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Poker Go Podcast. My name is Donnie Peters. It is Wednesday,
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Kicking things off on today's episode, we have Sean Deeb
topping a field of seven hundred and sixty six entries
to win a little bit over one hundred and eighty
one thousand dollars. It's Deep's ninth bracelet. It moves him
to the top of the WSP Player of the Year leaderboard. Now,
it was either the last episode or maybe the episode
before that, but I caught up with Deeb on a
break for a quick chat for a few minutes, and
you guys heard him say if you listened to that episode,
you heard him say that, you know he gave himself
a very very small chance at winning Player of the year. Well,
now thanks to winning this event, it was the fifteen
hundred dollars eight game tournament, I I forget, don't think
I said that, And if I didn't, you know, forgive me.
He was able to move up to the top of
the leaderboard. Now the lead isn't big, and there's a
lot of people in contention, and pretty much like a
cash from like one of ten people could could really
shake up the top of this leaderboard. So there's a
lot of sweating still to go at the World Series
of Poker, of course that BISP Paradise is included as well.
Deep one this very event back in twenty twenty three.
Similar to Benny Glasser, who we talked about recently when
he won the fifty k PPC, Deep won his first
bracelet in twenty fifteen. Both of them now have nine.
Both of them got their first bracelet in twenty fifteen,
so they both got nine bracelets in the same number
of years. That's a pretty cool little fact about those two.
It almost felt like, you know, I watched a bit
of this live while it happened. You know, they're playing
down Deep's got a really good stack, a pretty healthy
lead at some points at one point, I walk out
up into what they call the cluster, which is these
twelve tables are on the front section of the new
main stage, and Deep's up there. They're playing with two tables. Okay.
I come check in maybe a half hour later, so okay,
they're down to one table. There's six players left. I
go and I chat with someone. It could not have
been longer than ten minutes. I come back and there's
three players left. I'm like, what the heck is going on.
I go to the back, tell the guys, you know.
I'm like, hey, there's three left. I go back out there.
Their heads up. I'm like, what the hell, what the
hell's going on? This is just I mean, there are
people that's busting and every single leah, this is crazy.
So Sean Deep ends up heads up with Dean Joe
and they're going back and forth, back and forth, and
at one point, Dean Joe starts to pull away from Deep,
and I felt it. I felt like the rail that
was watching felt it. I felt like Sean Deep felt it.
Like and what I'm saying is, oh my gosh, another
second place finished. I'm gonna finish second again. I had
those second place finishes Ata Wispy Europe. I'm here at
the World Series of Poker. I had the one final
table run where I think it was a fifth place,
but then I got the second place, finished to Joey Couten,
and here I am, I'm gonna finish second again. Like
I felt like that was the feeling for Deep and
all the people that were sweating him and watching and
even him he himself, you know, I was like, oh, man,
like you can kind of see it on his face. Well,
it turns out Deeb is able to battle back. Now,
when they were heads up, the limits were pretty high,
so you know, the chips were flying back and forth.
Deep ultimately battles back and is able to close it
out in a game of PLO to send Dean Joe
packing in second place, with Dean jo taking one hundred
and twenty thousand dollars for his finish. But for Deeb,
you know, you could kind of sense like a little
bit of relief, but in a weird kind of way.
It was so when he lost to Joey Couten. Now, obviously,
Sean Deep is the ultimate competitor when it comes to poker.
He wants to win, especially at the world. So he's
a poker, right, we all know how much he wants
to chase Player of the Year. He wants to get
these bracelets. He keeps saying he's gonna run down held me,
all that sort of stuff. When he lost to Joey Cooten,
he kind of like stormed out. I talked about that
a little bit, and you know, he was a little
bit upset with how Joey handled some things and whatever.
So but also like you know, dee wants to win,
and it's it's frustrating when you get heads up and
you have a lead and you ultimately lose, and you know,
it's just a you know, it's a giant headache to
deal with. This one. He wins, and it's not like
deeb is like celebrating. He's not that type of guy.
You know, he shakes the hand of Dean Joe, he
you know, says that he played a great game, like
all that sort of stuff. And then the relief is
more like the pep in his step came back, meaning
he was quickly like right back into grind mode, like okay,
I got a register for the next tournament, which I
think at the time was the twenty five hundred dollars
mixed triple draw. You know, so like, can we hurry
up with these photos? Can we do any interviews quickly?
Like all that sort of stuff. Even with me, I
the photos happened, just so you guys are aware that
the winner photos happened. Then it's usually like Pokernews or
poker dot Org. Well, first it'll be a dubis a
p interview, which in this case it was with Sean
Deeve and Natalie Bodi, the Great Natalie Bodi went up
and she interviewed him, and then I think poker dot
org and or Poker News might have grabbed him for
a quick interview. And then as he's walking off. You know,
we always tend to go last. You know. One of
the things we do, if you guys have seen any
of the interviews that we've been doing, we kind of
pull people back to a different little space. So you know,
we're gonna let everyone else go and do their thing first,
and then we'll come in at the end. No big deal,
We'll wait. But dee you know he said no to me,
I mean politely, he was like, you know what I'm
gonna get in this next tournament? There's forty five minutest'll break,
I'll grab you know, can we do it on the
next break? I was like, yeah, sure, no problem. So
you know that's how that went. But what I'm getting
at is like it was a sense of relief in
the sense that he was back on top of Poy
and it was like, Okay, I got the win, let's go.
Poy's back on, let's gun for it. And that's the
sense that I got. He was right back in to
that next tournament and he was, you know, full grind mode,
full Sean Deep, pep in his step, like let's go.
And speaking of the interview, you know, I did talk
with Sean deeb. You know, some of you might have
saw it on social media already, but for those that didn't,
I'm gonna play that for you guys.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: We spoke on the break about forty five minutes or
so after his win. We talked about getting his ninth
bracelet chasing Player of the Year. You guys can hear
what he thinks his odds are still, you know, and
more comes from that interview. So here's that. Now, this
is Sean Deep after winning bracelet number nine. All right,
Sean several close calls. You finally got the job done,
but it wasn't easy. You started with a chip deficit
ultimately came back in that moment, are you are you
feeling any pressure? Like, oh no again second place?
Speaker 3: You know, starting down two to one chips, I was like,
if I lose this one, it's okay.
Speaker 2: But you know, then I got him down to like.
Speaker 3: You know, three, five, six million, and the battle back
and then I got them short and then I double
them up. So it's like, you know, I already kind
of feel the storylines happening, but you know, thankfully I
went on the right rush in the right time, and
you know one, you know, I double them up and
then I got it in again in PLO and I held.
Speaker 1: When you put so much pressure on yourself, or I
should say, when you care so much about chasing Player
of the Year right and you have all these close calls,
but you're still not getting the results you might have
hoped for.
Speaker 4: You know, how.
Speaker 1: Easy is it or difficult is it to stay patient
through it all and just trust the process.
Speaker 2: I mean, I just know that POI is a volume
based game.
Speaker 3: I think that the top ten to fifteen people in
POY this year are the strongest overall players that ever
has been assembled, and we're all so close in points.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: Obviously, I've had very few cashes in Vegas this year,
but three of them were very valuable in POY points.
Speaker 2: So I know what I got to do for the formula.
Speaker 3: I have the lead currently, but I know that every
day someone in the top ten is going to be
cashing or making a finel table. So I keep showing
up every day, keep putting the volume, and you know,
I appreciate gig putting the prize school, and I really
love to see so many people going hard for Player
of the Year because I think it wouldn't be as
rewarding if people are like, you know, I'm not gonna
go for it, But everyone who's close is, you know,
really going balls to the wall.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say you'd be someone who would change your
day to day. Right, you're gonna be here, You're gonna
be firing all the tournaments, and you're gonna be going
for it. But mindset wise, now that you are back
up on top, is a little bit more pep in
your step going to that next one?
Speaker 3: Well, I mean it definitely means that my smaller point
scores are gonna make a difference because I think almost
every one the top ten has more except for Yanni
has more cases than I do, you know, So I
know that every point I get is gonna go very
likely to my top fifteen scores at this point. So
I know that every little and you know it's gradual
as well, So every little point's gonna matter, and anything
can happen, you know, if you know, I put enough
fighting shots so far this year, no matter what, I'm gonna,
you know, be happy with my play and hopefully I
take down a couple more so then people don't try
so harden Bahamas.
Speaker 4: In this tournament where you are you happy with your play?
You know? Through it all.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's an eight game tournament. I've played a
lot of these. I've won this tournament in twenty twenty three.
It's definitely once I get the chips that I got early.
People are scared of me in big bet, they're scared
of me in stud games. So I did a lot
of stealing. I did not have the best hand a lot,
but that's kind of always been my Steamroll style, and
I thankfully got a lot of tables where they let
me steal more than my fair share of pots.
Speaker 1: Got to ask you about something you said. You said
that you know the Player of the Year race. To
you is you know that it's a volume game. Does
that possibly hurt that title just knowing that it's a
volume based game.
Speaker 4: More so or no?
Speaker 3: I think that it's so hard to play good poker
every day, every game, every buying level. And you know
so many people who have won Player of the Year,
say Dan Zach or Ema Takas something like, you know,
I talk about my view like I hope I never
have to do that again. You know a lot of
people get burnt out because they have that one summer.
They just go for it, you know, and it really
takes a sick individual to do it multiple times, to
really compete day and day out every year. And you know,
I love every year because I get to know new competitors.
Speaker 1: You've got two POI titles already, and you're now the
front runner having taken the lead. You got the nine
brace that you've said many times you think you're gonna
chase down Phil Hellmuth. How much weight do you put
into these milestones that you're chasing?
Speaker 3: Think, you know, my accolades mean a lot. Hopefully I
get in the Hall of Fame this year. Obviously bracelet
number nine will probably help my cause a little bit.
But no, I think that I've been you know, a
pro for twenty years now, twenty plus years, and show
up here every day, love the game, love the people
I meet.
Speaker 2: You know, met my wife because of poker.
Speaker 3: So I think that it's the greatest job ever, and
I'm happy to be able to still do it every day.
Speaker 1: The other day, you and I spoke quickly. You said
your chances for Player of the Year around ten percent.
If that, what do you think they are now?
Speaker 3: I think there are only like fifteen or twenty, just
because there's so many people in the top, like you know,
there's no way, like there's no lead is safe right
now this year. You know, the main evance can give
a ton of points. There's just so many elite players
who play high buyings, low stuff, and if they, you know,
put in the volume that I'm putting in, you know,
I'm maybe fifteen, maybe twenty. I got to look at
really the actual scores of everyone, but I just kind
of know at this point, the more points I get,
the higher MIC what he gets. So when be in
every tournament, be fining around and have some fun.
Speaker 4: Did you talk to the wife and kids after you won?
Speaker 3: My kids were asleep, you know, East Coast. My wife
fell asleep when I was heads up.
Speaker 2: She woke up.
Speaker 3: Someone kept calling her and she talked to me for
a little bit, and yeah, you know, she's supportive. She
doesn't get enough sleep and it sucks the time zones.
But you know, it's how life goes.
Speaker 1: When people look back on your career, whenever the heck
that might end. You know, what do you want them
to say about Shawnde.
Speaker 3: I always did what was best for the industry. I
always were my heart on my sleeve. You know, I'm honest.
I don't have great you know, I'm not always easygoing
and out, you know, very friendly. I can be miserable.
I can be cunty. I can you know, I can battle,
But that's just because of the competition side. You know,
I think a lot of phill honey that's rubbed off
of me over the years. I mean I was like
that way before, but even more so. Some of his
manners I've picked up over the years. But no, I
just hope that, you know, people realize that you know,
I appreciate everything poker gave me, and I've tried to
give back in so many ways, consulting, helping dealers, helping staff.
You know, I feel like of all the top, you know,
high limit guys, I'm more friendly with the median staff
than almost anyone else. So I just think that that's
the type of person I am. That's the way my
parents raised me and my grandma. You know, you just
appreciate everyone, and you know I'm not better than anyone else,
you know, because of what I've done in poker.
Speaker 2: I'm just play a lot of poker.
Speaker 4: Last question here, what do you think it's gonna take
to get number ten? Now?
Speaker 2: Ending the tournament with all the chips.
Speaker 3: It's really when you have all the chips in front
of you, you get a bracelet at least the events
that I play, so yeah, you know I'll be firing online,
firing live, and who else anything can happen.
Speaker 2: For us this summer.
Speaker 1: So interesting to hear from Sean deep there. How he
still doesn't give himself too big of chances, you know,
I think he said fifteen to twenty percent if I
remember correctly, in terms of winning Player of the Year,
because as he said, you know, this is probably the
toughest top ten to fifteen players in the race for
the WSIP Player of the Year. I'm just gonna head
to WSP dot com right now and pull up the
Player of the Year standings. But of course you have
Sean deeb on top. You've got Alex Foxen in second
less than one hundred points behind, so any sort of
deep run from fox and he's right there. Ioiqihara is
up there. He's already won two bracelets this summer. Josh Aria,
Nick Shulman, Benny Glauser, Josh reikerd Elis Parsonen Martin Zemani,
Michael Musrocky, Justin Liberto, Chris Hunikan, Marco Johnson, Calvin Anderson,
Jesse Lawns. That's the top fifteen. I mean, that's just
absolutely insane that that's the top fifteen. You know, a
little bit further down you got a Dylan Smith there,
you got a Yuris of Aleski, you got a Chris Brewer.
Like I mean, this is an absolutely stacked race for
the WSOP Player of the Year, and we got a
lot of big events still to happen. You know, of course,
we have the wsp Man event, where as you heard
Sean say, there's gonna be a lot of points up
for grabs. So if anyone can put together a run
in that event, which is very hard to do, yes,
but if anyone does it, that could really shake up
these standings. You know, you also have I think the
ten K six packs is still coming. You got the
twenty five K horse is still coming. So there is
some big stuff that is on the horizon. Maybe a
fifty k or two are on the horizon, you know,
So there's a lot of stuff. And then fast forward
to December WASIP Paradise. We know how big the events
are going to be there. A lot of the names
that I just read off are going to be down
there blasting at Paradise. Right, So there's a lot to
be settled in the Wasby Player of the Year race. Yes,
right now Sean deeb is in the driver's seat, but
you know, this is still pretty much anyone's game. And
I think in past years, you know, we've kind of thought, Okay,
Sean Deep's the favorite, maybe there's a handful at best
of other players out there who could really challenge Sean Deeb.
And I like the fact that we have ten, fifteen,
twenty players that could legitimately go on to win the
WASP Player of the Year title. I think that's great. Now,
I'm like bought into watching and sweating this a bit
more like I think that that's awesome. And I heard
that they did do some tinkering to the point system
for the WASP Player of the Year. So if this
is what they wanted to have some greater competition here,
and you know, hopefully you get it with with some
really big names that can draw in some of the
viewers out there, then that's a great thing. So you know,
I guess kudos to the WSOP there if they did
in fact tinker with this, because this race is pretty
awesome right now. I mentioned him earlier when I talked
about Deep getting number nine, and that is Benny Glaser.
And I just want to kind of go back to
this point or maybe it's not a whole point, maybe
but it's more like a take and it might be
something that I'm kind of working through. You know, I
was kind of going through the rundown how I wanted
to map out the episode, and I kind of started.
I couldn't help but think about Benny Glaser while pennying
my notes and reviewing all the stuff as it relates
to Sean Deep. Now, I don't want to take away
from anything that Sean Deep has done and his win
of his ninth bracelet and all that sort of stuff, right,
because you know, that's why I tried to spend a
little bit of time on it, play the interview, et cetera.
I do still think that in some degree we're under
selling Benny Glaza. We always talk about Sean Dee being
the one to ultimately chase down Phil Hammy. We always
talk about Sean Deep as it relates to WSP Player
of the Year every year. You know, why can't that
be Benny? You know, I guess the question really is,
have we just become so accustomed to Sean Deep's greatness,
specifically as it relates to the WSP that we don't
evaluate other players, and especially the ones that are so
good in mixed games, like Benny Glauser, that we don't
evaluate them by the same standard. Now, it's obviously true
that maybe Benny doesn't play every single event to the
extent that deeb does. You know, he's not like Benny,
wouldn't I don't think Ben would do what Sean Deep did.
For example, what like Shawn Deep wins this event, he
rips through the interviews, he tells me he wants to
wait because he's already registered for the next tournament. He's
off and he's going like, I think Benny would be
more of like a I don't know, maybe kind of
a soak it in for a little while, you know,
and then get into the next tournament and that sort
of thing. He's not grinding the schedule as hard as
Shandee does. And Benny does grind the schedule hard, you know,
but he's I mean, you heard Sean Deep in his
interview say that the Player of the Year stuff is
basically a volume game, which did prompt me to say, like, well,
does that kind of diminish the accomplishment because if it's
just a volume game, like, aren't you kind of gaming
the system? So doesn't that make the award worth a
little bit less in your eyes? But anyway, Benny's elite, right.
And another thing, just as it relates to who's gonna
chase down helmet first, you know, if you're talking about
these two and the reason why I'm thinking about these
two is because you know again, they both got their
first brace it in twenty fifteen, and now they've had
nine since then. So in that same time for him,
they've both won nine. But Benny Glauser is three years
younger than Sean Deep, right, so he's doing this at
a younger age. I don't know. I just something about
the youth, like it feels like Benny's maybe slightly more
in his prime than Sean Deeb is. We also know
Benny can play all the games. Deep can obviously play
all the games. Now deeb is probably much better in
the big bet stuff, maybe not much better, but better
in the big bet stuff, and then Benny's probably a
little bit better in the mixed game stuff, you know.
Speaker 2: So you know, I mean.
Speaker 1: Whatever, that's a wash at the end of the day,
but their resumes they're pretty similar. I've already talked about
the nine bracelets over that same time period. For Benny,
you know, his shiny moment just came recently won the
Poker Players Championship. I think you can easily make the
case that he's the most technically gifted mixed game specialist
in the world when it comes to tournaments. He also
had that one summer when he won three bracelets in
a summer, which is a freaking incredible accomplishment.
Speaker 2: Right, deeb.
Speaker 1: You know he doesn't have the PBC title, Okay, but
he's a two time Player of the Year, right. I
mean that you have to win, you have to perform,
and you have to win, and winning at the WSP
means bracelet, So you know, WSP Player of the Year
twice for him. He's one of the most versatile tournament
players ever. He's certainly one of the most feared tournament
players ever. His big thing is, obviously he plays virtually
everything that he can get his hands on on the schedule,
so is volume of volume volume. He is obsessed with
the w A P and maximizing that volume. So you know,
the difference between these two, it's not necessarily the ability
between them, because you know, again I could say that
Deep is probably the better between these two and the
big bet Ben he's probably the better in the mixing
game stuff. Okay, Fine, it's more about the philosophy where
deb has he takes to the ws AP trying to
win Player of the Year, and he's even said like
some extreme things where it's like I Shi almost not
play the WSP Main Event, because if I get sucked
into that, it doesn't necessarily help me because I can't
play all these other tournaments that I would be missing
if I'm in the WSP Main Event for let's say
five or six days, which is a decent result financially,
if you're in it for five or six days, because
you're probably going to be cashing from anywhere from thirty
to let's say eighty thousand dollars, which is a nice
chunk of change. Yes, but how many POY points are
you going to get for that versus how many tournaments
did you have to miss because you were stuck in
this tournament This year, things could be a little bit
different if they did change up the points for me
a little bit more. And Deep, I feel like Deep thinks, so,
you know, I don't want to put too many words
in his mouth here, but when he says that there's
going to be so many points up for grabs in
the WSP Main Event, I think he knows, you know
that that's the tournament. Like you do very well in
that tournament, that can really set you apart in that
POY race. So for Deep, you know, he's basically made
the WSIP a volume practice, a mathematical exercise. He's just
going to register everything, possibly multiple tournaments at once, you know,
because he believes that volume was what ultimately helps him
and his chances at winning bracelets and winning Player of
the Year, you know. So I think that's obviously why
we obviously talk about him chasing Hellmuth. It also helps
that when you think about who's going to chase down Helmuth,
it's easy to think about the guy who openly says
he's going to catch Helmuth, which Deep does over and
over and over again. Now Benny, on the other side,
he's been a little bit more selective. He still plays
a high volume, yes, but he will be more selective
than Deep is, you know, and it's he's not as
loud with like that I'm going to chase down Hellmuth.
I mean, I really can't recall him saying that specific thing, you.
Speaker 2: Know, at all.
Speaker 1: But if Benny decided tomorrow or for the next sp
that he's going to play every eventor he's going to
approach the WCB schedule the same as Sean Deep does
for the next five or ten years, I mean, is
anyone going to be shocked if he ultimately is the
first one to chase down Phil Hammuth, and he could
even do it now, doing what he does and being
more selective, I certainly would not be surprised if that
happened at all, you know, so, given how well he performs, Benny,
I'm a little bit hesitant to say dominant, but given
how well he performs in the mixed games, it's completely
within the realm of possibility that he's the one that
catches hellm youth. And you know, DEEB will probably be
somewhere close. You know. I'm just again, I don't want
to take away from DEEB, and I don't want to
give a back seat to deb and I don't want
to say, hey, it's Benny and it's not deep. I
just think that Benny should be on a little bit
more equal footing, if not fully equal footing to DEEB
when it comes to the conversation or the debate or
the discussion of who is ultimately going to run down
Phil Hammiuth. First, Dee's greatness is often been measured by
volume plus excellence. He cashes a crap ton. He always
contends for Player of the Year. I really can't I
mean I'm sure obviously there's been years, but I can't
really recall a year where we're not like, yeah, Deep's
in the running Deeps and the running Deeps in the
running you know, he gives himself more chances out there
than almost anyone else. I mean, it's probably who Texas
Mike Michael Manchek is the only other one that who
approaches it like this, you know, but I think Deep
is still the top dog in that category. You know,
Benny is more about his conversion rate, if you want
to put some sort of metric on it. He doesn't
need a crap ton of cashes. He's like he's a
little bit more selective while still putting in a really
good amount of volume. And then when he's in the
running Deep, Benny is a closer. So it's it's just crazy,
you know, to have these two in this sort of air,
not only kind of going head to head with each other.
You know, you've got Benny wins number nine, Deep comes
back right, right back and wins number nine right, but
then you also have them both kind of converging as
in my opinion, these are the two front runners to
chase down Phil help me. You know, if anyone is
ultimately able to chase him down or that first person
to chase him down. Right, they're both taking a little
bit different roads to get to the same destination. But
I think it's just becoming a little bit harder to
sort of forget Benny Glauser or put him to the side.
You know, I think he should start being mentioned much
more so, right alongside Sean Deep whenever the conversation turns
to you know, hey, who's gonna catch helme first? If
anyone does it, who's it going to be? You know,
I think these two are neck and neck with each other.
Another player who we could we could we could talk
about this with is Michael the Grinder and is Rocky
because he just won his ninth bracelets in the ten
k Poo Championship. He topped a field of eight hundred
and thirty six entries to win one million, three hundred
and fifty thousand dollars. Now, this this run for Miss
Rocky was out of control. Four day tournament. He's the
chip leader at the end of day one, he's a
chip leader at the end of day two, he's a
chip leader at the end of day three, and then
he wins the tournament going into the final day, similar
to how he went into the final day in the
WSP Main Event last summer when he won that damn thing.
He had that huge chip lead and then he joked
that it was going to take an hour to end it.
He ended it in an hour. Here he goes into
the final day. He had more than forty million in chips,
which was more than one hundred and sixty big blinds.
Second place had five million, and third place had four
and a half million, or his five and a half
million and four and a half million, twenty two big
blinds in eighteen big blinds respective, he had in absolutely
bonkers chip lead entering the final day. And I know
I referenced the end of day chip leader because that's
just right now. That's what's easy for me to look up.
I can pull up poker News, I can go to
the live reporting section, you know, I can quickly see
I can click on the days. I can quickly see
who finished the day as the chip leader. It was
miss Rocky all of the days, I honestly have. I
can't tell you if he dropped out of the chip
leader because he was freaking steamroll in this damn tournament
from start to finish. It was wild. It was absolutely wild.
I've when he won the main event last year. Now,
kind of once he got the chip lead at the
final table, he started to kind of steam roll and
it was definitely his tournament. But up until that point,
like there were times when he was all in, he
had to get lucky, he had to survive that sort
of stuff like this was just Miss Rocky in the
driver's seat the whole fing time. It was crazy. And
in such a volatile game like PLO. Now, I know
you can play it with a little bit less of
a volatile strategy, you know, but one I don't think
Michael Miss Rocky is ever doing that too. I'm just
saying that, like you know, a turncard or a river car,
that it can change anything in PLO, and there's so
much happening in the hands, and this guy just absolutely
sun run this thing from start to finish. It was crazy.
Now one of the reasons why I don't think that
I can quite get there in terms of putting Miss
Rocky on the same footing as Deep and Glaser in
terms of like who's gonna run down Phil helm Me first,
even though they all have nine Bracelets. It's just because
the volume I don't think is fully there with with
Michael the Grinder, Miss Rocky, you know, so I can't
quite put him there. Now. I guess you could probably
make up for the lack of volume as it pertains
to the other two, as it compares to the other two,
with the fact that, you know, when when Grinder gets hot,
there is absolutely nothing like it in poker. It's also
super refreshing to see somebody as big of a star,
as popular as he is at and as a successful
as he is as Michael the Grinder Ms Rocky, who
celebrates like he's been playing poker for six months and
this is his first goal. Bracelet win. You see jumping
up and down, arms wide, screaming, jumping into the arms
of his supporters, yelling like this guy fucking loves it,
and it's that energy when you see it out there,
is incredible. If you guys haven't seen the winner interview
that we did, check it out on the Poker Grol
social media channels. Our guys Antonio Abrego Enrique Malfavon. They
caught the winning moment that I'm kind of trying to
describe right now, and it was just it's awesome to see.
Not only does he act like that, but Grinder's got
this whole crew that comes with him and they're so
bought in to all of it too, Like, you know,
it's it's really refreshing because I would like to think
that if I were to win a bracelet, or if
I would win any tournament, Fuck Jesus, I would want
to I would act like that, you know, because I
would just be so elated, so over the top with
with actually accomplishing that. And this guy just keeps on
doing it and keeps on doing it, and it's still
it's like it's his first time and it is just
so awesome to see. In a way, I kind of
wonder if we take this guy for granted with how
freaking cool he is now, I know, yeah, we can
make fun of his play sometimes and he's not exactly
the most studied Solver era type of player, you know,
but he's freaking awesome. He's the freaking Grinder. Like it's
just it's it really is so cool. And it's also
like when you see a run like this, you could
almost tell, like at least I felt like I could tell,
like you saw he came he bought in on day
one he got a huge stack and you were just
kind of thinking, like, he's gonna win. I know, this
tournament has to go three more days. I know how
tough this tournament is. You know, it's a k PLO
championship against well, first of all, the field size is
more than eight hundred entries, right, that's not easy to
get through. Then as good as these players are in
this tournament, I mean, it's just like, yeah, he's gonna win.
You can sense it. You're like, yeah, this is what
grinder does. And I feel like he can also sense it.
You know. It's it's kind of like smelling blood in
the water, but it's a little bit more fun and playful.
Then then that might be. You know, just over the
last fifteen months, he won that fifty k PPC for
a fourth time, right, that's just insane. Then he wins
the main event, of course, then he snapped and ducted
it into the Boker Hall of Fame on the set.
You know. Then he follows it up this summer by
winning I mean, one of the toughest PLO fields of
the summer. I know that there's higher buying PLO events,
but when you couple the price point here of ten
k with the fact that it had eight hundred and
thirty six entries. I mean, this probably is the toughest
ten k PLO or the toughest PILO tournament of the
summer to win, and he just ripped through it like
it was nothing, you know, So we got to give
him as rocky his flowers. He's an absolute gem in
the industry. Ever since he came in and was doing
his damn thing on the World Poker Tour back in
the day, the Grinder like he has been. He has
been awesome from start to finish. And I know for
some time there he did kind of dip out of
the spotlight. He wasn't around as much.
Speaker 2: Whatever.
Speaker 1: He's fucking back and it's so great that the Grinder
is back and having the success like this.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: Yes, the style is unconventional. Yes, he doesn't maybe fit
the mold of everyone else out there that's doing the
whole solver stuff and trying to be excellent and learn
theory and all that sort of crap. But the guy
is just an absolute freaking beast. Like it's just so
much fun. Nine bracelets, four PPC's. He's the WSB Main Event,
champ Wild Poker Hall of Famer. You know, he's won
in all these different games, he's got the WPT success
on top of it all. Like there are few people
that have had that type of career anywhere, like that
type of success. It's not just poker, it's like anywhere
winning all that that type of stuff. Like, you know,
it's just I just I kind of want to just stop.
And I know it's easy to kind of laugh and say,
like he's just grinder. He's doing grinder things. Yeah, he
got hot for three or four days or whatever, But
I don't know, I feel like we need to stop
and kind of just appreciate this thing because we're never
going to see another Grinder ever, Like there is never
going to be another Michael Musaki ever. So I mean,
it's just so cool and I hope he's just around forever.
I really hope he is, and I hope he's still
winning because it's simply the best thing in the world
to watch when it happens. One winner that we haven't
talked about yet, but of course we have to talk
about her, that is sky Chen. She captured her first
World Series of Poker Brasa by winning the record setting
Ladies Championship one K buy in here fourteen hundred and
seventy five entries. Chen, who is a former software engineer,
she won one hundred and ninety four thousand dollars. This
event continues to perform really well. You know, I mentioned
the fact that it was a record setter. It topped
last year's record setting field by around one hundred entries,
and Chen is on top of them all. Plenty of
players every single year they chase bracelets, chase bracelets, chase bracelets.
Of course, Chen finally got her. She did it on
the big stage. This was live stream for multiple days.
She made what has to be the call the summer,
has to be maybe the call of many summers when
she it was heads up against Aubrey Williams, and this
freaking hero call was outrageous. I mean, if one of
those hands were you got to look at the opponent
as well, and in this case Aubrey Williams, and you
have to say the bluff you tried to pull was awesome.
You just have to tip your cap to the other
player because they just did you one better.
Speaker 2: The hand.
Speaker 1: If you guys haven't seen it, go find it. It's
during heads up play. We got Queen nine for Williams.
Queen nine of diamonds. We have a ten of clubs
for Chen. Williams starts by limping the button. Chen raises
from the big lines. She makes it three point seven
big blinds. Williams calls in position jack eight three two hearts.
So Williams flops a gutter with an over. Chen's got
the back door as ace high. It goes check check
turn is the deuce of clubs. Chen checks Williams bet
what I think was two thirds pot. Chen makes the call, okay,
seems pretty fine, and standard pot is I think around
five million, maybe a little bit more. On the river
rivers is seven of clubs. Chen checks Williams jams for
one hundred and fifty percent pot and and Chen is like,
like I think she said, like why why all in?
Why did why didn't you just bet? And she she
tank calls with a high with ace ten. Williams shows
the Queen nine for Queen high and Chen was just
good there and that allowed her to take a big
chip lead and ultimately she was able to go on
to win the tournament from there. You know, Aubrey Williams
could never fully recover. But man, that was an outrageously
good call. Like an outrageously good call. I mean you
got to give it to Williams as well for absolutely
going for it there, and I mean it almost worked.
But ultimately Chen was just a little bit better on
this day. She said to Poker News in the Winter interview.
This is Chen talking about this specific call. She said,
it really felt like she was representing something extremely strong.
I just kept thinking and kept thinking, kept thinking, Oh,
just like, this doesn't make any sense in terms of
how it goes. The sizing just seemed like it was
meant to intimidate me. I'm definitely not as studied or
as experienced as she is. And so if I'm going
to take a fifty to fifty to try to win
a tournament, right there, this is going to be the moment.
Well it was the freaking moment, and holy crap, that
was an absolutely incredible call from sky Chen. And then
she goes on to win the one hundred and ninety
four thousand dollars and she is the Ladies Championship winner.
She outlasted fourteen hundred and seventy four other players in
this event, and that is a career defining moment for her.
I mentioned former software engineer. Interesting that I was also
reading through the Poker News recap that she came to
Vegas not to play poker. She came with friends who
were and those friends were playing in a majong tournament
and she was, I guess, just tagging along, hanging out whatever,
and then decided to take her shot. She's mostly a
cash game player, doesn't play many many tournaments, you know,
dabbles here and there, but she's worked her way up
to play five to ten cash. She recently took a break,
or she stepped away from her tech career. She was
going to do some traveling, just take a break from
it all and whatever. Well, I mean maybe now she's
just going to be a poker player. With the performance
like this, and one hundred and ninety four thousand dollars
richer of course, So congratulations to sky Chen for the
run there. Now, I do want to touch quickly on
the situation that did come up with second place finisher
Aubrey Williams. You know, because I know that that did
generate a lot of discussion, a lot of bad discussion.
I will say Aubrey Williams is a transgender woman. You
guys can look up some articles some stuff with her online.
I think the view that we need to take here
at least this is my view and whatever my podcast.
So I'm going to say how I feel. If someone's transitioned,
if they live as a woman, if they recognized as
a woman, if they recognize themselves as a woman, you know,
then why can't she play? And honestly, let's just not
be assholes about it on the internet. We all know
the Internet is the Internet and it can be assessable
of a place. But I mean, come on, people, like,
let's we can be better.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I don't know. I just feel like I
have to tell people. It's like, why do we have
to turn it into this thing. She's competing in the
same tournament structure as everyone else. And over the years,
you know, we've seen men enter the Ladies' tournament or
the ladies Championship simply because they have this weird rule
that you can't exactly keep them out, you know. But
they do have a rule in place that if you
are a man and you answer you're you have to
pay ten k instead of the one k the women
get the nine k discount, you know, all that sort
of stuff, and people have taken advantage of that and
they've tried to play but that's acting in bad faith
and runs completely against what the spirit of this event
is supposed to be. In this sort of situation, one
of the things that I tend to look towards is,
you know, how are the people in the tournament, this
subsection of the community. You know, how are they reacting,
what are they saying? And I think listening to those
people is oftentimes going to be the right way to
go about things versus, you know, just trying to stand
here and be the one yelling about something that's you know,
I don't know. Different to me, if the women in poker,
and especially the ones that played this tournament, if they
are fine with this, and if they feel someone belongs
and if they welcome her into the field, then that
carries a lot of weight with me. Then some random
outrage from some dudes sitting in his basement at home, like,
I don't care about that shit. You know, this is
pretty straightforward. People should be allowed to live their lives
as they choose, and especially so when they're not harming
anyone else, Like if this isn't harming anyone else then
who cares? Okay, it's wildly disappointing to see the amount
of hate that is levied on people and gets directed
at people coming from the on world. And we all
know and we all say it that, you know, online,
this type of hatred, bullying, whatever, Like it's extremely bad, yes,
but part of that is like this stuff is online.
They are streaming this stuff in YouTube, It is on
social media, so there are chats, there are conversations, you know,
there are places to go and talk and put stuff
out there. But you don't have to agree with someone,
you don't have to share the same life experiences as
someone to just treat them with basic decency, Like why
are we out here trying to like dehumanize people over
something that has nothing to do with you, honestly nothing
to do with you. So attacking a person simply for
existing or living their life isn't something that I will
ever get behind. And if that's you out there, and
if you're the one like throwing that shit around and
you know, levying those comments, et cetera, I mean, just
just grow up, right, just just grow up, take a
look in the mirror and just just grow up or
just better yet, just get offline and don't bother anyone.
Matthew Higgins winning the one K Mystery Millions. Now this field,
remember we talked about it, twenty two thousand, eight hundred
and eleven entries. He turned the one k entry into
one million dollars, his first bracelet, his largest live score
to date. But he is a seasoned pro is Matthew Higgins,
and a lot of people had a lot to say
about Matthew Higgins in terms of like how well liked
he is around the circuit. You could see in his
winter photo that was I think forty or fifty people deep.
You know, a lot of people that like I've kind
of been around. They said, you know, oh yeah, you know,
Matt won that. Matt won that, like, you know, so
he's he's definitely out there and he's well liked. I
knew of Matthew Higgins, Okay, I didn't know exactly how
well he performed in these big field, smaller Briyan Nolam
Holden tournaments. Now, of course, nothing that I'm about to
get into is on the scale of a twenty two
thousand and eight, one hundred and eleven entry field that
is their mystery millions, right, But this resume for Matthew
Higgins is outrageous. It's just absolutely outrageous. He won the
WSIBY Circuit Chalktaw main event in twenty twenty five I
think that was in November, for two hundred and eighteen
thousand dollars, probably eight hundred nine hundred entries in that one.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 1: He wins the Dubasiby Circuit Tunica main event the year before,
twenty twenty four for one hundred and sixty seven thousand dollars,
probably similar feel size. He also in twenty twenty four
he won the four hundred dollars Beau Ravage Heater for
two hundred and twenty two thousand dollars, a four hundred
dollars tournament he won for two hundred and twenty two
thousand dollars because it had four thousand, seven hundred and
four entries in that damn thing. Then he has twenty
twenty five I'm a I'm all over the place on
dates here, but whatever doesn't matter, twenty twenty fives Circuit
Cherokee four hundred dollars buying mini main he wins it
for one hundred and thirty two thousand dollars because it
had three thousand, four hundred and three entries. Twenty twenty
three WS to Be Circuit Cherokee. These these next four
things are all that the WS Top Circuit event in
Cherokee twenty twenty three, four hundred dollars Monster Sack event,
he wins that for ninety nine thousand dollars, had two
thousand and sixty one entries. Twenty twenty one, he wins
a four hundred dollar Nolanan Hold Them event for one
hundred and eleven k because it had two thousand, four
hundred and thirty seven entries. Twenty eighteen, three hundred and
sixty five dollars buy in Nolanan Hold Him tournament. He
wins that for one hundred and one thousand dollars two thousand,
six hundred and eight entries. I mean, it's wild that
somebody can win those that big of poker tournaments in
such a relatively short period of time. I mean, how
the hell you can get through fields like that and
constantly win. Then you if you look at his hand
to mobby even more, He's got a second place in
a twenty twenty two WPT seminal hard Rock Tampa event
six hundred dollars buying Nolan At hold him second place
for two hundred and eight thousand dollars because the field
was four three hundred and sixty three entries, and then
another circuit main event Cherokee in twenty twenty four he
gets second for one hundred and sixty thousand dollars. I mean,
what in the world is this guy on. I mean,
somebody checked this guy for peds. I mean, holy crap, man,
Like this is freaking wild to have this success, Like
he won two circuit main events, he got second in
another one. He's probably got other results that I didn't
even bother looking through because I was through, like, you know,
a dozen already. Then he's got all this small buying
but multiple thousands of players and entries in the field.
I mean, this is just freaking wild, right. He told
Poker News afterwards that since that Chalkdaw main event win
back in November, he was on about a three hundred
thousand dollars downs and now he rips off this this
million dollar score for winning the mistery makes I mean,
this is just freaking While Dominic Panka finished second for
six hundred and forty thousand dollars, David ODB Baker, friend
of the Pod my Guy, seventh place for one hundred
and seventy six thousand dollars. Brian Smith fifth place or
two hundred and ninety thousand dollars, known as Smitty. You
guys might recall he played on one of the Venetian
tournaments that that Remco and I commentated on. Great Dude.
He pulled one hundred thousand dollars bounty in this tournament
and it was going for some charity, which is awesome.
You know. He gave a little speech about how he
was pointing for the charity and then he just rips
off six figures hunter K. So a lot of cool
stuff that came out of the Mystery millions. But I mean,
just holy hell, this this resume for Matthew Higgins. I mean, Jesus,
I don't know how you do that in poker. It's
absolutely wild. Speaking of wild, something that I forgot to
talk about maybe a week or so ago, made five days.
Speaker 2: I don't even know.
Speaker 1: Elis Parsonen He got his second bracelet this summer, his
third overall. He won the twenty five k half Nolan
at Hold Him Half PLO of and he topped a
field of two hundred and fourteen entries to win one million,
one hundred and seventy two one thousand dollars. Earlier before this,
he won the twenty five K POO for more than
two point one million dollars. I mean, this is just
wild for this guy to win these two tournaments, but
here he is doing it. I mean, hello, Elis parsonen,
you know. And now with these two wins, he has
to be somewhere in the running for the Basis Player
of the Year race. I mean, I don't think anyone
would have guessed that that Elis Parson would be in
the mix for the Basby Player of the Year, but
here he is. And when you figure that, you know
there's there's some big buying stuff coming up. Then you know,
I think he's got a shot, right, you know, I don't.
I'm not going to sit here and exactly handicap the
whole thing. But coupled with you know what's going to
be coming at Paradise in December, if he goes there,
you know a lot of big buying Nolan and Holdeman
and polo stuff. Yes, he's a PLO specialist, but he
also plays the big buying Nolan Holdham stuff. So maybe
we'll see a run and another kind of a surprise
Player of the year guy here in Elis Parson and
he defeated finished legend U haa Helpi in second place.
Sean Winter came close again third place. There you had
Lou Garza, he was the defending champion of this event.
He got sixth place. Tande Ogranu got seventh place. Dan
Lindy got eighth place in the five K six Max
that wrapped up on Wednesday. Marcus Gonsalvez top day field
of fourteen hundred and two entries to win his first
bracelet almost a million dollar score nine hundred and seventy
nine thousand dollars. He's mainly a cash game player, is Gonsolvez.
You might have seen him on some episodes of No Gamble,
No Future Blasting Away. I think he was also on
Cash to the Titans. Doesn't play many tournaments, plays somewhere
between like two and five a year. I actually played
with him in the WSB main event a couple of
years ago. My starting table was him, Frankie Brandon, Ryan
Brown was out there. That's when I first got worried
of Ryan Brown. I had to fold the queens to
the aces of Ryan Brown. That table was very tough,
but Marcus was at that table. Yeah, Marcus is a
good dude. Again, mostly plays cash but comes out on top. Here.
One note about this field size, I think it had
a nice little boost fourteen hundred and two entries. I
think it was a around eleven hundred maybe eleven fifty
something like that last year, so maybe a little bit
of momentum here. Entering the WSP main event in the
ten K seven card stud high low eight or better,
Matt Grapman then known as Grapes. He won the event
for four hundred and fifteen thousand dollars, top day field
of one hundred and ninety entries. Jack Jermaine finished in
second place, Max Coleman third. Caitlin Komeski, she had a
deep run in the Ladies Championship. I think she finished fourth,
maybe fifth, and here she finishes fifth for ninety seven
thousand dollars. Chris Brewer also final table this event, finishing
in sixth place. Matt Craven then second bracelet for him.
He won the ten K stud backing at twenty fourteen,
so it's been a while. It's been twelve years since
Grapes is back in the waspy winner circle, but a
year he is winning the prestigious ten K seven card
stud High Low for four hundred and fifteen thousand dollars.
All right, it is time to check in on Daniel
and Legrando's run. Five players are maining in thee hundred
k PLO High Roller Dan and m'grano, at least according
to Poper News. Here he is the chip leader. He
leads ahead. It's a small lead ahead of Christopher Frank.
You got Yosuki Mickey in the mix, Philip Sternheimer and
Archer Martrosian rounding out the five more than two million
dollars more than two point two million dollars up top
Sean Winter. Another deep run for mister Winter, but ultimately
falls short of winning the race at sixth place for
him for almost four and a thousand dollars. Jeremy Osmas
had another final table run here, eighth place for two
hundred and sixty k. I believe they're going to be
wrapping this one up at some point. It is it's
twelve twenty eight am here, so I don't think they
can be playing much longer. They'll probably wrap this one up,
come back on Thursday, probably a four or five players
left in go from there. But Dan Neggs, he is
in the mix. He always talks about whether it's on
his vlogs, interviews, on various streams, you know, in person,
whatever it is, how he loves PLO and he feels
like it suits him his style of play. So here
he is in the hundred k PLO high roller looking
to win bracelet number eight and well over two million dollars.
But we'll just wellt to check in on the next
episode for that one. Ws BE Main event is coming
on Thursday. It is Day one A four starting flights.
Of course, last year's Day one A drew nine hundred
and twenty three entries I think it was last year
was nine thousand, seven hundred and something. For the total
field size, I know numbers have kind of bounced around.
I will say that the the Mini main Event saw
a nice boost in numbers. So last year Martin Cabrell
of course won the WSP Mini Main Event ten thousand,
seven hundred and ninety four entries. This year they were
over twelve thousand. They had twelve thousand, five hundred and
sixty entries. But now this is freeze out per starting fight.
Last year only had two starting flights. This year had
three starting flights, one.
Speaker 2: A, one B, one C.
Speaker 1: So that's why we did see the uptick. But still,
you know it does show demand right that, you know
it does go up. So I think things are if
we were thinking, you know a lot of this stuff
was down. If it was down, it was down. Let's
say fifteen to twenty percent. If people are thinking, okay, well,
let's just assign a decline of fifteen to twenty percent
for the WSP main event, I mean, that seems like
a big number. I don't think it's going to be
that big of a drop. So if it got nine
seven hundred and thirty five last year, I'm thinking ninety
two hundred ish. I know, I was very bullish, you know,
up until like two weeks ago. Probably I don't know.
I mean, and we'll see. I just I don't know,
you know. I just I feel like maybe it's just
not gonna blow doors. That said, and I always say this,
if you get nine thousand injuries, if you get eight
thousand enchries for a ten K freeze out I mean,
that's still a really really good number. Yes, of course,
we're going to compare it to what it got the
past year, and you know, if it dips, that's not
going to be two years in a row that it dips.
Like I get it, you know, But I mean, I
don't know. Things are. Things are just tougher now. You know,
you have cryptos kind of down, bitcoins down. It's just
expensive out there, right like all this sort of stuff.
So I don't know. I mean, maybe there's gonna be
a ton of satellite winners coming in that I'm just
unaware of. We talked about the Masado Yokosawa stuff where
he was bringing in two hundred plus people from Japan
to play. So you know, if those people are gonna
all be playing the WSMI, an event that maybe haven't
played in past years, maybe that's a nice little boost there.
So I'll say, ninety one seventy seven is my number
right now. Ninety one seventy seven. So I would say
the only the only real concern I would have if
I was the WSIP would be a number that's sub
eight thousand. Anything above eight thousand, I feel like I
can come up with twelve different reasons why it's that low.
So that's not that big of a deal at least
in my opinion. And I don't think anyone out there
should should freak out. Let's say the number comes in
it I don't know, eighty four hundred, Okay, I don't
think we should all just freak out, right, you know, Yeah,
we'll like to start getting it back up. And one
of the things is interesting is obviously there's a lot
to be made about the fact that the WSP is
going to be on ESPN this year, specifically the WSP
Final Table is going to be live on ESPN. But
are people coming out this year just with that idea
or is it going to take a year, maybe two
years for that to kick in, Meaning people see it
this year, they say, oh, yeah, I want to go
do that. Oh let's go, and then they start planning
for next year. And then that's when we see the
benefits of putting it on an outlet like ESPN to
really come home. So, you know, again, I don't think
there's really going to be any sort of cause for
concern this year unless it is sub eight thousand. But
I'm not going there, you know, I'm up over nine
thousand still is where I'm at. I believe I'm going
to play on Day one C on Saturday, which is
July fourth. I feel like I have to play that
that day because that's the day I played last year,
and I had a really good run at it. So
hopefully I can just continue that on and do as
good as I did last year. But of course, you know,
let's not try and have any sort of crazy expectations
with this behemoth of a tournament that is coming up.
Speaking of the mini main event, twelve five hundred and
sixty entries, I finished in one hundred and twenty sixth
I finished in one hundred and twenty six and I busted.
Let me look what time I busted, because I texted
my sweat thread that I busted at four to twenty
five PM, So it's twelve thirty four am, so it's
been about eight hours. A little bit more than eight hours.
I have just never felt like I have blown a
spot more than this one. Now on the drive home
and listen, if you guys don't want to hear about
me talk about this shit, then just turn the podcast
off and I'll see on the next episode. But as
I've said before, I'll say again, this is my podcast.
I'll talk about what I want. This is a bit
of a therapy session as well for me. On the
drive home, you know, it takes me whatever twenty minutes
to get home. Let's say I'm just thinking, like, man,
I didn't need to bust like I did. Now on
the other side, I'm thinking, well, one, you're gonna make mistakes, Okay,
that's just gonna happen in pokers. You can't expect to
be perfect, and I'm certainly nowhere near perfect as a
poker player. Like I try and improve, I try and
get better. But yeah, I screwed this up and I
misread kind of a situation and how I assessed a player.
I went for a bluff and I bluffed into the
stone nuts. I was drawing stone dead when I put
the money in on the flop, stone dead, okay, which
is about the most dejecting feeling in the universe. When
you just go all in the person calls, they turn
their hands. When somebody who is a decent to good player,
you know, or better, when you go all in against
them and they look back at their cards, you just
fucking know that they have it and they're just verifying
quickly that they have it like they either if it's
pre flopped, they probably have vases or kings, and if
it's on the flop, they just have like the nuts.
This person just had the enough flush and I'm just
out of out the door. So that's dejecting, like because
you're just like I can't even and like the person's hand.
I couldn't even hit like runner runner or straight flush
or like something insane. So I was literally just stone out.
I was like, well, okay, sweet, see you later. Blew
that one.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: The positive thing that I would try and tell myself
is like we're down to one hundred and twenty six
players or whatever it is. I mean, the average sack
is like fourteen big blinds. It's an absolute hit show,
Like you have no play in this tournament whatsoever. Which listen,
I don't mind. You know, I've played a lot of
dailies around town. You play a lot of stuff online
where it just gets to be like this, everyone's short
at the end and it's just whatever that said, you
do have to adjust because fourteen big blinds is you know,
it's the new twenty it's the new twenty five. Like
you just have to adjust, and I busted when I
had I had eleven or twelve big lines. So on
one side, I'm like, you know what, I kind of
have to The positive thing I would tell myself is like,
you have to kind of make you have to take
a spot if you think you have it. Maybe I
don't know. That's if I was trying to, you know,
paint this with rose colored glasses. But I just I
don't know. I didn't need to do what I did,
and I have been happy or content with I think
every single decision that I have made except for this one.
And it came in one of the biggest spots.
Speaker 4: Now I know.
Speaker 1: I had that deep run in the Millionmaker as well,
and that was obviously a big spot. I ultimately just
lost a flip at the end ace King to nine
and that was that this one. Yeah, it just it's
also like the way that this last day went. I
came in with sub ten big blinds, had like nine
point seventy five big blinds. The first hand delt it
goes raise jam I jam from the small blind raiser folds.
The guys got kings, I got eight's. I had the
eight of spades six five, four, all spades, I brick out.
I have two big blinds. I spin that shit up
to forty seven big blinds, and I'm like, here we go.
I am sun running this tournament, like let's go. Then obviously,
blinds go up, you lose some pots here and there.
Like whatever you get down, you get down. That's just
how it is. But I know that even when you
have like even when you can kind of see the
finish line, you know where you came from, which is
a field of more than twelve thousand entries, you know
that you're getting down to what is almost double digits,
you're approaching getting to one hundred left. You can almost
be like, okay, like is this gonna be the one?
And then you just you just make a bad decision
and you blow it. So I just I just I
don't know. Maybe I'm just being too hard on myself.
And again this is my little therapy session, and I'm
just annoyed. But I know when I say that I'm
happy or content with all of my decision points and
all of the hands that I have played up until
this point, that is not me saying that every hand
that I've played up until this point is correct. I'm
sure I've made four hundred mistakes, okay, But I also
feel like in the moment, just trying to make the
best decision possible. I have done that up until this point,
and I made the worst decision possible because it ultimately
caused me to bust out of the tournament. And I
just don't know what would happen if I would have
just played it differently, folded, moved on, not tried to
blah blah blah whatever. And like, I don't know, I
punted it off. Man, what the f you guys want
me to say? And I'm just I'm so mad at myself.
So I mean, I'll it's just in the moment, those
couple hours right after you bust a tournament, in a
big spot like this, you just feel it. I'm human.
At the end of the day, I'll sleep on it tonight,
I'll wake up in the morning, no big deal, and
move on with my life. But right now, yes, it
does sting. So that's that the positive side of things.
I had that deep run. I think it was two
hundred and seventieth in the Millie Maker. I got eight
hundred dollars there here, one hundred and twenty six out
of whatever, twelve thy five hundred and something got another
ak here. So so two really good runs, you know,
feel like I'm playing really good poker, feel like I'm
pretty locked in. So I am excited for the wously
main event to come on. One of the things that
I'm most happy with myself for whatever reason, and I've
you know, I've played a decent amount of poker in
my life, both live and online. I don't know, I would,
for whatever reason when I play pots, my like I
would breathe a little heavier, my pulse would go a
little bit faster, et cetera. That happened for the first
two tournaments that I played this summer. I remember busting
out of that second tournament and talking coming home, talking
to my good friend Moe Nuara, who's had success this
summer as well, you know, good for him. He was
staying with me, and I was just telling him about
you know, like my basically my physical being, like my breathing,
my my palls, which you know you can probably see
in my neck and whatever like, and he was saying
like how his his does the same thing, and obviously
a lot of people do that. I mean, it's just
I even saw I was watching a clip the other
day of on Daniel's log and he was breathing a
little heavy in the spot. You know, not that necessarily
means one thing or the other. It's just how your
body reacts. But ever since I had that conversation with mo, I,
I don't know, I've stopped it and I just I
guess I just go into every turn and I say, listen,
you're going to have certain decision points all throughout the day.
The only thing that you can do is make what
you think is the best decision point in that moment.
And when you make the decision, it's over and done with.
Like if you go all in and the guy's in
the tank, like it doesn't matter. Just there's no reason
for you to like kind of freak out inside or
have any sort of like physical build up or your
pulse going up or your blood pumping or whatever, because
that decision is done and at the end of the day,
it's just poker. So I really had a lot of
personal talks with myself, and that's probably one of the
best things I've gained from this summer of playing, is
that I'm just I don't know, I'm as calm as
I've ever been when I've played, so hopefully that means
good things to come, you know, as I can continue
to stay calm in the moments here. It wasn't a
matter of like not being calm. I just went for
a spot misreading a situation and it just freaking blew
up in my face. But yeah, I'm just frustrated with that.
So I'm gonna think about it for another hour or
so before I go to bed, and then I'll wake
up and it'll be behind me. But that's the pod.
I appreciate you guys for staying with me. I know
I went on a little bit of a therapy session
there at the end. Had a lot of winners to
hit on as well. Thank you for Sean Dee for
taking the time to chat with me. It's made of
en time boys and girls, and I cannot freaking wait
one more shout out that I have to do. Remko
Rinkoma dropped his second Face the Ace podcast with Andrew
Lucky Chewy Lichtenberger. That is amazing. You can catch it
on the Poker YouTube channel. You can catch it on
this feed as well. And shout out to Chad from
Tennessee played with him today. He was very short. He
spun up some chips. I think he ultimately yeah, I
think he ultimately busted out. I don't know where exactly,
but it was a pleasure playing with you, Chad. I
wish good things for you going forward, and hopefully you
know you keep hope you keep avoiding the little collusion
at the table and can continue to go deep in
some tournament. All right, that's gonna do it for me.
My name is Donny Peters and this has been the
Poker Go Podcast. Shout out to producer rich Ryan for
getting this up. I will talk to you guys next time.
Speaker 3: Night on the Canny expressed