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Speaker 1: Hello, everyone, Welcome back to a new episode of the

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Poker Go Podcast.

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Speaker 2: My name is Donnie Peters.

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Speaker 1: It's one o nine am on Tuesday, July seventh. This

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episode is going to be largely about Day two a

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b C of the w s OP Main Event, the

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same day that I busted out of the greatest poker tournament.

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Speaker 2: In the world.

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Speaker 1: But it is what it is. We'll talk about it

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towards towards the end of this episode. We're gonna hit

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on some of the happenings from the first of two

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day two s at the World Series of Poker in

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the Granddaddy of the mall, the WSP Main Event, and

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then I think we have two winners to touch on

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as well from events that I haven't touched on yet,

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so I'll hit on those and then we'll.

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Speaker 2: Get up out of here.

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Speaker 1: We are getting into the thick of it for the

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WSP Main Event. You know, it's feels like it's starting

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to get more real and deeper and you can start

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to feel the tension building in the air, but it's

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also so far away from anything, like we're like, the

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first Day two just ended, so these players are going

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to Day three. It's likely that you don't make the

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money till early on day four, so you still have

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a whole another full day of play before you're even

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in the money. I mean, it's like this tournament is

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just such a grind and you kind of forget about

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it because you're lost in all these other tournaments that

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are happening, and they operate at a much faster pace.

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You know, they're anywhere from two days most of the

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more three days. Some of them might extend to four days.

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Of course, you have a couple like the Monster Stack,

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for example, or the Milli Maker that that do go

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a little bit longer, but you're kind of just used

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to being in or close to the money on a

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day one, if not, you're into the money on a

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day two, and then you're playing down to a final

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table and you're going to a winner on day three.

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That's generally what you see the most of But not

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that up is to be made event, not that we

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don't know that, but it's just you kind of have

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to catch yourself at times when you're walking through the

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field and you're like, oh my gosh, this person has

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so many chips. This person has this many chips, Like,

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oh my gosh, you know, and it's like, yeah, but

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that person might not even cash, just with how how

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much can happen between now and hitting the money and

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all that sort of crazy stuff. But that's what we're

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gonna talk about. The player that I caught up with

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today was the one and only Tony Dunst. He bagged

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a pile of chips on a day too ABC. So

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I caught up with Tony Dunst. Well, we'll catch up

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The numbers are in. I checked Poker News, I checked

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keV mess Twitter. I tried to get these numbers dialed

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in as much as possible. I guess just forgive me

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if they're incorrect, but I think they're pretty correct. We

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had operating at you know, a decrease year over year. Yes,

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the big talking point that I saw and heard today.

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You know, you saw some stuff on social media. I

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heard stuff talking to my friends and text messages and

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group chats and whatnot. When I was playing, you know,

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at the table, you heard some chatter as well about

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are they gonna hit nine thousand, Like that's the big number, right,

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And I think that they are, especially after what we

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saw today that we'll get into in just a second.

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I think they are. And I also want to point

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out that it's not the sky is falling if they

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get let's say, eighty nine hundred, or if they get

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nine thousand, just because last year was nine thousand, seven

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hundred and thirty five, you know, and just because yes,

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we did have two years above ten thousand. I mean,

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it's not the end of the world. This stuff is

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going to go up and down. I say it all

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the time. Yes, we're going to talk about the numbers,

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and yes we're going to compare them to previous years.

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It's the talking point, you know, it's a barometer for

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for where poker is but it's not it's not like

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the sky is falling. I mean right now as things stand,

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through the first floor starting fights and the first day two,

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there are eighty three hundred and eighty nine entries total

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in the Doubissippy main event as long as my numbers

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hold correct. For Day two ABC, you had three hundred

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and twelve late entrance come in. So players that that

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joined on like either right before the start of day two,

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they skipped all of day one, they could come in

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some point between or during the first two levels and

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then up until that third level started, so you had

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the first two levels in the first two breaks to

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get in there. There was one player at my starting

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table that did that. There was a couple other players

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or a bunch of other players as I mentioned, three

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hundred and twelve players.

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Speaker 2: Throughout the field that did that.

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Speaker 1: Last year Day two ABC, I believe I had this number.

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I pulled it from Poker News. Had two hundred and

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sixty five entries, is what they wrote in the end

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of day recap for this day, So three hundred and

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twelve this year, which which aligns with what I was

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thinking that players are becoming more aware of the value

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to coming in late. You know, they realize Listen, I

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can still come in at the start of day two

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with a ton of chips. Fifty big lines is a ton,

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and you basically you get to skip a day and

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a half of poker, a long grind of a day

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and a half of poker, because we know how slow

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and methodical the WSP made of men structure is player friendly,

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like the epitome of player friendly structure. Right, But if

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you want to skip all that sort of stuff, you

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want to play a little bit more meaningful poker but

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still have a healthy stack to start, then maybe you

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come in a little bit later. And yeah, I mean

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of doing so. And we saw two hundred and sixty

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five people last year and then we see three hundred

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and twelve players this year. Last year there was a

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little bit over one thousand total came in for the

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day two late regiment. Between both day twos, I think

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we're going to be right around that same number, if

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not above it. And we're already at a seventeen point

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seven percent increase for that first day, so that bodes

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well for getting this number up over nine thousand. We

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are six hundred and eleven entries short of nine thousand.

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I think nine thousands of lock. My number was nine

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one hundred and seventy seven a few episodes ago. Overall,

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with eighty three hundred and eighty nine entries right now,

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that is a decrease over last year at this point

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of six point four percent, So a much more palatable decrease,

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you know. I know again going back to the one

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a half percent. Now we're only looking at a decrease

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of six point four percent across everything that has happened

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so far, which is fine. I mean, the economy's kind

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of be in the shit in terms of like everything's

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really expensive. People don't have a lot of money. It's

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just hard. Crypto's not anywhere near what it once was.

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You got the ninety percent tax thing. I say all

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this stuff over and over again. I just want to

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drive it home that it's you know, it's not like

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poker is losing popularity or it's healthy or it's you know,

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unhealthy or anything like that. I think the game is

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very healthy. I think that it's as popular as it

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has ever been in a lot of ways. But unfortunately.

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less money to throw around, especially when you get up

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to something like a ten thousand dollars buying tournament. Right now,

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I know this is ultimately the biggest bucket list tournament

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that we have in the game. Yes, of course, but

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it's it's still hard to really make that splurge. Then,

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of course, you have the thing that we've always been

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fighting for many many years, and that's just that online

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poker isn't what.

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Speaker 2: It once was.

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Speaker 1: So it's not, you know, qualifying as many people, it's

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not creating up and coming poker players like it once did,

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you know, all that sort of stuff. So there was

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always going to be some drawback coming out of COVID.

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going to happen, and it's starting to happen this year. Again,

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I look towards next year more so than I look

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towards this year. Next year, if we start to see

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a decline again, and if that decline mirrors the decline

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this year percentage wise, then I would start to raise

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some alarm bells and be like, hmm, okay, maybe as

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operators we need to start rethinking some things, maybe as marketers,

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maybe as promoters, maybe as an industry, as a community,

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we need to start rethinking some things. So you know,

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we'll cross that bridge when we get to it, because

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we're plenty of time away. But I think this is

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going to be well over nine thousand, and that's still

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great for this year. The chip leader coming out of

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day two a b C is Gaspar Fernandez with seven

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hundred and fifty four thousand chips. That's three hundred and

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one big blinds for day three. The big blind for

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five hundred, or maybe fifteen hundred, twenty five hundred.

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Speaker 1: So three hundred and one big blinds for mister Fernandez. Now,

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seven hundred and fifty four thousand chips sounds like an

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absolute freaking truckload of chips. And it is a truckload

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of chips. But as I was getting at a little

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bit earlier, that can go fast. It can go really fast.

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I mean, me sitting here on the sidelines, I would

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I would kill someone for seven hundred and fifty four

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thousand chips. I mean hyperbably, of course, But you guys,

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get the get my drift there. I looked back at

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the day two ABC chip leaders for the past four

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editions of the WSB Man Men, so twenty twenty two

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through twenty twenty five, and I wanted to see where

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they finished on their first day two or the first

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day two of the two day twos, and then where

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they went on to finish in the tournament, just just

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just to really drive home, you know that you can

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have a ton of chips on at day two and

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finished day two going into day three, but you are

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still so far away from doing anything in this tournament.

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can have ten, twelve big blinds, whatever it is, and

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you can then be like, you know what, it's a grind.

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This this structure allows you to be patient. You know

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you can if you need to, and you can ultimately

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spin something up and just just grind it out, grind

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it out, grind it out. So going back to let's

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start with twenty twenty two, we had Gavin Munroe who

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bagged I mean, this number is out of control, one

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point six million in chips after day two, four hundred

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and twenty five big blinds going into day three and

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Gavin Monroe ended up finishing in eleven hundred and thirtieth

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place for fifteen thousand dollars. That's a min cash. He

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had four hundred and twenty five big blinds going into

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day three and he min cashed the tournament. Next year,

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Christopher Bramer bagged eight hundred and seventy nine thousand, which

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was three hundred and fifty two big blinds. He did

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not cash in the tournament. At least I checked tendonmob

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he's not there. I checked the Poke News payoffs, he's

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not there. So Christopher Brammer went from day two ABC

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in his stack to day three and he did not

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cash in the tournament. Twenty twenty four, Anthony Marisco bagged

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three hundred and nineteen big blinds. Seven hundred and ninety

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seven k was in his stack. He finished in four

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hundred and eighty first place for thirty five thousand dollars,

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three nine hundred and thirty seven thousand, five hundred, which

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is good for three hundred and seventy five big lines.

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He had a twenty seven thousand, five hundred dollars score

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for finishing in six hundred and fourth place. So again,

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like you you can think that. Listen, Gaspar Fernandez bagging

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seven hundred and fifty four thousand, you know that's a

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ton of chips, more than three hundred big lines heading

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to day three. Let's let's lock them in for the

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top one hundred. I mean, no, no, no, no, Like this,

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a lot can happen between now and then, Like there

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are obviously coolers. You can just hit a bad amount

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of cards. You can do something where like you just

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start doubling up like a few different people. Next thing

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you know, you doubled up six seven people at your table.

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Your stack has been cut in half, and then you know,

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things just kind of spiral from there. So this is

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an absolutely crazy tournament. And I just wanted to kind

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of point out there that just because somebody bags a

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boatload of chips entering day three doesn't necessarily mean they're

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going to have an incredible score much later on. As

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I laid out by the last four chip leaders prior

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to Gasper Fernandez in the WSP main event entering or sorry,

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finishing day to ABC, and I'll do the same for Tuesday.

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When we talk about Day two d some of the

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notables who did bag chips. In addition to Gaspar Fernandez,

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you had Tony Dunst. I said, we're going to talk

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to him or I have an interview to play with him.

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He bagged four hundred and seventy nine thousand, one hundred

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and ninety one big blinds for mister Dunst.

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Speaker 2: I mean he was.

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Speaker 1: I was following him on his Instagram just checking out

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his stories. He had a pretty good Day one obviously,

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had a really really good pre dinner Day two, and

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then a big rush post dinner Day two as well.

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I spoke with him for I don't know, five minutes

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or so after play. You know, Tony is one of

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the best, always willing to give time, so I wanted

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to chat with him. He hadn't played a tournament, a

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live ws A B tournament all summer, but of course

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this is the main event, and if you're anyone in poker,

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you're trying not to miss it the best you can.

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It's his twentieth World Series of Poker Mino, which is

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just which is crazy because I remember the first time

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I saw Tony don in person, and to me back then,

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he was still Bond eighteen, right, he was Bond eighteen online.

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He had the blog online. I read it a lot.

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He was Bond Bond eighteen online. You followed him all

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that sort of stuff, and I remember seeing him. I

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think we were in New Zealand for an a m

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ZPT event and we were walking through the case. I

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was walking through the casino and I saw him kind

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of I don't know, maybe thirty yards away going down

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an escalator while I was going up an escalator, and

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I was like, oh, man, that's Bond eighteen over there, Like,

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that's Bond eighteen. You know, you see that first that person,

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You see that that figure in person for the first time,

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and you're kind of like, oh, like that's who that is, Like, yeah,

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that's him right there, you know, like that's the guy.

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So anyway, now fast forward many many years later. Here's

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my chat with Tony Duns two bagged four hundred and

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seventy nine thousand. All right, Tony Duns, you put a

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crap ton of chips in the bag. What the heck's

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going on?

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Speaker 3: I just had one of the bussats of poker my

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entire life. I just hit every river, especially after dinner,

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for just like three hours straight. I hit every river.

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Somebody usually had something they could pall with too. A

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few times I was bluffing, they folded. Just one of

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those days, everything clicks.

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Speaker 1: You've had a handful of deep runs in this tournament before,

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so judging by what you just said, is this the

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best start that you've had entering day three?

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Speaker 3: Probably? I think maybe way back in twenty ten when

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I went on a run. I ran very hot on

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Day two or day somewhere around there. But as far

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as being off to like an early start, this is

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probably as good as it's been.

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Speaker 2: What have you been up to?

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Speaker 1: Because he didn't play a lot of the World Series,

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but you're here for the main event, of course.

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Speaker 2: What you've been doing.

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Speaker 3: I played some online poker leading up, been traveling a

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decent amount, taking care of some things with family at home,

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and spending more time on prediction markets doing gambling. You know,

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with the tax change this year, it becomes a little

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bit tougher to put a lot of volume in at

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poker and at gambling, but thankfully prediction markets are tax

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like capital gains, so they're not really subject to that.

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And it's been an interesting and pretty fun opportunity. The

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last you know, a year or so is the popularity

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is blown up.

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Speaker 1: Now, all of that said, all the busy stuff you

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got going on in your life, you're not going to

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miss this one, right, this may this event event you're

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never gonna miss.

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Speaker 3: I'll never miss the main event. I'll play the main

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event every single year until I'm physically mentally incapable for sure.

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Speaker 2: What is it?

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Speaker 1: What is or described to me just just how special

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this event is and why you're not going to miss it.

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Speaker 3: I mean, just look around at this sea of people

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and tables in this place, everybody chasing the same dream

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and just playing a huge ten k, slow, deep stacked

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tournament with so many people at varying levels of poker

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and backgrounds. It's just like an interesting experience. And I

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think if you play poker, if through a living, after

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a while, it can kind of beat you down and

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you you know, have a lot of days where it

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just feels like the grind and you lose for months

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on end if you're a tournament player, and then when

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you come here you're just surrounded by people who love

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the experience of playing poker and chasing the big score

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and having this like once in a lifetime run. So

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it's just a great energy to be a man.

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Speaker 1: How would you say your career has changed? You know,

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you came up as an online guy, you transitioned into

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you know, part on the industry side with some commentary

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and stuff. Yeah, now you're like it in a way,

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a grizzled vet in a lot of ways, you know.

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I mean, how would you kind of describe your career.

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Speaker 3: Art a grizzled vet playing his twentieth main event. But

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right that, I really came up just as a player,

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started doing content and the like, you know, late two thousands,

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writing a bunch on blogs and stuff, training sites, and

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then land with the WPT in twenty ten and got

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a ton of experience doing our online streams, getting to

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work with some of the best commentators in the game,

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you know, getting to sit in the booth with a

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legend like Mike Sexton, and to play a whole bunch

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of our events and have the chance to be on

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the tour, you know, around our players and learning from

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some of the best. And now you know, I've taken

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on a consulting role with WPT as well, so hopefully

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having some influence on the product and getting player feedback

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to help shape the way we do our tournaments. So

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hopefully some you know, kind of new interesting changes in

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the mix, uh coming up with WPT. But yeah, just

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you know, happy to have been part of the poker

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world for such a long time. When I was like

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a high schooler watching WPT and World Series on TV,

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this was the lifestyle that.

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Speaker 1: I was hoping for.

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Speaker 2: All right, last question here.

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Speaker 1: Obviously we talked about how good of a star you

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had going into day three.

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Speaker 2: What's it going to take to really make a count.

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Speaker 3: Getting past day six? Because I've come into day six

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with lots of chips two of the last three years,

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and remember thinking I was like eight out of I

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don't know, eighty one hundred players anything like that where

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you start to really believe that you're in striking distance

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up the final table. Fuck, I'm in the top ten

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and chips of the one hundred left and both day

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six as I've busted out. So that's the level of

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the game I need to get past right now, and

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I would be pretty happy with whatever came after that.

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Speaker 2: Thank you to Tony for taking the time there.

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Speaker 1: I know the players want to get out of there

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at the end of the night, but Tony was gracious

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enough to chat with me. He's had many deep runs,

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as we talked about in the WSFP main event, and

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it's interesting to hear how in a way he kind

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of feels a little bit of pressure, like having this

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start and wanting this to actually materialize going forward. You know,

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Tony always an open book, very honest with everything, so

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I appreciate him taking the time there, and we'll see

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if he can make another deep run. This is an

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incredible start four seventy hundred and ninety one Big Blinds

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going forward. Tony is a very, very excellent player. He

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puts in a lot of work off the felt I mean,

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maybe not as much as he once did, but you know,

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he has certainly studied a lot. He's certainly got a

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ton of experience this specific tournament with those deep runs

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that he has had, you know, he knows what it

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takes to go through this field. I would anticipate with

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this start, you know, we're going to be hearing from

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Tony Guns a bit later on that that would be

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my guess our to place a bet I would say, Yeah,

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Tony's going to be alive on day five, day six,

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and then.

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Speaker 2: We'll go from there.

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Speaker 1: Brian Hastings bagged more than four hundred thousand, four hundred

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nine thousand. He's got one hundred and sixty three big binds.

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Freddy deeb Crushing three hundred and eighty three thousand for him,

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one hundred and fifty three big blinds. Greg Ramer, fossil Man.

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Greg Ramer is out there in the damn thing. Two

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hundred ninety one thousand in the bag for fossil Man,

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one hundred and sixteen big blinds. Chris Mormon. Chris Mormon

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one of the best to ever do it online. Two

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hundred and sixty five thousand, five hundred, one hundred and

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six big Lilins.

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Speaker 2: Chino Reem, Chino Reim.

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Speaker 1: You know we've seen him make the WSBEE Main Event

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final table before.

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Speaker 2: Right, he's cooking.

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Speaker 1: One hundred and seventy six thousand, five hundred in the

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bag for day three, seventy big blind Stephen Chidwick, hundred

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and fifty two k Gerard Pique, the famous soccer player.

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He's going strong. One hundred and forty four thousand in

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the bag. Greg Merson the Milkman himself still alive, seventy

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nine k for him, and then Mike the Mouth Madisow

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sixty five thousand for the mouth. Going to day three,

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some of those less fortunate players Daniel Weinman busted, Joe

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Katta busted, Jason Kuhne, Antonio Wes, FONDIRII, Adam Hendricks, Nick Rigby,

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John Riordan, and Ferraz Jaka. It looks like twelve hundred

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and sixty players advanced out of the day to ABC

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Flight two. Day three, there was around twenty five hundred

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players that came into the day, and then of course

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you had those three hundred and twelve laid entrance for

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the day, and then you know, I don't know a

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little bit more than half of them hit the rail

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on Day two, ABC Big Big Day on Tuesday for

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Day two D coming in. Of course, Day one D

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is the largest of the four starting flights. It gets

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its own Day two, So there's gonna.

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Speaker 2: Be a lot to be said.

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Speaker 1: My guess is that Gaspar Fernandez, you know, the chip leader.

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Right now, he can enjoy it for about twenty four

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hours and then somebody else is going to come out

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on top, and there's probably a good shot that we

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see our first WSB main event millionaire in terms of

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chipstack coming out of Day two D but that's for

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the next episode, not this one. I want to swing

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over now to hit on the two winners that deserve

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to be mentioned. First, we have in the fifteen hundred

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dollars Double Board Bomb Pot PLO event, Justin Fawcett won

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the tournament. He topped sixteen hundred and seventy three entries

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to win three hundred and twenty two thousand dollars. Justin

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Fawcett is a twenty five K fantasy player. Let me

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see if he drafted himself, because I know he I.

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Speaker 2: Know he had a team. He did draft himself.

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Speaker 1: His team's not doing so hot though they are down

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in Let me see the seventeenth place Dan Legrandew's team,

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bolsted of course by the fact that Dnegs himself drafted

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him to his own team and then went out and

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won one hundre KPLO high Roller. As we talked about,

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he is the current leader in the twenty five K

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Fantasy League. Of course, you guys can check out the

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updated standings on twenty five K fantasy dot Com, but

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here Justin Fawcett taking home the bracelets in the fifteen

478
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hundred dollars double board bomb bought plow, so good for him.

479
00:24:09,920 --> 00:24:12,039
The other winner that we have to talk about is

480
00:24:14,279 --> 00:24:17,920
Zijuan Lee. He won the one K Nolan at Holdham.

481
00:24:17,960 --> 00:24:20,440
This was the two day event that took place seventeen

482
00:24:20,519 --> 00:24:25,079
hundred and thirty two entries in this one. Lou walked

483
00:24:25,079 --> 00:24:29,200
away with two hundred and nineteen thousand dollars. Tyler Phillips,

484
00:24:29,720 --> 00:24:32,480
a grinder and also a twenty five K fantasy player,

485
00:24:32,519 --> 00:24:36,920
finished in fifth place for fifty seven thousand dollars. But

486
00:24:37,039 --> 00:24:42,559
congratulations here too, Zijuan Lou for taking home taking down

487
00:24:42,599 --> 00:24:45,160
the one K Nolan Holdham event for two hundred and

488
00:24:45,279 --> 00:24:49,839
nineteen thousand dollars. All right, so let's talk about my

489
00:24:50,039 --> 00:24:55,359
day in the main event, Day two. ABC came into

490
00:24:55,359 --> 00:24:59,359
the day with forty five thousand, nine hundred chips started.

491
00:25:00,079 --> 00:25:02,319
I played the very first hand that was dealt. I

492
00:25:02,359 --> 00:25:05,440
was dealt two sixes. I raised from under the gun.

493
00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:10,799
Gentleman called in position. The flop came ten five four rainbow.

494
00:25:11,319 --> 00:25:15,839
I checked, he bet, he bet quite large. I folded

495
00:25:16,119 --> 00:25:19,279
and he ripped over a ten just funny that this

496
00:25:19,319 --> 00:25:21,960
gentleman was funny. Later on, he and I played a

497
00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:24,200
hand where so on that hand when he when he

498
00:25:24,240 --> 00:25:27,559
bet the flop, he kind of like kind of like

499
00:25:27,640 --> 00:25:31,000
threw the chipslick across the table, not like at me.

500
00:25:31,160 --> 00:25:32,640
They didn't like he was on the I was in

501
00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:35,160
the ninth seed. He was in the three seats. You know,

502
00:25:35,240 --> 00:25:37,119
they didn't like cross the flop or anything like that.

503
00:25:37,160 --> 00:25:38,680
But I don't know, he kind of like slid him

504
00:25:38,680 --> 00:25:40,119
out like emphatically toward me.

505
00:25:40,680 --> 00:25:42,680
Speaker 2: I don't know, it just seemed a little like, hmm,

506
00:25:42,799 --> 00:25:43,400
I should.

507
00:25:43,160 --> 00:25:44,839
Speaker 1: Just kind of make a little note of that, you

508
00:25:44,839 --> 00:25:46,720
know how he's kind of acting here whatever, And then

509
00:25:46,759 --> 00:25:50,400
he shows that ten okay, cool whatever. This guy was

510
00:25:50,440 --> 00:25:52,960
splashing around. He was in there a lot like he was.

511
00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:55,440
He was doing his thing. Later on, we play a

512
00:25:55,440 --> 00:25:59,640
hand where he opens middle position high defend big blind

513
00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:03,400
with ace of spades. It comes jack nine six one spade.

514
00:26:03,599 --> 00:26:05,920
Nine of spades was out there. I checked call a

515
00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:09,160
bet he was when he bet, he bombed. I mean

516
00:26:09,240 --> 00:26:12,640
it was at minimum fifty percent pot, if not more so.

517
00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:13,920
Speaker 2: I check call.

518
00:26:14,359 --> 00:26:17,160
Speaker 1: Turn is I can't even remember what the turn was.

519
00:26:17,599 --> 00:26:21,119
Turns a blank it's like it's a deuce something.

520
00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:22,119
Speaker 2: It goes check.

521
00:26:22,039 --> 00:26:28,119
Speaker 1: Check river is a five or not a five? Rivers

522
00:26:28,119 --> 00:26:28,559
like a three?

523
00:26:29,240 --> 00:26:31,599
Speaker 2: I check? He bombs again and.

524
00:26:31,599 --> 00:26:33,839
Speaker 1: He does the thing where he like slides those chips

525
00:26:33,839 --> 00:26:36,400
across the table, and I'm like, I don't know, man,

526
00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:38,839
there's like too many draws here. I don't think I

527
00:26:38,920 --> 00:26:41,000
want to have a ten because you know, I am

528
00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:42,799
blocking some of those straight draws. But like he can

529
00:26:42,839 --> 00:26:45,440
have seven eight, he can have Queen ten, like he

530
00:26:46,079 --> 00:26:48,119
you know, he can have all these different types of draws.

531
00:26:48,119 --> 00:26:50,440
I call he's got seven eight, So great win. That

532
00:26:50,480 --> 00:26:53,640
pot anyway, chipped up pretty nicely from forty five nine

533
00:26:53,720 --> 00:26:57,680
hundred to a little bit over seventy thousand, was playing

534
00:26:57,720 --> 00:27:00,000
a wide variety hands, had or had a really good

535
00:27:00,079 --> 00:27:03,519
feel of my first starting table. Thought I was playing

536
00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:07,400
pretty well for how like what I.

537
00:27:07,359 --> 00:27:08,319
Speaker 2: Think my ceiling is.

538
00:27:08,359 --> 00:27:11,039
Speaker 1: I thought I was right up there that table breaks.

539
00:27:11,079 --> 00:27:13,200
We were on horseshoe to start, we break, we head

540
00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:14,559
on over to Paris.

541
00:27:15,279 --> 00:27:16,799
Speaker 2: I still don't really understand the.

542
00:27:16,799 --> 00:27:19,319
Speaker 1: Whole double venue thing, but you know whatever, there's I mean,

543
00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:21,039
I got good problem to have right when there's too

544
00:27:21,079 --> 00:27:23,920
too many people, I just hate well can do that smoke, man,

545
00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:27,599
It's just unbearable. Anyway, we get over to Paris new table.

546
00:27:28,759 --> 00:27:33,640
I sit down, I open the first two hands I see.

547
00:27:34,319 --> 00:27:38,160
I end up winning with with flop bets. Feeling good again.

548
00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:41,880
You know, I'm up over. I'm close to ninety thousand now,

549
00:27:42,519 --> 00:27:46,440
feeling great. The blinds go up to one fifteen hundred. Like,

550
00:27:47,039 --> 00:27:51,880
this table seems pretty good. It seemed this table seemed green.

551
00:27:52,319 --> 00:27:57,079
Like everyone seemed a little bit lesser experienced than normal, which.

552
00:27:56,920 --> 00:27:57,599
Speaker 2: I'm fine with.

553
00:27:57,680 --> 00:28:00,200
Speaker 1: You know, sometimes you're gonna have good table draws, you

554
00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:03,359
are gonna have bad table draws. One player in particular,

555
00:28:03,680 --> 00:28:08,759
like just watching him play some of the questions he

556
00:28:08,839 --> 00:28:13,839
was asking some of the stuff like not knowing about

557
00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:17,240
the color up or what happens on the color up,

558
00:28:17,319 --> 00:28:19,599
or where to put the butt, Like I don't know,

559
00:28:19,680 --> 00:28:22,000
I just got the vibe that either he was playing

560
00:28:22,759 --> 00:28:25,720
the WAWE main event for the very first time or

561
00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:28,480
he had not played a lot of live poker at all,

562
00:28:28,559 --> 00:28:32,240
Like I don't know, he just seemed very inexperienced with everything.

563
00:28:32,559 --> 00:28:34,680
He stacked his chips kind of in a way that

564
00:28:34,720 --> 00:28:38,559
I would align with this player type. So whatever, anyway,

565
00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:40,960
I get in this hand where so I had just

566
00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:42,359
played a hand where I won.

567
00:28:42,559 --> 00:28:44,279
Speaker 2: I had aces. I win this hand.

568
00:28:44,319 --> 00:28:46,480
Speaker 1: It was a MULTIPI guy limps under the gun, I

569
00:28:46,559 --> 00:28:52,240
raised big, mind calls limper calls. I bet flop, I

570
00:28:52,279 --> 00:28:56,000
bet turn. I end up winning the pots there. And

571
00:28:56,039 --> 00:29:00,640
then the next hand I opened two tens. Gentleman to

572
00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:06,039
my left calls I believe I opened low jack, hijack calls,

573
00:29:06,599 --> 00:29:09,039
and then the inexperienced player of the player, I say

574
00:29:09,079 --> 00:29:12,240
inexperience player, I mean, heck, maybe he played a bazillion tournament.

575
00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:17,720
I thought I read him as inexperienced. He's on the button.

576
00:29:18,119 --> 00:29:21,960
He three bets. I had about I think eighty nine

577
00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:23,759
thousand or so. To start the hand, I make it

578
00:29:23,799 --> 00:29:26,680
three K. The guy calls, gentlemen on the button makes

579
00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:28,720
it twelve K, folds back to me. I have two tens.

580
00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:32,119
I elect to just call, we're pretty deep here. I

581
00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:35,160
can take a flop. Other player in between folded. It

582
00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:40,519
came jack eight seven jack of hartz or diamonds or

583
00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:44,240
red jack eight seven of spades. I check player bets

584
00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:48,319
relatively large fifteen k, which is a round half pot.

585
00:29:48,839 --> 00:29:51,720
I contemplate maybe there's some check raising I can do

586
00:29:51,799 --> 00:29:54,240
here with my hand, but I don't think I have

587
00:29:54,279 --> 00:29:55,519
the right hand to do that. I think I can

588
00:29:55,559 --> 00:29:59,359
just play check call. So I played check call. You know,

589
00:29:59,519 --> 00:30:01,400
I think he have some ace kings in there. He

590
00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:05,000
can probably have some ace queens. And then, honestly, I thought, listen,

591
00:30:05,079 --> 00:30:09,240
there's probably a better likelihood that this player has in

592
00:30:09,400 --> 00:30:12,640
overpair in a lot of spots here. But given this

593
00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:15,720
bord texture, I think I'm pretty clean to a ten.

594
00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:19,319
I'm definitely clean to a nine, and then maybe I

595
00:30:19,359 --> 00:30:22,839
can rep spades or something else depending on how this

596
00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:23,400
plays out.

597
00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:25,119
Speaker 2: I think this.

598
00:30:25,039 --> 00:30:27,400
Speaker 1: Type of wet bord texture, with the way that it

599
00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:30,000
can run out, I think I do have some some

600
00:30:30,079 --> 00:30:32,720
bluffing opportunities should they present itself, and I want to

601
00:30:32,720 --> 00:30:35,880
go that route with my hand turn as a king

602
00:30:36,039 --> 00:30:39,640
off suit king, I check he checks behind. So once

603
00:30:39,640 --> 00:30:44,160
he checks behind here, I'm thinking I'm narrowing his range

604
00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:47,839
into two hands here. Well, I mean really three hands,

605
00:30:47,839 --> 00:30:53,640
I guess, but I'm thinking queen's probably a fair amount,

606
00:30:54,880 --> 00:30:57,519
maybe some ace queen and then maybe some aces too,

607
00:30:57,559 --> 00:31:01,119
just because aces might just get scared and one not

608
00:31:01,240 --> 00:31:04,480
go nuts. I didn't It's interesting because while I think

609
00:31:04,519 --> 00:31:06,839
that with aces, I don't think that with ace king.

610
00:31:06,920 --> 00:31:09,279
And maybe that's a flaw of mine in my head

611
00:31:09,319 --> 00:31:11,359
where I think it's just but I try and think

612
00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:13,240
of how the other player is thinking about this. Whereas,

613
00:31:13,279 --> 00:31:16,759
if you have aces, this board looks somewhat scary and

614
00:31:16,799 --> 00:31:18,799
you want to kind of protect. But if you have

615
00:31:18,880 --> 00:31:21,279
ace king, if you bet the flop with nothing and

616
00:31:21,319 --> 00:31:24,079
now you improve, you're kind of like feeling more positive

617
00:31:24,079 --> 00:31:26,640
about your hands, you might continue betting. Right, That's how

618
00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:31,799
I would describe that. Anyway, he checks back, River's a jack. Now,

619
00:31:32,799 --> 00:31:34,920
I'm like, okay, if anyone has a jack here, it's me.

620
00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:37,240
And I think he has a lot of just pocket

621
00:31:37,319 --> 00:31:40,759
queens here, and if he has some pocket aces, if

622
00:31:40,759 --> 00:31:44,400
he has some ace king, like I think I can

623
00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:47,000
get him off this hand. But I feel like I

624
00:31:47,079 --> 00:31:49,960
have to go big pots. I think around sixty K,

625
00:31:50,880 --> 00:31:54,400
I go fifty five K and I got seven K

626
00:31:54,519 --> 00:31:59,400
behind and he goes into the tank for two to

627
00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:04,039
three minutes. It's the full on, like he's completely uncomfortable.

628
00:32:04,519 --> 00:32:07,079
He puts his head in his hands, he's rubbing his forehead.

629
00:32:07,119 --> 00:32:09,079
I'm like, this guy hates life, right, now I'm like,

630
00:32:09,119 --> 00:32:11,880
he does he just have two queens, Like I mean,

631
00:32:12,359 --> 00:32:14,039
I don't think he ever has kings because I just

632
00:32:14,079 --> 00:32:16,279
don't think he checks back. I don't think he checks

633
00:32:16,319 --> 00:32:19,960
back Jack's either, you know. So I think so far

634
00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:23,039
to me, everything is like been going. I feel like

635
00:32:23,119 --> 00:32:27,119
how I have it planned? Anyway, he thanks for like,

636
00:32:27,519 --> 00:32:29,160
you know, two to three minutes he ends up calling

637
00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:33,079
with Ace King, so I, you know, blow it up there.

638
00:32:34,799 --> 00:32:39,559
So yeah, I mean that hand is I don't know,

639
00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:42,599
it's hard because I think I think I read the

640
00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:47,880
situation well. I also don't necessarily think that that's solver approved.

641
00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:52,960
I haven't really dove into the hand yet. But I

642
00:32:52,960 --> 00:32:55,960
also think that at times you have to break from

643
00:32:55,960 --> 00:33:00,000
a solver and try and go into a more exploit

644
00:33:00,359 --> 00:33:03,640
exploitative strategy, which I was, yes, trying to exploit this

645
00:33:03,720 --> 00:33:07,240
specific player. And yeah, I think it's very tough for

646
00:33:07,319 --> 00:33:09,359
him to make that call there, as exhibited by the

647
00:33:09,359 --> 00:33:12,799
fact that he took so long, looked extremely pained, all

648
00:33:12,799 --> 00:33:15,839
that sort of stuff. That said, at the end of

649
00:33:15,839 --> 00:33:18,440
the day, the bluff didn't work. You know, I was

650
00:33:18,680 --> 00:33:20,319
I was obviously turning my hand into a bluff. I

651
00:33:20,359 --> 00:33:21,720
was not betting for value.

652
00:33:22,720 --> 00:33:23,160
Speaker 2: I don't.

653
00:33:23,359 --> 00:33:25,559
Speaker 1: I don't fully know if it was a mistake right,

654
00:33:25,759 --> 00:33:29,160
because sometimes this is a tricky part in poker, where

655
00:33:30,759 --> 00:33:33,359
you can do things and they cannot go your way,

656
00:33:33,400 --> 00:33:36,279
but they can still be correct. On the flip side,

657
00:33:36,319 --> 00:33:38,160
you can do things they can work out and they

658
00:33:38,160 --> 00:33:40,599
can be wildly wrong right like the both those things

659
00:33:40,640 --> 00:33:44,160
can happen. So I did trust my read. I believe

660
00:33:44,839 --> 00:33:47,079
this guy was pretty capped with his range. I thought

661
00:33:47,079 --> 00:33:50,400
he was very much captive two pair, and I decided

662
00:33:50,440 --> 00:33:52,960
the only way that I could win this hand here

663
00:33:53,680 --> 00:33:58,039
was by putting maximum pressure on my opponent, Like I

664
00:33:58,079 --> 00:34:01,279
didn't think that I could bet like twenty five k

665
00:34:01,440 --> 00:34:03,640
or thirty K or something like that and get I

666
00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:06,640
think he calls the hands that I'm targeting folds from

667
00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:09,559
pretty easily there, So I have to just go for

668
00:34:09,679 --> 00:34:12,119
like the gusto. I think on one side, it's easy

669
00:34:12,159 --> 00:34:14,719
to just chalk it up to listen, bad luck, guy

670
00:34:14,800 --> 00:34:17,559
made a good call, whatever. But I don't want to

671
00:34:17,599 --> 00:34:23,320
just walk away thinking about these situations like that. You know,

672
00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:26,280
if you I do believe, if you want to make

673
00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:30,079
deep runs in tournaments, you can't play scared. You have

674
00:34:30,159 --> 00:34:32,679
to trust yourself. You can't just sit around and wait

675
00:34:32,679 --> 00:34:35,079
for premium hands and premium hands and premium hands. You know,

676
00:34:35,119 --> 00:34:38,559
at some point you do have to trust your instincts

677
00:34:38,559 --> 00:34:40,400
and be willing to make a move when you think

678
00:34:40,440 --> 00:34:43,800
the spot is right. I thought that this spot was right,

679
00:34:44,280 --> 00:34:48,519
and I guess I could say that I was correct

680
00:34:48,639 --> 00:34:50,920
because I thought he was captain two pair. He ultimately

681
00:34:50,960 --> 00:34:52,840
had two pair. I put him in a really tough

682
00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:56,719
spot to make a tough call. Okay, but maybe I

683
00:34:56,840 --> 00:35:00,760
just need to get better at identifying the opponents that

684
00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:02,960
I'm trying to bluff, I guess is my takeaway here

685
00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:06,119
if I'm trying to learn how or trying to read

686
00:35:06,159 --> 00:35:09,559
into how to learn from the situation, because ultimately he

687
00:35:09,599 --> 00:35:13,039
didn't fold, you know, so I don't know. It does sting,

688
00:35:13,280 --> 00:35:16,199
you know, especially because you have people supporting you, you

689
00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:19,400
have investors like I do, and I just I don't

690
00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:21,039
ever want to feel like I let people down. I

691
00:35:21,039 --> 00:35:23,119
do want to, like do very well in these tournaments

692
00:35:23,119 --> 00:35:24,400
that I play. I don't get to put in a

693
00:35:24,480 --> 00:35:27,840
whole ton of volume. So yeah, you know, you study

694
00:35:27,880 --> 00:35:29,840
from it, you learn from it, you hope to come

695
00:35:29,920 --> 00:35:33,199
back better next time. But you know, that that's the hand.

696
00:35:33,719 --> 00:35:38,079
So on one side, I think, I think I played

697
00:35:38,119 --> 00:35:40,599
extremely well throughout this entire tournament.

698
00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:42,199
Speaker 2: And I'm like.

699
00:35:44,079 --> 00:35:46,760
Speaker 1: Seventy five percent happy with this hand that went wrong,

700
00:35:47,320 --> 00:35:49,760
and then the other twenty five percent of me is like,

701
00:35:51,119 --> 00:35:53,239
was it really that bad of a screw up? I mean,

702
00:35:53,519 --> 00:35:56,639
I don't know, you know. I mean, like I bluff,

703
00:35:56,920 --> 00:35:59,239
you know, and there's a lot of times you don't

704
00:35:59,239 --> 00:36:02,239
see the big bluff because they just work and you.

705
00:36:02,199 --> 00:36:02,639
Speaker 2: Just move on.

706
00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:05,079
Speaker 1: You kind of just move on with your day. And

707
00:36:05,119 --> 00:36:07,760
then there's times like this when it just absolutely sucks

708
00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:10,159
because it didn't work out. It's just it's a very

709
00:36:10,159 --> 00:36:12,960
hard thing mentally, this this poker stuff, and it just

710
00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:15,360
when you when you're trying to get better, it just

711
00:36:15,519 --> 00:36:18,519
kind of eats you alive. So that's where that is.

712
00:36:19,039 --> 00:36:20,360
But if you guys want to let me know what

713
00:36:20,360 --> 00:36:21,960
you thought of the hand, and I don't use you

714
00:36:21,960 --> 00:36:23,920
guys as sugarcoat it for me, just if you want

715
00:36:23,920 --> 00:36:26,280
to email podcasts at pokergot dot com if you want to,

716
00:36:27,159 --> 00:36:29,079
you know, send me a DM on Twitter or whatever.

717
00:36:29,280 --> 00:36:32,480
You know, I'm happy to take whatever you say. If

718
00:36:32,519 --> 00:36:34,920
you tell me I'm a stone idiot, cool, But at

719
00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:36,639
least can you just back it up with some reasoning

720
00:36:36,639 --> 00:36:40,480
so I can hopefully learn That would be great my

721
00:36:40,559 --> 00:36:43,239
summer overall. I came into the summer planning to play

722
00:36:43,239 --> 00:36:46,000
a little bit over thirty thousand dollars in tournaments at

723
00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:48,760
the World Series of Poker. I ultimately only played twenty

724
00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:51,960
five nine hundred because some of the tournaments I planned

725
00:36:51,960 --> 00:36:53,679
for multiple bullets, I didn't use all the bullets.

726
00:36:53,719 --> 00:36:54,360
Speaker 2: I played eight.

727
00:36:54,239 --> 00:36:58,840
Speaker 1: Tournaments, I fired eleven bullets total. I cast for sixteen

728
00:36:59,280 --> 00:37:01,800
eight hundred, so had a loss of ninety one hundred

729
00:37:02,239 --> 00:37:04,320
in terms of what I put in and what I

730
00:37:04,360 --> 00:37:07,800
get back out looking back on it all in terms

731
00:37:07,840 --> 00:37:10,800
of my play, because this is it for me playing.

732
00:37:11,199 --> 00:37:13,400
I'm a guy who I build up to the main event.

733
00:37:13,639 --> 00:37:17,519
I play the main event, and then I can't really

734
00:37:17,519 --> 00:37:20,119
play anything else after, and if I did, I would

735
00:37:20,119 --> 00:37:23,320
be burning my own money and everyone else's money that invests,

736
00:37:23,360 --> 00:37:25,840
just because to me, it's like build up to the

737
00:37:25,880 --> 00:37:29,000
main play it as that big climax, and then move on.

738
00:37:29,960 --> 00:37:32,400
Maybe if I was a professional player, like I know

739
00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:34,320
a lot of people out there are, then yeah, it's

740
00:37:34,400 --> 00:37:36,400
just next tournament, whatever, let's go, let's go, let's go,

741
00:37:36,480 --> 00:37:38,880
let's keep getting it in, but not for me. Plus

742
00:37:38,920 --> 00:37:40,559
couple with the fact that now it's right back into

743
00:37:40,599 --> 00:37:44,199
work mode, let's go. Overall, though, feel really good about

744
00:37:44,239 --> 00:37:47,039
how I played, and also how I showed up every

745
00:37:47,079 --> 00:37:48,840
single day, which I think is a big, big thing

746
00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:53,159
when you're out there playing. We're the mistakes in my game.

747
00:37:53,199 --> 00:37:55,800
I mean, of course, I mean, let's some be idiots here.

748
00:37:56,119 --> 00:37:59,519
I mean, for example, probably some mistakes in this main

749
00:37:59,559 --> 00:38:01,679
event blood that I ran that I'll have to study

750
00:38:01,800 --> 00:38:04,440
and learn from and get better from, and also several

751
00:38:04,440 --> 00:38:07,039
other ones that I need to learn from and improve.

752
00:38:07,360 --> 00:38:08,840
I did the thing where I was writing down every

753
00:38:08,840 --> 00:38:10,599
single hand I played the summer, so I have all

754
00:38:10,639 --> 00:38:14,000
of them. I'll review them, I'll get with my coach,

755
00:38:14,039 --> 00:38:16,800
get back in the lab, keep working, hopefully come back better.

756
00:38:17,280 --> 00:38:19,360
If I had to grade myself over the course of

757
00:38:19,360 --> 00:38:23,960
the summer, I'd say I'd say I played a minus poker,

758
00:38:24,639 --> 00:38:28,400
maybe even a poker heck, maybe even a plus, but

759
00:38:28,480 --> 00:38:33,320
firmly somewhere in the a's Now that's me grading myself

760
00:38:33,320 --> 00:38:36,760
on my scale. Is my a game on the same

761
00:38:36,840 --> 00:38:40,119
level as some of the very best players in the world. No,

762
00:38:41,119 --> 00:38:42,840
some of the top players in the world, good players

763
00:38:42,840 --> 00:38:46,800
in the world. No, but the standard that I judge

764
00:38:46,800 --> 00:38:48,559
myself on, you know. And it's not to say that

765
00:38:48,599 --> 00:38:50,440
I lack any sort of confidence, because I don't think

766
00:38:50,480 --> 00:38:52,599
that I do, is just I need to I need

767
00:38:52,639 --> 00:38:55,239
to judge myself by how good I think I can play.

768
00:38:55,280 --> 00:38:58,159
And I think I played the best poker that I've

769
00:38:58,159 --> 00:39:00,679
played for an extended period of time, and I'm very

770
00:39:00,679 --> 00:39:03,840
happy with things. My job is also to show up prepared,

771
00:39:03,920 --> 00:39:07,079
which I think I did, make the best decisions that

772
00:39:07,119 --> 00:39:09,400
I can with the information that I have, you know.

773
00:39:09,599 --> 00:39:11,719
So yeah, I think I did all that sort of stuff,

774
00:39:11,760 --> 00:39:14,440
and now the next step is to hopefully keep improving.

775
00:39:15,519 --> 00:39:18,800
I lost money, but I didn't lose a lot from

776
00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:21,800
what I planned to put in, so I guess silver

777
00:39:21,880 --> 00:39:24,360
lining there. You know, plenty of plenty of players out

778
00:39:24,400 --> 00:39:26,840
there have losing summers, and plenty of them lose pretty big.

779
00:39:27,320 --> 00:39:29,559
Didn't have the summer that I was hoping for financially,

780
00:39:29,639 --> 00:39:33,000
but also didn't feeling you know, don't don't feel like

781
00:39:33,119 --> 00:39:37,559
I beat myself in if I'm going to phrase it

782
00:39:37,599 --> 00:39:40,679
that way, just because I you know, again, twenty six

783
00:39:40,719 --> 00:39:45,320
thousand dollars in sixteen eight out minus ninety one hundred,

784
00:39:45,360 --> 00:39:47,119
not that big deal. I also put myself in a

785
00:39:47,119 --> 00:39:50,119
couple spots to make some deep runs and I competed well,

786
00:39:50,199 --> 00:39:53,880
and I came away with some ideas, you know, un

787
00:39:53,960 --> 00:39:56,760
where like where I can certainly work to get better.

788
00:39:56,840 --> 00:40:00,159
So again, I just I feel really good about things.

789
00:40:00,320 --> 00:40:02,280
This is obviously gonna be my last little, you know,

790
00:40:02,519 --> 00:40:05,639
event session, so bear with me out there, listeners. I

791
00:40:05,679 --> 00:40:08,639
appreciate you guys. I feel the best I ever have

792
00:40:08,760 --> 00:40:10,559
playing and that's for sure something that I that I

793
00:40:10,599 --> 00:40:13,159
can build on. And then I don't know how much

794
00:40:13,280 --> 00:40:15,440
live poker I'm gonna play in the back half of

795
00:40:15,440 --> 00:40:18,639
the year. I mean it's hard, you know, you have to.

796
00:40:18,960 --> 00:40:20,719
At least with the World Series of Poker. It's good

797
00:40:20,760 --> 00:40:22,960
because you can go I go down there and I'm

798
00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:25,440
already gonna be working, you know, every single day, and

799
00:40:25,519 --> 00:40:28,159
then I can plan a few days to play here

800
00:40:28,159 --> 00:40:30,519
and there, and there's just so much poker in a

801
00:40:30,559 --> 00:40:34,239
relatively short period of time that you can just get

802
00:40:34,280 --> 00:40:37,920
a couple of these events in, which is awesome. Outside

803
00:40:37,920 --> 00:40:40,239
of that, I kind of just prefer to play online now,

804
00:40:40,320 --> 00:40:42,880
you know, you can fire up multiple tables. You can

805
00:40:42,920 --> 00:40:47,239
get more volume in online competition, you know, at least

806
00:40:47,639 --> 00:40:51,360
on wisip dot com. I think is fairly tough, but

807
00:40:51,440 --> 00:40:54,519
I like that because it allows you to get better,

808
00:40:54,599 --> 00:40:57,280
you know, Iron Shopper AND's Iron. The next thing I'm

809
00:40:57,280 --> 00:40:59,119
looking forward to the most is at end of the year.

810
00:40:59,159 --> 00:41:00,840
Like I almost wish I could fast forward for those

811
00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:04,119
WPT World Championship Series. At the win, I talked about

812
00:41:04,119 --> 00:41:05,960
how they announced their dates and how they are coming

813
00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:09,280
back in December. I love that series. I love that venue,

814
00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:11,360
and I can't wait to get out there and get

815
00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:14,480
after if you guys have the opportunity to come out

816
00:41:14,519 --> 00:41:18,440
and play that event, especially the WPT Prime Championship. But

817
00:41:18,519 --> 00:41:21,800
that tournament alone is worth the trip, you know, as

818
00:41:21,800 --> 00:41:23,440
long as they have it again. Yes, the schedule is

819
00:41:23,440 --> 00:41:25,519
not out, but I would anticipate they would. Why wouldn't they?

820
00:41:25,679 --> 00:41:29,000
That tournament is freaking awesome. So I can't wait to

821
00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:31,039
get out here to play that.

822
00:41:31,679 --> 00:41:31,840
Speaker 3: You know.

823
00:41:32,039 --> 00:41:34,039
Speaker 1: I'll pop into some stuff here and there, but mostly

824
00:41:34,079 --> 00:41:37,840
online and just trying to improve to get better.

825
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:40,559
Speaker 2: But all right, that's gonna be the show.

826
00:41:41,119 --> 00:41:43,880
Speaker 1: My main event is over, but that does not mean

827
00:41:44,079 --> 00:41:46,679
the main event is over. Because we are going to

828
00:41:46,679 --> 00:41:50,800
be tracking this thing all the way till the end.

829
00:41:50,960 --> 00:41:55,719
On Tuesday, we have Day two D that's the biggest

830
00:41:55,760 --> 00:41:58,800
starting flight coming in. There's a ton of players still left.

831
00:41:58,840 --> 00:42:01,440
I can't wait to see where this late registration number

832
00:42:01,480 --> 00:42:03,800
comes in as well, because then we'll have the official

833
00:42:04,559 --> 00:42:08,320
field size for the twenty twenty six World Series of

834
00:42:08,360 --> 00:42:12,199
Poker Main Event, and then we'll be on to day

835
00:42:12,239 --> 00:42:14,840
four or sorry, day three. Then day four. Day four

836
00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:17,360
is likely when the money's gonna hit, and I cannot

837
00:42:17,360 --> 00:42:20,639
freaking wait for this thing. I'm also really because let's

838
00:42:20,639 --> 00:42:23,360
say they get let's say just nine thousand, just for

839
00:42:23,519 --> 00:42:26,760
argument's sake, I'm curious if they keep first place prize

840
00:42:26,760 --> 00:42:29,920
at ten million. I think they will. I also kind

841
00:42:29,920 --> 00:42:32,800
of hope that they will. I think first place in

842
00:42:32,840 --> 00:42:35,920
this thing should pretty much be ten million, as long

843
00:42:35,960 --> 00:42:38,679
as it's anywhere in the realm of ease to happen.

844
00:42:39,280 --> 00:42:40,960
I just think that that's such a big, cool number.

845
00:42:40,960 --> 00:42:42,280
I also don't think you need to go a way

846
00:42:42,280 --> 00:42:45,239
above it. And then if you, if you can help

847
00:42:45,400 --> 00:42:47,280
not going below it, I think that that's great. You know,

848
00:42:47,320 --> 00:42:50,519
World Series of Poker Main Event, come out, try and

849
00:42:50,559 --> 00:42:52,400
turn ten thousand dollars into ten million.

850
00:42:52,679 --> 00:42:55,480
Speaker 2: That's great marketing. That's the headliner, all.

851
00:42:55,480 --> 00:42:58,360
Speaker 1: Right, But that's gonna do it for me. As always,

852
00:42:58,400 --> 00:43:02,599
don't forget to like, subscribe, rate, review, all that.

853
00:43:02,519 --> 00:43:03,159
Speaker 2: Sort of stuff.

854
00:43:03,320 --> 00:43:06,079
Speaker 1: Send your questions, your takes, whatever they are, Tell me

855
00:43:06,119 --> 00:43:09,039
how bad I play. Podcast at PokerGO dot com is

856
00:43:09,119 --> 00:43:12,199
the email. Thanks to producer Rich for his work behind

857
00:43:12,239 --> 00:43:15,039
the scenes. As always, my name is Donny Peters and

858
00:43:15,079 --> 00:43:34,840
I will catch you guys on the next Express