Speaker 1: Hello, everyone, Welcome back to a new episode of the
Poker Go Podcast. My name is Donnie Peters. His name
is Tim Duckworth, and it is his birthday. How do
you buddy?
Speaker 2: Thirty seven to damn all?
Speaker 1: Thirty nine thirty nine Wow, officially older than me. Absolutely
love it when you just pull out of me. I
turned thirty eight and that's it.
Speaker 2: Oh you stopped? Yeah, I should have done that a
couple of stop it.
Speaker 1: I think my wife stopped at thirty four. I stopped
at thirty eight.
Speaker 2: I keep going. I don't mind, just how you feel. Uh.
Speaker 1: Thursday, February twentieth, we just wrapped up the twenty twenty
five Poker Go Cup here at the Poker GHT Studio
and it was an exciting series. It was capped off
by Joey Weisman winning.
Speaker 2: The Poker Go Cup.
Speaker 1: He had a whole bunch of second place finishes, three
of them to be exact. He had a win as well.
He won more than nine hundred and thirty thousand dollars
in prize money. We'll get through it all, you know,
Tim and I talked to previously about how you know
big and bad this series started. You know, I think
everything continued, pretty nice. Some would say massive, yes, some
would say enormous, some would say gigantic, some might say colossal.
You know, all those all those different I mean, why
do you think they named it the Colossus.
Speaker 2: At the WSP.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so yeah, well we'll get into all things poker
Go Cup related, of course, and yeah, that'll be that.
Do you want to remind you guys that if you
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and I are regularly in the streets battling. We did
just wrap up the play poker Go Cup, which was
a lot of fun. I had two final tables. Tim
had won you we both had a third place finish.
You had a third place finish in the in the
final event. I had a third place finish in the
sixth event. So you and I fell short of winning
the exclusive Lion Avatar. But we'll come get them next time.
That I at time you have, no you have this
is our f tops jersey. Okay man, this is the
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dot com. All right, Joey Wiseman, you're twenty twenty five
Poker Go Cupampion, the first major of the twenty twenty
five Poker gro Tour season. He had one win, four cashes.
All of his cashes were top two finishes, either first
or second place, so he finished first once, he finished
second place three times. He had more than nine hundred
and thirty thousand dollars in prize money. One and to
make it even better, he there's eight events on the
schedule and he only played seven. He skipped one event
that was after what was after nove number two, Ye
when he so even number one and we talked about
this already, but as a reminder, event number one, Wiseman
finished second with Michael Montsec aka Texas Mike Michael Montcheck,
Michael Moncheck. I need to get that right, Michael Montcheck
Texas Mic topped him. Those two got heads up again
in event number two. This time Joey Wiseman came out
on top that heads up play and pretty long so
Joey didn't play event number three. In event number four,
if you can freaking believe it, this guy is heads
up again. This time he loses to Eric Blair, but
another top two finish. And then in the final event
that just wrapped up an hour or two ago, Joey
Wiseman comes into the final table. He's the chip leader,
he's cruising. He finds himself heads up against Justin Zaki.
I mean, coincidentally, Zaki was runner up in this event.
Last year he finished finished second to Jonathan Little. Little
had to win to win the cup. He did that last.
Speaker 3: Year Zachly needed to win to win the Cup I remember, correct,
because he had an event win so the winner would win.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 1: Okay, And this year, I mean, you know, Joey Wiseman
already locked up the cup. Yes, but still kind of
fun how that that all played out. Zaki did top
Wiseman in heads up play. They made a deal to
you know, lessen the page up between first and second.
So all things told, In the first event, it was
a five K buy in Wiseman second out of one
hundred and seventy seven entries for one hundred and twenty
four thousand dollars. Then in the next event, first out
of one hundred and eighteen entries, two hundred ninety five
thousand dollars was what he won there and amend number four.
His second place finish was worth one sixty one point seven.
And then in this final event, the twenty five k finale,
Wiseman's second place finish was ultimately worth three one hundred
and fifty thousand dollars. The final event wasn't as sweaty
as maybe we had hoped, you know, Tim and I
always want the sweat, you know, lots of people in contention.
It's just more fun that way when it's playing down.
But we did still have a decent sweat. You know,
Wiseman obviously had the lead on the top of the leaderboard,
but you had Eric Blair, you had Texas Mike, and
you had was a Christen Foxen and Adam Hendricks were
all all in. Blair, Foxing and Manchek go out and
it's only Hendricks's left, and they were two tables, getting
fairly close to the money and then Hendricks is all
in and he ends up being up against Wiseman. Hendrick says,
this is only fitting definitely that it was nines against
ace Jack ace Jack. For Hendricks, he was on the line.
There was a third player in the pot who also
had ah jack, so lowering the outs there for Hendricks,
the nines hole. For Joey Wiseman, it was really just
his cup from start to finish, and he ultimately took
out Hendricks, secured the cup.
Speaker 2: And that was that, you know.
Speaker 1: And then of course he goes on from there to
make the final table as the chip leader. He goes
on to finish in the second place for three hundred
and fifty K. So just an absolutely incredible performance across
the entire series from Joey Wiseman. He now joins Daniel Legranu,
Jeremy Osmas, carry Katz and Johnson Little as Poker Go
Cup champions. Even better, Joey Wiseman is now on top
of the season law PGT lead aboard. He has how
many points statman?
Speaker 2: Nine hundred and seven is what I think?
Speaker 1: So what are his odds to make to qualify for
the PGT Million Dollar Championship.
Speaker 2: He's not on the board. He's a lot.
Speaker 1: Can't bet him, compare him, can't bet him. He's a lot,
not even like minus ten thousand, He's.
Speaker 2: Just off the board. He's in.
Speaker 3: I think I would you know what, let's you know,
maybe producer Ryan can run this in about nine months
ten months time.
Speaker 2: I bet you nine oh seven right now is in?
Really yeah? I don't know because the little a few
little tweaks in the rules. I think it's gonna come
down just a little, and I think nine oh seven
is in, but Joey's Yeah, but Joey's gonna finish with.
Speaker 1: But something that I was thinking about is where maybe
you can look this up right now, maybe you can
effort this. But where were the top like three to
five people after cup last season? So through kickoff and
Cup were they is far? I feel like this is
really far. Nine oh seven, Kristen Foxin's in second with
like eight fifty.
Speaker 2: You mean okay, you sorry, you mean the top three
after the Polagar Cup.
Speaker 1: Life, Like, did they have this many points already?
Speaker 2: No? This is a he's like running away with but.
Speaker 1: It's not only him. So right now on the on
the PGT season long leader board, you have Joey Weisman
on top nine oh seven. You have Kristen Fox in
second eight fifty seven, you have Eric Blair third seven
to twenty two. I mean, that feels like a ton
of points between those three people.
Speaker 2: It really is. It's they've had such a great start
to the series.
Speaker 3: And if you can remember from early in last year,
we had David Coleman making his run, both with wins
of the kickoff wins of the cup.
Speaker 2: If we're looking.
Speaker 3: At uh following Pocagoa Cup last year, we're actually going
to be corrected, but David Coleman had nine hundred and
thirty seven points following kickoff and the Cup.
Speaker 2: Wow, okay.
Speaker 3: And then second was Kristen foxon She Loves She starts
hot every year. I guess she had six hundred and
sixty six points. Jonathan Little, he had two wins during
the Poblago Cup.
Speaker 1: Wait, wait, how many did bucks? And the last six
sixty six?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Because she well, she had an awesome kickoff, she had.
Speaker 3: She Yeah, she had a good kickof She had a
win and a third place, and she had a win
in the double points ten k and then she did okay,
she had four two more cashes at the.
Speaker 2: Cup, Jonathan, but this year she did better at the
Cup again.
Speaker 1: She obviously won the fifty to one of the fifteen ks,
so she's crushing.
Speaker 3: And then Jonathan Little, he was in third with five
hundred and forty nine points. He had two wins, four cashes.
Speaker 1: I saw someone on social media. I can't remember who,
and it might have even been a media outlet, but
I forget, so forgive me, but they called her the
Queen of the PGT.
Speaker 2: That's yeah, that's fair enough. I like it.
Speaker 1: I like it.
Speaker 3: Let's also, depending how you want to interpret all time
money lists, the queen of all the women, and she
is currently she currently passed Vanessa Selps on the Your
Time Money list. When you factor in online bracelets and
you de factor that's not the right word. When you
don't factor in Vanessa Selps sit and go where she
wanted a million dollars.
Speaker 1: So how much more are you gonna move the goalposts
on this? I mean, honest, look, I know it's your birthday,
so I'm gonna let it slide. But holy hell, I
don't decide we're gonna count this result, not this result.
We're gonna take this one away, but this one counts
over here, like and we're gonna, we're gonna, let's just
add let's just add three hundred k for Kristen Fox,
and let's just take three hundred k away from Vanessa South.
Speaker 2: I mean, what are you doing over here? It's look,
this is not my stance. This is another outlet stance
and I don't side with it. But depending how you
want to interpret the results out there, she's.
Speaker 1: Not interpret nothing. The results of the results. Look at
the list. Add up the total.
Speaker 2: End of story.
Speaker 3: The total doesn't include the online bracelests she's wanted. She's
won like seventeen of them.
Speaker 1: Anytime you talk about all time money lists, this, that,
and the other thing, it's always just live. You don't
get into online. You can't.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: The reason why listen? I know you can, Like you
can use it to bolster an argument, like if you're
if you and I are gonna debate Vanessa Selvis versus
Kristin Fox, okay, like our foundational things are going to
be like, Okay, well, this person's here on the altime
money List, this person is here on the all time Montive, this, this
person has this bracelet. This person has this bracelet, but
that's starting when you get to like listen, but she
also does this online for example, Like if you were
to defend Kristen Fox and be on that side, you'd
be like, well, she had super Nova elite x amount
of years. Like that's like, that's the stuff that you
would start to say, or like you know other people,
you'd be like, well, they played you know, the Ralbert
heaven On full tilt and they crushed that and they were,
you know, by a lot of the reports, one.
Speaker 2: Of the biggest winners in it.
Speaker 1: Like that's the sort of stuff that you would do
or you would say scoop titles or WQ titles or whatever.
But that stuff is at such an insanely high volume
some would say massive volume, that you can't do it
for everyone at the same time. So it's so that's
why it's just never really in the argument. Back to
our guy Joey Weisman for a second. Speaking of arguments,
best ever, all that sort of stuff, best PGT series
performance Ever, best PGT Majors, Serious performance Ever, how do
you view it? You know all the numbers, you know,
all the people that have done it. The one that
sticks out to me is twenty twenty one us Poke
Grope and when David Peters had three wins and four cashes.
That's the one that sticks out to me. It's a
very strong performance. The difference with that series obviously was
twelve events he did win. He did win some smaller
events in the series. Yeah, one of them was a
short which probably had ten people.
Speaker 2: I'm not joking.
Speaker 1: Short deck even a game anymore? Does anyone play s No?
They still play short deck at Triton, just to try them,
they do. Yeah, I know they've done a lot more
PLO yeah recently, but I just couldn't remember playing the
shorts out, probably usually because sucks well well, But the
way that Trenton does their schedules, it's like they do,
like whatever the batch of nolan A hold them and
then it's a batch of PLO. So like I'm usually
in for like the nolan and hold them, and then
I'll I'm in for some of the PLO and then
I have no idea what happens after that. I mean,
if they put short tack after that, I'm completely out.
Speaker 2: Look. The David Peters run the USPO was very good.
I'm kind of leaning towards Weisman. Even though it's only
one win versus three, there's three second places. You know
you only played seven events. I want to say you
got bigger fields pokers. Poker players have gotten better in
the on the PGT so we have to kind of
think about that a little bit. I'm going to give
the nod to Joey Weisman.
Speaker 1: Wow, look at you. I mean, I'm not even going
to pick a side. I'm just gonna say that Joey
Weisman had an incredible series and I thought you picked
him in our prediction.
Speaker 3: I did because I'm the best. Yes, no, I picked
him that he would without doubt enter the top forty
and qualified. Well, there you go, so he can go.
You know what, I gave him a little bit agree
for traveling around Asia for six months. Joey, you can
take ten months off because well he.
Speaker 1: Just he said when he was leaving, he said, I'll
see you guys in a weeks.
Speaker 2: Or a couple of months. Yeah, he's going. He's gonna
try it. He took some PGT G with him out.
He requested some pgt gs.
Speaker 1: Hopefully he's now the PGT poster child, being up on
top of the leaderboard.
Speaker 2: So he needs to you know, he needs to rep us.
That's right.
Speaker 1: Have you done you know, I know you haven't done this,
but you one hundred percent should do this or should
have done this, and you need to have like, you know, longest.
Speaker 2: Weeks is number one. I have thought about that.
Speaker 1: You know that needs to happen for sure, Like we
need to like hire someone just to do that so
you can be like, you know, this person has the
longest streak as the number one point.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean yes, if we get to a sweat
we will.
Speaker 3: I mean, Jeremy Osmisen had a pretty long stretch last year,
Chick Weeks had a pretty long stretch.
Speaker 2: So yeah, well I'll look into it. I'll at it
to my list of things today. There you go.
Speaker 1: So Joey Wiseman finishes on top of the leaderboard from
the just the poke grew up. I know I mentioned
the nine hundred and seven points he has on the
top of the leaderboard, but he had seven hundred and
fifty eight points just from the cup. After well, I
shouldn't say after Okay, how about this. After he won
the Cup, he spoke with Jeff Platt about winning the cup,
presented him with a check presented him with the cup.
So let's listen to that quick interview right now.
Speaker 4: All right, here's the cup. Here is the champ, Joey Weisman,
the twenty twenty five Poker Go Cup Series Champion. Joey, congratulations.
This is one of the most dominant performances that I'd
say we've seen in PGT major's history. What has this
series run been like for you?
Speaker 5: It's just been so fun being able to wake up
every day, come to the studio and play poker, doing
what I love to do, being where I love to be,
seeing the people that I love, and you know, I
get a lot of joy from coming and playing long
hours here. I never want to go home. So I've
been here a lot this week and I've been really
enjoying it.
Speaker 4: Even on individual titles here at this studio before you
won individual titles all across the country. Is a series
championship a next level accomplishment for you.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 5: I mean, it's new for me for sure, and it's
my first. It certainly feels amazing and just uh. The
cop is a representation of how well I ran, and
you know, and how and a representation of me trying
my best all week and just kind of getting a
little bit of a validation for you know, making some
good decisions along the way. It's nice and something that
I'll I'll leave on my bedside and I'll always remember
when I look at it.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: That was Joey Wiseman with Jeff Platt. Jeff presented him
with a nice, big old check my idea.
Speaker 2: Loved it. It is your idea, but I executed the plan.
I do. But we have to. There's something I hate
about you. Oh, let me.
Speaker 3: I probably can guess what it is. We are capped
by what we make. The players seem to enjoy it.
They like it, they've talked about it.
Speaker 2: I think if Joey left and then like can I
take my check?
Speaker 1: Osmus took his check, I think it's they never had
a big check.
Speaker 2: Just somebody a bit of fun. Okay, let me guess. Okay,
let me guess.
Speaker 1: It obviously never entered a publisher's clearing house give away.
Speaker 2: Let me guess your complaint. It has fake routing numbers
that you don't like. No complaint. You think the money
amount doesn't fill the box enough because it's it's like
a step I don't care about that.
Speaker 1: Okay, that stupid easel that we have that it sits on,
it's just I don't know, we need to figure it out.
Speaker 2: But it's ugly. Just buy something. It's ugly because.
Speaker 1: Then Jeff takes it off and gives it to them,
and then he puts the check on the table, and
then there's that easel just sitting there.
Speaker 3: Maybe we need a table easel, We need something someone
that sits on the table.
Speaker 2: Maybe that. So it's just like pot of like the shots.
Speaker 1: Something just needs to be improved with that, with that situation,
because it looks kind of cheesy. I'll give you a
little And one of the reasons why it kind of
looks cheesy is because everything around it is so nice
and top notch that then you have this this little
class six dollar easel that somebody probably went down to
Walmart and bought, like okay, here we go.
Speaker 2: So you know we need to I'll invest I'll get
that up. We need to figure that out. USPI, you
need to figure that out. Is that do you have
the USBO check already?
Speaker 1: It should be ready or it should be read white
and blue with like eagles and shipped on it.
Speaker 2: Okay, this we're a little calf by what we can
do with these chicks.
Speaker 1: Didn't the USA just win the nation's couplet? Where the
USA is back?
Speaker 2: It ain't hockey. See the USA is on TV. It's back, baby.
I don't get it. We're back. We're so back.
Speaker 1: Play the whole Cogan theme while you're giving the check,
like the whole the whole nine yards, right, come on,
there should be like the I mean, I can't stand
the national anthem, but what play the national anthem while
you present the person with the check at usk.
Speaker 2: First of all, your anthem.
Speaker 3: This is what's funny is I gotta send a video
about the Australian anthem and this comedian laying into our anthem.
Your anthem is great, and I have listened to YouTube
videos of all different artists singing it from like Super Bowl,
that kind of thing, you know, like Whitney and Chris Tankleton,
all those people.
Speaker 1: I love American an Okay, here's my problem with the anthem.
It's not the actual anthem itself. Okay, it's the fact
that it's played way too much. It's abused at this point,
do you play too Okay, listen when the Kansas City
Chiefs are playing the San Francisco forty nine ers. We
don't have to spend three minutes on the anthem. The
anthem should be reserved for country verse country. National pride
is on the line. We don't need it. Like, do
you know how off like every single football game, every
single NHL game, every single this, every single that there's
an anthem.
Speaker 2: It's it's absurd.
Speaker 1: If I were to add up the time that I
wasted in my life standing around and doing nothing during
the anthem, I mean, it would be an ungodly amount
of time. It's outrageous.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna kind of side with you on this. Yeah,
it's just it's.
Speaker 1: It's the it's the non stop playing of it. Like listen,
if you're playing it right now for this four nations
thing that's going on in hockey, Like that makes sense. Yeah,
you got USA versus Canada, USA vers Sweden, et cetera,
et cetera. Great, I get it, you know, But when
it's the Saint Louis Cardinals against the Houston Astros, you know,
in freaking June, no one cares. It's like, why am
I wasting three minutes of my life standing here for this? Yeah,
I'll give you that you know that. That part to
me is just.
Speaker 3: Okay, this is a real side tangent. But like when
I used to play video games, like a couple of
years ago, and I play NBA or whatever. So they
built in the anthem plane to the games and like
you can skip it just process ex skips to the gameplay.
I would often just leave the anthem.
Speaker 2: Of course, you're that's that's like, I mean, that's that's weird.
You don't have him. Okay, you don't have him is great? Whatever.
Speaker 1: How about this, let's wrap up the winners. So Michael
Manchek he won the first event, U Joey Wiseman on
the second event. We talked about that already. Adam Hendricks
won the third event. That's why he was in contention
to possibly win the Cup. Ultimately had to not.
Speaker 2: Work, of course.
Speaker 1: Eric Blair won the fourth event, fifth event, Sergio Ido.
He topped Shannon Shore there. Michael Manchek got third. Well
done by Texas Mike. He had a really good series.
And then this is interesting, Eric Blair one event number six.
Eric Blair finished with two wins. Yeah, so what do
you think about that?
Speaker 2: Buddy? He's doing good?
Speaker 1: Two wins, three cashes his two wins, three cashes better
than one win, and three second place finishes. I'm just asking,
but you know some people are always like we have.
He had two wins and he had one win. That
doesn't make any sense. Kristin Foxin she beat Patrick Pads
Leonard in event number seven, and then you had Justin
Zachi topping Joey Wiseman in the twenty five K. The
twenty five K that played out fifty nine entries there
one point four to seven five in the prize school,
and it was originally four hundred and seventy two thousand
up top figure what the original second place was, but
Zachie and Wiseman ended up altering the payouts where it
was four seventeen for first and three point fifty per second,
also cashing in that vet in event you had Clemen
Dang third place, Sam Several fourth place, Christian Roberts fifth place,
Michael Burke sixth place, Jesse Lonis seventh place, Keith Lear
on the Jet Baby Let's Go eighth place, and David
Peters in ninth. I believe it was Eric Wasserson Bubbling.
I did not know that Eric Washerston's nickname was popcorn.
Speaker 3: I've heard that, Yeah, but I did not know that
more commonly e wass poker, I guess than most Yeah,
good stuff. To take a random Jesse Leni story real quick. Yeah,
you know, played Bostiball this morning. They started a team. Okay,
Jesse's in the team, one of the best.
Speaker 1: I think you said he didn't show up.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he plays the game, and then he obviously had
to come here. So they're playing. I get there, it's like,
you know, eight minutes to go, they're winning. My fifteen points,
played the most horrendous basketball. For the next to the
rest of the game goes to overtime, they're playing. They're
playing horrendous anyway, four seconds to go in overtime. Uh,
Jesse hits a three pointer from the top of the key,
take the lead, and they get the win.
Speaker 2: That's very good, very good.
Speaker 1: As good as he played the nine to four off yesterday,
no comment. You and I were standing on the floor
watching that hand. I was I was suited, right, wasn't
The nine four suit was off suit? Well, man, you
got too frustraous. I mean it. It was one of
the most outrageous hands that I've ever seen. I mean
I'm not you know, I'm not joking at all, like.
Speaker 2: That was white.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, but there was some some crazy hands.
Speaker 2: You had that one.
Speaker 1: You had the Hendrix bluff, yes, which you said everyone
at basketball that you went to was talking about. That
was against Harvey Castro. So yeah, some good stuff ultimately
came out of this series. So we had in terms
of cashes at the series, Let's see who had the
most cashes, Joey Weisman had four. Of course you had
Keith Lear who had four. Keith Lear, I mean this guy.
He so he cashed four times at the Poker Go
Cup for three hundred and fifty two thousand dollars. I
would be willing to guess that he won another one
hundred and fifty km Last long.
Speaker 2: Although he also said he.
Speaker 3: Those are sports bets with ren Leean and there's a
pitcher he had out of base with him with maybe
forty thousand dollars in his shirt pocket, all paid from
Ren Lean and Sportsman.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, and I know, like you know, they were
on the stream and stuff they were talking about, like
he did a five k Last Longer with David Coleman.
Most of the lasts long as he does are ten k,
but with Rann or with Eric Wassers and he does
twenty five k, you know. But also like when he
was cashing out today, I heard him say, like.
Speaker 2: He had a losing series.
Speaker 1: How do you have a losing series and cash for
three hundred and fifty k?
Speaker 2: I mean you can be in Philosi Bullets season a
cat at three, yeah, but three lots of times can
be expensive. I don't know, man, that seems like that.
That math does not up.
Speaker 3: He's probably talking like cross books and sports bets and
all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: No, I'm pretty sure he was talking just to tournament
straight up tomaments.
Speaker 2: Yes, Michael Burke cashed four times. He's probably someone to
look out for.
Speaker 1: In terms of, like, you know, making some noise on
the PGT this year. He had a good December, he
had a good January, both non PGT related. But now
that he's on the PGT and playing this sort of stuff,
good stuff there. And I forget, but I think somebody
mentioned it might I think it was Brandon Wilson. Poor
Jeremie Becker either, one of our guest commentators yesterday said
that he's backed by Alex PONOKOFS, in.
Speaker 2: Which I thought was very interesting.
Speaker 1: I would have never guessed that in the Sam Laskowitz
had four cashes.
Speaker 2: He was back today.
Speaker 1: I mean this guy, so the fifteen K that was
won by Kristin Foxon. So did we talk about this,
by the way, on the other pod, so Laskawitz and
his girlfriend Melissa what's her last name, Stubert Shubert.
Speaker 2: I think that's right.
Speaker 1: Yes, I always forget. I'm sorry Wlissa if you're listening.
Speaker 2: So she's due with their baby.
Speaker 1: And on the second day of the series, but the
first day that we were streaming, he was on stream
and somehow they got to talking about it, and you know,
he said the do dates today and at the table
was like, oh, I'm surprised. And then he was like, yeah,
you know, if I make the final table, there's a
chance I have to leave tomorrow or whatever. So anyway,
he's he's here every day. Point, it's like just a
funny running joke that he's just here every day. Well
she's sometimes she's in the YouTube chat like it's just
the whole thing. Then in this event, I don't even
know what time, it was, like nine at night, ten
at night, whatever.
Speaker 2: You hear him on the main feature.
Speaker 1: He goes, he like looks at his phone and then
he's like, I might have to leave, That's what he says.
And we're like okay. So they're playing, and you know
he's like checking his phone all the time, you know,
all this sort of stuff, and you know, then eventually
he leaves, he up and leaves.
Speaker 2: They weren't in.
Speaker 1: The money yet, so in this event, it was a
it was even number seven the fifteen thousand dollars buying
nolanman hold him. There were eighty six entries. There was
like he left what like when there was like eighteen
to twenty people left in that round close to the bubble,
and he had like when he first like said like
I might have to leave, he had a ton of chips.
He had like sixty seven, but then he like just
lost all the chips. He went from like he had
a million of it. He had a million at the time,
and he went all the way down to like three
hundred k you know, and it was like, oh, he's like,
you know, you're thinking, like yo, he's thinking about this
other thing. He's not focusing on the pok or whatever.
So he's just losing and to listen. But then he
like spins it back up to like sixty bicks, so
then he's healthy again. Then he's gone. He just literally
just leaves. So it was funny because you could definitely
tell that some players were aware that he was obviously gone.
Others were not aware that he was gone, which was just,
you know, really funny. For example, Eric Wasserson had no
idea until the next day, which was funny. But as
they're playing, like they're on the bubble, right, He's got
like a healthy stack on the bubble of like twenty
five thirty bigs, and like there's other people with like
ten to fifteen bicks. So like, clearly you can't just
outweight last quits who's not in his seat.
Speaker 2: You have to do stuff.
Speaker 1: Anyway, he ends up his stack ends up getting into
the money, and not only does it get into the money,
it ladders up to eighth place. Min cash is thirty
two thy two hundred. He gets up to fifty one
six hundred somehow. I mean, it was wild. And then
also you have to factor in that they're seven handed, okay,
and they're playing two tables and they're four and four
because we don't join un till they're actually at seven,
but one table is actually playing three hand, which is
just like wild. So, I mean, I don't know what's happened.
I mean, it's just the whole thing was just wacky.
But he ends up, you know, he gets blinded out
and then you know, you can't even win the final
all in and he's out, but he he cashes for
fifty one six hundred. So then yesterday we're like watching
the final table and whatever, and Joey Wiseman comes over
to us and shows us a photo from Sam from
the night before where he's laying in like the on
the couch that the guys lay on, right. The baby's
on the chest, and in his hand is his phone
watching the stream, so watching how his stack played out,
just I mean wild stuff. Then he shows up today, okay,
two days after the baby's born, to collect his path.
I mean, I God, blessed poker players.
Speaker 2: Diapers are expensive, man, God.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but you don't think he has money.
Speaker 2: He'll be I think the guy will be all right.
Speaker 1: He can buy some divers and he collect his fifty
k when it comes to the USP.
Speaker 2: I mean, come on, really, but anyway.
Speaker 1: Just just fun crazy stuff here at the Poke Girl Cup.
You know, super excited for the Poker gro Tour. You know,
I think we're you know, everything's like going in the
right direction. Things are on the up and up. Obviously
we're going to see what happens with PGT Mixed Games
that starts next week, you know, super high rollable mixed.
I tried to convince our president Marius Candani, we should
just play.
Speaker 2: We should have just listed. So here's here.
Speaker 1: Did we talk about this already? We've talked about it
off the pot. But so Maury, because of who he
is with the company, his access and all this sort
of stuff, he won't play in events if they're going
to be stream right. And this is known most notably
because at mixed games last time was it last time
or two times ago whatever, At one of the last
Mixed games he plays an event, he makes the final tape, okay,
and because of how he is and he he wants
to just always be on the up and up with everything,
he's like, no, we're not streaming whole cards, right, So
we we do the broadcast with no hole cards, okay,
which is just wacky when it comes to mixed games,
but whatever, we did it because you know, you just
you just want to remove all doubt. Right anyway, he
wins the tournament, so great, So for this one super
high rollable mix that's coming up. You know, we're planning
on streaming all days of the tournament. So Morey's like, well,
what are you just not going to show any whole cards?
Like more like, who cares?
Speaker 2: Whatever?
Speaker 1: But our idea was we should just list it on
like poker Steak, get all the audience members, all the fans,
you know, everyone out there to you know, ride along
with more He's not He's not bad. He plays the
mixed games all the time like he's in that crowd, right,
I mean, yeah he might not you know, fire on
a hundred k or you know, it's I know it's
always been like his dream to play the fifty k
ppc right, like, but like he should be in there
for this, should like he said a two point on dude,
So it doesn't matter. He listened at one point, Oh,
who evenk cares?
Speaker 2: Because we want to free we're trying to free roll him.
Speaker 1: In that why do we need to free roll? And
he'll put up like ten k. He plays a bunch
of ten k's all summer, all year long, all the time.
Speaker 2: Sure, we could just try and get one hundred k.
Yeah whatever.
Speaker 1: Anyway, it's I just thought that would be cool if
we got him in, but he obviously turned it down,
so whatever, So we got that coming up, We got
USPO coming up. We had the Texas Poke Rope and
Poo Series. Yes, I forgot about that.
Speaker 2: Sorry.
Speaker 1: I mean we are absolutely jam packed, lots of freaking tournaments.
Absolutely love to see it. Thoughts on the Poker Girl
Cup surprises, like did anyone not do well? I I
will say that Alex Foxon is off to a slow
start again in the PGT. He did not do well
last year on the PGT. He ultimately qualified for the
top forty, but it was like it was not your
normal Alex fox in season and now it seems like
he's struggling again. Since crushing, he's struggled.
Speaker 3: So yeah, he's he would be at the top of
the list along with Jeremy Osmas. You know, he had
the cash in both Kickoff and Popular Cup, but that's it.
Jeremy Becker same thing. Had he had one cash so
far this season, So those three are kind of like,
you know, especially volume wise, you know, would expect a
little bit more for me surprises.
Speaker 2: It's good to see.
Speaker 3: You know, we talked about pads having a big kickoff
and potentially playing more events. Obviously he played every event here,
so that's a good sign for the upcoming mix game series.
I'm not sure what hump he's sure what the plo
How much of a PLOW player is I.
Speaker 1: Mean, I know he plays the stuff online. Yeah, we see.
He said he's more excited for the next game series
than he than he was for this series. So he's
he's ready to go.
Speaker 3: And then you know there's a you know, like we
always say, you know, we don't really cheer for players,
but it's good to see some of these, like what
I perceive is more of a fringe buying player that
won't always you know, maybe just cap out the ten
k's playing a lot more. Uh you know, Nick say
that he's sitting seventh right now in the PGT lead aboard.
You mentioned Michael Burks. That's someone you we wouldn't really
count on playing twenty five k's but the fact he
played every event, that's a good sign. So so, you know,
seeing some fresh faces, seeing some you know, some some
new blood in the studio is always going to be
a good thing for the play pool, the ecosystem of PGT.
Speaker 1: Slow starts for you know, I mentioned Alex Fox, and
I'm talking about, you know, as PGT season as a whole.
Jim Colliby slow start. I mean, I know he hasn't
played no, I know he hasn't played the normal Jim
Collibe volume. But that's also part of it, right, you know,
the volume is a part of Shaun Winter slow start
for him. You know, he's usually up there a bit,
so you know those two are you know, on the
slower side of things. I already mentioned the Alex Fox
and Ren Lynn, you know kind of a slow start.
He's only got two cashes so far. Forty points. Chino
Reem slow start for him.
Speaker 2: Back off of the series. Yeah, but he.
Speaker 1: Said, he said, remember last year we were in here,
he said, you bet your life. I will qualify for
the championship event. Bet your life and slow start for him.
He is pumped for this mixame series. So I think
we'll see him firing every former winner of the Nixame series.
Carry katz uh slow start for him. You know has
what you don't want cash so far. Jeremy Becker, you
know he's someone who.
Speaker 2: Listen.
Speaker 1: I know, variant is the thing in bad beats are thing.
I honestly see this guy lose with like aces fucking
three times a tournament. It's outrageous. It is ridiculous how
much he loses. And he got uh after in the
twenty five k in in this this series when he
had kings or Sam Soeverl's Jack ten. I mean, it's like,
it's just it's wild, how bad I watched this guy wrong.
I mean, it's just it's crazy. But you know, maybe
that all turns around, of course at some point. Another one,
Dylan Wiseman, I think he played one event, so maybe
well we see him for mixed games? Will we see
him for PLO?
Speaker 2: Of course?
Speaker 1: You know that sort of stuff. I mean, he's I
would say he's known more for that sort of stuff
than he is for Nolan hold him. You know, So
is it just one of those things where I felt
like last year, wasn't it Like he got like a
hot start and then he's like, well, I guess I
gotta play everything type of thing.
Speaker 2: He wanted to kick off the event and he wanted
to mix game. He want a sorry you want to
kick off event cup event? Want to mix games event,
I believe, and then kind of set him up to
you know, fire the whole season.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you know, we'll see how things go for
him coming up with you know, these series.
Speaker 2: He's much more likely to.
Speaker 1: Play Brandon Wilson, you know, not he last season at
Last Chance he did incredible, right, and he's been playing
a lot more now on the PGT. You know, he
would kind of pop in before, like maybe for the
all of that, the twenty five K or whatever. You know,
he played the whole series here, so he's here. He
was He did commentary as well for an hour or
two last night, I guess commentary alongside Breton Jeff and
he said this is his favorite place to play poker.
So I would expect him to come back to see
see much more of him in here for the No
Limits stuff. I know he's headed off to Triton, but
you know he'll be back as well. Jesse loanies very
slow start for him, I would say. I know he
final tabled the twenty five K, but pretty slow start overall.
Speaker 3: So yeah, you know, look, if you change some of
the results a ram Zobian not having the breast start
to the to the year, either. But if you think
about it, if if Zaki doesn't make this final table,
Jesse doesn't make this final table, just brutal starts of
the season for them. But you know, obviously Jesse adding
in seventh, but at least he's on the board, makes
the final table. Obviously Zachy break the Hall series but
then kind of gets unstuck with a big win to
cap off the Poko Cops. So we know how poker
works kind of, you know, eves and flows in these ways.
So but these guys will bounce back many many poke
tone of his fantic play this year.
Speaker 1: Maybe they will, maybe they won't. You never know, man,
you never know, You never know. Where's uh, where's Sam solverll.
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 1: He is twenty fifth currently punched in with like Sam
soverl Justin Saliva Shannah or Jeremy Osmas is right there.
So yeah, Manuel Fritz is also right there, right behind
Ozmas bringing him up because you know, maybe he's part
of that new blood that we see a bit more of.
Christian Roberts. I think, is this guy is electric to play?
I mean he if this guy gets a chip lead
get out of the way. I mean, I know there
was a lot of headlines and a lot of talk
about Texas Mike. I mean, yeah, Christian Roberts is right there.
I like in terms of like excitement on the felt,
this guy absolutely gets after it. So let's see if
we see a bunch more of Christian Roberts. I know
he's heading back to his home in Panama and then
maybe we'll see him for us BO Broken or stuff
like that. So yeah, Massado Yoga Sala said he's coming
for USBO Broken. Ye he had to win at kickoff, yes, yeah,
so it would be great to see Massado back in here.
It's also good to see uh Andrew Lichtenberger back in here. Yeah,
who didn't play a lot like in the second half
of last season. But we haven't seen Steven Chidwick really
at all? Have we seen him at all? Haven't he
played at any event this season?
Speaker 2: This season?
Speaker 3: Not?
Speaker 2: Unreal?
Speaker 1: Unreal, Stevie, unreal? All right, you got anything else or
are we getting out of here?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: You got a code word, password thingy secret code?
Speaker 2: Well, right, this is the last one.
Speaker 3: We'll change it in the next episode when we talk
about pg T Mixed Games. But code word is Wiseman
the Joey variety. W E, I, S. S M.
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So there's various contests, you know, he's the podcast one
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why of course, all right, that's going to do it
for us. Once again, Congratulations to Joey Wiseman for becoming
the twenty twenty five Poker Go Cup Champion. His name
is Tim Duckworth, it's his birthday, Happy birthday. My name
is Donnie Peters and we'll talk to you guys later.
Speaker 2: So yeah, Jenny H.