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