Speaker 1: Hello, everyone, Welcome back to a new episode of the
poker Go Podcast. It is Monday, June eighth, one, twenty
four am. We got a big show ahead of us today.
I got a lot of cool things to hit on.
First up, Kristen Foxen winning her sixth WSOP Gold bracelet
and she did it in an incredibly big fashion. We
are going to talk all about it. Plus we will
hear from Foxen on this episode. We also have our
first player to win two bracelets at the twenty twenty
six WSOP. You guys can find out who that is.
The Monster Stack drew a record eleven thousand, nine hundred
and thirty three entries. But I do have a few
things I want to say on that. I also busted
that damn tournament today and I want to talk about
that one too, And then of course I'll give you
guys a rundown on everything else that happened at the
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free bonus and start playing. Kristin Foxen just absolutely unbelievable
winning her sixth WSOP Gold bracelet. She won the twenty
five k high Roller for one million, seven hundred and
seventy three thousand dollars. She topped a field of three
hundred and forty five entries. It's Kristin Foxen's largest ever
career score and it comes in a year where she's
already having a career best year in terms of tournament
winnings last year was her previous best. Four million, six
hundred and fifty three thousand is what she won last
year from live tournaments this year, when you add in
the one point seven seven three million that she won
in this tournament, she is now up over five point
seven million dollars one on the year, and we are
only a week into June and a heck of a
lot more poker to go, especially for Kristen Fox And
who plays everything. She plays as big as it can get.
So she could really, I mean she could. She could
pass ten million easy for sure. She's now second on
the PGT leaderboard. The twenty five k high Roller at
the WASP was a PGT qualifying event. She got seven
hundred and fifty points for the victory in that one.
Added to the total that she already had, She's up
to twelve hundred and fifty eight points, not too far
behind Brock Wilson, who's got twelve hundred and seventy one.
Haven't heard much from Brock Wilson at the WSOP this
summer so far, but of course you know Brocks out
there grinding every single day. I do see him every
single day, so he's playing, he's trying to make some
things happened. It just hasn't really worked out for him.
Kristin Foxen, though, I mean, this woman is just absolutely
freaking incredible. She just absolutely crushes it. She went heads
up with Galen Hall in the end, she crushed him
on a few hands. Then she picked up aces on
the final hand, and I mean, it's just it's got
to be absolutely something to win a hand with aces,
or sorry, win a tournament with aces. On that final hand,
she limps on the button. Galen, I believe had it
right around twenty bigs. He moves all in with ace
four off. She of course snaps He's dead on the turn.
And that is that. After she won, After she was
done with the photo, she did a couple interviews. We
did have a chance to sit down with Kristen fox
and so, fresh off bracelet win number six and as
I said, the biggest payday of her career. Let's hear
from Kristin Foxen.
Speaker 2: Now, all right, Kristen, bracelet number six. Talk to me
about where this one ranks in the store your career.
Speaker 3: Oh, such a relief.
Speaker 4: Honestly, I feel like I've been battling to run good
in one of the high roller you know, world Series
events for what like three or four years now, I guess,
or maybe longer I don't know, but yeah, this is
this is definitely probably the best win of my poker
career so far. Actually, it's my largest score. I feel like,
you know, I've finished second recently, I think twice in
two big spots.
Speaker 3: So yeah, to get to win feels really good.
Speaker 2: It it looked like it was a little bit of
emotion emotional for you up there, you know, at least
obviously that don't after a big tournament. Yeah, but you know,
you talked about how you've been kind of close for
this type of score. Just talk through those emotions and
what comes out after you finished.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, oh, poker is just such a you know,
it's it's tough obviously, but it's.
Speaker 3: I mean, you see it.
Speaker 4: There's just there's so much disappointment in poker, so these
moments just feel so surreal, and yeah, it just really
meant a lot to me to you know, play my
best today and for things to go well and uh yeah,
getting another bracelet. It just feels so surreal. Honestly, I'm
just kind of like it doesn't feel real at the moment.
Speaker 1: So you haven't.
Speaker 2: You're not much strangers to the Winter's frument, right, you know?
But is there a moment when it does feel real?
Speaker 1: Is it hours?
Speaker 2: Is it days? Is it weeks? Is maybe way after
the summer? When does that feeling of okay, this is real?
I just want almost one point million dollars I want
to learn.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a really good question.
Speaker 4: I feel like tomorrow morning, when I wake up, it
might feel that way, the same way that you know,
when I busted thirteenth or fourteen whatever it was in
the main event that it didn't feel real until I
woke up the next morning and it was like, WHOA,
did that really happen? Obviously that was negative feelings. So
I will have good emotions tomorrow. And I mean, it's
just such a such a cool moment, you know, to
share with Alex and everybody who's supporting me.
Speaker 2: You've been in this game for a long time now,
let's say fifteen years ago. How how has everything changed
in your career?
Speaker 4: You know, I feel like poker has gotten tougher for sure.
You know, I pretty much played low stakes for a while,
and then when did I start playing higher stakes.
Speaker 3: Maybe eight years ago, seven years ago.
Speaker 4: I've always enjoyed kind of you know, pushing myself, competing
at the highest levels. I think it's been I don't
know if it's just me. It feels like there's so
much poker to play these days. You know, you can
go to a trading stop and have over a million
dollars in buy ins, and I probably didn't have that
many buy ins in you know, three years, ten years ago,
and you know with poker Go, there's just there's so
much poker going on. So it's just super exciting. And
you know, obviously I'm almost forty now. I started in
just twenty. You know, you grow, you mature, cooker kind
of you know, changes you. I guess you could say, yeah, yeah,
a lot of has changed. But it's been a fun journey.
Speaker 2: What still drives you to keep chasing these moments these ways?
Speaker 4: Probably it's almost like playing golf and you're playing against
yourself and just getting better each time and having a
tournament where you know, I feel like I've performed my best.
You know that I don't have hands that I wish
I did something different, but that usually happens every single time.
So yeah, and I just love it, like I really do,
just love poker.
Speaker 3: It's so fun. It's such a fun game.
Speaker 4: It's you know, the more I play, the more you
develop you know, history with other players, and then that
becomes you know, complex and unique, and.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just it's such a it's such a cool game.
Speaker 2: Do you think about your legacy in the game at
all and what, you know, let's say, fifty years down
the road, how people want.
Speaker 3: To remember for yeah, for sure.
Speaker 4: I mean obviously, when I entered poker as a female,
there was a feeling of being underestimated, you know, just
a girl kind of feeling, and I was always motivated
to change that or at least prove whoever said that
about me wrong. And it's probably a lot of the
drive for me to play high stakes, honestly, just because
there is something about, you know, feeling like a girl
can't do that that I want to change and and
just prove that they can. And I guess I'm just
kind of driven to be to be that one to
do that. I hope that, you know, younger female poker
players can get back to me and say, you know,
she did it, I can do it, you know, I'm
I'm not intimidating. I'm you know, there's nothing too special
about me, I don't think. But I think it's important
to have role models that you can look up to
and otherwise, I think the high roller environment can be
really intimidating, especially as a female if you don't see anybody,
any other females competing. So I just hope that maybe,
you know, I make it a little bit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, more, I don't know if biting is the right word.
Speaker 2: But even beyond poker too, yeah, I mean, like I
have a daughter and I'm yeah, my wife and Eric
constantly trying to just make sure that she knows that
she can achieve anything in life. So it's not just
women in poker, yes, women in anything.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 2: So but do you feel like with all the success
that you've had, that you've achieved that in a way,
are you still trying to showcase?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: No, I still I think, you know, whatever I am
on GPI, it is probably not high enough.
Speaker 3: I probably don't have enough wins. I think. Yeah, the
more the merrier with the success, that's for sure.
Speaker 2: After a win like this, after all the wins you've
had in your career, all the success, and what's still
what's there left to do?
Speaker 4: Keep doing it right, and like then you don't just say,
well she loved boxed one tournament. Yeah, just do it
again and keep leveling up. Honestly, like more than anything,
just being able to continue to do what I love
in life and happen to make a living at it.
Speaker 3: It's like, super.
Speaker 1: Cool, that was Kristen Fox, and congratulations to her on
an incredible score there. What stands out, you know, is
that it's not necessarily that she won her six gold
race and I'll talk about the other five just to
give everyone a recap for what she wanted in just
a second. But it's it really is that she just
keeps finding ways to like up her stature or raise
the bar in terms of what she can do. I mean,
she was already way up there in terms of having
five bracelets. Now she's got six, so that's just even better.
Certainly one of the all time greats. She posts the
biggest score of her career. I mentioned how good of
a year she's having already. It's her third million dollar
score in twenty twenty six alone. That's just wild. I mean,
she isn't someone who's just living off accomplishments. From five
or ten years ago. And you guys heard her talk
in the interview. You know, she just wants to keep
doing this over and over again, and she still is
operating at the very highest level, and it's just incredible
to see her do work every single time she's out there.
As for the pass bracelets that she won, her first
came back in twenty thirteen when she won the Ladies Event,
the one K Ladies Event for one hundred and one
hundred and seventy four thousand dollars in that one. Then
three years later she won the fifteen hundred dollars Bounty
No Limit Holdhem Tournament for two hundred and ninety thousand dollars.
Then her next three three online bracelets. In twenty twenty,
she won a twenty five hundred dollars six handed event
online for three hundred and fifty six K that was
previously her highest score from a gold bracelet winning event.
Twenty twenty three, she won the eight eight eight Crazy
eight Event, Crazy eight Event Excuse Me for ninety two
thousand dollars, and then twenty twenty four she won the
one K six Max for fifty seven thousand dollars. And
it's you know, listen, it's been it's been a while,
and I know she's somebody who she wanted to win.
Not only has she wanted to win another live bracelet,
but she wanted it to be a very prominent one,
a very prestigious one. Obviously, she rolls in the Nola
man HoldEm Street. She especially plays in these high roller events.
So her winning the twenty five k high Roller, you know,
one of the absolute most prestigious events to win and
one of the toughest events to win at the World
Series of Poker, is just, you know, simply tremendous by
Kristin Fox. And we're running out of qualifiers when we
talk about her, you know, for years, and I think
even still now, I mean, I feel like many of
people have started to move past us, and I think
that that's probably the right way to go about it.
But you know, for years, it was Kristen Fox's among
the best female players in poker. Then she was the
best female player in poker or that, you know, that's
how everyone kind of anointed her. Then it became okay,
now she's not only is she the best female poker player,
she's one of the best tournament players. And then after that,
it's just, you know, hands down, I think it's safe
to say at this point that she is simply just
one of the best poker players in the world period.
You know, I don't think while we do see Kristen
Fox in these days out there battling in the tournament streets,
whether that's out the World Series of Poker, over in
the studio, for all the PGT events that go on there,
we know how well she does in the studio and
how many wins she gets in that venue. Triting events
as well, she's been crushing, you know, she's always out
there in the tournament circuit just absolutely doing her thing.
But she's had a lot of success in cash games
as well. She had success on Cash of the Titans,
the spin off from No Gamble in the Future, when
she went head to head with some really tough players
at some really high stakes there. So she's just the beast,
she really is. She's at an absolute crusher and good
on her for taking this one down one point seven
seven three million dollars and it's probably not the last
time we're going to hear from Kristen Fox. And for
the rest of the summer, a lot of big big,
big events coming up. So uh yeah, that's that Nioa Kihara.
I just talked about this guy a couple of days
ago when he won the ten K No Limit Deuced
to seven Single Championship. Well he's back, and he's back
in the winter circle, and he's back in the winter
circle of a ten K stud Championship, a ten K
championship event once again, this time stud. One hundred and
thirty entries in this one, three hundred and two thousand
dollars is what Kihara is walking away with his third
career gold bracelet, the last time that he won a bracelet.
A few days ago, I told you about how Kiara
told Poker News that he was about to quit tournament poker.
He was like, you know what, I'm not dealing with
this variance, crap, the heck with it. I'm probably just
gonna go play cash, not quit poker like you hear
some players do and then you know they're back in
a few months. But just quit tournament poker, which means
you know he would be going back to cash. But
he said, you know what, let me give one last
summer at at one last push. And now he's gone
with his six days without losing a single tournament. He
won that ten k nolandus A seven single Draft Championship.
He took home four hundred and twenty nine thousand dollars.
There he hops into that ten k stud, he bags
the day one chip lead. He then runs all the
way to the final table, and then here he is
in the winter circle, collecting three hundred and two thousand
dollars his second bracelet of this summer. Now, what's interesting
is that no matter what happened in heads up play,
no matter who won, we were gonna get our first
two time bracelet winner of the summer because Kihara was
heads up with James Chung, and Chung had won the
fifteen hundred dollars seven card stud tournament a few days
ago at the WSP. He took home two hundred and
one thousand dollars in this finish here to go along
with that previous finish. So James Chung, as well as
having a great great summer to start off, he's got
a first and now a second, and Kihara's got two
first So that's that's pretty crazy to have those two
guys go heads up, we're guaranteed our first. You know,
two time bracelet winner of the summer. Also for Cheung,
I believe he would have been the first player to
win the fifteen hundred dollars seven Card Stud and the
ten case seven Card Stud in the same series. I mean,
my guess is the only person that would have done
that in history. And I probably should have looked this up,
but I'm lazy and I'm not going to right now.
It would be Jeff Losandro kind of bummed that this
one didn't get streamed because you know, when when you
have such a historic moment like this, and you could
even extend that historic moment to the fact that the
third place finisher was Alan Kessler, who gets denied a
gold bracelet yet again. Oh so close for mister Kesler.
So you know, I think a lot of people out
there really wanted to see this one hit the stream.
You know, myself included. We would have liked to have
that out there, you know, push it out there for
the masses. I know seven Card Stud isn't the most
electric game on the planet, yes, but I mean this
was such a cool, cool moment where you have kihar
who hasn't lost a tournament in six days, He's going
for back to back. Guess it's not back to back
in the same event, but just back to back bracelets
in terms of events that he's entered. Could become the
first two time bracelet winner of the summer, and then
the same could be said for James Chunk could also
have become the first two time bracelet winner of the summer.
Just just some very cool happenings that could have shaken out.
And then again if you extended to the third place finisher,
Alan Kessler, I mean, I think every everyone's at this point,
everyone's just rooting for Alan Kessler to to get the
to get the bracelet right like he's I mean, he's
like the Chicago Cubs, you know, the Red Sox for
so long, or even even the New York Knicks right now,
like all these all these sports teams who just go
so so so so so long without winning a championship
or so long before without winning their next championship. I mean, Kessler,
it's like he's always the butt end of the joke
in terms of the fact that he can never get
it done. But you know, tournaments, there's a lot of variants.
We always say it and and a lot of things
can happen, but close call for him, and that would
have been a fun sweat and I think a lot
of people out there would have loved to see that one. Ultimately,
Kesler does get denied. He takes home third place for
one hundred and thirty nine thousand dollars. He did sell
two packages over on poker Steak. He sold one for
the smaller buying events and then he sold one further.
I think it was all the ten k plus events,
which probably includes the fifty K PBC and twenty five
K horse So for anyone that bought shares in that
larger package, this is a nice start to the summer.
Now I think we're twelve or thirteen days in and
Kesler just ripped off one hundred and forty thousand dollars score.
Kesler now has four seconds in WSP events, one third,
it's this one. He's got one fourth, one fifth, one seventh,
one eighth, and then three ninth. So he's been knocking
at the door for quite some time. Of course, somebody
who burst down that damn door though, is Iowa Kihara,
now a three times bracelet winner, the second his series.
And also with Kihara, we got to start thinking about
him for two things. Obviously going on to win a
third bracelet, Okay, that would be incredible. I mean, I'm
I don't think it's too crazy to say that he
could win a fourth as well, because he's going to
be playing all these smaller field mixed games events, which, yes,
they are very tough, they have a lot of tough
competition in them. But you know, you're going up against
one hundred to two hundred players in a field. So
if you get hot, and if you stay hot, and
also momentum confidence, all that stuff comes into play. You know,
kihar could certainly do it. That would be absolutely crazy
if we were to see it. And then once you know,
he starts piling up some more results, which I'm guessing
are just going to come. Maybe he doesn't win another
bracelet or two, you know, but you know, I'm guessing
he's going to have a bunch more cases. He's going
to be playing every single day. I'm guessing he's going
to have a couple final tables that are still to come.
You know, we are still very very early in the series.
We're around event number twenty five or so on the schedule,
and there's one hundred events total on the schedule. So
so plenty of plenty of runways still left for Kihara.
And what I'm getting at is could he become WASABY
Player of the Year? I mean, you win too, Bracelets,
I mean, you're as odd as this guy is. How
are you not considered to be, you know, one of
the front runners for ws ABY Player of the Year.
So we'll see how it goes for Kiara. But he's
now firmly on the map at the twenty twenty six
World Series of Poker, and we are going to be
watching him like a hawk to see how he performs
the rest of the way. Shifting things over to the
Monster Stack, which drew a record field of eleven nine
hundred and thirty three entries, so almost twelve thousand entries
in this thing. Again I said, it's a record for
the event. It's one of the largest WSOP events of
all time. It believe it's in the top twenty now.
If not, it's for sure in the top twenty five.
Fifteen hundred dollars buy And so that means a whole
heck of a lot of money in that prize. School
just quickly on the history of this the field size
in this event, this event first started in twenty fourteen,
had seven eight hundred and sixty two entries. Then it
had seventy one hundred or seventy two hundred, I should say,
seven one ninety two the next year then six nine
two seven six seven one six six two six zero
six zero three five. That leads us up to the
COVID year. Now numbers from that first year. The numbers
did drop every single year, right, you know, just the
slow decline. But that first iteration from twenty fourteen to
twenty nineteen, and I believe I have this correctly. Forgive
me if I have any of this stuff wrong, but
I believe I looked it up and gathered all the
information that should be right. But for that first batch
from twenty fourteen to twenty nineteen, two starting flights for
this tournament, and it was a freeze out, so you
had to pick which starting flight. You either played Day
one A or you played Day one B and that
was it. You couldn't play Day one A and then
play Day one B. No, just one entry in this thing.
So that first year, right, getting up over seventy eight
hundred entries, you know, fifteen hundred dollars freeze out with
just two starting fights. That's ridiculous. That's awesome. And then
even still throughout the rest of the years, you know,
topping the six thousand every single year for sure, if
not higher than that. You know, again, two flights, freeze out,
that's awesome. Twenty twenty was off, of course, COVID year
twenty twenty one. Everyone's coming back from COVID didn't really
know what to expect. You had the whole vaccine thing.
So it draws three thousand, five hundred and twenty that year,
still the same thing, two flights and a freeze out.
But you can't really count that number, like in terms
of any record books or anything or be like, oh
that number sucked. Well that was that was the post
COVID year, first time back, you know, throw that one out.
Twenty twenty two. Okay, we're back. We're back up over
sixty five hundred. Here. Now the trick here is and
this there was a switch, not a switch, but well,
I mean, I guess I switch. They did adjust the structure.
So you still still two starting fights in twenty twenty two,
but one entry per starting fights fire two bullets total.
The next year, twenty twenty three, it's like we're fully back, right,
eighty three hundred and seventeen entries. That also was two
starting flights, one entry per flight. The next year, twenty
twenty four, they bump it up to three starting flights
freeze out per flight, so three entries total eighty seven
hundred and three entries. That year twenty twenty five, it
goes up again, nine nine hundred and twenty entries, but
another change to the structure here four starting flights, one
entry per flight, maximum of four entries. Now we get
to twenty twenty six, big jump of two thousand and
thirteen entries from last year's ninety nine hundred and twenty
up to this year's eleven nine hundred and thirty three.
It's a tremendous result to be able to jump it
up that large, right about right about twenty percent increase.
You know what I find interesting is there was a
significant change to the structure of this tournament this year.
There were certainly more opportunities to enter. Just the easiest
one of all is that there were four starting flights,
which yes, that is the same as last year, but
you were allowed two entries per flight, so right there,
that's just double you can fire maximum eight entries into
this thing. Registration was open longer, I believe, for an
extra level, and then players could also re enter even
after playing on a day two. Each day one had
its own day two the next day, so like when
Day one A and then the next day was Day
two A, but also day one B, so you could
play in. You could advance out of Day one A
play Day two A whether you busted or made the
money there, you know, because you made the money on
the day twos right at some point like halfway through
or whatever. As long as you didn't bag for day three,
you could then just hop right back into the day
one B and continue on, so you know, it kind
of rinse, repeat, over and over and over again. And
for those people that cashed on a Day two, you
cashed for double your buy and I believe I saw
the the min cash was three twenty one dollars, so
double your buy in there. So you're probably thinking to yourself, Okay,
I can go fire another bullet, even if I was
only planning one or two bullets. Now that I cash,
I am essentially free rolling another shot at this so
why not take that shot right? Which I think probably
you know, a fair amount of people took advantage of
So I mean the headline number eleven nine and thirty
three entries is of course, you know, it's an impressive
number for a fifteen hundred dollars buy in tournament. But
it's just difficult to compare apples to apples with previous years,
you know, just because of all the changes that happened.
You know, they again they essentially added several new ways,
not just one way to generate new entries. There were
several ways. The double entry opportunities within each flight, additional
light registration, ability to bust on a day two jump
back in. You know, that's what they did. If you
guys remember for the WSP Paradise main event, they had
this day one, day two thing going on, and those
are at the end of the day. Those are some
meaningful structural changes, and I would I would say that
they're specifically designed to increase the entry count. Now, I
guess that we can debate whether they got the number
that they thought they might have gotten. You know, when
you do all that sort of changing to the structure.
Yes you said a new record, yes you had twenty
percent growth, but did you have aspirations to go higher.
I mean, that's just we don't know that right, you know,
but I'm just thinking that that's how I would probably
think about things. You know, did we hit the target
number whatever we set internally? And then another question I
think you can ask yourself is you know, how much
growth came from just more players or you know, compared
to just more opportunities for the current players to be
able to enter and fire more bullets. You know, That's
that's something else to consider at the end of it all.
Day two D was on Sunday, so the final starting
flight or you know, opportunity to get in because you
could enter for the first hour and fifteen minutes up
until that the close of the first break on the
day two. At the end of that day there were
six hundred and sixty total players remaining. I don't think
the full prize pool is au yet in terms of sorry,
the full payout list is au yet, but that will
be to come. But of course an absolutely gigantic prize
pool number. And then on Monday we'll get the rest
of the payouts in that one. I played on Day
two D, I busted. I mean, today was a day
I probably just you know, never want to remember when
it comes to poker. I mean, it just it absolutely sucked.
From hand number four of the day to my bust
out hand, it was just it sucked. I don't I mean,
I'm always I'm going to go through all the hands
that I played. I wrote them all down once again,
not not on this podcast, but in my own time,
just to try and see if I did anything wrong.
There's definitely one spot where I missed a bluff. I
didn't pull the trigger with Queen High, and yeah, I
just I really did just get gun shy in that moment.
And maybe some of it is because I didn't think
like things were going my way. But anyway, I didn't
pull the trigger after betting flop, I raced pre bedflop
by bet turn. I didn't pull the trigger. I should have.
I kind of misread the guy's hand or where he
would be on the board, and he had like at
the end of it, had like fourth pair and he
probably would have folded to a jam on the end, obviously.
But yeah, that was that was a frustrating one. I
did get one really good bluff through, you know, when
I had King High, and yeah, I mean I I
thought I played well and it was just a day where,
you know, there was a couple of times when I
opened and it was like three bet four bet, and
I just couldn't continue. There were many times when I
would open and either small blind and big blind or
just big blind would defend, and I would just be
so far from the board, and it was a board
that would connect with a big blind range much more
than my range, and I just really had no sort
of maneuverability. So it wasn't like one big hand really
hurt me one way or the other. On my day too,
it was just over and over and over again, just
losing like, you know, fifteen k here, twenty k there, like,
and just just that constant pounding and I could never
get anything going. And I would guess that I also
didn't really have any good hands to you know, get
dealt Like I didn't pick up a whole bunch of
hands and just lose them. I mean, I had Ace
King twice, but that was, you know, really it. And honestly,
I think if I play this day with that exact
you know, distribution, then then I it probably all just
ends up the same way. I'm just and I don't know,
I'm just I guess I'm just frustrated in that because
you feel like you're just being dealt out of the
tournament without being dealt out of the tournament, and that's
just a really kind of shitty feeling. Going back to
kind of what I learned last year during my Tabsity
main event run is just really focus on it's only
about the next hand that you're playing, focus on the situation,
how many big blinds you have, what's going on at
the table, et cetera. And I really tried to do that,
and it just nothing friggin worked, and it was just frustrating.
It was very, very frustrating, And like I said, I
would like to forget about it all one hand in
particular that I really want to forget about, but right
now I can't. I can't forget about it because it's
still on my mind. Was my bust out hand. So
I came into today with I think it was two
hundred and fifty eight thousand, so more than five starting stacks.
You start with fifty K in this tournament, I'm just louving,
losing every pot left, right, and center that I play.
I'm down to fifty nine thousand at five K big
blind folds to me on the button, I jam King
Queen off. The Big Blind looks down at his cards
and immediately lets out like this big sigh and the
way he did it like everyone at the table kind
of like looked at him. And then he stands up.
After he does this, SI kind of looks around the
room like, I'm like, there's like, I don't know, a
thousand people left in the flight, six hundred and something cash,
like we're nowhere near the money. And not to mention,
I have fifty nine K, so I have what almost
twelve bigs, just under twelve bigs. He's got like three
hundred K, and I'm just like, Okay, what the heck
is going on? Like this guy just has like he
has like a shitty ace, like you know, like ACE
four or something. He's like, oh, I have to call
this guy's jam with the ace or you know. I'm
also thinking like, okay, maybe he's got King ten or something,
and I'm like, this is great King ten, King nine
or whatever, or maybe he's I don't know, got two deuces.
I have no idea. After he stands up and kind
of looks around the room, he asks, He's like, how
much is it. The dealer says, you know, it's fifty
nine thousand. He kind of sighs, picks up the chips
in his hand size again, and eventually calls I table
my hand. I'm like like, okay, if he hasn't a
bad as whatever, you know, let's run it. But other
than that, I think I'm in pretty good shape here.
He's he rolls over pocket tents, and I'm just like, like,
the way he's acting is like we're flipping for three
hundred big blinds here on the stone bubble of this tournament.
And I'm just like what what like what am I
like in the fucking twilight zone? What the hell is
going on here? And he rolls over the tens like
after I roll over my King Queen, And on top
of that, he kind of sighs there too, like again
like like like this is the stone bubble of the
tournament and it folded to me on the button and
I just ripped in like seventy big blinds and he's
got tens over there and he's got to make this
call for a huge portion of his stack. So yeah,
I was just I was just very frustrated with the
way the situation. I mean you know, I just whatever,
the board ran out, I missed, I get up. Somebody
else at the table just like looks at me and
starts laughing. I kind of start laughing. Yeah whatever. I mean.
Obviously that player went on to bag nine hundred and
five thousand, So Brian shout out to you. I won't
totally blow you up and put you on the spot,
but I mean, holy hell, man, that was just a
brutal nit role, is what that was. That's just what
it was. I got a call it like I see it,
and that was a nitroll. Man, that was a freaking
nit roll. Just don't just don't nitroll people. It's just
bad etiquette. Okay, all right, moving on now that I
got that off my chest. Sean Winter leads the final
seven players in the twenty five K six max no
limit hold them and eighty six thousand dollars up top there.
I believe they are streaming this final table on Monday.
Winter will be joined by Archer March Rosian, Absolute Crusher,
Pavol Plus of Yosuki, Mickey, Clemens Reuter. Speaking of the
monsters deck Clemens Reuter won it last year, Marius gersa
Chance Corneth. Those are the final seven players. Again, that's
one point two eighty six million up top in that
twenty five K six max no limit hold them. In
the fifteen hundred dollars big oh, there are twenty nine
players left entering Day three. Two one hundred and fifty
entries started in this one. Anthony rit to Dewey probably
butchered that last name. I'm sorry. Anthony leads the way
in that one. In the five hundred dollars freeze out,
forty one hundred entries, one hundred and sixty two players remain.
Now that number is down from last year. Last year
five thousand and eighty two entries, so down right around
one thousand entries there. The two K Nolan hold them
kicked off today as well, nine hundred and sixty eight
entries there. There are one hundred and sixty players left.
Last year's field size there was sixteen ninety two. So,
you know, it seems like, you know, I talked about
some of the mixed game events that were that were up,
and then it seems like the Nolan hold him stuff
is the stuff that's down. This one is I get.
I would say some of this might have to do
a scheduling, because you have Day two d of the
Monster Stack. Today you have this five hundred dollars freeze out,
the five hundred all freeze I'll start at ten am.
You have the Day two of the Monster Stack, and
remember you can still register that started at eleven am
and you can registerp until twelve fifteen. You play an
hour and then you have a fifteen minute break, so
until that the end of that break for the second
level of to day, you could still register there, so
people are still stuck in that probably can't get into
that freeze out. And then the two K nolan at
hold Them I believe started at twelve, so you know,
just kind of a lot of overlap there, a lot
of overlap there. Also kicking off was the ten K
Dealer's Choice and after day one Chris Brewer is in
the lead and right behind him is Jesse loanis. Now
Chris Brewer I think has been dabbling into the mixed
games a little bit more than Jesse loanis. But both
of those guys are our players. You might not associate
with mixed games, but both seem to be doing very
well at least on day one of the ten K
Dealer's Choice, And that's all I got for this episode
of the Poker Podcast. As always, I appreciate you guys
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for this one. My name is Donny Peters. It's a
pleasure as always, and I will talk to you next time.