Speaker 1: Hello, everyone, Welcome back to a new episode of the
Speaker 1: Poker Go Podcast.
Speaker 2: My name is Donnie Peters.
Speaker 1: It's one o nine am on Tuesday, July seventh. This
Speaker 1: episode is going to be largely about Day two a
Speaker 1: b C of the w s OP Main Event, the
Speaker 1: same day that I busted out of the greatest poker tournament.
Speaker 2: In the world.
Speaker 1: But it is what it is. We'll talk about it
Speaker 1: towards towards the end of this episode. We're gonna hit
Speaker 1: on some of the happenings from the first of two
Speaker 1: day two s at the World Series of Poker in
Speaker 1: the Granddaddy of the mall, the WSP Main Event, and
Speaker 1: then I think we have two winners to touch on
Speaker 1: as well from events that I haven't touched on yet,
Speaker 1: so I'll hit on those and then we'll.
Speaker 2: Get up out of here.
Speaker 1: We are getting into the thick of it for the
Speaker 1: WSP Main Event. You know, it's feels like it's starting
Speaker 1: to get more real and deeper and you can start
Speaker 1: to feel the tension building in the air, but it's
Speaker 1: also so far away from anything, like we're like, the
Speaker 1: first Day two just ended, so these players are going
Speaker 1: to Day three. It's likely that you don't make the
Speaker 1: money till early on day four, so you still have
Speaker 1: a whole another full day of play before you're even
Speaker 1: in the money. I mean, it's like this tournament is
Speaker 1: just such a grind and you kind of forget about
Speaker 1: it because you're lost in all these other tournaments that
Speaker 1: are happening, and they operate at a much faster pace.
Speaker 1: You know, they're anywhere from two days most of the
Speaker 1: more three days. Some of them might extend to four days.
Speaker 1: Of course, you have a couple like the Monster Stack,
Speaker 1: for example, or the Milli Maker that that do go
Speaker 1: a little bit longer, but you're kind of just used
Speaker 1: to being in or close to the money on a
Speaker 1: day one, if not, you're into the money on a
Speaker 1: day two, and then you're playing down to a final
Speaker 1: table and you're going to a winner on day three.
Speaker 1: That's generally what you see the most of But not
Speaker 1: that up is to be made event, not that we
Speaker 1: don't know that, but it's just you kind of have
Speaker 1: to catch yourself at times when you're walking through the
Speaker 1: field and you're like, oh my gosh, this person has
Speaker 1: so many chips. This person has this many chips, Like,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, you know, and it's like, yeah, but
Speaker 1: that person might not even cash, just with how how
Speaker 1: much can happen between now and hitting the money and
Speaker 1: all that sort of crazy stuff. But that's what we're
Speaker 1: gonna talk about. The player that I caught up with
Speaker 1: today was the one and only Tony Dunst. He bagged
Speaker 1: a pile of chips on a day too ABC. So
Speaker 1: I caught up with Tony Dunst. Well, we'll catch up
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Speaker 1: The numbers are in. I checked Poker News, I checked
Speaker 1: keV mess Twitter. I tried to get these numbers dialed
Speaker 1: in as much as possible. I guess just forgive me
Speaker 1: if they're incorrect, but I think they're pretty correct. We
Speaker 1: had operating at you know, a decrease year over year. Yes,
Speaker 1: the big talking point that I saw and heard today.
Speaker 1: You know, you saw some stuff on social media. I
Speaker 1: heard stuff talking to my friends and text messages and
Speaker 1: group chats and whatnot. When I was playing, you know,
Speaker 1: at the table, you heard some chatter as well about
Speaker 1: are they gonna hit nine thousand, Like that's the big number, right,
Speaker 1: And I think that they are, especially after what we
Speaker 1: saw today that we'll get into in just a second.
Speaker 1: I think they are. And I also want to point
Speaker 1: out that it's not the sky is falling if they
Speaker 1: get let's say, eighty nine hundred, or if they get
Speaker 1: nine thousand, just because last year was nine thousand, seven
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty five, you know, and just because yes,
Speaker 1: we did have two years above ten thousand. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's not the end of the world. This stuff is
Speaker 1: going to go up and down. I say it all
Speaker 1: the time. Yes, we're going to talk about the numbers,
Speaker 1: and yes we're going to compare them to previous years.
Speaker 1: It's the talking point, you know, it's a barometer for
Speaker 1: for where poker is but it's not it's not like
Speaker 1: the sky is falling. I mean right now as things stand,
Speaker 1: through the first floor starting fights and the first day two,
Speaker 1: there are eighty three hundred and eighty nine entries total
Speaker 1: in the Doubissippy main event as long as my numbers
Speaker 1: hold correct. For Day two ABC, you had three hundred
Speaker 1: and twelve late entrance come in. So players that that
Speaker 1: joined on like either right before the start of day two,
Speaker 1: they skipped all of day one, they could come in
Speaker 1: some point between or during the first two levels and
Speaker 1: then up until that third level started, so you had
Speaker 1: the first two levels in the first two breaks to
Speaker 1: get in there. There was one player at my starting
Speaker 1: table that did that. There was a couple other players
Speaker 1: or a bunch of other players as I mentioned, three
Speaker 1: hundred and twelve players.
Speaker 2: Throughout the field that did that.
Speaker 1: Last year Day two ABC, I believe I had this number.
Speaker 1: I pulled it from Poker News. Had two hundred and
Speaker 1: sixty five entries, is what they wrote in the end
Speaker 1: of day recap for this day, So three hundred and
Speaker 1: twelve this year, which which aligns with what I was
Speaker 1: thinking that players are becoming more aware of the value
Speaker 1: to coming in late. You know, they realize Listen, I
Speaker 1: can still come in at the start of day two
Speaker 1: with a ton of chips. Fifty big lines is a ton,
Speaker 1: and you basically you get to skip a day and
Speaker 1: a half of poker, a long grind of a day
Speaker 1: and a half of poker, because we know how slow
Speaker 1: and methodical the WSP made of men structure is player friendly,
Speaker 1: like the epitome of player friendly structure. Right, But if
Speaker 1: you want to skip all that sort of stuff, you
Speaker 1: want to play a little bit more meaningful poker but
Speaker 1: still have a healthy stack to start, then maybe you
Speaker 1: come in a little bit later. And yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: I think players are much more aware of the value
Speaker 1: of doing so. And we saw two hundred and sixty
Speaker 1: five people last year and then we see three hundred
Speaker 1: and twelve players this year. Last year there was a
Speaker 1: little bit over one thousand total came in for the
Speaker 1: day two late regiment. Between both day twos, I think
Speaker 1: we're going to be right around that same number, if
Speaker 1: not above it. And we're already at a seventeen point
Speaker 1: seven percent increase for that first day, so that bodes
Speaker 1: well for getting this number up over nine thousand. We
Speaker 1: are six hundred and eleven entries short of nine thousand.
Speaker 1: I think nine thousands of lock. My number was nine
Speaker 1: one hundred and seventy seven a few episodes ago. Overall,
Speaker 1: with eighty three hundred and eighty nine entries right now,
Speaker 1: that is a decrease over last year at this point
Speaker 1: of six point four percent, So a much more palatable decrease,
Speaker 1: you know. I know again going back to the one
Speaker 1: A that flight year over year was down sixteen and
Speaker 1: a half percent. Now we're only looking at a decrease
Speaker 1: of six point four percent across everything that has happened
Speaker 1: so far, which is fine. I mean, the economy's kind
Speaker 1: of be in the shit in terms of like everything's
Speaker 1: really expensive. People don't have a lot of money. It's
Speaker 1: just hard. Crypto's not anywhere near what it once was.
Speaker 1: You got the ninety percent tax thing. I say all
Speaker 1: this stuff over and over again. I just want to
Speaker 1: drive it home that it's you know, it's not like
Speaker 1: poker is losing popularity or it's healthy or it's you know,
Speaker 1: unhealthy or anything like that. I think the game is
Speaker 1: very healthy. I think that it's as popular as it
Speaker 1: has ever been in a lot of ways. But unfortunately.
Speaker 1: You know, I think people just have a little bit
Speaker 1: less money to throw around, especially when you get up
Speaker 1: to something like a ten thousand dollars buying tournament. Right now,
Speaker 1: I know this is ultimately the biggest bucket list tournament
Speaker 1: that we have in the game. Yes, of course, but
Speaker 1: it's it's still hard to really make that splurge. Then,
Speaker 1: of course, you have the thing that we've always been
Speaker 1: fighting for many many years, and that's just that online
Speaker 1: poker isn't what.
Speaker 2: It once was.
Speaker 1: So it's not, you know, qualifying as many people, it's
Speaker 1: not creating up and coming poker players like it once did,
Speaker 1: you know, all that sort of stuff. So there was
Speaker 1: always going to be some drawback coming out of COVID.
Speaker 1: It was just a more matter of when it was
Speaker 1: going to happen, and it's starting to happen this year. Again,
Speaker 1: I look towards next year more so than I look
Speaker 1: towards this year. Next year, if we start to see
Speaker 1: a decline again, and if that decline mirrors the decline
Speaker 1: this year percentage wise, then I would start to raise
Speaker 1: some alarm bells and be like, hmm, okay, maybe as
Speaker 1: operators we need to start rethinking some things, maybe as marketers,
Speaker 1: maybe as promoters, maybe as an industry, as a community,
Speaker 1: we need to start rethinking some things. So you know,
Speaker 1: we'll cross that bridge when we get to it, because
Speaker 1: we're plenty of time away. But I think this is
Speaker 1: going to be well over nine thousand, and that's still
Speaker 1: great for this year. The chip leader coming out of
Speaker 1: day two a b C is Gaspar Fernandez with seven
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty four thousand chips. That's three hundred and
Speaker 1: one big blinds for day three. The big blind for
Speaker 1: Day three, I believe is gonna be one K, twenty
Speaker 1: five hundred, or maybe fifteen hundred, twenty five hundred.
Speaker 2: I forget it's one of those two.
Speaker 1: So three hundred and one big blinds for mister Fernandez. Now,
Speaker 1: seven hundred and fifty four thousand chips sounds like an
Speaker 1: absolute freaking truckload of chips. And it is a truckload
Speaker 1: of chips. But as I was getting at a little
Speaker 1: bit earlier, that can go fast. It can go really fast.
Speaker 1: I mean, me sitting here on the sidelines, I would
Speaker 1: I would kill someone for seven hundred and fifty four
Speaker 1: thousand chips. I mean hyperbably, of course, But you guys,
Speaker 1: get the get my drift there. I looked back at
Speaker 1: the day two ABC chip leaders for the past four
Speaker 1: editions of the WSB Man Men, so twenty twenty two
Speaker 1: through twenty twenty five, and I wanted to see where
Speaker 1: they finished on their first day two or the first
Speaker 1: day two of the two day twos, and then where
Speaker 1: they went on to finish in the tournament, just just
Speaker 1: just to really drive home, you know that you can
Speaker 1: have a ton of chips on at day two and
Speaker 1: finished day two going into day three, but you are
Speaker 1: still so far away from doing anything in this tournament.
Speaker 1: And on the flip side of things, you know you
Speaker 1: can have ten, twelve big blinds, whatever it is, and
Speaker 1: you can then be like, you know what, it's a grind.
Speaker 1: This this structure allows you to be patient. You know
Speaker 1: you can if you need to, and you can ultimately
Speaker 1: spin something up and just just grind it out, grind
Speaker 1: it out, grind it out. So going back to let's
Speaker 1: start with twenty twenty two, we had Gavin Munroe who
Speaker 1: bagged I mean, this number is out of control, one
Speaker 1: point six million in chips after day two, four hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty five big blinds going into day three and
Speaker 1: Gavin Monroe ended up finishing in eleven hundred and thirtieth
Speaker 1: place for fifteen thousand dollars. That's a min cash. He
Speaker 1: had four hundred and twenty five big blinds going into
Speaker 1: day three and he min cashed the tournament. Next year,
Speaker 1: Christopher Bramer bagged eight hundred and seventy nine thousand, which
Speaker 1: was three hundred and fifty two big blinds. He did
Speaker 1: not cash in the tournament. At least I checked tendonmob
Speaker 1: he's not there. I checked the Poke News payoffs, he's
Speaker 1: not there. So Christopher Brammer went from day two ABC
Speaker 1: Chip leader with three hundred and fifty two big blinds
Speaker 1: in his stack to day three and he did not
Speaker 1: cash in the tournament. Twenty twenty four, Anthony Marisco bagged
Speaker 1: three hundred and nineteen big blinds. Seven hundred and ninety
Speaker 1: seven k was in his stack. He finished in four
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty first place for thirty five thousand dollars,
Speaker 1: So a little bit of a deeper run there for Morisco.
Speaker 1: And then last year twenty twenty five, Alexei Kravchuk bagged
Speaker 1: three nine hundred and thirty seven thousand, five hundred, which
Speaker 1: is good for three hundred and seventy five big lines.
Speaker 1: He had a twenty seven thousand, five hundred dollars score
Speaker 1: for finishing in six hundred and fourth place. So again,
Speaker 1: like you you can think that. Listen, Gaspar Fernandez bagging
Speaker 1: seven hundred and fifty four thousand, you know that's a
Speaker 1: ton of chips, more than three hundred big lines heading
Speaker 1: to day three. Let's let's lock them in for the
Speaker 1: top one hundred. I mean, no, no, no, no, Like this,
Speaker 1: a lot can happen between now and then, Like there
Speaker 1: are obviously coolers. You can just hit a bad amount
Speaker 1: of cards. You can do something where like you just
Speaker 1: start doubling up like a few different people. Next thing
Speaker 1: you know, you doubled up six seven people at your table.
Speaker 1: Your stack has been cut in half, and then you know,
Speaker 1: things just kind of spiral from there. So this is
Speaker 1: an absolutely crazy tournament. And I just wanted to kind
Speaker 1: of point out there that just because somebody bags a
Speaker 1: boatload of chips entering day three doesn't necessarily mean they're
Speaker 1: going to have an incredible score much later on. As
Speaker 1: I laid out by the last four chip leaders prior
Speaker 1: to Gasper Fernandez in the WSP main event entering or sorry,
Speaker 1: finishing day to ABC, and I'll do the same for Tuesday.
Speaker 1: When we talk about Day two d some of the
Speaker 1: notables who did bag chips. In addition to Gaspar Fernandez,
Speaker 1: you had Tony Dunst. I said, we're going to talk
Speaker 1: to him or I have an interview to play with him.
Speaker 1: He bagged four hundred and seventy nine thousand, one hundred
Speaker 1: and ninety one big blinds for mister Dunst.
Speaker 2: I mean he was.
Speaker 1: I was following him on his Instagram just checking out
Speaker 1: his stories. He had a pretty good Day one obviously,
Speaker 1: had a really really good pre dinner Day two, and
Speaker 1: then a big rush post dinner Day two as well.
Speaker 1: I spoke with him for I don't know, five minutes
Speaker 1: or so after play. You know, Tony is one of
Speaker 1: the best, always willing to give time, so I wanted
Speaker 1: to chat with him. He hadn't played a tournament, a
Speaker 1: live ws A B tournament all summer, but of course
Speaker 1: this is the main event, and if you're anyone in poker,
Speaker 1: you're trying not to miss it the best you can.
Speaker 1: It's his twentieth World Series of Poker Mino, which is
Speaker 1: just which is crazy because I remember the first time
Speaker 1: I saw Tony don in person, and to me back then,
Speaker 1: he was still Bond eighteen, right, he was Bond eighteen online.
Speaker 1: He had the blog online. I read it a lot.
Speaker 1: He was Bond Bond eighteen online. You followed him all
Speaker 1: that sort of stuff, and I remember seeing him. I
Speaker 1: think we were in New Zealand for an a m
Speaker 1: ZPT event and we were walking through the case. I
Speaker 1: was walking through the casino and I saw him kind
Speaker 1: of I don't know, maybe thirty yards away going down
Speaker 1: an escalator while I was going up an escalator, and
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, man, that's Bond eighteen over there, Like,
Speaker 1: that's Bond eighteen. You know, you see that first that person,
Speaker 1: You see that that figure in person for the first time,
Speaker 1: and you're kind of like, oh, like that's who that is, Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's him right there, you know, like that's the guy.
Speaker 1: So anyway, now fast forward many many years later. Here's
Speaker 1: my chat with Tony Duns two bagged four hundred and
Speaker 1: seventy nine thousand. All right, Tony Duns, you put a
Speaker 1: crap ton of chips in the bag. What the heck's
Speaker 1: going on?
Speaker 3: I just had one of the bussats of poker my
Speaker 3: entire life. I just hit every river, especially after dinner,
Speaker 3: for just like three hours straight. I hit every river.
Speaker 3: Somebody usually had something they could pall with too. A
Speaker 3: few times I was bluffing, they folded. Just one of
Speaker 3: those days, everything clicks.
Speaker 1: You've had a handful of deep runs in this tournament before,
Speaker 1: so judging by what you just said, is this the
Speaker 1: best start that you've had entering day three?
Speaker 3: Probably? I think maybe way back in twenty ten when
Speaker 3: I went on a run. I ran very hot on
Speaker 3: Day two or day somewhere around there. But as far
Speaker 3: as being off to like an early start, this is
Speaker 3: probably as good as it's been.
Speaker 2: What have you been up to?
Speaker 1: Because he didn't play a lot of the World Series,
Speaker 1: but you're here for the main event, of course.
Speaker 2: What you've been doing.
Speaker 3: I played some online poker leading up, been traveling a
Speaker 3: decent amount, taking care of some things with family at home,
Speaker 3: and spending more time on prediction markets doing gambling. You know,
Speaker 3: with the tax change this year, it becomes a little
Speaker 3: bit tougher to put a lot of volume in at
Speaker 3: poker and at gambling, but thankfully prediction markets are tax
Speaker 3: like capital gains, so they're not really subject to that.
Speaker 3: And it's been an interesting and pretty fun opportunity. The
Speaker 3: last you know, a year or so is the popularity
Speaker 3: is blown up.
Speaker 1: Now, all of that said, all the busy stuff you
Speaker 1: got going on in your life, you're not going to
Speaker 1: miss this one, right, this may this event event you're
Speaker 1: never gonna miss.
Speaker 3: I'll never miss the main event. I'll play the main
Speaker 3: event every single year until I'm physically mentally incapable for sure.
Speaker 2: What is it?
Speaker 1: What is or described to me just just how special
Speaker 1: this event is and why you're not going to miss it.
Speaker 3: I mean, just look around at this sea of people
Speaker 3: and tables in this place, everybody chasing the same dream
Speaker 3: and just playing a huge ten k, slow, deep stacked
Speaker 3: tournament with so many people at varying levels of poker
Speaker 3: and backgrounds. It's just like an interesting experience. And I
Speaker 3: think if you play poker, if through a living, after
Speaker 3: a while, it can kind of beat you down and
Speaker 3: you you know, have a lot of days where it
Speaker 3: just feels like the grind and you lose for months
Speaker 3: on end if you're a tournament player, and then when
Speaker 3: you come here you're just surrounded by people who love
Speaker 3: the experience of playing poker and chasing the big score
Speaker 3: and having this like once in a lifetime run. So
Speaker 3: it's just a great energy to be a man.
Speaker 1: How would you say your career has changed? You know,
Speaker 1: you came up as an online guy, you transitioned into
Speaker 1: you know, part on the industry side with some commentary
Speaker 1: and stuff. Yeah, now you're like it in a way,
Speaker 1: a grizzled vet in a lot of ways, you know.
Speaker 1: I mean, how would you kind of describe your career.
Speaker 3: Art a grizzled vet playing his twentieth main event. But
Speaker 3: right that, I really came up just as a player,
Speaker 3: started doing content and the like, you know, late two thousands,
Speaker 3: writing a bunch on blogs and stuff, training sites, and
Speaker 3: then land with the WPT in twenty ten and got
Speaker 3: a ton of experience doing our online streams, getting to
Speaker 3: work with some of the best commentators in the game,
Speaker 3: you know, getting to sit in the booth with a
Speaker 3: legend like Mike Sexton, and to play a whole bunch
Speaker 3: of our events and have the chance to be on
Speaker 3: the tour, you know, around our players and learning from
Speaker 3: some of the best. And now you know, I've taken
Speaker 3: on a consulting role with WPT as well, so hopefully
Speaker 3: having some influence on the product and getting player feedback
Speaker 3: to help shape the way we do our tournaments. So
Speaker 3: hopefully some you know, kind of new interesting changes in
Speaker 3: the mix, uh coming up with WPT. But yeah, just
Speaker 3: you know, happy to have been part of the poker
Speaker 3: world for such a long time. When I was like
Speaker 3: a high schooler watching WPT and World Series on TV,
Speaker 3: this was the lifestyle that.
Speaker 1: I was hoping for.
Speaker 2: All right, last question here.
Speaker 1: Obviously we talked about how good of a star you
Speaker 1: had going into day three.
Speaker 2: What's it going to take to really make a count.
Speaker 3: Getting past day six? Because I've come into day six
Speaker 3: with lots of chips two of the last three years,
Speaker 3: and remember thinking I was like eight out of I
Speaker 3: don't know, eighty one hundred players anything like that where
Speaker 3: you start to really believe that you're in striking distance
Speaker 3: up the final table. Fuck, I'm in the top ten
Speaker 3: and chips of the one hundred left and both day
Speaker 3: six as I've busted out. So that's the level of
Speaker 3: the game I need to get past right now, and
Speaker 3: I would be pretty happy with whatever came after that.
Speaker 2: Thank you to Tony for taking the time there.
Speaker 1: I know the players want to get out of there
Speaker 1: at the end of the night, but Tony was gracious
Speaker 1: enough to chat with me. He's had many deep runs,
Speaker 1: as we talked about in the WSFP main event, and
Speaker 1: it's interesting to hear how in a way he kind
Speaker 1: of feels a little bit of pressure, like having this
Speaker 1: start and wanting this to actually materialize going forward. You know,
Speaker 1: Tony always an open book, very honest with everything, so
Speaker 1: I appreciate him taking the time there, and we'll see
Speaker 1: if he can make another deep run. This is an
Speaker 1: incredible start four seventy hundred and ninety one Big Blinds
Speaker 1: going forward. Tony is a very, very excellent player. He
Speaker 1: puts in a lot of work off the felt I mean,
Speaker 1: maybe not as much as he once did, but you know,
Speaker 1: he has certainly studied a lot. He's certainly got a
Speaker 1: ton of experience this specific tournament with those deep runs
Speaker 1: that he has had, you know, he knows what it
Speaker 1: takes to go through this field. I would anticipate with
Speaker 1: this start, you know, we're going to be hearing from
Speaker 1: Tony Guns a bit later on that that would be
Speaker 1: my guess our to place a bet I would say, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Tony's going to be alive on day five, day six,
Speaker 1: and then.
Speaker 2: We'll go from there.
Speaker 1: Brian Hastings bagged more than four hundred thousand, four hundred
Speaker 1: nine thousand. He's got one hundred and sixty three big binds.
Speaker 1: Freddy deeb Crushing three hundred and eighty three thousand for him,
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty three big blinds. Greg Ramer, fossil Man.
Speaker 1: Greg Ramer is out there in the damn thing. Two
Speaker 1: hundred ninety one thousand in the bag for fossil Man,
Speaker 1: one hundred and sixteen big blinds. Chris Mormon. Chris Mormon
Speaker 1: one of the best to ever do it online. Two
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty five thousand, five hundred, one hundred and
Speaker 1: six big Lilins.
Speaker 2: Chino Reem, Chino Reim.
Speaker 1: You know we've seen him make the WSBEE Main Event
Speaker 1: final table before.
Speaker 2: Right, he's cooking.
Speaker 1: One hundred and seventy six thousand, five hundred in the
Speaker 1: bag for day three, seventy big blind Stephen Chidwick, hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty two k Gerard Pique, the famous soccer player.
Speaker 1: He's going strong. One hundred and forty four thousand in
Speaker 1: the bag. Greg Merson the Milkman himself still alive, seventy
Speaker 1: nine k for him, and then Mike the Mouth Madisow
Speaker 1: sixty five thousand for the mouth. Going to day three,
Speaker 1: some of those less fortunate players Daniel Weinman busted, Joe
Speaker 1: Katta busted, Jason Kuhne, Antonio Wes, FONDIRII, Adam Hendricks, Nick Rigby,
Speaker 1: John Riordan, and Ferraz Jaka. It looks like twelve hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty players advanced out of the day to ABC
Speaker 1: Flight two. Day three, there was around twenty five hundred
Speaker 1: players that came into the day, and then of course
Speaker 1: you had those three hundred and twelve laid entrance for
Speaker 1: the day, and then you know, I don't know a
Speaker 1: little bit more than half of them hit the rail
Speaker 1: on Day two, ABC Big Big Day on Tuesday for
Speaker 1: Day two D coming in. Of course, Day one D
Speaker 1: is the largest of the four starting flights. It gets
Speaker 1: its own Day two, So there's gonna.
Speaker 2: Be a lot to be said.
Speaker 1: My guess is that Gaspar Fernandez, you know, the chip leader.
Speaker 1: Right now, he can enjoy it for about twenty four
Speaker 1: hours and then somebody else is going to come out
Speaker 1: on top, and there's probably a good shot that we
Speaker 1: see our first WSB main event millionaire in terms of
Speaker 1: chipstack coming out of Day two D but that's for
Speaker 1: the next episode, not this one. I want to swing
Speaker 1: over now to hit on the two winners that deserve
Speaker 1: to be mentioned. First, we have in the fifteen hundred
Speaker 1: dollars Double Board Bomb Pot PLO event, Justin Fawcett won
Speaker 1: the tournament. He topped sixteen hundred and seventy three entries
Speaker 1: to win three hundred and twenty two thousand dollars. Justin
Speaker 1: Fawcett is a twenty five K fantasy player. Let me
Speaker 1: see if he drafted himself, because I know he I.
Speaker 2: Know he had a team. He did draft himself.
Speaker 1: His team's not doing so hot though they are down
Speaker 1: in Let me see the seventeenth place Dan Legrandew's team,
Speaker 1: bolsted of course by the fact that Dnegs himself drafted
Speaker 1: him to his own team and then went out and
Speaker 1: won one hundre KPLO high Roller. As we talked about,
Speaker 1: he is the current leader in the twenty five K
Speaker 1: Fantasy League. Of course, you guys can check out the
Speaker 1: updated standings on twenty five K fantasy dot Com, but
Speaker 1: here Justin Fawcett taking home the bracelets in the fifteen
Speaker 1: hundred dollars double board bomb bought plow, so good for him.
Speaker 1: The other winner that we have to talk about is
Speaker 1: Zijuan Lee. He won the one K Nolan at Holdham.
Speaker 1: This was the two day event that took place seventeen
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty two entries in this one. Lou walked
Speaker 1: away with two hundred and nineteen thousand dollars. Tyler Phillips,
Speaker 1: a grinder and also a twenty five K fantasy player,
Speaker 1: finished in fifth place for fifty seven thousand dollars. But
Speaker 1: congratulations here too, Zijuan Lou for taking home taking down
Speaker 1: the one K Nolan Holdham event for two hundred and
Speaker 1: nineteen thousand dollars. All right, so let's talk about my
Speaker 1: day in the main event, Day two. ABC came into
Speaker 1: the day with forty five thousand, nine hundred chips started.
Speaker 1: I played the very first hand that was dealt. I
Speaker 1: was dealt two sixes. I raised from under the gun.
Speaker 1: Gentleman called in position. The flop came ten five four rainbow.
Speaker 1: I checked, he bet, he bet quite large. I folded
Speaker 1: and he ripped over a ten just funny that this
Speaker 1: gentleman was funny. Later on, he and I played a
Speaker 1: hand where so on that hand when he when he
Speaker 1: bet the flop, he kind of like kind of like
Speaker 1: threw the chipslick across the table, not like at me.
Speaker 1: They didn't like he was on the I was in
Speaker 1: the ninth seed. He was in the three seats. You know,
Speaker 1: they didn't like cross the flop or anything like that.
Speaker 1: But I don't know, he kind of like slid him
Speaker 1: out like emphatically toward me.
Speaker 2: I don't know, it just seemed a little like, hmm,
Speaker 2: I should.
Speaker 1: Just kind of make a little note of that, you
Speaker 1: know how he's kind of acting here whatever, And then
Speaker 1: he shows that ten okay, cool whatever. This guy was
Speaker 1: splashing around. He was in there a lot like he was.
Speaker 1: He was doing his thing. Later on, we play a
Speaker 1: hand where he opens middle position high defend big blind
Speaker 1: with ace of spades. It comes jack nine six one spade.
Speaker 1: Nine of spades was out there. I checked call a
Speaker 1: bet he was when he bet, he bombed. I mean
Speaker 1: it was at minimum fifty percent pot, if not more so.
Speaker 2: I check call.
Speaker 1: Turn is I can't even remember what the turn was.
Speaker 1: Turns a blank it's like it's a deuce something.
Speaker 2: It goes check.
Speaker 1: Check river is a five or not a five? Rivers
Speaker 1: like a three?
Speaker 2: I check? He bombs again and.
Speaker 1: He does the thing where he like slides those chips
Speaker 1: across the table, and I'm like, I don't know, man,
Speaker 1: there's like too many draws here. I don't think I
Speaker 1: want to have a ten because you know, I am
Speaker 1: blocking some of those straight draws. But like he can
Speaker 1: have seven eight, he can have Queen ten, like he
Speaker 1: you know, he can have all these different types of draws.
Speaker 1: I call he's got seven eight, So great win. That
Speaker 1: pot anyway, chipped up pretty nicely from forty five nine
Speaker 1: hundred to a little bit over seventy thousand, was playing
Speaker 1: a wide variety hands, had or had a really good
Speaker 1: feel of my first starting table. Thought I was playing
Speaker 1: pretty well for how like what I.
Speaker 2: Think my ceiling is.
Speaker 1: I thought I was right up there that table breaks.
Speaker 1: We were on horseshoe to start, we break, we head
Speaker 1: on over to Paris.
Speaker 2: I still don't really understand the.
Speaker 1: Whole double venue thing, but you know whatever, there's I mean,
Speaker 1: I got good problem to have right when there's too
Speaker 1: too many people, I just hate well can do that smoke, man,
Speaker 1: It's just unbearable. Anyway, we get over to Paris new table.
Speaker 1: I sit down, I open the first two hands I see.
Speaker 1: I end up winning with with flop bets. Feeling good again.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm up over. I'm close to ninety thousand now,
Speaker 1: feeling great. The blinds go up to one fifteen hundred. Like,
Speaker 1: this table seems pretty good. It seemed this table seemed green.
Speaker 1: Like everyone seemed a little bit lesser experienced than normal, which.
Speaker 2: I'm fine with.
Speaker 1: You know, sometimes you're gonna have good table draws, you
Speaker 1: are gonna have bad table draws. One player in particular,
Speaker 1: like just watching him play some of the questions he
Speaker 1: was asking some of the stuff like not knowing about
Speaker 1: the color up or what happens on the color up,
Speaker 1: or where to put the butt, Like I don't know,
Speaker 1: I just got the vibe that either he was playing
Speaker 1: the WAWE main event for the very first time or
Speaker 1: he had not played a lot of live poker at all,
Speaker 1: Like I don't know, he just seemed very inexperienced with everything.
Speaker 1: He stacked his chips kind of in a way that
Speaker 1: I would align with this player type. So whatever, anyway,
Speaker 1: I get in this hand where so I had just
Speaker 1: played a hand where I won.
Speaker 2: I had aces. I win this hand.
Speaker 1: It was a MULTIPI guy limps under the gun, I
Speaker 1: raised big, mind calls limper calls. I bet flop, I
Speaker 1: bet turn. I end up winning the pots there. And
Speaker 1: then the next hand I opened two tens. Gentleman to
Speaker 1: my left calls I believe I opened low jack, hijack calls,
Speaker 1: and then the inexperienced player of the player, I say
Speaker 1: inexperience player, I mean, heck, maybe he played a bazillion tournament.
Speaker 1: I thought I read him as inexperienced. He's on the button.
Speaker 1: He three bets. I had about I think eighty nine
Speaker 1: thousand or so. To start the hand, I make it
Speaker 1: three K. The guy calls, gentlemen on the button makes
Speaker 1: it twelve K, folds back to me. I have two tens.
Speaker 1: I elect to just call, we're pretty deep here. I
Speaker 1: can take a flop. Other player in between folded. It
Speaker 1: came jack eight seven jack of hartz or diamonds or
Speaker 1: red jack eight seven of spades. I check player bets
Speaker 1: relatively large fifteen k, which is a round half pot.
Speaker 1: I contemplate maybe there's some check raising I can do
Speaker 1: here with my hand, but I don't think I have
Speaker 1: the right hand to do that. I think I can
Speaker 1: just play check call. So I played check call. You know,
Speaker 1: I think he have some ace kings in there. He
Speaker 1: can probably have some ace queens. And then, honestly, I thought, listen,
Speaker 1: there's probably a better likelihood that this player has in
Speaker 1: overpair in a lot of spots here. But given this
Speaker 1: bord texture, I think I'm pretty clean to a ten.
Speaker 1: I'm definitely clean to a nine, and then maybe I
Speaker 1: can rep spades or something else depending on how this
Speaker 1: plays out.
Speaker 2: I think this.
Speaker 1: Type of wet bord texture, with the way that it
Speaker 1: can run out, I think I do have some some
Speaker 1: bluffing opportunities should they present itself, and I want to
Speaker 1: go that route with my hand turn as a king
Speaker 1: off suit king, I check he checks behind. So once
Speaker 1: he checks behind here, I'm thinking I'm narrowing his range
Speaker 1: into two hands here. Well, I mean really three hands,
Speaker 1: I guess, but I'm thinking queen's probably a fair amount,
Speaker 1: maybe some ace queen and then maybe some aces too,
Speaker 1: just because aces might just get scared and one not
Speaker 1: go nuts. I didn't It's interesting because while I think
Speaker 1: that with aces, I don't think that with ace king.
Speaker 1: And maybe that's a flaw of mine in my head
Speaker 1: where I think it's just but I try and think
Speaker 1: of how the other player is thinking about this. Whereas,
Speaker 1: if you have aces, this board looks somewhat scary and
Speaker 1: you want to kind of protect. But if you have
Speaker 1: ace king, if you bet the flop with nothing and
Speaker 1: now you improve, you're kind of like feeling more positive
Speaker 1: about your hands, you might continue betting. Right, That's how
Speaker 1: I would describe that. Anyway, he checks back, River's a jack. Now,
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, if anyone has a jack here, it's me.
Speaker 1: And I think he has a lot of just pocket
Speaker 1: queens here, and if he has some pocket aces, if
Speaker 1: he has some ace king, like I think I can
Speaker 1: get him off this hand. But I feel like I
Speaker 1: have to go big pots. I think around sixty K,
Speaker 1: I go fifty five K and I got seven K
Speaker 1: behind and he goes into the tank for two to
Speaker 1: three minutes. It's the full on, like he's completely uncomfortable.
Speaker 1: He puts his head in his hands, he's rubbing his forehead.
Speaker 1: I'm like, this guy hates life, right, now I'm like,
Speaker 1: he does he just have two queens, Like I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't think he ever has kings because I just
Speaker 1: don't think he checks back. I don't think he checks
Speaker 1: back Jack's either, you know. So I think so far
Speaker 1: to me, everything is like been going. I feel like
Speaker 1: how I have it planned? Anyway, he thanks for like,
Speaker 1: you know, two to three minutes he ends up calling
Speaker 1: with Ace King, so I, you know, blow it up there.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean that hand is I don't know,
Speaker 1: it's hard because I think I think I read the
Speaker 1: situation well. I also don't necessarily think that that's solver approved.
Speaker 1: I haven't really dove into the hand yet. But I
Speaker 1: also think that at times you have to break from
Speaker 1: a solver and try and go into a more exploit
Speaker 1: exploitative strategy, which I was, yes, trying to exploit this
Speaker 1: specific player. And yeah, I think it's very tough for
Speaker 1: him to make that call there, as exhibited by the
Speaker 1: fact that he took so long, looked extremely pained, all
Speaker 1: that sort of stuff. That said, at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, the bluff didn't work. You know, I was
Speaker 1: I was obviously turning my hand into a bluff. I
Speaker 1: was not betting for value.
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't fully know if it was a mistake right,
Speaker 1: because sometimes this is a tricky part in poker, where
Speaker 1: you can do things and they cannot go your way,
Speaker 1: but they can still be correct. On the flip side,
Speaker 1: you can do things they can work out and they
Speaker 1: can be wildly wrong right like the both those things
Speaker 1: can happen. So I did trust my read. I believe
Speaker 1: this guy was pretty capped with his range. I thought
Speaker 1: he was very much captive two pair, and I decided
Speaker 1: the only way that I could win this hand here
Speaker 1: was by putting maximum pressure on my opponent, Like I
Speaker 1: didn't think that I could bet like twenty five k
Speaker 1: or thirty K or something like that and get I
Speaker 1: think he calls the hands that I'm targeting folds from
Speaker 1: pretty easily there, So I have to just go for
Speaker 1: like the gusto. I think on one side, it's easy
Speaker 1: to just chalk it up to listen, bad luck, guy
Speaker 1: made a good call, whatever. But I don't want to
Speaker 1: just walk away thinking about these situations like that. You know,
Speaker 1: if you I do believe, if you want to make
Speaker 1: deep runs in tournaments, you can't play scared. You have
Speaker 1: to trust yourself. You can't just sit around and wait
Speaker 1: for premium hands and premium hands and premium hands. You know,
Speaker 1: at some point you do have to trust your instincts
Speaker 1: and be willing to make a move when you think
Speaker 1: the spot is right. I thought that this spot was right,
Speaker 1: and I guess I could say that I was correct
Speaker 1: because I thought he was captain two pair. He ultimately
Speaker 1: had two pair. I put him in a really tough
Speaker 1: spot to make a tough call. Okay, but maybe I
Speaker 1: just need to get better at identifying the opponents that
Speaker 1: I'm trying to bluff, I guess is my takeaway here
Speaker 1: if I'm trying to learn how or trying to read
Speaker 1: into how to learn from the situation, because ultimately he
Speaker 1: didn't fold, you know, so I don't know. It does sting,
Speaker 1: you know, especially because you have people supporting you, you
Speaker 1: have investors like I do, and I just I don't
Speaker 1: ever want to feel like I let people down. I
Speaker 1: do want to, like do very well in these tournaments
Speaker 1: that I play. I don't get to put in a
Speaker 1: whole ton of volume. So yeah, you know, you study
Speaker 1: from it, you learn from it, you hope to come
Speaker 1: back better next time. But you know, that that's the hand.
Speaker 1: So on one side, I think, I think I played
Speaker 1: extremely well throughout this entire tournament.
Speaker 2: And I'm like.
Speaker 1: Seventy five percent happy with this hand that went wrong,
Speaker 1: and then the other twenty five percent of me is like,
Speaker 1: was it really that bad of a screw up? I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know, you know. I mean, like I bluff,
Speaker 1: you know, and there's a lot of times you don't
Speaker 1: see the big bluff because they just work and you.
Speaker 2: Just move on.
Speaker 1: You kind of just move on with your day. And
Speaker 1: then there's times like this when it just absolutely sucks
Speaker 1: because it didn't work out. It's just it's a very
Speaker 1: hard thing mentally, this this poker stuff, and it just
Speaker 1: when you when you're trying to get better, it just
Speaker 1: kind of eats you alive. So that's where that is.
Speaker 1: But if you guys want to let me know what
Speaker 1: you thought of the hand, and I don't use you
Speaker 1: guys as sugarcoat it for me, just if you want
Speaker 1: to email podcasts at pokergot dot com if you want to,
Speaker 1: you know, send me a DM on Twitter or whatever.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm happy to take whatever you say. If
Speaker 1: you tell me I'm a stone idiot, cool, But at
Speaker 1: least can you just back it up with some reasoning
Speaker 1: so I can hopefully learn That would be great my
Speaker 1: summer overall. I came into the summer planning to play
Speaker 1: a little bit over thirty thousand dollars in tournaments at
Speaker 1: the World Series of Poker. I ultimately only played twenty
Speaker 1: five nine hundred because some of the tournaments I planned
Speaker 1: for multiple bullets, I didn't use all the bullets.
Speaker 2: I played eight.
Speaker 1: Tournaments, I fired eleven bullets total. I cast for sixteen
Speaker 1: eight hundred, so had a loss of ninety one hundred
Speaker 1: in terms of what I put in and what I
Speaker 1: get back out looking back on it all in terms
Speaker 1: of my play, because this is it for me playing.
Speaker 1: I'm a guy who I build up to the main event.
Speaker 1: I play the main event, and then I can't really
Speaker 1: play anything else after, and if I did, I would
Speaker 1: be burning my own money and everyone else's money that invests,
Speaker 1: just because to me, it's like build up to the
Speaker 1: main play it as that big climax, and then move on.
Speaker 1: Maybe if I was a professional player, like I know
Speaker 1: a lot of people out there are, then yeah, it's
Speaker 1: just next tournament, whatever, let's go, let's go, let's go,
Speaker 1: let's keep getting it in, but not for me. Plus
Speaker 1: couple with the fact that now it's right back into
Speaker 1: work mode, let's go. Overall, though, feel really good about
Speaker 1: how I played, and also how I showed up every
Speaker 1: single day, which I think is a big, big thing
Speaker 1: when you're out there playing. We're the mistakes in my game.
Speaker 1: I mean, of course, I mean, let's some be idiots here.
Speaker 1: I mean, for example, probably some mistakes in this main
Speaker 1: event blood that I ran that I'll have to study
Speaker 1: and learn from and get better from, and also several
Speaker 1: other ones that I need to learn from and improve.
Speaker 1: I did the thing where I was writing down every
Speaker 1: single hand I played the summer, so I have all
Speaker 1: of them. I'll review them, I'll get with my coach,
Speaker 1: get back in the lab, keep working, hopefully come back better.
Speaker 1: If I had to grade myself over the course of
Speaker 1: the summer, I'd say I'd say I played a minus poker,
Speaker 1: maybe even a poker heck, maybe even a plus, but
Speaker 1: firmly somewhere in the a's Now that's me grading myself
Speaker 1: on my scale. Is my a game on the same
Speaker 1: level as some of the very best players in the world. No,
Speaker 1: some of the top players in the world, good players
Speaker 1: in the world. No, but the standard that I judge
Speaker 1: myself on, you know. And it's not to say that
Speaker 1: I lack any sort of confidence, because I don't think
Speaker 1: that I do, is just I need to I need
Speaker 1: to judge myself by how good I think I can play.
Speaker 1: And I think I played the best poker that I've
Speaker 1: played for an extended period of time, and I'm very
Speaker 1: happy with things. My job is also to show up prepared,
Speaker 1: which I think I did, make the best decisions that
Speaker 1: I can with the information that I have, you know.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I think I did all that sort of stuff,
Speaker 1: and now the next step is to hopefully keep improving.
Speaker 1: I lost money, but I didn't lose a lot from
Speaker 1: what I planned to put in, so I guess silver
Speaker 1: lining there. You know, plenty of plenty of players out
Speaker 1: there have losing summers, and plenty of them lose pretty big.
Speaker 1: Didn't have the summer that I was hoping for financially,
Speaker 1: but also didn't feeling you know, don't don't feel like
Speaker 1: I beat myself in if I'm going to phrase it
Speaker 1: that way, just because I you know, again, twenty six
Speaker 1: thousand dollars in sixteen eight out minus ninety one hundred,
Speaker 1: not that big deal. I also put myself in a
Speaker 1: couple spots to make some deep runs and I competed well,
Speaker 1: and I came away with some ideas, you know, un
Speaker 1: where like where I can certainly work to get better.
Speaker 1: So again, I just I feel really good about things.
Speaker 1: This is obviously gonna be my last little, you know,
Speaker 1: event session, so bear with me out there, listeners. I
Speaker 1: appreciate you guys. I feel the best I ever have
Speaker 1: playing and that's for sure something that I that I
Speaker 1: can build on. And then I don't know how much
Speaker 1: live poker I'm gonna play in the back half of
Speaker 1: the year. I mean it's hard, you know, you have to.
Speaker 1: At least with the World Series of Poker. It's good
Speaker 1: because you can go I go down there and I'm
Speaker 1: already gonna be working, you know, every single day, and
Speaker 1: then I can plan a few days to play here
Speaker 1: and there, and there's just so much poker in a
Speaker 1: relatively short period of time that you can just get
Speaker 1: a couple of these events in, which is awesome. Outside
Speaker 1: of that, I kind of just prefer to play online now,
Speaker 1: you know, you can fire up multiple tables. You can
Speaker 1: get more volume in online competition, you know, at least
Speaker 1: on wisip dot com. I think is fairly tough, but
Speaker 1: I like that because it allows you to get better,
Speaker 1: you know, Iron Shopper AND's Iron. The next thing I'm
Speaker 1: looking forward to the most is at end of the year.
Speaker 1: Like I almost wish I could fast forward for those
Speaker 1: WPT World Championship Series. At the win, I talked about
Speaker 1: how they announced their dates and how they are coming
Speaker 1: back in December. I love that series. I love that venue,
Speaker 1: and I can't wait to get out there and get
Speaker 1: after if you guys have the opportunity to come out
Speaker 1: and play that event, especially the WPT Prime Championship. But
Speaker 1: that tournament alone is worth the trip, you know, as
Speaker 1: long as they have it again. Yes, the schedule is
Speaker 1: not out, but I would anticipate they would. Why wouldn't they?
Speaker 1: That tournament is freaking awesome. So I can't wait to
Speaker 1: get out here to play that.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: I'll pop into some stuff here and there, but mostly
Speaker 1: online and just trying to improve to get better.
Speaker 2: But all right, that's gonna be the show.
Speaker 1: My main event is over, but that does not mean
Speaker 1: the main event is over. Because we are going to
Speaker 1: be tracking this thing all the way till the end.
Speaker 1: On Tuesday, we have Day two D that's the biggest
Speaker 1: starting flight coming in. There's a ton of players still left.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to see where this late registration number
Speaker 1: comes in as well, because then we'll have the official
Speaker 1: field size for the twenty twenty six World Series of
Speaker 1: Poker Main Event, and then we'll be on to day
Speaker 1: four or sorry, day three. Then day four. Day four
Speaker 1: is likely when the money's gonna hit, and I cannot
Speaker 1: freaking wait for this thing. I'm also really because let's
Speaker 1: say they get let's say just nine thousand, just for
Speaker 1: argument's sake, I'm curious if they keep first place prize
Speaker 1: at ten million. I think they will. I also kind
Speaker 1: of hope that they will. I think first place in
Speaker 1: this thing should pretty much be ten million, as long
Speaker 1: as it's anywhere in the realm of ease to happen.
Speaker 1: I just think that that's such a big, cool number.
Speaker 1: I also don't think you need to go a way
Speaker 1: above it. And then if you, if you can help
Speaker 1: not going below it, I think that that's great. You know,
Speaker 1: World Series of Poker Main Event, come out, try and
Speaker 1: turn ten thousand dollars into ten million.
Speaker 2: That's great marketing. That's the headliner, all.
Speaker 1: Right, But that's gonna do it for me. As always,
Speaker 1: don't forget to like, subscribe, rate, review, all that.
Speaker 2: Sort of stuff.
Speaker 1: Send your questions, your takes, whatever they are, Tell me
Speaker 1: how bad I play. Podcast at PokerGO dot com is
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Speaker 1: the scenes. As always, my name is Donny Peters and
Speaker 1: I will catch you guys on the next Express