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

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Poker Go Podcast. My name is Donnie Peters. His name

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is Timothy Duckworth. We are done with the twenty twenty

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five PGT season, even though it is twenty twenty six

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January thirteenth, to be exact, six fifty seven pm. Chad

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eve Sledge did the damn thing. He came out on

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top of the PGT Million Dollar Championship, taking home five

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hundred thousand dollars. A stacked event, a stacked final table.

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Eve Sledge played well, of course, as he generally always does,

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doesn't matter the variant. This one happened to be nolamit HoldEm.

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But Eve Sledge one of the best in the world,

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and he also caught some pretty pretty damn good cards.

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I think every time I looked, he had pocket jacks.

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And you know, if you just get dealt pocket jacks

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every single hand, you're likely going to end up in

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the winner circle, you know, especially when you combine it

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with the skill and the experience that eve Sledge has.

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So that's going to be the gist of this episode,

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or the large portion of this episode talking about that

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PGT Championship event. I guess preview twenty twenty six. Sure,

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it's probably going to be here before we know it

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a couple weeks away, but you know how these things

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always speak up on us. Of course, if you guys

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did miss the event, and if you want to avoid

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some spoilers, I mean sorry, I already told you who won.

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But also turn the podcast off and then go over

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to pokergot dot com find the live stream of not

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only the Final Table which took place today, but day

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one coverage as well. Again for this season ending championship event.

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Big takeaways. I guess what do you got for me?

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What are your thoughts? What's rolling off the brain? What's

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kicking around in there? You look entirely preoccupied right now.

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I wish I could I could show you guys how

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preoccupied Tim looks when we get on this goddamn podcast.

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It is unbelievable. He's doing nineteen other things.

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Speaker 2: I mean, that's a I'm just just trying to tackle

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everything as I can.

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Speaker 1: Look, I know there is a time and a place

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right now is the podcast.

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Speaker 3: Okay. It was a good final table, And when I

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say good, I mean we.

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Speaker 2: Had a wide variety of players and how they qualified.

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Speaker 3: Siding with Chad.

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Speaker 2: Obviously he won the Super High Rollerball mix you know

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that was the uh you know that, plus the mixame series,

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possible series. That's he's basically his main way getting in.

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We had Lucky Chewy, pthora of cashes all season, plays

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PLO plays No Limit, had the eighteen cash Buddy now nineteen.

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I guess right, No, this doesn't cut us, it does.

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Second place finished to Jason Kern WSP fifty Hirolla. He

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also won the opening event of the season PGT Kickoff

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nearly one, the final event that.

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Speaker 1: Would little have been crazy.

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Speaker 2: Michael Wang always plays our PLO events, plays most of

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our No Limit Holono events. He won the ten k

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Plow Championship. That's how he got in. Daniel m'grano a

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little bit of here, you're kind of last few hlast

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few months, but you're.

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Speaker 1: Kind of lying. You lied about Chatty said, you just

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lied about Michael Wang.

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Speaker 3: What do you mean?

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Speaker 1: You said this is how they got in. That's not

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how they got I'm just saying, look, we get in

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by winning super Hills games. That has tried to earn

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points to qualify on the leaderboard. Now the bulk of

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their points keeping, that's what I'm trying to get again.

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I'm trying to say I'm here to preoccupied.

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Speaker 2: Tim Duckworth over here, I'm looking at the results right now.

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Daniel mgrano a little quiet last few months, but aed

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his's two victories earlier in the year. Obviously a hell

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of a lot of points of the WSP. We look

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at John ord AND's Super High roller Ball PLO winner,

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That's how he was kind of there. We've got Eric

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Blair massive start of the year, shoutout massive. He had

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the was a five consecutive cashes at the US Poker Open.

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He had his multiple victories all front loaded pre World

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Obviously he's still very experienced player. He has final table

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WBT event he has, He's a regular in RPGT mixed

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game series. He was the winner of an event down

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in WSP Paradise which also carried a dream See So

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a nice mix of players at this final table, some

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p low specialist, no limits specialist, mixed game specialists, the

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dream See winner.

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Speaker 3: That was great.

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Speaker 2: So that's the first kind of impression, you know, I

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got from the final table. We also had some close

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calls coming. You know, as we approached that final seven

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that came back today, obviously previous PGT player of the yes,

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Steven Chidwick.

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Speaker 3: Bout out in eighth place. Last night.

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Speaker 2: We also had dream See winner Ed Miller, who qualified

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you know via Rungo. They do a dream scene invitation

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at the end of their season. All the ring winners

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get to play for that winner represents run Good. And

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then we obviously had the most recently crowned PGT player,

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the Alex Foxen adding thirteenth and then the PGT Last

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Chance dreamc winner odb Baker fourteenth place. So, you know,

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just those last two tables a good wide variety of

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players and that all led to pretty you know, interesting

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mix of players at that final table.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, this was a really great event. It

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was by far our best PGT Championship ever, at least

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in my opinion. I really liked everything that came out

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of it, you know, my resulting thoughts and feelings. You know,

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I feel really good about where this event is. If

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I were to equate it to something more mainstream, I

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would say this is Poker's version of the FedEx Cup.

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That's how I describe it. And if you know, what

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the FedEx Cup is from golf. You need to familiar

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size yourself with it, sir, then this this is poker's

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version of that. So yeah, I think we're moving things

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along quite nicely in terms of the PGT Championship and

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the PGT brand, and I'm excited to kick things off

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with the twenty twenty sixth season and see where we

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can go from here. Chad E. S Ledge one of

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the absolute best, certainly one of the best all around

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players in the world. I'm sure you could make the

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case for the argument that he is the best all

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around player in the world. You know, He's one of

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those guys where maybe if he spent more time traveling

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the tournament circuit, playing some some lower buying type of stuff,

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then then he would start racking up many more titles

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than he already has.

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Speaker 3: He doesn't need to worry about those small stakes.

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Speaker 1: No, I know all the stuff, trust me, I understand, okay,

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And in that turn, That's what I was going to

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get into next, is like, you know, if he were

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someone who wanted to start making the leap to Triton

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or stuff like that, you know, then he could also

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be crushing there. You know, as it pertains to our events.

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Our events are higher stakes than some of the smaller

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stuff that I mentioned, right, But he really only comes

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out to our stuff for mixed games, you know. But

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he's a guy who if let's say he put in

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a whole volume on the PGT, or a whole season's

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volume on the PGT, then he would be absolutely crushing, right.

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I mean, he's I know, he said in his post

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win interview with Jeff that he was kind of wondering

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if he was a little bit washed up, you know.

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I know this is a little tongue in cheek for him,

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but a little bit washed up in terms of like

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where his no limit game is specifically, especially compared to

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some of these crushers that are in the field that

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he had a battle with in this event. You know,

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but Chad could certainly hold his own, and you know,

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he doesn't need to knock himself or his game in

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any way, shape or form. He is extremely capable, and

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he's also one of those players who's extremely sharp and

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can figure things out on the fly. So if there

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are players that are giving him a little bit of

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a tougher go of things as the tournament is playing,

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he's somebody who's certainly going to adjust and figure things

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out as they go.

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Speaker 3: So can I go through so much chance results real quick?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, got WSP circuit ring back in twenty thirteen, long

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time ago twenty twenty one, won twenty five k Hyroller

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down in Seminole. That's kind of his big kind of

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market result, I would say. Then that led him too,

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just a run of crushing WPT Venetian for nine hundred K.

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Then he went on to win the twenty five KWSP

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No Limit hold him for one point four million. Then

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he won five Diamond for another million. Then he won

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the Dealer's Choice bracelet on one hundred and thirty K.

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Then he won the next Dealer's Choice bracelet about four

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days later for three hundred K. Yeah, that was a

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crazy little a week of the Yeah, and then did

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pretty much nothing for the rest of the series. Then

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he won the hundred k Super Hiroller Bowl in twenty

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twenty five, and then he added the twenty five k

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horse Hyroller at the World Series last year for eight

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hundred and eighty K. And then you add this here,

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so his wins, you know, obviously he got the circuit

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ring and some other little small suppit all these wins

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are just in you know, massive WPT titles, WSP bracelets,

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so twenty five K high rollers or one hundred K

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high rollers, just like you know, an absolute basic. The

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only thing kind of missing from this is you know,

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some pl O wins. So maybe that's what he needs.

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Maybe he's he's good with no limit, he's good with max.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean listen again, if he put in as

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much tournament volume as you see some of these other

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guys put in, you know, chat Eve Sledge would be

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up there with the Koons, the Chidwicks, et cetera. As

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far as I'm concerned, a very deserving winner in the

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PGT championship events. You know, he caught big hands when

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he needed to, but but played really well down the

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stretch for sure, And it really was you know, Chett

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Eve Sledge's final table. I'll say, maybe not his entire tournaments,

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and then it turned towards Michael Wang and those two

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players came in one two. Wang was first, Chew he

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was second, entering the final table. But then uh, Eve Sledge,

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well he obviously beat Chewy heads up, and then he

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took out Wang. He did get a little lucky against Wang.

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Usledge had kings and the river was an eight to

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counterfeit the two pair of Wang. What were the payouts

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in this thing?

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Speaker 2: Chad took home half a million dollars, Lucky Chewy two

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hundred k, Michael Wang one hundred and twenty k, Daniel

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eighty thousand, Aaron Cooper and sixty k John Reordan forty thousand.

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Very uh, very polarizing, payous, very top heavy good. There

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should be a couple of reasons. We've been told players

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won a big first price. Second of all, it's good

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marketing number. Half a million dollars. It's not obviously conventional

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payoffs fifty percent first.

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Speaker 3: But look, it's a free roll.

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Speaker 2: We can do whatever we want, and hey, if they

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want to talk a deal, they can talk to But

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I didn't think these guys even discussed that they were

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just Wang, Bass said they went to take a little

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tolet break and straight back in on.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean they might have talked to deal. I

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don't know. I mean, you never know what these guys

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do on those those short you know, two three five

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minute breaks or whatever, but I doubt it, you know,

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I don't think at least my read on the situation

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is that Chatty Sledge isn't someone who's gonna be willing

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to necessarily chop, you know, and saying with a lucky chewi,

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you know, I think these guys are going to play

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for It also does help when you know, at the

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end of the day it is a free role. I'm

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sure that helps with it to some degree. Big gap

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between first and second, but I think we like it

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that way. And yeah, these guys went forward and good

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on them. So what do you got on the entire

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it's obviously just ended, but you know you happy with it.

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You think we got things to improve upon. You know,

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where's your mind going for this twenty twenty five campaigns?

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Speaker 2: We can always improve, just figure out kind of exactly

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introducing hands per level for final tables. I'm not really

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sure what that number is. We can obviously try and

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look at some data points. That's the first thing we're

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gonna kind of mole over. I think we may have

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touched on a last episode. But you know, we're going

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to make some you know, adjustments next year. But you

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know what I thought twenty twenty five was great. You know,

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we introduce a wide variety of new things. We had

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the Showcase of Poke Masters. That's our first multi flight,

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no limit hold them event here in the studio. That

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was a success, Introducing new trophies pokem Masters, Purple Jacket

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Trophy was the best trophy of the year. Added a

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new series, We added the Bounty Blitz. We tried something there,

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maybe fell a bit short. We added the the PGT

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Venetian in Las Vegas Classic. That was a pretty good

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event too. But yeah, I think we learned a few things.

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We're going to adapt. We're going to make some alterations

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for twenty twenty six and looking forward to what else

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we can cook up. What can we do with this

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new I always like to do, I mean new every season.

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Speaker 1: Oh great, can't we can't wait for this? Nonsense?

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Speaker 2: No, no, like you know, Like what I mean is like

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we've since the start, we've either added an event or

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added a series. We've either you know, we headed to

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Houston for the Champions Club. So what's what's next? What's new?

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Speaker 1: You know?

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Speaker 3: Someways I don't know what that is. I don't really

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have an answer.

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Speaker 2: I'm just saying I'm just looking forward to, you know,

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widening the PGT net and then you know, what adjustments

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can we make? How do we make this to it

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a little differently? You know, we're going to tweak the

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points system a little bit. We're going to make add decimals, nods.

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Speaker 1: Why why are we rounding?

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Speaker 3: It's fine? Rounding is fine, No, it's not.

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Speaker 1: It's ridiculous.

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Speaker 3: Ridiculous is a strong strong word, sir.

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Speaker 1: It's ridiculous. I'm here to tell you when you're ridiculous,

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and that's ridiculous.

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Speaker 2: Look, what I want to do is, you know, for

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most people that are aware anything tenthou dollar buying or

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under is basically one to one. I would like to

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give a bit more value to the sub ten case.

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And when I'm talking about that five K buyings, three

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K buyings, we've we've done at Venetian and we've done

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at Champions Club and we're bringing here to the studio

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and I'm not going to rule it out, but is

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there a world for two thousand dollars buyons in here

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one thousand dollars minds, I don't know, but we're going

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to change the points to give those a bit more value,

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really incentivize people to, you know, play down. But also

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if you're a high volume player at those stakes, we'll

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call them low stakes. You know, for the for the PGT,

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there's a bit more on there for you, you know,

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for the Jeremy Becker is out there, the Francis Anderson's,

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there's a bit, there's some more points that they can

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pick up, so that you know, these the months, the

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points that you see at the World Series, in the

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twenty five k's and fifty ks and one hundred ks,

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you know, there's a bit, there's a bit there's a

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way to soften, soften the blow a little bit in

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some other events.

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Speaker 3: So I'm going to make that change.

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Speaker 2: I feel like this three K price point is just

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just really good.

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Speaker 3: Here in Vegas.

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Speaker 2: And you know, I've floated the idea to players about

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doing a three K series six three ks. You know,

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back to back to back. They're like, yes, one hundred

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percent love that. We definitely can feel the studio doing that.

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So look, well the experiment do some other stuff, but

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we're also going to try and make things better. Like

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I said, his hands per level at the final table,

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the best, the best thing to do. I'm indifferent to it,

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but you know, I'm open to I'm opening to improving

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anything that you.

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Speaker 3: Know, anyone wants.

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Speaker 2: I think you made it aware to me that you

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know Pads you know, had an Instagram sorry saying he

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has a few suggestions for us. Reached out to him

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on Instagram said give him to me. I'm open to listening.

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I haven't heard back yet, but you know, we had

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a good conversation with Lucky Chiwy before he exited the

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studio and he shared his thoughts on a lot of things.

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So look, we're always open to hearing from everyone, and

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we just want to make the tour as best as

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we can for these guys, as you know, at the

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end of the day, it's their money.

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Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, I mean listen, I'm all for listening to

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the players to an extent. You know, I know there

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are oftentimes suggestions that I don't know. Maybe they don't

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fully think everything through. But I also think that that

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goes both ways. You know, maybe we try and do

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something that it's like, oh, well, you guys aren't fully

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thinking something through, So you know, I get it. Definitely

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try and have the most symbiotic relationship as we can

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with the players, which is a good thing. So it's

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now been five seasons of the PGT. First season was

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twenty twenty one. You had Rock Ostizza winning the PGT

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Championship event that year. I believe it was a fifty

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k buy in for that one. Then we had Jason Kuhn,

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then we had Daniel Smilkovich, and then we had Jeremy

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Osmas last year, and then of course this year, as

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we already talked about, Chad Evesledge. So I don't know,

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five seasons feels like a nice little checkpoint to kind

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of look at things as a whole. I mean, what

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are your do you have any thoughts on I don't know,

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the five year span of the tour. Do you feel

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like we're ahead of where we were planning to be,

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behind where we're planning to be. I mean, I'll flat

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i'd say it. I know some of us didn't think

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this thing will last more than two years, so we're

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not moving into season six, so you know, I don't know,

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I feel like it's caught on very well. Listen, I've

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said this before, I'll say it again, but I know

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we're not you know, setting insane records here with with turnouts.

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You know, we're not. It's not thousand player fields stuff

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like that. But it's just a different type of tour

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of poker tournament, you know, focusing on higher buy ins,

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better more skilled players, you know, try and get you know,

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some of the best players in the world to come

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out here to the studio and elsewhere when we go

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to other properties, but mainly here at the studio and

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try and get them to compete in a season long quest.

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You know, we always hear about it, and we've heard

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about it for many, many years, you know, since the

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Dawn of poker. You know, you know, volume, volume, volume,

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You're never going to realize anything unless you put in

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the volume. So and I know sample size still isn't

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probably what you need it to be to realize like

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true results. But extending something over an entire season that

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lasts a whole year, I think it's probably the closest

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you're going to get, yeah, you know, to realizing that.

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So in that way, you know, I like it and

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I'm a sucker for that sort of stuff.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, I think the most obvious thing we've seen

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is the desire and the kind of yearning to get

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into the championship. You know, it's not like it's and

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it's not like an a media write back, right, there's

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some you know, I guess twenty k in equity or

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EV for these guys. It's a very top heavy tournament,

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but it's very obvious that these guys really want to

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be part of the championship. And you see that a

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PGT lost chance, you see the sweats, you see the

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like you know, they understand everything that goes into just

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qualifying and like it's something they want to be, something

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they want to be part of. You know, that's probably

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the best thing. And like, you know, it started with

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twenty one players and it was like a whatever kind

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of event. We didn't get many showing up. And then

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you know, we expanded, we had the dream seats and

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you know, we made rule changes this year to make

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sure we hit the full field, which we did all

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fifty four players and there's definitely, Like I think when

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it comes to poker, you have the leaderboards, they care

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about that, they care about the chase, the fight, the

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prizes or the money whatever's on offer. And I think

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this year really really, it was really showed when it

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came to that BGT Last Chance. So I think that's

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something we kind of maybe didn't expect and that's kind

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of kept this tour ticking into like what's going to

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be the sixth season?

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Speaker 1: Do you have any predictions on next season? I know

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we didn't necessarily plan for, yes, but any thoughts for

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what we might see maybe maybe like, are there any

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players who play the higher volume of PGT events this

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last season that you think will continue? Are there any

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players that you think will scale back? Obviously there's a

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lot of players that have told us they're going to

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scale back. With the whole tax situation, which is still

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you know, seems like it's very much up in the air,

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but you know, I don't necessarily know. I'm reading something

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on social media right now speaking of being preoccupied, but

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I don't know. It doesn't seem like it's good for

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the tax thing.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, that look, the tax thing is going to

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be the biggest factor in the year, and when we

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are wait here next year, you know, I think we'll

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be discussing the tour with that in mind. You know,

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maybe come much it doesn't matter, or maybe it's really

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messes everything up and everything kind of shrinks. So it's

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hard to really speak on terms of volume for players,

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you know, even the ones we talked to, we don't

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really know when I you know, when it comes push

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to shove, you know, pigt kickoff or a cup if

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they'll be here. So, like I said, we're just going

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to make those adjustments, and what I think is going

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to happen is way you know, probably starting in the

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back half of the year, you know, post World Series

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or even during World Series, I think we will start

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doing a few different things to try and get new

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people in here, you know, whether it's a series of

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three ks or whether we can figure out some kind

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of cool two K buying, one K buying multi flight

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event that we can fit in the space, because that's

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always going to be our issue. So just trying to

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get new blood in the studio is always a big thing,

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and even with our majors, like just trying to get

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a few more satellites. Trying to get create that value

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for the for the regulars, is important for the for

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our players ecosystem. But yeah, it's really hard to speak

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of this year just because of the tax thing. Like

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if that wasn't a part of it, I would say

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we would continue to grow, we would be having more events,

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we would be having more new people, would be having

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more unique players, because I think the PGT is slowly

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just it's it's it's a slow, it's slow process, but

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we're slowly gaining, you know, that ground to where we

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can compete with you know, at a different level, but

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compete with WSPWBT or TRENT. It's never going to be

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any of those, but we definitely have a place here

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in Vegas, a constant, you know, to or throughout the

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whole year, you know, with some you know, little variations

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at other venues. But yeah, it's just it's just too

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hard to say what's going to happen in twenty twenty

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sixth and being honest.

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Speaker 1: Well it sounds to me like, I mean, he was

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here for two and a half days, Daniel Legrand, who

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might not put in a full schedule in twenty twenty

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six I don't know. He seems so much more interested.

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Speaker 2: In golf, is my read he seems, I mean half

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the time he was playing today at the final table,

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we see him practicing his chip shot or something that

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I know. So, yeah, look, does Daniel need to play poker? No?

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Speaker 3: Does he need the money? I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I can't speak for his money, but probably not. Come on,

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does he doesn't need I don't know. I'm not going

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to speak on part of his finances. He might have

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made some bad investments in something.

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Speaker 3: Who knows.

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Speaker 2: Does he need to stamp his legacy a little harder?

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I would say that since he won that bracelet in

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the fifty k, that's a pretty that was a pretty

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big stamp to his legacy. So he may be like,

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you know what, I don't need to be on the

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top of the old time money list. I don't need

474
00:23:37,359 --> 00:23:40,279
to hit one hundred million bracelets are good. I'll grind bracest.

475
00:23:40,680 --> 00:23:40,839
Speaker 1: You know.

476
00:23:40,880 --> 00:23:43,400
Speaker 2: I spoke with him a little bit today and as

477
00:23:43,440 --> 00:23:46,400
we were walking in to the studio and sounds like,

478
00:23:46,519 --> 00:23:50,839
you know, he it's very much I'm goal focused. We'll

479
00:23:50,920 --> 00:23:53,559
see what my playing schedule is like, you know, outside

480
00:23:53,599 --> 00:23:55,839
of that, and even at the World Series and for

481
00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:58,119
him to say I'm not going to play every day,

482
00:23:58,359 --> 00:23:59,359
it's a little hard to believe.

483
00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:00,839
Speaker 3: And we'll sell with see if it happens.

484
00:24:00,880 --> 00:24:03,640
Speaker 2: But you know, there's also the personal side, got the

485
00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:06,759
wife at home, trying to have some kiddies, you know,

486
00:24:07,079 --> 00:24:09,920
like where does that go? You know, if they do

487
00:24:10,119 --> 00:24:13,119
end up having a child, you know, that's obviously going

488
00:24:13,200 --> 00:24:15,240
to take you know, we know, we know how it

489
00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:18,319
is a photographer. Antonio is learning how it is. Takes

490
00:24:18,319 --> 00:24:20,559
a lot of time out of your regular life. So

491
00:24:21,519 --> 00:24:23,799
I think he I wouldn't be surprised if he scales

492
00:24:23,839 --> 00:24:24,559
it back everywhere.

493
00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:29,039
Speaker 1: You know, Yeah, I think he'll. I think Daniel will.

494
00:24:29,440 --> 00:24:32,880
And Daniel finished fourth place in the PGT Championship, so

495
00:24:32,960 --> 00:24:35,279
that's why this is kind of top of mind. You know,

496
00:24:35,359 --> 00:24:38,079
he hadn't been playing a lot of PGT events towards

497
00:24:38,119 --> 00:24:42,160
the second half of the season, you know, and especially

498
00:24:42,279 --> 00:24:46,319
as things went into the later months of twenty twenty five.

499
00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:49,319
Obviously he was down in the Bahamas during WSP Paradise

500
00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:53,240
playing the joint events that were you know, both the

501
00:24:53,319 --> 00:24:57,319
WSOP events and PGT qualifying down there. But I don't know,

502
00:24:57,480 --> 00:24:59,279
I just get the sense that you know, like you said,

503
00:24:59,319 --> 00:25:01,880
he's just kind of kind of focused on improving his

504
00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:06,079
golf game, chilling at home and living that sort of

505
00:25:06,119 --> 00:25:08,599
life right now. Now. I will also say that, you know,

506
00:25:08,720 --> 00:25:14,160
having known Daniel for for many years, that he's highly competitive,

507
00:25:14,519 --> 00:25:17,960
and I think eventually he'll kind of swing back to poker. Yeah,

508
00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:20,240
you know, so maybe he scales back in terms of

509
00:25:20,319 --> 00:25:22,839
PGT or even if that is W s AP or whatever,

510
00:25:23,480 --> 00:25:25,440
but you know, eventually, I think that drive will kind

511
00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:26,839
of come back, you know, kind of just like it

512
00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:29,039
right now, it's coming back to him with golf, Like

513
00:25:29,160 --> 00:25:31,279
he really wants to focus on the golf stuff and

514
00:25:31,359 --> 00:25:33,400
he wants to get better there. You know, I think

515
00:25:33,480 --> 00:25:36,599
eventually he'll he'll kick back around to coming back into

516
00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:38,440
poker and then maybe he'll make you know, a couple

517
00:25:38,559 --> 00:25:40,720
more big pushes here and there, you know, kind of

518
00:25:40,759 --> 00:25:43,720
similar to what we've seen, not not maybe this season

519
00:25:43,759 --> 00:25:46,119
because it did kind of you know, fall off towards

520
00:25:46,160 --> 00:25:48,279
the end, but but prior seasons, you know, he was

521
00:25:48,720 --> 00:25:52,960
out here battling every single every single time that there

522
00:25:53,079 --> 00:25:56,039
was an event here at the studio. So I think

523
00:25:56,079 --> 00:25:58,279
that's what we'll kind of see for Daniel. I mean

524
00:25:58,640 --> 00:26:00,480
this is kind of related, but you know, because he

525
00:26:00,559 --> 00:26:04,519
obviously supports him and whatnot. But Jeremy Becker, I think

526
00:26:04,559 --> 00:26:06,440
he's someone who's going to go the other way. You know,

527
00:26:06,519 --> 00:26:09,039
he's coming off that big score in December at the WPT.

528
00:26:09,319 --> 00:26:11,680
You know, he won over seven hundred K for taking

529
00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:15,359
fifth place in that WPT World Championship events. He's had

530
00:26:15,400 --> 00:26:18,680
some other scores around town. He's done well here in

531
00:26:18,799 --> 00:26:22,000
the studio as of late. So I think Jeremi Becker

532
00:26:22,039 --> 00:26:23,880
is somebody who I mean, he's always told me that,

533
00:26:24,440 --> 00:26:26,119
you know, he wants to just keep playing bigger and

534
00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:27,759
bigger and bigger and play as high as possible.

535
00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:28,480
Speaker 3: That's his goal.

536
00:26:28,759 --> 00:26:31,079
Speaker 1: So you know, he's someone where I don't think he

537
00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:34,839
cares one bit about backing off as it pertains to

538
00:26:34,880 --> 00:26:37,839
the tax stuff. So you know, if he's got the

539
00:26:37,960 --> 00:26:42,279
money and he's playing well and feels like he's on form,

540
00:26:42,519 --> 00:26:43,839
you know he's going to be in here and he's

541
00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:45,640
going to be firing away. So he's someone who I

542
00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:49,000
would expect to actually scale up his volume, whereas we

543
00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:51,160
might see someone like you know, a Daniel mcgrown you

544
00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:53,279
scale back. You know, that's kind of my I read

545
00:26:53,359 --> 00:26:55,839
on the situation there and then I don't know, I

546
00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:57,279
just kind of get the sense that a lot of

547
00:26:57,319 --> 00:27:00,599
these guys again are just going to be here just firing.

548
00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:02,440
I mean, I don't know what. I mean, what else

549
00:27:02,440 --> 00:27:03,599
are they going to do with their lives?

550
00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:04,359
Speaker 3: Exactly?

551
00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:07,480
Speaker 1: This is what they do. They play poker, they gamble,

552
00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:10,240
and that's that. So I mean, we'll see, you know,

553
00:27:10,359 --> 00:27:12,680
I think one of the big things Tim and I

554
00:27:12,759 --> 00:27:14,920
have talked about it, and I think we've said it

555
00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:17,319
here on the podcast, but those those high roller events

556
00:27:17,359 --> 00:27:20,559
that are coming up at Seminole. You know, speaking of

557
00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:23,079
Jeremy Becker, he's currently on a plane right now going

558
00:27:23,119 --> 00:27:25,960
down there. But you know, how well do those events

559
00:27:26,079 --> 00:27:28,920
draw You know, you can't really use this PGT Last

560
00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:32,200
Chance series as a good gauge because there's just so

561
00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:36,400
much tied to qualifying for the free roll that I

562
00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:39,240
think anyone that was possibly thinking about scaling back is

563
00:27:39,279 --> 00:27:41,839
still going to fire hard during Last Chance just for

564
00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:44,240
the chance to get into the free roll. And then

565
00:27:44,279 --> 00:27:48,880
they'll they'll readjust you know, post Last Chance, post PGT Championship,

566
00:27:48,960 --> 00:27:51,319
So you know, we'll see how these these high rollers

567
00:27:51,359 --> 00:27:54,400
go for a lucky hearts down in Florida. We'll be

568
00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:57,440
paying attention to that. There's some other events that we

569
00:27:57,559 --> 00:27:59,200
can kind of keep an eye on. Of course, we

570
00:27:59,319 --> 00:28:01,799
have the PGT kickoff series that that we'll see how

571
00:28:01,839 --> 00:28:04,519
that goes. But yeah, you know, overall, I think it's

572
00:28:04,519 --> 00:28:07,200
going to be kind of an interesting, I don't know,

573
00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:10,359
a couple of months at least for poker as a whole,

574
00:28:10,880 --> 00:28:14,079
at least as it pertains specifically to the high roller scene.

575
00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:16,400
I think a lot of other stuff will we'll do

576
00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:19,759
just fine, you know. I think one of the things

577
00:28:19,799 --> 00:28:22,400
I'm most looking forward to is this, I don't know,

578
00:28:22,480 --> 00:28:24,720
there's this big ass chunk of events that's coming up

579
00:28:24,759 --> 00:28:26,000
in like February and March.

580
00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:30,079
Speaker 2: Yeah, like you have too many events. What's first Win

581
00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:33,920
Millions is first no WPT five k Venetian and then

582
00:28:33,960 --> 00:28:36,559
Win Millions, yeah, and then Poker Girl Cup like bang

583
00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:39,079
bang bang, and like partly overlapping with each other, so

584
00:28:40,319 --> 00:28:42,119
a good way. Yeah, yeah, no, for sure, Like you

585
00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:44,920
can basically come out to Vegas and just play anything

586
00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:47,119
and everything. So that's going to be a lot of

587
00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:50,200
fun and also you know, good to be able to

588
00:28:50,240 --> 00:28:51,640
compete and get out there. I'm gonna ty and get

589
00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:55,559
out there as much as I can. So what else

590
00:28:55,599 --> 00:28:57,160
you got for me? Uh?

591
00:28:58,079 --> 00:29:01,720
Speaker 1: Kickoff starts in what two weeks? That's double points.

592
00:29:02,079 --> 00:29:04,920
Speaker 2: Two x points for kickoff cash is they're trying to

593
00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:07,039
start our season. Then we're going to go into the

594
00:29:07,079 --> 00:29:09,559
PGT Mixed Games, one hundred cases of high roll the ball,

595
00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:12,200
Then we're going to go into PERG Cup and then

596
00:29:12,519 --> 00:29:15,039
everything else CBD from there. I guess I'm looking forward

597
00:29:15,079 --> 00:29:17,559
to hitting some more. You know, we hit a few

598
00:29:17,599 --> 00:29:21,039
big accomplishments on the PGT like what later this year?

599
00:29:21,440 --> 00:29:24,240
Like what well Alex Fox and Saving Chadwick both hit

600
00:29:24,279 --> 00:29:25,759
ten thousand PGT points.

601
00:29:25,799 --> 00:29:27,759
Speaker 1: Sorry you you not we?

602
00:29:28,599 --> 00:29:30,200
Speaker 3: You said we hit accomlised the tour.

603
00:29:30,519 --> 00:29:33,200
Speaker 1: We okay, we as the tour has nothing to do

604
00:29:33,279 --> 00:29:36,799
with that accomplished well of the tour. You are so

605
00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:37,559
weird with this.

606
00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:39,720
Speaker 3: No, not we.

607
00:29:41,279 --> 00:29:44,039
Speaker 1: You didn't do anything to help Alex Foxen get to

608
00:29:44,079 --> 00:29:44,759
whatever that happens.

609
00:29:45,039 --> 00:29:46,480
Speaker 3: I created some events for him to play.

610
00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:48,880
Speaker 1: Alex Foxen is an absolute beast.

611
00:29:51,119 --> 00:29:55,000
Speaker 2: Sam several, Alex Fox and Jeremy osmas Sean Winter all

612
00:29:55,039 --> 00:29:56,960
hit one hundred p GT cashes.

613
00:29:57,200 --> 00:29:59,960
Speaker 1: Do you think Phil Helmony is going to play more events? Yeah?

614
00:30:00,279 --> 00:30:02,640
He kept talking about it during the Last Chance. He

615
00:30:02,759 --> 00:30:06,319
kept talking about how to get into the free roll. Yeah,

616
00:30:06,319 --> 00:30:09,799
I would like to see I told you know, Porker

617
00:30:09,839 --> 00:30:12,640
grows ceo that Brent Hanks the other day, you know,

618
00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:14,799
because I think I think Hellmuth might have been messaging him.

619
00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:16,480
Is he getting in the free roll or is he not?

620
00:30:16,720 --> 00:30:19,000
Obviously not, he missed out. He got close to winning

621
00:30:19,039 --> 00:30:21,119
one of those dream seas. But and I told Brent,

622
00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:24,920
I said, listen, the way Helm Youth shows up and

623
00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:30,519
battles and just fights till the ever dying last chip

624
00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:33,400
in every single tournament that he plays. If he were

625
00:30:33,480 --> 00:30:36,920
to put in I'm not even asking for full volume,

626
00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:40,680
just respectable volume. On the PGT, he would be a

627
00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:45,200
lock to qualify for the Free Roll. At one lock

628
00:30:45,319 --> 00:30:48,000
to qualify for the PGT Million Dollar Championship. Like, there's

629
00:30:48,079 --> 00:30:52,160
just no way he wouldn't qualify. He fights too hard

630
00:30:52,240 --> 00:30:55,279
to cash and then usually that results in in somehow

631
00:30:55,359 --> 00:30:57,839
making his way to the final table. Like, Yeah, you

632
00:30:57,920 --> 00:30:59,720
can make fun of his style, and you can say

633
00:30:59,799 --> 00:31:02,440
he's too tighter, conservative and certain spots and he does

634
00:31:02,519 --> 00:31:04,200
his own thing and all that sort of stuff. Yes,

635
00:31:04,319 --> 00:31:07,519
but he still performs I mean, he did very well

636
00:31:07,599 --> 00:31:11,039
at Last Chance, had a handful of deep runs at

637
00:31:11,079 --> 00:31:14,200
two final tables, Like, I mean, he can do it.

638
00:31:14,359 --> 00:31:16,119
So if he just put in the volume. The thing

639
00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:18,480
is with him is like he never shows up here. Yeah,

640
00:31:18,519 --> 00:31:20,519
like he might pop in for like one US Poker

641
00:31:20,519 --> 00:31:22,359
Open event and then we won't see him, or like

642
00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:25,079
one Poker Masters event and we won't see him. I mean,

643
00:31:25,119 --> 00:31:27,319
obviously we know what he does at the WSP and

644
00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:30,240
a lot of those events are PGT qualifying events. Yes,

645
00:31:31,039 --> 00:31:32,960
you know, but you have to be able to make

646
00:31:33,039 --> 00:31:35,480
up for stuff elsewhere unless you have like one of

647
00:31:35,519 --> 00:31:38,440
those crazy big scores you know, like a Michael Mssrocky

648
00:31:38,480 --> 00:31:41,039
did or whatever. But you know, without one of those,

649
00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:43,440
you really do have to grind the whole tour, Like

650
00:31:43,559 --> 00:31:47,000
the whole top forty of the PGT leaderboard that qualify,

651
00:31:47,160 --> 00:31:50,640
like the large majority of them grind the tour, you know.

652
00:31:50,759 --> 00:31:53,440
So if Helmet just came out here, like you know,

653
00:31:53,559 --> 00:31:58,039
I don't know, give me, give me thirty events, he's

654
00:31:58,119 --> 00:31:59,000
in for sure.

655
00:32:00,119 --> 00:32:00,319
Speaker 3: Yeah.

656
00:32:00,359 --> 00:32:02,839
Speaker 1: If he plays thirty events I'm talking about I'm talking

657
00:32:02,839 --> 00:32:04,680
about at the studio. Thirty events at the studio, he's

658
00:32:04,720 --> 00:32:08,799
going to cash in like twelve of them. Yeah, probably

659
00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:12,279
make four final tables. I mean he he like he's

660
00:32:12,319 --> 00:32:14,079
going to have a baseline of like five or six

661
00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:16,440
hundred points there alone, yep, and then he can make

662
00:32:16,519 --> 00:32:18,720
up the rest of it when it comes to the

663
00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:20,160
WSIP and that sort of stuff.

664
00:32:20,519 --> 00:32:20,680
Speaker 2: You know.

665
00:32:20,880 --> 00:32:23,960
Speaker 1: So let's go, Phil, come on, come on, let's go.

666
00:32:24,240 --> 00:32:26,680
If Daniel is going to be scaling back, let's put

667
00:32:26,720 --> 00:32:28,400
phil helmets in this place and let's see if Phil

668
00:32:28,440 --> 00:32:30,680
can do it. I would love to see it.

669
00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:33,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, going back to this commentary real quick, this season

670
00:32:33,759 --> 00:32:36,519
twenty twenty six, a couple more people should a ten

671
00:32:36,559 --> 00:32:40,920
thousand points, Sam Sarvo, Jeremy Osmus, maybe, Dianian o'greenner one hundred,

672
00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:45,720
Kasha's saving Chidwick went away, Daniel o'greanner won away, Nick

673
00:32:45,799 --> 00:32:49,799
Schulman eight away, Carry Katz twelve away. So a couple

674
00:32:50,519 --> 00:32:55,200
potential accomplishments on the cause upcoming in twenty twenty six

675
00:32:55,240 --> 00:32:56,240
I would expect to see.

676
00:32:57,720 --> 00:32:59,799
Speaker 1: Okay, I mean that's a good list. Those are all

677
00:32:59,799 --> 00:33:02,559
the volume guys, of course, So yeah, you know, kind

678
00:33:02,599 --> 00:33:05,640
of just putting in your time and all that sort

679
00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:07,799
of stuff, you should do some sort of like I

680
00:33:07,839 --> 00:33:11,359
don't know, five year thing, now that it's been five

681
00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:13,359
years of the tour or five seasons of the tour?

682
00:33:13,599 --> 00:33:15,319
Speaker 3: Have that plant? Actually? There you go?

683
00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:19,240
Speaker 1: Perfect? So who's the leader in points? Has to be

684
00:33:19,559 --> 00:33:19,880
run here?

685
00:33:20,079 --> 00:33:20,200
Speaker 3: Right?

686
00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:21,160
Speaker 1: How is it not.

687
00:33:22,839 --> 00:33:23,519
Speaker 3: Alex Foxing?

688
00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:24,720
Speaker 1: Oh? Foxing's leading?

689
00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:25,200
Speaker 3: Yeah?

690
00:33:25,920 --> 00:33:29,559
Speaker 1: But when did Foxen start like really playing high rollers?

691
00:33:30,759 --> 00:33:34,279
Wasn't it like a season into the PGT? Like what

692
00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:38,160
did he do the twenty one season twenty twenty one

693
00:33:38,319 --> 00:33:45,440
or was he always around then? He was fairly always around. Yeah,

694
00:33:45,519 --> 00:33:48,079
he's cash that you know La Poker Classic.

695
00:33:48,240 --> 00:33:50,279
Speaker 2: Oh wait, no, that's not he's facing He took second

696
00:33:50,359 --> 00:33:52,880
in the very first Aria high Roller of the season

697
00:33:52,960 --> 00:33:55,519
to dance me, so from the very s thought he

698
00:33:55,680 --> 00:33:56,000
was there.

699
00:33:56,279 --> 00:34:00,839
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, okay, all right, Well, you know it's gonna

700
00:34:00,839 --> 00:34:03,200
be fun. It's gonna be very fun. I don't really

701
00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:05,359
have anything else to talk about. I don't think you

702
00:34:05,480 --> 00:34:05,799
do either.

703
00:34:05,880 --> 00:34:06,920
Speaker 3: How do we do with fantasy?

704
00:34:07,319 --> 00:34:09,920
Speaker 1: I couldn't tell you, to be honest, we'll have to

705
00:34:09,960 --> 00:34:11,360
I'll just have to like wrap it up and then

706
00:34:11,400 --> 00:34:13,880
we'll talk about it on the next podcast. Let's just

707
00:34:14,840 --> 00:34:15,960
I don't want to be I don't want to be

708
00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:18,800
looking at it. I don't think anyone had Chatty Sledge. No,

709
00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:23,039
I'm trying to think, if well, then fuck you want?

710
00:34:23,159 --> 00:34:24,760
I mean you just want. I mean that's just how

711
00:34:24,800 --> 00:34:28,280
it is. I mean, it's unbelieving. I'm just the best,

712
00:34:28,920 --> 00:34:31,280
the best, I mean, you know, the best, the fantasy,

713
00:34:31,599 --> 00:34:34,679
the best. You got so lucky under what do you mean?

714
00:34:34,719 --> 00:34:36,599
You were drafted people that didn't even show up to

715
00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:37,840
things that we were doing.

716
00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:40,320
Speaker 3: Okay, one guy, fucking Lewis Bence.

717
00:34:40,960 --> 00:34:43,880
Speaker 1: It's it's just unbelievable. It's it's really is unbelievable.

718
00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:46,440
Speaker 2: So I got nothing p G T wise, But I guess, like,

719
00:34:47,320 --> 00:34:48,880
what are wrapp plans a couple of weeks off? We're

720
00:34:48,880 --> 00:34:50,760
gonna play some cords? What are you gonna do?

721
00:34:51,199 --> 00:34:52,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I don't know what I'm gonna do.

722
00:34:52,760 --> 00:34:55,840
Speaker 2: I gotta I got a very very silly Holf Marathon

723
00:34:55,960 --> 00:34:58,679
next weekend, which I might die at. So you might

724
00:34:58,719 --> 00:35:01,519
need to find a new podcast hot But fine.

725
00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:06,719
Speaker 1: By me, Fine by me, buddy, fine by me. All right, cool,

726
00:35:07,559 --> 00:35:09,400
So we'll get out of here on that. Not much

727
00:35:09,440 --> 00:35:11,320
else to talk about again. If you guys missed the

728
00:35:11,400 --> 00:35:13,800
PGG Championship event, you guys can go find it on

729
00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:15,960
PokerGO dot com. You can also find it on the

730
00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:19,800
poker Go YouTube channel. Two days of coverage we got

731
00:35:19,840 --> 00:35:23,480
the entire final table was streamed as well as I

732
00:35:23,519 --> 00:35:26,239
don't know sixty or seventy percent of Day one, you know,

733
00:35:26,480 --> 00:35:29,800
a large portion of Day one, very very high level poker.

734
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:32,559
I know you might not think that when you hear

735
00:35:32,639 --> 00:35:33,960
it free roll. By the way, this is a pep

736
00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:36,280
peeve of mine that's that's now grown in the last

737
00:35:36,360 --> 00:35:38,159
forty eight hours. But we can't call this thing the

738
00:35:38,199 --> 00:35:41,280
free roll, which I've already done many times on this podcast.

739
00:35:42,039 --> 00:35:44,199
We got to call it the PGG Championship just because

740
00:35:44,199 --> 00:35:47,679
I think free roll just has this stereotype to it

741
00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:50,039
that it's just like, oh willy nilly now the way

742
00:35:50,159 --> 00:35:52,800
Chino rembusted he was playing like a damn free roll.

743
00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:57,800
But you know it's certainly not not a free roll

744
00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:00,559
at all. Yes, it is a free roll in this,

745
00:36:00,880 --> 00:36:03,960
you know, the most specific definition of a free role.

746
00:36:04,079 --> 00:36:07,079
These players didn't pay anything to get in. But this

747
00:36:07,280 --> 00:36:11,800
is a championship level event. It is incredible and well.

748
00:36:11,960 --> 00:36:14,960
It is done and dusted, as are we. So for

749
00:36:15,119 --> 00:36:17,599
Tim Duckworth, my name is Donnie Peters. Oh, one more

750
00:36:17,599 --> 00:36:19,599
shout out. I'm gonna be on the Clyde Gaskins podcast

751
00:36:19,639 --> 00:36:21,639
next week, so you guys should definitely check that out.

752
00:36:22,599 --> 00:36:24,719
I can't wait for that. It was funny. Clyde's like,

753
00:36:24,840 --> 00:36:26,119
he's like, you know, he asked me if I want

754
00:36:26,159 --> 00:36:27,599
to be on whatever, and he's like, yeah, you know.

755
00:36:28,239 --> 00:36:31,719
He's like, it's pretty easy, you know questions. I said, Clyde, listen,

756
00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:36,280
I handle podcasts, Okay, you can ask me whatever the

757
00:36:36,320 --> 00:36:39,039
fuck you want. I do not care open book. He said,

758
00:36:39,119 --> 00:36:41,159
nothing's off the table. I said, no, Clyde, Look what

759
00:36:41,559 --> 00:36:44,760
worst case scenario, Clyde, I'm gonna just deflect because I

760
00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:47,079
know how to deflect, you know. But other than that,

761
00:36:47,480 --> 00:36:48,079
it doesn't matter.

762
00:36:48,639 --> 00:36:50,239
Speaker 3: Asked you what I mean?

763
00:36:50,559 --> 00:36:54,599
Speaker 1: Ask away? Ask away? So insult. That's gonna take place

764
00:36:55,360 --> 00:36:58,199
next week. I don't know when it comes out after that,

765
00:36:58,400 --> 00:37:01,599
but I'm excited to be on what is it called

766
00:37:01,639 --> 00:37:05,239
Snack Attack with Clyde Gaskin whatever you guys find it

767
00:37:05,320 --> 00:37:09,079
on YouTube. Clyde's the freaking man. Unless you're you're Jammie Becker,

768
00:37:09,159 --> 00:37:13,400
then you know, wow, Well, Jeremy just thinks. Jeremy's like

769
00:37:13,400 --> 00:37:17,519
a typical poker player right in that. Once you get

770
00:37:17,559 --> 00:37:19,119
one dealer and he starts giving you a couple of

771
00:37:19,159 --> 00:37:22,239
bad beats, that's just not your dealer anymore. Right, That's

772
00:37:22,280 --> 00:37:25,119
just how it is, you know, But we all know.

773
00:37:25,239 --> 00:37:28,440
It's just it's how you play. It's not how the content.

774
00:37:29,320 --> 00:37:30,960
All right, that's gonna do it for us. As I said,

775
00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:33,320
he's him Duckworth, and I am Donnie Peters, and we

776
00:37:33,360 --> 00:37:34,960
will talk to you guys next time.

777
00:37:39,840 --> 00:37:40,159
Speaker 2: Jami