from ten to nine? That was
pretty quick. I think that was less than fifty nine hands. Yeah,
that was actually pretty quick, but pretty quick for it
was very quick, was very quick it was it was
only a few hands. Yeah, But I mean this was
just this was lightning pace. And obviously, you know, because
it's Grinder who's leading the way, just just mashing through
the whole field, and you know, Wednesday is gonna come around.
Grinder's got again. Seventy six percent of the chips in
play my predictions are Grinder wins it within an hour
or he is out within an hour. It's going to
be to be out in an hour. Have you ever
seen Grinder play. You've seen Grinder play plenty. Okay, yeah,
but he could. He's got that many chips that an
he doubles up, wahknock, he's gonna have to double him up. Yeah,
that's the way I.
Speaker 1: Think doubles up Wasnock like, right up right away and
then loses like another big pot to Wasnock like, yeah
the next thing, next thing, you know, he's got two
hundred and fifty million, and we're like, what the hell
just happened? Yeah, like you know, I am like half joking,
but like we've seen it plenty with Grinder, you know,
where like he's got chip leads and tournaments and we're like, yeah,
he'll be out by the dinner break.
Speaker 2: Like that's just how he plays. Like. He plays like
a maniac, you know.
Speaker 1: And that's why like that hand where Kenny has that
ace king, you know, they're sitting there, they're sitting there
five handed, and it's like, I know, Grinder puts in
the cold four from the Small Blind, and obviously Grinder
can pick up good hands, just like anyone can pick
up good hands. But it's like, what does Grinder do
there with like Ace Jack suited? What does he do
with Ace Queen either off sew or suited? Like, what
does he do with those hands? I mean he might
four butt those hands. Grinder's all pumped up, He's got
all the momentum, he's got the big Chipley like, so
if you're sitting there with Ace King, like if I'm
in Kenny's shoes, i' I just went for it because
I feel like if if Grinder's got Ace Queen suited there,
he's playing the hand exactly the same, which is wild
to me.
Speaker 2: I think it's going to be very heavy on the
strategy go coming into this final type. But does Kenny
think he is better than Braxtent Dunaway and John Woslong right?
And he probably says yes, Grinder thinks he's the best
verse Kenny's thinking in his head that hey, I'm better
than these two other guys on my left. Me personally,
if that was me, maybe I'd been like, you know what,
I'm not the best player. Yeah, this is a good
chance to maybe get lucky. I'm all in so I
think it's depending where you feel against the competition.
Speaker 1: I understand if Kenny is thinking, like, you know, I
can possibly wait, right, I mean, I don't know. That's
a lot of hand in that spot versus a guy
who I think can make that play with slightly worse. Now,
I'm not saying Grinder's gonna get in there with like
Ace eight suited and just go ham on a fore bet.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but like if Grinder's got Ace jack suited, I
mean what I Grinder might feel like that's Ace is
five handed. Yeah, yeah, that's why it's That's why it's
such a crazy spot. Now, I don't fully fault Kenny
for playing it the way that he did, And maybe
the hand plays entirely differently too, if Dunaway doesn't three
bet the sevens, So like it's a bunch of different
factors kind of all coming together where you know, Hollard opens,
Dunaway elects to three.
Speaker 1: Bet the sevens, maybe done away. If he just decides
to flat the sevens, then you see a small well,
you see a three bet. Then Kenny Hollard can decide
like if he wants to put in the four bet
or if he wants to just call or how that goes.
I would imagine it he puts in a four bet
and then the money just ends up getting in, which
is crazy. So you know a lot of things there
are kind of you know, sliding doors moment and how
that all played out. But Kenny Hollard is still alive.
He's going through. He's got eight big blinds. Now the
approach that he takes on Wednesday is going to be
very interesting. One part of me says, I mean, listen,
if he picks up a big hand, he's probably gonna
go with yes. But I would almost like try and
be really tight and just see if Miss Rocky can
just go crazy with one of these other two guys
Like Dunaway doesn't have that many more chips. He's got
ten big blinds, so you know he could easily get
the money in against Dunaway.
Speaker 2: Miss Rocky could.
Speaker 1: And obviously the way Miss Rocky's been playing like he
could get the money in against Wa was knock. They
already got the money in once. So I would only
if I was Kenny, I would just be like, you
know what, I'm just gonna fold, fold, fold, fold, fold.
I don't care if I get down to three big
blinds doesn't matter because I'm gonna Grinder's gonna knock one
of these guys out, and I'm gonna secure a boatload
more money.
Speaker 2: Do you have the chip sex right there? Yeah? I
mean tell me, grind is forty four point five full
full five point five or sorry, four four five point five? Okay,
are you doing ICM? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Who love Walls Knock's got ninety four point five, Dunnoway's
got twenty five point five, and Hollardscott nineteen.
Speaker 2: So according to Jesus Christ, this can't be real. Grind
is icmal is nine point one million, barely crazy nine
point one million full Lord Seohn's is six point two,
which is more than second, which is weird. Rackson's four
point five, so a little bit more than what third
would get, and then Kenny's is pretty much three point
one million, So I don't know what he's going. You know,
he's obviously got some he said it on the interview,
right that, and they'll get they're guaranteed right now, they're
guaranteed three million. Yeah. I know some smarter people that
will kind of tell me what to do. But it
is a million off page jump between him and it's
not just.
Speaker 1: That's why I'm saying, like, I feel like, obviously, unless
you have a really good hand, but the spots that
might be close, maybe you do just lean to fold
under the idea that miss Rocky honestly might might bust
one of these other guys.
Speaker 2: Well, here's the thing. We're we're just we just leveled up.
And Kenny is under the gun. So he's going to
be he's going to be grinding that abb starting you know,
shove range, right, and then he's going to be looking
at a big blind call range.
Speaker 1: But I think that I think that shove range is
going to be a handful of pips tighter because he's
given the situation grind no, but just given the situation, Yes,
there's that, But the situation is that like Grinder could
take out Dunaway, Grinder could take outa wasnock.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but Kenny's gonna have five and a half big blinds.
In the ICM. You make money by folding. Yes, that
is true, and I believe Kenny is gonna like he's
gonna fold more often than not. So can you pull
up can you pull up gt O and check what
a pig's under the gun is? Yes, I want to
look at the fringe hands. Let's say, like, what what
you're thinking him, because like if you're you're saying if
he looks down at the ice, check off, he's folding.
I don't think. So you know the fact that he
is a and it's not like he has eighteen and
we'll go to fifteen and a half. He's going from
eight big blinds. He's under the gun. He's under the
gun with eight big blinds full handed he has. It's
not like he has eighteen and he's the shortest. So
going down to five and a half six, throw your
hands off to that, he's going to be down to
two big So I think he has to find a
spot and go with it. He is obviously shoving into
Miss Rocky's big blind, which is just the scariest thing
in the middle. I'm gonna do this one and he's
but you always have to think about this. Ms Rocky's
probably gonna call a little wider. I know this one
that I did has.
Speaker 1: It has him at seven big lines, the next person
at fifteen, then sixty one, and then the other guy.
Speaker 2: Covers it like eight okay, like all in ace five off, Okay,
what's like what's the bottom of the Broadway cards like
Jack ten suited or something King ten Off is is
like half fold half yeah, half shove. I mean, I
think you have to just get all these in because
I think Grind is gonna call wider. Grind is gonna
call with.
Speaker 1: Ace, understand, But but like what if you fold and
Braxton Dunaway decides to go with a seven and Grinder
calls him, and then you just earned a million dollars?
Like I I personally think like Kenny is gonna lean
a little bit tightlater than the chart might say. Like
I think he's gonna go like one, two, maybe three
pips a little tighter again, just just with the situation.
And also like I have like if your wasknock, like
you can like not play any hands with Grinder on
your direct direct left.
Speaker 2: He should try to walk up six million. He should
probably not even look at his car. Yeah, what what
the heck is he? We also haven't seen him. Look,
he's played snug, but he just he jammed on Grinder
in on that seventh hand or whatever it was. Or
but like I don't think he's that you know what
he also talked about. You know I missed the work,
meaning but I'm not a pocal player, so I'll be
back at work. So he is he going to try
and like obviously hit six million. Yeah, but like I
don't think he's gonna I don't think we're going to
see him follow you know, pucket Jack's two to anyone here. Who. Yeah,
the whole thing is just it's a very very interesting
spot with how big these pay jumps are now and
how big of a chip ley that Ms Rocky has.
So you know, I don't know. I just kind of
expect Kenny to I think he's going to be very studied.
I think he has a lot of really studied people
around him. Yeah, and I think they're all going to
understand that, like him going from eight Big Blinds to
sixteen Big Blinds is not that crazy of a change
in things. But if he's able to survive one spot,
that's a million bucks. Yeah, Like you know, so that's
like it. Run those ICM numbers and put him at
put him at forty million, and put Grinder at four
twenty five, so four five for Grinder fourner twenty five million, okay,
and then put Wosnog at ninety four point five and
then put done away at twenty five point five and
then put Kenny Hollard at twenty million or sorry, forty million. Yeah.
So Kenny, yeah, now jumps up to basically four point four,
Grinder goes down to eight point eight, John jumps down
just onto second place five point seven, and Braxton's at
three point nine. Yeah, so he goes his before was
what three point one you said, So his new ICM
would be four hundred came more than third place versus
like just folding. So it's it's very it's it's like
a very delicate situation. I don't know. I I just
view the way I view Kenny as a player, like
that's how I think he'll approach this. You know. Obviously
I could be wrong, you know, but it's gonna be
interesting to watch, and then I'm also interested to I mean,
Grinder might just come in and say four hundred million
every fucking hams int f. I know.
Speaker 1: I think the fact that, as you said, like like
Wasnock might not adhere to ICM at all, So that
makes things pretty crazy. I think, like if I think
Kenny Hollard is like kind of extreme ICM, Wasnock is
not really paying attention to at all. Yeah, obviously Grinders
just got the big chip lead. I think Braxton Dunaway
is like somewhere in the middle of hollerd and wasna
like kind of somewhat aware of ICM. But he also
might be willing to get his chips in a little
bit more so than than Kenny would. So again, it's
just going to create a very very interesting dynamic. The
atmosphere here was pretty freaking electric, largely due to uh
Grinder's rail. He seemed like it was getting bigger by
ten people every ten minutes.
Speaker 2: So let me interrupt, but he's watching at home. These
are the wristbands we had today, Okay, yeah, every player
got eight. Yeah, and was when when people left, like
when someone was eliminated, speak you give more out. We
had grind His people kept coming up to all of
us like can I have another wristband? And have another wristband?
Can I have another ristband? Continuously? Grinder may have had,
you know, he has four hundred and forty five million chips.
He may have four hundred and forty five wristbands. Today
it just was NonStop. It was us, it was Robert Misrahi,
then it was Cheena, then it was Alan Richardson just
NonStop bombardment from Mizrahi's ryo for these wristbands. How kamodity
here today at the World Series of Pooka. I mean, yeah,
it's always a hot commodity. Yeah. I do like what
we did with the set where the two outer feature
tables were basically flip the walls around, remove those tables
and flooring so people could get up there and get
pretty close. Ultimately couldn't get like in on the rail,
but still pretty close. Colus, Yeah, room was pretty packed
in here. You mentioned the other tournaments being played outs,
you know. All in all, I think things were pretty
fun on this first day. I've I very much expected
us to be here till.
Speaker 1: Ten, ten thirty eleven PA, and the fact that we
shot down so quickly is still a bit stunning to me,
but good fun. Nonetheless, had had absolute bangers of hands
that hit at this one, and we are that much
closer to a twenty twenty five ws BE Main Event
champion being crowned again. All the players are guaranteed three million,
it goes three million, four million, six million, ten million
at ten million dollars going to the next WSOP World Champion.
On Wednesday. The players are going to come back at
what time? Same time They're gonna come back at two pm.
Cards are in the air at two pm three pm
Pacific on pokerg dot com.
Speaker 2: That is six p m Easton. That's right, baby, let's go.
Who do you think is gonna win? I think we're
both gonna say Grinder, But you know what, just to
shake it up, I'm hoping that John, he was my
rooting interest, wanted that kind of amateur poker player to
break through and win first time in quite a while.
I'm hoping that the luck that Grinder had today slides
over a seat into John's lap and he can win
those flips against Grinder, double up, double up again, maybe
knock one of the other guys out, take out Grinder,
and go heads up against Braxton Dunaway and win the
twenty twenty five Worlds for He's Pokemon event.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is Grinder's tournament to lose, so I'm
picking him. But I would also not be surprised if
he busts in like third place, So I just wouldn't
be I just I know he that That's just how
he plays. He's an absolute wild ride from start, to finish,
the gas is usually always to the floor. Yeah, so
we'll see, we'll see how it goes. But with the
way that he's been running, I just can't. I can't
bet against the guy.
Speaker 2: I really can't.
Speaker 1: He's got an enormous chip lead, he's running hotter than
the sun. He's obviously feeling supremely confident. So how can
you bet against grinder? And then if he does this,
If he does this and he wins the fifty k
PPC and THEBSPE main event in the same damn year,
that is the most outrageous thing we have ever seen
in poker and likely will never ever, ever ever be
topped or repeated ever again in the game.
Speaker 2: Will be the greatest fight in the WSV history, I think.
Speaker 1: Yeah, forever, for the rest of time. Yeah, I mean,
it's just it's not like, listen, winning the main event
is obviously very hard, but it's not like he won
it when it was seven thousand people, nine seven hundred
and thirty five.
Speaker 2: He won the damn thing. Yeah, I mean, it's like,
it's like, what is happening? It really is just like,
I don't know, you just can't. It's like a stuff
of a movie. Like you just don't believe it. But
here we are and it looks like it's about to happen.
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let's go there's like sixteen tournaments, right, at least at
least sixteen tournaments. The biggest one to start with Sam
several Winsy's third WSP bracelet, the ten K six hundred
Championship that won BAG last night while was still recording
with four players. Yes, just speaking of a chip lead,
speaking of a chip lead. Crazy, This was, this was
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brace third bracer now first one one k PLO. Then
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on the PGT leader ward behind Alex Foxon. So both
of them going to go, you know, dull away for
the rest of the yep, Sam sorry with third WSB bracelet.
The event right here that we'll kind of touched on
a little earlier, the twenty five K Horse high Roller
that is currently down to thirty one players from one
hundred and fifty player field, approaching the money, not quite
there yet. Twenty three are in the money, eight hundred
and eighty K for first. That's absolutely massive. Yuri Dezewski,
one of the Chip leaders, Angry John Mannette, Ryan Miller,
phil Ivey, Brian Rass, Chad Eves, Sledge, Chris Honishen, all
these big names stealing the mixes. But we'll obviously get
to that tomorrow. I wonder if that actually needs an
extra day. That's going to be pretty tough with everything
closing up, but we'll see how that goes. Three K
pot limit, Omaha down the final table. One thousand and
eighty eight entrance. We've got eight left. Sorry, we've got
six left. Four hundred and seventy one K for first.
Look who it is, finally making a run in a
WSP event. Jeremy Osmas. Oh boy, he's left in nice
and late. He's at the final table. Dan Zach's at
the final table. Richard Greicho, Josh Fladin's PGT PLO series
winner Zachary Swartz is also at the final table. So
that will conclude today. Most likely event kicked off today.
Five K no limit hold him. We are out to
nearly six hundred players in that one. Looks like Noel
Reed Rodriguez, one of the Chip leaders. Cherish Andrews, one
of the Chip leaders, David Coleman, one of the Chip leaders,
which the five K No Limit hold him is a
two day event, little TURBOI event down there in the
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other event to kick off today, we'll not kick off,
but one b of the Closer will kind of you
get on touch more on that tomorrow on day two.
But yeah, that's kind of what kicked off today around
the Horseshoe. And I'm pretty sure that Paris is closed.
I think we're done with the five k's over there.
I think the five case here. I know part of
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yes it was. We have the PLO over here at
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Our buddy Matt Clark asked an interesting question about that event.
So I'm gonna I'm gonna ask it to you over
under zero point five people that will play that one
K tomorrow and it's their first and only event of
the series. You're setting the line up point five.
Speaker 1: You think you think somebody's gonna play that event that
hasn't played a single event.
Speaker 2: What who You got some dealers that are done for
the series that they haven't they don't. They didn't play
the Casino employees event that today's that last day or yesterday. Hey,
I might as well play that event. I don't know.
You set the line of twenty on. My TAKEO is twenty. Yeah,
can we get the can we get the uniques on this?
For the uniques, we need the can we get the
registration listener? We need the registration because I would take
I would take the under on twenty twenty is pretty big.
But uh, it's definitely at least one. I don't know, man,
if you make thet big enough, I'll go ask every
player in the room. Yeah, but then there's an honor system,
and I don't know if I can trust those and
we can get you know what I would get. I
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Speaker 1: You can trust the seniors. You can't trust thee tho.
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Speaker 1: Four players left in the twenty twenty five World Series
of Poker main event. They are guaranteed three million, but
they are playing for ten million dollars in poker immortality.
Michael the Grinder MS rocky seventy six percent of the
chips in play. Can he close it out? We will
find out on Wednesday. For Tim Duckworth.
Speaker 2: My name is Donnie Peters and we'll talk to you
guys next to you, Ja