WEBVTT 1 00:00:10.720 --> 00:00:12.839 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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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 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 Oh, such a relief. 82 00:05:02.439 --> 00:05:06.000 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 So yeah, to get to win feels really good. 91 00:05:35.600 --> 00:05:36.800 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 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 I mean, you see it. 100 00:05:59.480 --> 00:06:02.839 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 So you haven't. 107 00:06:23.240 --> 00:06:25.240 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 Is it hours? 110 00:06:28.959 --> 00:06:31.439 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 Yeah, it's a really good question. 115 00:06:38.160 --> 00:06:40.319 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 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 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 Maybe eight years ago, seven years ago. 131 00:07:27.519 --> 00:07:30.800 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 What still drives you to keep chasing these moments these ways? 145 00:08:20.000 --> 00:08:26.120 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 It's so fun. It's such a fun game. 153 00:08:51.399 --> 00:08:55.399 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 Yeah, it's just it's such a it's such a cool game. 157 00:09:08.639 --> 00:09:10.919 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 To remember for yeah, for sure. 161 00:09:16.960 --> 00:09:20.600 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 Yeah, more, I don't know if biting is the right word. 182 00:10:31.240 --> 00:10:35.360 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 Yeah. 188 00:10:43.919 --> 00:10:43.960 No. 189 00:10:44.200 --> 00:10:47.279 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 Yeah? 193 00:10:52.240 --> 00:10:55.080 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 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 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 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 It's like, super. 206 00:11:31.360 --> 00:11:42.480 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