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