1 00:00:10,720 --> 00:00:12,839 Speaker 1: Hello, everyone, Welcome back to a new episode of the 2 00:00:12,919 --> 00:00:18,879 poker Go Podcast. It is Monday, June eighth, one, twenty 3 00:00:18,920 --> 00:00:23,559 four am. We got a big show ahead of us today. 4 00:00:23,600 --> 00:00:25,800 I got a lot of cool things to hit on. 5 00:00:26,559 --> 00:00:33,479 First up, Kristen Foxen winning her sixth WSOP Gold bracelet 6 00:00:33,520 --> 00:00:36,960 and she did it in an incredibly big fashion. We 7 00:00:36,960 --> 00:00:39,159 are going to talk all about it. Plus we will 8 00:00:39,280 --> 00:00:44,200 hear from Foxen on this episode. We also have our 9 00:00:44,320 --> 00:00:48,560 first player to win two bracelets at the twenty twenty 10 00:00:48,600 --> 00:00:51,439 six WSOP. You guys can find out who that is. 11 00:00:52,119 --> 00:00:56,799 The Monster Stack drew a record eleven thousand, nine hundred 12 00:00:56,840 --> 00:00:59,880 and thirty three entries. 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Just 30 00:01:57,519 --> 00:02:01,120 visit playpokergo dot com slash podcast asked because if you 31 00:02:01,120 --> 00:02:04,519 go to that url, you're gonna get a free one 32 00:02:04,640 --> 00:02:10,000 hundred thousand gold bonus to help kickstart your bankroll again. 33 00:02:10,039 --> 00:02:14,599 That's playpoker Go dot com slash podcast to claim your 34 00:02:14,639 --> 00:02:22,800 free bonus and start playing. Kristin Foxen just absolutely unbelievable 35 00:02:23,199 --> 00:02:28,080 winning her sixth WSOP Gold bracelet. She won the twenty 36 00:02:28,120 --> 00:02:32,080 five k high Roller for one million, seven hundred and 37 00:02:32,080 --> 00:02:35,879 seventy three thousand dollars. She topped a field of three 38 00:02:35,919 --> 00:02:40,599 hundred and forty five entries. It's Kristin Foxen's largest ever 39 00:02:40,719 --> 00:02:44,680 career score and it comes in a year where she's 40 00:02:44,840 --> 00:02:49,520 already having a career best year in terms of tournament 41 00:02:49,639 --> 00:02:53,919 winnings last year was her previous best. Four million, six 42 00:02:54,039 --> 00:02:57,400 hundred and fifty three thousand is what she won last 43 00:02:57,520 --> 00:03:00,879 year from live tournaments this year, when you add in 44 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:03,680 the one point seven seven three million that she won 45 00:03:04,120 --> 00:03:07,319 in this tournament, she is now up over five point 46 00:03:07,400 --> 00:03:11,000 seven million dollars one on the year, and we are 47 00:03:11,080 --> 00:03:14,479 only a week into June and a heck of a 48 00:03:14,520 --> 00:03:18,199 lot more poker to go, especially for Kristen Fox And 49 00:03:18,240 --> 00:03:21,639 who plays everything. She plays as big as it can get. 50 00:03:21,919 --> 00:03:24,479 So she could really, I mean she could. She could 51 00:03:24,479 --> 00:03:28,280 pass ten million easy for sure. She's now second on 52 00:03:28,360 --> 00:03:31,360 the PGT leaderboard. The twenty five k high Roller at 53 00:03:31,360 --> 00:03:34,639 the WASP was a PGT qualifying event. She got seven 54 00:03:34,759 --> 00:03:38,360 hundred and fifty points for the victory in that one. 55 00:03:38,800 --> 00:03:40,800 Added to the total that she already had, She's up 56 00:03:40,800 --> 00:03:44,000 to twelve hundred and fifty eight points, not too far 57 00:03:44,039 --> 00:03:47,439 behind Brock Wilson, who's got twelve hundred and seventy one. 58 00:03:47,520 --> 00:03:51,439 Haven't heard much from Brock Wilson at the WSOP this 59 00:03:51,439 --> 00:03:54,840 summer so far, but of course you know Brocks out 60 00:03:54,879 --> 00:03:56,719 there grinding every single day. I do see him every 61 00:03:56,759 --> 00:03:59,879 single day, so he's playing, he's trying to make some 62 00:04:00,039 --> 00:04:02,360 things happened. It just hasn't really worked out for him. 63 00:04:02,840 --> 00:04:06,319 Kristin Foxen, though, I mean, this woman is just absolutely 64 00:04:06,319 --> 00:04:10,520 freaking incredible. She just absolutely crushes it. She went heads 65 00:04:10,599 --> 00:04:14,879 up with Galen Hall in the end, she crushed him 66 00:04:14,879 --> 00:04:16,800 on a few hands. Then she picked up aces on 67 00:04:16,839 --> 00:04:19,000 the final hand, and I mean, it's just it's got 68 00:04:19,040 --> 00:04:22,680 to be absolutely something to win a hand with aces, 69 00:04:23,560 --> 00:04:26,160 or sorry, win a tournament with aces. On that final hand, 70 00:04:26,199 --> 00:04:29,680 she limps on the button. Galen, I believe had it 71 00:04:29,800 --> 00:04:32,920 right around twenty bigs. He moves all in with ace 72 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:36,000 four off. She of course snaps He's dead on the turn. 73 00:04:36,519 --> 00:04:40,240 And that is that. After she won, After she was 74 00:04:40,240 --> 00:04:42,360 done with the photo, she did a couple interviews. We 75 00:04:42,439 --> 00:04:45,600 did have a chance to sit down with Kristen fox 76 00:04:45,639 --> 00:04:49,759 and so, fresh off bracelet win number six and as 77 00:04:49,759 --> 00:04:53,360 I said, the biggest payday of her career. Let's hear 78 00:04:53,560 --> 00:04:54,560 from Kristin Foxen. 79 00:04:54,639 --> 00:04:58,240 Speaker 2: Now, all right, Kristen, bracelet number six. Talk to me 80 00:04:58,240 --> 00:05:00,680 about where this one ranks in the store your career. 81 00:05:01,199 --> 00:05:02,360 Speaker 3: Oh, such a relief. 82 00:05:02,439 --> 00:05:06,000 Speaker 4: Honestly, I feel like I've been battling to run good 83 00:05:06,160 --> 00:05:08,360 in one of the high roller you know, world Series 84 00:05:08,399 --> 00:05:11,600 events for what like three or four years now, I guess, 85 00:05:11,680 --> 00:05:16,240 or maybe longer I don't know, but yeah, this is 86 00:05:16,319 --> 00:05:20,600 this is definitely probably the best win of my poker 87 00:05:20,639 --> 00:05:24,639 career so far. Actually, it's my largest score. I feel like, 88 00:05:26,079 --> 00:05:30,439 you know, I've finished second recently, I think twice in 89 00:05:30,480 --> 00:05:31,360 two big spots. 90 00:05:31,600 --> 00:05:34,240 Speaker 3: So yeah, to get to win feels really good. 91 00:05:35,600 --> 00:05:36,800 Speaker 2: It it looked like it was a little bit of 92 00:05:36,839 --> 00:05:39,680 emotion emotional for you up there, you know, at least 93 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:43,079 obviously that don't after a big tournament. Yeah, but you know, 94 00:05:43,480 --> 00:05:45,480 you talked about how you've been kind of close for 95 00:05:45,600 --> 00:05:47,839 this type of score. Just talk through those emotions and 96 00:05:47,920 --> 00:05:49,639 what comes out after you finished. 97 00:05:49,879 --> 00:05:53,360 Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, oh, poker is just such a you know, 98 00:05:54,279 --> 00:05:56,839 it's it's tough obviously, but it's. 99 00:05:58,600 --> 00:05:59,439 Speaker 3: I mean, you see it. 100 00:05:59,480 --> 00:06:02,839 Speaker 4: There's just there's so much disappointment in poker, so these 101 00:06:02,879 --> 00:06:07,079 moments just feel so surreal, and yeah, it just really 102 00:06:07,120 --> 00:06:09,160 meant a lot to me to you know, play my 103 00:06:09,199 --> 00:06:13,600 best today and for things to go well and uh yeah, 104 00:06:13,600 --> 00:06:16,720 getting another bracelet. It just feels so surreal. Honestly, I'm 105 00:06:16,759 --> 00:06:21,240 just kind of like it doesn't feel real at the moment. 106 00:06:21,079 --> 00:06:23,240 Speaker 1: So you haven't. 107 00:06:23,240 --> 00:06:25,240 Speaker 2: You're not much strangers to the Winter's frument, right, you know? 108 00:06:25,319 --> 00:06:27,920 But is there a moment when it does feel real? 109 00:06:28,120 --> 00:06:28,879 Speaker 1: Is it hours? 110 00:06:28,959 --> 00:06:31,439 Speaker 2: Is it days? Is it weeks? Is maybe way after 111 00:06:31,480 --> 00:06:34,120 the summer? When does that feeling of okay, this is real? 112 00:06:34,399 --> 00:06:36,079 I just want almost one point million dollars I want 113 00:06:36,120 --> 00:06:36,360 to learn. 114 00:06:36,680 --> 00:06:38,079 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a really good question. 115 00:06:38,160 --> 00:06:40,319 Speaker 4: I feel like tomorrow morning, when I wake up, it 116 00:06:40,399 --> 00:06:43,680 might feel that way, the same way that you know, 117 00:06:43,759 --> 00:06:46,120 when I busted thirteenth or fourteen whatever it was in 118 00:06:46,160 --> 00:06:48,680 the main event that it didn't feel real until I 119 00:06:48,720 --> 00:06:50,439 woke up the next morning and it was like, WHOA, 120 00:06:50,439 --> 00:06:53,439 did that really happen? Obviously that was negative feelings. So 121 00:06:53,519 --> 00:06:57,079 I will have good emotions tomorrow. And I mean, it's 122 00:06:57,160 --> 00:07:00,120 just such a such a cool moment, you know, to 123 00:07:00,160 --> 00:07:02,839 share with Alex and everybody who's supporting me. 124 00:07:03,439 --> 00:07:05,199 Speaker 2: You've been in this game for a long time now, 125 00:07:06,399 --> 00:07:10,560 let's say fifteen years ago. How how has everything changed 126 00:07:10,600 --> 00:07:11,240 in your career? 127 00:07:13,120 --> 00:07:16,839 Speaker 4: You know, I feel like poker has gotten tougher for sure. 128 00:07:18,120 --> 00:07:21,000 You know, I pretty much played low stakes for a while, 129 00:07:21,120 --> 00:07:24,839 and then when did I start playing higher stakes. 130 00:07:24,879 --> 00:07:27,079 Speaker 3: Maybe eight years ago, seven years ago. 131 00:07:27,519 --> 00:07:30,800 Speaker 4: I've always enjoyed kind of you know, pushing myself, competing 132 00:07:30,800 --> 00:07:34,480 at the highest levels. I think it's been I don't 133 00:07:34,519 --> 00:07:36,319 know if it's just me. It feels like there's so 134 00:07:36,480 --> 00:07:39,600 much poker to play these days. You know, you can 135 00:07:39,639 --> 00:07:41,879 go to a trading stop and have over a million 136 00:07:41,920 --> 00:07:45,480 dollars in buy ins, and I probably didn't have that 137 00:07:45,560 --> 00:07:49,439 many buy ins in you know, three years, ten years ago, 138 00:07:50,720 --> 00:07:52,879 and you know with poker Go, there's just there's so 139 00:07:52,959 --> 00:07:56,000 much poker going on. So it's just super exciting. And 140 00:07:58,120 --> 00:08:01,959 you know, obviously I'm almost forty now. I started in 141 00:08:02,319 --> 00:08:05,959 just twenty. You know, you grow, you mature, cooker kind 142 00:08:05,959 --> 00:08:12,879 of you know, changes you. I guess you could say, yeah, yeah, 143 00:08:12,959 --> 00:08:15,279 a lot of has changed. But it's been a fun journey. 144 00:08:15,720 --> 00:08:18,680 Speaker 2: What still drives you to keep chasing these moments these ways? 145 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:26,120 Speaker 4: Probably it's almost like playing golf and you're playing against 146 00:08:26,120 --> 00:08:32,840 yourself and just getting better each time and having a 147 00:08:32,879 --> 00:08:36,080 tournament where you know, I feel like I've performed my best. 148 00:08:37,879 --> 00:08:40,200 You know that I don't have hands that I wish 149 00:08:40,279 --> 00:08:43,440 I did something different, but that usually happens every single time. 150 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:48,519 So yeah, and I just love it, like I really do, 151 00:08:48,679 --> 00:08:49,360 just love poker. 152 00:08:49,399 --> 00:08:51,159 Speaker 3: It's so fun. It's such a fun game. 153 00:08:51,399 --> 00:08:55,399 Speaker 4: It's you know, the more I play, the more you 154 00:08:55,480 --> 00:08:59,279 develop you know, history with other players, and then that 155 00:08:59,320 --> 00:09:04,320 becomes you know, complex and unique, and. 156 00:09:05,639 --> 00:09:07,879 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just it's such a it's such a cool game. 157 00:09:08,639 --> 00:09:10,919 Speaker 2: Do you think about your legacy in the game at 158 00:09:10,919 --> 00:09:13,879 all and what, you know, let's say, fifty years down 159 00:09:13,879 --> 00:09:14,840 the road, how people want. 160 00:09:14,759 --> 00:09:16,840 Speaker 3: To remember for yeah, for sure. 161 00:09:16,960 --> 00:09:20,600 Speaker 4: I mean obviously, when I entered poker as a female, 162 00:09:20,759 --> 00:09:27,120 there was a feeling of being underestimated, you know, just 163 00:09:27,159 --> 00:09:31,480 a girl kind of feeling, and I was always motivated 164 00:09:31,519 --> 00:09:33,960 to change that or at least prove whoever said that 165 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:37,120 about me wrong. And it's probably a lot of the 166 00:09:37,200 --> 00:09:39,919 drive for me to play high stakes, honestly, just because 167 00:09:40,039 --> 00:09:43,960 there is something about, you know, feeling like a girl 168 00:09:44,039 --> 00:09:48,279 can't do that that I want to change and and 169 00:09:48,360 --> 00:09:51,279 just prove that they can. And I guess I'm just 170 00:09:51,360 --> 00:09:53,679 kind of driven to be to be that one to 171 00:09:53,759 --> 00:09:58,080 do that. I hope that, you know, younger female poker 172 00:09:58,120 --> 00:10:00,440 players can get back to me and say, you know, 173 00:10:00,600 --> 00:10:02,759 she did it, I can do it, you know, I'm 174 00:10:02,960 --> 00:10:07,039 I'm not intimidating. I'm you know, there's nothing too special 175 00:10:07,080 --> 00:10:11,000 about me, I don't think. But I think it's important 176 00:10:11,039 --> 00:10:13,960 to have role models that you can look up to 177 00:10:14,279 --> 00:10:17,759 and otherwise, I think the high roller environment can be 178 00:10:17,799 --> 00:10:21,399 really intimidating, especially as a female if you don't see anybody, 179 00:10:21,600 --> 00:10:25,600 any other females competing. So I just hope that maybe, 180 00:10:25,840 --> 00:10:27,279 you know, I make it a little bit. 181 00:10:28,879 --> 00:10:31,120 Speaker 3: Yeah, more, I don't know if biting is the right word. 182 00:10:31,240 --> 00:10:35,360 Speaker 2: But even beyond poker too, yeah, I mean, like I 183 00:10:35,399 --> 00:10:37,360 have a daughter and I'm yeah, my wife and Eric 184 00:10:37,360 --> 00:10:39,320 constantly trying to just make sure that she knows that 185 00:10:39,360 --> 00:10:41,240 she can achieve anything in life. So it's not just 186 00:10:41,519 --> 00:10:43,559 women in poker, yes, women in anything. 187 00:10:43,639 --> 00:10:43,879 Speaker 3: Yeah. 188 00:10:43,919 --> 00:10:43,960 Speaker 4: No. 189 00:10:44,200 --> 00:10:47,279 Speaker 2: So but do you feel like with all the success 190 00:10:47,279 --> 00:10:49,519 that you've had, that you've achieved that in a way, 191 00:10:49,519 --> 00:10:50,960 are you still trying to showcase? 192 00:10:51,919 --> 00:10:52,120 Speaker 3: Yeah? 193 00:10:52,240 --> 00:10:55,080 Speaker 4: No, I still I think, you know, whatever I am 194 00:10:55,120 --> 00:10:57,000 on GPI, it is probably not high enough. 195 00:10:57,600 --> 00:11:00,759 Speaker 3: I probably don't have enough wins. I think. Yeah, the 196 00:11:00,799 --> 00:11:03,159 more the merrier with the success, that's for sure. 197 00:11:04,519 --> 00:11:07,440 Speaker 2: After a win like this, after all the wins you've 198 00:11:07,440 --> 00:11:09,759 had in your career, all the success, and what's still 199 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:10,879 what's there left to do? 200 00:11:12,320 --> 00:11:15,799 Speaker 4: Keep doing it right, and like then you don't just say, 201 00:11:15,840 --> 00:11:18,960 well she loved boxed one tournament. Yeah, just do it 202 00:11:18,960 --> 00:11:23,080 again and keep leveling up. Honestly, like more than anything, 203 00:11:23,279 --> 00:11:26,879 just being able to continue to do what I love 204 00:11:27,120 --> 00:11:29,919 in life and happen to make a living at it. 205 00:11:29,919 --> 00:11:31,639 Speaker 3: It's like, super. 206 00:11:31,360 --> 00:11:42,480 Speaker 1: Cool, that was Kristen Fox, and congratulations to her on 207 00:11:42,559 --> 00:11:45,840 an incredible score there. What stands out, you know, is 208 00:11:45,840 --> 00:11:50,559 that it's not necessarily that she won her six gold 209 00:11:50,600 --> 00:11:52,559 race and I'll talk about the other five just to 210 00:11:52,679 --> 00:11:55,519 give everyone a recap for what she wanted in just 211 00:11:55,559 --> 00:11:59,039 a second. But it's it really is that she just 212 00:11:59,200 --> 00:12:05,519 keeps finding ways to like up her stature or raise 213 00:12:05,559 --> 00:12:08,879 the bar in terms of what she can do. I mean, 214 00:12:10,320 --> 00:12:12,799 she was already way up there in terms of having 215 00:12:12,840 --> 00:12:16,240 five bracelets. Now she's got six, so that's just even better. 216 00:12:16,399 --> 00:12:19,519 Certainly one of the all time greats. She posts the 217 00:12:19,559 --> 00:12:22,879 biggest score of her career. I mentioned how good of 218 00:12:22,919 --> 00:12:26,639 a year she's having already. It's her third million dollar 219 00:12:26,759 --> 00:12:31,799 score in twenty twenty six alone. That's just wild. I mean, 220 00:12:31,960 --> 00:12:37,000 she isn't someone who's just living off accomplishments. From five 221 00:12:37,080 --> 00:12:39,320 or ten years ago. And you guys heard her talk 222 00:12:39,519 --> 00:12:41,320 in the interview. You know, she just wants to keep 223 00:12:41,360 --> 00:12:44,159 doing this over and over again, and she still is 224 00:12:44,200 --> 00:12:48,080 operating at the very highest level, and it's just incredible 225 00:12:48,159 --> 00:12:50,840 to see her do work every single time she's out there. 226 00:12:51,679 --> 00:12:54,559 As for the pass bracelets that she won, her first 227 00:12:54,679 --> 00:12:58,919 came back in twenty thirteen when she won the Ladies Event, 228 00:12:59,519 --> 00:13:01,320 the one K Ladies Event for one hundred and one 229 00:13:01,399 --> 00:13:03,879 hundred and seventy four thousand dollars in that one. Then 230 00:13:03,919 --> 00:13:07,279 three years later she won the fifteen hundred dollars Bounty 231 00:13:07,360 --> 00:13:10,639 No Limit Holdhem Tournament for two hundred and ninety thousand dollars. 232 00:13:11,120 --> 00:13:15,519 Then her next three three online bracelets. In twenty twenty, 233 00:13:15,639 --> 00:13:17,639 she won a twenty five hundred dollars six handed event 234 00:13:17,679 --> 00:13:21,159 online for three hundred and fifty six K that was 235 00:13:21,240 --> 00:13:25,879 previously her highest score from a gold bracelet winning event. 236 00:13:26,720 --> 00:13:30,039 Twenty twenty three, she won the eight eight eight Crazy 237 00:13:30,039 --> 00:13:33,120 eight Event, Crazy eight Event Excuse Me for ninety two 238 00:13:33,159 --> 00:13:35,320 thousand dollars, and then twenty twenty four she won the 239 00:13:35,360 --> 00:13:41,440 one K six Max for fifty seven thousand dollars. And 240 00:13:41,440 --> 00:13:43,279 it's you know, listen, it's been it's been a while, 241 00:13:43,480 --> 00:13:48,000 and I know she's somebody who she wanted to win. 242 00:13:48,840 --> 00:13:51,039 Not only has she wanted to win another live bracelet, 243 00:13:51,039 --> 00:13:54,879 but she wanted it to be a very prominent one, 244 00:13:54,879 --> 00:13:58,159 a very prestigious one. Obviously, she rolls in the Nola 245 00:13:58,159 --> 00:14:01,879 man HoldEm Street. She especially plays in these high roller events. 246 00:14:01,879 --> 00:14:04,679 So her winning the twenty five k high Roller, you know, 247 00:14:04,960 --> 00:14:08,600 one of the absolute most prestigious events to win and 248 00:14:08,679 --> 00:14:10,639 one of the toughest events to win at the World 249 00:14:10,720 --> 00:14:13,840 Series of Poker, is just, you know, simply tremendous by 250 00:14:13,919 --> 00:14:17,039 Kristin Fox. And we're running out of qualifiers when we 251 00:14:17,080 --> 00:14:20,159 talk about her, you know, for years, and I think 252 00:14:21,799 --> 00:14:24,759 even still now, I mean, I feel like many of 253 00:14:24,799 --> 00:14:26,879 people have started to move past us, and I think 254 00:14:26,879 --> 00:14:28,720 that that's probably the right way to go about it. 255 00:14:29,679 --> 00:14:33,759 But you know, for years, it was Kristen Fox's among 256 00:14:33,799 --> 00:14:36,200 the best female players in poker. Then she was the 257 00:14:36,240 --> 00:14:38,480 best female player in poker or that, you know, that's 258 00:14:38,519 --> 00:14:40,679 how everyone kind of anointed her. Then it became okay, 259 00:14:40,759 --> 00:14:44,720 now she's not only is she the best female poker player, 260 00:14:44,840 --> 00:14:48,559 she's one of the best tournament players. And then after that, 261 00:14:48,639 --> 00:14:51,080 it's just, you know, hands down, I think it's safe 262 00:14:51,080 --> 00:14:53,399 to say at this point that she is simply just 263 00:14:53,919 --> 00:14:56,639 one of the best poker players in the world period. 264 00:14:57,639 --> 00:15:00,759 You know, I don't think while we do see Kristen 265 00:15:00,799 --> 00:15:04,360 Fox in these days out there battling in the tournament streets, 266 00:15:04,360 --> 00:15:06,519 whether that's out the World Series of Poker, over in 267 00:15:06,559 --> 00:15:08,720 the studio, for all the PGT events that go on there, 268 00:15:08,759 --> 00:15:11,159 we know how well she does in the studio and 269 00:15:11,159 --> 00:15:14,120 how many wins she gets in that venue. Triting events 270 00:15:14,120 --> 00:15:16,399 as well, she's been crushing, you know, she's always out 271 00:15:16,399 --> 00:15:19,440 there in the tournament circuit just absolutely doing her thing. 272 00:15:19,519 --> 00:15:22,840 But she's had a lot of success in cash games 273 00:15:22,840 --> 00:15:25,240 as well. She had success on Cash of the Titans, 274 00:15:25,519 --> 00:15:28,039 the spin off from No Gamble in the Future, when 275 00:15:28,080 --> 00:15:30,200 she went head to head with some really tough players 276 00:15:30,240 --> 00:15:32,960 at some really high stakes there. So she's just the beast, 277 00:15:33,159 --> 00:15:36,919 she really is. She's at an absolute crusher and good 278 00:15:36,919 --> 00:15:39,360 on her for taking this one down one point seven 279 00:15:39,559 --> 00:15:42,840 seven three million dollars and it's probably not the last 280 00:15:42,840 --> 00:15:45,159 time we're going to hear from Kristen Fox. And for 281 00:15:45,200 --> 00:15:46,960 the rest of the summer, a lot of big big, 282 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:52,679 big events coming up. So uh yeah, that's that Nioa Kihara. 283 00:15:52,759 --> 00:15:55,200 I just talked about this guy a couple of days 284 00:15:55,200 --> 00:15:58,879 ago when he won the ten K No Limit Deuced 285 00:15:58,879 --> 00:16:02,879 to seven Single Championship. Well he's back, and he's back 286 00:16:02,879 --> 00:16:04,600 in the winter circle, and he's back in the winter 287 00:16:04,679 --> 00:16:08,440 circle of a ten K stud Championship, a ten K 288 00:16:08,559 --> 00:16:11,120 championship event once again, this time stud. One hundred and 289 00:16:11,120 --> 00:16:14,120 thirty entries in this one, three hundred and two thousand 290 00:16:14,200 --> 00:16:17,519 dollars is what Kihara is walking away with his third 291 00:16:17,639 --> 00:16:21,799 career gold bracelet, the last time that he won a bracelet. 292 00:16:21,799 --> 00:16:24,480 A few days ago, I told you about how Kiara 293 00:16:25,159 --> 00:16:29,399 told Poker News that he was about to quit tournament poker. 294 00:16:29,559 --> 00:16:31,200 He was like, you know what, I'm not dealing with 295 00:16:31,240 --> 00:16:33,720 this variance, crap, the heck with it. I'm probably just 296 00:16:33,759 --> 00:16:36,320 gonna go play cash, not quit poker like you hear 297 00:16:36,360 --> 00:16:38,480 some players do and then you know they're back in 298 00:16:38,519 --> 00:16:41,440 a few months. But just quit tournament poker, which means 299 00:16:41,480 --> 00:16:44,159 you know he would be going back to cash. But 300 00:16:44,240 --> 00:16:45,919 he said, you know what, let me give one last 301 00:16:45,919 --> 00:16:49,039 summer at at one last push. And now he's gone 302 00:16:49,399 --> 00:16:52,720 with his six days without losing a single tournament. He 303 00:16:52,799 --> 00:16:56,240 won that ten k nolandus A seven single Draft Championship. 304 00:16:56,240 --> 00:16:58,360 He took home four hundred and twenty nine thousand dollars. 305 00:16:58,360 --> 00:17:01,679 There he hops into that ten k stud, he bags 306 00:17:01,720 --> 00:17:04,039 the day one chip lead. He then runs all the 307 00:17:04,079 --> 00:17:06,640 way to the final table, and then here he is 308 00:17:06,920 --> 00:17:10,400 in the winter circle, collecting three hundred and two thousand 309 00:17:10,480 --> 00:17:14,839 dollars his second bracelet of this summer. Now, what's interesting 310 00:17:15,640 --> 00:17:17,799 is that no matter what happened in heads up play, 311 00:17:17,960 --> 00:17:22,039 no matter who won, we were gonna get our first 312 00:17:22,200 --> 00:17:25,279 two time bracelet winner of the summer because Kihara was 313 00:17:25,319 --> 00:17:29,000 heads up with James Chung, and Chung had won the 314 00:17:29,119 --> 00:17:32,640 fifteen hundred dollars seven card stud tournament a few days 315 00:17:32,640 --> 00:17:35,680 ago at the WSP. He took home two hundred and 316 00:17:35,720 --> 00:17:39,119 one thousand dollars in this finish here to go along 317 00:17:39,160 --> 00:17:41,480 with that previous finish. So James Chung, as well as 318 00:17:41,519 --> 00:17:44,319 having a great great summer to start off, he's got 319 00:17:44,319 --> 00:17:47,720 a first and now a second, and Kihara's got two 320 00:17:47,839 --> 00:17:51,079 first So that's that's pretty crazy to have those two 321 00:17:51,119 --> 00:17:55,119 guys go heads up, we're guaranteed our first. You know, 322 00:17:55,160 --> 00:17:58,079 two time bracelet winner of the summer. Also for Cheung, 323 00:17:58,279 --> 00:18:00,599 I believe he would have been the first player to 324 00:18:00,680 --> 00:18:03,880 win the fifteen hundred dollars seven Card Stud and the 325 00:18:03,920 --> 00:18:07,920 ten case seven Card Stud in the same series. I mean, 326 00:18:07,920 --> 00:18:09,640 my guess is the only person that would have done 327 00:18:09,680 --> 00:18:11,319 that in history. And I probably should have looked this up, 328 00:18:11,319 --> 00:18:13,119 but I'm lazy and I'm not going to right now. 329 00:18:13,160 --> 00:18:15,799 It would be Jeff Losandro kind of bummed that this 330 00:18:15,880 --> 00:18:19,759 one didn't get streamed because you know, when when you 331 00:18:19,880 --> 00:18:23,359 have such a historic moment like this, and you could 332 00:18:23,400 --> 00:18:26,319 even extend that historic moment to the fact that the 333 00:18:26,359 --> 00:18:31,440 third place finisher was Alan Kessler, who gets denied a 334 00:18:31,440 --> 00:18:34,920 gold bracelet yet again. Oh so close for mister Kesler. 335 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:37,519 So you know, I think a lot of people out 336 00:18:37,559 --> 00:18:40,839 there really wanted to see this one hit the stream. 337 00:18:41,000 --> 00:18:43,680 You know, myself included. We would have liked to have 338 00:18:43,799 --> 00:18:45,519 that out there, you know, push it out there for 339 00:18:45,680 --> 00:18:49,279 the masses. I know seven Card Stud isn't the most 340 00:18:49,319 --> 00:18:52,440 electric game on the planet, yes, but I mean this 341 00:18:52,640 --> 00:18:55,640 was such a cool, cool moment where you have kihar 342 00:18:55,799 --> 00:18:59,440 who hasn't lost a tournament in six days, He's going 343 00:18:59,480 --> 00:19:01,559 for back to back. Guess it's not back to back 344 00:19:01,559 --> 00:19:04,000 in the same event, but just back to back bracelets 345 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:06,680 in terms of events that he's entered. Could become the 346 00:19:06,720 --> 00:19:08,759 first two time bracelet winner of the summer, and then 347 00:19:08,799 --> 00:19:10,880 the same could be said for James Chunk could also 348 00:19:10,960 --> 00:19:13,759 have become the first two time bracelet winner of the summer. 349 00:19:13,839 --> 00:19:16,359 Just just some very cool happenings that could have shaken out. 350 00:19:16,400 --> 00:19:18,880 And then again if you extended to the third place finisher, 351 00:19:18,920 --> 00:19:22,000 Alan Kessler, I mean, I think every everyone's at this point, 352 00:19:22,039 --> 00:19:25,079 everyone's just rooting for Alan Kessler to to get the 353 00:19:25,559 --> 00:19:27,680 to get the bracelet right like he's I mean, he's 354 00:19:27,720 --> 00:19:30,720 like the Chicago Cubs, you know, the Red Sox for 355 00:19:30,839 --> 00:19:33,680 so long, or even even the New York Knicks right now, 356 00:19:33,720 --> 00:19:36,000 like all these all these sports teams who just go 357 00:19:36,200 --> 00:19:39,759 so so so so so long without winning a championship 358 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:44,119 or so long before without winning their next championship. I mean, Kessler, 359 00:19:44,160 --> 00:19:45,880 it's like he's always the butt end of the joke 360 00:19:46,279 --> 00:19:47,880 in terms of the fact that he can never get 361 00:19:47,880 --> 00:19:51,119 it done. But you know, tournaments, there's a lot of variants. 362 00:19:51,160 --> 00:19:53,200 We always say it and and a lot of things 363 00:19:53,200 --> 00:19:55,279 can happen, but close call for him, and that would 364 00:19:55,279 --> 00:19:56,920 have been a fun sweat and I think a lot 365 00:19:56,960 --> 00:20:00,440 of people out there would have loved to see that one. Ultimately, 366 00:20:00,519 --> 00:20:03,000 Kesler does get denied. He takes home third place for 367 00:20:03,119 --> 00:20:05,680 one hundred and thirty nine thousand dollars. He did sell 368 00:20:05,720 --> 00:20:08,200 two packages over on poker Steak. He sold one for 369 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:11,240 the smaller buying events and then he sold one further. 370 00:20:11,279 --> 00:20:14,200 I think it was all the ten k plus events, 371 00:20:14,400 --> 00:20:17,440 which probably includes the fifty K PBC and twenty five 372 00:20:17,519 --> 00:20:22,079 K horse So for anyone that bought shares in that 373 00:20:22,200 --> 00:20:25,200 larger package, this is a nice start to the summer. 374 00:20:25,359 --> 00:20:28,319 Now I think we're twelve or thirteen days in and 375 00:20:28,400 --> 00:20:30,960 Kesler just ripped off one hundred and forty thousand dollars score. 376 00:20:31,680 --> 00:20:35,519 Kesler now has four seconds in WSP events, one third, 377 00:20:35,640 --> 00:20:38,200 it's this one. He's got one fourth, one fifth, one seventh, 378 00:20:38,279 --> 00:20:40,519 one eighth, and then three ninth. So he's been knocking 379 00:20:40,559 --> 00:20:44,359 at the door for quite some time. Of course, somebody 380 00:20:44,400 --> 00:20:47,440 who burst down that damn door though, is Iowa Kihara, 381 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:50,359 now a three times bracelet winner, the second his series. 382 00:20:50,400 --> 00:20:53,039 And also with Kihara, we got to start thinking about 383 00:20:53,079 --> 00:20:56,599 him for two things. Obviously going on to win a 384 00:20:56,640 --> 00:21:01,400 third bracelet, Okay, that would be incredible. I mean, I'm 385 00:21:01,759 --> 00:21:03,359 I don't think it's too crazy to say that he 386 00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:05,920 could win a fourth as well, because he's going to 387 00:21:05,960 --> 00:21:11,720 be playing all these smaller field mixed games events, which, yes, 388 00:21:11,839 --> 00:21:13,559 they are very tough, they have a lot of tough 389 00:21:13,599 --> 00:21:16,720 competition in them. But you know, you're going up against 390 00:21:16,720 --> 00:21:19,920 one hundred to two hundred players in a field. So 391 00:21:20,119 --> 00:21:22,400 if you get hot, and if you stay hot, and 392 00:21:22,519 --> 00:21:26,960 also momentum confidence, all that stuff comes into play. You know, 393 00:21:27,200 --> 00:21:30,599 kihar could certainly do it. That would be absolutely crazy 394 00:21:30,640 --> 00:21:32,599 if we were to see it. And then once you know, 395 00:21:32,680 --> 00:21:36,240 he starts piling up some more results, which I'm guessing 396 00:21:36,279 --> 00:21:38,319 are just going to come. Maybe he doesn't win another 397 00:21:38,359 --> 00:21:41,319 bracelet or two, you know, but you know, I'm guessing 398 00:21:41,319 --> 00:21:43,000 he's going to have a bunch more cases. He's going 399 00:21:43,039 --> 00:21:45,039 to be playing every single day. I'm guessing he's going 400 00:21:45,119 --> 00:21:48,279 to have a couple final tables that are still to come. 401 00:21:48,359 --> 00:21:51,160 You know, we are still very very early in the series. 402 00:21:51,559 --> 00:21:55,160 We're around event number twenty five or so on the schedule, 403 00:21:55,200 --> 00:21:58,200 and there's one hundred events total on the schedule. So 404 00:21:58,200 --> 00:22:01,359 so plenty of plenty of runways still left for Kihara. 405 00:22:01,400 --> 00:22:04,559 And what I'm getting at is could he become WASABY 406 00:22:04,599 --> 00:22:07,680 Player of the Year? I mean, you win too, Bracelets, 407 00:22:07,720 --> 00:22:10,079 I mean, you're as odd as this guy is. How 408 00:22:10,119 --> 00:22:13,240 are you not considered to be, you know, one of 409 00:22:13,279 --> 00:22:15,440 the front runners for ws ABY Player of the Year. 410 00:22:15,480 --> 00:22:17,720 So we'll see how it goes for Kiara. But he's 411 00:22:17,759 --> 00:22:20,039 now firmly on the map at the twenty twenty six 412 00:22:20,119 --> 00:22:21,759 World Series of Poker, and we are going to be 413 00:22:21,759 --> 00:22:24,799 watching him like a hawk to see how he performs 414 00:22:24,880 --> 00:22:34,119 the rest of the way. Shifting things over to the 415 00:22:34,160 --> 00:22:38,440 Monster Stack, which drew a record field of eleven nine 416 00:22:38,519 --> 00:22:43,240 hundred and thirty three entries, so almost twelve thousand entries 417 00:22:43,440 --> 00:22:47,119 in this thing. Again I said, it's a record for 418 00:22:47,160 --> 00:22:50,480 the event. It's one of the largest WSOP events of 419 00:22:50,559 --> 00:22:53,720 all time. It believe it's in the top twenty now. 420 00:22:54,359 --> 00:22:56,119 If not, it's for sure in the top twenty five. 421 00:22:56,839 --> 00:22:59,039 Fifteen hundred dollars buy And so that means a whole 422 00:22:59,079 --> 00:23:00,960 heck of a lot of money in that prize. School 423 00:23:01,880 --> 00:23:05,000 just quickly on the history of this the field size 424 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:08,279 in this event, this event first started in twenty fourteen, 425 00:23:08,359 --> 00:23:11,400 had seven eight hundred and sixty two entries. Then it 426 00:23:11,440 --> 00:23:14,759 had seventy one hundred or seventy two hundred, I should say, 427 00:23:14,799 --> 00:23:17,039 seven one ninety two the next year then six nine 428 00:23:17,039 --> 00:23:19,799 two seven six seven one six six two six zero 429 00:23:19,880 --> 00:23:21,920 six zero three five. That leads us up to the 430 00:23:21,960 --> 00:23:25,599 COVID year. Now numbers from that first year. The numbers 431 00:23:25,640 --> 00:23:29,319 did drop every single year, right, you know, just the 432 00:23:30,119 --> 00:23:34,079 slow decline. But that first iteration from twenty fourteen to 433 00:23:34,119 --> 00:23:37,359 twenty nineteen, and I believe I have this correctly. Forgive 434 00:23:37,400 --> 00:23:38,960 me if I have any of this stuff wrong, but 435 00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:40,640 I believe I looked it up and gathered all the 436 00:23:40,680 --> 00:23:43,599 information that should be right. But for that first batch 437 00:23:43,640 --> 00:23:47,400 from twenty fourteen to twenty nineteen, two starting flights for 438 00:23:47,519 --> 00:23:50,000 this tournament, and it was a freeze out, so you 439 00:23:50,039 --> 00:23:52,000 had to pick which starting flight. You either played Day 440 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:53,799 one A or you played Day one B and that 441 00:23:53,920 --> 00:23:55,559 was it. You couldn't play Day one A and then 442 00:23:55,559 --> 00:23:57,720 play Day one B. No, just one entry in this thing. 443 00:23:57,799 --> 00:24:02,160 So that first year, right, getting up over seventy eight 444 00:24:02,240 --> 00:24:04,960 hundred entries, you know, fifteen hundred dollars freeze out with 445 00:24:05,079 --> 00:24:08,599 just two starting fights. That's ridiculous. That's awesome. And then 446 00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:10,920 even still throughout the rest of the years, you know, 447 00:24:11,079 --> 00:24:14,519 topping the six thousand every single year for sure, if 448 00:24:14,559 --> 00:24:18,640 not higher than that. You know, again, two flights, freeze out, 449 00:24:18,759 --> 00:24:21,720 that's awesome. Twenty twenty was off, of course, COVID year 450 00:24:21,759 --> 00:24:24,359 twenty twenty one. Everyone's coming back from COVID didn't really 451 00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:26,440 know what to expect. You had the whole vaccine thing. 452 00:24:27,240 --> 00:24:29,759 So it draws three thousand, five hundred and twenty that year, 453 00:24:29,839 --> 00:24:31,880 still the same thing, two flights and a freeze out. 454 00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:34,279 But you can't really count that number, like in terms 455 00:24:34,319 --> 00:24:36,039 of any record books or anything or be like, oh 456 00:24:36,039 --> 00:24:38,039 that number sucked. Well that was that was the post 457 00:24:38,119 --> 00:24:41,240 COVID year, first time back, you know, throw that one out. 458 00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:44,440 Twenty twenty two. Okay, we're back. We're back up over 459 00:24:44,960 --> 00:24:47,920 sixty five hundred. Here. Now the trick here is and 460 00:24:47,960 --> 00:24:51,240 this there was a switch, not a switch, but well, 461 00:24:51,240 --> 00:24:53,720 I mean, I guess I switch. They did adjust the structure. 462 00:24:53,799 --> 00:24:56,680 So you still still two starting fights in twenty twenty two, 463 00:24:57,680 --> 00:25:01,400 but one entry per starting fights fire two bullets total. 464 00:25:02,039 --> 00:25:05,279 The next year, twenty twenty three, it's like we're fully back, right, 465 00:25:05,559 --> 00:25:08,640 eighty three hundred and seventeen entries. That also was two 466 00:25:08,640 --> 00:25:11,799 starting flights, one entry per flight. The next year, twenty 467 00:25:11,839 --> 00:25:14,319 twenty four, they bump it up to three starting flights 468 00:25:15,319 --> 00:25:19,079 freeze out per flight, so three entries total eighty seven 469 00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:21,839 hundred and three entries. That year twenty twenty five, it 470 00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:25,119 goes up again, nine nine hundred and twenty entries, but 471 00:25:25,599 --> 00:25:29,559 another change to the structure here four starting flights, one 472 00:25:29,720 --> 00:25:33,279 entry per flight, maximum of four entries. Now we get 473 00:25:33,319 --> 00:25:37,079 to twenty twenty six, big jump of two thousand and 474 00:25:37,680 --> 00:25:41,839 thirteen entries from last year's ninety nine hundred and twenty 475 00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:45,720 up to this year's eleven nine hundred and thirty three. 476 00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:48,119 It's a tremendous result to be able to jump it 477 00:25:48,200 --> 00:25:52,000 up that large, right about right about twenty percent increase. 478 00:25:52,279 --> 00:25:55,839 You know what I find interesting is there was a 479 00:25:55,920 --> 00:26:01,079 significant change to the structure of this tournament this year. 480 00:26:01,599 --> 00:26:06,079 There were certainly more opportunities to enter. Just the easiest 481 00:26:06,119 --> 00:26:08,319 one of all is that there were four starting flights, 482 00:26:08,359 --> 00:26:10,039 which yes, that is the same as last year, but 483 00:26:10,079 --> 00:26:12,920 you were allowed two entries per flight, so right there, 484 00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:16,440 that's just double you can fire maximum eight entries into 485 00:26:16,480 --> 00:26:19,400 this thing. Registration was open longer, I believe, for an 486 00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:22,880 extra level, and then players could also re enter even 487 00:26:22,920 --> 00:26:25,799 after playing on a day two. Each day one had 488 00:26:25,799 --> 00:26:28,319 its own day two the next day, so like when 489 00:26:28,440 --> 00:26:31,519 Day one A and then the next day was Day 490 00:26:31,559 --> 00:26:35,119 two A, but also day one B, so you could 491 00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:38,039 play in. You could advance out of Day one A 492 00:26:38,440 --> 00:26:42,480 play Day two A whether you busted or made the 493 00:26:42,519 --> 00:26:44,319 money there, you know, because you made the money on 494 00:26:44,359 --> 00:26:46,440 the day twos right at some point like halfway through 495 00:26:46,519 --> 00:26:49,400 or whatever. As long as you didn't bag for day three, 496 00:26:49,480 --> 00:26:51,559 you could then just hop right back into the day 497 00:26:51,599 --> 00:26:54,079 one B and continue on, so you know, it kind 498 00:26:54,079 --> 00:26:56,279 of rinse, repeat, over and over and over again. And 499 00:26:56,640 --> 00:27:00,039 for those people that cashed on a Day two, you 500 00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:02,480 cashed for double your buy and I believe I saw 501 00:27:02,519 --> 00:27:06,160 the the min cash was three twenty one dollars, so 502 00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:08,720 double your buy in there. So you're probably thinking to yourself, Okay, 503 00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:11,000 I can go fire another bullet, even if I was 504 00:27:11,039 --> 00:27:14,000 only planning one or two bullets. Now that I cash, 505 00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:16,799 I am essentially free rolling another shot at this so 506 00:27:16,839 --> 00:27:20,119 why not take that shot right? Which I think probably 507 00:27:20,160 --> 00:27:22,359 you know, a fair amount of people took advantage of 508 00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:26,039 So I mean the headline number eleven nine and thirty 509 00:27:26,039 --> 00:27:28,599 three entries is of course, you know, it's an impressive 510 00:27:28,680 --> 00:27:31,160 number for a fifteen hundred dollars buy in tournament. But 511 00:27:31,480 --> 00:27:35,319 it's just difficult to compare apples to apples with previous years, 512 00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:38,839 you know, just because of all the changes that happened. 513 00:27:38,880 --> 00:27:41,720 You know, they again they essentially added several new ways, 514 00:27:41,759 --> 00:27:44,480 not just one way to generate new entries. There were 515 00:27:44,559 --> 00:27:47,960 several ways. The double entry opportunities within each flight, additional 516 00:27:48,039 --> 00:27:51,119 light registration, ability to bust on a day two jump 517 00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:52,799 back in. You know, that's what they did. If you 518 00:27:52,799 --> 00:27:55,960 guys remember for the WSP Paradise main event, they had 519 00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:59,640 this day one, day two thing going on, and those 520 00:27:59,640 --> 00:28:00,920 are at the end of the day. Those are some 521 00:28:01,039 --> 00:28:04,720 meaningful structural changes, and I would I would say that 522 00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:08,559 they're specifically designed to increase the entry count. Now, I 523 00:28:08,559 --> 00:28:11,039 guess that we can debate whether they got the number 524 00:28:11,079 --> 00:28:13,720 that they thought they might have gotten. You know, when 525 00:28:13,759 --> 00:28:15,880 you do all that sort of changing to the structure. 526 00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:18,799 Yes you said a new record, yes you had twenty 527 00:28:18,799 --> 00:28:22,119 percent growth, but did you have aspirations to go higher. 528 00:28:22,799 --> 00:28:25,079 I mean, that's just we don't know that right, you know, 529 00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:27,880 but I'm just thinking that that's how I would probably 530 00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:30,079 think about things. You know, did we hit the target 531 00:28:30,160 --> 00:28:33,839 number whatever we set internally? And then another question I 532 00:28:33,880 --> 00:28:35,680 think you can ask yourself is you know, how much 533 00:28:35,759 --> 00:28:42,559 growth came from just more players or you know, compared 534 00:28:42,599 --> 00:28:46,480 to just more opportunities for the current players to be 535 00:28:46,519 --> 00:28:48,799 able to enter and fire more bullets. You know, That's 536 00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:51,720 that's something else to consider at the end of it all. 537 00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:57,119 Day two D was on Sunday, so the final starting 538 00:28:57,160 --> 00:28:59,559 flight or you know, opportunity to get in because you 539 00:28:59,599 --> 00:29:01,920 could enter for the first hour and fifteen minutes up 540 00:29:01,960 --> 00:29:03,880 until that the close of the first break on the 541 00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:06,680 day two. At the end of that day there were 542 00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:11,279 six hundred and sixty total players remaining. I don't think 543 00:29:11,400 --> 00:29:13,720 the full prize pool is au yet in terms of sorry, 544 00:29:13,799 --> 00:29:15,839 the full payout list is au yet, but that will 545 00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:20,599 be to come. But of course an absolutely gigantic prize 546 00:29:20,599 --> 00:29:23,480 pool number. And then on Monday we'll get the rest 547 00:29:23,519 --> 00:29:27,200 of the payouts in that one. I played on Day 548 00:29:27,240 --> 00:29:31,319 two D, I busted. I mean, today was a day 549 00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:34,720 I probably just you know, never want to remember when 550 00:29:34,759 --> 00:29:40,480 it comes to poker. I mean, it just it absolutely sucked. 551 00:29:42,039 --> 00:29:45,839 From hand number four of the day to my bust 552 00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:51,839 out hand, it was just it sucked. I don't I mean, 553 00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:53,519 I'm always I'm going to go through all the hands 554 00:29:53,519 --> 00:29:55,400 that I played. I wrote them all down once again, 555 00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:57,559 not not on this podcast, but in my own time, 556 00:29:57,680 --> 00:30:00,000 just to try and see if I did anything wrong. 557 00:30:00,119 --> 00:30:04,880 There's definitely one spot where I missed a bluff. I 558 00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:09,599 didn't pull the trigger with Queen High, and yeah, I 559 00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:13,160 just I really did just get gun shy in that moment. 560 00:30:13,720 --> 00:30:17,000 And maybe some of it is because I didn't think 561 00:30:17,079 --> 00:30:20,680 like things were going my way. But anyway, I didn't 562 00:30:20,680 --> 00:30:23,599 pull the trigger after betting flop, I raced pre bedflop 563 00:30:23,640 --> 00:30:27,359 by bet turn. I didn't pull the trigger. I should have. 564 00:30:27,519 --> 00:30:30,440 I kind of misread the guy's hand or where he 565 00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:34,799 would be on the board, and he had like at 566 00:30:34,799 --> 00:30:36,119 the end of it, had like fourth pair and he 567 00:30:36,119 --> 00:30:39,359 probably would have folded to a jam on the end, obviously. 568 00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:43,160 But yeah, that was that was a frustrating one. I 569 00:30:43,160 --> 00:30:45,720 did get one really good bluff through, you know, when 570 00:30:45,720 --> 00:30:49,880 I had King High, and yeah, I mean I I 571 00:30:49,920 --> 00:30:52,799 thought I played well and it was just a day where, 572 00:30:53,759 --> 00:30:57,640 you know, there was a couple of times when I 573 00:30:57,799 --> 00:31:01,039 opened and it was like three bet four bet, and 574 00:31:01,079 --> 00:31:05,119 I just couldn't continue. There were many times when I 575 00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:09,119 would open and either small blind and big blind or 576 00:31:09,359 --> 00:31:12,160 just big blind would defend, and I would just be 577 00:31:12,279 --> 00:31:15,599 so far from the board, and it was a board 578 00:31:15,599 --> 00:31:18,240 that would connect with a big blind range much more 579 00:31:18,240 --> 00:31:20,119 than my range, and I just really had no sort 580 00:31:20,119 --> 00:31:23,759 of maneuverability. So it wasn't like one big hand really 581 00:31:23,839 --> 00:31:26,480 hurt me one way or the other. On my day too, 582 00:31:26,519 --> 00:31:29,000 it was just over and over and over again, just 583 00:31:29,079 --> 00:31:32,319 losing like, you know, fifteen k here, twenty k there, like, 584 00:31:32,359 --> 00:31:35,640 and just just that constant pounding and I could never 585 00:31:35,680 --> 00:31:40,920 get anything going. And I would guess that I also 586 00:31:40,960 --> 00:31:43,359 didn't really have any good hands to you know, get 587 00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:45,440 dealt Like I didn't pick up a whole bunch of 588 00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:48,160 hands and just lose them. I mean, I had Ace 589 00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:53,359 King twice, but that was, you know, really it. And honestly, 590 00:31:53,359 --> 00:31:56,240 I think if I play this day with that exact 591 00:31:56,559 --> 00:31:59,880 you know, distribution, then then I it probably all just 592 00:32:00,559 --> 00:32:04,160 ends up the same way. I'm just and I don't know, 593 00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:06,279 I'm just I guess I'm just frustrated in that because 594 00:32:07,839 --> 00:32:09,599 you feel like you're just being dealt out of the 595 00:32:09,640 --> 00:32:12,519 tournament without being dealt out of the tournament, and that's 596 00:32:12,559 --> 00:32:14,880 just a really kind of shitty feeling. Going back to 597 00:32:14,920 --> 00:32:17,240 kind of what I learned last year during my Tabsity 598 00:32:17,319 --> 00:32:20,039 main event run is just really focus on it's only 599 00:32:20,119 --> 00:32:23,279 about the next hand that you're playing, focus on the situation, 600 00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:25,200 how many big blinds you have, what's going on at 601 00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:27,039 the table, et cetera. And I really tried to do that, 602 00:32:27,079 --> 00:32:30,400 and it just nothing friggin worked, and it was just frustrating. 603 00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:33,160 It was very, very frustrating, And like I said, I 604 00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:42,119 would like to forget about it all one hand in 605 00:32:42,160 --> 00:32:45,759 particular that I really want to forget about, but right 606 00:32:45,799 --> 00:32:47,920 now I can't. I can't forget about it because it's 607 00:32:47,960 --> 00:32:50,359 still on my mind. Was my bust out hand. So 608 00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:54,039 I came into today with I think it was two 609 00:32:54,119 --> 00:32:57,200 hundred and fifty eight thousand, so more than five starting stacks. 610 00:32:57,240 --> 00:32:59,920 You start with fifty K in this tournament, I'm just louving, 611 00:33:00,079 --> 00:33:02,160 losing every pot left, right, and center that I play. 612 00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:05,960 I'm down to fifty nine thousand at five K big 613 00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:10,440 blind folds to me on the button, I jam King 614 00:33:10,559 --> 00:33:16,039 Queen off. The Big Blind looks down at his cards 615 00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:23,880 and immediately lets out like this big sigh and the 616 00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:26,119 way he did it like everyone at the table kind 617 00:33:26,119 --> 00:33:28,279 of like looked at him. And then he stands up. 618 00:33:28,680 --> 00:33:31,160 After he does this, SI kind of looks around the 619 00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:33,000 room like, I'm like, there's like, I don't know, a 620 00:33:33,079 --> 00:33:36,319 thousand people left in the flight, six hundred and something cash, 621 00:33:36,519 --> 00:33:38,559 like we're nowhere near the money. And not to mention, 622 00:33:38,640 --> 00:33:41,400 I have fifty nine K, so I have what almost 623 00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:44,240 twelve bigs, just under twelve bigs. He's got like three 624 00:33:44,359 --> 00:33:47,119 hundred K, and I'm just like, Okay, what the heck 625 00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:49,119 is going on? Like this guy just has like he 626 00:33:49,160 --> 00:33:51,559 has like a shitty ace, like you know, like ACE 627 00:33:51,599 --> 00:33:53,359 four or something. He's like, oh, I have to call 628 00:33:53,400 --> 00:33:55,839 this guy's jam with the ace or you know. I'm 629 00:33:55,839 --> 00:33:59,440 also thinking like, okay, maybe he's got King ten or something, 630 00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:01,279 and I'm like, this is great King ten, King nine 631 00:34:01,319 --> 00:34:04,039 or whatever, or maybe he's I don't know, got two deuces. 632 00:34:04,279 --> 00:34:06,880 I have no idea. After he stands up and kind 633 00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:08,199 of looks around the room, he asks, He's like, how 634 00:34:08,239 --> 00:34:10,360 much is it. The dealer says, you know, it's fifty 635 00:34:10,440 --> 00:34:13,639 nine thousand. He kind of sighs, picks up the chips 636 00:34:13,639 --> 00:34:17,760 in his hand size again, and eventually calls I table 637 00:34:17,880 --> 00:34:20,119 my hand. I'm like like, okay, if he hasn't a 638 00:34:20,119 --> 00:34:22,480 bad as whatever, you know, let's run it. But other 639 00:34:22,480 --> 00:34:24,119 than that, I think I'm in pretty good shape here. 640 00:34:24,679 --> 00:34:28,280 He's he rolls over pocket tents, and I'm just like, like, 641 00:34:28,559 --> 00:34:31,440 the way he's acting is like we're flipping for three 642 00:34:31,519 --> 00:34:34,639 hundred big blinds here on the stone bubble of this tournament. 643 00:34:34,679 --> 00:34:36,840 And I'm just like what what like what am I 644 00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:38,960 like in the fucking twilight zone? What the hell is 645 00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:43,480 going on here? And he rolls over the tens like 646 00:34:43,599 --> 00:34:45,800 after I roll over my King Queen, And on top 647 00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:49,599 of that, he kind of sighs there too, like again 648 00:34:49,840 --> 00:34:51,679 like like like this is the stone bubble of the 649 00:34:51,679 --> 00:34:53,239 tournament and it folded to me on the button and 650 00:34:53,280 --> 00:34:55,719 I just ripped in like seventy big blinds and he's 651 00:34:55,719 --> 00:34:57,239 got tens over there and he's got to make this 652 00:34:57,320 --> 00:35:00,239 call for a huge portion of his stack. So yeah, 653 00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:02,800 I was just I was just very frustrated with the 654 00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:05,800 way the situation. I mean you know, I just whatever, 655 00:35:06,199 --> 00:35:09,480 the board ran out, I missed, I get up. Somebody 656 00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:10,800 else at the table just like looks at me and 657 00:35:10,800 --> 00:35:14,639 starts laughing. I kind of start laughing. Yeah whatever. I mean. 658 00:35:15,159 --> 00:35:17,679 Obviously that player went on to bag nine hundred and 659 00:35:17,719 --> 00:35:21,039 five thousand, So Brian shout out to you. I won't 660 00:35:21,079 --> 00:35:23,079 totally blow you up and put you on the spot, 661 00:35:23,119 --> 00:35:25,320 but I mean, holy hell, man, that was just a 662 00:35:25,360 --> 00:35:27,679 brutal nit role, is what that was. That's just what 663 00:35:27,719 --> 00:35:29,280 it was. I got a call it like I see it, 664 00:35:29,639 --> 00:35:31,639 and that was a nitroll. Man, that was a freaking 665 00:35:31,719 --> 00:35:35,159 nit roll. Just don't just don't nitroll people. It's just 666 00:35:35,239 --> 00:35:38,840 bad etiquette. Okay, all right, moving on now that I 667 00:35:38,880 --> 00:35:42,079 got that off my chest. Sean Winter leads the final 668 00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:45,639 seven players in the twenty five K six max no 669 00:35:46,119 --> 00:35:50,480 limit hold them and eighty six thousand dollars up top there. 670 00:35:50,519 --> 00:35:53,960 I believe they are streaming this final table on Monday. 671 00:35:54,199 --> 00:35:57,599 Winter will be joined by Archer March Rosian, Absolute Crusher, 672 00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:02,960 Pavol Plus of Yosuki, Mickey, Clemens Reuter. Speaking of the 673 00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:07,480 monsters deck Clemens Reuter won it last year, Marius gersa 674 00:36:07,960 --> 00:36:10,760 Chance Corneth. Those are the final seven players. Again, that's 675 00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:13,760 one point two eighty six million up top in that 676 00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:17,280 twenty five K six max no limit hold them. In 677 00:36:17,360 --> 00:36:20,519 the fifteen hundred dollars big oh, there are twenty nine 678 00:36:20,639 --> 00:36:25,840 players left entering Day three. Two one hundred and fifty 679 00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:31,679 entries started in this one. Anthony rit to Dewey probably 680 00:36:31,719 --> 00:36:34,719 butchered that last name. I'm sorry. Anthony leads the way 681 00:36:34,880 --> 00:36:37,719 in that one. In the five hundred dollars freeze out, 682 00:36:38,079 --> 00:36:43,320 forty one hundred entries, one hundred and sixty two players remain. 683 00:36:43,400 --> 00:36:45,719 Now that number is down from last year. Last year 684 00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:48,119 five thousand and eighty two entries, so down right around 685 00:36:48,159 --> 00:36:51,159 one thousand entries there. The two K Nolan hold them 686 00:36:51,199 --> 00:36:53,079 kicked off today as well, nine hundred and sixty eight 687 00:36:53,159 --> 00:36:55,480 entries there. There are one hundred and sixty players left. 688 00:36:56,280 --> 00:36:59,559 Last year's field size there was sixteen ninety two. So, 689 00:37:00,039 --> 00:37:01,880 you know, it seems like, you know, I talked about 690 00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:04,039 some of the mixed game events that were that were up, 691 00:37:04,400 --> 00:37:06,880 and then it seems like the Nolan hold him stuff 692 00:37:06,920 --> 00:37:10,440 is the stuff that's down. This one is I get. 693 00:37:10,679 --> 00:37:12,119 I would say some of this might have to do 694 00:37:12,159 --> 00:37:14,760 a scheduling, because you have Day two d of the 695 00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:18,440 Monster Stack. Today you have this five hundred dollars freeze out, 696 00:37:18,480 --> 00:37:20,320 the five hundred all freeze I'll start at ten am. 697 00:37:20,519 --> 00:37:23,519 You have the Day two of the Monster Stack, and 698 00:37:23,639 --> 00:37:26,599 remember you can still register that started at eleven am 699 00:37:26,639 --> 00:37:28,760 and you can registerp until twelve fifteen. You play an 700 00:37:28,760 --> 00:37:30,679 hour and then you have a fifteen minute break, so 701 00:37:30,760 --> 00:37:32,840 until that the end of that break for the second 702 00:37:32,920 --> 00:37:34,519 level of to day, you could still register there, so 703 00:37:34,559 --> 00:37:36,800 people are still stuck in that probably can't get into 704 00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:40,039 that freeze out. And then the two K nolan at 705 00:37:40,039 --> 00:37:43,000 hold Them I believe started at twelve, so you know, 706 00:37:43,119 --> 00:37:45,760 just kind of a lot of overlap there, a lot 707 00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:48,519 of overlap there. Also kicking off was the ten K 708 00:37:48,679 --> 00:37:52,519 Dealer's Choice and after day one Chris Brewer is in 709 00:37:52,639 --> 00:37:55,719 the lead and right behind him is Jesse loanis. Now 710 00:37:55,960 --> 00:37:58,239 Chris Brewer I think has been dabbling into the mixed 711 00:37:58,239 --> 00:38:00,440 games a little bit more than Jesse loanis. But both 712 00:38:00,440 --> 00:38:04,320 of those guys are our players. You might not associate 713 00:38:04,400 --> 00:38:08,000 with mixed games, but both seem to be doing very 714 00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:10,320 well at least on day one of the ten K 715 00:38:10,880 --> 00:38:15,199 Dealer's Choice, And that's all I got for this episode 716 00:38:15,239 --> 00:38:17,920 of the Poker Podcast. As always, I appreciate you guys 717 00:38:17,960 --> 00:38:20,199 for listening. Don't forget to share the podcast, don't forget 718 00:38:20,199 --> 00:38:24,079 to get your questions, your takes, whatever in via email 719 00:38:24,280 --> 00:38:27,280 podcast at PokerGO dot com. But that's gonna do it 720 00:38:27,360 --> 00:38:29,960 for this one. My name is Donny Peters. It's a 721 00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:36,039 pleasure as always, and I will talk to you next time.