Speaker 1: Hello, everyone, Welcome to a new episode of the Poker
Speaker 1: Go Podcast. My name is Donnie Peters, is eleven thirty
Speaker 1: pm on the Dot on Wednesday, May twenty seventh. I'll
Speaker 1: be quite honest with you guys up front. I debated
Speaker 1: for a good while, probably bounced it around in my
Speaker 1: head for a couple hours this evening on my drive
Speaker 1: home from down on the Strip at the World Series
Speaker 1: of Poker. You know, whether or not I wanted to
Speaker 1: record an episode tonight, you know, part of me said
Speaker 1: I need to do it. I want to do it.
Speaker 1: Part of me said, I don't know if there's enough there,
Speaker 1: and I don't want to force it, and and I
Speaker 1: do feel like I want to be honest and candid
Speaker 1: with you guys about how I feel about everything and
Speaker 1: going through the entire summer. Now it is only day
Speaker 1: two of the World Series of Poker. There hasn't really
Speaker 1: been a massive story yet shout out massive. There's been
Speaker 1: really no you know, controversies. There hasn't been any winners,
Speaker 1: you know, there hasn't been any like big bangs just yet,
Speaker 1: you know. But I also know that stuff is coming, right,
Speaker 1: you know. It's it's it's interesting because you know, I
Speaker 1: think I think part of it is that every single
Speaker 1: year the World Series of Poker seems like it gets
Speaker 1: here before we know it and kind of before we're ready,
Speaker 1: and then it's here and then we go and we
Speaker 1: dive in. But there is that bill, right, you know,
Speaker 1: people are still getting into town, the events are still
Speaker 1: ramped up, you know, like specific to this year, they
Speaker 1: haven't even done the big reveal for the new Grand
Speaker 1: Arena that's going to be the new set up there,
Speaker 1: you know, and I know that that's coming, so like
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to kind of ease into it without
Speaker 1: you know, going too crazy to start. So yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: I just don't ever want to think that I'm forcing something, right,
Speaker 1: you know. But then I said, you know what, this
Speaker 1: is what the WACOP is, this is what we love
Speaker 1: about it. It's just here. It's awesome. The build you know,
Speaker 1: grows every single day, and then ultimately, you know, we
Speaker 1: get down to mid July and then it just it ends.
Speaker 1: It just gets taken away from us. And we all
Speaker 1: hate that feeling, you know, we want the we never
Speaker 1: want that to end, and then all of a sudden
Speaker 1: it ends. So you know, I do need to to
Speaker 1: feel some gratitude and and like, you know, cherish these
Speaker 1: these early, these early days of it all, you know,
Speaker 1: because that's part of it. It's not just the giant
Speaker 1: moments that take place, you know, on July twenty seventh,
Speaker 1: or during the main event or whatever it may be.
Speaker 1: The build up is part of it. And seeing the
Speaker 1: atmosphere change day by day when you are there on site,
Speaker 1: you're walking around, you're feeling it, and every single day
Speaker 1: that goes by, you feel it a little bit more.
Speaker 1: Right now, I know Monday wasn't officially anything, and I
Speaker 1: know we weren't on site at the World Series of Poker,
Speaker 1: but even being in the draft room at the Poker
Speaker 1: Growth Studio for the twenty five K Fantasy draft, that
Speaker 1: buzz starts to build. Then you go to the tournament
Speaker 1: setting the next day, the buzz builds a little bit
Speaker 1: more than today, even though it is only day two
Speaker 1: of the WSP, it's building even more. You know, you're
Speaker 1: getting you're starting to see a little bit more of
Speaker 1: the stuff happening, and you're at least my mind is
Speaker 1: kind of thinking like, Okay, that's potentially going to be
Speaker 1: a story, or that's potentially going to be a story,
Speaker 1: or there's some breadcrumbs there that could possibly, you know,
Speaker 1: be a little bit of a story. The rooms are
Speaker 1: slowly starting to fill up, you know, there's the emergence
Speaker 1: of different personalities, different characters, you know, old and new,
Speaker 1: the feeling of the entire poker world really just waking
Speaker 1: back up to being at the World Series of Poker
Speaker 1: once again. You know, it's kind of like how I
Speaker 1: would view poker players kind of wake up in the morning,
Speaker 1: you know, they roll over, they toss over, maybe they
Speaker 1: hit the snooze a couple of times. Eventually they're like,
Speaker 1: you know what, I might as well get down there.
Speaker 1: I know the tournament started at twelve, but I get
Speaker 1: that it's two thirty whatever, still a couple hours of
Speaker 1: late rege, so you know, I can get a couple
Speaker 1: of bullets in if I need to. That's kind of
Speaker 1: how I feel like I'm starting the WSOP this year.
Speaker 1: At the end of it all, I do want this
Speaker 1: podcast to ultimately reflect what we're feeling, what we're observing
Speaker 1: here at the World Series of Poker, Like I want
Speaker 1: these episodes to feel like those daily observations, and even
Speaker 1: on days when it feels a bit slower, and it
Speaker 1: feels like, hmm am I forcing things. You know, I
Speaker 1: think it's it's still all part of the big story, like,
Speaker 1: because without the small you can't have the big. So
Speaker 1: right now we're in the you know, the the build
Speaker 1: up era of it all. And it'll get there, of course.
Speaker 1: But also you know, today I got there a little
Speaker 1: bit late. I had a lot of things to take care
Speaker 1: this morning, you know, as it pertains to work. Don't
Speaker 1: know if you guys know, but we did drop a
Speaker 1: new season of High Stakes Poker, Season sixteen, first four
Speaker 1: episodes dropped. You guys can check that out on Poker Go.
Speaker 1: Kevin Hart is in the mix. He's battling with Sam Kekey.
Speaker 1: That's a lot of fun. Those guys just go total
Speaker 1: tone and go back and forth. As for the World
Speaker 1: Series of Poker, though, you know, you really started to
Speaker 1: feel it today, and I think it was probably due
Speaker 1: to the fact that the rooms were a bit more full.
Speaker 1: You know, you can walk around Paris and that energy
Speaker 1: it's a little bit more elevated, you know, in that
Speaker 1: main ballroom within Paris. You had day two of the
Speaker 1: five K playing a little bit closer to where that
Speaker 1: that arena is going to be. You had the fifteen
Speaker 1: hundred dollars Omaha High Low. That's always you know, a
Speaker 1: well tended event that was taking place. In the other
Speaker 1: area of the room. Of course, you had the cash
Speaker 1: games across the hall where you had the Champagne ballroom
Speaker 1: that was the old registration room in recent years, you know,
Speaker 1: that had the employees event running in it. And then
Speaker 1: at the other property, at the other venue over at Horseshoe,
Speaker 1: you had the Mini Mystery Millions Day one B taking place,
Speaker 1: so everything was a bit more full, and that's part
Speaker 1: of it. Also, you know, you really started to get
Speaker 1: some of these players and the personalities kind of starting
Speaker 1: to to pop up a little bit. And that's what
Speaker 1: I was getting out a little bit earlier when I said, Okay,
Speaker 1: like this is possibly a story or that's possibly a story,
Speaker 1: and I'll get into some of that in a little bit,
Speaker 1: but it does really feel like, you know, Okay, the
Speaker 1: summer is definitely underway. And I think also part of this,
Speaker 1: with the way that I'm feeling a little bit different
Speaker 1: this year than I think I might have in past years,
Speaker 1: is because I know on Friday we have this insane
Speaker 1: reveal for this new grand arena that is the dobis
Speaker 1: Api main stage set. I've seen the thing. It's freaking
Speaker 1: wildly awesome. Like I can't say how, I can't do
Speaker 1: it justice how awesome and insane that this thing is.
Speaker 1: And I can't wait for people to see it. And
Speaker 1: I can't wait for the energy from off of that
Speaker 1: stage to just resonate and be shot out like a
Speaker 1: freaking cannon into the room and for everyone just to
Speaker 1: be like, holy shit. I need to make it my
Speaker 1: goal this summer to go deep enough in a tournament
Speaker 1: that I make it there, Like that's the plan. So
Speaker 1: and like even today, like when I was checking it
Speaker 1: out a little bit, and you know, watching the team,
Speaker 1: you know, put the finishing touches on everything and get
Speaker 1: it going. You know, I was thinking in my mind
Speaker 1: in the events that I play, I'm like, man, I
Speaker 1: want to be up here as a player like that,
Speaker 1: that's what I want. I want. I want to and
Speaker 1: trying to visualize it. I'm trying to like kind of
Speaker 1: put it out there because I want it to happen,
Speaker 1: you know, I want to be up there, so I
Speaker 1: know that that's also still to come. And because I
Speaker 1: know that that's still to come. I'm kind of like
Speaker 1: waiting for it to get here. You know, these are
Speaker 1: kind of the days before Christmas, before before before the
Speaker 1: curtains dropping and everyone gets to see that thing. And
Speaker 1: then once that happens, you know, because that's going to
Speaker 1: happen on Friday. It's Wednesday, so you know, I mean
Speaker 1: it's two days from now, a day and a half
Speaker 1: an hour whatever. I mean, that's like, okay, we're here.
Speaker 1: It's buzzing'. It's the first weekend at the World Series
Speaker 1: of Poker this year, so you know, let's just freaking go. Now,
Speaker 1: all of that said and me talking about how the
Speaker 1: place felt, you know, a bit more lively, much more full,
Speaker 1: et cetera. I do have to talk once again about
Speaker 1: the numbers that we're starting to see, because even though
Speaker 1: it is only day two, I can't help but think
Speaker 1: maybe we're starting to see a little bit of a
Speaker 1: trend here. And I have had some conversations with some
Speaker 1: other people, you know, We've we've shared some thoughts, we've
Speaker 1: tossed around these numbers. I saw some conversation on social
Speaker 1: media today pointing to specifically the five k being down.
Speaker 1: You know, I touched on that on the last episode.
Speaker 1: But yeah, but these numbers. You know, one very interesting
Speaker 1: thing that I saw, as long as the sb Live
Speaker 1: app is correct, the Mini Mystery Millions Day one A
Speaker 1: had more entries than Day one B, sixteen thirty five
Speaker 1: on Day one A, fifteen sixty two on Day one B.
Speaker 1: And normally with these multi flight events, as you guys know,
Speaker 1: it just builds builds builds, you know, progressively and somewhat exponentially.
Speaker 1: If you were to graph it out to that final
Speaker 1: starting day and the fact that it, I mean, for
Speaker 1: all intentsive purposes it stayed just even, but it did
Speaker 1: downtick a little bit, but you know, stayed a little
Speaker 1: bit even. That's that's a little bit like hmm interesting.
Speaker 1: You know again, I've always said this when I talk
Speaker 1: about the wsp MA and event, the WSPA man event numbers,
Speaker 1: is that, yes, the numbers may fluctuate up or down,
Speaker 1: and everyone's going to talk about them. We're going to
Speaker 1: talk about them, but at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: when you look at the total number that the thing
Speaker 1: spits out, it's it's likely going to be a very
Speaker 1: good number all things considered. Right, So even if this
Speaker 1: this mini mystery millions ends up with a smaller number
Speaker 1: than we might have expected. It's still going to be
Speaker 1: an enormous number. So let's not get lost, you know,
Speaker 1: in everything else. But I do think it is interesting,
Speaker 1: and I do think that, you know, part of it
Speaker 1: is just there's a lot of stuff catching up finally
Speaker 1: to the to the poker industry. You know, I think
Speaker 1: poker's been kind of on a high for a while,
Speaker 1: and you know, for lack of a better term, whistling
Speaker 1: past the graveyard, because I think there's a lot of
Speaker 1: stuff happening in the regular world. You know, a lot
Speaker 1: of prices for everything are high. Producer Rich shout out producer, which,
Speaker 1: by the way, you know, he's been busting his ass
Speaker 1: helping me with this podcast every single day. But you
Speaker 1: know he's like, gases six dollars a gallon milk? Is
Speaker 1: this like, you know, he's shooting me all the numbers.
Speaker 1: I mean, I get it. You know, like in the
Speaker 1: real world, it's it's tough, you know. I even I
Speaker 1: go to the grocery store and at the end of it,
Speaker 1: I wonder where the hell all my money went. So,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe maybe people do finally have fewer bucks
Speaker 1: to throw around on a poker turn, or maybe you
Speaker 1: know something that I'm not totally ruling out. Maybe it's like, listen,
Speaker 1: I don't want to play these earlier events because I'm
Speaker 1: saving it up for the main event, right, I mean
Speaker 1: I could certainly see that, you know, if you only
Speaker 1: have so much money to spend, and you got to
Speaker 1: be a little bit careful, a little bit more budget
Speaker 1: conscious for what you put where you put that that
Speaker 1: poker money, you know, I think you're going to fire
Speaker 1: it into the main event versus anything else. So just
Speaker 1: just something to I guess keep an eye on. You
Speaker 1: know that that five K did finish down as well,
Speaker 1: down from last year five seventy entries this year, six
Speaker 1: ninety three last year. The fifteen hundred dollars Omaha eight
Speaker 1: that got eight hundred and twenty eight entries this year.
Speaker 1: Last year had nine ten, So you know thing. And
Speaker 1: we also talked about the win event the other day
Speaker 1: or yesterday. You know that eleven hundred one million dollar
Speaker 1: guarantee missed by one hundred and seventy k. If you
Speaker 1: just throw all the rake in and put all the
Speaker 1: money towards the prize school, I think I saw Ryan
Speaker 1: Laplant on social media say that it's a like it's
Speaker 1: a it's a true guarantee, true overlay of sixty K.
Speaker 1: I think he had it at so, you know, but still,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it just seems like, hmm, interesting, And
Speaker 1: I guess this is probably a good time for me
Speaker 1: to talk about another idea that's been building in my
Speaker 1: mind probably for the last year or so. And I
Speaker 1: can't recall if I talked about this on last summer's podcast,
Speaker 1: but I think that when when everyone is going in
Speaker 1: the same direction, that's not gonna allow everyone to win. Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: certain players are gonna win, when I mean a player,
Speaker 1: like an operator, That's what I'm getting out here. But
Speaker 1: everyone in poker seems to build their like summer schedules
Speaker 1: around these price points of like let's say six hundred
Speaker 1: dollars up to five k, like that that's what everyone
Speaker 1: really focuses on. And it's really six hundred dollars up
Speaker 1: to two k like in that range, you know, the wins,
Speaker 1: the Venetians, the Arias of the world, you know, and
Speaker 1: and they have to then compete with the juggernaut that
Speaker 1: is the World Series of Poker, or that is the
Speaker 1: biggest and the best, of course, but I just feel
Speaker 1: like there's I feel like there's a path or maybe
Speaker 1: a slight door opening for someone to go the complete
Speaker 1: other way and just put on an entire high roller series.
Speaker 1: Like I'm talking minimum buying twenty five k, have some
Speaker 1: twenty five ks, some fifty ks, that sort of stuff.
Speaker 1: And listen when I say this, I'm also looking at us,
Speaker 1: meaning poker Girl on the poker Gro tour, because I
Speaker 1: feel like we could do this, you know, in the
Speaker 1: poker Gro studio, turn it into a lounge type of
Speaker 1: atmosphere and just run these bigger buying events and make it,
Speaker 1: you know, more of like an exclusive memberships type of club,
Speaker 1: although it wouldn't be a club and it wouldn't be
Speaker 1: require a membership, it wouldn't be closed off, but have
Speaker 1: that luxury feel to it, right like, Oh, like that's
Speaker 1: the members only club over there, that's the country club.
Speaker 1: Oh how do I get in there? Oh I gotta
Speaker 1: have twenty five k oh, I gotta have fifty k oh.
Speaker 1: Oh that's interesting, you know. So so that like I
Speaker 1: feel like there's a there's a pathway for every time,
Speaker 1: every time somebody or a group of people or whatever
Speaker 1: are all going one direction. It's just my mind that
Speaker 1: I want to go the other direction, and that's in everything.
Speaker 1: So you know, maybe that's that's something to come in
Speaker 1: the future because you can only fight over you know,
Speaker 1: the one k players that population. There's only so many
Speaker 1: of those people to go around, and there's a lot
Speaker 1: of really good tournaments and venues on offer, but again,
Speaker 1: there's only so many players that can play all that
Speaker 1: sort of stuff. So if you're all trying to grab
Speaker 1: that same piece of the pie, I mean, I mean,
Speaker 1: it's just not gonna work out. So maybe think about
Speaker 1: going the other way. And I'm not saying to run
Speaker 1: one of those every single day, those high buying events,
Speaker 1: because I do think you need to be you have
Speaker 1: to pay attention to what the World Series is doing
Speaker 1: because that's again that's the biggest and the best, and
Speaker 1: then you kind of build it around that, right, So
Speaker 1: you know, I don't. I just thought that was an
Speaker 1: interesting thought that I had, And maybe maybe I'm just
Speaker 1: a total idiot when it comes to that. If you
Speaker 1: guys won't let me know if I'm an idiot or not,
Speaker 1: just you know, fire some tweets at me and I'm happy.
Speaker 1: I'm happy to engage with it on. But again, you know,
Speaker 1: just back to the numbers. I'm not gonna sit here
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna say that that the sky is falling.
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people, did, you know, expect
Speaker 1: numbers to be down a little bit this year compared
Speaker 1: to last year. You know, even if you just look
Speaker 1: again at the prediction markets out there, they do have
Speaker 1: they favor the numbers being down more so than up.
Speaker 1: So you know, of course, as always, it's only day two.
Speaker 1: We've seen this thing start on the slower side and
Speaker 1: then explode later, so you know, I'm not going to
Speaker 1: be too worried either way. The big story that that
Speaker 1: I'm I'm just starting to get through all of this
Speaker 1: is that the w SIP finally feels awake alive. Here
Speaker 1: it is maybe it's maybe we're at the point where,
Speaker 1: like you know, you're sitting up in bed and the
Speaker 1: WSP is like stretching its arms to the side and
Speaker 1: it's getting ready to get up and out of bed.
Speaker 1: But one person who is fully ready to go is
Speaker 1: mister Martin Cabrell. Like that this guy is He's off
Speaker 1: and running. The Martin Cabrell show has begun, it has started.
Speaker 1: It helps that he has a pile of chips at
Speaker 1: least right now at the time of recording. In the
Speaker 1: five K nolam at hold him. On day two deep
Speaker 1: into the money, last I checked, he was in fifth place.
Speaker 1: You know, obviously give or take based on the chip fluctuations,
Speaker 1: but with forty four players left. So I mean you
Speaker 1: and you hear it too. I mean, he's he's doing
Speaker 1: his whole thing, casino royale, talking to people. Oh, he's
Speaker 1: just waiting for kings, Oh, reading for races, you know,
Speaker 1: the whole like everything about him is happening. So, first
Speaker 1: of all, I don't think that this should surprise anyone,
Speaker 1: because Martin Cabrell is an incredible poker player, especially in
Speaker 1: you know, these kind of higher buying events. I would
Speaker 1: say a five K starts to get up there a
Speaker 1: little bit. You know, it's not quite a ten K,
Speaker 1: it's obviously not a twenty five K, but you know,
Speaker 1: you got to have a little bit going for you
Speaker 1: if you're going to start firing into these five k's
Speaker 1: at the WSP. He can absolutely play when he gets
Speaker 1: chips and he's feeling it and he's in the groove.
Speaker 1: He's frustrating to play against, for sure. He's also frustrating
Speaker 1: to deal with when he's when he's feeling himself and
Speaker 1: he's being the character that is Martin Cabrell. So all
Speaker 1: that sort of stuff, I feel like is just just
Speaker 1: makes him like a vacuum for the chips around him.
Speaker 1: I thought coming out of the twenty five K Fantasy
Speaker 1: draft that Martin's pro of sixty nine dollars was too low.
Speaker 1: That's to me, that's tremendous value. Now is he going
Speaker 1: to be firing every single tournament under the sun like
Speaker 1: Sean Deep is doing. No, the volume will be less,
Speaker 1: but Martin Carell is going to be at the World
Speaker 1: Series of Poker every single day. And last year I
Speaker 1: think he got a taste of the Player of the
Speaker 1: Year race. He was, you know, right up there contending
Speaker 1: like till the very end. And this year, if he
Speaker 1: can have some sort of really big success in this
Speaker 1: five K, now a deep run like this is great
Speaker 1: and he's making you know, two or three access money
Speaker 1: and all that sort of stuff. But obviously, for Martin Cabrell,
Speaker 1: it's about making final tables hundreds of thousands of dollars
Speaker 1: and winning bracelets, and if he's ultimately able to let's say,
Speaker 1: finish top five in this event or top three year
Speaker 1: or heck, when win the damn bracelet to start, I
Speaker 1: feel like he's going to be extra motivated to go
Speaker 1: on and really chase that player that here. Him and
Speaker 1: Sean deep have a nice, like friendly rivalry. I think
Speaker 1: they're friends and then they kind of, you know, go
Speaker 1: back and forth with each other about stuff. So, you know,
Speaker 1: being able to go toe to toe with Sean deeb
Speaker 1: throughout the Player of the Year race, that would be fun.
Speaker 1: I think for Martin as well, he's just somebody who
Speaker 1: he thrives in chaos. Yes, he is polarizing, of course,
Speaker 1: you know, I know he has both sides of him.
Speaker 1: There's the constant debate, you know, is Martin Carell good
Speaker 1: for poker? Is he good for poker? And people can
Speaker 1: kind of take both sides. I think I know where
Speaker 1: the large majority of you land on that, on that
Speaker 1: that idea, but you know, still, you know, I think
Speaker 1: that a character like this does bring a fair amount
Speaker 1: of eyeballs to the game and too what he's doing,
Speaker 1: and you know, I don't know, I feel like it's
Speaker 1: kind of it's kind of just one of those wacky
Speaker 1: things that that poker has that you ultimately just love
Speaker 1: about it is that these characters can be themselves and
Speaker 1: it just feeds into the entire whackiness of this whole industry. Now,
Speaker 1: at the same time, you also have another polarizing figure
Speaker 1: in the same event, also going deep with Martin Cabrell,
Speaker 1: and that is Maurice Hawkins. And he's still in and
Speaker 1: he's still doing well. And at when I'm looking at
Speaker 1: the app right now, it's eleven fifty one. There are
Speaker 1: thirty two players left. You got Cabrel right now in
Speaker 1: fifth place. You got sixth places Maurice Hawkins. Obviously, Maurice Hawkins,
Speaker 1: you know, has had his situations that he's had to
Speaker 1: deal with over the years. That said, on the Felt,
Speaker 1: he is the winningest WSB's Circuit player of all time.
Speaker 1: He's got twenty five gold rings. I mean, it's it's unbelievable,
Speaker 1: like all the stuff this guy goes through, how often
Speaker 1: he's in the news kind of fighting and bickering with people,
Speaker 1: but then when it comes down to playing and winning,
Speaker 1: like he seems to just do it on the Felt,
Speaker 1: which is crazy, but he's also still in so you know, earlier,
Speaker 1: you know when I said, like there's a story here
Speaker 1: that's happening, there's a story there that's happening. These are
Speaker 1: two of the stories that are starting to happen. You know,
Speaker 1: Martin Cabrell looking like he's picking up, picking up right
Speaker 1: where he left off last year. And then Maurice Hawkins
Speaker 1: despite all the stuff that's happened and all the noise,
Speaker 1: all the shit that people are yelling and screaming about him,
Speaker 1: like he's now going deep. So like, if those two
Speaker 1: make this final table and this thing ends up getting streamed,
Speaker 1: I mean, just just get your freaking popcorn ready. I mean, like,
Speaker 1: let's I mean, holy hell, I mean, that's just just wild.
Speaker 1: I mean, people are gonna be constantly debating them in
Speaker 1: the chat on social media. You know, each of them
Speaker 1: separately can become the story of any tournament that they
Speaker 1: run deep in, and now they're doing it together. I
Speaker 1: don't know if they're gonna like butt heads at all.
Speaker 1: I'm guessing yes, just because I know how they both
Speaker 1: act when they're in poker tournaments. So we'll see, just
Speaker 1: you know, something to keep an eye on here. Of course,
Speaker 1: we know how poker tournaments are. They could flame out
Speaker 1: in the next ten minutes. But you know, it's looking
Speaker 1: like these guys are primed to make a deep run.
Speaker 1: And then we know, when it comes to this game,
Speaker 1: how much early success in a long series like this,
Speaker 1: how much that can do for your confidence, your momentum,
Speaker 1: and ultimately the rest of your summer in terms of
Speaker 1: having you know, achievements and and success going forward. So
Speaker 1: just just keep an eye on that another uhh yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I think he falls into the category of
Speaker 1: a polarizing figure. I know plenty of people that tell
Speaker 1: me that they can't stand his antics. I know other
Speaker 1: people that absolutely love it. That's the one and only,
Speaker 1: mister Phil Helmeth. He's officially back in the mix. He's
Speaker 1: firing everything, he's chasing. Bracelet number eighteen. He played the
Speaker 1: five k Nolan had hold him. He did fall short
Speaker 1: of the money in that one. He jumped into the
Speaker 1: fifteen hundred dollars Omaha High Low where when I left Paris,
Speaker 1: he was seated next to Vanessa Salps. A bit of
Speaker 1: a throwback between those two sitting next to each other.
Speaker 1: You know they're having a great time. They were chatting
Speaker 1: it up mostly Phil was chatting, of course, you know.
Speaker 1: But Phil's ready, He's ready to go. He's he's having
Speaker 1: a moment. And I saw that. He also posted on
Speaker 1: social media that he's seated right next to Nick Palma.
Speaker 1: Helmuth claims that Palma called him a pansy, said that
Speaker 1: Pauma said that he stinks, and and and Moore said
Speaker 1: that he's bad at poker or something like this, this
Speaker 1: whole thing. And then, according to Helmuth, Palma received a warning.
Speaker 1: Pauma's right next to him, like jumping in and out
Speaker 1: of the video. You guys can see this on Phil
Speaker 1: Helmy's Twitter account. One guy called me a pansy. It
Speaker 1: was me, Nick Palmer. NICKI. He told me he hates me.
Speaker 1: He told me I stink shouted in. It's true, It's
Speaker 1: it's true. They gave him, they gave him a warning.
Speaker 1: No more P word, no more P word. It's very
Speaker 1: interesting because I play it usually if I for a
Speaker 1: whole month before someone's out of line. Wait, hold on,
Speaker 1: only only Phil is allowed to be out of line.
Speaker 1: Only Phil could talk to people like this. No one else.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, right, aren't you known for that? Or no,
Speaker 1: are you not known for that? Is he not known
Speaker 1: for that. I mean, in my line, let's see what
Speaker 1: the comments say. Put it up, put it on Twitter,
Speaker 1: Let's see what they say. It's just the whole thing
Speaker 1: is just crazy. And that comes just one day after
Speaker 1: you got Sean Deep going on Twitter saying that Palma
Speaker 1: threatened to spit on somebody on day one of the
Speaker 1: of the five K. So another thing is like, are
Speaker 1: we is this about to be the summer of Nick Palma?
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, this guy, so, Nick Palma is
Speaker 1: He's he's always he's always out there, he's always making
Speaker 1: some noise, he's always talking. He's extremely confident. You know,
Speaker 1: he carries he carries an enormous amount of confidence to
Speaker 1: the point where you think he's overly boisterous. You might
Speaker 1: think he's cocky, but I don't know. I kind of
Speaker 1: love it the character that he is. I love all
Speaker 1: these wacky characters in this freaking game. He's also quite
Speaker 1: a bit of a lone wolf Palma. I mean, maybe
Speaker 1: I have that wrong, but like every time I see him,
Speaker 1: he's just he's just doing his own thing. He's marching
Speaker 1: to the beat of his own drum, and that's just
Speaker 1: who he is. He doesn't give a shit what people
Speaker 1: think about him, and he says what he thinks and
Speaker 1: what he believes, and he puts it out there. I
Speaker 1: think he's pretty comfortable being viewed how he is. He'll
Speaker 1: certainly be combative at times with people, but you know,
Speaker 1: poker is great for that. The game has always had
Speaker 1: personalities like that. Somebody like him, I think is extremely colorful.
Speaker 1: I'm glued to Nick Palm my content this summer. I posted,
Speaker 1: I reposted one of his videos from this morning. I said,
Speaker 1: this might be the best follow you guys can have
Speaker 1: all summer. I do believe that, because I mean, let's
Speaker 1: just ride the wave up, down, left, right, whatever, Let's
Speaker 1: just ride the Nick Palm a wave. You know, he
Speaker 1: talked in one of his recent videos about going through
Speaker 1: some adversity in life and having to bounce back from
Speaker 1: difficult situations. He didn't really go into detail, but I
Speaker 1: will say that that's the type of person that he is.
Speaker 1: You know, he just he's got that chip on the
Speaker 1: shoulder type of energy. And he believe he won a
Speaker 1: bracelet last fall online. But I mean, I think he
Speaker 1: wants a live bracelet. He wants success. I think he
Speaker 1: got third place in a fifteen hundred, maybe a six
Speaker 1: inund I don't remember. It was maybe a year or
Speaker 1: two ago live at the World Series of Poker, and
Speaker 1: I remember he was like, you know, oh man so close,
Speaker 1: Like that was my shot, But I'll be back, all
Speaker 1: that sort of stuff. I mean, he definitely cares. He's
Speaker 1: definitely up there in the heart rankings, and I think
Speaker 1: he ultimately wants to prove himself and put himself out there.
Speaker 1: He's just I don't know, he's just a fun, crazy character.
Speaker 1: I do hope that I can get him on this podcast.
Speaker 1: I do want to sit down and like learn a
Speaker 1: little bit more out him. Hear how he ticks. Let
Speaker 1: you guys learn a bit about him as well. You know, again,
Speaker 1: the whole thing is just my love for the industry
Speaker 1: is rooted in the characters that are in this industry,
Speaker 1: and there's a lot of there's a lot of fun ones.
Speaker 1: So you know, we'll see if we can get a
Speaker 1: mister Nicki p on the podcast. At some point this summer.
Speaker 1: We got Martin Cabrell starting to make some noise. We
Speaker 1: got Maurice Hawkins starting to make some noise. Also interesting
Speaker 1: about Maurice is that while he does have all this success,
Speaker 1: he has all these gold rings on the WSP circuit
Speaker 1: hasn't had that same type of success when it comes
Speaker 1: to the World Series of Poker. You know, you could
Speaker 1: say the same thing about Phil Helmuth. You know, he's
Speaker 1: somebody who's had the bracelet success, but like he doesn't
Speaker 1: have a World Poker Tour title, you know, or some
Speaker 1: of this other stuff. So it's just interesting how these
Speaker 1: players all seem to kind of find their own path
Speaker 1: and then really focus and have a lot of success
Speaker 1: down that one singular path. Of course, that could just
Speaker 1: be you know, some luck invariance and how it all
Speaker 1: breaks and then the numbers thing. I think, you know,
Speaker 1: it's just something we gotta do. Just just keep an
Speaker 1: eye on, just keep an eye on. So yeah, I
Speaker 1: think overall, the WACIP is really starting to build. I
Speaker 1: know I talked at the beginning of this episode about
Speaker 1: how I didn't know if I was going to do
Speaker 1: this episode, but now I'm happy that I did, because
Speaker 1: I don't know, it's it's it's almost here. Like the
Speaker 1: what I mean by almost here, the full energy is
Speaker 1: almost freaking here, and I'm freaking ready for another thing.
Speaker 1: I want to shout out just real quickly. Is David
Speaker 1: Odib Baker the deadline for odb Fantasy League was today?
Speaker 1: I know, I believe he said one pm was the
Speaker 1: deadline today or yesterday if you're listening to this on Thursday,
Speaker 1: of course, and then people can still you know, find
Speaker 1: him and give them their money. A couple of things there.
Speaker 1: One I have I have no idea how this guy
Speaker 1: stays so focused on actually playing poker when every four
Speaker 1: minutes he has somebody coming up to him and giving
Speaker 1: him money for his fantasy league, and then he's got
Speaker 1: to go into his phone, check off the person's name,
Speaker 1: make sure that they're paid, like you know, all that
Speaker 1: sort of stuff. That just seems like way too much
Speaker 1: of a hassle. Yet Odib seems to be locked in
Speaker 1: and pretty focused in every single tournament that he played.
Speaker 1: He did cash the five K no limits on day two,
Speaker 1: so you know he's already off to a decent start
Speaker 1: to his summer. I don't know how he does it
Speaker 1: in terms of that. Obviously that goes away within a
Speaker 1: few days, but to get started like that seems to
Speaker 1: bit crazy. Second to that, I think he also said
Speaker 1: somewhere that his fantasy league is breaking a record. He
Speaker 1: saw the early numbers and he was blown away. So
Speaker 1: that's incredible. So, you know, we can talk about numbers
Speaker 1: kind of being down for some of these actual tournaments here,
Speaker 1: but it seems like that number. I mean, the twenty
Speaker 1: five K Fantasy we already mentioned and how it got
Speaker 1: the same twenty four entries this year that it got
Speaker 1: last year. I was very surprised by that, pleasantly surprised.
Speaker 1: That's awesome. And then this ODIB Fantasy League, you know,
Speaker 1: if it does blow away last year's number, based on
Speaker 1: what Odib was saying, it sounds like that's the case,
Speaker 1: that is also incredible. So put it all together, I
Speaker 1: think the but the appetite for poker is still extremely healthy.
Speaker 1: Numbers are always going to fluctuate in tournaments. That just
Speaker 1: is what it is. But it's early in the summer
Speaker 1: and we have a very long summer ahead of us,
Speaker 1: so I'm looking forward to it all. I guess I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna say this is gonna be the summer of
Speaker 1: Nick Palmer. That's what I think is going to happen.
Speaker 1: You know, we had several years ago, we had the
Speaker 1: whole Will Casoof thing, and then that you know, came
Speaker 1: back last year as well. We also had the past
Speaker 1: two years really the Martin Cabell Show, you know, really
Speaker 1: coming up. And maybe this is just the summer of
Speaker 1: Nick Palma. Maybe he's that crazy, wacky person and that
Speaker 1: you know, gets ten times the popularity and ten times
Speaker 1: the following and notoriety that he once had. I don't know,
Speaker 1: but you know we're here. We're here every day, and
Speaker 1: we're gonna find out. That's gonna do it for me.
Speaker 1: It is just past midnight. I appreciate you guys for
Speaker 1: rolling with me once again. Going forward, we're still waiting
Speaker 1: to get set up in our official area where we're
Speaker 1: gonna be able to sit down, put our podcast mics,
Speaker 1: do all that sort of stuff, likely gonna you know,
Speaker 1: kick off the video portion of the podcast. I know
Speaker 1: we did have a lot of people that did watch
Speaker 1: on YouTube in past summers that that is coming. You know,
Speaker 1: we just need to get our areas set up for
Speaker 1: right now for these early days. Well, while that whole big,
Speaker 1: giant ass new awesome set is getting set up, our
Speaker 1: area is not set up. So we're just we're waiting
Speaker 1: for that to happen. So so it might be Tomorrow,
Speaker 1: might be Friday, might be Saturday. I don't know it's
Speaker 1: coming eventually, but you know, the more important thing is
Speaker 1: getting that set ready to go for Friday's big reveal,
Speaker 1: of course, and then we'll ramp things up here on
Speaker 1: the podcast as we go. But as always, I appreciate
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