Speaker 1: Hello everyone, and welcome back to a new episode of
Speaker 1: the Poker Go Podcast. It is three point thirty one
Speaker 1: in the f in morning. What the hell are you
Speaker 1: and I doing?
Speaker 2: We are so dedicated? What are we doing that way
Speaker 2: here recording the podcast?
Speaker 1: Honestly for everyone, this is insanity, insanity, absolutely craziness here
Speaker 1: at the w soph Not really that crazy, just a
Speaker 1: very very very long day and night. Yeah, but we
Speaker 1: are down to seven in the fifty k PPC, although
Speaker 1: we were down to seven like five hours ago, so
Speaker 1: we didn't really do anything other than just you know,
Speaker 1: throw some chips around. We'll hit on that. Of course,
Speaker 1: if you haven't heard already, don't know where the heck
Speaker 1: you've been. But Michael the Grind, Miss Rocky is leading
Speaker 1: the way. One of seven. I cannot believe it. Blajerryov
Speaker 1: won his second gold bracelet of the summer. Lonnie Witzel
Speaker 1: won the Super Seniors. Shina Okamoto the Japanese poker sensation.
Speaker 1: She is now the presenting sponsor of the Ladies at
Speaker 1: the Hemosphere. She is she is the house because she
Speaker 1: is the chip leader. She is the chip leader of
Speaker 1: that tournament. Going into day three, we'll get into why
Speaker 1: In case you're unaware, Reiner Kempe just won, like literally
Speaker 1: just now as we hit record. He's celebrating over there.
Speaker 1: He won the ten k Super Turbo Bounty, which actually
Speaker 1: didn't go as late as I thought it might. And
Speaker 1: then we have updates on the Gladiators A Poker, the
Speaker 1: three K No Limit, the ten K Duce seven Triple Draw,
Speaker 1: and the fifteen hundred dollars eight game. So that's what
Speaker 1: we're gonna do. I'm gonna say it right now. I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna apologize if we rip through this faster than normal,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: It is way too this is a record, this is
Speaker 3: gonna be a record.
Speaker 1: It is way too late for us to be here
Speaker 1: right now. I have to get up in like four hours,
Speaker 1: and I'm already just absolutely dreading it. I don't even
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Speaker 1: Walt do in commentary today on day four the fifty
Speaker 1: k PPC. I was in plenty of free roles. It
Speaker 1: was a whole hell of a lot of fun. You
Speaker 1: win any money, No, I didn't win any I didn't
Speaker 1: win any gold. I didn't win any gold. Okay, I
Speaker 1: did lose with a full house to quads. Some some
Speaker 1: guy played Queen three out of the small blind for
Speaker 1: a race Queen three off suit. No idea what he
Speaker 1: was doing. But if you want to come challenge yourself,
Speaker 1: play with Tim and I. He's poker Goro Tim or
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Speaker 3: Jeez, what's producer?
Speaker 1: I don't know who knows? Producer Rich is well right
Speaker 1: now he's sleeping. Must be nice, I know, must be
Speaker 1: really nice. But hop on the play poker go dot com.
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Speaker 1: a lot of fun. We're in their battle in every
Speaker 1: single day, so join us on the tables all right,
Speaker 1: fifty k p pc. Just just re aim the tournament
Speaker 1: the grinder something grinder, that's actually, I mean what this
Speaker 1: guy is unfreaking believable. Even if he doesn't go on
Speaker 1: to win this, he's already won it three times, which
Speaker 1: is tied for the most, of course without winning yet. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because this is his sixth the cash in the event. Okay,
Speaker 1: so if he wins it, he's four of six. That's amazing,
Speaker 1: right if he if he if he wins it, he's
Speaker 1: four of six. If he doesn't win, he's three of six,
Speaker 1: which is six is the most cash is in the event?
Speaker 1: I mean, just wild star.
Speaker 3: Does he do it? Does he? Honestly? You know how
Speaker 3: he does it?
Speaker 1: Speech play? Because there was a lot of speech plays.
Speaker 2: It's the all in protein brown anything that was sitting
Speaker 2: on his chips. I didn't know what it was, and
Speaker 2: then I would look closely and I was like, oh.
Speaker 1: I know. We always kind of we always kind of
Speaker 1: joke around about all the patches. Miss Rocky has famously
Speaker 1: shows up at the w Man event Foual table whenever
Speaker 1: the heck that was when he made it, and he's
Speaker 1: got nineteen thousand patches all over us it's the best
Speaker 1: you know today. At one point a new patch appeared
Speaker 1: at the GM, right. It was weird on him in
Speaker 1: the middle of the day. Is that allowed?
Speaker 2: I think that's against TS and SS Is it really?
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure that he's part of the one, so.
Speaker 1: You can't like add the actually think it is. But
Speaker 1: it was just funny. All of a sudden, He's got
Speaker 1: this bed mgym pitch. I'm like, where the hell did
Speaker 1: this thing come from?
Speaker 3: Like? What was the other one? The main one?
Speaker 1: All in? Where?
Speaker 3: What is that?
Speaker 1: I'm all in where I'm thinking Google, it's probably some
Speaker 1: sort of clothing company. Who knows.
Speaker 3: I mean, that's not all in where it's a lifestyle.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. Anyway, Michael the Grinder was rocky
Speaker 1: is leading the way he came into the day, I
Speaker 1: think third in chips with seventeen players remaining. They grind
Speaker 1: on down towards the final table, and then once they
Speaker 1: got to a single table, Grinder really started to win
Speaker 1: a bunch of chips. There was plenty of speech play
Speaker 1: involved from Grinder.
Speaker 3: What's that I want to read the rule?
Speaker 2: Go ahead, Okay, I'm gonna skip to the part that
Speaker 2: matters for players seated at a table taped for television
Speaker 2: or broadband video coverage. So you can tell this. Updated
Speaker 2: logos may not be added after the beginning of that
Speaker 2: day session of play. In addition or logos, patches and
Speaker 2: promotional language a strictly prohibited. If blah blah blah blah
Speaker 2: blah blah, none of them really matter for this one,
Speaker 2: I'm about Yes, you cannot add that's yeah, one of
Speaker 2: the old one.
Speaker 1: It was definitely added half way through the day.
Speaker 3: Not that anyone really cares.
Speaker 1: Yeah, not that anyone matters. Also, the whole the whole
Speaker 1: phone rule thing.
Speaker 3: Can wait, we need to figure this out.
Speaker 1: Like it's so, it's so they're just they're just on
Speaker 1: their phones NonStop. It was like, but some of the
Speaker 1: players are like, wait, I thought you weren't supposed to
Speaker 1: be on their phone. Some of them are like whatever,
Speaker 1: it doesn't really matter, but they're just on their phones.
Speaker 2: And then yeah, I thought it was three tables and
Speaker 2: then I had supposed to be three tables. Daniel institute
Speaker 2: a change or something like recently, Yeah, I think.
Speaker 3: There was, like they changed the rules.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean you can, we can, like look this up.
Speaker 3: I've already closed the tabin.
Speaker 1: Here this one. I'm going to pokernews dot com. Six
Speaker 1: key rule changes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, got it? Rate it out?
Speaker 1: Yeah. Here. An announcement will be made to participants once
Speaker 1: they've reached the final three tables to remove all such
Speaker 1: electronic devices value to do so, resulting penalties up to
Speaker 1: and including just qualification. I mean literally everyone is on
Speaker 1: their phone non stop.
Speaker 3: People wearing Apple watches too, saying I.
Speaker 1: Mean Apple watches, earbuds are listen. You know where I
Speaker 1: stand on this. I would never have this rule. I
Speaker 1: think it's just silly. It's whatever, it's ridiculous. But the
Speaker 1: amount of emphasis that was put on this rule would
Speaker 1: indicate to me that is it is going to be
Speaker 1: policed heavily. And it is the exact opposite. I mean Grinder.
Speaker 1: Not only did Grinder have his phone, it was ringing
Speaker 1: not stop on the BEATU like, at least turn your
Speaker 1: ringer off it huh, I have no idea going off?
Speaker 1: And Ben Lamb was like, can you turn your phone off? Like,
Speaker 1: what the hell is going on?
Speaker 3: You missed my reference?
Speaker 1: Huh?
Speaker 3: I said, who was it? That was a theatran?
Speaker 1: I don't know what that is?
Speaker 3: Theotran?
Speaker 1: What about Theotran.
Speaker 2: It was just a nod to two thousand and nine WSV.
Speaker 1: Was that like an actual thing that happened.
Speaker 2: No, I was just throwing out a random name that
Speaker 2: got a group of people.
Speaker 1: I mean it could have been Theotran. You never know.
Speaker 1: I see him every once in a while. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean the whole phone thing is just funny to me,
Speaker 1: you know, because then the players were talking, They're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: but on the outer ta we had it. No, you're
Speaker 1: not supposed to have it, like you know, so it's
Speaker 1: a whole thing. But then at one point, like the
Speaker 1: TV did go up and say everyone, you have to
Speaker 1: like take your phone on the table.
Speaker 2: I think I think final table you should. You should
Speaker 2: only take them if there is a broadcast. I think
Speaker 2: that's I think that's enough a rule. I don't think
Speaker 2: you need anything more than that three tables, two tables,
Speaker 2: not if you're on a TV table, Final table take away.
Speaker 3: Fine.
Speaker 1: The part I think is so funny about the no
Speaker 1: phones thing is you literally need your phone for the app.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you need it while in a hand.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but still but like like everything is made about
Speaker 1: the WSB plus app, so like you would like you
Speaker 1: would think like Okay, if I want to see the
Speaker 1: tournament clock on the app, if I want to see
Speaker 1: chips on the app, if I want to see all
Speaker 1: this stuff on the app on the app, if I
Speaker 1: just want to check my balance on the app. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you know, so it's like, ye, yeah, exactly, everything
Speaker 1: is on. Yeah, you're not supposed to have your phone,
Speaker 1: so we can make.
Speaker 3: Some changes next to you show.
Speaker 1: It's it's funny, but anyway, it's just that, you know, again,
Speaker 1: I don't care if they have their phones or not.
Speaker 2: No one's I don't know if he saw near the
Speaker 2: end of the ridiculous I think brit Kenny took one
Speaker 2: of those protein balls. Did you see that from Rinder? Yeah,
Speaker 2: and he was eating it. I was trying to listen
Speaker 2: to see did you hear what he said?
Speaker 1: I think he said that they were good?
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 1: By that point in the broadcast, I was so over it.
Speaker 3: It was that was it was that happened the last
Speaker 3: twenty minutes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think we played honestly one hand in
Speaker 1: the last twentyments, and it was some of those hands outrageous. Well,
Speaker 1: there was one hand where Jao Vier tanked induced to
Speaker 1: something that single draw for fucking eighteen minutes or something.
Speaker 2: I was like, bro, wasn't there like a stod there
Speaker 2: was some limit hold them tanks.
Speaker 3: There was some.
Speaker 1: Stud with Eta where she tanked on the river, cried tense.
Speaker 3: Was it the best hand? No?
Speaker 1: Well then just Grinder talked to her the whole time
Speaker 1: with Grinder called her hands. I mean, the whole thing
Speaker 1: was just I mean, part of it was that these
Speaker 1: players have been playing since since three, so they have
Speaker 1: been playing twelve hours. They're all freaking delirious. They a
Speaker 1: lot of them were drinking throughout the day, like ordered
Speaker 1: shots at one point, like Grinder and Albert Daher ordered shots.
Speaker 1: You know. Grinder also had like tequila, sodas and whatever.
Speaker 1: And then you could tell like after he had these shots,
Speaker 1: he started fading a little bit. Then he gets a
Speaker 1: red bull. It's just like the fifty k PPC is
Speaker 1: one of the best tournaments of the year by far.
Speaker 1: I mean, we all love it. It's it's ultra prestigious,
Speaker 1: the competition is elite, it's super grueling, it's got everything. Really,
Speaker 1: I have never seen it though, play like like it
Speaker 1: was a home game. I mean, like the chatter, the
Speaker 1: ordering of the drinks, the the speech play, like just
Speaker 1: really all of it. You know, it felt like more
Speaker 1: of a home game. And I think it was just
Speaker 1: the collection of the individuals that we had going deep
Speaker 1: in it. It just worked out that way. It wasn't entertaining.
Speaker 1: It was very refreshing to see that. You know, you
Speaker 1: don't really expect that. Of course, there was a lot
Speaker 1: of you know, slower moments, high level play, whatever, but
Speaker 1: you know, a lot of it was it was it was.
Speaker 1: It was pretty jovial, i'd say overall. So Michael the
Speaker 1: Grinder Miss Rocky has a big chip lead. He has
Speaker 1: ten point four million. The next closest is Andrew Ye
Speaker 1: with five point two million. So ms Rocky's basically got
Speaker 1: double crushing massive massive Chipley shout out massive. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's just it's I don't understand this guy in this tournament.
Speaker 1: I really just do not understand it. It's it's incredible. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's shocking, but like a in a way where you're
Speaker 1: just like you question how it can happen, and yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't really know what else to say. So he's
Speaker 1: going for an unpreceded fourth title. I still think the
Speaker 1: tournament should just be named the grinder no matter what,
Speaker 1: because of all the success that he's had in it.
Speaker 1: You also have Andrew Ye, who we mentioned is in
Speaker 1: second place, not too far behind. Andreas Brin Kenny you
Speaker 1: got Ja Vieira is in there, Albert daher Esther Taylor
Speaker 1: aka E Tay, and then Ben Lamb is the short sack.
Speaker 1: Ben Lamb in the last level, I think of the
Speaker 1: night he was all in twice maybe three times, kept
Speaker 1: staving off elimination with some double ups. So yeah, so
Speaker 1: this is a really, really fun final seven. They're going
Speaker 1: to come back later today, in less than twelve hours time.
Speaker 1: They're going to come back at three o'clock Vegas time.
Speaker 1: Four o'clock will be the stream HAULI Najade and Jared
Speaker 1: Blesnik will be on the call if they show up.
Speaker 1: I don't really know. It was like all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: they were like, hey, Donnie, can you do commentary? I
Speaker 1: was like, I guess, so, okay, fine, So it was
Speaker 1: me and only me for the second half. I was
Speaker 1: with Kevin Gearhart for the first half. But if I
Speaker 1: hadn't done it, who would they have gotten any idea?
Speaker 1: It was like, I don't understand.
Speaker 3: Maybe Momin Cabrell.
Speaker 1: Maybe Martin Cabrell not like that. He kept he kept
Speaker 1: coming over to that was part of the broust. He
Speaker 1: kept coming over the table, like what you know. So
Speaker 1: they were they were talking about on the broadcast, like
Speaker 1: Grinder was like, it's hilarious. Albert Daher was like, I
Speaker 1: love him. He's so funny. Brent Kenny was like, he's
Speaker 1: like he's like twenty percent funny, maybe more like ten
Speaker 1: percent funny, but like the ten percent is really really good.
Speaker 1: And then they asked Brent like what he thought about it,
Speaker 1: and Brent said, you know what, I think it's really
Speaker 1: good for me because the tournaments that I play that
Speaker 1: he plays in, he annoys everyone else for me, they
Speaker 1: all get like tilted and it doesn't bother me. So
Speaker 1: I just capitalize off everyone else getting tilted.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so you will just skip ahead real quick.
Speaker 2: But Mink Crabell was making a run in the super
Speaker 2: type of Boundy one giving his fellows yet. But I
Speaker 2: asked the TV, where are you gonna put these tables?
Speaker 2: They gonna put them right here next to us. It's
Speaker 2: like no, you know, after the issue yesterday with the
Speaker 2: tag team issue, you.
Speaker 1: Know the issue what people having fun for their friends
Speaker 1: when embraced.
Speaker 2: Them over there in that section kind of right near
Speaker 2: where we're recording, mainly because Mine Crebell has been making
Speaker 2: a little bit of a statement in the event.
Speaker 3: Okay, so that's what he was being here.
Speaker 2: So they say that, they come up, they move the
Speaker 2: chips over, they play three minutes before the break. What
Speaker 2: this mon gramelda guys walks over it to the fifty
Speaker 2: case yap and yap and yat pet and I got
Speaker 2: up to the tay guy.
Speaker 3: You said he wasn't gonna bother the fifty kilas right.
Speaker 1: They loved it. Yeah, they did not care. They when
Speaker 1: even when he wasn't over there, when he was playing,
Speaker 1: they were talking about it. They were like, he's gonna
Speaker 1: win a bracelet, and they even Ben Lamb even said that,
Speaker 1: like it's fitting that Martin Cabrel is gonna win the
Speaker 1: most hated bracelet of the summer because everyone Ben Lamb said,
Speaker 1: everyone hates the person who wins the ten k superturb
Speaker 1: of Bounty because that tournament is the one you win
Speaker 1: the most money in, but you also get the luckiest
Speaker 1: in because it's just a it's just a super turbo
Speaker 1: from start to finish. So everyone just kind of hates
Speaker 1: you because you ran super hot for twelve hours and
Speaker 1: it would be fitting that the guy who wins it
Speaker 1: is already the most hated guy in the at the sop. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so that's what they were talking about. But they they
Speaker 1: loved it up there. They did not care. They were
Speaker 1: even saying not like that, like because they were doing
Speaker 1: the whole bit up there. They did not care one
Speaker 1: and so they backed.
Speaker 3: Up about about two fifty five am.
Speaker 2: Surprisingly strong rail, but nearly three am in the morning,
Speaker 2: we're standing on the.
Speaker 1: Rail, I said. I said it on the broadcast. I
Speaker 1: was like, listen, shout out to all the viewers out
Speaker 1: there who have tuned in. I was like, but extra
Speaker 1: shout out to these people because if you ever watched
Speaker 1: live poker in person, I mean, it's not brutal. And
Speaker 1: they were just standing there. Now it's you can't see anything. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you have no idea what's going on, especially in the
Speaker 1: mixed games. Like I'm just like, how would.
Speaker 2: The people coming out in me as for chip counts
Speaker 2: and when everything been it was it was a good
Speaker 2: atmosphere to end the night and down to seven players,
Speaker 2: so they're going to be coming back tomorrow. As you said,
Speaker 2: there's your pick, Come and give me a pick.
Speaker 3: You can't.
Speaker 1: It's Grinder, bro, Come on, come on, how is it
Speaker 1: not Grinder? In terms of like who I thought played
Speaker 1: the best, I probably jal Vieira, although he got got
Speaker 1: real bad on one hand against Grinder. Where So Grinder
Speaker 1: had been doing this thing where he had been hawking
Speaker 1: on the end of hands. Yeah, but he had all
Speaker 1: whenever he talked, and he went into his whole speech
Speaker 1: play thing. He always just like had the stone cold
Speaker 1: nuts all the time. So then there's this hand where
Speaker 1: I think he bets the river. Yeah, he bet the
Speaker 1: river in it was either do seven singles dart it
Speaker 1: was triple draw. He had a pair of sevens and
Speaker 1: Jiao had he drew to a ten eight and he
Speaker 1: made it, and then Grinder bets and Hiao's thinking and
Speaker 1: I thought immediately because Jiao drew to a ten a
Speaker 1: and then made it. I think he made a ten
Speaker 1: a five four that he was gonna call, but then
Speaker 1: he didn't call it right away, and he like is
Speaker 1: looking at Grinder, and Grinder starts talking and as soon
Speaker 1: as like as soon as the words hit Grinder's lips.
Speaker 1: Jao folded his hand because previously I think Jiao is
Speaker 1: a big like live tele guy. I've heard that from
Speaker 1: many people. So he's like he's always like studying other
Speaker 1: other players at the table and he's in big hands
Speaker 1: with them and whatever. But as soon as he talked,
Speaker 1: Jao folded his hand. And previously every time Grinder was
Speaker 1: talking that he did it with a full house, he
Speaker 1: did with all this different stuff shot he immediately showed
Speaker 1: the pair of seven, but the knot at hands was
Speaker 1: always under Yeah, I think so, I believe so. So yeah,
Speaker 1: so there was that he did it with the queens
Speaker 1: against the tens for eta like in the limit hold,
Speaker 1: like he did he did it all the time, so
Speaker 1: that was very interesting. So yeah, so seven players remaining
Speaker 1: in the fifty k PPC. They are guaranteed one hundred
Speaker 1: and seventy five thousand dollars one point three three million
Speaker 1: dollars up top. Of course, up top comes along with
Speaker 1: the gold bracelet with the David chip Reefs Trophy. We
Speaker 1: lost Matthew Ashton first today in seventeenth, John Kiten, sixteenth,
Speaker 1: aliis Lami after that, justin liberto Chrisvich, Mike madisow Fell
Speaker 1: in twelfth, Eric Lingren in eleventh, crazy way for him
Speaker 1: to go out. He lost with the ace high flush
Speaker 1: to the straight flush in plo against jau Viere in
Speaker 1: a hand that I actually thought Eric Lingrin should have folded.
Speaker 1: As crazy as that sounds, I just don't know how
Speaker 1: Javier has anything other than a straight flush in that spot,
Speaker 1: given Lingerin raised on the end on the river and
Speaker 1: he didn't have much behind. So jau Jamming, I feel like,
Speaker 1: is only a straight flush all the time. Christian Roberts
Speaker 1: after that, Marco Johnson and ninth, and then Ben You
Speaker 1: in eighth. Now, Ben You got all the way to eighth.
Speaker 1: He came into the day with ninety five thousand in
Speaker 1: shoes and just like was a cockroach, cockroach, cockroach, kept
Speaker 1: doubling up, just kept fighting, kept staying alive. Ultimately rides
Speaker 1: it out to finish an eighth four one hundred and
Speaker 1: forty two thousand dollars. So again, the final seven players
Speaker 1: will be back later today. The cards will be in
Speaker 1: the air at three pm Vegas time. The live stream
Speaker 1: will kick off at four pm, and they're gonna take
Speaker 1: it all the way down to a winner. Doesn't matter
Speaker 1: if that takes three hours or thirteen hours, that's probably
Speaker 1: gonna take a lot. It's probably gonna take close to
Speaker 1: thirteen hours. Okay, so we'll see how it goes. Today
Speaker 1: did go pretty fast at the start, but then it
Speaker 1: did down and basically come to a screeching halt towards
Speaker 1: the end. So it might start fast on Saturday, but
Speaker 1: I would I would anticipate that it slows down quite nicely.
Speaker 1: You know, these guys were playing pretty methodically overall, you know,
Speaker 1: weren't really willing to just like fire all the money
Speaker 1: in and the big bat games as you often see.
Speaker 1: So you know, expect a long day of poker. And
Speaker 1: of course we got the great Ali Dade and the
Speaker 1: absolutely supremely talented Jared Blesnick on the call. So that's
Speaker 1: going to be.
Speaker 3: Today. What's that best sports cards and commentary?
Speaker 1: I mean, I think that was about today.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I was seeing you might be
Speaker 2: you might have to do another Thurday and now shift tomw.
Speaker 1: No, we need the pros and there listen, I'm I'm
Speaker 1: fine to fill in for I'm listen, I'm fine to
Speaker 1: do no limit stuff for sure, like start the finish
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. I'm very comfortable there. I'm fine to
Speaker 1: do stuff like I did today where I'm filling in.
Speaker 1: But when it comes to like a final table like that,
Speaker 1: like I we have to give the fans expert commentary
Speaker 1: for sure, and like yeah, it's it's all well and
Speaker 1: good for me to you know, yell at the chat
Speaker 1: and do this and do that and whatever and like
Speaker 1: have fun with it. That's that's great. But for the
Speaker 1: main stuff, like it's got to be the best of
Speaker 1: the best, so please not me, you know, just because
Speaker 1: it's just not going to be the best product, and
Speaker 1: I want the best product to go out. Fifteen dollars
Speaker 1: stud high low Blosh Jerry Off. I'm sure everyone had
Speaker 1: him as there as a two time bracelet winner at
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty five Dobysipe right his seconds AP Gold
Speaker 1: bracelet of the Season. I feel like or of the series.
Speaker 1: I feel like the two bracelets that he won could
Speaker 1: not be on opposite more opposite ends of the spectrum.
Speaker 1: He won the twenty five k Nolan Man hold Him
Speaker 1: high Roller for one point seven million, which in a
Speaker 1: lot of ways is understandable because oftentimes in these high rollers,
Speaker 1: especially when at the World Series. You get these guys
Speaker 1: that really come out of nowhere. Yeah, usually they come
Speaker 1: out a year Europe. Maybe they also come out of Asia,
Speaker 1: you know, and they just they come out of nowhere.
Speaker 1: They've probably been grinding online somewhere, maybe they've popped here
Speaker 1: and there on like an EPT or a Tritent or whatever,
Speaker 1: but they're not like super well known on the big
Speaker 1: WSP stage and then all of a sudden they come out.
Speaker 1: You see it a lot in these twenty five K
Speaker 1: high Rollers. You see it, especially in the twenty five
Speaker 1: K heads Up. You know these guys that are like,
Speaker 1: who the heck are these guys? And they're just absolute
Speaker 1: wizards and crushers, and then they win a bracelet and
Speaker 1: then they're you know a name. Well, that's what we
Speaker 1: saw with blag aie Off. Now, fine, that's that's pretty expected.
Speaker 1: You get you get a crusher from online that comes
Speaker 1: in and does very well in one of those high rollers.
Speaker 1: He also plays stud high low doesn't make fifty. It
Speaker 1: makes almost zero sense whatsoever. But he has been playing
Speaker 1: mixed around and I've been joking in our chat They're like,
Speaker 1: do we have to draft this guy the next year
Speaker 1: because he's playing all these games. If he's playing the
Speaker 1: twenty five K high Rollers and he's playing the fifty
Speaker 1: mixed events, I mean he got to put him on
Speaker 1: the list, right, So yeah, he gets heads up with Huxy.
Speaker 1: Hucksy was looking for his first gold bracelet since two
Speaker 1: thousand and three AM but A huck Seed ultimately finished
Speaker 1: in the second. Blaserioff wins the title, the bracelet one
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty three thousand dollars going his way. Huck
Speaker 1: Seed took second for one hundred and two thousand dollars,
Speaker 1: So very very cool for Blagerie.
Speaker 3: Off glance straight over my stat there I put in there.
Speaker 1: For yeah, but I was going to say, you have
Speaker 1: a stat here. You're the stat guy. Please read the stat.
Speaker 1: Stat guy.
Speaker 2: Blas is the one hundred and fifteenth player to win two
Speaker 2: bracelets in a calendar year with WSP. Obviously Bennie was
Speaker 2: one fourteenth. Yeah, now you know we've talked about that
Speaker 2: stat before. You know, ten, eleven, twelve people you know
Speaker 2: each the last few years have been winning two bracelets
Speaker 2: this year, only Bennie so far. But now we add Blas.
Speaker 2: You know we have we're going to talk about some
Speaker 2: sweats we have coming up.
Speaker 1: I was going to say, we might be talking about
Speaker 1: this stat against.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, so you know, maybe we can get to four,
Speaker 2: five six, you know this, Who knows this week.
Speaker 1: Jal Viere can do it. Yep, he won the hundred
Speaker 1: k high Roller already, So.
Speaker 2: We've got a couple of sweats coming into tomorrow and
Speaker 2: then who knows what hals for the rest of series.
Speaker 2: But maybe we can get back to that ten eleven
Speaker 2: twelve kind of number that's been.
Speaker 3: The average the last three years.
Speaker 2: So Baz two bracelets and who knows, he might just
Speaker 2: win the what's something more random?
Speaker 3: The limit.
Speaker 2: Omaha High that's not even an event. But you know,
Speaker 2: if he's gonna win.
Speaker 1: Thet High, he might have won the twenty five k horse.
Speaker 2: That'd be a good one, like the three five hundred
Speaker 2: Colossus or something not. What's a we got a little
Speaker 2: event coming out I six hundred deep stat the seven. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he's gonna win that, the seven seven seven.
Speaker 1: There you go, all right. The Super Seniors Lonnie Whitzel
Speaker 1: wins it all for three hundred and fifty six thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: He defeated Damir Stephanick in heads up play, Richard Jute
Speaker 1: third place, Martin Kohler fourth place, Lawrence White fifth, Richard
Speaker 1: Fransen sixth, Wesley Cameron in seventh, and Edwin Houston eighth.
Speaker 1: As I here sayad sorry is out here ninth place
Speaker 1: for you as well. So the seniors ripping down saw
Speaker 1: a great photo from it where I believe it was
Speaker 1: Launie White soil, what kind of embraced Yeah, that one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I'm assuming it was his wife on the rail.
Speaker 1: Very very good photo. Very that was from I think.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I got here late today, so I don't
Speaker 1: really know what it was. I literally walked in when
Speaker 1: this was. This was over right when.
Speaker 2: It It was a pretty loud raile for surper saying event.
Speaker 2: So that was kind of cool. Looks like there's a
Speaker 2: lot of passion out there in the stand.
Speaker 1: All the rails should be loud, man, they should all
Speaker 1: be loud. Great, they should definitely all be loud. The
Speaker 1: Ladies Championship event, which is now presented by Sheena Okamoto,
Speaker 1: fifty women remain from a field size of oney three
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty eight. And guess what. Okamoto is the
Speaker 1: chip leader the best. It's wild. I mean, we've made
Speaker 1: so much today of the run of Michael the Grinder
Speaker 1: Miss Rocky, but we do not want to overshadow what
Speaker 1: Okamoto is doing. Two years ago, twenty twenty three, she
Speaker 1: finished second in the Ladies Championship. Last year she went
Speaker 1: down and she said, you know what, I'm so mad
Speaker 1: I got second. She didn't really say this, I'm making
Speaker 1: it up, but she said, I'm winning this damn thing,
Speaker 1: and she won it. And now this year she's one
Speaker 1: of fifty. I mean, this is outrageous. This is very
Speaker 1: especially in the tournament where listen, no limit holding tournaments,
Speaker 1: you have to like run good. You have to dodge
Speaker 1: the minefield. It's like it's not it's not easy to
Speaker 1: play as she's getting through it. Heay, No, it's so crazy.
Speaker 1: It really is so crazy. I mean, I think two
Speaker 1: years ago it was like right around twelve hundred. Last
Speaker 1: year also twelve hundred change or whatever. So you know,
Speaker 1: the field size has been pretty good each year and
Speaker 1: she's just doing it. So she leads ahead of JJ Lou,
Speaker 1: who is also headed run. Maybe the last years ago
Speaker 1: one of those, but JJ low has done very well
Speaker 1: in the Ladies Championship. Susan Favor also up there. In Chips.
Speaker 1: We got Jessica Kai, Barbara en Wright, the Legend, Barbara
Speaker 1: and Right Fair, Galfon, Maria and Propoulis, Heather Alcorn excuse me, sorry,
Speaker 1: Heather Tamorrow Abraham. Did she win this before she won something?
Speaker 1: I think she won this?
Speaker 2: Was it?
Speaker 3: This one?
Speaker 1: I think she beat. I think she beat Sheena Okamoto.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure she beat Sheena Okamoto two years ago.
Speaker 1: You looked at Angela, George Kamil Brown, Robbie j Lou,
Speaker 1: Lisa Thumb Thomb Thumber Thom.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: She's one of the fellow media people here, Lovely and
Speaker 2: Alan Shulman.
Speaker 1: I thought it was Alan Jeffrey Shulman.
Speaker 2: You bet she goes. I think she is Alan Shulman. Now, okay,
Speaker 2: that's what a lot of her profiles I said.
Speaker 1: She was the one that once got into it with
Speaker 1: for all of us vulgaris. That was a fun story
Speaker 1: back in the day. So, so that is the Ladies
Speaker 1: Championship On Saturday, they're going to play down from fifty
Speaker 1: to the final table and then they're going to come
Speaker 1: back on Sunday for the live stream final table. So
Speaker 1: we will see if she know o Kamodo can first
Speaker 1: make her way to the final table, and then if
Speaker 1: she makes her way to the final table, y'all better
Speaker 1: tune in because that's going to be something to watch.
Speaker 1: It will be fun.
Speaker 2: It's not we shall see, it's we will see at
Speaker 2: this rate, right, Ladies Championship presented by Shena Okamoto.
Speaker 1: And then as it relates to women at the WSOPI
Speaker 1: I do want to go back to mention something. Esther
Speaker 1: Taylor is down to the final seven in the fifty
Speaker 1: k PPC. As we talked about, she joins Melissa Burr
Speaker 1: as the only two women to cash in the fifty
Speaker 1: k PPC. Melissa Bird did it in twenty fourteen. Melissa
Speaker 1: Bir finished seventh that year. So Eser Taylor, if she
Speaker 1: can go one more spot get to the top six,
Speaker 1: she would have the best finish for a female in
Speaker 1: the fifty k PPC. They just like turn the lights
Speaker 1: off in here. Usually they turn the lights off over.
Speaker 3: There, they turn off. They turned off at four am.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's four am, four am. It's heaving outrageous.
Speaker 1: Ryan or Kempe he's back. I guess I'm out of nowhere.
Speaker 1: He wins the ten k super Turbot bounty his first
Speaker 1: WSOP gold brace at almost nine hundred k, eight hundred
Speaker 1: and ninety two thousand dollars. The bubble was chopped. I
Speaker 1: mean wow, like like two pop were all on.
Speaker 2: It was one hundred and twenty two people were in
Speaker 2: the money, but there was you know, some whatever.
Speaker 1: Spots multiple and yeah, hey, Eric's cd L, James ob
Speaker 1: Stanley's tang, Arthur Morris, Boris Angelov was on our team
Speaker 1: for Fantasy Chance. Corneth Sam Silverll, Clemens Reuter, John Reard
Speaker 1: and Jennifer Harmon, Steves old Top, Brian rass Brock, Wilson,
Speaker 1: Arden Chow. I haven't seen her playing poker event. David Katie,
Speaker 1: Robert Cohen, and Martin Cabrell all ran deep and cashed
Speaker 1: in this event. Martin Cabrell made the final table finished
Speaker 1: in fifth place. So good on Martin Cabrell. But not
Speaker 1: like that when that light fell and he immediately said,
Speaker 1: not like that. I mean, it was it was like
Speaker 1: a script.
Speaker 2: So I was watching that because I could hear him,
Speaker 2: and it was a bit more entertaining than the seventeen
Speaker 2: minutes started high low hands in the fifty KVVC.
Speaker 3: I went over there he was playing a hand.
Speaker 2: It was raised under the gun to four hundred and
Speaker 2: eighty thousand, right hundred and forty ones. He was in
Speaker 2: a small one. He was complaining about some hand from
Speaker 2: earlier that the button had. At the same time, on
Speaker 2: the other table, we saw Rubbert Cohen double. No, we
Speaker 2: saw one guy bus, then we saw Rubber Cohen double,
Speaker 2: then we saw David shawbus all while man Kraprell was
Speaker 2: still getting chip counts of every other person on the
Speaker 2: table and contemplating his hand.
Speaker 3: And then he folded.
Speaker 2: He is a menace, but the most genius time waster
Speaker 2: I have ever seen in my life. And then they
Speaker 2: moved them up onto the feature table up here and
Speaker 2: he was at it again. It was just impressive. He
Speaker 2: he's next level. I'm really coming around to enjoy by now.
Speaker 1: All right, let's slide on over to the Gladiators of Poker.
Speaker 1: We are through three starting flights this year. Day one
Speaker 1: seed this year six five hundred and fifty one. That
Speaker 1: is up quite a bit, yeah over last year's one sea,
Speaker 1: which had five thousand, six hundred and sixty nine, eight
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty two entries more than last year to
Speaker 1: be exact, which is a very very nice boost. So
Speaker 1: entering the final starting flight. Last year they had thirteen thousand,
Speaker 1: seven hundred and seventy eight. This year they have fourteen thousand,
Speaker 1: seven hundred and fifty four, So almost one thousand more
Speaker 1: entries this year than last year. Still one more flight
Speaker 1: to go. They need just shy of fifty nine hundred
Speaker 1: entries on Saturday to top a twenty twenty four number.
Speaker 1: You just check the app, there's thirteen hundred and eighty
Speaker 1: three already in there. Yeah for tomorrow? Are you gonna
Speaker 1: get in there? No long story, Okay, you want to
Speaker 1: hear it? No, I don't really, it's actually not that long. No,
Speaker 1: because I'm not I don't want to be.
Speaker 2: Like I'm gonna say. I went to the Puget's meeting
Speaker 2: up game. I lost one hundred and fifty dollars. My
Speaker 2: plan was to win three hundred. Play the Gladiator is
Speaker 2: I stuck one fifty? I think he played like fifteen minutes.
Speaker 2: Mickey Duff was playing that limit hold him. I said, hey, Pedro,
Speaker 2: who's one of our TV dealers? Do you want to
Speaker 2: flip for my one fifty? Then I mean it even
Speaker 2: or stuck three hundred? He goes, sure, we do a flip.
Speaker 3: I lost. I'm down three hundred and not playing the Gladiator.
Speaker 1: Summer sounds stupid. Okay, all right, So one D last
Speaker 1: year had six thousand and eight and sixty nine. I
Speaker 1: think they're gonna get seven thousand this year, So they're
Speaker 1: gonna fly by last year's overall number.
Speaker 3: Which was what is the biggest fields that's twenty eight thousand.
Speaker 1: So they're not gonna they're not gonna get I mean
Speaker 1: they could.
Speaker 3: I mean there's no chance.
Speaker 1: There's always a chance. Okay, there's all a chance. Okay,
Speaker 1: but this one will likely come in at what twenty two?
Speaker 3: Maybe?
Speaker 1: Yeah, So if it comes in at twenty two, it
Speaker 1: can challenge the two thousand and fifteen Doubasitpy Colossus for
Speaker 1: the third largest poker tournament ever.
Speaker 3: Twenty two thousand, three hundred and seventy four.
Speaker 1: Correct. Yeah, I mean it was also a chance that
Speaker 1: it could challenge the twenty twenty three Gladiyears of Poker,
Speaker 1: which had twenty three thousand and eighty eight entries. Like,
Speaker 1: it's there's a chance, you know, are.
Speaker 2: We confident it bates the twenty sixteen classes that's twenty
Speaker 2: one thousand six hundred and thirteen.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'll say I'm confident that it becomes one
Speaker 1: of the top five largest live poker tournaments industry. I'll
Speaker 1: say that. And in order to do that, it's going
Speaker 1: to need twenty thousand, six hundred and forty seven. It
Speaker 1: needs to be last year's Latier's Poker, and I think
Speaker 1: it will do that. So I'm confident that it will
Speaker 1: become a top five largest live poker tournament in terms
Speaker 1: of entries that we have ever seen, which is crazy,
Speaker 1: you know, crazy, crazy crazy. The WASIP continues to crank
Speaker 1: out huge, freaking numbers. The three K no limit hold them.
Speaker 1: There are sixteen players remaining from a field size of
Speaker 1: twenty three hundred and thirty eight. They are all fighting
Speaker 1: for the eight hundred and thirty thousand dollars first place prize.
Speaker 1: Fabrizio Gonzalez leads the way. Stephen Jones, he finished second
Speaker 1: place to Dan Wyman. I was totally blanked. I don't
Speaker 1: know why. In my head it popped up. I pictured
Speaker 1: Dan Weinman winning that hand with jacks. Yet in my
Speaker 1: brain said Roman Herobic, which I was like, that's to
Speaker 1: make it. I was like, that makes no sense. I
Speaker 1: knew it, and you know that's why I didn't say anything.
Speaker 1: Romaine Lewis is still in Julian kolev Ren Lynn is
Speaker 1: doing it the day to Chip leader Hamid toy in Toggian.
Speaker 1: Is he Australian? Is he the Austinian? He's a giant.
Speaker 1: I thought, IM pretty sure he's Australian.
Speaker 2: Like the guy that won it last Yet No, he might.
Speaker 2: He might be Astralian, but he's not the guy that
Speaker 2: won it. Who is He's not Australian.
Speaker 1: I'm lying different Australian and Olivier Busque, who's obviously back playing.
Speaker 1: Haven't seen that guy in years, but he's back. Random
Speaker 1: player of the day for the day before he was
Speaker 1: random player of the day for the day. So my
Speaker 1: random player of the day today who from the chat
Speaker 1: twenty five dimension chat WhatsApp? Who bro you look at it?
Speaker 1: I want looking? Just tell me she was on the
Speaker 1: rail today? Ten k deuces seven triple jaw. There are
Speaker 1: nine players remaining from the one hundred and forty one
Speaker 1: entries last year, or sorry, one hundred and forty one
Speaker 1: entries this year. At one hundred and forty nine last year,
Speaker 1: so slightly down. First place three hundred and thirty three
Speaker 1: thousand dollars. They are guaranteed thirty two thousand dollars. Matthew Shriver,
Speaker 1: who has had some deep runs already this summer, he
Speaker 1: is leading the way. Nick Schulman could be another one
Speaker 1: of those guys to join that list of two time
Speaker 1: bracelet winners in a single year. URIs Evelevski is also in.
Speaker 1: Brian Tate is in Brian Tate, founder and CEO of
Speaker 1: Oates Overnight, Alexander Wilkinson, Oscar Johansson, Jonathan Crella, High Park
Speaker 1: and Pedro bromp and shot out Pedro. Let's go buddy,
Speaker 1: friend of the pod.
Speaker 2: Let's go ped right, He said, when they were probably
Speaker 2: twelve left, he came over to the man gabrel show
Speaker 2: got first. He said that Shreiber was down to two
Speaker 2: k to start the day and mounted one of the
Speaker 2: most epic, unbelievable comebacks we have seen at the Well
Speaker 2: Series of poker this year. To you know, the chip
Speaker 2: leader heading into the final day trying to win his
Speaker 2: second bracelet.
Speaker 1: Did your play the fifty k?
Speaker 3: Oh? I don't think he did.
Speaker 1: I want I want to say he didn't either. I
Speaker 1: don't recall seeing him in the Chip couns too, and
Speaker 1: I would think that they would have put everyone in.
Speaker 3: The Chip guy. Yeah, yeah, he played. He busted on
Speaker 3: day one.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, then I was I was wrong. Sorry.
Speaker 2: I can't remember seeing h over that when we did
Speaker 2: our little uh yeah, but yeah, maybe he was in
Speaker 2: and out really quickly.
Speaker 1: So that is the ten K deuce is Evan. We
Speaker 1: did get a cash thirteenth place from John Shoreman cash
Speaker 1: on a field bon us, not that much, but Johnny
Speaker 1: should take it.
Speaker 3: We'll take it.
Speaker 1: Johnny Shtrman heating up, baby, eating up. What the heck
Speaker 1: happened to Jeremy Osmas in that tournament? It's probably because
Speaker 1: he wasn't drinking. He's too busy hanging out with going
Speaker 1: to the wind for dinner. Yeah, is unbelievable, all those boys.
Speaker 1: The fifteen hundred dollars eight game, seven hundred and eighty
Speaker 1: nine entries were piled into that one, which is such
Speaker 1: a big increase last year.
Speaker 3: I think that number is fake.
Speaker 2: I think which one this one last year? Actually both
Speaker 2: I think both of fake. But I'm gonna say double
Speaker 2: check my own Statsia.
Speaker 1: Who won it last year?
Speaker 3: Someone random didn't.
Speaker 1: Sean d win or did he win it two years ago?
Speaker 2: Gotthi etic four ninety four loss. Ye, yeah, I guess
Speaker 2: that's right. I guess that is.
Speaker 1: As seven eighty nine is this is.
Speaker 2: This one where maybe they added a second entry.
Speaker 1: Maybe I don't maybe that was it, Okay, I don't know,
Speaker 1: but either way, big increase base one hundred and sixties. Yeah,
Speaker 1: some would say massive. One hundred and sixty seven entries
Speaker 1: remain top top prize, hundred and eighty four thousand, six
Speaker 1: hundred dollars. They're not in the money yet, hundred nineteen
Speaker 1: in the money. John Cresson leads the way ahead of
Speaker 1: Brad Rubin and Jijiang Luo, both chasing their second ws
Speaker 1: HE Gold bracelets of the summer. So we just have second.
Speaker 1: We have sweats for two time bracelet winners this summer,
Speaker 1: all over the all over the place. John Turner, Scott Abrams,
Speaker 1: A J. Kelsol, Brandon Shack Harris are all in the
Speaker 1: top ten. Nico Milgram doing his thing. That guy is
Speaker 1: gonna win a bracelet this summer. I am telling you
Speaker 1: he's a filling. Yeah, this one would work. Chad Eve Sledge,
Speaker 1: Yuki Zoo aka rich Zoo Aaysamed Matt Vangren also want
Speaker 1: a bracelet already this summer. Phil Barney Bowman, Steve Bill
Speaker 1: of Roccas is back, mister smook. Yeah, what the heck?
Speaker 3: I have to put that one.
Speaker 1: Let's go Ray Henson, Jake Schwartz, Barry Greenstein and maclans,
Speaker 1: Kevin Gerhardt, Ari Angel Allen Lee also in the bracelet
Speaker 1: and Daniel Legrandu Ben Ludlow also back chips.
Speaker 3: Very very I didn't put him on the lists, very lush.
Speaker 1: Friend of the podcast, Friend of the podcast, back chips.
Speaker 1: Do you have anything else? Because I just really want
Speaker 1: to get out of here.
Speaker 3: I agree one hundred percent.
Speaker 1: All right, cool, Well, sorry for ripping through that everyone.
Speaker 1: It's super late. Is four to ten in the morning.
Speaker 1: We need to go home and get some sleep, try
Speaker 1: and get back here for the conclusion to the epic
Speaker 1: fifty k PPC. I'm gonna be I'm gonna be sweating that.
Speaker 1: Of course, I'm also going to be keeping an eye
Speaker 1: on Shina Okamoto because I love that story too, and
Speaker 1: what she's doing in the Ladies Championship, So I'm going
Speaker 1: to be bouncing around and watching those I guess, just
Speaker 1: quickly what starts. They have obviously the final flight of
Speaker 1: the Gladiators.
Speaker 3: Final Flight of the Gladiators, we have.
Speaker 1: To take up you know, nine thousand tables in this place.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we have two really big events. We have the
Speaker 2: ten k Parliamenta'amaha Championship. That's a four day event. We
Speaker 2: will be streaming that final table on Tuesday, July first.
Speaker 2: And then the one thousand dollars Mini Main Event two
Speaker 2: starting flights. Saturday starts tomorrow, yep, Saturday and Sunday. I
Speaker 2: think I'm supposed to play that one.
Speaker 3: You're in Get in there.
Speaker 1: Tomorrow, it's four eleven in the morning.
Speaker 2: Light register or play Sunday anyway, Mini main Events, I was,
Speaker 2: that's four days as well. So yeah, that's a pretty
Speaker 2: good day of poker, along with Day one day of
Speaker 2: the Gladiators, as we said, and all those events concluding
Speaker 2: around the World Series of Poker. Day thirty three is tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Today's day thirty two, as you can see by the.
Speaker 1: Three cemetary on Venetian on Monday. Oh, that's day two
Speaker 1: of the Mini Main event. Could play the Gladiators, No,
Speaker 1: no shot. But the thing is I haven't done any
Speaker 1: of my basically plus app stuff.
Speaker 2: Oh, well, you see you in the ten thousand doll
Speaker 2: the main event.
Speaker 3: I guess then yeah yah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean maybe I'll figure it out tomorrow. It also
Speaker 1: depends how I feel because it is four to twelve
Speaker 1: in the morning, so whatever, I'm not going to just
Speaker 1: blast in if I don't feel good about playing, so
Speaker 1: all right, cool, that's going to do it for us.
Speaker 1: His name is sim Dkworth, My name is Donny Peters.
Speaker 1: We'll talk to you guys later. Add the
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